Never before have I seen a more fitting application of the following quote:
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house. - RAH through Lazarus Long
Did I say anything about giving a speech? Why do you people fixate on that? Does make it any difference?
The injuction I was thinking of was that in the Cyber Patrol fiasco. The authors settled before it was issued, but there is an injuction against any others distributing that code, as with DeCSS.
Now, did you actually say anything to refute the previous poster? I mean, you can't deny the fact that the government already has its hand in quite a lot of things, through academic grants, defense research, etc. etc.
How the government wields power in this arena is how it premits the fruits of that labor to be releasesd. Refusing to release code under the GPL, but simultaneously allowing vendors to appropriate code developed with public money, smacks of hypocrisy and shows a clear bias in how they approach this issue. It is obvious that they bowed to pressure from a few whiney corporations threatened by Linux.
So, either the government keeps its hands off industry entirely, or it should plays fair and impartially. You can't have it both ways, using the former argument to attack the latter.
I mean, first he tells us to give up political activism because changing the law is a lost cause, so we should just write code. Now he is telling us the law ain't so bad after all.
To highlight the absurdity of this position, consider this statement from the article:
The risk that a researcher could go to jail for giving a speech at an academic conference is essentially zero. - Orin Kerr
Wow, I fell so safe at night. Now, why does need to qualify zero with "essentially". Perhaps because, um, people have been arrested? Researchers have had injuctions against releasing their findings? Corporations have waved the DMCA around to frighten people into keeping quiet?
The purpose of an overly broad law is to pick and choose who you make examples of. Sure, the risk to us is relatively minor, because we're nobodies off their radar. Wait until you create something or discover something that rubs the government, software giants, or Hollywood cartels the wrong way. It doesn't matter if they lose in court, the point is they scared us all with heavy-handed legal tyranny.
Perhaps this is furthering his "law no, code yes" proposal. Overturning the DMCA is a lost cause, so we should push it on all fronts to weaken its reach. Like a bully, it's power comes from a shared belief in its potential to harm us. When we all stand up to it we will find it shrivel into something less ominous.
I mean, how old is that guy now running the Romulan Empire? 12? Who you do think is going to defeat this cross between Peter Wiggum and Scott Evil? Data? Picard? Pshaw, as if.
No way, it'll be the annoying little punk with phenominal cosmic powers (as taught by the Traveller).
Due to a clerical error, it was mislabeled an ACRONYM, but is more properly called an abbreviation. I am under no compulsion to disclose the meaning of an abbreviation. Otherwise, it wouldn't abbreviate, now would it?
You are guilty of being an apologist for STS, and therefore lose the credibility necessary to claim RTFM. Had you actually written STS, your proposal to RTFM would be met with justified hostility, and demands to WSTDNS would be leveled in return.
Actually, it was the heat of the fires that weakend the superstructure and caused the buildings to collapse, and the fires where so intense largely because of the jet fuel the planes were carrying.
I suppose an asteroid chunk would cause a fire, but it wouldn't add fuel to it. And it as it goes through the building, it only transfers a minor fraction of the engery it contains.
Of course, don't take my word for it. I write software, so I'm only a pretend architect and engineer.
Puny hu-man, you will learn what we want you to learn. You learned the alphabet, you learned the pencil, and you learned the keyboard. You will continue to submit in this manner.
People don't want some made up star to follow, they want a real person. And the personalities of the real people are more interesting than writers could ever come up with for fake ones.
You're joking, right? The Sims is more engaging than the real-life exploits of the typical hollywood celebrity.
Only retards read People and watch Entertainment Tonight. You could swap the real celebrities with facsimilies and they wouldn't even notice.
Not an exageration. Indeed, there is a propensity for holding "Gun and Computer" shows in the civic centers of rural Georgia.
You may laugh, but the modern redneck knows computers like they know guns and trucks. And they were into HAM and CBs long before the teenybopper set learned the advantages of cell phones.
Of course, Athens isn't exactly a redneck Mecca. It's more like the Berkeley of Georgia.
He's making up terms all over the place, like this quote: "although I don't think we've ever fleshmet."
Fleshmeat? I've heard of meat-space and "rl", but I've never heard that phrase. A google search reveals it to be in the title of several pretentious sci-fi stories, and as a reference to gore.
Indeed, this whole article reeks of a hipper-than-thou attitude, whereby "cool" people have discovered a phenomenom that has been old old-hat to the Internet and science fiction crowd.
I mean, really, witness the Niven story, and Sterling has been featuring exactly this sort of thing since the early nineties.
Oh well, though geeks were some of the early adopters of cell phones, I guess we're less likely to use it for drunken phone calls and spontaneous parties. No one is going to notice until hundreds of adult children start doing it en masse.
There won't need to be, as that's not the way Palladium works. The file will be encrypted, and only be playable on your computer. To play it on another device, it would probably be re-encrypted specific to that device. This requires everyone, your computer, your operating system, the service you download the songs from, and your mp3 player, to get along and do things you can't even see because the data streams are encrypted.
Kids, can you say bullet-proof vertical monopoly? I knew you could.
Of course, they'll probably put watermarks in too just to discourage people from redigitizing analong recordings. This goes far beyond protecting their profits, and into control-freak bulling.
A man would like to have safe sex with three women, any of whom may be carrying an STD. Given two condoms, how can he do so, while ensuring that no STD is passed from one woman (or possibly himself) to another (or to himself)?
This is a common situation on the job. Who says riddles aren't relevant in interviews?
Coincidence? Probably. But geez, you can bet they will spin this to their favor. Instead of apologizing for their incompetence, they will use it as evidence of the dangerous new world we live in, and request us to please bend over for all their new security initiatives.
Our infrastructure is under threat from hacker terrorists! The free world is at stake! Join up at your NET Guard recruiting office now!
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This has nothing to do with trying to wipe out another service like it, it's just geography, it's just a coincidence.
That is pure conjecture. Do you work for Starbucks? Do you know their intentions?
Never before have I seen a more fitting application of the following quote:
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house. - RAH through Lazarus Long
Did I say anything about giving a speech? Why do you people fixate on that? Does make it any difference?
The injuction I was thinking of was that in the Cyber Patrol fiasco. The authors settled before it was issued, but there is an injuction against any others distributing that code, as with DeCSS.
spin-tastic!
Now, did you actually say anything to refute the previous poster? I mean, you can't deny the fact that the government already has its hand in quite a lot of things, through academic grants, defense research, etc. etc.
How the government wields power in this arena is how it premits the fruits of that labor to be releasesd. Refusing to release code under the GPL, but simultaneously allowing vendors to appropriate code developed with public money, smacks of hypocrisy and shows a clear bias in how they approach this issue. It is obvious that they bowed to pressure from a few whiney corporations threatened by Linux.
So, either the government keeps its hands off industry entirely, or it should plays fair and impartially. You can't have it both ways, using the former argument to attack the latter.
I mean, first he tells us to give up political activism because changing the law is a lost cause, so we should just write code. Now he is telling us the law ain't so bad after all.
To highlight the absurdity of this position, consider this statement from the article:
The risk that a researcher could go to jail for giving a speech at an academic conference is essentially zero. - Orin Kerr
Wow, I fell so safe at night. Now, why does need to qualify zero with "essentially". Perhaps because, um, people have been arrested? Researchers have had injuctions against releasing their findings? Corporations have waved the DMCA around to frighten people into keeping quiet?
The purpose of an overly broad law is to pick and choose who you make examples of. Sure, the risk to us is relatively minor, because we're nobodies off their radar. Wait until you create something or discover something that rubs the government, software giants, or Hollywood cartels the wrong way. It doesn't matter if they lose in court, the point is they scared us all with heavy-handed legal tyranny.
Perhaps this is furthering his "law no, code yes" proposal. Overturning the DMCA is a lost cause, so we should push it on all fronts to weaken its reach. Like a bully, it's power comes from a shared belief in its potential to harm us. When we all stand up to it we will find it shrivel into something less ominous.
I mean, how old is that guy now running the Romulan Empire? 12? Who you do think is going to defeat this cross between Peter Wiggum and Scott Evil? Data? Picard? Pshaw, as if.
No way, it'll be the annoying little punk with phenominal cosmic powers (as taught by the Traveller).
Due to a clerical error, it was mislabeled an ACRONYM, but is more properly called an abbreviation. I am under no compulsion to disclose the meaning of an abbreviation. Otherwise, it wouldn't abbreviate, now would it?
I hereby christen a new acronym, WSTDNS.
You are guilty of being an apologist for STS, and therefore lose the credibility necessary to claim RTFM. Had you actually written STS, your proposal to RTFM would be met with justified hostility, and demands to WSTDNS would be leveled in return.
So why can't they do like Linus and just let the world mirror it?
I mean, wouldn't the blast that produced the mushroom cloud already have leveled all the buildings? Reminds me of Akira, though.
Actually, it was the heat of the fires that weakend the superstructure and caused the buildings to collapse, and the fires where so intense largely because of the jet fuel the planes were carrying.
I suppose an asteroid chunk would cause a fire, but it wouldn't add fuel to it. And it as it goes through the building, it only transfers a minor fraction of the engery it contains.
Of course, don't take my word for it. I write software, so I'm only a pretend architect and engineer.
Puny hu-man, you will learn what we want you to learn. You learned the alphabet, you learned the pencil, and you learned the keyboard. You will continue to submit in this manner.
People don't want some made up star to follow, they want a real person. And the personalities of the real people are more interesting than writers could ever come up with for fake ones.
You're joking, right? The Sims is more engaging than the real-life exploits of the typical hollywood celebrity.
Only retards read People and watch Entertainment Tonight. You could swap the real celebrities with facsimilies and they wouldn't even notice.
Where do you think the personality templates for AI slaves will come from?
Some people just have no sense...
Like the people who have marked this insightful?
I see the logical conclusion of this attitude: DRM defeats censorship! Yeah for DRM!
And all this whining about artistic vision? WTF is that?
I shit artistic vision. Every turd is a work of genius. How dare you clean up my excrement!
Oh, flesh-met. Less gross, more dirty.
It still has minor usage on the net, seems like a forced attempt to coin a new phrase, or just isolated to txt msgers who are also bloggers.
God, I hate these new Internet fads. Everything is so fucking... trendy.
Not an exageration. Indeed, there is a propensity for holding "Gun and Computer" shows in the civic centers of rural Georgia.
You may laugh, but the modern redneck knows computers like they know guns and trucks. And they were into HAM and CBs long before the teenybopper set learned the advantages of cell phones.
Of course, Athens isn't exactly a redneck Mecca. It's more like the Berkeley of Georgia.
And for passing laws that allow vendors to bully people in the attempt to cover-up their failure to fix shoddy products...
If you see a faded sign at the side of the road that says 1.5 Mbits at the...
He's making up terms all over the place, like this quote: "although I don't think we've ever fleshmet."
Fleshmeat? I've heard of meat-space and "rl", but I've never heard that phrase. A google search reveals it to be in the title of several pretentious sci-fi stories, and as a reference to gore.
Indeed, this whole article reeks of a hipper-than-thou attitude, whereby "cool" people have discovered a phenomenom that has been old old-hat to the Internet and science fiction crowd.
I mean, really, witness the Niven story, and Sterling has been featuring exactly this sort of thing since the early nineties.
Oh well, though geeks were some of the early adopters of cell phones, I guess we're less likely to use it for drunken phone calls and spontaneous parties. No one is going to notice until hundreds of adult children start doing it en masse.
There won't need to be, as that's not the way Palladium works. The file will be encrypted, and only be playable on your computer. To play it on another device, it would probably be re-encrypted specific to that device. This requires everyone, your computer, your operating system, the service you download the songs from, and your mp3 player, to get along and do things you can't even see because the data streams are encrypted.
Kids, can you say bullet-proof vertical monopoly? I knew you could.
Of course, they'll probably put watermarks in too just to discourage people from redigitizing analong recordings. This goes far beyond protecting their profits, and into control-freak bulling.
Just because you can't afford to buy something doesn't give you the right to steal it.
Actually, when you can rewrite the laws, it does.
That's the great thing about a legal fiction like copyright. When it is no longer useful, *poof* it disappears.
Ouch. To be mocked by a man whose career is based on masturbation jokes and the gossip of video game fanboys...
A man would like to have safe sex with three women, any of whom may be carrying an STD. Given two condoms, how can he do so, while ensuring that no STD is passed from one woman (or possibly himself) to another (or to himself)?
This is a common situation on the job. Who says riddles aren't relevant in interviews?
This, right about the time ax-Microsoftie security snake oil salesman is harping about the dangers to our infrastructure because of the Internet, and when Microsoft is promoting Palladium as the solution to its MUA scripting bugs.
Coincidence? Probably. But geez, you can bet they will spin this to their favor. Instead of apologizing for their incompetence, they will use it as evidence of the dangerous new world we live in, and request us to please bend over for all their new security initiatives.
Our infrastructure is under threat from hacker terrorists! The free world is at stake! Join up at your NET Guard recruiting office now!