Earlier I had posted a message to the effect that using an anonymous reporting system left itself open to massive abuse, not to mention children just aren't qualified to make psychiatric judgements.
My question to you: Are you going to continue to allow anonymous reportings?
"Until our country gives up its outdated love-affair with guns, this kind of measure could help to prevent more school shootings by disturbed teenagers. In every school across the country there are likely to be one or two individuals that are likely to become dangerous given the opportunity, and the rampant ownership of guns gives them that opportunity."
Guns don't kill people, people kill people. The weapon of choice is irrelevant.
The scariest part of all this is the invasion of privacy, and the potential for abuse of that system. Let's say Joe Jock gets drunk one night, decides he wants to have sex with Cherry Cheerleader. He rapes her. She doesn't turn him in because he further threatens to submit her name to this program. The idea that submissions can be made anonymously is downright frightening. Whats to stop an adult from submitting the name of a kid they might not like just because their own kid(s) hang out with this person? Or because a kid loves their boyfriend/girlfriend, but the parents don't approve? Where's the mutual respect?
The Governor needs to look at the reality of the situation, legislating morality is not the answer. I pity the constituents that back this, they apparently don't want to take responsibility for their own kids, or even try to better the level of communication they have with them. COMMUNICATION is the answer, not legislated morality, after all, who's morality is it?
Sidenote: I have 3 kids, 19, 17, and 9. I shudder to think their lives may potentially be ruined just because they may upset, or piss off, another student, and get their name(s) submitted because of this.
ITS TOO RIPE FOR ABUSE! Wake people, once again a corporation interested solely in making money, is going to offer something that does the consumer NO GOOD! We can't allow this to happen.
If artists are making so little, then their beef is with their employer, no different than ANY employee of a company. Its the reason trade unions started, to make the employee share their wealth with the ones creating it for them. Artists that blame Napster, or ANY protocol capable of distributing their songs, is completely misguided. Napster didnt force the artist to sign a record deal. These artists need to look in the mirror and ask themselves why they signed. Then, and only then, can see they see the blame lies not in Napster (or ftp, http, et al), but in the decisions they, or their lawyers, made for themselves. Take responsibility for your actions, don't blame others for your own decisions.
"...The only way they can defend what they feel is their right to selling overpriced music will be to lobby for legislation..."
Lobby? Try buy. I agree with your assessment though. As has been mentioned on/. many times before, the new "corporatism" is screwing everybody over, except the stockholders. The consumer is getting shafted, the musician is getting shafted. All this whining by the RIAA about losing potential music sales (potential is a funny word, how can one REALLY forecast future sales of music, wasn't it mentioned here before that music sales are up since last year? So much for THAT argument) is enough to make one nauseous.
Who pissed in your Wheaties this morning? Free speech is a wonderful thing, even at times when its abused. Before ye cast judgement on others, WALK A MILE IN THAT PERSONS SHOES, and take a long look in the mirror too. This vitriolic diatribe you call a "response" offered nothing constructive to the conversation. Sure, you stated your opinion, odd how your response is guilty of most of the things you accuse Jon of. Seeing anything in that mirror yet? I can only hope, and pray to God, that you put as much time, and energy, into positive things as you do negative.
I use postgres for the following reasons, views, and transactions. It meshes nicely with Apache/PHP3. It also works very well with eggdrop bots, has a Windows ODBC driver (no idea if mysql does). I know mysql is more widely used, and supported, and have heard many "claim" its faster than postgres (although quite frankly, the only difference I've seen could be measured in milliseconds), but it lacks features present in most high end database systems, a la Oracle etc. I'll stick to postgres until mysql can match or exceed postgres' featureset.
Kudos Jon for pointing out the correlation between culture, demographics, and the ever evolving Internet.
Some here flame you for your thinking. The only consolation in this is that it will probably take at least a few years for some to fully grasp where you were going with this.
I personally use Slackware, always have, always will. I've tried RH (4.2, 5.0, 6.0) and Debian (2.1 first release), went back to Slackware. On #Linux we try to be distro neutral, saves a lot of flamewars in an already busy, high traffic channel. In private I advocate the use of Slackware as the best hands on distro to LEARN linux because once you understand how it works, then you can move on the GUI end of configuration, and understand it better as well. IP Masquerade and IDE CDR/CD-RW help at rdb.linux-help.org
Jon, I find your writing insightful, and mature. I may not always agree with you, but that doesn't mean I have to ignore what you have to say. You've opened my eyes to many viewpoints I hadn't though of, and this in itself is a wondrous thing.
Keep up the good work Jon, you are indeed a member of the community.
I find it humourous in that the large broadcast corporations are crying foul, not unlike their brethren, the RIAA, the Motion Picture Association, and their DVD licensing group. What the FCC proposes opens up the market to smalltime broadcasting, thus potentially stealing audience share for big stations, and breaking the "tradional channels of distribution" that generate revenue. This is the root of the cries of the aforementioned groups, although they'd never admit it openly. I'm surprised they aren't claiming a potential for copyright infringement (maybe they are, I just haven't read/heard anything at this point).
Kudos to the FCC for some forethought, and thinking of the small person over corporate greed. -
I love your articles. Glad to see your book turned into a feature film! Your hard work, and unique style are deserving of a film treatment. Lets hope the film treatment is true to the book:)
On what basis have you drawn the conclusions you draw? What verifiable qualifications do you have to make your statements appear as fact? I sure as HELL know you aren't speaking on THIS nerds behalf. If I buy software, I OWN it, period. I can make as many copies as I wish for personal use. No rights are granted to me, nor do I need to earn them. I HAVE them by virtue of the democratic society I live in. BTW, I'm not American, I'm a proud Capital C Conservative Canadian.
"In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Northern California, the Recording Industry Association of America charges start-up Napster with violating federal and state laws through "contributory and vicarious copyright infringement," because it has created a forum that lets online users trade unauthorized music files directly from their PCs...."
Odd, why aren't the developers of IRC, FTP, HTTP, TCP/IP, IPX etc, being sued as well? They too created "a forum" to potentially distribute pirated mp3 files. For that matter, home builders, carpenters etc as well, for they too provide "a forum" for the potential piracy of mp3's. Lets face it, the RIAA is only concerned about money. And they're losing the war to keep music distribution channels under their own control. And what of the Indie artists? Are they to suffer for the corporate greed of the music business as a whole? Seems to me as long as the RIAA keeps its current attitude, there will always be a counter-movement to "open source" the music people want to hear.
Regardless of the copyright law issue, this is great. I'm a former Torontonian now in Tennessee. Lets face it, I won't see any Leafs games on ESPN til playoff time. Only way I can currently keep on top of whats happening in Leaf-dom is via www.canoe.ca's hockey page. Now I'll be able to watch Don Cherry, Ron McLean etal on Hockey Night In Canada on CBC Toronto.
Kudos to iCraveTV.com for this most excellent site.
I agree with this writer in that Linux isn't for the masses. As he mentions in his post, there is an entry fee to get involved with Linux, said fee being the requirement to read more at the very least. For the last year or more, I have seen my share of the typical Windows user come into EFNET #Linux asking the most simple, basic questions, 99% of these questions can be answered in the dearth of documentation both on the local machine, and on the Internet. Had they come in asking how or where to locate the documentation, I would find that behaviour acceptable. But such isn't the case. Let's face it, most users are too lazy to make the effort, instead preferring to have someone do it for them, for free I might add. I can respect the user that makes the effort to read, then asks specific questions on what they don't understand in the documentation. This lends credibility to their claim for help, and gives us, the helpers in the channel, the desire to want to help them. We help those who *help themselves*. IRC can be a great resource for help/information regarding Linux, we in EFNET's #Linux expect an effort to be made before the user comes in for help. As much as Red Hat, Caldera etal would have us believe, Linux is not for everybody.
Gee, maybe I oughtta go back to Windows and rely on my ISPs limited bandwidth for web pages too.
The poster of the site couldn't even use a legit email address, true cowardice in the "script kiddie" sense. Shame that/. had to contribute to this "DoS' of sorts. I hope the luser who runs the web page gets a clue and goes with a *nix. Who needs ISPs capped bandwidth bullshit anyway. ..
The "wait and see" attitude regarding LSB is NOT a good thing. RH SHOULD contribute, and contribute early, so it may best take advantage and have input as to the final outcome of a "Linux Standard". They have a chance here to help shape ALL Linux, not JUST its own distro. THAT is whats in the best interests of the Linux community. But that I suspect wouldn't be good business sense. In example; their "Certification Program". How would they be able to make money from it if ALL the distros were so similar? Lets face it, ALL distros have a degree of propriety, and since RH is the most commercial of the bunch, they'd be doomed financially to standardize as per the LSB. ..
Slashdot Mirror
telnet www.microsoft.com 80
Trying 207.46.131.137...
Connected to microsoft.com.
*SNIP*
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 15:29:47 GMT
How does this differ from reading the material from a printed text, as opposed to a monitors screen? And how interactive are books?
He IS doing his own research, he's asking here for insights, thats part of his research.
Earlier I had posted a message to the effect that using an anonymous reporting system left itself open to massive abuse, not to mention children just aren't qualified to make psychiatric judgements.
My question to you:
Are you going to continue to allow anonymous reportings?
"Until our country gives up its outdated love-affair with guns, this kind of measure could help to prevent more school shootings by disturbed teenagers. In every school across the country there are likely to be one or two individuals that are likely to become dangerous given the opportunity, and the rampant ownership of guns gives them that opportunity."
Guns don't kill people, people kill people. The weapon of choice is irrelevant.
The scariest part of all this is the invasion of privacy, and the potential for abuse of that system. Let's say Joe Jock gets drunk one night, decides he wants to have sex with Cherry Cheerleader. He rapes her. She doesn't turn him in because he further threatens to submit her name to this program. The idea that submissions can be made anonymously is downright frightening. Whats to stop an adult from submitting the name of a kid they might not like just because their own kid(s) hang out with this person? Or because a kid loves their boyfriend/girlfriend, but the parents don't approve? Where's the mutual respect?
The Governor needs to look at the reality of the situation, legislating morality is not the answer.
I pity the constituents that back this, they apparently don't want to take responsibility for their own kids, or even try to better the level of communication they have with them.
COMMUNICATION is the answer, not legislated morality, after all, who's morality is it?
Sidenote: I have 3 kids, 19, 17, and 9. I shudder to think their lives may potentially be ruined just because they may upset, or piss off, another student, and get their name(s) submitted because of this.
ITS TOO RIPE FOR ABUSE! Wake people, once again a corporation interested solely in making money, is going to offer something that does the consumer NO GOOD! We can't allow this to happen.
If artists are making so little, then their beef is with their employer, no different than ANY employee of a company. Its the reason trade unions started, to make the employee share their wealth with the ones creating it for them. Artists that blame Napster, or ANY protocol capable of distributing their songs, is completely misguided. Napster didnt force the artist to sign a record deal. These artists need to look in the mirror and ask themselves why they signed. Then, and only then, can see they see the blame lies not in Napster (or ftp, http, et al), but in the decisions they, or their lawyers, made for themselves.
Take responsibility for your actions, don't blame others for your own decisions.
"...The only way they can defend what they feel is their right to selling overpriced music will be to lobby for legislation..."
/. many times before, the new "corporatism" is screwing everybody over, except the stockholders. The consumer is getting shafted, the musician is getting shafted. All this whining by the RIAA about losing potential music sales (potential is a funny word, how can one REALLY forecast future sales of music, wasn't it mentioned here before that music sales are up since last year? So much for THAT argument) is enough to make one nauseous.
Lobby? Try buy. I agree with your assessment though. As has been mentioned on
Who pissed in your Wheaties this morning? Free speech is a wonderful thing, even at times when its abused. Before ye cast judgement on others, WALK A MILE IN THAT PERSONS SHOES, and take a long look in the mirror too. This vitriolic diatribe you call a "response" offered nothing constructive to the conversation. Sure, you stated your opinion, odd how your response is guilty of most of the things you accuse Jon of. Seeing anything in that mirror yet? I can only hope, and pray to God, that you put as much time, and energy, into positive things as you do negative.
Its all about respect.
I use postgres for the following reasons, views, and transactions. It meshes nicely with Apache/PHP3. It also works very well with eggdrop bots, has a Windows ODBC driver (no idea if mysql does). I know mysql is more widely used, and supported, and have heard many "claim" its faster than postgres (although quite frankly, the only difference I've seen could be measured in milliseconds), but it lacks features present in most high end database systems, a la Oracle etc.
I'll stick to postgres until mysql can match or exceed postgres' featureset.
Kudos Jon for pointing out the correlation between culture, demographics, and the ever evolving Internet.
Some here flame you for your thinking. The only consolation in this is that it will probably take at least a few years for some to fully grasp where you were going with this.
Keep up the good work Jon!
Jon, I find your writing insightful, and mature. I may not always agree with you, but that doesn't mean I have to ignore what you have to say. You've opened my eyes to many viewpoints I hadn't though of, and this in itself is a wondrous thing.
Keep up the good work Jon, you are indeed a member of the community.
I find it humourous in that the large broadcast corporations are crying foul, not unlike their
brethren, the RIAA, the Motion Picture Association, and their DVD licensing group.
What the FCC proposes opens up the market to smalltime broadcasting, thus potentially stealing
audience share for big stations, and breaking the "tradional channels of distribution" that generate
revenue. This is the root of the cries of the aforementioned groups, although they'd never admit it openly. I'm surprised they aren't claiming a potential for copyright infringement (maybe they are, I just haven't read/heard anything at this point).
Kudos to the FCC for some forethought, and thinking of the small person over corporate greed.
-
I love your articles. Glad to see your book turned into a feature film! Your hard work, and unique style are deserving of a film treatment. Lets hope the film treatment is true to the book :)
On what basis have you drawn the conclusions you draw? What verifiable qualifications do you have to make your statements appear as fact? I sure as HELL know you aren't speaking on THIS nerds behalf. If I buy software, I OWN it, period. I can make as many copies as I wish for personal use. No rights are granted to me, nor do I need to earn them. I HAVE them by virtue of the democratic society I live in.
BTW, I'm not American, I'm a proud Capital C Conservative Canadian.
Quoted from the cnet article:
"In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Northern California, the Recording Industry
Association of America charges start-up Napster with violating federal and state laws
through "contributory and vicarious copyright infringement," because it has created a forum that lets online users trade unauthorized music files directly from their PCs...."
Odd, why aren't the developers of IRC, FTP, HTTP, TCP/IP, IPX etc, being sued as well? They too created "a forum" to potentially distribute pirated mp3 files. For that matter, home builders, carpenters etc as well, for they too provide "a forum" for the potential piracy of mp3's.
Lets face it, the RIAA is only concerned about money. And they're losing the war to keep music distribution channels under their own control.
And what of the Indie artists? Are they to suffer for the corporate greed of the music business as a whole?
Seems to me as long as the RIAA keeps its current attitude, there will always be a counter-movement to "open source" the music people want to hear.
Kudos to iCraveTV.com for this most excellent site.
I agree with this writer in that Linux isn't for the masses. As he mentions in his post, there is an entry fee to get involved with Linux, said fee being the requirement to read more at the very least.
For the last year or more, I have seen my share of the typical Windows user come into EFNET #Linux asking the most simple, basic questions, 99% of these questions can be answered in the dearth of documentation both on the local machine, and on the Internet.
Had they come in asking how or where to locate the documentation, I would find that behaviour acceptable. But such isn't the case. Let's face it, most users are too lazy to make the effort, instead preferring to have someone do it for them, for free I might add. I can respect the user that makes the effort to read, then asks specific questions on what they don't understand in the documentation. This lends credibility to their claim for help, and gives us, the helpers in the channel, the desire to want to help them.
We help those who *help themselves*.
IRC can be a great resource for help/information regarding Linux, we in EFNET's #Linux expect an effort to be made before the user comes in for help.
As much as Red Hat, Caldera etal would have us believe, Linux is not for everybody.
Just point netcat at one of the servers to determine if its Apache or not.
No need for conspiracy theories.
Guys, you have a good idea, lets just see where you take it. I don't have any specific suggestions :)
at the moment, still listening to the premier
Keep up the good work!
Bummer, Error 505 trying to look at the link...
Gee, maybe I oughtta go back to Windows and rely on my ISPs limited bandwidth for web pages too.
/. had to contribute to this "DoS' of sorts. I hope the luser who runs the web page gets a clue and goes with a *nix. Who needs ISPs capped bandwidth bullshit anyway.
The poster of the site couldn't even use a legit email address, true cowardice in the "script kiddie" sense. Shame that
..
The "wait and see" attitude regarding LSB is NOT
a good thing. RH SHOULD contribute, and contribute
early, so it may best take advantage and have input as to the final outcome of a "Linux Standard". They have a chance here to help shape
ALL Linux, not JUST its own distro. THAT is whats
in the best interests of the Linux community. But
that I suspect wouldn't be good business sense.
In example; their "Certification Program". How
would they be able to make money from it if ALL the distros were so similar? Lets face it, ALL distros have a degree of propriety, and since RH
is the most commercial of the bunch, they'd be doomed financially to standardize as per the LSB.
..