This energizes me quite a lot, and the work day just goes by faster, and problems are much easier to tackle.
Now that the warmer weather is back and its light earlier in the morning I like to walk the dog before work. Even a simple two mile walk in the morning before work makes me feel better by the time I leave the house.
I'm sure better off than I was through the dreary winter months and I'm certainly better off than my miserable co-workers who spent their "wake-up" time in rush-hour traffic.
When, how, and under what circumstances is it ok for copyright owners to protect their content?
It's fine for them to protect their content but it's also fine for citizens of the United States to practice fair-use. There has to be a balance whether the music industry likes it or not.
Copyright owners are free to protect their content but don't waste taxpayer monies and private industry money tracking these "offenders" down and then prosecuting them when the music industries' protections don't work the way they intended.
Instead, criminal proceedings should be geared more toward prosecuting large-scale counterfeiting rings instead of going after "a young person who fills up his or her iPod."
See, but the music industry doesn't want to do any real investigative work. They want to make examples out of people that are just like everyone else. Everyday people who are swapping music for their portable media players are not going to feel scared of sympathetic towards large-scale operations. They are going to be scared of someone "just like them" that was prosecuted for doing exactly what they are.
"People still look at this as 'harmless, file sharing,' but the fact is that the effects are the same, or even actually worse, than a massive-scale organized crime piracy operation," Rechard said. "If you look at the number of files that are distributed and the number of music that is being offered without payment to the authors and injury inflicted to the copyright holders, at some point people need to start understanding what we are up against here."
That's because it is harmless and we have proven time and time again that your trumped up "loss" numbers are nothing more than spin and bullshit. At no point will be stop understanding that the music industry conglomorates are nothing but money grubbing, lying, pieces of shit that do nothing but steal from both sides of the equation for their own benefit.
For example I am setting up a nature webcam site which will be ipv6 only for exactly this reason.
Until the porn world goes IPv6 only there will be no major rush to upgrade. I really hope that your "nature webcam site" is really nude women running around in the forest or I just don't see it making a difference.
Perhaps they want to CTA in case something gets into the kernel that they really can't allow (i.e. something that depends on something that was patented by someone else or protected by a contract)?
people will realise that Linux is not necessarily hard to use.
If by "people" you mean the general non-computer-geek population, then I really don't think they care what OS the unit is running. Tivo is easy to use and runs on Linux. Archos media players are easy to use... The list continues.
Linux *can* be difficult to use, especially as a home OS. UIs that lay over the kernel and OS don't have to be.
What does this have to do with which sperm gets into the egg?
Nurses know how to choose a specific microscopic sperm by contracting their uterine muscles. They do this so that we can have more movies Naughty Nurses series!
Engineers know how to construct nets to catch all the sperm that make baby girls so that they can pass on their geekiness to another male generation!
Or is this all a clever trick on Google's part to build up more and more third parties dependent upon Google?
I doubt that Google intended on getting third parties dependent on GMaps. If they really wanted that to happen they would have released an open API rather than having to have people poke around in the code to figure out how it all worked.
Yeah, you can do some REALLY neat stuff with GMaps now (and even some of the things I suggested should be available when it first came out) but I just don't think that it was Google's main intention.
If anything, they just want to be a player in the same markets as Yahoo and MSN and not have to link to their competitor's mapping products.
This has been discussed before. Apple uses their x86 kernel as leverage against MSFT so that there is still Office for OS X.
The second that Apple moves into the market with OS X for x86, MSFT is going to pull Office and render OS X basically useless compared to Windows. Yeah, there are open alternatives that sorta work but in the real world people want to use what they are comfortable with. Unfortunately that's Office.
MSFT knows that if they pulled Office for OS X that Apple could easily release OS X for x86 and enter a new competitor into the OS market.
If you accept that it's super important to know exactly who's using the library's computers, then fingerprints are definitely better than barcodes.
How about they waste taxpayers money ($40k) on staffing people to watch the fucking computer area (put them all in one place) so that some perverted asshole doesn't surf porn and fondle himself in front of the computers? From what the article states that's what this is all about anyway.
Sounds like a better idea to me and a lot less privacy implications. Personally? No library needs to know what its patrons are doing online. If they are really worried, grep the squid proxy logs for questionable content and find the person using it. Then give them a hassle.
We don't need to be hassling taxpayers just because.
Officials promise to protect the confidentiality of the fingerprint records.
What does that mean exactly? Doesn't the "Patriot" Act allow for law enforcement officials to easily obtain library records during investigations? I know that the ALA has spoken against the "Patriot" Act in the past but will they actually stop the LEOs from taking this information?
The three-library system this week signed a $40,646 contract with a local company, U.S. Biometrics Corp., to install fingerprint scanners on 130 computers with Internet access or a time limit on usage.
Library officials say the added security is necessary to ensure people who are using the computers are who they say they are.
$313 a computer seems like an awful lot of money for this. I'm not sure what they are trying to accomplish other than wasting taxpayer dollars.
Once a patron's fingerprint has been recorded, accessing a computer will require only the touch of a finger.
"Right now we give you a library card with a bar code attached to it. This is just a bar code, but it's built in," West said.
So patrons used to scan their library card and they could use the computer? There is no difference now except a database of information tied to a fingerprint that can easily be looked into by employees, LEOs, and possible thieves.
West said the library is requiring a fingerprint to set up computer access, although patrons who object could ask a staff member to log them on to a computer.
Are they going to make this perfectly clear to all patrons with a large sign in blinking neon? I doubt it. Make sure to give the staff a hassle. We need to hassle businesses (public and private) more so that these privacy intrusions cease. We will continue heading down the slope due to "ease" if people continue to stand down.
I tried this myself by slimming down Windows 2000 Pro to the point where it would run beautifully on a Pentium 133.
Maybe if you were able to flash the BIOS to something that Win2k would accept. The P-133 I have doesn't have a flashable BIOS and Win2k wouldn't install.
Then, when the DVD was popped into a specially equipped DVD player, the viewer would be required to re-enter his or her password or fingerprint. The system would require consumers to buy new DVD players with RFID readers.
The market has already proven this won't work.
Gadh said he could not reveal specifically how the system would work, as it is still in the research stage. A prototype will be available by the end of the summer, he said, and at that point, it will be shopped around to movie studios and technology companies.
Thanks for giving this company free advertising to the media conglomorates Wired/Slashdot, the market appreciates it!
When something strinkingly familiar was posted a couple of days ago here, I said almost exactly what I am going to say here: How does this product enable me to enact fair-use?
Bill Gates predicting the demise of the ipod about a week ago?
Perhaps he was talking about the current iteration of the iPod(s)? The iPod, in its current state, is kinda boring. Yeah, they came out w/the photo iPod but it doesn't even do video (no, using the circle to click through the stills along w/the audio doesn't count:)). I have a feeling that video players (I have one now) will be the next thing. Will the iPod with its tiny screen and low storage be able to tackle that?
So yes, most of what Gates said is FUD *but* if soemone comes out w/something better I could see it dying a quick death.
The only reason for releasing the PS3 is to try and boost sales through increased press exposure and slightly prettier explosions.
I assume you mean this goes for any gaming system and/or game right? Halo/Doom3 is nothing more than a FPS with prettier explosions. The XBox2 is nothing more than a typical game system with more horsepower, right?
Overall, I'm impressed that Sony allowed for SD cards, CF cards, and Memory Sticks. They also went for DVD+/-R/W on the drive. Great move IMHO.
Bluetooth controllers can always been changed so the new design isn't much of an issue to me.
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This energizes me quite a lot, and the work day just goes by faster, and problems are much easier to tackle.
Now that the warmer weather is back and its light earlier in the morning I like to walk the dog before work. Even a simple two mile walk in the morning before work makes me feel better by the time I leave the house.
I'm sure better off than I was through the dreary winter months and I'm certainly better off than my miserable co-workers who spent their "wake-up" time in rush-hour traffic.
YMMV.
It's just that the propaganda is better this time around.
Music fileswappers aren't the ones with the money to fuel corruption. The music industry is.
When, how, and under what circumstances is it ok for copyright owners to protect their content?
It's fine for them to protect their content but it's also fine for citizens of the United States to practice fair-use. There has to be a balance whether the music industry likes it or not.
Copyright owners are free to protect their content but don't waste taxpayer monies and private industry money tracking these "offenders" down and then prosecuting them when the music industries' protections don't work the way they intended.
Instead, criminal proceedings should be geared more toward prosecuting large-scale counterfeiting rings instead of going after "a young person who fills up his or her iPod."
See, but the music industry doesn't want to do any real investigative work. They want to make examples out of people that are just like everyone else. Everyday people who are swapping music for their portable media players are not going to feel scared of sympathetic towards large-scale operations. They are going to be scared of someone "just like them" that was prosecuted for doing exactly what they are.
"People still look at this as 'harmless, file sharing,' but the fact is that the effects are the same, or even actually worse, than a massive-scale organized crime piracy operation," Rechard said. "If you look at the number of files that are distributed and the number of music that is being offered without payment to the authors and injury inflicted to the copyright holders, at some point people need to start understanding what we are up against here."
That's because it is harmless and we have proven time and time again that your trumped up "loss" numbers are nothing more than spin and bullshit. At no point will be stop understanding that the music industry conglomorates are nothing but money grubbing, lying, pieces of shit that do nothing but steal from both sides of the equation for their own benefit.
Actually it's small mammals running around somewhere in England.
Young, petite, teens?
For example I am setting up a nature webcam site which will be ipv6 only for exactly this reason.
Until the porn world goes IPv6 only there will be no major rush to upgrade. I really hope that your "nature webcam site" is really nude women running around in the forest or I just don't see it making a difference.
Perhaps they want to CTA in case something gets into the kernel that they really can't allow (i.e. something that depends on something that was patented by someone else or protected by a contract)?
people will realise that Linux is not necessarily hard to use.
If by "people" you mean the general non-computer-geek population, then I really don't think they care what OS the unit is running. Tivo is easy to use and runs on Linux. Archos media players are easy to use... The list continues.
Linux *can* be difficult to use, especially as a home OS. UIs that lay over the kernel and OS don't have to be.
Like connecting to the Internet? Oh wait...
You mean like crunching numbers and displaying the results on the screen? Oh wait...
Do you mean like making real time simulations? Oh wait...
My point is that game machines do everything that all the other machines do. They just do it graphically.
Not really, this one will be modded as funny. Oh wait.. you were being sarcastic.
Oh wow, that was the funniest comment I have ever read on Slashdot!
If this wasn't Slashdot you would be rated -1 Unstable Nerd.
What does this have to do with which sperm gets into the egg?
Nurses know how to choose a specific microscopic sperm by contracting their uterine muscles. They do this so that we can have more movies Naughty Nurses series!
Engineers know how to construct nets to catch all the sperm that make baby girls so that they can pass on their geekiness to another male generation!
Combine housing maps and crime maps to discover exactly where not to live in Chicago!
Then the thieves would start using it to determine where to steal great computer equipment from.
Or is this all a clever trick on Google's part to build up more and more third parties dependent upon Google?
I doubt that Google intended on getting third parties dependent on GMaps. If they really wanted that to happen they would have released an open API rather than having to have people poke around in the code to figure out how it all worked.
Yeah, you can do some REALLY neat stuff with GMaps now (and even some of the things I suggested should be available when it first came out) but I just don't think that it was Google's main intention.
If anything, they just want to be a player in the same markets as Yahoo and MSN and not have to link to their competitor's mapping products.
This has been discussed before. Apple uses their x86 kernel as leverage against MSFT so that there is still Office for OS X.
The second that Apple moves into the market with OS X for x86, MSFT is going to pull Office and render OS X basically useless compared to Windows. Yeah, there are open alternatives that sorta work but in the real world people want to use what they are comfortable with. Unfortunately that's Office.
MSFT knows that if they pulled Office for OS X that Apple could easily release OS X for x86 and enter a new competitor into the OS market.
NOTHING IS CHANGING except not having to carry a card!
That is exactly why it doesn't need to be done.
If you accept that it's super important to know exactly who's using the library's computers, then fingerprints are definitely better than barcodes.
How about they waste taxpayers money ($40k) on staffing people to watch the fucking computer area (put them all in one place) so that some perverted asshole doesn't surf porn and fondle himself in front of the computers? From what the article states that's what this is all about anyway.
Sounds like a better idea to me and a lot less privacy implications. Personally? No library needs to know what its patrons are doing online. If they are really worried, grep the squid proxy logs for questionable content and find the person using it. Then give them a hassle.
We don't need to be hassling taxpayers just because.
Officials promise to protect the confidentiality of the fingerprint records.
What does that mean exactly? Doesn't the "Patriot" Act allow for law enforcement officials to easily obtain library records during investigations? I know that the ALA has spoken against the "Patriot" Act in the past but will they actually stop the LEOs from taking this information?
The three-library system this week signed a $40,646 contract with a local company, U.S. Biometrics Corp., to install fingerprint scanners on 130 computers with Internet access or a time limit on usage.
Library officials say the added security is necessary to ensure people who are using the computers are who they say they are.
$313 a computer seems like an awful lot of money for this. I'm not sure what they are trying to accomplish other than wasting taxpayer dollars.
Once a patron's fingerprint has been recorded, accessing a computer will require only the touch of a finger.
"Right now we give you a library card with a bar code attached to it. This is just a bar code, but it's built in," West said.
So patrons used to scan their library card and they could use the computer? There is no difference now except a database of information tied to a fingerprint that can easily be looked into by employees, LEOs, and possible thieves.
West said the library is requiring a fingerprint to set up computer access, although patrons who object could ask a staff member to log them on to a computer.
Are they going to make this perfectly clear to all patrons with a large sign in blinking neon? I doubt it. Make sure to give the staff a hassle. We need to hassle businesses (public and private) more so that these privacy intrusions cease. We will continue heading down the slope due to "ease" if people continue to stand down.
I tried this myself by slimming down Windows 2000 Pro to the point where it would run beautifully on a Pentium 133.
Maybe if you were able to flash the BIOS to something that Win2k would accept. The P-133 I have doesn't have a flashable BIOS and Win2k wouldn't install.
Yeah. Asb eht nioj. It's all good :)
The BSA hopes to launch more education programs, policy initiatives and enforcement efforts in an attempt to lessen piracy.
So instead of "Yvan eht nioj" we will have "Yvan eht sab" so that children can rat out their Communist parents?
Bleh.
...since Negativland had never sold more than 15,000 copies of any release...
They are selling something. I'm just trying to backup my media, remove advertisements, and put it on portable media.
Then, when the DVD was popped into a specially equipped DVD player, the viewer would be required to re-enter his or her password or fingerprint. The system would require consumers to buy new DVD players with RFID readers.
The market has already proven this won't work.
Gadh said he could not reveal specifically how the system would work, as it is still in the research stage. A prototype will be available by the end of the summer, he said, and at that point, it will be shopped around to movie studios and technology companies.
Thanks for giving this company free advertising to the media conglomorates Wired/Slashdot, the market appreciates it!
When something strinkingly familiar was posted a couple of days ago here, I said almost exactly what I am going to say here: How does this product enable me to enact fair-use?
It doesn't.
Bill Gates predicting the demise of the ipod about a week ago?
:)). I have a feeling that video players (I have one now) will be the next thing. Will the iPod with its tiny screen and low storage be able to tackle that?
Perhaps he was talking about the current iteration of the iPod(s)? The iPod, in its current state, is kinda boring. Yeah, they came out w/the photo iPod but it doesn't even do video (no, using the circle to click through the stills along w/the audio doesn't count
So yes, most of what Gates said is FUD *but* if soemone comes out w/something better I could see it dying a quick death.
I won't hold my breath though.
The only reason for releasing the PS3 is to try and boost sales through increased press exposure and slightly prettier explosions.
I assume you mean this goes for any gaming system and/or game right? Halo/Doom3 is nothing more than a FPS with prettier explosions. The XBox2 is nothing more than a typical game system with more horsepower, right?
Overall, I'm impressed that Sony allowed for SD cards, CF cards, and Memory Sticks. They also went for DVD+/-R/W on the drive. Great move IMHO.
Bluetooth controllers can always been changed so the new design isn't much of an issue to me.