There is a phrase that has been a part of United States Government for the last 225+ years, and I'm sure you are familiar with it:
"Innocent until proven guilty"
There is a phrase that all of us should strive to live up to. Reversed, it resembles totalitarian regimes of the past, including Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. It is something that every American should strive to live up to in both their personal and professional lives.
Unfortunately, the United States legal system appears to be moving away from that ideal.
The RIAA is now sending subpoenas and notice of lawsuits to citizens throughout the United States, and these citizens will have to defend their innocence in a court of law, rather than the plaintiff backing up their accusations with incontrovertible evidence.
Let me give an example:
1. John Q. Wallet goes and Legally buys a CD from the local Fred Meyer / Best Buy / Circuit City, and takes it home.
2. John has a slow computer, but an MP3 player and wants to listen to his music under Fair Use Rights, upheld through case law in the courts. "Ripping" said music takes longer than downloading it off his high-speed internet. He downloads the music he has a legal license for.
3. John gets picked up on some type of scanner that the RIAA has on the Internet.
4. John gets served with a copyright infringement lawsuit, ending up paying countless dollars in legal fees to prove that he had the CD, and the fair use rights to the intellectual property contained on the media.
I have a real problem with this, and I hope you do too. Artists should be paid for their compositions and performances, but customers should be able to use their licenses for whatever they want within the law.
Example 2: Sharing
If I leave my car unlocked in a bad neighborhood, does that make me a felon if my car gets stolen?
If I own a store, and someone shoplifts from me, does that make me the shoplifter?
Are the cable and satellite TV companies getting sued when someone commits Theft of Service?
Then why are the people hosting files on the Internet getting sued for having files available for download?
As we speak, the "Filesharers" are being served with court notices. These are people that possibly aren't doing anything wrong, but the RIAA is sending their lawyers to work, without any hard evidence of wrongdoing. I'm sure you understand the law far better than me, but I see this as a criminal court -vs- civil court loophole:
If you have evidence, take it to a judge and he'll sign the arrest warrant. If you don't have evidence, file a civil suit and bury them so far under paperwork that they will be ruined financially when they eventually file for bankruptcy.
Innocent people filing for bankruptcy after being sued by a corporation with hundreds of lawyers and hundreds of millions of dollars. That is an America I would rather not see happen.
1. Post something with the term RTFA in it (even better when TFA doesn't exist to R because the post was supposed to be FUNNY) 2. ??? 3. Get modded up as Informative.
I'd ask the moderators to pull their heads out of their asses, but the suction would probably kill them!
Have you tried using the office administration kit? It will allow you to make a scripted install that won't ask for CDs or any of that other annoying crap.
All of Microsoft's installers and patches these days are MSI packages, which you can use several available tools to make "transform" files that skip all the screens, EULAs, next presses, and CD check crap.
I believe the office administration kit is available for download from Microsoft's office website somewhere. I'll let a karma whore dig up the link...
"Imagine that, though: a computer that would glow different colors based on how much of its processing power was being used. When it turned red, you'd know that a crash was imminent."
Yeah, because EVERYONE knows that computer crashes are caused by all of it's processing power being used. Wait... why is my laptop turning re89p;oasdfgihhnjjw
"Now, if the other car had an A-bomb onboard, this might have a far-fetched possibility to happen."
Somehow I doubt that they would be using Tritium or Deuterium as their Hydrogen-of-choice for fuel cell operation. As they would NOT be using these neutron-rich isotopes (as the extra neutrons are what cause the atoms to stay closer to each other at high temperatures), you have no multistage nuclear detonation fears if someone happens to have an atomic bomb in their hatchback.
Personally, I'd be more worried about the guy with the atomic bomb in his hatchback than the idiot in an SUV that's about to ram into him with a load of hydrogen.
"I don't think Linus' comment that "they are smoking crack" really covered it"
Here's how I could see that party going down:
Partying SCO guy #1: Dude, slow down! I can't even believe you are still standing after washing down all those methamphetamines with that that Jack Daniels Darl McBride: Oh come on! I can handle my hard liquor... and my uppers... and the shrooms! Hey, is that a crack pipe over there? Partying SCO guy #2: No, seriously, you're either going to die or do something seriously stupid if you keep it up... Darl McBride: Naw! I'll be okay. Light me up!
***several moments later***
Darl McBride: Hey, I got an idea, let's sue IBM! We can make up some outrageous shit about them stealing UNIX code! Partying SCO guy #1: Yeah, we could get like... like... a hundred thousand dollars or something!!!11!
NetInfo is a type of directory service that originated from NeXTSTEP / OpenStep, and remains AS A PLUGIN for backwards compatibility purposes. Apple is now moving away from NetInfo, because there are standards out there that are worth using now.
Go ahead and crack open Directory Access and you will see quite the amazing things listed there:
AppleTalk (Legacy crap, still there for AppleShare Servers from the days of 'yore) BSD Configuration Files (you know, those human readable text files that you say don't exist) LDAPv2 / LDAPv3 (you know, those open standards that you say they don't use) NetInfo (for older Mac OS X Server 1.2 / Mac OS X Server 10.0 / 10.1) NIS (Oh, there's another standard that they don't use, according to you) Rendezvous (Oh, I guess they aren't using the ZeroConf standard either) SLP (Whoops, one more standard you say they don't have support for) SMB (Aww shucks! This is getting old, isn't it?)
Maybe you should actually look into some of this stuff before you read-and-regurgitate. All of these are available in the current shipping OS that has been on the market for 11 months now, and the marketing-speak coming from Apple sounds like we will see a true ADSI-interface for Active Directory in 10.3.
Gee, won't that burst your bubble when my PowerBook can join Active Directory, as well as all those other directory services out there.
How in the hell do you RENT someone database info?
I can see it now...
"Uhh... you didn't pay your rent on our contact database. Give it back!"
"Okay, here is the 'original' *mmpppffhhh* disk that you gave us, and we certainly *mmppffhhhghh* didn't make any copies or *mmpfffhhfmf* import it into any of our databases before turning on the Super Spam-O-Matic 9000(TM)"
However, Apple has never been one to do things half-assed. Every rule has exceptions, and we don't need to go into those here.
The attention to detail that those guys have is amazing. I would put money on the fact that iTunes for Windows will be able to open playlists from MusicMatch (as that is what ships with iPod for Windows), WinAmp playlists, RealJukebox playlists, and probably Windows Media playlists too.
I used to use WinAmp for *all* of my music needs, and this was after trying out Rio Audio Manager, MusicMatch, RealJukebox, Windows Media, et. al.
I don't even have it installed anymore because iTunes is so much easier to find what I want to listen to in it, even though it is on a completely different machine (laptop -vs- desktop x86 workstation).
If people download it, and actually see what it is they have downloaded, I don't think there will be a problem with them using it full time...... if it isn't some Adobe-style bloat-port.
If the Application Layer Gateway is working properly in the implementation of NAT on the router, multiple people playing a game over the same public IP is *not* an issue, because it is all transparent. You have to do nothing.
The router just needs to be smart enough to figure it out, that's all, and we got it working pretty damn good by the time we were finished.
The shame of it is that people are too busy being first-to-market, and not busy enough making sure stuff works; to say nothing about making sure it works RIGHT.
I used to be a QA Engineer on a residential gateway product, and I just *loved* testing the ALG. Paid to "test" Counter-Strike, Quake III, EverQuest, etc.
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Mr. Senator,
There is a phrase that has been a part of United States Government for the last 225+ years, and I'm sure you are familiar with it:
"Innocent until proven guilty"
There is a phrase that all of us should strive to live up to. Reversed, it resembles totalitarian regimes of the past, including Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. It is something that every American should strive to live up to in both their personal and professional lives.
Unfortunately, the United States legal system appears to be moving away from that ideal.
The RIAA is now sending subpoenas and notice of lawsuits to citizens throughout the United States, and these citizens will have to defend their innocence in a court of law, rather than the plaintiff backing up their accusations with incontrovertible evidence.
Let me give an example:
1. John Q. Wallet goes and Legally buys a CD from the local Fred Meyer / Best Buy / Circuit City, and takes it home.
2. John has a slow computer, but an MP3 player and wants to listen to his music under Fair Use Rights, upheld through case law in the courts. "Ripping" said music takes longer than downloading it off his high-speed internet. He downloads the music he has a legal license for.
3. John gets picked up on some type of scanner that the RIAA has on the Internet.
4. John gets served with a copyright infringement lawsuit, ending up paying countless dollars in legal fees to prove that he had the CD, and the fair use rights to the intellectual property contained on the media.
I have a real problem with this, and I hope you do too. Artists should be paid for their compositions and performances, but customers should be able to use their licenses for whatever they want within the law.
Example 2: Sharing
If I leave my car unlocked in a bad neighborhood, does that make me a felon if my car gets stolen?
If I own a store, and someone shoplifts from me, does that make me the shoplifter?
Are the cable and satellite TV companies getting sued when someone commits Theft of Service?
Then why are the people hosting files on the Internet getting sued for having files available for download?
As we speak, the "Filesharers" are being served with court notices. These are people that possibly aren't doing anything wrong, but the RIAA is sending their lawyers to work, without any hard evidence of wrongdoing. I'm sure you understand the law far better than me, but I see this as a criminal court -vs- civil court loophole:
If you have evidence, take it to a judge and he'll sign the arrest warrant. If you don't have evidence, file a civil suit and bury them so far under paperwork that they will be ruined financially when they eventually file for bankruptcy.
Innocent people filing for bankruptcy after being sued by a corporation with hundreds of lawyers and hundreds of millions of dollars. That is an America I would rather not see happen.
Funny, Acrobat 6 is a drag install on Mac OS X.
Maybe that's the 17 meg file he's copying!
What a dumbass.
Oh, that's the guy that both MSN used and Gateway had in a print ad.
I believe he was sitting at a PowerBook G4 in that ad...
Fred's guide to karma whoring:
1. Post something with the term RTFA in it (even better when TFA doesn't exist to R because the post was supposed to be FUNNY)
2. ???
3. Get modded up as Informative.
I'd ask the moderators to pull their heads out of their asses, but the suction would probably kill them!
Some of us are making phone calls from our horse-drawn buggies, you insensitive clod!
Yup... definetly a manager concerned about the minutes, rather than the details.
Details like it not being one box or even one rack that went down, but ALL RACKS, ALL WIRES, ALL ELECTRICITY, ALL WALLS, FLOORS, AND CELINGS.
Also too busy to bother with details like punctuation or a proper paragraph from the look of it...
I, for one, welcome our new Tornado-beating ISP overlords.
Have you tried using the office administration kit? It will allow you to make a scripted install that won't ask for CDs or any of that other annoying crap.
All of Microsoft's installers and patches these days are MSI packages, which you can use several available tools to make "transform" files that skip all the screens, EULAs, next presses, and CD check crap.
I believe the office administration kit is available for download from Microsoft's office website somewhere. I'll let a karma whore dig up the link...
... that the Department of Energy would use a system based on 2000 Itaniums?
Sheesh, that's 260000 watts for just the processors alone!
I'll bet that thing could be one HELL of a counter-strike server!
"Imagine that, though: a computer that would glow different colors based on how much of its processing power was being used. When it turned red, you'd know that a crash was imminent."
Yeah, because EVERYONE knows that computer crashes are caused by all of it's processing power being used. Wait... why is my laptop turning re89p;oasdfgihhnjjw
NO CARRIER
"Now, if the other car had an A-bomb onboard, this might have a far-fetched possibility to happen."
Somehow I doubt that they would be using Tritium or Deuterium as their Hydrogen-of-choice for fuel cell operation. As they would NOT be using these neutron-rich isotopes (as the extra neutrons are what cause the atoms to stay closer to each other at high temperatures), you have no multistage nuclear detonation fears if someone happens to have an atomic bomb in their hatchback.
Personally, I'd be more worried about the guy with the atomic bomb in his hatchback than the idiot in an SUV that's about to ram into him with a load of hydrogen.
"I don't think Linus' comment that "they are smoking crack" really covered it"
Here's how I could see that party going down:
Partying SCO guy #1: Dude, slow down! I can't even believe you are still standing after washing down all those methamphetamines with that that Jack Daniels
Darl McBride: Oh come on! I can handle my hard liquor... and my uppers... and the shrooms! Hey, is that a crack pipe over there?
Partying SCO guy #2: No, seriously, you're either going to die or do something seriously stupid if you keep it up...
Darl McBride: Naw! I'll be okay. Light me up!
***several moments later***
Darl McBride: Hey, I got an idea, let's sue IBM! We can make up some outrageous shit about them stealing UNIX code!
Partying SCO guy #1: Yeah, we could get like... like... a hundred thousand dollars or something!!!11!
***fade out***
Since when is Active Directory vaporware?
I could have sworn that was in a shipping product for the last three years.
Perhaps you meant crapware? That label fits.
Are you an idiot?
NetInfo is a type of directory service that originated from NeXTSTEP / OpenStep, and remains AS A PLUGIN for backwards compatibility purposes. Apple is now moving away from NetInfo, because there are standards out there that are worth using now.
Go ahead and crack open Directory Access and you will see quite the amazing things listed there:
AppleTalk (Legacy crap, still there for AppleShare Servers from the days of 'yore)
BSD Configuration Files (you know, those human readable text files that you say don't exist)
LDAPv2 / LDAPv3 (you know, those open standards that you say they don't use)
NetInfo (for older Mac OS X Server 1.2 / Mac OS X Server 10.0 / 10.1)
NIS (Oh, there's another standard that they don't use, according to you)
Rendezvous (Oh, I guess they aren't using the ZeroConf standard either)
SLP (Whoops, one more standard you say they don't have support for)
SMB (Aww shucks! This is getting old, isn't it?)
Maybe you should actually look into some of this stuff before you read-and-regurgitate. All of these are available in the current shipping OS that has been on the market for 11 months now, and the marketing-speak coming from Apple sounds like we will see a true ADSI-interface for Active Directory in 10.3.
Gee, won't that burst your bubble when my PowerBook can join Active Directory, as well as all those other directory services out there.
Funny, I thought my Saturday Night activities were part of the classic pump-and-dump.
Oh, no wait... they are the classic fsck and chuck! My mistake!
For the love of man and everything holy, USE A DAMN HREF and stop putting a space in root!
click
So does this come with a SecureLID(TM) Tinfoil Hat?
I might want to encrypt the contents of my brain too.
Why would I want BuyMusic.com to change this?
I think it's a FEATURE that I can't get onto their hamstrung piss-poor service with Safari!
How in the hell do you RENT someone database info?
I can see it now...
"Uhh... you didn't pay your rent on our contact database. Give it back!"
"Okay, here is the 'original' *mmpppffhhh* disk that you gave us, and we certainly *mmppffhhhghh* didn't make any copies or *mmpfffhhfmf* import it into any of our databases before turning on the Super Spam-O-Matic 9000(TM)"
"ok then."
"SUCKERS BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!"
You are correct on all accounts.
... if it isn't some Adobe-style bloat-port.
However, Apple has never been one to do things half-assed. Every rule has exceptions, and we don't need to go into those here.
The attention to detail that those guys have is amazing. I would put money on the fact that iTunes for Windows will be able to open playlists from MusicMatch (as that is what ships with iPod for Windows), WinAmp playlists, RealJukebox playlists, and probably Windows Media playlists too.
I used to use WinAmp for *all* of my music needs, and this was after trying out Rio Audio Manager, MusicMatch, RealJukebox, Windows Media, et. al.
I don't even have it installed anymore because iTunes is so much easier to find what I want to listen to in it, even though it is on a completely different machine (laptop -vs- desktop x86 workstation).
If people download it, and actually see what it is they have downloaded, I don't think there will be a problem with them using it full time...
If the Application Layer Gateway is working properly in the implementation of NAT on the router, multiple people playing a game over the same public IP is *not* an issue, because it is all transparent. You have to do nothing.
The router just needs to be smart enough to figure it out, that's all, and we got it working pretty damn good by the time we were finished.
The shame of it is that people are too busy being first-to-market, and not busy enough making sure stuff works; to say nothing about making sure it works RIGHT.
I used to be a QA Engineer on a residential gateway product, and I just *loved* testing the ALG. Paid to "test" Counter-Strike, Quake III, EverQuest, etc.
*sniff* what a job...
If this becomes policy where I work, I'll have to throw out all this IT experience and move to Marketing.
Naw, that's too evil. This policy cannot happen.
Well, you better get that still out of your bathtub then...
Damn... that fills in the second step on my business plan!
1. Distill hooch
2. Go blind (formerly ???)
3. Profit!!
Wait!
Did you just ask about fashion tips on Slashdot?
ARE YOU INSANE!?!?
It is quite fitting that a Slashdotter named "BandwidthHog" would post a story about something that ends up slashdotting their server.
I guess it's not just a clever name after all.