I always thought the $9.99 for an album on iTunes was fair.
That may seem fair in your region of the world, but it is ludicrously over-priced elsewhere. As the parent poster said, allofmp3 prices a la $1,20/CD (or something like, say, $2 to $4/DVD maximum) are a lot closer to reality and what the global market is willing to bear. Go just slightly over that, and (online and physical) piracy is worth the risk (IF it is a risk at all) and the inconvenience to most people outside industry nations.
Why should they spend money on DVDs (I mean legal DVDs)? They're lumped together in a region (region 5) without appropriate content for them. Say, you're from a French-speaking African country (that's nearly half of them): you'll need DVDs from region 2 (Europe) with French tracks, not region 5 with Russian tracks. If you're from an English-speaking African country (that's the other half), you'll need DVDs from either region 1 or region 2, but definitely not region 5. That's just a typical example: Africa isn't on the radar for the media conglomerates, because they don't enough enough purchasing power to matter.
Interesting. The nameservers in use are on a domain registered to openbittorrent. This means that the registrar is not at fault.
As a responsible DNS operator, they redirected the traffic in such a way as to not cause unnecessary bandwidth to their old provider, until they switch to a new host. This DNS blackholing of traffic is perfectly understandable and legitimate IMHO.
Who may be convinced? The Supreme Court Justices? How much leeway and wiggle room do they have at all, when the will of the ruling political elite who makes the laws is so clearly pro-Copyright and anti-Civil Rights? What does the Swedish Constitution say concretely? Oh, and that sill supposes that the Justices are at least unbiased and neutral, which is far from certain, considering the history of the TBP case in already two instances with judges being members of pro-Copyright associations, and covering each others asses by denying that this is grounds for bias! I won't bet on the actual Swedish judicial system to save Sweden from the current madness.
Parent poster probably meant to show an open lock for plaintext HTTP, a partially closed lock for self-certified certs that can't be tracked up to a trusted CA, and a closed lock for an unbroken chain of certs. This idea isn't so bad, IMHO.
Isn't such a small "Hello Kai" too small to be copyrightable at all? Try to copyright a simple sentence a la "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." You'll notice that what constitutes a copyrightable work isn't so straightforward as one may naively think (and it varies greatly from legislation to legislation, despite the Bern Convention).
A friend of mine usually puts a couple of Penthouse mags in his suitcase when traveling to some third world countries (North Africa in this case) on purpose to bribe local customs officers. Works like a charm every time: they "confiscate" the material and wave him through with a big grin without bothering him anymore with his electronic gadgets, netbooks, video cam etc... I guess Australia is finally catching up with those countries.
Obsuscation, Steganography and Encryption is not going to help much either. People of both ends of pipe need to know wtf is going on, and if you want something more than couple of people, it needs to be public.
Not necessarily true. In fact, because P2P filesharing is so immensely popular, anonymous P2P systems a la Freenet, Gnunet et. al. will be even more effective, once enough people are being pushed (nudged, or coerced) to join them. It's only a matter of time until most of the Internet traffic will be a big end-to-end encrypted binary blob that no deep packet inspection can open. Sure, that's just the technical workaround and not a cure to the social disease that Copyright has mutated into, but sometimes, societies are driven by technology too.
I'll ask the reverse question: Why shouldn't it exist? Seriously, there's nothing logical (as in mathematical truth) or unavoidable in laws and rights: they're all just a matter of social conventions and pecking order. In the US and most other countries of the western world, the corporations who have the most money buy the laws; in other countries, those with the biggest guns and/or militias make the laws. Is one better than the other? I won't say so: they're strangely similar in their effects: ultimately, rights are nothing more than privileges granted by a strong government to those this government really works for (and that's seldom the people). Feudalism at its best, even if slightly in disguise.
They were setting ROMS royalties aside, as prescribed by Russian law, royalties that the US media cartels didn't want to collect for purely ideological reasons.
Not to me. $1.15 or so per MP3 album @128kbps or approx 10 ct/song like they used to cost on AllOfMp3 was the sweet spot for me (more for higher sampling rate, including formats like OGG, FLAC etc... since they charged 3 cent per transferred megabyte). iTunes or Amazon prices are 10x higher than I'm willing to pay.
I have an email address ending in.name, and 4 character TLDs can even be difficult sometimes.
I have and use.info and.name domains too, but have not seen any problems with them (yet). Maybe some programs don't check RFC-822 (or whatever it is called nowadays) addresses as they should, but this is not new.
And what if the cameras watermark their serial numbers in the videos (something like the yellow dots by color laser printers), and those watermarks survived the transcoding process?
Add to this, that many embedded platforms still use cheap 8086 CPUs. Try running anything bigger than an old version of DOS on that! Of course, a stripped down version of Unix v7 (or so), Minix etc.. would run too, but if it's single threaded, DOS is good enough.
Using (r)tin right now. It works okay, but on newsgroups with over 1,000,000 articles, it consumes a lot of RAM. Should really look at the code to improve and streamline this someday...
My vote is for perl. It's more common in a "base install" than any other shell (in the BSDs and most Linux distros) and has a non-trivial amount of power.
Perl isn't part of the base install in FreeBSD, and Python is necessary in Gentoo. IMHO, availability in the base install shouldn't be a criterion for or against a language, because that can be easily remedied by the distromakers.
Not just HDDs got smaller and acquired higher capacity and reliability. FDDs also went from 8" to 5 1/4" to 3 1/2"... until they were all but replaced by solid state devices (USB drives), of much higher capacity and reliability. However, some old computer tech is superior to what we have today for some particular applications: think computers used in space travel (satellites): the less densely packed and the slower the electronics are, the less vulnerable they are to cosmic rays and other interferences. Same for EMP-hardened computers used in some military aircraft and tanks. It's all a matter of choice and there are some trade offs that application designers have to take.
The Linux GUI is still ugly. There's still a "non-graphical mindset" in the Linux community. This is totally alien to anybody under 30 (40? 50?)
Eh.. Pardon me? What exactly has the GUI to do with the kernel? Most kernel development I've been involved with in embedded devices and all kinds of different kernels and microkernels used a serial console for development... to hardware-test stuff that was written on an emulator. Even writing to something like memory mapped video (e.g. 0xb8000 on PC-like hardware) is luxury at this level, and VESA-consoles is nearly unheard of! Sorry, but GUI is something for application developers, and simply doesn't belong in the kernel. If good ole text / serial consoles are alien to young people, maybe those young people should learn to use them, before even considering writing system software. That's the easiest part of the learning curve anyway.
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That may seem fair in your region of the world, but it is ludicrously over-priced elsewhere. As the parent poster said, allofmp3 prices a la $1,20/CD (or something like, say, $2 to $4/DVD maximum) are a lot closer to reality and what the global market is willing to bear. Go just slightly over that, and (online and physical) piracy is worth the risk (IF it is a risk at all) and the inconvenience to most people outside industry nations.
Why should they spend money on DVDs (I mean legal DVDs)? They're lumped together in a region (region 5) without appropriate content for them. Say, you're from a French-speaking African country (that's nearly half of them): you'll need DVDs from region 2 (Europe) with French tracks, not region 5 with Russian tracks. If you're from an English-speaking African country (that's the other half), you'll need DVDs from either region 1 or region 2, but definitely not region 5. That's just a typical example: Africa isn't on the radar for the media conglomerates, because they don't enough enough purchasing power to matter.
Or so they claim...
As a responsible DNS operator, they redirected the traffic in such a way as to not cause unnecessary bandwidth to their old provider, until they switch to a new host. This DNS blackholing of traffic is perfectly understandable and legitimate IMHO.
Who may be convinced? The Supreme Court Justices? How much leeway and wiggle room do they have at all, when the will of the ruling political elite who makes the laws is so clearly pro-Copyright and anti-Civil Rights? What does the Swedish Constitution say concretely? Oh, and that sill supposes that the Justices are at least unbiased and neutral, which is far from certain, considering the history of the TBP case in already two instances with judges being members of pro-Copyright associations, and covering each others asses by denying that this is grounds for bias! I won't bet on the actual Swedish judicial system to save Sweden from the current madness.
Parent poster probably meant to show an open lock for plaintext HTTP, a partially closed lock for self-certified certs that can't be tracked up to a trusted CA, and a closed lock for an unbroken chain of certs. This idea isn't so bad, IMHO.
Isn't such a small "Hello Kai" too small to be copyrightable at all? Try to copyright a simple sentence a la "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." You'll notice that what constitutes a copyrightable work isn't so straightforward as one may naively think (and it varies greatly from legislation to legislation, despite the Bern Convention).
A friend of mine usually puts a couple of Penthouse mags in his suitcase when traveling to some third world countries (North Africa in this case) on purpose to bribe local customs officers. Works like a charm every time: they "confiscate" the material and wave him through with a big grin without bothering him anymore with his electronic gadgets, netbooks, video cam etc... I guess Australia is finally catching up with those countries.
Not necessarily true. In fact, because P2P filesharing is so immensely popular, anonymous P2P systems a la Freenet, Gnunet et. al. will be even more effective, once enough people are being pushed (nudged, or coerced) to join them. It's only a matter of time until most of the Internet traffic will be a big end-to-end encrypted binary blob that no deep packet inspection can open. Sure, that's just the technical workaround and not a cure to the social disease that Copyright has mutated into, but sometimes, societies are driven by technology too.
I thought they had their own IP addresses...
I'll ask the reverse question: Why shouldn't it exist? Seriously, there's nothing logical (as in mathematical truth) or unavoidable in laws and rights: they're all just a matter of social conventions and pecking order. In the US and most other countries of the western world, the corporations who have the most money buy the laws; in other countries, those with the biggest guns and/or militias make the laws. Is one better than the other? I won't say so: they're strangely similar in their effects: ultimately, rights are nothing more than privileges granted by a strong government to those this government really works for (and that's seldom the people). Feudalism at its best, even if slightly in disguise.
Let's hope that they'll double-check those coordinates better than this.
They were setting ROMS royalties aside, as prescribed by Russian law, royalties that the US media cartels didn't want to collect for purely ideological reasons.
Not to me. $1.15 or so per MP3 album @128kbps or approx 10 ct/song like they used to cost on AllOfMp3 was the sweet spot for me (more for higher sampling rate, including formats like OGG, FLAC etc... since they charged 3 cent per transferred megabyte). iTunes or Amazon prices are 10x higher than I'm willing to pay.
I have and use .info and .name domains too, but have not seen any problems with them (yet). Maybe some programs don't check RFC-822 (or whatever it is called nowadays) addresses as they should, but this is not new.
Still painfully aware of it here on FreeBSD/amd64. But, on the sunny side, sometimes it's a bliss not to be "supported" by Adobe.
And what if the cameras watermark their serial numbers in the videos (something like the yellow dots by color laser printers), and those watermarks survived the transcoding process?
Add to this, that many embedded platforms still use cheap 8086 CPUs. Try running anything bigger than an old version of DOS on that! Of course, a stripped down version of Unix v7 (or so), Minix etc.. would run too, but if it's single threaded, DOS is good enough.
Once upon a time, we were Citizen. Citizens had rights. Now, we're mere consumers. Consumers think they have rights (but don't).
Actually, the beard was already secretly growing under his shaved skin.
Using (r)tin right now. It works okay, but on newsgroups with over 1,000,000 articles, it consumes a lot of RAM. Should really look at the code to improve and streamline this someday...
Perl isn't part of the base install in FreeBSD, and Python is necessary in Gentoo. IMHO, availability in the base install shouldn't be a criterion for or against a language, because that can be easily remedied by the distromakers.
I wished I had mod points. But at least, here it is.
Not just HDDs got smaller and acquired higher capacity and reliability. FDDs also went from 8" to 5 1/4" to 3 1/2"... until they were all but replaced by solid state devices (USB drives), of much higher capacity and reliability. However, some old computer tech is superior to what we have today for some particular applications: think computers used in space travel (satellites): the less densely packed and the slower the electronics are, the less vulnerable they are to cosmic rays and other interferences. Same for EMP-hardened computers used in some military aircraft and tanks. It's all a matter of choice and there are some trade offs that application designers have to take.
Eh.. Pardon me? What exactly has the GUI to do with the kernel? Most kernel development I've been involved with in embedded devices and all kinds of different kernels and microkernels used a serial console for development... to hardware-test stuff that was written on an emulator. Even writing to something like memory mapped video (e.g. 0xb8000 on PC-like hardware) is luxury at this level, and VESA-consoles is nearly unheard of! Sorry, but GUI is something for application developers, and simply doesn't belong in the kernel. If good ole text / serial consoles are alien to young people, maybe those young people should learn to use them, before even considering writing system software. That's the easiest part of the learning curve anyway.