I think he's referring to the arbitrary and often ridiculous restrictions companies like Sony have placed on digital distribution in the last decade. Things like different release dates in different countries, DVD region codes, DRM restrictions, malicious software, unavailability of single music tracks and legal downloads. Basically, the things Sony did to squeeze a few extra dollars out of their customers actually pissed off customers. Big surprise.
You are most certainly right, such a ridiculous statement and a defense of restrictive practices that are dying a death in the digital world. Global release dates and the like are on their way despite various companies holding on to the old traditions (which began as logistic not strategic) it's just a matter of time. In this respect he has somewhat of a point in that if a title or TV show is not available in ones country for several months some are likely to acquire it by other means. This, however, is a product of prideful idiocy on the part of the distributors and producers. I grew up in England and it would often take months for movies, TV shows and video games to be released following their US/Japan release dates this lead to otherwise honest people who would have bought legitimate copies of these products had they been available (and a few who wouldn't have) buying dodgy screener copies or "pirate" cartridges. The issue is no different now, it's just bigger thanks to the fact that the single most powerful communications medium ever to come into existence has become widely used. He has, however, come to a completely counter-productive conclusion on how to solve this "problem". If they did make their products globally available at the same time I suspect most honest people would buy copies instead of downloading them for "free" this could mean them downloading a digital copy of buying some form of physical media. Would there be those who chose to still download without paying? Of course, but I truly believe that the majority of people are honest and would buy their own copy.
But what has happened online is that if it is 'beyond store hours' and the shop is closed, a lot of people just smash the window and steal what they want.
This has no relevance to online commerce, "store hours" do not apply that is the whole point of digital content delivery, it's on-demand. I think this chap needs to think it over a little more as the type of thing he is proposing is more like, taking the highway analogy, creating individual lanes all of which go through toll booths and drive-through's and rest areas without giving the driver a choice of direction. A more accurate description of his idea (as I understand it) would be a subway-style train which stops where the operator wants it to stop and takes away choice of direction of travel; you're either on or you're off.
Taking away liberty for "the greater good" or because we can't handle the freedom afforded to us by the great and merciful content providers is to turn us into children. I'm not saying that anarchy should rule but neither should dictatorship. Most of us are smart enough, big enough and dumb enough to make our own decisions/mistakes without being cosseted along the way
True, although you could pop the file to be encrypted in a TrueCrypt container (not all that plausible right now with the 40K limit!) then encrypt it as TC containers appear as random data, no signature or common structure so it would essentially appear that the user had just encrypted junk.
Being someone working in digital forensics I and my colleagues are responsible for gathering the evidence that puts these guys away and there are certain cases where the filed act is legal but the act of filming it is illegal. On the general issue; it has been a somewhat grey area for many years and you do tend to find a bunch of not always hentai but definitely paedophilic "art" and on the Copine Scale (which is used for grading the severity of indecent images) they fall into no category. Personally I would make the law that if they are found in conjunction with photographic indecent images then they should be bundled in with Level 1 images (the least severe) and if you find nothing but graphic images they should be ignored but maybe the cops should keep a regular eye on the person who has them.
Modded insightful? seems more like flamebait to me. I love this attitude that the cause of global warming is somehow a settled issue and therefore not up for debate. I love/. but a +5 insightful mod for a snide quip is a little silly. Mod on the basis of merit rather than just because you agree with the individuals point of view.
Bottom line is that you need a basic level of performance
Just wandering who you are to tell anyone else what they need? I don't own the car I own purely for the fact that I need it to get to and from work I own it because I like it. Whether you like it or not the fact remains that we live in a society where individuals have the right to own the car of their choice. Neither you nor anyone else has the right to tell any individual what they do or don't need or what the should or shouldn't buy.
I think we should be more concerned that the head of Mozilla Security is a Windows Nyder. Nyder is a phonetic anglicization of "Najder" which is the Welsh word for snake.
"Free" assures that you can never call the company to come and support (generally for free) the application they created.
This is, frankly, nonsense. When have you ever known that Microsoft (I use them as they are probably the largest supplier of commercial software) ever to "come and support" their software when it goes wrong? Surely if that were the case they would have an army of desktop support engineers flocking around the world fixing Windows errors on desktops and servers and the third party tech support business would not exist. Your assertion is the one that commercial developers use to contradict the point that FOSS software is not only more reliable but also has a lower TCO and better support in general. All you have to do is visit any of the websites of the individual developers of each component of a LAMP system to find out that the level of documentation and community support is unparalleled in the commercial software world.
Good plan, but we may as well put them to some use. We should round them and the malware coders up and send them to a forced coding camp where they are forced to write counter spam and anti-virus apps.
I can certainly agree with that as a converted Windows "Power User" I can say that you really have to tell yourself that you need to start from the ground-up. Installing Gentoo (I did it around '04 pre gui-installer) was the most informative and daunting thing I did during my initial learning stages with Linux. I do, however, think it is easier for people who come to it younger (like me) as I had only been doing Windows support for about 2 years when I started playing around with Linux. For those people who have done all the MSCE crap and been working with Windows professionally since 3.1 or NT I can see how it might be tough to start knowing nothing after knowing "everything".
It is so worth the effort though!
Absolutely, we have many customers with SCO servers and we have offered a migration path to Linux for years. The reason we still have so many customers on SCO is that they are, basically, tightwads who aren't willing to pay for the migration of their data/system. I can say, having experience of administrating both SCO and Linux systems on a daily basis, that aside from the silly lawsuits and bad business practices SCO will fail because it has a shoddy product. I can't tell you the amount of segfaults I have encountered just from changing the clock or making trivial system changes in SCO Admin. From where I stand, the end can't come soon enough.
The code is superimposed genetic information and 'sets the placement of the nucleosomes, miniature protein spools around which the DNA is looped. The spools both protect and control access to the DNA itself.
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It did seem odd to me that my spam per day count had actually gone up in the last few weeks. I'm not unsubscribing though if they've got my address they've got it may as well keep flooding the scum.
It's safe to watch if you like that kind of thing but it's really badly recorded audio and personally (and of course everyone's diffenent) I think it sucks harder than a supergiant black hole!
IMO of course, please don't flame me!
Linus Torvalds was kind of inspired by minix to create a more useable and extensible Open Source OS and the original source for the Linux Kernel was written using a minix install. Check out the DVD of RevolutionOS for a detailed history.
Nothing really special about it when compared to Debian except that it seems to form a more focused and complete desktop installation. I must admit though, whenever I have installed it it's been perfect for use as a desktop machine for just browsing the web/checking email etc. Wouldn't install it for development though. On the subject of the install it's just a (very very) slightly streamlined version of the stock Debian NCURSES installer.
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I think he's referring to the arbitrary and often ridiculous restrictions companies like Sony have placed on digital distribution in the last decade. Things like different release dates in different countries, DVD region codes, DRM restrictions, malicious software, unavailability of single music tracks and legal downloads. Basically, the things Sony did to squeeze a few extra dollars out of their customers actually pissed off customers. Big surprise.
You are most certainly right, such a ridiculous statement and a defense of restrictive practices that are dying a death in the digital world. Global release dates and the like are on their way despite various companies holding on to the old traditions (which began as logistic not strategic) it's just a matter of time. In this respect he has somewhat of a point in that if a title or TV show is not available in ones country for several months some are likely to acquire it by other means. This, however, is a product of prideful idiocy on the part of the distributors and producers. I grew up in England and it would often take months for movies, TV shows and video games to be released following their US/Japan release dates this lead to otherwise honest people who would have bought legitimate copies of these products had they been available (and a few who wouldn't have) buying dodgy screener copies or "pirate" cartridges. The issue is no different now, it's just bigger thanks to the fact that the single most powerful communications medium ever to come into existence has become widely used. He has, however, come to a completely counter-productive conclusion on how to solve this "problem". If they did make their products globally available at the same time I suspect most honest people would buy copies instead of downloading them for "free" this could mean them downloading a digital copy of buying some form of physical media. Would there be those who chose to still download without paying? Of course, but I truly believe that the majority of people are honest and would buy their own copy.
But what has happened online is that if it is 'beyond store hours' and the shop is closed, a lot of people just smash the window and steal what they want.
This has no relevance to online commerce, "store hours" do not apply that is the whole point of digital content delivery, it's on-demand. I think this chap needs to think it over a little more as the type of thing he is proposing is more like, taking the highway analogy, creating individual lanes all of which go through toll booths and drive-through's and rest areas without giving the driver a choice of direction. A more accurate description of his idea (as I understand it) would be a subway-style train which stops where the operator wants it to stop and takes away choice of direction of travel; you're either on or you're off.
Taking away liberty for "the greater good" or because we can't handle the freedom afforded to us by the great and merciful content providers is to turn us into children. I'm not saying that anarchy should rule but neither should dictatorship. Most of us are smart enough, big enough and dumb enough to make our own decisions/mistakes without being cosseted along the way
True, although you could pop the file to be encrypted in a TrueCrypt container (not all that plausible right now with the 40K limit!) then encrypt it as TC containers appear as random data, no signature or common structure so it would essentially appear that the user had just encrypted junk.
So? Much of the world supported either Hitler, Emperor Hirohito, Mussolini or Stalin. Does that mean they were right?
If the whole world jumped off a cliff... Oh, never mind.
!Troll mod parent up.
Being someone working in digital forensics I and my colleagues are responsible for gathering the evidence that puts these guys away and there are certain cases where the filed act is legal but the act of filming it is illegal. On the general issue; it has been a somewhat grey area for many years and you do tend to find a bunch of not always hentai but definitely paedophilic "art" and on the Copine Scale (which is used for grading the severity of indecent images) they fall into no category. Personally I would make the law that if they are found in conjunction with photographic indecent images then they should be bundled in with Level 1 images (the least severe) and if you find nothing but graphic images they should be ignored but maybe the cops should keep a regular eye on the person who has them.
Modded insightful? seems more like flamebait to me. I love this attitude that the cause of global warming is somehow a settled issue and therefore not up for debate. I love /. but a +5 insightful mod for a snide quip is a little silly. Mod on the basis of merit rather than just because you agree with the individuals point of view.
Just wandering who you are to tell anyone else what they need? I don't own the car I own purely for the fact that I need it to get to and from work I own it because I like it. Whether you like it or not the fact remains that we live in a society where individuals have the right to own the car of their choice. Neither you nor anyone else has the right to tell any individual what they do or don't need or what the should or shouldn't buy.
I think we should be more concerned that the head of Mozilla Security is a Windows Nyder. Nyder is a phonetic anglicization of "Najder" which is the Welsh word for snake.
This is, frankly, nonsense. When have you ever known that Microsoft (I use them as they are probably the largest supplier of commercial software) ever to "come and support" their software when it goes wrong? Surely if that were the case they would have an army of desktop support engineers flocking around the world fixing Windows errors on desktops and servers and the third party tech support business would not exist. Your assertion is the one that commercial developers use to contradict the point that FOSS software is not only more reliable but also has a lower TCO and better support in general. All you have to do is visit any of the websites of the individual developers of each component of a LAMP system to find out that the level of documentation and community support is unparalleled in the commercial software world.
Heh, that's the joke Steve Wozniak (Apple co-founder) makes after crashing his plane in Pirates of Silicon Valley.
Good plan, but we may as well put them to some use. We should round them and the malware coders up and send them to a forced coding camp where they are forced to write counter spam and anti-virus apps.
I can certainly agree with that as a converted Windows "Power User" I can say that you really have to tell yourself that you need to start from the ground-up. Installing Gentoo (I did it around '04 pre gui-installer) was the most informative and daunting thing I did during my initial learning stages with Linux. I do, however, think it is easier for people who come to it younger (like me) as I had only been doing Windows support for about 2 years when I started playing around with Linux. For those people who have done all the MSCE crap and been working with Windows professionally since 3.1 or NT I can see how it might be tough to start knowing nothing after knowing "everything". It is so worth the effort though!
SCO: Oh. Oh, I see. Running away, eh? You blue bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you. I'll bite your legs off!
Darl vs Linus at Wrestlemania 23!
Easy enough mistake to make.
Hence the common medical term "Herd Immunity"
Absolutely, we have many customers with SCO servers and we have offered a migration path to Linux for years. The reason we still have so many customers on SCO is that they are, basically, tightwads who aren't willing to pay for the migration of their data/system. I can say, having experience of administrating both SCO and Linux systems on a daily basis, that aside from the silly lawsuits and bad business practices SCO will fail because it has a shoddy product. I can't tell you the amount of segfaults I have encountered just from changing the clock or making trivial system changes in SCO Admin. From where I stand, the end can't come soon enough.
Does this mean that DNA has DRM?
VLC will do all of those right out the box.
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It did seem odd to me that my spam per day count had actually gone up in the last few weeks. I'm not unsubscribing though if they've got my address they've got it may as well keep flooding the scum.
It's safe to watch if you like that kind of thing but it's really badly recorded audio and personally (and of course everyone's diffenent) I think it sucks harder than a supergiant black hole! IMO of course, please don't flame me!
Linus Torvalds was kind of inspired by minix to create a more useable and extensible Open Source OS and the original source for the Linux Kernel was written using a minix install. Check out the DVD of RevolutionOS for a detailed history.
No, 1.07 is the current release. 1.5 is the release candidate or "Deer Park" which is currently a pre-release. As far as I understand!
Nothing really special about it when compared to Debian except that it seems to form a more focused and complete desktop installation. I must admit though, whenever I have installed it it's been perfect for use as a desktop machine for just browsing the web/checking email etc. Wouldn't install it for development though. On the subject of the install it's just a (very very) slightly streamlined version of the stock Debian NCURSES installer.