As owner of a hosting provider myself and the talks about the DDoS and such, I can see why a hosting provider might want to rid themselves of a problem that would cause issues for other customers, but at the same time, isn't Amazon big enough? At least everyone likes to say how big they are. Where are those zealots now? Some people are realizing that corporations are in control of freedom of speech, not the government. Well that's nothing new.
Better in Swedish prison than just disapear. This asshat has pissed off just about every country in the world,
Its not Asshat, its Assange. Actually, I don't want to make fun of someone who I think is a hero. He seems like a level headed guy and it takes a lot of bravery to do what he does. Its not like he's a guy with nothing to lose. As Wikipedia quotes him: "the more secretive or unjust an organization is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie". Obviously this is the case as there seems to be a bigger panic by this by our government and others.
This sex charge is obviously a low blow smear campaign against him, but the thing is. What does it matter, its not like public opinions are going to make the facts private again. Sure, your grandma won't read them, but she probably wouldn't anyways. But at least with the documents more in the public eye they can be scrutinized.
Maybe its like the whole fry a frog theory. By releasing so much information all at once, we're likely to get more enraged and do something, but the steady release of information is likely to just warm us up to it and likely to get Wikileaks closed for good before it gets ot the more juicy stuff.
To be honest, there are people out there (a lot of them with businesses and living in Florida) who want to just take advantage of others as much as possible. Without the thread of punitive damages, those people would break the law where it only got their company into trouble and the only punishment would be that they'd have to pay out what they normally would have had to any ways, which isn't really a punishment at all as its what they should have been doing. Punitive damages are a threat to them so that hopefully they won't do it in the first place or won't do it twice.
When I was younger, I used to think punitive damages were getting out of control too, but now I see that they have a purpose. People get greedy on both sides of the bench.
Maybe this never occurred to you, but copyright law doesn't give you the right to ignore paying for a license just because you didn't like something. Maybe that sucks (and believe me I can name several movies I'd like my money back on), but its still the law.
Yes but the current state of DRM exists because of the mass amount of people illegally downloading content online and copying it. Sure copy protection isn't new, but the industry has had to react to the extensive piracy that started in the late 90s with mp3s, movies and software. How do I know, because I was close to the whole thing, I was actually one of the first ones who received a cease and desist from the RIAA back in 1998 for mp3s that were on my webserver. I've seen the whole thing play out from nearly the beginning.
The irony of DRM is that the people who complain about DRM are most likely the same ones that caused it to be there.
We don't have a problem with home owners "sampling" a movie via the net, and later buying the DVD or CD legally. But we DO have a problem if that downloader started profiting from the practice... i.e. selling bootlegs. That makes them a true pirate. Just like this "Cooks" gal.
The problem with that is, most of the people I see downloading commercial content illegally DON'T go out and buy a license for it later. And I'm not just generalizing, I know a whole lot of people of all age groups and walks of life who do this. Then they start to do this repeatedly and think its so convienent and they can get away with it that they justify their actions and buy far less content licenses than they normally would, so then the content industry is indeed losing money on things that that person would have bought. So you see, you are stealing, even if you say its not.
You're exactly right. Articles like this would make for a good study by comparing comments with other articles on copyright, DRM and so on to see if a specific commentator switches sides. Either people are switching sides or we are just seeing different "parties" come out of the woodwork depending on the article content.
Its interesting to see all these comments in this article saying things like "Maybe she will learn to respect copyright and the labor put into copyrighted works next time" and so on because if this was an article about expanding DRM, the comments would be more along the lines of "Dirty bastards, I should have the right to listen to music and watch movies freely."
I realize that its not necessarily the same commentators, but still. How does that saying go, you can't have your cake and eat it too?
So what am I supposed to do? Start every one of my X applications from a different Xterm so they have a different controlling TTY (and do not close any of them)?
Actually, according to the CentOS article on wikipedia, its usually 4 weeks, even after major releases. Sometimes longer, but usually its like 2 or 3 days less than a month.
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And if you haven't checked out Blender in a while, I strongly suggest that you do check out the 2.5 betas. They are awesome. I think this latest version is really going to give professional apps a run for their money.
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As owner of a hosting provider myself and the talks about the DDoS and such, I can see why a hosting provider might want to rid themselves of a problem that would cause issues for other customers, but at the same time, isn't Amazon big enough? At least everyone likes to say how big they are. Where are those zealots now? Some people are realizing that corporations are in control of freedom of speech, not the government. Well that's nothing new.
Maybe Anonymous Coward should be one of my better heroes. You always seem to be replying to my comments to tell me how stupid I must be.
Better in Swedish prison than just disapear. This asshat has pissed off just about every country in the world,
Its not Asshat, its Assange. Actually, I don't want to make fun of someone who I think is a hero. He seems like a level headed guy and it takes a lot of bravery to do what he does. Its not like he's a guy with nothing to lose. As Wikipedia quotes him: "the more secretive or unjust an organization is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie". Obviously this is the case as there seems to be a bigger panic by this by our government and others.
This sex charge is obviously a low blow smear campaign against him, but the thing is. What does it matter, its not like public opinions are going to make the facts private again. Sure, your grandma won't read them, but she probably wouldn't anyways. But at least with the documents more in the public eye they can be scrutinized.
Closed for good? You aren't really familiar with this "Internet" thing, are you?
You mean that thing that I've been on since you were in diapers.
Maybe its like the whole fry a frog theory. By releasing so much information all at once, we're likely to get more enraged and do something, but the steady release of information is likely to just warm us up to it and likely to get Wikileaks closed for good before it gets ot the more juicy stuff.
Maybe he had his Turkey stuffed.
To be honest, there are people out there (a lot of them with businesses and living in Florida) who want to just take advantage of others as much as possible. Without the thread of punitive damages, those people would break the law where it only got their company into trouble and the only punishment would be that they'd have to pay out what they normally would have had to any ways, which isn't really a punishment at all as its what they should have been doing. Punitive damages are a threat to them so that hopefully they won't do it in the first place or won't do it twice.
When I was younger, I used to think punitive damages were getting out of control too, but now I see that they have a purpose. People get greedy on both sides of the bench.
More like they were mad that they didn't get the happy ending in China that they got from the TSA back in the states.
Maybe that's indeed what he should do since he already doesn't know enough to do it himself, have other people do everything.
Naturally I start thinking of this: http://xtranormal.com/watch/6995033
Thank you for posting that. I'm so sick of the NoSQL shit. Learn to design schemas.
Maybe this never occurred to you, but copyright law doesn't give you the right to ignore paying for a license just because you didn't like something. Maybe that sucks (and believe me I can name several movies I'd like my money back on), but its still the law.
I mean 50 is half of all the ISPs anymore anyways. Ta dit boom.
Whoosh!
Long shots kinda feel like being in a first person shooter.
Yes but the current state of DRM exists because of the mass amount of people illegally downloading content online and copying it. Sure copy protection isn't new, but the industry has had to react to the extensive piracy that started in the late 90s with mp3s, movies and software. How do I know, because I was close to the whole thing, I was actually one of the first ones who received a cease and desist from the RIAA back in 1998 for mp3s that were on my webserver. I've seen the whole thing play out from nearly the beginning.
The irony of DRM is that the people who complain about DRM are most likely the same ones that caused it to be there.
Not the same thing.
We don't have a problem with home owners "sampling" a movie via the net, and later buying the DVD or CD legally. But we DO have a problem if that downloader started profiting from the practice... i.e. selling bootlegs. That makes them a true pirate. Just like this "Cooks" gal.
The problem with that is, most of the people I see downloading commercial content illegally DON'T go out and buy a license for it later. And I'm not just generalizing, I know a whole lot of people of all age groups and walks of life who do this. Then they start to do this repeatedly and think its so convienent and they can get away with it that they justify their actions and buy far less content licenses than they normally would, so then the content industry is indeed losing money on things that that person would have bought. So you see, you are stealing, even if you say its not.
You're exactly right. Articles like this would make for a good study by comparing comments with other articles on copyright, DRM and so on to see if a specific commentator switches sides. Either people are switching sides or we are just seeing different "parties" come out of the woodwork depending on the article content.
Its interesting to see all these comments in this article saying things like "Maybe she will learn to respect copyright and the labor put into copyrighted works next time" and so on because if this was an article about expanding DRM, the comments would be more along the lines of "Dirty bastards, I should have the right to listen to music and watch movies freely."
I realize that its not necessarily the same commentators, but still. How does that saying go, you can't have your cake and eat it too?
So what am I supposed to do? Start every one of my X applications from a different Xterm so they have a different controlling TTY (and do not close any of them)?
Screw that for laughs.
Don't you use twm?
I used to. For 3 years. But I wanted my time back.
Compiling the kernel isn't a useful benchmark. How well does it deal with running Adobe Air?
Actually, according to the CentOS article on wikipedia, its usually 4 weeks, even after major releases. Sometimes longer, but usually its like 2 or 3 days less than a month.
And if you haven't checked out Blender in a while, I strongly suggest that you do check out the 2.5 betas. They are awesome. I think this latest version is really going to give professional apps a run for their money.
I can't believe there was no mention of a real superhero, Angle Grinder Man. He's awesome.
Great, by the time I'm there, half my vacation will be used up. I'll spend an hour in Tokyo, then get on the ferry back.