I'd say it was designed to cause congestion the same way a train was designed to cause traffic jams: it does exactly the opposite.
P2P can be a particularly efficient use of bandwidth compared to more traditional services like http. For this reason p2p is not going away any-time soon.
If he'd thought about it properly he might have realised that his beef is with users who transfer more data than their network has the capacity for.
You forgot clever answer 6: "I wanted to benchmark my machine by seeing how fast it could generate random data so dumped a few gigs of/dev/random to ~/Desktop"
"I can't remember the password I used when I decrypted it for the police, but here is a backup before I encrypted it. As you can see, I'm very embarrassed about having these images, which is why I encrypted them, but their clearly not illegal. Can I go now?"
Why do they even have a reference implementation for a hash function in a programming language? Wouldn't just defining the function mathematically be less error prone and just as effective?
Wha says that's not what they were going for? These are sneaky bastards these corporate types. It's difficult tfor us straight thinking peeps to get a handle on them.
If a society want to consider copyright infringement morally wrong, but doesn't want to consider providing a forum specifically for this purpose morally wrong then I'll eat my hat.
It's all or nothing and enough people believe that without effective copyright laws the effort large corporations but into content would diminish - so it's probably going to be 'all'.
If you get a page like this discussing all the options. If you don't then creating a page like this would be a pretty good way for you to go. In case imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery:
"A basic thought will turn up lots of reasons for Asking Slashdot, how can you be so lazy that you can't think it through but are able to submit a whiny comment to a Slashdot forum?"
If the future of MySQL lay in community developer contributions - why bother contributing to MySQL directly? It's all (mostly) still available under the GPL. Form it, and create a community version.
Sun would never import code back into MySQL unless they owned copyright to it though.
I can't find data on causes of death amongst working age people but I don't believe you that stress is at the top (I think that's what you meant, the brackets after that sentence make your meaning unclear). Also, analogising a company who has a contract with you and monitors your use of their equipment with a family member reading a child's diary based on the assumption that every HRM would describe the workforce as a 'corporate family' is...Well, it's enough to say your mastery of rhetoric trumps mine. I suspect you may have thrown that in ironically.
Nevertheless allot of what you say seems pretty reasonable. I'm not convinced that using legislation to restrict a company's monitoring of an employees use of their equipment is for the best, but am certainly more receptive to the idea.
Slashdot Mirror
What do you think should be on Linux.com?
A mirror of Slashdot. Because nothing will help Linux adoption than seeing a bunch of raving geeks talk about the RIAA.
Why d'ya have to go and sell it?
I'd say it was designed to cause congestion the same way a train was designed to cause traffic jams: it does exactly the opposite.
P2P can be a particularly efficient use of bandwidth compared to more traditional services like http. For this reason p2p is not going away any-time soon.
If he'd thought about it properly he might have realised that his beef is with users who transfer more data than their network has the capacity for.
Pervert.
You forgot clever answer 6: "I wanted to benchmark my machine by seeing how fast it could generate random data so dumped a few gigs of /dev/random to ~/Desktop"
"I can't remember the password I used when I decrypted it for the police, but here is a backup before I encrypted it. As you can see, I'm very embarrassed about having these images, which is why I encrypted them, but their clearly not illegal. Can I go now?"
Especially if you really do happen to have child porn (or any other illegal content) on your machine; as the police allege this fellow does.
It's a pretty horrible notion; but the courts seem to want to make this abhorrent attitude the only reasonable way to deal with police.
Or Superman 4?
richard@laptop:~$ cat ~/.bash_history | wc -l
50659
I win! I should do an analysis on how many keystrokes I'd have saved myself over the last few years with some strategic aliases.
Seriously though, my ctrl-R history seems to go back a lot further than a few dozen. Maybe it's a setting you can change?
Ye gads it's true! That explains everything!
Why do they even have a reference implementation for a hash function in a programming language? Wouldn't just defining the function mathematically be less error prone and just as effective?
Be careful. I sometimes post comments like this and forget to hit the 'Post Anonymously'. Check my history. It's embaressing.
Be careful my maladjusted friend...it'll happen to you someday.
OMFG!!1! Now I just went from 0 to MINUS 1!
What is up with these people? Don't you know insighful when you see it.
I don't know why I bother grumble fumble
Exactly! It's like saying we need to move to a new phone system, or a new television system, or {{insert ambiguously defined transition here}}
It could be. Is there a whiny judgemental sound whenever you hit a key?
That's you making baby Jesus cry.
Wha says that's not what they were going for? These are sneaky bastards these corporate types. It's difficult tfor us straight thinking peeps to get a handle on them.
I spent it with my girlfriend wishing I was drinking alone.
If a society want to consider copyright infringement morally wrong, but doesn't want to consider providing a forum specifically for this purpose morally wrong then I'll eat my hat.
It's all or nothing and enough people believe that without effective copyright laws the effort large corporations but into content would diminish - so it's probably going to be 'all'.
What do you think Google searches turn up?
If you get a page like this discussing all the options. If you don't then creating a page like this would be a pretty good way for you to go. In case imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery:
"A basic thought will turn up lots of reasons for Asking Slashdot, how can you be so lazy that you can't think it through but are able to submit a whiny comment to a Slashdot forum?"
A machine like your Chevy is not copyrighted. The design documents are, but not the device itself.
That's not a problem with the London Congestion charge which uses similar technology.
Are you saying Yanks are bigger dicks than the British?
Mmm... Flamebait / Troll. So fresh, so original, so innovative. We need more like you.
Mmm... Insults / Modifying posts. SO fresh, so original, so innovative. We need more like me.
If the future of MySQL lay in community developer contributions - why bother contributing to MySQL directly? It's all (mostly) still available under the GPL. Form it, and create a community version.
Sun would never import code back into MySQL unless they owned copyright to it though.
Why not just simulate it on computer? Iran and the US could duke it our in a massive WoW battle.
A little less aspirationally - do you think they'd treat and help wounded enemies on the battlefield with this gear?
I can't find data on causes of death amongst working age people but I don't believe you that stress is at the top (I think that's what you meant, the brackets after that sentence make your meaning unclear). Also, analogising a company who has a contract with you and monitors your use of their equipment with a family member reading a child's diary based on the assumption that every HRM would describe the workforce as a 'corporate family' is...Well, it's enough to say your mastery of rhetoric trumps mine. I suspect you may have thrown that in ironically.
Nevertheless allot of what you say seems pretty reasonable. I'm not convinced that using legislation to restrict a company's monitoring of an employees use of their equipment is for the best, but am certainly more receptive to the idea.