Yakut people of northern Siberia were found to have received a significant genetic contribution from the population of the Orkney Islands, which lie off the coast of Scotland.
My wife's pregnant with her first. We had a girl's name picked but were having hell trying to find a boy's name. She was having trouble so we had another ultrasound. We now KNOW it's a boy. I think this story has settled it. I'll be naming my first born Vladamir McHaggis. Being beaten up will build the boy's character.
Going on the premise that China is the worlds first mature fascist government, would these tickets be considered unreasonable if the Olympics were being sponsored by a corporation? What if ExxonMobil hosted the Olympics?
Let me get this straight. You're on slashdot asking if Walmart was selling something, and attaching electronic passport (and other sensitive) information on it, whether we'd consider it unreasonable??? Your/. Id's not that high. Where have you been? Are you even writing that with a straight face???
There's really no justification for "getting it for free" anymore when there are completely legal, easy, and geek-friendly ways to get the music that also puts some money in the artist's pocket.
I'd do it to stay this side of the law, but to pretend the artists get even one cent is naive.
Then there are people that buy Copy Protection... "Ok.. if it Truly can't be copied.. Then how am I going to mass produce it." never seems to enter their minds.
The fallacy here is that you have to decrypt it to mass produce it. You can encrypt, give it to Joe Bloggs to copy the encrypted artifact many times, and still only those with the ability to decrypt it will be able to use it.
ID had probably the perfect setup back in the Q3Arena days. Buy our game, then take the disk and install it on all the machines in the office, everyone can play a LAN game for free. But if you want to play online, you need your own key. It was perfect, and it was a wonderful promotional tool. I know at least a dozen people in the office who got so hooked on Q3 during our LAN parties that they went out and bought Q3 to play online. All of those purchasers would never have even thought about it unless they were able to try it for free like they did.
Now replace "Q3Arena" with "hootch" and "LAN parties" with "hootch parties" in the above sentence. The only difference is that hopefully Q3Arena is less destructive, but the idea of getting someone addicted on a free sample then making them pay for the real deal isn't exactly the most ethical. It's a fine line between "try before you buy" and "the first hit is free". So fine it's often just a matter of perspective.
At worst, someone else's government wasted some taxpayer dollars on science instead of market distorting business subsidies. At best, we have a revolutionary new source of electricity. Somewhere in the middle is the most likely possibility, namely that some bit of research turns out to be useful and can be applied elsewhere.
Let me correct that for you. At worst funding that could be used to fund real science is being diverted into amusing and enriching fraudsters and crackpots who are happy to falsify results and would be happy to set back science hundreds of years if it furthered their own goals. At best, by some miracle and against all rational thought something that our best science says won't work may just by magic work. Somewhere in the middle the most likely possibility, namely that this sham is shut down after wasting a lot of money and producing no useful results whatsoever and can be used only as a tale of warning to those who fund research.
1. To go to heaven you must be martyr 2. To be martyr you must blow yourself up Handy hint for 2: Make sure to kill many infadel when blowing yourself up. General hint: If you have attempted 2 and are reading this, you failed. Do not go to heaven. Do not collect 200 denar.
Apart from being a term from the late 90s, I don't feel comfortable listening to anyone that describes themself as an evangelist, let alone use it as a job title. It makes me think of irrational religious quackery which is not a method I like to make my tech decisions. Kinda reminds me of RMS dressed in his Saint robe garb too. *shudder*
If you're so very important that you can't turn your blackberry off for a day, you have the option of not visiting Alton Towers. If you really are that important, maybe you should turn your PDA off anyway, so your employers can be prepared for if you ever die or move jobs.
There are jobs and circumstances where having the PDA may be the difference between being able to go to the park, or not at all. Example: On call 24 hrs/day. If you really don't think this should be allowed, fine, but the right place to deal with it is in employment law, not by punishing people who've agreed to those conditions for whatever reason.
Chances are the books you use to learn to play the piano and the sheet music you play from are both copyrighted.
There are plays that aren't copyrighted (classics. eg. Shakespeare plays), but note that a particular performance of a play may still be copyright.
You can't dodge it. Copyright was a concept that had some merit in the 1800s but simply doesn't scale. As a result of these antiquated ideas being infused into culture and law, we're going to see some rough times before any kind of workable or sane system prevails.
The simple rule if box art quality is inversely proportional to game quality, is that the better the box art the more imagination you need in the game. The box art can give you some idea of the world the author intended to portray even if the graphics weren't up to it.
Yeah, that whole "not stealing people's work" way of looking at things is so quaint, isn't it?
First of all it's not stealing. You don't take it away from anyone, you make an infringing copy.
Secondly it is quaint to assume that someone who generates content and makes it public then owns all copies of it. Quainter still though is the idea that if you make an effort, the benefit you're entitled to from that effort should be proportional to that effort. In other words if I do it once, should I really be paid for it 2 million times? The idea of copyright is the more people want the more valuable the market has determined it is and so you should be paid BUT this assumption becomes unreasonable and ridiculous when the market is as large as what is provided by modern technology.
Thirdly paying someone - anyone for the content - doesn't give you the moral high ground. If you pay someone like allofmp3 back when they were considered legal (at least in Russia), it's not the same as compensating the artist. When the media companies and associations engage in acts bordering on extortion to protect their money, and when they don't pass on much of the profit to artists, your whole moral argument goes down the toilet with a big turd filled flush. Why are you cool with media organizations ripping artists off, but god forbid the little guy shift format?
Out of curiosity, do you enter into business transactions in which you have no say over whether or not you'll get paid for your work? Are you willing to invest years of your life and your financial credibility on something that, at the end of the project, someone else can say, "thanks, but if you don't mind, I'm now going to steal that from you..." ?
You mean like record contracts, where the artist may actually end up owing the record company???
In other words, copyright as it currently works may have provided some modicum of fairness in the 1800s but as it works today moral arguments are null and void.
This is not the case with Mac OS X. My current account has administrator privileges, but they are inactive by default. I have to enter my password in order to elevate to admin permission, and such elevation applies only to the program which requested the change. This makes an attack both less likely and easier to defend against, as the program can't just silently go in and modify my applications -- it has to at least ask for permission first.
So the bar is a little higher - the malware request has to be disguised to look like an appropriate request for your password. Make that mistake once and your system is gone. The more privileges this applies to, the more strict the application of the privellege to the specific event, the more you end up with something like Vista that trains you to click "allow" no matter what you're asked.
My user files are still vulnerable to attack at all times, but of course Time Machine means I have backups of my files going back weeks.
You'd rely on Time Machine if your machine was compromised???
Most attacks these days aren't about destroying data - they're about stealing information, and making computers part of a botnet.
There is also the danger that a program could trick me into entering my password when its try intentions are nefarious, thereby getting the required permission to trash my computer. The only way to defend against that is to be very careful about when and where I enter my admin password, but that's true of any OS
You're assuming most users are computer savvy enough to know when to enter their password. That commonly held myth seems to underly all computer security attempts these days. Unfortunately all you're doing is trading inconveniencing the user for a layer of security that's rather thin.
The only true answer is to never run code you don't trust. The trouble is remotely run code is the norm on the web browser, and even trusted apps have been subverted - hell even the word trusted has been subverted to mean trusted by corporations at the expensve of the owner of the machine.
For hire videos are not licensed the same way as for personal use videos. You screwed up your licensing.
It has nothing to do with first sale doctrine. First sale doctrine is about one of your customers selling it to someone else on Ebay or to a buddy when they're done with it.
Secondly do you think this might be a hint that $80 isn't reasonable to charge? It's no different to a large commercial company. Charge what people believe to be unreasonable and they'll pirate it. Sell 100 copies at $15 a pop instead of 4 copies at $80. It'll reach more people.
I've been calling Apple fans lemmings for years. Finally I have clear and irrefutable evidence of herd behavour!
(Hint: This is tongue in cheek humour, you want to mod it funny not troll. Either that or there's nothing to see here, move along. The secret history of star wars says so, so it must be true).
I think episode III is actually as good as the original 3, minus being ground breaking, and this is probably because it has to deal with darker themes
Please tell me you ain't serious! The whole thing was awful and implausible. The moment when Vader learns of Amidala's death and yells no is so damn bad it literally makes me cringe just thinking about it. I don't ever want to see Ep III again. It should have been brilliant. It was the ultimate insult.
I enjoyed the original and Empire (though Empire felt like it had been cut short). I didn't think much of Ewok-ladden strikes back. The prequels got progressively worse. I was downright disappointed at how lousy the story was given that with the potential it had it should have been powerful and epic. I've even read a couple of novels.
What I don't get is the obsession with how ti was made. Clearly for the first couple of films the right people were in the right place at the right time. I don't think it was all Lucas by any stretch of the imagination and it's only those 2 films that I'd call good at all, so this idea of Lucas as genius with grand plans and grand vision just doesn't appeal to me. In fact unless you're in the movie business I fail to see how it can hold more than a passing interest. I'd rather watch paint dry than read this ebook cover to cover. I just don't care. I accept that Lucas is a hack who had a miracle year (or two).
Likewise with the actors. I don't mind Harrison Ford (even if he's getting worse not better as he gets older...Airforce One? What was he thinking!?) but Mark Hammil and Carrie Fisher weren't exactly any good.
As for continuity? Please! One minute Luke and Leia are about to get hot and heavy, and the next we're told they're brother and sister. Vader as Luke's father was unlikely though plausible, that is until the pathetic explanation that was Episode 3.
In other news, last week I played with a new version of Eclipse and added a few new plugins. I also got the CDT working again. Quick let's post it to slashdot as a major story. Or perhaps on my few crappy pieces of freeware that I wrote about 10 years ago.
It's a question of relevance. You might argue that if it's publicly available it may be relevant to someone, but even slashdot users aren't likely to try out a fringe distro like this one. It's certainly not something that is of such great appeal to nerds that broadcasting it like this is a good idea.
Also last time I checked Slashdot was news for nerds, not just news for Linux IT nerds, so stories on sci-am may well be relevant and of general interest.
But what if the hooker they hired kept biting your dick? That's not very pleasant...
Let's get the analogy right. The hooker they would hire would be a high price call girl with 7 STDs, 6 of which are orally transmissible and 2 of which are eventually fatal.
I'd have to think that forensics units would have a harder time tracking down the person who fired an EM pulse. They've gotten pretty good at matching bullets to guns.
You don't think an enormous electro-magnet and a bag full of specialized equipment might give it away?
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Yakut people of northern Siberia were found to have received a significant genetic contribution from the population of the Orkney Islands, which lie off the coast of Scotland.
My wife's pregnant with her first. We had a girl's name picked but were having hell trying to find a boy's name. She was having trouble so we had another ultrasound. We now KNOW it's a boy. I think this story has settled it. I'll be naming my first born Vladamir McHaggis. Being beaten up will build the boy's character.
Going on the premise that China is the worlds first mature fascist government, would these tickets be considered unreasonable if the Olympics were being sponsored by a corporation? What if ExxonMobil hosted the Olympics?
/. Id's not that high. Where have you been? Are you even writing that with a straight face???
Let me get this straight. You're on slashdot asking if Walmart was selling something, and attaching electronic passport (and other sensitive) information on it, whether we'd consider it unreasonable??? Your
"Use something to do something"
I think a trivial $.01/use is an acceptable royalty. Start paying up.
Cease and Desist!
I herby notify you that your patent:
"Use something to do something"
infringes on my 2 patents:
"use something" and "do something".
Having previously settled my despite with the owner of patent "something" by buying him out, my patents stand.
I hearby request $1,000,000 for each infringement on my patents.
You're a glass half empty kinda guy aren't you? I see this as an opportunity to have a legitimate excuse not to RTFA. I'm a cheap bastard.
There's really no justification for "getting it for free" anymore when there are completely legal, easy, and geek-friendly ways to get the music that also puts some money in the artist's pocket.
I'd do it to stay this side of the law, but to pretend the artists get even one cent is naive.
Then there are people that buy Copy Protection... "Ok.. if it Truly can't be copied.. Then how am I going to mass produce it." never seems to enter their minds.
The fallacy here is that you have to decrypt it to mass produce it. You can encrypt, give it to Joe Bloggs to copy the encrypted artifact many times, and still only those with the ability to decrypt it will be able to use it.
ID had probably the perfect setup back in the Q3Arena days. Buy our game, then take the disk and install it on all the machines in the office, everyone can play a LAN game for free. But if you want to play online, you need your own key. It was perfect, and it was a wonderful promotional tool. I know at least a dozen people in the office who got so hooked on Q3 during our LAN parties that they went out and bought Q3 to play online. All of those purchasers would never have even thought about it unless they were able to try it for free like they did.
Now replace "Q3Arena" with "hootch" and "LAN parties" with "hootch parties" in the above sentence. The only difference is that hopefully Q3Arena is less destructive, but the idea of getting someone addicted on a free sample then making them pay for the real deal isn't exactly the most ethical. It's a fine line between "try before you buy" and "the first hit is free". So fine it's often just a matter of perspective.
At worst, someone else's government wasted some taxpayer dollars on science instead of market distorting business subsidies. At best, we have a revolutionary new source of electricity. Somewhere in the middle is the most likely possibility, namely that some bit of research turns out to be useful and can be applied elsewhere.
Let me correct that for you. At worst funding that could be used to fund real science is being diverted into amusing and enriching fraudsters and crackpots who are happy to falsify results and would be happy to set back science hundreds of years if it furthered their own goals. At best, by some miracle and against all rational thought something that our best science says won't work may just by magic work. Somewhere in the middle the most likely possibility, namely that this sham is shut down after wasting a lot of money and producing no useful results whatsoever and can be used only as a tale of warning to those who fund research.
Short version:
1. To go to heaven you must be martyr
2. To be martyr you must blow yourself up
Handy hint for 2: Make sure to kill many infadel when blowing yourself up.
General hint: If you have attempted 2 and are reading this, you failed. Do not go to heaven. Do not collect 200 denar.
Apart from being a term from the late 90s, I don't feel comfortable listening to anyone that describes themself as an evangelist, let alone use it as a job title. It makes me think of irrational religious quackery which is not a method I like to make my tech decisions. Kinda reminds me of RMS dressed in his Saint robe garb too. *shudder*
If you're so very important that you can't turn your blackberry off for a day, you have the option of not visiting Alton Towers. If you really are that important, maybe you should turn your PDA off anyway, so your employers can be prepared for if you ever die or move jobs.
There are jobs and circumstances where having the PDA may be the difference between being able to go to the park, or not at all. Example: On call 24 hrs/day. If you really don't think this should be allowed, fine, but the right place to deal with it is in employment law, not by punishing people who've agreed to those conditions for whatever reason.
Learn to play the piano. Go see a play.
Chances are the books you use to learn to play the piano and the sheet music you play from are both copyrighted.
There are plays that aren't copyrighted (classics. eg. Shakespeare plays), but note that a particular performance of a play may still be copyright.
You can't dodge it. Copyright was a concept that had some merit in the 1800s but simply doesn't scale. As a result of these antiquated ideas being infused into culture and law, we're going to see some rough times before any kind of workable or sane system prevails.
Not funny at all. It's called over-compensating.
The simple rule if box art quality is inversely proportional to game quality, is that the better the box art the more imagination you need in the game. The box art can give you some idea of the world the author intended to portray even if the graphics weren't up to it.
Yeah, that whole "not stealing people's work" way of looking at things is so quaint, isn't it?
First of all it's not stealing. You don't take it away from anyone, you make an infringing copy.
Secondly it is quaint to assume that someone who generates content and makes it public then owns all copies of it. Quainter still though is the idea that if you make an effort, the benefit you're entitled to from that effort should be proportional to that effort. In other words if I do it once, should I really be paid for it 2 million times? The idea of copyright is the more people want the more valuable the market has determined it is and so you should be paid BUT this assumption becomes unreasonable and ridiculous when the market is as large as what is provided by modern technology.
Thirdly paying someone - anyone for the content - doesn't give you the moral high ground. If you pay someone like allofmp3 back when they were considered legal (at least in Russia), it's not the same as compensating the artist. When the media companies and associations engage in acts bordering on extortion to protect their money, and when they don't pass on much of the profit to artists, your whole moral argument goes down the toilet with a big turd filled flush. Why are you cool with media organizations ripping artists off, but god forbid the little guy shift format?
Out of curiosity, do you enter into business transactions in which you have no say over whether or not you'll get paid for your work? Are you willing to invest years of your life and your financial credibility on something that, at the end of the project, someone else can say, "thanks, but if you don't mind, I'm now going to steal that from you..." ?
You mean like record contracts, where the artist may actually end up owing the record company???
In other words, copyright as it currently works may have provided some modicum of fairness in the 1800s but as it works today moral arguments are null and void.
Get a grip on reality.
Yes! Yes! Ban, Ban, Ban! Ban PDAs! Fun Parks!
Oh wait.
This is not the case with Mac OS X. My current account has administrator privileges, but they are inactive by default. I have to enter my password in order to elevate to admin permission, and such elevation applies only to the program which requested the change. This makes an attack both less likely and easier to defend against, as the program can't just silently go in and modify my applications -- it has to at least ask for permission first.
So the bar is a little higher - the malware request has to be disguised to look like an appropriate request for your password. Make that mistake once and your system is gone. The more privileges this applies to, the more strict the application of the privellege to the specific event, the more you end up with something like Vista that trains you to click "allow" no matter what you're asked.
My user files are still vulnerable to attack at all times, but of course Time Machine means I have backups of my files going back weeks.
You'd rely on Time Machine if your machine was compromised???
Most attacks these days aren't about destroying data - they're about stealing information, and making computers part of a botnet.
There is also the danger that a program could trick me into entering my password when its try intentions are nefarious, thereby getting the required permission to trash my computer. The only way to defend against that is to be very careful about when and where I enter my admin password, but that's true of any OS
You're assuming most users are computer savvy enough to know when to enter their password. That commonly held myth seems to underly all computer security attempts these days. Unfortunately all you're doing is trading inconveniencing the user for a layer of security that's rather thin.
The only true answer is to never run code you don't trust. The trouble is remotely run code is the norm on the web browser, and even trusted apps have been subverted - hell even the word trusted has been subverted to mean trusted by corporations at the expensve of the owner of the machine.
For hire videos are not licensed the same way as for personal use videos. You screwed up your licensing.
It has nothing to do with first sale doctrine. First sale doctrine is about one of your customers selling it to someone else on Ebay or to a buddy when they're done with it.
Secondly do you think this might be a hint that $80 isn't reasonable to charge? It's no different to a large commercial company. Charge what people believe to be unreasonable and they'll pirate it. Sell 100 copies at $15 a pop instead of 4 copies at $80. It'll reach more people.
I've been calling Apple fans lemmings for years. Finally I have clear and irrefutable evidence of herd behavour!
(Hint: This is tongue in cheek humour, you want to mod it funny not troll. Either that or there's nothing to see here, move along. The secret history of star wars says so, so it must be true).
I think episode III is actually as good as the original 3, minus being ground breaking, and this is probably because it has to deal with darker themes
Please tell me you ain't serious! The whole thing was awful and implausible. The moment when Vader learns of Amidala's death and yells no is so damn bad it literally makes me cringe just thinking about it. I don't ever want to see Ep III again. It should have been brilliant. It was the ultimate insult.
I enjoyed the original and Empire (though Empire felt like it had been cut short). I didn't think much of Ewok-ladden strikes back. The prequels got progressively worse. I was downright disappointed at how lousy the story was given that with the potential it had it should have been powerful and epic. I've even read a couple of novels.
What I don't get is the obsession with how ti was made. Clearly for the first couple of films the right people were in the right place at the right time. I don't think it was all Lucas by any stretch of the imagination and it's only those 2 films that I'd call good at all, so this idea of Lucas as genius with grand plans and grand vision just doesn't appeal to me. In fact unless you're in the movie business I fail to see how it can hold more than a passing interest. I'd rather watch paint dry than read this ebook cover to cover. I just don't care. I accept that Lucas is a hack who had a miracle year (or two).
Likewise with the actors. I don't mind Harrison Ford (even if he's getting worse not better as he gets older...Airforce One? What was he thinking!?) but Mark Hammil and Carrie Fisher weren't exactly any good.
As for continuity? Please! One minute Luke and Leia are about to get hot and heavy, and the next we're told they're brother and sister. Vader as Luke's father was unlikely though plausible, that is until the pathetic explanation that was Episode 3.
...or it might turn into a game of "don't wiz on the electric fence"
From TFA I would guess that "Exherbo" means "fuck you" in Swahili?
It's more like "fuck you, we're gonna weed you out" in Latin.
People are saying weed. I'd say what these twisted little nerds are thinking is "De-root" or "Un-root" as in remove the fuckups.
In other news, last week I played with a new version of Eclipse and added a few new plugins. I also got the CDT working again. Quick let's post it to slashdot as a major story. Or perhaps on my few crappy pieces of freeware that I wrote about 10 years ago.
It's a question of relevance. You might argue that if it's publicly available it may be relevant to someone, but even slashdot users aren't likely to try out a fringe distro like this one. It's certainly not something that is of such great appeal to nerds that broadcasting it like this is a good idea.
Also last time I checked Slashdot was news for nerds, not just news for Linux IT nerds, so stories on sci-am may well be relevant and of general interest.
But what if the hooker they hired kept biting your dick? That's not very pleasant...
Let's get the analogy right. The hooker they would hire would be a high price call girl with 7 STDs, 6 of which are orally transmissible and 2 of which are eventually fatal.
I'd have to think that forensics units would have a harder time tracking down the person who fired an EM pulse. They've gotten pretty good at matching bullets to guns.
You don't think an enormous electro-magnet and a bag full of specialized equipment might give it away?