If you don't pay the power bill, and the power company sends an email to an address you haven't used in years, they have NO duty to send out bloodhounds to track you down and warn you your power is about to be cut off.
Besides, reclaiming the expired domains *really* got Sony's attention, just as a housholder WILL notice the lights going out. It was a lot quicker and a lot less effort than bloodhounds.
If the government won't obey its own laws, why should anybody else bother to obey them either, aside from threat and implementation of force and violence by that same government?
The people who WORK at publishers aren't parasites. Editors, copyeditors, proofreaders, typesetters all contribute to the product.
The people who RUN the publishers are lawyers, accountants, and investors. Lawyers ask "Who can we hurt so they don't hurt us?" and the latter two ask "How you going to make money with that?" Product? Quality? Who cares?
There is NO major publisher that is run by book lovers, and it shows.
But do it with the court system. $100,000/day for each legal action they have active in the court system. Talk to a judge? $10,000/minute for every minute of delay under 24 hours delay. Their opponents pay nothing and get instant access.
I'm sure ComCrash and others will appreciate being on the receiving end of their own ideas.
Update to prior comment: make that "willful failure". And there can be no doubt that, if they did in fact fail to report and get a major threat fixed, it was willful.
The NSA is lying and they actually failed to find the flaw, despite the fact that probing for buffer overruns is Hacking 101.
Result: They are too incompetent to protect us from the real threats.
The NSA is telling the truth and they spent two years knowing about a serious security flaw in the infrastructure of the internet, may have exploited it, and certainly failed to report it to the nation and enable us to protect ourselves.
There are two approaches to lock-in that are much more effective than regulation (which gives those who desire lock-in the motive to subvert the regulatory agency, e.g. *cough*Disney)
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Attn: Great Britain!
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Holmes: I refer to the strange thing the court did with the request.
Holmes: Precisely. That was the strange thing.
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If you don't pay the power bill, and the power company sends an email to an address you haven't used in years, they have NO duty to send out bloodhounds to track you down and warn you your power is about to be cut off.
Besides, reclaiming the expired domains *really* got Sony's attention, just as a housholder WILL notice the lights going out. It was a lot quicker and a lot less effort than bloodhounds.
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An Awkward Question
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Somebody really should incorporate as Schrödinger's Duck, LLC and let the feathers fly.
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Re: Re: Re: Editors are actually kinda handy
On the post: Amazon Offers Authors 100% Of Ebook Sales To Get Them To Recognize Its Fight With Hachette Isn't About Screwing Authors
Re: Editors are actually kinda handy
The people who RUN the publishers are lawyers, accountants, and investors. Lawyers ask "Who can we hurt so they don't hurt us?" and the latter two ask "How you going to make money with that?" Product? Quality? Who cares?
There is NO major publisher that is run by book lovers, and it shows.
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Re: Substitute MPAA for Publishers, Amazon for Movie Theaters
On the post: Amazon Offers Authors 100% Of Ebook Sales To Get Them To Recognize Its Fight With Hachette Isn't About Screwing Authors
Substitute MPAA for Publishers, Amazon for Movie Theaters
We can't allow people who actually deliver the product to profit from our books or movies. They're ours!
As long as we get our cut, it doesn't matter who we starve,
and the public be damned.
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He did exactly the right thing. Awesomely.
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Show Comcast et. al. the Slow Lane, All Right!
I'm sure ComCrash and others will appreciate being on the receiving end of their own ideas.
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On the post: UPDATED: NSA Denies Claims That It Knew About Heartbleed And Did Nothing
Binary Evaluation Set
The NSA is lying and they actually failed to find the flaw, despite the fact that probing for buffer overruns is Hacking 101.
Result: They are too incompetent to protect us from the real threats.
The NSA is telling the truth and they spent two years knowing about a serious security flaw in the infrastructure of the internet, may have exploited it, and certainly failed to report it to the nation and enable us to protect ourselves.
Result: They committed treason.
Pick one.
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Heartbleed approximates Box of Chocolates
Not as tasty, though.
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George Carlin Already Covered This Whole Thing
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1. Just don't buy their crud.
2. Get the crud (once) and jailbreak it.
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Paging Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale
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Matthew 7:3
but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? (KJV)
"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye
and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? (NIV)
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The Trouble With Lying
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