"I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split."
Kurt Vonnegut quoted in "The War Between Writers and Reviewers," New York Times Book Review (6 January 1985).
Breaking that encryption on a routine basis civil disobedience in the same way that sit ins of the 1950's affected the profits of the establishments in which civil rights warriors stood their ground. To be noble is not always to be legal.
Give exceptions to the exceptional. Regardless of how much we make fun of the people who work at Geek Squad, they are much more intelligent for the most part than any other employee of Best Buy. I'm so tired of people getting denied flexibility when they are indeed very unique compared to the average person.
All of the information he gathered was virtually publicly accessible already though! Anyone who DID have malicious intent and the knowhow had the information already.
And that warrants this kind of reaction still? Of course he should be punished and informed as to the PROPER way to have handled this situation, but he should spend ZERO time in prison. All that does is build resentment of the system and increase recidivism.
Agreed, but these kind of cases should not ever be treated in the same way terrorism suspects are, or any other significant crime. It is ridiculous when I think back on the things I could be arrested for in the eyes of these people and the kind of suffering I would endure, and then compare that to the suffering I have forced on others. It is obscene to treat them like common criminals, because they are obviously not common.
The justice system is a mockery of its own title. Where is the justice for the illegally detained? It is morally unconscionable to believe we have the authority to exert our power against the people of the world in the ways we are. The tacit approval of torture by the government is a key indicator of how far from grace we have fallen.
There are mountains of evidence and personal testimonies from people who have been unjustly caught up in this whole debacle in which we are involved. Yet people like you still ignore the pleas for help and evidence of the destruction of the core principles upon which America was founded. I equate your viewpoint to that of creationists. You live in a world of self delusion which spawns further ignorance. That ignorance is exploited by the people who are causing this catastrophe as they invoke your name as the people who "support" their actions, justifying these actions as if they were approved by the sincere majority of Americans.
I'm sure you are an intelligent and thoughtful individual, but you need to open your eyes to the truth of how the war on terrorism and the drug war (by the way these are actually one and the same) are tearing apart not only America, but the world as a whole.
I wonder if the big telecoms realize how badly they will be entrenched in cyber-guerrilla warfare with people like you and me if they somehow pull off grasping control of the net. It would be nice and a hell of a lot of fun to have a fully morally justifiable reason to engage in offensive action against the people trying to control information. I just imagine a Thermopylae style engagement between the two sides, and it sends shivers down my spine when I think about what we are actually trying to defend.
This shouldn't have been modded flame bait. He is completely right. We don't talk about famous scientists who have studied theatre or are amateur thespians. So why do we talk about actors who have science and technology as a hobby.
This star worship is the exact same that is always a sign of the downfall of a civilization in times past, and you people are helping push us over the cliff.
When I think of technology and peoples' understanding of it, I have two schools of thought:
A) The Star Trek school -
In this world, technology is embraced and understood. It is studied and has zero mysticism about it. It works and we know how it works, and we use that knowledge to build greater machines.
B) The Star Wars school -
Sure, Star Wars was very high tech, but throughout the whole series, the understanding of how characters of the technology seems cursory at best. "It works when I do this" kind of mentality, instead of "It works because of this."
Let me finish this post with this, those are similes, so be creative with your interpretation.
There are two fields where Linux is lacking compared to Apple and Microsoft: How easy it is to screw things up and games. Of course driver support is important, but that is driven by demand of the market, not demand of the developers, so I consider the previous two reasons of higher importance when discussing how best to expand Linux in the market.
Now I know ideally we should all be intelligent enough to be able to operate Linux without screwing something up, and if we do be able to fix it. But the layman is not and will not have our technical ability, however simple the task may be. Since Linux does not have technical support often in the same way Apple and Microsoft do, users are driven away for fear of an inoperable computer. They would rather have a computer that works 50% of the time than 25% of the time. As far as business use for Linux, obviously they have the resources to be able to have any problems fixed and prevented, but personal users can not do that.
As far as games, Tux Racer does not cut it. Email and web browsing of course are workhorse reasons for having a PC, but you can do that on your cell phone nowadays. Honestly, game development seems to be in a bit of a catch 22 in the same way that driver support is a problem. Investors need to see profitability in the market, so they want to see market demand. However market demand isn't rising because there isn't enough of a reason to switch to Linux when you can't play the hottest new games on it. Of course games do get ported, however initial release of games for Linux I think is vital to bring the average computer user into the fold of open source.
That is the issue right there. Even though he has committed no crime, he would have to spend a large amount of time and money defending himself even though he is said to be assumed innocent until proven guilty.
The C&D simply stifles those who do not have the time or money to fight it.
Oh yeah? Well I developed a steganographic program that is undetectable! Here, let me link you to a picture that I've hidden a file in: http://www.fakelinktogoatse.cx/
ph34r m3
I still fail to see why this dick measuring even matters. If you are making enough money to cover your costs and build capital for future development, then what does your percent share in the market matter? Seems like if these companies looked inward and simply MADE CONSOLES and took up an attitude of be and let be (which seems like Nintendo is closest to doing), then both the producer and the consumer would be much happier.
To sum up: profit is profit is profit and loss is loss is loss.
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"I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split."
Kurt Vonnegut quoted in "The War Between Writers and Reviewers," New York Times Book Review (6 January 1985).
Source: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut
Breaking that encryption on a routine basis civil disobedience in the same way that sit ins of the 1950's affected the profits of the establishments in which civil rights warriors stood their ground. To be noble is not always to be legal.
Give exceptions to the exceptional. Regardless of how much we make fun of the people who work at Geek Squad, they are much more intelligent for the most part than any other employee of Best Buy. I'm so tired of people getting denied flexibility when they are indeed very unique compared to the average person.
Except for the fact that we're aren't and haven't done anything wrong.
"...in which case we're either fine or dead or both." Enter my dream of a zombie apocalypse.
it was a Zergling? That claw sure looks like it.
All of the information he gathered was virtually publicly accessible already though! Anyone who DID have malicious intent and the knowhow had the information already.
And that warrants this kind of reaction still? Of course he should be punished and informed as to the PROPER way to have handled this situation, but he should spend ZERO time in prison. All that does is build resentment of the system and increase recidivism.
Agreed, but these kind of cases should not ever be treated in the same way terrorism suspects are, or any other significant crime. It is ridiculous when I think back on the things I could be arrested for in the eyes of these people and the kind of suffering I would endure, and then compare that to the suffering I have forced on others. It is obscene to treat them like common criminals, because they are obviously not common.
And my faith in humanity drops to yet another record low.
I'm getting sick of a society that has ZERO room for exceptions. Make exceptions for the exceptional... that is why they are exceptional.
Although listening to TOR traffic is hardly exceptional, but the point he proved without malicious intent was.
diaf || say something productive
I'm not the one who puts the jerk into kneejerk... you are.
Allow me.
The justice system is a mockery of its own title. Where is the justice for the illegally detained? It is morally unconscionable to believe we have the authority to exert our power against the people of the world in the ways we are. The tacit approval of torture by the government is a key indicator of how far from grace we have fallen.
There are mountains of evidence and personal testimonies from people who have been unjustly caught up in this whole debacle in which we are involved. Yet people like you still ignore the pleas for help and evidence of the destruction of the core principles upon which America was founded. I equate your viewpoint to that of creationists. You live in a world of self delusion which spawns further ignorance. That ignorance is exploited by the people who are causing this catastrophe as they invoke your name as the people who "support" their actions, justifying these actions as if they were approved by the sincere majority of Americans.
I'm sure you are an intelligent and thoughtful individual, but you need to open your eyes to the truth of how the war on terrorism and the drug war (by the way these are actually one and the same) are tearing apart not only America, but the world as a whole.
http://www.iaea.org/
Go away, please.
I wonder if the big telecoms realize how badly they will be entrenched in cyber-guerrilla warfare with people like you and me if they somehow pull off grasping control of the net. It would be nice and a hell of a lot of fun to have a fully morally justifiable reason to engage in offensive action against the people trying to control information. I just imagine a Thermopylae style engagement between the two sides, and it sends shivers down my spine when I think about what we are actually trying to defend.
This shouldn't have been modded flame bait. He is completely right. We don't talk about famous scientists who have studied theatre or are amateur thespians. So why do we talk about actors who have science and technology as a hobby.
This star worship is the exact same that is always a sign of the downfall of a civilization in times past, and you people are helping push us over the cliff.
When I think of technology and peoples' understanding of it, I have two schools of thought:
A) The Star Trek school -
In this world, technology is embraced and understood. It is studied and has zero mysticism about it. It works and we know how it works, and we use that knowledge to build greater machines.
B) The Star Wars school -
Sure, Star Wars was very high tech, but throughout the whole series, the understanding of how characters of the technology seems cursory at best. "It works when I do this" kind of mentality, instead of "It works because of this."
Let me finish this post with this, those are similes, so be creative with your interpretation.
Okay, that is good. But how can we make it better than the status quo is the issue, though.
There are two fields where Linux is lacking compared to Apple and Microsoft: How easy it is to screw things up and games. Of course driver support is important, but that is driven by demand of the market, not demand of the developers, so I consider the previous two reasons of higher importance when discussing how best to expand Linux in the market.
Now I know ideally we should all be intelligent enough to be able to operate Linux without screwing something up, and if we do be able to fix it. But the layman is not and will not have our technical ability, however simple the task may be. Since Linux does not have technical support often in the same way Apple and Microsoft do, users are driven away for fear of an inoperable computer. They would rather have a computer that works 50% of the time than 25% of the time. As far as business use for Linux, obviously they have the resources to be able to have any problems fixed and prevented, but personal users can not do that.
As far as games, Tux Racer does not cut it. Email and web browsing of course are workhorse reasons for having a PC, but you can do that on your cell phone nowadays. Honestly, game development seems to be in a bit of a catch 22 in the same way that driver support is a problem. Investors need to see profitability in the market, so they want to see market demand. However market demand isn't rising because there isn't enough of a reason to switch to Linux when you can't play the hottest new games on it. Of course games do get ported, however initial release of games for Linux I think is vital to bring the average computer user into the fold of open source.
Just my two cents.
Left wing liberal software communist gets attacked by terrorist extremists. O'Reily celebrates. More at 9'.
That is the issue right there. Even though he has committed no crime, he would have to spend a large amount of time and money defending himself even though he is said to be assumed innocent until proven guilty.
The C&D simply stifles those who do not have the time or money to fight it.
Oh yeah? Well I developed a steganographic program that is undetectable! Here, let me link you to a picture that I've hidden a file in: http://www.fakelinktogoatse.cx/ ph34r m3
I still fail to see why this dick measuring even matters. If you are making enough money to cover your costs and build capital for future development, then what does your percent share in the market matter? Seems like if these companies looked inward and simply MADE CONSOLES and took up an attitude of be and let be (which seems like Nintendo is closest to doing), then both the producer and the consumer would be much happier.
To sum up: profit is profit is profit and loss is loss is loss.
Merely a difference in opinion. :)
Link, mah boy!
Yeah right... and next thing you're going to tell me is ham, bacon, and pork chops all come from some delicious magical animal. Damn liberal /.ers