you are correct. The shame is though that America had a real chance to push the rule of law throughout the world but it seems to have missed the boat a bit. Rouge states will use actions like this as a further example of hipocracy with which to try and resist the claims of international organisations; "the US doesn't listen to the WTO or UN, why should we". It is almost impossible to push the rule of law through international actors without accepting the rulings of those actors yourself. Would you follow the laws in your country if the head of the police force openly broke the law for his own gain?
And it doesn't seem to be labouring the point to see the US is actively helping the very people that they claim they wish to stop.
I just wanted to say that I had forgot that today was the 1st but I got the joke (even without the OMG PONIES!!!!) or opening TFA (hell, I wouldn't do that on a regular day) - there was one massive tell; it was already ou of BETA, less than 100 years after they thought of the idea...
after I read your comment and heard about the "start" button I was ready to hate it; but it looks ok. I agree that we like linux for many reasons and hell I like a challenge with my computer (thats why I've decided that the regular bleeding edge fedora repositories aren't edgy enough and moved onto the development ones) but a lot of people just want to be secure and not have to think about anything else; people like our parents (well, mine at least). This is pretty good for that kind of user.
...I've had a similar situation with the people who I bought my laptop off, the Hard Drive died whilst in warranty so I figured it'd be easy to get sorted out - it took me over an hour on the phone to various people to convince them that this was actually what I claimed (a dying Hard Disk). How can the fact that I run linux make you trust me less? you mean you would tell me that running linux makes me less able to tell when something has gone wrong with my computer? it's idiocy. Although to be fair after repeating over and over again on the phone to a woman in India that it REALLY was a HD fault I did get them to accept it (before they tried to bill me over 175 pounds for a 40Gig Hard Drive...).
...But software which Linux uses and redistributes must be free to all (be they people or companies), for any purpose they wish to use it, including modification, use, peeing on, or even integration into baby mulching machines or atomic bombs to be dropped on Australia.
What are the FSF doing? it must be free for all, doing anything which limits the complete freedom of anyone to use the software harms the community. It is one thing to take some steps to stop them from screwing us over (which there isn't really that much proof of them doing anyway), but this goes against the fundamental beliefs of a large section of the FREE software movement.
I generally agree... although the "picking the faces out of a line up" might not be a great way of giving disabled people (in this case the blind) greater citizenship rights (they already suffer enough hastle from the built environment). I'm not sure that First Past The Post is the problem here thoguh - most people don't care what they system is, those who do will probably never be happy ("YES! we got PR... but they are using the droop quota" *shakes fist* type thing).
Maybe any test would be hard to administer in real life in a way which wouldn't prevent people who care from taking part... though as someone who has spent the last 5 years studying academic politics I say we shouldn't give the vote to anyone who can't write for at least 3 hours on British politics in an exam!
I partly agree. I actually watched first contact yesterday and I can't help but feel that the way they painted "history" (ie. 2060s->) is largely the way that we can expect our future to go. After the phoenix made its warp flight and humanity discovered that there was more to the universe than just us it put a whole new light on it and wars (and capital accumulation) ended - replaced with the persuit of classic virtues.
I do think that humanity could be infinately perfectable but maybe we need to meet aliens before we can do this - the wars will stop after that...
it is worth noting that (in the UK) the tax men don't need to be able to prove anything has actually been done wrong in order to follow up with an investigation - at which point you have to prove that you are innocent rather than them having to prove guilt. They can ask for your tax returns and bank info etc. for the last 10 years, if you don't have it its because you're committing tax fraud... I guess this might just be able to point them in the right direction rather than doing all the work, so even with just a name it might be enough...
I just hope I don't have the same name as someone whose on the make
I've had a few lecturers who have really disliked wikipedia as a source (a truely irational dislike), but I think on the whole if you're citing it you're already on the wrong track. As some people have mentioned above when you're writting a degree level essay you really need to get authoritative texts which have been written by people who really know their subject matter (and have a phd, it doesn't make them smarter, but it does at least let you know that they have a level of academic discipline).
If you do use wikipedia, don't copy from it, and don't reference it - it works great as a search engine though, look at the articles which are cited on there which can inform you of the bigger picture etc.
$329 is cheap, that is pretty much the same as what a wii costs here (in the UK a wii is £179), if only I could get one imported here at that price it might be a cheap way of getting a blu-ray player (and of screwing quite a bit of money out of sony in the process) but they don't seem to like the idea of consumers being able to use the free market to their advantage.
As I understand it though Sony must be losing about $100-200 on each one of these... I think that they might have made some mistakes
...shouldn't require them not to censor any content as some people have been suggesting. I actually like the way Google is dealing with China, as I understand it they don't give the full results but do tell you you're not getting the full results. So long as people know that there is more out there but you are not allowed to see the content it should at least;
1) make people aware that their government is doing this to them, maybe making people push for more openess
2) if the government ever does back down and open up it should make the transition a lot easier
People ultimately want to know what they are having withheld from them... Just not telling them and not letting them know you're censoring is the worst of all worlds, and that is what they would get from the state engines that would replace an open google
well, you could loan the content out, you would just have to get it back - just like you have to on media where you can't make a copy. This would stop it getting all over the net and getting you in trouble
Hell, you should tell them, if my son picked up a 34 year old woman when he was 17 I'd be proud.
Other than that I'd say that the girls were 14 and 15... I know I was a bit of a shut-in but when I was 14 I didn't even go to town on my own (although that was through choice because I hated getting busses) but if I did, or when I went to a friends house, I would always tell my parents where I was going, who with, and when I was going to be back. I would expect the same from my kids and it doesn't seem like this is an unreasonable thing to ask from kids.
I don't like myspace, or news corp, but this is crazy. Why doesn't myspace sue the parents for not educating and protecting their child. Its a big scary world out there, and you're not doing your kids any favours by 1) allowing them to use the whole of the internet unsupervised and 2)not educating them about the dangers which will be faced online and in "the real world" - I was always told "dont talk to strangers, don't follow them or accept gifts from them", why didn't they teach their kids this?
Over and above that it's a fairly socking indictment on them as parents that their children don't tell them where they are going and who they are meeting. That seems like a basic element of trust
I do like this idea, we all say that we can be sensible and will pay for things so long as its in a form that is acceptable so we can use it (ie. without DRM). This would also give you your full fair use rights and would be able to fall into the public domain when the ownership had expired (another great benifit)...
In fact the only thing that I worry about is how much info they will keep on me to verify at a later point that it was me (or that it wasn't me) who put the file on Kazaa or torrent or whatever... will it be credit card info, linked to your address? will it just be a name and e-mail... and how secure are their systems it?
why must these DRM people be such dickheads? they do this which has no purpose other than screwing over the customer - I'll never buy any technology that would stop me from watching or playing something I've paid for. Sure it might not take that long to fix (taking the plug out and putting it back in until it works still could be annoying anyway) but someone above mentioned that content can be blocked out whilst you are watching (and I assume playing would work the same)... that is unforgivable.
So they screw over the customer, but at least it stops piracy so prices should be cheaper... no, that's a lie. But at least it stops "copywrite theft", right? no. They've already put one on torrent.
whilst some people may have a point about the *cough* slashvertisment this article has made me think about Google and monopolies, should I now change my search engine of choice because having many players in any market is better or is a monopoly acceptable when they are (pretty much) the best... even if they do sometimes change where, and if, they list sites
You are right, capitalism is fundamentally broken and can't be fixed because of its inherent nature. I don't really like a lot of Marx's thinking but he was right about the crisis of over-production. The WP article on it isn't great but it is worth reading into (I might write a better one this weekend...).
You are also right about how some people would sell their mothers tommorrow if they thought that it would make them a little more money than they already had, if only the western countries would go for a universal basic income (125% of the poverty rate paid to everyone even if they don't work) - that would make all this better. It is also a very interesting topic area to read on, maybe even to one day introduce
all inequalities matter, and all have to be justified in the same way any other system should have to be justified. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with some inequality in income so long as that is for the right reason, which is to say that it makes the worst off people better off than they would have otherwise been. Of course that comes in itself with some caveats, and ideally everyone would get 125% of the pverty rate as a universal basic income even if they decided not to work, but the Rawlsian notion is just easier to put down
I would say that whilst Ninty is doing a good job of picking up first time and casual gamers (after playing on my wii my mum wanted to buy one and my girlfriends dad said he wanted one) they can still hold the more harcore gamers, thats why I've got one. Being a hardcore gamer isn't all about saying "I must have the biggest numbers which can't be used for comparison next to aspects of my console - 3Ghz!!! w00t!". I would say that because real hardcore is about enjoying games as a way to have fun and as an enjoyable fantasy, and I think that Ninty is doing the best in that area - check out twilight princess : )
"You won't be missed you corporate-enabling proprietary garbage"
I think you fundamentally missed the point of fedora there. Fedora is 100% free, so much so that it doesn't ship with mp3 or DVD support. It's a small hastle but it's the price of freedom... so not really proprietary
well, I wouldn't get too bothered about it. Sure the US economy might take a hit, they might even need to consider changing the dollar for the Euro as the main oil currency if thats the way everyone else seems to be going - its not the end of the world. I highly doubt that Iran could do any real damage in a total war situation; they don't have nukes and it doesn't seem like any country who does would care enough to retaliate and risk total nuclear war over Iran. Iran will know this, I know Armenijad might want some kind of final battle and the end of the world (at least he hints he does) but the supreme leader of Iran doesn't and just won't let it get too far; even if he has to take down the government.
Besides, Iran has recently voted in reformers anyway, so the extreme anti-west side might be losing its influence
the thing is, everyone wants to be M$ with regards to the OS and game market, they all want to lock people in so that they can't leave. Even the nice guys of the market won't open up everything. Just leave those damn closed source games for PCs - you have genuine choice here in a way that you don't do with consoles. Look at all the great open source games that are out there;
chkrootkit is good, I like it anyway, you can get it in Fedora Core 6 through yum (although you don't seem to be able to get rkhunter through yum any more). you have to run it as root, maybe its something about what it needs to access... anywho, you can get issues with false possitives, I just ran it and got;
Searching for OBSD rk v1.../usr/lib/security /usr/lib/security/classpath.security ....
Searching for suspicious files and dirs, it may take a while... /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/.pack list
so I wouldn't worry too much if you see something that looks iffy before you check it out (I'd have been annoyed if I just reinstalled my OS just to find the same thing happening again). It will also show your ethnet port as being in "sniffer". Anywho, best practices can minimize the risk to pretty much 0... oh, but for God's sake PLEASE switch off remote root access on ssh over default ports, ideally switch it off altogether (If you need it please learn how to use it). Ssh coupled with an easily broken root password is the single biggest cause of rootkits... and a huge/var/log/secure!
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you are correct. The shame is though that America had a real chance to push the rule of law throughout the world but it seems to have missed the boat a bit. Rouge states will use actions like this as a further example of hipocracy with which to try and resist the claims of international organisations; "the US doesn't listen to the WTO or UN, why should we". It is almost impossible to push the rule of law through international actors without accepting the rulings of those actors yourself. Would you follow the laws in your country if the head of the police force openly broke the law for his own gain?
And it doesn't seem to be labouring the point to see the US is actively helping the very people that they claim they wish to stop.
I just wanted to say that I had forgot that today was the 1st but I got the joke (even without the OMG PONIES!!!!) or opening TFA (hell, I wouldn't do that on a regular day) - there was one massive tell; it was already ou of BETA, less than 100 years after they thought of the idea...
come one guys, this has to be believable
after I read your comment and heard about the "start" button I was ready to hate it; but it looks ok. I agree that we like linux for many reasons and hell I like a challenge with my computer (thats why I've decided that the regular bleeding edge fedora repositories aren't edgy enough and moved onto the development ones) but a lot of people just want to be secure and not have to think about anything else; people like our parents (well, mine at least). This is pretty good for that kind of user.
...I've had a similar situation with the people who I bought my laptop off, the Hard Drive died whilst in warranty so I figured it'd be easy to get sorted out - it took me over an hour on the phone to various people to convince them that this was actually what I claimed (a dying Hard Disk). How can the fact that I run linux make you trust me less? you mean you would tell me that running linux makes me less able to tell when something has gone wrong with my computer? it's idiocy. Although to be fair after repeating over and over again on the phone to a woman in India that it REALLY was a HD fault I did get them to accept it (before they tried to bill me over 175 pounds for a 40Gig Hard Drive...).
God that was a difficult experience.
In England it did used to be the punishment for it. It cut down on a lot of those teenage "OMG I'm going to comit suicide!" type stuff though...
...But software which Linux uses and redistributes must be free to all (be they people or companies), for any purpose they wish to use it, including modification, use, peeing on, or even integration into baby mulching machines or atomic bombs to be dropped on Australia.
What are the FSF doing? it must be free for all, doing anything which limits the complete freedom of anyone to use the software harms the community. It is one thing to take some steps to stop them from screwing us over (which there isn't really that much proof of them doing anyway), but this goes against the fundamental beliefs of a large section of the FREE software movement.
I generally agree... although the "picking the faces out of a line up" might not be a great way of giving disabled people (in this case the blind) greater citizenship rights (they already suffer enough hastle from the built environment). I'm not sure that First Past The Post is the problem here thoguh - most people don't care what they system is, those who do will probably never be happy ("YES! we got PR... but they are using the droop quota" *shakes fist* type thing).
Maybe any test would be hard to administer in real life in a way which wouldn't prevent people who care from taking part... though as someone who has spent the last 5 years studying academic politics I say we shouldn't give the vote to anyone who can't write for at least 3 hours on British politics in an exam!
I partly agree. I actually watched first contact yesterday and I can't help but feel that the way they painted "history" (ie. 2060s->) is largely the way that we can expect our future to go. After the phoenix made its warp flight and humanity discovered that there was more to the universe than just us it put a whole new light on it and wars (and capital accumulation) ended - replaced with the persuit of classic virtues.
I do think that humanity could be infinately perfectable but maybe we need to meet aliens before we can do this - the wars will stop after that...
it is worth noting that (in the UK) the tax men don't need to be able to prove anything has actually been done wrong in order to follow up with an investigation - at which point you have to prove that you are innocent rather than them having to prove guilt. They can ask for your tax returns and bank info etc. for the last 10 years, if you don't have it its because you're committing tax fraud... I guess this might just be able to point them in the right direction rather than doing all the work, so even with just a name it might be enough...
I just hope I don't have the same name as someone whose on the make
I've had a few lecturers who have really disliked wikipedia as a source (a truely irational dislike), but I think on the whole if you're citing it you're already on the wrong track. As some people have mentioned above when you're writting a degree level essay you really need to get authoritative texts which have been written by people who really know their subject matter (and have a phd, it doesn't make them smarter, but it does at least let you know that they have a level of academic discipline).
If you do use wikipedia, don't copy from it, and don't reference it - it works great as a search engine though, look at the articles which are cited on there which can inform you of the bigger picture etc.
$329 is cheap, that is pretty much the same as what a wii costs here (in the UK a wii is £179), if only I could get one imported here at that price it might be a cheap way of getting a blu-ray player (and of screwing quite a bit of money out of sony in the process) but they don't seem to like the idea of consumers being able to use the free market to their advantage.
As I understand it though Sony must be losing about $100-200 on each one of these... I think that they might have made some mistakes
...shouldn't require them not to censor any content as some people have been suggesting. I actually like the way Google is dealing with China, as I understand it they don't give the full results but do tell you you're not getting the full results. So long as people know that there is more out there but you are not allowed to see the content it should at least;
1) make people aware that their government is doing this to them, maybe making people push for more openess
2) if the government ever does back down and open up it should make the transition a lot easier
People ultimately want to know what they are having withheld from them... Just not telling them and not letting them know you're censoring is the worst of all worlds, and that is what they would get from the state engines that would replace an open google
well, you could loan the content out, you would just have to get it back - just like you have to on media where you can't make a copy. This would stop it getting all over the net and getting you in trouble
Hell, you should tell them, if my son picked up a 34 year old woman when he was 17 I'd be proud.
Other than that I'd say that the girls were 14 and 15... I know I was a bit of a shut-in but when I was 14 I didn't even go to town on my own (although that was through choice because I hated getting busses) but if I did, or when I went to a friends house, I would always tell my parents where I was going, who with, and when I was going to be back. I would expect the same from my kids and it doesn't seem like this is an unreasonable thing to ask from kids.
I don't like myspace, or news corp, but this is crazy. Why doesn't myspace sue the parents for not educating and protecting their child. Its a big scary world out there, and you're not doing your kids any favours by 1) allowing them to use the whole of the internet unsupervised and 2)not educating them about the dangers which will be faced online and in "the real world" - I was always told "dont talk to strangers, don't follow them or accept gifts from them", why didn't they teach their kids this?
Over and above that it's a fairly socking indictment on them as parents that their children don't tell them where they are going and who they are meeting. That seems like a basic element of trust
I do like this idea, we all say that we can be sensible and will pay for things so long as its in a form that is acceptable so we can use it (ie. without DRM). This would also give you your full fair use rights and would be able to fall into the public domain when the ownership had expired (another great benifit)...
In fact the only thing that I worry about is how much info they will keep on me to verify at a later point that it was me (or that it wasn't me) who put the file on Kazaa or torrent or whatever... will it be credit card info, linked to your address? will it just be a name and e-mail... and how secure are their systems it?
why must these DRM people be such dickheads? they do this which has no purpose other than screwing over the customer - I'll never buy any technology that would stop me from watching or playing something I've paid for. Sure it might not take that long to fix (taking the plug out and putting it back in until it works still could be annoying anyway) but someone above mentioned that content can be blocked out whilst you are watching (and I assume playing would work the same)... that is unforgivable.
a ck/
So they screw over the customer, but at least it stops piracy so prices should be cheaper... no, that's a lie. But at least it stops "copywrite theft", right? no. They've already put one on torrent.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/18/hd-dvd_cr
whilst some people may have a point about the *cough* slashvertisment this article has made me think about Google and monopolies, should I now change my search engine of choice because having many players in any market is better or is a monopoly acceptable when they are (pretty much) the best... even if they do sometimes change where, and if, they list sites
You are right, capitalism is fundamentally broken and can't be fixed because of its inherent nature. I don't really like a lot of Marx's thinking but he was right about the crisis of over-production. The WP article on it isn't great but it is worth reading into (I might write a better one this weekend...).
You are also right about how some people would sell their mothers tommorrow if they thought that it would make them a little more money than they already had, if only the western countries would go for a universal basic income (125% of the poverty rate paid to everyone even if they don't work) - that would make all this better. It is also a very interesting topic area to read on, maybe even to one day introduce
all inequalities matter, and all have to be justified in the same way any other system should have to be justified. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with some inequality in income so long as that is for the right reason, which is to say that it makes the worst off people better off than they would have otherwise been. Of course that comes in itself with some caveats, and ideally everyone would get 125% of the pverty rate as a universal basic income even if they decided not to work, but the Rawlsian notion is just easier to put down
I would say that whilst Ninty is doing a good job of picking up first time and casual gamers (after playing on my wii my mum wanted to buy one and my girlfriends dad said he wanted one) they can still hold the more harcore gamers, thats why I've got one. Being a hardcore gamer isn't all about saying "I must have the biggest numbers which can't be used for comparison next to aspects of my console - 3Ghz!!! w00t!". I would say that because real hardcore is about enjoying games as a way to have fun and as an enjoyable fantasy, and I think that Ninty is doing the best in that area - check out twilight princess : )
"You won't be missed you corporate-enabling proprietary garbage"
I think you fundamentally missed the point of fedora there. Fedora is 100% free, so much so that it doesn't ship with mp3 or DVD support. It's a small hastle but it's the price of freedom... so not really proprietary
well, I wouldn't get too bothered about it. Sure the US economy might take a hit, they might even need to consider changing the dollar for the Euro as the main oil currency if thats the way everyone else seems to be going - its not the end of the world. I highly doubt that Iran could do any real damage in a total war situation; they don't have nukes and it doesn't seem like any country who does would care enough to retaliate and risk total nuclear war over Iran. Iran will know this, I know Armenijad might want some kind of final battle and the end of the world (at least he hints he does) but the supreme leader of Iran doesn't and just won't let it get too far; even if he has to take down the government.
Besides, Iran has recently voted in reformers anyway, so the extreme anti-west side might be losing its influence
the thing is, everyone wants to be M$ with regards to the OS and game market, they all want to lock people in so that they can't leave. Even the nice guys of the market won't open up everything. Just leave those damn closed source games for PCs - you have genuine choice here in a way that you don't do with consoles. Look at all the great open source games that are out there;
g ames - nexuiz is ace, but you're not just limited to FPSs, get nethack aswell... and some other great ones too
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_
chkrootkit is good, I like it anyway, you can get it in Fedora Core 6 through yum (although you don't seem to be able to get rkhunter through yum any more). you have to run it as root, maybe its something about what it needs to access... anywho, you can get issues with false possitives, I just ran it and got;
/usr/lib/security
/usr/lib/security/classpath.security
....
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/.pack list
/var/log/secure!
Searching for OBSD rk v1...
Searching for suspicious files and dirs, it may take a while...
so I wouldn't worry too much if you see something that looks iffy before you check it out (I'd have been annoyed if I just reinstalled my OS just to find the same thing happening again). It will also show your ethnet port as being in "sniffer". Anywho, best practices can minimize the risk to pretty much 0... oh, but for God's sake PLEASE switch off remote root access on ssh over default ports, ideally switch it off altogether (If you need it please learn how to use it). Ssh coupled with an easily broken root password is the single biggest cause of rootkits... and a huge