Arguing about hardware is moot. You got it right: Software drives everything.
The next big app may not even run on our 60year old VonNeuman machines. Nobody knows. Nobody should care. It will happen no matter what anyone plans or anyone says.
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And HP issued a rebate (for the entire price) last year because their first year's batch of external CDROM writers would not work. Refunding the whole price makes a lot of sense. (Except in the case of HP they made out like bandits --- I and some colleagues at a prior firm purchased a few for the office. By the time the rebates came out we had already abandoned the machines and as is the case with most large corporate American businesses, no one has bothered to redeem the rebate. So HP got off scott free.)
Heck, we even bought some Zip drives and I know no one is going to request a rebate at that firm. Iomega knows it will only get requests from a few users.
In any case, my only real point is this: Zip technology is very yesterday and proprietery. Anyone in their right mind today would instead buy a CDRW unit with rewritable CDs.
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Was that many users could never get the damn drivers to work on their laptops. At least that was the case through 1998 when I finaly gave up. Too hit or miss for my taste.
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If you allow that ideas and sounds can be owned, then you acknowledge that there is a risk of it being stolen. It is only a matter of interpretation in the gray zone how far you push police involvement. Remember, the folks with the money will always have an enforcement voice that is louder than anyone else's.
Music is sound. Someone has a right to make money off those sounds? (Keyword here being right, not just opportunity.)
This world brought to you courtesy of the state recognized intellectual monopoly known as copyright.
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Anyone that buys into the misconception of government enforced intellectual monopolies (ie, I own these thoughts and the police will back me up) have already weakened their ability to argue against these jack-booted contraband raids.
Wake up people: this is the natural evolution of recognizing sounds and ideas as something that can be stolen.
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It is really just a matter of time. Am I the only lazy slob on that site that gets the impression some of the less than hot pictures were not posted with the permission of the person displayed?
I saw one today of a young Indian woman with painted on mustache (clearly a PCPAINTBRUSH caliber touchup). Other pictures are just so ugly you know they were posted by mean people for unfriendly reasons.
What are the precedents for defamation like this? Can the publisher (ie HotOrNot) be liable?
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Why are we looking at this site as if it is a good example of anything except how to get lots of web traffic? Either the open source technology they are using sucks (god forbid) or they way they are using it sucks. Am I the only one that got "access forbidden" while rating pictures and other such embarrassing errors?
This is not a showcase any tool author should point to and say "see they created this sh*t using my stuff!"
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They are all coming home anyways. It is only a question of when.
My guess he is going to be very pissed off no matter what: The carelessness of Chinese pilot busted his spy-chariot and in doing so has cast suspicion on the US pilot's qualifications to fly a $500,000,000 spy plane. The US pilot is probably already fuming thinking about the mess the Chinese Military has personally caused him.
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1. The US plane was on autopilot.
2. The Chinese plane flew into the US plane. (Not the other way around.)
3. The other Chinese pilot reacted by asking for permission to shoot down the US craft.
4. He was not given authorization, but was ordered to force it to land at the now famous Chinese island.
5. Two more fighter craft joined the first to ensure the US plane could not get away.
What everybody already knows...
1. The Chinese are holding the 24 Americans as prisoners/hostages.
2. The Chinese got what they wanted: the US technology.
What I think...
1. China is angry for the US bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade last year. (And they should be angry -- even the US sincerely and exuberantly apologized because it was wrong.)
2. China owes the US an apology because there is no excuse for what they have done here.
3. We are witnessing the actions of a two-armed government that is not accountable to its own people and now feels strong enough not to worry about perceptions outside its borders either.
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Aint gonna be no unified front (there never is) and with this economy all the leverage is on the employer's side.
The only real way for everyone to win is to remove these insane laws that give intellectual monopolies in the first place. All these other problems are just side-effects of that failed concept.
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I give you this: Bad things have always happened and always will. Since that is the case, is there any point to trying to control anything?
My point is this: There is a cause and effect that goes on between letting small things decay that leads toward larger things decaying.
The challenge in the 21st century is that it is now much easier to pollute young minds with the misconception that everything is okay than it was before easy access to mass media.
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And watch society decline. Yup, it is that simple and we are seeing it now. Without the prudish opressions of shame and community expectations we start to see what we see today: Kids shooting kids and feeling justified they did so, young men blowing up federal buildings with daycares inside and feeling justified they did so, MTV bands blowing chunks from their arsses on the audience and feeling good about it.
Heck the MTV thing even sounds funny to me. This is plain sick. The medicine is enforcement of limits.
The FCC is one of USA's minimal limiting agents. And perhaps that is as far as government should be expected to reach. However, if USA attempts any less censorship control, we can expect less self control from future generations. (Yes, I think there is a link.)
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Let everyone watch. The argument for them being allowed in the US (they are already in use in Baltimore for several years so far) has been that there is no right to privacy in public places. Ok. That is true. Let's make these things web cams. Let everyone see whats going on in the parks and streets. I'm for that one.
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what was the cost of the work that went into confirming that he did indeed ONLY do what he claimed?
I think that is the best argument in the world against folks doing things like what Randall admits he did. Is every hacker benevolent just because he says so? Let's be more real than that.
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XML is a much better place to start because it already tunnels through HTTP (port 80). All that remains to do is establish a parser on the server side and a parser on the client side to convert the traffic back into TCP/IP.
But no matter what the approach, the overhead would mean this is only useful when all options have been exhausted. (e.g., You have an application that goes straight TCP/IP and cant be changed AND the firewall administrator will not open another port for you.)
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Slashdot Mirror
Are you a 13 year old boy or a 12 year old boy?
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Arguing about hardware is moot. You got it right: Software drives everything.
The next big app may not even run on our 60year old VonNeuman machines. Nobody knows. Nobody should care. It will happen no matter what anyone plans or anyone says.
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Sanford and Son Jewelers.
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And HP issued a rebate (for the entire price) last year because their first year's batch of external CDROM writers would not work. Refunding the whole price makes a lot of sense. (Except in the case of HP they made out like bandits --- I and some colleagues at a prior firm purchased a few for the office. By the time the rebates came out we had already abandoned the machines and as is the case with most large corporate American businesses, no one has bothered to redeem the rebate. So HP got off scott free.)
Heck, we even bought some Zip drives and I know no one is going to request a rebate at that firm. Iomega knows it will only get requests from a few users.
In any case, my only real point is this: Zip technology is very yesterday and proprietery. Anyone in their right mind today would instead buy a CDRW unit with rewritable CDs.
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Was that many users could never get the damn drivers to work on their laptops. At least that was the case through 1998 when I finaly gave up. Too hit or miss for my taste.
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easy to see your point: raids are just another enforcement tool.
Exactly!
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If you allow that ideas and sounds can be owned, then you acknowledge that there is a risk of it being stolen. It is only a matter of interpretation in the gray zone how far you push police involvement. Remember, the folks with the money will always have an enforcement voice that is louder than anyone else's.
Music is sound. Someone has a right to make money off those sounds? (Keyword here being right, not just opportunity.)
This world brought to you courtesy of the state recognized intellectual monopoly known as copyright.
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~~ the real world is much simpler ~~
Anyone that buys into the misconception of government enforced intellectual monopolies (ie, I own these thoughts and the police will back me up) have already weakened their ability to argue against these jack-booted contraband raids.
Wake up people: this is the natural evolution of recognizing sounds and ideas as something that can be stolen.
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It is really just a matter of time. Am I the only lazy slob on that site that gets the impression some of the less than hot pictures were not posted with the permission of the person displayed?
I saw one today of a young Indian woman with painted on mustache (clearly a PCPAINTBRUSH caliber touchup). Other pictures are just so ugly you know they were posted by mean people for unfriendly reasons.
What are the precedents for defamation like this? Can the publisher (ie HotOrNot) be liable?
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~~ the real world is much simpler ~~
Why are we looking at this site as if it is a good example of anything except how to get lots of web traffic? Either the open source technology they are using sucks (god forbid) or they way they are using it sucks. Am I the only one that got "access forbidden" while rating pictures and other such embarrassing errors?
This is not a showcase any tool author should point to and say "see they created this sh*t using my stuff!"
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There is a niche interest in online broadcasts, but most large company's have firewalls that block them and the quality can be poor.
Until IP multicasting comes about, quality of streaming media will remain poor and will suck up a disproportionate amount of backbone bandwidth.
I see this netcasting halt as temporary and good. In the meanwhile we will all get a little more bandwidth to download our slashdot pages quicker.
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Thanks to lawyers most of the organizations I've been a part of have a policy of shredding all paperwork after 7 years. Not a lot of history there.
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They are all coming home anyways. It is only a question of when.
My guess he is going to be very pissed off no matter what: The carelessness of Chinese pilot busted his spy-chariot and in doing so has cast suspicion on the US pilot's qualifications to fly a $500,000,000 spy plane. The US pilot is probably already fuming thinking about the mess the Chinese Military has personally caused him.
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Some folks still don't seem to know...
1. The US plane was on autopilot.
2. The Chinese plane flew into the US plane. (Not the other way around.)
3. The other Chinese pilot reacted by asking for permission to shoot down the US craft.
4. He was not given authorization, but was ordered to force it to land at the now famous Chinese island.
5. Two more fighter craft joined the first to ensure the US plane could not get away.
What everybody already knows...
1. The Chinese are holding the 24 Americans as prisoners/hostages.
2. The Chinese got what they wanted: the US technology.
What I think...
1. China is angry for the US bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade last year. (And they should be angry -- even the US sincerely and exuberantly apologized because it was wrong.)
2. China owes the US an apology because there is no excuse for what they have done here.
3. We are witnessing the actions of a two-armed government that is not accountable to its own people and now feels strong enough not to worry about perceptions outside its borders either.
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The american pilot was not skilled enough to keep control of his aircraft
Very creative thinking but the US pilot might not find that very acceptable or accurate.
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Here is an example where the author of a terrific product was stopped from expanding on his creation because (this part is funny) he did not own it.
How much do we lose so that companies can extract royalties? In a world without monoply rights these things do not happen.
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Aint gonna be no unified front (there never is) and with this economy all the leverage is on the employer's side.
The only real way for everyone to win is to remove these insane laws that give intellectual monopolies in the first place. All these other problems are just side-effects of that failed concept.
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His 1997 conviction for hacker their ship control systems with a powerbook.
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I give you this: Bad things have always happened and always will. Since that is the case, is there any point to trying to control anything?
My point is this: There is a cause and effect that goes on between letting small things decay that leads toward larger things decaying.
The challenge in the 21st century is that it is now much easier to pollute young minds with the misconception that everything is okay than it was before easy access to mass media.
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And watch society decline. Yup, it is that simple and we are seeing it now. Without the prudish opressions of shame and community expectations we start to see what we see today: Kids shooting kids and feeling justified they did so, young men blowing up federal buildings with daycares inside and feeling justified they did so, MTV bands blowing chunks from their arsses on the audience and feeling good about it.
Heck the MTV thing even sounds funny to me. This is plain sick. The medicine is enforcement of limits.
The FCC is one of USA's minimal limiting agents. And perhaps that is as far as government should be expected to reach. However, if USA attempts any less censorship control, we can expect less self control from future generations. (Yes, I think there is a link.)
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Let everyone watch. The argument for them being allowed in the US (they are already in use in Baltimore for several years so far) has been that there is no right to privacy in public places. Ok. That is true. Let's make these things web cams. Let everyone see whats going on in the parks and streets. I'm for that one.
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He got caught shoplifting and then said "I was just gonna show you how easy it was to steal stuff. Honest."
He is real sorry he got caught. That does not mean he should not be punished.
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what was the cost of the work that went into confirming that he did indeed ONLY do what he claimed?
I think that is the best argument in the world against folks doing things like what Randall admits he did. Is every hacker benevolent just because he says so? Let's be more real than that.
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XML is a much better place to start because it already tunnels through HTTP (port 80). All that remains to do is establish a parser on the server side and a parser on the client side to convert the traffic back into TCP/IP.
But no matter what the approach, the overhead would mean this is only useful when all options have been exhausted. (e.g., You have an application that goes straight TCP/IP and cant be changed AND the firewall administrator will not open another port for you.)
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Didn't the European Union institute some pretty severe restrictions on the selling of personal information a few years ago?
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