Well fuck'em then. If they're just going to "sell" and "license" music and software, then I'm going to steal it, do without, deal with creators who aren't playing such stupid games, and otherwise restrict myself to those cases where the pressing-ness of the need outweighs the shittiness of the deal.
but if the policy is going to be "we don't sell music, we only license it" then they are fucked, deserve to be fucked, and don't deserve any sympathy
true enough and well said. of course, the press is still sheepish and herdlike enough not to ask what ulterior motives microsoft might have, which is the real problem. journalists seem to be extremely gullible when it comes to technical issues.
and i'd add one other possible motive... once they've declared themselves "pervert free", it's an advertising angle against other chat. it won't be true, of course, and all a real pervert has to do is find the kids through message boards first... but once again, most won't think beyond the tip of their nose and won't get this until too late.
Consider what happens when you try to send email to a non-existent domain by mistake. Consider what happens when you try to check the validity of an email address by looking it up. Consider what happens when you are doing ANYTHING but using a web browser. They are causing more confusion than they are "assisting" by a factor of about 100000000000000000000.
They can go fuck themselves and you can go with them.
And I can't believe that I'll be the first one to remark that if state troopers are watching university students from a surveillance camera, most of the crotch grabbing has got to be on the watchers' side of the lens.
I will approve of ubiquitous surveillance cameras only when there is universal access to watching them.
Right on. They've decided that since they can make money on HTTP typosquatting, they have the right to fuck up the rest of the internet as well. Fucking fuckers they are.
If they really have the right to do this, what's next? E-mail harvesting! Accept mail for bogus domains, but return "No such user" for all of them, collect the "Mail from:" addresses, and send them lots of spam! What, their MTA didn't read the "Terms of use" in the banner displayed on connect?
Frankly, this reallly goes over the line. They cannot be trusted with a core internet technology any longer. Netsol/Verisign still manages to constantly whipsaw between extreme greed, incompetence, arrogance, and foolishness, and I no longer care which one is predominant. Fire their asses now!
Try running, say, nmap against verisignarescumsuckingpigs.com. Then try to connect: for a short time, you will be blocked.
As far as I'm concerned, that's a pretty good way to deal with them. Just periodically portscan them. It would be nice to figure out if there's one single port (say, telnet, which shows up as "filtered") that you can use to get yourself blocked: send them a single packet every 5 minutes, and never reach them.
And a properly conducted experiment that scientists refuse to try to replicate is... well, science, and the people who can't even bother to refute them through science are just voodoo priests in white lab coats. Like it or not, there are a lot of people examining some difficult-to-replicate phenomena under the rubric of cold fusion research, and the majority of them are real scientists. You can't say only believers can replicate it - because you would characterize anyone who did as a believer, which makes you about as scientific as the Spanish Inquisition.
Scientists are as bad as the rest of the human race when it comes to believing in what they know and calling everything else fantasy. The scientific method - eventually - drags them kicking and screaming into reality, but that doesn't mean they won't kick and scream the whole way.
Prions, for example, were thought total bullshit by much of the scientific community for an awfully long time. They didn't specifically bother to refute anything, for the most part, they just said that it was too preposterous to look at. Now it's well accepted that mad cow disease, among other things, are caused by prions.
Clearly, if you actually think markets have free reign, you aren't familiar with the markets for sugar, oil, milk, natural gas, corn, soy, steel, sorghum, Hummers, etc, etc, etc. These markets are all fixed in some degree or another, either by outright decree, welfare *cough* i mean government subsidies, targeted "regulation" and tariffs, etc, etc.
The funny thing about capitalism is that the most rabid self-proclaimed capitalists practice it so seldom. Hardly any primary source of productivity is untouched by protectionism, subsidies, policy, etc. There are some good reasons for this, and lots of terrible ones. The good ones all run along the lines of "we need this to run a proper country, and we should support it to make sure we aren't dependent on foreign sources". But this doesn't appeal to phony conservatives (real ones understand from time to time, e.g.. George Will's recent article on why the gov't should subsidize Amtrak). The bad ones often amount to giving free rides to your buddies in the oil industry because you are in office and have the integrity of a planarian (flubberworm to those of you who haven't entered high school yet). But dittohead capitalism is entirely predicated on being dangerously ignorant of the real facts: as opposed to actually being against government intervention, which hardly any hardcore "conservatives" actually are - state-controlled "capitalism" is a favorite of fascists hiding in conservative clothing, as long as it benefits them or people who they believe, in their tiny little hearts, they can somehow glom onto.
And I think anyone except perhaps Rummy can see that it's a tad early to state "Iraq is not a quagmire", never mind apologize for wondering if it is.
And I would think the primary responsibility for managing the cache issues falls on the NYTimes. When they've done their part, they can whine to Google, but not before.
Matlab is "unsupported", but only because the Mathworks dudes don't feel like it, either because they are lazy, or dumb, or timid, or pricks, or their lawyers scared them out of it, or whatever. It's actually worked with the Linux emulation mode for years (and some claim it's faster than under Linux!)
That being said, Matlab is very overpriced when stuff like Octave is available. $5K is a lot to pay for a pretty font or two and GUI to support greenhorns.
yeah, right. those people waste too much time talking about the right thing to do. what they really need is someone to decide what the right thing to do is, and then have everyone do it. someone wise.
open source has a lot of paid developers paid by commercial interests, so who wins, there?
and if you'll rake the whole village for $100 dollars, i'd say either you're the wrong person to listen to on any sort of matters of economics. either that or i'll take you up on that offer and then get the 40 houses on my street to chip in $5 each for their lawns.
Please. Let's hear more. I've got nothing more. See?:
hot crotches
platform irrelevance
optimized mud (pronounced *fud*)
de-simplified objectivizational interfaces
enterprising peas
over-engineered indifference
naked mole rat api 4.7
and ya know, if this meant i could use a reasonably modern jdk without some damn user account and policed downloads, i might give a damn. but that's an easy bluff, because we all know they'll let out maybe the 1.2 api if redshat is lucky, and it will be a marketing coup for redhat, a PR plus for Sun, and no one will really give a damn. if they had a clue they'd really open source it and keep the closed version one generation ahead, but they clearly lost the key to that bus station locker a long time ago - they'll try to keep the closed version 9 generations ahead , then 10, just to prove how cool they are. i say we start setting odds on perl 6 vs OSS java vs thermonuclear Sun (those UltraSparcs really pack a wallop!).
I'd be nervous about doing that if I were in a position to. SCO might be showing different pieces of code to different people, so you could land in a legal fight after they saw which piece was revealed. I don't doubt that they have multiple pieces of code to show people - just stretch the truth far enough and you could probably claim just about any piece of code is derivative of just about any other piece of code. Which is why SCO is going to get buried alive when IBM levels the patent cannons at the SCO lawyers with their copyright flyswatters.
Good... one more year for GIF to die slowly. I'd rather see better PNG support anyway... The only thing GIF has to offer at this point is animations - and MNG could do that, if anyone bothered to support it. I'll have to wait until next year, then, to burn my GIFs just for the hell of it. DIE GIF DIE. I'll still promote PNG use wherever it can be done just because it's better and it isn't a rotting corpse.
And in the long run, equally importantly: it tends to keep the persecution BY minority groups down. The Prohibition, for example, didn't last. Lots of interests can spend all their political capital to manufacture a short-term majority on a single issue; very few can make it a long-term winner without strong coercion. The pro-segregationist South managed to keep Jim Crow laws together for a while, but simply having the fanatical support of a single group isn't enough to dominate the political landscape in the long haul, even on that one issue. Thank god for small and mortal tyrannies (Asscraft *cough* I mean Ashcroft for example): they are the best proof of Churchill's adage that democracy is the worst of all forms of government, excepting the alternatives. Because while many lefties and right-wingnuts in the USA get antsy about the potential for a "dictator by election", real democracy on the ground in the US convinces me that any serious attempt at seizing power here would get the smackdown but quick - and from all sides of the political spectrum.
Ashcroft, for example, can't get away with 1/1000th of the un-democratic stuff he'd like to; he just can't, because 400 illegal detentions might get overlooked, but 4000 would get his ass kicked. 40,000 would likely get him killed, probably by the very same "Christian conservative"/"American Taliban" types who are most like him (if only because the lefties who'd do it are less likely to own guns). And let's face it, 400 is probably not even the number of harmless loudmouths who get their heads kicked in by bouncers every weekend.
The younger Powell clearly lacks the integrity his father projects.
Only a complete pinhead could say, as he did, "Just because purchases of additional media enterprises is now possible, thanks to our ruling, doesn't mean that the media will lose all diversity. Companies only buy up these media properties when it makes good business sense." As to making sense, apparently he's the only living being inside the radius of Neptune who's never heard of AOL-Time-Warner. Second, the FCC allowed greater ownership of radio stations years ago and in fact radio is owned by a smaller number of companies than ever before, and in most markets radio now sucks donkey dick, thus taking a public resource - the airwaves - sucking all the juice out and handing back a turd. Finally
Now I'm pretty sure even your average flatworm can tell that most people often don't want to switch cellphone carriers because they don't want to give up their phone number. This is inherently anti-competetive. Remember, Capitalism is about competition, so what is anti-Competetive is anti-Capitalist - and pro-fascist (state control of pseudo-market economy). He can't possibly be stupid enough to believe that a failure to enforce the law (portability of cell phone numbers) will do anything except protect an already anemic industry (wireless services in the US lag behind most of the developed world and much of the under-developed world as well) against the forces of competition and against the best interests of the people of the United States of America. Powell is a turd.
Bullshit. Clinton's perjury had nothing to do with the official policies of the USA. They had to do with a blowjob. Poindexter's had to do with subverting the rule of law - they were part of an attempt by the executive branch to free themselves of the checks placed on them by the legislative branch - against the waging of war, the sole power of which is granted by the Constitution to Congress. As such, Poindexter's perjury was a crime against the Constitution of the highest order. The weaselly motherfucker should be shot for treason, not using taxpayer's money to give unelected powers the ultimate weapon of a secret police state. I have yet to hear a plausible explanation of how a blowjob could subvert the Constitution, and I have yet to hear a sensible explanation of how funding a foreign war with drug sales against the dictates of the duly elected Congress is anything but treason.
The Bush-41-43-oil-business-uber-alles crowd no more believes in the sacred principles of democracy than the president of China. They believe in the cynical use of power to enrich their buddies, and nothing else.
It would be if they could get away with it. They'd like you to think so. But the US law says they are full of shit.
If you can't resell it, then it can't be said to have been sold in the first place. It's a rental. And if it's not worth for the owener to recover as a rental - and there are no CD reclamation programs I've ever heard of - then the whole thing is a fucking scam.
They go too far. Piracy is the only way to level out the abuse of power by the RIAA. Buy direct from bands, buy from small labels you know, and FUCK the RIAA.
Fascinating. The Matrix is for dummies, and yet you find difficulty in comprehending it.
The funny thing is, I don't hear ANYONE talking about how its "some kind of amazing metaphysical revelation" except MENSA wannabes like you making a straw man out of it. I saw the movie, I thought it was great, and I didn't think it was a revelation, though I thought it was rather nice that the filmmakers let you know now and again that they may have actually read, for example, Plato's allegory and understood it, and don't feel the need to talk down to anyone OR dumb it down. Unlike you you worthless fuck.
The problem with elitist numbfucks like you spouting off is that you are completely incapable of consistency or awareness of context. Do I hear you ranting about how Metropolis was a fucking stupid movie because you read Marx? Do you know anything about the history of the idea of a city at the center of the earth? Would you recognize a visual quote of Tarkovsky if you saw it? Can you name a movie from 1993 where the Wachowskis probably got the idea for the bullet trails, and describe the connection the Matrix has to that movie? Do you have anything to contribute except pretending to be smart?
Yes, very original. Because no work that draws heavily on religious material to provide plot material for a story could be "serious". Not, say Moby Dick or Paradise Lost or Faust or... well, just about any serious work of Western literature.
The makers of the movie, unlike you, with your three dollar words and superficial intellectualism, are smart enough to recognize that the action that captures your interest and the meaning that lies behind the events often appear to live in separate universes. One might even say that was the whole point of the movie. Yet they both know that path AND walk it. As further evidence, the code name for the second movie was "The Burly Man", which is the name of the screenplay in Barton Fink; it's a wrestling movie, suggesting they have an ironic and knowing approach to the contradictions of an action movie and a movie of ideas.
They know exactly what they are doing on more levels than you know. Or are ready to know.
Then again there's the gray hats. In the context of your comments, they would be the ones who have the moral fortitude not to go to the dark side and who are smart enough not to get caught. White hats are smart enough to do only things they wouldn't mind being caught at. It *is* a higher ethical standard, though the gray hat is closer to the white hat than the black, with the caveat that this distinction is maintained largely by having enough skill and/or prudence not to get caught - and the distinction disappears in the eye of others the second they get caught.
A white hat might be a gray hat who never gets caught, but a black hat who doesn't get caught is still a black hat. IMVWO (in my very wise opinion).
So wanting to hire only white hats still makes sense even if you see nothing wrong with the gray hats...
I haven't had any complaints about 5 whatsoever, and a number of (very small) things that have long been problematic are suddenly better. Background filesystem checks are really nice, power management is better.
And if you hate linux dependency hell, scrap the redhat and try out Gentoo. It's like the FreeBSD ports system on steriods. It's Linux with a concept of a base system. It's FreeBSD's ports with a better upgrade path. I haven't gotten far enough to see how well it really works in the longer run of upgrade cycles, though; some fdisk/grub problem is keeping the system from knowing how to boot itself (though I got FreeBSD installed in 10 minutes on the same system).
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but if the policy is going to be "we don't sell music, we only license it" then they are fucked, deserve to be fucked, and don't deserve any sympathy
true enough and well said. of course, the press is still sheepish and herdlike enough not to ask what ulterior motives microsoft might have, which is the real problem. journalists seem to be extremely gullible when it comes to technical issues. and i'd add one other possible motive... once they've declared themselves "pervert free", it's an advertising angle against other chat. it won't be true, of course, and all a real pervert has to do is find the kids through message boards first... but once again, most won't think beyond the tip of their nose and won't get this until too late.
Consider what happens when you try to send email to a non-existent domain by mistake. Consider what happens when you try to check the validity of an email address by looking it up. Consider what happens when you are doing ANYTHING but using a web browser. They are causing more confusion than they are "assisting" by a factor of about 100000000000000000000.
They can go fuck themselves and you can go with them.
And I can't believe that I'll be the first one to remark that if state troopers are watching university students from a surveillance camera, most of the crotch grabbing has got to be on the watchers' side of the lens.
I will approve of ubiquitous surveillance cameras only when there is universal access to watching them.
If they really have the right to do this, what's next? E-mail harvesting! Accept mail for bogus domains, but return "No such user" for all of them, collect the "Mail from:" addresses, and send them lots of spam! What, their MTA didn't read the "Terms of use" in the banner displayed on connect?
Frankly, this reallly goes over the line. They cannot be trusted with a core internet technology any longer. Netsol/Verisign still manages to constantly whipsaw between extreme greed, incompetence, arrogance, and foolishness, and I no longer care which one is predominant. Fire their asses now!
As far as I'm concerned, that's a pretty good way to deal with them. Just periodically portscan them. It would be nice to figure out if there's one single port (say, telnet, which shows up as "filtered") that you can use to get yourself blocked: send them a single packet every 5 minutes, and never reach them.
Scientists are as bad as the rest of the human race when it comes to believing in what they know and calling everything else fantasy. The scientific method - eventually - drags them kicking and screaming into reality, but that doesn't mean they won't kick and scream the whole way.
Prions, for example, were thought total bullshit by much of the scientific community for an awfully long time. They didn't specifically bother to refute anything, for the most part, they just said that it was too preposterous to look at. Now it's well accepted that mad cow disease, among other things, are caused by prions.
Wake up and smell the scientific method, dude.
The funny thing about capitalism is that the most rabid self-proclaimed capitalists practice it so seldom. Hardly any primary source of productivity is untouched by protectionism, subsidies, policy, etc. There are some good reasons for this, and lots of terrible ones. The good ones all run along the lines of "we need this to run a proper country, and we should support it to make sure we aren't dependent on foreign sources". But this doesn't appeal to phony conservatives (real ones understand from time to time, e.g.. George Will's recent article on why the gov't should subsidize Amtrak). The bad ones often amount to giving free rides to your buddies in the oil industry because you are in office and have the integrity of a planarian (flubberworm to those of you who haven't entered high school yet). But dittohead capitalism is entirely predicated on being dangerously ignorant of the real facts: as opposed to actually being against government intervention, which hardly any hardcore "conservatives" actually are - state-controlled "capitalism" is a favorite of fascists hiding in conservative clothing, as long as it benefits them or people who they believe, in their tiny little hearts, they can somehow glom onto.
never mind whether it's consumers or citizens. they did it, and now they're going to pay
And I think anyone except perhaps Rummy can see that it's a tad early to state "Iraq is not a quagmire", never mind apologize for wondering if it is.
And I would think the primary responsibility for managing the cache issues falls on the NYTimes. When they've done their part, they can whine to Google, but not before.
Read about it here: matlab for linux and freebsd
That being said, Matlab is very overpriced when stuff like Octave is available. $5K is a lot to pay for a pretty font or two and GUI to support greenhorns.
open source has a lot of paid developers paid by commercial interests, so who wins, there?
and if you'll rake the whole village for $100 dollars, i'd say either you're the wrong person to listen to on any sort of matters of economics. either that or i'll take you up on that offer and then get the 40 houses on my street to chip in $5 each for their lawns.
- hot crotches
- platform irrelevance
- optimized mud (pronounced *fud*)
- de-simplified objectivizational interfaces
- enterprising peas
- over-engineered indifference
- naked mole rat api 4.7
and ya know, if this meant i could use a reasonably modern jdk without some damn user account and policed downloads, i might give a damn. but that's an easy bluff, because we all know they'll let out maybe the 1.2 api if redshat is lucky, and it will be a marketing coup for redhat, a PR plus for Sun, and no one will really give a damn. if they had a clue they'd really open source it and keep the closed version one generation ahead, but they clearly lost the key to that bus station locker a long time ago - they'll try to keep the closed version 9 generations ahead , then 10, just to prove how cool they are. i say we start setting odds on perl 6 vs OSS java vs thermonuclear Sun (those UltraSparcs really pack a wallop!).I'd be nervous about doing that if I were in a position to. SCO might be showing different pieces of code to different people, so you could land in a legal fight after they saw which piece was revealed. I don't doubt that they have multiple pieces of code to show people - just stretch the truth far enough and you could probably claim just about any piece of code is derivative of just about any other piece of code. Which is why SCO is going to get buried alive when IBM levels the patent cannons at the SCO lawyers with their copyright flyswatters.
Good... one more year for GIF to die slowly. I'd rather see better PNG support anyway... The only thing GIF has to offer at this point is animations - and MNG could do that, if anyone bothered to support it. I'll have to wait until next year, then, to burn my GIFs just for the hell of it. DIE GIF DIE. I'll still promote PNG use wherever it can be done just because it's better and it isn't a rotting corpse.
Ashcroft, for example, can't get away with 1/1000th of the un-democratic stuff he'd like to; he just can't, because 400 illegal detentions might get overlooked, but 4000 would get his ass kicked. 40,000 would likely get him killed, probably by the very same "Christian conservative"/"American Taliban" types who are most like him (if only because the lefties who'd do it are less likely to own guns). And let's face it, 400 is probably not even the number of harmless loudmouths who get their heads kicked in by bouncers every weekend.
Only a complete pinhead could say, as he did, "Just because purchases of additional media enterprises is now possible, thanks to our ruling, doesn't mean that the media will lose all diversity. Companies only buy up these media properties when it makes good business sense." As to making sense, apparently he's the only living being inside the radius of Neptune who's never heard of AOL-Time-Warner. Second, the FCC allowed greater ownership of radio stations years ago and in fact radio is owned by a smaller number of companies than ever before, and in most markets radio now sucks donkey dick, thus taking a public resource - the airwaves - sucking all the juice out and handing back a turd. Finally
Now I'm pretty sure even your average flatworm can tell that most people often don't want to switch cellphone carriers because they don't want to give up their phone number. This is inherently anti-competetive. Remember, Capitalism is about competition, so what is anti-Competetive is anti-Capitalist - and pro-fascist (state control of pseudo-market economy). He can't possibly be stupid enough to believe that a failure to enforce the law (portability of cell phone numbers) will do anything except protect an already anemic industry (wireless services in the US lag behind most of the developed world and much of the under-developed world as well) against the forces of competition and against the best interests of the people of the United States of America. Powell is a turd.
The Bush-41-43-oil-business-uber-alles crowd no more believes in the sacred principles of democracy than the president of China. They believe in the cynical use of power to enrich their buddies, and nothing else.
If you can't resell it, then it can't be said to have been sold in the first place. It's a rental. And if it's not worth for the owener to recover as a rental - and there are no CD reclamation programs I've ever heard of - then the whole thing is a fucking scam.
They go too far. Piracy is the only way to level out the abuse of power by the RIAA. Buy direct from bands, buy from small labels you know, and FUCK the RIAA.
Profit!!!
The funny thing is, I don't hear ANYONE talking about how its "some kind of amazing metaphysical revelation" except MENSA wannabes like you making a straw man out of it. I saw the movie, I thought it was great, and I didn't think it was a revelation, though I thought it was rather nice that the filmmakers let you know now and again that they may have actually read, for example, Plato's allegory and understood it, and don't feel the need to talk down to anyone OR dumb it down. Unlike you you worthless fuck.
The problem with elitist numbfucks like you spouting off is that you are completely incapable of consistency or awareness of context. Do I hear you ranting about how Metropolis was a fucking stupid movie because you read Marx? Do you know anything about the history of the idea of a city at the center of the earth? Would you recognize a visual quote of Tarkovsky if you saw it? Can you name a movie from 1993 where the Wachowskis probably got the idea for the bullet trails, and describe the connection the Matrix has to that movie? Do you have anything to contribute except pretending to be smart?
Quit bluffing, fool.
The makers of the movie, unlike you, with your three dollar words and superficial intellectualism, are smart enough to recognize that the action that captures your interest and the meaning that lies behind the events often appear to live in separate universes. One might even say that was the whole point of the movie. Yet they both know that path AND walk it. As further evidence, the code name for the second movie was "The Burly Man", which is the name of the screenplay in Barton Fink; it's a wrestling movie, suggesting they have an ironic and knowing approach to the contradictions of an action movie and a movie of ideas.
They know exactly what they are doing on more levels than you know. Or are ready to know.
Germane that.
A white hat might be a gray hat who never gets caught, but a black hat who doesn't get caught is still a black hat. IMVWO (in my very wise opinion).
So wanting to hire only white hats still makes sense even if you see nothing wrong with the gray hats...
I haven't had any complaints about 5 whatsoever, and a number of (very small) things that have long been problematic are suddenly better. Background filesystem checks are really nice, power management is better. And if you hate linux dependency hell, scrap the redhat and try out Gentoo. It's like the FreeBSD ports system on steriods. It's Linux with a concept of a base system. It's FreeBSD's ports with a better upgrade path. I haven't gotten far enough to see how well it really works in the longer run of upgrade cycles, though; some fdisk/grub problem is keeping the system from knowing how to boot itself (though I got FreeBSD installed in 10 minutes on the same system).
No,wait.
This is my rifle, this is my cock. One is for lawsuits, the other's in hock.
No,wait.
This is my flamethrower, this is my OGG. Fuck you Hilary, and fuck you Bob. (Who is Bob?)
No, fuck *you*.
Tsank you. I be here all zhe veek.