True, but resources are scarce. What would that $3.5B buy if it went towards grants and research in wind, solar, tide, geotherm and other renewables? Solving the bird/bat problem for wind for example would be a big economic driver (as a random example of odd solutions that grant programs can help solve but industry might not take on until later in the market cycle).
NIF would never get funded if it didn't have a military benefit driving it. Selling NIF as a renewable energy project seems somewhat like calling the Manhattan project an earth excavation project. It's true but dodges the core mission point.
But the content is what matters. You don't have to reproduce the format and indexes.
This depends - if the municipality comes to rely on the reference index then you could be required to cite using the proprietary index. Here's an example - you're trying to get some housing zoning issue resolved. You find a piece of muni law or reg that shows you're are entitled to the zoning you want.
The city says: "You must cite any relevant regulation using XYZ proprietary index in your zoning application."
Before you say that no city would ever do that, consider that almost every Federal judge did exactly this with the WestLaw index on Federal case law for years. If you didn't cite with the WestLaw index, most judges simply wouldn't accept your citation.
Ignorance of the law is an excuse if you can show you made an effort to abide by the rules - like hiring a professional in the field of law to make the right decision. At least that's how it works in civil areas, such as tax/finance law. As far as my experience goes, in criminal law "ignorance of the law is no excuse" prosecution is applied in the morally clear areas you describe, where a reasonable person would know the law, but you claim you didn't, so you still get prosecuted. For complex arcana, my experience is that the law is much more nuanced.
True, but they can copyright the format and indexes to the content. WestLaw has been doing this for years with the Federal Case law and making a killing. Recently open indexes of Federal Case law have been taken more seriously and many judges accept both WestLaw index citation and the open format. But for a while WestLaw effectively owned the Federal Case statutes b/c they copyrighted their index of them, and you could only file in Federal court by using that index scheme.
So there are ways to use copyright to lock down what should be public record, and this company may be using such a strategy to charge $200 for their version of the content.
fluffy99 is right in my experience. There was stuff I couldn't do as an admin group member, when I was programming on Windows server, that I could do as the SYSTEM ACCOUNT. So sometimes when I needed to test a hook on something I would schedule "CMD.exe" to run in the scheduling system and enable interact w/deskop for the job. Scheduler would pop up a CMD (dos prompt) window and that window would be running under SYSTEM ACCOUNT. That dos prompt could do things my other dos prompts couldn't do. Ergo, fluffy99 is on to something.
I do recall being able to modify the system policy to allow my account to do these same things, but it took a lot of figuring, and the whole point here is that my default "root" account on windows couldn't do everything the system could do.
Well said. Mod up. This isn't about piracy, this is about controlling what we can do with the content, so they can charge us at every transaction point. Put it on an ipod? $.50, transfer to a new computer, $5, stream this to your kitchen, $1.25.
It depends. You can engineer a system to be very stateful, and you have to route the same client to the same webserver in order to maintain functionality. Or, you can build a totally stateless webserver, with all data stored on db servers and/or memcache installs. It's not hard to do this with many different web frameworks. So I disagree with you on the facts: many, many webservers these days are totally stateless. Perhaps you program in.NET? I have no idea how they do things.
This seems like crazy overkill. Benetech's program BookShare already provides the content in a format that traditional disabled accessible devices can handle. Plus it's all free for the content. This is probably the single most socially beneficial exception to the copyright law operating on the books right now. Any disabled person can have access to any copyrighted content at no charge through this program. Totally amazing:
I remember back around 99/00 we were cloning a ton of machines to QA boxes and server stuff. NT server maybe - hard to remember. We tried cloning without SID removal and the machines didn't work right. I can't remember what exactly the problem was, but possibly joining to a domain. We paid some consultant to come in, they informed us that we're idiots and can't just clone these machines like that. They brought ghost to the problem, swapped in new SID's and the problems went away. I can't remember all the details but maybe this helps jog the memory.
I have no idea if the problem was really SID's or as TFA suggests, the issue was elsewhere but got blamed on SID's..
These anecdotes are all just examples of inefficient markets. If there are lots of people who have an answer, you can pay any one of them for the answer and the pricing is efficient. If supply is low or you don't know where to look for suppliers, pricing is inefficient, and supply-side pricing ensues (similar to monopolies).
You don't pay someone a pile b/c they know where to hit a machine. You pay them a pile b/c you can only find that one person who knows where to hit it, and they can gouge for all your worth.
What is the specific problem that occurs in your scenario? You describe a lot of organizations that say it's bad to dupe SID's but you don't describe the failure mode that occurs when SID's are duped.
It seems like the original article is saying that everyone says duped SID's are bad, but no one can produce a failure scenario / test case that documents it. Please provide some evidence so we can call check out your scenario.
I do. And I find your comment so much more interesting than the flamebait and trolls preceding you arguing about what "exclusive" means. Thanks for posting something meaningful.
Based on the number of these types of comments, I'm beginning to suspect the original post was basically a troll. Give it a rest. It's a couple of marketing announcements.
I see there's some irony there. It's not phishing. The guy is looking resources, I point him towards an article with a solid bibliography. If he doesn't want to pay, that's his (or anyone else's) business. He can go to the library and look it up if he wants it for free, just like any other book or mag. Just b/c it's not free and on the internet doesn't mean it's not useful.
I do agree that I should have pointed out that this is a for-fee site.
Do you not miss buying used books? I use amazon a lot to buy used books and haven't bought a reader b/c I love the used book market. I also re-sell books I'm done reading back to the local book store (where I'd guess they go back up on to amazon again). I guess your argument is that the convenience is worth the price of paying retail? I'm really asking, not trolling.
Yes - I feel the same way about ebook readers. Until I can buy a used book for a reader, I don't want one. Which means probably I will never get one.
You'll never buy a used game in this online play model, but the part I like more about this approach than ebooks is that I'm paying to rent time on a game server and I can play whatever games I want. So while I don't own the games, my operating costs are lower (e.g. let's say I only like to play a bit of a bunch of games: the current used/new game model makes this more expensive than playing only a few games but playing them a lot).
With Ebooks I have to buy a license for every dang book and when I'm done reading it, I'm stuck with a license I don't want or need (I can't even put the ebook on a shelf to impress people that I've read it, like I can with a regular book).
From what I can tell this is also true in corporate proxy wars. If you own or aggregate 1/3 of the shareholder votes, you'll probably win the day on any given issue..
You are describing the tech of TC. I think at least one purpose of TC is to "close the analog hole" between components, which I most certainly don't want. My DVD and my computer can't "lie" to each other, so the tech makers can prevent me from making copies of things that I otherwise should have a right to make copies of. I don't like TC b/c it gives manufacturers a way to prevent me from doing things that I can do now.
That may happen but I've met Genachowski and I wouldn't jump to that conclusion. I think he's serious about this, for whatever one random guy's opinion is worth to you.
Congressional authority or no, the FCC has a whole bureau called "Wireline" and another called "Wireless."
So lots of people at the FCC spend their time regulating wired telecom, including cable signal, fiber, DSL and other internet comm links.
If Congress hasn't spoken up about this extension of their authority, it seems safe to say they've tacitly approved of it for year. I guarantee you Congress is aware of it.
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True, but resources are scarce. What would that $3.5B buy if it went towards grants and research in wind, solar, tide, geotherm and other renewables? Solving the bird/bat problem for wind for example would be a big economic driver (as a random example of odd solutions that grant programs can help solve but industry might not take on until later in the market cycle).
NIF would never get funded if it didn't have a military benefit driving it. Selling NIF as a renewable energy project seems somewhat like calling the Manhattan project an earth excavation project. It's true but dodges the core mission point.
But the content is what matters. You don't have to reproduce the format and indexes.
This depends - if the municipality comes to rely on the reference index then you could be required to cite using the proprietary index. Here's an example - you're trying to get some housing zoning issue resolved. You find a piece of muni law or reg that shows you're are entitled to the zoning you want.
The city says: "You must cite any relevant regulation using XYZ proprietary index in your zoning application."
Before you say that no city would ever do that, consider that almost every Federal judge did exactly this with the WestLaw index on Federal case law for years. If you didn't cite with the WestLaw index, most judges simply wouldn't accept your citation.
Ignorance of the law is an excuse if you can show you made an effort to abide by the rules - like hiring a professional in the field of law to make the right decision. At least that's how it works in civil areas, such as tax/finance law. As far as my experience goes, in criminal law "ignorance of the law is no excuse" prosecution is applied in the morally clear areas you describe, where a reasonable person would know the law, but you claim you didn't, so you still get prosecuted. For complex arcana, my experience is that the law is much more nuanced.
True, but they can copyright the format and indexes to the content. WestLaw has been doing this for years with the Federal Case law and making a killing. Recently open indexes of Federal Case law have been taken more seriously and many judges accept both WestLaw index citation and the open format. But for a while WestLaw effectively owned the Federal Case statutes b/c they copyrighted their index of them, and you could only file in Federal court by using that index scheme.
So there are ways to use copyright to lock down what should be public record, and this company may be using such a strategy to charge $200 for their version of the content.
fluffy99 is right in my experience. There was stuff I couldn't do as an admin group member, when I was programming on Windows server, that I could do as the SYSTEM ACCOUNT. So sometimes when I needed to test a hook on something I would schedule "CMD.exe" to run in the scheduling system and enable interact w/deskop for the job. Scheduler would pop up a CMD (dos prompt) window and that window would be running under SYSTEM ACCOUNT. That dos prompt could do things my other dos prompts couldn't do. Ergo, fluffy99 is on to something.
I do recall being able to modify the system policy to allow my account to do these same things, but it took a lot of figuring, and the whole point here is that my default "root" account on windows couldn't do everything the system could do.
Well said. Mod up. This isn't about piracy, this is about controlling what we can do with the content, so they can charge us at every transaction point. Put it on an ipod? $.50, transfer to a new computer, $5, stream this to your kitchen, $1.25.
It depends. You can engineer a system to be very stateful, and you have to route the same client to the same webserver in order to maintain functionality. Or, you can build a totally stateless webserver, with all data stored on db servers and/or memcache installs. It's not hard to do this with many different web frameworks. So I disagree with you on the facts: many, many webservers these days are totally stateless. Perhaps you program in .NET? I have no idea how they do things.
This seems like crazy overkill. Benetech's program BookShare already provides the content in a format that traditional disabled accessible devices can handle. Plus it's all free for the content. This is probably the single most socially beneficial exception to the copyright law operating on the books right now. Any disabled person can have access to any copyrighted content at no charge through this program. Totally amazing:
http://www.benetech.org/literacy/bookshare.shtml
I remember back around 99/00 we were cloning a ton of machines to QA boxes and server stuff. NT server maybe - hard to remember. We tried cloning without SID removal and the machines didn't work right. I can't remember what exactly the problem was, but possibly joining to a domain. We paid some consultant to come in, they informed us that we're idiots and can't just clone these machines like that. They brought ghost to the problem, swapped in new SID's and the problems went away. I can't remember all the details but maybe this helps jog the memory.
I have no idea if the problem was really SID's or as TFA suggests, the issue was elsewhere but got blamed on SID's..
These anecdotes are all just examples of inefficient markets. If there are lots of people who have an answer, you can pay any one of them for the answer and the pricing is efficient. If supply is low or you don't know where to look for suppliers, pricing is inefficient, and supply-side pricing ensues (similar to monopolies).
You don't pay someone a pile b/c they know where to hit a machine. You pay them a pile b/c you can only find that one person who knows where to hit it, and they can gouge for all your worth.
What is the specific problem that occurs in your scenario? You describe a lot of organizations that say it's bad to dupe SID's but you don't describe the failure mode that occurs when SID's are duped.
It seems like the original article is saying that everyone says duped SID's are bad, but no one can produce a failure scenario / test case that documents it. Please provide some evidence so we can call check out your scenario.
I do. And I find your comment so much more interesting than the flamebait and trolls preceding you arguing about what "exclusive" means. Thanks for posting something meaningful.
Based on the number of these types of comments, I'm beginning to suspect the original post was basically a troll. Give it a rest. It's a couple of marketing announcements.
I see there's some irony there. It's not phishing. The guy is looking resources, I point him towards an article with a solid bibliography. If he doesn't want to pay, that's his (or anyone else's) business. He can go to the library and look it up if he wants it for free, just like any other book or mag. Just b/c it's not free and on the internet doesn't mean it's not useful.
I do agree that I should have pointed out that this is a for-fee site.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-to-foil-phishing-scams
This is a good start and I'd recommend investigating the author's other published material.
Credit to Andrew Tanenbaum for that last quote..
Do you not miss buying used books? I use amazon a lot to buy used books and haven't bought a reader b/c I love the used book market. I also re-sell books I'm done reading back to the local book store (where I'd guess they go back up on to amazon again). I guess your argument is that the convenience is worth the price of paying retail? I'm really asking, not trolling.
Yes - I feel the same way about ebook readers. Until I can buy a used book for a reader, I don't want one. Which means probably I will never get one.
You'll never buy a used game in this online play model, but the part I like more about this approach than ebooks is that I'm paying to rent time on a game server and I can play whatever games I want. So while I don't own the games, my operating costs are lower (e.g. let's say I only like to play a bit of a bunch of games: the current used/new game model makes this more expensive than playing only a few games but playing them a lot).
With Ebooks I have to buy a license for every dang book and when I'm done reading it, I'm stuck with a license I don't want or need (I can't even put the ebook on a shelf to impress people that I've read it, like I can with a regular book).
Mod parent up. The OP is light on facts and heavy on interpretation. Non-story.
it works as presented only in env where intelligent, skilled, knowledgeable and well meaning people work
Or meaning it works rarely. And more to the point, any methodology works in these circumstances..
From what I can tell this is also true in corporate proxy wars. If you own or aggregate 1/3 of the shareholder votes, you'll probably win the day on any given issue..
You are describing the tech of TC. I think at least one purpose of TC is to "close the analog hole" between components, which I most certainly don't want. My DVD and my computer can't "lie" to each other, so the tech makers can prevent me from making copies of things that I otherwise should have a right to make copies of. I don't like TC b/c it gives manufacturers a way to prevent me from doing things that I can do now.
That may happen but I've met Genachowski and I wouldn't jump to that conclusion. I think he's serious about this, for whatever one random guy's opinion is worth to you.
Congressional authority or no, the FCC has a whole bureau called "Wireline" and another called "Wireless."
So lots of people at the FCC spend their time regulating wired telecom, including cable signal, fiber, DSL and other internet comm links.
If Congress hasn't spoken up about this extension of their authority, it seems safe to say they've tacitly approved of it for year. I guarantee you Congress is aware of it.
In soviet russia the chinese are you.