One has an obvious improving effect on the lives of people, the other is an optional extra that people like to have but which can be supplemented with alternatives (including versions that are legitimately acquired). I'll let you decide which is the hospital and which is the BitTorrented content.
It's like saying donating a banquet to 1000+ homeless people for a month is the same as not finishing all of your meal in a restaurant - there's some similarities in terms of food and availability, but one has a huge and important benefit, the other is related but not important in the grand scheme of things.
Caps lock: Yep, it gets used for long blocks of capitalised text (particularly those in SQL statements and those that also mix in numbers so that the 3 doesn't become £ bu accident)
Scroll lock: Yep, every day. Double scroll lock and up/down switches my KVM from the dev machine to the work machine.
I've not used Numlock or Pause/Break for ages, though.
You mean Wikileaks (a private organisation with high ideals about how it can improve the world, which should be accountable to anyone it affects through its actions) and the US Government (a democratic nation that has high ideals about how it can improve the world and is supposed to be accountable to its people as well as anyone it affects through its actions)? They're not quite on the same scale, but if WikiLeaks want openness and want to leak non-whistleblowing information then it only seems right that they're also open and share everything as well.
So you're comparing donation of large sums of money to organisations that actively improve the lives of people to the act of leaving a file in your BitTorrent share because you have the bandwidth and want to get more stuff in future? That's somewhat of a stretch, IMO.
Bargain bin != second hand (at least not to me). Supermarkets have bargain bins. Places like Woolworths have bargain bins. Shops like Game used to have bargain shelves (all the white label stuff) until they decided overpriced console bling was the way to go. Second-hand games are different.
If America bullies a nation into doing something not in its best interest with financial or military (or any other) might then that is fair enough for exposure - it is interfering in the internal affairs of a foreign nation. A distinction needs to be made between that and general petitioning/bargaining/politics, though.
Whether various world leaders are thin skinned, party-animals or otherwise annoying does not need to be released and can only antagonise situations. Disclosing that kind of information is just a call of "look at me - we've got non-critical but titillating stuff that the press will love even if it is of no whistle-blowing significance whatsoever".
Do you go into every negotiation at work or in commerce and say "well, I think you're [insert derision here], but lets talk about [insert thing to be agreed]"? No, because even if you don't like someone then you keep it professional and let the agreement be based on the agreement.
Yeah, the only altruistic part seems to be "because I can" or "because it'll encourage people to share even more stuff so that I have more choice of stuff to illegally copy in future", neither of which is exactly altruistic. They might like to portray it as altruistic, but it is rather self-centred.
Also, most of them won't be motivated by financial gain, but they are motivated by a lack of financial loss. The majority of file sharers probably illegally copy games and music because they "can't afford" to buy the game and so just take it because they can (there is no physical barrier/loss/presence that can be detected or otherwise make it *feel* like a crime compared to shop lifting). That way they get to enjoy the product and not pay for it either. Kerching!
That'd be the "other" definition of file sharing - the one that focuses on the technical aspects (sharing any file and leaving legality out of it) rather than the one that the big labels and media like that focuses on politics and the illegal aspects;)
So what we need is a whistle-blower within the whistle-blowing organisation? He'd better also tell us where they buy their coffee from, what they think of all of the latest TV shows, celebrities and politicians, and all of that other "vital" information that the world just needs to know!
Does the list of important sites have anything to do with war crimes and other events of dubious legality that shouldn't be covered up? Does the world benefit from knowing what the Americans internally think of various politicians?
It isn't just about uncovering shameful/illegal things that the governments would rather people know about but that they probably shouldn't have done anyway. It is about being "open and honest" - seemingly to an unnecessary extend, based on some of the leaks. Not revealing the control centres is not open and honest, and therefore seems a bit hypocritical.
Not in the handling of Assange, but his own double standards. Apparently WikiLeaks is being controlled from "secret locations", yet he isn't disclosing them! (BBC News) How is it fair and consistent to disclose the US's "list of vital sites" (which no-one need know) but not WikiLeaks' "list of vital control sites"?;)
The point of DRM, from the publisher's perspective, isn't to prevent piracy - it's to delay it. Most of the sales will happen within the first week, due to the advertising focus...
So why don't they release patches to remove the DRM later on? Relic are the only company that I know of that did it when they released one of their patches for Dawn of War (not that I'm a huge gamer or anything). IIRC it was around the time of the Winter Assault expansion pack.
Actually, it'd need to be a huge tree to take out all of his fans as well, so that we didn't end up with a "oh noes, teh Bieber is dead" flood instead!
Okay, so it probably isn't quite as accurate, but how would this play against the things that webmasters need but which can also be used for tracking - i.e. Apache log files and the like? I can do all sorts of path following and user tracking with logs if I wanted, just by analysing the log files from a normal server. It won't be quite as accurate as something tracked with a cookie, but then even cookies aren't bullet-proof.
Either they've overlooked log files, or they're going to need some really weird standard that gets tracked in a log file so that people can analyse them after the fact without analysing the people who don't want to be tracked...
Given the largest trackers are US companies (or companies the US could find someway to fine) like Google, Webtrends, Microsoft, and Facebook, I think it is totally enforceable.
I can see it now - just like the companies move to Ireland for low tax then they'll move to other nations (officially, at least) to run the tracking.
On top of that then all companies that already follow local but not American law (i.e. just about every European company) will get bitched at by some Americans who think that their laws should apply to the company because they are American, even if the site isn't. The American Government may even try to get them enforced.
On top of that then America will find that the EU has some different/stronger/conflicting laws and will completely ignore them because "they're not our laws", even if they want it to work the other way around.
TL;DR: It'll be business as normal, only for tracking laws instead of tax/etc.
No, then I'd have suggested trying to prevent bomb plots by checking for bombs (possibly using methods that are currently incorrectly implemented, but which should be effective should they be implemented correctly, and which would be demanded should anything happen and they weren't there).
I'm from elsewhere (Read: (comparatively) sensible little nation called Great Britain)
Then a person, place etc.. will exist at some point in every conceivable way it CAN exist.
Wow, who needs Thought Police. Everyone should now be imprissoned because they must, in some instantiation of themselves, have committed some awful crime. Why worry about whether it is in this universe or another? Safer to just lock them all up anyway.
politically opposed websites (because I don't want my children exposed to those liberal crazies, with all their gay rights and pro-choice propaganda)...
It's okay, it is only a UK politician this time, so there isn't so much of a worry about that one. There might be a tiny minority who are like that over here, but overall we're quite sensible and accepting.
Until you get to the politicians, of course. Then they seem to read the Daily Mail too much (think Fox News in paper form, only not quite as blown out of all proportion) and get all these silly ideas that now that they have power then they should use it for "good" (read: interference)
Because most people only want to download (watch TV, listen to music, read emails, browse the web) and most uploads are comparatively small (game data, emails, photos, requests).
Yeah, some people do big uploads (home-mad music, podcasts or videos), but it is like complaining that 90% of the ticket gates are set to only allow people in to a station during morning rush hour. Yeah, you might not like the delay for being stuck behind someone else when coming out of the station, but you're SOL if you think anything will change and go against the majority requirements.
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One has an obvious improving effect on the lives of people, the other is an optional extra that people like to have but which can be supplemented with alternatives (including versions that are legitimately acquired). I'll let you decide which is the hospital and which is the BitTorrented content.
It's like saying donating a banquet to 1000+ homeless people for a month is the same as not finishing all of your meal in a restaurant - there's some similarities in terms of food and availability, but one has a huge and important benefit, the other is related but not important in the grand scheme of things.
Even that is probably unnecessary - unless it is a really bad app that can't automatically upper/lower-case all of the text.
And the computer, in case they start using the mouse and an on-screen keyboard, or even touch-screen, or handwriting recognition.
Caps lock: Yep, it gets used for long blocks of capitalised text (particularly those in SQL statements and those that also mix in numbers so that the 3 doesn't become £ bu accident)
Scroll lock: Yep, every day. Double scroll lock and up/down switches my KVM from the dev machine to the work machine.
I've not used Numlock or Pause/Break for ages, though.
You mean Wikileaks (a private organisation with high ideals about how it can improve the world, which should be accountable to anyone it affects through its actions) and the US Government (a democratic nation that has high ideals about how it can improve the world and is supposed to be accountable to its people as well as anyone it affects through its actions)? They're not quite on the same scale, but if WikiLeaks want openness and want to leak non-whistleblowing information then it only seems right that they're also open and share everything as well.
So you're comparing donation of large sums of money to organisations that actively improve the lives of people to the act of leaving a file in your BitTorrent share because you have the bandwidth and want to get more stuff in future? That's somewhat of a stretch, IMO.
Bargain bin != second hand (at least not to me). Supermarkets have bargain bins. Places like Woolworths have bargain bins. Shops like Game used to have bargain shelves (all the white label stuff) until they decided overpriced console bling was the way to go. Second-hand games are different.
If America bullies a nation into doing something not in its best interest with financial or military (or any other) might then that is fair enough for exposure - it is interfering in the internal affairs of a foreign nation. A distinction needs to be made between that and general petitioning/bargaining/politics, though.
Whether various world leaders are thin skinned, party-animals or otherwise annoying does not need to be released and can only antagonise situations. Disclosing that kind of information is just a call of "look at me - we've got non-critical but titillating stuff that the press will love even if it is of no whistle-blowing significance whatsoever".
Do you go into every negotiation at work or in commerce and say "well, I think you're [insert derision here], but lets talk about [insert thing to be agreed]"? No, because even if you don't like someone then you keep it professional and let the agreement be based on the agreement.
Yeah, the only altruistic part seems to be "because I can" or "because it'll encourage people to share even more stuff so that I have more choice of stuff to illegally copy in future", neither of which is exactly altruistic. They might like to portray it as altruistic, but it is rather self-centred.
Also, most of them won't be motivated by financial gain, but they are motivated by a lack of financial loss. The majority of file sharers probably illegally copy games and music because they "can't afford" to buy the game and so just take it because they can (there is no physical barrier/loss/presence that can be detected or otherwise make it *feel* like a crime compared to shop lifting). That way they get to enjoy the product and not pay for it either. Kerching!
That'd be the "other" definition of file sharing - the one that focuses on the technical aspects (sharing any file and leaving legality out of it) rather than the one that the big labels and media like that focuses on politics and the illegal aspects ;)
Why don't they count? Surely they're still available if you can pick them up in a bargain bin?
So what we need is a whistle-blower within the whistle-blowing organisation? He'd better also tell us where they buy their coffee from, what they think of all of the latest TV shows, celebrities and politicians, and all of that other "vital" information that the world just needs to know!
Does the list of important sites have anything to do with war crimes and other events of dubious legality that shouldn't be covered up? Does the world benefit from knowing what the Americans internally think of various politicians?
It isn't just about uncovering shameful/illegal things that the governments would rather people know about but that they probably shouldn't have done anyway. It is about being "open and honest" - seemingly to an unnecessary extend, based on some of the leaks. Not revealing the control centres is not open and honest, and therefore seems a bit hypocritical.
Viol8 hit the nail on the head.
I don't know, I'm not sure I'd quite be that unfair to the Mail!
Not in the handling of Assange, but his own double standards. Apparently WikiLeaks is being controlled from "secret locations", yet he isn't disclosing them! (BBC News) How is it fair and consistent to disclose the US's "list of vital sites" (which no-one need know) but not WikiLeaks' "list of vital control sites"? ;)
I don't know. It isn't great, but I'd put at least the Sun below it, and probably the Mirror.
That said, the Sun probably doesn't claim to cover lots of news - it just focuses on anything to do with football and anything that has big breasts.
So why don't they release patches to remove the DRM later on? Relic are the only company that I know of that did it when they released one of their patches for Dawn of War (not that I'm a huge gamer or anything). IIRC it was around the time of the Winter Assault expansion pack.
Not that their DRM was overly effective anyway...
And did it fall on Bieber? Please say it did. ...
Actually, it'd need to be a huge tree to take out all of his fans as well, so that we didn't end up with a "oh noes, teh Bieber is dead" flood instead!
Okay, so it probably isn't quite as accurate, but how would this play against the things that webmasters need but which can also be used for tracking - i.e. Apache log files and the like? I can do all sorts of path following and user tracking with logs if I wanted, just by analysing the log files from a normal server. It won't be quite as accurate as something tracked with a cookie, but then even cookies aren't bullet-proof.
Either they've overlooked log files, or they're going to need some really weird standard that gets tracked in a log file so that people can analyse them after the fact without analysing the people who don't want to be tracked...
I can see it now - just like the companies move to Ireland for low tax then they'll move to other nations (officially, at least) to run the tracking.
On top of that then all companies that already follow local but not American law (i.e. just about every European company) will get bitched at by some Americans who think that their laws should apply to the company because they are American, even if the site isn't. The American Government may even try to get them enforced.
On top of that then America will find that the EU has some different/stronger/conflicting laws and will completely ignore them because "they're not our laws", even if they want it to work the other way around.
TL;DR: It'll be business as normal, only for tracking laws instead of tax/etc.
No, then I'd have suggested trying to prevent bomb plots by checking for bombs (possibly using methods that are currently incorrectly implemented, but which should be effective should they be implemented correctly, and which would be demanded should anything happen and they weren't there).
I'm from elsewhere (Read: (comparatively) sensible little nation called Great Britain)
Wow, who needs Thought Police. Everyone should now be imprissoned because they must, in some instantiation of themselves, have committed some awful crime. Why worry about whether it is in this universe or another? Safer to just lock them all up anyway.
It's okay, it is only a UK politician this time, so there isn't so much of a worry about that one. There might be a tiny minority who are like that over here, but overall we're quite sensible and accepting.
Until you get to the politicians, of course. Then they seem to read the Daily Mail too much (think Fox News in paper form, only not quite as blown out of all proportion) and get all these silly ideas that now that they have power then they should use it for "good" (read: interference)
Because most people only want to download (watch TV, listen to music, read emails, browse the web) and most uploads are comparatively small (game data, emails, photos, requests).
Yeah, some people do big uploads (home-mad music, podcasts or videos), but it is like complaining that 90% of the ticket gates are set to only allow people in to a station during morning rush hour. Yeah, you might not like the delay for being stuck behind someone else when coming out of the station, but you're SOL if you think anything will change and go against the majority requirements.
Just to beat some American to it:
"blah blah blah TSA blah blah blad"