DRM doesn't prevent file trading. All it takes is one person with a good sound card, a cd(drmed or not), and a little extra time on their hands to give any cd to the whole world on p2p. DRM only makes ripping slightly harder, preventing most normal people from doing what they want with music they paid for. So people who use p2p will have uncrippled versions of the songs people like you pay for. Right now you get a better version of your favorite song if you buy the cd than if you download it for free. DRM reverses that inequality. Just when you think the RIAA have finished digging their own grave, they go find a bigger shovel.
You honestly changed your vote for president in 3 hours? To who? More interesting than that is if it took you the, full 3 hours, or just the few seconds it took to read the accusation. 143 words got you to change you vote. Did you know anything about Howard Dean or did he have your vote, 100% from shear name recognition? And I'm sorry, but whoever you give your vote to, is also going to spam.
Let me explain this in government 101 language for you. Would you change your vote for president because the candidate spammed you? Of course not. Nobody would rationally vote for somebody they thought was inferior to their candidate because of a few spams. I hate spam too, and I am not advocating its use. I just made the observation that this would be a stupid way to use spam. If your going to spam, you might as well have it help your side.
Or am I just an aol kiddie [I LIKE ALL CAPS DON'T YOU?!?!?] with an iq of 79?
Net savvy or not, this is definately not the work of a Dean opponent. Increasing exposure to your opponent is just plain stupid, unless the spam is negative, which this one wasn't. Like it or not, spam is considered to be a cost effective way of advertising, and is likely to be used heavily by all sides during this and future campaigns.
I can respect that you dont think king of the hill is funny. Different people have different tastes in comedy, but understand that king of the hill is a quality show. I have never seen a tv show capture the look, feel, and soul of a community the way that king of the hill portrays alren (arlen is a psuedonym for garland, a dallas suburb). Anyone from the area will tell you that king of the hill is not a comedy, its a documentary.
Come on. You all will have a knee-jerk reaction to anything. With just a few paragraphs of fluff from an AP report to base your statements on, you freely second guess our legal system and judges.
Yeah. This is slashdot. You don't seem to have much of a problem defending the judgement based on the same few paragraphs of fluff.
I moved from Houston to Dallas a couple years ago and had the privelage of witnessing light rail reach my suberb. It did so by hugging the freeway and yet is very widely used. How can this be? Three words: park and ride. If your driving downtown from my part of town odds are you are taking the central expressway, along which the rail is set up. You have the option at several points along the way to ditch your car at a park-and-ride lot and take the rail downtown saving you much time and engine wear. Its convenient, people use it, and it is along the route of the highway. I have never driven downtown since the rail reached my area. Also watching the rail pass you at 60mph while you sit behind a the smoking exhaust of the car in front of you on the freeway is a better advertisement than any commercial.
Clinton was always getting bad press thanks to the Republican Party who viewed the President's sex life as not only a public matter, but also one which was more important than any other matter facing the nation. Considering how long their botched impeachment took, it only stands to reason that military actions would have to take place while the President was getting bad press. Should Clinton have waited until the Republicans had finished their investigation into the Presidential Penis to act as commander in cheif of the United States military?
As a frequent file trader who knows that the RIAA has records of my copyright enfringement (I was once banned from napster by "Dr. Dre") I don't think that I have anything to worry about. I don't host or download that much, especially when compared to other people. Since they will probably go after the big fish first that leaves me pretty far back in line for prosecution. By the time they get to me they will be bankrupt because they have sued all of their customers and won't have anyone to buy their crappy music.
On a philosophical note, if the only time you hear a song is when you download it from kazaa is it really piracy? In the strict sense of the word of course it is but think about it. If I hadn't downloaded the song I never would have heard of it so I wouldn't have bought the cd. My music isn't generally played on Clear Channel radio, which is all that is available in most markets, so I coudn't have heard it between dj prattle and metabolife commercials either so where is the harm?
Let's see who the dem's put up next time around. From what I see today, Bush is most certainly the lesser of the two evils we'll have to select from...
Unless the democrats nominate someone who lied to our nation and the world to sell a war that killed thousands of foreign nationals for the benefit of a few American companies (I'm looking at you Halliburton), then who the "lesser of two evils" is should be pretty obvious.
I don't think a list of phony e-mail adresses is going to put a dent in an industry that will send an e-mail to every possible adress on a popular domain in the hopes that a small fraction of those adresses will belong to real people.
This question has most definately come from someone with end-user only experience. Anyone who actually "makes the wires work" knows it isn't easy, and it's certainly not cheap. This is just the unchecked imagination of an idealistic DSL user fed up with paying for services.I>
Everything that we have today, at some point in its development didn't work. I agree that it's alot easier to come up with an idea than to implement it. JFK had a much easier time saying that we were going to put a man on the moon within 10 years than NASA had actually doing it, but if JFK had not pointed NASA in that direction in spite of its inability to put a man in orbit when he made the announcement, who knows if we ever would have gone.
There are two things that we can count on for the forseable future: 1. Computers will get faster. 2. Computers will get cheaper. At some point these two rules will result in the very real possibility of cheaply produced repeaters that could be placed everywhere.
To say that we can't do something because we can't do it right now isn't really saying anything at all. In my opinon, its not a question of if something similar to this will ever happen, but when.
Does anyone have an idea of why end users use the software they use in the face of all the reasons/reccomendatios not to?
I think it may have something to do with Outlook's integration with M$ Office, which makes there lives substantially easier. I'm not going to change my life because somebody might write a worm that attacks my computer. Would you take the bus from New York to San Francisco to make sure that your plane doesn't get hijacked?
Consider the number of utterly despicable lawsuits that are filed every day. Every one of those lawsuits represents a lawyer who is willing to take advantage of somebody else for his own and his client's financial gain. That MercExchange are assholes for making lawsuits their business plan goes without saying. That lawyers are assholes for screwing over society for their own financial gain has to be said.
I'm not familiar with the road you are talking about but I agree that Dallas' roads are much faster and more efficient thanks to road monitoring. There is, however, a difference between monitoring and surveillance and that is where I think the line should be drawn. I have no problem with cameras monitoring the flow of traffic. I have a problem with cameras monitoring the movements of my car.
I don't see government tracking my movements as the loss of a minor personal right. Even if it was only a minor right, it would still be troubling. We are loosing more "minor" rights every day. Eventually we are going to look around and realize that everything we do and say is monitored by the government. We will see that one at a time we have ceded all of the rights upon which this country was founded and realize that there is no way to get them back. License plate cameras are neither the first nor the last step of this process.
There is a difference between a man staring at video cameras to direct traffic and a machine recording the movements of every vehicle in the city. Unless the man is writing down every plate of every vehicle he sees than we are talking about two different things here.
Misrepresentation of your opponents side for the purpose of making yours appear better by comparison is not an argument.
However, most of you nerds are lacking in true creativity and critical thinking.
I thought creativity and critical thinking were what being a nerd was all about.
The idea that government -- or a majority -- knows what's best for an individual better than the individual themselves. This is a very dangerous mode of thinking.
It may be dangerous, but it is also necessary. This mode of thinking has led to the human rights abomination that is the war on drugs, but it has also led to cleaner air, better schools, better medical care, and safer streets.
I think 70mph is a joke of a speed limit, but if everybody just went as fast as they wanted our freeways would be so chaotic nobodoy would want to drive for fear of getting killed. Who do speed limits screw? Who do they benefit? The answer to both questions is EVERYBODY!
There are some problems that we are responsible for solving as individuals, but there are other problems that can only be solved if we work collectively as a group, through government. It is true that in many cases the government goes too far, but its role is clearly more than "to secure property rights."
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DRM doesn't prevent file trading. All it takes is one person with a good sound card, a cd(drmed or not), and a little extra time on their hands to give any cd to the whole world on p2p. DRM only makes ripping slightly harder, preventing most normal people from doing what they want with music they paid for. So people who use p2p will have uncrippled versions of the songs people like you pay for. Right now you get a better version of your favorite song if you buy the cd than if you download it for free. DRM reverses that inequality. Just when you think the RIAA have finished digging their own grave, they go find a bigger shovel.
Yeah, those kids would be much better off learning to use the apple IIe that most inner city schools have at their disposal.
You honestly changed your vote for president in 3 hours? To who? More interesting than that is if it took you the, full 3 hours, or just the few seconds it took to read the accusation. 143 words got you to change you vote. Did you know anything about Howard Dean or did he have your vote, 100% from shear name recognition? And I'm sorry, but whoever you give your vote to, is also going to spam.
Let me explain this in government 101 language for you. Would you change your vote for president because the candidate spammed you? Of course not. Nobody would rationally vote for somebody they thought was inferior to their candidate because of a few spams. I hate spam too, and I am not advocating its use. I just made the observation that this would be a stupid way to use spam. If your going to spam, you might as well have it help your side.
Or am I just an aol kiddie [I LIKE ALL CAPS DON'T YOU?!?!?] with an iq of 79?
Net savvy or not, this is definately not the work of a Dean opponent. Increasing exposure to your opponent is just plain stupid, unless the spam is negative, which this one wasn't. Like it or not, spam is considered to be a cost effective way of advertising, and is likely to be used heavily by all sides during this and future campaigns.
I can respect that you dont think king of the hill is funny. Different people have different tastes in comedy, but understand that king of the hill is a quality show. I have never seen a tv show capture the look, feel, and soul of a community the way that king of the hill portrays alren (arlen is a psuedonym for garland, a dallas suburb). Anyone from the area will tell you that king of the hill is not a comedy, its a documentary.
This is America. Shut your mouth and empty your bank account. All your fair use are belong to us.
Fair use only applies to the first 30 seconds of a song. Sorry, try again.
Come on. You all will have a knee-jerk reaction to anything. With just a few paragraphs of fluff from an AP report to base your statements on, you freely second guess our legal system and judges.
Yeah. This is slashdot. You don't seem to have much of a problem defending the judgement based on the same few paragraphs of fluff.
My guess is most viruses log keystrokes for passwords and credit card numbers. Virus writers got smart, not nice.
I moved from Houston to Dallas a couple years ago and had the privelage of witnessing light rail reach my suberb. It did so by hugging the freeway and yet is very widely used. How can this be? Three words: park and ride. If your driving downtown from my part of town odds are you are taking the central expressway, along which the rail is set up. You have the option at several points along the way to ditch your car at a park-and-ride lot and take the rail downtown saving you much time and engine wear. Its convenient, people use it, and it is along the route of the highway. I have never driven downtown since the rail reached my area. Also watching the rail pass you at 60mph while you sit behind a the smoking exhaust of the car in front of you on the freeway is a better advertisement than any commercial.
Clinton was always getting bad press thanks to the Republican Party who viewed the President's sex life as not only a public matter, but also one which was more important than any other matter facing the nation. Considering how long their botched impeachment took, it only stands to reason that military actions would have to take place while the President was getting bad press. Should Clinton have waited until the Republicans had finished their investigation into the Presidential Penis to act as commander in cheif of the United States military?
As a frequent file trader who knows that the RIAA has records of my copyright enfringement (I was once banned from napster by "Dr. Dre") I don't think that I have anything to worry about. I don't host or download that much, especially when compared to other people. Since they will probably go after the big fish first that leaves me pretty far back in line for prosecution. By the time they get to me they will be bankrupt because they have sued all of their customers and won't have anyone to buy their crappy music.
On a philosophical note, if the only time you hear a song is when you download it from kazaa is it really piracy? In the strict sense of the word of course it is but think about it. If I hadn't downloaded the song I never would have heard of it so I wouldn't have bought the cd. My music isn't generally played on Clear Channel radio, which is all that is available in most markets, so I coudn't have heard it between dj prattle and metabolife commercials either so where is the harm?
Let's see who the dem's put up next time around. From what I see today, Bush is most certainly the lesser of the two evils we'll have to select from...
Unless the democrats nominate someone who lied to our nation and the world to sell a war that killed thousands of foreign nationals for the benefit of a few American companies (I'm looking at you Halliburton), then who the "lesser of two evils" is should be pretty obvious.
I don't think a list of phony e-mail adresses is going to put a dent in an industry that will send an e-mail to every possible adress on a popular domain in the hopes that a small fraction of those adresses will belong to real people.
This question has most definately come from someone with end-user only experience. Anyone who actually "makes the wires work" knows it isn't easy, and it's certainly not cheap. This is just the unchecked imagination of an idealistic DSL user fed up with paying for services.I>
Everything that we have today, at some point in its development didn't work. I agree that it's alot easier to come up with an idea than to implement it. JFK had a much easier time saying that we were going to put a man on the moon within 10 years than NASA had actually doing it, but if JFK had not pointed NASA in that direction in spite of its inability to put a man in orbit when he made the announcement, who knows if we ever would have gone.
There are two things that we can count on for the forseable future:
1. Computers will get faster.
2. Computers will get cheaper.
At some point these two rules will result in the very real possibility of cheaply produced repeaters that could be placed everywhere.
To say that we can't do something because we can't do it right now isn't really saying anything at all. In my opinon, its not a question of if something similar to this will ever happen, but when.
Car crashes are common. I'm not going to walk 20 miles to work every morning because of the off chance I could be involved in one.
Bad example. Do you drive a car?
Does anyone have an idea of why end users use the software they use in the face of all the reasons/reccomendatios not to?
I think it may have something to do with Outlook's integration with M$ Office, which makes there lives substantially easier. I'm not going to change my life because somebody might write a worm that attacks my computer. Would you take the bus from New York to San Francisco to make sure that your plane doesn't get hijacked?
Behind every sleazy lawsuit is a sleazy lawyer.
Consider the number of utterly despicable lawsuits that are filed every day. Every one of those lawsuits represents a lawyer who is willing to take advantage of somebody else for his own and his client's financial gain. That MercExchange are assholes for making lawsuits their business plan goes without saying. That lawyers are assholes for screwing over society for their own financial gain has to be said.
people hate lawyers?
I'm not familiar with the road you are talking about but I agree that Dallas' roads are much faster and more efficient thanks to road monitoring. There is, however, a difference between monitoring and surveillance and that is where I think the line should be drawn. I have no problem with cameras monitoring the flow of traffic. I have a problem with cameras monitoring the movements of my car.
I don't see government tracking my movements as the loss of a minor personal right. Even if it was only a minor right, it would still be troubling. We are loosing more "minor" rights every day. Eventually we are going to look around and realize that everything we do and say is monitored by the government. We will see that one at a time we have ceded all of the rights upon which this country was founded and realize that there is no way to get them back. License plate cameras are neither the first nor the last step of this process.
There is a difference between a man staring at video cameras to direct traffic and a machine recording the movements of every vehicle in the city. Unless the man is writing down every plate of every vehicle he sees than we are talking about two different things here.
Misrepresentation of your opponents side for the purpose of making yours appear better by comparison is not an argument.
However, most of you nerds are lacking in true creativity and critical thinking.
I thought creativity and critical thinking were what being a nerd was all about.
The idea that government -- or a majority -- knows what's best for an individual better than the individual themselves. This is a very dangerous mode of thinking.
It may be dangerous, but it is also necessary. This mode of thinking has led to the human rights abomination that is the war on drugs, but it has also led to cleaner air, better schools, better medical care, and safer streets.
I think 70mph is a joke of a speed limit, but if everybody just went as fast as they wanted our freeways would be so chaotic nobodoy would want to drive for fear of getting killed. Who do speed limits screw? Who do they benefit? The answer to both questions is EVERYBODY!
There are some problems that we are responsible for solving as individuals, but there are other problems that can only be solved if we work collectively as a group, through government. It is true that in many cases the government goes too far, but its role is clearly more than "to secure property rights."