A: You're guilty if they want you to be. B: At least in Norway, you're guilty if they appear to be under 18. There's no defense if you can legally prove thay are over 18. Yes it's true, I read a court verdict where the defendant clearly referred to "Tiny Tove" Jensen, a Danish porn actress that was provably 18+ during her entire career yet played many dubious roles. Thoughtcrime at its best.
I think it's unfair to single out just religion and pretend that's the only reason. People are a lot about "us and them" on many other levels based on family (blood is thicker than water), friends, social subcultures, pure geography, national borders, language and culture in genenral really. Even in the ancient days of tribes and clans you'd stand together against the greater external "enemy", for whatever scale applies. For that matter, how men are from mars and women from venus is probably an indication we in ways bond better with our own sex.
Understand me right because I'm not trying to defend bigotry, but when you come right down to it other humans are a black box. we expect people that are more like us on the outside to be more like us on the inside. It really can be as simple as a scarf saying you support this local sports team and not that other team, suddenly we have something in common. I don't think it was really more complicated than that in the old days either.
On the other hand, how many hit-n-run sites have there been that really are DMCA violations? I'd say very many, and a key characteristic of these sites is that leave no (valid) contact information - the general idea is to upload it, point people to it and have as many as possible download before it disappears. I doubt you hear about how warez dump #4563456 was taken down.
Trying to stop information that's already out on the internet is pretty much mission impossible to begin with, but if there is to be any realistic chance there needs to a process for taking it down that is almost as easy as putting it up. Otherwise people can just throw up a new mirror every few weeks, making the court order pretty much worthless because you never catch up.
I agree there should probably be a better counterclaim process though, and perhaps some protection for consumers from ISPs that just want to nuke/delete any "problem" users. The most important part is in any case the ISP immunity when they follow this process. That way, ISPs don't need to self-censor - or rather, censor you - out of fear of liability.
The torrent network really isn't as decentralized as most people seem to think; torrent traffic would take a major hit if the servers at TPB were shut down...at least for a while.
It's always easier if there's one place to find everything, kinda like Napster was. But setting up a million little torrent trackers is more than possible - I mean, before torrents there were tons of DC++ hubs and whatever. It's like the big "win" they claimed after TPB was convicted and traffic dropped 30% - we'll we're basicly back on same ever increasing curve we were three months ago now. It's laughable.
I think I know what you're thinking of, but I've seen music, movies, games, warez and tons of shit uploaded there password protected already. I guess it'll just kill what little "public" scene is on rapidshare.
I haven't dug into this yet but I've been curious.. is it possible to get a list of clients without actually connecting to the tracker and sharing the material yourself?
Yes. That's how every client with 0% start out....
Can the RIAA successfully sue someone for redistributing 20% of a song?
1. They did just win a case (Jammie Thomas) where they definitively proved 0%. It was purely argued from the file's existance in the shared folder. 2. Even if that was not the case, there are only two classes - fair use and infringing. Once you've past whatever percentage could possibly be argued to be fair use (which may or may not be 0% in context), just like you couldn't quote 20% of the book. Oh yeah, and infringing is a 750$/infringement minimum.
That must be one of the weakest "false" results I've seen on Snopes. As it says itself:
Origins: This is one of those items that although wrong in many of its details isn't exactly false in an overall sense and is perhaps more fairly labeled as "True, but for trivial and unremarkable reasons."
In fact, it collaborates that the English railway was made in the same size as double-horse carriages, that the US share that width because they shared tools and that it's the dominant standard today since the northern US won the civil war. It's a bit of a stretch that double horse carriages were popular only because the romans did it, but they certainly did do it first and built a massive network of them.
Finally, on the space shuttle thing snopes is just being silly. The largest carriage in the table listed by snopes is 9-10 feet. According to wikipedia the shuttle boosters are a little over 12 feet. So while the part about being "slightly wider than the track" is a liberal description, it's certainly possible they couldn't be built bigger because the tunnels aren't bigger.
Before we scare away all the nice people, it's a traditional christmas dinner but not the most typical. Top three are pork ribs, Pinnekjøtt and Lutefisk. A minority has also adopted the english christmas turkey, smalahove is probably around 5th place. P.S. If you read anywhere that Pizza Grandiosa is popular for christmas, it's for the kids that don't want the wierd stuff:D
He was positive the last time too, but the data protection agency has basicly said we need laws/regulatiosn to keep doing this - no more temporary permits. The translation in poor:
"This is a letter with a recommendation in no way NOK. If not there is any new information, I will not believe that letter makes much difference, "he said." should be: "Then a letter of recommendation is in no way enough. If there is no new information, I do not believe the letter will make much difference" he said.
2. Norwegian is not as difficult as German but not as easy as French, many words are not guessable. Main difficulty is that everybody speaks very good English and practising Norwegian is quite difficult if you are not strong-willed. Also, most imported TV shows and movies are in original language (i.e. 90% English). Learning Norwegian also means you can read Danish and read/understand Swedish.
If norwegian is your first langauge outside english, I'd call it optimistic to understand swedish and danish as well. You said you live in germany now and knowing german helps a lot, often words have their german counterpart instead. For example window = vindu (norwegian) - vindue (danish) - fönster (swedish) - Fenster (german).
Healthcare: Grand Old Socialist system.
This might need a small clarification for US readers. It goes something like this: Norwegian left <---> Norwegian right <--------------------> Democrats <---> Republicans Not communist left in that you got democracy, freedom of speech, pro-choice, gay marriage etc. but economically it's very different than the US.
I don't see why it should be related to the inventor's death at all. Assuming it's some sort of "asset", it should be part of the estate and passed to their heirs. Otherwise you'd create a very strange situation where say a dying inventor would rather patent it in the wife/kids' name since they'd hold the patent much longer. A fixed number of years is IMO the best.
This thread is full of film nostalgics. Give it another few years of bandwidth and space expansion and you'll having companies offering to store it on redundant servers around the world for next to nothing, with a WORM like access pattern where accidents and trojans can't delete it unless you say the double-magic secret self-destruct word that you keep written down on paper.
There remains a strong community of film users. Whether film is "better" is not the point. The point is they like film. People who are cellphone shooters and think everything about photography can be summed up in megapixels and resolution might not understand.
That was rather a cheap shot, to do a music analogy cellphone shooters are low-quality mp3s but you're vinyl, digicams the CD and high-end dSLRs are SACD/DVD-Audio. Hand a pro a modern high-end cam and I'd say 99%+ of the time the picture is perfect - maybe boring lifeless crystal clear CD perfect, but a pretty damn accurate representation of what was in front of the camera. You can probably do some more artistic tricks with film but for the rest of us, digicams and photoshop is perfectly adequate.
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Eventually I just bought myself an Antec 1200 and a MIST PSU with modular cables. Loaded it up with a SATA rich mobo + a small SATA card for 12x SATA data/power. Because of an earlier RAID accident because of poor warning setup (two disks failed with some time between, but I didn't notice the first one) I do JBOD and manual copies, but you could just as easily do software RAID - the "hardware" RAID on these aren't worth it anyway. That way I have a full Linux server I can use for whatever too.
Honestly, if I wanted more backup I'd probably get another. It's been rock stable, drives are all below 30C w/dust filters and if something fails I don't need to get the exact same RAID controller. Price was about same as most 4-bay SATA enclosures and if you pick the lowest end processor it doesn't consume much compared to the 12 drives anyway. It's thumbscrews and not hotswap but I can afford to take my server down while I'm fiddling with changing disks - like I said all disks seem to live happy lives in there though. Right now I got 3*1TB+2*750GB+5*500GB+250GB+160GB = 7410GB online. With modern 2TB drives I could do 24TB. Basicly, works4me.
I guess it depends on how much you rose color the glasses. These days I might just happen to have a torrent running in the background downlading 2MB/sec using SSL encrypted connections with lots of random writes, and the machine is still very usable. Try that on a system with 200MHz CPUs and 64Mb RAM and you might as well go read a book, because it'll be completely useless.
The problem is that they want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to source globally and produce wherever it's cheapest. They don't want us to source globally and buy wherever it's cheapest. They want your wages to be competitive with foreigners. They don't want their prices to compete with products sold abroad. It's not a two-way street.
I hear what you're saying but from the endless amounts of overrides and workarounds and hacks and regressions and whatnot in WINE, it is a Linux fan's tool to stay on Linux more than it'll ever be a well-working Windows compatibility. For example Photoshop CS3/CS4 installatino was recently broken for a few months. All Telltale game activations have been broken since december because of a Gecko regression. Unless you really think people like to hang out on appdb and bugzilla, this is not it. With luck Linux will tag along when they look at going from Win to Win/Mac and go crossplatform, but don't bet on that either.
Honestly, I don't think that kind of UI design is all that critical. If it'd been a few steps higher up like workflow design, then I'm all with you. Like if a user wants to do this, he should [click a button/use a menu/write a command line], after which he should get a [dialog/wizard/use defaults] which should contain [basic options/all options/preview]. Often it gets so complex because geeks design it with a million things to tweak underways from A to B, when most people want the simplest straightest route. Particularly I've noticed that geeks are much better at visualizing certain kinds of results, so they understand what they're doing while others don't. Often what's needed are simple tools to show "where am I in the process?" or "what will the effect of this be?" to go from zero to hero.
You would still need to buy over 120 monopoly games to get that much monopoly money. Much more reasonable but even that is probably excessive.
Hmm I wonder that the penalty is for counterfeiting monopoly money. I imagine it's something like "Go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200."
Ray has a point here. I've been working on a book which explains the problem with putting all our eggs in 'the Net' more clearly than I can explain here. Think of it this way, 30 years ago you could talk to your neighbor about what was on last night and chances are, you would've seen the same "All in the Family" or whatever. Now we have hundreds of channels on TV and on the internet, at least one 'channel' per individual. We can create our own reality and then find somewhere on the internet that will back it up.
For those that actually socialize in a physical location like school, work or pub that's still fairly true;). I guess it has its downsides but the ability to gather people from anywhere in the world is a much greater advantage.
The more we can store, the more we keep even if the ratio goes down the total still goes up. I'm a nobody yet there's hundreds if not thousands of pictures of me from parties and trips and school and work and whatever. A few generations back and you'll have a single black and white portrait. Before that, nothing at all unless they had a painting of themselves made. At worst, I'm no worse than my great-great-great grandfather. You could lose 90%. 99%. 99.9%. If only one picture remains I'm still better documented than most of the family tree.
I think it's horrible news and don't understand why they'd want to accept. One of the biggest issues the pirate party has had to fight is "if you got nothing to hide, you got nothing to fear". In Sweden they've spent lots and lots of time that we want privacy by closing the curtains, locking the toilet, writing letters not postcards to convince people this is perfectly normal and mass surveillance is unacceptable. For that it's crucial to come across as being a normal person who values their privacy, not a criminal looking to get away with it. How's this guy going to do that with any sort of credibility while he's being charged with kiddie porn? I'm sorry, but I think this will only hurt the pirate party's reputation around the world, even though they formally have no relation to swedish pirate party.
I'm sure the FBI would like to know that you can't understand killers without being a killer. Sounds like there could be lots of mass murderers on their payroll. As for kiddie porn, it's porn. With kids. If you can't imagine what it looks like, it's because you don't want to try. And is that really meaningful in understanding anything about it? Do you get a better understanding of gays by watching gay porn? How's something you find on the net not going to be anecdotal? It's not like you're going to get any meaningful statistics out of the effects of kiddie porn no matter how much you watch of it. Are you going to try to infer something from it? Like if the photographer got them to smile for the camera like a good porn star, they're happy? Even if you freed kiddie porn, do you think you'd get any honest answers? Everyone would of course tell you that this is a pure fantasy thing. Probably true for most people too. But "research" my ass... if you've seen it, it's beacuse you've had some secret wish to see the most forbidden of the forbidden.
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A: You're guilty if they want you to be.
B: At least in Norway, you're guilty if they appear to be under 18. There's no defense if you can legally prove thay are over 18. Yes it's true, I read a court verdict where the defendant clearly referred to "Tiny Tove" Jensen, a Danish porn actress that was provably 18+ during her entire career yet played many dubious roles. Thoughtcrime at its best.
I think it's unfair to single out just religion and pretend that's the only reason. People are a lot about "us and them" on many other levels based on family (blood is thicker than water), friends, social subcultures, pure geography, national borders, language and culture in genenral really. Even in the ancient days of tribes and clans you'd stand together against the greater external "enemy", for whatever scale applies. For that matter, how men are from mars and women from venus is probably an indication we in ways bond better with our own sex.
Understand me right because I'm not trying to defend bigotry, but when you come right down to it other humans are a black box. we expect people that are more like us on the outside to be more like us on the inside. It really can be as simple as a scarf saying you support this local sports team and not that other team, suddenly we have something in common. I don't think it was really more complicated than that in the old days either.
On the other hand, how many hit-n-run sites have there been that really are DMCA violations? I'd say very many, and a key characteristic of these sites is that leave no (valid) contact information - the general idea is to upload it, point people to it and have as many as possible download before it disappears. I doubt you hear about how warez dump #4563456 was taken down.
Trying to stop information that's already out on the internet is pretty much mission impossible to begin with, but if there is to be any realistic chance there needs to a process for taking it down that is almost as easy as putting it up. Otherwise people can just throw up a new mirror every few weeks, making the court order pretty much worthless because you never catch up.
I agree there should probably be a better counterclaim process though, and perhaps some protection for consumers from ISPs that just want to nuke/delete any "problem" users. The most important part is in any case the ISP immunity when they follow this process. That way, ISPs don't need to self-censor - or rather, censor you - out of fear of liability.
The torrent network really isn't as decentralized as most people seem to think; torrent traffic would take a major hit if the servers at TPB were shut down ...at least for a while.
It's always easier if there's one place to find everything, kinda like Napster was. But setting up a million little torrent trackers is more than possible - I mean, before torrents there were tons of DC++ hubs and whatever. It's like the big "win" they claimed after TPB was convicted and traffic dropped 30% - we'll we're basicly back on same ever increasing curve we were three months ago now. It's laughable.
I think I know what you're thinking of, but I've seen music, movies, games, warez and tons of shit uploaded there password protected already. I guess it'll just kill what little "public" scene is on rapidshare.
I haven't dug into this yet but I've been curious.. is it possible to get a list of clients without actually connecting to the tracker and sharing the material yourself?
Yes. That's how every client with 0% start out....
Can the RIAA successfully sue someone for redistributing 20% of a song?
1. They did just win a case (Jammie Thomas) where they definitively proved 0%. It was purely argued from the file's existance in the shared folder.
2. Even if that was not the case, there are only two classes - fair use and infringing. Once you've past whatever percentage could possibly be argued to be fair use (which may or may not be 0% in context), just like you couldn't quote 20% of the book. Oh yeah, and infringing is a 750$/infringement minimum.
That must be one of the weakest "false" results I've seen on Snopes. As it says itself:
Origins: This is one of those items that although wrong in many of its details isn't exactly false in an overall sense and is perhaps more fairly labeled as "True, but for trivial and unremarkable reasons."
In fact, it collaborates that the English railway was made in the same size as double-horse carriages, that the US share that width because they shared tools and that it's the dominant standard today since the northern US won the civil war. It's a bit of a stretch that double horse carriages were popular only because the romans did it, but they certainly did do it first and built a massive network of them.
Finally, on the space shuttle thing snopes is just being silly. The largest carriage in the table listed by snopes is 9-10 feet. According to wikipedia the shuttle boosters are a little over 12 feet. So while the part about being "slightly wider than the track" is a liberal description, it's certainly possible they couldn't be built bigger because the tunnels aren't bigger.
Before we scare away all the nice people, it's a traditional christmas dinner but not the most typical. Top three are pork ribs, Pinnekjøtt and Lutefisk. A minority has also adopted the english christmas turkey, smalahove is probably around 5th place. P.S. If you read anywhere that Pizza Grandiosa is popular for christmas, it's for the kids that don't want the wierd stuff :D
He was positive the last time too, but the data protection agency has basicly said we need laws/regulatiosn to keep doing this - no more temporary permits. The translation in poor:
"This is a letter with a recommendation in no way NOK. If not there is any new information, I will not believe that letter makes much difference, "he said."
should be:
"Then a letter of recommendation is in no way enough. If there is no new information, I do not believe the letter will make much difference" he said.
2. Norwegian is not as difficult as German but not as easy as French, many words are not guessable. Main difficulty is that everybody speaks very good English and practising Norwegian is quite difficult if you are not strong-willed. Also, most imported TV shows and movies are in original language (i.e. 90% English). Learning Norwegian also means you can read Danish and read/understand Swedish.
If norwegian is your first langauge outside english, I'd call it optimistic to understand swedish and danish as well. You said you live in germany now and knowing german helps a lot, often words have their german counterpart instead. For example window = vindu (norwegian) - vindue (danish) - fönster (swedish) - Fenster (german).
Healthcare: Grand Old Socialist system.
This might need a small clarification for US readers. It goes something like this:
Norwegian left <---> Norwegian right <--------------------> Democrats <---> Republicans
Not communist left in that you got democracy, freedom of speech, pro-choice, gay marriage etc. but economically it's very different than the US.
I don't see why it should be related to the inventor's death at all. Assuming it's some sort of "asset", it should be part of the estate and passed to their heirs. Otherwise you'd create a very strange situation where say a dying inventor would rather patent it in the wife/kids' name since they'd hold the patent much longer. A fixed number of years is IMO the best.
This thread is full of film nostalgics. Give it another few years of bandwidth and space expansion and you'll having companies offering to store it on redundant servers around the world for next to nothing, with a WORM like access pattern where accidents and trojans can't delete it unless you say the double-magic secret self-destruct word that you keep written down on paper.
There remains a strong community of film users. Whether film is "better" is not the point. The point is they like film. People who are cellphone shooters and think everything about photography can be summed up in megapixels and resolution might not understand.
That was rather a cheap shot, to do a music analogy cellphone shooters are low-quality mp3s but you're vinyl, digicams the CD and high-end dSLRs are SACD/DVD-Audio. Hand a pro a modern high-end cam and I'd say 99%+ of the time the picture is perfect - maybe boring lifeless crystal clear CD perfect, but a pretty damn accurate representation of what was in front of the camera. You can probably do some more artistic tricks with film but for the rest of us, digicams and photoshop is perfectly adequate.
Eventually I just bought myself an Antec 1200 and a MIST PSU with modular cables. Loaded it up with a SATA rich mobo + a small SATA card for 12x SATA data/power. Because of an earlier RAID accident because of poor warning setup (two disks failed with some time between, but I didn't notice the first one) I do JBOD and manual copies, but you could just as easily do software RAID - the "hardware" RAID on these aren't worth it anyway. That way I have a full Linux server I can use for whatever too.
Honestly, if I wanted more backup I'd probably get another. It's been rock stable, drives are all below 30C w/dust filters and if something fails I don't need to get the exact same RAID controller. Price was about same as most 4-bay SATA enclosures and if you pick the lowest end processor it doesn't consume much compared to the 12 drives anyway. It's thumbscrews and not hotswap but I can afford to take my server down while I'm fiddling with changing disks - like I said all disks seem to live happy lives in there though. Right now I got 3*1TB+2*750GB+5*500GB+250GB+160GB = 7410GB online. With modern 2TB drives I could do 24TB. Basicly, works4me.
I guess it depends on how much you rose color the glasses. These days I might just happen to have a torrent running in the background downlading 2MB/sec using SSL encrypted connections with lots of random writes, and the machine is still very usable. Try that on a system with 200MHz CPUs and 64Mb RAM and you might as well go read a book, because it'll be completely useless.
The problem is that they want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to source globally and produce wherever it's cheapest. They don't want us to source globally and buy wherever it's cheapest. They want your wages to be competitive with foreigners. They don't want their prices to compete with products sold abroad. It's not a two-way street.
I hear what you're saying but from the endless amounts of overrides and workarounds and hacks and regressions and whatnot in WINE, it is a Linux fan's tool to stay on Linux more than it'll ever be a well-working Windows compatibility. For example Photoshop CS3/CS4 installatino was recently broken for a few months. All Telltale game activations have been broken since december because of a Gecko regression. Unless you really think people like to hang out on appdb and bugzilla, this is not it. With luck Linux will tag along when they look at going from Win to Win/Mac and go crossplatform, but don't bet on that either.
Technically "Slashdot" should start with a capital letter since it is a proper noun.
Yours sincerely, a spelling/grammar/punctuation-Nazi.
You don't mind if I spell it /. do you? *watches grammar nazi head explode*
Honestly, I don't think that kind of UI design is all that critical. If it'd been a few steps higher up like workflow design, then I'm all with you. Like if a user wants to do this, he should [click a button/use a menu/write a command line], after which he should get a [dialog/wizard/use defaults] which should contain [basic options/all options/preview]. Often it gets so complex because geeks design it with a million things to tweak underways from A to B, when most people want the simplest straightest route. Particularly I've noticed that geeks are much better at visualizing certain kinds of results, so they understand what they're doing while others don't. Often what's needed are simple tools to show "where am I in the process?" or "what will the effect of this be?" to go from zero to hero.
You would still need to buy over 120 monopoly games to get that much monopoly money. Much more reasonable but even that is probably excessive.
Hmm I wonder that the penalty is for counterfeiting monopoly money. I imagine it's something like "Go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200."
Now if only I could use the imaginary money from my monopoly set to pay them off too, all would be well...
Ray has a point here. I've been working on a book which explains the problem with putting all our eggs in 'the Net' more clearly than I can explain here. Think of it this way, 30 years ago you could talk to your neighbor about what was on last night and chances are, you would've seen the same "All in the Family" or whatever. Now we have hundreds of channels on TV and on the internet, at least one 'channel' per individual. We can create our own reality and then find somewhere on the internet that will back it up.
For those that actually socialize in a physical location like school, work or pub that's still fairly true ;). I guess it has its downsides but the ability to gather people from anywhere in the world is a much greater advantage.
The more we can store, the more we keep even if the ratio goes down the total still goes up. I'm a nobody yet there's hundreds if not thousands of pictures of me from parties and trips and school and work and whatever. A few generations back and you'll have a single black and white portrait. Before that, nothing at all unless they had a painting of themselves made. At worst, I'm no worse than my great-great-great grandfather. You could lose 90%. 99%. 99.9%. If only one picture remains I'm still better documented than most of the family tree.
I think it's horrible news and don't understand why they'd want to accept. One of the biggest issues the pirate party has had to fight is "if you got nothing to hide, you got nothing to fear". In Sweden they've spent lots and lots of time that we want privacy by closing the curtains, locking the toilet, writing letters not postcards to convince people this is perfectly normal and mass surveillance is unacceptable. For that it's crucial to come across as being a normal person who values their privacy, not a criminal looking to get away with it. How's this guy going to do that with any sort of credibility while he's being charged with kiddie porn? I'm sorry, but I think this will only hurt the pirate party's reputation around the world, even though they formally have no relation to swedish pirate party.
I'm sure the FBI would like to know that you can't understand killers without being a killer. Sounds like there could be lots of mass murderers on their payroll. As for kiddie porn, it's porn. With kids. If you can't imagine what it looks like, it's because you don't want to try. And is that really meaningful in understanding anything about it? Do you get a better understanding of gays by watching gay porn? How's something you find on the net not going to be anecdotal? It's not like you're going to get any meaningful statistics out of the effects of kiddie porn no matter how much you watch of it. Are you going to try to infer something from it? Like if the photographer got them to smile for the camera like a good porn star, they're happy? Even if you freed kiddie porn, do you think you'd get any honest answers? Everyone would of course tell you that this is a pure fantasy thing. Probably true for most people too. But "research" my ass... if you've seen it, it's beacuse you've had some secret wish to see the most forbidden of the forbidden.