Soon as you saw that kind of sensitive data, you should have alerted the military. Sure, you would have had to go through a debriefing, but more importantly it would have given them a chance to correct the procedural flaw that allowed the information to get into your hands in the first place.
As it stands, the same kinds of idiots are probably STILL working in DRMS, and sending out top-secret data to organizations like yours. Sooner or later someone WILL sell that information to our enemies.
I can't blame you for taking the actions you did, as back when it happened the idea of a terrorist attack within US borders was inconceivable, but if this ever happens to anyone reading now I hope they will behave properly.
Or, possibly, that generation will grow up realizing that their time and effort is worth something, and learn to despise people who are ripping them off of even their 1% royalty from the music companies, and then push for even stronger legislation to keep it from happening.
So the ENTIRE GENERATION is going to be made of up musicians who are willing to bend over and agree to a contract with an RIAA-member record company? Intriguing.
The reason unknown bands sign on the dotted line is because the record labels can provide publicity. Another way to get publicity, one that doesn't cost anything, is to allow copies of your music to be freely redistributed through P2P channels and similar -- even inject your music directly into this distribution system.
There are plenty of talented and well-known artists RIGHT now that support free distribution of their art. Stop ignoring their existence because they don't fit in with the point you're trying to make.
making sure we have applicable rights to all the songs we want to do.
Hmm... maybe you should record ORIGINAL songs instead of 'ripping off the hard work of talented underpaid artists'.
How is the scenario for Cyber-attack any different?
For one thing, people don't live in their computers...
Say someone breaks into your house and steals your family photo album. Later you're walking through the neighborhood and notice the album sitting in the seat of a car parked on the road. If the door is unlocked, are you justified in opening it and taking back your photo album? If the car is locked, are you justified in breaking the window?
No, in either situation the right thing to do is to contact proper authorities.
A person utilizing the Internet has a certain responsibility not to cause harm, either through action, or inaction.
s/person utilizing the Internet/robot/
Unfortunately Asimov's Laws of Robotics are merely science fiction. Ethics are not a required component of technology.
But like, c'mon, piracy is rampant. Surely, those of you that *aren't* petty thieves have to understand that some sort of management is necessary?
Um, No.
The only one that has any permission to manage the contents of my personal computer is ME. The zeroes and ones stored in there are mine and I can do anything I want to them (within the bounds of the law).
I'm not opening up my computer so that the RIAA, MPAA, BSA, Microsoft, etc. can help me 'manage' my own data. Because I don't trust any of those bastards any farther than I can throw 'em.
It's a simple matter to convince people their rights are being infringed, given the current state of outrageous copyright laws.
Yeah? Then how come no one's done it yet? Why isn't the general public outraged about the content cartels' blatant attempts to reduce or infringed their rights...?
What the RIAA is trying to do by keeping DRM mandates out of the hands of legislators is avoid a situation where they are forced to give consumers MORE rights. Fritz Hollings doesn't have as much influence as he used to now that Republicans have control of the Senate again. Someone who 'gets it', like Rick Boucher, could make them very unhappy. They'd rather not fight a battle in Congress if there's a good chance that they wouldn't win.
My friend and his wife are still in that bracket (>100K) and are getting killed by taxes.
I'm so sorry to hear that they're being taxed at a rate of 90% or so, so that even with that much income they end up below the poverty line.
What? They're not below the poverty line? They live very comfortably on their post-tax income? Fuck 'em then, I have no sympathy.
Graduated taxes do not discriminate against the rich, they provide relief for the poor. Someone who makes $20K a year NEEDS a greater percentage of that amount just to get by than someone who makes $100K a year.
You match up something like the state's abbreviation and it returns the percentage sales tax. I guess it's pretty useful.
"You guess" is right. You've obviously never had to try to maintain a sales tax calculation system, computerized or not.
Tax codes are byzantine and horrible, requiring byzantine and horrible computations to be made to figure out the appropriate sales tax for a given transaction. It's nowhere near as simple as a 50-line hash table unfortunately.
just because you buy your stuff over the internet doesn't mean you should be exempt from a tax.
You just undercut your own argument by pointing out the options people have when their state has a sales tax. Would people have the same options if an internet sales tax were put into effect?
Who do you vote for to push for repeal of internet tax laws? If the tax is done at a state level, then it's pointless -- state sales taxes already apply to in-state transactions done via internet.
Since such a tax would deal with interstate commerce, I can see how it could be a federal tax. But the concept of a federal sales tax leaves a bad taste in my mouth and would set a terrible precedent. Are you ready to get double-taxed on everything you buy anywhere if this were to pass?
As for the option of moving if you don't like the state sales tax, how do you move off the internet? You can unplug entirely, but few people would go that far just to avoid paying a few bucks in sales taxes now and then.
And I haven't even begun to address the fact that the internet extends beyond US borders...
there is no room for legitimate discussion about those cases.
There is, but THIS AIN'T THE DAMN PLACE FOR IT.
Your debate-fu is extremely weak. Beyond your inability to comprehend that the legitimacy of a discussion depends on venue as well as subject matter, your response is also nothing more than mindless FUD-spreading that server no other purpose than to depict anyone who disagrees with you as evil and/or clueless. Grown-ups don't debate that way.
You're the guy who says "If you don't X then the terrorists have already won."
Please provide citations for your "you're allowed to shoot someone who's attempting to break into your home" claim. As far as I know, you still have to prove that you could reasonably claim to be in imminent danger of physical harm for a self-defense plea to work.
The Mac OS X operating system and the software included is smart and allows you to work a lot faster.
I'm not so sure this is entirely true. While I think it's generally true that designers of Mac apps care more about usability than their Windows counterparts, there's plenty of ugly, unfriendly interfaces out there on both platforms. And on the Unices, where Open Source rules, the coder is also the UI designer, and everyone has their own ideas about how an interface should work, the situation is even worse.
In the end, someone who has used MacOS for years will be more productive on a Mac than on Windows. Someone who has used Windows for years will be more productive on Windows than a Mac. Productivity and its correlation to interface design is something that's very difficult to quantify accurately.
Totally uncompressed audio is no more than 5MB/min tops in a format like shn.
SHN is compressed audio--it's just that the compression is lossless. The upper end of consumer-quality digital audio is somewhere around 24-bit samples at 48kHz -- that would be around 8.4MB/min per channel, so I predict stereo sound files will slowly get larger and larger until they hit about 18MB/min, surround-sound files potentially three times that.
Video isn't going to get a heck of a lot bigger than DVD-Video sizes.
Not yet, it won't. But soon (within 5 years I'd bet), it will. DVD-Video uses lossy MPEG compression and has a maximum resolution less than the display on your computer. Uncompressed 1040i HDTV data streams are FREAGIN HUUUGE.
In fact, everyone should go beyond just passively not claiming their share of this settlement, and actually submit the appropriate paperwork to exclude yourselves, in essence rejecting the settlement. We all know this isn't a fair compensation, and the more people who speak out and say so the better the chances that a more equitable settlement will be reached.
Needs more Twilight Zone. Demos like Jungly Kitchen and the Monty Python one may not have been as graphically dazzling as those from other groups, but they were funny and had a distinctive style.
I also like(d) Orange because I can never figure out what the hell is going on in their intros and demos.
You already have the ability to make sure customer service meets a minimum acceptable level; it's your wallet. If you get shitty customer service from a company, don't do business with them anymore.
I can't imagine how government regulation of customer service would be beneficial to the consumer.
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You didn't do enough.
Soon as you saw that kind of sensitive data, you should have alerted the military. Sure, you would have had to go through a debriefing, but more importantly it would have given them a chance to correct the procedural flaw that allowed the information to get into your hands in the first place.
As it stands, the same kinds of idiots are probably STILL working in DRMS, and sending out top-secret data to organizations like yours. Sooner or later someone WILL sell that information to our enemies.
I can't blame you for taking the actions you did, as back when it happened the idea of a terrorist attack within US borders was inconceivable, but if this ever happens to anyone reading now I hope they will behave properly.
"Hi there, I'm a hacker and I 0wn j00r medical records now. If you sue the hospital I got them from I'll testify on your behalf for five bucks."
I didn't even know that you could network a Sega Master System. Does it use the card slot or the cartridge port?
Or, possibly, that generation will grow up realizing that their time and effort is worth something, and learn to despise people who are ripping them off of even their 1% royalty from the music companies, and then push for even stronger legislation to keep it from happening.
So the ENTIRE GENERATION is going to be made of up musicians who are willing to bend over and agree to a contract with an RIAA-member record company? Intriguing.
The reason unknown bands sign on the dotted line is because the record labels can provide publicity. Another way to get publicity, one that doesn't cost anything, is to allow copies of your music to be freely redistributed through P2P channels and similar -- even inject your music directly into this distribution system.
There are plenty of talented and well-known artists RIGHT now that support free distribution of their art. Stop ignoring their existence because they don't fit in with the point you're trying to make.
making sure we have applicable rights to all the songs we want to do.
Hmm... maybe you should record ORIGINAL songs instead of 'ripping off the hard work of talented underpaid artists'.
Calculators are for one thing, typewriters for another. The twos can mix, sure, but they're better off both staying separate...
Signed,
Some Luddite A Generation Ago
How is the scenario for Cyber-attack any different?
For one thing, people don't live in their computers...
Say someone breaks into your house and steals your family photo album. Later you're walking through the neighborhood and notice the album sitting in the seat of a car parked on the road. If the door is unlocked, are you justified in opening it and taking back your photo album? If the car is locked, are you justified in breaking the window?
No, in either situation the right thing to do is to contact proper authorities.
A person utilizing the Internet has a certain responsibility not to cause harm, either through action, or inaction.
s/person utilizing the Internet/robot/
Unfortunately Asimov's Laws of Robotics are merely science fiction. Ethics are not a required component of technology.
But like, c'mon, piracy is rampant. Surely, those of you that *aren't* petty thieves have to understand that some sort of management is necessary?
Um, No.
The only one that has any permission to manage the contents of my personal computer is ME.
The zeroes and ones stored in there are mine and I can do anything I want to them (within the bounds of the law).
I'm not opening up my computer so that the RIAA, MPAA, BSA, Microsoft, etc. can help me 'manage' my own data. Because I don't trust any of those bastards any farther than I can throw 'em.
It's a simple matter to convince people their rights are being infringed, given the current state of outrageous copyright laws.
Yeah? Then how come no one's done it yet? Why isn't the general public outraged about the content cartels' blatant attempts to reduce or infringed their rights...?
What the RIAA is trying to do by keeping DRM mandates out of the hands of legislators is avoid a situation where they are forced to give consumers MORE rights. Fritz Hollings doesn't have as much influence as he used to now that Republicans have control of the Senate again. Someone who 'gets it', like Rick Boucher, could make them very unhappy. They'd rather not fight a battle in Congress if there's a good chance that they wouldn't win.
Auto manufacturers are programming the VIN number into the tire at assembly. It is only a
matter of time before this becomes a requirement.
So can you predict the future about everything, or just about car tires?
My friend and his wife are still in that bracket (>100K) and are getting killed by taxes.
I'm so sorry to hear that they're being taxed at a rate of 90% or so, so that even with that much income they end up below the poverty line.
What? They're not below the poverty line? They live very comfortably on their post-tax income? Fuck 'em then, I have no sympathy.
Graduated taxes do not discriminate against the rich, they provide relief for the poor. Someone who makes $20K a year NEEDS a greater percentage of that amount just to get by than someone who makes $100K a year.
the US Postal Service (one of the more efficient government agencies [...)]
Strictly speaking, the USPS is not a government agency. It is a federal service.
Yes, and when people buy somewhat less goods online, the online stores will go over the edge into non-profitability! Same net result.
You match up something like the state's abbreviation and it returns the percentage sales tax. I guess it's pretty useful.
"You guess" is right. You've obviously never had to try to maintain a sales tax calculation system, computerized or not.
Tax codes are byzantine and horrible, requiring byzantine and horrible computations to be made to figure out the appropriate sales tax for a given transaction. It's nowhere near as simple as a 50-line hash table unfortunately.
just because you buy your stuff over the internet doesn't mean you should be exempt from a tax.
You just undercut your own argument by pointing out the options people have when their state has a sales tax. Would people have the same options if an internet sales tax were put into effect?
Who do you vote for to push for repeal of internet tax laws? If the tax is done at a state level, then it's pointless -- state sales taxes already apply to in-state transactions done via internet.
Since such a tax would deal with interstate commerce, I can see how it could be a federal tax. But the concept of a federal sales tax leaves a bad taste in my mouth and would set a terrible precedent. Are you ready to get double-taxed on everything you buy anywhere if this were to pass?
As for the option of moving if you don't like the state sales tax, how do you move off the internet? You can unplug entirely, but few people would go that far just to avoid paying a few bucks in sales taxes now and then.
And I haven't even begun to address the fact that the internet extends beyond US borders...
there is no room for legitimate discussion about those cases.
There is, but THIS AIN'T THE DAMN PLACE FOR IT.
Your debate-fu is extremely weak. Beyond your inability to comprehend that the legitimacy of a discussion depends on venue as well as subject matter, your response is also nothing more than mindless FUD-spreading that server no other purpose than to depict anyone who disagrees with you as evil and/or clueless. Grown-ups don't debate that way.
You're the guy who says "If you don't X then the terrorists have already won."
Please provide citations for your "you're allowed to shoot someone who's attempting to break into your home" claim. As far as I know, you still have to prove that you could reasonably claim to be in imminent danger of physical harm for a self-defense plea to work.
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The Mac OS X operating system and the software included is smart and allows you to work a lot faster.
I'm not so sure this is entirely true. While I think it's generally true that designers of Mac apps care more about usability than their Windows counterparts, there's plenty of ugly, unfriendly interfaces out there on both platforms. And on the Unices, where Open Source rules, the coder is also the UI designer, and everyone has their own ideas about how an interface should work, the situation is even worse.
In the end, someone who has used MacOS for years will be more productive on a Mac than on Windows. Someone who has used Windows for years will be more productive on Windows than a Mac. Productivity and its correlation to interface design is something that's very difficult to quantify accurately.
Totally uncompressed audio is no more than
5MB/min tops in a format like shn.
SHN is compressed audio--it's just that the compression is lossless. The upper end of consumer-quality digital audio is somewhere around 24-bit samples at 48kHz -- that would be around 8.4MB/min per channel, so I predict stereo sound files will slowly get larger and larger until they hit about 18MB/min, surround-sound files potentially three times that.
Video isn't going to get a heck of a lot bigger than DVD-Video sizes.
Not yet, it won't. But soon (within 5 years I'd bet), it will. DVD-Video uses lossy MPEG compression and has a maximum resolution less than the display on your computer. Uncompressed 1040i HDTV data streams are FREAGIN HUUUGE.
In fact, everyone should go beyond just passively not claiming their share of this settlement, and actually submit the appropriate paperwork to exclude yourselves, in essence rejecting the settlement. We all know this isn't a fair compensation, and the more people who speak out and say so the better the chances that a more equitable settlement will be reached.
This still doesn't make sense, because even a green Linux admin is going to cost you more than 4 full-time bartenders easily.
No machine can run without maintenance forever.
Uh? Tonic is water...
In fact 7 of the 16 ingredients are non-alcoholic. Care for a Shirley Temple?
Needs more Twilight Zone. Demos like Jungly Kitchen and the Monty Python one may not have been as graphically dazzling as those from other groups, but they were funny and had a distinctive style.
I also like(d) Orange because I can never figure out what the hell is going on in their intros and demos.
You already have the ability to make sure customer service meets a minimum acceptable level; it's your wallet. If you get shitty customer service from a company, don't do business with them anymore.
I can't imagine how government regulation of customer service would be beneficial to the consumer.
It's NOT a big deal. AMI doesn't care whether you buy a PC with an AMI BIOS or not. They realize that most people are not knee-jerk alarmists.