That's because you were what is called a "mule" in the world of drug dealing. A mule is the low-end pusher/dealer, the person that deals with individual users, and always the fall guy.
Not that I'm saying file sharing and drug dealing are analogous...
Why not? In both cases, people are exchanging fairly harmless (list for me, please, the number of people who have died from using marijuana or LSD) things that are in high demand but have been outlawed and are thus out of the reach of traditional means. It's logical to expect that the two groups will develop similar solutions to their similar predicaments.
Several of my friends are still using WMP as I speak, so I think we'll need a few more. They've just gotten so used to WMP that any alternative, regardless of how much better, cleaner, safer, or more efficient it is, is too uncomfortable to them for them to switch. I guess you can get away with this sort of thing when you pretend that your media player is part of the operating system and package it as such.
Perhaps, but Freenet wouldn't be used as the medium through which to transfer the actual data; rather, just the torrents. I think that's a pretty neat idea--it'd be almost trivial to set up a Suprnova clone through Freenet (given enough of a time and man-power commitment, obviously), and its security and anonymity would be a much more useful asset in this situation than transfer performance. Since Freenet is decentralized, it won't matter how many people access the site--there's no central server to be overloaded.
The amount of money that Lokitorrent has already raised in such a brief period of time begs to differ. Perhaps the people who are bypassing the *AA and going through other means to get to this copyrighted material simply disagree with the monopolistic scheme under which said material is currently distributed?
Ogg (and mp3, and any other lossy format) is of course not going to produce sound data identical to the original input--that's why they're called lossy formats. For daily listening, however, Vorbis is great--indeed, by many accounts, better in terms of both quality and space than mp3. If you absolutely abhor it, though, then you can always elect to buy your music in FLAC format and do whatever you want with it. Really, I'm not seeing any grounds for your complaint; this looks like a great service, and I'm definitely looking forward to giving it a shot.
I definitely read that post as "Not to mention the activation issues that make XP not run at all after installing SP2. Microsoft should have fixed those long before releasing SP2 because they screw over-paying customers."
Upon realizing my mistake, I'm actually not sure which reading is more accurate.
It simply says an addiction with a free neverending supply can be harmful.
How?
I mean, think about it for a second--what's harmful about the addictions that currently have legislation in place against them? Aside from whatever crap one might say about danger to the body (and let's be realistic here--there are endless quantities of over-the-counter drugs being sold right now that are vastly more harmful than, say, marijuana), the main problem is the cost. Crack, heroin, gambling, the big three right now--they all have the very real potential to take every dime a person owns without ever looking back, and for this reason they are legislated against.
Taking into consideration the fact that cost is the main reason for the danger of addictive behavior and supplementing this knowledge with the fact that pornography has no known negative side effects (moral arguments aside--not that they're irrelevant, but they add an entire new dimension to the situation that's quite frankly unneeded) or costs (well, assuming you go about it right)... what's dangerous about it?
"You, the viewer, agree not to look at what you are seeing. You are allowed only to stare vacantly at the screen and laugh when you hear a laugh track. Any violation of this EVLA will result in immediate disconnection of your IPTV and confiscation of the infringing eyeballs."
Artistic ability isn't something that only a few people have and that is forever beyond the rest of the world, though. With a somewhat steady regimen of practice and enough will, anybody can become a skilled artist--and, similarly, a skilled artist can lose his talent if he stops practicing. This sort of thing happened to me; I spent a good amount of time studying art, and despite having little innate talent became a somewhat skilled artist capable of producing some really nice-looking stuff. Then, other things got in the way and I started to lose interest, leaving me where I am now--with no artistic ability to speak of.
Just food for thought--if you'd like to create great works of art, the only thing stopping you from it is your own reluctance to pick up a brush and give it a shot. Granted, for a full-time programmer who needs art for an up-and-coming product, this might not be a viable solution (and certainly not a very timely one), but it's worth noting that art is not something limited only to a gifted few.
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Several of my friends are still using WMP as I speak, so I think we'll need a few more. They've just gotten so used to WMP that any alternative, regardless of how much better, cleaner, safer, or more efficient it is, is too uncomfortable to them for them to switch. I guess you can get away with this sort of thing when you pretend that your media player is part of the operating system and package it as such.
Perhaps, but Freenet wouldn't be used as the medium through which to transfer the actual data; rather, just the torrents. I think that's a pretty neat idea--it'd be almost trivial to set up a Suprnova clone through Freenet (given enough of a time and man-power commitment, obviously), and its security and anonymity would be a much more useful asset in this situation than transfer performance. Since Freenet is decentralized, it won't matter how many people access the site--there's no central server to be overloaded.
The amount of money that Lokitorrent has already raised in such a brief period of time begs to differ. Perhaps the people who are bypassing the *AA and going through other means to get to this copyrighted material simply disagree with the monopolistic scheme under which said material is currently distributed?
Good... lawyers?
Ogg (and mp3, and any other lossy format) is of course not going to produce sound data identical to the original input--that's why they're called lossy formats. For daily listening, however, Vorbis is great--indeed, by many accounts, better in terms of both quality and space than mp3. If you absolutely abhor it, though, then you can always elect to buy your music in FLAC format and do whatever you want with it. Really, I'm not seeing any grounds for your complaint; this looks like a great service, and I'm definitely looking forward to giving it a shot.
Because as we all know, it's virtually impossible to run Linux software on any other systems.
Yes, it does.
Next, we'll be reading about studies showing that two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom form a clear, wet substance.
I definitely read that post as "Not to mention the activation issues that make XP not run at all after installing SP2. Microsoft should have fixed those long before releasing SP2 because they screw over-paying customers."
Upon realizing my mistake, I'm actually not sure which reading is more accurate.
There are alternates to explorer.exe, you know.
SP2 has numerous issues with various different software, so people generally can be forgiven for deciding not to risk having to clean up after it.
It's taken as a given that people not using Windows don't have to worry about worms anyway.
I mean, think about it for a second--what's harmful about the addictions that currently have legislation in place against them? Aside from whatever crap one might say about danger to the body (and let's be realistic here--there are endless quantities of over-the-counter drugs being sold right now that are vastly more harmful than, say, marijuana), the main problem is the cost. Crack, heroin, gambling, the big three right now--they all have the very real potential to take every dime a person owns without ever looking back, and for this reason they are legislated against.
Taking into consideration the fact that cost is the main reason for the danger of addictive behavior and supplementing this knowledge with the fact that pornography has no known negative side effects (moral arguments aside--not that they're irrelevant, but they add an entire new dimension to the situation that's quite frankly unneeded) or costs (well, assuming you go about it right)... what's dangerous about it?
"You, the viewer, agree not to look at what you are seeing. You are allowed only to stare vacantly at the screen and laugh when you hear a laugh track. Any violation of this EVLA will result in immediate disconnection of your IPTV and confiscation of the infringing eyeballs."
I thought the cliche anti-establishment Linux advocate typically at least had proper grammar...
Artistic ability isn't something that only a few people have and that is forever beyond the rest of the world, though. With a somewhat steady regimen of practice and enough will, anybody can become a skilled artist--and, similarly, a skilled artist can lose his talent if he stops practicing. This sort of thing happened to me; I spent a good amount of time studying art, and despite having little innate talent became a somewhat skilled artist capable of producing some really nice-looking stuff. Then, other things got in the way and I started to lose interest, leaving me where I am now--with no artistic ability to speak of.
Just food for thought--if you'd like to create great works of art, the only thing stopping you from it is your own reluctance to pick up a brush and give it a shot. Granted, for a full-time programmer who needs art for an up-and-coming product, this might not be a viable solution (and certainly not a very timely one), but it's worth noting that art is not something limited only to a gifted few.
If you have a huge stash of Bart and Lisa cartoon porn, it's fairly safe to say that you probably don't have friends in the first place.
I would be very surprised if Microsoft makes this work with their products.
And only I know why.
Reminds me of an old roommate of mine...
Well, okay, no it doesn't, but that somehow seemed an appropriate response.
And why is he posting an article on a subject that was featured in Scientific American in 2001?
Am I the only one who laughed his ass off when he saw the "Redundant" rating next to that post?
Technically, it's not a gigabyte; one gigabyte is 1024MB. And commas are deprecated. =P