I wholeheartedly agree! There need to be more lawsuits filed against people who file lawsuits. Soon, everyone will owe everyone else everything! Then it will all be over.
VOIP is the inevitable future for all of us anyway. The tapping is going to happen one way or the other. It just seems that it is the tapper who should foot the bill rather than the tappee.
I agree that we should be using more encryption. We should be encrypting everything with at least some weak encryption as not to slow down any processes too much. If everything is encrypted then these intelligence agencies would be forced to focus only on those who they truly believe to be criminals rather than having access to every innocent citizen's private business.
i was actually trying to post an apology... oops... but there is the two minute limit, and i had to run... i hit submit rather than preview by mistake...
>>I appreciate your thoughts and understand them >>completely. It is
>>not posted on my web site, but this issue is >>between Katie Jones and
>>Penguin Putnam. They own the name Katie.com >>as a published book and
>>decided to call it that. I can do nothing in >>my power to change it. I
>>would suggest if you would like your voice to >>be heard and a chance that
>>something is done about it, direct your >>sympathy to Penguin Putnam. For
>>the record I have never harassed Katie Jones >>for her site.
>>Best, Katie Tarbox
the article said Katie's lawyer, not her publisher's lawyer... what's with that?
Why is there no targeting of IRC? That is where I have done a great deal of my DLing.... It's great for entire CD's, software, and even better for Movies than P2P. It seems strange to fight only half the battle.
I think the RIAA is encouraging children to steal music by putting it out there to 'steal'. Or maybe we should just stop this whole thing at the source and start arresting the artists themselves.
It is not about fooling anyone. It is the exact opposite in fact. It is a matter of the intrinsic freedom of trading numbers. You cannot claim a number as property becuase it could possibly happen to represent a song in some digital format.
If I were to pull the first 4 bytes from each mp3 frame, then the file could no longer be considered an mp3 or audio file for that matter.
Or furthermore, i could take ANY long string of 1's and 0s and create a player (decoder) that would decode that particular string of numbers into some copywritten work (or something that sounds similar). There is too much gray area.
I was always under the impression that if you do something in numbers, that was the safety mechanism. This is a huge concept in nature for survival. 3000 out of millions! My chances of winning the lottery are only slightly worse than my chances of getting sued by the RIAA!
How can the RIAA expect to thwart something that is so widely accepted, and internationally practiced? This is the equivalent of a strike or a boycott. Obviously these lawsuits aren't working very well, and even so, the sharing networks will just end up switching to a closed system like Friendster where 'known parties' will use strong encryption to transmit data.
If i take a song, represent it in binary (create a file out of it), and then just call it a number, can't i tell the court that all i was doing was sending a number to my friend? It's not my fault if the number can be decoded into sound. An artist can't possibly own all the numbers his song could be digitized into!
I can't seems to figure out what is considered an artist's property and what is not. If i walk down the street and sing a tune to myself, can i be sued? Is it different if someone else hears me sing the tune, and then starts singing it themselves?
If i get a song stuck in my head can they do a brain scan and sue me over and over again?
All along the watchtower contains the chord progression Am, G, F, G, Am, and so does Stairway to Heaven (and many other tunes), so what's the deal with this?
There are so many places online where i am required to use a password, and there are so many ways for those different accounts to be linked together with some form of datamining on the other end. What I am concerned about is malicious intent from the other end. How can i trust that insiders with access to these password databases don't use my password info to sign into other account i may have on the net (i.e. financial accounts)?
I try to used different passwords depending on the level of trust i have for a certain company. For example, all of my banking passwords are different than say a password i would use to log into/. or hotmail. The problem with this is trying to remember which passwords are for which sites.
Of course, i then run into the problem of accounts where i must change my password monthly or quarterly, and i can't use previous passwords. This seems to be another huge security risk (unless a strong form of hashing is used) as the system now has a list of all my previously used passwords, and once again i have more passwords to rememeber as i can no longer stick with the few i would like to.
I feel that my passwords are relatively random and reasonably strong, and wish i could keep them. Does anyone what to test this theory and post AS ME from this/. account?
I was on the phone with a Dell Tech Support guy (from India of course) and I was having a problem installing the Dell system software (for USB 2.0 support) off the drivers disk onto my laptop. I was getting the error something to the effect of "Cannot install on this machine." I had called the guy to ask if the error had anything to do with the new HD I had installed. I figured maybe the install software was checking the system to make sure it was the original hardware. He told me that was not the case, and the problem was that my software was corrupt. I knew he was wrong because everything extracted fine, and I could reinstall the software with the old HD in the machine. Well, it turns out that it was becuase WinXP SP1 was not yet installed on the new disk. I think the lesson here is that whoever put together that software package for DELL should have put more specific error messages into it.
blah blah blah.... i know this is going to get some response like "oooooo... you can't break the law, i'm telling", but i can't sit here silent, so i will try to make this simple. it doesn't matter what anyone thinks or what laws we create. as long as we are capable of transferring data at high rates, data will no longer be worth any money. nothing easily attainable with infinite supply is worth money. it doesn't matter if artists need to eat. they are going to have to get a day job. let's be realistic here! the music industry is SOL
I am not a hippie nor am i a communist. I would classify myself as a logical person who takes no political sides. Politics are for people who can't make decisions on their own, people who can't stand to hear another side to an argument, and people who are weak willed and way too easily offended.
There is no way that something with infinite supply can be worth something... give me one good reason why i should pay for something that is not limited in supply. it makes no sense.. who cares if the rest of the world has been fooled into such ridiculous nonsense. obviously the laws were set up by the people who profit from them.
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I wholeheartedly agree! There need to be more lawsuits filed against people who file lawsuits. Soon, everyone will owe everyone else everything! Then it will all be over.
Now I can watch as the food in the fridge turns green... Ye-hah!
VOIP is the inevitable future for all of us anyway. The tapping is going to happen one way or the other. It just seems that it is the tapper who should foot the bill rather than the tappee.
I agree that we should be using more encryption. We should be encrypting everything with at least some weak encryption as not to slow down any processes too much. If everything is encrypted then these intelligence agencies would be forced to focus only on those who they truly believe to be criminals rather than having access to every innocent citizen's private business.
sorry... i forgot the link
Bear story
where is the 'bear guzzles 36 beers and passes out story?'
that must somehow fall under the category of 'stuff that matters.'
we worry about security patches and updates, while they worry about birthday references, map errors, and of course holy sacred bullsh*t
this is why i think we need to BOMB more people
i don't think it's the article so much that is lame. it's these stupid people who get offended over stupidest crap!
stop being a little bitch!
wah, wah, wah, my computer smells like plastic
be happy it's not made out of dog shit
i was actually trying to post an apology... oops... but there is the two minute limit, and i had to run... i hit submit rather than preview by mistake...
my deepest apologies..
>>I appreciate your thoughts and understand them >>completely. It is >>not posted on my web site, but this issue is >>between Katie Jones and >>Penguin Putnam. They own the name Katie.com >>as a published book and >>decided to call it that. I can do nothing in >>my power to change it. I >>would suggest if you would like your voice to >>be heard and a chance that >>something is done about it, direct your >>sympathy to Penguin Putnam. For >>the record I have never harassed Katie Jones >>for her site. >>Best, Katie Tarbox the article said Katie's lawyer, not her publisher's lawyer... what's with that?
I shall title my next book Google.Com! I think I've got something here.
It doesn't account for different length vehicles either, or different slow down/speed up capabilities of different vehicles.
Of course there are weather conditions to factor in as well.
It just looks plain old dangerous to me!
Why is there no targeting of IRC? That is where I have done a great deal of my DLing.... It's great for entire CD's, software, and even better for Movies than P2P. It seems strange to fight only half the battle.
I think the RIAA is encouraging children to steal music by putting it out there to 'steal'. Or maybe we should just stop this whole thing at the source and start arresting the artists themselves.
If they ran out of allowed queries per day, then it wouldn't start working again until tomorrow.
Search Error
MSN Search is temporarily unable to process your request.
Please try again in a few minutes.
EID: f:2114719238 - 1041:1041:10004:1059
HC: 71d61b16
I would have to guess that it's not quite as bad as getting hit with a missile named GOD!
Awsome!
It is not about fooling anyone. It is the exact opposite in fact. It is a matter of the intrinsic freedom of trading numbers. You cannot claim a number as property becuase it could possibly happen to represent a song in some digital format.
If I were to pull the first 4 bytes from each mp3 frame, then the file could no longer be considered an mp3 or audio file for that matter.
Or furthermore, i could take ANY long string of 1's and 0s and create a player (decoder) that would decode that particular string of numbers into some copywritten work (or something that sounds similar). There is too much gray area.
I was always under the impression that if you do something in numbers, that was the safety mechanism. This is a huge concept in nature for survival. 3000 out of millions! My chances of winning the lottery are only slightly worse than my chances of getting sued by the RIAA!
How can the RIAA expect to thwart something that is so widely accepted, and internationally practiced? This is the equivalent of a strike or a boycott. Obviously these lawsuits aren't working very well, and even so, the sharing networks will just end up switching to a closed system like Friendster where 'known parties' will use strong encryption to transmit data.
If i take a song, represent it in binary (create a file out of it), and then just call it a number, can't i tell the court that all i was doing was sending a number to my friend? It's not my fault if the number can be decoded into sound. An artist can't possibly own all the numbers his song could be digitized into!
I can't seems to figure out what is considered an artist's property and what is not. If i walk down the street and sing a tune to myself, can i be sued? Is it different if someone else hears me sing the tune, and then starts singing it themselves?
If i get a song stuck in my head can they do a brain scan and sue me over and over again?
All along the watchtower contains the chord progression Am, G, F, G, Am, and so does Stairway to Heaven (and many other tunes), so what's the deal with this?
There are so many places online where i am required to use a password, and there are so many ways for those different accounts to be linked together with some form of datamining on the other end. What I am concerned about is malicious intent from the other end. How can i trust that insiders with access to these password databases don't use my password info to sign into other account i may have on the net (i.e. financial accounts)?
I try to used different passwords depending on the level of trust i have for a certain company. For example, all of my banking passwords are different than say a password i would use to log into /. or hotmail. The problem with this is trying to remember which passwords are for which sites.
Of course, i then run into the problem of accounts where i must change my password monthly or quarterly, and i can't use previous passwords. This seems to be another huge security risk (unless a strong form of hashing is used) as the system now has a list of all my previously used passwords, and once again i have more passwords to rememeber as i can no longer stick with the few i would like to.
I feel that my passwords are relatively random and reasonably strong, and wish i could keep them. Does anyone what to test this theory and post AS ME from this /. account?
I was on the phone with a Dell Tech Support guy (from India of course) and I was having a problem installing the Dell system software (for USB 2.0 support) off the drivers disk onto my laptop. I was getting the error something to the effect of "Cannot install on this machine." I had called the guy to ask if the error had anything to do with the new HD I had installed. I figured maybe the install software was checking the system to make sure it was the original hardware. He told me that was not the case, and the problem was that my software was corrupt. I knew he was wrong because everything extracted fine, and I could reinstall the software with the old HD in the machine. Well, it turns out that it was becuase WinXP SP1 was not yet installed on the new disk. I think the lesson here is that whoever put together that software package for DELL should have put more specific error messages into it.
blah blah blah.... i know this is going to get some response like "oooooo... you can't break the law, i'm telling", but i can't sit here silent, so i will try to make this simple. it doesn't matter what anyone thinks or what laws we create. as long as we are capable of transferring data at high rates, data will no longer be worth any money. nothing easily attainable with infinite supply is worth money. it doesn't matter if artists need to eat. they are going to have to get a day job. let's be realistic here! the music industry is SOL
I am not a hippie nor am i a communist. I would classify myself as a logical person who takes no political sides. Politics are for people who can't make decisions on their own, people who can't stand to hear another side to an argument, and people who are weak willed and way too easily offended. There is no way that something with infinite supply can be worth something... give me one good reason why i should pay for something that is not limited in supply. it makes no sense.. who cares if the rest of the world has been fooled into such ridiculous nonsense. obviously the laws were set up by the people who profit from them.
the best way to change the law is to show how futile it is to try to enforce the law. Downloading is my form of free speech and protest....