Notorious cases of alleged police brutality resulting in the death of the suspect are often followed by widespread looting of stores, with the perpetrators using justification like yours.
I don't recall justifying anything, just saying that I don't respect copyright law. It's like a homosexual saying they don't respect any laws against gay marriage. Why do they need to justify it? It's just their opinion whether you like it or not.
If you graduated from college and still can think like that, you should ask your college for a refund.
Actually I've written commercial software that I know somebody has pirated and then sold for a profit. I just shrugged it off and decided not to get bent out of shape over it.
Call it falacy if you want. I've written and sold software that made its way onto TPB and resulted directly in lost sales,
No doubt you got an F in high school economics.
In fact here's a little lesson: At my school, a student walked into the classroom saying that the soda machine was selling bottles (which were normally $1.50) for 5 cents. You know what happened? Basically the whole class went out to buy a soda. However if the price remained at $1.50, there wouldn't have been any increased sales; they would have simply done without.
This is a very basic economic concept called price elasticity. When something is free (aka your software) then the demand is much greater. However if the price is higher, then there's substantially less demand.
In simpler terms, if somebody didn't get your software for free, they would have simply gone without it anyways.
Now, that isn't to say that piracy doesn't negatively impact sales. It can, but not in the way you're thinking. Namely, one download isn't one lost sale. It's realistically much less than that, though how much less depends on the particular good.
For example, gasoline is something that is very inelastic. It pretty much doesn't matter how much it costs, people still tend to consume roughly the same amount of it, even when it goes up substantially.
However, in digital goods it tends to work more like this: The pirated copy may negatively impact the perceived value of a legitimate copy, but has virtually no negative impact on actual sales. Somebody might, for example, pirate a copy of your program, but then wait until it is offered at a discount before buying the real thing.
Now -- having said that -- a lot of software companies have taken advantage of this by offering special incentives for pirated users to go legit, and they usually do quite well with it. Although they made less than they would have if they had sold it at full price, they at least got some sales that they otherwise never would have had, so in the end it's a much more profitable proposition than had those users just done without entirely.
You seriously think the Republicans will reform copyright if they get in office? If they do, it'll be in favour of their corporate overlords, and We The People will git shafted even more.
I think they're a little more likely to. Freshwater economists (who the Republicans favor) are generally against long copyrights and protectionism/mercantilism of any form (Milton Friedman was one among several who signed a letter urging congress to vote against the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, saying that it's a "no brainer" that it shouldn't be passed.)
Keynesian (aka salt water) economists, which Democrats often favor, tend to like that kind of thing however, along with other protectionist measures (e.g. tariffs, "make work" projects, and the like.) Also, the Democrats are basically owned by Hollywood.
I think it would be considerably easier if SMTP was updated to require not only a reverse DNS arpa pointer record of the sending server, but the reverse DNS record must also have a matching MX record. Almost all legitimate mail servers already do this, and the ones that don't easily can.
Right now, most SMTP implementations don't require DNS at all, and unless spammers can hack every DNS server that most POP servers use, then their botnets aren't going to be able to send spam.
No, I'm not, look at the source material from that wiki page. They don't use a full gene from that bacterium, rather they use a small portion of nucleotides that are inspired from it.
It doesn't make any difference how many right wing propaganda sources
What the fuck does right wing have to do with this? Go take your moron politics to democraticunderground or freerepublic or some stupid shit that's about as relevant as arguing about what is the best sports team.
but to suggest that putting Salmon genes in Tomato plants is the same as just selecting between different offspring is incorrect.
This is exactly why I despise the anti-GMO movement. You and the rest of them keep making up and/or spreading bullshit lies because you have this foolish belief that natural is better and/or you have competing economic interests.
First of all, no GMO food that ever makes it to your plate ever has genes from one organism transplanted to another. The "frankenfood" is just another lie that keeps on getting repeated. But it's just that, a lie, usually spread maliciously by people who have an axe to grind against Monsanto, (sometimes they work for the snake oil organic industry who is struggling to compete with inexpensive GMO food) even though Monsanto isn't the only company that produces GMO plants. GMO foods are the result of a study called proteomics, and usually consist of fewer than 200 nucleotides (one pair of AT or GC is a nucleotide) which isn't anywhere near enough to create a full blown gene, let alone being transplanted from another organism.
Second of all, this actually happens in nature all the fucking time. In fact human DNA carries the placenta of some other animal. It permanently ended up in our genome via viral infection. It's a part of one of three full virus genomes embedded into our genome. We have some 100,000 other partial virus genomes embedded into our DNA.
Third of all, no person and no animal has ever gotten sick from GMO food. Ever. Not once. You know what though? Thousands have died and continue to die because they consumed organic food. That is, the organic farming process that produced the food that they consumed was the sole cause of their death. Tens of thousands more have gotten sick from organic food as well.
You know what though? Your stupid little anti-GMO movement doesn't make single a peep about the evils of organic food. Why the fuck do they demand warning labels for GMO food, but they never make any demands for warning labels for organic food?
Explain that one. Why the fuck do we need warning labels for GMO food, but not organic food, when organic food is the only farming process proven to actually kill people?
Well basically every highly urbanized and high crime area tends to be politically left. And no that isn't a jab or a partisan comment, just look at the red vs blue voting maps, population density, and crime rate. All three have a very strong correlation.
You don't pay attention to current events, do you? Nokia proper has just announced that they plan to release an Android phone in 2016. At the same time, Microsoft will no longer be allowed to use the Nokia name on smartphones. Out of it all will come Nokia Android M phones, and Microsoft branded Windows 10 phones. Which one do you think will sell well, and which one do you think will tank?
Hint: The Nokia N1 (Android tablet) is selling dramatically better than Nokia's Windows tablets, and the future Nokia Android smartphone will be designed under similar conditions.
Oh I accidentally replied to the wrong post, meant to reply to the one describing Vermont as a liberal (as in politics) state. Chicago is in a very liberal state.
Except in Chicago where you have to pay all of that, and then you technically aren't even allowed to have a gun in your own house. (Well, you can have the gun but probably not the ammunition.)
Didn't Phil Zimmerman already resolve an issue exactly like this? The US government said PGP was a munition and was banned from export, so he argued that he could print the source code in a book and mail it overseas, and since it was in book form it was explicitly spelled out in the constitution as protected speech.
Snippet:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;
While the constitution doesn't say anything about executable binary code (which if you REALLY stretch it, it can be considered machinery, and thus can be munitions) there's absolutely no slipping around the "press" part of it. It's very much ironclad and can't be broken, I don't care how they word any laws. So while they may be able to prevent digital distribution because some of the old people in the judicial branch don't always understand the difference between that and a book, you just print the schematics or even a bunch of QR codes (or whatever) that convey digital information in print form, and you easily get around any kind of law like this that even old people can understand.
I must be a new minority or something. At first I followed all of the arguments against SystemD, but just for shits and grins I tried Ubuntu Server 15.04 in its default configuration when I built three new network appliance VMs and...I actually like the result. I never did figure out how to get upstart to reliably make e.g. rtorrent restart when it crashes (and it crashes a lot) with upstart, whereas with systemd its crash recovery seems flawless, and it was easy to configure (you just need one line.) It was also very easy to tell it to wait until NFS was actually accessible before starting (upstart only gives you the ability to check that the NFS service is running, not that the NFS partitions actually mounted first.) With upstart I had to hack together a bash script that checked if NFS was mounted and then launch rtorrent as just a regular (non service) process.
Not only that but I was also impressed by how fast the reboots happened as I was setting up these VMs. Namely, I could open a new putty session to the server immediately after I issued the reboot command and closed the last one, whereas with upstart I would wait at least a minute or so. Now I no longer feel tempted to keep the vsphere client open just to watch its progress either.
Of course, I'm not a Linux guru as this server is mainly working as hobby tool and as a lab tool for running Cisco CSR1000v's for my CCIE training (though the server ONLY runs Linux, vSphere 6.0, and Cisco IOS, so I guess unlike most power users I have no dependence on Windows.) So having said that, I'll still defer to somebody who is a Linux guru for better judgement on systemd.
As distasteful as I find DRM, at least we see Microsoft trying to improve their web browser. With Edge they're actually succeeding in creating something that average users do want to use!
Not exactly. Microsoft's Edge browser is still in fourth place in terms of being standards compliant, which is what I think average users want because it makes the browser actually compatible with modern content. Yes, it's a tad ahead of IE, but it's still quite behind Chrome, Firefox, and Opera.
In fact most web browsers for mobile devices are doing better than Edge: It's behind Android WebView, BlackBerry's web browser, Chrome for Android, Firefox for Android, Safari for iOS, Opera Mobile, Tizen's web browser, Amazon Silk, Jolla Sailfish, and the now discontinued Nokia X browser.
The XBox One has been out, nothing approaching a break, and the XBox 360 will get killed off XBL the second someone sticks a modded ROM on there.
As for Windows, seen an activation crack for W2012 R2 or W2012, or even W8? Even fake KMS servers don't last long (a few hours at most).
I've been playing copied games on xbox live for a while on the xbox 360. You just use an xk3y and make sure to run the ripped ISO image through abg360. It's been working perfectly for over 3 years, and Microsoft is well aware of it yet hasn't been able to do anything to stop it.
I wonder, though, if you give your pass to a guest who is using win10 (unbeknownst to you) and your router is set to not allow win10 devices (is this possible? I'm not techie enough), would their win10 machine still save the pass and share it?
I don't know of any AP's that support this feature, but I'm sure you could have the router issue deauth packets to any MAC address that you've identified as belonging to a windows 10 device, that way it isn't able to communicate with any other devices on the node (e.g. for hacking purposes.) I suspect such an AP would exist, because I know that Marriot was using the same attack to prevent people from using their own private APs near their hotel.
As for how you might identify a windows 10 device to begin with, I wouldn't be at all surprised if any of its 802.11 frames included any bits that could be uniquely linked to that OS version. One way I could think of would be to look for MAC OUIs that are used on Lumia devices. It seems this feature is only for Windows 10 mobile devices, so that alone would keep out at least 90% of them.
Indeed, who is going to tell what constitutes "serious emotional distress"? Are we simply witnessing the creation of "a right to be offended", or a new era of psychologist judges?
I'm just wondering how the hell they plan to enforce it. From what I understand, it's already basically obligatory to use a VPN in NZ (e.g. to torrent or watch US netflix) so somebody using their VPN for trolling purposes doesn't seem far fetched.
See, mad is what happened to you after you saw a Google bus, because you believe that it was responsible for you having to take out a second mortgage on your cardboard box, even though in reality it's because you're so dumb that nobody will pay you more than minimum wage to clean the scum off of the bottom of a McDonald's fryer.
That doesn't make sense at all, because technologically Cuba is presently residing in the early 1960s, which is about when its ties with the US ended. Also Cuba didn't begin to see famine until after that point as well.
if you are giving guests your wifi password then you have already opted in to whatever that guest decides to do with it, they could publish it on facebook, email all their other friends. once you hand out access you have already lost control regardless of the device they are using.
Yes because having it stored in reversible crypto on Microsoft's publi facing servers is so much better.
It just means that the only safe and sane thing to do is to forbid Windows 10 devices from joining your network.
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Notorious cases of alleged police brutality resulting in the death of the suspect are often followed by widespread looting of stores, with the perpetrators using justification like yours.
I don't recall justifying anything, just saying that I don't respect copyright law. It's like a homosexual saying they don't respect any laws against gay marriage. Why do they need to justify it? It's just their opinion whether you like it or not.
If you graduated from college and still can think like that, you should ask your college for a refund.
Actually I've written commercial software that I know somebody has pirated and then sold for a profit. I just shrugged it off and decided not to get bent out of shape over it.
Call it falacy if you want. I've written and sold software that made its way onto TPB and resulted directly in lost sales,
No doubt you got an F in high school economics.
In fact here's a little lesson: At my school, a student walked into the classroom saying that the soda machine was selling bottles (which were normally $1.50) for 5 cents. You know what happened? Basically the whole class went out to buy a soda. However if the price remained at $1.50, there wouldn't have been any increased sales; they would have simply done without.
This is a very basic economic concept called price elasticity. When something is free (aka your software) then the demand is much greater. However if the price is higher, then there's substantially less demand.
In simpler terms, if somebody didn't get your software for free, they would have simply gone without it anyways.
Now, that isn't to say that piracy doesn't negatively impact sales. It can, but not in the way you're thinking. Namely, one download isn't one lost sale. It's realistically much less than that, though how much less depends on the particular good.
For example, gasoline is something that is very inelastic. It pretty much doesn't matter how much it costs, people still tend to consume roughly the same amount of it, even when it goes up substantially.
However, in digital goods it tends to work more like this: The pirated copy may negatively impact the perceived value of a legitimate copy, but has virtually no negative impact on actual sales. Somebody might, for example, pirate a copy of your program, but then wait until it is offered at a discount before buying the real thing.
Now -- having said that -- a lot of software companies have taken advantage of this by offering special incentives for pirated users to go legit, and they usually do quite well with it. Although they made less than they would have if they had sold it at full price, they at least got some sales that they otherwise never would have had, so in the end it's a much more profitable proposition than had those users just done without entirely.
You seriously think the Republicans will reform copyright if they get in office? If they do, it'll be in favour of their corporate overlords, and We The People will git shafted even more.
I think they're a little more likely to. Freshwater economists (who the Republicans favor) are generally against long copyrights and protectionism/mercantilism of any form (Milton Friedman was one among several who signed a letter urging congress to vote against the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, saying that it's a "no brainer" that it shouldn't be passed.)
Keynesian (aka salt water) economists, which Democrats often favor, tend to like that kind of thing however, along with other protectionist measures (e.g. tariffs, "make work" projects, and the like.) Also, the Democrats are basically owned by Hollywood.
When things like "happy birthday" can still retain copyright, then I have zero respect for all copyright.
Ok so since IPv6 breaks a lot of shit, let's not transition to it either.
I think it would be considerably easier if SMTP was updated to require not only a reverse DNS arpa pointer record of the sending server, but the reverse DNS record must also have a matching MX record. Almost all legitimate mail servers already do this, and the ones that don't easily can.
Right now, most SMTP implementations don't require DNS at all, and unless spammers can hack every DNS server that most POP servers use, then their botnets aren't going to be able to send spam.
You are factually incorrect.
No, I'm not, look at the source material from that wiki page. They don't use a full gene from that bacterium, rather they use a small portion of nucleotides that are inspired from it.
It doesn't make any difference how many right wing propaganda sources
What the fuck does right wing have to do with this? Go take your moron politics to democraticunderground or freerepublic or some stupid shit that's about as relevant as arguing about what is the best sports team.
I'm not anti-gmo
Bullshit.
but to suggest that putting Salmon genes in Tomato plants is the same as just selecting between different offspring is incorrect.
This is exactly why I despise the anti-GMO movement. You and the rest of them keep making up and/or spreading bullshit lies because you have this foolish belief that natural is better and/or you have competing economic interests.
First of all, no GMO food that ever makes it to your plate ever has genes from one organism transplanted to another. The "frankenfood" is just another lie that keeps on getting repeated. But it's just that, a lie, usually spread maliciously by people who have an axe to grind against Monsanto, (sometimes they work for the snake oil organic industry who is struggling to compete with inexpensive GMO food) even though Monsanto isn't the only company that produces GMO plants. GMO foods are the result of a study called proteomics, and usually consist of fewer than 200 nucleotides (one pair of AT or GC is a nucleotide) which isn't anywhere near enough to create a full blown gene, let alone being transplanted from another organism.
Second of all, this actually happens in nature all the fucking time. In fact human DNA carries the placenta of some other animal. It permanently ended up in our genome via viral infection. It's a part of one of three full virus genomes embedded into our genome. We have some 100,000 other partial virus genomes embedded into our DNA.
Third of all, no person and no animal has ever gotten sick from GMO food. Ever. Not once. You know what though? Thousands have died and continue to die because they consumed organic food. That is, the organic farming process that produced the food that they consumed was the sole cause of their death. Tens of thousands more have gotten sick from organic food as well.
Sources: (and lots of them)
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~a...
http://www.cgfi.org/2002/06/th...
http://www.geneticliteracyproj...
http://www.realclearscience.co...
http://www.americanthinker.com...
http://www.science20.com/chall...
http://www.washingtontimes.com...
You know what though? Your stupid little anti-GMO movement doesn't make single a peep about the evils of organic food. Why the fuck do they demand warning labels for GMO food, but they never make any demands for warning labels for organic food?
Explain that one. Why the fuck do we need warning labels for GMO food, but not organic food, when organic food is the only farming process proven to actually kill people?
Maybe skynet actually ran on a Beowulf rat cluster.
Well basically every highly urbanized and high crime area tends to be politically left. And no that isn't a jab or a partisan comment, just look at the red vs blue voting maps, population density, and crime rate. All three have a very strong correlation.
Out of it will come the Nokia Win 10 phones.
You don't pay attention to current events, do you? Nokia proper has just announced that they plan to release an Android phone in 2016. At the same time, Microsoft will no longer be allowed to use the Nokia name on smartphones. Out of it all will come Nokia Android M phones, and Microsoft branded Windows 10 phones. Which one do you think will sell well, and which one do you think will tank?
Hint: The Nokia N1 (Android tablet) is selling dramatically better than Nokia's Windows tablets, and the future Nokia Android smartphone will be designed under similar conditions.
Oh I accidentally replied to the wrong post, meant to reply to the one describing Vermont as a liberal (as in politics) state. Chicago is in a very liberal state.
So one percenters want to ban firearms? Can you name a few of them?
Except in Chicago where you have to pay all of that, and then you technically aren't even allowed to have a gun in your own house. (Well, you can have the gun but probably not the ammunition.)
Didn't Phil Zimmerman already resolve an issue exactly like this? The US government said PGP was a munition and was banned from export, so he argued that he could print the source code in a book and mail it overseas, and since it was in book form it was explicitly spelled out in the constitution as protected speech.
Snippet:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;
While the constitution doesn't say anything about executable binary code (which if you REALLY stretch it, it can be considered machinery, and thus can be munitions) there's absolutely no slipping around the "press" part of it. It's very much ironclad and can't be broken, I don't care how they word any laws. So while they may be able to prevent digital distribution because some of the old people in the judicial branch don't always understand the difference between that and a book, you just print the schematics or even a bunch of QR codes (or whatever) that convey digital information in print form, and you easily get around any kind of law like this that even old people can understand.
I must be a new minority or something. At first I followed all of the arguments against SystemD, but just for shits and grins I tried Ubuntu Server 15.04 in its default configuration when I built three new network appliance VMs and...I actually like the result. I never did figure out how to get upstart to reliably make e.g. rtorrent restart when it crashes (and it crashes a lot) with upstart, whereas with systemd its crash recovery seems flawless, and it was easy to configure (you just need one line.) It was also very easy to tell it to wait until NFS was actually accessible before starting (upstart only gives you the ability to check that the NFS service is running, not that the NFS partitions actually mounted first.) With upstart I had to hack together a bash script that checked if NFS was mounted and then launch rtorrent as just a regular (non service) process.
Not only that but I was also impressed by how fast the reboots happened as I was setting up these VMs. Namely, I could open a new putty session to the server immediately after I issued the reboot command and closed the last one, whereas with upstart I would wait at least a minute or so. Now I no longer feel tempted to keep the vsphere client open just to watch its progress either.
Of course, I'm not a Linux guru as this server is mainly working as hobby tool and as a lab tool for running Cisco CSR1000v's for my CCIE training (though the server ONLY runs Linux, vSphere 6.0, and Cisco IOS, so I guess unlike most power users I have no dependence on Windows.) So having said that, I'll still defer to somebody who is a Linux guru for better judgement on systemd.
Even in other tests, Edge is still dead last among the four.
http://caniuse.com/#compare=ie...
Also run the acid3 test in Edge and compare to Chrome. In Edge it stutters a bit, so it doesn't *fully* pass the test.
It's all of about 25 days from release. I doubt they are going to be adding features at this point, more likely they're just bug fixing.
As distasteful as I find DRM, at least we see Microsoft trying to improve their web browser. With Edge they're actually succeeding in creating something that average users do want to use!
Not exactly. Microsoft's Edge browser is still in fourth place in terms of being standards compliant, which is what I think average users want because it makes the browser actually compatible with modern content. Yes, it's a tad ahead of IE, but it's still quite behind Chrome, Firefox, and Opera.
http://html5test.com/results/d...
In fact most web browsers for mobile devices are doing better than Edge: It's behind Android WebView, BlackBerry's web browser, Chrome for Android, Firefox for Android, Safari for iOS, Opera Mobile, Tizen's web browser, Amazon Silk, Jolla Sailfish, and the now discontinued Nokia X browser.
http://html5test.com/results/m...
The XBox One has been out, nothing approaching a break, and the XBox 360 will get killed off XBL the second someone sticks a modded ROM on there.
As for Windows, seen an activation crack for W2012 R2 or W2012, or even W8? Even fake KMS servers don't last long (a few hours at most).
I've been playing copied games on xbox live for a while on the xbox 360. You just use an xk3y and make sure to run the ripped ISO image through abg360. It's been working perfectly for over 3 years, and Microsoft is well aware of it yet hasn't been able to do anything to stop it.
I wonder, though, if you give your pass to a guest who is using win10 (unbeknownst to you) and your router is set to not allow win10 devices (is this possible? I'm not techie enough), would their win10 machine still save the pass and share it?
I don't know of any AP's that support this feature, but I'm sure you could have the router issue deauth packets to any MAC address that you've identified as belonging to a windows 10 device, that way it isn't able to communicate with any other devices on the node (e.g. for hacking purposes.) I suspect such an AP would exist, because I know that Marriot was using the same attack to prevent people from using their own private APs near their hotel.
As for how you might identify a windows 10 device to begin with, I wouldn't be at all surprised if any of its 802.11 frames included any bits that could be uniquely linked to that OS version. One way I could think of would be to look for MAC OUIs that are used on Lumia devices. It seems this feature is only for Windows 10 mobile devices, so that alone would keep out at least 90% of them.
Indeed, who is going to tell what constitutes "serious emotional distress"? Are we simply witnessing the creation of "a right to be offended", or a new era of psychologist judges?
I'm just wondering how the hell they plan to enforce it. From what I understand, it's already basically obligatory to use a VPN in NZ (e.g. to torrent or watch US netflix) so somebody using their VPN for trolling purposes doesn't seem far fetched.
Nononono.
See, mad is what happened to you after you saw a Google bus, because you believe that it was responsible for you having to take out a second mortgage on your cardboard box, even though in reality it's because you're so dumb that nobody will pay you more than minimum wage to clean the scum off of the bottom of a McDonald's fryer.
That doesn't make sense at all, because technologically Cuba is presently residing in the early 1960s, which is about when its ties with the US ended. Also Cuba didn't begin to see famine until after that point as well.
if you are giving guests your wifi password then you have already opted in to whatever that guest decides to do with it, they could publish it on facebook, email all their other friends. once you hand out access you have already lost control regardless of the device they are using.
Yes because having it stored in reversible crypto on Microsoft's publi facing servers is so much better.
It just means that the only safe and sane thing to do is to forbid Windows 10 devices from joining your network.