you have got to be kidding. file sharing is the greatest thing since sliced bread and floating soap. using it takes advantage of the massive connectivity now available without needing to host your crap on somebody else server's, effectively increasing the scale and ability of any user to disseminate their ideas and knowledge. it ensures that nobody need be held hostage to material and resources they might not have access to or want to compromise them with.
its the new USENET, only without the god-like whimsy of sysadmnins. I have a great deal of trouble beleiving you can see "no honestly persuasive case for" a system of file sharing that allows unfettered access to just about anything anyone might care to make available, without constraint and without fear of arbitrary caprice, TOS and the like.
what could be better? what could be more effective, more populist, more empowering, on the internet?
the IP issue seems to be a vanishingly small issue in the face of those benefits. let the poperty holders look to their wallets, and not to our hands- it has ben ever thus.
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hell no. very bright people get involved in this work, and in general, towers of all stripes are the wackiest, most interesting types around. just because someone works a trades job, do not assume he is stupid- rather, it is more often the other way around.
besides, think- he would be a [poor repo man if he didn't know his quarry, inside and out. stock quotes are probably the very tip of what he could know about you...
'freedom' is not the only issue here. just as proprietary businesses do not want anybody else to sleaze off of their hard work, so then do GPLers not wish that kiddies, scumballs, and lazy fuckheads take their work, and appropriate it for personal profit, when the spirit of invention and the pleasure of co-operation were what drove creation in the first place. most shitheads would take your work, turn it pink, and spend the rest of their lives lying and stealing to live off of your work. fuck that.
GPL is proprietory, in a sense; it preserves the intention of the original programmer, and allows a large group of people with better than average morals , breeding and manners to fight off the parasites of the world.
he is on probation, with credit for time served pursant to these conditions.
parole is something different entirely.
as far as it goes, Mitnick served something like six months in minimum, which *completed* his time in. if he violates probabtion, they take away his time served and plop him back in Lombardo.
Mitnick, who served nearly five years in prison, said probation officials have instructed him to find employment in a field totally unrelated to computers
ARRRRGH. He did not serve time! He spent 4-5 years detained without trial and severley limited access. heathen, shameless, incredible, makes me want to sign up with the local militia...
The worst part is this is common knowledge, easy basic stuff, *why* does CNN make basic, prejudiciary, slimy mistakes like this? the rest of the article is pretty on, but these little things!
Mitnick do not serve any time. he was *detained*, without trial, access to the courts and very limited counsel for almost four years. that alone is worthy of some enormous outrage; he was and remains a U.S. citizen.
Mitnick finally knuckled under and took his lumps without due process, or a 'speedy' trial, and gave up the right to seek redress. I might have too, after four years of treatment worthy of the very best tin-pot dictatorship. Anyway, he got 'time served'. he never went to prison for his crimes. it is in no way equivalent, morally, ethically, or legally.
Mitnick's just some guy, nothing super special, but it's his *heinous* treatment at the hands of the authorities that is and should be causing all the outrage.
Poop. Information is not qualifiable. entertainment has got nothing to do with it, and is, frankly, a sickening idea.
The Public Library, the original institution of the liberal democratic society, and you want it to be some packaged, marketed, targeted, "entertainment"?
great! let's get every little nimrod hooked on AOL and MSN right now, before it's too late!
Do you think the vast resources of the university research centers would be available if it weren't for the original template of freedom of information, the library?
Why in the name of all that's right and holy should the 'town library' have its hand's tied, its feet shackled, its mouth gagged, its eyes tied shut, because silly asses can't discern a moral truth and wish to confine hemselves in ignorance? save your community from the blind and righteous.
My dear old pop, who writes *nix even yet, has crates of these things courtesy of my dear old mum, who is an aoler and windows specialist.
He makes tibetan prayer wheels out of them, threading a couple dozen onto a dowel with bearing races so they spin freely. very cute little items. also extradinarily handy massage tools.
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you have got to be kidding. file sharing is the greatest thing since sliced bread and floating soap. using it takes advantage of the massive connectivity now available without needing to host your crap on somebody else server's, effectively increasing the scale and ability of any user to disseminate their ideas and knowledge. it ensures that nobody need be held hostage to material and resources they might not have access to or want to compromise them with.
its the new USENET, only without the god-like whimsy of sysadmnins. I have a great deal of trouble beleiving you can see "no honestly persuasive case for" a system of file sharing that allows unfettered access to just about anything anyone might care to make available, without constraint and without fear of arbitrary caprice, TOS and the like.
what could be better? what could be more effective, more populist, more empowering, on the internet?
the IP issue seems to be a vanishingly small issue in the face of those benefits. let the poperty holders look to their wallets, and not to our hands- it has ben ever thus.
hell no. very bright people get involved in this work, and in general, towers of all stripes are the wackiest, most interesting types around. just because someone works a trades job, do not assume he is stupid- rather, it is more often the other way around.
besides, think- he would be a [poor repo man if he didn't know his quarry, inside and out. stock quotes are probably the very tip of what he could know about you...
'freedom' is not the only issue here. just as proprietary businesses do not want anybody else to sleaze off of their hard work, so then do GPLers not wish that kiddies, scumballs, and lazy fuckheads take their work, and appropriate it for personal profit, when the spirit of invention and the pleasure of co-operation were what drove creation in the first place. most shitheads would take your work, turn it pink, and spend the rest of their lives lying and stealing to live off of your work. fuck that.
GPL is proprietory, in a sense; it preserves the intention of the original programmer, and allows a large group of people with better than average morals , breeding and manners to fight off the parasites of the world.
MITNICK IS NOT ON PAROLE!
he is on probation, with credit for time served pursant to these conditions.
parole is something different entirely.
as far as it goes, Mitnick served something like six months in minimum, which *completed* his time in. if he violates probabtion, they take away his time served and plop him back in Lombardo.
Mitnick, who served nearly five years in prison, said probation officials have instructed
him to find employment in a field totally unrelated to computers
ARRRRGH. He did not serve time! He spent 4-5 years detained without trial and severley limited access. heathen, shameless, incredible, makes me want to sign up with the local militia...
The worst part is this is common knowledge, easy basic stuff, *why* does CNN make basic, prejudiciary, slimy mistakes like this? the rest of the article is pretty on, but these little things!
ooo... *bad* man, mommy...
Mitnick do not serve any time. he was *detained*, without trial, access to the courts and very limited counsel for almost four years. that alone is worthy of some enormous outrage; he was and remains a U.S. citizen.
Mitnick finally knuckled under and took his lumps without due process, or a 'speedy' trial, and gave up the right to seek redress. I might have too, after four years of treatment worthy of the very best tin-pot dictatorship. Anyway, he got 'time served'. he never went to prison for his crimes. it is in no way equivalent, morally, ethically, or legally.
Mitnick's just some guy, nothing super special, but it's his *heinous* treatment at the hands of the authorities that is and should be causing all the outrage.
Carl
Poop. Information is not qualifiable. entertainment has got nothing to do with it, and is, frankly, a sickening idea.
The Public Library, the original institution of the liberal democratic society, and you want it to be some packaged, marketed, targeted, "entertainment"?
great! let's get every little nimrod hooked on AOL and MSN right now, before it's too late!
Do you think the vast resources of the university research centers would be available if it weren't for the original template of freedom of information, the library?
Why in the name of all that's right and holy should the 'town library' have its hand's tied, its feet shackled, its mouth gagged, its eyes tied shut, because silly asses can't discern a moral truth and wish to confine hemselves in ignorance? save your community from the blind and righteous.
My dear old pop, who writes *nix even yet, has crates of these things courtesy of my dear old mum, who is an aoler and windows specialist.
He makes tibetan prayer wheels out of them, threading a couple dozen onto a dowel with bearing races so they spin freely. very cute little items. also extradinarily handy massage tools.
Carl