>I'd say about 90% of people's "moral dilemmas" are really nothing more than ways of gauging the relative acceptability of various courses of action within their peer groups, and trying to figure out what's going to score them the most points (or damage them the least).
A lot of people believe morality is defined collectively (Democracy?). So a popularity contest is, by definition, the correct answer to moral questions.
I believe they actually want them to be cracked. Here's my reasoning: Once they have vista and AACS in place they can revoke the ability to play a DVD on a per title basis. Then when a "nasty pirate" cracks the DVD code they can revoke the code for all copies of that DVD. Now all copies of that DVD will not play, or will only play at poor quality (correct me if I misunderstood this part).
The revocation for their protection, to prevent piracy, of course! All the legitimate users are now just the owners of an expensive coaster instead of a movie. Hey, they might even offer an exchange program, for a discounted fee of course.;) It completely destroys the ability for legitimate users to own DVDs. Everyone will be forced to rent DVD's instead of owning them, because of the "rampant piracy". And as a side effect, their sales go up because you pay every time you watch a movie, not just once.
>If all the wireless card manufacturers got together and agreed on a interoperable adapter interface to their cards
This isn't a very good example. It's why device drivers, plugins, sdk's, application layers, directx, x windows, the pci bus, etc. were developed. Abstracting the hardware has already been done. The problem is manufacturers won't release information for linux programmers to write drivers.
I must agree Microsoft doesn't want others to replace the software that makes up their livelihood. It would be stupid for them to do so.
Linux hasn't failed at all. It does servers quite well and has a quite substantial install base there. It's not a universal solution though. If you try to make it do things it's not suited for then you get a poor solution. The expectation that it will replace everything else is unrealistic.
Puppetman, did you write this or just cut and paste badly?
>"Google is looking to create a bandwidth shortage" >"The shortage will only occur if the average bandwidth consumption by individual consumers skyrockets"
If customers usage jumps Google isn't 'creating' a shortage, the customers are. How is it 'evil' for them to offer a service people voluntarily want to participate in without coercion?
If you're going to try and create controversy out of thin air you need better material.
Your friend should recommend they use virtual machine technology, which will allow them to test on virtual copies of win 98 instead of real ones. It's much more secure and will dramatically cut their physical hardware costs. He should then get his resume ready, and perhaps be ready to change careers completely, because said company might sue him personally for disclosing this breach and he will certainly end up fired. If he does the virtual machine thing and says nothing until he can manage his termination well he'll have done the right thing and looked out for himself too. He might even go so far as to stage a fake web site break in to divert the storm away from himself. No, I'm NOT kidding.
If I recall correctly there was an article many months ago in a major magazine. I don't recall if it was Discover or Scientific American. They go into more detail about the research they did do and this piece is a very poor recap of an old article.
and they don't care. The phone company is the same way. Ever since deregulation they've hired people that could care less about doing their job well. The attitude comes from the top down. Your comments seem accurate enough but for me they don't address the root cause.
* If I want to develop software to sell economics tells me to develop for the platform with the largest number of usres. * Windows has the largest user base * 'Linux' doesn't count as a single platform since there are so many incompatible distros.
I agree with you, but think this is a good thing. This is the predictable result of legislation passed for emotional and political reasons. After it bites people in the butt enough times maybe they'll figure out "that dog don't hunt" and repeal it. It's "pain therapy" for all the idiots.
I'd rather not have objects of any kind. The power of the command line is that you can take any output and process it using any of the tools. Objects will just make tools not compatible with data. It's just what happened when they 'objectized' the clipboard in windows. Now I have programs that can't cut/paste.
>>If the media companies force all of us to accept DRM by making it >> illegal not to have it then we don't have the choice not to accept >> DRM.
>Yes, you do. Your choice is to not buy stuff that "the media companies" >sell.
If they make DRM mandatory I can stop buying movies? Hey that's a great option! I don't really need to waste my time on such frivolity anyway.
I don't pay for anything with DRM in it now. It will have exactly zero effect. They'll continue to use their money to buy... uh uh "sway" lawmakers and use their lawyers to bully everyone else. They'll remove any choices I might have had. Sounding a warning is "whining"?
Since you seem to have such massively simple solutions to all the problems of the world maybe you can solve all the middle east's little problems next?
If the media companies force all of us to accept DRM by making it illegal not to have it then we don't have the choice not to accept DRM. They're attempting that now through various methods. Take a look at google and search for "analog hole". They've already passed a law making it illegal for you to remove it by reverse engineering.
Once they've done that they will certainly do what they please and you'll have no say in the matter. Tivo changed the rules after people bought the package. At the urging of the content provider they changed the code so it would automatically delete that recorded content after a certain time. They breached the contract you entered into with them. You could sue them but it's not worth the effort involved. Sony added rootkits to their CD's.
Soon you won't have the choice you claim we've always got.
Unfortunately that's exactly what drm does, takes control from you and gives it to someone else. Someone who does not care about you and is willing to do whatever they like to separate you from your money.
If it does deduplication at the file level it might achieve some good reductions in some offices. Only storing one copy of the spreadsheet that's copied 800 times across the entire network by 800 users would save a lot of space.
No. Destroying the internet can have very real negative financial impact for a lot of people.
Aren't there supposed to be new features in the routers to disconnect distributed denial of service attacks? The routers will just disconnect the pentagon subnet or limit their packet rate until it's not even noticable.
I wonder how much KBR will get for the contract to implement this;)
Still have this issue in all the other distros I tried. Maybe they don't have it, or it doesn't work.
Pop in your DVD. Run the video player of choice. Hit the eject button on the dvd player. I know why it doesn't work, but it seems a reasonable action that should be supported gracefully.
If your dvd player crashes you have to umount the disk. To be fair windoze is really awful about CD's with bad sectors too.
>I disagree strongly with the 5 sigma estimate in the test case they describe.
Why did you disagree?
Has anyone looked at the theory just posted on the news sites that time doesn't proceed at the same rate everywhere? The authors claim it explains away the need for dark matter/energy. I was curious how this meshes with string theory.
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>I'd say about 90% of people's "moral dilemmas" are really nothing more than ways of gauging the relative acceptability of various courses of action within their peer groups, and trying to figure out what's going to score them the most points (or damage them the least).
A lot of people believe morality is defined collectively (Democracy?). So a popularity contest
is, by definition, the correct answer to moral questions.
I believe they actually want them to be cracked. Here's my reasoning:
;) It completely destroys the ability for legitimate
Once they have vista and AACS in place they can revoke the ability to play a DVD on a per title basis.
Then when a "nasty pirate" cracks the DVD code they can revoke the code for all copies of that DVD.
Now all copies of that DVD will not play, or will only play at poor
quality (correct me if I misunderstood this part).
The revocation for their protection, to prevent piracy, of course! All the legitimate
users are now just the owners of an expensive coaster instead of a movie. Hey, they might even offer an
exchange program, for a discounted fee of course.
users to own DVDs. Everyone will be forced to rent DVD's instead of owning them, because of the "rampant
piracy". And as a side effect, their sales go up because you pay every time you watch a movie, not just
once.
>If all the wireless card manufacturers got together and agreed on a interoperable adapter interface to their cards
This isn't a very good example. It's why device drivers, plugins, sdk's, application layers, directx, x windows, the pci bus, etc. were developed. Abstracting the hardware has already been done. The problem is manufacturers won't release information for linux programmers to write drivers.
I must agree Microsoft doesn't want others to replace the software that makes up their livelihood. It would be stupid for them to do so.
Linux hasn't failed at all. It does servers quite well and has a quite substantial install base there.
It's not a universal solution though. If you try to make it do things it's not suited for then you get a
poor solution. The expectation that it will replace everything else is unrealistic.
I use greylisting and it works very well for cutting down on the spam.
I do about as well as gmail and better than yahoo.
Puppetman, did you write this or just cut and paste badly?
>"Google is looking to create a bandwidth shortage"
>"The shortage will only occur if the average bandwidth consumption by individual consumers skyrockets"
If customers usage jumps Google isn't 'creating' a shortage, the customers are. How is it 'evil' for them
to offer a service people voluntarily want to participate in without coercion?
If you're going to try and create controversy out of thin air you need better
material.
Your friend should recommend they use virtual machine technology, which will allow
them to test on virtual copies of win 98 instead of real ones. It's much more secure
and will dramatically cut their physical hardware costs. He should then get his resume
ready, and perhaps be ready to change careers completely, because said company might
sue him personally for disclosing this breach and he will certainly end up fired.
If he does the virtual machine thing and says nothing until he can manage his
termination well he'll have done the right thing and looked out for himself too.
He might even go so far as to stage a fake web site break in to divert the storm
away from himself. No, I'm NOT kidding.
For them making a few dollars for a days work might be a viable survival model.
For me it's not. I haven't been back since.
If I recall correctly there was an article many months ago in a major magazine.
I don't recall if it was Discover or Scientific American. They go into more
detail about the research they did do and this piece is a very poor recap of
an old article.
and they don't care. The phone company is the same way.
Ever since deregulation they've hired people that could
care less about doing their job well. The attitude comes
from the top down. Your comments seem accurate enough
but for me they don't address the root cause.
Most of the oil money does not flow to the middle east._ publications/company_level_imports/current/import. html
Check out the sources for imported oil to the US.
It's not the middle east.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data
I believe Bill Burkett told me that estimation method in late 1983.
* If I want to develop software to sell economics tells me to develop for the platform with the largest number of usres.
* Windows has the largest user base
* 'Linux' doesn't count as a single platform since there are so many incompatible distros.
I agree with you, but think this is a good thing.
This is the predictable result of legislation passed for
emotional and political reasons. After it bites people
in the butt enough times maybe they'll figure out
"that dog don't hunt" and repeal it. It's "pain therapy"
for all the idiots.
>Does anti-social behavior come hand in hand with gifted coding? It would seem so, but I haven't done/seen any studies on it.
No. The coders with poor social skills, and/or the inability to
accept compromise, get noticed more than others. "The squeaky wheel
gets noticed"
This would seem to be prime whistleblower lawsuit material...
I'd rather not have objects of any kind. The power of the command
line is that you can take any output and process it using any of
the tools. Objects will just make tools not compatible with data.
It's just what happened when they 'objectized' the clipboard in
windows. Now I have programs that can't cut/paste.
>>If the media companies force all of us to accept DRM by making it
>> illegal not to have it then we don't have the choice not to accept
>> DRM.
>Yes, you do. Your choice is to not buy stuff that "the media companies" >sell.
If they make DRM mandatory I can stop buying movies?
Hey that's a great option!
I don't really need to waste my time on such frivolity anyway.
I don't pay for anything with DRM in it now. It will have exactly
zero effect. They'll continue to use their money to buy...
uh uh "sway" lawmakers and use their lawyers to bully everyone
else. They'll remove any choices I might have had. Sounding a
warning is "whining"?
Since you seem to have such massively simple solutions to all
the problems of the world maybe you can solve all the middle
east's little problems next?
If the media companies force all of us to accept DRM by making it
illegal not to have it then we don't have the choice not to accept
DRM. They're attempting that now through various methods. Take a
look at google and search for "analog hole". They've already
passed a law making it illegal for you to remove it by reverse
engineering.
Once they've done that they will certainly do what they please
and you'll have no say in the matter. Tivo changed the rules
after people bought the package. At the urging of the content
provider they changed the code so it would automatically
delete that recorded content after a certain time. They breached
the contract you entered into with them. You could
sue them but it's not worth the effort involved. Sony added
rootkits to their CD's.
Soon you won't have the choice you claim we've always got.
Unfortunately that's exactly what drm does, takes control from you and gives it to someone else. Someone who does not care about you and is
willing to do whatever they like to separate you from your money.
If it does deduplication at the file level it might achieve some good
reductions in some offices. Only storing one copy of the spreadsheet
that's copied 800 times across the entire network by 800 users
would save a lot of space.
saw that in 1985 too...
No. Destroying the internet can have very real negative
;)
financial impact for a lot of people.
Aren't there supposed to be new features in the routers to
disconnect distributed denial of service attacks? The routers
will just disconnect the pentagon subnet or limit their packet
rate until it's not even noticable.
I wonder how much KBR will get for the contract to implement this
Still have this issue in all the other distros I tried.
Maybe they don't have it, or it doesn't work.
Pop in your DVD. Run the video player of choice.
Hit the eject button on the dvd player.
I know why it doesn't work, but it seems a reasonable action
that should be supported gracefully.
If your dvd player crashes you have to umount the disk.
To be fair windoze is really awful about CD's with bad sectors too.
Does it handle CD's better than what I'm used to?
Having to goto a shell and umount the drive to get the cd out is awful.
>I disagree strongly with the 5 sigma estimate in the test case they describe.
Why did you disagree?
Has anyone looked at the theory just posted on the news sites that
time doesn't proceed at the same rate everywhere? The authors claim
it explains away the need for dark matter/energy. I was curious how
this meshes with string theory.