I'm sick and tired of listening to shit spouted as fact from all the popular PC periodicals, such as PC Weekly and Wired. The world is listening, and they write these bogus bullshit articles with the slightest hint of fact. Why can't you see that this isn't about what's popular or not? Its not your fucking duty to make ideas popular; its your duty to make sound ideas popular. Is the Microsoft giant a good thing? Is a company that runs a monopoly and has no competition(which equates to no progress) something that we as consumers of computer software want? Then what's the alternative and how can we better it. Don't worry about shit like tech support(or lack thereof) or IT undergrad's opinions. When fire was discovered man didn't know much about it. But they kept using it and it became more refined.
When journalists like you take a shit on a piece of paper that shows up in a magazine, or web forum, or newspaper, people take notice and gobble it up. Take some responsibility for your actions and at least attempt to tell these people the truth.
-The key to successful journalism isn't telling readers the facts. It's about FINDING the RIGHT facts to tell the readers.-
The question that should be asked isn't whether software piracy is unethical or immoral. The question should be are the current morals right or wrong. A moral is merely an agreed upon rule for the betterment of a civilization. Often, morals from past civilizations are hung onto far too long after the situation that created the moral is gone. For tribal societies, cannabalism was morally sound, even a way of life. For that community, it was an acceptable action. In ours, its not.
Should software piracy be prosecuted? Are the current concepts of "ownership" of ideas and information "healthy" for American society? I can't answer that question; its up to the members of the society.
...that's not to say that a majority of the community wrongfully believes something(such as software piracy) is unethical. Is America standing up for the right ethics of the time...or just afraid of the inevitable change?
-Aaar! Avast, ye software pirates! Ye be punished for yer sins of disloyalty and theft!-
Bill "Blackbeard" Gates
in an educated world, people use tact, sophisctication and logic to win arguments. welcome to the educated world, and know that pictures, propaganda and rhetoric doesn't get you any ground here.
I am willing to bet on the fact that these "scriptkiddies" have no complete knowledge of what they have done(if they actually had in fact done ANYTHING). I'm also willing to bet that 90% of these "l33t" teenagers download the viruses from the latest crack-n-hack site. A 15 year old who understands the intricacies of computer programming enough to write an original hack is a rare thing. The fact that any of these viruses actually spread is just dumb luck. Send a downloaded email hack to the right person and it will infest a company network, which will infest the rest of the web. Its given far more credit than deserved to suggest this dumb luck and ignorance, these "talents", can be harnessed. I say slap their hands and cut their connection. Either that or actually teach them how to do it RIGHT, and weasel in some hacker ethics.
Actually, my main problem has to do with an article posted in Entertainment Weekly that states that The Lord of the Rings is merely riding on the coat-tails of the Harry Potter phenoma. Rawlings has to be quite conceited to think that she began the fantasy genre. Another thing: if Harry Potter is this popular, there must be something wrong with it. Do you really want to place yourself next to the general public....the people who support Britney Spears, boy bands....the people who buy Windows, goddamn it!
Accurate history. By the way, if anybody wants to see get a picture of the Japanese economic situation during World War II, find the animated cartoon The Grave of Fireflies. I watched it immediately after watching Pearl Harbor with a Japanese history major and a fairly ethnically diverse group of friends. Probably one of the most depressing movies I've seen, but it made me feel better. I was really angry about the how much the Japanese were demonized. Unfortunately the movie is NOT a history film...it IS a drama, and every drama needs its antagonist.
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sorry. not "morons." "moron." and really, i swear, i'm not.
We should coin a new term to describe a spammer morons.... "Shifman."
...i never claimed to be a journalist. cmdrtaco did.
I'm sick and tired of listening to shit spouted as fact from all the popular PC periodicals, such as PC Weekly and Wired. The world is listening, and they write these bogus bullshit articles with the slightest hint of fact. Why can't you see that this isn't about what's popular or not? Its not your fucking duty to make ideas popular; its your duty to make sound ideas popular. Is the Microsoft giant a good thing? Is a company that runs a monopoly and has no competition(which equates to no progress) something that we as consumers of computer software want? Then what's the alternative and how can we better it. Don't worry about shit like tech support(or lack thereof) or IT undergrad's opinions. When fire was discovered man didn't know much about it. But they kept using it and it became more refined.
When journalists like you take a shit on a piece of paper that shows up in a magazine, or web forum, or newspaper, people take notice and gobble it up. Take some responsibility for your actions and at least attempt to tell these people the truth.
-The key to successful journalism isn't telling readers the facts. It's about FINDING the RIGHT facts to tell the readers.-
The question that should be asked isn't whether software piracy is unethical or immoral. The question should be are the current morals right or wrong. A moral is merely an agreed upon rule for the betterment of a civilization. Often, morals from past civilizations are hung onto far too long after the situation that created the moral is gone. For tribal societies, cannabalism was morally sound, even a way of life. For that community, it was an acceptable action. In ours, its not.
Should software piracy be prosecuted? Are the current concepts of "ownership" of ideas and information "healthy" for American society? I can't answer that question; its up to the members of the society.
...that's not to say that a majority of the community wrongfully believes something(such as software piracy) is unethical. Is America standing up for the right ethics of the time...or just afraid of the inevitable change?
-Aaar! Avast, ye software pirates! Ye be punished for yer sins of disloyalty and theft!-
Bill "Blackbeard" Gates
in an educated world, people use tact, sophisctication and logic to win arguments. welcome to the educated world, and know that pictures, propaganda and rhetoric doesn't get you any ground here.
I am willing to bet on the fact that these "scriptkiddies" have no complete knowledge of what they have done(if they actually had in fact done ANYTHING). I'm also willing to bet that 90% of these "l33t" teenagers download the viruses from the latest crack-n-hack site. A 15 year old who understands the intricacies of computer programming enough to write an original hack is a rare thing. The fact that any of these viruses actually spread is just dumb luck. Send a downloaded email hack to the right person and it will infest a company network, which will infest the rest of the web. Its given far more credit than deserved to suggest this dumb luck and ignorance, these "talents", can be harnessed. I say slap their hands and cut their connection. Either that or actually teach them how to do it RIGHT, and weasel in some hacker ethics.
Actually, my main problem has to do with an article posted in Entertainment Weekly that states that The Lord of the Rings is merely riding on the coat-tails of the Harry Potter phenoma. Rawlings has to be quite conceited to think that she began the fantasy genre. Another thing: if Harry Potter is this popular, there must be something wrong with it. Do you really want to place yourself next to the general public....the people who support Britney Spears, boy bands....the people who buy Windows, goddamn it!
Accurate history. By the way, if anybody wants to see get a picture of the Japanese economic situation during World War II, find the animated cartoon The Grave of Fireflies. I watched it immediately after watching Pearl Harbor with a Japanese history major and a fairly ethnically diverse group of friends. Probably one of the most depressing movies I've seen, but it made me feel better. I was really angry about the how much the Japanese were demonized. Unfortunately the movie is NOT a history film...it IS a drama, and every drama needs its antagonist.