"Quite often, once they get their hands on a prerelease, they will use I.R.C. as the first distribution before it goes out into the wider Internet," Brad A. Buckles, the [RIAA]'s executive vice president for antipiracy efforts, said in a telephone interview.
One has to give the author credit for getting one thing right, though:
In some ways, the biggest problem is Microsoft Windows itself. Windows has holes that can allow a hacker to install almost anything on a computer that lacks a protective program or device called a firewall. Users' vulnerability can be compounded if they have not installed the latest patches from Microsoft.
I guess I need to work on a maniacal laugh or on holding my extended pinkie to the corner of my mouth. And there I thought I was just getting help with Gentoo and Fedora Core 2 Test 3...
What 'loser pays' does, is remove civil lawsuits as a remedy against corporations, since corporations can almost always afford to pay any sort of legal fees a citizen could amass, but a private citizen is rarely going to be able to afford the corporations legal fees if they lose the suit.
If the private citizen's claim is correct, then in theory he or she should win, and hence loser pays is not an impediment to justice. (If you believe that the US court system is such that you can get away with anything if you have sufficient money for high-powered lawyers, that's a separate problem needing to be solved.)
OTOH, I'd say that love that needs a symbol is already cheap.
I was unemployed when I got engaged, so N months' salary would've made a pretty poor showing. (Hey, wait...that means I spent infinitely many months' salary, right? Darn, I'm good!)
(In case you read this, dear... more than chocolate.)
His position was basically that it isn't immoral for you to watch DVDs on Linux, but it's wrong to circumvent an encryption without a license for the decryption software, since if you do it for benign reasons, anyone else can do it for copyright infringement. Now, you may disagree with him, but in what way is he clueless about his own position?
He's clueless about his own position because anything can be used for non-benign reasons. "Ugg oppose fire. You say you use fire to keep warm, cook food, but fire burn, hurt people." Closer to today, does Mr. Valenti think cars should be banned because bank robbers use them to make their getaway?
Throughout the interview, Valenti demonstrates his ignorance and misunderstanding of fair use.
He also displays his ignorance and misunderstanding of the US government and the principles on which it is based.
JV: Let's say there are a thousand. But there are 284 million people in this country. You can't have public policy that is aimed at 100,000 people when the other multi-multi-millions are also involved. You can't do it that way.
Exercise for Mr. Valenti: do a search for the phrase "tyranny of the majority."
There seems to be nothing like this [collection of templates] at all for scribus (in fact, by and large the range of templates available for OS office applications is pretty woeful).
I can't speak for Scribus, but when I grab a form from Office {Max, Depot}, I look for where it says "equivalent of Avery XXXX," head over to the Avery web site, click on the template for XXXX, and OO opens it quite nicely. (Of course, a version change in MS Word with associated format change for templates can trivially break this.)
Troi's character didn't grow? She certinaly wasn't the same "Captain I sense a strong life presense here... my god it's in pain! Horrible pain! Oh the pain!" piece of eyecandy in Season 7 that she was in Season 1.
Very true...OTOH, bringing in Guinan was a big mistake. As bartender, she took over a lot of the job that Troi was supposedly there to do.
I said that part of the war was securing access to their oil, which is true.
If access to oil were the important thing, the US could've made sweetheart deals with Hussein, as the French oil company TotalElfFina did, or gotten into the kickback deals on the so-called "Oil for Food" program. No muss, no fuss, no $87e9.
Don't you think there's a little something wrong with a programming language that a l337 d00d like yourself, after over a decade, can only use the majority of (which, for all we know, is 50% plus epsilon) safely, effectively, and efficiently?
Programming languages are tools, and as such should be well designed, letting the programmer concentrate on the problem at hand, instead of being the problem at hand. Perversely, a poorly-designed language makes its users feel superior--it's not the language's fault that all those other people are too stupid to use it, right?
Hmmm. Sounds like people need to make MP3 players more configurable--Python scripting would be nice--along with ways to sense the listener's mood and more metadata about the songs. Some things want to be shuffled, some don't. If you're an athelete, then you may want rousing songs when your heart rate is over 140; if you're a heart patient, you probably want something relaxing (and a call to the ambulance?) in that state.
Then, too, what some folks call "random," I call "eclectic"; I lament the loss of the days when I could listen to a fellow on KFMG who started one evening's show with "O Fortuna" followed by "Sombre Reptiles" (or whatever off-the-wall thing he played second). Death to playlists; up with choice and the chance to hear the unencumbered selections of people whose taste we trust.
Realistically, if we can not define the shape by placing it within a totally viewable package, it because useless to define it by something that we are unable to classify.
So, you're saying that an intelligent fish couldn't figure out the shape of the fishbowl it's in?
Never trust anyone who calls themselves the Enderle group.
On the contrary, it's eminently appropriate. Ask any mathematician: there's a unique (up to isomorphism) group with one element, called the trivial group.
What's special about TV that this argument should apply only to it--or are you arguing that people should be forced to buy CDs, DVDs, and magazines that they don't want for their own good, too?
Were you to ask my wife, she'd say she wishes my 3D world were a little more constrained:). A 3D environment that much like the real world will probably need a housekeeper daemon to keep things organized and available.
Exactly right. Eratosthenes was nicknamed "Beta" because he was supposedly always second best, but... the sieve of Eratosthenes remained the quickest way to find prime numbers for a long time and is still taught, and the story of how Eratosthenes figured out the circumference of the earth is still told. All we know about the jerks who gave him that nickname is that they were jerks.
...that the premise is so plausible. Government relentlessly seeks things it can tax so it can buy votes by promising people things the government can steal for them, and I can't help imagining some legislator seeing the thread and thinking "Yeah..."
Oh, and I don't know if you noticed, but the kind of people who shop at Wal-Mart are the dregs of society. It pulls in about the same clientele as strip clubs and pawn shops.
Had I not already posted in this topic, I'd mark your post as Funny. There's a certain irony in someone whose linked site advertises free pr0n complaining about the riff-raff who shop at Wal-Mart.
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"Quite often, once they get their hands on a prerelease, they will use I.R.C. as the first distribution before it goes out into the wider Internet," Brad A. Buckles, the [RIAA]'s executive vice president for antipiracy efforts, said in a telephone interview.
One has to give the author credit for getting one thing right, though:
In some ways, the biggest problem is Microsoft Windows itself. Windows has holes that can allow a hacker to install almost anything on a computer that lacks a protective program or device called a firewall. Users' vulnerability can be compounded if they have not installed the latest patches from Microsoft.
I guess I need to work on a maniacal laugh or on holding my extended pinkie to the corner of my mouth. And there I thought I was just getting help with Gentoo and Fedora Core 2 Test 3...
I bet they could animate a kick-posterior Grendel.
What 'loser pays' does, is remove civil lawsuits as a remedy against corporations, since corporations can almost always afford to pay any sort of legal fees a citizen could amass, but a private citizen is rarely going to be able to afford the corporations legal fees if they lose the suit.
If the private citizen's claim is correct, then in theory he or she should win, and hence loser pays is not an impediment to justice. (If you believe that the US court system is such that you can get away with anything if you have sufficient money for high-powered lawyers, that's a separate problem needing to be solved.)
OTOH, I'd say that love that needs a symbol is already cheap.
I was unemployed when I got engaged, so N months' salary would've made a pretty poor showing. (Hey, wait...that means I spent infinitely many months' salary, right? Darn, I'm good!)
(In case you read this, dear... more than chocolate.)
His position was basically that it isn't immoral for you to watch DVDs on Linux, but it's wrong to circumvent an encryption without a license for the decryption software, since if you do it for benign reasons, anyone else can do it for copyright infringement. Now, you may disagree with him, but in what way is he clueless about his own position?
He's clueless about his own position because anything can be used for non-benign reasons. "Ugg oppose fire. You say you use fire to keep warm, cook food, but fire burn, hurt people." Closer to today, does Mr. Valenti think cars should be banned because bank robbers use them to make their getaway?
Throughout the interview, Valenti demonstrates his ignorance and misunderstanding of fair use.
He also displays his ignorance and misunderstanding of the US government and the principles on which it is based.
JV: Let's say there are a thousand. But there are 284 million people in this country. You can't have public policy that is aimed at 100,000 people when the other multi-multi-millions are also involved. You can't do it that way.
Exercise for Mr. Valenti: do a search for the phrase "tyranny of the majority."
There seems to be nothing like this [collection of templates] at all for scribus (in fact, by and large the range of templates available for OS office applications is pretty woeful).
I can't speak for Scribus, but when I grab a form from Office {Max, Depot}, I look for where it says "equivalent of Avery XXXX," head over to the Avery web site, click on the template for XXXX, and OO opens it quite nicely. (Of course, a version change in MS Word with associated format change for templates can trivially break this.)
Ah...sort of an environmental Pascal's Wager, eh? Alas, like the original, it's broken, at least without a vastly less cavalier estimate of the costs.
Troi's character didn't grow? She certinaly wasn't the same "Captain I sense a strong life presense here... my god it's in pain! Horrible pain! Oh the pain!" piece of eyecandy in Season 7 that she was in Season 1.
Very true...OTOH, bringing in Guinan was a big mistake. As bartender, she took over a lot of the job that Troi was supposedly there to do.
Or you could just use Mplayer to view the files, like the population of Linux users with greater than half an ass for a brain.
I bet it works really well if he's running Linux on a PowerPC.
I said that part of the war was securing access to their oil, which is true.
If access to oil were the important thing, the US could've made sweetheart deals with Hussein, as the French oil company TotalElfFina did, or gotten into the kickback deals on the so-called "Oil for Food" program. No muss, no fuss, no $87e9.
No need. C# and Db are enharmonic, so they've already done it!
Don't you think there's a little something wrong with a programming language that a l337 d00d like yourself, after over a decade, can only use the majority of (which, for all we know, is 50% plus epsilon) safely, effectively, and efficiently?
Programming languages are tools, and as such should be well designed, letting the programmer concentrate on the problem at hand, instead of being the problem at hand. Perversely, a poorly-designed language makes its users feel superior--it's not the language's fault that all those other people are too stupid to use it, right?
Hmmm. Sounds like people need to make MP3 players more configurable--Python scripting would be nice--along with ways to sense the listener's mood and more metadata about the songs. Some things want to be shuffled, some don't. If you're an athelete, then you may want rousing songs when your heart rate is over 140; if you're a heart patient, you probably want something relaxing (and a call to the ambulance?) in that state.
Then, too, what some folks call "random," I call "eclectic"; I lament the loss of the days when I could listen to a fellow on KFMG who started one evening's show with "O Fortuna" followed by "Sombre Reptiles" (or whatever off-the-wall thing he played second). Death to playlists; up with choice and the chance to hear the unencumbered selections of people whose taste we trust.
Realistically, if we can not define the shape by placing it within a totally viewable package, it because useless to define it by something that we are unable to classify.
So, you're saying that an intelligent fish couldn't figure out the shape of the fishbowl it's in?
Never trust anyone who calls themselves the Enderle group.
On the contrary, it's eminently appropriate. Ask any mathematician: there's a unique (up to isomorphism) group with one element, called the trivial group.
What's special about TV that this argument should apply only to it--or are you arguing that people should be forced to buy CDs, DVDs, and magazines that they don't want for their own good, too?
Were you to ask my wife, she'd say she wishes my 3D world were a little more constrained :). A 3D environment that much like the real world will probably need a housekeeper daemon to keep things organized and available.
How about Lyrebird? No, wait, there's that database...
Anything else I am missing?
Wouldn't you also want to feed the messages to services that accumulate spam to aid in spam blocking, or try to determine the spammers' identities?
Exactly right. Eratosthenes was nicknamed "Beta" because he was supposedly always second best, but... the sieve of Eratosthenes remained the quickest way to find prime numbers for a long time and is still taught, and the story of how Eratosthenes figured out the circumference of the earth is still told. All we know about the jerks who gave him that nickname is that they were jerks.
I count Eratosthenes as among the first nerds.
How about just repealing the Sixteenth Amendment?
...that the premise is so plausible. Government relentlessly seeks things it can tax so it can buy votes by promising people things the government can steal for them, and I can't help imagining some legislator seeing the thread and thinking "Yeah..."
Oh, and I don't know if you noticed, but the kind of people who shop at Wal-Mart are the dregs of society. It pulls in about the same clientele as strip clubs and pawn shops.
Had I not already posted in this topic, I'd mark your post as Funny. There's a certain irony in someone whose linked site advertises free pr0n complaining about the riff-raff who shop at Wal-Mart.