You know, maybe it's the other way around. When everything will be locked in and properly shut down, people will look with wonders at how I downloaded Harvey Danger's latest CD right off of the net and uploaded it on my MP3 player.
Then they'll realise there is an alternative to music produced by the Majors and maybe they will start listening to independent music. Just because that's the only music they can listen to on all their devices...
My mail comes to me through SMTP directly. I am wondering how they will keep track of my incoming mail... The mail I send, however, goes through their SMTP proxy, which is a bit of a pain but necessary because most properly configured mail servers will reject anything incoming from a DSL IP.
So how can they keep track of my gmail account? That is unless they log all the throughput of data coming in and out of my computer, of course. Now I see a legal and proper use of eDonkey: keep on downloading and uploading free software!!! That way they have LOADS of data to log.
With a bit of luck, the next DMCA will also make that illegal! What a relief for the ISPs.;(
Clearly, it is true that Firefox violates the most basic standards by omitting a well-know and widely used tag for making text better. IE integrates it since version 3, and it is rightly so that it is the best *cough* browser as of today.
MARQUEE implementation should be required before a piece of code should be called a 'browser'.
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I was wondering... Do these guys pay the slashdot editors when they release an ad like that? I would seem to be a fair deal.
The question really is: Who cares which format will prevail? I for one, don't. Very soon, most - if not all - players will play all formats available. So well, who gives a damn if it's going to be a HDDVD or a BRDVD?
Actually, it's quite the opposite. A totalitarian government such as China's is their greatest chance - economically speaking at least. They don't have to wait for a hard-to-boost democracy to vote stuff up, they can just do it. And they've perfectly understood the game of modern economics as played by capitalism.
Now from all other standpoints, the picture is different.
You think actual drives do error correction at the rate you cite? Whenever an error occurs, the rate drops by a factor of ~100, the time to retry and blah blah. The transfer rate is only good if there is no error, like on any other device.
We are not talking about the same popup. When the download popup is done, there is another one popping up, which moves the file. You can see it only if the file is quite big and your destination is on another drive than windows. If you download on your C:, of course, I don't know if the dialog is displayed at all.
The worst one is when you're downloading some stuff with IE. Hopefully this happens only once per windows install (when you download Firefox).
IE is downloading its stuff in windows temp folder. If you are unlucky and decided to save the file in another drive, at the end of the download it will move the file to wherever you wanted it. The move dialog then pops up and the selected button is... Cancel !!!
So if you happen to press Space or Enter at that time, you are in fact cancelling your download.
While I completely agree with you for mass printing, there are cases where photo printer is so much more convenient that it outweight all the drawbacks (quality and price).
Not mentionning that modern inks (at least EPSON ones) don't fade with time as much as they used to. They are actually pretty good in that regard.
But when you're in a rush, doing tests, or just printing the one picture of the day, photo printers are the right tool for the job.
Well, when I do service my car, the garage has a full access to everything in the car. They could put a tracker and I wouldn't notice it in a century.
It is a question of trust. If you decide to use their service, you will need them to have access to your pages (through JavaScript). If you don't trust them, just don't subscribe.
My DSL Provider has a lot of information about myself as well, and I trust them with it. If my trust vanished, I'd switch (well, in France you have actually a lot of choice).
The best part is: "Many bloggers fear there will be consequences for them if they are outspoken, even if it is in a nonviolent way".
People can fear what they want, I don't care. Free speech - just as everything else - has limits. And it is illegal (in France) to try to incite people to violence, specially against police, firemen, etc... These two guys deserved to go down. They did. All is well.
If only the rest of France could be that straightforward...
The question I am asking myself is: Why doesn't anyone sue Sony under the DMCA? That have clearly and alledgedly broken the very rule thay have fought so hard to make a law of: Helping people to circumvent a copy-protection device !!! For crying oyut loud, they must fall for that at least!
If anything, that would make them think about how utterly stupid these laws are.
I think you just don't get it. 1. Books that are free are out of the equation here. Nobody is blaming Google about free books. The matter at hand is books that are still under copyright. 2. Web Pages that are not "free" (as in accessible to anyone) are not indexed by Google.
So both your counterpoints are just... off-topic here. Just to get you on the right track, we are talking about Google getting sued for digitizing and indexing copyrighted books, and someone compared it to google indexing the available web sites out there.
That's where I made my point which still seems pretty valid to me.
You are quite dumb, or so it seems. If a script like that leaks on the internet, anyone can download any book from the Google catalog. I think that is pretty different from buying a scanner, an OCR and spending 3 weeks digitizing a book, don't you think?
While I am 100% pro-google-print, I think there is a HUGE difference between indexing webpages and indexing a book. Webpages (at least those indexed by Google) are all accessible for free to everyone. Books are not. You have to pay to get one (even if only a subscription to a library).
Now I am not saying that it is bad to index books. I am saying that there is a difference in the procedure.
But this was to be expected. You deprive the printing companies from a bit of their control over their content. They will fight, as RIAA and MPAA are fighting and hopefully they will lose.
That said, with a decent OCR program, it would be pretty trivial to write a script that just dumps a book from the snippets provided by Google. So there is a security issue right there.
Slashdot Mirror
You know, maybe it's the other way around. When everything will be locked in and properly shut down, people will look with wonders at how I downloaded Harvey Danger's latest CD right off of the net and uploaded it on my MP3 player.
Then they'll realise there is an alternative to music produced by the Majors and maybe they will start listening to independent music. Just because that's the only music they can listen to on all their devices...
But that's a heck of a lot of maybes...
GMail will have to provide the data
They cannot force an american company down their European laws now, can they?
My mail comes to me through SMTP directly. I am wondering how they will keep track of my incoming mail... The mail I send, however, goes through their SMTP proxy, which is a bit of a pain but necessary because most properly configured mail servers will reject anything incoming from a DSL IP.
;(
So how can they keep track of my gmail account? That is unless they log all the throughput of data coming in and out of my computer, of course. Now I see a legal and proper use of eDonkey: keep on downloading and uploading free software!!! That way they have LOADS of data to log.
With a bit of luck, the next DMCA will also make that illegal! What a relief for the ISPs.
Clearly, it is true that Firefox violates the most basic standards by omitting a well-know and widely used tag for making text better. IE integrates it since version 3, and it is rightly so that it is the best *cough* browser as of today.
MARQUEE implementation should be required before a piece of code should be called a 'browser'.
I was wondering... Do these guys pay the slashdot editors when they release an ad like that? I would seem to be a fair deal.
The question really is: Who cares which format will prevail? I for one, don't. Very soon, most - if not all - players will play all formats available. So well, who gives a damn if it's going to be a HDDVD or a BRDVD?
You're not there. real men pay others to edit their files.
;)
Of course, that would be a woman point of view, so quite absent from this website...
Actually, it's quite the opposite. A totalitarian government such as China's is their greatest chance - economically speaking at least. They don't have to wait for a hard-to-boost democracy to vote stuff up, they can just do it. And they've perfectly understood the game of modern economics as played by capitalism.
Now from all other standpoints, the picture is different.
So shut the fuck up already
There ya go: All the openness of the open source world right there in your post. Good job.
You think actual drives do error correction at the rate you cite? Whenever an error occurs, the rate drops by a factor of ~100, the time to retry and blah blah. The transfer rate is only good if there is no error, like on any other device.
I translated your post in French there : http://france.palmdrive.net/
Let me know if that is any kind of problem, I'll remove it right away.
We are not talking about the same popup. When the download popup is done, there is another one popping up, which moves the file. You can see it only if the file is quite big and your destination is on another drive than windows. If you download on your C:, of course, I don't know if the dialog is displayed at all.
The worst one is when you're downloading some stuff with IE. Hopefully this happens only once per windows install (when you download Firefox).
IE is downloading its stuff in windows temp folder. If you are unlucky and decided to save the file in another drive, at the end of the download it will move the file to wherever you wanted it. The move dialog then pops up and the selected button is... Cancel !!!
So if you happen to press Space or Enter at that time, you are in fact cancelling your download.
Just plain insane.
Nobody gives a shit about some obscure product recently reviewed
Maybe the few millions users of solaris do actually care?
Tip: What you don't care about may have some interest for someone else.
In other words: You are not the center of the world (even though it looks like it from you narrow point of view).
While I completely agree with you for mass printing, there are cases where photo printer is so much more convenient that it outweight all the drawbacks (quality and price).
Not mentionning that modern inks (at least EPSON ones) don't fade with time as much as they used to. They are actually pretty good in that regard.
But when you're in a rush, doing tests, or just printing the one picture of the day, photo printers are the right tool for the job.
until the music industry stops suing their customers
Yes, but this time, it's customers suing them!
Well, when I do service my car, the garage has a full access to everything in the car. They could put a tracker and I wouldn't notice it in a century.
... well, I think you get the point.
It is a question of trust. If you decide to use their service, you will need them to have access to your pages (through JavaScript). If you don't trust them, just don't subscribe.
My DSL Provider has a lot of information about myself as well, and I trust them with it. If my trust vanished, I'd switch (well, in France you have actually a lot of choice).
My bank
This is slashdot. It's not about accuracy.
In what is this worse? The best we can do is provide her some bandwidth to avoid being slashdotted again, but that's about it.
I am even pretty sure in a few month 90% of slashdotters will have forgotten the name of the company involved.
The best part is: "Many bloggers fear there will be consequences for them if they are outspoken, even if it is in a nonviolent way".
People can fear what they want, I don't care. Free speech - just as everything else - has limits. And it is illegal (in France) to try to incite people to violence, specially against police, firemen, etc... These two guys deserved to go down. They did. All is well.
If only the rest of France could be that straightforward...
The question I am asking myself is: Why doesn't anyone sue Sony under the DMCA? That have clearly and alledgedly broken the very rule thay have fought so hard to make a law of: Helping people to circumvent a copy-protection device !!! For crying oyut loud, they must fall for that at least!
If anything, that would make them think about how utterly stupid these laws are.
I have EAC and an old TEAC CD burner. Every copy protected CD I've thrown at it went trhough with a bunch of errors, but the WAV files play just fine.
I think you just don't get it.
1. Books that are free are out of the equation here. Nobody is blaming Google about free books. The matter at hand is books that are still under copyright.
2. Web Pages that are not "free" (as in accessible to anyone) are not indexed by Google.
So both your counterpoints are just... off-topic here. Just to get you on the right track, we are talking about Google getting sued for digitizing and indexing copyrighted books, and someone compared it to google indexing the available web sites out there.
That's where I made my point which still seems pretty valid to me.
You are quite dumb, or so it seems. If a script like that leaks on the internet, anyone can download any book from the Google catalog. I think that is pretty different from buying a scanner, an OCR and spending 3 weeks digitizing a book, don't you think?
While I am 100% pro-google-print, I think there is a HUGE difference between indexing webpages and indexing a book. Webpages (at least those indexed by Google) are all accessible for free to everyone. Books are not. You have to pay to get one (even if only a subscription to a library).
Now I am not saying that it is bad to index books. I am saying that there is a difference in the procedure.
But this was to be expected. You deprive the printing companies from a bit of their control over their content. They will fight, as RIAA and MPAA are fighting and hopefully they will lose.
That said, with a decent OCR program, it would be pretty trivial to write a script that just dumps a book from the snippets provided by Google. So there is a security issue right there.