What's truly sad is when it's considered "embarrasing" to be overprotective of the only Earth we have when it comes to extremely complex environment analysis, and when it's somehow wrong to err on the safe side. I actually thought margins of error was a positive trait in science, in case of uncertianties.
Thanks, I understand better now what this is all about. And that means it's good news for us that develops some things in.NET. The point seem to clearly be to assist people in debugging their apps by seeing more what.NET actually does without using the unofficial.NET Reflector tool, like we've been able to do all along with e.g. MFC. I often wondered why we didn't get the same with.NET but am happy to see we do that now.
Also -- "encouraged" or "required"? If it's not required, I don't see what the problem is. MS may of course encourage people to do things however they wish.
Sony should not really focus or speak up on copying. Copying is moot nowadays as the properties are not physical, but intellectual. A computer may copy a song as soon as you transfer something bought on iTunes to your iPod. Should that be an illegal action? Of course not! But still, you did, indeed, copy a file you had downloaded. Is there a difference here in what one might do with a CD? No, because in both cases, you make another copy of the product for playing in e.g. a mobile device.
The only straw that's left for Sony to grasp at is not about copying, but about breaching licenses. But that would seem to apply more to DRM'ed material to me, than physical CD's. You do click through a license agreement when installing iTunes and there is also the DMCA to disallow decrypting DRM protected media. But what about CD's? I don't enter even something as little as a click through contract, and neither do I need to (normally, thank god) decrypt a CD to rip its content.
This Sony rep may "suppose" whatever he wish, but that's to me merely his opinion, not law or anything. If it's considered fair use to play a single intellectual property for own use on your own devices (and I can't really see how it could possibly be anything but that), then this should be OK. Let's not involve the copying part so much, because a computer copies files a lot, even sometimes when you don't know it or it's not 100% apparent to the user, or not necessarily a user initiated action. It copies a lot of things to RAM too, which is quite literally transfering material from your hard drive to another hardware device.
Involving copying will just make matters more complex to sort out and understand for their customers and is, besides, quite irrelevant. Who cares how many copies you make and to where? IMHO, what only matters is whether you breach a contract. And in that case, I can only agree with them that the copyright infringement here is if it's causing a financial loss to the copyright holder.
But then -- that would mean that, in this case, Sony would need to honestly believe an artist lose money on someone who carries an owned CD to the car stereo, which is quite crazy. Since that also means a user isn't purchasing two copies for playing it on another device.
Yes, these news was just spun in a weird way by a Swedish tabloid into "YouTube videos can spread viruses!"
I don't think anyone has seen a YouTube.com hosted Flash video to be virus infected??
The article makes it sound more like that they're talking about people using popular online videos / video sites to spread viruses, not the streaming video file itself. As in YouTube comments, e-mails with links to supposedly "cool" online videos, etc. And then this comes off as nothing new at all.
Yep, most of all I want Amazon.com to be successful enough to show the music company exec's that DRM is bad.
But it'll be a rough road... Not because it's clearly a better business model and 256 kbps mp3's are nothing to sneeze at, but because Apple has this ridculous reality distortion field and a very high esteemed brand.
And all of a sudden, female avatars started gathering more male players than ever before trying to get them into their multiplayer party, and harass them with guild recruitments.:-p
It's kinda hard to verify URL's if you don't compare them to a massive database.
Is anyone surprised? How is it evil? The evil would only come from the data being misused. Obviously they NEED the data, or rather, the dudes running the database need it. That's not the evil part.
Those computers will never stop being zombies until they're 1) patched up with security fixes, and 2) cleaned of trojans. There's nothing magic that makes these Windows installs zombies and somehow still not being infected. There exist plenty of antivirus tools for Windows, and they're intended for the kind of users who're either novices or careless or both. The kind of users who're at risk at without knowing it support spam networks.
I will never blame Windows for allowing a trojan to install if it was granted admin privilegies by a user, as little as I will blame Linux to run a trojan that wipes more or less of the distribution under granted root privilegies.
The ONLY thing I think can be argued here is whether Microsoft should include an antivirus tool or not, but there's really no way MS can win that. If they don't, they're blamed for not caring enough for Windows security and attacking viruses, and if they do, they're abusing their market position. I don't envy the CEO at Microsoft for his job, even if what he ran was a company with better reputation.
* American products become cheaper to foreign markets. This helps with the trade imbalances we currently have. Is that "good" in the same way as being forced to sell something cheap is good?
To really put the cherry on the cake they're now resorting to illegal DDOS attacks, which for the most part have also failed. I keep reading this, but where does it say it was 1) a DDOS attack that took them down and 2) from MediaDefender. Not in this article at least; it's just speculative. Couldn't it just have been from the massive public interest during these events, impacting this major P2P news site? Has Slyck.com told their logs indicate this (their IP range) or what?
I searched Slyck for "ddos" but couldn't find anything:
Antispam groups come under heavy DDoS attack June 14, 2007 Estonian DDoS - a final analysis June 3, 2007 EveryDNS Under Botnet DDoS Attack December 4, 2006 bluetack server being DDoS'd? November 13, 2004 Why do so many think it's them and not just some other random fluke due to the lately very turbulent P2P week of news? It's not just this, but there was recently a huge eMule server bust too that has crippled that network, and many ed2k users have now had to turn to the decentralized Kademlia network, not that it's much worse. Actually, from my experience, it might even work better, now that everyone is using it.
A server is a relly different beast than a desktop and having this "all-in-one" kernel means that the operating system gets bloated with a) desktop specific features when using a server and b) Server specific features when installing a desktop. I thought Linux didn't have much desktop-specific stuff that have crept into the kernel at all, and that was part of the beauty of it, unlike Windows?
Then some use to say "but you can go INWARDS into the balloon, to its center", but since an expanded balloon is like an expanded universe, that analogy would be to going back in time. And since space and time is most definitely intertwined in the universe, that would also require going back in space. So while you can go back into the center of that balloon alright, what you would end up with would just be the (supposed, maybe not on a quantum mechanical level) singularity of the big bang.
I'm not sure if that way of thinking is entirely correct since I'm just an amateur though, but I think it suits the analogy pretty well.
I wonder if they'll ever "look back in time" this way enough to have at least a hint of observational evidence that cosmic inflation really took place? That would be interesting to know, because it's such a challenged and "illogical" theory on a few levels.
Thinking one thing, writing another... Should be "to push down costs". As in hardware and production costs.
Anyway, good to see Trent Reznor put down his foot when it's necessary. Many artists seem to be just so weak that they don't dare and just keep acting safely like the mediabots they were tought to be.
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Well, at least now it probably will, now that you tried to ignite it with such a typical meta comment. Thanks. :-p
What's truly sad is when it's considered "embarrasing" to be overprotective of the only Earth we have when it comes to extremely complex environment analysis, and when it's somehow wrong to err on the safe side. I actually thought margins of error was a positive trait in science, in case of uncertianties.
I don't think it is. Actually, I hardly even see these news anymore, as that tend to be the norm.
Thanks, I understand better now what this is all about. And that means it's good news for us that develops some things in .NET. The point seem to clearly be to assist people in debugging their apps by seeing more what .NET actually does without using the unofficial .NET Reflector tool, like we've been able to do all along with e.g. MFC. I often wondered why we didn't get the same with .NET but am happy to see we do that now.
Also -- "encouraged" or "required"? If it's not required, I don't see what the problem is. MS may of course encourage people to do things however they wish.
Sony should not really focus or speak up on copying. Copying is moot nowadays as the properties are not physical, but intellectual. A computer may copy a song as soon as you transfer something bought on iTunes to your iPod. Should that be an illegal action? Of course not! But still, you did, indeed, copy a file you had downloaded. Is there a difference here in what one might do with a CD? No, because in both cases, you make another copy of the product for playing in e.g. a mobile device.
The only straw that's left for Sony to grasp at is not about copying, but about breaching licenses. But that would seem to apply more to DRM'ed material to me, than physical CD's. You do click through a license agreement when installing iTunes and there is also the DMCA to disallow decrypting DRM protected media. But what about CD's? I don't enter even something as little as a click through contract, and neither do I need to (normally, thank god) decrypt a CD to rip its content.
This Sony rep may "suppose" whatever he wish, but that's to me merely his opinion, not law or anything. If it's considered fair use to play a single intellectual property for own use on your own devices (and I can't really see how it could possibly be anything but that), then this should be OK. Let's not involve the copying part so much, because a computer copies files a lot, even sometimes when you don't know it or it's not 100% apparent to the user, or not necessarily a user initiated action. It copies a lot of things to RAM too, which is quite literally transfering material from your hard drive to another hardware device.
Involving copying will just make matters more complex to sort out and understand for their customers and is, besides, quite irrelevant. Who cares how many copies you make and to where? IMHO, what only matters is whether you breach a contract. And in that case, I can only agree with them that the copyright infringement here is if it's causing a financial loss to the copyright holder.
But then -- that would mean that, in this case, Sony would need to honestly believe an artist lose money on someone who carries an owned CD to the car stereo, which is quite crazy. Since that also means a user isn't purchasing two copies for playing it on another device.
Yes, these news was just spun in a weird way by a Swedish tabloid into "YouTube videos can spread viruses!"
I don't think anyone has seen a YouTube.com hosted Flash video to be virus infected??
The article makes it sound more like that they're talking about people using popular online videos / video sites to spread viruses, not the streaming video file itself. As in YouTube comments, e-mails with links to supposedly "cool" online videos, etc. And then this comes off as nothing new at all.
But don't languages use to evolve to incorporate words from various cultures?
I know at least mine (Swedish) has, with slang from subcultures sometimes entering Swedish dictionaries if the words become useful enough.
Hexium... :p
;)
Sorry, I guess I took on the geek role of spoiling jokes with accuracies.
Yep, most of all I want Amazon.com to be successful enough to show the music company exec's that DRM is bad.
But it'll be a rough road... Not because it's clearly a better business model and 256 kbps mp3's are nothing to sneeze at, but because Apple has this ridculous reality distortion field and a very high esteemed brand.
You need an invite to Oink. ;-)
Well here's a fan comparison. ;-)
Furries: http://www.virginmedia.com/microsites/games/slideshow/game-geeks/img_3.jpg
Trekkies: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Trekkies_at_baycon_2003.jpg/800px-Trekkies_at_baycon_2003.jpg
Star Wars: http://www.virginmedia.com/microsites/games/slideshow/game-geeks/img_2.jpg
Those petaQ won't stand a chance!
... unless it has been explicitly released in public domain or was created before Mickey Mouse was created.
Hmm.. Makes one think... Isn't it funny how much culture, society, and economies evolved even before the current strict copyright system?
And all of a sudden, female avatars started gathering more male players than ever before trying to get them into their multiplayer party, and harass them with guild recruitments. :-p
It's kinda hard to verify URL's if you don't compare them to a massive database.
Is anyone surprised? How is it evil? The evil would only come from the data being misused. Obviously they NEED the data, or rather, the dudes running the database need it. That's not the evil part.
Maybe he will like Ruby better than Rails? I heard that Ruby has less cruft that he disliked than Rails.
This is getting ridiculous.
Those computers will never stop being zombies until they're 1) patched up with security fixes, and 2) cleaned of trojans. There's nothing magic that makes these Windows installs zombies and somehow still not being infected. There exist plenty of antivirus tools for Windows, and they're intended for the kind of users who're either novices or careless or both. The kind of users who're at risk at without knowing it support spam networks.
I will never blame Windows for allowing a trojan to install if it was granted admin privilegies by a user, as little as I will blame Linux to run a trojan that wipes more or less of the distribution under granted root privilegies.
The ONLY thing I think can be argued here is whether Microsoft should include an antivirus tool or not, but there's really no way MS can win that. If they don't, they're blamed for not caring enough for Windows security and attacking viruses, and if they do, they're abusing their market position. I don't envy the CEO at Microsoft for his job, even if what he ran was a company with better reputation.
I searched Slyck for "ddos" but couldn't find anything: Antispam groups come under heavy DDoS attack June 14, 2007
Estonian DDoS - a final analysis June 3, 2007
EveryDNS Under Botnet DDoS Attack December 4, 2006
bluetack server being DDoS'd? November 13, 2004 Why do so many think it's them and not just some other random fluke due to the lately very turbulent P2P week of news? It's not just this, but there was recently a huge eMule server bust too that has crippled that network, and many ed2k users have now had to turn to the decentralized Kademlia network, not that it's much worse. Actually, from my experience, it might even work better, now that everyone is using it.
Wow, Bush must have cloned himself a lot to become "Americans"! ;-)
But of course, that's only to expect from the evil dictator he is, right?
Yeah, that's a popular analogy.
Then some use to say "but you can go INWARDS into the balloon, to its center", but since an expanded balloon is like an expanded universe, that analogy would be to going back in time. And since space and time is most definitely intertwined in the universe, that would also require going back in space. So while you can go back into the center of that balloon alright, what you would end up with would just be the (supposed, maybe not on a quantum mechanical level) singularity of the big bang.
I'm not sure if that way of thinking is entirely correct since I'm just an amateur though, but I think it suits the analogy pretty well.
I wonder if they'll ever "look back in time" this way enough to have at least a hint of observational evidence that cosmic inflation really took place? That would be interesting to know, because it's such a challenged and "illogical" theory on a few levels.
to push down artists
Thinking one thing, writing another... Should be "to push down costs". As in hardware and production costs.
Anyway, good to see Trent Reznor put down his foot when it's necessary. Many artists seem to be just so weak that they don't dare and just keep acting safely like the mediabots they were tought to be.