Humans do not need anything else to wipe us out, we are already doing a great job at this ourselves. This is because we are, as a species, so extremely short-sighted. We are currently cutting down ten times more trees than what is naturally being produced, the same applies to our usage of most other resources. And this is new, this is in my eyes news, we have only been doing this for few hundred years - we have had the same brain capasity for 200.000 years. The people on easter island cut down trees until there were none left - this is what we are currently doing to the planet as a whole. The civilization at easter island did not see this coming, nor will our global civilization do before it will be too late in fifty to a hundred years or so. Great, we are now bringing a few dormant eggs back to life, but that is nothing compared to the vast number of species we are forcing into extinction.
Life is hard to define, however, understanding it is easy. The information is already in the Wikipedia, shown in numerous documentaries and well explained. The fact that some bacteria have five hundred year long reproduction cycles and that others can survive dormant for thousands of years just shows that natural selection over billions of years produces more advanced creatures than we have done during the mere three hundred years we claim to have been civlized (if you count from the beginning of the industrial revolution - I personally do not view the present world as civilized)
Evolution is a FACT, not a theory. The evidence is already overwhelming. Science won over religion long ago, those blinded by religion are so because they are too ignorant to look at the evidence.
It makes me happy that Brazil setting a good example by putting Open Source as a requirement. This means that other governments now will more seriously put this as a requirement. What makes me most happy is not that it gives Microsoft more power, but that it gives Open Source development a good push in the right direction. I do not think governments who turn to open source will save any money, though, Linux is equally expensive in the terms of support and those kind of things. But this does mean that the money that would go to closed vendors will now, at least in Brazil, be used to develop Open Source. And that development will in turn be put back into the community to the benefit of all. This is truly a nice day for all who use Open Source!
A new law has already been passed in Sweden. It is not yet effective, but when aiding and contribution to piracy becomes illegal this summer then Anakata will have to move the servers to Russia or some other place where they still have freedom, or close that excellent service.
Torrents and torrent trackers are legal there as of now, but the new nazi-like law will make running such things a law violation. Sad, but true.
"DRM is no different, in principle, than copyright. " WRONG. Copyright does not prevent me from FAIR USE. Copyright does not prevent me from actually USING the product on my Linux system. DRM does. See the difference now?
FUY People who give out software under GNU, BSD and even pubic domain MAKE MONEY. It is possible to make money as long as you allow FAIR USE. Band who are smart enough to setup a website where fans can pay to become a member and get the right TO DOWNLOAD ALL THEIR WORKS forever at the one-time price of a membership are extremely popular and make A LOT more money than the average band. WHY? Because their costs are low, but more importantly, the fans are willing to pay because there are allowed FAIR USE. It is very simple. People pay if they are allowed FAIR USE. But sadly, the music industry are attacking their users and ridiculously enough expect them to pay them for it... You are stupid if you first hit someone in the head with the hammer and then say Hey! Want to be my friend?
The issue, for me, is not DRM or not DRM. It is renting vs buying.
And DRM imposes restrictions as if you were renting or leasing the product. That would be alright if the price on the product was close to zero, but I get offended when someone claims they are selling me something when the product is not sold, but rented.
That being said, I use Linux. There is no way to buy/rent DRM products for Linux users, and I am fairly sure that if it was possible it would not be Open Source. And if you are not willing to show me the source, then I am not going to install it on my system. I require the source, the source ensures FAIR USE. The sum of this is that DRM in any shape or form will never work for me.
"I honestly can't believe the computing world will stand for this" THE problem here is CHOICE. And if we find ourselves in a situation where there are laws who require computer makers to have a feature in order to sell it legally, then obviously they will obey and implement the feature in order to keep selling their products. The feature (or bug..) will soon be part of CPU units, and that, depending on implementation, will make a whole new scenario. The choices may soon be not upgrading or buying something with usage restrictions.
I have been using Gnupg for how many years now? I can not even remember. And some corporations still have the nerve to claim it is not possible to securely identify yourself. In Norway, a insecure and closed system called BankID is currently being forced upon bank customers. This is a system where those who make it know it is insecure to the extent they dare not give anyone the source code or show the inner workings. GNUPG is secure, open and can be tested. It beats me why any bank would use something as stupid as phone authorization, or closed things like BankID, when the obvious choice for any security device today is GnuPG..
I find it very strange that they do not disallow the entire site if they mind Googles robot finding and showing their news... I would understand them being upset if Google ignored or disrespected their robots file, but it does look very much like they are suing them for doing something they allow?
Perhaps I am stupid or ignorant, but I still do not get why corporations figure it is bad for them to be promoted by Google and their services. It is not like Google shows the entire article, them linking sites and showing headlines has only one effect: People learn about the sites they show and click the links, meaning the news agency gets more visits and therefore more money. Isn't cutting off your major biggest referrer kind of shooting yourself in the foot?
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Dude. You rule. Excellent work, and excellent attitude. All your work will soon be available at my site. And being you are such a nice person, all of them will give you credit and link back to your site (nice of you to give me the choice of saying they are mine, though).
I used to publish documents under teh GNU GDL, the GPL for text http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-howto.html - but after actually reading it I found it had some very strange points that kind of limits "fair use" (freedom) as I instended. Now I use Creative Commons 2.0, a license I find more suited for the modern Internet.
"personally don't feel comfortable declaring linking to content hosted on other systems illegal."
Idiots like the Microsoft "investigator" James Young do not understand the difference between linking, hosting a file or running a tracker, if James Young (or RIAA/MPAA for that matter) finds something he does like he will send http://static.thepiratebay.org/ms-loveletter.txt a takedown demand regardless of who is tracking the file or where they are actually hosted - even if it is perfectly clear they have grownds for their demand. And Internet Service Providers tend to get scared when they get letters like this, some will take down your server regardless of the lack of legal grounds for their demands -- very few ISPs have the balls to politely say no http://static.thepiratebay.org/dreamworks_response.txt to such requests.
Print? Evil bastard. Trees are currently being felled ten times the rate they are being reproduced. If we humans do not change our behavior then there will be no trees left by the end of the century, if not sooner. The web is there to allow you to retrieve information and read it on your screen. Do not pollute, do not be evil, DO NOT PRINT. Print should not be a priority, it should not be among the only three buttons you claim you need.. in fact, in my humble opinion, it should not be there at all.
First of all, I am amazed they still bother to make Netscape. They have what, a half, perhaps one percent market share?
Secondly, Netscape or any other browser really does not matter for idiotic web masters. Those who are untalented, unskilled web masters (i.e. idiots) will continue to make garbage markup code and call it web sites, those with skill will continue to make real web pages in html / xhtml (A real web page validates, everything is just trash..)
What they really should do is to force BBC into releasing everything they have produced themselves that has been aired into a Creative Commons License! The People Payd for It, so the people should be allowed to use and share it! BBC should, by law, be required to let people share their shows on BitTorrent and other p2p networks!
There is one way of really supremely impressing people using Knoppix some people are not aware of: IF you have a gigabyte of RAM or more then you can actually load the whole Knoppix CD into memory so you can use the CD drive for all other kinds of things... But this has one obvious bi-effect that I have realized impresses so heavily: When programs are started from RAM, they obviously load faster than from a hard drive. Knoppix loaded into memory is the fastest Linux distribution I have seen so far, almost all programs start instantly. So if you have a machine with lots of ram and want to seriously impress: This is the way to do it! This is kind of cheating as no normal Linux system can perform like this, but it is ideal for demonstrating Linux. On a personal note, I would seriously be happy if something like this could be done with a normal distribution: Say if you have 3 GB RAM, then why not load everything into a portion of it at boot and run programs off memory.. even if you have Linux installed on your hard drive? Obviously this is 'waste of RAM', but hey, if you have lots of money and therefore RAM, why not??
If so, then you can be a hero too. I never paid for software in the form of money, I personally feel it is alright to spend some of the saved money in the form of personal time when I find bugs, missing features and so on. Sadly, I am not a very experienced programmer, but I have managed to get some small patches into Open Source projects.
This is how you can be a hero also, even if it is just a line of code - the sum of all small snippets like that does eventually help the evolution of Open Source.
So skilled or not, you can be a hero too! Some are great big heros, but even if you just translated a text string, fixed a few lines or code, or just made some graphics -- then you are a small hero (in my eyes) also!
This is a great illustration of how the MPAA fail to acknowledge reality. BitTorrent and other protocols who allow evil corporations like MPAA to find your identity are already drawing their last breaths, these are on the way out. They are currently being replaced by I2P, Freenet and other systems who allow users to anonymously share what ever they want. By attacking their customers instead of providing real alternatives (I have yet to find a site where I can legally download movies and view them on my Linux-based entertainment system) they simply encourage peer to peer systems who allow users to participate free from prosecution threats.
MPAA, you are wrong. It is possible to hide. And your idiotic attacks on the general public will only make the systems where this is possible more popular. I have said this numerous times, users want to use simple peer to peer system to acquire movies. This is because divx is the preferred format, p2p is the preferred way of delivery. If there was a way to just enter the movie title of any movie and pay $5 or something for the right to do so, then most p2p users would pay that sum. Allow free distribution, allow fair use, and most importantly: Provide ways of paying for your products...
This is totally true, yet how true it is has changed dramatically the last 20 years. Three hundred years, corporations were very tightly regulared by laws. Today, they have gone global. This means that Governments are now powerless compared to where they were before. If a government does not like what a corporation is doing then it can simply move the activities that particular government disapproves of to some other country. They can even produce goods using slave labour and export those goods to countries where slave labour is disallowed by a minimum wage. So today it is much harder to divide up a corporation and turn it into indivuduals who are liable..
That is my best movie link at the moment, moviename filetype:torrent and volla, you can download anything. I don't think I'll use the movie: link much, though, I love IMDB and I think I'll stick with that.;)
Animals are going extinct because what you say is true, as they become increasingly rare the price on their heads goes up. So they become more attractive to hunt. The same will apply to trees.
I have personally lost faith in humanity because the majority of the world is made up of media-propaganda-shaped idiots like you who fail to realize the effects we have had on the earth since the beginning of the industrial revolution a mere three hundred years ago HAVE ALREADY caused damages with after-effects who will cause a great number of disasters throughout this century.
Basically.. it's too late. Two hundred thousand years with the same years and we manage to fuck it up in three hundred. Thanks for yet again proving I am right in my foresights.
I mean what I say about printers: encourage yourself and friends to consume of any product then your footprint on the earth, the damage you leave behind for your children and your children children, will obviously be less. The less you print, the less damage you do. The more you consume, the more you damage the future of your children. It is very simple. Read this again if you still do not understand.
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Humans do not need anything else to wipe us out, we are already doing a great job at this ourselves. This is because we are, as a species, so extremely short-sighted. We are currently cutting down ten times more trees than what is naturally being produced, the same applies to our usage of most other resources. And this is new, this is in my eyes news, we have only been doing this for few hundred years - we have had the same brain capasity for 200.000 years. The people on easter island cut down trees until there were none left - this is what we are currently doing to the planet as a whole. The civilization at easter island did not see this coming, nor will our global civilization do before it will be too late in fifty to a hundred years or so. Great, we are now bringing a few dormant eggs back to life, but that is nothing compared to the vast number of species we are forcing into extinction.
Life is hard to define, however, understanding it is easy. The information is already in the Wikipedia, shown in numerous documentaries and well explained. The fact that some bacteria have five hundred year long reproduction cycles and that others can survive dormant for thousands of years just shows that natural selection over billions of years produces more advanced creatures than we have done during the mere three hundred years we claim to have been civlized (if you count from the beginning of the industrial revolution - I personally do not view the present world as civilized)
Evolution is a FACT, not a theory. The evidence is already overwhelming. Science won over religion long ago, those blinded by religion are so because they are too ignorant to look at the evidence.
It makes me happy that Brazil setting a good example by putting Open Source as a requirement. This means that other governments now will more seriously put this as a requirement. What makes me most happy is not that it gives Microsoft more power, but that it gives Open Source development a good push in the right direction. I do not think governments who turn to open source will save any money, though, Linux is equally expensive in the terms of support and those kind of things. But this does mean that the money that would go to closed vendors will now, at least in Brazil, be used to develop Open Source. And that development will in turn be put back into the community to the benefit of all. This is truly a nice day for all who use Open Source!
A new law has already been passed in Sweden. It is not yet effective, but when aiding and contribution to piracy becomes illegal this summer then Anakata will have to move the servers to Russia or some other place where they still have freedom, or close that excellent service.
Torrents and torrent trackers are legal there as of now, but the new nazi-like law will make running such things a law violation. Sad, but true.
"DRM is no different, in principle, than copyright. " WRONG. Copyright does not prevent me from FAIR USE. Copyright does not prevent me from actually USING the product on my Linux system. DRM does. See the difference now?
FUY People who give out software under GNU, BSD and even pubic domain MAKE MONEY. It is possible to make money as long as you allow FAIR USE. Band who are smart enough to setup a website where fans can pay to become a member and get the right TO DOWNLOAD ALL THEIR WORKS forever at the one-time price of a membership are extremely popular and make A LOT more money than the average band. WHY? Because their costs are low, but more importantly, the fans are willing to pay because there are allowed FAIR USE. It is very simple. People pay if they are allowed FAIR USE. But sadly, the music industry are attacking their users and ridiculously enough expect them to pay them for it... You are stupid if you first hit someone in the head with the hammer and then say Hey! Want to be my friend?
The issue, for me, is not DRM or not DRM. It is renting vs buying.
And DRM imposes restrictions as if you were renting or leasing the product. That would be alright if the price on the product was close to zero, but I get offended when someone claims they are selling me something when the product is not sold, but rented.
That being said, I use Linux. There is no way to buy/rent DRM products for Linux users, and I am fairly sure that if it was possible it would not be Open Source. And if you are not willing to show me the source, then I am not going to install it on my system. I require the source, the source ensures FAIR USE. The sum of this is that DRM in any shape or form will never work for me.
"I honestly can't believe the computing world will stand for this" THE problem here is CHOICE. And if we find ourselves in a situation where there are laws who require computer makers to have a feature in order to sell it legally, then obviously they will obey and implement the feature in order to keep selling their products. The feature (or bug..) will soon be part of CPU units, and that, depending on implementation, will make a whole new scenario. The choices may soon be not upgrading or buying something with usage restrictions.
I have been using Gnupg for how many years now? I can not even remember. And some corporations still have the nerve to claim it is not possible to securely identify yourself. In Norway, a insecure and closed system called BankID is currently being forced upon bank customers. This is a system where those who make it know it is insecure to the extent they dare not give anyone the source code or show the inner workings. GNUPG is secure, open and can be tested. It beats me why any bank would use something as stupid as phone authorization, or closed things like BankID, when the obvious choice for any security device today is GnuPG..
Perhaps I am stupid or ignorant, but I still do not get why corporations figure it is bad for them to be promoted by Google and their services. It is not like Google shows the entire article, them linking sites and showing headlines has only one effect: People learn about the sites they show and click the links, meaning the news agency gets more visits and therefore more money. Isn't cutting off your major biggest referrer kind of shooting yourself in the foot?
Dude. You rule. Excellent work, and excellent attitude. All your work will soon be available at my site. And being you are such a nice person, all of them will give you credit and link back to your site (nice of you to give me the choice of saying they are mine, though).
I used to publish documents under teh GNU GDL, the GPL for text http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-howto.html - but after actually reading it I found it had some very strange points that kind of limits "fair use" (freedom) as I instended. Now I use Creative Commons 2.0, a license I find more suited for the modern Internet.
"personally don't feel comfortable declaring linking to content hosted on other systems illegal." Idiots like the Microsoft "investigator" James Young do not understand the difference between linking, hosting a file or running a tracker, if James Young (or RIAA/MPAA for that matter) finds something he does like he will send http://static.thepiratebay.org/ms-loveletter.txt a takedown demand regardless of who is tracking the file or where they are actually hosted - even if it is perfectly clear they have grownds for their demand. And Internet Service Providers tend to get scared when they get letters like this, some will take down your server regardless of the lack of legal grounds for their demands -- very few ISPs have the balls to politely say no http://static.thepiratebay.org/dreamworks_response .txt to such requests.
Print? Evil bastard. Trees are currently being felled ten times the rate they are being reproduced. If we humans do not change our behavior then there will be no trees left by the end of the century, if not sooner. The web is there to allow you to retrieve information and read it on your screen. Do not pollute, do not be evil, DO NOT PRINT. Print should not be a priority, it should not be among the only three buttons you claim you need .. in fact, in my humble opinion, it should not be there at all.
First of all, I am amazed they still bother to make Netscape. They have what, a half, perhaps one percent market share?
Secondly, Netscape or any other browser really does not matter for idiotic web masters. Those who are untalented, unskilled web masters (i.e. idiots) will continue to make garbage markup code and call it web sites, those with skill will continue to make real web pages in html / xhtml (A real web page validates, everything is just trash..)
I can not wait for someone to file a patent for a virus, when the US patent office can accept this then they are sure to accept that too.
Spammers are suing those who filter their crap away, next thing we know virus authors are suing anti-virus vendors... it is truely a brave new world.
What they really should do is to force BBC into releasing everything they have produced themselves that has been aired into a Creative Commons License! The People Payd for It, so the people should be allowed to use and share it! BBC should, by law, be required to let people share their shows on BitTorrent and other p2p networks!
There is one way of really supremely impressing people using Knoppix some people are not aware of: IF you have a gigabyte of RAM or more then you can actually load the whole Knoppix CD into memory so you can use the CD drive for all other kinds of things... But this has one obvious bi-effect that I have realized impresses so heavily: When programs are started from RAM, they obviously load faster than from a hard drive. Knoppix loaded into memory is the fastest Linux distribution I have seen so far, almost all programs start instantly. So if you have a machine with lots of ram and want to seriously impress: This is the way to do it! This is kind of cheating as no normal Linux system can perform like this, but it is ideal for demonstrating Linux. On a personal note, I would seriously be happy if something like this could be done with a normal distribution: Say if you have 3 GB RAM, then why not load everything into a portion of it at boot and run programs off memory .. even if you have Linux installed on your hard drive? Obviously this is 'waste of RAM', but hey, if you have lots of money and therefore RAM, why not??
Do you use Linux? Know how to code?
If so, then you can be a hero too. I never paid for software in the form of money, I personally feel it is alright to spend some of the saved money in the form of personal time when I find bugs, missing features and so on. Sadly, I am not a very experienced programmer, but I have managed to get some small patches into Open Source projects.
This is how you can be a hero also, even if it is just a line of code - the sum of all small snippets like that does eventually help the evolution of Open Source.
So skilled or not, you can be a hero too! Some are great big heros, but even if you just translated a text string, fixed a few lines or code, or just made some graphics -- then you are a small hero (in my eyes) also!
This is a great illustration of how the MPAA fail to acknowledge reality. BitTorrent and other protocols who allow evil corporations like MPAA to find your identity are already drawing their last breaths, these are on the way out. They are currently being replaced by I2P, Freenet and other systems who allow users to anonymously share what ever they want. By attacking their customers instead of providing real alternatives (I have yet to find a site where I can legally download movies and view them on my Linux-based entertainment system) they simply encourage peer to peer systems who allow users to participate free from prosecution threats.
MPAA, you are wrong. It is possible to hide. And your idiotic attacks on the general public will only make the systems where this is possible more popular. I have said this numerous times, users want to use simple peer to peer system to acquire movies. This is because divx is the preferred format, p2p is the preferred way of delivery. If there was a way to just enter the movie title of any movie and pay $5 or something for the right to do so, then most p2p users would pay that sum. Allow free distribution, allow fair use, and most importantly: Provide ways of paying for your products...
This is totally true, yet how true it is has changed dramatically the last 20 years. Three hundred years, corporations were very tightly regulared by laws. Today, they have gone global. This means that Governments are now powerless compared to where they were before. If a government does not like what a corporation is doing then it can simply move the activities that particular government disapproves of to some other country. They can even produce goods using slave labour and export those goods to countries where slave labour is disallowed by a minimum wage. So today it is much harder to divide up a corporation and turn it into indivuduals who are liable..
That is my best movie link at the moment, moviename filetype:torrent and volla, you can download anything. I don't think I'll use the movie: link much, though, I love IMDB and I think I'll stick with that. ;)
Animals are going extinct because what you say is true, as they become increasingly rare the price on their heads goes up. So they become more attractive to hunt. The same will apply to trees.
I have personally lost faith in humanity because the majority of the world is made up of media-propaganda-shaped idiots like you who fail to realize the effects we have had on the earth since the beginning of the industrial revolution a mere three hundred years ago HAVE ALREADY caused damages with after-effects who will cause a great number of disasters throughout this century.
Basically.. it's too late. Two hundred thousand years with the same years and we manage to fuck it up in three hundred. Thanks for yet again proving I am right in my foresights.
I mean what I say about printers: encourage yourself and friends to consume of any product then your footprint on the earth, the damage you leave behind for your children and your children children, will obviously be less. The less you print, the less damage you do. The more you consume, the more you damage the future of your children. It is very simple. Read this again if you still do not understand.