I agree with the statment that this story should have never been posted because any Slashdot readers who follow the warez scene already knew this and any Slashdot readers who don't follow the warez scene probably make it a point to go out of their way NOT to follow the warez scene.
No, I have to disagree with this - certainly for myself I don't bother following the warez scene, but am curious to know what is going on from time - I would think those on Slashdot whom are interested in intellectual property, which is a fair few of us, would be interested in knowing of activity in the warez scene.
Personally I'd rather have all the crap comments, and have more people be aware of AOLs bad behaviour and the weaknesses of the domain name system.
Personally I think it's a real shame the domain name system wasn't designed to be decentralised at the beginning of ARPANET - it would be make sense for a fault tolerant network, and would hve made it harder for corporate entities to get a stranglehold on domain names.
Sorry, but I think you missed my point - Simon Trevaglia is still writing the BOFH for the Register at the moment - hence BOFH 2K. The most recent BOFH as of this posting is 25 July 2000 3:43pm.
Thank you so much for that post - I totally agree. As some one who only wants mindshare for my music, and doesn't give a rats arse about the money, Napster rocked for me.
About the only people who benefit from the RIAA model are the manafactured groups that are the descendants of The Monkees (Spice Girls etc).
(I know this is a bit of a me too post - that's why I posted it at score:1)
Mabye Napster the program will keep working, but if people stop using Napster the website and service, then thats Napster the company in trouble. The last thing Napster wants people to do is use OpenNap instead of them.
Firstly, as another poster states, Napster and Scour also only point you at the locations of files, and don't actually have the files. They are more like the Geocities pages with links to Warez FTP sites or doing a Google search for "Warez", than the Warez FTP sites themselves.
Secondly, if anything by the standards being applied in these court cases Google is more infringing than Napster/Scour, as Google caches local copies of potentially copyrighted material.
These both make sense - the idea of an open source text book would be rather than many people putting effort into many textbooks, they would be able to combine their efforts into one textbook, hopefully creating a best of class textbook.
And open sourcing your breakfast doesn't make any more sense than open sourcing an individual Redhat CD (the material, not the data). But open sourcing your breakfast recipes so that they may be worked on by many people - why not.
I think the poster means that if you alter gcc, compile a program with it, and distribute the binary of that program, you don't have to distribute your modified version of gcc, or the source of the program you compiled using your modified gcc.
The problem here is that these figures aren't aimed at freedom lovers - most of us take benchmarks with a pillar of salt anyhow. They are aimed at business users. Most business users don't play politics - they want results, and they want comments from the press they can show to their managers.
So while the benchmarks don't directly impact on us, their influence over business computing does give benchmarks some significance.
I am not saying that they shouldn't have used the bible because it is wrong. All I am saying is that when westerners are looking for significant texts of human history, choosing the bible could possibly indicate a lack of thought, where as there are many other texts of at least as much importance to human history (remember, human history, not western history) - such as the many texts of the Hindus, some of which influenced the writing of the bible.
The only thing I was trying to state is that in general, when naming texts of significance in human history, the Bible is one that takes little thought to name for westerners, as it is in the popular conscience, where as most important texts are not (hands up who knows what a Veda is). This states nothing about the truth or falsehood of the bible.
I have put a large amount of thought into the possibility the Bible could be true, thank you very much - I was raised a Christian for a fair few years. You are reading things into my statements I have not said.
I agree - I was simply saying that this is why "you people" go "fscking crazy". You were talking the general case, and so was I. I do not agree with Chiasmus_, and am not trying to defend him - simply giving a reason why your generalisation may be true.
In fact, looking at the responses to Chiasmus_, I wonder if s/he was a troll.
I heard of a plan of some sort that came out of one of the big media companies (Sony possibly) that involved all devices involved in an audio setup having to pass encrypted data streams - from source to speakers. There is no way to connect unencrypted devices, and there was a method given to disable devices that are found to give unencrypted output. There is only three ways to get an unencrypted output - by getting the encrypted stream and decrypting it, by getting a signal from the analog wires on the speaker that actually drives the cone, and by miking up the speaker.
When you copy a range of cells from a Ecxel spreadsheet document to, for example, send in an email, you don't just copy the range of cells, you copy the whole document with the range of cells highlighted. When you look in the mail, it looks fine, but when you double click the spreadsheet object to edit it, you can scroll through the spreadsheet, move from sheet to sheet using CTRL-PAGEDOWN/PAGEUP, and etc.
We found this out in our organisation recently when accounts copied pieces out of a salaries spreadsheet to give to managers, thinking they were only sending out the details of each managers department, but in fact sending the whole spreadsheet with details of company wide salaries ! Fortunately nothing bad came of this, but yet another example of Microsoft not planning their products for privacy and security. One can easily imagine this having much more serious consequences.
My thoughts are if you have anything you want to send where leaked data may be an issue, save your Word Document or Spreadsheet as text, and then import it back in and reformat. This of course may not always be practical for 100 page documents or whatever, but you know you're safe.
Evolution is still proceeding, just along different lines. As you state, almost all genes survive to breed, not just the fittest. So the genes that propagate the most successfully will be those belonging to the people who have the most offspring. Therefore we are evolving into Catholics.
(Warning for the humour impaired, this isn't serious).
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Asking for proof is reasonable
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In this age where even the average e-shopper is so worried about "electronic privacy",
Are you truly 15 years old or do you just prefer to act like you are? To respond to a reasonable, beleivable statement with "Do you have any statistics to back up your statement" really shows off a moral and intellectual defecit.
Yet another rude slashdot replier - Zico is making the perfectly valid point that Nicholas Vining is making generalised statements without backing them up - why should we believe the average e-shopper is worried about privacy. And to prove anything about the average e-shopper, one must use statistics. Especially seen this statement isn't necessarily reasonable or believable. In fact Zico makes the far more reasonable point that e-shoppers probably aren't concerned about privacy, because they are willing to use e-shopping, which doesn't have the best privacy record.
Moral and intellectual deficit - man, you're full of sh*t.
The thing is that there is no surgery involved for this - they test your eyes using a laser, and then an optical device that sits on your face configures itself to give you "super-vision". There is no implants etc. involved here.
Yes, this is a scenario I think very likely - for at least the first while that adaptive optics are commercially available, they will be a status symbol of sorts, as elective/plastic surgery was in its infancy.
WHO IN THERE RIGHT MIND WOULD WANT TO SEE BETTER THAN 20/20
I'd rather turn this question around. Who in their right mind would not want to be able to see better than 20/20 ! I can see no ill effects from this (assuming adaptive optics are safe, which seems reasonable), and many benefits, making travelling easier (can see sign and obstacles from further away), less chance of misinterpreting text, and ease of spotting people, just to name a couple off the top of my head.
They state that the meaurements their instruments make are used to configure some sort of lens - a sort of super glasses. But I wonder if in theory they could use the measurements to smooth out all the imperfections, presumably using laser surgery, and permanently give you the super vision.
I really want to try one of these things. I can remember the first time I put on glasses when I was nine or ten, the difference was like a heat haze in front of my vision had disappeared - or going from VCR to DVD. So you can imagine that trying on adaptive optics is even more astonishing.
Do these things give you better than 20/20 vision? Is 30/30 going to be a catch phrase of our future:-)
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I agree with the statment that this story should have never been posted because any Slashdot readers who follow the warez scene already knew this and any Slashdot readers who don't follow the warez scene probably make it a point to go out of their way NOT to follow the warez scene.
No, I have to disagree with this - certainly for myself I don't bother following the warez scene, but am curious to know what is going on from time - I would think those on Slashdot whom are interested in intellectual property, which is a fair few of us, would be interested in knowing of activity in the warez scene.
Personally I'd rather have all the crap comments, and have more people be aware of AOLs bad behaviour and the weaknesses of the domain name system.
Personally I think it's a real shame the domain name system wasn't designed to be decentralised at the beginning of ARPANET - it would be make sense for a fault tolerant network, and would hve made it harder for corporate entities to get a stranglehold on domain names.
Sorry, but I think you missed my point - Simon Trevaglia is still writing the BOFH for the Register at the moment - hence BOFH 2K. The most recent BOFH as of this posting is 25 July 2000 3:43pm.
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Oh what memories
Memories ? The BOFH is still alive and well and on The Register - BOFH 2K: Kit and Caboodle.
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So you can vote for a number of different politicians, all of whom will ignore your wishes and follow the music industry line - great!
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Thank you so much for that post - I totally agree. As some one who only wants mindshare for my music, and doesn't give a rats arse about the money, Napster rocked for me.
About the only people who benefit from the RIAA model are the manafactured groups that are the descendants of The Monkees (Spice Girls etc).
(I know this is a bit of a me too post - that's why I posted it at score:1)
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Mabye Napster the program will keep working, but if people stop using Napster the website and service, then thats Napster the company in trouble. The last thing Napster wants people to do is use OpenNap instead of them.
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Firstly, as another poster states, Napster and Scour also only point you at the locations of files, and don't actually have the files. They are more like the Geocities pages with links to Warez FTP sites or doing a Google search for "Warez", than the Warez FTP sites themselves.
Secondly, if anything by the standards being applied in these court cases Google is more infringing than Napster/Scour, as Google caches local copies of potentially copyrighted material.
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These both make sense - the idea of an open source text book would be rather than many people putting effort into many textbooks, they would be able to combine their efforts into one textbook, hopefully creating a best of class textbook.
And open sourcing your breakfast doesn't make any more sense than open sourcing an individual Redhat CD (the material, not the data). But open sourcing your breakfast recipes so that they may be worked on by many people - why not.
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Are you bitchslapped? that shouldn't be at -1.
Between the nick (bitchslapboy) and the fact there are no moderations to the post, yes, bitchslapboy is bitchslapped.
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I think the poster means that if you alter gcc, compile a program with it, and distribute the binary of that program, you don't have to distribute your modified version of gcc, or the source of the program you compiled using your modified gcc.
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The problem here is that these figures aren't aimed at freedom lovers - most of us take benchmarks with a pillar of salt anyhow. They are aimed at business users. Most business users don't play politics - they want results, and they want comments from the press they can show to their managers.
So while the benchmarks don't directly impact on us, their influence over business computing does give benchmarks some significance.
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I am not saying that they shouldn't have used the bible because it is wrong. All I am saying is that when westerners are looking for significant texts of human history, choosing the bible could possibly indicate a lack of thought, where as there are many other texts of at least as much importance to human history (remember, human history, not western history) - such as the many texts of the Hindus, some of which influenced the writing of the bible.
The only thing I was trying to state is that in general, when naming texts of significance in human history, the Bible is one that takes little thought to name for westerners, as it is in the popular conscience, where as most important texts are not (hands up who knows what a Veda is). This states nothing about the truth or falsehood of the bible.
I have put a large amount of thought into the possibility the Bible could be true, thank you very much - I was raised a Christian for a fair few years. You are reading things into my statements I have not said.
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I agree - I was simply saying that this is why "you people" go "fscking crazy". You were talking the general case, and so was I.
I do not agree with Chiasmus_, and am not trying to defend him - simply giving a reason why your generalisation may be true.
In fact, looking at the responses to Chiasmus_, I wonder if s/he was a troll.
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Because the choice of the bible indicates a possible lack of thought into the alternatives to store.
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Could you not argue that you are exchanging your information in return for access to the services the company provides?
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I heard of a plan of some sort that came out of one of the big media companies (Sony possibly) that involved all devices involved in an audio setup having to pass encrypted data streams - from source to speakers. There is no way to connect unencrypted devices, and there was a method given to disable devices that are found to give unencrypted output. There is only three ways to get an unencrypted output - by getting the encrypted stream and decrypting it, by getting a signal from the analog wires on the speaker that actually drives the cone, and by miking up the speaker.
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When you copy a range of cells from a Ecxel spreadsheet document to, for example, send in an email, you don't just copy the range of cells, you copy the whole document with the range of cells highlighted. When you look in the mail, it looks fine, but when you double click the spreadsheet object to edit it, you can scroll through the spreadsheet, move from sheet to sheet using CTRL-PAGEDOWN/PAGEUP, and etc.
We found this out in our organisation recently when accounts copied pieces out of a salaries spreadsheet to give to managers, thinking they were only sending out the details of each managers department, but in fact sending the whole spreadsheet with details of company wide salaries ! Fortunately nothing bad came of this, but yet another example of Microsoft not planning their products for privacy and security. One can easily imagine this having much more serious consequences.
My thoughts are if you have anything you want to send where leaked data may be an issue, save your Word Document or Spreadsheet as text, and then import it back in and reformat. This of course may not always be practical for 100 page documents or whatever, but you know you're safe.
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Evolution is still proceeding, just along different lines. As you state, almost all genes survive to breed, not just the fittest. So the genes that propagate the most successfully will be those belonging to the people who have the most offspring. Therefore we are evolving into Catholics.
(Warning for the humour impaired, this isn't serious).
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Are you truly 15 years old or do you just prefer to act like you are? To respond to a reasonable, beleivable statement with "Do you have any statistics to back up your statement" really shows off a moral and intellectual defecit.
Yet another rude slashdot replier - Zico is making the perfectly valid point that Nicholas Vining is making generalised statements without backing them up - why should we believe the average e-shopper is worried about privacy. And to prove anything about the average e-shopper, one must use statistics. Especially seen this statement isn't necessarily reasonable or believable. In fact Zico makes the far more reasonable point that e-shoppers probably aren't concerned about privacy, because they are willing to use e-shopping, which doesn't have the best privacy record.
Moral and intellectual deficit - man, you're full of sh*t.
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The thing is that there is no surgery involved for this - they test your eyes using a laser, and then an optical device that sits on your face configures itself to give you "super-vision". There is no implants etc. involved here.
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I have to disagree here... the world looks much better to me with my glasses on.
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Yes, this is a scenario I think very likely - for at least the first while that adaptive optics are commercially available, they will be a status symbol of sorts, as elective/plastic surgery was in its infancy.
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I'd rather turn this question around. Who in their right mind would not want to be able to see better than 20/20 ! I can see no ill effects from this (assuming adaptive optics are safe, which seems reasonable), and many benefits, making travelling easier (can see sign and obstacles from further away), less chance of misinterpreting text, and ease of spotting people, just to name a couple off the top of my head.
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I really want to try one of these things. I can remember the first time I put on glasses when I was nine or ten, the difference was like a heat haze in front of my vision had disappeared - or going from VCR to DVD. So you can imagine that trying on adaptive optics is even more astonishing.
Do these things give you better than 20/20 vision? Is 30/30 going to be a catch phrase of our future :-)
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