You mispelt "Part of the reason Windows virii are so widespread...."
Ahem, misspelled.
Since IIS has LESS marketshare then Apache one would expect...than, not then.
In April, Princeton Professor Edward Felten, an encryption researcher, received a letter from record industry lawyers warning him that a paper he was about to present at a hacker conference -- the paper described the weaknesses of an encryption system -- could subject him to criminal actions under the DMCA. Felten withdrew the paper, and is now the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the DMCA on First Amendment grounds.
New York Times paragraph:
Increasingly, in the United States, this freedom has been lost. In April, for example, Edward Felten, a Princeton professor and encryption researcher, received a letter from recording industry lawyers warning him that a paper he was about to present at a conference -- it described the weaknesses of an encryption system -- could subject him to enforcement actions under the D.M.C.A.. Mr. Felten understood the threat and decided not to present his paper. Largely as a result of this experience, he is now the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the Digital Millennium Copyright Act on First Amendment grounds.
For now, technical limitations may temper any worries that a person's voice could be lifted without permission. To build the software that recreates unique voices -- which AT&T Labs is calling its "custom voice" product -- a person must first go to a studio where engineers record 10 to 40 hours of readings. Texts range from business news reports to nonsense babble.
The recordings are then chopped into fragments of sounds and sorted into databases. When the software processes a text, it retrieves the sounds and re-assembles them instantly to form entirely new sentences. In the case of long-dead celebrities, archival recordings could be used in the same way.
I've read a number of the rants that say, "These people wouldn't have bought the software anyway." However, there are at least three kinds of users:
Users that dutifully pay for their software (music, etc.)
Those that blatantly pirate software (music, etc.) without regard for laws or companies
Finally, and most relevant here, is the users that pirate software (music, etc.) if it's not too difficult.
It's this third kind of user that the BSA may scare, shame, or whatever, into paying for the software.
Think of it like the death penalty. There are people that wouldn't murder others no matter what--the death penalty won't affect them. There are people that kill without a second thought--the death penalty won't stop them. Finally, there are people that won't kill only because there's a deterrant, the death penalty, keeping them from it. (Note: This is just an analogy; I'm not claiming the death penalty is an effective detterant.)
Spam on USEnet doesn't bother me much. I find that the groups to which I subscribe (and I imagine most newsgroups are like this) have a core group of veterans that use:
Clear subject lines, so spam sticks out like a sore thumb
Kill filters to filter the most obnoxious spammers
Loads of on-topic messages (i.e. preceding subject lines with "F*** spam!", then proceeding to dump lots of goodies
It sounds to me like you're stereotyping a class of programmers based on one bad experience
Actually, you're both generalizing on insufficient evidence--he/she because of contact with a few old people that refused to learn, and you on the opposite.
The truth lies somewhere in the middle: that there are some old people that refuse to learn. However, there are also some young people that refuse to learn, making this whole exercise trivially true. That's what happens when we use anecdotal evidence; we get useless results.
If you use an alternate address, it's not a problem. For example, I use "evol-psych@aaronshaver.com" for an evolutionary psychology mailing list to which I subscribe. If you own a domain with a decent webhost, you can make up new addresses for everything. I used "psy204@aaronshaver.com" as a temporary address for a class I attended last term.
My university's campus blocks are filled with Dutch elm trees--there's no diversity at all. Sure enough, a fungal disease specific to that type of tree has spread throughout.
As much as I liked earlier versions of SuSE, I'm rather disappointed that recent used a sticky sweet, user-friendly interface. It seems the more graphical distributions become dumbed-down.
Where was everyone before the DMCA got through congress? Isn't it funny how people get riled up about something after it's an active law? And, no, whining on Slashdot doesn't count as "doing something about it."
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If you don't mind waiting an hour to connect to EFnet, then discovering that there's no nick or channel registration, and nicknames are limited to 9 characters, then sure, go for EFnet.
If you want a good IRC network, on the other hand, try DALnet, diapers or no.
It seems, like enormous Flash ads in web pages, that proprietary formats are the "wave of the future" for music and video online. I remember recently when Media Player popped up asking if I wanted to download the latest update which included content protection schemes.
I'm no peer-to-peer sharing fanatic, I just don't want to bother with a zillion custom formats to play music and videos. I want to be able to easily back up, say, my music collection, without the hassle of some proprietary software.
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Typical admin hard ass--"they should have prevented it themselves." No, the company should have made this OPTIONAL (not checked).
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You mispelt "Part of the reason Windows virii are so widespread...." Ahem, misspelled. Since IIS has LESS marketshare then Apache one would expect... than, not then.
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Katz paragraph:
In April, Princeton Professor Edward Felten, an encryption researcher, received a letter from record industry lawyers warning him that a paper he was about to present at a hacker conference -- the paper described the weaknesses of an encryption system -- could subject him to criminal actions under the DMCA. Felten withdrew the paper, and is now the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the DMCA on First Amendment grounds.
New York Times paragraph:
Increasingly, in the United States, this freedom has been lost. In April, for example, Edward Felten, a Princeton professor and encryption researcher, received a letter from recording industry lawyers warning him that a paper he was about to present at a conference -- it described the weaknesses of an encryption system -- could subject him to enforcement actions under the D.M.C.A.. Mr. Felten understood the threat and decided not to present his paper. Largely as a result of this experience, he is now the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the Digital Millennium Copyright Act on First Amendment grounds.
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From the article:
For now, technical limitations may temper any worries that a person's voice could be lifted without permission. To build the software that recreates unique voices -- which AT&T Labs is calling its "custom voice" product -- a person must first go to a studio where engineers record 10 to 40 hours of readings. Texts range from business news reports to nonsense babble.
The recordings are then chopped into fragments of sounds and sorted into databases. When the software processes a text, it retrieves the sounds and re-assembles them instantly to form entirely new sentences. In the case of long-dead celebrities, archival recordings could be used in the same way.
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www.webwasher.com works well for Windows browsers.
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That's the immigrant 8 ball. You likey some chicken flied lice with that?
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Oh yeah, Duchovny is off to a great start with Evolution.
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- Users that dutifully pay for their software (music, etc.)
- Those that blatantly pirate software (music, etc.) without regard for laws or companies
- Finally, and most relevant here, is the users that pirate software (music, etc.) if it's not too difficult.
It's this third kind of user that the BSA may scare, shame, or whatever, into paying for the software.Think of it like the death penalty. There are people that wouldn't murder others no matter what--the death penalty won't affect them. There are people that kill without a second thought--the death penalty won't stop them. Finally, there are people that won't kill only because there's a deterrant, the death penalty, keeping them from it. (Note: This is just an analogy; I'm not claiming the death penalty is an effective detterant.)
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That's AFFECT, not effect.
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That's EXCEPT, not accept.
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It sounds to me like you're stereotyping a class of programmers based on one bad experience
Actually, you're both generalizing on insufficient evidence--he/she because of contact with a few old people that refused to learn, and you on the opposite.
The truth lies somewhere in the middle: that there are some old people that refuse to learn. However, there are also some young people that refuse to learn, making this whole exercise trivially true. That's what happens when we use anecdotal evidence; we get useless results.
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Aaron J. Shaver
http://aaronshaver.com/
If you use an alternate address, it's not a problem. For example, I use "evol-psych@aaronshaver.com" for an evolutionary psychology mailing list to which I subscribe. If you own a domain with a decent webhost, you can make up new addresses for everything. I used "psy204@aaronshaver.com" as a temporary address for a class I attended last term.
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Your post is in there somewhere too.
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It's not embarrassing if you're Radioactive Crotch Man.
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My university's campus blocks are filled with Dutch elm trees--there's no diversity at all. Sure enough, a fungal disease specific to that type of tree has spread throughout.
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You sound like those people that say, "Is it really worth X thousands of dollars for that audio equipment?" without hearing music on the equipment.
Once you've had a taste of broadband Internet access, DVD movies, CD audio--you'll never want to go back to using the older format it replaced.
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I believe kcbrown's point was that virus writers could do something productive instead of just trashing computers.
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As much as I liked earlier versions of SuSE, I'm rather disappointed that recent used a sticky sweet, user-friendly interface. It seems the more graphical distributions become dumbed-down.
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Where was everyone before the DMCA got through congress? Isn't it funny how people get riled up about something after it's an active law? And, no, whining on Slashdot doesn't count as "doing something about it."
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"Reform" presupposes that there's some kind of objective measure of moral progress, which there's not. Nice try.
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If you don't mind waiting an hour to connect to EFnet, then discovering that there's no nick or channel registration, and nicknames are limited to 9 characters, then sure, go for EFnet.
If you want a good IRC network, on the other hand, try DALnet, diapers or no.
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I suppose he may have just hit the wrong line in the box but I don't see anything nearby that would make sense...
You're not suggesting that Katz writes his articles using something like a paint-by-numbers are you?
Topic: [Freedom | Privacy | Geeks | Hackers]
Tone: [Fear-mongering | Slobbering praise]
Length: [Long | Ridiculously long | Just skim this one, boys]
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You can find anything on IRC--legal, illegal, bizarre, cool--just do a /list on DALnet and you'll be set.
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It seems, like enormous Flash ads in web pages, that proprietary formats are the "wave of the future" for music and video online. I remember recently when Media Player popped up asking if I wanted to download the latest update which included content protection schemes.
I'm no peer-to-peer sharing fanatic, I just don't want to bother with a zillion custom formats to play music and videos. I want to be able to easily back up, say, my music collection, without the hassle of some proprietary software.
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Aaron J. Shaver
http://aaronshaver.com/