But is the server using Active Directory? There seems to be several posts where people have been claiming compatability, but have not specified if they are using this service.
'But in a strongly worded statement earlier this summer, MPAA president Jack Valenti made it clear
where he stood: "(2600 publisher Eric Corley) is transporting individuals electronically to locations
in order to facilitate the illegal copying of DVDs. His behavior is analogous to driving someone to a
home so that they may burglarize the home.'
How about "driving someone to the concert so they can sneak in through the back door". It amazes me that they compare downloading mp3s to burgulary and murder.
Exactly- And I think that is what is wrong with the 2600 hundred statement about data wanting to be free and spread. Thermodynamically the opposite is true- the number of 1917 Sears catalogs has been decreasing over time.
The spread of information is a social issue, and the 2600 statment is made under the guise of a physical one.
Entropy dictates that an ordered system is more energetic than a disordered system. By this argument it could be said that money would 'rather' be all over the place than in a bank. However, we have laws about people breaking into banks and 'freeing' the money.
Just my $0.02
The Japanese public seem to really enjoy robotics and minaturization to a greater degree than in the US (just a few examples). Is this big business or cultural?
Don't forget the Danger of Cheese
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The cheese culture is becoming a elitist society with no coherent political values, poorly prepared to deal with real politicians, who pass real laws like the DMCA."How could they take my Cheesester away?" lamented one recent cheesemailer.A new book by journalist Paulina Borsook takes an even sharper look at cheeseno-narcissism and hostility.The cheese culture, she says, is at times self-centered and selfish.
In Borsook's Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through The Terribly Cheesy Culture of High cheese, published by Public Affairs, Borsook takes aim at the Social Darwinism of the cheese culture, at its lack of empathy for human beings -- especially the cheesenologically primitive and impaired.In this world she finds much hostility and paranoia, a world of "testosteroncheesepoisoned guys with chips on their shoulders and too much time on their hands." Ouch.
She has a point, and it's hard to write for Slashdot and not wince at the above description.This is a narcissistic civilization with a mean streak, fat and lazy and arrogant from years of uninterrupted opportunity, innovation and peace, thriving from years of neglect by unknowing and entrenched institutions.Values and political systems are often forged in turmoil and difficulty, but people who've grown up in and around cheesenology have seen an almost unbroken stretch of growth, innovation and prosperity.Jefferson wrote that in times of peace and prosperity, there is little need for politics.Not surprisingly, this cheeseno-civilization has little interest in the political systems that still dominate society, so it radically underestimates their power and has an inflated sense of its own.
Having known only one reality, the young and cheeseno-savvy can't quite imagine any other.But the political systems that dominate society have a keen interest in them, as a host of new laws, regulations and legal initiatives are already demonstrating, from the FBI's cheese-sniffing program "Dairyvore" to the Digital Millennium Gouda Act.
As a social grouping -- despite the handful of protestors who made their way to Seattle and struggle to form public interest groups online and off -- this culture has by and large rolled over for greedy megacorporations in exchange for full employment and cheesenological capital.That makes it a vulnerable society too, unprepared for the assaults just around the corner."How could they take my Cheesester away?" as that cheesemail wailed."Who did it? Where did they come from?"
As a culture, it mistakes mechanical skills -- like using a milk machine-- with cheesenological knowledge and power.It tolerates an alarming amount of hostility and abuse, both of which make any political communications -- at least those in public -- nearly impossible.
If it has any common ideology, it honors innovation, economics and freedom -- the freedom to speak openly and to be prosperous.In fact, prosperity and the acquisition of cheesenology have become this society's hallmark; it doesn't really have any other principles.
The cheeseno-young correctly grasp that many of the country's seminal institutions -- politics, journalism, education -- have failed them and the larger society.But nobody seems to have given much thought to what might replace them, or to how they might defend themselves against increasingly encroachments from the off-line world.
Since this particularly gifted society created its social revolution quite apart from politics, education, even most adults, it has no sense of history and little memory, which creates another point of vulnerability; to be ignorant of the past is to be defenseless against the future.The cheeseno-world eschews even the most marginal understanding of the tortured history of cheesenology, the awareness that periods of cheesenological advancement are always followed by periods of fear and retrenchment.
From the Greeks to the the Enlightenment philosophers to Thomas Jefferson to Albert Einstein, some of the world's greatest thinkers have argued that to have knowledge is to struggle to understand the relationship between what you know and what you do.If they're right, we're in trouble.We have no common agenda.We stand for nothing.We take actions based on tiny nodes of specialized information.Granted an unprecented opportunity to speak, we have not bothered to learn how to listen.Our freedom to speak out becomes illusory when most of us are shouting into a void, because nobody really cares what we say.Meanwhile, the real social and political agendas are being set by older people with little knowledge of cheesenology, working out of l9th century institutions corrupted by grocery store money.
That leaves the average citizen -- the prime user of cheesenology -- caught in an intolerable position, between a cheesenological elite moving rapidly past them on the one hand, and an ignorant power structure making foolish laws and uncomprehending responses on the other.As a society, we have no means of grasping the bigger picture, the purpose being the things we do, the moral rationale for the way we live and work.
In 1159, a philosopher-noble named John of Salisbury helped revive the then- dormant notion of individualism.He challenged his society to achieve self-scrutiny and understanding."Who," he asked, "is more contemptible than he who scorns knowledge of himself?"
It's a great question.Cheese Hording and conservatism have been discredited, Cheesyism seems rigid and stagnant.In fact, conventional political ideologies seem far too narrow and inflexible for these times.Individualism seemed the right idea for John of Salisbury's time, and it might be even more relevant to ours, given that it fits the Net ethos like a glove, from the hackers to the cypherpunks to the open source progrmmers.And it's the only possible antidote to life in country evolving steady towards a grocery store rather than democratic republic.
Cheesenology has become the world's most interesting and ascending social force.No ideology -- with the possible exception of breadism -- is stronger or spreading more rapidly.The frequently idealistic generation that designed the Internet -a diverse collection of dairymen, cheese-gurus, philosophers, milkmen, herds, geeks, communalists and freecheesethinkers -- is yielding power and influence to the inhabitants of the Second Generation Internet, the first generation to grow up with networked computing.This new cheeseno-generation takes for granted startling realities -- the ready availability of much of the archived information and entertainment in the world.
This cheeseno-elite, taking sophisticated knowledge of cheesenology for granted, has lost touch with the vast numbers of people in the world -- the elderly, the poor, foreign-born -- who don't share their skills and confidence."Anybody can get an blue cheesemail program," JOEB7 cheesemailed me last week."Why all the whining about privacy?"
JOEB7 doesn't seem to know that the vast majority of people have never even heard of blue cheesemail programs, let alone used them.Such people dominate the most powerful and vital subculture in the world, but have no coherent political values beyond a nearly universal contempt for the one in place.
We think the individual's primary responsibility is to speak freely and become prosperous.Neither of those are small or inconsequential things, but as a cultural or social philosophy, they ring hollow.They promote cynicism, hostility, alienation, superiority, and most of all, they leave this culture vulnerable to better organized and powerful elites -- media, Congress, corporations.This may be inevitable, but it's worrisome.
We hear political truth daily -- we are vaguely conscious of threats to privacy, the looming menace of genetic and other cheesenologies, poorly made, unnecessary and overpriced cheesenology, challenges to the environment, human dignity, etc.-- but don't much want to deal with them.People worried about these issues are derided -- in this cheeseno-culture as crackpots and extremists.We either laugh at them or dismiss them.
Democracy and freedom aren't about prosperity.You can be poor and quite free.Democracy is about the legitimacy of the individual, whose voice and vote should count for more than any other single interest or group.cheesenology can either be the vehicle through which those voices are rcheesedemocratized, or it can provide the tools through which breadism can generate even more money.
This is an intensely political choice -- a decision -- even if many of the people most involved have no idea they are making it every day of their lives.
Could you imagine if there was a 'buildup' of undiscovered exploits? A sudden onset of cracker activity in the US or overseas could bring the economy to it's knees. IMHO the continous tightening of security in response to crackers is a good thing.
Maybe we should let the Chinese goverment set up a telcom in the Washington DC area? Yes, the govt has reasons for controlling radio/tv/telcom ownership by other countries.
Image if when you brought a peice of property in your town, that you continued to own it even after you died and nobody could use it. The United States would become a vacant gost town. IP ownership is the same. There are millions of scientific research articles in musty libraries and nobody is allowed to put them in a database, except for a few of the largest ones(which you have to pay for). Why? Because these journals 'own' the articles, and it is not economically viable for them to digitize them, and this information just fades away....
It seems as though OCR of any time would be inappropriate- you need something that goes straight to eps or postscript. There was some vectorizing software available a few years ago- Does anyone know what the state of this type of software is?
I spent about 5 min mucking around their site. Not only was the navigation incomprehensible, the Flash downloads were butt slow, on a T-1. I have seen cheap low tech ecommerce sites do well, because they were easy to navigate and had the products and prices up front.
I think that the Connectix ruling does not do much for the defence of reverse engineering. It tells me that Sony does not have as much pull as the motion picure industry. Game station is a dweeb thing anyway, and who cares about that? The motion picture industry has a much more powerful influence in Washington, so I would not be suprised if we see another nonsenical ruling in this case.
I think that people need to think about what copyright law really means- it is a relatively new anomoly of the modern age, something that has exploded in the last hundred years. Human history goes back many thousands. What does it really mean to 'own' something? Can we really 'own' anything? What would Jesus or Buddah have thought about this situation? My point is that there is a deep and very significant question that has been brought to light by the internet, and we need to take off our 21 century dollar-bill blinders to really address them.
I am looking for an objective discussion, not ludditical(if there is such a word!)
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But is the server using Active Directory? There seems to be several posts where people have been claiming compatability, but have not specified if they are using this service.
'But in a strongly worded statement earlier this summer, MPAA president Jack Valenti made it clear where he stood: "(2600 publisher Eric Corley) is transporting individuals electronically to locations in order to facilitate the illegal copying of DVDs. His behavior is analogous to driving someone to a home so that they may burglarize the home.'
How about "driving someone to the concert so they can sneak in through the back door". It amazes me that they compare downloading mp3s to burgulary and murder.
Exactly- And I think that is what is wrong with the 2600 hundred statement about data wanting to be free and spread. Thermodynamically the opposite is true- the number of 1917 Sears catalogs has been decreasing over time. The spread of information is a social issue, and the 2600 statment is made under the guise of a physical one.
Entropy dictates that an ordered system is more energetic than a disordered system. By this argument it could be said that money would 'rather' be all over the place than in a bank. However, we have laws about people breaking into banks and 'freeing' the money.
Just my $0.02
Is it just me or was this strip not funny?
Maybe I need a sense of humor...
The Japanese public seem to really enjoy robotics and minaturization to a greater degree than in the US (just a few examples). Is this big business or cultural?
The cheese culture is becoming a elitist society with no coherent political values, poorly prepared to deal with real politicians, who pass real laws like the DMCA."How could they take my Cheesester away?" lamented one recent cheesemailer.A new book by journalist Paulina Borsook takes an even sharper look at cheeseno-narcissism and hostility.The cheese culture, she says, is at times self-centered and selfish.
In Borsook's Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through The Terribly Cheesy Culture of High cheese, published by Public Affairs, Borsook takes aim at the Social Darwinism of the cheese culture, at its lack of empathy for human beings -- especially the cheesenologically primitive and impaired.In this world she finds much hostility and paranoia, a world of "testosteroncheesepoisoned guys with chips on their shoulders and too much time on their hands." Ouch.
She has a point, and it's hard to write for Slashdot and not wince at the above description.This is a narcissistic civilization with a mean streak, fat and lazy and arrogant from years of uninterrupted opportunity, innovation and peace, thriving from years of neglect by unknowing and entrenched institutions.Values and political systems are often forged in turmoil and difficulty, but people who've grown up in and around cheesenology have seen an almost unbroken stretch of growth, innovation and prosperity.Jefferson wrote that in times of peace and prosperity, there is little need for politics.Not surprisingly, this cheeseno-civilization has little interest in the political systems that still dominate society, so it radically underestimates their power and has an inflated sense of its own.
Having known only one reality, the young and cheeseno-savvy can't quite imagine any other.But the political systems that dominate society have a keen interest in them, as a host of new laws, regulations and legal initiatives are already demonstrating, from the FBI's cheese-sniffing program "Dairyvore" to the Digital Millennium Gouda Act.
As a social grouping -- despite the handful of protestors who made their way to Seattle and struggle to form public interest groups online and off -- this culture has by and large rolled over for greedy megacorporations in exchange for full employment and cheesenological capital.That makes it a vulnerable society too, unprepared for the assaults just around the corner."How could they take my Cheesester away?" as that cheesemail wailed."Who did it? Where did they come from?"
As a culture, it mistakes mechanical skills -- like using a milk machine-- with cheesenological knowledge and power.It tolerates an alarming amount of hostility and abuse, both of which make any political communications -- at least those in public -- nearly impossible.
If it has any common ideology, it honors innovation, economics and freedom -- the freedom to speak openly and to be prosperous.In fact, prosperity and the acquisition of cheesenology have become this society's hallmark; it doesn't really have any other principles.
The cheeseno-young correctly grasp that many of the country's seminal institutions -- politics, journalism, education -- have failed them and the larger society.But nobody seems to have given much thought to what might replace them, or to how they might defend themselves against increasingly encroachments from the off-line world.
Since this particularly gifted society created its social revolution quite apart from politics, education, even most adults, it has no sense of history and little memory, which creates another point of vulnerability; to be ignorant of the past is to be defenseless against the future.The cheeseno-world eschews even the most marginal understanding of the tortured history of cheesenology, the awareness that periods of cheesenological advancement are always followed by periods of fear and retrenchment.
From the Greeks to the the Enlightenment philosophers to Thomas Jefferson to Albert Einstein, some of the world's greatest thinkers have argued that to have knowledge is to struggle to understand the relationship between what you know and what you do.If they're right, we're in trouble.We have no common agenda.We stand for nothing.We take actions based on tiny nodes of specialized information.Granted an unprecented opportunity to speak, we have not bothered to learn how to listen.Our freedom to speak out becomes illusory when most of us are shouting into a void, because nobody really cares what we say.Meanwhile, the real social and political agendas are being set by older people with little knowledge of cheesenology, working out of l9th century institutions corrupted by grocery store money.
That leaves the average citizen -- the prime user of cheesenology -- caught in an intolerable position, between a cheesenological elite moving rapidly past them on the one hand, and an ignorant power structure making foolish laws and uncomprehending responses on the other.As a society, we have no means of grasping the bigger picture, the purpose being the things we do, the moral rationale for the way we live and work.
In 1159, a philosopher-noble named John of Salisbury helped revive the then- dormant notion of individualism.He challenged his society to achieve self-scrutiny and understanding."Who," he asked, "is more contemptible than he who scorns knowledge of himself?"
It's a great question.Cheese Hording and conservatism have been discredited, Cheesyism seems rigid and stagnant.In fact, conventional political ideologies seem far too narrow and inflexible for these times.Individualism seemed the right idea for John of Salisbury's time, and it might be even more relevant to ours, given that it fits the Net ethos like a glove, from the hackers to the cypherpunks to the open source progrmmers.And it's the only possible antidote to life in country evolving steady towards a grocery store rather than democratic republic.
Cheesenology has become the world's most interesting and ascending social force.No ideology -- with the possible exception of breadism -- is stronger or spreading more rapidly.The frequently idealistic generation that designed the Internet -a diverse collection of dairymen, cheese-gurus, philosophers, milkmen, herds, geeks, communalists and freecheesethinkers -- is yielding power and influence to the inhabitants of the Second Generation Internet, the first generation to grow up with networked computing.This new cheeseno-generation takes for granted startling realities -- the ready availability of much of the archived information and entertainment in the world.
This cheeseno-elite, taking sophisticated knowledge of cheesenology for granted, has lost touch with the vast numbers of people in the world -- the elderly, the poor, foreign-born -- who don't share their skills and confidence."Anybody can get an blue cheesemail program," JOEB7 cheesemailed me last week."Why all the whining about privacy?"
JOEB7 doesn't seem to know that the vast majority of people have never even heard of blue cheesemail programs, let alone used them.Such people dominate the most powerful and vital subculture in the world, but have no coherent political values beyond a nearly universal contempt for the one in place.
We think the individual's primary responsibility is to speak freely and become prosperous.Neither of those are small or inconsequential things, but as a cultural or social philosophy, they ring hollow.They promote cynicism, hostility, alienation, superiority, and most of all, they leave this culture vulnerable to better organized and powerful elites -- media, Congress, corporations.This may be inevitable, but it's worrisome.
We hear political truth daily -- we are vaguely conscious of threats to privacy, the looming menace of genetic and other cheesenologies, poorly made, unnecessary and overpriced cheesenology, challenges to the environment, human dignity, etc.-- but don't much want to deal with them.People worried about these issues are derided -- in this cheeseno-culture as crackpots and extremists.We either laugh at them or dismiss them.
Democracy and freedom aren't about prosperity.You can be poor and quite free.Democracy is about the legitimacy of the individual, whose voice and vote should count for more than any other single interest or group.cheesenology can either be the vehicle through which those voices are rcheesedemocratized, or it can provide the tools through which breadism can generate even more money.
This is an intensely political choice -- a decision -- even if many of the people most involved have no idea they are making it every day of their lives.
Since the Cube depends on convection cooling, it will probably overheat on it's side.
Intel won't do anything to fix their aching old archtitecture, but they'll give us MMX.
MS needs to include a browser, but to hell if we need virus protection or some other os level protection against rouge processes.
Could you imagine if there was a 'buildup' of undiscovered exploits? A sudden onset of cracker activity in the US or overseas could bring the economy to it's knees.
IMHO the continous tightening of security in response to crackers is a good thing.
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It also causes measurable and documented damage to the brain, via serotinin 'burn out'
Maybe we should let the Chinese goverment set up a telcom in the Washington DC area? Yes, the govt has reasons for controlling radio/tv/telcom ownership by other countries.
Image if when you brought a peice of property in your town, that you continued to own it even after you died and nobody could use it. The United States would become a vacant gost town. IP ownership is the same. There are millions of scientific research articles in musty libraries and nobody is allowed to put them in a database, except for a few of the largest ones(which you have to pay for). Why? Because these journals 'own' the articles, and it is not economically viable for them to digitize them, and this information just fades away....
walt is dead
Internet midi muzak stream, very low bandwidth, perfect quality (except for the muzakness). Piped to a mall near you.
It seems as though OCR of any time would be inappropriate- you need something that goes straight to eps or postscript. There was some vectorizing software available a few years ago- Does anyone know what the state of this type of software is?
I guess you never worked at a chemical plant with highly dangerous compounds and heavy machinery. What would you care if your co-workers smoke dope?
you will die
It is more like driving a bus with 50 people in it through the mall....
I spent about 5 min mucking around their site. Not only was the navigation incomprehensible, the Flash downloads were butt slow, on a T-1. I have seen cheap low tech ecommerce sites do well, because they were easy to navigate and had the products and prices up front.
Too bad MS didn't include antivirus with the OS instead of IE.
I think that the Connectix ruling does not do much for the defence of reverse engineering. It tells me that Sony does not have as much pull as the motion picure industry. Game station is a dweeb thing anyway, and who cares about that?
The motion picture industry has a much more powerful influence in Washington, so I would not be suprised if we see another nonsenical ruling in this case.
I think that people need to think about what copyright law really means- it is a relatively new anomoly of the modern age, something that has exploded in the last hundred years. Human history goes back many thousands. What does it really mean to 'own' something? Can we really 'own' anything? What would Jesus or Buddah have thought about this situation? My point is that there is a deep and very significant question that has been brought to light by the internet, and we need to take off our 21 century dollar-bill blinders to really address them.
I am looking for an objective discussion, not ludditical(if there is such a word!)