I think it's a pretty good commercial - reminding people that piracy and hackers are there pretty much at every turn.
And their number one target... Survey says... Microsoft.
Don't have problems with hackers, viruses, worms, trojans, etc. on my Linux box, and my Linux and FreeBSD servers don't have 02efpk.html for download from unsuspecting users from trojans sent to them on their windows box with hotmail reading and running them by default.
How Microsoft can claim, with a straight face, that they have anything to do with protecting you from hackers is beyond me.
Only people trying hard to ignore an issue could miss it (Hi Marcus!)
I am not trying to ignore, I am trying to understand, and I apparently missed it.
Both are rooted and running custom ROMs. Got tired of the slowness caused by carrier/vendor bloatware.
Yup. I'd consider this two more reasons to jailbreak a device...
1) Remove CarrierIQ (which allegedly allows the phone carrier to spy on their users.
2) Remove bloatware, which nobody uses or wants, but vendors like putting on the phone to make themselves feel like they're providing better service than their competitors.
Maybe, but I doubt it. For the government to be trying to tell me something, that would imply intelligence, and I am pretty sure, based on my extensive training and experience, the government is anything but intelligent.
They probably have some rule that says that only smelly overweight men can manhandle smelly overweight men, and I just happen to be one of those (minus the smelly overweight part.)
Re: Re: It has never been about keeping people safe.
I feel just as afraid in an unsecured security line as I would in an unsecured plane. What's to keep someone from blowing us up while we're waiting in a tightly packed group to be checked for explosives?
That got me thinking...
A couple years ago, I was at the airport waiting for a family member to come back from a trip. When they arrived, we all went down to the baggage claim area. A young woman with two kids were standing there waiting for their luggage, and it was quite obvious to everyone that the kids were making things difficult for the woman (running away in opposite directions.) At one point she managed to get the kids in line long enough to pull a back off of the belt, but then the kids were off with the woman running after them. An airline employee, noticing the commotion, came over and inquired about the unattended bag. We told him that the bag belonged to the woman who was trying to get control of her kids, and I said I'd be happy to continue watching the bag for the woman until she came back. The employee, apparently thinking this was a bomb plot, called for security and before too long the woman was back, crying, telling security that she needed help keeping control of her kids while she got the rest of her bags from the conveyor. Security was obviously not there to help, and eventually a police officer came up, dismissed the security guards, and then helped the woman retrieve her luggage and carry it out to her car while she held her kids. (Any one of us would have stepped up to help too, but at the time, that would have probably caused even more of an incident with the employee/security guards.)
Of course, a couple weeks later I was back in the airport and noticed an unattended bag sitting outside of the airport terminal and notified the police, who picked up the bag, pulled back the zipper to see if there was any identification on the bag, and then brought it back into the terminal, past all the people, and deposited it in the lost and found.
While I was surprised at the time, really it makes sense -- the cops seem to be the only folks at the airport that are actually thinking with their brains. Everyone else is worried about terrorists and evil gremlins. The cop walked up and figured someone accidently left their bag behind, just like the other one figured that the woman needed some help.
Uh, I like being manhandled by strangers, so that's good, right?
I guess for me it depends on who the stranger is that is manhandling me. If they gave me a choice between the hot blonde (there never is a hot blonde TSA worker, is there,) and the smelly overweight guy, I'd take the hot blonde every time. But no, I get stuck with the smelly overweight guy every time.
For $100 bucks, you can fly through security. How effective is this method? If you're a frequent flyer, you can pay to gain TSA's trust.
The 9/11 terrorists all had first-class tickets. I suspect that if this is all that is necessary, the terrorists will have no problem meeting the requirements.
Bruce has been right from the beginning, but since he is the voice of reason, the TSA has been ignoring him because it doesn't help them rape the people and the Constitution (through tax money and at the checkpoints.)
I always thought Gridiron was Rugby, played with armour (cause of the bad boo boos you might get) extended out to triple the time, with two sides a piece because it's too hard to figure out both offensive and defensive moves by just one player (Derp), and made interesting to watch by the inclusion of marching bands and scantily clad gymnists to keep the crowd amused.
Hey, I live here and I believe you summed it up 100% correct. Well, that is why I occasionally watch football...scantily clad gymnists. I prefer Rugby...
so I think before I get placed on a wanted list by the whole USA I'll go to bed. ;)
Re: Re: One in the long, LONG list of reasons I avoid digital distribution as much as possible
if your DRM Servwer goes down it won't even work
gorehound, agree with what your saying, but this isn't digital alone, but DRM. For e-books, I buy them legitimately from Baen (which has no DRM) or from Amazon and pop the DRM (since the key is something you already have, your credit card number, so no hacking/guessing involved) and no problems if DRM server goes down or Amazon tries to pull the book.
You still can't resell the book (kinda worthless to do since you just copy it,) but at least you have control over it and they can't steal it from you. Sure, it may be illegal, though I think they might have a problem getting that through court since it isn't like I cracked their sekrit password since I already knew the password as I gave it to them when I bought my e-book.
I still don't like e-books because of agency pricing, which I think is highly illegal collusion on the part of the publishers -- but DRM is not really a good reason to hate them.
You do realise hitting a ball with a willow bat whilst wearing white clothes is played in all Commonwealth countries..
Well, except for those commonwealth countries that rebelled back in the late 1700s. But we Americans always screw up your sports, like how we took football, a game played with your feet and called it soccer, and then took a game like rugby and not played with your feet (except for the occasional kicker,) and called it football.
Dear good sir, not only lightning his twice the same spot, but it OFTEN his the same spots.
Not only that, but it hit the same guy 7 times in different spots! Now if I was that guy, I would play the lottery (regardless to the fact that the probabilities are not cumulative and being unlucky enough to be struck by lightning 7 times has no effect on choosing the right combination of numbers to win the lottery.
The delay in transmission is fine as long as we are talking about long term data storage, or the delay is built into redundancy protocols for burst transmissions.
Not to name drop, but Vint Cerf has some really good ideas about setting up a network in space, and dealing with the problems with lag. I certainly agree with you though -- the only way we are going to be able to free the internet from all unfair/undue/petty manipulations from the sociopaths is to remove the internet from their playing fields. I am not thinking of it solely as a repository (though it would work great as a time capsule,) but as a nice platform for high-lag DNS caching, so if some idiot wants to break the internet, we just move everything to the satellite cache and wait it out. The censorship is killing me.
just tell them it is a communications satellite and grab a spot in orbit in the cluster
Even better, it is a space telescope -- but again, speed of light is going to be a problem. A fleet of geostationary communication satellites might work better.
This could be either somewhere like the Lagrangian points, the Moon itself, or somewhere even more remote since the moon and Lagrange areas would more than likely be militarily seized by some do-good country who has an ego/control/power problem.. you know like the USA Govt/Industrial complex.
The Lagrangian points should be fine. You need to clear the satellite with the US military, but just tell them it is a communications satellite and grab a spot in orbit in the cluster. Once the satellite is in orbit, there isn't much anyone can do since destroying a satellite at the Lagrangian points will likely cause collateral damage. There is a risk of jamming, but with software radio you can jump to any channel they aren't blocking. The biggest problems will be resources to keep the satellite in orbit, solar flare hardening, and the speed of light (which, depending on the point, may give you quite a bit of lag.)
If this guy is serious in the article's entirety then the first thing I want to point out is that the phrase "romantic evening" and "Buffalo Wild Wings" do not belong in the same sentence (or paragraph for that matter).
What if your significant other is into sports, trivia, or hot-wings?
I am sorry, I might fit into this category (white bible thumper, though if you ask those who know me if these three words would fit for me, they'd tell you "hell no" for at least two of them,) but I did go to BWW once with someone who I was interested in, and we had lots of fun playing trivia and talking. Sure, you probably don't want to take someone there all the time, but don't knock BWW as a place to bring your date at least once, if she is into that kinda stuff. I've also brought dates bowling too.
I certainly agree that this guy is a religious nutjob, but be careful where you draw the lines -- sometimes bringing a date to BWW isn't a sign of a nutjob (or maybe it is.)
Thats the thing, this article and countless others have NOTHING to do with technology. They are just anti establishment propaganda. TechDirt honestly is a HORRIBLE name for this site. It really HAS become a soapbox. Now I just come on here to correct the misinformation and out right lies that are spewed as if they are the gospel truth.
Uhmm...been here since 2003 myself, and Techdirt always has been about talking about Technology, including discussions (or in your parlance, soapbox) about technology that interfaces with MPAA/RIAA (or, as you state, anti-establishment propaganda.) A couple examples:
If you really don't like the message that is being offered here, take Mike up on his offer and buy him out for the next year. A bunch of us would hate you for a little while -- but we'd get over it eventually.
I didn't say Republican/Democrat. There is a difference. The term left-wing refers to those who are more liberal and push for change. Right-wing refers to conservatives that want things to stay the same. MPAA is definitely not left-wing.
PTC had Senator Lieberman on it. PMRC had Tipper Gore running it. These organizations have been run by folks on both sides of the fence. The truth is everyone on either side wants control of you, regardless to what side you are on, so calling it left-wing/right-wing is dumb. As a Libertarian, I'd kinda like both sides to get out of my way and stop trying to tell me what I can and can't do.
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And their number one target... Survey says... Microsoft.
Don't have problems with hackers, viruses, worms, trojans, etc. on my Linux box, and my Linux and FreeBSD servers don't have 02efpk.html for download from unsuspecting users from trojans sent to them on their windows box with hotmail reading and running them by default.
How Microsoft can claim, with a straight face, that they have anything to do with protecting you from hackers is beyond me.
Only people trying hard to ignore an issue could miss it (Hi Marcus!)
I am not trying to ignore, I am trying to understand, and I apparently missed it.
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Yup. I'd consider this two more reasons to jailbreak a device...
1) Remove CarrierIQ (which allegedly allows the phone carrier to spy on their users.
2) Remove bloatware, which nobody uses or wants, but vendors like putting on the phone to make themselves feel like they're providing better service than their competitors.
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I hope you rooted that shiny new Razr Droid. Life is much, much better with a rooted android.
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That is funny...since according to wikipedia, it is Walmart, but you have your facts and the rest of the world has theirs.
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Re: Re: Passive Tone
"Why do homeowners get shot?"
"Science!"
I like this response better... "ballistics". Newtonian physics would also work.
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Maybe, but I doubt it. For the government to be trying to tell me something, that would imply intelligence, and I am pretty sure, based on my extensive training and experience, the government is anything but intelligent.
They probably have some rule that says that only smelly overweight men can manhandle smelly overweight men, and I just happen to be one of those (minus the smelly overweight part.)
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Re: Re: It has never been about keeping people safe.
That got me thinking...
A couple years ago, I was at the airport waiting for a family member to come back from a trip. When they arrived, we all went down to the baggage claim area. A young woman with two kids were standing there waiting for their luggage, and it was quite obvious to everyone that the kids were making things difficult for the woman (running away in opposite directions.) At one point she managed to get the kids in line long enough to pull a back off of the belt, but then the kids were off with the woman running after them. An airline employee, noticing the commotion, came over and inquired about the unattended bag. We told him that the bag belonged to the woman who was trying to get control of her kids, and I said I'd be happy to continue watching the bag for the woman until she came back. The employee, apparently thinking this was a bomb plot, called for security and before too long the woman was back, crying, telling security that she needed help keeping control of her kids while she got the rest of her bags from the conveyor. Security was obviously not there to help, and eventually a police officer came up, dismissed the security guards, and then helped the woman retrieve her luggage and carry it out to her car while she held her kids. (Any one of us would have stepped up to help too, but at the time, that would have probably caused even more of an incident with the employee/security guards.)
Of course, a couple weeks later I was back in the airport and noticed an unattended bag sitting outside of the airport terminal and notified the police, who picked up the bag, pulled back the zipper to see if there was any identification on the bag, and then brought it back into the terminal, past all the people, and deposited it in the lost and found.
While I was surprised at the time, really it makes sense -- the cops seem to be the only folks at the airport that are actually thinking with their brains. Everyone else is worried about terrorists and evil gremlins. The cop walked up and figured someone accidently left their bag behind, just like the other one figured that the woman needed some help.
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I guess for me it depends on who the stranger is that is manhandling me. If they gave me a choice between the hot blonde (there never is a hot blonde TSA worker, is there,) and the smelly overweight guy, I'd take the hot blonde every time. But no, I get stuck with the smelly overweight guy every time.
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Re: Something that Bruce may have missed...
The 9/11 terrorists all had first-class tickets. I suspect that if this is all that is necessary, the terrorists will have no problem meeting the requirements.
Bruce has been right from the beginning, but since he is the voice of reason, the TSA has been ignoring him because it doesn't help them rape the people and the Constitution (through tax money and at the checkpoints.)
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Hey, I live here and I believe you summed it up 100% correct. Well, that is why I occasionally watch football...scantily clad gymnists. I prefer Rugby...
so I think before I get placed on a wanted list by the whole USA I'll go to bed. ;)
You aren't on mine, friend.
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Re: Re: One in the long, LONG list of reasons I avoid digital distribution as much as possible
gorehound, agree with what your saying, but this isn't digital alone, but DRM. For e-books, I buy them legitimately from Baen (which has no DRM) or from Amazon and pop the DRM (since the key is something you already have, your credit card number, so no hacking/guessing involved) and no problems if DRM server goes down or Amazon tries to pull the book.
You still can't resell the book (kinda worthless to do since you just copy it,) but at least you have control over it and they can't steal it from you. Sure, it may be illegal, though I think they might have a problem getting that through court since it isn't like I cracked their sekrit password since I already knew the password as I gave it to them when I bought my e-book.
I still don't like e-books because of agency pricing, which I think is highly illegal collusion on the part of the publishers -- but DRM is not really a good reason to hate them.
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Well, except for those commonwealth countries that rebelled back in the late 1700s. But we Americans always screw up your sports, like how we took football, a game played with your feet and called it soccer, and then took a game like rugby and not played with your feet (except for the occasional kicker,) and called it football.
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Not only that, but it hit the same guy 7 times in different spots! Now if I was that guy, I would play the lottery (regardless to the fact that the probabilities are not cumulative and being unlucky enough to be struck by lightning 7 times has no effect on choosing the right combination of numbers to win the lottery.
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Not to name drop, but Vint Cerf has some really good ideas about setting up a network in space, and dealing with the problems with lag. I certainly agree with you though -- the only way we are going to be able to free the internet from all unfair/undue/petty manipulations from the sociopaths is to remove the internet from their playing fields. I am not thinking of it solely as a repository (though it would work great as a time capsule,) but as a nice platform for high-lag DNS caching, so if some idiot wants to break the internet, we just move everything to the satellite cache and wait it out. The censorship is killing me.
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Even better, it is a space telescope -- but again, speed of light is going to be a problem. A fleet of geostationary communication satellites might work better.
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The Lagrangian points should be fine. You need to clear the satellite with the US military, but just tell them it is a communications satellite and grab a spot in orbit in the cluster. Once the satellite is in orbit, there isn't much anyone can do since destroying a satellite at the Lagrangian points will likely cause collateral damage. There is a risk of jamming, but with software radio you can jump to any channel they aren't blocking. The biggest problems will be resources to keep the satellite in orbit, solar flare hardening, and the speed of light (which, depending on the point, may give you quite a bit of lag.)
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Re: Romantic huh?
What if your significant other is into sports, trivia, or hot-wings?
I am sorry, I might fit into this category (white bible thumper, though if you ask those who know me if these three words would fit for me, they'd tell you "hell no" for at least two of them,) but I did go to BWW once with someone who I was interested in, and we had lots of fun playing trivia and talking. Sure, you probably don't want to take someone there all the time, but don't knock BWW as a place to bring your date at least once, if she is into that kinda stuff. I've also brought dates bowling too.
I certainly agree that this guy is a religious nutjob, but be careful where you draw the lines -- sometimes bringing a date to BWW isn't a sign of a nutjob (or maybe it is.)
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Uhmm...been here since 2003 myself, and Techdirt always has been about talking about Technology, including discussions (or in your parlance, soapbox) about technology that interfaces with MPAA/RIAA (or, as you state, anti-establishment propaganda.) A couple examples:
From 2005: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20051214/0125257.shtml
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20050419/0 020230.shtml
From 2006: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060620/1133222.shtml
Or how about, from 2003: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20030826/1949253.shtml
If you really don't like the message that is being offered here, take Mike up on his offer and buy him out for the next year. A bunch of us would hate you for a little while -- but we'd get over it eventually.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Isn't the MPAA dead yet?
PTC had Senator Lieberman on it. PMRC had Tipper Gore running it. These organizations have been run by folks on both sides of the fence. The truth is everyone on either side wants control of you, regardless to what side you are on, so calling it left-wing/right-wing is dumb. As a Libertarian, I'd kinda like both sides to get out of my way and stop trying to tell me what I can and can't do.
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It would be a pretty dead blog...maybe a post a year or so when Louis CK or someone like that came along and did something awesome.
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