So true. I've built a web application client and server that solves all of those problems. Unfortunately, at this point in time you can't download the client, as my site is built using that technology...
Which illustrates the point. We're using the tools we have available.
That's not a bold generalization, when the article summary itself says, "...because BitComet does not recognize the 'private flag' on torrents originating from pirate BitTorrent trackers..."
Then again, we are getting some movies like Broken Flowers, The Constant Gardener, and Sryiana. But for the most part I agree. Does Superman really need to return? Pink Panther? Do we really need another Dick and Jane? I know Lohan was desparate enough to do Herbie, but why did Kidman do Bewitched?
"What made slashdot the great site that it is (was?).... When all the intelligence is drowned out by whiners..."
Or by the dozens of half-wits who just HAVE to make the obligatory "I welcome our..." and "in Russia..." and "4) Profit!" jokes in each and every story.
Or, God forbid, a YADRMS (Yet Another DRM Story) in which every/. member has to explain in detail how not paying for a product isn't stealing it.
Personally, I think the "was" portion of the sentence is more accurate.
"After a certain point, no commercial software..."
From my perspective, this is the "closed" portion of the open source movement, with the mindset that no commercial software, be it a Photoshop, AutoCad, Quicken, or an Oracle, has any place whatsoever. Personally, I pay for value received, and I value professional-grade tools. If FOSS has a viable alternative, then fine. If not, then that's fine too. For many of my uses, I don't want "good enough", I want, need, and demand the best.
Too many people let their various "religous" dogmas get in the way...
Not every conservative wants to start burning trees and immediately dump dioxin into the water. Many in fact do "get it" and comments like these merely serve to polarize the issues, while at the same time making the liberal "point of view" seem hopelessly simplistic and naieve.
"People can accept deaths....could have been prevented with simple measures."
I disagree with that statement. How many times has the "If but one death could be prevented..." mantra been passed around? Too many people expect EVERYTHING to be risk free, and often propose and avdvocate extreme measures to gain that certainty. No matter how absurd the measure might be for the majority of the people. And if CHILDREN are involved? Oh my god.
Look at all the handwaving currently going on regarding video game violence, dispite the fact that teen violence levels are at the lowest they've been in decades. But no, SOMETHING caused Columbine, and that something must be eliminated.
And if it can't be eliminated one way, they'll try another. A "defective" product? Sue the company. An unforeseen drug interaction? It's class action time. Some kid jumps off a bridge because a character in a game did so? Obviously, it's time to ban all games.
We demand perfection, every time, all the time. And if it's not perfect, then someone, obviously, is to blame.
No limits to supply eh? Cool. I'd like 300 new top ten songs, 20 custom software solutions, and 3 new hit movies. You can have all of those done for me by Friday, right?
They may cost pennies to re-produce, but music--and movies and software in particular--can cost millions to produce, market, and distribute. And the "supply" of professionals and other creative types who can do so are definitely limited.
So no, they're not "entirely different" to all other products, and I can make the argument that your entire rationalization... is just that.
It would be kind of stupid to get thrown in prison for escalating a case of mistaken identity into manslaughter. Which would be the case when you responded with lethal force to a non-lethal attack.
The victim's family would have a great civil case too...
Explains the rational behind music and software downloads perfectly, doesn't it? Little chance of getting caught, you get something you want, and it's easy to do.
They did vote... every time they went into WalMart or some other store and bought cheaper goods, thus getting more "value" for their dollar. Time and again, for the majority of people, price and not quality was the overriding factor, and you don't get cheaper prices by hiring over-priced, under-producing workers.
Much like citizens demanding more services and fewer taxes from the government, workers demanded ever higher wages and benefits and vacation time from their companies, while at the same time demanding cheaper prices for goods and services. In both cases, however, there's a limit, and if money doesn't come in, it isn't there to give out.
There was a recent TV report on Indian outsourcing on TV, and the study in contrasts was amazing. These people realize that they're being given an opportunity, and they're willing to WORK for it. Millions of kids are studying as hard as they can to prepare for it. What happens here? No one gives a damn, and millions watch the clock, waiting until they can go home and watch TV.
Yeah, "W" is an easy target, but it's not his fault. Nor is it the fault of those greedy corporations. Americans did it to themselves. Maybe after its citizens spend a decade or so in abject poverty, America will regain her work ethic.
But I doubt it. Much more likely we'll stand on our "rights", find someone to blame, and demand we bomb the shit out of them....
If you often find yourself in such a situation I'd get the spare battry. I mean, if you're going to be carrying a spare "recharger" in the first place, one is as good as the other.
Again, this is back to the razor-and-blades, printer-and-ink model of power delivery. I don't want to buy a gallon of fuel, or a couple of six packs of cartridges every week just to use my notebook. Assuming, of course, that I can, and that the vendors don't sell sealed cartridges "designed" to "work" only with their notebooks. Printers and ink.
DC adaptors for cars, planes and trains are available. Wall sockets are ubiquitous and practically everywhere. Your friendly neighborhood fuel cell store is not.
Yeah, to me this is going off in entirely the wrong direction. Which would you rather do? Plug your notebook into any available electrical outlet to recharge it, or continually buy gallons of fuel at the store just so you can bring them home and use them to fill up little fuel cells?
Maybe if they can scale it up for automobiles the technology will be worthwhile, but for consumer devices? No way.
And everyone who smoked grass became a heroin addict, and everyone who drank an occasional beer became an alcholic, and everyone who plays video games will go on psychotic shooting sprees.
The fact is that there are addictive personalities, and SOME people will take their drug of choice to extremes, no matter what it is. The vast majority, however, do not.
Me, I can't stay away from fresh baked chocolate chip cookies. [sniffs the air] Sorry, gotta go...
People are doctors and lawyers and mechanics and office workers and managers who need to get work done in THEIR problem domains. They need applications they can use WITHOUT becoming computer experts or needing a compsci degree.
After all, we don't require electronics or engineering degrees in order for people to use a phone, or drive a car. While you may be deeply interested in computers, you're probably not equally interested in growing your own food, or cleaning your car's carburator. You just want food on the table when you're hungry and your car to work when you need it.
If I'm a office manager, I just want to send an email to Bill and tell him to schedule more people tomorrow. I shouldn't need to understand POP, SMTP, TCP/IP, routers, bridges, and mail servers to do that. It's not what I'm paid to do.
Please. I'm pretty sure I can add a new file system to windows, and not have to mess with the video drivers or printer drivers or scheduler or windowing system in doing so. As such, windows is just as "comparmentalized".
The real flaw in windows xp lies in every desktop user running in administration mode by default. As such, any exploit results in a compromised system.
Similarly, any Linux exploit that allows you to "root" the system (*nix is where the term came from, after all) will also result in a total compromise of the entire system. (Which would also occur if you too ran the system everyday as "root".)
With Windows the blame really lies equally with the application vendors, as many were too lazy (or dumb) to code applications that DIDN'T rely on full system access.
Which meant that, in the name of backwards compatibility, MS couldn't lock the system down. If they did, everyone would complain about how the new OS "broke" their applications...
"A divorce mother of five likely would be way to busy working and taking care of her kids to figure out how to download music in the first place."
Right. There's no way a divorced mother of five could possibly be intelligent, could possibly have an education, could be smart enough to have a job, own a computer, use a computer, or even know how to turn one on. They simply don't have the innate capability.
"The goal of security work should not be to limit what can be executed, but who can execute."
That statement is meaningless, as who is always inextricably tied to what, especially when you consider "who" can be a user, an agent, a script, or another process. A site's script running in a browser is a "who" (e.g. slashdot). Just because I'm running the browser and I have full access doesn't mean I want/. having full access.
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Which illustrates the point. We're using the tools we have available.
That's not a bold generalization, when the article summary itself says, "...because BitComet does not recognize the 'private flag' on torrents originating from pirate BitTorrent trackers..."
Ah well, maybe Munich will be worth seeing...
Or by the dozens of half-wits who just HAVE to make the obligatory "I welcome our..." and "in Russia..." and "4) Profit!" jokes in each and every story.
Or, God forbid, a YADRMS (Yet Another DRM Story) in which every /. member has to explain in detail how not paying for a product isn't stealing it.
Personally, I think the "was" portion of the sentence is more accurate.
From my perspective, this is the "closed" portion of the open source movement, with the mindset that no commercial software, be it a Photoshop, AutoCad, Quicken, or an Oracle, has any place whatsoever. Personally, I pay for value received, and I value professional-grade tools. If FOSS has a viable alternative, then fine. If not, then that's fine too. For many of my uses, I don't want "good enough", I want, need, and demand the best.
Too many people let their various "religous" dogmas get in the way...
Not every conservative wants to start burning trees and immediately dump dioxin into the water. Many in fact do "get it" and comments like these merely serve to polarize the issues, while at the same time making the liberal "point of view" seem hopelessly simplistic and naieve.
On the flip side, neither businesses nor investors nor insurrers like to lose billion dollar investments.
If you create an unpopular, uninteresting site with mediocre content that no one wants to read, then no amount of gaming the system is going to help.
As to "real meat", there is no secret magic formula or incantation that's instantly going to rank your personal blog site as #1.
I disagree with that statement. How many times has the "If but one death could be prevented..." mantra been passed around? Too many people expect EVERYTHING to be risk free, and often propose and avdvocate extreme measures to gain that certainty. No matter how absurd the measure might be for the majority of the people. And if CHILDREN are involved? Oh my god.
Look at all the handwaving currently going on regarding video game violence, dispite the fact that teen violence levels are at the lowest they've been in decades. But no, SOMETHING caused Columbine, and that something must be eliminated.
And if it can't be eliminated one way, they'll try another. A "defective" product? Sue the company. An unforeseen drug interaction? It's class action time. Some kid jumps off a bridge because a character in a game did so? Obviously, it's time to ban all games.
We demand perfection, every time, all the time. And if it's not perfect, then someone, obviously, is to blame.
They may cost pennies to re-produce, but music--and movies and software in particular--can cost millions to produce, market, and distribute. And the "supply" of professionals and other creative types who can do so are definitely limited.
So no, they're not "entirely different" to all other products, and I can make the argument that your entire rationalization... is just that.
The victim's family would have a great civil case too...
Explains the rational behind music and software downloads perfectly, doesn't it? Little chance of getting caught, you get something you want, and it's easy to do.
Much like citizens demanding more services and fewer taxes from the government, workers demanded ever higher wages and benefits and vacation time from their companies, while at the same time demanding cheaper prices for goods and services. In both cases, however, there's a limit, and if money doesn't come in, it isn't there to give out.
There was a recent TV report on Indian outsourcing on TV, and the study in contrasts was amazing. These people realize that they're being given an opportunity, and they're willing to WORK for it. Millions of kids are studying as hard as they can to prepare for it. What happens here? No one gives a damn, and millions watch the clock, waiting until they can go home and watch TV.
Yeah, "W" is an easy target, but it's not his fault. Nor is it the fault of those greedy corporations. Americans did it to themselves. Maybe after its citizens spend a decade or so in abject poverty, America will regain her work ethic.
But I doubt it. Much more likely we'll stand on our "rights", find someone to blame, and demand we bomb the shit out of them....
Again, this is back to the razor-and-blades, printer-and-ink model of power delivery. I don't want to buy a gallon of fuel, or a couple of six packs of cartridges every week just to use my notebook. Assuming, of course, that I can, and that the vendors don't sell sealed cartridges "designed" to "work" only with their notebooks. Printers and ink.
DC adaptors for cars, planes and trains are available. Wall sockets are ubiquitous and practically everywhere. Your friendly neighborhood fuel cell store is not.
Correct. If big buildings cause major earthquakes, then L.A. and San Francisco should have fallen into the sea by now. Not to mention Manhattan...
Maybe if they can scale it up for automobiles the technology will be worthwhile, but for consumer devices? No way.
What they should do is simply sandbox browser-based activeX controls...
An INTELLIGENT designer reuses his code base.
The fact is that there are addictive personalities, and SOME people will take their drug of choice to extremes, no matter what it is. The vast majority, however, do not.
Me, I can't stay away from fresh baked chocolate chip cookies. [sniffs the air] Sorry, gotta go...
After all, we don't require electronics or engineering degrees in order for people to use a phone, or drive a car. While you may be deeply interested in computers, you're probably not equally interested in growing your own food, or cleaning your car's carburator. You just want food on the table when you're hungry and your car to work when you need it.
If I'm a office manager, I just want to send an email to Bill and tell him to schedule more people tomorrow. I shouldn't need to understand POP, SMTP, TCP/IP, routers, bridges, and mail servers to do that. It's not what I'm paid to do.
The real flaw in windows xp lies in every desktop user running in administration mode by default. As such, any exploit results in a compromised system.
Similarly, any Linux exploit that allows you to "root" the system (*nix is where the term came from, after all) will also result in a total compromise of the entire system. (Which would also occur if you too ran the system everyday as "root".)
With Windows the blame really lies equally with the application vendors, as many were too lazy (or dumb) to code applications that DIDN'T rely on full system access.
Which meant that, in the name of backwards compatibility, MS couldn't lock the system down. If they did, everyone would complain about how the new OS "broke" their applications...
Right. There's no way a divorced mother of five could possibly be intelligent, could possibly have an education, could be smart enough to have a job, own a computer, use a computer, or even know how to turn one on. They simply don't have the innate capability.
Talk about stereotyping....
That statement is meaningless, as who is always inextricably tied to what, especially when you consider "who" can be a user, an agent, a script, or another process. A site's script running in a browser is a "who" (e.g. slashdot). Just because I'm running the browser and I have full access doesn't mean I want /. having full access.
I'd suggest you read your own sig...