Nice post. And properly encapsulates my sentiment better than my flippant reply. And the clincher? Economics is
a branch of psychology.
That's it right there, the whole system is based on confidence, and not confidence in production or sales or sustainable growth but confidence in getting a return on your shares within the time you want to invest your capital. So long as shares pay a dividend or raise in value the economy is seen as 'good' even if it is actually going to the dogs . . .
I bloody hope so, any internet 'security' software which requires you to turn it off when you install software is a bit like a car's brakes which fail under load i.e. when they are required the most!
and I guess your sentiment will be echoed by a lot of people. All we can really do is let the industry die and THEN see if it is so valuable that it needs resurrecting. The fact that newspaper conglomerates keep harping on about how necessary they are for the proper functioning of democracy means nothing to me without evidence and I'm afraid the only evidence that counts is a failed industry followed by a failed democracy. I don't see the later happening any time soon (well no more than is already the case!).
GBP100 != USD200. Not for a few years, currently we're at GBP100 = USD165.020., that's a near 20 per cent difference . . . But price isn't the problem for me it's the fact that reading e-books doesn't offer me anything over reading normal books, except the added stress about carrying around a fragile electronic device rather than a cheap paper back! Techdirt has a nice write up about the lack of any 'social' aspect to the Kindle specifically which may be holding it back, ebook readers are not taking advantage of the growing penchant for mashups, sharing and interacting with our 'media'.
RIAA sister organizations around the world actually point to USA and screams "Be more like them!"
They can scream all they like they are still only a lobby group and as yet don't have the power to pass legislation in there home countries so the GP is right in pointing out the difference between US law and that in other countries. Suffice to say this may change in due course when Corporatism becomes so embedded globally that industry pressure groups are the dudes signing off on legislation . . . ho hum . . .
The story lacks any examples of what might constitute malicious abuse.
From TFA: "More recent complaints have been about secondary sites using Googles photos maliciously, such as for discrimination and bullying." Ok so no specific examples are given but I guess google isn't just reacting to hot air!
But the main point is the Google is responding to criticism of an invasion of privacy with a rather blatant attempt to redirect the arrow.
Well this is their second attempt at redirecting this particular arrow, the first resulted in them retaking 'numerous images about 16 inches lower than the original Street View picture height', which sounds rather bizarre!
Whatever they do 'shutting the barn door after the horse has bolted' springs to mind . . .
You guys are missing the point - when vandals want to vandalise they will, if they are middle class they will try and justify it under some 'flavour of the month' banner, such as the Earth Liberation Front. Whose earth? They ain't liberating MY earth because the one I live on has no relation to one where radio waves cause cancer . . . maybe I'm just hung up on evidence!
Well this story at least is about them getting a stay of execution, so they are indeed reaping what they sow (political/judicial power due to massive economic influence) but not in the way you suggest. Perhaps they will lose this case and have to pony up some dollar but if anyone thinks the sale of Word is going to be impeded for even a day then they are naive in the extreme.
So you swallow without concern the presumptions of an industry sponsored report yet you
don't buy for a second that people who claim to only use file-sharing apps for legitimate purposes
are actually telling the truth. Well I guess it's a good job you aren't doing any research as your objectivity is seriously askew!
Some presumptions you seem happy with:
Using file sharing software = knowlingly downloading copyrighted material
Abitrarily adjusting the reported 11.6% upwards to 16.3% because people lie when asked questions
Extrapolating from a survey of 1100 to make presumptions about a net-connected population of 40 million (despite the government's own figures suggesting only 33 million peope in the UK have access to the internet
Given that the industry in question has a poor track record in producing objective, fair analysis of the current crisis in their business model I find your naive acceptance of their publicity touching. From the article:
If the BPI-commissioned Jupiter research had used the Government's online population figures, the total number of file sharers would be 5.6m. If the researchers hadn't adjusted their figures upwards, the total number of file sharers would be only 3.9m - or just over half the figure being bandied about by the Government.
and a nice comment was left stating that it's good to see the governments target of reducing illegal filesharing by 60 per cent has almost been achieved - touche!
That's it - I run my own 'bedroom' server from consumer broadband which is ok for tinkering and trying out new things. A colleague did the same but got pissed with the slow download rates so leased a server from a commercial company. Nowhere did our discussions on the issue mention download caps as a problem, only speed. Speed, in case you missed it, is the new black!
OK well perhaps it would have been better if you linked to a more appropriate wikipedia article. You had two choices, the first lists only three definitions of the term Hacker:
Hacker (computer security), someone involved in computer security
Hacker (programmer subculture), a programmer subculture originating in the US academia in the 1960s, now primarily notable for its involvement in the free software/open source movement
Hacker (hobbyist), an enthusiastic home computer hobbyist
and the second is even more interesting, including the rather apt statement: "Today, mainstream usage mostly refers to computer criminals, due to the mass media usage of the word since the 1980s", which of course follows a potted history of hacker culture in the 60's!
Once such a usage becomes common there is no hope of reclaiming it.
I know, I know, but at least here! The last bastion of common sense! We should fight this tide of uninformed claptrap! Now . . . back to googling my coding issues!
you can publish it to cite later when someone else attempts to patent it.
In the UK to establish copyright you used to be able to send yourself a stamp addressed envelope containing the relevant work. So long as it remained unopened the postmark served as both a mark of authenticity and also as a timestamp.
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The funny/sad thing about this is that these are fairly technical people
so long as 'fairly technical' in this context means 'able to breath unaided'.
a branch of psychology.
That's it right there, the whole system is based on confidence, and not confidence in production or sales or sustainable growth but confidence in getting a return on your shares within the time you want to invest your capital. So long as shares pay a dividend or raise in value the economy is seen as 'good' even if it is actually going to the dogs . . .
you do know it has an "installation mode," right?
I bloody hope so, any internet 'security' software which requires you to turn it off when you install software is a bit like a car's brakes which fail under load i.e. when they are required the most!
Incorporating Human Behavior Into Wall Street Mathematical Models
What? Like morality?
Let me start by paying nothing for this one
and I guess your sentiment will be echoed by a lot of people. All we can really do is let the industry die and THEN see if it is so valuable that it needs resurrecting. The fact that newspaper conglomerates keep harping on about how necessary they are for the proper functioning of democracy means nothing to me without evidence and I'm afraid the only evidence that counts is a failed industry followed by a failed democracy. I don't see the later happening any time soon (well no more than is already the case!).
It makes philosophers really angry.
. . . and angry philosophers are waaay scary . . . especially dead greeks. Sorry, I mean, Greeks. You can't be too careful . . .
Couldn't they just locate some dev servers in India
We tried that but what we saved in development costs we lost extending all our cat5 . . .
Data center is about 21 minutes drive from my current location.
Is that with a following wind?
but do you really want to drive eight miles away to diagnose a potential hardware issue
I get around this by keeping the hardware close at hand but running my servers in VM's - where they reside is anyones guess!
~$200 may be low-end, but . . .
GBP100 != USD200. Not for a few years, currently we're at GBP100 = USD165.020., that's a near 20 per cent difference . . . But price isn't the problem for me it's the fact that reading e-books doesn't offer me anything over reading normal books, except the added stress about carrying around a fragile electronic device rather than a cheap paper back! Techdirt has a nice write up about the lack of any 'social' aspect to the Kindle specifically which may be holding it back, ebook readers are not taking advantage of the growing penchant for mashups, sharing and interacting with our 'media'.
RIAA sister organizations around the world actually point to USA and screams "Be more like them!"
They can scream all they like they are still only a lobby group and as yet don't have the power to pass legislation in there home countries so the GP is right in pointing out the difference between US law and that in other countries. Suffice to say this may change in due course when Corporatism becomes so embedded globally that industry pressure groups are the dudes signing off on legislation . . . ho hum . . .
Piracy is when you crank out a bunch of CDs and/or DVDs of copyrighted media when you don't own the copyright
Piracy is cutlasses, jolly rogers and murder on the high seas.
or does some asshole in a suit that can't make it in the real world get it?
The sad thing is he can make it in the real world and this fact alone is a damning indictment of the real world as is . . .
It also allows the attacker to do reconnaissance a lot less detectably a hold of time
You're at +3 Insightful so I guess this means something, but perhaps not in English . . .
Can Google be morally anything other than a search engine?
Now that's not a sentence you hear every day, care to explain what it means?
The story lacks any examples of what might constitute malicious abuse.
From TFA: "More recent complaints have been about secondary sites using Googles photos maliciously, such as for discrimination and bullying." Ok so no specific examples are given but I guess google isn't just reacting to hot air!
But the main point is the Google is responding to criticism of an invasion of privacy with a rather blatant attempt to redirect the arrow.
Well this is their second attempt at redirecting this particular arrow, the first resulted in them retaking 'numerous images about 16 inches lower than the original Street View picture height', which sounds rather bizarre!
Whatever they do 'shutting the barn door after the horse has bolted' springs to mind . . .
You guys are missing the point - when vandals want to vandalise they will, if they are middle class they will try and justify it under some 'flavour of the month' banner, such as the Earth Liberation Front. Whose earth? They ain't liberating MY earth because the one I live on has no relation to one where radio waves cause cancer . . . maybe I'm just hung up on evidence!
You can't just sit on your a** and give everyone the finger
Beg
to
differ,
twice,
three times and maybe even
four!
Well this story at least is about them getting a stay of execution, so they are indeed reaping what they sow (political/judicial power due to massive economic influence) but not in the way you suggest. Perhaps they will lose this case and have to pony up some dollar but if anyone thinks the sale of Word is going to be impeded for even a day then they are naive in the extreme.
Er now there's a surprise . . .
don't buy for a second that people who claim to only use file-sharing apps for legitimate purposes
are actually telling the truth. Well I guess it's a good job you aren't doing any research as your objectivity is seriously askew! Some presumptions you seem happy with:
Given that the industry in question has a poor track record in producing objective, fair analysis of the current crisis in their business model I find your naive acceptance of their publicity touching. From the article:
If the BPI-commissioned Jupiter research had used the Government's online population figures, the total number of file sharers would be 5.6m. If the researchers hadn't adjusted their figures upwards, the total number of file sharers would be only 3.9m - or just over half the figure being bandied about by the Government.
and a nice comment was left stating that it's good to see the governments target of reducing illegal filesharing by 60 per cent has almost been achieved - touche!
That's it - I run my own 'bedroom' server from consumer broadband which is ok for tinkering and trying out new things. A colleague did the same but got pissed with the slow download rates so leased a server from a commercial company. Nowhere did our discussions on the issue mention download caps as a problem, only speed. Speed, in case you missed it, is the new black!
and the second is even more interesting, including the rather apt statement: "Today, mainstream usage mostly refers to computer criminals, due to the mass media usage of the word since the 1980s", which of course follows a potted history of hacker culture in the 60's!
Once such a usage becomes common there is no hope of reclaiming it.
I know, I know, but at least here! The last bastion of common sense! We should fight this tide of uninformed claptrap! Now . . . back to googling my coding issues!
you can publish it to cite later when someone else attempts to patent it.
In the UK to establish copyright you used to be able to send yourself a stamp addressed envelope containing the relevant work. So long as it remained unopened the postmark served as both a mark of authenticity and also as a timestamp.
JUST PLANT TREES INSTEAD OF BURNING THEM
Ok already I heard ya, now just let me finish writing my rc.d script ('planttreeonboot') and I'll get my shovel outta the garage!