TV resolution is not really good enough to judge. On the other hand, repeated viewings can bring your attention to things you hadn't noticed before - like on my 12th viewing of The Matrix I noticed one of the shots where Neo's mouth is covered over with skin isn't that great, and the movement of the elevator door away from the explosion seems a little stiff and unrealistic. It might *be* realistic, but it doesn't look "right". But those effects were rendered on FreeBSD, so the trolls should be out soon.
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Discordianism *is* a made up religion. That is why it is true.
Scientology is a made up philosophy that acts like a religion, which is why it's false as a religion and a philosophy. If it were called "scientism" but had the exact same belief system, it would a religion. I can say this without reproach because I am clear*, so if you are angry with me for criticising Scientology, you need more auditing; you see the part of your brain that can't understand what I am saying is exactly the same part that keeps you from being a better Scientologist.
Now, as to why the poster you are answering can't distinguish context or irony correctly, who knows.
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Similarly if you for instance campaign against industries using third world sweatshops, and you actually have an impact on the business, then you are a terrorist.
Sure, and if you dump a boatload of tea in the ocean, you are a terrorist. The US was founded on terrorism. Israel was founded on terrorism. Most Commmunist nations were founded on terrorism. Hitler employed terrorism. It's a political tool of the weak against the strong; the problem is that we've cast a pretty wide definition; destruction of property ranks alongside mass murder. Personally, I favor using the word only for the violent extremes. To do otherwise is an insult to the dignity of its victims.
Which brings me back on topic; does it strike anyone as absurd that there is such thing as "misdemeanor terrorism"? What is that, scaring someone only a little bit? Boo! Now send me to jail.
Of course, the tin foil hat count is so high in southern California that it's not hard to see how a jury there could convict someone who threatened to summon an asteroid down on the Creeps of Scientology, but that's another matter.
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He was, however, trolling. The Supreme Court long ago recognized time-shifting as legal. (YHBT YHL HAND )
On the other hand, if they want to prevent this legal activity by downgrading our technology, perhaps its time for voters to remind the tail who is the dog and take their bandwidth back.
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Uh, I'll even grant that Bezos offers some reasonable compromises, but I hope that not even he is recommending protecting a "novel business plan" under any type of patent. Business plans suceed or fail on the strength of their ideas and the quality of their execution. But it goes to show the slippery slope between "business method" and business plan. Business method patents are total anathema to any kind of capitalism or fair competition. Only people who despise capitalism can seriously advocate their use.
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CmdrTaco will implement a filter which uses advanced nerual net filtering
That alone would be funny enough to stick around for.
Oh, there are no masters in the field of psychology, only students. Study neurobiology and start reverse engineering the brain, you'll get there faster than an infinite army of Freudian navel-gazers.
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Funny. But stupid. If someone can get in with a backdoor password, how are you supposed to keep anyone out?
The Right Thing To Do with forgotten passwords make the person who forgets them suffer. System must be brought down, set a new password, bring it back up. What happens if you lose all keys to the toolshed? You have to rip out the lock, which can and should be a lot of trouble, and then install a new one. Don't lose the keys, dumbass.
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At my high school, the "excused" absences had to be at least half of all absences. So at my high school, he could have just slashed his wrists, gotten a two week stay in a mental ward, and passed the year!
Your point that we don't seem to know what he did in the system is more important than you think. Most./ers are familiar with stories of overreaction on the part of the authorities. Hell, I got fired from a temp job for changing a screen saver - only to hear them tell it, you'd think I had been hacking. Rot in hell Siobhan McComb! Those of us who work and play with computers often find that others treat them like a primitive idol - a mixture of fear, reverence, superstition, and a sense that these things are too powerful for humans to control - objects of religion. We, on the other hand, treat them as magical objects - you just have to know the right incantations (some readers will note my use of religion vs magic does not imply superstition on the side of magic - read Frazer's The Golden Bough).
It may not be a have been a heavy news item, and I wish there was more info on what the kid did (you can bet the school system is being tight-lipped about it now) but it's not irrelevant, either.
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Let's hope the next time, the kid gets clever enough to say "You promise you'll do everything you can to punish the person who did this?" befored identifying the neanderthal.
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No, in both cases it's the webmaster's fault. There are a lot of crappy ones out there, and you DON'T know who you are. I am assuming that by "wrong" you mean "displays in a way that looks horrible".
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Well, MAPI interfaces have changed enough over the last five years that it's not possible to click on a mailto link and have it bring up your preferred email client ("Any color you like, as long as it's black"). For a while, IE and Netscape battled it out, until Netscape realized that it was a waste of programming resources. Shit, I used to be able to configure my browsers to bring up Eudora if I wanted, until the racket was completed. You'd be hard pressed to explain what benefit that brings you. That IS the consumer getting fucked for no good reason, except so that Microsoft can screw the competition, using their PAYING CUSTOMERS as cannon fodder.
They don't have to force you. They just tweak the system to avoid giving you a choice. If a rival Office suite came in tomorrow with an install program that made *.doc files open with their suite, for your convenience, the next service pack of windows would come in with a new method for opening *.doc files that overrides any previous mime type, file extension, registry class, etc, etc, etc, just to fuck you and the horse you rode in on. Sure, you aren't being forced. Sheep like you aren't forced, they are led.
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There's a big exception to this rule; Adobe Photoshop. It's expensive. The usual way to handle this is to make a much cheaper version with the one or two features removed that separates the professional use from individual use. For example, the differences between NT Workstation and Server fall into this category.
Adobe, however, has done an unusually terrible job of this. The smart thing to do would be to remove the fine color control needed for professional printing. Those of us dumping photos to our inkjets wouldn't give a crap. The second smart thing to do would be to remove really slick controls for reducing image size, to separate out the web developers. They didn't do these things.
Instead, they ignored the first smart thing, and screwed up the second smart thing (first by putting it in a separate product, Image Ready). Instead, they've produced special Adobe Photo Extra Lite Dumbass Express for Losers products that get bundled with other apps or products (like digital cameras). I'd be surprised if those are really profitable. So Joe College wants "real" Photoshop so that he can actually do something cool. So he pirates it, making Photoshop one of the most pirated products ever.
And once someone makes an Aqua port of The Gimp, Adobe will have lost the best way to make millions instead of losing them. Hell, the Gimp has better JPEG export control than I remember using on Photoscrap. Screw that, I'll use The Gimp.
A bit more on-topic; the direction XP is etching in stone for Microsoft isn't all terrible, but a few years from now, OS X has the ability to make Windows seem like a very, very downmarket product. Trailer park computing.
This is more likely if Apple does two things; hustle to get games out on OS X, and be very, very nice to developers. Which pretty much comes down to the same thing; be very nice to developers. Keep decent developer tools available for free or damn cheap. Don't make crazy power plays with them by keeping it clear what is part of the OS and what is free territory.
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Bullshit. I haven't seen a new Windows box in a while that didn't come bundled with Word 2000 - not the rest of the Office suite, mind you. Apparenlty it's enough value for, e.g. Dell to shell out extra cash and bundle an extra CD in even their low-end laptops.
Their customers DO want it, so Dell pays extra to get it there. Duh.
The problem comes when Microsoft, who now has Dell's nuts in a vice, decides to add a surcharge to any manufacturer who *doesn't* purchase that windows add-on, since, of course, it results in more piracy. Then they go into court on another anti-trust violation and talk about how the base price for their operating system is low. Fuck'em. They are as bad for the consumer and the market as any rapacious business I can think of. I'm quite tired of them.
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Acutally kind of interesting. The only thing funny is that java always hits the same marks on your memory usage. That indicates a shortcoming in the methodology - probably JRE defaults. I am surprised to see it do so well on CPU usage, though.
My personal experience is that Python is also CPU hog, although fast, for all that.
The point being, you might find really different results depending on how hard you stress certain things. And once you find resulting bottlenecks, you [should] start optimizing. So even pretty good comparisons can be made very questionable in the hands of good programmers and administrators.
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On the other hand, Python makes the "whitespace overloading" hoax seem plausible.
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Seriously, Perl is a two dollar whore when it comes to syntax, but that's a good reason to keep coming back. Perl works better for me for many things. Its poor performance on object creation, method invocation, and some other areas was interesting. If Perl had good OO, it would be a lot better for certain kinds of use... and under sustained use (where startup costs are more negligible) I have found it to be extremely fast (e.g. under mod_perl).
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The consequence of getting rooted is more than $1000 of my time. And until he pays up to someone, I have no reason to believe that it's a meaningful guarantee. I value a good response to security issues more than the claim of absolute security. Not too often, of course;-)
You realize that good security practice dictates that we can now never accept anything you ever say on the subject of security again, right?
Anyone who states that anything can be trusted absolutely does not understand security. Guaranteed.
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Never? Never is a long time. Security practice states that "never" is sooner than you think. Security practice states never to trust anyone absolutely. And if a bug is EVER found, you are 100% wrong. So unless Bernstein is willing to GA-RAWN-TEE with his real finances that this event will NEVER, EVER, EVER occur, then Red Hat is only being prudent by declining that risk. Their history with BIND only strengthens the point that binary updates have to be planned for.
Every time I look at qmail, I see too many cool/needed modifications that will ONLY be distributed in a pain-in-the-ass patch format. Bernstein doesn't seem to care about his users' needs, only about his software's security reputation. It's his right, but it's reason enough for me not to run qmail; YMMV. It doesn't make the resulting binary any more secure, just more time-consuming to administer. If the qmail patch list were carefully integrated by him as options, I'd feel better. Forbidding the change of file and directory locations has no conceivable security function, and only strengthens the notion that he is a talented coder who is also an eccentric and a pain in the ass to deal with. Again, it's his right, but it doesn't make me feel safe relying on such an arbitrary person.
No marketing ploys, just practical decisions.
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Unless you see a certain long-term future with this company, despite the loss of business, this is the way to go. By doing it on their premises, with their permission, and while they are watching, you do a lot to protect yourself from any acusations of "hacking." Of course, do not tease them with any illegally obtained data, and have a ready explanation how you learned about their vulnerability without exploiting it (and if it involves default passwords to a database, don't do anything more than prove access, and show transcripts of your "exploratory" session when you are there, and don't detail the exploit in advance).
If you do see doing other business with them in the future, then "discover" their vulnerabilities on premises, with an offer of a fix.
If you are really afraid of them having a bad reaction, fuck'em, they'll get victimized eventually. Just make sure to express doubts about the other group's security.
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Ashkenazi (sp?) means "European" jews. For that reason, "Yiddish" is saying "Jewish" in German, with a jewish accent, and there are lots of yiddish slang words found throughout the film and television industry - from schmaltz to schmutz to smut. Personally, I'm not too familiar with these type of words in hackerdom (where there are a lot more Israelis than American jews, I think). In hackerdom, the words seem to be predominantly sui generis, e.g. "luser".
But "schadenfreude" is a pretty well established loan word. I don't know that American jews have much to do with it; Nietzsche does.
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I'm not buying the defence's weakness here, nor the correctness of the plaintiffs' analogies... First sale is first sale, period. Expiration of copyright means that the copyright is expired, not whatever horseshit straw man argument you want to throw out. No, it doesn't give you the right to go into someone's living room to look at the painting. It does permit you to paint a copy of it from any copy you can find - a "perfect" copy or a photo in a book - and show it to whomever you damn please. And you can then take your legal copy and mass produce it FOREVER. The DMCA pretends to forget this fact with the complete fiction that if I buy a copyrighted work, wait 100 years until Congress quits perverting copyright law and the copyright actually expires, and then I watch it, I am not entering a theater. Period. This argument pretends that a DVD player is not a device, but a theater, which is absurd. I no longer pay money for the DVD player! I am only loaning it! So 50 years from now, I'll go back to Walmart with my DVD player in hand and demand my money back.
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You are quite correct. However, the transcripts showed judges, Newman in particular (Newman!), showing contempt for the legal process by arguing their conclusions, not asking for arguments. You could practically hear Newman's synapses burning as he tried to make arguments stand on their heads in favor of the gangste^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hplaintiffs.
The MPAA's arguments sound increasingly like Chico in A Day at the Races, claming that the whole thing makes sense if you buy one more secret decoder book.
Though it hasn't yet surpassed the judge who recently stated that perpetually extending copyright does not equal granting a perpetual copyright (probably the same type of argument he uses to eat the entire cake; I only ate one piece, and then one more, and then one more...).
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Five letter sequences are the key. Perhaps someone less lazy than I will try a password. I'd start with "This is good." Then try "Slashdot", "Anonymous Coward", and variations. That person is not only less lazy but has more time than me.
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One of them is going to be a set of viruses that intentionally triggers mechanisms like these so even legitimate data can't be displayed/copied/played back properly.
It crosses over into sabotage - not quite terrorism. More like gluing locks to public parks than taking a nail file to a Firestone tire. It is destructive and violent, but it also might do more to convince John Q Jackass, Senator Dipshit, and the juries of class action lawsuits against the RIAA and the MPAA than all the copies of DeCSS put together.
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Well, you're still using the "professional organization" addy as a symbol of who you are and what you do... It still functions to open doors to you.
Arrogance is a risk; Harvard grads (for example) rarely state they went to Harvard unless pressed, asked, or it's on a resume, for just that reason. But there are times when it really does help. I never use my alumni e-mail (which does just forward to my regular e-mail) unless I'm applying for a job, but you can bet that when they see that address on a resume, they skip actually calling the school to see if I went there.
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All this greed excess - the fear that someone, somewhere, may be enjoying anything without having spent money - leads to an absurd result. Schemes like HDCP, like CSS, etc, effectively have a Communist idea at their root; if we are allowed to own any copyrighted material we will steal: Property equals theft.
So remember, Hillary Rosen is a stinkin' pinko. Hmm... Rosen... Well, there you have it.
Oh, and don't buy any of these encrypted monitor things, or I'll have to call you a total sucker. SUCKER, I SAY! FELL OFF A TURNIP TRUCK, YOU DID!
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TV resolution is not really good enough to judge. On the other hand, repeated viewings can bring your attention to things you hadn't noticed before - like on my 12th viewing of The Matrix I noticed one of the shots where Neo's mouth is covered over with skin isn't that great, and the movement of the elevator door away from the explosion seems a little stiff and unrealistic. It might *be* realistic, but it doesn't look "right". But those effects were rendered on FreeBSD, so the trolls should be out soon.
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Scientology is a made up philosophy that acts like a religion, which is why it's false as a religion and a philosophy. If it were called "scientism" but had the exact same belief system, it would a religion. I can say this without reproach because I am clear*, so if you are angry with me for criticising Scientology, you need more auditing; you see the part of your brain that can't understand what I am saying is exactly the same part that keeps you from being a better Scientologist.
Now, as to why the poster you are answering can't distinguish context or irony correctly, who knows.
Fnord.
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Which brings me back on topic; does it strike anyone as absurd that there is such thing as "misdemeanor terrorism"? What is that, scaring someone only a little bit? Boo! Now send me to jail.
Of course, the tin foil hat count is so high in southern California that it's not hard to see how a jury there could convict someone who threatened to summon an asteroid down on the Creeps of Scientology, but that's another matter.
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On the other hand, if they want to prevent this legal activity by downgrading our technology, perhaps its time for voters to remind the tail who is the dog and take their bandwidth back.
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Bezos owns the patent to all e-commerce. Proof by induction.
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Uh, I'll even grant that Bezos offers some reasonable compromises, but I hope that not even he is recommending protecting a "novel business plan" under any type of patent. Business plans suceed or fail on the strength of their ideas and the quality of their execution. But it goes to show the slippery slope between "business method" and business plan. Business method patents are total anathema to any kind of capitalism or fair competition. Only people who despise capitalism can seriously advocate their use.
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Oh, there are no masters in the field of psychology, only students. Study neurobiology and start reverse engineering the brain, you'll get there faster than an infinite army of Freudian navel-gazers.
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The Right Thing To Do with forgotten passwords make the person who forgets them suffer. System must be brought down, set a new password, bring it back up. What happens if you lose all keys to the toolshed? You have to rip out the lock, which can and should be a lot of trouble, and then install a new one. Don't lose the keys, dumbass.
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Your point that we don't seem to know what he did in the system is more important than you think. Most ./ers are familiar with stories of overreaction on the part of the authorities. Hell, I got fired from a temp job for changing a screen saver - only to hear them tell it, you'd think I had been hacking. Rot in hell Siobhan McComb! Those of us who work and play with computers often find that others treat them like a primitive idol - a mixture of fear, reverence, superstition, and a sense that these things are too powerful for humans to control - objects of religion. We, on the other hand, treat them as magical objects - you just have to know the right incantations (some readers will note my use of religion vs magic does not imply superstition on the side of magic - read Frazer's The Golden Bough).
It may not be a have been a heavy news item, and I wish there was more info on what the kid did (you can bet the school system is being tight-lipped about it now) but it's not irrelevant, either.
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Let's hope the next time, the kid gets clever enough to say "You promise you'll do everything you can to punish the person who did this?" befored identifying the neanderthal.
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No, in both cases it's the webmaster's fault. There are a lot of crappy ones out there, and you DON'T know who you are. I am assuming that by "wrong" you mean "displays in a way that looks horrible".
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They don't have to force you. They just tweak the system to avoid giving you a choice. If a rival Office suite came in tomorrow with an install program that made *.doc files open with their suite, for your convenience, the next service pack of windows would come in with a new method for opening *.doc files that overrides any previous mime type, file extension, registry class, etc, etc, etc, just to fuck you and the horse you rode in on. Sure, you aren't being forced. Sheep like you aren't forced, they are led.
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Adobe, however, has done an unusually terrible job of this. The smart thing to do would be to remove the fine color control needed for professional printing. Those of us dumping photos to our inkjets wouldn't give a crap. The second smart thing to do would be to remove really slick controls for reducing image size, to separate out the web developers. They didn't do these things.
Instead, they ignored the first smart thing, and screwed up the second smart thing (first by putting it in a separate product, Image Ready). Instead, they've produced special Adobe Photo Extra Lite Dumbass Express for Losers products that get bundled with other apps or products (like digital cameras). I'd be surprised if those are really profitable. So Joe College wants "real" Photoshop so that he can actually do something cool. So he pirates it, making Photoshop one of the most pirated products ever.
And once someone makes an Aqua port of The Gimp, Adobe will have lost the best way to make millions instead of losing them. Hell, the Gimp has better JPEG export control than I remember using on Photoscrap. Screw that, I'll use The Gimp.
A bit more on-topic; the direction XP is etching in stone for Microsoft isn't all terrible, but a few years from now, OS X has the ability to make Windows seem like a very, very downmarket product. Trailer park computing.
This is more likely if Apple does two things; hustle to get games out on OS X, and be very, very nice to developers. Which pretty much comes down to the same thing; be very nice to developers. Keep decent developer tools available for free or damn cheap. Don't make crazy power plays with them by keeping it clear what is part of the OS and what is free territory.
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Their customers DO want it, so Dell pays extra to get it there. Duh.
The problem comes when Microsoft, who now has Dell's nuts in a vice, decides to add a surcharge to any manufacturer who *doesn't* purchase that windows add-on, since, of course, it results in more piracy. Then they go into court on another anti-trust violation and talk about how the base price for their operating system is low. Fuck'em. They are as bad for the consumer and the market as any rapacious business I can think of. I'm quite tired of them.
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My personal experience is that Python is also CPU hog, although fast, for all that.
The point being, you might find really different results depending on how hard you stress certain things. And once you find resulting bottlenecks, you [should] start optimizing. So even pretty good comparisons can be made very questionable in the hands of good programmers and administrators.
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On the other hand, Python makes the "whitespace overloading" hoax seem plausible.
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Seriously, Perl is a two dollar whore when it comes to syntax, but that's a good reason to keep coming back. Perl works better for me for many things. Its poor performance on object creation, method invocation, and some other areas was interesting. If Perl had good OO, it would be a lot better for certain kinds of use... and under sustained use (where startup costs are more negligible) I have found it to be extremely fast (e.g. under mod_perl).
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You realize that good security practice dictates that we can now never accept anything you ever say on the subject of security again, right?
Anyone who states that anything can be trusted absolutely does not understand security. Guaranteed.
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Every time I look at qmail, I see too many cool/needed modifications that will ONLY be distributed in a pain-in-the-ass patch format. Bernstein doesn't seem to care about his users' needs, only about his software's security reputation. It's his right, but it's reason enough for me not to run qmail; YMMV. It doesn't make the resulting binary any more secure, just more time-consuming to administer. If the qmail patch list were carefully integrated by him as options, I'd feel better. Forbidding the change of file and directory locations has no conceivable security function, and only strengthens the notion that he is a talented coder who is also an eccentric and a pain in the ass to deal with. Again, it's his right, but it doesn't make me feel safe relying on such an arbitrary person.
No marketing ploys, just practical decisions.
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If you do see doing other business with them in the future, then "discover" their vulnerabilities on premises, with an offer of a fix.
If you are really afraid of them having a bad reaction, fuck'em, they'll get victimized eventually. Just make sure to express doubts about the other group's security.
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But "schadenfreude" is a pretty well established loan word. I don't know that American jews have much to do with it; Nietzsche does.
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I'm not buying the defence's weakness here, nor the correctness of the plaintiffs' analogies... First sale is first sale, period. Expiration of copyright means that the copyright is expired, not whatever horseshit straw man argument you want to throw out. No, it doesn't give you the right to go into someone's living room to look at the painting. It does permit you to paint a copy of it from any copy you can find - a "perfect" copy or a photo in a book - and show it to whomever you damn please. And you can then take your legal copy and mass produce it FOREVER. The DMCA pretends to forget this fact with the complete fiction that if I buy a copyrighted work, wait 100 years until Congress quits perverting copyright law and the copyright actually expires, and then I watch it, I am not entering a theater. Period. This argument pretends that a DVD player is not a device, but a theater, which is absurd. I no longer pay money for the DVD player! I am only loaning it! So 50 years from now, I'll go back to Walmart with my DVD player in hand and demand my money back.
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The MPAA's arguments sound increasingly like Chico in A Day at the Races, claming that the whole thing makes sense if you buy one more secret decoder book.
Though it hasn't yet surpassed the judge who recently stated that perpetually extending copyright does not equal granting a perpetual copyright (probably the same type of argument he uses to eat the entire cake; I only ate one piece, and then one more, and then one more...).
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Five letter sequences are the key. Perhaps someone less lazy than I will try a password. I'd start with "This is good." Then try "Slashdot", "Anonymous Coward", and variations. That person is not only less lazy but has more time than me.
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It crosses over into sabotage - not quite terrorism. More like gluing locks to public parks than taking a nail file to a Firestone tire. It is destructive and violent, but it also might do more to convince John Q Jackass, Senator Dipshit, and the juries of class action lawsuits against the RIAA and the MPAA than all the copies of DeCSS put together.
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Arrogance is a risk; Harvard grads (for example) rarely state they went to Harvard unless pressed, asked, or it's on a resume, for just that reason. But there are times when it really does help. I never use my alumni e-mail (which does just forward to my regular e-mail) unless I'm applying for a job, but you can bet that when they see that address on a resume, they skip actually calling the school to see if I went there.
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So remember, Hillary Rosen is a stinkin' pinko. Hmm... Rosen... Well, there you have it.
Oh, and don't buy any of these encrypted monitor things, or I'll have to call you a total sucker. SUCKER, I SAY! FELL OFF A TURNIP TRUCK, YOU DID!
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