Lucky_Norseman - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:All the Crap (Score 1) 242

by Lucky_Norseman on Monday May 07, @08:33AM (#39914241) Attached to: Pirate Party Gaining Strength In Germany

I guess that depends on where you live.
Here in Norway there are many who buy a house or an apartment on loan, not to live there but just to rent it out. And the income from the rent pays for the interest on the loan, all maintenance expences and there is still enough left to get a profit.
If someone else can buy my house on loan and make a profit renting it to me, then it should be better for me to just buy it myself with the same loan and pay the interest and downpayments with the money I otherwise would spend paying rent.
Whenever the rent is higher than interest and downpayments on a loan, then buying a house on loan is in my mind a sensible action.

Comment: Re:All the Crap (Score 1) 242

by Lucky_Norseman on Monday May 07, @05:43AM (#39913747) Attached to: Pirate Party Gaining Strength In Germany

In other words, the best way to get rid of the nazis is to have a Pirate Party :-)

Comment: Re:All the Crap (Score 2) 242

by Lucky_Norseman on Monday May 07, @05:41AM (#39913737) Attached to: Pirate Party Gaining Strength In Germany

Well. someone has to own the house. If it doesn't pay to invest in a house to live in, why should it pay to invest in a house for someone else to rent?
The way I see it is that by owning my own house I'm cutting out the middle man, thus reducing the total cost.

Comment: Re:How dare they... (Score 1) 356

by Lucky_Norseman on Thursday May 03, @07:06AM (#39877001) Attached to: Apple Blocks iOS Apps Using Dropbox SDK

Actually the rules are very clearly posted and are in no way confusing. It's much like if I owned a popular jewelry store and told you that you could sell some of your products through my storefront if I took a 30% commission. Then, when a customer comes in to my store you whisper to him "psst, you can get this necklace 30% cheaper. Just meet me at my own private store and we can do business without the owner of this place getting his cut." Customer is happy. You're happy. I, the store owner, am not. I gave you a customer through my own distribution channel and you tried to sidestep giving me what you owe me for that..

It's more like if another customer says "I have a store across the street and I can sell you a fur coat that will make your girlfriend look stunning with that necklace" and the jewelry store owner demanding a 30% cut of all clothing sold to that customer.

Comment: Re:And nobody cares.... (Score 1) 185

by Lucky_Norseman on Tuesday May 01, @04:32PM (#39861455) Attached to: BlackBerry 10 Unveiled

the ONLY chance they have is to stop the RIM email fees, give away the enterprise server software for free and make it less of a ugly evil turd as well. And finally, tell all governments to stuff it in their ass and revoke all email+messaging interception to regain the trust of the corporate world. yes that means telling the UAE to stuff it in their Bursa.

Why would RIM tell governments to stop email interception, and what does this have to do with BlackBerrry Enterprise Server?
BES is the only mobile mail solution that UAE and other governments cannot intercept.
There was a lot of press when RIM allowed governments access to the consumer messaging, but that only made them equal to Android, iPhone and WinPhones. All of them are equally open to snooping by governments ( and others), the only exception is BlackBerry phones connected to a BES server where the company can have their own encryption key so not even RIM can decode the messages.

Comment: Re:Seems partly justified (Score 5, Insightful) 227

by Lucky_Norseman on Thursday April 19, @08:33AM (#39732783) Attached to: Judge Grudgingly Awards $3.6 Million In DRM Circumvention Case

"minimum of $200 per infringement" why is the $200 multiplied by the number of clients? Its the server that they claim is infringing, why not just $200 per server?

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