When I can have a display with the kindle's quality and size, and also highlight/underline text and make annotations in the margins on the side, top, and bottom.... let me know. Until then, I will stick with my paper books.
My company has a simple solution to the virus issue though, If the network admin allows the cluster to get infected, we will gladly remove the infection, for a price.
I never got why the network admin is always blamed for stupid people doing stupid things.
history -c;shred ~/.bash_history;rm ~/.bash_history;
This is in a cron job that ones once a minute on my machine. It's so that all those pesky things I did yesterday don't come up in my tab-completion... or something like that.
Copyright exists to provide incentives to create works. That is all.
Thanks for that completely useless bit of trivia. In case you haven't noticed, no one interested in copyright gives a damn why copyright exists, but rather why it exists in its present construction and -- perhaps more importantly -- the implications of those reasons.
FTS: "Perhaps this is the corporate equivalent of joining the Pirate Party."
Sorry, but no. The pirate party is politically motivated. The motivations of ISPs are purely economic. People don't like the government spying on everything they do, so they will choose services that say "fuck you" to the gov. This is simple business decision making, and should be seen as nothing more or less. Should the government make these actions punishable by fines that exceed new revenues (or if the *AA found a way to create economic incentives,) ISPs would switch back in a heart beat.
1) Get a bunch of idiots who are all susceptible to the latest trend in whatever is marketed well enough.
2) Provide said idiots with a way to communicate thoughts that doesn't require thinking or processing what is being published for more than the key seconds it takes to type
3) Say OMGZVIUSSESandalsoPONIES
4) sell vaccine
5) ???
6) Profit!
Pretty soon, 8GB will be trivially cheap
I'd say it is already there at $20.00. I remember when a 32MB usb drive cost more than that (and I'm not at all old.)
This really is better than vista. It lets us seed our favorite flavors of Linux (And also copies of XP, just to add irony to injury) without clicking through Microsoft's bastardization of sudo.
I'm pretty sure that if you work at Microsoft and were capable of getting Vista running on a 400MHz ARM board with 64MB of RAM, they would either promote you to "Emperor of Microsoft" or bury you in a shallow grave outside of town.
Hence SD. You can get 8GB for like $20.00. That's enough data that you will want some of it before the whole thing fills up -- meaning you can delete what's already there and let it fill up again.
The question has to be asked: does medium matter? ie, why can the History channel portray these things but not game developers.
In most cases, the answer is no. Books vs. TV is really not that huge of a difference if you've got an author good at descriptive writing. However, in a video game, you are an active participant. You are doing things. And worse, when you finish doing that stuff, you just get up and go eat dinner/go to school/whatever.
I am of the opinion that games like this actually function to divorce us from taking any real action to prevent the events they portray. One of those things where you are trained again and again to look at an atrocity, recognize it is evil, and then go on with your life.
I am NOT saying that war is always evil (although I think most would agree it is -- even if it is a necessary evil), but rather that this specific medium used in this specific (real world) context trains us to divorce the substance of what is being viewed with the process of reaction.
Either does not exist, or has been taken over by the Chinese/Russians, or it has been slashdotted, or it runs on Windows.
It's all of the above. However, this is not a bad thing. Here's why:
1) the Russians and Chinese may have access to secrets vital to our national security, but we don't really need to worry because the Russians and Chinese are really only interested in supplementing their GDP with income from US military super-computer bot nets... this is a much more valuable industry than espionage.
2)Since its been slash dotted, we don't need to worry about the Russians and Chinese making money off of our hard-earned fat pipes.
3) Windows means that, when the paper work clears and the generals have OK'd something that they don't quite understand (this will happen in 10-15 years), we can simply email the Russian spy controlling the machine a.exe "pr0nz video!" and get control of our machine back -- thus declaring a victory in the war on Cyber-Terrorism (no, that doesn't mean you get your rights back.)
Because there is a widely proliferated (heh-heh) image that is more or less exactly what you describe. It was popular as a background on the "security" distributions. It's interesting that now I can't seem to find it.
In other news, there is also this -- which I have also seen many times.
-Requiring high altitudes for all planes, military or civilian, and producing auto-shoot auto-aim turrets around the ciy with no warning shots.
Pilot: Our engines are failing.
Co-Pilot: That's OK, we're near an airport, we can probably coast in just fi...
(BOOM)
- Include parashoots as standard emergency materials for skyscrapers?
No. As standard transportation for skyscrapers. This increases levels of safety, environmental cleanliness, and awesomeness.
("On my way home now honey, just let me take of my jacket and I'll jump out the window. Call you back when I land near the train station... or... you know... somewhere...")
Nope. Not unless the F-16s were shooting the 747 out of the air. And then I would just duck to avoid the debris.
In all seriousness, the F-16s and the lack of the rockets exploding into the back of the 747 is the best indicator that you could possibly hope for that a commercial airliner is not a threat.
If you find yourself writing something on/. and suddenly think "this is such a good idea I should copyright it," you should probably stop writing, collect your thoughts, and put your effort towards articulating that idea into a piece that can be critiqued in depth and seriously. You know, as opposed to posting it and waiting to see what the karma-seekers have to say about it.
To generalize: no, I don't think every little tiny thing you write should be copyrightable. Because I think that you should be writing for more altruistic reasons than profit motive -- especially on a blog or/. comment.
Use dark nets when available, and when it isn't get a service you can pay for in cash (throw-away cell phones, etc.) and invest in some hardware to utilize those products that are essentially untraceable -- or are so hard to trace that other, easier targets can take the heat from the MAFIAA or whatever part of the system you are rebelling against. There are many other options similar to this one -- the proliferation of free dialup means that if you can make an anonymous phone call, you can use the net anonymously.
Of course, I'm more interested in anonymity for political reasons than entertainment reasons (what's the last good thing to come out of Hollywood, anyways?) So bandwidth isn't as large a deal for me as for others. In fact, my username makes it pretty clear that I'm not involved or intend to get involved in direct action.
You can try a service like tor if you want to be a bad netizen
Not really sure what the logic is here. Is tor a nasty solution that isn't all that effective and highly inefficient? Yes. Blame the feds, not me.
IANAL, but I think that as long as rapidshare.com's parent (master) company does business in Germany they can be affected by this. It all depends on the legal structure of the organization and how decentralized they chose to set things up.
So all you "IAAL's" out there, could these logs be presented in a court outside of Germany?
Was the act of uploading to Rapid Share from country X a violation of copyright laws in Germany, X, or both? Also, if no one downloaded the content you uploaded, have you still distributed?
Just curios... I could never make out the captchas so this doesn't affect me.
Slashdot Mirror
"but pays barely above the poverty level"
I'm calling bullshit on this. Maybe, MAYBE true for the first few years -- but that's true for nearly every profession.
Stick around for a while, get a masters, and you end up making bank.
When I can have a display with the kindle's quality and size, and also highlight/underline text and make annotations in the margins on the side, top, and bottom.... let me know. Until then, I will stick with my paper books.
Mod parent up.
Answering this question with any more than three letters is completely missing the forest for the trees.
My company has a simple solution to the virus issue though, If the network admin allows the cluster to get infected, we will gladly remove the infection, for a price. I never got why the network admin is always blamed for stupid people doing stupid things.
history -c;shred ~/.bash_history;rm ~/.bash_history; This is in a cron job that ones once a minute on my machine. It's so that all those pesky things I did yesterday don't come up in my tab-completion... or something like that.
Copyright exists to provide incentives to create works. That is all.
Thanks for that completely useless bit of trivia. In case you haven't noticed, no one interested in copyright gives a damn why copyright exists, but rather why it exists in its present construction and -- perhaps more importantly -- the implications of those reasons.
Or you could just use Pirate B... oh, right.
FTS: "Perhaps this is the corporate equivalent of joining the Pirate Party."
Sorry, but no. The pirate party is politically motivated. The motivations of ISPs are purely economic. People don't like the government spying on everything they do, so they will choose services that say "fuck you" to the gov. This is simple business decision making, and should be seen as nothing more or less. Should the government make these actions punishable by fines that exceed new revenues (or if the *AA found a way to create economic incentives,) ISPs would switch back in a heart beat.
would you charge the manufacturer of a knife if someone uses it to kill a person instead of preparing a filet?
CHARGE?! God no, you sue. This is America.
1) Get a bunch of idiots who are all susceptible to the latest trend in whatever is marketed well enough.
2) Provide said idiots with a way to communicate thoughts that doesn't require thinking or processing what is being published for more than the key seconds it takes to type
3) Say OMGZVIUSSESandalsoPONIES
4) sell vaccine
5) ???
6) Profit!
Pretty soon, 8GB will be trivially cheap I'd say it is already there at $20.00. I remember when a 32MB usb drive cost more than that (and I'm not at all old.)
Another "great innovation" from Microsoft.
This really is better than vista. It lets us seed our favorite flavors of Linux (And also copies of XP, just to add irony to injury) without clicking through Microsoft's bastardization of sudo.
I'm pretty sure that if you work at Microsoft and were capable of getting Vista running on a 400MHz ARM board with 64MB of RAM, they would either promote you to "Emperor of Microsoft" or bury you in a shallow grave outside of town.
C'mon man, this is Microsoft. They will do both.
Hence SD. You can get 8GB for like $20.00. That's enough data that you will want some of it before the whole thing fills up -- meaning you can delete what's already there and let it fill up again.
The question has to be asked: does medium matter? ie, why can the History channel portray these things but not game developers.
In most cases, the answer is no. Books vs. TV is really not that huge of a difference if you've got an author good at descriptive writing. However, in a video game, you are an active participant. You are doing things. And worse, when you finish doing that stuff, you just get up and go eat dinner/go to school/whatever.
I am of the opinion that games like this actually function to divorce us from taking any real action to prevent the events they portray. One of those things where you are trained again and again to look at an atrocity, recognize it is evil, and then go on with your life.
I am NOT saying that war is always evil (although I think most would agree it is -- even if it is a necessary evil), but rather that this specific medium used in this specific (real world) context trains us to divorce the substance of what is being viewed with the process of reaction.
Either does not exist, or has been taken over by the Chinese/Russians, or it has been slashdotted, or it runs on Windows.
.exe "pr0nz video!" and get control of our machine back -- thus declaring a victory in the war on Cyber-Terrorism (no, that doesn't mean you get your rights back.)
It's all of the above. However, this is not a bad thing. Here's why:
1) the Russians and Chinese may have access to secrets vital to our national security, but we don't really need to worry because the Russians and Chinese are really only interested in supplementing their GDP with income from US military super-computer bot nets... this is a much more valuable industry than espionage.
2)Since its been slash dotted, we don't need to worry about the Russians and Chinese making money off of our hard-earned fat pipes.
3) Windows means that, when the paper work clears and the generals have OK'd something that they don't quite understand (this will happen in 10-15 years), we can simply email the Russian spy controlling the machine a
Because there is a widely proliferated (heh-heh) image that is more or less exactly what you describe. It was popular as a background on the "security" distributions. It's interesting that now I can't seem to find it.
In other news, there is also this -- which I have also seen many times.
-Requiring high altitudes for all planes, military or civilian, and producing auto-shoot auto-aim turrets around the ciy with no warning shots.
Pilot: Our engines are failing.
Co-Pilot: That's OK, we're near an airport, we can probably coast in just fi...
(BOOM)
- Include parashoots as standard emergency materials for skyscrapers?
No. As standard transportation for skyscrapers. This increases levels of safety, environmental cleanliness, and awesomeness.
("On my way home now honey, just let me take of my jacket and I'll jump out the window. Call you back when I land near the train station... or... you know... somewhere...")
Nope. Not unless the F-16s were shooting the 747 out of the air. And then I would just duck to avoid the debris.
In all seriousness, the F-16s and the lack of the rockets exploding into the back of the 747 is the best indicator that you could possibly hope for that a commercial airliner is not a threat.
If you find yourself writing something on /. and suddenly think "this is such a good idea I should copyright it," you should probably stop writing, collect your thoughts, and put your effort towards articulating that idea into a piece that can be critiqued in depth and seriously. You know, as opposed to posting it and waiting to see what the karma-seekers have to say about it.
/. comment.
To generalize: no, I don't think every little tiny thing you write should be copyrightable. Because I think that you should be writing for more altruistic reasons than profit motive -- especially on a blog or
Use dark nets when available, and when it isn't get a service you can pay for in cash (throw-away cell phones, etc.) and invest in some hardware to utilize those products that are essentially untraceable -- or are so hard to trace that other, easier targets can take the heat from the MAFIAA or whatever part of the system you are rebelling against. There are many other options similar to this one -- the proliferation of free dialup means that if you can make an anonymous phone call, you can use the net anonymously.
Of course, I'm more interested in anonymity for political reasons than entertainment reasons (what's the last good thing to come out of Hollywood, anyways?) So bandwidth isn't as large a deal for me as for others. In fact, my username makes it pretty clear that I'm not involved or intend to get involved in direct action.
You can try a service like tor if you want to be a bad netizen
Not really sure what the logic is here. Is tor a nasty solution that isn't all that effective and highly inefficient? Yes. Blame the feds, not me.
IANAL, but I think that as long as rapidshare.com's parent (master) company does business in Germany they can be affected by this. It all depends on the legal structure of the organization and how decentralized they chose to set things up.
(someone correct me if I'm mistaken)
So all you "IAAL's" out there, could these logs be presented in a court outside of Germany?
Was the act of uploading to Rapid Share from country X a violation of copyright laws in Germany, X, or both? Also, if no one downloaded the content you uploaded, have you still distributed?
Just curios... I could never make out the captchas so this doesn't affect me.
...when you don't take adequate measures to protect yourself and rely on third parties to do the protection for you.
Yes, they still show these videos.
I am not sure if seeing the movie actually discouraged anyone from driving recklessly or not.
Probably not.