This bloke isn't mourning Usenet, he's mourning the end of the September that Never Ended.
Usenet's biggest problems really started when AOL joined Usenet. The other ISPs followed on from that... people said that September ended when AOL left... not so, it won't end until the last big ISP is gone. Then maybe it'll be time for Usenet 2.0...
I would imagine that's what the MAFIAA intends, yes. I mean, who'd think they could shut down analog TV and force everyone to switch to digital? Never happen in a million years!
That's how the British JANET addresses worked. They translated them at gateways, and it worked fune until they tried to figure whether uk.foo.bar.cs was a department at a university in England or a site in Czechoslovakia.
If you think the Internet is the equivalent of CB, then you must be pretty young.
Or you somehow missed out on UUCP and Fidonet (AKA Fight-O-Net), not to mention RCPM and BBSes.
It's not the lack of regulation that's the problem... the Internet has plenty of that. It's the size. Ham Radio with even a fraction of the number of users as the Internet would be unusable. Can you imagine it? You'd have enough time for your callsign and a couple of words, then you'd be waiting a couple of days for another turn. You'd give up and go back to CB.
Ham radio is just starting to try and scale up, with things like D*. Do yu really think you could regulate a D* network the size of the Internet? Hell, we barely managed to keep the cap on Usenet after September 1993...
at this time Google did have a takedown process for pictures - they could've just quietly filed a request instead of suing.
Opt out may or may not be acceptable depending on how much care was taken by the organization opting you in, and the consequences of not noticing that you've been opted in.
At one extreme you have things like "triple-blind" drug trials (whether the company takes care or not, the consequences are potentially severe) and spam (the consequences of each act are mild, but there are many many spammers and they of course take no care at all).
This seems pretty damned far from that extreme, but the next company doing this may be less discriminating, so it's probably best for the public to have a precedent that leans way over towards the privacy side of the equation.
It could be money, it could be principle... they may want to change Google's behavior or establish a precedent. You may be right in this case, but let's not jump to conclusions: people who take extreme positions are quite often committed to them.
I mean think about famous people, they're often hounded by the press in public. If we think that's okay why shouldn't it apply to ourselves?
Except in very few people fame carries with it resources not available to hoi polloi, and in most cases fame is something that the famous have worked for... it's choice before chance.
I mean in all honestly do you drive around all paranoid looking for "Private Road" signs where you don't expect them?
If I'm doing something (in my case, launching and chasing hot-air balloons, though the star example of this sort of thing would be hunters) that might lead to upset property owners? Abso-bloody-lutely.
Yeah you can do that with Paypal, but if you send a small amount of money then the person on the other end won't actually get anything.
If you try to use it as a merchant service and pay with a credit card, probably not, but if you use it as a checking account and send them the money from your Paypal credit balance? They better.
Thank fucking God for Google and Amazon making headway into this space
They're not "in this space" yet. When they get here then we'll talk.
I don't use eBay, don't want to use eBay, and frankly wish I could get Paypal to quit telling me about eBay. I still have little interest in Google Checkout. I suppose I might sign up for it some time, but it's not even the same kind of business. Paypal works like a checking account, I can paypal small amounts of money around to anyone else who has a paypal account, they don't have to be set up as an online merchant, they can just take my money and spend it themselves. It's pretty much the online equivalent of cash. If Google Checkout has any comparable capabilities they're sure hiding it... for the end user all they are is another merchant service like the one Yahoo runs, but one that's tied specifically to Gmail and the other Google services. I can maybe see some convenience there but it's nothing like Paypal.
so your advocating we allow the old days of boot sector viruses?
You know, there's a reason that boot sector viruses are something that belongs to "the old days". If you think about it, I'm sure you'll figure it out, and maybe even figure out a few obvious ways a program to sign a new boot sector could be used by any virus that had compromised the system to the point where it could write one.
Vista's security chain works as designed and intended, preventing from you to inject an untrusted bootloader into the bootstrap.
If you're not using Bitlocker (and therefore presumably don't care about a trusted bootloader) you are still unable to install SP1.
And, frankly, Microsoft is working at the wrong end of the chain. If they were serious about security, they would have backed out of the inherently unfixable APIs that IE and ActiveX use a decade ago... that would do more to improve the security of Windows than any screwing around in the boot sequence.
Your instructor didn't show you how to stretch your knees?
Yes, he did, in fact he had knee problems (probably from the same source) and was downright grindstone about doing knee stretches during warmups. The problem was doing kata over and over again with my feet in the wrong position, because that's what he insisted on, putting unnatural stresses on my knees. Until he came back from a trip to tell us that he'd been doing some of the stances all wrong. Well, damn.
Yes, I understand that point... I guess I figured the analogy I was making was clear enough: shooting in a rifle range (or even in something like biathlon) is nothing like combat. Katas (or even sparring) are not fights. They're all parts of the same discipline, though. In combat you don't have time for everything that you're trained for on the range, but because you've done all those things over and over again you have the muscle memory, the toolkit. The kata is a framework for training your muscles that you can use without having to have a sparring opponent. You don't learn the kata to win at kata competitions (my sensei, I am sure, would agree with me), you learn them to give you a toolkit you can use in sparring or (heaven forfend) even real fighting.
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He misspelled ditzy and calamitous.
This bloke isn't mourning Usenet, he's mourning the end of the September that Never Ended.
Usenet's biggest problems really started when AOL joined Usenet. The other ISPs followed on from that... people said that September ended when AOL left... not so, it won't end until the last big ISP is gone. Then maybe it'll be time for Usenet 2.0...
They'll replace the "tubes" with a "trusted universal bandwidth encapsulation", kind of like the "trusted audio path" in Vista, but slinkier.
Will it interfere with "old" Internet?
I would imagine that's what the MAFIAA intends, yes. I mean, who'd think they could shut down analog TV and force everyone to switch to digital? Never happen in a million years!
That's how the British JANET addresses worked. They translated them at gateways, and it worked fune until they tried to figure whether uk.foo.bar.cs was a department at a university in England or a site in Czechoslovakia.
Sure, they're extending the 7-layer model to include layers 8 and 9 (financial and political).
It was only a matter of time.
If you think the Internet is the equivalent of CB, then you must be pretty young.
Or you somehow missed out on UUCP and Fidonet (AKA Fight-O-Net), not to mention RCPM and BBSes.
It's not the lack of regulation that's the problem... the Internet has plenty of that. It's the size. Ham Radio with even a fraction of the number of users as the Internet would be unusable. Can you imagine it? You'd have enough time for your callsign and a couple of words, then you'd be waiting a couple of days for another turn. You'd give up and go back to CB.
Ham radio is just starting to try and scale up, with things like D*. Do yu really think you could regulate a D* network the size of the Internet? Hell, we barely managed to keep the cap on Usenet after September 1993...
Oh no, they'll be sure to implement the financial and political layers this time around. That's what this is all about, after all.
Well my wife and I have long said that SSN's should be replaced with IP's
I was just saying that to my good friend ::fe:43:6a:9c:f9!
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Porn is not a problem. We have the technology. We can rebuild it.
Web 2.0 isn't good enough, let's have OSI 2.0! Love them X.400 email addresses, wot?
at this time Google did have a takedown process for pictures - they could've just quietly filed a request instead of suing.
Opt out may or may not be acceptable depending on how much care was taken by the organization opting you in, and the consequences of not noticing that you've been opted in.
At one extreme you have things like "triple-blind" drug trials (whether the company takes care or not, the consequences are potentially severe) and spam (the consequences of each act are mild, but there are many many spammers and they of course take no care at all).
This seems pretty damned far from that extreme, but the next company doing this may be less discriminating, so it's probably best for the public to have a precedent that leans way over towards the privacy side of the equation.
It could be money, it could be principle... they may want to change Google's behavior or establish a precedent. You may be right in this case, but let's not jump to conclusions: people who take extreme positions are quite often committed to them.
Welcome to the Transparent Society.
I mean think about famous people, they're often hounded by the press in public. If we think that's okay why shouldn't it apply to ourselves?
Except in very few people fame carries with it resources not available to hoi polloi, and in most cases fame is something that the famous have worked for... it's choice before chance.
I mean in all honestly do you drive around all paranoid looking for "Private Road" signs where you don't expect them?
If I'm doing something (in my case, launching and chasing hot-air balloons, though the star example of this sort of thing would be hunters) that might lead to upset property owners? Abso-bloody-lutely.
Yeah you can do that with Paypal, but if you send a small amount of money then the person on the other end won't actually get anything.
If you try to use it as a merchant service and pay with a credit card, probably not, but if you use it as a checking account and send them the money from your Paypal credit balance? They better.
Thank fucking God for Google and Amazon making headway into this space
They're not "in this space" yet. When they get here then we'll talk.
I don't use eBay, don't want to use eBay, and frankly wish I could get Paypal to quit telling me about eBay. I still have little interest in Google Checkout. I suppose I might sign up for it some time, but it's not even the same kind of business. Paypal works like a checking account, I can paypal small amounts of money around to anyone else who has a paypal account, they don't have to be set up as an online merchant, they can just take my money and spend it themselves. It's pretty much the online equivalent of cash. If Google Checkout has any comparable capabilities they're sure hiding it... for the end user all they are is another merchant service like the one Yahoo runs, but one that's tied specifically to Gmail and the other Google services. I can maybe see some convenience there but it's nothing like Paypal.
Did you RTFA? They're offering coupons to download the songs as MP3s from Rhapsody, not refunds.
Apple would likely let you upgrade the tracks to iTunes Plus for free.
so your advocating we allow the old days of boot sector viruses?
You know, there's a reason that boot sector viruses are something that belongs to "the old days". If you think about it, I'm sure you'll figure it out, and maybe even figure out a few obvious ways a program to sign a new boot sector could be used by any virus that had compromised the system to the point where it could write one.
Yahoo isn't returning your money.
In the meantime, don't forget, "Mix, Burn, Rip".
So TFA is wrong?
Would you prefer that it did install, and trashed your bootloader when it tried to update it?
I would prefer that it simply ignored the boot block if it wasn't recognized and continued with the rest of the install.
It's not like dual-boot is exactly exotic... it's something Microsoft should be prepared to deal with.
Vista's security chain works as designed and intended, preventing from you to inject an untrusted bootloader into the bootstrap.
If you're not using Bitlocker (and therefore presumably don't care about a trusted bootloader) you are still unable to install SP1.
And, frankly, Microsoft is working at the wrong end of the chain. If they were serious about security, they would have backed out of the inherently unfixable APIs that IE and ActiveX use a decade ago... that would do more to improve the security of Windows than any screwing around in the boot sequence.
Your instructor didn't show you how to stretch your knees?
Yes, he did, in fact he had knee problems (probably from the same source) and was downright grindstone about doing knee stretches during warmups. The problem was doing kata over and over again with my feet in the wrong position, because that's what he insisted on, putting unnatural stresses on my knees. Until he came back from a trip to tell us that he'd been doing some of the stances all wrong. Well, damn.
Yes, I understand that point... I guess I figured the analogy I was making was clear enough: shooting in a rifle range (or even in something like biathlon) is nothing like combat. Katas (or even sparring) are not fights. They're all parts of the same discipline, though. In combat you don't have time for everything that you're trained for on the range, but because you've done all those things over and over again you have the muscle memory, the toolkit. The kata is a framework for training your muscles that you can use without having to have a sparring opponent. You don't learn the kata to win at kata competitions (my sensei, I am sure, would agree with me), you learn them to give you a toolkit you can use in sparring or (heaven forfend) even real fighting.