Think a Mario Kart raking in the cash that Pokemon fans are spitting out.
The border between illegal and immoral.
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Fansubbers Under Fire
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· Score: 5, Informative
Most fansubbing groups operate on morality vs. legality.
They will sub, and release, a series until there is a company that picks it up and says "we are going to do this". And then they drop it. At which point, most drop all sources for all episodes both future and already released. This is why studios don't have a problem with most groups. It doesn't dilute the market enough to bother with.
I don't consider this practice immoral. However, given the current state of copyright laws, it is illegal. Doing fansubs, or DLing them is an at-risk practice for all parties involved.
Much like driving 5MPH over the speed limit, or doing a rolling stop at a stop sign. Illegal and immoral do not always coincide.
It's hard to appriciate your rights if you never have to use them.
When Vietnam was going on, the first amendment became quite important.
When Rockefeller was able to get a governer to send in a state militia to force miners back to work, and that militia opened fire on the miners with machine guns (new device) and then burned thier tent city down with families still in the tents. The right to bear arms made the difference as tons of people were flocking to defend the miners, so the preident stepped in and sent the national army to break up the event and essentially kick the state militia out of there.
Either use it or lose it.
I'm a gun toting redneck/geek that's a freedom loving eagle scout. I consider myself the kind of person that this country needs more of. Though there isn't enough people like me to stand up and say "WTF?" when something is odviously wrong. People are comfortable to hide behind a flag and the banner of patriotism while forgetting that this country isn't a government, but a civilization. The government is for the people, not the other way around.
Version 3: ECHO These files may be illegal, or potentially used to make or obtain illegal files. >>C:\ILLEGALFILES.TXT c: cd \ dir *.*/s >> C:\ILLEGALFILES.TXT
Version 4: ECHO You might have illegal files, we will clean them. FORMAT C:/autotest FORMAT D:/autotest FORMAT E:/autotest (repeat until Z)
There is no "clear path". Until you find a cheap source of power that is easily transportable and offers a high energy density that doesn't have tons of hazardous waste in it's process and emits no pollution, there will never be a clear path.
Solar cells only work in the day, do not develop alot of power, and require alot of resources to make.
Hydro power would be clean, except for the fact that environmentalists don't want to dam rivers.
Nuclear is nice and clean aside from the reletively small amount of very hazardous waste. Doesn't work well on a small scale.
Alcohol, half the energy density of gasoline, we still have to make it, still pollutes.
Wind, not many areas are condusive to signifigant wind power, and again, environmentalists hate seeing crap on a hill.
Hydrogen, just get it from water right? When it burns it just produces water. If you can pull this one off without putting more energy in than you get out you could be a candidate for a nobel prize.
Geothermal, wastes water.
So where is this path that is so clear? All our energy sources had signifigant downsides.
Oh yeah, and COWS have been targeted as a source of global warming causing pollution because of methane gas. Yes, COWS, the walking refridgerators that preserve meat until we are ready to eat them.
There's 4 regions that are usually listed: Japan US Europe ROW (Rest Of World)
Just looking at one region's numbers isn't good enough to say a console's failed. Most of the anti-GC/Xbox fanboy crowd LOVES to state EU stats while completely ignoring Japan's figures.
Year to date console sales as of 12/26: Nintendo DS 1,286,074 GameBoy Advance SP 2,530,961 PlayStation 2 2,691,666 GameCube 696,839 PlayStation Portable 352,295 GameBoy Advance 198,025 Xbox 37,083 PSone 14,029 Swan Crystal 7,464...looks like the GC isn't doing that bad. The Xbox on the otherhand...
Internet options: Dialup: 26.4k on a good day, $15/mo for the ISP, $20 for the line. ISDN: 128kpbs, something like $50/mo line+$50/mo ISP+per minute charges+hardware and setup. IDSL: 144/144, DSL over ISDN, $100/mo+$300 setup Satalite: $70/mo+$300 setup or $100/mo. Anal terms of use, anything over 165MB slows back down to dialup speeds, that takes Windows Update out of the broadband arena. Next step: T1.
Cable? Nope. Noone delivers to my area, and those that deliver near don't offer internet.
ADSL? Our phone system is on the last line available, this would give me hope that they're going to upgrade soon, but neighboring areas actually have more lines in use than good lines. So a few bad lines get passed around to people that haven't complained for a while.
Begging to the phone company to upgrade or put in a repeater or something? This didn't work when my dad tried it while he was a systems tech FOR the phone company. He's since retired from the phone company and is now working in other places in the field.
Broadband is a no-show in my area. I'm about 30-40 miles away from the Governator.
Often I feel like I'm using the demo version of the internet. -
Want to distribute 700MB files all over the world w/o breaking your own backbone? Knoppix provides a torrent link that lets you DL it's live CD distribution from the bittorrent network rather than the choked FTP servers (which are often 7-10kb/sec).
Currently I have NO reasonably priced broadband, and none in the near future. For reasonably priced high speed unmetered broadband, I'd go out, dig a hole, and if you're willing to front the $1000 for the used minivan I'll find one for $1000 and drive it into the hole myself.
This story can almost be word for word swapped with a story about some guy working in the coal mines about 100 years ago. They were told if you don't like it, get a new job (but first pay us back the money that you owe us).
Consider the difference between this and the Telco and gas industries: During the winter, there is a MAJOR crunch time for those industries. It's not uncommon for telco employees to work 84 hours a week for a couple months. Why do they do it? One, it's MAJOR bling in a time when it's needed. Two, they know it's going to end. When the weather calms down and warms up, they all take thier vacation time and can relax. The money saved up allows them to do stuff that they missed while getting systems back up or filling tanks.
Would they work under crunch time, all the time? HELL NO. Thier job can't be done on extreme exhaustion. Would they work like that without compensation? Maybe for once in a long time, not for a couple months at a time.
Why do they get compensated so well? Unions and management that understands that running an employee hard for a short period is cheaper than wasting them for 9 other months, but they must be compensated.
They don't like the long hours, but they do welcome it. I consider what most of the software industry does to be on par with factories in third world countries. After all, if a guy making clothes doesn't like working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, he can always get another job. Can't he?
Where the hell did these "rights" come from?
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The Universal Off Button
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Last I checked, there was nothing in the Bill of Rights that said "We have the right to have silence in public and other people's private places."
TVs in the airport? Maybe people want to know what the weather's going to be like at thier destination. Maybe that guy who just spent 4 hours staring at the back of a seat would like to watch a game for an hour before spending another 6 viewing the threadcount of a headrest.
TV at your local restraunt? Noone forced you to be there, if you don't like it, ask to be moved away from it or go somewhere else.
TVs in stores? It helps to actually see a fully warmed up picture when viewing a TV. Besides, doesn't a TV turned on seem much more appealing than one turned off? If you wanted to view a TV turned off wouldn't you just get a cabinet?
Just as I don't have the right to take that cell phone and shove it up your arse, you don't have the right to turn off someone elses TVs.
Oh, and malls, airports, and restraunts are NOT public property. If you want public property to dispense your own brand of vigelante justice, the BLM land is usually well marked on topo maps. Go there and tell the crickets to shut the hell up. They might care.
"Second, the versions of Windows that are built this way do not require rebooting at this period, an internal timer turns over and the system continues on as normal."
So is that isn't why I had an unpatched Win95 system run SETI flawlessly for exactly 49.7 days before it locked up and had to be rebooted the hard way?
Idea #1: specialize. 60M transistors in a CPU, billions in RAM, 200M in the videocard, and they all work great! Why? Because your RAM is just RAM. It does it's job, so it can do it's job extremely well.
Idea #2: assume the user is going to do the dumbest thing on earth. You can buy USB sex toys, coffee mug warmers, and light up ducks. If you f' up the wiring on a USB port, you won't blow the port, and the OS will most likely never see the device.
Idea #3: assume the user is going to try to hurt themselves in the process of doing the dumbest thing on earth. Take a look at your PC, consider the number of ways they've protected you against hurting yourself short of dropping it on you. Where does your finger fit? Pretty much nowhere. There's some high voltage in your PC, as well as high current. But you can't get to it.
Idea #4: have a plan, and get people that can stick to it. There is a new videocard generation every year, and a sub-generation half way through the year. Don't tell me that short deadlines are impossible.
Idea #5: standards are there for a reason. UL, ISO, CE, and other standards are in place for safety. In the end, they help designers know what NEEDS to be there. Going off and saying "it doesn't apply because we don't want it to" doesn't work.
Idea #6: your compiler does not check for a bad design. No amount of CAD programs will check to make sure that the engineer at GM put the pedals in the right order, that's the engineer's job.
Idea #7: take responsibility. In the end, most every hardware engineer knows that they are responsible for making sure thier design works. Most feel quite bad when something goes wrong and usually spend long nights finding the best fix.
Idea #8: if it's advertized as secure, MAKE SURE IT'S SECURE! Kryptonite locks are being replaced at the manufacturer's cost. Anyone wanna bet how often this is going to happen again? I'll give you a hint, it's not the 2nd tuesday of every month.
...British Soccer fans? They show up at a predetermined time, riot, and then disperse to thier home country. And they've been known to cause injuries and death!
I can SEE people that have had cable access for 20 years, but I can't get it. (literally, they're just one hill over). My sister gets 14.4k tops, and she's 1 mile away from her inlaws that get 48k. My phone line supports a flakey 26.4k max connection. The only thing that I get that says "DSL" is advertizing. Many people in the area and surrounding areas are in a state where the "bad line" just gets passed around from someone that complains to someone that doesn't. They're out of good lines. The problem?
NOONE WANTS TO SPEND MONEY.
Upgrading the infrastructure costs money, and in an area that isn't currently being changed from an open field to high density subdivision who cares? The profit just isn't there. Let the lines corrode. Whenever it rains, my connection gets worse. The cover to the splice box at the top of the pole outside our house fell off two months ago. Last I checked the terminals are still open to the weather. That's how much they care.
If we talked to the phone company could we convince them to do something? My dad tried when he was a systems tech FOR the phone company. Didn't work.
Cheap broadband comes with a $300,000+ setup fee. The cost of buying a two bedroom house near a central office or in an area with cable.
Who would've thought that California would be a third world country?
Slashdot Mirror
"Pokemon Championship Grand Prix".
Think a Mario Kart raking in the cash that Pokemon fans are spitting out.
Most fansubbing groups operate on morality vs. legality.
They will sub, and release, a series until there is a company that picks it up and says "we are going to do this". And then they drop it. At which point, most drop all sources for all episodes both future and already released. This is why studios don't have a problem with most groups. It doesn't dilute the market enough to bother with.
I don't consider this practice immoral. However, given the current state of copyright laws, it is illegal. Doing fansubs, or DLing them is an at-risk practice for all parties involved.
Much like driving 5MPH over the speed limit, or doing a rolling stop at a stop sign. Illegal and immoral do not always coincide.
It's hard to appriciate your rights if you never have to use them.
When Vietnam was going on, the first amendment became quite important.
When Rockefeller was able to get a governer to send in a state militia to force miners back to work, and that militia opened fire on the miners with machine guns (new device) and then burned thier tent city down with families still in the tents. The right to bear arms made the difference as tons of people were flocking to defend the miners, so the preident stepped in and sent the national army to break up the event and essentially kick the state militia out of there.
Either use it or lose it.
I'm a gun toting redneck/geek that's a freedom loving eagle scout. I consider myself the kind of person that this country needs more of. Though there isn't enough people like me to stand up and say "WTF?" when something is odviously wrong. People are comfortable to hide behind a flag and the banner of patriotism while forgetting that this country isn't a government, but a civilization. The government is for the people, not the other way around.
Version 3: /s >> C:\ILLEGALFILES.TXT
/autotest /autotest /autotest
ECHO These files may be illegal, or potentially used to make or obtain illegal files. >>C:\ILLEGALFILES.TXT
c:
cd \
dir *.*
Version 4:
ECHO You might have illegal files, we will clean them.
FORMAT C:
FORMAT D:
FORMAT E:
(repeat until Z)
Biodiesel still requires burning. Meaning we still make CO2. Sorry, try again.
There is no "clear path". Until you find a cheap source of power that is easily transportable and offers a high energy density that doesn't have tons of hazardous waste in it's process and emits no pollution, there will never be a clear path.
Solar cells only work in the day, do not develop alot of power, and require alot of resources to make.
Hydro power would be clean, except for the fact that environmentalists don't want to dam rivers.
Nuclear is nice and clean aside from the reletively small amount of very hazardous waste. Doesn't work well on a small scale.
Alcohol, half the energy density of gasoline, we still have to make it, still pollutes.
Wind, not many areas are condusive to signifigant wind power, and again, environmentalists hate seeing crap on a hill.
Hydrogen, just get it from water right? When it burns it just produces water. If you can pull this one off without putting more energy in than you get out you could be a candidate for a nobel prize.
Geothermal, wastes water.
So where is this path that is so clear? All our energy sources had signifigant downsides.
Oh yeah, and COWS have been targeted as a source of global warming causing pollution because of methane gas. Yes, COWS, the walking refridgerators that preserve meat until we are ready to eat them.
2. Post a derogatory reply as "Anonymous Coward".
It'd be about the same as if she were writing a book, and after years of writing he deleted the file.
She's not out money, but all that time she spent is gone.
Amazing how Anonymous Cowards always seem to make the flame posts.
I haven't found one yet. But I'd be interested in seeing it.
There's 4 regions that are usually listed:
Japan
US
Europe
ROW (Rest Of World)
Just looking at one region's numbers isn't good enough to say a console's failed. Most of the anti-GC/Xbox fanboy crowd LOVES to state EU stats while completely ignoring Japan's figures.
http://www.the-magicbox.com/topten.htm
Year to date console sales as of 12/26: ...looks like the GC isn't doing that bad. The Xbox on the otherhand...
Nintendo DS 1,286,074
GameBoy Advance SP 2,530,961
PlayStation 2 2,691,666
GameCube 696,839
PlayStation Portable 352,295
GameBoy Advance 198,025
Xbox 37,083
PSone 14,029
Swan Crystal 7,464
Internet options:
Dialup:
26.4k on a good day, $15/mo for the ISP, $20 for the line.
ISDN:
128kpbs, something like $50/mo line+$50/mo ISP+per minute charges+hardware and setup.
IDSL:
144/144, DSL over ISDN, $100/mo+$300 setup
Satalite:
$70/mo+$300 setup or $100/mo. Anal terms of use, anything over 165MB slows back down to dialup speeds, that takes Windows Update out of the broadband arena.
Next step:
T1.
Cable? Nope. Noone delivers to my area, and those that deliver near don't offer internet.
ADSL? Our phone system is on the last line available, this would give me hope that they're going to upgrade soon, but neighboring areas actually have more lines in use than good lines. So a few bad lines get passed around to people that haven't complained for a while.
Begging to the phone company to upgrade or put in a repeater or something?
This didn't work when my dad tried it while he was a systems tech FOR the phone company. He's since retired from the phone company and is now working in other places in the field.
Broadband is a no-show in my area. I'm about 30-40 miles away from the Governator.
Often I feel like I'm using the demo version of the internet.
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Want to distribute 700MB files all over the world w/o breaking your own backbone? Knoppix provides a torrent link that lets you DL it's live CD distribution from the bittorrent network rather than the choked FTP servers (which are often 7-10kb/sec).
Currently I have NO reasonably priced broadband, and none in the near future. For reasonably priced high speed unmetered broadband, I'd go out, dig a hole, and if you're willing to front the $1000 for the used minivan I'll find one for $1000 and drive it into the hole myself.
This story can almost be word for word swapped with a story about some guy working in the coal mines about 100 years ago. They were told if you don't like it, get a new job (but first pay us back the money that you owe us).
Consider the difference between this and the Telco and gas industries:
During the winter, there is a MAJOR crunch time for those industries. It's not uncommon for telco employees to work 84 hours a week for a couple months. Why do they do it? One, it's MAJOR bling in a time when it's needed. Two, they know it's going to end. When the weather calms down and warms up, they all take thier vacation time and can relax. The money saved up allows them to do stuff that they missed while getting systems back up or filling tanks.
Would they work under crunch time, all the time? HELL NO. Thier job can't be done on extreme exhaustion. Would they work like that without compensation? Maybe for once in a long time, not for a couple months at a time.
Why do they get compensated so well? Unions and management that understands that running an employee hard for a short period is cheaper than wasting them for 9 other months, but they must be compensated.
They don't like the long hours, but they do welcome it. I consider what most of the software industry does to be on par with factories in third world countries. After all, if a guy making clothes doesn't like working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, he can always get another job. Can't he?
Last I checked, there was nothing in the Bill of Rights that said "We have the right to have silence in public and other people's private places."
TVs in the airport? Maybe people want to know what the weather's going to be like at thier destination. Maybe that guy who just spent 4 hours staring at the back of a seat would like to watch a game for an hour before spending another 6 viewing the threadcount of a headrest.
TV at your local restraunt? Noone forced you to be there, if you don't like it, ask to be moved away from it or go somewhere else.
TVs in stores? It helps to actually see a fully warmed up picture when viewing a TV. Besides, doesn't a TV turned on seem much more appealing than one turned off? If you wanted to view a TV turned off wouldn't you just get a cabinet?
Just as I don't have the right to take that cell phone and shove it up your arse, you don't have the right to turn off someone elses TVs.
Oh, and malls, airports, and restraunts are NOT public property. If you want public property to dispense your own brand of vigelante justice, the BLM land is usually well marked on topo maps. Go there and tell the crickets to shut the hell up. They might care.
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"Second, the versions of Windows that are built this way do not require rebooting at this period, an internal timer turns over and the system continues on as normal."
So is that isn't why I had an unpatched Win95 system run SETI flawlessly for exactly 49.7 days before it locked up and had to be rebooted the hard way?
Idea #1: specialize.
60M transistors in a CPU, billions in RAM, 200M in
the videocard, and they all work great! Why? Because your RAM is just RAM. It does it's job, so it can do it's job extremely well.
Idea #2: assume the user is going to do the dumbest thing on earth.
You can buy USB sex toys, coffee mug warmers, and light up ducks. If you f' up the wiring on a USB port, you won't blow the port, and the OS will most likely never see the device.
Idea #3: assume the user is going to try to hurt themselves in the process of doing the dumbest thing on earth.
Take a look at your PC, consider the number of ways they've protected you against hurting yourself short of dropping it on you. Where does your finger fit? Pretty much nowhere. There's some high voltage in your PC, as well as high current. But you can't get to it.
Idea #4: have a plan, and get people that can stick to it.
There is a new videocard generation every year, and a sub-generation half way through the year. Don't tell me that short deadlines are impossible.
Idea #5: standards are there for a reason.
UL, ISO, CE, and other standards are in place for safety. In the end, they help designers know what NEEDS to be there. Going off and saying "it doesn't apply because we don't want it to" doesn't work.
Idea #6: your compiler does not check for a bad design.
No amount of CAD programs will check to make sure that the engineer at GM put the pedals in the right order, that's the engineer's job.
Idea #7: take responsibility.
In the end, most every hardware engineer knows that they are responsible for making sure thier design works. Most feel quite bad when something goes wrong and usually spend long nights finding the best fix.
Idea #8: if it's advertized as secure, MAKE SURE IT'S SECURE!
Kryptonite locks are being replaced at the manufacturer's cost. Anyone wanna bet how often this is going to happen again? I'll give you a hint, it's not the 2nd tuesday of every month.
...that sports kill people. NOT violent videogames. When was the last time a riot broke out after an MvC2 match?
...British Soccer fans? They show up at a predetermined time, riot, and then disperse to thier home country. And they've been known to cause injuries and death!
A soccer ball is the symbol of real terror!
Please say it's Petoria. Please say it's Petoria...
...and I don't have any sub $100/mo options.
I can SEE people that have had cable access for 20 years, but I can't get it. (literally, they're just one hill over). My sister gets 14.4k tops, and she's 1 mile away from her inlaws that get 48k. My phone line supports a flakey 26.4k max connection. The only thing that I get that says "DSL" is advertizing. Many people in the area and surrounding areas are in a state where the "bad line" just gets passed around from someone that complains to someone that doesn't. They're out of good lines. The problem?
NOONE WANTS TO SPEND MONEY.
Upgrading the infrastructure costs money, and in an area that isn't currently being changed from an open field to high density subdivision who cares? The profit just isn't there. Let the lines corrode. Whenever it rains, my connection gets worse. The cover to the splice box at the top of the pole outside our house fell off two months ago. Last I checked the terminals are still open to the weather. That's how much they care.
If we talked to the phone company could we convince them to do something? My dad tried when he was a systems tech FOR the phone company. Didn't work.
Cheap broadband comes with a $300,000+ setup fee. The cost of buying a two bedroom house near a central office or in an area with cable.
Who would've thought that California would be a third world country?
Multi-monitor gets around it.
There's others available from places like planetsourcecode.com