No idea where I got guesstimate, just seems to me that the damage amounts in all recent hacking cases are higher than would be expected for someone invading a network and printing some rude message. After years of hearing reports of the government paying outrageous sums for contract work it would only be a slight stretch to apply the same overinflated amounts to "virtual damage" done to government networks to try and build high dollar cases against hackers to get a better chance at extradition.
The government has a way of inflating values on damage like this to make the charges more than what they should be. I think punishment is definitely called for and the investigation should add up damages but needs to do so in a manner that makes them more responsible for their findings. Instead of tossing out a "guess-timate", they should not give a quote without all the facts present.
My earlier comment was about Google News no the Making of America project. Tis what I get for speed reading the blurbs instead of looking at the full discussions. Apologies.
Google is not charging anything for this service, I wish you peeps would get the facts right before posting this crap. The pay part comes in when the articles come from a site requiring payment, such as the NYT articles. Google may plan advertisements but the use of the search and the freely availible articles are still free.
I dislike both the AA's. No other industry except music and movies can treat their customers like criminals and still make a profit. The software industry has more to fear from piracy and you do not see them crippling things to not work on different platforms, it would kill their business. Time to find other outlets for movies and music, good thing such services and YouTube and Divx now exist as well as all the garage band music sites, plenty of music and video entertainment without all the hassles.
Here is an easy fix, just tag the files as they are purchased and downloaded, then when they show up on a pirate site, you have a tag with a record of where it came from and they can hunt down the source and prosecute. This has it's own problems of course but it is better than pissing off your customers enough that they download the pirated files instead of buying the companies.
I think of it this way, I buy the CD and if I find I can't use it on my equipment for DRM reason's, I download the DRM free version. After all I am allowed a backup copy, so I go find a copy that has no DRM. I have not bothered in a couple of years now, been nothing worth owning from mainstream in movies or music, though Dodge Ball is an exception to that statement...
This is old news;) Netscape is not the first to pay for this. There are several sites out there that have been paying for a couple of months now. I will post the names of those sites here, for about $50 a link.
Most of the comments I have read on all this are either from Apple fanboys, who have no sense when talking about Microsoft, or techie/geeks/bloggers/etc that are in the know on the everyday tech news. The majority of the people who will see this as the next thing will be the mass of people who are not computer savvy. They will see a pretty PC with a flashy, graphical, easy to use interface from a world known company. They have no experience dealing with the different OS's from Apple, Microsoft, Linux, etc. If you really want to know how well this will do, put some polls out on sites like Ebay, MySpace, Hotmail, and other huge sites where the user base is made up of people who do not know the difference. Then you will get some real numbers on interest. Posting an article on a tech site is not they way to find out how most people feel about Microsoft's up and coming releases/plans/offerings/etc. It is a way to start a flame war between the Applites and Microsofties. Me, I'm a Googler and by products based on what I need it for while comparing prices/usability/compatibility/etc. Makes no difference to me who made it, so long as it works good and does what it is supposed to do.
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No idea where I got guesstimate, just seems to me that the damage amounts in all recent hacking cases are higher than would be expected for someone invading a network and printing some rude message. After years of hearing reports of the government paying outrageous sums for contract work it would only be a slight stretch to apply the same overinflated amounts to "virtual damage" done to government networks to try and build high dollar cases against hackers to get a better chance at extradition.
The government has a way of inflating values on damage like this to make the charges more than what they should be. I think punishment is definitely called for and the investigation should add up damages but needs to do so in a manner that makes them more responsible for their findings. Instead of tossing out a "guess-timate", they should not give a quote without all the facts present.
Well, this website seems to be able to pull people out of pics, video should not be much harder http://www.snapmania.com/info/en/trm/
My earlier comment was about Google News no the Making of America project. Tis what I get for speed reading the blurbs instead of looking at the full discussions. Apologies.
A Quote from an article: "The new service will have less sources than Google News, but the earliest news is from "somewhere in the mid-1700s". http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/09/google-ne ws-archive-search.html
Google is not charging anything for this service, I wish you peeps would get the facts right before posting this crap. The pay part comes in when the articles come from a site requiring payment, such as the NYT articles. Google may plan advertisements but the use of the search and the freely availible articles are still free.
I dislike both the AA's. No other industry except music and movies can treat their customers like criminals and still make a profit. The software industry has more to fear from piracy and you do not see them crippling things to not work on different platforms, it would kill their business. Time to find other outlets for movies and music, good thing such services and YouTube and Divx now exist as well as all the garage band music sites, plenty of music and video entertainment without all the hassles. Here is an easy fix, just tag the files as they are purchased and downloaded, then when they show up on a pirate site, you have a tag with a record of where it came from and they can hunt down the source and prosecute. This has it's own problems of course but it is better than pissing off your customers enough that they download the pirated files instead of buying the companies. I think of it this way, I buy the CD and if I find I can't use it on my equipment for DRM reason's, I download the DRM free version. After all I am allowed a backup copy, so I go find a copy that has no DRM. I have not bothered in a couple of years now, been nothing worth owning from mainstream in movies or music, though Dodge Ball is an exception to that statement...
This is old news ;) Netscape is not the first to pay for this. There are several sites out there that have been paying for a couple of months now. I will post the names of those sites here, for about $50 a link.
Most of the comments I have read on all this are either from Apple fanboys, who have no sense when talking about Microsoft, or techie/geeks/bloggers/etc that are in the know on the everyday tech news. The majority of the people who will see this as the next thing will be the mass of people who are not computer savvy. They will see a pretty PC with a flashy, graphical, easy to use interface from a world known company. They have no experience dealing with the different OS's from Apple, Microsoft, Linux, etc. If you really want to know how well this will do, put some polls out on sites like Ebay, MySpace, Hotmail, and other huge sites where the user base is made up of people who do not know the difference. Then you will get some real numbers on interest. Posting an article on a tech site is not they way to find out how most people feel about Microsoft's up and coming releases/plans/offerings/etc. It is a way to start a flame war between the Applites and Microsofties. Me, I'm a Googler and by products based on what I need it for while comparing prices/usability/compatibility/etc. Makes no difference to me who made it, so long as it works good and does what it is supposed to do.