At work I deal with a few business to business applications. 1 requires IE to function for some tasks, the others require windows only applications to be installed.
On top off the our accounting package uses a windows only client to access it and our sales package requires IE. Sure you CAN do some things without windows but if you try to it certainly makes life more complicated.
If a bully punches you in the face for sitting in his seat, you don't hope that next time he will ask nicely, you hope he will get kicked out of the class. Same is true for RIAA, we don't hope the punishment will be reduced to a reasonable level, we hope the RIAA will have it;s life ruining lawsuits rammed up someplace uncomfortable.
The most interesting situation I had was a program installed as administrator that would then not run at all because it needed write permissions on a file the installer created with administrator as the owner. The solution? Log in as admin and fix it. Exactly the same as if I had logged out and in as admin in the first place.
IANAL but I assumed straight away that Sophisticating the way you're committing the crime is tantamount to an admission of deliberate intent to break the law.
What I mean is that if I use bit torrent and break copyright, I can presumably argue I didn't know I was breaking the law but if I use TOR to cover it up then it is clear I know I am doing something I shouldn't be.
oh no! the spinning top is slowing down, quick poke it with a stick. Doing something that *might* work is just as likely to make things worse as better when you really have little idea of what is going on in the first place. 50 or so years of real data backed up by extrapolated data that may or may not be accurate is not a good reason to blow a cloud of shiny dust into the air when climate patterns of the scale people are afraid of take millenia to develop.
I've made this argument before so I've put a bit of thought into it. I also came to the conclusion that the mean ratio of the swarm should be 1. A very small number of people would usually prop that up.I imagine something like the 10%/90% rule where 10% of the down loaders do 90% of the uploading. Keep in mind that with RIAA news we're generally talking about average joes that are likey to fall outside of the 10%
I find it odd that nothing like this has ever come up in any of the various cases against or for bit torrent piracy. It seems like a rock solid argument against the downloaders are uploaders trial strategy.
I have to ask you, what is the average amount of upload for a bit torrent user?
My ratio at the moment is around 0.2 due to my appalling Up/down ratio. So, for each song I download I SHOULD be responsible for say 20c worth of damages. Of course I don't download any popular music, usually stuff form the 70s that has no legitimate reason to be priced at the $1 per song that people are bandying about.
The bit where the media finds out and rather than saying "Great, Ballmer is keeping an eye on the competition" they say "ZOMG! Ballmer prefers Apple over Microsoft!"
Admittedly I haven't read the article and the summary paints this guy in a terrible light but I assume what he wants is EXACTLY to raise the price of the Ebooks to be inline with the pricing for the audio books (From a royalty point of view anyway) because with the kindle they essentially ARE Audio books. Seems fair to me.
So, you're saying your grandmother couldn't install the patch? Or are you trying to imply that your 13 year old or younger grandchildren are nerdy enough to read slashdot?
Thanks to the Streisand effect mentioned above, my guess would be that that section of the street is now a very high traffic view.
Sometimes you have to wonder if people think things through. My house is on Google, but no one on the internet except me and my neighbors are ever likely to see it. Anyone wanting to see it already knows the address and can catch the 912 bus from my local railway station stop by for Coffee.
Now you see, this one is hard to moderate. If it's Obama you're talking about you're a likely troll. If it's Bush you're talking about then you're hilarious.
And how, pray tell, does a non-human species go about adapting to urban sprawl completely destroying its habitat?
Domestic cats,dogs,birds
Vermin, especially rats, pigeons and cockroaches
Food animals
In many ways humans have become the dominant driving force behind evolution. While many many species have died out since we started worrying about it, we are also very close to spawning whole new branches of species that can survive extremely well in a world dominated by human kind. Give it a few million years and we'll know if our impact is positive or negative.
The simple fact is that we need to do what we need to do to survive and prosper. If that means that a minor, mostly useless, species of goat dies out then I can live with that.
The intent is supposedly to "protect the children" Though the scope of the project is creeping somewhat.
Everyone in my highschool had to go through the government mandated internet filter. Guess what that caused? Stupidly slow internet and every student with access to hardcore porn while the teachers thought the net was safe for them to be left alone with.
What the government is trying to do is be able to say "nothing illegal going on there, we have the filter" while not actually ever having to check to make sure they are right.
True, however if you're in Australian parliament, the process is:
1.Drink beer
2.Kneejerk reaction to public opinion
3.Concept
4.Implementation
5.Ignore public opinion about failed implementation.
Slashdot Mirror
They are both tools used for translation. Sue! Sue! I say.
At work I deal with a few business to business applications. 1 requires IE to function for some tasks, the others require windows only applications to be installed.
On top off the our accounting package uses a windows only client to access it and our sales package requires IE. Sure you CAN do some things without windows but if you try to it certainly makes life more complicated.
If a bully punches you in the face for sitting in his seat, you don't hope that next time he will ask nicely, you hope he will get kicked out of the class.
Same is true for RIAA, we don't hope the punishment will be reduced to a reasonable level, we hope the RIAA will have it;s life ruining lawsuits rammed up someplace uncomfortable.
I think you forgot the cult of the giant WOOSH!
That looks pretty damn cool. Thanks to everyone that replied to my comment, some of the most informative stuff I've read on /. so far.
I've found that command to be "interesting"
The most interesting situation I had was a program installed as administrator that would then not run at all because it needed write permissions on a file the installer created with administrator as the owner. The solution? Log in as admin and fix it. Exactly the same as if I had logged out and in as admin in the first place.
IANAL but I assumed straight away that Sophisticating the way you're committing the crime is tantamount to an admission of deliberate intent to break the law.
What I mean is that if I use bit torrent and break copyright, I can presumably argue I didn't know I was breaking the law but if I use TOR to cover it up then it is clear I know I am doing something I shouldn't be.
This may well be true, but it was the only metric I could come up with on short notice.
Google - Free windows software - 1 - 10 of about 68,000,000
Google - Free Linux software - 1 - 10 of about 32,700,000
Google - free OS X Software - 1 - 10 of about 24,100,000
Google - Free unix software - Results 1 - 10 of about 12,800,000
Google free amiga os software - 1 - 10 of about 454,000
Hmm, he was pretty damn close. I probably missed a few, but not many.
oh no! the spinning top is slowing down, quick poke it with a stick. Doing something that *might* work is just as likely to make things worse as better when you really have little idea of what is going on in the first place. 50 or so years of real data backed up by extrapolated data that may or may not be accurate is not a good reason to blow a cloud of shiny dust into the air when climate patterns of the scale people are afraid of take millenia to develop.
I've made this argument before so I've put a bit of thought into it. I also came to the conclusion that the mean ratio of the swarm should be 1. A very small number of people would usually prop that up.I imagine something like the 10%/90% rule where 10% of the down loaders do 90% of the uploading. Keep in mind that with RIAA news we're generally talking about average joes that are likey to fall outside of the 10%
I find it odd that nothing like this has ever come up in any of the various cases against or for bit torrent piracy. It seems like a rock solid argument against the downloaders are uploaders trial strategy.
I have to ask you, what is the average amount of upload for a bit torrent user?
My ratio at the moment is around 0.2 due to my appalling Up/down ratio. So, for each song I download I SHOULD be responsible for say 20c worth of damages. Of course I don't download any popular music, usually stuff form the 70s that has no legitimate reason to be priced at the $1 per song that people are bandying about.
The bit where the media finds out and rather than saying "Great, Ballmer is keeping an eye on the competition" they say "ZOMG! Ballmer prefers Apple over Microsoft!"
Wait, did you say that terrorists use shoes? This is HUGE, I'll get the official ban squad on the line!
Sidewinder missiles are 9ft 4in long and weigh 190LB, I don't think shoulder mounted deployment is an appropriate solution.
Admittedly I haven't read the article and the summary paints this guy in a terrible light but I assume what he wants is EXACTLY to raise the price of the Ebooks to be inline with the pricing for the audio books (From a royalty point of view anyway) because with the kindle they essentially ARE Audio books. Seems fair to me.
So, you're saying your grandmother couldn't install the patch? Or are you trying to imply that your 13 year old or younger grandchildren are nerdy enough to read slashdot?
Thanks to the Streisand effect mentioned above, my guess would be that that section of the street is now a very high traffic view.
Sometimes you have to wonder if people think things through. My house is on Google, but no one on the internet except me and my neighbors are ever likely to see it. Anyone wanting to see it already knows the address and can catch the 912 bus from my local railway station stop by for Coffee.
Now you see, this one is hard to moderate. If it's Obama you're talking about you're a likely troll. If it's Bush you're talking about then you're hilarious.
And how, pray tell, does a non-human species go about adapting to urban sprawl completely destroying its habitat?
Domestic cats,dogs,birds
Vermin, especially rats, pigeons and cockroaches
Food animals
In many ways humans have become the dominant driving force behind evolution. While many many species have died out since we started worrying about it, we are also very close to spawning whole new branches of species that can survive extremely well in a world dominated by human kind. Give it a few million years and we'll know if our impact is positive or negative.
The simple fact is that we need to do what we need to do to survive and prosper. If that means that a minor, mostly useless, species of goat dies out then I can live with that.
The intent is supposedly to "protect the children" Though the scope of the project is creeping somewhat.
Everyone in my highschool had to go through the government mandated internet filter. Guess what that caused? Stupidly slow internet and every student with access to hardcore porn while the teachers thought the net was safe for them to be left alone with.
What the government is trying to do is be able to say "nothing illegal going on there, we have the filter" while not actually ever having to check to make sure they are right.
The amount of time they were going to take really depended on how fast they were travelling.
True, however if you're in Australian parliament, the process is:
1.Drink beer
2.Kneejerk reaction to public opinion
3.Concept
4.Implementation
5.Ignore public opinion about failed implementation.
But really, what makes this news?
Basically what happened was the guy got bob on the phone and said, "yeah bob, can you fax me over page 113 of surgery for dummies?"
Sending what amounts to textbook instructions to trained personnel in the field is hardly a noteworthy achievement.
Damn, if only I had know early that piracy kills 7000 people* each year, I wouldn't have copied that floopy.
*value from: http://blogs.computerworld.com/fighting_software_piracy_with_shaky_studies