... there were a few newsgroups created that were dedicated to spreading rumours about the ongoing trial.
News is what you get from disinerested third parties who are free to investigate and report news.
Rumors is what you get when disinterested third parties are not alowed to investigate or report news.
Rumors are not substitutes for news. They can never be trusted and are always a sign of tyranical control. When rumors are more reliable than news, no one can be sure of anything. That's why the US has a first amendment. It's degradation is a sign of enslavement.
A post titled, "this is what you DON'T want to do", which warns against , "a hackneyed, crappy homebrew solution." Isn't that an apt description of SMS?
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Well, I don't know what to do in Windows, but I have a similar situation and just dual boot the machine. I use tar to make backup volumes and Windows to write. Tar has a multivolume option, -M, and tape length option, -L that I have never used because I've just kludged my way through with directories. Looks like you can use cygwin if you want. Thanks for asking, it was interesting to read about. The machine mostly stays under linux, and I mount the windows drive with an entry in/etc/fstab. This makes it easy to move things around the local network with ftp and ssh, which might solve your problem of wanting those files on the next computer. When I'm ready to write something out, I copy it to Windose and boot over. Look, Slashdot did this a while back.
He doesn't get out much, does he?... There are plenty of places for boneheads to go.
I'll ignore your bad attitude towards newbies and try not to hurt you. =:>
I'm happy to see disruptive people thrown off, and so is Selzer. Selzer, however, sees this being a problem with other more disturbing internet trends of consolidation and active control of content.
The worry is that there are no places that are NOT under someone else's thumb. Most ISPs are implementing policies like this and all the large ones prevent you from running your own web site with your own equipment. This is a problem that's larger than trolls. People with unpopular oppinions may find themselves without a place to voice that oppinion very soon. Do you think AOL would let you run a rotten.com? Do you think MSN would let you run a klan site? How about the Free Software Foundation? Right now M$ spends billions of dollars a year discrediting their "competition", we can be sure they would consider the FSF a troll if the FSF lost it's ability to peer. The internet IS a public network because it uses public grounds and servitudes. The root cause of the problem is that ISPs are being regulated less as common carriers and more as some kind of net nanny.
I'm glad to see they're trying something that's supposed to play on everything...I'm glad Microsoft is in on it because of their "amazing" security track record.
Worse, you make the very rash assumption that this will work. M$ and friends could care less about your anoyances, after all they consider you some kind of criminal for wanting to make backups of the things you own. We've been here before.
This reminds me of M$'s entry into backup programs for floppy disk storage. They bought out everything that worked, such as Fith Generation Systems's Fast Back program, and shut it down. What they offered instead was M$ backup, which was slow and never worked. Needless to say, CDs came along and largely replaced the need for such things and you can now get free software that will break up work larger than a CD into volumes. No rampant "piracy" ever surfaced and no real pirate was ever discouraged. It's the whole thing all over again with CDs. It did not work for floppies and it won't work here.
Another $500,000,000 down the drain, nice work M$! Is that what you spent the last 15 years of dividens on?
That restoration thread amazes me. One of the disenting opinions touched on the matter but did not bear down on it because they said it was irrelevant. Restoration is not occuing right now, even though the works are under copyright protection. As you point out, the derivatives take their own copyright too. Now that the originals are "protected" for another 20 years, I expect them to continue to sit in the vaults rotting away until the next extention push comes up. What the extension really does is prevent people who would restore and presever these works. What incentive does anyone besides the "owner" have? "Owners" are likely to extort money even from non-profits and museums. It's show business and the motto is, "there's one born every minute."
can you explain "legislating from the bench"?
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You say, It is a Congressional matter. And the precedent for the act is set back to the framing of the Constitution.
So you must not agree with Breyer's interpretation of the 1790 copyright "extention" not being retroactive at all but being necessary for the creation of US copyright? You must also not agree with the other dissenting opinion that sharply notes that copyright was designed for authors, not their hires or the rather insightful grasp of how this is a raw deal for everyone but current copyright holders?
Your primary beef here is that you think that restricting the will of congress as regards copyright is "legislating from the bench". That's pretty silly, given the long history of the court doing just that with copyright and patent law. This was a review of a law that congress passed that seems to violate the letter and spirit of the constition. It is the supreem court's duty to examine every law for consistency with the constitution as such inconsistency effectively ammends the constitution. Constitional amendments take much more effort and consent to pass than ordinary laws so no law may violate the constitution. Legislating from the bench generally involves creating whole new branches of law or prescribing specific action. This review would simply have tossed out Mickey Mouse's copyright protection. It would not have set up new offices for administrating that removal, it would not have required the raising of taxes or dictated their spending and it would not have created any kind of new laws. That's far from "legislating from the bench," and in fact it is exacly what the supreme court should do.
Anyway... ever think that this could be the result of shitty programmers and not the OS's fault?
Yeah, I had that thought when you said it. I imagine you mean non M$ programers when you try to blame them. The thought lasted about a quarter second as memories of using M$ junk floated passed my mind. Computers that seem flakey are generally cured by removing M$ software.
you also claim, the functionality to do various things in an automobile are NOT built into Windows last time I checked...
That's good because no one here has claimed anything M$ has the functionality to do anything related to vehicles or anything else that could actually hurt people when it flakes out.
Bruce Perens and I don't have much in common, but neither of us like you. In fact you have four or five foes for each letter of the alphabet. So it looks like I share that with many others.
Someone around here made the joke that an M$ shill would "blame the drivers". You wrote:
What a bunch of crap. How do you know that these problems are related to the OS? In all likelyhood, these problems are caused by shoddy programming of the application which runs on top of it.
Which answers half of the pun. Other shills have filled out the other half blaming people who don't know how to use things.
Nice Work Trolls! Keep it up, and help your manager keep her top down, we all need a lift like that. Thumbs, and other members, up!
What's not biased about those articles? The first article about email spying software fails to mention the underlying weakness in Microsoft software that makes it possible. It also fails to mention that software runs under windows, assuming that all the world runs that crap. The second article pumps up comercial Linux Zarus as a great little thing that won't scych well with your M$ computer with it's "clunky" sync software. Would that tend to dampen sales of a M$ competitor? The third article praises AbiWord as wonderful for someone that only uses one tenth of a word processor's features but who wants a supposedly desirable M$ Word like program. See any problems with that advert for M$ word? I do.
M$ bought a news outlet so it could shape the news. No news there, people have been doing that forever. It's a problem with comercial news. The fewer news outlets people have the more subject to abuse those news outlets are. The stronger the power of advertisers, the weaker the news organization. You can't get a weaker news organization than one that has litteraly been bought by one of it's cheif sponsors. Did you miss the news that M$ was going to spend more than a billion dollars to promote Windows XP? That kind of spending buys lots of favors at comercial news outlets. A free internet may take us away from that as the power of advertisers goes to zero as the number of news outlets goes to infinity.
The thread is correct to suspect that MSNBC might intentionaly create controversy between AOL and Lindows. Trouble in either house is good for NBC and M$.
(c) you or your property are seriously injured and you NEED compensation to compensate for some significant loss
I'd say this fellow was slandered and lost some serious face. It's hard to keep people with nicknames like "Dr. Harm" from getting bad reputations but we might imagine there's one company he won't do work for ever again.
Evil new laws make the FBI notice damaging. As the federal government has helped itself to wiretaping and other searches without warrent, we can expect Dr Harm to recieve some painful attention. Half the reason the fourth ammendment requires publicaly stated reasons for search and siezure is the harm such searches do. The other half is to preserve personal dignity. Dr. Harm just lost a little dignity and computer usage. They will be watching and some clerk will be reading Dr. Harm's email. Creepy.
...instead of using paranoid legal force like the GPL, the BSD projects politely encourage code sharing.
This is all fine and good until some big fat corp takes that code, decides they own it or key modifications and blocks you out. China is just another big fat corp, except they get to make their own laws.
We shall see if China's lip service to information freedom is real. It's hard to imagine a country that openly practices censorship as commited to any kind of freedom. Chineese companies are infamous for patent infrigement, so all this railing against the "intelectual property trap" looks like a practical measure based on fear of trade reprisals. Looks and sounds like "Yankee inginuity" of a century ago, when the US ignored European patents. The US kept it up until it had enough "intelectual property" of its own.
The original question was if the US would lean on China for GPL violations. The answer, given the history above, is NO. Nor will they bother to enforce BSD. The US will only bother to limit imports if sufficient loss of royalty income is seen. Software that comes "for free" with a widget? Forget about it. That's going to include computers like the Dragon Whatnot.
Quoth the article:
For nine years, the company has designated users with particular skills--usually seen by how often they intervene helpfully in newsgroups--as "most valued professionals". Currently there are about 1,200 MVPs, half of whom are in the United States.
Wow, 1,200 ultra suckers, is that all? I was sure there were at least 5,000 microsoft trolls at Slashdot alone. Oh well, it just goes to show what a few loud mouths can do to a useful conversation. Has it really been nine years since Steven Barktoo? You gotta love the M$ community where advocating M$ profits is more valuable than code.
Seriously, there are no new dirty tricks here. It's the same old BS that's been used with the MSDN and what not. M$ has attempted to build a community around purchasing their software. Tools developed by those members are shared, but they are routinely broken by M$. If M$ were free, or even just open, a real community could exist. What's there instead, at it's best, is simply a loyal group of ever abused consumers. At it's worst, these folks take their frustrations out on other communities.
You can fool all the people some of the time and some people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time. M$ will eventually run out of "developers". Is there realy anyone out there who develops for M$ platforms because they think it's the best platform? Most people who do write for M$ tell me that they "have" to know how to do it simply because of it's prevalance. That's not a situation that can last.
why is it such a terrible thing if a government office standardize on some license requirements (e.g. only buy free software) allowing any vendor to compete, but not a problem when a government office standardize on a single vendor, and accept whatever license that vendor provides?
That is the scandal, the sole source requirement. There's only one company that makes M$ OS, and it's proven inferior. So, my government is spending my money to purchase inferior software without bids. There are many providers of free software and the lowest bidder mandate that government is supposed to live by would always pick one of them.
Single vendor bids ordinarilly are seen as a sign of fraud. Here, it looks like incompetence.
The privacy of snail mail is protected by law. Once upon a time, people realized that private corespondence was required for the dignity and economic health of all. They also realized that a paper envelope provides no real protection.
People's reaction to electronic mail is astounding. The combined effect of government repression of cryptography and statements of "no expectation of privacy" can not be underestimated. How is it that people who expect to go to jail for intercepting the post also expect people to intercept and read their email?
... a unix datacenter with 100 machines and 30 unix admins, which is just crazy.
That depends entirely on what they are doing. If software development is part of the job and 100 machines can handle the company load, the numbers are appropriate. Yes, some people would like to be above the trenches and ignore the boring details of other people's work and lives. Others solve those problems. There's a place in this world for both types of people. 1000 machines can happen when applications are not talking to each other and company communications suck. It can also happen because the company work is mundane, routine, easily automated but massive. Sun's new gee wizz N1 will find a home where it works. I doubt that home will be a place where people are sitting on top of their individual database, growing them and making it talk with other company resources.
I'm biased toward the development model. Databases that are maintained by people who care to learn the details and work with their clients serve the needs of the company much better than some remote datacenter with email help. The performance nubmers and lower costs of the remote data center can mask failing perfomance and massive inefficiencies that only a comercial software vendor enjoys. Best practices are supposed to migrate. It actually happens in the free software world.
Scientists should unionize - they typically so involved in their work that they end up getting the *shaft* monetarily, while MBA monkeys soak up all the profits.
What union do the MBA monkeys belong too? Oh, I see.
The fear is that the closed encrypted systems will be used to perpetuate the current monopoly electronic publication by the big broadcasters. If you and I are not alowed to record these shows, what makes you think we will be alowed to make them much less make them available to anyone over the current closed channels? Cox and ATT won't let me do so much as run a web or mail server, do you think I'll be able to share my HDTV recordings? Do you think I'll even be able to watch them without paying some asshole a licensing fee? Those are the concerns with federaly mandated Digital Rights Denial measures.
As for the obsolecense issue, my old equipment will not end up in a landfill. My VCR, camcorder and TV work just fine, thank you. I have equipment which I can use to edit the tapes into digital format and make shows for distribution in either analog or digital form. Those tools are not going in the trash till they and everyone else's break. If I can't convince morons like you that Toe-Zan does not have your best intrest at heart, I'll just have to settle for "obsolete" technology to share my stuff with my family and friends.
No, I'm not going to buy any of those silly new things until the smoke clears. As Hollywood sucks harder, I demand less. It's amazing what you can do when you don't follow all that nonsense.
The case is analogous to software source code. The course materials, on their own, are worthless. They have to be interpreted and kept current by a knowlegable instructor to have value. What constitutes knowlegable is accredation through peer review.
... thanks for all the destructive criticism. If you knew anything about "material desity, air volume, port circumferance, port length, and many other tuning-related issues." you should say so or point to a page you have that says so, right? If you read the article, you might have noticed how the author points to one of the many useful pages on how to do things "right".
Your post has to be the worst Slashdot troll ever. Wait, I just did the same thing to you! The difference between you and me and the author of the article and slashdot is that the author and Slashdot have put up.
Me, one day I'll spend $60 for a cheap boomer that comes with it's own amp. I applaud the author for doing better.
The right way is a supeona the ISP asking for a list of customers who have downloaded kiddie porn from these websites.
So ISP's have to keep records of where you surf? Bullshit!
The right way is for law enforcement to do it's job catching people who exploit children. That has never meant violating the post (equivalent to what you propose) or monitoring people's communications and reading.
So, who are the good people of Pensylvania paying to Discover these nasty sites, anyway? I can see the job description now, "Surf the net for kiddie porn and block other people's access to it! Don't like Slashdot? just call it porn and add it to the list!" Nice work, Penn.
People who make kiddie porn belong in jail. People who look at kiddie porn create demand for the exploitation of children and might also belong in jail, but there is hardly moral equivalence. Blocking sites is redundant.
Your library analogy is flawed. All information in the public library has been censored by the government. No inapropriate content was selected for inclusion and that is equivalent to exclucing inaprorpiate content. Government exclusion of the content others would provide is equivalent to the censorship of private libraries.
So, back to my original question, how can they tell? What do they do, burn an IP address? Pornmeisters will get around that and there will be no adresses left before you know it. Where will they get the lists of sites to block?
Slashdot Mirror
News is what you get from disinerested third parties who are free to investigate and report news.
Rumors is what you get when disinterested third parties are not alowed to investigate or report news.
Rumors are not substitutes for news. They can never be trusted and are always a sign of tyranical control. When rumors are more reliable than news, no one can be sure of anything. That's why the US has a first amendment. It's degradation is a sign of enslavement.
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Would you kindly liberate a few from M$.WMF and post them somewhere?
She said that? Bitch! Those are the lyrics of my new song.
13. Listen to music.
14. Publish excellent music.
15. Charge reasonable rates for coppies.
16. Profit.
17. Nah, it's easier to promote garbage you don't listen to and tax people as theives when they don't buy it.
Well, I don't know what to do in Windows, but I have a similar situation and just dual boot the machine. I use tar to make backup volumes and Windows to write. Tar has a multivolume option, -M, and tape length option, -L that I have never used because I've just kludged my way through with directories. Looks like you can use cygwin if you want. Thanks for asking, it was interesting to read about. The machine mostly stays under linux, and I mount the windows drive with an entry in /etc/fstab. This makes it easy to move things around the local network with ftp and ssh, which might solve your problem of wanting those files on the next computer. When I'm ready to write something out, I copy it to Windose and boot over. Look, Slashdot did this a while back.
I'll ignore your bad attitude towards newbies and try not to hurt you. =:>
I'm happy to see disruptive people thrown off, and so is Selzer. Selzer, however, sees this being a problem with other more disturbing internet trends of consolidation and active control of content.
The worry is that there are no places that are NOT under someone else's thumb. Most ISPs are implementing policies like this and all the large ones prevent you from running your own web site with your own equipment. This is a problem that's larger than trolls. People with unpopular oppinions may find themselves without a place to voice that oppinion very soon. Do you think AOL would let you run a rotten.com? Do you think MSN would let you run a klan site? How about the Free Software Foundation? Right now M$ spends billions of dollars a year discrediting their "competition", we can be sure they would consider the FSF a troll if the FSF lost it's ability to peer. The internet IS a public network because it uses public grounds and servitudes. The root cause of the problem is that ISPs are being regulated less as common carriers and more as some kind of net nanny.
I'm glad to see they're trying something that's supposed to play on everything ...I'm glad Microsoft is in on it because of their "amazing" security track record.
Worse, you make the very rash assumption that this will work. M$ and friends could care less about your anoyances, after all they consider you some kind of criminal for wanting to make backups of the things you own. We've been here before.
This reminds me of M$'s entry into backup programs for floppy disk storage. They bought out everything that worked, such as Fith Generation Systems's Fast Back program, and shut it down. What they offered instead was M$ backup, which was slow and never worked. Needless to say, CDs came along and largely replaced the need for such things and you can now get free software that will break up work larger than a CD into volumes. No rampant "piracy" ever surfaced and no real pirate was ever discouraged. It's the whole thing all over again with CDs. It did not work for floppies and it won't work here.
Another $500,000,000 down the drain, nice work M$! Is that what you spent the last 15 years of dividens on?
That restoration thread amazes me. One of the disenting opinions touched on the matter but did not bear down on it because they said it was irrelevant. Restoration is not occuing right now, even though the works are under copyright protection. As you point out, the derivatives take their own copyright too. Now that the originals are "protected" for another 20 years, I expect them to continue to sit in the vaults rotting away until the next extention push comes up. What the extension really does is prevent people who would restore and presever these works. What incentive does anyone besides the "owner" have? "Owners" are likely to extort money even from non-profits and museums. It's show business and the motto is, "there's one born every minute."
So you must not agree with Breyer's interpretation of the 1790 copyright "extention" not being retroactive at all but being necessary for the creation of US copyright? You must also not agree with the other dissenting opinion that sharply notes that copyright was designed for authors, not their hires or the rather insightful grasp of how this is a raw deal for everyone but current copyright holders?
Your primary beef here is that you think that restricting the will of congress as regards copyright is "legislating from the bench". That's pretty silly, given the long history of the court doing just that with copyright and patent law. This was a review of a law that congress passed that seems to violate the letter and spirit of the constition. It is the supreem court's duty to examine every law for consistency with the constitution as such inconsistency effectively ammends the constitution. Constitional amendments take much more effort and consent to pass than ordinary laws so no law may violate the constitution. Legislating from the bench generally involves creating whole new branches of law or prescribing specific action. This review would simply have tossed out Mickey Mouse's copyright protection. It would not have set up new offices for administrating that removal, it would not have required the raising of taxes or dictated their spending and it would not have created any kind of new laws. That's far from "legislating from the bench," and in fact it is exacly what the supreme court should do.
Anyway... ever think that this could be the result of shitty programmers and not the OS's fault?
Yeah, I had that thought when you said it. I imagine you mean non M$ programers when you try to blame them. The thought lasted about a quarter second as memories of using M$ junk floated passed my mind. Computers that seem flakey are generally cured by removing M$ software.
you also claim, the functionality to do various things in an automobile are NOT built into Windows last time I checked...
That's good because no one here has claimed anything M$ has the functionality to do anything related to vehicles or anything else that could actually hurt people when it flakes out.
Bruce Perens and I don't have much in common, but neither of us like you. In fact you have four or five foes for each letter of the alphabet. So it looks like I share that with many others.
What a bunch of crap. How do you know that these problems are related to the OS? In all likelyhood, these problems are caused by shoddy programming of the application which runs on top of it.
Which answers half of the pun. Other shills have filled out the other half blaming people who don't know how to use things.
Nice Work Trolls! Keep it up, and help your manager keep her top down, we all need a lift like that. Thumbs, and other members, up!
M$ bought a news outlet so it could shape the news. No news there, people have been doing that forever. It's a problem with comercial news. The fewer news outlets people have the more subject to abuse those news outlets are. The stronger the power of advertisers, the weaker the news organization. You can't get a weaker news organization than one that has litteraly been bought by one of it's cheif sponsors. Did you miss the news that M$ was going to spend more than a billion dollars to promote Windows XP? That kind of spending buys lots of favors at comercial news outlets. A free internet may take us away from that as the power of advertisers goes to zero as the number of news outlets goes to infinity.
The thread is correct to suspect that MSNBC might intentionaly create controversy between AOL and Lindows. Trouble in either house is good for NBC and M$.
I'd say this fellow was slandered and lost some serious face. It's hard to keep people with nicknames like "Dr. Harm" from getting bad reputations but we might imagine there's one company he won't do work for ever again.
Evil new laws make the FBI notice damaging. As the federal government has helped itself to wiretaping and other searches without warrent, we can expect Dr Harm to recieve some painful attention. Half the reason the fourth ammendment requires publicaly stated reasons for search and siezure is the harm such searches do. The other half is to preserve personal dignity. Dr. Harm just lost a little dignity and computer usage. They will be watching and some clerk will be reading Dr. Harm's email. Creepy.
This is all fine and good until some big fat corp takes that code, decides they own it or key modifications and blocks you out. China is just another big fat corp, except they get to make their own laws.
We shall see if China's lip service to information freedom is real. It's hard to imagine a country that openly practices censorship as commited to any kind of freedom. Chineese companies are infamous for patent infrigement, so all this railing against the "intelectual property trap" looks like a practical measure based on fear of trade reprisals. Looks and sounds like "Yankee inginuity" of a century ago, when the US ignored European patents. The US kept it up until it had enough "intelectual property" of its own.
The original question was if the US would lean on China for GPL violations. The answer, given the history above, is NO. Nor will they bother to enforce BSD. The US will only bother to limit imports if sufficient loss of royalty income is seen. Software that comes "for free" with a widget? Forget about it. That's going to include computers like the Dragon Whatnot.
Quoth the article: For nine years, the company has designated users with particular skills--usually seen by how often they intervene helpfully in newsgroups--as "most valued professionals". Currently there are about 1,200 MVPs, half of whom are in the United States.
Wow, 1,200 ultra suckers, is that all? I was sure there were at least 5,000 microsoft trolls at Slashdot alone. Oh well, it just goes to show what a few loud mouths can do to a useful conversation. Has it really been nine years since Steven Barktoo? You gotta love the M$ community where advocating M$ profits is more valuable than code.
Seriously, there are no new dirty tricks here. It's the same old BS that's been used with the MSDN and what not. M$ has attempted to build a community around purchasing their software. Tools developed by those members are shared, but they are routinely broken by M$. If M$ were free, or even just open, a real community could exist. What's there instead, at it's best, is simply a loyal group of ever abused consumers. At it's worst, these folks take their frustrations out on other communities.
You can fool all the people some of the time and some people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time. M$ will eventually run out of "developers". Is there realy anyone out there who develops for M$ platforms because they think it's the best platform? Most people who do write for M$ tell me that they "have" to know how to do it simply because of it's prevalance. That's not a situation that can last.
That is the scandal, the sole source requirement. There's only one company that makes M$ OS, and it's proven inferior. So, my government is spending my money to purchase inferior software without bids. There are many providers of free software and the lowest bidder mandate that government is supposed to live by would always pick one of them.
Single vendor bids ordinarilly are seen as a sign of fraud. Here, it looks like incompetence.
People's reaction to electronic mail is astounding. The combined effect of government repression of cryptography and statements of "no expectation of privacy" can not be underestimated. How is it that people who expect to go to jail for intercepting the post also expect people to intercept and read their email?
That depends entirely on what they are doing. If software development is part of the job and 100 machines can handle the company load, the numbers are appropriate. Yes, some people would like to be above the trenches and ignore the boring details of other people's work and lives. Others solve those problems. There's a place in this world for both types of people. 1000 machines can happen when applications are not talking to each other and company communications suck. It can also happen because the company work is mundane, routine, easily automated but massive. Sun's new gee wizz N1 will find a home where it works. I doubt that home will be a place where people are sitting on top of their individual database, growing them and making it talk with other company resources.
I'm biased toward the development model. Databases that are maintained by people who care to learn the details and work with their clients serve the needs of the company much better than some remote datacenter with email help. The performance nubmers and lower costs of the remote data center can mask failing perfomance and massive inefficiencies that only a comercial software vendor enjoys. Best practices are supposed to migrate. It actually happens in the free software world.
What union do the MBA monkeys belong too? Oh, I see.
As for the obsolecense issue, my old equipment will not end up in a landfill. My VCR, camcorder and TV work just fine, thank you. I have equipment which I can use to edit the tapes into digital format and make shows for distribution in either analog or digital form. Those tools are not going in the trash till they and everyone else's break. If I can't convince morons like you that Toe-Zan does not have your best intrest at heart, I'll just have to settle for "obsolete" technology to share my stuff with my family and friends.
No, I'm not going to buy any of those silly new things until the smoke clears. As Hollywood sucks harder, I demand less. It's amazing what you can do when you don't follow all that nonsense.
The case is analogous to software source code. The course materials, on their own, are worthless. They have to be interpreted and kept current by a knowlegable instructor to have value. What constitutes knowlegable is accredation through peer review.
Your post has to be the worst Slashdot troll ever. Wait, I just did the same thing to you! The difference between you and me and the author of the article and slashdot is that the author and Slashdot have put up.
Me, one day I'll spend $60 for a cheap boomer that comes with it's own amp. I applaud the author for doing better.
So ISP's have to keep records of where you surf? Bullshit!
The right way is for law enforcement to do it's job catching people who exploit children. That has never meant violating the post (equivalent to what you propose) or monitoring people's communications and reading.
People who make kiddie porn belong in jail. People who look at kiddie porn create demand for the exploitation of children and might also belong in jail, but there is hardly moral equivalence. Blocking sites is redundant.
Your library analogy is flawed. All information in the public library has been censored by the government. No inapropriate content was selected for inclusion and that is equivalent to exclucing inaprorpiate content. Government exclusion of the content others would provide is equivalent to the censorship of private libraries.
So, back to my original question, how can they tell? What do they do, burn an IP address? Pornmeisters will get around that and there will be no adresses left before you know it. Where will they get the lists of sites to block?