When one share's a book with another person, one does not have access to the book until it is returned. Please explain how "sharing" software will work. Explain how only one copy of the work will exist if you "share" it with, say, Stallman
When things are infinitely reproducible with nearly-zero cost (limited only by the cost of infrastructure, electricity, and so on), why should copying something be bad? The only reason people care about copying is because most haven't figured out how to monetize the creation of art (music, books, software, cars) without enforcing scarcity and forcing consumers to pay for their copy of it.
good, that means more jobs for honest people who don't need to carjack for fun.
His point was, the hypothetical person had reformed: they no longer carjacked, and had served their sentence. The sentence (jail time, etc) is the appropriate punishment for such crimes. Getting fired 30 years later, after you already agree with everyone else that stealing stuff is both stupid and wrong, is NOT an appropriate punishment.
I guess I'd be less tolerant if I noticed the trolling as much - normally it seems to be moderated down pretty effectively. Can you point me at some of his trolling posts (on other sockpuppets), since presumably that account's post history wouldn't have as many as his older ones?
Concentrate more on promoting than on demoting. The real goal here is to find the juicy good stuff and let others read it. Do not promote personal agendas. Do not let your opinions factor in. Try to be impartial about this. Simply disagreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it down. Likewise, agreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it up. The goal here is to share ideas. To sift through the haystack and find needles. And to keep the children who like to spam Slashdot in check
While the user might spam Slashdot in general, if the comment itself isn't spammish (and it wasn't), you've effectively modded his (good) comment down because you don't like that he tends to spam/sockpuppet.
Absolutely. (Also, in light of some of the comments up the page, it has some great examples both of social engineering, and of how far a computer will NOT believably take you.)
Great point on the social engineering. In fact, there were SEVERAL different examples of social engineering, poor password security, and so on that I'm surprised more movies don't make use of it. Heck, didn't Ferris Bueller's day off have him using social engineering to get passwords in much the same manner? People don't call it a 'hacking' scene as "finding what some dumbass wrote down" or "pretending to be someone else" don't seem as magical, I guess, but we've seen countless examples of it being effective.
The computers elsewhere would likely have had engineers with enough pointy-headed (or brass-wearing) bosses that would want to hear something interesting that they'd have done the same thing.
Moderating an informative post as a Troll, simply because that person has trolled in the past, is a sockpuppet, or any other thing not directly related to the post at hand is an abuse of moderation priveleges. Moderate as if you were reading a post by a random person, an anonymous person, or your best friend every time, for consistency, and we'll get the best discourse.
Making $5/hour (effectively) means that you can subsidize your month's subscription in about three hours of play. I'm sure most EVE players play a lot more than three hours a month, so it sounds like a skilled player could very easily be self-sufficient.
To be fair, much of EVE is about understanding the economy, and relative strengths of kit -- which is player learning, not character learning. Having your character get Better At Stuff (or unlock new stuff) while you spend time mastering world of spreadsheets has some positive effects, in that you don't have to do both.;) You can just sit there and learn how best to use what you DO have (as a player).
I liked that aspect of EVE. I had a hard time dealing with the harsh losses incurred by failure.
So wait, I could have a warrior, and swap it to a cleric or rogue-ish person, not just swapping out different soul trees? If so, that's even more character flexibility than I thought.
The difference is that EVE lets you "skill up" to at least combat-competence in a ship class fairly easily, and once your character is old enough to have sunk enough skills into it, could in theory be proficient at multiple flying ship classes of varying classes (frigate, etc) and races (since some races' ships are better suited as laser boats or shield tanks or gun turrets, and thus fit different players' preferred style).
I hear that Rift comes close, in that you have a lot of choice within your calling (warrior, cleric, etc) as to how to specialize -- both in terms of which soul trees you choose (riftblade, paladin, etc) and how you distribute your points between them. (It sounds really tempting, as someone who mainly plays WoW.) I believe they allow some degree of respeccing among soul trees (the name of which I am surely getting wrong) depending on which you've collected/unlocked/???, so that starts looking pretty close to not having character classes. You do in name, and you have a calling which you can't re-roll, but each of them is so generic that it LOOKS to offer a ton of flexibility.
Yup. I'm ashamed to admit that my post was made before I read TFA and saw the clear link to paypal (well, address, if not a donation button, which would be even more convenient). I hope he makes many retroactive sales.
If he put up a paypal donation link, and a page saying "I wrote Trumpet Windsock. Please donate if you used it without paying", I wonder what he'd take in.
If only I could honestly feel that was a viable solution for my father's computer and his 700+ ITunes songs that are all entangled with DRM, as he bought them before DRM-free was the norm. I can't really argue that it's better when I then have to say, "and by the way you need to pay $700 to upgrade your music collection in order for Linux to actually be able to read it...". It made me very sad.
I took his "firstly" to mean "of primary importance", rather than a chronological prerequisite. I don't believe that those four things should be the primary goals of an education institution (though they seem to be), and I have serious doubts as to whether turning to a mute listener is best for education -- perhaps because my kid and I both seem to have learned best when allowed to ask lots of questions.
While PINs and passwords are something I consider precious, I am not claiming copyright on them, nor am I trying to claim they're somehow legally protected. If some black-hat hacker found them out and distributed them, I'd change my passwords and report the fraud if someone pretended to be me. The short version of my answer to your question is that YES, I would make the same argument, because the situations are entirely different.
If I were distributing them (even if in some obfuscated form) or using them to sign software that I write (which is more similar to what Sony has), I'd consider them a trade secret. Let's pretend I'm only using them as a private key to sign things, and am not distributing them, as that's closest to the PS3 situation. If someone happens (through cleverness or brute force) to figure out my trade secret, hooray for them. I'll be pissed, as it hurts my business (and by their nature I cannot replace them, since hardware support for things signed by my keys cannot be rescinded), but they have every right to do so. Trade secrets aren't protected once they're publicly known, as long as it wasn't obtained by some bad means (industrial espionage). I believe that reverse engineering, as these hackers did, is entirely kosher. Wrapping it in the DMCA because the secret happens to be an encryption key is utter bullshit.
I'm not a lawyer, etc etc... but I'd be interested to hear why someone would feel these keys aren't considered trade secrets which have now been exposed. If you do think that it's been exposed by improper means, please explain how: I'm pretty sure it's clearly arguable that those who did so were working on their own hardware, for the purpose of maintaining interoperability (which I believe the DMCA permits?), not to enable piracy.
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When one share's a book with another person, one does not have access to the book until it is returned. Please explain how "sharing" software will work. Explain how only one copy of the work will exist if you "share" it with, say, Stallman
When things are infinitely reproducible with nearly-zero cost (limited only by the cost of infrastructure, electricity, and so on), why should copying something be bad? The only reason people care about copying is because most haven't figured out how to monetize the creation of art (music, books, software, cars) without enforcing scarcity and forcing consumers to pay for their copy of it.
good, that means more jobs for honest people who don't need to carjack for fun.
His point was, the hypothetical person had reformed: they no longer carjacked, and had served their sentence. The sentence (jail time, etc) is the appropriate punishment for such crimes. Getting fired 30 years later, after you already agree with everyone else that stealing stuff is both stupid and wrong, is NOT an appropriate punishment.
All the more reason to not be a jerk to strangers (or non-strangers).
I guess I'd be less tolerant if I noticed the trolling as much - normally it seems to be moderated down pretty effectively. Can you point me at some of his trolling posts (on other sockpuppets), since presumably that account's post history wouldn't have as many as his older ones?
I believe that's still moderating improperly.
Concentrate more on promoting than on demoting. The real goal here is to find the juicy good stuff and let others read it. Do not promote personal agendas. Do not let your opinions factor in. Try to be impartial about this. Simply disagreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it down. Likewise, agreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it up. The goal here is to share ideas. To sift through the haystack and find needles. And to keep the children who like to spam Slashdot in check
While the user might spam Slashdot in general, if the comment itself isn't spammish (and it wasn't), you've effectively modded his (good) comment down because you don't like that he tends to spam/sockpuppet.
Absolutely. (Also, in light of some of the comments up the page, it has some great examples both of social engineering, and of how far a computer will NOT believably take you.)
how does knowing that a system is running Unix enable one to understand the complex control software running a dinosaur park?
man parkcontrols
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Great point on the social engineering. In fact, there were SEVERAL different examples of social engineering, poor password security, and so on that I'm surprised more movies don't make use of it. Heck, didn't Ferris Bueller's day off have him using social engineering to get passwords in much the same manner? People don't call it a 'hacking' scene as "finding what some dumbass wrote down" or "pretending to be someone else" don't seem as magical, I guess, but we've seen countless examples of it being effective.
The computers elsewhere would likely have had engineers with enough pointy-headed (or brass-wearing) bosses that would want to hear something interesting that they'd have done the same thing.
The alien OS was probably written in Lisp. ;)
Moderating an informative post as a Troll, simply because that person has trolled in the past, is a sockpuppet, or any other thing not directly related to the post at hand is an abuse of moderation priveleges. Moderate as if you were reading a post by a random person, an anonymous person, or your best friend every time, for consistency, and we'll get the best discourse.
Making $5/hour (effectively) means that you can subsidize your month's subscription in about three hours of play. I'm sure most EVE players play a lot more than three hours a month, so it sounds like a skilled player could very easily be self-sufficient.
To be fair, much of EVE is about understanding the economy, and relative strengths of kit -- which is player learning, not character learning. Having your character get Better At Stuff (or unlock new stuff) while you spend time mastering world of spreadsheets has some positive effects, in that you don't have to do both. ;) You can just sit there and learn how best to use what you DO have (as a player).
I liked that aspect of EVE. I had a hard time dealing with the harsh losses incurred by failure.
So wait, I could have a warrior, and swap it to a cleric or rogue-ish person, not just swapping out different soul trees? If so, that's even more character flexibility than I thought.
The difference is that EVE lets you "skill up" to at least combat-competence in a ship class fairly easily, and once your character is old enough to have sunk enough skills into it, could in theory be proficient at multiple flying ship classes of varying classes (frigate, etc) and races (since some races' ships are better suited as laser boats or shield tanks or gun turrets, and thus fit different players' preferred style).
I hear that Rift comes close, in that you have a lot of choice within your calling (warrior, cleric, etc) as to how to specialize -- both in terms of which soul trees you choose (riftblade, paladin, etc) and how you distribute your points between them. (It sounds really tempting, as someone who mainly plays WoW.) I believe they allow some degree of respeccing among soul trees (the name of which I am surely getting wrong) depending on which you've collected/unlocked/???, so that starts looking pretty close to not having character classes. You do in name, and you have a calling which you can't re-roll, but each of them is so generic that it LOOKS to offer a ton of flexibility.
At least that means it won't die of mercury poisoning.
Yup. I'm ashamed to admit that my post was made before I read TFA and saw the clear link to paypal (well, address, if not a donation button, which would be even more convenient). I hope he makes many retroactive sales.
A wii-emulating dolphin!? Good god, what is this, Johnny Mnemonic?
If he put up a paypal donation link, and a page saying "I wrote Trumpet Windsock. Please donate if you used it without paying", I wonder what he'd take in.
If only I could honestly feel that was a viable solution for my father's computer and his 700+ ITunes songs that are all entangled with DRM, as he bought them before DRM-free was the norm. I can't really argue that it's better when I then have to say, "and by the way you need to pay $700 to upgrade your music collection in order for Linux to actually be able to read it ...". It made me very sad.
I took his "firstly" to mean "of primary importance", rather than a chronological prerequisite. I don't believe that those four things should be the primary goals of an education institution (though they seem to be), and I have serious doubts as to whether turning to a mute listener is best for education -- perhaps because my kid and I both seem to have learned best when allowed to ask lots of questions.
I don't feel that is a very good analogy.
While PINs and passwords are something I consider precious, I am not claiming copyright on them, nor am I trying to claim they're somehow legally protected. If some black-hat hacker found them out and distributed them, I'd change my passwords and report the fraud if someone pretended to be me. The short version of my answer to your question is that YES, I would make the same argument, because the situations are entirely different.
If I were distributing them (even if in some obfuscated form) or using them to sign software that I write (which is more similar to what Sony has), I'd consider them a trade secret. Let's pretend I'm only using them as a private key to sign things, and am not distributing them, as that's closest to the PS3 situation. If someone happens (through cleverness or brute force) to figure out my trade secret, hooray for them. I'll be pissed, as it hurts my business (and by their nature I cannot replace them, since hardware support for things signed by my keys cannot be rescinded), but they have every right to do so. Trade secrets aren't protected once they're publicly known, as long as it wasn't obtained by some bad means (industrial espionage). I believe that reverse engineering, as these hackers did, is entirely kosher. Wrapping it in the DMCA because the secret happens to be an encryption key is utter bullshit.
I'm not a lawyer, etc etc... but I'd be interested to hear why someone would feel these keys aren't considered trade secrets which have now been exposed. If you do think that it's been exposed by improper means, please explain how: I'm pretty sure it's clearly arguable that those who did so were working on their own hardware, for the purpose of maintaining interoperability (which I believe the DMCA permits?), not to enable piracy.
"U bent onjuiste lezing van de grafiek" - Charden Van Der Google
A perl script with a few lines of punctuation-removal and whitespace normalization would do wonders.
What does that have to do with the FSF?