Someday this whole software patent/IP patent insanity is going to implode the galaxy- then if any of us are left, we will have to immigrate to a different galaxy to infest.
Copyright should already cover what needs to be covered, but even that is too restricted to enable innovation and improvement.
IP protection is what will eventually turn our world to the post apocolyptic scenario's. (trying to protect it will bring on the end)
Right you are! Besides- I'm thinking of switching from FC5 to windows so I can install weatherbug, and 180 websolutions, and most of all coolwebsearch, none of which I could get to work reliably on Linux.
Besides, I'm missing out on all kinds of kewl screensavers, toolbars, and "phone-homeware" on Linux that I could get with NO EFFORT with windows- no wonder Linux ain't ready for teh desktop!
Maybe offtopic, but I would really like to know: Embodied Intellgence- is this even close to "proprioception" in humans? (ie: I "know" where I am in physical space- I can also close my eyes, extend my arm out to my side, and "know" where my hand is -related to my body, and in that same physical space)
I know my question only addresses a part of the equation- if any!
*sarcasm=on* When is *nix gonna catchup with this? It's an outrage that I can download (for free!) almost any linux distro, install it on ANY number of my PC's, change my hardware at will- as often as I want, and never have to activate it ONCE! What is Linux trying to prove!
Linux will never be "ready for teh desktop" until it adopts shit like WGA, activation, and limited hardware changes/re-installs, and MORE malware and security holes.
Sheesh, Tux, what's happened to your ambition?
BTW, I've had torrents of Kubuntu 6.06 and FC6 running for DAYS with no "cease and desist" crap- no wonder Linux "ain't ready fer prime time"- No matter how hard I try, I can't get teh black helicopters to land on my roof with Linux- what a waste! *sarcasm=off*
Then take 'em out back of the woodshed an' drown their unwanted asses. That's what has got us in the mess we are in now- no way to "cull the herd" like used to happen in the world.
That's what society and civilization will get you- no ability to cull the herd, and the inferiors take over.
Damn, did I say that out loud?....Oh shit! here comes the MODS!!!! run fer yer lives!
"I take them as a cue to follow the call of my bladder."
You might want to get medical advice if you're having to piss THAT MUCH!
Or, I'm jealous of your beer drinking prowess! WOW!
LOL!
I get your point, and agree-but what channel(s) do you watch where you get a whole 10 minutes between commercials? (not trying to flame or troll- really would like to know-best I can find is about 6-6 1/2 minutes!)
That sounds right to me from my casual experiment. I have an ATI AIW card in one of my PC's- I have recorded 4 shows, trimming out the commercials. Two of the shows are 1/2 hr. 2 are one hour. Average times are: program/hour=39 minutes, 54 seconds. Typically, I was seeing approx. 5 minutes and 13 seconds programming between commercial breaks. This was about 18 months ago- my stepdaughter now has the AIW card in her PC, mine has an ATI 9600 Pro with no tuner- I gave up trying to watch TV.
It's like trying to read a good book or article and having someone come in clashing cymbals and hooping and hollering, asking you to join the mindless parade every 5 minutes, while you're trying to read.
No thanks! I can rent/buy/borrow the DVD, or not bother.
I didn't get it at first either (was stuck in the "circumventing" mindset) until I found this: (http://docs.binnews.com/index.php/DMCA_Request), which reminded me that the "C" in DMCA deals with copyright.
Back on topic: You are right (IMHO) about not needing the DMCA to deal with this- a simple letter stating that there seemed to be an issue with copyrighted content has always worked with youtube.com, but it seems invoking the DMCA to "leverage the versatility of the relationship of our relations in the new e/i-commerce market needs to be exploited and developed to maximize our marketshare in the upcoming *whatever*2.0" or some some such shite is the current method.
Damn...Boston Harbor has not tasted like tea for too long.
"Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all!!"
What kind of youtube and flickr files would this one suggest?
I guess next we will have anchorman gangfights (remember the movie "Anchorman"?) in the MMORPG's- gangs of angry anchorman avitars running around looking for those guys that are taking their jobs.
That could even be made into an Anchorman MMORPG in it's own right!
I think the move from backwards compatibility and legacy support has a lot to do with this. As painful as it may be for a lot of folks, at some point in time they have to get out of the hole they have dug theirselves into. I hear a lot on/. about how MS has to change their coding to make it more secure/better, often in direct comparison to Linux.
I'm not an MS fanboy, but at least they are trying to do just that. IMHO, application installs should not mod/join the kernal. I like they way this is implemented in my FC5 install-MS is getting closer to this. There is one thing though; With Linux, you can look at/modify the source, compile it, then run it, even if it's a change that Linus doesn't approve of- not so with Windows.
I see this as more of one of those "You gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet." situations.
Where their eivilness will show up is how they treat third party app developers.
Overall, I am on your side, but have some differences of policy (?).
My 15 year old just pointed out to me that if I were to implement filtering or other measures, she would try to circumvent them to get where she wanted- if successful, then she would go to "worse sites than Foamy the Squirrel" ( she is turned off by pr0n, and Foamy is the most "subversive" site she visits).
I think that the best you can do is to influence your kids in their early formative years to instill a sense of values that reflect your own, you can then try to further that set of values as they get older (best bet is to keep an open dialog with them- you want them to honestly talk to you about stuff!). After that, all you can hope for is that you have done your job. Your kids are individuals- they will try to go where their imagination and curiousity take them- all you can do is encourage them, inhibit them, or (more likely) some middle ground in between.
It's a tough call for parents wanting to protect and at the same time educucate their kids to the real world. Pretty much you are damned if you do and damned if you don't- it all depends on the foundation that was built during the early years, IMHO.
I don't have a real problem with adults partaking in recreational drugs, but am supportive of the laws making it harsher on the dealers in a school zone, but this will not stop the kids really wanting to go there.
I also understand that working parents may have to depend on third parties to help raise their children nowdays. but my sympathy is limited here- ya' gotta make up your mind where your priorities are, and take some personal responsibility for your choice.
It's tough, no doubt about it, but to pass the responsibility off to third parties is the wrong approach- be proactive! (that's what got you into this to start with- you procreated- take responsibility for that choice!)
Whoosshh! Right over your head! Your attitude is precisely why this country is in the mess it is in. Yeah, go ahead and keep supporting the status quo, if we question those in power we are terrorists, etc.
Short-sighted, limited intellect, clueless drones like you have gotten us into this mess, and the fact that "think of the children" type attitudes like yours disable culling the herd once it get's into society.
The election process is one of the LAST bastions top our freedoms we have left- there can be no compromise in this if we want to keep what little we have left. If the election process is not kept completely open, then why even bother?
Nevermind, I doubt someone like you could appreciate the ramifications of an obscure election process- go back to your fairy tail world and forget I even replied to you.
"...IBM's legal department to contend with." They were not referred to as the Nazgul without reasons.
These guys will be serious contenders in almost any arena that IBM will choose to enter.
IBM may be a shadow of it's peak days, but they are no punks still today. They have proven themselves survivors in markets that have extreme turnover rates, and a lot of corporate corpses laying by the wayside to prove it.
Anymore, it gets more difficult to pick sides in the patent/IP battle. IBM vs. SCO- no problem picking sides there, IBM vs. Amazon- not as clear-cut for me, but I'm leaning towards IBM's side for this one just based on both of their track records.
LOL! BTW- Damn you!- now I have that "clip" playing on a loop in my head-everyone is looking at me strangely as I sit here giggling like a school girl-Thanks! Oh s*it- Boss coming in now *opens fake spreadsheet*
n00b question: How does this compare/work with truecrypt? (hdd failure- I'm just now formatting new hdd to install FC5)
I was planning on partioning the drive (200GB) with a main part. of 30 GB (FC5), 2GB swap, then divide the remainder in half: fat32 for SAMBA share, the other in ext3 for my FC5 storage.
I'm tempted to use truecrypt and encrypt my home dir and tmp dir's only on the main (30GB) part., then encrypt the swap part., and then use the ext3 part. as encrypted storage...leaving the fat 32 alone (just used for transfer on home net, the storage would be commonly used app's and files that I don't care if anyone looks at).
Would I be better off using your method or true crypt? (mostly just use this PC for web, email, etc.-light weight stuff- and it's a decent system: p4 prescott w/ hyperthreading @3.0 GhZ, 1 GB 333 RAM, and ugh-ATI 9600 pro 256 MB vid card)
For my use, I don't mind a *small* performance hit, but being a n00b, I have to ask: am I dreaming, or is this possible?
"Do you have a specific proposal?" Hmmm...you kinda caught me off gaurd there- have to think on this, but for the now: (http://nakedworldrecords.com/phone.htm) --not for work!
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Someday this whole software patent/IP patent insanity is going to implode the galaxy- then if any of us are left, we will have to immigrate to a different galaxy to infest.
Copyright should already cover what needs to be covered, but even that is too restricted to enable innovation and improvement.
IP protection is what will eventually turn our world to the post apocolyptic scenario's.
(trying to protect it will bring on the end)
Right you are!
Besides- I'm thinking of switching from FC5 to windows so I can install weatherbug, and 180 websolutions, and most of all coolwebsearch, none of which I could get to work reliably on Linux.
Besides, I'm missing out on all kinds of kewl screensavers, toolbars, and "phone-homeware" on Linux that I could get with NO EFFORT with windows- no wonder Linux ain't ready for teh desktop!
I hear ya, but I'm afraid that mos are gonna see this and go "WTF?"
They won't have enuff mousse(sp?), hair gel/spray to get teh doo standing up high enuff--right over teh head.
Maybe offtopic, but I would really like to know:
Embodied Intellgence- is this even close to "proprioception" in humans?
(ie: I "know" where I am in physical space- I can also close my eyes, extend my arm out to my side, and "know" where my hand is -related to my body, and in that same physical space)
I know my question only addresses a part of the equation- if any!
*sarcasm=on*
When is *nix gonna catchup with this?
It's an outrage that I can download (for free!) almost any linux distro, install it on ANY number of my PC's, change my hardware at will- as often as I want, and never have to activate it ONCE!
What is Linux trying to prove!
Linux will never be "ready for teh desktop" until it adopts shit like WGA, activation, and limited hardware changes/re-installs, and MORE malware and security holes.
Sheesh, Tux, what's happened to your ambition?
BTW, I've had torrents of Kubuntu 6.06 and FC6 running for DAYS with no "cease and desist" crap- no wonder Linux "ain't ready fer prime time"- No matter how hard I try, I can't get teh black helicopters to land on my roof with Linux- what a waste!
*sarcasm=off*
"What if they're born fools?"
Then take 'em out back of the woodshed an' drown their unwanted asses.
That's what has got us in the mess we are in now- no way to "cull the herd" like used to happen in the world.
That's what society and civilization will get you- no ability to cull the herd, and the inferiors take over.
Damn, did I say that out loud?....Oh shit! here comes the MODS!!!! run fer yer lives!
Damn- I hate to see you go down in flames here.
/., you needed to use a bad car analogy to prove your point.
This is
The slashtrolls will not work with you here- give us a bad car analogy we can pick apart for about 3 or 4 hundred comments.
This reminds me; Are you new here?
LOL!- I get your point, just had to point out the obvious.
"I take them as a cue to follow the call of my bladder."
You might want to get medical advice if you're having to piss THAT MUCH!
Or, I'm jealous of your beer drinking prowess! WOW!
LOL!
I get your point, and agree-but what channel(s) do you watch where you get a whole 10 minutes between commercials? (not trying to flame or troll- really would like to know-best I can find is about 6-6 1/2 minutes!)
You forgot:
Step 12( 'cause they will watch ANYTHING we push out there)?????!!???
Step 13 PROFIT!!!!
That sounds right to me from my casual experiment.
I have an ATI AIW card in one of my PC's- I have recorded 4 shows, trimming out the commercials. Two of the shows are 1/2 hr. 2 are one hour. Average times are:
program/hour=39 minutes, 54 seconds. Typically, I was seeing approx. 5 minutes and 13 seconds programming between commercial breaks.
This was about 18 months ago- my stepdaughter now has the AIW card in her PC, mine has an ATI 9600 Pro with no tuner- I gave up trying to watch TV.
It's like trying to read a good book or article and having someone come in clashing cymbals and hooping and hollering, asking you to join the mindless parade every 5 minutes, while you're trying to read.
No thanks! I can rent/buy/borrow the DVD, or not bother.
"I wonder if they have OS/2'itis."
Nah, I think they heard they were in competition with Sony.
I didn't get it at first either (was stuck in the "circumventing" mindset) until I found this: (http://docs.binnews.com/index.php/DMCA_Request), which reminded me that the "C" in DMCA deals with copyright.
*off topic*
Firefox 2's spell checker flags DMCA! LOL!
Back on topic:
You are right (IMHO) about not needing the DMCA to deal with this- a simple letter stating that there seemed to be an issue with copyrighted content has always worked with youtube.com, but it seems invoking the DMCA to "leverage the versatility of the relationship of our relations in the new e/i-commerce market needs to be exploited and developed to maximize our marketshare in the upcoming *whatever*2.0" or some some such shite is the current method.
Damn...Boston Harbor has not tasted like tea for too long.
Yes, that was a very good example- give her credit for not even batting an eye, just roll smoothly on. LOL!
Thanks for a well needed chuckle!
"Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all!!"
What kind of youtube and flickr files would this one suggest?
I guess next we will have anchorman gangfights (remember the movie "Anchorman"?) in the MMORPG's- gangs of angry anchorman avitars running around looking for those guys that are taking their jobs.
That could even be made into an Anchorman MMORPG in it's own right!
I think the move from backwards compatibility and legacy support has a lot to do with this. /. about how MS has to change their coding to make it more secure/better, often in direct comparison to Linux.
As painful as it may be for a lot of folks, at some point in time they have to get out of the hole they have dug theirselves into. I hear a lot on
I'm not an MS fanboy, but at least they are trying to do just that. IMHO, application installs should not mod/join the kernal. I like they way this is implemented in my FC5 install-MS is getting closer to this.
There is one thing though; With Linux, you can look at/modify the source, compile it, then run it, even if it's a change that Linus doesn't approve of- not so with Windows.
I see this as more of one of those "You gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet." situations.
Where their eivilness will show up is how they treat third party app developers.
Overall, I am on your side, but have some differences of policy (?).
My 15 year old just pointed out to me that if I were to implement filtering or other measures, she would try to circumvent them to get where she wanted- if successful, then she would go to "worse sites than Foamy the Squirrel" ( she is turned off by pr0n, and Foamy is the most "subversive" site she visits).
I think that the best you can do is to influence your kids in their early formative years to instill a sense of values that reflect your own, you can then try to further that set of values as they get older (best bet is to keep an open dialog with them- you want them to honestly talk to you about stuff!).
After that, all you can hope for is that you have done your job.
Your kids are individuals- they will try to go where their imagination and curiousity take them- all you can do is encourage them, inhibit them, or (more likely) some middle ground in between.
It's a tough call for parents wanting to protect and at the same time educucate their kids to the real world.
Pretty much you are damned if you do and damned if you don't- it all depends on the foundation that was built during the early years, IMHO.
I don't have a real problem with adults partaking in recreational drugs, but am supportive of the laws making it harsher on the dealers in a school zone, but this will not stop the kids really wanting to go there.
I also understand that working parents may have to depend on third parties to help raise their children nowdays. but my sympathy is limited here- ya' gotta make up your mind where your priorities are, and take some personal responsibility for your choice.
It's tough, no doubt about it, but to pass the responsibility off to third parties is the wrong approach- be proactive! (that's what got you into this to start with- you procreated- take responsibility for that choice!)
Whoosshh! Right over your head!
Your attitude is precisely why this country is in the mess it is in.
Yeah, go ahead and keep supporting the status quo, if we question those in power we are terrorists, etc.
Short-sighted, limited intellect, clueless drones like you have gotten us into this mess, and the fact that "think of the children" type attitudes like yours disable culling the herd once it get's into society.
The election process is one of the LAST bastions top our freedoms we have left- there can be no compromise in this if we want to keep what little we have left.
If the election process is not kept completely open, then why even bother?
Nevermind, I doubt someone like you could appreciate the ramifications of an obscure election process- go back to your fairy tail world and forget I even replied to you.
That's a point a lot of people seem to be missing. Well said, BTW.
It takes a foreigner to show us the trees in the forest.
Too bad he isn't a US citizen- I would nominate him for the Prez!
Go DVD Jon!
Good point.
"...IBM's legal department to contend with."
They were not referred to as the Nazgul without reasons.
These guys will be serious contenders in almost any arena that IBM will choose to enter.
IBM may be a shadow of it's peak days, but they are no punks still today. They have proven themselves survivors in markets that have extreme turnover rates, and a lot of corporate corpses laying by the wayside to prove it.
Anymore, it gets more difficult to pick sides in the patent/IP battle.
IBM vs. SCO- no problem picking sides there, IBM vs. Amazon- not as clear-cut for me, but I'm leaning towards IBM's side for this one just based on both of their track records.
LOL! BTW- Damn you!- now I have that "clip" playing on a loop in my head-everyone is looking at me strangely as I sit here giggling like a school girl-Thanks!
Oh s*it- Boss coming in now *opens fake spreadsheet*
Best I can remember, I think it was foggier back the- at least for me!
(graduated HIGH school in '76)
Thanks for the work and the link! :-)
n00b question:
How does this compare/work with truecrypt?
(hdd failure- I'm just now formatting new hdd to install FC5)
I was planning on partioning the drive (200GB) with a main part. of 30 GB (FC5), 2GB swap, then divide the remainder in half: fat32 for SAMBA share, the other in ext3 for my FC5 storage.
I'm tempted to use truecrypt and encrypt my home dir and tmp dir's only on the main (30GB) part., then encrypt the swap part., and then use the ext3 part. as encrypted storage...leaving the fat 32 alone (just used for transfer on home net, the storage would be commonly used app's and files that I don't care if anyone looks at).
Would I be better off using your method or true crypt?
(mostly just use this PC for web, email, etc.-light weight stuff- and it's a decent system:
p4 prescott w/ hyperthreading @3.0 GhZ, 1 GB 333 RAM, and ugh-ATI 9600 pro 256 MB vid card)
For my use, I don't mind a *small* performance hit, but being a n00b, I have to ask: am I dreaming, or is this possible?
Thanks for any info.
Step by step is how it happens- so subtle you don't even realise until it's too late.
It's starting to get late, heading towards too late soon.
"Do you have a specific proposal?"
Hmmm...you kinda caught me off gaurd there- have to think on this, but for the now:
(http://nakedworldrecords.com/phone.htm) --not for work!
Better than goatse or tubgirl, IMHO.
I'll ponder this one.
LOL!
I meant no offense, but yesh, it is sad, and funny...in any kind of way.