Wow. Solaris is so far off the radarscope of present computing these days that my first reaction to the headline was that there was going to be a followup to that clooney remake of the tartovsky film and that for some reason it would be cleverly numbred in binary (ie 10). Maybe this is funny (maybe not), but that was my honest first impression.
Solaris: all the craptitude of unix with all the benefits of vendor-lock in and high prices!
Whoever modded the parent as "troll" should be banned from slashdot. Agree with him or not, the parent posted has a valid point. Talk about a f***ing monoculture..
I may be mistaken, but that should provide some legal clout in the event they get h4xx0r3d (so to speak) and their users sued like so many others.
I love those legal disclaimers that sites put such as "law enforcement people and RIAA members or affiliates are not permitted to enter this site." this attempt to hide from copyright infringement culpability is as laughable as it is juvenile.
for the record, they carry absolute zero clout, and doubly so in this era of DMCA. however, they probably make for good search terms.
that's because whatever AC made the post didn't write what he posted - he simply pasted my comments from a previous thread (where "bright lining" comments did make sense).
Not that I really care--I'm happy to see that my posts can garner +5 insightful even if i didn't actually do the posting.:) i just wonder about whoever posted it..
Funny, I use Linux too, and nevertheless mydoom affects me substantially. for example, my ISP's mail servers are slow as hell because of this crap. So slow, that I couldn't even get to my mail for much of today.
In a May 2003 speech, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam noted that OSS offered India "a superior opportunity to modernize." This was followed just a short while later by India negotiaing a superiorly low-cost deal with microsoft for its services.
I think one must look in terms of governmental actions on OSS in such a strategic light. Kalam, a figurehead king, may be a true believer, but insofar as his actions on software goes, he's being used as a pawn to gain better licensing terms from microsoft.
In a recent topic we had an "increasing trend in bad documentation" as if people completely forgot the acres of bad documentation of years past.
Sure, i'm sure there is somebody out there in a developing nation who is adopting gnome, so for him, it is indeed rapidly becoming popular. but without real evidence, this is just so much foofaa. (not to mention bad journalism, but remember where we are!)
every cliche in the book (they actually "sailed into the sunset" people! and don't get my started on "'no man can kill me' -- 'i'm no man.. i'm a woman!'")
but great special effects!
=
Best picture?
I sure as heck hope not. It was a fine movie if you like that sort of pap, but hardly best picture material.
There are good comparisons to be made to "Gladiator", arguably the last questionable best picture - but gladiator benefitted immensely from a strong performance by the lead wheras LOTR just had typecasting. Oh yes, and Gladiator had a plot.
That said, finding a substitute is not easy. Lost In Translation won't win though just to shut the fanboys up I'd be thrilled if it did:)
that many people reading this simply don't see the point of buying a CD of, say, Nikolaus Harnencourt conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Europe's performance of Beethoven's Piano Concertos 1 - 5, when a free MIDI file does the job just fine.
When this first started, all of slashdot was "don't blame P2P... go after the offenders."
Ask, and ye shall receive.
At the risk of being labelled a troll (which is a shame - the slashdot engine should take posts that are modded as interesting AND troll, as some of the best posts invariably are because they challenge some of the geek orthodoxy), I am happy when this sort of thing happens. Why? In my work I spend hours, months, and years producing "intellectual property" output.
Just because it can be dissementated for a trivial price does not mean that my work is not useful or hard to make or that I need to invent better "market paradigms".
I can't tell you the number of good things that don't go to market because of piracy* concerns. From software to books to music to even more novel forms of everything that simply can't happen because people break the social contract that is copyright and steal. It's a shame really.
Don't any of you slashdot anti-IP drones find any irony in the fact that the OSS paradigm is largely based on respect and props for the hard, easily duplicable work of others?
* "piracy" means "sea piracy" idiots will be ignored.
You know, I'm a guy with moderate technical skill and reasonably good market sense. This message notwithstanding, I'm happy for my career's sake that there are plenty people with obviously greater technical skill than me but no market sense (or interest) whatsoever who are happy to waste their time and their lives on meaningless projects like this.
Ever thought about studying goverment before commenting on it? Fines should never be included in a planned governmental budget, I don't know what kind of evil regime you plan, but I want no part of it.
"Studying" something at greater than a high-school level has to do with positive analysis. "should never be included in a planned governmen budget" is a normative statement. No "student" would ever make such a statement without substantial corroborating data.
As it were, your statement is tin-foil-hat bullshit. Fines for certain types of activity are statistical phenomena that can be planned well in advance and budgeted for. For example, one can make a pretty good guess, +- 10% what the new jersey turnpike total fines collected from speeders for 2004 will be and budget accordingly. you're right though--it's a bit silly when some two-bit town gets to keep the money from a major bust and the police are soon driving lexus patrol cars, but this is mostly a problem of redistrbution within government and this brings up the standard bureaucratic issues addressed by niskanen et al. but this hiccup doesn't make your analysis right or close to it.
Your last paragraph is you speaking out of your ass as you did not understand my response.
make sure DRM is associated with porn. but not the good side of it, but rather with those evil sleazeball pornographers. check.
make sure that DRM is associated with spyware. check.
and then, in the comments section...
insist that P2P, as it is currently implemented, has multiple legitimate uses that are realistically not better handled by other means (like web pages)
insist that government should keep their hands out of technology but at the same time complaining that the RIAA has no right to do (enforcement/investigative/blocking action) that's what the police are for.
in soviet russia...
and then..
go back to downloading pr0n, isoZ, and wareZ, and mp3z using k-lite.
One of my general bitches about Fed/State/Local laws is that the goverment fines vermin and keeps the money for itself.
Umm, every transfer or distribution of money costs money. if you try to distribute $1m to 1000 people, each will get about (say) $950 after the costs of actually distributing the money are factored in. when government keeps fines, etc, this is revenue that they get to keep *instead of* raising taxes. So, if we listened to you, net taxes would be higher, as we'd lose out on the stupid anduseless distribution costs of first getting the fine money to the people, and then re-collecting it from the people in terms of taxes.
Why "mod down?" not only does the poster show lame logic that I have addressed before, but his proposed solution hardly calls for "justice"--rather, it rewards those with information. I can't see any use in that whatsoever. We want public faith and participation in choosing leaders and making community policy--not in filling out forms to collect what most would agree is owed equally to all victims, not just the most able.
Unlike airplanes, trains (including maglevs) a) are capable of making multiple stops in a short distance and b) have a natural system of possible "feeders" such as other trains, subways, etc. Today's airports rarely have this - ever try to get to a major airport by mass transit? there are a few places where it's possible--not many. However, even if we buy your argument that maglevs need to be located outside of cities and towards the edges, well
1) this is where today's population lives 2) it's trivial to extend existing services there and 3) because of the multiple-stops idea, it's possible to have multiple stations in a city.
regarding speed: it has been stated many times here and elsewhere that maglevs are essentially competitive with airplanes on routes of a few hundred miles or maybe as far as 1500. any more than that, and, at least for the immediate future, airplanes are still the way to go (I say this as an ATP pilot and flight instructor, by the way). a maglev is ideal for the Northeast Corridor (washington-baltimore-philadelphia-newark-new york-grenwich/stamford/new haven-providence/boston), for example, but NY-Chicago and NY-Miami are more questionable.
FWIF, your argument vis-a-vis cities rests on the notion that maglevs near cities would be above ground. do a little reading on the yamanishi maglev - japan seems to disagree! and they want to do a maglev direct from shinjuku or tokyo station to shin-osaka - two of the most highly built up areas in the world! and, when I mean direct, i mean DIRECT. Have a look at a page called byun-byun shinkansen for more info.
regarding security: you obviously don't know what you're talking about if you think a maglev track is easy to sabotage. at least look at a model of a maglev track. a maglev is much harder to sabotage than a conventional train, and yet conventional high speed trains run in europe and in japan with no problems.
your comment about 80kmh vs 400kmh is so stupid and juvenile it's not even worth discussing.
There is a shinkansen departing tokyo (or shinagawa) for osaka what--every 6 minutes now or something during peak times. Each one with some few hundred passengers. You can buy a ticket now and be on the next one in a few minutes in many cases and in Osaka in 2.5 hours.
remember too: train stations, unlike airports, can be centrally located within cities.
And the sad thing is, your gratuitous cheerleading will probably be modded "insightful."
Look, I have on my desk a rock. It has never been broken into by hackers. It rejects all spam sent to it. It was free.
And yet, somehow, I don't think the world will soon use rocks instead of computers to connect to the Internet. If we go with the premise that OSS is 100% secure, this doesn't mean that it's any better a computer system than this rock per se. The tiny end-user market pentetration of OSS despite its free-as-in-beerness suggests that the moon is not yet close to being colonized by hobbyists.
The guy who is against copyright infringement is modded a "troll"
Whereas, the guy who:
Misunderstands the fact that words' meanings evolve over time (probably one of those "hacker" vs "cracker" guys, too)
Engages in silly borderline counterexamples in order to distract attention from the main topic at hand (this bit about "legally obtained MP3s") (remember: we're not talking about the general case here - we're talking about the case where ONE guy who KNOWS his son's behavior patterns has made a decision)
Engages in ridiculous slippery slope arguments essentially (though perhaps with some miguided attempt at humor) equating a responsible parent with a terrorist.
Slashdot Mirror
Solaris: all the craptitude of unix with all the benefits of vendor-lock in and high prices!
Slashdot Response: "Why do the police have to do the **AA's dirtywork! This is blah blah blah corporate shills blah blah blah."
Scenario 1B: Copyright holder privately goes after copyright infringers.
Slashdot response: "Can you believe the nerve of these people. This is what the police are for! blah blah blah nazi stormtroopers blah blah blah."
Scenario 2A: New, obviously-designed-primarily-for-warez-pr0n-and-m
Slashdot Response: "Technology is blameless! Go after the infringers, but leave technology alone!"
Scenario 2B: Infringers gone after.
Slashdot Response: "Can you believe the nerve of those people shaking down college students!"
Scenario 3A: Copyright is used to protect somebody else's intellectual property
Slashdot Response: Copyright has outlived its usefulness! Viva la revolucion!
Scenario 3B: the GPL is violated.
Slashdot Response: Hang em high!
Whoever modded the parent as "troll" should be banned from slashdot. Agree with him or not, the parent posted has a valid point. Talk about a f***ing monoculture..
I love those legal disclaimers that sites put such as "law enforcement people and RIAA members or affiliates are not permitted to enter this site." this attempt to hide from copyright infringement culpability is as laughable as it is juvenile.
for the record, they carry absolute zero clout, and doubly so in this era of DMCA. however, they probably make for good search terms.
the phrase "laughing all the way to the bank" has some merit here.
that's because whatever AC made the post didn't write what he posted - he simply pasted my comments from a previous thread (where "bright lining" comments did make sense). Not that I really care--I'm happy to see that my posts can garner +5 insightful even if i didn't actually do the posting. :) i just wonder about whoever posted it..
Whoever posted this is not me. I am the original author of the above, though I posted it in reply to another copyright thread a while back.
Please do a search and you will see!
I am a bit flattered that some troll / admirerer / whatever would do this, but likewise I am rather confused!
- mumbles
Funny, I use Linux too, and nevertheless mydoom affects me substantially. for example, my ISP's mail servers are slow as hell because of this crap. So slow, that I couldn't even get to my mail for much of today.
I think one must look in terms of governmental actions on OSS in such a strategic light. Kalam, a figurehead king, may be a true believer, but insofar as his actions on software goes, he's being used as a pawn to gain better licensing terms from microsoft.
In a recent topic we had an "increasing trend in bad documentation" as if people completely forgot the acres of bad documentation of years past.
Sure, i'm sure there is somebody out there in a developing nation who is adopting gnome, so for him, it is indeed rapidly becoming popular. but without real evidence, this is just so much foofaa. (not to mention bad journalism, but remember where we are!)
is there anything that slashdotters a) don't know better than everybody else and b) don't suspect conspiracy where they themselves are powerless?
I guess the right reply to my question is..
haven't been here very long, have you?
Talk about monocultures..
- Hackneyed "good vs evil" plot
- overlong, sappy, soap-opera of middle earth
- paint-by-numbers acting
- every cliche in the book (they actually "sailed into the sunset" people! and don't get my started on "'no man can kill me' -- 'i'm no man.. i'm a woman!'")
- but great special effects!
=- Best picture?
I sure as heck hope not. It was a fine movie if you like that sort of pap, but hardly best picture material.There are good comparisons to be made to "Gladiator", arguably the last questionable best picture - but gladiator benefitted immensely from a strong performance by the lead wheras LOTR just had typecasting. Oh yes, and Gladiator had a plot.
That said, finding a substitute is not easy. Lost In Translation won't win though just to shut the fanboys up I'd be thrilled if it did :)
+6 Funny
In other words, organize your crime!
Ask, and ye shall receive.
At the risk of being labelled a troll (which is a shame - the slashdot engine should take posts that are modded as interesting AND troll, as some of the best posts invariably are because they challenge some of the geek orthodoxy), I am happy when this sort of thing happens. Why? In my work I spend hours, months, and years producing "intellectual property" output.
Just because it can be dissementated for a trivial price does not mean that my work is not useful or hard to make or that I need to invent better "market paradigms".
I can't tell you the number of good things that don't go to market because of piracy* concerns. From software to books to music to even more novel forms of everything that simply can't happen because people break the social contract that is copyright and steal. It's a shame really.
Don't any of you slashdot anti-IP drones find any irony in the fact that the OSS paradigm is largely based on respect and props for the hard, easily duplicable work of others?
* "piracy" means "sea piracy" idiots will be ignored.
You know, I'm a guy with moderate technical skill and reasonably good market sense. This message notwithstanding, I'm happy for my career's sake that there are plenty people with obviously greater technical skill than me but no market sense (or interest) whatsoever who are happy to waste their time and their lives on meaningless projects like this.
Rather than "FBI agents, acting under a warrant issued due to probable cause having been ascertained, ..."
welcome to slashdot.
"Studying" something at greater than a high-school level has to do with positive analysis. "should never be included in a planned governmen budget" is a normative statement. No "student" would ever make such a statement without substantial corroborating data.
As it were, your statement is tin-foil-hat bullshit. Fines for certain types of activity are statistical phenomena that can be planned well in advance and budgeted for. For example, one can make a pretty good guess, +- 10% what the new jersey turnpike total fines collected from speeders for 2004 will be and budget accordingly. you're right though--it's a bit silly when some two-bit town gets to keep the money from a major bust and the police are soon driving lexus patrol cars, but this is mostly a problem of redistrbution within government and this brings up the standard bureaucratic issues addressed by niskanen et al. but this hiccup doesn't make your analysis right or close to it.
Your last paragraph is you speaking out of your ass as you did not understand my response.
Umm, every transfer or distribution of money costs money. if you try to distribute $1m to 1000 people, each will get about (say) $950 after the costs of actually distributing the money are factored in. when government keeps fines, etc, this is revenue that they get to keep *instead of* raising taxes. So, if we listened to you, net taxes would be higher, as we'd lose out on the stupid anduseless distribution costs of first getting the fine money to the people, and then re-collecting it from the people in terms of taxes.
Why "mod down?" not only does the poster show lame logic that I have addressed before, but his proposed solution hardly calls for "justice"--rather, it rewards those with information. I can't see any use in that whatsoever. We want public faith and participation in choosing leaders and making community policy--not in filling out forms to collect what most would agree is owed equally to all victims, not just the most able.
Unlike airplanes, trains (including maglevs) a) are capable of making multiple stops in a short distance and b) have a natural system of possible "feeders" such as other trains, subways, etc. Today's airports rarely have this - ever try to get to a major airport by mass transit? there are a few places where it's possible--not many. However, even if we buy your argument that maglevs need to be located outside of cities and towards the edges, well 1) this is where today's population lives 2) it's trivial to extend existing services there and 3) because of the multiple-stops idea, it's possible to have multiple stations in a city.
regarding speed: it has been stated many times here and elsewhere that maglevs are essentially competitive with airplanes on routes of a few hundred miles or maybe as far as 1500. any more than that, and, at least for the immediate future, airplanes are still the way to go (I say this as an ATP pilot and flight instructor, by the way). a maglev is ideal for the Northeast Corridor (washington-baltimore-philadelphia-newark-new york-grenwich/stamford/new haven-providence/boston), for example, but NY-Chicago and NY-Miami are more questionable.
FWIF, your argument vis-a-vis cities rests on the notion that maglevs near cities would be above ground. do a little reading on the yamanishi maglev - japan seems to disagree! and they want to do a maglev direct from shinjuku or tokyo station to shin-osaka - two of the most highly built up areas in the world! and, when I mean direct, i mean DIRECT. Have a look at a page called byun-byun shinkansen for more info.
regarding security: you obviously don't know what you're talking about if you think a maglev track is easy to sabotage. at least look at a model of a maglev track. a maglev is much harder to sabotage than a conventional train, and yet conventional high speed trains run in europe and in japan with no problems.
your comment about 80kmh vs 400kmh is so stupid and juvenile it's not even worth discussing.
There is a shinkansen departing tokyo (or shinagawa) for osaka what--every 6 minutes now or something during peak times. Each one with some few hundred passengers. You can buy a ticket now and be on the next one in a few minutes in many cases and in Osaka in 2.5 hours.
remember too: train stations, unlike airports, can be centrally located within cities.
Look, I have on my desk a rock. It has never been broken into by hackers. It rejects all spam sent to it. It was free.
And yet, somehow, I don't think the world will soon use rocks instead of computers to connect to the Internet. If we go with the premise that OSS is 100% secure, this doesn't mean that it's any better a computer system than this rock per se. The tiny end-user market pentetration of OSS despite its free-as-in-beerness suggests that the moon is not yet close to being colonized by hobbyists.
The guy who is against copyright infringement is modded a "troll"
Whereas, the guy who:
- Misunderstands the fact that words' meanings evolve over time (probably one of those "hacker" vs "cracker" guys, too)
- Engages in silly borderline counterexamples in order to distract attention from the main topic at hand (this bit about "legally obtained MP3s") (remember: we're not talking about the general case here - we're talking about the case where ONE guy who KNOWS his son's behavior patterns has made a decision)
- Engages in ridiculous slippery slope arguments essentially (though perhaps with some miguided attempt at humor) equating a responsible parent with a terrorist.
is modded up as "insightful".What an upside down world this slashdot is.