Oh, I'm clueless am I? It's a well-known fact that the U.S. government hires a lot of Indian immigrants. How much background checking do you they can *do* in India? Only as much as the Indian government will allow, I'll tell you that.
I *work* for a company that does military work. In fact, we're building, right this very minute, manufacturing fixtures for the latest Commanche helicopter.
Do you think the military did a background check on me when they hired me in? Hardly.
I'm guessing standard fair use principles apply here. Just like you can quote a few lines from a source for a research paper, if the thing is only a few lines you still can't incorporate the *entire* work, so you can only incorporate whatever percentage is considered 'fair use'. Of coruse, the shorter you go on a work, the less chance that it qualifies as being "sufficiently original" for copyright protection.
A song that was really really short (like a few notes) would probably fail the originality test.
Even if they hire their own programmers, who's to say the programmers they hire aren't spies?
They could perform background checks of the programmers they hire or of all the programmers that work for an IT outsourcing outfit. But even then, it's possible for spies to slip through. After all, do you think anyone's gonna write "worked for Chinese military intelligence as a spy" on their resume?;)
This is an inherent problem in running a group like the NSA. You can't trust anyone. The best you can hope for is to bring your programmers (or any employee or contractor) in-house and keep a watchful eye on them. Even then, how do you know for sure they aren't leaking documents when they go home? What are you gonna do? Lock all the programmers in a room with lead walls and no door? How realistic is that?
Yeah tell me about. FilePro dies more often than some of our aging Windows NT 4.0 Workstation clients (which we're STILL phasing out). I wish I *were* making a bad Microsoft joke.:)
FilePro. We use it for a FilePro database that runs our entire accounting operations. I dunno why. Maybe I should mention to them that FilePro runs on Linux now. (duh).
Other than the fact that most infringers do not like to use Freenet because it is too clunky for them to get their quick hit of free music, it is no more of a threat than any of the popular P2P services.
Really, Mr. Oppenheim? I don't think you understand exactly *how well* Freenet preserves anonymity. It is *impossible* to tell where any given file is coming from over Freenet, due to the fact that data is scattered and encyrpted across the network.
With Freenet, you *can't* go after filesharers, because you don't know who the filesharers are? What are you going to to do? Take every single freenet node to court?
You'd most certainly lose that battle, Mr. Oppenheim. Just like the courts ruled that Kazaa could not be taken down because it has legimitate, uses, so to does this apply to Freenet.
And if you succeed in scaring people off the gnutella and kazaa, this is just where the hard core will turn: Freenet and distributed systems like it.
Give it up, Mr. Oppenheim. Your days of controlling music distribution are numbered.
Until someone else clarified that Krystal's is a WC-type chain in southwest or somethign like that, I thought you were talking about meth! Just as addictive, I'm sure.:)
The letter of the law means nothing when Microsoft/SCO/**AA/All that is evil in the world/etc. sicks a team of lawyers on the poor unsuspected guy who posted it. It's not what the law is, it's how much money you can spend on lawyers. Haven't you figured that out yet?
The goal of universal telephone service was so that *everyone* could have a telephone.
The purpose of NASA or the interstate highway system are to benefit large segments of the population, but not necessarily everyone.
(Yes, I realize that not everyone has a telephone, but that is the *goal*. It is not the *goal* for everyone to have an interstate highway in their neighborhood)
BTW--the word you're looking for is 'lethargy'. I'm sorry to hear that.
I fear the I may be mildly ADD (though not ADHD, as anyone who has met me will know, I'm anything but hyper.:) as well. I personally can *see* how my sometimes short attention span can take control and screw me up.
OTOH, look at my vantage point. Since I'm able to control it, and sometimes even use it to my own benefit (when working, as someone on the ADHD story said, I, too, am able to call upon my 'inner spaz' so to speak to get major productivity benefit). A large percentage of the hacker/geek culture would probably meet the DSM-IV criteria for ADD and/or ADHD. Yet, it seems that most of us are able to function perfectly well in society.
Does this mean that we ALL have a disorder, or does it mean that this is just another one of the standard personality variations found in differing inviduals.
At what point is it a 'disorder' vs. a 'personality type'. Do you see what I'm getting at?
If your craving for White Castle burgers was serious enough to disrupt your work, social life, and/or sleep patterns, then arguably it could qualify as a disorder.
I've been known many times to make a White Castle run at 3 a.m.;) (WC restaurants are open 24 hours where I'm at.)
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Yeah, but the parent poster's point is that of science trying to make a disorder out of everything.
From time-to-time I crave White Castle cheesburgers. At some point, I wouldn't be surprised if they came out with a study that says that certain ingredients in White Castle cheesburgers cause enhanced dopamine levels in the brain (heh. heh.) and that those hit with "The Crave" suffer from a new White Castle Cheesburgers Are Yummy Syndrome.
I mean its ridiculous. Just because someone craves information it doesn't mean that they have disorder. Maybe, just maybe, they're naturally curious. No, that couldn't be it! They must be sick! We can treat them with Ritalin or something! Yeah!
However, Dexy's wasn't as big a hit in the U.S. as in the U.K. and most Americans just couldn't relate to their music. Hence the reason "Come on Eileen" was a big hit, and everything else was basically a flop on this side of the pond.
As I stated in my original reply, I totally agree that this Plextor non-standard is basically garbage. Discs that aren't going to read in most players are just friggin' useless as far as I'm concerned. But that was the point I was making...
But I was to understand that discs made in DVD+RW (as opposed to DVD-R or DVD+R) format won't read in all DVD players and drives because the pits aren't as deep or some such? I'm confused.
I dunno. The u.S. government sees the telephone as a basic human right. So much so that there is STILL a tax on everyone's phone bill to pay for everybody out in a rural area to have phone service.
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Oh, I'm clueless am I? It's a well-known fact that the U.S. government hires a lot of Indian immigrants. How much background checking do you they can *do* in India? Only as much as the Indian government will allow, I'll tell you that.
I *work* for a company that does military work. In fact, we're building, right this very minute, manufacturing fixtures for the latest Commanche helicopter.
Do you think the military did a background check on me when they hired me in? Hardly.
I'm guessing standard fair use principles apply here. Just like you can quote a few lines from a source for a research paper, if the thing is only a few lines you still can't incorporate the *entire* work, so you can only incorporate whatever percentage is considered 'fair use'. Of coruse, the shorter you go on a work, the less chance that it qualifies as being "sufficiently original" for copyright protection.
A song that was really really short (like a few notes) would probably fail the originality test.
Even if they hire their own programmers, who's to say the programmers they hire aren't spies?
;)
They could perform background checks of the programmers they hire or of all the programmers that work for an IT outsourcing outfit. But even then, it's possible for spies to slip through. After all, do you think anyone's gonna write "worked for Chinese military intelligence as a spy" on their resume?
This is an inherent problem in running a group like the NSA. You can't trust anyone. The best you can hope for is to bring your programmers (or any employee or contractor) in-house and keep a watchful eye on them. Even then, how do you know for sure they aren't leaking documents when they go home? What are you gonna do? Lock all the programmers in a room with lead walls and no door? How realistic is that?
Yeah tell me about. FilePro dies more often than some of our aging Windows NT 4.0 Workstation clients (which we're STILL phasing out). I wish I *were* making a bad Microsoft joke. :)
We have AIX boxes too. Darl McBride can kiss our collective shiny asses!
Um, when industry and government gets together, we have a word for this: fascism. Just ask Mussolini.
And, once again, the free market counteracts fascism. In a word -- 802.11x. Need I say more?
FilePro. We use it for a FilePro database that runs our entire accounting operations. I dunno why. Maybe I should mention to them that FilePro runs on Linux now. (duh).
Other than the fact that most infringers do not like to use Freenet because it is too clunky for them to get their quick hit of free music, it is no more of a threat than any of the popular P2P services.
Really, Mr. Oppenheim? I don't think you understand exactly *how well* Freenet preserves anonymity. It is *impossible* to tell where any given file is coming from over Freenet, due to the fact that data is scattered and encyrpted across the network.
With Freenet, you *can't* go after filesharers, because you don't know who the filesharers are? What are you going to to do? Take every single freenet node to court?
You'd most certainly lose that battle, Mr. Oppenheim. Just like the courts ruled that Kazaa could not be taken down because it has legimitate, uses, so to does this apply to Freenet.
And if you succeed in scaring people off the gnutella and kazaa, this is just where the hard core will turn: Freenet and distributed systems like it.
Give it up, Mr. Oppenheim. Your days of controlling music distribution are numbered.
We, the citizens of the Internet, will prevail.
If you have watched a few Monty Python skits, you will benefit from this book...
Until someone else clarified that Krystal's is a WC-type chain in southwest or somethign like that, I thought you were talking about meth! Just as addictive, I'm sure. :)
Mmmm...fresh french fries. Don's of Traverse City used to do that. I don't know if they still do. I haven't been Don's in a number of years. :)
I'm from Detroit. We wouldn't dignify White Castle's with the term "slider". :-P
(Detroiters/former Detoiters will nod and agree, everyone else will scratch their head cluelessly)
DMCA? They have weapons of mass decompilation, dammit!
;)
So you're expecting a few bunker busters courtesy of G. W. Bush in their server room anytime now?
The letter of the law means nothing when Microsoft/SCO/**AA/All that is evil in the world/etc. sicks a team of lawyers on the poor unsuspected guy who posted it. It's not what the law is, it's how much money you can spend on lawyers. Haven't you figured that out yet?
Maybe, I dunno... here? I'm an evil enabler, I know. :)
How long before this site is taken down for DMCA violations?
The goal of universal telephone service was so that *everyone* could have a telephone.
The purpose of NASA or the interstate highway system are to benefit large segments of the population, but not necessarily everyone.
(Yes, I realize that not everyone has a telephone, but that is the *goal*. It is not the *goal* for everyone to have an interstate highway in their neighborhood)
BTW--the word you're looking for is 'lethargy'. I'm sorry to hear that.
:) as well. I personally can *see* how my sometimes short attention span can take control and screw me up.
I fear the I may be mildly ADD (though not ADHD, as anyone who has met me will know, I'm anything but hyper.
OTOH, look at my vantage point. Since I'm able to control it, and sometimes even use it to my own benefit (when working, as someone on the ADHD story said, I, too, am able to call upon my 'inner spaz' so to speak to get major productivity benefit). A large percentage of the hacker/geek culture would probably meet the DSM-IV criteria for ADD and/or ADHD. Yet, it seems that most of us are able to function perfectly well in society.
Does this mean that we ALL have a disorder, or does it mean that this is just another one of the standard personality variations found in differing inviduals.
At what point is it a 'disorder' vs. a 'personality type'. Do you see what I'm getting at?
If your craving for White Castle burgers was serious enough to disrupt your work, social life, and/or sleep patterns, then arguably it could qualify as a disorder.
;) (WC restaurants are open 24 hours where I'm at.)
I've been known many times to make a White Castle run at 3 a.m.
Yeah, but the parent poster's point is that of science trying to make a disorder out of everything.
From time-to-time I crave White Castle cheesburgers. At some point, I wouldn't be surprised if they came out with a study that says that certain ingredients in White Castle cheesburgers cause enhanced dopamine levels in the brain (heh. heh.) and that those hit with "The Crave" suffer from a new White Castle Cheesburgers Are Yummy Syndrome.
I mean its ridiculous. Just because someone craves information it doesn't mean that they have disorder. Maybe, just maybe, they're naturally curious. No, that couldn't be it! They must be sick! We can treat them with Ritalin or something! Yeah!
Please.
Kevin Rowland *was* an ace songwriter.
However, Dexy's wasn't as big a hit in the U.S. as in the U.K. and most Americans just couldn't relate to their music. Hence the reason "Come on Eileen" was a big hit, and everything else was basically a flop on this side of the pond.
Yeah, but I'm almost willing to bet that you're from the UK, where Dexy's was a much bigger hit, so you don't count anyway. :)
*ducking*
As I stated in my original reply, I totally agree that this Plextor non-standard is basically garbage. Discs that aren't going to read in most players are just friggin' useless as far as I'm concerned. But that was the point I was making...
But I was to understand that discs made in DVD+RW (as opposed to DVD-R or DVD+R) format won't read in all DVD players and drives because the pits aren't as deep or some such? I'm confused.
I dunno. The u.S. government sees the telephone as a basic human right. So much so that there is STILL a tax on everyone's phone bill to pay for everybody out in a rural area to have phone service.
How about the human right to friday's off every six months?
I second that motion!
Motion carried!
Everybody has Fridays off every six months.
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