How do I know? I see a link that says "Walking Tall", I click on it and go make a cup of coffee, then I'm potentially up for hundreds of thousand of dollars in damages. As for deleting it, have you tried unsharing a bittorrent file? You don't even know it is being shared, it happens automagically.
No it's not any of their business and if you don't understand what I mean by that then you have a problem parsing English. Jeeze, they're an internet company that doesn't give them cart blanche to monitor your online activities. But in anycase I'd speculate that this letter has gone out because they don't want to hand over identities to MGM. Some companies have refused to hand over IP addresses, call it enlightened self interest if you like.
In this case yes, but that's hardly the point. We're talking about people who clicked on a bittorrent link online getting pursued under the DMCA. One click and you're illegal.
It's interesting that the infringing files are bittorrent downloads. So anyone downloading with bittorrent will have this stuff lying around on their system incidentally to their clicking on a link online.
So, now all you have to do to be criminalized by these spying bozos is click on a bittorrent link and boom they claim infringement under DMCA with teh full weight of the law.
All you need to say is that you clicked a link online and you didn't intend to serve the damned file.
This is just great, in a distributed filesharing network like bittorrent they're now going after everyone who downloaded the file and happens incidentally to have it served from their system.
No it's not more sane. This is about downloads not uploads. So people are now getting dinged for *downloading* files. This is a huge escallation, how would the copyright holder know that the downloads weren't legitimate and the original art wasn't owned in some form? Moreover what the heck business is it of anyone to snoop on what I've been downloading. It's a damned outrage. Where's the warrant? Where's the judicial process in all of this?
We've got corporations acting as surrogates spying on customers now all for the sake of someone's imagined dollar loss that the end user doesn't have a relationship with, it's not sufficient justification for them to garner any information from me or anyone else about our computer use. This is a low point not a high point, and if they're acting on copyright holders behalf as a Comcast customer who's never downloaded anything what else did these folks check about my own internet useage patterns to catch the fish they did in their dragnet?
Comcast, get your damned eyeballs off my broadband connection, it's none of your friking business.
I am a game programmer right now, and some of the game designers I've worked with were obsessed with the frikin' story. So much so that they were terrified by any kind of freeplay, they wanted to control every event and sequence of events in the game. In other words they didn't have a clue about game design. Many game designere aspire to be film producers or do something cinematic, they should get the hell off of game teams and go do it instead of inflicting their ego on game buyers and game companies. It's not about the story stupid, it's about the game. Story is fine so long as it isn't rigid and doesn't get in the way of making a great game.
Look, if you don't like SUN sell your stock in the company. Sun has owners/investors, it's up to them whether or not they still want to invest in Sun and they can decide on an individual basis. It's called the stock market.
Calls for a company to fold are FUD, pure and simple, usually this FUD comes from someone who doesn't have a cent invested in the company and therefore no direct meaningful interest or someone shilling for the competition.
They said the same thing about Apple just before Steve Jobs brought them back from the dead.
If you want Sun to fold sell your stock and go away quietly, if you don't own stock then what is your real motivation in wanting them to fold? It certainly isn't the financial interest as an investor which is the only legitimate cause for the call.
Who modded this as funny? This may not be the law of the land but it's the way strings work in C. It is serious and not so subtle point. The string ends with the \0, no programmer would expect otherwise. Anything after the \0 is just random garbage in memory that nobody is going to check. Heck code can't even check the size of the string to know if there's anything beyond the \0. It's downright dangerous, even reckless to do so.
FWIW IMHO the string ends at the \0 I don't care what garbage in memory exists after this, this is not a subtle issue or grey area, \0 ends the string, subsequent information is irrelevant.
But back to my subject, blacklisting is a bit heavy handed. Hmm... we have a company that provides drivers for Linux, yup they're proprietary winmodem drivers but they're there. To *suppress warnings* they have unfortunately chosen to prematurely end their string with a \0, that's really nasty and foolish but blacklisting them as a company from installing kernel modules is way frikin OTT.
How does this help joe public get his winmodem working? How does this encourage any corporation from releasing proprietary drivers for in Linux? (Which are better than no drivers IMHO)
There are other drivers (particularly audio and graphics) that use proprietary code implemented by private companies and these are used every day by many thousands of Linux users.
Geeze do you even understand what this is about? There are two products, energy and Helium, they *claim* to have meaured energy, not the Helium. I'm saying it's very unconvincing without measuring the Helium, measuring the energy in a system is tough and requires a great deal of precision and rigor. Now someone chimes in and says I didn't RTFA, no, you didn't understand my post, but thanks for your redundant quotes.
It's real simple, if there's cold fusion then there's Helium being produced from Hydrogen. So where is it? All this stuff about ballance of energy etc is on the edge of verifiability and instrument callibration. Until you can detect Helium being produced then you don't have an kind of a convincing case. I'm still skeptical about these cold fusion measurements.
You have to love this, EV1 is continuing to be caught up in a fiasco they now wish they'd not gotten involved in, but more interesting that their pain is IBM's attempt to uncover Microsoft's hand of influence in the whole SCO debacle. This could really explode in Microsoft's face if it turns out that they have been orchestrating this as an anti-Linux campaign. It could be absolutely huge.
Rubbish, it's not disrespectful to anyone. The guy turned down $ millions to volunteer to go fight for a cause he believed in after returning from his honeymoon. That demonstrates unusual and quite incredible selflessness, sacrifice and commitment to his country, he was also well known and liked by many fans whatever you think of that. He made the Army Rangers, an elite force and now he's joined the ranks of America's war dead. Telling his story takes nothing away from the others, I remember when this guy joined up with his brother, he was being interviewed (nobody could quite figure out why he was doing it and he was reticent about going into details) and I remember thinking, "that's one hell of a guy", now we've learned today that he's been killed. If anything it brings the loss of the thousands of family members into sharp focus through our fleeting familiarity with this hero. And no I ain't even an NFL fan.
You belittling his sacrifice and claiming his career was silly is ignorant and disrespectful.
That's a lot of "may"s in there. At least be committal. That's the problem with this stuff, you want to measure all the worst consequences of our actions w.r.t. the economy etc. but don't want to consider for a second the devastating effect stopping our activities would have on our economy. All this for a pocket full of maybes. Well "may" isn't enough, we need more studies and more proof and then we need reasonable action that we can both afford and doesn't give eggregious polluters like China a free pass. That action should include some of Dyson's suggestions for temporarily lowering the Earth's albedo instead of ineffective kneejerk treaties that we can't afford.
Companies invest fortunes in R&D all the time, everyone from computer chip makers to pharmaceuticals spend billions in R&D, just because you don't hear of it doesn't mean it ain't happening. Likewise just because it doesn't conform to some eco-utopian vision of yours doesn't mean it isn't worthy R&D.
Maybe he should stop breathing air, the military uses that stuff too.
The way he resigns with a scattergun explanation along with other not so subtle clues suggests more that it's sour grapes and that he just can't get on with the other members.
This sales guy who "won Munich", how much did he get in comission for it? For all we know his benefits package was weak, or maybe Novell changed his package when they bought SUSE and he decided to quit. If he's good at what he does then it's up to his company to keep him. If they can't or if he's really not the guy who won the deal (I expect it would have been a team including techs) then that's too bad. He moves on and life goes on.
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How do I know? I see a link that says "Walking Tall", I click on it and go make a cup of coffee, then I'm potentially up for hundreds of thousand of dollars in damages. As for deleting it, have you tried unsharing a bittorrent file? You don't even know it is being shared, it happens automagically.
Exactly my point, but it is automatic, the user has NO CHOICE but to share. All they did was download.
No it's not any of their business and if you don't understand what I mean by that then you have a problem parsing English. Jeeze, they're an internet company that doesn't give them cart blanche to monitor your online activities. But in anycase I'd speculate that this letter has gone out because they don't want to hand over identities to MGM. Some companies have refused to hand over IP addresses, call it enlightened self interest if you like.
Rubbish, I'm not hijacking anything you moron, my posts are totally on topic. It's not my problem if you don't know what a bittorent download does.
In this case yes, but that's hardly the point. We're talking about people who clicked on a bittorrent link online getting pursued under the DMCA. One click and you're illegal.
It's interesting that the infringing files are bittorrent downloads. So anyone downloading with bittorrent will have this stuff lying around on their system incidentally to their clicking on a link online.
So, now all you have to do to be criminalized by these spying bozos is click on a bittorrent link and boom they claim infringement under DMCA with teh full weight of the law.
All you need to say is that you clicked a link online and you didn't intend to serve the damned file.
This is just great, in a distributed filesharing network like bittorrent they're now going after everyone who downloaded the file and happens incidentally to have it served from their system.
Should read "never downloaded anything that infringed a copyright", that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
No it's not more sane. This is about downloads not uploads. So people are now getting dinged for *downloading* files. This is a huge escallation, how would the copyright holder know that the downloads weren't legitimate and the original art wasn't owned in some form? Moreover what the heck business is it of anyone to snoop on what I've been downloading. It's a damned outrage. Where's the warrant? Where's the judicial process in all of this?
We've got corporations acting as surrogates spying on customers now all for the sake of someone's imagined dollar loss that the end user doesn't have a relationship with, it's not sufficient justification for them to garner any information from me or anyone else about our computer use. This is a low point not a high point, and if they're acting on copyright holders behalf as a Comcast customer who's never downloaded anything what else did these folks check about my own internet useage patterns to catch the fish they did in their dragnet?
Comcast, get your damned eyeballs off my broadband connection, it's none of your friking business.
They probably read as far as "it blows", it's extremely bad moderation.
I am a game programmer right now, and some of the game designers I've worked with were obsessed with the frikin' story. So much so that they were terrified by any kind of freeplay, they wanted to control every event and sequence of events in the game. In other words they didn't have a clue about game design. Many game designere aspire to be film producers or do something cinematic, they should get the hell off of game teams and go do it instead of inflicting their ego on game buyers and game companies. It's not about the story stupid, it's about the game. Story is fine so long as it isn't rigid and doesn't get in the way of making a great game.
Look, if you don't like SUN sell your stock in the company. Sun has owners/investors, it's up to them whether or not they still want to invest in Sun and they can decide on an individual basis. It's called the stock market.
Calls for a company to fold are FUD, pure and simple, usually this FUD comes from someone who doesn't have a cent invested in the company and therefore no direct meaningful interest or someone shilling for the competition.
They said the same thing about Apple just before Steve Jobs brought them back from the dead.
If you want Sun to fold sell your stock and go away quietly, if you don't own stock then what is your real motivation in wanting them to fold? It certainly isn't the financial interest as an investor which is the only legitimate cause for the call.
Who modded this as funny? This may not be the law of the land but it's the way strings work in C. It is serious and not so subtle point. The string ends with the \0, no programmer would expect otherwise. Anything after the \0 is just random garbage in memory that nobody is going to check. Heck code can't even check the size of the string to know if there's anything beyond the \0. It's downright dangerous, even reckless to do so.
FWIW IMHO the string ends at the \0 I don't care what garbage in memory exists after this, this is not a subtle issue or grey area, \0 ends the string, subsequent information is irrelevant.
But back to my subject, blacklisting is a bit heavy handed. Hmm... we have a company that provides drivers for Linux, yup they're proprietary winmodem drivers but they're there. To *suppress warnings* they have unfortunately chosen to prematurely end their string with a \0, that's really nasty and foolish but blacklisting them as a company from installing kernel modules is way frikin OTT.
How does this help joe public get his winmodem working?
How does this encourage any corporation from releasing proprietary drivers for in Linux? (Which are better than no drivers IMHO)
There are other drivers (particularly audio and graphics) that use proprietary code implemented by private companies and these are used every day by many thousands of Linux users.
Geeze do you even understand what this is about? There are two products, energy and Helium, they *claim* to have meaured energy, not the Helium. I'm saying it's very unconvincing without measuring the Helium, measuring the energy in a system is tough and requires a great deal of precision and rigor. Now someone chimes in and says I didn't RTFA, no, you didn't understand my post, but thanks for your redundant quotes.
I for one welcome our new robotic blimp overseers.
It's real simple, if there's cold fusion then there's Helium being produced from Hydrogen. So where is it? All this stuff about ballance of energy etc is on the edge of verifiability and instrument callibration. Until you can detect Helium being produced then you don't have an kind of a convincing case. I'm still skeptical about these cold fusion measurements.
You have to love this, EV1 is continuing to be caught up in a fiasco they now wish they'd not gotten involved in, but more interesting that their pain is IBM's attempt to uncover Microsoft's hand of influence in the whole SCO debacle. This could really explode in Microsoft's face if it turns out that they have been orchestrating this as an anti-Linux campaign. It could be absolutely huge.
Rubbish, it's not disrespectful to anyone. The guy turned down $ millions to volunteer to go fight for a cause he believed in after returning from his honeymoon. That demonstrates unusual and quite incredible selflessness, sacrifice and commitment to his country, he was also well known and liked by many fans whatever you think of that. He made the Army Rangers, an elite force and now he's joined the ranks of America's war dead. Telling his story takes nothing away from the others, I remember when this guy joined up with his brother, he was being interviewed (nobody could quite figure out why he was doing it and he was reticent about going into details) and I remember thinking, "that's one hell of a guy", now we've learned today that he's been killed. If anything it brings the loss of the thousands of family members into sharp focus through our fleeting familiarity with this hero. And no I ain't even an NFL fan.
You belittling his sacrifice and claiming his career was silly is ignorant and disrespectful.
Yea it's similar in the sense it's completely frikin different. Wavelet transform != discrete cosine transform.
Yea but he'd have to use a nuke to fix it and blow himself up with the malfunctioning breaker.
That's a lot of "may"s in there. At least be committal. That's the problem with this stuff, you want to measure all the worst consequences of our actions w.r.t. the economy etc. but don't want to consider for a second the devastating effect stopping our activities would have on our economy. All this for a pocket full of maybes. Well "may" isn't enough, we need more studies and more proof and then we need reasonable action that we can both afford and doesn't give eggregious polluters like China a free pass. That action should include some of Dyson's suggestions for temporarily lowering the Earth's albedo instead of ineffective kneejerk treaties that we can't afford.
Companies invest fortunes in R&D all the time, everyone from computer chip makers to pharmaceuticals spend billions in R&D, just because you don't hear of it doesn't mean it ain't happening. Likewise just because it doesn't conform to some eco-utopian vision of yours doesn't mean it isn't worthy R&D.
Incriminating stuff on Microsoft's recommendation from the article:
"It was evident that Microsoft had an agenda," Mr. Goldfarb said.
This from the guy at Baystar who was involved in the deal. Earth calling D.O.J. Earth to D.O.J. come in please.
Maybe he should stop breathing air, the military uses that stuff too.
The way he resigns with a scattergun explanation along with other not so subtle clues suggests more that it's sour grapes and that he just can't get on with the other members.
This sales guy who "won Munich", how much did he get in comission for it? For all we know his benefits package was weak, or maybe Novell changed his package when they bought SUSE and he decided to quit. If he's good at what he does then it's up to his company to keep him. If they can't or if he's really not the guy who won the deal (I expect it would have been a team including techs) then that's too bad. He moves on and life goes on.