That really sounds more petulant than anything else. Do you really look down on people because they don't have the same motivation that you do?
What would you say to someone who DOES enjoy games, but learned Java in 3 months while TEACHING 15 hours a semester? Would you acknowledge that person as superior and redouble your efforts to exceed him?
That's pretty funny. I'd love to know where you are, because as I understand it in England the ISP has to archive your email traffic for 5 years in case the bobbies want a look at it.
NSA my ass.
As far as Guantanomo Bay goes, I have 2 words: War Criminals!
Proud, just for the achievement. It's an enormous technical triumph.
As far as you being millions of people, I think you need a new address, you've only got one up there.
Frankly, I'd rather not drag this into a political debate, but you seem to be unable to seperate the technical aspect from what you view to be the aggression aspect. Let's just say that your apparently simplistic view of the world makes me smile.
It's because of people like you who wish violence on America that we need to build these things. If you didn't want to destroy American ships, would we have to make them warships?
I really don't understand this. People all over the world mourn these things. Nobody in Israel or Ireland or Pakistan says "Hmm? Another Car bombing? Oh well." Not even in the US.
It's a fact that the closer to home such an event is, the more it hurts. When was the last time 3,000 people were killed in a single angry blow in this country?
We Mourned after the Civil War, after World War I and II, so why can't we mourn now?
This has nothing to do with how big the United States is. What I want to know is why so many people have to pretend that our suffering isn't worth acknowledging?
Let me throw a quick question at you: Is it better to lose a relative suddenly and without warning to natural causes, or to have them linger for days or weeks? Which family suffers more?
The answer: Both. Grief is personal and cannot be compared to another person's experience. I've lost family both ways, and neither was easy.
So in closing, you can not make me feel guilty for feeling mournful about the loss of innocent people.
While you're publicly tired of hearing about it, what would you have us do? Forget it?
We need to remember what happenned and why. If we just go back to our day to day lives then it WILL happen again, regardless of your hopes. Just like the Holocaust.
Those who ignore history are destined to repeat it. It's not just a pithy saying...
Sorry I didn't provide details. I figured it was old news because it was rejected as a story here.
In short, with the release of an expansion pack to Mechwarrior 4 Microsoft included c-dilla, a rather notorious bit of spyware.
One of the gents I play the game with caught it trying to mail a packet off to security.microsoft.com (don't have the exact detail handy) and when he took it apart he realized it was a list of filenames that he'd burned.
The default is on because MS assumes that any music you copy is for you personal use, and you'd never notice otherwise. At least they're not assuming you're a thief.
Any auto update feature is actually to make their lives easier, and the users, to a lesser extent. It significantly shortens the length of a support call if the user is already on the latest version of the software, and nobody in their right mind wants to troubleshoot IE 2.0.
Media Player checks for codecs automatically because of the number of panicked calls they get: "My computer won't play this file! All it does is ask me to download some kind of 'cockec' or something. Why won't it play?"
As far as the time server, they can't be certain that other time servers won't change their policies and start denying open access. (It sounds weird, but there has been talk, and some have shut down due to load or lack of funds.)
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending M$, not really. But these are all things that are easily explained.
Unlike having software that I never asked for installed on my machine and monitoringmy CD Burner. It happenned with an MS game, and nobody seems to care.
Oh, this is ridiculous. Do you think Microsoft is going out of its way to produce unpopular features? It's obvious that if they didn't have to program DRM they'd have time and money to do other things.
The DRM is there because the music industry is screaming for it. If MS doesn't at least make a show of it eventually they'll be on the short list of software providers who get sued.
The fact that they allow it to be turned off shows that they're aware of the problems it can present consumers. Even Musicmatch Jukebox has a DRM component, but it's a voluntary download.
When the courts decide to order drm, the only people who will still have music to listen to are the ones with DRM enabled players, and those that don't are going to be either left out in the cold or under fire.
In the mean time, it'd be nice if someone could figure out a method for making an mp3 player think that it IS DRM compliant even when it isn't.
Yes you are blatantly reading this wrong. This applies to ALL digital content, as the DRM proponents have long maintained that the only way to secure IP is to secure all sources of said IP.
Don't be so naive. If you don't ask for a raise, you don't get it.
The last company I worked for kept me at my current rate for 4 years. Sure, it's partly my fault, but every time I asked for a raise I was told that I was getting paid all they could afford for the position.
Then came the day I realized that the plant manager was spending less time in the plant than he was on his boat, and that I was running the show in addition to my job. They had the nerve to bring in a new guy who couldn't do any of the above and pay him 25% more than myself after 13 years. Again I asked for a raise and they put me on salary.
When I found a new job the plant manager had the unmitigated gall to ask why I hadn't mentioned that I was looking and given him a chance to counter. Puh leeze!
The moral of the story is that a good employer will continually monitor your status, give you raises to make sure you know that they're aware you're alive, and reward you for hard work.
I'm working for one of those now. Don't expect to find many of them...just keep hopping till you do.
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Holy crap what a sorry excuse for an analogy.
Let's go back to your analogy of tools. I can own a baseball bat. A baseball bat can cause grievous damage, even more so if one drives a nail through one end. Therefore, nails should be outlawed due to their possible use with a baseball bat.
Which fits your original supposition, but still has nothing to do with file trading.
Let's look at a few facts. 2000 was a record year for the recording industry, with sales up as much as 50%. Note that this was also the peak of Napster and other systems. In early 2001 Napster was shut down.
The RIAA also settled with the Dept of Justice regarding a price-fixing suit. As a result, the average cost of a CD went from $18 to $20.
The economy bottomed out.
Add all of this together, and record sales are off by 4%. That's all, 4% from the previous year, which was a 50% increase from the year before.
How much damage is really being done here? Record sales are down less than the rate of unemployment in this country, from what was acknowledged as unbelievable growth.
P.S. Don't be surprised if the loss figures change. The RIAA is still pushing a bill in congress, and the bigger the number, the happier they'll be.
Actually, troops, the scary news is that there is evidence that the nuclear reactions at the sun's core HAVE gone out. Nothing conclusive yet, but we may have already missed the boat.
Let me start by saying that that was the hardest post I've ever read.
Next, you make many suppositions that are incorrect. Such as "We may know that if an airplane is hijacked the cockpit will have plenty of time to report the incident to ground control towers, if not, there is a secret bottom at the pilot seat which once touched >will remit signals indicating the aircraft is hijacked"
Not so secret, eh? If anyone is aware of it, defeating it is simple.
Where did you hear that the USAF is under orders to shoot down planes that stray from their flight paths? That's even more far-fetched than thinking there are missile emplacements at the Pentagon.
In other words, your argument is internally consistent, but based entirely on incorrect assumptions. Ergo, junk.
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That really sounds more petulant than anything else. Do you really look down on people because they don't have the same motivation that you do?
What would you say to someone who DOES enjoy games, but learned Java in 3 months while TEACHING 15 hours a semester? Would you acknowledge that person as superior and redouble your efforts to exceed him?
That's pretty funny. I'd love to know where you are, because as I understand it in England the ISP has to archive your email traffic for 5 years in case the bobbies want a look at it.
NSA my ass.
As far as Guantanomo Bay goes, I have 2 words: War Criminals!
Yes. Don't get your connection tho, unless it's blind, unreasoning panic.
Proud, just for the achievement. It's an enormous technical triumph.
As far as you being millions of people, I think you need a new address, you've only got one up there.
Frankly, I'd rather not drag this into a political debate, but you seem to be unable to seperate the technical aspect from what you view to be the aggression aspect. Let's just say that your apparently simplistic view of the world makes me smile.
It's because of people like you who wish violence on America that we need to build these things. If you didn't want to destroy American ships, would we have to make them warships?
I really don't understand this. People all over the world mourn these things. Nobody in Israel or Ireland or Pakistan says "Hmm? Another Car bombing? Oh well." Not even in the US.
It's a fact that the closer to home such an event is, the more it hurts. When was the last time 3,000 people were killed in a single angry blow in this country?
We Mourned after the Civil War, after World War I and II, so why can't we mourn now?
This has nothing to do with how big the United States is. What I want to know is why so many people have to pretend that our suffering isn't worth acknowledging?
Let me throw a quick question at you: Is it better to lose a relative suddenly and without warning to natural causes, or to have them linger for days or weeks? Which family suffers more?
The answer: Both. Grief is personal and cannot be compared to another person's experience. I've lost family both ways, and neither was easy.
So in closing, you can not make me feel guilty for feeling mournful about the loss of innocent people.
Stop trying.
While you're publicly tired of hearing about it, what would you have us do? Forget it?
We need to remember what happenned and why. If we just go back to our day to day lives then it WILL happen again, regardless of your hopes. Just like the Holocaust.
Those who ignore history are destined to repeat it. It's not just a pithy saying...
Nope. Meter is based on several different, naturally occuring conditions. The most recent definition is
Length traveled by light in vacuum during 1/299 792 458 of a second.
Crap. Relative term again...
Escape velocity for the sun is considerably higher than that for mars or the earth. Nothing has hit us that hard since mankind started walking.
Nope, they ping it about once a year, and it's still responding.
Oooo! I like it!
(Is that 20 seconds supposed to be cumulative?)
Sorry I didn't provide details. I figured it was old news because it was rejected as a story here.
In short, with the release of an expansion pack to Mechwarrior 4 Microsoft included c-dilla, a rather notorious bit of spyware.
One of the gents I play the game with caught it trying to mail a packet off to security.microsoft.com (don't have the exact detail handy) and when he took it apart he realized it was a list of filenames that he'd burned.
Sigh.
The default is on because MS assumes that any music you copy is for you personal use, and you'd never notice otherwise. At least they're not assuming you're a thief.
Any auto update feature is actually to make their lives easier, and the users, to a lesser extent. It significantly shortens the length of a support call if the user is already on the latest version of the software, and nobody in their right mind wants to troubleshoot IE 2.0.
Media Player checks for codecs automatically because of the number of panicked calls they get: "My computer won't play this file! All it does is ask me to download some kind of 'cockec' or something. Why won't it play?"
As far as the time server, they can't be certain that other time servers won't change their policies and start denying open access. (It sounds weird, but there has been talk, and some have shut down due to load or lack of funds.)
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending M$, not really. But these are all things that are easily explained.
Unlike having software that I never asked for installed on my machine and monitoringmy CD Burner. It happenned with an MS game, and nobody seems to care.
Oh, this is ridiculous. Do you think Microsoft is going out of its way to produce unpopular features? It's obvious that if they didn't have to program DRM they'd have time and money to do other things.
The DRM is there because the music industry is screaming for it. If MS doesn't at least make a show of it eventually they'll be on the short list of software providers who get sued.
The fact that they allow it to be turned off shows that they're aware of the problems it can present consumers. Even Musicmatch Jukebox has a DRM component, but it's a voluntary download.
When the courts decide to order drm, the only people who will still have music to listen to are the ones with DRM enabled players, and those that don't are going to be either left out in the cold or under fire.
In the mean time, it'd be nice if someone could figure out a method for making an mp3 player think that it IS DRM compliant even when it isn't.
Yes you are blatantly reading this wrong. This applies to ALL digital content, as the DRM proponents have long maintained that the only way to secure IP is to secure all sources of said IP.
Good Grief. Why does everyone always assume that it's all about getting something for free?
It's about control of your information. Suppose I rip a CD that I've purchased so that I can listen to it on my mp3 player.
2 years later I'm interviewing for a job and I'm told that because I have a history of duplicating intellectual property I can't be hired.
Sure, it sounds unlikely, but it only takes a little digging to find some dirt, and the more dirt exists the easier it is to find.
If I wanted everyone to know what I was doing all the time I'd be blogging.
It's worked so well for us...
Is this a troll?
The term was "Paddock"
Please see James Patrick Kelly's "Think like a Dinosaur"
Don't be so naive. If you don't ask for a raise, you don't get it.
The last company I worked for kept me at my current rate for 4 years. Sure, it's partly my fault, but every time I asked for a raise I was told that I was getting paid all they could afford for the position.
Then came the day I realized that the plant manager was spending less time in the plant than he was on his boat, and that I was running the show in addition to my job. They had the nerve to bring in a new guy who couldn't do any of the above and pay him 25% more than myself after 13 years. Again I asked for a raise and they put me on salary.
When I found a new job the plant manager had the unmitigated gall to ask why I hadn't mentioned that I was looking and given him a chance to counter. Puh leeze!
The moral of the story is that a good employer will continually monitor your status, give you raises to make sure you know that they're aware you're alive, and reward you for hard work.
I'm working for one of those now. Don't expect to find many of them...just keep hopping till you do.
Holy crap what a sorry excuse for an analogy.
Let's go back to your analogy of tools. I can own a baseball bat. A baseball bat can cause grievous damage, even more so if one drives a nail through one end. Therefore, nails should be outlawed due to their possible use with a baseball bat.
Which fits your original supposition, but still has nothing to do with file trading.
Let's look at a few facts. 2000 was a record year for the recording industry, with sales up as much as 50%. Note that this was also the peak of Napster and other systems. In early 2001 Napster was shut down.
The RIAA also settled with the Dept of Justice regarding a price-fixing suit. As a result, the average cost of a CD went from $18 to $20.
The economy bottomed out.
Add all of this together, and record sales are off by 4%. That's all, 4% from the previous year, which was a 50% increase from the year before.
How much damage is really being done here? Record sales are down less than the rate of unemployment in this country, from what was acknowledged as unbelievable growth.
P.S. Don't be surprised if the loss figures change. The RIAA is still pushing a bill in congress, and the bigger the number, the happier they'll be.
amen
Actually, troops, the scary news is that there is evidence that the nuclear reactions at the sun's core HAVE gone out. Nothing conclusive yet, but we may have already missed the boat.
Oh Crap! I can't use it for my porn site???
Not so secret, eh? If anyone is aware of it, defeating it is simple.
Where did you hear that the USAF is under orders to shoot down planes that stray from their flight paths? That's even more far-fetched than thinking there are missile emplacements at the Pentagon. In other words, your argument is internally consistent, but based entirely on incorrect assumptions. Ergo, junk.
I'm not chosen. I'm not Christian. I'm the descendant of some very viscious, very tenacious Celts, Native Americans, and Germans.
And mostly, I'm not remotely bothered that some people need to believe that God is going to forgive them for what they may have to do.