If TPB wins, the copyright maximalists end up with egg on their face over a law even they can't seem to follow. I will admit that the TPB winning this case is actually the worst outcome. Though the hay they can make while it's going on is almost worth it. I'm imagining the copyright maximalists are going to have some pretty interesting defenses.
But, if they lose, it's really clear that this is all about making sure the rules apply to the 'right' people. And it will done in a really public way that tells the people who vote that they don't count. And, of course, the people who vote still do count in Finland, and maybe they'll get off their collective behinds and do something about it.
Yes, the people complaining about the hypocrisy of TPB here are really missing the point. This isn't hypocrisy, it's high satire with the legal system playing the straight man. It's brilliant.
the fact that the media was far more opposed to such things on Bush's watch
I would agree. Though I don't feel it's so much left-leaning as Democrat supporting. I don't feel like the Democrats are really the left anymore. Just a different club with a different name that does mostly the same thing.
It's interesting who comes out to support which club when. Because then you can then often tell the people who are more interested in politics than policy.
Actually, the media bias is 'establishment'. And there's research to prove it. Establishment frequently errors on the side of government power, which is why there is sometimes a seeming left-leaning bias. But it's purely an accident of the fact that the left has been trying to use control over government for the past few decades to try to force people to act more like the left thinks they ought to. When the establishment that happens to be challenged is right-leaning (like the car culture of the US) then the media is seemingly right-leaning.
And this goes right along with your narrative of corporate bias. Large corporations are entities that have managed to make themselves part of the 'establishment' by playing the right political games. Some corporations get large without doing this, but until they do they will be subject to media attack.
There is also a loud and large lobby of pro-wind, pro-solar and pro-electric car types out there furiously personally attacking anyone daring to give a bad review to any electric car.
I would say the opposite. It seems that some people seem to have already decided that electric cars are a flop. And if they don't flop on cue, then it's the reviewers job to make them flop. The thing everybody seems to criticize about them is range. But it seems that this criticism is totally off base, and reviewers who want to highlight it need to make stuff up in order to do so.
It's the solution humans use in gesture-based communication. Eye contact. The computer needs an obvious eye, and the software needs to be able to tell when the user is looking at it. Bonus points if the eye can blink or move or otherwise express the computer's understanding of the gesture.
Well, that sounds nice. But the fact is, they don't assume liability. When someone uses a credit card fraudulently and the owner discovers this and refuses the charges the merchant gets hit with a chargeback. So no, they don't deserve the money they get.
Depends on my informal feeling about the 'risk level' of the machine. Some of them I do, but I also generally use an agent and don't type my key in unless I've explicitly run the program to load the key into the agent. In order to trojan that process, they have to break into my system. And if they succeed at that, I have far, far more to worry about than the compromised ssh keys.
Observations of the gravitational lensing caused by far away galaxies in the process of merging have distinctly shown concentrations of something that's lensing the light that's not in either of the two galaxies. There are also other observations that kill any possible 'alternate law of gravity' explanations.
I thought these explanations were interesting myself and I've been paying attention to the topic. And there's been a lot of study of these ideas, because you're right, positing a brand new form of matter is a big step. And study leads to experiments. And the experiments have lead to the general consensus is that dark matter has to be something that has mass and doesn't otherwise interact with light (or normal matter) at all.
I never use passwords with ssh. If ssh asks me for a password, I know something is wrong. I made this policy decision because of the endless attempts to log into my machine from all over the world. It was either something like a yubikey, or only using public key authentication. I went for the public key authentication.
My encrypted HD is more secure than Mega is. This is because I have physical control over the devices my password is typed into and where the decryption happens. It has nothing to do with any other part of the technology, only that. And yes, I periodically examine my computer to make sure nobody has stuck a keylogger in between my keyboard and the computer.
I sort of like bleeding edge. And yum support would be nice. So would systemd support. I will have to take a look at Mageia. Not sure if they do yum. But it looks like they're transitioning to systemd. That's a nice thing.
Or, without actually delving into their Javascript to verify their claims myself it's correct.
I still don't like the idea of them holding the key, even encrypted. It does set it up so if a government wants to figure out what files I have, they have to get Mega to capture my key after my password decrypts it, but that's not so hard.
But that sort of thing is still significantly better than most cloud storage services.
You should read those contracts. You do indeed have some leeway in them. Once they're offering you a contract, they want to hire you. If you want to change a few clauses, they will likely be fine with it, especially ones that aren't actually enforceable.
And lest you just think I'm dreaming, I've done this. I've listed out specific projects of my own that were off limits for them claiming ownership later and things like that.
They apparently needed to re-write it because it had gotten too crufty on the inside. But they took the opportunity to 'fix' the UI, which didn't really need that much fixing. I'm all for those sorts of experiments, but they should be baked before being released.
You can access the gateway with a web browser if you want to. And the issue of whether or not the gateway is under your control is entirely up to you. It would be possible to write a gateway for a smart phone or DD-WRT.
Seriously, I just spent a bunch of time playing with Tahoe-LAFS. And while it's a bit tricky to get running, it's a far better service in terms of security than MEGA is. The only thing it's missing is a front-end that allows it to use random cloud storage providers for its storage. And that's being written as we speak.
Yes, though I think this release is a little worse than most in that regard for the majority of packages. And the installer being so broken is a really new thing for Fedora. I think it greatly contributed to an overall lack of testing and is the reason the rest seems a little more broken than usual.
So, after I got a working install, mysteriously all of my windows end up blank. It seems to be some sort of weird font issue. I got them to show up correctly once, but they don't anymore.
And I have 5 or ten partitions scattered over 4 disks. I have three separate btrfs volumes, and a smattering of other things. It was nearly impossible to get the install to do something reasonable. I ended up telling it to use the one disk I had that I could wipe most stuff out on.
And then, after I got it installed I tried to move it to where I really wanted it. Unfortunately grub2 has a very obtuse configuration, and it was really hard to get everything booting again after I moved the data around to the partitions and subvolumes I created after the install was over.
I too keep a separate/home, and have done ever since I started running a version of Unix at home in 1992 or so. And no, I wasn't willing to let the installer anywhere near that partition. So I had to point it at the right/home after the install was finished.
Oh, and the logout button went away if you don't have other users or windowing systems. Of course, you know, maybe I want to log out in order to re-read a configuration or something. But no, I have to do a bunch of googling to figure out how to even turn the stupid thing back on.
*sigh* I"m really fed up with this. I've spent a total of 5 or 6 full days worth of my time fighting with installer issues on various systems. If I can't install something, it's worthless to me. And I'm certain that a lot of the other little issues I'm seeing have to do with the fact that they likely had 25%-50% the number of people looking at it pre-release because the installer is so bad.
The only thing I've really liked is that the nouveau driver appears to have fixed a couple of irritating display corruption issues.
I've actually contributed a bunch to Fedora in the form of detailed and useful bug reports. I've also contributed code patches to other areas of the distro. I also have some code (some of it fairly non-trivial) in other Open Source projects that Fedora ships. I'm not someone who is just sitting back and complaining. Heck, I contributed a detailed bug report and a patch to btrfs last week.
It is sorely tempting to dive into current GUI technology so I can re-write Anaconda to actually be reasonable. But, of course, it would take months of effort. And I'd end up getting bored and abandoning it because while this stuff is incredibly irritating when it's done badly (and I can list out exactly why it's done badly if someone actually cares enough to listen) I don't actually care enough stay interested unless I'm getting paid.
That's why every single person doesn't write their very own personalized copy of Linux. We all have different strengths. And it's why we sit and argue and complain and try to work the best way. It's so we all can maximally benefit from each other's work.
I am also extremely disappointed in this Fedora release. The installer is confusing and exhibits seemingly random behavior. I was so overjoyed I managed to get it to install it the way I wanted just once on a VM that I went and tried to install in a number of other places. No go.
And after you install, a lot of things are kind of buggy and seemingly incomplete.
Of course, since the installer didn't really work at all until you got to release candidate 4 or so, I can't really expect any other part of the system to have been decently tested.
This is a horrible release and should be skipped. If Fedora continues to go in this direction, I will have to abandon it, despite the fact that the only other decent alternative is Ubuntu, and I despise it. I've been an RH/Fedora user since 1999 or so.
I do think though that some laws should be adjusted because the sentences are way out of proportion to the harm caused. For example, unless you are doing it for personal gain (like extortion), a DDOS should be considered a fairly minor crime.
Oh and it would help if your really bad artist friend actually linked to some real cases, with the FULL story.
This artist is not 'my friend'. This comic is a random tidbit of information I found on the Internet, and I have no idea who it is that drew it, and I've never met with them or interacted with them before in my life. (At least, not to my knowledge.)
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If TPB wins, the copyright maximalists end up with egg on their face over a law even they can't seem to follow. I will admit that the TPB winning this case is actually the worst outcome. Though the hay they can make while it's going on is almost worth it. I'm imagining the copyright maximalists are going to have some pretty interesting defenses.
But, if they lose, it's really clear that this is all about making sure the rules apply to the 'right' people. And it will done in a really public way that tells the people who vote that they don't count. And, of course, the people who vote still do count in Finland, and maybe they'll get off their collective behinds and do something about it.
Yes, the people complaining about the hypocrisy of TPB here are really missing the point. This isn't hypocrisy, it's high satire with the legal system playing the straight man. It's brilliant.
I would agree. Though I don't feel it's so much left-leaning as Democrat supporting. I don't feel like the Democrats are really the left anymore. Just a different club with a different name that does mostly the same thing.
It's interesting who comes out to support which club when. Because then you can then often tell the people who are more interested in politics than policy.
Actually, the media bias is 'establishment'. And there's research to prove it. Establishment frequently errors on the side of government power, which is why there is sometimes a seeming left-leaning bias. But it's purely an accident of the fact that the left has been trying to use control over government for the past few decades to try to force people to act more like the left thinks they ought to. When the establishment that happens to be challenged is right-leaning (like the car culture of the US) then the media is seemingly right-leaning.
And this goes right along with your narrative of corporate bias. Large corporations are entities that have managed to make themselves part of the 'establishment' by playing the right political games. Some corporations get large without doing this, but until they do they will be subject to media attack.
I would say the opposite. It seems that some people seem to have already decided that electric cars are a flop. And if they don't flop on cue, then it's the reviewers job to make them flop. The thing everybody seems to criticize about them is range. But it seems that this criticism is totally off base, and reviewers who want to highlight it need to make stuff up in order to do so.
It's the solution humans use in gesture-based communication. Eye contact. The computer needs an obvious eye, and the software needs to be able to tell when the user is looking at it. Bonus points if the eye can blink or move or otherwise express the computer's understanding of the gesture.
Well, that sounds nice. But the fact is, they don't assume liability. When someone uses a credit card fraudulently and the owner discovers this and refuses the charges the merchant gets hit with a chargeback. So no, they don't deserve the money they get.
Depends on my informal feeling about the 'risk level' of the machine. Some of them I do, but I also generally use an agent and don't type my key in unless I've explicitly run the program to load the key into the agent. In order to trojan that process, they have to break into my system. And if they succeed at that, I have far, far more to worry about than the compromised ssh keys.
Observations of the gravitational lensing caused by far away galaxies in the process of merging have distinctly shown concentrations of something that's lensing the light that's not in either of the two galaxies. There are also other observations that kill any possible 'alternate law of gravity' explanations.
I thought these explanations were interesting myself and I've been paying attention to the topic. And there's been a lot of study of these ideas, because you're right, positing a brand new form of matter is a big step. And study leads to experiments. And the experiments have lead to the general consensus is that dark matter has to be something that has mass and doesn't otherwise interact with light (or normal matter) at all.
I never use passwords with ssh. If ssh asks me for a password, I know something is wrong. I made this policy decision because of the endless attempts to log into my machine from all over the world. It was either something like a yubikey, or only using public key authentication. I went for the public key authentication.
My encrypted HD is more secure than Mega is. This is because I have physical control over the devices my password is typed into and where the decryption happens. It has nothing to do with any other part of the technology, only that. And yes, I periodically examine my computer to make sure nobody has stuck a keylogger in between my keyboard and the computer.
Of course, I still think Tahoe-LAFS is a better idea. :-)
I sort of like bleeding edge. And yum support would be nice. So would systemd support. I will have to take a look at Mageia. Not sure if they do yum. But it looks like they're transitioning to systemd. That's a nice thing.
Or, without actually delving into their Javascript to verify their claims myself it's correct.
I still don't like the idea of them holding the key, even encrypted. It does set it up so if a government wants to figure out what files I have, they have to get Mega to capture my key after my password decrypts it, but that's not so hard.
But that sort of thing is still significantly better than most cloud storage services.
You should read those contracts. You do indeed have some leeway in them. Once they're offering you a contract, they want to hire you. If you want to change a few clauses, they will likely be fine with it, especially ones that aren't actually enforceable.
And lest you just think I'm dreaming, I've done this. I've listed out specific projects of my own that were off limits for them claiming ownership later and things like that.
They apparently needed to re-write it because it had gotten too crufty on the inside. But they took the opportunity to 'fix' the UI, which didn't really need that much fixing. I'm all for those sorts of experiments, but they should be baked before being released.
You can access the gateway with a web browser if you want to. And the issue of whether or not the gateway is under your control is entirely up to you. It would be possible to write a gateway for a smart phone or DD-WRT.
Seriously, I just spent a bunch of time playing with Tahoe-LAFS. And while it's a bit tricky to get running, it's a far better service in terms of security than MEGA is. The only thing it's missing is a front-end that allows it to use random cloud storage providers for its storage. And that's being written as we speak.
Yes, though I think this release is a little worse than most in that regard for the majority of packages. And the installer being so broken is a really new thing for Fedora. I think it greatly contributed to an overall lack of testing and is the reason the rest seems a little more broken than usual.
So, after I got a working install, mysteriously all of my windows end up blank. It seems to be some sort of weird font issue. I got them to show up correctly once, but they don't anymore.
And I have 5 or ten partitions scattered over 4 disks. I have three separate btrfs volumes, and a smattering of other things. It was nearly impossible to get the install to do something reasonable. I ended up telling it to use the one disk I had that I could wipe most stuff out on.
And then, after I got it installed I tried to move it to where I really wanted it. Unfortunately grub2 has a very obtuse configuration, and it was really hard to get everything booting again after I moved the data around to the partitions and subvolumes I created after the install was over.
I too keep a separate /home, and have done ever since I started running a version of Unix at home in 1992 or so. And no, I wasn't willing to let the installer anywhere near that partition. So I had to point it at the right /home after the install was finished.
Oh, and the logout button went away if you don't have other users or windowing systems. Of course, you know, maybe I want to log out in order to re-read a configuration or something. But no, I have to do a bunch of googling to figure out how to even turn the stupid thing back on.
*sigh* I"m really fed up with this. I've spent a total of 5 or 6 full days worth of my time fighting with installer issues on various systems. If I can't install something, it's worthless to me. And I'm certain that a lot of the other little issues I'm seeing have to do with the fact that they likely had 25%-50% the number of people looking at it pre-release because the installer is so bad.
The only thing I've really liked is that the nouveau driver appears to have fixed a couple of irritating display corruption issues.
I've actually contributed a bunch to Fedora in the form of detailed and useful bug reports. I've also contributed code patches to other areas of the distro. I also have some code (some of it fairly non-trivial) in other Open Source projects that Fedora ships. I'm not someone who is just sitting back and complaining. Heck, I contributed a detailed bug report and a patch to btrfs last week.
It is sorely tempting to dive into current GUI technology so I can re-write Anaconda to actually be reasonable. But, of course, it would take months of effort. And I'd end up getting bored and abandoning it because while this stuff is incredibly irritating when it's done badly (and I can list out exactly why it's done badly if someone actually cares enough to listen) I don't actually care enough stay interested unless I'm getting paid.
That's why every single person doesn't write their very own personalized copy of Linux. We all have different strengths. And it's why we sit and argue and complain and try to work the best way. It's so we all can maximally benefit from each other's work.
I am also extremely disappointed in this Fedora release. The installer is confusing and exhibits seemingly random behavior. I was so overjoyed I managed to get it to install it the way I wanted just once on a VM that I went and tried to install in a number of other places. No go.
And after you install, a lot of things are kind of buggy and seemingly incomplete.
Of course, since the installer didn't really work at all until you got to release candidate 4 or so, I can't really expect any other part of the system to have been decently tested.
This is a horrible release and should be skipped. If Fedora continues to go in this direction, I will have to abandon it, despite the fact that the only other decent alternative is Ubuntu, and I despise it. I've been an RH/Fedora user since 1999 or so.
Yes, I agree completely.
I do think though that some laws should be adjusted because the sentences are way out of proportion to the harm caused. For example, unless you are doing it for personal gain (like extortion), a DDOS should be considered a fairly minor crime.
Yes, I have. I tend to limit the number of exhortation to action posts I make, but I will likely post about that one sometime soon.
Oh and it would help if your really bad artist friend actually linked to some real cases, with the FULL story.
This artist is not 'my friend'. This comic is a random tidbit of information I found on the Internet, and I have no idea who it is that drew it, and I've never met with them or interacted with them before in my life. (At least, not to my knowledge.)