Comment Re:WHERE IS YOUR GLOBAL WARMING NOW??? (Score 3, Interesting) 95
At least it stomps right on all the "it's just solar activity!" claims when it comes to temperature differences.
At least it stomps right on all the "it's just solar activity!" claims when it comes to temperature differences.
Both do, but the difference is that private corporations have no direct authority over you.
Indirect authority is even worse because you never know when it comes at you. At least the government is more or less limited by the constitution and also predictable, a corporation is only limited by what the execs think they can get away with.
Companies are limited by the law just like any other citizen. By stopping Google from taking pictures in public how are you not selectively interfering with their first amendment rights? What about the precedent you set by doing that?
The US isn't all first world.
Quite true, actually pretty much unavoidable when large portions of your population just recently came from 3rd world.
Uncontrolled immigration is the obvious problem. Encouraging illegals with free government services adds to it. Keep the disease ridden out and the problem goes away.
This information alone doesnt indicate how PCI compliant this solution was. To be PCI compliant every box that stores or *transmits* card data is in scope, including any routers/switches/firewalls that data hits. Presumably you also had a source to the card number data, and that sounds like an area of particular difficulty to secure. Any application that allows card data to be captured (even if not stored) should go through PA-DSS (payment application) compliance testing.
There is a discussion about the vulnerability on StackOverflow
Once you get to the top you just have to bounce into space.
Ditto almost exactly. It was when they put Lik-Sang out of business that was the final straw for me. Since then I've avoided all Sony products, and sucessfully convinced a few other family members and close friends to do the same.
Personally I'm hoping to see servers go up in smoke, explosions, minor casualties and with some luck an invasion by a passing Vogon fleet when I ask for The Ultimate Question
No seriously. I've had some real moments of epiphany whilst mulling over problems from the day before. Sometimes its only when you're away from your keyboard that you start looking at the bigger picture rather than the minutiae of individual classes/methods
I fully agree that taking the servers down would be a futile act, but in no way would losing this case be better for society. If TPB win this case then it could bring about a sea change in how copyright infringement cases are brought to trial. Further it could be the first step in a loong overdue reform of copyright law. At the VERY least it would force the big media distributors to reassess their methods of getting digital content out to consumers.
TPB has had around 25million+ peers connected through its trackers. And thats just one of the tracker sites. Shooting from the hip its easy to guess that at any given time there are 50,000,000 or more people downloading illegal torrents. You cant just expect to take a couple of guys to court to change the behaviour of ~50 million people. The media companies have got themselves into this mess with ridiculous DRM schemes, overpriced media and poor quality products. Its time for a change.
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