1) Don't keep logs
I'll get right on that with my ISP and every ISP on the planet. Should only take about three phone calls to get that taken care of.
2) Just because I've downloaded Debian 15 times doesn't mean I would've bought it 15 times. Well, Debian is free, for one thing, so that particular argument doesn't really work at all. But on a general level it doesn't matter because you wouldn't have bought it at all. But, and this is the important part, you would have used software package X without paying fior it at all, which for non-free software is against the conditions of sale/use and is illegal.
3) I've downloaded the Windows updates for 98SE about 20 times in the last year. Can MS sue me because I haven't bought the other 19 copies of Windows? Microsoft provides Windows updates for free for Windows users. They don't care how many times you run the updates. They assume, rightly or wrongly, that there might be legit reasons for you to patch more copies of Windows than you own. Maybe you're stupid and you keep hosing your machine and you keep reinstalling Windows. Maybe you got hit by a few waves of killer viruses. Maybe you service computers as a business. The fact is that they don't care why you are downloading the Windows updates over and over.
Laws protect you against those that would do you harm. Copyright protects your works from those who would want to use them without due compensation (at the rate you decide as the copyright holder, be they college students milking that fat pipe in their dorms to large corporations who don't care if you breathe or not. You'd know this if you ever created any I.P. that you tried to make a living from. Many aspects of the U.S. do suck, but not the ones you are complaining about. And what makes you think Canada would be any better for you? Canada's copyright laws are very similar to ours.
That's great until they look at the MAC addresses in your routers logs and see that the only wireless system to access it is your laptop or that ALL of the traffic related to the criminal activities all point to wired systems on your LAN.
Have you considered that it has more to do with/.'s editorial slant than the truth? Which busts get posted here, the college students (whio make up a significant percentage of/.'s readership), or large corporations (who don't)?
Trust me, large companies get busted for using pirated software all of the time. The BSA audits large companies and even government bodies, all the time looking for pirated software.
The difference here is that most corporations who get busted are not distributing said software openly on the Internet. Most of them are using illegal copies of said software in house. And the fact that the editors at/. prefer to post "800,000,000 college students arrested for choosing Liberal Arts majors" stories than "Scumsoft Corp was fined $100,0000.00(US) for using one illegal copy of MS Paint" as nobody really cares if a corporation gets busted.
Got a hankering for trailer trash? Sorry, but I'm not interested in her in the slightest. Spoiled, stupid, vain, crass, selfish, petty and as shallow as a plate. No thanks.
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It should have said "no one short of (angle brackets) insert your all-powerfull diety or god of the dead (close angle bracket) can change that.
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This is one of the reasons I object to human cloning. People will try and bring back little Johnny who died in a freak accident when he was four. Only it's not going to be little Johnny, it will be his time dilated twin brother and little Johnny is still dead and no one short of can change that.
You really think 8-bit ASCII or even Unicode is going to be that hard to read in 60 years? Are we going to suddenly get stupid? We're not talking about no longer having a wire recorder to listen to all those spools of recorded wire your grandparents have in the garage. We're talking about digital data that's going to be copied to new storage media every time the server is upgraded.
Today's email formats are pretty open. Unless your message is encrypted the plaintext is in there easy to see.
Did anyone else think Spirited Away was overrated?
Not at all. I enjoyed it immensly.
Spirited Away is clearly made only for children.
That's odd. While not every child that I've introduced it to has liked it, every adult has. Maybe that's because most of them are parents or grandparents. I don't know. I do think that there might not be much for young adults to see in this movie as I don't think it would have appealed to me when I was in my early twenties.
You gotta wonder with all of the people dieing of cancer, why are peopel wasting time and money curing the common cold or alergies to cats? Don't they know that people are falling over dead?
Law enforcement is not about just concentrating on the worst offenders any more than medical research is restricted to just curing the most horrible of illnesses. ALL laws need to be enforced just as all illnesses need to be cured.
None of your other arguments have anything to do with enforcement of any laws and are irrelevant in this discussion.
Please try and pull your head out of your ass and take a realistic look at the world around you.
When you copy a copyrighted work wgich requires payment for legal access to said work you are depriving the copyright owner(s) of the money that would have been generated by the sale of that item. Is that not theft?
When you copy your friend's CD you are not stealing from your friend, you are stealing from the people who own the rights to the material contained on that CD.
That is an understatement if I ever heard one. OOo on OS X is terrible! It makes my eyes bleed just to look at, to hell with the lack of ineractivity with other programs. I gave OOo a three-month trial on my Mac (after using it almost exclusively on my Windows systems for almost a year) and gave up in disgust and frustration. I moved to a OS X native word processor that supports RTF files and never looked back. I will not ever use OOo on OS X again until a native version comes out.
Oh, how long can trusty Cadet Enigmals1 hold out? How can he possibly resist the diabolical urge to push the button that could erase his very existence?
Will his tortured mind give in to it's uncontrollable desires?
Can he withstand the temptation to push the button, that even now, beckons him ever closer?
Will he succumb to the maddening urge to eradicate history, at the mere push of a single button?
The beautiful shiny button.
The jolly candy-like button.
Will he hold out, folks?
Can he hold out? With Apologies to John K.
MacGyver
Yay. A childrens show. Knightrider without the car.
Seven Days (??) Never seen it.
Star Trek (DS9 and TNG):
At least someone is showing them. Too bad the time compression they use sucks so bad.
Real TV (aka whacky shit caught on tape)
Oh, yes. Quality programming. Nothing says "men" like watching people have accidents on video tape.
Maximum Exposure (??) Your guess is as good as mine.
World's Wildest Police Videos Yay. Even more assanine videos of people doing stupid shit.
CSI x2 I liked it better when it was called Law And Order
MXC x4 Probably the stupidest show on TV. About as funny as watching people stuff nails into their eyes.
So, they're not looking to good, and that's with their lineup of repeats and other people's work! What about their original programming? Those stupid "We're rebuilding this here truck with parts from these paid sponcers" shows? The new (and short lived) Ren and Stimpy? Striperella?
Garbage. All garbage. The original poster is correct. Spike TV is for juveniles who think they've grown up. Even the original The Man Show was more mature than Spike TV.
I don't ask for high art from TV. All I ask is for TV that doesn't require that I shut my brain down in order to watch.
What is easier to beleive: that the climat has somehow changed resulting in the massive shortening of our lifespands, or that people have always longed to live longer? There is no archilogical evidense to support the idea that people lived longer than they do now. There is a lot of litterary evidense that shows that many people wish to live longer than they do.
Sounds like you've been reading Larry Niven. He has some good stories on this subject, save that the oldest people in his stories have only lived about 300 years.
But your argument applies to any other radical change in human lifestyle. The agracultural revolution shifted the balance of power putting a few landowners in charge of large numbers of farm workers. The industrial revolution shifted the power to a few rich industrialists in charge of large numbers of factory workers. Etc... Every time we change the way we live the old order is upset and we have to adapt. We'll adapt to this change if it ever comes about. That's what we do best (besides blather constantly).
And yes, most people would not live to be 1000. The human life expectancy in many places is 75 years and most people do not make it that far. But does that mean we shouldn't try?
[T]he United States needs to understand that they aren't the only entity in the world and that they cannot determine the future of the Internet because they are paranoid about "terrorism"
The US government is not paranoid about terrorism (though many citizens are, especially in the Red States). Terrorism is just a smokescreen. A boogyman that lets the government do as it pleases. A monster in the closet to be whipped out everytime the populace decides to get uppity or question the actions or motivations of those in charge.
It's not about terrorism and it never was. It is about control. It's about taking the Internet out of the hands of the masses and handing it over to a select few: the government and large communications companies.
It's an ignorant user that installs Gator and the syware it comes with
While true, it is hardly their fault when so many programs out there come bundled with spyware. I've run across many free utilities and applications that are filled to the rim with spyware and I'm very careful about what gets put on my Windows box. I can't see how the average "it's just a tool" users out there can keep on top of all this.
But there are also programs that auto-install themselves without the user's knowledge, just by landing on an otherwise legit looking web page. That is an OS level problem and there is no excuse in the world for it. XP SP2 fixes many instances of this, but not all and not everyone has XP. There are still a huge number of 98, ME and 2000 users out there and SP2 won't help them a bit.
The "ease of use over all other considerations" model has left Windows vulnerable to these infestations. It saddens me that people are unwilling to hold Microsoft to task for their short sightedness and utter lack of concern for their users security. While there are no built in systems to stop spyware from getting installed by a user under Linux or OS X, OS X, at least, requires a user to provide the administrator password for any application that is trying to install system level software. And none of the Linux/OS X (and non-IE browsers on Windows) auto install software from a website.
That and it's Microsoft's short-sightedness and lack for security concerns that created the current malware mess we find ourselves in in the first place.
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- 1) Don't keep logs
- 2) Just because I've downloaded Debian 15 times doesn't mean I would've bought it 15 times.
- 3) I've downloaded the Windows updates for 98SE about 20 times in the last year. Can MS sue me because I haven't bought the other 19 copies of Windows?
Laws protect you against those that would do you harm. Copyright protects your works from those who would want to use them without due compensation (at the rate you decide as the copyright holder, be they college students milking that fat pipe in their dorms to large corporations who don't care if you breathe or not. You'd know this if you ever created any I.P. that you tried to make a living from. Many aspects of the U.S. do suck, but not the ones you are complaining about. And what makes you think Canada would be any better for you? Canada's copyright laws are very similar to ours.I'll get right on that with my ISP and every ISP on the planet. Should only take about three phone calls to get that taken care of.
Well, Debian is free, for one thing, so that particular argument doesn't really work at all. But on a general level it doesn't matter because you wouldn't have bought it at all. But, and this is the important part, you would have used software package X without paying fior it at all, which for non-free software is against the conditions of sale/use and is illegal.
Microsoft provides Windows updates for free for Windows users. They don't care how many times you run the updates. They assume, rightly or wrongly, that there might be legit reasons for you to patch more copies of Windows than you own. Maybe you're stupid and you keep hosing your machine and you keep reinstalling Windows. Maybe you got hit by a few waves of killer viruses. Maybe you service computers as a business. The fact is that they don't care why you are downloading the Windows updates over and over.
That's great until they look at the MAC addresses in your routers logs and see that the only wireless system to access it is your laptop or that ALL of the traffic related to the criminal activities all point to wired systems on your LAN.
Have you considered that it has more to do with /.'s editorial slant than the truth? Which busts get posted here, the college students (whio make up a significant percentage of /.'s readership), or large corporations (who don't)?
/. prefer to post "800,000,000 college students arrested for choosing Liberal Arts majors" stories than "Scumsoft Corp was fined $100,0000.00(US) for using one illegal copy of MS Paint" as nobody really cares if a corporation gets busted.
Trust me, large companies get busted for using pirated software all of the time. The BSA audits large companies and even government bodies, all the time looking for pirated software.
The difference here is that most corporations who get busted are not distributing said software openly on the Internet. Most of them are using illegal copies of said software in house. And the fact that the editors at
Got a hankering for trailer trash? Sorry, but I'm not interested in her in the slightest. Spoiled, stupid, vain, crass, selfish, petty and as shallow as a plate. No thanks.
It should have said "no one short of (angle brackets) insert your all-powerfull diety or god of the dead (close angle bracket) can change that.
This is one of the reasons I object to human cloning. People will try and bring back little Johnny who died in a freak accident when he was four. Only it's not going to be little Johnny, it will be his time dilated twin brother and little Johnny is still dead and no one short of can change that.
Exactly. A subpoena is just a compulsion of information, it os not a charge or even an accusation of wrongdoing on the part of the person(s) served.
I'd guess it means that people are violating their NDAs. There is nothing rotten with a company protecting thier confifendtail information.
You really think 8-bit ASCII or even Unicode is going to be that hard to read in 60 years? Are we going to suddenly get stupid? We're not talking about no longer having a wire recorder to listen to all those spools of recorded wire your grandparents have in the garage. We're talking about digital data that's going to be copied to new storage media every time the server is upgraded.
Today's email formats are pretty open. Unless your message is encrypted the plaintext is in there easy to see.
Not at all. I enjoyed it immensly.
Spirited Away is clearly made only for children.
That's odd. While not every child that I've introduced it to has liked it, every adult has. Maybe that's because most of them are parents or grandparents. I don't know. I do think that there might not be much for young adults to see in this movie as I don't think it would have appealed to me when I was in my early twenties.
You can't be bothered to walk down to the local video/music/software store? Can't work up the energy to log on to Amazon.Com? iTunes takes too long?
Pleaase.
You gotta wonder with all of the people dieing of cancer, why are peopel wasting time and money curing the common cold or alergies to cats? Don't they know that people are falling over dead?
Law enforcement is not about just concentrating on the worst offenders any more than medical research is restricted to just curing the most horrible of illnesses. ALL laws need to be enforced just as all illnesses need to be cured.
None of your other arguments have anything to do with enforcement of any laws and are irrelevant in this discussion.
Please try and pull your head out of your ass and take a realistic look at the world around you.
When you copy a copyrighted work wgich requires payment for legal access to said work you are depriving the copyright owner(s) of the money that would have been generated by the sale of that item. Is that not theft?
When you copy your friend's CD you are not stealing from your friend, you are stealing from the people who own the rights to the material contained on that CD.
Why is this point so hard for people to grasp?
That is an understatement if I ever heard one. OOo on OS X is terrible! It makes my eyes bleed just to look at, to hell with the lack of ineractivity with other programs. I gave OOo a three-month trial on my Mac (after using it almost exclusively on my Windows systems for almost a year) and gave up in disgust and frustration. I moved to a OS X native word processor that supports RTF files and never looked back. I will not ever use OOo on OS X again until a native version comes out.
Oh, how long can trusty Cadet Enigmals1 hold out?
How can he possibly resist the diabolical urge to push the button that could erase his very existence?
Will his tortured mind give in to it's uncontrollable desires?
Can he withstand the temptation to push the button, that even now, beckons him ever closer?
Will he succumb to the maddening urge to eradicate history, at the mere push of a single button?
The beautiful shiny button.
The jolly candy-like button.
Will he hold out, folks?
Can he hold out?
With Apologies to John K.
- MacGyver
- Seven Days (??)
- Star Trek (DS9 and TNG):
- Real TV (aka whacky shit caught on tape)
- Maximum Exposure (??)
- World's Wildest Police Videos
- CSI x2
- MXC x4
So, they're not looking to good, and that's with their lineup of repeats and other people's work! What about their original programming? Those stupid "We're rebuilding this here truck with parts from these paid sponcers" shows? The new (and short lived) Ren and Stimpy? Striperella?Yay. A childrens show. Knightrider without the car.
Never seen it.
At least someone is showing them. Too bad the time compression they use sucks so bad.
Oh, yes. Quality programming. Nothing says "men" like watching people have accidents on video tape.
Your guess is as good as mine.
Yay. Even more assanine videos of people doing stupid shit.
I liked it better when it was called Law And Order
Probably the stupidest show on TV. About as funny as watching people stuff nails into their eyes.
Garbage. All garbage. The original poster is correct. Spike TV is for juveniles who think they've grown up. Even the original The Man Show was more mature than Spike TV.
I don't ask for high art from TV. All I ask is for TV that doesn't require that I shut my brain down in order to watch.
I love you.
You say that as if it's a bad thing. :(
What is easier to beleive: that the climat has somehow changed resulting in the massive shortening of our lifespands, or that people have always longed to live longer? There is no archilogical evidense to support the idea that people lived longer than they do now. There is a lot of litterary evidense that shows that many people wish to live longer than they do.
Sounds like you've been reading Larry Niven. He has some good stories on this subject, save that the oldest people in his stories have only lived about 300 years.
But your argument applies to any other radical change in human lifestyle. The agracultural revolution shifted the balance of power putting a few landowners in charge of large numbers of farm workers. The industrial revolution shifted the power to a few rich industrialists in charge of large numbers of factory workers. Etc... Every time we change the way we live the old order is upset and we have to adapt. We'll adapt to this change if it ever comes about. That's what we do best (besides blather constantly).
And yes, most people would not live to be 1000. The human life expectancy in many places is 75 years and most people do not make it that far. But does that mean we shouldn't try?
As someone who has already put 40 full years behind him, I'd liek to see another 960, thank you very much.
The US government is not paranoid about terrorism (though many citizens are, especially in the Red States). Terrorism is just a smokescreen. A boogyman that lets the government do as it pleases. A monster in the closet to be whipped out everytime the populace decides to get uppity or question the actions or motivations of those in charge.
It's not about terrorism and it never was. It is about control. It's about taking the Internet out of the hands of the masses and handing it over to a select few: the government and large communications companies.
While true, it is hardly their fault when so many programs out there come bundled with spyware. I've run across many free utilities and applications that are filled to the rim with spyware and I'm very careful about what gets put on my Windows box. I can't see how the average "it's just a tool" users out there can keep on top of all this.
But there are also programs that auto-install themselves without the user's knowledge, just by landing on an otherwise legit looking web page. That is an OS level problem and there is no excuse in the world for it. XP SP2 fixes many instances of this, but not all and not everyone has XP. There are still a huge number of 98, ME and 2000 users out there and SP2 won't help them a bit.
The "ease of use over all other considerations" model has left Windows vulnerable to these infestations. It saddens me that people are unwilling to hold Microsoft to task for their short sightedness and utter lack of concern for their users security. While there are no built in systems to stop spyware from getting installed by a user under Linux or OS X, OS X, at least, requires a user to provide the administrator password for any application that is trying to install system level software. And none of the Linux/OS X (and non-IE browsers on Windows) auto install software from a website.
That and it's Microsoft's short-sightedness and lack for security concerns that created the current malware mess we find ourselves in in the first place.
You bastards!