When Napster came around, some of us foolishly thought the beast was slain, that they couldn't prevent people from sharing music with each other, so easy was it to copy.
They simply shut down the central organization. In retrospect, that was an obvious move.
Then decentralized filesharing came around, and we again thought that we had won.
They went after the individuals, went after the indexing services AND started trying to rewrite the laws to make it possible to block things. That is/will provide the money and drive to start censoring the web, along with "think of the children!"
I worry if Piratebay starts using rasberry pi to play this game of cat and mouse that the mafIAA will respond by 1. redoubling their efforts to censor the web and 2. pass laws saying that hardware manufacturers are liable for copyright infringement their customers do. The big guys will be exempt if they bake heavy DRM right into the hardware, but organizations like Rasberry pi get shut down. The result being a loss of open source and increase in DRM.
A close surviving relative would make bringing a eutherian species back to life much EASIER, yes. Having an elephant that they could implant a cloned Wolly Mammoth embryo into, which would then hopefully carry it to term and give birth, that would be much easier. However, lacking one would be a technical challenge, not an impossibility. We might never figure out how to develop some embryo via an artificial placenta, in an artificial environment, but there's nothing that says we absolutely will never be able to.
Indeed. What's so amazing about inconsistency? It would be fairly amazing if some organization dumb enough to implement censorship did it 100% effectively. Even something as simple as DRM on itunes files, there are workarounds that were simple, like burning it to a CD, then ripping it back as an MP3.
(Yes yes, apple apologists, they HAVE stopped adding DRM, though they haven't released files that were bought previous to that date, and their legal teams prevent anyone from unlocking those songs to play on, say, an android phone.)
And? One does not need to deal in absolutes to avoid hypocrisy. One can be labeled anti-corporate and only want to clean up the worst abuses. You don't need to go whole hog and make everything yourself, just as you don't need to give all your money to Phillip Morris, even though you're more pro-corporate than he is.
From TFA: "He rejected a plea deal in December that would have kept him out of prison and offered him assistance with immigration authorities."
He clearly could have avoided doing time.
Just like those people the MPAA/RIAA sues for 40 gazillion dollars could avoid it by settling for a mere $5000. What he did may have been mean and had terrible unforeseen consequences, but it should not have been prosecuted. His actions should have justified the victim's friends roughing him up a bit, that's about it.
The prosecution is the really bad guys here. I can't exactly fault the guy for saying "No, I won't be intimidated into admitting what I did was CRIMINALLY wrong."
Unless... oh dear... don't tell me they ever actually thought they were making us safer. I mean, I know the gate jockeys who feel you up or bark at you to stand still while they look through your clothes are actually convinced they're standing between terrorists and our safety, but I guess I just assumed that the guys at the top, the ones who completed high school, were smart enough to realize they were scamming us.
So not only does he deal in human sex slavery, he also is acting as a catalyst for the FBI to erode our right to privacy a little bit more.
And both are eroding a little more of my faith in humanity.
FBI, instead of trying to get a skeleton key to all our phones, including me who has never made a woman sell herself for money, how about you just pass a law that people convicted of pimping can't have phones? No objections from me on that one... anyone else?
Sure, but I'm not sure how effective this particular story will be to that end. "Oh mah gad! They done carried out a DDOS attack against a British news website! THIS CANNOT GO UNANSWERED! If we don't stop this menace here and now, where does it end? Next they'll be spamming the French Parliament with penis enlargement pills!! They might go so far as to order a bunch of pizzas to be delivered to the White House!"
I mean, I guess the voters are probably actually that stupid. According to one poll, more than half of them were confused into thinking that Saddam Hussein had caused 9/11, and no one was actually on TV saying that.
If by social experience you mean 12-year-olds and 20-somethings that act like 12-year-olds screaming in your ear and hurling obscenities as though it makes them more mature, then yes, Xbox Live is a wonderful social experience.
In real life, you don't talk to strangers you see milling about on the street. You don't dial a random number on the phone and expect to have a good conversation. You don't wander onto some popular youtube video, go to the comments, and expect insightful comments. Why people would expect going onto xbox live in the "general population" and expect anything other than shit is beyond me. If you have friends who also have xboxes, that can be fun. Otherwise, throw away the headset, you're wasting your time.
Also, trends don't continue forever. People who write headlines love to do that, but it doesn't make any sense. Mobile gaming increased 400% last year? Yes, you can make a graph implying that in 5 years, we will all be playing "Angry Birds" 24 hours a day, but that's not going to happen.
Xbox, wii, and PS3 sales may be going down, and facebook games going up. But people who like playing "real" videogames (whatever you choose to call them, the $60 big titles like mass effect 3) are not going to say "Hey, you know what's really big right now? Farmville! Fuck Modern Warfare 27, I'm just going to plant wheat!" Facebook is not going to replace gaming.
Prediction: in a few years, we're going to see stories on slashdot about "Why the mobile/facebook gaming bubble burst." And I'm going to say "I told you so" to all those people totally surprised their facebook game developing company went belly up.
If they don't actually own the copyrights, they don't have to forfeit anything.
IANAL, and it sounds like that's how it would all work out in the end, but I'd still very much like to see some organization sue the assholes who were working with righthaven nonetheless. Out of spite. Let this be a lesson to any company that tries to do similar greedy things. The price for companies trying to use IP laws as a gun to mug the public should be the gun gets taken away from them and is then used to bash their skulls in. It should not be just "Well, that particular scheme didn't work, lets try another way of fucking with copyright."
Sorry, but the moment the US did that to Europe, it LOST all rights to complain when others do the same to it.
Just to point out, most of us whose jobs might be lost due to countries diddling around with the economy are not the ones who made the decision to do it to europe, nor did we directly benefit from it. So, how about we don't act like the people who will be affected by this deserve it because other people from their country did it to other people?
Yes, wikileaks. The government doesn't like it. I can, however, type in www.wikileaks.org and go to wikileaks, and not run into anything like the Great Firewall. They are not preventing me from accessing those websites for political speech. They are taking some shady approaches to wikileaks and Assange, but blocking due to political reasons, they're not to that yet.
Does the US order soldiers to open fire on protesters? No, of course not, we prefer to have our paramilitary police enter homes in the early hours of the morning and shoot people.
But not for the purposes of suppressing political speech. Perhaps only because law enforcement has learned not to make martyrs of people they disagree with, but we do not arrest or kill JUST for political speech.
Here is the point where you say, "But that is still different, because those people died due to government mistakes!" At the end of the day, however, people were killed by militarized government agents.
Name for me, if you will, a country on earth today whose law enforcement has not killed innocent people by mistake. This is not to say it's okay because everyone does it, my point is that if you make a list of countries where law enforcement is not perfect, you may as well just hold up a globe. The point of THIS list was to highlight the worst censors of the internet. And, just to be clear, the point of my post was not to defend the US as a saint, my point was merely that we're not the worst of the worst.
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When Napster came around, some of us foolishly thought the beast was slain, that they couldn't prevent people from sharing music with each other, so easy was it to copy.
They simply shut down the central organization. In retrospect, that was an obvious move.
Then decentralized filesharing came around, and we again thought that we had won.
They went after the individuals, went after the indexing services AND started trying to rewrite the laws to make it possible to block things. That is/will provide the money and drive to start censoring the web, along with "think of the children!"
I worry if Piratebay starts using rasberry pi to play this game of cat and mouse that the mafIAA will respond by 1. redoubling their efforts to censor the web and 2. pass laws saying that hardware manufacturers are liable for copyright infringement their customers do. The big guys will be exempt if they bake heavy DRM right into the hardware, but organizations like Rasberry pi get shut down. The result being a loss of open source and increase in DRM.
Yes, but a simple, efficient, lossless workaround like Requiem, they went after that like someone had naked pictures of Steve Jobs.
Can't remember the exact quote, but "Let's fly this alien spaceship into the mothership and use my Mac laptop to destroy their computers"?
A close surviving relative would make bringing a eutherian species back to life much EASIER, yes. Having an elephant that they could implant a cloned Wolly Mammoth embryo into, which would then hopefully carry it to term and give birth, that would be much easier. However, lacking one would be a technical challenge, not an impossibility. We might never figure out how to develop some embryo via an artificial placenta, in an artificial environment, but there's nothing that says we absolutely will never be able to.
PS did I say monster cables? I meant Pear Cables. I would have written that correctly, but I forgot to drape my pear cables around my keyboard.
Well I do use monster cables, so I don't think I need to worry about that.
it's about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity
Sir, I suspect you are lying to me.
Indeed. What's so amazing about inconsistency? It would be fairly amazing if some organization dumb enough to implement censorship did it 100% effectively. Even something as simple as DRM on itunes files, there are workarounds that were simple, like burning it to a CD, then ripping it back as an MP3.
(Yes yes, apple apologists, they HAVE stopped adding DRM, though they haven't released files that were bought previous to that date, and their legal teams prevent anyone from unlocking those songs to play on, say, an android phone.)
And? One does not need to deal in absolutes to avoid hypocrisy. One can be labeled anti-corporate and only want to clean up the worst abuses. You don't need to go whole hog and make everything yourself, just as you don't need to give all your money to Phillip Morris, even though you're more pro-corporate than he is.
I planted Mona Lisa's face in my crops in farmville, then recreated the scene in minecraft!!!
Actually I said that sarcastically, but that would be kind of cool. I retroactively take back the sarcasm.
NPR gets caught publishing a massive lie by an anti-corporation hipster, and you respond by attacking Fox News?
NPR is publicly apologizing for being wrong. Fox news went to court to defend their right to lie and still call it news. So, yes, that is reasonable given their respective histories. One would have to be naive to hold NPR and Fox as equals. It's certainly not borne out by their viewers. NPR viewers were better informed than the average citizen, while Fox news viewers are significantly less informed than the average, when it came to the Iraq war and the Neocon reasons we were going there. Fox pushed us into a war we didn't need.
And not for nothing, but there's nothing wrong with being anti-corporation. Hipster, yes.
So... you want EVERYONE to have the privacy of their DNA taken away... so that we'll dispel the illusion that we have privacy...
Some perspective though: we deport people for much stupider reasons than that IE "stealing" jobs no one here wanted anyway. We're assholes.
From TFA: "He rejected a plea deal in December that would have kept him out of prison and offered him assistance with immigration authorities." He clearly could have avoided doing time.
Just like those people the MPAA/RIAA sues for 40 gazillion dollars could avoid it by settling for a mere $5000. What he did may have been mean and had terrible unforeseen consequences, but it should not have been prosecuted. His actions should have justified the victim's friends roughing him up a bit, that's about it.
The prosecution is the really bad guys here. I can't exactly fault the guy for saying "No, I won't be intimidated into admitting what I did was CRIMINALLY wrong."
Indeed! WTF?! What the fuck took them so long?
Unless... oh dear... don't tell me they ever actually thought they were making us safer. I mean, I know the gate jockeys who feel you up or bark at you to stand still while they look through your clothes are actually convinced they're standing between terrorists and our safety, but I guess I just assumed that the guys at the top, the ones who completed high school, were smart enough to realize they were scamming us.
So not only does he deal in human sex slavery, he also is acting as a catalyst for the FBI to erode our right to privacy a little bit more.
And both are eroding a little more of my faith in humanity.
FBI, instead of trying to get a skeleton key to all our phones, including me who has never made a woman sell herself for money, how about you just pass a law that people convicted of pimping can't have phones? No objections from me on that one... anyone else?
Sure, but I'm not sure how effective this particular story will be to that end. "Oh mah gad! They done carried out a DDOS attack against a British news website! THIS CANNOT GO UNANSWERED! If we don't stop this menace here and now, where does it end? Next they'll be spamming the French Parliament with penis enlargement pills!! They might go so far as to order a bunch of pizzas to be delivered to the White House!"
I mean, I guess the voters are probably actually that stupid. According to one poll, more than half of them were confused into thinking that Saddam Hussein had caused 9/11, and no one was actually on TV saying that.
If by social experience you mean 12-year-olds and 20-somethings that act like 12-year-olds screaming in your ear and hurling obscenities as though it makes them more mature, then yes, Xbox Live is a wonderful social experience.
In real life, you don't talk to strangers you see milling about on the street. You don't dial a random number on the phone and expect to have a good conversation. You don't wander onto some popular youtube video, go to the comments, and expect insightful comments. Why people would expect going onto xbox live in the "general population" and expect anything other than shit is beyond me. If you have friends who also have xboxes, that can be fun. Otherwise, throw away the headset, you're wasting your time.
Also, trends don't continue forever. People who write headlines love to do that, but it doesn't make any sense. Mobile gaming increased 400% last year? Yes, you can make a graph implying that in 5 years, we will all be playing "Angry Birds" 24 hours a day, but that's not going to happen.
Xbox, wii, and PS3 sales may be going down, and facebook games going up. But people who like playing "real" videogames (whatever you choose to call them, the $60 big titles like mass effect 3) are not going to say "Hey, you know what's really big right now? Farmville! Fuck Modern Warfare 27, I'm just going to plant wheat!" Facebook is not going to replace gaming.
Prediction: in a few years, we're going to see stories on slashdot about "Why the mobile/facebook gaming bubble burst." And I'm going to say "I told you so" to all those people totally surprised their facebook game developing company went belly up.
If they don't actually own the copyrights, they don't have to forfeit anything.
IANAL, and it sounds like that's how it would all work out in the end, but I'd still very much like to see some organization sue the assholes who were working with righthaven nonetheless. Out of spite. Let this be a lesson to any company that tries to do similar greedy things. The price for companies trying to use IP laws as a gun to mug the public should be the gun gets taken away from them and is then used to bash their skulls in. It should not be just "Well, that particular scheme didn't work, lets try another way of fucking with copyright."
Explain, please.
I'm pretty sure this is a reference to the TV show "Breaking Bad." The main character is a chemist who makes meth under the street name of Heisenberg.
To my knowledge, the show doesn't use auto-tune in any way, but I think the post still illustrates your point.
Sorry, but the moment the US did that to Europe, it LOST all rights to complain when others do the same to it.
Just to point out, most of us whose jobs might be lost due to countries diddling around with the economy are not the ones who made the decision to do it to europe, nor did we directly benefit from it. So, how about we don't act like the people who will be affected by this deserve it because other people from their country did it to other people?
Does the US order soldiers to open fire on protesters? No, of course not, we prefer to have our paramilitary police enter homes in the early hours of the morning and shoot people.
But not for the purposes of suppressing political speech. Perhaps only because law enforcement has learned not to make martyrs of people they disagree with, but we do not arrest or kill JUST for political speech.
Here is the point where you say, "But that is still different, because those people died due to government mistakes!" At the end of the day, however, people were killed by militarized government agents.
Name for me, if you will, a country on earth today whose law enforcement has not killed innocent people by mistake. This is not to say it's okay because everyone does it, my point is that if you make a list of countries where law enforcement is not perfect, you may as well just hold up a globe. The point of THIS list was to highlight the worst censors of the internet. And, just to be clear, the point of my post was not to defend the US as a saint, my point was merely that we're not the worst of the worst.
How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb.
(waits for you to answer)
No, it's some obscure number you probably haven't heard of yet.