I also am a little disappointed in this. They ended up shipping mine yesterday evening, so I'm slated for end of day tomorrow. Which is kind of a pain since I have tomorrow scheduled off. (Yes, I took a comp day to play Diablo 3 since I worked Saturday, what of it!)

Maybe I'm outside the norm, but I had two different offers the last time I looked for a new job (6 months ago), despite moving from another state and being just shy of 40. Of course, I keep up with new tech and had an app in the Android market, so maybe I seem young.

This article made me go and buy Aziz Ansari's special: http://azizansari.com/

I had always meant to, but it reminded me that a $5 directly to the artist does WAY more than spending $20 on a dvd to a large company. I had bought Louie CK's thing the day it came out, but waited on Aziz's.

So yes, Louie CK did not monetize because not everyone got their pound of flesh, but it's so easy to just sell a product cheaply when there are no concerns about who can watch it. And who knows, maybe those people go see his standup live and we have a decent comedian in arenas, unlike Dane Cook.

Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word "monetize" that I hadn't previously been aware of.

I know I'm feeding the troll here, but what application developers has access to threads (or sound or graphics even) in the 70s? First reference to threads I can find is SunOS 4.x, which came out in 82. The 80s is also when some sounds and graphics became available on many computers (Commodore Vic-20, Atari 2600, IBM PC, Apple II, etc). There might have been specialty computers that had those features, but nothing available for the average application developer in the 70s.

What you say may be true, but I don't think he expects to be able to change existing copyright law. IMHO he has two aims; to make ratification of treaties require Senate approval (as specified in the Constitution) rather than Presidential fiat; and requires that negotiations in these treaties be conducted in the open (anything we share with other countries must be made public). Yes, I RTFA, but I'm not new here.

Articles main source says modern AC and theoretical DC are about the same. By the way, he has a product to sell...

Sounds like AT&T has only itself to blame.

It's pretty simple - the attackers install backdoor trojans which phone home to various command-and-control (C2) servers. In some cases when the USG identifies a high-value (i.e. involved in corporate and/or government espionage) C2 in the U.S. they get a warrant to monitor all network traffic to and from that host at the upstream. Once you have netflow or pcap data you can pretty easily tell who the compromised companies are when you see their corporate firewall IP hitting the C2 at regular intervals.

Private-sector researchers do this as well sometimes, but you need cooperation from the upstream. Or in some cases, the attackers are sloppy enough to leave behind publicly-accessible server logs ala Shady RAT.