Where did this 'actual value' of 60 cents come from? You know, other than pulled out from your arse?
There is no 'actual value', the only 'actual' is costs. The value is entirely decided on by the market, is variable, and is entirely dependent on how much people are willing to pay for it. No-one gets around this rule. Not Steve Jobs, not the 'itune model', not Microsoft, not Google nor Yahoo.
Excellent post. The phrase "obsolete business model" gets brought out here with abandon, as if the average slashdotter was some kind of MBA graduate.
It's just so much smokescreen thrown up to disguise that their real motivation is they like something for nothing. Add that to the usual elitist guff about the nasty record companies supressing 'good music' (as if there was some agreed, universal definition of what that was) and you have a nice stack of self justificating lies.
And I think that phrase just about sums it up. It's your hobby, not your living. And no one is queueing up to take copies of your work.
Nobody pays me... I will accept money sometimes
So which is it? Or are you just making this up?
my hobby... my vocation
So which is it? Or are you just making this up?
All your bullshit 'I love the art more than you do' counts for precisely nothing. It's just your opinion, no more valid than anyone else's. Give your music away, if that's what you want. No-one is stopping you. But if others wish paid, then that is their right. What gives you the right to tell them differently? Do you think you'd have the choice of music you have today without fulltime musicians, paid for their work, with a music industry that people invest in? This doesn't come about from people who give away their hobby music.
This is a typical slashdot story, with a typical reaction. Until anyone can give me a reasonable explanation why BT users should benefit from the fruits of someone else's work, against their wishes, for nothing, I'll be sticking to the view that all this whining has nothing to do with noble thoughts of artistic and internet freedom, and everything to do with free-loading.
BT users get prosecuted because they are free-loading. They are taking someone else's work with recompensing them and it's illegal
How often do you use your UNIX root password? Carry it around with you much? Depend on it as your only access into your system?
The ID card is being sold as the solution to a whole raft of problems. The single unified solution to proving who you are for all purposes. As such it is a single point of failure. Once it fails you're shafted.
If you use your root password as the everyday solution for all purposes you deserve disaster when it strikes.
And if I ever get a fake banknote I'm only inconvenienced up to the value of that note. It does not stop me using other banknotes. My identity is a little different.
Yes, people can always claim to be you. But until the introduction of an ID card they would have had to proved it in a number of ways that are readily understood to be open to abuse.
The difference is that the ID claims to be above this and may even surplant the existing means of proving your identity. This is what makes it dangerous. It's a single point of failure in the system that is being sold to the public as being fail-proof and the answer to everything. It isn't anything of the sort.
Any example of what happened when you lost your current ID are irrelevant. The point is that no currently available ID claims to be (or, more importantly, is believed to be) what Blunkett's ID card is. Currently you are losing your basket when there's only one egg in it. It's a whole different scenario when all your eggs are put there.
Hi. I'm a criminal. I have copied/forged your ID card. Now I am you and what's more I can prove it.
Your bank knows that I am you. Four other banks I have since opened accounts with know I am you. The police know I am you. That guy I had the small car accident with yesterday knows I am you.
But hang on, I didn't just forge your card, I stole it first. You have no card. Who are you? Prove it. You are no-one. Your card confirmed your rights as a citizen. Therefore you have no rights.
Got nothing to hide? Great. Unfortunately I do. Be prepared to be treated as me, because remember; I am you.
But I'm really a nice guy. Here, have your card back. Sorry about the mess I've made of your records in the national database. That CRIMINAL flag might be prove to be awkward for you. But I'm sure you'll have no problems at all sorting it out. No red-tape involved in dealing with large governmental organisations, are there? Nope, no chances of any screw ups.
I'm a criminal and I think national ID cards are a great idea. They're your convenient one-stop shop for identity theft!
Insightful? More like a ridiculous conclusion. If you aren't storing images or other large binary objects, 5GB can go a long, long way. I'm sure many large companies and organisations couldn't function with a database this size, but they are unlikely to consider for even one minute a migration to a freebie with no support contract. But there are plenty that could do a lot within this limitation.
My database experience isn't exactly limited, and I have only ever worked on 1 database that exceeded 5GB.
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Where did this 'actual value' of 60 cents come from? You know, other than pulled out from your arse? There is no 'actual value', the only 'actual' is costs. The value is entirely decided on by the market, is variable, and is entirely dependent on how much people are willing to pay for it. No-one gets around this rule. Not Steve Jobs, not the 'itune model', not Microsoft, not Google nor Yahoo.
It's just so much smokescreen thrown up to disguise that their real motivation is they like something for nothing. Add that to the usual elitist guff about the nasty record companies supressing 'good music' (as if there was some agreed, universal definition of what that was) and you have a nice stack of self justificating lies.
It ain't fooling anyone.
And I think that phrase just about sums it up. It's your hobby, not your living. And no one is queueing up to take copies of your work.
Nobody pays me ... I will accept money sometimes
So which is it? Or are you just making this up?
my hobby ... my vocation
So which is it? Or are you just making this up?
All your bullshit 'I love the art more than you do' counts for precisely nothing. It's just your opinion, no more valid than anyone else's. Give your music away, if that's what you want. No-one is stopping you. But if others wish paid, then that is their right. What gives you the right to tell them differently? Do you think you'd have the choice of music you have today without fulltime musicians, paid for their work, with a music industry that people invest in? This doesn't come about from people who give away their hobby music.
This is a typical slashdot story, with a typical reaction. Until anyone can give me a reasonable explanation why BT users should benefit from the fruits of someone else's work, against their wishes, for nothing, I'll be sticking to the view that all this whining has nothing to do with noble thoughts of artistic and internet freedom, and everything to do with free-loading. BT users get prosecuted because they are free-loading. They are taking someone else's work with recompensing them and it's illegal
Well at least "reliece" is in good company. The author of this topic (timothy) apparently believes that the books were "recieved".
And you'd think people who cared about a book would make a bit of effort to spell correctly...
How often do you use your UNIX root password? Carry it around with you much? Depend on it as your only access into your system? The ID card is being sold as the solution to a whole raft of problems. The single unified solution to proving who you are for all purposes. As such it is a single point of failure. Once it fails you're shafted. If you use your root password as the everyday solution for all purposes you deserve disaster when it strikes. And if I ever get a fake banknote I'm only inconvenienced up to the value of that note. It does not stop me using other banknotes. My identity is a little different.
The difference is that the ID claims to be above this and may even surplant the existing means of proving your identity. This is what makes it dangerous. It's a single point of failure in the system that is being sold to the public as being fail-proof and the answer to everything. It isn't anything of the sort.
Any example of what happened when you lost your current ID are irrelevant. The point is that no currently available ID claims to be (or, more importantly, is believed to be) what Blunkett's ID card is. Currently you are losing your basket when there's only one egg in it. It's a whole different scenario when all your eggs are put there.
Your bank knows that I am you. Four other banks I have since opened accounts with know I am you. The police know I am you. That guy I had the small car accident with yesterday knows I am you.
But hang on, I didn't just forge your card, I stole it first. You have no card. Who are you? Prove it. You are no-one. Your card confirmed your rights as a citizen. Therefore you have no rights.
Got nothing to hide? Great. Unfortunately I do. Be prepared to be treated as me, because remember; I am you.
But I'm really a nice guy. Here, have your card back. Sorry about the mess I've made of your records in the national database. That CRIMINAL flag might be prove to be awkward for you. But I'm sure you'll have no problems at all sorting it out. No red-tape involved in dealing with large governmental organisations, are there? Nope, no chances of any screw ups.
I'm a criminal and I think national ID cards are a great idea. They're your convenient one-stop shop for identity theft!
My database experience isn't exactly limited, and I have only ever worked on 1 database that exceeded 5GB.