With movies, it allows watchers to skip the stupid previews and FBI warning and jump straight to the actual content. Maybe that's why the pirates will never stop, they are not seeing the FBI warnings!
I fear the day that someone develops a nice killer app that turns out (entirely unexpectedly and unintentionally) to fuel piracy.
It could be a blog software with a vulnerability that some dev has no time to fix, or it could be some new secure p2p IM service with a casual file transfer built in. Any other software manifestation that carries with it honestly wonderful intentions can be construed as criminal in the hands of its users.
How does the opensource community, comprised of software authors with no legal protection, manage to protect their continued activities? Does anyone else fear the implications this has for entire opensource OS's and kernels that could somehow be construed as having code that "aids piracy" in some remote fashion? Softmac support in the form of people on wifi hotspots is one example I can think of.
Microsoft gave $73.2 million to charities in 1995. Bill gates himself has continued this practice personally and is one of the greatest philanthropists of all times in terms of raw dollar amount.
Can I see your donation figures?
I don't like microsoft, I don't like windows, and frankly, as a part time computer forensics specialist, I sure as hell do not like their security practices.
Now, you may tell me that somehow they are exploiting the poor by getting people hooked on windows, or maybe even requiring contracts from schools, but you know I discovered linux and bsd and the whole opensource world one day as a teenager whilst browsing on a windows 98 machine with IE in my schools computer lab.
Those DO look nice, probably more electrically efficient as well, however they still use toner. Oh well, still a step closer to more efficient archival.
For what it's worth, I read the FAQ, but it still does not invalidate my claim. I do not AGREE with the argument the faq sets forth. I do not agree with the fact that portability should be the biggest concern. Many would even agree that providing food to the starving would be a more important expenditure given the efficiencies involved of raising the quality of life per capita. Arguments like these are not destructive: they NEED to be considered.
Furthermore, I still get the impression you are resorting to "you think you are so smart" arguments, so if you would like to play that game, fine. Take my word for it that I'm fairly well educated. 3 degrees in physics, math, and astronomy. I work for NASA and I've likely got far more humanitarian goals AND accomplishments then you will ever surmount to. (But of course, Im not ass-uming here. Im sure your lovely writeups on cygwin fixes and gtk wrappers are doing the whole world a lot of good. Why dont YOU engage in helping out with the issue of education of the poor? As I mentioned before, I am engaged in similar projects, I just have nothing to show for them yet since they are still in planning phase.)
Next, take a gander at this article. Try doing the mathematics and work out for yourself the amount of time and resources it would cost to redistribute these old computer peripherals to the poor. It shouldn't take long to realize that although the technology isn't as well suited for wireless low power consuming portable bahavior, that the important thing is getting the technology to people who need it regardless of how new it is.
If you are reading this, and you haven't pulled out a 4-function calculator to find the computer donation rate achievable, given adequate volunteer manpower to repair and reinstall, then you lack an open mind.
Still not convinced? Then you must also not give a damn about the shitload of toxic wastes found in computer monitors that is being incinerated or buried as a result of this upgrade cycle most gamers feel comfortable with.
Lastly, get off the fucking anti-microsoft bullshit you idiot. I may not microsoft either, but at least I am mature enough to recognize that he at least has a philanthropic bone in his body. In fact, he rises to the pinnacle of giving money to charity.
In fact, I think you know that you did the wrong thing and now you're trying to be indignant about it to save face.
I have't done anything wrong or insulting. Until now that is. You are a fucking asshole. YOU need to read up on appropriate netiquette. People like you, who start flame wars over casual criticisms (whether they be sensible or not), are the kinds of fucks that make honest scientific inquiry and intellectual debate impossible. I don't care how humanitarian an organization is, I have every right to suggest possible improvements and attempt to win over more people to make life better on this pathetic world of ours.
And, for what it's worth, I think I will start by ignoring trolls such as yourself, who do nothing but bring down what could otherwise be nice intellectual conversations.
Wow, I'd say you should quit being so confrontational and insulting before making a reply.
Aside from this, did you ever consider perhaps a modular power system that could potentially supply power to a myriad of devices?
AAAANNNNDDD - as it turns out, I DO have two skunkworks projects to help the poor uneducated people of the world.(One a centralized free repository to host free lecture material). Of course you wouldn't know that, because you jump to conclusions about people you have never met.
When someone gives me a printer and paper solution that is ink and tonerless, I will be happy.
Maybe it needs some significant advances in nanotechnology, but imagine a lattice structure precisely "grown" in a chemical bath so an exact mesh thickness. Also, imagine a printer that will somehow rearrange the lattice elements to form some kind of waveguide resonance that will create different color mixtures. Also, imagine a way to easily erase these markings.
However, it is vital to have some cheap printing solution intended entirely for archival purposes only, and certainly this should be write-once, permanent as possible (to survive any civilization-earasing holocausts that require evidence for extraterrestrial archaeologists), and incredibly cheap.
Maybe the best solution is to mix and match the usage and need of printers, in particular make an LCD screen dominated workplace and operating systems so documents needed only on a temporary basis can be phased out. We print out too many damned flyers and memos.
Oh yeah, and save the trees, and all that jazz.....
It's funny, that even the compusa and bestbuy salespersons are telling me that I should latch onto any secondhand xp copies I can get my hands on simply because Vista is causing them and their customers nothing but headaches.
Is it just me, or is Microsoft shooting themselves in the foot by pushing this new, and somewhat unpopular product into the marketplace?
The newly released OfficeScan 8.0 will include endpoint security features that will block access to Web sites that have a reputation as sources for malicious activity.
Considering the fact that the infestation could be due to either a worm infection, or could come about by accessing a webserver that is in actuality a compromised botnet drone, how on earth is such a reputation system supposed to be effective?
Most of your issues will not come from the same sites over and over. The only exception to this is crack and warez sites, but we already have similar reputation systems implemented.
Well, at least they are not focused on penalizing the end users...
Realistically however, theres only so much one can do. If ISP's start policing the nets more, it just means that the filetraders will resort to shadier and more secure methods of transport. The content distributors will rely more heavily on botnets and compromised webservers to hold the information, and we will see a higher prevalence of strongly encrypted darkets like WASTE for getting the information around.
If anything, people will go underground with sneakernet.
And how dare we hold hardware manufacturers accountable? Copying of information is just an inherent property of the technology. Writing implements can be used to copy written works, do we hold pencil manufacturers accountable? If sneakernet becomes the norm, do we hold ipods and portable hard drives the culprit?
Give it up. Filetrading is here to stay, regardless of what prohibitions the governments place on it.
The trouble comes, of course, when upper management is uninformed *and* doesn't listen to the people they hired to take care of that sort of thing for them. Heck, I've had jobs where I felt like I needed to dress up like a consultant to get management to give me the time of day...
You're right, and it's definitely those types of upper management I am referring to. Regardless, they seem to be in the majority:/
With explosions that size, wouldn't 203 seconds of lagtime before observation be a huge killer of the results?
Furthermore, is there any possibility of a dipole radiation distribution for the fraction of linear polarization? Perhaps for this particular sample, we caught the glimpse of a stellar pole? Wouldn't we need a larger sample size to make a more conclusive prediction if this was the case?
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We need geeks in Washington. Few politicians understand where our society is going with regards to technology and the information age.
What if no-drm music leads to another napster situation where EVERYONE is sharing their iTunes purchases?
It seems the industry prefers equilibria to standard plans of action
SSSSHHHHHH!
If you tell them that, they will force us to read EULA's at the point of sale and sign contracts in blood!
I fear the day that someone develops a nice killer app that turns out (entirely unexpectedly and unintentionally) to fuel piracy.
It could be a blog software with a vulnerability that some dev has no time to fix, or it could be some new secure p2p IM service with a casual file transfer built in. Any other software manifestation that carries with it honestly wonderful intentions can be construed as criminal in the hands of its users.
How does the opensource community, comprised of software authors with no legal protection, manage to protect their continued activities? Does anyone else fear the implications this has for entire opensource OS's and kernels that could somehow be construed as having code that "aids piracy" in some remote fashion? Softmac support in the form of people on wifi hotspots is one example I can think of.
Microsoft gave $73.2 million to charities in 1995. Bill gates himself has continued this practice personally and is one of the greatest philanthropists of all times in terms of raw dollar amount.
Can I see your donation figures?
I don't like microsoft, I don't like windows, and frankly, as a part time computer forensics specialist, I sure as hell do not like their security practices.
Now, you may tell me that somehow they are exploiting the poor by getting people hooked on windows, or maybe even requiring contracts from schools, but you know I discovered linux and bsd and the whole opensource world one day as a teenager whilst browsing on a windows 98 machine with IE in my schools computer lab.
Jesus H Christ indeed.
Those DO look nice, probably more electrically efficient as well, however they still use toner. Oh well, still a step closer to more efficient archival.
- For what it's worth, I read the FAQ, but it still does not invalidate my claim. I do not AGREE with the argument the faq sets forth. I do not agree with the fact that portability should be the biggest concern. Many would even agree that providing food to the starving would be a more important expenditure given the efficiencies involved of raising the quality of life per capita. Arguments like these are not destructive: they NEED to be considered.
- Furthermore, I still get the impression you are resorting to "you think you are so smart" arguments, so if you would like to play that game, fine. Take my word for it that I'm fairly well educated. 3 degrees in physics, math, and astronomy. I work for NASA and I've likely got far more humanitarian goals AND accomplishments then you will ever surmount to. (But of course, Im not ass-uming here. Im sure your lovely writeups on cygwin fixes and gtk wrappers are doing the whole world a lot of good. Why dont YOU engage in helping out with the issue of education of the poor? As I mentioned before, I am engaged in similar projects, I just have nothing to show for them yet since they are still in planning phase.)
- Next, take a gander at this article. Try doing the mathematics and work out for yourself the amount of time and resources it would cost to redistribute these old computer peripherals to the poor. It shouldn't take long to realize that although the technology isn't as well suited for wireless low power consuming portable bahavior, that the important thing is getting the technology to people who need it regardless of how new it is.
- If you are reading this, and you haven't pulled out a 4-function calculator to find the computer donation rate achievable, given adequate volunteer manpower to repair and reinstall, then you lack an open mind.
- Still not convinced? Then you must also not give a damn about the shitload of toxic wastes found in computer monitors that is being incinerated or buried as a result of this upgrade cycle most gamers feel comfortable with.
- Lastly, get off the fucking anti-microsoft bullshit you idiot. I may not microsoft either, but at least I am mature enough to recognize that he at least has a philanthropic bone in his body. In fact, he rises to the pinnacle of giving money to charity.
In fact, I think you know that you did the wrong thing and now you're trying to be indignant about it to save face.I have't done anything wrong or insulting. Until now that is. You are a fucking asshole. YOU need to read up on appropriate netiquette. People like you, who start flame wars over casual criticisms (whether they be sensible or not), are the kinds of fucks that make honest scientific inquiry and intellectual debate impossible. I don't care how humanitarian an organization is, I have every right to suggest possible improvements and attempt to win over more people to make life better on this pathetic world of ours.
And, for what it's worth, I think I will start by ignoring trolls such as yourself, who do nothing but bring down what could otherwise be nice intellectual conversations.
Wow, I'd say you should quit being so confrontational and insulting before making a reply.
Aside from this, did you ever consider perhaps a modular power system that could potentially supply power to a myriad of devices?
AAAANNNNDDD - as it turns out, I DO have two skunkworks projects to help the poor uneducated people of the world.(One a centralized free repository to host free lecture material). Of course you wouldn't know that, because you jump to conclusions about people you have never met.
Instead of:
"one laptop per child"
which are devices that hardly fit the description of "rugged"..
why aren't we going for:
"One desktop per family"?
Much easier to repair when broken, and that lends itself better to donations of old equipment.
When someone gives me a printer and paper solution that is ink and tonerless, I will be happy.
Maybe it needs some significant advances in nanotechnology, but imagine a lattice structure precisely "grown" in a chemical bath so an exact mesh thickness. Also, imagine a printer that will somehow rearrange the lattice elements to form some kind of waveguide resonance that will create different color mixtures. Also, imagine a way to easily erase these markings.
However, it is vital to have some cheap printing solution intended entirely for archival purposes only, and certainly this should be write-once, permanent as possible (to survive any civilization-earasing holocausts that require evidence for extraterrestrial archaeologists), and incredibly cheap.
Maybe the best solution is to mix and match the usage and need of printers, in particular make an LCD screen dominated workplace and operating systems so documents needed only on a temporary basis can be phased out. We print out too many damned flyers and memos.
Oh yeah, and save the trees, and all that jazz.....
It's funny, that even the compusa and bestbuy salespersons are telling me that I should latch onto any secondhand xp copies I can get my hands on simply because Vista is causing them and their customers nothing but headaches.
Is it just me, or is Microsoft shooting themselves in the foot by pushing this new, and somewhat unpopular product into the marketplace?
Those of you who emulate Atari games on your amd64 supercomputers cannot whine.
Sometimes I need that trip to the past, to remind myself how crappy my youth television was.
Someone disable tagging!
April fools is no fun is everyone sees the damn aprilfools tag!
What can apple possibly do to compete?
Considering the fact that the infestation could be due to either a worm infection, or could come about by accessing a webserver that is in actuality a compromised botnet drone, how on earth is such a reputation system supposed to be effective?
Most of your issues will not come from the same sites over and over. The only exception to this is crack and warez sites, but we already have similar reputation systems implemented.
Elvis lives
Well, at least they are not focused on penalizing the end users...
Realistically however, theres only so much one can do. If ISP's start policing the nets more, it just means that the filetraders will resort to shadier and more secure methods of transport. The content distributors will rely more heavily on botnets and compromised webservers to hold the information, and we will see a higher prevalence of strongly encrypted darkets like WASTE for getting the information around.
If anything, people will go underground with sneakernet.
And how dare we hold hardware manufacturers accountable? Copying of information is just an inherent property of the technology. Writing implements can be used to copy written works, do we hold pencil manufacturers accountable? If sneakernet becomes the norm, do we hold ipods and portable hard drives the culprit?
Give it up. Filetrading is here to stay, regardless of what prohibitions the governments place on it.
We, like, own the internet don't we? Al Gore invented it after all, and all of the important servers and tubes is on our half of the planet!
Because of all of this, we should have every right to exclusively fuck it up.
This will help to ensure that there are never any bugs resident in the systems.
Why not lock the machines in a vacuum chamber and watercool? Or even full liquid immersion for that matter.
You're right, and it's definitely those types of upper management I am referring to. Regardless, they seem to be in the majority
Where's the chapter called "Dealing with uninformed upper management"?
With explosions that size, wouldn't 203 seconds of lagtime before observation be a huge killer of the results?
Furthermore, is there any possibility of a dipole radiation distribution for the fraction of linear polarization? Perhaps for this particular sample, we caught the glimpse of a stellar pole? Wouldn't we need a larger sample size to make a more conclusive prediction if this was the case?
I think the whole patent system is a mess at the moment. There are too many companies grabbing technologies that have been around for ages.
Anyone remember when microsoft patented a whitespace remover!?
I propose we coin this "Pat-Squatting", although some people might hear something nasty in that.