Yes, it does make it a bad one because it conflicts with human nature and the evolution of trade and economics.
It's an attempt to extend contract law to overpower basic concepts of property.
It is fundamentally an attempt to achieve monopoly profit by forcibly - je jure instead of de facto - creating a "natural monopoly" - which is in no way "natural" - and, as current technology has demonstrated, is still subject to true economic competition.
Intellectual property is an oxymoron and supported by real morons.
And as I have said many times before Larry Lessig is fighting with both hands behind his back because he doesn't understand this.
Be interesting to see if nanotech shows up on it - or if the "genetically engineered babe" lawyer gets to show HOW she was genetically engineered - and what the benefits were in her case - or for her boyfriends.
I've done it on my old Compaq Deskpro 4000. If you have the diskettes - and a clean hard disk, unfortunately - you can rebuild the partition and reload the software onto it. I did it when I was moving my OS from one disk to another - took the opportunity to wipe the disk and reinstall the Diagnostics Partition.
Now what happens when you use some older version of some loser "partition manager" like Partition Magic that totally loses it when it doesn't find a "Windows partition" as the first partition on the drive is another matter.
> FirstWare Vault also creates a hidden partition > on the hard drive. However, Fujitsu used it to > store a backup copy of the OS, in case the user > needed to reinstall.
Can anyone say "Compag Diagnostics Partition"?
I knew you could.
And how many so-called "partition management utilities" get totally hosed when they see this thing because it's NOT a "Windows partition"?
Right on. Intellectual property rights are an oxymoron. And speaking of morons, only morons believe in intellectual property rights. Lawrence Lessig is condemned to fighting a battle with both hands tied behind his back as long as he continues to advocate the validity of copyright while trying to avoid its abuses by the state and its owners, the corporations.
The "full context" has to include the basic nature of property and trade, and the basic nature of government and law.
Once you DO take the "full context" into scope, the conclusions are that the state, law, and hence copyright are totally wrong and should be abolished.
People who argue from the premise that "people have a right to get paid" (which is false - people do not have "a right" - they have an opportunity) to the idea that the law must control trade are latent fascists - whether they know it or not.
Err, no, actually a TRUE "Old School Technician" knows how to chip flint.
Why do you think they invented the term "Field Replaceable Unit"? Anybody who solders a motherboard today (other than a gamer) is an idiot when the thing costs $100 and his time costs $100.
I'd agree that "snooping" should not be done, but as others have mentioned, we don't know the stuff was in fact found.
And I'm not sure kiddie porn qualifies as finding a body in the trunk of a car in for repair as far as calling the cops goes. (Yeah, I know, photo shops do it all the time - including reporting innocent family photos as porn in many cases.)
However, any idiot who leaves criminal information on a box taken in to the shop deserves to do time for simple stupidity.
Well, there's a point to be made about that, too. Notice the article said that all the customer sees of those guys is a cursor moving around the screen.
One of the tech support articles I read recently was about a guy who did excellent work for a company, but he did it all remotely from home.
He got fired.
Why?
They never knew what he did for them and decided they couldn't justify his cost for what they DID see.
This is how a technician gets no respect - by not making the customer aware of his value.
> You mean there isn't already the image of a > crusty overweight guy with facial hair and a too > tight t-shirt who grumbles about how stupid > everyone is?
HEY! I resemble that remark! (Except for the facial hair)
City College of San Francisco just switched to VoIP for their internal phone network.
It's been a disaster. Phones cut people off, the wrong people get transferred calls, weird noise on the phone line.
I'm waiting for the whole system to go dead any day now.
One of the IT guys who helped install it keeps an analog phone in his office just in case.
At least the fax phone line in Registration is still analog.
I read a Cringely report in InfoWorld where a company had VoIP and when it prevented customers from calling them, they didn't know it until the voicemail overflowed - and then they couldn't call support - because the phone didn't work.
> Otherwise you end up with a bunch of beer-gutted > middle aged men running around playing war.
You ever been in the Army?
That's EXACTLY who is running the show!
I specifically remember during my time in the 1960's of seeing a "beer-gutted old sergeant" yelling at some young guy to "shape up and look like a soldier". I nearly cracked up - which would have gotten me in trouble.
Trust me, the military IS run by middle-aged, beer-gutted men playing war.
/. nerdies lugging laptops through the mud in North Korea!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
Guess what? Bush will be drafting his 65 million rightwing moron Christians to invade the Middle East next...
And you can't do anything about it, can you? Vote him out this year? HAH! Not with fraudulent voting machines in place - and the CIA ready with another "terrorist incident" in case the vote gap is too wide for vote fraud to work.
Oh, yeah, we got Bush for another four years - and then Jeb for eight more coming up. You WILL be fighting a nuclear war in North Korea. Or slogging through sand in Syria and Saudi Arabia and Iran. As Halliburton and Cheney clean up the bucks - and everybody else's job goes to India.
Welcome to the New World Order, suckers. I spent eight years in prison after trying to knock it down. Now it's your turn. But you don't have the balls or the brains.
> It was the Supreme Court who decided that > Jackson was biased. It was not Bush.
Er, the same Supreme Court that got Bush elected with a minority of the vote?
And Jackson GOT biased by hearing Bill Gates hem and haw in his taped testimony, and watching Microsoft lawyers tamper with the videos produced as evidence in court.
First he disconnects all his phones in every office of his in the country, then he spouts this dribble. Nothing in his article has any relevance to the issue. In other words, he's a lying sack of shit just like Darl McBride and Bill Gates.
This guy needs to be immediately interrogated by the SEC as to possible illegal actions taken by Microsoft and SCO.
If he wants to avoid Federal prison, he'd better hop a plane out to a non-extradition country fast. Disconnecting his phones isn't good enough.
The scum that work in the business world just disgust me. Reading his and McBride's drivel is like having cockroaches run over your bare feet.
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Guess what. Unless you're a member of the "Power Users" group on Windows 2000/XP, you need to do the same thing on those systems, too.
In fact, more so, since if you open either of them to the Net without a firewall and AV, you're hosed within an HOUR.
Yes, it does make it a bad one because it conflicts with human nature and the evolution of trade and economics.
It's an attempt to extend contract law to overpower basic concepts of property.
It is fundamentally an attempt to achieve monopoly profit by forcibly - je jure instead of de facto - creating a "natural monopoly" - which is in no way "natural" - and, as current technology has demonstrated, is still subject to true economic competition.
Intellectual property is an oxymoron and supported by real morons.
And as I have said many times before Larry Lessig is fighting with both hands behind his back because he doesn't understand this.
How can we lose?
Be interesting to see if nanotech shows up on it - or if the "genetically engineered babe" lawyer gets to show HOW she was genetically engineered - and what the benefits were in her case - or for her boyfriends.
I've done it on my old Compaq Deskpro 4000. If you have the diskettes - and a clean hard disk, unfortunately - you can rebuild the partition and reload the software onto it. I did it when I was moving my OS from one disk to another - took the opportunity to wipe the disk and reinstall the Diagnostics Partition.
Now what happens when you use some older version of some loser "partition manager" like Partition Magic that totally loses it when it doesn't find a "Windows partition" as the first partition on the drive is another matter.
> FirstWare Vault also creates a hidden partition
> on the hard drive. However, Fujitsu used it to
> store a backup copy of the OS, in case the user
> needed to reinstall.
Can anyone say "Compag Diagnostics Partition"?
I knew you could.
And how many so-called "partition management utilities" get totally hosed when they see this thing because it's NOT a "Windows partition"?
It was the Grant Barrett article in World New York called "With A Fat Paycheck Comes Fat Responsibility". It's here
And his original article is here
Right on. Intellectual property rights are an oxymoron. And speaking of morons, only morons believe in intellectual property rights. Lawrence Lessig is condemned to fighting a battle with both hands tied behind his back as long as he continues to advocate the validity of copyright while trying to avoid its abuses by the state and its owners, the corporations.
The "full context" has to include the basic nature of property and trade, and the basic nature of government and law.
Once you DO take the "full context" into scope, the conclusions are that the state, law, and hence copyright are totally wrong and should be abolished.
People who argue from the premise that "people have a right to get paid" (which is false - people do not have "a right" - they have an opportunity) to the idea that the law must control trade are latent fascists - whether they know it or not.
Err, no, actually a TRUE "Old School Technician" knows how to chip flint.
Why do you think they invented the term "Field Replaceable Unit"? Anybody who solders a motherboard today (other than a gamer) is an idiot when the thing costs $100 and his time costs $100.
I'd agree that "snooping" should not be done, but as others have mentioned, we don't know the stuff was in fact found.
And I'm not sure kiddie porn qualifies as finding a body in the trunk of a car in for repair as far as calling the cops goes. (Yeah, I know, photo shops do it all the time - including reporting innocent family photos as porn in many cases.)
However, any idiot who leaves criminal information on a box taken in to the shop deserves to do time for simple stupidity.
1. Install/run AVG/Avast/Antivir/NOD32/Ad-Aware/SpywareBlaster/Sp ybot/ad infinitum
2. ?????
3. Profit.
OR:
1. Install Linux.
2. ????
3. Profit.
Well, there's a point to be made about that, too.
Notice the article said that all the customer sees of those guys is a cursor moving around the screen.
One of the tech support articles I read recently was about a guy who did excellent work for a company, but he did it all remotely from home.
He got fired.
Why?
They never knew what he did for them and decided they couldn't justify his cost for what they DID see.
This is how a technician gets no respect - by not making the customer aware of his value.
I like your sig. Do you know Mel Gibson? Or his father?
> some $15/hour charlatan
HEY! I resemble that remark! (except for the facial hair - oh, wait, that was another post...)
That's right. I'm desperate and I do tech support for $20-30 an hour, not $50-100.
Call me.
And more and more people on Craigslist here in San Francisco are charging less than $50/hour than were just a few months ago.
> You mean there isn't already the image of a
./ nerdies...(grumble, grumble)...stupid PC manufacturers...(grumble, grumble)...stupid geek software authors...(grumble, grumble)...stupid Microsoft...
> crusty overweight guy with facial hair and a too
> tight t-shirt who grumbles about how stupid
> everyone is?
HEY! I resemble that remark! (Except for the facial hair)
Stupid
The US hijacks entire governments and countries all the time.
What's a little thing about hijacking some other country's laws?
Now I've got some place to put that Titan that's been taking up SO much space in my hotel room!
City College of San Francisco just switched to VoIP for their internal phone network.
It's been a disaster. Phones cut people off, the wrong people get transferred calls, weird noise on the phone line.
I'm waiting for the whole system to go dead any day now.
One of the IT guys who helped install it keeps an analog phone in his office just in case.
At least the fax phone line in Registration is still analog.
I read a Cringely report in InfoWorld where a company had VoIP and when it prevented customers from calling them, they didn't know it until the voicemail overflowed - and then they couldn't call support - because the phone didn't work.
VoIP - nice concept - bad execution.
And I have the right to tell you to fuck off.
BECAUSE this country is so shitty. And because people like you are the ones making it shitty.
"Coward"
Posted by "Anonymous Coward".
Next time, post under "Anonymous Asshole".
See ya, asshole.
> Otherwise you end up with a bunch of beer-gutted
> middle aged men running around playing war.
You ever been in the Army?
That's EXACTLY who is running the show!
I specifically remember during my time in the 1960's of seeing a "beer-gutted old sergeant" yelling at some young guy to "shape up and look like a soldier". I nearly cracked up - which would have gotten me in trouble.
Trust me, the military IS run by middle-aged, beer-gutted men playing war.
/. nerdies lugging laptops through the mud in North Korea!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
Guess what? Bush will be drafting his 65 million rightwing moron Christians to invade the Middle East next...
And you can't do anything about it, can you? Vote him out this year? HAH! Not with fraudulent voting machines in place - and the CIA ready with another "terrorist incident" in case the vote gap is too wide for vote fraud to work.
Oh, yeah, we got Bush for another four years - and then Jeb for eight more coming up. You WILL be fighting a nuclear war in North Korea. Or slogging through sand in Syria and Saudi Arabia and Iran. As Halliburton and Cheney clean up the bucks - and everybody else's job goes to India.
Welcome to the New World Order, suckers. I spent eight years in prison after trying to knock it down. Now it's your turn. But you don't have the balls or the brains.
> It was the Supreme Court who decided that
> Jackson was biased. It was not Bush.
Er, the same Supreme Court that got Bush elected with a minority of the vote?
And Jackson GOT biased by hearing Bill Gates hem and haw in his taped testimony, and watching Microsoft lawyers tamper with the videos produced as evidence in court.
First he disconnects all his phones in every office of his in the country, then he spouts this dribble. Nothing in his article has any relevance to the issue. In other words, he's a lying sack of shit just like Darl McBride and Bill Gates.
This guy needs to be immediately interrogated by the SEC as to possible illegal actions taken by Microsoft and SCO.
If he wants to avoid Federal prison, he'd better hop a plane out to a non-extradition country fast. Disconnecting his phones isn't good enough.
The scum that work in the business world just disgust me. Reading his and McBride's drivel is like having cockroaches run over your bare feet.