I'm a musician/song writer in addition to being a programmer. In the early days of Napster I was, to a large extent, on the side of copyright holders, but that's all changed radically over the years. It's sad in a way that things have pretty much reached the point where it's all but impossible to make money with music other than by touring or otherwise playing live...perhaps in a way that's a good thing. If the record industry didn't get hung up on bullshit like DRM and got out in front of this whole thing with DRM-free songs available much like on Amazon in, oh...I don't know...like 1999, it would be a very different world for the music industry right now.
As many here have pointed out, it's clear that the RIAA will continue to lobby, or do whatever it takes to turn the Internet as we know it into the likes of pay television, where we're just spectators. The ONLY thing that will stop this is if the whole industry just plains goes belly up, and is replaced by one that actually lives in the 21st century. While I don't download music illegally myself, at this point if the public chooses to "pirate" them into the fucking stone age I couldn't be happier, and I couldn't be happier at the reality that, from a technical standpoint, they'll never be able to stop it. Assholes...all of them...
Spelling aside, I actually didn't mean to use the phase "paying for add revenue" either, as that doesn't really make sense. It was a pre-coffee post...what can I tell you.
I'm not sure that's a good comparison. What you describe is simple competition...supply a cheaper product that gets the job done and get that business.
What he's describing is quite different. Actually the use of the term "customer" in this whole context seems a little grey to me. These companies real "customers" are the ones paying for add revenue, not those being exploited.
...and a whole slew of other problems that I never found because when I realized it wouldn't let me launch more than one instance of an application (a terminal, for example) without performing some ritual (I never found out how) I restored from backup as quickly as I could.
OMG...thank God I never even tried it...I can't believe they did that. That appears to be yet another case of Linux desktop environments imitating the worst features of Windows. If you assign a keyboard shortcut in windows to a program it behaves the same way..."I'm ignoring you because that program is already running". The only work around I've ever found in Windows is to have the keyboard command assigned to a shortcut that actually does "start [my_fucking_program_please]" which creates a disconnect that prevents that behavior.
Using fluxbox, I assign Ctrl-Alt-t to a urxvt terminal...period. If I have a terminal open and want to open another...I just hit Ctrl-Alt_t again and, just as God intended, it doesn't give a crap if I have one running already. When doing development stuff I'd bet I do that a hundred times in one day. Seriously...what are these people thinking?
I keep meaning to try xfce. I abandoned kde years ago (before kde 4 actually) on my Gentoo system in favor or a very minimalist setup with fluxbox. I've been fine with that, mainly because I do so much from the command line. I have hot keys enabled for the programs I use the most. From what I've heard/seen I'm guessing I'd like xfce.
Exactly. As the GP says, there's certainly nothing wrong with any new information, but if you just bite the bullet and do what's needed (I personally think exercise is MUCH more important than diet), all the other stuff is pretty much moot. Another pet peeve of mine is that all the exercise information and advice out there is geared towards people that are obese...such as the recommendations to do hours and hours of aerobics. The fact is, if you're not trying to loose a lot of weight, excessive aerobics aren't a good idea. Twenty minutes of intense aerobics a week is plenty.
Amen. For a long time I used my Concept 2 indoor rower religiously...great workout that you can do year round. Lately I've been doing this: I hold a pair of 20 pound weights and step up to the second step of my basement stairs and then back down...switching which leg I lead with every 10 steps. Last count I was doing 460 of those in 20 minutes...the equivalent of carrying 40 pound up and down 76 flights in 20 minutes...that does the job!
The news is way too full of all these studies etc that just seem to distract from the simple truth that you just plain must exercise...vigorously, and regularly...period. I'm so sick of everything I keep hearing...like all this new stuff about how horrific it is that I sit down at my job. Give me a break...and don't get me started about all these recommendations regarding walking. The main reason people have for not exercising it not having time, and walking...in addition to being neither a good cardie-vascular workout, or a good strength training workout...is the worst bang for your buck timewise. I have the aerobic fitness of someone 30 years younger than I...can do 100 pushups, and have about 10% body fat (at 58)...and I don't kill myself working out either...a total of about 5 hours a week...20 minutes of intense aerobics three times a week and extensive weight training twice a week.
Way, way too much bullshit getting thrown around...just do it!
I'd look at it exactly the opposite - people are defending it because they use it and know it's quirks, not because of the financial angle.
I mean, any languag -- even Javascript -- becomes decent once you have written years of code in it. The underlying language may be crap, but it's what you make of it that matters.
Thanks you...exactly my point. You can write great code in just about any mature language if you understand it properly. There are many situations where PHP might be a bad choice depending on your needs, but to just write off a whole language and everything written in it simply because it's written in PHP or any other language is absurd and just plain silly.
It is the lang fault if easier to do wrong than right
Wow...no wonder you posted anonymously. This may be the single silliest thing I've ever read here or anywhere. So other high level languages make it difficult to "do wrong" if you don't have a clue what the fuck you're doing???
Yea, this PHP bashing here gets really old. Sure, the fact that it's a high level language attracts some clueless programmers that write bad code, but that's not the languages fault. I happen to be in a position right now where I do most of my coding in PHP. There are in fact things about it that drive me crazy, but the fact is that you can write great stuff with PHP and you can do it very quickly. As far as this exploit goes, who actually uses PHP in cgi mode rather than as an Apache module?
Oh yea, I absolutely agree. Other than the editorials the WSJ has always been an example of great journalism...yet another reason why it's a shame that tabloid money allowed News Corp to buy it.
It kills me when I see a copy of one of the many despicable U.S. tabloids at someones house and they dismiss the fact that they bought at as "just for fun", or that they "don't take it seriously", or whatever excuse they have. Supporting bad shit with your money is not a victimless crime. It's that mentality that led to Rupert Murdoch owning the fucking Wall Street Journal.
Back before USB flash drives were widely and cheaply available, the only way to easily move around more than a few floppy's worth of data was the Zip drive.
100 MB was a lot back then. Even though the drive itself was not ubiquitous, the parallel port model could be easily transported, and it was supported on multiple operating systems.
Yup...there was a time when ZIP was about the best option available for moving anything of any size. I remember having to depend on a parallel port ZIP drive for that. Does anyone else remember the nightmare that was the parallel port Windows drivers for those things back in the Win NT days??...Good Lord. I remember that the OS would tell you that all your files had finished copying when they were still in some sort of buffer, and you'd have to wait just about forever until you could tell that the drive had actually stopped writing. Worse yet...and I had this happen more than once...if the disk actually encountered a problem during that time period you were totally SOL. As far as Windows was concerned the process was finished when it in fact wasn't and never would be, and it pretty much required physically powering off the box...oh yea...fun, fun, fun.
That's the one people should be the most concerned with. When I first started using NoScript, I was stunned at how many supposedly reputable sites were using javascript pulled from ten or twenty different unrelated sites. There's just NO good excuse for that at all.
In the case of netflix maybe you could in fact make that argument. But when it comes to arbitration agreements in general you can't get, for example, ANY cell phone, or ANY credit card without signing one...and if these things are allowed, that will eventually become the case with everything you purchase. So what then? Become Amish?
I was hoping someone would make that point. The dynamic range compession and limiting that's going on in recording studios today, in the days of vinyl, would have literally made the needle of your turn table jump out of the groove. It's just criminal...and short of going back to the original session and remastering it (NOT the original master, which is compressed to death), it can't be fixed.
Yup...and I can't for the life of me figure out how that jives with the 7 th Amendment:
"In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law."
Seems pretty clear to me.
I've always thought the whole issue is pretty clear. Internet voting can never be any more secure than it's weakest link...the end users browser/computer/device. In other words it can never be secure. As far as I'm concerned it's a total non-starter for this reason.
Does this risk change if you consider a sufficiently long period of time?
Presumably for a given trip you spend more time intoxicated than you do checking or responding to a message on your phone.
+1.
You can stop using your phone after you kill a family of six. You can't stop being drunk.
You need to be on your toes there - besides, parking lot accidents are paid for by YOU -- fault, in my experience is never assigned on private property or public parking lots. Tough beans, even if you were not at fault.
I can confirm that. I got broad sided in a supermarket parking lot some years ago by a guy in an SUV driving what seemed like 55 mph right though an intersection that had STOP painted on the pavement. The cop that arrived on the scene pointed out that, not only was that STOP on the pavement not a legal stop sign, the issues was moot, as the laws in general do NOT apply in parking lots. He could have been driving 100 mph.
Ever since then I have an extra special disdain for anyone driving fast in parking lots...by which I mean that I get tempted to chase them down and beat the living shit out of them.
It's always been painfully obvious to me why any form of on-line voting is quite simply a non-starter: It can never be any more secure than the client...that is, the users device. In other words, it can never be trusted...period.
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I'm a musician/song writer in addition to being a programmer. In the early days of Napster I was, to a large extent, on the side of copyright holders, but that's all changed radically over the years. It's sad in a way that things have pretty much reached the point where it's all but impossible to make money with music other than by touring or otherwise playing live...perhaps in a way that's a good thing. If the record industry didn't get hung up on bullshit like DRM and got out in front of this whole thing with DRM-free songs available much like on Amazon in, oh...I don't know...like 1999, it would be a very different world for the music industry right now.
As many here have pointed out, it's clear that the RIAA will continue to lobby, or do whatever it takes to turn the Internet as we know it into the likes of pay television, where we're just spectators. The ONLY thing that will stop this is if the whole industry just plains goes belly up, and is replaced by one that actually lives in the 21st century. While I don't download music illegally myself, at this point if the public chooses to "pirate" them into the fucking stone age I couldn't be happier, and I couldn't be happier at the reality that, from a technical standpoint, they'll never be able to stop it. Assholes...all of them...
Spelling aside, I actually didn't mean to use the phase "paying for add revenue" either, as that doesn't really make sense. It was a pre-coffee post...what can I tell you.
I'm not sure that's a good comparison. What you describe is simple competition...supply a cheaper product that gets the job done and get that business. What he's describing is quite different. Actually the use of the term "customer" in this whole context seems a little grey to me. These companies real "customers" are the ones paying for add revenue, not those being exploited.
...and a whole slew of other problems that I never found because when I realized it wouldn't let me launch more than one instance of an application (a terminal, for example) without performing some ritual (I never found out how) I restored from backup as quickly as I could.
OMG...thank God I never even tried it...I can't believe they did that. That appears to be yet another case of Linux desktop environments imitating the worst features of Windows. If you assign a keyboard shortcut in windows to a program it behaves the same way..."I'm ignoring you because that program is already running". The only work around I've ever found in Windows is to have the keyboard command assigned to a shortcut that actually does "start [my_fucking_program_please]" which creates a disconnect that prevents that behavior.
Using fluxbox, I assign Ctrl-Alt-t to a urxvt terminal...period. If I have a terminal open and want to open another...I just hit Ctrl-Alt_t again and, just as God intended, it doesn't give a crap if I have one running already. When doing development stuff I'd bet I do that a hundred times in one day. Seriously...what are these people thinking?
I keep meaning to try xfce. I abandoned kde years ago (before kde 4 actually) on my Gentoo system in favor or a very minimalist setup with fluxbox. I've been fine with that, mainly because I do so much from the command line. I have hot keys enabled for the programs I use the most. From what I've heard/seen I'm guessing I'd like xfce.
Duh...that was supposed to say "20 minutes three times a week...it's not that easy :D
Exactly. As the GP says, there's certainly nothing wrong with any new information, but if you just bite the bullet and do what's needed (I personally think exercise is MUCH more important than diet), all the other stuff is pretty much moot. Another pet peeve of mine is that all the exercise information and advice out there is geared towards people that are obese...such as the recommendations to do hours and hours of aerobics. The fact is, if you're not trying to loose a lot of weight, excessive aerobics aren't a good idea. Twenty minutes of intense aerobics a week is plenty.
Get out there and run.
Amen. For a long time I used my Concept 2 indoor rower religiously...great workout that you can do year round. Lately I've been doing this: I hold a pair of 20 pound weights and step up to the second step of my basement stairs and then back down...switching which leg I lead with every 10 steps. Last count I was doing 460 of those in 20 minutes...the equivalent of carrying 40 pound up and down 76 flights in 20 minutes...that does the job!
Someone gave me a Troll modifier for this post...WTF??? Don't blame me if your laziness makes my post somehow sound insulting...jeezzz...
The news is way too full of all these studies etc that just seem to distract from the simple truth that you just plain must exercise...vigorously, and regularly...period. I'm so sick of everything I keep hearing...like all this new stuff about how horrific it is that I sit down at my job. Give me a break...and don't get me started about all these recommendations regarding walking. The main reason people have for not exercising it not having time, and walking...in addition to being neither a good cardie-vascular workout, or a good strength training workout...is the worst bang for your buck timewise. I have the aerobic fitness of someone 30 years younger than I...can do 100 pushups, and have about 10% body fat (at 58)...and I don't kill myself working out either...a total of about 5 hours a week...20 minutes of intense aerobics three times a week and extensive weight training twice a week.
Way, way too much bullshit getting thrown around...just do it!
I'd look at it exactly the opposite - people are defending it because they use it and know it's quirks, not because of the financial angle. I mean, any languag -- even Javascript -- becomes decent once you have written years of code in it. The underlying language may be crap, but it's what you make of it that matters.
Thanks you...exactly my point. You can write great code in just about any mature language if you understand it properly. There are many situations where PHP might be a bad choice depending on your needs, but to just write off a whole language and everything written in it simply because it's written in PHP or any other language is absurd and just plain silly.
It is the lang fault if easier to do wrong than right
Wow...no wonder you posted anonymously. This may be the single silliest thing I've ever read here or anywhere. So other high level languages make it difficult to "do wrong" if you don't have a clue what the fuck you're doing???
Yea, this PHP bashing here gets really old. Sure, the fact that it's a high level language attracts some clueless programmers that write bad code, but that's not the languages fault. I happen to be in a position right now where I do most of my coding in PHP. There are in fact things about it that drive me crazy, but the fact is that you can write great stuff with PHP and you can do it very quickly. As far as this exploit goes, who actually uses PHP in cgi mode rather than as an Apache module?
Oh yea, I absolutely agree. Other than the editorials the WSJ has always been an example of great journalism...yet another reason why it's a shame that tabloid money allowed News Corp to buy it.
It kills me when I see a copy of one of the many despicable U.S. tabloids at someones house and they dismiss the fact that they bought at as "just for fun", or that they "don't take it seriously", or whatever excuse they have. Supporting bad shit with your money is not a victimless crime. It's that mentality that led to Rupert Murdoch owning the fucking Wall Street Journal.
Back before USB flash drives were widely and cheaply available, the only way to easily move around more than a few floppy's worth of data was the Zip drive.
100 MB was a lot back then. Even though the drive itself was not ubiquitous, the parallel port model could be easily transported, and it was supported on multiple operating systems.
Yup...there was a time when ZIP was about the best option available for moving anything of any size. I remember having to depend on a parallel port ZIP drive for that. Does anyone else remember the nightmare that was the parallel port Windows drivers for those things back in the Win NT days??...Good Lord. I remember that the OS would tell you that all your files had finished copying when they were still in some sort of buffer, and you'd have to wait just about forever until you could tell that the drive had actually stopped writing. Worse yet...and I had this happen more than once...if the disk actually encountered a problem during that time period you were totally SOL. As far as Windows was concerned the process was finished when it in fact wasn't and never would be, and it pretty much required physically powering off the box...oh yea...fun, fun, fun.
That's the one people should be the most concerned with. When I first started using NoScript, I was stunned at how many supposedly reputable sites were using javascript pulled from ten or twenty different unrelated sites. There's just NO good excuse for that at all.
Who else is somehow expecting to get that thing in a email from one of your less tech-savvy relatives...
How it jives.....
Nobody is forcing you to sign that contract.
Next.
In the case of netflix maybe you could in fact make that argument. But when it comes to arbitration agreements in general you can't get, for example, ANY cell phone, or ANY credit card without signing one...and if these things are allowed, that will eventually become the case with everything you purchase. So what then? Become Amish?
I was hoping someone would make that point. The dynamic range compession and limiting that's going on in recording studios today, in the days of vinyl, would have literally made the needle of your turn table jump out of the groove. It's just criminal...and short of going back to the original session and remastering it (NOT the original master, which is compressed to death), it can't be fixed.
Yup...and I can't for the life of me figure out how that jives with the 7 th Amendment: "In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law." Seems pretty clear to me.
I've always thought the whole issue is pretty clear. Internet voting can never be any more secure than it's weakest link...the end users browser/computer/device. In other words it can never be secure. As far as I'm concerned it's a total non-starter for this reason.
Does this risk change if you consider a sufficiently long period of time? Presumably for a given trip you spend more time intoxicated than you do checking or responding to a message on your phone.
+1.
You can stop using your phone after you kill a family of six. You can't stop being drunk.
FTFY
You need to be on your toes there - besides, parking lot accidents are paid for by YOU -- fault, in my experience is never assigned on private property or public parking lots. Tough beans, even if you were not at fault.
I can confirm that. I got broad sided in a supermarket parking lot some years ago by a guy in an SUV driving what seemed like 55 mph right though an intersection that had STOP painted on the pavement. The cop that arrived on the scene pointed out that, not only was that STOP on the pavement not a legal stop sign, the issues was moot, as the laws in general do NOT apply in parking lots. He could have been driving 100 mph. Ever since then I have an extra special disdain for anyone driving fast in parking lots...by which I mean that I get tempted to chase them down and beat the living shit out of them.
It's always been painfully obvious to me why any form of on-line voting is quite simply a non-starter: It can never be any more secure than the client...that is, the users device. In other words, it can never be trusted...period.