If I was the photographer I would be on the phone firstly to the NPG thanking them for instigating yet another example of the Streisand effect and secondly to the Wiki uploader thanking him for giving them the opportunity to do so.
Perhaps it's a ploy to get more people interested in the pictures thus generating more footfalls in the gallaery and more commissions for the photographer. I know I'm living in a dream world here but wouldn't it be great if an old institution AND a purveyor of a traditional art medium both suddenly GOT the internet and how to use it as a medium of both distribution and publicity?
The juror is a middle-aged small-C Conservative who takes his civic obligations seriously and has come to do a job.
He is in many ways the mirror image of the judge.
He is not your comrade-in-arms.
The geek never quite grasps what the black American through most of our history learned from birth:
Jury Nullification cuts both ways.
It can send an innocent man to the gallows. It can free the KKK to kill again.
Capturing the color, detail and texture of a great painting is a difficult problem in both aesthetics and technology.
It is not point-and-click photography.
If you want to use these images the ethical thing to do is to ask for permission and credit them properly.
It is not unethical to ask for payment in return.
Was that a poem or were you trying to make a point?
You got it. The OP was right they don't give a fuck about security, what they give a fuck about is profits and a hullabaloo about folk losing cash as a result of compromised machines WILL effect their bottom line so each and every comment makes a difference. However it doesn't change the system that rewards secrecy over competence.
I know you were joking but the awful truth is that when the politicians really are corrupt and they are bouncing off the walls in excitement over deploying military hardware against the electorate then neither they nor the Police are likely to be breaking any laws. Because they will be the law. Cue accusations of overblown paranoia . . . but the surveillance used now against private citizens isn't far away from that envisaged by Orwell . . .
Well Blue Thunder was an ostensibly civilian undertaking which sort of suggests you agree with the quoted sentiment:
The camera is an example of technology developed for and used by the military making a transition to civilian applications
I disagree however. Once government's start using military surveillance techniques on it's citizenry they are no longer a civilian government's but precursors to a police state. And the guys excited about it . . . I'm not sure whether thats scary or disgusting!
You don't want to trust Onion's news Crew Escape System, it's probably a hatch to infinity. Don't they know it's a satirical magazine and not a space exploration tech company?
that a repeated sequence of "u" after "memory of the independence day"...... makes no sense from any point of view.
memory of the independence day UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU mofo for even thinking about reminding me of that film
memory of the independence day UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU lost
memory of the independence day UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU won
memory of the independence day UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU can have a statue
memory of the independence day UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU must be joking, I was pissed as a newt!
memory of the independence day UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU look cute as a panda
This is a legacy of the old state run monopoly system. Companies like British Telecom, British Gas etc have a strong hold on the public imagination so despite consistently performing worse and charging more they still hold sway over more dynamic, newer companies who struggle against their entrenched power. The watchdog system that was put in place after the monopolies were sold off is supposed to maintain the balance but struggles in the face of corporate lobbying . . .
better than not having one . . . the information coming out of both of those countries is vastly more than before the internet. Granted it is not about to contribute to the overthrow of their respective governments but it has helped mobilise the opposition.
If I download an.flv and play it in mplayer the problems disappear.
Well what I do is start the stream and then pause it. Go to the dir where firefox saves its current streamed content (/tmp) and play the stream in mplayer there. Works perfectly even as the file is streaming . . . no jumps, no jitters, no CPU overload.
Ok, well your first example is a work of satirical fiction. Granted there is something to be learntt from it but it is not a case in point. Your second example, though genuine, did not happen in a world where the internet abounds. This discussion has come about precisely because the internet has changed the game, precisely because the power that governments and corporations have over us is dwindling, and ACTA is an example of a panicked and defeated response to a society which is leaving the traditional power brokers behind.
Freedom can only be obtained and maintained with vigilance.
Agreed. I'm not arguing against vigilance. I'm simply pointing out something which to me is a matter of fact. I have nothing against those who want to organise petitions and demonstrations, who write to their representatives, who post on slashdot etc., all with the aim of eroding apparently draconian intellectual property laws. But I think these laws will die anyway.
Go and fight the fight and sleep better for it, it's just that from where I stand society will progress despite the laws and despite the demonstartions because both are being undertaken by a minority whilst the rest of us already embody the changing attitudes which the power of the internet and technology in general have facilitated.
Am I the only one who thinks the war is already won? You can not put the majority of a country's population in jail. The culture of the internet has already changed the game and no matter how many laws are passed, lawsuits are won, technology and attitudes are already ahead of those that seek to put the genie back in the bottle.
This just smacks of desperation. The powerful seem to be busy enacting policies which they hope will change attitudes whilst the rest of us are busy ignoring them and getting on with our lives.
It's a shame how foolish and ignorant his remarks are.
Indeed, when I start treating game changing technologies with contempt whilst harking back to the good ole days could someone please call the men in white. They have permission to strap me down good and hard.
I'm not sure that sounded quite how it was supposed to . . .
I thought you were proposing some new installation art. Big, fluffy backslashes shrewdly placed next to global landmarks to signify the growing dominance of technology over world culture.
A bit passe to reply to your own posts but the mod is right. I started out writing a side splitter but the beer decided that it should turn into a troll post. Pints and posting do not mix! Buenas noches;)
Well Google is a synonym for Beta so no surprise here then . . . well actually the surprise is that they are restricting the pleasure of betaness to a selected few rather than their usual approach of using the great unwashed duped into the 'not evil' mantra . . .
. . . and the job of those who oversee and regulate these things is to prevent abuse
Actually not. The office responsible for overseeing MP's expense claims actually saw it as their job to ensure that Members maximised their income within the stated rules. Most of what has happened happened under advice from the guards - they were guarding MP's interests not those of the taxpayer.
The exact reverse can be argued. Due to the empowerment the internet has given to Joe Public, the enabling technologies which continue to come to market and the explosion in independent self expression Governments around the world are panicking into passing legislation which they hope will get the Genie back in the bottle. But frankly, they're pissing in the wind. Human ingenuity will win out over the nay sayers maybe for the first time in history because the development of tools is in OUR hands and the infrastructure is essentially beyond the control of individual governments.
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If I was the photographer I would be on the phone firstly to the NPG thanking them for instigating yet another example of the Streisand effect and secondly to the Wiki uploader thanking him for giving them the opportunity to do so.
Perhaps it's a ploy to get more people interested in the pictures thus generating more footfalls in the gallaery and more commissions for the photographer. I know I'm living in a dream world here but wouldn't it be great if an old institution AND a purveyor of a traditional art medium both suddenly GOT the internet and how to use it as a medium of both distribution and publicity?
The juror is a middle-aged small-C Conservative who takes his civic obligations seriously and has come to do a job.
He is in many ways the mirror image of the judge.
He is not your comrade-in-arms.
The geek never quite grasps what the black American through most of our history learned from birth:
Jury Nullification cuts both ways.
It can send an innocent man to the gallows. It can free the KKK to kill again.
Capturing the color, detail and texture of a great painting is a difficult problem in both aesthetics and technology.
It is not point-and-click photography.
If you want to use these images the ethical thing to do is to ask for permission and credit them properly.
It is not unethical to ask for payment in return.
Was that a poem or were you trying to make a point?
and then sell those drives all over the world.
. . . which would immediately break the not-for-profit stipulation . . .
You got it. The OP was right they don't give a fuck about security, what they give a fuck about is profits and a hullabaloo about folk losing cash as a result of compromised machines WILL effect their bottom line so each and every comment makes a difference. However it doesn't change the system that rewards secrecy over competence.
I know you were joking but the awful truth is that when the politicians really are corrupt and they are bouncing off the walls in excitement over deploying military hardware against the electorate then neither they nor the Police are likely to be breaking any laws. Because they will be the law. Cue accusations of overblown paranoia . . . but the surveillance used now against private citizens isn't far away from that envisaged by Orwell . . .
The camera is an example of technology developed for and used by the military making a transition to civilian applications
I disagree however. Once government's start using military surveillance techniques on it's citizenry they are no longer a civilian government's but precursors to a police state. And the guys excited about it . . . I'm not sure whether thats scary or disgusting!
You don't want to trust Onion's news Crew Escape System, it's probably a hatch to infinity. Don't they know it's a satirical magazine and not a space exploration tech company?
that a repeated sequence of "u" after "memory of the independence day" ...... makes no sense from any point of view.
memory of the independence day UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU mofo for even thinking about reminding me of that film
memory of the independence day UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU lost
memory of the independence day UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU won
memory of the independence day UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU can have a statue
memory of the independence day UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU must be joking, I was pissed as a newt!
memory of the independence day UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU look cute as a panda
well, maybe not the last one . . .
You're saying "it was virtually indistinguisable from our usual company its PowerPoint template" like it's English
they are still the biggest ISP in the UK
This is a legacy of the old state run monopoly system. Companies like British Telecom, British Gas etc have a strong hold on the public imagination so despite consistently performing worse and charging more they still hold sway over more dynamic, newer companies who struggle against their entrenched power. The watchdog system that was put in place after the monopolies were sold off is supposed to maintain the balance but struggles in the face of corporate lobbying . . .
That's because knowing the number of characters in a password greatly eases the password guessing.
Which is why, when I see those pesky dots, I tend to leave the password blank. You're not cathching me out that easily . . .
"Who is The Journal Of Quantum Physics going to believe?"
God?
And this is not off-topic, spiritual and religious issues form the bedrock of any consistant view of plagiarism. And copyright. And football.
they do now ;)
. . . and turn off all sorts of little visual effects that I've never noticed.
You turn off things you haven't noticed!? Thats some Luddite intuition you have going there!
better than not having one . . . the information coming out of both of those countries is vastly more than before the internet. Granted it is not about to contribute to the overthrow of their respective governments but it has helped mobilise the opposition.
If I download an .flv and play it in mplayer the problems disappear.
Well what I do is start the stream and then pause it. Go to the dir where firefox saves its current streamed content (/tmp) and play the stream in mplayer there. Works perfectly even as the file is streaming . . . no jumps, no jitters, no CPU overload.
Ok, well your first example is a work of satirical fiction. Granted there is something to be learntt from it but it is not a case in point. Your second example, though genuine, did not happen in a world where the internet abounds. This discussion has come about precisely because the internet has changed the game, precisely because the power that governments and corporations have over us is dwindling, and ACTA is an example of a panicked and defeated response to a society which is leaving the traditional power brokers behind.
Freedom can only be obtained and maintained with vigilance.
Agreed. I'm not arguing against vigilance. I'm simply pointing out something which to me is a matter of fact. I have nothing against those who want to organise petitions and demonstrations, who write to their representatives, who post on slashdot etc., all with the aim of eroding apparently draconian intellectual property laws. But I think these laws will die anyway.
Go and fight the fight and sleep better for it, it's just that from where I stand society will progress despite the laws and despite the demonstartions because both are being undertaken by a minority whilst the rest of us already embody the changing attitudes which the power of the internet and technology in general have facilitated.
This is a major campaign in the war on the future
Am I the only one who thinks the war is already won? You can not put the majority of a country's population in jail. The culture of the internet has already changed the game and no matter how many laws are passed, lawsuits are won, technology and attitudes are already ahead of those that seek to put the genie back in the bottle.
This just smacks of desperation. The powerful seem to be busy enacting policies which they hope will change attitudes whilst the rest of us are busy ignoring them and getting on with our lives.
It's a shame how foolish and ignorant his remarks are.
Indeed, when I start treating game changing technologies with contempt whilst harking back to the good ole days could someone please call the men in white. They have permission to strap me down good and hard.
I'm not sure that sounded quite how it was supposed to . . .
I read: Re:Wow, worldwide backslashes.
I thought you were proposing some new installation art. Big, fluffy backslashes shrewdly placed next to global landmarks to signify the growing dominance of technology over world culture.
A bit passe to reply to your own posts but the mod is right. I started out writing a side splitter but the beer decided that it should turn into a troll post. Pints and posting do not mix! Buenas noches ;)
Well Google is a synonym for Beta so no surprise here then . . . well actually the surprise is that they are restricting the pleasure of betaness to a selected few rather than their usual approach of using the great unwashed duped into the 'not evil' mantra . . .
. . . and the job of those who oversee and regulate these things is to prevent abuse
Actually not. The office responsible for overseeing MP's expense claims actually saw it as their job to ensure that Members maximised their income within the stated rules. Most of what has happened happened under advice from the guards - they were guarding MP's interests not those of the taxpayer.
The golden era is over. We're all doomed.
The exact reverse can be argued. Due to the empowerment the internet has given to Joe Public, the enabling technologies which continue to come to market and the explosion in independent self expression Governments around the world are panicking into passing legislation which they hope will get the Genie back in the bottle. But frankly, they're pissing in the wind. Human ingenuity will win out over the nay sayers maybe for the first time in history because the development of tools is in OUR hands and the infrastructure is essentially beyond the control of individual governments.