Well, the article itself says that "there have been at least two similar arrests and convictions in the United States." I'll have to look around for sources...
While I'd like to agree with you, I'm pretty sure there have been arrests on the grounds of wireless leeching. I won't pretend to know the outcome of those arrests, but we're clearly not as well off as you'd like to think...
I shall answer your question with a question: If you can't tell whether an access point is open for public use or open because the owner inadvertently (for one reason or another) didn't lock it down... why would you use it, knowing the possible repercussions?
But, unfortunately, while both headlines are true, the summary/tfa headlines "sell" more clicks. You'd think/. would avoid joining the ranks of the rest of the "Sensationalist Media," though.
Erm... it's not so hard to believe. As much as Linux may be about choice, if I were deploying Linux across an organization I'd standardize on a single distro. It only makes sense, from a support perspective.
One of the upcoming Firefox releases is supposed to support Python for XUL scripting (read: extensions). Obviously this doesn't give you document-embedded Python but it's theoretically only a few steps removed... it'll be interesting to see if they pursue that route.
"I feel that, if, instead, we extended a helping hand, educated people, moved production facilities and know-how there, helped develop local economies, rather than plundering and poisoning them, the world would be a better place."
But alas, how would one then make a towering profit? Welcome to capitalism.
Thing is, anything sounds simple boiled down into one sentence. Slashdot is a "tech news aggregator" but it's one of the most popular sites on the internet. Same goes for Digg. deviantART is just an "online art community" but it's got 25 million submissions and a couple million members. The list goes on. Like some others said above, ideas are worthless without an execution. And even then, the quality of the execution makes all the difference.
Please. Do you "correct" people why they say they're gay, too? Tell them that "gay" means "happy" not "homosexual?" I tend to cringe when people say "languages evolve, deal with it" but this ["piracy"] really is one of those cases...
"I tend to ignore those people, they bitch and morn about how I cheated but they could have modded their box just like mine."
Heh... I'd love to put people like this on a server with 10 other cheaters and then see how they feel about that same statement. I can't imagine he'd be having much fun when he can barely spawn before getting popped in the head, courtesy of an aimbot.
The MySpace player encodes at a pretty crappy quality. If it's a major label act whose music you're trying to get, there are a million other places you could get it (and the rest of the album it's on) at a much higher quality.
That leave indie artists... and if it's an indie act whose music you're tryin to get, why not buy their freakin' CD instead of trying to rip them off?
It may not be the problem, but it's still certainly one. I see people posting on forums all the time who want to make a MySpace clone or code an MMORPG but have... well, no coding experience. They claim to be "willing to learn" but when you start going on about starting small and learning the basics they get flustered and either tell you off or lose interest.
There's something with computers/softare... people don't see 1,000 lines of PHP and SQL queries, they see a couple hundred lines of HTML and think "Well, how hard could that be?" They don't see shader models and memory management, they see some cool explosins and thing "Screw 'Hello World,' I want to do that!"
I'd point you to section508.gov, but... it's inaccessible (i.e. "Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.section508.gov"). Granted, Section 508 only legally applies to government agencies, but I would imagine (IANAL, of course) that compliance by commercial websites would be sufficient in cases like this.
WAI's WCAG might be a good place to start if you're concerned about whether your site is accessible. I'm also pretty sure there are Section 508 and WCAG validators out there.
Get a second HDD. Internal or external. Add a "Scheduled Task" that will run "backup.bat" periodically. backup.bat needs one line for an xcopy:
xcopy C:\ D:\/d/e/h/o
The first run will take a while, since it's copying everything. Subsequent runs will only copy what's been modified since the last backup. It really doesn't get much easier than that, if you ask me.
That's kinda how my band does it. All our music is free to download and we give away "taster" CD's as promo, usually with 4 tracks on it. Even one or two new heads out at a show pretty much immediately covers the cost of the CD spindle... and most people wind up coming to at least a couple shows a year (who tend to bring friends along). Profit! On top of that, we continue to sell CD's via CD Baby even though it's freely available online. And I'm sure if we pushed iTunes/CDBaby a little harder than we are that we'd sell more CD's, but at this point ears > dollars.
Slashdot Mirror
"IMO a C-like syntax using nested {}s would've been better."
JSON?
Well, the article itself says that "there have been at least two similar arrests and convictions in the United States." I'll have to look around for sources...
While I'd like to agree with you, I'm pretty sure there have been arrests on the grounds of wireless leeching. I won't pretend to know the outcome of those arrests, but we're clearly not as well off as you'd like to think...
I shall answer your question with a question: If you can't tell whether an access point is open for public use or open because the owner inadvertently (for one reason or another) didn't lock it down ... why would you use it, knowing the possible repercussions?
But, unfortunately, while both headlines are true, the summary/tfa headlines "sell" more clicks. You'd think /. would avoid joining the ranks of the rest of the "Sensationalist Media," though.
Erm ... it's not so hard to believe. As much as Linux may be about choice, if I were deploying Linux across an organization I'd standardize on a single distro. It only makes sense, from a support perspective.
Also interesting is that the UNIX timestamp, in binary, also contains 13 1's:
C:\php5>php -r "echo decbin(strtotime('13 Oct 2006'));"
01000101001011110000111101000000
One of the upcoming Firefox releases is supposed to support Python for XUL scripting (read: extensions). Obviously this doesn't give you document-embedded Python but it's theoretically only a few steps removed... it'll be interesting to see if they pursue that route.
"I feel that, if, instead, we extended a helping hand, educated people, moved production facilities and know-how there, helped develop local economies, rather than plundering and poisoning them, the world would be a better place."
But alas, how would one then make a towering profit? Welcome to capitalism.
But ... in Soviet Russia, your children love you!
/so sorry
Thing is, anything sounds simple boiled down into one sentence. Slashdot is a "tech news aggregator" but it's one of the most popular sites on the internet. Same goes for Digg. deviantART is just an "online art community" but it's got 25 million submissions and a couple million members. The list goes on. Like some others said above, ideas are worthless without an execution. And even then, the quality of the execution makes all the difference.
Ah, sorry. The suggestive powers of comment moderation are hard to resist!
Please. Do you "correct" people why they say they're gay, too? Tell them that "gay" means "happy" not "homosexual?" I tend to cringe when people say "languages evolve, deal with it" but this ["piracy"] really is one of those cases...
"I tend to ignore those people, they bitch and morn about how I cheated but they could have modded their box just like mine."
... I'd love to put people like this on a server with 10 other cheaters and then see how they feel about that same statement. I can't imagine he'd be having much fun when he can barely spawn before getting popped in the head, courtesy of an aimbot.
Heh
The MySpace player encodes at a pretty crappy quality. If it's a major label act whose music you're trying to get, there are a million other places you could get it (and the rest of the album it's on) at a much higher quality.
... and if it's an indie act whose music you're tryin to get, why not buy their freakin' CD instead of trying to rip them off?
That leave indie artists
It may not be the problem, but it's still certainly one. I see people posting on forums all the time who want to make a MySpace clone or code an MMORPG but have ... well, no coding experience. They claim to be "willing to learn" but when you start going on about starting small and learning the basics they get flustered and either tell you off or lose interest.
... people don't see 1,000 lines of PHP and SQL queries, they see a couple hundred lines of HTML and think "Well, how hard could that be?" They don't see shader models and memory management, they see some cool explosins and thing "Screw 'Hello World,' I want to do that!"
There's something with computers/softare
"How do you define 'accessible'?"
... it's inaccessible (i.e. "Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.section508.gov"). Granted, Section 508 only legally applies to government agencies, but I would imagine (IANAL, of course) that compliance by commercial websites would be sufficient in cases like this.
I'd point you to section508.gov, but
WAI's WCAG might be a good place to start if you're concerned about whether your site is accessible. I'm also pretty sure there are Section 508 and WCAG validators out there.
"HTML really needs a sarcasm tag."
Perhaps <blink> could have a use after all!
Erm ... that's like asking if iTunes owns the music it distributes. Of course not.
Get a second HDD. Internal or external. Add a "Scheduled Task" that will run "backup.bat" periodically. backup.bat needs one line for an xcopy:
/d /e /h /o
xcopy C:\ D:\
The first run will take a while, since it's copying everything. Subsequent runs will only copy what's been modified since the last backup. It really doesn't get much easier than that, if you ask me.
"go complain to the King of the Moon.
... preoccupied.
He's a little
Unfortunately, by the time anything DRM'd becomes public domain, most will likely have forgotten what public domain is!
... 100 years past the author's death?
Seriously, what's copyright up to now
For whatever it's worth, I think the Windows Presentation Foundation in Vista is supposed to solve that problem.
Heh ... the site's actually been down for a couple days. Crappy webhost. Moving to a new one.
/. faux pas but we do have a myspace.
This is probably a
That's kinda how my band does it. All our music is free to download and we give away "taster" CD's as promo, usually with 4 tracks on it. Even one or two new heads out at a show pretty much immediately covers the cost of the CD spindle ... and most people wind up coming to at least a couple shows a year (who tend to bring friends along). Profit! On top of that, we continue to sell CD's via CD Baby even though it's freely available online. And I'm sure if we pushed iTunes/CDBaby a little harder than we are that we'd sell more CD's, but at this point ears > dollars.