You'll obviously be very careful crossing roads in the UK. But do not neglect to be equally careful for the first few days when when you return to the US.
They admitted to using file sharing software not pirating goods via said software... The study is effectively making the assumption that filesharing = copyright infringement.
This does seem important to me. At work, everybody uses network drives as a method of 'filesharing' (spreadsheets of the latest paperclip audit, the coffee club accounts, etc., but not music thanks to the BOFH's watchful scripts.). They also do this from home using the vpn. I'm sure if you asked any of them if they 'used filesharing software' they would reply 'yes'. However, the majority would have no idea what peer2peer sharing was.
Firstly, you can absolutely forget about any system that requires users to name documents in a way that is descriptive, consistent, unique or anything else that a sane person would do.
Secondly, MacOS X Spotlight Server (as of version 10.5.7) doesn't work as one would expect/hope. Users' files stored on the server get indexed by the server but this index can only be read by users logged in to the server console (or via ssh), not clients that access the files my mounting them as shared volumes. If a client wishes to search the files, it must build its own index over the network. The workload on the server/network can cause severe performance issues until the clients have built their indexes, a process that will take hours and may take days to complete if you have a lot of files.
Goldacre could have strengthened his analysis even further by considering the decline in entertainment industry revenue due to competition: not from downloads, but from social change. My parent's generation had no money and few options so they spent a lot of their spare time playing cards and reading books from the public library. In my day, a whole culture had developed around vinyl records, and they were the catalyst for most of a young person's social life. These days, young people spend roughly the same proportion of their disposable income (i.e. most of it) on mobile phone contracts as I used to spend on records/tapes. I can think of no reason to imagine that, if 'free' downloads suddenly stopped existing, people would give up their mobile phones and spend the money on CD/DVDs instead.
if i ever get injured while out of town, i want the hospital that i'm admitted to to have my medical records immediately. they need to know my medical history, my allergies, and what medication(s) i take.
What you want is a 'Medic Alert' bracelet.
To medics/paramedics reading: Please, if I am injured, get straight on with treating whatever injuries I present with. Don't waste time trying to work out which of the thousands of people that share my name I am. We can chat about my medical history if/when I wake up. And thanks in advance guys!
If like me you object to your medical records being computerised and being available to any member of the state for their fishing expeditions, your doctor will tell you to get lost.
Firstly, this has not been my experience. Having briefly discussed the issues with my GP (the doctor who is the gatekeeper of medical treatment in the UK) he immediately agreed not to upload my records to the national database, and indeed said he would not be having his own records uploaded for pretty much the same reasons as me.
At the moment there is insufficient downside to a wrongful conviction for anyone involved (apart from the innocent person convicted). I propose that if a conviction is shown to have been wrongful then everybody involved (the cops, prosecutors, jury, judge, etc.) should serve the same penalty (or part penalty) as the wrongfully convicted person had to up to the point the conviction was quashed.
There is no chance you miss a 200.000 downloaded (just a single site!),
200,000 is the total of all downloads of all versions. The idea of VersionTracker is that it pushes new versions out to existing users; it is more relevant to look at the per version downloads (ca 14,000 for the latest version).
From my understand a legal document is only considered "legal" when it is signed, sealed and delivered (know this is true for contracts, think it is also applic with documents like this - inferred contract?).
In England it is not necessary for a contract to be signed or sealed or delivered. You are probably thinking of 'deeds' and even these do not normally need to be 'sealed' these days.
So my gut feeling would be that the letter isn't legally binding. Would be fun to argue in court.
I don't believe it will ever be common for a household to use a terabit per second. The human perceptual system only has so much bandwidth.
Maybe, but the bandwith of my perceptual system is still about a thousand times bigger than the 6Mbs divided by a contention factor of 100 that is delivered by 'unlimited broadband' in my neck of the woods.
I think you need to be very careful about managing your future customers' expectations. Most people (non-geeks) would interpret the 'How Fast is Fibre' page as meaning you are promising consistent speeds of ca 30Mb/s to their house. We live in a world where many people want to download their entertainment via ISPs in the form of HD feature films, and contention is becoming a nightmare.
namgge
...that I got to like machines largely because I didn't have to put up with them yacking on about stuff the whole time.
I don't use IM and I don't have a cellphone because I really don't care what you need to tell me. If it's important now it'll still be important next week, so use a pen and paper to write to me.
...so if there's a very hot video in say, youtube, you can put your commercial there almost inmediately... seems like the best way to maximize advertising costs.
Quite so. Far better to adopt VW's approach: make an entertaining advert and stick it on youtube in its own right. Then people can watch it without it being interupted by some film,
Under the terms of the law an organization may not share personal data to another party without your consent. It's a pretty decent law, I don't know how the hell it got passed.
Allow me to enlighten you. It's because it can only be enforced by an organisation that doesn't have sufficient power/resources/motivation to do anything about infringement beyond asking them politely to stop,
Machines that behave/think/emote like humans are a pointless vanity. Anybody who needs access to human intelligence and/or emotions can hire real people right now.
It's bad enough sysadmin-ing a conventional family. I really don't want to have machines throwing tantrums at work as well.
Slashdot Mirror
Whoever registers the .con TLD will become ipso facto the king of phising...
Except in France.
namgge
You'll obviously be very careful crossing roads in the UK. But do not neglect to be equally careful for the first few days when when you return to the US.
Namgge
It's very possible to be given root access via sudo but not have the root password.
It's not just 'possible', that's almost the whole point of sudo.
namgge
I can compute anything, given enough time.
Then have a go at a tiling problem and let us know when you've finished.
Namgge
They admitted to using file sharing software not pirating goods via said software... The study is effectively making the assumption that filesharing = copyright infringement.
This does seem important to me. At work, everybody uses network drives as a method of 'filesharing' (spreadsheets of the latest paperclip audit, the coffee club accounts, etc., but not music thanks to the BOFH's watchful scripts.). They also do this from home using the vpn. I'm sure if you asked any of them if they 'used filesharing software' they would reply 'yes'. However, the majority would have no idea what peer2peer sharing was.
namgge
at last! My shares in buggy-whip manufacturers will finally come good.
Namgge
Firstly, you can absolutely forget about any system that requires users to name documents in a way that is descriptive, consistent, unique or anything else that a sane person would do.
Secondly, MacOS X Spotlight Server (as of version 10.5.7) doesn't work as one would expect/hope. Users' files stored on the server get indexed by the server but this index can only be read by users logged in to the server console (or via ssh), not clients that access the files my mounting them as shared volumes. If a client wishes to search the files, it must build its own index over the network. The workload on the server/network can cause severe performance issues until the clients have built their indexes, a process that will take hours and may take days to complete if you have a lot of files.
Namgge
This story should be tagged 'Child-Abuse'.
Namgge
Goldacre could have strengthened his analysis even further by considering the decline in entertainment industry revenue due to competition: not from downloads, but from social change. My parent's generation had no money and few options so they spent a lot of their spare time playing cards and reading books from the public library. In my day, a whole culture had developed around vinyl records, and they were the catalyst for most of a young person's social life. These days, young people spend roughly the same proportion of their disposable income (i.e. most of it) on mobile phone contracts as I used to spend on records/tapes. I can think of no reason to imagine that, if 'free' downloads suddenly stopped existing, people would give up their mobile phones and spend the money on CD/DVDs instead.
Namgge
if i ever get injured while out of town, i want the hospital that i'm admitted to to have my medical records immediately. they need to know my medical history, my allergies, and what medication(s) i take.
What you want is a 'Medic Alert' bracelet.
To medics/paramedics reading: Please, if I am injured, get straight on with treating whatever injuries I present with. Don't waste time trying to work out which of the thousands of people that share my name I am. We can chat about my medical history if/when I wake up. And thanks in advance guys!
Namgge
If like me you object to your medical records being computerised and being available to any member of the state for their fishing expeditions, your doctor will tell you to get lost.
Firstly, this has not been my experience. Having briefly discussed the issues with my GP (the doctor who is the gatekeeper of medical treatment in the UK) he immediately agreed not to upload my records to the national database, and indeed said he would not be having his own records uploaded for pretty much the same reasons as me.
Secondly, in the UK doctors are required to adhere to professional standards, one of which is to respect the confidentiality of patients http://www.gmc-uk.org/guidance/current/library/confidentiality.asp. So, if your doctor really told you to 'get lost' and intends to transfer your records to others without your consent, I suggest you use the GMC's complaints procedure http://www.gmc-uk.org/concerns/making_a_complaint/index.asp.
Namgge.
Actually, I find pointed knives critical for preparing microwave dinners. How else do you puncture the film across the top of tray?
A couple of rounds from a small-bore pistol does the job nicely.
File a lawsuit for what?
Tort.
Namgge
"At this time, Firefox 3 cannot be used when the user profile is stored on an AFP directory (bug 417037)"
This is an old bug and it means that users with network home directories are fscked. Unless this is fixed soon I'm going to be forced to deploy Opera.
Namgge
If Warren Buffet were to die tomorrow, Berkshire Hathaway's stock would suffer. Then I would buy it,
BH is currently trading at ca $115,000.00 per share. How many are you going to buy?
namgge
At the moment there is insufficient downside to a wrongful conviction for anyone involved (apart from the innocent person convicted). I propose that if a conviction is shown to have been wrongful then everybody involved (the cops, prosecutors, jury, judge, etc.) should serve the same penalty (or part penalty) as the wrongfully convicted person had to up to the point the conviction was quashed.
namgge
I say this self-defence (against identity theft and harassment) and is no offence.
Not using an alias when signing up to social network sites that should be the felony and the only defence should be an insanity plea.
namgge <--- Not my real name, so arrest me.
200,000 is the total of all downloads of all versions. The idea of VersionTracker is that it pushes new versions out to existing users; it is more relevant to look at the per version downloads (ca 14,000 for the latest version).
Namgge
In England it is not necessary for a contract to be signed or sealed or delivered. You are probably thinking of 'deeds' and even these do not normally need to be 'sealed' these days.
Good luck with that.
namgge
Maybe, but the bandwith of my perceptual system is still about a thousand times bigger than the 6Mbs divided by a contention factor of 100 that is delivered by 'unlimited broadband' in my neck of the woods.
namgge
I think you need to be very careful about managing your future customers' expectations. Most people (non-geeks) would interpret the 'How Fast is Fibre' page as meaning you are promising consistent speeds of ca 30Mb/s to their house. We live in a world where many people want to download their entertainment via ISPs in the form of HD feature films, and contention is becoming a nightmare. namgge
...that I got to like machines largely because I didn't have to put up with them yacking on about stuff the whole time.
I don't use IM and I don't have a cellphone because I really don't care what you need to tell me. If it's important now it'll still be important next week, so use a pen and paper to write to me.
namgge
...so if there's a very hot video in say, youtube, you can put your commercial there almost inmediately... seems like the best way to maximize advertising costs.Quite so. Far better to adopt VW's approach: make an entertaining advert and stick it on youtube in its own right. Then people can watch it without it being interupted by some film,
Namgge
Allow me to enlighten you. It's because it can only be enforced by an organisation that doesn't have sufficient power/resources/motivation to do anything about infringement beyond asking them politely to stop,
Namgge
Machines that behave/think/emote like humans are a pointless vanity. Anybody who needs access to human intelligence and/or emotions can hire real people right now.
It's bad enough sysadmin-ing a conventional family. I really don't want to have machines throwing tantrums at work as well.
Namgge