Go ahead. Ask any Siberian about how they like the summer there.
FYI: There are only two things there in the summer: Mud and mosquitoes.
The mud is so bad, that you can forget to drive any car trough it. And the mosquitoes get trough everything. Including double-layered "complete protection" nets and repellents.
Yes I do! I know that this is not expected here on Slashdot, so I'm OK with your reaction. But I really do. There is a blog in German, where the whole thing was tracked, analyzed, the references were given, etc, etc. I read the stuff from the Pirate Bay site too.
It was found that the judge was a member of several groups/associations for "copyright protection" and "IP protection". Groups that openly stated the view that you know from the RIAA. And that some RIAA people were members in too. This led to a request to re-do the trial because the judge was obviously prejudiced. They were cold hard facts. That everybody knew about. Including those people who had to decide if the trial was to be redone. According to Swedish law, obviously a prejudice of the judge means a retrial. We're not in the dark ages after all!
But then it was stated that it was decided, that the judge was not prejudiced. An obvious and blatant lie. To protect his ass. Something that only can happen, when someone has powerful friends with a specific agenda.
But I recommend reading it all up yourself. For a trial, the whole thing is pretty funny and exciting. (Eg the story in the local pizza restaurant, etc.) Don't take it from me. Inform yourself, and judge for yourself.
If you *then* don't come to the same conclusion, I offer you a pizza, a beer, and a place to sleep for a party weekend here in cologne. ^^
My friend, what is that planet you live on? Do you got the money to change things? Can you compete with the Monsantos, RIAAs and Microsofts of this world?
Laws are useless in the context that you are applying them. Good people don't need them, and bad people ignore them anyway. They were once rules to decide, what a group of people decided as hurting one of them. Punishment is, to not belong to the group anymore. But nowadays, they are bullshit, like "don't walk across the road, when it's red" or "don't copy that file, because you have to buy it, even if you can't pay anyway, even if it hurts nobody to pay, and even if the original artist gets nothing from the money anyway, but all of it goes to a criminal cartel who buys politicians and terrorizes people for money."
The point is: Laws are not absolute. They are not always correct. They are not the same for everyone. Groups make compromises. But the RIAA makes none. They want to enforce their rules upon us, for their profit, hurting us all in the process, *including* the artists.
So many people blindly stand on the sidewalk, in the middle of the night, with no car in sight, waiting for it to become green. Because they are trained to not think for themselves. Trained to not understand the intention of the law, but follow its wording blindly. Even if it results in the opposite of the original intention.
And there we are at the core: The actions of the RIAA are the very opposite of what the copyright laws once meant to be. They existed, to make something more fair. Do you think this is more fair? Do you think this is what was intended? Do. You. Actually. Think. At. All?
And this is why we ignore this. Not because we are against the law. But because we are against what they made out of it. And because we think that this is not what the law was meant to mean. So it's not the law. It is an illegal misuse of the law, to hurt us all. It is in fact something, that to prevent, laws were invented for.
There is no point to this. The whole reason for these two "articles" good old fearmongering, to push trough an agenda, that is most likely about money and power. The "reporter" profits from it. The "politican" profits from it. And we are the cattle that they need to do it.
Every discussion about it, is by definition pointless.
That should be clear from the wording of the "headline" alone.
But when you *download* media from the net, there are many rare things to keep. Some of them so valuable, that you might never ever see anyone on this planet have it again.
I own music that there are only 7 pressed vinyls of on the whole planet. I own videos of rare events that you can't get off the net at any chance. I own movies in full-hd, with german and enlish ac3 streams, two comment streams and full chapters. Try to find something like that on the net.
Believe me, I know this better than anyone. Because I lost half my data when a buggy recovery program tried to read the wrong MFT of an NTFS file system that i thought I'd need no backup of. Well, I was incredibly wrong. All that lost stuff is simply nowere to be found anymore.
I went pro: I run a multi-p2p-network server 24/7, with a script constantly hunting, downloading and archiving everything out of my lost collection, that it can find. (mldonkey, I LOVE you!) With the most generic search queries possible. It took me 3 years to restore the first 30% of the lost files. And I can wait probably another five years to for the rest. Until I give up. Much of it will be gone forever.
Well, my friend... I have planned such a device for a loong time now. Technically, it's completely possible. Give me an investor, and I'll sell you such a thing in some years.
Until now, their excuses mostly are the circular reasoning fallacy, that nobody would use or buy it because there are no applications or anything for it. (And there are no applications, because no device for it exists, of course.) So it's "too risky", with "no chance" to make a profit from it. Stupid, stupid, stupid! But imagine such stupid people thinking that they can tell you what to do because they pay for it, and suddenly the alternative doesn't look so bad anymore.:/
How was it good?? It had no aliens at all in it. Just some bald average people with spots on their heads And the whole thematic world revolved around the age-old conflict between strangers and natives that's told countless times already.
Yeah. This lack of any creative thought always struck me. How in the world can you be so dumb to come up with *another* epic failure of bipedal human-like "aliens"??
Like those scientists, who can't imagine that life can form in a way that is not carbon- and water-based?
How freaking stuck-inside-the-box can you be??
I bet the first ten alien lifeforms that come in contact with us, will net even be detected as such by those idiots. (Yeah, I'm angry about it. And rightfully so.)
Well, you forgot that the strength of the radiation is the most important factor.
Say it went over some level now. Like light pollution went over a specific level that makes it impossible to see the milky way.
After all, those electronic devices have to be at least an order of a magnitude stronger for the most distant receiving devices, for it to be detectable over the noise floor of the cosmic radiation.
But of course, one needs to prove it.
I just think it's wrong to answer to stupid generalizations based on half-knowledge with stupid generalizations based on half-knowledge.
No. It's not that easy. Most people forget about long-term effects.
Like when you eat raffinated short-chain carbohydrates. It will not do anything in the first decade. Maybe a bit of stomach problems. But when you get old, it brings all kinds of problems. Usually, people then think they are just getting old. But it's proven, that it's the bad food.
So in this case, to prove it, you would have to work way harder. With test terms of at least a year.
But in case of Wi-Fi, it's more simple: Calculate the effects of the energy that the radiation has on his body. My guess is, that it can't change anything. But what always it does, is the placebo effect. Which you can do something against with a good therapist.
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Go ahead. Ask any Siberian about how they like the summer there.
FYI: There are only two things there in the summer: Mud and mosquitoes.
The mud is so bad, that you can forget to drive any car trough it. And the mosquitoes get trough everything. Including double-layered "complete protection" nets and repellents.
And WTF would the US Government care about a territorial dispute involving Germany, Russia and Canada anyway?
You must be new on this planet!
Well, you bought the CDs. So it worked, didn't it?
At least until now. :)
Error: "frequency - doubling is" of type "a -> a -> a", but requires to be of type "a -> a -> (b -> c -> d -> e -> a)".
First both sucked up by big companies. And then left to die.
Second one, dunno.
But all really *really* great games.
Do you *really* not know the answer to that question? ^^
Yes I do! I know that this is not expected here on Slashdot, so I'm OK with your reaction. But I really do.
There is a blog in German, where the whole thing was tracked, analyzed, the references were given, etc, etc. I read the stuff from the Pirate Bay site too.
It was found that the judge was a member of several groups/associations for "copyright protection" and "IP protection". Groups that openly stated the view that you know from the RIAA. And that some RIAA people were members in too. This led to a request to re-do the trial because the judge was obviously prejudiced.
They were cold hard facts. That everybody knew about. Including those people who had to decide if the trial was to be redone.
According to Swedish law, obviously a prejudice of the judge means a retrial. We're not in the dark ages after all!
But then it was stated that it was decided, that the judge was not prejudiced. An obvious and blatant lie. To protect his ass. Something that only can happen, when someone has powerful friends with a specific agenda.
But I recommend reading it all up yourself. For a trial, the whole thing is pretty funny and exciting. (Eg the story in the local pizza restaurant, etc.)
Don't take it from me. Inform yourself, and judge for yourself.
If you *then* don't come to the same conclusion, I offer you a pizza, a beer, and a place to sleep for a party weekend here in cologne. ^^
Come on! You know how I mean it! "Lawmakers" as in "lobbies from Monsanto & co". Not as in "good people trying to do the right thing(tm)".
SI units are great aren't they? ^^
But I agree that here on /., a value in fortnights per library of congress per vw car per megabarn would have been more clear.
And sneaky too. They constantly move, and yet you never see them moving.
I wonder if they miss their son, Dick Cheney...
And here we have the core of the problem: People do not think. They believe. In "laws" (bought rules), in the **AA, in NYCL.
Please listen to this song once in a while, and start to think for yourself: Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip - Thou Shalt Always Kill
My friend, what is that planet you live on? Do you got the money to change things? Can you compete with the Monsantos, RIAAs and Microsofts of this world?
Laws are useless in the context that you are applying them. Good people don't need them, and bad people ignore them anyway.
They were once rules to decide, what a group of people decided as hurting one of them. Punishment is, to not belong to the group anymore.
But nowadays, they are bullshit, like "don't walk across the road, when it's red" or "don't copy that file, because you have to buy it, even if you can't pay anyway, even if it hurts nobody to pay, and even if the original artist gets nothing from the money anyway, but all of it goes to a criminal cartel who buys politicians and terrorizes people for money."
The point is: Laws are not absolute. They are not always correct. They are not the same for everyone. Groups make compromises. But the RIAA makes none. They want to enforce their rules upon us, for their profit, hurting us all in the process, *including* the artists.
So many people blindly stand on the sidewalk, in the middle of the night, with no car in sight, waiting for it to become green. Because they are trained to not think for themselves. Trained to not understand the intention of the law, but follow its wording blindly. Even if it results in the opposite of the original intention.
And there we are at the core: The actions of the RIAA are the very opposite of what the copyright laws once meant to be. They existed, to make something more fair.
Do you think this is more fair? Do you think this is what was intended? Do. You. Actually. Think. At. All?
And this is why we ignore this. Not because we are against the law. But because we are against what they made out of it. And because we think that this is not what the law was meant to mean. So it's not the law. It is an illegal misuse of the law, to hurt us all. It is in fact something, that to prevent, laws were invented for.
You say that, as if it were unusual for the judge to be bought.
Have you missed the entire Pirate Bay trial fiasco? (Hint: The judge and the people who could throw out the judge, were bought.)
You mean "lawmakers" as in "hard-core criminals, trying to change the world for their profit"?
This has nothing to do with "laws" as in "rules to prevent people in a group from hurting each other, because they decided to work together".
But I wonder why they still work together then? (Rhetorical question. I know the answer.)
Or in other words: Think before you act.
Who would have thought of that?? Me not. I'm to busy doing things. :P
I talked about operating systems for real computers. :)
And yet you fall for the social engineering that this "article" is?
I guess the shoemaker has the worst shoes. ^^
There is no point to this. The whole reason for these two "articles" good old fearmongering, to push trough an agenda, that is most likely about money and power.
The "reporter" profits from it. The "politican" profits from it. And we are the cattle that they need to do it.
Every discussion about it, is by definition pointless.
That should be clear from the wording of the "headline" alone.
Also, the transfer rate is usually the rate of the interface, not of the disk itself. Which usually is just a fraction of that.
I don't knob who steals media on the high seas?
But when you *download* media from the net, there are many rare things to keep. Some of them so valuable, that you might never ever see anyone on this planet have it again.
I own music that there are only 7 pressed vinyls of on the whole planet. I own videos of rare events that you can't get off the net at any chance.
I own movies in full-hd, with german and enlish ac3 streams, two comment streams and full chapters. Try to find something like that on the net.
Believe me, I know this better than anyone. Because I lost half my data when a buggy recovery program tried to read the wrong MFT of an NTFS file system that i thought I'd need no backup of.
Well, I was incredibly wrong. All that lost stuff is simply nowere to be found anymore.
I went pro: I run a multi-p2p-network server 24/7, with a script constantly hunting, downloading and archiving everything out of my lost collection, that it can find. (mldonkey, I LOVE you!) With the most generic search queries possible. It took me 3 years to restore the first 30% of the lost files. And I can wait probably another five years to for the rest. Until I give up. Much of it will be gone forever.
Well, my friend... I have planned such a device for a loong time now. Technically, it's completely possible.
Give me an investor, and I'll sell you such a thing in some years.
Until now, their excuses mostly are the circular reasoning fallacy, that nobody would use or buy it because there are no applications or anything for it. (And there are no applications, because no device for it exists, of course.) So it's "too risky", with "no chance" to make a profit from it. :/
Stupid, stupid, stupid!
But imagine such stupid people thinking that they can tell you what to do because they pay for it, and suddenly the alternative doesn't look so bad anymore.
How was it good?? It had no aliens at all in it. Just some bald average people with spots on their heads
And the whole thematic world revolved around the age-old conflict between strangers and natives that's told countless times already.
Yeah. This lack of any creative thought always struck me. How in the world can you be so dumb to come up with *another* epic failure of bipedal human-like "aliens"??
Like those scientists, who can't imagine that life can form in a way that is not carbon- and water-based?
How freaking stuck-inside-the-box can you be??
I bet the first ten alien lifeforms that come in contact with us, will net even be detected as such by those idiots. (Yeah, I'm angry about it. And rightfully so.)
Well, you forgot that the strength of the radiation is the most important factor.
Say it went over some level now. Like light pollution went over a specific level that makes it impossible to see the milky way.
After all, those electronic devices have to be at least an order of a magnitude stronger for the most distant receiving devices, for it to be detectable over the noise floor of the cosmic radiation.
But of course, one needs to prove it.
I just think it's wrong to answer to stupid generalizations based on half-knowledge with stupid generalizations based on half-knowledge.
No. It's not that easy. Most people forget about long-term effects.
Like when you eat raffinated short-chain carbohydrates. It will not do anything in the first decade. Maybe a bit of stomach problems. But when you get old, it brings all kinds of problems. Usually, people then think they are just getting old. But it's proven, that it's the bad food.
So in this case, to prove it, you would have to work way harder. With test terms of at least a year.
But in case of Wi-Fi, it's more simple: Calculate the effects of the energy that the radiation has on his body. My guess is, that it can't change anything.
But what always it does, is the placebo effect. Which you can do something against with a good therapist.