Sometimes, the object you want to protect only needs to be broken once to get everywhere -- i.e. mp3 trading on the internet. However, in the cases where this isn't true, you don't need to make this impossible. Just hard. You can photocopy a book page-by-page -- there's no DRM tech there. But it's hard, and so books worked. There's no reason to expect that you can't curb non-internet CD ripping this way; if they make it hard enough for the average Joe to rip a CD, schoolyard piracy mostly vanishes. That's not an unsolvable problem like p2p seems to be.
So I hadn't heard the two-thirds figure. That sounds kinda crazy.
What if we want to copy Linux distributions to our friends? Huh, what about that?
Wait, or was that the Bittorrent excuse? I'm getting them mixed up now. I can't believe they're stepping all over our rights to do anything we want, anywhere, with anything. For some reason, this is totally unreasonable!
How is terrorist copyright violation different from any other kind of copyright violation? Because they're possibly using it for funding?
From TFA: "Hezbollah depends on a wide variety of criminal enterprises, ranging from smuggling to fraud to drug trade to diamond trade in regions across the world, including North America, South America and the Middle East, to raise money."
Simple: If it's copyright holders worried about this, they've got bigger and far, far easier fish to fry (i.e. college students). If it's antiterror people worried about this, then they'll do their cutting-off-terror-funding thing, but it won't have anything to do with US IP laws. ANYTHING AT ALL.
So it's pretty clear that any new copyright enforcement laws that invoke terrorism are a blatant sham and an intellectual insult.
And this is ME saying this; I'm undecided in the whole MPAA/RIAA/copyright debate. I think they've got a right to defend their way of making money and it's not clear to me what the future holds. And I don't think they're necessarially wrong in suing the aforementioned grannies and college students.
But with this -- next person to use "terrorism" in a sentence arguing for stricter US IP laws needs a good slap in the face.
Following a different routine from his normal survey, he stumbled across the plants - about 20 in all - in full bloom
We must hope that these 20 are the only ones. I hope that they'll move quickly enough to wipe out this terrible scourge once and for all.
"When I took people out to see it, they just walked right by it," Park said. "They couldn't grok that the thing could be so small and dainty."
We never see these horrors coming because deep down, we're just too good to imagine these things growing in our own backyards. We've been blind for too long.
"It was very exciting, and I've spent a few weeks being stunned over this thing," he said. "But I'll be glad when it's over."
We all will, Michael, we all will. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
"At this point, it is really tenuous. Here, it's still hanging on by its fingernails, and the publicity alone could be enough to wipe it out again."
I'm not sure why at this point you want to bother reading the two things out loud to them for comparison . . . just have a tool that says "do they match? yes. SITE MATCHES."
Yeah, and they can also use current security things, SSL certificates and whatnot. And this whole hash verification thing, they can have a separate tool to just do a comparison -- as long as the tool is clean, it works fine.
And most screen readers do a bad job with symbols and stuff, but people who use the screen readers a lot just start to understand that COLONCLOSEPAREN means smiley. I mean, that one specifically some readers handle, but that kind of thing in general -- the person gets pretty used to interpreting the reader.
There are people who are blind what do they do ? Stare at the screen hoping there eye sight comes back?
Not a good over all solution, you need a seperate medium/channel to display such pictures.
Don't be silly. The not-too-large group of blind heavy computer users (a group including two of my friends) has to develop seperate tools for this stuff, such as screen readers (if you want Linux tools, there are plenty) and the like. "You need a seperate medium/channel to display such pictures" . . . sounds kind of silly. A non-visual channel for displaying pictures? These pictures are useful only because they make use of the human visual processing center. Blind people will verify certificates with separate software tools piled on top of this. No more convenient than the current system for them, unfortuantely, but they're used to working around this kind of thing.
Summary: The visual system is only useful because it's easy for people with sight to verify. Blind people will use separate tools, as they always have. Your objections don't seem to make that much sense.
Data mining and all that stuff are fascinating topic but that's nothing to do with the interaction that they, as humans, have with the computer when trying to find the stuff. I'm not talking about how the system is implemented under the visible layer.
The inevitable situation is that we will have unlimited space -- that is, more than we can fill. So what happens when we can quite easily put every piece of digital media we've ever even thought about owning -- all the movies, all the games -- on a single disk, without ever having to delete anything?
I really don't know -- it's an interesting question, both similar and dependent on the question of what happens when we have bandwidth abundance. I don't know the answer. What do you think?
One thing that I think is likely is that we will stop trying to organize our data with a tree metaphor and move more toward a search-based system, like how iTunes organizes music. It seems a likely possibility.
LUKE: But I HAVE no sister. OBI-WAN: Hmm. To protect you both from the Emperor, you were hidden from your father when you were born. The Emperor knew, as I did, if Anakin were to have any offspring, they would be a threat to him. That is the reason why your sister remains safely anonymous. LUKE: Leia! Leia's my sister. OBI-WAN: Your insight serves you well. Bury your feelings deep down, Luke.
There's still the quiet implication there that the Emperor didn't know that Anakin had any offspring. Maybe he didn't. I think the GP's quote may be from the RotJ novelization; when I was little I read it a few times and I think I recall the phrase "my brother Owen" (also inconsistent). But I can believe that at the time they hadn't decided that Anakin should his wife was pregnant. It's not that hard to accept that Lucas didn't have it all figured out at the time, and you can't have everything perfectly matched by everything anyone says in the 1980 movies. Whatever.
So why do you have the -1 brand? You got a story to tell?
It seemed fairly obvious to me, when they first mentioned the chosen one and the prophecy in Episode I, that the prophecy actually referred to Luke.
Hearing Yoda say the bit about "perhaps prophecy the we misread did" (or whatever) confirmed this -- one of those things where had it been said in real life, it wouldn't be proof of anything, but that a writer included it in the movie absolutely tells you something.
Yeah, I mean, I am kinda blind to some of that. But on the other hand, I really never see spyware or malware like I do with IE. I can't remember the last infection I had, and I don't run the cleaners that often. I guess I've just been lucky -- I can't say that I'm not at great risk. But the Maxthon guys have done a fair bit of work; I don't really know if the holes lie in the rendering engine or elsewhere. I know Maxthon will not do things like launching dangerous ActiveX controls. But no, I don't really know about this stuff. You might be right.
Y is an activity that saves lives, such as buying vaccines. X is a frivolous activity such as buying a DVD. People don't live their lives choosing Y instead of X every time because you end up with no life of your own.
And you only whine about it when X happens to be something that reminds you of the need for Y, or when Y suddenly occurs to you and you want to make a point. But every single time you buy a goddamn DVD, you're choosing X over Y. That's how life works. Every cheap novel you buy is a child who dies because you didn't spend the time to go out, find her, and help her. Come to terms with this before you start tossing it out as a random argument against a given X.
And why does Bittorrent even remind you about the need for charities? I mean, you've got a strange set of connectiosn going. I mean, pointless artwork in Central Park, sure, but why on Earth do you jump on a random technical project like this?
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Oh, right. Some people. So there's a 50/50 chance you're flamebaiting or that you've just got a weird set of things that trigger thoughts of Y for you. Either way, spend some time thinking about these issues; it'll do you good. Maybe think about the kids dying as you sit there. Think about that each time you speak with righteous indignation about what people should be spending their time on. I'm not even telling you not to say what you're saying. I'm just saying give it some thought.
$10 can buy vaccines to absolutely save someone's life. With what rationale are you buying a DVD with that $10? I know why I do it. Do you?
Yeah. It gives IE all the features you actually want. Sure, it uses the IE rendering engine, but it takes over all the stuff that sucks, and gives the result of a better browsing experience than I or my friends had with Firefox, for what we wanted to do. I know some dev people need FF's webdev extensebility, but for straight-up browsing, Maxthon is the best way for us to do it.
Don't forget Maxthon. It's not cross-platform, but it's much better on the easy-to-use and comes-full-featured counts. It's the one I use, and I've tried Firefox for long periods of time with extensive extensioning.
(I hear Opera doesn't block ads, so I'm not really interested. Is this correct?)
This is bad! The only thing that was going to save this movie was the low, low expectations!
On the other hand, opinions of the Star Wars movies is so far from being grounded in reality -- there's just too much cultural weirdness -- that maybe people will be particularly swayed by the reviews. Prevailing wisdom and all. I mean, I walked out of Matrix Revolutions on opening night totally entertained and happy, and yet a month later, watching it again, I agreed that it was horrible.
I don't know much about hardware, but I have an HP Vectra VL (according to the label here on the case) that I picked up from the MIT Flea Market. It's a Pentium 1 with all sorts of built-in ports, and I use it as a miscellaneous linux machine.
It is absolutely silent. I had it running, sitting a shelf right between my desk and my bed, happily waiting for someone to connect, for over fifty days. I lived, ate, and slept with the computer a foot from me. And I never realized it was turned on.
The blinky light was pointed at the wall, and if it has a fan (there's an exhaust grill on the power supply) it's silent. If you put your ear right up against it you can hear a very faint hum.
It cost me $50 and has been a good little server. Good form factor, too. Anyhow, it's the only silent computer I've run across. And in forty days of sitting next to my bed it didn't even feel warm to the touch, so I guess heat isn't a problem. It still works fine.
Bad news for Firefox, obviously, because it seems to be popular only because IE sucks so badly in comparison. My girlfriend and I tried out Firefox for a few months for average-style-but-heavy browsing, getting it decked out exactly as I wanted it, and then we switched back to Maxthon because the Firefox UI/tab-switching was so sluggish, Gecko hurt our eyes, it rendered some pages pretty strangely, the ad blocker was hard to access, and on her computer, it drew far more processor/memory resources than Maxthon does.
Whether these are good issues or not -- I'm not an expert on Firefox -- the point is that with IE getting tabs, one of the major reasons I push FF and Maxthon with people is gone. Now it's just mouse gestures and security (in that order, heh). And if IE gets mouse gestures, though I personally demand a browser with more functionality, I will no longer tell people they should check out Firefox for a better browsing experience.
The arms are like cranes. (I'm not saying I'm the first person to think of it -- I was specifically asking for links or information on the topic).
The arms would be long and narrow, rods that it can plant some distance away to lift the body up and then swing it forward or backward or even just tip over. Most things I imagine it getting stuck in -- for example, things that I constantly see off-road RC cars get stuck in -- seem like they could be escaped by something like this. I'm wondering whether it's feasable and has been done.
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Because it makes it hard enough.
Sometimes, the object you want to protect only needs to be broken once to get everywhere -- i.e. mp3 trading on the internet. However, in the cases where this isn't true, you don't need to make this impossible. Just hard. You can photocopy a book page-by-page -- there's no DRM tech there. But it's hard, and so books worked. There's no reason to expect that you can't curb non-internet CD ripping this way; if they make it hard enough for the average Joe to rip a CD, schoolyard piracy mostly vanishes. That's not an unsolvable problem like p2p seems to be.
So I hadn't heard the two-thirds figure. That sounds kinda crazy.
What if we want to copy Linux distributions to our friends? Huh, what about that?
Wait, or was that the Bittorrent excuse? I'm getting them mixed up now. I can't believe they're stepping all over our rights to do anything we want, anywhere, with anything.
For some reason, this is totally unreasonable!
How is terrorist copyright violation different from any other kind of copyright violation? Because they're possibly using it for funding?
From TFA: "Hezbollah depends on a wide variety of criminal enterprises, ranging from smuggling to fraud to drug trade to diamond trade in regions across the world, including North America, South America and the Middle East, to raise money."
Simple: If it's copyright holders worried about this, they've got bigger and far, far easier fish to fry (i.e. college students). If it's antiterror people worried about this, then they'll do their cutting-off-terror-funding thing, but it won't have anything to do with US IP laws. ANYTHING AT ALL.
So it's pretty clear that any new copyright enforcement laws that invoke terrorism are a blatant sham and an intellectual insult.
And this is ME saying this; I'm undecided in the whole MPAA/RIAA/copyright debate. I think they've got a right to defend their way of making money and it's not clear to me what the future holds. And I don't think they're necessarially wrong in suing the aforementioned grannies and college students.
But with this -- next person to use "terrorism" in a sentence arguing for stricter US IP laws needs a good slap in the face.
Not for me, still.
Oh great, Linux weather. I was quite pleased with Microsoft's pleasant Blue Sky of Death.
If you hit up-down-up-left-A-B-B-A when you see the Lucasfilm logo, you see an extra splashscreen.
And also it changes directors to Spielberg.
I'm not sure why at this point you want to bother reading the two things out loud to them for comparison . . . just have a tool that says "do they match? yes. SITE MATCHES."
Yeah, and they can also use current security things, SSL certificates and whatnot. And this whole hash verification thing, they can have a separate tool to just do a comparison -- as long as the tool is clean, it works fine.
And most screen readers do a bad job with symbols and stuff, but people who use the screen readers a lot just start to understand that COLONCLOSEPAREN means smiley. I mean, that one specifically some readers handle, but that kind of thing in general -- the person gets pretty used to interpreting the reader.
Summary: The visual system is only useful because it's easy for people with sight to verify. Blind people will use separate tools, as they always have. Your objections don't seem to make that much sense.
Data mining and all that stuff are fascinating topic but that's nothing to do with the interaction that they, as humans, have with the computer when trying to find the stuff. I'm not talking about how the system is implemented under the visible layer.
The inevitable situation is that we will have unlimited space -- that is, more than we can fill. So what happens when we can quite easily put every piece of digital media we've ever even thought about owning -- all the movies, all the games -- on a single disk, without ever having to delete anything?
I really don't know -- it's an interesting question, both similar and dependent on the question of what happens when we have bandwidth abundance. I don't know the answer. What do you think?
One thing that I think is likely is that we will stop trying to organize our data with a tree metaphor and move more toward a search-based system, like how iTunes organizes music. It seems a likely possibility.
LUKE: But I HAVE no sister.
OBI-WAN: Hmm. To protect you both from the Emperor, you were hidden from your father when you were born. The Emperor knew, as I did, if Anakin were to have any offspring, they would be a threat to him. That is the reason why your sister remains safely anonymous.
LUKE: Leia! Leia's my sister.
OBI-WAN: Your insight serves you well. Bury your feelings deep down, Luke.
There's still the quiet implication there that the Emperor didn't know that Anakin had any offspring. Maybe he didn't. I think the GP's quote may be from the RotJ novelization; when I was little I read it a few times and I think I recall the phrase "my brother Owen" (also inconsistent). But I can believe that at the time they hadn't decided that Anakin should his wife was pregnant. It's not that hard to accept that Lucas didn't have it all figured out at the time, and you can't have everything perfectly matched by everything anyone says in the 1980 movies. Whatever.
So why do you have the -1 brand? You got a story to tell?
It seemed fairly obvious to me, when they first mentioned the chosen one and the prophecy in Episode I, that the prophecy actually referred to Luke.
Hearing Yoda say the bit about "perhaps prophecy the we misread did" (or whatever) confirmed this -- one of those things where had it been said in real life, it wouldn't be proof of anything, but that a writer included it in the movie absolutely tells you something.
Yeah, I mean, I am kinda blind to some of that. But on the other hand, I really never see spyware or malware like I do with IE. I can't remember the last infection I had, and I don't run the cleaners that often. I guess I've just been lucky -- I can't say that I'm not at great risk. But the Maxthon guys have done a fair bit of work; I don't really know if the holes lie in the rendering engine or elsewhere. I know Maxthon will not do things like launching dangerous ActiveX controls. But no, I don't really know about this stuff. You might be right.
This drives me fucking nuts.
Y is an activity that saves lives, such as buying vaccines. X is a frivolous activity such as buying a DVD. People don't live their lives choosing Y instead of X every time because you end up with no life of your own.
And you only whine about it when X happens to be something that reminds you of the need for Y, or when Y suddenly occurs to you and you want to make a point. But every single time you buy a goddamn DVD, you're choosing X over Y. That's how life works. Every cheap novel you buy is a child who dies because you didn't spend the time to go out, find her, and help her. Come to terms with this before you start tossing it out as a random argument against a given X.
And why does Bittorrent even remind you about the need for charities? I mean, you've got a strange set of connectiosn going. I mean, pointless artwork in Central Park, sure, but why on Earth do you jump on a random technical project like this?
(Score:-1, Flamebait)
Oh, right. Some people. So there's a 50/50 chance you're flamebaiting or that you've just got a weird set of things that trigger thoughts of Y for you. Either way, spend some time thinking about these issues; it'll do you good. Maybe think about the kids dying as you sit there. Think about that each time you speak with righteous indignation about what people should be spending their time on. I'm not even telling you not to say what you're saying. I'm just saying give it some thought.
$10 can buy vaccines to absolutely save someone's life. With what rationale are you buying a DVD with that $10? I know why I do it. Do you?
Yeah. It gives IE all the features you actually want. Sure, it uses the IE rendering engine, but it takes over all the stuff that sucks, and gives the result of a better browsing experience than I or my friends had with Firefox, for what we wanted to do. I know some dev people need FF's webdev extensebility, but for straight-up browsing, Maxthon is the best way for us to do it.
Don't forget Maxthon. It's not cross-platform, but it's much better on the easy-to-use and comes-full-featured counts. It's the one I use, and I've tried Firefox for long periods of time with extensive extensioning.
(I hear Opera doesn't block ads, so I'm not really interested. Is this correct?)
This is bad! The only thing that was going to save this movie was the low, low expectations!
On the other hand, opinions of the Star Wars movies is so far from being grounded in reality -- there's just too much cultural weirdness -- that maybe people will be particularly swayed by the reviews. Prevailing wisdom and all. I mean, I walked out of Matrix Revolutions on opening night totally entertained and happy, and yet a month later, watching it again, I agreed that it was horrible.
I don't know much about hardware, but I have an HP Vectra VL (according to the label here on the case) that I picked up from the MIT Flea Market. It's a Pentium 1 with all sorts of built-in ports, and I use it as a miscellaneous linux machine.
It is absolutely silent. I had it running, sitting a shelf right between my desk and my bed, happily waiting for someone to connect, for over fifty days. I lived, ate, and slept with the computer a foot from me. And I never realized it was turned on.
The blinky light was pointed at the wall, and if it has a fan (there's an exhaust grill on the power supply) it's silent. If you put your ear right up against it you can hear a very faint hum.
It cost me $50 and has been a good little server. Good form factor, too. Anyhow, it's the only silent computer I've run across. And in forty days of sitting next to my bed it didn't even feel warm to the touch, so I guess heat isn't a problem. It still works fine.
Bad news for Firefox, obviously, because it seems to be popular only because IE sucks so badly in comparison. My girlfriend and I tried out Firefox for a few months for average-style-but-heavy browsing, getting it decked out exactly as I wanted it, and then we switched back to Maxthon because the Firefox UI/tab-switching was so sluggish, Gecko hurt our eyes, it rendered some pages pretty strangely, the ad blocker was hard to access, and on her computer, it drew far more processor/memory resources than Maxthon does.
Whether these are good issues or not -- I'm not an expert on Firefox -- the point is that with IE getting tabs, one of the major reasons I push FF and Maxthon with people is gone. Now it's just mouse gestures and security (in that order, heh). And if IE gets mouse gestures, though I personally demand a browser with more functionality, I will no longer tell people they should check out Firefox for a better browsing experience.
Too bad. It was really gaining momentum.
I, uhh, I saw it on some site of math jokes. It's the only funny joke equation I know (screw the log cabin thing).
Tea cozy!
The arms are like cranes. (I'm not saying I'm the first person to think of it -- I was specifically asking for links or information on the topic).
The arms would be long and narrow, rods that it can plant some distance away to lift the body up and then swing it forward or backward or even just tip over. Most things I imagine it getting stuck in -- for example, things that I constantly see off-road RC cars get stuck in -- seem like they could be escaped by something like this. I'm wondering whether it's feasable and has been done.
I don't, wait, what? Why is this flamebait? I am totally baffled.