I like using social security numbers. Everyone in the world has them and they're 100% unique. Plus you can use the fact that someone knows their SSN to prove that they are who they say they are.
"untreated, unfiltered information"? Shock horror, maybe he'd preffer that The New York Times gets to filter our information for us?
Did you read the whole paragraph? Let me quote it.
At its best, the Internet can educate more people faster than any media tool we've ever had. At its worst, it can make people dumber faster than any media tool we've ever had. The lie that 4,000 Jews were warned not to go into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 was spread entirely over the Internet and is now thoroughly believed in the Muslim world. Because the Internet has an aura of "technology" surrounding it, the uneducated believe information from it even more. They don't realize that the Internet, at its ugliest, is just an open sewer: an electronic conduit for untreated, unfiltered information.
This is the biggest sin of liberal mouth pieces like the NYT, ommission.
Try putting someone's quote in context before you rant about how idiotic it is (without even backing up your statements). And try not criticising someone else for something while you're doing it yourself.
Read that paper and there's stuff you'll just never hear about, points of view they don't want you to hear.
Get your opinions from slashdot and short snippets of the article surrounded by rhetorical spin which completely ignores the intent of the snippet.
Does that mean slashdot is bad? Not really. But it does tend to solidify the ignorant opinions of some of the people who read it and don't think for themselves.
If you still decide you want "untreated, unfiltered information," try reading slashdot at -1 some time. Then come back to me.
The minute Napster went de-facto belly up, did people stop downloading music? No, they just found other ways to do it. Hell, people will download spyware and install it on their system rather than give up the ability to trade files online.
But that's exactly my point. As long as these companies introduce their nonsense gradually, virtually no one cares. Copyright infringement is illegal. It's illegal for me to trade mp3s over the internet. And even though there are millions of people who are opposed to that law, you don't see any of them fighting against it. Instead they trade on napster, and when they goes down they trade on gnutella, and let the companies install spyware and other nonsense on their systems. The line keeps shifting further and further, until eventually it's almost impossible trade mp3s over the internet.
The problem for Hollywood is that one person will find the way around their protection scheme, and the equivalent of a libcss file will enable a thousand more to write software the average Joe can use to circumvent "CSS-Plus", SDMI, or whatever it will end up being called.
How many people do you know that have satellite receivers in their houses that haven't paid for the service? It's perfectly possible to come up with single-purpose devices which make it extremely difficult to "steal" content. Sure, you might have a few people who still insist on breaking the rules, but once you go into hardware solutions, the masses simply aren't going to go through the trouble of finding black-market retailers.
And the DMCA is right there to make sure that anyone who does come up with those devices and distribute them will be risking jail time.
The sad fact of the matter is that as long as a product does at least the minimum requirements, people don't care. That's why eBay can get away with pop-up ads. That's why people buy software with EULAs which take away their right to fair use. That's why we cave in and sign up just to read NYTimes articles. That's why we put up with BFAs and inane copyright restrictions on slashdot. It's why Microsoft gets away with charging people over and over for the same operating system, just because they buy a new computer.
Computers, the internet, the world could be so much better. But people constantly settle for mediocrity.
Its really not a big deal to remember the major web destinations (alot easier than phone numbers which people routinely remember).
I almost never use urls any more. I just use google, and remember the keyword. Why bother remembering http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/ when you can just type "copyright law" into google? Why remember http://www.harmonycentral.com/Guitar/tab.html when I can type "olga" into google? Realnames is a good idea, they just didn't have a business model which made sense.
So to keep the shuttles flying, the space agency has begun trolling the Internet -- including Yahoo and eBay -- to find replacement parts for electronic gear that would strike a home computer user as primitive.
That sounds incredibly dangerous. What if someone was able to somehow place a trojan into the parts they sell to NASA? Maybe in the bios, or something.
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Yeah. Was just a lame attempt at tongue-in-cheek humor. But I do still use Outlook (Express). Haven't had any problems with it so far. At least none that I know about!:)
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From the release notes: "xxxxxxxx.slt is a randomly generated directory name. It's an important security feature."
If you're talking about this bug, it's fixed. The time the bug started showing up on slashdot until the time it was fixed in a nightly was only a matter of a couple days.
You aren't obligated to make the source code publicly available, but you are obligated to "cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License."
If you're a contractor, and not an employee, you almost surely are considered to have "distributed" the derivitive work. While you aren't obligated to make the source code available, you are obligated to GPL the code, and unless you are under an NDA to not disclose the code, if it happens to get onto a public FTP server, then anyone is free to use, copy, and redistribute it.
Never said that. I said trying to keep me from copying is stupid.
That's exactly what copyright law does. It makes it illegal for you to copy.
Copyright is, or at any rate should be, keeping me making money off of, or claiming as my own, someone else's work.
That's certainly not what it is.
Still nowhere near perfect, but trying to keep tabs on what every singe person does on their home PC is, as I said, an exercise in futility.
It may be an exercise in futility, but it's precisely what copyright law does.
The DMCA on the other hand mainly focuses on those trying to profit off of copyright infringement. People like Slyarov, and companies like Elcomsoft.
Do I demand that anyone who wants to make a copy of a work of mine pay me to get permission to do so? Do I demand that nobody ever try to get around any protections on said works on pain of litigation? Certainly not.
So if I want to copy your slashdot posts and distribute them on my site, I may do that?
Some NeuLevel customers who viewed the notice concluded that the company's sites had been vandalized by attackers.
But as it turns out it was just a publicity stunt to try to get people to care about the.us registry. "Hey, we got on slashdot, that's an accomplishment" beamed a reputable NeuLevel employee who wished to remain anonymous.
Mark Shuttleworth, the world's second space tourist, has said he will return to his native South Africa with his spacesuit, but without the ultimate in souvenirs - the Russian Soyuz capsule that brought him back to Earth.
The 28-year-old Internet magnate, who paid $20 million for his 10-day adventure into space, told journalists in Moscow Tuesday, that the trip was worth the cost many times over.
Mr. Shuttleworth said he expressed interest in buying the space capsule, which he nicknamed "Betty," but was not able to reach agreement with the Russian space agency.
Sergei Gorbunov, a spokesman for the agency, said the capsule is federal property, adding the Soyuz is considered space technology and the legal procedures for exporting it would be long and complicated.
Mr. Shuttleworth said he hoped to have a replica of the vehicle built, which he could take to South Africa and display to school children to interest them in space exploration.
He also thanked his two crew mates, Russian commander Yuri Gidzenko and Italian pilot Roberto Vittori, for their help during his stay on the International Space Station and during the fiery descent to earth.
The Soyuz capsule landed safely in Kazakhstan Sunday.
Story from VOANews. Some information in this article provided by AFP.
Mark Shuttleworth, the world's second space tourist, has said he will return to his native South Africa with his spacesuit, but without the ultimate in souvenirs - the Russian Soyuz capsule that brought him back to Earth.
The 28-year-old Internet magnate, who paid $20 million for his 10-day adventure into space, told journalists in Moscow Tuesday, that the trip was worth the cost many times over.
Mr. Shuttleworth said he expressed interest in buying the space capsule, which he nicknamed "Betty," but was not able to reach agreement with the Russian space agency.
Sergei Gorbunov, a spokesman for the agency, said the capsule is federal property, adding the Soyuz is considered space technology and the legal procedures for exporting it would be long and complicated.
Mr. Shuttleworth said he hoped to have a replica of the vehicle built, which he could take to South Africa and display to school children to interest them in space exploration.
He also thanked his two crew mates, Russian commander Yuri Gidzenko and Italian pilot Roberto Vittori, for their help during his stay on the International Space Station and during the fiery descent to earth.
The Soyuz capsule landed safely in Kazakhstan Sunday.
Story from VOANews. Some information in this article provided by AFP.
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I like using social security numbers. Everyone in the world has them and they're 100% unique. Plus you can use the fact that someone knows their SSN to prove that they are who they say they are.
And I don't get my opinions from slashdot you patronizing dumb ass.
Wherever you do get them from, I think you should find a better source.
"untreated, unfiltered information"? Shock horror, maybe he'd preffer that The New York Times gets to filter our information for us?
Did you read the whole paragraph? Let me quote it.
This is the biggest sin of liberal mouth pieces like the NYT, ommission.
Try putting someone's quote in context before you rant about how idiotic it is (without even backing up your statements). And try not criticising someone else for something while you're doing it yourself.
Read that paper and there's stuff you'll just never hear about, points of view they don't want you to hear.
Get your opinions from slashdot and short snippets of the article surrounded by rhetorical spin which completely ignores the intent of the snippet.
Does that mean slashdot is bad? Not really. But it does tend to solidify the ignorant opinions of some of the people who read it and don't think for themselves.
If you still decide you want "untreated, unfiltered information," try reading slashdot at -1 some time. Then come back to me.
That is - what would happen if shrinkwrap limitation of liability clauses would be banned?
Any company without $40 billion in cash to pay for lawsuits would go out of business. Microsoft would rule the world.
The minute Napster went de-facto belly up, did people stop downloading music? No, they just found other ways to do it. Hell, people will download spyware and install it on their system rather than give up the ability to trade files online.
But that's exactly my point. As long as these companies introduce their nonsense gradually, virtually no one cares. Copyright infringement is illegal. It's illegal for me to trade mp3s over the internet. And even though there are millions of people who are opposed to that law, you don't see any of them fighting against it. Instead they trade on napster, and when they goes down they trade on gnutella, and let the companies install spyware and other nonsense on their systems. The line keeps shifting further and further, until eventually it's almost impossible trade mp3s over the internet.
The problem for Hollywood is that one person will find the way around their protection scheme, and the equivalent of a libcss file will enable a thousand more to write software the average Joe can use to circumvent "CSS-Plus", SDMI, or whatever it will end up being called.
How many people do you know that have satellite receivers in their houses that haven't paid for the service? It's perfectly possible to come up with single-purpose devices which make it extremely difficult to "steal" content. Sure, you might have a few people who still insist on breaking the rules, but once you go into hardware solutions, the masses simply aren't going to go through the trouble of finding black-market retailers.
And the DMCA is right there to make sure that anyone who does come up with those devices and distribute them will be risking jail time.
To prove my dedication, I hearby release this comment into the public domain.
Release the rest under the QingPL. C'mon, you know you want to ;).
The sad fact of the matter is that as long as a product does at least the minimum requirements, people don't care. That's why eBay can get away with pop-up ads. That's why people buy software with EULAs which take away their right to fair use. That's why we cave in and sign up just to read NYTimes articles. That's why we put up with BFAs and inane copyright restrictions on slashdot. It's why Microsoft gets away with charging people over and over for the same operating system, just because they buy a new computer.
Computers, the internet, the world could be so much better. But people constantly settle for mediocrity.
So stop using them. And sue them. Problem solved.
Notice how we're all posting anonymously on this topic?
Slashdot has your IP address. And the Patriot Act gives the government the power to get it from slashdot. What's the point?
Why stop there? Why not change the message body as well?
Because if you do no one will use your service. Duh.
Its really not a big deal to remember the major web destinations (alot easier than phone numbers which people routinely remember).
I almost never use urls any more. I just use google, and remember the keyword. Why bother remembering http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/ when you can just type "copyright law" into google? Why remember http://www.harmonycentral.com/Guitar/tab.html when I can type "olga" into google? Realnames is a good idea, they just didn't have a business model which made sense.
Who would actually benefit from bugging NASA hardware?
Doesn't have to be bugging. I'm sure there are a lot of terrorists who would be interested in crashing a shuttle or two.
So to keep the shuttles flying, the space agency has begun trolling the Internet -- including Yahoo and eBay -- to find replacement parts for electronic gear that would strike a home computer user as primitive.
That sounds incredibly dangerous. What if someone was able to somehow place a trojan into the parts they sell to NASA? Maybe in the bios, or something.
Yeah. Was just a lame attempt at tongue-in-cheek humor. But I do still use Outlook (Express). Haven't had any problems with it so far. At least none that I know about! :)
From the release notes: "xxxxxxxx.slt is a randomly generated directory name. It's an important security feature."
Cool. I also changed "include" to "includes" and "releases" to "release". Hope you don't mind.
Can I use your story on my site?
If you're talking about this bug, it's fixed. The time the bug started showing up on slashdot until the time it was fixed in a nightly was only a matter of a couple days.
You aren't obligated to make the source code publicly available, but you are obligated to "cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License."
If you're a contractor, and not an employee, you almost surely are considered to have "distributed" the derivitive work. While you aren't obligated to make the source code available, you are obligated to GPL the code, and unless you are under an NDA to not disclose the code, if it happens to get onto a public FTP server, then anyone is free to use, copy, and redistribute it.
Never said that. I said trying to keep me from copying is stupid.
That's exactly what copyright law does. It makes it illegal for you to copy.
Copyright is, or at any rate should be, keeping me making money off of, or claiming as my own, someone else's work.
That's certainly not what it is.
Still nowhere near perfect, but trying to keep tabs on what every singe person does on their home PC is, as I said, an exercise in futility.
It may be an exercise in futility, but it's precisely what copyright law does.
The DMCA on the other hand mainly focuses on those trying to profit off of copyright infringement. People like Slyarov, and companies like Elcomsoft.
Do I demand that anyone who wants to make a copy of a work of mine pay me to get permission to do so? Do I demand that nobody ever try to get around any protections on said works on pain of litigation? Certainly not.
So if I want to copy your slashdot posts and distribute them on my site, I may do that?
Some NeuLevel customers who viewed the notice concluded that the company's sites had been vandalized by attackers.
But as it turns out it was just a publicity stunt to try to get people to care about the .us registry. "Hey, we got on slashdot, that's an accomplishment" beamed a reputable NeuLevel employee who wished to remain anonymous.
Sometimes I wonder if stupidity is a requirement to moderate on slashdot.
sorry
Mark Shuttleworth, the world's second space tourist, has said he will return to his native South Africa with his spacesuit, but without the ultimate in souvenirs - the Russian Soyuz capsule that brought him back to Earth.
The 28-year-old Internet magnate, who paid $20 million for his 10-day adventure into space, told journalists in Moscow Tuesday, that the trip was worth the cost many times over.
Mr. Shuttleworth said he expressed interest in buying the space capsule, which he nicknamed "Betty," but was not able to reach agreement with the Russian space agency.
Sergei Gorbunov, a spokesman for the agency, said the capsule is federal property, adding the Soyuz is considered space technology and the legal procedures for exporting it would be long and complicated.
Mr. Shuttleworth said he hoped to have a replica of the vehicle built, which he could take to South Africa and display to school children to interest them in space exploration.
He also thanked his two crew mates, Russian commander Yuri Gidzenko and Italian pilot Roberto Vittori, for their help during his stay on the International Space Station and during the fiery descent to earth.
The Soyuz capsule landed safely in Kazakhstan Sunday.
Story from VOANews. Some information in this article provided by AFP.
Mark Shuttleworth, the world's second space tourist, has said he will return to his native South Africa with his spacesuit, but without the ultimate in souvenirs - the Russian Soyuz capsule that brought him back to Earth. The 28-year-old Internet magnate, who paid $20 million for his 10-day adventure into space, told journalists in Moscow Tuesday, that the trip was worth the cost many times over. Mr. Shuttleworth said he expressed interest in buying the space capsule, which he nicknamed "Betty," but was not able to reach agreement with the Russian space agency. Sergei Gorbunov, a spokesman for the agency, said the capsule is federal property, adding the Soyuz is considered space technology and the legal procedures for exporting it would be long and complicated. Mr. Shuttleworth said he hoped to have a replica of the vehicle built, which he could take to South Africa and display to school children to interest them in space exploration. He also thanked his two crew mates, Russian commander Yuri Gidzenko and Italian pilot Roberto Vittori, for their help during his stay on the International Space Station and during the fiery descent to earth. The Soyuz capsule landed safely in Kazakhstan Sunday. Story from VOANews. Some information in this article provided by AFP.