It won't get him banned, but if he doesn't implement DRM, then the movie theater will aim lasers at his prosthetic eye for the duration of the movie so he can't get a good recording.
And if he does it again, they'll point the lasers at his other eye.
Quantum leap: (adj.) literally, to move by the smallest amount theoretically possible. In advertising, to move by the largest leap imaginable (in the mind of the advertiser). There is no contradiction.
- Tonkin's First Computer Dictionary
"Quantum Leap": (1989) Scientist Sam Beckett finds himself trapped in time--"leaping" into the body of a different person in a different time period each week.
You can, of course, write FS drivers for Windows OS. We really need to get more OSS filesystem drivers out there... especially the better understood ones like Ext2/3, ZFS, ResiserFS, JFS. It *should* be trivial for an end-user to download, install, and reboot to use a ZFS external drive.
With VMs you can trivially run product A in RHEL4 and service B in Debian, and simply not have to worry about it.
This be true. Some commercial Linux software is supported under RHEL for example, while you may prefer to run a nice stable Debian system for another task. Xen (or other hypervisor) makes this sort of thing trivial, and all of your apps get supported, updated, etc rather painlessly. You don't need hacks like alien any more, and your vendor won't bail out claiming an unsupported configuration when problems arise.
Just a reminder... you DIDN'T download it from TPB. You downloaded many pieces of it from your peers - TPB only provided an index to a torrent, which your client used to connect to trackers to find peers to download from. This is an important distinction to make, given the nature of this case! What's more, while TPB provides a nicely organised index for them, any regular search engine would find it as well, and would link to any number of other torrent indexes.
BTW, anyone know of any clients with ability to limit download/upload volume (not rate) on a per-peer basis?
Lately I've been really pessimistic about the whole thing, I mean, really, who cares? Even if there were intelligent life on planets that close, we would only be able to exchange communication once every 10 years, not enough to actually learn their language, and we would never be able to travel to visit them, right?
So realistically, there is not much point except for dreamers and space geeks. Might as well spend the effort here on earth. On the other hand, what if we could travel out there? Wouldn't it be COOL? I might actually meet a girl. Just kidding.
I want to believe that we will be able to travel long distances one day, hyper speed and all that, but it's pretty hard to see how it could happen.
Firstly, it's "warp speed" not "hyper speed", and secondly, you weren't kidding - keep trying with the terrestrial women for now. I admire your spirit kid, but you're no James Tiberius Kirk.
DRM in the US is not a transaction between two private parties. Instead, it is the *government* offering to step in and put legal force behind one party's interference with another's right to use their own property.
I guess this trial will mean that linking to copyright infringing material will be illegal.
To view any webpage or content on the internet, you have to make a copy. Every webpage and all content on the internet has an author, and most have a natural copyright protection by the law of their country. In most cases, you cannot copy without a) country specific fair use rights, or b) explicit permission from the copyright holder. Therefore, in most cases, linking to anything will be illegal, and these fuckers will have broken the internet.
Maybe that's the idea? They can't own it, but they want to control it... they probably see it as a media distribution channel to be maintained, not an open communication medium. Someone please hit these guys with a clue-by-four, because the internet is closer to an interactive community notice board than a broadcast TV set, and no, they can't have it.
They need to concentrate on the non-citizens who are coming into the country, not the citizens who are traveling abroad. Just last week there were strikes because too many people are coming into the UK. The UK is already overcrowded and the government seems to be able to do very little to control the borders effectively. Allowing Workers to freely migrate within the EU was a big mistake and will drive wages down.
You lose your freedom but you complain about money.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it...." is regularly attributed to Joseph Goebbels. However, I have found no evidence that he said it. Everyone quotes everyone else, but no one ever gives a source. See: http://www.bytwerk.com/gpa/falsenaziquotations.htm.
"A lie told often enough becomes truth" Vladimir Lenin.
Yeah, I've heard that before somewhere. Regardless of the source, it must be true.
We had a lot of noise about this in NZ recently - it got passed anyway. The silver-lining is that the accusations can go both ways, and just wait until someone figures out it can become a general purpose business weapon...
Good for them, but it's worth noting that they've previously been fined for violating election laws by selling uncertified equipment to the State of Indiana.
So, if someone records a show off of TV, can it be assumed they're going to pirate it? Betamax decision no more? Fair use is out the window? Whatever happened to common sense? All your rights are belong to ACTA!
I suspect that this is targeted at the aXXos of the world. 30,000 peers on a TV rip probably qualifies in their eyes as "commercial scale" but not for financial gain. Lending a disk to a mate to get a copy of same probably does not.
The irony of course is that commerce starts with a transaction of 1, and it's the exchange and intent that is important. If we say a file piece has value, and is exchanged for another with intent to gain from the transaction, then perhaps there is barter going on, but really, that's rubbish and not how most P2P works anyway. The other implication is that only big guys do commerce, and frankly, I find that both offensive and very telling.
I tried it. It wasn't just lacking in features, it was lacking in fundamental functionality. I think your alpha comparison is accurate, but labeling it a 4.0 release implies a certain level of completeness that just wasn't there. It was a PR fuckup for KDE no matter what the fanbois did... and if even your fanbois are pissed you, you gotta know you got it wrong.
Remote (reliable) storage is neat, but what I really need is that plus... A transparent way to download small chunks and checksum, ala BitTorrent, and probably distributed so this "cloud" data doesn't need to be rerouted through one point. There - I said it: Google should use their cloud to provide a BT content hosting service.
Reason for this is that network hardware reliability is not to be taken for granted... I've learned this the hard way. BT handles this quite effectively.
In all seriousness, we could indeed be frickin' teleporting to work in the next 100 years. Or shorter. Let's hope we invent time travel first, so we don't have to.
What makes you think there's a difference? Walking across town would appear instantaneous if you went back the precise amount of time it takes you to walk there, except that you'd be that much older when you arrived.
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It won't get him banned, but if he doesn't implement DRM, then the movie theater will aim lasers at his prosthetic eye for the duration of the movie so he can't get a good recording.
And if he does it again, they'll point the lasers at his other eye.
Quantum leap: (adj.) literally, to move by the smallest amount theoretically possible. In advertising, to move by the largest leap imaginable (in the mind of the advertiser). There is no contradiction.
- Tonkin's First Computer Dictionary
"Quantum Leap": (1989) Scientist Sam Beckett finds himself trapped in time--"leaping" into the body of a different person in a different time period each week.
- The Internet Movie Database
You can, of course, write FS drivers for Windows OS. We really need to get more OSS filesystem drivers out there... especially the better understood ones like Ext2/3, ZFS, ResiserFS, JFS. It *should* be trivial for an end-user to download, install, and reboot to use a ZFS external drive.
With VMs you can trivially run product A in RHEL4 and service B in Debian, and simply not have to worry about it.
This be true. Some commercial Linux software is supported under RHEL for example, while you may prefer to run a nice stable Debian system for another task. Xen (or other hypervisor) makes this sort of thing trivial, and all of your apps get supported, updated, etc rather painlessly. You don't need hacks like alien any more, and your vendor won't bail out claiming an unsupported configuration when problems arise.
The renderings in the article show round or hexagonal collectors that seem to be radially divided into identical slices.
Pie in the sky?
Lies!
Just a reminder... you DIDN'T download it from TPB. You downloaded many pieces of it from your peers - TPB only provided an index to a torrent, which your client used to connect to trackers to find peers to download from. This is an important distinction to make, given the nature of this case! What's more, while TPB provides a nicely organised index for them, any regular search engine would find it as well, and would link to any number of other torrent indexes.
BTW, anyone know of any clients with ability to limit download/upload volume (not rate) on a per-peer basis?
Lately I've been really pessimistic about the whole thing, I mean, really, who cares? Even if there were intelligent life on planets that close, we would only be able to exchange communication once every 10 years, not enough to actually learn their language, and we would never be able to travel to visit them, right?
So realistically, there is not much point except for dreamers and space geeks. Might as well spend the effort here on earth. On the other hand, what if we could travel out there? Wouldn't it be COOL? I might actually meet a girl. Just kidding.
I want to believe that we will be able to travel long distances one day, hyper speed and all that, but it's pretty hard to see how it could happen.
Firstly, it's "warp speed" not "hyper speed", and secondly, you weren't kidding - keep trying with the terrestrial women for now. I admire your spirit kid, but you're no James Tiberius Kirk.
DRM in the US is not a transaction between two private parties. Instead, it is the *government* offering to step in and put legal force behind one party's interference with another's right to use their own property.
Once again, it's not property: it's information.
So the tropical rain forest climate that was needed for the ferns to grow, happened multiple times and therefore can happen again.
Not if the Cylons have their way!
I guess this trial will mean that linking to copyright infringing material will be illegal.
To view any webpage or content on the internet, you have to make a copy. Every webpage and all content on the internet has an author, and most have a natural copyright protection by the law of their country. In most cases, you cannot copy without a) country specific fair use rights, or b) explicit permission from the copyright holder. Therefore, in most cases, linking to anything will be illegal, and these fuckers will have broken the internet.
Maybe that's the idea? They can't own it, but they want to control it... they probably see it as a media distribution channel to be maintained, not an open communication medium. Someone please hit these guys with a clue-by-four, because the internet is closer to an interactive community notice board than a broadcast TV set, and no, they can't have it.
I believe there's a place for copyright law, but that it needs to be made sensible again before anyone will respect it.
Perhaps place in the hands of the creators of the work, rather than corporations. Non-transferable. Non-inheritable.
And yes, I realise that business would hate the idea. People who create, on the other hand...
What's all this good people bad people bollocks? The information is far more likely to be used for marketing than for counter-terrorism.
They need to concentrate on the non-citizens who are coming into the country, not the citizens who are traveling abroad. Just last week there were strikes because too many people are coming into the UK. The UK is already overcrowded and the government seems to be able to do very little to control the borders effectively. Allowing Workers to freely migrate within the EU was a big mistake and will drive wages down.
You lose your freedom but you complain about money.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it...." is regularly attributed to Joseph Goebbels. However, I have found no evidence that he said it. Everyone quotes everyone else, but no one ever gives a source. See: http://www.bytwerk.com/gpa/falsenaziquotations.htm.
"A lie told often enough becomes truth" Vladimir Lenin.
Yeah, I've heard that before somewhere. Regardless of the source, it must be true.
We had a lot of noise about this in NZ recently - it got passed anyway. The silver-lining is that the accusations can go both ways, and just wait until someone figures out it can become a general purpose business weapon...
Good for them, but it's worth noting that they've previously been fined for violating election laws by selling uncertified equipment to the State of Indiana.
So, if someone records a show off of TV, can it be assumed they're going to pirate it? Betamax decision no more? Fair use is out the window? Whatever happened to common sense? All your rights are belong to ACTA!
I suspect that this is targeted at the aXXos of the world. 30,000 peers on a TV rip probably qualifies in their eyes as "commercial scale" but not for financial gain. Lending a disk to a mate to get a copy of same probably does not.
The irony of course is that commerce starts with a transaction of 1, and it's the exchange and intent that is important. If we say a file piece has value, and is exchanged for another with intent to gain from the transaction, then perhaps there is barter going on, but really, that's rubbish and not how most P2P works anyway. The other implication is that only big guys do commerce, and frankly, I find that both offensive and very telling.
Notice how Russia and China are conspicuously absent from that list of countries....
We all know who to proxy through now, don't we?
I tried it. It wasn't just lacking in features, it was lacking in fundamental functionality. I think your alpha comparison is accurate, but labeling it a 4.0 release implies a certain level of completeness that just wasn't there. It was a PR fuckup for KDE no matter what the fanbois did... and if even your fanbois are pissed you, you gotta know you got it wrong.
Or a balaclava and goggles.
Sex in low gravity. Giggity giggity.
It's been done.
Remote (reliable) storage is neat, but what I really need is that plus... A transparent way to download small chunks and checksum, ala BitTorrent, and probably distributed so this "cloud" data doesn't need to be rerouted through one point. There - I said it: Google should use their cloud to provide a BT content hosting service.
Reason for this is that network hardware reliability is not to be taken for granted... I've learned this the hard way. BT handles this quite effectively.
in the clowns.
USB keys would fit.
In all seriousness, we could indeed be frickin' teleporting to work in the next 100 years. Or shorter. Let's hope we invent time travel first, so we don't have to.
What makes you think there's a difference? Walking across town would appear instantaneous if you went back the precise amount of time it takes you to walk there, except that you'd be that much older when you arrived.
I would trust your assertion more fully if you knew how to spell 'indefinitely'.
Dude, he's a physicist not an English major.