Which is one the reasons I don't get why some people appear to think sudo is the be all and end all. Anyone worth their salt will be able to screw up a system so that an audit trail will be of little help. The other thing that's always used on sudo examples is "it stops you accidentally screwing things up", it doesn't stop the user from executing`sudo rm -Rf foo/*` because he knows he needs to be root to delete everything in./foo/
They are trying to stop people from copying a product that is essentially in an unlimited supply.
But as somebody else has said, to break even they need to sell a certain amount of copies. Are software writers expected to make a loss on everything they do. We could of course introduce a system where they are allowed to restrict copying of their products until they make a profit of say 5-10%. After that everything is allowed to be copied, would that satisfy you?
Nothing is being specifically taken from them. Not time, not money, not property, and not resources. Absolutely nothing.
I never said anything about "taking" something, just making use of something. What I was asking was whether you personally feel it's ok to make use of something that you have not paid for. As far as I can tell you have absolutely no concept of personal effort. Either you expect everything to be handed to you on a plate, or simply believe that people should only receive payment for a tangible object.
Out of interest, if 100% of people decided to download a game, play it but not pay for it, would you still believe that this is ok?
If you argue "potential profit," then again, this includes people who have merely decided not to buy the product.
I couldn't care less about the people have decided not to buy the product. It's those who make use of the product which is being sold and still don't pay for it.
If it disgusts you so much that somebody is charging for something that is effectively free to copy once it has been produced, why don't you simply pretend it doesn't exist and make no use of it. If people are willing to pay, it's up to them. Don't however delude yourself that you're partaking in a "Braveheart" cry for freedom. If you're duplicating copyright content you're being cheap, end of.
I won't ask you to provide a solution for the copyright system as at least you've been honest and said you have none. However whining about the system being broken is getting a bit repetitive. As for continuously bitching about artificial scarcity, please enlighten us, where is the artificial scarcity in this case? It's DRM free, what more can the publishers to to make it better for you? Finally, can you please explain to us why it is ok to make use of a product that has take real time and money to produce without ever giving the makers the a cent? And no "the system is broken" is not a reason, especially in this particular case.
My general belief is that one should never use credit to buy something that costs less than one paycheck
I see what you're saying. However I've several credit cards - I money of petrol if use an Asda one at an Asda pump. I can use the portable hand scanner at Waitrose and not have to queue to pay if I use a Waitrose card, and I have a credit card provided by the bank. I very rarely use my debit card unless I'm going to be charged for using my credit card.
All my cards get paid off in full by direct debit. So basically they act as debit cards. I'm the worst possible customer for credit card companies as they'll never make a penny from me.
On topic, I received a letter addressed to "The Occupier". It was asking if I knew contact details for the previous tennant. I called them up and cheerfully asked if I get a commission for providing the information. When they said no, I told them I couldn't be bothered to tell them. That gave me a good feeling for the day.
Didn't have to do it in the UK. However I do question the concept of teaching ethics to adults. How many people do you reckon sat up and thought "Holy shit, cutting corners to the detriment of safety is unethical"?
For the people who already have a built in sense of ethics (at the undergrad stage in life), it's a bit of a waste of time. For those who simply don't give a damn, they'll just blag their way through and pass unless they're very obviously sociopathic, or just plain stupid.
Take for instance the sign at my local petrol station: "It's a criminal offence to leave without paying for your fuel". It seriously concerns me that people have to be told this, however I do wonder how effective the sign is. How many people have been pulling away, read the sign and thought "Oh no, I'm destroying somebody's livelihood, I'll go back and pay". I suppose it may jog the memory of forgetful people, but on the whole it's preaching to the choir.
Now teaching ethics to those at a younger stage, that's a plan. Whilst not being religious, I do see the merit in a religious upbringing as it's a simple way of explaining why one shouldn't do "bad things". Not that a Baptist friend agrees that God should be used as a boogeyman for children.
Just because he doesn't have any ethics doesn't mean he doesn't understand the concept.
I studied engineering, so I've never had to write a paper on ethics. The fact you can write a paper on it gives me the feeling it more about working out how to screw somebody over while still being "ethical" in a business sense.
I may be very wrong but I thought that while WEP would be of little use as a network Sniffer works in promiscuous mode, WPA means that each client uses the PSK but with an individual time cycled key to encrypt the connection. Meaning that sniffing in promiscuous mode doesn't work.
Reason for thinking this is that I could easily use Wireshark to check if someone in my house was torrenting. When I changed to WPA I couldn't anymore.
According to Wikipedia, temperatures reached -70C, at that temperature the speed of sound is 286m/s, or 640mph. For Kittinger to have broken the sound barrier (he fell at 614mph), the temperature would have had to been less than -85.5C
I'm especially liking the fact that they forgot to photoshop out the mouse cable going into the back of the system, it's rendered with a CRT (a pretty small one at that) and the disk in the tray is a CDR. They really are going for the retro look & feel.
Well, from this article, it appears that problems with blowout preventers are far from unknown, even if BP want to bandy around the word "unprecedented" when referring to the failure.
Um, Big Brother has already been used for crap reality tv show (aren't they all?) and I have no recollection of George Orwell's estate kicking up a fuss.
Or they can do what I have done: tell the estate that I will only buy Philip K. Dick books from a 2nd hand bookshop from now on. I refuse to give the estate any more money when building on my Philip K. Dick collection.
The point of TFA is that one can identify the user's email address from the hash. The question is, why hash the email address. It could be just as easy to hash an integer value unique for the user. Hell, it could even be an incremental. Who cares if somebody can identify that joe@nothing.com has a Gravatar ID of 123. That ID can't be traced back to any specific Gravatar account, as the link between ID and email address would be internal.
After 3 days of this shit I eventually began each call with "Do you know what an MX record is?"
I was sorely tempted to do that, but I just gave up, gave my Dad access to our SMTP server rather than dealing with a bunch of numpties.
After several weeks of trouble shooting a BT issue (which turned out to be faulty hardware in the exchange), I started asking support if they knew the difference between UDP & TCP, if they could tell me then I felt they had some networking knowledge and at least could understand what I was talking about.
Hmm, I've had to speak to them as they bought indigo.ie. When I called them to inform them that their smtp server (actually an eircom server) was having load balancing issues they suggested that I try webmail instead.
Me: OK, I'll give the webmail a go for the moment, what's the address for it? Them: Umm, I don't know, google indigo webmail Me: OK Them: I've just googled it for you, it's the 1st result: something something dot indigo dot ca Me: That's a Canadian TLD, how's that going to help me? Them: <Silence>
Good luck to them, you couldn't rely on them to arrange a piss up in St James's Gate.
I've always heard that it's best to keep the Page File on the 1st partition. However I do always fix the size of it so that it shouldn't become fragmented.
Ah, the most common argument for Phorm. Difference is that you can chose not to use Google. If your ISP decides to do this you'll be opted in by default, and every time you delete your cookies, you'll be opted in again. We're not even sure that by opting out makes your traffic bypass Phorm's servers.
What's even worse is that the tax payer will pay the fine, not BT & Phorm. As usual the Criminal Protection Service, ahem Crown Prosecution Service has fucked the general public in favour of keeping Ministers friends on-side.
Sad this is that Brussels is better at looking out for us than Westminster.
I'd actually like to see the exact opposite. Remove any aerial photography and maps for that town/village/hamlet, and add the caption "Here there be dragons".
"Oh god, another 'Road Warrior' trying to claim that life is so rough for the traveling business man"
Oh god, another/. user decrying the laziness of society from behind a keyboard.
I simply can't be arsed to lug around something that isn't larger than necessary. It's not laziness, it's common sense. jetsci used to carry around 90lbs worth of kit in the services, but I very much doubt he does when he goes shopping. I'm quite happy to heft about a 90lb sail when required, but I'll think about what needs to be done to limit the effort required.
As for the comment, the word airport makes his comment relevant. Airport & airline rules are now so bloody strict that once you have a decent sized laptop & power supply, you can't carry a great deal else with your hand luggage. Else you get some jobs worth telling you to put your kit in the hold, which now tends to cost money.
What's the point of nigh-on impossible to crack encryption when the user has as good as written all the credentials on the outside of the computer.
Personally, I prefer the idea of encrypting volumes on which I store important data. Other stuff that isn't sensitive can be dumped anywhere else (within the bounds of common sense of course)
"Do read before replying". You really should use you own advice. Nothing can be over 100% efficient. A heat pump isn't 100% efficient as it needs energy added to the system to extract energy from the source. Just because it yields more energy than you use to drive it doesn't make it greater than 100% efficient, as you're conveniently forgetting energy extracted from the source. I get the idea you're confusing COP (Coefficient of Performance) with efficiency.
You're absolutely correct. The effect of 90 rubber ducks is negligible, and I was being pretty cynical. However I'll stand by my comment that putting "Climate Change" / "Global Warming" into a research title or summary is a great way of getting funding.
I'm trying to remember who said this: "if you want to get a research grant to study squirrels, you won't get funds, but if the request were to study the impact of global warming on squirrels, then there is plenty of money available."
Yes, it was from "The Great Global Warming Swindle", which made it's fair share of cock-ups, but it was interesting to hear it being said.
So, what's the line between environmental research and pollution? The original rubber duck release was due to containers being swept overboard.
Whilst the end effect may be noble, one has to wonder what you can get away with by tagging the words "Environmental impact" into any research product.
It's a bit of a non-article really.
In other news, a Hummer mk.1 is less fuel efficient than a Prius. They've both got 4 wheels, so it's writing an article comparing them.
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Which is one the reasons I don't get why some people appear to think sudo is the be all and end all. /*` because he knows he needs to be root to delete everything in ./foo/
Anyone worth their salt will be able to screw up a system so that an audit trail will be of little help.
The other thing that's always used on sudo examples is "it stops you accidentally screwing things up", it doesn't stop the user from executing`sudo rm -Rf foo
They are trying to stop people from copying a product that is essentially in an unlimited supply.
But as somebody else has said, to break even they need to sell a certain amount of copies. Are software writers expected to make a loss on everything they do. We could of course introduce a system where they are allowed to restrict copying of their products until they make a profit of say 5-10%. After that everything is allowed to be copied, would that satisfy you?
Nothing is being specifically taken from them. Not time, not money, not property, and not resources. Absolutely nothing.
I never said anything about "taking" something, just making use of something. What I was asking was whether you personally feel it's ok to make use of something that you have not paid for. As far as I can tell you have absolutely no concept of personal effort. Either you expect everything to be handed to you on a plate, or simply believe that people should only receive payment for a tangible object.
Out of interest, if 100% of people decided to download a game, play it but not pay for it, would you still believe that this is ok?
If you argue "potential profit," then again, this includes people who have merely decided not to buy the product.
I couldn't care less about the people have decided not to buy the product. It's those who make use of the product which is being sold and still don't pay for it.
If it disgusts you so much that somebody is charging for something that is effectively free to copy once it has been produced, why don't you simply pretend it doesn't exist and make no use of it. If people are willing to pay, it's up to them. Don't however delude yourself that you're partaking in a "Braveheart" cry for freedom. If you're duplicating copyright content you're being cheap, end of.
I won't ask you to provide a solution for the copyright system as at least you've been honest and said you have none. However whining about the system being broken is getting a bit repetitive.
As for continuously bitching about artificial scarcity, please enlighten us, where is the artificial scarcity in this case? It's DRM free, what more can the publishers to to make it better for you?
Finally, can you please explain to us why it is ok to make use of a product that has take real time and money to produce without ever giving the makers the a cent? And no "the system is broken" is not a reason, especially in this particular case.
My general belief is that one should never use credit to buy something that costs less than one paycheck
I see what you're saying. However I've several credit cards - I money of petrol if use an Asda one at an Asda pump. I can use the portable hand scanner at Waitrose and not have to queue to pay if I use a Waitrose card, and I have a credit card provided by the bank. I very rarely use my debit card unless I'm going to be charged for using my credit card.
All my cards get paid off in full by direct debit. So basically they act as debit cards. I'm the worst possible customer for credit card companies as they'll never make a penny from me.
On topic, I received a letter addressed to "The Occupier". It was asking if I knew contact details for the previous tennant. I called them up and cheerfully asked if I get a commission for providing the information. When they said no, I told them I couldn't be bothered to tell them. That gave me a good feeling for the day.
Didn't have to do it in the UK. However I do question the concept of teaching ethics to adults. How many people do you reckon sat up and thought "Holy shit, cutting corners to the detriment of safety is unethical"?
For the people who already have a built in sense of ethics (at the undergrad stage in life), it's a bit of a waste of time. For those who simply don't give a damn, they'll just blag their way through and pass unless they're very obviously sociopathic, or just plain stupid.
Take for instance the sign at my local petrol station: "It's a criminal offence to leave without paying for your fuel". It seriously concerns me that people have to be told this, however I do wonder how effective the sign is. How many people have been pulling away, read the sign and thought "Oh no, I'm destroying somebody's livelihood, I'll go back and pay". I suppose it may jog the memory of forgetful people, but on the whole it's preaching to the choir.
Now teaching ethics to those at a younger stage, that's a plan. Whilst not being religious, I do see the merit in a religious upbringing as it's a simple way of explaining why one shouldn't do "bad things". Not that a Baptist friend agrees that God should be used as a boogeyman for children.
Just because he doesn't have any ethics doesn't mean he doesn't understand the concept. I studied engineering, so I've never had to write a paper on ethics. The fact you can write a paper on it gives me the feeling it more about working out how to screw somebody over while still being "ethical" in a business sense.
I may be very wrong but I thought that while WEP would be of little use as a network Sniffer works in promiscuous mode, WPA means that each client uses the PSK but with an individual time cycled key to encrypt the connection. Meaning that sniffing in promiscuous mode doesn't work. Reason for thinking this is that I could easily use Wireshark to check if someone in my house was torrenting. When I changed to WPA I couldn't anymore.
According to Wikipedia, temperatures reached -70C, at that temperature the speed of sound is 286m/s, or 640mph. For Kittinger to have broken the sound barrier (he fell at 614mph), the temperature would have had to been less than -85.5C
I'm especially liking the fact that they forgot to photoshop out the mouse cable going into the back of the system, it's rendered with a CRT (a pretty small one at that) and the disk in the tray is a CDR. They really are going for the retro look & feel.
Well, from this article, it appears that problems with blowout preventers are far from unknown, even if BP want to bandy around the word "unprecedented" when referring to the failure.
Um, Big Brother has already been used for crap reality tv show (aren't they all?) and I have no recollection of George Orwell's estate kicking up a fuss.
Or they can do what I have done: tell the estate that I will only buy Philip K. Dick books from a 2nd hand bookshop from now on. I refuse to give the estate any more money when building on my Philip K. Dick collection.
The point of TFA is that one can identify the user's email address from the hash. The question is, why hash the email address. It could be just as easy to hash an integer value unique for the user. Hell, it could even be an incremental. Who cares if somebody can identify that joe@nothing.com has a Gravatar ID of 123. That ID can't be traced back to any specific Gravatar account, as the link between ID and email address would be internal.
After 3 days of this shit I eventually began each call with "Do you know what an MX record is?"
I was sorely tempted to do that, but I just gave up, gave my Dad access to our SMTP server rather than dealing with a bunch of numpties.
After several weeks of trouble shooting a BT issue (which turned out to be faulty hardware in the exchange), I started asking support if they knew the difference between UDP & TCP, if they could tell me then I felt they had some networking knowledge and at least could understand what I was talking about.
Hmm, I've had to speak to them as they bought indigo.ie. When I called them to inform them that their smtp server (actually an eircom server) was having load balancing issues they suggested that I try webmail instead.
Me: OK, I'll give the webmail a go for the moment, what's the address for it?
Them: Umm, I don't know, google indigo webmail
Me: OK
Them: I've just googled it for you, it's the 1st result: something something dot indigo dot ca
Me: That's a Canadian TLD, how's that going to help me?
Them: <Silence>
Good luck to them, you couldn't rely on them to arrange a piss up in St James's Gate.
I've always heard that it's best to keep the Page File on the 1st partition. However I do always fix the size of it so that it shouldn't become fragmented.
Ah, the most common argument for Phorm.
Difference is that you can chose not to use Google. If your ISP decides to do this you'll be opted in by default, and every time you delete your cookies, you'll be opted in again. We're not even sure that by opting out makes your traffic bypass Phorm's servers.
What's even worse is that the tax payer will pay the fine, not BT & Phorm. As usual the Criminal Protection Service, ahem Crown Prosecution Service has fucked the general public in favour of keeping Ministers friends on-side.
Sad this is that Brussels is better at looking out for us than Westminster.
I'd actually like to see the exact opposite. Remove any aerial photography and maps for that town/village/hamlet, and add the caption "Here there be dragons".
Not when she gives it to the Labour party, and not the Government. She's giving them money to campaign, and not giving the country anything.
"Oh god, another 'Road Warrior' trying to claim that life is so rough for the traveling business man"
Oh god, another /. user decrying the laziness of society from behind a keyboard.
I simply can't be arsed to lug around something that isn't larger than necessary. It's not laziness, it's common sense. jetsci used to carry around 90lbs worth of kit in the services, but I very much doubt he does when he goes shopping.
I'm quite happy to heft about a 90lb sail when required, but I'll think about what needs to be done to limit the effort required.
As for the comment, the word airport makes his comment relevant. Airport & airline rules are now so bloody strict that once you have a decent sized laptop & power supply, you can't carry a great deal else with your hand luggage.
Else you get some jobs worth telling you to put your kit in the hold, which now tends to cost money.
Yup, this is the most important part. I was reading an article on the Register entitled "Users: The weakest link in laptop security":
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/09/laptop_security_weakest_link/
I think this comment sums it up:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/09/laptop_security_weakest_link/comments/#c_423637
What's the point of nigh-on impossible to crack encryption when the user has as good as written all the credentials on the outside of the computer.
Personally, I prefer the idea of encrypting volumes on which I store important data. Other stuff that isn't sensitive can be dumped anywhere else (within the bounds of common sense of course)
"Do read before replying". You really should use you own advice.
Nothing can be over 100% efficient. A heat pump isn't 100% efficient as it needs energy added to the system to extract energy from the source.
Just because it yields more energy than you use to drive it doesn't make it greater than 100% efficient, as you're conveniently forgetting energy extracted from the source.
I get the idea you're confusing COP (Coefficient of Performance) with efficiency.
Whilst I try not to quote Wikipedia too often, I suggest you read paragraph 2 of the section "Efficiency" at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump#Efficiency/
You're absolutely correct. The effect of 90 rubber ducks is negligible, and I was being pretty cynical. However I'll stand by my comment that putting "Climate Change" / "Global Warming" into a research title or summary is a great way of getting funding.
I'm trying to remember who said this:
"if you want to get a research grant to study squirrels, you won't get funds, but if the request were to study the impact of global warming on squirrels, then there is plenty of money available."
Yes, it was from "The Great Global Warming Swindle", which made it's fair share of cock-ups, but it was interesting to hear it being said.
So, what's the line between environmental research and pollution? The original rubber duck release was due to containers being swept overboard.
Whilst the end effect may be noble, one has to wonder what you can get away with by tagging the words "Environmental impact" into any research product.
It's a bit of a non-article really. In other news, a Hummer mk.1 is less fuel efficient than a Prius. They've both got 4 wheels, so it's writing an article comparing them.