"we" would be the 95% of the world that uses IE as a browser. It's okay to be elitist about your browser usage, but not ignorant to what everybody else does.
I'm confused. Did a CEO related to the music industry actually think with his head instead of his lawyers? Somebody call the RIAA and tell them that one of their associates understands the concept of public relations. I'm sure they won't stand for this monkey business.
There is a problem with your "library as overlord" paranoia. The library system in America has been on the front of the battle for freedoms over the years. They've been against book burning, banned book lists, internet filters, the PATRIOT act, etc. Time and time again, they have stood up for our rights. I somehow doubt that they'll all sit around and plot how to get us all with evil RFIDs.
Raise you're hand if you're one of those people who clicked the link to see whether the server had been swamped yet.... come on, be honest... that's what i thought.
I would really like to see a MMORPG be designed with a pay controled government in place. Imagine if there are a few hundred variable rules in place that contrain things like taxes, lang usage, skill acquisition, hunting, etc. Now, you have a congress/parliment set up to control these variables through bills. Every 6 months of so, you can have an online election to elect the president and a congress whose size is based on population. Online worlds are already divided into districts, cities, servers, etc. Now you can have direct action in demorcracy.
I say instead of just forking over money (which would be a nice thing to do anyways), donate music to her. In the articles, she said she just really loved to listen to music. So I say give her the gift of whatever music we could spare. Send her old cd's your don't listen to. Send her old LPs. Have a Paypal account set up to buy her a music instrument of her choice so she can learn music (which is a wonderful life skill with so many benefits).
Hey, that 12 year old girl had it coming with her holier than thou "I like music" attitude. Good thing the RIAA stepped up and put an end to that rubish.
First, let me start off my describing my experience with Linux. In 1998, I installed a copy of Redhat on an old 486. I played around with it for a few weeks in my spare time and eventually gave the computer away to some charity. That's it. I've never touched it since. In my line of work, I have to use PCs (and Macs occasionally) because that's where my specific software is found. I have no particular opinion of Linux. In my experience I find that people will use whatever OS best suits them, and that's how life just works.
A few months ago, I started reading stoires about SCO suing IBM. I read on and found a lot of interesting points on both sides.
I see this as a real test of where the GPL and Open Source Software fit in to traditional copyright laws. But after reading you letter, I find that SCO just doesn't see the bigger picture.
In your letter, you refer to the Open Soruce community as though it was one large business. It's not. It's called a community for a reason. Simply because a few people choose to use the Open Source model for business purposes, does not mean that everybody does. It would be equivalent of me coming into your neighborhood and surmising that because you are a businessman at SCO, everybody in your neighborhood is the same.
Now, I recognize, you're not that concerned with the rest of the community. You purely want to address the business element. That's fine. But it is important to recognize that your actions cause ripples that affect other people. Going back to the analogy, if the mailman came in and said everybody who is a businessman at SCO must pay $100 to have their mail delivered, but used my scope to determine that everybody is like you, a lot of people would be hassled because of the scope of analysis.
You speak of your copyrights and it seems like you may or may not have a case. After reading numerous articles at this point, I see that nobody seems to be telling the whole truth. Some people admit your code is in the Linux Kernel while others dispute the original source. Some people say you put it out under a GPL project, so it's open for free use. You dispute this by saying you never agreed to the GPL in that way (This seems mutually exclusive in my opinion. By releasing under the GPL, the agreement is that the entie code is up for grabs. I don't see how you can agree that you released in under GPL, but the code isn't up for people to use.).
So you've taken action to sue IBM and SGI over these issues (instead of the actual individuals that may or may not have put the code in there themselves). This is where you start to lose my sympathy for your arguement, and agin we have to look at scope. If you presented your code segments and told the Linux Dev community (they are strikingly easy to find) about this, I'm sure the majority of them would look at the situation and find a remedy. They could either replace it with new code or work out a deal with you to keep the code. As a business, I think you would know the concept of crafting a good public image. But you chose to sue. This immediately puts people on the defensive, especially when you seem unwilling to put hard evidence out to the community that is being attacked.
So I'm left trying to figure this out in my head and the Linux side is winning the arguement. Sure, some of them have been a little malicious with DoS attacks. That is inappropriate behaviour. But the majority of people just want to resolve the issue and move on developing for the good of everyone (see, once again, the scope is general non-corporate). They don't want to deal with copyright litigation (which is mainly written by holders of copyrights, which are mainly businesses, so don't hold copyright law above us as some great, patriotic thing we should worship. Our copyright law is the laughing stock of most of the world). The Linux Dev Community seems to want peaceful resolution. My question to you is why you don't.
The RIAA today announced sudden gains in profit due to an undisclosed source of income. This comes on the heals of collecting names and photo id's of file traders during an amnesty period.
In completely unrelated news, identity theft claims in the US jumped sharply. Officials are baffled as to the sudden influx.
After years of working on MODs, I've come to realize that getting custom content for any game is a pain because of the domination of swaped download sites and the alternative of paying for downloads. So with some help from a few other MOD developers, we've been working on making a MOD P2P network application that we hope to launch by the end of the year (grain of salt, we're MOD developers, we love to delay shit). Originally we were just going to make it for Half Life since they have the biggest community, but there was enough desire for it to support other games that we scrapped our original structure and have decided to make it more scalable. This way we can add the capability for new games as they come out (see Gamespy Arcade for the model we're working off of). Right now our main problem is workng out how to keep this legal. Since a lot of game content is IP, we have to be careful not to allow those files to be shared. So once we find a lock-out scheme we like that doesn't make the program useless, we'll be a lot happier.
Hopefully this thing works well and will spur game developers to support the concept (winkwink). I fully anticipate games to ship with in-game P2P content delivery systems in the future. Integrating that with chatrooms and game lobbies is the next logical progression. Share some levels or models while you chat it up. Release new mods through P2P and stage a chat release party, all within the game architecture. Plus, the user base is already trained in the software.
I can just imagine it. Buy your ticket for 9 bucks and then sign a non-disclosure agreement before viewing. Anybody found violating said agreement will be forced to work craft services for J-Lo's next movie.
Most of the shredded document recovery things that exist work on the principle of long strips of shredded documents. You can get better ones that do cross cutting and essentially turn your shredded documents into confetti. Or hell, go to Home Depot and get an industrial grade garbage disponsal. Dump all your documents into one of those bad boys and nobody will ever reconstruct them.
Or you can do what my old workplace did, any shredded documents were thrown away in cycles so you never have all of a document in the trash. A little logic and common sense is all you need if you're worried about this.
Now I'm wondering if this hole exists in the windows build on the x-box. The hole is supposedly in every system since 95/98, and the X-box still has all the networking code in place. What a funny day it would be when a virus get's sent out to everybody on x-box live, nuking their x-box (unless you've modded to linux:D).
/me awaits hordes of e-mailss from Microsoft lawyers
You can't just run the patch. You ahve to patch and remove. The MS patch won't stop what is already on your computer, since it was designed to secure the security hole, not deal with the virus. Go to Symantec's site, they've got it step by step with pretty pictures.
Toss University of Kansas onto that batch. While the good folks at KU were good enough to patch the lab computers, they neglected to forward this to most departments. So as soon as one computer in the system was infected, it spread like wildfire. What made it worse was the fact that end users are reprimanded for setting up firewalls for themselves, so unless somebody was smart enough to run auto-update in the last month, they were screwed. I litterally listened in my office and heard over a dozen XP computers reboot within 3 minutes of each other. What I fun day I had running FixBlast on everyone's computer. But hey, at least KU has put up a warning (warning, not solution mind you) after the fact. That sure did a shitload of good.
from my testing, msblast doesn't have a pure restore ability. it burrows within XP's Auto Restore feature (thanks M$, great idea you had there). so untily ou disable Auto Restore, XP will keep reinstalling the virus for you./me hugs firewall and intelligence to patch computer when security experts call something "the worst windows exploit found to date"
They're cheaper because the episodes are half the length of most shows, and there are fewer of them in a season
Well compare the Groening DVDs to most of the ones from HBO. Most hourlong HBO seasons last far below the 20-24 episode average of most shows. Yet these sets that contian somtimes only 13 or 14 episodes get priced at 80 dollars or more. Or better yet, compare this to shows like Lexx, Farscape, Cowboy Beebop, Trigun (hell, most Anime), Monty Python, etc. that have been using the 2-3 episode per DVD model. To buy entire seasons of some of these shows costs upwards of 150-200 bucks. Even then, most of these DVDs lack commentary and extras.
Groening puts everything together. Tosses in tons of commentaries and extras (early 90s simpsons kiche is great to laugh at in retrospect). I'm sure they could count the production costs up and sell them at 60 or 70 a pop, but they choose to keep them low to make sure that everyone who wants them can get their hands on them without feeling ripped off.
I love spam protection programs. I've been using them for years, but have to switch every couple of months because of the friggen spammers. The people that make the spamming software don't just sit around cackling about how evil they are. They reverse engineer every anti-spam protection out there in an attempt to get around it. While this seems like a good idea (and I will be playing around with these two programs for a while), it's unfortunately only good up to the point when spammers figure a way around it.
I wish the government would somehow make the practice illegal, but I doubt they'll ever get anything to stick. The far better option at this point is to have a class action suit of server owners (who provide mail accounts) against developers of spamming software and spammers. I've gotten enough warnings from my university to know that bandwidth costs money. By sending millions of spams a year into any one e-mail server, that can account for a serious chunk of bandwidth used at significant cost to the provider. It won't stop spam all together, but it will bankrupt anybody that has been doing it.
It's going to be sad that I won't have Futurama on my Sunday nights any more (at least I won't have to suffer through King of the Hill afterwards). But thank god for Matt Groening and his DVD producion staff at Fox. The Simpsons and Futurama DVDs are some of he best released and reflective of how much Groening likes his fans.
If you look at other TV show DVD sets, Groening's collections can beat just about anyone out there. They are reasonabley priced (around 30-40 bucks at most stores) compared to some TV shows selling their sets at $80-100. The production quality is great, so you don't have to suffer through bad transfers (although there was an initial pressing problem with Simpsons S1 that was fixed). And probably the reason I love them the most is the fact that Groening and his boys sit down and do commentaries on all their episodes. They know that you can watch all the episodes and get a laugh out of them, but the thing that keeps you coming baack is hearing them shred their episodes to pieces. We've all seen Simpsons and Futurama on synidcation long enough to know a lot of the old episodes by heart, but the commentaries are pure genious. So it might be sad that the TV shows are leaving us, but props to Matt for a dedication to kick ass DVDs
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Time to /. a 500mb download. That'll teach em for givin' stuff away for free.
"we" would be the 95% of the world that uses IE as a browser. It's okay to be elitist about your browser usage, but not ignorant to what everybody else does.
I'm confused. Did a CEO related to the music industry actually think with his head instead of his lawyers? Somebody call the RIAA and tell them that one of their associates understands the concept of public relations. I'm sure they won't stand for this monkey business.
There is a problem with your "library as overlord" paranoia. The library system in America has been on the front of the battle for freedoms over the years. They've been against book burning, banned book lists, internet filters, the PATRIOT act, etc. Time and time again, they have stood up for our rights. I somehow doubt that they'll all sit around and plot how to get us all with evil RFIDs.
Raise you're hand if you're one of those people who clicked the link to see whether the server had been swamped yet.... come on, be honest... that's what i thought.
I would really like to see a MMORPG be designed with a pay controled government in place. Imagine if there are a few hundred variable rules in place that contrain things like taxes, lang usage, skill acquisition, hunting, etc. Now, you have a congress/parliment set up to control these variables through bills. Every 6 months of so, you can have an online election to elect the president and a congress whose size is based on population. Online worlds are already divided into districts, cities, servers, etc. Now you can have direct action in demorcracy.
Definition of irony: a company formed from the dissolution of a monopoly talking about protecting it's customer's rights.
All the more reason to send her money.
I say instead of just forking over money (which would be a nice thing to do anyways), donate music to her. In the articles, she said she just really loved to listen to music. So I say give her the gift of whatever music we could spare. Send her old cd's your don't listen to. Send her old LPs. Have a Paypal account set up to buy her a music instrument of her choice so she can learn music (which is a wonderful life skill with so many benefits).
You know... the thing where you say one thing but mean another for the purposes of wit or humor.
Hey, that 12 year old girl had it coming with her holier than thou "I like music" attitude. Good thing the RIAA stepped up and put an end to that rubish.
First, let me start off my describing my experience with Linux. In 1998, I installed a copy of Redhat on an old 486. I played around with it for a few weeks in my spare time and eventually gave the computer away to some charity. That's it. I've never touched it since. In my line of work, I have to use PCs (and Macs occasionally) because that's where my specific software is found. I have no particular opinion of Linux. In my experience I find that people will use whatever OS best suits them, and that's how life just works. A few months ago, I started reading stoires about SCO suing IBM. I read on and found a lot of interesting points on both sides. I see this as a real test of where the GPL and Open Source Software fit in to traditional copyright laws. But after reading you letter, I find that SCO just doesn't see the bigger picture. In your letter, you refer to the Open Soruce community as though it was one large business. It's not. It's called a community for a reason. Simply because a few people choose to use the Open Source model for business purposes, does not mean that everybody does. It would be equivalent of me coming into your neighborhood and surmising that because you are a businessman at SCO, everybody in your neighborhood is the same. Now, I recognize, you're not that concerned with the rest of the community. You purely want to address the business element. That's fine. But it is important to recognize that your actions cause ripples that affect other people. Going back to the analogy, if the mailman came in and said everybody who is a businessman at SCO must pay $100 to have their mail delivered, but used my scope to determine that everybody is like you, a lot of people would be hassled because of the scope of analysis. You speak of your copyrights and it seems like you may or may not have a case. After reading numerous articles at this point, I see that nobody seems to be telling the whole truth. Some people admit your code is in the Linux Kernel while others dispute the original source. Some people say you put it out under a GPL project, so it's open for free use. You dispute this by saying you never agreed to the GPL in that way (This seems mutually exclusive in my opinion. By releasing under the GPL, the agreement is that the entie code is up for grabs. I don't see how you can agree that you released in under GPL, but the code isn't up for people to use.). So you've taken action to sue IBM and SGI over these issues (instead of the actual individuals that may or may not have put the code in there themselves). This is where you start to lose my sympathy for your arguement, and agin we have to look at scope. If you presented your code segments and told the Linux Dev community (they are strikingly easy to find) about this, I'm sure the majority of them would look at the situation and find a remedy. They could either replace it with new code or work out a deal with you to keep the code. As a business, I think you would know the concept of crafting a good public image. But you chose to sue. This immediately puts people on the defensive, especially when you seem unwilling to put hard evidence out to the community that is being attacked. So I'm left trying to figure this out in my head and the Linux side is winning the arguement. Sure, some of them have been a little malicious with DoS attacks. That is inappropriate behaviour. But the majority of people just want to resolve the issue and move on developing for the good of everyone (see, once again, the scope is general non-corporate). They don't want to deal with copyright litigation (which is mainly written by holders of copyrights, which are mainly businesses, so don't hold copyright law above us as some great, patriotic thing we should worship. Our copyright law is the laughing stock of most of the world). The Linux Dev Community seems to want peaceful resolution. My question to you is why you don't.
Chief Wiggum: See ya in court, Simpson. Oh, and bring that evidence with ya; otherwise, I got no case and you'll go scot-free.
The RIAA today announced sudden gains in profit due to an undisclosed source of income. This comes on the heals of collecting names and photo id's of file traders during an amnesty period.
In completely unrelated news, identity theft claims in the US jumped sharply. Officials are baffled as to the sudden influx.
Great, now I'm going to have to ignore a few thousand more blogs about how teenagers hate their parents and shut-ins hate society.
After years of working on MODs, I've come to realize that getting custom content for any game is a pain because of the domination of swaped download sites and the alternative of paying for downloads. So with some help from a few other MOD developers, we've been working on making a MOD P2P network application that we hope to launch by the end of the year (grain of salt, we're MOD developers, we love to delay shit). Originally we were just going to make it for Half Life since they have the biggest community, but there was enough desire for it to support other games that we scrapped our original structure and have decided to make it more scalable. This way we can add the capability for new games as they come out (see Gamespy Arcade for the model we're working off of). Right now our main problem is workng out how to keep this legal. Since a lot of game content is IP, we have to be careful not to allow those files to be shared. So once we find a lock-out scheme we like that doesn't make the program useless, we'll be a lot happier.
Hopefully this thing works well and will spur game developers to support the concept (winkwink). I fully anticipate games to ship with in-game P2P content delivery systems in the future. Integrating that with chatrooms and game lobbies is the next logical progression. Share some levels or models while you chat it up. Release new mods through P2P and stage a chat release party, all within the game architecture. Plus, the user base is already trained in the software.
I can just imagine it. Buy your ticket for 9 bucks and then sign a non-disclosure agreement before viewing. Anybody found violating said agreement will be forced to work craft services for J-Lo's next movie.
Most of the shredded document recovery things that exist work on the principle of long strips of shredded documents. You can get better ones that do cross cutting and essentially turn your shredded documents into confetti. Or hell, go to Home Depot and get an industrial grade garbage disponsal. Dump all your documents into one of those bad boys and nobody will ever reconstruct them.
Or you can do what my old workplace did, any shredded documents were thrown away in cycles so you never have all of a document in the trash. A little logic and common sense is all you need if you're worried about this.
Now I'm wondering if this hole exists in the windows build on the x-box. The hole is supposedly in every system since 95/98, and the X-box still has all the networking code in place. What a funny day it would be when a virus get's sent out to everybody on x-box live, nuking their x-box (unless you've modded to linux :D).
/me awaits hordes of e-mailss from Microsoft lawyers
You can't just run the patch. You ahve to patch and remove. The MS patch won't stop what is already on your computer, since it was designed to secure the security hole, not deal with the virus. Go to Symantec's site, they've got it step by step with pretty pictures.
Toss University of Kansas onto that batch. While the good folks at KU were good enough to patch the lab computers, they neglected to forward this to most departments. So as soon as one computer in the system was infected, it spread like wildfire. What made it worse was the fact that end users are reprimanded for setting up firewalls for themselves, so unless somebody was smart enough to run auto-update in the last month, they were screwed. I litterally listened in my office and heard over a dozen XP computers reboot within 3 minutes of each other. What I fun day I had running FixBlast on everyone's computer. But hey, at least KU has put up a warning (warning, not solution mind you) after the fact. That sure did a shitload of good.
from my testing, msblast doesn't have a pure restore ability. it burrows within XP's Auto Restore feature (thanks M$, great idea you had there). so untily ou disable Auto Restore, XP will keep reinstalling the virus for you. /me hugs firewall and intelligence to patch computer when security experts call something "the worst windows exploit found to date"
They're cheaper because the episodes are half the length of most shows, and there are fewer of them in a season
Well compare the Groening DVDs to most of the ones from HBO. Most hourlong HBO seasons last far below the 20-24 episode average of most shows. Yet these sets that contian somtimes only 13 or 14 episodes get priced at 80 dollars or more. Or better yet, compare this to shows like Lexx, Farscape, Cowboy Beebop, Trigun (hell, most Anime), Monty Python, etc. that have been using the 2-3 episode per DVD model. To buy entire seasons of some of these shows costs upwards of 150-200 bucks. Even then, most of these DVDs lack commentary and extras.
Groening puts everything together. Tosses in tons of commentaries and extras (early 90s simpsons kiche is great to laugh at in retrospect). I'm sure they could count the production costs up and sell them at 60 or 70 a pop, but they choose to keep them low to make sure that everyone who wants them can get their hands on them without feeling ripped off.
I love spam protection programs. I've been using them for years, but have to switch every couple of months because of the friggen spammers. The people that make the spamming software don't just sit around cackling about how evil they are. They reverse engineer every anti-spam protection out there in an attempt to get around it. While this seems like a good idea (and I will be playing around with these two programs for a while), it's unfortunately only good up to the point when spammers figure a way around it.
I wish the government would somehow make the practice illegal, but I doubt they'll ever get anything to stick. The far better option at this point is to have a class action suit of server owners (who provide mail accounts) against developers of spamming software and spammers. I've gotten enough warnings from my university to know that bandwidth costs money. By sending millions of spams a year into any one e-mail server, that can account for a serious chunk of bandwidth used at significant cost to the provider. It won't stop spam all together, but it will bankrupt anybody that has been doing it.
It's going to be sad that I won't have Futurama on my Sunday nights any more (at least I won't have to suffer through King of the Hill afterwards). But thank god for Matt Groening and his DVD producion staff at Fox. The Simpsons and Futurama DVDs are some of he best released and reflective of how much Groening likes his fans.
If you look at other TV show DVD sets, Groening's collections can beat just about anyone out there. They are reasonabley priced (around 30-40 bucks at most stores) compared to some TV shows selling their sets at $80-100. The production quality is great, so you don't have to suffer through bad transfers (although there was an initial pressing problem with Simpsons S1 that was fixed). And probably the reason I love them the most is the fact that Groening and his boys sit down and do commentaries on all their episodes. They know that you can watch all the episodes and get a laugh out of them, but the thing that keeps you coming baack is hearing them shred their episodes to pieces. We've all seen Simpsons and Futurama on synidcation long enough to know a lot of the old episodes by heart, but the commentaries are pure genious. So it might be sad that the TV shows are leaving us, but props to Matt for a dedication to kick ass DVDs
why the hell would flames cast shadows?