When did the department of homeland security become the RIAA's bitch?
Is America so secure now that the Department of Homeland Security has nothing better to do than to chase collage kids who copy RIAA protected films and music??
(or in their language 'steal' - a funny phrase since have not been any independent studies that scientifically link an individual's consumption of pirated media with a corresponding reduced propensity to buy copyrighted media... 'theft' to me would imply that somewhere along the line the RIAA had proved their convenient assumption that every downloaded copy = one less sold copy)
It is pretty funny that on one hand the US is working hard to keep the internet free of filtering and government-sponsored censorship; while on the other hand forcing the ACTA down everyone's throats calling for corporate-sponsored censorship of any copyrighted materials.
Someone needs to teach the Australian public that we are not exclusively a two party system! There are other options on the ballot paper than just LIBERAL OR LABOUR!!!
Fuck, we don't even learn how our own political system works in school.
This is a fantastic situation, Australia could see REAL political change if the general public get fed up with both parties and take 30 seconds to work out what all those other distracting boxes on the ballot paper are for.
Of course, we won't see any change. People will just choose the box they always have out of the only two that they understand. As Churchill said - The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
It's politics, it doesn't have to be based on facts in any real way.
I honestly thought Mr Fielding was the most dangerous person in Australian federal politics - he's a conservative Christian nut-job who makes George W look rational... that was until the tea-totaler Conroy stepped up to the plate and decided that he wanted to mingle in everybody's life by playing federal net-nanny and big-brother.
If that guy gets his way Australia will be able to be run like a proper democracy - Just like China - one where citizens are protected from any evil propaganda that hasn't been filtered by their all-knowing government.
And to the great grandparent post that stated that Australians don't take part in our political system, just remember that we voted Howard out after he did something everybody hated.... It wasn't us that had an official 'elected' by the supreme court, then voted VOTED BACK IN after starting the western world's most unpopular war.
I've been reluctant to get an MCSE or CCNA because of the number of 'Multiple Choice Selection Experts' and paper CCNA's I've met.
Nice to see Microsoft have gone and changed the initials to obsolete the qualifications that everyone holds (2008 MCSE is now MCITP to stop NT4 MCSE's from getting any value from their letters in the future)... That said, I've never met a CCIE who I thought didn't absolutely know their shit.
I've met a CCIE or two who have all the social skills of a/. stereotype, but when it comes to networking, I rate it higher than a Ph.D.
So your counter-argument is that you expect apple's future earnings to grow from $5.7B to a number that exceeds IBM's current $13.4B in the next few years?
While I agree with your point that P:E is a lagging indicator that does not accurately reflect the future growth of the company, some may argue that past earnings are a pretty good predictor of future earnings....
(Hell, if hedge funds_really_ agreed with the statement that 'past performance is no indication of future returns' they would identify their most useless employee and promote him(/her), and their highest performing salesperson and fire them... because odds are they'll both trend towards mean performance.)
lower wages = more hours worked in order to pay bills. This means higher unemployment as a side effect as companies would be getting more work for less money, with no new work incoming there is no need to retain unnecessary workers.
Nice to see you have a grip on Keynesian economics... If you lower wages, people have less to spend, therefore you have less aggregate demand (AD) thus prices drop, employers can only afford less employees because of the decreased revenue, thus aggregate supply drops (AS) to match the lower AD and you have... deflation.
Deflation is a very bad thing because we don't know how to fix it (see: Japan from 1990 to 2010)
BUT, not only can the drop in AD be caused by something like workchoices lowering wages, but it can also be caused by say a GFC. So the answer to this according to Keynesian economics: GOVERNMENT SPENDING. As exemplified by the Rudd Government in 2009.
Australia has a booming economy, therefore both the things the Rudd government did, worked. Right?... well... only if this rock keeps bears away. (Correlation = causation)
Now, first: Workchoices.
Your view that workchoices means that people overall had less money is outright extremest. Sure, some individuals had less money, because employers were now able to pay them what they were worth (which is less than what they were getting paid.) But Workchoices results in a more mobile workforce - small companies could employ people more easily, because they could fire people more easily. Basically, as long as workchoices doesn't decrease the minimum wage (which it didn't) or decrease australia's aggregate demand by a large amount (and it was introduced pre GFC, where that wan't a great risk) then it would lead to A MORE EFFICIENT WORKFORCE.
Long story short, Workchoices gave us = more people employed, more efficient workforce, leading to increased demand for Australian goods and services overall (more exports), less money per person but more money overall.
Efficiency is a wonderful thing - international trade and the laws of absolute and relative advantage are why workchoices were introduced: If you are a labourer in Australia, earning $20ph to do something that we could get done in china for $2ph plus $13 shipping you are eventually going to loose your job, because free trade means that your employer is going to get rid of you, and buy from china. But if workchoices allows your employer to employ you for $15 per hour, you get to keep your job, and Australia is better off.
Of course, the Australian workforce doesn't like being told they're overpaid and that employers should be able to fire useless people more easily - Workchoices, and the government got thrown out.
And thanks to that we've had regulatory uncertainty surrounding employment for near on two years. Making it much more difficult for employers to hire or fire employees than it was before Workchoices was introduced.
The true cost of Rudd's reversal of workchoices is something that Australia is yet to realise.
Now Rudd's 'nationbuilding' is classic robin-hood economics. The idea of Keynesian nation building is that it's BLOODY USELESS if WHAT YOU ARE BUILDING IS UNNECESSARY!
And if you know anyone employed in a school, ask them what they think of the nationbuilding funding they've just got. I'm sure they'll tell you they think it's just BLOODY FANTASTIC that we are spending $250,000 on a new portable that they DON'T NEED, that SHOULD COST $75,000!
The only people who benefited from this whole excersise are the great Australian Tradesmen, who are earning $80ph to do a job that a Chinese national could do for $3ph. And it comes at a cost that we won't have to worry about for another 25 years. And an inefficiency in the order of $77 per hour, paid for out of the Australian taxpayer's pocket.
So thanks to Rudd, we have a horribly inefficient workforce, an ever-increasing overseas debt and a huge reliance on the Chinese economy.
In a criminal case, I wouldn't say you are screwed if all they have is evidence that a crime was committed from your IP address.
The unfortunate thing is that civil courts (those that the RIAA sue people in) work on the balance of probabilities, not beyond reasonable doubt.
It would be very easy for someone with some decent security and networking ability to demonstrate reasonable doubt that an IP address was not owned by the said computer at the said time; by questioning dynamic routing, log file security, ISP wireless networks or IP address misallocation... Or that the computer wasn't controlled by the individual in question (ie. rootkits, virus's) or even that the internet connection was being used by someone else (open wireless, or WAP insecurities)
That's assuming a DSL or Cable network... Unless Satellite network providers have seriously updated their kit in the past few years, they are as open as your proverbial mum's legs - Anyone with an ISP that didn't do source-address filtering could steal an IP in someone elses Satellite range and configure their satellite CPE to grab the down-channel. (That actually could be argued in a balance of probabilities case; but who's on Satellite these days in the reach of the RIAA anyway?)
However, in a civil court, they only have to argue that it was MORE LIKELY that it was you than anyone else, not REASONABLY POSSIBLE THAT IT WAS NOT YOU.
Of course, this is all much harder to argue if the police have ceased a computer that is full of movies and mp3s that were created over a period of months during times that you were home... Then, you're screwed.
I'd be interested to see one of these cases being argued entirely on IP and TORRENT 'evidence'... Surely if that were all that the RIAA were relying on, a good lawyer would call it circumstantial evidence... Most cases seem to involve a ceased computer with hundreds of movies or MP3s.
I'd say encrypt... but it seems the UK has passed laws that force you to reveal encryption passwords if you're charged with terrorism... and hell, if you're encrypting you MUST be a terrorist.... Conversely, you would hope that the RIAA or MPAA would give up and move on to the next case if they raided your house and didn't find anything to back up the IP Address evidence, after all, they can probably find a nice big library of MP3's on the person's computer who is next on the list of suspect IP's. - so.... Encrypt. Religiously.
I disagree. The problem is Apple is making moral decisions about which applications to allow on the iPhone. The App Store is only a problem because it is the only way developers can sell their products to customers with the iPhone.
The real problem is: developers and their customers are no longer free to make independent decisions about what is acceptable and unacceptable trade, and the people who are making the moral decisions were neither elected nor accountable for their actions!
Just because a master made it look easy, don't go thinking it is...
I bet the guys at Citrix who've been working on this problem for fifteen years and STILL HAVEN'T WORKED IT OUT will be pleased that it took some smart-arse at Google 15 minutes make it work.
You don't. It's fucked. You drain the pool and start again.
Any server administrator worth their salt knows if someone gets in to root / administrator who is not supposed to be there there is only one course of action: Unplug and rebuild.
You do not try to fix a server that has been compromised in this way, regardless of Operating System. For some reason we get compassionate about home-users who can't afford to fix their computer... and then we get upset when these computers are used for botnets and spam propagation... WTF?!
I think it's utterly RESPONSIBLE of Microsoft to withdraw support for someone silly enough to want to keep running an operating system that's been rootkitted.
Hell, if it were my network I'd be using the rootkit to permanently disable all network connectivity to avoid any further damage. User be damned.
Visa are doing something about it, so much so that they are enticing people to use it by accepting the liability of fraud themselves - rather than leaving it firmly with the merchant as it is today.
The problem is an existing system that works worldwide with millions of users is BLOODY HARD TO CHANGE.
You will probably see it introduced at about the same pace as IPv6 (which suffers from the same 'migration issues')
The flaw in this logic is exemplified by the fact that VCR's still cost more than DVD players.
HDD's are expensive to create because they are technical and complicated. Conversely, The pharmaceutical business model applies to SSD - the second pill (/chip) costs 30c.
The saving grace may be that at least HDD's are reliable. (Certainly compared to optical media).. SSD is unproven.
Why is it that we get upset with a company (association) like the MPAA or RIAA strong-arm national governments to push their agenda, but all cheer on Google when they use their international power to corrupt the policies of a sovereign country?
Just food for thought?... I mean, who are we to say giving people unrestricted access to information is not evil? Even if you disagree, can't you see the logic behind an argument that #1. Maybe the world would be a better place if the detailed instructions for weapons of mas destruction weren't easily avaliable to every psychopath, and #2, People are happier in an oppressive society if they don't KNOW they are oppressed because they are not EXPOSED to the truth?
PS: Don't worry, I'm on the other side of this issue - I hope Google sticks it to those oppressive Chinese government types, and I hope it sets a precedent for Stephen Conroy (Australia) and I hope the MPAA and RIAA burn in hell - but you do have to recognise the double standard in this... and probably admit that Google did deserve this retaliation.
I hated video conferencing for years because of tragic experiences with crap software on PC's that give you a fantastic postage-stamp sized video at 15fps over a 512/512k connection...
Then we were sold a Lifesize video conferencing solution at about $5,000usd per endpoint, which gave 720p room to room comms at 1mb/1mb (or PAL at 512/512k)
We did extensive testing of software solutions to try to find cheap options for people on the road, and found they were all cheap and nasty.
Lifesize now have a product called "LifeSize Passport" that sells for $1,000 - $2,000 USD... it's dedicated hardware, it just works. and for that price it's about the same price as any corporate SOE desktop.
So my advice, after many years of using this stuff in the business world: Stop screwing around with second-rate software on a PC platform and buy something that is going to make your end-users walk away thinking "wow, video conferencing was almost as good as being in the same room. As soon as someone invents violence over IP, I won't need to do in person meetings" not "gee the audio was pretty good, and you could almost make out his face if he didn't move around too much!... lets just use the conference phone next time"
Most books I've purchased only after I've stolen and read the PDF version.
IMHO the benefits of freely available information far outweighs the negatives of not compensating the author.
Writers who do so for love not money write better books; and will continue to do so if they are pirated.
Apparently 63% of Gen Y think it's okay to steal music & movies -- and the solution is "education" of young people.
As a member of that 63% my opinion is that IP laws need to be changed to reflect the new world order.
I'm told, if we do great artists like Britney Spears and Metallica would stop singing because they're not rewarded... I ask, would we really be worse off?
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> Why bother with a constitution if there is no way to enforce it?
ooohhh, I know the answer to this one!
Without an unenforceable constitution we wouldn't have the European Union we have today!
Speaking of which....
When did the department of homeland security become the RIAA's bitch?
Is America so secure now that the Department of Homeland Security has nothing better to do than to chase collage kids who copy RIAA protected films and music??
(or in their language 'steal' - a funny phrase since have not been any independent studies that scientifically link an individual's consumption of pirated media with a corresponding reduced propensity to buy copyrighted media... 'theft' to me would imply that somewhere along the line the RIAA had proved their convenient assumption that every downloaded copy = one less sold copy)
It is pretty funny that on one hand the US is working hard to keep the internet free of filtering and government-sponsored censorship; while on the other hand forcing the ACTA down everyone's throats calling for corporate-sponsored censorship of any copyrighted materials.
Dear parent and grandparent and the rest of Australian voters:
There are more than two boxes on your ballot paper. This is not just to confuse voters, these are actual, real, options.
Learn how to vote below the line on that big white sheet.
Someone needs to teach the Australian public that we are not exclusively a two party system! There are other options on the ballot paper than just LIBERAL OR LABOUR!!!
Fuck, we don't even learn how our own political system works in school.
This is a fantastic situation, Australia could see REAL political change if the general public get fed up with both parties and take 30 seconds to work out what all those other distracting boxes on the ballot paper are for.
Of course, we won't see any change. People will just choose the box they always have out of the only two that they understand. As Churchill said - The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
http://www.news.com.au/national/senator-steve-fielding-scorned-over-abortion-jibe/story-e6frfkvr-1225880684483
It's politics, it doesn't have to be based on facts in any real way.
I honestly thought Mr Fielding was the most dangerous person in Australian federal politics - he's a conservative Christian nut-job who makes George W look rational... that was until the tea-totaler Conroy stepped up to the plate and decided that he wanted to mingle in everybody's life by playing federal net-nanny and big-brother.
If that guy gets his way Australia will be able to be run like a proper democracy - Just like China - one where citizens are protected from any evil propaganda that hasn't been filtered by their all-knowing government.
And to the great grandparent post that stated that Australians don't take part in our political system, just remember that we voted Howard out after he did something everybody hated.... It wasn't us that had an official 'elected' by the supreme court, then voted VOTED BACK IN after starting the western world's most unpopular war.
Good point.
... That said, I've never met a CCIE who I thought didn't absolutely know their shit.
/. stereotype, but when it comes to networking, I rate it higher than a Ph.D.
I've been reluctant to get an MCSE or CCNA because of the number of 'Multiple Choice Selection Experts' and paper CCNA's I've met.
Nice to see Microsoft have gone and changed the initials to obsolete the qualifications that everyone holds (2008 MCSE is now MCITP to stop NT4 MCSE's from getting any value from their letters in the future)
I've met a CCIE or two who have all the social skills of a
So your counter-argument is that you expect apple's future earnings to grow from $5.7B to a number that exceeds IBM's current $13.4B in the next few years?
While I agree with your point that P:E is a lagging indicator that does not accurately reflect the future growth of the company, some may argue that past earnings are a pretty good predictor of future earnings....
(Hell, if hedge funds_really_ agreed with the statement that 'past performance is no indication of future returns' they would identify their most useless employee and promote him(/her), and their highest performing salesperson and fire them... because odds are they'll both trend towards mean performance.)
Of course, the only downside of this is you would need to learn perl.
One of the few programming languages that requires you have a Ph.D. to write a 'hello world' script.
Well I guess it's a good thing the IPv4 overlords are still withholding Class-E addresses for "future use".
Of course, we can't hand them out to hosts, no matter how low we get on the rest of the CIDR space. They are for the future, not now!
lower wages = more hours worked in order to pay bills. This means higher unemployment as a side effect as companies would be getting more work for less money, with no new work incoming there is no need to retain unnecessary workers.
... deflation.
... well... only if this rock keeps bears away. (Correlation = causation)
Nice to see you have a grip on Keynesian economics... If you lower wages, people have less to spend, therefore you have less aggregate demand (AD) thus prices drop, employers can only afford less employees because of the decreased revenue, thus aggregate supply drops (AS) to match the lower AD and you have
Deflation is a very bad thing because we don't know how to fix it (see: Japan from 1990 to 2010)
BUT, not only can the drop in AD be caused by something like workchoices lowering wages, but it can also be caused by say a GFC. So the answer to this according to Keynesian economics: GOVERNMENT SPENDING. As exemplified by the Rudd Government in 2009.
Australia has a booming economy, therefore both the things the Rudd government did, worked. Right?
Now, first: Workchoices.
Your view that workchoices means that people overall had less money is outright extremest. Sure, some individuals had less money, because employers were now able to pay them what they were worth (which is less than what they were getting paid.) But Workchoices results in a more mobile workforce - small companies could employ people more easily, because they could fire people more easily. Basically, as long as workchoices doesn't decrease the minimum wage (which it didn't) or decrease australia's aggregate demand by a large amount (and it was introduced pre GFC, where that wan't a great risk) then it would lead to A MORE EFFICIENT WORKFORCE.
Long story short, Workchoices gave us = more people employed, more efficient workforce, leading to increased demand for Australian goods and services overall (more exports), less money per person but more money overall.
Efficiency is a wonderful thing - international trade and the laws of absolute and relative advantage are why workchoices were introduced: If you are a labourer in Australia, earning $20ph to do something that we could get done in china for $2ph plus $13 shipping you are eventually going to loose your job, because free trade means that your employer is going to get rid of you, and buy from china. But if workchoices allows your employer to employ you for $15 per hour, you get to keep your job, and Australia is better off.
Of course, the Australian workforce doesn't like being told they're overpaid and that employers should be able to fire useless people more easily - Workchoices, and the government got thrown out.
And thanks to that we've had regulatory uncertainty surrounding employment for near on two years. Making it much more difficult for employers to hire or fire employees than it was before Workchoices was introduced.
The true cost of Rudd's reversal of workchoices is something that Australia is yet to realise.
Now Rudd's 'nationbuilding' is classic robin-hood economics. The idea of Keynesian nation building is that it's BLOODY USELESS if WHAT YOU ARE BUILDING IS UNNECESSARY!
And if you know anyone employed in a school, ask them what they think of the nationbuilding funding they've just got. I'm sure they'll tell you they think it's just BLOODY FANTASTIC that we are spending $250,000 on a new portable that they DON'T NEED, that SHOULD COST $75,000!
The only people who benefited from this whole excersise are the great Australian Tradesmen, who are earning $80ph to do a job that a Chinese national could do for $3ph. And it comes at a cost that we won't have to worry about for another 25 years. And an inefficiency in the order of $77 per hour, paid for out of the Australian taxpayer's pocket.
So thanks to Rudd, we have a horribly inefficient workforce, an ever-increasing overseas debt and a huge reliance on the Chinese economy.
Teach your kids Mandarin.
To do a Windows 2003 Server Automated System Recovery (ASR) you MUST use a 1.44MB floppy disk.
Yup, that's right folks, if your server doesn't have a floppy drive, and you need to restore it, you need to install a floppy drive.
A USB key or CD-R just won't do it.
In a criminal case, I wouldn't say you are screwed if all they have is evidence that a crime was committed from your IP address.
... Surely if that were all that the RIAA were relying on, a good lawyer would call it circumstantial evidence... Most cases seem to involve a ceased computer with hundreds of movies or MP3s.
... Conversely, you would hope that the RIAA or MPAA would give up and move on to the next case if they raided your house and didn't find anything to back up the IP Address evidence, after all, they can probably find a nice big library of MP3's on the person's computer who is next on the list of suspect IP's. - so.... Encrypt. Religiously.
The unfortunate thing is that civil courts (those that the RIAA sue people in) work on the balance of probabilities, not beyond reasonable doubt.
It would be very easy for someone with some decent security and networking ability to demonstrate reasonable doubt that an IP address was not owned by the said computer at the said time; by questioning dynamic routing, log file security, ISP wireless networks or IP address misallocation... Or that the computer wasn't controlled by the individual in question (ie. rootkits, virus's) or even that the internet connection was being used by someone else (open wireless, or WAP insecurities)
That's assuming a DSL or Cable network... Unless Satellite network providers have seriously updated their kit in the past few years, they are as open as your proverbial mum's legs - Anyone with an ISP that didn't do source-address filtering could steal an IP in someone elses Satellite range and configure their satellite CPE to grab the down-channel. (That actually could be argued in a balance of probabilities case; but who's on Satellite these days in the reach of the RIAA anyway?)
However, in a civil court, they only have to argue that it was MORE LIKELY that it was you than anyone else, not REASONABLY POSSIBLE THAT IT WAS NOT YOU.
Of course, this is all much harder to argue if the police have ceased a computer that is full of movies and mp3s that were created over a period of months during times that you were home... Then, you're screwed.
I'd be interested to see one of these cases being argued entirely on IP and TORRENT 'evidence'
I'd say encrypt... but it seems the UK has passed laws that force you to reveal encryption passwords if you're charged with terrorism... and hell, if you're encrypting you MUST be a terrorist.
I disagree. The problem is Apple is making moral decisions about which applications to allow on the iPhone. The App Store is only a problem because it is the only way developers can sell their products to customers with the iPhone.
The real problem is: developers and their customers are no longer free to make independent decisions about what is acceptable and unacceptable trade, and the people who are making the moral decisions were neither elected nor accountable for their actions!
Just because a master made it look easy, don't go thinking it is...
I bet the guys at Citrix who've been working on this problem for fifteen years and STILL HAVEN'T WORKED IT OUT will be pleased that it took some smart-arse at Google 15 minutes make it work.
And despite our continued begging, slashdot STILL hasn't brought in a "+1 Troll" rating.
Say someone pisses in your pool...
... and then we get upset when these computers are used for botnets and spam propagation... WTF?!
How do you get the piss out of the pool?
You don't. It's fucked. You drain the pool and start again.
Any server administrator worth their salt knows if someone gets in to root / administrator who is not supposed to be there there is only one course of action: Unplug and rebuild.
You do not try to fix a server that has been compromised in this way, regardless of Operating System. For some reason we get compassionate about home-users who can't afford to fix their computer
I think it's utterly RESPONSIBLE of Microsoft to withdraw support for someone silly enough to want to keep running an operating system that's been rootkitted.
Hell, if it were my network I'd be using the rootkit to permanently disable all network connectivity to avoid any further damage. User be damned.
Look it up.
Visa are doing something about it, so much so that they are enticing people to use it by accepting the liability of fraud themselves - rather than leaving it firmly with the merchant as it is today.
The problem is an existing system that works worldwide with millions of users is BLOODY HARD TO CHANGE.
You will probably see it introduced at about the same pace as IPv6 (which suffers from the same 'migration issues')
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(That's why.)
The flaw in this logic is exemplified by the fact that VCR's still cost more than DVD players.
.. SSD is unproven.
HDD's are expensive to create because they are technical and complicated. Conversely, The pharmaceutical business model applies to SSD - the second pill (/chip) costs 30c.
The saving grace may be that at least HDD's are reliable. (Certainly compared to optical media)
Why is it that we get upset with a company (association) like the MPAA or RIAA strong-arm national governments to push their agenda, but all cheer on Google when they use their international power to corrupt the policies of a sovereign country?
... I mean, who are we to say giving people unrestricted access to information is not evil? Even if you disagree, can't you see the logic behind an argument that #1. Maybe the world would be a better place if the detailed instructions for weapons of mas destruction weren't easily avaliable to every psychopath, and #2, People are happier in an oppressive society if they don't KNOW they are oppressed because they are not EXPOSED to the truth?
Just food for thought?
PS: Don't worry, I'm on the other side of this issue - I hope Google sticks it to those oppressive Chinese government types, and I hope it sets a precedent for Stephen Conroy (Australia) and I hope the MPAA and RIAA burn in hell - but you do have to recognise the double standard in this... and probably admit that Google did deserve this retaliation.
I hated video conferencing for years because of tragic experiences with crap software on PC's that give you a fantastic postage-stamp sized video at 15fps over a 512/512k connection...
... lets just use the conference phone next time"
Then we were sold a Lifesize video conferencing solution at about $5,000usd per endpoint, which gave 720p room to room comms at 1mb/1mb (or PAL at 512/512k)
We did extensive testing of software solutions to try to find cheap options for people on the road, and found they were all cheap and nasty.
Lifesize now have a product called "LifeSize Passport" that sells for $1,000 - $2,000 USD... it's dedicated hardware, it just works. and for that price it's about the same price as any corporate SOE desktop.
So my advice, after many years of using this stuff in the business world: Stop screwing around with second-rate software on a PC platform and buy something that is going to make your end-users walk away thinking "wow, video conferencing was almost as good as being in the same room. As soon as someone invents violence over IP, I won't need to do in person meetings" not "gee the audio was pretty good, and you could almost make out his face if he didn't move around too much!
_script_ in Perl. ... Perl is as much a programming language as is html.
And Perl coders are as much programmers as MCSE's are engineers.
Real Programmers don't comment code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to read.
Gen Y here:
Most books I've purchased only after I've stolen and read the PDF version.
IMHO the benefits of freely available information far outweighs the negatives of not compensating the author.
Writers who do so for love not money write better books; and will continue to do so if they are pirated.
Apparently 63% of Gen Y think it's okay to steal music & movies -- and the solution is "education" of young people.
As a member of that 63% my opinion is that IP laws need to be changed to reflect the new world order.
I'm told, if we do great artists like Britney Spears and Metallica would stop singing because they're not rewarded... I ask, would we really be worse off?
Yeah, this is news?
Sounds like the university needs to stop relying on reactive shaping to identify traffic and buy more bandwidth.
Next they'll be bitching that people should stop masking bittorrent traffic to make it look like SIP which they prioritise up.
Just remember: There's no such thing as a stupid question... only stupid people.