>which is unfortunately ALL too common while playing WoW
But being in that guild makes you a target, doesn't it? Seems like it might actually increase the exposure.
Whatever happened to "on the internet noone knows you're a dog?"
If you are getting exposed to homophobic language, report it... confront it... whatever. It's out there, and it won't get minimized until it is dealt with.
You decide upon your political allegiances
You decide upon your religion beliefs
You do not Choose your sexual preference .
I no more chose to be straight than a gay person chose to be gay
So what?
Nobody choose to be black either (just ask Chris Rock =-) ), but if you had a "Black people friendly" group, I bet they'd have some issues as well.
Or to head the other direction... a "White male friendly" group would probably get near universal scorn.
You choose to publicly profess what you are in places you know that could offend. You don't choose what you are.
The hair on my left arm is slightly darker than on my right. I don't choose that. That is how I am. Does that mean that I have to create a "Lopsided arm-hair color friendly" guild?
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>One more thing about the article, the beauty of OSS is that it is impossible to implement security through obfuscation [wikipedia.org]--a major pitfall to security in application design.
Careful with the word impossible.
Can you really guarantee that for every OSS project, there are enough people looking through each bit of code trying to look for any "security through obscurity"-type issues?
If there are 1,000 submitters, most of whom are working on features, can you guarantee that everyone's code is getting audited? That there is no code where they all thing to themselves "Well, there are enough other people on this... I really don't need to look in here, I have better things to do."
Not saying it is epecially prone. I'd even be willing to say it is less prone, but I don't think you can say "impossible"
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>One more thing about the article, the beauty of OSS is that it is impossible to implement security through obfuscation [wikipedia.org]--a major pitfall to security in application design.
Careful with the word impossible.
Can you really guarantee that for every OSS project, there are enough people looking through each bit of code trying to look for any "security through obscurity"-type issues?
If there are 1,000 submitters, most of whom are working on features, can you guarantee that everyone's code is getting audited? That there is no code where they all thing to themselves "Well, there are enough other people on this... I really don't need to look in here, I have better things to do."
Not saying it is epecially prone. I'd even be willing to say it is less prone, but I don't think you can say "impossible"
I remember seeing software licenses that had clauses that specifically allowed you to make transient copies of the software into RAM for the purposes of running the software...
The law gets really technical in funny ways. I'm too lazy, but I'm guessing the definition of "production" in that section of law would clarify how it got classified that way.
I thought this was one of the reasons that FOSS was becoming more popular? If a person has never seen it before sees some and likes it, there is a good chance they will look for more.
Doesn't seem that hard of a link to me...
I found out about FOSS along time ago... now whenever I have a need for some software, I look for FOSS that can handle it. when bored, I'll even just look around at random FOSS and see what's out there. And, having the equipment, and having inspirations that were not being covered by existing FOSS at times, I've created my own for my private usage/collection. After doing that for a bit, and seeing more FOSS out there... I decided to start distributions some of my own creations.
Substitute child porn for FOSS, and the logic doesn't change.
> COPYING child porn is not the same as CREATING NEW child porn
There are two uses of "produce" going on here.
1) The film sense... they actually put together content and create something original and new 2) The CD Stamper sense... they produce copies of CD all day long... and end up creatin tons of new (but not original) things
>If you make available on your favorite P2P network a copyrighted work that you do not have the rights to, and nobody copies it, have you still committed a crime?
Not a lawyer, but as I understand it, it's a civil thing, not a crime; and the civil penalty depends on the damage done. No files downloaded, no damage done, no civil case.
Of course, RAID5 isn't the only level of RAID. It's the least redundant of any level of RAID, as a matter of fact.
Guess that depends on what you mean by RAID... RAID 0 is not redundant at all, so it eeks out over RAID 5. (But since it's not redunant, is it RAID? Well, it's listed in RAID tables...)
Nice thing with 5 though, is that most controllers I've used (on little servers) have hot spare options for RAID-5, but not 0 or 1. Load up a 6 disk array with RAID-5, and leave another 3 disks set as hot spares -> Now you can have 4 drives fail (as long as they don't all do it at once)
Related question... anyone using DP Raid in anything Linuxy?
We're using NetApps all over the place where I am, and DP Raid is pretty nifty. I'd like to get out from under the NetApp burden though
>In the case of people who space shift within their homes, and never share with anyone, how the hell will you ever find them or even be aware that they exist, save as a sort of generality? They need to put their heads up before you can chop them off.
Good point there. I always manage to leave something out of my realities =-)
Only reason I went criminal was the mention of DMCA, you're right, Civil is the more common way to go.
You could have reasonably thought that what you were doing was perfectly legal, or even not have realized that you did anything at all, and it won't matter.
IA(so very)NAL, but the last time I got sued, I remember one statute granting basically a "get out of jail free" if you reasonably relied on an expert's advice before taking your action. (I don't recall the statute being restricted to just licensed experts, but who knows.)
You'd still have to pay for the defense, and hand your friend over... and even sue them to recover your defense costs... pretty sad way to go.
However, and I am way out of my league here, how many situations of a person transcoding their own stuff becomes a civil issue? The RIAA crap is largely about distribution as I recall. And the DVD backup thing was about a corporation making a profit selling software that facilitates distribution/breaks DMCA...
>I also think the question at the end of the article is apropos: If you own a DVD, can you legally put the movie on your iPod at all given DMCA restrictions?
I wonder about the layman on this as well...
Let's say techie-who-doesn't-care-about-DRM shows layman how to put DVDs on his iPod. Layman doesn't know about CSS encryption, the options are all preset magic for him. The layman also doesn't really understand DMCA.
Can you show criminal intent?
Obviously, I can't stab someone with a knife and say "Well, I didn't know it was a knife and that stabbing someone with it would be considered stabbing", but with as simple as the transcoding tools have become, are the tools well enough understood by the public to be considered as common knowlege as knives?
[BTW, I sold an iPod that had music that I ripped from CDs to a friend... I also gave the CDs to my friend as part of the sale. There's no mechanism for me to transfer downloaded music from one account to another, so I'm not sure I would have given him iTMS music... I just would feel right about giving him music that he had no real way of recovering]
What happens when the database gets hacked? The parents have to all come in for pictures again? I can't just change my iris...
What if some grabs my iris definition and inserts into another system that matches irises? They just became me, and there's nothing I can do about it. I can't just change my iris...
>the opposing view is that preople invented things and produced works of art for centuries before any patent system, or copyright system came in to place, why would you expect that they would suddenly stop now?
Thanks. I hadn't thought of that angle.
Thinking about that for a moment though, I see that while they didn't have a patent system, they had other systems in place that helped protect their creations.
- Trade guilds with strongly kept secrets
- Slow communication between areas
- Actual cost to implement the ideas... you couldn't just spit out bits on pieces of plastic.. you had to actually "do" something.
Plus, (and I don't know anything about this), but I'd bet there were alot of instances of ideas/creations being stolen, just they weren't known about by the creator. So what? well, since they were essentially in different markets, it didn't really hurt the inventor by putting him at the disadvantage. However, in the more global marketplace, that disadvantage definitely exists.
I do agree with you, though. The system needs to be altered, not scrapped.
It seems to me that patents are more or less intended as a reward for risk taking. Why would I ever want to invest a huge amount of money/time into creating something new, when the next person can just start where I was?
It cost me $10m to get here, and them nothing... so I have a $10+m disadvantage in the marketplace as a result of creating the idea?
Lemme see here:
I'll call electricity 10c/kWH. At 3W, I have to run for 333 hours to reach a kWH.
So, I have to be in stand-by for nearly 2 weeks in order to cost me 10c.
If I have 10 devices like this running, that's 2 weeks to cost $1.00.
Or $2.00 per month to have everything on quickly when I need it, be powerable via remote control, have clocks visible, etc.
The scale on that is so low that it's just not felt by the average person, and they're getting a benefit out of it.
Why should they really care in an individual sense?
I stopped going to college near the end of my 4th year. I worked professionally for about 10 years afterwards. I then returned to college part time to finish my degree.
It was a profoundly different experience. Things that were just "random trivia" now fit. Things that wouldn't have made any sense at all stuck. It was a much more interactive experience. I highly recommend a staggered education now
Aside from not connecting with fellow students as well as before, it was very frustrating having to work with people who didn't want to be there.
It was fun hearing "When are we ever going to use something like this in real life?", and actually have real answers =-)
"Baby on board" sticker prominently displayed (wtf are they *for*, anyway?)
They were original used for motor homes, so that in case of an accident, rescuers knew to look for a baby. Things got a little out of hand afterwards, though.
Yeah, I think the logic was one of liability... What if it gets stolen or broken at the office, we don't want to appear responsible for having to replace it... What if it catches on fire... it wasn't approved by us, so you're much more liable. What if it doesn't comply with whatever safety standards are set at the organization? What if it was stolen property to begin with... now we have to spend money/time defending ourselves.
I know there were more scenarios, but I try not to rack my brain too hard on this stuff. Starts to hurt =-)
(a) We actually have an area where I currently work that is explicitly setup for NSFW content... because that's actually part of their job. They have to sign a bunch of waivers, I think there's even a psych test involved, and it's in a secured area of the building with nothing facing windows or the entry doors. 'tis an odd environment to be around.
(b) Funny... A large place I worked at actually had policies against personal equipment at work, partially for situations like this.
We required that all equipment is ours... bring your own stuff in, get a warning. If it's still hooked up after a reasonable period of time (hour or so depending) you get one more chance. After that, you are taking it out, along with the rest of your stuff and your last paycheck.
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>which is unfortunately ALL too common while playing WoW
But being in that guild makes you a target, doesn't it? Seems like it might actually increase the exposure.
Whatever happened to "on the internet noone knows you're a dog?"
If you are getting exposed to homophobic language, report it... confront it... whatever. It's out there, and it won't get minimized until it is dealt with.
> OMG U R GAY U FAG LOL
Which rearranged can say "FOAL GULAG RUG GOY"
I don't even want to guess what these people are really into... Lesbian Russian Jewish Cowboys?
You decide upon your political allegiances You decide upon your religion beliefs You do not Choose your sexual preference . I no more chose to be straight than a gay person chose to be gay So what? Nobody choose to be black either (just ask Chris Rock =-) ), but if you had a "Black people friendly" group, I bet they'd have some issues as well. Or to head the other direction... a "White male friendly" group would probably get near universal scorn. You choose to publicly profess what you are in places you know that could offend. You don't choose what you are. The hair on my left arm is slightly darker than on my right. I don't choose that. That is how I am. Does that mean that I have to create a "Lopsided arm-hair color friendly" guild?
>One more thing about the article, the beauty of OSS is that it is impossible to implement security through obfuscation [wikipedia.org]--a major pitfall to security in application design.
Careful with the word impossible.
Can you really guarantee that for every OSS project, there are enough people looking through each bit of code trying to look for any "security through obscurity"-type issues?
If there are 1,000 submitters, most of whom are working on features, can you guarantee that everyone's code is getting audited? That there is no code where they all thing to themselves "Well, there are enough other people on this... I really don't need to look in here, I have better things to do."
Not saying it is epecially prone. I'd even be willing to say it is less prone, but I don't think you can say "impossible"
>One more thing about the article, the beauty of OSS is that it is impossible to implement security through obfuscation [wikipedia.org]--a major pitfall to security in application design. Careful with the word impossible. Can you really guarantee that for every OSS project, there are enough people looking through each bit of code trying to look for any "security through obscurity"-type issues? If there are 1,000 submitters, most of whom are working on features, can you guarantee that everyone's code is getting audited? That there is no code where they all thing to themselves "Well, there are enough other people on this... I really don't need to look in here, I have better things to do." Not saying it is epecially prone. I'd even be willing to say it is less prone, but I don't think you can say "impossible"
I remember seeing software licenses that had clauses that specifically allowed you to make transient copies of the software into RAM for the purposes of running the software... The law gets really technical in funny ways. I'm too lazy, but I'm guessing the definition of "production" in that section of law would clarify how it got classified that way.
I thought this was one of the reasons that FOSS was becoming more popular?
If a person has never seen it before sees some and likes it, there is a good chance they will look for more.
Doesn't seem that hard of a link to me...
I found out about FOSS along time ago... now whenever I have a need for some software, I look for FOSS that can handle it. when bored, I'll even just look around at random FOSS and see what's out there. And, having the equipment, and having inspirations that were not being covered by existing FOSS at times, I've created my own for my private usage/collection. After doing that for a bit, and seeing more FOSS out there... I decided to start distributions some of my own creations.
Substitute child porn for FOSS, and the logic doesn't change.
There are many people who do things simply for the recognition and adoration... some will create more so there is more to trade and collect...
There is more to motivating action then money. (or why would any FOSS exist?)
> COPYING child porn is not the same as CREATING NEW child porn
There are two uses of "produce" going on here.
1) The film sense... they actually put together content and create something original and new
2) The CD Stamper sense... they produce copies of CD all day long... and end up creatin tons of new (but not original) things
>If you make available on your favorite P2P network a copyrighted work that you do not have the rights to, and nobody copies it, have you still committed a crime?
Not a lawyer, but as I understand it, it's a civil thing, not a crime; and the civil penalty depends on the damage done.
No files downloaded, no damage done, no civil case.
NFS=No File Security =-)
Of course, RAID5 isn't the only level of RAID. It's the least redundant of any level of RAID, as a matter of fact. Guess that depends on what you mean by RAID... RAID 0 is not redundant at all, so it eeks out over RAID 5. (But since it's not redunant, is it RAID? Well, it's listed in RAID tables...) Nice thing with 5 though, is that most controllers I've used (on little servers) have hot spare options for RAID-5, but not 0 or 1. Load up a 6 disk array with RAID-5, and leave another 3 disks set as hot spares -> Now you can have 4 drives fail (as long as they don't all do it at once)
Related question... anyone using DP Raid in anything Linuxy? We're using NetApps all over the place where I am, and DP Raid is pretty nifty. I'd like to get out from under the NetApp burden though
>In the case of people who space shift within their homes, and never share with anyone, how the hell will you ever find them or even be aware that they exist, save as a sort of generality? They need to put their heads up before you can chop them off. Good point there. I always manage to leave something out of my realities =-)
Can you show criminal intent?
Only reason I went criminal was the mention of DMCA, you're right, Civil is the more common way to go.
You could have reasonably thought that what you were doing was perfectly legal, or even not have realized that you did anything at all, and it won't matter.
IA(so very)NAL, but the last time I got sued, I remember one statute granting basically a "get out of jail free" if you reasonably relied on an expert's advice before taking your action. (I don't recall the statute being restricted to just licensed experts, but who knows.)
You'd still have to pay for the defense, and hand your friend over... and even sue them to recover your defense costs... pretty sad way to go.
However, and I am way out of my league here, how many situations of a person transcoding their own stuff becomes a civil issue? The RIAA crap is largely about distribution as I recall. And the DVD backup thing was about a corporation making a profit selling software that facilitates distribution/breaks DMCA...
>I also think the question at the end of the article is apropos: If you own a DVD, can you legally put the movie on your iPod at all given DMCA restrictions?
I wonder about the layman on this as well...
Let's say techie-who-doesn't-care-about-DRM shows layman how to put DVDs on his iPod.
Layman doesn't know about CSS encryption, the options are all preset magic for him.
The layman also doesn't really understand DMCA.
Can you show criminal intent?
Obviously, I can't stab someone with a knife and say "Well, I didn't know it was a knife and that stabbing someone with it would be considered stabbing", but with as simple as the transcoding tools have become, are the tools well enough understood by the public to be considered as common knowlege as knives?
[BTW, I sold an iPod that had music that I ripped from CDs to a friend... I also gave the CDs to my friend as part of the sale. There's no mechanism for me to transfer downloaded music from one account to another, so I'm not sure I would have given him iTMS music... I just would feel right about giving him music that he had no real way of recovering]
What happens when the database gets hacked? The parents have to all come in for pictures again? I can't just change my iris...
What if some grabs my iris definition and inserts into another system that matches irises? They just became me, and there's nothing I can do about it. I can't just change my iris...
You checked in S Korea? Maybe they do that there =-)
>the opposing view is that preople invented things and produced works of art for centuries before any patent system, or copyright system came in to place, why would you expect that they would suddenly stop now? Thanks. I hadn't thought of that angle. Thinking about that for a moment though, I see that while they didn't have a patent system, they had other systems in place that helped protect their creations. - Trade guilds with strongly kept secrets - Slow communication between areas - Actual cost to implement the ideas... you couldn't just spit out bits on pieces of plastic.. you had to actually "do" something. Plus, (and I don't know anything about this), but I'd bet there were alot of instances of ideas/creations being stolen, just they weren't known about by the creator. So what? well, since they were essentially in different markets, it didn't really hurt the inventor by putting him at the disadvantage. However, in the more global marketplace, that disadvantage definitely exists. I do agree with you, though. The system needs to be altered, not scrapped.
Care to point me to that simple reading?
It seems to me that patents are more or less intended as a reward for risk taking. Why would I ever want to invest a huge amount of money/time into creating something new, when the next person can just start where I was?
It cost me $10m to get here, and them nothing... so I have a $10+m disadvantage in the marketplace as a result of creating the idea?
Lemme see here: I'll call electricity 10c/kWH. At 3W, I have to run for 333 hours to reach a kWH. So, I have to be in stand-by for nearly 2 weeks in order to cost me 10c. If I have 10 devices like this running, that's 2 weeks to cost $1.00. Or $2.00 per month to have everything on quickly when I need it, be powerable via remote control, have clocks visible, etc. The scale on that is so low that it's just not felt by the average person, and they're getting a benefit out of it. Why should they really care in an individual sense?
It was a profoundly different experience. Things that were just "random trivia" now fit. Things that wouldn't have made any sense at all stuck. It was a much more interactive experience. I highly recommend a staggered education now
Aside from not connecting with fellow students as well as before, it was very frustrating having to work with people who didn't want to be there.
It was fun hearing "When are we ever going to use something like this in real life?", and actually have real answers =-)
They were original used for motor homes, so that in case of an accident, rescuers knew to look for a baby. Things got a little out of hand afterwards, though.
> But a monitor?
Yeah, I think the logic was one of liability...
What if it gets stolen or broken at the office, we don't want to appear responsible for having to replace it...
What if it catches on fire... it wasn't approved by us, so you're much more liable.
What if it doesn't comply with whatever safety standards are set at the organization?
What if it was stolen property to begin with... now we have to spend money/time defending ourselves.
I know there were more scenarios, but I try not to rack my brain too hard on this stuff. Starts to hurt =-)
(a) We actually have an area where I currently work that is explicitly setup for NSFW content... because that's actually part of their job. They have to sign a bunch of waivers, I think there's even a psych test involved, and it's in a secured area of the building with nothing facing windows or the entry doors. 'tis an odd environment to be around.
(b) Funny... A large place I worked at actually had policies against personal equipment at work, partially for situations like this.
We required that all equipment is ours... bring your own stuff in, get a warning. If it's still hooked up after a reasonable period of time (hour or so depending) you get one more chance. After that, you are taking it out, along with the rest of your stuff and your last paycheck.