Amen. The more tools/languages/code you learn, the better you are. Some languages are better than others for certain things. Being a well rounded programmer never hurt anyone.
Sometimes just learning a new language keeps you out of the day to day rut, stress, and interest loss.
Another solution would be for the ISP to "accidentally lose" their logs for the period of time involved.
Why "accidentally lose" the logs at all? Simply make it company policy to destroy them after 36 hours?
Just like all the companies who get stuck handing over old emails as evidence. Simply make it company policy to destroy all emails, or email backups after 14 days.
I have a static IP block on DSL, and I'm getting blocked by Road Runner (rr.com) but not AOL. Go figure.
If you're using postfix, just tweak your transport config to route aol.com or rr.com emails through you're ISPs mail server, unless you're unfortunate enough to have an ISP that denies any From: addresses that aren't @yourisp.com
For the same reason Microsoft can't do what they want with their OS to a certain extent: antitrust laws and the fact that AOL IS a monopoly in the ISP market for the most part. Sure, there is Earthlink and the like, but when the Giant in any arena gets as large as AOL's subscriber base, they have to play by a different set of rules.
I think postfix virtual domains are a little harder because they're two virtual methods in one package.
You can use them old-style like Sendmail, or you can use them Postfix style. The two differ by slight syntax variations. Confusing at first, but the point is you have the option to run compatable virtuals from Sendmail, of not depending on the situatation. I won't even claim to have a full understanding of the differences.
Then again, why on earth expose these to the internet? (135, 139, or 445). Or course, internal virii catching employees are just as dangerous to your servers as the external bad guys.
While there is no excuse for not updating your systems, some people can't do so because of business policy reasons (non-tested patches against business critical systems).
EVERYONE with a server on the internet should also have Egress filtering in place. 486 mahcines are cheap. Unix/Linux firewalls are free. On the off chance you do get the M$ IS$ Worm of the week, at least your server can't initiate an outgoing connection to download more code and move on to the next system.
I was watching VH1's Top 200 Icons program, and they had some top of the food chain exec from Universal that flat out stated [paraphrasing] that "95% of all albums are failures"
Well now, isn't that a nice number. How can piracy or file sharing possibly make a dent into profits when 95% of all albums suck so bad no one wants to buy them?
Using headphone jack splitters with a friend sitting next to you is not the same as making a copy of a song with a complete stranger on another continent, even though the two are connected by small steps.
Good point, but I didn't say anything about about any copy being made. Sharing doesn't automatically mean someone is making a copy. Then there's streaming. Is streaming the same as webcasting if it only involves a single sender and a single receiver?
we can both listen to it, just not at the same time (legally).
Wha? That's like saying headphone jack splitters are illegal. I can't listen to my cd in my car with someone else there, regardless of if they are a co-owner or not? Of course not. That would never fly in court.
So, fair use would be me being allowed to play a song in the company of others when they don't own the CD? Good.
OK, now we're 10 feet apart with a long headphone cable.
OK, now we're 5 miles apart using a CAT5 cable (and only THAT person can listen. Not everyone on the net)?
Delete? Hell, I'd low level format zero-write destroy that drive continously until someone comes to confiscate it.
By the way, are these people's computer being confiscated as evidence? If they're not, then where the proof again? Oh yeah, an IP and a filename. No file. No content.
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My website (hosted by windows 2k/IIS) uses perl.
That's really sick.:-) That's like using IE on *nix/Wine.
"I noticed the flaw: the Cat5 cable has (at least potentially) a billion "headsets" attached, and these are magic headsets which store what they play and can each have another billion headsets attached, and so on. "
That's easy to fix. Set the server/computer so that only 1 person at a time can download or listen to your CD. There. Now the 1/8" and Cat5 cables are on the same playing field.
I've got a better idea. How about lowering the price of cd's from 17-18 dollars to 11-12 dollars.
I think one step further would solve it. If I could walk into a record store and pay $12 for any 18 songs of my choosing, I'd buy CDs like they were going out of style.
The RIAA would never go for it because the dime-a-dozen-created-in-a-marketing-department boy/girl bands would never sell complete albums, nor would people be forced to buy complete albums just for one decent song.
To which I says, if it's shit and no one wants it, it's still shit. put out better material and I'll spring for complete CDs once in a while.
What the RIAA will never get, even after it's last dying breath is that Kazaa and the like provide people with what the RIAA can't: customization of their listening preferences and experience. Offer that same thing, and you're golden.
I own a CD. I put the CD in my CD player. Someone else accesses that CD via Cat5 cable.
and
I own a CD. I put the CD in my CD player. Someone else accesses that CD via 1/8" headphone cable.
They're both sharing. Will the RIAA come hunt me down because everyone I work with can listen to my CDs using headphones? Will they also hunt down the person using the headphones?
> My roomate borrows my CD No, unless he copies it, then yes for him. If you know of his intent beforehand, then you are an accessory > My CDs are on my desk at work where anyone to listen to them
Well then. What's the real difference between me leaving my CDs on my desk (aka 'sharing' them), a coworker accessing them (call it receiving via physical process instead of digitally receiving/downloading) and listening to them when they don't own them?
So I'm naive. I fail to the see the real difference between the two.
Now let's assume that instead of downloading these MP3s, the student is listening to them over the net via streaming from another persons machine (who own's the cd). He/She isn't downloading a copy in that sense of the term. So what's the difference?
I'm mostly ok with people getting busted wit sharing out MP3s. But busted for downloading them is completey bogus IMHO.
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Amen. The more tools/languages/code you learn, the better you are. Some languages are better than others for certain things. Being a well rounded programmer never hurt anyone.
Sometimes just learning a new language keeps you out of the day to day rut, stress, and interest loss.
Why "accidentally lose" the logs at all?
Simply make it company policy to destroy them after 36 hours?
Just like all the companies who get stuck handing over old emails as evidence. Simply make it company policy to destroy all emails, or email backups after 14 days.
Play it on the PC. No lock-in there. Riiiiiiight.
Time to put 5.5 years and 2 worthless BA music degrees to the test.
Enharmonic means:
This is all well and good in "Western" music using the well-tempered system (C# = Db).
However, in many non western systems, C# != Db given the true Pythagorean math behind tuning.
Thanks for reading my worthless offtopic expunge of unused knowledge. I now have created more room for Perl snippets and Pr0n images in the brainpan.
And this is different than most of Slashdot how?
Remember though, C# and Db aren't the same note outside of the well tempered world!
I have a static IP block on DSL, and I'm getting blocked by Road Runner (rr.com) but not AOL. Go figure.
If you're using postfix, just tweak your transport config to route aol.com or rr.com emails through you're ISPs mail server, unless you're unfortunate enough to have an ISP that denies any From: addresses that aren't @yourisp.com
For the same reason Microsoft can't do what they want with their OS to a certain extent: antitrust laws and the fact that AOL IS a monopoly in the ISP market for the most part. Sure, there is Earthlink and the like, but when the Giant in any arena gets as large as AOL's subscriber base, they have to play by a different set of rules.
I think postfix virtual domains are a little harder because they're two virtual methods in one package.
You can use them old-style like Sendmail, or you can use them Postfix style. The two differ by slight syntax variations. Confusing at first, but the point is you have the option to run compatable virtuals from Sendmail, of not depending on the situatation. I won't even claim to have a full understanding of the differences.
Unless of course, an internal employee with a take-home corporate laptop brings it in to work for you. :-)
Then again, why on earth expose these to the internet? (135, 139, or 445). Or course, internal virii catching employees are just as dangerous to your servers as the external bad guys.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again.
While there is no excuse for not updating your systems, some people can't do so because of business policy reasons (non-tested patches against business critical systems).
EVERYONE with a server on the internet should also have Egress filtering in place. 486 mahcines are cheap. Unix/Linux firewalls are free. On the off chance you do get the M$ IS$ Worm of the week, at least your server can't initiate an outgoing connection to download more code and move on to the next system.
[corrected title] 95% of all albums are complete failures
I was watching VH1's Top 200 Icons program, and they had some top of the food chain exec from Universal that flat out stated [paraphrasing] that "95% of all albums are failures"
Well now, isn't that a nice number. How can piracy or file sharing possibly make a dent into profits when 95% of all albums suck so bad no one wants to buy them?
Good. This will mean they should have less time for suing people using frames in websites, erm, I mean "Structured Document Viewer".
Using headphone jack splitters with a friend sitting next to you is not the same as making a copy of a song with a complete stranger on another continent, even though the two are connected by small steps.
Good point, but I didn't say anything about about any copy being made. Sharing doesn't automatically mean someone is making a copy. Then there's streaming. Is streaming the same as webcasting if it only involves a single sender and a single receiver?
we can both listen to it, just not at the same time (legally).
Wha? That's like saying headphone jack splitters are illegal. I can't listen to my cd in my car with someone else there, regardless of if they are a co-owner or not? Of course not. That would never fly in court.
So, fair use would be me being allowed to play a song in the company of others when they don't own the CD? Good.
OK, now we're 10 feet apart with a long headphone cable.
OK, now we're 5 miles apart using a CAT5 cable (and only THAT person can listen. Not everyone on the net)?
What's the diff?
Delete? Hell, I'd low level format zero-write destroy that drive continously until someone comes to confiscate it.
By the way, are these people's computer being confiscated as evidence? If they're not, then where the proof again? Oh yeah, an IP and a filename. No file. No content.
My website (hosted by windows 2k/IIS) uses perl.
:-)
That's really sick.
That's like using IE on *nix/Wine.
OK, so I make so the sharing program via Cat% can only share to on other person on the next, AND it's the same track I'm listending to.
Hell, WinAMP does that now. Will the RIA come after me, or the listener? Sure they will.
The analogy is fine. The only difference in the way a signal travels form the source to the destination.
Even Michael Jackson says "Don't Jail Downloaders".
Now, about that nose...
"I noticed the flaw: the Cat5 cable has (at least potentially) a billion "headsets" attached, and these are magic headsets which store what they play and can each have another billion headsets attached, and so on. "
That's easy to fix. Set the server/computer so that only 1 person at a time can download or listen to your CD. There. Now the 1/8" and Cat5 cables are on the same playing field.
I've got a better idea. How about lowering the price of cd's from 17-18 dollars to 11-12 dollars.
I think one step further would solve it.
If I could walk into a record store and pay $12 for any 18 songs of my choosing, I'd buy CDs like they were going out of style.
The RIAA would never go for it because the dime-a-dozen-created-in-a-marketing-department boy/girl bands would never sell complete albums, nor would people be forced to buy complete albums just for one decent song.
To which I says, if it's shit and no one wants it, it's still shit. put out better material and I'll spring for complete CDs once in a while.
What the RIAA will never get, even after it's last dying breath is that Kazaa and the like provide people with what the RIAA can't: customization of their listening preferences and experience. Offer that same thing, and you're golden.
Or to take this one step to far. :-)
What's the difference between:
I own a CD.
I put the CD in my CD player.
Someone else accesses that CD via Cat5 cable.
and
I own a CD.
I put the CD in my CD player.
Someone else accesses that CD via 1/8" headphone cable.
They're both sharing. Will the RIAA come hunt me down because everyone I work with can listen to my CDs using headphones? Will they also hunt down the person using the headphones?
> My roomate borrows my CD
No, unless he copies it, then yes for him. If you know of his intent beforehand, then you are an accessory
> My CDs are on my desk at work where anyone to listen to them
Well then. What's the real difference between me leaving my CDs on my desk (aka 'sharing' them), a coworker accessing them (call it receiving via physical process instead of digitally receiving/downloading) and listening to them when they don't own them?
So I'm naive. I fail to the see the real difference between the two.
Now let's assume that instead of downloading these MP3s, the student is listening to them over the net via streaming from another persons machine (who own's the cd). He/She isn't downloading a copy in that sense of the term. So what's the difference?
I'm mostly ok with people getting busted wit sharing out MP3s. But busted for downloading them is completey bogus IMHO.