Posts by LaeMing

Would DMCA count?

That would depend on how big the kickback on offer from the MegaCorp was.

Your page-rank is not your personal worth.

Though sometimes chance corelations will occurr (and be hilarious).

Well, we elect them,

so in the end, we (in aggregate) are still to blame.

Yes,

I have been forced to add Seagate to my 'Suppliers of last resort' poster on my wall too.

At least WD seems to be getting their act back together recently.

OFT et.al. supporting benefit to customers...

...is fine, as they are capable of thinking of such benefits in the long-term, not just the now. I have yet to see an unfair-trade benefit that doesn't (rather obviously, even in foresight) bite the customers and economy both in the butts before long.

Keep in mind....

The drugs trade has a huge stake in keeping the stuff illegal, and hence costly. Biggest supporters of any sort of prohibition are the prohibited product's suppliers. Second biggest are the dupes that unwittingly support them.

Because...

...an OS that gets rooted occasionally is just as insecure as one that gets rooted regularly.

Also would make another good reason to back up regularly.

As if we should need one! But we do!

that, of course,

applies to almost all of the modern world, not just WL et.al.

@AC - Wonderful Pay?

Well, in Australia (where this story comes from), school teaching requires a bachelor degree (4 years primary degree or - for high school - a 3-4 year specialised degree PLUS a 1 year teaching diploma - also issued via an accredited university). I know in less socially-developed countries there are still states where you can effectively just walk in off the street and apply to be a teacher, but here, teaching really is a profession.

They would have to be quick!

The hashes get distributed quite widely on release, so if you missed the very short window between release and other servers making a copy of the hash, you would have to hack thousands of disparate systems to change all the copies of the hash data. I asume this is intentional.

In seriousness?

Taking the Mick. Apparently even the crooks couldn't resist making fun of people who would fall for their scam.

@chrOm4t1c:Too true

Yes, I think we should talk less about endangering 'the Earth' and more about endangering 'our civilisation's ability to continue'. Would drive the point in a bit better, considering average human self-centered-ness.

Of course the emphasis is on 'civilisation'. Even with catastrophic climate change there is a good chance a small portion of homosapiens would hang on at a subscistence level for hundreds of thousands of years. May even get back up to steam-power, but can't progress as all the readily accessible high-calorie fuels and 'rare' metals are long-since extracted and you can't get the rest without the boost that the easy stuff gave us.

So it very likely we have only once chance in the span of our species and if we blow it, many millions of years for the next opportunity (by which time homo sapiens is very unlikely to still be around, so some other species will be doing it by then).

@Nuke

Yup, last thing the US needs is foreigners coming in and spending money! Discourage the lot of them!

Probably because the FSF

is more interested in users'/developers' rights than petty revenge. If the violator starts complying, then the FSF's concerns are met and being vindictive becomes just childish.

No, but...

... it would make Baby Steve Jobs cry.

I will have to assume

the images shown were stored analog. With digital encoding, the shaddow seen would be below the bit-change thereshold.

The most disapointing thing is

there is so much good (and even more quite passable) origional sci-fi in text form. I isn't that the ideas aren't out there, it is that most of the film industry is functionally illiterate.

Where I work

Would buy 40 yesterday (we need 2 class sets).

Re: Wonder why Samsung havent just gone for prior art?

Because all this so-far is happening /before/ Samsung gets their chance to respond in court, AFAIK.