The "honest" folk will do with their content what they would anyway, just as the DRM would allow them to (i.e. not distribute it on a large scale) , and the determined users will crack the DRM and do whatever they want with the content.
It's not either/or - it's a sliding scale.
A person who might not rob a bank might lift a $5 bill found in a friend's kitchen.
One realized over time that a sledgehammer will kill cancer cells in a Petri dish. As will a stick of dynamite or a teaspoonful of sodium cyanide or just driving over it with a Buick.
The new Buick 2006 CancerKiller! Drive one home today!
What about vegetarianism in the spirit of ahimsa (do no harm) - not eating animals because you would be supporting killing them? Since it's not a living and sentient being, you're not harming it in any way.
That's PETA-style vegetarianism, as far as I know, so I don't see why you couldn't eat the artificial meat.
Specific religious things like "no pork" or "only fish on Fridays" probably won't allow you to eat artificial meat any more than you could eat regular.
A little more seriously...if no animal had to die for the meat, what will this mean for voluntary (PETA-style) vegetarianism or veganism? What will it mean for religious vegetarianism?
Religious? Probably nothing - it's still actually meat, just carved from one giant contiually cloned, ever-living, non-sentient beast.
PETA? They should embrace this, since the artificial meat will be non-sentient. I'm sure they'll have a problem with it though.. protesters tend to wrap up their identity in the fact that they're a protester. If you fix the problem they care about, they'll find something else to protest about, because otherwise they have to stop protesting.
There are people that genuinely care about an issue, and aren't protesting as a lifestyle, and to those people - rock on. But many in protest organizations basically protest for a living.
You got that right. I used to do GIS for FEMA and can tell you some of the most private data comes from the Mapping and Analysis Center (MAC). Teleregistration data is one of those data sets. With this ruling now anyone can find out how much you made in the past 7 years, whether you were turned down for an SBA loan, how much assistance you did get and what type, any medical assistance you got, etc...
All that data was protected by the privacy act. Kiss that goodbye!
Quit overreacting. FEMA's GIS system has all that info, because they tie those private pieces of information to houses. Greenwich's GIS just has streets, utilities, and property tax information - all public info.
Many cities put this data online. For example, here is Charlotte, NC's GIS system, open to the public.
Greenwich just doesn't want to share its public information, because it's public information about rich people.
I don't know how they managed to screw it up so badly, but the only way of being sure to get the patch in less than a couple of hours is to use a mirror.
Their servers are overloaded, but I usually get it in about 30-45 min on release day. Two days after (for my other computer)? 5 min. I do have the recommended ports forwarded, though.
Blizzard does seem to have some infrastructure issues, but please don't hold that against BitTorrent.
OS/Apache + Firefox should do this already. Beat Microsoft to the punch. Heck you could even include a spot for plugging and playing DRM (or not).
The process would be to automatically replace all links to files which are larger than say 256K with a Torrent-ish link. This could be done on pagebuild as it the file is served up.
You would want to build the Torrent capabilities into the browser as well, so then you would goto Firefox and build them in there as well.
Next thing you know, not only the OS and the programs that mitigate/stop the harm which patches protect needs patches, but also the program that does the patching.
Windows Update has been patched several times, as has LiveUpdate (Norton's updater/patcher).
It's not "next thing you know", it's been happening for years.
I believe it refers to a Swedish person, or possibly a German. My grandmother has a lot of expressions for various ethnic groups that I've never heard elsewhere. She'll be 91 this year.
I fail to see how the body mod scene fails to qualify as a distinct culture, yet people enjoy discriminating against them and calling them names despite having met maybe 2 of said people and making a judgement call in the first 5 minutes of having met them.
And you've never met people that have done the same with other cultures? Freedom fries, anyone? All the anti-Japanese hysteria in the 80s? "Frogs" "Limeys" "Squareheads" "Wops" etc.
Body modification *is* being treated as a culture - and degraded like every other culture out there. It's just a different set of morons doing the degrading (with some overlap).
Business is about making money, not wearing long pants and a tie.
Exactly. But sometimes long pants and a tie is required to make money (due to clients).
Ask yourself if burying your true nature, your dress, tattoos, piercings, manner of speaking, hugging, dancing, etc. for most of your waking hours, for many decades, in the name of one very narrow notion of "success" is an acceptable compromise or not.
Hell yeah it is! I hate all this whining about "true nature" and all that - I'm not any different at work than I am at home.
Sure, work blows, which is why they have to pay me, but it's no different then if I help a friend clean a garage and he serves up pizza and beer. I'm trading work for money, but I havent' changed who I am.
If you don't want money, fine, you don't have to have it. Believe me, nobody's going to force it on you.
You previous post strongly implied that you had only seen marketing materials and not used the product; thanks for clarifying that.
I'm not jumping to the "Oh, it's from Microsoft and it must be stopped!" conclusion that most of Slashdot seems to jump to anytime Microsoft does anything.
I work at an almost-all-Microsoft shop that develops, uses, and supports a custom application running on Windows. My comment about hype not living up to reality is from experience.
They make some good products, some bad. But almost all are hyped up beyond their actual working capabilities.
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It's not either/or - it's a sliding scale.
A person who might not rob a bank might lift a $5 bill found in a friend's kitchen.
Get a cat or dog, problem solved.
The new Buick 2006 CancerKiller! Drive one home today!
There are hardware keyloggers which have none of those vulnerability concerns (bonus: much easier to install and conceal).
That's PETA-style vegetarianism, as far as I know, so I don't see why you couldn't eat the artificial meat.
Specific religious things like "no pork" or "only fish on Fridays" probably won't allow you to eat artificial meat any more than you could eat regular.
Hot dogs sell pretty well, actually.
Religious? Probably nothing - it's still actually meat, just carved from one giant contiually cloned, ever-living, non-sentient beast.
PETA? They should embrace this, since the artificial meat will be non-sentient. I'm sure they'll have a problem with it though.. protesters tend to wrap up their identity in the fact that they're a protester. If you fix the problem they care about, they'll find something else to protest about, because otherwise they have to stop protesting.
There are people that genuinely care about an issue, and aren't protesting as a lifestyle, and to those people - rock on. But many in protest organizations basically protest for a living.
http://www.netbotz.com/.
Only if you get the Calvin-peeing-on-Chevy sticker.
Very clever! At first I thought it was rot13 - took me a minute to realize what it was. :)
Criminals, like most of the population, tend to be lazy and stupid.
Doubly so, since they got caught in the first place.
And Mailinator does a better job at throwaway addresses anyways.
All that data was protected by the privacy act. Kiss that goodbye!
Quit overreacting. FEMA's GIS system has all that info, because they tie those private pieces of information to houses. Greenwich's GIS just has streets, utilities, and property tax information - all public info.
Many cities put this data online. For example, here is Charlotte, NC's GIS system, open to the public.
Greenwich just doesn't want to share its public information, because it's public information about rich people.
I agree. They're an example of someone using it, not someone successfully using it. :)
I don't know how they managed to screw it up so badly, but the only way of being sure to get the patch in less than a couple of hours is to use a mirror.
Their servers are overloaded, but I usually get it in about 30-45 min on release day. Two days after (for my other computer)? 5 min. I do have the recommended ports forwarded, though.
Blizzard does seem to have some infrastructure issues, but please don't hold that against BitTorrent.
The process would be to automatically replace all links to files which are larger than say 256K with a Torrent-ish link. This could be done on pagebuild as it the file is served up.
You would want to build the Torrent capabilities into the browser as well, so then you would goto Firefox and build them in there as well.
Here's the Apache half of it: mod-torrent
Indeed, Blizzard uses Bittorrent to distribute patches for World of Warcraft.
Windows Update has been patched several times, as has LiveUpdate (Norton's updater/patcher).
It's not "next thing you know", it's been happening for years.
They already have something for those people..
The evil dudes on Gumby?
I believe it refers to a Swedish person, or possibly a German. My grandmother has a lot of expressions for various ethnic groups that I've never heard elsewhere. She'll be 91 this year.
And you've never met people that have done the same with other cultures? Freedom fries, anyone? All the anti-Japanese hysteria in the 80s? "Frogs" "Limeys" "Squareheads" "Wops" etc.
Body modification *is* being treated as a culture - and degraded like every other culture out there. It's just a different set of morons doing the degrading (with some overlap).
Business is about making money, not wearing long pants and a tie.
Exactly. But sometimes long pants and a tie is required to make money (due to clients).
Hell yeah it is! I hate all this whining about "true nature" and all that - I'm not any different at work than I am at home.
Sure, work blows, which is why they have to pay me, but it's no different then if I help a friend clean a garage and he serves up pizza and beer. I'm trading work for money, but I havent' changed who I am.
If you don't want money, fine, you don't have to have it. Believe me, nobody's going to force it on you.
You previous post strongly implied that you had only seen marketing materials and not used the product; thanks for clarifying that.
I'm not jumping to the "Oh, it's from Microsoft and it must be stopped!" conclusion that most of Slashdot seems to jump to anytime Microsoft does anything.
I work at an almost-all-Microsoft shop that develops, uses, and supports a custom application running on Windows. My comment about hype not living up to reality is from experience.
They make some good products, some bad. But almost all are hyped up beyond their actual working capabilities.
Microsoft is not unique in that respect, either.
So, you've seen the marketing materials, but haven't actually used the product?
Microsoft has excellect marketdroids and sales weasels. Their actual software doesn't usually live up to the expectations given by their marketing.
According to the Navy it's "NAVSTA GTMO", capitalized. So "GTMO" is correct, "gitmo" as the pronunctiation of GTMO is correct, but "GITMO" is wrong.
Now, who pissed in my Cheerios?