You are a legitimate subscriber to the service? i.e. you pay for all your stations... but say perhaps you are trying to tune everything in for a TV decoded on your linux box, if you're the linux-uberhacker type (remember hacker != cracker).
So you're decoding the signal... but you're paying for it anyways. Is it still illegal? Is DTV allowed to say what I can decode my signal for, or how? Just wondering... (my guess is they'd probably try to regardless)
Is that while some uber-hackers could decode a heavily-encrypted file, with a custom cypering mechanism (I assume they could design something) etc etc.... pretty much anyone could be suspect for mail interception. Not that the postal service wouldn't be lambasted if such a thing happened, but isn't the "real world" still more succeptible to abuse than the IT world?
Top of post may be sarcasm... bottom of post sounds more likely what would happen with the RIAA, buttt...
Reasons the RIAA shouldn't be interfering in/with anybody else's business, especially wi-fi:
a) Somebody already owns the wi-fi... they're supposed to just sign-on-the-dotted-line with the RIAA? Worked great for artists...
b) Not everyone using the Wi-Fi downloads music. Not everybody with ADSL does either. Geeze... legit users who are just trying to get an indie or pr0n fix are getting pissed off with having to pay for other people's "misuse". Ditto to the existing CD taxes.
c) We don't want to pay the RIAA. They have to shape up or ship out, not take over. While some might argue that these are the "alternate business methods" that we say they lack... mainly we just want a decent product for our buck (no 1-hit-wonder CD's) and the RIAA off our back.
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with anything is the healing process... is the possibility of causing blood clots, etc.
Blood clots are sometimes due to blood congealing/thickening when it shouldn't (as opposed to when it should, when you are hurt). Some tumours, cancer, and others are I also believe caused to accelerated cell-growth.
Having fast-healing wounds could be nice... but there could definately be nasty side effects. It might have a detriment to people who favour piercings too...
when you need them. Because people have exactly this type of attitude. Buy printer... printer sucks down in... find out new ink (colour+b&w) costs nearly as much as the printer, or even more.
Printer ends up in landfill... I'm sure there are a lot of non-environmentally friendly components.
So why aren't/weren't the environmentalists all over Lexmark's ass for this... they know it's what happens?!
How do they transfer information then? In some way shape or form... the PC containing the info much be hooked up to a larger network.
I doubt they they fed-ex a floppy every time they have a document to transfer... and let us not forget that documents and many other files are also known to be somewhat easily infested.
since that is the creator's exclusive right under copyright and I have no license (i.e. permission) to do so
So if somebody has a product, and I can reproduce it for my own use, I am not allowed to do so and must by said product? Not contradicting, just wondering it it is true... seems kinda off to me, but then I'm not American and don't know a lot about some quirks of US law.
As far as a lot of what I've seen you often get
a) Workers that work/live in very poor conditions
b) Cheaper but less quality
Remember, workers in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, etc have certain rights. They came from revolts, etc and changes that happened a long time ago. Now, companies are moving to adopting cheaper workers, who don't have those rights, because often enough the countries haven't hit that stage of development yet.
You think that you're killing yourself coding an extra hour, it's often much more literal in these countries, and I guarantee you most works aren't doing 9-5 for any decent form of wage.
The end product is often not as high in quality. Yes, these countries do have good programmers, some very good. However, the poor conditions, language/cultural barriers, and just the different environment and distance will cause end-products to be oft lower-quality than those local.
It's a fact that when you start scraping low in the barrel for workers, you start doing so for product quality.
Outsourcing to other countries kills local employment, lowers product quality, and is supporting low-quality working environments. If you don't want your shoes made in sweatshops, why should you want your software from one?
Gee, I can use online dictionaries too
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1-5 deal with taking pills, or capture, hunting, etc.
6 : to transfer into one's own keeping:
a : APPROPRIATE
b : to obtain or secure for use (as by lease, subscription, or purchase)
So then we look at appropriate:
1 : to take exclusive possession of : ANNEX
2 : to set apart for or assign to a particular purpose or use
3 : to take or make use of without authority or right
In general, we can see that it is indicating a exclusive transfer of ownership and possession. That is, when you take something from another person, they no longer have the item.
Filesharing isn't taking, it's copying. Hence it is copyright infringement. Not that either is right, but one is not equal the other, and copying music is not the same as walking out of a music store with a CD hidden in your jacket, as there is no physical loss of properly.
How many times has this been mentioned on/.? Do we have to beat you over the head with it or what?
Indicating the he has an STD, preferably something not easily transmitted by just casual contact. Leave the results in such a way that the boss, but hopefully not others, can read it.
That or just get some of the "cream" etc to cure said condition and leave it on the desk...
And then when the catch who does this... it's time for the ol' Federal Pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
Why... because as of yet spamming in many areas is not illegal. Breaking into servers and abusing poorly secured SMTP hosts is, but it can be hard to trace (especially if an admin isn't smart enough to secure against open relays in the first place).
Now, take a trojan that is infecting possibly thousands of different machines to allow spammers access. The spammers still have to control and abuse this system from somewhere... and they also have to have a recipient of revenue from said spam attempt. While the thousands of computers make it easier to flit from place-to-place, it's a large amount of computers to potentially charge them for if they get caught.
Hopefully some enterprising geek can write tools to help lure the trojan users into a trap.
Inmate A: I was convicted for violating 3 nuns and burning down the nunnery Inmate B: I'm in for mass-murder Inmate C: I'm a convicted spammer... A & B: A spammer, you sick bastard. Get him!
I suppose at least a few people here must read books on the "Man-Kzin wars." Several of these mention future human civilizations, and in particular the last on which I read (XI or IX, can't remember) has a detective story which mentioned the use of such tracking, and also how it is likely to be used in the future.
Any usage of a non-cash currency, such as a Credit Card or Debit is automatically logged and visible to the criminal DB. Transportation has moved the way of mostly quick mass-transit, with a transport pod requiring a fingerprint or handprint to access.
Most doors, ports, etc have retinal or hand/finger identification in order to acquire entry (although personal doors may have a mechanical lock).
When you think about it... some of these technologies are of the type that people would say "cool" and begin using. Geeks would drool over neat biometric recognition, but it could also be used to track them.
In the future, I think the simple advancement of "convenience" technology will also be which makes it easy to track humans. Unfortunately, unless the Niven books, the authorities are aren't exactly straight and unbiased in America, and this warrants for abuse.
So, next time you move to embrace a "cool" new technology, perhaps we should think about the possible abuses hidden beneath the glitter and sparkle.
for those who haven't watched the movie in theatre yet. After explaining the "to be continued" ending to a friend, he mentioned he wouldn't be watching the movie in theatre.
I was surprised, and wondered if he would really be turned off watching the movie entirely because of the ending - however his plan is to get the DVD, and watch it the day before Revolutions.
Sounds like a good deal for those who haven't seen "Reloaded" yet, as you can see both movies at about the same time if you grab the DVD.
Most people knew that Jean Chretien is the current Prime Minister (roughly equiv to president) of Canada. Chances are a lot of non-Canadians are going to miss this one though
Yes, but is it applicable to most cells? That's a nokia - and I've seen the feature on them. I know somebody with what looks to tbe the same phone, it will say "voice privacy not active" - which I assume means unencrypted - when you make a call). I've not seen anything similar on an LG, however?
I think it accounts for quality. If movie producers thought the same way, would I be able to download divX for the old disneys I might have on the ol' film rolls?:-)
One of the biggest selling points of open source software is that it is precisely that -- open
Or you can choose not to and use a binary. It's about choice and flexibility, not my-way-is-best or "just trust me." I've had some cases where my compiled versions simply aren't quite up to snuff... either because my compiler version is off or other reasons - and the binary worked much better.
The whole my-distro, my-way is just going badly for all open-source. Really, if you have the skills and time to edit source, compile it, etc - go ahead. If you need something to run or can't compile, go binary. And as far as insecurity, don't trust something without a verified signature - even with source there could be something easily overlooked in thousands of code lines in a non-popular module
And hell, what your doing directly influences what you use.
My laptop? I don't really need the segregation of/var,/home, so I just assign it to/. Different on a server (having/var/log or/home spill into root or/usr is bad).
Servers, a lot of care going into what I put there, optimization, not binaries or precompiled kernels, mostly stuff from deb packages. I also use debian 3.0
Desktops... hundreds of 'em at work, all a mishmash of hardware. I'm looking at the beauty of knoppix or morphix and eying it as the successor to all those nasty win98 machines there.
Oh yeah, and even windows has a place... but that's getting smaller and is generally restricted to me games.
The deal on linux is choice and flexibility. It's not about not-using-windows, or a geeking competition, it's about using what you want and getting what you need. A lot of people tend to forget this.
Just set up a server, it's 2.2 by default (unless you have an odd ISO).
Debian cd install:
linux (2.2)
bf24 (2.4)
vanilla (2.2 vanilla)
ramdisk0 (disk install 2.2)
Not to say that there's anything wrong with the 2.4 kernel though, often enough it's the only thing I can get certain hardware drivers under, and 2.2 has its issues too. I've noticed that one of our servers was choking on 2.4 (tape system amongst other stuff), whilst another really had issues with stuff in the 2.2 tree.
Actually... 2000 was about the only one in the bunch with really notable stability without huge resource requirements. Too bad everyone had XP crammed down their throat before 2000 could get better.
Because it's a form of entertainment generally associated with the younger generation? Adults are supposed to "grow out of" violent games and stick to watch violent movies... that or just enjoy the old atari classics.
It's BS of course, but a common attitude - even amongst the kids themselves. I remember being laughed at by a bunch of teens on battle.net 'cause I'm 22 and still play warcraft. They quiet down when I inform them that I can still game while holding a job and enjoy the enjoyment of getting laid (is it that unusual around here or just a cliche).
CD Audio is different from tape audio. I could agree with somebody making a copy of a CD to tape (quality down), or from tape to Mp3 (quality same/down), or from tape to CD...or tape to mp3, etc
However, if you own a tape, then really you should only be entitled to mp3's with tape quality or recorded from tapes. Same with CD's.
Not that I support the whole change-media-buy-anew... but I'd settle for this if we could eliminate all the rest of the anal-retentive RIAA war-tactics.
Copying between similar mediums is alright, but saying that one should be able to have an Mp3 just because they've got the song on an 8-track with a demagnetised tape is a little much.
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You are a legitimate subscriber to the service? i.e. you pay for all your stations... but say perhaps you are trying to tune everything in for a TV decoded on your linux box, if you're the linux-uberhacker type (remember hacker != cracker).
So you're decoding the signal... but you're paying for it anyways. Is it still illegal? Is DTV allowed to say what I can decode my signal for, or how? Just wondering... (my guess is they'd probably try to regardless)
Is that while some uber-hackers could decode a heavily-encrypted file, with a custom cypering mechanism (I assume they could design something) etc etc.... pretty much anyone could be suspect for mail interception. Not that the postal service wouldn't be lambasted if such a thing happened, but isn't the "real world" still more succeptible to abuse than the IT world?
Top of post may be sarcasm... bottom of post sounds more likely what would happen with the RIAA, buttt...
Reasons the RIAA shouldn't be interfering in/with anybody else's business, especially wi-fi:
a) Somebody already owns the wi-fi... they're supposed to just sign-on-the-dotted-line with the RIAA? Worked great for artists...
b) Not everyone using the Wi-Fi downloads music. Not everybody with ADSL does either. Geeze... legit users who are just trying to get an indie or pr0n fix are getting pissed off with having to pay for other people's "misuse". Ditto to the existing CD taxes.
c) We don't want to pay the RIAA. They have to shape up or ship out, not take over. While some might argue that these are the "alternate business methods" that we say they lack... mainly we just want a decent product for our buck (no 1-hit-wonder CD's) and the RIAA off our back.
with anything is the healing process... is the possibility of causing blood clots, etc.
Blood clots are sometimes due to blood congealing/thickening when it shouldn't (as opposed to when it should, when you are hurt). Some tumours, cancer, and others are I also believe caused to accelerated cell-growth.
Having fast-healing wounds could be nice... but there could definately be nasty side effects. It might have a detriment to people who favour piercings too...
when you need them. Because people have exactly this type of attitude. Buy printer... printer sucks down in... find out new ink (colour+b&w) costs nearly as much as the printer, or even more.
Printer ends up in landfill... I'm sure there are a lot of non-environmentally friendly components.
So why aren't/weren't the environmentalists all over Lexmark's ass for this... they know it's what happens?!
How do they transfer information then? In some way shape or form... the PC containing the info much be hooked up to a larger network.
I doubt they they fed-ex a floppy every time they have a document to transfer... and let us not forget that documents and many other files are also known to be somewhat easily infested.
since that is the creator's exclusive right under copyright and I have no license (i.e. permission) to do so
So if somebody has a product, and I can reproduce it for my own use, I am not allowed to do so and must by said product? Not contradicting, just wondering it it is true... seems kinda off to me, but then I'm not American and don't know a lot about some quirks of US law.
What about if you turn your head to the side and cough? I don't want an fsck then... oh whatever else it might make sense to do.
Bulletin about how Microsoft plans to make their OS "secure" near terminals. Everybody will understand why they are laughing.
Then the problem is in making them stop....
As far as a lot of what I've seen you often get
a) Workers that work/live in very poor conditions
b) Cheaper but less quality
Remember, workers in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, etc have certain rights. They came from revolts, etc and changes that happened a long time ago. Now, companies are moving to adopting cheaper workers, who don't have those rights, because often enough the countries haven't hit that stage of development yet.
You think that you're killing yourself coding an extra hour, it's often much more literal in these countries, and I guarantee you most works aren't doing 9-5 for any decent form of wage.
The end product is often not as high in quality. Yes, these countries do have good programmers, some very good. However, the poor conditions, language/cultural barriers, and just the different environment and distance will cause end-products to be oft lower-quality than those local.
It's a fact that when you start scraping low in the barrel for workers, you start doing so for product quality.
Outsourcing to other countries kills local employment, lowers product quality, and is supporting low-quality working environments. If you don't want your shoes made in sweatshops, why should you want your software from one?
take
/.? Do we have to beat you over the head with it or what?
1-5 deal with taking pills, or capture, hunting, etc.
6 : to transfer into one's own keeping:
a : APPROPRIATE
b : to obtain or secure for use (as by lease, subscription, or purchase)
So then we look at appropriate:
1 : to take exclusive possession of : ANNEX
2 : to set apart for or assign to a particular purpose or use
3 : to take or make use of without authority or right
In general, we can see that it is indicating a exclusive transfer of ownership and possession. That is, when you take something from another person, they no longer have the item.
Filesharing isn't taking, it's copying. Hence it is copyright infringement. Not that either is right, but one is not equal the other, and copying music is not the same as walking out of a music store with a CD hidden in your jacket, as there is no physical loss of properly.
How many times has this been mentioned on
Indicating the he has an STD, preferably something not easily transmitted by just casual contact. Leave the results in such a way that the boss, but hopefully not others, can read it.
That or just get some of the "cream" etc to cure said condition and leave it on the desk...
That'll probably back her off a bit.
And then when the catch who does this... it's time for the ol' Federal Pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
Why... because as of yet spamming in many areas is not illegal. Breaking into servers and abusing poorly secured SMTP hosts is, but it can be hard to trace (especially if an admin isn't smart enough to secure against open relays in the first place).
Now, take a trojan that is infecting possibly thousands of different machines to allow spammers access. The spammers still have to control and abuse this system from somewhere... and they also have to have a recipient of revenue from said spam attempt. While the thousands of computers make it easier to flit from place-to-place, it's a large amount of computers to potentially charge them for if they get caught.
Hopefully some enterprising geek can write tools to help lure the trojan users into a trap.
Inmate A: I was convicted for violating 3 nuns and burning down the nunnery
Inmate B: I'm in for mass-murder
Inmate C: I'm a convicted spammer...
A & B: A spammer, you sick bastard. Get him!
I suppose at least a few people here must read books on the "Man-Kzin wars." Several of these mention future human civilizations, and in particular the last on which I read (XI or IX, can't remember) has a detective story which mentioned the use of such tracking, and also how it is likely to be used in the future.
Any usage of a non-cash currency, such as a Credit Card or Debit is automatically logged and visible to the criminal DB. Transportation has moved the way of mostly quick mass-transit, with a transport pod requiring a fingerprint or handprint to access.
Most doors, ports, etc have retinal or hand/finger identification in order to acquire entry (although personal doors may have a mechanical lock).
When you think about it... some of these technologies are of the type that people would say "cool" and begin using. Geeks would drool over neat biometric recognition, but it could also be used to track them.
In the future, I think the simple advancement of "convenience" technology will also be which makes it easy to track humans. Unfortunately, unless the Niven books, the authorities are aren't exactly straight and unbiased in America, and this warrants for abuse.
So, next time you move to embrace a "cool" new technology, perhaps we should think about the possible abuses hidden beneath the glitter and sparkle.
for those who haven't watched the movie in theatre yet. After explaining the "to be continued" ending to a friend, he mentioned he wouldn't be watching the movie in theatre.
I was surprised, and wondered if he would really be turned off watching the movie entirely because of the ending - however his plan is to get the DVD, and watch it the day before Revolutions.
Sounds like a good deal for those who haven't seen "Reloaded" yet, as you can see both movies at about the same time if you grab the DVD.
Most people knew that Jean Chretien is the current Prime Minister (roughly equiv to president) of Canada. Chances are a lot of non-Canadians are going to miss this one though
Yes, but is it applicable to most cells? That's a nokia - and I've seen the feature on them. I know somebody with what looks to tbe the same phone, it will say "voice privacy not active" - which I assume means unencrypted - when you make a call). I've not seen anything similar on an LG, however?
I think it accounts for quality. If movie producers thought the same way, would I be able to download divX for the old disneys I might have on the ol' film rolls? :-)
That and they take up a goodly amount of time, which might otherwise have been spent coding, thinking, perusing, learning or inventing.
How about people that get married, get divorced, and then go back to the old habits/haunts - do they get their brain back?
One of the biggest selling points of open source software is that it is precisely that -- open
/var, /home, so I just assign it to /. Different on a server (having /var/log or /home spill into root or /usr is bad).
Or you can choose not to and use a binary. It's about choice and flexibility, not my-way-is-best or "just trust me." I've had some cases where my compiled versions simply aren't quite up to snuff... either because my compiler version is off or other reasons - and the binary worked much better.
The whole my-distro, my-way is just going badly for all open-source. Really, if you have the skills and time to edit source, compile it, etc - go ahead. If you need something to run or can't compile, go binary. And as far as insecurity, don't trust something without a verified signature - even with source there could be something easily overlooked in thousands of code lines in a non-popular module
And hell, what your doing directly influences what you use.
My laptop? I don't really need the segregation of
Servers, a lot of care going into what I put there, optimization, not binaries or precompiled kernels, mostly stuff from deb packages. I also use debian 3.0
Desktops... hundreds of 'em at work, all a mishmash of hardware. I'm looking at the beauty of knoppix or morphix and eying it as the successor to all those nasty win98 machines there.
Oh yeah, and even windows has a place... but that's getting smaller and is generally restricted to me games.
The deal on linux is choice and flexibility. It's not about not-using-windows, or a geeking competition, it's about using what you want and getting what you need. A lot of people tend to forget this.
The search (for the lazy)
One of the more interesting links
The article mentions that the Reverend died of heart failure during a no-knock police raid which had the wrong address due to a drunken informant...
Just set up a server, it's 2.2 by default (unless you have an odd ISO).
Debian cd install:
linux (2.2)
bf24 (2.4)
vanilla (2.2 vanilla)
ramdisk0 (disk install 2.2)
Not to say that there's anything wrong with the 2.4 kernel though, often enough it's the only thing I can get certain hardware drivers under, and 2.2 has its issues too. I've noticed that one of our servers was choking on 2.4 (tape system amongst other stuff), whilst another really had issues with stuff in the 2.2 tree.
Actually... 2000 was about the only one in the bunch with really notable stability without huge resource requirements. Too bad everyone had XP crammed down their throat before 2000 could get better.
Because it's a form of entertainment generally associated with the younger generation? Adults are supposed to "grow out of" violent games and stick to watch violent movies... that or just enjoy the old atari classics.
It's BS of course, but a common attitude - even amongst the kids themselves. I remember being laughed at by a bunch of teens on battle.net 'cause I'm 22 and still play warcraft. They quiet down when I inform them that I can still game while holding a job and enjoy the enjoyment of getting laid (is it that unusual around here or just a cliche).
CD Audio is different from tape audio. I could agree with somebody making a copy of a CD to tape (quality down), or from tape to Mp3 (quality same/down), or from tape to CD...or tape to mp3, etc
However, if you own a tape, then really you should only be entitled to mp3's with tape quality or recorded from tapes. Same with CD's.
Not that I support the whole change-media-buy-anew... but I'd settle for this if we could eliminate all the rest of the anal-retentive RIAA war-tactics.
Copying between similar mediums is alright, but saying that one should be able to have an Mp3 just because they've got the song on an 8-track with a demagnetised tape is a little much.