Patented in Great Britain, Germany, France and other Countries. This record is sold upon the condition that it shall not be re-sold to or by any unauthorized dealer or used for duplication, and that it shall not be sold, or offered for sale, by the original, or any subsequent purchaser (except by authorized jobber or factor to an authorized retail dealer) for less than 35 cents in the United States, nor in other countries for less than the price given in the current Edison catalogues of the country in which it is sold. Upon any breach of this condition, the license to use and vend this record, implied from such sale, immediately terminates.
Well, technically it's under the CeCILL license, which is GPL compatible. I am glad you brought it up because until now I thought they were still under that annoying semi-free non-commercial-only license.
Any implementation is a compromise between security and convenience. In general, more security leads to less convenience and vice-versa, with diminishing returns on both ends.
With no security and absolute convenience, you have a machine that requires no log in (no passwords or permissions) and are easily accessible from anywhere in the world. At the other end with absolute security and no convenience, the machine is so locked down that no one is capable of using it. Real implementations are somewhere in the middle.
So more security isn't always desired. Adding more locks to your front door will make entering/exiting your home much more time-consuming, but won't be much more effective at keeping out burglars as long as you still have glass windows.
One project that really seems like it is going in the right direction is Ditz, a decentralized issue tracker. Now that decentralized version control is becoming popular, there are a handful of decentralized issue trackers being built (other are cil, git-issues, and others whose names escape me). None seem to be very usable yet, and all are experimenting on what works best.
If you are looking for some kind of git-like breakthrough in bug tracking, that's where I would look.
Just nitpicking something here. For that to be true, there has to be at least one truth that is absolute (your statement), which would make the statement wrong. It's a contradiction.
Just don't directly follow any results. The site you go to gets to see that you did a search for a 9 digit number, what the number was, and because you connected they also have your IP address. An SSN tied to an IP address: that's only ~63 bits of info but can tell them a lot.
Look at his post history. It looks like he was cryogenically frozen 10 years ago... during the Clinton administration. He must have been re-animated for the Obama administration, which was just in time to make this post. Therefore he has no idea what happened during the last 8 years.
Of course, given the option I would cryogenically freeze myself during Republican administrations too. A wise move on his part.
The Continuum is a river whose current flows from those who want to those who have. According to this concept, there is a finite amount of wealth and goods in the universe, and any goods taken from one part of the "river" must be appropriately replaced or paid for by other methods. Thus, one must be sufficiently knowledgeable of the wants and needs of others to properly conduct business; a Ferengi sufficiently skilled at navigating this continuum will certainly prosper and amass great wealth and power.
I think you completely misunderstand how all this software gets developed. There isn't some big company that makes all the software you find in a single distribution.
i'm sick of reading news or blog articles on sites like autoblog.com which refer to YouTube videos that have been removed.
For about the past month, I have noticed that YouTube has really begun dying. Too many big players have a stranglehold on it and it has really started to suck all around. Just like you, I keep running into removed videos embedded/linked from blogs. The annoying advertising has ramped up. YouTube started playing commercials mid-video. It works by locking up the flash player and forcing a commercial to play through before it unlocks.
It might be time to pull all my videos from YouTube and stop using my account. However, I don't know of any decent alternatives right now. Something decentralized would be really nice, like some system built on top of, say, Freenet (ignoring the large barrier to entry for normal people, and the slow speed). Then it would be out of control of anyone. For now we just need something small enough so it doesn't get enough attention to suffer, like YouTube of old times.
To help deal with some of the suckage, I almost exclusively use youtube-dl to access YouTube, which simply downloads a copy of the video. No ads (ads are all done by the Flash player) and I have my own downloaded copy, which YouTube can't arbitrarily remove at some point in the future.
But why invest in all that bandwidth and hosting when there's a free, available, willing, and WILDLY POPULAR alternative already here?
Because the cost-free alternative that is YouTube doesn't permit downloading of videos, or any use of them beyond streaming from YouTube. From the YouTube TOS,
the data is intended for real-time viewing and not intended to be copied, stored, permanently downloaded, or redistributed by the user. Accessing User Videos for any purpose or in any manner other than Streaming is expressly prohibited.
This makes the exclusive use of YouTube for official government videos inappropriate. If they don't want to set up something themselves, they could, say, let the Internet Archive host downloadable video files (and they would be mirrored lots of places, like on Wikipedia). Remember these videos are in the public domain so we have the rights to use these videos however we wish. Distributing them only through YouTube adds restriction to its use.
This applies to all those congresspeople that are using YouTube too.
On top of that, the first Britannica article I looked at had all kinds of errors. There are grammar errors, like an capitalized sentence. And factual errors, for example,
Three other "pillars of wisdom" are: not to use copyrighted material, [...]
Uh, wrong! It is only to use free content, which almost always is under copyright.
Britannica has no redeeming features compared to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not only cost-free but also speech-free, which is a major plus. Wikipedia articles are at least as accurate, more detailed, and more plentiful. The Britannica website is an unusable, worthless mess of an interface that gets in your away at every step: completely unpleasant to use. Britannica is a dinosaur that will soon become extinct.
Also, Britannica's servers keep going down today because a few extra people are looking at them. Pathetic. Britannica articles have no business returning as Google search results at all.
"A great read. Captivating. I couldn't put it down."
"The book reads like a journey through the human soul with no signposts along the way. To stay on the path requires firm reason, so we think, but when the signs fall down, only faith guides the reader's way. Corporation well understood the limitations of reason as an infallible guide in maintaining our faith in humanity."
"I took a class in statistics in college. I used this book to help me select random phone numbers for a poll I was conducting for my class project. One of those phone calls was answered by the woman who is now my wife. We've been happily married for ten years! Thank you, RAND."
Some of RAND's competitors might have paid for negative reviews,
"A strictly "by the numbers," formula-driven plot spoiled the ending, which was, nevertheless, difficult to predict by my calculations. The characterization was singularly type cast and the theme repetitive. You can safely skip this radical arctangent from scientific literature."
"While the printed version is good, I would have expected the publisher to have an audiobook version as well."
I have had to babysit Comcast installations on three occasions in three different states (CT, PA, MD). Never have they shown up on time. Talk about terrible service. The first time, the cable guy showed up about 5 hours late, the second time was a no show and had to reschedule (then someone else babysat), and the third time they were 2 hours late. It is extremely frustrating and time-wasting.
Twice they have accidentally cut off my Internet connection their end. The first time they spent a month telling me it was my problem before they discovered their error. The second time I was a bit more pushy, so the problem only lasted three days until they fixed their problem.
I won't even go into their ridiculous prices on top of no competition.
For what it's worth, I think it's a pretty sad reflection on the Slashdot community that a post citing numerous specific cases where Windows might be considered superior to Linux has got hit with enough troll mods to make it disappear for most people
That's because the GP has no idea what he's talking about and most likely is a troll, as indicated by the copy-paste style, mostly out-of-date post. And there is no way he can actually be serious. DOS edit better than vi (or any sort of text editing from Microsoft)? A choice of desktop environments on Windows? And he never heard of X forwarding? It's best to not feed the trolls.
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Pssssst. This is a secret. When John Glenn returns from space, everybody dress in Ape Suits. Pass it on.
You swim to move in zero g right?
I hear, due to the vacuum of space, you have to hold your breath too.
EULAs are even older than that. Edison put a EULA on his phonograph records all the way back in the 19th century.
Patented in Great Britain, Germany, France and other Countries. This record is sold upon the condition that it shall not be re-sold to or by any unauthorized dealer or used for duplication, and that it shall not be sold, or offered for sale, by the original, or any subsequent purchaser (except by authorized jobber or factor to an authorized retail dealer) for less than 35 cents in the United States, nor in other countries for less than the price given in the current Edison catalogues of the country in which it is sold. Upon any breach of this condition, the license to use and vend this record, implied from such sale, immediately terminates.
Edison was a freaking dick.
People, on the whole, want to do the right thing
You assume not downloading music in the first place is the "right thing".
Eh, I have found it to be horrendesly slow and quite unreliable, as the files I put in frequently come back out differently.
Well, technically it's under the CeCILL license, which is GPL compatible. I am glad you brought it up because until now I thought they were still under that annoying semi-free non-commercial-only license.
Nobody would want less security.
Two words: diminishing returns.
Any implementation is a compromise between security and convenience. In general, more security leads to less convenience and vice-versa, with diminishing returns on both ends.
With no security and absolute convenience, you have a machine that requires no log in (no passwords or permissions) and are easily accessible from anywhere in the world. At the other end with absolute security and no convenience, the machine is so locked down that no one is capable of using it. Real implementations are somewhere in the middle.
So more security isn't always desired. Adding more locks to your front door will make entering/exiting your home much more time-consuming, but won't be much more effective at keeping out burglars as long as you still have glass windows.
One project that really seems like it is going in the right direction is Ditz, a decentralized issue tracker. Now that decentralized version control is becoming popular, there are a handful of decentralized issue trackers being built (other are cil, git-issues, and others whose names escape me). None seem to be very usable yet, and all are experimenting on what works best.
If you are looking for some kind of git-like breakthrough in bug tracking, that's where I would look.
nothing is absolute
Just nitpicking something here. For that to be true, there has to be at least one truth that is absolute (your statement), which would make the statement wrong. It's a contradiction.
Just don't directly follow any results. The site you go to gets to see that you did a search for a 9 digit number, what the number was, and because you connected they also have your IP address. An SSN tied to an IP address: that's only ~63 bits of info but can tell them a lot.
Look at his post history. It looks like he was cryogenically frozen 10 years ago ... during the Clinton administration. He must have been re-animated for the Obama administration, which was just in time to make this post. Therefore he has no idea what happened during the last 8 years.
Of course, given the option I would cryogenically freeze myself during Republican administrations too. A wise move on his part.
The Continuum is a river whose current flows from those who want to those who have. According to this concept, there is a finite amount of wealth and goods in the universe, and any goods taken from one part of the "river" must be appropriately replaced or paid for by other methods. Thus, one must be sufficiently knowledgeable of the wants and needs of others to properly conduct business; a Ferengi sufficiently skilled at navigating this continuum will certainly prosper and amass great wealth and power.
I think you completely misunderstand how all this software gets developed. There isn't some big company that makes all the software you find in a single distribution.
i'm sick of reading news or blog articles on sites like autoblog.com which refer to YouTube videos that have been removed.
For about the past month, I have noticed that YouTube has really begun dying. Too many big players have a stranglehold on it and it has really started to suck all around. Just like you, I keep running into removed videos embedded/linked from blogs. The annoying advertising has ramped up. YouTube started playing commercials mid-video. It works by locking up the flash player and forcing a commercial to play through before it unlocks.
It might be time to pull all my videos from YouTube and stop using my account. However, I don't know of any decent alternatives right now. Something decentralized would be really nice, like some system built on top of, say, Freenet (ignoring the large barrier to entry for normal people, and the slow speed). Then it would be out of control of anyone. For now we just need something small enough so it doesn't get enough attention to suffer, like YouTube of old times.
To help deal with some of the suckage, I almost exclusively use youtube-dl to access YouTube, which simply downloads a copy of the video. No ads (ads are all done by the Flash player) and I have my own downloaded copy, which YouTube can't arbitrarily remove at some point in the future.
But why invest in all that bandwidth and hosting when there's a free, available, willing, and WILDLY POPULAR alternative already here?
Because the cost-free alternative that is YouTube doesn't permit downloading of videos, or any use of them beyond streaming from YouTube. From the YouTube TOS,
the data is intended for real-time viewing and not intended to be copied, stored, permanently downloaded, or redistributed by the user. Accessing User Videos for any purpose or in any manner other than Streaming is expressly prohibited.
This makes the exclusive use of YouTube for official government videos inappropriate. If they don't want to set up something themselves, they could, say, let the Internet Archive host downloadable video files (and they would be mirrored lots of places, like on Wikipedia). Remember these videos are in the public domain so we have the rights to use these videos however we wish. Distributing them only through YouTube adds restriction to its use.
This applies to all those congresspeople that are using YouTube too.
On top of that, the first Britannica article I looked at had all kinds of errors. There are grammar errors, like an capitalized sentence. And factual errors, for example,
Three other "pillars of wisdom" are: not to use copyrighted material, [...]
Uh, wrong! It is only to use free content, which almost always is under copyright.
Britannica has no redeeming features compared to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not only cost-free but also speech-free, which is a major plus. Wikipedia articles are at least as accurate, more detailed, and more plentiful. The Britannica website is an unusable, worthless mess of an interface that gets in your away at every step: completely unpleasant to use. Britannica is a dinosaur that will soon become extinct.
Also, Britannica's servers keep going down today because a few extra people are looking at them. Pathetic. Britannica articles have no business returning as Google search results at all.
It looks the like little extra attention they got brought down their servers a few minutes ago.
Wikipedia is better than Britannica in every single way! Really! I can't think of a single merit of Britannica.
Cheney being wheeled around in a wheel chair
I thought he looked like Mr. Potter, the richest and meanest man in town.
Who?
I think they need to investigate the reviews for A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates. I think RAND paid them off! Some examples,
"A great read. Captivating. I couldn't put it down."
"The book reads like a journey through the human soul with no signposts along the way. To stay on the path requires firm reason, so we think, but when the signs fall down, only faith guides the reader's way. Corporation well understood the limitations of reason as an infallible guide in maintaining our faith in humanity."
"I took a class in statistics in college. I used this book to help me select random phone numbers for a poll I was conducting for my class project. One of those phone calls was answered by the woman who is now my wife. We've been happily married for ten years! Thank you, RAND."
Some of RAND's competitors might have paid for negative reviews,
"A strictly "by the numbers," formula-driven plot spoiled the ending, which was, nevertheless, difficult to predict by my calculations. The characterization was singularly type cast and the theme repetitive. You can safely skip this radical arctangent from scientific literature."
"While the printed version is good, I would have expected the publisher to have an audiobook version as well."
Wow, I want to do that!
I have had to babysit Comcast installations on three occasions in three different states (CT, PA, MD). Never have they shown up on time. Talk about terrible service. The first time, the cable guy showed up about 5 hours late, the second time was a no show and had to reschedule (then someone else babysat), and the third time they were 2 hours late. It is extremely frustrating and time-wasting.
Twice they have accidentally cut off my Internet connection their end. The first time they spent a month telling me it was my problem before they discovered their error. The second time I was a bit more pushy, so the problem only lasted three days until they fixed their problem.
I won't even go into their ridiculous prices on top of no competition.
Comcast is so shitty.
Wait, are you saying that Obama should create or save Jobs?
We can rebuild him. We have the technology.
For what it's worth, I think it's a pretty sad reflection on the Slashdot community that a post citing numerous specific cases where Windows might be considered superior to Linux has got hit with enough troll mods to make it disappear for most people
That's because the GP has no idea what he's talking about and most likely is a troll, as indicated by the copy-paste style, mostly out-of-date post. And there is no way he can actually be serious. DOS edit better than vi (or any sort of text editing from Microsoft)? A choice of desktop environments on Windows? And he never heard of X forwarding? It's best to not feed the trolls.
There's that word "heavy" again. Is there something wrong with the Earth's gravitational pull in the future?
Under normal conditions /dev/random would likely take decades, if not centuries, to do the wipe.