Yeah, you'll be much more successful designing stuff then building it without any skills in building stuff in the first place. And craftsmanship has no value, after all, right?
The market determines the value of the craftsmanship, not the craftsman. Heathkit is gambling that there are enough people who share your misunderstanding of the value of craftsmanship to make reintroducing the kits profitable for them.
The guy who took down diginotar was apparently the same guy who took down Comodo. If so, he's probably working on behalf of Iran's VEVAK. Ars Technica has a post up about it; here's the bit I found interesting:
Among these are [fraudulent] certificates for *.*.com and *.*.org, which would allow someone in possession of the certificates to perform man-in-the-middle attacks for almost any site with a.com or.org domain—a far wider problem than initially assumed. The Tor Project has also discovered some unusual text in one of the certificates. It contains a number of phrases written in Farsi, which translate as "great cracker," "I will crack all encryption," and "I hate/break your head." This alludes to ComodoHacker's statement about the Comodo hack, in which he claimed to be able to break strong encryption.
There's also increasing evidence that the certificates were used widely within Iran. Trend Micro's Smart Protection Network collects many kinds of data, including domain name lookups. Over the past few weeks, the number of Iranian systems looking up DigiNotar's validation.diginotar.nl domain was far higher than normal, until it abruptly dropped on August 30th. This activity implies that with large numbers of Iranian machines were performing revocation checks on the bogus DigiNotar certificates during July and August. The abrupt stop in turn implies that traffic to validation.diginotar.nl has now been blocked within Iran.
This suggests that the number of man-in-the-middle attacks performed against Iranians was substantial, and that the attacks occurred over many weeks, making secure communication insecure for all those within Iran. After the Comodo hack, ComodoHacker made clear that he was deliberately acting to thwart anti-government dissidents within Iran. In spite of his criticism of the Dutch, the true target remains the Iranian people.
You really don't understand what the phrase "Information wants to be free," means, do you? The problem with piracy has never been the distribution of content, though I understand if you got that impression from the RIAA/MPAA circus. You can take your jurisdictions, treaties, content flags, and filters to armor up and close every gap in the distribution chain, except one: the gap between the screen and the eye. The analog hole is uncloseable, and it is why efforts that function only in distribution space will fail. The real problem is the fact that digital content can be so easily replicated, even if it is content that had to be ripped through the uncloseable analog hole.
No shit it can be amended...what we're concerned about is it being ignored or radically changed by hyper-active judges.
Amendments are great, but short of that there should be *no* changing or ignoring the constitution outright. Interpretation for modern times is one thing; ass-rape is another.
You should probably read De Tocquville's Democracy in America. The three-way game of control that is the American form of democracy boils down to a tug of war for power between the legislative, executive, and judiciary. De Tocqueville demonstrated that judges have just as much power as the executive and the legislative when it comes to governing the citizens. The judiciary is not now, and never really was (DoA was published in 1835) some kind of above-the-fray arbiter of constitutional purity. One of the few weapons an American citizen has left in maintaining his sovereignty is actually vested through the judiciary, in the form of jury nullification.
I take my civil liberties pretty seriously -- the more impediments to power coming to rest in a central location, the better. Active judges are just one more line of defense between me and a despotism with a religious fundamentalist in charge. For me, the ass-rape in the making is the fact that dominionist nutbars like Perry and Bachmann have rediscovered the tenth amendment, and will probably try to use it to shred some of the civil liberties I've come to enjoy, if they manage to seize the executive in 2012. The first thing they are going to do is rip down what's left of the wall between church and state, in case you were wondering...
Why are they obligated to be fair and balanced?
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You can see this pattern with most of their staff- their articles are just often outright false. Where they're not false, they completely miss fundamental points. Where they don't miss fundamental points, they just outright lie.
So that's really why they have the reputation- they're just too agenda based. Their writers all vehemently pursue their own political agendas without care for facts, without care for reason, and worst of all- without care for the truth. That's not journalism, that's propaganda.
Hmmm. As long as the publication remains profitable, the staff should be able to write whatever the fuck they want to. You make it sound like there is some kind of obligation in the publishing business to be fair and balanced. I don't think there is. And I don't think it really matters to a discerning reader that they are calling themselves journalists when they are really just propagandists; getting all sides of a story, even the distorted side, is valuable.
According to one notable ethologist, 99% of all the phenotypes ever produced by DNA sequences are extinct, with the current surviving phenotypes exquisitely adapted via natural selection to the current environment. Are we seeing a paradigm shift in natural selection? DNA is certainly capable of directed selection, as famously pointed out by another notable ethologist;DNA now seems to be able to alter natural selection ex post facto. If true, it is a fucking stunning achievement for DNA.
K&R as far as long-lasting impact. But my sentimental favorite? Doug Cooper's "Oh! Pascal!" I still have a copy of it.
heh -- I struggled with Cooper's Condensed Pascal while I was a freshman and sophomore CS student. The junior and senior classes were in C. C was so much simpler, and so much clearer thanks to K&R's brevity and terseness. I do some technical writing for beer money, and K&R is my style sheet for any technical writing project I sign on for.
Typing on a QWERTY keyboard is anything but efficient -- it was designed to slow people down, because the mechanical strikers would get jammed if people typed too fast. I think it has outlived its usefulness, and is only around due to inertia, and maybe the failure of wide spread Dvorak training in high school. I learned QWERTY as a freshman in high school, and then the Dvorak as a senior in college. I much prefer the Dvorak. I could never break 750 kpm on a QWERTY, but I regularly do over 1100 kpm on a Dvorak. And the Dvorak seems to be easier on my hands -- I don't get cramped up nearly as much as I used to on a QWERTY.
What I don't understand is how this is a "win". Yes, the court slapped SH on the wrist, but they still ruled against them. No beneficial precedent is set that I can see.
Precedent? In a civil suit? Stare Decisis is not operative in a civil suit, for good reason. Be illuminated.
...that this is the way science works. You try something, learn from the results, and then change your plans accordingly. Nothing to see here.
dude. f=ma is the only "science" they are using here, and that has been established for a long, long time. What Blue Origin is doing is engineering, not science.
Similarly, I mainly use mine to timeshift netflix DVD's.
Don't be disingenuous. Why do you need to timeshift *physical media*? I suppose you are going to scrub all those DVD rips from your hd when you drop your netflix subscription, as well? Go fuck yourself, you asshat pirate. You are giving *real* pirates a bad name.
And we should use that as a litmus test for deciding whether or not someone could possibly be rational about any science topic?
Shall we leave the science only to strict atheists?
Absolutely. Even the most rarefied, intellectualized faith, or even the most ecumenical, encompassing spirituality is still irrational; they are incompatible with the title of "scientist."
Jesus, what the hell has happened to this place... *sigh*
Umm, people on slashdot are finally growing up? That they are realizing that hacking, no matter how pure the motivation, leads to real world consequences that aren't always cool?
Yeah, but there is a difference b/w shooting to murder someone, vs shooting either in self defense, or to maim/kill an assailant who's assaulting someone else.
No, not really. The distinction you are drawing does not exit a priori. It is up to a judge or jury to determine if that distinction can be made, not you. Keep that in mind if you decide to kill somebody "in self-defense."
Q: Why does a dog lick his balls?
A: Because they can
They need no reason other than that. Fix the legal system and they'd have to shape up, but as long as RIAA/MPAA is allowed to heavily influence the WTO, I think they'll prefer to adapt the legal systems rather than their business models.
I'd mod you up, if I had any points. It's called "working the refs" in the US and it is a damn effective tactic.
To be fair I think it's more subtle than that. Each time people see something like this they feel ever less guilty about, and ever less desensitized to piracy.
Each time the MPAA does something like this, they push people further and further away from legitimate services.
I for one don't see why anyone should see the slightest guilt in downloading MPAA movies, frankly paying money to buy their product to support their existence seems more morally bankrupt than downloading, or ideally just simply not watching their content at all nowadays.
Really, all wars in whatever context rely on either winning the hearts and minds of the people, or brutally supressing them. The MPAA in it's war on piracy is attempting the latter, yet even the latter only works as a temporary stop gap, the former is the only permanent solution, yet that's a battle they've already long lost.
right -- do I really need to remind you that if you grab them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow? You protect profits by whatever means necessary. Failing to do so is immoral, since the only morality in business is a comfortably darwinian one.
That was my take on this as well and what was most glaring. They admit to knowing what the problem is, yet take no steps to fix it. Instead, resorting to questionable legal tactics. Is there any business roadblocks to having movies/ TV shows released globally at the same time?
Well, yeah, there are, and it's all about profit. For example, a studio won't go to the expense of distributing a product to a different region until they are reasonably certain that there is a profit to be made, ie, demand is high enough that they will be able to sell enough units to cover the cost of localizing for that region. I work for a company that assumes that risk, and gambles that the demand is out there, or can be created if it isn't. We acquire licenses for Japanese manga and anime, then localize and distribute them in the US and Canada. We make fucking fantastic amounts of money when we get the timing right, and we lose fucking fantastic amounts of money when we don't.
You are arguing from the perspective that the government is not to be trusted (which may be entirely accurate), when clearly the person you are presenting your argument to believes that is not the case. Therefore, to the person you are responding to, your argument is nothing more than a mere contradiction without logical validity.
A much better position to take would be to simply look at fundamental issues of privacy blah blah blah [sound of a contented troll is blocking out the rest of your thoughtful, well-considered, and utterly wasted response]
First, the plural of box is boxes, boxen is not a word.
If you had a sense of humor, you'd understand where "boxen" came from.
And if you knew what the jargon file was, you both would realize exactly how wrong (stupidly wrong, in the case of the parent) you are. The link is to a version that is twenty years old, which I felt was far enough back from that asinine youtube video to hammer the point home for the parent. Hopefully the GP will take some time to browse the file and realize that some of us here really do speak a different language...
Yes, what's your point? The fact that this feature should have been implemented before now isn't a reason to not be happy that it's finally being implemented.
It's such a simple feature, and such a useful feature it having not been implemented before is news.
Seriously what do windows users do if that want to read an.iso ? Burn it to a disk every time ? There has to be something that mounts or unpacks.iso files on windows already.
indeed...winzip, winrar, and 7zip can mount them; this capabiliity has been available for years. the ability to do it *natively* will probably make software delivery easier, and will probably also help optical drives go the way of floppies. Being able to simultaneously mount multiple CD-ROMS as a windows server admin was worth the effort to get 7zip approved for use on my classified networks; being able to do it natively is just icing on the cake.
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Yeah, you'll be much more successful designing stuff then building it without any skills in building stuff in the first place. And craftsmanship has no value, after all, right?
The market determines the value of the craftsmanship, not the craftsman. Heathkit is gambling that there are enough people who share your misunderstanding of the value of craftsmanship to make reintroducing the kits profitable for them.
AIPAC. Next question?
Among these are [fraudulent] certificates for *.*.com and *.*.org, which would allow someone in possession of the certificates to perform man-in-the-middle attacks for almost any site with a .com or .org domain—a far wider problem than initially assumed. The Tor Project has also discovered some unusual text in one of the certificates. It contains a number of phrases written in Farsi, which translate as "great cracker," "I will crack all encryption," and "I hate/break your head." This alludes to ComodoHacker's statement about the Comodo hack, in which he claimed to be able to break strong encryption.
There's also increasing evidence that the certificates were used widely within Iran. Trend Micro's Smart Protection Network collects many kinds of data, including domain name lookups. Over the past few weeks, the number of Iranian systems looking up DigiNotar's validation.diginotar.nl domain was far higher than normal, until it abruptly dropped on August 30th. This activity implies that with large numbers of Iranian machines were performing revocation checks on the bogus DigiNotar certificates during July and August. The abrupt stop in turn implies that traffic to validation.diginotar.nl has now been blocked within Iran.
This suggests that the number of man-in-the-middle attacks performed against Iranians was substantial, and that the attacks occurred over many weeks, making secure communication insecure for all those within Iran. After the Comodo hack, ComodoHacker made clear that he was deliberately acting to thwart anti-government dissidents within Iran. In spite of his criticism of the Dutch, the true target remains the Iranian people.
You really don't understand what the phrase "Information wants to be free," means, do you? The problem with piracy has never been the distribution of content, though I understand if you got that impression from the RIAA/MPAA circus. You can take your jurisdictions, treaties, content flags, and filters to armor up and close every gap in the distribution chain, except one: the gap between the screen and the eye. The analog hole is uncloseable, and it is why efforts that function only in distribution space will fail. The real problem is the fact that digital content can be so easily replicated, even if it is content that had to be ripped through the uncloseable analog hole.
Russia has clueless Republican politicians, too, I see.
No shit it can be amended...what we're concerned about is it being ignored or radically changed by hyper-active judges. Amendments are great, but short of that there should be *no* changing or ignoring the constitution outright. Interpretation for modern times is one thing; ass-rape is another.
You should probably read De Tocquville's Democracy in America. The three-way game of control that is the American form of democracy boils down to a tug of war for power between the legislative, executive, and judiciary. De Tocqueville demonstrated that judges have just as much power as the executive and the legislative when it comes to governing the citizens. The judiciary is not now, and never really was (DoA was published in 1835) some kind of above-the-fray arbiter of constitutional purity. One of the few weapons an American citizen has left in maintaining his sovereignty is actually vested through the judiciary, in the form of jury nullification.
I take my civil liberties pretty seriously -- the more impediments to power coming to rest in a central location, the better. Active judges are just one more line of defense between me and a despotism with a religious fundamentalist in charge. For me, the ass-rape in the making is the fact that dominionist nutbars like Perry and Bachmann have rediscovered the tenth amendment, and will probably try to use it to shred some of the civil liberties I've come to enjoy, if they manage to seize the executive in 2012. The first thing they are going to do is rip down what's left of the wall between church and state, in case you were wondering...
You can see this pattern with most of their staff- their articles are just often outright false. Where they're not false, they completely miss fundamental points. Where they don't miss fundamental points, they just outright lie.
So that's really why they have the reputation- they're just too agenda based. Their writers all vehemently pursue their own political agendas without care for facts, without care for reason, and worst of all- without care for the truth. That's not journalism, that's propaganda.
Hmmm. As long as the publication remains profitable, the staff should be able to write whatever the fuck they want to. You make it sound like there is some kind of obligation in the publishing business to be fair and balanced. I don't think there is. And I don't think it really matters to a discerning reader that they are calling themselves journalists when they are really just propagandists; getting all sides of a story, even the distorted side, is valuable.
According to one notable ethologist, 99% of all the phenotypes ever produced by DNA sequences are extinct, with the current surviving phenotypes exquisitely adapted via natural selection to the current environment. Are we seeing a paradigm shift in natural selection? DNA is certainly capable of directed selection, as famously pointed out by another notable ethologist;DNA now seems to be able to alter natural selection ex post facto. If true, it is a fucking stunning achievement for DNA.
K&R as far as long-lasting impact. But my sentimental favorite? Doug Cooper's "Oh! Pascal!" I still have a copy of it.
heh -- I struggled with Cooper's Condensed Pascal while I was a freshman and sophomore CS student. The junior and senior classes were in C. C was so much simpler, and so much clearer thanks to K&R's brevity and terseness. I do some technical writing for beer money, and K&R is my style sheet for any technical writing project I sign on for.
Next question?
Typing on a QWERTY keyboard is anything but efficient -- it was designed to slow people down, because the mechanical strikers would get jammed if people typed too fast. I think it has outlived its usefulness, and is only around due to inertia, and maybe the failure of wide spread Dvorak training in high school. I learned QWERTY as a freshman in high school, and then the Dvorak as a senior in college. I much prefer the Dvorak. I could never break 750 kpm on a QWERTY, but I regularly do over 1100 kpm on a Dvorak. And the Dvorak seems to be easier on my hands -- I don't get cramped up nearly as much as I used to on a QWERTY.
What I don't understand is how this is a "win". Yes, the court slapped SH on the wrist, but they still ruled against them. No beneficial precedent is set that I can see.
Precedent? In a civil suit? Stare Decisis is not operative in a civil suit, for good reason. Be illuminated.
...if I was in charge of damage control at kernel.org. Just sayin'.
dude. f=ma is the only "science" they are using here, and that has been established for a long, long time. What Blue Origin is doing is engineering, not science.
Similarly, I mainly use mine to timeshift netflix DVD's.
Don't be disingenuous. Why do you need to timeshift *physical media*? I suppose you are going to scrub all those DVD rips from your hd when you drop your netflix subscription, as well? Go fuck yourself, you asshat pirate. You are giving *real* pirates a bad name.
And we should use that as a litmus test for deciding whether or not someone could possibly be rational about any science topic?
Shall we leave the science only to strict atheists?
Absolutely. Even the most rarefied, intellectualized faith, or even the most ecumenical, encompassing spirituality is still irrational; they are incompatible with the title of "scientist."
Umm, because it's fun?
Jesus, what the hell has happened to this place... *sigh*
Umm, people on slashdot are finally growing up? That they are realizing that hacking, no matter how pure the motivation, leads to real world consequences that aren't always cool?
Yeah, but there is a difference b/w shooting to murder someone, vs shooting either in self defense, or to maim/kill an assailant who's assaulting someone else.
No, not really. The distinction you are drawing does not exit a priori. It is up to a judge or jury to determine if that distinction can be made, not you. Keep that in mind if you decide to kill somebody "in self-defense."
Q: Why does a dog lick his balls? A: Because they can
They need no reason other than that. Fix the legal system and they'd have to shape up, but as long as RIAA/MPAA is allowed to heavily influence the WTO, I think they'll prefer to adapt the legal systems rather than their business models.
I'd mod you up, if I had any points. It's called "working the refs" in the US and it is a damn effective tactic.
To be fair I think it's more subtle than that. Each time people see something like this they feel ever less guilty about, and ever less desensitized to piracy.
Each time the MPAA does something like this, they push people further and further away from legitimate services.
I for one don't see why anyone should see the slightest guilt in downloading MPAA movies, frankly paying money to buy their product to support their existence seems more morally bankrupt than downloading, or ideally just simply not watching their content at all nowadays.
Really, all wars in whatever context rely on either winning the hearts and minds of the people, or brutally supressing them. The MPAA in it's war on piracy is attempting the latter, yet even the latter only works as a temporary stop gap, the former is the only permanent solution, yet that's a battle they've already long lost.
right -- do I really need to remind you that if you grab them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow? You protect profits by whatever means necessary. Failing to do so is immoral, since the only morality in business is a comfortably darwinian one.
That was my take on this as well and what was most glaring. They admit to knowing what the problem is, yet take no steps to fix it. Instead, resorting to questionable legal tactics. Is there any business roadblocks to having movies/ TV shows released globally at the same time?
Well, yeah, there are, and it's all about profit. For example, a studio won't go to the expense of distributing a product to a different region until they are reasonably certain that there is a profit to be made, ie, demand is high enough that they will be able to sell enough units to cover the cost of localizing for that region. I work for a company that assumes that risk, and gambles that the demand is out there, or can be created if it isn't. We acquire licenses for Japanese manga and anime, then localize and distribute them in the US and Canada. We make fucking fantastic amounts of money when we get the timing right, and we lose fucking fantastic amounts of money when we don't.
You are arguing from the perspective that the government is not to be trusted (which may be entirely accurate), when clearly the person you are presenting your argument to believes that is not the case. Therefore, to the person you are responding to, your argument is nothing more than a mere contradiction without logical validity.
A much better position to take would be to simply look at fundamental issues of privacy blah blah blah [sound of a contented troll is blocking out the rest of your thoughtful, well-considered, and utterly wasted response]
no...no...no. you don't feed the trolls. period.
First, the plural of box is boxes, boxen is not a word.
If you had a sense of humor, you'd understand where "boxen" came from.
And if you knew what the jargon file was, you both would realize exactly how wrong (stupidly wrong, in the case of the parent) you are. The link is to a version that is twenty years old, which I felt was far enough back from that asinine youtube video to hammer the point home for the parent. Hopefully the GP will take some time to browse the file and realize that some of us here really do speak a different language...
Yes, what's your point? The fact that this feature should have been implemented before now isn't a reason to not be happy that it's finally being implemented.
It's such a simple feature, and such a useful feature it having not been implemented before is news.
Seriously what do windows users do if that want to read an .iso ? Burn it to a disk every time ? There has to be something that mounts or unpacks .iso files on windows already.
indeed...winzip, winrar, and 7zip can mount them; this capabiliity has been available for years. the ability to do it *natively* will probably make software delivery easier, and will probably also help optical drives go the way of floppies. Being able to simultaneously mount multiple CD-ROMS as a windows server admin was worth the effort to get 7zip approved for use on my classified networks; being able to do it natively is just icing on the cake.
Most Musicians tend to vote progressive. Now that your ox got gored, how do you like that hope-n-change now?! Reap what you shall sow.
I doubt seriously that C&W artists, gospel artists, and classical musicians vote progressive. And they probably outnumber everybody else in the business. Besides, there are more than a few artists in other genres with decidedly unprogressive notions about the world.
I think you should have the dignity to just discorporate right now, by any convenient method. Like letting an ox gore you.