Wait a minute, does that not mean that by setting up data havens in smaller countries, we could get as much reverse engineered code, music and other copyrighted materials dwon as possible, and then create a local equivalent of the GPL(BSD or your own favourite open software model) and stick all under that, so that should patenting change - its already licensed..
Tell me where... I'll glady move and set up my own server... hehe...
Also maybe some very decent intrusion detection - so we can destroy MPAA and RIAA computers before than can ours.. After all -we are only defending our property(the server is our property).
I have just given up my mod points to state that for UK residents - the link in this guys sig is more relevant for us than perhaps anything else on this page.
How tired are you of always reading US copyright law, and US copyright campaigns, and not having the slightest clue what the equivalents in the UK are?
Anyway - this is a star link - I repeat it for the benefit of those with sigs turned off: The UK Campaign For Digital Rights
Wireless access.. 8+ hours uninterrupted.
Fine, its a rolling lifestyle, and they tend to live in the truck, but you get to see new faces, and they get a lot of funky technology..
Anyone remember the simpsons episode with the truckers? Hehe...
A good way to be 5 feet above other peasants on the road...
Obviously it seemd good from the outside- are there any real truckers on slashdot who would like to comment?
Anyway - I think we could soon see top of the range inner city cars with wifi (if they arent available already). It makes a lot of sense - like a wifi based map system and a GPS or something..
I am sure if you are legitamately running the scripts, you would authenticate them in some way. If a malicious emloyee decides to authenticate a virus internally, then you would have a problem - cutter or none.
Maybe you really should have given them that holiday....
Damn straight.. Now there is an idea.. We could solve network security and bandwidth issues, and 24/7 workforce issues in one hit. Also - maybe you could have business discounts, for businesses guaranteed to only use the download bandwidth 9-5. Although thats probably gone a bit far..
IF they are that regular, they are surely tied into scripts. In which case, the scripts could forewarn the fuse script that they will be communicating the big file, so it can suspend its monitoring of that specific connection, while still monitoring other nodes on the netwokr that are not realted to that activity.
Okay - thats understood. I may actually have to read this book...
But does it give us any idea of WTF to do about it?
My fallback will be to get whatever studies it takes to become a university professor. To be honest - they get paid about the same (if not more) than I do, and for a much less stressful job - please correct me if I am horribly wrong. I know my stuff, and I know I can teach it- I have before.
And lets not forget - whichever part of Europe you mean, it excludes the UK. I think UK workers have fewer rights than many other EU countries.
I myself make a smaller paypacket than many US counterparts, pay more rent and tax for tinier crappy apartments. London is probably the nastiest place I have ever, and will ever live in terms of quality of living and money.. Personally I am waiting to save the money it takes to move off this hole of an island one day..
Go see your union spokesman about it
Ummm... What union? I seem to remember, that a 95% emplyee representation would be needed to form a union. I work for a very big company.
You know, it is just that which makes a problem. If all the programmers who are salaried didnt work unpaid overtime, them it wouldnt be expected. But the truth is many programmers (including myself) are gutless and socially inept, and have very little, if any actual say in deadline dates. If I was not to work overtime, I dont finish the project, and to be honest- I would not hear the end of that.
To make it worse, they use royalties (I work for a game company) like a carrot on a stick, to get young enthusiastic and naive uni-leavers to work stupid hours (one member of our team was getting pats on the back for doing a 96 hour week) without remuneration. The reality is the royalties were crap - and hardly bought anyone a mars bar. In my view, that is just taking the proverbial...
Unfortunately, this year sees a new draft of uni-leavers, just as eager to be ripped off as those who left before.
I have already decided I am going to leave the games industry- as there are better paid programming jobs... But I also want to ensure I have a good CV first - buy not stitching them up near the end of a long-running project.
Nail on the head. I am glad there really are others that think like me. I want to be part of that economy. I already like to think that is what I contribute to - mostly with open source code tidbits, robots and my music for now. I can only hope that I see the revelution in my lifetime.. So I can enjoy my life and research and develope things that really interest me, as opposed to the day job I do so I can take money home.
Like my point previously - thats what an MOT certificate is for...
I mean just because it is open source, and non-corporate - it does not mean certain design base-lines cannot get some kind of an approval seal for public usage.
How about people using an open source models to design cars - and/or improve on existing designs.. Given that they can then be copied for free.. That model would work then...
Of course a tax would be levied on a body to regulate the car safety - but we already have the MOT for that and motor tax. So it is just ford and GM who would loose out...
Think about the MOT on custom vehicals - most of the designs for which are published on owners web sites - and actively encourage people to make copies with a little of their own style. I admit - I do not know what the US equivalent of MOT is.
I agree - in that I always think that the time a band should make real money is by making real live appearances.
Now - for a talented band to hire a recording studio, and release recordings of there work(and no perfect digital recording is ever good as a real live performance), thereby promoting themselves - so when they do go live they get many listeners. That and also through things like the stret-artist license. I already have paid artists on the street, or paid to see live performances.
I have already used the internet to bid voluntary sums for artists I really like.
To be honest- being an artist myself - I always MP3 my own work, and share it online. Its not my day job, and I do not intend to make money out of it. I just enjoy creating my music, and the reactions sometimes of other listening to it. Although I may consider placing it on a site where people can make the SAL donations...
Hold on- You missed something.. What was YOUR job?
Anyway I do use a mobile and a PDA and a digital camera often. I also (being a robot enthusiast) would like to see the use of bluetooth to replace some of the troublesome infra-red uplink devices I use. While 802.11b is good for laptops, for a microcontroller bluetooth seems more like a minimal point to point protocol - which is all I need. Yes I know I could integrate a webserver the size of a penny stamp - but really all I need is the equiv of RS232 without wires.
Why are there not more commercial space agencies pushing the boundaries. Instead of government funded ones, who only just scrape by- I am talking about ones who dont mind sticking coke and McDonalds advertising on the side to get funding, who invest in mining projects, or profitable exploration projects. It might be difficult to get initial funding - but I am sure there are some manufacturing processes which would be considerably easier in Zero-G. The big boundary is getting there and back, but if enough businesses are trying to do this - then the technology WILL be advanced- the systems of transit will become safer, cheaper and quicker.
Of course all things said- lets hope Bill Gates never builds a deathstar for zapping non-conforming companies...
Awww man - what are we gonna do with all the self-destructed dvds when they finish..
This is gonna mean between AOL CD's, and DVD's Time-Warner-AOL will have the monopoly on landfill..
Or alternatively - film the event and send it to jackass so we can all laugh histerically as you get publicly debagged by Miffed Welshmen/Irishmen or Scotts..
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Wait a minute, does that not mean that by setting up data havens in smaller countries, we could get as much reverse engineered code, music and other copyrighted materials dwon as possible, and then create a local equivalent of the GPL(BSD or your own favourite open software model) and stick all under that, so that should patenting change - its already licensed.. ... I'll glady move and set up my own server... hehe...
Tell me where
Also maybe some very decent intrusion detection - so we can destroy MPAA and RIAA computers before than can ours.. After all -we are only defending our property(the server is our property).
I have just given up my mod points to state that for UK residents - the link in this guys sig is more relevant for us than perhaps anything else on this page.
How tired are you of always reading US copyright law, and US copyright campaigns, and not having the slightest clue what the equivalents in the UK are?
Anyway - this is a star link - I repeat it for the benefit of those with sigs turned off:
The UK Campaign For Digital Rights
Wireless access.. 8+ hours uninterrupted.
Fine, its a rolling lifestyle, and they tend to live in the truck, but you get to see new faces, and they get a lot of funky technology..
Anyone remember the simpsons episode with the truckers? Hehe...
A good way to be 5 feet above other peasants on the road...
Obviously it seemd good from the outside- are there any real truckers on slashdot who would like to comment?
Anyway - I think we could soon see top of the range inner city cars with wifi (if they arent available already). It makes a lot of sense - like a wifi based map system and a GPS or something..
I am sure if you are legitamately running the scripts, you would authenticate them in some way. If a malicious emloyee decides to authenticate a virus internally, then you would have a problem - cutter or none.
Maybe you really should have given them that holiday....
Damn straight.. Now there is an idea.. We could solve network security and bandwidth issues, and 24/7 workforce issues in one hit. Also - maybe you could have business discounts, for businesses guaranteed to only use the download bandwidth 9-5. Although thats probably gone a bit far..
IF they are that regular, they are surely tied into scripts. In which case, the scripts could forewarn the fuse script that they will be communicating the big file, so it can suspend its monitoring of that specific connection, while still monitoring other nodes on the netwokr that are not realted to that activity.
Okay - thats understood. I may actually have to read this book...
But does it give us any idea of WTF to do about it?
My fallback will be to get whatever studies it takes to become a university professor. To be honest - they get paid about the same (if not more) than I do, and for a much less stressful job - please correct me if I am horribly wrong. I know my stuff, and I know I can teach it- I have before.
And lets not forget - whichever part of Europe you mean, it excludes the UK. I think UK workers have fewer rights than many other EU countries.
I myself make a smaller paypacket than many US counterparts, pay more rent and tax for tinier crappy apartments. London is probably the nastiest place I have ever, and will ever live in terms of quality of living and money.. Personally I am waiting to save the money it takes to move off this hole of an island one day..
Go see your union spokesman about it
Ummm... What union? I seem to remember, that a 95% emplyee representation would be needed to form a union. I work for a very big company.
You know, it is just that which makes a problem. If all the programmers who are salaried didnt work unpaid overtime, them it wouldnt be expected. But the truth is many programmers (including myself) are gutless and socially inept, and have very little, if any actual say in deadline dates. If I was not to work overtime, I dont finish the project, and to be honest- I would not hear the end of that.
To make it worse, they use royalties (I work for a game company) like a carrot on a stick, to get young enthusiastic and naive uni-leavers to work stupid hours (one member of our team was getting pats on the back for doing a 96 hour week) without remuneration. The reality is the royalties were crap - and hardly bought anyone a mars bar. In my view, that is just taking the proverbial...
Unfortunately, this year sees a new draft of uni-leavers, just as eager to be ripped off as those who left before.
I have already decided I am going to leave the games industry- as there are better paid programming jobs... But I also want to ensure I have a good CV first - buy not stitching them up near the end of a long-running project.
Nail on the head. I am glad there really are others that think like me. I want to be part of that economy. I already like to think that is what I contribute to - mostly with open source code tidbits, robots and my music for now. I can only hope that I see the revelution in my lifetime.. So I can enjoy my life and research and develope things that really interest me, as opposed to the day job I do so I can take money home.
Like my point previously - thats what an MOT certificate is for...
I mean just because it is open source, and non-corporate - it does not mean certain design base-lines cannot get some kind of an approval seal for public usage.
How about people using an open source models to design cars - and/or improve on existing designs.. Given that they can then be copied for free.. That model would work then...
Of course a tax would be levied on a body to regulate the car safety - but we already have the MOT for that and motor tax. So it is just ford and GM who would loose out...
Think about the MOT on custom vehicals - most of the designs for which are published on owners web sites - and actively encourage people to make copies with a little of their own style. I admit - I do not know what the US equivalent of MOT is.
I agree - in that I always think that the time a band should make real money is by making real live appearances.
Now - for a talented band to hire a recording studio, and release recordings of there work(and no perfect digital recording is ever good as a real live performance), thereby promoting themselves - so when they do go live they get many listeners. That and also through things like the stret-artist license. I already have paid artists on the street, or paid to see live performances.
I have already used the internet to bid voluntary sums for artists I really like.
To be honest- being an artist myself - I always MP3 my own work, and share it online. Its not my day job, and I do not intend to make money out of it. I just enjoy creating my music, and the reactions sometimes of other listening to it. Although I may consider placing it on a site where people can make the SAL donations...
Probably depends what you've eaten..
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Well you could always try windows and end up with the unpredictable funky bomb effect instead!
Hold on- You missed something.. What was YOUR job?
Anyway I do use a mobile and a PDA and a digital camera often. I also (being a robot enthusiast) would like to see the use of bluetooth to replace some of the troublesome infra-red uplink devices I use. While 802.11b is good for laptops, for a microcontroller bluetooth seems more like a minimal point to point protocol - which is all I need. Yes I know I could integrate a webserver the size of a penny stamp - but really all I need is the equiv of RS232 without wires.
If I had mod points - this would +5 funny... That clip is great...
Why are there not more commercial space agencies pushing the boundaries. Instead of government funded ones, who only just scrape by- I am talking about ones who dont mind sticking coke and McDonalds advertising on the side to get funding, who invest in mining projects, or profitable exploration projects. It might be difficult to get initial funding - but I am sure there are some manufacturing processes which would be considerably easier in Zero-G. The big boundary is getting there and back, but if enough businesses are trying to do this - then the technology WILL be advanced- the systems of transit will become safer, cheaper and quicker.
Of course all things said- lets hope Bill Gates never builds a deathstar for zapping non-conforming companies...
Awww man - what are we gonna do with all the self-destructed dvds when they finish..
This is gonna mean between AOL CD's, and DVD's Time-Warner-AOL will have the monopoly on landfill..
Or alternatively - film the event and send it to jackass so we can all laugh histerically as you get publicly debagged by Miffed Welshmen/Irishmen or Scotts..
For those flooding to Google to find out what that meant.. sub - under, ubi - where (thing where and wear)..
Semper means always... Put it together..
I think thats when us in the UK tend to don shorts and go "wahey - good weather".. and then run inside again like wussies when it rains again...
A widget it has got... and so on...
So when are you gonna post the articals on building it? Or converting a fridge...
I think we could all do with a kegerator...