And meanwhile, people get fired, services suck even more (inverse synergy!) and company owners abuse their customers. Way to go, Icahn! You've just become rich by making millions of people more miserable!
I'm sure the concert tickets have a fine print stating "By purchasing this ticket, you agree to let yourself be recorded and/or filmed without retaining any royalties.... blablabla".
Oh give me a break. You are saying it is ok to rip people or companies off?
When you take back something that was unfairly taken from you (i.e. high prices due to monopolies), that isn't ripping someone off. It's called justice. Illegal? Maybe, but don't forget a lot of laws were made only to benefit the rich and powerful.
For the most part GPL software is available without BitTorrent.
Allow me to correct you.
Thanks to Comcast, GPL software cannot be available with BitTorrent.
Besides, there are other uses for bittorrent besides Linux distros. What about Free / Creative Commons media, like music (or even free-as-in-beer professional music, like Radiohead's latest album) or videos (anime music videos, Star wreck, independent movies, video tutorials)?
Comcast's reasoning (p2p is for i113641 w4r3z!!!111ONE) is simply a lame excuse. Their infrastructure sucks and they're only using the pirate excuse to cover their arses.
I wasn't old enough to watch Alien. I got to watch Aliens first, and I loved it. And definitely it wasn't an "average" action movie. It was one of the best action movies ever made.
Behold the power of marketing! This is the reason why Microsoft platforms are so popular. I still remember the days where.NET was marketed as the "next big thing" and courses and seminars were practically around every corner. But what is its real technical merit?
This is one of the reasons why I hate Microsoft. If they invested at least 10% on development what they invest in marketing, this would be a much better place.
Undesirable people can be disposed of specially if their mere existence is a disease that needs to be stopped - like... jews, according to Adolf. The point is that once a human being can be declared not worthy of living, making the step is almost trivial.
Of course, given the circumstances of the embryo the article talks about (it was unviable, i.e. couldn't develop to survive due to a genetic malfunction), perhaps the matter won't be so critical. But then again, who can assure us that the embryo in question was actually non-viable and that it wasn't just something the scientist said to save himself from public judgement?
Effectively, by accepting that if they don't feel pain (or anything for that matter) they can be disposed, opens the door to euthanasia in case of people in coma - and also to abortion and to extract embryos from pregnant women to do experiments on them. But also it opens the door to murder, just by giving anesthesics to people before they die. But that opens the door to ethnical cleansing. Later it won't make any difference if the people murdered died a quick painless death (i.e. a gunshot in the head, or even a nuke quick enough to guarantee they won't feel pain), or even a pleasureable death (i.e. drugs).
When that happens, good bye, humanism.... good morning, Soylent Green!
The problem I see is that Soldiers were using Windows-based PC's, WTF is going on? The NSA helped develop SELinux and these guys, in the most critical of the situations, are using the most insecure operating system in the world.
I was talking about collaborative environments like Sourceforge or berlios (user generated content, remember?), news blogs focused on software bugs, and all those elements that make software developer far much easier than 20 years ago.
If you're going to work in Open Source projects related to Operating Systems, stay away. The dreaded "trade secrets" accusation could ruin your whole career.
Money is often the best solution. Think of it as a "on-demand" project. If they want the bugs to get fixed, they should pay.
The downside is that if the pay ends up being greater than the price for some commercial software, you're screwed. I think this is one of the reasons why many Open Source projects fail. Not large enough userbase.
Perhaps another solution would be offering the software to other universities, and ask for help there.
I agree. This isn't your common censorship where one person isn't allowed to do a public speech (i.e. newspaper).
This is tampering with PRIVATE COMMUNICATIONS. Microsoft has absolutely no right to offer an "instant messaging service" if they don't guarantee that the information I type at one end is unharmed when received by the other end.
This is, ladies and gentlemen, an intentional man-in-the-middle attack. Who knows if they won't block other URL's later? MSN messaging has just stopped being reliable.
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And meanwhile, people get fired, services suck even more (inverse synergy!) and company owners abuse their customers. Way to go, Icahn! You've just become rich by making millions of people more miserable!
I'm sure the concert tickets have a fine print stating "By purchasing this ticket, you agree to let yourself be recorded and/or filmed without retaining any royalties.... blablabla".
When you take back something that was unfairly taken from you (i.e. high prices due to monopolies), that isn't ripping someone off. It's called justice. Illegal? Maybe, but don't forget a lot of laws were made only to benefit the rich and powerful.
Allow me to correct you.
Besides, there are other uses for bittorrent besides Linux distros. What about Free / Creative Commons media, like music (or even free-as-in-beer professional music, like Radiohead's latest album) or videos (anime music videos, Star wreck, independent movies, video tutorials)?
Comcast's reasoning (p2p is for i113641 w4r3z!!!111ONE) is simply a lame excuse. Their infrastructure sucks and they're only using the pirate excuse to cover their arses.
I wasn't old enough to watch Alien. I got to watch Aliens first, and I loved it.
And definitely it wasn't an "average" action movie. It was one of the best action movies ever made.
When the videogame "Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis" came out, I was hoping SO SO SO MUCH that they adapted this to a movie.
The script was PERFECT. But who am I, a mere fan, to criticize the all-mighty movie producers, huh?
Anyway let's hope Crystal Skull pleases me at least as half as much as the Last Crusade, which was my favorite.
0.001 > 0. Any questions?
Hell isn't a metaphor. Perhaps the image of a burning lake of acid is, but the existence of hell is Catholic Dogma and it can't be changed.
Perhaps capn' Kirk can answer that for you...
just a thought.
I'd just LOVE to see all the advertisement links on AMV Hell 4! :D
Behold the power of marketing! This is the reason why Microsoft platforms are so popular. I still remember the days where .NET was marketed as the "next big thing" and courses and seminars were practically around every corner. But what is its real technical merit?
This is one of the reasons why I hate Microsoft. If they invested at least 10% on development what they invest in marketing, this would be a much better place.
Undesirable people can be disposed of specially if their mere existence is a disease that needs to be stopped - like... jews, according to Adolf. The point is that once a human being can be declared not worthy of living, making the step is almost trivial.
Of course, given the circumstances of the embryo the article talks about (it was unviable, i.e. couldn't develop to survive due to a genetic malfunction), perhaps the matter won't be so critical. But then again, who can assure us that the embryo in question was actually non-viable and that it wasn't just something the scientist said to save himself from public judgement?
And I wonder, why the heck don't blender devs start copying other programs' user interfaces?
Let me guess, maybe because Blender devs have NEVER learned to use other programs?
Ever heard of cross-platform gaming toolkits?
Effectively, by accepting that if they don't feel pain (or anything for that matter) they can be disposed, opens the door to euthanasia in case of people in coma - and also to abortion and to extract embryos from pregnant women to do experiments on them. But also it opens the door to murder, just by giving anesthesics to people before they die. But that opens the door to ethnical cleansing. Later it won't make any difference if the people murdered died a quick painless death (i.e. a gunshot in the head, or even a nuke quick enough to guarantee they won't feel pain), or even a pleasureable death (i.e. drugs).
When that happens, good bye, humanism.... good morning, Soylent Green!
The problem I see is that Soldiers were using Windows-based PC's, WTF is going on? The NSA helped develop SELinux and these guys, in the most critical of the situations, are using the most insecure operating system in the world.
:-/
Talk about National Security
..He might get evil ideas.
Chairstorm v1.0 - "It'll f***ing kill Google!... LITERALLY."
I was talking about collaborative environments like Sourceforge or berlios (user generated content, remember?), news blogs focused on software bugs, and all those elements that make software developer far much easier than 20 years ago.
If you're going to work in Open Source projects related to Operating Systems, stay away. The dreaded "trade secrets" accusation could ruin your whole career.
Money is often the best solution. Think of it as a "on-demand" project. If they want the bugs to get fixed, they should pay.
The downside is that if the pay ends up being greater than the price for some commercial software, you're screwed. I think this is one of the reasons why many Open Source projects fail. Not large enough userbase.
Perhaps another solution would be offering the software to other universities, and ask for help there.
No need to run and hide. The only reason the bug's so old is because the OS is that old. And remember that 25 years ago, we didn't have web 2.0.
In comparison, Microsoft has been around for what... 20 years? And who knows what bugs in Windows are there, lurking, just waiting to bite us?
I agree. This isn't your common censorship where one person isn't allowed to do a public speech (i.e. newspaper).
This is tampering with PRIVATE COMMUNICATIONS. Microsoft has absolutely no right to offer an "instant messaging service" if they don't guarantee that the information I type at one end is unharmed when received by the other end.
This is, ladies and gentlemen, an intentional man-in-the-middle attack. Who knows if they won't block other URL's later? MSN messaging has just stopped being reliable.
I've seen 'em all, the 9th is the last episode.
Meanwhile, in a wind tunnel in a NASA facility...
- But Sir, this is the 24,723th time, I can't do it any more!
- JUST KEEP FIRING, SOLDIER!
- *gasp* Sonic Boom!
I have a shorter summary.
"My ears, the earplugs do nothing!"