That part of The Negotiator trailer, as I recall, could NOT have been in the final cut because it would have blown the secret. I always suspected that the movie was at first very different, and then changed for release--but the trailer never was updated.
Proposed legislation like this is based on an out-of-date mindset that internet access is some sort of above-and-beyond privilege to be closely regulated.
The mindset is foolish, but out of date? On the contrary, I think we are just seeing the beginning of the push for a "RealID" internet.
Apple, getting in to games. Supporting game developers. Pigs flying. Dogs and cats, living together... mass hysteria.
As a long time Mac user, I have seen Lucy Jobs yank this particular football away at the last second more than once.
I'll be believe it when I see it, and maybe not even then. Occam's razor applies: what is more likely, Apple becoming actively pro-game, or me lying half dead and delirious in a ditch?
No work is copyrighted unless application is filed along with two copies in the Library of Congress
So if I take a great picture... a company should be able to resell it for profit unless I have paid the money to send copies to a government agency?
I am all in favor of weakening copyrights and their durations, and agree with most of what you have proposed, but I don't think that is a good idea. It would disadvantage the individual, who would not have the resources to combat infringement. Copyright on creation makes reselling something you find a deny-by-default, which I think is a good idea.
I also do not agree that companies should be unable to hold copyrights. That is also restricting an individual's right of trade: I should be able to sell a copyright to a anyone I want to.
I don't want to get into this specific argument, but I do want to say that "legal" is not always the same thing as "ethical." Don't blindly equate one to the other.
I'd honestly rather see Blizzards people do the majority of the work as I honestly think they could do an as good if not better than job than Hollywood could.
Speaking only of the animation itself, Blizzard does not do those awesome cinematics in house, at least not all of them. Bigass talented companies still hire specialists, like Blur.
If your laptop asks for a password at startup, can they legally compel you to provide it? If the court likened the laptop to luggage, I'd guess the answer is yes.
Are there any whole-disk deniable crypto systems available?
Enter password #1: Machine boots in to Windows XP Pro, stocked with a legal copy of Office and the Zune Desktop. Why, no one so boring could be bad!
Enter password #2: Machine boots in to your real system, full of suspicious looking MP3s. Also, your Firefox homepage is set to Craigslist Casual Encounters W4M.
Since we are essentially meta-tagging ourselves through our social networking memberships...
Speak for yourself, writer person. I don't use "social networking." I don't care what my friends had for lunch, and I don't want my ex to know who my next ex is going to be by virtually sitting them down next to each other. That's bananas.
I really should write a form letter to politely decline Plaxo, LinkedIn, Orkut, Facebook, Myspace, etc. invitations that well intentioned people keep sending me.
I even avoid IM, because hey, why do I want to let 20 people know I am at the computer RIGHT NOW? SOMEONE always wants to talk. And if I spend most of my time pretending to be away or invisible, then IM has become a burden and not a help to me.
Old fashioned methods of communication like email still work great for me. I do not want to be transparent. If you do, you mystify me.
It's very common in the cell phone industry to use certificate signing--and at $99/year, Apple is the cheapest to obtain a signing key.
Does the signature expire yearly?
I'd hate to start using software and have it stop working because the developer decided not to support it and keep paying $99/year. Hopefully once you sign it, the executable stays good.
And surround can be physically a pain to setup, assuming it's supported in the games you want to play.
The cool thing about Dolby Digital Live encoding is the game doesn't have to support Dolby Digital. The sound card and drivers magically remix positional DirectSound events into a Dolby Digital bitstream.
In other words, I plug my computer into my AV receiver with 1 audio cable and surround sound Just Works in all my games.
But I think the real problem here is that just about every sound you're going to be listening to is already compressed mp3, range-compressed to hell.
Even if the sound quality was terrible I'd want to know if there was a level 3 sentry behind me. Surround sound makes games more enjoyable.
It is similar to the jock mentality in High School. They stick together with their clique, will gang up on anyone who offends one of their group, and delight in tormenting others.
But this is more like the school's principal teaming up with the jocks.
There is also a similar attitude with regards to the "us vs. them" mentality, victory at any cost mindset, and the extreme patriotism.
See, that I understand. But the mutual back scratching pact doesn't make sense to me. OK, the President does something awful to the country to make the fat guy that runs Exxon richer and happier. How does the President benefit in return?
The man's life is scrutinized. Is he hiding billions of dollars somewhere? He's already rich, so he'd have to be tempted with LOTS of money, and how could he use it? Is he gaining access to more power than he already has as a future ex-President?
What can be done for the man that he really needs, and won't be found out in the decades of digging to come?
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. I don't think we need a lot* of malice to explain what is happening today. Maybe I'm just not thinking big enough though.
Can I get an internship in the NWO? That would be sweet.
They arent being lost, simply being flagged as spam by the database. People will have to go into their respectave administration interface and "release" the mail and/or mark it as safe.
Not every email server works like that! Database? Most MTAs do not require one. Smaller sites may not be using one. Many systems DISCARD email that comes from a place flagged as an open relay, and users never see it.
If other systems are like mine, the volume of spam that is dropped for blatant asshattery before the user sees it vastly outnumbers the spam that makes it as far as a contextual check.
The owners of ORDB are free to do what they wish, but switching on false positives was absolutely a jerky thing to do. If they wanted to get the message across, a couple hours of that would have done the job just as well with less collateral damage.
"Sounds like he got burned," you say. I did lose about 2 messages to this, not a big deal. My mail server runs like a top and I haven't had to mess with it since 2006.
I do not blame them, it's clearly a case of caveat emptor, but still... Jerky.
(Did they have a mailing list? As a user I would have signed up, but I do not remember seeing one when I was reading their site eons ago.)
Be sure not to share any of his works that you find online, because copyright terms mean the stories cannot be freely distributed.
So please, please, don't search for The Nine Billion Names of God on Google and read one of his greatest short stories.* By not reading it for free, immediately, you are enriching yourself and protecting our way of life. Observe the reasonable limitations on the distribution of creative works that we have in place in the US, and enjoy sharing this story with your friends when it enters the public domain in 2062... ninety five fucking years after it was written.
* Really, don't. Don't to it. **
** You're going to do it, aren't you? I'm telling.
PS Yes, this gets my goat. PPS Yes, I have written a book, pr8 it if you can find it, I don't care.
Fact: Windows is a pain in the ass. THAT has got to be more of a hindrance to PC gaming than what kind of 3d power Intel ships for cheap.
And this isn't the voice of some Macnix fanboy. I have more Win machines than anything else. I know what I am doing. And every time I build or upgrade one, I am amazed at what a god damn circus it is.
The last time there was a TF2 patch, the game didn't work right until I reinstalled DirectX. Of course before I figured that out there were an hour's worth of other dead ends. I have never had to reinstall DirectX after updating a game. Oh, it didn't happen to you, with an identical system? I believe you. That is part of the magic!
Windows is, to be charitable, quirky. I feel like Windows pushes me down the stairs, but I lie and tell my friends I slipped in the shower because I like the software and the mouse/keyboard too much.
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That part of The Negotiator trailer, as I recall, could NOT have been in the final cut because it would have blown the secret. I always suspected that the movie was at first very different, and then changed for release--but the trailer never was updated.
Stop judging a nation's people by it's government's actions and the world will make a lot more sense.
A lot of people don't apply that thinking to Americans, I have noticed.
I should have read the rest of the page before posting pretty much what you did.
I believe that you have described our future.
Proposed legislation like this is based on an out-of-date mindset that internet access is some sort of above-and-beyond privilege to be closely regulated.
The mindset is foolish, but out of date? On the contrary, I think we are just seeing the beginning of the push for a "RealID" internet.
Apple, getting in to games. Supporting game developers. Pigs flying. Dogs and cats, living together... mass hysteria.
As a long time Mac user, I have seen Lucy Jobs yank this particular football away at the last second more than once.
I'll be believe it when I see it, and maybe not even then. Occam's razor applies: what is more likely, Apple becoming actively pro-game, or me lying half dead and delirious in a ditch?
No work is copyrighted unless application is filed along with two copies in the Library of Congress
So if I take a great picture... a company should be able to resell it for profit unless I have paid the money to send copies to a government agency?
I am all in favor of weakening copyrights and their durations, and agree with most of what you have proposed, but I don't think that is a good idea. It would disadvantage the individual, who would not have the resources to combat infringement. Copyright on creation makes reselling something you find a deny-by-default, which I think is a good idea.
I also do not agree that companies should be unable to hold copyrights. That is also restricting an individual's right of trade: I should be able to sell a copyright to a anyone I want to.
I don't want to get into this specific argument, but I do want to say that "legal" is not always the same thing as "ethical." Don't blindly equate one to the other.
I'd honestly rather see Blizzards people do the majority of the work as I honestly think they could do an as good if not better than job than Hollywood could.
Speaking only of the animation itself, Blizzard does not do those awesome cinematics in house, at least not all of them. Bigass talented companies still hire specialists, like Blur.
I'm sure Blizzard sets the content, of course.
I'm literally angry with rage!
If your laptop asks for a password at startup, can they legally compel you to provide it? If the court likened the laptop to luggage, I'd guess the answer is yes.
Are there any whole-disk deniable crypto systems available?
Enter password #1: Machine boots in to Windows XP Pro, stocked with a legal copy of Office and the Zune Desktop. Why, no one so boring could be bad!
Enter password #2: Machine boots in to your real system, full of suspicious looking MP3s. Also, your Firefox homepage is set to Craigslist Casual Encounters W4M.
didn't Sun do nfs? and zfs?
I love violence and boobies--where's the party for ME?
Since we are essentially meta-tagging ourselves through our social networking memberships...
Speak for yourself, writer person. I don't use "social networking." I don't care what my friends had for lunch, and I don't want my ex to know who my next ex is going to be by virtually sitting them down next to each other. That's bananas.
I really should write a form letter to politely decline Plaxo, LinkedIn, Orkut, Facebook, Myspace, etc. invitations that well intentioned people keep sending me.
I even avoid IM, because hey, why do I want to let 20 people know I am at the computer RIGHT NOW? SOMEONE always wants to talk. And if I spend most of my time pretending to be away or invisible, then IM has become a burden and not a help to me.
Old fashioned methods of communication like email still work great for me. I do not want to be transparent. If you do, you mystify me.
It's very common in the cell phone industry to use certificate signing--and at $99/year, Apple is the cheapest to obtain a signing key.
Does the signature expire yearly?
I'd hate to start using software and have it stop working because the developer decided not to support it and keep paying $99/year. Hopefully once you sign it, the executable stays good.
And surround can be physically a pain to setup, assuming it's supported in the games you want to play.
The cool thing about Dolby Digital Live encoding is the game doesn't have to support Dolby Digital. The sound card and drivers magically remix positional DirectSound events into a Dolby Digital bitstream.
In other words, I plug my computer into my AV receiver with 1 audio cable and surround sound Just Works in all my games.
But I think the real problem here is that just about every sound you're going to be listening to is already compressed mp3, range-compressed to hell.
Even if the sound quality was terrible I'd want to know if there was a level 3 sentry behind me. Surround sound makes games more enjoyable.
It is similar to the jock mentality in High School. They stick together with their clique, will gang up on anyone who offends one of their group, and delight in tormenting others.
But this is more like the school's principal teaming up with the jocks.
There is also a similar attitude with regards to the "us vs. them" mentality, victory at any cost mindset, and the extreme patriotism.
See, that I understand. But the mutual back scratching pact doesn't make sense to me. OK, the President does something awful to the country to make the fat guy that runs Exxon richer and happier. How does the President benefit in return?
The man's life is scrutinized. Is he hiding billions of dollars somewhere? He's already rich, so he'd have to be tempted with LOTS of money, and how could he use it? Is he gaining access to more power than he already has as a future ex-President?
What can be done for the man that he really needs, and won't be found out in the decades of digging to come?
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. I don't think we need a lot* of malice to explain what is happening today. Maybe I'm just not thinking big enough though.
Can I get an internship in the NWO? That would be sweet.
* well ok, maybe a little
With this announcement of total backwards break, Microsoft has declared complete defeat for their business model.
I figured it would just be a way to sell people virtualization software PLUS a copy of an old OS.
to ensure continued profits and oil supply for all of his buddies in the oil industry
How is it that he can be such a dick and simultaneously be so concerned with helping his buddies? That argument never made sense to me.
The USA is over. It's sad but true.
However, this we can still agree on.
They arent being lost, simply being flagged as spam by the database. People will have to go into their respectave administration interface and "release" the mail and/or mark it as safe.
Not every email server works like that! Database? Most MTAs do not require one. Smaller sites may not be using one. Many systems DISCARD email that comes from a place flagged as an open relay, and users never see it.
If other systems are like mine, the volume of spam that is dropped for blatant asshattery before the user sees it vastly outnumbers the spam that makes it as far as a contextual check.
The owners of ORDB are free to do what they wish, but switching on false positives was absolutely a jerky thing to do. If they wanted to get the message across, a couple hours of that would have done the job just as well with less collateral damage.
"Sounds like he got burned," you say. I did lose about 2 messages to this, not a big deal. My mail server runs like a top and I haven't had to mess with it since 2006.
I do not blame them, it's clearly a case of caveat emptor, but still... Jerky.
(Did they have a mailing list? As a user I would have signed up, but I do not remember seeing one when I was reading their site eons ago.)
Easy for you to say. We don't fuck with the unicorns around here.
It's their machine and they can do what they want... but sending false positives is a dick maneuver.
But don't worry, PC gaming isn't anywhere near as dead as arcade games.
Don't worry about your arcade vids, they aren't anywhere near as dead as pinball.
The copyright term is the same though.
Be sure not to share any of his works that you find online, because copyright terms mean the stories cannot be freely distributed.
So please, please, don't search for The Nine Billion Names of God on Google and read one of his greatest short stories.* By not reading it for free, immediately, you are enriching yourself and protecting our way of life. Observe the reasonable limitations on the distribution of creative works that we have in place in the US, and enjoy sharing this story with your friends when it enters the public domain in 2062... ninety five fucking years after it was written.
* Really, don't. Don't to it. **
** You're going to do it, aren't you? I'm telling.
PS Yes, this gets my goat.
PPS Yes, I have written a book, pr8 it if you can find it, I don't care.
http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/public_domain/
America is made of people from many places. If those smart guys are Americans, I'm happy to have them wherever they came from originally.
Fact: Windows is a pain in the ass. THAT has got to be more of a hindrance to PC gaming than what kind of 3d power Intel ships for cheap.
And this isn't the voice of some Macnix fanboy. I have more Win machines than anything else. I know what I am doing. And every time I build or upgrade one, I am amazed at what a god damn circus it is.
The last time there was a TF2 patch, the game didn't work right until I reinstalled DirectX. Of course before I figured that out there were an hour's worth of other dead ends. I have never had to reinstall DirectX after updating a game. Oh, it didn't happen to you, with an identical system? I believe you. That is part of the magic!
Windows is, to be charitable, quirky. I feel like Windows pushes me down the stairs, but I lie and tell my friends I slipped in the shower because I like the software and the mouse/keyboard too much.