Wow. I had no idea. I thought everyone was just repeating what Fred von Lohmann said because it was the new thing for geeks to do. I apologize. I might even check out that book sometime -- it keeps popping up in conversations I've had over the past few years. I just checked it out on Amazon, and maybe I'll give it a read:)
I swear if that's not the most fucking overused quote right now. After watching the debate at Cornell between von Lohmann and others, and Mr von Lohmann using that phrase only about a kajillion times, I wanted to kill everyone and then Bugs Bunny, too, for eating carrots.
Well, to be fair, he was committing a crime in the US -- distributing software that violated the DMCA while physically present in the US.
That being said, I was a Free Skylarov guy myself, and I hate the DMCA. I just don't want confusion to arise -- Dmitri did, in fact, break US law while in the US.
If I was a shareholder in a company that developed a cure for the HIV virus, I'd sure as hell tell someone. News would leak. You can't keep something like that a secret. Not only that, but there are scientists who find the cure -- not only would they want recognition, but they would want to help people, so, even if they were under a NDA, I would expect a scientist to leak.
Hell, if Mr. X found a cure for HIV while working for Pfizer and Pfizer didn't want to disclose, and Mr. X announced We now have a cure and was sued for breach of NDA, I think there would be some heavy duty work by the various governments of the world to bring the virus to the public (think anti-trust suits). If not that, perhaps the government would buy the whole company.
Following the law has never stopped governments before -- who in the entire world would want to stand up and accept the blame for stopping the cure for AIDS.
Besides, you seem to ignore the fact that 1)Scientists who discover the cure are people with friends and family, 2)Stockholders in the company with the cure are people with friends and family, and 3)Executives at the helm of the company with the cure are people with friends and family (believe it or not)
Do you think every single one of these people involved would keep the cure secret from the public? Once it became known to the public that the cure existed, there would be riots and political posturing by all to bring the cure to the people. I guarantee you any politician with "brought cure to AIDS to the masses" would get elected to any office they ran for.
Or do you have that little faith in humanity that all stockholders, executives and scientists would sell out their friends and family and indeed all of humanity for the sake of Mean Green?
Actually, just so you know, that isn't fair use in the United States.
OK, that is what I was going to post until I went out and did some research. According to Matt Oppenhaim (RIAA representative),
Way back in 1992, Congress drew a distinction between analog recording (on that tape recorder) and digital recording (the computer). In legislation enacted that year, they said that infringement actions cannot be filed against consumers who engage in copying using analog devices and certain types of digital devices on which royalties have been paid and which protect against serial copying of the copy.
This was in response to the question
Why is it legal to record a song from the radio while recording a song from the Internet is considered theft and criminal?
without a consistently reliable source for it I watch it on TV
I don't know what you are talking about. I still use an RSS filter in Azureus to automatically grab each day's episode of The Daily Show as it is released on BT. You just haven't looked. After BTEfnet went down, I just asked around, and in one day I had found three more trackers that carried it. All three of these are still around, but I only need one for my RSS reader, so...there it is.
Well, suppose someone buys a sign that says "Open House" on it and it gets accidentally put out in front of their house. If someone walked in to see the house, do you think they'd get prosecuted? Nope.
No. A WiFi router broadcasts an invitation to join. What this guy did was like setting up an antenna and turning his TV on to watch broadcast TV. Or like listening to broadcast radio. Or, at worst, like walking past a TV store and watching TV through the windows.
The difference between WiFi and the car/house analogy is that a WiFi hotspot broadcasts its information, inviting connections. There is no "breaking in" involved. If there was a house that had a sign in front saying "Open House Today" with the door open, you are welcome to enter legally, as it's an open house. Haven't people ever been to these in neighborhoods before? This is equivalent to an open WiFi access point.
You do realize that the GGP was complaining that programs are too easy to install, don't you? It's no wonder there is such a small userbase of Linux when it's proponents complain that the competition is too easy to use!
Here's a radical idea -- permissions, libraries and kernels ought to be a foreign concept to most users! Something like burning a CD should by default be allowed to all users of a desktop system. Name a program that should require non-limited user rights, and I'll name you a program that users with no knowledge of permissions won't be running in the first place.
One of the things that baffles me to this day is the need to have a CD-ROM group for users on a desktop system. Why the fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck should you ever need on a home desktop to restrict users' access to the optical drives? XP restricts CD burning rights to admin-level users by default, and it's completely retarded. Linux does the same with mounting drives that you already have physical access to. It's inane.
In any case, I'm way off topic here. Permissions exist in XP, and certain software does not deal with permissions. That is not the OS's fault -- it is Winamp's fault in addition to all other software vendors who completely ignore userspace. As to why users are on admin all the time, maybe that's because they don't know any better. Again, not the OS's fault. If you grabbed a random Joe, and he could successfully get Linux set up on his computer via a simple install a la XP, he would see the "make a user" screen, and do so. Then he would see the "make a limited user" screen, say, "What the fuck is this shit? I already made a user!" and ditch Linux for Windows, because he doesn't know any better.
The reason you and I know about permissions is because we cared enough to research them.
Thanks to Windows' dumbing down of the interface, people have come to expect the simplicity of throwing in a disc, letting it install, reboot if necessary, and the app is there. Issues like permissions, libraries, kernels, and so forth are going to be completely foreign concepts to the last majority of computer users that are out there.
I would hardly call that dumbing down. If the Linux devs think it is dumbing down, no wonder Linux makes me slit my wrists every time I sit down at my desktop;)
But the beauty is, if you buy an X-Box, you are hurting Microsoft because they sell them at a loss! You can't lose! You get a computer and hurt Billy at the same time!!!11oneonethree!
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . What about Shinji masturbating over a comatose 14-year old's boobs? Will that be censored? What about a grown man putting his hand inside another 14-year old girl's naked chest? Will it be censored? What about the bloodbaths? Evangelion puts Trigun to shame. Granted, it's been a loong long time since I've watched it, so I can't remember if those things are in the series or just in the movies.
If I recall correctly, there aren't any deaths in Trigun (well, maybe the last episode or something)...doesn't Vash shoot the guns out of peoples' hands and stuff? How can you compare that with Eva?
Concurrence on the crappiness of most anime voice acting in America (sorry, Lisa Ortiz!)
Japan appears on the surface to be pure capitalism, but the Japanese also practice European-style paternalism. Companies are not allowed to fail, thus throwing millions out of work. Banks continue to lend money even to companies that surely should go bankrupt. Major companies in Japan avoid laying off workers. All this paternalism breeds inefficiency. The average Japanese worker is, in fact, less productive than the aggressive American worker. There are some exceptions: e.g. Toyota blue-collar worker
I'll disagree with you here. I'm sure the homeless living in Shinjuku and Ueno Parks would take issue with you -- the Japanese government refuses to acknowledge their existance because it is a shame on the society. When they do acknowledge them, it is to evict them for "environmental beautification programs", which aren't actually anything other than mass evictions. The homeless return a month or so later. Notice that up until a handful of years ago, there was no budget for homeless welfare, as opposed to USD 2.2 billion in the US. However, recently, the budget was raised to a whopping USD 20 million! Way to look after your own people! An Osakajin states The country has been turning a blind eye to the problem. In fact, when the emperor visits the park, the government makes the homeless people take down their shantytowns and leave!
The USA has a track record of being more supportive of homeless people than Japan. Companies will lay off employees to save money now. This isn't the Japan of the 1980s that guarantees lifetime employment.
Furthermore, it is not paternalism that saves the companies that should otherwise go bankrupt; rather, it is widespread corruption. Research the links between the Yakuza (organized crime) and the Liberal Democratic Party (the ruling party) sometime. I'm sure you'll be surprised. Companies are bailed out by their friends in high places, not by a government seeking to be gentle to its citizens. The only people who are saved in Japan are the wealthy.
I know I'm making a bleak picture of Japan, but the image outside the country is of a sparkling Coruscant, and it's not like that at all from the inside -- there is large amounts of homeless people, run down homes; heck, the Japanese people I talk to on a regular basis refer to their homes as rabbit holes and other disparaging terms which equate their homes with places where insects and rodents reproduce rapidly (despite a 1.something birthrate!). I can't remember the word in English right now, but its was one with negative connotations.
America has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world. America is one of the few industrialized nations to continue to liberally practice capital punishment.
Now, I say this in partial jest, but, you complain of overcrowding of prisons and the practice of reducing overcrowding? If we didn't have capital punishment, we'd have even more criminals!;)
I saw in a local news broadcast that one of my harassers had been killed in a car accident. I smiled. Does that make me a bad person?
No, it doesn't. I'm completely serious when I say that it is natural, and even expected, for that kind of reaction. It is a release of the soul. You know they won't be doing what they did anymore, and they got their "just desserts" in your mind. There is nothing wrong with thinking that way.
This is most likely not the place to be saying this, but speaking as a Christian, there is something wrong with it (rejoicing in the suffering of others); but then again, speaking from the POV of a Christian, swearing is equally as wrong.
So I don't think you have anything to be guilty about from any POV that I am well-versed in (religious as well as philosophical). However, I commend you on your clear thinking as a youngster. I myself contemplated suicide a little when I was in junior high school, but I never did it for the mix of "they'll win" and "I don't want to die".
I actually used to have fantasies where I had telekenesis and would squish my tormentors like bugs, or maybe shoot lasers out of my nipples;)
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Wow. I had no idea. I thought everyone was just repeating what Fred von Lohmann said because it was the new thing for geeks to do. I apologize. I might even check out that book sometime -- it keeps popping up in conversations I've had over the past few years. I just checked it out on Amazon, and maybe I'll give it a read :)
I swear if that's not the most fucking overused quote right now. After watching the debate at Cornell between von Lohmann and others, and Mr von Lohmann using that phrase only about a kajillion times, I wanted to kill everyone and then Bugs Bunny, too, for eating carrots.
Stop fucking saying it already!
Well, to be fair, he was committing a crime in the US -- distributing software that violated the DMCA while physically present in the US.
That being said, I was a Free Skylarov guy myself, and I hate the DMCA. I just don't want confusion to arise -- Dmitri did, in fact, break US law while in the US.
14 year old girls. Fuck yeah!
Now to make sure I check "post anonymously"...DOH!
If I was a shareholder in a company that developed a cure for the HIV virus, I'd sure as hell tell someone. News would leak. You can't keep something like that a secret. Not only that, but there are scientists who find the cure -- not only would they want recognition, but they would want to help people, so, even if they were under a NDA, I would expect a scientist to leak.
Hell, if Mr. X found a cure for HIV while working for Pfizer and Pfizer didn't want to disclose, and Mr. X announced We now have a cure and was sued for breach of NDA, I think there would be some heavy duty work by the various governments of the world to bring the virus to the public (think anti-trust suits). If not that, perhaps the government would buy the whole company.
Following the law has never stopped governments before -- who in the entire world would want to stand up and accept the blame for stopping the cure for AIDS.
Besides, you seem to ignore the fact that
1)Scientists who discover the cure are people with friends and family,
2)Stockholders in the company with the cure are people with friends and family, and
3)Executives at the helm of the company with the cure are people with friends and family (believe it or not)
Do you think every single one of these people involved would keep the cure secret from the public? Once it became known to the public that the cure existed, there would be riots and political posturing by all to bring the cure to the people. I guarantee you any politician with "brought cure to AIDS to the masses" would get elected to any office they ran for.
Or do you have that little faith in humanity that all stockholders, executives and scientists would sell out their friends and family and indeed all of humanity for the sake of Mean Green?
Actually, just so you know, that isn't fair use in the United States.
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OK, that is what I was going to post until I went out and did some research. According to Matt Oppenhaim (RIAA representative),
Way back in 1992, Congress drew a distinction between analog recording (on that tape recorder) and digital recording (the computer). In legislation enacted that year, they said that infringement actions cannot be filed against consumers who engage in copying using analog devices and certain types of digital devices on which royalties have been paid and which protect against serial copying of the copy.
This was in response to the question
Why is it legal to record a song from the radio while recording a song from the Internet is considered theft and criminal?
Shamelessly lifted from http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/june03/copyrigh
Congratulations. You are the first person in /. history to make a post that claims problems with evolution that gets modded up instead of down!
without a consistently reliable source for it I watch it on TV
I don't know what you are talking about. I still use an RSS filter in Azureus to automatically grab each day's episode of The Daily Show as it is released on BT. You just haven't looked. After BTEfnet went down, I just asked around, and in one day I had found three more trackers that carried it. All three of these are still around, but I only need one for my RSS reader, so...there it is.
Opera is not a US company and thus is not subject to rulings by the Supreme Court of the US of A.
I'm sorry, but that item was lost in the vaults of Lucasfilm a long time ago.
I think Mr. Fusions are only available on futurefitted DeLoreans.
Well, suppose someone buys a sign that says "Open House" on it and it gets accidentally put out in front of their house. If someone walked in to see the house, do you think they'd get prosecuted? Nope.
No. A WiFi router broadcasts an invitation to join. What this guy did was like setting up an antenna and turning his TV on to watch broadcast TV. Or like listening to broadcast radio. Or, at worst, like walking past a TV store and watching TV through the windows.
emotional bullshit argument favoured by mothers and republicans of all eras
I don't think it's only Republicans making the "think of the children" arguments.
The difference between WiFi and the car/house analogy is that a WiFi hotspot broadcasts its information, inviting connections. There is no "breaking in" involved. If there was a house that had a sign in front saying "Open House Today" with the door open, you are welcome to enter legally, as it's an open house. Haven't people ever been to these in neighborhoods before? This is equivalent to an open WiFi access point.
Might I suggest, for more minimalistic needs, Geoshell?
You do realize that the GGP was complaining that programs are too easy to install, don't you? It's no wonder there is such a small userbase of Linux when it's proponents complain that the competition is too easy to use!
Here's a radical idea -- permissions, libraries and kernels ought to be a foreign concept to most users! Something like burning a CD should by default be allowed to all users of a desktop system. Name a program that should require non-limited user rights, and I'll name you a program that users with no knowledge of permissions won't be running in the first place.
One of the things that baffles me to this day is the need to have a CD-ROM group for users on a desktop system. Why the fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck should you ever need on a home desktop to restrict users' access to the optical drives? XP restricts CD burning rights to admin-level users by default, and it's completely retarded. Linux does the same with mounting drives that you already have physical access to. It's inane.
In any case, I'm way off topic here. Permissions exist in XP, and certain software does not deal with permissions. That is not the OS's fault -- it is Winamp's fault in addition to all other software vendors who completely ignore userspace. As to why users are on admin all the time, maybe that's because they don't know any better. Again, not the OS's fault. If you grabbed a random Joe, and he could successfully get Linux set up on his computer via a simple install a la XP, he would see the "make a user" screen, and do so. Then he would see the "make a limited user" screen, say, "What the fuck is this shit? I already made a user!" and ditch Linux for Windows, because he doesn't know any better.
The reason you and I know about permissions is because we cared enough to research them.
Thanks to Windows' dumbing down of the interface, people have come to expect the simplicity of throwing in a disc, letting it install, reboot if necessary, and the app is there. Issues like permissions, libraries, kernels, and so forth are going to be completely foreign concepts to the last majority of computer users that are out there.
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I would hardly call that dumbing down. If the Linux devs think it is dumbing down, no wonder Linux makes me slit my wrists every time I sit down at my desktop
Yeah, that fucking IRC. Only for warez. How dare it!
But the beauty is, if you buy an X-Box, you are hurting Microsoft because they sell them at a loss! You can't lose! You get a computer and hurt Billy at the same time!!!11oneonethree!
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What about Shinji masturbating over a comatose 14-year old's boobs? Will that be censored? What about a grown man putting his hand inside another 14-year old girl's naked chest? Will it be censored? What about the bloodbaths? Evangelion puts Trigun to shame. Granted, it's been a loong long time since I've watched it, so I can't remember if those things are in the series or just in the movies.
If I recall correctly, there aren't any deaths in Trigun (well, maybe the last episode or something)...doesn't Vash shoot the guns out of peoples' hands and stuff? How can you compare that with Eva?
Concurrence on the crappiness of most anime voice acting in America (sorry, Lisa Ortiz!)
Japan appears on the surface to be pure capitalism, but the Japanese also practice European-style paternalism. Companies are not allowed to fail, thus throwing millions out of work. Banks continue to lend money even to companies that surely should go bankrupt. Major companies in Japan avoid laying off workers. All this paternalism breeds inefficiency. The average Japanese worker is, in fact, less productive than the aggressive American worker. There are some exceptions: e.g. Toyota blue-collar worker
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I'll disagree with you here. I'm sure the homeless living in Shinjuku and Ueno Parks would take issue with you -- the Japanese government refuses to acknowledge their existance because it is a shame on the society. When they do acknowledge them, it is to evict them for "environmental beautification programs", which aren't actually anything other than mass evictions. The homeless return a month or so later. Notice that up until a handful of years ago, there was no budget for homeless welfare, as opposed to USD 2.2 billion in the US. However, recently, the budget was raised to a whopping USD 20 million! Way to look after your own people! An Osakajin states The country has been turning a blind eye to the problem. In fact, when the emperor visits the park, the government makes the homeless people take down their shantytowns and leave!
The USA has a track record of being more supportive of homeless people than Japan. Companies will lay off employees to save money now. This isn't the Japan of the 1980s that guarantees lifetime employment.
Furthermore, it is not paternalism that saves the companies that should otherwise go bankrupt; rather, it is widespread corruption. Research the links between the Yakuza (organized crime) and the Liberal Democratic Party (the ruling party) sometime. I'm sure you'll be surprised. Companies are bailed out by their friends in high places, not by a government seeking to be gentle to its citizens. The only people who are saved in Japan are the wealthy.
I know I'm making a bleak picture of Japan, but the image outside the country is of a sparkling Coruscant, and it's not like that at all from the inside -- there is large amounts of homeless people, run down homes; heck, the Japanese people I talk to on a regular basis refer to their homes as rabbit holes and other disparaging terms which equate their homes with places where insects and rodents reproduce rapidly (despite a 1.something birthrate!). I can't remember the word in English right now, but its was one with negative connotations.
America has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world. America is one of the few industrialized nations to continue to liberally practice capital punishment.
Now, I say this in partial jest, but, you complain of overcrowding of prisons and the practice of reducing overcrowding? If we didn't have capital punishment, we'd have even more criminals!
Before a Spelling Nazi other than myself gets to it, it is "telekinesis", not "telekenesis".
I saw in a local news broadcast that one of my harassers had been killed in a car accident. I smiled. Does that make me a bad person?
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No, it doesn't. I'm completely serious when I say that it is natural, and even expected, for that kind of reaction. It is a release of the soul. You know they won't be doing what they did anymore, and they got their "just desserts" in your mind. There is nothing wrong with thinking that way.
This is most likely not the place to be saying this, but speaking as a Christian, there is something wrong with it (rejoicing in the suffering of others); but then again, speaking from the POV of a Christian, swearing is equally as wrong.
So I don't think you have anything to be guilty about from any POV that I am well-versed in (religious as well as philosophical). However, I commend you on your clear thinking as a youngster. I myself contemplated suicide a little when I was in junior high school, but I never did it for the mix of "they'll win" and "I don't want to die".
I actually used to have fantasies where I had telekenesis and would squish my tormentors like bugs, or maybe shoot lasers out of my nipples
Oh we all go a little mad sometimes.