Every time you feel the need to vote 10 in Glitter, also vote 10 to The Godfather. Every time you cheer for Brokeback Mountain, also put a 10 in Huge Knockers MXII. Every time you want to express your love for Dersu Uzala, vote a 10 in Spice World, with added commentaries.
That way, everybody will know you're a security conscious computer scientist. Or a squizophrenic moron.
Those images are not sad, they are wonderful. Images like those show hope and imagination. What's sad is looking at a generation of individuals (including me) that do not dream about exploration. I think one reason is that we don't really believe it to be possible.
The farther we see with new telescopes and techniques, the farther the horizon of the unknown is. At the same time, the top travel speed seems unbreakable.
We have fought jungles and deserts. We have fought the infinite ocean. Now, with gigantic space and limited speed, we have to fight time. And that's a fight we've been trying to win since the very beginning.
Why does the picture which most prominently displays Earth show the American continents, instead of Europe or Asia? It was originally sold as a dart target.
Why the hell has no one made even the most rudimentary moon base yet? Damnit I want to see people living on another celestial body before I die. Me too. I'll start a list of people I'd like to see living in the sun.
Those images are sad. It's so easy to imagine the future, and so hard to reach it...
It's depressing to think we'll be long dead before humanity finally understands the universe.
Space travel, immortality, living in far planets, knowing the origin and the end of all, and, most of all, contacting an alien intelligence and culture if there is one.
However, I do feel lucky for living in an era of enlightenment and fast technological evolution. A mere two or three centuries in the past, I'd have seen the same advance in all my life as I can in a modern decade.
Does anybody reading this really have 10,000 songs in their share directory? That's about 30GB of music, if my math is correct. It's also about 10X of the threshold for criminal infringement. It's probably best to stick with numbers that are applicable to the real world. I don't move in music sharing communities, but I know many people with HDs bought for the exclusive reason of keeping shared movies. Going to a "campus party" with at least 1TB free is the norm.
"The minimum should only apply to the complete fine, not each item. And then even $750 would make sense."
That's an interesting idea, but it's a bit like the flat tax: the large-scale pirates would get off easy, and the little guys would get the rough end. Can you imagine what the record labels might do if the law were changed so that the minimum statutory were $750 total? They might start suing college students with one song in their share directory. And, your hypothetical fellow distributing 10,000 songs might only be liable for a $750 fine.
You are right. A big part of the problem is that the RIAA customizes the legal attack to dodge or use the standing laws. A low statutory minimum just forces them to pull bigger infraction numbers, a higher one lets them build bankruptcy amounts with a very small amount of songs.
I'd try the "small minimum, reasonable maximum" idea, but I'm no longer sure there's a legal solution that doesn't imply changing the copyright laws so they can't build any case they need, to break the punishing side.
Ask 100 people and you'll get 100 answers, but I think that a more fitting statutory minimum should be in the neighborhood of $50 per work. Yes, I know, information wants to be fweeeeeeeeeeeeee, but for as long as copyright law is still around, the courts should be able to issue judgements that are an effective deterrent. If I were nailed for sharing 100 songs and the RIAA could only collect a statutory minimum of $5K from me rather than $75K (as under current law), I'd still get the point that perhaps I shouldn't have helped make other people's information so free after all.
And what if the number of songs is 10000? You'd need to be fined for half a million to "get the point"?
The minimum should only apply to the complete fine, not each item. And then even $750 would make sense.
2008. The movie will only play if there's at least a person connected to the player. If you skip the advertising, the connected person is tasered.
2010. The player has motion and thermal sensors. Any heat-producing or moving entity in the proximities will receive a hit of "pain microwave ray" unless they see the full advertising.
2015. Your salary goes directly to the MPAA so they can decide what you are going to buy every month. Nobody remembers what a movie is.
If games made for Windows worked 1% faster in Linux, we'd have a generation of kids who would only know windows as the OS used in businesses.
The day I see in a game forum "Use Linux, n00b." as the usual reply to "OMG! Low fps! Getting pwned! HALP!" will set the ten year count to Linux victory over Windows.
Ubiquitous encryption does not make law enforcement impossible. It just makes indiscriminate law enforcement impossible. Ubiquitous encryption does make law enforcement harder. So it's just a matter of how much you value security versus privacy.
The path of least resistance steps over the citizens rights.
They enjoyed a short time of easy wiretapping and now we are back in an environment of secure communications. Well, tough luck, laws that infringe the privacy of your population can't help you now.
You can always cry "HAX" or call the waaambulance, I suppose.
long story short CDEX wasn't having it and I had to go and say to her that it couldn't be done "See this percentile bar? In about a minute it will reach 100% and you'll have the song in your mp3."
"Torrent? Yeah, it's a cd copying thing."
"Your cd isn't inserted? Don't worry my computer can read it at a distance."
In Spain they set up an alternative number that concentrates all alarm calls and distributes them to the different services.
The problem was that most people didn't know exactly who to call in an emergency situation. For example, you see a river overflowing while traveling by train and unsure if you're already in the next state. Or, you see a gang burning down a bank while there's two people bleeding to death in the street.
You set up an unfair system and many people fall while some people avoid the trap.
After a while everybody knows about your trap and starts crying foul.
That's the time you have to prepare your next unfair system.
I fear the time when record labels say "We hear our customers and are removing the DRM system." followed by "Piracy is rampant! The only solution is...".
Slashdot Mirror
So anyone will be able to take the latest movie, upload it to a google account, and give the password in a forum.
...
It's like P2P but Google pays the uploading bandwidth!
You could even use the movie name for the account:
0000000000-MoviesAhoy-TheMatrix
0000000001-MoviesAhoy-Slashdot, the movie
0000000002-MoviesAhoy-Pr0n (1)
0003814661-MoviesAhoy-Pr0n (3814660)
Every time you feel the need to vote 10 in Glitter, also vote 10 to The Godfather.
Every time you cheer for Brokeback Mountain, also put a 10 in Huge Knockers MXII.
Every time you want to express your love for Dersu Uzala, vote a 10 in Spice World, with added commentaries.
That way, everybody will know you're a security conscious computer scientist. Or a squizophrenic moron.
OR
A: "Boss, we found some strange pots and old things."
B: "Keep digging, quickly, before the archeologisticians come."
The farther we see with new telescopes and techniques, the farther the horizon of the unknown is. At the same time, the top travel speed seems unbreakable.
We have fought jungles and deserts. We have fought the infinite ocean. Now, with gigantic space and limited speed, we have to fight time. And that's a fight we've been trying to win since the very beginning.
From two coworkers not directly related to computer science:
- What? Everybody uses Word.
- Oh, dear god, please let them reach a consensus.
Guess which one works as the step between scientific writers and printing services.
Those images are sad. It's so easy to imagine the future, and so hard to reach it...
It's depressing to think we'll be long dead before humanity finally understands the universe.
Space travel, immortality, living in far planets, knowing the origin and the end of all, and, most of all, contacting an alien intelligence and culture if there is one.
However, I do feel lucky for living in an era of enlightenment and fast technological evolution. A mere two or three centuries in the past, I'd have seen the same advance in all my life as I can in a modern decade.
A reply most insightful. Nice presentation, concise.
All from Slashdot.
"The minimum should only apply to the complete fine, not each item. And then even $750 would make sense."
That's an interesting idea, but it's a bit like the flat tax: the large-scale pirates would get off easy, and the little guys would get the rough end. Can you imagine what the record labels might do if the law were changed so that the minimum statutory were $750 total? They might start suing college students with one song in their share directory. And, your hypothetical fellow distributing 10,000 songs might only be liable for a $750 fine.
You are right. A big part of the problem is that the RIAA customizes the legal attack to dodge or use the standing laws. A low statutory minimum just forces them to pull bigger infraction numbers, a higher one lets them build bankruptcy amounts with a very small amount of songs.I'd try the "small minimum, reasonable maximum" idea, but I'm no longer sure there's a legal solution that doesn't imply changing the copyright laws so they can't build any case they need, to break the punishing side.
Remember Minority Report? The wooden balls?
Those held a single name. Imagine the size of the balls you'd need to record an entire song.
Movie makers; they have the biggest balls in the industry.
Ask 100 people and you'll get 100 answers, but I think that a more fitting statutory minimum should be in the neighborhood of $50 per work. Yes, I know, information wants to be fweeeeeeeeeeeeee, but for as long as copyright law is still around, the courts should be able to issue judgements that are an effective deterrent. If I were nailed for sharing 100 songs and the RIAA could only collect a statutory minimum of $5K from me rather than $75K (as under current law), I'd still get the point that perhaps I shouldn't have helped make other people's information so free after all.
And what if the number of songs is 10000? You'd need to be fined for half a million to "get the point"?The minimum should only apply to the complete fine, not each item. And then even $750 would make sense.
What would happen if a judge asked the same from a HD cable vendor?
Audience Au24 High Resolution Loudspeaker Cable: 741$
No thanks. If I buy a new PC, it'll run Windows XP
No thanks. If I buy a new PC, it will be composed of: motherboard, processor, ram and old pieces from the previous PC.
2008. The movie will only play if there's at least a person connected to the player. If you skip the advertising, the connected person is tasered.
2010. The player has motion and thermal sensors. Any heat-producing or moving entity in the proximities will receive a hit of "pain microwave ray" unless they see the full advertising.
2015. Your salary goes directly to the MPAA so they can decide what you are going to buy every month. Nobody remembers what a movie is.
If games made for Windows worked 1% faster in Linux, we'd have a generation of kids who would only know windows as the OS used in businesses.
The day I see in a game forum "Use Linux, n00b." as the usual reply to "OMG! Low fps! Getting pwned! HALP!" will set the ten year count to Linux victory over Windows.
Every time you open the page Google tell you, you're feeling lucky.
They'd add a button for "I'm feeling smart" or "I'm feeling sexy" if they found a way of justifying such a button's presence.
After you activate the comb only cutting the bread cable will deactivate it.
Remember to tell John that the buns and the comb are in the brain station's locker. The code is the century of your birthday, twice.
Well, you value more a lot of lost privacy than a little more security.
We agree, but it's clear that some people value more the little security than the loss of privacy. Usually when it's their security and our privacy.
The path of least resistance steps over the citizens rights.
Encryption is about 4500 years old.
They enjoyed a short time of easy wiretapping and now we are back in an environment of secure communications. Well, tough luck, laws that infringe the privacy of your population can't help you now.
You can always cry "HAX" or call the waaambulance, I suppose.
Has Microsoft officially stated that the bug is not present in Vista? Or will they "recently discover" that too.
"Torrent? Yeah, it's a cd copying thing."
"Your cd isn't inserted? Don't worry my computer can read it at a distance."
In Spain they set up an alternative number that concentrates all alarm calls and distributes them to the different services.
The problem was that most people didn't know exactly who to call in an emergency situation. For example, you see a river overflowing while traveling by train and unsure if you're already in the next state. Or, you see a gang burning down a bank while there's two people bleeding to death in the street.
You set up an unfair system and many people fall while some people avoid the trap.
After a while everybody knows about your trap and starts crying foul.
That's the time you have to prepare your next unfair system.
I fear the time when record labels say "We hear our customers and are removing the DRM system." followed by "Piracy is rampant! The only solution is...".