that 'someone' used her username, on her pc, and the evidence did not point to anyone else but her actually having downloaded the files, just that she had some virii, same as millions of other people.
I remain convinced she did download the songs, just not that she deserved the fine
I noticed this when my original comment got modded troll:) However since she was found to have used the same username for her file sharing app as she did for email and other websites, I think anyone who thinks she wasn't guilty of filesharing is being silly.
Also, not many people seem to be able to handle the idea that obvious guilt is not the same thing as deserving the harsh fine she got.
To be honest, either she ignored her council, or got seriously bad advice, because she'd have been better off fessing to file sharing up from the start, and accepting the risk of what even the RIAA originally expected to be a much smaller fine.
I'm not siding with the RIAA, and I think the final fine was absurd, but she lost all hope of having the jury sympathise with her when she spouted her several crocks of shite about being hacked, and that made the fine possible in the first place.
Its a good thing this crazy fine has been reversed, but I have to admit I felt she brought most of it on herself by lying in court.
If she'd gone for honestly and asked for leniency based on the myriad questionable aspects of the RIAA's case, I think things would have gone a lot better first time round.
I am somewhat fond of taking books with me to my local coffee shop and partakeing of some leasurely research.
If I have my laptop with me I still prefer to take a textbook with me on the current subject.
It's just so much 'nicer', in an indefinable sort of way then spending quality coffee drinking time searching google for information that can be obtained whilst sitting back and sipping.
Ok, its unlikely to be 'cutting edge', but in my years of experience I've not found that to be quite so vital.
Given how hard it is just to become well versed in a CS subject, especially a programming/scripting language, I tend to find it not so desperately important that I forgoe my books (which I tend to replace as they go significantly out of date), with some website that may, or may not, cover the very latest aspects of the topic with the required level of detail.
so you freely admit that it takes two clicks to unsubscribe? That, in case you were wondering, is more than one.
Do not underestimate the unwillingness of web users to choose one click over two. Besides, not every mailing list is so easy, notably some commercial offerings with their login to unsubscribe thing.
If gmail and other email providers had an 'unsubscribe' button next to the 'mark as spam' button then people would probably use it, but not before.
Until then you're railing against human nature, and you'll lose.
It is in the nature of people to seek the shortest path to gratification.
An unsubscribe process takes more clicks then hitting 'mark as spam'. That's all the reason people need to use the spam button. Can you honestly say you've never done it?
If your attitude is "it works good enough for me, fuck you", your prospective employer will hire someone who listens to the users of their software. They wil think you're just going to do it good enough to get your money and won't care about making it usable enough for them -- and, given your attitude, they'd probably be right.
Actually, my open source program has got me jobs, even though that's not why I maintain it, and is fairly widely used.
Mainly that people who are interested in coding free software and people who have a great understanding of ergonomics and aesthetics in software are usually just not the same people.
Wow, you've got me pegged. I'm happy to spend days wrangling over a neural network, or some other interesting algorithmic 'shiny device', but I can't design a decent user interface or web site. I've been told this many, many times by my friends.
My open source product is mine, to make whatever design decisions I want.
I tend towards the opinion that if someone wants to dictate usability terms to me, they better be prepared either to submit code, pay me, or to be blunt, get lost.
Personally, I like coding console apps. As far as usability goes, this is stone age stuff, but it works for me.
Quite a few people have talked about improving my application suite with 'pure virtual interfaces', or just packing it into a GUI app, but none have actually contributed functional code.
I much prefer to spend my time working deep in the algorithms of my software, because coding those is a pleasure for me. Anything else just doesn't hold my interest.
People scraping by on less than a dollar a day aren't going to be interested in anything like this.
Ordinary priorities like eating, keeping a roof over their heads and trying not to get sick and die are likely to be far more important.
Also, with all due respect to his charitable efforts, for which, if for little else, I respect him, what does he, as one of the richest men in the world, think he's doing saying what people in abject poverty want?
I'd venture a guess that what they want is for a persons worth and entitlement to the basics of life to be unrelated to money.
If we can afford to pour billions into a shallow fight to control Oil, We can afford to make life's basics free for anyone who asks.
I know a certain international corporation whose chosen naming convention for the various divisions on their intranet meant the uk branch got the name kfuk.
1: If they activelly avoid compatibility with open source, they're being evil. 2: If they just ignore it, they're being evil. 3: If they try to co-operate with any open source project, they're being evil.
What, to be blunt, the fuck is going on?
Ok, I'm not claiming closed source vendors are great or anything, but to my mind, this smacks of closed minded zealotry, and as we know, courtesy of the worlds religions, that generally doesn't work out well in the long term.
Is the open source movements plan to vilify any and all attempts of the 'establishment' to work with us? Is that the plan?
I freely acknowledge that Microsoft don't really have much in the way of compatible philosophy, but if all we do is bitch, all we'll get is negative publicity and bad feeling from people who, shock, horror, are actually entitled to think that open source isn't the source of all that is good in the world.
I'm an open source developer myself, but obviously not a 'proper' one, because all I care about is sharing my code.
Ok then, point me to an open source benchmarking program that's as complete, and I'll use it.
Might it just be that they got the software done as cheaply as possible, marked it as ready for release as soon as they could, and never bothered to fix what was obviously a glaring flaw?
Anyway, as an open source developer myself I don't really buy this 'open source will always be better' deal. It can only be better if the project is fortunate enough to attract quality coders and designers. There are a lot more open source programs then there are highly skilled programmers willing and able to work on them.
This will pretty much kill conferences from organisations with members outside of the US, especially ones where proprietary information is carried around.
Not to mention damage international business. Seriously, what on earth is going on ? Are these people divorced from reality?
I've pretty much got to the point where apart from international flights I prefer to take the train.
Ok its slower, but its less crowded, much more comfortable, and the prices compare favourably.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but the days when I'm willing to be hassled at an airport and crammed in like sardines on an overpriced flight just to get somewhere faster are long since gone. I want a decent seat, a bar I can walk along to, hot food that I don't have to eat from a tiny tray on my lap, and leg room.
Actually, I say slower, but sometimes, given delays and cancellations on flights, the train has been faster.
Searching for nmod, my open source product using your page, I find that Google produced results which were far more relevant than cuil. first up was the world of warcraft mod of the same name, which is fine, but right after it was my site. That's quite good. Cuil failed to produce results that were as good. Neither the WOW mods main page or my own were first, and most of the first page of results were of sub pages and forum threads.
Microsoft in Reading have little cctv camera's in their visitors waiting lounge that employees can log into and check if their expected visitor has arrived.
I found it invasive and extremely unpleasant as the little camera panned back and forth, focussing on the various people there, yet it is apparently entirely acceptable behaviour, which shows what I know.
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that 'someone' used her username, on her pc, and the evidence did not point to anyone else but her actually having downloaded the files, just that she had some virii, same as millions of other people.
I remain convinced she did download the songs, just not that she deserved the fine
That this is one of the signs of the Apocalypse?
I noticed this when my original comment got modded troll :)
However since she was found to have used the same username for her file sharing app as she did for email and other websites, I think anyone who thinks she wasn't guilty of filesharing is being silly.
Also, not many people seem to be able to handle the idea that obvious guilt is not the same thing as deserving the harsh fine she got.
Don't be silly, it was quite obvious she was guilty as charged, the only grossly unfair thing was the punishment.
To be honest, either she ignored her council, or got seriously bad advice, because she'd have been better off fessing to file sharing up from the start, and accepting the risk of what even the RIAA originally expected to be a much smaller fine.
I'm not siding with the RIAA, and I think the final fine was absurd, but she lost all hope of having the jury sympathise with her when she spouted her several crocks of shite about being hacked, and that made the fine possible in the first place.
Its a good thing this crazy fine has been reversed, but I have to admit I felt she brought most of it on herself by lying in court.
If she'd gone for honestly and asked for leniency based on the myriad questionable aspects of the RIAA's case, I think things would have gone a lot better first time round.
Oh I don't know. Books have their place.
I am somewhat fond of taking books with me to my local coffee shop and partakeing of some leasurely research.
If I have my laptop with me I still prefer to take a textbook with me on the current subject.
It's just so much 'nicer', in an indefinable sort of way then spending quality coffee drinking time searching google for information that can be obtained whilst sitting back and sipping.
Ok, its unlikely to be 'cutting edge', but in my years of experience I've not found that to be quite so vital.
Given how hard it is just to become well versed in a CS subject, especially a programming/scripting language, I tend to find it not so desperately important that I forgoe my books (which I tend to replace as they go significantly out of date), with some website that may, or may not, cover the very latest aspects of the topic with the required level of detail.
so you freely admit that it takes two clicks to unsubscribe? That, in case you were wondering, is more than one.
Do not underestimate the unwillingness of web users to choose one click over two.
Besides, not every mailing list is so easy, notably some commercial offerings with their login to unsubscribe thing.
If gmail and other email providers had an 'unsubscribe' button next to the 'mark as spam' button then people would probably use it, but not before.
Until then you're railing against human nature, and you'll lose.
It is in the nature of people to seek the shortest path to gratification.
An unsubscribe process takes more clicks then hitting 'mark as spam'. That's all the reason people need to use the spam button. Can you honestly say you've never done it?
May I ask what the program is?
The last time I answered that my site got slashdotted and my web stats were thrown out for a month, so no.
If your attitude is "it works good enough for me, fuck you", your prospective employer will hire someone who listens to the users of their software. They wil think you're just going to do it good enough to get your money and won't care about making it usable enough for them -- and, given your attitude, they'd probably be right.
Actually, my open source program has got me jobs, even though that's not why I maintain it, and is fairly widely used.
What does that do to your theory?
Mainly that people who are interested in coding free software and people who have a great understanding of ergonomics and aesthetics in software are usually just not the same people.
Wow, you've got me pegged. I'm happy to spend days wrangling over a neural network, or some other interesting algorithmic 'shiny device', but I can't design a decent user interface or web site. I've been told this many, many times by my friends.
My open source product is mine, to make whatever design decisions I want.
I tend towards the opinion that if someone wants to dictate usability terms to me, they better be prepared either to submit code, pay me, or to be blunt, get lost.
Personally, I like coding console apps. As far as usability goes, this is stone age stuff, but it works for me.
Quite a few people have talked about improving my application suite with 'pure virtual interfaces', or just packing it into a GUI app, but none have actually contributed functional code.
I much prefer to spend my time working deep in the algorithms of my software, because coding those is a pleasure for me. Anything else just doesn't hold my interest.
People scraping by on less than a dollar a day aren't going to be interested in anything like this.
Ordinary priorities like eating, keeping a roof over their heads and trying not to get sick and die are likely to be far more important.
Also, with all due respect to his charitable efforts, for which, if for little else, I respect him, what does he, as one of the richest men in the world, think he's doing saying what people in abject poverty want?
I'd venture a guess that what they want is for a persons worth and entitlement to the basics of life to be unrelated to money.
If we can afford to pour billions into a shallow fight to control Oil, We can afford to make life's basics free for anyone who asks.
I know a certain international corporation whose chosen naming convention for the various divisions on their intranet meant the uk branch got the name kfuk.
So let me see if I have this right.
1: If they activelly avoid compatibility with open source, they're being evil.
2: If they just ignore it, they're being evil.
3: If they try to co-operate with any open source project, they're being evil.
What, to be blunt, the fuck is going on?
Ok, I'm not claiming closed source vendors are great or anything, but to my mind, this smacks of closed minded zealotry, and as we know, courtesy of the worlds religions, that generally doesn't work out well in the long term.
Is the open source movements plan to vilify any and all attempts of the 'establishment' to work with us? Is that the plan?
I freely acknowledge that Microsoft don't really have much in the way of compatible philosophy, but if all we do is bitch, all we'll get is negative publicity and bad feeling from people who, shock, horror, are actually entitled to think that open source isn't the source of all that is good in the world.
I'm an open source developer myself, but obviously not a 'proper' one, because all I care about is sharing my code.
this is exactly what's kept me from having anything other than a source tarball for the linux version of my software these last five years.
I simply don't have the time to create packages for all the different distributions. If there were just one I'd be using it right away.
Ok then, point me to an open source benchmarking program that's as complete, and I'll use it.
Might it just be that they got the software done as cheaply as possible, marked it as ready for release as soon as they could, and never bothered to fix what was obviously a glaring flaw?
Anyway, as an open source developer myself I don't really buy this 'open source will always be better' deal. It can only be better if the project is fortunate enough to attract quality coders and designers. There are a lot more open source programs then there are highly skilled programmers willing and able to work on them.
This will pretty much kill conferences from organisations with members outside of the US, especially ones where proprietary information is carried around.
Not to mention damage international business.
Seriously, what on earth is going on ? Are these people divorced from reality?
I've pretty much got to the point where apart from international flights I prefer to take the train.
Ok its slower, but its less crowded, much more comfortable, and the prices compare favourably.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but the days when I'm willing to be hassled at an airport and crammed in like sardines on an overpriced flight just to get somewhere faster are long since gone. I want a decent seat, a bar I can walk along to, hot food that I don't have to eat from a tiny tray on my lap, and leg room.
Actually, I say slower, but sometimes, given delays and cancellations on flights, the train has been faster.
Acknowledgement that a thing breaks the law is not the same as saying that you agree with the law that was broken.
Scrabulous is stil available for me, I'm in the UK.
Searching for nmod, my open source product using your page, I find that Google produced results which were far more relevant than cuil. first up was the world of warcraft mod of the same name, which is fine, but right after it was my site. That's quite good.
Cuil failed to produce results that were as good. Neither the WOW mods main page or my own were first, and most of the first page of results were of sub pages and forum threads.
well obviously only at night. Mind you, all the shops would be shut, so where would you go for a latte afterwards?
Microsoft in Reading have little cctv camera's in their visitors waiting lounge that employees can log into and check if their expected visitor has arrived.
I found it invasive and extremely unpleasant as the little camera panned back and forth, focussing on the various people there, yet it is apparently entirely acceptable behaviour, which shows what I know.
you just know that sooner or later, even if its centuries from now, someone is going to do exactly that.....