I knew about the BT prohibition/dissuasion and I've never used TOR yet - only looked into it. TOR seems to be pretty involved to setup so I find it hard to believe you missed that part. On the other hand I obviously missed something because I gave up on my quest to try it out because it seemed too involved (also I was mostly interested in using it for BT and since that was a no-no I wasn't really all that interested)
I wish I had more experience like the unrealistically linux optimistic guy than the pro-windows troll.
Unfortunately most hardware drivers I have encountered are less capable or user friendly in linux.
However, linux makes up for it by being so much more sane, something that makes sense and I can fix if broken, something with the most awesome free tools and most of the advice about it is useful vs. for windoze the advice is to either reboot or buy something I don't need. Also the hardware interaction isn't only about drivers. I switched out my motherboard and swapped around HDD without battling an eyelash in linux and I think Windows literally tries to prevent you doing such things (proprietary security issues)
Don't underestimate the destructive power of the Olympics. Even if you think its bad now, the Olympics can and will make it worse.
fiveringcircus.com (and this movie was made years ago long before the recent egregious abuses of the public happened - and the damn thing is still a year away)
In Vancouver several years ago there was a stabbing at the summer fireworks (which always brings huge crowds). The police were bragging all over the news that they had this new movable camera in the area and were able to capture footage. I think they may have put the footage on TV news too.
However, I did not hear of any follow up to this - it didn't do any good to have the camera. There is a differance between recording something and preventing something. As well, the resolution can never be high enough to get useful information in many, many cases (because not everyone poses for the camera and acts out what they are doing to make it apparent)
I think the only justification for cameras like this would be if they were all put staight onto the internet. Then the public could democratically monitor the cameras. Sure it brings up privacy concerns and could be used nefariously - but that is the point. It would be public if it was on the net whereas if it remains private then the same abuse happens but we don't know the extent. Unless we are willing to be recorded live onto the internet 100% of the time these public cameras are hypocritical and shouldn't be there.
Cop on every corner would change the nature of crime more likely than reduce it. We would probably have worse legal crime. We would have more violence (unless those cops were unarmed, as civilised cops should be)
I would be for it if they had to wear pink and if being a cop was a rotating position among all community members and the job of police was to protect people #1 rather than protect private property.
I agree that anti-union laws are treacherous - one should have a right to combine with whomever you want to protect yourself (even if you are a worker and not an owner)
All those legal guns however should be outlawed. Shooting at people only solves the problem of making a bullet go very fast, not crime. Shooting at someone is a crime (because you are either trying to or threatening to kill someone) as it should be... killing is wrong - point blank.
You don't know many people obviously. The pirate bay is the free as in freedom tracker. Yes, that does happen to - in this case - mean free beer. But that's just the perk. TPB is the least commercially involved tracker I know of (Other than tiny linux only ones). If you are going to complain about any particular BT site being all about the "free beer" take and don't give back model - TPB would be last on that list. TPB subverts censorship on other BT sites.
You and I both owe them something because the internet now is as free as it is due in some small but significant part due to them.
That seems to make sense. Why haven't people in the USA constiutionally challenged copyright law on the grounds of promoting science and art? Too expensive or not legally realistic? If it is the former, then it would behoove use all (even those outside the USA) to challenged this right where the intellectual enclosure movement originates. Let's start a legal fund (after we help piratebay or concurrently)!
Seriously, this is a bad, repressive set of laws.
The hardest part is public opinion of course. Plently of laws have been struck down about copyright only to be resurrected by lawmakers. The problem is the same media companies leading this enclosure movement are the ones giving the public the basic facts to make their decisions on such as all the nonsense about pirating losing the industry money (when it actually does them free legwork).
And, not that I feel obligated to do so just because I share online - but, I'm doing tones of free distribution and advertising work when I BT (And, I have heard there is some money in those areas) and am buying more than I would if there were no torrent. Until BT came along the movie industry was dying. Now, all of a sudden, movies are being made smaller and more intelligently - they know their audience better than they did when they only used focus groups. I would never buy a movie 15 years ago (why buy something you can rent for cheaper and you really only want to watch it once anyway)... fastforward to now that I download and collect so many free movies I also buy some straighforwardly for the same reasons you mention about simplicity versus free as well as to support stuff I really really like but obviously could use the contribution.
Its scary how people who are sharing and not hurting others are so demonized effectively with all this "pirate" nonsense. TPB people are more intelligent than average and hopefully will survive this and also --- maybe this will lead to some needed tracker decentrilisation because TPB is carrying too much of the load right now.
Wow, I never knew about the middle button. That is cool, thanks! I just use the Ctrl+C+V. Also I use Glipper in Gnome. It is a bit buggy (Just when the desktop starts up) and there are other free clipboard managers out there but I have never had any serious problems. It keeps the last 50 (or whatever I set) cut and pastes for me. It also would work with stuff you just select but I turned that feature off because it annoyed me. I like the idea of having that as one system and the middle button as a 2nd system. Cool - thanks!
The hard part for me is the Ctrl+Shift+V in the terminal. I use that so often that I get confused if I'm in the terminal or the firefox and then press Shift in the wrong place and have to do it twice because I did it wrong the first time.
What? I've never had a problem using alien to convert and rpm to deb!? What planet are you from and what packages are you using? I don't even have any examples of packages I have converted that I recall because it has always been so easy and painless I never gave it a 2nd thought... Actually, come to think of it, an example off the top of my head that I do remember now is the LVM GUI for Redhat. I'm on Ubuntu and they don't make a deb if I remember correctly. I can't tell you the exact name but it's the only one so it would be easy to Google. I've used it many other times but that's the only obviously rpm that I can think of and I remember the process because LVM was a learning process.
Ah, now I see your sig. Linuxhaters. No wonder you are talking nonsense. I went to that site (a long time ago) hoping to find something funny or insightful but it is just bitter and not very accurate. There's lots of room to poke at Linux -no doubt- but that ideological site doesn't do it constructively, just whining.
On the other hand I use Ubuntu so pretty much everything has an Ubuntu version because it is so popular I imagine if you used a less popular distro you would have more problems than I have had... But Alien is part of the simplicity of using the popular distro - yes it works.
Put XP in Virtualbox. I did it, works great. It might be hard to move your existing XP - I did it with a fresh install version (Actually a free beer VM pre-setup version) If you want files that are not in the.vdi but normal filesystem create a fat32 partition and put them there then register that in XP as a new hard drive.
It some fiddling to set up but mostly just the getting use to it part. But it's really nice that if windows crashes i don't have to reboot, i have dead easy snapshots, I can use the OS best suited to the task rather than just the one I am booted into.
Actually When I bought one (9 months ago) it was certainly possible but not easy to get to the Ubuntu part. The default was to not have it. Also, the price is higher even though it should be lower (no M$ tax, same hardware) which makes it hard to "accidentally" pay more.
I'm not convinced it's a conspiracy either. But, it could be.
It is hard sometimes if you have hardware issues - and you do... I've got a Dell laptop and still can't get the microphone to work... And this is a machine suposedly designed for Ubuntu Installation (though I had the Windoze version due to a sale)
I agree. My flash is getting buggy lately and I'm on Ubuntu 64 bit. I know I'll be able to fix it... but it's a pain. It was working.
I've been thinking about this since I noticed a regular commentator's sig: "Flash is the real enemy, you know it"
But what can we (open source advocates) do about it? How do you kill flash. (as in make it no longer a required standard - i already know how to have it not work proberly when I need it)
People have stupid problems with all computers. The PRESS ANY KEY issue isn't OS specific.
Realistically, this woman is using Ubuntu as a Scapegoat. As much as we would all like to have had it work for her it didn't. It's the past. The practical lesson is about lobbying against Windows ONLY features for such things as Verizon.
And Ubuntu is already in the consumer market. If you know how to fix it - then do. I know that is an easy answer but it's true and that is how things get done.
This will really make the world a better place. We can fly to the drivethrough and watch a movie at the drive in from ABOVE everybody else... So very useful. Install a toilet in the pilots seat and it's just about purfekt!
I thought of the microsoft logo when I noticed it. I think it is a bag move because they shouldn't be playing catchup to M$ - it's the other way around.
Cars give us a tremendous blindness to the necessity of collective action. We are all just atoms driving cars and the problem is the Others who are Traffic and get in My way.
You are correct in pointing out that the biggest subsidy from those who don't drive to those that do is the Grid - the road network (I always think it is funny how people move out to the Country to get Back to the Land and buy and SUV to do it) but manufacturing systems are heavily subsidised as well (ecologically)
But how could we get around if we didn't have public roads? We can't without some public access. Right now that public access is dominated by private cars and you can't even walk in front of your own house with out threat of getting killed and run over.
Hitler loved the idea of private cars that is why he funded the first comprehensive car network - the Autobahn. He imagined a race of Atomic Supermen! Super individuals. We have become that.
We can't even see how impossible it would be to drive without all this car subsidy/network and how that network excludes all others.
I agree with you on one individual right: We should all be able to walk around safely in public. That means we need to ban cars.
Thanks for giving me a use for the LeetKey firefox plugin for the very first time on your signature! I've had this installed for about 3 months and I've finally now had a chance to use it!
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I knew about the BT prohibition/dissuasion and I've never used TOR yet - only looked into it. TOR seems to be pretty involved to setup so I find it hard to believe you missed that part. On the other hand I obviously missed something because I gave up on my quest to try it out because it seemed too involved (also I was mostly interested in using it for BT and since that was a no-no I wasn't really all that interested)
yeah!
I wish I had more experience like the unrealistically linux optimistic guy than the pro-windows troll.
Unfortunately most hardware drivers I have encountered are less capable or user friendly in linux.
However, linux makes up for it by being so much more sane, something that makes sense and I can fix if broken, something with the most awesome free tools and most of the advice about it is useful vs. for windoze the advice is to either reboot or buy something I don't need. Also the hardware interaction isn't only about drivers. I switched out my motherboard and swapped around HDD without battling an eyelash in linux and I think Windows literally tries to prevent you doing such things (proprietary security issues)
I'm with you 100% except for the access fee. Cameras are cheap hardware, the watching/using them is the consuming bit.
(so, 75% with you then)
Don't underestimate the destructive power of the Olympics. Even if you think its bad now, the Olympics can and will make it worse.
fiveringcircus.com (and this movie was made years ago long before the recent egregious abuses of the public happened - and the damn thing is still a year away)
In Vancouver several years ago there was a stabbing at the summer fireworks (which always brings huge crowds). The police were bragging all over the news that they had this new movable camera in the area and were able to capture footage. I think they may have put the footage on TV news too.
However, I did not hear of any follow up to this - it didn't do any good to have the camera. There is a differance between recording something and preventing something. As well, the resolution can never be high enough to get useful information in many, many cases (because not everyone poses for the camera and acts out what they are doing to make it apparent)
I think the only justification for cameras like this would be if they were all put staight onto the internet. Then the public could democratically monitor the cameras. Sure it brings up privacy concerns and could be used nefariously - but that is the point. It would be public if it was on the net whereas if it remains private then the same abuse happens but we don't know the extent. Unless we are willing to be recorded live onto the internet 100% of the time these public cameras are hypocritical and shouldn't be there.
Cop on every corner would change the nature of crime more likely than reduce it. We would probably have worse legal crime. We would have more violence (unless those cops were unarmed, as civilised cops should be)
I would be for it if they had to wear pink and if being a cop was a rotating position among all community members and the job of police was to protect people #1 rather than protect private property.
I agree that anti-union laws are treacherous - one should have a right to combine with whomever you want to protect yourself (even if you are a worker and not an owner)
All those legal guns however should be outlawed. Shooting at people only solves the problem of making a bullet go very fast, not crime. Shooting at someone is a crime (because you are either trying to or threatening to kill someone) as it should be... killing is wrong - point blank.
You don't know many people obviously. The pirate bay is the free as in freedom tracker. Yes, that does happen to - in this case - mean free beer. But that's just the perk. TPB is the least commercially involved tracker I know of (Other than tiny linux only ones). If you are going to complain about any particular BT site being all about the "free beer" take and don't give back model - TPB would be last on that list. TPB subverts censorship on other BT sites.
You and I both owe them something because the internet now is as free as it is due in some small but significant part due to them.
That seems to make sense. Why haven't people in the USA constiutionally challenged copyright law on the grounds of promoting science and art? Too expensive or not legally realistic? If it is the former, then it would behoove use all (even those outside the USA) to challenged this right where the intellectual enclosure movement originates. Let's start a legal fund (after we help piratebay or concurrently)!
Seriously, this is a bad, repressive set of laws.
The hardest part is public opinion of course. Plently of laws have been struck down about copyright only to be resurrected by lawmakers. The problem is the same media companies leading this enclosure movement are the ones giving the public the basic facts to make their decisions on such as all the nonsense about pirating losing the industry money (when it actually does them free legwork).
Mod parent up. Right on!
And, not that I feel obligated to do so just because I share online - but, I'm doing tones of free distribution and advertising work when I BT (And, I have heard there is some money in those areas) and am buying more than I would if there were no torrent. Until BT came along the movie industry was dying. Now, all of a sudden, movies are being made smaller and more intelligently - they know their audience better than they did when they only used focus groups. I would never buy a movie 15 years ago (why buy something you can rent for cheaper and you really only want to watch it once anyway)... fastforward to now that I download and collect so many free movies I also buy some straighforwardly for the same reasons you mention about simplicity versus free as well as to support stuff I really really like but obviously could use the contribution.
Its scary how people who are sharing and not hurting others are so demonized effectively with all this "pirate" nonsense. TPB people are more intelligent than average and hopefully will survive this and also --- maybe this will lead to some needed tracker decentrilisation because TPB is carrying too much of the load right now.
"made millions"???
You really think so?
Wow, I never knew about the middle button. That is cool, thanks! I just use the Ctrl+C+V. Also I use Glipper in Gnome. It is a bit buggy (Just when the desktop starts up) and there are other free clipboard managers out there but I have never had any serious problems. It keeps the last 50 (or whatever I set) cut and pastes for me. It also would work with stuff you just select but I turned that feature off because it annoyed me. I like the idea of having that as one system and the middle button as a 2nd system. Cool - thanks!
The hard part for me is the Ctrl+Shift+V in the terminal. I use that so often that I get confused if I'm in the terminal or the firefox and then press Shift in the wrong place and have to do it twice because I did it wrong the first time.
What? I've never had a problem using alien to convert and rpm to deb!? What planet are you from and what packages are you using? I don't even have any examples of packages I have converted that I recall because it has always been so easy and painless I never gave it a 2nd thought... Actually, come to think of it, an example off the top of my head that I do remember now is the LVM GUI for Redhat. I'm on Ubuntu and they don't make a deb if I remember correctly. I can't tell you the exact name but it's the only one so it would be easy to Google. I've used it many other times but that's the only obviously rpm that I can think of and I remember the process because LVM was a learning process.
Ah, now I see your sig. Linuxhaters. No wonder you are talking nonsense. I went to that site (a long time ago) hoping to find something funny or insightful but it is just bitter and not very accurate. There's lots of room to poke at Linux -no doubt- but that ideological site doesn't do it constructively, just whining.
On the other hand I use Ubuntu so pretty much everything has an Ubuntu version because it is so popular I imagine if you used a less popular distro you would have more problems than I have had... But Alien is part of the simplicity of using the popular distro - yes it works.
Put XP in Virtualbox. I did it, works great. It might be hard to move your existing XP - I did it with a fresh install version (Actually a free beer VM pre-setup version) If you want files that are not in the .vdi but normal filesystem create a fat32 partition and put them there then register that in XP as a new hard drive.
It some fiddling to set up but mostly just the getting use to it part. But it's really nice that if windows crashes i don't have to reboot, i have dead easy snapshots, I can use the OS best suited to the task rather than just the one I am booted into.
Actually When I bought one (9 months ago) it was certainly possible but not easy to get to the Ubuntu part. The default was to not have it. Also, the price is higher even though it should be lower (no M$ tax, same hardware) which makes it hard to "accidentally" pay more.
I'm not convinced it's a conspiracy either. But, it could be.
It is hard sometimes if you have hardware issues - and you do... I've got a Dell laptop and still can't get the microphone to work... And this is a machine suposedly designed for Ubuntu Installation (though I had the Windoze version due to a sale)
I agree. My flash is getting buggy lately and I'm on Ubuntu 64 bit. I know I'll be able to fix it... but it's a pain. It was working.
I've been thinking about this since I noticed a regular commentator's sig: "Flash is the real enemy, you know it"
But what can we (open source advocates) do about it? How do you kill flash. (as in make it no longer a required standard - i already know how to have it not work proberly when I need it)
People have stupid problems with all computers. The PRESS ANY KEY issue isn't OS specific.
Realistically, this woman is using Ubuntu as a Scapegoat. As much as we would all like to have had it work for her it didn't. It's the past. The practical lesson is about lobbying against Windows ONLY features for such things as Verizon.
And Ubuntu is already in the consumer market. If you know how to fix it - then do. I know that is an easy answer but it's true and that is how things get done.
"More efficient Fusion..."
This is repulsive!
This will really make the world a better place. We can fly to the drivethrough and watch a movie at the drive in from ABOVE everybody else... So very useful. Install a toilet in the pilots seat and it's just about purfekt!
Because it is a flashy article without substance.
I thought of the microsoft logo when I noticed it. I think it is a bag move because they shouldn't be playing catchup to M$ - it's the other way around.
Cars give us a tremendous blindness to the necessity of collective action. We are all just atoms driving cars and the problem is the Others who are Traffic and get in My way.
You are correct in pointing out that the biggest subsidy from those who don't drive to those that do is the Grid - the road network (I always think it is funny how people move out to the Country to get Back to the Land and buy and SUV to do it) but manufacturing systems are heavily subsidised as well (ecologically)
But how could we get around if we didn't have public roads? We can't without some public access. Right now that public access is dominated by private cars and you can't even walk in front of your own house with out threat of getting killed and run over.
Hitler loved the idea of private cars that is why he funded the first comprehensive car network - the Autobahn. He imagined a race of Atomic Supermen! Super individuals. We have become that.
We can't even see how impossible it would be to drive without all this car subsidy/network and how that network excludes all others.
I agree with you on one individual right: We should all be able to walk around safely in public. That means we need to ban cars.
Thanks for giving me a use for the LeetKey firefox plugin for the very first time on your signature! I've had this installed for about 3 months and I've finally now had a chance to use it!