> You're guessing, and I'm certain. Music (and almost all other performing arts as well) was far better before your beloved 'entertainment "industry"'. And it was so for hundreds upon hundreds of years.
You're darn right. There's nothing I enjoy more humming my Sonata No.5 c Minor on the drive to work. And when I get home I regale my family with old folk songs about the old country. I think most people would agree with me. Ignore how shitty current entertainment is, we're just downloading by the *millions* so we can remind ourselves just what utter garbage it actually is. Right?
> You can still make your art and lock it away in a vault... but don't expect us to pay you for it if you don't agree to respect our freedoms.
But it's not about _your_ freedoms, it's about the freedom of people to create whatever content they like, and charge for it to make a living. The same right that allows people like RMS to give away software under licenses. If you don't want to pay for my product XYZ, if I'm a crotchety old dinosaur of a bygone era, then so be it. I'll go out of business of my own accord. I certainly don't need a pirate's bizarre justification that it's acceptable to take money from my pocket.
There's a thing about volunteer projects that only go so far. People get burnt out, people move on, day to day responsibilities take on greater importance. It happens every day. I know other folks like to romanticise the idea of art, like people from ages past worked on art because they were all filled with firey passions, but it just isn't so. Michalangelo didn't paint just because he loved to do so, the sistene chapel was a commissioned work. That sort of thing.
When did this revolution take place, these greedy selfish people have taken over the internet. I missed the boat.
I just can't help wonder how many people here have spent years of their life mastering their craft, to have it stolen from them wholesale by some brave paragons of our new world order. I guess I'm old fashioned. Seems to me when you take the time to contribute something of value to the world collective, then you get your vote in the process. What I see here is a bunch of greedy whiners `sticking it to the man'. I'm the man. What the hell did I ever do to you? I don't come over to your job, cut your income by a third while smirking "Adapt, comrade!"
You want my art for free? Well fuck you. Take it. I no longer care, and I will no longer make any more. The internet is 'for sharing ideas' you say? Grand. That does me a lot of good.
Whatever, this might be a good thing for civilization. We're all too wrapped up in our entertainment anyway, our little escapes. To be honest, as a world we really don't *need* the next Doom game, the next hot Stephen King book, the next Peter Jackson movie. It doesn't enrich our lives, make us smarter, advance the world in any appreciable way. Take all that garbage and flush it down the toilet, it really doesn't change anything. I'm fine with, you know, Solitare or Tux racer and Sundance festival films if I really need to kick back for a while. And have you heard some of those independent musicians lately? Pretty enjoyable, you think?
Kill off the entertainment industry and put your nose to the grindstone. I'm guessing it will play out as a net positive.
If you're just going to trade casually, this service might work okay. Hopefully your sender will mail the disc on time and isn't away on vacation. Does anyone know how long it usually takes to get a request?
On the other hand, if you're someone who really wants to watch a lot of movies, wants to count on being able to get new releases relatively soon, I don't know if this would work out so hot. With Netflix for $18/mo if you really push it, you can get maybe 9-12 DVDs a month. Of course if you sit on your discs, you might only get five or six a month. But they at least ship stuff on a schedule, not whenever they feel like hunting down a DVD and walking it out to the mailbox. I guess I'm just pretty cynical, and relying upon other Joes to send me their movies in a reasonalble timeframe with reasonable quality.
Do I get this right.. You print out the mailer from your printer?
And movies are assigned "peerbux" ratings, so you can't offer up a bunch of Clint Eastwood movies from the 70s and expect to get the complete Sopranos in return? How does that work? You need to build up a library of good movies so you can give them away? I'm not understanding.
*shrug*
I just don't see it as being worth the hassle, but good for you if you like it.
> and whose mistake was propagated to Windows 98, 98SE, ME, NT, 2K, XP, and 2K3, effectively making it impossible for nontechnical users to ever learn where their files were located...
The root of the problem is that most people do not care where their files are located. They just want it to work.
By the way, I think something is wrong with your keyboard.
Microsoft TOTALLY ripped ENCARTA off from the Triple-A. This whole idea of SELLING MAPS has been around for at least, what, 35 years or more. I think the guys at Apple invented it. Thievery!
Right. Raise the barrier to programming so high that no one feels inclined to pursue an interest in the field. That's bound to generate more programmers!
C has held back the development and advancement of the art of software design and programming by at least 10 years. All true programmers develop in assembler.
It's just too much of a hassle to take the 4 year old to the theater with us, or to try to find a sitter.
For the price of a couple tickets, I get a monthly subscription to NetFlix. There's hundreds of movies I want to watch and I get, on average, about 12 a month assuming I watch them right away.
For the lazy person like myself, it works out great.
I still saw Star Wars and LOTR at the theater, for some movies you still want that cinematic experience, but I don't see the same need to pay $16+ to go see movies like Hitchikers Guide or the latest Batman. They might be good movies, but I'm happy to wait a few months until I can throw them on my queue. In the meantime, I have a few seasons of Six Feet Under to catch up on, the old James Bond.. etc. All things a theater can't provide me.
Yes this is exactly the problem I encounter as well. I deal with many clients using free e-mail services and about five percent of the time, I am _simply unable_ to communicate with them.
They purchase a product from me then I e-mail them the software in return; Those people that never receive my delivery will start firing off e-mails, which I do receive quite perfectly, upset that I seem to be swindling them. I am completely unable to respond in any manner!
Sometimes I can play around with the return receipt and priority settings. I don't know if that helps the mail get through, or just helps it get noticed, but sometimes that helps. For those especially stubborn instances, I've had to resort to signing up for an account at whatever freemail site they're using to communicate a response. As a result I now have e-mail accounts at all of the major sites: hotmail, yahoo, gmail, and even a few of the more esoteric ones.
Are you doing anything to customize your spam filters?
I get about 400 spam messages a day, Thunderbird without fail catches about 75% of them. Every few minutes while working I'm distracted by the 'new mail' icon and out of habit I stop what I'm doing and go check. It's always some piece of spam.
I can't count the number of hours I waste each week task switching my thought process like that, I have a hard time staying concentrated anyway, and this is usually a prelude to `Time to check the news sites anyway' or some other waste of time.
It's to the point where I simply have to force myself to not leave e-mail open in the background, and only check it a few times a day.
While I don't disagree that that is a unique strength of Wikipedia, _typically_ that role would seem to be properly fulfilled by a news outlet. I would still prefer my encyclopedia remain a work of reference with an grounding in factual content, rather than including every (often unverified or anecdotal) knee-jerk development reported in the news.
That really speaks more to crappy application authors than the underlying operating system, doesn't it.
Running as a non-administrative account is _supposed_ to break the applications that are shitty enough to require it.
None of my 30-some users on the network I maintain run as Administrator, local or otherwise, and they run everything just fine. I run non-administrative at home, too. Works just great for everything I need.
Don't run Windows under an administrative context and that wouldn't happen. It'd be the same thing as letting your kids go browsing for a couple hours under root and when you come back you find you have dancing bonzai buddies all over your desktop and some mysterious new daemon called "Keyword search helper"-- and if Linux ever achieves a large desktop share, don't think that those type of programs won't be created.
There is something to be said for learning techniques for mitigation through hands-on practice. For example, I routinely attempt to crack my own web servers in an attempt to discover potential weaknesses. You can read white papers on XSS and privledge escalation and proper filesystem permissions all day, but you don't really ever learn the application until you try it for yourself.
If I were to hire another administrator to be in charge for securing my systems, I would want them to have that same internal drive and desire to explore the system, rather than having a checklist-mentality. Go down the list and assume the server is secure.
That said, I would _not_ hire someone who was actively involved in breaking into other people's systems. It's the mindset. They did it once, they can't do it appreciably any better than if they had probed their own systems, and they're likely to do it again. Part of being a professional means a mature respect for other people's beings.
So if this guy actually wrote viruses that were released, I would consider him probably a bad canidate. Otherwise, yeah, go for it. Good choice.
> That intellectual "property" law applied to genetics is unjust and wrong. Contracts may be legally binding, but if slavery were legal and a legally binding contract transferred ownership of a slave, it still wouldn't be right to consider the slave "owned", as opposed to legal.
Right or wrong, the famers entered into the contract knowingly. The company bypassed thousands, or tens of thousands of years of evolution by producing a genetically advanced form of crop. The farmer signed a contract. Farmer violated contract. Seems open and shut to me, Monsanto doesn't have a monopoly on the corn market.
> Similary, here genetic code in the abstract is being considered "owned" by the law.
Not really, the enhancements are what is being licensed by the contract.
> People, particularly americans, often confuse what is legal/illegal and what is right/wrong. Please don't.
What the fuck does this have to do with being American? Troll.
I don't know about the people that are donating, but it seems a little silly to just hand over money and actually expect them to get a lawyer. If anything I'd just as likely expect them to take the 30K and run. Thanks for the donations!
Hire a lawyer? To defend something that's blatenly illegal? People are buying this? The Internet is a great place.
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> You're guessing, and I'm certain.
Music (and almost all other performing arts as well) was far better before your beloved
'entertainment "industry"'. And it was so for hundreds upon hundreds of years.
You're darn right. There's nothing I enjoy more humming my Sonata No.5 c Minor on the drive to work. And when I get home I regale my family with old folk songs about the old country. I think most people would agree with me. Ignore how shitty current entertainment is, we're just downloading by the *millions* so we can remind ourselves just what utter garbage it actually is. Right?
> You can still make your art and lock it away in a vault... but don't expect us to pay you for it if you don't agree to respect our freedoms.
But it's not about _your_ freedoms, it's about the freedom of people to create whatever content they like, and charge for it to make a living. The same right that allows people like RMS to give away software under licenses. If you don't want to pay for my product XYZ, if I'm a crotchety old dinosaur of a bygone era, then so be it. I'll go out of business of my own accord. I certainly don't need a pirate's bizarre justification that it's acceptable to take money from my pocket.
There's a thing about volunteer projects that only go so far. People get burnt out, people move on, day to day responsibilities take on greater importance. It happens every day. I know other folks like to romanticise the idea of art, like people from ages past worked on art because they were all filled with firey passions, but it just isn't so. Michalangelo didn't paint just because he loved to do so, the sistene chapel was a commissioned work. That sort of thing.
When did this revolution take place, these greedy selfish people have taken over the internet. I missed the boat.
I just can't help wonder how many people here have spent years of their life mastering their craft, to have it stolen from them wholesale by some brave paragons of our new world order. I guess I'm old fashioned. Seems to me when you take the time to contribute something of value to the world collective, then you get your vote in the process. What I see here is a bunch of greedy whiners `sticking it to the man'. I'm the man. What the hell did I ever do to you? I don't come over to your job, cut your income by a third while smirking "Adapt, comrade!"
You want my art for free? Well fuck you. Take it. I no longer care, and I will no longer make any more. The internet is 'for sharing ideas' you say? Grand. That does me a lot of good.
Whatever, this might be a good thing for civilization. We're all too wrapped up in our entertainment anyway, our little escapes. To be honest, as a world we really don't *need* the next Doom game, the next hot Stephen King book, the next Peter Jackson movie. It doesn't enrich our lives, make us smarter, advance the world in any appreciable way. Take all that garbage and flush it down the toilet, it really doesn't change anything. I'm fine with, you know, Solitare or Tux racer and Sundance festival films if I really need to kick back for a while. And have you heard some of those independent musicians lately? Pretty enjoyable, you think?
Kill off the entertainment industry and put your nose to the grindstone. I'm guessing it will play out as a net positive.
Greed? You mean the selfless devotion of time to a project that no one will pay you for?
If you're just going to trade casually, this service might work okay. Hopefully your sender will mail the disc on time and isn't away on vacation. Does anyone know how long it usually takes to get a request?
On the other hand, if you're someone who really wants to watch a lot of movies, wants to count on being able to get new releases relatively soon, I don't know if this would work out so hot. With Netflix for $18/mo if you really push it, you can get maybe 9-12 DVDs a month. Of course if you sit on your discs, you might only get five or six a month. But they at least ship stuff on a schedule, not whenever they feel like hunting down a DVD and walking it out to the mailbox. I guess I'm just pretty cynical, and relying upon other Joes to send me their movies in a reasonalble timeframe with reasonable quality.
Do I get this right.. You print out the mailer from your printer?
And movies are assigned "peerbux" ratings, so you can't offer up a bunch of Clint Eastwood movies from the 70s and expect to get the complete Sopranos in return? How does that work? You need to build up a library of good movies so you can give them away? I'm not understanding.
*shrug*
I just don't see it as being worth the hassle, but good for you if you like it.
> and whose mistake was propagated to Windows 98, 98SE, ME, NT, 2K, XP, and 2K3, effectively making it impossible for nontechnical users to ever learn where their files were located...
The root of the problem is that most people do not care where their files are located. They just want it to work.
By the way, I think something is wrong with your keyboard.
Yeah, that and a $660 fine from the IRS later, and I have. Now I live in blissful ignorance of any tax consequnces. I find it's much happier that way.
Balancing my checkbook? Bah. I enter hundred dollar adjustments at the end of the year. Much easier.
You sound like my accountant!
Microsoft TOTALLY ripped ENCARTA off from the Triple-A. This whole idea of SELLING MAPS has been around for at least, what, 35 years or more. I think the guys at Apple invented it. Thievery!
> I don't know where you got that one from. Sure, they ask strange questions, but they treat you quite well when you're interviewing.
They pulled it out their ass. Like you'd expect anything different from slashdot.
Right. Raise the barrier to programming so high that no one feels inclined to pursue an interest in the field. That's bound to generate more programmers!
C has held back the development and advancement of the art of software design and programming by at least 10 years. All true programmers develop in assembler.
Rediculous
It's just too much of a hassle to take the 4 year old to the theater with us, or to try to find a sitter.
For the price of a couple tickets, I get a monthly subscription to NetFlix. There's hundreds of movies I want to watch and I get, on average, about 12 a month assuming I watch them right away.
For the lazy person like myself, it works out great.
I still saw Star Wars and LOTR at the theater, for some movies you still want that cinematic experience, but I don't see the same need to pay $16+ to go see movies like Hitchikers Guide or the latest Batman. They might be good movies, but I'm happy to wait a few months until I can throw them on my queue. In the meantime, I have a few seasons of Six Feet Under to catch up on, the old James Bond.. etc. All things a theater can't provide me.
Unlike /usr/sbin/, /bin/ /usr/bin, /usr/var/local/bin and /bin/local/var/usr/bin.rc pico.
I always know where to find my tools! I put them all in my bookmarks folder of my web browser. The internet age is NOW!!!
Yes this is exactly the problem I encounter as well. I deal with many clients using free e-mail services and about five percent of the time, I am _simply unable_ to communicate with them.
They purchase a product from me then I e-mail them the software in return; Those people that never receive my delivery will start firing off e-mails, which I do receive quite perfectly, upset that I seem to be swindling them. I am completely unable to respond in any manner!
Sometimes I can play around with the return receipt and priority settings. I don't know if that helps the mail get through, or just helps it get noticed, but sometimes that helps. For those especially stubborn instances, I've had to resort to signing up for an account at whatever freemail site they're using to communicate a response. As a result I now have e-mail accounts at all of the major sites: hotmail, yahoo, gmail, and even a few of the more esoteric ones.
Are you doing anything to customize your spam filters?
I get about 400 spam messages a day, Thunderbird without fail catches about 75% of them. Every few minutes while working I'm distracted by the 'new mail' icon and out of habit I stop what I'm doing and go check. It's always some piece of spam.
I can't count the number of hours I waste each week task switching my thought process like that, I have a hard time staying concentrated anyway, and this is usually a prelude to `Time to check the news sites anyway' or some other waste of time.
It's to the point where I simply have to force myself to not leave e-mail open in the background, and only check it a few times a day.
While I don't disagree that that is a unique strength of Wikipedia, _typically_ that role would seem to be properly fulfilled by a news outlet. I would still prefer my encyclopedia remain a work of reference with an grounding in factual content, rather than including every (often unverified or anecdotal) knee-jerk development reported in the news.
That really speaks more to crappy application authors than the underlying operating system, doesn't it.
Running as a non-administrative account is _supposed_ to break the applications that are shitty enough to require it.
None of my 30-some users on the network I maintain run as Administrator, local or otherwise, and they run everything just fine. I run non-administrative at home, too. Works just great for everything I need.
Don't run Windows under an administrative context and that wouldn't happen. It'd be the same thing as letting your kids go browsing for a couple hours under root and when you come back you find you have dancing bonzai buddies all over your desktop and some mysterious new daemon called "Keyword search helper"-- and if Linux ever achieves a large desktop share, don't think that those type of programs won't be created.
Go back to your hole. I renounce thee, Troll!
There is something to be said for learning techniques for mitigation through hands-on practice. For example, I routinely attempt to crack my own web servers in an attempt to discover potential weaknesses. You can read white papers on XSS and privledge escalation and proper filesystem permissions all day, but you don't really ever learn the application until you try it for yourself.
If I were to hire another administrator to be in charge for securing my systems, I would want them to have that same internal drive and desire to explore the system, rather than having a checklist-mentality. Go down the list and assume the server is secure.
That said, I would _not_ hire someone who was actively involved in breaking into other people's systems. It's the mindset. They did it once, they can't do it appreciably any better than if they had probed their own systems, and they're likely to do it again. Part of being a professional means a mature respect for other people's beings.
So if this guy actually wrote viruses that were released, I would consider him probably a bad canidate. Otherwise, yeah, go for it. Good choice.
> That intellectual "property" law applied to genetics is unjust and wrong. Contracts may be legally binding, but if slavery were legal and a legally binding contract transferred ownership of a slave, it still wouldn't be right to consider the slave "owned", as opposed to legal.
Right or wrong, the famers entered into the contract knowingly. The company bypassed thousands, or tens of thousands of years of evolution by producing a genetically advanced form of crop. The farmer signed a contract. Farmer violated contract. Seems open and shut to me, Monsanto doesn't have a monopoly on the corn market.
> Similary, here genetic code in the abstract is being considered "owned" by the law.
Not really, the enhancements are what is being licensed by the contract.
> People, particularly americans, often confuse what is legal/illegal and what is right/wrong. Please don't.
What the fuck does this have to do with being American? Troll.
South-east asia just needs a website with a little Payal button that reads "Donate now to keep this site alive!". Internet magic. Problem solved.
The difference is an intent to facilitate a crime. In criminal law this is called , also called an accessory or an accomplice.
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http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/A/ac
"An accessory before the fact is one whose counsel or instigation leads another to commit a crime."
If I run a criminal ring, but do not actually participate directly, I am still culpable. This really isn't any different.
I don't know about the people that are donating, but it seems a little silly to just hand over money and actually expect them to get a lawyer. If anything I'd just as likely expect them to take the 30K and run. Thanks for the donations!
Hire a lawyer? To defend something that's blatenly illegal? People are buying this? The Internet is a great place.
"Rachel: I like this game because I can do all these things that are so against what I'd ever do in reality.
Garret: That's the whole point of videogames. "
Do all 11 year olds talk like this? This just screams "Fake"