I don't consider GPLv3 an 'upgrade'. If you do, great, license your software with it, but don't shove it down the throat of folks who choose not to use it.
I haven't had a chance to read this latest draft yet, but based on the earlier drafts I would agree. And considering the overall direction they seem to be trying to take the GPL in, I doubt I would ever pick GPL v3 for a project, personally. But then again, my favorite license - the one I consider nearly perfect - is the LGPL.
If anything, they need to find ways to SLOW DOWN the process of issuing patents. I mean, seriously, there should be *maybe* 3-4 patents granted, per year, worldwide, if we actually went by any realistic definitions of novel, innovative, and non-obvious. The world needs fewer patents being granted, not more.
Cool has an 'is-ness', a zen-like quality that can't be defined. If you are trying to be, then by definition, you are not cool. You are a wanna-be.
You can argue that the kind of cynical, postmodern, commercial/corporate kitch can be cool , but I say again, as long as something is being what it is, rather than trying to be something else to impress someone, then it is cool. If they are consciously going with corporate/commercial kitch with awareness, and embracing it, then they are being cool, being themselves. If they are inadvertently creating corporate wanna-be-cool kitch without awareness, then that is trying, which is not cool.
Or a few players realizing that competing with each other was harder than colluding together to achieve a common price structure with minimum fat profit margins...
The power of collusion is limited by greed though. Somebody will always break the agreement when they get greedy. Look at OPEC nations, where one or more of them is always cheating and exceeding their quotas. And that's a product where the number of possible players is pretty much strictly limited.... in a market for widgets, a new producer (or 2, or 5 or 23 or 42) can show up anytime to wreck the game.
Lower barriers to entry by getting rid of State intervention (gazillion page govt. regulation manuals, patents, etc., etc.) and you get even more market activity and competition.
That monopoly was enforced by local governments. But I guess as long as you control the government schools that teach the history of 'Robber Barons', people will believe the propaganda.
Well said, friend. Don't believe the propaganda...
It's a fairly general trend; everything else being equal, I doubt a 40 year old is going to buy as much music as an 18 year old.
But are things generally equal? I'm 33 - going on 34 - and I buy a lot more music now than I did at 18, simply because I can afford more now. And I personally can't see a day when I'll buy less music, until there just isn't anything out there that I don't have yet, which will probably never happen. There's enough old NWOBHM stuff I don't have to keep me busy for a while, by itself...
Dream Theater owns my face. And you're exactly right about social issues, how about Kick the Chair by Megadeth, or The Great Debate by DT? Better than some hip gangsta rollin on dubs.
Yep. And how about S.D.I. by Bonfire, Fight for Your Rights by Motley Crue, Symphony of Destruction by Megadeth, When Freedom Dies by Nuclear Assault, The Needle Lies by Queensryche, Lack of Communication by Ratt, Institutionalized by Suicidal Tendencies, etc., etc. Lots of metal bands have written songs that were raised awareness and created discussion about important social issues. The myth that metal is all nihilistic "suicide music" is so much bullshit...
Jokes aside, I've loved metal, punk, thrash, etc. since I first heard it. Oddly enough I love classical music too (even Joyce Hatto. Ha!) but can't stand country music, rap, hip hop....
Not surprising really. Most metal music is actually quite similar to classical.
There's definitely some strong relationship between Metal and Classical. Just look at all the cross-over stuff that combines Metal and Classical for some interesting evidence: Celtic Frost used to take a symphony orchestra on tour with them for accompaniment, TSO are basically Savatage + more musicians making up a classical orchestra, Metallica did the S&M album playing along with an orchestra, etc., etc.
Of course, this being the US, the concept of "saving money" isn't understood, so I suppose I should modify that to "run up your credit card".
WTF kind of madness are you talking, man? You sound like you expect somebody to accept some (gasp!) responsibility! I mean, saving money, that would mean accepting that you yourself are responsible for your security and welfare... and that's just ridiculous. Why should anybody accept such a onerous burden when they are obviously entitled to a handout from the State, to tide them over, no matter what kind of irresponsible behavior they display.
I'm shocked you would even think to suggest such a thing. Didn't you know that personal responsibility went out of style about 60 (or more) years ago?
I'm just glad that where I live, the right to chose your employer is embedded in the constitution and you are prohibited from peddling your constitutional rights to some corporate overlord
I totally cannot understand that view. You should be able to peddle whatever you want, as long as it's voluntarily done. Nobody is *making* anybody take a job with one of the crazy non-competes, and you have the option to factor that in when negotiating compensation. As long as both sides feel the agreement is equitable, why should it be illegal to make whatever kind of deal you want? It's your time and your life, nobody should be able to tell you what kind of agreement you can and can't enter into.
If you don't like the non-compete, don't take the job. Nobody is holding a gun to your head, presumably.
OR, as an alternative, take the job, but factor the crazy non-compete into the compensation negotiations. Tell them "What you're trying to do goes beyond simply hiring me as an employee for X duration. In return for the extra consideration I'll be granting you, I expect commensurate consideration." If you can't reach an agreement that both sides find equitable, don't take the job.
Its ALL a matter of responsibility for ones own actions at the end of the trip.
Are you kidding? Responsibility? What kind of nut are you, anyway... why should anybody take responsibility for their actions? Didn't you know that everybody is a victim, and everything bad that happens is the fault of the evil capitalists? And furthermore, didn't you realize that we're all entitled to live in a world where everybody gets the fairy-tale ending (and a pony) no matter how lazy, incompetent, or untalented they might be?
Responsibility... Pffftttt... mad talk, I tell you. That kind of whacko crap went out of style about 100 years ago, man. Why take "responsibility" when you can just sue somebody, or ask for a government hand-out?
I swear, these kids today and the crazy ideas they go spouting off about... responsibility indeed. Ha!
It is an arms race where the consumer always wins.
Exactly, and having no patents will just make it even more of an arms race. Companies will be forced to innovate constantly to survive. Getting rid of patents would be a huge win for innovation and advances in technology.
I'd like to see the stats on just how many "independent inventors" successfully patent a new invention and then get rich off of it. I'd guess the number is close to zero, since most "independent inventors" probably can't afford the patent attorney fees and filing fees to even apply for a patent.
The system, as it exists now, benefits big companies who can afford the legal wranglings necessary to get a patent, and harms individuals and small businesses. It's gotten completely turned on it's head.
Abolishing patents outright would be the best thing we could ever do.
As for Y2K, obviously the people who were stockpiling ammunition and moving to the mountains were nuts,
Naah, there are plenty of other good reasons for stockpiling ammunition and moving to the mountains. Actually, stockpiling ammunition is pretty much always a good idea...
Instead of "if these pictures are ultimately released", let's instead have "no living next to schools, being around minors unsupervised, a
Aaah, since they are minors, does that mean they have to be put to death to make sure they're never around themselves? Or just that a nanny has to babysit them 24x7 until they turn 18, respectively?
Rather than teaching the Revolutionary War and the Declaration of Independence in social studies they should be teaching courses in tax evasion, legal loopholes and subterfuge.
I'm thinking more like Intro to Improvised Munitions, Guerrilla Warfare 101, Essential Espionage for Amateurs and Inciting Revolutions in Contemporary America.
We're scared of each other, of the government, and of some vague group on the other side of the world, who don't have the means to stage a traditional war, or even a single battle.
Nah, I'm pretty much just scared of our government. It represents far more of a threat to my safety and well-being than any Al-Qaeda terrorist.
Yeah, if anybody should be "stepping down" it's the numbnuts in the City of Boston government, FBI, DHS and whoever else overreacted to this non-event.
To get the honor system to work, they need to make it very easy to buy music. Easier than finding it for free. People will sill 'borrow' from friends, but if it is easy enough to find and buy music through them, then most people won't make the effort to find it for a lower price.
Exactly. Personally, I'll happily pay to go to an official service, with high quality mp3 downloads, where I can quickly search by artist, song-title, album, etc. and find the exact track I'm looking for, know that what I'm getting is what is actually labeled, know what the quality of the file is, etc. As long as the files aren't DRM'd and the price is reasonable. Why waste time with p2p networks where you never know exactly what you're getting, download times are inconsistent, etc?
Hopefully if the labels go through with this, they follow the "long tail" approach and put plenty of obscure tracks up as well... demos, b-sides, live recordings, unreleased tracks, etc. Give music fans what they're looking for and they'll pay (well, some of us will anyway).
I'm sorry but I don't see what the big deal is. It's a freaking signin, who cares if it is a "yahoo id" or a "foobar id?" They could probably migrate all the flickr IDs to Yahoo IDs in the background (if it weren't for name collisions) and nobody would ever be the wiser that their "flickr login" is now also a "yahoo login." Sign up for the Yahoo ID, forget everything Yahoo (except flikr) exists and be done with it.
There are specific methodologies for modeling risks / threats and estimating their impact, that are used for justifying Information Security budgeting.
Principles of Information Security is one book that I'm familiar with that has quite a bit of coverage of this topic. We used this for my course in Information Security a couple of years ago, and I found it pretty useful, FWIW.
Additionally, check this OWASP Page for some good stuff.
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I don't consider GPLv3 an 'upgrade'. If you do, great, license your software with it, but don't shove it down the throat of folks who choose not to use it.
I haven't had a chance to read this latest draft yet, but based on the earlier drafts I would agree. And considering the overall direction they seem to be trying to take the GPL in, I doubt I would ever pick GPL v3 for a project, personally. But then again, my favorite license - the one I consider nearly perfect - is the LGPL.
If anything, they need to find ways to SLOW DOWN the process of issuing patents. I mean, seriously, there should be *maybe* 3-4 patents
granted, per year, worldwide, if we actually went by any realistic definitions of novel, innovative, and non-obvious. The world needs
fewer patents being granted, not more.
Cool has an 'is-ness', a zen-like quality that can't be defined. If you are trying to be, then by definition, you are not cool. You are a wanna-be.
You can argue that the kind of cynical, postmodern, commercial/corporate kitch can be cool , but I say again, as long as something is being what it is, rather than trying to be something else to impress someone, then it is cool. If they are consciously going with corporate/commercial kitch with awareness, and embracing it, then they are being cool, being themselves. If they are inadvertently creating corporate wanna-be-cool kitch without awareness, then that is trying, which is not cool.
Cool!
Or a few players realizing that competing with each other was harder than colluding together to achieve a common price structure with minimum fat profit margins...
The power of collusion is limited by greed though. Somebody will always break the agreement when they get greedy. Look at OPEC nations, where one or more of them is always cheating and exceeding their quotas. And that's a product where the number of possible players is pretty much strictly limited.... in a market for widgets, a new producer (or 2, or 5 or 23 or 42) can show up anytime to wreck the game.
Lower barriers to entry by getting rid of State intervention (gazillion page govt. regulation manuals, patents, etc., etc.) and you get even more market activity and competition.
That monopoly was enforced by local governments. But I guess as long as you control the government schools that teach the history of 'Robber Barons', people will believe the propaganda.
Well said, friend. Don't believe the propaganda...
It's a fairly general trend; everything else being equal, I doubt a 40 year old is going to buy as much music as an 18 year old.
But are things generally equal? I'm 33 - going on 34 - and I buy a lot more music now than I did at 18, simply because I can afford more now. And I personally can't see a day when I'll buy less music, until there just isn't anything out there that I don't have yet, which will probably never happen. There's enough old NWOBHM stuff I don't have to keep me busy for a while, by itself...
Dream Theater owns my face. And you're exactly right about social issues, how about Kick the Chair by Megadeth, or The Great Debate by DT? Better than some hip gangsta rollin on dubs.
Yep. And how about S.D.I. by Bonfire, Fight for Your Rights by Motley Crue, Symphony of Destruction by Megadeth, When Freedom Dies by Nuclear Assault, The Needle Lies by Queensryche, Lack of Communication by Ratt, Institutionalized by Suicidal Tendencies, etc., etc. Lots of metal bands have written songs that were raised awareness and created discussion about important social issues. The myth that metal is all nihilistic "suicide music" is so much bullshit...
Jokes aside, I've loved metal, punk, thrash, etc. since I first heard it. Oddly enough I love classical music too (even Joyce Hatto. Ha!) but can't stand country music, rap, hip hop....
Not surprising really. Most metal music is actually quite similar to classical.
There's definitely some strong relationship between Metal and Classical. Just look at all the cross-over stuff that combines Metal and Classical for some interesting evidence: Celtic Frost used to take a symphony orchestra on tour with them for accompaniment, TSO are basically Savatage + more musicians making up a classical orchestra, Metallica did the S&M album playing along with an orchestra, etc., etc.
Of course, this being the US, the concept of "saving money" isn't understood, so I suppose I should modify that to "run up your credit card".
WTF kind of madness are you talking, man? You sound like you expect somebody to accept some (gasp!) responsibility! I mean, saving money, that
would mean accepting that you yourself are responsible for your security and welfare... and that's just ridiculous. Why should anybody
accept such a onerous burden when they are obviously entitled to a handout from the State, to tide them over, no matter what kind of irresponsible
behavior they display.
I'm shocked you would even think to suggest such a thing. Didn't you know that personal responsibility went out of style about 60 (or more) years ago?
I'm just glad that where I live, the right to chose your employer is embedded in the constitution and you are prohibited from peddling your constitutional rights to some corporate overlord
I totally cannot understand that view. You should be able to peddle whatever you want, as long as it's voluntarily done. Nobody is *making* anybody take a job with one of the crazy non-competes, and you have the option to factor that in when negotiating compensation. As long as both sides feel the agreement is equitable, why should it be illegal to make whatever kind of deal you want? It's your time and your life, nobody should be able to tell you what kind of agreement you can and can't enter into.
If you don't like the non-compete, don't take the job. Nobody is holding a gun to your head, presumably.
OR, as an alternative, take the job, but factor the crazy non-compete into the compensation negotiations. Tell them "What you're
trying to do goes beyond simply hiring me as an employee for X duration. In return for the extra consideration I'll be granting
you, I expect commensurate consideration." If you can't reach an agreement that both sides find equitable, don't take the job.
George W. Bush awarded Nobel Peace Prize
Now that's just silly...
Its ALL a matter of responsibility for ones own actions at the end of the trip.
Are you kidding? Responsibility? What kind of nut are you, anyway... why should anybody take responsibility
for their actions? Didn't you know that everybody is a victim, and everything bad that happens is the fault of
the evil capitalists? And furthermore, didn't you realize that we're all entitled to live in a world where everybody
gets the fairy-tale ending (and a pony) no matter how lazy, incompetent, or untalented they might be?
Responsibility... Pffftttt... mad talk, I tell you. That kind of whacko crap went out of style about 100 years
ago, man. Why take "responsibility" when you can just sue somebody, or ask for a government hand-out?
I swear, these kids today and the crazy ideas they go spouting off about... responsibility indeed. Ha!
It is an arms race where the consumer always wins.
Exactly, and having no patents will just make it even more of an arms race. Companies will
be forced to innovate constantly to survive. Getting rid of patents would be a huge win
for innovation and advances in technology.
I'd like to see the stats on just how many "independent inventors" successfully patent a new invention and then get rich off of it. I'd guess the number is close to zero, since most "independent inventors" probably can't afford the patent attorney fees and filing fees to even apply for a patent.
The system, as it exists now, benefits big companies who can afford the legal wranglings necessary to get a patent, and harms individuals and small businesses. It's gotten completely turned on it's head.
Abolishing patents outright would be the best thing we could ever do.
As for Y2K, obviously the people who were stockpiling ammunition and moving to the mountains were nuts,
Naah, there are plenty of other good reasons for stockpiling ammunition and moving to the mountains. Actually, stockpiling
ammunition is pretty much always a good idea...
Great, when do we get a Slashdot API????
Instead of "if these pictures are ultimately released", let's instead have "no living next to schools, being around minors unsupervised, a
Aaah, since they are minors, does that mean they have to be put to death to make sure they're never around themselves? Or just that a nanny has
to babysit them 24x7 until they turn 18, respectively?
Rather than teaching the Revolutionary War and the Declaration of Independence in social studies they should be teaching courses in tax evasion, legal loopholes and subterfuge.
I'm thinking more like Intro to Improvised Munitions, Guerrilla Warfare 101, Essential Espionage for Amateurs and Inciting Revolutions in Contemporary America.
do agree that we do need a stronger form of authentication for things like taxes and other government affairs
A far better idea would be to get rid of the taxes and the government affairs.
We're scared of each other, of the government, and of some vague group on the other side of the world, who don't have the means to stage a traditional war, or even a single battle.
Nah, I'm pretty much just scared of our government. It represents far more of a threat to my safety and well-being than any Al-Qaeda terrorist.
Yeah, if anybody should be "stepping down" it's the numbnuts in the City of Boston government, FBI, DHS and whoever else overreacted to this non-event.
To get the honor system to work, they need to make it very easy to buy music. Easier than finding it for free. People will sill 'borrow' from friends, but if it is easy enough to find and buy music through them, then most people won't make the effort to find it for a lower price.
Exactly. Personally, I'll happily pay to go to an official service, with high quality mp3 downloads, where I can quickly search by artist, song-title, album, etc. and find the exact track I'm looking for, know that what I'm getting is what is actually labeled, know what the quality of the file is, etc. As long as the files aren't DRM'd and the price is reasonable. Why waste time with p2p networks where you never know exactly what you're getting, download times are inconsistent, etc?
Hopefully if the labels go through with this, they follow the "long tail" approach and put plenty of obscure tracks up as well... demos, b-sides, live recordings, unreleased tracks, etc. Give music fans what they're looking for and they'll pay (well, some of us will anyway).
I'm sorry but I don't see what the big deal is. It's a freaking signin, who cares if it is a "yahoo id" or a "foobar id?" They could probably migrate all the flickr IDs to Yahoo IDs in the background (if it weren't for name collisions) and nobody would ever be the wiser that their "flickr login" is now also a "yahoo login." Sign up for the Yahoo ID, forget everything Yahoo (except flikr) exists and be done with it.
There are specific methodologies for modeling risks / threats and estimating their impact, that are used for justifying
Information Security budgeting.
Principles of Information Security is one book that I'm familiar with that has quite a bit of coverage of this topic. We used this for my course in Information Security a couple of years ago, and I found it pretty useful, FWIW.
Additionally, check this OWASP Page for some good stuff.
And finally, try googling for terms like Security Risk Analysis, Security Risk Assessment, and / or Security Threat Modeling.