It's worth pointing out that this is one of those times it's a good thing the USA isn't the entire world. The rest of the world is unlikely to settle for this kind of overt domination.
Then again, the US, an allegedly democratic country, just decided to un-democratize internet broadcasting by legislating rules so that no one can challenge the current market leaders. And people are taking it, because they don't realize what they've lost. FUCK THE RIAA. Hillary Rosen is a cunt.
Great idea. I think it would be wholly ethical, assuming I were permitted to kick a police officer in the nuts if I am pulled over without cause. It's great, as long as I can leagally glue the doors of my bank shut if they hit me with unwarranted charges. Cool, if I can legally assault anyone who comes to my door without permission. What a great idea, let's legalize sexual mutilation if the experience was unfulfilling. Hey, let's legalize assassinating politicians who subvert the Consitution!
Who is this congressman and what the fuck has he been smoking? You can't legalize revenge, and if you think you can, be prepared to become a victim.
As anyone old enough to remember the Bloom County reference knows, Bill Gates does not have enough money to buy Sweden; it's Norway, and it's enough to get him a date with no kissing.
You take that back. There is no breakfast better than cold pizza.
Now what makes you think all those programmers working for IBM, Yahoo, etc and working on OS projects are so poorly paid that they can't afford their own apartments? You're kinda weird. Especially for knocking cold pizza for breakfast.
That being said, AV software is *exactly* the sort of thing that OS is not good for, because AV software is not really a product, it's a service. Services need to get paid for.
Read the article again. If every download was a lost sale, as they record industry claims (and as you appear to believe), then record sales for the last year should have been in NEGATIVE tens of billions. Obviously that hasn't happened. Wake the fuck up and smell the coffee.
So should they stop mass file sharing? Yeah probably. Will I be happy about it? Not one bit, but I'll accept it.
No, "they" fucking shouldn't. Anytime you say something like that, ask who "they" are. Because they become the watchers, and who is going to watch them? No one, and then "they" will be charging you to transfer tapes that you yourself made of your brother's wedding (via convenient micropayments, natch). If you don't see a problem with that, please do the world a favor and wear a helmet 24/7.
This dude's argument on fair use is also total fucking horseshit, once you realize that it's not about text. Consider the Mona Lisa. To translate fair use as he understands it for text (read a paragraph, retype it) into images, audio, or video, you'd have to repaint the painting yourself or reshoot the movie yourself. Wow, that's great policy, legislate technology back into the dark ages! That's the hallmark of good policy! Bring back the buggy whips! Hey, let's make this whole thing really simple and just shoot those whining academics! Those dangerous intellectuals!
I'm so sick of neanderthals like you requesting that we legislate away the future in order to preserve the questionable past. Go crawl back in your cave, caveman.
Funny, my local cable co does colo and they practically shit themselves if you don't run W2K at the colo, even tho you run it yourself. Fucking wankers.
And they *do* shit themselves if you admit that your cable modem will be attached to a BSD machine. I've learned to lie and say I left my laptop at work, just put it right there and I'll hook it up myself later. Meanwhile I get code red probes several times a day from shitlicking goatfuckers on cable modems.
So, no, it's not in the interest of efficiency, it's in the interest of a couple of MSCEs thinking they are hot shit, nothing more.
Security alone is a good reason. Having a clean architecture probably helps that. PHP makes things "easy": query string variables can be used naively as they are "magically" initialized variables. That's good for novice programmers and bad for security because if you forget to initialize a variable, someone else can do it for you. PHPNuke has had, IIRC, a number of problems like that, including query string injection attacks.
These things are true, but China is a very big country full of people who seem to readily ignore rules if they think they aren't being enforced. And with China's size, that makes governing very difficult. These facts have historically been excuses by China's leaders for their heavy-handed rule.
Oh, don't worry. Individual creators will be protected. At least, if they have hundreds of thousands of dollars to get valid licensed production equipment.
Terrorism *is* defined by tactics and not the mere presence of hostililties; also by a lack of uniformed military personnel or openly military forces or activities. Terrorism is not just some label you get to slap on bad guys. What is going on in Columbia is civil war.
Now the Contras, on the other hand, were terrorists making money off cocaine trafficking. But they were "freedom fighters", right? So they were good because Ronnie said so and so in that case doing coke was patriotic! Meth is producded by lots of bikers who have no political agenda whatsoever. Lots of Ecstasy is imported from Israel, does that make them terrorists? Or just the rabbis smuggling it? Damn, I like Israel, I should go out and do some Ecstasy!
Perhaps such bullshit thinking is why recent studies showed that kids are *more* willing to do drugs after seeing anti-drug ads. They know when they are being lied to.
Yes, the Sept 11 thing was not thought out by Katz. He is, as usual, talking through his ass.
Sure, you might say Lucas is his own Frankenstein, you might say that Spiderman was fresh and personal while the Star Wars series is in danger of collapsing under its own weight, but Katz is seriously overreaching.
Perhaps Katz could have simply just written that kids are more interested in seeing a teenager whose abilities aren't recognized by the world and is still a good guy than in seeing one whose abilities are kinda sorta recognized by his mentor, but who is arrogant and goes bad. From a teen perspective, who is more fun to admire; a secret superhero, or another kid going Columbine?
Perhaps the problem is that Katz is only capable of overusing one tragedy at a time.
That's true, but some not-very-deep thought on what they expect to get out of all this reveals the MPAA and the RIAActionaries to be completely out of their fucking minds. These people have no idea what is or isn't reality, nor do they care. They'd lobby for Sonny Bono to be brought back from the grave if they thought they could get another copyright extension out of it.
I really can't imagine a DRM-totalitarianism (which is their real goal) that could possibly stop piracy more than it hurts their business by annoying their loyal customers to the point that they turn to piracy just out of sheer frustration.
You can virtually count on Congress making the compulsory license really compulsory at some point soon.
Even with all the regulation piling on to the simple act of putting together a mix of a few cool songs and streaming it, I would be surprised if at least *some* tiny little sub-genre of music gets into a mutual "I hereby grant you permission to play my music" club. Probably several little music scenes will do so. Eventually, some artist will get big enough to attract attention.
Do you think the RIAAcketeers are going to sit around and let anyone operate without their say-so? Sure, it would mean legalizing a monopoly for the group at a time when they should be charged with racketeering, but do you think that's going to stop anyone in Congress from doing this? I'm sure there's a way to get a "what about the kids" in there somewhere.
Which is why it should be obvious that "forever" or Valenti's "forever minus a day" show the *INTENT* of granting copyright for UNLIMITED terms, which are, specifically, unconsitutional.
Sure, it brings US copyright law more into harmony with Euro laws, but then again, Europeans have a history of supporting hereditary privilege, which is what "70 years past the death of the author" amounts to. It creates a trust fund for a select few to inherit, a privilege which they did nothing to earn, and it burdens current creators and entrepeneurs with supporting the children of their predecessors. To paraphrase Jefferson, it is a debt levied on the living by the dead. It's a very un-American and anti-democratic viewpoint. The addition of Milton Friedman's name should be a sign that being a rabid capitalist doesn't mean favoring corporate welfare of this sort; the CTEA takes away from the public domain and gives to the corporations without expecting anything in return.
For the record, I have less of a problem with long terms on works for hire, but the next thing they'll try is "Copyright for as long as the corporation exists", clearly unconsititutional.
You have contempt for lawyers because you live in a society of laws. Try living in a lawless society for a while: arrests without charges, arbitrary seizures of property, police/security forces taking whatever they want, every public official demanding a bribe... You'll be begging to go back to the lawyer-run world you live in. It's not that we've eliminated corruption or abuse of power, but we've limited what it can do and provided a means for talking about it that may be just as ruthless underneath - and it's some lawyers I'm talking about here - but it's done with paper and not the butt-end of a rifle. Take your pick.
I for one would love to see perl6 OO and Apache 2 module chaining combine to make a web development platform I could really like! And non-painful OO is key to this. I only wish it didn't seem like 5 years off!
Exactly. With a closed source product, you have no idea whether that protection works. Experience shows that the protection often doesn't work, and sooner or later, every piece of software exposes a hole in this protection. And remember, with these "products", there is no standards body verifying the quality of their construction, no ratification or seal of approval, and no recourse if it destroys your life. At least with open source, you know that the public at large has the opportunity to check for problems and get them fixed.
Yeah, that reminds me of using redhat. CPAN has become a big pain what with agressive upgrade. Asked some admin to install a perl module, he upgraded perl due to agressive prompting via CPAN, now it depends on which perl you toot and libraries are a big mess. Had to redo it myself. I never upgraded perl from ports on freebsd, and I never had those kinds of problems. Of course, freebsd also has a very broad arrays of perl modules intallable through ports packages, which is (and should continue to be) fairly painless, and on the rare occasion i need one not in port, perl Makefile.pl etc works fine.
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I thought the older shaftoe was 100% american... for him i could see willem dafoe, though i mentally had someone who looks, now that i think of it, like the drug-dealing kid's neo-nazi dad from american beauty. amy i dunno. there aren't many amerasian actresses i can think of - i think the tilly girls would qualify except they're half *candadian* haha and jennifer's too nutty and meg is a little too old now - but amerasians can look all kinds of ways as adults, so there's *some* leeway. john cusak could get away with it, but sandra bullock is about as american looking as you can possibly get.
Right... In fact, they are unlikely to have opposed entry and exit points; that assumes that every particle hits a bulls-eye. If you knew the speed of the particles, you could do a correlation of two earthquake events, but from the article it appears they calculated the speed from the timing of the quakes.
So in order to make this hypothesis fly, you'd need evidence of some unexplained explosions, or else you'd need some statistical analysis that it's unlikely two given quakes are so closely timed. That would mean sifting through earthquake data and finding anomolous correlations between two quake events that are geologically unrelated, with these anomolies occurring at a rate much higher than chance. Given that they are identifying specific events, it's unlikely they did this kind of comparison, so the whole thing is likely just bad science: you could say that we have 10 times more of these events than we can account for by chance, but you could then only say that there's a 9 of 10 chance that a particular event is unexplained by coincidence.
Einstein's most ignored lesson may be that armchair speculation is an important component of real science. Real scientists do it all the time. It should make sense on that level, and also be confirmed by rigorous experients and mathematics.
Most posters here are making far too much of the natural language component. What these guys are doing is researching new UI designs that more closely map to what you are trying to do.
On the video clip, check out the calendar browsing. It is a new UI approach that overcomes the traditional obstacle; click on a day or an item, and it zooms open, but you still have the whole calendar on the screen, it just shrinks to accomodate. This is an improvement; traditional calendaring apps make you jump back and forth, when what you really wanted was to find an event, look at nearby days that are open, and reschedule it. Look at the stock analysis thing he was doing, too; it's about being able to select and find information intuitively without losing the big picture or its context.
What they are trying to do is find visual strategies for accessing information without hiding its context from view, and provide actions that correspond to helping us find and use information. Think about the above examples and compare to traditional file browsers. The "vfolders" thing in Evolution is a step in the right direction; people want to find information by context, which has more interconnections than a simple hierarchical structure.
Speech is very unlikely to provide the core of interface, though it may be important at certain steps: "This is a picture of my daughter. Find me other pictures of my daughter." That's the speech part of the interface; but the important part is that a visual display of the results should also show thumbnails of pictures *near* those of your daughter; that way, you remember the occasion or timeframe, and context, so when you see a group of pictures of her at a birthday party, you know they go together and you can focus on that group of pictures to find the one you *really* wanted. When combined with the right interface, it's clear that visual approaches are faster *and* more effective. How information gets in and out of the computer is trivial. I don't, however, want to have the computer say "I found 15 images of your daughter. Would you like me to show them to you?" Too slow, too much slow conscious thought.
Interstingly, the title bar in the video looked like windowmaker to me! There's no *inherent* reason that useful interfaces can't be developed on an alternative OS. Put their calendar tricks into Evolution, and people might start realizing that Windows is not the source of innovation!
Particularly bizaare was the judge's claim that the DMCA is OK because it is "content-neutral, just as would be a restriction on trafficking in skeleton keys identified because of their capacity to unlock jail cells, even though some of the keys happened to bear a slogan or other legend that qualified as a speech component."
It's more like saying that it's a felony to manufacture a key to open the door to a car that you own; the key is a means to excercise a legal right, or perhaps an expression of the means to do so, but it is not a sandwich board for expression. What is this guy smoking?
I won't even mention the fact that he's on flimsy ground saying that fair use is possible; how, by retyping it yourself? What if audio or video were protected instead of text? And what happens when fair use is made impossible by technology, in his view? Does the law magically change? Does he suddenly reverse himself? Can fair usage be flat outlawed as long as it's "content neutral"? This judge may be really trying hard to avoid setting precedent by ruling with sophistry. Or, perhaps, letting the trial proceed so evidence can be presented so that he can rule on an actual point of law, but I doubt it.
On the other hand, his characterization of code as speech which nonetheless does not enjoy the full protection of speech is, er, interesting. He sounds like the kind of retard who finds it acceptable for the NYTimes to post links to DeCSS code, but illegal for 2600 to do so. The amount of contradictions and hypocrisy engendered by the DMCA is sufficient evidence that it's the kind of law that has no place in a free republic.
And even though most systems do have killall, the original poster's version works whether inetd or xinetd is being used! Better. Though the "grep [i]net" bit is indeed shorter.
I actually had to do this. Microsoft sent me mass email and basically gave me no way to opt out: "We're going to keep sending you this email because once upon a time you registered for something. Don't bother trying to stop us." Fuckers.
Of course, the problem is that if you can't block spam at delivery time, they keep sending it. Especially if it's from the bsa, you don't even want to receive it.
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Then again, the US, an allegedly democratic country, just decided to un-democratize internet broadcasting by legislating rules so that no one can challenge the current market leaders. And people are taking it, because they don't realize what they've lost. FUCK THE RIAA. Hillary Rosen is a cunt.
Who is this congressman and what the fuck has he been smoking? You can't legalize revenge, and if you think you can, be prepared to become a victim.
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As anyone old enough to remember the Bloom County reference knows, Bill Gates does not have enough money to buy Sweden; it's Norway, and it's enough to get him a date with no kissing.
Now what makes you think all those programmers working for IBM, Yahoo, etc and working on OS projects are so poorly paid that they can't afford their own apartments? You're kinda weird. Especially for knocking cold pizza for breakfast.
That being said, AV software is *exactly* the sort of thing that OS is not good for, because AV software is not really a product, it's a service. Services need to get paid for.
This dude's argument on fair use is also total fucking horseshit, once you realize that it's not about text. Consider the Mona Lisa. To translate fair use as he understands it for text (read a paragraph, retype it) into images, audio, or video, you'd have to repaint the painting yourself or reshoot the movie yourself. Wow, that's great policy, legislate technology back into the dark ages! That's the hallmark of good policy! Bring back the buggy whips! Hey, let's make this whole thing really simple and just shoot those whining academics! Those dangerous intellectuals!
I'm so sick of neanderthals like you requesting that we legislate away the future in order to preserve the questionable past. Go crawl back in your cave, caveman.
And they *do* shit themselves if you admit that your cable modem will be attached to a BSD machine. I've learned to lie and say I left my laptop at work, just put it right there and I'll hook it up myself later. Meanwhile I get code red probes several times a day from shitlicking goatfuckers on cable modems.
So, no, it's not in the interest of efficiency, it's in the interest of a couple of MSCEs thinking they are hot shit, nothing more.
Security alone is a good reason. Having a clean architecture probably helps that. PHP makes things "easy": query string variables can be used naively as they are "magically" initialized variables. That's good for novice programmers and bad for security because if you forget to initialize a variable, someone else can do it for you. PHPNuke has had, IIRC, a number of problems like that, including query string injection attacks.
These things are true, but China is a very big country full of people who seem to readily ignore rules if they think they aren't being enforced. And with China's size, that makes governing very difficult. These facts have historically been excuses by China's leaders for their heavy-handed rule.
Oh, don't worry. Individual creators will be protected. At least, if they have hundreds of thousands of dollars to get valid licensed production equipment.
Now the Contras, on the other hand, were terrorists making money off cocaine trafficking. But they were "freedom fighters", right? So they were good because Ronnie said so and so in that case doing coke was patriotic! Meth is producded by lots of bikers who have no political agenda whatsoever. Lots of Ecstasy is imported from Israel, does that make them terrorists? Or just the rabbis smuggling it? Damn, I like Israel, I should go out and do some Ecstasy!
Perhaps such bullshit thinking is why recent studies showed that kids are *more* willing to do drugs after seeing anti-drug ads. They know when they are being lied to.
You are confusing lame scare tactics with facts.
Sure, you might say Lucas is his own Frankenstein, you might say that Spiderman was fresh and personal while the Star Wars series is in danger of collapsing under its own weight, but Katz is seriously overreaching.
Perhaps Katz could have simply just written that kids are more interested in seeing a teenager whose abilities aren't recognized by the world and is still a good guy than in seeing one whose abilities are kinda sorta recognized by his mentor, but who is arrogant and goes bad. From a teen perspective, who is more fun to admire; a secret superhero, or another kid going Columbine?
Perhaps the problem is that Katz is only capable of overusing one tragedy at a time.
I really can't imagine a DRM-totalitarianism (which is their real goal) that could possibly stop piracy more than it hurts their business by annoying their loyal customers to the point that they turn to piracy just out of sheer frustration.
Even with all the regulation piling on to the simple act of putting together a mix of a few cool songs and streaming it, I would be surprised if at least *some* tiny little sub-genre of music gets into a mutual "I hereby grant you permission to play my music" club. Probably several little music scenes will do so. Eventually, some artist will get big enough to attract attention.
Do you think the RIAAcketeers are going to sit around and let anyone operate without their say-so? Sure, it would mean legalizing a monopoly for the group at a time when they should be charged with racketeering, but do you think that's going to stop anyone in Congress from doing this? I'm sure there's a way to get a "what about the kids" in there somewhere.
Sure, it brings US copyright law more into harmony with Euro laws, but then again, Europeans have a history of supporting hereditary privilege, which is what "70 years past the death of the author" amounts to. It creates a trust fund for a select few to inherit, a privilege which they did nothing to earn, and it burdens current creators and entrepeneurs with supporting the children of their predecessors. To paraphrase Jefferson, it is a debt levied on the living by the dead. It's a very un-American and anti-democratic viewpoint. The addition of Milton Friedman's name should be a sign that being a rabid capitalist doesn't mean favoring corporate welfare of this sort; the CTEA takes away from the public domain and gives to the corporations without expecting anything in return.
For the record, I have less of a problem with long terms on works for hire, but the next thing they'll try is "Copyright for as long as the corporation exists", clearly unconsititutional.
You have contempt for lawyers because you live in a society of laws. Try living in a lawless society for a while: arrests without charges, arbitrary seizures of property, police/security forces taking whatever they want, every public official demanding a bribe... You'll be begging to go back to the lawyer-run world you live in. It's not that we've eliminated corruption or abuse of power, but we've limited what it can do and provided a means for talking about it that may be just as ruthless underneath - and it's some lawyers I'm talking about here - but it's done with paper and not the butt-end of a rifle. Take your pick.
I for one would love to see perl6 OO and Apache 2 module chaining combine to make a web development platform I could really like! And non-painful OO is key to this. I only wish it didn't seem like 5 years off!
Exactly. With a closed source product, you have no idea whether that protection works. Experience shows that the protection often doesn't work, and sooner or later, every piece of software exposes a hole in this protection. And remember, with these "products", there is no standards body verifying the quality of their construction, no ratification or seal of approval, and no recourse if it destroys your life. At least with open source, you know that the public at large has the opportunity to check for problems and get them fixed.
perl is dead. Long live perl.
I thought the older shaftoe was 100% american... for him i could see willem dafoe, though i mentally had someone who looks, now that i think of it, like the drug-dealing kid's neo-nazi dad from american beauty. amy i dunno. there aren't many amerasian actresses i can think of - i think the tilly girls would qualify except they're half *candadian* haha and jennifer's too nutty and meg is a little too old now - but amerasians can look all kinds of ways as adults, so there's *some* leeway. john cusak could get away with it, but sandra bullock is about as american looking as you can possibly get.
So in order to make this hypothesis fly, you'd need evidence of some unexplained explosions, or else you'd need some statistical analysis that it's unlikely two given quakes are so closely timed. That would mean sifting through earthquake data and finding anomolous correlations between two quake events that are geologically unrelated, with these anomolies occurring at a rate much higher than chance. Given that they are identifying specific events, it's unlikely they did this kind of comparison, so the whole thing is likely just bad science: you could say that we have 10 times more of these events than we can account for by chance, but you could then only say that there's a 9 of 10 chance that a particular event is unexplained by coincidence.
Einstein's most ignored lesson may be that armchair speculation is an important component of real science. Real scientists do it all the time. It should make sense on that level, and also be confirmed by rigorous experients and mathematics.
On the video clip, check out the calendar browsing. It is a new UI approach that overcomes the traditional obstacle; click on a day or an item, and it zooms open, but you still have the whole calendar on the screen, it just shrinks to accomodate. This is an improvement; traditional calendaring apps make you jump back and forth, when what you really wanted was to find an event, look at nearby days that are open, and reschedule it. Look at the stock analysis thing he was doing, too; it's about being able to select and find information intuitively without losing the big picture or its context.
What they are trying to do is find visual strategies for accessing information without hiding its context from view, and provide actions that correspond to helping us find and use information. Think about the above examples and compare to traditional file browsers. The "vfolders" thing in Evolution is a step in the right direction; people want to find information by context, which has more interconnections than a simple hierarchical structure.
Speech is very unlikely to provide the core of interface, though it may be important at certain steps: "This is a picture of my daughter. Find me other pictures of my daughter." That's the speech part of the interface; but the important part is that a visual display of the results should also show thumbnails of pictures *near* those of your daughter; that way, you remember the occasion or timeframe, and context, so when you see a group of pictures of her at a birthday party, you know they go together and you can focus on that group of pictures to find the one you *really* wanted. When combined with the right interface, it's clear that visual approaches are faster *and* more effective. How information gets in and out of the computer is trivial. I don't, however, want to have the computer say "I found 15 images of your daughter. Would you like me to show them to you?" Too slow, too much slow conscious thought.
Interstingly, the title bar in the video looked like windowmaker to me! There's no *inherent* reason that useful interfaces can't be developed on an alternative OS. Put their calendar tricks into Evolution, and people might start realizing that Windows is not the source of innovation!
It's more like saying that it's a felony to manufacture a key to open the door to a car that you own; the key is a means to excercise a legal right, or perhaps an expression of the means to do so, but it is not a sandwich board for expression. What is this guy smoking?
I won't even mention the fact that he's on flimsy ground saying that fair use is possible; how, by retyping it yourself? What if audio or video were protected instead of text? And what happens when fair use is made impossible by technology, in his view? Does the law magically change? Does he suddenly reverse himself? Can fair usage be flat outlawed as long as it's "content neutral"? This judge may be really trying hard to avoid setting precedent by ruling with sophistry. Or, perhaps, letting the trial proceed so evidence can be presented so that he can rule on an actual point of law, but I doubt it.
On the other hand, his characterization of code as speech which nonetheless does not enjoy the full protection of speech is, er, interesting. He sounds like the kind of retard who finds it acceptable for the NYTimes to post links to DeCSS code, but illegal for 2600 to do so. The amount of contradictions and hypocrisy engendered by the DMCA is sufficient evidence that it's the kind of law that has no place in a free republic.
And even though most systems do have killall, the original poster's version works whether inetd or xinetd is being used! Better. Though the "grep [i]net" bit is indeed shorter.
Of course, the problem is that if you can't block spam at delivery time, they keep sending it. Especially if it's from the bsa, you don't even want to receive it.