So this isn't merely preventing the RIAA from entering the ISP's network, it's blocking any customer access to the RIAA site. What if I want to read what the RIAA has to say about a topic? The ISP has decided what the customer can and cannot read.
I understand your point, but I don't see this as censorship. Why? Because the ISP is blocking a malicious user (or one who threatens to be) from interacting with that ISP's equipment. Think of the ISP as a restaurant and the RIAA as an irate customer, threatening to march in and kick over the tables wherever it spots a customer it claims is stealing from it (the RIAA does not have jurisdiction to convict anybody of stealing). I think the restaurant owner is within his/her rights to protect his/her tables (and patrons) from the RIAA by not letting it enter the restaurant.
I say, support these people with our wallets. Next time you want some web space, consider going with Information Wave. They seem to have some nice web hosting options; $10/month gets you a modest amount of space and traffic, plus PHP, Perl, MySQL, PostgreSQL, htaccess, FTP and POP accounts. Even if they're not the best deal you can find, they seem like a reputable bunch and not afraid to stand up for the rights of their customers.
Valenti is wrong. It's not illegal to copy a DVD, it's just not possible to do it legally because the Hollywood mafia won't let anybody make a DVD copier. But making a copy of a movie I purchased is still legal as one of my fair uses.
I'm done being outraged. In order for Hollywood to change the world they'll need an audience. I'm not going to care what Valenti wants legislated any more; if all new electronics devices must have DRM then I just won't buy them. As far as I can tell there's no law that makes me get rid of my electronics just because a new generation of them has come out. I doubt they'll stop making DVD's and CD's just because they want us to move to DRM'd media - I mean, VHS is still pretty abundant and audio tapes are still kicking around.
Besides, nobody needs what Hollywood is selling. If the world were to stop watching movies one day, most of us would survive. It might even be good for us. Use the time you would have spent watching a movie doing something better. Draw. Play. Learn. Design. Create. All these things are better than watching 24 pictures per second.
For everybody who wants to install some sort of signal jamming system: That would probably be illegal because there are some types (doctors, ambulance, police, fire dept.) who need their pagers to work, even when they're out at the theatre.
This doesn't need legislation - it can be handled by the people. If you run a theatre, remind your patrons to turn off the ringers on their cell phones, or you'll throw them out. Train the kids in red suits to throw them out, too. If you're at a theatre and somebody's cell phone rings, politely let them know that it's bothering you, and let the management know too. I don't see why we should legislate manners. If society finds it to be rude, let society scold offenders.
That's why the large ISPs such as AOL and the DSL/Cable providers need to put this on their _outgoing_ connections, just to be able to quickly identify a machine which suddenly begins to produce spam. This would, of course, presume that they are responsible enough to care.
I like the idea, but wouldn't it be easier for the smtp server to have more obvious rules? Such as, "If host sends out more than 100 emails in a minute they get a warning, after two consectuive minutes of this activity (or two minutes in a 1-hour period) they get banned for 24 hours and the ISP techs get notified." Businesses who send out mail legitimately in bulk would have to make arrangements in advance and somehow satisfy the ISP that it isn't spam.
Then again, it doesn't matter how great of a system could be built if the ISPs don't use it - just look at the open relays that still exist!
WTF is an inline advertisement for Microsoft Visual Studio.NET doing in this article?
It looks like the ad is from doubleslick, and I think they just match up ads to web sites with slight regard to content (well, they're both computer related...)
And, rumor has it there are a few people on this site who program for Windows environments... not me of course, but some soulless freaks...
In high school, I had one of those TI graphing calculators. You could write programs on it, although they were fairly limited (the whole thing only had 32K memory!) and you had access to a total of 26 variables and six lists. Still, I wrote two games for it - a side-scroller spaceship-shooting-aliens game (complete with upgradeable guns when you shot x enemies down) and a vertical scrolling pole-position game. Everybody in my school with a TI-82 had a copy of those games. Sadly, though, I lost them on the day of the AP exam, and the backup I made turned out to be corrupted.
So you are saying if I saw Titanic in the theatre, went to refill my popcorn halfway through the movie and missed Leonardo and Kate in the car or whatever. According to you, now I have somehow missed what he (Cameron) intended and may no longer be watching a James Cameron film? Interesting.
That is not at all what he was saying. You were presented with the "proper" version of the film and had the choice to watch it in its intended form. If you stop watching for a few minutes, there will be no reasonable confusion whether or not you missed a small segment of the film. However, if the theater's management decides to insert three minutes of "intermission" over a scene, there could conceivably be some confusion as to whether or not it was an actual part of the film (ala Monty Python's The Meaning of Life). If a piece of art is altered by somebody else after it is produced then consumers must be made aware of it.
As an artist, Cameron -or anyone else- should realize thier art will generate many effects. HOWEVER, they have no say in how I can or in what way I experience it.
Neither does any reseller of that work.
The truth is, Artistic Rights go as far as their orignial medium. They DO NOT extend to the consumer's authorized copies which they bought for personal use.
Correct. But they do go as far as anybody redistributing the work. Any work that has been modified (either through censorship or otherwise) is no longer the original work, and should be labeled as a derivative work. If you sell the derivative work as though it were the original, then you are deceiving your consumers and probably can be sued for it.
You must also be in favor of network television inforcing commercial viewing, because, hey, if you miss the commercials you are missing the expereince they have planned, invested time in, and prepared for you. Those are artistic rights, are they not?
This is an example of missing a crucial part of an argument (resellers can not modify the art and pretend it's the same thing) and taking that alternate argument to an extreme, hoping to point out an inconsistency. But then your "rhetorical" question is flawed since the correct answer is no, not yes. Commercials between acts are not part of the original work. Otherwise affiliates of major networks would not be allowed to insert local commercials in place of those pumped out by the network. Furthermore, like the first example you made, if you leave during the commercial, then you know that you're missing part of the television feed.
Like the original poster said, stop and think.
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A few carefully crafted google searches revealed the other two articles in the series (although the Arizona Star seems to think it's a four-part series- I guess we'll find out tomorrow):
Without the pie charts, USA Today articles just can't stand on their own: Sun has derided Linux... as a "bathtub of code." With so many cooks, Linux is destined to splinter into incompatible versions, Sun says. What is with all the metaphors? Too many cooks splinter the bathtub? And that website is embarrassing - shouldn't they at least put a date on the article? I especially like that last statement "Linux is first on the horizon," Wicker says.Cover storyCover story - is that some sort of superliminal thing?
Well put -- I am one of those people who will buy albums like "Mingus Ah Um" or "Heavy Weather," where the artists are truly artists (and sometimes dead for over twenty years). These other people are not artists, they're commissioned by record companies to produce music-by-formula and then they overcharge. I'd rather listen to a good artist than somebody that Clear Channel tells me is popular (remember, "popular" and "good" are two distinct sets - one is not a subset of the other). Eminem makes me mad - not because of the feelings expressed in his recordings, but because I think of all the idiots brainwashed into thinking that it his recordings are somehow "art." A poorly written monologue spoken over somebody else's song is not worthy of being called a "song" - now if there was some reason to believe he was being expressive, then maybe, but it was just a filler track that meant to appeal to unintelligent people who would think it's deep because they don't know any better.
My job was in transportation of passengers and cargo. I've been to every major base, loaded every type of aircraft, and have not seen or heard of anything as stupid as this story while in the Air Force.
When all of us boycott the DVD release and everyone wonders why its sales are so shitty, they won't have any other explanation
Nice idea, but if you were able to pull off at least a partial boycott, they wouldn't think it was because of their own bad practices. They'd point to pirating to explain their poor sales, just like the RIAA blamed pirating for a year of bad music, unreasonable prices, and a major terrorist attack (and, to be fair, pirating, but that has yet to prove to be positive or negative for sales).
And countless, surely, just never made it to step two, "Build Wb site" remaining uncrossed off the weekly to-do list, somewhere below "Dust" in priority.
Sadly, the Salon.com writers never made it to step three, "check your damn spelling." (And don't tell me I never made it to step two... it's built, just not open to the public yet)
I was going to be there, but my company had a dinner cruise that night in Lake George. Oops. I'll try to make it to the next one, though. How many people were going to go?
What's wrong with leaving a trail on the internet? I say that this ability to be remembered or searched is a good thing - it leads to accountability. If you want the world as your audience, you have to be prepared for some of them to remember what you said. This leads to (possibly) better content, since we assume that what they write can be found at a later date.
Then look at the other side - what if there was a beautiful privacy system online that allowed everybody to hide what they want to hide, yet still have freedom of speech. I would expect many sites to turn into a sort of/. trollfest - even if most people didn't indulge in this sort of activity, those who did would ruin it for the rest. Would you want to be the sane voice of reason amid 400 pr0n links and frist porsts?
I might be in the minority here - I frequently contact authors of web articles and always leave my real information. I find that when you aren't afraid to introduce yourself, people are much more willing to listen. I just make sure to write as if it's going to be shared with the whole class. I try to keep track of where and when my words find their way to a permanent spot on the web (excluding/. comments which are too numerous) and I even have a section of my upcoming web site devoted to that (yes, that's the url above, yes it's my real name, and I'm not going to answer your third question).
If you can't stand by what you write, you shouldn't be writing it. If you make a point to always use good grammar, check your spelling, and make sense then you can be proud of what you write. The NYT article looks at the "horror story" angle of posting garbage to the web and having it come back to haunt you when you look for a new job. I say, turn it around and impress the employers with your concise, articulate, sensible, or even humorous opinions.
How many prisoners found their doors open after 100 rounds? The answer of course, is none - after the first drunken round, the prisoners have awoken, left their cells, and are busy drinking at the nearest strip club.
This sounds like we may get a little bit of Darwinism out of this - everybody who is smart enough to realize how ridiculous this is will come out on top, and probably make a tidy sum off the fools who believe that the sky actually is falling. I think I should become a consultant for the PHB's in their all-windows shops, and charge $100,000 to tell them they can get a more secure, stable system by switching over too... well you know what I'm going to say, this is slashdot!
Seriously, if people are going to make ridiculous claims like this, and management starts to believe it, why can't we hire ourselves out to make sure the company's print servers can't make all the traffic lights in a five mile radius turn green all at once? Sure it's unethical, but I gotta eat too!
The problem with strengthening the discs is you lose backward compatibility. What if the CD-ROM drives start assuming the discs are stronger and they increase their spin speeds? Somebody somwhere is going to ignore all that confusing computer terminology and put in their old CD, spin it till it explodes, and then sue the CD-ROM drive manufacturer. Unless the drives can somehow determine that the CD is not the new "strong" format, manufacturers would not want this kind of liability.
If I send out a non-personal message to five people, each with only his or her individual address on the "To: " line, they won't know how many people the message is sent out to unless the recipients all have contact with each other (such as people in the same office). I might have sent the non-personal message to five people or fifty thousand people. How would the size of the audience make a difference on the response rate (per person) if the audience doesn't know how big the audience is? This study assumes that the audience has a way of knowing how many people the message went out to, which is interestng in this case, since the message really went out to 120 people in each group - if list size is the same, then the study doesn't really mean a thing at all!
If multiple people are addressed on the "To:" line, then perhaps things change a bit. But considering how many factors these people tried to test in one study, I'm surprised that New Scientist would publish this - especially with a sample size of only 120 per test (single- and multiple-recipient mailings should be considered separate). And where is the control group? This is not a study, it's a record of observations, nothing more.
Given the nature of the results obtained by the study, this seems more useful for small-scale messages - such as sending out a question to twenty people in your addressbook simultaneously as opposed to sending out individual (or mail merged) messages.
Right now, the only reason I would go to Albany is Mahar's Public Bar... I love me some Magic Hat!
Yeah! Mahar's rules! I've got about 100 drinks on the tour so far.
But Magic Hat is getting really popular up here - I've also seen it in most bars on Lark Street, plus Savannah's, the Big House, and even in the supermarkets! You have to give credit to a beer company that has unique little sayings under the bottle cap...
As a former intern at the GE R&D center, I can say that yes, they do have one in Niskayuna, just a few minutes outside Albany. And it's friggin' huge.
Also worth noting, RPI is just a ten minute drive away from downtown (full of lots of smart computer geeks), and SUNY Albany has, well, lots of students. Then there is the College of Saint Rose, which has something like a 4:1 girl/guy ratio.
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I say, support these people with our wallets. Next time you want some web space, consider going with Information Wave. They seem to have some nice web hosting options; $10/month gets you a modest amount of space and traffic, plus PHP, Perl, MySQL, PostgreSQL, htaccess, FTP and POP accounts. Even if they're not the best deal you can find, they seem like a reputable bunch and not afraid to stand up for the rights of their customers.
Valenti is wrong. It's not illegal to copy a DVD, it's just not possible to do it legally because the Hollywood mafia won't let anybody make a DVD copier. But making a copy of a movie I purchased is still legal as one of my fair uses.
I'm done being outraged. In order for Hollywood to change the world they'll need an audience. I'm not going to care what Valenti wants legislated any more; if all new electronics devices must have DRM then I just won't buy them. As far as I can tell there's no law that makes me get rid of my electronics just because a new generation of them has come out. I doubt they'll stop making DVD's and CD's just because they want us to move to DRM'd media - I mean, VHS is still pretty abundant and audio tapes are still kicking around.
Besides, nobody needs what Hollywood is selling. If the world were to stop watching movies one day, most of us would survive. It might even be good for us. Use the time you would have spent watching a movie doing something better. Draw. Play. Learn. Design. Create. All these things are better than watching 24 pictures per second.
For everybody who wants to install some sort of signal jamming system: That would probably be illegal because there are some types (doctors, ambulance, police, fire dept.) who need their pagers to work, even when they're out at the theatre.
This doesn't need legislation - it can be handled by the people. If you run a theatre, remind your patrons to turn off the ringers on their cell phones, or you'll throw them out. Train the kids in red suits to throw them out, too. If you're at a theatre and somebody's cell phone rings, politely let them know that it's bothering you, and let the management know too. I don't see why we should legislate manners. If society finds it to be rude, let society scold offenders.
Then again, it doesn't matter how great of a system could be built if the ISPs don't use it - just look at the open relays that still exist!
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And, rumor has it there are a few people on this site who program for Windows environments... not me of course, but some soulless freaks...
In high school, I had one of those TI graphing calculators. You could write programs on it, although they were fairly limited (the whole thing only had 32K memory!) and you had access to a total of 26 variables and six lists. Still, I wrote two games for it - a side-scroller spaceship-shooting-aliens game (complete with upgradeable guns when you shot x enemies down) and a vertical scrolling pole-position game. Everybody in my school with a TI-82 had a copy of those games. Sadly, though, I lost them on the day of the AP exam, and the backup I made turned out to be corrupted.
Like the original poster said, stop and think.
A few carefully crafted google searches revealed the other two articles in the series (although the Arizona Star seems to think it's a four-part series- I guess we'll find out tomorrow):
Part 1: It's a war, and spam foes are losing
Part 3: Anti-spam tools more aggressive but frustrated by e-mail's 'dumb' nature
Without the pie charts, USA Today articles just can't stand on their own: Sun has derided Linux... as a "bathtub of code." With so many cooks, Linux is destined to splinter into incompatible versions, Sun says. What is with all the metaphors? Too many cooks splinter the bathtub? And that website is embarrassing - shouldn't they at least put a date on the article? I especially like that last statement "Linux is first on the horizon," Wicker says.Cover storyCover story - is that some sort of superliminal thing?
Well put -- I am one of those people who will buy albums like "Mingus Ah Um" or "Heavy Weather," where the artists are truly artists (and sometimes dead for over twenty years). These other people are not artists, they're commissioned by record companies to produce music-by-formula and then they overcharge. I'd rather listen to a good artist than somebody that Clear Channel tells me is popular (remember, "popular" and "good" are two distinct sets - one is not a subset of the other). Eminem makes me mad - not because of the feelings expressed in his recordings, but because I think of all the idiots brainwashed into thinking that it his recordings are somehow "art." A poorly written monologue spoken over somebody else's song is not worthy of being called a "song" - now if there was some reason to believe he was being expressive, then maybe, but it was just a filler track that meant to appeal to unintelligent people who would think it's deep because they don't know any better.
"The metric system is a tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I like it!" (Abe Simpson)
Sadly, the Salon.com writers never made it to step three, "check your damn spelling." (And don't tell me I never made it to step two... it's built, just not open to the public yet)
I was going to be there, but my company had a dinner cruise that night in Lake George. Oops. I'll try to make it to the next one, though. How many people were going to go?
What's wrong with leaving a trail on the internet? I say that this ability to be remembered or searched is a good thing - it leads to accountability. If you want the world as your audience, you have to be prepared for some of them to remember what you said. This leads to (possibly) better content, since we assume that what they write can be found at a later date.
/. trollfest - even if most people didn't indulge in this sort of activity, those who did would ruin it for the rest. Would you want to be the sane voice of reason amid 400 pr0n links and frist porsts?
/. comments which are too numerous) and I even have a section of my upcoming web site devoted to that (yes, that's the url above, yes it's my real name, and I'm not going to answer your third question).
Then look at the other side - what if there was a beautiful privacy system online that allowed everybody to hide what they want to hide, yet still have freedom of speech. I would expect many sites to turn into a sort of
I might be in the minority here - I frequently contact authors of web articles and always leave my real information. I find that when you aren't afraid to introduce yourself, people are much more willing to listen. I just make sure to write as if it's going to be shared with the whole class. I try to keep track of where and when my words find their way to a permanent spot on the web (excluding
If you can't stand by what you write, you shouldn't be writing it. If you make a point to always use good grammar, check your spelling, and make sense then you can be proud of what you write. The NYT article looks at the "horror story" angle of posting garbage to the web and having it come back to haunt you when you look for a new job. I say, turn it around and impress the employers with your concise, articulate, sensible, or even humorous opinions.
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How many prisoners found their doors open after 100 rounds? The answer of course, is none - after the first drunken round, the prisoners have awoken, left their cells, and are busy drinking at the nearest strip club.
This sounds like we may get a little bit of Darwinism out of this - everybody who is smart enough to realize how ridiculous this is will come out on top, and probably make a tidy sum off the fools who believe that the sky actually is falling. I think I should become a consultant for the PHB's in their all-windows shops, and charge $100,000 to tell them they can get a more secure, stable system by switching over too... well you know what I'm going to say, this is slashdot!
Seriously, if people are going to make ridiculous claims like this, and management starts to believe it, why can't we hire ourselves out to make sure the company's print servers can't make all the traffic lights in a five mile radius turn green all at once? Sure it's unethical, but I gotta eat too!
The problem with strengthening the discs is you lose backward compatibility. What if the CD-ROM drives start assuming the discs are stronger and they increase their spin speeds? Somebody somwhere is going to ignore all that confusing computer terminology and put in their old CD, spin it till it explodes, and then sue the CD-ROM drive manufacturer. Unless the drives can somehow determine that the CD is not the new "strong" format, manufacturers would not want this kind of liability.
If I send out a non-personal message to five people, each with only his or her individual address on the "To: " line, they won't know how many people the message is sent out to unless the recipients all have contact with each other (such as people in the same office). I might have sent the non-personal message to five people or fifty thousand people. How would the size of the audience make a difference on the response rate (per person) if the audience doesn't know how big the audience is? This study assumes that the audience has a way of knowing how many people the message went out to, which is interestng in this case, since the message really went out to 120 people in each group - if list size is the same, then the study doesn't really mean a thing at all!
If multiple people are addressed on the "To:" line, then perhaps things change a bit. But considering how many factors these people tried to test in one study, I'm surprised that New Scientist would publish this - especially with a sample size of only 120 per test (single- and multiple-recipient mailings should be considered separate). And where is the control group? This is not a study, it's a record of observations, nothing more.
Given the nature of the results obtained by the study, this seems more useful for small-scale messages - such as sending out a question to twenty people in your addressbook simultaneously as opposed to sending out individual (or mail merged) messages.
Yeah! Mahar's rules! I've got about 100 drinks on the tour so far.
But Magic Hat is getting really popular up here - I've also seen it in most bars on Lark Street, plus Savannah's, the Big House, and even in the supermarkets! You have to give credit to a beer company that has unique little sayings under the bottle cap...
As a former intern at the GE R&D center, I can say that yes, they do have one in Niskayuna, just a few minutes outside Albany. And it's friggin' huge.
Also worth noting, RPI is just a ten minute drive away from downtown (full of lots of smart computer geeks), and SUNY Albany has, well, lots of students. Then there is the College of Saint Rose, which has something like a 4:1 girl/guy ratio.
This story died way back in March - why not slap an ad for crush course on its tombstone?