As I understand it, there are a number of Tea Partiers who just got blasted last month for refusing to compromise their position and vote to raise the debt ceiling, in contradiction to promises they made.
But of course, thats OK, because theyre republicans and nothing they do matters anyways, right?
By keeping people from migrating to another tech site as soon as a serious contender appears (esp now that Taco is gone).
I already left Digg years ago when it became unbearable, and if slashdot gets bad enough Ill just leave it. Its already at the point where, with every article, im trying to see if i can guess what the article is actually about by reading past a summary that I know is inaccurate. Its kind of like a game, and if I can guess what spin was applied I win!
Whether or not they are guilty is irrelevant to this discussion and to the article. The article was about the US remarking on the type of media spin that might hit them, and the thread has become about "serves the MPAA right because they have no right to legal restitution for copyright infringement".
Yea, that might be part of your problem. Vote by candidate, find one who will actually make promises and keep them (and absolutely refuse to vote for them again if they do not), and make them stick to them.
Be that as it may, I would say that to download a song without restitution to the artist IS wrong, since that idea was explicitly written to the constitution (the social contract whereby our government gets its power), and is the expectation of any artist that signs with a label (that their labor will result in payment).
You deciding that music wants to be free is fine; write your own music and stop taking from musicians. And incidentally, "Labels are evil" is a cop-out, since artists dont have to sign with a label; they are adults, and are free to enter whatever agreements they like. They dont need you to rescue them from their contracts (and the money that you arent giving them).
it's no excuse to break the laws that the MPAA made as a result, illegal is illegal!
A) According to our legal system, thats roughly correct, other than the big issue with your comment... B) which is that MPAA doesnt make anything. 535 people in the capitol pass laws, and those people are voted on once every couple of years by people. This is ultimately democratic system, and the citizens are ultimately responsible for the laws that are passed.
If I bribed a politician to make it illegal to refuse to give me money on request, and I asked you for all the money in your wallet, by your logic you'd have to oblige me.
In your ridiculous scenario (which doesnt even make sense, since copyright infringement has been illegal since well before the MPAA existed), yes. You would have to show that bribery had taken place; the only alternative is that each person makes up their own mind which laws to follow, which is generally what we call anarchy.
There's many times where you SHOULD say fuck the law. It was the LAW that made slavery legal.
Why not Godwin the conversation while we're at it?
I mean, this isnt slavery we're talking about. The gross, heinous travesty is that an artist signed a contract with a company for money, agreeing that the company owned the rights to the results of their labor; and that company released it under certain licensing terms. At any time you can choose not to purchase that license, but I fail to see in what way you can claim "you not getting the latest work from Justin Beiber" is any different than "you not being entitled to a free copy of Microsoft Windows", or how you can possibly compare it to "forcible enslavement of a people".
The sense of entitlement here is overwhelming; someone did work to produce the music, and unfortunately for you you simply dont have a claim on it for free.
Just because theyre irresponsible and litigious and about as friendly as the Nazghul, doesnt mean that people are excused from following the laws of their land or from perjuring themselves; and it certainly doesnt mean that folks on slashdot are excused when THEY support such people as Jammie Thomas and Tenenbaum.
Good gracious, its as if, because MPAA commits one wrong, it excuses us circumventing the legal system just to spite them for that wrong. Illegal is illegal, whether or not you like the prosecution. Are people really pushing for anarchy and the abolition of the justice system?
I pay for cableTV so I get all those channels. how the hell is it illegal for me to download a TV Show that aired on a TV channel I PAY FOR to watch it later?
Because the laws of the land, in combination with the terms you agreed to with your cable and internet service, say so.
Its like people think they arent responsible for the laws of their land or for the agreements they sign. If you dont like the terms, dont sign the agreement (regarding software licensing, DRM, etc). If you dont like the laws, change how you vote. But dont try to push some "I can do whatever I want and then act outraged when the courts disagree" nonsense, part of being an adult is that you put childish ideas behind you..
Each time people see something like this they feel ever less guilty about, and ever less desensitized to piracy.
You mean "more desensitized" i think, which is ridiculous, since noone gives a crap about piracy now anyways.
I mean, I think a lot of the laws suck too, but to watch people honestly defending perpetually using pirated games and defending Joel Tenenbaum and Jammie Thomas, is ridiculous. As bad as the laws (and their requisite punishments) might be, I dont think anyone can make the case that people care too MUCH about piracy and copyright. One might remark that that is in fact the reason that MPAA is reacting so violently, because they recognize that noone really cares, and emotion on the subject ranges from general apathy to violent opposition.
The ridicule is of course sure to garner an insightful mod; but I really dont see anything incorrect in what theyre saying.
If the accused in the case really are guilty (and Im not familiar with the case at all), their point is still valid, that it could become irrelevant and much could be made of the fact that its a big evil US corp.
As is in fact what youve just done; you didnt make a case that the laws were poorly written, or that there are issues with the prosecution, you focused on the fact that its the MPAA and they must therefore have no valid case. AKA the classic Jammie Thomas Apologist's Defense (also known as the Tenenbaum Gambit).
Seriously, do you think there would really be that big of a hole-- unpatched-- with a stock option of RDP? That a normal, widely used feature would completely bypass the Windows security model?
Color me shocked that when I just tested it against one of our 03 servers, it utterly failed to do any kind of escalation. I also just had rdp run "mmc RSOP.msc" on login, and I can see the default domain policy applying.
None of what he stated is true, and again I am pretty sure that the Windows Temp folder requires admin access even on server 2003.
I found this out when we had to do password recovery on a DC, without either the domain password or the AD repair mode password. Its a multistep process, where you first have to use a boot disk to reset the recovery mode password, boot into directory services restore mode, and then change the domain admin password. The bootdisk is unable to do anything to domain passwords, because theyre not stored in registry.
Blech. That's pretty horrible. Can't this interface support multiple windows, one per folder,
Er, yes, it does, and has for ages. Its called you open another window/.
Cutting and pasting files is an okay interface for the occasional move, but it's clumsy as heck if you're doing it over and over.
How do you propose to move a file without moving said file?
In that paragraph, I was referring to repetitive actions that are exactly the same every time, done in exactly the same way, achieving the same results in the same context. The most common example of this is actions that alter the UI behavior, like window size and position, column lists, sort order, etc. The granularity at which such information should be stored varies depending on the information in question
Which is why that information is stored in the registry, and you have the option of setting a global standard, as well as having particular folders use a particular deviation of your own choosing. Windows keeps a window size/location history, you know.
For example, I'd expect window sort order to stay the same every time I go back to a specific folder
Im fairly certain it already does, and has since at least XP. I might be wrong on that particular detail, but certainly it remembers view style, position, and size.
The point that is often made is that a single volcanic eruption absolutely dwarfs mans CO2 emissions such that they become irrelevant.
But honestly, I stopped caring about the whole discussion long ago. We should work on cutting emissions regardless, and we should look for ways to improve energy efficiency regardless, and as long as they are done in a sane way (ie, tax breaks etc) and not a stupid way (trying to legislate scientific progress, trying to legislate people giving a darn, carbon credits), it doesnt really matter to me.
Im not a climatologist, so I dont really feel like getting super invested in some opinion that I wouldnt really be qualified to defend anyways.
Its certainly convinced me. I mean, I only know a bit of VBS, but im skilled at batch scripting, and I will be sending in my first commit for the Firefox Addons API tonight. Im sure the devs will all be so pleased, Its got a lot of "REM" comments, and a couple of judicious GOTOs. I hope to contribute lots more to this awesome program to make up for all the years Ive been an idiot.
I only wish I knew what this C++ they all keep referring to is.
Even more scary is the possibility that this could become the model for not just tablets, but also PC's in the future. About the only thing stopping this now is tradition and bandwidth limitations/download caps
And the fact that its hard to make the business case for paying $1500 per upgraded workstation rather than $500? And that Microsoft could never pull off an Appstore like Apple did? (anyone remember the Windows Marketplace, haha?)
I like how someone modded Tyler's comment down as if it wasnt relevant. This is the guy who wrote the article, geniuses; hes basically the only one who SHOULDNT be getting modded down in this post.
It makes very little sense to combine the two into one, when they share completely seperate address space, are on completely separate ISPs, and one half is supposed to be unresolvable by design. Putting them in the same DNS domain would be bad design; you will either have a non-authoratative DNS server claiming to be authoritative for a domain, or you will have unreachable RFC 1918 addresses in your public DNS.
The first scenario leads to the breakage I mentioned, and is the worst kind of kludge since it makes it much harder to diagnose issues with nslookup. No longer can you simply do a nslookup on NS records to find out who hosts your DNS, since you now have two independently resolving sets of DNS nameservers with no linkage between them; and it is a pain to figure out what has been done if you ever hand off to another tech (since again it is a nonstandard kludge and wont show up in a nslookup query). In a nutshell, DNS is hierarchical, and your plan would split that hierarchy in two.
The second scenario is utterly retarded as it means you would have every DHCP record in your domain recorded by a public DNS, and Im not even clear on how you would get that to work. You would also be publishing for the whole world to see the entire layout of your network.
Using.local is best practice as recommended by MS, and for darn good reasons. You can also, of course, use internal.foo.com, which isnt so bad, but using foo.com is a really terrible idea and if you ever do it you will find yourself regretting it (and probably having to rename your domain) shortly thereafter.
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As I understand it, there are a number of Tea Partiers who just got blasted last month for refusing to compromise their position and vote to raise the debt ceiling, in contradiction to promises they made.
But of course, thats OK, because theyre republicans and nothing they do matters anyways, right?
Yes, well, im sure people turned to governments because anarchy was working out super well.
By keeping people from migrating to another tech site as soon as a serious contender appears (esp now that Taco is gone).
I already left Digg years ago when it became unbearable, and if slashdot gets bad enough Ill just leave it. Its already at the point where, with every article, im trying to see if i can guess what the article is actually about by reading past a summary that I know is inaccurate. Its kind of like a game, and if I can guess what spin was applied I win!
Whether or not they are guilty is irrelevant to this discussion and to the article. The article was about the US remarking on the type of media spin that might hit them, and the thread has become about "serves the MPAA right because they have no right to legal restitution for copyright infringement".
Oh, whats that, you wanted to vote by party?
Yea, that might be part of your problem. Vote by candidate, find one who will actually make promises and keep them (and absolutely refuse to vote for them again if they do not), and make them stick to them.
It works for entitlements, doesnt it?
Illegal does not mean wrong.
Be that as it may, I would say that to download a song without restitution to the artist IS wrong, since that idea was explicitly written to the constitution (the social contract whereby our government gets its power), and is the expectation of any artist that signs with a label (that their labor will result in payment).
You deciding that music wants to be free is fine; write your own music and stop taking from musicians. And incidentally, "Labels are evil" is a cop-out, since artists dont have to sign with a label; they are adults, and are free to enter whatever agreements they like. They dont need you to rescue them from their contracts (and the money that you arent giving them).
it's no excuse to break the laws that the MPAA made as a result, illegal is illegal!
A) According to our legal system, thats roughly correct, other than the big issue with your comment...
B) which is that MPAA doesnt make anything. 535 people in the capitol pass laws, and those people are voted on once every couple of years by people. This is ultimately democratic system, and the citizens are ultimately responsible for the laws that are passed.
If I bribed a politician to make it illegal to refuse to give me money on request, and I asked you for all the money in your wallet, by your logic you'd have to oblige me.
In your ridiculous scenario (which doesnt even make sense, since copyright infringement has been illegal since well before the MPAA existed), yes. You would have to show that bribery had taken place; the only alternative is that each person makes up their own mind which laws to follow, which is generally what we call anarchy.
There's many times where you SHOULD say fuck the law. It was the LAW that made slavery legal.
Why not Godwin the conversation while we're at it?
I mean, this isnt slavery we're talking about. The gross, heinous travesty is that an artist signed a contract with a company for money, agreeing that the company owned the rights to the results of their labor; and that company released it under certain licensing terms. At any time you can choose not to purchase that license, but I fail to see in what way you can claim "you not getting the latest work from Justin Beiber" is any different than "you not being entitled to a free copy of Microsoft Windows", or how you can possibly compare it to "forcible enslavement of a people".
The sense of entitlement here is overwhelming; someone did work to produce the music, and unfortunately for you you simply dont have a claim on it for free.
Just because theyre irresponsible and litigious and about as friendly as the Nazghul, doesnt mean that people are excused from following the laws of their land or from perjuring themselves; and it certainly doesnt mean that folks on slashdot are excused when THEY support such people as Jammie Thomas and Tenenbaum.
Good gracious, its as if, because MPAA commits one wrong, it excuses us circumventing the legal system just to spite them for that wrong. Illegal is illegal, whether or not you like the prosecution. Are people really pushing for anarchy and the abolition of the justice system?
I pay for cableTV so I get all those channels. how the hell is it illegal for me to download a TV Show that aired on a TV channel I PAY FOR to watch it later?
Because the laws of the land, in combination with the terms you agreed to with your cable and internet service, say so.
Its like people think they arent responsible for the laws of their land or for the agreements they sign. If you dont like the terms, dont sign the agreement (regarding software licensing, DRM, etc). If you dont like the laws, change how you vote. But dont try to push some "I can do whatever I want and then act outraged when the courts disagree" nonsense, part of being an adult is that you put childish ideas behind you..
Each time people see something like this they feel ever less guilty about, and ever less desensitized to piracy.
You mean "more desensitized" i think, which is ridiculous, since noone gives a crap about piracy now anyways.
I mean, I think a lot of the laws suck too, but to watch people honestly defending perpetually using pirated games and defending Joel Tenenbaum and Jammie Thomas, is ridiculous. As bad as the laws (and their requisite punishments) might be, I dont think anyone can make the case that people care too MUCH about piracy and copyright. One might remark that that is in fact the reason that MPAA is reacting so violently, because they recognize that noone really cares, and emotion on the subject ranges from general apathy to violent opposition.
The ridicule is of course sure to garner an insightful mod; but I really dont see anything incorrect in what theyre saying.
If the accused in the case really are guilty (and Im not familiar with the case at all), their point is still valid, that it could become irrelevant and much could be made of the fact that its a big evil US corp.
As is in fact what youve just done; you didnt make a case that the laws were poorly written, or that there are issues with the prosecution, you focused on the fact that its the MPAA and they must therefore have no valid case. AKA the classic Jammie Thomas Apologist's Defense (also known as the Tenenbaum Gambit).
I stand corrected; due to the lateness of the hour I didnt actually check my facts before posting.
Im not sure theres ever as clear as a correlation as this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Measles_US_1944-2007_inset.png
I mean, there doesnt even seem to be a shadow of a doubt that the shots are effective, whatever other complaints you might want to make about them.
Most of that info applies to server 2003 as well.
Seriously, do you think there would really be that big of a hole-- unpatched-- with a stock option of RDP? That a normal, widely used feature would completely bypass the Windows security model?
Color me shocked that when I just tested it against one of our 03 servers, it utterly failed to do any kind of escalation. I also just had rdp run "mmc RSOP.msc" on login, and I can see the default domain policy applying.
None of what he stated is true, and again I am pretty sure that the Windows Temp folder requires admin access even on server 2003.
I found this out when we had to do password recovery on a DC, without either the domain password or the AD repair mode password. Its a multistep process, where you first have to use a boot disk to reset the recovery mode password, boot into directory services restore mode, and then change the domain admin password. The bootdisk is unable to do anything to domain passwords, because theyre not stored in registry.
Blech. That's pretty horrible. Can't this interface support multiple windows, one per folder,
Er, yes, it does, and has for ages. Its called you open another window/.
Cutting and pasting files is an okay interface for the occasional move, but it's clumsy as heck if you're doing it over and over.
How do you propose to move a file without moving said file?
In that paragraph, I was referring to repetitive actions that are exactly the same every time, done in exactly the same way, achieving the same results in the same context. The most common example of this is actions that alter the UI behavior, like window size and position, column lists, sort order, etc. The granularity at which such information should be stored varies depending on the information in question
Which is why that information is stored in the registry, and you have the option of setting a global standard, as well as having particular folders use a particular deviation of your own choosing. Windows keeps a window size/location history, you know.
For example, I'd expect window sort order to stay the same every time I go back to a specific folder
Im fairly certain it already does, and has since at least XP. I might be wrong on that particular detail, but certainly it remembers view style, position, and size.
The point that is often made is that a single volcanic eruption absolutely dwarfs mans CO2 emissions such that they become irrelevant.
But honestly, I stopped caring about the whole discussion long ago. We should work on cutting emissions regardless, and we should look for ways to improve energy efficiency regardless, and as long as they are done in a sane way (ie, tax breaks etc) and not a stupid way (trying to legislate scientific progress, trying to legislate people giving a darn, carbon credits), it doesnt really matter to me.
Im not a climatologist, so I dont really feel like getting super invested in some opinion that I wouldnt really be qualified to defend anyways.
Its certainly convinced me. I mean, I only know a bit of VBS, but im skilled at batch scripting, and I will be sending in my first commit for the Firefox Addons API tonight. Im sure the devs will all be so pleased, Its got a lot of "REM" comments, and a couple of judicious GOTOs. I hope to contribute lots more to this awesome program to make up for all the years Ive been an idiot.
I only wish I knew what this C++ they all keep referring to is.
Because optical media is not obsolete.
Clearly, they should just give up any thought of improvement.
Even more scary is the possibility that this could become the model for not just tablets, but also PC's in the future. About the only thing stopping this now is tradition and bandwidth limitations/download caps
And the fact that its hard to make the business case for paying $1500 per upgraded workstation rather than $500? And that Microsoft could never pull off an Appstore like Apple did? (anyone remember the Windows Marketplace, haha?)
I thought global warming caused the oceans to rise...?
I like how someone modded Tyler's comment down as if it wasnt relevant. This is the guy who wrote the article, geniuses; hes basically the only one who SHOULDNT be getting modded down in this post.
It makes very little sense to combine the two into one, when they share completely seperate address space, are on completely separate ISPs, and one half is supposed to be unresolvable by design. Putting them in the same DNS domain would be bad design; you will either have a non-authoratative DNS server claiming to be authoritative for a domain, or you will have unreachable RFC 1918 addresses in your public DNS.
The first scenario leads to the breakage I mentioned, and is the worst kind of kludge since it makes it much harder to diagnose issues with nslookup. No longer can you simply do a nslookup on NS records to find out who hosts your DNS, since you now have two independently resolving sets of DNS nameservers with no linkage between them; and it is a pain to figure out what has been done if you ever hand off to another tech (since again it is a nonstandard kludge and wont show up in a nslookup query). In a nutshell, DNS is hierarchical, and your plan would split that hierarchy in two.
The second scenario is utterly retarded as it means you would have every DHCP record in your domain recorded by a public DNS, and Im not even clear on how you would get that to work. You would also be publishing for the whole world to see the entire layout of your network.
Using .local is best practice as recommended by MS, and for darn good reasons. You can also, of course, use internal.foo.com, which isnt so bad, but using foo.com is a really terrible idea and if you ever do it you will find yourself regretting it (and probably having to rename your domain) shortly thereafter.