Nothing wrong with adding the boss or colleagues. Depends on the relationship with them and how irresponsible/dishonest you are. i.e. bad idea if you're planning on skipping work with a fake excuse, after posting photos of yourself enjoying cocktails at 3am that morning, or if your boss is a devout Muslim and you enjoy posting daily examples of Muslim butthurt.
The point is that you can't force it by just taking the music on some dubious sense of justice. There are some artists out there releasing content under flexible terms. Support them; help establish a market. Most of all, abstain from music you feel to be unfairly sold.
Your argument is with capitalism - not some imagined cabal of geeks plotting against you. Open source is not guaranteed to cheap, and given your line of business I doubt you'd typically settle for bus fair and lunch.
You're not looking for a coder; what you need is a serf with decent technical skills. Developers are not some kind of communal resource to be called on when people can't be arsed to pay someone to fix a problem they themselves can't solve. I can't speak for the entire open source community, but I think the general sentiment would be "Wipe drive, reinstall Windows, and fuck off".
A good start to restoring balance would be to seriously reduce the costs of defending these things, and keep the costs and restitution proportional to the actual damage caused by a violation.
One can only hope that Steve Gibson receives a visit from the cancer fairy, and in his final minutes comes to realise what an utter cunt of a bottom feeder he is. Righthaven's approach is merely a refined version of the mob shakedown.
Yeah, it is insane. If a business reaches the mythical "to big to fail" status then it should either be subjected to intense scrutiny to ensure that some wanker at the wheel isn't presiding over the next bank crash, or just nationalise the damn thing.
This group will play a valuable role in ensuring that Australians get all the censorship they could ever want. May not be setup with that intention, but it's difficult to imagine the Australian government doing something that is entirely unrelated to censorship.
It's an unfortunate result of adhering to the teachings that have led each generation for the past 2000 years to think that they are the final generation. It doesn't surprise me that some would think it their duty to help set the stage for the end, but then that's not all Christians. I'm sure it won't be long though before there's a single universal agreement on God's will.
I don't know if this is the same in Canada but in the UK shops that sell musical instruments have to pay a levy to the PRS because someone, while testing their potential purchase, might play a copyrighted song with it which to them is a public performance. What a bunch of utter wankers.
You sure about that? The PRS aspire to be a proper criminal organisation, but that seems a stretch - even for them.
Yeah. Microsoft egged McBride on in his successful attempt to destroy SCO by suing competitors and customers alike, but were smart enough to leave SCO and its shareholders the pleasure financially sodomised by Darl "Open source is unconstitutional" McBride's attempt to sue his way to fortune.
It's a good decision. Open or closed source doesn't matter. What's important is interoperability. To give you an example, around eight years ago the local council website was unusable with anything except IE on Windows. It wasn't that the site was complicated. The issue was that they did a bad job of coding it, and only tested it with IE. That kind of thing shouldn't ever happen.
Not really. OS X is little more than a GUI on top of BSD, which is Posix compliant. So OS X IS Linux, for all practical purposes. Therefore it runs approximately as fast as Linux on the same hardware, and can run the vast majority of programs designed for Linux. And a CD with the latest version 10.6 costs $29. Granted, it's not as cheap as Ubuntu (free), but it's hard to complain about the price.
OS X is not just a GUI on top of BSD. It's far more than that. Take a look at the developer sight for OS X, and have a poke around the internals of one of the other BSDs. There's code shared between the BSDs, but what you describe makes it sound as if OS X is just FreeBSD with a fancy window manager. BSD is not Linux. Windows NT was POSIX compliant, yet it does not follow that Windows NT is practically Linux.
By conflating BSD with Linux you're likely to be be lynched by both the BSD and the Linux camps. Start running!
Are you writing from the future? If so, in what year did this become the norm for computers? Are Twinkies still available, or did the health mafia finally outlaw them?
In answer to your question, if bankers, property developers and financial regulators came together in a mixture of fraud and reckless hubris, leaving the economy of my laptop or car in tatters, I'd be quite annoyed. Thankfully though my laptop doesn't use a fiat currency - thus rendering it immune to the machinations of international financiers and whack-a-mole.
Don't be naive. Everything is about whack-a-mole. This guy just tried to break the hold that whack-a-mole has on us, and for his trouble he'll spend 15 years in prison - assuming he doesn't have a convenient "accident".
Hankering for the days when computers came in kit form and a portable music player mean using granddad's wheelchair to ferry around the phonograph? Yup, that's certainly a demographic upon which one could build a business.
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Nothing wrong with adding the boss or colleagues. Depends on the relationship with them and how irresponsible/dishonest you are. i.e. bad idea if you're planning on skipping work with a fake excuse, after posting photos of yourself enjoying cocktails at 3am that morning, or if your boss is a devout Muslim and you enjoy posting daily examples of Muslim butthurt.
The point is that you can't force it by just taking the music on some dubious sense of justice. There are some artists out there releasing content under flexible terms. Support them; help establish a market. Most of all, abstain from music you feel to be unfairly sold.
Truth mod me up, fanboy mod me down..
Old martyr meme is old.
"Have you ever seen somebody watching a two hour movie on ipad? It's a sight to behold. TWO HOURS of holding it in your one hand."
No. One-armed people get creeped out if I stand watching them for two hours.
Yeah, good luck forcing your Star Trek ancestor worship-based economy on to others.
"or the cure for being Gay"
And once the gays are cured, would you suggest prefer medical science to focus on curing blacks, or would the jews be a better place to start?
Technically yes. It's just not very practical or ethical.
Your argument is with capitalism - not some imagined cabal of geeks plotting against you. Open source is not guaranteed to cheap, and given your line of business I doubt you'd typically settle for bus fair and lunch.
You're not looking for a coder; what you need is a serf with decent technical skills. Developers are not some kind of communal resource to be called on when people can't be arsed to pay someone to fix a problem they themselves can't solve. I can't speak for the entire open source community, but I think the general sentiment would be "Wipe drive, reinstall Windows, and fuck off".
A good start to restoring balance would be to seriously reduce the costs of defending these things, and keep the costs and restitution proportional to the actual damage caused by a violation.
There are probably a few things that separate Google's cache and image search from the typical search engine spammer. Have a think about it.
One can only hope that Steve Gibson receives a visit from the cancer fairy, and in his final minutes comes to realise what an utter cunt of a bottom feeder he is. Righthaven's approach is merely a refined version of the mob shakedown.
I'll avoid Chrome so long as it insists on hourly checking for updates - even when Chrome isn't running.
Google told me that the only way to uninstall this update thing was to remove all Google applications, and I was happy to oblige.
Every night in my dreams!
Yeah, it is insane. If a business reaches the mythical "to big to fail" status then it should either be subjected to intense scrutiny to ensure that some wanker at the wheel isn't presiding over the next bank crash, or just nationalise the damn thing.
This group will play a valuable role in ensuring that Australians get all the censorship they could ever want. May not be setup with that intention, but it's difficult to imagine the Australian government doing something that is entirely unrelated to censorship.
That was a moose.
It's an unfortunate result of adhering to the teachings that have led each generation for the past 2000 years to think that they are the final generation. It doesn't surprise me that some would think it their duty to help set the stage for the end, but then that's not all Christians. I'm sure it won't be long though before there's a single universal agreement on God's will.
I don't know if this is the same in Canada but in the UK shops that sell musical instruments have to pay a levy to the PRS because someone, while testing their potential purchase, might play a copyrighted song with it which to them is a public performance. What a bunch of utter wankers.
You sure about that? The PRS aspire to be a proper criminal organisation, but that seems a stretch - even for them.
Yeah. Microsoft egged McBride on in his successful attempt to destroy SCO by suing competitors and customers alike, but were smart enough to leave SCO and its shareholders the pleasure financially sodomised by Darl "Open source is unconstitutional" McBride's attempt to sue his way to fortune.
A bit off-topic, but would you be the same man at RW? If so, hello from Concernedresident.
It's a good decision. Open or closed source doesn't matter. What's important is interoperability. To give you an example, around eight years ago the local council website was unusable with anything except IE on Windows. It wasn't that the site was complicated. The issue was that they did a bad job of coding it, and only tested it with IE. That kind of thing shouldn't ever happen.
Not really. OS X is little more than a GUI on top of BSD, which is Posix compliant. So OS X IS Linux, for all practical purposes. Therefore it runs approximately as fast as Linux on the same hardware, and can run the vast majority of programs designed for Linux. And a CD with the latest version 10.6 costs $29. Granted, it's not as cheap as Ubuntu (free), but it's hard to complain about the price.
OS X is not just a GUI on top of BSD. It's far more than that. Take a look at the developer sight for OS X, and have a poke around the internals of one of the other BSDs. There's code shared between the BSDs, but what you describe makes it sound as if OS X is just FreeBSD with a fancy window manager. BSD is not Linux. Windows NT was POSIX compliant, yet it does not follow that Windows NT is practically Linux.
By conflating BSD with Linux you're likely to be be lynched by both the BSD and the Linux camps. Start running!
Are you writing from the future? If so, in what year did this become the norm for computers? Are Twinkies still available, or did the health mafia finally outlaw them?
In answer to your question, if bankers, property developers and financial regulators came together in a mixture of fraud and reckless hubris, leaving the economy of my laptop or car in tatters, I'd be quite annoyed. Thankfully though my laptop doesn't use a fiat currency - thus rendering it immune to the machinations of international financiers and whack-a-mole.
Don't be naive. Everything is about whack-a-mole. This guy just tried to break the hold that whack-a-mole has on us, and for his trouble he'll spend 15 years in prison - assuming he doesn't have a convenient "accident".
Hankering for the days when computers came in kit form and a portable music player mean using granddad's wheelchair to ferry around the phonograph? Yup, that's certainly a demographic upon which one could build a business.