Re:Illegal versus unethical
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If everyone did that, the availability of music would likely decrease as fewer people could afford to produce it, and everyone would suffer.
Bullshit. Everyone does that now, or at least very many people do, and there is just aas much crappy top 40 music available as ever before. It's only been the last century that people have made money from recorded music, and music has existed and thrived for millenia. I don't disagree with everything you're saying, but I don't think this logic holds up. Music will not suffer from mp3s, nor will musicians. They will change and adapt. The only ones who will suffer are industry executives whose idea of "suffering" is having to cut back on the Dom Perignon, hookers, and cocaine for a couple of weeks.
Re:Decent book review
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You make it sound like this is a bad thing about the electronic format. The beauty of electronic copies is that more than one copy can be in use at once. Our university library has a contract with a provider of electronic books that baffles my mind. We can use the books but only one person can "check them out" at a time. (I'm not sure how it works but they are copy protected). When an electronic text is in use it is unavailable to others. What advantage do we get from not having hardcopies of the books then? I don't get it. But my point is, this is a Good Thing about electronic copies, and it is nothing but the most closed-minded fear of change that makes people think we should artificially limit what we are technologically capable of just because it cuts into someone's obsolete business model.
You obviously never used Napster in its day because you're dead wrong. The best thing about napster was the ability to find obscure and independent stuff. Speeches. Comedy sketches. Really old blues from the 1920s and 30s. Alternative dance, punk, hip hop, etc. Stuff from the 70s and 80s I had almost forgotten about. Parodies I never would have heard anywhere. Underground hip hop. Type in "DJ" or "techno" and download hour-long mixes by random DJs I've never heard of. Bootlegs and live performances (wihtout Napster I never would have known about the Jimi Hendrix/Jim Morrison bootleg "FITA"). Top 40, who cares, I can find that crap in a record store if I want it. But the beauty of Napster was its ability to function as a giant archive of just about everything I could think of. Today it's a lot harder to find obscure stuff on limewire or whatever; the top 40 dominates. The one thing the RIAA wanted to stop - largescale trading of top 40 pop - has only gotten more severe, while the thing that was really valuable - the availability of obscure and independent stuff - they effectively destroyed. Sad.
Interesting; about how much space does your home dir take up? After I posted I realized it's probably pretty easy to store mp3s and photos elsewhere; I would probably put my download folder on an unencrypted disk too. Thanks for the info!
How long does it take to decrypt when you log in? This is a great idea, but I'm assuming you only use the encrypted user for certain limited tasks where security is paramount. For day to day operations, I wouldn't want to have to wait for my iTunes and iPhoto libraries, along with whatever crap I've downloaded to my download folder, to be decrypted every time I log in.
It's unclear from the docs whether this fixes just the problem of the screensaver dumping you back into a session without the password, or whether this addresses the buffer overflow that could cause other applications to crash, including the login window.
It's 5:24 am here and the last update is 2 am. What are these guys doing, sleeping? Let's get with it, folks, these fine Apple products are not going to appreciate themselves!!!!
the gov't really can keep this information for ourselves, and only let it out when it's in their interest for a building to get bombed, or do we fight to keep information free?
If we have a government in whose interest it is to let our buildings get bombed, we're already in trouble.
Yeah for a while you were actually better off getting a Quadra or other 68k based computer than a PPC because the PPC was running most everything in emulation; I remember how slow I originally thought my 7100/66 was when I first got it.
What exactly does the Linux community do that is considered "terrorism", anyways?
Well, we can't hold the entire linux community responsible for the crimes of a few, but it is a known fact that some clever linux hackers have made it possible to actually run Windows programs under linux.
Someone exploiting your system can always remove the RAM to reset OF. If hostile forces have physical access to your machine, they will be able to use it.
Actually, he was saying they look this way because they're much more highly evolved than any other species on the planet. Sure, it looks ugly and crazy to us, but we just don't understand their superpowers. They will reveal them in time.
And I, for one, will welcome our new ichthyoid overlords!
I just read further after posting that; I suppose the following is scarier:
Clearly any "alternative" platform that has backers who can't control their language, or worse, use methods which now are classified by several governments as terrorist acts, should be on the list of things you would like your competitors to use but would avoid yourself like the plague.
This after a couple paragraphs about how linux advocates behave like fanatics and do embarrassing things in public (like he hasn't seen the monkeydance video). Moving from a whine about unprofessional behavior to charges of terrorism -- without ever even trying to substantiate a bit of it -- is the worst kind of demagoguery.
The market may soon be defined by the ability to litigate rather than the ability to develop, and products like Linux, which have a weak defense, may simply not survive this market phase.
It's pretty clear from the tone of the article that he's not interested in who's right in the intellectual property debate; rather, he's trying to persuade businesses to steer clear of open source in order to somehow avoid IP litigation entirely. This quote makes clear that his whole position boils down to, whoever has the most lawyers wins. I suppose that's true in the abstract, but it seems here that it is SCO that is inevitably going to be the ones buried by litigation after IBM is through with them.
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Bullshit. Everyone does that now, or at least very many people do, and there is just aas much crappy top 40 music available as ever before. It's only been the last century that people have made money from recorded music, and music has existed and thrived for millenia. I don't disagree with everything you're saying, but I don't think this logic holds up. Music will not suffer from mp3s, nor will musicians. They will change and adapt. The only ones who will suffer are industry executives whose idea of "suffering" is having to cut back on the Dom Perignon, hookers, and cocaine for a couple of weeks.
You make it sound like this is a bad thing about the electronic format. The beauty of electronic copies is that more than one copy can be in use at once. Our university library has a contract with a provider of electronic books that baffles my mind. We can use the books but only one person can "check them out" at a time. (I'm not sure how it works but they are copy protected). When an electronic text is in use it is unavailable to others. What advantage do we get from not having hardcopies of the books then? I don't get it. But my point is, this is a Good Thing about electronic copies, and it is nothing but the most closed-minded fear of change that makes people think we should artificially limit what we are technologically capable of just because it cuts into someone's obsolete business model.
You obviously never used Napster in its day because you're dead wrong. The best thing about napster was the ability to find obscure and independent stuff. Speeches. Comedy sketches. Really old blues from the 1920s and 30s. Alternative dance, punk, hip hop, etc. Stuff from the 70s and 80s I had almost forgotten about. Parodies I never would have heard anywhere. Underground hip hop. Type in "DJ" or "techno" and download hour-long mixes by random DJs I've never heard of. Bootlegs and live performances (wihtout Napster I never would have known about the Jimi Hendrix/Jim Morrison bootleg "FITA"). Top 40, who cares, I can find that crap in a record store if I want it. But the beauty of Napster was its ability to function as a giant archive of just about everything I could think of. Today it's a lot harder to find obscure stuff on limewire or whatever; the top 40 dominates. The one thing the RIAA wanted to stop - largescale trading of top 40 pop - has only gotten more severe, while the thing that was really valuable - the availability of obscure and independent stuff - they effectively destroyed. Sad.
If this part of the EULA was taken seriously, the number of files available on kazaa would diminish dramatically.
Interesting; about how much space does your home dir take up? After I posted I realized it's probably pretty easy to store mp3s and photos elsewhere; I would probably put my download folder on an unencrypted disk too. Thanks for the info!
How long does it take to decrypt when you log in? This is a great idea, but I'm assuming you only use the encrypted user for certain limited tasks where security is paramount. For day to day operations, I wouldn't want to have to wait for my iTunes and iPhoto libraries, along with whatever crap I've downloaded to my download folder, to be decrypted every time I log in.
It's unclear from the docs whether this fixes just the problem of the screensaver dumping you back into a session without the password, or whether this addresses the buffer overflow that could cause other applications to crash, including the login window.
is that he managed to run BBEdit on IRIX.
How many buttons on the mouse?
It's 5:24 am here and the last update is 2 am. What are these guys doing, sleeping? Let's get with it, folks, these fine Apple products are not going to appreciate themselves!!!!
lighten up, eh?
Actually, on a Mac it's just Ticka-tick-bing. Remember, with a Mac, there is no step three.
If we have a government in whose interest it is to let our buildings get bombed, we're already in trouble.
It's cryptome.
Yeah for a while you were actually better off getting a Quadra or other 68k based computer than a PPC because the PPC was running most everything in emulation; I remember how slow I originally thought my 7100/66 was when I first got it.
Well, we can't hold the entire linux community responsible for the crimes of a few, but it is a known fact that some clever linux hackers have made it possible to actually run Windows programs under linux.
I don't even know what Apple Remote Desktop is, but when I want remote functionality to my OS X machine I use ssh, like I would with any other UNIX.
Someone exploiting your system can always remove the RAM to reset OF. If hostile forces have physical access to your machine, they will be able to use it.
I agree. Humanity is a beleaguered platform.
You mean a freedom accent, of course.
Actually, he was saying they look this way because they're much more highly evolved than any other species on the planet. Sure, it looks ugly and crazy to us, but we just don't understand their superpowers. They will reveal them in time.
And I, for one, will welcome our new ichthyoid overlords!
At least you'll remember how they tasted.
A little like bald eagle, but more tender.
It's pretty clear from the tone of the article that he's not interested in who's right in the intellectual property debate; rather, he's trying to persuade businesses to steer clear of open source in order to somehow avoid IP litigation entirely. This quote makes clear that his whole position boils down to, whoever has the most lawyers wins. I suppose that's true in the abstract, but it seems here that it is SCO that is inevitably going to be the ones buried by litigation after IBM is through with them.