No, you don't seem to be clued in w.r.t. content producers.
Content producers make a product that's available for sale. You steal* it. They're trying to create laws and technology to stop you.
Where's the problem? You want the RIAA and MPAA to stop giving a fuck about DRM, stop stealing!
Slashdroids love to think that the RIAA and MPAA are evil witches, hiding out in the tower and trying to think of ways to torture everybody. Trust me, they're not. They just want to get paid when people use the product that they paid to create.
Off-topic: do you think your sig** is clever, or is just that your way of letting the world know that you're a total fuckwit?
* stealing doesn't have to involve taking a physical good e.g. 'That asshat stole GPLed code and put it in a commercial product!'
** for the sake of the archive, his sig is ':%d!wq'
There's a farm stand near me that operates in exactly that manner. They have some tables with corn or tomatos or whatever is in season at the moment, and a locked box with a slot on it.
It'd be trivial to steal the flowers, vegetables or the cash, but so few people do so that it's more profitable for them to just trust that people are basically good than it is for them to pay some kid $8/hr to stand there.
As for the way to make money despite consumers feeling free to steal your content, I've got a great idea. Legally mandated DRM.
I will personally vouch against using paypal, at all. They froze my account due to 'suspected fraud' (There was none, in any direction). Their action left me unable to send money that I had been sent back to the originator, OR to withdraw that money. They just stole it, and provided no reasonable way for me to unlock my account.
Then, after one or two comments asking for help with the matter, they disabled my ability to use their 'so you have a problem' web form.
They don't have a phone number on their site either, so you can't call.
I advise you strongly, do not use paypal if you don't feel like having your money stolen. Use c2it instead. The most common transactions have no fees associated with them at all, and it's run by citibank, as a real bank.
The fact that you had one good experience doesn't mean that the countless people who've had their money stolen by paypal aren't worth consideration.
Also, in FreeBSD you get a choice of whether to handle changes in GMT offset in an intelligent way or not. -o gives the old behaviour, -s makes it smart.
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I understand that network security is important, but this device doesn't provide network security. It's a research tool for security firms that can help provide data that will help sell security services (assuming that it does, indeed, turn up some illicit activities).
If you want wireless security, take your WAP and plug it into a spare interface on your firewall, or whatever hardware you're using to do your VPN. Now send out a memo saying 'We now have wireless access. In order to use the wireless access you'll need to use that VPN software that we gave you so you could work from home'.
Only accepting authenticated IPSec connections is going to do a hell of a lot more good than getting useless statistics on how many people wanted to hit google while sitting in that park half a block down the street from your office.
Yah, same sort of thing happened to me and my friends in November 2001, during the Leonids.
We had found a mirror-flat lake in the country and we were stumbling around watching the shooting stars, when suddenly we appeared to be on an ancient spacecraft. I looked up and saw the stars reorganizing themselves into various patterns, the constellations drawing themselves out to create realistic images.
We continued this strange, and very cold, journey throughout the evening, until my socks turned into meat.
Very few people believe me when I tell this story. Until I mention the presence of some extremely potent LSD.
No, the prime cult behavior consists of acting like rediculous groupthinkers. Wakko belongs to a much smaller subculture who attempt to fight this insidious dissemination of retardation, in order to make the world a better place.
I don't think it's inappropriate to say that Wakko is just a misunderstood hero.
I've found that using the Junkbusters anti-telemarketing script helps quite a bit as well. It's a little bit annoying for the first few weeks, but after that, the calls drop off quite dramatically.
Well, the solution to that is a distributed checksum, such as is found in the FreeBSD ports system.
Type cd/usr/ports/mail/sendmail && make install and it then downloads the source, and then checks what it downloaded against an md5 checksum that's kept on your machine before it applies patches and builds.
I must say, I'm extremely impressed by Chris's responses. I find the standard rationalizations pathetic and sad, it's refreshing to see somebody advocating honesty on slashdot.
The standard rationalizations that I'm complaining about are, in no particular order:
I steal because it's too expensive.
I steal music because the RIAA is "evil".
I steal software because it helps the company I'm stealing from.
I steal because I don't believe in intellectual property.
I steal music because the CD only has one song I like on it.
I steal as a test drive.
I steal music and movies because they are just corporate shit, not art.
I steal because the artists don't get much profit from purchases.
I steal MS products, because MS is "evil".
and so on and so forth.
Thank you Chris, for taking the unpopular position that copyright infringement is wrong.
Would you feel better about it if they called it OS XI instead?
It made a lot of things better, it added some niceties, and it's faster. If you don't agree it's significantly better than don't use it, and don't pay for it.
I'd like to add some more concrete things to the sysadmin skills:
be able to use vi. it's the lingua franca, and it'll be on every unix box.
be able to use fsck in a manner that's not equivalent to just running fsck -y
understand how RAID is implemented on your platforms. for solaris, you should know how to use veritas, and you shouldn't get confused by terms like disks, subdisks, and plexes
know how to run extended diagnostics on those sun boxes
know how to trace a process and be able to quickly parse the output
know enough networking to be able to accurately tell which machine is causing the problem in a multi-machine clusterfuck
know how not to kill your boss when he tells you 'yah, that stuff I had you do last week? blow all that work away and do it my way.'
know not to be a dick about GPL v BSD or open source versus closed
learn to document things. system setups, network setups, you name it, you'll need it at some point.
learn how to use a task list. you'll have shitloads of things to do, and if you're like me, you'll forget something if you don't write it down
be competent in your use of MS Office. Yes MS is evil, it's also the way people in the business world communicate. Deal with it.
Know how to tell if a process is I/O bound, memory bound, or CPU bound.
Know where to look for performance tweaks, even if you don't know them by heart
I'd list more, but I'm already getting quite rambly.
If you ever want to test a new 10mb connection to see if it can really do 10mb sustained, throw up some recent high-demand shows (record Phish New Years this year or something), and then send out an email giving your ftp server address and a login. You'll be burning bandwidth within the hour.
By going peer to peer, nobody has to find a way to pay for a huge amount of bandwidth (or a huge amount of centralized storage for that matter).
If you did not understand the message of the first movies, I strongly suggest seeing them again but with illicit substances in your head. That will make it easier for your mind to see that which is already sitting in front of you.
Films are not good because they're artsy, however they're not bad because they're art house flicks either.
I can see where somebody who doesn't enjoy absorbing images and sounds, wouldn't enjoy the qatsi series. It doesn't tell you what conclusions you should be drawing. It doesn't tell you why you should care what you're going to see next. Nothing blows up, and there are no witty retorts.
It simply presents the collaborative work of a visual and a musical artist, and as with any art, some people might enjoy it, others might not. The fact that you did not enjoy it does not mean that it's without value.
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Content producers make a product that's available for sale. You steal* it. They're trying to create laws and technology to stop you.
Where's the problem? You want the RIAA and MPAA to stop giving a fuck about DRM, stop stealing!
Slashdroids love to think that the RIAA and MPAA are evil witches, hiding out in the tower and trying to think of ways to torture everybody. Trust me, they're not. They just want to get paid when people use the product that they paid to create.
Off-topic: do you think your sig** is clever, or is just that your way of letting the world know that you're a total fuckwit?
* stealing doesn't have to involve taking a physical good e.g. 'That asshat stole GPLed code and put it in a commercial product!'
** for the sake of the archive, his sig is ':%d!wq'
It'd be trivial to steal the flowers, vegetables or the cash, but so few people do so that it's more profitable for them to just trust that people are basically good than it is for them to pay some kid $8/hr to stand there.
As for the way to make money despite consumers feeling free to steal your content, I've got a great idea. Legally mandated DRM.
Then, after one or two comments asking for help with the matter, they disabled my ability to use their 'so you have a problem' web form.
They don't have a phone number on their site either, so you can't call.
I advise you strongly, do not use paypal if you don't feel like having your money stolen. Use c2it instead. The most common transactions have no fees associated with them at all, and it's run by citibank, as a real bank.
The fact that you had one good experience doesn't mean that the countless people who've had their money stolen by paypal aren't worth consideration.
He wanted security fixes too, which are on RELENG_X_Y. RELENG_X_Y_0_RELEASE is static.
RELENG_4_7 would get you the 4.7 security branch, which is probably what you want. RELENG_4_7_0 doesn't exist.
username: acoward
password: Nt96wQuZ4mxRx2MWzga6Hpqv2rwGXqkz
Now hit 'escape' at the end of the password sequence. Be careful, that password is case sensitive!
Also, in FreeBSD you get a choice of whether to handle changes in GMT offset in an intelligent way or not. -o gives the old behaviour, -s makes it smart.
If you want wireless security, take your WAP and plug it into a spare interface on your firewall, or whatever hardware you're using to do your VPN. Now send out a memo saying 'We now have wireless access. In order to use the wireless access you'll need to use that VPN software that we gave you so you could work from home'.
Only accepting authenticated IPSec connections is going to do a hell of a lot more good than getting useless statistics on how many people wanted to hit google while sitting in that park half a block down the street from your office.
We had found a mirror-flat lake in the country and we were stumbling around watching the shooting stars, when suddenly we appeared to be on an ancient spacecraft. I looked up and saw the stars reorganizing themselves into various patterns, the constellations drawing themselves out to create realistic images.
We continued this strange, and very cold, journey throughout the evening, until my socks turned into meat.
Very few people believe me when I tell this story. Until I mention the presence of some extremely potent LSD.
I don't think it's inappropriate to say that Wakko is just a misunderstood hero.
I've found that using the Junkbusters anti-telemarketing script helps quite a bit as well. It's a little bit annoying for the first few weeks, but after that, the calls drop off quite dramatically.
Type cd /usr/ports/mail/sendmail && make install and it then downloads the source, and then checks what it downloaded against an md5 checksum that's kept on your machine before it applies patches and builds.
If all writing is worth reading, why we do have moderation on slashdot, killfiles in our newsreaders, and spamassassin on our mail servers.
More tapers need to sell their DA-P1s and buy these suckers.
The standard rationalizations that I'm complaining about are, in no particular order:
- I steal because it's too expensive.
- I steal music because the RIAA is "evil".
- I steal software because it helps the company I'm stealing from.
- I steal because I don't believe in intellectual property.
- I steal music because the CD only has one song I like on it.
- I steal as a test drive.
- I steal music and movies because they are just corporate shit, not art.
- I steal because the artists don't get much profit from purchases.
- I steal MS products, because MS is "evil".
and so on and so forth.Thank you Chris, for taking the unpopular position that copyright infringement is wrong.
I'm apparently retarded. I just spent 10 minutes clicking around that site and couldn't find the quicktime version. Do you have an URL?
Well, I did some checking and it would seem that I purchased a $20 10.1 update CD some time ago, and that was how I went from 10.0.4 to 10.1.
I'm not sure if this is the same thing or not, but it's probably worth looking at.
okay, i'm missing something. where's the forced upgrade which costs money? (hint: there isn't one)
Please be stopping smoking the crack now.
I Ripped, Mixed and Burned the Jaguar install cds, and the developer cd for a friend earlier today. Thanks for making thievery so convenient, Apple!
It made a lot of things better, it added some niceties, and it's faster. If you don't agree it's significantly better than don't use it, and don't pay for it.
- be able to use vi. it's the lingua franca, and it'll be on every unix box.
- be able to use fsck in a manner that's not equivalent to just running fsck -y
- understand how RAID is implemented on your platforms. for solaris, you should know how to use veritas, and you shouldn't get confused by terms like disks, subdisks, and plexes
- know how to run extended diagnostics on those sun boxes
- know how to trace a process and be able to quickly parse the output
- know enough networking to be able to accurately tell which machine is causing the problem in a multi-machine clusterfuck
- know how not to kill your boss when he tells you 'yah, that stuff I had you do last week? blow all that work away and do it my way.'
- know not to be a dick about GPL v BSD or open source versus closed
- learn to document things. system setups, network setups, you name it, you'll need it at some point.
- learn how to use a task list. you'll have shitloads of things to do, and if you're like me, you'll forget something if you don't write it down
- be competent in your use of MS Office. Yes MS is evil, it's also the way people in the business world communicate. Deal with it.
- Know how to tell if a process is I/O bound, memory bound, or CPU bound.
- Know where to look for performance tweaks, even if you don't know them by heart
I'd list more, but I'm already getting quite rambly.The bandwidth requirement is nearly exactly the same. You're a fucking retard.
If you ever want to test a new 10mb connection to see if it can really do 10mb sustained, throw up some recent high-demand shows (record Phish New Years this year or something), and then send out an email giving your ftp server address and a login. You'll be burning bandwidth within the hour.
By going peer to peer, nobody has to find a way to pay for a huge amount of bandwidth (or a huge amount of centralized storage for that matter).
Films are not good because they're artsy, however they're not bad because they're art house flicks either.
I can see where somebody who doesn't enjoy absorbing images and sounds, wouldn't enjoy the qatsi series. It doesn't tell you what conclusions you should be drawing. It doesn't tell you why you should care what you're going to see next. Nothing blows up, and there are no witty retorts.
It simply presents the collaborative work of a visual and a musical artist, and as with any art, some people might enjoy it, others might not. The fact that you did not enjoy it does not mean that it's without value.