If I were to leave my front door unlocked, and you were to come into my house and do nothing other than leave $100 on the floor in the entrace of my house, does that make it right for you to do so?
You did no harm to me. You stole nothing, took nothing, damaged nothing. In fact, I benefited from what you did.
Yet it is still my decision as to whether you are allowed to enter my house or not. And if I decide not to allow you to do so, you are trespassing and are a criminal.
If someone creates a work of art (and uses no public funds to do so), then isn't it that person's right to decide who gets to view it and under what circumstances it is viewed?
Whether or not harm is done is beside the point. It is that person's right to choose how their word is viewed and distributed.
I agree with the point of view that a lousy cam copy is probably going to work only as free advertisement, and the creator would be better off allowing it to happen (as I would be better off allowing you to come into my house and leave money for me), but it is their choice, not yours. You can't force someone to take your charity.
To make the difference clearer: it is possible that a person downloading it off the internet would not have bothered to buy or rent the movie anyway. Going in the back door suggests highly a lost sale.
Are you saying that if a person that was planning on sneaking into a theatre for free is prevented from doing so, they will likely buy a ticket and go in... However, if a person that was planning on downloading and watching a movie for free is prevented from doing so, there is little chance that they would rent it or go see it in the theatre?
Does anybody remember the old Geek Site of The Day web page?
Some poor guy's tribute to Eugene Jarvis was one of my favorites.... There was an endless discussion of the [BLINK]Essential Coolness[/BLINK] that his games had.
Can't they insulate all the sensitive equipment from the passenger section? Maybe have a layer of lead between the cockpit and the rest of the plane?
I think that there are easier ways of accomplishing that... after all, you are only talking about isolating electronics, not preventing superman from peering into the cockpit and seeing what color underwear the pilot wears...
So his fundamental idea of a fast spreading deadly virus is contradictory.
It is possible to have a very fast spreading deadly virus. It just can not kill the host quickly, but this does not mean that it isn't deadly. A virus could be programmed to have a period of time during which it infects other systems, then kills the host it is on. Granted, this will have some limiting effect on the infection rate, but if tuned correctly this will be negligible.
It is really a matter of tuning the time it spends infecting other hosts to the time it takes for it to spread through the entire population.
Army: Organization made for the legitimate use of force.
US Army: Organization whose primary objective is to protect american interest everywhere through the use of force.
We could add a few more:
British Army: Organization whose primary objective is to protect british interest everywhere through the use of force.
Russian Army: Organization whose primary objective is to protect russian interest everywhere through the use of force.
Pakistan Army: Organization whose primary objective is to protect pakistani interest everywhere through the use of force.
* Army: Organization whose primary objective is to protect * interest everywhere through the use of force.
You know what? That's the way the world works. A nation's army is used to defend its interests.
The use of the US Army to take whatever actions are needed to protect US civilians against attack is not only justified, but mandated by the foundations of our government.
I think the problem with that argument is that this really isn't a DoS attack. They are using a P2P file sharing network to share files. That's the purpose of the network. Just because it is a file that you don't want doesn't mean that it is a DoS attack.
85%: Microsoft Word (Sure beats tex for the average student) 15%: Telnet to the *nix server to code. 5%: Using in VB for their IS course in GUI design.
Does anyone else remember from college how the poles just flip every million years or so, and no one really knows why? That what *I* am worried about.
Man, you are right. And here I was worried about terrorism, toxic pollution, and what I am going to do tomorrow night. Thanks for putting things in perspective.
His post was a little confusing... but I believe he was saying that linux doesn't run on a 286. The first poster said "Linux was not a matter of discussion" and he said "nor did it ever run on a 286"
NO. It can only be considered a revenue LOSS, if that 50% would have otherwise been PURCHASED.
This is a true statement. It is not a loss, money would not have been made because there would have be no sale.
However, if you use this to rationalize using someone else's product without paying for it, the result is that a product becomes free to those (and only those) who would not pay for it otherwise. Only those who refuse to purchase the product have a right to use it for free. People who would be willing to pay for it, but are just trying to save money by not paying for it do not have the right to do so.
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If I were to leave my front door unlocked, and you were to come into my house and do nothing other than leave $100 on the floor in the entrace of my house, does that make it right for you to do so?
You did no harm to me. You stole nothing, took nothing, damaged nothing. In fact, I benefited from what you did.
Yet it is still my decision as to whether you are allowed to enter my house or not. And if I decide not to allow you to do so, you are trespassing and are a criminal.
If someone creates a work of art (and uses no public funds to do so), then isn't it that person's right to decide who gets to view it and under what circumstances it is viewed?
Whether or not harm is done is beside the point. It is that person's right to choose how their word is viewed and distributed.
I agree with the point of view that a lousy cam copy is probably going to work only as free advertisement, and the creator would be better off allowing it to happen (as I would be better off allowing you to come into my house and leave money for me), but it is their choice, not yours. You can't force someone to take your charity.
Are you saying that if a person that was planning on sneaking into a theatre for free is prevented from doing so, they will likely buy a ticket and go in... However, if a person that was planning on downloading and watching a movie for free is prevented from doing so, there is little chance that they would rent it or go see it in the theatre?
How do you make that argument?
Gravity Probe A was the launch of an atomic clock on a suborbital rocket, designed to measure time dilation as it passed into weaker areas of gravity.
I believe it was done in 1976
Maude Flanders and Edna Krabappel are (were) performed by different actresses. Marcia Wallace does the voice of Edna.
Actually, it appears that he is now more of a Apple type guy... I guess that's what doing that sort of thing does to you over time...
The site www.goatse.cx is running Resin/2.1.12 on MacOSX.
Check it out for yourself...
Does anybody remember the old Geek Site of The Day web page?
Some poor guy's tribute to Eugene Jarvis was one of my favorites.... There was an endless discussion of the [BLINK]Essential Coolness[/BLINK] that his games had.
Greg Costikyan.... sounds like a Commie Traitor to me...
They do MAC address filtering... you have to register your MAC before you can get onto the network.
Agreed. After all, how useful can it be until they develop a single atom laser capable of emitting a beam of pure anti-matter?
I think that there are easier ways of accomplishing that... after all, you are only talking about isolating electronics, not preventing superman from peering into the cockpit and seeing what color underwear the pilot wears...
Come on... it's slashdot... he was expressing time in binary digits...
ETYMOLOGICAL FALLACY
And a couple of helpful links..
Etymological Fallacy
Etymological Fallacy
So his fundamental idea of a fast spreading deadly virus is contradictory.
It is possible to have a very fast spreading deadly virus. It just can not kill the host quickly, but this does not mean that it isn't deadly. A virus could be programmed to have a period of time during which it infects other systems, then kills the host it is on. Granted, this will have some limiting effect on the infection rate, but if tuned correctly this will be negligible.
It is really a matter of tuning the time it spends infecting other hosts to the time it takes for it to spread through the entire population.
We could add a few more:
British Army: Organization whose primary objective is to protect british interest everywhere through the use of force.
Russian Army: Organization whose primary objective is to protect russian interest everywhere through the use of force.
Pakistan Army: Organization whose primary objective is to protect pakistani interest everywhere through the use of force.
* Army: Organization whose primary objective is to protect * interest everywhere through the use of force.
You know what? That's the way the world works. A nation's army is used to defend its interests. The use of the US Army to take whatever actions are needed to protect US civilians against attack is not only justified, but mandated by the foundations of our government.
couldn't these DoS attacks be considered illegal
I think the problem with that argument is that this really isn't a DoS attack. They are using a P2P file sharing network to share files. That's the purpose of the network. Just because it is a file that you don't want doesn't mean that it is a DoS attack.
At the end of 2001, there were only 8.2 million cable modem users in all of North America. I doubt that cablevision has that big of a chunk of them.
Look for yourself
Maybe they will just force him to stay up there doing some sort of endless spin dance move to keep the station stable....
85%: Microsoft Word (Sure beats tex for the average student)
15%: Telnet to the *nix server to code.
5%: Using in VB for their IS course in GUI design.
0%: Learning to add
Man, you are right. And here I was worried about terrorism, toxic pollution, and what I am going to do tomorrow night.
Thanks for putting things in perspective.
His post was a little confusing... but I believe he was saying that linux doesn't run on a 286. The first poster said "Linux was not a matter of discussion" and he said "nor did it ever run on a 286"
You'll be lucky if you can get a ping back in less than a week....
actually... if you read the snippet closely, you would see that owning a copy of Windows 95 does not entitle you to use WMP.
NO. It can only be considered a revenue LOSS, if that 50% would have otherwise been PURCHASED.
This is a true statement. It is not a loss, money would not have been made because there would have be no sale.
However, if you use this to rationalize using someone else's product without paying for it, the result is that a product becomes free to those (and only those) who would not pay for it otherwise. Only those who refuse to purchase the product have a right to use it for free. People who would be willing to pay for it, but are just trying to save money by not paying for it do not have the right to do so.
Does this really make sense?
A greater server marketshare in some organizations???
Sure... that's like saying Linux has a greater workstation marketshare on my laptop, but that kind of misses the point of the term 'marketshare'.