I will say that, from all that I've read, the MPAA will send your ISP a stern but dignified warning if they catch you trading movies via a P2P program. If you stop, no harm done. If you continue to trade, well...
The RIAA, on the other hand, will simply file a John Doe suit against your ISP in the hope that you'll negotiate a settlemeent in the thousands of dollars without even a warning -- or any chance to determine if either the RIAA or the consumer made a mistake. (Remember the granny who was sued by mistake?)
"Personally, I think the dweeb should be staked out on an ant-hill or drawn and quartered but I've been accused of being a little extreme when it comes to spam, spammers and people who disclose e-mail addresses without the owners's permission."
For some reason, the image that popped into my head was of a pimply guy with a mullet and a polo shirt trying to use that line to impress some bored chick at a high school party.
"And if you think that's cool, wait until I tell you my ten reasons why the 5.12 Linux kernel is technically superior to the current 6.X implementation. Hey, do you wanna check out the computer room? I can reformat their PC with Slackware and they'll never know it!! You have the prettiest eyes...they're like the Mandelbrot screensaver I have at home on Trinity. No, she's my PC. And then I have Heather, Aimee, and Calista, which I call her because she runs Linux and Linux is skinny, get it?... Hey, are you really supposed to be stabbing yourself in the throat with that barrette?"
Hmmm... I guess that I was a little vague in my terminology -- "code" encompasses quite a number of things. Let's try to narrow it down.
I'd call a wheat a "staple" crop, akin to a driver or a utility program. We sell wheat; we don't sell a -- I don't know, a CD-ROM driver or something. Once it's stable, it's stable, and coders move on to other things. Nature's not like that. We can devote a great number of resources to refining code, eliminating bugs, narrowing it down, making it do what it wants to do. But code only "mutates" to the point where coders think it should stop.
Nature moves at its own pace. I'm sure there are millions of lines of legacy code that haven't been examined for years. Sure, if there's a vulnerability, it's quickly patched. In nature, there is no legacy code, nothing that can't be affected. An organic lifeform mutates at a slow, steady rate, and can randomly evolve into unimaginable directions.
A million monkeys banging on typewriters might reproduce Shakespeare, but they also might discover the key to bringing him back from the dead. Which might take a million years...
I'm not sure that's accurate. The AP story reports that:
"The cases were filed against 213 people in St. Louis, 206 in Washington D.C., 55 in Denver and eight in New Jersey"
...which could easily mean: "the cases were filed in a St. Louis district court against 213 people..."
If the cases were filed against a "John Doe" then there's a halfway decent chance that the defendants don't actually live in St. Louis or even the surrounding area. I'm no expert on geolocating IP addresses, but I don't think it's that precise.
AFAIK, code does not mutate, develop resistances, respond to changes in the soil and its environment, or reproduce (causing hybrids). Wheat does, which means that there is a far greater chance for that wheat to actually resist the virus. Then add the human factor, such as active efforts to isolate wheat fields or preserve wheat in a laboratory.
...but for DRM. Sharing copyrighted content is barely tolerable when you're a EULA-savvy geek who doesn't mind downloading a freewware tool to crack the CSS on his DVD for archiving to his hard drive. But I sincerely doubt that granny (or Mom and Dad) are going to give a damn.
Mix in cell phones, consumer-electronics devices, appliances, etc., and it gets even worse.
Are there provisions to prevent "microstations" from springing up? If I don't take requests, but people know they can listen to "Hey Ya" or some other dreck all the time, it's essentially peer-to-peer file sharing, right?
For example, if the client is small enough, I may be able to run five instantiations of the server through different ports, playing five different songs over and over. Then, if someone could come up with an intermediary service to check what songs people are advertising that they have available, users could be "assigned" to broadcast songs, theoretically providing one or several songs to each person to continuously broadcast all the time.
Which might be kind of cool.
"Hey, who are you on Mercora"? "Dude, I'm "Smells Like Teen Spirit"! "Sweet! I landed "Tangled Up in Blue." "Steve, who are you?" "Batdance." "..."
Seriously, if some advanced race landed on Earth, at least some cult/faction/group would characterize them as gods. What I find interesting is the practical viewpoint of the Vatican astronomer; new scientific discovery does not eliminate the need for a God, it just redefines the boundaries between humanity and the Other.
I also think that a chance encounter with aliens would certainly polarize the creationists. Did God create the Earth in seven days? OK, what about Gamma Epsilon 7? The Catholic Church has had many, many faults, (hello, Galileo) but IMO the modern Church is much more accepting of scientific theories than, say, fundamentalist Christians.
Somehow, I think that cross-referencing suicides agianst their gaming habits was something the government forgot to do when creatin their U.S. Census polls during the 1980s. Or maybe it wasn't forgetful at all! Maybe it was a CONSPIRACY!!!!!
I apologize for any lack of detail in the article--I was in the midst of an out-of-state move, so I've been somewhat distracted. What's being discussed in the article is simply one piece of the (at least) three elements of trusted computing: the BIOS, the TPM chip, and a trusted OS. Palladium/NGSCB is several years away, which is the critical element. I'm not sure whether TPMs are used or not.
I'm scheduled to talk to Phoenix later this week, so I'll ask them if there's any benefit to adopting the cME so early on. My guess is that they'll say it's to use with their own trusted apps.
Hopefully the Slashdot community will learn to check ExtremeTech more frequently, so they don't have to refer to an article that was more than a week old.:)
It was designed by the French. It simply gave up and quit.
It was designed by the English. The re-entry engineers got right pissed at the pub and started a drunken brawl with the aeronautics lads, who calculated that delta V makes a lot more sense with a beer bottle in the midst of it.
It was designed by the Irish, who gave up calculus for Lent.
It was designed by the Germans. Beagle was properly engineered, but poorly manufactured by the Belgians, who nobody really knows anything about anyway.
It was designed by the Spanish. It's not a communications failure, just a long siesta. Relax.
If I recall correctly, Jim's a relative newcomer to Linux--he wrote his first review maybe eighteen months ago. It's a problem, though--can a noob really write a thorough review? In this case, I'm sure Jim remembers his early experiences.
"And did you conduct a study or have some data to back up your claim that most of us in the country don't have any desire to become a multi-planet species...?"
Most of us in California wanted an aging bodybuilder/action movie star to run the world's sixth largest economy. Time will tell if we were right or not.
Yes, it's true that Intel is certainly among the leaders in semiconductor manufacturing, based upon their process nodes. On the other hand, Intel has shown an amazing capacity for mucking up new markets it's entered into: the i740, the Itanium, mobile CPUs for laptops, and integrated processors like the Timna. It's also illustrative to note that, over time, they usually get it right. It just won't be next year--that's my guess, anyway.
Part of the concern here seems to be how the article was labeled. In the ABCNews.com piece originally cited, a PC Magazine opinion column written by Lance was defined as "commentary". At the original PC Magazine link here, the piece is part of the "opinions" section.
Personally, I feel like the word "commentary" implies that the text will be more analytical, akin to a news analysis piece, than merely an "opinion". But that's just my opin-- well, you get the idea.
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I will say that, from all that I've read, the MPAA will send your ISP a stern but dignified warning if they catch you trading movies via a P2P program. If you stop, no harm done. If you continue to trade, well...
The RIAA, on the other hand, will simply file a John Doe suit against your ISP in the hope that you'll negotiate a settlemeent in the thousands of dollars without even a warning -- or any chance to determine if either the RIAA or the consumer made a mistake. (Remember the granny who was sued by mistake?)
...are just a patch?
Damn, I hate buggy movies.
For some reason, the image that popped into my head was of a pimply guy with a mullet and a polo shirt trying to use that line to impress some bored chick at a high school party.
"And if you think that's cool, wait until I tell you my ten reasons why the 5.12 Linux kernel is technically superior to the current 6.X implementation. Hey, do you wanna check out the computer room? I can reformat their PC with Slackware and they'll never know it!! You have the prettiest eyes...they're like the Mandelbrot screensaver I have at home on Trinity. No, she's my PC. And then I have Heather, Aimee, and Calista, which I call her because she runs Linux and Linux is skinny, get it? ... Hey, are you really supposed to be stabbing yourself in the throat with that barrette?"
Hmmm... I guess that I was a little vague in my terminology -- "code" encompasses quite a number of things. Let's try to narrow it down.
I'd call a wheat a "staple" crop, akin to a driver or a utility program. We sell wheat; we don't sell a -- I don't know, a CD-ROM driver or something. Once it's stable, it's stable, and coders move on to other things. Nature's not like that. We can devote a great number of resources to refining code, eliminating bugs, narrowing it down, making it do what it wants to do. But code only "mutates" to the point where coders think it should stop.
Nature moves at its own pace. I'm sure there are millions of lines of legacy code that haven't been examined for years. Sure, if there's a vulnerability, it's quickly patched. In nature, there is no legacy code, nothing that can't be affected. An organic lifeform mutates at a slow, steady rate, and can randomly evolve into unimaginable directions.
A million monkeys banging on typewriters might reproduce Shakespeare, but they also might discover the key to bringing him back from the dead. Which might take a million years...
If the cases were filed against a "John Doe" then there's a halfway decent chance that the defendants don't actually live in St. Louis or even the surrounding area. I'm no expert on geolocating IP addresses, but I don't think it's that precise.
AFAIK, code does not mutate, develop resistances, respond to changes in the soil and its environment, or reproduce (causing hybrids). Wheat does, which means that there is a far greater chance for that wheat to actually resist the virus. Then add the human factor, such as active efforts to isolate wheat fields or preserve wheat in a laboratory.
...but for DRM. Sharing copyrighted content is barely tolerable when you're a EULA-savvy geek who doesn't mind downloading a freewware tool to crack the CSS on his DVD for archiving to his hard drive. But I sincerely doubt that granny (or Mom and Dad) are going to give a damn.
Mix in cell phones, consumer-electronics devices, appliances, etc., and it gets even worse.
Are there provisions to prevent "microstations" from springing up? If I don't take requests, but people know they can listen to "Hey Ya" or some other dreck all the time, it's essentially peer-to-peer file sharing, right?
For example, if the client is small enough, I may be able to run five instantiations of the server through different ports, playing five different songs over and over. Then, if someone could come up with an intermediary service to check what songs people are advertising that they have available, users could be "assigned" to broadcast songs, theoretically providing one or several songs to each person to continuously broadcast all the time.
Which might be kind of cool.
"Hey, who are you on Mercora"?
"Dude, I'm "Smells Like Teen Spirit"!
"Sweet! I landed "Tangled Up in Blue."
"Steve, who are you?"
"Batdance."
"..."
Because every time my friend uses Shareaza, he tells me that there's quite a bit of other content GPLed there too: music, games, movies...
...what about religion?
Seriously, if some advanced race landed on Earth, at least some cult/faction/group would characterize them as gods. What I find interesting is the practical viewpoint of the Vatican astronomer; new scientific discovery does not eliminate the need for a God, it just redefines the boundaries between humanity and the Other.
I also think that a chance encounter with aliens would certainly polarize the creationists. Did God create the Earth in seven days? OK, what about Gamma Epsilon 7? The Catholic Church has had many, many faults, (hello, Galileo) but IMO the modern Church is much more accepting of scientific theories than, say, fundamentalist Christians.
So would Slashdot turn over identifying information to the FBI et al if it was requested? What's the site's position on this?
Somehow, I think that cross-referencing suicides agianst their gaming habits was something the government forgot to do when creatin their U.S. Census polls during the 1980s. Or maybe it wasn't forgetful at all! Maybe it was a CONSPIRACY!!!!!
I'm the author.
:)
I apologize for any lack of detail in the article--I was in the midst of an out-of-state move, so I've been somewhat distracted. What's being discussed in the article is simply one piece of the (at least) three elements of trusted computing: the BIOS, the TPM chip, and a trusted OS. Palladium/NGSCB is several years away, which is the critical element. I'm not sure whether TPMs are used or not.
I'm scheduled to talk to Phoenix later this week, so I'll ask them if there's any benefit to adopting the cME so early on. My guess is that they'll say it's to use with their own trusted apps.
Hopefully the Slashdot community will learn to check ExtremeTech more frequently, so they don't have to refer to an article that was more than a week old.
It was designed by the French. It simply gave up and quit.
It was designed by the English. The re-entry engineers got right pissed at the pub and started a drunken brawl with the aeronautics lads, who calculated that delta V makes a lot more sense with a beer bottle in the midst of it.
It was designed by the Irish, who gave up calculus for Lent.
It was designed by the Germans. Beagle was properly engineered, but poorly manufactured by the Belgians, who nobody really knows anything about anyway.
It was designed by the Spanish. It's not a communications failure, just a long siesta. Relax.
It was designed by the Polish. 'Nuff said.
Headlines are subjective. The article should be objective. Comments (opinion) can be subjective, and generally are.
OK, everyone hold hands. Yes, that means you, 63.47.108.33. Connect to 23.126.156.3. Good. Now, let's all sing/IM/VOIP call/FTP/HTTP:
We are the world
We are the Internet
We are the ones who make a better place
We are the bloggers.
(Take it away, Bob Metcalfe!)
It's a choice we're making,
We're changing our own lives...
And to further this point, Old English is more easily parsed when read aloud. Try it -- it works.
If I recall correctly, Jim's a relative newcomer to Linux--he wrote his first review maybe eighteen months ago. It's a problem, though--can a noob really write a thorough review? In this case, I'm sure Jim remembers his early experiences.
Most of us in California wanted an aging bodybuilder/action movie star to run the world's sixth largest economy. Time will tell if we were right or not.
Although Kyle did a good job, there's also some more details on ExtremeTech, and on the Ziff-Davis CES report site here.
Yes, it's true that Intel is certainly among the leaders in semiconductor manufacturing, based upon their process nodes. On the other hand, Intel has shown an amazing capacity for mucking up new markets it's entered into: the i740, the Itanium, mobile CPUs for laptops, and integrated processors like the Timna. It's also illustrative to note that, over time, they usually get it right. It just won't be next year--that's my guess, anyway.
Personally, I feel like the word "commentary" implies that the text will be more analytical, akin to a news analysis piece, than merely an "opinion". But that's just my opin-- well, you get the idea.
A reasonable comment gets modded down into oblivion. Sad.
They should have picked five, or ten at the most (allowing for different genres).