This is Bull Shit (TM). RMS went to Brasil and talked to our Minister of Culture (which happens to be a musician, and happens to have released some of his works under Creative Commons license recently). The minister was using business attire, black suit, dark gray shirt, darker tie; RMS was in his usual khakhis-and-t-shirt. It is an honour for a head of any branch of the government, not an imposition, to receive a person who -- although I do not agree with many of his practices and/or views -- embodies and started the Free Software movement, and keeps on pushing its agenda. The internet would be a very different beast -- if it existed at all -- if Stallmann hadn't written the GNU manifesto in the 80's. People who judge a person by his attire are hopefully an endangered species. People's actions define their responsibility, not their clothing. And again, I don't agree or condone many of RMS's/FSF's actions and positions, but I respect them for their work in furthering the Right to Read. Remember that Mohandas Ghandi used, for a long time, only clothes that he had made himself.
I agree that music is even on iTunes still overpriced. It is my feeling that music should be offered for free by default. It costs me NOTHING to turn on the radio - only my time - and I can hear the music for absolute free there.
Don't forget: "only my time... and my sanity". Come on, radio absolutely sucks those days. In the 15-20 radio stations in my city, there are only two that are worth listening to the ads: the news-radios (CBN & Band News).
Unfortunately, even if you run ubuntu, you are still vulnerable - that's the beauty of social engineering.
How come? Ubuntu wouldn't execute the "autorun.inf" thing; certainly woudn't execute it under wine just for the sake of it. One would plug it on Ubuntu, see some funny files, format the thingy and use it forever. No harm done. And no, I would NOT execute binaries handed to me by completely untrusted strangers (and yes, I trust Canonical -- they have not let me down in the last 2 years). Anecdote: Back in 1984 (I was 14), I worked as "gopher boy" for a bank. Many times con men tried to stop me on the street when I was doing errands and pass a con. They never succeeded with me -- though some of my colleagues have fallen, and lost money (theirs and others') to those guys. I just looked at the guy and said "come on..." and went on. It's the same: 1. if a complete stranger is offering it to you, you don't need it. 2. if you don't have word of mouth from someone you know that it's good, it probably isn't. 3. if it seems too good to be true, then it probably isn't true. In your SIGGRAPH example, I would either: ask someone I know and trust if it vows for the integrity of the thing; decompile the thing and see if it does not do anything nasty (because I can -- and I know many can't); run it in a sandbox (likewise) with no net connection, and no access to my account on my computer (probably I would do this even if someone vowed for the cleaniness of thing just to be sure -- the fact that I'm paranoid does not mean they aren't out to get me); or NOT RUN IT AT ALL.
Not only is it crazy, it's pathetic. Commercial databases have known how to do hot backups for 20 years.
What people forget is that commercial databases will charge you for the priviledge of making hot backups. []s Massa
No ClearChannel down here, but we do have Globo
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Broadcasting equipment capable of covering short (< 40km) distance is relatively cheap (< US$ 1000 [in today's currency]) since the 1970's
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and its deployment has been passionately opposed by the incumbents, who've gotten the the government to shut down such "pirate" operations with no evidence of interference.
That was precisely my point, sorry if I wasn't clear enough.
Kernel is updated, what, 10-20 times/year? Or don't you update your kernel? Update kernel is one (fast) reboot: at least 3-6 minutes ~~ 1-2 hours/year. Update (for instance) apache or mod_* can be instantaneous (few seconds), or something can go wrong and it'll be some hours. Obviously, big shops have failover, and you'll update one server at a time -- even with someone 10 hours down, the "total" downtime will be zero. Can you clarify, please?
One example: our (commercial, expensive) database is stopped everyday at 3am and stays one full hour down for backup (the online-backup product was too expensive). That's 365 hours/year downtime. Ok, so we don't use the database at 3am (thank $DEITY), but...:-)
Exactly. But not exactly "saturated",
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the spectrum licensing is secured by monopoly by the big media. Only big media outlets (in the US, big & medium in the case of cable) have the right to use the spectrum, when actually the spectrum is enough for everybody to use.
Because radio and television broadcasting are expensive with limited frequencies available, the wealthy have dominated broadcasting.
Make that "because the wealthy have assured monopoly in the broadcasting frequencies, others could not use it". Because I don't know if you turned the dial on your radio lately, but of the 90+ possible FM radio stations, only 20+ are occupied in my city. Broadcasting equipment capable of covering short (< 40km) distance is relatively cheap (< US$ 1000 [in today's currency]) since the 1970's.
Ah, and Bruce, sorry for being a grammar nazi, but please: Effects =/= Affects.
SPI is Debian, not the "legal representative". Debian, as a legal entity, Does Not Exist. When aj and the ftpmasters initiated distribution of the JDK, SPI was being contracted to the indemnification clause. If there is something to indemnify, SPI will have to shell out the dollars -- or sell out Debian's server farms, domain names and other assets, including copyrights and trademarks: all assets are SPI's, not Debian's. That's the beauty of aj's bluff: hell yeah, Debian can detach itself from SPI (after some constitution change) but, oh, it cannot be called Debian anymore (the trademark belongs to SPI), nor use the twirl mark (ah-ha), huh, and it cannot use SPI's servers and other equipment either. This would amount to the separatist cabal being exiled from Debian, really.
I own an iPod. I confess that sometimes I listen to it in the "loud" side of the scale (>75%, no volume limitation). Why?
1. The earbuds are too big. They don't fit. I think my external ear cavity (*) is too small for the standard Apple earbuds (18mm diameter). Or the Coby earbuds (17.5mm). Or the Sony ones (idem). (**) 2. I usually use my iPod in a noisy environment (traffic around me, coffee shop, kids playing) and the earbuds do not isolate the outside noise -- maybe because they are not fitting?
No, I don't want to use 1980-style headphones in the middle of the street -- and I certainly don't want to carry such contraptions around.
(*) how do you call it in English? in Portuguese we do have "Ouvido interno" [internal ear cavity], "Ouvido externo" [duh], and "Orelha" [ear, the cartilaginous part] (**) if anyone knows where do I find earbuds for kids (15mm diameter) or other solution -- that does not cost US$ 50 and above -- please, tell me.
if I sell other (but better) music at cheaper prices, I am also stealing his market, which is equivalent to theft. Wrong, sorry. Stealing someone's market is not a criminal act, per se.
RIGHT: Unauthorized redistribution of copyrighted works is in violation of the Berne Convention, which Sweden is a signatory, WRONG: so it IS illegal for Pirate Bay to do what they are doing. Pirate Bay was NOT, under no circumstances, authorizedly or unauthorizedly redistributing copyrighted works. There were NO copyrighted works in PB's servers. ".torrent" files are just files that contain the following information: "the tracker XXX is keeping files YYY, ZZZ, TTT available for bittorrent swarm downloading." And "contributory infringement" is NOT part of the Berne convention... it's an USofAn "innovation". BTW, down here in Brasil there is no "contributory infringement" either.
in many jurisdicitions (mine included) there is no "computer break-in" crimes/misdemeanors. using another person's password can be a part of other crimes (like fraud, mail invasion, or embezzlement) but it's not a crime on itself.
Theft: TAKING something you're not authorized to take. Copyright infringement: COPYING or DISTRIBUTING something you're not authorized to (EVEN IF YOU CREATED IT!!! [*]). Theft is a a violation of someone's personal property rights (even if that someone is a firm or a government branch). Copyright infringement is a violation of someone's copyrights (or Author's rights, depending on your venue). copyrights =/= property rights: property rights are absolute, definitive, alienable rights based on "lawful possession" of a physical good. copyrights are relative, temporary rights to explore the monopoly of an intelectually-novel expression of an idea you had (and its mise-en-scene). The violation of copyrights is NOT as severe as the violation of property rights EXACTLY because of the comparison between the nature of the rights: right to property is stronger than copyright, both are weaker than the right to physical safety, all of them weaker than the right of a living, breathing, out-of-the-womb human being to live (**)
(*) derivative works (**) no, I am not and will not state that I am pro-choice or pro-life: I am stating that -- in a lot of jurisdictions -- the most valued right is the right to live for an already-born person (as in opposition to an in-the-womb person that may or not have the right to live depending on the jurisdiction).
When I was single, everything I did with a sexual partner -- and everything she did with me -- could be repeated (or retried) with the next, without fear of being sued for the "Intellectual Property" of an interesting, insightful or even astounding sexual discovery.
At least that's how I learned the "Candelabro Italiano":-)
The "bridge" equivalent of consumers' expectation for software would be: a bridge made out of cardboard, with a lot of lights, a coffee-making machine each 100 yards, seven entrances and eighteen exits -- and ways to go from each to each, that can be reconstructed in 15 minutes to 3 hours if it falls, and nobody will mind if it falls every other day. A plain old bridge is 1000x - 100000x more expensive to build, would take one year to get ready, and probably will see maintenance only ten to twenty years after it's ready... It's possible to build it, but no one wants it, so it's not _viable_ to build it.
Anyway, the better software design tools are those that are integrated deeply with the coding phase... But no one wants to use those (say Lisp)
His gross income (accumulated since invading afghanistan) * Federal Tax total rate (in the US, something to the order of 25%) * 330,000,000,000 / Gross Federal Tax revenue
I clicked on both the agree and disagree buttons. They do in fact go to different pages. Clicking on the I agree button takes you to a very sparse page with a link to download a Word document containing the specifications. When you actually dig around on the page you're directed to when clicking "disagree" to download the specification, you end up back at the same license agreement page.
You must agree to their license to get the specification.
Sorry, sir, but you are completely wrong. ANY VoIP-capable computer can encrypt a 12kbps stream with a 1024-bit key. And -- unless the whole academia is wrong and all the current off-the-shelf crypto algorithms have crypto flaws, no, not every supercomputer in the face of the earth could break the encryption. One would have to get the keys in another fashion to listen to the talks.
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is that watermarking becomes easier... so pirate copies of films can be traced, maybe individually.
This is Bull Shit (TM).
RMS went to Brasil and talked to our Minister of Culture (which happens to be a musician, and happens to have released some of his works under Creative Commons license recently). The minister was using business attire, black suit, dark gray shirt, darker tie; RMS was in his usual khakhis-and-t-shirt. It is an honour for a head of any branch of the government, not an imposition, to receive a person who -- although I do not agree with many of his practices and/or views -- embodies and started the Free Software movement, and keeps on pushing its agenda. The internet would be a very different beast -- if it existed at all -- if Stallmann hadn't written the GNU manifesto in the 80's.
People who judge a person by his attire are hopefully an endangered species. People's actions define their responsibility, not their clothing. And again, I don't agree or condone many of RMS's/FSF's actions and positions, but I respect them for their work in furthering the Right to Read. Remember that Mohandas Ghandi used, for a long time, only clothes that he had made himself.
That teachers go home and keep idling during the vacations? If so, you *are* a moron.
Anecdote: Back in 1984 (I was 14), I worked as "gopher boy" for a bank. Many times con men tried to stop me on the street when I was doing errands and pass a con. They never succeeded with me -- though some of my colleagues have fallen, and lost money (theirs and others') to those guys. I just looked at the guy and said "come on..." and went on.
It's the same:
1. if a complete stranger is offering it to you, you don't need it.
2. if you don't have word of mouth from someone you know that it's good, it probably isn't.
3. if it seems too good to be true, then it probably isn't true.
In your SIGGRAPH example, I would either: ask someone I know and trust if it vows for the integrity of the thing; decompile the thing and see if it does not do anything nasty (because I can -- and I know many can't); run it in a sandbox (likewise) with no net connection, and no access to my account on my computer (probably I would do this even if someone vowed for the cleaniness of thing just to be sure -- the fact that I'm paranoid does not mean they aren't out to get me); or NOT RUN IT AT ALL.
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Kernel is updated, what, 10-20 times/year? Or don't you update your kernel? Update kernel is one (fast) reboot: at least 3-6 minutes ~~ 1-2 hours/year. Update (for instance) apache or mod_* can be instantaneous (few seconds), or something can go wrong and it'll be some hours. Obviously, big shops have failover, and you'll update one server at a time -- even with someone 10 hours down, the "total" downtime will be zero. Can you clarify, please?
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One example: our (commercial, expensive) database is stopped everyday at 3am and stays one full hour down for backup (the online-backup product was too expensive). That's 365 hours/year downtime. Ok, so we don't use the database at 3am (thank $DEITY), but...
the spectrum licensing is secured by monopoly by the big media. Only big media outlets (in the US, big & medium in the case of cable) have the right to use the spectrum, when actually the spectrum is enough for everybody to use.
Ah, and Bruce, sorry for being a grammar nazi, but please: Effects =/= Affects.
Thanks!
SPI is Debian, not the "legal representative". Debian, as a legal entity, Does Not Exist. When aj and the ftpmasters initiated distribution of the JDK, SPI was being contracted to the indemnification clause. If there is something to indemnify, SPI will have to shell out the dollars -- or sell out Debian's server farms, domain names and other assets, including copyrights and trademarks: all assets are SPI's, not Debian's.
That's the beauty of aj's bluff: hell yeah, Debian can detach itself from SPI (after some constitution change) but, oh, it cannot be called Debian anymore (the trademark belongs to SPI), nor use the twirl mark (ah-ha), huh, and it cannot use SPI's servers and other equipment either. This would amount to the separatist cabal being exiled from Debian, really.
I own an iPod. I confess that sometimes I listen to it in the "loud" side of the scale (>75%, no volume limitation). Why?
1. The earbuds are too big. They don't fit. I think my external ear cavity (*) is too small for the standard Apple earbuds (18mm diameter). Or the Coby earbuds (17.5mm). Or the Sony ones (idem). (**)
2. I usually use my iPod in a noisy environment (traffic around me, coffee shop, kids playing) and the earbuds do not isolate the outside noise -- maybe because they are not fitting?
No, I don't want to use 1980-style headphones in the middle of the street -- and I certainly don't want to carry such contraptions around.
(*) how do you call it in English? in Portuguese we do have "Ouvido interno" [internal ear cavity], "Ouvido externo" [duh], and "Orelha" [ear, the cartilaginous part]
(**) if anyone knows where do I find earbuds for kids (15mm diameter) or other solution -- that does not cost US$ 50 and above -- please, tell me.
if I sell other (but better) music at cheaper prices, I am also stealing his market, which is equivalent to theft. Wrong, sorry. Stealing someone's market is not a criminal act, per se.
RIGHT: Unauthorized redistribution of copyrighted works is in violation of the Berne Convention, which Sweden is a signatory,
WRONG: so it IS illegal for Pirate Bay to do what they are doing.
Pirate Bay was NOT, under no circumstances, authorizedly or unauthorizedly redistributing copyrighted works. There were NO copyrighted works in PB's servers. ".torrent" files are just files that contain the following information: "the tracker XXX is keeping files YYY, ZZZ, TTT available for bittorrent swarm downloading." And "contributory infringement" is NOT part of the Berne convention... it's an USofAn "innovation". BTW, down here in Brasil there is no "contributory infringement" either.
in many jurisdicitions (mine included) there is no "computer break-in" crimes/misdemeanors. using another person's password can be a part of other crimes (like fraud, mail invasion, or embezzlement) but it's not a crime on itself.
What happened when you got married that changed this?
I had no other partners, period. Call me old-fashioned.
Theft: TAKING something you're not authorized to take.
Copyright infringement: COPYING or DISTRIBUTING something you're not authorized to (EVEN IF YOU CREATED IT!!! [*]).
Theft is a a violation of someone's personal property rights (even if that someone is a firm or a government branch).
Copyright infringement is a violation of someone's copyrights (or Author's rights, depending on your venue).
copyrights =/= property rights: property rights are absolute, definitive, alienable rights based on "lawful possession" of a physical good. copyrights are relative, temporary rights to explore the monopoly of an intelectually-novel expression of an idea you had (and its mise-en-scene).
The violation of copyrights is NOT as severe as the violation of property rights EXACTLY because of the comparison between the nature of the rights: right to property is stronger than copyright, both are weaker than the right to physical safety, all of them weaker than the right of a living, breathing, out-of-the-womb human being to live (**)
(*) derivative works
(**) no, I am not and will not state that I am pro-choice or pro-life: I am stating that -- in a lot of jurisdictions -- the most valued right is the right to live for an already-born person (as in opposition to an in-the-womb person that may or not have the right to live depending on the jurisdiction).
Slashdot-audience-focus-group jokes apart:
:-)
When I was single, everything I did with a sexual partner -- and everything she did with me -- could be repeated (or retried) with the next, without fear of being sued for the "Intellectual Property" of an interesting, insightful or even astounding sexual discovery.
At least that's how I learned the "Candelabro Italiano"
The "bridge" equivalent of consumers' expectation for software would be: a bridge made out of cardboard, with a lot of lights, a coffee-making machine each 100 yards, seven entrances and eighteen exits -- and ways to go from each to each, that can be reconstructed in 15 minutes to 3 hours if it falls, and nobody will mind if it falls every other day. A plain old bridge is 1000x - 100000x more expensive to build, would take one year to get ready, and probably will see maintenance only ten to twenty years after it's ready... It's possible to build it, but no one wants it, so it's not _viable_ to build it.
Anyway, the better software design tools are those that are integrated deeply with the coding phase... But no one wants to use those (say Lisp)
His gross income (accumulated since invading afghanistan) * Federal Tax total rate (in the US, something to the order of 25%) * 330,000,000,000 / Gross Federal Tax revenue
it's relevant because in the process of using winelibs, google contributed over 200 patches to wine.
Not only you are Anonymous, but these were spoken like a true Coward!!!!
Sorry, sir, but you are completely wrong. ANY VoIP-capable computer can encrypt a 12kbps stream with a 1024-bit key. And -- unless the whole academia is wrong and all the current off-the-shelf crypto algorithms have crypto flaws, no, not every supercomputer in the face of the earth could break the encryption. One would have to get the keys in another fashion to listen to the talks.