No, Slashdot is quite right, or at least quite close. As well as my own dates/times.
The point I wish to make is that this shouldn't have been as big of a problem as it was. That's not to say it's all because of incompetent admins. That's not to say it's all because of incompetent Microsoft.
Something went horribly wrong when there was a month between the patch and the first sightings of an exploit. And a considerable amount of time as a relatively benign exploit at that. Hopefully both sides of the fence, as well as the rest of the industry, can learn from this embarassment can develop and establish both the technical and political aspects of effective security.
II. Arguements B. The Television Studios Seek Greater Invasion Into Personal Lives Than The Federal Government Has In The War On Terrorism.
The television studios are seeking, and have obtained from Judge Eick, a mandatory surveillance system even greater that what United States law enforcement, battling international terrorism, has obtained, or considers appropriate.
If anyone doesn't believe that laws are being bought they are deluding themselves. Those wishing to preserve outdated revenue streams in the future and punishing all citizens of the United States, including those who might commit a "crime" in the future, are granted more freedoms and greater powers than those that are responding to an act of immense destruction and horrible violence that actually happened in the past.
Suppose I were presented with a choice, where upon completion would result in the preservation of my family. If the two options were to have a plane fly into a building, killing thousands of people, or to watch a movie without commercials I would be inclined choose the former. I would be much more likely to get away with it.
Overbearing IP laws lead to a form of communism, not with the government at the helm but instead corporations.
Their claims of the sanctity of preserving Locke's "Life, Liberty, and Property" are doing just the opposite, in regards to the public at large.
With the example of the constant copyright extensions the corporations that establish hoards of content end up "owning" too much, only let it be doled out to the public at their whim. The public will never have anything of their own and all property will be at the disposal of the very select few at the heads of business.
Maybe if we can present this to polititions, of any party, we can create a new "Red Scare".
Are you or have you ever been a member of the entertainment industry?
Ownership of all physical media and devices to read such media, is the sole property of the purchaser of the media, without an expressely negotiated and signed contract between both the copyright holder and the purchaser.
Users have the right to use technology in order to achieve the rights previously mentioned.
One of the primary arguements on the side of the MPAA and RIAA for the strengthening and extending of IP laws and DRM is the importance of ownership and its protection. From John Locke's rights of "Life, Liberty, and Property" these industries have a basis for arguement. However, as seen through their efforts in placing a strangle hold on Fair Use and draconian Digital Rights Management schemes they are taking away these fundamental rights from the entire population of the United States and transferring it to themselves. The MPAA and RIAA wish to establish a communist regime and dole out entertainment only to those they feel need and deserve it.
That association and accusation alone should stir up some blood in Congress regardless of party affiliation.
Lets make the MPAA and RIAA the new "Red Scare".
Are you or have you ever been a memeber of the Entertainment Industry Party?
Umm.. Just because its a record profit year, it still doesn't make it legal to steal movies/music.
Just because something is illegal doesn't make it wrong.
Music/movies aren't stolen, they're pirated. The unauthorized reproduction of copyrighted material. Again, I see no mention of this being inherently wrong.
I don't justify my breaking of current laws. I advocate a change from the current laws.
IIRC, Dickens was the first author with episodic releases. As soon as Dickens would finish a chapter, he'd ship it off to the Americas to be read. As for digital distribution, Orson Scott Card was also a precursor. Back when I was on AOL (yeah yeah) I would visit the Hattrack chat room. He had an area available to download a couple of his works. Usually it was short stories or working texts. However, new novels would be realeased chapter by chapter. When the book was sent to the publisher, it would be removed. I read all of Children of the Mind (final book of the Ender series) in good ol' ASCII format. I also read the first few chapters of (I believe, it was a long time ago) Heartfire, part of the Alvin Maker series.
I thought it was a lot of fun getting a chapter at a time. Being busy all the time I had an excuse not to be reading a novel all the time.:)
I don't know if Orson Scott Card has continued this service with his Hatrack.com website, however. I suppose I could look, but I'd also like to get others to visit.:p
Some of my fondest memories of highschool are gathering around a computer to play Heroes 2. We'd usually get about 3 or 4 people together and usually comp stomp ('cuz it cheats). One game could easily last 6 or 7 hours. Start after school and not get home until 2am. Order a pizza, play cards when it wasn't your turn, or read a book. It was a wacky form of entertainment, but priceless looking back on it.
Before HoMaMz was Fantasy Empires. An entire summer was wasted on that game. I had a lame-ass manual labor job with a friend of mine. Help with construction at a housing development. Anyway, the two of us started taking the game so seriously that we tacked a blanket to the ceiling to prevent the other from watching. That was also when my friend bought the first Boys II Men CD and Weezer and listened to them all the time.
I'd have to agree. God of Cookery is a... wacky... film to say the least. There's nothing like bad acting with bad translation to get you excited about foreign films.
This started in the late Doom / early Quake 1 days. After the extremely well done Aliens TC for Doom, there were many people that wanted a similar work for Quake. Several projects were started and Fox abrubtly squashed them. Understandable since they had their Aliens vs. Predator in the works. They didn't want a free similar project out there to divert from their potential revinue on their copyrighted material.
As much as people bitched and complained about this the first time around, you'll notice that the law is still very much in favor of the company.
Generate your own idea and don't rely on the popularity of somebody elses product to get your's off the ground. People nowadays are too name concious anyway. Let's work for content concious. Mmmkay?
Now, first off I'd like to see RAMBUS burn and rott in hell. I'm sure a great many people in these here parts would as well. The problem is, I don't want any judge, at this time, to believe that. Aren't they supposed to be impartial? AFAIK, what RAMBUS is doing hasn't been determined legal or not. The courts need to find that without having a previous bias. With that kind of power and the appearance that this judge is angry at RAMBUS could set a bad precident and could swing appeals in favor of RAMBUS, which I feel would be a Bad Thing(tm).
Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech...
-1st Amendment, Bill of Rights
Now, this isn't to say that censorware shouldn't be installed to begin with. That is a debate in and of itself. The problem here is that it doesn't fall under Congressional jurisdiction. If censorware is to be installed, it needs to be mandated by the individual institutions.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to tell you that the same card will perform similarly. One of the definitions of insanity is repeating the same action and expecting a different result. Now, I guess the silkscreening of the brand name might cause some molecular differences, leading to a performance boost/loss. If you were to perform some simple statistics on those results from the various GF's you could eliminate most, if not all, of them as normal variation.
And that Linux coders can buy food for free, pay rent for free, get free computers, free utilities including Internet access, power, etc.
In cases like this, the product should be free, the services come at a cost. This is how RedHat function, if I'm not mistaken. You download the ISO, but if you want tech support, better have your credit card handy. From what I understand, a large amount of money for artists come from concerts, t-shirts, etc. An economic term I've heard is a loss-leader. You take a loss on one aspect of your business only to have a loyal fan base (or for the convenience of being in the same store) and charge them slightly more for the other produts, more than offsetting the loss on the inticement piece.
Nicholas Petreley advocated creating "Crookster" for commercial software. Well, here's an analogy. Imagine setting up a site that you could visit and download an entire and full featured operating system, and here's the kicker: IT'S FREE! You can download it. You can modify it. Here are a couple examples: www.slackware.com, www.redhat.com. Maybe you've heard of them? Windows 2000 distribution is too tight an example. Creating Napster to distribute music isn't necessarily about stealing the existing infrastructure of music. I'll admit that quite a few users have that in mind, but hear me out. Napster was created as a way to express our disgust of paying $20 per CD for $0.30 worth of manufacture and $0.50 of pay to the artist. It may not be the best method, but it's loud enough to tell the Record Labels and the artists that we don't want this method of obtaining music. We want the labels to change their method. Nicholas Petreley wants us to change the method, but frankly, most of us are too lazy.:) Example: Flag burning. I personally don't think that's the way to go to get attention (I'm too patriotic), but when it happens, boy and how do people sit up and listen.
We need a better advocate to explain that Napster is a means, not an end. We need to explain to the corporations that what we want as consumers. I'm sick of Sony Entertainment, BMG, whoever, telling ME that Brittany Spears is good. Telling ME that rap/hip hop is the wave of the future. I want to find for myself, without a strong negative monetary penalty, that Moby kicks ass, Ani DiFranco speaks too much truth, and the Marriage of Figaro can bring a tear to my eye.
I wrote the moment I read the licence and recieved almost the exact same thing. I saw it somewhere else (can't remember where at the moment) of someone writing who got the pretty much the same thing.
I don't believe it was an answer saying it's not the extent people are reading into it. I feel it's a blowoff of the unwashed masses.
I sent a follow-up e-mail and have yet to recieve a response, I guess the computer didn't know how to handle that!
Now, I don't know about the DVD availability of many of these. Here goes, we only stick with TV series.
Saber Marionette J Irresponsible Captain Tyler Neon Genesis Evangelion Slayers Rurouni Kenshin Record of Lodoss War Cowboy Bebop Lain Escaflowne Martian Successor Nadesico
I think a possible poll to go along with this whole Metallica/Napster issue would be regarding illegal.mp3's. What percentage of your.mp3 collection would technically be illegal? Do you keep them long? Do you buy the album? Etc.?
This may provide insight as to the extent of damage that can be caused by illegal.mp3's.
In my house, between me and my roommates, we have contributed several thousand dollars to the music industry by way of CD's and probably have about $100 worth of pirated music. ~2-5%. And the illegal.mp3's we have are typically from foreign imports or just plain unavailable.
Remember, this is dealing only with illegal.mp3's. The issue with the Diamond Rio established legal.mp3's.
I wish I could see their faces when their next album is released and they have a guaranteed 300,000 fewer sales. Seeing as how a million albums sold is a success, a 30% decrease is going to hurt them much more than an occasional.mp3 here and there.
Slashdot Mirror
No, Slashdot is quite right, or at least quite close. As well as my own dates/times.
The point I wish to make is that this shouldn't have been as big of a problem as it was. That's not to say it's all because of incompetent admins. That's not to say it's all because of incompetent Microsoft.
Something went horribly wrong when there was a month between the patch and the first sightings of an exploit. And a considerable amount of time as a relatively benign exploit at that. Hopefully both sides of the fence, as well as the rest of the industry, can learn from this embarassment can develop and establish both the technical and political aspects of effective security.
June 18, 2001 14:29:28 -0700
Microsoft Security Bulliten MS01-033
June 18, 2001 14:36:53
q300972_w2k_sp3_x86_en.exe
When did Code Red hit? Did I bother to notice? Did I bother to record? No. It didn't affect me much.
Suppose I were presented with a choice, where upon completion would result in the preservation of my family. If the two options were to have a plane fly into a building, killing thousands of people, or to watch a movie without commercials I would be inclined choose the former. I would be much more likely to get away with it.
Overbearing IP laws lead to a form of communism, not with the government at the helm but instead corporations.
Their claims of the sanctity of preserving Locke's "Life, Liberty, and Property" are doing just the opposite, in regards to the public at large.
With the example of the constant copyright extensions the corporations that establish hoards of content end up "owning" too much, only let it be doled out to the public at their whim. The public will never have anything of their own and all property will be at the disposal of the very select few at the heads of business.
Maybe if we can present this to polititions, of any party, we can create a new "Red Scare".
Are you or have you ever been a member of the entertainment industry?
One of the primary arguements on the side of the MPAA and RIAA for the strengthening and extending of IP laws and DRM is the importance of ownership and its protection. From John Locke's rights of "Life, Liberty, and Property" these industries have a basis for arguement. However, as seen through their efforts in placing a strangle hold on Fair Use and draconian Digital Rights Management schemes they are taking away these fundamental rights from the entire population of the United States and transferring it to themselves. The MPAA and RIAA wish to establish a communist regime and dole out entertainment only to those they feel need and deserve it.
That association and accusation alone should stir up some blood in Congress regardless of party affiliation.
Lets make the MPAA and RIAA the new "Red Scare".
Are you or have you ever been a memeber of the Entertainment Industry Party?
Umm.. Just because its a record profit year, it still doesn't make it legal to steal movies/music.
Just because something is illegal doesn't make it wrong.
Music/movies aren't stolen, they're pirated. The unauthorized reproduction of copyrighted material. Again, I see no mention of this being inherently wrong.
I don't justify my breaking of current laws. I advocate a change from the current laws.
IIRC, Dickens was the first author with episodic releases. As soon as Dickens would finish a chapter, he'd ship it off to the Americas to be read. As for digital distribution, Orson Scott Card was also a precursor. Back when I was on AOL (yeah yeah) I would visit the Hattrack chat room. He had an area available to download a couple of his works. Usually it was short stories or working texts. However, new novels would be realeased chapter by chapter. When the book was sent to the publisher, it would be removed. I read all of Children of the Mind (final book of the Ender series) in good ol' ASCII format. I also read the first few chapters of (I believe, it was a long time ago) Heartfire, part of the Alvin Maker series.
:)
:p
I thought it was a lot of fun getting a chapter at a time. Being busy all the time I had an excuse not to be reading a novel all the time.
I don't know if Orson Scott Card has continued this service with his Hatrack.com website, however. I suppose I could look, but I'd also like to get others to visit.
Some of my fondest memories of highschool are gathering around a computer to play Heroes 2. We'd usually get about 3 or 4 people together and usually comp stomp ('cuz it cheats). One game could easily last 6 or 7 hours. Start after school and not get home until 2am. Order a pizza, play cards when it wasn't your turn, or read a book. It was a wacky form of entertainment, but priceless looking back on it.
Before HoMaMz was Fantasy Empires. An entire summer was wasted on that game. I had a lame-ass manual labor job with a friend of mine. Help with construction at a housing development. Anyway, the two of us started taking the game so seriously that we tacked a blanket to the ceiling to prevent the other from watching. That was also when my friend bought the first Boys II Men CD and Weezer and listened to them all the time.
And people wonder why I'm so wierd...
I'd have to agree. God of Cookery is a... wacky... film to say the least. There's nothing like bad acting with bad translation to get you excited about foreign films.
This started in the late Doom / early Quake 1 days. After the extremely well done Aliens TC for Doom, there were many people that wanted a similar work for Quake. Several projects were started and Fox abrubtly squashed them. Understandable since they had their Aliens vs. Predator in the works. They didn't want a free similar project out there to divert from their potential revinue on their copyrighted material.
As much as people bitched and complained about this the first time around, you'll notice that the law is still very much in favor of the company.
Generate your own idea and don't rely on the popularity of somebody elses product to get your's off the ground. People nowadays are too name concious anyway. Let's work for content concious. Mmmkay?
Now, first off I'd like to see RAMBUS burn and rott in hell. I'm sure a great many people in these here parts would as well. The problem is, I don't want any judge, at this time, to believe that. Aren't they supposed to be impartial? AFAIK, what RAMBUS is doing hasn't been determined legal or not. The courts need to find that without having a previous bias. With that kind of power and the appearance that this judge is angry at RAMBUS could set a bad precident and could swing appeals in favor of RAMBUS, which I feel would be a Bad Thing(tm).
Now, this isn't to say that censorware shouldn't be installed to begin with. That is a debate in and of itself. The problem here is that it doesn't fall under Congressional jurisdiction. If censorware is to be installed, it needs to be mandated by the individual institutions.
Here's my token useless post:
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to tell you that the same card will perform similarly. One of the definitions of insanity is repeating the same action and expecting a different result. Now, I guess the silkscreening of the brand name might cause some molecular differences, leading to a performance boost/loss. If you were to perform some simple statistics on those results from the various GF's you could eliminate most, if not all, of them as normal variation.
And that Linux coders can buy food for free, pay rent for free, get free computers, free utilities including Internet access, power, etc.
In cases like this, the product should be free, the services come at a cost. This is how RedHat function, if I'm not mistaken. You download the ISO, but if you want tech support, better have your credit card handy. From what I understand, a large amount of money for artists come from concerts, t-shirts, etc. An economic term I've heard is a loss-leader. You take a loss on one aspect of your business only to have a loyal fan base (or for the convenience of being in the same store) and charge them slightly more for the other produts, more than offsetting the loss on the inticement piece.
Nicholas Petreley advocated creating "Crookster" for commercial software. Well, here's an analogy. Imagine setting up a site that you could visit and download an entire and full featured operating system, and here's the kicker: IT'S FREE! You can download it. You can modify it. Here are a couple examples: www.slackware.com, www.redhat.com. Maybe you've heard of them? Windows 2000 distribution is too tight an example. Creating Napster to distribute music isn't necessarily about stealing the existing infrastructure of music. I'll admit that quite a few users have that in mind, but hear me out. Napster was created as a way to express our disgust of paying $20 per CD for $0.30 worth of manufacture and $0.50 of pay to the artist. It may not be the best method, but it's loud enough to tell the Record Labels and the artists that we don't want this method of obtaining music. We want the labels to change their method. Nicholas Petreley wants us to change the method, but frankly, most of us are too lazy. :) Example: Flag burning. I personally don't think that's the way to go to get attention (I'm too patriotic), but when it happens, boy and how do people sit up and listen.
We need a better advocate to explain that Napster is a means, not an end. We need to explain to the corporations that what we want as consumers. I'm sick of Sony Entertainment, BMG, whoever, telling ME that Brittany Spears is good. Telling ME that rap/hip hop is the wave of the future. I want to find for myself, without a strong negative monetary penalty, that Moby kicks ass, Ani DiFranco speaks too much truth, and the Marriage of Figaro can bring a tear to my eye.
I wrote the moment I read the licence and recieved almost the exact same thing. I saw it somewhere else (can't remember where at the moment) of someone writing who got the pretty much the same thing.
I don't believe it was an answer saying it's not the extent people are reading into it. I feel it's a blowoff of the unwashed masses.
I sent a follow-up e-mail and have yet to recieve a response, I guess the computer didn't know how to handle that!
Now, I don't know about the DVD availability of many of these. Here goes, we only stick with TV series.
Saber Marionette J
Irresponsible Captain Tyler
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Slayers
Rurouni Kenshin
Record of Lodoss War
Cowboy Bebop
Lain
Escaflowne
Martian Successor Nadesico
I think a possible poll to go along with this whole Metallica/Napster issue would be regarding illegal .mp3's. What percentage of your .mp3 collection would technically be illegal? Do you keep them long? Do you buy the album? Etc.?
.mp3's.
.mp3's we have are typically from foreign imports or just plain unavailable.
.mp3's. The issue with the Diamond Rio established legal .mp3's.
This may provide insight as to the extent of damage that can be caused by illegal
In my house, between me and my roommates, we have contributed several thousand dollars to the music industry by way of CD's and probably have about $100 worth of pirated music. ~2-5%. And the illegal
Remember, this is dealing only with illegal
I wish I could see their faces when their next album is released and they have a guaranteed 300,000 fewer sales. Seeing as how a million albums sold is a success, a 30% decrease is going to hurt them much more than an occasional .mp3 here and there.