It's funny how quickly the masses forget what you've stated. But, it is the truth.
If employees of a company did as poorly a job as our senior political officials, they'd find security escorting them to the door. Quite frankly, we the people, should be thinking along those lines and be ready to fire those people who are violating the spirit and the letter of our laws. Politicians don't have a right to stay in office. They have the privledge to do so.
The problem with IP is that in no other time in history has it ever been so easy to duplicate works based on IP. We can perfectly copy and infinitely distribute books, music, movies and just about any media nearly free of charge. Whether we like it or not technology is making information free (as in beer).
The problem is that we as a society don't know how to deal with that yet. The old stand-by of taking IP and treating it like property is the only system that society in general can agree on. It's not because it's the best system, it's just because that's the only system that we know of and have seen work. So, it is by default what is trying to go forth.
What's going to have to happen is that the rules for handling IP and IP conpensation will be rewritten. So, far the people with the money are getting the first dibs on how those laws are turning out. But ultimately, the system won't work when it makes a large chunk of society into law breakers.
The rules for IP are changing. And they are changing rapidly and unexpectedly. As it was posted earlier, I don't think that we can even look at this issue in the same way that we have in the past.
I predict that DRM has a long road of failure ahead of it.
That's odd. It works on my version of IE (6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158). I'm not too far off on the service packs but, I've been slack lately.
It looks likely there is a fix in a service pack between your version and mine.
Yeah, no shit it does. I tried to use all that extra time as efficiently as possible by trying to teach myself other useful things. Unfortunately there isn't much the beaurocracy will let you do in class even after you've finished your work. It'll 'distract' the other students.
While I agree that everybody should be up to a minimum, why do we hold the good ones back? Shouldn't the fact that a few slow learners are holding me back cause me 'distraction.' And why does it sound like I'm a smug asshole for suggesting I'm a faster learner than the average student? When did we teach that being smarter than somebody is something to be ashamed of?
It's being an insensitive clod about our gifts that we should be ashamed of, not the gifts themselves.
I agree. As a web applications developer, I'm interested in making a web app as secure as possible. To do that, I must be aware of what's out there.
Fortunately, I've had the advantage knowing about these apps before now. But, I'm not the sort of person that goes looking for scripts to take out websites. I could make some good guesses on where to look for these things. But, I'm never going to have the time to be as aware of that area of knowledge as I could and should be. Especially if I have to rely on my own ability to find and desiminate knowledge.
Not talking about these things doesn't make them go away. Talking about them makes it easier for the people who are most effected by these things to stay educated. And that includes everyone from the developers to clients to the PHB's.
Aside from that, Microsoft needs to do something like pushing out mandatory security patches for all users of Windows and/or IE.
I am not sure why they don't do this either. I guess Microsoft thinks that all these lazy suckers deserve to be hacked.
Profit. Microsoft doesn't push them out for profit sake. If you have a legal copy of a recent version of windows you can set the computer to auto update. Which is essentially what you are saying. Those with out a legal copy are left out in the cold. It's meant to push people into buying a legal version.
That said, just because a patch comes out, doesn't mean you should immediately download it. A lot of the initial patches do more harm than good because of bugs in them. And a lot of the urgent security patches are issues that have been in the wild for while. So, even if you updated immediately when a patch is available you have been left vulnerable for a while.
I used to live in a house about 900 square feet. And I completely agree with you. For just a couple, it's fine if you've got it set up where it's working for you. If it's not set up however, it can be quite painful. I ended up moving because the storage areas consisted of two closet just large enough to stand in. And I was renting so there wasn't a lot of home improvements I could do to it.
About two years ago we moved into a larger house (1300) and we thought we'd never use all the space in the house. It's funny, you find a way to use it. I'd equate the experience to a Hard drive. When you get one with more space, you just find more ways of filling it up.
The difference between spinning a non-political article and a political one is very significant.
Our political process relies on the percieved integrity of the individual in whom we place our confidence. There is a lot more at stake than a bad review or a misinterpretation of facts as these people are involved in the process of making and passing laws in the US.
And as for the big deal, well wikipedia is designed to handle these cases where differences of opinion on the facts show up. But with a political issue its much more likely that the differences will be exaggerated and fought over much like any other political issue out there. Wikipedia will be caught in the middle. How they react to it and handle it will be of strong interest to anyone who places any faith in their site.
"Fuck You" money is the amount of money it would take for you to never need to take another job again. Or alternately, Enough money so that if you needed to, you could tell your boss, 'Fuck you' and still be well off. I would also think it includes a +/- based on personal desire.
That said, Fuck You Money is a function of a person's location, cost of living, current stock market trends, personal spending habits and personal desire. A person would have to calculate their own value for it.
Although, it would be nice to have a fairly solid equation for it and a quick place to access some of the constants.
I agree with you mostly. However, no amount of training will ever take the dog out of a dog.
Some breeds can never be trained to leave certain objects alone or not do certain behaviors. For example: Teaching Saint Bernards not to drool, Jack Russells to have less energy, Border Collies not to herd and Chihuahua's not to be annoying.
If a dog's drive is strong enough, no amount of training will prevent them from following it. Training however, will let you get a good handle on it, in so much that you'll learn what to expect and how to manage these behaviors. (I have to let my Jack turbo around the house at night or he'll never go to sleep)
Training my dogs has been one of the most rewarding experiences!
Here, Here!! Boycotts are all fine and dandy, but I think the best way to voice dissent is to take them to court and file a large class action lawsuit that they'll never forget.
Because we need that outspoken action to sit in the minds of the decision makers at Sony. When they consider doing a DRM scheme again, I want the executives to think about the bad publicity, the outspoken public opinion and the big fat fine they paid. I want visions of lawsuit stories all over the news networks flashing through their minds.
I don't think you'd get that sort of reaction from Boycotting. Maybe, but in today's media market. I don't think so.
Sony needs a hard slap on the wrist to get their attention. Nothing short of several millions of dollars in damages and a scarred image will do that.
That's sad to hear about the Sword of the Phoenix. I had gone to Atlanta a couple years back on business and was checking out the local gaming stores. That placed rated very highly with me in so many areas. I hate hearing about small businesses like that closing up shop.
The best way I've seen to address this issue is to show their methods as false and unworthy of discussion. That is, we don't argue with them. We don't acknowledge their theory. We just give a strikingly close theory that is obviously false but uses the same methodology.
The Flying Speghetti Monster is an ingenious method of pointing out their lack of scientific weight.
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Switch games and work smarter not harder: http://www.progressquest.com
I'm already at level 75!!
It's funny how quickly the masses forget what you've stated. But, it is the truth.
If employees of a company did as poorly a job as our senior political officials, they'd find security escorting them to the door. Quite frankly, we the people, should be thinking along those lines and be ready to fire those people who are violating the spirit and the letter of our laws. Politicians don't have a right to stay in office. They have the privledge to do so.
The problem with IP is that in no other time in history has it ever been so easy to duplicate works based on IP. We can perfectly copy and infinitely distribute books, music, movies and just about any media nearly free of charge. Whether we like it or not technology is making information free (as in beer).
The problem is that we as a society don't know how to deal with that yet. The old stand-by of taking IP and treating it like property is the only system that society in general can agree on. It's not because it's the best system, it's just because that's the only system that we know of and have seen work. So, it is by default what is trying to go forth.
What's going to have to happen is that the rules for handling IP and IP conpensation will be rewritten. So, far the people with the money are getting the first dibs on how those laws are turning out. But ultimately, the system won't work when it makes a large chunk of society into law breakers.
The rules for IP are changing. And they are changing rapidly and unexpectedly. As it was posted earlier, I don't think that we can even look at this issue in the same way that we have in the past.
I predict that DRM has a long road of failure ahead of it.
Not to nitpick but....
Maybe we should of thought of that before, you know, we declared war on a country that did not attack us...
I don't think we formally declared war on them. Not that it changes the point you've made.
If I'm wrong somebody please correct me with a link or referrence.
Great... now I'll get emails from my parents wondering if I'm shy because of my "short gun."
I'm sure they'll write me with their solutions too.
You mean these guys?
That's odd. It works on my version of IE (6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158). I'm not too far off on the service packs but, I've been slack lately.
It looks likely there is a fix in a service pack between your version and mine.
Yeah, no shit it does. I tried to use all that extra time as efficiently as possible by trying to teach myself other useful things. Unfortunately there isn't much the beaurocracy will let you do in class even after you've finished your work. It'll 'distract' the other students.
While I agree that everybody should be up to a minimum, why do we hold the good ones back? Shouldn't the fact that a few slow learners are holding me back cause me 'distraction.' And why does it sound like I'm a smug asshole for suggesting I'm a faster learner than the average student? When did we teach that being smarter than somebody is something to be ashamed of?
It's being an insensitive clod about our gifts that we should be ashamed of, not the gifts themselves.
I agree. As a web applications developer, I'm interested in making a web app as secure as possible. To do that, I must be aware of what's out there.
Fortunately, I've had the advantage knowing about these apps before now. But, I'm not the sort of person that goes looking for scripts to take out websites. I could make some good guesses on where to look for these things. But, I'm never going to have the time to be as aware of that area of knowledge as I could and should be. Especially if I have to rely on my own ability to find and desiminate knowledge.
Not talking about these things doesn't make them go away. Talking about them makes it easier for the people who are most effected by these things to stay educated. And that includes everyone from the developers to clients to the PHB's.
Aside from that, Microsoft needs to do something like pushing out mandatory security patches for all users of Windows and/or IE. I am not sure why they don't do this either. I guess Microsoft thinks that all these lazy suckers deserve to be hacked.
Profit. Microsoft doesn't push them out for profit sake. If you have a legal copy of a recent version of windows you can set the computer to auto update. Which is essentially what you are saying. Those with out a legal copy are left out in the cold. It's meant to push people into buying a legal version.
That said, just because a patch comes out, doesn't mean you should immediately download it. A lot of the initial patches do more harm than good because of bugs in them. And a lot of the urgent security patches are issues that have been in the wild for while. So, even if you updated immediately when a patch is available you have been left vulnerable for a while.
I used to live in a house about 900 square feet. And I completely agree with you. For just a couple, it's fine if you've got it set up where it's working for you. If it's not set up however, it can be quite painful. I ended up moving because the storage areas consisted of two closet just large enough to stand in. And I was renting so there wasn't a lot of home improvements I could do to it.
About two years ago we moved into a larger house (1300) and we thought we'd never use all the space in the house. It's funny, you find a way to use it. I'd equate the experience to a Hard drive. When you get one with more space, you just find more ways of filling it up.
Or better yet, break the student body into teams. One Team scans the other team secures. And maybe swap teams after a good go at it.
You could grade based on what the student learned from both tasks.
That really depends on which end of it you are on.
You both suck!
The difference between spinning a non-political article and a political one is very significant.
Our political process relies on the percieved integrity of the individual in whom we place our confidence. There is a lot more at stake than a bad review or a misinterpretation of facts as these people are involved in the process of making and passing laws in the US.
And as for the big deal, well wikipedia is designed to handle these cases where differences of opinion on the facts show up. But with a political issue its much more likely that the differences will be exaggerated and fought over much like any other political issue out there. Wikipedia will be caught in the middle. How they react to it and handle it will be of strong interest to anyone who places any faith in their site.
iNotCleaningItUp
And one more:
The Onion Headline: Republicans can read!
Yeah, But did he get a free toaster? You didn't answer that part.
"Fuck You" money is the amount of money it would take for you to never need to take another job again. Or alternately, Enough money so that if you needed to, you could tell your boss, 'Fuck you' and still be well off. I would also think it includes a +/- based on personal desire.
That said, Fuck You Money is a function of a person's location, cost of living, current stock market trends, personal spending habits and personal desire. A person would have to calculate their own value for it.
Although, it would be nice to have a fairly solid equation for it and a quick place to access some of the constants.
I agree with you mostly. However, no amount of training will ever take the dog out of a dog.
Some breeds can never be trained to leave certain objects alone or not do certain behaviors. For example: Teaching Saint Bernards not to drool, Jack Russells to have less energy, Border Collies not to herd and Chihuahua's not to be annoying.
If a dog's drive is strong enough, no amount of training will prevent them from following it. Training however, will let you get a good handle on it, in so much that you'll learn what to expect and how to manage these behaviors. (I have to let my Jack turbo around the house at night or he'll never go to sleep)
Training my dogs has been one of the most rewarding experiences!
Sony obviously just needs some killin', let it be.
Sounds like a John Lennon song... except for the killin' part.
Sounds like a Pantera song... except for the let it be part.
Here, Here!! Boycotts are all fine and dandy, but I think the best way to voice dissent is to take them to court and file a large class action lawsuit that they'll never forget.
Because we need that outspoken action to sit in the minds of the decision makers at Sony. When they consider doing a DRM scheme again, I want the executives to think about the bad publicity, the outspoken public opinion and the big fat fine they paid. I want visions of lawsuit stories all over the news networks flashing through their minds.
I don't think you'd get that sort of reaction from Boycotting. Maybe, but in today's media market. I don't think so.
Sony needs a hard slap on the wrist to get their attention. Nothing short of several millions of dollars in damages and a scarred image will do that.
That's sad to hear about the Sword of the Phoenix. I had gone to Atlanta a couple years back on business and was checking out the local gaming stores. That placed rated very highly with me in so many areas. I hate hearing about small businesses like that closing up shop.
The best way I've seen to address this issue is to show their methods as false and unworthy of discussion. That is, we don't argue with them. We don't acknowledge their theory. We just give a strikingly close theory that is obviously false but uses the same methodology.
The Flying Speghetti Monster is an ingenious method of pointing out their lack of scientific weight.
Ok, now time to take off the pirate attire.
This won't contribute a thing to this discussion.
In fact, it's a knee jerk response on my part. I admit it.
But, I gotta say it.
What a bunch of Jerks!
Thank you!