Hobby monogamy does have its drawbacks. As pointed out elsewhere, a career in your hobby's field can turn a hobby into a job. It's amazing, for example, how many auto mechanics own truly decrepit, barely drivable heaps.
Fortunately, I have two passions in my life: my motorcycle and my computer. Time was I worked with computers and played with my motorcycle---the idea of coming home from ten straight hours of programming only to program some more didn't exactly appeal to me. Now that the dotcoms have vanished, I have taken a job selling motorcycles, and I hack recreationally again.
'Course, my recreational motorcycling has gone away...
First, the RIAA member companies as businesses have the right to charge for and protect product as they wish,
within the limitations of the law
And there's a substantial part of the problem: With the money they are spending in Washington, they decide what those laws will be.
They own the ones who rule you; in other words, nothing they do is illegal, or to put a finer point on it, by the time they're ready to do it, it will be legal for them to do it. It's as easy for them to change a law is it is for you to pick up a dagger.
How long after all guns have chips in them will it be that the chips have receivers in them, and the police have transmitters to deactivate them, or make them start beeping so they can be found?
I'm making no speculation as to why the police might want to do such things...
Enterprises spend about $20 per user per year fighting spam; that's about 10 percent of the overall e-mail budget for running Microsoft Exchange
It costs $200 per user per year to run e-mail with Exchange? Just how the hell much does it cost otherwise?
Regardless, it is nice to see a dollar value placed on the cost of controlling spam. If fighting spam becomes a billion-dollar cost in the U.S., will there finally be some legislation with some teeth?
Anybody remember the OJ murder trial? One of the major tactics of the defense was to make it sound like every cop in L.A. county had handled---and fucked with---the evidence. In the hands of a lawyer, Photoshopping a picture to sharpen the contrast is "altering the evidence using sophisticated image-manipulation software". That doesn't sit well with a jury, good intentions or not.
In a trial, the chain of possession on evidence must be sound. You must be able to demonstrate who has had the evidence, and what they might have done to it.
Think of this as a tamperproof RCS for photographs: You have proof of who has touched the evidence, and what they've done to it.
For certain things, yes. Still, I like knowing which nearby supermarket is having a sale on X, on account of I can't afford to just buy X unless it's on special.
Fuck them and their advertising, fuck you for being an apologist for them, I don't want it.
Was that a grammar troll, or are you actually that sloppy a thinker? For the sake of discourse, though, I'll just assume English is your second language. As for "fuck them", I can see your point of view. As for "fuck you", you are posting as a coward which makes your opinion of me irrelevant.
I shouldn't have to take any steps not to get it.
Possibly not, and in certain areas, such as online advertising, certainly not. However, plenty, if not most, businesses would not survive without advertising. And advertising hugely subsidizes most of the media you receive: magazines, newspapers, Slashdot, and television. Surely you don't think those services exist without advertising money?
Please don't confuse direct mailers with spammers. As is the point of this thread, you can opt out of the big junk mail lists in a way that actually works. Snail mailers have an actual expense to cover, and therefore do make an effort to target their recipients even slightly, and those who don't want their mail are obviously outside their target area.
Telemarketing is a worse creature than direct mail, too, IMHO because it requires an explicit interrupt rather than a batch process to deal with it. I can ignore five pieces of daily junk mail in about ten consecutive seconds; five phone spams in one night is five interruptions to my evening. Don't like telemarketing, but sometimes I can hear the "I hate my job" in telemarketers' voices. Hey, I've been unemployed, too.
Spammers, however, are indeed a lower lifeform and must be destroyed by any means necessary.
The RIAA is not a record producer or publisher. It's an industry group that represents producers and publishers. [...] I point this out because it gets grating every time it's suggested that the RIAA is some giant monopoly that controls what gets published and whatnot. It isn't.
It is not a single-entity monopoly; rather, it is a trust. This is where anti-trust gets its name.
(Oversimlification follows Back in the day, trusts (e.g. the bourbon trust, the railroad trust) were organizations of the major companies in an industry. The trust's members would all play by the trust's rules, and the trust's rules often included ways to prevent non-trust companies from surviving. In the case of the railroad trust, for example, they would charge exhorbitant fees to connect local lines to trust-owned main lines; or about once a year they would design and patent new car-connectors, again charging exhorbitant licensing fees to use them. In other words, they would drive their competitors into ruin, then buy them out for a pittance.
Doubtless, the RIAA and its members have worked very carefully to avoid appearing to be a trust in any legal sense, but as the lawsuit referenced in this article claimed, the RIAA has been used as a way to improperly fix prices among its members.
If they say "sales", the writer is hosed. If they say "revenues", maybe he or she will get to keep some of their money.
Except that I hate the idea of pay-per-view books. Bluntly, I think it will ultimately result in the creation of an illiterate subclass that will be illiterate and poor forever, because they can't afford to read, let alone read the information they need in order to "break out".
And I will bet you a nickel those contracts say nothing about rental fees on pay-per-view e-books.
There will be lots of wrangling over the definition of "sale in any form", "revenue", etc, but the IP distribution industry (read: books, movies, music) has some of the most terrifyingly effective lawyers ever left unkilled.
Wasn't it Sony-Columbia-TriStar that invented a reviewer to say glowing things about its movies? Maybe G. Cooke is something like that, if she's suspiciously high volume and diverse.
Perhaps a comparison between her reviews, or between hers and Known Good Reviews, is in order.
OTOH, maybe she's unemployed and has nothing better to do than do Amazon reviews for her entire private library.
In professional settings I have used disks as the middle tier of an n-tier database backup. This was a tremendous help when we needed to minimize backup-imposed down/freeze time, and turned out to be a great fast-restore asset when we were running our primary system in, ah, experimental configurations.
So maybe you could do it like this:
on your backup machine, create a single gigantic backup volume
do a full backup to it once, and again every week
spool the full backup to tape at your leisure
do incremental backups to the volume every few hours, or minutes, or whatever fits your schedule and makes you happy
spool the incremental backups to tape at your leisure
swap tapes offsite as per normal backup methodologies
Now you have superfast backups, superfast recoveries, redundancy, the best of all worlds.
But on the whole IDE drives are commodity-scale junk. If you're using them as your primary, make sure you're doing at leastRAID-5, but more sanely mirrored pairs, and most sanely springing for a DAT drive.
MS makes horrible operating systems. They are insecure. MS wants to destroy freedom. Bill Gates is a Borg.
They wouldn't go to UofC if they didn't like challenges. Just doing my part.
...for Fox news.
I had a brief and bizarre encounter using CNN.com from work: it wanted me to register as a Netscape user. I restarted my browser and the problem went away.
CNN's headline for the story is: Microsoft: Yet another security flaw. The story describes it at the 65th alert MS has issued this year and notes that MS has dumbed down its security alerts to the point that the people affected by them (e.g. darned near everybody) can read them.
I really like that the mainstream press is using "yet another" here. Think about your neighborhood: if somebody down the street gets burglarized, it's a terrible thing, but it's an isolated incident, and in a couple of days, you'll unload the shotgun and soundly again. But when two houses a week get broken into, well, you're gonna start acting like there's a pattern here.
What will happen when people start treating Microsoft's security lapses like the epidemic they are?
The question is, how much of this crap will people put up with before they stop supporting these Draconian conglomerates? I haven't bought a new CD in at least two years because of this crap.
I'm guessing that from their perspective, you haven't bought a new CD in at least two years because it's still possible for you to "steal" music. Once that is impossible, you'll start buying again, on the terms they paid to have legislated.
Would the publication of this sploit violate the law in any way? Look at it this way: If you can use the sploit to format a hard drive, you can use it to D/L possibly copyrighted material off the victim computer, right? And as we all know, the RIAA and MPAA have it in big for technologies that can violate copyright. Wasn't that the whole premise of the DeCSS per^H^Hrosecution?
Did not the FCC block the merger of DirecTV and Dish Network? Or was that some other government organization?
27 million Comcast/AT&T subscribers still leaves almost 50 million households getting their cable from elsewhere.
If DirecTV and Dish Network merged, the new company would have over 80% of the US DBS marketmore than enough to claim monopoly status. Satellite TV may not matter to you if you live in a city, but for folks in rural areas, DBS is the only way to receive "cable" channels.
The trailers don't bother me. It's the commercials before the movie that I find amazingly offensive. They seem a great way to further alienate their dwindling captive audience.
Then again, I'm ten minutes late for pretty much everything, so that's one more worm the early birds have to eat.
What's interesting about trailers: Go to the local GooglePlex and see a guyflick. Watch the trailer for the new Summer Blockbuster. Now go across the hall to the chickflick and watch the trailers. Usually the Summer Blockbuster will be there, but with a very, very different take. Where did all the car chases go? Why are all these characters actually talking to each other instead of firing guns? You'd never know it was the same movie.
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Fortunately, I have two passions in my life: my motorcycle and my computer. Time was I worked with computers and played with my motorcycle---the idea of coming home from ten straight hours of programming only to program some more didn't exactly appeal to me. Now that the dotcoms have vanished, I have taken a job selling motorcycles, and I hack recreationally again.
'Course, my recreational motorcycling has gone away...
And there's a substantial part of the problem: With the money they are spending in Washington, they decide what those laws will be.
They own the ones who rule you; in other words, nothing they do is illegal, or to put a finer point on it, by the time they're ready to do it, it will be legal for them to do it. It's as easy for them to change a law is it is for you to pick up a dagger.
How long after all guns have chips in them will it be that the chips have receivers in them, and the police have transmitters to deactivate them, or make them start beeping so they can be found?
I'm making no speculation as to why the police might want to do such things...
.5C is still half a clue and 2 is equivalent to the number two.
In a trial, the chain of possession on evidence must be sound. You must be able to demonstrate who has had the evidence, and what they might have done to it.
Think of this as a tamperproof RCS for photographs: You have proof of who has touched the evidence, and what they've done to it.
For certain things, yes. Still, I like knowing which nearby supermarket is having a sale on X, on account of I can't afford to just buy X unless it's on special.
Fuck them and their advertising, fuck you for being an apologist for them, I don't want it.
Was that a grammar troll, or are you actually that sloppy a thinker? For the sake of discourse, though, I'll just assume English is your second language. As for "fuck them", I can see your point of view. As for "fuck you", you are posting as a coward which makes your opinion of me irrelevant.
I shouldn't have to take any steps not to get it.
Possibly not, and in certain areas, such as online advertising, certainly not. However, plenty, if not most, businesses would not survive without advertising. And advertising hugely subsidizes most of the media you receive: magazines, newspapers, Slashdot, and television. Surely you don't think those services exist without advertising money?
Telemarketing is a worse creature than direct mail, too, IMHO because it requires an explicit interrupt rather than a batch process to deal with it. I can ignore five pieces of daily junk mail in about ten consecutive seconds; five phone spams in one night is five interruptions to my evening. Don't like telemarketing, but sometimes I can hear the "I hate my job" in telemarketers' voices. Hey, I've been unemployed, too.
Spammers, however, are indeed a lower lifeform and must be destroyed by any means necessary.
(Oversimlification follows Back in the day, trusts (e.g. the bourbon trust, the railroad trust) were organizations of the major companies in an industry. The trust's members would all play by the trust's rules, and the trust's rules often included ways to prevent non-trust companies from surviving. In the case of the railroad trust, for example, they would charge exhorbitant fees to connect local lines to trust-owned main lines; or about once a year they would design and patent new car-connectors, again charging exhorbitant licensing fees to use them. In other words, they would drive their competitors into ruin, then buy them out for a pittance.
Doubtless, the RIAA and its members have worked very carefully to avoid appearing to be a trust in any legal sense, but as the lawsuit referenced in this article claimed, the RIAA has been used as a way to improperly fix prices among its members.
Except that I hate the idea of pay-per-view books. Bluntly, I think it will ultimately result in the creation of an illiterate subclass that will be illiterate and poor forever, because they can't afford to read, let alone read the information they need in order to "break out".
There will be lots of wrangling over the definition of "sale in any form", "revenue", etc, but the IP distribution industry (read: books, movies, music) has some of the most terrifyingly effective lawyers ever left unkilled.
Perhaps a comparison between her reviews, or between hers and Known Good Reviews, is in order.
OTOH, maybe she's unemployed and has nothing better to do than do Amazon reviews for her entire private library.
So maybe you could do it like this:
- on your backup machine, create a single gigantic backup volume
- do a full backup to it once, and again every week
- spool the full backup to tape at your leisure
- do incremental backups to the volume every few hours, or minutes, or whatever fits your schedule and makes you happy
- spool the incremental backups to tape at your leisure
- swap tapes offsite as per normal backup methodologies
Now you have superfast backups, superfast recoveries, redundancy, the best of all worlds.But on the whole IDE drives are commodity-scale junk. If you're using them as your primary, make sure you're doing at leastRAID-5, but more sanely mirrored pairs, and most sanely springing for a DAT drive.
MS makes horrible operating systems. They are insecure. MS wants to destroy freedom. Bill Gates is a Borg. They wouldn't go to UofC if they didn't like challenges. Just doing my part.
Probably having a decent and varied acting career without such intense typecasting that he's had to become a charicature of himself.
He wouldn't be nearly as rich, though.
And who knows? Maybe his singing career would have taken off...
Or a parking meter. Cool Hand Luke:TNG anyone?
Having a laptop computer on top is going to make that first flight of stairs very expensive to find...
...for Fox news. I had a brief and bizarre encounter using CNN.com from work: it wanted me to register as a Netscape user. I restarted my browser and the problem went away.
I really like that the mainstream press is using "yet another" here. Think about your neighborhood: if somebody down the street gets burglarized, it's a terrible thing, but it's an isolated incident, and in a couple of days, you'll unload the shotgun and soundly again. But when two houses a week get broken into, well, you're gonna start acting like there's a pattern here.
What will happen when people start treating Microsoft's security lapses like the epidemic they are?
I'm guessing that from their perspective, you haven't bought a new CD in at least two years because it's still possible for you to "steal" music. Once that is impossible, you'll start buying again, on the terms they paid to have legislated.
Would the publication of this sploit violate the law in any way? Look at it this way: If you can use the sploit to format a hard drive, you can use it to D/L possibly copyrighted material off the victim computer, right? And as we all know, the RIAA and MPAA have it in big for technologies that can violate copyright. Wasn't that the whole premise of the DeCSS per^H^Hrosecution?
27 million Comcast/AT&T subscribers still leaves almost 50 million households getting their cable from elsewhere.
If DirecTV and Dish Network merged, the new company would have over 80% of the US DBS marketmore than enough to claim monopoly status. Satellite TV may not matter to you if you live in a city, but for folks in rural areas, DBS is the only way to receive "cable" channels.
How will this affect Samba-enabled hosts? IRC you can deselect this in the .conf, and of course ports 137/138/139 should be closed on a WAN.
Then again, I'm ten minutes late for pretty much everything, so that's one more worm the early birds have to eat.
What's interesting about trailers: Go to the local GooglePlex and see a guyflick. Watch the trailer for the new Summer Blockbuster. Now go across the hall to the chickflick and watch the trailers. Usually the Summer Blockbuster will be there, but with a very, very different take. Where did all the car chases go? Why are all these characters actually talking to each other instead of firing guns? You'd never know it was the same movie.