Here is where you misrepresent what you may do as what everyone does. I never said that they worked on the book instead of their other duties. It is "in addition to".
Like any job, a professor has specific job requirements. If you don't, then you have a bad employer.
Stupid mods, That isn't even close to insightful. That has nothing to do with the science of data compression.
Metaphorically this is what just happened- Me: "I'ld like to learn about data compression" You: "Don't fucking bother, you can just use someone else's routine"
See how you didn't help at all. I hope you are not in academia because you would be the least motivational teacher I ever had. By your logic, why even bother reading a book; if it has been written down, then it's already been done. You should be doing newer and better things. Just go into a field with a blank piece of paper, and think of something brilliant. In fact, forget the paper and think outside of the box.
Writing a book is not what [s]he/she was paid for. It takes way too much time and is not new work. Aside from requirements to teach classes and advice students, Academics are paid to get their name (and there for their university's name) more respected in the field. Which means authoring papers on new research in top (peer reviewed) journals. Academics only write books on the side for extra money, it is not part of the job description.
Just because he hasn't updated it lately does not give people the right to rip it off. He invested his time and energy into writing it and most works do not pay for themselves instantly, but over time.
Book authorship has been non-viable as a primary source of income for the vast majority of authors for far longer than e-books have been around.
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But does that mean he deserves nothing?! Even as supplementary income. You know, enough to take his wife out to nice dinner once a year.
Again, why would one right a book if, as you believe, they deserve no recompense for it.
...If you have hundreds of thousands of people looking to download your book for free, you have yourself a huge captive audience to exploit in other ways....
Such as?
Additionally, that decision shouldn't be forced on the author. If I want to write a book and sell it I should be able to. I shouldn't be forced to advertise in it.
Whatever you think, you still didn't even adress the issue. Why would learned people bother spending large amounts of THEIR time to write abook if it is going to be given away for free. Is his/her years of learning and time spent organizing thought into a readable form not worthy of compensation?
It's a book about data compression. It's TEN years old....this is exactly the reason copyright laws need to be reformed. What other job can you have where you can still get paid for some crap you did ten years ago? Methinks he doth protest too much.
You are ignorant. It takes years, and anguish to publish a university level text book. And unless you are the most important person in that area, or publish the first book on it, you probably are not going to get much money from it. Do you really think that books such as Harry Potter 1 should be free to the public now (it is more than 10 years old)
Additionally, you truly have no understanding of copyright rational if you think 10 years is too long to restrict the reproduction of a work. The first copyright laws ever were still more than that (14years?). Are you only saying this because the book is technical in nature?
Also, a book on data compression that was written 10 years ago may not exactly be useless. With text books, you rarely need to learn about the stuff that was developed yesterday; instead you need a broad understanding of reasoning and mathematical constructs that go into an area. Why? So that you use this foundation to understand more advanced, or simply newer things you come across.
Heck the two school books I'm using for reference right now are 8 & 11 years old.
If you don't want it, don't buy it. This isn't some example where the grand children of someone are still collecting royalties, or copying Steamboat Willy still being a punishable offense; You are insulting the author who has worked on this by telling him that his hard work should be free because you think it is outdated.
But he wasn't outside in the free air. He was in an REI (private property). Which is why the charge will always be Trespassing for taking pictures in private places (where they don't want you to). While the charges won't stick (unless they can prove they asked you to leave before hand and didn't), it is the most efficient way to fuck with you.
I fear it might be more than a coincidence that a guy selling T-shirts with "the resistance army" on it got arrested for doing something seemingly trivial.
That is the opposite of true. See Youtube comments section for what/. would degenerate into.
People who like +karma have a certain amount of accountability because they want their comments to be higher on the score filter (because most people don't read at -1). The idea is to give people positive feed back, you know like praising your kid when they do good rather than beating the shit out of them when they do bad.
Your assumptions are flawed. Data is not dangerous, it is what you do with it. Only the executable is dangerous (security wise). Even in your xbox example, it is the faulty design of the 007 game/program that allowed for this exploit. When loading a game state it should never allow a save file to direct it to boot linux. The data was not executing anything technically.
PS. If you ignored a point because of something unstated, then how do you expect me to get it?
There is a problem however. In the UK, electric kettles are 240V/13A. In the USA they are 110V and probably only about 15A, so they take twice as long to boil water.
I'ld like to see data on that. If my you can't boil a pot of water quickly with 1650W then you have a poorly designed kettle.
Then again, I don't ever time my boiling water, 'cause I just put mine on the stove and it whistles when it is ready.
Yo, 21054.0, how is the weather? I could be off base, but it seems you are still a bit too energetic over this one thought. Back to your response-
My first thread was 4 deep, which means I'm not responding to the article anymore, I'm responding to my parent poster.
Additionally, the idea behind looking inside a file to see what it does and comparing it to what it's metadata describes it as is not "meritless." That would be exactly the first/second step in preventing people from accidentally executing files named file.doc.exe, or file.pdf.bat
While any proprietary format could fake being a different format. An executable can't, and that is the greater security concern. Is it not?
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...instead of normal duties...
Here is where you misrepresent what you may do as what everyone does. I never said that they worked on the book instead of their other duties. It is "in addition to".
Like any job, a professor has specific job requirements. If you don't, then you have a bad employer.
Stupid mods, That isn't even close to insightful. That has nothing to do with the science of data compression.
Metaphorically this is what just happened-
Me: "I'ld like to learn about data compression"
You: "Don't fucking bother, you can just use someone else's routine"
See how you didn't help at all. I hope you are not in academia because you would be the least motivational teacher I ever had. By your logic, why even bother reading a book; if it has been written down, then it's already been done. You should be doing newer and better things. Just go into a field with a blank piece of paper, and think of something brilliant. In fact, forget the paper and think outside of the box.
You don't know what you are talking about.
Writing a book is not what [s]he/she was paid for. It takes way too much time and is not new work. Aside from requirements to teach classes and advice students, Academics are paid to get their name (and there for their university's name) more respected in the field. Which means authoring papers on new research in top (peer reviewed) journals. Academics only write books on the side for extra money, it is not part of the job description.
Just because he hasn't updated it lately does not give people the right to rip it off. He invested his time and energy into writing it and most works do not pay for themselves instantly, but over time.
Book authorship has been non-viable as a primary source of income for the vast majority of authors for far longer than e-books have been around.
fixed
But does that mean he deserves nothing?! Even as supplementary income. You know, enough to take his wife out to nice dinner once a year.
Again, why would one right a book if, as you believe, they deserve no recompense for it.
...If you have hundreds of thousands of people looking to download your book for free, you have yourself a huge captive audience to exploit in other ways....
Such as?
Additionally, that decision shouldn't be forced on the author. If I want to write a book and sell it I should be able to. I shouldn't be forced to advertise in it.
Whatever you think, you still didn't even adress the issue. Why would learned people bother spending large amounts of THEIR time to write abook if it is going to be given away for free. Is his/her years of learning and time spent organizing thought into a readable form not worthy of compensation?
It's a book about data compression. It's TEN years old....this is exactly the reason copyright laws need to be reformed. What other job can you have where you can still get paid for some crap you did ten years ago? Methinks he doth protest too much.
You are ignorant. It takes years, and anguish to publish a university level text book. And unless you are the most important person in that area, or publish the first book on it, you probably are not going to get much money from it. Do you really think that books such as Harry Potter 1 should be free to the public now (it is more than 10 years old)
Additionally, you truly have no understanding of copyright rational if you think 10 years is too long to restrict the reproduction of a work. The first copyright laws ever were still more than that (14years?). Are you only saying this because the book is technical in nature?
Also, a book on data compression that was written 10 years ago may not exactly be useless. With text books, you rarely need to learn about the stuff that was developed yesterday; instead you need a broad understanding of reasoning and mathematical constructs that go into an area. Why? So that you use this foundation to understand more advanced, or simply newer things you come across.
Heck the two school books I'm using for reference right now are 8 & 11 years old.
If you don't want it, don't buy it. This isn't some example where the grand children of someone are still collecting royalties, or copying Steamboat Willy still being a punishable offense; You are insulting the author who has worked on this by telling him that his hard work should be free because you think it is outdated.
I'ld like to see that study.
Did apple ever have to pay anything? Or were they just in trouble?
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090204/1723223648.shtml
My search of "apple norway 'new arsehole'" didn't bring up what I wanted.
But he wasn't outside in the free air. He was in an REI (private property). Which is why the charge will always be Trespassing for taking pictures in private places (where they don't want you to). While the charges won't stick (unless they can prove they asked you to leave before hand and didn't), it is the most efficient way to fuck with you.
Wow, wrong article, whoops. Sorry
I fear it might be more than a coincidence that a guy selling T-shirts with "the resistance army" on it got arrested for doing something seemingly trivial.
That is exactly what I was thinking.
I don't consider /. to be a social networking site.
Compared with facebook/myspace where the purpose is to talk about yourself and to make+stalk friends, /. it for discussing news stories.
Also, I've never read a comment and thought to myself, "hmm, that was insightful, maybe we could play together."
That is the opposite of true. See Youtube comments section for what /. would degenerate into.
People who like +karma have a certain amount of accountability because they want their comments to be higher on the score filter (because most people don't read at -1). The idea is to give people positive feed back, you know like praising your kid when they do good rather than beating the shit out of them when they do bad.
ok
I have no idea, but coincidently, it is really easy to find the total efficiency of a water heater.
Wow that clearly was supposed to say,
"Not if the 3120W boiler is ~53% less efficient than the 1620W one." But I was clearly distracted.
Not if the 3120W boiler is ~53% less efficient than the 3120W one.
Your assumptions are flawed. Data is not dangerous, it is what you do with it. Only the executable is dangerous (security wise). Even in your xbox example, it is the faulty design of the 007 game/program that allowed for this exploit. When loading a game state it should never allow a save file to direct it to boot linux. The data was not executing anything technically.
PS. If you ignored a point because of something unstated, then how do you expect me to get it?
You have an unclear antecedent, because your first sentence:
That would be the first step in causing people to figure out how to forge metadata.
doesn't follow my last thought:
While any proprietary format could fake being a different format. An executable can't, and that is the greater security concern. Is it not?
There is a problem however. In the UK, electric kettles are 240V/13A. In the USA they are 110V and probably only about 15A, so they take twice as long to boil water.
I'ld like to see data on that. If my you can't boil a pot of water quickly with 1650W then you have a poorly designed kettle.
Then again, I don't ever time my boiling water, 'cause I just put mine on the stove and it whistles when it is ready.
I can't tell if the hut itself is virtual or not.
I mean how long does even the most sensitive data need to remain protected? 30 years?
Whatever the copyright length is...so about forever.
Yo, 21054.0, how is the weather?
I could be off base, but it seems you are still a bit too energetic over this one thought. Back to your response-
My first thread was 4 deep, which means I'm not responding to the article anymore, I'm responding to my parent poster.
Additionally, the idea behind looking inside a file to see what it does and comparing it to what it's metadata describes it as is not "meritless." That would be exactly the first/second step in preventing people from accidentally executing files named file.doc.exe, or file.pdf.bat
While any proprietary format could fake being a different format. An executable can't, and that is the greater security concern. Is it not?
I can't wait for your scathing response.