It must be nice being immune to murphys law...Personally, I've seen many times where a change *has* been tested thoroughly, and something completely unaccounted for comes out of left field and breaks everything. It will happen at least once to every tech out there, no matter how hard you plan everything. Short of literally doubling the staff in every IT Dept., it's an impossible expectation.
Everyone makes mistakes -- it's the people who can recover from them quickly and efficiently who are worth their weight in gold.
The original post I responded to said that by banning nazi propoganda, we'd end up legitimizing the cause -- everybody knows that the nazis killed millions of innocent people. How do you legitimize that?
What attack? It's just a very spirited question. We're not talking about an abstract concept like communism here, we're talking about backing a group that killed millions of innocent people slowly. How do you legitimize something like that? How do you make the common man sit back and say "well gee, you know what? Those nazis never hurt anybody! Why can't we just let them live in peace?" knowing what we know about the nazis?
Personally, I'd like six Holsten Maibock far more than a bottle of champagne.
As a Canadian, and therefore a connaisseur of all things alcoholic:), I find the robust, beery taste to be superb, where champagne is nice for a special occasion, it is generally too sweet for my taste buds.
I think the best thing to do would be to bypass the RIAA directly -- send a band a cheque for twenty dollars(or a twenty dollar bill if you're paranoid) for every 60-75 minutes of music you download from them. If enough people did this, bands might start realizing that there are better ways to make money out there than getting screwed over by the RIAA.
I think a good start would be having different rules for corporations who enter a lawsuit with an individual than corp vs. corp or individual vs. individual. For example, 15 million is a proverbial drop in the bucket for someone like Microsoft, but to just about any individual(a large percentage at least), it is more money than they will make in a decade of hard work. Strict guidelines on what can be considered abuse of the system, especially in terms of things like SLAPP suits. Secondly, rather than having someone foot the enormous costs involved, just set a limit on how much money you can spend on legal counsel. I think a few thousand dollars(no more than ten) would be reasonable. This should stop current cases where it's just a matter of who has more money. Finally, the appeals process should be greatly limited or sped up to stop companies from doing what Microsoft did(the "bide my time until a gullable retard gets into office" tactic).
I'm sure there are dozens of good ideas out there, it's just a matter of culling the ones which could cause harm(there's some risk in speeding up the appeals process).
Musicians and programmers have a lot in common in this regard. Some do it for the money, but the majority of the really good ones(actually good, not nessessarily popular) do it for the love of the art. Perhaps if the labels dissapeared, the music industry would change so dramatically you wouldn't recognise it, but there would still be people who write music and play for the love of it, rather than the money. The would also still be people getting paid to make music.
As both a programmer and a musician who doesn't get paid for either(though I am employed in the tech field), I can honestly say that there will always be people who are willing to create music, or programs, for free. Along the same vein(but off the subject entirely), When I read about Microsoft bad-mouthing a huge group of coders who are coding just for the love of code(the OSS movement), it sparks a flame deep inside me; It seems fundamentally wrong. I won't elabourate too far on this, because I tend to get far too deep in my comparisons, but face it -- a big company(or rather, since it's the software industry and a monopoly, THE big company) is critisizing a worldwide volunteer effort, bad-mouthing it in a way that would land most people in court for slander(or is that libel? It's been too long since I brushed up on my legal...) if the tables were turned, and regular people are actually buying into it. Maybe I should write about those nasty communist orphanages?
It seems to me that those precautions only scare away individuals who simply cannot afford to lose. When the competition is spending millions of dollars on lawyers, how can anybody, no matter how right in a matter, afford the risk of losing thier life?
Can we get together and beat him down with empty cans of Sapporo Draft(with the most indestructable cans I've ever seen containing any substance less potent than anthrax)?
This guy (the guy who is suing everyone) is an asshole. The courts should really put a stop to these SLAPP lawsuits; I propose legislation against such truly evil lawsuits. I'm thinking that we tar and feather anyone who tries this, then hang them from their toenails for a couple years off of the edge of the Grand Canyon...
I'm sure I'm stomping on some inhumans' right to be facist slime, but it's worth it.
Yes, I have looked at the logs for an Apache server we run at work, and it's hilarious. One can merely politely ask for access to various memory locations. It's a terrible joke; if it wasn't reality, and gaining market share, it would be really funny.
You aren't much better yourself; what possessed you to go and try to label hundreds of thousands of people(hundreds in this article alone)?
Personally, I see P2P as a useful tool, especially for situations such as the last week, where traditional FTP sites were all too bogged down to get either Mandrake 9.0 or RedHat 8.0(I pity the fools who tried hosting both!!!!). There are plenty of people using Kazaa-kin for pirating music, software, movies, TV shows, and so on though. The fact that there isn't a legitimate way to do things like get streaming TV stations over the internet(or better, just download episodes of TV shows for viewing at your leisure, the real reason so many people like using things like kazaa for downloading TV shows) only makes the situation worse. It's going to be one hell of a hard sell to convince the public that one of the coolest and most useful applications of the computer age should be ignored because it's immoral, especially when there's no other way of doing things. Instead of making a copy of a movie right now, I have the option to rent it. If I want to get it off the internet, I have one option. The "outdated business models" arguement has become irritatingly cliched, and often used when it doesn't apply(like in this case, where it's just one company who likes to have it's customers by the balls -- the internet has nothing to do with it; the console industry is the same today as it was a decade ago with the cardridge readers for SNES), but it still holds some water when you consider that the entertainment industry in general(there are some exceptions, such as Valve software, and their steam concept) is trying to destroy and silence a popular new medium.
I think this is as much a YRO story as a Microsoft one. This ends up applying the Microsoft philosophy in hardware, which I find disturbing -- The idea that they control things you physically own, after you've bought them, paid for them, and brought them home, rings of corporate facism to me.
I'm not sure about anyone else, but I think I like the idea of corporate facism to be even less appealing than traditional facism. At least there, you can overthrow the government!
Another good question; Why the hell are you telling grandma to do anything complex? Linux has at least three ways of logging in remotely, and two of them work fine on a dialup connection. All three ways I know about will give you an independant desktop where you can get whatever needs to be done out of the way.
As I see it, Grandma needs to know four things;
1)Click on the icon that looks like a pen and paper to write a letter
2)Click on the icon that looks like a giant 'E' to check your E-Mail.
3)Click on the icon which looks like a globe to surf the internet.
4)Before you can do 2 or 3, you have to click on the phone icon to connect to the internet.
After that, it's all stuff you either would have no problem talking her through, regardless of OS(really, how many ways are there to surf the internet? How much different is mozilla on windows and mozilla on linux in terms of the end-user experience?), or you can take care of remotely.(Grandma, I'll talk to you later. Connect to the internet, I'll ssh into your machine, take care of the problem and log you off when I'm done.)
That's okay, because unless you're planning on using 3d, the drivers which come with X are just fine. Beyond that, you can download, and for the most part, install the drivers from the GUI(you have to alter the XF86Config-4 manually for some innane reason, but it's well documented).
If you think that was tough, you should see the Windows Registry.
People who claim they aren't "computer people" will always go to someone like us to get something done. Software installation could be as easy as BeOS, and they still would.
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I can't argue with that.
It must be nice being immune to murphys law...Personally, I've seen many times where a change *has* been tested thoroughly, and something completely unaccounted for comes out of left field and breaks everything. It will happen at least once to every tech out there, no matter how hard you plan everything. Short of literally doubling the staff in every IT Dept., it's an impossible expectation.
Everyone makes mistakes -- it's the people who can recover from them quickly and efficiently who are worth their weight in gold.
The original post I responded to said that by banning nazi propoganda, we'd end up legitimizing the cause -- everybody knows that the nazis killed millions of innocent people. How do you legitimize that?
What do those two sentences have in common with one another?
What attack? It's just a very spirited question. We're not talking about an abstract concept like communism here, we're talking about backing a group that killed millions of innocent people slowly. How do you legitimize something like that? How do you make the common man sit back and say "well gee, you know what? Those nazis never hurt anybody! Why can't we just let them live in peace?" knowing what we know about the nazis?
How the HELL do you legitimize the slaughter of three million people?
I don't even think the spin doctors in the US could pull it off.
riiiiiight. Because banning pages that say "I want to kill three million jews!" will cause the murder of jews...
Die Schmetterling !!!
run for the hills! AH! AH! AH! AH! AH! die schmetterling is coming!!!
EXCELLENT! /me plays air guitar
Personally, I'd like six Holsten Maibock far more than a bottle of champagne.
:), I find the robust, beery taste to be superb, where champagne is nice for a special occasion, it is generally too sweet for my taste buds.
As a Canadian, and therefore a connaisseur of all things alcoholic
I think the best thing to do would be to bypass the RIAA directly -- send a band a cheque for twenty dollars(or a twenty dollar bill if you're paranoid) for every 60-75 minutes of music you download from them. If enough people did this, bands might start realizing that there are better ways to make money out there than getting screwed over by the RIAA.
I think a good start would be having different rules for corporations who enter a lawsuit with an individual than corp vs. corp or individual vs. individual. For example, 15 million is a proverbial drop in the bucket for someone like Microsoft, but to just about any individual(a large percentage at least), it is more money than they will make in a decade of hard work. Strict guidelines on what can be considered abuse of the system, especially in terms of things like SLAPP suits. Secondly, rather than having someone foot the enormous costs involved, just set a limit on how much money you can spend on legal counsel. I think a few thousand dollars(no more than ten) would be reasonable. This should stop current cases where it's just a matter of who has more money. Finally, the appeals process should be greatly limited or sped up to stop companies from doing what Microsoft did(the "bide my time until a gullable retard gets into office" tactic).
I'm sure there are dozens of good ideas out there, it's just a matter of culling the ones which could cause harm(there's some risk in speeding up the appeals process).
Musicians and programmers have a lot in common in this regard. Some do it for the money, but the majority of the really good ones(actually good, not nessessarily popular) do it for the love of the art. Perhaps if the labels dissapeared, the music industry would change so dramatically you wouldn't recognise it, but there would still be people who write music and play for the love of it, rather than the money. The would also still be people getting paid to make music.
As both a programmer and a musician who doesn't get paid for either(though I am employed in the tech field), I can honestly say that there will always be people who are willing to create music, or programs, for free. Along the same vein(but off the subject entirely), When I read about Microsoft bad-mouthing a huge group of coders who are coding just for the love of code(the OSS movement), it sparks a flame deep inside me; It seems fundamentally wrong. I won't elabourate too far on this, because I tend to get far too deep in my comparisons, but face it -- a big company(or rather, since it's the software industry and a monopoly, THE big company) is critisizing a worldwide volunteer effort, bad-mouthing it in a way that would land most people in court for slander(or is that libel? It's been too long since I brushed up on my legal...) if the tables were turned, and regular people are actually buying into it. Maybe I should write about those nasty communist orphanages?
It seems to me that those precautions only scare away individuals who simply cannot afford to lose. When the competition is spending millions of dollars on lawyers, how can anybody, no matter how right in a matter, afford the risk of losing thier life?
I hope no one threatens to kill him.
I'll kill that fascist.
No I won't.
I will, however, continue to be disgusted with this horrific lie of a "free" society.
Can we get together and beat him down with empty cans of Sapporo Draft(with the most indestructable cans I've ever seen containing any substance less potent than anthrax)?
This guy (the guy who is suing everyone) is an asshole. The courts should really put a stop to these SLAPP lawsuits; I propose legislation against such truly evil lawsuits. I'm thinking that we tar and feather anyone who tries this, then hang them from their toenails for a couple years off of the edge of the Grand Canyon...
I'm sure I'm stomping on some inhumans' right to be facist slime, but it's worth it.
Yes, I have looked at the logs for an Apache server we run at work, and it's hilarious. One can merely politely ask for access to various memory locations. It's a terrible joke; if it wasn't reality, and gaining market share, it would be really funny.
You aren't much better yourself; what possessed you to go and try to label hundreds of thousands of people(hundreds in this article alone)?
Personally, I see P2P as a useful tool, especially for situations such as the last week, where traditional FTP sites were all too bogged down to get either Mandrake 9.0 or RedHat 8.0(I pity the fools who tried hosting both!!!!). There are plenty of people using Kazaa-kin for pirating music, software, movies, TV shows, and so on though. The fact that there isn't a legitimate way to do things like get streaming TV stations over the internet(or better, just download episodes of TV shows for viewing at your leisure, the real reason so many people like using things like kazaa for downloading TV shows) only makes the situation worse. It's going to be one hell of a hard sell to convince the public that one of the coolest and most useful applications of the computer age should be ignored because it's immoral, especially when there's no other way of doing things. Instead of making a copy of a movie right now, I have the option to rent it. If I want to get it off the internet, I have one option. The "outdated business models" arguement has become irritatingly cliched, and often used when it doesn't apply(like in this case, where it's just one company who likes to have it's customers by the balls -- the internet has nothing to do with it; the console industry is the same today as it was a decade ago with the cardridge readers for SNES), but it still holds some water when you consider that the entertainment industry in general(there are some exceptions, such as Valve software, and their steam concept) is trying to destroy and silence a popular new medium.
I think this is as much a YRO story as a Microsoft one. This ends up applying the Microsoft philosophy in hardware, which I find disturbing -- The idea that they control things you physically own, after you've bought them, paid for them, and brought them home, rings of corporate facism to me.
I'm not sure about anyone else, but I think I like the idea of corporate facism to be even less appealing than traditional facism. At least there, you can overthrow the government!
I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling kids!
Another good question; Why the hell are you telling grandma to do anything complex? Linux has at least three ways of logging in remotely, and two of them work fine on a dialup connection. All three ways I know about will give you an independant desktop where you can get whatever needs to be done out of the way.
As I see it, Grandma needs to know four things;
1)Click on the icon that looks like a pen and paper to write a letter
2)Click on the icon that looks like a giant 'E' to check your E-Mail.
3)Click on the icon which looks like a globe to surf the internet.
4)Before you can do 2 or 3, you have to click on the phone icon to connect to the internet.
After that, it's all stuff you either would have no problem talking her through, regardless of OS(really, how many ways are there to surf the internet? How much different is mozilla on windows and mozilla on linux in terms of the end-user experience?), or you can take care of remotely.(Grandma, I'll talk to you later. Connect to the internet, I'll ssh into your machine, take care of the problem and log you off when I'm done.)
That's okay, because unless you're planning on using 3d, the drivers which come with X are just fine. Beyond that, you can download, and for the most part, install the drivers from the GUI(you have to alter the XF86Config-4 manually for some innane reason, but it's well documented).
If you think that was tough, you should see the Windows Registry.
People who claim they aren't "computer people" will always go to someone like us to get something done. Software installation could be as easy as BeOS, and they still would.
Linux is for weenies. Real men code their own OS using nothing but a hex editor.
I tried the Windows XP IceWM theme. Looks like XP, but I don't really like how XP looks...