Well, you can post sheet music that you wrote up yourself on the net freely. Note that for any sheet music you buy at the store, even of works that are hundreds of years out of copyright, generally still have the actual typesetting under copyright (and often a big "NO COPYING" tag on every page). (Most sheet music these days is copyright to companies like Warner Brothers.)
While admittedly this is not unreasonable (music typesetting is hard!), it always sucked for the student orchestras and choirs without much of a budget I was in...
No, you are just wrong. The point is, when it comes over the television cable into the TV in my dorm lounge, the signal is analogue, not digitally encoded. This has nothing to do with how the music is stored on the server (digitally), or what order songs come in, or if they're rewinded, etc.
Of course it's possible to get MP3s for free here at MIT. But so many music-downloaders spend all their time whining about how the RIAA doesn't give any money to artists and if they just did that and didn't keep huge profits themself they'd support them. Well, LAMP actually involves legally paying the artists (especially the songwriters) involved.
> I also like the analogy made by the article to > the voting system where a page votes for a > topic: an expert site on turtles voting > for turtles once a day every year vs. a blog > mentioning turtles once in that same period > leads to the expert site winning.
I suppose that actually understanding analogies has nothing to do with getting a Score of 5.
The analogy said that, if some random blog which is checked many times a day for changes by Google and linked to by other bloggers happens to have a little turtle page, it totally overwhelms a simple and rarely updated but informative expert page. The opposite of what you said.
This may be true for one of the leaked vulnerabilities, but not for all of them. The Kerberos one, specifically, is a problem with the protocol itself. The only real way to fix the problem there is to migrate all of your applications from kerberos4 to kerberos5, which is not trivial at all and all of the relevant groups have been working on for months; there was a set date to release the report whether or not groups had finished their patches, so it is not like they were trying to keep this a secret forever.
Take a look at the byline at the bottom of the commentary.
William M. Arkin is a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington and an adjunct professor at the U.S. Air Force School of Advanced Airpower Studies. He is also a consultant to a number of nongovernmental organizations and a regular contributor to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Officials are looking for nuclear weapons that could help against a foe like Al Qaeda.
No, I don't understand the last sentence either...
The fact that the author of this article thinks Harry Potter is racist because the wizards are shown as superior to the muggles just shows that he hasn't read the books, which make it pretty clear that only the "bad guys" think that the pure-blooded wizards are superior to others.
If code is law, as Professor Lawrence Lessig (of Stanford Law School) has stated, then the real question we face is: who should control the code you use--you, or an elite few?
If they really felt so strongly about elitism, why do they feel the need to mention that Lessig is from Stanford Law School?
> They're catering this to *today's* cellphone > crowd? > > >north > You walk into the bathroom. Do your nails? > (y/n) > >n > Yuk! You really look fat without your nails > done. Do your nails? (y/n)
You mean like Common Ground? This is somewhat like what you're describing; it's by the author of the about.com article, actually.
This is my third "your joke is actually reality" post. People don't seem to realize that the interactive fiction (text adventure) community is actually very developed.
> One of the -- when we monitored Napster for 48 > hours three weekends ago, we came up with the > 1.4 million downloads of Metallica music, > there was one, one downloading -- one! of > an unsigned artist the whole time.
Note how Lars said "an" unsigned artist. I assume he meant "we picked one unsigned artist and there was only one download of that artist during that time". Obviously meaning "any unsigned artist" is ludicrous.
(I'm still curious about where these stats came from in the first place.)
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No, you are just wrong. The point is, when it comes over the television cable into the TV in my dorm lounge, the signal is analogue, not digitally encoded. This has nothing to do with how the music is stored on the server (digitally), or what order songs come in, or if they're rewinded, etc.
Of course it's possible to get MP3s for free here at MIT. But so many music-downloaders spend all their time whining about how the RIAA doesn't give any money to artists and if they just did that and didn't keep huge profits themself they'd support them. Well, LAMP actually involves legally paying the artists (especially the songwriters) involved.
--dave, actual LAMP user
> I also like the analogy made by the article to
> the voting system where a page votes for a
> topic: an expert site on turtles voting
> for turtles once a day every year vs. a blog
> mentioning turtles once in that same period
> leads to the expert site winning.
I suppose that actually understanding analogies has nothing to do with getting a Score of 5.
The analogy said that, if some random blog which is checked many times a day for changes by Google and linked to by other bloggers happens to have a little turtle page, it totally overwhelms a simple and rarely updated but informative expert page. The opposite of what you said.
This may be true for one of the leaked vulnerabilities, but not for all of them. The Kerberos one, specifically, is a problem with the protocol itself. The only real way to fix the problem there is to migrate all of your applications from kerberos4 to kerberos5, which is not trivial at all and all of the relevant groups have been working on for months; there was a set date to release the report whether or not groups had finished their patches, so it is not like they were trying to keep this a secret forever.
Take a look at the byline at the bottom of the commentary.
William M. Arkin is a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington and an adjunct professor at the U.S. Air Force School of Advanced Airpower Studies. He is also a consultant to a number of nongovernmental organizations and a regular contributor to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Officials are looking for nuclear weapons that could help against a foe like Al Qaeda.
No, I don't understand the last sentence either...
The fact that the author of this article thinks Harry Potter is racist because the wizards are shown as superior to the muggles just shows that he hasn't read the books, which make it pretty clear that only the "bad guys" think that the pure-blooded wizards are superior to others.
If code is law, as Professor Lawrence Lessig (of Stanford Law School) has stated, then the real question we face is: who should control the code you use--you, or an elite few?
If they really felt so strongly about elitism, why do they feel the need to mention that Lessig is from Stanford Law School?
Out of 169 articles, there are 6 instances
of the word 'Bedouin'. Which is what the
article was about.
Good work!
> They're catering this to *today's* cellphone
> crowd?
>
> >north
> You walk into the bathroom. Do your nails?
> (y/n)
> >n
> Yuk! You really look fat without your nails
> done. Do your nails? (y/n)
You mean like Common Ground?
This is somewhat like what you're describing;
it's by the author of the about.com article,
actually.
This is my third "your joke is actually reality"
post. People don't seem to realize that the
interactive fiction (text adventure) community
is actually very developed.
What, you mean The Infocom GameBoy intrepreter?
OK, so it isn't quite Ultima, but it runs all
ZMachine games up to version 3, which is a
lot of Infocom though few post-Infocom.
> You are in a maze of twisty little passages all > alike. There is a sign on the wall.
> >read sign
>
> "Pepsi. The choice of a new generation."
> >n
You thought you were kidding, right?
Oh, no.
Coke is it!
Fear.
In our next installment, a convicted bank robber asks the judge to give him the keys to all the vaults in the country instead of sending him to jail.
> One of the -- when we monitored Napster for 48
> hours three weekends ago, we came up with the
> 1.4 million downloads of Metallica music,
> there was one, one downloading -- one! of
> an unsigned artist the whole time.
Note how Lars said "an" unsigned artist. I assume he meant "we picked one unsigned artist and there was only one download of that artist during that time". Obviously meaning "any unsigned artist" is ludicrous.
(I'm still curious about where these stats came from in the first place.)
Their domain name is thecocacolacompany.com? No wonder they want coke.ch!