On a lark I started naming my servers after ships mentioned in Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch and that oil drilling program. So far I've gone through "Mighty Servant", "Harbinger", "Maverick", "Timebandit" (which was indeed a huge waste of time) and "Journeyman".
It's amazing how inventive these captains are:) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadliest_Catch#Vessels
"that warns that downloading or buying copied DVDs is illegal."
On the Dutch version this would be a blatant lie as copying media for your own use is perfectly legal here.
According to the Dutch "Authors Law" of 1912, copying of books, music and movies for your own personal use and study is legal.
It was decided that it also applies to downloads.
Microsoft and Intel promised cheap laptops with Windows to all countries interested in the OLPC project. Now those countries have neither and will never get anything of course, but at least Microsoft got rid of some more competition.
The world is a danger to depressed kids.
It's not fair to condemn each and every thing in the world, randomly in knee jerk reactions, to protect the children.
In the Netherlands we have a music tax. Downloading is legal here, but blank media and radios on the shop/work-floor are taxed by a private company that represents the recording industry. Rather like the RIAA proposes to do here.
Up until now they have collected a total of 350.000.000 euros and they lost about 80.000.000 of it in the credit crunch. Not a penny of has been paid to musicians, but their giant office building is lined with marble columns and has golden doorknobs.
The book publishers saw how amazingly profitable this corruption was and have started to send bills to people with scanners, photocopiers and printers. On behalf of "writers". Who, no doubt, will also never get a penny.
Don't worry too much about the harshness of 4 weeks of unpaid labour. In the Netherlands this mainly involves leaning on a rake, smoking herbs with the rest of the municipal gardeners.
So if this is the problem, why only Qantas? I just came from an Airbus 320 with my eeePC and iPod and it managed to actually stay airborn and in one piece. Qantas' planes have been falling apart in the air the past few months, I don't see how losing a cargo-bay door in mid-flight just a few weeks earlier allows you to blame WIFI with any credibility.
... you always have to do it yourself.
I'm glad a private effort is finally starting to take over where governments started to slack off several decades ago.
In encryption, person A wants to send something to person B without person C being able to read it.
In DRM, person A wants to send something to person C who own computer B.
It doesn't take an engineering degree to figure out, there's something wrong with DRM.
It very likely is just the opposite way around. A middle-manager ordered the loophole to save time and effort against the protests and better knowledge of the developer who is going to get fired over this.
How is this different from selling CD's? Really really tiny CD's. Also... how can you claim there's no DRM on it, if you can't take the files off the device?
Now you remind me yes. They made us read "Brave New World". Nobody I spoke to, who went to school after me, ever heard of it.
Are we teaching our children to be complacent instead?
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Let's enforce their business-models by law, like the RIAA and the MPAA managed to do with great success.
I don't want my tax-money to be used to fatten the coffers of corporate giants. They'll use the money to lobby against my fair use rights.
On a lark I started naming my servers after ships mentioned in Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch and that oil drilling program. So far I've gone through "Mighty Servant", "Harbinger", "Maverick", "Timebandit" (which was indeed a huge waste of time) and "Journeyman". It's amazing how inventive these captains are :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadliest_Catch#Vessels
"that warns that downloading or buying copied DVDs is illegal." On the Dutch version this would be a blatant lie as copying media for your own use is perfectly legal here.
Actually... Since most people think that the Netherlands is a small island of the coast of Somalia, I think the word piracy is fitting.
According to the Dutch "Authors Law" of 1912, copying of books, music and movies for your own personal use and study is legal. It was decided that it also applies to downloads.
Microsoft and Intel promised cheap laptops with Windows to all countries interested in the OLPC project. Now those countries have neither and will never get anything of course, but at least Microsoft got rid of some more competition.
What will happen to the naming convention of programming languages when we run out of letters of the alphabet?
I can't wait for the first national nuclear emergency to occur because of Windows Genuine Advantage (tm)
The world is a danger to depressed kids. It's not fair to condemn each and every thing in the world, randomly in knee jerk reactions, to protect the children.
It all went horribly wrong, when customers became referred to as consumers.
Let them enslave themselves and the entire next generation to corporate lock-in. We really don't need all the extra competition when they grow up.
In the Netherlands we have a music tax. Downloading is legal here, but blank media and radios on the shop/work-floor are taxed by a private company that represents the recording industry. Rather like the RIAA proposes to do here. Up until now they have collected a total of 350.000.000 euros and they lost about 80.000.000 of it in the credit crunch. Not a penny of has been paid to musicians, but their giant office building is lined with marble columns and has golden doorknobs. The book publishers saw how amazingly profitable this corruption was and have started to send bills to people with scanners, photocopiers and printers. On behalf of "writers". Who, no doubt, will also never get a penny.
I'm here for the "get off my lawn" jokes.
Web 2.0 flourished DESPITE the chokehold the greedy fat cats of imaginary property hold on our culture.
Don't worry too much about the harshness of 4 weeks of unpaid labour. In the Netherlands this mainly involves leaning on a rake, smoking herbs with the rest of the municipal gardeners.
So if this is the problem, why only Qantas? I just came from an Airbus 320 with my eeePC and iPod and it managed to actually stay airborn and in one piece. Qantas' planes have been falling apart in the air the past few months, I don't see how losing a cargo-bay door in mid-flight just a few weeks earlier allows you to blame WIFI with any credibility.
... you always have to do it yourself. I'm glad a private effort is finally starting to take over where governments started to slack off several decades ago.
In encryption, person A wants to send something to person B without person C being able to read it. In DRM, person A wants to send something to person C who own computer B. It doesn't take an engineering degree to figure out, there's something wrong with DRM.
It very likely is just the opposite way around. A middle-manager ordered the loophole to save time and effort against the protests and better knowledge of the developer who is going to get fired over this.
The best advice and the least followed: K.I.S.S. - Keep It Stupidly SImple. Resist the urge to delve fist-deep in complicated frameworks.
With that great firewall of them, it should be very easy to just set up NAT.
All students left behind. Why not refer every student to one of those websites that sells fake diplomas?
How is this different from selling CD's? Really really tiny CD's. Also... how can you claim there's no DRM on it, if you can't take the files off the device?
Now you remind me yes. They made us read "Brave New World". Nobody I spoke to, who went to school after me, ever heard of it. Are we teaching our children to be complacent instead?