If the MPAA get their way, you not only won't be able to watch their movies without paying them, you won't have any alternatives.
And where would the next genius directors come from? I doubt Coppola and Scorcese got there start on A-list prodictions. More likely, they did stuff like the Amazon short film contest (which, interestingly enough is in part sponsored by Tribeca films). Unlike the RIAA, the MPAA seems to want to make art rather than just a pile of cash.
I went to put my ducks in a row to do some petty consulting and was shocked that my city explictly forbade, for instance, accountants from operating out of their homes.
Isn't that itself illegal? Something about illegal restraint of trade? Anyway, what if 2 accountants rent out a bedroom to each other and did books in their 'offices'?
Trust me, you haven't see bad code until you've seen code that was written before most good coding practices were invented and was trying very hard to cram a bunch of functionality into 2K of memory. Hmm, we're past the first 80 bytes of code, lets use that area as an i/o buffer now; wait, now we need to branch back to where that code was, let's just set a flag in a register and re-load the program!
That's not bad unless it isn't commented. Of course, I pregram for a living, so I know the answer to that one already.
Have you ever fixed a bug on a production machine by directly editing the program in memory to avoid the cost of restarting the system, while your VP watched nervously over your shoulder and made "helpful" suggestions
Thankfully, no, but I may yet get the opportunity at the current gig. I gauge part of my competence on not getting in those situations in the first place, or at least, not being the guy that made the mess. I am getting better at this diplomacy thing, so I'd probably send the VP out for some coffee or propwash instead of telling him to button it.
So, Zimbabwe can: 1) continue to pirate and run the risks, 2) come up with the same money as a country that many businesses come up with - through investment, or 3) sweet talk people into giving them what they need.
I expect them (or someone else in the same situation) to 4) grow their own business software industry once the need is there. They would pay less, the company would be local (better for the GDP), and the company would likely be more acquainted with their clients' needs.
You're right, of course. Only one person should pay for the accounting software used to run things like Zimbabwe's banks or police departments - perhaps you, or maybe me.
Your sarcasm is just a bit thick - acting like the simple fact that our software is overpriced relative to the earning power of your average Zimbabwean. Do you really think that nobody in Africa (or China/India) can write something as dry as business accounting software? Maybe they'll run gnucash.
If they choose to do it by pirating something, then it's reasonable to focus on that and say it out loud. If, though, there's enough promise in Zimbabwe to attract serious investment, and there's the expectation that rule of law and a stable society will support such... then $100 for the software on the desktop of every employee in the company being invested in is trivial.
What do you hope to accomplish? Bitching about piracy won't get them to buy American. why would they? Also, investors probably won't be happy to find that their company just spent a pile of money on something like peachtree. That's likely to be a big portion of their budget, and costs like that may make them uncompetitive locally.
How many versions of Star Wars (Episode IV) are there?
There are 2: VHS and DVD. Each is easily distinguished from the other and all DVDs will play in my player. The special edition crap is a mild irritant, but there's no question of buying something you can't use.
I noticed that the process for installing a packaged FOSS app is about 3 steps long, so we should probably be spending more effort on increased visibility and package manager usage. You also left out the part where your P2P app gets a trojanned version, or something that claims to be office, but is garbage instead.
Personally I figure that if you get pulled-over and are over 0.06, they crush your car. If you do it a second time, they crush your car AND take away your driver's license for life (ie: you NEVER drive again).
That's plain stupid. A 6 month suspended license followed by prison time on a 2nd offence would likely be more effective. Naturally, the limit should be higher.
so we should wait until a DUI drivers kills a bunch of people before putting him in jail eventhough two warnings were already given... I'm sorry but I don't agree with that.
Well, we could start by fixing DUI so it actually meant something. I could deal with a BAC limit of.12 or even.10. 0.06 is a joke.
the requirements would indeed be very different and by the time such a site has scaled to 5,000 servers it's likely that we'd have several hundred database servers already.
You don't need 100 datbase servers, just one or two. You can take portions of your site and autogenerate it from the DB driven 'master', then distribute those to the 5000 webservers. Meanwhile, the DB can handle the load of the remaining portion, which is necessarily dynamic.
Wow, it keeps surprising me how you twist what I say. Re-read what I wrote. I didn't even mention a teacher. And I didn't say it was impossible to demonstrate there's a security hole in a system.
I was tying this strained analogy back to the original thread, where there was a teacher and permission was given.
Now before writing other examples that do not fit at all what the discussion was about re-read the thread (I can't stress that enough to you evidently). You keep posting about situations in which the script kiddie is not committing a crime at all.
I'm trying to explain to you how the HS kiddy isn't commiting a crime either. Pay attention.
The stupid programmer: can't figure out this RDBMS thang and resorts to stuffing the results of queries into the Unix file system.
And the smart one recognizes when cached content results in lowered DB load and increased availability. Calling someone stupid for their approach without addressing why is, to be blunt, also stupid.
run a database service across a few hundred of them
So very bad. you're going to take a hundred webservers and make them be a database? The requirements are vastly different. You would be better off autogenerating parts of the site and pushing them to the webservers.
On the other hand a site that is anything other than very very small will be unwieldy to maintain as a static site.
That's hardly relevant. The topic is focused on the operational issues a website faces, not its admin issues. A dynamic site can very easily use a caching layer to improve performance with little to no admin cost.
When I said "...stealing someone's wallet without him noticing it..." I really meant it. Asking for permission before doing so kind of makes that impossible doesn't it?
No, not really. Telling a teacher that there's a major security hole and demonstrating it when asked is hardly impossible.
From my experience, they look after their own and if you're gonna start making claims, you could end up in more trouble than it's worth. Yeah, I probably could have got a lawyer and sorted it out, but it would be far too much time, effort and money considering how little long term damage was done to me. They didn't put it down on my record, so effectively I got a couple of weeks off school and that was the end of that.
My parents have tangled with my high school before - they're basically pompous idiots. Kick them and they roll over. I got excused from my last period for freshman year because my gym teacher was more concerned about my uniform practices than my physical safety. If some teacher made a comment like that, I'd have her job.
Small wine/beer companies have zero chance to compete against the likes of Budweiser, Busch, Coors and other lousy products meshed with superior marketing.
The last beer I had was called 'Moose Drool'. I haven't had bud light ever - who in their right mind is going to drink a watered down knock off of a czech pilsner when good beer is available. I will admit to drinking Guiness and Newcastle.
cannot tell you the list of wine/beer that I highly prefer, that I will never see in any restaurant. Why? Cause they'd rather stock 300 bottles of Budlight that they can sell.
Quite honestly, if you take this to a logical extreme, no matter what the input data, given the ability to write any function, the output data could be anything you could conceive.
That's just mental masturbation. If you possess an encrypted data file, then you possess the file as well, provided that you encrypted it yourself. If you've forgotten the password, you possessed it at sometime in the past.
If someone is coming after you for possession of illicit data, they probably have a good evidentiary chain tying you to that data, so stupid mind games about what the file might be won't help you, especially if they seize the computer you used and recover fragments of the data from the drive's freespace.
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My password vault happens to be Firefox, though.
How do you get your passwords out?
If the MPAA get their way, you not only won't be able to watch their movies without paying them, you won't have any alternatives.
And where would the next genius directors come from? I doubt Coppola and Scorcese got there start on A-list prodictions. More likely, they did stuff like the Amazon short film contest (which, interestingly enough is in part sponsored by Tribeca films). Unlike the RIAA, the MPAA seems to want to make art rather than just a pile of cash.
I went to put my ducks in a row to do some petty consulting and was shocked that my city explictly forbade, for instance, accountants from operating out of their homes.
Isn't that itself illegal? Something about illegal restraint of trade? Anyway, what if 2 accountants rent out a bedroom to each other and did books in their 'offices'?
Trust me, you haven't see bad code until you've seen code that was written before most good coding practices were invented and was trying very hard to cram a bunch of functionality into 2K of memory. Hmm, we're past the first 80 bytes of code, lets use that area as an i/o buffer now; wait, now we need to branch back to where that code was, let's just set a flag in a register and re-load the program!
That's not bad unless it isn't commented. Of course, I pregram for a living, so I know the answer to that one already.
Have you ever fixed a bug on a production machine by directly editing the program in memory to avoid the cost of restarting the system, while your VP watched nervously over your shoulder and made "helpful" suggestions
Thankfully, no, but I may yet get the opportunity at the current gig. I gauge part of my competence on not getting in those situations in the first place, or at least, not being the guy that made the mess. I am getting better at this diplomacy thing, so I'd probably send the VP out for some coffee or propwash instead of telling him to button it.
Ya know, all you had to say was Rincewind.
America has always had the best government money can buy and Spammers have FAR more money then the rest of us. QED
Yeah, but they're having trouble moving it out of Nigeria.
So, Zimbabwe can: 1) continue to pirate and run the risks, 2) come up with the same money as a country that many businesses come up with - through investment, or 3) sweet talk people into giving them what they need.
I expect them (or someone else in the same situation) to 4) grow their own business software industry once the need is there. They would pay less, the company would be local (better for the GDP), and the company would likely be more acquainted with their clients' needs.
You're right, of course. Only one person should pay for the accounting software used to run things like Zimbabwe's banks or police departments - perhaps you, or maybe me.
Your sarcasm is just a bit thick - acting like the simple fact that our software is overpriced relative to the earning power of your average Zimbabwean. Do you really think that nobody in Africa (or China/India) can write something as dry as business accounting software? Maybe they'll run gnucash.
If they choose to do it by pirating something, then it's reasonable to focus on that and say it out loud. If, though, there's enough promise in Zimbabwe to attract serious investment, and there's the expectation that rule of law and a stable society will support such... then $100 for the software on the desktop of every employee in the company being invested in is trivial.
What do you hope to accomplish? Bitching about piracy won't get them to buy American. why would they? Also, investors probably won't be happy to find that their company just spent a pile of money on something like peachtree. That's likely to be a big portion of their budget, and costs like that may make them uncompetitive locally.
People have died because of this. They don't really care why it's difficult to fix.
911 service only makes sense if you're using the thing as a fixed installation. If you're travelling with it, then what's the point?
How many versions of Star Wars (Episode IV) are there?
There are 2: VHS and DVD. Each is easily distinguished from the other and all DVDs will play in my player. The special edition crap is a mild irritant, but there's no question of buying something you can't use.
I noticed that the process for installing a packaged FOSS app is about 3 steps long, so we should probably be spending more effort on increased visibility and package manager usage. You also left out the part where your P2P app gets a trojanned version, or something that claims to be office, but is garbage instead.
Personally I figure that if you get pulled-over and are over 0.06, they crush your car. If you do it a second time, they crush your car AND take away your driver's license for life (ie: you NEVER drive again).
That's plain stupid. A 6 month suspended license followed by prison time on a 2nd offence would likely be more effective. Naturally, the limit should be higher.
so we should wait until a DUI drivers kills a bunch of people before putting him in jail eventhough two warnings were already given... I'm sorry but I don't agree with that.
Well, we could start by fixing DUI so it actually meant something. I could deal with a BAC limit of .12 or even .10. 0.06 is a joke.
Last time I checked, open rebellion against your country was treason.
It's actually a duty if the government becomes too tyrannical.
if we feel a need to "track someone for life" because they are such a menace, then why are they out of prison to begin with?
Because it's cheaper than locking them up orever?
the requirements would indeed be very different and by the time such a site has scaled to 5,000 servers it's likely that we'd have several hundred database servers already.
You don't need 100 datbase servers, just one or two. You can take portions of your site and autogenerate it from the DB driven 'master', then distribute those to the 5000 webservers. Meanwhile, the DB can handle the load of the remaining portion, which is necessarily dynamic.
Wow, it keeps surprising me how you twist what I say. Re-read what I wrote. I didn't even mention a teacher. And I didn't say it was impossible to demonstrate there's a security hole in a system.
I was tying this strained analogy back to the original thread, where there was a teacher and permission was given.
Now before writing other examples that do not fit at all what the discussion was about re-read the thread (I can't stress that enough to you evidently). You keep posting about situations in which the script kiddie is not committing a crime at all.
I'm trying to explain to you how the HS kiddy isn't commiting a crime either. Pay attention.
The stupid programmer: can't figure out this RDBMS thang and resorts to stuffing the results of queries into the Unix file system.
And the smart one recognizes when cached content results in lowered DB load and increased availability. Calling someone stupid for their approach without addressing why is, to be blunt, also stupid.
run a database service across a few hundred of them
So very bad. you're going to take a hundred webservers and make them be a database? The requirements are vastly different. You would be better off autogenerating parts of the site and pushing them to the webservers.
On the other hand a site that is anything other than very very small will be unwieldy to maintain as a static site.
That's hardly relevant. The topic is focused on the operational issues a website faces, not its admin issues. A dynamic site can very easily use a caching layer to improve performance with little to no admin cost.
When I said "...stealing someone's wallet without him noticing it..." I really meant it. Asking for permission before doing so kind of makes that impossible doesn't it?
No, not really. Telling a teacher that there's a major security hole and demonstrating it when asked is hardly impossible.
From my experience, they look after their own and if you're gonna start making claims, you could end up in more trouble than it's worth. Yeah, I probably could have got a lawyer and sorted it out, but it would be far too much time, effort and money considering how little long term damage was done to me. They didn't put it down on my record, so effectively I got a couple of weeks off school and that was the end of that.
My parents have tangled with my high school before - they're basically pompous idiots. Kick them and they roll over. I got excused from my last period for freshman year because my gym teacher was more concerned about my uniform practices than my physical safety. If some teacher made a comment like that, I'd have her job.
Small wine/beer companies have zero chance to compete against the likes of Budweiser, Busch, Coors and other lousy products meshed with superior marketing.
The last beer I had was called 'Moose Drool'. I haven't had bud light ever - who in their right mind is going to drink a watered down knock off of a czech pilsner when good beer is available. I will admit to drinking Guiness and Newcastle.
cannot tell you the list of wine/beer that I highly prefer, that I will never see in any restaurant. Why? Cause they'd rather stock 300 bottles of Budlight that they can sell.
I guess you need a better class of restaurant.
Can you buy two of those and run them in RAID-1?
Quite honestly, if you take this to a logical extreme, no matter what the input data, given the ability to write any function, the output data could be anything you could conceive.
That's just mental masturbation. If you possess an encrypted data file, then you possess the file as well, provided that you encrypted it yourself. If you've forgotten the password, you possessed it at sometime in the past.
If someone is coming after you for possession of illicit data, they probably have a good evidentiary chain tying you to that data, so stupid mind games about what the file might be won't help you, especially if they seize the computer you used and recover fragments of the data from the drive's freespace.