My understanding is that since IE is so integrated into the OS, a lot of the DLLs that it uses are already loaded with the operating system, so the apparent memory footprint of IE isn't quite what you see; there's a lot that's behind the scenes. Which is one of the reasons why Windows is so bloated.
We looked at the current Kazaa network and discovered that many users are sharing personal information such as email and data for financial programs such as Microsoft Money.
I think the fact that these people are using Microsoft Money is pretty indicative of the user's intelligence...
If only one person had the password to this supposedly "vital" information, I can't imagine all that many people were actually accessing it. If they were, the individual who knew the password would have done little else except unlock the archive for people. I doubt anyone so high up would have such a boring job. And if nearly no one is accessing the information, how important could it really be?
He's exactly right. Even IF Katz is right and Spider-Man doing better than AotC is a "cultural coup" -- and he's NOT -- it's about as much of a coup as Pepsi outsing Coke as "choice of a new generation".
The point to making things illegal isn't to stop them from happening. There will always be all types of crime -- not just piracy, but all crimes, from jaywalking to murder. The point isn't to eradicate all crime, it's to suppress it to a point where an environment exists which can support a healthy civilization and society.
That said, piracy doesn't have to be the crime that it is. People just need to stop pirating things and start using things that are freely given away, such as GPL'd software. It's a little bit different with music, since there's not really a widely-used equivalent to the GPL for music (or tv/cinema/etc.), and at the same time, an ongoing, concerted effort to strip fair use rights away from users.
But the same idea should hold: Don't pirate music, but do consume that which is available in free formats, and continue to assert your fair use rights such as time shifting, space shifting, quoting, parody, and making archival copies.
I'm sure.kids.us sounds like a good idea to most people. Even if you don't like it, you aren't likely to speak out against it because after all, you're not a kid and are fere to surf whatever domain you choose.
But I worry about what will happen inside the domain. The people we collectively trust to censor and approve content for.kids.us... who are they? what ideologies do they endorse? what agenda do they represent?
Are we going to see a lot of candy-coated happy-faced life-is-good, nothing-to-worry-about, trust your parents and all other authority figures and never question them, etc.? Is this really what we want to expose our children to? I hope the sites.kids deems suitable for kids encourages things like individualism, free-thinking, and free inquiry.
Children need to learn how to think independently and not just do what they're told and believe everything someone big says. They need to learn how to ask hard questions about the world they live in.
Hopefully they'll get the patent awarded, and quash everyone else.
The end result will be they'll be the only people who use pop-unders, and I'll have that many fewer sites to avoid.
Even better, all the scum who want to use pop-unders will sue each other for the privilege, thereby draining money from each others coffers, hopefully resulting in some bankruptcies.
I was hoping it meant "free as in freedom". I'd gladly pay $20/month for that.
Of course, I can already predict that someone's just going to tell me that anyone willing to part with $20 in exchange for freedom deserves neither the $20 nor the freedom...
"Yes, it's true," he told me, "We're not really dead. Tell everyone not to worry. See, we're just actors. All that stuff you see on the TV show? It's not real. It's just make-believe. You know, stories?"
Honestly, even if they were killed off in the series, they could always be brought back in flashbacks, time-warps, cloning experiments, dream sequences, etc. etc.
You don't have to un-write what was written or disrupt continuity in order to have dead characters come back...
Money goes in easy, out hard?
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My understanding is that canceling your account with an ISP doesn't make money leave their organization. It just means that your money stops going in.
Please tell me you taped the conversations...
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"For quality assurance purposes"
I really would love to be able to download an.mp3 of the conversations you had with these guys.
Ironically for Microsoft, I just yesterday changed over to a myrealbox account. Far better TOS, more features, less bullshit.
Bye bye, 3 Hotmail accounts chock full of spam. Bye bye, emptying my junk mail folders hourly.
We all know that the result of the class-action lawsuit will be that the record industry will settle, and pay their legal fees in product by sending everyone a $25 gift certificate for one of those giant overpriced chain stores, where $25 might just cover the price of a new CD.
If you say that something can be done, but only in an infinite amount of time, then that's logically equivalent to saying it can't be done. So, if MSFT wants to say they'll take forever to come up with a defense, ipso facto it means that there is no possible defense. Therefore MSFT is guilty. QED.
Of course, you'll just get accused of making up your own version of the story, but maybe in the future there will be a form of HTML or (more likely) XML that tracks version changes and uses checksums somehow to hinder deliberate tampering. But even so nothing will be tamper proof.
The doctors save lives so that people can recover and return to the front lines to kill and destroy more. They go to the front lines in the first place knowing that they've got a chance to survive if wounded because they've got good doctors supporting them. If doctors refused to give aid to wounded soldiers, maybe we'd have a lot more reluctance about going to war.
This actually illustrates how the Hippocratic Oath just can't hold up to the real world. You never know what the ultimate outcome of your actions will be. You help one person, he turns around and screws you for it. You help another person, they're grateful and reward you.
Everyone tries to benefit themselves, to benefit the world, but you can't do ANYTHING at all if you always have to check beforehand to make sure that you're not doing any harm.
The world is a dangerous place. You can't account for every possibility.
Beyond that, the military-industrial complex relies far too heavily on computer programmers. If they swore to first do no harm, they wouldn't be able to use computers to design and control weapons systems. There'd go the economy. We need to kill kill kill in order to remain rich rich rich.
If we boycott, it will have the same effect of not watching the ads, so how would they know we're boycotting?
I don't watch TV as it is, so how can I boycott?
Better strategy: WATCH the commercials. Make a list of who's sponsoring these shows. Write them letterst stating your position on PVR, Fair Use, your "obligation" to watch commercials, and the corporate use of public airwaves, which is supposed to be licensed by the government for the public good.
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My understanding is that since IE is so integrated into the OS, a lot of the DLLs that it uses are already loaded with the operating system, so the apparent memory footprint of IE isn't quite what you see; there's a lot that's behind the scenes. Which is one of the reasons why Windows is so bloated.
If only one person had the password to this supposedly "vital" information, I can't imagine all that many people were actually accessing it. If they were, the individual who knew the password would have done little else except unlock the archive for people. I doubt anyone so high up would have such a boring job. And if nearly no one is accessing the information, how important could it really be?
The ultimate question is NOT "If the universe is a giant computer, how big is it?"
It's "If the universe is a giant computer, what the hell is it computing?"
Ok, so this would be the last nail in their coffin of credibility, right?
The only problem with the argument that Valenti and the MPAA are crying wolf again is that, eventually the boy cries wolf and there really is a wolf.
So if we want to refute them in this way, one also has to ask, is there really a wolf this time?
So, basically this all means two things as I see it:
1) Don't listen to a think Valenti says.
2) Keep looking for wolves anyway.
I've been complaining about how hard life is here for AGES!
What's next, Russia joins the NATO alliance?
Oh, wait...
Man is the future weird
Somebody mod the above comment up!
He's exactly right. Even IF Katz is right and Spider-Man doing better than AotC is a "cultural coup" -- and he's NOT -- it's about as much of a coup as Pepsi outsing Coke as "choice of a new generation".
President Mbutu v. the whole frickin' world
The point to making things illegal isn't to stop them from happening. There will always be all types of crime -- not just piracy, but all crimes, from jaywalking to murder. The point isn't to eradicate all crime, it's to suppress it to a point where an environment exists which can support a healthy civilization and society.
That said, piracy doesn't have to be the crime that it is. People just need to stop pirating things and start using things that are freely given away, such as GPL'd software. It's a little bit different with music, since there's not really a widely-used equivalent to the GPL for music (or tv/cinema/etc.), and at the same time, an ongoing, concerted effort to strip fair use rights away from users.
But the same idea should hold: Don't pirate music, but do consume that which is available in free formats, and continue to assert your fair use rights such as time shifting, space shifting, quoting, parody, and making archival copies.
I'm sure .kids.us sounds like a good idea to most people. Even if you don't like it, you aren't likely to speak out against it because after all, you're not a kid and are fere to surf whatever domain you choose.
.kids.us... who are they? what ideologies do they endorse? what agenda do they represent?
.kids deems suitable for kids encourages things like individualism, free-thinking, and free inquiry.
But I worry about what will happen inside the domain. The people we collectively trust to censor and approve content for
Are we going to see a lot of candy-coated happy-faced life-is-good, nothing-to-worry-about, trust your parents and all other authority figures and never question them, etc.? Is this really what we want to expose our children to? I hope the sites
Children need to learn how to think independently and not just do what they're told and believe everything someone big says. They need to learn how to ask hard questions about the world they live in.
Hopefully they'll get the patent awarded, and quash everyone else.
The end result will be they'll be the only people who use pop-unders, and I'll have that many fewer sites to avoid.
Even better, all the scum who want to use pop-unders will sue each other for the privilege, thereby draining money from each others coffers, hopefully resulting in some bankruptcies.
My hat is off to you all.
I was hoping it meant "free as in freedom". I'd gladly pay $20/month for that.
Of course, I can already predict that someone's just going to tell me that anyone willing to part with $20 in exchange for freedom deserves neither the $20 nor the freedom...
"Yes, it's true," he told me, "We're not really dead. Tell everyone not to worry. See, we're just actors. All that stuff you see on the TV show? It's not real. It's just make-believe. You know, stories?"
Honestly, even if they were killed off in the series, they could always be brought back in flashbacks, time-warps, cloning experiments, dream sequences, etc. etc.
You don't have to un-write what was written or disrupt continuity in order to have dead characters come back...
My understanding is that canceling your account with an ISP doesn't make money leave their organization. It just means that your money stops going in.
"For quality assurance purposes"
.mp3 of the conversations you had with these guys.
I really would love to be able to download an
Ironically for Microsoft, I just yesterday changed over to a myrealbox account. Far better TOS, more features, less bullshit. Bye bye, 3 Hotmail accounts chock full of spam. Bye bye, emptying my junk mail folders hourly.
We all know that the result of the class-action lawsuit will be that the record industry will settle, and pay their legal fees in product by sending everyone a $25 gift certificate for one of those giant overpriced chain stores, where $25 might just cover the price of a new CD.
This is the first non-fluff story I think I've seen today.
If you say that something can be done, but only in an infinite amount of time, then that's logically equivalent to saying it can't be done. So, if MSFT wants to say they'll take forever to come up with a defense, ipso facto it means that there is no possible defense. Therefore MSFT is guilty. QED.
Then you've got proof. Ctrl+S will set you free!
Of course, you'll just get accused of making up your own version of the story, but maybe in the future there will be a form of HTML or (more likely) XML that tracks version changes and uses checksums somehow to hinder deliberate tampering. But even so nothing will be tamper proof.
The doctors save lives so that people can recover and return to the front lines to kill and destroy more. They go to the front lines in the first place knowing that they've got a chance to survive if wounded because they've got good doctors supporting them. If doctors refused to give aid to wounded soldiers, maybe we'd have a lot more reluctance about going to war.
This actually illustrates how the Hippocratic Oath just can't hold up to the real world. You never know what the ultimate outcome of your actions will be. You help one person, he turns around and screws you for it. You help another person, they're grateful and reward you.
Everyone tries to benefit themselves, to benefit the world, but you can't do ANYTHING at all if you always have to check beforehand to make sure that you're not doing any harm.
The world is a dangerous place. You can't account for every possibility.
Beyond that, the military-industrial complex relies far too heavily on computer programmers. If they swore to first do no harm, they wouldn't be able to use computers to design and control weapons systems. There'd go the economy. We need to kill kill kill in order to remain rich rich rich.
If we boycott, it will have the same effect of not watching the ads, so how would they know we're boycotting?
I don't watch TV as it is, so how can I boycott?
Better strategy: WATCH the commercials. Make a list of who's sponsoring these shows. Write them letterst stating your position on PVR, Fair Use, your "obligation" to watch commercials, and the corporate use of public airwaves, which is supposed to be licensed by the government for the public good.