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  • On the post: Expose A Blatant Security Hole In AT&T's Servers, Get 3.5 Years In Jail

    Lonyo ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2013 @ 04:27am

    Bad idea

    Is this not incredibly dangerous and counterproductive?

    Basically, a guy finds a flaw in a website, and reveals it (after being slightly nefarious to show that it's an issue and get it publicity).

    For bringing it to the attention of the public, he gets punished.
    If he had kept it secret and just leaked the information without revealing himself, which he could have done, the security hole may not have been notified to AT&T.

    Basically it means that amateur security people will no longer find these holes in large corporations, meaning people who want to exploit them for personal gain will have a much easier time of keeping them secret or finding them first.
    Resulting in a LESS secure system, due to laws which are supposed to improve security.

    If your law against hacking results in hacking being driven more underground and people NOT revealing security flaws they find, you're doing it wrong.

  • On the post: The Hobbit Took $120M From Kiwi Taxpayers – Maybe They Should Own The Rights

    Lonyo ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2012 @ 01:40pm

    Re: Re: Tourism

    Indeed, it is a special case.
    Which is why I said that in my post in the first place, just not with the words "special case".

    For NZ it isn't a bad idea, which is why this article comparing it to US tax breaks is stupid, because it's not exactly like with like.

  • On the post: The Hobbit Took $120M From Kiwi Taxpayers – Maybe They Should Own The Rights

    Lonyo ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2012 @ 10:02am

    Re: Re: Tourism

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien_tourism#In_New_Zealand

    (Yes, it's Wikipedia, but look, references!).

    Before you say "rubbish", do a scant bit of research rather than using preconceptions.

  • On the post: The Hobbit Took $120M From Kiwi Taxpayers – Maybe They Should Own The Rights

    Lonyo ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2012 @ 08:55am

    Tourism

    While it is quite a lot, and they might not get that much return immediately, you can't really argue with the idea that the LOTR films helped promote New Zealand as a tourist destination, and The Hobbit will probably do the same.

    http://www.skynews.com.au/showbiz/article.aspx?id=823026&vId=3681012

    "After the Lord Of The Rings films came out a Tourism New Zealand survey showed 6% of visitors came mainly as a result of having seen the movies. They added around 250m annually to the country's income. "

    Spend $120m, get some of it back in tax/etc, and then get 250m (NZD?) annually for a couple of years? That's not a particularly bad investment.

    There's more than just the jobs created here. For the US it might be difference, since lots of US cities are not appealing even after a film has been made there, but for somewhere like NZ, it can be quite different.

  • On the post: $1.5 Billion In Taxpayer Funds Go Directly To Movie Studios Each Year… And Very Few Jobs Created

    Lonyo ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2012 @ 10:31am

    Simpsons already did it

    MONORAIL!