Isn't that pretty much the same as arguing that a surgeon doesn't have to know about anatomy? What we do is inherently mathematical - there exists no other way of defining and understanding complexity, computability and so on.
I agree that you do not need a good understanding of mathematics to create a homepage, but for anything remotely interesting you do.
Certainly not! This is evidence that current IP laws are too lax! To ensure final victory we must protect valuableresearch. Only hardcore pinko communists and certain factions in Iran would disagree!
Can someone explain me how she can go on about conflicts between states, when the majority of conflicts are characterized by the opposition not being a state? I also have a hard time accepting the definition of victory. She defines it as "A state can attain its political objectives in war by rendering its opponent physically incapable of continuing to fight" (or make them believe that such an outcome is unavoidable). Given these criteria, how can an asymmetric war be won? Is it possible to render every terrorist/freedom fighter "physically incapable of fighting"? It probably isn't, so how many attacks are "just" violence and how many attacks constitutes an opposition?
1. Pirate Bay, one of the flagships of the anti-copyright movement, makes thousands of euros from advertising on its site, while maintaining its anti-establishment "free music" rhetoric. And pay for servers and bandwidth which costs... thousands of dollars
2. AllOfMP3.com, the well-known Russian web site, has not been licensed by a single IFPI member, has been disowned by right holder groups worldwide and is facing criminal proceedings in Russia. Criminal proceedings we have bought knowing that allofmp3 is in accordance with Russian law. Essentially the same situation as when you pressured the Swedish authorities into raiding the piratebay.
3. Organized criminal gangs and even terrorist groups use the sale of counterfeit CDs to raise revenue and launder money. Yes, Osama finances his war with the great satan by selling CDs... yes, that makes sense because of all illegal activities selling bootleg CDs is the most profitable.
4. Illegal file-sharers don't care whether the copyright-infringing work they distribute is from a major or independent label. No, but people do care whom they buy from. Magnatune gets my money... Sony does not. Sort of like: I will not pay to get fuck up the ass.
5. Reduced revenues for record companies mean less money available to take a risk on "underground" artists and more inclination to invest in "bankers" like American Idol stars. Yes, because the last 50 years has been characterized by the great interest in underground music.
6. ISPs often advertise music as a benefit of signing up to their service, but facilitate the illegal swapping on copyright infringing music on a grand scale. Yes, in other news. Car manufactures advertise the benefits of driving a car, but facilitate illegal activity such as fleeing from a bank robbery.
7. The anti-copyright movement does not create jobs, exports, tax revenues and economic growth-it largely consists of people pontificating on a commercial world about which they know little. Not jobs associated with copyright. But how about independent use of copyrighted material? Such as remixing music, playing concerts, creating movies. How about the dollars you saved buying Stupid Music vol. 5? Are they not spend in other areas of the economy? Or do people just set fire to it?
8. Piracy is not caused by poverty. Professor Zhang of Nanjing University found the Chinese citizens who bought pirate products were mainly middle- or higher-income earners. Which incidentally are the ones with broadband connections. But hey, you are probably making the big money in Darfur, where people are poor and don't have internet access.
9. Most people know it is wrong to file-share copyright infringing material but won't stop till the law makes them, according to a recent study by the Australian anti-piracy group MIPI. You think it is wrong. Most people thinks it is only fair, according to most studies (and these were not paid for).
10. P2P networks are not hotbeds for discovering new music. It is popular music that is illegally file-shared most frequently. Bars are not hotbeds for discovering ugly girls. It is the popular girls which are hit on most frequently.
Yeah, you are probably right. I seem to go in flame mode when the subject falls on de facto dictators of 3. world countries suffering from delusions of grandeur.
I can, however, tell you how the openbsd crown should have reacted, given what little they offer in the thread:
fakeletter
Dear Michael
You are right. By a mistake on your part, some of your code has been committed to the public CVS. We have immediately taken the necessary step to rectify the situation. No malice was intended and we would like to use this opportunity to apologize for any inconvenience.
We hope that we can continue to cooperate in the future, to the benefit of both Linux and OpenBSD.
Regards Marcus et al
/fakeletter
There. Admit your mistake, correct it, apologize and move on. It is known as being an adult.
Hans Reiser, an open source maven who murdered his wife in cold blood
He has been arrested, but he has yet to stand trial. Given that we are "very smart people, very intelligent", we should be able to distinguish between the two. Funny comment though.
> From: Marcus Glocker > To: source-changes@ > Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 10:25:25 -0600 (MDT) > Subject: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src [cut:cvs log] > Log message: > After been attacked by Michael Buesch because we initially > were using some of their routines in the bcw driver, I decided to stop > working on it. To avoid any further license chit chat I plain drop the > driver. > > *** > > Happy now? > > It's a pleasure to see how the OpenSource community stands together, > and starting public wars instead of talking directly to the people > involved.
I don't understand your reaction, really. If you were really interrested in doing a Broadcom wireless driver for openbsd, you would have chosen the option to relicense some code (and therefore drop only that code which I refuse to relicense), which I gave you.
It's a pity. I'd like you to sleep a night over this and rethink your decision tomorrow. Feel free to contact us to get code relicensed _before_ you re-add it to the repository. This will make you and us happy and I'm sure you'll have a working driver soon.
Not only in this, but in thread in general Michael Buesch shows remarkable restraint. He is the one with a legitimate grievance and he is being insulted ad infinitum.
This is not a matter of GPL vs. BSD. It is a simple matter of breach of copyright. Everything else is bullshit.
Given the title of the "paper" and given that he knows how to use references, he could at least admit which luminary in the field of HCI he has stolen the idea from.
When we have ensured the human rights of women, children and the occasional suspected terrorist, I *might* give a shit about chimps. Until then the discussion does nothing but illustrate how good we are at ignoring the suffering of our fellow man.
Usually I would agree with "haha" in the tag since hddvd is spawned by evil. But children of men is a both beautiful and intelligent movie - both traits are pretty rare and to have them in the same movie is pretty close to miraculous. The tag "sad" would have been more appropriate.
But, I wonder how much attention we would pay to a psychologist speaking on computer science. Is the only qualification to speak on anything non-technical, the ability to pick up a first year text book and leaf through it?
As much as I respect Schenier, I would no sooner trust his assertions on psychology, than I would trust those of Dr. Phil. If he had co-written a couple of articles with someone relevant and had them published in a proper journal things would be different. But after reading the (otherwise impressive) list of his publications it is clear that this is not the case.
So flame me, but Schenier has little authority when he speaks of psychology.
Well, because some of us have a mortgage to pay and kids to feed. If I have the choice between pissing in a cup and loosing my job, I will fill that thing every time. In reality for most 25+ there simply is no choice, we have commitments.
Now that doesn't mean that a pointy haired boss' pee fetish, will not have me looking for another job. It probably will, but no way in hell am I going to tell someone to go get stuffed unless next months pay is reasonably secure.
Slashdot Mirror
From TFA: "The biggest road-hog remains spam (unsolicited e-mail), which accounts for 90% of traffic on the internet."
Can anyone verify that number? It seems grotesquely inflated...
What happened to "News for nerds"? "Stuff that matters"?
Is this news? Does it matter? This has got to be the crappiest submission ever.
It is simple.
ENERGY-IN > ENERGY-SPENT = GAIN WEIGHT
Either stop filling your face and/or start exercising!
Isn't that pretty much the same as arguing that a surgeon doesn't have to know about anatomy? What we do is inherently mathematical - there exists no other way of defining and understanding complexity, computability and so on.
I agree that you do not need a good understanding of mathematics to create a homepage, but for anything remotely interesting you do.
TFA makes sense. Observe:
News for nerds?: yes[ ] no[x]
Stuff that matters?: yes[ ] no[x]
Clearly the editorial process is fraudulent - as this is a multiple choice, it is obvious that guessing tends to count much more than knowledge.
From this we can conclude one of two things:
1) Zonk is bad at guessing
2) The author is speaking out of his ass
Tempting as it is, I am going to stick with 2... But I could, of course, be guessing.
Certainly not! This is evidence that current IP laws are too lax! To ensure final victory we must protect valuable research. Only hardcore pinko communists and certain factions in Iran would disagree!
Can someone explain me how she can go on about conflicts between states, when the majority of conflicts are characterized by the opposition not being a state? I also have a hard time accepting the definition of victory. She defines it as "A state can attain its political objectives in war by rendering its opponent physically incapable of continuing to fight" (or make them believe that such an outcome is unavoidable). Given these criteria, how can an asymmetric war be won? Is it possible to render every terrorist/freedom fighter "physically incapable of fighting"? It probably isn't, so how many attacks are "just" violence and how many attacks constitutes an opposition?
But I may have gotten it wrong.
Yeah, you are probably right. I seem to go in flame mode when the subject falls on de facto dictators of 3. world countries suffering from delusions of grandeur.
Dear mr. Putin
Go fuck yourself.
Sincerely
Every state not stuck in the cold war (you know, the one you lost)
The lab report (in english) can be found here
Can someone help me? The driver for my wireless network card seems to be broken.
Publish them on piratebay and let the world be the backup
I can, however, tell you how the openbsd crown should have reacted, given what little they offer in the thread:
fakeletter
There. Admit your mistake, correct it, apologize and move on. It is known as being an adult.
He has been arrested, but he has yet to stand trial. Given that we are "very smart people, very intelligent", we should be able to distinguish between the two. Funny comment though.
Not only in this, but in thread in general Michael Buesch shows remarkable restraint. He is the one with a legitimate grievance and he is being insulted ad infinitum.
This is not a matter of GPL vs. BSD. It is a simple matter of breach of copyright. Everything else is bullshit.
Given the title of the "paper" and given that he knows how to use references, he could at least admit which luminary in the field of HCI he has stolen the idea from.
When we have ensured the human rights of women, children and the occasional suspected terrorist, I *might* give a shit about chimps. Until then the discussion does nothing but illustrate how good we are at ignoring the suffering of our fellow man.
Usually I would agree with "haha" in the tag since hddvd is spawned by evil. But children of men is a both beautiful and intelligent movie - both traits are pretty rare and to have them in the same movie is pretty close to miraculous. The tag "sad" would have been more appropriate.
ZuneLinux
The Zune's hardware is much too nice to be sullied by the drm-laden software some insane monkey decided to fling at it.
I too have inferred two things namely:
1) You are an idiot.
2) Whoever submitted this is an idiot.
But, I wonder how much attention we would pay to a psychologist speaking on computer science. Is the only qualification to speak on anything non-technical, the ability to pick up a first year text book and leaf through it?
As much as I respect Schenier, I would no sooner trust his assertions on psychology, than I would trust those of Dr. Phil. If he had co-written a couple of articles with someone relevant and had them published in a proper journal things would be different. But after reading the (otherwise impressive) list of his publications it is clear that this is not the case.
So flame me, but Schenier has little authority when he speaks of psychology.
I got this feeling when I watched the keynote.
I sure do... I found it on youtube and it is quite good.
Well, because some of us have a mortgage to pay and kids to feed. If I have the choice between pissing in a cup and loosing my job, I will fill that thing every time. In reality for most 25+ there simply is no choice, we have commitments.
Now that doesn't mean that a pointy haired boss' pee fetish, will not have me looking for another job. It probably will, but no way in hell am I going to tell someone to go get stuffed unless next months pay is reasonably secure.