Before this ruling, the copyright never expired (clearly bad). Now what? There's NO copyright at all? You can copy and distribute at will? (No distinction is made in the article, so I'm asking.)
If that's the case, then that doesn't sound very fair to the artists. I mean come on, if concerts are going to be their bread and butter (like the herd thinks it should be), then this is stealing food out of their mouths. Sorry. Infringing food out of their mouths.
I'm not saying that all artists make money off sales of live performance recordings (some do), but the person that decides to spend 10 bucks on the unauthorized recording has 10 bucks less to spend on the authorized concert. A percentage of these people will wind up short of ticket money. Even if you don't buy that as an argument, at the very least the artist should have the first crack at releasing (and profiting) off of a live CD of the show.
Who actually thinks that people should be allowed to sell copies of performances without the artists permission (please reply)? Music isn't easy people. It takes time, hard work and discipline (for some) to put on a tight set. Why should J. Random Asshat profit off someone elses hard work?
If I write some code for a cool webapp, and someone steals it and sells it, I'm not okay with that.
Now the artist gets the worst of both worlds. I mean what the hell is the motive to produce or perform commercial music?
Sorry to reply to my own post, but I wanted to clarify the assessment made by lgf: Their source is freerepublic.org (another like minded discussion board). The evidence they cite is that "every single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman.
In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing, and typewriters used monospaced fonts.
The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. They were not widespread until the mid to late 90's. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn't used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80's used monospaced fonts.
I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old. "
It is my hope that/. readers can clear this up one way or the other.
lgf is a right leaning weblog, but I wanted to make sure that the right's talking points were also represented. I believe that the other point the right made (as seen on 60 minutes) was that this is a purely political move and merely the rehash of an attack that the right claims to have defused during Bush's first run for office.
My understanding is that if this information is new, then the right's argument doesn't hold water, and if these documents are truley forged, then the left has some splainin' to do.
Josh Marshall (of talkingpointsmemo fame) has the Brokaw interview here and the relevent memo text here.
Actually, the electoral college still serves an important function (though I agree, some of its policies are dated). Without an electoral college we would be a hopelessly liberal nation with the population centers carrying the entire vote because most population centers lean towards the left politcally. It avoids the "tyranny of the majority" that plagues direct democracy.
So why is this MythTv box worth 400 more? Is this what "free" costs? Granted, I wouldn't consider the Microsoft offering either. Unless you consider a 100 dollar xbox running XBMC or gentoox a Microsoft product. But then, you get no video encoding and less than stellar video playback.
Whatever. It's cool having a multi function device, but sometimes paying (in this case, less) for specialization is good.
I think Moore's law only makes a difference when the attacker has a copy your password shadow file. What is stopping me from changing what is stored in that file into something much more difficult to attack (a stronger hash)? Moore's law doesn't attack password strength, it attacks the strength of the algorithm that turns your password into the hash in shadow.
Java support is great. It's been there for a while. The problem (traditionally) has been that fbsd won't run an app container or ejb container (I was told with a shrug, that it "had to do with threading"). Has that been fixed yet?
I agree that it has nothing to do with the end user.
At my previous place of employment, management was scared away from Open Source Software. We had a "consultant" audit our shop. Apparently, Samba has the potential to create "future legal headaches." The SCO debacle was also brought up and used to scare management into purging open source software from every server and workstation. "Future interoperability concerns" were cited as well, since the world stops spinning without Microsoft, and Microsoft doesn't endorse our practice of using OSS.
I didn't find any actual out and out lies in the review. It's true that in the future, there is a potential for "legal headaches." It's not likely, and I imagine I'm probably more likely to be struck by lightning, while being eaten by a shark, while also holding the winning Powerball ticket.
Clearly, this is an example of terminal rectal-cranial-inversion, but I doubt it's an isolated case. Suits listen to suits, not to programmers.
It's not patents per se, but the uncertain (by whose standards I couldn't say) legal water that OSS exists in. The danger exists in the fostering of legal uncertainty.
"It has wheels, and it moves forward and backward and can be steered by a person or by some other type of steering control, give me a billion dollars right now, I'm a genius."
Insulting linux zealots on slashdot? Think of your karma man!
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I don't think you give football players enough credit.
First of all, you can memorize chess (not all of it of course). The openings and closings are well documented. A chess game is like a story to a player, and rarely are great stories forgotten. I still remember the positions and outcomes of most of the drawn out games I've played with my roomate. When we started out, I could immediately fork his rook or queen with impunity. I haven't been able to do that since the first month we started playing. Why? Because he recognizes and remembers.
Quarterbacks have a short amount of time to read a defense. Reading a defense is a talent that improves with experience (much like reading a chessboard). There are the "low hanging fruit" indicators, like a linebacker hunching and lurching in time with your cadance (blitz coming), and there are much more subtle indicators, like feigned motions and confusing defensive shifts.
Punt returners must do real time vector analysis (on at least 10 simultaneous vectors no less) with respect to the kickoff teams tacklers if they want to reach the endzone. Young punt returners are able to perform well using speed, but older returners perform just as well even though they're slower. Why is that, do you think?
Warren Moon was FAR from a prototypical quarterback. He was slow, undersized and his hands were tiny, but he was still able to find success, because of his intellectual assets. He couldn't beat Bobby Fischer at chess, but I imagine that if he were to devote the same amount of time to chess as he did to football, he would certainly be a competative player in the game overall.
Still not convinced? Read up on Bart Starr. He was probably the last quarterback to also play the roll of offensive coordinator. His passing numbers eclipse those of J. Unitas. His accuracy was god like by today's standards (especially considering the lack of domed fields).
Linemen aren't stupid either (it's not a requirement for playing at least). Muscle memory is important (learning stock chess openings is also), but the surprising variations are what make those maneuvers so powerful. Your standard right arm swim and pivot across won't work against someone who is much wider than you (or nimbler on their cleats), but a feign and backpivot before the swim can put you in an advantageous position (just get your hips around and across the other guys and run). On the other hand, going to the well too often will surely get you pancaked.
Sure there are stupid football players. Clearly though, there are chess players that are equally stupid. In fact, I believe (and welcome corrections) that Fischer was a rabid anti-semite, and held some very strange beliefs about what should happen to the diaspora and Israelites (none of it good). Playing chess doesn't somehow excise stupidity. btw: There's a lineman on the Colts who is also a lawyer.
Here's an interesting experiment for you. Count how many times you can say a particular tongue twister in three minutes (for example "imagine an imaginary managery manager imagining managing an imaginary menagery"), then try it after you've physically fatigued yourself (three downs of football). Your performance will decrease dramatically (well, as predicted by my old Psy100 prof). What does this mean? Football players have to manage their exertion in order to leave themselves enough energy to think about what to do next. You can have all the physical talent in the world, but as a fullback, if you don't pick up a blitz, you've doomed your quarterback.
I guess what I'm getting at is that you're comparing apples to solar flares. Football is a coordinated team sport where several of the key players must be smart and experienced enough to analyze a situation in real time with difficult and complicated data. Often the overall strategy and direction is determined by the coach. Chess is much slower paced (disregarding blitz chess) much less physical activity, no more demanding however, i
Nope. There might be other email software (the less secure outlook kind), but it would NEVER get included in a mainstream distro.
Stupid users still have to do more work under linux to infect their machines than they do under windows. Under windows all you have to do is open your mail client. Under linux, you actually have to select the message, save the attachment, change the file permissions, and execute the binary. Sorry. That's not even in the same ballpark.
You can talk about how secure Linux and Mac are, but they STILL are only as secure as the user wants it to be.
Oh? And which e-mail program on Linux or Mac executes embedded code without user intervention? Maybe if outlook and the crossover plugin combo take off, you'll see a problem. Also, opening unknown files under linux won't cause these files to execute (and infect your computer).
Running as root isn't a security issue, it's a sanity issue. You are no more or less exposed security wise by running as root than you are by running as a user.
I can only think of two or possibly three linux worms. Windows on the other hand provides a worm writing API.
Windows gets picked because it is insecure. It is insecure because it was designed to produce income, not security. Linux is more secure. It is more secure because the code is open and because it is not constrained by market pressures to support legacy (buggy) APIs (it is free).
Seriously. If script kiddies and spammers could root linux boxes (if the two operating systems were comparatively easy to root), they'd be doing it as often as possible.
If I am going to pay 80 bucks for the Hauppage device, I might as well pay 20 more and get another TIVO. Or for 109 bucks, you can get a refurbished Xbox. Little hacking on it, and you have the perfect media center PC.
Tivo and Xbox are not even close to the same device. Your comparing apples to wart removal cream. The tivo actually encodes video and serves it up for you to watch later. With a good amount of effort (no it's not easy and there are at least 4 truly ugly gotchas) you can convert an Xbox into a media display unit. It's definitely NOT A RECORDER though.
I don't think this accounts for dark matter, but it may shed some light on one of the world's oldest questions, immortalized by the great Ray Stevens: "Where do my socks go when I put them in the dryer?"
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Before this ruling, the copyright never expired (clearly bad). Now what? There's NO copyright at all? You can copy and distribute at will? (No distinction is made in the article, so I'm asking.)
If that's the case, then that doesn't sound very fair to the artists. I mean come on, if concerts are going to be their bread and butter (like the herd thinks it should be), then this is stealing food out of their mouths. Sorry. Infringing food out of their mouths.
I'm not saying that all artists make money off sales of live performance recordings (some do), but the person that decides to spend 10 bucks on the unauthorized recording has 10 bucks less to spend on the authorized concert. A percentage of these people will wind up short of ticket money. Even if you don't buy that as an argument, at the very least the artist should have the first crack at releasing (and profiting) off of a live CD of the show.
Who actually thinks that people should be allowed to sell copies of performances without the artists permission (please reply)? Music isn't easy people. It takes time, hard work and discipline (for some) to put on a tight set. Why should J. Random Asshat profit off someone elses hard work?
If I write some code for a cool webapp, and someone steals it and sells it, I'm not okay with that.
Now the artist gets the worst of both worlds. I mean what the hell is the motive to produce or perform commercial music?
hmmmm...
Maybe this isn't such a bad thing after all.
Core Wars? Fun game concept though.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but I wanted to clarify the assessment made by lgf: Their source is freerepublic.org (another like minded discussion board). The evidence they cite is that "every single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman.
/. readers can clear this up one way or the other.
In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing, and typewriters used monospaced fonts.
The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. They were not widespread until the mid to late 90's. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn't used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80's used monospaced fonts.
I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old. "
It is my hope that
linky
lgf is a right leaning weblog, but I wanted to make sure that the right's talking points were also represented. I believe that the other point the right made (as seen on 60 minutes) was that this is a purely political move and merely the rehash of an attack that the right claims to have defused during Bush's first run for office.
My understanding is that if this information is new, then the right's argument doesn't hold water, and if these documents are truley forged, then the left has some splainin' to do.
Josh Marshall (of talkingpointsmemo fame) has the Brokaw interview here and the relevent memo text here.
Actually, the electoral college still serves an important function (though I agree, some of its policies are dated). Without an electoral college we would be a hopelessly liberal nation with the population centers carrying the entire vote because most population centers lean towards the left politcally. It avoids the "tyranny of the majority" that plagues direct democracy.
Thanks for releasing your work. I think it would be useful if someone produced a website with updated information. If only for searchability.
Or buy a tivo for 200.
So why is this MythTv box worth 400 more? Is this what "free" costs? Granted, I wouldn't consider the Microsoft offering either. Unless you consider a 100 dollar xbox running XBMC or gentoox a Microsoft product. But then, you get no video encoding and less than stellar video playback.
Whatever. It's cool having a multi function device, but sometimes paying (in this case, less) for specialization is good.
Just put your card into promisc and run some sniff soft... ? Why bother with the ap? Or is there something an ap can do that my wifi laptop can't?
I think Moore's law only makes a difference when the attacker has a copy your password shadow file. What is stopping me from changing what is stored in that file into something much more difficult to attack (a stronger hash)? Moore's law doesn't attack password strength, it attacks the strength of the algorithm that turns your password into the hash in shadow.
Well, since she's dead (at 79), I don't imagine she'll care much about that.
Java support is great. It's been there for a while. The problem (traditionally) has been that fbsd won't run an app container or ejb container (I was told with a shrug, that it "had to do with threading"). Has that been fixed yet?
I'm curious.
Does this have the potential to develop into a weapon?
I'm thinking we hit Gmail with around 50-75,000+, 5MB+ emails in a 10-15min window.
Hopefully google didn't take that personally.
I'd like to know if his theory about the compressed storage leading to a timeout condition is realistic.
I agree that it has nothing to do with the end user.
At my previous place of employment, management was scared away from Open Source Software. We had a "consultant" audit our shop. Apparently, Samba has the potential to create "future legal headaches." The SCO debacle was also brought up and used to scare management into purging open source software from every server and workstation. "Future interoperability concerns" were cited as well, since the world stops spinning without Microsoft, and Microsoft doesn't endorse our practice of using OSS.
I didn't find any actual out and out lies in the review. It's true that in the future, there is a potential for "legal headaches." It's not likely, and I imagine I'm probably more likely to be struck by lightning, while being eaten by a shark, while also holding the winning Powerball ticket.
Clearly, this is an example of terminal rectal-cranial-inversion, but I doubt it's an isolated case. Suits listen to suits, not to programmers.
It's not patents per se, but the uncertain (by whose standards I couldn't say) legal water that OSS exists in. The danger exists in the fostering of legal uncertainty.
"It has wheels, and it moves forward and backward and can be steered by a person or by some other type of steering control, give me a billion dollars right now, I'm a genius."
Are you mad? You've just revealed Step 2!
Insulting linux zealots on slashdot? Think of your karma man!
I don't think you give football players enough credit.
First of all, you can memorize chess (not all of it of course). The openings and closings are well documented. A chess game is like a story to a player, and rarely are great stories forgotten. I still remember the positions and outcomes of most of the drawn out games I've played with my roomate. When we started out, I could immediately fork his rook or queen with impunity. I haven't been able to do that since the first month we started playing. Why? Because he recognizes and remembers.
Quarterbacks have a short amount of time to read a defense. Reading a defense is a talent that improves with experience (much like reading a chessboard). There are the "low hanging fruit" indicators, like a linebacker hunching and lurching in time with your cadance (blitz coming), and there are much more subtle indicators, like feigned motions and confusing defensive shifts.
Punt returners must do real time vector analysis (on at least 10 simultaneous vectors no less) with respect to the kickoff teams tacklers if they want to reach the endzone. Young punt returners are able to perform well using speed, but older returners perform just as well even though they're slower. Why is that, do you think?
Warren Moon was FAR from a prototypical quarterback. He was slow, undersized and his hands were tiny, but he was still able to find success, because of his intellectual assets. He couldn't beat Bobby Fischer at chess, but I imagine that if he were to devote the same amount of time to chess as he did to football, he would certainly be a competative player in the game overall.
Still not convinced? Read up on Bart Starr. He was probably the last quarterback to also play the roll of offensive coordinator. His passing numbers eclipse those of J. Unitas. His accuracy was god like by today's standards (especially considering the lack of domed fields).
Linemen aren't stupid either (it's not a requirement for playing at least). Muscle memory is important (learning stock chess openings is also), but the surprising variations are what make those maneuvers so powerful. Your standard right arm swim and pivot across won't work against someone who is much wider than you (or nimbler on their cleats), but a feign and backpivot before the swim can put you in an advantageous position (just get your hips around and across the other guys and run). On the other hand, going to the well too often will surely get you pancaked.
Sure there are stupid football players. Clearly though, there are chess players that are equally stupid. In fact, I believe (and welcome corrections) that Fischer was a rabid anti-semite, and held some very strange beliefs about what should happen to the diaspora and Israelites (none of it good). Playing chess doesn't somehow excise stupidity. btw: There's a lineman on the Colts who is also a lawyer.
Here's an interesting experiment for you. Count how many times you can say a particular tongue twister in three minutes (for example "imagine an imaginary managery manager imagining managing an imaginary menagery"), then try it after you've physically fatigued yourself (three downs of football). Your performance will decrease dramatically (well, as predicted by my old Psy100 prof). What does this mean? Football players have to manage their exertion in order to leave themselves enough energy to think about what to do next. You can have all the physical talent in the world, but as a fullback, if you don't pick up a blitz, you've doomed your quarterback.
I guess what I'm getting at is that you're comparing apples to solar flares. Football is a coordinated team sport where several of the key players must be smart and experienced enough to analyze a situation in real time with difficult and complicated data. Often the overall strategy and direction is determined by the coach. Chess is much slower paced (disregarding blitz chess) much less physical activity, no more demanding however, i
I use shapecfg to keep my bittorrent client from eating all of my upstream.
linky
It's not perfect, but it's easier (for me at least) than figuring out how to make my gateway prioritize traffic queues. (link for that?)
I'm not taking sides, but there is definitely more than one side to this story.
This is the reply. Basically, they alledge that Percy stole the crop and planted it.
[i]I find that about 50% of the time the back button takes me back to the top of the article rather than the point I left[/i]
I've found this to be true as well. This should've been fixed. Back to Opera I guess.
Why is this modded troll? The parent link is a topical example and has bearing on this thread.
Nope. There might be other email software (the less secure outlook kind), but it would NEVER get included in a mainstream distro.
Stupid users still have to do more work under linux to infect their machines than they do under windows. Under windows all you have to do is open your mail client. Under linux, you actually have to select the message, save the attachment, change the file permissions, and execute the binary. Sorry. That's not even in the same ballpark.
You can talk about how secure Linux and Mac are, but they STILL are only as secure as the user wants it to be.
Oh? And which e-mail program on Linux or Mac executes embedded code without user intervention? Maybe if outlook and the crossover plugin combo take off, you'll see a problem. Also, opening unknown files under linux won't cause these files to execute (and infect your computer).
Running as root isn't a security issue, it's a sanity issue. You are no more or less exposed security wise by running as root than you are by running as a user.
I can only think of two or possibly three linux worms. Windows on the other hand provides a worm writing API.
Windows gets picked because it is insecure. It is insecure because it was designed to produce income, not security. Linux is more secure. It is more secure because the code is open and because it is not constrained by market pressures to support legacy (buggy) APIs (it is free).
Seriously. If script kiddies and spammers could root linux boxes (if the two operating systems were comparatively easy to root), they'd be doing it as often as possible.
If I am going to pay 80 bucks for the Hauppage device, I might as well pay 20 more and get another TIVO. Or for 109 bucks, you can get a refurbished Xbox. Little hacking on it, and you have the perfect media center PC.
Tivo and Xbox are not even close to the same device. Your comparing apples to wart removal cream. The tivo actually encodes video and serves it up for you to watch later. With a good amount of effort (no it's not easy and there are at least 4 truly ugly gotchas) you can convert an Xbox into a media display unit. It's definitely NOT A RECORDER though.
I don't think this accounts for dark matter, but it may shed some light on one of the world's oldest questions, immortalized by the great Ray Stevens: "Where do my socks go when I put them in the dryer?"