Parent is right (unfortunately) make any...repeat any change to your account and you're locked in for another two years. I recently started doing some work for the state government and found out that qualified me for 15% of my T-Mobile bill...next time I got a bill I was also thanked for staying with them another two years.
I used to wonder if something would ever bind people of the world together. It sounds idealistic but I think I've found it. My friends here in the states, my colleagues in England, Turkey, and Canada, and my family in Spain and Mexico all rightfully complain about being taken advantage of by the media cartels. I'd like to thank them for finding a way to pull the various nationalities of the world together, and as an American citizen feel that I should apologize on behalf of my compatriots for letting this get so out of hand with our voter apathy and general disregard for y'know ethics and stuff.
those students will go on to become professional users and pay for a licence
Nail, meet head (wait...that sounded kinda dirty). I was certainly guilty of pirating Adobe and Autodesk software in grad school. Living on $900 per month was difficult and some of us simply didn't have the grant money and/or disposable income to purchase legit software. Fast forward to today and I have a full paid for version of Adobe Master Suite CS5 and Autodesk Maya 2010 at my workstation at work. They essentially looked the other way when I, and others stole our first hit of sweet sweet software and now that we're hooked they have a guaranteed user base.
Agreed...for now. The problem is we have no idea what turn technology will take in a year so although right now the computer doing the work would fall apart due to its protons decaying, in a few years new hardware could make it a feat doable in just a few hours.
MAC filtering will stop a kiddie for all of 3 seconds. WEP for 45 seconds. WPA (with a PSK) with a short password ( 8 characters) for a few minutes or hours based on complexity and/or computing power. The best thing you can do is to use WPA2 with a long random password full of special characters. Even then you're open to a bruteforce attack. When I'm on wifi, I just assume everything I do is being monitored (lemme adjust my tinfoil hat), if there's anything critical that I need to do, I do it plugged directly into the router running a clean virtualized workstation.
It's been awhile since class, but if I recall the original PIE speakers were from Eastern Europe near the Caspian Sea (assuming you agree with the Kurgan theory). Which of course isn't to say that these didn't speak some sort of early or proto-PIE with their descendants ultimately speaking PIE.
As a business owner, would I have the right to refuse service to anybody wearing a turban because I think they might be a terrorist? Do I have the right to not put ramps and handicap accessible parking (in the U.S.) in front of my store? Business does not complete freedom and they need to be held to some accountability.
I think the 30 year mark is just a nice round number that to the average person represents an appreciable amount of time...but not too much. The problem I have with the lifetime of the artist is with bands. If you had a band of 4 people and 3 have died, does the copyright die with you? What if you replaced your drummer at year 5, does the copyright of everything between years 1-4 not apply to him? Thirty years seems like an ample amount of time to profit from a work, and in all honesty having copyrights expire within the lifetime of the artist (in my mind at least) will encourage them to create more work. It's a song, not a retirement plan.
For the record I do believe homosexuals have the right to get married, but to play Devil's advocate, would you support polygamy? It's the same logic in that the people entering into the contract are consenting adults who happen to have a different way of expressing their love/sexuality.
Perhaps artists should look into either creating new work or getting a real job like the rest of us instead of expecting to get paid in perpetuity. Any work done should automatically go into the public domain after 30 years regardless of whether or not the artist is still living. Righs should also be non-transferable. Copyright is a contract between artists and society, they create work and we grant them a temporary monopoly on distribution, what's happened is they still have their monopoly but are refusing to let the work fall into the public domain. The market is adjusting accordingly.
And yet the apologists will still give Sony a pass on this instead blaming the hackers for having "forced" Sony to do this. Blame the person pulling the trigger, not the person antagonizing him. If I tell somebody that I'm going to smack them if they don't stop whistling, and they continue to whistle, who is the person at fault?
Sony is worse for having shipped the console touting its ability to run Linux, then removing that option remotely. I'm not a huge fan of any of the consoles, but neither Microsoft nor Nintendo can match Sony in asshatness.
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Is this your way of getting...even?
Parent is right (unfortunately) make any...repeat any change to your account and you're locked in for another two years. I recently started doing some work for the state government and found out that qualified me for 15% of my T-Mobile bill...next time I got a bill I was also thanked for staying with them another two years.
I used to wonder if something would ever bind people of the world together. It sounds idealistic but I think I've found it. My friends here in the states, my colleagues in England, Turkey, and Canada, and my family in Spain and Mexico all rightfully complain about being taken advantage of by the media cartels. I'd like to thank them for finding a way to pull the various nationalities of the world together, and as an American citizen feel that I should apologize on behalf of my compatriots for letting this get so out of hand with our voter apathy and general disregard for y'know ethics and stuff.
those students will go on to become professional users and pay for a licence
Nail, meet head (wait...that sounded kinda dirty). I was certainly guilty of pirating Adobe and Autodesk software in grad school. Living on $900 per month was difficult and some of us simply didn't have the grant money and/or disposable income to purchase legit software. Fast forward to today and I have a full paid for version of Adobe Master Suite CS5 and Autodesk Maya 2010 at my workstation at work. They essentially looked the other way when I, and others stole our first hit of sweet sweet software and now that we're hooked they have a guaranteed user base.
Agreed...for now. The problem is we have no idea what turn technology will take in a year so although right now the computer doing the work would fall apart due to its protons decaying, in a few years new hardware could make it a feat doable in just a few hours.
MAC filtering will stop a kiddie for all of 3 seconds. WEP for 45 seconds. WPA (with a PSK) with a short password ( 8 characters) for a few minutes or hours based on complexity and/or computing power. The best thing you can do is to use WPA2 with a long random password full of special characters. Even then you're open to a bruteforce attack. When I'm on wifi, I just assume everything I do is being monitored (lemme adjust my tinfoil hat), if there's anything critical that I need to do, I do it plugged directly into the router running a clean virtualized workstation.
Adulthood is about actions, not ages.
By that logic my girlfriend is a pedophile (I often build couch cushion forts in my living room).
Just search for AdFree
...Cursing speed for light aircraft is somewhere around the 190kts range...
Surely we can do better than that!
I am United Statsian and I fear that my country isn't too far behind yours in terms of censorship.
I must have punched that spanked that damned monkey a dozen times and all it did was make my mouse hand sore.
It's been awhile since class, but if I recall the original PIE speakers were from Eastern Europe near the Caspian Sea (assuming you agree with the Kurgan theory). Which of course isn't to say that these didn't speak some sort of early or proto-PIE with their descendants ultimately speaking PIE.
...the inevitable betrayal!
As a business owner, would I have the right to refuse service to anybody wearing a turban because I think they might be a terrorist? Do I have the right to not put ramps and handicap accessible parking (in the U.S.) in front of my store? Business does not complete freedom and they need to be held to some accountability.
So every time a site gets slashdotted the users should be arrested?
Perhaps Anon should just start buying up cloud resources to aid in their attacks...now where can one buy that?
Not turning a profit on any transaction is Against The Ferengi Way
Which Rule of Acquisition is that?
I think the 30 year mark is just a nice round number that to the average person represents an appreciable amount of time...but not too much. The problem I have with the lifetime of the artist is with bands. If you had a band of 4 people and 3 have died, does the copyright die with you? What if you replaced your drummer at year 5, does the copyright of everything between years 1-4 not apply to him? Thirty years seems like an ample amount of time to profit from a work, and in all honesty having copyrights expire within the lifetime of the artist (in my mind at least) will encourage them to create more work. It's a song, not a retirement plan.
For the record I do believe homosexuals have the right to get married, but to play Devil's advocate, would you support polygamy? It's the same logic in that the people entering into the contract are consenting adults who happen to have a different way of expressing their love/sexuality.
Perhaps artists should look into either creating new work or getting a real job like the rest of us instead of expecting to get paid in perpetuity. Any work done should automatically go into the public domain after 30 years regardless of whether or not the artist is still living. Righs should also be non-transferable. Copyright is a contract between artists and society, they create work and we grant them a temporary monopoly on distribution, what's happened is they still have their monopoly but are refusing to let the work fall into the public domain. The market is adjusting accordingly.
The fact that the US has as much on them, if not more, as they have on the US. Balance of power, mutually assured disclosure, if you excuse the pun.
You wouldn't want to make them...MAD
And yet the apologists will still give Sony a pass on this instead blaming the hackers for having "forced" Sony to do this. Blame the person pulling the trigger, not the person antagonizing him. If I tell somebody that I'm going to smack them if they don't stop whistling, and they continue to whistle, who is the person at fault?
Sony is worse for having shipped the console touting its ability to run Linux, then removing that option remotely. I'm not a huge fan of any of the consoles, but neither Microsoft nor Nintendo can match Sony in asshatness.
By my United Statsian standards it sounds like a Utopian dream.
So...using a slippery slope argument is a slippery slope?