Don't confuse the issue. If you're in favor of copyright reform, fine -- I agree. We should lobby to remove the corporate stranglehold that keeps copyrights valid long past their useful lifetime.
But unless you regard file sharing as a noble act of civic protest, we should certainly continue to enforce the law as it stands, and the RIAA/etc. have every right to sue violators of the law.
Certainly I'd dare you to point to an individual sued for P2P sharing who rigorously shares only music whose copyright "should have" expired by now.
When the RIAA tried to shut down Napster, the Slashdot line was, "but people like this! And you're not offering a legal alternative!" And Slashdot was right.
When the RIAA sued the "second-generation" P2P companies like Kazaa, the Slashdot line was, "But they just write the software! They can't be held responsible for how people use it!" And Slashdot was right.
Now, with a dozen legal music stores available, the RIAA (and its ilk) are suing the individuals responsible for breaking the law. And now, finally, they are right, and Slashdot is wrong.
There are easy, affordable, online mechanisms for getting the music you want, in which the artists get paid. And there are ways to get music such that the artists don't get paid. One of them is right, and one of them is wrong. The individuals sharing stuff don't have anyone else to point a finger at; it's not the RIAA's fault, it's not Kazaa's fault, it's their fault if they break the law and deprive artists -- and the companies which support them -- of fair compensation.
I (a liberal) read the Instapundit RSS feeds because as you note, it's a great roundup of what's going on out there.
But it also drives me nuts because (1) Half of the time he doesn't make any commentary of his own, just a "Heh" or "Interesting." Come on! I expect a little better from a professor. and (2) He's a little self-satisfied, as though he invented blogging or something. The way he talked about "Rathergate" you'd think he was the one who made it an issue, when it was entirely LGF and Powerline, plus Drudge's links.
In the entertainment realm, none is better than Fafblog.
It's a bizarre, irreverent blog featuring a cast of strange mythical characters with satirical commentary, from a decidedly liberal angle. Use the RSS feed so you don't have to look at the horrible colors.
Samples:
Courage: The World's Terrorist Supply Is Fading Fast
The Medium Lobster has been heartened to see even more good news coming out of Iraq. To some, seventy-three dead and a hundred wounded in a single day of bombings and guerilla attacks would stand as a sign of a worsening quagmire confronting an administration whose policies on Iraq and terror seem at best incoherent and at worst markedly destructive. But to the enlightened, increasing terror in Iraq means that the administration's Iraq policy is finally working - by beginning to use up the world's supply of terrorists.
wheeeeeee-ha!
Wow! Me an Giblets just busted outta Guantanamo Bay (where I tried to blog yesterday but couldnt - there is no wifi in Gitmo who knew!) by chewin through the gingerbread walls (the better to lure unsuspectin young terrorists inside! When Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld saw we were leavin he chased after us in his dress an his big warty nose but we pushed im into a pot where he melted away) an jumpin into our Confederate Flag-decorated orange Chrysler where we took off! Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge took after us in his beat-up ol cop car but it could not jump the river at Old McKinney's Bridge an he an his deputy Gordon England crashed into the muddy riverbank. "I'll get those Fafblog boys, consarnit!" ol Ridge said while a couple a pigs made funny snortin noises.
is my toothpaste gay?
Today I was sittin in the bathroom about to brush my teeth like usual when James Dobson's Focus on the Family runs in all important-like an says "Stop! Crest toothpaste tacitly supports gay marriage!"
"It's true!" says Giblets. "Our toothpaste is gay!"
"Crest toothpaste have you been hidin this all along?" I says to the toothpaste. "Why didn't you tell us? We would still love you, we are your consumers."
As others have pointed out, the difference in this case is that these kids did not already know one language. They did not grow up listening to language (since they are deaf) or seeing language (since no one there spoke sign language). In most cases of children raised without language exposure, they are alone or in very small groups, and fail to develop a language on their own.
My favorite word in the 503 message was geblokkeerd. That's what I'm going to use instead of "slashdotted" from now on -- "Oh no! The site is geblokkeerd!"
What is it with the Belgians? They'd rather not think about their own colonialist past, or their "neutrality" in WWII, so they spend their time prosecuting Israelis?
If anything this incident is a further argument for using tools like hymn to strip DRM.
A Hymned music file complies perfectly with the AAC spec. Quicktime, VLC, WinAmp, etc. play them just fine, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Once an iTMS file is stripped of its DRM by Hymn, it is future-proofed: any AAC-capable player, under any OS, will be able to play the file.
As a 'goodwill gesture', the Hymn developers chose specifically to leave the Account ID field in Hymned music files. This was to leave an identifying mark of the owner in the file, so as to underline the fact that Hymn is intended for personal use, not to make files available for sharing.
However, some bright bulb at Apple decided to add code to iTunes 4.6 specifically designed to recognize these files, the ones with the Account ID field, but no DRM, and refuse to play them. Again, you could play them in Quicktime, VLC, on your Palm Pilot, etc. just fine -- only iTunes had this crippling feature added. So what is the solution? To remove the Account ID field, of course, which makes Hymned files indistinguishable from AAC files you have ripped yourself.
But you're going USB keyboard -> PS/2 port. I've never had a problem with that. But the article seems to be asking about going PS/2 keyboard -> USB port, which I've never tried.
Well in Manhattan, the most densely populated county in the U.S. (67,000 people / square mile), I've generally had no fewer than 3 WiFi access points available in the various apartments I've lived in... I can reach 7 access points from different corners of my 400 square foot apartment now.
Not that WiFi is the reason to live here, but hey, free Internet is nice when you're paying through the nose for the apartment!
As discussed in this thread, the URL handling in OS X, plus the automatic app-registration, plus the auto-mounting of disk images makes for an easy execute-remote-code flaw in OS X.
I quote the poster, smeger:
In other words, lets' say I write a standard Mac app that deletes the home directory. The Info.plist for this app contains
(snipped for lameness filter) <key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key> <array> <string>malware</string> </array>
The malware author sticks this app into a DMG and uses the trick mentioned elsewhere in this thread to mount the DMG and then redirect the web page to "malware://anything". Boom - bye bye home directory.
Am I missing something here, or did this vulnerability just get even nastier?
yikes! Make sure you turn off "open safe files" in Safari (or the equivalent in your browser), and also disable the disk:// protocol, until this is resolved!
Heck, I have a 2002 650CC BMW F650GS with ABS that gets 65 MPG
Well I have a 2004 130nM IBM PPC970 2000MHZ with DDR that gets 14400MFLOPS. I bought this year for about $3500. I don't think Florida requires insurance for it, either. Doesn't do well in the rain, though.
A complimentary compiler, huh? I agree, after a few frustrating hours with GCC and its nasty little invectives, that would be a great technology to develop...
[mithras ~/src] alias cc="complimentary_compiler" [mithras ~/src] cc myprog.c
myprog.c:7: In function `main': myprog.c:7: compliment: Wow, great job with those open and close braces! myprog.c:7: compliment: They really look wonderful, perfectly indented.
myprog.c:83: In function `calculate_stuff': myprog.c:83: compliment: Ingenious coding here. myprog.c:83: compliment: Your use of the unused high bits of this array is pretty sweet, nice work.
myprog.c:125: In function `foo': myprog.c:125: error: This line looks like it will be very powerful, myprog.c:125: error: but I can't quite figure it out. Perhaps you forgot a semicolon? myprog.c:125: error: Don't worry about it, I do that all the time. myprog.c:125: error: You've already been so productive today, you deserve a break!
Probably no more than 500,000 people are using I.R.C. worldwide at any time, and many of them are engaged in legitimate activities, network administrators say.
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When I.R.C. started in the 1980's, it was best known as a way for serious computer professionals worldwide to communicate in real time. It is still possible - though sometimes a bit difficult - to find mature technical discussions among the tens of thousands of I.R.C. chat rooms, known as channels, operating at any one time. There are also respectable I.R.C. systems and channels - some operated by universities or Internet service providers - for gamers seeking opponents or those who want to talk about sports or hobbies.
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Yet I.R.C. has its advocates, who point to its legitimate uses.
"I.R.C. is where all of the kids come on and go nuts,'' William A. Bierman, a college student in Hawaii who helps develop I.R.C. server software and who is known online as billy-jon, said in a telephone interview. "All of the attention I.R.C. has gotten over the years has been because it's a haven for criminals, which is a very one-sided view.
"The whole idea behind I.R.C. is freedom of speech. There is really no structure on the Internet for policing I.R.C., and there are intentionally no rules.
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That [file transfer] capability has a lot of legitimate uses for transferring big files that would be rejected by an e-mail system. Want to send your brother across the country a digital copy of your home movie without burning a disc and putting it in the mailbox? The file-transfer capability in I.R.C. may be the most convenient way.
You mean you want to discriminate in favor of wealthier people by fining a fixed dollar amount? Should they be permitted more infractions because they have more money?
If you ask me, speeding tickets and the like should be scaled to income as well.
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Don't confuse the issue. If you're in favor of copyright reform, fine -- I agree. We should lobby to remove the corporate stranglehold that keeps copyrights valid long past their useful lifetime.
But unless you regard file sharing as a noble act of civic protest, we should certainly continue to enforce the law as it stands, and the RIAA/etc. have every right to sue violators of the law.
Certainly I'd dare you to point to an individual sued for P2P sharing who rigorously shares only music whose copyright "should have" expired by now.
That's a fallacious argument. Just because they've been against some things you support, does not mean that you support anything they're against.
When the RIAA tried to shut down Napster, the Slashdot line was, "but people like this! And you're not offering a legal alternative!" And Slashdot was right.
When the RIAA sued the "second-generation" P2P companies like Kazaa, the Slashdot line was, "But they just write the software! They can't be held responsible for how people use it!" And Slashdot was right.
Now, with a dozen legal music stores available, the RIAA (and its ilk) are suing the individuals responsible for breaking the law. And now, finally, they are right, and Slashdot is wrong.
There are easy, affordable, online mechanisms for getting the music you want, in which the artists get paid. And there are ways to get music such that the artists don't get paid. One of them is right, and one of them is wrong. The individuals sharing stuff don't have anyone else to point a finger at; it's not the RIAA's fault, it's not Kazaa's fault, it's their fault if they break the law and deprive artists -- and the companies which support them -- of fair compensation.
I (a liberal) read the Instapundit RSS feeds because as you note, it's a great roundup of what's going on out there.
But it also drives me nuts because (1) Half of the time he doesn't make any commentary of his own, just a "Heh" or "Interesting." Come on! I expect a little better from a professor. and (2) He's a little self-satisfied, as though he invented blogging or something. The way he talked about "Rathergate" you'd think he was the one who made it an issue, when it was entirely LGF and Powerline, plus Drudge's links.
Okay, done with rantIn the entertainment realm, none is better than Fafblog.
It's a bizarre, irreverent blog featuring a cast of strange mythical characters with satirical commentary, from a decidedly liberal angle. Use the RSS feed so you don't have to look at the horrible colors.
Samples:
As others have pointed out, the difference in this case is that these kids did not already know one language. They did not grow up listening to language (since they are deaf) or seeing language (since no one there spoke sign language). In most cases of children raised without language exposure, they are alone or in very small groups, and fail to develop a language on their own.
Err, I think he knew that. See, the joke is that alcohol helps ugly people have sex, as the saying goes.
There's also this open source Prism2 driver for OS X.
(Mods, parent was mistaken, but not a troll).
My favorite word in the 503 message was geblokkeerd. That's what I'm going to use instead of "slashdotted" from now on -- "Oh no! The site is geblokkeerd!"
I love people who mistake fortune for virtue.
I use no@no.no. It's NXDOMAIN but I always liked the idea of some innocent Norwegian getting a pile of spam to this address...
What is it with the Belgians? They'd rather not think about their own colonialist past, or their "neutrality" in WWII, so they spend their time prosecuting Israelis?
Exactly. Get yourself a SE T610, or a Nokia 6630, and prepare to make grown men weep at the beauty of the phone/laptop dance.
If anything this incident is a further argument for using tools like hymn to strip DRM.
A Hymned music file complies perfectly with the AAC spec. Quicktime, VLC, WinAmp, etc. play them just fine, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Once an iTMS file is stripped of its DRM by Hymn, it is future-proofed: any AAC-capable player, under any OS, will be able to play the file.
As a 'goodwill gesture', the Hymn developers chose specifically to leave the Account ID field in Hymned music files. This was to leave an identifying mark of the owner in the file, so as to underline the fact that Hymn is intended for personal use, not to make files available for sharing.
However, some bright bulb at Apple decided to add code to iTunes 4.6 specifically designed to recognize these files, the ones with the Account ID field, but no DRM, and refuse to play them. Again, you could play them in Quicktime, VLC, on your Palm Pilot, etc. just fine -- only iTunes had this crippling feature added. So what is the solution? To remove the Account ID field, of course, which makes Hymned files indistinguishable from AAC files you have ripped yourself.
Apple really shot itself in the foot on this one.
Jolly little thread you're having with yourself there, eh?
But you're going USB keyboard -> PS/2 port. I've never had a problem with that. But the article seems to be asking about going PS/2 keyboard -> USB port, which I've never tried.
Well in Manhattan, the most densely populated county in the U.S. (67,000 people / square mile), I've generally had no fewer than 3 WiFi access points available in the various apartments I've lived in... I can reach 7 access points from different corners of my 400 square foot apartment now.
Not that WiFi is the reason to live here, but hey, free Internet is nice when you're paying through the nose for the apartment!
yikes! Make sure you turn off "open safe files" in Safari (or the equivalent in your browser), and also disable the disk:// protocol, until this is resolved!
Well I have a 2004 130nM IBM PPC970 2000MHZ with DDR that gets 14400MFLOPS. I bought this year for about $3500. I don't think Florida requires insurance for it, either. Doesn't do well in the rain, though.
Hmm, sudo should only not ask for your password if you've run it (and authenticated) in the last 5 minutes...
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Heh. LynXtreme?
You mean you want to discriminate in favor of wealthier people by fining a fixed dollar amount? Should they be permitted more infractions because they have more money?
If you ask me, speeding tickets and the like should be scaled to income as well.