I have a small paper with instructions for my family to say goodbye to my online friends and post about my death, just in case.
Regarding online goods, I have none, save a few anime fanfics i've written, but those are online for everyone to see.
But I doubt game accounts would matter. Games get obsolete pretty quick, and the current state of information is awful. The best I can pass to the next generations is work contributed to open source projects - it's like investing for the future generations.
The only "extortion" they're doing is going around people who are guilty of copyright infringment against their members, and negotiating relatively cheap (compared to the fines you'd suffer if they took you to court) out of court settlements.
Oh, that's the ONLY "extortion"? Oh my, how mistaken I've been, the RIAA is just worried about doing justice, how heroic of them!</sarcasm>
And, quite honesty, in 2006, if you're being sued for distributing someone else's work on a network that makes them available to millions of anonymous strangers, then you only have yourself to blame.
Yes, the problem is when you didn't do it but the RIAA says you did. It's NOT justice if you have to spend thousands of dollars to prove your innocence.
Another thought: Is that law good if it forces you to pay extra taxes to get a product that is under absolute control of a monopoly?
I'd agree with the lawsuits if the RIAA didn't force people to buy only their products - I'm talking about forcing distributors and radio stations NOT to publish music from independent artists. If I bought an original CD and later I download one of the files in it (because it got scratched or something), I'd get sued by the RIAA anyway.
First anyone that looks like that that tries to give a speech to the corporate execs wouldn't even get past security.
Actually, it's happened before:P But even then he was making a point. I agree that it does take courage to get ridiculized in front of everybody to make a political statement. Maybe in this he is a "saint".
Still, I agree with you, that saint outfit is ridiculous.
I have a shared internet connection. It doesn't work if I login with a guest account. Microsoft REALLY should have worked on making guest accounts more manageable.
I'd been running ABC bittorrent client and it sucked, my connection was turned into a snail. Then I switched to Azureus, which is written in java. It doesn't crash, it's stable, fast, and allows me to use my bandwidth however I want.
This alone erased my prejudice against java apps in Windows.
With this virtualization / Xen business, I'm sure Microsoft could modify Windows so that apps would work inside registry cages and such. This way you could install your gaming software inside a cage and it couldn't mess up your windows.
This is what happens when the boss is a technological moron. He doesn't know a thing so he bans everything because of FEAR.
Instead, he should appoint a security expert, who in turn would take measures to protect the security of the company. Just switching to an alternate internet browser would rid them of tons of viruses.
unlike regular porn, child porn and abuse is intrinsecally tied up with real-life networks, so it's possible for someone to infiltrate them like they've been always doing. In this I see no difference between using a darknet and not using it. Before the internet the distribution channels were always private and secret. Plus, another reason it doesn't get distributed widely is that a price must be paid.
In any case, we should fight so that freedom of speech does NOT require darknets to work. Darknets should be necessary to work in opressive governments, but we need to get to the root, too.
This becomes a complex ethical problem - what must we do so that our actions to protect our freedom (of speech) won't benefit criminals, too?
The article isn't about collaboration tools, but lists the reasons why e-mail is widely used. But the summary made it look like e-mail is bad and we must get rid of it - exactly the opposite from the article. And so, we go answering the summary as if it challenged us like a Microsoft flying chair. Heh.
Here's the points in the article:
Email is Easy To Understand Email is Universal Email is Accessible from Anywhere Email Can Be Personalized Email is Manageable/Configurable Email is Searchable Email is In Your Face Email Just Works
The article tells us that these are not EXCUSES, but VIRTUES of E-mail. If we want people to use collaboration software, it needs to have the same virtues of e-mail.
The last paragraph in the article says:
"Am I suggesting that we all abandon our collaboration dreams and submit to email? Absolutely not. As a fellow collaboration software vendor, though, I think we've got our work cut out ahead of us. Mass adoption isn't around the corner. In order for any of us to succeed beyond the outer rings of the blogosphere, we must look closely at the single most successful medium to enter the business world in 25 years. We must take a closer look at this killer app and apply the same rules of simplicity and ease-of-use to our own products if we ever expect to become more than a cottage industry. To succeed, we must look back and learn and apply what we've come to understand as the Good In Email."
Exactly. Businesses find it very hard to use a bunch of half-baked or half-tested open source add-ons. What they want is a nice shiny package that will do what they need.
In other words, Asterisk is more like a framework, not a solution. The article summmary says it all: "IBM and 3com Plan First Internet Telephony SUITE".
Slashdot Mirror
If they can't compress the canterbury corpus or calgary corpus beyond 3X, then it's a SCAM.
I have a small paper with instructions for my family to say goodbye to my online friends and post about my death, just in case.
Regarding online goods, I have none, save a few anime fanfics i've written, but those are online for everyone to see.
But I doubt game accounts would matter. Games get obsolete pretty quick, and the current state of information is awful. The best I can pass to the next generations is work contributed to open source projects - it's like investing for the future generations.
Dammit, the story's slashdotted! Oh, wait...
except for the eyepatch, the big hat, and the dead parot.
Dead parrot? I thought it was a living parrot standing in the pirate's shoulder and saying "Polly wanna cracker! Bwaak!"
in 5... 4... 3... 2...
The only "extortion" they're doing is going around people who are guilty of copyright infringment against their members, and negotiating relatively cheap (compared to the fines you'd suffer if they took you to court) out of court settlements.
Oh, that's the ONLY "extortion"? Oh my, how mistaken I've been, the RIAA is just worried about doing justice, how heroic of them!</sarcasm>
And, quite honesty, in 2006, if you're being sued for distributing someone else's work on a network that makes them available to millions of anonymous strangers, then you only have yourself to blame.
Yes, the problem is when you didn't do it but the RIAA says you did.
It's NOT justice if you have to spend thousands of dollars to prove your innocence.
Another thought: Is that law good if it forces you to pay extra taxes to get a product that is under absolute control of a monopoly?
I'd agree with the lawsuits if the RIAA didn't force people to buy only their products - I'm talking about forcing distributors and radio stations NOT to publish music from independent artists. If I bought an original CD and later I download one of the files in it (because it got scratched or something), I'd get sued by the RIAA anyway.
And don't get me started into DRM.
First anyone that looks like that that tries to give a speech to the corporate execs wouldn't even get past security.
:P But even then he was making a point. I agree that it does take courage to get ridiculized in front of everybody to make a political statement. Maybe in this he is a "saint".
Actually, it's happened before
Still, I agree with you, that saint outfit is ridiculous.
The only problem with the GPL is that it assumes that every user is a developer
:)
No, that's what Linux zealots assume. Thankfully the Ubuntu guys did not
thereby making the word Linux by itself an acceptable word :-)
Can't we just call it LiGNUx?
It never gets old does it?
GNO, it doesn't.
not his St. IGNUtius jokes again :(
A good helmet and knee/elbow guards.
h tm
Also, check out this site:
http://www.kenkifer.com/bikepages/touring/laptop.
It's entitled "Bicycle Touring with a Solar Laptop".
Get it while it's hot!!
Oh, and don't surf the web with Admin privs.
I have a shared internet connection. It doesn't work if I login with a guest account. Microsoft REALLY should have worked on making guest accounts more manageable.
Is there a possibility that the patent system is working right in this case?
Just because the system didn't crash on you a day doesn't mean it's not crashy. Hellooo Eolas patent? Blackberry?
The computing public despises Java.
I'd been running ABC bittorrent client and it sucked, my connection was turned into a snail. Then I switched to Azureus, which is written in java. It doesn't crash, it's stable, fast, and allows me to use my bandwidth however I want.
This alone erased my prejudice against java apps in Windows.
With this virtualization / Xen business, I'm sure Microsoft could modify Windows so that apps would work inside registry cages and such. This way you could install your gaming software inside a cage and it couldn't mess up your windows.
Users have proven themselves to be untrustworthy.
:P
Like this guy?
This is what happens when the boss is a technological moron. He doesn't know a thing so he bans everything because of FEAR.
Instead, he should appoint a security expert, who in turn would take measures to protect the security of the company. Just switching to an alternate internet browser would rid them of tons of viruses.
unlike regular porn, child porn and abuse is intrinsecally tied up with real-life networks, so it's possible for someone to infiltrate them like they've been always doing. In this I see no difference between using a darknet and not using it. Before the internet the distribution channels were always private and secret. Plus, another reason it doesn't get distributed widely is that a price must be paid.
In any case, we should fight so that freedom of speech does NOT require darknets to work. Darknets should be necessary to work in opressive governments, but we need to get to the root, too.
This becomes a complex ethical problem - what must we do so that our actions to protect our freedom (of speech) won't benefit criminals, too?
Too many people use their Inbox as a storage drive.
:(
Ugh, you tell me. I'm sick tired of my friends sending me 2MB pps files with pretty pictures of "AWWW! Ponies!" or cutesy **** like that
The article isn't about collaboration tools, but lists the reasons why e-mail is widely used. But the summary made it look like e-mail is bad and we must get rid of it - exactly the opposite from the article. And so, we go answering the summary as if it challenged us like a Microsoft flying chair. Heh.
Here's the points in the article:
Email is Easy To Understand
Email is Universal
Email is Accessible from Anywhere
Email Can Be Personalized
Email is Manageable/Configurable
Email is Searchable
Email is In Your Face
Email Just Works
The article tells us that these are not EXCUSES, but VIRTUES of E-mail. If we want people to use collaboration software, it needs to have the same virtues of e-mail.
The last paragraph in the article says:
"Am I suggesting that we all abandon our collaboration dreams and submit to email? Absolutely not. As a fellow collaboration software vendor, though, I think we've got our work cut out ahead of us. Mass adoption isn't around the corner. In order for any of us to succeed beyond the outer rings of the blogosphere, we must look closely at the single most successful medium to enter the business world in 25 years. We must take a closer look at this killer app and apply the same rules of simplicity and ease-of-use to our own products if we ever expect to become more than a cottage industry. To succeed, we must look back and learn and apply what we've come to understand as the Good In Email."
Exactly. Businesses find it very hard to use a bunch of half-baked or half-tested open source add-ons. What they want is a nice shiny package that will do what they need.
In other words, Asterisk is more like a framework, not a solution. The article summmary says it all: "IBM and 3com Plan First Internet Telephony SUITE".
What I don't understand now... why was I modded funny? :(
From TFA:
:(
Microsoft has teamed with the developers of the open source Xen product to gang up on server slicing leader VMware.
OK guys, now I'm confused. WTF is going on here? Have the Xen people been bought my Microsoft?