The current system to provide incentives for artists to create works is copyright. If you think copyright is being abused because the term is too long then fine. Go back to the original term, give the benefit of the doubt consider they renewed it and P2P Huey Lewis and the News and Disco Duck. Put you name behind it. Actually commit civil disobedience. But leave U2's Verigo alone. You never had any rights to it no matter how you twist history.
Don't like the price of music currently? Then just don't buy it. Or if you absolutely must buy it then buy it used. Feel guilty that the artist didn't get your cash? Buy a t-shirt. Write them fan mail. Whatever.
But this "I'm going to put this CD up on a P2P network for personal reason X" or "I wouldn't buy it anyway so I'll just take it" is wrong. Morally, ethically, and legally. Heck, people aren't entitled to health care so why are you (rhetorical not personal) entitled to entertainment? The public good isn't served if the artist isn't getting adequate compensation. Legally is what being done actual theft? Of course not. But rhetorically it fits. Somebody has made something and offered it up for sale. You've (again rhetorical) taken it without paying the artist. The leap to "that is theft" isn't that surprising or hard to understand. It is easily digestible by society in general which really doesn't want to invest the time to work out the knot "but the work isn't physical and it is easily distibuted." In many cases I'd assert that point is irrelevent since the work has intrinsic value beyond whether it is on a plastic disc or merely exists as some electrical pulses over a wire.
Again, all references to you are rhetorical. They are not meant to connotate that the parent asserted those points as personal beliefs or facts.
Yeah, so we can get bludgeoned with 50 different artists following a new formula.
I don't need a revolution which ousts a bunch of artists I don't give a rip about for a new set that I don't want either. Replacing Brittney Spears with Wierd Al isn't going to enrich my musical experience. It'll just change the jokes I use to talk about popular music. I need a mechanism to easily find bands like Collide, Abney Park or Gossamer which are going to be considered junk by many but which I personally think are great. Just like I happen to think October Project, NIN, Dream Theater, Green Day, Godsmack, Poe, Garbage, or Loreena McKinnet are great and iirc all are RIAA artists.
The music is out there, the problem is finding it and trying to "educate" the unwashed demographics that they should forgo their boy bands, rap artist of the day, or lip-synching pin-up girl for "real" music isn't the answer.
The presense of WinPCap could also be an indication that a new piece of spyware which the software currently doesn't recognize has been installed on the PC. There also appears to be a checkbox (Create restore point) so you can recover from a deletion. Though it was unchecked. I don't see what the problem is.
This isn't much different than some of the warnings I see in my Qualys reports as potential vulnerabilities. The service is there but my scan options don't allow Qualys the ability to determine if the software providing that service is actually vulnerable. So it flags, I read the description, check the service and remediate based on what I find. This isn't much different from what we're seeing here and is a good practice imo. The only thing I could possible suggest is that MS find a better way to reclassify what it finds. Maybe call WinPCap an "Indicator" or "Possible Spyware" directly in the Type or Threat Level.
One cite from Google cache. I won't invest the time to recover the other one I read about on CNN which I recall citing the Patriot Act directly. Not for an abusive AC.
Patriot Act was already used to trump up drug charges for someone selling crystal meth. They labeled the drug a weapon of mass destruction so they could up the charges. A couple of weeks later I noticed a news article where a senetor or congressman's son got caught dealion the same stuff. No Patriot Act charges.
It's already known that the FBI is providing information to prosecutors on how to apply the Patriot Act to other crimes. Now whether all of this stuff will stick upon the inevitable appeals is a totally different issue. But the Feds are trying to use the Patriot Act to cast as wide a net as possible.
Reading the thread it's probably best that PKD never made millions. First time he sold some movie rights he'd have OD'd and we'd be out a ton of great fiction. Sad and harsh but probably true.
Of course Pitt's salary isn't justified compared to a teacher's. What's that got to do with the price of tea in China? The public gladly pays for Pitt's salary so they can relax for a couple of hours but balks if a dime out of their property tax goes to schools. Again, why is everybody lamenting about the person making the money and not about the society feeding the system?
Hopkins and Washington are good actors and the the point is they are good actors who are entertaining to see on the big screen. Somethings just mean what they mean and aren't that complex.
God help us when we all have to be Mac-using, indie film watching, underground music listening, vegan, bi-sexual wiccans complete with a pierced body part and tribal tat before we can assert our individuality.
Not all actors are of the same caliber and working on a movie can take a long time. How does, "I can hire a consultant for $100K or I can hire 4 MCSEs for $25K." sound to you? How does "I'm going on a contract job for a year and will only gross $30K" sound? Sigourny Weaver, Sally Fields, and the like are worth more than the vast sea of mediocre talent out there.
Now let's go over risks and compensation. I have to film overseas for six months, leaving my friends and family behind. I can be injured or even die (Brandon Lee anyone?) doing scenes with minimal stuntwork. Actresses get older and a fickle public no longer wants to see them. Started acting at 20 and ate ramen for ten years only to have ten years left in a career. Once you make it big there is competition to get you into movies and you are a limited, nay unique, resource. Some films are written with specific people in mind for the roles. Money is an appropriate incentive to get someone to come on to a project. Your career is not certain. One year you're a master Jedi creating modern day legends and then down the road you're playing CockKnocker. I've made it big so now I have fringe "benefits" like stalkers, no more private life, and required social functions. I have to finance security, a home where I and my family can be alone and unmolested. People want me to wear disgustingly expensive clothes.
Oh yeah, and a lot of those big, "fake" millionaires do do low budget artistic films. They get to do them and forego vastly better paying projects because they already have money.
And, whether you approve of it or not, part of the attraction to movie stars, recording artists and the like is their lifestyle. The general public eats it up and having highly visible icons provides an incentive for other aspiring actors. You rant about one star making $20M and then labeling them "fake" when the fact is you don't know any of them from Adam. Why aren't you blaming the "fake" people on the street who go watch a movie? They perpetuate the system.
But if you did you'd actually have to flame 99% of your intended audience so it's probably better to just stick to the elitest/. party line. Everything is crap, go indie (and just ignore the fact that there is a bunch of crap in the indie scene too. But hey, it isn't formula crap so it's good crap.)
But isn't the appliance angle just an example of the small, sharp tools philosophy? I have a device or service for storage and then I have a number of interconnected devices to accumulate, access or manipulate that reserve. The big difference from a PC is everything becomes distributed. And, of course, the biggest obstacle really isn't technological but political. There has to be some standard upon which these devices can communicate with each other.
Those are features provided by integration with Exchange. Outlook isn't doing all of that on it's own. So I guess the real question then becomes will we be able to integrate Lightning with a comparable backend?
Look at his problem description. No app, no app, no whatever app. It certainly doesn't sound like a kernel panic to me. It would be interesting if he could get to a shell or, after he reboots, can he find a core file. Then again, I've read the entire thread so far and it probably isn't worth the abuse.
No single app crashing has ever brought my XP system down.
Quitting IE after running an application like CiscoWorks or SolarWinds Orion has regularly caused my XP system to crash. Don't know what's more annoying though. The crash or the total loss of my Firefox profile after the crash.
But just because it has never happened to you does not mean it does not or can not happen.
It wasn't a birth defect. They cure Qiang Zao however she has so bought into the party line about being blessed by the Gods that she continues her OCD behavior even though there is no psychological imperitive to do so anymore. By the end of the book the people of Path find her to be something akin to a Planetary treasure or saint due to her devotion.
The topic of possible side-effects is what made me think of the Xenocide reference. The character I mentioned is engineered to be super-intellegent along with possessing OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.) In the book this was done on purpose. I don't think this would be done in reality but the possible side-effects of these new drugs mentioned in TFA could hinder a person's potential.
I sent off a quip that I found interesting and I had enough time to make that specific comment. I assumed that someone who had at least read the byline here on/. would get the gist of my comment. Obviously out of the 500,000+ readers here I overlooked the possiblility that you might not get it and I would touch on some preXmas cynical pique you were currently experiencing. My most sincere apologies.
And some enterprising person in the EU or Japan or where ever couldn't blantantly rip off this idea and make a localized version for themselves? Guess it's easier to bitch instead of do. Must be a perk for being so lucky.
I also assume that the P2P bit is a play on words. You know I believe I've seen that technique used on some comedies I watch on BBC America.
The SecureID solution has mechanisms built-in to determine if someone is possibly trying to crack the PIN and will lock the account out if those thresholds have been hit. The default settings are almost too touchy and it only takes two failed logins to generate an alert. I'd have to do some reading and play around but I don't think the majority of hackers are going to have the patience to try and break the initial 4 digit PIN. One also hopes that the token would be reported as lost before the hacker had any real window to try and break the code.
The real problem comes with policy. If a client loses a token they have to report it immediately so it can be disabled on the system. Policy has to be in place so a user is properly verified before a token is unlocked. You have to train the user to handle the PIN with care. At the local DMV it was neat to see they were using SecureID. The sticky note with the PIN tacked onto the token kinda made the whole exercise futile.
You must be kidding. What? You plan on using your ability to run a spellchecker as a basis for salary negotiations? So you want to say...
"For an extra $500 per year I won't write sentence fragments."
"Over the past year I feel I've improved with word choice in my emails so where's my 10 percent raise?"
"I don't write like I'm texting all the time. Promote me!"
Thanks. You just won the award for making Flower feel old for the day. Your no-prize is in the mail. Maybe my memory is failing but when during the past two decades since I was in school did we go from "good communication skills are a basic skillset for a professional job" to "coherent use of English a plus?" I hate to repeat myself but it is a truism. Good communication skills are a basic skillset for any professional job. Come on everybody, you know the song. Sing it with me.
Back to life. Back to reality.
And yes, I fully expect there is some/. reader out in their 50s to 60s ready to let me know that the present state of affairs is my generation's fault.
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Don't like the price of music currently? Then just don't buy it. Or if you absolutely must buy it then buy it used. Feel guilty that the artist didn't get your cash? Buy a t-shirt. Write them fan mail. Whatever.
But this "I'm going to put this CD up on a P2P network for personal reason X" or "I wouldn't buy it anyway so I'll just take it" is wrong. Morally, ethically, and legally. Heck, people aren't entitled to health care so why are you (rhetorical not personal) entitled to entertainment? The public good isn't served if the artist isn't getting adequate compensation. Legally is what being done actual theft? Of course not. But rhetorically it fits. Somebody has made something and offered it up for sale. You've (again rhetorical) taken it without paying the artist. The leap to "that is theft" isn't that surprising or hard to understand. It is easily digestible by society in general which really doesn't want to invest the time to work out the knot "but the work isn't physical and it is easily distibuted." In many cases I'd assert that point is irrelevent since the work has intrinsic value beyond whether it is on a plastic disc or merely exists as some electrical pulses over a wire.
Again, all references to you are rhetorical. They are not meant to connotate that the parent asserted those points as personal beliefs or facts.
I don't need a revolution which ousts a bunch of artists I don't give a rip about for a new set that I don't want either. Replacing Brittney Spears with Wierd Al isn't going to enrich my musical experience. It'll just change the jokes I use to talk about popular music. I need a mechanism to easily find bands like Collide, Abney Park or Gossamer which are going to be considered junk by many but which I personally think are great. Just like I happen to think October Project, NIN, Dream Theater, Green Day, Godsmack, Poe, Garbage, or Loreena McKinnet are great and iirc all are RIAA artists.
The music is out there, the problem is finding it and trying to "educate" the unwashed demographics that they should forgo their boy bands, rap artist of the day, or lip-synching pin-up girl for "real" music isn't the answer.
This isn't much different than some of the warnings I see in my Qualys reports as potential vulnerabilities. The service is there but my scan options don't allow Qualys the ability to determine if the software providing that service is actually vulnerable. So it flags, I read the description, check the service and remediate based on what I find. This isn't much different from what we're seeing here and is a good practice imo. The only thing I could possible suggest is that MS find a better way to reclassify what it finds. Maybe call WinPCap an "Indicator" or "Possible Spyware" directly in the Type or Threat Level.
He obviously cares a lot because we all know less is more.
One cite from Google cache. I won't invest the time to recover the other one I read about on CNN which I recall citing the Patriot Act directly. Not for an abusive AC.
It's already known that the FBI is providing information to prosecutors on how to apply the Patriot Act to other crimes. Now whether all of this stuff will stick upon the inevitable appeals is a totally different issue. But the Feds are trying to use the Patriot Act to cast as wide a net as possible.
Of course Pitt's salary isn't justified compared to a teacher's. What's that got to do with the price of tea in China? The public gladly pays for Pitt's salary so they can relax for a couple of hours but balks if a dime out of their property tax goes to schools. Again, why is everybody lamenting about the person making the money and not about the society feeding the system?
Hopkins and Washington are good actors and the the point is they are good actors who are entertaining to see on the big screen. Somethings just mean what they mean and aren't that complex.
God help us when we all have to be Mac-using, indie film watching, underground music listening, vegan, bi-sexual wiccans complete with a pierced body part and tribal tat before we can assert our individuality.
Now let's go over risks and compensation. I have to film overseas for six months, leaving my friends and family behind. I can be injured or even die (Brandon Lee anyone?) doing scenes with minimal stuntwork. Actresses get older and a fickle public no longer wants to see them. Started acting at 20 and ate ramen for ten years only to have ten years left in a career. Once you make it big there is competition to get you into movies and you are a limited, nay unique, resource. Some films are written with specific people in mind for the roles. Money is an appropriate incentive to get someone to come on to a project. Your career is not certain. One year you're a master Jedi creating modern day legends and then down the road you're playing CockKnocker. I've made it big so now I have fringe "benefits" like stalkers, no more private life, and required social functions. I have to finance security, a home where I and my family can be alone and unmolested. People want me to wear disgustingly expensive clothes.
Oh yeah, and a lot of those big, "fake" millionaires do do low budget artistic films. They get to do them and forego vastly better paying projects because they already have money.
And, whether you approve of it or not, part of the attraction to movie stars, recording artists and the like is their lifestyle. The general public eats it up and having highly visible icons provides an incentive for other aspiring actors. You rant about one star making $20M and then labeling them "fake" when the fact is you don't know any of them from Adam. Why aren't you blaming the "fake" people on the street who go watch a movie? They perpetuate the system.
But if you did you'd actually have to flame 99% of your intended audience so it's probably better to just stick to the elitest /. party line. Everything is crap, go indie (and just ignore the fact that there is a bunch of crap in the indie scene too. But hey, it isn't formula crap so it's good crap.)
But isn't the appliance angle just an example of the small, sharp tools philosophy? I have a device or service for storage and then I have a number of interconnected devices to accumulate, access or manipulate that reserve. The big difference from a PC is everything becomes distributed. And, of course, the biggest obstacle really isn't technological but political. There has to be some standard upon which these devices can communicate with each other.
No, the MPL is not compatible with the GPL. Sorry to say.
Take all the fun out of things why don't you. Fine, then I'll say Notes. But just for the record, I wanted to say Groupwise.
Those are features provided by integration with Exchange. Outlook isn't doing all of that on it's own. So I guess the real question then becomes will we be able to integrate Lightning with a comparable backend?
Look at his problem description. No app, no app, no whatever app. It certainly doesn't sound like a kernel panic to me. It would be interesting if he could get to a shell or, after he reboots, can he find a core file. Then again, I've read the entire thread so far and it probably isn't worth the abuse.
Once upon a time, IE wasn't a worthy opponent to Netscape. Once upon a time, Mozilla wasn't a worthy opponent to IE.
Quitting IE after running an application like CiscoWorks or SolarWinds Orion has regularly caused my XP system to crash. Don't know what's more annoying though. The crash or the total loss of my Firefox profile after the crash.
But just because it has never happened to you does not mean it does not or can not happen.
You delivered the flame. This is a correction.
I sent off a quip that I found interesting and I had enough time to make that specific comment. I assumed that someone who had at least read the byline here on /. would get the gist of my comment. Obviously out of the 500,000+ readers here I overlooked the possiblility that you might not get it and I would touch on some preXmas cynical pique you were currently experiencing. My most sincere apologies.
With Qiang Zao and her line tracing. Immensely intelligent but just psychologically handicapped enough so as never to be a real threat.
It will take a distro out of the basket or it will get the hose again....
I also assume that the P2P bit is a play on words. You know I believe I've seen that technique used on some comedies I watch on BBC America.
The real problem comes with policy. If a client loses a token they have to report it immediately so it can be disabled on the system. Policy has to be in place so a user is properly verified before a token is unlocked. You have to train the user to handle the PIN with care. At the local DMV it was neat to see they were using SecureID. The sticky note with the PIN tacked onto the token kinda made the whole exercise futile.
Geek Cruises looks promising...
Thanks. You just won the award for making Flower feel old for the day. Your no-prize is in the mail. Maybe my memory is failing but when during the past two decades since I was in school did we go from "good communication skills are a basic skillset for a professional job" to "coherent use of English a plus?" I hate to repeat myself but it is a truism. Good communication skills are a basic skillset for any professional job. Come on everybody, you know the song. Sing it with me.
And yes, I fully expect there is some
Now just think what I could have done had I spent another five seconds with a spellchecker :P