What do you mean, you don't know? The only responsibility of a corp. is to do everything they can to turn a profit. There is no reason for them to "choose what's right over what keeps their asses covered"
Since we're on the subject, will someone in the know please enlighten me a bit. I often see people write sentences like "It is a big, red, house.", which bug me to no end because in any grammar lessons I've had in my OWN language, you only ever put commas between adjectives in a list like that, not between an adjective and a noun. Is it different in english, or do so many people really just not grasp the function of the comma in that case?
The basic premise, if you use encryption, is that you are guilty of something and it's up to *you* to prove otherwise by letting the police rifle through *all* your data looking for something incriminating. Failure to do so is evidence itself of guilt!
No such premise is necessary. Failing to provide the keys makes you guilty of breaking the law that requires you to do so. That is all. Your guilt or innocence in the matter you were being investigated for in the first place is in no way related to your guilt in not giving up your keys. Your being investigated in another matter that prompted the order to yield your keys is simply a legal requirement for the gov't to be able to order you to give the keys.
You seem to think laws need to be somehow morally grounded. That is not the essence of laws. Laws are by design amoral, they are enforced per their own rules, because different people have different moral views. The only way morals enter into the question of laws is when individuals make decisions, based on their own views, on whether or not to follow laws.
Wrong. If they're doing it for cynical, cutthroat competitive reasons, it means they have a genuine incentive to stick with an open approach, rather than a flimsy ideological reason. Business doesn't have ethics. You can trust a business to aim for maximum profit, you can not trust them to stick to a philosophy just for the hell of it.
Have to smile at the lack of foresight these people exhibit, implying it's OK to dna-harvest criminals. If that's OK, then all that needs to be done to get a comprehensive database of DNA profiles is to ensure everyone gets arrested for a "crime" at some point. Doesn't need to be much of a crime, and if everyone gets the same treatment, it's just business as usual.
The biological imperative states I must try and spread my DNA as wide and far as I can! I welcome the assistance of the police in this.The person who commits the most crimes in most different jurisdictions wins the great evolutionary race! Survival of the fittest!
Ever tried loading a.m3u playlist from a web server?
Don't. In my experience, iTunes will A) place the files listed in it into your existing playlist in a seemingly random place, and B) fail to sort them by track number. I had to manually arrange the tracks into the correct order every single time.
Apparently that's a fairly common flaw in mp3 players, then. I had a creative Muvo 2 that developed a similar fault. Opened it up, re-soldered the plug, worked fine afterwards. Until the drive died after about 3 years of use... Bought another Creative with a microdrive, it died a year or so later. After that I decided flash memory is the way to go for me. I was kind of bitter about the Muvo 2 flaking out for some time, it was a really good player, no MTP crap, either.
I'm not sure what it in your description of the software that other software like Amarok on Linux, or Mediamonkey on Windows(not the best I'll admit) can't do... Both can build a database of music stored on your computer, both support MTP devices, is there something else you want?
Or maybe you're a Mac user, I don't know if there's anything for OSX that does the trick other than iTunes. If there is, let me know, please. I occasionally have to use a Mac at school and I can't abide iTunes, personally.
And on my Zen V, that's exactly how it's done. Also, the longer you press to scroll or fast forward/rewind, the faster it goes. It's not perfect, but it works.
The difference is quite drastic. A person incapable of feeling pain is unaware of injury. They hurt themselves cooking and don't notice, they may burn themselves badly because they don't know they're being burned. They become crippled because their body doesn't tell them they're sitting in a poor position , or that they should turn in their sleep, and so their joints get broken over time.
A person with a high pain tolerance, on the other hand, would presumably be aware of the pain, but wouldn't mind it so much. Maybe such a person would still be somewhat more injury-prone than a "regular", if it affected their reflexes, but they would not accidentally hurt themselves and not know it.
A ringtone you download specifically as a ringtone might be copyrighted by some party. But if ringtones are indeed NOT derivative works, and not covered under the original piece's copyright, then, as long as you can legally make a ringtone out of a piece of music you possess, that ringtone you made yourself should be free for you to use and distribute as you please. If the original -> ringtone copyright link is broken, then the only party who can possibly claim copyright over the ringtone is whoever made it.
That said, I find it very hard to believe that is actually the case.
So what are the options for an individual at this point?
I can think of the following:
Do nothing.
Pros: Easy, feasible.
Cons: Do this long enough, and all your other options may well vanish.
Get involved in official political system.
Pros: Socially acceptable method, if successful, significant gains with few serious risks.
Cons: Labour-intensive, difficult. Not a permanent solution, but a neverending struggle. Unlikely to do more than delay the inevitable. The tech is out there, it will be used.
"Smash government"
Pros: Exciting, if executed well might yield increase in freedom.
Cons: Difficult, risky. Requires much planning and ability to raise support. Even if successful, not likely to be a long-term solution. Not even likely to be a short-term solution: Even if you have no government, or a new one, the tech is out there and it will be used.
"GTFO" - buy private island, go hermit etc.
pros: depending on how much you're willing to give up, potentially quite easy. Success mostly dependent on oneself.
cons: If going the private island route or similar, very expensive. Any route not involving hiding somewhere no-one can find you will involve being prepared to defend yourself, and even the hiding options may. Requires significant preparation and considerable personal sacrifices. In order to reliably stay below the radar, one must render oneself insignificant.
You know, it's stuff like this that shows Linux is NOT meant for consumer use, and why attempts at making user-friendly desktop distros still feel rather patched together. A -20 to 19 scale? What the hell? I'm sure there's some valid reason why that particular scale is used, but I'm also sure that reason has very little to do with ease of use. To someone without arcane knowledge, that is a completely arbitrary range, as so much about Linux systems seems to be arbitrary. And when something appears arbitrary to the user, they tend to find it hard to learn and/or remember.
Never got it to work sufficiently well. There was too much ugly tearing that I couldn't find a way to get rid of, and anyway Maya won't seem to run with compositing enabled. Oh well, as long as you can still disable it...
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Too complex... I agree something like that donation system would be nice in principle, but I can't see enough people bothering with it.
What do you mean, you don't know? The only responsibility of a corp. is to do everything they can to turn a profit. There is no reason for them to "choose what's right over what keeps their asses covered"
You're talking about a case in Austria here, elsewhere the situation might be different.
It was a good enough post until the point where you killed the satire by making Really Damn Sure the reader understood that's what it is.
Since we're on the subject, will someone in the know please enlighten me a bit. I often see people write sentences like "It is a big, red, house.", which bug me to no end because in any grammar lessons I've had in my OWN language, you only ever put commas between adjectives in a list like that, not between an adjective and a noun. Is it different in english, or do so many people really just not grasp the function of the comma in that case?
What do you mean, multiple sources? Both quotes point to one source, Stefano Infessura.
No such premise is necessary. Failing to provide the keys makes you guilty of breaking the law that requires you to do so. That is all. Your guilt or innocence in the matter you were being investigated for in the first place is in no way related to your guilt in not giving up your keys. Your being investigated in another matter that prompted the order to yield your keys is simply a legal requirement for the gov't to be able to order you to give the keys.
You seem to think laws need to be somehow morally grounded. That is not the essence of laws. Laws are by design amoral, they are enforced per their own rules, because different people have different moral views. The only way morals enter into the question of laws is when individuals make decisions, based on their own views, on whether or not to follow laws.
Wrong. If they're doing it for cynical, cutthroat competitive reasons, it means they have a genuine incentive to stick with an open approach, rather than a flimsy ideological reason. Business doesn't have ethics. You can trust a business to aim for maximum profit, you can not trust them to stick to a philosophy just for the hell of it.
Have to smile at the lack of foresight these people exhibit, implying it's OK to dna-harvest criminals. If that's OK, then all that needs to be done to get a comprehensive database of DNA profiles is to ensure everyone gets arrested for a "crime" at some point. Doesn't need to be much of a crime, and if everyone gets the same treatment, it's just business as usual.
The biological imperative states I must try and spread my DNA as wide and far as I can! I welcome the assistance of the police in this.The person who commits the most crimes in most different jurisdictions wins the great evolutionary race! Survival of the fittest!
Right, because KDE is so much bigger than Apple.
Let's be serious here: you really think Apple needs to be fishing for KDE users? I'd say it's the other way around.
Ever tried loading a .m3u playlist from a web server?
Don't. In my experience, iTunes will A) place the files listed in it into your existing playlist in a seemingly random place, and B) fail to sort them by track number. I had to manually arrange the tracks into the correct order every single time.
Apparently that's a fairly common flaw in mp3 players, then. I had a creative Muvo 2 that developed a similar fault. Opened it up, re-soldered the plug, worked fine afterwards. Until the drive died after about 3 years of use... Bought another Creative with a microdrive, it died a year or so later. After that I decided flash memory is the way to go for me. I was kind of bitter about the Muvo 2 flaking out for some time, it was a really good player, no MTP crap, either.
For me, personally, the way those things look has been one of the major reasons I've never really even considered getting one.
I'm not sure what it in your description of the software that other software like Amarok on Linux, or Mediamonkey on Windows(not the best I'll admit) can't do... Both can build a database of music stored on your computer, both support MTP devices, is there something else you want?
Or maybe you're a Mac user, I don't know if there's anything for OSX that does the trick other than iTunes. If there is, let me know, please. I occasionally have to use a Mac at school and I can't abide iTunes, personally.
And on my Zen V, that's exactly how it's done. Also, the longer you press to scroll or fast forward/rewind, the faster it goes. It's not perfect, but it works.
The difference is quite drastic. A person incapable of feeling pain is unaware of injury. They hurt themselves cooking and don't notice, they may burn themselves badly because they don't know they're being burned. They become crippled because their body doesn't tell them they're sitting in a poor position , or that they should turn in their sleep, and so their joints get broken over time. A person with a high pain tolerance, on the other hand, would presumably be aware of the pain, but wouldn't mind it so much. Maybe such a person would still be somewhat more injury-prone than a "regular", if it affected their reflexes, but they would not accidentally hurt themselves and not know it.
A ringtone you download specifically as a ringtone might be copyrighted by some party. But if ringtones are indeed NOT derivative works, and not covered under the original piece's copyright, then, as long as you can legally make a ringtone out of a piece of music you possess, that ringtone you made yourself should be free for you to use and distribute as you please. If the original -> ringtone copyright link is broken, then the only party who can possibly claim copyright over the ringtone is whoever made it.
That said, I find it very hard to believe that is actually the case.
So what are the options for an individual at this point? I can think of the following:
Do nothing.
Pros: Easy, feasible.
Cons: Do this long enough, and all your other options may well vanish.
Get involved in official political system.
Pros: Socially acceptable method, if successful, significant gains with few serious risks.
Cons: Labour-intensive, difficult. Not a permanent solution, but a neverending struggle. Unlikely to do more than delay the inevitable. The tech is out there, it will be used.
"Smash government"
Pros: Exciting, if executed well might yield increase in freedom.
Cons: Difficult, risky. Requires much planning and ability to raise support. Even if successful, not likely to be a long-term solution. Not even likely to be a short-term solution: Even if you have no government, or a new one, the tech is out there and it will be used.
"GTFO" - buy private island, go hermit etc.
pros: depending on how much you're willing to give up, potentially quite easy. Success mostly dependent on oneself.
cons: If going the private island route or similar, very expensive. Any route not involving hiding somewhere no-one can find you will involve being prepared to defend yourself, and even the hiding options may. Requires significant preparation and considerable personal sacrifices. In order to reliably stay below the radar, one must render oneself insignificant.
So is it the case that he is incapable of feeling pain, or does he have a very high tolerance for it?
You know, it's stuff like this that shows Linux is NOT meant for consumer use, and why attempts at making user-friendly desktop distros still feel rather patched together. A -20 to 19 scale? What the hell? I'm sure there's some valid reason why that particular scale is used, but I'm also sure that reason has very little to do with ease of use. To someone without arcane knowledge, that is a completely arbitrary range, as so much about Linux systems seems to be arbitrary. And when something appears arbitrary to the user, they tend to find it hard to learn and/or remember.
Never got it to work sufficiently well. There was too much ugly tearing that I couldn't find a way to get rid of, and anyway Maya won't seem to run with compositing enabled. Oh well, as long as you can still disable it...
...or live in a country where you can actually just drink the water from lakes and rivers.
They're called water purification plants, and a centralized solution isn't so great for dealing with massive infrastructure failure.
Sorry about the huge block of text, I keep forgetting I need to use BR's...