>they will get your money from you whether you like it or not.
Actually the market reality is that unless they fix the "analog hole" there will be no way they can stop people from legally/illegally copying their product.
>Orrin how much money did you take to get this law written?
Who needs money when you get this!
From the article: "At a gala awards dinner in March 2001 hosted by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Hatch was awarded a "Hero Award" and the diners heard Nashville star Natalie Grant perform one of his songs, "I Am Not Alone". "
Credit cards and Social Security numbers are one thing but tagging someone like this just goes way too far from losing individual independence and freedom.
>If people aren't willing to pay you for the music you make, do you really deserve to make any money just because you spent a few hours playing guitar and singing?
Its not that they are not willing to pay. Its that they are TAKING the music and paying nothing.
>Perhaps he just didn't expect Vivendi Universal to be completely insane and wasteful
What world are you living in? These things are done with lawyers and a certain amount of money. To have not seen this as a possiblity would take to something close to willfull ignorance.
>He was under attack from all the major labels and the RIAA at the time;
Exactly how was he under attack from RIAA? Or are you talking about "legal competitive business" attacks like you have every day in every industry?
>Non Free software vendors promote knowledge hoarding. A society where everyone, doctors, lawyers, engineers, you name it, acted like that would be highly inefficient and unpleasant to live in.
They do act like it right now.
Example: To become an official engineer, you have to be trained under and approved by another engineer.
>Today I was told by IBM that I have thirty days before I become a permanent layoff.
Sorry to hear that but just because one company says that they don't need you, you are quiting the entire industry?
It might be more than that but what you said shouldn't be enough for you to change carreers.
>I saw it coming months ago and will be enrolled in a real engineering program soon.
Maybe what you are doing is a good thing in the long run but how do you know that "real engineering" will not turn out like your "fake engineering" career?
>you can still accept it on the basis of maintaining your privacy
Not really. You will still be vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.
1. Some one calls you. 2. Evil person intercepts it. Decodes it, reads plain text. Encodes it with his own key. 3. You recieve message encoded from Evil person. You decode it, read it, encode it with your own key. You send it to who you recieved it from, Evil person. 4. see step 2.
As you can see Evil person can read everything you are transmitting and recieving, not much privacy. Although I'm not 100% sure that this would apply here.
1. No mention of SW in CNN link. 2. No mention in CNN link of using it to communicate with computers/AI/natural language processing. 3. From the CNN link:
"I use it for everything: to call to my wife, to tell my kids something, to find a friend if we get lost in a crowd," Cabello said."
>One thing that should be noted is that the JDBC drivers (http://jdbc.postgresql.org) are now among the best I've used. For those developing Java apps, the choice is now even more clear.
1. The quality of drivers are only one part of your decision when choosing a DB. 2. How do they compare to commerical drivers such as from MS or Oracle?
>Private companies can't do this because they don't have the rights to the land.
They can get it. Its not easy, but not impossible.
>increases the economy because more companies will go to the area
Read my original question: How does fibre to the HOME increase the economy? Not to commercial sites, but to the home?
>municipal government does the job the citizens want it to do
Biggest thing for goverments to do by the majority of citizens? Protection and better fiscal responsiblity. Not faster broadband to the home. Do you think that anyone would get elected with the slogan "Fiber to every home!" Think I am wrong? Open up your local newspaper for the last year and see how important fiscal responsiblity vs. emergency services vs. broadband to home is in your city citizens.
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Also with credit cards too.
But that is not so bad as getting physically tagged. I could stop using cards, or start spelling my name differently.
I might have to move, which is bad, but not as bad as getting something under my skin and getting tracked at anytime, any place.
>they will get your money from you whether you like it or not.
Actually the market reality is that unless they fix the "analog hole" there will be no way they can stop people from legally/illegally copying their product.
No law will change that fact.
>Orrin how much money did you take to get this law written?
Who needs money when you get this!
From the article:
"At a gala awards dinner in March 2001 hosted by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Hatch was awarded a "Hero Award" and the diners heard Nashville star Natalie Grant perform one of his songs, "I Am Not Alone". "
If I had mod points....
Credit cards and Social Security numbers are one thing but tagging someone like this just goes way too far from losing individual independence and freedom.
Must fight the temptation to feed the trolls.....
>If people aren't willing to pay you for the music you make, do you really deserve to make any money just because you spent a few hours playing guitar and singing?
Its not that they are not willing to pay. Its that they are TAKING the music and paying nothing.
>I doubt any of them are truly smart enough to get rid of all the evidence on the PCs after they were done
I think I would use one of many Linux boot cds wth a browser.
Use that and a computer with no hd and lots of RAM for a RAM drive. No record anywhere.
I was actually thinking of doing that when I do banking/credit card stuff online to avoid keyloggers/viruses/trojens.
Its more like passively broadcasting.
Sort of like how I leave my laptop in front of an open window so those on the street can see. Pretty similar situations.
>Perhaps he just didn't expect Vivendi Universal to be completely insane and wasteful
What world are you living in? These things are done with lawyers and a certain amount of money. To have not seen this as a possiblity would take to something close to willfull ignorance.
>He was under attack from all the major labels and the RIAA at the time;
Exactly how was he under attack from RIAA? Or are you talking about "legal competitive business" attacks like you have every day in every industry?
You've been watching too many bad teen movies like "Dude, wheres my car?".
They are fictionous entertainanment, not documentaries.
>For the past couple years, when people have asked what I wanted for Christmas/birthdays/other occasions, I have said "nothing".
I used to say that. "Thank you, but I'm ok." now I just say "Pr0n. And not that crappy domestic stuff either."
They stopped asking me what I want and just send a nice card.
I am not suggesting anything. I am pointing out situation where this occurs right now.
>Non Free software vendors promote knowledge hoarding. A society where everyone, doctors, lawyers, engineers, you name it, acted like that would be highly inefficient and unpleasant to live in.
They do act like it right now.
Example: To become an official engineer, you have to be trained under and approved by another engineer.
Once you recieve free beer/dinner/tickets the analogy is quite clear.
>It's just a drink, retards.
The point is that its free.
Maybe even worse, it could be used for filtering out non-virus data, such as copyright infringing files or controversal political opinions.
Then again, that might be just "Doesn't this shiny metallic hat look good on me?" talk.
But it doesn't address what happens when offshore management will get greedy and demand insane options/salaries.
I don't think that other people in the world are less greedy when the opportunity arises.
Problem here. Problem there.
>Today I was told by IBM that I have thirty days before I become a permanent layoff.
Sorry to hear that but just because one company says that they don't need you, you are quiting the entire industry?
It might be more than that but what you said shouldn't be enough for you to change carreers.
>I saw it coming months ago and will be enrolled in a real engineering program soon.
Maybe what you are doing is a good thing in the long run but how do you know that "real engineering" will not turn out like your "fake engineering" career?
>you can still accept it on the basis of maintaining your privacy
Not really. You will still be vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.
1. Some one calls you.
2. Evil person intercepts it. Decodes it, reads plain text. Encodes it with his own key.
3. You recieve message encoded from Evil person. You decode it, read it, encode it with your own key. You send it to who you recieved it from, Evil person.
4. see step 2.
As you can see Evil person can read everything you are transmitting and recieving, not much privacy. Although I'm not 100% sure that this would apply here.
1. No mention of SW in CNN link.
2. No mention in CNN link of using it to communicate with computers/AI/natural language processing.
3. From the CNN link:
"I use it for everything: to call to my wife, to tell my kids something, to find a friend if we get lost in a crowd," Cabello said."
Yelling works this way too.
>One thing that should be noted is that the JDBC drivers (http://jdbc.postgresql.org) are now among the best I've used. For those developing Java apps, the choice is now even more clear.
1. The quality of drivers are only one part of your decision when choosing a DB.
2. How do they compare to commerical drivers such as from MS or Oracle?
>Why is it okay for the company to intrude on an employee's life, but not for the employee to draw a line?
:)
Its actually to make up for all the office supplies that employees steal.
... would come up with the word "micromechantronics".
Micro-mechan-tronics. Like something out of anime.
I think when the parent's post mention's time, its not the time at work, but its the time period you are employeed at the company.
So even if he concieved it on a weekend at 3am, he is still an employee at Apple.
>We're just on the cusp of broadband not being a luxury.
I can't believe comments like this is modded Insightful.
>Do you consider it a luxury to have electricity and running water?
Go with no running water for 24 hours.
Go with no electricity for 24 hours.
Go with no broadband for 24 hours.
See the difference?
The cusp? Hardly.
How is broadband is not a luxury?
>Private companies can't do this because they don't have the rights to the land.
They can get it. Its not easy, but not impossible.
>increases the economy because more companies will go to the area
Read my original question: How does fibre to the HOME increase the economy? Not to commercial sites, but to the home?
>municipal government does the job the citizens want it to do
Biggest thing for goverments to do by the majority of citizens? Protection and better fiscal responsiblity. Not faster broadband to the home. Do you think that anyone would get elected with the slogan "Fiber to every home!" Think I am wrong? Open up your local newspaper for the last year and see how important fiscal responsiblity vs. emergency services vs. broadband to home is in your city citizens.