I think high-quality free software like Ubuntu is better at the non-programming bits than proprietary software. Take language support, for example. Microsoft will never release a version in a language which is spoken in countries with a 99% piracy rate. Ubuntu, however, has a lot of options.
This case is about uploading, not downloading. Downloading is harmless - the effect is the same as not downloading. Uploading causes damages, because it's unfair competition. Stop spreading this misinformation so we can discuss the actual issues, not some arguments founded on faulty premises.
We need people to start tagging things "nomoreriaaplease", "nomorepiratepartyplease" or even "nomorelinuxplease"? All those have been around a lot longer, let us have something fresh to discuss for a short period of time.
What you want to do is put moderately bad material (eg. porn) on the outside layer, so they'll think that's what you're trying to hide and stop there. Or, you could set up a three layer truecrypt. Nobody expects three layers (except maybe the Spanish Inquisition)
You tell everyone you want to talk to to set up a public key. Public keys can be put on the internet, anyone who wants to contact you can encrypt his message with the public key and you use the private key (generated at the same time as the public key), which you are keeping to yourself, to decrypt the messages.
No, according to the RIAA if you download CP you're stealing it from the people who are trying to sell it, so the poor child pornographers have to engage in a criminal job like grocery clerk instead of benefitting society with their products.
1) Storage considerations (an average paperback is about 1 MB, so you can either fit 100,000 of them in a storage room or digitize them and keep them on a pocket hard drive.
2) Backups - paperbacks are notoriously difficult to backup. Good for the publisher, bad for everyone else.
3) No search function (this would be EXTREMELY useful, especially in a school environment, and dictionaries. I don't know how people can stand shuffling through paper dictionaries when computer ones take 2-5 seconds per word)
3.1) Poor random access - with an e-book, you can skip straight to chapter 17, or page 325. In a book, you need to flip through all those pages, overshoot your target, flip back one page at a time, try to get 2 sheets of paper to stop sticking from each other, and only then do you get where you want. Somewhat fixable with bookmarks, but that doesn't cover all the reasons why you might need random access.
4) Choice of how to read it. A book must be accepted as given, with an e-book you can shrink the text for faster reading, expand the text for the visibility-impaired, make it green on black because hacker literature is supposed to be read that way, you can even with the right hardware convert the entire thing into braille.
Actually, a stopped clock is right TWICE a day....
You're making a very big assumption here - it's a 12 hour clock. It doesn't have to be, and even analog clocks can be 24 hour (like a sundial: east is 6, south is 12, west is 18, north, if it were visible, would be 0)
Good for the horse analogy union that they seem to be making a comeback against car analogies. Horse analogies were always superior to car analogies - they are more maneuvrable, can use almost anything in nature for fuel (car analogies only compatible with Octane Troll and Flamebait) and they don't need a bailout.
Or do the same without the hassle of changing your password by just lying. It's not like they'll subpoena records just to see if your password actually changed (and if it did, why did you fail to notify them?)
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The lawyers.
If you're the only plumber in town, you can charge $1 less than the cost of not having your house fixed.
So then why get a family?
I think high-quality free software like Ubuntu is better at the non-programming bits than proprietary software. Take language support, for example. Microsoft will never release a version in a language which is spoken in countries with a 99% piracy rate. Ubuntu, however, has a lot of options.
Stealing requires you to be taking something away from someone else. "Stealing" code doesn't take it away from the programmer.
Lack of intent doesn't mean you don't pay damages - it restricts punitive damages, but that's it.
Someone should just shove this into the RIAA's face.
This case is about uploading, not downloading. Downloading is harmless - the effect is the same as not downloading. Uploading causes damages, because it's unfair competition. Stop spreading this misinformation so we can discuss the actual issues, not some arguments founded on faulty premises.
We need people to start tagging things "nomoreriaaplease", "nomorepiratepartyplease" or even "nomorelinuxplease"? All those have been around a lot longer, let us have something fresh to discuss for a short period of time.
Firefox mem usage is 271,480 MB
Wait, why are you running firefox on a supercomputer?
What you want to do is put moderately bad material (eg. porn) on the outside layer, so they'll think that's what you're trying to hide and stop there. Or, you could set up a three layer truecrypt. Nobody expects three layers (except maybe the Spanish Inquisition)
You tell everyone you want to talk to to set up a public key. Public keys can be put on the internet, anyone who wants to contact you can encrypt his message with the public key and you use the private key (generated at the same time as the public key), which you are keeping to yourself, to decrypt the messages.
Because he might have interests other than child porn and only the Pirate Party properly represents those issues.
No, according to the RIAA if you download CP you're stealing it from the people who are trying to sell it, so the poor child pornographers have to engage in a criminal job like grocery clerk instead of benefitting society with their products.
By the fact that a party with 7% popular support is getting anywhere close to 7% representation in parliament.
create and issue a billion (or so) class B shares, and dilute everyone else's interest
How is this even legal? If you own 5% of the company, you own 5% of the company, and "diluting" that would be theft.
Of course, he would never use a sundial, the source is 93 million miles up in the air!
Nice and clever, but it completely ignores:
1) Storage considerations (an average paperback is about 1 MB, so you can either fit 100,000 of them in a storage room or digitize them and keep them on a pocket hard drive.
2) Backups - paperbacks are notoriously difficult to backup. Good for the publisher, bad for everyone else.
3) No search function (this would be EXTREMELY useful, especially in a school environment, and dictionaries. I don't know how people can stand shuffling through paper dictionaries when computer ones take 2-5 seconds per word)
3.1) Poor random access - with an e-book, you can skip straight to chapter 17, or page 325. In a book, you need to flip through all those pages, overshoot your target, flip back one page at a time, try to get 2 sheets of paper to stop sticking from each other, and only then do you get where you want. Somewhat fixable with bookmarks, but that doesn't cover all the reasons why you might need random access.
4) Choice of how to read it. A book must be accepted as given, with an e-book you can shrink the text for faster reading, expand the text for the visibility-impaired, make it green on black because hacker literature is supposed to be read that way, you can even with the right hardware convert the entire thing into braille.
Actually, a stopped clock is right TWICE a day....
You're making a very big assumption here - it's a 12 hour clock. It doesn't have to be, and even analog clocks can be 24 hour (like a sundial: east is 6, south is 12, west is 18, north, if it were visible, would be 0)
But there are libraries on the internet.
hunter2
Doesn't work for me, probably because it's my password. Can you guys see it?
You're posting on slashdot.
Good for the horse analogy union that they seem to be making a comeback against car analogies. Horse analogies were always superior to car analogies - they are more maneuvrable, can use almost anything in nature for fuel (car analogies only compatible with Octane Troll and Flamebait) and they don't need a bailout.
But it's nice to see Slashdot becoming honest about it.
Or do the same without the hassle of changing your password by just lying. It's not like they'll subpoena records just to see if your password actually changed (and if it did, why did you fail to notify them?)