You can't throw it up in a torrent because you don't have distribution rights for that material, period. As a point of fact, try doing what you described and then notifying the copyright holder of your activities. You'll find yourself in court within a week.
It does this all without a computer, so once you have it set up you can take your laptop out on the road and look forward to a new episode of Criminal Minds when you get home.
Why must people continuously tout the ability of these devices to aid in copyright infringement? Before you stop reading here, consider this: I'm posting this from an Ubuntu laptop. I publish all my software under the GPL and BSD licenses. I publish 99% of my other content under Creative Commons attribution-only licenses. So I'm doing my part to make the IP scene a nicer place.
All that said, it's ridiculous how many people would scream bloody murder over a GPL violation, while they're downloading someone else's content without the publisher's permission. This is beyond dumb, and it's precisely the reason BitTorrent is so poorly regarded by many publishers and ISPs. Yeah, I actually use it to download ISOs and other legal stuff, but to specifically encourage people to use it in ways that defy the law is idiocy.
People can't demand that their own rights be respected while they trample on those of others.
I just haven't had the same experience at all. No major problems with a variety of operating systems (although I mostly use Debian virtual machines). You still have the command line interface tools if you want to script the creation and management of virtual machines, too. I guess our mileages have indeed varied.
In all my years of reading Slashdot, this is the most insightful answer to an honest question I've seen in a long, long time. Here, let me try this tactic.
I guess by comparison to dudes like Warren Buffett I'm pretty poor. It's kinda hard to really figure my relative economic value, though... I'm posting from a laptop I purchased in the last year, operating a couple of development servers connected to this broadband connection, in control of a few production servers in two datacenters, driving a 2006 Hyundai Sonata (hey, I like the car, lay off...), posting on Slashdot in my obvious spare time:).
After, including the rubber stamp apology from those who detained you temporarily. In case you honestly believe it won't work out (assuming you took all the prerequisite steps I mentioned), might I recommend Costa Rica for beach lounging? It certainly has a certain allure to it, and if you're not otherwise engaged (read: married) there are certainly other benefits to the social atmosphere. Personal taste may vary, of course.
Advise as many folks as possible at the State Department of your next trip, post a bunch of blog entries about your plans, call your Senator to let him/her know you'll be taking lots of pictures and keeping detailed notes on your trip, and once everything is confirmed as "high visibility" go ahead and post your thoughts on the new site. Be sure to call a couple of CNN anchors to let them know about all the steps you've taken, and dare Thai officials to do a goddamned thing about your online activities once you get there.
Worst case scenario: you get detained for a couple of days, get international exposure from human rights groups and major media outlets, and sell a book deal on the whole charade. I'd do it myself, but frankly I'm too busy with other pursuits.
I just had a conversation with my future children through my patent-pending Future Convo Iterator(TM), and they're actually pretty happy with the way society turned out. Of course, this is in light of major technological advances in completely unrelated areas... in other words, we're not going to destroy the frigging planet. Have some faith in humanity's relentless drive to outdo itself.
and then pick a host or service that will be around in a decade or two
I'd like to think my favorite host (Linode.com, for those interested in quality VPS hosting) will be around in a decade or two, but I can't even be sure the term "hosting" will mean the same thing by then.
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Bad mental image... must not think of Ballmer in a compromising position... must... stop. Damn you.
BTW, in reference to your username, I did vote for Bush, but I freely admit I was wrong. Sorry about that.
Please don't abuse Perl like that... at least have the decency to call it from a shell script to disguise what you're doing.
You can't throw it up in a torrent because you don't have distribution rights for that material, period. As a point of fact, try doing what you described and then notifying the copyright holder of your activities. You'll find yourself in court within a week.
Yeah, it's pretty jacked up. I stopped reading TFA after the quoted section in my original post.
That's a pretty fruity idea.
The way it is now, I'd have to camp out on someone's Cul-de-sac to find a Fon hotspot.
I was wondering why that van was always parked outside my house. Now I guess I know.
It does this all without a computer, so once you have it set up you can take your laptop out on the road and look forward to a new episode of Criminal Minds when you get home.
Why must people continuously tout the ability of these devices to aid in copyright infringement? Before you stop reading here, consider this: I'm posting this from an Ubuntu laptop. I publish all my software under the GPL and BSD licenses. I publish 99% of my other content under Creative Commons attribution-only licenses. So I'm doing my part to make the IP scene a nicer place.
All that said, it's ridiculous how many people would scream bloody murder over a GPL violation, while they're downloading someone else's content without the publisher's permission. This is beyond dumb, and it's precisely the reason BitTorrent is so poorly regarded by many publishers and ISPs. Yeah, I actually use it to download ISOs and other legal stuff, but to specifically encourage people to use it in ways that defy the law is idiocy.
People can't demand that their own rights be respected while they trample on those of others.
The term you're looking for is whuffie.
I just haven't had the same experience at all. No major problems with a variety of operating systems (although I mostly use Debian virtual machines). You still have the command line interface tools if you want to script the creation and management of virtual machines, too. I guess our mileages have indeed varied.
Right. I'm gonna get extradited to Thailand from the U.S. for a free speech issue. That's pretty funny, man.
In all my years of reading Slashdot, this is the most insightful answer to an honest question I've seen in a long, long time. Here, let me try this tactic.
Mod parent insightful.
Hey mods: How is this offtopic, when it's THE FREAKIN LINK TO THE ARTICLE that the editors somehow messed up in the summary? Jeebus.
Only hosers get the hose, which can really hose up your hosing day.
I retained an attorney for my divorce, does the EU need my logs?
Here ya go.
That, my friend, is an extremely informative post.
Once again, for those who didn't get the top-level reply: I think this is the story Slashdot is attempting to post.
Internet records to be stored for a year.
Thanks, I'll be here all week.
I guess by comparison to dudes like Warren Buffett I'm pretty poor. It's kinda hard to really figure my relative economic value, though... I'm posting from a laptop I purchased in the last year, operating a couple of development servers connected to this broadband connection, in control of a few production servers in two datacenters, driving a 2006 Hyundai Sonata (hey, I like the car, lay off...), posting on Slashdot in my obvious spare time :).
After, including the rubber stamp apology from those who detained you temporarily. In case you honestly believe it won't work out (assuming you took all the prerequisite steps I mentioned), might I recommend Costa Rica for beach lounging? It certainly has a certain allure to it, and if you're not otherwise engaged (read: married) there are certainly other benefits to the social atmosphere. Personal taste may vary, of course.
Advise as many folks as possible at the State Department of your next trip, post a bunch of blog entries about your plans, call your Senator to let him/her know you'll be taking lots of pictures and keeping detailed notes on your trip, and once everything is confirmed as "high visibility" go ahead and post your thoughts on the new site. Be sure to call a couple of CNN anchors to let them know about all the steps you've taken, and dare Thai officials to do a goddamned thing about your online activities once you get there.
Worst case scenario: you get detained for a couple of days, get international exposure from human rights groups and major media outlets, and sell a book deal on the whole charade. I'd do it myself, but frankly I'm too busy with other pursuits.
I just had a conversation with my future children through my patent-pending Future Convo Iterator(TM), and they're actually pretty happy with the way society turned out. Of course, this is in light of major technological advances in completely unrelated areas... in other words, we're not going to destroy the frigging planet. Have some faith in humanity's relentless drive to outdo itself.
That means the ports will be under water, and nothing will come in by sea.
Sounds like an excellent opportunity for those in the business of building ports.
and then pick a host or service that will be around in a decade or two
I'd like to think my favorite host (Linode.com, for those interested in quality VPS hosting) will be around in a decade or two, but I can't even be sure the term "hosting" will mean the same thing by then.
There was this one time when I was on leave, and an old girlfriend of mine had this ice cube, oh wait... I probably shouldn't go into that...