No offense but if you consider building a porn site morally wrong, I'd hate to see what other moral stands you take.
Ever know anyone who has been in thre porn industry? It is not exactly a "happy funtime" industry to work in. Unless reaching the status of a Jenna Jamison or Ron Jeremy, they are considered little more than filthy whores, and treated as less than dirt. Suicide is not all that uncommon.
Perhaps his moral reluctance was not at the concept of porn, but what the industry has become and what ot does to people.
(full disclosure, I am not now, nor have ever worked in the porn industry, much to the relief of porn viewers everywhere)
What do you mean don't fall for it? They can fake a DDOS attack or a hacked site without anyone actually even trying. Heck, they probably have the "linux rulz, sco sucks!!" hacked page already done up and ready to post when they need a stock boost.
Oh so it is a checks and balances system. Can you reference where in the Constitution, Federalist Papers, etc. a two party system is recommended and for what reasons?
Sorry to burst your bubble, but there is no designed reason why we have a two party system. It just evolved that way. I suspect as more and more people get pissed with the two party candidates (which I have never seen so bad as this year, it seems nobody is voting FOR either of these clowns, just against the other clown), then we will see it evolve into a multi party system. We may be seeing the beginning of that now.
I'll give you that, however (and while we are already off topic) any goodwill that should be tossed Gore's way for helping fund the internet was voided in my book when we became the strongest and most vocal supporter of the government's Clipper Chip scam. All that good work in getting funding was almost put to waste when he decided that US citizens and companies should only have access to broken, fed created encryption and that all private research and development on encryption should be made illegal.
His "betrayal" of the US citizens and attempt (basically) to drive all tech companies out of the US was a major reason I voted against him.
Besides, why his party? Why not the Greens, and the Communists too?
Why not indeed. I say have a four or five way debate. However if you are wondering why Libertarian rather than the others, it is because they are by far the most successful third party in the US at the moment.
Well, arguably depending on your age you may have never seen a real presidential debate. since 1988 they have been little more than staged press releases.
I've seen many debates on a smaller scale that involved more than two people, and they worked fine. I agree there has to be some arbitrary limit, but 2 seems awfully restrictive, especially when you take into account the two total losers we ended up with. 3 or 4 would at least give you better odds on seeing someone actually worth voting for, rather than against.
Giuliani might run but won't have the conservative base behind him.
The beauty of it is that he won't need the conservative base to be voting for him, they will be to busy voting against Hillary to notice who they are voting for. She will not win, and in no small part to her abrasive and "cold" attitude. Carville will never be president for the same reason (and Dole lost big on this too).
The DNC completely missed this point when they put Kerry up instead of someone like Clark. The hard core left will vote for whoever they put up against Bush, because they want him out of office more than anything. It is the middle ground they forgot (and need). It is too easy to characterize (and not without good reason) Kerry as a way-left, nutball liberal, which turns off moderates.
Also keep in mind that moderate does not mean "ambilavant" or "soft on issues", it usually means that someone has several strongly held views from both sides of the spectrum, and has to almost tally them up and weight them to see which candidate supports the bulk of their beliefs about how the country should be managed.
That's a symmetric key you are talking about, how are you going to securly distribute that symetric key for purposes of setting up your secure conection? With an asymmetric key you say? That WILL be broken in the not-so distant future.
1) Roughly what percent of your music collection is unauthorized files from P2P like Kazaa, FTP, etc.?
Roughly 10%
2) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from sources like iTunes Music Store, eMusic, etc?
Roughly 10%
3) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from shareable sources like Creative Commons-licensed music?
None, but I really need to start investigating this more.
4) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from rips of your own CDs?
70%
5) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from rips of friends' CDs?
10% from my Dad and Brother's CDs. I do not believe I have ever ripped a friends (I however on rare occation allowed my friends to rip mine)
Basically I stopped buying CDs about a year ago, and have been purchasing pretty much all my music from iTMS (and promptly deDRM it on principle alone). I still have a few (150 or so) that I do not legally own (the ones from my Dad and brother are questionable too I guess but who has ever gotten busted for sharing CDs with family?).
You are missing music you yourself created. Five of my mp3s are my old band's:)
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Some food for thought:
In any situation, 49.99% are bringing the average down.
I've voted with my wallet. I've chopped my yearly CD consumption from close to 1/week to 2 in the last year.
As have I, the few CDs I have purchased I have done so straight from the artist's site (a couple of indies, TMBG, and two Guster CDs)
But at the same time, I have not been downloading copyrighted materials. It seems a lot of people get the first part of the protest right (stop buying CDs) but slack off on the second part (don't break the law by downloading them anyway).
I'm in complete agreement with you about music as it relates to IP, the laws as they stand now are very wrong and need to change.
HOWEVER, that doesn't mean you can break them and expect to not be punished, you might. If instead of downloading the latest NSync single all of these people were spending their time campaigning against the state of music IP (or at least searching out non RIAA music to support) they would be making a real difference.
We have a huge population who feel that digital music cannot and should not be treated as legal property, however instead of doing anything meaningful to solve that problem they are just ignoring the laws and bitching when they get caught.
So the solution of course is to ensure that they do not accidently send subpoenas to the wrong person. Unfortunately this has happened a few times that we know about and the cases were dropped (ie. lives not ruined).
A few people have had their lives ruined by being falsely accused (and convicted) of pretty much every crime ranging from burglary to murder. Should we stop going after these criminals too?
Sorry, I have the utmost sympathy for those few who were wrongfully accused, however I have no sympathy for those who are flagrantly breaking the law then whining about getting caught. Going after the people illegally sharing copywritten material is the correct action to take, IMO. MUCH better than going after the tools and the authors of the tools which may or may not be used illegally.
Best quote 'It's almost as if having lost its bitterly fought case against the p2p application owners and failed in its many obvious (and expensive) attempts to disrupt the p2p networks, the music industry is now determined to vent its wrath on helpless men, women and children who can't hope to stand up to it with its tremendous political and financial power.'"
How about this instead:
"It's almost as if having lost its bitterly fought case against the p2p application owners and failed in its many obvious (and expensive) attempts to disrupt the p2p networks, the music industry is now determined to vent its wrath on the actual men women who are breaking the law and causing the problems on the first place"
Do you really think there are is a higher percentage (per-capita) of intellligent educated people in urban vs non-urban areas? Is all that street crime, gang warefare, and drug culture coming from Harvard PhDs?
Consider this, if you were really that smart, would you choose to live in (a) a rural country side or (b) a metropolitan area.
I've been in both and frankly you can have your crime infested, filthy, urban wasteland:)
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No offense but if you consider building a porn site morally wrong, I'd hate to see what other moral stands you take.
Ever know anyone who has been in thre porn industry? It is not exactly a "happy funtime" industry to work in. Unless reaching the status of a Jenna Jamison or Ron Jeremy, they are considered little more than filthy whores, and treated as less than dirt. Suicide is not all that uncommon.
Perhaps his moral reluctance was not at the concept of porn, but what the industry has become and what ot does to people.
(full disclosure, I am not now, nor have ever worked in the porn industry, much to the relief of porn viewers everywhere)
Finkployd
What do you mean don't fall for it? They can fake a DDOS attack or a hacked site without anyone actually even trying. Heck, they probably have the "linux rulz, sco sucks!!" hacked page already done up and ready to post when they need a stock boost.
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Here are the results of my answers:
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Ummmmm, I did notice, but nobody was talking about that. This was about the Libertarian Suit.
Finkployd
Oh so it is a checks and balances system. Can you reference where in the Constitution, Federalist Papers, etc. a two party system is recommended and for what reasons?
Sorry to burst your bubble, but there is no designed reason why we have a two party system. It just evolved that way. I suspect as more and more people get pissed with the two party candidates (which I have never seen so bad as this year, it seems nobody is voting FOR either of these clowns, just against the other clown), then we will see it evolve into a multi party system. We may be seeing the beginning of that now.
Finkployd
I'll give you that, however (and while we are already off topic) any goodwill that should be tossed Gore's way for helping fund the internet was voided in my book when we became the strongest and most vocal supporter of the government's Clipper Chip scam. All that good work in getting funding was almost put to waste when he decided that US citizens and companies should only have access to broken, fed created encryption and that all private research and development on encryption should be made illegal.
His "betrayal" of the US citizens and attempt (basically) to drive all tech companies out of the US was a major reason I voted against him.
Finkployd
Besides, why his party? Why not the Greens, and the Communists too?
Why not indeed. I say have a four or five way debate. However if you are wondering why Libertarian rather than the others, it is because they are by far the most successful third party in the US at the moment.
Finkployd
Well, arguably depending on your age you may have never seen a real presidential debate. since 1988 they have been little more than staged press releases.
I've seen many debates on a smaller scale that involved more than two people, and they worked fine. I agree there has to be some arbitrary limit, but 2 seems awfully restrictive, especially when you take into account the two total losers we ended up with. 3 or 4 would at least give you better odds on seeing someone actually worth voting for, rather than against.
Finkployd
The accurate word you are looking for is "copyright infringment"
Ok, two words.
Finkployd
Um, yes, who said we were talking criminal vs civil?
You said it wasn't a law, you didn't specify what kind of law you were talking about.
Finkployd
Giuliani might run but won't have the conservative base behind him.
The beauty of it is that he won't need the conservative base to be voting for him, they will be to busy voting against Hillary to notice who they are voting for. She will not win, and in no small part to her abrasive and "cold" attitude. Carville will never be president for the same reason (and Dole lost big on this too).
The DNC completely missed this point when they put Kerry up instead of someone like Clark. The hard core left will vote for whoever they put up against Bush, because they want him out of office more than anything. It is the middle ground they forgot (and need). It is too easy to characterize (and not without good reason) Kerry as a way-left, nutball liberal, which turns off moderates.
Also keep in mind that moderate does not mean "ambilavant" or "soft on issues", it usually means that someone has several strongly held views from both sides of the spectrum, and has to almost tally them up and weight them to see which candidate supports the bulk of their beliefs about how the country should be managed.
That's a symmetric key you are talking about, how are you going to securly distribute that symetric key for purposes of setting up your secure conection? With an asymmetric key you say? That WILL be broken in the not-so distant future.
Finkployd
To be perfectly honest:
:)
1) Roughly what percent of your music collection is unauthorized files from P2P like Kazaa, FTP, etc.?
Roughly 10%
2) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from sources like iTunes Music Store, eMusic, etc?
Roughly 10%
3) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from shareable sources like Creative Commons-licensed music?
None, but I really need to start investigating this more.
4) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from rips of your own CDs?
70%
5) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from rips of friends' CDs?
10% from my Dad and Brother's CDs. I do not believe I have ever ripped a friends (I however on rare occation allowed my friends to rip mine)
Basically I stopped buying CDs about a year ago, and have been purchasing pretty much all my music from iTMS (and promptly deDRM it on principle alone). I still have a few (150 or so) that I do not legally own (the ones from my Dad and brother are questionable too I guess but who has ever gotten busted for sharing CDs with family?).
You are missing music you yourself created. Five of my mp3s are my old band's
Finkployd
Some food for thought:
In any situation, 49.99% are bringing the average down.
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90% of the comments in this thread are completely clueless, "THIS WILL STOP US FROM LOADING LINUX", alarmists.
THIS should have been posted with the story, not Michael's snarky, cluless little comment (note: how is this guy still an editor?)
Finkployd
I've voted with my wallet. I've chopped my yearly CD consumption from close to 1/week to 2 in the last year.
As have I, the few CDs I have purchased I have done so straight from the artist's site (a couple of indies, TMBG, and two Guster CDs)
But at the same time, I have not been downloading copyrighted materials. It seems a lot of people get the first part of the protest right (stop buying CDs) but slack off on the second part (don't break the law by downloading them anyway).
Finkployd
I'm in complete agreement with you about music as it relates to IP, the laws as they stand now are very wrong and need to change.
HOWEVER, that doesn't mean you can break them and expect to not be punished, you might. If instead of downloading the latest NSync single all of these people were spending their time campaigning against the state of music IP (or at least searching out non RIAA music to support) they would be making a real difference.
We have a huge population who feel that digital music cannot and should not be treated as legal property, however instead of doing anything meaningful to solve that problem they are just ignoring the laws and bitching when they get caught.
Finkployd
THEY AREN'T BREAKING ANY damn laws.
Does *everyone* on slashdot seem to think copyright infringement is a legal matter? It's *not* - otherwise, they're frikking be in jail.
Speeding is breaking a damn law, and I've never been frikking put in jail for it.
The damn law you do not believe exists is well documented here
Finkployd
So the solution of course is to ensure that they do not accidently send subpoenas to the wrong person. Unfortunately this has happened a few times that we know about and the cases were dropped (ie. lives not ruined).
A few people have had their lives ruined by being falsely accused (and convicted) of pretty much every crime ranging from burglary to murder. Should we stop going after these criminals too?
Sorry, I have the utmost sympathy for those few who were wrongfully accused, however I have no sympathy for those who are flagrantly breaking the law then whining about getting caught. Going after the people illegally sharing copywritten material is the correct action to take, IMO. MUCH better than going after the tools and the authors of the tools which may or may not be used illegally.
Finkployd
Best quote 'It's almost as if having lost its bitterly fought case against the p2p application owners and failed in its many obvious (and expensive) attempts to disrupt the p2p networks, the music industry is now determined to vent its wrath on helpless men, women and children who can't hope to stand up to it with its tremendous political and financial power.'"
How about this instead:
"It's almost as if having lost its bitterly fought case against the p2p application owners and failed in its many obvious (and expensive) attempts to disrupt the p2p networks, the music industry is now determined to vent its wrath on the actual men women who are breaking the law and causing the problems on the first place"
Finkployd
Congress rejected it before Bush was in office.
Kerry is on record saying he will not support it either, but will work toward "alternatives" to Kyoto.
Finkployd
Do you really think there are is a higher percentage (per-capita) of intellligent educated people in urban vs non-urban areas? Is all that street crime, gang warefare, and drug culture coming from Harvard PhDs?
:)
Consider this, if you were really that smart, would you choose to live in (a) a rural country side or (b) a metropolitan area.
I've been in both and frankly you can have your crime infested, filthy, urban wasteland
Finkployd
Look into Bletchley Park, England. Around the WWII timeframe.
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If by "video capture" you mean "CG artist's rendering of said asteroid", then this is correct.
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