Yeah, "Won't someone please think of the people!" sounds wrong, considering "We the People" is the specific entity this law is attempting to butt-shaft.
DANGER DANGER WILL SLASHDOTTER! INEXPERT LEGAL OPINION FOLLOWS!
They disagreed to the GPL in court. Disagreeing takes back the rights to modify or distribute binaries or source Maybe. It does seem hypocritical to say "GPL IS INVALID... (except when we're using it)"
(they could still use the binaries for their own use, but they couldn't distribute ANY GPL apps or source). In principle. In potential fact, however, each copyright holder would have to step up and force the copyright violator (i.e., SCO) to cease-and-desist. Even when obviously in the wrong, it's rare for a commercial interest to walk away from "free money" (business based on improperly licensed IP) without some meaningful threat of force.
You must fight evil with another kind of evil*
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Imagine you own a peer-to-peer file-sharing application (for example, Kazaa) that is being used for copyright infringement en masse. People will do almost anything to get it, short of paying for it directly. So you get an adware distributor (say Claria, formerly Gator) to pay per installation of your application if you will bundle its adware.
Given that:
(MP|RI)AA hates P2P softare;
Claria is subsidizing the installation of P2P software;
Claria is profiting from the use of P2P software;
(MP|RI)AA habitually sues those responsible for the availability or use of P2P software:
by why does this feel vaguely like "Send $1 to the last ten people on this e-mail, add your e-mail address to the end of this e-mail, and forward to someone"?
Man, you must have wasted more hours saving the world from alien invasion than I did. The game truly does rock, and I still play it sometimes today. (On an older system; newer hardware makes a hash of the graphics, not to mention timing loops for animation.)
Yes, it is easy to get emotionally invested in a successful soldier or team, but you learn to suck it up when your desperate bid to rescue Rio De Janeiro turns into your first brutal lesson about Chrysalids. (Damn Chrysalids.) 100% team kill, almost every time. I could never play hardcore (refuse to reload from most recent save point) because of Chrysalids.
I wanted to point out the idiocy of your.sig to you. Lose and loose are homonyms, fishbulb. Nose and noose are not.
No, they're not. They're homophones, albeit only approximately. Other than that, they're simply words that often get misspelled for each other, and I'm not aware of any "homo" word predefined for that relationship.
And "fishbulb" appears to be a nonce word. Like "assclown". And unlike "troll".
The brains of Hosaka's best research people. Plague, he was whispering, my businessman, plague and fever and death....
Someone had reprogrammed the DNA synthesizer, he said. The thing was there for the overnight construction of just the right macromolecule. With its in-built computer and its custom software. Expensive, Sandii. But not as expensive as you turned out to be for Hosaka.
I hope you got a good price from Maas.
The diskette in my hand. Rain on the river. I knew, but I couldn't face it. I put the code for that meningial virus back into your purse and lay down beside you.
So Moenner died, along with other Hosaka researchers. Including Hiroshi. Chedanne suffered permanent brain damage. Hiroshi hadn't worried about contamination. The proteins he punched for were harmless. So the synthesizer hummed to itself all night long building a virus to the specifications of Maas Biolabs GmbH. Maas. Small, fast, ruthless -- All Edge.
Geez. It's both. Tell me great chefs don't at least intuitively understand the science. The greatest can work without a "canned scientific" knowledge of the science, but since science is just acute observation and theory-building, experienced chefs are scientists whether they acnowledge that or not.
Yes, the most important parts of the creative decision process are artistic, informed by experience and critically directed by intuition. But the science is always there, waiting to make your creative fancies and stunning insights take shape. Or fail to, because physical reality imposes a harsh penalty if you try to oppose its inexorable truths. Witness many failed souffles, burnt sauces, and other culinary disasters caused by trying something that just can't work.
By the way, haven't I seen the exact same arguments in another favorite geek arena?
s/COOKING/PROGRAMMING/g
Same-same, basically. No amount of creativity is going to overcome the fundamental science of your medium. The wise [cook|coder] learns how to push the science to the very edge of the envelope to accomodate brilliant new visions of [fppd|software].
I'm with you. I was wondering why this wasn't in "YRO". That's where we'd usually find the free (as in speech, not beer) flamefest and troll-con, right?
called "inane commercial DJ drowning out and talking over the inroduction to a song with verbal diarrhea"
OM${DIETY}, now you're making me miss AOR (or "Album-Oriented Radio", for all you infants in the audience). You know, the deej would say something inane and soothing about the next 22 minutes of music, and then shut up and spin an ENTIRE SIDE of an LP. (You know, "Long-Playing" album? Vinyl? Black disk-shaped thing with the litte hole in the middle? Sheesh, kids.)
Ah, taper heaven.
To hear the RIAA talk now, I can't imagine how those radio stations made money. The rampant theft of copyrighted album sides! Oh, the humanity!
So why are guerilla tactics used by an opposing force often decried as unfair or underhanded?"
"Fair" means I win, as quickly and with as little cost to me as absolutely possible.
Both sides (or all sides) believe this. Both sides believe that anything done by the other side which hampers this is therefore, by logical negation, "unfair".
I read that, and still thought "how far is too far?" I think this (tired) exercise of listing better ways to commute needs to always consider a bike. Especially when you can *put your bike* on most public transportation and shorten overall distances by marrying the two.
I live 25 road miles from my place of work. The choices I've made of those two locales are pretty much non-negotiable, since they fulfill their criteria and the downsides of the commute don't outweigh the upside of the choices. So, moving isn't in the cards.
When my city completes its trail system, I intend to bicycle between those two places in comparative safety, with only about 1 mile of public road exposure. (Don't let anyone tell you that surface streets are for bikes too. I guess if you value your biking above your life, particularly in my city, you might try it. For me, the risk is too high for more than a sprint down the road to get to the trailhead.)
The commute won't take much longer than fighting traffic now, either. I figure it'll be good exercise, cut about 2 miles off the commute distance (like it matters), save a buttload of expensive gas, and be good unto the earth. But only if I don't have to assume near-suicidal risks to do it.
Oh, yeah, of course, only in relatively sensible weather. Summer might be a challenge, but I'll try to stay hydrated. Winter is right out, since I have yet to see a bicycle which can handle the ice patches we always get on the paved trails after the first snow-and-melt cycle. Again, safety. (I'm not overly worried about exposure or frostbite; you can dress to avoid that. But ice and snow are killers.)
It seems that since they are including the headers in the hash spammers would still have to hash each one, unless they send all the spam to the same person.
Computational cost doesn't count, since this type of process is massively parallelizable. Not computing the hash for one outbound e-mail; that's pretty much still serial. Sending out hundreds (thousands) of e-mails at a time through zombied relaybots. The spamking doesn't care if the victim's computer wastes all its cycles computing signature hashes; the victim computer's user is probably too clueless to associate the crappy frame rate on HL2 with the virus services running in the background.
This doesn't address the other (meatier) parts of the proposal, since you can't fake the stored comparison key in the DNS system this easily, but at least the computational burden isn't going to be much of an issue.
Update: 05/19 13:34 GMT by T: Several comments to this thread indicate that the listed mailbox size limit has returned to the previous 1GB level, so this apparent change may be nothing more than the result of a misplaced decimal point.
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I wonder if AB's seen this. It's fascinating, to say the least.
What, ballast?
Aah, yes, HHTG reference, and I just used up my modpoints. Sorry. +1 Funny virtual mod for you!
Yeah, "Won't someone please think of the people!" sounds wrong, considering "We the People" is the specific entity this law is attempting to butt-shaft.
They disagreed to the GPL in court. Disagreeing takes back the rights to modify or distribute binaries or source
Maybe. It does seem hypocritical to say "GPL IS INVALID... (except when we're using it)"
(they could still use the binaries for their own use, but they couldn't distribute ANY GPL apps or source).
In principle. In potential fact, however, each copyright holder would have to step up and force the copyright violator (i.e., SCO) to cease-and-desist. Even when obviously in the wrong, it's rare for a commercial interest to walk away from "free money" (business based on improperly licensed IP) without some meaningful threat of force.
Given that:
- (MP|RI)AA hates P2P softare;
- Claria is subsidizing the installation of P2P software;
- Claria is profiting from the use of P2P software;
- (MP|RI)AA habitually sues those responsible for the availability or use of P2P software:
Obiously, (MP|RI)AA should be suing Claria. Hard.*The Chronicles of Riddick
by why does this feel vaguely like "Send $1 to the last ten people on this e-mail, add your e-mail address to the end of this e-mail, and forward to someone"?
"Goo gun". Better assonance, and more flowing. (Kinda like goo itself.)
Yes, it is easy to get emotionally invested in a successful soldier or team, but you learn to suck it up when your desperate bid to rescue Rio De Janeiro turns into your first brutal lesson about Chrysalids. (Damn Chrysalids.) 100% team kill, almost every time. I could never play hardcore (refuse to reload from most recent save point) because of Chrysalids.
No, they're not. They're homophones, albeit only approximately. Other than that, they're simply words that often get misspelled for each other, and I'm not aware of any "homo" word predefined for that relationship.
And "fishbulb" appears to be a nonce word. Like "assclown". And unlike "troll".
And you should hear Elmo go when you piss him off!
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It's called weapons research. Nothing stops the aging process like (9mm slug through skull | nuclear detonation| throat slash | etc.).
Yes, the most important parts of the creative decision process are artistic, informed by experience and critically directed by intuition. But the science is always there, waiting to make your creative fancies and stunning insights take shape. Or fail to, because physical reality imposes a harsh penalty if you try to oppose its inexorable truths. Witness many failed souffles, burnt sauces, and other culinary disasters caused by trying something that just can't work.
By the way, haven't I seen the exact same arguments in another favorite geek arena?
Same-same, basically. No amount of creativity is going to overcome the fundamental science of your medium. The wise [cook|coder] learns how to push the science to the very edge of the envelope to accomodate brilliant new visions of [fppd|software].Man, that crystallizes the whole thing right there. Nice, too, that it correlates with one of ESR's closing shots:
The excerpts make it clear that this book is going to be a steaming pile of crap, full of anti-factual distortions, scare-mongering, and FUD.
Because, of course, if a man is talking out of his ass, obviously the only thing you'll get from him is crap and a desperate need for air freshener.
I'm with you. I was wondering why this wasn't in "YRO". That's where we'd usually find the free (as in speech, not beer) flamefest and troll-con, right?
OM${DIETY}, now you're making me miss AOR (or "Album-Oriented Radio", for all you infants in the audience). You know, the deej would say something inane and soothing about the next 22 minutes of music, and then shut up and spin an ENTIRE SIDE of an LP. (You know, "Long-Playing" album? Vinyl? Black disk-shaped thing with the litte hole in the middle? Sheesh, kids.)
Ah, taper heaven.
To hear the RIAA talk now, I can't imagine how those radio stations made money. The rampant theft of copyrighted album sides! Oh, the humanity!
"Fair" means I win, as quickly and with as little cost to me as absolutely possible.
Both sides (or all sides) believe this. Both sides believe that anything done by the other side which hampers this is therefore, by logical negation, "unfair".
But most importantly, "Fair means I win. Period."
Now we know what really happened to Anakin Skywalker.
Dude, your tag is open.
I live 25 road miles from my place of work. The choices I've made of those two locales are pretty much non-negotiable, since they fulfill their criteria and the downsides of the commute don't outweigh the upside of the choices. So, moving isn't in the cards.
When my city completes its trail system, I intend to bicycle between those two places in comparative safety, with only about 1 mile of public road exposure. (Don't let anyone tell you that surface streets are for bikes too. I guess if you value your biking above your life, particularly in my city, you might try it. For me, the risk is too high for more than a sprint down the road to get to the trailhead.)
The commute won't take much longer than fighting traffic now, either. I figure it'll be good exercise, cut about 2 miles off the commute distance (like it matters), save a buttload of expensive gas, and be good unto the earth. But only if I don't have to assume near-suicidal risks to do it.
Oh, yeah, of course, only in relatively sensible weather. Summer might be a challenge, but I'll try to stay hydrated. Winter is right out, since I have yet to see a bicycle which can handle the ice patches we always get on the paved trails after the first snow-and-melt cycle. Again, safety. (I'm not overly worried about exposure or frostbite; you can dress to avoid that. But ice and snow are killers.)
And while we're at it, when do we start cashing those big checks from the Terrorist Dividend?
Computational cost doesn't count, since this type of process is massively parallelizable. Not computing the hash for one outbound e-mail; that's pretty much still serial. Sending out hundreds (thousands) of e-mails at a time through zombied relaybots. The spamking doesn't care if the victim's computer wastes all its cycles computing signature hashes; the victim computer's user is probably too clueless to associate the crappy frame rate on HL2 with the virus services running in the background.
This doesn't address the other (meatier) parts of the proposal, since you can't fake the stored comparison key in the DNS system this easily, but at least the computational burden isn't going to be much of an issue.
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Never mind.
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