In other news, studies suggest that some children are more suggestible than others. This correlates with, among other variables, the degree of parental involvement in rearing the child.
What say we focus on identifying at risk children and make sure their parents have the tools to handle this special case?
Look! piracy! They outcompete us. Force upon them cruel laws.
Hark! we are having competition at home. Look, they over there have cruel laws and do not stress us with competition. You there, impose cruel laws here at home.
The point is to generate high piracy rates, in order to generate the PR necessary to give pet legislators an excuse to do their "friends" a favor by passing yet more draconian legislation, allowing heavier and heavier locks, they hope defeating fair-use activities such as time shifting, format shifting and unlicensed commentary.
The organizations crying over the exploding piracy figures know full well the real score.
Yes, for at least one person. I've been living happily without iconifying/hiding/minimizing windows for about 15 years now. I've been using the fvwm pager as workspaces. Works great.
While I'm at it, I'd like to note that getting rid of title bars works great too. Window movement, sizing etc works great using keyboard modifiers with mouse gestures. That's the way your god and uwm intended it.
Strictly speaking, workspaces aren't needed either. Before fvwm, I used vtwm. One big workspace with blindingly fast scrolling, even on crappy hardware with the complete lack of acceleration so prevalent back in the day. That said, I prefer pager-style workspaces. Best of both worlds.
Along with the various ways it can be abused against citizens directly, there's the slow lobster-cook method of stripping away rights. Recall the old "First they came" statement. In addition to the direct effects on citizens, it is an excuse to further consolidate power into a national government. Thus the actions by those states that are paying attention, to hopefully prevent their rights from being further eroded.
14% of music buyers accounted for 56% of revenue. How is that shocking? So you have some kids buying too much over-priced music. How is that new?
Oh that's right, you have "music execs" who either won't or can't do their job. Wait, how is that new? Maybe it's the reporter who jumped on some numbers and assigned the same meaning to them that "music execs" always give whatever numbers are handy. Or maybe a bad summary, but I'm now too bored to even spell out RTFA.
Would it help to use percent signs instead of spelling out "percent"? Word problems are hard.
Not just audiophiles. I can't hear worth crap. Never could. I could hardly care less for the difference between a scratchy record and a CD, much less what color my cable is, gold or green or fuscia. What I do care about though, is being able to format shift my music. My archive is in FLAC, which I transcode to a lossy format for general use. When something more palatable comes along, I'll be able to transcode to that instead of having to repurchase everything -- that assuming I could even find half of it, which is very unlikely. And unlike if my collection were solely in a lossy format, I won't have to endure the progressive distortions of transcoding from one lossy format to another, the cumulative effect of which would eventually drive even me nuts.
They spend so much time dicking around with my laptop at airports and borders so it's not so suspicious when they also dick around with your laptop. Now if they'd just hire somebody with a clue to fondle my ports, I could get through the line much much faster.
If we must discuss limiting ourselves to one office suite, I for one nominate ed as typewriter emulator, dc for calculator and when occasionally needed, fmt for typesetting. Really, you only need the first two to define a ring but I prefer the three so's to have a ball.
But let's not discuss that. Even emacsians have a place in this world.
There's an easy solution to this. Give them their own.riaa gtld and let them ghettoize it however they like.
That can be the official newspeak channel for angry out of touch distributors, and the rest of us can get on with appreciating music for its aesthetic value.
The act of whistleblowing, which is what wikileaks facilitates, is one of the highest forms of patriotism in a democracy: keeping the government answerable to the people requires that the people know what government is up to, *especially* when it's up to no good.
Once again, this conflates free as in beer with free as in freedom. Few of us would begrudge others the opportunity to make money. That's not the same thing as parting out our privacy. And if we do as he suggests, adopt the so-called "reasonable" position in the middle, then you can be quite sure our opponents will take that as our position and further demand to meet in the middle.
No thank you. I insist on an open network that values freedom.
Aww, but it fits so well. Mafiaa-man Haunted by Ghosts of Children-Past.
I suppose a game that plays similarly to robotron (with the kids as zombies and more innocent bystanders) might work even better for parody, but who has two joysticks anymore?
(But I had another point, which was to replace the art. Then namco would have far less leg to stand on if they continued the dmca action.)
Redo the art (including sound) with that theme. Then you'll not only be free of trying to balance on the edge of infringement, but also have some claim at satire.
I think the alumnus' point was that one should not read the documents because one might be shocked enough at the contents to either feel the need to tell others about it directly or to perform research on it that you might eventually publish. And if one were to do so, the government would then know that you don't have the ability to ignore overwhelming evidence that what they tell you has only a tenuous relation to reality.
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So in other words, black hat law enforcement hackers have known about the vulnerability and have been exploiting it for some time?
Given that law enforcement is by and large a State actor with the requisite influence, are we sure these aren't purposeful back doors?
In other news, studies suggest that some children are more suggestible than others. This correlates with, among other variables, the degree of parental involvement in rearing the child.
What say we focus on identifying at risk children and make sure their parents have the tools to handle this special case?
I didn't say it was a smart long-term.
Look! piracy! They outcompete us. Force upon them cruel laws.
Hark! we are having competition at home. Look, they over there have cruel laws and do not stress us with competition. You there, impose cruel laws here at home.
The point is to generate high piracy rates, in order to generate the PR necessary to give pet legislators an excuse to do their "friends" a favor by passing yet more draconian legislation, allowing heavier and heavier locks, they hope defeating fair-use activities such as time shifting, format shifting and unlicensed commentary.
The organizations crying over the exploding piracy figures know full well the real score.
excellent point
Yes, for at least one person. I've been living happily without iconifying/hiding/minimizing windows for about 15 years now. I've been using the fvwm pager as workspaces. Works great.
While I'm at it, I'd like to note that getting rid of title bars works great too. Window movement, sizing etc works great using keyboard modifiers with mouse gestures. That's the way your god and uwm intended it.
Strictly speaking, workspaces aren't needed either. Before fvwm, I used vtwm. One big workspace with blindingly fast scrolling, even on crappy hardware with the complete lack of acceleration so prevalent back in the day. That said, I prefer pager-style workspaces. Best of both worlds.
Along with the various ways it can be abused against citizens directly, there's the slow lobster-cook method of stripping away rights. Recall the old "First they came" statement. In addition to the direct effects on citizens, it is an excuse to further consolidate power into a national government. Thus the actions by those states that are paying attention, to hopefully prevent their rights from being further eroded.
DNA-based IDs -- the better with which to discriminate against the growing population of non-biological sentients.
Please watch the movie Zardoz before pursuing this further.
14% of music buyers accounted for 56% of revenue. How is that shocking? So you have some kids buying too much over-priced music. How is that new?
Oh that's right, you have "music execs" who either won't or can't do their job. Wait, how is that new? Maybe it's the reporter who jumped on some numbers and assigned the same meaning to them that "music execs" always give whatever numbers are handy. Or maybe a bad summary, but I'm now too bored to even spell out RTFA.
Would it help to use percent signs instead of spelling out "percent"? Word problems are hard.
Not just audiophiles. I can't hear worth crap. Never could. I could hardly care less for the difference between a scratchy record and a CD, much less what color my cable is, gold or green or fuscia. What I do care about though, is being able to format shift my music. My archive is in FLAC, which I transcode to a lossy format for general use. When something more palatable comes along, I'll be able to transcode to that instead of having to repurchase everything -- that assuming I could even find half of it, which is very unlikely. And unlike if my collection were solely in a lossy format, I won't have to endure the progressive distortions of transcoding from one lossy format to another, the cumulative effect of which would eventually drive even me nuts.
They spend so much time dicking around with my laptop at airports and borders so it's not so suspicious when they also dick around with your laptop. Now if they'd just hire somebody with a clue to fondle my ports, I could get through the line much much faster.
I'm shocked. I would've assumed it was priests, or maybe economists.
Is it a cloud app?
If we must discuss limiting ourselves to one office suite, I for one nominate ed as typewriter emulator, dc for calculator and when occasionally needed, fmt for typesetting. Really, you only need the first two to define a ring but I prefer the three so's to have a ball.
But let's not discuss that. Even emacsians have a place in this world.
There's an easy solution to this. Give them their own .riaa gtld and let them ghettoize it however they like.
That can be the official newspeak channel for angry out of touch distributors, and the rest of us can get on with appreciating music for its aesthetic value.
Cover your eyes the better to see with.
Cover your ears the better to hear with.
Cover your mouth the better to speak with.
Oh goody here comes the loyalty tests.
The act of whistleblowing, which is what wikileaks facilitates, is one of the highest forms of patriotism in a democracy: keeping the government answerable to the people requires that the people know what government is up to, *especially* when it's up to no good.
It's not about discrimination against packets. It's not even about discrimination against service providers.
It's about discrimination against people and their choice of information/entertainment/functionality sources. Anything else is a separate issue.
Separate issues include choice of peering and oversell. Frustrating as those are, they're separate issues.
Once again, this conflates free as in beer with free as in freedom. Few of us would begrudge others the opportunity to make money. That's not the same thing as parting out our privacy. And if we do as he suggests, adopt the so-called "reasonable" position in the middle, then you can be quite sure our opponents will take that as our position and further demand to meet in the middle.
No thank you. I insist on an open network that values freedom.
Aww, but it fits so well. Mafiaa-man Haunted by Ghosts of Children-Past.
I suppose a game that plays similarly to robotron (with the kids as zombies and more innocent bystanders) might work even better for parody, but who has two joysticks anymore?
(But I had another point, which was to replace the art. Then namco would have far less leg to stand on if they continued the dmca action.)
Children being chased by lawyers.
Redo the art (including sound) with that theme. Then you'll not only be free of trying to balance on the edge of infringement, but also have some claim at satire.
I think the alumnus' point was that one should not read the documents because one might be shocked enough at the contents to either feel the need to tell others about it directly or to perform research on it that you might eventually publish. And if one were to do so, the government would then know that you don't have the ability to ignore overwhelming evidence that what they tell you has only a tenuous relation to reality.
Are ego and domain-specific ethics not a requirement for evoking change?