You sir are an idiot. You're argument for why the studios should be allowed to do everything they can to prevent people from educating themselves is... EDUCATE YOURSELF!
One important basis of a free market is access to information about the products being sold. Advertisers promote movies by providing information about them - it may be misleading information, but they are still providing it. The argument here is about studios wanting to restrict information about their products so that people will be forced to make a decision without enough information to make a good decision.
You seem to be arguing that people should just suck it up and let the studios control all of the information they can about their movies so that when people have to choose between unknown A and unknown B its their own damn fault for playing a rigged game in the first place. The studios already have a copyright monopoly which is intended to promote PROGRESS, now you want to give them a free pass to promote crap instead.
I have seen absolute zero evidence that Childs did not keep encrypted config files on tftp servers. Please feel free to link to a credible report that says otherwise.
Complexity isn't all there is to it. Just the amount of configuration data required is enough to make any competent admin maintain config files somewhere. Hand typing even just 20 lines per router each time they reboot, even if they are all very trivial obvious lines, is just unreasonable.
If they are not bad people, why did they break the law? Do they think they are above or beyond the law?
Are you for real? You think the law defines morality? What the fuck have you been smoking? By your definition EVERYONE in the US is a "bad person" because we have all broken the law one way or another. And Rosa Parks, she is burning in fucking hell that evil bitch. and those founding fathers holy shit there ain't a hell hot enough for them.
And yes, there are STRUCTURAL, PHYSICAL differences between men and women's brains.
AGAIN BIG FUCKING DEAL! Not a topic for debate, quit trying to say it is.
Here is but one article on the subject, from a woman researcher, no less. I quote:
What a dumbass article for you to cite. Here are quotes from the very same article, just a few sentences away from your quote that contradict your premise that the STRUCTURAL, PHYSICAL differences make a difference at the very high level of abstraction that the TFA deals with:
"Men's brains, for instance, are typically bigger -- but on the whole, no smarter." It certainly tells you that, in a man, sheer overall brain size can't be a crucial factor in brilliance."
Wow a major difference PHYSICAL difference that ends up having no impact on the abstract levels. EXACTLY my point.
the more left-handed a person was, the bigger the corpus callosum.... she found that this held true only for men. Among women there was no difference between right-handers and left-handers.
More physical differences that end up producing the exact same results at a much higher level of abstraction. Homer-doh for you!
"No one knows how these neural differences between the sexes translate into thought and behavior -- whether they might influence the way men and women perceive reality, process information, form judgments and behave socially."
Wow, this "woman researcher" NO FUCKING LESS just shot your entire belief structure down in flames. You talk about creationism, all you've got supporting your theories here is faith. ZERO proof. ZEEE ROHHHH.
"you find that men and women have fundamentally different brain architectures while still accomplishing the same things,"
"From a high level," humans and chimpanzees look very similar.
Lol! Really, that's all I got, you really can't distinguish between micro and macro.
Actually, I'm not even sure what your point is at this point.
What part of:
it is a gigantic leap of logic to say that very minor physiological differences should necessarily translate into differences at a level so much more abstracted from the physiology than simple physical tasks are from physical size and muscle density.
Given that the configurations on the routers weren't saved,
Huh, wuh? Where did you get that from? All I read was that they were not written to flash on the router. That doesn't mean they weren't written to an encrypted file on a tftp server (and can be written out again with admin privs). Bollox up the router? Reboot it and you are back to normal.
Now I haven't seen explicit confirmation that the configs were tftp'able, but unless Childs is some sort of rainman of router configurations there is no way that even he could have managed more than a small handful of them without keeping the configurations stored somewhere - there is just too much configuration info not to keep the configs stored somewhere.
Sure, from a high level, men and women work very similarly,
So you agree with me. Yes I took your quote out of context, but your context is all about a point that doesn't matter - low-level differences. If you had shown how those low-level differences quantitatively translate into differences at the high level, that would have been context worth leaving in especially since this study under discussion seems to show that they do not.
. And "minor" hormone differences? Uh, no.
Uh yeah. Out of the two to three hundred hormones in the human body, only estrogen and testosterone show a 10:1 ratio differences between sexes, all of the others are much closer. So "minor" it is.
Oh please, what difference does that make? Apples controls both the itunes store and the itunes client. It doesn't matter where the drm is applied its still itunes doing it.
It is different today, so called "rental-pricing" never made the leap from vhs to dvd.
At first the rental places were paying wholesale, just like wal-mart. Now there are revenue-sharing agreements such that they pay next to nothing for the physical discs in return for sending some percentage of rental revenue back to the studio... In some cases this also kills the used market - part of the agreements are to send back 'a lot' of the physical discs (for destruction) once rental rates on a title drop below a certain amount. It still leaves some discs in stock that eventually do get sold as used, but not the flood of them that they used to.
Maybe you think rapists, thieves, and murders are good people
Do you think pot smokers are bad people? Roughly 20% of prisoners, ~250,000, are there for non-violent drug offenses, most of them for very small quantities (possession less than 2oz, or sale less than 0.5oz).
Personally, I don't understand why there is even any debate that men and women are different. Somehow we're supposed to believe that men and women are physically different in nearly every way -- except for the brain. Evolution clearly decided to make the brains identical for political reasons.
How exactly do you arrive at "physically different in nearly every way?" Smaller with an outside-in penis and very minor differences in hormone balances really isn't even close to every way. Seems like a very distinct, very small minority of ways to me. We are all made of the same stuff, we all have the same body temperature, we all have the same shape, our muscles all work on the same principles of physics, we eat the same foods, inter-sex blood transfusions and even organ transplants are common enough, etc, etc.
I think it is a gigantic leap of logic to say that very minor physiological differences should necessarily translate into differences at a level so much more abstracted from the physiology than simple physical tasks are from physical size and muscle density.
Ditto and just wtf makes "drawing" and "homework checks" a "huge advantage to girls?" I have to agree with that other poster, the AC was riding the short bus because his story doesn't even add up.
Depends on a lot of things. If it's an address that is NATed to a company that has a niche interest in what is being discussed on the forum, one person at that company could block access for the entire company.
Hence my emphasis on unrelated. You got an employee going rogue? That's the company's problem.
The whole hospital loses access to that forum.
No they don't, their own posts simply aren't seen by others for as long as the troll continues to troll. Read access is not interrupted.
Furthermore, so what? If one hospital's worth of people are unable to get their posts read at a forum for a few days or even a week, is that really such a big deal? Its not like they are paying for the service. Do you have a better solution? Better as in more effectively stops a troll and his sockpuppets from derailing the conversation with less cost?
If this person faces a massive legal bill, the problem is solved.
And if he doesn't, because he covered his tracks, then the problem is not solved. The net makes it easy to cover your tracks. Of course I already said that in my first post on the topic, but you ignored it so you could write an argument that had already been discounted.
And that same handful of users' VALID posts get muted without their knowledge, it seems.
What do you think the likelihood is that even just one normal, unrelated, user is going to inherit the IP address of a muted troll on the same forum in a short period of time?
And how do you prevent the troll from getting a sockpuppet account to check whether other persons can see their posts?
A combination of fight club rules and ip-blocking - any account coming from the same IP address as the 'muted' account for X hours afterwards can see the muted posts and/or is also muted while they are on the same IP. You could end up trolling the troll so badly that he creates an entire thread of flames between sockpuppet accounts that no one else will even see.
Or maybe you could just make all responses to a muted post visible only to the muted poster and the response poster. That at least slows the spread of the flames.
You'll never get 100% - the guy could always walk into a starbucks and log into a brand new sock-puppet account as the first access to the forum. Whatever he does, the goal is to make the amount of work the troll has to do much higher than the amount of work the board moderator has to do. Some uber-trolls will eventually install Tor and defeat much of it, but that's a lot of work and in the end you've got one more Tor user which is a good thing by itself.
You are right, I mistook his use of tense to be a typo. But, the rest of that sentence is clearly wrong, to wit:
The reason it was known as the Library GPL is that it allowed the non-contributory use of GPL'd libraries by other types of software licensed under terms incompatible with the GPL.
The LPGL does not effect GPL'd libraries one way or the other, only LGPL'd libraries. Maybe that was a typo. Hard to say now.
But if some dickhead is credibly impersonating you, using your own name and reputation to say false and derogatory things about you, that's a different matter. It would be worth suing to get an injunction if nothing else.
The problem with that approach is the same problem that the MAFIAA are having - enforcement is nearly impossible. Sure *THIS* case was enforceable, but its like taking down an ftp site of mp3s, pre napster. Anyone who wanted to do it "right" can do so today using tools like Tor, its just a matter of escalation.
A problem that the MAFIAA has, that impersonation cases don't, is the general desire of people to commit the 'crime' - people inherently like to share, but far, far fewer are into malicious impersonation. So, enforcement is going to be easier than it is against copyright infringement, but I still think it won't be easy enough to make a dent against all but the smallest fries.
I think the general solution is teach people to "trust no one" - maybe I'm just a paranoiac, but I think the long-term benefit to society is much greater if we all took a generally critical approach to what we see and read on the net rather than try to guarantee any particular group's idea of "truth" because impersonation is just one of a probably infinite number of ways to mislead on the net.
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Because they are in the same family/gang/tribe.
They even have gang colors (uniforms) and tags.
I don't think copying films or other media and redistributing them--even for free--has every been legal in the US.
See the passage of the No Electronic Theft Act in 1997 as a response to the so-called LaMacchia loophole.
EDUCATE YOURSELF.
You sir are an idiot. ... EDUCATE YOURSELF!
You're argument for why the studios should be allowed to do everything they can to prevent people from educating themselves is
TAKE SOME DAMN RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOURSELF!!
Your rant is completely disingenuous.
One important basis of a free market is access to information about the products being sold. Advertisers promote movies by providing information about them - it may be misleading information, but they are still providing it. The argument here is about studios wanting to restrict information about their products so that people will be forced to make a decision without enough information to make a good decision.
You seem to be arguing that people should just suck it up and let the studios control all of the information they can about their movies so that when people have to choose between unknown A and unknown B its their own damn fault for playing a rigged game in the first place. The studios already have a copyright monopoly which is intended to promote PROGRESS, now you want to give them a free pass to promote crap instead.
But not this nut.
I have seen absolute zero evidence that Childs did not keep encrypted config files on tftp servers. Please feel free to link to a credible report that says otherwise.
Complexity isn't all there is to it. Just the amount of configuration data required is enough to make any competent admin maintain config files somewhere. Hand typing even just 20 lines per router each time they reboot, even if they are all very trivial obvious lines, is just unreasonable.
If they are not bad people, why did they break the law? Do they think they are above or beyond the law?
Are you for real? You think the law defines morality? What the fuck have you been smoking? By your definition EVERYONE in the US is a "bad person" because we have all broken the law one way or another. And Rosa Parks, she is burning in fucking hell that evil bitch. and those founding fathers holy shit there ain't a hell hot enough for them.
You think the law defines morality?
You think the law defines morality?
You think the law defines morality?
And yes, there are STRUCTURAL, PHYSICAL differences between men and women's brains.
AGAIN BIG FUCKING DEAL! Not a topic for debate, quit trying to say it is.
Here is but one article on the subject, from a woman researcher, no less. I quote:
What a dumbass article for you to cite. Here are quotes from the very same article, just a few sentences away from your quote that contradict your premise that the STRUCTURAL, PHYSICAL differences make a difference at the very high level of abstraction that the TFA deals with:
"Men's brains, for instance, are typically bigger -- but on the whole, no smarter."
It certainly tells you that, in a man, sheer overall brain size can't be a crucial factor in brilliance."
Wow a major difference PHYSICAL difference that ends up having no impact on the abstract levels. EXACTLY my point.
the more left-handed a person was, the bigger the corpus callosum.... she found that this held true only for men. Among women there was no difference between right-handers and left-handers.
More physical differences that end up producing the exact same results at a much higher level of abstraction. Homer-doh for you!
"No one knows how these neural differences between the sexes translate into thought and behavior -- whether they might influence the way men and women perceive reality, process information, form judgments and behave socially."
Wow, this "woman researcher" NO FUCKING LESS just shot your entire belief structure down in flames. You talk about creationism, all you've got supporting your theories here is faith. ZERO proof. ZEEE ROHHHH.
"you find that men and women have fundamentally different brain architectures while still accomplishing the same things,"
Woah! That's unpossible!
"From a high level," humans and chimpanzees look very similar.
Lol! Really, that's all I got, you really can't distinguish between micro and macro.
Actually, I'm not even sure what your point is at this point.
What part of:
it is a gigantic leap of logic to say that very minor physiological differences should necessarily translate into differences at a level so much more abstracted from the physiology than simple physical tasks are from physical size and muscle density.
do you not understand?
Given that the configurations on the routers weren't saved,
Huh, wuh? Where did you get that from? All I read was that they were not written to flash on the router. That doesn't mean they weren't written to an encrypted file on a tftp server (and can be written out again with admin privs). Bollox up the router? Reboot it and you are back to normal.
Now I haven't seen explicit confirmation that the configs were tftp'able, but unless Childs is some sort of rainman of router configurations there is no way that even he could have managed more than a small handful of them without keeping the configurations stored somewhere - there is just too much configuration info not to keep the configs stored somewhere.
Sure, from a high level, men and women work very similarly,
So you agree with me. Yes I took your quote out of context, but your context is all about a point that doesn't matter - low-level differences. If you had shown how those low-level differences quantitatively translate into differences at the high level, that would have been context worth leaving in especially since this study under discussion seems to show that they do not.
. And "minor" hormone differences? Uh, no.
Uh yeah. Out of the two to three hundred hormones in the human body, only estrogen and testosterone show a 10:1 ratio differences between sexes, all of the others are much closer. So "minor" it is.
Oh please, what difference does that make? Apples controls both the itunes store and the itunes client. It doesn't matter where the drm is applied its still itunes doing it.
It is different today, so called "rental-pricing" never made the leap from vhs to dvd.
At first the rental places were paying wholesale, just like wal-mart. Now there are revenue-sharing agreements such that they pay next to nothing for the physical discs in return for sending some percentage of rental revenue back to the studio... In some cases this also kills the used market - part of the agreements are to send back 'a lot' of the physical discs (for destruction) once rental rates on a title drop below a certain amount. It still leaves some discs in stock that eventually do get sold as used, but not the flood of them that they used to.
Maybe you think rapists, thieves, and murders are good people
Do you think pot smokers are bad people? Roughly 20% of prisoners, ~250,000, are there for non-violent drug offenses, most of them for very small quantities (possession less than 2oz, or sale less than 0.5oz).
Personally, I don't understand why there is even any debate that men and women are different. Somehow we're supposed to believe that men and women are physically different in nearly every way -- except for the brain. Evolution clearly decided to make the brains identical for political reasons.
How exactly do you arrive at "physically different in nearly every way?" Smaller with an outside-in penis and very minor differences in hormone balances really isn't even close to every way. Seems like a very distinct, very small minority of ways to me. We are all made of the same stuff, we all have the same body temperature, we all have the same shape, our muscles all work on the same principles of physics, we eat the same foods, inter-sex blood transfusions and even organ transplants are common enough, etc, etc.
I think it is a gigantic leap of logic to say that very minor physiological differences should necessarily translate into differences at a level so much more abstracted from the physiology than simple physical tasks are from physical size and muscle density.
Ditto and just wtf makes "drawing" and "homework checks" a "huge advantage to girls?" I have to agree with that other poster, the AC was riding the short bus because his story doesn't even add up.
Depends on a lot of things. If it's an address that is NATed to a company that has a niche interest in what is being discussed on the forum, one person at that company could block access for the entire company.
Hence my emphasis on unrelated. You got an employee going rogue? That's the company's problem.
The whole hospital loses access to that forum.
No they don't, their own posts simply aren't seen by others for as long as the troll continues to troll. Read access is not interrupted.
Furthermore, so what? If one hospital's worth of people are unable to get their posts read at a forum for a few days or even a week, is that really such a big deal? Its not like they are paying for the service. Do you have a better solution? Better as in more effectively stops a troll and his sockpuppets from derailing the conversation with less cost?
Why should the BIOS care which OS is installed? That is backwards. The OS should work with whatever is underneath it.
MS is the proverbial 800lb gorilla. Their monopoly power in the market means that the BIOS/motherboard has to cater to MS, not the other way around.
Not at all. GP is an imbecile, karma whore or - my best guess - both.
Hey! Its my very own stalker! Or maybe you are just my sockpuppet since you give me such lovin.
If this person faces a massive legal bill, the problem is solved.
And if he doesn't, because he covered his tracks, then the problem is not solved. The net makes it easy to cover your tracks. Of course I already said that in my first post on the topic, but you ignored it so you could write an argument that had already been discounted.
And that same handful of users' VALID posts get muted without their knowledge, it seems.
What do you think the likelihood is that even just one normal, unrelated, user is going to inherit the IP address of a muted troll on the same forum in a short period of time?
Stupid idea. One IP could belong to several users, and one user could post from several IPs.
So what? If a handful of users can see the trolls big deal - the goal is to mute not delete.
And how do you prevent the troll from getting a sockpuppet account to check whether other persons can see their posts?
A combination of fight club rules and ip-blocking - any account coming from the same IP address as the 'muted' account for X hours afterwards can see the muted posts and/or is also muted while they are on the same IP. You could end up trolling the troll so badly that he creates an entire thread of flames between sockpuppet accounts that no one else will even see.
Or maybe you could just make all responses to a muted post visible only to the muted poster and the response poster. That at least slows the spread of the flames.
You'll never get 100% - the guy could always walk into a starbucks and log into a brand new sock-puppet account as the first access to the forum. Whatever he does, the goal is to make the amount of work the troll has to do much higher than the amount of work the board moderator has to do. Some uber-trolls will eventually install Tor and defeat much of it, but that's a lot of work and in the end you've got one more Tor user which is a good thing by itself.
You are right, I mistook his use of tense to be a typo.
But, the rest of that sentence is clearly wrong, to wit:
The reason it was known as the Library GPL is that it allowed the non-contributory use of GPL'd libraries by other types of software licensed under terms incompatible with the GPL.
The LPGL does not effect GPL'd libraries one way or the other, only LGPL'd libraries. Maybe that was a typo. Hard to say now.
But if some dickhead is credibly impersonating you, using your own name and reputation to say false and derogatory things about you, that's a different matter. It would be worth suing to get an injunction if nothing else.
The problem with that approach is the same problem that the MAFIAA are having - enforcement is nearly impossible. Sure *THIS* case was enforceable, but its like taking down an ftp site of mp3s, pre napster. Anyone who wanted to do it "right" can do so today using tools like Tor, its just a matter of escalation.
A problem that the MAFIAA has, that impersonation cases don't, is the general desire of people to commit the 'crime' - people inherently like to share, but far, far fewer are into malicious impersonation. So, enforcement is going to be easier than it is against copyright infringement, but I still think it won't be easy enough to make a dent against all but the smallest fries.
I think the general solution is teach people to "trust no one" - maybe I'm just a paranoiac, but I think the long-term benefit to society is much greater if we all took a generally critical approach to what we see and read on the net rather than try to guarantee any particular group's idea of "truth" because impersonation is just one of a probably infinite number of ways to mislead on the net.