This isn't pure rhetoric and sarcasm, whether the author meant it that way or not.
Credential Grab: I'm a doctoral candidate, and this is in my area of research.
The right solution, without considering feasibility, is that traffic may be anonymous, but that receivers should be able to refuse to receive anonymous traffic, and should also be able to refuse to grant resources (such as incoming network capacity) to that traffic. The current Internet architecture doesn't make this technically feasible, as the sender is generally in control of your inbound network capacity. There's a research push toward architectures that remove this limitation, such as the Internet Indirection Infrastructure (i3). (Not one of my favorites, but it illustrates the point.)
My personal goal is that we develop an internet architecture which allows for provisioned virtual network links on shared physical infrastructure. Then Kaspersky (and anyone who agrees with him) really can have an isolated network, carried on the same physical infrastructure, while those who think anonymity is an important goal can have their own isolated network, sharing hardware but with neither able to impact the other. Network overlays can do all of this right now except for the provisioned links, and MPLS and similar technologies could already enable provisioning if they were widely adopted and deployed.
(My own research is into high-speed overlay hosting platforms.)
*cough* Actually, the girl's a cute young red-head who happens to like sharp, shiny objects. I make knives; she thinks bladesmiths are sexy. I'm definitely not going to argue.
Wait, what racist overtone? Just about anyone who's actually on the lookout for older manuscripts knows that there's not a lot of middle eastern content available. It's just a fact. An unfortunate one, to be sure, for historians, but there's no racism. You're being oversensitive.
Europe, on the other hand, has a great deal of published archaeological research. For example, if I want to research medieval knives, I can find a wealth of information on English artifacts. When I tried to find references on Armenian specimens, the only thing I could find was a 3-volume Russian dig report. The situation is endlessly frustrating.
You're leaving out the common law tort, slander of title. Presuming the OP can prove he owns the copyrights, that's a slam dunk, since they did contact his clients.
Is there anything even remotely bearing on the facts of the case? Or even the allegations? Because the summary, while inflammatory, didn't have them. The article was even worse. The link to Harlan's actual press release was similarly lacking. Aside from the (admittedly well-articulated) frothing-at-the-mouth, I honestly can't tell what he alleges in his suit.
Harlan, if you want to convince geeks, say something concrete. The rhetoric is a waste of my time.
Out of a morbid sense of curiosity, what happens if they don't follow it to the letter? Contempt of court, presumably, but I don't know what that means for the RIAA's officers, or the organization itself.
That's why Eric Raymond et. al. coined the term "Open Source" back in '96 or thereabouts: because most people presume that "free" means "free as in beer," and get suspicious. But the name "open source" has its own problems, namely RMS railed against it because it doesn't address the idea of freedom.
I haven't seen anybody hit my own personal reason to use Google's applications: collaborative editing. If I'm working on my own document, I want it right here under my control, so I'll use OpenOffice. (Actually, I'm more likely to use vi and latex.) But if I'm working with someone, who may not even be in the same country as I am, I'm going to go to Google. My alternatives are to email copies back and forth and manually deal with merges, or to set up a revision control repository of whatever flavor I like. That's more of a pain in my work day than I like.
This also isn't something where OpenOffice can improve. It requires having the infrastructure in place to conveniently share documents, and that's just not part of the OO paradigm. Sure, a repository makes it possible, but I don't want to run a repo, I want to work on documents! Google can do it "out of the box."
NYCL, I'm surprised. With all of the egregious conduct you're documented, I'm surprised you're just making a declaration in opposition rather than a motion of your own for sanctions under FRCP 11(c)(2). Is your reasoning something you can share with us, or shall we just watch the master in action?;-)
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That's your problem right there. Games only kill time. The skills you acquire as you progress in a game, generally speaking, can only be used in progressing within the game's framework.
I hope you do realize that the same applies to most of the RL skills waved around as "yeah, but look what _my_ hobby teaches me" proof that someone's pet hobby is better than gaming.
Plenty of good points here, and I generally agree with you. However, there's a few things you have neglected, and I'm curious to see your thoughts on the matter.
Mountaineering, backpacking, and hiking don't really supply useful skills outside the backcountry, although I suppose that in the miniscule chance that I survive a plane crash in the mountains they might help. What they provide is an active lifestyle, keeping me in shape by exercise. Would you argue that this could be done more cheaply and efficiently in a gym, or does this promote the backcountry hobbies beyond killing time?
Then there are the "craft" hobbies. For example, I make custom knives. I do it as a hobby, but I usually have enough commissions in my backlog to keep me busy for as long as I'd like. It's enough to pay for the hobby, if I want to do it that way. (I don't — I try to avoid taking commissions because I want to make what I like, not what someone else wants.) At this point, the hobby is self-supporting, and maybe adds income on the side. Would you argue that it's more efficient to just get a part-time job? I'm not sure that I'd agree, since craft hobbies can be done on your own schedule, and can pay more than a part-time job. Mine would, if I wanted.
So far the only irregularity I've encountered is that I got an odd phone call, anonymous number, purporting to be from the Obama campaign, telling me that my polling place had changed to one that's clear across the city, in a completely different county. I'm suspicious... And wish I had a good place to report that sort of thing.
...the other 2 out of 3. Did they lie on the survey or really don't snoop?
Actually, if I'd been taking the survey, I wouldn't have had to lie, and I did snoop. Back in my industry days, I did security, and my job required a certain limited degree of snooping. Nothing extreme — I certainly couldn't be bothered to read my colleagues' email manually, but I did write a bunch of scripts that used publicly readable files and mail folders as dictionaries for the password crackers. Everything was within the scope of my job, but I'm glad I had scripts I could point at to say I wasn't actually reading people's stuff myself!
Yup. I'm planning on moving from the USA to NZ as soon as I finish my PhD. I have no idea if I'll ever come back....
When the USA collectively lost all sanity, I started looking to see what countries still retain common sense. New Zealand seemed to be the only one left. I hope to be NZ's gain and the USA's loss!
Sure, it isn't MSFT's fault. However, the fact that SP3 triggers the problem is relevant due to the sizable install base that's about to develop problems. That is, if anybody out there actually has this router — I've never even heard ofit!
Skipping the bit about the vandalism, this was one of my first thoughts. If a court were to find that the SYN flood isn't illegal, then that would leave us all free to enjoy it, too. Can you imagine if, say, 50% of slashdotters were to dedicate 25% of their upstream bandwidth to a SYN flood at Media Defender's servers? I don't recommend illegal activity, but then again, I'm considering the hypothetical where is is legal.
Thanks for saving me the math. I had the same issue with this analysis.
As I recall, they found that the tiger's claws showed breaks and splinters consistent with having clawed partway up the wall. In other words, she probably launched, hit the wall, and clambered up the rest of the way while leaving bits of claws along the way.
I imagine that if this experiment is continued to the point where the uncooperative robots become too numerous, their uncooperative strategy will become less advantageous and another strategy might start to prevail. Who knows? I'd certainly be interested to see what happens.
This fits neatly with a sociological thought I've had a few times. I believe that there's a level of parasitism that a society can support before it collapses. These are the con men, the petty thieves, etc. In human societies, operators come into play to limit the level when it exceeds a threshold. (I.e., when little old ladies get mugged in broad daylight, police enforcement increases.) The level of parasitism seems to automatically find that threshold and hover right at it, of course.
I would expect the same thing to happen in the robotic colonies. I'm curious to know what the limiting operators would be, though.
Some of the robots in this experiment started lying to other robots because there was an advantage to doing so. What advantage would a robot have to harming a human in a world that is completely dominated by humans? It would probably result in their memory being wiped (a robot death).
You're missing the obvious here. What advantage would a human have in stealing from another human, when it'll probably result in him being sent to prison?
You can complete the rest of the argument yourself, I'm sure.
Like you, I see the risks, and also like you, I choose to accept them. I worry that our benevolent nanny state might not allow us to accept them, however....
Even without the increasing fees, it would be an invaluable change. Remember, we aren't just dealing with the *AA and Disney, we also have the problem of abandoned works. Tons of IP are sitting around with no known owner. We can't touch a single one of them, because if someone does, and starts to make money, 30 different people or corporations will all swoop in claiming ownership through some weird line of descent from the original (bankrupt) owner.
No, if nobody claims to own the work, it should go into the public domain. Even a $5 filing fee would be enough for this.
ISTR an article where Disney's mouthpiece admitted that they'd heard about this concept and weren't entirely opposed to it... Anybody remember? Was this one of Lessig's brainchildren?
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This isn't pure rhetoric and sarcasm, whether the author meant it that way or not.
Credential Grab: I'm a doctoral candidate, and this is in my area of research.
The right solution, without considering feasibility, is that traffic may be anonymous, but that receivers should be able to refuse to receive anonymous traffic, and should also be able to refuse to grant resources (such as incoming network capacity) to that traffic. The current Internet architecture doesn't make this technically feasible, as the sender is generally in control of your inbound network capacity. There's a research push toward architectures that remove this limitation, such as the Internet Indirection Infrastructure (i3). (Not one of my favorites, but it illustrates the point.)
My personal goal is that we develop an internet architecture which allows for provisioned virtual network links on shared physical infrastructure. Then Kaspersky (and anyone who agrees with him) really can have an isolated network, carried on the same physical infrastructure, while those who think anonymity is an important goal can have their own isolated network, sharing hardware but with neither able to impact the other. Network overlays can do all of this right now except for the provisioned links, and MPLS and similar technologies could already enable provisioning if they were widely adopted and deployed.
(My own research is into high-speed overlay hosting platforms.)
*cough* Actually, the girl's a cute young red-head who happens to like sharp, shiny objects. I make knives; she thinks bladesmiths are sexy. I'm definitely not going to argue.
Wait, what racist overtone? Just about anyone who's actually on the lookout for older manuscripts knows that there's not a lot of middle eastern content available. It's just a fact. An unfortunate one, to be sure, for historians, but there's no racism. You're being oversensitive.
Europe, on the other hand, has a great deal of published archaeological research. For example, if I want to research medieval knives, I can find a wealth of information on English artifacts. When I tried to find references on Armenian specimens, the only thing I could find was a 3-volume Russian dig report. The situation is endlessly frustrating.
You're leaving out the common law tort, slander of title. Presuming the OP can prove he owns the copyrights, that's a slam dunk, since they did contact his clients.
Good idea. I was beginning to think I was the only one here who'd actually buy the book if it actually existed, just to have it on the shelf.
Is there anything even remotely bearing on the facts of the case? Or even the allegations? Because the summary, while inflammatory, didn't have them. The article was even worse. The link to Harlan's actual press release was similarly lacking. Aside from the (admittedly well-articulated) frothing-at-the-mouth, I honestly can't tell what he alleges in his suit.
Harlan, if you want to convince geeks, say something concrete. The rhetoric is a waste of my time.
Out of a morbid sense of curiosity, what happens if they don't follow it to the letter? Contempt of court, presumably, but I don't know what that means for the RIAA's officers, or the organization itself.
The problem comes in when you get back from vacation. You can't be on vacation all the time...
And there may be another wee problem with it...
I haven't seen anybody hit my own personal reason to use Google's applications: collaborative editing. If I'm working on my own document, I want it right here under my control, so I'll use OpenOffice. (Actually, I'm more likely to use vi and latex.) But if I'm working with someone, who may not even be in the same country as I am, I'm going to go to Google. My alternatives are to email copies back and forth and manually deal with merges, or to set up a revision control repository of whatever flavor I like. That's more of a pain in my work day than I like.
This also isn't something where OpenOffice can improve. It requires having the infrastructure in place to conveniently share documents, and that's just not part of the OO paradigm. Sure, a repository makes it possible, but I don't want to run a repo, I want to work on documents! Google can do it "out of the box."
NYCL, I'm surprised. With all of the egregious conduct you're documented, I'm surprised you're just making a declaration in opposition rather than a motion of your own for sanctions under FRCP 11(c)(2). Is your reasoning something you can share with us, or shall we just watch the master in action? ;-)
Plenty of good points here, and I generally agree with you. However, there's a few things you have neglected, and I'm curious to see your thoughts on the matter.
Mountaineering, backpacking, and hiking don't really supply useful skills outside the backcountry, although I suppose that in the miniscule chance that I survive a plane crash in the mountains they might help. What they provide is an active lifestyle, keeping me in shape by exercise. Would you argue that this could be done more cheaply and efficiently in a gym, or does this promote the backcountry hobbies beyond killing time?
Then there are the "craft" hobbies. For example, I make custom knives. I do it as a hobby, but I usually have enough commissions in my backlog to keep me busy for as long as I'd like. It's enough to pay for the hobby, if I want to do it that way. (I don't — I try to avoid taking commissions because I want to make what I like, not what someone else wants.) At this point, the hobby is self-supporting, and maybe adds income on the side. Would you argue that it's more efficient to just get a part-time job? I'm not sure that I'd agree, since craft hobbies can be done on your own schedule, and can pay more than a part-time job. Mine would, if I wanted.
pushd, popd, and dirs.
I hadn't actually seen the korn shell cd- thing before this discussion. Which one came first, anybody know?
So far the only irregularity I've encountered is that I got an odd phone call, anonymous number, purporting to be from the Obama campaign, telling me that my polling place had changed to one that's clear across the city, in a completely different county. I'm suspicious... And wish I had a good place to report that sort of thing.
Unfortunately, one still needs to ask the obvious question: is it working?
In this particular case, it isn't -- so far. In countless other cases, well, as we've seen...
Actually, if I'd been taking the survey, I wouldn't have had to lie, and I did snoop. Back in my industry days, I did security, and my job required a certain limited degree of snooping. Nothing extreme — I certainly couldn't be bothered to read my colleagues' email manually, but I did write a bunch of scripts that used publicly readable files and mail folders as dictionaries for the password crackers. Everything was within the scope of my job, but I'm glad I had scripts I could point at to say I wasn't actually reading people's stuff myself!
Yup. I'm planning on moving from the USA to NZ as soon as I finish my PhD. I have no idea if I'll ever come back....
When the USA collectively lost all sanity, I started looking to see what countries still retain common sense. New Zealand seemed to be the only one left. I hope to be NZ's gain and the USA's loss!
"Don't blame me, I'm an interpreter, I'm not supposed to know the difference between a power socket and a computer terminal!"
Sure, it isn't MSFT's fault. However, the fact that SP3 triggers the problem is relevant due to the sizable install base that's about to develop problems. That is, if anybody out there actually has this router — I've never even heard ofit!
Skipping the bit about the vandalism, this was one of my first thoughts. If a court were to find that the SYN flood isn't illegal, then that would leave us all free to enjoy it, too. Can you imagine if, say, 50% of slashdotters were to dedicate 25% of their upstream bandwidth to a SYN flood at Media Defender's servers? I don't recommend illegal activity, but then again, I'm considering the hypothetical where is is legal.
Thanks for saving me the math. I had the same issue with this analysis.
As I recall, they found that the tiger's claws showed breaks and splinters consistent with having clawed partway up the wall. In other words, she probably launched, hit the wall, and clambered up the rest of the way while leaving bits of claws along the way.
This fits neatly with a sociological thought I've had a few times. I believe that there's a level of parasitism that a society can support before it collapses. These are the con men, the petty thieves, etc. In human societies, operators come into play to limit the level when it exceeds a threshold. (I.e., when little old ladies get mugged in broad daylight, police enforcement increases.) The level of parasitism seems to automatically find that threshold and hover right at it, of course.
I would expect the same thing to happen in the robotic colonies. I'm curious to know what the limiting operators would be, though.
You're missing the obvious here. What advantage would a human have in stealing from another human, when it'll probably result in him being sent to prison?
You can complete the rest of the argument yourself, I'm sure.
Like you, I see the risks, and also like you, I choose to accept them. I worry that our benevolent nanny state might not allow us to accept them, however....
Will 4th Ed finally have an integral mass combat system for wars? If so, could you tell us a little bit about it?
Even without the increasing fees, it would be an invaluable change. Remember, we aren't just dealing with the *AA and Disney, we also have the problem of abandoned works. Tons of IP are sitting around with no known owner. We can't touch a single one of them, because if someone does, and starts to make money, 30 different people or corporations will all swoop in claiming ownership through some weird line of descent from the original (bankrupt) owner.
No, if nobody claims to own the work, it should go into the public domain. Even a $5 filing fee would be enough for this.
ISTR an article where Disney's mouthpiece admitted that they'd heard about this concept and weren't entirely opposed to it... Anybody remember? Was this one of Lessig's brainchildren?