But see, Israel and everyone else buys all its military technology from us. Their leading fighter plane? The F-16, developed in the US in the 1970s (look it up). I am NOT trying to arrogant, but your point that we should fear Israel selling tech to the Chinese is a joke. The one time Israel decided to develop a fighter (to be called "The Lion") was a massive and complete failure (look it up).
And truly, what have the French produced? This is not flamebait, I am trying to be sincere: Mirage vs. F-22? Does any other country have real functional stealth technology? Can any other country function militarily without using the US' GPS? I am not proud of America's military prowess, I am rather ashamed of it on the level of bragging about how many beers you drank last night, but truth be told, fearing that Israeli technology is sold to the Chinese is laughable considering what our government has unfortunately spent perfecting the art of war.
Yes, we suck in terms of promoting education, in terms of celebrating culture, in terms of being addicted to a consumeristic lifestyle. But we are the preeminent military power bar none, I regret to say.
Terrorism in virtual societies has a similar impact to that in flesh & blood ones. One would think it's hard to get emotional about some bits moving around the Internet, but people do. We can laugh about how it's just a dumb game, but if one looks at the wording of the statements, the players' reactions, it is reminiscent of the 9/11 aftermath.
I work with a guy who plays Everquest. His guild broke up, and it really affected him. He had even traveled (in the "real" world) to San Francisco (from Texas) and even to Australia to hang out with these people.
I guess the message is that human beings will find a way to develop a culture based on whatever idioms are available. Whether based on a game, religion, sports, pr0n, people evaluate themselves using the metrics whatever culture(s) they belong to value. I agree that losing some hitpoints (or whatever) doesn't compare to starving to death in Somalia, but I do feel sorry for the people who lost something important to them.
50 to 100 years from now when company "X" is granted a patent on blue roses. Some start growing in your garden one day, that'll be $19.95/month please, or we'll have the ATF come burn your yard down (and kill your family if you resist or live in Waco).
Mendel's descendents (OK, he was a monk, so relatives' descendents) will be sued retroactively for IP theft, every farmer with a spreadsheet will be put in Federal Prison for life in violation of the DMCA.
American McGee's Alice (in wonderland). Very creepy, but then so was the Disney cartoon as was the original book. It's odd how dark stuff (e.g., Grim's fairy tales) makes its way into children's stories sometimes.
Any creation sufficiently worthwhile will emerge one way or another. Is DRM strong enough to prevent Beatles-quality art from getting through? I hope not. The RIAA may want to impede the march of human culture for their greedy purposes, but they will fail.
This latest thing is aimed at preventing kids in treehouses from cracking the latest Avril Lavine single, but it will probably not even be a footnote in history.
Note to the RIAA apologists: try being an artist for a few years, then get back to me.
You bet your sweet ass. The day that the RIAA starts suing college kids for wanting to try-before-buying music so as not to burn their parents' hard-earned education savings is the day that I personally invest time in writing/distributing my own P2P client.
The reason that hackers around the world haven't banded together on this issue is that there is already a solution - KaZaA and others - but it wouldn't take venture capital to come up with a replacement. I guarantee that at the bottom of the 9th inning, if Sharman goes down, they release their source and then people around the world pick up the ball and make it 10,000 times harder to litigate.
Why? you ask. IMHO, the hatred towards the entertainment industry is misguided. For me, it's not about prices or quality of material, it's about availability. If I could pay $100/month to a service on which I could see/hear anything I wanted, from old Bugs Bunny & Tiujana Toads cartoons to impossible to find Beatles outtakes, I would drop that cash in a heartbeat. The Main Reason I use KaZaA today is not that I'm some freeloading cheapskate, but that I can get a Louis Jordan single from the 40s in about 5 minutes, which is about how long it also takes me to get the most latest Bitchen-est Foo Fighters song.
Yet, those goddamn motherfuckers have yet to release Van Halen's 1981 live concert on video (even though they have the whole thing edited and ready to go, parts of which you can get on KaZaA), or let me query a database and download snippets of everything that (swoon) Jessica Alba has been in. To reiterate, I am willing to pay for these services. But since the Powers That Be have their collective head too far up their collective ass, they FORCE me to resort to "piracy" (Aarrghh!) to get any kind of content that isn't force-fed through the normal channels.
In Sum: Make it so that any consumer can buy/rent any electronic content that has ever been created is available, and I will pay just about anything (thus fairly compensating the artists, the copyright owner(s), and the various arms of the entertainment industry).
Other than that, quit bitching.
To what extent do you think the movie War Games encouraged hacker culture amongst those of us in the 30s-ish age group? (Personally, the l33t h@x0rz I know all cite the grade-changing scene as at least ONE of their inspirations...)
That's what they were saying 50 years ago too. About the only sci-fi thing that's actually come to fruition is 1984 ("Patriot" Act, TIAA, etc.). Merry Christmas!! (or Allahmas, or whatever).
As one example, IBM sells VisualAge for Java (a Java IDE), but they are also heavily involved in "giving away" Eclipse, which is also a Java IDE that is somewhat open/free (under something called the "Common Public License"). Here is Eclipse's licensing faq.
Hey, SAP apparently copyrighted the letter "R", forcing the current release of IBM's Domino product to be called "Release 6" instead of "RNext" as originally planned.
Upon hearing the news, I started waiting for Sesame Street to own the world.
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But see, Israel and everyone else buys all its military technology from us. Their leading fighter plane? The F-16, developed in the US in the 1970s (look it up). I am NOT trying to arrogant, but your point that we should fear Israel selling tech to the Chinese is a joke. The one time Israel decided to develop a fighter (to be called "The Lion") was a massive and complete failure (look it up).
And truly, what have the French produced? This is not flamebait, I am trying to be sincere: Mirage vs. F-22? Does any other country have real functional stealth technology? Can any other country function militarily without using the US' GPS? I am not proud of America's military prowess, I am rather ashamed of it on the level of bragging about how many beers you drank last night, but truth be told, fearing that Israeli technology is sold to the Chinese is laughable considering what our government has unfortunately spent perfecting the art of war.
Yes, we suck in terms of promoting education, in terms of celebrating culture, in terms of being addicted to a consumeristic lifestyle. But we are the preeminent military power bar none, I regret to say.
(Jack Messman, holding USPO records):
'Scuse me while I whip this out!
nuff said
Terrorism in virtual societies has a similar impact to that in flesh & blood ones. One would think it's hard to get emotional about some bits moving around the Internet, but people do. We can laugh about how it's just a dumb game, but if one looks at the wording of the statements, the players' reactions, it is reminiscent of the 9/11 aftermath.
I work with a guy who plays Everquest. His guild broke up, and it really affected him. He had even traveled (in the "real" world) to San Francisco (from Texas) and even to Australia to hang out with these people.
I guess the message is that human beings will find a way to develop a culture based on whatever idioms are available. Whether based on a game, religion, sports, pr0n, people evaluate themselves using the metrics whatever culture(s) they belong to value. I agree that losing some hitpoints (or whatever) doesn't compare to starving to death in Somalia, but I do feel sorry for the people who lost something important to them.
... who found the model distractingly hot?
50 to 100 years from now when company "X" is granted a patent on blue roses. Some start growing in your garden one day, that'll be $19.95/month please, or we'll have the ATF come burn your yard down (and kill your family if you resist or live in Waco).
Mendel's descendents (OK, he was a monk, so relatives' descendents) will be sued retroactively for IP theft, every farmer with a spreadsheet will be put in Federal Prison for life in violation of the DMCA.
I voted for these guys when, exactly?
Would have been cooler if they'd kept it powers of 2.
Guess it's time to meta-moderate.
American McGee's Alice (in wonderland). Very creepy, but then so was the Disney cartoon as was the original book. It's odd how dark stuff (e.g., Grim's fairy tales) makes its way into children's stories sometimes.
Step 1. Create your own Java applet/screens with fake data. Give yourself straight A's, you deserve it.
Step 2. Create a line in your parents' hosts file that points the school URL towards your bogus site.
Step 3. Do your homework when you damn well feel like it.
... the admins could use the FLUSH-LOGS command.
Any creation sufficiently worthwhile will emerge one way or another. Is DRM strong enough to prevent Beatles-quality art from getting through? I hope not. The RIAA may want to impede the march of human culture for their greedy purposes, but they will fail.
This latest thing is aimed at preventing kids in treehouses from cracking the latest Avril Lavine single, but it will probably not even be a footnote in history.
Note to the RIAA apologists: try being an artist for a few years, then get back to me.
Are you a member of the EFF yet?
(You even get a Bitchen hat and t-shirt if you give a certain amount... chicks dig it, too...)
A great movie. Bill Pullman, Ben Stiller, Kim Dickens (swoon). Funny, suspenseful, good soundtrack.
...or your stuff gets punted!
Can I have my tax dollars back?
"Would you step in to replace them?"
You bet your sweet ass. The day that the RIAA starts suing college kids for wanting to try-before-buying music so as not to burn their parents' hard-earned education savings is the day that I personally invest time in writing/distributing my own P2P client.
The reason that hackers around the world haven't banded together on this issue is that there is already a solution - KaZaA and others - but it wouldn't take venture capital to come up with a replacement. I guarantee that at the bottom of the 9th inning, if Sharman goes down, they release their source and then people around the world pick up the ball and make it 10,000 times harder to litigate.
Why? you ask. IMHO, the hatred towards the entertainment industry is misguided. For me, it's not about prices or quality of material, it's about availability. If I could pay $100/month to a service on which I could see/hear anything I wanted, from old Bugs Bunny & Tiujana Toads cartoons to impossible to find Beatles outtakes, I would drop that cash in a heartbeat. The Main Reason I use KaZaA today is not that I'm some freeloading cheapskate, but that I can get a Louis Jordan single from the 40s in about 5 minutes, which is about how long it also takes me to get the most latest Bitchen-est Foo Fighters song.
Yet, those goddamn motherfuckers have yet to release Van Halen's 1981 live concert on video (even though they have the whole thing edited and ready to go, parts of which you can get on KaZaA), or let me query a database and download snippets of everything that (swoon) Jessica Alba has been in. To reiterate, I am willing to pay for these services. But since the Powers That Be have their collective head too far up their collective ass, they FORCE me to resort to "piracy" (Aarrghh!) to get any kind of content that isn't force-fed through the normal channels.
In Sum: Make it so that any consumer can buy/rent any electronic content that has ever been created is available, and I will pay just about anything (thus fairly compensating the artists, the copyright owner(s), and the various arms of the entertainment industry). Other than that, quit bitching.
To what extent do you think the movie War Games encouraged hacker culture amongst those of us in the 30s-ish age group? (Personally, the l33t h@x0rz I know all cite the grade-changing scene as at least ONE of their inspirations...)
http://www.somethingawful.com/archives/daily/news- archive-7-1-2003.htm
That's what they were saying 50 years ago too. About the only sci-fi thing that's actually come to fruition is 1984 ("Patriot" Act, TIAA, etc.). Merry Christmas!! (or Allahmas, or whatever).
...that the MPAA is to the American film consumer's and the American public's rights as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone."
Here are more of Jack Valenti's pearls of wisdom during his 1982 anti-VCR testimony to the US Congress.
As one example, IBM sells VisualAge for Java (a Java IDE), but they are also heavily involved in "giving away" Eclipse, which is also a Java IDE that is somewhat open/free (under something called the "Common Public License"). Here is Eclipse's licensing faq.
That pic of the zSeries looked pretty sweet. But there was not one single mention of frame rate on UT3 or even whether my neon case mods would work.
Hey, SAP apparently copyrighted the letter "R", forcing the current release of IBM's Domino product to be called "Release 6" instead of "RNext" as originally planned.
Upon hearing the news, I started waiting for Sesame Street to own the world.
~~
...then you could score dope AND surf the net.