Imagine my bike really isn't mine because I only have the rights to rent it for the first 25 years after I brought it home from the store. Whatever. I'm still locking the damn thing up for the period under which I have exclusive use. I wouldn't expect copyright holders to do anything else.
Do you think that this laptop with built in DRM will be in use in 2040 when the copyright on [insert craptacular movie that gets pirated all the time] expires? Or is less a practical concern than the notion that The Man is cramping your style?
DRM manages rights like a padlock manages my bike. If I left it unlocked, some bastard would take it without my permission. I didn't agree to let anyone take and use my bike when I left it locked up outside the office. My padlock is a technological solution to a social problem.
Media publishers didn't agree to let you rip their movies and give them away on the internet either. DRM is a technological solution to a social problem.
"But, but, but, it is infringing, not stealing..."
Isn't that the point? Known nutjob Abdullah Jihadi calls the following people A, B,C, D.
Suspected nutjob Faruk Ibn Dijjaj calls B, E, C, G,
Known nutjob Muhamad Abu Majnun calls B, H, I, J
So if I was analyzing this data, I want to know who "B" is, as well as anyone else who talks to B. I'd also be interested in C, although from this trivial example, he looks less interesting. This is, of course, a massive oversimplification. Who knows if network analysis would actually work?
Obviously there are both legal and practical reasons why these agencies aren't looking at the content of communications. (Who has the resources for that?) Isn't this just the electronic equivelant of writing down license plates outside the Badda Bing?
Simple. This is slashdot, where even the most spectacularly ignorant MS bashing is considered "insightful." As an aside, does anyone know a slashdot clone where the ignoramuses don't mod up crap like that? Because/. is damn near useless for any tech news that touches MS or Google or anything the fanboys have strong feelings about.
>I remember hearing about a police department in New Hamshipre that would not take applicants with above a 105 IQ, citing their appall upon discovering the true purpose of police is control and oppression
But doesn't IBM's revenue stream depend on configuring and supporting Linux being so difficult that you have to employ legions of their consultants to keep it running? They aren't into FOSS because they are nice guys...
I agree with the gpp. $10K is peanuts. The fact that something as hugely useful as OSSH is going around begging seriously undermines the whole "FOSS's success as an iron law of history" thinking.
Yeah, there so smart they would never swap confuse different SIM cards for different mobile phones, ensuring their capture.. Face it, these dudes are dumb. dumb. dumb. Possibly, even dumber than the FBI.
>That the Crusades were rather effective at destroying a civilisation?
You do realize that they won the crusades, don't you? It is inconvenient for the "blame the West for everything" worldview, but my ancestors got their asses kicked.
The total failure of the Islamic world to produce any worthwhile contribution to human civilzation in the last 500 years is mostly a case of relative decline: what happens in Europe and America after 1500 is nothing short of amazing. Even if they didn't actually slow down their rate of cultural/technological production, they got blown out of the water by the competition. Still, it is striking how little that part of the world has been able to come up with in the last half-millenium.
You can't read an Arab magazine without seeing a list like this once a week. The fact that the British press is now getting into the act of praising 1000 year old inventions and ignoring the last thousand years of stagnation is telling.
>it's essential to type every letter of the code yourself.
Now that's just silly. Does it make any difference if the function is GetDate() or getdate() or getDate()?
Why spend valuable memory, attention span, and compile time dealing with silly nonsense like that? I'd much rather have my programmers know a hundred functions but not be 100% clear on the casing than have them know 10 and know the casing 100%.
So what if AOL profits off of reducing my spam load?
Sure this wouldn't stop real companies with real mailing addresses and real marketing budgets from spamming us. It would stop the zombies.
What % of our spam is "reputable" companies trying to shill us stuff and what part is zombie networks shilling h/e/r/b/i/a/l v/i/a/g/r/a? I would guess something like 85% total crap and 15% junk mail. If my spam volume went down by 85%, I wouldn't mind.
Moveon.org and the rest complain because now a mass mailing of 1 million emails costs only the intern's time to type the latest "impeach Bush now" email. Under the proposal, they would actually have to sink resources (gee a whole 1/100 of what a paper mailing costs) into spamming me. This is a bad thing?
>>- a lot of functionality is different, and it's not even documented. It may compile, and it may run, but not for long.
Specifics? we made the switch and found that the only real problems were some VS nonsense*, but overall, nothing broke completely, just a bunch of warnings about depreciated stuff. As far as failing down the road... you found it would compile and run for a while then stop? What did that? Because we just haven't seen anything like that.
*The changes to web projects and VB.NET projects made us expand our running list of "people at Microsoft who need to get kicked in the 'nads." I suspect we may need to wait in line for the guys who eliminated the web project file.
>Start fining companies a thousand dollars a head, and watch all those "policy violations" start getting noticed.
Yeah, and also watch everyone pull online access to your account as too big a security risk. Let's all go back to the 1970s where you had to talk to a banker to know your balance. Let's just throw the whole information society out the window while we are at it.
How many pieces of junk do you get? I get about eight a day in the snail mail box and about eight hundred in the email box. If this cut spam to 1% of the current level, I'd love it. I'd love to lose the penis spam and the 419s and the phishers even if it means I get legit solicitations for stuff I don't want.
As it stands we run our own mail server and just let spambayes take care of it on the client. It actually provides a useful network uptime gauge: "No spam for an hour? Something is wrong."
More to the point, the engineers just weren't capable of expressing their concerns in a way that made sense to managers. The managers weren't stupid. They lacked domain knowledge and the engineers couldn't express what they knew in a way that made sense. When they tried charts, they made it worse.
A well researched post on the RIAA has no business here! This is slashdot, the only acceptable response is rabid hysterical postings making reference to 1984, ideally with only most fleeting acquaintance with both TFA and the Orwell book.
As an aside, does anyone know how to filter slashdot so that silly stuff like "OMG the RIAA tried to stop kazaa!! to the barricades!!" doesn't appear? This isn't news and it doesn't matter.
Are you sure your email server has a valid reverse DNS entry?
If you send from 123.456.789.012 claiming to be mail.mybusiness.com make sure that your bandwith provider tells people that 123.456.789.012 = mail.mybusiness.com. Simple
When we first took or mail hosting inhouse, I completely spaced on that and spent a morning trying to figure out why everyone thought we were spammers. Then I had the forehead slapping moment and we haven't had any trouble since.
>The question is if those 7% are actual potential customers at all.
Exactly! One of our products is a.NET app. It won't run on Mac, so when a designer buddy reported that there were minor bugs on the site in Safari, we didn't exactly put that problem at the top of our list. Limited resources are best spent elsewhere.
Why not load it up in ie, get the contact info, then give them an earfull? Odds are, the programming team wanted to support more browsers but were denied resources. Give them something to make their case with. Just going away doesn't tell them that you went away *because* of the browser issue. If you want to promote ff or whatever, that is the way to do it.
Slashdot Mirror
key phrase: "from a ...site I built"
Brilliant if you are in the domain registration business that is.
Imagine my bike really isn't mine because I only have the rights to rent it for the first 25 years after I brought it home from the store. Whatever. I'm still locking the damn thing up for the period under which I have exclusive use. I wouldn't expect copyright holders to do anything else.
Do you think that this laptop with built in DRM will be in use in 2040 when the copyright on [insert craptacular movie that gets pirated all the time] expires? Or is less a practical concern than the notion that The Man is cramping your style?
Oh for Christ's sake, lay off the bong hits.
DRM manages rights like a padlock manages my bike. If I left it unlocked, some bastard would take it without my permission. I didn't agree to let anyone take and use my bike when I left it locked up outside the office. My padlock is a technological solution to a social problem.
Media publishers didn't agree to let you rip their movies and give them away on the internet either. DRM is a technological solution to a social problem.
"But, but, but, it is infringing, not stealing..."
Whatever. DRM exists because people steal.
>Office 2007 will support PDF.
no doubt acompanied by shrieking outrage
AAAH!! ANTITRUST!!!!
RE: more analysis.
,C, D.
Isn't that the point? Known nutjob Abdullah Jihadi calls the following people A, B
Suspected nutjob Faruk Ibn Dijjaj calls B, E, C, G,
Known nutjob Muhamad Abu Majnun calls B, H, I, J
So if I was analyzing this data, I want to know who "B" is, as well as anyone else who talks to B. I'd also be interested in C, although from this trivial example, he looks less interesting. This is, of course, a massive oversimplification. Who knows if network analysis would actually work?
Obviously there are both legal and practical reasons why these agencies aren't looking at the content of communications. (Who has the resources for that?) Isn't this just the electronic equivelant of writing down license plates outside the Badda Bing?
>I don't know how this got modded "insightful".
/. is damn near useless for any tech news that touches MS or Google or anything the fanboys have strong feelings about.
Simple. This is slashdot, where even the most spectacularly ignorant MS bashing is considered "insightful." As an aside, does anyone know a slashdot clone where the ignoramuses don't mod up crap like that? Because
flaws... never tried use of the dock, have you? What kind of moron makes the trash can move while you try to put stuff in it?
>I remember hearing about a police department in New Hamshipre that would not take applicants with above a 105 IQ, citing their appall upon discovering the true purpose of police is control and oppression
Shouldn't you be toking up all day today hippie?
But doesn't IBM's revenue stream depend on configuring and supporting Linux being so difficult that you have to employ legions of their consultants to keep it running? They aren't into FOSS because they are nice guys...
I agree with the gpp. $10K is peanuts. The fact that something as hugely useful as OSSH is going around begging seriously undermines the whole "FOSS's success as an iron law of history" thinking.
>especially the terrorists aren't stupid.
Yeah, there so smart they would never swap confuse different SIM cards for different mobile phones, ensuring their capture.. Face it, these dudes are dumb. dumb. dumb. Possibly, even dumber than the FBI.
yeah, it's not like any other database product ships with a weak password you are supposed to change.
-Scott Tiger
>That the Crusades were rather effective at destroying a civilisation?
You do realize that they won the crusades, don't you? It is inconvenient for the "blame the West for everything" worldview, but my ancestors got their asses kicked.
The total failure of the Islamic world to produce any worthwhile contribution to human civilzation in the last 500 years is mostly a case of relative decline: what happens in Europe and America after 1500 is nothing short of amazing. Even if they didn't actually slow down their rate of cultural/technological production, they got blown out of the water by the competition. Still, it is striking how little that part of the world has been able to come up with in the last half-millenium.
You can't read an Arab magazine without seeing a list like this once a week. The fact that the British press is now getting into the act of praising 1000 year old inventions and ignoring the last thousand years of stagnation is telling.
>it's essential to type every letter of the code yourself.
Now that's just silly. Does it make any difference if the function is GetDate() or getdate() or getDate()?
Why spend valuable memory, attention span, and compile time dealing with silly nonsense like that? I'd much rather have my programmers know a hundred functions but not be 100% clear on the casing than have them know 10 and know the casing 100%.
So what if AOL profits off of reducing my spam load?
Sure this wouldn't stop real companies with real mailing addresses and real marketing budgets from spamming us. It would stop the zombies.
What % of our spam is "reputable" companies trying to shill us stuff and what part is zombie networks shilling h/e/r/b/i/a/l v/i/a/g/r/a? I would guess something like 85% total crap and 15% junk mail. If my spam volume went down by 85%, I wouldn't mind.
Moveon.org and the rest complain because now a mass mailing of 1 million emails costs only the intern's time to type the latest "impeach Bush now" email. Under the proposal, they would actually have to sink resources (gee a whole 1/100 of what a paper mailing costs) into spamming me. This is a bad thing?
>>- a lot of functionality is different, and it's not even documented. It may compile, and it may run, but not for long.
Specifics? we made the switch and found that the only real problems were some VS nonsense*, but overall, nothing broke completely, just a bunch of warnings about depreciated stuff. As far as failing down the road... you found it would compile and run for a while then stop? What did that? Because we just haven't seen anything like that.
*The changes to web projects and VB.NET projects made us expand our running list of "people at Microsoft who need to get kicked in the 'nads." I suspect we may need to wait in line for the guys who eliminated the web project file.
>Start fining companies a thousand dollars a head, and watch all those "policy violations" start getting noticed.
Yeah, and also watch everyone pull online access to your account as too big a security risk. Let's all go back to the 1970s where you had to talk to a banker to know your balance. Let's just throw the whole information society out the window while we are at it.
How many pieces of junk do you get? I get about eight a day in the snail mail box and about eight hundred in the email box. If this cut spam to 1% of the current level, I'd love it. I'd love to lose the penis spam and the 419s and the phishers even if it means I get legit solicitations for stuff I don't want.
As it stands we run our own mail server and just let spambayes take care of it on the client. It actually provides a useful network uptime gauge: "No spam for an hour? Something is wrong."
So far I have seen two spectacularly misinformed comments modded +5.
You aren't going to learn anything about Windows programming from slashdot. Too many people here are fighting the Linux Jihad.
More to the point, the engineers just weren't capable of expressing their concerns in a way that made sense to managers. The managers weren't stupid. They lacked domain knowledge and the engineers couldn't express what they knew in a way that made sense. When they tried charts, they made it worse.
/ tufte.shtml
See Tufte's graphs:
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reviewed here http://www.statview.com/support/techsup/faq/Tufte
My question would be about margin of error. We are talking about a swing of .8 C over the course of 100 years. Not exactly a stunning change.
A well researched post on the RIAA has no business here! This is slashdot, the only acceptable response is rabid hysterical postings making reference to 1984, ideally with only most fleeting acquaintance with both TFA and the Orwell book.
As an aside, does anyone know how to filter slashdot so that silly stuff like "OMG the RIAA tried to stop kazaa!! to the barricades!!" doesn't appear? This isn't news and it doesn't matter.
Are you sure your email server has a valid reverse DNS entry?
If you send from 123.456.789.012 claiming to be mail.mybusiness.com make sure that your bandwith provider tells people that 123.456.789.012 = mail.mybusiness.com. Simple
When we first took or mail hosting inhouse, I completely spaced on that and spent a morning trying to figure out why everyone thought we were spammers. Then I had the forehead slapping moment and we haven't had any trouble since.
>The question is if those 7% are actual potential customers at all.
.NET app. It won't run on Mac, so when a designer buddy reported that there were minor bugs on the site in Safari, we didn't exactly put that problem at the top of our list. Limited resources are best spent elsewhere.
Exactly! One of our products is a
Why not load it up in ie, get the contact info, then give them an earfull? Odds are, the programming team wanted to support more browsers but were denied resources. Give them something to make their case with. Just going away doesn't tell them that you went away *because* of the browser issue. If you want to promote ff or whatever, that is the way to do it.