I care about the law, which makes me smart. By the way, instead of blaming copyright law for all these problems, how about blaming the way people license their products? Everyone has a choice to make when it comes to licensing any kind of content; all the articles and other content I produce for my educational resources web site is licensed under share-alike creative commons licenses. Some of it is licensed "not for commercial use", and some is licensed for any use you like as long as you don't modify the work.
Support artists who license their content more in a manner which you find acceptable. I do.
You're asserting that the consequences of wiping out all satellites are somehow appreciably less dire? Especially considering long-term consequences, I think that's laughable. Please find a space-capable nation whose economy wouldn't be devastated by loss of satellite communications. I won't hold my breath.
I think the first part of your post is fine, but when you get to the part about the government extending copyright I think your reasoning got all mixed up. Why would the act of breaking a law provoke the government to extend the lifetime of coverage under the law? I think it more likely that the government might be coerced to enforce harsher penalties for infringement instead.
I have news for you. 70 hour work weeks should not be a part of anyone's "real working world" unless they are the owner or higher level exec in charge of the business (and then that is done by their choice). I have news for you. Your personal opinion of what "should and shouldn't" be a part of someone's working world doesn't matter. The fact is that as long as there is a supply of people willing to do 70+ hours per week in any job, they will be preferentially employed in said job. It's just a basic rule of economics from the company's standpoint.
What you're advocating is throwing away almost all of your waking hours for a job - something that doesn't love you, doesn't even care about you, can be done by someone else if you leave, and on the whole, you don't get any more out of at 70 hours than you do at 40. I was a career software developer before joining the military, and let me tell you: I definitely get more out of 70 hours than 40. Some do, some don't. But making blanket assertions you cannot possible logically back up is just stupid.
There is a lesson you need to learn, and that lesson is drawing reasonable boundaries. Trading your whole, active life for a paycheck is a bad deal no matter how you look at it unless you are only doing it for a couple of years so that you never have to do it again. A lot of people do choose to work extremely long and hard for a relatively short period of time in order to reap the rewards later. It's a personal decision, namely one that is not yours to make for anyone else. As far as not living to work, I'm a personality type that really does live to work. I can't stand being idle, and derive great personal satisfaction from producing as much as I can in any job. I'm not exactly young anymore, compared to a lot of people starting out in I.T.; I'm turning 27 next month and still doing things the way I did at 18. That's a lesson you need to learn: people are different, and while I support your right to manage your work life in any way you see fit, I'll be damned if you'll tell anyone else how to manage theirs.
In the absence of intent, expect people to try to produce negligence. This has happened in cases in unsecured network access by people perpetrating crimes online.
I was with right up to the point you said "I can even make him a copy". No, you cannot legally make him a copy, unless you obtain permission from the publisher of the album (i.e., record label, artist, etc). I could make a CD of nothing but my wife snoring, and I own the copyright to it; you'd run a risk of getting sued for copyright infringement if you distributed copies to your friends (God only knows why you'd want to, but then again, some modern music isn't much better than my wife snoring).
It only takes one person pissing in the pool with a small nuclear biological warfare device or in a major city, and that hasn't happened yet. It would arguably be much harder, and much more cost prohibitive, to launch a rocket capable of inserting significant debris into Earth orbit. Make a list of nations capable of launching rockets into space, then narrow it down to nations who might have an interest in destroying satellites on a wide scale, then narrow that down to nations who wouldn't mind losing their own (newly found, perhaps) ability to utilize their own satellites for their national benefit. Not to mention the fact that any such attack would be easily tracked to the source; it's virtually impossible to launch a rocket into space without lots of people noticing simultaneously. Listen, I understand the theory behind your point, but it's just not plausible in any sort of real world scenario. The consequences would be far too dire for any nation attempting such action.
That's a big "unless", though. Are we coming to the point where we're going to have to file police reports when you get hacked so that you won't be liable for the distribution of stolen music? What about liability insurance for watermarked music? That's exactly the sort of privacy concern I have concerning widespread use of watermarking. Any time a unique identifier could be used to track something after it's been sold (whether it's digital or physical), these concerns come up. I think of parallels to unique tracker chips (perhaps uniquely encoded RFID chips) being embedded in all sorts of stuff; what if a guy kills someone with a kitchen knife he stole from your house that happens to have such a chip in it? An extreme example, sure... but it would make defending yourself more complicated.
Are you unable to comprehend how large the immediate orbital region surrounding out planet is? Or for that matter, exactly how difficult it would be to target only specific satellites, instead of risking wiping out your own with some shotgun approach? I assure you, space access will not be removed from every nation, although nations who make aggressive moves in that direction will meet with some rather nasty consequences.
Their efforts could be shut down by nations capable of launching anti-satellite attacks, which is a rather uncommon and impressive feat. Most nations aren't anywhere near this sort of sophistication, and would be powerless to prevent space-based communications technologies from supporting a broad scale war on their country. Kinda makes the whole idea seem really smart.
Because our junk isn't the result of intentionally detonating explosives in space with the aim of developing technologies designed to disrupt communications, which is kinda the point of the story.
If the Chinese keep up with this sort of behavior, they might just find themselves dodging some new missile debris. All it could take is some serious impact to American communications to tip off a set of rather unpleasant results.
A buddy of mine from base decided that he didn't like the loud volume setting of some of his shipmates' TV shows in the smoke room of our bar on base. He went over to the NEX and bought a universal remote, and proceeded to arbitrarily mute and change the channel on TVs in the bar. Hilarity ensued, especially after several rather drunken sailors realized who the culprit was.
Turning off TVs showing a football game in progress at a sports bar has been shown to cause beer bottles, shot glasses, and college students to defy gravity. The seem to spontaneously launch into the air, gravitating toward the point of RF emission that induced the sports footage vacuum.
You want me to give you my SSN? Which one? There's so many boats; you've gotta specify a hull number. If you can be more specific, maybe the CO would be willing to give you a friendly tour of his boat...
Dude, as a Libertarian I'm always disappointed in our government. The Republican party had a chance to make serious fiscal reform 10 years ago, and ruined it by jumping into bed with the Christian Coalition over some supposed "moray majority" bullshit. The Democratic party pisses me off in many, many ways as well. Neither major party is really worth a damn, and as a result I'm never happy.
I'd like to elaborate on my previous post.
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Disclaimer: I'm about ass-deep in whiskey right now, and fairly sleep deprived. Mod me as you will.
Here's some "true talk" for anybody considering posting a racist troll, whether it's on Slashdot or any other forum on our glorious World Wide Web. While I, as a Constitution-upholding sort of guy, fully support your basic human right of free speech and free expression, I honestly wish all you racist pricks would die a slow and painful death at the hands of a seriously disturbed motherfucker. I'm generally against capital punishment, with you assholes as my sole exception. Sidenote: Yep, a conservative libertarian serving in the military (hard-liners, please don't bother posting your objections to military service, I have my reasons), I'm against a justice system which could kill one innocent person.
I'm a 26 year old white guy, born and raised in Stone Mountain, Georgia. I was a career software developer and network security specialist before joining the Navy about a year and a half ago. My whole life, I've had to deal with uneducated, fuckwitted racist pricks. They're not all from the South, by the way, not by a long shot... here's some stuff to consider before your punk ass little 15 year old hands click the "Submit Comment" button on your favorite forum.
Thousands of your fellow citizens, who happened to be black, fought and died in World Wars I and II. Thousands more fought and died in Korea and Vietnam. I serve our nation alongside thousands more, many of whom are Iraq and Afghanistan right now bleeding because they chose to enlist in the armed forces of our nation and "obey the orders of those appointed over them." Many of those I serve alongside in the submarine community happen to be black.
I'll make you an offer. Why don't you email me at philip.paradis@palegray.net and give me some solid contact information I can work with? I'd love to have a friendly chat with you regarding your views on racial equality. If you're out of my liberty area, that's no problem... I'm sure I can get in touch with somebody in the service in your neighborhood who would be delighted to have a friendly wrestling match with your bitch ass. I'm sure you're a fucking pussy who won't actually own up to your childish behavior, but that's okay... I'm still out here defending your right to post asinine comments on public forums. So go fuck yourself.
Actually, I'm a conservative libertarian (who also happens to be caucasian, if you were wondering). That post just happened to push my "holy freaking crap what a fucktard" button. I hate stupidity in any form, with many of the worst examples being the perpetuation of pointless and unjustified abuse of any demographic. As far as politics go, in the upcoming election, I'm telling everyone I know the same thing: we can argue all day long about who you're voting for, but for God's sake, vote!
I figured the link in the parent post was a troll, but clicked it anyways... stupid me. That is genuinely disturbing, and I mean that in a psychologically painful sort of way. Wow.
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I've seen some typos in story bodies recently, but not in a story title... who is Netfilx? Are they the new, hot, up-and-coming competitor to Netflix?
I care about the law, which makes me smart. By the way, instead of blaming copyright law for all these problems, how about blaming the way people license their products? Everyone has a choice to make when it comes to licensing any kind of content; all the articles and other content I produce for my educational resources web site is licensed under share-alike creative commons licenses. Some of it is licensed "not for commercial use", and some is licensed for any use you like as long as you don't modify the work.
Support artists who license their content more in a manner which you find acceptable. I do.
You're asserting that the consequences of wiping out all satellites are somehow appreciably less dire? Especially considering long-term consequences, I think that's laughable. Please find a space-capable nation whose economy wouldn't be devastated by loss of satellite communications. I won't hold my breath.
I think the first part of your post is fine, but when you get to the part about the government extending copyright I think your reasoning got all mixed up. Why would the act of breaking a law provoke the government to extend the lifetime of coverage under the law? I think it more likely that the government might be coerced to enforce harsher penalties for infringement instead.
In the absence of intent, expect people to try to produce negligence. This has happened in cases in unsecured network access by people perpetrating crimes online.
I was with right up to the point you said "I can even make him a copy". No, you cannot legally make him a copy, unless you obtain permission from the publisher of the album (i.e., record label, artist, etc). I could make a CD of nothing but my wife snoring, and I own the copyright to it; you'd run a risk of getting sued for copyright infringement if you distributed copies to your friends (God only knows why you'd want to, but then again, some modern music isn't much better than my wife snoring).
It only takes one person pissing in the pool with a small nuclear biological warfare device or in a major city, and that hasn't happened yet. It would arguably be much harder, and much more cost prohibitive, to launch a rocket capable of inserting significant debris into Earth orbit. Make a list of nations capable of launching rockets into space, then narrow it down to nations who might have an interest in destroying satellites on a wide scale, then narrow that down to nations who wouldn't mind losing their own (newly found, perhaps) ability to utilize their own satellites for their national benefit. Not to mention the fact that any such attack would be easily tracked to the source; it's virtually impossible to launch a rocket into space without lots of people noticing simultaneously. Listen, I understand the theory behind your point, but it's just not plausible in any sort of real world scenario. The consequences would be far too dire for any nation attempting such action.
Recently I have observed an odd trend of people watching Animal Planet in bars. Not just one bar, mind you, it's been several. Very disturbing.
Are you unable to comprehend how large the immediate orbital region surrounding out planet is? Or for that matter, exactly how difficult it would be to target only specific satellites, instead of risking wiping out your own with some shotgun approach? I assure you, space access will not be removed from every nation, although nations who make aggressive moves in that direction will meet with some rather nasty consequences.
They're afraid of Intel microprocessors? Damn, that's odd...
Their efforts could be shut down by nations capable of launching anti-satellite attacks, which is a rather uncommon and impressive feat. Most nations aren't anywhere near this sort of sophistication, and would be powerless to prevent space-based communications technologies from supporting a broad scale war on their country. Kinda makes the whole idea seem really smart.
Aw crap, somebody read the article :).
Because our junk isn't the result of intentionally detonating explosives in space with the aim of developing technologies designed to disrupt communications, which is kinda the point of the story.
If the Chinese keep up with this sort of behavior, they might just find themselves dodging some new missile debris. All it could take is some serious impact to American communications to tip off a set of rather unpleasant results.
A buddy of mine from base decided that he didn't like the loud volume setting of some of his shipmates' TV shows in the smoke room of our bar on base. He went over to the NEX and bought a universal remote, and proceeded to arbitrarily mute and change the channel on TVs in the bar. Hilarity ensued, especially after several rather drunken sailors realized who the culprit was.
Real programmers publish their resumes in LaTeX format. Unfortunately, only other real programmers can read them.
Turning off TVs showing a football game in progress at a sports bar has been shown to cause beer bottles, shot glasses, and college students to defy gravity. The seem to spontaneously launch into the air, gravitating toward the point of RF emission that induced the sports footage vacuum.
You want me to give you my SSN? Which one? There's so many boats; you've gotta specify a hull number. If you can be more specific, maybe the CO would be willing to give you a friendly tour of his boat...
Dude, as a Libertarian I'm always disappointed in our government. The Republican party had a chance to make serious fiscal reform 10 years ago, and ruined it by jumping into bed with the Christian Coalition over some supposed "moray majority" bullshit. The Democratic party pisses me off in many, many ways as well. Neither major party is really worth a damn, and as a result I'm never happy.
Disclaimer: I'm about ass-deep in whiskey right now, and fairly sleep deprived. Mod me as you will.
Here's some "true talk" for anybody considering posting a racist troll, whether it's on Slashdot or any other forum on our glorious World Wide Web. While I, as a Constitution-upholding sort of guy, fully support your basic human right of free speech and free expression, I honestly wish all you racist pricks would die a slow and painful death at the hands of a seriously disturbed motherfucker. I'm generally against capital punishment, with you assholes as my sole exception. Sidenote: Yep, a conservative libertarian serving in the military (hard-liners, please don't bother posting your objections to military service, I have my reasons), I'm against a justice system which could kill one innocent person.
I'm a 26 year old white guy, born and raised in Stone Mountain, Georgia. I was a career software developer and network security specialist before joining the Navy about a year and a half ago. My whole life, I've had to deal with uneducated, fuckwitted racist pricks. They're not all from the South, by the way, not by a long shot... here's some stuff to consider before your punk ass little 15 year old hands click the "Submit Comment" button on your favorite forum.
Thousands of your fellow citizens, who happened to be black, fought and died in World Wars I and II. Thousands more fought and died in Korea and Vietnam. I serve our nation alongside thousands more, many of whom are Iraq and Afghanistan right now bleeding because they chose to enlist in the armed forces of our nation and "obey the orders of those appointed over them." Many of those I serve alongside in the submarine community happen to be black.
I'll make you an offer. Why don't you email me at philip.paradis@palegray.net and give me some solid contact information I can work with? I'd love to have a friendly chat with you regarding your views on racial equality. If you're out of my liberty area, that's no problem... I'm sure I can get in touch with somebody in the service in your neighborhood who would be delighted to have a friendly wrestling match with your bitch ass. I'm sure you're a fucking pussy who won't actually own up to your childish behavior, but that's okay... I'm still out here defending your right to post asinine comments on public forums. So go fuck yourself.
Actually, I'm a conservative libertarian (who also happens to be caucasian, if you were wondering). That post just happened to push my "holy freaking crap what a fucktard" button. I hate stupidity in any form, with many of the worst examples being the perpetuation of pointless and unjustified abuse of any demographic. As far as politics go, in the upcoming election, I'm telling everyone I know the same thing: we can argue all day long about who you're voting for, but for God's sake, vote!
I'm going to burn some karma here while replying to a troll. So sue me. I direct the following at the parent poster:
Fuck you and the cunt of a mother you were expelled from, you stinking little fucktard racist prick.
Thank you, I feel much better now.
I figured the link in the parent post was a troll, but clicked it anyways... stupid me. That is genuinely disturbing, and I mean that in a psychologically painful sort of way. Wow.