Exactly how effective is online advertising anyway? How many of you have seen an ad for something on a web page and thought "Fantastic! I must click this."
My brain just edits them out anymore - it's the white noise of the internet to me.
... there are those who keep saying programs are mathematical algorithms, as argument against software patents.
Always sounded to me like saying that all works of literature are, are arrangements of words. And all words are public domain. The dictionary is prior art. So books shouldn't be copyrighted.
Algorithms IMHO are simply the words and sentences you use to make software, which is akin to a work of literature. At least it seems that way to me, anyways.
If we're going to beat software patents, it just seems like we should drop the algorithms argument because it seems a little flimsy.
Nanotech needs to get involved somehow. That way you could guarantee that what you're hearing is the world's smallest violin, and it's playing just for you.
These techniques include the use of unlicensed investigators, the turning over of subpoenaed information to collection agencies, and the obtaining of personal information from computers.
I've always wondered how these non-government agencies can get away with this kind of behavior without someone bringing them up on some kind of wiretapping/DMCA charge. Seems like the RIAA would be in violation of the CALEA to me, as well as the DMCA - since they must circumvent access control to gain the kinds of information they claim to have. (And yes, I do count bluffing universities that they have to hand over IP addresses as circumvention - it's Social Engineering, and it's as old as hacking itself).
They're not cops. Why do they have cop powers? I know for a fact if I do *any* of the crap they're doing, I'll go to jail.
Thanks to ClearChannel. They're all the same radio station now. And it sucks. The same stuff over and over and over and over and over. The other 50% of the time it's commercials. The music to commercial ratio is so bad I wouldn't listen even if they played good music.
How does this work with the decline in violent crimes through the 90s?
There is some research to indicate that the drop in crime was possibly due to lower lead levels through the usage of unleaded gasoline. Article here.Graphic here.
I wonder if this is a cognitive dissonance.
Ethical job and family support are both needed but can't be at the same time.
I don't think it's an either-or type of problem. You have to look at the relative merits of each solution path and pick the one that does the most good. In other words, moral relativism.
Squeal on the lead programmer? Possible good: Other coder gets paid a royalty, or at least the infringing code will be rewritten. Company avoids a one in a zillion chance of a lawsuit. Possible bad: You've offended the guy you're working for - have fun with that. Or worse yet, you're unemployed, and people who count on you are out of luck.
The bad is larger than the good, at least from the point of view of the person who found the code. Therefore - don't do it.
The business world probably is like that. That doesn't mean you should be.
If you're employed, you're in the business world and you have to play by their rules. Sucks, but it beats starvation. I hate to be so negative about things but that's the way things simply are. Job = money = food. No job = no money = starvation. Those are the stakes, and as much as I hate to say it, idealism has little place in any of it.
I'm new to the company, and the developer who copied the code is the project lead.
You married? Got any kids? A mortgage?
If the answer to any of the above is yes, then shut the hell up about it and get on with your day.
If the answer to all of the above is no and you're in the mood for an ethics experiment - mention it to someone. Have your resume ready first. You're about to learn what the business world is really like.
Whatever the hell made Lucas go back and remaster his most popular film, take the coolest character, and redefine him.
Whatever the hell is wrong with Lucas, that was the first symptom and probably the moment the franchise jumped the shark. You're right, everything that came after that is a symptom of the disease.
What, doesn't Sweden have laws against stalking? Because that's what this sounds like to me.
Just because Prince is some big star doesn't give him any special rights. Well, outside of America anyways. If Hollywood had any influence there, the TPB admins would already be in jail.
So go for it - sue Prince for harrassment and stalking.
You think a few lame-o trolls on Slashdot are going to affect him? At one point in time he had almost all of nerddom hating him. Usenet groups dedicated to his destruction. People at cons screaming at him. In Klingon. You name it.
Wil probably has thicker skin than a rhino at this point.
That being said - I'm a fan. Of both Wil and Wesley. Suck it, haters.
I always thought the most significant thing that we ever found on the whole goddamn Moon was that little bacteria who came back and lived and nobody ever said shit about it. -- Pete Conrad
On April 20, 1967, the unmanned lunar lander Surveyor 3 landed near Oceanus Procellarum on the surface of the moon. One of the things aboard was a television camera. Two-and-a-half years later, on November 20, 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan L. Bean recovered the camera. When NASA scientists examined it back on Earth they were surprised to find specimens of Streptococcus mitis that were still alive. Because of the precautions the astronauts had taken, NASA could be sure that the germs were inside the camera when it was retrieved, so they must have been there before the Surveyor 3 was launched. These bacteria had survived for 31 months in the vacuum of the moon's atmosphere. Perhaps NASA shouldn't have been surprised, because there are other bacteria that thrive under near-vacuum pressure on the earth today. Anyway, we now know that the vacuum of space is not a fatal problem for bacteria.
But hard to do anything about it. You have a complaint - do you have a solution? Who would you suggest if not Mr. Beckerman?
He's passionate about the topic, a lawyer, and has (IMHO) the correct views on the problem.
this money wont go to help the average Joe fighting the RIAA, it will go to whichever Ray thinks will hit the RIAA the hardest
That's called preventative medicine, and is further proof that his heart is in the right place on the issue. If all he wanted was to get paid, he could endlessly represent vanilla RIAA cases until retirement. He's actually trying to solve the problem.
Disclaimer: Not associated with Mr. Beckerman, just a fan. Go Ray!
Right, because when your house gets raided and the police see you erased your hard drive they just turn around and say "well played". 'Obstruction of justice' ringing any bells?
if (time_in_jail(OBSTRUCTION_OF_JUSTICE) < time_in_jail(WHATS_ON_MY_HARD_DRIVE)) wipedrive();
Why not use the encryption as-is, but swap out the random number generator with something else?
I've always wondered why random number generators don't pull values from an A/D converter hooked to a white noise generator or Lorenz attractor or some such.
Always do your little bit, no matter how small. Drop a nickel in a Salvation Army kettle. Tie up a telemarketer for a minute or two. Sell your SUV and get a 4 cylinder.
There are over 300,000,000 people in the US. Small things spread across a group that large add up to gigantic results. All you have to do is NOT do what you suggest, and just care about something. Even if it's just for a single minute.
Also, it's unlikely that anything you did was a crime--probably just against the school policy. They'd have a hard time pressing charges. Why don't you finish the story?:)
I'd love to, I really would. I have some good ones. I hung out with a pretty serious crew back then and I've seen some shit. A lot of my friends from back then were way more talented than I was and did some truly incredible things.
But this is something else I can teach in this thread - the Golden Rule of Hacking.
Tell Nobody. Ever.
Granted, I've been on my best behavior for close to 20 years now. But I have a wife and a son, and with the climate today you'd be crazy to think you're 100% immune. The world changes, and not for the better where hacking is concerned. You really can get in more trouble for hacking somewhere where you shouldn't than manslaughter. You can kill someone and get less jail time these days.
But that being said, if I was at this university I'd almost have to hack together something to bypass their system. I'd consider it a personal challenge. I wouldn't be happy until I had a bittorrent node set up in a closet somewhere on junk parts, and registered in their MAC database to IP Freely.
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It's supposed to be sarcastic. It's social commentary.
Exactly how effective is online advertising anyway? How many of you have seen an ad for something on a web page and thought "Fantastic! I must click this."
My brain just edits them out anymore - it's the white noise of the internet to me.
Always sounded to me like saying that all works of literature are, are arrangements of words. And all words are public domain. The dictionary is prior art. So books shouldn't be copyrighted.
Algorithms IMHO are simply the words and sentences you use to make software, which is akin to a work of literature. At least it seems that way to me, anyways.
If we're going to beat software patents, it just seems like we should drop the algorithms argument because it seems a little flimsy.
Was 300 baud. Reason was a bug in the hardware that the firmware had to get around.
no PC will ever elicit the same emotions that a C64 did for the owners of them of the time.
I hear ya and I pretty much agree, but nothing matches the rabid ferocity that Amiga fans have.
Nanotech needs to get involved somehow. That way you could guarantee that what you're hearing is the world's smallest violin, and it's playing just for you.
These techniques include the use of unlicensed investigators, the turning over of subpoenaed information to collection agencies, and the obtaining of personal information from computers.
I've always wondered how these non-government agencies can get away with this kind of behavior without someone bringing them up on some kind of wiretapping/DMCA charge. Seems like the RIAA would be in violation of the CALEA to me, as well as the DMCA - since they must circumvent access control to gain the kinds of information they claim to have. (And yes, I do count bluffing universities that they have to hand over IP addresses as circumvention - it's Social Engineering, and it's as old as hacking itself).
They're not cops. Why do they have cop powers? I know for a fact if I do *any* of the crap they're doing, I'll go to jail.
Why not them?
It comes on 4 DVDs.
Thanks to ClearChannel. They're all the same radio station now. And it sucks. The same stuff over and over and over and over and over. The other 50% of the time it's commercials. The music to commercial ratio is so bad I wouldn't listen even if they played good music.
I can't stand the radio anymore.
How does this work with the decline in violent crimes through the 90s?
There is some research to indicate that the drop in crime was possibly due to lower lead levels through the usage of unleaded gasoline. Article here. Graphic here.
I wonder if this is a cognitive dissonance. Ethical job and family support are both needed but can't be at the same time.
I don't think it's an either-or type of problem. You have to look at the relative merits of each solution path and pick the one that does the most good. In other words, moral relativism.
Squeal on the lead programmer? Possible good: Other coder gets paid a royalty, or at least the infringing code will be rewritten. Company avoids a one in a zillion chance of a lawsuit. Possible bad: You've offended the guy you're working for - have fun with that. Or worse yet, you're unemployed, and people who count on you are out of luck.
The bad is larger than the good, at least from the point of view of the person who found the code. Therefore - don't do it.
The business world probably is like that. That doesn't mean you should be.
If you're employed, you're in the business world and you have to play by their rules. Sucks, but it beats starvation. I hate to be so negative about things but that's the way things simply are. Job = money = food. No job = no money = starvation. Those are the stakes, and as much as I hate to say it, idealism has little place in any of it.
I'm new to the company, and the developer who copied the code is the project lead.
You married? Got any kids? A mortgage?
If the answer to any of the above is yes, then shut the hell up about it and get on with your day.
If the answer to all of the above is no and you're in the mood for an ethics experiment - mention it to someone. Have your resume ready first. You're about to learn what the business world is really like.
Maybe the rocks hydroplane and sort of skip across the muddy surface without building up much of a wave in front of them.
...the film was originally intelligently designed. Then it evolved.
Whatever the hell made Lucas go back and remaster his most popular film, take the coolest character, and redefine him.
Whatever the hell is wrong with Lucas, that was the first symptom and probably the moment the franchise jumped the shark. You're right, everything that came after that is a symptom of the disease.
Oh yeah, and I have to add this. =)
I hadn't really looked at it that way, but I suppose you're right. It is a little recursive, isn't it?
Sure, what the hell. It's yours.
What, doesn't Sweden have laws against stalking? Because that's what this sounds like to me.
Just because Prince is some big star doesn't give him any special rights. Well, outside of America anyways. If Hollywood had any influence there, the TPB admins would already be in jail.
So go for it - sue Prince for harrassment and stalking.
You think a few lame-o trolls on Slashdot are going to affect him? At one point in time he had almost all of nerddom hating him. Usenet groups dedicated to his destruction. People at cons screaming at him. In Klingon. You name it.
Wil probably has thicker skin than a rhino at this point.
That being said - I'm a fan. Of both Wil and Wesley. Suck it, haters.
That's most likely because your body decided you were starving to death and went into a self-preservation mode.
A less radical calorie reduction would probably have produced better results. Couple that with light exercise and you should see better results.
Bacterial infection of lunar landing sites is a serious concern. Here, read this.
Here's an excerpt:
I always thought the most significant thing that we ever found on the whole goddamn Moon was that little bacteria who came back and lived and nobody ever said shit about it. -- Pete Conrad On April 20, 1967, the unmanned lunar lander Surveyor 3 landed near Oceanus Procellarum on the surface of the moon. One of the things aboard was a television camera. Two-and-a-half years later, on November 20, 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan L. Bean recovered the camera. When NASA scientists examined it back on Earth they were surprised to find specimens of Streptococcus mitis that were still alive. Because of the precautions the astronauts had taken, NASA could be sure that the germs were inside the camera when it was retrieved, so they must have been there before the Surveyor 3 was launched. These bacteria had survived for 31 months in the vacuum of the moon's atmosphere. Perhaps NASA shouldn't have been surprised, because there are other bacteria that thrive under near-vacuum pressure on the earth today. Anyway, we now know that the vacuum of space is not a fatal problem for bacteria.But hard to do anything about it. You have a complaint - do you have a solution? Who would you suggest if not Mr. Beckerman?
He's passionate about the topic, a lawyer, and has (IMHO) the correct views on the problem.
this money wont go to help the average Joe fighting the RIAA, it will go to whichever Ray thinks will hit the RIAA the hardest
That's called preventative medicine, and is further proof that his heart is in the right place on the issue. If all he wanted was to get paid, he could endlessly represent vanilla RIAA cases until retirement. He's actually trying to solve the problem.
Disclaimer: Not associated with Mr. Beckerman, just a fan. Go Ray!
Right, because when your house gets raided and the police see you erased your hard drive they just turn around and say "well played". 'Obstruction of justice' ringing any bells?
if (time_in_jail(OBSTRUCTION_OF_JUSTICE) < time_in_jail(WHATS_ON_MY_HARD_DRIVE)) wipedrive();
Why not use the encryption as-is, but swap out the random number generator with something else?
I've always wondered why random number generators don't pull values from an A/D converter hooked to a white noise generator or Lorenz attractor or some such.
Evil must be opposed.
Always do your little bit, no matter how small. Drop a nickel in a Salvation Army kettle. Tie up a telemarketer for a minute or two. Sell your SUV and get a 4 cylinder.
There are over 300,000,000 people in the US. Small things spread across a group that large add up to gigantic results. All you have to do is NOT do what you suggest, and just care about something. Even if it's just for a single minute.
Also, it's unlikely that anything you did was a crime--probably just against the school policy. They'd have a hard time pressing charges. Why don't you finish the story? :)
I'd love to, I really would. I have some good ones. I hung out with a pretty serious crew back then and I've seen some shit. A lot of my friends from back then were way more talented than I was and did some truly incredible things.
But this is something else I can teach in this thread - the Golden Rule of Hacking.
Tell Nobody. Ever.
Granted, I've been on my best behavior for close to 20 years now. But I have a wife and a son, and with the climate today you'd be crazy to think you're 100% immune. The world changes, and not for the better where hacking is concerned. You really can get in more trouble for hacking somewhere where you shouldn't than manslaughter. You can kill someone and get less jail time these days.
But that being said, if I was at this university I'd almost have to hack together something to bypass their system. I'd consider it a personal challenge. I wouldn't be happy until I had a bittorrent node set up in a closet somewhere on junk parts, and registered in their MAC database to IP Freely.