this is absolutely hilarious because of the fact that this so plainy illustrates the hypocrisy inherent in the DMCA.
if this guy were publishing a similar article about virtual locks in operating systems, he would be in JAIL already, awaiting trial and facing billions of dollars of charges against him.
why dont we all go over to fatwallet and post things like "Walmart sale today only - buy a pack of gum, get a free diamond ring"
this country is getting more and more ridiculous, and the sooner the leeches we put in charge of representing us arent allowed to take bribes^H^H^H^H^H^H lobbies from big business, the sooner we can get back to reality of true representation and justice.
so now my money gets me nothing AND... has the added bonus of goin into a lawyers pocket???
sounds like a recursive problem to me.
want a REAL solution? I will be the first person to donate $1 a month (so if everyone in America did this it would be $250 million a month, give or take) and I want this money to fund full time workers who will monitor all of our government officials' spending pattern.
the moment their spending rises significantly over their governmental salary, launch a small investigation and find where the money came from. if it came from any lobby, throw that person in jail and backfill his government seat.
as soon as our whores quit getting money from corporate giants, they might actually start to think about repersenting us again!
"reasonable" and "perfect" are very different words, not to be confused with each other. I chose "reasonable" for its meaning.
the only "perfect" solution from a record company's point of view, though, is for everyone to grow a conscience and quit trading music -- while still having complete and total control for personal use.
this way, the consumer isnt hindered at all by proprietary garbage, and the record companies dont lose cash.
the problem with this is that many people see how the recording industry treats the artists, and this subtracts from any bad feelings we might have about trading music. with the tiny royalties realized by the artists, 90+ percent of the profit lost falls on the retailer and the record company.
why doesnt the recording industry lead by example, grow a conscience, and start treating our favorite bands more compassionately?
prior attempts by th music industry have left people who primarily listen on PC's and high-end cd players out in the cold, because they have relied on garbage parity data to stop copying (which stops playing also)
now this allows the cd to be played in normal dumb cd "players" as well as on a PC while still accomplishing their goal of making it tougher than a normal cd to rip to mp3 and trade.
so, except for the fact that most people actually like trading music for free, it sounds like a pretty good plan.
as an addendum, I will add that I wrote a couple really nasty letters about prior anti-pirating technology because of the 6 players I own, only 1 was capable of playing those protected disks because all others are either in my PC's or are $500+ head units in cars!
I have two words that come to mind when people see code like yours:
JOB SECURITY
and dont even take that as a compliment. it's childish and extremely detrimental to all progress in whatever company is dumb enough to employ you with such shitty coding technique.
I personally have been a unix sys admin for almost 10 years now and find myself having to write a lot of perl to accomplish things automatically. if my employer feels the need to get rid of me after I have created such a great environment (where others can edit my scripts), that would be an indication to me that I need to train harder and become more skilled.
keeping your job by writing crap that no one can possibly understand only creates hatred from the others who may have to read and alter your code.
I work with Sun servers all day long, and the 4800 is not 6 feet tall. and it also doesnt ship in its own rack (which is not to say you cannot get one racked in a Sun 72" rack)
the 6800, on the other hand...
oh yeah, and neither qualify as "big iron". the E10k, E12k, and E15k maaaaybe.
"Big Iron" normally refers to boxes like IBM's SP2, big S390's, etc.
I be a believer when Bill Gates declares himself ruler of the United States of the World and starts a campaign to embed flash-chip#666 in everyone's hand with their MS Passport information
they include unauthorized recordings made from radio and television and unauthorized compilation cd's containing tracks from more than one artist's cd.
I sure hope they mean the act of "selling" these types of recordings.
I can't imagine who they think they're preaching to if they mean the act of "making" these types of recordings. If they do, I'd like to see them try to haul 98% of the US population into court for violating their rights!
my point wasnt about whether or not police should have our information or not, my point was that the police are the only people theoretically able to screw me over in the case that I refuse to give it to them.
a bar owner or doorman can go to hell if he thinks he is entitled to my Social Security number, among other things.
on that note, I'm surprised that the Government isn't stepping in and telling bar owners the same thing given the current incidence of identity theft in the USA.
those things that demagnetize the products so they dont set off alarms on your way out the door are also wickedly good at permanently disabling all credit cards, licenses, bank cards, etc.
forget about VCR's and digital cameras, the tech gap is EVERYWHERE!
I believe one of the most fundamental differences between a tech-savvy person and a non-techie (all other things being equal) is that at the core the tech-savvy person isn't afraid of the technology.
Put a 10 year-old in front of a computer and watch them go wild, trying everything out, then put a 50 year-old in front of the same computer and marvel at their fear of breaking the thing by pressing a mouse button.
To address the gap specifically, look at cars. 30 years ago, new cars could all be worked on by most auto-savvy people. now we look around and find that there are more than a couple makers that won't allow you to turn off the check-engine light until you come in for your $5000 dealer oil change (exageration intended).
Most people accept this because cars of today have engines half the size producing twice the power and a fraction of the emissions as those from 30 years ago. It's a compromise.
Now let's apply this to the computer industry, and we can see the parallel is indeed there. The compromise lies in the fact that computers today can do quiteliterally THOUSANDS of things the Apple II could not. 40 years ago, it truly was possible for someone with motivation to be a master in the realm of computing -- now a person considers himself lucky to truly master one tiny specialised field in 5 years.
It's not abusing the consumer, it's giving people more of what they want at the expense of them not understanding *everything*.
I can almost guarantee the first thing their
scanners will do is dramatically cut down the
scan time and horsepower needed by scanning only
responsive hosts.
my nat box passes and returns nothing except
22/tcp - fixed!
they will not have the manpower, computing power,
or budget to scan every computer on their network
to eliminate the tiny percentage using NAT when
NAT will not save them shitloads of money if
eridicated completely.
the people they WILL target fiercely will be those
using 20 people worth of bandwidth connecting on
kazaa ports 24/7
and yes, I am *very* close to a few insiders in
high places at comcast.net and not just spouting BS
"So IBM announces a 25 gig hard drive... does the world need this yet? Unless this is in a RAID, would you really want to trust 25 gigs on a single drive? What would you use this for? 400+ hours of MP3s comes to mind... "
mind you, this was only a couple short years ago, and now I'm writing this from a PC with three 80 giggers.
i thought we geeks were supposed to have more foresight than this? *grin*
Slashdot Mirror
my data warehouse at work is 600GB and grows at a rate of 4GB per day.
the production database that drives the sites is like 100GB
welcome to last week. 2GB is tiny.
this is absolutely hilarious because of the fact that this so plainy illustrates the hypocrisy inherent in the DMCA.
if this guy were publishing a similar article about virtual locks in operating systems, he would be in JAIL already, awaiting trial and facing billions of dollars of charges against him.
gotta love it
wonder how much RIAA paid them to publish this ridiculous garbage.
how about if the original signal was just totally poor quality (think cassette tapes). would this damage hearing also?
lame lame lame excuse for quality publishing.
why dont we all go over to fatwallet and post things like "Walmart sale today only - buy a pack of gum, get a free diamond ring"
this country is getting more and more ridiculous, and the sooner the leeches we put in charge of representing us arent allowed to take bribes^H^H^H^H^H^H lobbies from big business, the sooner we can get back to reality of true representation and justice.
people are accidentally wandering onto their website, and they're afraid people might actually recognize their name again *grin*
i'm thinking Robert-Redford/Harrison-Ford/ would have trouble explaining his hobbit hole to chicks without them running for the door...
but in my world, Java is the single largest memory hog and memory-leaking piece of crap I have ever seen.
you're kidding yourself if you think Java keeps you from having memory leaks, and I have enterprise code to prove it
so now my money gets me nothing AND... has the added bonus of goin into a lawyers pocket???
sounds like a recursive problem to me.
want a REAL solution? I will be the first person to donate $1 a month (so if everyone in America did this it would be $250 million a month, give or take) and I want this money to fund full time workers who will monitor all of our government officials' spending pattern.
the moment their spending rises significantly over their governmental salary, launch a small investigation and find where the money came from. if it came from any lobby, throw that person in jail and backfill his government seat.
as soon as our whores quit getting money from corporate giants, they might actually start to think about repersenting us again!
in the meantime, screw paying MORE leach lawyers.
okay, yes, this is not a PERFECT solution.
"reasonable" and "perfect" are very different words, not to be confused with each other. I chose "reasonable" for its meaning.
the only "perfect" solution from a record company's point of view, though, is for everyone to grow a conscience and quit trading music -- while still having complete and total control for personal use.
this way, the consumer isnt hindered at all by proprietary garbage, and the record companies dont lose cash.
the problem with this is that many people see how the recording industry treats the artists, and this subtracts from any bad feelings we might have about trading music. with the tiny royalties realized by the artists, 90+ percent of the profit lost falls on the retailer and the record company.
why doesnt the recording industry lead by example, grow a conscience, and start treating our favorite bands more compassionately?
oops, got off on a tangent there.
prior attempts by th music industry have left people who primarily listen on PC's and high-end cd players out in the cold, because they have relied on garbage parity data to stop copying (which stops playing also)
now this allows the cd to be played in normal dumb cd "players" as well as on a PC while still accomplishing their goal of making it tougher than a normal cd to rip to mp3 and trade.
so, except for the fact that most people actually like trading music for free, it sounds like a pretty good plan.
as an addendum, I will add that I wrote a couple really nasty letters about prior anti-pirating technology because of the 6 players I own, only 1 was capable of playing those protected disks because all others are either in my PC's or are $500+ head units in cars!
just large enough to keep a nice litle stack of CD's (or even a ghosted HDD in a metallic bag)
I am on Comcast and have been capped at 1500/128 Kbit/s from day one after @home went away.
for got to mention, geotrust charges $119 per year (can get cheaper if you work deals with them)
we use them for all of our commercial sites.
I'm sorry, but I have to argue that this is only a good intro book for coders.
"Learning Perl" is a great book for non-coders to learn all the basics of perl, but may bore coders.
I have two words that come to mind when people see code like yours:
JOB SECURITY
and dont even take that as a compliment. it's childish and extremely detrimental to all progress in whatever company is dumb enough to employ you with such shitty coding technique.
I personally have been a unix sys admin for almost 10 years now and find myself having to write a lot of perl to accomplish things automatically. if my employer feels the need to get rid of me after I have created such a great environment (where others can edit my scripts), that would be an indication to me that I need to train harder and become more skilled.
keeping your job by writing crap that no one can possibly understand only creates hatred from the others who may have to read and alter your code.
bah, I'm done.
I work with Sun servers all day long, and the 4800 is not 6 feet tall. and it also doesnt ship in its own rack (which is not to say you cannot get one racked in a Sun 72" rack)
the 6800, on the other hand...
oh yeah, and neither qualify as "big iron". the E10k, E12k, and E15k maaaaybe.
"Big Iron" normally refers to boxes like IBM's SP2, big S390's, etc.
I be a believer when Bill Gates declares himself ruler of the United States of the World and starts a campaign to embed flash-chip#666 in everyone's hand with their MS Passport information
heh =)
they include unauthorized recordings made from radio and television and unauthorized compilation cd's containing tracks from more than one artist's cd.
I sure hope they mean the act of "selling" these types of recordings.
I can't imagine who they think they're preaching to if they mean the act of "making" these types of recordings. If they do, I'd like to see them try to haul 98% of the US population into court for violating their rights!
my point wasnt about whether or not police should
have our information or not, my point was that
the police are the only people theoretically
able to screw me over in the case that I refuse
to give it to them.
a bar owner or doorman can go to hell if he thinks
he is entitled to my Social Security number, among
other things.
on that note, I'm surprised that the Government
isn't stepping in and telling bar owners the same
thing given the current incidence of identity
theft in the USA.
ok, enough rambling from me.
those things that demagnetize the products so they
dont set off alarms on your way out the door are
also wickedly good at permanently disabling
all credit cards, licenses, bank cards, etc.
I have been doing this to my licenses ever since
the advent of the stupid magnetic strip.
This way, people who need the info (e.g. police)
can still get it, but dickheads that like to track
the clientele in their bars dont.
It's not like they're not going to let someone old
enough pay the establishment 300% profit on alcohol
just because their license got demagnetized.
forget about VCR's and digital cameras, the tech gap is EVERYWHERE!
I believe one of the most fundamental differences between a tech-savvy person and a non-techie (all other things being equal) is that at the core the tech-savvy person isn't afraid of the technology.
Put a 10 year-old in front of a computer and watch them go wild, trying everything out, then put a 50 year-old in front of the same computer and marvel at their fear of breaking the thing by pressing a mouse button.
To address the gap specifically, look at cars. 30 years ago, new cars could all be worked on by most auto-savvy people. now we look around and find that there are more than a couple makers that won't allow you to turn off the check-engine light until you come in for your $5000 dealer oil change (exageration intended).
Most people accept this because cars of today have engines half the size producing twice the power and a fraction of the emissions as those from 30 years ago. It's a compromise.
Now let's apply this to the computer industry, and we can see the parallel is indeed there. The compromise lies in the fact that computers today can do quiteliterally THOUSANDS of things the Apple II could not. 40 years ago, it truly was possible for someone with motivation to be a master in the realm of computing -- now a person considers himself lucky to truly master one tiny specialised field in 5 years.
It's not abusing the consumer, it's giving people more of what they want at the expense of them not understanding *everything*.
I can almost guarantee the first thing their
scanners will do is dramatically cut down the
scan time and horsepower needed by scanning only
responsive hosts.
my nat box passes and returns nothing except
22/tcp - fixed!
they will not have the manpower, computing power,
or budget to scan every computer on their network
to eliminate the tiny percentage using NAT when
NAT will not save them shitloads of money if
eridicated completely.
the people they WILL target fiercely will be those
using 20 people worth of bandwidth connecting on
kazaa ports 24/7
and yes, I am *very* close to a few insiders in
high places at comcast.net and not just spouting BS
"So IBM announces a 25 gig hard drive... does the world need this yet? Unless this is in a RAID, would you really want to trust 25 gigs on a single drive? What would you use this for? 400+ hours of MP3s comes to mind... "
mind you, this was only a couple short years ago, and now I'm writing this from a PC with three 80 giggers.
i thought we geeks were supposed to have more foresight than this? *grin*