Comment Re:It's illegal in Germany. (Score 1) 156
So what happens if your hardware supports only WEP? What happens if you simply have bad luck and buy buggy hardware ?
So what happens if your hardware supports only WEP? What happens if you simply have bad luck and buy buggy hardware ?
How about starting with appreciating your customer?
Currently it looks like this and it is getting worse. At some point, it is simply being greedy. Most triple-A movies already pay off during first weeks of release. E.g. ( The Avengers ). At that point, even $3 per copy makes you money.
It seems that you do not understand the issue here. This is not about you leaving your money on your porch.
This is about relying on someone else to keep your money safe. If they leave your money on the porch, then it is negligence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negligence)
those who go personally or bring property where they know that they or it may come into collision with the persons or property of others have by law a duty cast upon them to use reasonable care and skill to avoid such a collision.
And that indeed is punishable by law.
learn it, incorporate it into your opinions, or your opinion is useless
Offtopic: Can we please automatically delete all posts with links to my clean pc?
Ontopic:
This baffles me on how money is wasted on anti-piracy. This case should have been dismissed at the very beginning. How can you blame someone simply on the basis of ownership? This is like suing an owner of a car for not locking his car, because his car stolen and used in a crime.
What happens if I use WEP encryption? Would I be liable as well? I wish that the media corporations stopped trolling and started creating some business models which actually make sense in this day and age. All others have already moved forward.
Well, duh. One of those is a criminal breaking into systems. The other was a company that was the victim of a crime. We also don't charge people who get their houses broken into with crimes yet we do for the person breaking into another person's house.
Your analogy is broken. In this case, it is more like blaming the bank which was robbed. You blame them not for the fact that is was robbed, but that inadequate security measures (like this) were put in place to protect your money.
Since online transactions seemed to be their business, they should have made sure that it is next to impossible to leak the data. Most lilkely a lot of corners were cut to maximize profits. I have no idea what was exploited to get the data, but I am quite sure that it can be found here
Stupid autocorrect. I obviously meant "would" instead of "Woodstock"
Woodstock "gimp!ing" the image be legal?
Can they patent it? This seems to be pretty much what bats have been doing for centuries
What is a "Nokia"?
Seriously, the stakeholders can only blame themselves for not seeing this coming.
if you have to change your password every 30 days, then users will often change their password, and then forget it by the next time they have to type it in. I like how windows warns me up to 2 weeks in advance that My password requires changing. When I see this, I start thinking about what my next password will be, and I always change it on a Monday. Much less chance of forgetting it over night than over a weekend.
Are you saying that your password is actually not ?
These "change your password every X" system are extremely stupid and create password which are weaker than the original password (e.g. append a 1 every time). So in my example, I always change the password every month, and append the current month + year my base password. This fools the security check but does not introduce any additional security. E.g.
base pass= abcd
Pass in January 2012: abcd012012
Pass in February 2012: abcd022012
Can we please stop with the MMO's already? Im already playing a MMO where I am just another guy (like everyone else). It's called life.
And, they lame-assed come-back "It's Open Source, why don't YOU write some code" is, well, lame and doesn't really need addressing.
No, its not lame. It is the entire idea behind Open Source Software. If you like something, you contribute to it (in any form). It's easy to simple demand and require things from developers. The hard part is to actually contribute.
Please do not blame the developers that they do not share your world view of what gimp should be. If you want a feature, implement it and share it with the world. This way we all win.
Thank you for posting this.
You get a feature rich, stable, complete application for absolutely free and you still complain about it not being something else. Gimp may have a very steap learning curve and may lack some features of photoshop but it is still a solid package and we should be absolutely greatful that there are people out there who dedicate their time to provide the package to us for free.
I am absolutely sure that most people here, who complain about gimp not being photoshop, do not even have a valid license for photoshop. Additionally, if you think its so much worse, why dont you go ahead and try to make it better, its open source after all. But that would actually require you to do some work.
I am happy that gimp 2.8 finally got released. I continue to use and support it
The answer is simple. To many people Linux is still this magical OS, which is for computing experts / geeks / hackers only. Most average joe's dont even know that an alternative OS exists.
Ubuntu for example is the perfect OS for the average joe. I know that most of the hardcore linux community doesnt like Unity (I have changed to KDE because of Unity), but for the average Joe, Ubuntu 12.04 is a fantastic OS. Many people will claim "Compatibility" issues and support issues. The truth is however that most hardware has support out of the box. No drivers installation needed.
Some examples:
1) Printers. All I need is to connect the printer. I never had to download any drivers (which I do need to download for my Canon iP 4500 or Brother DCP-9055CDN).
2) 3G wireless usb sticks. This was a huge surprise. On Windows, I need to install some weird applications to get the internet to work. On Ubuntu? I simply inserted the stick, was asked which Network Operator the sim card belongs to and enter the pin. Im connected to the internet.
3) VPN... On Windows I need to install additional applications, On Ubuntu? Its built in.
4) All other hardware. Most works out of the box. No hunting for drivers online, everything just works (On common hardware).
Of course there is the issue of the people who run non-common hardware, such as TV-cards, special capture cards, etc. where no drivers are provided for linux. But for the common user? Ubuntu is ready, it is just that the common user is unaware...
This seems to be total overkill. If China wants to spy on its users, its a lot easier to do it differently.
Why not simply enforce that all new machines have UEFI and only accept to boot an OS which is signed by the Chinese government? In the kernel they can then introduce whatever spying technology they want.
This is pretty much equivalent to creating their own architecture, since that would also require a specially compiled OS for that architecture.
Or am I missing something?
Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed.
