Hold on, she's saying to Congress that ESRB should do what she failed to do? In both counts? I seriously doubt she actually play the same Pac Man that we do. If she does, well, I don't want to be alone with her in a dark alley.
Well, she seems to be well connected. As I've read in some article in Time magazine, quite a bit of space in Ivy leagues are reserved for well connected people. Not that I'm saying she's not smart or anything, but some perspective:
As all PhD students (supposedly) know, there are three kinds of PhDs. The lucky ones, the unlucky ones, and the one in between.
The unlucky ones have a bad supervisor, have an insanely difficult project, not enough money, rejected paper by conferences due to the reviewer not understanding the subject, etc etc.
The lucky ones simply breeze through PhD easier than they did their bachelors. Usually it involves their eager supervisor that ends up doing most of the work for them. I've seen some.
And then there's the middle-of-the-road kind, where hard work eventually bring luck their way.
Now of course the so-called unlucky ones are going to make a much better PhD than the lucky ones. They continue through the obstacles and simply finished by force of will alone, and that should tell you something about their quality. The lucky ones, however, got a PhD without the slightest clue of what just happened.
Hey, the world isn't fair. I'm working goddamn hard for my PhD and I've seen some friends of mine got way too many concessions that they don't even have to try. And, they're getting the same degree as me.
I just wanted you to know that having a PhD degree doesn't really mean shit. There's no qc involved certifying that they've done such and such amount of work or capable of such and such. There's no letter grades. All it does certify is that you can read a sizable amount of material without passing out and able to write your thought out without smileys or bodily noises that other people can actually understand.
For me, I just love the work and the freedom that comes while studying. For some, it serves as an excuse to consider themselves better than anyone else.
I am currently "sucking it up" for 3+ years to get my PhD in EE. Hopefully it won't suck after all this. And get all the "sucking" I missed throughout the years.
How can people live with less than a couple million dollars per week? It defies logic, I know. Even a couple million would be a stretch. Three or four is more reasonable. By the way, I heard apartment prices are outrageously cheap these days. Yesterday I just got a ring which costs about as much as an apartment!
I don't know. I thought villains should be behind bars whether rich people are involved or not. It is especially good if rich villains are also behind bars, of course. So to sum it up, if you're poor, you're screwed, villain or not.
Shame on you slashdot for posting such biased and political crap soley to incite a flamewar.
You must be new here. Welcome to slashdot, a place where all nerds can vent their anger at their inability to court the opposite sex by cursing stuff and then find out what it's all about later. Quite soothing on the mind, I tell you.
If the readers are like that, you can come to your own conclusion about the editors.
You'll have to excuse me, I think I heard someone knocking on my door. He said his name is something Neal.
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That's what they want you to believe. You've been living in a dream world. Take the red pill and see for yourself how far the rabbit hole goes.
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For effiicent shutdowns or suits, they simply have to move into banning encryption and proxies, and then I suspect pirates will finally find peace, because that won't happen.
I wouldn't bet on it. They have proved their idiocy time and time again and I must say that they have exceeded all of my expectations of the limit of human stupidity.
Well I actually hope that their stupidity is so limitless that they'll shoot themselves in the foot so many times there's no more foot left. And then they only have their own head to shoot. That'll be good.
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Damn, it's time to pack my bags and move to China then. It's the only country on Earth that's practically immune to all the US strong arm tactics.
Wait, I'll be trading corporate tyranny with government tyranny there. On second thought, the US have both of them! On to China!
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Well, they could (gasp) work for their profits for a change! Revise their business model, that's an idea!
Seriously, I don't think that there's any other industry like the entertainment industry that could keep their totally outdated business model for this long and stay profitable. Furthermore, when the said income start to decline due to the advancement in technology, they simply cry foul and get the government to guarantee their revenue for them. In fact, AFAIK their income actually INCREASES, all the while they keep claiming it's DECLINING. Wow, lie and profit at the same time. Don Corleone would be proud and thinks that this entertainment industry is better than gambling and extortion combined.
Please don't fall into their sweet talking bullshit. They equate copyright infringement with theft, and it's scary how many people in/. actually believe it. Theft is all about PHYSICAL object. Copyright infringement only have impact in POTENTIAL revenue, which may or may NOT be achieveable anyway. With their line of thinking, every time there's no money coming into their accounts in the millions, someone must be stealing something from them.
Oh, and their new business model to make profit? Don't tell me that now WE have to think about it for them as well. I don't think even the President of the USA is THAT powerful.
I welcome the demise of RIAA/MPAA and their cookie-cutter crap programming that people call entertainment. What they do is creating a barrier of entry so high no one can get into the industry without their consent, and use this barrier as an excuse to say that people are stealing from them. The profession of artist, actors and entertainers have been living since the stone age WITHOUT them, and will continue to do so.
What I learned from one of those magazines was what not to do. It was one damn old magazine with BASIC code (don't remember the name) that had a liberal amount of GOTOs and multiple commands in single line it was unreadable. They did it to save space I guess.
I learned fast enough from that experience that: 1. GOTOs are hard to trace when you're typing something that you're trying to understand. 2. No indenting makes it much worse. 3. Commenting the code is especially important. 4. Never, ever, ever use RENUM on someone's code. 5. BASIC actually sucks.
One of them programs was a cool drawing program with autocad style cursor, with popup menus and all. I was intrigued but gave up trying to understand what the hell the guy's doing after 30 minutes.
Here in Australia, we've already been buying XBOX 360 for US$500 apiece. (US$500 == AU$650) This pricing has already put me off from buying the 360 along with some people that I know, most of them are hardcore gamers. I would imagine the PS3 would be at least AU$1000. On top of those ridiculous price tags, add the cost of HDTV, you'll be easily spending upward to AU$3000-ish for a playable system. I can understand a high end notebook or PC costing AU$3000, but this is an entertainment system for God's sake. Well, it looks like the "next generation console revolution" would pass this continent by as if nothing's happened.
It's none of both for them. They want to describe music as both intellectual property and goods in one, and they've been trying to do this forever. Basically you have to pay to get the media AND to pay to listen to its content. In short, you own nothing and they owe you nothing.
With the blank media levy, they also contradict themselves on their own definition of music cds.
I'm glad none of this crap happens in Australia, where the ARIA (Australia's RIAA) has no political influence whatsoever and thus can't push contradicting laws like this. About the only thing they could do is put a 30 seconds ad before every movie that's saying "downloading is stealing" and charge a more expensive price on iTMS.
The good thing is, you know an industry is going to the way of the dodo when they need the government to continue to make profit (apart from weapon contractor or the like). Whatever the RIAA says about their profit, I think hidden deep inside their accounting department is the real truth where their business model is not sustainable anymore, and they're determined to cling to whatever's left kicking and screaming just like SCO did.
There are many points why windows is hit more by worms et al.
Regarding your point #1, have you ever tried to run XP as a non-privileged account? It's a total nightmarish bullshit. You can't run anything simply because windows programmers are so used to require admin privs that very little program can actually run. In contrast, OSX which is based on UNIX inherits UNIX's assumption that the user never have to run as root. So giving the credit wholly to Apple for this is not quite fair. This in turn has caused people to write faulty programs that's not secure thus adding on the insecurity.
You can reasonably harden an XP installation, but by default it's wide open. Only after SP2 does it turns on firewall by default.
I think most of the OSX's resistance to viruses are due to its underlying UNIX OS. On the contrary, Bill chose to keep windows easy to use and therefore vulnerable. Firewall is turned off by default because before SP2 it was not so easy to configure, and turning it on would leave most people's home network go dead. The problem lies in windows' fondness of the "advanced" tabs that most of the time contains basic feature that I don't really consider advanced at all, but most people do. Try connecting to a wireless LAN using WPA with a PKI. Can't do it unless you go through at least 3-4 layers of "advanced" settings.
One great merit of UNIXes (and I guess, in turn OSX) is the lack of need to reboot. I lost count how many times I'm in the middle of something and windows update keep insisting on rebooting my computer in 15 seconds. As I recall this rarely happen in NT4 days, so Bill's decision to make NT more 95ish backfired where he should make 95 more NTish and educate the masses in the process. As it turns out, now it's simply too expensive to do this and he's left with collecting all the garbage he accumulated throughout the years.
In reality, Macs are not that immune against attacks. People just haven't really tried to look for holes in it when there's an OS with 90% market share that's so full of holes from the default install. And I think it's Bill's choice to retain user friendliness and churn patches out rather than having to re-educate millions of people to behave responsibly.
"... defeating the US military was too high a bar for anyone to really consider trying."
This statement would make Rambo proud:)
I would say that this very American attitude comes from watching too many action movies. Let's not forget that the US failed to achieve victory in Vietnam and now Iraq. Considering the level of sophistication those two countries have, I wouldn't presume that holding off the US Army is an impossible task for any country with a sufficiently sized and properly trained army.
Just don't forget the history that as you say, the Soviets are the ones that actually won WW2 due to Hitler's insistence on taking Stalingrad and spent his resources there instead of going for the oil fields which was his original intention. By that time, the western front was considered weak by Germany and thus they underestimated the various resistances and England. On D-Day, about the only real fighting force the German had was in Utah beach (which was incidentally the beach that was landed by US troops and shown in various movies to great effect), and that force was even on standby. Rommel correctly assessed the threat from the west but Hitler chose to ignore it. Since the western front was poorly defended, the allied could practically just waltzes through France and into Berlin if not for the petty bickering between Montgomery and Patton about who takes credit for what that takes more allied life than any plan by Hitler could (look up operation Market Garden by Montgomery). No, the US did not "save the European asses". They did help as did other allied countries such as Australia, but the majority of the fighting in WW2 was done by the Soviets. Giving the credit of winning WW2 to the US alone is not fair. The unlikely victory by the RAF in the battle of britain is the one that triggers US help, if I'm not mistaken. If the RAF had lost, I wouldn't think the US would ever enter Eurpoean theater. War history is much more complicated than what the TV and movies told us. Sadly, reading has become unhip in many young people today, the result of which clearly showed.
I was taken aback by the cheap shot at Muslims in the grandparent post. If I remember my history correctly, the "Holy war" was King Richard of England's doing due to his fondness of wars. The muslims only defended their land as any people on their right mind would do. What would you expect them to do? Just welcome their new overlords?
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a dozen individuals with hundreds of millions of dollars can speak with a very clear voice and wind up with veto power over Microsoft.
That, and a warehouse full of exploding batteries. That'll beat a warehouse full of chairs any day.
I support Bram Cohen.
> If it says Sony .. run.
Good thing my computer says "VAIO" on them.
Hold on, she's saying to Congress that ESRB should do what she failed to do? In both counts? I seriously doubt she actually play the same Pac Man that we do. If she does, well, I don't want to be alone with her in a dark alley.
Except if it's either the fish or the cow making that statement. Then the statements of the cook AND the PhD is null and void.
Well, she seems to be well connected. As I've read in some article in Time magazine, quite a bit of space in Ivy leagues are reserved for well connected people. Not that I'm saying she's not smart or anything, but some perspective:
As all PhD students (supposedly) know, there are three kinds of PhDs. The lucky ones, the unlucky ones, and the one in between.
The unlucky ones have a bad supervisor, have an insanely difficult project, not enough money, rejected paper by conferences due to the reviewer not understanding the subject, etc etc.
The lucky ones simply breeze through PhD easier than they did their bachelors. Usually it involves their eager supervisor that ends up doing most of the work for them. I've seen some.
And then there's the middle-of-the-road kind, where hard work eventually bring luck their way.
Now of course the so-called unlucky ones are going to make a much better PhD than the lucky ones. They continue through the obstacles and simply finished by force of will alone, and that should tell you something about their quality. The lucky ones, however, got a PhD without the slightest clue of what just happened.
Hey, the world isn't fair. I'm working goddamn hard for my PhD and I've seen some friends of mine got way too many concessions that they don't even have to try. And, they're getting the same degree as me.
I just wanted you to know that having a PhD degree doesn't really mean shit. There's no qc involved certifying that they've done such and such amount of work or capable of such and such. There's no letter grades. All it does certify is that you can read a sizable amount of material without passing out and able to write your thought out without smileys or bodily noises that other people can actually understand.
For me, I just love the work and the freedom that comes while studying. For some, it serves as an excuse to consider themselves better than anyone else.
Apple would be in trouble if it ever sells the next-gen iPod as iPodXT.
Next up would probably be iPodXTLive for DJs. Bring it on.
I am currently "sucking it up" for 3+ years to get my PhD in EE. Hopefully it won't suck after all this. And get all the "sucking" I missed throughout the years.
How can people live with less than a couple million dollars per week? It defies logic, I know. Even a couple million would be a stretch. Three or four is more reasonable. By the way, I heard apartment prices are outrageously cheap these days. Yesterday I just got a ring which costs about as much as an apartment!
I don't know. I thought villains should be behind bars whether rich people are involved or not. It is especially good if rich villains are also behind bars, of course. So to sum it up, if you're poor, you're screwed, villain or not.
Yeah. Real criminals would copy and paste "schenectady" instead.
I already patented flying pigs. And elephants. Someone beat me to patenting flying saucer, domestic or otherwise.
Let a Canadian become president. He'll solve all of your problems.
We can send John Howard there as a backup.
(I'm dating myself, I know).
I was nodding my head in approval right until I read that sentence there. Some information are not meant to be public.
Shame on you slashdot for posting such biased and political crap soley to incite a flamewar.
You must be new here. Welcome to slashdot, a place where all nerds can vent their anger at their inability to court the opposite sex by cursing stuff and then find out what it's all about later. Quite soothing on the mind, I tell you.
If the readers are like that, you can come to your own conclusion about the editors.
You'll have to excuse me, I think I heard someone knocking on my door. He said his name is something Neal.
That's what they want you to believe. You've been living in a dream world. Take the red pill and see for yourself how far the rabbit hole goes.
For effiicent shutdowns or suits, they simply have to move into banning encryption and proxies, and then I suspect pirates will finally find peace, because that won't happen.
I wouldn't bet on it. They have proved their idiocy time and time again and I must say that they have exceeded all of my expectations of the limit of human stupidity.
Well I actually hope that their stupidity is so limitless that they'll shoot themselves in the foot so many times there's no more foot left. And then they only have their own head to shoot. That'll be good.
Damn, it's time to pack my bags and move to China then. It's the only country on Earth that's practically immune to all the US strong arm tactics.
Wait, I'll be trading corporate tyranny with government tyranny there. On second thought, the US have both of them! On to China!
Well, they could (gasp) work for their profits for a change! Revise their business model, that's an idea!
/. actually believe it. Theft is all about PHYSICAL object. Copyright infringement only have impact in POTENTIAL revenue, which may or may NOT be achieveable anyway. With their line of thinking, every time there's no money coming into their accounts in the millions, someone must be stealing something from them.
Seriously, I don't think that there's any other industry like the entertainment industry that could keep their totally outdated business model for this long and stay profitable. Furthermore, when the said income start to decline due to the advancement in technology, they simply cry foul and get the government to guarantee their revenue for them. In fact, AFAIK their income actually INCREASES, all the while they keep claiming it's DECLINING. Wow, lie and profit at the same time. Don Corleone would be proud and thinks that this entertainment industry is better than gambling and extortion combined.
Please don't fall into their sweet talking bullshit. They equate copyright infringement with theft, and it's scary how many people in
Oh, and their new business model to make profit? Don't tell me that now WE have to think about it for them as well. I don't think even the President of the USA is THAT powerful.
I welcome the demise of RIAA/MPAA and their cookie-cutter crap programming that people call entertainment. What they do is creating a barrier of entry so high no one can get into the industry without their consent, and use this barrier as an excuse to say that people are stealing from them. The profession of artist, actors and entertainers have been living since the stone age WITHOUT them, and will continue to do so.
CowboyNeal: "People are not happy with the quality of the first article so the next version will be of better quality."
What I learned from one of those magazines was what not to do. It was one damn old magazine with BASIC code (don't remember the name) that had a liberal amount of GOTOs and multiple commands in single line it was unreadable. They did it to save space I guess.
I learned fast enough from that experience that:
1. GOTOs are hard to trace when you're typing something that you're trying to understand.
2. No indenting makes it much worse.
3. Commenting the code is especially important.
4. Never, ever, ever use RENUM on someone's code.
5. BASIC actually sucks.
One of them programs was a cool drawing program with autocad style cursor, with popup menus and all. I was intrigued but gave up trying to understand what the hell the guy's doing after 30 minutes.
Here in Australia, we've already been buying XBOX 360 for US$500 apiece. (US$500 == AU$650)
This pricing has already put me off from buying the 360 along with some people that I know, most of them are hardcore gamers.
I would imagine the PS3 would be at least AU$1000. On top of those ridiculous price tags, add the cost of HDTV, you'll be easily spending upward to AU$3000-ish for a playable system. I can understand a high end notebook or PC costing AU$3000, but this is an entertainment system for God's sake.
Well, it looks like the "next generation console revolution" would pass this continent by as if nothing's happened.
It's none of both for them. They want to describe music as both intellectual property and goods in one, and they've been trying to do this forever. Basically you have to pay to get the media AND to pay to listen to its content. In short, you own nothing and they owe you nothing.
With the blank media levy, they also contradict themselves on their own definition of music cds.
I'm glad none of this crap happens in Australia, where the ARIA (Australia's RIAA) has no political influence whatsoever and thus can't push contradicting laws like this. About the only thing they could do is put a 30 seconds ad before every movie that's saying "downloading is stealing" and charge a more expensive price on iTMS.
The good thing is, you know an industry is going to the way of the dodo when they need the government to continue to make profit (apart from weapon contractor or the like). Whatever the RIAA says about their profit, I think hidden deep inside their accounting department is the real truth where their business model is not sustainable anymore, and they're determined to cling to whatever's left kicking and screaming just like SCO did.
There are many points why windows is hit more by worms et al.
Regarding your point #1, have you ever tried to run XP as a non-privileged account? It's a total nightmarish bullshit. You can't run anything simply because windows programmers are so used to require admin privs that very little program can actually run. In contrast, OSX which is based on UNIX inherits UNIX's assumption that the user never have to run as root. So giving the credit wholly to Apple for this is not quite fair. This in turn has caused people to write faulty programs that's not secure thus adding on the insecurity.
You can reasonably harden an XP installation, but by default it's wide open. Only after SP2 does it turns on firewall by default.
I think most of the OSX's resistance to viruses are due to its underlying UNIX OS. On the contrary, Bill chose to keep windows easy to use and therefore vulnerable. Firewall is turned off by default because before SP2 it was not so easy to configure, and turning it on would leave most people's home network go dead. The problem lies in windows' fondness of the "advanced" tabs that most of the time contains basic feature that I don't really consider advanced at all, but most people do. Try connecting to a wireless LAN using WPA with a PKI. Can't do it unless you go through at least 3-4 layers of "advanced" settings.
One great merit of UNIXes (and I guess, in turn OSX) is the lack of need to reboot. I lost count how many times I'm in the middle of something and windows update keep insisting on rebooting my computer in 15 seconds. As I recall this rarely happen in NT4 days, so Bill's decision to make NT more 95ish backfired where he should make 95 more NTish and educate the masses in the process. As it turns out, now it's simply too expensive to do this and he's left with collecting all the garbage he accumulated throughout the years.
In reality, Macs are not that immune against attacks. People just haven't really tried to look for holes in it when there's an OS with 90% market share that's so full of holes from the default install. And I think it's Bill's choice to retain user friendliness and churn patches out rather than having to re-educate millions of people to behave responsibly.
"... defeating the US military was too high a bar for anyone to really consider trying."
:)
This statement would make Rambo proud
I would say that this very American attitude comes from watching too many action movies. Let's not forget that the US failed to achieve victory in Vietnam and now Iraq. Considering the level of sophistication those two countries have, I wouldn't presume that holding off the US Army is an impossible task for any country with a sufficiently sized and properly trained army.
Just don't forget the history that as you say, the Soviets are the ones that actually won WW2 due to Hitler's insistence on taking Stalingrad and spent his resources there instead of going for the oil fields which was his original intention. By that time, the western front was considered weak by Germany and thus they underestimated the various resistances and England. On D-Day, about the only real fighting force the German had was in Utah beach (which was incidentally the beach that was landed by US troops and shown in various movies to great effect), and that force was even on standby. Rommel correctly assessed the threat from the west but Hitler chose to ignore it. Since the western front was poorly defended, the allied could practically just waltzes through France and into Berlin if not for the petty bickering between Montgomery and Patton about who takes credit for what that takes more allied life than any plan by Hitler could (look up operation Market Garden by Montgomery). No, the US did not "save the European asses". They did help as did other allied countries such as Australia, but the majority of the fighting in WW2 was done by the Soviets. Giving the credit of winning WW2 to the US alone is not fair. The unlikely victory by the RAF in the battle of britain is the one that triggers US help, if I'm not mistaken. If the RAF had lost, I wouldn't think the US would ever enter Eurpoean theater. War history is much more complicated than what the TV and movies told us. Sadly, reading has become unhip in many young people today, the result of which clearly showed.
I was taken aback by the cheap shot at Muslims in the grandparent post. If I remember my history correctly, the "Holy war" was King Richard of England's doing due to his fondness of wars. The muslims only defended their land as any people on their right mind would do. What would you expect them to do? Just welcome their new overlords?