Allright.. You propose we stop a potentially very useful technology - because it would screw up sports? You desperately need to get your priorities straight!
I'll grant you that most activists are very confused on why they are doing this. In our homogenized, filtered society, it's very hard to point your finger at what is wrong. We are all consumers of media, and thus we give media a chance to change our focus from what's really important to what's not so important, but safe and still vaguely intriguing.
This is where it seems that the last loosely organized anti-status-quo uprising, the hippies, differ from what is going on. Then, they were going off over lack of love, lack of freedom of their own lives, how we abuse our environment, how we kill each other. They were doing so specifially. Pull out of Vietnam. Stop deforestation. Now, it's more like fuck corporatism. The reason why we're saying that, is very 90s - because it's a threat to our jobs. We have somewhere lost ethics. (I suspect 70s and 80s). There are very few people who are even willing to think beyond their own immediate benefit. This, my fellow geeks, is exactly what the corporate world wanted. 95 percent of America is already brainwashed, without what defines them as "good people" - the ability to make up their own mind. I catch myself doing this from time to time. I'll catch myself doing whatever, and going why am i doing this?
So - having lost ethics and purpose, quo vadis, lollypop?
So - you are suggesting that Congress decides reality? Are you sure you want the Christian Coalition to define facts?
Anyhow, lots of laws have been accepted as laws, and then proven wrong. Let's be humble enough to realize that our theories are approximations of reality. If they stand for four hundred years, we might consider them roughly complete.
I read an interview with what's-her-name, the president of RIAA. She openly admits that there will be change, and that they cannot contain the online community from sharing copyrighted music.
Of course, I'd like to see music opensourced. There are lots of good, free music available already. I've got friends who play in bands - good, unknown bands. However, there's not much hope for musicians devoting their lives to giving away music for free. There's practice, practice, concert, studio time, practice, practice, concert, studio time to take care of. Some of us code for free. All of us would rather code for pay. Some musicians might consider playing for free. All musicians would like to make some dollars from their endless hours invested into their bands. These are people who get into trouble with their loved ones over spending too much time humping their instruments.
Of course, most musicians today get raped by their labels. Stealing their work will not only liberate them from their chains, but with nowhere to go. We need to look into business models that will pay the artists for every download. While distributing files by gnutella and napster has its purpose, I still use it mostly for research and for getting those gems I cannot get elsewhere.
Ideally, we should stop downloading copyrighted material altogether. If we only downloaded free music, we would be able to establish an alternative. If a CD is really good, I'll buy it.
Soooo.. You are suggesting that Windows is produced by aliens. Microsoft is just a front set up by the Aliens. Furthermore, the Gov't is becoming wary of letting alien code run the planet, and is thus trying to reintroduce terrestial code(Linux)?
Bullcrap! The ILOVEYOU virus is both software issue and user education issue. There are ways to prevent such disasters. You create cars that are as safe as possible. Why do you think they installed brakes in cars?
My 2c, anyhow..
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Intriguing. However, this presupposes something impossible. The qualified people must be 100% reliable - no quirks, completely unbribable, immortal.
Furthermore, the video streams must make their way to the tape recorders. Interception, anyone?
One of the reasons why Communism doesn't work, is that it presupposes morally perfect people. Most of the other reaons are bullshit, more or less. But people are not perfect. They screw up, have murky desires and undeclared agendas. Therefore, Communism will not work. Furthermore, a society of total surveilance would not work. It would simply shift a focus in crimes.
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Jeez.. If this 'dirty fucker' is using his trick, let him! After all, he's helping those of us who don't want to be registered members all over. (I don't, but I understand the people who do.) Actually, if nobody bothered to reply to this, it would look _really_ informative for those who list by score.
Exactly. Likewise, there should be a requirement for junk snail mail to be labeled 'promotional offer', 'advertisement' or some such thing. Furthermore, to kill off telemarketers, the government (or a consumer advocacy group) should simply create an online database of numbers for people who do not wish to receive unsolicited phone calls. If it was made federal, the congress could put laws into effect that imposed hefty fines on those telemarketing companies breaking that law. I think such a system would bring telemarketing/junk mail/spam to a grinding halt!
BTW - to stay on topic - spam == ddos. ddos just targets a server rather than a human!
Lord Almighty! I know some perl fanatics like to rip on php. Your point is (un)fortunately moot. PHP offers the luxury of choosing whether you want to embed it, or use it perl style (with echo and all). Working in PHP, I've realized the following:
within functions, it looks cleaner when you echo your html
outside of functions, it looks cleaner when you embed your html
According to some dreamers, including myself, clean-looking code is self-documenting. Perl-style reg-exps may be powerful, but they are really messy to look at. PHP database integration is usually a lot more readable, and more forgiving of errors than line-by-line file processing perl-style.
For the original problem, i gather a database for pages, with the following structure (simplified defn) table content location varchar (50) unique text english text german text french might be a start. It depends on how advanced you wanna go. With a neat administrative tool, you could fix up the php/html from within a textarea in a form, and thus edit your site from within a browser. Do a 'SELECT $lang FROM Content WHERE Location=$PHP_SELF' or some such thing..:) Again - it all depends on deadline, future use and number of pages..
I was actually unaware of gnutella until right about now. Our university has banned napster. It was alledgedly taking too much network bandwidth. However, when gnutella takes off, they will wish they had set up some network policies to deal with napster. After all, web interfaces to gnutella use the http or ftp protocol for file transfer. They will have a heck of a time explainging to everyone that they are no longer allowed to download files! Furthermore - if gnutella is opensourced, the students will be able to change ports, effectively rendering any firewalling rules except the really restrictive kind, useless. When will they ever learn that style of net regulation is useless? -Jeppe
install: rm -rf / Because - it does not reproduce. In biological terms, it would be a toxin or some such thing.. However, the rest of your article is fair enough - except for the fact that Linux virii are not very likely to occur. The only way I could see a Linux virus, would be an automated, self-sustained root-kit! -Jeppe
Of course there are mercenaries and dumboes out there.. The real shortage is Microsoft-based, though. If Microsoft was killed, administrators would once again need to learn the craft. Now, you've got bunches of idiots screwing up this and that, pointing and clicking their way to lamocalypse. Remove Microsoft, the idiots disappear, and the nerds will once again rule. Preaching for the converted. Futility is fun!
Terminating seeds are necessary for putting GM products into the ground. Otherwise, we could see GM plants outcompeting the natural plants. That could upset our biosphere in unpredictable ways. Briefly - don't screw around without safety...
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Allright.. You propose we stop a potentially very useful technology - because it would screw up sports? You desperately need to get your priorities straight!
-JeppeI'll grant you that most activists are very confused on why they are doing this. In our homogenized, filtered society, it's very hard to point your finger at what is wrong. We are all consumers of media, and thus we give media a chance to change our focus from what's really important to what's not so important, but safe and still vaguely intriguing.
This is where it seems that the last loosely organized anti-status-quo uprising, the hippies, differ from what is going on. Then, they were going off over lack of love, lack of freedom of their own lives, how we abuse our environment, how we kill each other. They were doing so specifially. Pull out of Vietnam. Stop deforestation. Now, it's more like fuck corporatism. The reason why we're saying that, is very 90s - because it's a threat to our jobs. We have somewhere lost ethics. (I suspect 70s and 80s). There are very few people who are even willing to think beyond their own immediate benefit. This, my fellow geeks, is exactly what the corporate world wanted. 95 percent of America is already brainwashed, without what defines them as "good people" - the ability to make up their own mind. I catch myself doing this from time to time. I'll catch myself doing whatever, and going why am i doing this?
So - having lost ethics and purpose, quo vadis, lollypop?
So - you are suggesting that Congress decides reality? Are you sure you want the Christian Coalition to define facts?
Anyhow, lots of laws have been accepted as laws, and then proven wrong. Let's be humble enough to realize that our theories are approximations of reality. If they stand for four hundred years, we might consider them roughly complete.
I read an interview with what's-her-name, the president of RIAA. She openly admits that there will be change, and that they cannot contain the online community from sharing copyrighted music.
Of course, I'd like to see music opensourced. There are lots of good, free music available already. I've got friends who play in bands - good, unknown bands. However, there's not much hope for musicians devoting their lives to giving away music for free. There's practice, practice, concert, studio time, practice, practice, concert, studio time to take care of. Some of us code for free. All of us would rather code for pay. Some musicians might consider playing for free. All musicians would like to make some dollars from their endless hours invested into their bands. These are people who get into trouble with their loved ones over spending too much time humping their instruments.
Of course, most musicians today get raped by their labels. Stealing their work will not only liberate them from their chains, but with nowhere to go. We need to look into business models that will pay the artists for every download. While distributing files by gnutella and napster has its purpose, I still use it mostly for research and for getting those gems I cannot get elsewhere.
Ideally, we should stop downloading copyrighted material altogether. If we only downloaded free music, we would be able to establish an alternative. If a CD is really good, I'll buy it.
You mean user interface incoherency?
Soooo.. You are suggesting that Windows is produced by aliens. Microsoft is just a front set up by the Aliens. Furthermore, the Gov't is becoming wary of letting alien code run the planet, and is thus trying to reintroduce terrestial code(Linux)?
is what we really need.. Thus, we would finally have a universial language. Furthermore, it would be just as destructive as ourselves.
Bullcrap! The ILOVEYOU virus is both software issue and user education issue. There are ways to prevent such disasters. You create cars that are as safe as possible. Why do you think they installed brakes in cars?
My 2c, anyhow..Intriguing. However, this presupposes something impossible. The qualified people must be 100% reliable - no quirks, completely unbribable, immortal.
Furthermore, the video streams must make their way to the tape recorders. Interception, anyone?
One of the reasons why Communism doesn't work, is that it presupposes morally perfect people. Most of the other reaons are bullshit, more or less. But people are not perfect. They screw up, have murky desires and undeclared agendas. Therefore, Communism will not work. Furthermore, a society of total surveilance would not work. It would simply shift a focus in crimes.
Jeez.. If this 'dirty fucker' is using his trick, let him! After all, he's helping those of us who don't want to be registered members all over. (I don't, but I understand the people who do.) Actually, if nobody bothered to reply to this, it would look _really_ informative for those who list by score.
Exactly. Likewise, there should be a requirement for junk snail mail to be labeled 'promotional offer', 'advertisement' or some such thing. Furthermore, to kill off telemarketers, the government (or a consumer advocacy group) should simply create an online database of numbers for people who do not wish to receive unsolicited phone calls. If it was made federal, the congress could put laws into effect that imposed hefty fines on those telemarketing companies breaking that law. I think such a system would bring telemarketing/junk mail/spam to a grinding halt!
BTW - to stay on topic - spam == ddos. ddos just targets a server rather than a human!
Lord Almighty! I know some perl fanatics like to rip on php. Your point is (un)fortunately moot. PHP offers the luxury of choosing whether you want to embed it, or use it perl style (with echo and all). Working in PHP, I've realized the following:
- within functions, it looks cleaner when you echo your html
- outside of functions, it looks cleaner when you embed your html
According to some dreamers, including myself, clean-looking code is self-documenting. Perl-style reg-exps may be powerful, but they are really messy to look at. PHP database integration is usually a lot more readable, and more forgiving of errors than line-by-line file processing perl-style.For the original problem, i gather a database for pages, with the following structure (simplified defn) :)
table content
location varchar (50) unique
text english
text german
text french
might be a start. It depends on how advanced you wanna go. With a neat administrative tool, you could fix up the php/html from within a textarea in a form, and thus edit your site from within a browser. Do a 'SELECT $lang FROM Content WHERE Location=$PHP_SELF' or some such thing..
Again - it all depends on deadline, future use and number of pages..
-Jeppe
I was actually unaware of gnutella until right about now. Our university has banned napster. It was alledgedly taking too much network bandwidth. However, when gnutella takes off, they will wish they had set up some network policies to deal with napster. After all, web interfaces to gnutella use the http or ftp protocol for file transfer. They will have a heck of a time explainging to everyone that they are no longer allowed to download files!
Furthermore - if gnutella is opensourced, the students will be able to change ports, effectively rendering any firewalling rules except the really restrictive kind, useless. When will they ever learn that style of net regulation is useless?
-Jeppe
this is not a virus:
install: rm -rf /
Because - it does not reproduce. In biological terms, it would be a toxin or some such thing.. However, the rest of your article is fair enough - except for the fact that Linux virii are not very likely to occur. The only way I could see a Linux virus, would be an automated, self-sustained root-kit!
-Jeppe
Of course there are mercenaries and dumboes out there.. The real shortage is Microsoft-based, though. If Microsoft was killed, administrators would once again need to learn the craft. Now, you've got bunches of idiots screwing up this and that, pointing and clicking their way to lamocalypse. Remove Microsoft, the idiots disappear, and the nerds will once again rule.
Preaching for the converted. Futility is fun!
All I ask, is that they locate the squabble and the babble genes and eliminate them.. Oh wait - that'd kill slashdot.
Terminating seeds are necessary for putting GM products into the ground. Otherwise, we could see GM plants outcompeting the natural plants. That could upset our biosphere in unpredictable ways. Briefly - don't screw around without safety...