When my middle daughter went to Canberra on her grade 6 school trip, she brought me back a miniature shark-shaped keyring that was a laser pointer, so I've had one of those for years. (Well, actually, it fell apart last year, shoddy workmanship - didn't come from Dr Evil's lab... or maybe it did...)
Plane and car crashes still happen, space crashes will be inevitable. Nobody stops driving (or calls for it to be outlawed) because car crashes might happen.
Frankly, in the early days the conflict will be between adventure tourists wanting to do risky things (like "space travel"), and the space lines wanting to minimise risk to maximise reputation.
That's the nature of bureaucratic aggressor armies, they buy yesterday's weapons for tomorrow's battles. Freedom fighters attack the heart of their threat inventively. There should be no standing armies in any country, just a non-conscriptive national service system.
Your employer has a right to monitor your affect on their reputation, productivity and the operational costs of that productivity, but they have no more right to the content of non-work data than a "foreign power". If they suspect a crime is being committed, they have a right, and maybe a responsibility, to report it to the relevant authorities, but just like there are few circumstances where ordinary citizens are allowed to get all "lynch mob" on yo ass, the same applies to employers. Due process should be followed, even when its your property or reputation at stake - maybe even more so.
What I fail to understand is, if this is an issue for Apple, why do they allow you to burn 5 CDs of iTunes downloads? Afterall, burning iTunes AACs to CD removes the DRM, then the CD can be cloned over and over.
By burning to CD and importing back off the CD at 256kbs, there is no audible quality loss over the original 128kb AAC file. Therefore Hymn was a redundant project, anyway.
If a kid isn't old enough to remember a password, they're not old enough to use a computer unsupervised. Simple as that.
My credentials to make this claim? 3 happy, well adjusted kids, now old enough to make their own computing decisions, that my ex and I guided through the minefield of the sort of stuff that some adults don't even get. (Nigerian scams, spam, phishing, slash dot;)
The trouble with the whole DRM debate is it's all heat and naff-all light. Debate of this issue, attempts to code DRM systems and setting of DRM standards is never going to advance properly until...
a) vested industry interest stop with the hysteria about theft. (do you ever see the RIAA complaining about CDs being stolen from retail stores, that's music theft, init?) b) users stop moaning about how much music costs. (the audience have NO IDEA how expensive music is to make, even for a low budget bedroom producer like me) c) coders realise that the system has to fit people who are NOT tech savvy. d) everybody accepts that it can't be perfect, but it must be accepted by the market
The hacker or team who can code something that is open, provides copy protection without interfering with the rights of the artist, producer or customer and is self-contained is going to get very rich. They'll only achieve any of this if they proceed with discipline and belief in everybody's right to value in this endeavour.
The deliberate dissemination of misinformation for personal benefit at the expense of others is now a "non-cooperative strategy". Just like being shot by an ally in war is "succumbing to friendly fire".
Cool! We can now "not cooperate" with the boss on our workload, our partners on fidelity and the bank on our mortgage. Awesome! I'm not lying, I'm just not cooperating! Wha-hey!
> Though I do find it funny that in the late 80's there was all that crap > about the ink they use on CD's eating through the CD and rendering > unplayable within seven years. Even made the mainstream media. Turned > out to be utter garbage, surprise surprise. I've got CD's that are 20 > years old and still play just fine.
It wasn't crap, it just wasn't widespread. I have a minor collection of 100 or so CDs (adopted downloading very early, really) and only one got print-through, but it was definitely print-through that stuffed it.
I'm in a mood for a fight. Anybody in Tasmania, Australia, got a schmick Mustang they'll let me photograph? I'll post on the web and send out a spam with a link labelled goatse, but actually goes to my flickr photo page;-)
I suspect all of the above. The whole domain name registration system is a house of cards, based on the capitalist model of he with the gold makes the rules. I could probably make flippant comments about impending revolutions, walls and firing squads, but that would get me labelled a terrorist.
The laws that most countries have in place to prevent eavesdropping were to stop authorities and government from recording conversations with citizens to entrap those citizens, not to prevent citizens from protecting or defending their innocence or their children.
A government official has the same right to _object_ to an unauthorised recording made by a citizen as that citizen has to object to an unauthorised recording of them by a government official, but in the former case, where there might be reasonable doubt regarding the charges against "joe public", joe public has the higher right.
Of course, if the recording doesn't introduce reasonable doubt, it's invalid anyway.
1. Keep it simple and consistent. Even technologists get tired of complex user interfaces (compare Logic 8 with ProTools for simple v. complex) let alone ordinary users.
"The vehicle is aimed at improving driving safety by getting India's masses off their motorbikes and into cars."
How does getting people into cars improve safety? Look at post war Europe, Australia and USA. Small flea powered cars first, then bigger and faster models every year until people are wrapping themselves around trees every day in SUVs with the same horsepower rating as a small railway shunting engine!
It's called "rip'n'read" or "rip'n'print" depending on the medium, it's been around since newspapers first started accepting leads from the public. I'd be surprised if less than half the news (especially on TV) weren't "rip'n'read".
You know how I know this? I watch my journo colleagues (I'm an audio tech) put their own by-lines on rewritten handouts all the effing time. It's why I come to slashdot for news, at least I know the "news" here is mostly found by people looking for news, not looking to fill a news bulletin on a slow day.
Davies lost his way when he "found god", so answering his ideas is as lame as expressing them. I agree with the Feynmann quote about philosophy and ornithology. A Buddhist would ask, "Does the moon shine on the pond or does the pond reflect the moonlight?" The cat would reply, "Mu" (Sheesh!)
The user experience is awesome on a good site. AJAX apps look mostly as usable as any local desktop app and it generally works.
For the developer (and I speak as a hobbyist who taught themselves HTML in an evening in 1994, and can code some crappy PHP when pushed) is an arse tiring pile of dog mess.
HTML was simple to learn, did pretty amazing stuff with bugger all skill required, but wasn't quite as elegant to look at as all this XHTML+PHP+Javascript+Java+whatever-the-f***-is-the-latest-craze.
Too many technologies held together with string and gaffa tape is the usual approach boffins use to lock out non-boffins, and create artificial elites.
So, combine the user experience of AJAX, with the boffin factor of the developer experience, and how that boffin factor is used to lock out ordinary people, AJAX is here to stay.
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When my middle daughter went to Canberra on her grade 6 school trip, she brought me back a miniature shark-shaped keyring that was a laser pointer, so I've had one of those for years. (Well, actually, it fell apart last year, shoddy workmanship - didn't come from Dr Evil's lab... or maybe it did...)
Successful? Right place at the right time, nothing more.
People, please don't feed the trolls.
Plane and car crashes still happen, space crashes will be inevitable. Nobody stops driving (or calls for it to be outlawed) because car crashes might happen.
Frankly, in the early days the conflict will be between adventure tourists wanting to do risky things (like "space travel"), and the space lines wanting to minimise risk to maximise reputation.
That's the nature of bureaucratic aggressor armies, they buy yesterday's weapons for tomorrow's battles. Freedom fighters attack the heart of their threat inventively. There should be no standing armies in any country, just a non-conscriptive national service system.
Your employer has a right to monitor your affect on their reputation, productivity and the operational costs of that productivity, but they have no more right to the content of non-work data than a "foreign power". If they suspect a crime is being committed, they have a right, and maybe a responsibility, to report it to the relevant authorities, but just like there are few circumstances where ordinary citizens are allowed to get all "lynch mob" on yo ass, the same applies to employers. Due process should be followed, even when its your property or reputation at stake - maybe even more so.
...and other headlines, dog bites man, police arrest thief. Is this news?
What I fail to understand is, if this is an issue for Apple, why do they allow you to burn 5 CDs of iTunes downloads? Afterall, burning iTunes AACs to CD removes the DRM, then the CD can be cloned over and over.
By burning to CD and importing back off the CD at 256kbs, there is no audible quality loss over the original 128kb AAC file. Therefore Hymn was a redundant project, anyway.
If a kid isn't old enough to remember a password, they're not old enough to use a computer unsupervised. Simple as that.
;)
My credentials to make this claim? 3 happy, well adjusted kids, now old enough to make their own computing decisions, that my ex and I guided through the minefield of the sort of stuff that some adults don't even get. (Nigerian scams, spam, phishing, slash dot
Remember when bosses would ask nerds, "Can you download the internet for me and give it to me on a floppy by knock off time? Thanks, laters!"
The trouble with the whole DRM debate is it's all heat and naff-all light. Debate of this issue, attempts to code DRM systems and setting of DRM standards is never going to advance properly until...
a) vested industry interest stop with the hysteria about theft. (do you ever see the RIAA complaining about CDs being stolen from retail stores, that's music theft, init?)
b) users stop moaning about how much music costs. (the audience have NO IDEA how expensive music is to make, even for a low budget bedroom producer like me)
c) coders realise that the system has to fit people who are NOT tech savvy.
d) everybody accepts that it can't be perfect, but it must be accepted by the market
The hacker or team who can code something that is open, provides copy protection without interfering with the rights of the artist, producer or customer and is self-contained is going to get very rich. They'll only achieve any of this if they proceed with discipline and belief in everybody's right to value in this endeavour.
Spoken like a politician! ;-)
:-/
The deliberate dissemination of misinformation for personal benefit at the expense of others is now a "non-cooperative strategy". Just like being shot by an ally in war is "succumbing to friendly fire".
Cool! We can now "not cooperate" with the boss on our workload, our partners on fidelity and the bank on our mortgage. Awesome! I'm not lying, I'm just not cooperating! Wha-hey!
Sheesh!
I AM FORUM WHORE!
> Though I do find it funny that in the late 80's there was all that crap
> about the ink they use on CD's eating through the CD and rendering
> unplayable within seven years. Even made the mainstream media. Turned
> out to be utter garbage, surprise surprise. I've got CD's that are 20
> years old and still play just fine.
It wasn't crap, it just wasn't widespread. I have a minor collection of 100 or so CDs (adopted downloading very early, really) and only one got print-through, but it was definitely print-through that stuffed it.
I'm in a mood for a fight. Anybody in Tasmania, Australia, got a schmick Mustang they'll let me photograph? I'll post on the web and send out a spam with a link labelled goatse, but actually goes to my flickr photo page ;-)
I suspect all of the above. The whole domain name registration system is a house of cards, based on the capitalist model of he with the gold makes the rules. I could probably make flippant comments about impending revolutions, walls and firing squads, but that would get me labelled a terrorist.
The laws that most countries have in place to prevent eavesdropping were to stop authorities and government from recording conversations with citizens to entrap those citizens, not to prevent citizens from protecting or defending their innocence or their children.
A government official has the same right to _object_ to an unauthorised recording made by a citizen as that citizen has to object to an unauthorised recording of them by a government official, but in the former case, where there might be reasonable doubt regarding the charges against "joe public", joe public has the higher right.
Of course, if the recording doesn't introduce reasonable doubt, it's invalid anyway.
1. Keep it simple and consistent. Even technologists get tired of complex user interfaces (compare Logic 8 with ProTools for simple v. complex) let alone ordinary users.
2. Obey rule one of die.
"The vehicle is aimed at improving driving safety by getting India's masses off their motorbikes and into cars."
How does getting people into cars improve safety? Look at post war Europe, Australia and USA. Small flea powered cars first, then bigger and faster models every year until people are wrapping themselves around trees every day in SUVs with the same horsepower rating as a small railway shunting engine!
It's called "rip'n'read" or "rip'n'print" depending on the medium, it's been around since newspapers first started accepting leads from the public. I'd be surprised if less than half the news (especially on TV) weren't "rip'n'read".
You know how I know this? I watch my journo colleagues (I'm an audio tech) put their own by-lines on rewritten handouts all the effing time. It's why I come to slashdot for news, at least I know the "news" here is mostly found by people looking for news, not looking to fill a news bulletin on a slow day.
Davies lost his way when he "found god", so answering his ideas is as lame as expressing them. I agree with the Feynmann quote about philosophy and ornithology. A Buddhist would ask, "Does the moon shine on the pond or does the pond reflect the moonlight?" The cat would reply, "Mu" (Sheesh!)
Prove it's not intelligent design ;-)
AJAX has two sides (assuming well developed code)
The user experience is awesome on a good site. AJAX apps look mostly as usable as any local desktop app and it generally works.
For the developer (and I speak as a hobbyist who taught themselves HTML in an evening in 1994, and can code some crappy PHP when pushed) is an arse tiring pile of dog mess.
HTML was simple to learn, did pretty amazing stuff with bugger all skill required, but wasn't quite as elegant to look at as all this XHTML+PHP+Javascript+Java+whatever-the-f***-is-the-latest-craze.
Too many technologies held together with string and gaffa tape is the usual approach boffins use to lock out non-boffins, and create artificial elites.
So, combine the user experience of AJAX, with the boffin factor of the developer experience, and how that boffin factor is used to lock out ordinary people, AJAX is here to stay.
Why feed the trolls?