What the fuck does this have to do with the parent comment? Whether or not you enjoy listening to Howard Stern should have no impact on whether his show should be censored or not. We're talking about freedom of speech, not the freedom to prevent others from enjoying something that you happen to dislike.
Of course, if by "over there", you mean australia, china, or europe, then you all have your own little gov't censorship issues to deal with, don't you?
No one is going to make a 60 million dollar hollywood movie with absolutely no guarantee of recouping that investment. But until then, the "free exchange" bit is what makes their factories boom and students learn with no $200 per schoolbook fees. Uh huh, cause downloading a chinese-language version of the matrix is REALLY closely related to industry and education! Right. There is no Chinese movies, no books and no software. As soon as you crawl from under that rock, take a trip to Bejing and you are in for a shock of your life. Careful now, assumptions will make an ass out of you and make me laugh really hard. I'm fully aware of China's rich culture in fact I have several friends there. I'm simply saying that media which takes huge amounts of cash to produce, such as mega-pop records, or hollywood-style films, or an entire privately-owned OS, aren't likely to get made by private industry there. Why is windows so popular in China? I mean, if there is so much incentive to create software, why aren't they all using a native Chinese OS? (And no, that half-ass in-development owned-by-the-totalitarian-government clone of windows doesn't count) Because they are all well aware that no one in china would pay for it. It's cheaper and easier to let western firms do the gruntwork and then just pirate it. China's only real movie industry happens to be based in Hong Kong, which is also China's only truly capitalist region. US
That has more to do with the fact that western (and westernized) nations create a lot of very desirable media and software. American movie piracy is an enormous industry in countries without IP laws. The pirates burn CDs at massive rates and make large profits without paying a dime to the creator. The same is true of software- Windows is the most popular OS in China by far, and there is no way they are paying $100 per PC to MS for that. Since there is little copyright protection in China, there is little incentive to innovate and create.
Shouldn't this be presented to the UN? I mean, why should only America share their findings? Shouldn't all nations, no matter how small their medical research budget, share whatever they can?
The people who ordered the machines put into service are responsible. If, by their carelessness in handing over this task to a machine, they cause someone to be accused of something false, they are just as responsible as if they had made the accusation themselves. If I train my dog to kill intruders, and it escapes and kills a perfectly innocent person, I would likely still be charged with their death. The same logic applies here.
Mistakes? Fine. It's still fucked up to send threatening letters to people and companies who have done no wrong. The fact that their poorly-designed automated pirate-hunter software made the mistake doesn't alleviate them of responsibility.
"Paul Thorrott reviews Windows Media Player 10 and notes that unlike Apple's iTunes Music Store, which offers music that is only compatible with Apple's iPod portable player, WMP 10 will work with songs from virtually any other online music store."
Anyone else find this comparison a little sleazy and misleading? They are comparing WMP's ability to play lots of different formats (which the Itunes player also does) with the type of music being offered by Apple's music store. Apples and oranges, anyone?
If they want to point out the one glaring advantage MS' product has over Apple's, they should be pointing out that Apple sells music only in their proprietary format and does not license that format to other players, while MS also sells music in WMA but does, in fact, license the WMA technology to third parties.
I think the submitter was at worst, deliberately misleading, at best, confused.
True, but we can get a lot more energy from an equal amount of uranium. Even assuming uranium mining is just as dangerous as coal mining, the fact that we can obtain more power means we'll need to mine less, which means less danger.
Part of the inherent problem would be that games are more than just processes and services, like a web server. No one expects their web server to do unexpected yet entertaining things (unless they're using IIS). But games need to be able to do this. Secrecy, and therefore closed development, are a necessity, at least for story driven games like the recently released doom3 and the upcoming halflife 2.
For games in which there is no need for surprise, like most online action FPS, puzzle games, and games with randomized elements, open source could be a boon. But what fun would a story driven game be if the script was fully available before release?
Yes, I am fully aware that HL2's script was already leaked, but that's beside the point.
so hire your own programmers to write that delicate portion of code, then release the known-secure code to the community. You get all the advantages of peer review with only a portion of the costs of writing all the software yourself. The point is that no one is going to sabotage the gov via Samba.
O'Dowd thinks that unfriendly countries will attempt to hide intentional bugs that the Open Source community will have no chance of finding." mere speculation. and certainly no more valid than a PROVEN case of bugs being left inside closed code which aren't found until they're exploited.
given the point of sniping (avoiding the necessity of getting close to someone before shooting them), that 20 meter limitation is going to be a problem.
Consider how you'd feel if France or even Egypt overran your country and was occupying it - would you not feel anger toward your "captors?" Would you not do everything you could to cause them to run away?
If, 30 years ago, Saddam Hussein had taken over our country by force, brutally slaughtering the previous regime, I think I'd have a lot less concern about that government being removed.
Musicians, Footballers, Actors, etc. They all make massive amounts of money for things which contribute almost nothing to the evolution and development of mankind. Now look at people like nurses, firemen, teachers, etc. We (at least here in britain) often hear about them going on stike because of low pay, yet they contribute a great deal to mankind.
This is not at all true. For one thing, the ones that make massive amounts of money are the top tiny percentile of their profession. For every actor making 10 million a year, there are thousands who work day jobs washing dishes just to make ends meet. This is also true of sports and music.
You do make a good point about teachers being paid too little, however... I'm not sure how GB is but if its like the states, public school teachers are paid less than the average construction worker.
Obtuse much? It is intellectually dishonest to call it a "Linux box", with the full understanding that people will assume that to mean that it was actually Linux that was hacked, if in fact Linux was not at fault.
I mean, if you're going to label the box by some arbitrary name that has no relevance to the topic at hand (i.e. that a component of it was hacked) why not call it a ASUS box, if ASUS made the motherboard?
Wouldn't it make more sense, in the context of a discussion about the box being hacked, to refer to it by the name of the service that was exploited? Especially if in fact it was a third party service that was exploited?
His point, obviously, was that the exploit used may have had NOTHING to do with linux at all. Calling it simply a Linux box implies that Linux was hacked, when it is far more likely that it was a third-party app they were running was exploited. This is as opposed to many well-known MS exploits, which are hard-coded into OS-integrated services which in some cases cannot be turned off or removed and can only be patched by MS, when they get around to it.
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What the fuck does this have to do with the parent comment? Whether or not you enjoy listening to Howard Stern should have no impact on whether his show should be censored or not.
We're talking about freedom of speech, not the freedom to prevent others from enjoying something that you happen to dislike.
Of course, if by "over there", you mean australia, china, or europe, then you all have your own little gov't censorship issues to deal with, don't you?
Shit, I own a house? why the hell am I renting this dump, then?
Oh ya, I got shaun of the dead in divx beeeeeotch!
It seems like it should be illegal to put a notice like that in a letter that is obviously inaccurate. Is there any legal recourse to stop this shit?
hahah. if it is truly your stance that *all* IP law is a fraud, then we are not going to agree. have a nice day ;)
No one is going to make a 60 million dollar hollywood movie with absolutely no guarantee of recouping that investment.
But until then, the "free exchange" bit is what makes their factories boom and students learn with no $200 per schoolbook fees.
Uh huh, cause downloading a chinese-language version of the matrix is REALLY closely related to industry and education!
Right. There is no Chinese movies, no books and no software. As soon as you crawl from under that rock, take a trip to Bejing and you are in for a shock of your life.
Careful now, assumptions will make an ass out of you and make me laugh really hard. I'm fully aware of China's rich culture in fact I have several friends there. I'm simply saying that media which takes huge amounts of cash to produce, such as mega-pop records, or hollywood-style films, or an entire privately-owned OS, aren't likely to get made by private industry there.
Why is windows so popular in China? I mean, if there is so much incentive to create software, why aren't they all using a native Chinese OS? (And no, that half-ass in-development owned-by-the-totalitarian-government clone of windows doesn't count)
Because they are all well aware that no one in china would pay for it. It's cheaper and easier to let western firms do the gruntwork and then just pirate it.
China's only real movie industry happens to be based in Hong Kong, which is also China's only truly capitalist region.
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That has more to do with the fact that western (and westernized) nations create a lot of very desirable media and software.
American movie piracy is an enormous industry in countries without IP laws. The pirates burn CDs at massive rates and make large profits without paying a dime to the creator.
The same is true of software- Windows is the most popular OS in China by far, and there is no way they are paying $100 per PC to MS for that.
Since there is little copyright protection in China, there is little incentive to innovate and create.
Shouldn't this be presented to the UN?
I mean, why should only America share their findings? Shouldn't all nations, no matter how small their medical research budget, share whatever they can?
You're a fucking moron. Do us all a favor and go drink some bleach or something.
The people who ordered the machines put into service are responsible. If, by their carelessness in handing over this task to a machine, they cause someone to be accused of something false, they are just as responsible as if they had made the accusation themselves.
If I train my dog to kill intruders, and it escapes and kills a perfectly innocent person, I would likely still be charged with their death. The same logic applies here.
Mistakes? Fine. It's still fucked up to send threatening letters to people and companies who have done no wrong.
The fact that their poorly-designed automated pirate-hunter software made the mistake doesn't alleviate them of responsibility.
"Paul Thorrott reviews Windows Media Player 10 and notes that unlike Apple's iTunes Music Store, which offers music that is only compatible with Apple's iPod portable player, WMP 10 will work with songs from virtually any other online music store."
Anyone else find this comparison a little sleazy and misleading? They are comparing WMP's ability to play lots of different formats (which the Itunes player also does) with the type of music being offered by Apple's music store.
Apples and oranges, anyone?
If they want to point out the one glaring advantage MS' product has over Apple's, they should be pointing out that Apple sells music only in their proprietary format and does not license that format to other players, while MS also sells music in WMA but does, in fact, license the WMA technology to third parties.
I think the submitter was at worst, deliberately misleading, at best, confused.
True, but we can get a lot more energy from an equal amount of uranium. Even assuming uranium mining is just as dangerous as coal mining, the fact that we can obtain more power means we'll need to mine less, which means less danger.
Part of the inherent problem would be that games are more than just processes and services, like a web server.
No one expects their web server to do unexpected yet entertaining things (unless they're using IIS). But games need to be able to do this. Secrecy, and therefore closed development, are a necessity, at least for story driven games like the recently released doom3 and the upcoming halflife 2.
For games in which there is no need for surprise, like most online action FPS, puzzle games, and games with randomized elements, open source could be a boon. But what fun would a story driven game be if the script was fully available before release?
Yes, I am fully aware that HL2's script was already leaked, but that's beside the point.
Well gee, your username is a typo of a (relatively) famous person's. Perhaps you should have it stripped from you, due to trademark infringement?
So, I take it your third-party vote this election will be going to Jack Valenti?
I mean, its not like the math libraries to calculate missile guidance and trajectory is going to be much use without the actual hardware.
And how exactly will terrorists having clean, well-written code, harm the government releasing said code?
so hire your own programmers to write that delicate portion of code, then release the known-secure code to the community.
You get all the advantages of peer review with only a portion of the costs of writing all the software yourself.
The point is that no one is going to sabotage the gov via Samba.
O'Dowd thinks that unfriendly countries will attempt to hide intentional bugs that the Open Source community will have no chance of finding."
mere speculation. and certainly no more valid than a PROVEN case of bugs being left inside closed code which aren't found until they're exploited.
given the point of sniping (avoiding the necessity of getting close to someone before shooting them), that 20 meter limitation is going to be a problem.
You watch this show to see two 35 year olds make out? You really need to get out more.
Consider how you'd feel if France or even Egypt overran your country and was occupying it - would you not feel anger toward your "captors?" Would you not do everything you could to cause them to run away?
If, 30 years ago, Saddam Hussein had taken over our country by force, brutally slaughtering the previous regime, I think I'd have a lot less concern about that government being removed.
it's not like he was legitimate and sovereign.
Musicians, Footballers, Actors, etc. They all make massive amounts of money for things which contribute almost nothing to the evolution and development of mankind. Now look at people like nurses, firemen, teachers, etc. We (at least here in britain) often hear about them going on stike because of low pay, yet they contribute a great deal to mankind.
This is not at all true. For one thing, the ones that make massive amounts of money are the top tiny percentile of their profession. For every actor making 10 million a year, there are thousands who work day jobs washing dishes just to make ends meet. This is also true of sports and music.
You do make a good point about teachers being paid too little, however... I'm not sure how GB is but if its like the states, public school teachers are paid less than the average construction worker.
Obtuse much?
It is intellectually dishonest to call it a "Linux box", with the full understanding that people will assume that to mean that it was actually Linux that was hacked, if in fact Linux was not at fault.
I mean, if you're going to label the box by some arbitrary name that has no relevance to the topic at hand (i.e. that a component of it was hacked) why not call it a ASUS box, if ASUS made the motherboard?
Wouldn't it make more sense, in the context of a discussion about the box being hacked, to refer to it by the name of the service that was exploited? Especially if in fact it was a third party service that was exploited?
His point, obviously, was that the exploit used may have had NOTHING to do with linux at all. Calling it simply a Linux box implies that Linux was hacked, when it is far more likely that it was a third-party app they were running was exploited.
This is as opposed to many well-known MS exploits, which are hard-coded into OS-integrated services which in some cases cannot be turned off or removed and can only be patched by MS, when they get around to it.