I'm sure christians will realize how old the earth is soon enough, just like they were forced to realize earth wasn't flat.:-) Seriously, if that's what christianity stand for - laughing at people with completely legitimate opinions, just being different from what a book says, then it's nothing *I* would like to stand for...:-P
What most people don't realize is being a Christian does not mean standing up for Christianity. It means standing up for Jesus Christ.
I call myself a Christian. I believe there could be life on other planets. I don't agree with many Christian teachings, and recognize the fact that the Bible was written by man, may be flawed, and even if it isn't flawed it's still very difficult to comprehend. Ten people can read the same passage and get ten different answers from it. Who knows which one is right.
Being a Christian means believing in Jesus and that he died for your sins. It also means living your life for him. That's mostly it. As a Christian, I try hard to live the way Jesus would want me to live. I do my best to treat everyone with kindness and respect.
Those people that ridiculed the original poster were not living their lives for Christ. I wouldn't call them Christians, nor would I want anything to do with them, either. Don't confuse nasty "Christian" behavior with a hatred for Jesus. I assure you, he is also unhappy with their behavior.
The buyer drives off the lot and in a few days gets a call from the finance manager saying they were not approved for the loan but they were able to get another deal at a higher interest rate.
I bought a new Mitsubishi in 2000 and they did this to me. They wanted me to come back and re-sign the new terms (at an appalling interest rate). I told them hell no, and if they didn't make the original terms work, I wanted my old car back. They tried to tell me that this wasn't possible, that they didn't have my car anymore (bought the new vehicle on a Friday, they called me on Monday, and already got rid of my car? Right.). I explained that this was their problem, not mine, and told them they had a choice: Make the original terms work or return my car to me. "And what if we can't do either?".. "Then I'll refer any further calls to my attorney."
Lo and behold, a few hours later, they "pulled some strings" and got me the loan. Truth: They did a credit check before we even test drove the vehicle. With a rating of over 700 I was told I had free choice over any vehicle in the showroom. They were just trying to scam me.
I had to file multiple complaints with my state just to get Qwest to install a simple phone line in my new home. I gave them three months notice; they claimed it would take them 6 to 8 months. Even after 20 some homes were built in the neighborhood (with a total of 600 going in), they were still claiming 3 to 5 months for service for any of us.
So, getting nowhere with the morons at Qwest, my neighbors and I filed more complaints. Lo and behold, a week later, a Qwest employee shows up and hooks up my phone service. Funny how that works.
I have two large drives sitting on a Linux box doing RAID mirroring. For remote access, I use ssh/scp. For local access from other Linux machines, I use NFS, and for Windows machines, SMB.
The point is, everything is stored and "backed up" centrally, but accessed using a different mechanism depending on where I'm at when I need my data. Since I don't delete files accidentally, mirroring works fine for a backup - I'm really only concerned with drive failure.
I then structure the directories according to type of file. I've got a documents directory where I keep anything I create myself. Specific projects that require multiple files generally go under documents/projectname. I've got a music directory, and many subdirectories under it:
Santa Clara, California-based SONICblue said federal Judge Florence-Marie Cooper halted the April 26 order in which a federal court ordered SONICblue to install tracking software on ReplayTV and report viewing results to movie and TV companies.
Finally, a judge who cannot be bought. I wonder how we can get more of these RIAA financed decisions sent over to her for review??
Kazaa lobbyist Phil Corwin says a $1-a-month fee per user on Internet providers alone (it's unclear whether costs would be passed along to subscribers) would generate $2 billion yearly: "We're talking about a modest fee on all the parties who benefit from the availability of this content."
Uh, NO, you charge the people who are using the service. Why the hell should my grandmother, who has no idea what an MP3 is, pay this fee? Make it $1 per month per file-sharing user. Hell, you could set it up like adult-check, where every P2P app queries the same database before allowing you to login. You pay a buck a month to the database administrators and they distribute the funds where appropriate.
Do you have any links that describe how to use an iButton for access control, such as activating relays for door strikes, garage door openers, etc? I looked all over the iButton web site and couldn't find any hard details on how to go about setting something like this up. I think it would be cool to replace all locks with iButton readers (and at ~$15 a pop, why not?!) - front door, garage, even the keyholes in your car could be replaced with a reader that would disarm the alarm system and unlock the door. Buy an iButton ring to wear and never have to carry keys again.
I'm with you. OCR, at least the inexpensive (under $1000) software, is worthless. I found it to be faster to retype the whole stupid document by hand than it was to correct the OCR errors.
Unfortunately the only postings/articles I have seen which offer a resolution to online piracy have been limited to ways in which the entertainment industry needs to change its business model. While this may be a valid argument, it does not provide a legislative alternative (something which many on Capitol Hill are scratching for).
Yes, but changing their business model is the only thing that is going to solve the problem. We don't WANT nor NEED a legislative alternative. Invariably, any further legislation in this matter will only serve to harm consumers, invade their privacy, and strengthen an industry which needs to grow up and start figuring things out on it's own. No amount of legislation will stop or even hinder pirates without completely shafting the rest of us and it's high time our politicians learned this.
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There is a better alternative: LeapPad Learning System. Go to Target sometime and play with one in the store. They're very cool for kids.
If I were an author and found somebody passing out copies of my book
What if I bought a hundred copies of your book at a used book store and gave them away for free to anyone who asked?
What if I posted a message to Usenet encouraging everyone to go to their local library and read your book instead of buying it?
What if I setup a book borrowing program whereby I loaned my own personal collection of your books to anyone who asked on the Internet for the cost of postage? "Here, I've got a hundred used books. You pay me $10 for the book, read it, enjoy it, and when you send it back to me, I'll give you $9 back." Or, hell, what if I loaned them out for free? What if I ate the shipping costs myself and shipped these books to anyone who wanted to read them under the condition they send them back when they were done?
Would you sue me, and if so, on what grounds?
All of this would be perfectly legal and none of these situations would bring you a penny in immediate revenue. Chances are, however, that all would generate buzz about your books among people who otherwise never would have heard of you, and you'd likely make money as they went out and bought your other books.
Let's further marginalize and objectify one half of our own species by producing sexualized machinery designed for manual labor and other, less edifying prospects.
Oh, shut up. They could just as easily have made it look like a man. They chose a female merely because people relate better to females and will be more accepting of a female robot than they would a male bot. If anything, this says that the designers think more highly of females than they do males, so you can stop whipping that dead sexist horse anytime now.
But if I say I want payment for my software, and someone downloads it either with the specific intention of never paying for it, or downloads it and then uses it past the period they're allowed to evaluate it, that person is *stealing*.
Bullshit.
http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=theft \Theft\, n. [OE. thefte, AS. [thorn]i['e]f[eth]e, [thorn][=y]f[eth]e, [thorn]e['o]f[eth]e. See Thief.] 1. (Law) The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.
Note: To constitute theft there must be a taking without the owner's consent, and it must be unlawful or felonious; every part of the property stolen must be removed, however slightly, from its former position; and it must be, at least momentarily, in the complete possession of the thief. See Larceny, and the Note under Robbery.
Tell me again how using your software without paying for it fits this definition?
It is impossible to steal intellectual property. They may be violating your copyright, but they are certainly not stealing.
Now it's possible, even probably, that those rules are arbitrary and unfair, but what he did violated them.
It's possible, of course, that the DMCA is arbitrary and unfair, but by turning that key2audio protected CD into MP3s, hey, you're violating the rules. Why should we care if you rot in jail for the next 2 and a half? You knew better.
Point: Only a lemming blindly follows the letter of the law. Do you have no backbone? The kid did nothing wrong. It's time we stand up for what is right instead of saying, "Well, the rule may be wrong, but you shouldn't have broken it..."
so, what will that supercomputer will be used for?
Read the link. It's being installed in the Molecular Science Computing Facility, located within the William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory.
Quote: "The Molecular Science Computing Facility provides the advanced computing capability needed by staff and users of the William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) to address "Grand Challenge" scale environmental research problems."
(How many people have downloaded an entirely album, every song? Be honest.)
(raises hand) I have! I downloaded the Footloose & Top Gun soundtracks a few months ago when I was organizing my media. I still have a box full of cassette tapes and ran across these two soundtracks, which were two of my favorites back in the 80s, and I wanted the MP3s. So, I downloaded them. Even went so far as to grab a jpg of the album cover from cdnow and store it with my new MP3s.
I don't feel a bit guilty about it and no scum sucking bottom feeding RIAA bastard child is going to change that.
I have to admit though, it was painful and time consuming. Would have been easier to just buy the CD, but I didn't want to pay for something I already owned.
I went to a "recruiting" meeting for a company called Equinox a few years back. They set these things up like a revival from the turn of the century.
Hahaha!! Equinox suckered a friend and myself in some 8 years ago. They've been around for awhile! They had this "big wig" guy in there talking about how rich he was, and bragging about his Rolls Royce that was sitting in the parking lot. As soon as they were done with their little promotion, I searched the whole f'ing parking lot for this supposed Rolls Royce and came up empty handed.
Nothing but a scam. Thankfully I only wasted my time on them and never spent any money. A friend of mine spent a bunch of money on their dealer information kit that they require you to buy...
If no one is willing to make music because they can't get paid for a portion of the sale of each disk with their name on, then there just won't be any music.
ROTFLMAO!!
How many people got paid for selling their music on little plastic discs (or hell, even magnetic tapes) hundreds of years ago?
The answer: NONE!
Music did not just suddenly come into being in the 1900's when people discovered a method to make money off of it. Music has been around for thousands of years and most people make music because they love making music. If copyrights on music were abolished tomorrow, the only music that would go away would be the Britney Spears type of overproduced garbage and the people who are only in it to make a buck. In fact, I would submit that the quality of music would skyrocket because the only people who would be making music would be people who love to make music! The money hungry acts would go away for good and that would be just fine with me.
So, if you think that "there would just be no music", well, you're sorely in need of a reality check.
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I'm sure christians will realize how old the earth is soon enough, just like they were forced to realize earth wasn't flat. :-) Seriously, if that's what christianity stand for - laughing at people with completely legitimate opinions, just being different from what a book says, then it's nothing *I* would like to stand for... :-P
What most people don't realize is being a Christian does not mean standing up for Christianity. It means standing up for Jesus Christ.
I call myself a Christian.
I believe there could be life on other planets.
I don't agree with many Christian teachings, and recognize the fact that the Bible was written by man, may be flawed, and even if it isn't flawed it's still very difficult to comprehend. Ten people can read the same passage and get ten different answers from it. Who knows which one is right.
Being a Christian means believing in Jesus and that he died for your sins. It also means living your life for him. That's mostly it. As a Christian, I try hard to live the way Jesus would want me to live. I do my best to treat everyone with kindness and respect.
Those people that ridiculed the original poster were not living their lives for Christ. I wouldn't call them Christians, nor would I want anything to do with them, either. Don't confuse nasty "Christian" behavior with a hatred for Jesus. I assure you, he is also unhappy with their behavior.
The buyer drives off the lot and in a few days gets a call from the finance manager saying they were not approved for the loan but they were able to get another deal at a higher interest rate.
.. "Then I'll refer any further calls to my attorney."
I bought a new Mitsubishi in 2000 and they did this to me. They wanted me to come back and re-sign the new terms (at an appalling interest rate). I told them hell no, and if they didn't make the original terms work, I wanted my old car back. They tried to tell me that this wasn't possible, that they didn't have my car anymore (bought the new vehicle on a Friday, they called me on Monday, and already got rid of my car? Right.). I explained that this was their problem, not mine, and told them they had a choice: Make the original terms work or return my car to me. "And what if we can't do either?"
Lo and behold, a few hours later, they "pulled some strings" and got me the loan. Truth: They did a credit check before we even test drove the vehicle. With a rating of over 700 I was told I had free choice over any vehicle in the showroom. They were just trying to scam me.
I had to file multiple complaints with my state just to get Qwest to install a simple phone line in my new home. I gave them three months notice; they claimed it would take them 6 to 8 months. Even after 20 some homes were built in the neighborhood (with a total of 600 going in), they were still claiming 3 to 5 months for service for any of us.
So, getting nowhere with the morons at Qwest, my neighbors and I filed more complaints. Lo and behold, a week later, a Qwest employee shows up and hooks up my phone service. Funny how that works.
I have two large drives sitting on a Linux box doing RAID mirroring. For remote access, I use ssh/scp. For local access from other Linux machines, I use NFS, and for Windows machines, SMB.
. music/singletracks/cache1/files.mp3.v ideos/ ..
The point is, everything is stored and "backed up" centrally, but accessed using a different mechanism depending on where I'm at when I need my data. Since I don't delete files accidentally, mirroring works fine for a backup - I'm really only concerned with drive failure.
I then structure the directories according to type of file. I've got a documents directory where I keep anything I create myself. Specific projects that require multiple files generally go under documents/projectname. I've got a music directory, and many subdirectories under it:
music/fullalbums/artistname/albumname/files.mp3
music/music
Etc. Then software. apps/isos. apps/windows. apps/linux. And so on, and so forth.
What the?? Will somebody with mod points mod this down? How the hell did this get marked 'interesting' in a story about Microsoft?
I don't want to beat on MCSEs any more than they already get it,
I do!!
Q: What do you do when an MCSE shows up at your front door?
A: Pay for the pizza!
Santa Clara, California-based SONICblue said federal Judge Florence-Marie Cooper halted the April 26 order in which a federal court ordered SONICblue to install tracking software on ReplayTV and report viewing results to movie and TV companies.
Finally, a judge who cannot be bought. I wonder how we can get more of these RIAA financed decisions sent over to her for review??
Kazaa lobbyist Phil Corwin says a $1-a-month fee per user on Internet providers alone (it's unclear whether costs would be passed along to subscribers) would generate $2 billion yearly: "We're talking about a modest fee on all the parties who benefit from the availability of this content."
Uh, NO, you charge the people who are using the service. Why the hell should my grandmother, who has no idea what an MP3 is, pay this fee? Make it $1 per month per file-sharing user. Hell, you could set it up like adult-check, where every P2P app queries the same database before allowing you to login. You pay a buck a month to the database administrators and they distribute the funds where appropriate.
Do you have any links that describe how to use an iButton for access control, such as activating relays for door strikes, garage door openers, etc? I looked all over the iButton web site and couldn't find any hard details on how to go about setting something like this up. I think it would be cool to replace all locks with iButton readers (and at ~$15 a pop, why not?!) - front door, garage, even the keyholes in your car could be replaced with a reader that would disarm the alarm system and unlock the door. Buy an iButton ring to wear and never have to carry keys again.
Any ideas on how to get started with this??
I'm with you. OCR, at least the inexpensive (under $1000) software, is worthless. I found it to be faster to retype the whole stupid document by hand than it was to correct the OCR errors.
Unfortunately the only postings/articles I have seen which offer a resolution to online piracy have been limited to ways in which the entertainment industry needs to change its business model. While this may be a valid argument, it does not provide a legislative alternative (something which many on Capitol Hill are scratching for).
Yes, but changing their business model is the only thing that is going to solve the problem. We don't WANT nor NEED a legislative alternative. Invariably, any further legislation in this matter will only serve to harm consumers, invade their privacy, and strengthen an industry which needs to grow up and start figuring things out on it's own. No amount of legislation will stop or even hinder pirates without completely shafting the rest of us and it's high time our politicians learned this.
There is a better alternative: LeapPad Learning System. Go to Target sometime and play with one in the store. They're very cool for kids.
If I were an author and found somebody passing out copies of my book
What if I bought a hundred copies of your book at a used book store and gave them away for free to anyone who asked?
What if I posted a message to Usenet encouraging everyone to go to their local library and read your book instead of buying it?
What if I setup a book borrowing program whereby I loaned my own personal collection of your books to anyone who asked on the Internet for the cost of postage? "Here, I've got a hundred used books. You pay me $10 for the book, read it, enjoy it, and when you send it back to me, I'll give you $9 back." Or, hell, what if I loaned them out for free? What if I ate the shipping costs myself and shipped these books to anyone who wanted to read them under the condition they send them back when they were done?
Would you sue me, and if so, on what grounds?
All of this would be perfectly legal and none of these situations would bring you a penny in immediate revenue. Chances are, however, that all would generate buzz about your books among people who otherwise never would have heard of you, and you'd likely make money as they went out and bought your other books.
I have 50 karma, I get mod points (just used my five for today), and I would have modded you down as off-topic, too.
Let's further marginalize and objectify one half of our own species by producing sexualized machinery designed for manual labor and other, less edifying prospects.
Oh, shut up. They could just as easily have made it look like a man. They chose a female merely because people relate better to females and will be more accepting of a female robot than they would a male bot. If anything, this says that the designers think more highly of females than they do males, so you can stop whipping that dead sexist horse anytime now.
Irrespective of the rather warped views people have, the courts would also call it theft.
No, they don't. They call it copyright infringement. There is a huge difference.
But if I say I want payment for my software, and someone downloads it either with the specific intention of never paying for it, or downloads it and then uses it past the period they're allowed to evaluate it, that person is *stealing*.
Bullshit.
http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=theft
\Theft\, n. [OE. thefte, AS. [thorn]i['e]f[eth]e, [thorn][=y]f[eth]e, [thorn]e['o]f[eth]e. See Thief.] 1. (Law) The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.
Note: To constitute theft there must be a taking without the owner's consent, and it must be unlawful or felonious; every part of the property stolen must be removed, however slightly, from its former position; and it must be, at least momentarily, in the complete possession of the thief. See Larceny, and the Note under Robbery.
Tell me again how using your software without paying for it fits this definition?
It is impossible to steal intellectual property. They may be violating your copyright, but they are certainly not stealing.
Now it's possible, even probably, that those rules are arbitrary and unfair, but what he did violated them.
It's possible, of course, that the DMCA is arbitrary and unfair, but by turning that key2audio protected CD into MP3s, hey, you're violating the rules. Why should we care if you rot in jail for the next 2 and a half? You knew better.
Point: Only a lemming blindly follows the letter of the law. Do you have no backbone? The kid did nothing wrong. It's time we stand up for what is right instead of saying, "Well, the rule may be wrong, but you shouldn't have broken it..."
so, what will that supercomputer will be used for?
Read the link. It's being installed in the Molecular Science Computing Facility, located within the William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory.
Quote: "The Molecular Science Computing Facility provides the advanced computing capability needed by staff and users of the William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) to address "Grand Challenge" scale environmental research problems."
I really hope they turn it off during the nights
Clusters such as this take hours to power up & down. They are rarely turned off.
(How many people have downloaded an entirely album, every song? Be honest.)
(raises hand) I have! I downloaded the Footloose & Top Gun soundtracks a few months ago when I was organizing my media. I still have a box full of cassette tapes and ran across these two soundtracks, which were two of my favorites back in the 80s, and I wanted the MP3s. So, I downloaded them. Even went so far as to grab a jpg of the album cover from cdnow and store it with my new MP3s.
I don't feel a bit guilty about it and no scum sucking bottom feeding RIAA bastard child is going to change that.
I have to admit though, it was painful and time consuming. Would have been easier to just buy the CD, but I didn't want to pay for something I already owned.
The Breathe and Money tracks on Dark Side of the Moon
Hmmm, I don't think we're talking about the same group. The "Ace of Base" I'm talking about doesn't have an album called Dark Side of the Moon...
I thought he was referring to those singing plastic fish that were heavily advertised a few Christmases ago
;)
No, that's Billy the Big Mouth Bass. Or something like that.
I went to a "recruiting" meeting for a company called Equinox a few years back. They set these things up like a revival from the turn of the century.
Hahaha!! Equinox suckered a friend and myself in some 8 years ago. They've been around for awhile! They had this "big wig" guy in there talking about how rich he was, and bragging about his Rolls Royce that was sitting in the parking lot. As soon as they were done with their little promotion, I searched the whole f'ing parking lot for this supposed Rolls Royce and came up empty handed.
Nothing but a scam. Thankfully I only wasted my time on them and never spent any money. A friend of mine spent a bunch of money on their dealer information kit that they require you to buy...
If no one is willing to make music because they can't get paid for a portion of the sale of each disk with their name on, then there just won't be any music.
ROTFLMAO!!
How many people got paid for selling their music on little plastic discs (or hell, even magnetic tapes) hundreds of years ago?
The answer: NONE!
Music did not just suddenly come into being in the 1900's when people discovered a method to make money off of it. Music has been around for thousands of years and most people make music because they love making music. If copyrights on music were abolished tomorrow, the only music that would go away would be the Britney Spears type of overproduced garbage and the people who are only in it to make a buck. In fact, I would submit that the quality of music would skyrocket because the only people who would be making music would be people who love to make music! The money hungry acts would go away for good and that would be just fine with me.
So, if you think that "there would just be no music", well, you're sorely in need of a reality check.