I guess you dont get that these "old guys" do go
to court,and come out again unscathed.Amazing to me.
Shouldn't be that amazing. It's pretty simple: The people who get hit with $100000 fines are not placed on the list of "old guys who come out unscathed."
I can come up with a short list of people who have committed murder and not been prosecuted; does that mean that you should feel free to go out committing murders without fear of punishment?
Some people get lucky. There are a lot of people. You will probably not be the lucky one. The lucky ones become famous.
Actually since the US average salary is around $20,000 it would be the equivalent of $213/month.
Notice where I wrote "household income"?
Of course, either way this is a flawed argument because the guy who makes the average in either country isn't probably buying this type of service.
It's the best argument that can be made without detailed breakdowns of income segment size. It establishes a basis for comparison.
The average daytime max temperature in New York in January is 3C and the average daytime max in Bangkok that month is 31C. Would you say that a comparison based on those stats is flawed, because in fact that particular temperature is only reached for a small part of the day? I'd say it still tells us quite a bit about the relative climates in the two places.
Apple-Click : Opens a link in a new tab.
Apple-Shift-Click : Opens a link in a new tab and selects it.
Apple-Option-Click : Opens a link in a new window behind the other one.
Apple-Option-Shift-Click : Opens a link in a new window and selects it.
Okay, now tell me how to get from one tab to another with the keyboard.
All these residential users should be using their ISP as a relay. That's what the ISP is there for.
I have Verizon DSL. Their relay won't let me send mail with any return address other than @verizon.net. That's completely useless, so I don't use it. Are you honestly saying that all broadband customers should restrict their email addresses to those assigned by their bandwidth providers?
the cost of cd stamping, printing, assembling, and distribution I have heard is around 2.00 a CD in reasonable volume. most CD's at stores I go to cost around 13 to 16 dollors.
Just as a point of reference, pirated CDs in Vietnam currently go for about 10000 dong, which is US$0.65. The CDs themselves and liner notes are printed in 4-color, though they're sealed in plastic bags rather than in jewel cases.
This is retail, and you'll find these prices in some of the more expensive areas of Saigon (thus of the entire country) where labor and rent are much higher than average.
MacOS X is already arguably light years behind Linux as a desktop OS
And you are arguably light years behind on your psychiatric medication.
I use Linux on the desktop at work and OSX at home. Other than supporting a better web browser (Galeon), Linux is a pale shadow of OSX in every single way when it comes to usability and GUI integration.
It's funny how rediculous that is. The seller sets the price for his merchandise. The buyer buys it, or he doesn't. "Well, I wouldn't have bought it anyway" doesn't give the buyer the right to just take it for free.
You've accidentally confused physical property with copyrighted materials.
The basis used by the RIAA for calculating damages in all these cases is fundamentally absurd. They take the number of copies, multiply by the highest recent retail they can find, and draw a big red circle around the result.
In order to accurately estimate the true damages, a little flashback to microeconomics class is in order.
Recall that for the combination of any given product and any given consumer, there is a price below which the consumer will buy it (sometimes that price will be zero or lower, but there is a price).
There is also a price below which the seller will not sell it.
The space between these two prices is where purchase transactions are viable.
So, in order to calculate the losses, we need two things:
The minimum price acceptable to the seller (sometimes called the reserve price)
The maximum price acceptable to the potential buyers
The second of these is naturally much more complicated. Different buyers have different price thresholds. Across a population, the aggregate of these prices can be approximated with a function (I'll spare the math). This function can be estimated by using price elasticity data that sellers accumulate as part of their normal market analysis. Of course, it differs in different demographics so it's important to use a demographic that matches the arena in which the pirated material is distributed.
Once you have these two things, you can calculate the real losses quite simply. Say there were 1000 copies of something that the seller was willing to discount to $20 and had never sold for more than $30. Say further that the buyer curve for the distribution demographic was nice and simple, ranging from $0 to $50, with 80% below $20. Treating everything higher than $30 as $30 (since that's the highest price the product had been available for), you'd get something like $5000 in actual losses (forgive me, my back-of-the-napkin calculus is not good).
Meanwhile, the RIAA would claim that the loss was $30000, 6 times higher than reality.
The difference is explained by copies in the hands of people who would not have otherwise bought the product for a price at which the manufacturer was willing to sell it, and which therefore do not represent a legitimate market.
1. Get Vonage. VoIP that will let you have a local area code to new york and you can use over your broadband connection in any state.
Not only any state. I've used Vonage in Central America and Europe. You can take off to the Bahamas and nobody will be the wiser. Just find a hotel with broadband in the rooms (not hard these days) and bring your wi-fi gear so you can plug in the Vonage box at the pool (ask for a room with a view of the pool, and there's always a power outlet down there somewhere). Somewhere I have some photos of myself doing just that. They made it back to the office and there was much amusement all around.
2.)Leave. I may be the only one, but it just drove me NUTS to have to work at home all day, then go outside my office and say, "Honey, I'm home!" I would reccomend, nutty as it sounds, gettingn in your car and driving to the 7-11 for a coffee in the morning, go to starbucks for a break in the afternoon. I would try and arrange errands to bracket my working day, so there would be a fixed beginning and end.
I agree wholeheartedly (except the driving part, you should walk or bike somewhere to get your body going). When I worked from home for a year, I found it didn't really click until I gave myself a fake "commute" of a nice 1-mile walk to the park and back. Once I returned from the park, I started straight into work. Without doing that, I (a) felt groggy all day from the lack of a bit of morning stimulation, and (b) sort of puttered around doing housey things because there wasn't any demarcation between bed and work.
4.)Count your blessings. New York company willing to let you work from home in this market? You sir, are very good, or very lucky, or both. Kudos!
Well, they can probably pay him less.
Personally, the dream arrangement for me would be working from home, but with home being New York and the job being elsewhere. Taking a job in New York but staying in North Carolina? That'd be like if a supermodel asked you out on a date, and you suggest that instead, you could have phone sex with her while you're sitting out in the barn fondling a sheep.
I am inclined to argue that there is a finite number of vulnerabilities, and that the number of them which are reasonably and profitably located and exploited is particularly limited.
If that's the case, the two of us should stop wasting time posting on Slashdot and just quickly fix them all.
Running a wider array of software on the root nameservers is still almost certainly a Good Thing , and decreases the probability than all of the servers will be prone to any given vulnerability -- but also increases the probability that a vulnerability will be found such that some subset of the servers is prone.
Unless you can argue that there is a finite number of potential vulnerabilities, and that the number is sufficiently small that they are well within the capacity of attackers to exhaustively exploit, I'm not sure how well your logic bears out. This multiplicative math only works with known/finite probabilities.
It could well be argued that there is a near-infinite supply of potential vulnerabilities, and that X cracking effort yields N holes. In this scenario it the overall chance of any single compromise doesn't increase with the diversity of products. But the susceptibility of the entire system to any given attack does decrease. That makes this change a win.
So what do we see? A new window takes up around 3MB. Is this "uneconomical", like you say? No, I rarely have more than 4-5 windows open so this is merely a drop in the water. Memory is cheap these days you know...
Depends on how you browse. Between my workspaces and windows, I have over 50 Galeon tabs open at the moment on this Linux machine. It's using 62M of RAM. I could close a few of them without loss to productivity, but not many.
Open two windows. Try dragging a tab from one window to another. [...] Try reordering tabs within a window. [...] Try taking two windows and combining them into one with two tabs. Can't do it!
Doesn't work in Mozilla. Works in Phoenix
They work in Galeon as well. Always gets me when I leave work (where I use Galeon) and go home (where I use Chimera, and those things don't work).
You would have to be the Incredible Hulk to switch the batteries, and you would be taking the risk that you get some beat to hell batteries back, sorta like those propane tank exchange services. All the tanks in the lockers are beat to hell, and doing the exchange costs 2-3 times of just going to get the tank refilled. I think you would find the same problem with the battery exchange idea
I don't think it's that impractical. A loading mechanism could be built that quickly inserts and removes the batteries. And with a credit card deposit or whatever you could "guarantee" that the batteries you traded in were in good working order - I am sure that the charging mechanism could detect that somehow before they were handed out to the next customer.
Ye gods, that's a crisis! Imagine having to go down the street forwards, while all those other lucky bastards are spending most of their time walking backwards.
I have seen video of Dean Kamen zipping around in his kitchen on a Segway grabbing things from the fridge and the cupboards, etc. Try that on a moped or a bicycle.
Why on earth would I want to?
It is incorrect to say that a moped can do everything a Segway can do, just as it would be inocrrect to say a Segway can do anything a moped could do.
Fair enough. Mopeds can do everything useful that a Segway can do.
The IRA changed a lot from the inception to the Good Friday Agreement. After Sinn Fein was officially a force in Ireland, the IRA became mostly obsolete. In fact, many would argue that after the War of Independance that the IRA should have retired at that point, I don't so much agree with that though. As for you calling me a PBS viewer, you want me to start talking in Gaeilge?
Nà bac leis. The discussion grows tedious. We'll just have to disagree.
Um, my point is that the sectarian schism predated and underlines the terrorist movement. You can claim that all was forgiven and all wounds healed before the IRA formed, but it won't be very convincing.
I lived in the UK during the Canary Wharf attack, when the IRA was the centerpiece of every conversation, and have a good many Irish friends, who will talk about this stuff forever. I'm going to have to say I'm more likely to believe them than a PBS viewer who thinks that history is context-free.
If it was about religion, you wouldn't see Protestants and Catholics getting along in Dublin or Cork.
Now we're back to logic class. The existence of Catholics and Protestants who get along does not mean that their different religions can't be the cause of conflict elsewhere or in other times. Likewise the existence of Muslims who are amiable towards the west does not mean that al Qaeda doesn't have an axe to grind.
Sorry, the IRA was originally started to gain the independance of Ireland from the British. It wasn't until much, much later in the history of the IRA that religion even became a factor.
Better read those history books. It was religious from day one. Catholics weren't even allowed to vote as Union was originally structured. The Protestant authorities feared domination by the much more rapidly-growing Catholic population (thank the Pope for that!). In Ulster, the violence really began in the 1810s when Protestant groups marched through Catholic neighborhoods. By the 1830s segregation was almost complete, and we all know what happened from there.
Fact is, religion is used to create divides between groups of people where they otherwise wouldn't exist. Other tactics can be used for this too, but they have rational bases (economic and social differences) and therefore are more likely to find rational expression.
Saying "Islam breeds terrorism" and "religion breeds terrorism" are basically on the same level: most religious people aren't terrorists, and most Islamic people aren't either. It's kind of like saying "black people cause crime" simply because there are more black criminals than white in places like the United States. Sure, it's true in that a given person being black might make them somewhat more likely to be a criminal, statistically speaking, but the overall probability is quite low either way, and it hardly gets at the root of the problem, now does it?
Saying "Apples grow on trees" is almost perfectly accurate, just as is saying "religion breeds terrorism." Almost all terrorism is perpetrated in the name of, or as a result of divides created by, religion.
Saying "Apples grow on trees in Washington State" is less accurate, as is saying "Islam breeds terrorism." It implies that only Washington state trees can grow apples.
WTF kind of sig is that? If it were "Islam breeds terrorism" you would be labeled as a bigot. Using the even broader word "Religion" just makes you an even bigger bigot.
Au contraire. Saying "Islam breeds terrorism" would be bigoted because it would require pointedly ignoring the fact that terrorism is in no way limited to Islam.
Religion as a whole, on the other hand, is responsible for the vast majority of terrorism and has been throughout history. Terrorism is irrational behavior that only thrives in the context of irrational worldviews.
Now, if they could could just get rid of whitehouse.com, I'd have a lot more respect for the American government!
I have a lot of respect for them because they haven't. The domain was registered, fair and square. Only a very petty government would try to take it away.
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Shouldn't be that amazing. It's pretty simple: The people who get hit with $100000 fines are not placed on the list of "old guys who come out unscathed."
I can come up with a short list of people who have committed murder and not been prosecuted; does that mean that you should feel free to go out committing murders without fear of punishment?
Some people get lucky. There are a lot of people. You will probably not be the lucky one. The lucky ones become famous.
Notice where I wrote "household income"?
It's the best argument that can be made without detailed breakdowns of income segment size. It establishes a basis for comparison.
The average daytime max temperature in New York in January is 3C and the average daytime max in Bangkok that month is 31C. Would you say that a comparison based on those stats is flawed, because in fact that particular temperature is only reached for a small part of the day? I'd say it still tells us quite a bit about the relative climates in the two places.
Typical household income is about $1500/year. So that's like someone in the US paying $500/month for DSL.
I think you're missing his point. Opera inserts extra ads of its own in the top of the window (unless you pay for the adless version).
Okay, now tell me how to get from one tab to another with the keyboard.
I have Verizon DSL. Their relay won't let me send mail with any return address other than @verizon.net. That's completely useless, so I don't use it. Are you honestly saying that all broadband customers should restrict their email addresses to those assigned by their bandwidth providers?
Just as a point of reference, pirated CDs in Vietnam currently go for about 10000 dong, which is US$0.65. The CDs themselves and liner notes are printed in 4-color, though they're sealed in plastic bags rather than in jewel cases.
This is retail, and you'll find these prices in some of the more expensive areas of Saigon (thus of the entire country) where labor and rent are much higher than average.
And you are arguably light years behind on your psychiatric medication.
I use Linux on the desktop at work and OSX at home. Other than supporting a better web browser (Galeon), Linux is a pale shadow of OSX in every single way when it comes to usability and GUI integration.
You've accidentally confused physical property with copyrighted materials.
The basis used by the RIAA for calculating damages in all these cases is fundamentally absurd. They take the number of copies, multiply by the highest recent retail they can find, and draw a big red circle around the result.
In order to accurately estimate the true damages, a little flashback to microeconomics class is in order.
Recall that for the combination of any given product and any given consumer, there is a price below which the consumer will buy it (sometimes that price will be zero or lower, but there is a price).
There is also a price below which the seller will not sell it.
The space between these two prices is where purchase transactions are viable.
So, in order to calculate the losses, we need two things:
The second of these is naturally much more complicated. Different buyers have different price thresholds. Across a population, the aggregate of these prices can be approximated with a function (I'll spare the math). This function can be estimated by using price elasticity data that sellers accumulate as part of their normal market analysis. Of course, it differs in different demographics so it's important to use a demographic that matches the arena in which the pirated material is distributed.
Once you have these two things, you can calculate the real losses quite simply. Say there were 1000 copies of something that the seller was willing to discount to $20 and had never sold for more than $30. Say further that the buyer curve for the distribution demographic was nice and simple, ranging from $0 to $50, with 80% below $20. Treating everything higher than $30 as $30 (since that's the highest price the product had been available for), you'd get something like $5000 in actual losses (forgive me, my back-of-the-napkin calculus is not good).
Meanwhile, the RIAA would claim that the loss was $30000, 6 times higher than reality.
The difference is explained by copies in the hands of people who would not have otherwise bought the product for a price at which the manufacturer was willing to sell it, and which therefore do not represent a legitimate market.
Not only any state. I've used Vonage in Central America and Europe. You can take off to the Bahamas and nobody will be the wiser. Just find a hotel with broadband in the rooms (not hard these days) and bring your wi-fi gear so you can plug in the Vonage box at the pool (ask for a room with a view of the pool, and there's always a power outlet down there somewhere). Somewhere I have some photos of myself doing just that. They made it back to the office and there was much amusement all around.
I agree wholeheartedly (except the driving part, you should walk or bike somewhere to get your body going). When I worked from home for a year, I found it didn't really click until I gave myself a fake "commute" of a nice 1-mile walk to the park and back. Once I returned from the park, I started straight into work. Without doing that, I (a) felt groggy all day from the lack of a bit of morning stimulation, and (b) sort of puttered around doing housey things because there wasn't any demarcation between bed and work.
Well, they can probably pay him less.
Personally, the dream arrangement for me would be working from home, but with home being New York and the job being elsewhere. Taking a job in New York but staying in North Carolina? That'd be like if a supermodel asked you out on a date, and you suggest that instead, you could have phone sex with her while you're sitting out in the barn fondling a sheep.
If that's the case, the two of us should stop wasting time posting on Slashdot and just quickly fix them all.
Unless you can argue that there is a finite number of potential vulnerabilities, and that the number is sufficiently small that they are well within the capacity of attackers to exhaustively exploit, I'm not sure how well your logic bears out. This multiplicative math only works with known/finite probabilities.
It could well be argued that there is a near-infinite supply of potential vulnerabilities, and that X cracking effort yields N holes. In this scenario it the overall chance of any single compromise doesn't increase with the diversity of products. But the susceptibility of the entire system to any given attack does decrease. That makes this change a win.
Depends on how you browse. Between my workspaces and windows, I have over 50 Galeon tabs open at the moment on this Linux machine. It's using 62M of RAM. I could close a few of them without loss to productivity, but not many.
50 * 3 = 150MB, not a trivial amount.
They work in Galeon as well. Always gets me when I leave work (where I use Galeon) and go home (where I use Chimera, and those things don't work).
I don't think it's that impractical. A loading mechanism could be built that quickly inserts and removes the batteries. And with a credit card deposit or whatever you could "guarantee" that the batteries you traded in were in good working order - I am sure that the charging mechanism could detect that somehow before they were handed out to the next customer.
Ye gods, that's a crisis! Imagine having to go down the street forwards, while all those other lucky bastards are spending most of their time walking backwards.
Why on earth would I want to?
Fair enough. Mopeds can do everything useful that a Segway can do.
Nà bac leis. The discussion grows tedious. We'll just have to disagree.
Um, my point is that the sectarian schism predated and underlines the terrorist movement. You can claim that all was forgiven and all wounds healed before the IRA formed, but it won't be very convincing.
I lived in the UK during the Canary Wharf attack, when the IRA was the centerpiece of every conversation, and have a good many Irish friends, who will talk about this stuff forever. I'm going to have to say I'm more likely to believe them than a PBS viewer who thinks that history is context-free.
Now we're back to logic class. The existence of Catholics and Protestants who get along does not mean that their different religions can't be the cause of conflict elsewhere or in other times. Likewise the existence of Muslims who are amiable towards the west does not mean that al Qaeda doesn't have an axe to grind.
Better read those history books. It was religious from day one. Catholics weren't even allowed to vote as Union was originally structured. The Protestant authorities feared domination by the much more rapidly-growing Catholic population (thank the Pope for that!). In Ulster, the violence really began in the 1810s when Protestant groups marched through Catholic neighborhoods. By the 1830s segregation was almost complete, and we all know what happened from there.
Fact is, religion is used to create divides between groups of people where they otherwise wouldn't exist. Other tactics can be used for this too, but they have rational bases (economic and social differences) and therefore are more likely to find rational expression.
The IRA is a combatant in a Catholic vs. Protestant struggle. The dividing lines are completely religious.
Saying "Apples grow on trees" is almost perfectly accurate, just as is saying "religion breeds terrorism." Almost all terrorism is perpetrated in the name of, or as a result of divides created by, religion.
Saying "Apples grow on trees in Washington State" is less accurate, as is saying "Islam breeds terrorism." It implies that only Washington state trees can grow apples.
Au contraire. Saying "Islam breeds terrorism" would be bigoted because it would require pointedly ignoring the fact that terrorism is in no way limited to Islam.
Religion as a whole, on the other hand, is responsible for the vast majority of terrorism and has been throughout history. Terrorism is irrational behavior that only thrives in the context of irrational worldviews.
I have a lot of respect for them because they haven't. The domain was registered, fair and square. Only a very petty government would try to take it away.