As the court room drama around file copying programs continues, photocopier companies relocate to foreign lands to try and protect themselves from copyright infringment. Pen companies worry about the uses to which their products may be put and all photography companies temporarily suspend trading, worried that users may photograph copy protected items. Once the floodgates have been pried open even a crack it's all on!
Laser jet, you must be called this because of your penetrating observations. I whole heartedly agree. This article takes a screen full of text to say nothing. I enjoyed the hell moputh series, but since then have read nothing I like from this Katz guy. Can me mod down his stories? Maybe he should ask for topics and then go and investigate them.
I'm currently working on a perl katz article creator. It takes all the Katz articles as imput and generates random articles about nothing, pretending to be about the "revolution that is the web" and children.
In fact this article is very similar to your website! =)
Hey that's amazing. The RMS article really blew me away. Does that mean that if I could buy a small country (or at least their legal system.) I could change the law there to let me say, copyright breathing. And provided that I followed all the laws of that country, I could then sue everyone else in the whole world. I mean the ways to abuse this just seem endless. Could I divorce my wife by saying I divorce you three times, as is possible under islamic law and then force that through over here. I mean where does this stop!
This article talks about what we have been seeing all over recently. Namely the reduction of individual rights to allow corporations to make more money. But then I guess with the economy posed to nosedive the only way to perk things up for a while is to sell off our individual rights!
Did anyone study the revenue generated by the recording industry and weather it was affected by Napster. I'll bet it went up rather than down. I personally have bought albums of artists I heard and liked under mp3 and the same goes for my friends.
I particularily liked the Smith and Weson point in the article. But then guns only kill people, software releases and distributes information and can reduce profits, which in this day and age seems to be a far greater wrong than the loss of a life!
Hmmm, this doesn't really sound like an apology, more a forced statement. And isn't he missing out the other alias's he used! Why no mention of "Tom Dooley, Clark Addison and Will Smith". Also people use fake names on websites all the time, so why should we assume that Tirebiter is the papers editor rather than someone else with a weak sense of humour.
How about mentioning the fact that he's been doing this for years, or that he caused others to be fired when they complained. Maybe he could talk about this being common practice in the industry. Links to every single false post would have really shown some remorse.
Seems to me that this is an attempt to wind down the negative spin, without really understanding what has been done wrong, or really wanting to/feeling the need to apologise. As my mum always said, if your not really sorry then apologising is worse than saying nothing.
If he had posted this on/. and I had mod then I'd be modding him down for facuous statements and insincere apologies.
You are absolutely correct, I did not say what I meant to say. I cussed and cursed immediately on hitting that submit button.
You are double correct re terrorism. More correct would be some unethically motivated ethical hacker or perhaps morally unethical moral hacker or maybe even a moral and ethically motivated unethical hacker =)
Seems to me that this is a very opportune time for an ethically motivated hacker to whip out a PDF virus, perhaps in protest to heavy handed lawsuits against Adobe!
Leonidas Ralph Mecham sounds like a rat faced little man who combs his hair across his bald spot, and has a massive inferiority complex. Why else would he feel the need to implement systems like this on his co-workers. He then has the audacity to moan about how shutting down the software causes security risks. I mean who gave a whiner and a moaner like this any power what so ever?
A google search for Leonidas Ralph Mecham turns his name up many times in all CAPS. Must be a prat =)
I sit in a 50 year old chair that is uncomfortable as can be. But it's big enough that I can sit cross legged which makes it bearable! My partner works at a company that has these chairs, and when I saw them I was like "WOW" but then the company treated her like shite and I realised that I'd rather have a crap chair and a decent job than a crap job and a decent chair.
On a more serious note. Working in desks in front of computers slowly ruins our postures, our bobies and our eyesight. In twenty years or so people will wonder why we ever put up with working conditions like that. Maybe the companies who are buying these chairs aren't being so stupid. If the companies are around long enough it may help them to avoid health and safety litigation!
Does this mean that I can be done by Californian law for posting DeCSS in New Zealand. What about anyone getting done under Afganistan law for just about anything. Is it just me or is this whole situation with regard to IP, Encryption, Hacking and other such knee jerk reactions by the establishment getting way out of control. I guess it shows how hard the entrenched powerbase will try to hang onto it's eroding power base.
This cannot go on like this indefinately... can it?
Ever since Trog the caveman saw his kids starting a fire in the back of the cave and smoking leaves adults have wondered about the kids of the age, and are they taking away our power, and just what exactly are they doing with their lives. Next we will start hearing about how computing power isn't what it used to be back in the good old days etc etc
It's the nature of life that kids pick things up quicker and run further with them. You old fogies just have to accept it. OK sometimes they run so fast they fall over, but mostly they surprise us all with new ways to do things with old stuff.
As for breaking down power structures I ain't seeing much of that, if anything I'm seeing the power structures weilding that old school muscle and keeping those pesky kids down.
so I imagine well be seeing something here about this soon!
I'm tempted to immediately blame the companies for doing this, but I guess they are just trying to work within the system to make money. It's the system that sucks. Still I'm gonna hold off buying that antivirus software for a while now.
Microsoft really has the best interests of everyone at heart. Never ever ever ever would anyone at Microsoft want to develop proprietory software to stop the free flow of ideas and/or stop the freedom to communicate between all people from all ethinic and financial backgrounds and across any platform. Of course we at microsoft want Windows to do well but we will not leverage our market share to drive others out of business, nor develop new projects to do so. Our business is committed to ethics, sharing and the betterment of mankind and all it's projects. We are not at all interested in market share and profits. We just want to make everyone happy. Our attempts to control the web with initatives such as.NET and certification are only our altruistic efforts to protect the young and the innocent on the world wide web. Microsoft loves you. =)
"We consider ourselves to be at the ultimate edge of the Internet -- at the device level," Batty.
ooooh. Can you say hyperbole. The ultimate edge! Does this mean we have to drink Pepsi Max when we go curling up to The Ultimate Edge of the Internet (TM). Sounds like hype HYPE HYPE to me. I consider myself, the ultimate edge of the internet =) You can be an ultimate edge to if you like.
Wrong, I'm betting on the computer to win. And it's not too hard to think of something that a human programs that a computer can do better! What about querying a database?
I'd like to see the wetware trump the hardware/software and as someone else mentioned there is human creativity, but there is only a finite space for creativity in a game of chess. And if you can compute every possible move you must be computing the creative moves along with the not so creative ones. It's not like you can find a whole new way to move the pieces or something.
c) Sharks live around Port Lincoln, whose waters are the natural home of the great white.
Hmm, I guess this means there will be no more swimming around Port Lincoln then! Doesn't this make the whole project a bit daft?
Us humans, we take away all the predators food, stuff up the areas where they live and then get a bit tetsy when they start eating us.
How about putting fake humans with electric shock devices into the water all around the area. Soon the sharks will assosicate humans with electric shocks and start looking elsewhere for lunch!
What really bites is that the whole system just ignores things like this. One decent guy goes, whoa this is wrong, I'll tell the people in charge, I'm sure they'll do something about it. Haha life ain't like that. The guys in charge probably put him up for it. Do you have to take a ethical zombie test to make it into management these days? I've seen many people take genuine grievences up the corporate ladder, only to get thrown off and swept under the carpet. But one day, one day (and it looks like it's happening now for these guys) the genuine grievence comes back and bites the whole corporation on the a%*e. =)
What sort of an article is this? Doing lots of things at once is more difficult than doing one thing at a time! Well I'm really pleased that the academics have spent loads of time and money reaching this obvious conclusion. I mean is this really news? Ask anyone who is too busy at work how much they are getting done. I used to work on a help desk and we'd get constant calls, meaning that the projects we really wanted to do kept getting put on hold. It takes a while to rememeber how far you got last time you looked at the problem. I've got a little research project going, reading crap articles about obvious conclusions wastes times. I'm currently applying for funding =)
Multitasking is one of those words that didn't exist until eight years ago or so. Kinda like my personal bugbear, "Lets take this off line OK"
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As the court room drama around file copying programs continues, photocopier companies relocate to foreign lands to try and protect themselves from copyright infringment. Pen companies worry about the uses to which their products may be put and all photography companies temporarily suspend trading, worried that users may photograph copy protected items. Once the floodgates have been pried open even a crack it's all on!
I'm currently working on a perl katz article creator. It takes all the Katz articles as imput and generates random articles about nothing, pretending to be about the "revolution that is the web" and children.
In fact this article is very similar to your website! =)
Anyway thanks for the links.
Did anyone study the revenue generated by the recording industry and weather it was affected by Napster. I'll bet it went up rather than down. I personally have bought albums of artists I heard and liked under mp3 and the same goes for my friends.
I particularily liked the Smith and Weson point in the article. But then guns only kill people, software releases and distributes information and can reduce profits, which in this day and age seems to be a far greater wrong than the loss of a life!
How about mentioning the fact that he's been doing this for years, or that he caused others to be fired when they complained. Maybe he could talk about this being common practice in the industry. Links to every single false post would have really shown some remorse.
Seems to me that this is an attempt to wind down the negative spin, without really understanding what has been done wrong, or really wanting to/feeling the need to apologise. As my mum always said, if your not really sorry then apologising is worse than saying nothing.
If he had posted this on /. and I had mod then I'd be modding him down for facuous statements and insincere apologies.
You are double correct re terrorism. More correct would be some unethically motivated ethical hacker or perhaps morally unethical moral hacker or maybe even a moral and ethically motivated unethical hacker =)
Seems to me that this is a very opportune time for an ethically motivated hacker to whip out a PDF virus, perhaps in protest to heavy handed lawsuits against Adobe!
A google search for Leonidas Ralph Mecham turns his name up many times in all CAPS. Must be a prat =)
On a more serious note. Working in desks in front of computers slowly ruins our postures, our bobies and our eyesight. In twenty years or so people will wonder why we ever put up with working conditions like that. Maybe the companies who are buying these chairs aren't being so stupid. If the companies are around long enough it may help them to avoid health and safety litigation!
This cannot go on like this indefinately... can it?
It's the nature of life that kids pick things up quicker and run further with them. You old fogies just have to accept it. OK sometimes they run so fast they fall over, but mostly they surprise us all with new ways to do things with old stuff.
As for breaking down power structures I ain't seeing much of that, if anything I'm seeing the power structures weilding that old school muscle and keeping those pesky kids down.
Here is an excellent article on IP issues and mad patents.
Also check out IP.com and BountyQuest
so I imagine well be seeing something here about this soon!
I'm tempted to immediately blame the companies for doing this, but I guess they are just trying to work within the system to make money. It's the system that sucks. Still I'm gonna hold off buying that antivirus software for a while now.
Microsoft really has the best interests of everyone at heart. Never ever ever ever would anyone at Microsoft want to develop proprietory software to stop the free flow of ideas and/or stop the freedom to communicate between all people from all ethinic and financial backgrounds and across any platform. Of course we at microsoft want Windows to do well but we will not leverage our market share to drive others out of business, nor develop new projects to do so. Our business is committed to ethics, sharing and the betterment of mankind and all it's projects. We are not at all interested in market share and profits. We just want to make everyone happy. Our attempts to control the web with initatives such as .NET and certification are only our altruistic efforts to protect the young and the innocent on the world wide web. Microsoft loves you. =)
ooooh. Can you say hyperbole. The ultimate edge! Does this mean we have to drink Pepsi Max when we go curling up to The Ultimate Edge of the Internet (TM). Sounds like hype HYPE HYPE to me. I consider myself, the ultimate edge of the internet =) You can be an ultimate edge to if you like.
I'd like to see the wetware trump the hardware/software and as someone else mentioned there is human creativity, but there is only a finite space for creativity in a game of chess. And if you can compute every possible move you must be computing the creative moves along with the not so creative ones. It's not like you can find a whole new way to move the pieces or something.
What I'm wondering is has the trip to space, perhaps allowed cosmic rays to mutate the program so that it now plays better than ever before. Return of the mutant space chess program =)
a) The sharks can surface once every two days.
b) When they surface they are tracked.
c) Sharks live around Port Lincoln, whose waters are the natural home of the great white.
Hmm, I guess this means there will be no more swimming around Port Lincoln then! Doesn't this make the whole project a bit daft?
Us humans, we take away all the predators food, stuff up the areas where they live and then get a bit tetsy when they start eating us.
How about putting fake humans with electric shock devices into the water all around the area. Soon the sharks will assosicate humans with electric shocks and start looking elsewhere for lunch!
More to the point start swimming in Port Lincoln with an anti shark device.
What really bites is that the whole system just ignores things like this. One decent guy goes, whoa this is wrong, I'll tell the people in charge, I'm sure they'll do something about it. Haha life ain't like that. The guys in charge probably put him up for it. Do you have to take a ethical zombie test to make it into management these days? I've seen many people take genuine grievences up the corporate ladder, only to get thrown off and swept under the carpet. But one day, one day (and it looks like it's happening now for these guys) the genuine grievence comes back and bites the whole corporation on the a%*e. =)
What sort of an article is this? Doing lots of things at once is more difficult than doing one thing at a time! Well I'm really pleased that the academics have spent loads of time and money reaching this obvious conclusion. I mean is this really news? Ask anyone who is too busy at work how much they are getting done. I used to work on a help desk and we'd get constant calls, meaning that the projects we really wanted to do kept getting put on hold. It takes a while to rememeber how far you got last time you looked at the problem. I've got a little research project going, reading crap articles about obvious conclusions wastes times. I'm currently applying for funding =) Multitasking is one of those words that didn't exist until eight years ago or so. Kinda like my personal bugbear, "Lets take this off line OK"