So maybe, just maybe they start making actually *good* movies, with less marketing and just screen some substantial part of the film on TV and/or the net. There's nothing more driving to see a movie than seeing it to some point. That's how TV commericals work. People want to finish what they started. So the process is: 1. Hype the movie. 2. Screen about half of the movie on TV/the net. 3. Bring movie to theatres that evening and see how many viewers will be eager to see the end.
The world is not a safe palce. period. It's you'r responsibility as a parent to ensure your child doesn't get into trouble. So they censor movies. Does that prevent youth from seeing drugs on the street? However, if you let your children be exoposed to this material and educate them, then you might ensure they don't get into trouble. What's so wrong with a child seeing sex, drugs and obscenity in movies? The fact these things are prohibited actually lures children to try these things, and not in movies but in real life.
Better - maybe put online only the first half of the move (+ADs). Many people will watch it to see what's it all about and then will be in great suspense and urgency to actually see the whole movie. It's much better than trailers.
Wrong. The MPAA prevents R-rated movies from selling by rating them R! If there were no movie-rating bullshit then studios won't have to work so hard and remove quite innocent scenes to get a PG-13 rating. Get over it! Only parents should decide what their children see. Many parents are very liberal in this sense but the rating system limits the creativity of the movie producers to create.
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Same here in Israel, except the state's TV station brodcasts plain junk.
Moreover, those who create stuff even though they don't need the money, and would create anyway would benefit from leveraging of copyright, because they would be able to use previous work as their inspiration and base their work on previous work.
First of all, only rich students buy books. For the rest of us, there is the university library to take the books out. BTW- Why don't we have software in the library?
If they are taking a Flash course, they buy the software.
Flash Course? In college? Where do they teach this properiatary junk? Flash is not something to be taught in an academic class that same way you won't teach about PEPSI to a food engineering student.
If they are taking a design course, they buy Photoshop Why buy a PhotoShop educational license when you can use GIMP for free and with no obligations? Why lock-in to properiatary apps?
Other things like Matlab or AutoCad or Pro/E are definitly educational purchases as well.
MATLAB is actually quite useful, but you don't have to buy it to use it. Why not have the university buy some licenses and simply use it online on the univerisity's UNIX servers. That way I also save diskspace for holding the software.
Use AudioGalaxy. They have recently added an option to see a user's shared files. However, I'm not sure you can search by user sharing a specific file, but you can look at fans of specific bands.
Now this work took FOUR YEARS. So when it comes time to release it, we should just give it away and expect and there will 'magically' be money to pay the rent and food for all these people? Cmon already. Should they survive on happy thoughts and good wishes?
As you said, it's a high-end specialized product. You can do what Stephen King did with his online book. Require the payment in advance, and when you gathered, say, $20 Million release the software as open-source. It's a win-win situation.
Geez, why don't game companies release the source to the old games too?
In many cases, the source is either lost or toally unavailable. For example, many publishers buy only the binary of the game plus redistrubtion rights without the source altogether. Another problem is due to scarcity of the source it tends to get lost, either by system crashes or by disgruntled (ex-)employees.
Sadly, closed-source leads to lots of code that took millions of man-years to make to be lost forever.
My suggestion is to make copyrights on computer software exipre 10 years after publication and require the authors to register the copyright by transferring the entire source to the library of congress for archival storgae.
Maybe people using your forward service have got spammed and reported the abuse to RR. They checked the last hop in the forward path before them and found out it's in your farm. As happens, they probably saw your address for a lot of spam (and for a lot of legitimate email, but they couldn't know that), and decided you are a spammer. Try contacting RR and asking them on what grounds you are blocked. Also, check (as suggested earlier) if you are listed as an open relay in any of the spam lists.
A simple improvement will be to send SIGHUP to the webserver to make it reload the config without restarting. This still can be used for DoS, but less efficiently.
A better way to do it is by writing (using?) an Apache module that does the logging in memory with no costy reloads or restarts.
However, this still does not prevent the proxy and dialup problems illustrated above. Also, you won't catch spambots that don't use robots.txt to find addresses.
Another improvemnt will be to deny addresses the moment they ask for robots.txt while identified as "Mozilla" user-agent, and to detect clients that do a websuck without requesting robots.txt first and deny them as well. You can detect a websuck by posting a "hidden" link in a place normal users won't see and stop any IP that requests it.
The article suggests restarting Apache for every spam address detected. That could make DOSing your web server real easy. Spoof a bunch of IPs and request the honeypot dir. Watch as the webserver restarts over and over.
Also, this approach would easily block legitimate dialup users, and more problemaically - proxies. If the spambot is behind a proxy, you would block the entire user base of that proxy.
Maybe an X-Forwarded-For based approach? However, that is easily bypassed.
Still corporations and individuals fail to understand a simple rule: Whatever you can see, you can store and copy. They failed to understand that with copy-prevention mechanisms, and the fail to understand it here. No crypto will help prevent seeing something that you already saw.
And no, hardware protection still can't help. In the worst case - take a camcorder and tape your screen contents. They can't overcome that!
It's not that Mozilla's JS sucks, it's sites are using stupid browser detection mechanisms to distinguish between NS4 and M$IE, and Mozilla sometimes falls between the seats, and gets denied.
Whenever you find such a site, check bugzilla for it, and if it's not listed, report it for Tech Evangelsim.
Mozilla is Netscape. Netscape 6 is based on Mozilla code. If you are talking about Netscape 4, well there's no comparison. Netscape 4 sucks, while Mozilla (latest versions) are great. I just hope they fix the annoying cache and BiDi issues before the release.
And if the resources are used for "security upgrades" they can even do it based on the EULA.
Suppose M$ sells CPU time to companies (or using it to run neuclear simulations to take over the world), legitimizing it by saying they're protecting the financial security of Bill Gates. Well, is that a security upgrade or what?
The page refers to what software submitions are allowed to USE.
Google has no problem with you leaving the source closed and granting the license only to them.
How difficult would it be to offer custom-made books? This is the only way I can think of to get really slim books that cover what I need.
Well, there is BookNet, a prototype point-of-sale book printing and binding solution, that actually creates the book on demand based on network transmitted raw data.
Chapter selection is an interesting feature to add to this. Just like making your own Music CD, but with books.
If you read the rules, you will see that you don't even have to assign copyrights to Google. You only have to give them a license. This means you can GPL your code or even BSD it. Sounds fair to me.
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So maybe, just maybe they start making actually *good* movies, with less marketing and just screen some substantial part of the film on TV and/or the net.
There's nothing more driving to see a movie than seeing it to some point. That's how TV commericals work. People want to finish what they started.
So the process is: 1. Hype the movie. 2. Screen about half of the movie on TV/the net. 3. Bring movie to theatres that evening and see how many viewers will be eager to see the end.
The world is not a safe palce. period. It's you'r responsibility as a parent to ensure your child doesn't get into trouble.
So they censor movies. Does that prevent youth from seeing drugs on the street? However, if you let your children be exoposed to this material and educate them, then you might ensure they don't get into trouble.
What's so wrong with a child seeing sex, drugs and obscenity in movies? The fact these things are prohibited actually lures children to try these things, and not in movies but in real life.
Better - maybe put online only the first half of the move (+ADs). Many people will watch it to see what's it all about and then will be in great suspense and urgency to actually see the whole movie. It's much better than trailers.
it's very simple, R-rated pictures do not sell.
Wrong. The MPAA prevents R-rated movies from selling by rating them R! If there were no movie-rating bullshit then studios won't have to work so hard and remove quite innocent scenes to get a PG-13 rating. Get over it! Only parents should decide what their children see. Many parents are very liberal in this sense but the rating system limits the creativity of the movie producers to create.
Same here in Israel, except the state's TV station brodcasts plain junk.
Moreover, those who create stuff even though they don't need the money, and would create anyway would benefit from leveraging of copyright, because they would be able to use previous work as their inspiration and base their work on previous work.
What?!
First of all, only rich students buy books. For the rest of us, there is the university library to take the books out. BTW- Why don't we have software in the library?
If they are taking a Flash course, they buy the software.
Flash Course? In college? Where do they teach this properiatary junk? Flash is not something to be taught in an academic class that same way you won't teach about PEPSI to a food engineering student.
If they are taking a design course, they buy Photoshop
Why buy a PhotoShop educational license when you can use GIMP for free and with no obligations? Why lock-in to properiatary apps?
Other things like Matlab or AutoCad or Pro/E are definitly educational purchases as well.
MATLAB is actually quite useful, but you don't have to buy it to use it. Why not have the university buy some licenses and simply use it online on the univerisity's UNIX servers. That way I also save diskspace for holding the software.
it's not like any company is going to willingly put a security hole in its software
Unless ofcourse, it's Micro$oft... NSA key anyone? AutoUpdate? There are more...
Use AudioGalaxy. They have recently added an option to see a user's shared files. However, I'm not sure you can search by user sharing a specific file, but you can look at fans of specific bands.
Hmm.. I guess this is true only if you are female.
Now this work took FOUR YEARS. So when it comes time to release it, we should just give it away and expect and there will 'magically' be money to pay the rent and food for all these people? Cmon already. Should they survive on happy thoughts and good wishes?
As you said, it's a high-end specialized product. You can do what Stephen King did with his online book. Require the payment in advance, and when you gathered, say, $20 Million release the software as open-source. It's a win-win situation.
Geez, why don't game companies release the source to the old games too?
In many cases, the source is either lost or toally unavailable. For example, many publishers buy only the binary of the game plus redistrubtion rights without the source altogether. Another problem is due to scarcity of the source it tends to get lost, either by system crashes or by disgruntled (ex-)employees.
Sadly, closed-source leads to lots of code that took millions of man-years to make to be lost forever.
My suggestion is to make copyrights on computer software exipre 10 years after publication and require the authors to register the copyright by transferring the entire source to the library of congress for archival storgae.
My main problem with these office suites is BiDi support. I currently use LyX for writing BiDi documents...
Maybe people using your forward service have got spammed and reported the abuse to RR. They checked the last hop in the forward path before them and found out it's in your farm.
As happens, they probably saw your address for a lot of spam (and for a lot of legitimate email, but they couldn't know that), and decided you are a spammer.
Try contacting RR and asking them on what grounds you are blocked. Also, check (as suggested earlier) if you are listed as an open relay in any of the spam lists.
A simple improvement will be to send SIGHUP to the webserver to make it reload the config without restarting. This still can be used for DoS, but less efficiently.
A better way to do it is by writing (using?) an Apache module that does the logging in memory with no costy reloads or restarts.
However, this still does not prevent the proxy and dialup problems illustrated above. Also, you won't catch spambots that don't use robots.txt to find addresses.
Another improvemnt will be to deny addresses the moment they ask for robots.txt while identified as "Mozilla" user-agent, and to detect clients that do a websuck without requesting robots.txt first and deny them as well. You can detect a websuck by posting a "hidden" link in a place normal users won't see and stop any IP that requests it.
The article suggests restarting Apache for every spam address detected. That could make DOSing your web server real easy. Spoof a bunch of IPs and request the honeypot dir. Watch as the webserver restarts over and over.
Also, this approach would easily block legitimate dialup users, and more problemaically - proxies. If the spambot is behind a proxy, you would block the entire user base of that proxy.
Maybe an X-Forwarded-For based approach? However, that is easily bypassed.
Still corporations and individuals fail to understand a simple rule: Whatever you can see, you can store and copy. They failed to understand that with copy-prevention mechanisms, and the fail to understand it here. No crypto will help prevent seeing something that you already saw.
And no, hardware protection still can't help. In the worst case - take a camcorder and tape your screen contents. They can't overcome that!
It's not that Mozilla's JS sucks, it's sites are using stupid browser detection mechanisms to distinguish between NS4 and M$IE, and Mozilla sometimes falls between the seats, and gets denied.
Whenever you find such a site, check bugzilla for it, and if it's not listed, report it for Tech Evangelsim.
I'm talking about bug 40867.
Mozilla is Netscape. Netscape 6 is based on Mozilla code. If you are talking about Netscape 4, well there's no comparison. Netscape 4 sucks, while Mozilla (latest versions) are great. I just hope they fix the annoying cache and BiDi issues before the release.
And if the resources are used for "security upgrades" they can even do it based on the EULA.
Suppose M$ sells CPU time to companies (or using it to run neuclear simulations to take over the world), legitimizing it by saying they're protecting the financial security of Bill Gates. Well, is that a security upgrade or what?
The page refers to what software submitions are allowed to USE.
Google has no problem with you leaving the source closed and granting the license only to them.
How difficult would it be to offer custom-made books? This is the only way I can think of to get really slim books that cover what I need.
Well, there is BookNet, a prototype point-of-sale book printing and binding solution, that actually creates the book on demand based on network transmitted raw data.
Chapter selection is an interesting feature to add to this. Just like making your own Music CD, but with books.
If you read the rules, you will see that you don't even have to assign copyrights to Google. You only have to give them a license. This means you can GPL your code or even BSD it. Sounds fair to me.
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What do you mean this is not a poll?
No CowboyNeal option? Can't be!
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