First, the NYTimes now has a history of embellishing and a keeping lying journalist on the payroll.
For the former accusation, that could be said of any (ANY) media organization. For the latter, to whom are you referring? Surely not Jayson Blair, he left the paper in disgrace long ago.
(a poorly written book at that)
You want to talk poorly written, talk about your own post here. You seem to care about Kevin Mitnick quite a bit, but can't bother to spell his name correctly even once?
I tell all my Microsoft-using friends to fuck off with their self-made problems, too, and get real operating systems, from real software companies... and most of them do.
I assume that you mean most of your friends fuck off. I would too, if you were a "friend" of mine.
And originally people paid for cable because... (drumroll)... there were no commercials.
Except on most of the VHF and UHF channels that were "re-broadcast" through the cable systems, there were commercials.
For a good part of the cable industry's early years, exclusive commercial-free content was a relatively minor attraction compared to getting a crystal-clear feed of all the local broadcast stations regardless of the over-the-air reception your house got.
When I graduated in 2000, 100% of my friends had steady jobs. After the crash, 90% had lost their jobs and some had gotten new jobs. This not an exaggeration.
No, but it is anecdotal, and therefore skewed.
On the other side of the anecdotal spectrum, the tech department at my company is at least twice the size it was in 2000. Does that mean anything in the grand scheme of things? Probably not.
When the music industry starts paying back all the musicians that they have ripped off, then and only then will I consider the piracy being perpetrated against them wrong.
So you're saying it's okay for YOU to deprive musicians of what's rightfully theirs, as long as the record companies are ALSO doing it.
How exactly does that put you on high moral ground?
IANAL. This is not legal advice and should be ignored.
Of course, if you actually chose to represent yourself pro se and use the defense of plausible deniability, you can expect a couple things to happen:
1. As soon as the RIAA lawyers receive your response, they'll seek out a warrant to seize all your computer equipment, fearing that you're about to destroy evidence of wrongdoing related to their case. Hey look, they found gigabytes of MP3s and evidence that you're the only substantial user of the system! 2. The courts will have a huge stack of usage logs that they say prove you did it to weight against your simple rebuttal of "nuh-uh". By the preponderance of evidence, you're likely to be found guilty. In civil cases they don't need to prove "beyond a reasonable doubt" that you did it.
Don't even THINK about fighting an RIAA claim against you unless you're ACTUALLY innocent of the claims.
It must cost the RIAA more than $3,000 per case to file against file swappers
Who's filing anything? The RIAA just needs to send an extortion letter and threaten to file if you don't settle right off the bat. Once they have your contact info, all they need to spend is postage.
If the author doesn't want the work released, he should have the right to keep it that way.
THE HELL HE DOES.
So if I were to ask you for a copy of a book report you wrote for school when you were 12 years old, you would gladly and quickly provide me one? Unless you DESTROYED PART OF HISTORY by throwing that crap away once you no longer saw value in it.
why not give all customers their own, single, static address?
They used to do this in the dorms at college. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to get a non-techie to configure the IP, DNS, gateway, etc. for their machine? Telling a user to just check off the DHCP checkbox reduces support requirements drastically.
My ISP tends to assign me the same IP I had already had more often than not when I go to renew the IP lease. DHCP is used not so much as an address randomization service, but as a centralized provisioning and tracking system.
we have this cool tool called reverse DNS that allows us to confirm that the machine we are talking to does indeed have a legitimate entry under the DNS name they are purporting to send mail from.
But what if THAT server doesn't do a reverse DNS lookup on the mail server IT received the message from? Still could have been forged at some earlier point.
Besides which, an IP address can be mapped to multiple DNS names, and vice versa. DNS is not a reliable authentication service.
They want what they call "ego-less" programmers that don't care about their own work as much as the group as a whole's work.
Well, DUH. They're not paying you to work for YOU, they're paying you to work for THEM.
In an ideal world employers would trust their programmers to research and implement the ideal solution for whatever problem comes their way, but too often they have seen bad programmers waste time dicking around with the Newest & Shiniest Toys to the detriment of timely problem solving.
Wow, MBAs have a completely different incomprehensible stew of acronyms and terminology than us techie geeks do. Fascinating.
Of course, your figures make the assumption that NetSol will continue to be around for the next 100 years, and with the way the Internet business was evolving (who was doing name registry services 15 years ago?) that's far from a sure bet.
If they're buying the software that runs but crashes at Best Buy, I presume you're talking about people running a Windows platform.
Can you name me some open source projects for Windows that DON'T provide binary packages? I can only speak for myself, but I've never had to recompile anything to get it to run on Windows...
The reaction to the superbowl stunt shows that the folks are simply sick of it.
That's not the impression I got. I saw a vocal minority work themselves into a frenzy of offendedness, while many more people thought "It's only a tit, what's the big deal?"
You can't swear and flash your tits on a public station any more than you can in a public park.
Great analogy. You see, I can swear a blue streak and walk around topless in a public park and it would be ENTIRELY LEGAL. Were a policeman to write me a ticket for using a "curse word" in public, he'd find himself at the business end of a lawsuit for violating my civil rights.
Yes, the days when NWA's "Fuck Tha Police" was a ubiquitous presence on commercial broadcast media seem to be gone for good now, friends. It's not like it used to be in the olden days.
In large part, this problem can be placed squarely on the shoulders of American parents.
So can everything, if you stretch the truth far enough. "Other people's parents" happen to be a convenient and near-universal scapegoat for all of society's ills these days.
Evolution is under fire in biology classes because it contradicts religious doctrine, nevermind that it is the accepted theory for how life originated.
1. It's not "THE accepted theory", merely the one with the least contradictory evidence. 2. Evolution says NOTHING about how life ORIGINATED, only about how organism haves adapted over time. Maybe some one-celled organisms developed in the primordial soup, maybe God created many proto-animals within the First Six Days; either origin story is compatible with evolutionary theory.
If you're going to rant about the state of education, it helps if you have all of your own facts correct.
I'm sure she'd be glad to make some effort to secure the Windows boxes -- if only she had more than 2% of her time available after dealing with the immediate needs of the Windows users.
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Who needs to SEE the movie? Just read the Slashot comments here, we'll eventually recite the entire script...
First, the NYTimes now has a history of embellishing and a keeping lying journalist on the payroll.
For the former accusation, that could be said of any (ANY) media organization. For the latter, to whom are you referring? Surely not Jayson Blair, he left the paper in disgrace long ago.
(a poorly written book at that)
You want to talk poorly written, talk about your own post here. You seem to care about Kevin Mitnick quite a bit, but can't bother to spell his name correctly even once?
I tell all my Microsoft-using friends to fuck off with their self-made problems, too, and get real operating systems, from real software companies ... and most of them do.
I assume that you mean most of your friends fuck off. I would too, if you were a "friend" of mine.
And originally people paid for cable because... (drumroll)... there were no commercials.
Except on most of the VHF and UHF channels that were "re-broadcast" through the cable systems, there were commercials.
For a good part of the cable industry's early years, exclusive commercial-free content was a relatively minor attraction compared to getting a crystal-clear feed of all the local broadcast stations regardless of the over-the-air reception your house got.
When I graduated in 2000, 100% of my friends had steady jobs. After the crash, 90% had lost their jobs and some had gotten new jobs. This not an exaggeration.
No, but it is anecdotal, and therefore skewed.
On the other side of the anecdotal spectrum, the tech department at my company is at least twice the size it was in 2000. Does that mean anything in the grand scheme of things? Probably not.
Its the de-facto scripting language on the paltform that hosts two thirds of the fortune 500s data.
I'm suddenly scared by the prospect that 2/3 of the Fortune 500 is run by Amiga 500's...
When the music industry starts paying back all the musicians that they have ripped off, then and only then will I consider the piracy being perpetrated against them wrong.
So you're saying it's okay for YOU to deprive musicians of what's rightfully theirs, as long as the record companies are ALSO doing it.
How exactly does that put you on high moral ground?
Shame on the RIAA for suing students! They could at least go after people who can afford the court fees.
Shame on the police for arresting poor people who commit crimes! They could at least go after people who can afford to pay bail.
IANAL. This is not legal advice and should be ignored.
Of course, if you actually chose to represent yourself pro se and use the defense of plausible deniability, you can expect a couple things to happen:
1. As soon as the RIAA lawyers receive your response, they'll seek out a warrant to seize all your computer equipment, fearing that you're about to destroy evidence of wrongdoing related to their case. Hey look, they found gigabytes of MP3s and evidence that you're the only substantial user of the system!
2. The courts will have a huge stack of usage logs that they say prove you did it to weight against your simple rebuttal of "nuh-uh". By the preponderance of evidence, you're likely to be found guilty. In civil cases they don't need to prove "beyond a reasonable doubt" that you did it.
Don't even THINK about fighting an RIAA claim against you unless you're ACTUALLY innocent of the claims.
It must cost the RIAA more than $3,000 per case to file against file swappers
Who's filing anything? The RIAA just needs to send an extortion letter and threaten to file if you don't settle right off the bat. Once they have your contact info, all they need to spend is postage.
37 cents is less than 3,000 dollars.
Want to prove that you created the work on a certain date? Mail it to yourself and don't open it.
Yeah, it's not like envelopes can be steamed open and resealed regardless of what date is stamped on the envelope...
If the author doesn't want the work released, he should have the right to keep it that way.
THE HELL HE DOES.
So if I were to ask you for a copy of a book report you wrote for school when you were 12 years old, you would gladly and quickly provide me one?
Unless you DESTROYED PART OF HISTORY by throwing that crap away once you no longer saw value in it.
There goes my great solution.
Maybe your solution wasn't so great, after all.
why not give all customers their own, single, static address?
They used to do this in the dorms at college. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to get a non-techie to configure the IP, DNS, gateway, etc. for their machine? Telling a user to just check off the DHCP checkbox reduces support requirements drastically.
My ISP tends to assign me the same IP I had already had more often than not when I go to renew the IP lease. DHCP is used not so much as an address randomization service, but as a centralized provisioning and tracking system.
we have this cool tool called reverse DNS that allows us to confirm that the machine we are talking to does indeed have a legitimate entry under the DNS name they are purporting to send mail from.
But what if THAT server doesn't do a reverse DNS lookup on the mail server IT received the message from? Still could have been forged at some earlier point.
Besides which, an IP address can be mapped to multiple DNS names, and vice versa. DNS is not a reliable authentication service.
They want what they call "ego-less" programmers that don't care about their own work as much as the group as a whole's work.
Well, DUH. They're not paying you to work for YOU, they're paying you to work for THEM.
In an ideal world employers would trust their programmers to research and implement the ideal solution for whatever problem comes their way, but too often they have seen bad programmers waste time dicking around with the Newest & Shiniest Toys to the detriment of timely problem solving.
Wow, MBAs have a completely different incomprehensible stew of acronyms and terminology than us techie geeks do. Fascinating.
Of course, your figures make the assumption that NetSol will continue to be around for the next 100 years, and with the way the Internet business was evolving (who was doing name registry services 15 years ago?) that's far from a sure bet.
"Download a bottle of Tequila for 2 bucks, and get a WORM at no extra charge."
I'm not so sure that would be a Good Thing. Tequila's not SUPPOSED to have a worm in it, if it does then something seriously wrong happened to it.
(You're thinking of Mezcal.)
If they're buying the software that runs but crashes at Best Buy, I presume you're talking about people running a Windows platform.
Can you name me some open source projects for Windows that DON'T provide binary packages? I can only speak for myself, but I've never had to recompile anything to get it to run on Windows...
The reaction to the superbowl stunt shows that the folks are simply sick of it.
That's not the impression I got. I saw a vocal minority work themselves into a frenzy of offendedness, while many more people thought "It's only a tit, what's the big deal?"
You can't swear and flash your tits on a public station any more than you can in a public park.
Great analogy. You see, I can swear a blue streak and walk around topless in a public park and it would be ENTIRELY LEGAL. Were a policeman to write me a ticket for using a "curse word" in public, he'd find himself at the business end of a lawsuit for violating my civil rights.
Who defines what is "indecent" or "profane"?
Some FCC blowhard with a stick up his ass, obviously.
Yes, the days when NWA's "Fuck Tha Police" was a ubiquitous presence on commercial broadcast media seem to be gone for good now, friends. It's not like it used to be in the olden days.
Good thing the FCC doesn't rule over the internet ...but they'd LIKE to.
In large part, this problem can be placed squarely on the shoulders of American parents.
So can everything, if you stretch the truth far enough. "Other people's parents" happen to be a convenient and near-universal scapegoat for all of society's ills these days.
Evolution is under fire in biology classes because it contradicts religious doctrine, nevermind that it is the accepted theory for how life originated.
1. It's not "THE accepted theory", merely the one with the least contradictory evidence.
2. Evolution says NOTHING about how life ORIGINATED, only about how organism haves adapted over time. Maybe some one-celled organisms developed in the primordial soup, maybe God created many proto-animals within the First Six Days; either origin story is compatible with evolutionary theory.
If you're going to rant about the state of education, it helps if you have all of your own facts correct.
I'm sure she'd be glad to make some effort to secure the Windows boxes -- if only she had more than 2% of her time available after dealing with the immediate needs of the Windows users.
For me, the only only time I boot windows is in VirtPC to play poker.
I'm pretty sure there are poker programs available natively for the Mac...