For a company that forced paid-for extension installations and ads into their browser to sustain themselves they don't really have room to attack others.
Take the board out of your eye before complaining about the splinter in others.
From a legal standpoint (IANAL) I think the lawyers are just trying to justify their salaries and also that there's some precedence that a leak of this nature is somewhat defendable (if not, at least, necessary on the part of Starz) to show a judge that they aggressively defend their copyrighted works so as not to be slighted in other more egregious cases.
Totally agree with you that it's a punitive action on the part of Starz (or Starz' lawyers) that would probably not hold up in court but can't be defended without $$$ and time that TorrentFreak would rather not deal with.
Since we're on a conspiracy theory kick - it might even be that Starz was just looking for a way to silence just TorrentFreak as part of their "war on piracy".
Obviously you are a Starz paid flunky who knows they leaked the videos themselves to get torrentfreak to tweet about it so they could get them bumped from Twitter so slashdot would write an article that I would respond to just so YOU could come on here and take me down!
Well I hope its WORTH IT!
That's a pretty complex (and random) system you're thinking of.
If anything I'd say it's more likely that torrentfreak is in bed with Starz - posting the article on Starz' behalf, then Starz gets it taken down, then Torrentleak "blows the whistle".
Anything else is depending on sheer random luck that someone notices and writes a story on it and then hope that the story gains traction. Your ad dollars are better spent on something with concrete results.
I mean, taking that out to its logical conclusion - did the EFF leak the videos so Torrentleak would write the article so Starz would clamp down so EFF could get that sweet sweet outrage funding?
No - I think Starz' "social compliance security team" did their job so that Twitters' "patent and ethics supervisory team" did their job and Torrentleak got burned wrongly because of the short sightedness of both. Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity - the old adage which is even more true today.
Probably because casting via Airplay will almost always be to a device where you could run the Netflix app independently. (EG TVs or even AppleTV) It's also one less thing you have to use Apple Development for.
Actually... It's like traveling WAS in the past!
I used to arrive at the airport 15 minutes before my flight (already had my boarding pass mailed (or printed out AT HOME! ooo - the future!) or swiped my credit card at the new fangled automated terminal that printed it for you), threw my carryon through the x-ray scanner and walked through the metal detector at the near empty security check point because it took less than 30 seconds to get checked as there were no "papers please, citizen" checks and no removal of clothes, toiletries or items out of the bag and the metal detector sensitivity was set high enough so belts wouldn't set it off. Then sprinted to the gate to jump on the plane before the doors closed!
Fun times!
Troubled Guy: I don't know... lately I just don't feel like there's anything special about me.
Booth: You are an incredibly sensitive man, who inspires joy-joy feelings in all those around you.
---
I get it, I really do - you're losing your passion for your project and that's normal. But if you're not building Mint for yourself or if you feel that other distributions do the job better than maybe its time to move on or find someone who is passionate about it.
and it has an official purpose (and they have a plan!)
Called Intel Visualization of Internal Signals Architecture (Intel VISA), Positive Technologies researchers Maxim Goryachy and Mark Ermolov said this is a new utility included in modern Intel chipsets to help with testing and debugging on manufacturing lines.
How is that "undocumented" other than Intel only provides the docs to paying developers?
It's impressive but from an actual strategic standpoint it may already be out of date.
Russia has already moved to hypersonic cruise missiles that don't have to go into space to deliver their payload.
You don't need spy satellites anymore when you can have smaller, faster, lighter, remote drones fly into a nation to do photographs.
Satellites are still necessary to national infrastructures so space weapons are still useful but it's no longer a panacea to a nation's security, let alone defense.
There's been speculation about this in the financial/investor news for awhile. This makes a certain amount of sense as GE made a TON of money from their financial services - similar to GMAC (GM's financial arm which started out as a way of facilitating loans for cars then expanded). Apple is sitting on billions of cash and can easily act as a financial company and continue to grow.
Now, as a TECH company, it does nothing for them (other than maintaining a source of income so they could come back to tech someday) but Apple has already shown that they've run out of ideas and can't grow in that direction at least for the foreseeable future.
They're proud to announce their titanium card doesn't show the number or expiration date which makes it more safe, but which is required to make online purchases.
Now my iPhone will let me use apple pay with some online vendors (papa johns) and I PRESUME that, via Safari, I'll be able to access the Apple Card in someway to get that info. But if I'm on my Windows machine? I think I'm SOL... by design?
Think different.
Policymakers had hoped that increasing the minimum wage would spur companies to replace low-paid jobs with machines, in turn boosting growth in productivity.
And suddenly you have to wonder about all the calls and campaigns for a $15 minimum wage here in the US and if they weren't after the opposite of what was claimed.
Thanks - I did a search and this didn't turn up - just lots of articles re-reporting Vice' story here and saying Kapersky had no comment.
Also interesting that this headline says "thousands", the article says hundreds of thousands and the Kapersky link says more than a million.:)
Cloning would only affect the physical attributes and mental 'capacities' of the dog. It would NOT pass on the acquired skills or training so the dog isn't going to know how to sniff out a perp without that same 5 years of training including for physical abilities. I don't see how this "speeds up the process" although it's more likely that you're going to guarantee a successful candidate from the cloning.
What files should I check for? How can I remove it myself? All this hue and outcry about hundreds of thousands of installed backdoors but Kapersky won't say what files to look for?
Eventually Venus' orbit will "sync" with Earth's for awhile and Venus will be closer "on average".
Really though - does this minutiae (which is easily statistically available) count as research? This is more like internet trolling about who's the better captain on Star Trek.
Worst research, evah!
Slashdot Mirror
Is that like the 5 cent Razor club?
For a company that forced paid-for extension installations and ads into their browser to sustain themselves they don't really have room to attack others.
Take the board out of your eye before complaining about the splinter in others.
From a legal standpoint (IANAL) I think the lawyers are just trying to justify their salaries and also that there's some precedence that a leak of this nature is somewhat defendable (if not, at least, necessary on the part of Starz) to show a judge that they aggressively defend their copyrighted works so as not to be slighted in other more egregious cases.
Totally agree with you that it's a punitive action on the part of Starz (or Starz' lawyers) that would probably not hold up in court but can't be defended without $$$ and time that TorrentFreak would rather not deal with.
Since we're on a conspiracy theory kick - it might even be that Starz was just looking for a way to silence just TorrentFreak as part of their "war on piracy".
Obviously you are a Starz paid flunky who knows they leaked the videos themselves to get torrentfreak to tweet about it so they could get them bumped from Twitter so slashdot would write an article that I would respond to just so YOU could come on here and take me down!
Well I hope its WORTH IT!
That's a pretty complex (and random) system you're thinking of.
If anything I'd say it's more likely that torrentfreak is in bed with Starz - posting the article on Starz' behalf, then Starz gets it taken down, then Torrentleak "blows the whistle".
Anything else is depending on sheer random luck that someone notices and writes a story on it and then hope that the story gains traction. Your ad dollars are better spent on something with concrete results.
I mean, taking that out to its logical conclusion - did the EFF leak the videos so Torrentleak would write the article so Starz would clamp down so EFF could get that sweet sweet outrage funding?
No - I think Starz' "social compliance security team" did their job so that Twitters' "patent and ethics supervisory team" did their job and Torrentleak got burned wrongly because of the short sightedness of both. Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity - the old adage which is even more true today.
So it looked like the typical slashdot post comments then?
But it's the same as my bank account password!
Probably because casting via Airplay will almost always be to a device where you could run the Netflix app independently. (EG TVs or even AppleTV) It's also one less thing you have to use Apple Development for.
Hey - my skin has a nice glow after getting treated in the pervy superman vision booth!
It's like traveling in the future.
Actually... It's like traveling WAS in the past!
I used to arrive at the airport 15 minutes before my flight (already had my boarding pass mailed (or printed out AT HOME! ooo - the future!) or swiped my credit card at the new fangled automated terminal that printed it for you), threw my carryon through the x-ray scanner and walked through the metal detector at the near empty security check point because it took less than 30 seconds to get checked as there were no "papers please, citizen" checks and no removal of clothes, toiletries or items out of the bag and the metal detector sensitivity was set high enough so belts wouldn't set it off. Then sprinted to the gate to jump on the plane before the doors closed!
Fun times!
Troubled Guy: I don't know... lately I just don't feel like there's anything special about me.
Booth: You are an incredibly sensitive man, who inspires joy-joy feelings in all those around you.
---
I get it, I really do - you're losing your passion for your project and that's normal. But if you're not building Mint for yourself or if you feel that other distributions do the job better than maybe its time to move on or find someone who is passionate about it.
Except for... well, y'know those mentioned 5 posts back
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
Called Intel Visualization of Internal Signals Architecture (Intel VISA), Positive Technologies researchers Maxim Goryachy and Mark Ermolov said this is a new utility included in modern Intel chipsets to help with testing and debugging on manufacturing lines.
How is that "undocumented" other than Intel only provides the docs to paying developers?
Drink the mountain dew, eat the bottle!
Shades of Willy Wonka!
It's impressive but from an actual strategic standpoint it may already be out of date.
Russia has already moved to hypersonic cruise missiles that don't have to go into space to deliver their payload.
You don't need spy satellites anymore when you can have smaller, faster, lighter, remote drones fly into a nation to do photographs.
Satellites are still necessary to national infrastructures so space weapons are still useful but it's no longer a panacea to a nation's security, let alone defense.
There's been speculation about this in the financial/investor news for awhile. This makes a certain amount of sense as GE made a TON of money from their financial services - similar to GMAC (GM's financial arm which started out as a way of facilitating loans for cars then expanded). Apple is sitting on billions of cash and can easily act as a financial company and continue to grow.
Now, as a TECH company, it does nothing for them (other than maintaining a source of income so they could come back to tech someday) but Apple has already shown that they've run out of ideas and can't grow in that direction at least for the foreseeable future.
They're proud to announce their titanium card doesn't show the number or expiration date which makes it more safe, but which is required to make online purchases.
Now my iPhone will let me use apple pay with some online vendors (papa johns) and I PRESUME that, via Safari, I'll be able to access the Apple Card in someway to get that info. But if I'm on my Windows machine? I think I'm SOL... by design?
Think different.
Policymakers had hoped that increasing the minimum wage would spur companies to replace low-paid jobs with machines, in turn boosting growth in productivity.
And suddenly you have to wonder about all the calls and campaigns for a $15 minimum wage here in the US and if they weren't after the opposite of what was claimed.
whaddya gonna do? Give the dogs Bene Gesserit training? (Or maybe the Chinese are trying to make the Kwisatz Haderach dog -)
No no no... didn't you see 6th day? They just copy the skills from the old dog using the flashy neural capture thingy
Thanks - I did a search and this didn't turn up - just lots of articles re-reporting Vice' story here and saying Kapersky had no comment. :)
Also interesting that this headline says "thousands", the article says hundreds of thousands and the Kapersky link says more than a million.
Cloning would only affect the physical attributes and mental 'capacities' of the dog. It would NOT pass on the acquired skills or training so the dog isn't going to know how to sniff out a perp without that same 5 years of training including for physical abilities. I don't see how this "speeds up the process" although it's more likely that you're going to guarantee a successful candidate from the cloning.
What files should I check for? How can I remove it myself? All this hue and outcry about hundreds of thousands of installed backdoors but Kapersky won't say what files to look for?
Eventually Venus' orbit will "sync" with Earth's for awhile and Venus will be closer "on average".
Really though - does this minutiae (which is easily statistically available) count as research? This is more like internet trolling about who's the better captain on Star Trek.
Worst research, evah!
That's because the demand has skyrocketed.