I hear these things all the time and now I have to speak.
For 2+ years I've been running an old rig dl'ing all sorts of warez, porn and mp3's. I run a regurlarly updated (before SP2) WinXP with a McAfee virus scan + firewall that I all got from Kazaa.
My system is running more stable than the one I have at work (pro run hard policy UNIX/Win network)
I hate to be so politically incorrect, so please help me: What am I doing wrong (or right...)?
You believe that these are kids that just discovered kazaa and porn. Fine. They might be.
I just rendered the impression that I got from the media. It can't be that much different from what other people get. Where did you get your impression from?
I'm sure things are different in Sweden than in the US, but since there were serious lawsuits in neighbouring Denmark, it's not a great leap to imagine them not being far off in Sweden.
Yeah, let's ridicule these guys 'cos they look geeky!...on/.?!?!
Sure they don't look too intimidating but they did manage to register 5700 members and deliver 20000 signatures against "cooperate abuse of IP rights" .
If nothing else they raise awareness on important issues to wich the general public is oblivious.
Sure, their methods are controversial. So were Robin Hood's. But, when you're up against Goliath, you don't have much of a choice. It's easy to criminalize the behaviour of a minority 'cos the majority writes the law.
I understand taking extreme measures when faced with overwhelming power. At least they're not hurting anyone. It is still a relatively minor economical crime that they encourage. The RIAA want to emprison people for illegal file sharing. Who's terrorizing?
And, don't give them a hard time 'cos they're young. Youth's careless and spontaneous outroar against injustice certainly may cause progress as well as any old farts' laborious dialectics.
Yes, and then the mind control rays will be polarized in some clever way so that they penetrate even tin foil.
The point being that the scenario that you draw hasn't happened yet and is not the issue. The issue is whether we can accept an iris scan in our ID and I don't see why not. I assure you that I will also protest when they start implanting chips in babies.
>Me: "That's none of your's or the Government's damn business."
I can see how you'd be against this if you favour as little goverment influence as possible. But, it so happens that a democratic majority has voted in favour of a government. In order for this government to function properly it needs information from its citizens. It needs to be able to identify its citizens. It's a free world: love it or leave it.
>Aschroft recently sought information on doctors who perform abortions using his new found anti-terrorist powers.
That sounds scary. But hold your horses: I didn't endorse the terrorist act (which I don't). I was talking only about the biometric ID. Now, how's that gonna be abused?
Flame me, but I don't see the problem. Big Brother's now intruding on my privacy snooping around in my personal data like my height and my iris scan? Are you realistically worried that our (free world) goverments are gonna show their true face and prune out all those with less than blue eyes? I for one welcome better security on my credit card (and other) transactions.
Motivation is obviously a great factor in learning.
Think about how booooring it can be to acquire knowledge that's actually cool. Then think about how much FUN it can be to play a computer game that's actually boring.
Man, if we could design games that are both fun and will teach you a useful skill we could really break those learning curves......maybe I should've put this in the 4)??? 5)Profit! format?
Moon vs. Mars: Come on! Moon is mostly about geology but Mars takes astronomy into our back yard: It's about Life itself. Let's not forget that Mars is our best chance of finding ET life. That's not just cool, but will learn us about the creation and maintenance of life, which is darn important.
Manned vs. unmanned: why not take unmanned to the limits (that we haven't reached yet, it seems) before we go manned?
If gmail wants to store a bunch of my obsolete PGP'd mails please let them do so.
Email's never been really private. If you really care about email privacy you should encrypt your mail. And you can still do that using gmail, I suppose?
A company wants to sell ebooks with copyright expired titles? I don't see the problem?
They want to call it Project Gutenberg 2/too? That must be such a clear cut tradmark court case?
If they'd copycatted a big multibucks company rather than a small non-profit setup this news wouldn't even have reached us before they'd be cluttered with corporate lawyers. Try set up a MS 2 webpage...
So far we all turn our buttocks at such attempts to infiltrate our searches with commercial interests cos we just migrate to our beloved and trusted google soon to be on the stock exchange btw.
But this emphasizes a very important point: With a huge part of our delivery of information channeling through the search engines the need for open source search engines seems as important as the need for open sourcs OS.
A counterindication for having a MRI scan done is having a
tattoo.
Obviously, people with tattoos are more likely to be of a subversive persuasion so it makes good sense for the government to infiltrate tattoo parlors......or could it just be that magnetic dye particles are conductive and therefore heat in a rapidly varying magnetic field?
From the sample chapter:...I'll be the first to admit it's not like what you do. It's not my passionI'm doing this for the wages, and I'm doing this because it doesn't eat me alive.
Erh... Wasn't the point to do something that you really like? I fail to see the courage in escaping to a trivial job. Surely there must be something more creative to do for a man with a law degree than trucking?
Everyone's into the technical difficulties, but, hey, think big: Bringing most classical works online would be one of the greates achievements of the internet. It totally dwarfs technical difficulties and another 50 megabucks on the expense account of the world community.
Makes me wonder if we're sometimes too hung up on the medium to remember the message...
Stealing is wrong.
But the argument about protecting the "artists" makes me wonder: Who do we want to protect?
An artist is supposed to perform for the joy of creating and sharing his creations. I'm not saying that he "should" live in a damp attick chamber, but does he absolutely need luxury?
An album can apparently be produced for a few thousand bucks. How many/.'ers spend that kind of money on their art/hobby without expecting an immediate return?
Sincere artists being starved by illegal file sharing is a myth. There's a well tuned mass-media producing machine that experiences severe cuts in its profit margins due to illegal file sharing.
Wow, this actually got a score. Then maybe this gets a score too... Are you serious? What's up with that WWII crap? How many times did YOU fire your rifle? And perhaps if the US fired their rifles a little less in general it might not be all bad.
Slashdot Mirror
put the words "free tibet" somewhere in the game.
Didn't you see the picture of their servers?
Daddy, where were you when MS took over the world?
I hear these things all the time and now I have to speak. For 2+ years I've been running an old rig dl'ing all sorts of warez, porn and mp3's. I run a regurlarly updated (before SP2) WinXP with a McAfee virus scan + firewall that I all got from Kazaa. My system is running more stable than the one I have at work (pro run hard policy UNIX/Win network) I hate to be so politically incorrect, so please help me: What am I doing wrong (or right...)?
In Denmark the RIAA equivalent started taxing kindergardens for using copyrighted material in communal singing.
Ze damn kids are STEALING from us with their seemingly innocent singsongs.
How do lawyers face themselves? In 4k$ gold framed crystal mirrors, I guess...
And the most bandwidth per capita in the world whereas the north might qualify as having the least.
You believe that these are kids that just discovered kazaa and porn. Fine. They might be.
I just rendered the impression that I got from the media. It can't be that much different from what other people get. Where did you get your impression from?
I'm sure things are different in Sweden than in the US, but since there were serious lawsuits in neighbouring Denmark, it's not a great leap to imagine them not being far off in Sweden.
Sure they don't look too intimidating but they did manage to register 5700 members and deliver 20000 signatures against "cooperate abuse of IP rights" .
If nothing else they raise awareness on important issues to wich the general public is oblivious.
Sure, their methods are controversial. So were Robin Hood's. But, when you're up against Goliath, you don't have much of a choice. It's easy to criminalize the behaviour of a minority 'cos the majority writes the law.
I understand taking extreme measures when faced with overwhelming power. At least they're not hurting anyone. It is still a relatively minor economical crime that they encourage. The RIAA want to emprison people for illegal file sharing. Who's terrorizing?
And, don't give them a hard time 'cos they're young. Youth's careless and spontaneous outroar against injustice certainly may cause progress as well as any old farts' laborious dialectics.
Yes, and then the mind control rays will be polarized in some clever way so that they penetrate even tin foil.
The point being that the scenario that you draw hasn't happened yet and is not the issue. The issue is whether we can accept an iris scan in our ID and I don't see why not. I assure you that I will also protest when they start implanting chips in babies.
>Me: "That's none of your's or the Government's damn business." I can see how you'd be against this if you favour as little goverment influence as possible. But, it so happens that a democratic majority has voted in favour of a government. In order for this government to function properly it needs information from its citizens. It needs to be able to identify its citizens. It's a free world: love it or leave it.
>Aschroft recently sought information on doctors who perform abortions using his new found anti-terrorist powers.
That sounds scary. But hold your horses: I didn't endorse the terrorist act (which I don't). I was talking only about the biometric ID. Now, how's that gonna be abused?
>When a government need THIS kind of details about a citizen, I don't consider I live in a free world anymore.
In which way is your world restricted by this?
Flame me, but I don't see the problem. Big Brother's now intruding on my privacy snooping around in my personal data like my height and my iris scan? Are you realistically worried that our (free world) goverments are gonna show their true face and prune out all those with less than blue eyes? I for one welcome better security on my credit card (and other) transactions.
Motivation is obviously a great factor in learning.
...maybe I should've put this in the 4)??? 5)Profit! format?
Think about how booooring it can be to acquire knowledge that's actually cool. Then think about how much FUN it can be to play a computer game that's actually boring.
Man, if we could design games that are both fun and will teach you a useful skill we could really break those learning curves...
Moon vs. Mars: Come on! Moon is mostly about geology but Mars takes astronomy into our back yard: It's about Life itself. Let's not forget that Mars is our best chance of finding ET life. That's not just cool, but will learn us about the creation and maintenance of life, which is darn important.
Manned vs. unmanned: why not take unmanned to the limits (that we haven't reached yet, it seems) before we go manned?
If gmail wants to store a bunch of my obsolete PGP'd mails please let them do so. Email's never been really private. If you really care about email privacy you should encrypt your mail. And you can still do that using gmail, I suppose?
Wrench...? ....Oh, that sort of hardware.
A company wants to sell ebooks with copyright expired titles? I don't see the problem? They want to call it Project Gutenberg 2/too? That must be such a clear cut tradmark court case? If they'd copycatted a big multibucks company rather than a small non-profit setup this news wouldn't even have reached us before they'd be cluttered with corporate lawyers. Try set up a MS 2 webpage...
So far we all turn our buttocks at such attempts to infiltrate our searches with commercial interests cos we just migrate to our beloved and trusted google soon to be on the stock exchange btw. But this emphasizes a very important point: With a huge part of our delivery of information channeling through the search engines the need for open source search engines seems as important as the need for open sourcs OS.
A counterindication for having a MRI scan done is having a tattoo. Obviously, people with tattoos are more likely to be of a subversive persuasion so it makes good sense for the government to infiltrate tattoo parlors... ...or could it just be that magnetic dye particles are conductive and therefore heat in a rapidly varying magnetic field?
From the sample chapter: ...I'll be the first to admit it's not like what you do. It's not my passionI'm doing this for the wages, and I'm doing this because it doesn't eat me alive.
Erh... Wasn't the point to do something that you really like? I fail to see the courage in escaping to a trivial job. Surely there must be something more creative to do for a man with a law degree than trucking?
Everyone's into the technical difficulties, but, hey, think big: Bringing most classical works online would be one of the greates achievements of the internet. It totally dwarfs technical difficulties and another 50 megabucks on the expense account of the world community. Makes me wonder if we're sometimes too hung up on the medium to remember the message...
It's true! Colonel Kurtz had his men play GTA3!
Stealing is wrong. But the argument about protecting the "artists" makes me wonder: Who do we want to protect? An artist is supposed to perform for the joy of creating and sharing his creations. I'm not saying that he "should" live in a damp attick chamber, but does he absolutely need luxury? An album can apparently be produced for a few thousand bucks. How many /.'ers spend that kind of money on their art/hobby without expecting an immediate return?
Sincere artists being starved by illegal file sharing is a myth. There's a well tuned mass-media producing machine that experiences severe cuts in its profit margins due to illegal file sharing.
Wow, this actually got a score. Then maybe this gets a score too... Are you serious? What's up with that WWII crap? How many times did YOU fire your rifle? And perhaps if the US fired their rifles a little less in general it might not be all bad.