It makes no sense. Clearly Shaun was optimistic for Ubuntu, and can appreciate its value, but because it didn't take off at the same pace of an OS with millions of advertising behind it, he puts it on his "disappointing" list, which can only serve to stunt its acceptance.
Instead of moaning about that why not get another line of work if you dislike the conditions under which you work
I covered that in the parent post:
"Think if that happened to your industry. You'd quit and do something else, right? Do you want all your favorite musicians/actors/directors to quit? They're going to retire eventually, who will take their place? All the good upstarts are too busy busing dishes to practice."
To that I will add that an artist worth downloading is worth supporting. No support, no more art.
In all my time I never bitched about copyright!
How many albums did you record? How much did they cost to produce?
Or did you play mostly covers? No doubt you never complained about copyright!
We're touring our sixth album which cost over $10k to produce and press 1000 copies (relatively cheap but we like it raw). We do quite well considering our sound isn't mainstream, but if we were to lose even 20% of our sales to piracy, we would only record an occasional single to keep our name out there. The numbers on mainstream piracy are well over 40%.
Not to mention, who takes the theft of work they take pride in sitting down? I sure don't.
The Canadian Government surely only objects to the fact that YouTube stands to profit from videos of parliament sessions without asking permission. Had they asked it probably wouldn't have been a problem, considering the enhanced access it provides. But YouTube broke Canadian law and they reacted appropriately. Please put the gun down.
I also advise against using quotes that pre-date Canada's confederation to point out that a relatively insignificant Canadian law is out of date.
The sad thing is that the music of independent artists is also being pirated, though to a lesser degree. They have no means of recompense whatsoever, in fact attempts to deter piracy are so prohibitively unpopular that the MAFIAA has a monopoly on effective countermeasures.
Come to think of it, probably the best thing the MAFIAA could do would be an ad campaign that tells true stories of *indie* artists whose careers have been compromised by piracy. Then people might realize how many brilliant artists still have day jobs as a direct result of piracy.
"Here's Johnny on tour, rocking a crowd of 1500. Here he is again, busing dishes at Boston Pizza. Here's a customer, leaving a fat tip for the cute waitress while he fires up Johnny's songs he downloaded illegally to his iPod."
As a touring musician and sound tech, I see that exact scenario playing out *all the time*. We accept that piracy laws are unenforceable, yet still do what we do because it's our passion. However the justifications for piracy are a little tough to bear. It's incomprehensible to us that people should be offended by the notion of paying for every song and/or movie in their collection.
Think if that happened to your industry. You'd quit and do something else, right? Do you want all your favorite musicians/actors/directors to quit? They're going to retire eventually, who will take their place? All the good upstarts are too busy busing dishes to practice.
In four days I'm leaving on a tour where I'll be playing 25 shows in 24 days, lugging my gear myself, sleeping in a lot of shitholes, averaging 300 miles of driving per day. I dare anyone to whine about being held accountable for piracy when I get back.
I fail to make a connection between a massive and completely predictable legal clusterfuck and lazy. No, they thought they'd get away with it. How else could it crawl up the legal ladder without their superiors throwing in the towel.
They've used credit cards, airport surveillance and ticket records, fingerprints, DNA, etc etc. None of those invade the privacy of an individual to the extent that a GPS tracking device does, and even though the owners of such records generally cooperate voluntarily, it still takes a warrant or subpoena to compel them to surrender them. The police have no authority to order them to hand them over, and the suspects under investigation have no claim to such info once it's in the hands of others except their doctor, lawyer, or spouse.
A tracking device with GPS accuracy is on the phone tap side of privacy limitations, not the cel tower records side. No question the courts should decide when and how they should be used in each instance, not the cops.
b) The practicality of any design that relied only on the rail footprint
This is an odd thing they propose. To my knowledge the only solar power plant type that generates over 100MW cost-effectively is steam turbine driven solar-thermal, which depends on a field of mirrors directing sunlight to a central collector/boiler and is about 7x more efficient than PV panels, with yields in excess of 500MW. Unless the train does a tight spiral, I can't see such a system fitting onto the typical land allotted to train rails.
It would make much more sense to build one or more solar thermal plants to power the trains. There's no need to tie power generation to consumption so closely, there's these things called wires that conduct electricity real well. It would also help to network the trains together to minimize concurrent heavy loads, i.e. don't let all trains accelerate at once, and there would likely be spare juice to pump into the grid.
It's a freekin desert, why they're not full of solar thermal generators baffles me.
This is very much about big brother watching you. The police work wasn't sloppy, they surely knew they dd not have sufficient evidence to obtain a warrant, so they pretended to assume it wasn't necessary.
They could have, and should have, put a tail on him the old fashioned way. That way someone can actually account for the suspect's whereabouts and conduct. A GPS tracker indicates a lot more than just a suspect's car's position, and goes where conventional surveillance cannot. If a form of tracking is allowed, then the information gathered by it is admissible in court.
That means if a murder suspect parks in front of a gun shop, the jury gets to hear about it, even if the suspect gets a slice of pizza next door. With nobody there to bear witness, the information gathered cannot be interpreted accurately and only serves to prejudice the suspect and/or waste the court's time deciding what to make of it.
Exactly. It surely crossed their minds, but asking for a warrant made it possible for a judge to prevent them from tracking the suspect. By not doing so the police are in effect admitting it was not a legal procedure.
People seem to get swept up in the fascinating technical aspects of targeted advertising based on social networks. Gee, look what those statistics reveal, and look how they've tied those stats with those stats, very clever.
What nobody seems to recognize is that the very word "advertise" means to get people to do what they do not want to do. Everyone thinks ads just present options for people to carry out motivations they already have. No, that would be called divertising, the diversion of motivation. Advertising advocates the adverse of motivation.
In any other industry, such a misnomer would probably be acceptable, but think of the billions spent globally annually on advertising, and they express in no uncertain terms the most despicable aspect of their craft openly in their title. And these guys get paid billions to make others look good. Physician heal thyself.
Some of my lyrics for your amusement:
Do you work in there? Do you know what they do?
They twist letters into knives to steal your voice from you
I've given up on words, I can't find no good ones left
They all stab at me, those billboards pushing theft
How dare you justify to me your sick rhetorical craft
You preach the adverse of our needs, and you say I am daft?
Take your suitcase back upstairs, prepare the staff for a distraction
Set the office chairs ablaze and watch adversity in action
Except this is a blog, where discussion is welcomed. I come here when I want to read. Most other times I don't want to squint at my phone to read text that doesn't fit the screen. Some people text happily all day. I don't.
My 2.4GHz cordless phones don't interrupt my g-band wi-fi when they ring, but they do when I answer the phone. It's particularily humorous when I'm using VOIP over wi-fi. I sometimes use the cordless to hear the ringer outside, and sometimes I answer it - d'oh!
Although I check my voicemail via emailed attachments, most of them are rather urgent, and mere text does not convey the whole story. There's no way anyone can convince me they leave the same message on voice mail as they do on a SMS text message.
Here's a real example of two messages I received two days ago:
[text] you gotta minute?
[voice] Man I'm in a jam, I've got an offer to jump in on a European tour, but we don't have the right demo, they want something raw, can we cut something in the club?
That is a personal favor and no way it gets approved via text. It would be ignored, and the sender would be PNG instead of on his way to Europe.
Typically the kind of money that frees you comes with strings that bind you. No business incorporates without the intent to exploit the protections provided by being a corporation.
If you don't know what those are, then you are in no position to negotiate what you describe. If you have to ask this question here, then you clearly need representation to ensure you're getting what you think they're offering. And I don't mean a SlashDot user with good karma.
And don't just look up a corporate lawyer, look up a real estate lawyer, a civil lawyer, hell even divorce lawyers, to find who acquaintances of corporate lawyers recommend. They hear all the goods and their reputations won't suffer from recommending someone outside their circle of peers.
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It makes no sense. Clearly Shaun was optimistic for Ubuntu, and can appreciate its value, but because it didn't take off at the same pace of an OS with millions of advertising behind it, he puts it on his "disappointing" list, which can only serve to stunt its acceptance.
Now THAT'S disappointing.
Instead of moaning about that why not get another line of work if you dislike the conditions under which you work
I covered that in the parent post:
"Think if that happened to your industry. You'd quit and do something else, right? Do you want all your favorite musicians/actors/directors to quit? They're going to retire eventually, who will take their place? All the good upstarts are too busy busing dishes to practice."
To that I will add that an artist worth downloading is worth supporting. No support, no more art.
In all my time I never bitched about copyright!
How many albums did you record? How much did they cost to produce?
Or did you play mostly covers? No doubt you never complained about copyright!
We're touring our sixth album which cost over $10k to produce and press 1000 copies (relatively cheap but we like it raw). We do quite well considering our sound isn't mainstream, but if we were to lose even 20% of our sales to piracy, we would only record an occasional single to keep our name out there. The numbers on mainstream piracy are well over 40%.
Not to mention, who takes the theft of work they take pride in sitting down? I sure don't.
The Canadian Government surely only objects to the fact that YouTube stands to profit from videos of parliament sessions without asking permission. Had they asked it probably wouldn't have been a problem, considering the enhanced access it provides. But YouTube broke Canadian law and they reacted appropriately. Please put the gun down.
I also advise against using quotes that pre-date Canada's confederation to point out that a relatively insignificant Canadian law is out of date.
The sad thing is that the music of independent artists is also being pirated, though to a lesser degree. They have no means of recompense whatsoever, in fact attempts to deter piracy are so prohibitively unpopular that the MAFIAA has a monopoly on effective countermeasures.
Come to think of it, probably the best thing the MAFIAA could do would be an ad campaign that tells true stories of *indie* artists whose careers have been compromised by piracy. Then people might realize how many brilliant artists still have day jobs as a direct result of piracy.
"Here's Johnny on tour, rocking a crowd of 1500. Here he is again, busing dishes at Boston Pizza. Here's a customer, leaving a fat tip for the cute waitress while he fires up Johnny's songs he downloaded illegally to his iPod."
As a touring musician and sound tech, I see that exact scenario playing out *all the time*. We accept that piracy laws are unenforceable, yet still do what we do because it's our passion. However the justifications for piracy are a little tough to bear. It's incomprehensible to us that people should be offended by the notion of paying for every song and/or movie in their collection.
Think if that happened to your industry. You'd quit and do something else, right? Do you want all your favorite musicians/actors/directors to quit? They're going to retire eventually, who will take their place? All the good upstarts are too busy busing dishes to practice.
In four days I'm leaving on a tour where I'll be playing 25 shows in 24 days, lugging my gear myself, sleeping in a lot of shitholes, averaging 300 miles of driving per day. I dare anyone to whine about being held accountable for piracy when I get back.
dude, how would this increase the earth's mass? are they getting the UDD from space or soemthing?
silly as people who say that melting the north pole will raise ocean levels. it displaces the same mass as if it were liquid.
ICE DENSITY FAIL
I fail to make a connection between a massive and completely predictable legal clusterfuck and lazy. No, they thought they'd get away with it. How else could it crawl up the legal ladder without their superiors throwing in the towel.
How is this even a story? Maybe if she had named a REAL planet...
Like what, Vulcan?
Somehow "micro" "soft" don't sit very well with "Bond".
MicroSoft becomes MacroHard once it's shaken (not stirred).
They've used credit cards, airport surveillance and ticket records, fingerprints, DNA, etc etc. None of those invade the privacy of an individual to the extent that a GPS tracking device does, and even though the owners of such records generally cooperate voluntarily, it still takes a warrant or subpoena to compel them to surrender them. The police have no authority to order them to hand them over, and the suspects under investigation have no claim to such info once it's in the hands of others except their doctor, lawyer, or spouse.
A tracking device with GPS accuracy is on the phone tap side of privacy limitations, not the cel tower records side. No question the courts should decide when and how they should be used in each instance, not the cops.
But think how much heavier the Earth will be when they start making lots of this stuff. Won't that affect our solar orbit? Or the tide?
It's like how sponges can hold 25 times their weight in water. Imagine how high the water levels would be if they became extinct!
I don't know how people can sleep...
Part of my daily duties as a systems administrator was auditing connection logs for odd behavior. Don't admins do that anymore?
Nah, there's an iPhone app for that.
b) The practicality of any design that relied only on the rail footprint
This is an odd thing they propose. To my knowledge the only solar power plant type that generates over 100MW cost-effectively is steam turbine driven solar-thermal, which depends on a field of mirrors directing sunlight to a central collector/boiler and is about 7x more efficient than PV panels, with yields in excess of 500MW. Unless the train does a tight spiral, I can't see such a system fitting onto the typical land allotted to train rails.
It would make much more sense to build one or more solar thermal plants to power the trains. There's no need to tie power generation to consumption so closely, there's these things called wires that conduct electricity real well. It would also help to network the trains together to minimize concurrent heavy loads, i.e. don't let all trains accelerate at once, and there would likely be spare juice to pump into the grid.
It's a freekin desert, why they're not full of solar thermal generators baffles me.
and it does occasionally get cloudy in AZ...
or was it North Haverbrook...
This is very much about big brother watching you. The police work wasn't sloppy, they surely knew they dd not have sufficient evidence to obtain a warrant, so they pretended to assume it wasn't necessary.
They could have, and should have, put a tail on him the old fashioned way. That way someone can actually account for the suspect's whereabouts and conduct. A GPS tracker indicates a lot more than just a suspect's car's position, and goes where conventional surveillance cannot. If a form of tracking is allowed, then the information gathered by it is admissible in court.
That means if a murder suspect parks in front of a gun shop, the jury gets to hear about it, even if the suspect gets a slice of pizza next door. With nobody there to bear witness, the information gathered cannot be interpreted accurately and only serves to prejudice the suspect and/or waste the court's time deciding what to make of it.
Exactly. It surely crossed their minds, but asking for a warrant made it possible for a judge to prevent them from tracking the suspect. By not doing so the police are in effect admitting it was not a legal procedure.
People seem to get swept up in the fascinating technical aspects of targeted advertising based on social networks. Gee, look what those statistics reveal, and look how they've tied those stats with those stats, very clever.
What nobody seems to recognize is that the very word "advertise" means to get people to do what they do not want to do. Everyone thinks ads just present options for people to carry out motivations they already have. No, that would be called divertising, the diversion of motivation. Advertising advocates the adverse of motivation.
In any other industry, such a misnomer would probably be acceptable, but think of the billions spent globally annually on advertising, and they express in no uncertain terms the most despicable aspect of their craft openly in their title. And these guys get paid billions to make others look good. Physician heal thyself.
Some of my lyrics for your amusement:
Do you work in there? Do you know what they do?
They twist letters into knives to steal your voice from you
I've given up on words, I can't find no good ones left
They all stab at me, those billboards pushing theft
How dare you justify to me your sick rhetorical craft
You preach the adverse of our needs, and you say I am daft?
Take your suitcase back upstairs, prepare the staff for a distraction
Set the office chairs ablaze and watch adversity in action
Except this is a blog, where discussion is welcomed. I come here when I want to read. Most other times I don't want to squint at my phone to read text that doesn't fit the screen. Some people text happily all day. I don't.
From what I heard, corporations don't hear criticism from citizens.
My 2.4GHz cordless phones don't interrupt my g-band wi-fi when they ring, but they do when I answer the phone. It's particularily humorous when I'm using VOIP over wi-fi. I sometimes use the cordless to hear the ringer outside, and sometimes I answer it - d'oh!
Although I check my voicemail via emailed attachments, most of them are rather urgent, and mere text does not convey the whole story. There's no way anyone can convince me they leave the same message on voice mail as they do on a SMS text message.
Here's a real example of two messages I received two days ago:
[text] you gotta minute?
[voice] Man I'm in a jam, I've got an offer to jump in on a European tour, but we don't have the right demo, they want something raw, can we cut something in the club?
That is a personal favor and no way it gets approved via text. It would be ignored, and the sender would be PNG instead of on his way to Europe.
Why don't we ask Israel how they're keeping their borders secure and take a few hints?
Woah... Isreal is a model non-racist country?!! Their treatment towards their neighbors should be emulated in US/Mexican relations?!!
NOT
Typically the kind of money that frees you comes with strings that bind you. No business incorporates without the intent to exploit the protections provided by being a corporation.
If you don't know what those are, then you are in no position to negotiate what you describe. If you have to ask this question here, then you clearly need representation to ensure you're getting what you think they're offering. And I don't mean a SlashDot user with good karma.
And don't just look up a corporate lawyer, look up a real estate lawyer, a civil lawyer, hell even divorce lawyers, to find who acquaintances of corporate lawyers recommend. They hear all the goods and their reputations won't suffer from recommending someone outside their circle of peers.
You're operating under the impression that politicians are concerned about being productive rather than seeming productive.
Personal solar panels do not re-elect anyone.
If the entire hard drive was secured with something like TrueCrypt, could you be compelled to turn over the password?
If they obtain a warrant to search your home and it's locked, can they compel you to hand over the key?