The great thing about Linux is, you can use other distros (I long-since moved to Debian). If this were MS ramming it down your throat, you'd have no choice but to use it in the next version of Windows. With the Linux choice model, these guys can experiment with this thing I almost certainly don't want, and it doesn't affect me.
Either that, or they ACTUALLY forgot the passphrase to the hidden volume because they haven't used it in a long time. Innocent until proven guilty is supposed to be there to protect people from this issue, but with the US legal system going the way it is...
This sort of comment is part of the problem, not the solution. Breaking the law simply because one isn't going go through the effort to pay for something optional like music is not helpful. It isn't noble.
When you have a political system as unbelievably corrupt as the one in Washington D.C. right now, which passes laws for the copyright cartel to extend copyright indefinitely, I have to say that I think civil disobedience against copyright law is justified. The average citizen has NO power to do a damn thing about the law, and nowhere near enough money to buy their politicians back (not that that's how it should work).
It's all very well saying you should reform copyright the legal way, but be realistic: when is that going to happen? Is that ever going to happen? In the meantime, why should people put up with a law that the majority would disagree with if they really knew much about it and which we think is utterly unjustifiable, and a complete perversion of copyright's original intention?
a) It's the licenCe fee b) You're not qualified to state whether it's worth the money unless you speak for everyone who has to pay it legally, because they're often being forced to pay it against their will. Unles everyone thinks so, it isn't worth it.
After all, Wikipedia just serves up other people's content and takes money (what they call "donations") for it.
No, they're just getting lobbied by certain people with money. Perfectly legal, ask any US politician.:-)
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It actually made quite a bit of sense at the time.
I disagree.
Everybody knew even at the time it was going to be a historic speech
No they didn't.
and this prevented anybody else from profiting off of reproducing it without giving the author a cut. Considering what he was engaged in doing at the time, it would be tough to come up with a more noble use of existing copyright law.
No it wouldn't. In fact, this is painting a rather nasty picture of MLK as a guy who gave less of a shit about civil rights than he did about his personal fortune. He's not someone to hold up as noble.
Frankly, if I'm in a crowd with a video camera, there is no way somebody making a speech should own my fucking recording any more than the old mad guy with a "the end is near" sign whose ramblings I filmed the other day should own that recording. You say it in public, you're benefitting from its publicity - it's public, not yours. That seems like a fair deal to me.
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I think if we made copyright 10 (or frankly, I'd say 5) years in duration, we wouldn't need to worry about the author's death; it would be reasonably short. The problem is when copyright lasts way longer than that.
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Ah damnit, I accidentally clicked on it. OK, where do I go to pay my 10 dollars?
It's the same reason why it took 7 years to build the original World Trade Center and now more than a decade after 9/11, they're "hoping" that it will be almost done by 2020 (19 years after).
Yeah but to be fair, the original World Trade Center did fall down.
I don't want to like IE9, because MS is the company we love to hate... but I vastly prefer it to chrome.
My first complaint: Chrome's gigantic header is 18 pixels taller than IE, on my netbook that extra 3% of the tiny screen that is unusable for content is kind of a big deal.
Message from a guy who usually uses a decent sized monitor with a desktop:
PLEASE use a browser designed for netbooks instead of telling browser makers to design browsers for your pathetically small screen! Some of us actually appreciate a decently-sized interface.
OK; because for some strange reason nobody has raised this criticism, I will:
Going down the Microsoft (ASP.net/C#/Visual Studio/SQL Server/etc.) route is EXPENSIVE. You will have to pay ongoing licensing fees for EVERYTHING. It simply isn't an option for a small-time developer without much cash; you need to be a small-to-medium sized business at least, I'd say.
That's a significant consideration, and is the primary reason I tend to avoid it for my personal projects.
Toasters are no longer simple mechanical devices for a reason. If an "appliance" concept really worked, all you'd need is a 555 timer chip and a variable resistor. There hasn't been a toaster that simple in almost 2 decades!
Last time I checked, msot toasters were actually pretty much that simple. Exactly which toasters have you been experiencing in the last 2 decades, and what more functionality do they contain?
We've long since had a word for the third war's goal: totalitarianism. It's just that we have to avoid saying that now because the mainstream jumps on it to label you as an 'extremist mad person' for suggesting clearly that the bowl of water in which we are all sitting might be getting slowly to the boil.
Can you list 10 policies that are identical between the Obama and Bush administrations?
- Slow withdrawal from Iraq/Afghanistan (Bush would've pulled out EVENTUALLY...) - War on drugs - Tax cuts for the rich - Gitmo stays open - Deport craploads of illegal immigrants - No campaign finance reform - Random unconstitutional searches+seizures at airports - National Defense Authorization Act (Bush's wet dream) - Warrentless wiretapping - Execution of US citizens abroad without trial - Pathetic lack of financial reform
Oh wait, I'm past 10 already. Just go here for more.
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The great thing about Linux is, you can use other distros (I long-since moved to Debian). If this were MS ramming it down your throat, you'd have no choice but to use it in the next version of Windows. With the Linux choice model, these guys can experiment with this thing I almost certainly don't want, and it doesn't affect me.
Either that, or they ACTUALLY forgot the passphrase to the hidden volume because they haven't used it in a long time. Innocent until proven guilty is supposed to be there to protect people from this issue, but with the US legal system going the way it is...
I dunno, but they're both a PITA and if they target you you're SOL; I just wish they would STFU and GTFO.
This sort of comment is part of the problem, not the solution. Breaking the law simply because one isn't going go through the effort to pay for something optional like music is not helpful. It isn't noble.
When you have a political system as unbelievably corrupt as the one in Washington D.C. right now, which passes laws for the copyright cartel to extend copyright indefinitely, I have to say that I think civil disobedience against copyright law is justified. The average citizen has NO power to do a damn thing about the law, and nowhere near enough money to buy their politicians back (not that that's how it should work).
It's all very well saying you should reform copyright the legal way, but be realistic: when is that going to happen? Is that ever going to happen? In the meantime, why should people put up with a law that the majority would disagree with if they really knew much about it and which we think is utterly unjustifiable, and a complete perversion of copyright's original intention?
He got extradited from New Zealand. Would the location of the site's servers have prevented this?
Same sex rights is one of the few areas in which corporate America has been by and large ahead of the curve.
This is not surprising, given how much they generally like screwing their customers in the ass.
Fox news website? I thought you wanted to give them websites that WEREN'T connected to dodgy illegal activities.
a) It's the licenCe fee
b) You're not qualified to state whether it's worth the money unless you speak for everyone who has to pay it legally, because they're often being forced to pay it against their will. Unles everyone thinks so, it isn't worth it.
After all, Wikipedia just serves up other people's content and takes money (what they call "donations") for it.
No, they're just getting lobbied by certain people with money. Perfectly legal, ask any US politician. :-)
It actually made quite a bit of sense at the time.
I disagree.
Everybody knew even at the time it was going to be a historic speech
No they didn't.
and this prevented anybody else from profiting off of reproducing it without giving the author a cut. Considering what he was engaged in doing at the time, it would be tough to come up with a more noble use of existing copyright law.
No it wouldn't. In fact, this is painting a rather nasty picture of MLK as a guy who gave less of a shit about civil rights than he did about his personal fortune. He's not someone to hold up as noble.
Frankly, if I'm in a crowd with a video camera, there is no way somebody making a speech should own my fucking recording any more than the old mad guy with a "the end is near" sign whose ramblings I filmed the other day should own that recording. You say it in public, you're benefitting from its publicity - it's public, not yours. That seems like a fair deal to me.
I think if we made copyright 10 (or frankly, I'd say 5) years in duration, we wouldn't need to worry about the author's death; it would be reasonably short. The problem is when copyright lasts way longer than that.
Ah damnit, I accidentally clicked on it. OK, where do I go to pay my 10 dollars?
It's the same reason why it took 7 years to build the original World Trade Center and now more than a decade after 9/11, they're "hoping" that it will be almost done by 2020 (19 years after).
Yeah but to be fair, the original World Trade Center did fall down.
One of them's a genius, the other's unseen.
Maybe, maybe not; one man's junk is another man's treasure.
I don't want to like IE9, because MS is the company we love to hate... but I vastly prefer it to chrome.
My first complaint: Chrome's gigantic header is 18 pixels taller than IE, on my netbook that extra 3% of the tiny screen that is unusable for content is kind of a big deal.
Message from a guy who usually uses a decent sized monitor with a desktop:
PLEASE use a browser designed for netbooks instead of telling browser makers to design browsers for your pathetically small screen! Some of us actually appreciate a decently-sized interface.
Do these stats pertain just to use of IE6 on the public internet? Is IE6 still being used a lot more on internal intranets?
Unfortunately, SOPA will stop you doing this. :-D
OK; because for some strange reason nobody has raised this criticism, I will:
Going down the Microsoft (ASP.net/C#/Visual Studio/SQL Server/etc.) route is EXPENSIVE. You will have to pay ongoing licensing fees for EVERYTHING. It simply isn't an option for a small-time developer without much cash; you need to be a small-to-medium sized business at least, I'd say.
That's a significant consideration, and is the primary reason I tend to avoid it for my personal projects.
Luckily, nobody who pirated Crysis 2 had a system powerful enough to run it, so actually the game wasn't ever successfully pirated.
Toasters are no longer simple mechanical devices for a reason. If an "appliance" concept really worked, all you'd need is a 555 timer chip and a variable resistor. There hasn't been a toaster that simple in almost 2 decades!
Last time I checked, msot toasters were actually pretty much that simple. Exactly which toasters have you been experiencing in the last 2 decades, and what more functionality do they contain?
We've long since had a word for the third war's goal: totalitarianism. It's just that we have to avoid saying that now because the mainstream jumps on it to label you as an 'extremist mad person' for suggesting clearly that the bowl of water in which we are all sitting might be getting slowly to the boil.
Cory doesn't do too good-er job of communicating this
I'm not sure you did too good a job of communicating that.
Can you list 10 policies that are identical between the Obama and Bush administrations?
- Slow withdrawal from Iraq/Afghanistan (Bush would've pulled out EVENTUALLY...)
- War on drugs
- Tax cuts for the rich
- Gitmo stays open
- Deport craploads of illegal immigrants
- No campaign finance reform
- Random unconstitutional searches+seizures at airports
- National Defense Authorization Act (Bush's wet dream)
- Warrentless wiretapping
- Execution of US citizens abroad without trial
- Pathetic lack of financial reform
Oh wait, I'm past 10 already. Just go here for more.
I'm never gonna let it down.