As I understand it downloading a file isn't illegal, rather uploading the file is what constitutes a copyright violation. In this case even if you could argue that the file was offered to you legitimately that does not give you an implicit right to go on providing it to others (uploading).
That's just it - they haven't done anything to reverse the disaster.
The voters collectively know that, despite any propaganda you get out of the media. If the economy was actually improving the voters would not have voted as they did.
Now the Republicans will not do anything different - they are just as beholden to the white collar gangsters in New York as the Democrats were.
I appreciate that you seem to be a well informed conservative, however any number of polls have shown that likely voters have no idea of what any of the facts are regarding the state of the economy and the performance of the Obama administration. This applies to both Dems and Repubs.
Knowingly receiving stolen property makes you accessory after the fact.
I don't care what you think about Nixon or Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on this one, both are douche bags. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein is doubly so for whining about what is happening to it when it should have expected it all.
Quit your bitchin' and find another source, I'm sure someone (The Soviet Union perhaps) would be willing to broker the payments for The Washington Post, or even finance the whole thing.
Spotlight is broken for all practical purposes, even though I rebuild indexes every couple of weeks.
I have been using macs for long enough to certainly remember when spotlight came out and I can safely say I have never had this issue. I have a feeling there are a lot of people who would agree
Steve will soon release an iMac that runs iOS as well as OS X, and you can see where it's going from here. In order to improve the user experience, Steve is going to prevent his users from running unsigned processes. He'll lose all of the nerds who switched to OS X, but that's such a small number of people, he's not going to care when the reward is 30% of all software sales.
Do you have any links you can provide that would indicate that is the case?
I don't think there is any evidence that macs will stop using osx and began using a desktop friendly form of ios. Maybe they will borrow UI elements but full on signed binaries only? I fail to grasp how that would even work in a modern desktop operating system, let alone why they think it would be reasonably popular/profitable. I could see some sort of "app store" for the desktop as well, but I would be shocked if they every stopped using a full featured and relatively open Operating System.
I am not apple apologist and agree that there are significant criticisms that could be made regarding apple, I just don't think that is one of them and am frankly baffled why it is modded +5 insightful.
What kind of a CPU is that? If it's a quad core XEON at 3.2 ghz you're looking at around $1k for that part.
Add another $400 or so for 12GB of ECC memory (which the mac pro uses).
$400 or so for a systemboard supporting QPI.
$850 or so for that video card.
We are well over your $2500 figure and we haven't even looked at the hard drive, USB 3.0, FW800, case or PSU.
Clearly you don't understand what a workstation really is. If you compare the mac pro price to other workstations on the market it is VERY competitively priced.
This is the kind of piracy that we need to worry about because it isn't just a matter of copyright infringement, it is a matter of fraud. When you make a knockoff copy of something and sell it to someone as legit, you are defrauding them, and you really are causing economic loss to the company who legitimately makes the product. That is a good deal different from simply copying something without permission. It is something worth trying to shut down because it is a real crime with real victims.
I'm all for spending resources on cracking down on crimes where there are victims. I'm not so interested in spending lots of resources on victimless crimes.
While I agree that this is certainly a more legitimate form of copyright theft I do not agree that resources should be spent combating it or that there are any real victims.
I would consider this "the cost of doing business." If you want your copyright respected then manufacture your goods in a country that respects said copyrights, you can't have your cake and eat it too. I find that business model of:
1. Export manufacturing to developing nation
2. Force your own ideals of copyright on that developing nation
To be incredibly offensive to both the developing nation and the nation in which the manufacturing was in originally.
If you own any Dell servers you can check the FCC label and see where your server was assembled.
It will be either Ireland, the US or currently Poland. The machines in question (the Poweredge R410) are assembled in Poland. I can only imagine there are a few Polish members of slashdot that would disagree with your characterization of them as "barely literate people who are being paid jack-shit to assemble a "rich-boy toy" for some perceived fat cat in the US who sleeps on piles of money."
Shipping motherboards with spyware embedded is certainly not acceptable but neither is making inaccurate sweeping generalizations.
That might be fine for you, but seeing as 100 Mbit is the lowest I could get even if I tried here in Sweden
Not everyone has access to stadsnät.
Although I currently have a 100mbit (well 50-100mbit, but it's almost always at 100) through comhem, this is also not something that everyone has access to.
A not insignificant amount of people in Sweden only have access to 24mbit ADSL connections. While I certainly appreciate the speed/price offerings in Sweden (I am from the rural US) it is unfair to imply that everyone in Sweden has 1gb connections.
once you experience how fast your every day Internet becomes, there's no turning back.
Now that I couldn't agree more with! Even at 24mbit it blows away my previous (and more expensive) 3mb connection I had while living in the US.
It seems to me that we are seeing the clearest case of the "Invisible Hand" that we have ever seen. The ability to copy and distribute information for what is essentially free over great distances of land, it's unprecedented.
Copyright laws are in place to protect a brand, a name or so on, the goal is to prevent other people from making money using your name in fraudulent ways. I don't see a reason that distributing music online should be illegal unless you're A) making money or B) lying about what you're distributing. If I bought a garden weasel, and had a garden weasel cloning device, there is nothing garden weasel could do to stop me from giving them to all my friends and neighbors.
Ballot initiatives are a perfect example of how our representative government is falling apart. Why would we have to take a law to vote? Shouldn't our representatives already have passed any law that people want so bad they are willing to go to the polls over it?
What this country needs is a lot more direct democracy, the late 18th and early 19th centuries were very different times than now, esp. in terms of education and communication, two of the bigger reasons we are a republic and not a democracy.
And the only way this is going to happen is through large numbers of people (hey a lot of people are reading that internet thingy these days!) to commit themselves to an ideological revolution (that's the kind without guns).
"There is no other, and as of the last time I checked, there will not be. Intel refuse to comment on unannounced products, but others have told me there is nothing but Microsoft DRM.
That's nothing, my buddies roomate is great friends with this guy on irc who has an uncle that works for AMD. They're releasing a chip that shoots a poisen dart into your neck everytime you even think about linux.
Exactly... that and do we really want China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia determining ANYTHING about global Internet usage?
So the UN has officially given these countries a say in what happens to the internet? This isn't a privacy issue or a freedom of speech issue, I think there is little concern of either of those elements going wrong. The UN isn't looking to regulate content, nor would it have any way possible of doing so. They only want to regulate some of the more technical aspects, IP, domains etc...
If China decides to censor what comes into their country, let them, but I don't think two or three fantatical countries are going to convince the rest of the UN (I mean they are completely out weighed by the liberal commie loving members of the EU.) To assume that those countries are going to be part of the commitee deciding it, and going even further to suggest that these countries will manage to get their way indicates one of two things to me.
1. The UN is not that incompetant as they already have the commitees selected and the plan in place for governing the internet globally.
or
2. The slashdot community is jumping on the US can do no wrong band wagon and aren't willing to rationally look at the idea, and are only willing to post their initial knee jerk reaction.
I'm putting my money on the latter.
Right now, the internet is governed by corporations, who have given us such wonderful freedoms as the right to constantly be bugged by ads, and the right to pay an arm and a leg for connection, when the actual amount needed is miniscule.
Sorry, but I'll take the group that isn't in it to make money over these money grubbing corporate assholes who now have more power over what we see and hear than our own administration.
This is not ment to be a troll, I swear.
The people who came up with the idea of creationism, which ID is based on, is of course the Isreali people. This means that we are teaching the ideas of creation created by a tribe of nomadic goat herders who lived 4000 years ago. Around the same time, you would have found very similiar creation myths in all of the religions of the world. If we were to be fair, we would be teaching every creation myth from 4000 years an up. Just because there is one dominant religion in the United States in no way does it give the theory any more validity. They aren't teaching the christian creation myth in schools in most eastern parts of the world as fact, much as we aren't teaching any of their creation myths as fact in ours. To me, this seems incredibly hypocritical, and a huge oversight by the majority of fundemental christianity. It's continuing domination over the people of this country is becoming frighting, and there needs to be steps taken to interveen the actions of this government.
I'm sorry if it offends you that I'm tossing christianity aside as myth, but to a very large precentage of the world, it is. Sitting in front of my computer, i realize that it is constructed of plastic, metal, sillicon, etc.. In no way am I postulating that it functions solely on "magic" which i can't see and understand.
However, my reaction to the words on the screen, what other people are saying, and the fact that the ideas of plastic, metal, etc.. are all valid thoughts in my head is a perfect example of a nonphysical existance that is coupled with the physical existance of my computer. The bible teaches that the earth is the center of the universe, that women are second to men etc..
The short of it is, religion was never ment to play a part in science. It's merely an attempt at people understanding the metaphysical existance of the world around them. When you start intertwining science and religion so heavily, that the lines become blurred, you risk falling back into the dark ages of an oppressive catholic regime executing anybody who used this "science" to "prove" things "wrong" in the bible.
They simply aren't trying to explain the same thing. Please realize that.
Why are people so against government provided WiFi. If you are given the option, then simply don't pay for it. If a group of people are willing to collect resources and offer a service that otherwise wouldn't be available, then there is nothing wrong with it. We have seen what happens when it is left to the private sector, if the government can provide internet at $16/m, then what am I paying $50/m for? On top of that, prices for broadband have becomed so comfrotably situated that it would take a radical buisness to push anyone in the private sector towards offering better services, at a lower cost.
As for the people who are complaining about how poorly the government does things, the most poorly executed move by the government is to let the private sector grip us citizens by the balls. Unregulated and unrestricted buisness will just screw us over, and as part of the technology community, we are getting some of the worse of it. We are forced to pay rediculous prices, for services that can be as bad as they want, because it's a recent enough of a buisness model that no one has any idea what to expect from it, so they just accept being bent over.
Also, just in case you weren't aware, there ARE people in this country that an additional $24/m can break them. To deny that the internet, as well as computers, are becoming necessary to funtioning in the real world. Cheap wireless internet access, as pointed out earlier, opens the door for all sorts of new oppurtunities, such as hand held VOIP phones, which would in turn create another service offered at a lower cost.
And if you're happy paying $50/m for your cable, feel free to keep paying it. Better yet, enjoy paying $25/m for it after they start realizing that they need to stop screwing the consumer.
If you're so concerned about the government doing a piss poor job, then why don't we, as people, try to govern ourselves. The fundementals of this country are built around ideas of people governing themselves, and not leaving all of the important descisions up to the figurehead. And as far as I'm concerned, the government is not a seperate entity that needs to stay away from the public sector, but is the very thing that defines the public sector. It is in place to allow people to provide people with goods and services as the people see fit.
It's pretty weird how "unpatriotic" our current administration is.
I think what's important here isn't the value of social bookmarks, it's about communities of people getting together and sharing interests. It isn't a cry for attention, it's people finding different outlets to express themself with. What's the big deal with social bookmarks, if found someone with similar interests, then there is no reason we can't easily share information. Same goes for blogs, no one is forcing you to read about someone's life, however there are people who enjoy posting to there blog, and participate through a community to interact with other people.
And I'm sure he'll make so much money off this free ad.
Slashdot Mirror
Why was this modded troll? It is a perfectly good rebuttal to the GP's off-the-shelf Slashdot whine.
Some people may consider the use of the loaded term "death tax" as a trolling, as well as the assumption that lowlymarine supports a 100% Estate Tax.
What if your share ratio is below 1.0? Then you haven't provided a useful copy of the software to anyone.
And in any event, if they put it up on bittorrent, they shouldn't be complaining when people use bittorrent to download it.
IANAL and I agree with you, I was just providing what I believe to be the justification for using these private dick firms.
As I understand it downloading a file isn't illegal, rather uploading the file is what constitutes a copyright violation. In this case even if you could argue that the file was offered to you legitimately that does not give you an implicit right to go on providing it to others (uploading).
That's just it - they haven't done anything to reverse the disaster.
The voters collectively know that, despite any propaganda you get out of the media. If the economy was actually improving the voters would not have voted as they did.
Now the Republicans will not do anything different - they are just as beholden to the white collar gangsters in New York as the Democrats were.
I appreciate that you seem to be a well informed conservative, however any number of polls have shown that likely voters have no idea of what any of the facts are regarding the state of the economy and the performance of the Obama administration. This applies to both Dems and Repubs.
For example
This election was about pure emotion and nothing else.
I don't have any mod points so I will just recommend that parent should not be modded insightful and should instead be modded flamebait.
His opinion is without merit (as many others have pointed out, SCII has cheat codes, just like "the mythic age of the mid-2000's").
It does not contribute anything to the conversation when the first visible post is entirely factual inaccurate.
Knowingly receiving stolen property makes you accessory after the fact.
I don't care what you think about Nixon or Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on this one, both are douche bags. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein is doubly so for whining about what is happening to it when it should have expected it all.
Quit your bitchin' and find another source, I'm sure someone (The Soviet Union perhaps) would be willing to broker the payments for The Washington Post, or even finance the whole thing.
Spotlight is broken for all practical purposes, even though I rebuild indexes every couple of weeks.
I have been using macs for long enough to certainly remember when spotlight came out and I can safely say I have never had this issue. I have a feeling there are a lot of people who would agree
Steve will soon release an iMac that runs iOS as well as OS X, and you can see where it's going from here. In order to improve the user experience, Steve is going to prevent his users from running unsigned processes. He'll lose all of the nerds who switched to OS X, but that's such a small number of people, he's not going to care when the reward is 30% of all software sales.
Do you have any links you can provide that would indicate that is the case?
I don't think there is any evidence that macs will stop using osx and began using a desktop friendly form of ios. Maybe they will borrow UI elements but full on signed binaries only? I fail to grasp how that would even work in a modern desktop operating system, let alone why they think it would be reasonably popular/profitable. I could see some sort of "app store" for the desktop as well, but I would be shocked if they every stopped using a full featured and relatively open Operating System.
I am not apple apologist and agree that there are significant criticisms that could be made regarding apple, I just don't think that is one of them and am frankly baffled why it is modded +5 insightful.
Besides what Space cowboy said below:
What kind of a CPU is that? If it's a quad core XEON at 3.2 ghz you're looking at around $1k for that part.
Add another $400 or so for 12GB of ECC memory (which the mac pro uses).
$400 or so for a systemboard supporting QPI.
$850 or so for that video card.
We are well over your $2500 figure and we haven't even looked at the hard drive, USB 3.0, FW800, case or PSU.
Clearly you don't understand what a workstation really is. If you compare the mac pro price to other workstations on the market it is VERY competitively priced.
This is the kind of piracy that we need to worry about because it isn't just a matter of copyright infringement, it is a matter of fraud. When you make a knockoff copy of something and sell it to someone as legit, you are defrauding them, and you really are causing economic loss to the company who legitimately makes the product. That is a good deal different from simply copying something without permission. It is something worth trying to shut down because it is a real crime with real victims.
I'm all for spending resources on cracking down on crimes where there are victims. I'm not so interested in spending lots of resources on victimless crimes.
While I agree that this is certainly a more legitimate form of copyright theft I do not agree that resources should be spent combating it or that there are any real victims.
I would consider this "the cost of doing business." If you want your copyright respected then manufacture your goods in a country that respects said copyrights, you can't have your cake and eat it too. I find that business model of:
1. Export manufacturing to developing nation
2. Force your own ideals of copyright on that developing nation
To be incredibly offensive to both the developing nation and the nation in which the manufacturing was in originally.
If you own any Dell servers you can check the FCC label and see where your server was assembled.
It will be either Ireland, the US or currently Poland. The machines in question (the Poweredge R410) are assembled in Poland. I can only imagine there are a few Polish members of slashdot that would disagree with your characterization of them as "barely literate people who are being paid jack-shit to assemble a "rich-boy toy" for some perceived fat cat in the US who sleeps on piles of money."
Shipping motherboards with spyware embedded is certainly not acceptable but neither is making inaccurate sweeping generalizations.
That might be fine for you, but seeing as 100 Mbit is the lowest I could get even if I tried here in Sweden
Not everyone has access to stadsnät. Although I currently have a 100mbit (well 50-100mbit, but it's almost always at 100) through comhem, this is also not something that everyone has access to. A not insignificant amount of people in Sweden only have access to 24mbit ADSL connections. While I certainly appreciate the speed/price offerings in Sweden (I am from the rural US) it is unfair to imply that everyone in Sweden has 1gb connections.
once you experience how fast your every day Internet becomes, there's no turning back.
Now that I couldn't agree more with! Even at 24mbit it blows away my previous (and more expensive) 3mb connection I had while living in the US.
How does that Operating System display drive size?
Also, which measurement do they use for "130MB of free space?"
Ok, maybe three questions.
"...we must pay careful attention to ensure that a balance is struck between competitive protections and individual consumer interest."
You should write to remind him that you're a citizen, not a consumer.
It seems to me that we are seeing the clearest case of the "Invisible Hand" that we have ever seen. The ability to copy and distribute information for what is essentially free over great distances of land, it's unprecedented. Copyright laws are in place to protect a brand, a name or so on, the goal is to prevent other people from making money using your name in fraudulent ways. I don't see a reason that distributing music online should be illegal unless you're A) making money or B) lying about what you're distributing. If I bought a garden weasel, and had a garden weasel cloning device, there is nothing garden weasel could do to stop me from giving them to all my friends and neighbors.
Ballot initiatives are a perfect example of how our representative government is falling apart. Why would we have to take a law to vote? Shouldn't our representatives already have passed any law that people want so bad they are willing to go to the polls over it?
What this country needs is a lot more direct democracy, the late 18th and early 19th centuries were very different times than now, esp. in terms of education and communication, two of the bigger reasons we are a republic and not a democracy.
And the only way this is going to happen is through large numbers of people (hey a lot of people are reading that internet thingy these days!) to commit themselves to an ideological revolution (that's the kind without guns).
That's nothing, my buddies roomate is great friends with this guy on irc who has an uncle that works for AMD. They're releasing a chip that shoots a poisen dart into your neck everytime you even think about linux.
So the UN has officially given these countries a say in what happens to the internet? This isn't a privacy issue or a freedom of speech issue, I think there is little concern of either of those elements going wrong. The UN isn't looking to regulate content, nor would it have any way possible of doing so. They only want to regulate some of the more technical aspects, IP, domains etc...
If China decides to censor what comes into their country, let them, but I don't think two or three fantatical countries are going to convince the rest of the UN (I mean they are completely out weighed by the liberal commie loving members of the EU.) To assume that those countries are going to be part of the commitee deciding it, and going even further to suggest that these countries will manage to get their way indicates one of two things to me.
1. The UN is not that incompetant as they already have the commitees selected and the plan in place for governing the internet globally.
or
2. The slashdot community is jumping on the US can do no wrong band wagon and aren't willing to rationally look at the idea, and are only willing to post their initial knee jerk reaction.
I'm putting my money on the latter.
Right now, the internet is governed by corporations, who have given us such wonderful freedoms as the right to constantly be bugged by ads, and the right to pay an arm and a leg for connection, when the actual amount needed is miniscule.
Sorry, but I'll take the group that isn't in it to make money over these money grubbing corporate assholes who now have more power over what we see and hear than our own administration.
This is not ment to be a troll, I swear. The people who came up with the idea of creationism, which ID is based on, is of course the Isreali people. This means that we are teaching the ideas of creation created by a tribe of nomadic goat herders who lived 4000 years ago. Around the same time, you would have found very similiar creation myths in all of the religions of the world. If we were to be fair, we would be teaching every creation myth from 4000 years an up. Just because there is one dominant religion in the United States in no way does it give the theory any more validity. They aren't teaching the christian creation myth in schools in most eastern parts of the world as fact, much as we aren't teaching any of their creation myths as fact in ours. To me, this seems incredibly hypocritical, and a huge oversight by the majority of fundemental christianity. It's continuing domination over the people of this country is becoming frighting, and there needs to be steps taken to interveen the actions of this government. I'm sorry if it offends you that I'm tossing christianity aside as myth, but to a very large precentage of the world, it is. Sitting in front of my computer, i realize that it is constructed of plastic, metal, sillicon, etc.. In no way am I postulating that it functions solely on "magic" which i can't see and understand. However, my reaction to the words on the screen, what other people are saying, and the fact that the ideas of plastic, metal, etc.. are all valid thoughts in my head is a perfect example of a nonphysical existance that is coupled with the physical existance of my computer. The bible teaches that the earth is the center of the universe, that women are second to men etc.. The short of it is, religion was never ment to play a part in science. It's merely an attempt at people understanding the metaphysical existance of the world around them. When you start intertwining science and religion so heavily, that the lines become blurred, you risk falling back into the dark ages of an oppressive catholic regime executing anybody who used this "science" to "prove" things "wrong" in the bible. They simply aren't trying to explain the same thing. Please realize that.
Why are people so against government provided WiFi. If you are given the option, then simply don't pay for it. If a group of people are willing to collect resources and offer a service that otherwise wouldn't be available, then there is nothing wrong with it. We have seen what happens when it is left to the private sector, if the government can provide internet at $16/m, then what am I paying $50/m for? On top of that, prices for broadband have becomed so comfrotably situated that it would take a radical buisness to push anyone in the private sector towards offering better services, at a lower cost. As for the people who are complaining about how poorly the government does things, the most poorly executed move by the government is to let the private sector grip us citizens by the balls. Unregulated and unrestricted buisness will just screw us over, and as part of the technology community, we are getting some of the worse of it. We are forced to pay rediculous prices, for services that can be as bad as they want, because it's a recent enough of a buisness model that no one has any idea what to expect from it, so they just accept being bent over. Also, just in case you weren't aware, there ARE people in this country that an additional $24/m can break them. To deny that the internet, as well as computers, are becoming necessary to funtioning in the real world. Cheap wireless internet access, as pointed out earlier, opens the door for all sorts of new oppurtunities, such as hand held VOIP phones, which would in turn create another service offered at a lower cost. And if you're happy paying $50/m for your cable, feel free to keep paying it. Better yet, enjoy paying $25/m for it after they start realizing that they need to stop screwing the consumer. If you're so concerned about the government doing a piss poor job, then why don't we, as people, try to govern ourselves. The fundementals of this country are built around ideas of people governing themselves, and not leaving all of the important descisions up to the figurehead. And as far as I'm concerned, the government is not a seperate entity that needs to stay away from the public sector, but is the very thing that defines the public sector. It is in place to allow people to provide people with goods and services as the people see fit. It's pretty weird how "unpatriotic" our current administration is.
I think what's important here isn't the value of social bookmarks, it's about communities of people getting together and sharing interests. It isn't a cry for attention, it's people finding different outlets to express themself with. What's the big deal with social bookmarks, if found someone with similar interests, then there is no reason we can't easily share information. Same goes for blogs, no one is forcing you to read about someone's life, however there are people who enjoy posting to there blog, and participate through a community to interact with other people.
And I'm sure he'll make so much money off this free ad.
Sorry I didn't spell check it.