No, it won't change in practice. They might outlaw transcoding, but open source transcoding software exists and will continue to exist as long as someone gives a $h*t.
Besides, let them mandate MPEG 7. That gives the pirates a nice, easy, non-moving target. Corporate morons.
Nothing. They can always go back and regenerate that data. It's just a matter of time.
You just contradicted yourself. You're right; it's just a matter of time. Only, thing is, this is the Internet. How long to recreate that data? Weeks? Months? Years? 6 months is an eternity on the Net.
If all the accounts and stories were lost on Slashdot due to a massive database failure, how many people would come back, creating a new account and so forth? How many long would it take before there was enough content and accounts to make it interesting again? Now realize that Slashdot is a drop in the bucket compared to Google.
I suspect the original definition evolved from "A person that hacks away at a problem using primitive tools not designed for the purpose, to create an acceptable and sometimes elegant solution."
Originally, the term meant to someone who creates furniture with an axe. The definition in the Jargon file is probably the closest available to the "orginal definition" in modern use.
What makes you think that any legislation to come out of Congress will not be bad, incompetent, non-oversighted, half-assed regulation never intended to serve the customer? Because they have a record of passing such legislation in this or other areas?
Nailing down corporations for false claims does not require new regulation. We have existing laws on the books for dealing with false advertising. What makes you think that new legislation will cause the courts to enforce those when they aren't enforcing the legislation already on the books?
More importantly, now that Oracle owns OpenSolaris, and therefore ZFS, there is absolutely nothing to stop them from contributing ZFS to the Linux kernel, which may, in fact, be in their best interests.
We only need to watch and wait to see what unfolds.
maybe that's because only americans are foolish/arrogant enough to believe that by driving a hybrid they are doing a great service to humanity. Whereas the rest of the world has been using high fuel efficiency/smaller cars for decades.
It's simply a matter of economics, my friend. Gasoline (petrol) is currently running about $3 (2.25 Euro) per gallon here in the States vs. the average price of gasoline in Europe, which has been running about $6 (4.5 Euro) per hallon in Europe (on average).
Europeans pay double what we pay for gas, so it only makes sense that they'd be driving smaller, higher efficiency cars.
When gas prices pushed over $4 a gallon range last summer, hybrids were selling like hotcakes.
Kind of like asking $sexual_preference people if they would like to be cured? Or perhaps asking $skin_colour people if they would like to be cured? Perhaps the "problem" is identifying colour blindness as a defect that needs a cure and trying to make all humans meet some baseline or be classified as defective.
No. It isn't. It's more like asking people with myopia if they would like to be cured. Neither $skin_color people nor $sexual_preference people have a body part that fails to function correctly. In the case of color-blind people, our eyes do not function correctly. Or do you think eyeglasses, contacts, or eye surgery are morally wrong as well?
They would have to know what they were doing was fraudulent, since the software they wrote generated false trade records. A real electronic trade connects to the trade exchange systems, which feeds back a confirmation code that the transaction took place. Since no actual trade took place, no there was no confirmation code. The software they wrote simply made it appear that the trade legimitately took place.
Also, it's not like hardware virtualization is exceedingly rare, either. On current AMD processors, for example, only the Sempron line doesn't support it. You also don't need to turn it on in the BIOS on AMD processors either: It either has it or it doesn't. It was actually a safe bet. I'm deliberately pointing out AMD's processors here, too, to show that it really couldn't have been a concession to Intel.
A corporation is Joe Schmo's way of doing something unlawful on behalf of an artificial entity, rather than on behalf of himself. A corporation gives limited liability to such a Joe Schmo, and if he can make more money doing it this way then that is just one more benefit of incorporation.
Dead, flat, wrong.
Illegal activity is one example of something that can pierce the corporate veil.
Read some of the back articles on Groklaw. While it hasn't been 100% successfully proven that SCO's financiers were Microsoft, they look like the most likely suspect.
I don't use either ad-blocking technology. I do, however, use NoScript. That prevents JavaScript from being executed. That has the side-effect of blocking Flash ads and ads delivered via JavaScript. I feel zero symphathy for anyone delivering ads via JavaScript. Sorry, but random JavaScript, Flash, and Java code cannot be trusted.
Ars is full of shit. First off, on the Internet everything is not 100% trackable. There is no way for a web server to know how my browser is rendering a given page. So if you're getting paid per view (per 1000 impressions), the model is exactly the same as it is for television.
If you're getting paid per click, that is trackable, but many people, including myself, don't click through any ads. And there's always click-through fraud.
My argument is that quick boot times are a marginal gain. I never said there was "no advantage" for laptop users, and, in fact, that's why I said there was little advantage.
Once the machine is up and running, given enough RAM (which is cheap these days), the speed bottleneck is no longer the disk for the class of user I've mentioned. The user will not see any difference between a SATA HDD and an SSD in terms of performance.
As for less chance of failure -- well that's a nonstarter. Even with wear-leveling, the MTBF between SSDs and HDDs is no contest; HDDs win every time. I have plenty of PCs with HDDs lying around that are 10-15 years old. I worked on one machine not long ago that had two HDDs in it that are easily 25 years old. Still working, no problems.
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No, it won't change in practice. They might outlaw transcoding, but open source transcoding software exists and will continue to exist as long as someone gives a $h*t.
Besides, let them mandate MPEG 7. That gives the pirates a nice, easy, non-moving target. Corporate morons.
You just contradicted yourself. You're right; it's just a matter of time. Only, thing is, this is the Internet. How long to recreate that data? Weeks? Months? Years? 6 months is an eternity on the Net.
If all the accounts and stories were lost on Slashdot due to a massive database failure, how many people would come back, creating a new account and so forth? How many long would it take before there was enough content and accounts to make it interesting again? Now realize that Slashdot is a drop in the bucket compared to Google.
Good guess, but no.
Here's the best definition available: hacker (from the Jargon file)
Originally, the term meant to someone who creates furniture with an axe. The definition in the Jargon file is probably the closest available to the "orginal definition" in modern use.
What makes you think that any legislation to come out of Congress will not be bad, incompetent, non-oversighted, half-assed regulation never intended to serve the customer? Because they have a record of passing such legislation in this or other areas?
Nailing down corporations for false claims does not require new regulation. We have existing laws on the books for dealing with false advertising. What makes you think that new legislation will cause the courts to enforce those when they aren't enforcing the legislation already on the books?
How quickly we forget. Regulation created this mess; I highly doubt that regulation will be able fix this mess.
More importantly, now that Oracle owns OpenSolaris, and therefore ZFS, there is absolutely nothing to stop them from contributing ZFS to the Linux kernel, which may, in fact, be in their best interests.
We only need to watch and wait to see what unfolds.
It's simply a matter of economics, my friend. Gasoline (petrol) is currently running about $3 (2.25 Euro) per gallon here in the States vs. the average price of gasoline in Europe, which has been running about $6 (4.5 Euro) per hallon in Europe (on average).
Europeans pay double what we pay for gas, so it only makes sense that they'd be driving smaller, higher efficiency cars.
When gas prices pushed over $4 a gallon range last summer, hybrids were selling like hotcakes.
Hmmmm... Except for one thing: darker people get sunburned, too.
No. It isn't. It's more like asking people with myopia if they would like to be cured. Neither $skin_color people nor $sexual_preference people have a body part that fails to function correctly. In the case of color-blind people, our eyes do not function correctly. Or do you think eyeglasses, contacts, or eye surgery are morally wrong as well?
Perhaps they use a wooden or stake or silver bullets or something. Or maybe they use garlic. I know! It must be solar-powered!
Everyone knows that the apostles ordered Filet o' Fish! C'mon!
"What's this 'mail client' you keep talking about? I just use Yahoo!"
They would have to know what they were doing was fraudulent, since the software they wrote generated false trade records. A real electronic trade connects to the trade exchange systems, which feeds back a confirmation code that the transaction took place. Since no actual trade took place, no there was no confirmation code. The software they wrote simply made it appear that the trade legimitately took place.
Depends on the current font.
The alignment looks correct pitchaxistheory's way on my display.
Also, it's not like hardware virtualization is exceedingly rare, either. On current AMD processors, for example, only the Sempron line doesn't support it. You also don't need to turn it on in the BIOS on AMD processors either: It either has it or it doesn't. It was actually a safe bet. I'm deliberately pointing out AMD's processors here, too, to show that it really couldn't have been a concession to Intel.
Dead, flat, wrong.
Illegal activity is one example of something that can pierce the corporate veil.
Well, for a little over $3, you can get a cheap fast-food meal. That's lunch!
Read some of the back articles on Groklaw. While it hasn't been 100% successfully proven that SCO's financiers were Microsoft, they look like the most likely suspect.
Considering that LAMP stands for Linux + Apache + MySQL + [ PHP | Perl | Python ], I'd have to say that no, there isn't.
There, fixed that for you.
(Note to Carnivore: it's a joke.)
In case you're monitoring this: DVD non-skip adds are a minor annoyance: with DVDs you can always rip the movie and then burn it without the ads.
I don't use either ad-blocking technology. I do, however, use NoScript. That prevents JavaScript from being executed. That has the side-effect of blocking Flash ads and ads delivered via JavaScript. I feel zero symphathy for anyone delivering ads via JavaScript. Sorry, but random JavaScript, Flash, and Java code cannot be trusted.
Ars is full of shit. First off, on the Internet everything is not 100% trackable. There is no way for a web server to know how my browser is rendering a given page. So if you're getting paid per view (per 1000 impressions), the model is exactly the same as it is for television.
If you're getting paid per click, that is trackable, but many people, including myself, don't click through any ads. And there's always click-through fraud.
My argument is that quick boot times are a marginal gain. I never said there was "no advantage" for laptop users, and, in fact, that's why I said there was little advantage.
Once the machine is up and running, given enough RAM (which is cheap these days), the speed bottleneck is no longer the disk for the class of user I've mentioned. The user will not see any difference between a SATA HDD and an SSD in terms of performance.
Better battery life is definitely not a a given.
As for less chance of failure -- well that's a nonstarter. Even with wear-leveling, the MTBF between SSDs and HDDs is no contest; HDDs win every time. I have plenty of PCs with HDDs lying around that are 10-15 years old. I worked on one machine not long ago that had two HDDs in it that are easily 25 years old. Still working, no problems.