This should be no surprise to anyone watching the current conservative governments attack on research and academia in australia.
The world renowned CSIRO has been gutted with climate research all but abandoned along with oceanographic research, which is a *big problem* when your an island nation entrusted to the care of the dying barrier reef. The government has stripped funding out of education and universities, removed scientific advisors from all levels of government, and often replaced them with spiral eyed religious idiots who see more value in quoting the bible than quoting peer reviewed research.
And now they are going after the history archives.
Traumatic? I would have thought impossible. Please explain how one sets up a Commodore 64 to "boot over a network". I grew up with a C64 and I don't remember any such capability. There was a serial port which could support up to a 1200 baud modem as I recall, but no capability to boot over the modem. In fact, the computer's "operating system" (essentially a BASIC interpreter) was in the ROM memory, and didn't even need to boot from the disk.
No it wasnt anything as fancy as that. It was some sort of interface where we'd type in the LOAD "*",8,1 and then it would load something to the entire class, from memory. I was only a kid at the time, but I believe it was some sort of shared hard drive type thing. Might have used the IDE64 interface which supported network drives. It was a heck of a long time ago.
When we where in school (I'm assuming your part of the pre millenial gen x's like myself) , teachers had no idea how to incorporate computers into lessons because the damn things where so new (And because getting a commodore 64 to boot over a network was.... traumatic)
They have learned. The most important asset in education is a childs attention span, and many children just dont have good attention spans, be it physiological issues like ADHD , social problems like internet or phone addiction, or because its summer outside and "skool sux miss!". So teachers have been experimenting with ways of combining the fun side and the educational side of computers. Minecraft for exploring programming and creativity. And now civ for exploring how history actually moves.
The trick is to get kids to understand that history isnt just a series of rote dates to remember (In fact knowing the exact date napoleon was born or whatever is pretty uninteresting to historians) , but a big story with processes that motored it along that we can learn from.
The trouble I think is that historians dont actually agree on much about those processes. The post-marxist school of thought sees history as a process of struggles over resources between interest groups. Foucaultians see history as a process born of the "techniques" of power the elites wield over the non elites, Traditional liberalism saw history as a Hegelian (Not to be confused with marxisms very different view) process of gradual movements towards technological, social and cultural perfection. Structuralism sees history as a process analogous to language that can be interpretted along symbolic measures, whilst the post structuralsits (or post modernists) doubt theres any real motor of history at all, bar for the views of the history teller.
Can Civ capture these debates in historiography? Probably not, but getting the idea into a kids head that maybe theres something more to history than just a series of boring dates to memorize for the test is a spectacular achievement and might well even lead to a more circumspect group of adults that look for the big picture rather than the shallow immediacy of consumerist nihilism.
Whats with all these posts where people get angry because they dont know what a particular technology is. This isn't "news for clueless old people" its "news for nerds", a prerequisite of which is RTFA and if that doesnt work, "Use google" .
Its bad enough all the climate denialist whackjobs you get here from time to time, but folks being proud of their technological illiteracy? GTFO
If they can filter out all the pseudoscience waffle (Anti-vax , quantum-foo, etc) it might actually do wonders for peoples scientific literacy, especially at a time when good science can mean life or death.
Actually it does serve a purpose , it's designed to get people talking about ethics and robotics. And here we are. It's not an idle concern either. Increasingly research into AI has been funded by defence industries towards autonomous drones and the like. That's robots killing people. God help us if they ever develop general AI and then weaponise it
What next, they sell a game for $50 and the next week decide they want more, so bump the price to $100 and revoke the licenses from everyone who bought at $50?
Contract law , to some extent, recognizes a difference between "free" and a price. If the license was free, its not clear there was any agreement that could be enforcable by the user. However if the user had paid $50, then there is absolutely an agreement that can be enforced in court.
Here in west australia you would bring a claim like this to the small claims tribunal, or in other states magistrates course. You generally dont employ lawyers at these things, and its largely a couple of people resolving a dispute in front of the judge whos primarily there to mediate the dispute rather than award outrageous and punitive damages. Its pretty cheap, and appropriate for small claims.
The littigant would have been awarded $75 (the amount he paid) and possibly a refund of his court fees.
Even Python has been a pretty good investment of time. Learned it in the 1990s when it was new , and those skills are STILL useful to me. In fact possibly even more so then ever.
Reminds me a bit of a hack we used to do in the late 80s/early 90s on the old terminals at uni. For a few seconds during login on the old unix machines, your terminal was world writable. There was an escape sequence that let you bind key sequences to keys (like macros I guess). So we'd sit there watching for that login and blap the terminal with macros, and then take control from there.
Fortunately it was a more innocent time, so we'd just use it to spam academics with frank zappa lyrics and stupid shit like that, although one guy did write a sort of shell virus that got out of hand *very* quickly.
Delphi absolutely killed VB on this front. It had all the visual drop and drag chops , tied to perfectly servicable modernization of Pascal that dropped all the "crap at IO" features of old Pascal, and added a robust C++ like object model. Plus if you really had to you could still use those VB active-x controls. But more often then not more competently implemented alternatives where available in Delphis vast open source ecosystem.
Unfortunately Borland was/is a horrible company that continuously canibalized its own developer base with its horrific licensing fees and unwillingness to service the student market (Meaning no new delphi devs coming online).
[blockquote](But he cuts out some guys eyes first to get through the lab's retina scanner and we all know that can't happen IRL.)[/blockquote] Well theres the Capt America version where a bunch of heavily armored dudes just smash into the CDC through the front door.
Just make sure Scarlet witch stays at home incase she accidently explodes some dudes building.
But theres an MS Office for the mac and always has been, and it works just fine. I'm not sure how that reconciles with your theory? Wouldnt the mac be the bigger threat to windows desktops, being that its a significantly larger portion of the desktop market?
And if you were a Chinese hacker who got into that single account which has access to the entirety of the iTunes source code... nothing bad would happen to you. You might even get a bonus, or promoted.
I had a chinese developer once try to sell me the code for a competitors software he had worked on. I phoned the competitor. Next day the coder was raided by the police in bejing.
I try not to think about the poor bastards life after that. Justice can be brutal over there.
I'm just imagining the horrifying product launch with Tim doing his best to channel his inner Steve Jobs ("We've crafted these but plugs with love with technologies that will delight you") and Johnny I've talking about how they carefully crafted them with precision Unibody aluminium to ensure maximum pluggage whilst retaining stylish lines and long lived durability
It boggles my mind those in the heirachy who feigned ignorance. Johny rotten from the sex pistols straight up said as much on television in the 1970s and for his efforts at whistleblowing all he got was a ban from the BBC. From my understanding *everyone* at the BBC knew , yet the higher up lickspittles didn't do nothing
This has most likely been legal regardless always. Back in the 90s we had a big drama over government laws introduced guaranteeing "parallell importation". The concept being that the consumer (and retailer) was guaranteed the right to bypass local importers and import their own stuff if they can get a better deal. This was particularly targetted at the music industry where CD distribution monopolies had kept album prices at around the $30 mark which in the 1990s was pretty damn exorbitant. The music industry had a fit about it, right down to big public scare campaigns about how it would ~somehow~ make music more expensive and cause australian musicians to go bankerupt because pirates would make cds in indoneisa or china and sell them cheap here legally. Which of course was nonsense since none of this authorized piracy. The laws also meant CD players where required to be multi region.
Later the laws where used to prohibit sony and microsoft going after modchippers , and enforced DVD multi-region requirements. This all was going great until the conserative Howard government came in and I think, but I cant prove, they told the ACCC to stop enforcing the parallell import laws. And we got DMCA style laws for copyright which actually reversed many of the freedoms of parallell import.
None the less, they ARE still on the book, so I guess this rulings most important result is clarifying that technological measures to circumvent geoblocking do not violate copyright laws.
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This should be no surprise to anyone watching the current conservative governments attack on research and academia in australia.
The world renowned CSIRO has been gutted with climate research all but abandoned along with oceanographic research, which is a *big problem* when your an island nation entrusted to the care of the dying barrier reef. The government has stripped funding out of education and universities, removed scientific advisors from all levels of government, and often replaced them with spiral eyed religious idiots who see more value in quoting the bible than quoting peer reviewed research.
And now they are going after the history archives.
No it wasnt anything as fancy as that. It was some sort of interface where we'd type in the LOAD "*",8,1 and then it would load something to the entire class, from memory. I was only a kid at the time, but I believe it was some sort of shared hard drive type thing. Might have used the IDE64 interface which supported network drives. It was a heck of a long time ago.
Please step out of line, sir. I'm going to need you to put your hands where I can see them. Can someone bring me some more rubber gloves?
Are these grits in your pants sir??????
When we where in school (I'm assuming your part of the pre millenial gen x's like myself) , teachers had no idea how to incorporate computers into lessons because the damn things where so new (And because getting a commodore 64 to boot over a network was.... traumatic)
They have learned. The most important asset in education is a childs attention span, and many children just dont have good attention spans, be it physiological issues like ADHD , social problems like internet or phone addiction, or because its summer outside and "skool sux miss!". So teachers have been experimenting with ways of combining the fun side and the educational side of computers. Minecraft for exploring programming and creativity. And now civ for exploring how history actually moves.
The trick is to get kids to understand that history isnt just a series of rote dates to remember (In fact knowing the exact date napoleon was born or whatever is pretty uninteresting to historians) , but a big story with processes that motored it along that we can learn from.
The trouble I think is that historians dont actually agree on much about those processes. The post-marxist school of thought sees history as a process of struggles over resources between interest groups. Foucaultians see history as a process born of the "techniques" of power the elites wield over the non elites, Traditional liberalism saw history as a Hegelian (Not to be confused with marxisms very different view) process of gradual movements towards technological, social and cultural perfection. Structuralism sees history as a process analogous to language that can be interpretted along symbolic measures, whilst the post structuralsits (or post modernists) doubt theres any real motor of history at all, bar for the views of the history teller.
Can Civ capture these debates in historiography? Probably not, but getting the idea into a kids head that maybe theres something more to history than just a series of boring dates to memorize for the test is a spectacular achievement and might well even lead to a more circumspect group of adults that look for the big picture rather than the shallow immediacy of consumerist nihilism.
"Bernie/Trump: Change that makes the establishment shit their pants."
It would probably make bernie and trump shit their pants too, considering both of these men occupy polar opposites of the ideological spectrum.
Whats with all these posts where people get angry because they dont know what a particular technology is. This isn't "news for clueless old people" its "news for nerds", a prerequisite of which is RTFA and if that doesnt work, "Use google" .
Its bad enough all the climate denialist whackjobs you get here from time to time, but folks being proud of their technological illiteracy? GTFO
If they can filter out all the pseudoscience waffle (Anti-vax , quantum-foo, etc) it might actually do wonders for peoples scientific literacy, especially at a time when good science can mean life or death.
Actually it does serve a purpose , it's designed to get people talking about ethics and robotics. And here we are. It's not an idle concern either. Increasingly research into AI has been funded by defence industries towards autonomous drones and the like. That's robots killing people. God help us if they ever develop general AI and then weaponise it
Contract law , to some extent, recognizes a difference between "free" and a price. If the license was free, its not clear there was any agreement that could be enforcable by the user. However if the user had paid $50, then there is absolutely an agreement that can be enforced in court.
Here in west australia you would bring a claim like this to the small claims tribunal, or in other states magistrates course. You generally dont employ lawyers at these things, and its largely a couple of people resolving a dispute in front of the judge whos primarily there to mediate the dispute rather than award outrageous and punitive damages. Its pretty cheap, and appropriate for small claims.
The littigant would have been awarded $75 (the amount he paid) and possibly a refund of his court fees.
Even Python has been a pretty good investment of time. Learned it in the 1990s when it was new , and those skills are STILL useful to me. In fact possibly even more so then ever.
Outside of a few beligerant countries. Obama is really well liked internationally. I'm not sure this is a valid comparison?
I mean I have no idea what the opinion of him is in the US. But out here in the non US, he's generally quite liked. Basically, he's not Bush.
The thing was knocking police radio off air, and no doubt ambulance comms and so on. He got off lightly.
Reminds me a bit of a hack we used to do in the late 80s/early 90s on the old terminals at uni. For a few seconds during login on the old unix machines, your terminal was world writable. There was an escape sequence that let you bind key sequences to keys (like macros I guess). So we'd sit there watching for that login and blap the terminal with macros, and then take control from there.
Fortunately it was a more innocent time, so we'd just use it to spam academics with frank zappa lyrics and stupid shit like that, although one guy did write a sort of shell virus that got out of hand *very* quickly.
Delphi absolutely killed VB on this front. It had all the visual drop and drag chops , tied to perfectly servicable modernization of Pascal that dropped all the "crap at IO" features of old Pascal, and added a robust C++ like object model. Plus if you really had to you could still use those VB active-x controls. But more often then not more competently implemented alternatives where available in Delphis vast open source ecosystem.
Unfortunately Borland was/is a horrible company that continuously canibalized its own developer base with its horrific licensing fees and unwillingness to service the student market (Meaning no new delphi devs coming online).
So C# / VB.net it is.
[blockquote](But he cuts out some guys eyes first to get through the lab's retina scanner and we all know that can't happen IRL.)[/blockquote]
Well theres the Capt America version where a bunch of heavily armored dudes just smash into the CDC through the front door.
Just make sure Scarlet witch stays at home incase she accidently explodes some dudes building.
Uh. Yes they do. At least the farms I've lived on have. Its called Seed saving, and its standard practice.
McCafee is the Donald Trump of Infosec. Always amusing to read about but proof that some things just don't react well with Cocaine
But theres an MS Office for the mac and always has been, and it works just fine. I'm not sure how that reconciles with your theory? Wouldnt the mac be the bigger threat to windows desktops, being that its a significantly larger portion of the desktop market?
I had a chinese developer once try to sell me the code for a competitors software he had worked on. I phoned the competitor. Next day the coder was raided by the police in bejing.
I try not to think about the poor bastards life after that. Justice can be brutal over there.
Looking at DVDFabs about pages, it leads to a chinese company called Fengtao Software Inc from the Haidian district in Beijing.
They have no obligation at all to comply with this, because they are not an american company at all.
What "embedded" systems are still being made with old school pentiums?!
I'm just imagining the horrifying product launch with Tim doing his best to channel his inner Steve Jobs ("We've crafted these but plugs with love with technologies that will delight you") and Johnny I've talking about how they carefully crafted them with precision Unibody aluminium to ensure maximum pluggage whilst retaining stylish lines and long lived durability
It boggles my mind those in the heirachy who feigned ignorance. Johny rotten from the sex pistols straight up said as much on television in the 1970s and for his efforts at whistleblowing all he got was a ban from the BBC. From my understanding *everyone* at the BBC knew , yet the higher up lickspittles didn't do nothing
This has most likely been legal regardless always. Back in the 90s we had a big drama over government laws introduced guaranteeing "parallell importation". The concept being that the consumer (and retailer) was guaranteed the right to bypass local importers and import their own stuff if they can get a better deal. This was particularly targetted at the music industry where CD distribution monopolies had kept album prices at around the $30 mark which in the 1990s was pretty damn exorbitant. The music industry had a fit about it, right down to big public scare campaigns about how it would ~somehow~ make music more expensive and cause australian musicians to go bankerupt because pirates would make cds in indoneisa or china and sell them cheap here legally. Which of course was nonsense since none of this authorized piracy. The laws also meant CD players where required to be multi region.
Later the laws where used to prohibit sony and microsoft going after modchippers , and enforced DVD multi-region requirements. This all was going great until the conserative Howard government came in and I think, but I cant prove, they told the ACCC to stop enforcing the parallell import laws. And we got DMCA style laws for copyright which actually reversed many of the freedoms of parallell import.
None the less, they ARE still on the book, so I guess this rulings most important result is clarifying that technological measures to circumvent geoblocking do not violate copyright laws.