just watch, they'll stop selling drm-free tracks after finding one single copy on soulseek
Even if they have dishonorable intentions, they might be surprised by how well high quality, non-drm encumbered, songs sell. All these corporations care about is money, and if enough rolls in they won't do anything to impair the flow. And if it works well for them, all the other piggies will want to get their snouts in. It could spell the end of DRMed music files if it does indeed turn out to be the more profitable option.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then they pretend to join you and stab you in the back at the first opportunity. Never trust Microsoft.
By charging less for less useful subjects such as history we will end up with a surfeit of people with the wrong degrees - people not suited to the jobs that we, as a country, need.
This is where government intervention/financial_support is needed for the long term good of society -- I can't see it happening since the payoff is way beyond the next election.
Hear, hear. Return history, arts, and philosophy to wealthy upper classes who can appreciate them. They're totally wasted on proles and their pursuit will leave them uprepared for the reality of their working lives. Let the proles train for the jobs they will pursue, jobs our country needs, by providing an affordable vocational track through university without a lot of damned impediments, financial or otherwise, to distract them from that objective.
"There's still some software to write, but this is a big step for us," Walter Bender, head of software development at One Laptop per Child (OLPC), told the BBC News website. " A 3rd world tyke expressed disinterest in the OLPC initiative, saying "Scratching figures in the dirt with a stick has always worked just fine for me. I'll consider getting an OLPC computer in a few years once they've worked out the bugs."
Has anyone ever tried to tell them about how bad the information is? In some administrations, like George Bush's, that could get you bypassed or fired. Loyalty, on the other hand, will get you a medal, no matter how bad you screw up. GW's experience in business has been that if things go south, someone will bail him out, so what does it matter so long as everyone sticks together and covers each others arses? Loyalty is much more important, from his perspective, than something dry and technical like 'information'. In fact, information can really bite you in the arse, so it's best to hide it as much as possible. Tony Snow will tell the people what they need to know.
Amen. Block email from China and US and spam will be reduced dramatically. Unfortunately, the head sysadmin where I work thinks we'd get a lot of complaints if we blocked the US. The grandparent post's argument isn't entirely without merit. Because of the percentage of legit email from the US, we can't even think about blocking the US. On principal we don't block China, but we think about it.
Squirrels must maintain radio silence. Otherwise the Iranians could get a lock with their anti-squirrel missiles. It is a major investment of time and money to train a squirrel for espionage, and even if one doesn't care about the lives of these brave little critters, that investment must be protected.
I can hear the phones of angry customers threatening to kill me because i "broke their site" now.
Run two versions of apache, one for most sites with php5 (many php apps that worked on php4 will work on php5), and one for the minority of 'legacy' sites using php4. I believe the trick is to have them listen on different ip addresses.
They came once and asked for $900, and I said, 'Well, 900 dollars, that's ridiculous,' and sent them $500 and they accepted it.
Reminds me of the Loch Ness Monster bit from South Park, where the story is told of how the Loch Ness Monster tried to hit up Chef's parents for $3.50.
Chef's Mom : I gave him a dollar.
Chef's Dad : She gave him a dollar.
Chef's Mom : I thought he'd go away if I gave him a dollar.
Chef's Dad : Well of course he's not going to go away, Nellie. If you give him a dollar, he's gonna assume you got more.
To Woz, about Steve and Woz and Apple:"You guys are Adam and Eve of nerds." Its funny, interesting, insightful and can also be flamebait/troll at the same time.
Accept Sicko for what it is: a searing and accurate indictment of our disgraceful healthcare system.
Perhaps, but the film itself isn't 100% accurate in the rosy picture it paints of the Canadian system. First of all, it isn't free. It's a bargain at about $50 a month (sliding scale for low income all the way down to zero), but it isn't free. Also while we theoretically can choose whatever doctor we want to go to, in many places good luck finding one who is accepting patients. Many Canadians get treatment at walk in clinics and, worse, emergency rooms.
I don't know how accurate his depictions are of the situation in other countries, but as a Canadian familiar with our system, I'm a tad skeptical of his portrayal of others.
All that said, I prefer a system of universal health care where private corporations aren't protecting their bottom line by denying service. Moore's comparison with the fire department is a good one. There are some things that just aren't in the public's interest to put in the hands of private interests.
What I would like to see is for the US to develop a system of universal health care superior to the Canadian system. Right now I think we're too complacent because compared to the US system, our system looks good. It would be better if we were looking south in envy and feeling motivated to come up with something better ourselves.
:) Are you sure masochism isn't part of the job description?
I like easy as much as the next non-masochist, and if the author had said xen wasn't ready for the desktop, that would be one thing, but by his standards it would seem there's a lot of things in data centers that aren't ready for the data center.
Oh my. Editable XML configuration files, obscure command line interfaces, grayed out options in the GUI? Thanks, but no thanks. This thing doesn't sound like it's ready for prime time in Data Center USA.
Are sysadmins at "Data Center USA" morons? "Oh nooo, command line time, I hate that. Oh nooo, my option I want is all grayed out! Help me, help me! Oh I am so sad now."
Deploying vm stuff is not the same as using a word processor. "Data Center USA" is in real trouble if their sysadmins aren't any smarter than regular desktop users.
I am consistently amazed that they continue to align themselves with multinational, license charging companies.
In the beeb's defense, I've been listening to World Service on Linux for years. When they have a problem with content they don't have a license to stream (typically sports), they present alternative content. It's not OSS, but realplay, however it isn't costing me a dime. They did experiment with streaming ogg, but determined that it 'didn't scale' (from email correspondence with a beeb tech).
With regard to specific content with licensing restrictions, alternative content isn't really an option. "Due to license restrictions, instead of your selection we are presenting 'Best of BBC Produced Comedy'. We have clear title and believe you will find it much more entertaining than your original selection."
Perhaps there should be some form of OSS digital restriction management. Of course, no group knows better than OSS folk that any DRM will inevitably be hacked, so I would imagine it's difficult to feel particularly motivated to build it.
A manslaughter charge won't get you 11 years. Are we that out of whack that you get more time for spam than for killing someone?
Makes sense if you consider aggregate suffering. Manslaughter causes great grief to a small group of friends and family. A spam email causes small grief, but to millions. I'm opposed to capital punishment, but mass murder, sadistic murder, and spam all keep me reassessing that position.
And I'm not sure what their backup technology would have been if, by any chance, the carbon nanotube strategy turned out to be unfeasible.
Frustration generated by technical support calls to call centers in India where people can't help you if your problem isn't one enumerated in the scripts they read from. If this could be spun into fibre it would make for a ribbon of great strength a gazillion miles long.
Sorry, it has been a long weekend, and not the good kind of long weekend.
Call up a reference librarian and ask for information on "Palladium". Odds are s/he will reply with one or more questions.
That's because librarians are slow. Those questions can lead to saving a great deal of time off the top.
A search engine is fast, effectively providing a ton of answers in seconds or fractions of seconds. The problem then is that we are slow. We can't go through all the hits as fast as the search engine spits them out.
What would be helpful would be if the search engine clustered results as if in response to the sorts of questions our hypothetical librarian might ask. The Clusty search engine attempts this.
IMO, what I'm using now, Fedora Core 4, is way superior to Windows. I've just installed Kubuntu on a new machine, and may switch if I like it. Certainly the install was the easiest I've ever seen. It even let me go to town with my custom partitioning with an extremely easy to use graphical interface that facilitated what I was doing and didn't frustrate me into pre-partitioning with fdisk myself. Looks promising so far.
Only people that are used to the way Windows is and not willing to learn anything else may suffer a little bit
You mean the majority of Dell's customer base? I'm happy that Dell is supporting potential Linux using customers, and if I had to buy a laptop right now, they'd probably get my business, but I'm not at all suprised that they aren't featuring Linux machines front and centre on their site.
Why -- can't you spell "sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop", or something?
Cha, cha, cha. I would have modded this funny. Perhaps this is why Dell has buried these Linux machines on their site. If you know enough use the command line under Linux, you're probably somewhat committed. You'll ask them for it (or just search), and now they will be able to easily provide. To the person who can spell "sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop", Linux has been 'ready for prime time' for a long time now. But perhaps not for the general public who might just pick Ubuntu from a drop down configuration menu because it was the cheaper option, then freak when they got it because it isn't Windows.
there was an overall eight percent reduction in crime in the experimental areas where CCTV was installed compared with a nine percent increase in crime in the control areas.
Would have been nice if the article you cited had a bit more detail. The picture I get from that is that the control areas are on the periphery of the experimental areas, which means they aren't really an independent control, but are being influenced by changes in the experimental area, wiley criminals moving out of sight of cctv to commit their crimes. If that's the case, then I guess flying drone cctv is the answer, since entire cities will have to be covered to be effective, with the exception, of course, of the criminal traps (some sort of covered pits) at the edge of the city which the drones will herd the criminals towards.
Richard Stallman is a big, fat wind bag -> Richard Stallman is a visionary who understands that nothing good can come of anything which is not built upon a foundational philosophy whose central tenet is a profound respect for freedom.
Will your morals stay the same? Or will you question them as well? Will you start wondering whether not only the law but also the morals you have been brought up with are wrong?
We're going to have to make a clear distinction and maintain our morals while the social contract crumbles and law loses any vestige of moral authority. It will be important to clearly define the enemy (government and corporations) and distinguish them from regular people. As the law becomes a joke, so does the precedent established that corporations have the same rights as persons. Basically, be good to actual persons, but screw the corporate greedheads and their bought and paid for government lackeys.
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Even if they have dishonorable intentions, they might be surprised by how well high quality, non-drm encumbered, songs sell. All these corporations care about is money, and if enough rolls in they won't do anything to impair the flow. And if it works well for them, all the other piggies will want to get their snouts in. It could spell the end of DRMed music files if it does indeed turn out to be the more profitable option.
I notices the same problem with fabulous babes. Allegedly many exist, so they should be all over me. But they're not. Eerie.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then they pretend to join you and stab you in the back at the first opportunity. Never trust Microsoft.
Gandhi (somewhat adapted)
By charging less for less useful subjects such as history we will end up with a surfeit of people with the wrong degrees - people not suited to the jobs that we, as a country, need.
This is where government intervention/financial_support is needed for the long term good of society -- I can't see it happening since the payoff is way beyond the next election.
Hear, hear. Return history, arts, and philosophy to wealthy upper classes who can appreciate them. They're totally wasted on proles and their pursuit will leave them uprepared for the reality of their working lives. Let the proles train for the jobs they will pursue, jobs our country needs, by providing an affordable vocational track through university without a lot of damned impediments, financial or otherwise, to distract them from that objective.
Amen. Block email from China and US and spam will be reduced dramatically. Unfortunately, the head sysadmin where I work thinks we'd get a lot of complaints if we blocked the US. The grandparent post's argument isn't entirely without merit. Because of the percentage of legit email from the US, we can't even think about blocking the US. On principal we don't block China, but we think about it.
Squirrels must maintain radio silence. Otherwise the Iranians could get a lock with their anti-squirrel missiles. It is a major investment of time and money to train a squirrel for espionage, and even if one doesn't care about the lives of these brave little critters, that investment must be protected.
If I had mod points, I would mod your original post up as underrated. Sadly, Slashdot is getting as mindlessly touchy as Digg.
Groan. Does anyone have a freedom threat checking shell script that can be run regularly as a cron job?
Run two versions of apache, one for most sites with php5 (many php apps that worked on php4 will work on php5), and one for the minority of 'legacy' sites using php4. I believe the trick is to have them listen on different ip addresses.
Reminds me of the Loch Ness Monster bit from South Park, where the story is told of how the Loch Ness Monster tried to hit up Chef's parents for $3.50.
Chef's Mom : I gave him a dollar.
Chef's Dad : She gave him a dollar.
Chef's Mom : I thought he'd go away if I gave him a dollar.
Chef's Dad : Well of course he's not going to go away, Nellie. If you give him a dollar, he's gonna assume you got more.
Aye (full frontal nudity warning)
Perhaps, but the film itself isn't 100% accurate in the rosy picture it paints of the Canadian system. First of all, it isn't free. It's a bargain at about $50 a month (sliding scale for low income all the way down to zero), but it isn't free. Also while we theoretically can choose whatever doctor we want to go to, in many places good luck finding one who is accepting patients. Many Canadians get treatment at walk in clinics and, worse, emergency rooms.
I don't know how accurate his depictions are of the situation in other countries, but as a Canadian familiar with our system, I'm a tad skeptical of his portrayal of others.
All that said, I prefer a system of universal health care where private corporations aren't protecting their bottom line by denying service. Moore's comparison with the fire department is a good one. There are some things that just aren't in the public's interest to put in the hands of private interests.
What I would like to see is for the US to develop a system of universal health care superior to the Canadian system. Right now I think we're too complacent because compared to the US system, our system looks good. It would be better if we were looking south in envy and feeling motivated to come up with something better ourselves.
:) Are you sure masochism isn't part of the job description?
I like easy as much as the next non-masochist, and if the author had said xen wasn't ready for the desktop, that would be one thing, but by his standards it would seem there's a lot of things in data centers that aren't ready for the data center.
sysadmins rock. Remember to express your appreciation on sysadmin appreciation day.
I stopped reading the article with this quote:
Oh my. Editable XML configuration files, obscure command line interfaces, grayed out options in the GUI? Thanks, but no thanks. This thing doesn't sound like it's ready for prime time in Data Center USA.Are sysadmins at "Data Center USA" morons? "Oh nooo, command line time, I hate that. Oh nooo, my option I want is all grayed out! Help me, help me! Oh I am so sad now."
Deploying vm stuff is not the same as using a word processor. "Data Center USA" is in real trouble if their sysadmins aren't any smarter than regular desktop users.
In the beeb's defense, I've been listening to World Service on Linux for years. When they have a problem with content they don't have a license to stream (typically sports), they present alternative content. It's not OSS, but realplay, however it isn't costing me a dime. They did experiment with streaming ogg, but determined that it 'didn't scale' (from email correspondence with a beeb tech).
With regard to specific content with licensing restrictions, alternative content isn't really an option. "Due to license restrictions, instead of your selection we are presenting 'Best of BBC Produced Comedy'. We have clear title and believe you will find it much more entertaining than your original selection."
Perhaps there should be some form of OSS digital restriction management. Of course, no group knows better than OSS folk that any DRM will inevitably be hacked, so I would imagine it's difficult to feel particularly motivated to build it.
Makes sense if you consider aggregate suffering. Manslaughter causes great grief to a small group of friends and family. A spam email causes small grief, but to millions. I'm opposed to capital punishment, but mass murder, sadistic murder, and spam all keep me reassessing that position.
Frustration generated by technical support calls to call centers in India where people can't help you if your problem isn't one enumerated in the scripts they read from. If this could be spun into fibre it would make for a ribbon of great strength a gazillion miles long.
Sorry, it has been a long weekend, and not the good kind of long weekend.
That's because librarians are slow. Those questions can lead to saving a great deal of time off the top.
A search engine is fast, effectively providing a ton of answers in seconds or fractions of seconds. The problem then is that we are slow. We can't go through all the hits as fast as the search engine spits them out.
What would be helpful would be if the search engine clustered results as if in response to the sorts of questions our hypothetical librarian might ask. The Clusty search engine attempts this.
Palladium
IMO, what I'm using now, Fedora Core 4, is way superior to Windows. I've just installed Kubuntu on a new machine, and may switch if I like it. Certainly the install was the easiest I've ever seen. It even let me go to town with my custom partitioning with an extremely easy to use graphical interface that facilitated what I was doing and didn't frustrate me into pre-partitioning with fdisk myself. Looks promising so far.
Only people that are used to the way Windows is and not willing to learn anything else may suffer a little bitYou mean the majority of Dell's customer base? I'm happy that Dell is supporting potential Linux using customers, and if I had to buy a laptop right now, they'd probably get my business, but I'm not at all suprised that they aren't featuring Linux machines front and centre on their site.
Cha, cha, cha. I would have modded this funny. Perhaps this is why Dell has buried these Linux machines on their site. If you know enough use the command line under Linux, you're probably somewhat committed. You'll ask them for it (or just search), and now they will be able to easily provide. To the person who can spell "sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop", Linux has been 'ready for prime time' for a long time now. But perhaps not for the general public who might just pick Ubuntu from a drop down configuration menu because it was the cheaper option, then freak when they got it because it isn't Windows.
Would have been nice if the article you cited had a bit more detail. The picture I get from that is that the control areas are on the periphery of the experimental areas, which means they aren't really an independent control, but are being influenced by changes in the experimental area, wiley criminals moving out of sight of cctv to commit their crimes. If that's the case, then I guess flying drone cctv is the answer, since entire cities will have to be covered to be effective, with the exception, of course, of the criminal traps (some sort of covered pits) at the edge of the city which the drones will herd the criminals towards.
Free software speech recognition:
GPL is viral -> GPL is virtue
Microsoft is good -> Microsoft is goo
Richard Stallman is a big, fat wind bag -> Richard Stallman is a visionary who understands that nothing good can come of anything which is not built upon a foundational philosophy whose central tenet is a profound respect for freedom.
We're going to have to make a clear distinction and maintain our morals while the social contract crumbles and law loses any vestige of moral authority. It will be important to clearly define the enemy (government and corporations) and distinguish them from regular people. As the law becomes a joke, so does the precedent established that corporations have the same rights as persons. Basically, be good to actual persons, but screw the corporate greedheads and their bought and paid for government lackeys.