So, we've got, just as a guess, about 9 million RDF files out there in the blogging world alone.
Care to venture a guess as to how many of those actually contain useful information? Really, who cares if Melanie in Oshkosh really, really loves Justin Timberlake, or Winthorpe in Des Moines really, really wants people to sign up so he can get an Ipod?
Furthermore, once you start tying all this information together, doesn't that just make the work for corporate data miners just that much easier?
Of course, you could salt in a bunch of useless, random data, which of course, means that the whole shooting match is useless.
This is the same DOJ that decided that torture was probably legal, or at least not illegal, as a means of protecting a sitting President and his staff.
That's not the point: the point is that the Constitution guarantees every American not convicted of a felony, not currently insane, and over the age of 18 the right to carry a deadly weapon, whether or not he or she is actually qualified to pull the trigger and some people are going to stand by that right absolutely.
It's not worth getting upset at these people anymore. They don't listen and they don't care that a large portion of the rest of us are pretty sure they're fscking nuts.
A "very, very painful fine" could financially cripple him for the rest of his life
Just because you don't consider the consequences beforehand, doesn't mean you shouldn't face them afterwards.
but a little mercy isn't going to kill them
But what does it gain them? Some warm fuzzies?
What actual good will come out of punishing him to the maximum extent possible
Perhaps it will serve as a warning to others with similar intentions. More than likely, the person who originally set this whole thing up by providing the seed to his ADC account has been warned off, or perhaps even fired.
Dreamweaver templating is not the end-all, be-all of web design, but it is a very good solution to the problems of wedding design and relatively static content. Needs vary by project, but usually, I am required to focus on the look of the material (demands of the job) as opposed to the actual content.
The templating system helps in that it is convenient and it is done on my workstation, where I have the maximum of control, vs. on the server, which is someone else's domain. By preprocessing, I narrow down the potential issues that can arise.
Futhermore, the Dreamweaver system, while not perfect, is easy to use because it is wrapped up in Dreamweaver itself. Dreamweaver handles some of the messy details that I really don't care to think about anymore. Those details are problems that have been solved already in a less-than-perfect manner, but solved nonetheless.
Like I said, my concern is look - not the information itself. The DW templating system is a pragmatic approach to web design.
Ah, the old "I was bored" defense. There are millions of ways to relieve boredom (99% of them legal) that don't involve damaging or destroying property belonging to others.
But you had to claim boredom as a possible defense.
If they sell it, then they get paid and it's advertising. In case you hadn't noticed, professional artistic photographers don't advertise much beyond their galleries and their shows. Commercial photographers advertise all the time, but they are creating bespoke works that meet a certain need.
Aside from which, a lot of photo usage licenses do require you to post the photographers name somewhere visible.
This whole thing sounds like a solution in search of a problem, rather than what it should be, which is a solution to an real, existing problem.
what's the best approach to get more of this group to start using the Creative Commons?
Find a way to ensure that they can continue to make a decent living with photography as their primary occupation, and that they can afford the equipment they need to create their art. Otherwise, what's the point?
It seems that the article misses one of the other fundamental points of Open Source - it cannot be restricted to a single platform. Sure there are technical hurdles (Windows innards vs. Linux innards), but the basic difference is really one of philosophy, not technology.
If you don't want software to wind up on all sorts of unintended platforms, don't license it so that anyone can do whatever they need or want with the code.
The definition of "important patent" could keep lawyers dining on goose liver for years. What may seem like an unimportant patent today may turn out to be horrendously important many years later.
people for whom English is a 4th of 5th language who can compose better emails
I would venture a guess that it has something to do with actually paying attention while being trained in proper English. It's more important to them, since they don't speak the language to begin with.
It was pretty unifying, but I think it might have discouraged new players.
Good point. Running up against extremely experienced players while trying to improve my own meager skills tends to be pretty discouraging in online games and has actually driven me away from them on occasion. Apparently, Halo 2 has some mechanism in place to at least attempt to place gamers of similar levels in competition, which is helpful to those of us without the copious amounts of time that students seem to have.
It was one CEO making a fundrasing pitch in a letter!
Go check this to see where the sympathies of the voting machine companies lie. Any claims of non-partisanship on the part of the companies should be viewed with extreme skepticism.
the company in question makes about 1% of its profit from voting machines, is very transparent and publically traded. Hardly a good candidate for fruad
Best kind of candidate, if you think about it. How much money they make is a non-issue. I don't care how much they make - what I'm worried about is how they handle the election.
This type of question has been around for 200 years.
Sure. But now we can ask it loudly until someone actually answers the damn question! We have at our hands a tool to make sure it gets in front of as many faces as possible. So why not use it?
The more shrill you side gets the more offended, turned off, and disgusted the middle 20% of votes in the country get.
So, what? Just shut up and take it? In case you hadn't noticed, moderation doesn't go over with this administration. Bush was the one who said "You are either with us, or against us." So, I'm coming down on the side specifically against him and his fellow Republiban.
this type of questioning after the fact isn't all that new, or special
The question was going on long before the fact, in case you hadn't noticed. Blackboxvoting.org was specifically set up to contest the media hype surrounding the infallibility of electronic voting.
These types of actions are reprehensible.
How exactly were they supposed to swoop in before the fact? The voting companies were working with unproven technology in a partisan atmosphere, and some even stated their intentions to do everything they could to give Bush the election. While it is not fair to claim that all the problems of this election were due to partisan chicanery, it is absolutely right to view the errors with a high degree of suspicion.
I can agree that Bush possibly won the election, but until certainty is established, it will only be a probability and I for one, will view it with a high degree of skepticism. Unfortunately, there is nothing that I can do about it except suffer through another four years.
Which I intend to do. Loudly. Obnoxiously, even. So in the immortal, family-friendly version of the words of Dick Cheney:
So, by your reasoning we only protect those who have done only right? What do we do those who have been sent to prison and released for serving their time - let them rot in there? Pretty harsh judgement.
Another question: was SG justified in protecting their own interests? If it was a copyright infringement situation, then they were within the bounds of the law - whether you like it or not.
they hope that when the time comes to buy a Cola drink, you'll think of Coke first
Of course, the flip side of that is, when the time comes to buy a soft drink, remembering how annoying it is to have in-game advertising, and buying another brand (who doesn't advertise so intrusively) instead.
Using the device, then (because you're in a hurry, say) quickly sticking it in your shirt pocket
Am I the only one not enthused about sticking a running jet motor in my pocket? Men have nipples, too. Well, we will until the first time we forget to let the dang thing spin down.
I'd have to agree. I thought the original point of NetBSD was not security, but platform compatibility. As I understand it, whatever security is in the system gets added by the platform developer, which can vary wildly. In such a situation, it seems like a lack of security would be an asset, rather than a problem. As for driver development, does that not fall under the same roof?
but have we really reached the point where we'll turn in our neighbors not just to the gubmint but to the corporations we love as well
I think you're missing the point - is the theft of the CD justifiable in any way, shape, or form, that doesn't translate out to some stupid, selfish reason? Is there some overriding social good, an overall benefit to humanity that justifies the taking of this property?
I sure can't think of one.
This is not feeding a starving family or doing any one of a number of other acts that could be reasonably argued to be justifiable. This was theft for entertainment purposes, or if you prefer, copyright infringement for entertainment purposes, which either way, is still wrong.
So, in answer to your question, if you were the one who did it and I knew you did it or had anything to do with it in any way, shape, or form, I'd turn you in a second, without remorse or guilt of any kind. I might even possibly generate some glee.
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So, we've got, just as a guess, about 9 million RDF files out there in the blogging world alone.
Care to venture a guess as to how many of those actually contain useful information? Really, who cares if Melanie in Oshkosh really, really loves Justin Timberlake, or Winthorpe in Des Moines really, really wants people to sign up so he can get an Ipod?
Furthermore, once you start tying all this information together, doesn't that just make the work for corporate data miners just that much easier?
Of course, you could salt in a bunch of useless, random data, which of course, means that the whole shooting match is useless.
This is the same DOJ that decided that torture was probably legal, or at least not illegal, as a means of protecting a sitting President and his staff.
Make of that what you will.
All the games will be "fair and balanced".
That's not the point: the point is that the Constitution guarantees every American not convicted of a felony, not currently insane, and over the age of 18 the right to carry a deadly weapon, whether or not he or she is actually qualified to pull the trigger and some people are going to stand by that right absolutely.
It's not worth getting upset at these people anymore. They don't listen and they don't care that a large portion of the rest of us are pretty sure they're fscking nuts.
Some of us take those jobs because starvation really sucks.
A "very, very painful fine" could financially cripple him for the rest of his life
Just because you don't consider the consequences beforehand, doesn't mean you shouldn't face them afterwards.
but a little mercy isn't going to kill them
But what does it gain them? Some warm fuzzies?
What actual good will come out of punishing him to the maximum extent possible
Perhaps it will serve as a warning to others with similar intentions. More than likely, the person who originally set this whole thing up by providing the seed to his ADC account has been warned off, or perhaps even fired.
I do - and for what I believe are good reasons.
Dreamweaver templating is not the end-all, be-all of web design, but it is a very good solution to the problems of wedding design and relatively static content. Needs vary by project, but usually, I am required to focus on the look of the material (demands of the job) as opposed to the actual content.
The templating system helps in that it is convenient and it is done on my workstation, where I have the maximum of control, vs. on the server, which is someone else's domain. By preprocessing, I narrow down the potential issues that can arise.
Futhermore, the Dreamweaver system, while not perfect, is easy to use because it is wrapped up in Dreamweaver itself. Dreamweaver handles some of the messy details that I really don't care to think about anymore. Those details are problems that have been solved already in a less-than-perfect manner, but solved nonetheless.
Like I said, my concern is look - not the information itself. The DW templating system is a pragmatic approach to web design.
ask your DBA to model a wall
It would be helpful if you would define what a "wall" is before turning it over to the DBA to work out the details of modeling aforementioned wall.
Ah, the old "I was bored" defense. There are millions of ways to relieve boredom (99% of them legal) that don't involve damaging or destroying property belonging to others.
But you had to claim boredom as a possible defense.
Wow.
If they sell it, then they get paid and it's advertising. In case you hadn't noticed, professional artistic photographers don't advertise much beyond their galleries and their shows. Commercial photographers advertise all the time, but they are creating bespoke works that meet a certain need.
Aside from which, a lot of photo usage licenses do require you to post the photographers name somewhere visible.
This whole thing sounds like a solution in search of a problem, rather than what it should be, which is a solution to an real, existing problem.
what's the best approach to get more of this group to start using the Creative Commons?
Find a way to ensure that they can continue to make a decent living with photography as their primary occupation, and that they can afford the equipment they need to create their art. Otherwise, what's the point?
Not sure why that's so hard
Why not pick something accurate, instead of something that's only accurate in the middle of the time zone?
Sidereal time, baby. Sidereal.
It seems that the article misses one of the other fundamental points of Open Source - it cannot be restricted to a single platform. Sure there are technical hurdles (Windows innards vs. Linux innards), but the basic difference is really one of philosophy, not technology.
If you don't want software to wind up on all sorts of unintended platforms, don't license it so that anyone can do whatever they need or want with the code.
Oh, come on. You have to admit that "Sollog eats his nuts" is somewhat grinworthy.
The definition of "important patent" could keep lawyers dining on goose liver for years. What may seem like an unimportant patent today may turn out to be horrendously important many years later.
people for whom English is a 4th of 5th language who can compose better emails
...
I would venture a guess that it has something to do with actually paying attention while being trained in proper English. It's more important to them, since they don't speak the language to begin with.
I'm just sayin'
It was pretty unifying, but I think it might have discouraged new players.
Good point. Running up against extremely experienced players while trying to improve my own meager skills tends to be pretty discouraging in online games and has actually driven me away from them on occasion. Apparently, Halo 2 has some mechanism in place to at least attempt to place gamers of similar levels in competition, which is helpful to those of us without the copious amounts of time that students seem to have.
It was one CEO making a fundrasing pitch in a letter!
Go check this to see where the sympathies of the voting machine companies lie. Any claims of non-partisanship on the part of the companies should be viewed with extreme skepticism.
the company in question makes about 1% of its profit from voting machines, is very transparent and publically traded. Hardly a good candidate for fruad
Best kind of candidate, if you think about it. How much money they make is a non-issue. I don't care how much they make - what I'm worried about is how they handle the election.
This type of question has been around for 200 years.
Sure. But now we can ask it loudly until someone actually answers the damn question! We have at our hands a tool to make sure it gets in front of as many faces as possible. So why not use it?
The more shrill you side gets the more offended, turned off, and disgusted the middle 20% of votes in the country get.
So, what? Just shut up and take it? In case you hadn't noticed, moderation doesn't go over with this administration. Bush was the one who said "You are either with us, or against us." So, I'm coming down on the side specifically against him and his fellow Republiban.
this type of questioning after the fact isn't all that new, or special
The question was going on long before the fact, in case you hadn't noticed. Blackboxvoting.org was specifically set up to contest the media hype surrounding the infallibility of electronic voting.
These types of actions are reprehensible.
How exactly were they supposed to swoop in before the fact? The voting companies were working with unproven technology in a partisan atmosphere, and some even stated their intentions to do everything they could to give Bush the election. While it is not fair to claim that all the problems of this election were due to partisan chicanery, it is absolutely right to view the errors with a high degree of suspicion.
I can agree that Bush possibly won the election, but until certainty is established, it will only be a probability and I for one, will view it with a high degree of skepticism. Unfortunately, there is nothing that I can do about it except suffer through another four years.
Which I intend to do. Loudly. Obnoxiously, even. So in the immortal, family-friendly version of the words of Dick Cheney:
Go fsck yourself.
So, by your reasoning we only protect those who have done only right? What do we do those who have been sent to prison and released for serving their time - let them rot in there? Pretty harsh judgement.
Another question: was SG justified in protecting their own interests? If it was a copyright infringement situation, then they were within the bounds of the law - whether you like it or not.
Two wrongs do not make a right.
they hope that when the time comes to buy a Cola drink, you'll think of Coke first
Of course, the flip side of that is, when the time comes to buy a soft drink, remembering how annoying it is to have in-game advertising, and buying another brand (who doesn't advertise so intrusively) instead.
Name recognition works for infamy, too.
I may just have to disconnect my Coca-Cola IV.
Using the device, then (because you're in a hurry, say) quickly sticking it in your shirt pocket
Am I the only one not enthused about sticking a running jet motor in my pocket? Men have nipples, too. Well, we will until the first time we forget to let the dang thing spin down.
you could just drop the service, ya know. If enough people did it, they might change their minds.
Nothing speaks louder to a corporation than the sucking sound of revenues being lost.
I'd have to agree. I thought the original point of NetBSD was not security, but platform compatibility. As I understand it, whatever security is in the system gets added by the platform developer, which can vary wildly. In such a situation, it seems like a lack of security would be an asset, rather than a problem. As for driver development, does that not fall under the same roof?
but have we really reached the point where we'll turn in our neighbors not just to the gubmint but to the corporations we love as well
I think you're missing the point - is the theft of the CD justifiable in any way, shape, or form, that doesn't translate out to some stupid, selfish reason? Is there some overriding social good, an overall benefit to humanity that justifies the taking of this property?
I sure can't think of one.
This is not feeding a starving family or doing any one of a number of other acts that could be reasonably argued to be justifiable. This was theft for entertainment purposes, or if you prefer, copyright infringement for entertainment purposes, which either way, is still wrong.
So, in answer to your question, if you were the one who did it and I knew you did it or had anything to do with it in any way, shape, or form, I'd turn you in a second, without remorse or guilt of any kind. I might even possibly generate some glee.
Even quicker if there was a reward.