I don't think an AC has any business challenging someone else's credibility. If you're not afraid of the consequences your words will have on you, show us by posting with your account.
Almahtar (991773) "No journal entries." "E-mail not posted publicly."
Explain to me what risk there is in posting under an alias that is nowhere linked to your real name or e-mail address.
People that have been using Windows have been pretty happy with XP and Win2000. Surprising numbers of casual users still have '98. And increasing numbers of us are using something else entirely =)
In round numbers, this is how the world looks to the web developer:
Win XP 75% Unchanged since September 06
W2K 6% Down 5% since September 06. W2K had little mass market exposure.
Vista 4% Up from 0% in January 07 It should be interesting to see how Vista fares in Back-To-School and Christmas sales. You will be much less of the warmed-over XP box and much more of the DX10 system realistically spec'd for Vista. To speak of Vista's "failure" in the marketplace is desperately premature, if not inane.
OSX 4% Unchanged since January 05
Linux 3% Unchanged since November 03 However, the w3Schools stats suggest that Linux may be losing ground to the Mac and OSX.
The be more realistic they are attempting to hide behind the RIAA, so all the negative public reaction is directed at the RIAA and it's lawyers, rather than the music publisher and the artists in question
Negative public reaction? What reaction?
Slashdot posts on copyright infringement almost always link to another self-referential blog: " Recording Industry vs The People."
Not to a source that is likely to have a broader readership or impact.
Really all they need to do is submit a random string of 0's and 1's. That is all memory contains, and it doesn't say anything about having to be readable by humans nor anything explaining how those 0's and 1's are segmented.
Unless as the IT guy you want an intimate knowledge of life behind bars, you preserve and present the data to the court in meaningful way. It's your ass that on the line, not your boss's.
copyright is completely out of control, and *NO* reasonable discussion on any issue regarding rights for copyright holders has merit (IMHO) until the copyright terms are fixed - meaning, significantly reduced.
No matter how thin you slice it, it is still baloney.
Copyright will never expire quickly enough to keep the geek out of jail.
How many of the movies - how much of the music, the warez - that makes its way to the net is less than five years old? Less than one year old? Less than six weeks old?
If Apache was modified to set the memory used for logs to be DRMd, would this make the data inaccessible?
You maintain the records you were ordered to keep. Or else. You unlock the records you were ordered to keep. Or else. Your boss goes home. You go to jail.
Free software advocates beleive that freedom is always practical, indeed is the only practical choice in the long run. I'm sorry if you don't value freedom.
"In the long run we are all dead."
TiVO sells its PVR as a plug and play household appliance.
Its customers expect TiVO to negotiate all the legal and technical hurdles to delivering a marketable product. No HBO, no PPV, no sale.
Its customers
expect service under warranty and upgrades from a single, trusted, source. They have no interest in cracking open the box, mucking with the the hardware or software.
So judges in this country can't reason if I don't hire a $200/hr lawyer? What if I've got 5 kids to feed and don't have money for a lawyer?
You can afford a computer. You can afford broadband service at $45/mo. But you can't afford the initial consultion with a lawyer when you are being sued for $40,000 plus costs?
This is what the judge sees:
Howell's deposition in which he admitted ownership of the Kazaa account in question.
Files in a shared files folder linked to Kazaa.
but how much does that help free software advocates to free others? if others insist on slavery, what can we do?
Your slaves are the customers who make their decisions and influence felt in the marketplace. The users who drive devolopment because they have money to spend and not because they have a cause to promote.
To US (adults) that is okay because we have grown up around IP and understand the reason that it needs to be changed; however, if you teach somebody that has no frame of reference that IP is evil, they won't understand why.
In the world beyond Slashdot, you will find many adults who don't believe that IP is evil.
I think the most interesting cultural phenomenon I've seen in a long time - and one the Geek needs to study much more closely much more closely than he has - is the wall of protection build around the release of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
--- not by Rowling's publishers, but by her readers.
Snail mailed disks are antiquated you damn old timer. Non-downloadable movies will be a laughable distant memory in 18 years
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a postal truck.
The 50 GB Blu-Ray disc is here now. The future may be the 4 TB HVD Holographic Disc. You won't be renting a movie - you will be renting an actor, a series, a character, or genre.
Brilliant. Your advice to this guy is turn a lightly supervised probation into a spanking-new charge of parole violation - playing against the two felony convictions already on his record?
Go directly to jail, do not pass Go, do not collect $200.
When Joe Teenager takes the $20 he would have spent on a CD and spends it on ricing out his car, that money is not lost to the economy. People still make sales. It is still taxed. It only shifts to a different sector.
It is a loss to a sector of the economy that generates significant export dollars.
That directly sustains arts and culture. Research and development in audio, video and many other technologies.
"Clean and Green." Good neighbors. High wage, high skilled jobs. Not an insignificant number of the jobs open to the Geek.
You make the choice. Do you want the chop shop economy or the Pixar economy?
If a high-school kid was a massive warez junkie and managed to accumulate 1.5 million dollars worth of pirated software
The warez junkie consumes bandwidth and storage on a massive scale.
He is not a kid with a laptop and a 120 GB hard drive.
That said, it is very easy to imagine such a kid downloading $250 - $500 worth of music, video, and games - merchandise - that he or his parents would have rented or purchased otherwise.
Try multiplying the real-world example by 1,000, 10,000, 100,000, and see what the numbers look like then.
Every major publisher and studio is looking for a successor to Harry Potter.
Rowling's audience won't trade the experience of owning the hardcover book for the pirated PDF scan. The experience of the big budget theatrical film for the amatuer's DiVX rip.
But it sucks for the producer like JMS who wants to do adult sci-fi or fantasy on a smaller scale. The producer who can't find funding or talent because any potential for profit will be negated by the leeches on the P2P nets.
Then stop stealing my sunlight, ya daft bastard!... what? Sunlight can't be stolen, but 2.4MHz EM signals can? It's all EM radiation.
It's arguments like this that turn the law against the geek. You are not using an unmodualated carrier wave - a natural radio beacon - as a source of power. You are tapping into a privately owned communicatons network.
I don't think its right to to steal wireless bandwidth against an owner's wishes, but any punishment more severe than a fine is going too far.
Using someone's bandwidth (so that they can't) is a lot like parking where you partially block their driveway.
This isn't blockage - it's theft.
You've exposed the owner to embarrassment and potential civil and criminal liability - depending on how you have used and abused his connection to the net.
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That doesn't explain why anyone would bother changing the user agent to return IE 7 for Vista rather than a generic IE7 or IE6 for XP.
How many people do you suppose know what a "user agent string" is or how to modify it safely?
Most people hate and fear command lines and configuration files because they are afraid some obscure typographical error will lock up their system.
That is why "IE Tab" becomes a popular extension in Firefox.
Almahtar (991773)
"No journal entries." "E-mail not posted publicly."
Explain to me what risk there is in posting under an alias that is nowhere linked to your real name or e-mail address.
In round numbers, this is how the world looks to the web developer:
Win XP 75%
Unchanged since September 06
W2K 6%
Down 5% since September 06.
W2K had little mass market exposure.
Vista 4%
Up from 0% in January 07
It should be interesting to see how Vista fares in Back-To-School and Christmas sales. You will be much less of the warmed-over XP box and much more of the DX10 system realistically spec'd for Vista. To speak of Vista's "failure" in the marketplace is desperately premature, if not inane.
OSX 4%
Unchanged since January 05
Linux 3%
Unchanged since November 03
However, the w3Schools stats suggest that Linux may be losing ground to the Mac and OSX.
W98 1%
Unchanged since August 06 OS Platform Statistics
Negative public reaction? What reaction?
Slashdot posts on copyright infringement almost always link to another self-referential blog: " Recording Industry vs The People."
Not to a source that is likely to have a broader readership or impact.
Unless as the IT guy you want an intimate knowledge of life behind bars, you preserve and present the data to the court in meaningful way. It's your ass that on the line, not your boss's.
No matter how thin you slice it, it is still baloney.
Copyright will never expire quickly enough to keep the geek out of jail.
How many of the movies - how much of the music, the warez - that makes its way to the net is less than five years old? Less than one year old? Less than six weeks old?
Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section: Press Releases
You just might need someone with the firepower to back it up. Piracy on the high seas is still very much a going concern. The Pirate Hunters
Living outside the law is pure Fantasyland.
You maintain the records you were ordered to keep. Or else. You unlock the records you were ordered to keep. Or else. Your boss goes home. You go to jail.
"In the long run we are all dead."
TiVO sells its PVR as a plug and play household appliance.
Its customers expect TiVO to negotiate all the legal and technical hurdles to delivering a marketable product. No HBO, no PPV, no sale.
Its customers expect service under warranty and upgrades from a single, trusted, source. They have no interest in cracking open the box, mucking with the the hardware or software.
You can afford a computer. You can afford broadband service at $45/mo. But you can't afford the initial consultion with a lawyer when you are being sued for $40,000 plus costs?
This is what the judge sees:
Howell's deposition in which he admitted ownership of the Kazaa account in question.
Files in a shared files folder linked to Kazaa.
Your slaves are the customers who make their decisions and influence felt in the marketplace. The users who drive devolopment because they have money to spend and not because they have a cause to promote.
Take that attitude into the classroom and I guarantee that you will come across looking like a jerk.
In the world beyond Slashdot, you will find many adults who don't believe that IP is evil.
I think the most interesting cultural phenomenon I've seen in a long time - and one the Geek needs to study much more closely much more closely than he has - is the wall of protection build around the release of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
--- not by Rowling's publishers, but by her readers.
How fast was your LAN connection in '95? What media were you playing at work?
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a postal truck.
The 50 GB Blu-Ray disc is here now. The future may be the 4 TB HVD Holographic Disc. You won't be renting a movie - you will be renting an actor, a series, a character, or genre.
Everything James Bond.
It's a pity that jokes don't come with an expiration date - because this one has gone stale.
Rather like Slashdot's Borg icon for Bill Gates.
A fair assumption, I think, based on the scale and profitability of the teen and pre-teen market.
The point is that he accepted a plea bargain rather than risk a conviction on charges that could have put him away for five years.
Brilliant. Your advice to this guy is turn a lightly supervised probation into a spanking-new charge of parole violation - playing against the two felony convictions already on his record?
Go directly to jail, do not pass Go, do not collect $200.
It is a loss to a sector of the economy that generates significant export dollars.
That directly sustains arts and culture. Research and development in audio, video and many other technologies.
"Clean and Green." Good neighbors. High wage, high skilled jobs. Not an insignificant number of the jobs open to the Geek.
You make the choice. Do you want the chop shop economy or the Pixar economy?
The warez junkie consumes bandwidth and storage on a massive scale.
He is not a kid with a laptop and a 120 GB hard drive.
That said, it is very easy to imagine such a kid downloading $250 - $500 worth of music, video, and games - merchandise - that he or his parents would have rented or purchased otherwise.
Try multiplying the real-world example by 1,000, 10,000, 100,000, and see what the numbers look like then.
Every major publisher and studio is looking for a successor to Harry Potter.
Rowling's audience won't trade the experience of owning the hardcover book for the pirated PDF scan. The experience of the big budget theatrical film for the amatuer's DiVX rip.
But it sucks for the producer like JMS who wants to do adult sci-fi or fantasy on a smaller scale. The producer who can't find funding or talent because any potential for profit will be negated by the leeches on the P2P nets.
It's arguments like this that turn the law against the geek. You are not using an unmodualated carrier wave - a natural radio beacon - as a source of power. You are tapping into a privately owned communicatons network.
The water ain't running until you turn on the tap.
Using someone's bandwidth (so that they can't) is a lot like parking where you partially block their driveway.
This isn't blockage - it's theft. You've exposed the owner to embarrassment and potential civil and criminal liability - depending on how you have used and abused his connection to the net.
Manhunt 2 means less to a retail giant like Walmart than the loose change the janitors sweep up off the floors each morning.