Nope. I've got a few extensions that 'died' a few updates ago and still doesn't work. Yes, of course I've bumped the version requirements but they simply don't work, They install fine but do nothing.
The porn case mentioned in TFA was again based on abusing bittorrent to reveal the IP of someone downloading something, which in itself is a double fail.
First, the rights granted to the users of bittorrent explicitly forbids using it for law enforcement purposes and also forbids reverse engineering of applications and protocol (which the DMCA also forbids), so using it to reveal IPs of individual users with the purpose of suing or prosecuting them, is clearly illegal.in itself. So here we have someone claiming to protect one piece of intellectual property by violating another... Fail.
Second, it has been proven time and time again that 1 IP != 1 person. A single IP can represent anything from 1 person to thousands, and any number of these may be unknown, regardless of whether open Wifi exists or not. Protected Wifi can be broken. Rogue cables can be plugged into the cabled local network. And everything can be removed between abuse and discovery, leaving no trace. Fail again.
Nobody has explained the historical climate changes and apart from the relatively limited effects of the occasional meteor impact and exploding super-volcanoes, all changes must be the result of variations in solar input into the system. Remember, the atmosphere's ability to retain heat comes to absolutely nothing if the input from the Sun goes away.
So any significant changes in the solar input will affect the global climate, but for obvious reasons we don't know what changes caused what in the past, so we cannot say that one or more of these are in effect now. Thus, it is impossible to say conclusively what caused any change we might see today. Note, that it is equally impossible to say if we see any change today beyond the natural variations.
From personal experience I know that participating in online debates using your real name can be downright dangerous. Some people apparently are too stupid to argue with words online and takes it out into the real world and make it physical - yes, violence.
Here's the background:
A political forum had a debate relating to the Muhammad cartoons. At the same time they changed the forum to show the participants real names, which means that if you have a unique name (as I do), all it takes is a look in a phone book (or similar online) and your address is found. Now, in a heated debate like this one, you're bound to trigger at least one moron who then sends you a letter containing the classic threat: "I know where you live - stop saying XXX". At the time I had my old (and sick) dad living with me and I was afraid he'd get hurt. I'm not afraid myself as I know that if someone shows up, I'll take him out or die trying.
After the first people reported receiving threats, the forum died. Everybody stopped posted because they didn't want to risk their families. So the forced use of real names killed the debates instead of making them better.
What triggered the threat I received? - Comments about Muhammad being a pedophile. This cannot be refuted; it's a historical fact that he married Aisha when she was 6 or 7 and consummated the marriage (had sexual intercourse) when she was 9 or 10. That clearly makes him a pedophile by todays standards, and probably also by some ancient standards.
First of all, there's a clear warning displayed either outside or inside everywhere a system like this is used. Just pay attention and you'll be warned.
Second, you're outside your home! - you cannot reasonably expect to be 'in private' outside your home, and this applies to both photos (including paparazzi) and various CCTV systems. Just accept it or stay home. If you're a law abiding citizen you have nothing to fear. No police or intelligence organization have resources to look at anything unless they have to, i.e. a crime has been committed, or likely to be committed.
Sure, some high-crime areas are monitored live but that's a tiny fraction of all the CCTV data. The rest most likely get overwritten within a few days (or less) without even been seen to conserve space; if it is to be of any use the quality must be fairly good and means close to a petabyte for just one block of a street each day, covered by a handful of cameras. Lower quality that would require significantly less space would mean that you probably couldn't recognize someone a few meters from a camera looking directly at it.
What I really love about CCTV is the ability to go back and identify anyone who does something stupid/illegal.
During the recent riots in some of the major cities in England (which have the most extreme CCTV coverage anywhere) a lot of morons went out and did supremely stupid things - vandalism, arson, looting, assault and so on, and while many actually were stupid enough to do it without any mask or hood, some thought they were smart when they disguised themselves while doing it. They just forgot that the rest of their clothing would give them away unmasked prior or after the event because everything was recorded. So most of them got caught later and really ended up regretting when they did. Not only were the punishments hard (long prison terms) but they were all - where relevant - sentenced to pay the damages in full, and as many of the arson cases resulted in the building to be gutted completely, from the street level shop to the apartments above, the bill became extremely large. And they had to pay *now* - or else. Yes, the government would take everything these people owned (house, car, furniture etc.) and then jail them further for not paying in full. These debts will never go away as they cannot be forgiven. They'll pay a (significant) percentage from their wages (or welfare) the rest of their lives. These morons deserves what they got, and I'm just sad we don't put people in pillories or gibbets anymore... These dumb f*cks would have deserved that too.
Sorry buddy but that doesn't fly here... I like to keep 75F (24.5C) all year around, especially during the winter.
Why, because I hate being bundled up and prefer to run around in a t-shirt and shorts when I'm inside (or outside when weather permits). That takes around 75F to be comfortable.
My apartment is heated by central heating (radiators) fed the surplus heat from a large waste incinerator plant, so CO2-wise it's pretty much free heat as the waste will be incinerated anyway. Sure, I have to pay for the heat but that's not a problem - I just save money elsewhere.
If it was easy to create an official, legal version of The Pirate Bay, then the entertainment industry would’ve done it already — they’re not that stupid.
Actually they are that stupid... Countless surveys and similar has made it obvious that the primary reason for piracy is unavailability and to a lesser degree price. So how has the industry responded to these fully-in-their-control-easy-fixes? By doing absolutely nothing. Yes, they are THAT stupid.
because 'people' aren't browsing google, HIS site is. It specifically says his infrastructure does the work so all google does is block his servers and then it doesn't work.
Even if he's correct and it's legal for him to do what he does in Germany, Google can and will block his access to their servers.
How? - By blocking his IP? - Enter the UK block of TPB... You can actually - and fairly easy - switch IP's to your hearts content. TPB does that, rendering IP-blocks useless.
Alternatively he can use VPN or proxies to fetch the videos from Youtube. All these services maintain a local cache of mp3's they've created so they only need to access Youtube whenever someone requests something new.
I think it's about time to sue the power companies and see if we can't force them to be more prepared for extreme weather.
In many other countries the high tension distribution system has been buried - literally! - Gone are those rather ugly power towers marring the landscape and gone are also the outages from toppled towers. As most residential (and industrial) power lines are in the ground as well, a storm will not disrupt the supply.
Why hasn't this happened in the US? - It costs money?
Who cares! - Force the power companies to move into the 20th century and drop those vulnerable raised power lines in favor of underground cabling. It can be done and it has been done, so there's no excuse except the greed of the share holders.
Underground cabling also makes it harder to steal power which might be an incentive as well.
Here in Denmark, about 80% of the high tension infrastructure is underground now, and most non-rural cities has had all raised power lines removed. Everything is underground - gas, water, sewers, electric (consumer and street lights) and fiber/copper for communication.
You have to dig when something fails but then it rarely does. Except when someone digs for one thing and cuts something else... Fortunately the fines for doing that are steep enough to make everybody actually care and take care when they dig. Of course if they dig into a high tension cable... I've seen the aftermath of a small excavator hitting a 50kV line... looks like a bomb went off. There's a LOT of power in such a line!
Exactly my point. Right now you could easilly walk around with blocks like:
Billboard Pop Charts - ALL Billboard R&B/Soul/etc - ALL Billboard Country - ALL And so on.
With "ALL" defined at first as the Top 100 chart for every year since they made a chart. You can do that now, the Pop chart will fit on a 32GB MicroSD card. Soon every song that charted, period. A little later every album from a major label that charted. Then every album from a major label, period. It is coming. Inexorable, unstoppable. And with video just a couple of generations behind. And once the back catalog is on everyone's device keeping up with new content is easy enough. It could be done. It would drive sales of storage at a time when little else seems to be enticing people to move beyond the fairly small sizes available today.
Exactly. At the end, all you need is sync access to keep up and then all currently invented models of selling music are obsolete. There will be millions and millions of complete mirrors and no way to eradicate them (The Streisand Effect) or prevent sync access. If the labels don't re-invent themselves and start selling sync access with benefits, they're dead.
But it won't faze ThePirateBay in the least. Until somebody can come up with a solution to that one,
I wasn't aware ThePirateBay was a "problem"?
It isn't. Not really anyway. It's just a search engine specializing in bittorrent (TPB does not host any 'warez' of any kind). You can find the same and much, much more using Google or Bing.
The only thing that makes TPB special is that it continues to expose overpriced lawyers' lack of knowledge concerning international law and the limits of US law.
If a UK citizen can be extradited to the US for breaking US law outside the US while physically never setting foot on US soil, why don't we see people getting extradited to all sorts of countries for breaking their laws while sitting in our homes in our own countries?
Second, extradition is for serious crimes only. Why wasn't the request squashed as it's only related to a civil matter of copyright infringement, not a criminal offense?
Affects Java and Virtualbox (starts using too much CPU).
Affected my browser (iceweasel on debian testing).
Affects SOME mysql installs (5.1 and 5.5, but not all, and of two identical installs one might be affected, the other not).
My own Debian Stable server running 2.6.32 and MySQL 5.1.63 had zero problems. It is also an NTP pool stratum 2 server but it worked just fine.
More interestingly, none of the 1.600+ servers at work had any problems. About 400 of these are Linux, mostly Debian (various distributions) but also some RHEL and some CentOS. There are also about 20 OpenBSD and FreeBSD servers which also performed flawlessly.
The Pirate Bay never provided any pirated stuff. It helped people find it, but that's it. The rest happened between users and TPB was not involved.
These days there's not even a tracker anymore. A search just yields a hash and you can not turn it into anything illegal using just the browser. There's no direct link to anything involved. Repeat the same search on Google or Bing, you CAN find links that enables you to download the pirated stuff with a single click and no additional software. But TPB is the bad guy here? - It only makes sense because it's easier to fight the little guy than Google Inc. or Microsoft Corp.
On another note, what's the point of piling on an already unpayable fine? 10.1 or 10.6 million? It's an exercise in futility! They'll never see any of that money!
I'm sure this will happen for many reasons, but it will probably lead to more access points being secured properly rather than the law being changed.
Actually... Here in Denmark we've had two verdicts confirming that you cannot be liable if you run an unsecured access point, and you cannot be forced to secure any access points. This has led to more unsecured access points as a measure of plausible deniability.
I think the internet is reaching importance that it should be considered a right that can't be taken away.
Yes, very much so. That's why the EU court has struck down any attempts at creating a pan-European three-strikes law.
It should be obvious that rampant copyright infringement should be stopped at the source, not at the destination through abuse of the judiciary system. As the great majority use illegal download to 'fix' to the unavailability of a legal purchase, a simple and efficient fix is readily available: Make the pirated materials available to all that wants them through a legal channel. Stop the format- and geodiscrimination. Make all formats available globally at the same time, no exceptions (no exclusivity for cinemas, PPV or specific countries/regions) - at a decent price. This will instantly reduce piracy with 85-95%.
Sure, removing the stupid cinema monopoly/exclusivity might be hard on the cinemas, but so far they've been living high on this market monopoly, offing a crappy product we're forced to pay a premium for, unless we wanna wait for alternatives. It is my opinion that they need to shape up and offer a much more competitive product of a much higher quality if they want to stay in business. A ticket should not be more expensive than the DVD for instance. The seats should be nice, comfortable and gum-free. Idiots that disturb the show, use cellphones during the show or similar should be thrown out quickly, fined and blacklisted. And so on. Some cinemas already got this but a lot, especially the big chains, don't. Then people might chose to enjoy a movie at the cinemas rather than at home - because they chose it, not because they were forced to.
And that has what exactly with anything at all? They are disconnecting the line and sending the information of the registered owner to whomever. It doesn't say squat about filing criminal charges against the registered owner. You must be new to the english language and reading.
You must obviously be new to the basics of the judiciary system... It is pretty clear that if one person committed the offense, only one person can be prosecuted and possibly convicted. If you convict two, one is certain to be a victim of miscarriage of justice, which is a bad thing, both for the legal system (convicting someone innocent is the worst thing that can happen in the judiciary system) and for the innocent person obviously.
Now, as it is pretty clear to most people, an IP does not in any way identify a single person, it means that you need more in order to narrow it down to a single person before you can begin to prosecute. A search of the computers using the IP may reveal a single person responsible for the infringements or it may not. There might be multiple users of the same account on that computer, or no computers known to be using the IP contains any evidence relating to the alleged infringements. The infringements then might have been committed by an outsider, using unsecured Wifi, hacked Wifi or other forms of illegally accessing the IP in question. Or the IP may be completely innocent of course.
Well, there is Windows Phone 7 and the Nokia Lumia. And while I don't personally care for either, their approach is fairly fresh and distinctive and, unlike the galaxy, does not slavishly imitate the iPhone.
Oh wait. Apple's not suing Microsoft and Nokia over WP7 and the Lumia, are they?
Apple's patents on the look and overall design of their iPad are basically null and void. There's prior art galore and they're just imitating what scifi tv and movies have been using for decades before the first idea about an iPad lit up the empty space between the ears of the Apple designer that 'invented' it.
If you don't like compressed music (I don't either) then do what I did: stop listening to it. You'll find much better music, made by real artists not "produced acts" with autotune and the like.
Autotune has nothing to do with compressed music. It hasn't even much to do with the quality of music. It is just a way to manipulate the human voice.
Sure, it is often abused to 'fix' bad singers and similar, but it can do so much more. I've heard it being used to transform voice samples into musical notes. Sure you could sample the artist singing every single possible note and harmony, but you can also just do a subset and use autotune to fill the gaps. The singer in question has a almost 4 octave range (operatic), as well as perfect pitch, so it is certainly not to fix a bad singer. It was to achieve an effect where you can produce a song with full musical backing and yet it's still basically acapella because it's all just the singers voice in various forms. No instruments.
I think it's quite cute... Much better than what they have not on that site anyway,
Why do people get so upset over sexy science students? - I mean they are there after all. Just go to any university campus and check out the science faculties. You will find everything from nerds, over plan and common looking kids to cute and sexy girls.
Nothing wrong with using a bit of eye candy to attract and get the message listened to.
On a personal note, back in the late 80's when I was studying physics at the University of Copenhagen, one of the TAs at the Niels Bohr Institute helping us do research was sexy beyond comprehension. She could have stepped out of Playboy's take on our video here. She was always in high heels, pantyhose/stockings and a short skirt under her labcoat, and she had the cutest dollface with just the right amount of makeup. That was just her style and she's AFAIK at CERN these days, doing High Energy Physics with their super colliders. She's in her late 50s now of course but I'm sure she still looks good.
There are two parts to "stealing" and I noticed you only concentrated one half the issue. While you may not deprive someone of their property, you do gain something.
Really? - Copyright holders are getting HURT because I gain a copy, despite that it in no way deprives them of the original? - How do you figure?
Oh, and please don't insult everybody's intelligence by stating that the copy represents a value, like a lost sale or similar. That would require an ironclad certainty that the copy is used by someone that with 100% certainty would have paid for it if it wasn't available for free. If the copy is used by a freeloader who would never pay for it, or if a legal sale is unavailable, the argument is null and void. As most illegal filesharing is done by people for exactly these two reasons (it's free or unavailable for purchase), it cannot be called stealing or theft as there's no loss.
I always download songs because I've seen instances where the record company yanked the song off youtube (example: most of Prince's songs). I learned to backup my favorite 70s/80s-era songs so that, if I can no longer access them via youtube, I can still hear them when I like.
Yes, the MAFIAA is constantly removing stuff from Youtube so if you find something you like, make a backup to your private harddisk right away. I learned this the hard way, having my favorites list go empty because things got removed.
Oh, and when the stupid record labels decide to release a new interesting song as a Youtube video only, you need to be able to convert it to MP3 for listening offline.
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They probably had a search warrant.
For what? - I'm willing to bet that there isn't a single bit of illegal material on any demonoid server. It's portal and a tracker, not a bitlocker!
Firefox fixed that problem ages ago.
Nope. I've got a few extensions that 'died' a few updates ago and still doesn't work. Yes, of course I've bumped the version requirements but they simply don't work, They install fine but do nothing.
The porn case mentioned in TFA was again based on abusing bittorrent to reveal the IP of someone downloading something, which in itself is a double fail.
First, the rights granted to the users of bittorrent explicitly forbids using it for law enforcement purposes and also forbids reverse engineering of applications and protocol (which the DMCA also forbids), so using it to reveal IPs of individual users with the purpose of suing or prosecuting them, is clearly illegal.in itself. So here we have someone claiming to protect one piece of intellectual property by violating another... Fail.
Second, it has been proven time and time again that 1 IP != 1 person. A single IP can represent anything from 1 person to thousands, and any number of these may be unknown, regardless of whether open Wifi exists or not. Protected Wifi can be broken. Rogue cables can be plugged into the cabled local network. And everything can be removed between abuse and discovery, leaving no trace. Fail again.
Exactly!
Nobody has explained the historical climate changes and apart from the relatively limited effects of the occasional meteor impact and exploding super-volcanoes, all changes must be the result of variations in solar input into the system. Remember, the atmosphere's ability to retain heat comes to absolutely nothing if the input from the Sun goes away.
So any significant changes in the solar input will affect the global climate, but for obvious reasons we don't know what changes caused what in the past, so we cannot say that one or more of these are in effect now. Thus, it is impossible to say conclusively what caused any change we might see today. Note, that it is equally impossible to say if we see any change today beyond the natural variations.
Hehe... Here's a couple of great quotes:
"Don't pray in my school, and I won't think in your church"
-- Unknown --
"'Faith' means not wanting to know what is true."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche --
"Science gave us planes, religion gave us 9/11."
-- Daniel Schultz --
From personal experience I know that participating in online debates using your real name can be downright dangerous. Some people apparently are too stupid to argue with words online and takes it out into the real world and make it physical - yes, violence.
Here's the background:
A political forum had a debate relating to the Muhammad cartoons. At the same time they changed the forum to show the participants real names, which means that if you have a unique name (as I do), all it takes is a look in a phone book (or similar online) and your address is found. Now, in a heated debate like this one, you're bound to trigger at least one moron who then sends you a letter containing the classic threat: "I know where you live - stop saying XXX". At the time I had my old (and sick) dad living with me and I was afraid he'd get hurt. I'm not afraid myself as I know that if someone shows up, I'll take him out or die trying.
After the first people reported receiving threats, the forum died. Everybody stopped posted because they didn't want to risk their families. So the forced use of real names killed the debates instead of making them better.
What triggered the threat I received? - Comments about Muhammad being a pedophile. This cannot be refuted; it's a historical fact that he married Aisha when she was 6 or 7 and consummated the marriage (had sexual intercourse) when she was 9 or 10. That clearly makes him a pedophile by todays standards, and probably also by some ancient standards.
I see no problem with this.
First of all, there's a clear warning displayed either outside or inside everywhere a system like this is used. Just pay attention and you'll be warned.
Second, you're outside your home! - you cannot reasonably expect to be 'in private' outside your home, and this applies to both photos (including paparazzi) and various CCTV systems. Just accept it or stay home. If you're a law abiding citizen you have nothing to fear. No police or intelligence organization have resources to look at anything unless they have to, i.e. a crime has been committed, or likely to be committed.
Sure, some high-crime areas are monitored live but that's a tiny fraction of all the CCTV data. The rest most likely get overwritten within a few days (or less) without even been seen to conserve space; if it is to be of any use the quality must be fairly good and means close to a petabyte for just one block of a street each day, covered by a handful of cameras. Lower quality that would require significantly less space would mean that you probably couldn't recognize someone a few meters from a camera looking directly at it.
What I really love about CCTV is the ability to go back and identify anyone who does something stupid/illegal.
During the recent riots in some of the major cities in England (which have the most extreme CCTV coverage anywhere) a lot of morons went out and did supremely stupid things - vandalism, arson, looting, assault and so on, and while many actually were stupid enough to do it without any mask or hood, some thought they were smart when they disguised themselves while doing it. They just forgot that the rest of their clothing would give them away unmasked prior or after the event because everything was recorded. So most of them got caught later and really ended up regretting when they did. Not only were the punishments hard (long prison terms) but they were all - where relevant - sentenced to pay the damages in full, and as many of the arson cases resulted in the building to be gutted completely, from the street level shop to the apartments above, the bill became extremely large. And they had to pay *now* - or else. Yes, the government would take everything these people owned (house, car, furniture etc.) and then jail them further for not paying in full. These debts will never go away as they cannot be forgiven. They'll pay a (significant) percentage from their wages (or welfare) the rest of their lives. These morons deserves what they got, and I'm just sad we don't put people in pillories or gibbets anymore... These dumb f*cks would have deserved that too.
Sorry buddy but that doesn't fly here... I like to keep 75F (24.5C) all year around, especially during the winter.
Why, because I hate being bundled up and prefer to run around in a t-shirt and shorts when I'm inside (or outside when weather permits). That takes around 75F to be comfortable.
My apartment is heated by central heating (radiators) fed the surplus heat from a large waste incinerator plant, so CO2-wise it's pretty much free heat as the waste will be incinerated anyway. Sure, I have to pay for the heat but that's not a problem - I just save money elsewhere.
From TFA:
If it was easy to create an official, legal version of The Pirate Bay, then the entertainment industry would’ve done it already — they’re not that stupid.
Actually they are that stupid... Countless surveys and similar has made it obvious that the primary reason for piracy is unavailability and to a lesser degree price. So how has the industry responded to these fully-in-their-control-easy-fixes? By doing absolutely nothing. Yes, they are THAT stupid.
because 'people' aren't browsing google, HIS site is. It specifically says his infrastructure does the work so all google does is block his servers and then it doesn't work.
...until he switches IP, just like TPB does.
Even if he's correct and it's legal for him to do what he does in Germany, Google can and will block his access to their servers.
How? - By blocking his IP? - Enter the UK block of TPB... You can actually - and fairly easy - switch IP's to your hearts content. TPB does that, rendering IP-blocks useless.
Alternatively he can use VPN or proxies to fetch the videos from Youtube. All these services maintain a local cache of mp3's they've created so they only need to access Youtube whenever someone requests something new.
I think it's about time to sue the power companies and see if we can't force them to be more prepared for extreme weather.
In many other countries the high tension distribution system has been buried - literally! - Gone are those rather ugly power towers marring the landscape and gone are also the outages from toppled towers. As most residential (and industrial) power lines are in the ground as well, a storm will not disrupt the supply.
Why hasn't this happened in the US? - It costs money?
Who cares! - Force the power companies to move into the 20th century and drop those vulnerable raised power lines in favor of underground cabling. It can be done and it has been done, so there's no excuse except the greed of the share holders.
Underground cabling also makes it harder to steal power which might be an incentive as well.
Here in Denmark, about 80% of the high tension infrastructure is underground now, and most non-rural cities has had all raised power lines removed. Everything is underground - gas, water, sewers, electric (consumer and street lights) and fiber/copper for communication.
You have to dig when something fails but then it rarely does. Except when someone digs for one thing and cuts something else... Fortunately the fines for doing that are steep enough to make everybody actually care and take care when they dig. Of course if they dig into a high tension cable... I've seen the aftermath of a small excavator hitting a 50kV line... looks like a bomb went off. There's a LOT of power in such a line!
Exactly my point. Right now you could easilly walk around with blocks like:
Billboard Pop Charts - ALL
Billboard R&B/Soul/etc - ALL
Billboard Country - ALL
And so on.
With "ALL" defined at first as the Top 100 chart for every year since they made a chart. You can do that now, the Pop chart will fit on a 32GB MicroSD card. Soon every song that charted, period. A little later every album from a major label that charted. Then every album from a major label, period. It is coming. Inexorable, unstoppable. And with video just a couple of generations behind. And once the back catalog is on everyone's device keeping up with new content is easy enough. It could be done. It would drive sales of storage at a time when little else seems to be enticing people to move beyond the fairly small sizes available today.
Exactly. At the end, all you need is sync access to keep up and then all currently invented models of selling music are obsolete. There will be millions and millions of complete mirrors and no way to eradicate them (The Streisand Effect) or prevent sync access. If the labels don't re-invent themselves and start selling sync access with benefits, they're dead.
But it won't faze ThePirateBay in the least. Until somebody can come up with a solution to that one,
I wasn't aware ThePirateBay was a "problem"?
It isn't. Not really anyway. It's just a search engine specializing in bittorrent (TPB does not host any 'warez' of any kind). You can find the same and much, much more using Google or Bing.
The only thing that makes TPB special is that it continues to expose overpriced lawyers' lack of knowledge concerning international law and the limits of US law.
If a UK citizen can be extradited to the US for breaking US law outside the US while physically never setting foot on US soil, why don't we see people getting extradited to all sorts of countries for breaking their laws while sitting in our homes in our own countries?
Second, extradition is for serious crimes only. Why wasn't the request squashed as it's only related to a civil matter of copyright infringement, not a criminal offense?
From my own machines and comparing notes with some other people (all in all, about 3k servers) the bug seems to affect machines randomly. Known facts:
There's a kernel patch that fixes the supposed issue: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6b43ae8a619d17c4935c3320d2ef9e92bdeed05d
Affects Debian stable a lot.
Affects Java and Virtualbox (starts using too much CPU).
Affected my browser (iceweasel on debian testing).
Affects SOME mysql installs (5.1 and 5.5, but not all, and of two identical installs one might be affected, the other not).
My own Debian Stable server running 2.6.32 and MySQL 5.1.63 had zero problems. It is also an NTP pool stratum 2 server but it worked just fine.
More interestingly, none of the 1.600+ servers at work had any problems. About 400 of these are Linux, mostly Debian (various distributions) but also some RHEL and some CentOS. There are also about 20 OpenBSD and FreeBSD servers which also performed flawlessly.
Why do they keep on beating that dead cow?
The Pirate Bay never provided any pirated stuff. It helped people find it, but that's it. The rest happened between users and TPB was not involved.
These days there's not even a tracker anymore. A search just yields a hash and you can not turn it into anything illegal using just the browser. There's no direct link to anything involved. Repeat the same search on Google or Bing, you CAN find links that enables you to download the pirated stuff with a single click and no additional software. But TPB is the bad guy here? - It only makes sense because it's easier to fight the little guy than Google Inc. or Microsoft Corp.
On another note, what's the point of piling on an already unpayable fine? 10.1 or 10.6 million? It's an exercise in futility! They'll never see any of that money!
I'm sure this will happen for many reasons, but it will probably lead to more access points being secured properly rather than the law being changed.
Actually... Here in Denmark we've had two verdicts confirming that you cannot be liable if you run an unsecured access point, and you cannot be forced to secure any access points. This has led to more unsecured access points as a measure of plausible deniability.
I think the internet is reaching importance that it should be considered a right that can't be taken away.
Yes, very much so. That's why the EU court has struck down any attempts at creating a pan-European three-strikes law.
It should be obvious that rampant copyright infringement should be stopped at the source, not at the destination through abuse of the judiciary system. As the great majority use illegal download to 'fix' to the unavailability of a legal purchase, a simple and efficient fix is readily available: Make the pirated materials available to all that wants them through a legal channel. Stop the format- and geodiscrimination. Make all formats available globally at the same time, no exceptions (no exclusivity for cinemas, PPV or specific countries/regions) - at a decent price. This will instantly reduce piracy with 85-95%.
Sure, removing the stupid cinema monopoly/exclusivity might be hard on the cinemas, but so far they've been living high on this market monopoly, offing a crappy product we're forced to pay a premium for, unless we wanna wait for alternatives. It is my opinion that they need to shape up and offer a much more competitive product of a much higher quality if they want to stay in business. A ticket should not be more expensive than the DVD for instance. The seats should be nice, comfortable and gum-free. Idiots that disturb the show, use cellphones during the show or similar should be thrown out quickly, fined and blacklisted. And so on. Some cinemas already got this but a lot, especially the big chains, don't. Then people might chose to enjoy a movie at the cinemas rather than at home - because they chose it, not because they were forced to.
And that has what exactly with anything at all? They are disconnecting the line and sending the information of the registered owner to whomever. It doesn't say squat about filing criminal charges against the registered owner. You must be new to the english language and reading.
You must obviously be new to the basics of the judiciary system... It is pretty clear that if one person committed the offense, only one person can be prosecuted and possibly convicted. If you convict two, one is certain to be a victim of miscarriage of justice, which is a bad thing, both for the legal system (convicting someone innocent is the worst thing that can happen in the judiciary system) and for the innocent person obviously.
Now, as it is pretty clear to most people, an IP does not in any way identify a single person, it means that you need more in order to narrow it down to a single person before you can begin to prosecute. A search of the computers using the IP may reveal a single person responsible for the infringements or it may not. There might be multiple users of the same account on that computer, or no computers known to be using the IP contains any evidence relating to the alleged infringements. The infringements then might have been committed by an outsider, using unsecured Wifi, hacked Wifi or other forms of illegally accessing the IP in question. Or the IP may be completely innocent of course.
Well, there is Windows Phone 7 and the Nokia Lumia. And while I don't personally care for either, their approach is fairly fresh and distinctive and, unlike the galaxy, does not slavishly imitate the iPhone.
Oh wait. Apple's not suing Microsoft and Nokia over WP7 and the Lumia, are they?
Apple's patents on the look and overall design of their iPad are basically null and void. There's prior art galore and they're just imitating what scifi tv and movies have been using for decades before the first idea about an iPad lit up the empty space between the ears of the Apple designer that 'invented' it.
If you don't like compressed music (I don't either) then do what I did: stop listening to it. You'll find much better music, made by real artists not "produced acts" with autotune and the like.
Autotune has nothing to do with compressed music. It hasn't even much to do with the quality of music. It is just a way to manipulate the human voice.
Sure, it is often abused to 'fix' bad singers and similar, but it can do so much more. I've heard it being used to transform voice samples into musical notes. Sure you could sample the artist singing every single possible note and harmony, but you can also just do a subset and use autotune to fill the gaps. The singer in question has a almost 4 octave range (operatic), as well as perfect pitch, so it is certainly not to fix a bad singer. It was to achieve an effect where you can produce a song with full musical backing and yet it's still basically acapella because it's all just the singers voice in various forms. No instruments.
I think it's quite cute... Much better than what they have not on that site anyway,
Why do people get so upset over sexy science students? - I mean they are there after all. Just go to any university campus and check out the science faculties. You will find everything from nerds, over plan and common looking kids to cute and sexy girls.
Nothing wrong with using a bit of eye candy to attract and get the message listened to.
On a personal note, back in the late 80's when I was studying physics at the University of Copenhagen, one of the TAs at the Niels Bohr Institute helping us do research was sexy beyond comprehension. She could have stepped out of Playboy's take on our video here. She was always in high heels, pantyhose/stockings and a short skirt under her labcoat, and she had the cutest dollface with just the right amount of makeup. That was just her style and she's AFAIK at CERN these days, doing High Energy Physics with their super colliders. She's in her late 50s now of course but I'm sure she still looks good.
Michael Jackson [...] touched millions across the globe.
That could be so taken the wrong way.
Or the right way... After all he was taken to court and barely acquitted...
Copyright infringement DOES hurt people.
There are two parts to "stealing" and I noticed you only concentrated one half the issue. While you may not deprive someone of their property, you do gain something.
Really? - Copyright holders are getting HURT because I gain a copy, despite that it in no way deprives them of the original? - How do you figure?
Oh, and please don't insult everybody's intelligence by stating that the copy represents a value, like a lost sale or similar. That would require an ironclad certainty that the copy is used by someone that with 100% certainty would have paid for it if it wasn't available for free. If the copy is used by a freeloader who would never pay for it, or if a legal sale is unavailable, the argument is null and void. As most illegal filesharing is done by people for exactly these two reasons (it's free or unavailable for purchase), it cannot be called stealing or theft as there's no loss.
I always download songs because I've seen instances where the record company yanked the song off youtube (example: most of Prince's songs). I learned to backup my favorite 70s/80s-era songs so that, if I can no longer access them via youtube, I can still hear them when I like.
Yes, the MAFIAA is constantly removing stuff from Youtube so if you find something you like, make a backup to your private harddisk right away. I learned this the hard way, having my favorites list go empty because things got removed.
Oh, and when the stupid record labels decide to release a new interesting song as a Youtube video only, you need to be able to convert it to MP3 for listening offline.