the focus should actually be on removing reasons for people to commit crimes, not just 'preventing' them. you can prevent crimes by making the actual doing of them nearly impossible... end result? 1984.
but if you remove the reasons for people do want to commit crimes, then you only have to deal with the really hardcore/hardwired criminal types instead of troubled youth stealing cuz it makes them fit in, etc.
What if you're doing something wrong that shouldn't be wrong?
There are a lot of things in this world (I'm speaking more facetiously than about how filesharing shouldn't be wrong, or similar) that are illegal (sleeping in bathtubs, having anything other than missionary-position sex with a member of the opposite sex/gender) which shouldn't be illegal.
What if it's something you're doing in private that, whether or not it's illegal, only affects you and not someone else? (see above for examples)... presto, you have no privacy any more.
Do you really want that? You probably don't. A person with nothing to hide is not a person any more.
Okay, so it's cool. Yay, I can make all my windows translucent.
I've used OSX quite a bit, seeing as it's on my laptop. I like a lot of the graphical diddlies (such as the alpha blending support for anti-aliasing and stuff, although it begs for high resolution I don't have), don't care for some UI stuff (dock), and think some of it (transparency) is totally useless.
I know when it comes to linux, geeks want a WM/windowing environment that's tailored to their exacting needs, not something that's generally usable. However, transparency is ugly. Things in the real world are not transparent when they contain a lot of information. Your desk is not transparent. If you want to read two things at once, you put them side by side.
I'd like one good usability reason for having transparency. I'm not talking "it makes me horny because it's so pretty and leet and futuristic!", I'm talking "it's more useful."
I don't want to play sports. If I don't want to play them, and people think I'm uncool, that's the root of the issue. You don't ahve to play sports. There's no reason for someone to have to play sports. I work out and play racquetball with my roommate; that's enough athletic activity and coordination for me.
but a lot of people in the 'young adult' (I mean recently adult, not teenager) category are in college, and most colleges have massive broadband penetration (almost everyone around here off campus has broadband, and EVERYONE in the dorms with a computer has it). That compounds the 'it's too hard to get a whole album' theory.
I can hop on windows networking and find giant massive piles of whole albums to listen to without even 'downloading' a thing in the classical sense.
"And that's the basis problem with the general population who decide which products succeed by their purchasing decisions: they see technology as a means to an end, not as something to admire for its intrinsic cleverness."
Well, I suppose that's a problem, except that technology - no matter how intrinsically clever - is useless as an 'end'. Technology is a means to an end; your mom does not care how beautiful the DeCSS algorithm is when written in three lines of Perl. That is not a bad thing. I don't care, either. Does it WORK? Quickly? Do what I want? that's much more important. Idolizing the intrinsic technological beauty of things while discounting their actual use is a grave mistake. Look a supermodels; they're 'hot' and have great tits or whatever, but do they do anything? NO.
Just cuz it's a machine doesn't make it perfect. Machines are controlled by software. Humans write software. Humans, unlike idealistic computer math, screw up on a regular basis.
I dunno.... that sounds suspiciously like the campus republican/conservative stance around here. 'College is just where they pump you full of liberal crap'. Unfortuantely, I'm not really either (liberal, conservative, not really libertarian either), so their attempt (they = campus conservatives) to pump ME with THEIR orthodoxy instead of the one the campus is pumping me with (which isn't working, btw, and I don't even see it) has failed. I now don't beleive either group. Someone's foot is bleeding.
Btw, I found it interesting that Rosen used our policies as an illustration. Being that I work for the Housing Information Technology Office, all I know that we do about infringements is turn people off until they cry uncle. That is, as far as I know, mandated by law (and angry provosts), and all you do to avoid it is not share anything.
Download all you want, bitches. even our upcoming deployment of packetshaping won't affect what's going INTO your computer at the u of mich. That's like looking at the DMCABQFTZRXKYwhatever, sticking out your tongue, pulling your eyelid down, and going NYAAH!!*thbhbht*
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remember the future office microsoft announced? since surround sound is so important in the Office Of The Future (no doubt with flying chairs and melamine), 3D displays should fit right in.:>
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the focus should actually be on removing reasons for people to commit crimes, not just 'preventing' them. you can prevent crimes by making the actual doing of them nearly impossible... end result? 1984.
but if you remove the reasons for people do want to commit crimes, then you only have to deal with the really hardcore/hardwired criminal types instead of troubled youth stealing cuz it makes them fit in, etc.
What if you're doing something wrong that shouldn't be wrong?
There are a lot of things in this world (I'm speaking more facetiously than about how filesharing shouldn't be wrong, or similar) that are illegal (sleeping in bathtubs, having anything other than missionary-position sex with a member of the opposite sex/gender) which shouldn't be illegal.
What if it's something you're doing in private that, whether or not it's illegal, only affects you and not someone else? (see above for examples)... presto, you have no privacy any more.
Do you really want that? You probably don't. A person with nothing to hide is not a person any more.
Okay, so it's cool. Yay, I can make all my windows translucent.
I've used OSX quite a bit, seeing as it's on my laptop. I like a lot of the graphical diddlies (such as the alpha blending support for anti-aliasing and stuff, although it begs for high resolution I don't have), don't care for some UI stuff (dock), and think some of it (transparency) is totally useless.
I know when it comes to linux, geeks want a WM/windowing environment that's tailored to their exacting needs, not something that's generally usable. However, transparency is ugly. Things in the real world are not transparent when they contain a lot of information. Your desk is not transparent. If you want to read two things at once, you put them side by side.
I'd like one good usability reason for having transparency. I'm not talking "it makes me horny because it's so pretty and leet and futuristic!", I'm talking "it's more useful."
they're for the itanium. pay attention.
I don't want to play sports. If I don't want to play them, and people think I'm uncool, that's the root of the issue. You don't ahve to play sports. There's no reason for someone to have to play sports. I work out and play racquetball with my roommate; that's enough athletic activity and coordination for me.
one problem:
yeah, okay, 'most people' have modems.
but a lot of people in the 'young adult' (I mean recently adult, not teenager) category are in college, and most colleges have massive broadband penetration (almost everyone around here off campus has broadband, and EVERYONE in the dorms with a computer has it). That compounds the 'it's too hard to get a whole album' theory.
I can hop on windows networking and find giant massive piles of whole albums to listen to without even 'downloading' a thing in the classical sense.
"And that's the basis problem with the general population who decide which products succeed by their purchasing decisions: they see technology as a means to an end, not as something to admire for its intrinsic cleverness."
Well, I suppose that's a problem, except that technology - no matter how intrinsically clever - is useless as an 'end'. Technology is a means to an end; your mom does not care how beautiful the DeCSS algorithm is when written in three lines of Perl. That is not a bad thing. I don't care, either. Does it WORK? Quickly? Do what I want? that's much more important. Idolizing the intrinsic technological beauty of things while discounting their actual use is a grave mistake. Look a supermodels; they're 'hot' and have great tits or whatever, but do they do anything? NO.
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Just cuz it's a machine doesn't make it perfect. Machines are controlled by software. Humans write software. Humans, unlike idealistic computer math, screw up on a regular basis.
I dunno.... that sounds suspiciously like the campus republican/conservative stance around here. 'College is just where they pump you full of liberal crap'. Unfortuantely, I'm not really either (liberal, conservative, not really libertarian either), so their attempt (they = campus conservatives) to pump ME with THEIR orthodoxy instead of the one the campus is pumping me with (which isn't working, btw, and I don't even see it) has failed. I now don't beleive either group. Someone's foot is bleeding.
Btw, I found it interesting that Rosen used our policies as an illustration. Being that I work for the Housing Information Technology Office, all I know that we do about infringements is turn people off until they cry uncle. That is, as far as I know, mandated by law (and angry provosts), and all you do to avoid it is not share anything.
Download all you want, bitches. even our upcoming deployment of packetshaping won't affect what's going INTO your computer at the u of mich. That's like looking at the DMCABQFTZRXKYwhatever, sticking out your tongue, pulling your eyelid down, and going NYAAH!!*thbhbht*
remember the future office microsoft announced? since surround sound is so important in the Office Of The Future (no doubt with flying chairs and melamine), 3D displays should fit right in. :>