How many "anti copyright professional associations" are there? Even if you consider the pirate party to be such an organization, that's pretty new. I don't know of any others. Probably because "professionals" tend to want to get paid for their work, so if they produce creative works they tend to support copyright.
Seriously, queue the obfuscation != security thing. If your email address is carefully protected, it is not displayed on a web page, obfuscated or not.
The issue here is not personal email, which obviously nobody puts on a web page.
Many people prefer it when companies have a simple "contact us" email instead of having to go through a web form for sending them emails.
Thus, some people & companies want to display an email address. They just want to make it harder for spammers to discover it. Javascript did a pretty good job at this, and Google seems to have provided a simple workaround.
My fucking god! Every time I turn around, there comes to my attention yet another sick thing I couldn't possibly have imagined on my own. "Kitten Killing Videos"?? Holy crap!! And no, nobody needs to list "things sicker than kitten killing videos" and definitely do not post links.
Three Rings' MMO Puzzle Pirates takes in approximately $50 each month from each paying user (ARPPU) for a total of $230,000 a month, all resulting from microtransactions.
We've got a very affordable mortgage on our house. We bought a used car a few years back and paid for it in full, with cash. We don't have a lot of expensive hobbies. We don't have a pile of debt. But if I lost my job we'd be pretty much screwed.
I have a very affordable mortgage, an apartment instead of house, no car, and 3 months+ salary in the bank. I could go for a year if I cut down on expenses and switched to a slower downpayment of my mortgage.
Unemployed time would be spent on my own hobby project. I have a business plan, although it would be a side income, not a billion-dollar next google.
A man or woman has kids before they kill themselves.
Not at all! For genes to prosper, the do not merely have to allow for themself to transfer.
In this case, the man was 32 years. Well within reproductive range, even in a primitive ages.
If it is in the genes, it means individuals with a tendency to suicide does actually tend to generate more surviving offspring than others.
Obviously there cannot be a direct way for suicide to benefit reproduction. Thus one must look at the group as a whole. One theory could be that suicide of individuals in the face of hardship is a net benefit to the group, freeing up food and resources for the remaining survivors.
If NASA can get internet, and NASA communicates with the space station... What era is NASA living in, if the space station can't get an internet connection. The internet solves all problems, especially missing codec problems.
It's by intention. Why spend billions to send people into space when they'll do nothing but browse porn all day?
Seriously, stuck in a room for months and months on end with OUT an internet connection?!
And you will find that, in attempting to impose unreasonable restraints on the reprinting of the works of the dead, you have, to a great extent, annulled those restraints which now prevent men from pillaging and defrauding the living.
People disrespect copyright law because it is too broad.
Copying is not theft. Both are illegal, but let's not confuse terms. Why reboot the discussion with an oversimplification?
I think he's actually right. One time, when my Cat6 cable had too tight of a bend, I had packets breaking through and slamming against the wiring closet wall. It was... terrible.
Should have used Denon cables, they come with built-in information superhighway guardrails, allowing your packets to cruise at maximal speed. It have prevented countless crashes and keeps my computer clean by giving each packet a wash and a light massage on the way in.
University Nerds create internet for sharing research data.
Indeed. Or to make a point: Every computer on earth, every router, every fiber put into the ground. Every SD card. All that - is infrastructure built to modify, transfer and copy information.
Contrast this with a business model that requires control over who gets to copy information and not.
He reminds me of the Catholic church shortly after the invention of the printing press. Life was going to end once the unwashed masses got their fingers into the realm of the intellectual & financial elite.
And as for his "nothing good" comment, maybe Sony should just give back all the money it has made from online games since nothing good came of it...
With a CEO like that, could Sony risk corporate suicide?
That is, if the technology division should become focused on "guarding the Internet" for the sake of protecting IP instead of focusing on making good gadgets for modern consumers.
The government most certainly failed *because* both parties who run it are a bunch of money grubbing grab asses. But you want to know who's really at fault? The voter. Some how in some places, we collectively keep voting these bastards back in office.
Somehow?
FPTP tend to settle into two parties and can be quite rigid at times.
Basically, the US has a voting system that ensures "these bastards" take turns getting back in office. Screwing up only means one side will be out of power until the other side screws up even worse. Both parties heavily influenced by corporate lobbies.
Are you serious? All it takes is 3 attempts to lock someone out for 5 minutes? Sweet! There's this guy named khasim on this message board that really pisses me off. I think I'll just set up a little script to periodically log in with bogus credentials...
Do you really prefer the alternative? That anyone can set up a script with an unlimited amount of guesses on your* password?
*No, not your password, which is strong. Your users passwords', which often takes the form "John" or (if you're lucky) "Johnathan45".
15W excluding chipset? That is a lot! Atom is 2.5W, that is 6 times less then their spec.
And nobody could possibly need a dual-core for something like a netbook, could they? Might as well make such stupid hardware incompatible with one of the most popular OS'es./sarcasm
My problem with tiers is that they're inevitably structured so that its inconvenient or impossible to use my connection for entertainment without hitting their overage fees.
Actually, the whole concept of "overage fees" is retarded.
When someone reach the cap, their speed should be downgraded instead.
Using that approach, everyone can always read mail, low-usage consumers always have the speed they expect, and heavy users will get no surprises, just slow torrents when the cap is reached.
If one need more bandwidth for a month, buy quota increase. If one need more every month, upgrade the subscription.
I have recently written a textbook, and I have written it for a series that I know will get widely pirated, because the pages are A4 sized and photocopy really well and it will appear as a torrent quite quickly.
Why not retain control over distribution?
1: Publish to PDF 3: Link to your homepage and paypal account 2: Post the torrent yourself 4: Profit!
Actually, I'm not. I just wish that anyone who still showed an interest in my book would be shown directly to a place where they could actually pay for it.
You wish to be the #1 hit on Google.
The problem is that the better authors who write the newer books are going to be affected even more by piracy. And then they're going to do something else. So you can blame my book all you want, but we're all going to be hurt when the better books disappear.
We can't have teachers ripping DVD-quality clips all willy-nilly. Why, if someone got ahold of enough teachers, he could put all their clips together and re-create the original movie! In digital DVD quality! You pirates will surely roast in hell for even considering it.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of DVD-ripping teachers!
Isn't this property a simple corollary of one of the standard algorithms used for finding primes?
I.e. 2 is a prime, strike 4, 6, 8, and all other powers of two.
3 is a prime, strike 6, 9, 12 and all other powers of three.
And so on.
Each of the steps will remove numbers from the list at a fixed interval. Meaning the the distance between primes increase as the numbers grow larger. A repeating pattern based on the previous prime numbers.
Since the distance between the numbers grow, you will have more numbers in the beginning of the interval.
The password is printed on the device. This "feature" supposedly enables the user to share the password with other people "simply by showing it to them". If you change the password, you break that feature.
Works perfectly for average users.
If you're advanced enough to reconfigure the device and change the password, you're advanced enough to update the sticker on the back.
If marketing disabled the password change to keep the feature - then you can complain.
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Frodo is not level 70, and is thus unable to use a flying mount.
What are you talking about? Legendhood is level 25, where you get a focus and can call an eagle.
MUME is the Tolkien game on the Net, whippersnappers!
Do your opinions represent that of the average Iranian, though? Or are you in a minority?
Dude, read his post:
And AFAIK most educated Iranians agree with me on those things.
How many "anti copyright professional associations" are there? Even if you consider the pirate party to be such an organization, that's pretty new. I don't know of any others. Probably because "professionals" tend to want to get paid for their work, so if they produce creative works they tend to support copyright.
Sweden have had Piratbyrån for ages.
Seriously, queue the obfuscation != security thing. If your email address is carefully protected, it is not displayed on a web page, obfuscated or not.
The issue here is not personal email, which obviously nobody puts on a web page.
Many people prefer it when companies have a simple "contact us" email instead of having to go through a web form for sending them emails.
Thus, some people & companies want to display an email address. They just want to make it harder for spammers to discover it. Javascript did a pretty good job at this, and Google seems to have provided a simple workaround.
My fucking god! Every time I turn around, there comes to my attention yet another sick thing I couldn't possibly have imagined on my own. "Kitten Killing Videos"?? Holy crap!! And no, nobody needs to list "things sicker than kitten killing videos" and definitely do not post links.
Seriously, just watch a cat kill a mouse.
Wow, when did $46 become a micro payment?
From when you RTFA:
Three Rings' MMO Puzzle Pirates takes in approximately $50 each month from each paying user (ARPPU) for a total of $230,000 a month, all resulting from microtransactions.
We've got a very affordable mortgage on our house. We bought a used car a few years back and paid for it in full, with cash. We don't have a lot of expensive hobbies. We don't have a pile of debt. But if I lost my job we'd be pretty much screwed.
I have a very affordable mortgage, an apartment instead of house, no car, and 3 months+ salary in the bank. I could go for a year if I cut down on expenses and switched to a slower downpayment of my mortgage.
Unemployed time would be spent on my own hobby project. I have a business plan, although it would be a side income, not a billion-dollar next google.
A man or woman has kids before they kill themselves.
Not at all! For genes to prosper, the do not merely have to allow for themself to transfer.
In this case, the man was 32 years. Well within reproductive range, even in a primitive ages.
If it is in the genes, it means individuals with a tendency to suicide does actually tend to generate more surviving offspring than others.
Obviously there cannot be a direct way for suicide to benefit reproduction. Thus one must look at the group as a whole. One theory could be that suicide of individuals in the face of hardship is a net benefit to the group, freeing up food and resources for the remaining survivors.
This information is irrelevant to many of us; for a frame of reference, how does HD performance on 7 compare with XP?
Just don't try to delete lots of small files. I have an old app which is based on a thousands of tiny text files.
Tried to delete a backup on a USB disk. Win7 came up with "Deleting... Estimated time remaining: 4 days".
Gave it 5 minutes to ensure it was not a bad initial estimate. Stopped the process, plugged into XP machine, deleted same files in 4 minutes.
My impression is that the overhead on each file operation is huge compared to XP. In that specific case, a big enough problem to be a deal-breaker.
If NASA can get internet, and NASA communicates with the space station... What era is NASA living in, if the space station can't get an internet connection. The internet solves all problems, especially missing codec problems.
It's by intention. Why spend billions to send people into space when they'll do nothing but browse porn all day?
Seriously, stuck in a room for months and months on end with OUT an internet connection?!
I rest my case.
Doesn't anyone think it might be a bit obvious if your system suddenly starts re-requesting/re-sending a large number of its packets?
That would be an issue if the goal is to hide movie piracy.
If you want to transfer textual descriptions of totalitarian regimes, you do not need a lot of bandwidth.
Quote Thomas Macaulay, 1841:
And you will find that, in attempting to impose unreasonable restraints on the reprinting of the works of the dead, you have, to a great extent, annulled those restraints which now prevent men from pillaging and defrauding the living.
People disrespect copyright law because it is too broad.
Copying is not theft. Both are illegal, but let's not confuse terms. Why reboot the discussion with an oversimplification?
I think he's actually right. One time, when my Cat6 cable had too tight of a bend, I had packets breaking through and slamming against the wiring closet wall. It was... terrible.
Should have used Denon cables, they come with built-in information superhighway guardrails, allowing your packets to cruise at maximal speed. It have prevented countless crashes and keeps my computer clean by giving each packet a wash and a light massage on the way in.
What's wrong with this picture?
Indeed. Or to make a point: Every computer on earth, every router, every fiber put into the ground. Every SD card. All that - is infrastructure built to modify, transfer and copy information.
Contrast this with a business model that requires control over who gets to copy information and not.
Excellent comment.
He reminds me of the Catholic church shortly after the invention of the printing press. Life was going to end once the unwashed masses got their fingers into the realm of the intellectual & financial elite.
And as for his "nothing good" comment, maybe Sony should just give back all the money it has made from online games since nothing good came of it...
With a CEO like that, could Sony risk corporate suicide?
That is, if the technology division should become focused on "guarding the Internet" for the sake of protecting IP instead of focusing on making good gadgets for modern consumers.
The government most certainly failed *because* both parties who run it are a bunch of money grubbing grab asses. But you want to know who's really at fault? The voter. Some how in some places, we collectively keep voting these bastards back in office.
Somehow?
FPTP tend to settle into two parties and can be quite rigid at times.
Basically, the US has a voting system that ensures "these bastards" take turns getting back in office. Screwing up only means one side will be out of power until the other side screws up even worse. Both parties heavily influenced by corporate lobbies.
Are you serious? All it takes is 3 attempts to lock someone out for 5 minutes? Sweet! There's this guy named khasim on this message board that really pisses me off. I think I'll just set up a little script to periodically log in with bogus credentials...
Do you really prefer the alternative? That anyone can set up a script with an unlimited amount of guesses on your* password?
*No, not your password, which is strong. Your users passwords', which often takes the form "John" or (if you're lucky) "Johnathan45".
15W excluding chipset? That is a lot! Atom is 2.5W, that is 6 times less then their spec.
And nobody could possibly need a dual-core for something like a netbook, could they? Might as well make such stupid hardware incompatible with one of the most popular OS'es. /sarcasm
Or are we talking about another kind of "power user"? Maybe "average-but-no-stupid windows user" fits better with the TFA.
TFA graciously defines "bring up the terminal" to be "UNIX techno-babble".
So we're obviously talking about "afraid-of-the-command-prompt Power Users" here.
My problem with tiers is that they're inevitably structured so that its inconvenient or impossible to use my connection for entertainment without hitting their overage fees.
Actually, the whole concept of "overage fees" is retarded.
When someone reach the cap, their speed should be downgraded instead.
Using that approach, everyone can always read mail, low-usage consumers always have the speed they expect, and heavy users will get no surprises, just slow torrents when the cap is reached.
If one need more bandwidth for a month, buy quota increase. If one need more every month, upgrade the subscription.
I have recently written a textbook, and I have written it for a series that I know will get widely pirated, because the pages are A4 sized and photocopy really well and it will appear as a torrent quite quickly.
Why not retain control over distribution?
1: Publish to PDF
3: Link to your homepage and paypal account
2: Post the torrent yourself
4: Profit!
No missing steps, yay!
Actually, I'm not. I just wish that anyone who still showed an interest in my book would be shown directly to a place where they could actually pay for it.
You wish to be the #1 hit on Google.
The problem is that the better authors who write the newer books are going to be affected even more by piracy. And then they're going to do something else. So you can blame my book all you want, but we're all going to be hurt when the better books disappear.
No.
People will figure out a better business model.
We can't have teachers ripping DVD-quality clips all willy-nilly. Why, if someone got ahold of enough teachers, he could put all their clips together and re-create the original movie! In digital DVD quality! You pirates will surely roast in hell for even considering it.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of DVD-ripping teachers!
Isn't this property a simple corollary of one of the standard algorithms used for finding primes?
I.e. 2 is a prime, strike 4, 6, 8, and all other powers of two.
3 is a prime, strike 6, 9, 12 and all other powers of three.
And so on.
Each of the steps will remove numbers from the list at a fixed interval. Meaning the the distance between primes increase as the numbers grow larger. A repeating pattern based on the previous prime numbers.
Since the distance between the numbers grow, you will have more numbers in the beginning of the interval.
The password is printed on the device. This "feature" supposedly enables the user to share the password with other people "simply by showing it to them". If you change the password, you break that feature.
Works perfectly for average users.
If you're advanced enough to reconfigure the device and change the password, you're advanced enough to update the sticker on the back.
If marketing disabled the password change to keep the feature - then you can complain.