Oh, you know what he's doing now? He's going for the righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar. Lot of people are feeling that indignation, we've done research. Huge market. He's doing a good thing.
"Look," said Roark. "The famous flutings on the famous columns---what are they there for? To hide the joints in wood--when columns were made of wood, only these aren't, they're marble. The triglyphs, what are they? Wood. Wooden beams, the way they had to be laid when people began to build wooden shacks. Your Greeks took marble and they made copies of their wooden structures out of it, because others had done it that way. Then your masters of the Renaissance came along and made copies in plaster of copies in marble of copies in wood. Now here we are making copies in steel and concrete of copies in plaster of copies in marble of copies in wood. Why?"
Does anybody else get the same feeling when working with the web? We have had incredible advances in technology yet we keep using HTML and JavaScript as our base for no other reason than tradition and because that is what people expect.
The italian reniassance was a revival of traditional greek and roman values among the social elite. It did not encourage diversity and it was not a time of great social change. Only a small minority of people in the renaissance would have noticed anything different from the middle ages.
I can't think of any society lasting very long once it starts to adopt the ideology of being "open minded". Can anyone come up with an example where having a diverse and rapidly changing set of ideas and values within a society made them stronger? Once a society reaches this stage it tends to get taken over by another society capable of focusing it's energy towards a common objective.
I seem to remember a certain video game simulation of the Clinton era whitehouse being featured on YouTube. I think it ended with "You lose. It's your wife!"
They arn't fought by the poor. The average income background is around 33K for enlisted personnel. That's the middle class.
"A People's History of the United States" is certainly convenient. After all, the great Matt Damon recommends it in his equally convenient movie "Good Will Hunting". Isn't it funny how marxist texts are so popular among the "polite privleged classes" like movie stars, college students and professors?
As far as historical data goes it is worthless. It has so many factual errors and gross exaggerations it is laughable.
Also, I never said people needed to be persuaded on the basis of some ideological abstraction. The inevitable consequence of cutting off foreign oil would be higher gas prices. That is in terms of daily living as it will affect the cost of practically everything.
Or how about "Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country." Like, toughing it out while we stop using foreign oil cold turkey.
Why is it that you can get 400,000 people to give their lives for their country, but god forbid you ask them to use less energy.
They isolated which section of his brian was activated when he moved his tounge and hand. It sounds like the same sections fire when you just think about performing the actions.
I bet the reason they used the tounge and hand rather then left hand\right hand is because they don't have the resolution on the grid to be able to differentiate the two.
What I worry about is the long term effects of purposely sending "interrupt" signals to your body parts. Has this ever been studied before?
IRL crimes have physical evidence and eye witnesses and still most people get away with it.
Considering somebody can break into your site from any one of a million unsecured WiFis from New York to Bangkok, i'd say prosecution is not going to be an effective method of deterrance.
I've worked in web development a while and I find a SQL injection vulnerability in about 90% of the sites I've seen.
It is extremely common to have people just cut and paste the bare-bones tutorial code they find on the web and reuse that same pattern on every page in the site rather than centralizing it in a wrapper. So not only is the string not being cleaned, but it's also a huge pain to fix.
Copying music from your friends and family is certainly not something a "small minority of assholes" do. Before DRM it was done by everybody and their grandmother's preacher.
Yet none of those reasons are the reason why I don't.
The only reasons I don't scan books I get from the library is because it's too time consuming. It would be exactly like using the analog loophole with DRM music. In a way books have innate DRM simply by not being digital.
"DreamHost has released a new service called Files Forever (for Dreamhost customers only during beta) This seems to be basically an iTunes Music Store that anybody can sell any sort of files through... as long as they have no DRM."
.. and explain to me why I would buy anything from this store rather than just download it from somebody else for free?
It's plenty allowable. But you would end up with most music being written mainly for aristocrats rather than the general public and everything else would drop into obscurity.
Mozart fate should have discouraged Beethoven? What fate would that be? He was in the "top 5% of late 18th century wage earners". The only reason we even know of Mozart is because wealthy aristocrats commisioned works from him.
You're right that bands make most of their money touring.
Where you're wrong is: Indie bands don't thrive. They clean dog cages to support the band in the hopes that one day a megacorporation will promote their music, book their tours, polish their record and put them on television and radio. DRM is the incentive for the megacorporation to do so and any band with any sense will realize this.
Sellouts? To quote Tool: "All you know about me is what I sold you."
I am in the dominant class, so I personally would probably have had more rights (and thus an easier time screwing everybody else). But I said "people" in general.
I probably don't need to explain to you how it's different for women, children, african americans, native americans and homosexuals.
I didn't say that our 'new rights are worth all these new laws legalising warrantless wiretapping', I'm not even sure what you mean by that. What I was implying was that in a historical perspective (or any perspective) granting the government the power of warrantless wiretapping is relatively benign.
We grant them the power to exclusively own atomic bombs, but we are worried that they are listening to our phone calls?
The reality is that people have far more rights now than anybody in 1776 could have ever imagined. 'Police State' is a relative term. If you lived in a society where everything was legal except burning kittens you'd still have people screaming about the police state.
Acquiring knowledge for the world to use is a noble goal all by itself.
Sure, genetically engineering bioluminescent monkeys may seem like a novelty now, but what if it ends up being able to highlight cancerous cells? You never know.
Science for the sake of science is science for the sake of everything and anything.
"Sure, he was beaten to the point of unconsciousness in the Hanoi Hilton for 5 years but he doesn't really care about torture. The *real* reason he is making such a fuss is to impress independent voters."
Perhaps who you should remeber in 2008 are all the democrats who "rolled over" and passed the bill rather than the sponsor.
Bruce Lee was a good example of this He said something like "Why do the chinese come to america and proceed to recreate everything we hated about china?"
His fighting philosophy followed the same principle: Screw tradition. Keep what's good, toss what's bad.
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Oh, you know what he's doing now? He's going for the righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar. Lot of people are feeling that indignation, we've done research. Huge market. He's doing a good thing.
Does anybody else get the same feeling when working with the web? We have had incredible advances in technology yet we keep using HTML and JavaScript as our base for no other reason than tradition and because that is what people expect.
"The renaissance"? The italian renaissance?
The italian reniassance was a revival of traditional greek and roman values among the social elite. It did not encourage diversity and it was not a time of great social change. Only a small minority of people in the renaissance would have noticed anything different from the middle ages.
I can't think of any society lasting very long once it starts to adopt the ideology of being "open minded". Can anyone come up with an example where having a diverse and rapidly changing set of ideas and values within a society made them stronger? Once a society reaches this stage it tends to get taken over by another society capable of focusing it's energy towards a common objective.
I seem to remember a certain video game simulation of the Clinton era whitehouse being featured on YouTube. I think it ended with "You lose. It's your wife!"
They arn't fought by the poor. The average income background is around 33K for enlisted personnel. That's the middle class.
"A People's History of the United States" is certainly convenient. After all, the great Matt Damon recommends it in his equally convenient movie "Good Will Hunting". Isn't it funny how marxist texts are so popular among the "polite privleged classes" like movie stars, college students and professors?
As far as historical data goes it is worthless. It has so many factual errors and gross exaggerations it is laughable.
Also, I never said people needed to be persuaded on the basis of some ideological abstraction. The inevitable consequence of cutting off foreign oil would be higher gas prices. That is in terms of daily living as it will affect the cost of practically everything.
+"FIXME" +"sql injection"
If you know it's a problem, why don't you fix it before you publish???
Or how about "Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country." Like, toughing it out while we stop using foreign oil cold turkey.
Why is it that you can get 400,000 people to give their lives for their country, but god forbid you ask them to use less energy.
It was way simpler than that.
They isolated which section of his brian was activated when he moved his tounge and hand. It sounds like the same sections fire when you just think about performing the actions.
I bet the reason they used the tounge and hand rather then left hand\right hand is because they don't have the resolution on the grid to be able to differentiate the two.
What I worry about is the long term effects of purposely sending "interrupt" signals to your body parts. Has this ever been studied before?
IRL crimes have physical evidence and eye witnesses and still most people get away with it.
Considering somebody can break into your site from any one of a million unsecured WiFis from New York to Bangkok, i'd say prosecution is not going to be an effective method of deterrance.
I've worked in web development a while and I find a SQL injection vulnerability in about 90% of the sites I've seen.
It is extremely common to have people just cut and paste the bare-bones tutorial code they find on the web and reuse that same pattern on every page in the site rather than centralizing it in a wrapper. So not only is the string not being cleaned, but it's also a huge pain to fix.
This is kind of like saying we can prevent buffer overflow exploits by having the windows API not allow people to enter shellcode into textboxes.
You are either full of shit, or really uptight.
Copying music from your friends and family is certainly not something a "small minority of assholes" do. Before DRM it was done by everybody and their grandmother's preacher.
Yes, I realize that. That's why I wrote it.
Yet none of those reasons are the reason why I don't.
The only reasons I don't scan books I get from the library is because it's too time consuming. It would be exactly like using the analog loophole with DRM music. In a way books have innate DRM simply by not being digital.
It's plenty allowable. But you would end up with most music being written mainly for aristocrats rather than the general public and everything else would drop into obscurity.
This article is stupid beyond belief.
Mozart fate should have discouraged Beethoven? What fate would that be? He was in the "top 5% of late 18th century wage earners". The only reason we even know of Mozart is because wealthy aristocrats commisioned works from him.
You're right that bands make most of their money touring.
Where you're wrong is: Indie bands don't thrive. They clean dog cages to support the band in the hopes that one day a megacorporation will promote their music, book their tours, polish their record and put them on television and radio. DRM is the incentive for the megacorporation to do so and any band with any sense will realize this.
Sellouts? To quote Tool: "All you know about me is what I sold you."
I am in the dominant class, so I personally would probably have had more rights (and thus an easier time screwing everybody else). But I said "people" in general.
I probably don't need to explain to you how it's different for women, children, african americans, native americans and homosexuals.
I didn't say that our 'new rights are worth all these new laws legalising warrantless wiretapping', I'm not even sure what you mean by that. What I was implying was that in a historical perspective (or any perspective) granting the government the power of warrantless wiretapping is relatively benign.
We grant them the power to exclusively own atomic bombs, but we are worried that they are listening to our phone calls?
The reality is that people have far more rights now than anybody in 1776 could have ever imagined. 'Police State' is a relative term. If you lived in a society where everything was legal except burning kittens you'd still have people screaming about the police state.
The parent is right, people have no perspective.
If this suit gets a short while somebody is in mid-lift I hope it makes it on YouTube.
Acquiring knowledge for the world to use is a noble goal all by itself.
Sure, genetically engineering bioluminescent monkeys may seem like a novelty now, but what if it ends up being able to highlight cancerous cells? You never know.
Science for the sake of science is science for the sake of everything and anything.
OMG. This is so cynical it's ridiculous.
"Sure, he was beaten to the point of unconsciousness in the Hanoi Hilton for 5 years but he doesn't really care about torture. The *real* reason he is making such a fuss is to impress independent voters."
Perhaps who you should remeber in 2008 are all the democrats who "rolled over" and passed the bill rather than the sponsor.
Bruce Lee was a good example of this
He said something like "Why do the chinese come to america and proceed to recreate everything we hated about china?"
His fighting philosophy followed the same principle: Screw tradition. Keep what's good, toss what's bad.