The "copyright infringement isn't theft" is my favorite, as it in no way justifies breaking of the law.
So... when is breaking of the law justified? For a significant period of time, the return of runaway slaves to thier "owners" was the law in the United States. Law or no law, a lot of brave people risked incarceration to smuggle these people to freedom, and ultimately the law was changed.
Maybe $12 CD's aren't quite as morally repugnant as slavery, but "the law is the law and you should follow it whatever it says" is ridiculous.
Note to trigger-happy FBI enforcers - I don't pirate music, I just don't pass judgment on those who do.
I think he's also in favor of Child Porn being "Free Speech". Or is that up for review also?
No, he's
not . You're missing something fundamental (or just choosing not to care). There is no way, at all, to differentiate CP from anything else that might pass through freenet nodes. Or, put another way, anything that can be used to classify CP as un-free speech can be used to classify anything else as un-free speech. Until AI image-recognition algorithms become extremely sophisticated, we have to choose between: a) our benevolent government (as well as our employers, depending on what we say) deciding what sort of speech is acceptable or b) agreeing that everything is "free" and hope for the best. So, in answer to your question (which you probably weren't really asking), no, as much as they don't like it (and beleive me, they torture themselves over this issue on the freenet mailing lists - especially Matthew Toseland), this is not up for review because it's an undecidable problem.
I've seen this accusation leveled quite a bit... why do you say that? Did you run a Freenet node and find nothing but CP? Or are you just presupposing that, since it's mentioned on the site's FAQ, that must be what it's for? I've tried to run the silly thing many times and never gotten anything at all (although TCPDUMP reveals a lot of data flowing back and forth while it's active - makes me wonder if they're not just tricking me into giving up some bandwidth or something).
all it does it give them support to the idea they need stronger laws to deal with copyright infringers
What I'm curious about (as a fence-sitter on the whole "illegal" downloading thing - I don't do it, but I don't agree that the people who do should be in jail, either) is whether those stronger laws then give support to the downloading community that they need stronger anonymity to deal with stronger laws that deal with copyright infringers. I must wonder if this heavy-handedness with copyright infringers will backfire when it results in ever-harder-to-track file trading applications (within which one can trade *really* illegal files in total anonymity).
Hell, we need a constitutional amendment barring people involved in any government-related activity from ever holding public office again. That would fix the problem!
Have you looked into prospective graduate schools yet? When I started looking at entrance requirements, almost all of them said that GRE CS test scores wouldn't even be considered in the application. I just focused on the "plain old" GRE, made sure to do well on the math section, and had no trouble getting into the grad school I wanted.
doesn't mean that she wants to see them replaced with a 500-pound woman with big hair and lots of tattoos. She just want them replaced with realistic looking women.
I wonder about this myself. I have a Sony Vaio desktop system which I've set up to dual-boot to Windows (came with the computer, wife can't use anything else) or Linux. When LILO comes up, something (either the hard drive or the fan) is noisy as hell. If I boot it to Windows, as soon as it comes up, the noise stops. OTOH, when I boot to Linux, the noise stays the same. So, obviously, Windows is sending some signal to something to be quiet. I've often wondered: a) is this a Good Thing? (the house hasn't burned down yet, at least) b) how are they doing that?
What if they find a file they can't associate with an application, assume that it's encrypted, and insist that you give them the encryption keys for a file that's actually a corrupted Word document? Crypto documents are designed so that they're not supposed to look like crypto documents.
a person coming to see you can see that you're busy.
CLEARLY you work with a different type of person than I do. Or maybe I'm jumping to conclusions - they can see that you're busy, but barge in on you anyway.
You say "similar" books... do you mean that you already have the first edition, or that you don't have any of Steven's other books? (If you did have any of his books, but not the first edition of this one, you already know what "can't be found in the other books").
I'll assume you mean you haven't yet read any of his books - beleive me, they're worth it. When I first took an interest in TCP/IP, I passed over his "TCP/IP Illustrated" series for a lot of reasons - they were expensive, there were THREE of them (!), they were out-of-date, they weren't specific to my target environment, etc. I bought some of the other, less expensive alternatives, never learned much that I couldn't learn from reading RFC's, and was finally loaned a copy of "TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1". I was blown away by the quality of the book, and the quality of the writing. I've never read such a well-written technical book in my life, and I suspect I never will again. Nobody can clarify like Stevens. He goes through the details (all the details), but still keeps the book interesting.
I have to clear book purchases with my wife these days (sigh...) but this is one of the books on my wish list. I'll admit I've never read "Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment", but I guarantee that if it was written by W. Richard Stevens, it makes all other books written on the subject useless.
Now, on the other hand, I have to take this reviewers word that this new guy can write as clearly and as interestingly as Stevens, and so will you.
I assume English is not this person's first language
Yo puedo hablar un poco de Espanol, pero eso no es mi primera lengua. Creo que es la verdad que mi gramatico es terrible, pero todavia puedo deletrear correctamente. Por que? Por que puedo poner atencion - solo hay un deletreo correcto por una palabra. Eso no es un excusa para deletrear malo.
some really rich guys had to fire half their master bathroom attendant staff for a week because they lost a few million
Their master bathroom attendant staff costs them a few million a week? Damn, dude, even if they staff their master bathroom with 100 people, that's still over $100,000/week. Where do I sign up for that job?
I don't know of this "PDF", so I figured I'd ask the Microsoft assistant to tell me more. Clippy doesn't consider this a valid option - I asked him "How do I fill out forms in PDF?" and he answered "Create forms that users complete in Word". If even Clippy's never heard of it, I'm not going to risk it.
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So... when is breaking of the law justified? For a significant period of time, the return of runaway slaves to thier "owners" was the law in the United States. Law or no law, a lot of brave people risked incarceration to smuggle these people to freedom, and ultimately the law was changed.
Maybe $12 CD's aren't quite as morally repugnant as slavery, but "the law is the law and you should follow it whatever it says" is ridiculous.
Note to trigger-happy FBI enforcers - I don't pirate music, I just don't pass judgment on those who do.
Yeah - nothing gets you a job faster than saying, "I know nothing about what you do. Hire me and pay me to learn it!"
Obviously, by selecting the 25% who are asking for the most money.
No, he's not . You're missing something fundamental (or just choosing not to care). There is no way, at all, to differentiate CP from anything else that might pass through freenet nodes. Or, put another way, anything that can be used to classify CP as un-free speech can be used to classify anything else as un-free speech. Until AI image-recognition algorithms become extremely sophisticated, we have to choose between: a) our benevolent government (as well as our employers, depending on what we say) deciding what sort of speech is acceptable or b) agreeing that everything is "free" and hope for the best. So, in answer to your question (which you probably weren't really asking), no, as much as they don't like it (and beleive me, they torture themselves over this issue on the freenet mailing lists - especially Matthew Toseland), this is not up for review because it's an undecidable problem.
... which is exactly why we need Freenet.
I've seen this accusation leveled quite a bit... why do you say that? Did you run a Freenet node and find nothing but CP? Or are you just presupposing that, since it's mentioned on the site's FAQ, that must be what it's for? I've tried to run the silly thing many times and never gotten anything at all (although TCPDUMP reveals a lot of data flowing back and forth while it's active - makes me wonder if they're not just tricking me into giving up some bandwidth or something).
Bwahahahaha!
What I'm curious about (as a fence-sitter on the whole "illegal" downloading thing - I don't do it, but I don't agree that the people who do should be in jail, either) is whether those stronger laws then give support to the downloading community that they need stronger anonymity to deal with stronger laws that deal with copyright infringers. I must wonder if this heavy-handedness with copyright infringers will backfire when it results in ever-harder-to-track file trading applications (within which one can trade *really* illegal files in total anonymity).
Hell, we need a constitutional amendment barring people involved in any government-related activity from ever holding public office again. That would fix the problem!
Have you looked into prospective graduate schools yet? When I started looking at entrance requirements, almost all of them said that GRE CS test scores wouldn't even be considered in the application. I just focused on the "plain old" GRE, made sure to do well on the math section, and had no trouble getting into the grad school I wanted.
Clearly you've never been shopping at Wal-mart.
No kidding. Isn't it a breath of fresh air to see people actually tell the truth and (for the most part) not be penalized for it?
Wow - thank you!
I wonder about this myself. I have a Sony Vaio desktop system which I've set up to dual-boot to Windows (came with the computer, wife can't use anything else) or Linux. When LILO comes up, something (either the hard drive or the fan) is noisy as hell. If I boot it to Windows, as soon as it comes up, the noise stops. OTOH, when I boot to Linux, the noise stays the same. So, obviously, Windows is sending some signal to something to be quiet. I've often wondered: a) is this a Good Thing? (the house hasn't burned down yet, at least) b) how are they doing that?
What if they find a file they can't associate with an application, assume that it's encrypted, and insist that you give them the encryption keys for a file that's actually a corrupted Word document? Crypto documents are designed so that they're not supposed to look like crypto documents.
CLEARLY you work with a different type of person than I do. Or maybe I'm jumping to conclusions - they can see that you're busy, but barge in on you anyway.
Hey, you actually R'dTFA... how did you find time to do that? I tried, but my phone kept ringing, I kept answering e-mail, and IM's kept popping up.
Dude... I think you just took "not reading TFA" to a new level.
Los mexicanos dicen los verbos mexicanos, y los espanoles dicen los verbos espanoles.
I can name lots of types of verbs! English verbs, Spanish verbs, Mexican verbs, Japanese verbs, ...
But you've only told half the story - now it's time for Americans to learn to think like Europeans:
You say "similar" books... do you mean that you already have the first edition, or that you don't have any of Steven's other books? (If you did have any of his books, but not the first edition of this one, you already know what "can't be found in the other books").
I'll assume you mean you haven't yet read any of his books - beleive me, they're worth it. When I first took an interest in TCP/IP, I passed over his "TCP/IP Illustrated" series for a lot of reasons - they were expensive, there were THREE of them (!), they were out-of-date, they weren't specific to my target environment, etc. I bought some of the other, less expensive alternatives, never learned much that I couldn't learn from reading RFC's, and was finally loaned a copy of "TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1". I was blown away by the quality of the book, and the quality of the writing. I've never read such a well-written technical book in my life, and I suspect I never will again. Nobody can clarify like Stevens. He goes through the details (all the details), but still keeps the book interesting.
I have to clear book purchases with my wife these days (sigh...) but this is one of the books on my wish list. I'll admit I've never read "Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment", but I guarantee that if it was written by W. Richard Stevens, it makes all other books written on the subject useless.
Now, on the other hand, I have to take this reviewers word that this new guy can write as clearly and as interestingly as Stevens, and so will you.
Yo puedo hablar un poco de Espanol, pero eso no es mi primera lengua. Creo que es la verdad que mi gramatico es terrible, pero todavia puedo deletrear correctamente. Por que? Por que puedo poner atencion - solo hay un deletreo correcto por una palabra. Eso no es un excusa para deletrear malo.
Their master bathroom attendant staff costs them a few million a week? Damn, dude, even if they staff their master bathroom with 100 people, that's still over $100,000/week. Where do I sign up for that job?
I don't know of this "PDF", so I figured I'd ask the Microsoft assistant to tell me more. Clippy doesn't consider this a valid option - I asked him "How do I fill out forms in PDF?" and he answered "Create forms that users complete in Word". If even Clippy's never heard of it, I'm not going to risk it.