Can we stop with the black-helicopters-are-watching-me-through-the-tele phone tin-foil hat paranoia for just a day or two? This kind of sensationalizing gets really old when every single piece of technology is just another tool for The Man to spy on us, regardless of legitimate uses (sound familiar?) it might have.
I was trying to rebut this when I started to realize Wrexen may have a point. Slashdotters want the government to leave the technology (eg. P2P, DeCSS, etc.) alone and punish the abusers. Here Slashdotters want to suppress the technology to avoid the abusers. Sounds just like the MPAA and RIAA's argument.
And to the argument that "Insurance companies have too many politicians in their pocket and we have no say...", then the system is broken. Do something to fix that first.
Under GPL, they would have the right to do this, but the excess competition could be unbeneficial when it would have been better for the contributor to wait for me to be ready for their suggestions at a later time.
What do you mean "unbenificial"? If you decline a feature or contribution and that person forks off, just keep on trucking with your original goals. By the time you are ready for that feature, he/she may have the bugs worked out in their new project and you can implement it more easily. In the meantime, you have a project that satisfies your needs at that time.
I don't think dominating a certain space is a goal of Open Source development.
I worked for a company that started buying "opt-in" mailing lists as a last ditch effort. As the sys admin, I was against using this list and made every effort to avoid sending these emails.
Our execs, decided to outsource the emails. When I started giving them sh*t for the SPAM-vertising complaints we were getting from our Colo provider, there response was: "We have gotten # responses, it works, and we need the customers."
This blew me away. I had always wondered why spammers kept spamming. I could never imagine that they actually got responses. So how do we stop it? It's not as easy as just ignoring them. First, that won't happen. Someone will always need toner, and even if you can get the word out to everyone, they won't listen. Second, it has proven to work, and it is so cheap that they won't stop trying. The only way to stop it is to make it cost prohibitive. Doing that is a mystery to me. Fines? Taxes?
The most annoying SPAM is the one offering you a list of emails for spamming because it's that a-hole who is selling your address.
I do the same thing but use aliases and just point it to/dev/null if I start getting spammed. I wish I would have thought of it sooner, like before I registered with netsol and dice and hotjobs and monster and well, you get the picture.
Does smoking cause Cancer or does Cancer cause smoking?
They didn't mention whether these people were asked to play games for an amount of time they normally wouldn't or whether they volunteered based on there normal gameplay activity.
Maybe lower brain activity causes people to play video games.
What about using an Operating System that you know (and the authors know) has several security problems such that your computer could be easily used in a DOS attack simply by reading an email on said Operating System's default Email Client?
"It was not my intention but I did know it could happen".
"It's not like the broadcasters are getting totally screwed," said Carri Bennet, an attorney representing the Rural Telecommunications Group, a lobbyist for wireless carriers in rural areas.
Most don't walk. They have wheels that are optimized for lateral movement and such. They do have an Aibo division that is quite interesting in regards to walking and shooting.
MOD this UP! Insightful! not Funny. Isn't this how the 2600 case breaks down? If you tell someone where they can find illegal "artwork", you are breaking the law. It is ridiculous. When will they start putting the responsibility where it belongs? Our society does more and more blaming these days. MPAA blames "pirates" for "slow" sales when it is actually high prices and bad quality that is to blame, if there is even a problem at all in the first place (I don't see any movie execs living on the street).
MPAA: "It's not only his fault for selling the bootleg Star Wars, your honor. This guy should fry for telling that guy where to find it."
I got my CS degree with a minor in Math. I got a job right out of college as a System Administrator for a dotCom (future dotBomb). I hardly used any of my schooling directly in my work. It was nice to know how things worked and why but I new the Sys Admin stuff by learning on my own.
What I lacked was management and organizational skills that they don't teach with CS. That is why I recommend getting some MIS classes in there so you don't start feeling burdened when a different person comes up to you every other minute asking this or that while you are trying to do something else. I got it done but I knew there was a better way.
I am no longer a System Administrator. I was able to parlay my SA skills with my CS degree and get a job at a nice Linux only company as a System Engineer.
Plus, the college experience IS one of a kind.
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At what point was the summary "blatantly BS" or "non-factual"? I don't even think it was that misleading. Just because it caught your eye and made you think something else doesn't mean it was wrong. I don't see the words DMCA or MPAA in that summary. It was your preconceived notions that filled in the rest of the story before reading the review. The "BS" is in your head.
I think the movie sounds a lot more exciting with that type of description. It was very poignant but still true to the plot.
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Can we stop with the black-helicopters-are-watching-me-through-the-tele phone tin-foil hat paranoia for just a day or two? This kind of sensationalizing gets really old when every single piece of technology is just another tool for The Man to spy on us, regardless of legitimate uses (sound familiar?) it might have.
I was trying to rebut this when I started to realize Wrexen may have a point. Slashdotters want the government to leave the technology (eg. P2P, DeCSS, etc.) alone and punish the abusers. Here Slashdotters want to suppress the technology to avoid the abusers. Sounds just like the MPAA and RIAA's argument.
And to the argument that "Insurance companies have too many politicians in their pocket and we have no say...", then the system is broken. Do something to fix that first.
Under GPL, they would have the right to do this, but the excess competition could be unbeneficial when it would have been better for the contributor to wait for me to be ready for their suggestions at a later time.
What do you mean "unbenificial"? If you decline a feature or contribution and that person forks off, just keep on trucking with your original goals. By the time you are ready for that feature, he/she may have the bugs worked out in their new project and you can implement it more easily. In the meantime, you have a project that satisfies your needs at that time.
I don't think dominating a certain space is a goal of Open Source development.
I worked for a company that started buying "opt-in" mailing lists as a last ditch effort. As the sys admin, I was against using this list and made every effort to avoid sending these emails.
Our execs, decided to outsource the emails. When I started giving them sh*t for the SPAM-vertising complaints we were getting from our Colo provider, there response was: "We have gotten # responses, it works, and we need the customers."
This blew me away. I had always wondered why spammers kept spamming. I could never imagine that they actually got responses. So how do we stop it? It's not as easy as just ignoring them. First, that won't happen. Someone will always need toner, and even if you can get the word out to everyone, they won't listen. Second, it has proven to work, and it is so cheap that they won't stop trying. The only way to stop it is to make it cost prohibitive. Doing that is a mystery to me. Fines? Taxes?
The most annoying SPAM is the one offering you a list of emails for spamming because it's that a-hole who is selling your address.
I do the same thing but use aliases and just point it to /dev/null if I start getting spammed. I wish I would have thought of it sooner, like before I registered with netsol and dice and hotjobs and monster and well, you get the picture.
I disagree with your spelling of Kirsten Dunst.
What about a predisposition to Cancer? It could be in your genes. Plenty of people get Cancer without ever touching a cigarrete.
Does smoking cause Cancer or does Cancer cause smoking?
They didn't mention whether these people were asked to play games for an amount of time they normally wouldn't or whether they volunteered based on there normal gameplay activity.
Maybe lower brain activity causes people to play video games.
Is this the same Sony that doesn't want you to be able to rip their CDs? Will they only allow their CDs to ripped in this thing?
But the great thing is that anyone can build a config tool and sell it, thus creating competition. They can do that because they can see the source.
Or, someone could add features to the source that could make it easier with or without tools.
It's about CHOICE and OPTIONS.
"...there is no incentive to make OSS easy to use."
What's the incentive to make OSS?
What about using an Operating System that you know (and the authors know) has several security problems such that your computer could be easily used in a DOS attack simply by reading an email on said Operating System's default Email Client?
"It was not my intention but I did know it could happen".
Does this mean AV software is mandated by law?
"It's not like the broadcasters are getting totally screwed," said Carri Bennet, an attorney representing the Rural Telecommunications Group, a lobbyist for wireless carriers in rural areas.
Partial screwing is fine.
Most don't walk. They have wheels that are optimized for lateral movement and such. They do have an Aibo division that is quite interesting in regards to walking and shooting.
'sold by an experienced partnership of Linux companies.'
Shouldn't it be more like: 'sold by a partnership of experienced Linux companies?' What experience do these companies have working in a partnership?
MOD this UP! Insightful! not Funny. Isn't this how the 2600 case breaks down? If you tell someone where they can find illegal "artwork", you are breaking the law. It is ridiculous. When will they start putting the responsibility where it belongs? Our society does more and more blaming these days. MPAA blames "pirates" for "slow" sales when it is actually high prices and bad quality that is to blame, if there is even a problem at all in the first place (I don't see any movie execs living on the street).
MPAA: "It's not only his fault for selling the bootleg Star Wars, your honor. This guy should fry for telling that guy where to find it."
I got my CS degree with a minor in Math. I got a job right out of college as a System Administrator for a dotCom (future dotBomb). I hardly used any of my schooling directly in my work. It was nice to know how things worked and why but I new the Sys Admin stuff by learning on my own.
What I lacked was management and organizational skills that they don't teach with CS. That is why I recommend getting some MIS classes in there so you don't start feeling burdened when a different person comes up to you every other minute asking this or that while you are trying to do something else. I got it done but I knew there was a better way.
I am no longer a System Administrator. I was able to parlay my SA skills with my CS degree and get a job at a nice Linux only company as a System Engineer.
Plus, the college experience IS one of a kind.
At what point was the summary "blatantly BS" or "non-factual"? I don't even think it was that misleading. Just because it caught your eye and made you think something else doesn't mean it was wrong. I don't see the words DMCA or MPAA in that summary. It was your preconceived notions that filled in the rest of the story before reading the review. The "BS" is in your head.
I think the movie sounds a lot more exciting with that type of description. It was very poignant but still true to the plot.
lame, but here's a tip:
kill -HUP $(ps -ef |grep root.*[i]netd|awk '{print $2}')
makes that line smaller or why not:
killall -HUP inetd (or xinetd)
Is the upload still limited like other dish type Broadband?