The solution to the problem you talk about though has nothing to do with a tax cut.
Your point is that the politicians are greedy and wastefull. So your logic is to cut taxes to give them less money to waste. Unfortunately, I think this will work like sactions on Iraq. The people at the top of the government will still get whatever they want, and Joe Crackhead's parks/schools/kids will end up getting screwed. So all the rich stay rich and the poor get screwed. What else is new?
I think a tax cut is irrelivant to the problem. I think McCain's campaign finance reform will have a lot greater effect on getting dirtbags out of government and corporations out of government. Then, cut 1/3 of the goverment, all pork fat (sugar subsidies, corporate wellfare, etc.) then everyone, including the poor down trodden millionaires, can get a tax cut. Everyone is happy.
Huh?
All I get out of your statements is that the politicians should leave NASA alone and not use them to do favors for their constituents. That doesn't seem very damning to NASA.
Uh-oh, after a second reading, I think that maybe you are just a troll and I was suckered in again. Damn!
Because that would blow their cover. They don't give a shit about farmers, but they hold them up as a shield against those that say it is just for the rich.
Dictionary example of a political pawn.
I'm going to start trying peoples backdoors at night to see if they're unlocked. I guess if they're unlocked they want me to come in and rummage around.
This won't go anywhere except with a few kiddies who are immoral anyway.
As we know and predicted, Napster is just like any other company. Money whores.
Here is rule 1 of Business 101 for those that don't know.
"Make money anyway you can. This includes screwing anyone that inhibits this including your own customers."
I think it is going to make it hard for people to continue to support Naps court battle now as things like this come out.
The fight is still crucially important, even though it helps a common whore like Napster.
First off there are about 3 layers of courts to go through before it is legally dead. If Napster decides to stop fighting then they could be dead before that. This all depends on money, since that is Napster sole driving force.
An appeals court can say whatever it wants and that only makes it law as long as the loser gives up.
Secondly, the injunction has to be modified to meet the appeals court criteria. The criteria says that they have to shut down if they don't follow the model set by Metallica supplying a list of names, and Napster kicking them off, then the user saying "I object" and Napster putting them back on and Metallica deciding whether they want to sue 30,000 users.
I listed the three changes the courts demands on the injunction below. These are HUGE loopholes.
Number 2 is the difficult one. What effort do they have to go through to check that a work is copyrighted material. As I have said previously, I can make an MP3 of me doing my armpit fart rendition of "Little Brown Jug." Call it "Metcallica - Holier Than Thou.mp3" and put it on Napster. This is not copyright infringment, but who is responsible for finding that out? I think they can get around it, or users can create a naming scheme, or encryption.
Napster:
(1) receives reasonable knowledge of specific infringing files with copyrighted musical compositions and sound recordings;
(2) knows or should know that such files are available on the Napster system; and
(3) fails to act to prevent viral distribution of the works.
What I am curious to hear is the supreme courts exact definition of what fair use is. Instead of us going around and around, give a f*cking straight forward definition.
I work with someone with a similar opinion to yours and it seems the sides are like the abortion argument. The other side thinks the other is rediculous and never the twain shall meet. But here I go...
Although I understand what you are saying I completely disagree.
Yes, if someone kidnapped my daughter and all I had to do was give some spit to give her back, it all seems reasonable. But you're putting it in a context of a personal situation as compared to a societal, and one is different from the other. If you ask me if everone in the country should give a DNA sample to the government to solve a sticky case that pops up tomorrow, I would say no way in hell. Freedom has a price, and someone able to get away with murder sometimes is the price for us all not being followed around by a government policeman all day.
Let me ask you this. A better way of finding criminals is to put a non-removable tracking bracelet on every citizen, and the government records where everyone is at every moment of the day. That way when a body turns up, the just print out of list of everyone who was at that location since the murder.
Now the guy I work with would say, "I have nothing to hide, I don't care if everyone knows where I am all the time and what I am doing."
This is so insane to me I don't know where to begin, but I also can't make a good argument against it. It is as if he has no sense of personal freedom or self determination. If someone else can help me out, I would be glad to hear it.
My favorite part was when the courts put all of the source code out in writing as public record as part of the evidence.
I believe they sealed it later, but for several days they were doing the exact same thing they convicted 2600 of doing.
Maybe. My point wasn't that there were no women in the books. I remember there were several female characters, but they were minor, in most cases very minor.
I was saying this in reference to watching the film preview that this story is about. It seemed to show women in the story a lot more female presence than there were, and I was concerned about the Hollywoodification of the books by sticking pretty women in where they have nothing to do with the story.
My best example is Schindler's List. It was supposed to be a serious movie about a guy saving Jews from the Nazi's, yet they had to put in a beautiful girl in a wet nightgown scene. That had no purpose in the movie except to titilate. Did the Nazis have sex with some of the pretty concentration camp women? I am sure they did. Is the best way to represent this is to show a close up of water pooring over an erect nipple under a see through nighty? I find it insulting to the situation and my intelligence. "Look, a titty. Giggle, giggle."
If I want to see T & A I know where to find it, I'm don't want to see it in Schindlers List. Or LOTR for that matter.
If I were to cut down LOTR to short synopsis, no female characters would merit mention, yet they are prominent in the preview. I wanted to know if someone else was familiar with the script they used to know whether this was the case in or not.
Yes, thats my point, thank you. Sorry I offended the other poster by not remembering the damn names. It's been 20 years since I read the f*cking things. Wow, I'm old.
"Why, I was a fightin' Orcs in 19 and 82, when you was sucking your mama's teet, boy."
Not to complain about hot babes, but I don't recall any women having anything more than very minor parts in the books. You know, they meet a fairy princess in the woods for 10 pages.
My gripe is there seemed to be a few hot chicks walking around in that clip. Did they decide the books needed help and Frodo needs a love interest?
Does anyone have any idea how faithfull it is to the books? I defended the movie in a previous discussion saying that for times sake, they couldn't put every line in the book in the movie or it would be 34 hours long. However, if they start throwing a bunch of Hollywood shit in there, I'm going to be pissed. Maybe they go visit Castle Anthrax and give out good spankings.
I don't think you have seen good DivX. As the author above says, from a DVD it is excellent. Also you have to remember what horse power you have. DivX on a P400 is going to be choppy and blocky if set at high quality.
A lot of the DivX stuff I see on the web is mpeg or old avi's that someone has used DivX to crunch down further. It won't improve quality only maintain it.
Lastly, I think the effect on the movie ind. is huge. Lot's of people have bandwidth, and more are getting it everyday. Better compression, better quality, lots of bandwidth and in 3 years it is really going to be a drain, not just on campuses.
I never saw The Matrix at the theater. I downloaded it a few months ago, burned a CD, and have watched it on my laptop a couple of times. Better than TV quality, widescreen, excellent stereo. (Good movie too.)
I disagree. Freenet is as/more interesting as Gnutella, or Napster. It's the same thing with a couple of layers added, including ananimity(sp?). It would be incredibly popular the world over.
If you fixed the ease of use, OR speed, OR searching, you would be able to achieve that critical mass of content, but for some inexplicable reason, he continues to wallow in the murky pre-alpha useless stage that keeps people away in droves, and only offers talk about how great it is. Yes, it is a great idea, GET THE G*D D*MNED THING WORKING! I have no doubt that there is a lot of very hard work going on on the project, but like many engineer managed projects, its a f*cking perpetual motion machine without a start button, a window to see it work, or a handle for the average joe to use it.
No Sale.
He needs to fix one of these complaints, which would help the other problems, but doesn't. How long has freenet been going? Quite a while. The 10 year linux comparison is BS. Thats a f*cking OS not peer to peer file sharing program.
It is impossible to use. It's like dialysis. The only reason you would use it is if you desperatly needed it.
His response was, "Of course its easy to use. Just start posting all your problems on the newsgroup and within several hours of each post, you'll get a response. So all combined it will take you 2 days of fucking with it, just so you can do a search on a system that has no content."
I am 100% behind the idea of freenet. Hell, I am a java programmer and offered serveral times to help them. (Never got a response.) But there are some serious problems with their development scheme or managment there of, for this thing to be so unfinished after so long.
Because they are in it to make money, not create an epic for the ages. Very few people would pay $80 to watch a 32 hour movie. If you make it a made for tv event, not many more will watch it, (compared to a Stephen King or Daniel Steele) and the production qualities will equal those of Zena Princess Warrior.
Got to make tough choices. I don't like them either but I can understand.
Ok. What I see is that there is going to be an addition signal added to the digital tv signal that all digital video recorder producers agree to recognize and put into their recorders, so when that signal says "Record Never", they won't record.
I see nothing about scrambling anywhere except in the title of the Security Focus article. What everything else says is that a license to use the technology you need to make the recorders will not be granted to anyone who doesn't agree to put this extra "record never" crap in their machine. There is no DMCA element in there unless you take one of the official machines, open it up and fuck with it.
I'm saying someone will make a machine that does not use their license, and records. There is no descrambling or circumvention involved. All they are doing is making a receiver for signal sent on public frequencies.
This will all go round and round for several years, but the difference here compared to DVD's is that the studios own their material, they do not own the airwaves, the public does. If they put their material out in a public forum, it falls under all the laws that cover that forum, including fair use.
But see thats what I'm saying. What law says you can't tape broadcast or cable programs? Every law saws we can. DMCA comes into effect when you illegally copy something by circumventing the copy protection. Copying tv broadcast has been shown to be legal under fair use many times. They have zero chance of overturning that.
Explain the danger here to me. The industry has fought fair use forever and it never wins. Explain to me why some Korean electronics company isn't going to make a billion dollars producing a VCR that ignores the bit and tapes any and everything?
Agreements between the big whores is one thing, changing a solidly set law is another.
I have looked into this for the past 4 years including trips over there.
First, you can NOT go over there looking for a job. You must have a job already before going over there. They will not even give you the papers to fill out for a job permit if you are in the country. You must do it from here.
The job is not a problem, the work visa is. You have to find a company that is willing to go through the pain of the paper work to get you in. Without a company with a job as a sponser, you have no chance of getting the work visa. That company will have to state that they could not find anyone else in the EU that could not do this same job. For tech's this is a fairly easy statement to make. If you are a fry cook you are out of luck.
You can get around this however. The easiest, most expensive is to start your own small business there. I contacted lawyers in France and they said that it works fine, but it costs you about $5000 and takes about 6 months. France is full of paper shufflers and the process is long, but will go through. Some of that 5K, I think most of it, is like serious money when buying a house, to make sure you are not a dead beat. The money is still yours, but it must be used for purchases within the country for your business, i.e. office space, accountants, copy machine, etc.
You can get one as a consultant, but you need letters from several companies over there, guaranteeing that they are in need of your services and will hire your services.
Politics aside, I have found Java, as a language, to be the most organized, powerful, and secure language out there.
You can cry about Sun being so mean about their logo, or their license sucks, blah, blah, blah. Thats politics, not java.
Slow?...oh yeah, it's damn slow. But you have to remember what it's purpose is, multiplatform. If you are going to run it on a Linux box only, good God, write it in C.
You have to use the right tool for the right purpose.
I can only speak for myself, but I have worked for two non-profs, Wash U. and a home for mentally retarded adults. Needless to say Wash U. had exponentially larger netorks than 15, and the MR home had about 50 when I left.
I would guess non-prof or not has little to do with it. I think it is size that matters, (as always).
I saw this robot walking a year ago. They had a big press conference, it walked up and down stairs, sideways, etc.
Is there something new that I missed. My Japanese is a little rusty.
Discounting politcal, free, whatever, are there any technical/user interface reasons that I would ever want to use Netscape instead of Mozilla? Is there anything that Netscape provides (that I would want) that Mozilla doesn't have?
I am a very strong Mozilla supporter, but...
Does anyone know when or if the GD Mozilla product is going to work?
Is this product going to at least come close to IE when it is done?
It's a fucking browser, not quantum mechanics, get the GD thing done!
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The solution to the problem you talk about though has nothing to do with a tax cut.
Your point is that the politicians are greedy and wastefull. So your logic is to cut taxes to give them less money to waste. Unfortunately, I think this will work like sactions on Iraq. The people at the top of the government will still get whatever they want, and Joe Crackhead's parks/schools/kids will end up getting screwed. So all the rich stay rich and the poor get screwed. What else is new?
I think a tax cut is irrelivant to the problem. I think McCain's campaign finance reform will have a lot greater effect on getting dirtbags out of government and corporations out of government. Then, cut 1/3 of the goverment, all pork fat (sugar subsidies, corporate wellfare, etc.) then everyone, including the poor down trodden millionaires, can get a tax cut. Everyone is happy.
Huh?
All I get out of your statements is that the politicians should leave NASA alone and not use them to do favors for their constituents. That doesn't seem very damning to NASA.
Uh-oh, after a second reading, I think that maybe you are just a troll and I was suckered in again. Damn!
Because that would blow their cover. They don't give a shit about farmers, but they hold them up as a shield against those that say it is just for the rich.
Dictionary example of a political pawn.
I'm going to start trying peoples backdoors at night to see if they're unlocked. I guess if they're unlocked they want me to come in and rummage around.
This won't go anywhere except with a few kiddies who are immoral anyway.
As we know and predicted, Napster is just like any other company. Money whores.
Here is rule 1 of Business 101 for those that don't know.
"Make money anyway you can. This includes screwing anyone that inhibits this including your own customers."
I think it is going to make it hard for people to continue to support Naps court battle now as things like this come out.
The fight is still crucially important, even though it helps a common whore like Napster.
First off there are about 3 layers of courts to go through before it is legally dead. If Napster decides to stop fighting then they could be dead before that. This all depends on money, since that is Napster sole driving force.
An appeals court can say whatever it wants and that only makes it law as long as the loser gives up.
Secondly, the injunction has to be modified to meet the appeals court criteria. The criteria says that they have to shut down if they don't follow the model set by Metallica supplying a list of names, and Napster kicking them off, then the user saying "I object" and Napster putting them back on and Metallica deciding whether they want to sue 30,000 users.
I listed the three changes the courts demands on the injunction below. These are HUGE loopholes.
Number 2 is the difficult one. What effort do they have to go through to check that a work is copyrighted material. As I have said previously, I can make an MP3 of me doing my armpit fart rendition of "Little Brown Jug." Call it "Metcallica - Holier Than Thou.mp3" and put it on Napster. This is not copyright infringment, but who is responsible for finding that out? I think they can get around it, or users can create a naming scheme, or encryption.
Napster:
(1) receives reasonable knowledge of specific infringing files with copyrighted musical compositions and sound recordings;
(2) knows or should know that such files are available on the Napster system; and
(3) fails to act to prevent viral distribution of the works.
What I am curious to hear is the supreme courts exact definition of what fair use is. Instead of us going around and around, give a f*cking straight forward definition.
I work with someone with a similar opinion to yours and it seems the sides are like the abortion argument. The other side thinks the other is rediculous and never the twain shall meet. But here I go...
Although I understand what you are saying I completely disagree.
Yes, if someone kidnapped my daughter and all I had to do was give some spit to give her back, it all seems reasonable. But you're putting it in a context of a personal situation as compared to a societal, and one is different from the other. If you ask me if everone in the country should give a DNA sample to the government to solve a sticky case that pops up tomorrow, I would say no way in hell. Freedom has a price, and someone able to get away with murder sometimes is the price for us all not being followed around by a government policeman all day.
Let me ask you this. A better way of finding criminals is to put a non-removable tracking bracelet on every citizen, and the government records where everyone is at every moment of the day. That way when a body turns up, the just print out of list of everyone who was at that location since the murder.
Now the guy I work with would say, "I have nothing to hide, I don't care if everyone knows where I am all the time and what I am doing."
This is so insane to me I don't know where to begin, but I also can't make a good argument against it. It is as if he has no sense of personal freedom or self determination. If someone else can help me out, I would be glad to hear it.
My favorite part was when the courts put all of the source code out in writing as public record as part of the evidence.
I believe they sealed it later, but for several days they were doing the exact same thing they convicted 2600 of doing.
Maybe. My point wasn't that there were no women in the books. I remember there were several female characters, but they were minor, in most cases very minor.
I was saying this in reference to watching the film preview that this story is about. It seemed to show women in the story a lot more female presence than there were, and I was concerned about the Hollywoodification of the books by sticking pretty women in where they have nothing to do with the story.
My best example is Schindler's List. It was supposed to be a serious movie about a guy saving Jews from the Nazi's, yet they had to put in a beautiful girl in a wet nightgown scene. That had no purpose in the movie except to titilate. Did the Nazis have sex with some of the pretty concentration camp women? I am sure they did. Is the best way to represent this is to show a close up of water pooring over an erect nipple under a see through nighty? I find it insulting to the situation and my intelligence. "Look, a titty. Giggle, giggle."
If I want to see T & A I know where to find it, I'm don't want to see it in Schindlers List. Or LOTR for that matter.
If I were to cut down LOTR to short synopsis, no female characters would merit mention, yet they are prominent in the preview. I wanted to know if someone else was familiar with the script they used to know whether this was the case in or not.
Yes, thats my point, thank you. Sorry I offended the other poster by not remembering the damn names. It's been 20 years since I read the f*cking things. Wow, I'm old.
"Why, I was a fightin' Orcs in 19 and 82, when you was sucking your mama's teet, boy."
Not to complain about hot babes, but I don't recall any women having anything more than very minor parts in the books. You know, they meet a fairy princess in the woods for 10 pages.
My gripe is there seemed to be a few hot chicks walking around in that clip. Did they decide the books needed help and Frodo needs a love interest?
Does anyone have any idea how faithfull it is to the books? I defended the movie in a previous discussion saying that for times sake, they couldn't put every line in the book in the movie or it would be 34 hours long. However, if they start throwing a bunch of Hollywood shit in there, I'm going to be pissed. Maybe they go visit Castle Anthrax and give out good spankings.
I don't think you have seen good DivX. As the author above says, from a DVD it is excellent. Also you have to remember what horse power you have. DivX on a P400 is going to be choppy and blocky if set at high quality.
A lot of the DivX stuff I see on the web is mpeg or old avi's that someone has used DivX to crunch down further. It won't improve quality only maintain it.
Lastly, I think the effect on the movie ind. is huge. Lot's of people have bandwidth, and more are getting it everyday. Better compression, better quality, lots of bandwidth and in 3 years it is really going to be a drain, not just on campuses.
I never saw The Matrix at the theater. I downloaded it a few months ago, burned a CD, and have watched it on my laptop a couple of times. Better than TV quality, widescreen, excellent stereo. (Good movie too.)
I disagree. Freenet is as/more interesting as Gnutella, or Napster. It's the same thing with a couple of layers added, including ananimity(sp?). It would be incredibly popular the world over.
If you fixed the ease of use, OR speed, OR searching, you would be able to achieve that critical mass of content, but for some inexplicable reason, he continues to wallow in the murky pre-alpha useless stage that keeps people away in droves, and only offers talk about how great it is. Yes, it is a great idea, GET THE G*D D*MNED THING WORKING! I have no doubt that there is a lot of very hard work going on on the project, but like many engineer managed projects, its a f*cking perpetual motion machine without a start button, a window to see it work, or a handle for the average joe to use it.
No Sale.
He needs to fix one of these complaints, which would help the other problems, but doesn't. How long has freenet been going? Quite a while. The 10 year linux comparison is BS. Thats a f*cking OS not peer to peer file sharing program.
It is impossible to use. It's like dialysis. The only reason you would use it is if you desperatly needed it.
His response was, "Of course its easy to use. Just start posting all your problems on the newsgroup and within several hours of each post, you'll get a response. So all combined it will take you 2 days of fucking with it, just so you can do a search on a system that has no content."
I am 100% behind the idea of freenet. Hell, I am a java programmer and offered serveral times to help them. (Never got a response.) But there are some serious problems with their development scheme or managment there of, for this thing to be so unfinished after so long.
Because they are in it to make money, not create an epic for the ages. Very few people would pay $80 to watch a 32 hour movie. If you make it a made for tv event, not many more will watch it, (compared to a Stephen King or Daniel Steele) and the production qualities will equal those of Zena Princess Warrior.
Got to make tough choices. I don't like them either but I can understand.
Ok. What I see is that there is going to be an addition signal added to the digital tv signal that all digital video recorder producers agree to recognize and put into their recorders, so when that signal says "Record Never", they won't record.
I see nothing about scrambling anywhere except in the title of the Security Focus article. What everything else says is that a license to use the technology you need to make the recorders will not be granted to anyone who doesn't agree to put this extra "record never" crap in their machine. There is no DMCA element in there unless you take one of the official machines, open it up and fuck with it.
I'm saying someone will make a machine that does not use their license, and records. There is no descrambling or circumvention involved. All they are doing is making a receiver for signal sent on public frequencies.
This will all go round and round for several years, but the difference here compared to DVD's is that the studios own their material, they do not own the airwaves, the public does. If they put their material out in a public forum, it falls under all the laws that cover that forum, including fair use.
But see thats what I'm saying. What law says you can't tape broadcast or cable programs? Every law saws we can. DMCA comes into effect when you illegally copy something by circumventing the copy protection. Copying tv broadcast has been shown to be legal under fair use many times. They have zero chance of overturning that.
Explain the danger here to me. The industry has fought fair use forever and it never wins. Explain to me why some Korean electronics company isn't going to make a billion dollars producing a VCR that ignores the bit and tapes any and everything?
Agreements between the big whores is one thing, changing a solidly set law is another.
I have looked into this for the past 4 years including trips over there.
First, you can NOT go over there looking for a job. You must have a job already before going over there. They will not even give you the papers to fill out for a job permit if you are in the country. You must do it from here.
The job is not a problem, the work visa is. You have to find a company that is willing to go through the pain of the paper work to get you in. Without a company with a job as a sponser, you have no chance of getting the work visa. That company will have to state that they could not find anyone else in the EU that could not do this same job. For tech's this is a fairly easy statement to make. If you are a fry cook you are out of luck.
You can get around this however. The easiest, most expensive is to start your own small business there. I contacted lawyers in France and they said that it works fine, but it costs you about $5000 and takes about 6 months. France is full of paper shufflers and the process is long, but will go through. Some of that 5K, I think most of it, is like serious money when buying a house, to make sure you are not a dead beat. The money is still yours, but it must be used for purchases within the country for your business, i.e. office space, accountants, copy machine, etc.
You can get one as a consultant, but you need letters from several companies over there, guaranteeing that they are in need of your services and will hire your services.
Good luck
Politics aside, I have found Java, as a language, to be the most organized, powerful, and secure language out there.
You can cry about Sun being so mean about their logo, or their license sucks, blah, blah, blah. Thats politics, not java.
Slow?...oh yeah, it's damn slow. But you have to remember what it's purpose is, multiplatform. If you are going to run it on a Linux box only, good God, write it in C.
You have to use the right tool for the right purpose.
I can only speak for myself, but I have worked for two non-profs, Wash U. and a home for mentally retarded adults. Needless to say Wash U. had exponentially larger netorks than 15, and the MR home had about 50 when I left.
I would guess non-prof or not has little to do with it. I think it is size that matters, (as always).
I saw this robot walking a year ago. They had a big press conference, it walked up and down stairs, sideways, etc.
Is there something new that I missed. My Japanese is a little rusty.
Discounting politcal, free, whatever, are there any technical/user interface reasons that I would ever want to use Netscape instead of Mozilla? Is there anything that Netscape provides (that I would want) that Mozilla doesn't have?
I am a very strong Mozilla supporter, but...
Does anyone know when or if the GD Mozilla product is going to work?
Is this product going to at least come close to IE when it is done?
It's a fucking browser, not quantum mechanics, get the GD thing done!
Great news. I have RR right now and get about 3 right now. As soon as they get the 3Mbs going, I will buy.