As a paralel of the famous punching in the face quote:
You right to spew things out stops just before that spew reaches a computer that doesn't want it.
Is that a hard concept to understand? Because when it doesn't involve computers, nearly everybody understands it de pronto. People at/. shouldn't have this kind of problem.
If, for some reason, something responds badly to what you're spewing out, then it's not your problem. They should have configured their firewall better.
Depends, was it a honest usage of some service the other computer was anouncing? If so, yes, the other computer should be better configured. Was is some malicious data? If so, the fault is at the part that is sending it.
I relay the queries that my local server doesn't know to OpenDNS.
I really don't know if they are good, maybe they're there, reading the name of every new page I visit. I never bothered to verify.
My ISP's DNS is pure garbage. Lookup failures don't fail, it fails to find pages that exist (but the lookup doesn't fail, because of the first part), it is slow and the uptime isn't that good, thus, I don't use it. Anyway, nothing can beat a local server in speed and, if you are using your desktop as server, uptime.
Ok, it seems I disobeied your advice, and got you wrong. But you seem to be arguing that the author won't make money if the copyrights time is short; that isn't true. He makes some money.
Most people won't make enough to live by the copyrights on 5, 10, 50 or even on author's life + 50 years. Copyrights must last for a defined amount of time, and it won't be enough to most authors.
I have two PCs at home with discrete GPU cards. Both have a similar processor, same amount and kind of memory, and very similar motherboard. One has a NVidia card, the other has an AMD. You can't tell the difference by using them, when running some physics simulation I found the AMD computer faster (altough it has a just a bit slightly slower CPU), and when installing Debian the AMD GPU just worked (it still tooke some setup for the physics simulation), while I had to install the NVidia by hand (ok, just choosed the driver package, but still, I had to intervenue). None of them gave me any problem after installed.
Yep, at the highter end products AMD offers a much highter bang for your buck (on both single threaded and paralel speeds), maybe at the cost of some extra electricity and heat (I was never able to calculate that, so I don't know who wins).
Yes, the biggest distributor can distribute ANYTHING. But so can do anybody else. If he sells a package that is more convenient than your preferred torrent site, and asks for a price that you think is worth it, he'll get your money. Just like anybody else.
Chanels are cheap nowadays. That's why we are having this discussion.
By the time book 4 is ready copyright has expired on book 1. It's not really worth anyone else printing book 1 as its available on e-readers for free.
Ok, let's forget that last time I was in a bookstore there were two entire shelfs only for public domain works. No, you'll never find Plato's Republic or Iliad for sale.
No-one else will make a deal with Ms Moss under better terms for book 5 because they can't do the group deal for books 2-4. I can negotiate Ms Moss down to almost nothing.
Let me see. You have an author with 3 books that everybody already loved, that everybody and their dog have already read at least one of this books (since it is available for free on any e-reader) offering you a new book... And you'll refuse it?!? I bet you won't stay for long on business.
I can keep printing book 1 and pay her nothing.
That's the idea. You and anybody else, also don't forget that it comes for free on any e-reader. You won't make a ton of money that way (but can make some money).
Do you not suspect that if the government were in charge of pharmaceuticals there would be all sorts of export restrictions?
Well, if Venezuela doesn't have the balls to manufacture the pharmaceutical themselves if the US government imposes such a restriction, maybe they deserve to be without it.
That's a way of saying that, it doesn't matter, no such restriction will have any impact on practice. But yeah, I'd expect a government to do lots of things that will have no impact on practice.
Similarly, the US government would pretty much have to make everything.
Nope, it only has to research. Also, you could make deals with foreign governments, so you don't end paying all the research costs (altought I doubt that would happen, differently from the current situation), and can verify what the private initiative is doing (like with generics).
Well, blow the electronics and you also stand a reasonable chance of destroying the data. I'd say you'd get an even more reasonable chance, as in place backups won't save your face.
Now, why would a terrorist use his 10 tons of explosive building an EMP device, instead of just blowing them? EMP armed terrorist are that credible.
They've already destroyed their reputation for with the people that care about the desktop Linux when they made tha trademark bitching. That's a no change.
You know, a paper that reports the results of a study, without jumping to conclusions, expressing unrelated opinions, or stating facts that aren't suported by the study being imune. While a paper that does those things being subject to libel acusations.
I'm writting this on a x86 with 1GB of RAM that come to a screeching halt every time I open some more complex web page (like/. frontpage). It takes a couple of minutes for it to start reacting again... Of course, it is running Windows, if it was running Linux with a lightweight DE, it would fly.
It is certanly a case of the boss not accepting a "no" from the technical team. I can imagine how they hired outside consultants to tell them their engineers are wrong, and after negotiating a price, they told.
I also can imagine the engineering boss having pointy hair.
Because MS always called their portable OS Windows. What is interesting is that they were just anouncing that Windows 8 would be the same on portables or desktops. That'll teach people to trust MS' PR... oh wait, it won't, people don't learn.
Other intersting detail is that they are differentiating it based on the processor architecture. It is as if MS wants us to think that ARM is only good for toys, and real computers must be x86. (I bet Intel likes that.) Well, that may be true fow Windows, for now, but people are already discovering that the only thing missing from a tablet is the keyboard. I've heard on a few occasions the killer phrase "hell, that tablet has more memory than the PC I'm using now!"
Different industries pay different taxes, have specific regulations, etc. Only some kinds of professionals can work on some industries, while on others the initiative is free for everybody, some industries have minimum requirements for investiment, testing, verification, insurance, and lots of other things.
Any country would be crazy to make the same set of regulations apply for the neighboring pub, a nuclear power plant and airplane manufacturers.
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As a paralel of the famous punching in the face quote:
You right to spew things out stops just before that spew reaches a computer that doesn't want it.
Is that a hard concept to understand? Because when it doesn't involve computers, nearly everybody understands it de pronto. People at /. shouldn't have this kind of problem.
Depends, was it a honest usage of some service the other computer was anouncing? If so, yes, the other computer should be better configured. Was is some malicious data? If so, the fault is at the part that is sending it.
I relay the queries that my local server doesn't know to OpenDNS.
I really don't know if they are good, maybe they're there, reading the name of every new page I visit. I never bothered to verify.
My ISP's DNS is pure garbage. Lookup failures don't fail, it fails to find pages that exist (but the lookup doesn't fail, because of the first part), it is slow and the uptime isn't that good, thus, I don't use it. Anyway, nothing can beat a local server in speed and, if you are using your desktop as server, uptime.
Yep, that also takes setting the DHCP server to relay the correct DNS server (the machine you just installed bind).
They can still discover what pages you are visiting, that was the original complaint. SSL won't protect you against that.
Ok, it seems I disobeied your advice, and got you wrong. But you seem to be arguing that the author won't make money if the copyrights time is short; that isn't true. He makes some money.
Most people won't make enough to live by the copyrights on 5, 10, 50 or even on author's life + 50 years. Copyrights must last for a defined amount of time, and it won't be enough to most authors.
He made money for 5 years. I'd agree it could be longer, but by saying that the author can't make money you are now just trolling.
I have two PCs at home with discrete GPU cards. Both have a similar processor, same amount and kind of memory, and very similar motherboard. One has a NVidia card, the other has an AMD. You can't tell the difference by using them, when running some physics simulation I found the AMD computer faster (altough it has a just a bit slightly slower CPU), and when installing Debian the AMD GPU just worked (it still tooke some setup for the physics simulation), while I had to install the NVidia by hand (ok, just choosed the driver package, but still, I had to intervenue). None of them gave me any problem after installed.
Yep, at the highter end products AMD offers a much highter bang for your buck (on both single threaded and paralel speeds), maybe at the cost of some extra electricity and heat (I was never able to calculate that, so I don't know who wins).
Yes, the biggest distributor can distribute ANYTHING. But so can do anybody else. If he sells a package that is more convenient than your preferred torrent site, and asks for a price that you think is worth it, he'll get your money. Just like anybody else.
Chanels are cheap nowadays. That's why we are having this discussion.
FTFY. Big deal. Maybe other countries will want to reciprocate; maybe once the US will lead with a good example.
Ok, let's forget that last time I was in a bookstore there were two entire shelfs only for public domain works. No, you'll never find Plato's Republic or Iliad for sale.
Let me see. You have an author with 3 books that everybody already loved, that everybody and their dog have already read at least one of this books (since it is available for free on any e-reader) offering you a new book... And you'll refuse it?!? I bet you won't stay for long on business.
That's the idea. You and anybody else, also don't forget that it comes for free on any e-reader. You won't make a ton of money that way (but can make some money).
Well, if Venezuela doesn't have the balls to manufacture the pharmaceutical themselves if the US government imposes such a restriction, maybe they deserve to be without it.
That's a way of saying that, it doesn't matter, no such restriction will have any impact on practice. But yeah, I'd expect a government to do lots of things that will have no impact on practice.
Nope, it only has to research. Also, you could make deals with foreign governments, so you don't end paying all the research costs (altought I doubt that would happen, differently from the current situation), and can verify what the private initiative is doing (like with generics).
Well, blow the electronics and you also stand a reasonable chance of destroying the data. I'd say you'd get an even more reasonable chance, as in place backups won't save your face.
Now, why would a terrorist use his 10 tons of explosive building an EMP device, instead of just blowing them? EMP armed terrorist are that credible.
Maybe it's time to port Iceweasel to Windows.
They've already destroyed their reputation for with the people that care about the desktop Linux when they made tha trademark bitching. That's a no change.
Does anybody still run Mozilla's Firefox on Linux? Every distro already switched to a fork ages ago.
The "trademark issues" were that you can't patch Firefox and keep calling it Firefox. Thus people had to rename it for applying patches.
What about truth being imune?
You know, a paper that reports the results of a study, without jumping to conclusions, expressing unrelated opinions, or stating facts that aren't suported by the study being imune. While a paper that does those things being subject to libel acusations.
I'm writting this on a x86 with 1GB of RAM that come to a screeching halt every time I open some more complex web page (like /. frontpage). It takes a couple of minutes for it to start reacting again... Of course, it is running Windows, if it was running Linux with a lightweight DE, it would fly.
It is certanly a case of the boss not accepting a "no" from the technical team. I can imagine how they hired outside consultants to tell them their engineers are wrong, and after negotiating a price, they told.
I also can imagine the engineering boss having pointy hair.
Great, now you'll just need some money to kick start them.
Because MS always called their portable OS Windows. What is interesting is that they were just anouncing that Windows 8 would be the same on portables or desktops. That'll teach people to trust MS' PR... oh wait, it won't, people don't learn.
Other intersting detail is that they are differentiating it based on the processor architecture. It is as if MS wants us to think that ARM is only good for toys, and real computers must be x86. (I bet Intel likes that.) Well, that may be true fow Windows, for now, but people are already discovering that the only thing missing from a tablet is the keyboard. I've heard on a few occasions the killer phrase "hell, that tablet has more memory than the PC I'm using now!"
So, the Grand Unification of Windows that MS is promissing for ages will create... 2 versions of Windows? One for desktops, another one for portables?
Good to see that they still have sense of humor.
Different industries pay different taxes, have specific regulations, etc. Only some kinds of professionals can work on some industries, while on others the initiative is free for everybody, some industries have minimum requirements for investiment, testing, verification, insurance, and lots of other things.
Any country would be crazy to make the same set of regulations apply for the neighboring pub, a nuclear power plant and airplane manufacturers.