I don't see an answer to the problem other than DRM. But how do you maintain DRM without punishing the legal users? Computers were designed for the ultimate in information freedom, and while they excel at playing, editing, and transferring musics and other media there is a domain mismatch when it comes to maintaining rights. No one has a right to music unless they pay for it.
Human history disagrees with you.
For a more humorous counterpoint I refer you to an artist who also disagrees with you. Dan Bull
I don't get why people are trying SO DAMN HARD to make it okay.
Guilt and possibly shame. If it wasn't necessary or useful then they mutilated their son(s) for no reason, or they were mutilated for no reason. It's really simple if you think about it. They are simply protecting their self image.
You might want to check out a program called Checkride. It is an open source program developed in Lazarus. It is basically a preconfigured portable VNC and stunnel package. To use you configure it to connect to your computer and give it to the person you are trying to help. The executable you send them starts VNC server and then connects to your computer via stunnel. Your PC then starts VNC viewer on your side and connects to their desktop via the secure stunnel connection.
And how is that functionally different from a phone number? I don't see what you are trying to convey here. Domain names in DNS ultimately resolve to a number. It is almost impossible to completely eliminate in our current internet (and I suspect any future version) the need to know the address of the entity you are trying to contact. Adding layers of indirection might hide this from the end user, but it still exists. At some point your voip devices will need to know where the other voip device can be reached.
It won't. No matter what, your computer/browser/phone/etc. will need to know how to get to the data/page/person/whatever you requested. As for phones, just how many John Smiths (just as an example) do you suppose there are in the world? How will this hypothetical phone system tell which John Smith you wanted? (Blood Samples? DNA? Photo Recognition?) I suppose one could assign everyone in the world some sort of GUID. But that would just be basically the same system we have now. Sure, it might be that in the future you don't need to dial each of his phone numbers individually. But your VOIP system would still need to know how to contact those devices.
Another good option is an old thin client. I use a re-purposed Neoware Thinclient for this. It runs embedded pfsense. Supports all sorts of functionality unavailable on most consumer-grade routers. As an added bonus it has no moving parts and is completely silent.
Because the law should only apply to people you like? If law is not applied fairly to everyone it is worthless. I don't care anything about Dotcom. I do care that the government faithfully follows the laws that it enforces. This is a fairly basic concept.
My personal favorite Havok "feature" is enemy corpses that get stuck on your legs so that you can't see where your feet are when you're trying to cross a narrow bridge. Fun times...
I used to actually know a debt collector named Guido. We used to work at the same company. It used to crack me up every time I get to work his name into a call. Comedy gold... (Ok, I admit it, I'm easily amused.)
Thundercats was awful. I'll admit I watched the show as a child. I even enjoyed it. A while back I had the misfortune of seeing it again on cable. My advice to the world is never watch 1980s cartoons as an adult. (Especially anything that had action figures!) Your brain will thank you.
Interesting. So what happens if a law office gets raided by the U.S. Marshals and they take the servers that have your clients' confidential files on them? (Assuming that the clients had nothing to do with the raid.) What happens to those files? Could the receiver of the hardware simply wipe the hardware with impunity? I'm guessing that actually viewing the contents of said files would be a majorly bad idea.
"I'd wager that, for most works, there isn't much income to be made past 14 years."
I'd wager that, on average, there's enough money to be done past 14 years, and even past 70 years, that the ones with the power to do so are willing to expend a bazillion of [money currency] in bribes to make sure they can asure such an income for themselves.
While probably true, I don't think you're giving the record execs enough credit. It isn't just about making money on any one song. By locking up content behind copyright they can both control and restrict what is available. This means there is always a void for them to fill with their latest band.
Anyone interested in finding a good(bad?) example of corporate police forces should google "pinkerton coal miners". Interesting stuff there if you like history.
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I don't see an answer to the problem other than DRM. But how do you maintain DRM without punishing the legal users? Computers were designed for the ultimate in information freedom, and while they excel at playing, editing, and transferring musics and other media there is a domain mismatch when it comes to maintaining rights. No one has a right to music unless they pay for it.
Human history disagrees with you.
For a more humorous counterpoint I refer you to an artist who also disagrees with you. Dan Bull
I don't get why people are trying SO DAMN HARD to make it okay.
Guilt and possibly shame. If it wasn't necessary or useful then they mutilated their son(s) for no reason, or they were mutilated for no reason. It's really simple if you think about it. They are simply protecting their self image.
You might want to check out a program called Checkride. It is an open source program developed in Lazarus. It is basically a preconfigured portable VNC and stunnel package. To use you configure it to connect to your computer and give it to the person you are trying to help. The executable you send them starts VNC server and then connects to your computer via stunnel. Your PC then starts VNC viewer on your side and connects to their desktop via the secure stunnel connection.
Checkride
I use Deluge on both Windows and Linux. It seems to work exactly the same on both.
And how is that functionally different from a phone number? I don't see what you are trying to convey here. Domain names in DNS ultimately resolve to a number. It is almost impossible to completely eliminate in our current internet (and I suspect any future version) the need to know the address of the entity you are trying to contact. Adding layers of indirection might hide this from the end user, but it still exists. At some point your voip devices will need to know where the other voip device can be reached.
It won't. No matter what, your computer/browser/phone/etc. will need to know how to get to the data/page/person/whatever you requested. As for phones, just how many John Smiths (just as an example) do you suppose there are in the world? How will this hypothetical phone system tell which John Smith you wanted? (Blood Samples? DNA? Photo Recognition?) I suppose one could assign everyone in the world some sort of GUID. But that would just be basically the same system we have now. Sure, it might be that in the future you don't need to dial each of his phone numbers individually. But your VOIP system would still need to know how to contact those devices.
Another good option is an old thin client. I use a re-purposed Neoware Thinclient for this. It runs embedded pfsense. Supports all sorts of functionality unavailable on most consumer-grade routers. As an added bonus it has no moving parts and is completely silent.
I've had the misfortune of using it. It is truely horrible.
Because the law should only apply to people you like? If law is not applied fairly to everyone it is worthless. I don't care anything about Dotcom. I do care that the government faithfully follows the laws that it enforces. This is a fairly basic concept.
No it was the old people. Just different old people.
True, but it wouldn't actually play DVDs unless you installed a codec.
My personal favorite Havok "feature" is enemy corpses that get stuck on your legs so that you can't see where your feet are when you're trying to cross a narrow bridge. Fun times...
I used to actually know a debt collector named Guido. We used to work at the same company. It used to crack me up every time I get to work his name into a call. Comedy gold... (Ok, I admit it, I'm easily amused.)
Thundercats was awful. I'll admit I watched the show as a child. I even enjoyed it. A while back I had the misfortune of seeing it again on cable. My advice to the world is never watch 1980s cartoons as an adult. (Especially anything that had action figures!) Your brain will thank you.
Anyone know if anyone has ever tried to go through one with a film badge dosimeter or something similar? That might prove very interesting.
The version I've always liked is:
Light a man a fire and he's warm for a day; light a man afire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Of course that really only works in text form.
Oops, forgot to include this link as well in my previous post.
A Night in Casablanca
Though I hope people don't bother to read the article
You do realize that this is Slashdot, right?
No it does not. It will work as 2G, but not 3G.
They barely edit the stories, now you want them to check links in comments?!
Interesting. So what happens if a law office gets raided by the U.S. Marshals and they take the servers that have your clients' confidential files on them? (Assuming that the clients had nothing to do with the raid.) What happens to those files? Could the receiver of the hardware simply wipe the hardware with impunity? I'm guessing that actually viewing the contents of said files would be a majorly bad idea.
"I'd wager that, for most works, there isn't much income to be made past 14 years."
I'd wager that, on average, there's enough money to be done past 14 years, and even past 70 years, that the ones with the power to do so are willing to expend a bazillion of [money currency] in bribes to make sure they can asure such an income for themselves.
While probably true, I don't think you're giving the record execs enough credit. It isn't just about making money on any one song. By locking up content behind copyright they can both control and restrict what is available. This means there is always a void for them to fill with their latest band.
Think about it for a moment.
Anyone interested in finding a good(bad?) example of corporate police forces should google "pinkerton coal miners". Interesting stuff there if you like history.
Anakin's character...
Wow, you totally lost me right there. Anakin had character? :-P