In the war against copyright infringement, organizations like the RIAA and MPAA have taken to characterizing the major culprit as organized crime, pointing to parallels with the traffic in illegal narcotics. "The markup for a kilo of heroin is 200%," claimed Warner Music spokesman Craig Hoffman. "The markup for pirated CDs and DVDs is 800%."
I wonder what the markup is on commercially produced CDs and DVDs... 8000% ??
Such... irony... the recording industry complaining about the high price of pirated content... cannot... suppress... gales of laughter...
Absolutely. There are several aspects to the control they want.
They want to control the creators of music. They do this by locking artists into a certain number of albums, getting copyright, owning back-catalogues, etc.
They want to control the distribution of music. The Internet is disrupting their distribution model by showing how ineffective it is now.
They want to control the consumers (e.g. with DRM and copy-protected CDs).
And they want to control the licensing agreements. This is why they hate Creative Commons.
He fails to consider the possibility of the same user using different browsers (and hence the same IP address, but different cookies, and a different browser identification string).
So you can use probabilistic means to identify unique visitors. That's not a paradigm shift, except for those whose paradigms are already very small.
Somehow I don't think this research is worthy of an NDA.
My next case
will be the Coolermaster Stacker
so I have plenty of capacity for disk drives.
My major gripe with cases is: most don't provide enough 3.5" expansion bays. And many case makers put in lots of 5.25" (external) bays before they put in 3.5" bays. Nobody sells a 5.25" disk drive anymore, and I'm tired of screwing in 3.5" brackets.
Note that the stacker actually has 5.25" bays but they sell a cage to fit 4 x 3.5" drives in 3 x 5.25" bays, and the cage comes with its own fan. I don't know how many 3.5" drives the case can support at maximum, it might be 12.
The funny thing is that even if you're right, they're
still wrong. The word is spelled independent with an e, not an a, and
so if they were making a correct pun they'd write
indipendent or indiependent but certainly
not indipendant.
Actually, it was probably a pun on "indie" which just
went over my head. My excuse is that I had just come
from reading The Australian, and one of their headlines was "Furst London Bomb Charges Laid". I kid you not. At first I
thought it was a typical stupid newspaper pun headline, like
"How the west was one" (on the page currently) or
"Strange powder in the mail sparks jumbo panic" (also
on the page currently); maybe somebody named Furst had
been arrested.
And then I realised the horrible truth. Their so-called
"journalists" can't spell. You'd think that somebody who
chose the written word as their calling in life would take at least a little pride in using the language correctly. But apparently not.
Time and time again I have seen some pretty pathetic spelling errors on that site. Like "putting on the breaks" instead of "putting on the brakes". I saw that error twice in two days. Apparently the journalists submit the stories and they go up on the web immediately in all their un-spell-checked glory. Perhaps some sub-editor is tasked with the thankless job of retro-fixing the spelling, because "Furst" has now been properly corrected to "First".
So to those journalists, I say "choose radio". Because you can keep on spelling like an idiot and nobody will know.
As for Slashdot, the editors need feel no shame. They're
right where they want to be - close to the bottom rung of
the ladder. I look forward to reading this story again
tomorrow.
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.
Basically the idea Paul seems to be espousing is the (imho, very worthwhile) one that it is better to try and fail, than to have never tried at all.
What is the value of a life spent only consuming, and never creating? I suppose for some people it's satisfying to be
lazy and do nothing with their lives. But it's like an unflexed muscle - muscles only grow when they're worked against resistance.
So I think the point is that a person who goes into business for his/herself becomes ultimately responsible for the result, whether it's good or bad. This person will be naturally more motivated than if they were working in a cubicle farm. A high level of motivation will result in a higher probability of success. And even if they fail and must return to a 9-5 job, they will have learnt a lot through the effort. And if they succeed, it will be doing
something they love, and so ultimately they will be happier.
It looks like a false analogy to me. The elements
have nothing to do with a galaxy (except of course
that galaxies are comprised of them) and it's
merely a prettier way to represent the periodic
behaviour which we note that the elements have.
It's brainier than saying ".WS is the TLD for web services"
when people should know that WS is a 2-character country
code, but other than that, they're both false analogies.
Support to get installation tips and configuration issues
is very different from support to fix broken products.
If things went fubar that would be a "broken product"
situation. And yelling at support staff will receive an
equally cold reception whether it's windows or linux.
Anyway contracted support for linux installations can be
purchased from any number of companies and the great
thing is that, unlike with windows sites, support companies
have the possibility of fixing bugs (if not necessarily
the skill).
The person responsible is your computer/network
administrator, and nobody else. So if you must yell,
yell at them.
I find it bizarre that people believe there needs to
be some vendor at whom they can yell / complain / sue.
If you're buying from IBM and paying top dollar for a
support contract then you can expect IBM to guarantee
that their program works, up to the point of writing
and rolling out to you a fix specific to your particular
problem.
But if you're buying from Microsoft, you won't
get that kind of support. You'll get a telephone
representative who'll help you to understand that the
program works the way Microsoft wants it to work, and
you have to work that way if you want the program to
work. You'll be paying by the minute for that advice.
Nine times out of ten though, if your system goes fubar
it's because "you" have fu'ed it. Complaining to a vendor
won't accomplish anything.
I think they'd be pretty surly. After all, if they
need to yell at someone, maybe somebody has an attitude
problem. Maybe they need to visit an anger management
class.
It seems that those who don't understand security
are destined to mess it up.
Their "solution":
Three challenge questions
The year and model of my first car is public information. It is very hard to think of a question which
only I could answer, which I could answer reliably. The best solution I have found to this "challenge question" problem is to choose a totally random "answer", and then
it doesn't matter what the question is, I merely supply
the random word which I supplied in the first instance.
Secret image and phrase
I need to provide the website with all my secret
details and only after I have authenticated I can find
out if their site is legitimate?
It's really difficult to protect against keyloggers and
man-in-the-middle attacks. The bank should be using
client-side certificates as a minimum. What they announced
sounds like "feelgood security" - it's absent all the
technical mumbo-jumbo like certificates and SSL and keys
(which will just alienate grandma) and it has a feelgood
button which you can press to prove to yourself that the
site is real - even grandma can grasp that concept.
You don't read groklaw, do you? That's the lawsuit which PJ used to start her article. Your
example can't be dumber than PJ's challenge, because it
is PJ's challenge.
Slashdot Mirror
Early Prototype - note some burn-in and also edge distortion. I'm looking forward to seeing a more advanced version soon!
edward De Bono, is that you??
From http://www.stereophile.com/news/082205riaa/ ...
I wonder what the markup is on commercially produced CDs and DVDs ... 8000% ??
Such ... irony ... the recording industry complaining about the high price of pirated content ... cannot ... suppress ... gales of laughter ...
There's a good interview with the lawyer at http://p2pnet.net/story/6062.
They want to control the creators of music. They do this by locking artists into a certain number of albums, getting copyright, owning back-catalogues, etc.
They want to control the distribution of music. The Internet is disrupting their distribution model by showing how ineffective it is now.
They want to control the consumers (e.g. with DRM and copy-protected CDs).
And they want to control the licensing agreements. This is why they hate Creative Commons.
Zaphod Beeblebrox submitted his name in May 2005.
So you can use probabilistic means to identify unique visitors. That's not a paradigm shift, except for those whose paradigms are already very small.
Somehow I don't think this research is worthy of an NDA.
9e925e9341b490bfd3b4c4ca3b0c1ef2; a2a551a6458a8de22446cc76d639a9e9; 0cc175b9c0f1b6a831c399e269772661; acaa16770db76c1ffb9cee51c3cabfcf; 1cba77c39b4d0a81024a7aada3655a28.
My major gripe with cases is: most don't provide enough 3.5" expansion bays. And many case makers put in lots of 5.25" (external) bays before they put in 3.5" bays. Nobody sells a 5.25" disk drive anymore, and I'm tired of screwing in 3.5" brackets.
Note that the stacker actually has 5.25" bays but they sell a cage to fit 4 x 3.5" drives in 3 x 5.25" bays, and the cage comes with its own fan. I don't know how many 3.5" drives the case can support at maximum, it might be 12.
1. Receive patent application
2. Check USPTO website to see if it is patented in USA
3. ???
4. Profit!
Google says: "Did you mean: independent"
And then I realised the horrible truth. Their so-called "journalists" can't spell. You'd think that somebody who chose the written word as their calling in life would take at least a little pride in using the language correctly. But apparently not.
Time and time again I have seen some pretty pathetic spelling errors on that site. Like "putting on the breaks" instead of "putting on the brakes". I saw that error twice in two days. Apparently the journalists submit the stories and they go up on the web immediately in all their un-spell-checked glory. Perhaps some sub-editor is tasked with the thankless job of retro-fixing the spelling, because "Furst" has now been properly corrected to "First".
So to those journalists, I say "choose radio". Because you can keep on spelling like an idiot and nobody will know.
As for Slashdot, the editors need feel no shame. They're right where they want to be - close to the bottom rung of the ladder. I look forward to reading this story again tomorrow.
In radio, nobody knows your spelling sucks.
Basically the idea Paul seems to be espousing is the (imho, very worthwhile) one that it is better to try and fail, than to have never tried at all.
What is the value of a life spent only consuming, and never creating? I suppose for some people it's satisfying to be lazy and do nothing with their lives. But it's like an unflexed muscle - muscles only grow when they're worked against resistance.
So I think the point is that a person who goes into business for his/herself becomes ultimately responsible for the result, whether it's good or bad. This person will be naturally more motivated than if they were working in a cubicle farm. A high level of motivation will result in a higher probability of success. And even if they fail and must return to a 9-5 job, they will have learnt a lot through the effort. And if they succeed, it will be doing something they love, and so ultimately they will be happier.
Actually it was only about 7 million amps but they had a couple of CD writers nearby.
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao pcm:waveheader:file=$FILE.wav "$URL"
It might even be possible to get mplayer to do the mp3 (or ogg) encoding on the fly.
It's brainier than saying ".WS is the TLD for web services" when people should know that WS is a 2-character country code, but other than that, they're both false analogies.
Anyway contracted support for linux installations can be purchased from any number of companies and the great thing is that, unlike with windows sites, support companies have the possibility of fixing bugs (if not necessarily the skill).
I find it bizarre that people believe there needs to be some vendor at whom they can yell / complain / sue. If you're buying from IBM and paying top dollar for a support contract then you can expect IBM to guarantee that their program works, up to the point of writing and rolling out to you a fix specific to your particular problem.
But if you're buying from Microsoft, you won't get that kind of support. You'll get a telephone representative who'll help you to understand that the program works the way Microsoft wants it to work, and you have to work that way if you want the program to work. You'll be paying by the minute for that advice.
Nine times out of ten though, if your system goes fubar it's because "you" have fu'ed it. Complaining to a vendor won't accomplish anything.
I think they'd be pretty surly. After all, if they need to yell at someone, maybe somebody has an attitude problem. Maybe they need to visit an anger management class.
Their "solution":
Three challenge questions The year and model of my first car is public information. It is very hard to think of a question which only I could answer, which I could answer reliably. The best solution I have found to this "challenge question" problem is to choose a totally random "answer", and then it doesn't matter what the question is, I merely supply the random word which I supplied in the first instance. Secret image and phrase I need to provide the website with all my secret details and only after I have authenticated I can find out if their site is legitimate?It's really difficult to protect against keyloggers and man-in-the-middle attacks. The bank should be using client-side certificates as a minimum. What they announced sounds like "feelgood security" - it's absent all the technical mumbo-jumbo like certificates and SSL and keys (which will just alienate grandma) and it has a feelgood button which you can press to prove to yourself that the site is real - even grandma can grasp that concept.
They'd still need to run a seed bittorrent client, else nobody could download it.
You don't read groklaw, do you? That's the lawsuit which PJ used to start her article. Your example can't be dumber than PJ's challenge, because it is PJ's challenge.
You must be new here.