Sun's officeless office place has a shocking reminder or the "Feds" from Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash. Where employees scramble each morning to get in early to get desk's at the 'front of the room' because it shows their commitment to work. Each employee's terminal, is monitored, even the amount of time spent reading a memo and the position of there eyes while reading is monitored all to generate information on the employee for there numerous personnel reviews, (which include polygraphs and the occasional truth drugs.)
Not to say that Sun is going to these paranoid extremes, but the initial parallel was shocking.
MS has the money and power to hang in until things turn around, sure they will take a loss but in the long run they will eventually carve out a market share. What will make the difference is game content, and MS has that, the games coming out for xbox are excellent, and even games which are released cross platform are being supped-up for the xbox. Meanwhile Nintendo Released the Game Cube without any real flagship games, and we are still waiting on them. Yes, MS will lose a lot of money, Yes, MS is an evil mega giant, but the xbox is a good machine, the online subscription based business model has been proven to work, provided there was good games to back it up. So this Mickey mouse BS isn't worth a row of beans because the avg. gamer is there to play games and doesn't care about the security guards in the corner with the mouse ears. All this rambling has a point, that the software will, in the end, decide the fate of Xbox.
Let me begin by saying that I have always dreamed of space, I would love to one day be floating freely down the corridor of some space hotel, or watching the sun rise over the sea of tranquility.
I'm sure I am not alone in this desire, and a good sign of that is the x-prize and the hobby rocket builders. Unfortunetly in everyones zelous attempts into the great beyond fossile fuels are being burned at an alarming rate(I realize isopropyl alcohol and liquid oxygen are the fuel for this rocketplane, but not all of these ventures use the same fuel). With the dawning of comercial space tourism fuel usage will only increase, and vast amounts of polution will follow. I think before we start throwing money and these little rocket ships, perhaps we look for another method of placing cargo and people into orbit.
Years ago there was talk of a mass driver (magnetic cannon) to launch objects. While this also uses vast amounts of power, this power does not nessesarily have to come from fossile fuels. Perhaps prior to a launch vast solar cells could be used to charge capacitors, or we could use tidal, hydro, or nuclear power none of which are perfectly clean but they are arguably cleaner the coal, oil, or gas power stations.
I don't know if their is a perfect soloution, but I voice my opinion because I worry that they day I float in some space hotel, it won't be because I am on vacation, but because earth is in hospitable due to mass polution and our own destructive tendencies.
While Athalon's may be fast they are not always stable and can run exceptionally hot. This aside I would still buy an AMD chip over an Intel at the moment, (just based on price alone, never mind performance.) Yet some don't necessarily trust AMD, be it Intel's propaganda machine, or consumer distrust after such great processor manufacturers like Cyrix. To this day I know people who prefer Intel's exclusively (not including the P4's) the Intel line has always been reliable (okay ignoring the Pentium bug as well.) So it almost goes back to the old fable of the tortoise and the hare, while AMD might be a superior processor speed wise, Intel has maintained stability. While AMD completes for market share with low prices, Intel plods along with new technology a little slower, and a lot more expensive.
This won't be the same forever, as Intel brings its price down, and now that AMD has (in my mind) more then established itself as a solid competitor we should soon see a all out pitched battle for supremacy that should in the end have a net benefit for the consumer. (Well here's hoping at least) Geoffrey Cameron Peart
McMaster Software Engineering
Or a thong, or any sort of tight fitting and / or revealing clothing. I really don't, and that raises the issue of pr0n. We ALLLLL know its out their, I'm sure we have all stumbled across it (intentionally or not) while surfing the web. So if Microsoft is going ahead with their nefarious smart tags what will this do to the porn industry. Will Microsoft be selling its own premium (or substandard) porn, and then discreetly pull your browsing to one of their sites, while your standard 8 million pop-ups pop up.
I'm not really worried, but it could happen.
Paranoia is when you think they are going to do something to you; fear is when you KNOW they are.
Geoffrey Cameron Peart
McMaster Software Engineering
I really do not appreciate Microsoft making sure I know where the line and making sure I don't cross it. I believe that everyone has the right to make their own mistakes and learn from them. If that mistake is software piracy, and a jail term is what it takes to learn from a mistake then so be it, but I don't appreciate being preemptively spanked.
If Microsoft becomes humanities moral compass, and then I would be worried about which direction it's pointing.
As for the cancer comments, that is a little bit of an over simplification of the license as I am sure most of the community is aware. If you develop a piece of software FROM open source code, then yes the license does 'infect' your product, but just because you are developing for the big bad "Linux" doesn't sell your intellectual soul to the devil (and he works in Redmond.)
If people are really worried about living microbes invading earth, wiping out civilization, and general doing nasty things, then why bring them home at all?
I know this sounds like anti-science, anti-space exploration rhetoric, but their may be a simple solution that appeases more people then just a simple quarantine.
That solution is the international space station. Sure it's a multibillion-dollar international symbol of yada yada yada, and yes it would be a shame if the station were to become uninhabitable due to a terrible alien plague. Yet that same space station is also isolated from earth and a high tech research laboratory. The same quarantine processes on earth could be exercised in space, but add to that the extra layer of protection and you are a whole lot safer.
in anticipation of the comment that if the evil (or good) microbes take over the space station killing the crew and some how causing the station to plummet from orbit entering our atmosphere bring death with it. Well I suppose that might be a problem now wouldn't it (in the most absurd possible chance that it even could happen.) Well in this most unlikely event those microbes would have the same inferno ride to earth as their rock bound brethren. If that is enough I'm sure one of the nuclear super powers here on earth will be more then happy to get their guns off and blow the thing to smithereens. SO their you go, an almost fool proof (see building a better fool) quarantine that supports exploration and discovery. Geoffrey Cameron Peart
McMaster Software Engineering
Well the company name says it all, 2 much time. I don't know where or how, or why these guys come up with this stuff but its a riot. I especially loved the lightsaber battle, just because "qui gon-gin" did a dramatic death speach, after his head was cut off, and you could see his body bleeding in the background! We could have done with a little kenny/jar_jar dying but I suppose that wasn't in the script, (just what every one wished was in the script) Ah well, at least we know the mystery of Anakin's father (watch the credits for those who don't know) Geoffrey Cameron Peart
McMaster Software Engineering
This really kicks butt. I spent way to much time recording all of season 3, then editing out the advertisments so I had 3 long tapes of pure reboot. (which I goofed on and recorded in mono)
I mean the whole season was the bomb, but in the final episode which was 90% eye candy and then the musical to wrap it up! I just can't wait for the movies this fall! Geoffrey Cameron Peart McMaster Software Engineering
I find this really vile. I'll be the first to admit Jar Jar was a bit weird, he wasn't the poster child for racial intolerance either. And Episode 1 was not as good as 4,5 or 6. Doesn't make the movie bad just because it didn't live up to everyones expectations?
It was peoples expectations and bad talk that made the whole thing worse. No one expected anything from lucus or skywalker ranch some 30 years ago, heck people said 'don't quit your day jobs' to the few brave souls who started out. They made not only a movie but a phenomenon. Now they want to come back and finish the story. They wrote its climax already, how can it get any more exciting then that. Now it is time to tell the whole tale. Learn and be entertained, not critical. And on a side, maybe lucas over merchandised just a bit.
so THERE YOU HAVE IT, THE TRUTH COMES OUT I LIKED EPISODE ONE. I would even pay to watch it not download it off some pirate site Geoffrey Cameron Peart McMaster Software Engineering
Well here is a ranting bouncing comment about everything I can think of. Starting with linking. Linking makes the web go round. For example go here for great news for nerds Interestingly enough I Just linked to a page with certain content, and I'm sure there are links to pages with other content, and somewhere in the great content heap there is probably a stolen copy of some song in mp3 format. Uh oh the thought police should round me up and reeducate me into a drone since I am obviosly so imoral as to offer free music. But wait I just sent you to a news site.
Is it not fair to say people should be accountable for their links though? I say yes(I'm horribly contradictory.) I think there should be differentiation between linking to a pirate web site indirectly, and linking to a specific file. I think if I make a link to a web page that offeres illegal content then so be it, you still have to go there and do the downloading. But if i put a link that connects you from my web page, directly to a file then I am just as guilty of hosting that copywrited file as the server that has it.
But here is where my other problem comes in. Copy writes tend to be a country by country thing. They are rarely (if ever) globaly acknowledged. So why does the US government have any real say over who is guilty of what. For that matter if the site operator was in the states but the site itself was hosted in chili, or lets say the moon had a web hosting server. Where is the crime being commited? In the states? or the moon. SO who's legal jurisdiction is that?
So here is my idea, instead of countries, lets have one great nation united. One set of laws that protect life and society. Global harmony and lets toss in some peace and love for good measure. Lets protect the rights of the artist and the individual, and get away from stupid nagging law suits.
Or maybe if that won't fly (because at this stage in human evolution NUKES would fly faster then peace and love because man isnt ready to give up some grudges.) Lets form a self goverening internet comunity. Once and for all a set of rules and guidelines that all citizans of the net must follow. Punishment and trial comes down to a country's judicial system, but the laws and rights of the person on trial are those of the internet citizan not the countries. Sure it would be confusing, but it would better then letting one country try and rule us all. Geoffrey Cameron Peart McMaster Software Engineering
A hyperlink seems completely innocent. It doesn't steal music, or software. It doesn't tell you how, it can only open a door like one of those automatic sensors they build into shopping malls, it has no idea that what it is doing is wrong or right, it just does what it was built to do. Lets just for a moment be completely absurd and pretend you are robbing that shopping mall, and what if instead of an automatic sensor it was your friend opening the door. All of the sudden that person is just as guilty of the theft as you are, even if they don't profit from or even touch the stolen goods. They are willingly helping you commit a crime, and that it illegal. The Internet seems rife with people making exceptions to their morals and values. People who download MP3's aren't the same people who steal CD's from Wal-Mart. Yet they are doing the something. Stealing intellectual property, so of course the industry is trying every trick in their bag to try and staunch the flow of their art. They want to be rewarded for their hard work, not have it stolen. Yet as someone earlier pointed out, Is it the job of the web designer to check the legality of his links I think it is fair to say yes, but it is a very very fine line. An author shouldn't intentionally put a link like http://super.free.mp3s.com/all_those_bands_who_wil l_ban_you_from_napster.html That is just blatant, but if you link to a page that once contained legal content, and then switched without your knowing then you should just be asked to remove that content. So long as you give someone a chance and the benefit of the doubt. On a side note, I do not like the precedent set by this trial for copyright infringement in a hyperlink, because that means if I link my home page to say some major company, and they do like the content of my page that might give them the right to sue me for unlawful linking, or some other absurd charge. Geoffrey Cameron Peart McMaster Software Engineering
Too bad my email client doesn't ask that question. I presume 'INTENTIONAL' means that there was foreknowledge that it was a virus, and thus sinister intent. Otherwise a person who opens up the love bug would be guilty even if they were ignorant of the fact it was a virus and they were just a love starved recluse. Because the would have intentionally clicked the link, they had to, even if they didn;t know. They had 'intention' Maybe this law was just created as an excuss to lock stupid people up where they can do no harm? Geoffrey Cameron Peart McMaster Software Engineering
If you aren't willing to take responsibility for what you do or say, you shouldn't do or say it. I'll come out and say it, I'm as guilty as the next of commiting certain copyright infringment crimes out there on the web. I'd also be one of the first people to tell you my actions were wrong, and possible imoral. (but that is just another topic.) What I would like to add to this discusion is that we live in a society or rules and laws. We may not agree with them, but flagrent violation of them is not the way to protest them. In fact it makes the whole situation worse. For example: Person A can't afford a CD, so he/she goes on line and downloads it. simple enough, he was only stealing from a multimillion dollar production company no one feels the loss. Well then person B-ZZZZZZ does the same thing and all of the sudden the company feels it (I'm sure everyone understands this little economic example but just for the record I will complete it.) SO now the company has lost million's to make up for lost revenue they jack the prices of this cd and all future cds, now more people steal and the whole effect snowballs. This is the same problem retail stores face from mass shop lifting, except in this case the theft is not discouraged by peirs (okay shop lifting is often encouraged by friends but I believe most people would agree stealing is wrong) So getting back to the Anonymity. I think if a person is going to steal, then they should be just as vulnerable as someone walking into a bank in a belaclava, and if you are stupid enough to use napster, it is like trying to walk out of a record store with a hand full of cds with those security tags still attached. So if we want free stuff, lets not steal it, why dont we just furthor encourage open source pretty much everything, lets tear down the monatary walls that house our society, lets live in a happy utopia where everyone does their fair share, enjoys there fair share, and an artist makes music to be enjoyed, not profited by. But for heaven sakes if you are going to continue supporting a society with rules, then live by the rules you support! Geoffrey Cameron Peart McMaster Software Engineering
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Sun's officeless office place has a shocking reminder or the "Feds" from Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash. Where employees scramble each morning to get in early to get desk's at the 'front of the room' because it shows their commitment to work. Each employee's terminal, is monitored, even the amount of time spent reading a memo and the position of there eyes while reading is monitored all to generate information on the employee for there numerous personnel reviews, (which include polygraphs and the occasional truth drugs.)
Not to say that Sun is going to these paranoid extremes, but the initial parallel was shocking.
MS has the money and power to hang in until things turn around, sure they will take a loss but in the long run they will eventually carve out a market share. What will make the difference is game content, and MS has that, the games coming out for xbox are excellent, and even games which are released cross platform are being supped-up for the xbox. Meanwhile Nintendo Released the Game Cube without any real flagship games, and we are still waiting on them.
Yes, MS will lose a lot of money,
Yes, MS is an evil mega giant,
but the xbox is a good machine, the online subscription based business model has been proven to work, provided there was good games to back it up.
So this Mickey mouse BS isn't worth a row of beans because the avg. gamer is there to play games and doesn't care about the security guards in the corner with the mouse ears.
All this rambling has a point, that the software will, in the end, decide the fate of Xbox.
Let me begin by saying that I have always dreamed of space, I would love to one day be floating freely down the corridor of some space hotel, or watching the sun rise over the sea of tranquility.
I'm sure I am not alone in this desire, and a good sign of that is the x-prize and the hobby rocket builders. Unfortunetly in everyones zelous attempts into the great beyond fossile fuels are being burned at an alarming rate(I realize isopropyl alcohol and liquid oxygen are the fuel for this rocketplane, but not all of these ventures use the same fuel). With the dawning of comercial space tourism fuel usage will only increase, and vast amounts of polution will follow. I think before we start throwing money and these little rocket ships, perhaps we look for another method of placing cargo and people into orbit.
Years ago there was talk of a mass driver (magnetic cannon) to launch objects. While this also uses vast amounts of power, this power does not nessesarily have to come from fossile fuels. Perhaps prior to a launch vast solar cells could be used to charge capacitors, or we could use tidal, hydro, or nuclear power none of which are perfectly clean but they are arguably cleaner the coal, oil, or gas power stations.
I don't know if their is a perfect soloution, but I voice my opinion because I worry that they day I float in some space hotel, it won't be because I am on vacation, but because earth is in hospitable due to mass polution and our own destructive tendencies.
While Athalon's may be fast they are not always stable and can run exceptionally hot. This aside I would still buy an AMD chip over an Intel at the moment, (just based on price alone, never mind performance.) Yet some don't necessarily trust AMD, be it Intel's propaganda machine, or consumer distrust after such great processor manufacturers like Cyrix. To this day I know people who prefer Intel's exclusively (not including the P4's) the Intel line has always been reliable (okay ignoring the Pentium bug as well.) So it almost goes back to the old fable of the tortoise and the hare, while AMD might be a superior processor speed wise, Intel has maintained stability. While AMD completes for market share with low prices, Intel plods along with new technology a little slower, and a lot more expensive.
This won't be the same forever, as Intel brings its price down, and now that AMD has (in my mind) more then established itself as a solid competitor we should soon see a all out pitched battle for supremacy that should in the end have a net benefit for the consumer. (Well here's hoping at least)
Geoffrey Cameron Peart
McMaster Software Engineering
Or a thong, or any sort of tight fitting and / or revealing clothing. I really don't, and that raises the issue of pr0n. We ALLLLL know its out their, I'm sure we have all stumbled across it (intentionally or not) while surfing the web. So if Microsoft is going ahead with their nefarious smart tags what will this do to the porn industry. Will Microsoft be selling its own premium (or substandard) porn, and then discreetly pull your browsing to one of their sites, while your standard 8 million pop-ups pop up.
I'm not really worried, but it could happen.
Paranoia is when you think they are going to do something to you; fear is when you KNOW they are.
Geoffrey Cameron Peart
McMaster Software Engineering
I really do not appreciate Microsoft making sure I know where the line and making sure I don't cross it. I believe that everyone has the right to make their own mistakes and learn from them. If that mistake is software piracy, and a jail term is what it takes to learn from a mistake then so be it, but I don't appreciate being preemptively spanked.
If Microsoft becomes humanities moral compass, and then I would be worried about which direction it's pointing.
As for the cancer comments, that is a little bit of an over simplification of the license as I am sure most of the community is aware. If you develop a piece of software FROM open source code, then yes the license does 'infect' your product, but just because you are developing for the big bad "Linux" doesn't sell your intellectual soul to the devil (and he works in Redmond.)
Geoffrey Cameron Peart
McMaster Software Engineering
If people are really worried about living microbes invading earth, wiping out civilization, and general doing nasty things, then why bring them home at all?
I know this sounds like anti-science, anti-space exploration rhetoric, but their may be a simple solution that appeases more people then just a simple quarantine.
That solution is the international space station. Sure it's a multibillion-dollar international symbol of yada yada yada, and yes it would be a shame if the station were to become uninhabitable due to a terrible alien plague. Yet that same space station is also isolated from earth and a high tech research laboratory. The same quarantine processes on earth could be exercised in space, but add to that the extra layer of protection and you are a whole lot safer.
in anticipation of the comment that if the evil (or good) microbes take over the space station killing the crew and some how causing the station to plummet from orbit entering our atmosphere bring death with it. Well I suppose that might be a problem now wouldn't it (in the most absurd possible chance that it even could happen.) Well in this most unlikely event those microbes would have the same inferno ride to earth as their rock bound brethren. If that is enough I'm sure one of the nuclear super powers here on earth will be more then happy to get their guns off and blow the thing to smithereens. SO their you go, an almost fool proof (see building a better fool) quarantine that supports exploration and discovery.
Geoffrey Cameron Peart
McMaster Software Engineering
Well the company name says it all, 2 much time. I don't know where or how, or why these guys come up with this stuff but its a riot. I especially loved the lightsaber battle, just because "qui gon-gin" did a dramatic death speach, after his head was cut off, and you could see his body bleeding in the background! We could have done with a little kenny/jar_jar dying but I suppose that wasn't in the script, (just what every one wished was in the script) Ah well, at least we know the mystery of Anakin's father (watch the credits for those who don't know)
Geoffrey Cameron Peart
McMaster Software Engineering
This really kicks butt. I spent way to much time recording all of season 3, then editing out the advertisments so I had 3 long tapes of pure reboot. (which I goofed on and recorded in mono)
I mean the whole season was the bomb, but in the final episode which was 90% eye candy and then the musical to wrap it up! I just can't wait for the movies this fall!
Geoffrey Cameron Peart
McMaster Software Engineering
I find this really vile. I'll be the first to admit Jar Jar was a bit weird, he wasn't the poster child for racial intolerance either. And Episode 1 was not as good as 4,5 or 6. Doesn't make the movie bad just because it didn't live up to everyones expectations?
It was peoples expectations and bad talk that made the whole thing worse. No one expected anything from lucus or skywalker ranch some 30 years ago, heck people said 'don't quit your day jobs' to the few brave souls who started out. They made not only a movie but a phenomenon. Now they want to come back and finish the story. They wrote its climax already, how can it get any more exciting then that. Now it is time to tell the whole tale. Learn and be entertained, not critical. And on a side, maybe lucas over merchandised just a bit.
so THERE YOU HAVE IT, THE TRUTH COMES OUT I LIKED EPISODE ONE. I would even pay to watch it not download it off some pirate site
Geoffrey Cameron Peart
McMaster Software Engineering
Well here is a ranting bouncing comment about everything I can think of. Starting with linking. Linking makes the web go round. For example go here for great news for nerds Interestingly enough I Just linked to a page with certain content, and I'm sure there are links to pages with other content, and somewhere in the great content heap there is probably a stolen copy of some song in mp3 format. Uh oh the thought police should round me up and reeducate me into a drone since I am obviosly so imoral as to offer free music. But wait I just sent you to a news site.
Is it not fair to say people should be accountable for their links though?
I say yes(I'm horribly contradictory.) I think there should be differentiation between linking to a pirate web site indirectly, and linking to a specific file. I think if I make a link to a web page that offeres illegal content then so be it, you still have to go there and do the downloading. But if i put a link that connects you from my web page, directly to a file then I am just as guilty of hosting that copywrited file as the server that has it.
But here is where my other problem comes in. Copy writes tend to be a country by country thing. They are rarely (if ever) globaly acknowledged. So why does the US government have any real say over who is guilty of what. For that matter if the site operator was in the states but the site itself was hosted in chili, or lets say the moon had a web hosting server. Where is the crime being commited? In the states? or the moon. SO who's legal jurisdiction is that?
So here is my idea, instead of countries, lets have one great nation united. One set of laws that protect life and society. Global harmony and lets toss in some peace and love for good measure. Lets protect the rights of the artist and the individual, and get away from stupid nagging law suits.
Or maybe if that won't fly (because at this stage in human evolution NUKES would fly faster then peace and love because man isnt ready to give up some grudges.) Lets form a self goverening internet comunity. Once and for all a set of rules and guidelines that all citizans of the net must follow. Punishment and trial comes down to a country's judicial system, but the laws and rights of the person on trial are those of the internet citizan not the countries. Sure it would be confusing, but it would better then letting one country try and rule us all.
Geoffrey Cameron Peart
McMaster Software Engineering
A hyperlink seems completely innocent. It doesn't steal music, or software. It doesn't tell you how, it can only open a door like one of those automatic sensors they build into shopping malls, it has no idea that what it is doing is wrong or right, it just does what it was built to do. Lets just for a moment be completely absurd and pretend you are robbing that shopping mall, and what if instead of an automatic sensor it was your friend opening the door. All of the sudden that person is just as guilty of the theft as you are, even if they don't profit from or even touch the stolen goods. They are willingly helping you commit a crime, and that it illegal. The Internet seems rife with people making exceptions to their morals and values. People who download MP3's aren't the same people who steal CD's from Wal-Mart. Yet they are doing the something. Stealing intellectual property, so of course the industry is trying every trick in their bag to try and staunch the flow of their art. They want to be rewarded for their hard work, not have it stolen. Yet as someone earlier pointed out, Is it the job of the web designer to check the legality of his links I think it is fair to say yes, but it is a very very fine line. An author shouldn't intentionally put a link like http://super.free.mp3s.com/all_those_bands_who_wil l_ban_you_from_napster.html That is just blatant, but if you link to a page that once contained legal content, and then switched without your knowing then you should just be asked to remove that content. So long as you give someone a chance and the benefit of the doubt. On a side note, I do not like the precedent set by this trial for copyright infringement in a hyperlink, because that means if I link my home page to say some major company, and they do like the content of my page that might give them the right to sue me for unlawful linking, or some other absurd charge.
Geoffrey Cameron Peart
McMaster Software Engineering
Too bad my email client doesn't ask that question. I presume 'INTENTIONAL' means that there was foreknowledge that it was a virus, and thus sinister intent. Otherwise a person who opens up the love bug would be guilty even if they were ignorant of the fact it was a virus and they were just a love starved recluse. Because the would have intentionally clicked the link, they had to, even if they didn;t know. They had 'intention' Maybe this law was just created as an excuss to lock stupid people up where they can do no harm?
Geoffrey Cameron Peart
McMaster Software Engineering
If you aren't willing to take responsibility for what you do or say, you shouldn't do or say it. I'll come out and say it, I'm as guilty as the next of commiting certain copyright infringment crimes out there on the web. I'd also be one of the first people to tell you my actions were wrong, and possible imoral. (but that is just another topic.) What I would like to add to this discusion is that we live in a society or rules and laws. We may not agree with them, but flagrent violation of them is not the way to protest them. In fact it makes the whole situation worse.
For example: Person A can't afford a CD, so he/she goes on line and downloads it. simple enough, he was only stealing from a multimillion dollar production company no one feels the loss. Well then person B-ZZZZZZ does the same thing and all of the sudden the company feels it (I'm sure everyone understands this little economic example but just for the record I will complete it.) SO now the company has lost million's to make up for lost revenue they jack the prices of this cd and all future cds, now more people steal and the whole effect snowballs. This is the same problem retail stores face from mass shop lifting, except in this case the theft is not discouraged by peirs (okay shop lifting is often encouraged by friends but I believe most people would agree stealing is wrong) So getting back to the Anonymity. I think if a person is going to steal, then they should be just as vulnerable as someone walking into a bank in a belaclava, and if you are stupid enough to use napster, it is like trying to walk out of a record store with a hand full of cds with those security tags still attached. So if we want free stuff, lets not steal it, why dont we just furthor encourage open source pretty much everything, lets tear down the monatary walls that house our society, lets live in a happy utopia where everyone does their fair share, enjoys there fair share, and an artist makes music to be enjoyed, not profited by. But for heaven sakes if you are going to continue supporting a society with rules, then live by the rules you support!
Geoffrey Cameron Peart
McMaster Software Engineering