Even my mostly non-geek wife has noticed and commented on the prevalence of MS's TV advertising now, for Office 2003 and Server 2003:
Q "Why now? They never had to before."
A "Because there's no technical reason to upgrade they have to have an advertising campaign."
...it would only be using RAW images so he could twiddle with every pixel the way he'd want to, not the dumbed down way the camera would do it.
Is there such a thing as an 8x10 digital back for a view camera?
I had a problem with spammers sending spam with popunders. I added in a rule to Mercury to delete any message that contained the line "script langage=javascript." BAM. No more of those. In fact, I'd really appreciate if all spammers would use Java-script in their messages.
Anyone who uses a mail program that blindly executes Javascript deserves popunders...or worse.
Critics say that this is a clear conflict of interest. Playing spam from both sides might be likened to a pharmaceutical company enabling the spread of a disease in order to sell the cure.
You mean like writing viruses and then selling antivirus software?
I think big business is starting to learn what step 2 is, and it's kind of frightening.
Create inconvinience/problems.
Sell products which eleminate the problem.
Profit!
This is news? This is the exact same model as the phone companies use: build and sell a better mousetrap for telemarketers to use, and then sell the remedy to the consumer. Then, create ways for the marketers to work around the solution, so they can sell yet another solution to the poor, dumb consumer.
My biggest concern with the spamcop purchase (I'm a big user) is if their customers aren't blocked, but other spammers are. There are already too many exceptions that go to "Internal Spamcop Handling" never to be heard of again...for all I know, that might already be happening.
Representative Rush Holt of New Jersey, who has introduced a bill requiring that digital voting machines leave a paper trail and that their software be available for public inspection, is occasionally told that systems lacking these safeguards haven't caused problems. "How do you know?" he asks.
Indeed! It's what we don't know about that we have to be worried about.
You didn't legitmately buy your DVD "on Linux" either. You bought it in a store, or on the web. That doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to play it in Linux
Your analogy would hold up better if you purchased your DVD through a program that would only run on some other platform. There are only two ways to acquire.m4p files: iTunes on the Mac and iTunes on the PC, with both of those and the iPod being the only licensed playback devices.
Just because you have something else doesn't give you any special rights.
Do you really think DeCSS was written to let Linux guys play DVD? If so, congratulations: you're one of the gullible masses that bought it.
Quite frankly, Jon and the MoRE guys didn't hack CSS to let Linux guys play DVD. If you want to give someone credit for that, give it to Derek Fawcus and the folks over at LiViD; they deserve the credit, not Jon. MoRE hacked CSS in order to hack DVD - pure and simple - and then Jon ran behind the Linux banner to cover his ass when the news hit the media. Lots of smoke and self-righteous Linux geeks turned him from a two-bit software cracker into the poster child for downtrodden Linux geeks. Now that two-bit cracker is back to two-bit cracking. Surprise!
Man, I wish I had some mod points to mod this up. Do note that I said "a cogent case could be made" (or something like that; I don't have the original post handy) because that case was made. I didn't say anything about belief (mine), just believability.
"If it's not 'free as in beer,' we'll steal it, and we'll hide behind 'free as in speech.'"
How about to play legitimately purchased songs on linux. Short of Wine, there's no other way to do that. Also, it is impossible to steal music here: you have to buy it before you can crack it.
How did you legitimately buy it on linux? Hint: you didn't. Another hint: You can't.
As for your 2nd clause: the copies can go where? Anywhere.
This is bullshit. He could at least make a reasonably cogent case for cracking DeCSS: to play legitmately purcased DVDs on linux.
What's the ethical justification for this that requires Windows Quicktime, Windows iTunes and AAC files that are already tied to that particular machine (maybe among others)? There is none except to get something for nothing...eg, stealing.
All this is going to do is fuck over the innocent, honest people.
Isn't the nature of punishment in these cases to deter the perpetrator from commiting the crime again, not threatening to destroy their life with monetary charges that they could never possibly hope to repay?
Has anyone considered a class action countersuit on behalf of p2p users for harrassment and extortion by the RIAA. This sort of thing was being done by SmartCard readers recently harrassed by DirecTV.
That would only be analogous if and only if the RIAA went after everyone who downloaded Kazaa or whatever, not people who actually had been found to have used them in an illegal manner.
"Megan Dickenson is in the middle of a controversy she doesn't understand." [...] "Another person we met -- we'll call him John -- has been violating federal law too. He just hasn't been caught. "'I feel like kind of a sucker to pay money for something that I can get for free,' he said. "
As long as there are Johns, there will be Megans. Megan's at least young and (at least acting) ignorant.
When they actually place the call, there's an expense, when the human has to talk to them, there's an expense. Plus, the real person they call will likely bitch them out (because it is a cold call). Hey, they might even be on the Do Not Call list. The fact that they got a "lead" for that number offers no protection as the lead is bogus (i.e. incorrect name, incorrect address.), so now you are putting the mortgage company in a position where they may be liable for fines. End result: you give Spam a very bad name in the leads generation business by poisoning the well.
And, unless you're the one who is answering the phone, you're morally no different than the spammer.
It's even more amusing to me that the little Mom & Pop ISP I worked for could go three years without a major outage (the outage that did occur was due to a car hitting a telephone pole outside of our building -- beyond our control) yet major national ISPs with (for all intents and purposes) infinite resources can't manage the same feat, even for their commercial customers.
You sound like you could be living in Maryland....
1) We don't want to have to pay someone to tally all the votes. If its not computerized, someone has to count them all up. When there's around 100 million votes for president, that's a lot of minimum wage hours right there!
But there's been an API for about 10 years to do this, Internet Config [apple.com]. It's still functional, but it's Carbon and is being overtaken by Launch Services [apple.com], which is Cocoa.
Apple didn't do users any favors by burying these in Mail and Safari - that's not the obvious behavior for setting a preference, that's the Redmond behavior.
Right, and it's Redmondian in yet another aspect. Those two apps (or at least one or the other) are now mandatory, vs. being optional in earlier versions of OS X (don't want mail? Chuck it in the trash. Don't want Safari? Don't download it, or if you did, chuck it in the trash). Yeah, we know about other ways to change the default mailto: app, but does the average user?
That's a really annoying change to me. It's a system-wide configuration. Leave it in the place where system-wide configs are.
Unfortunately, they're in bed with Cyveillance--don't forget to uncheck that box to avoid helping them.
Why?
Cuz as a paying member of Spamcop (reporting is integrated into Mailsmith for OS X and it's just too easy to use(, it pisses me off that I'm paying for the pleasure of giving Cyveillance information that they're getting paid to utilize.
Faux News? No one has ever thought of that! Oh wait...google returns 418,000 hits. And there's a fauxnewschannel.com. Make fun of Fox News if you want, but at least come with some new material.
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Remember, you don't have to be a moron to be a politician...but it sure helps.
If it's to be manned, stick Dubya on it. If it's to be unmanned, the same applies!
They need to adjust their cameras. There's this strange red tint to the photographs. :-)
Even my mostly non-geek wife has noticed and commented on the prevalence of MS's TV advertising now, for Office 2003 and Server 2003: Q "Why now? They never had to before." A "Because there's no technical reason to upgrade they have to have an advertising campaign."
...it would only be using RAW images so he could twiddle with every pixel the way he'd want to, not the dumbed down way the camera would do it. Is there such a thing as an 8x10 digital back for a view camera?
Anyone who uses a mail program that blindly executes Javascript deserves popunders...or worse.
Contrary to what the headline says, you cannot copy/duplicate a commercial DVD in them, even if you had a DVD player and a recorder.
Groklaw's been slashdotted. Maybe they should run their web server on SCO!
You mean like writing viruses and then selling antivirus software?
I think big business is starting to learn what step 2 is, and it's kind of frightening.
Create inconvinience/problems. Sell products which eleminate the problem. Profit!
This is news? This is the exact same model as the phone companies use: build and sell a better mousetrap for telemarketers to use, and then sell the remedy to the consumer. Then, create ways for the marketers to work around the solution, so they can sell yet another solution to the poor, dumb consumer.
My biggest concern with the spamcop purchase (I'm a big user) is if their customers aren't blocked, but other spammers are. There are already too many exceptions that go to "Internal Spamcop Handling" never to be heard of again...for all I know, that might already be happening.
Indeed! It's what we don't know about that we have to be worried about.
Does this mean that Google now owns the world?
Your analogy would hold up better if you purchased your DVD through a program that would only run on some other platform. There are only two ways to acquire .m4p files: iTunes on the Mac and iTunes on the PC, with both of those and the iPod being the only licensed playback devices.
Just because you have something else doesn't give you any special rights.
Man, I wish I had some mod points to mod this up. Do note that I said "a cogent case could be made" (or something like that; I don't have the original post handy) because that case was made. I didn't say anything about belief (mine), just believability.
"If it's not 'free as in beer,' we'll steal it, and we'll hide behind 'free as in speech.'"
How did you legitimately buy it on linux? Hint: you didn't. Another hint: You can't.
As for your 2nd clause: the copies can go where? Anywhere.
This is bullshit. He could at least make a reasonably cogent case for cracking DeCSS: to play legitmately purcased DVDs on linux. What's the ethical justification for this that requires Windows Quicktime, Windows iTunes and AAC files that are already tied to that particular machine (maybe among others)? There is none except to get something for nothing...eg, stealing. All this is going to do is fuck over the innocent, honest people.
No, it's to punish them and to deter others.
Has anyone considered a class action countersuit on behalf of p2p users for harrassment and extortion by the RIAA. This sort of thing was being done by SmartCard readers recently harrassed by DirecTV.
That would only be analogous if and only if the RIAA went after everyone who downloaded Kazaa or whatever, not people who actually had been found to have used them in an illegal manner.
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"Another person we met -- we'll call him John -- has been violating federal law too. He just hasn't been caught.
"'I feel like kind of a sucker to pay money for something that I can get for free,' he said. "
As long as there are Johns, there will be Megans. Megan's at least young and (at least acting) ignorant.
What's John's excuse?
And, unless you're the one who is answering the phone, you're morally no different than the spammer.
It's even more amusing to me that the little Mom & Pop ISP I worked for could go three years without a major outage (the outage that did occur was due to a car hitting a telephone pole outside of our building -- beyond our control) yet major national ISPs with (for all intents and purposes) infinite resources can't manage the same feat, even for their commercial customers.
You sound like you could be living in Maryland....
1) We don't want to have to pay someone to tally all the votes. If its not computerized, someone has to count them all up. When there's around 100 million votes for president, that's a lot of minimum wage hours right there!
Who said the cost of democracy was cheap?
So, how do you propose to pay for web hosting and bandwidth?
A good webhosting provider will run $1/month/100MB of space, and $1-$2/GB of transfer. If they're charging less, don't expect any sort of reliability.
Shows how pathetic some of the moderation is since the insipid parent of this is +5 insightful, and this one isn't rated higher.
But there's been an API for about 10 years to do this, Internet Config [apple.com]. It's still functional, but it's Carbon and is being overtaken by Launch Services [apple.com], which is Cocoa.
Apple didn't do users any favors by burying these in Mail and Safari - that's not the obvious behavior for setting a preference, that's the Redmond behavior.
Right, and it's Redmondian in yet another aspect. Those two apps (or at least one or the other) are now mandatory, vs. being optional in earlier versions of OS X (don't want mail? Chuck it in the trash. Don't want Safari? Don't download it, or if you did, chuck it in the trash).
Yeah, we know about other ways to change the default mailto: app, but does the average user?
That's a really annoying change to me. It's a system-wide configuration. Leave it in the place where system-wide configs are.
Unfortunately, they're in bed with Cyveillance--don't forget to uncheck that box to avoid helping them.
Why?
Cuz as a paying member of Spamcop (reporting is integrated into Mailsmith for OS X and it's just too easy to use(, it pisses me off that I'm paying for the pleasure of giving Cyveillance information that they're getting paid to utilize.
Faux News? No one has ever thought of that! Oh wait...google returns 418,000 hits. And there's a fauxnewschannel.com. Make fun of Fox News if you want, but at least come with some new material.
Only 10,900 if you search for "faux news".