Copyright's primary purpose is to make sure people make money from their work so that we have an economy, which is a benefit to society. If nobody pays anyone for their work, you won't have the amount and quality of art as before, and culture would suffer. It's common sense.
Wrong. The purpose of copyright is to encourage the release of creative works to the public domain by providing a temporary monopoly on the work in exchange for this release. Its not for making money off of work so we have an economy. Its for the sharing of ideas, the ability to springboard off of an existing creation to a new creative height.
That may be, but the word 'pirate' has been strongly associated with lawbreaking since the invention of the term, and there's very little that any sort of political campaigning is going to do to change that.
That is the point of using the name.
The pirate party was established to fight the unjust laws. Thus breaking the laws as a political statement.
That would only be valid if there were a single "child porn" and only exact copies of it were child porn. As this is obviously not true, your analogy fails.
I agree with you on the lack of desire to rebuild a system, but replacing a drive doesn't necessitate rebuilding the system. If it does, then the system was not designed well. Your design addresses this with RAID 5. Currently RAID cards do not support TRIM, but its a feature that is expected this year (at least according to Adaptec). I'm addressing this with snapshots currently, but looking forward to going RAID later this year.
I doubt you would. I have a 40 GB Fujitsu MPG3409AT-E hard disk from 2001 that is still running yet the so called best Seagate Pulsar - the "first enterprise-ready" SSD failed after less than a year of database usage.
Bottom line: Do not trust SSDs.
Intensive DB read/write is exactly the use case I decided to go with a SSD for. I replaced a Seagate HD with an Intel SSD. The HD had failed in less than 1 year of use. The SSD noticeably sped up the work of every person in the office. So far so good, but even if it dies in 6 months, it would be worthwhile for my staff.
While a pretty comprehensive article, nowhere do they actually talk about reliablity and longevity of these drives in their value calculations. That's a pretty important factor for me, and has been one of the reasons (besides price) that I haven't seriously considered one yet.
Honestly? No.
I recently replaced a less than 1 year old (failing) HD with a SSD in one of my servers. I expect my HDs to fail. I expect my SSD to fail. I put the SSD in instead of just another HD because it was a (relatively) cheap way to increase the performance of the machine significantly. If it lives for 1 year before failing, its doing better than the HD it replaced -even if it doesn't, the performance boost is worth it.
The BlackBerry security architecture for enterprise customers is specially designed to exclude the capability for RIM or any third party to read encrypted information under any circumstances, the company said in 2008 in a note to customers. The security architecture is based on a symmetric key system whereby the customer creates his own key, and only the customer possesses a copy of his encryption key, RIM said.
Of course, the article was talking about console games and I am not. Steam really needs to get a foothold in the console world, preferably on all the major consoles -now that would be worth my $.
I have re-purchased games after losing the disc, scratching the disc, loaning it to a friend (who lost it/forgot to return it/damaged it), losing the installation code, etc.
So far Valve has done a good job in my opinion. I will continue to buy my games via Steam and play them on my desktop at home, my media center PC, my laptop, and occasionally even my desktop at work -all with a single purchase.
When Grove was CEO of Intel, HE was the one who moved much of their R&D overseas because they were "unable to get qualified Americans."
Of course he did. When he was CEO of Intel, his job was to do what was best for Intel. Now that he is not the CEO of Intel, he is looking at a different picture: what is best for the USA. There is nothing two-faced about it.
> If you're fresh out of school and are offered a job in your field that is entry level, it is not beneath you.
No. "Helpdesk Monkey" is not in your field if you are a CIS graduate. Helpdesk Monkey is what they do to re-employ out of work loggers.
It's not a proper job for a CIS graduate and all of your future employers are going to view it as such.
You would be better off being a logger.
It's like getting a MD and then taking a job nursing or cleaning bed pans.
No. If you are fresh out of school and have no experience, Helpdesk is exactly what you are qualified for. Its your chance to learn how real businesses work, to learn from people who actually do work instead of reading about it in a book. Its not so much about the IT skills, as the work/life skills that go along with working for a living.
Part of getting an MD is a mandatory internship -its a shitjob position that introduces you to the real world, and disabuses you of the idea that you learned everything there is to know in school.
If you have worked a few internships during your schooling, you may already be qualified for something other than helpdesk, but otherwise -start at the bottom and prove yourself.
Unless your other accounts are done through Google Apps, in which case, it's sign out, find the Google Account's sign in page for the correct domain, then sign in.
False.
You can be signed into both a regular gmail account and a Google apps hosted e-mail account at the same time. I normally have one tab open with my personal gmail account and another open with with my Google apps hosted business mail account...
I also want to know why Google believes it has the right to map WiFi networks. Who are they to think they(Google) has the right to locate and map out the locations of WiFi routers around the world? Google is wrong in this and I want to see them pay(legally and civilly).
Funniest post ever....what? You were serious? Oh... You mean that you actually don't understand why maps are made? Or why map making is generally accepted as a benefit to society? Or how they can be useful? Or is it that you don't see the value of maps that correlate physical locations with the radio signals received (hint, its like street signs for wireless devices.)
That's a BS analogy. If you're sending an unencrypted email to a friend, there is absolutely no question about who the intended recipient is. You're talking about people who weren't clearly addressed intercepting and reading your mail.
That is a bad analogy.
Unencrypted e-mail is the equivalent of a postcard. It is plain text and is visible to anyone who looks. There is no envelope. Encryption is the equivalent of an envelope in the e-mail : postal-mail analogy.
Weak encryption is a thin white envelope: anyone can see thru it to what is inside with a little effort, but you are at least taking the effort to mark it as private. Better encryption would be a thick manila envelope: actual effort is required to see what is inside.
Say somebody stuffs an envelope addressed to their credit card company in the mailbox in their front yard. Should somebody get shit for digging it out and reading it? (Hint: Laws are very clear about this)
Your analogy further breaks down here.
Using wifi is not the equivalent of stuffing an envelope in the mailbox in your front yard. Using wifi is the equivalent of having a conversation in a restaurant with other people around. You hear the person you are talking to, but you also hear everyone around you. You choose to listen only to the person you are conversing with, and ignore the other conversations. That is what wifi devices do: they choose to ignore the other devices having conversations around them, but they can still hear them.
I know what you're saying, but there may be some good reasons. We have employer issued phones at our workplace with unlimited plans. Making personal calls or sending texts during non-work hours does nothing to change the final bill, so we've been told to use them for our own personal use as well. We're required to have the phones & be "on call." Why would I want to pay for a second phone I don't need?
only if you don't want your employer to have access to the call log (who you spoke with and when) or to the log of the texts. If you aren't concerned about what your employer might find out, go ahead and use the free service they are providing. If you don't want them to know about it -don't use use their equipment.
Its just like any other use of company equipment. My typing this post on slashdot is being logged right now. If I thought that would be a problem for my employer to know about, I would not be doing it from my desk at work.
There is a difference between monitoring and logging. I don't monitor, but I do keep logs. Those logs are permanently archived. If there is ever a need, the logs can be pulled up, and an employee's activities can be reviewed. Anything further would be applying a technical solution to a management problem.
If he's convicted he gets to go to minimum security federal jail for probably 2-4 years. How is that savage punishment?
Aspergers is neither a cause of computer hacking nor an excuse for it. "Oh, a trial or jail will traumatize him" isn't a valid reason to not put someone on trial either in the US or in England.
This guy was misguided rather than intentionally malicious, but he misguided himself into a bunch of federal felonies. Aspergers doesn't change your ability to understand legal vs illegal acts.
So try him in England, where he lives, and where he was when he allegedly committed the crimes... The US Government can afford to send an attorney (or state department representative) to speak on their behalf. He can be tried and convicted and punished in the UK. There is no reason to send him to the USA.
Each user is potentially contributing to the theft of the song but you can't say there were 100,000 illegal downloads of the song and each user is responsible for 100,000 thefts creating 400,000 thefts. If user D never shared it, the number of thefts would probably still be the same unless someone got queued up and canceled their download.
If someone decided it was taking to long to steal a song then you can imagine their desire to obtain the song was probably not that great in the first place meaning they probably wouldn't have bought it.
Sorry to be pedantic, but copyright infringement is not theft. It is not stealing. It is not piracy. It is copyright infringement.
Please do not fall for the brainwashing.
Conflating these terms is intentional on the part of the music, movie, and software industries and is a deliberate attempt to create the impression that infringers are criminals and deserving of punishment.
Rupert Murdoch thinks that Google should pay him for sending business his way, and the governments of the wold want to find some vague wrongdoing to levy a big fine over.
If you have been in a cave for the past few years, what Google is doing is collecting data to improve their Google Maps functionality. They took pictures to add "street view" so that you can see what the place you are trying to find actually looks like. They logged SSIDs so that your wifi device can be used as an alternative to a GPS device for automatically pinpointing your location on a map.
None of what they have done would be illegal for you or I to do on our own. But since they are a big, rich, company and can afford to take more pictures in more places than we as individuals can do on our own it becomes "a matter of privacy".
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Copyright's primary purpose is to make sure people make money from their work so that we have an economy, which is a benefit to society. If nobody pays anyone for their work, you won't have the amount and quality of art as before, and culture would suffer. It's common sense.
Wrong. The purpose of copyright is to encourage the release of creative works to the public domain by providing a temporary monopoly on the work in exchange for this release. Its not for making money off of work so we have an economy. Its for the sharing of ideas, the ability to springboard off of an existing creation to a new creative height.
Copyright is about sharing, not hoarding.
That may be, but the word 'pirate' has been strongly associated with lawbreaking since the invention of the term, and there's very little that any sort of political campaigning is going to do to change that.
That is the point of using the name.
The pirate party was established to fight the unjust laws. Thus breaking the laws as a political statement.
That would only be valid if there were a single "child porn" and only exact copies of it were child porn. As this is obviously not true, your analogy fails.
and... umm... yeah.
I agree with you on the lack of desire to rebuild a system, but replacing a drive doesn't necessitate rebuilding the system. If it does, then the system was not designed well. Your design addresses this with RAID 5. Currently RAID cards do not support TRIM, but its a feature that is expected this year (at least according to Adaptec). I'm addressing this with snapshots currently, but looking forward to going RAID later this year.
I doubt you would. I have a 40 GB Fujitsu MPG3409AT-E hard disk from 2001 that is still running yet the so called best Seagate Pulsar - the "first enterprise-ready" SSD failed after less than a year of database usage.
Bottom line: Do not trust SSDs.
Intensive DB read/write is exactly the use case I decided to go with a SSD for. I replaced a Seagate HD with an Intel SSD. The HD had failed in less than 1 year of use. The SSD noticeably sped up the work of every person in the office. So far so good, but even if it dies in 6 months, it would be worthwhile for my staff.
While a pretty comprehensive article, nowhere do they actually talk about reliablity and longevity of these drives in their value calculations. That's a pretty important factor for me, and has been one of the reasons (besides price) that I haven't seriously considered one yet.
Honestly? No.
I recently replaced a less than 1 year old (failing) HD with a SSD in one of my servers. I expect my HDs to fail. I expect my SSD to fail. I put the SSD in instead of just another HD because it was a (relatively) cheap way to increase the performance of the machine significantly. If it lives for 1 year before failing, its doing better than the HD it replaced -even if it doesn't, the performance boost is worth it.
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The BlackBerry security architecture for enterprise customers is specially designed to exclude the capability for RIM or any third party to read encrypted information under any circumstances, the company said in 2008 in a note to customers. The security architecture is based on a symmetric key system whereby the customer creates his own key, and only the customer possesses a copy of his encryption key, RIM said.
Sad... replying to myself.
Of course, the article was talking about console games and I am not. Steam really needs to get a foothold in the console world, preferably on all the major consoles -now that would be worth my $.
Steam.
I have re-purchased games after losing the disc, scratching the disc, loaning it to a friend (who lost it/forgot to return it/damaged it), losing the installation code, etc.
So far Valve has done a good job in my opinion. I will continue to buy my games via Steam and play them on my desktop at home, my media center PC, my laptop, and occasionally even my desktop at work -all with a single purchase.
When Grove was CEO of Intel, HE was the one who moved much of their R&D overseas because they were "unable to get qualified Americans."
Of course he did. When he was CEO of Intel, his job was to do what was best for Intel. Now that he is not the CEO of Intel, he is looking at a different picture: what is best for the USA. There is nothing two-faced about it.
> If you're fresh out of school and are offered a job in your field that is entry level, it is not beneath you.
No. "Helpdesk Monkey" is not in your field if you are a CIS graduate. Helpdesk Monkey is what they do to re-employ out of work loggers.
It's not a proper job for a CIS graduate and all of your future employers are going to view it as such.
You would be better off being a logger.
It's like getting a MD and then taking a job nursing or cleaning bed pans.
No. If you are fresh out of school and have no experience, Helpdesk is exactly what you are qualified for. Its your chance to learn how real businesses work, to learn from people who actually do work instead of reading about it in a book. Its not so much about the IT skills, as the work/life skills that go along with working for a living.
Part of getting an MD is a mandatory internship -its a shitjob position that introduces you to the real world, and disabuses you of the idea that you learned everything there is to know in school.
If you have worked a few internships during your schooling, you may already be qualified for something other than helpdesk, but otherwise -start at the bottom and prove yourself.
Unless your other accounts are done through Google Apps, in which case, it's sign out, find the Google Account's sign in page for the correct domain, then sign in.
False.
You can be signed into both a regular gmail account and a Google apps hosted e-mail account at the same time. I normally have one tab open with my personal gmail account and another open with with my Google apps hosted business mail account...
I also want to know why Google believes it has the right to map WiFi networks. Who are they to think they(Google) has the right to locate and map out the locations of WiFi routers around the world? Google is wrong in this and I want to see them pay(legally and civilly).
Funniest post ever. ...what? You were serious? Oh... You mean that you actually don't understand why maps are made? Or why map making is generally accepted as a benefit to society? Or how they can be useful? Or is it that you don't see the value of maps that correlate physical locations with the radio signals received (hint, its like street signs for wireless devices.)
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Well said.
That's a BS analogy. If you're sending an unencrypted email to a friend, there is absolutely no question about who the intended recipient is. You're talking about people who weren't clearly addressed intercepting and reading your mail.
That is a bad analogy.
Unencrypted e-mail is the equivalent of a postcard. It is plain text and is visible to anyone who looks. There is no envelope. Encryption is the equivalent of an envelope in the e-mail : postal-mail analogy.
Weak encryption is a thin white envelope: anyone can see thru it to what is inside with a little effort, but you are at least taking the effort to mark it as private. Better encryption would be a thick manila envelope: actual effort is required to see what is inside.
Say somebody stuffs an envelope addressed to their credit card company in the mailbox in their front yard. Should somebody get shit for digging it out and reading it? (Hint: Laws are very clear about this)
Your analogy further breaks down here.
Using wifi is not the equivalent of stuffing an envelope in the mailbox in your front yard. Using wifi is the equivalent of having a conversation in a restaurant with other people around. You hear the person you are talking to, but you also hear everyone around you. You choose to listen only to the person you are conversing with, and ignore the other conversations. That is what wifi devices do: they choose to ignore the other devices having conversations around them, but they can still hear them.
I know what you're saying, but there may be some good reasons. We have employer issued phones at our workplace with unlimited plans. Making personal calls or sending texts during non-work hours does nothing to change the final bill, so we've been told to use them for our own personal use as well. We're required to have the phones & be "on call." Why would I want to pay for a second phone I don't need?
only if you don't want your employer to have access to the call log (who you spoke with and when) or to the log of the texts. If you aren't concerned about what your employer might find out, go ahead and use the free service they are providing. If you don't want them to know about it -don't use use their equipment.
Its just like any other use of company equipment. My typing this post on slashdot is being logged right now. If I thought that would be a problem for my employer to know about, I would not be doing it from my desk at work.
There is a difference between monitoring and logging. I don't monitor, but I do keep logs. Those logs are permanently archived. If there is ever a need, the logs can be pulled up, and an employee's activities can be reviewed. Anything further would be applying a technical solution to a management problem.
If he's convicted he gets to go to minimum security federal jail for probably 2-4 years. How is that savage punishment?
Aspergers is neither a cause of computer hacking nor an excuse for it. "Oh, a trial or jail will traumatize him" isn't a valid reason to not put someone on trial either in the US or in England.
This guy was misguided rather than intentionally malicious, but he misguided himself into a bunch of federal felonies. Aspergers doesn't change your ability to understand legal vs illegal acts.
So try him in England, where he lives, and where he was when he allegedly committed the crimes... The US Government can afford to send an attorney (or state department representative) to speak on their behalf. He can be tried and convicted and punished in the UK. There is no reason to send him to the USA.
Each user is potentially contributing to the theft of the song but you can't say there were 100,000 illegal downloads of the song and each user is responsible for 100,000 thefts creating 400,000 thefts. If user D never shared it, the number of thefts would probably still be the same unless someone got queued up and canceled their download.
If someone decided it was taking to long to steal a song then you can imagine their desire to obtain the song was probably not that great in the first place meaning they probably wouldn't have bought it.
Sorry to be pedantic, but copyright infringement is not theft. It is not stealing. It is not piracy. It is copyright infringement.
Please do not fall for the brainwashing.
Conflating these terms is intentional on the part of the music, movie, and software industries and is a deliberate attempt to create the impression that infringers are criminals and deserving of punishment.
Well, now we know who not to vote for...
Everyone wants a piece of Google's cash pie.
Rupert Murdoch thinks that Google should pay him for sending business his way, and the governments of the wold want to find some vague wrongdoing to levy a big fine over.
If you have been in a cave for the past few years, what Google is doing is collecting data to improve their Google Maps functionality. They took pictures to add "street view" so that you can see what the place you are trying to find actually looks like. They logged SSIDs so that your wifi device can be used as an alternative to a GPS device for automatically pinpointing your location on a map.
None of what they have done would be illegal for you or I to do on our own. But since they are a big, rich, company and can afford to take more pictures in more places than we as individuals can do on our own it becomes "a matter of privacy".
It's only an error if it costs the house money.