Most people online give stuff away. They've been doing so since public had access to photocopiers
It goes back further. It goes back to the songs people sing to their kids that they learned from their (grand)parents. It goes back to the tales we told at the fire in the caves and the images that we copied in those caves.
Can you imagine? "Well Hrraahgh. I see you made an excellent image of a mammoth, but we must fine you 17.408 cows and 307 wifes for the following reason. The technique you used has a copyright on it described as 'making an image on a wall'. Also the palm you used to sign the image is not according to the trademark that Grrnarg has. Even though you have only 4 fingers and he has 5, it is close enough to confuse people. The making of fire to make the charcoal was breaking the patent law. You understand that we do this to protect the tribe."
Luckily we do not need to stop to music or stop buying music. There are alternatives http://bandcamp.com/ is one of them where you can easily see the percentage that goes to the band.
I have absolutely no legal means within reason to access these programs.
So you don't see them. I am against copyright (as it exists now) but at least I am aware that it isn't a human right to see them.
And you DO have the ability to see them. Move to the counties where they are broadcast. The fact that you are not willing to pay that price is very understandable. However you do not have any RIGHT to see them if they are not willing to show them.
If you make a movie of your kid during a holiday sitting on a swing, I also do not have the RIGHT to see that movie. Not even if you show it to all your friends and family.
The fact that you do not do it for money and they do does not change the right to see it.
The problem with copyright is not so much the right to copy. It is the duration of that right of that right and the way it is handled in law by e.g. asking way much more then the actual value. And it is COPYright not ABLE_TO_SEE_ITright.
And it works for them. Almost everybody I speak to about bottled water gives me the Spinal Tap answer of "But it is bottled water."
I drink water from the tab. Well unless there is a DIRECT danger in doing so. Only had to do that once. In the Dakar Airport I just did not trust the water enough and the only water available was in the toilets. That was many years ago.
TLD's are great for context, and they're great for blocking stuff at work that you don't want employees involved with
Let me guess, you are an american? The majority of sites is country related..nl,.be,.fr and.de are only a few that I use on a daily basis.
Also if you use a blacklist to filter domains and/or sites, you are doing it wrong. The only way to filter for your employees is white-listing.
A company I used to work for did blacklisting. They decided to block hotmail and yahoo because they did not wanted people to read external email. It took about 5 minutes before everybody had an other email adress at some other provider. For me it was easy as I had my own domain (and I used ssh and mutt). Whitelisting is the ONLY way to filter. If you do that for the whole company or per user or department is another matter.
There is another reason it won't work. com, net and org are subject related. However there are also country related TLDs.
What if e.g. the.va domain allows child porn (Going right to the most evil thing there is.). Or if.cn allows for porn sites? Oh? Going to censor the Chinese who we hate because they don't allow free speech?
What I would be willing to pay more for: Static IPv4 address
Why should you pay more for something they do not pay anything extra for. During the dialup times, IP addresses where spread out because not each and every person was online at the same time. With broadband that is different. Even if the provider would need to order more IPs, there will be no difference in price they pay for them. Even the difference between the smallest amount and the largest is probably less then the total money they spend on toilet paper.
Basically what you are telling them is to please take your money because you don't need it. A fixed IP should be a standard with broadband, together with reversed DNS and all ports open.
Ubuntu Linux has been the clear leader in the fight, amassing more users than any other.
As we know from the number of Windows users, quantity and quality are two different things.
If they are NOT Ubuntu on a technical level, that would be great. And that is what I am interested in and used to be the case in the past here. Now apparently VHS is better because it had more users then Betamax.
By that measurement we should all start using Windows.
The whole concept of login and password security starts wrong. It assumes several things: 1) The security is based on only one login and password 2) You are able to select your own login and password 3) There is no need to change the login and password
I have a badge that I use to enter several places in a building. These give me physical access. I never need to change it, unless it is broken or lost. Logins I am unable to select myself most of the time, so they will be non-standard. Some passwords are given to me and can not be changed. Others I need to change every month.
The problem with the security with passwords is that it tries to be secure on paper. The reality is that people forget their password and will start to write them down. They will need to contact IT because they can't get to work. I once did a calculation on the cost savings if we changed the duration of the passwords from 31 to 93 days and it was nice enough to be worth it. Obviously shot down because it did not 'sounded' safe on paper. The result is frustration by the IT staff and with the IT staff. Frustration leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
Another way of mixing the two is using something like Yo mamma is two fat for this joke Ym=2f4tj 8 characters. Upper and lower case. Numbers, letters and something else. Still easy to remember.
The real problem is that I can easily remember 1 random password. I can even remember several. However I am forced to remember many of them. These all with different logins. And some passwords I can not change. On top of that I need to change my password every month.
The problem is not selecting one password. The problem is having so many of them and the need to change them each month. I do not go to the locksmith to ask for a new key each month, yet that is what we are asked to do, because somebody might have take a copy of the key.
If all you are interested in is money, then indeed the best thing is to do nothing. If however you value other things, then the return might be worth it.
Not everything can be easily calculated in an amount of dollars.
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It goes back further. It goes back to the songs people sing to their kids that they learned from their (grand)parents.
It goes back to the tales we told at the fire in the caves and the images that we copied in those caves.
Can you imagine? "Well Hrraahgh. I see you made an excellent image of a mammoth, but we must fine you 17.408 cows and 307 wifes for the following reason. The technique you used has a copyright on it described as 'making an image on a wall'. Also the palm you used to sign the image is not according to the trademark that Grrnarg has. Even though you have only 4 fingers and he has 5, it is close enough to confuse people. The making of fire to make the charcoal was breaking the patent law. You understand that we do this to protect the tribe."
Luckily we do not need to stop to music or stop buying music. There are alternatives http://bandcamp.com/ is one of them where you can easily see the percentage that goes to the band.
I remember when she got the job, I thought she would be allowing companies all that they wanted to be allowed. Luckily I was wrong.
If all politicians had at least 10% of her common sense, the world would not be in the shit hole we are now.
So you don't see them. I am against copyright (as it exists now) but at least I am aware that it isn't a human right to see them.
And you DO have the ability to see them. Move to the counties where they are broadcast. The fact that you are not willing to pay that price is very understandable. However you do not have any RIGHT to see them if they are not willing to show them.
If you make a movie of your kid during a holiday sitting on a swing, I also do not have the RIGHT to see that movie. Not even if you show it to all your friends and family.
The fact that you do not do it for money and they do does not change the right to see it.
The problem with copyright is not so much the right to copy. It is the duration of that right of that right and the way it is handled in law by e.g. asking way much more then the actual value. And it is COPYright not ABLE_TO_SEE_ITright.
And it works for them. Almost everybody I speak to about bottled water gives me the Spinal Tap answer of "But it is bottled water."
I drink water from the tab. Well unless there is a DIRECT danger in doing so. Only had to do that once. In the Dakar Airport I just did not trust the water enough and the only water available was in the toilets. That was many years ago.
The story of bottled water : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se12y9hSOM0
Let me guess, you are an american? The majority of sites is country related. .nl, .be, .fr and .de are only a few that I use on a daily basis.
Also if you use a blacklist to filter domains and/or sites, you are doing it wrong. The only way to filter for your employees is white-listing.
A company I used to work for did blacklisting. They decided to block hotmail and yahoo because they did not wanted people to read external email. It took about 5 minutes before everybody had an other email adress at some other provider. For me it was easy as I had my own domain (and I used ssh and mutt).
Whitelisting is the ONLY way to filter. If you do that for the whole company or per user or department is another matter.
There is another reason it won't work. com, net and org are subject related. However there are also country related TLDs.
What if e.g. the .va domain allows child porn (Going right to the most evil thing there is.). Or if .cn allows for porn sites?
Oh? Going to censor the Chinese who we hate because they don't allow free speech?
Research causes cancer in mice.
It is copyright infringement.
What? Is your president some sort of Super evil person that makes the public unable to do anything themselves?
Even better if you start with not having one.
I have a fake one. Just in case I meet a women and we get in a divorce.
If you still want to buy music but not from the MAFIAA: http://bandcamp.com/
You can clearly read how much goes to the site and how much to the band.
No pirating, still voting with your wallet.
The site is also very easy for musicians (most of the time not the most tech savy people) to set up a site and distribute their music to the world.
Why should you pay more for something they do not pay anything extra for.
During the dialup times, IP addresses where spread out because not each and every person was online at the same time. With broadband that is different. Even if the provider would need to order more IPs, there will be no difference in price they pay for them. Even the difference between the smallest amount and the largest is probably less then the total money they spend on toilet paper.
Basically what you are telling them is to please take your money because you don't need it.
A fixed IP should be a standard with broadband, together with reversed DNS and all ports open.
As we know from the number of Windows users, quantity and quality are two different things.
If they are NOT Ubuntu on a technical level, that would be great. And that is what I am interested in and used to be the case in the past here. Now apparently VHS is better because it had more users then Betamax.
By that measurement we should all start using Windows.
According to MAFIAA $2B will buy you around 14.7 songs.
I sleep with people. More time to spend.
I block everything. I have the following in my hosts file
# Block Facebook
127.127.127.127 www.facebook.com
127.127.127.127 facebook.com
127.127.127.127 static.ak.fbcdn.net
127.127.127.127 www.static.ak.fbcdn.net
127.127.127.127 login.facebook.com
127.127.127.127 www.login.facebook.com
127.127.127.127 fbcdn.net
127.127.127.127 www.fbcdn.net
127.127.127.127 fbcdn.com
127.127.127.127 www.fbcdn.com
127.127.127.127 static.ak.connect.facebook.com
127.127.127.127 www.static.ak.connect.facebook.com
The 127.127.127.127 points to a seperate web site so it does not disturb my other logs. You could use 0.0.0.0
Even better is to filter out all facebook.com and fbcdn.net stuff.
What he actually is saying is that he does not like to share his comments. He is just beta testing the system.
If everything would be actually deleted, that would be great news.
More likely it will be if you don't accept it, they will use and keep it in a less obvious way.
The whole concept of login and password security starts wrong. It assumes several things:
1) The security is based on only one login and password
2) You are able to select your own login and password
3) There is no need to change the login and password
I have a badge that I use to enter several places in a building. These give me physical access. I never need to change it, unless it is broken or lost.
Logins I am unable to select myself most of the time, so they will be non-standard. Some passwords are given to me and can not be changed. Others I need to change every month.
The problem with the security with passwords is that it tries to be secure on paper. The reality is that people forget their password and will start to write them down. They will need to contact IT because they can't get to work.
I once did a calculation on the cost savings if we changed the duration of the passwords from 31 to 93 days and it was nice enough to be worth it. Obviously shot down because it did not 'sounded' safe on paper.
The result is frustration by the IT staff and with the IT staff. Frustration leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
Another way of mixing the two is using something like
Yo mamma is two fat for this joke
Ym=2f4tj
8 characters. Upper and lower case. Numbers, letters and something else.
Still easy to remember.
The real problem is that I can easily remember 1 random password. I can even remember several. However I am forced to remember many of them. These all with different logins. And some passwords I can not change.
On top of that I need to change my password every month.
The problem is not selecting one password. The problem is having so many of them and the need to change them each month. I do not go to the locksmith to ask for a new key each month, yet that is what we are asked to do, because somebody might have take a copy of the key.
I agree. I never understood the use of the desktop as an extra program. Never understood the icons. There are programs in the way to see those icons.
Also why only one start button with programs? Make several to get to your program. And why has Windows still no multiple desktops?
If all you are interested in is money, then indeed the best thing is to do nothing. If however you value other things, then the return might be worth it.
Not everything can be easily calculated in an amount of dollars.
In the back of a Volkswagen?