Maybe. But again, you usually sign away any expectation of privacy by agreeing to whatever Acceptible Use Policy your University imposes. You certainly do at my school. E-mail is not private conversation (by Supreme Court ruling), why would P2P apps be such? Also these AUPs require more than Lionel Hutz to beat. We specifically state that the network is for academic purposes. Keeping 500GB of screeners is pretty tough to prove as academic in nature. Get over it. P2P apps exist to trade in illegal copyright infringing media in the great part. Type "copyright free movie" in the Search and see if you get shit.
Of course, you'd have to prove that you "timeshifted" your DivX files. And if you share them via P2P you are violating the copyright of the shows. Illegal! As for hacking your grades, that's between you and the Lawd.
Wrong. Universities lustily call themselves ISPs. It keeps them from being liable for little turd burglars trading music on their network. They just turn the twerps after the abuse becomes egregious over to the RIAA or whoever. Meets the "adequate effort" test for the RIAA. As for the 1974 Educational Privacy Act, being an ISP exempts you from the little thieves hiding behind the University's skirts. A killer DivX collection is not the same as a your grades. One is obtained legally, the other is not. You make the call.
At our university you promise to not engage in criminal conduct on the University network. Sharing movies illegally (now that is unequivocally illegal) breaks the AUP and you have no expectation to privacy while committing a crime, do you? Does a burglar have the right to privacy when he discovers that he was caught with a surveillance camera in your house?
Nope. Kids sign the right away to do illegal shit and hide from behind the University's skirts in our AUP at my University. The Privacy act is meant to protect their grades, not conduct. You are acting as an ISP not as the University of Whatever. Trust me. I've seen a little warez twerp-thief try to hide behind FERPA and get burned.
Responsebase, one of the most repugnant spammers, operates openly out of San Diego, CA. They just switch SMTP relay names and net blocks to thwart ORDBs and such. Not all are "off-shore."
until someone ferrets out the big business interests behind spam, nothing will be done about it. I know this sounds like a conspiracy theory, but there has been no effective (US) legislation against spam. Whenever you see toothless legislation, you need to look for the parties pulling the teeth. Who are they? Are there people lobbying against making spam illegal? Why? It is important to remember that spam is not a free speech issue. The Supreme Court has said, back in 1970, that we can not be compelled to hear speech in our own homes. Maybe that is testable, but let's get a law on the books that flushes out the spammers and, more importantly, the parties willing to do amicus briefs for them.
Lucasfilm has broken ground on the new $300 million special effects campus that he hopes will help...
Heh. Wonder what the anti-trust settlement would be like? Arm here. Leg there. Lots of Baby Egos running around wiping their asses with our dork dollars.
The Oldest Forms of Music Piracy ... explained
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One of the reasons that bootleggers of live recordings don't get too much trouble is the extraordinary lengths that they go to to get the recording. It is just hard as shit to make a clear recording of of a live performance with equipment that you have to smuggle in yourself. This is why, for the most part, the industry doesn't get bent out of shape about it to the degree they do with stealing music with P2P.
For example, I was a huge Cure fan as a kid. I got to know this nice couple from Chapel Hill who I would saw repeatedly at 4 or 5 shows on the "Kiss Me" tour (1987 or so) The wife loved the Cure but she was confined to a wheelchair. Later, while in college in 1989, I saw the Cure at Cameron Indoor Stadium at Duke (no, I didn't go to Duke). There was that same couple. But then I saw the couple in the mid-90s at a mall in Greensboro, NC. Guess what? She was walking along just fine. The wheelchair was a ruse.
The fine print: they were pulling the oldest trick in the book (or the most creative). They had rigged her wheelchair as a portable 16-track recording studio and would get perfect recordings. Why? Handicapped people get prime seats with clear sight (and sound lines). It's good PR. No shit. I am sure that this gig has been pulled by a lot of people, but the point is that this required fuck-all creativity and time to wire up a wheelchair like that.
So why were they doing it? Profit, of course. But they had also cultivated some friendships with artists who appreciated that their recordings were often the only good chroicles of forgotten performances -- some of which are brilliant. I think this may have been a reason why they got a free pass from the bands on pirating. The market for The Cure: Live at Cameron Indoor is pretty slim. BTW, I got about 20 live shots on DAT from them for 100 bucks. That's not a money maker at all.
The point of this is: What will the artists think about this practice? I think that they wouldn't give as much a shit about the mom-and-pops as they would Clear Channel if they don't get a cut from Clear Channel. Odds are: they get their cut.
OK. So this thing is blacker than Dick Cheney's heart, but I have a serious question. First, I know shit little about physics (but plenty about what-not, what? what?). So, can a super black material attract light just by being super black? I mean, if the light is not directly shined upon it, then does a super black material pull "indirect" light toward it? I await your answers/flames/non-sequiturs with baited breath.
Actually, it is the users. I found refuge in the Buddha 2 years ago and since that time I have learned to see myself in others. I can do no harm (or really try not to). Because I cannot possibly change someone who makes a statement like "Now I have a man on the inside." I must leave the situation. My own actions with that woman were to help her, because I remember all the times I have needed help -- even with computers. But when I gently corrected her and told her to call the HelpDesk from now on, she turned on me. This person lives as if her actions have no consequences. This is someone who lives life unintentionally. By turning her in to her supervisor, I afforded her the chance to see that actions have outcomes. The Wheel of the Dharma turned a little. Karma (in our lifes, not slashdot) is not a good or bad thing. It just is. It is the absence of Karma that precipitates unintentional living.
I've been coding professionally for ten years. I am "successful" in my career. But I've found my day job unfulfilling for years, and as a musician I often wonder if I should follow my heart elsewhere. I imagine I'm not the only Slashdot reader who fits this description."
I have 3 months until I no longer have to deal with IT as a career again. Everytime I see these half-ass Tech School commercials on the local cable, I titter with dementia. "A fulfilling career in which you can go places!" What-fucking-ever. 9 years after stupidly volunteering for training on AIX, I am getting my terminal degree and heading to the promised land -- academia -- to do what I have always dream of.
It is difficult to express how jaded I am with the tech industry and to be honest my feelings really have little to do with my peers (who work their asses off and get no credit) but with PHBs and, most of all, users. Just before typing this post, I got off the phone with a woman who bypassed the helpdesk and sussed out (somehow) that I was the person responsible for a part of our web services platform. Of course, the problem had nothing to do with what I was responsible for. She was using an old version of IE which didn't support something in the interface. If she had called the helpdesk, she would have been told the same thing by a person who would have known instantly what the problem was. It took me 30 minutes (read $15 of taxpayer money) to figure this out simply because I am not familiar with the problem. Why did she bypass the helpdesk? Well, they cut a ticket on each call and track users and their recurring problems. In other words, they do their jobs. I asked why this was a problem. "They don't like to talk to me." A quick search shows hundreds of calls in the past year from this person. I told her that my help was a one time shot and she needed to call the helpdesk from now on. She got all pissed and said "No. Now I have a man on the inside." Fuck that. Found her supervisor and put her ass on notice. I am tired of being a bitch to people who couldn't fuck their way out of a wet paper bag.
I know. My mistake was helping her in the first place, but do you just stomp past the reception desk at the emergency room and demand that a doctor fix your hangnail? No.
So I am going to do something interesting that doesn't pay shit and is low-tech and let's me hide for 3 months of the year -- college professor.
As potentially unpatriotic as it is to say, it makes me glad to know that the hope, energy and imagination of the billion people in China are there to step up, if we turn our backs on this important step in Humanity's future. It matters far more to me that we do this as a species then we do it as a nation. I hate the thought of what losing this would be a sign of for us as a country, though.
Don't worry about being unpatriotic. This is the problem with America hit right on the nose. Profit rather than success and a sense of history is the motive for our endeavors. Rather, we equate profit with success. Every major religion points out that long term success is not found in riches, but in collective memory. Forget the war on terrorism. The war should be on short-sightedness. Short-sightedness on the part of a powerful nation like the US leads to the world we live in now. As Jose Ramon-Horta, East Timorese leader, says "The US has the potential to do so some good and clearly wants to do so. It just lets the interests of a callous few control its obvious means to greater good." America should be focusing on greater endeavors than the "War on Terrorism" -- Space is one of them.
The Buddha said:
"See yourself in others. How can you do harm?"
It is hard to say that a totalitarian regime like the one in China could be more prescient than the US and realize that space is part of humanity's destiny. Maybe their understanding of intense privation has a lot to do with it. There has to be something better.
Sitting in front of a computer for 12 hours a day is 'less a "sedentary lifestyle"'?
The word sedentary is derived from the Latin sedentarius -- the present participle of the verb "to sit." There is this thing called a dictionary, use it. Yes, they are available online, but guess what, they also comes as books. You remember books don't you? I shudder to think what your life was like before computers.
I won't even touch the "more productive" assertion, because on/. there are people who actually think that banding together to assaut a keep on Dark Ages of Camelot is a productive endeavor. The mere fact that I know that DAOC exists makes me think Ted Kaczinsky was more correct than we know (except for the killings, of course.)
The long and short of your tirade is this: you can sit and be productive. The two processes are not mutually exclusive. Duh.
BTW, my brother lives in Wellesley just down the street from Babson. He needs someone to shovel his walk and mow the grass. You can supplement your "non-sedentarian," yet somehow still "sitting" lifestyle if you wish.
I am preparing to leave the tech world for a while to pursue my dream of a PhD in a decidedly non-tech field, cultural geography. Sure, you can use a computer to do this sort of work, but it doesn't involve BGP flapping and hacking 200 lines of perl. One of the caveats I have received from tech friends is that moving away from the tech field, even temporarily, will kill me when I come back, if I come back. Personally, I don't think so as I will still being using the internet, blah, blah, blah. I just won't have a pager screaming all night and I won't be grepping log files for errors.
My question is this: How do you feel that your incarceration has hurt you with regard to all the new-fangled stuff that has cropped up over the last 10 or so years? Even more interesting to me is: do you think that being removed from the tech world enhances your perspective on matters or hurts it or both?
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They'd need to prove that I didn't timeshift 'em.
Which means you'd better have a damn good backup plan when they prove it. Any way you butter it, you are going to have to fight their argument.
Maybe. But again, you usually sign away any expectation of privacy by agreeing to whatever Acceptible Use Policy your University imposes. You certainly do at my school. E-mail is not private conversation (by Supreme Court ruling), why would P2P apps be such? Also these AUPs require more than Lionel Hutz to beat. We specifically state that the network is for academic purposes. Keeping 500GB of screeners is pretty tough to prove as academic in nature. Get over it. P2P apps exist to trade in illegal copyright infringing media in the great part. Type "copyright free movie" in the Search and see if you get shit.
Of course, you'd have to prove that you "timeshifted" your DivX files. And if you share them via P2P you are violating the copyright of the shows. Illegal! As for hacking your grades, that's between you and the Lawd.
If they had any brains at all there would be a huge student rally this weekend to protest this.
To paraphrase Nietzsche, you are assuming something.
Also, if an unjust war against a defenseless enemy won't get them out in the snow of Laramie, this sure as fuck won't.
Wrong. Universities lustily call themselves ISPs. It keeps them from being liable for little turd burglars trading music on their network. They just turn the twerps after the abuse becomes egregious over to the RIAA or whoever. Meets the "adequate effort" test for the RIAA. As for the 1974 Educational Privacy Act, being an ISP exempts you from the little thieves hiding behind the University's skirts. A killer DivX collection is not the same as a your grades. One is obtained legally, the other is not. You make the call.
At our university you promise to not engage in criminal conduct on the University network. Sharing movies illegally (now that is unequivocally illegal) breaks the AUP and you have no expectation to privacy while committing a crime, do you? Does a burglar have the right to privacy when he discovers that he was caught with a surveillance camera in your house?
When will people realize that "slippery slopes" arguments are, by definition, illogical? Grrrr.
Of course, I didn't read the article. If one reads the articles posted here how could one possible have time to reply to assholes like you!
and whether or not they asked for a meal without pork.
Well, that covers Muslims and Jews! See, Bush is the great bringer together guy!
Nope. Kids sign the right away to do illegal shit and hide from behind the University's skirts in our AUP at my University. The Privacy act is meant to protect their grades, not conduct. You are acting as an ISP not as the University of Whatever. Trust me. I've seen a little warez twerp-thief try to hide behind FERPA and get burned.
And then what? Everyone's account gets deleted? They close up all the servers and start developing a new game?
Of course, Egypt has hung around now for something on the order fo 5000 years....
"After yelling at the IT department for half the day"
You were added to the watch list and the administrators went about doing something more important.
Responsebase, one of the most repugnant spammers, operates openly out of San Diego, CA. They just switch SMTP relay names and net blocks to thwart ORDBs and such. Not all are "off-shore."
until someone ferrets out the big business interests behind spam, nothing will be done about it. I know this sounds like a conspiracy theory, but there has been no effective (US) legislation against spam. Whenever you see toothless legislation, you need to look for the parties pulling the teeth. Who are they? Are there people lobbying against making spam illegal? Why? It is important to remember that spam is not a free speech issue. The Supreme Court has said, back in 1970, that we can not be compelled to hear speech in our own homes. Maybe that is testable, but let's get a law on the books that flushes out the spammers and, more importantly, the parties willing to do amicus briefs for them.
Lucasfilm has broken ground on the new $300 million special effects campus that he hopes will help...
Heh. Wonder what the anti-trust settlement would be like? Arm here. Leg there. Lots of Baby Egos running around wiping their asses with our dork dollars.
One of the reasons that bootleggers of live recordings don't get too much trouble is the extraordinary lengths that they go to to get the recording. It is just hard as shit to make a clear recording of of a live performance with equipment that you have to smuggle in yourself. This is why, for the most part, the industry doesn't get bent out of shape about it to the degree they do with stealing music with P2P.
For example, I was a huge Cure fan as a kid. I got to know this nice couple from Chapel Hill who I would saw repeatedly at 4 or 5 shows on the "Kiss Me" tour (1987 or so) The wife loved the Cure but she was confined to a wheelchair. Later, while in college in 1989, I saw the Cure at Cameron Indoor Stadium at Duke (no, I didn't go to Duke). There was that same couple. But then I saw the couple in the mid-90s at a mall in Greensboro, NC. Guess what? She was walking along just fine. The wheelchair was a ruse.
The fine print: they were pulling the oldest trick in the book (or the most creative). They had rigged her wheelchair as a portable 16-track recording studio and would get perfect recordings. Why? Handicapped people get prime seats with clear sight (and sound lines). It's good PR. No shit. I am sure that this gig has been pulled by a lot of people, but the point is that this required fuck-all creativity and time to wire up a wheelchair like that.
So why were they doing it? Profit, of course. But they had also cultivated some friendships with artists who appreciated that their recordings were often the only good chroicles of forgotten performances -- some of which are brilliant. I think this may have been a reason why they got a free pass from the bands on pirating. The market for The Cure: Live at Cameron Indoor is pretty slim. BTW, I got about 20 live shots on DAT from them for 100 bucks. That's not a money maker at all.
The point of this is: What will the artists think about this practice? I think that they wouldn't give as much a shit about the mom-and-pops as they would Clear Channel if they don't get a cut from Clear Channel. Odds are: they get their cut.
OK. So this thing is blacker than Dick Cheney's heart, but I have a serious question. First, I know shit little about physics (but plenty about what-not, what? what?). So, can a super black material attract light just by being super black? I mean, if the light is not directly shined upon it, then does a super black material pull "indirect" light toward it? I await your answers/flames/non-sequiturs with baited breath.
Actually, it is the users. I found refuge in the Buddha 2 years ago and since that time I have learned to see myself in others. I can do no harm (or really try not to). Because I cannot possibly change someone who makes a statement like "Now I have a man on the inside." I must leave the situation. My own actions with that woman were to help her, because I remember all the times I have needed help -- even with computers. But when I gently corrected her and told her to call the HelpDesk from now on, she turned on me. This person lives as if her actions have no consequences. This is someone who lives life unintentionally. By turning her in to her supervisor, I afforded her the chance to see that actions have outcomes. The Wheel of the Dharma turned a little. Karma (in our lifes, not slashdot) is not a good or bad thing. It just is. It is the absence of Karma that precipitates unintentional living.
Nope. Mozilla, Opera, Safari, etc work with the site. It is IE 5.5 SP2 that doesn't.
Grammar Nazi cheap shot: I hope you won't be teaching English.
Not my native language and Slashdot is a grammar-free zone. Just as Taco.
Innuendo (and keeping with the Grammar Nazi theme)
I'd rather do that for free, then deal with people who call the keyboard: "the thingy."
Self-pitying jab
I work at a University as well. I pity you. It is your life though -- one second at a time.
Boring observation
See the innuendo reply. Again, I'd rather teach intro classes for 10 bucks an hour, doing what I want to do, then deal with users.
I've been coding professionally for ten years. I am "successful" in my career. But I've found my day job unfulfilling for years, and as a musician I often wonder if I should follow my heart elsewhere. I imagine I'm not the only Slashdot reader who fits this description."
I have 3 months until I no longer have to deal with IT as a career again. Everytime I see these half-ass Tech School commercials on the local cable, I titter with dementia. "A fulfilling career in which you can go places!" What-fucking-ever. 9 years after stupidly volunteering for training on AIX, I am getting my terminal degree and heading to the promised land -- academia -- to do what I have always dream of.
It is difficult to express how jaded I am with the tech industry and to be honest my feelings really have little to do with my peers (who work their asses off and get no credit) but with PHBs and, most of all, users. Just before typing this post, I got off the phone with a woman who bypassed the helpdesk and sussed out (somehow) that I was the person responsible for a part of our web services platform. Of course, the problem had nothing to do with what I was responsible for. She was using an old version of IE which didn't support something in the interface. If she had called the helpdesk, she would have been told the same thing by a person who would have known instantly what the problem was. It took me 30 minutes (read $15 of taxpayer money) to figure this out simply because I am not familiar with the problem. Why did she bypass the helpdesk? Well, they cut a ticket on each call and track users and their recurring problems. In other words, they do their jobs. I asked why this was a problem. "They don't like to talk to me." A quick search shows hundreds of calls in the past year from this person. I told her that my help was a one time shot and she needed to call the helpdesk from now on. She got all pissed and said "No. Now I have a man on the inside." Fuck that. Found her supervisor and put her ass on notice. I am tired of being a bitch to people who couldn't fuck their way out of a wet paper bag.
I know. My mistake was helping her in the first place, but do you just stomp past the reception desk at the emergency room and demand that a doctor fix your hangnail? No.
So I am going to do something interesting that doesn't pay shit and is low-tech and let's me hide for 3 months of the year -- college professor.
Don't worry about being unpatriotic. This is the problem with America hit right on the nose. Profit rather than success and a sense of history is the motive for our endeavors. Rather, we equate profit with success. Every major religion points out that long term success is not found in riches, but in collective memory. Forget the war on terrorism. The war should be on short-sightedness. Short-sightedness on the part of a powerful nation like the US leads to the world we live in now. As Jose Ramon-Horta, East Timorese leader, says "The US has the potential to do so some good and clearly wants to do so. It just lets the interests of a callous few control its obvious means to greater good." America should be focusing on greater endeavors than the "War on Terrorism" -- Space is one of them.
The Buddha said:
"See yourself in others. How can you do harm?"
It is hard to say that a totalitarian regime like the one in China could be more prescient than the US and realize that space is part of humanity's destiny. Maybe their understanding of intense privation has a lot to do with it. There has to be something better.
Episode III: I wipe my ass with your money.
Sitting in front of a computer for 12 hours a day is 'less a "sedentary lifestyle"'?
/. there are people who actually think that banding together to assaut a keep on Dark Ages of Camelot is a productive endeavor. The mere fact that I know that DAOC exists makes me think Ted Kaczinsky was more correct than we know (except for the killings, of course.)
The word sedentary is derived from the Latin sedentarius -- the present participle of the verb "to sit." There is this thing called a dictionary, use it. Yes, they are available online, but guess what, they also comes as books. You remember books don't you? I shudder to think what your life was like before computers.
I won't even touch the "more productive" assertion, because on
The long and short of your tirade is this: you can sit and be productive. The two processes are not mutually exclusive. Duh.
BTW, my brother lives in Wellesley just down the street from Babson. He needs someone to shovel his walk and mow the grass. You can supplement your "non-sedentarian," yet somehow still "sitting" lifestyle if you wish.
I am preparing to leave the tech world for a while to pursue my dream of a PhD in a decidedly non-tech field, cultural geography. Sure, you can use a computer to do this sort of work, but it doesn't involve BGP flapping and hacking 200 lines of perl. One of the caveats I have received from tech friends is that moving away from the tech field, even temporarily, will kill me when I come back, if I come back. Personally, I don't think so as I will still being using the internet, blah, blah, blah. I just won't have a pager screaming all night and I won't be grepping log files for errors.
My question is this: How do you feel that your incarceration has hurt you with regard to all the new-fangled stuff that has cropped up over the last 10 or so years? Even more interesting to me is: do you think that being removed from the tech world enhances your perspective on matters or hurts it or both?