That all depends on your perspective. One man's noise is another man's music. Not to mention the fact that noise can be music also. Take the production "Stomp" for example. They use common household items to make music with them. It sounds cool and looks REALLY impressive on stage
It's actually a conspiracy involving the RIAA. The Blaster Worm and this power outage are actually the RIAA's latest attempt at trying to stop online file sharing.
Well...you should tell whoever it is in your house (spouse, parents, children, roommate) to leave you alone while you're on your computer...that and get rid of Kazaa and Gator. hehehe
Actually if they used anonymous IP addresses they wouldn't be able to legally press charges against anyone because it would be entrapment.
And also if they tried to do the same thing that they're doing now, they would be in a very ironic situation. They would then be guilty of violating the very law that they are so desperately trying to enforce. Since it is encrypted, they would be force to bypass the encryption, which would constitute a violation of the DMCA which does not allow and device that may circumvent encryption.
Pretty much...even if the original was bad...the remakes are almost always even worse.
Just look at Godzilla...you had the original Toho group...even when they remade their own movie (called Godzilla 1985), it was still bad...but it was still funny and exactly what you'd expect from a Godzilla movie. Then you had the American version, and it was crap. It was nothing like the originals.
These days, you can't get a trial over a fireworks possession offense or a traffic ticket.
Actually...you can get a traffic ticket. In fact, in Ohio, you are given a court date when you get your ticket. You then have the option of paying the ticket before your court date, or if you would like the contest the ticket, then you can not pay the ticket in advance and show up to court. Also, if you are caught driving without proof of insurance (either because you don't have any or you just don't have your insurance card with you), you are then REQUIRED to show up in court: so you can present current proof of insurance. (They actually give you the benefit of the doubt that you do have insurance since it is a state law that you are required to have insurance in order to drive.)
Particularly pointless was this pedantic little remark about Native Americans: "There are no such things as Native Americans, we all migrated here at one time or another from Eurasia." Allrighty then. I guess it's okay that we slaughtered most of them and stole their land, because they didn't actually exist.
This is not just directed to you, but to everyone else who has been arguing against this point...it's only "Native Americans" compared to the Europeans. I'm not saying that what the author said has anything to do with anything, but he is correct. According to the currently accepted theory, the first settlers of the Americas came across the Behring land bridge towards the end of the last ice age following the herds and then spread to populate what is now North and South America. They were called Indians by the Europeans who had mistakenly thought they had landed in India, and then later on the more PC term of Native Americans was created.
However, this does not have anything to do with the way that they were treated. The term Native American is used because it is the best way to describe the initial settlers of this continent. Of course, why it's "Native Americans" and not referring to them by their tribal origins the way it is done with any other country is beyond me. Actually...it's because it's the United States, if it were any other country, the textbooks would refer to them by their individual tribal names rather than a collective term. At least history books no longer refer to the Trail of Tears or any of the Resettlement actions were for the benefit of the people that were being moved
Actually...in that case you'd be able to make more money off of it if you save it for awhile. After awhile you'll be able to sell it as a "collector's item" hehehe
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the UK government trying to create a law that every UK net connection is directly traceable, i.e. every ISP has to bind physical info into your ip alias (i.e. user-postcode.cache.pol.co.uk)?
Actually...that's only a little more detailed than alot of the ISPs IP addresses these days...at least with ISPs with more than one POP. You look at Road Runner...or AOL...or BellSouth...or Verizon...or Comcast...or pretty much any large ISP and you can guess what City they are in or at least reasonably close to. (Admittedly it's much easier to do with Broadband than it is with dialup because of distance restrictions in the ability to get Broadband service)
Netscape was better than IE prior to the 3's. Version 3 was pretty equal on both and then IE blew Netscape away when it came to version 4. Netscape 4 was a blight on society with some of the worst standards support of any browser prior and since. Add to that the fact that it took a year and a day to load on the fastest machine and you have a good reason why it died.
Actually...IE 3 sucked majorly. At the time Netscape was far superior to IE, and was until Netscape 4, and Netscape didn't REALLY start to suck until 6. Netscape 4.72 wasn't that bad, it just wasn't as good as IE anymore.
No, actually...with a WAP there's no real way to limit the access to the network. That's one of the drawbacks of wireless. Security consists solely of a key. It's not like a regular network where you can limit it physically.
My personal view is that the Internet should default to open - if there are no barriers (whether effective or ineffective), then the default assumption should be that the administrator/installer/owner intended for the resource to be available to the Internet at large.
The problem with that idea is that, much as in real life, there are too many people that will abuse what is open. It would be all well and good if this was a perfect world and nobody would abuse open systems or open access. But this ISN'T a perfect world. One of the biggest reasons that systems AREN'T open is because people abused the system when they were. Once upon a time almost all mail servers open. Sounds unbelievable, but it's true. It wasn't until people started exploiting the open servers to send spam or viruses that servers really started getting locked down.
It's sad that things have to be this way, but that's the world we live in.
Not necessarily...I'm not so sure that the RIAA will continue to send lawsuits against the people that run the P2P systems like KaZaA/Grokster, unless of course they manage to buy a judge or 2...or 3. What they may do however, is start going after the people who are downloading, particularly those who are sharing files and acting as the Super Nodes. They are already snooping around in IRC...even though what they are doing is technically illegal, noone is going to fight them because they have much more money than any normal individual.
do you really think the public is SO DUMB that they can't make concience decisions fro themselves?
Ignoring your spelling mistakes...as a matter of fact, I DO believe that the public as a whole is stupid. While a person may be smart, the general public is incredibly stupid. It does not follow logic that the things that an individual does not agree with, when the PUBLIC says it, they go along with as if they had no problems with it.
If the public were truly intelligent, they would protest the way the government treated its own citizens after 9-11. They would protest the limiting of freedoms in the sake of "national security". Let's face it...all the new laws and regulations created to help "protect against terrorism" do is limit the freedoms of normal people. The only difference is that instead of getting on a plane and blowing themselves up, now they have to go to a public building where there are more people to kill because of the security at the airports.
Much as I hate to restate what so many people have already said, the references to 1984 and the McCarthy era are becoming closer and closer to reality.
The only effective thing that sheltering them from the Internet will do is to keep them from accessing it at home. Alot of schools have Internet Access these days, so they can always log in from there...or the library...or a friend's house. All that you do to "shield" them from the Internet is to make it seem like the Internet is a bad thing, so of course they will take any opportunity that they can to get on it. It will become more of a rebellion thing to get online when they're not supposed to be.
If people are really that worried about their kids are being exposed to on the internet, install a parental control program, monitor their usage, and most importantly TEACH their kids about the dangers of the Internet. Almost every parent tells their kids never to talk to strangers, or to be careful when playing outside, but how many people really teach their kids that the same things apply to the Internet? And how many parents actually pay attention to what their kids are doing online? I definitely agree with the idea of people being more active in looking out for their own children instead of letting their kids do what they want and then going after someone else when something bad happens.
Actually...the Amiga is not dead...not anymore anyway. AmigaOS looks very good these days and if I had the money for it I'd probably get one.
If only they'd make it for the x86 platform...but I guess that's what WinUAE, Amiga Forever and the like are for. (WinUAE works pretty well actually...I forgot how good Shadow of the Beast was for its day. heh)
Actually...that would be possible, because it would result in MASSIVE sales for Coke if they did that...both Coke and Pepsi do it all the time. They run sales that have their products and about half of what you normally pay. The reason being is that they sell twice as many as people stock up while the sale is going on.
Actually...that's not entirely true...at least in the case of email or website login passwords...especially if they use either of those for business purposes. I think most of the time people just don't think of the possible problems that could arise from someone getting ahold of their password.
Actually...there are places where open source is not necessarily the best idea. Places like the medical field you mentioned are better off using proprietary software that is developed.
And actually...not all linux programmers are programmers by trade...and not all Linux programmers work for free. HP/Compaq work with the Open Source Community and their programmers get paid. In addition, alot of the programmers are doing their open source in their spare time, that doesn't necessarily mean that they don't also have a real job doing programming also.
Actually...the DMCA makes it illegal to do what you have a legal right to do. Under current copyright laws you have the ability to make 1 copy of any material that you own as long as it is for personal use only, and makes no mention of the medium for that copy.
Sure there is the potential for abuse in being able to make digital copies of your movies, music, etc...but there's always the potential for abuse no matter what the medium. The same argument was made 20-30 years ago with VHS tapes, back when similar DMCA laws were being proposed, but were subsequently rejected.
Is there any reason that I can't make a copy of the DVDs that I have a purchased and under copyright laws am legally allowed to make? What is wrong with me making a digital copy of it for myself?
Actually...during the course of the travel through space, while it may be very small, the pull of gravity from stars would affect the acceleration of the body in motion. The pull of gravity would become greater as it traveled near a black hole as the gravity around a black hole is greater than traditional stars as they pull matter into themselves.
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That all depends on your perspective. One man's noise is another man's music. Not to mention the fact that noise can be music also. Take the production "Stomp" for example. They use common household items to make music with them. It sounds cool and looks REALLY impressive on stage
Not necessarily...you may still need to pay for it to be fully functional or to be used for more than a certain period of time.
Isn't the posting of links to goatse illegal? If not, well...for the benefit of all mankind it should be. heh
It's actually a conspiracy involving the RIAA. The Blaster Worm and this power outage are actually the RIAA's latest attempt at trying to stop online file sharing.
Well...you should tell whoever it is in your house (spouse, parents, children, roommate) to leave you alone while you're on your computer...that and get rid of Kazaa and Gator. hehehe
Actually if they used anonymous IP addresses they wouldn't be able to legally press charges against anyone because it would be entrapment. And also if they tried to do the same thing that they're doing now, they would be in a very ironic situation. They would then be guilty of violating the very law that they are so desperately trying to enforce. Since it is encrypted, they would be force to bypass the encryption, which would constitute a violation of the DMCA which does not allow and device that may circumvent encryption.
This is true...course...it's more likely that they're BOTH guilty. :-)
That was Leonard actually...Bill's probably is that he wears a really bad hairpiece. heh
Pretty much...even if the original was bad...the remakes are almost always even worse. Just look at Godzilla...you had the original Toho group...even when they remade their own movie (called Godzilla 1985), it was still bad...but it was still funny and exactly what you'd expect from a Godzilla movie. Then you had the American version, and it was crap. It was nothing like the originals.
These days, you can't get a trial over a fireworks possession offense or a traffic ticket.
Actually...you can get a traffic ticket. In fact, in Ohio, you are given a court date when you get your ticket. You then have the option of paying the ticket before your court date, or if you would like the contest the ticket, then you can not pay the ticket in advance and show up to court. Also, if you are caught driving without proof of insurance (either because you don't have any or you just don't have your insurance card with you), you are then REQUIRED to show up in court: so you can present current proof of insurance. (They actually give you the benefit of the doubt that you do have insurance since it is a state law that you are required to have insurance in order to drive.)
Particularly pointless was this pedantic little remark about Native Americans: "There are no such things as Native Americans, we all migrated here at one time or another from Eurasia." Allrighty then. I guess it's okay that we slaughtered most of them and stole their land, because they didn't actually exist.
This is not just directed to you, but to everyone else who has been arguing against this point...it's only "Native Americans" compared to the Europeans. I'm not saying that what the author said has anything to do with anything, but he is correct. According to the currently accepted theory, the first settlers of the Americas came across the Behring land bridge towards the end of the last ice age following the herds and then spread to populate what is now North and South America. They were called Indians by the Europeans who had mistakenly thought they had landed in India, and then later on the more PC term of Native Americans was created.
However, this does not have anything to do with the way that they were treated. The term Native American is used because it is the best way to describe the initial settlers of this continent. Of course, why it's "Native Americans" and not referring to them by their tribal origins the way it is done with any other country is beyond me. Actually...it's because it's the United States, if it were any other country, the textbooks would refer to them by their individual tribal names rather than a collective term. At least history books no longer refer to the Trail of Tears or any of the Resettlement actions were for the benefit of the people that were being moved
Actually...in that case you'd be able to make more money off of it if you save it for awhile. After awhile you'll be able to sell it as a "collector's item" hehehe
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the UK government trying to create a law that every UK net connection is directly traceable, i.e. every ISP has to bind physical info into your ip alias (i.e. user-postcode.cache.pol.co.uk)?
Actually...that's only a little more detailed than alot of the ISPs IP addresses these days...at least with ISPs with more than one POP. You look at Road Runner...or AOL...or BellSouth...or Verizon...or Comcast...or pretty much any large ISP and you can guess what City they are in or at least reasonably close to. (Admittedly it's much easier to do with Broadband than it is with dialup because of distance restrictions in the ability to get Broadband service)Netscape was better than IE prior to the 3's. Version 3 was pretty equal on both and then IE blew Netscape away when it came to version 4. Netscape 4 was a blight on society with some of the worst standards support of any browser prior and since. Add to that the fact that it took a year and a day to load on the fastest machine and you have a good reason why it died.
Actually...IE 3 sucked majorly. At the time Netscape was far superior to IE, and was until Netscape 4, and Netscape didn't REALLY start to suck until 6. Netscape 4.72 wasn't that bad, it just wasn't as good as IE anymore.
No, actually...with a WAP there's no real way to limit the access to the network. That's one of the drawbacks of wireless. Security consists solely of a key. It's not like a regular network where you can limit it physically. My personal view is that the Internet should default to open - if there are no barriers (whether effective or ineffective), then the default assumption should be that the administrator/installer/owner intended for the resource to be available to the Internet at large. The problem with that idea is that, much as in real life, there are too many people that will abuse what is open. It would be all well and good if this was a perfect world and nobody would abuse open systems or open access. But this ISN'T a perfect world. One of the biggest reasons that systems AREN'T open is because people abused the system when they were. Once upon a time almost all mail servers open. Sounds unbelievable, but it's true. It wasn't until people started exploiting the open servers to send spam or viruses that servers really started getting locked down. It's sad that things have to be this way, but that's the world we live in.
Not necessarily...I'm not so sure that the RIAA will continue to send lawsuits against the people that run the P2P systems like KaZaA/Grokster, unless of course they manage to buy a judge or 2...or 3. What they may do however, is start going after the people who are downloading, particularly those who are sharing files and acting as the Super Nodes. They are already snooping around in IRC...even though what they are doing is technically illegal, noone is going to fight them because they have much more money than any normal individual.
Actually...Windows XP, as with Windows 2000, has the ability to run on NTFS -OR- FAT32...not just NTFS.
do you really think the public is SO DUMB that they can't make concience decisions fro themselves?
Ignoring your spelling mistakes...as a matter of fact, I DO believe that the public as a whole is stupid. While a person may be smart, the general public is incredibly stupid. It does not follow logic that the things that an individual does not agree with, when the PUBLIC says it, they go along with as if they had no problems with it.
If the public were truly intelligent, they would protest the way the government treated its own citizens after 9-11. They would protest the limiting of freedoms in the sake of "national security". Let's face it...all the new laws and regulations created to help "protect against terrorism" do is limit the freedoms of normal people. The only difference is that instead of getting on a plane and blowing themselves up, now they have to go to a public building where there are more people to kill because of the security at the airports.
Much as I hate to restate what so many people have already said, the references to 1984 and the McCarthy era are becoming closer and closer to reality.
The only effective thing that sheltering them from the Internet will do is to keep them from accessing it at home. Alot of schools have Internet Access these days, so they can always log in from there...or the library...or a friend's house. All that you do to "shield" them from the Internet is to make it seem like the Internet is a bad thing, so of course they will take any opportunity that they can to get on it. It will become more of a rebellion thing to get online when they're not supposed to be.
If people are really that worried about their kids are being exposed to on the internet, install a parental control program, monitor their usage, and most importantly TEACH their kids about the dangers of the Internet. Almost every parent tells their kids never to talk to strangers, or to be careful when playing outside, but how many people really teach their kids that the same things apply to the Internet? And how many parents actually pay attention to what their kids are doing online? I definitely agree with the idea of people being more active in looking out for their own children instead of letting their kids do what they want and then going after someone else when something bad happens.
Actually...the Amiga is not dead...not anymore anyway. AmigaOS looks very good these days and if I had the money for it I'd probably get one. If only they'd make it for the x86 platform...but I guess that's what WinUAE, Amiga Forever and the like are for. (WinUAE works pretty well actually...I forgot how good Shadow of the Beast was for its day. heh)
Actually...that would be possible, because it would result in MASSIVE sales for Coke if they did that...both Coke and Pepsi do it all the time. They run sales that have their products and about half of what you normally pay. The reason being is that they sell twice as many as people stock up while the sale is going on.
Actually...that's not entirely true...at least in the case of email or website login passwords...especially if they use either of those for business purposes. I think most of the time people just don't think of the possible problems that could arise from someone getting ahold of their password.
Actually...there are places where open source is not necessarily the best idea. Places like the medical field you mentioned are better off using proprietary software that is developed.
And actually...not all linux programmers are programmers by trade...and not all Linux programmers work for free. HP/Compaq work with the Open Source Community and their programmers get paid. In addition, alot of the programmers are doing their open source in their spare time, that doesn't necessarily mean that they don't also have a real job doing programming also.
Actually...the DMCA makes it illegal to do what you have a legal right to do. Under current copyright laws you have the ability to make 1 copy of any material that you own as long as it is for personal use only, and makes no mention of the medium for that copy.
Sure there is the potential for abuse in being able to make digital copies of your movies, music, etc...but there's always the potential for abuse no matter what the medium. The same argument was made 20-30 years ago with VHS tapes, back when similar DMCA laws were being proposed, but were subsequently rejected.
Is there any reason that I can't make a copy of the DVDs that I have a purchased and under copyright laws am legally allowed to make? What is wrong with me making a digital copy of it for myself?
Actually...during the course of the travel through space, while it may be very small, the pull of gravity from stars would affect the acceleration of the body in motion. The pull of gravity would become greater as it traveled near a black hole as the gravity around a black hole is greater than traditional stars as they pull matter into themselves.