I usually read IMDB use reviews because the critics reviews aren't what I'm looking for.
User reviews on IMDB are thoughtful, and they're pretty quick to point out when you have a real stinker.
I'm not sure that the whole picture is being considered, no pun intended. Netflix subscribers only had to choose WATCH. They did not have to get in a car, go to the theater, buy tickets, buy snacks and popcorn, grab a seat, and then get entertained. If the movie lets you down EVEN A LITTLE, you're going to be upset after paying over $50 for 2 tickets plus food.
So Netflix users are probably a little more forgiving... they only had to click PLAY.
Netflix and CHILLLLLLL.... wubba lubba dub dub!
Can I compose email offline the way I can with Outlook in cached mode? Say if I'm waiting between flights and can't get a WIFI signal, or if I'm stranded because Verizon blocked my tether ability (true story)? I'm not trolling, what happens when that goes down?
Does this mean that you can DoS a business's SOHO router / firewall to shut them down for the day because they won't be able to run WORD, Outlook, ERP, etc...?
...does that mean that ALL science expenditures will stop, and EVERYTHING will be funneled into WAR CHESTS and MILITARY SPENDING?
I'll bet that it does....and all scientific innovations will be driven by the military.
Did anyone else think of that old 80's movie with Patrick Dempsy in it, "Loverboy" when they saw this title? One of the wives that he was taking care of had a husband who was into home security. and his security device was a toy robot that shouted, "Intruder....very bad boy....INTRUDER!" in an obnoxious chinese sounding voice. Hillarious.
Well this seems fairly easy:
- Get one of those INFRARED HATS and wear them around town: http://hacknmod.com/hack/blind-cameras-with-an-infrared-led-hat/
- After you park at a meter or illegally, cover your license plates and window registration
They are probably doing this to cut costs AND increase profitability (no more foot soldiers and wrote more summonses!), but if the minority starts protecting themselves thusly, there won't be much they can do about it since they will have pulled the foot soldiers.
This could very easily be used securely without wasting ink, I think... the simplest prevention may be the best. If this were implemented, even in a public environment, it could be very easily controlled to prevent SPAM. Let's say a hotel has a courtesy printer in the business center, with a public email address, to be used in the method intended in this announcement. From some of the comments, nothing could be asking for abuse more clearly... BUT, if the printer received an email to be printed, rather than just PRINTING IT, a simple LCD message of: "Print job received via email, press CONFIRM to print now." and if CONFIRM isn't pressed within [timeout threshold], the message is purged from printer storage and NOT printed. Seems pretty simple, I might create a printer line myself doing just this if HP gets it wrong... you saw it first on Slashdot. Seems like a great idea....
Well, logic has to start simple, so why not from (as you put it) a first grade level? This copyright bull is made so intentionally complicated so that simple won't get around it. Try reading "The Republic" by Plato and you'll see that simple logic often times beats the complicated situation in most cases.
As stated, IANAL, but how does this work, as far as reasoning and logistics go, when applied to the current laws?
Is a photocopied document accepted as the original? Or is it considered a REPRESENTATION of the original, and not accepted as THE original because it could have been faked/altered?
Let's apply this logic to MP3s.
Round up a bunch of RIPPING software. These MP3s had to start as redbook audio on a CD somewhere, right?
Now what happens if we ANALYZE this MP3 and compare it to the original song on the original redbook audio CD? Does the technology used in the RIPPING accurately preserve EVERY PART of the orignal redbook audio track?
If it doesn't, this is not a copy of that track. It's an ALTERED version, and therefore not a copy of the original.
I mean, if a copied document is not acceptable in court, and only an ORIGINAL document is, shouldn't this precedent apply to digital media as well?
Also, if the bitrate that the mp3 is sampled at is less of a bitrate than the original redbook audio CD is, doesn't that ALSO make it a rendition of the original track? Almost like a coverband performing it?
Taking this a step further (I realize that THIS might be stretching it) couldn't we develop a RIPPING software that put a subsonic NOT AUDIBLE TO HUMAN EARS watermark at, say, the beginning and end of a ripped track, that made it MEASURABLY DIFFERENT than the original redbook audio track, and therefore not an accurate representation of it enoguh to be considered copyright infringement?
I guess it all comes down to... how STRICT is copyright infringement/copyright law? If we could put preventative measures into place, like the abovementioned watermarking of ripped tracks, we could avoid ALL of this crap that the RIAA is putting everyone through....
or if it's as easy as proving that the copied document precedent makes their claims that this is copyright infringement invalid, lets do that.
Any lawyers have an opinion on this type of defense? Or has it been tried before?
I have a SICK collection of CDs....I started buying CDs back when there was more QUALITY music than there is now. As a result, I have more OLD CDs than NEW CDs. (Everything that comes out today is the same as every other band, with a handful of notably unique artists like Nora Jones, etc...).
So here's my point....I have a large colletion of CDs, and I like to do a lot of outdoor sports. So, I carry my CDs around in one of those large BINDERS. This comes with me in the car, camping, etc...
One summer, I brought my CDs to the beach, and sand got in the binder. As anyone can imagine, 3/4's of my collection in the binder got scratched beyond use.
Since then, I've learned my lesson, and I copy my CDs and use the backup CDs to carry around. When they get scratched, I re-copy them, and put them back in the binder. Heck, for $30 for 50 blank CDs, it's a lucrative way to guarantee the usability of my collection.
But now, with this article, they're saying that I should only be able to make X number of copies...meaning that after I've screwed up my CDs say, 15-20 times, I have to buy it again, or take the original with me. How is that fair? Seriously folks, this is a real life example of how this could hinder someone. I REALLY do this. What is their answer going to be, "be more careful with your CDs?"
The only way this is going to ever get fixed is to have the artists have a LARGE revolution and stop using these companies to markey their materials. As simple of a solution as that is, there are so many facets involved to make it a reailty that....it probably will never happen. Especially since the artists that proliferate these schemes are multi-BILLION-dollar (Dr. Evil pinky to the lip) contract holders.
Anyway, thought everyone would like to see a real example of how copying works for me, and what it helps me be able to do. These limitations serve nobody. There will always be software that can RIP tracks, and once ripped, they will always be able to be burned again and again, so they really should just give up.
One word of advice: Don't get rid of your old programs that perform RIPPING. They don't have DMCA/copyright protection/DRM built into them yet, and will continue to work into the future. They might be slower, they might not be as pretty, and they might not have burning capabilities built RIGHT INTO THEM, but they will continue to work. KEEP YOUR OLD PROGRAMS ON ARCHIVE.
My.02
It's my experience that most people just CRYCRY CRY about how they aren't getting advanced, aren't getting raises, aren't getting exposed to the experience that would make them a superstar.
WELL, it's ALSO my experience that once someone gets these opportunities, they are lazy about performing exceptionally. I have to tell you, advancement is predicated on PERFORMING EXCEPTIONALLY, UNLESS YOU KNOW SOMEONE. IF you know someone, then you can be as lazy as you want, and all of the crying that you can do usually gets you what you want. I know this sounds like a rant, but I'll elaborate.
I started in IT with 3/4 of an associates degree in Liberal Arts and all of the experience that having your own Compaq Presario with a dial-up modem will give you. OR, NOT MUCH. But you know what? I broke that Presario a hundred different ways, added everything that you could to it, and I ended up knowing quite a bit about PCs.
I got into the field as the lowest form of phone support that you could get. I made $13/hr and didn't get much of a raise for 2 years. Then I broke out by performing EXCEPTIOANALLY during one after hours project.
Everything was going wrong, the project lead was pulling his hair out, and before you knew it, it was 2am and everyone had left. But I stuck around, we had the problem resolved by 4am, AND I was back at work at 9am to do my menial task. From that moment on, though, I was respected.
And from that point in my career and on, I moved ever up the corporate ladder in IT. I went from phone support to helpdesk to helpdesk lead to Network Admin in less than 24 months...all because I had a hunger for doing and doing well.
I emptied COUNTLESS VOLUMES of books into my head...I put myself through Novell school, self-educated myself with the NT4.0 and WIndows 2000 curriculum, and saw a direct increase in salary of about 65% over 2 years.
And I never CRIED about how I wasn't getting a fair deal. A lot of people DID cry about my advancement, though...most of them were people that had put in the time but just didn't want to go that extra mile.
I now own my OWN company that is an IT Outsource shop. We work on projects, maintenence, Disaster Recoveries, new rollouts of complete networks, you name it. I even have employees....and you know what? They cry about advancement too...but when it comes to performing, I'm still the one that's willing to stay all night to get that disaster recovery done, that Exchange server MUST be up for 9am when the users walk in. They want that raise, they want that experience, but they don't want to put the effort in that it takes to get there. It's just typical of most people today. They want everything as if it were OWED to them by someone.
I never hated it....I love every aspect of it. So my advice to everyone reading this column is: LOVE IT. Treat it like you LOVE IT. Give it every ounce of effort IF you LOVE IT. In the end, it will end up loving you back, and you'll be a RAGING success.
Oh, I also only finished my Associates Degree, never went for the whole BS thing....so I'm not sure that getting a degree is CS is exactly the thing. I don't know how much further I could have gone with it, but when I left and started working for myself, I was as Senior Engineer making in the high 70's. I hope this gives people some hope...and I hope it inspires you to work your ASS off to get what you want. Just my.02.
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I usually read IMDB use reviews because the critics reviews aren't what I'm looking for. User reviews on IMDB are thoughtful, and they're pretty quick to point out when you have a real stinker. I'm not sure that the whole picture is being considered, no pun intended. Netflix subscribers only had to choose WATCH. They did not have to get in a car, go to the theater, buy tickets, buy snacks and popcorn, grab a seat, and then get entertained. If the movie lets you down EVEN A LITTLE, you're going to be upset after paying over $50 for 2 tickets plus food. So Netflix users are probably a little more forgiving ... they only had to click PLAY.
Netflix and CHILLLLLLL .... wubba lubba dub dub!
http://www.amazon.com/Daemon-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0451228731/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1361773310&sr=8-1&keywords=daemon+by+daniel+suarez
Can I compose email offline the way I can with Outlook in cached mode? Say if I'm waiting between flights and can't get a WIFI signal, or if I'm stranded because Verizon blocked my tether ability (true story)? I'm not trolling, what happens when that goes down? Does this mean that you can DoS a business's SOHO router / firewall to shut them down for the day because they won't be able to run WORD, Outlook, ERP, etc...?
....2012? Hey, what do you know...it couldn't POSSIBLY be hacked and lead to anything bad, 2012 should be a quiet year, right?? RIGHT?!
...does that mean that ALL science expenditures will stop, and EVERYTHING will be funneled into WAR CHESTS and MILITARY SPENDING? I'll bet that it does....and all scientific innovations will be driven by the military.
Did anyone else think of that old 80's movie with Patrick Dempsy in it, "Loverboy" when they saw this title? One of the wives that he was taking care of had a husband who was into home security. and his security device was a toy robot that shouted, "Intruder....very bad boy....INTRUDER!" in an obnoxious chinese sounding voice. Hillarious.
Well this seems fairly easy: - Get one of those INFRARED HATS and wear them around town: http://hacknmod.com/hack/blind-cameras-with-an-infrared-led-hat/ - After you park at a meter or illegally, cover your license plates and window registration They are probably doing this to cut costs AND increase profitability (no more foot soldiers and wrote more summonses!), but if the minority starts protecting themselves thusly, there won't be much they can do about it since they will have pulled the foot soldiers.
This could very easily be used securely without wasting ink, I think ... the simplest prevention may be the best. If this were implemented, even in a public environment, it could be very easily controlled to prevent SPAM. Let's say a hotel has a courtesy printer in the business center, with a public email address, to be used in the method intended in this announcement. From some of the comments, nothing could be asking for abuse more clearly ... BUT, if the printer received an email to be printed, rather than just PRINTING IT, a simple LCD message of: "Print job received via email, press CONFIRM to print now." and if CONFIRM isn't pressed within [timeout threshold], the message is purged from printer storage and NOT printed. Seems pretty simple, I might create a printer line myself doing just this if HP gets it wrong ... you saw it first on Slashdot. Seems like a great idea....
Well, logic has to start simple, so why not from (as you put it) a first grade level? This copyright bull is made so intentionally complicated so that simple won't get around it. Try reading "The Republic" by Plato and you'll see that simple logic often times beats the complicated situation in most cases.
There just HAS to be a way to stop this bullying.
As stated, IANAL, but how does this work, as far as reasoning and logistics go, when applied to the current laws?
... how STRICT is copyright infringement/copyright law? If we could put preventative measures into place, like the abovementioned watermarking of ripped tracks, we could avoid ALL of this crap that the RIAA is putting everyone through....
Is a photocopied document accepted as the original? Or is it considered a REPRESENTATION of the original, and not accepted as THE original because it could have been faked/altered?
Let's apply this logic to MP3s.
Round up a bunch of RIPPING software. These MP3s had to start as redbook audio on a CD somewhere, right?
Now what happens if we ANALYZE this MP3 and compare it to the original song on the original redbook audio CD? Does the technology used in the RIPPING accurately preserve EVERY PART of the orignal redbook audio track?
If it doesn't, this is not a copy of that track. It's an ALTERED version, and therefore not a copy of the original.
I mean, if a copied document is not acceptable in court, and only an ORIGINAL document is, shouldn't this precedent apply to digital media as well?
Also, if the bitrate that the mp3 is sampled at is less of a bitrate than the original redbook audio CD is, doesn't that ALSO make it a rendition of the original track? Almost like a coverband performing it?
Taking this a step further (I realize that THIS might be stretching it) couldn't we develop a RIPPING software that put a subsonic NOT AUDIBLE TO HUMAN EARS watermark at, say, the beginning and end of a ripped track, that made it MEASURABLY DIFFERENT than the original redbook audio track, and therefore not an accurate representation of it enoguh to be considered copyright infringement?
I guess it all comes down to
or if it's as easy as proving that the copied document precedent makes their claims that this is copyright infringement invalid, lets do that.
Any lawyers have an opinion on this type of defense? Or has it been tried before?
I have a SICK collection of CDs....I started buying CDs back when there was more QUALITY music than there is now. As a result, I have more OLD CDs than NEW CDs. (Everything that comes out today is the same as every other band, with a handful of notably unique artists like Nora Jones, etc...).
.02
So here's my point....I have a large colletion of CDs, and I like to do a lot of outdoor sports. So, I carry my CDs around in one of those large BINDERS. This comes with me in the car, camping, etc...
One summer, I brought my CDs to the beach, and sand got in the binder. As anyone can imagine, 3/4's of my collection in the binder got scratched beyond use.
Since then, I've learned my lesson, and I copy my CDs and use the backup CDs to carry around. When they get scratched, I re-copy them, and put them back in the binder. Heck, for $30 for 50 blank CDs, it's a lucrative way to guarantee the usability of my collection.
But now, with this article, they're saying that I should only be able to make X number of copies...meaning that after I've screwed up my CDs say, 15-20 times, I have to buy it again, or take the original with me. How is that fair? Seriously folks, this is a real life example of how this could hinder someone. I REALLY do this. What is their answer going to be, "be more careful with your CDs?"
The only way this is going to ever get fixed is to have the artists have a LARGE revolution and stop using these companies to markey their materials. As simple of a solution as that is, there are so many facets involved to make it a reailty that....it probably will never happen. Especially since the artists that proliferate these schemes are multi-BILLION-dollar (Dr. Evil pinky to the lip) contract holders.
Anyway, thought everyone would like to see a real example of how copying works for me, and what it helps me be able to do. These limitations serve nobody. There will always be software that can RIP tracks, and once ripped, they will always be able to be burned again and again, so they really should just give up.
One word of advice: Don't get rid of your old programs that perform RIPPING. They don't have DMCA/copyright protection/DRM built into them yet, and will continue to work into the future. They might be slower, they might not be as pretty, and they might not have burning capabilities built RIGHT INTO THEM, but they will continue to work. KEEP YOUR OLD PROGRAMS ON ARCHIVE. My
It's my experience that most people just CRYCRY CRY about how they aren't getting advanced, aren't getting raises, aren't getting exposed to the experience that would make them a superstar.
.02.
WELL, it's ALSO my experience that once someone gets these opportunities, they are lazy about performing exceptionally. I have to tell you, advancement is predicated on PERFORMING EXCEPTIONALLY, UNLESS YOU KNOW SOMEONE. IF you know someone, then you can be as lazy as you want, and all of the crying that you can do usually gets you what you want. I know this sounds like a rant, but I'll elaborate.
I started in IT with 3/4 of an associates degree in Liberal Arts and all of the experience that having your own Compaq Presario with a dial-up modem will give you. OR, NOT MUCH. But you know what? I broke that Presario a hundred different ways, added everything that you could to it, and I ended up knowing quite a bit about PCs.
I got into the field as the lowest form of phone support that you could get. I made $13/hr and didn't get much of a raise for 2 years. Then I broke out by performing EXCEPTIOANALLY during one after hours project.
Everything was going wrong, the project lead was pulling his hair out, and before you knew it, it was 2am and everyone had left. But I stuck around, we had the problem resolved by 4am, AND I was back at work at 9am to do my menial task. From that moment on, though, I was respected.
And from that point in my career and on, I moved ever up the corporate ladder in IT. I went from phone support to helpdesk to helpdesk lead to Network Admin in less than 24 months...all because I had a hunger for doing and doing well.
I emptied COUNTLESS VOLUMES of books into my head...I put myself through Novell school, self-educated myself with the NT4.0 and WIndows 2000 curriculum, and saw a direct increase in salary of about 65% over 2 years.
And I never CRIED about how I wasn't getting a fair deal. A lot of people DID cry about my advancement, though...most of them were people that had put in the time but just didn't want to go that extra mile.
I now own my OWN company that is an IT Outsource shop. We work on projects, maintenence, Disaster Recoveries, new rollouts of complete networks, you name it. I even have employees....and you know what? They cry about advancement too...but when it comes to performing, I'm still the one that's willing to stay all night to get that disaster recovery done, that Exchange server MUST be up for 9am when the users walk in. They want that raise, they want that experience, but they don't want to put the effort in that it takes to get there. It's just typical of most people today. They want everything as if it were OWED to them by someone.
I never hated it....I love every aspect of it. So my advice to everyone reading this column is: LOVE IT. Treat it like you LOVE IT. Give it every ounce of effort IF you LOVE IT. In the end, it will end up loving you back, and you'll be a RAGING success. Oh, I also only finished my Associates Degree, never went for the whole BS thing....so I'm not sure that getting a degree is CS is exactly the thing. I don't know how much further I could have gone with it, but when I left and started working for myself, I was as Senior Engineer making in the high 70's. I hope this gives people some hope...and I hope it inspires you to work your ASS off to get what you want. Just my