may be a crappy fs, but haveing a linux boot disk which auto mounts the NTFS partion and opens the sam file to clear the Admin password is a big help, especially when the person with your job before you never told anyone what his admin password was. (Turned out that L0fat password cracker got it in 3 seconds, it was 'Fred.' Of course I thought the cracker didnt work, because nobody would use a 4 letter, their own first name for an admin password right?:--)
I like to do my installs after a few beers. Can't form a binding contract while drunk either:--) Can't form one while insane neither, but I lost my NT Certification:--(
Alfred North Whitehead, the renowned British philosopher, logician and mathematician Who? Not renowned by me, my old college philosopy text? And certainly no Descarte, Locke, Hobbes, Douglas Adams, or Thoreau, but maybe it's just me.
Legendary inventors such as Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford (who held thousands of patents between them) How about legendary inventors like Nikoli Tesla who Edison spent most of his career defaming? Edison was the smart guy that thought batteries where better than piping energy through the air for free? How about Ford there, he invented a business process, the assemply line, but other than that and bringing the auto to the masses, was he a scientist or inventor or hacker? (I don't think so) Compare to Allen Turing or (as Linus exampled) Newton. I get the feeling that Mr Mundie only values scientists that prove his point. Scientists, inventors, etc, are each individual's and will have their 'own' views... they are not consumer clones. He doesn't know it, but in Mundies perfect world, much of his speach would be slanderous, violate the IP of the specific scientists he named unless he paid their decendents royalties to make this speach. What is with his name dropping? He doesn't site specific examples of why these 3 specifically agree with him, but he uses their names like they do... and I suspect that Bell may not. Edison and Ford probably would, but these were not great men, these were mean men (pun intended)./sigh. Just drop it Mundie, you speak in Market drone or bureacracese and like banner ads, your speach is just so much noise.
Thank you for the magic that you brought to this world.
/aside reading through this discussion list I've noticed that I have a few things in my Adams collection that some may not be aware of. I have a double videotape and a supplimental making of/so long and thanks for the fish tape of HG2G. Found them on the shelf in a local Hastings for pretty cheap. A big glossy hardcover with full page color plates of the first book
of course the old infocom game
both the book on tape (read by the author) and the hardcover of "Last Chance to see." It is an auto-biographical publisher paid excursion to visit many almost extinct animals around the planet, and is hilarous and sorta sad (like HG2G). The bbc bought the www.hg2g.com website, of which I was a roving reporter (hehe, anyone could be, but it is thrilling to add to a resume). Maybe the BBC will keep it alive forever. He may not have wrote the book, 'Starship Titanic,' (Terry Jones) but he wrote the video game... I keep forgetting to buy it, I hope I can find it now.
There is alot of discussion of Adam's numerology in this list... remember, he chose 9x7=42 to illustrate the fundamental absurdity of life (Coyote created the Universe as a practical joke, we just don't get it). As to numerology: a random looking string of numbers is non-random, in a random string you will begin to percieve pattern, but it is pattern only in hindsight. Pi only looks random for example. In order to have true chaos there will be pattern in the chaos: the whole 1000 monkeys typing Hamlet eventually. Don't get too tied up in the numerology. Sure the math works in base 13, but with different numbers it could have worked in another base. It is pattern, and it is coincidence by his own admission (no one tells a joke in base 13 or the like quote).
In conclusion, thank you for teaching me of the fundamental humor of life, I will miss you until I too, end.
I've designed and helped other's design quite a few websites. The rendering problem always starts because they used IE as the testbed. I switch them over to Netscape 4.7 until they get it working there. They have always rendered properly in IE after that (barring weird double spacing that IE will do to some text and other minor glitches)... overall though pages still 'look' fine in IE (even if slightly different, I mean, dbl spacing doesn't look obviously 'wrong.')
Catering to freeloaders is not a successful business strategy. Isn't that what Craig Mundie said in his speach. Of course he seemed to forget that Hotmail is free.
The problem with everyone's math is they talk in statistic's. (Made up example stats:) The average user downloads 500 songs, and bought 15 CD's. Simple math which totatly ignore's how much spending money each user has. If a rich kid has $50 to spend on music in their budget per month, they could buy 40 CD's per year (@$15) with supplimental downloads, while the next kid only has $10 per so can't buy a CD on any given month. In fact to him, the price of the CD compared to the enjoyment recieved is out of reach. $2 CD's (like you can get distro's online from some places for), would completely change this dynamic. The first kid can only listen to so much, so buys less; for the 2nd kid it's more economical. In the high priced CD version, the second kid still spends his $10 frugally on some blank CD's and burns a few of his wealthy'er friends CD's. (The bean counters have determined that a price of $18/CD makes the industry cartel the most profit). Neither kid's motivation is to give a company more money (hey next time you hear that your local grocery story is having problems competing with UberMart, are you going to donate a bit extra to keep them in business... neither will these 2 kids). Do kid's want their fav artist to get rich? Sure, but they don't really want to pay for it. Consumers do just as much cost-benefit analysis as a corp, but in simpler terms, "I got a good deal."
The real problem defined: digital is cheaper, doesn't have cumbersome physical media, and easier and has better playback (better playback meaning: my whole music collection in one place, "Radio Ktor.")... the loss in quality, the loss of royalties, the nice looking liner notes, lack of a permanent form of physical media, nor the lack of a collectable media container, withstanding. Everyone try's to get the most for their dollar, whether it is the RIAA or the human downloading off of the net.
If the RIAA were a guild in the middle ages, they would have had laws passed and factory owners thrown in prison if they could.
In the end tho, it is the customer that spend's money, and it is a competetive market... please your customer and get rich, gouge your customer and get ignored. Simple economics.
a computer can do only 2 things, copy and calculate. For instance to look at a web page, your browser copies the downloaded page to the hard drive to ram/swap and to your monitor, also to proxy server caches, your isp, google, those guys in the presidio that are caching snapshots of the net, and who knows what else. A network is designed for no other purpose than copying.
Industry collusion==monopoly. Commonly prosecuted for its use in price fixing. Which I should add these companies were penalized for. Also accord to the same anti-trust laws, if this monopoly uses its copywrite(another monopoly) unfairly, it looses it. It's not stealing music anymore, all the labels songs are now public domain.
It's especially funny to think of how the industry (and it's anonymous love slaves) are trying to use and twist metaphors: piracy, theft, stealing, communism, digital crowbars, assassin... metaphors are for helping to describe an unknown, and are by nature subjective and tenable, and yet they get used in court's altogether too much. Courts should focus on understanding the reality and not the shadow show, IMO.
My kid's paint by numbers, my recent task of painting the house, and the grey background in the Mona Lisa are not expressive, but all are still protected.
Fair use interpretations state that 10% of a copy is ok. CSS encryption restricts fair use to either 100% of a copy or 0% without a middle ground, as one little bit of code off and the whole thing is a chunk of plastic.
You argue that an expressive work is art, whether an expressive program or the Mona Lisa. And that Office does not express anything, as it is functional only. My point: the Mona Lisa is protected, so is my kid's paint by numbers Mona Lisa, so is painting my house, and so is the architecture of a building (remembering a photographer who got sued for copywrite infringement because his photo was of a building, and the architecture of the building was copywritten and he was selling his photos... i.e. not fair use.)
free speech is the ability to be able to express yourself without being censored (unless your speach is actually harmful).
Free speach is really just an example of the intent of the constitution: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. The Lockean idea was that everyone has unlimited freedom up until your freedom interfere's with mine, and the role of government is to mediate these disputes.
Personally I hope that decss is not art, is not speach, and is not protected by copywrite, because that means that any digital string and especially an encrypted string has no expressive element and is not copywritable... "I'm sorry judge, Star War's on DVD is a program now according to this ruling, and does not therefore have a copywrite, the string of zero's and ones on this disk are just a recipee for how to build a movie... and no, judge, the appeals court specifically ruled that it doesnt matter if there's is an expressive element, programs are not protected speach."
By repealing the prohibition amendment, the legal system has set a precident. The concept that in order to prohibit, an amendment to the Constitution must be made. Logically anyway.
God made the plants, the birds and the bees, the funny shaped fern and the coca leaf, and my hot cocoa and my green tea
All I know about life is that it appears to be the sum of my experiences, and I would rather not choose to deliberately insulate myself from the world of experiences that my lord has given me. But then, Coyote is is a pretty damn fucked up diety.
The failure of the NC was the one consumer 1 pc model. The advantage in the home network model of the NC only appears when it is a bonus computer attached to your real one. I will not give up my main powerhouse of a computer, it is the versitile one I use for everything from recording mp3s at better than 56bits to games to whatever; but at the same time, if i had a small, lightweight, portable, wireless, NC to check email and browse the web from a more convient location than from the chair inside my computer (defining computer as the box, monitor, printer, modem, subwoofers, speakers, etc...)... that is when a low cost NC type thing that gives me portable access to the same interface I'm used too would blah blah blah... But one that give's me portable access to something I dont admninister? I'll pass.
I have trademarked 'TM' and '[TM]' with reference to using the mark to annotate a term as trademarked. I think i'll trademark that circle around a c symbol next...
at the risk of sounding inflamatory for bringing up the Nazi's, Gun Control, Germany, instituted in '38 or '39. and i'll bet every family minded person wanted their kid in that nice 'youth group.' (offtopic)
at the risk of sounding inflamatory for bringing up the Nazi's, Gun Control, Germany, instituted in '38 or '39. and i'll bet every family minded person wanted there kid in that nice 'youth group.' (offtopic)
canrnivor, herbivore, and omnivore, 3 political parties. omnivores have the distinction of having rage (pent up conflict between not knowing what to eat?). bears, hummies, wolverines, badgers... a polar bear will sit a hole in the ice for a couple of hours not catching fish, and then stand up, beat the shit out of the water and storm off. omnivores are cool, we can get angry about anything.
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if belief is like buying material goods, then dogma is the equivalent of marketing.
may be a crappy fs, but haveing a linux boot disk which auto mounts the NTFS partion and opens the sam file to clear the Admin password is a big help, especially when the person with your job before you never told anyone what his admin password was. (Turned out that L0fat password cracker got it in 3 seconds, it was 'Fred.' Of course I thought the cracker didnt work, because nobody would use a 4 letter, their own first name for an admin password right?:--)
I like to do my installs after a few beers. Can't form a binding contract while drunk either:--) Can't form one while insane neither, but I lost my NT Certification:--(
I mean, a unix machines are traditionally referred to as 'boxes,' and I am running 'X' on this one, so my desktop workstation is an X-Box?
lmao, i wish i had mod points today:--)
Gawd'amn it. The word for the day was innovative. I read the article, and now I am so frickin' dunk. err droonk, err whatever
Who? Not renowned by me, my old college philosopy text? And certainly no Descarte, Locke, Hobbes, Douglas Adams, or Thoreau, but maybe it's just me.
Legendary inventors such as Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford (who held thousands of patents between them)
How about legendary inventors like Nikoli Tesla who Edison spent most of his career defaming? Edison was the smart guy that thought batteries where better than piping energy through the air for free? How about Ford there, he invented a business process, the assemply line, but other than that and bringing the auto to the masses, was he a scientist or inventor or hacker? (I don't think so) Compare to Allen Turing or (as Linus exampled) Newton. I get the feeling that Mr Mundie only values scientists that prove his point. Scientists, inventors, etc, are each individual's and will have their 'own' views... they are not consumer clones. He doesn't know it, but in Mundies perfect world, much of his speach would be slanderous, violate the IP of the specific scientists he named unless he paid their decendents royalties to make this speach. What is with his name dropping? He doesn't site specific examples of why these 3 specifically agree with him, but he uses their names like they do... and I suspect that Bell may not. Edison and Ford probably would, but these were not great men, these were mean men (pun intended).
/aside
reading through this discussion list I've noticed that I have a few things in my Adams collection that some may not be aware of. I have a double videotape and a supplimental making of/so long and thanks for the fish tape of HG2G. Found them on the shelf in a local Hastings for pretty cheap.
A big glossy hardcover with full page color plates of the first book
of course the old infocom game
both the book on tape (read by the author) and the hardcover of "Last Chance to see." It is an auto-biographical publisher paid excursion to visit many almost extinct animals around the planet, and is hilarous and sorta sad (like HG2G).
The bbc bought the www.hg2g.com website, of which I was a roving reporter (hehe, anyone could be, but it is thrilling to add to a resume). Maybe the BBC will keep it alive forever.
He may not have wrote the book, 'Starship Titanic,' (Terry Jones) but he wrote the video game... I keep forgetting to buy it, I hope I can find it now.
There is alot of discussion of Adam's numerology in this list... remember, he chose 9x7=42 to illustrate the fundamental absurdity of life (Coyote created the Universe as a practical joke, we just don't get it). As to numerology: a random looking string of numbers is non-random, in a random string you will begin to percieve pattern, but it is pattern only in hindsight. Pi only looks random for example. In order to have true chaos there will be pattern in the chaos: the whole 1000 monkeys typing Hamlet eventually. Don't get too tied up in the numerology. Sure the math works in base 13, but with different numbers it could have worked in another base. It is pattern, and it is coincidence by his own admission (no one tells a joke in base 13 or the like quote).
In conclusion, thank you for teaching me of the fundamental humor of life, I will miss you until I too, end.
I've designed and helped other's design quite a few websites. The rendering problem always starts because they used IE as the testbed. I switch them over to Netscape 4.7 until they get it working there. They have always rendered properly in IE after that (barring weird double spacing that IE will do to some text and other minor glitches)... overall though pages still 'look' fine in IE (even if slightly different, I mean, dbl spacing doesn't look obviously 'wrong.')
The problem with everyone's math is they talk in statistic's. (Made up example stats:) The average user downloads 500 songs, and bought 15 CD's. Simple math which totatly ignore's how much spending money each user has. If a rich kid has $50 to spend on music in their budget per month, they could buy 40 CD's per year (@$15) with supplimental downloads, while the next kid only has $10 per so can't buy a CD on any given month. In fact to him, the price of the CD compared to the enjoyment recieved is out of reach. $2 CD's (like you can get distro's online from some places for), would completely change this dynamic. The first kid can only listen to so much, so buys less; for the 2nd kid it's more economical. In the high priced CD version, the second kid still spends his $10 frugally on some blank CD's and burns a few of his wealthy'er friends CD's. (The bean counters have determined that a price of $18/CD makes the industry cartel the most profit). Neither kid's motivation is to give a company more money (hey next time you hear that your local grocery story is having problems competing with UberMart, are you going to donate a bit extra to keep them in business... neither will these 2 kids). Do kid's want their fav artist to get rich? Sure, but they don't really want to pay for it. Consumers do just as much cost-benefit analysis as a corp, but in simpler terms, "I got a good deal."
The real problem defined: digital is cheaper, doesn't have cumbersome physical media, and easier and has better playback (better playback meaning: my whole music collection in one place, "Radio Ktor.")... the loss in quality, the loss of royalties, the nice looking liner notes, lack of a permanent form of physical media, nor the lack of a collectable media container, withstanding. Everyone try's to get the most for their dollar, whether it is the RIAA or the human downloading off of the net.
If the RIAA were a guild in the middle ages, they would have had laws passed and factory owners thrown in prison if they could.
In the end tho, it is the customer that spend's money, and it is a competetive market... please your customer and get rich, gouge your customer and get ignored. Simple economics.
a computer can do only 2 things, copy and calculate. For instance to look at a web page, your browser copies the downloaded page to the hard drive to ram/swap and to your monitor, also to proxy server caches, your isp, google, those guys in the presidio that are caching snapshots of the net, and who knows what else. A network is designed for no other purpose than copying.
Industry collusion==monopoly. Commonly prosecuted for its use in price fixing. Which I should add these companies were penalized for. Also accord to the same anti-trust laws, if this monopoly uses its copywrite(another monopoly) unfairly, it looses it. It's not stealing music anymore, all the labels songs are now public domain.
It's especially funny to think of how the industry (and it's anonymous love slaves) are trying to use and twist metaphors: piracy, theft, stealing, communism, digital crowbars, assassin... metaphors are for helping to describe an unknown, and are by nature subjective and tenable, and yet they get used in court's altogether too much. Courts should focus on understanding the reality and not the shadow show, IMO.
Fair use interpretations state that 10% of a copy is ok. CSS encryption restricts fair use to either 100% of a copy or 0% without a middle ground, as one little bit of code off and the whole thing is a chunk of plastic.
free speech is the ability to be able to express yourself without being censored (unless your speach is actually harmful).
Free speach is really just an example of the intent of the constitution: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. The Lockean idea was that everyone has unlimited freedom up until your freedom interfere's with mine, and the role of government is to mediate these disputes.
Personally I hope that decss is not art, is not speach, and is not protected by copywrite, because that means that any digital string and especially an encrypted string has no expressive element and is not copywritable... "I'm sorry judge, Star War's on DVD is a program now according to this ruling, and does not therefore have a copywrite, the string of zero's and ones on this disk are just a recipee for how to build a movie... and no, judge, the appeals court specifically ruled that it doesnt matter if there's is an expressive element, programs are not protected speach."
So the Prof's statement yesterday turns out to be a magnificent troll on his part, sparking emotions and discussion. /applaud
God made the plants, the birds and the bees, the funny shaped fern and the coca leaf, and my hot cocoa and my green tea
All I know about life is that it appears to be the sum of my experiences, and I would rather not choose to deliberately insulate myself from the world of experiences that my lord has given me. But then, Coyote is is a pretty damn fucked up diety.
The failure of the NC was the one consumer 1 pc model. The advantage in the home network model of the NC only appears when it is a bonus computer attached to your real one. I will not give up my main powerhouse of a computer, it is the versitile one I use for everything from recording mp3s at better than 56bits to games to whatever; but at the same time, if i had a small, lightweight, portable, wireless, NC to check email and browse the web from a more convient location than from the chair inside my computer (defining computer as the box, monitor, printer, modem, subwoofers, speakers, etc...)... that is when a low cost NC type thing that gives me portable access to the same interface I'm used too would blah blah blah... But one that give's me portable access to something I dont admninister? I'll pass.
I have trademarked 'TM' and '[TM]' with reference to using the mark to annotate a term as trademarked. I think i'll trademark that circle around a c symbol next...
Hehe, Matt Damon is one of my favorite trolls now
at the risk of sounding inflamatory for bringing up the Nazi's, Gun Control, Germany, instituted in '38 or '39. and i'll bet every family minded person wanted their kid in that nice 'youth group.' (offtopic)
at the risk of sounding inflamatory for bringing up the Nazi's, Gun Control, Germany, instituted in '38 or '39. and i'll bet every family minded person wanted there kid in that nice 'youth group.' (offtopic)
just to be the devils advocate, pig blood is the closest blood to humans... and pigs like bacon, and bacon is good... (i saw it on south park)
canrnivor, herbivore, and omnivore, 3 political parties. omnivores have the distinction of having rage (pent up conflict between not knowing what to eat?). bears, hummies, wolverines, badgers... a polar bear will sit a hole in the ice for a couple of hours not catching fish, and then stand up, beat the shit out of the water and storm off. omnivores are cool, we can get angry about anything.
I've never seen his girlfriend and he seems awfully chummy and non-threatening with Lois... /shrug