Depending on your age, it may just be a matter of waiting a little longer. I see exactly that happening all around me. The bullies who gave me such a hard time in middle school have wound up in jail, rehab, or some kind of probation. The jocks have either matured into working adults and gone on to lead fairly successful lives (and still have a hot chick), or have attempted to stay jocks forever and ended up in jobs with the local janitorial services.
The geeks, on the other hand, have almost all turned out okay. Most of my geek friends are either in some kind of graduate program or working at a tech job with a respectable salary. And as far as "screwing hot chicks" is concerned...that's not what makes you happy. But dating is fun, and when you're young and 've got a good job, it comes fairly easily.
You're right - those who took part in Tieniman square, or the self-incinerating monks, etc. have all left a distinct impression, even though they died in the process. They made progress toward achieving their goals in the long run, even if in the short term it seemed to be a failure.
Remember that you can be much more of a pain to the RIAA when you're alive and well rather than when you're sitting under a tombstone...(figuratively speaking.)..and we'd much rather see those who fight the RIAA living and able to fight again. Anything else would be a Pyrric victory at best.
Remember, David had prepared himself for the battle:
He spent weeks practising how to use a slingshot
He had been in the army for quite some time
He attempted to make use of available resources before resorting to direct challenge
With all due respect to SuperDuG, I think he might have jumped the gun a bit here. In the present situation, he vs. the RIAA would be less like David vs. Goliath and more like Teenagers in Tieniman Square vs. Armored Tanks.
I have to admire the guts, though. You certainly wouldn't see me trying to pull anything like this.
By a similar process we can calculate that 99% of all ocean-front homes are pirated.
Of course they're pirated! I mean, think about it - smooth sailing conditions, easy access to major waterways for a quick escape, plenty of places to dock your ship, and lots of booty in those million-dollar homes. What self-respecting pirate wouldn't take advantage of that opportunity?
Heh...I run sendmail on a 486DX/33. I accept everything very slowly.:-)
But in all seriousness - I expect that some day, somebody will find a security hole which I've overlooked. However, when that day comes, my little 486 certainly won't be much of an asset. If a spammer finds a way to exploit sendmail, and tries to relay 5 bazillion e-mails, my box would certainly crash. I consider it a boon to the internet if I make myself very difficult to exploit, and sticking a just-barely-does-the-job server up there is a step in that direction. I'd rather have my home server fall on its sword than help fight a battle for the spammers.
Could you post the source to that program here? I would like to use it as well. My poor sendmail box gets hit by 21cn.com all the time. (it will always deny whatever they're trying to do, but it's wasting my resouces.) I'd like to have a way to capture the session and start complaining to ISPs.
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I disagree. Look at IBM, who has a full-time staff devoted to Linux. The Linux people at IBM include developers, support staff, consultants, integration experts, sales and marketing. These people are getting paid 9-5 to work on Open Source. So how is Open Source going to put American programmers out of business? It seems that there will be just as many, if not more jobs in Open Source than proprietary in the near future.
The point is that for a lot of us, technology has become invasive. It's not like I oppose technology or progress - in fact, I actively encourage it through my own high-tech consumer spending. But technology really does carry with it some kind of psychological burden that needs to be lifted periodically. People drive technology, but technology also drives people. I find that I need to completely separate myself from it every now and then.
For example, I don't understand why you would enjoy playing Starcraft on the beach more than just kicking back, relaxing, listening to the sound of the waves breaking against the sand, feeling a cool breeze float by, and just lay there doing absolutely nothing but soaking up the environment. I mean, it's kinda cool for the "gee whiz" factor, but after you've done it once, what's the point? Most people go to the beach to escape that.
I couldn't agree more. I just spent a few hours in one of our state's great parks. While I live in a fairly developed area (and getting more developed all the time), it's good to get away from it all for a while.
Taking a peaceful walk in the woods, or going for a long, straight drive down a quiet highway with the radio turned off and the laptop hundreds of miles away...it's very relaxing.
Some time ago, I did this for a few years without any problem. My neighbor and I were pretty good buddies and both into 3D FPS shooters like Quake. (which was brand new at the time). So I purchased 300' of Ethernet cable, terminated both ends, got a pair of these bad boys, and fragged away. We even shared ISP service for a while.
Fiberoptics was too expensive, and wi-fi was unheard of at the time.
I'm not one to support the DMCA, but to "...start a trust fund" for toner cartriages? Give me a break. I mean, come on - there's still plenty of competiton out there for laser printers
in the first place. Even if you are the owner of a Lexmark printer, they still have a reason to keep costs reasonable so that you won't jump ship to an HP LaserJet.
Having said that, I think that SSC's reply
is very reasonable and worth supporting. They are
asking for specific exemption to the DMCA which
would really help independent research or cloning
for competing products in specific instances.
A similar problem happens with free Webmail or adversiting-supported e-mail accounts. The small advertisements attached to the bottom (I call them "spamlets") will sometimes trigger mail filters.
Watch out for this if you're sending a message from e.g. Yahoo! to Hotmail, who both attach spamlets and both filter incomming mail. They also will not send rejection notices to the sender, so you may never know if you message got through.
There are lots of people who really do that, though. For me, it's a little of both, but either way the RIAA is ultimately better off for it.
It would take several hands to count the number of artists that I've discovered (and purchased music from) due to finding the MP3s on my friends/family's computers.
Examples:
Liquid Tension Experiment
Goldfinger
Tracy Bonham
Hole (Courtney Love)
Chris Ledux (yes, it's country - forgive me)
Stabbing Westward
MxPx
Reliant K
The Get Up Kids
Blinker the Star
...and many others. As far as "previewing" music via illegal MP3 downloads, consider that there are people who really do work that way. I want to be legit, but P2P is the best preview service available.
I'm glad you posted that. I was going to say the same thing, but you put it much more succinctly than I would have. I've got a friend with a Chevy Suburban who uses it to move furniture and stuff. That's a good use of an SUV. But then there are people driving 0.5 miles to the local WalMart with their Ford Excursions. Not only do they take up 1 1/3 parking spaces, but they make it impossible to see oncoming traffic when I'm trying to back out of my space.
Gas efficiency is also a concern, but that varies widely by SUV. It's really the extraneous size that bugs me.
A lot of us like to accuse Sun of being no better than Microsoft at a lot of things. This may be true on some level, but this is definitely a step in the right direction. While their motivation may be purely profit-driven, at least they are taking the approach of "Linux is getting popular, so we should be more like it", rather than "We need to squeeze every last $0.01 out of our locked-in customers".
Lately, Sun seems to be establishing a good track record for openness. They've created a fairly decent platform-independent programming language and development environment, and have made their Solaris environment look more like the other Unices out there. They are starting to come out with Linux products, or at least are talking about them. Even the source code to Solaris 7 used to be available for purchase on CD-ROM (although they may have backed away from that).
I hope that this is more than just a bid to recapture lost market share, but a real committment to play fair and adhere to open, published, and somewhat popular standards.
Isn't NTLM an proprietary authentication protocol? There are plenty of existing, secure, standard HTTP authentication methods that are already implemented in Mozilla. If we implement every proprietary extension that various vendors create, we're shooting ourselves in the foot, to say the least. If the Mozilla coders create NTLM authentication, it's like saying, "Go ahead and deploy Windows with IIS and proprietary authentication instead of Apache and OpenSSL, we support you!".
You know, some people have home defibrulator (sp?) kits. I can just imagine the torrent of flying rubber bungs that would be released when THOSE capacitors decided to pop.
(obligatory Dave Barry) Wouldn't "Flying Rubber Bungs" be a great name for a rock band?
Have you looked into purchasing real-estate? I've found that around here, mortgage payments are pretty close to rent payments, after you factor in the tax break. It may be worth checking out if you haven't already.
I was a renter until recently, and now I'm building equity while paying about the same monthly amount.(after taxes)
Is anyone else out there pissed at the fact that they will actually have to log on to the internet to even use their computer? I mean for broadband its ok, but there are a lot of dialup users out there, who don't need to log in right now to listen to music or to watch DVD's.
It's an absolute, non-negotiable condition of any media that I own that I can play it whereever, whenever, and with whatever technology I deem appropriate. It's absolute and non-negotiable that my right to play is never contingent on 3rd party approval. This should be everyone's creed, if it isn't already.
I don't even have an ISP at home. (my lunch hour at work is sufficient, hence my posts at about 12'o clock;-) That DRMed Elvis Costello CD which got released a while back would have been entirely useless to me.
Fuck me, $100,000 by age 32? I'm about $100,000 behind, then
I was going to say the same thing! I think for someone to have a hundred grand in a stock portfolio and/or home equity is quite an accomplishment, even more so if done by age 32. Her finances - ~$5,000 in stocks and ~$20,000 in home equity - is nothing to sneeze at. I hope to have that myself some day.
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Depending on your age, it may just be a matter of waiting a little longer. I see exactly that happening all around me. The bullies who gave me such a hard time in middle school have wound up in jail, rehab, or some kind of probation. The jocks have either matured into working adults and gone on to lead fairly successful lives (and still have a hot chick), or have attempted to stay jocks forever and ended up in jobs with the local janitorial services.
The geeks, on the other hand, have almost all turned out okay. Most of my geek friends are either in some kind of graduate program or working at a tech job with a respectable salary. And as far as "screwing hot chicks" is concerned...that's not what makes you happy. But dating is fun, and when you're young and 've got a good job, it comes fairly easily.
You're right - those who took part in Tieniman square, or the self-incinerating monks, etc. have all left a distinct impression, even though they died in the process. They made progress toward achieving their goals in the long run, even if in the short term it seemed to be a failure.
Remember that you can be much more of a pain to the RIAA when you're alive and well rather than when you're sitting under a tombstone...(figuratively speaking.)..and we'd much rather see those who fight the RIAA living and able to fight again. Anything else would be a Pyrric victory at best.
I wish you the best of luck.
Remember, David had prepared himself for the battle:
With all due respect to SuperDuG, I think he might have jumped the gun a bit here. In the present situation, he vs. the RIAA would be less like David vs. Goliath and more like Teenagers in Tieniman Square vs. Armored Tanks.
I have to admire the guts, though. You certainly wouldn't see me trying to pull anything like this.
By a similar process we can calculate that 99% of all ocean-front homes are pirated.
Of course they're pirated! I mean, think about it - smooth sailing conditions, easy access to major waterways for a quick escape, plenty of places to dock your ship, and lots of booty in those million-dollar homes. What self-respecting pirate wouldn't take advantage of that opportunity?
Hmmmm... maybe those weren't so good after all.
Heh...I run sendmail on a 486DX/33. I accept everything very slowly. :-)
But in all seriousness - I expect that some day, somebody will find a security hole which I've overlooked. However, when that day comes, my little 486 certainly won't be much of an asset. If a spammer finds a way to exploit sendmail, and tries to relay 5 bazillion e-mails, my box would certainly crash. I consider it a boon to the internet if I make myself very difficult to exploit, and sticking a just-barely-does-the-job server up there is a step in that direction. I'd rather have my home server fall on its sword than help fight a battle for the spammers.
Could you post the source to that program here? I would like to use it as well. My poor sendmail box gets hit by 21cn.com all the time. (it will always deny whatever they're trying to do, but it's wasting my resouces.) I'd like to have a way to capture the session and start complaining to ISPs.
I disagree. Look at IBM, who has a full-time staff devoted to Linux. The Linux people at IBM include developers, support staff, consultants, integration experts, sales and marketing. These people are getting paid 9-5 to work on Open Source. So how is Open Source going to put American programmers out of business? It seems that there will be just as many, if not more jobs in Open Source than proprietary in the near future.
The point is that for a lot of us, technology has become invasive. It's not like I oppose technology or progress - in fact, I actively encourage it through my own high-tech consumer spending. But technology really does carry with it some kind of psychological burden that needs to be lifted periodically. People drive technology, but technology also drives people. I find that I need to completely separate myself from it every now and then.
For example, I don't understand why you would enjoy playing Starcraft on the beach more than just kicking back, relaxing, listening to the sound of the waves breaking against the sand, feeling a cool breeze float by, and just lay there doing absolutely nothing but soaking up the environment. I mean, it's kinda cool for the "gee whiz" factor, but after you've done it once, what's the point? Most people go to the beach to escape that.
I couldn't agree more. I just spent a few hours in one of our state's great parks. While I live in a fairly developed area (and getting more developed all the time), it's good to get away from it all for a while.
Taking a peaceful walk in the woods, or going for a long, straight drive down a quiet highway with the radio turned off and the laptop hundreds of miles away...it's very relaxing.
Some time ago, I did this for a few years without any problem. My neighbor and I were pretty good buddies and both into 3D FPS shooters like Quake. (which was brand new at the time). So I purchased 300' of Ethernet cable, terminated both ends, got a pair of these bad boys, and fragged away. We even shared ISP service for a while.
Fiberoptics was too expensive, and wi-fi was unheard of at the time.
I'm not one to support the DMCA, but to "...start a trust fund" for toner cartriages? Give me a break. I mean, come on - there's still plenty of competiton out there for laser printers in the first place. Even if you are the owner of a Lexmark printer, they still have a reason to keep costs reasonable so that you won't jump ship to an HP LaserJet.
Having said that, I think that SSC's reply is very reasonable and worth supporting. They are asking for specific exemption to the DMCA which would really help independent research or cloning for competing products in specific instances.
doing a task in a few seconds instead minutes like the others
Excellent point the article! I'm glad I saw this Slashdot first. I can't wait the new kernel to be released.
A similar problem happens with free Webmail or adversiting-supported e-mail accounts. The small advertisements attached to the bottom (I call them "spamlets") will sometimes trigger mail filters.
Watch out for this if you're sending a message from e.g. Yahoo! to Hotmail, who both attach spamlets and both filter incomming mail. They also will not send rejection notices to the sender, so you may never know if you message got through.
There are lots of people who really do that, though. For me, it's a little of both, but either way the RIAA is ultimately better off for it.
It would take several hands to count the number of artists that I've discovered (and purchased music from) due to finding the MP3s on my friends/family's computers.
Examples:
We need a good laugh to cheer us up after reading how Microsoft won this or that, the DMCA yadda yadda, warmongering w/ Iraq, etc.
I really like the "+[2-5], Funny" ies, since they really help lighten the mood of an otherwise somewhat pessimistic crowd.
My car isn't that small. :-)
I'm glad you posted that. I was going to say the same thing, but you put it much more succinctly than I would have. I've got a friend with a Chevy Suburban who uses it to move furniture and stuff. That's a good use of an SUV. But then there are people driving 0.5 miles to the local WalMart with their Ford Excursions. Not only do they take up 1 1/3 parking spaces, but they make it impossible to see oncoming traffic when I'm trying to back out of my space.
Gas efficiency is also a concern, but that varies widely by SUV. It's really the extraneous size that bugs me.
A lot of us like to accuse Sun of being no better than Microsoft at a lot of things. This may be true on some level, but this is definitely a step in the right direction. While their motivation may be purely profit-driven, at least they are taking the approach of "Linux is getting popular, so we should be more like it", rather than "We need to squeeze every last $0.01 out of our locked-in customers".
Lately, Sun seems to be establishing a good track record for openness. They've created a fairly decent platform-independent programming language and development environment, and have made their Solaris environment look more like the other Unices out there. They are starting to come out with Linux products, or at least are talking about them. Even the source code to Solaris 7 used to be available for purchase on CD-ROM (although they may have backed away from that).
I hope that this is more than just a bid to recapture lost market share, but a real committment to play fair and adhere to open, published, and somewhat popular standards.
Isn't NTLM an proprietary authentication protocol? There are plenty of existing, secure, standard HTTP authentication methods that are already implemented in Mozilla. If we implement every proprietary extension that various vendors create, we're shooting ourselves in the foot, to say the least. If the Mozilla coders create NTLM authentication, it's like saying, "Go ahead and deploy Windows with IIS and proprietary authentication instead of Apache and OpenSSL, we support you!".
You know, some people have home defibrulator (sp?) kits. I can just imagine the torrent of flying rubber bungs that would be released when THOSE capacitors decided to pop.
(obligatory Dave Barry) Wouldn't "Flying Rubber Bungs" be a great name for a rock band?
Anyone else notice the body text is missing from people's comments, and several headlines?
Before modding this as "Redundant", consider my plight: I can't see the bodies of the other messages!
Have you looked into purchasing real-estate? I've found that around here, mortgage payments are pretty close to rent payments, after you factor in the tax break. It may be worth checking out if you haven't already.
I was a renter until recently, and now I'm building equity while paying about the same monthly amount.(after taxes)
Is anyone else out there pissed at the fact that they will actually have to log on to the internet to even use their computer? I mean for broadband its ok, but there are a lot of dialup users out there, who don't need to log in right now to listen to music or to watch DVD's.
It's an absolute, non-negotiable condition of any media that I own that I can play it whereever, whenever, and with whatever technology I deem appropriate. It's absolute and non-negotiable that my right to play is never contingent on 3rd party approval. This should be everyone's creed, if it isn't already.
I don't even have an ISP at home. (my lunch hour at work is sufficient, hence my posts at about 12'o clock ;-) That DRMed Elvis Costello CD which got released a while back would have been entirely useless to me.
Fuck me, $100,000 by age 32? I'm about $100,000 behind, then
I was going to say the same thing! I think for someone to have a hundred grand in a stock portfolio and/or home equity is quite an accomplishment, even more so if done by age 32. Her finances - ~$5,000 in stocks and ~$20,000 in home equity - is nothing to sneeze at. I hope to have that myself some day.