Let's put this simple. You're right, permissions by user isn't enough. But if we set permissions by app, eventually, Windows users will become accustomed to clicking "Accept" to every app permission that occurs, creating the same state we're in now. Do I read all of the XP pop-ups? Yes, I do, as well as all my Spybot pop-ups, as I don't want a randow BHO installed on my system. Does everyone read those pop-ups? Hell no!!! And that's the reason why I have to clean out my girlfriend's computer on a monthly basis. I can't expect her and children to read every pop-up and understand what's going on. As any sysadmin knows, it comes down to the average user. We can try to educate them as much as possible, but until they do learn, we have to have some permissions-based system so that we can try to keep average users out of their computer enough to stop zombied boxen from happening everywhere. Am I trying to educate my girlfriend? Yes, but it's not a simple process.
Trucks are a crappy way to move stuff thousands of miles away, but I know a number of people that make quite good salaries off the fact that they drive trucks cross-country. Crappy: yes. Necessary: yes!
A solar panel array means you have to have lots of access to sunlight. In the north part of the state, during the winter, there is no sunlight. It's above the Artic Circle. And during the summer, you have to content with storms, even though you may have 24 hours of sunlight. Contrast that with southern Arizona where I am, and you've got 300+ days of pure sunlight, even though you may only have sunlight for 12-14 hours a day.
Am I the only person around here that had a woman for a professor in a programming class? Of course, this is the same woman that started programming in the 60's with a background in mathematics. She knew she was the minority, and that many of her "colleagues" in the mathematics field viewed her as not being as capable as them. Granted, I was just starting out in community college, but still?...
I can fully understand wanting equality in all professions, as that is a noble goal. As other posters have mentioned, if the number of women in CS and programming is declining, I think the least of the problems is "smelly, nerdy types". While CS is not all programming, any good student will understand that there are some theories that you have to grasp well in order to understand the rest of the subject material. Maybe it's just me, but I fail to see why any college would need to boost the number of women in CS-related degrees. And I don't want to hear a bunch of misogynistic reasons. Any woman has the ability to perform any profession as well as a man. A woman at college should have more than enough opportunities to attend CS classes. If she chooses not to attend, then there's no reason to push her into a CS class, or a profession for that matter. After all, my female programming instructor was damn good at her job, she chose that profession, and stuck to it. Any other woman can do the same thing.
#3: I've been listening to Pandora for a few months now. I've recently attended concerts and bought CDs by RIAA bands. But since my taste in music is far from mainstream (death metal, metalcore), I never hear any of those bands on regular radio. As mentioned by another poster in this thread, the RIAA doesn't care about those bands because they won't go mainstream like pop music will, hence not making the RIAA as much money. Having said that, I've also bought CDs by non-RIAA bands that I've heard on Pandora. If the artists don't know they'll get screwed by the RIAA, that's not my problem. I want to listen to the music, and I'll pay the money for it. I have plenty of disguist for the RIAA, but in the end, I just want to listen to music.
Unfortunately no. "Soulbound" items, aka BoP (Bind on Pick-up), can be sold to NPC vendors, but can't be traded to other players or put up for in-game auctions. As I'm finally starting to get to a decent level, some of those items can hit hundreds of gold. If someone were to hack a lvl 70, between the gold on them and the items, we're talking a good chunk of change. But there's no way to make an item or currency bound to a single player.
Well, China has Google filtering search results. Now Orkut is giving IP info to Mumbai officials to ensure that "anti-Indian" speech is not propagated through the "tubes". What's next, the American government spying on their own citizens and abusing the law that was put in place to allow them to do it?
That's the normal course for games that either suck or are mediocre at best. Let's look at a real MMO, a game that has survived the passage of time, Everquest. Sony released the 13th expansion to that series on Feb 13, 2007. I played EQ for about 2 weeks, currently working on my 2nd month in WoW. I'm quite sure the majority of us remember the original "evercrack" jokes, dating all the way back to the late 90s.
I don't own an Xbox at all. With the size of Microsoft and the fact that they can crank out new games for Xbox live, I seriously doubt that the "dwindling" effect won't actually take hold for a number of years, possibly decades. Seeing as how EQ is still around and doesn't have nearly the cash reserve or resources that Microsoft has, the possibility of server combining for Xbox Live is nigh low.
If I only had mod points, you need at least one for insightful! After reading both the BBC article given above and the original article (after all, RTFA), I'm inclined to agree with the parent on this one. Yes, reduced funding can and probably will have some serious negative effects on current projects, but seeing as how it's only a temporary set-back due to outside problems, there's no reason to get the knickers in a bunch. The funding will be returned next year, and will have an increase on top of that. People, relax. Most of us know how important fundamental research is, and the British government is planning on ensuring a continued funding for that research.
Funny enough, I'm still running XP at home, which at one time was dual-booting with Ubuntu. I got the closed-sourse drivers from nVidia for my Ubuntu Linux, worked just fine for me. Yes, I had to update a few of the configs by hand for X11, but in the entire time I've owned a nVidia graphics card, I've never had a single problem. Different monitors never caused a problem. My original motherboard blew, switched it out, kept the same nVidia card, never had a problem with WoW, or doing digital photo editing.
Like anything else in XP, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But just because you had a problem with nVidia's drivers, don't immediately blame them. Vista also had a re-work of some of the graphics sub-system. But I do give credit to nVidia and ATI, I'm sure they'll work out the driver's problems. Why? For the simple fact that if they don't, they'll lose credibility and market share. It won't be hard for a new GPU company to start working.
It nearly sounds like you want to use your existing skill set and apply it to a different career field. But my take is that you're never too old to finish your degree. I'm 27, and also don't have a bachelors degree, but once again, I've had decent jobs. However, I will also be going back to finish my degree soon, same degree as you, but I'm going to double major, mathematics and programming. I say go for it, additional education never hurts.
In an age of the MAFIAA and other organizations dedicated to maintaining stupid IP laws and restrictive fair use laws, it's nice to see a company realize that a parody only helps them more. After all, this is free PR, and good PR at that.
As a father who just deleted the step-daughter's MySpace account and revoked priviledges to the step-son, I'm feeling inclined to offer my 2 cents here. In order to start a MySpace account, you need an email address. Any child can do that, free providers are everywhere. You can also browse MySpace to look for anyone, including your children if they're sneaky. MySpace does not need additional parental controls, it needs additional parents to monitor their children.
As far as a children's rights, they extend only so far as to prevent abuse in any way shape or form. After all, the step-son broke something at school. Guess who's paying for it? Sure as hell isn't him. After all, ultimate responsibility falls on me and their mother to ensure that they become (relatively) productive and contributing members of society. When the kids are online, they know that they have no expectations of privacy. At my house, internet and computer usage is a priviledge, not a right. It's a priviledge that can be removed at any time, for whatever reasons we (mother and I) choose. Now, I'm not going to cut off MySpace because something got broken at school, but I will cut off access if the children abuse the priviledge.
Case in point: step-daughter was being pissy and started to become disrespectful towards her mother while engaging with another pre-teen on MySpace. For that, priviledges was revoked with a quick changed password. After all, we set up the accounts and the email addresses for them. Once she learned how to change the password back again using her email address, the email address and MySpace passwords were changed for going behind our backs. Afterwards, she decided to use her brother's account to talk to all her friends on MySpace. A day later, account was deleted, and brother's MySpace password was changed. When said brother couldn't use MySpace, we sat down with both of them and explained what all was done and why.
Introducing additional restrictions will not solve the problem at hand. If said parents aren't monitoring their children already, additional legislature won't force them to start monitoring. It's up to the parents to ensure that their children aren't posting sexual material online, or acting in any sort of immoral way, racism, etc. You may not agree with our disciplinary actions, but no one can tell us that we're not monitoring them. We do monitor, but as parents, we've seen plenty of children that aren't being monitored. Ultimately, my responsiblity to is to raise those children. Unfortunately, not all parents see it that way.
While I agree that most people don't realize that their mouth is flapping when it's not supposed to be, not all of the human race has that problem. I realize it's an oxy moron, but some military positions do require a security clearance, which basically states that you can keep your mouth shut. Having been through the process myself, I can tell you that it's not easy. I was actually denied my security clearance due to personal reasons. Long story short, some people can keep their mouths shut, but meeting those people is far and few between.
What you say is true, that it's just a bunch of rich people spying on other rich people. But the manner in which the spying was done was illegal. Phone calls to and from spouses were obtained? Ok, I understand that the rich guy forgot his cell at home and needed to use the wife's phone, but in all reality, that steps well beyond the line of legality to determine where the leaks were. IMO, this is unethical, and at that point, one begins to think about how far those rich people will go to make sure stocks stay high. And therein lies my concern: if I buy an HP server for my company, what assurances do I have that HP didn't install a backdoor program to ensure that I wasn't sending emails to a competitor about some additional servers? That would be illegal and unethical, but let's face the facts folks, the execs already spied on reporters that reported the leaks, what would prevent them from using the same tactics to ensure profitability at the customer's level?
This really isn't a tool, just a little added protection. Visit here, which is a site that runs a script. By using the site, you can visit other sites without having to worry about referred pages, OS and browser info, basically the stuff that is personally identifiable. I don't know if the site itself caches any of your data, but which would you rather have, a site that has your browsing history, or your ISP that may soon give the data to the feds?
I worked in an AOL call center doing tech support for almost 2 years, from 2001 to 2003. It's true, it's a call center, but that center employed close to 500 people, ranging from billing to tech support. There were quite a few people in that Arizona call center that were in the process of getting their IT career started. It's a decent starting point, and the possible loss of the center won't devastate the economy of the city, but it's still quite a few people that are going to have a rough time trying to do better.
I'm running XP Home right now, and the only reason is because I'm required to have Office 2003 for college. Somehow I doubt some of my instructors would know what to do with some of the files I send.
Back on topic: when an XP system starts up, there's a little process that starts up with it called wuaclt.exe, the windows update process. While it's very easy to turn it off, that then requires the use of Windows Updates via IE, but you have to use IE, it won't work with Mozilla or Firefox. Using the update website still requires the install of WGA. Can you get around it? Sure, but since I did a fresh install of my XP last night, I've had WGA install and update. I would get back to my dual-boot Linux, but GRUB doesn't like my hard disk scheme, I did some funky stuff with the hardware that really screws with it.
At this point, it's a never-ending cycle, M$ does an update to get WGA to work, some cracker finds a way around it, M$ goes around that, another cracker gets around it, etc etc. But yes, XP does have the ability to "phone home", and if you disable it, MS will try to get you a different way, which you have to get around.
No such thing as overly hygienic? Well, I've got some good anecdotal evidence for you. Female friend of mine, serious clean freak, took 5 showers a day. She ended up with yeast infections constantly and when she talked to the doctor, found out she was too clean, her body couldn't fight off the infections. I grew up playing outside constantly, regular middle-class family. My siblings were the same. Overly hygienic is when some parent gets out the anti-bacterial wipes every time their kid tried to play in mud. I've watched parents pull that stunt before. Kids play outside, and if there's mud, well, curiosity gets to them all the same. I'm not advocating that parents don't clean their kids, a bath once a day or every 2 days is good. But there's no reason to take anti-bacterial wipes with you outside to make sure dirty bacteria doesn't infect the children. For God's sake, YOU'RE OUTSIDE!!!
That's the way I've been doing it since the late 90's. My system now has 2 drives, 200Gb and 160Gb. The smaller drive just has the "My Documents" folder and other associated stuff, personal files like music, but all apps still stay on the larger drive. Larger drive is also partitioned so that I can dual-boot XP and Gentoo, split evenly. Basically, I have a 160Gb drive for personal stuff, and the other drive for OS and apps.
While Intel may have been sitting on the x86_64 processor before AMD, AMD hit the markets first. And now Intel is using AMD's 64-bit instruction set. If anything, AMD did the innovation there. I realize this is off-topic, but damn...
As for SCO, a quick visit to Groklaw is showing more signs that SCO can't get their act together to save their business, which in the end, I hope is true.
Ok, boycott a product. That much I understand and completely agree with. But "The artists are part of the beast as well, why respect them if they're willing participants as well? Don't even listen to it on the radio." that I can't agree with. For instance, I do listen to music on the radio. Why? Because I enjoy rock and metal. MTV doesn't exactly play that anymore. I can buy the album, but to do so contributes to the RIAA and should be avoided. Fair enough. But, I still like the bands. I still enjoy listening to the music. I get to hear another's point of view in such a fashion that is known as art. Now, if a mainstream band uses download subscription services, that I should use. Fair deal for me. But don't start hating the artists because they have something to say and for whatever reason, that's the only method available to them.
Ugh, hate it when I miss that stuff... I will agree with you that we need more knowledgable users, but consider everything that has to go into a "internet surfing" license. I just don't know if that's going to be possible.
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Let's put this simple. You're right, permissions by user isn't enough. But if we set permissions by app, eventually, Windows users will become accustomed to clicking "Accept" to every app permission that occurs, creating the same state we're in now. Do I read all of the XP pop-ups? Yes, I do, as well as all my Spybot pop-ups, as I don't want a randow BHO installed on my system. Does everyone read those pop-ups? Hell no!!! And that's the reason why I have to clean out my girlfriend's computer on a monthly basis. I can't expect her and children to read every pop-up and understand what's going on. As any sysadmin knows, it comes down to the average user. We can try to educate them as much as possible, but until they do learn, we have to have some permissions-based system so that we can try to keep average users out of their computer enough to stop zombied boxen from happening everywhere. Am I trying to educate my girlfriend? Yes, but it's not a simple process.
Trucks are a crappy way to move stuff thousands of miles away, but I know a number of people that make quite good salaries off the fact that they drive trucks cross-country. Crappy: yes. Necessary: yes!
A solar panel array means you have to have lots of access to sunlight. In the north part of the state, during the winter, there is no sunlight. It's above the Artic Circle. And during the summer, you have to content with storms, even though you may have 24 hours of sunlight. Contrast that with southern Arizona where I am, and you've got 300+ days of pure sunlight, even though you may only have sunlight for 12-14 hours a day.
Am I the only person around here that had a woman for a professor in a programming class? Of course, this is the same woman that started programming in the 60's with a background in mathematics. She knew she was the minority, and that many of her "colleagues" in the mathematics field viewed her as not being as capable as them. Granted, I was just starting out in community college, but still?...
I can fully understand wanting equality in all professions, as that is a noble goal. As other posters have mentioned, if the number of women in CS and programming is declining, I think the least of the problems is "smelly, nerdy types". While CS is not all programming, any good student will understand that there are some theories that you have to grasp well in order to understand the rest of the subject material. Maybe it's just me, but I fail to see why any college would need to boost the number of women in CS-related degrees. And I don't want to hear a bunch of misogynistic reasons. Any woman has the ability to perform any profession as well as a man. A woman at college should have more than enough opportunities to attend CS classes. If she chooses not to attend, then there's no reason to push her into a CS class, or a profession for that matter. After all, my female programming instructor was damn good at her job, she chose that profession, and stuck to it. Any other woman can do the same thing.
#3: I've been listening to Pandora for a few months now. I've recently attended concerts and bought CDs by RIAA bands. But since my taste in music is far from mainstream (death metal, metalcore), I never hear any of those bands on regular radio. As mentioned by another poster in this thread, the RIAA doesn't care about those bands because they won't go mainstream like pop music will, hence not making the RIAA as much money. Having said that, I've also bought CDs by non-RIAA bands that I've heard on Pandora. If the artists don't know they'll get screwed by the RIAA, that's not my problem. I want to listen to the music, and I'll pay the money for it. I have plenty of disguist for the RIAA, but in the end, I just want to listen to music.
Unfortunately no. "Soulbound" items, aka BoP (Bind on Pick-up), can be sold to NPC vendors, but can't be traded to other players or put up for in-game auctions. As I'm finally starting to get to a decent level, some of those items can hit hundreds of gold. If someone were to hack a lvl 70, between the gold on them and the items, we're talking a good chunk of change. But there's no way to make an item or currency bound to a single player.
Well, China has Google filtering search results. Now Orkut is giving IP info to Mumbai officials to ensure that "anti-Indian" speech is not propagated through the "tubes". What's next, the American government spying on their own citizens and abusing the law that was put in place to allow them to do it?
Wait a minute...
That's the normal course for games that either suck or are mediocre at best. Let's look at a real MMO, a game that has survived the passage of time, Everquest. Sony released the 13th expansion to that series on Feb 13, 2007. I played EQ for about 2 weeks, currently working on my 2nd month in WoW. I'm quite sure the majority of us remember the original "evercrack" jokes, dating all the way back to the late 90s.
I don't own an Xbox at all. With the size of Microsoft and the fact that they can crank out new games for Xbox live, I seriously doubt that the "dwindling" effect won't actually take hold for a number of years, possibly decades. Seeing as how EQ is still around and doesn't have nearly the cash reserve or resources that Microsoft has, the possibility of server combining for Xbox Live is nigh low.
If I only had mod points, you need at least one for insightful! After reading both the BBC article given above and the original article (after all, RTFA), I'm inclined to agree with the parent on this one. Yes, reduced funding can and probably will have some serious negative effects on current projects, but seeing as how it's only a temporary set-back due to outside problems, there's no reason to get the knickers in a bunch. The funding will be returned next year, and will have an increase on top of that. People, relax. Most of us know how important fundamental research is, and the British government is planning on ensuring a continued funding for that research.
Funny enough, I'm still running XP at home, which at one time was dual-booting with Ubuntu. I got the closed-sourse drivers from nVidia for my Ubuntu Linux, worked just fine for me. Yes, I had to update a few of the configs by hand for X11, but in the entire time I've owned a nVidia graphics card, I've never had a single problem. Different monitors never caused a problem. My original motherboard blew, switched it out, kept the same nVidia card, never had a problem with WoW, or doing digital photo editing. Like anything else in XP, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But just because you had a problem with nVidia's drivers, don't immediately blame them. Vista also had a re-work of some of the graphics sub-system. But I do give credit to nVidia and ATI, I'm sure they'll work out the driver's problems. Why? For the simple fact that if they don't, they'll lose credibility and market share. It won't be hard for a new GPU company to start working.
Ohh, if I only had mod points. Sorry guys, but that joke was funny...
It nearly sounds like you want to use your existing skill set and apply it to a different career field. But my take is that you're never too old to finish your degree. I'm 27, and also don't have a bachelors degree, but once again, I've had decent jobs. However, I will also be going back to finish my degree soon, same degree as you, but I'm going to double major, mathematics and programming. I say go for it, additional education never hurts.
In an age of the MAFIAA and other organizations dedicated to maintaining stupid IP laws and restrictive fair use laws, it's nice to see a company realize that a parody only helps them more. After all, this is free PR, and good PR at that.
As a father who just deleted the step-daughter's MySpace account and revoked priviledges to the step-son, I'm feeling inclined to offer my 2 cents here. In order to start a MySpace account, you need an email address. Any child can do that, free providers are everywhere. You can also browse MySpace to look for anyone, including your children if they're sneaky. MySpace does not need additional parental controls, it needs additional parents to monitor their children.
As far as a children's rights, they extend only so far as to prevent abuse in any way shape or form. After all, the step-son broke something at school. Guess who's paying for it? Sure as hell isn't him. After all, ultimate responsibility falls on me and their mother to ensure that they become (relatively) productive and contributing members of society. When the kids are online, they know that they have no expectations of privacy. At my house, internet and computer usage is a priviledge, not a right. It's a priviledge that can be removed at any time, for whatever reasons we (mother and I) choose. Now, I'm not going to cut off MySpace because something got broken at school, but I will cut off access if the children abuse the priviledge.
Case in point: step-daughter was being pissy and started to become disrespectful towards her mother while engaging with another pre-teen on MySpace. For that, priviledges was revoked with a quick changed password. After all, we set up the accounts and the email addresses for them. Once she learned how to change the password back again using her email address, the email address and MySpace passwords were changed for going behind our backs. Afterwards, she decided to use her brother's account to talk to all her friends on MySpace. A day later, account was deleted, and brother's MySpace password was changed. When said brother couldn't use MySpace, we sat down with both of them and explained what all was done and why.
Introducing additional restrictions will not solve the problem at hand. If said parents aren't monitoring their children already, additional legislature won't force them to start monitoring. It's up to the parents to ensure that their children aren't posting sexual material online, or acting in any sort of immoral way, racism, etc. You may not agree with our disciplinary actions, but no one can tell us that we're not monitoring them. We do monitor, but as parents, we've seen plenty of children that aren't being monitored. Ultimately, my responsiblity to is to raise those children. Unfortunately, not all parents see it that way.
While I agree that most people don't realize that their mouth is flapping when it's not supposed to be, not all of the human race has that problem. I realize it's an oxy moron, but some military positions do require a security clearance, which basically states that you can keep your mouth shut. Having been through the process myself, I can tell you that it's not easy. I was actually denied my security clearance due to personal reasons. Long story short, some people can keep their mouths shut, but meeting those people is far and few between.
What you say is true, that it's just a bunch of rich people spying on other rich people. But the manner in which the spying was done was illegal. Phone calls to and from spouses were obtained? Ok, I understand that the rich guy forgot his cell at home and needed to use the wife's phone, but in all reality, that steps well beyond the line of legality to determine where the leaks were. IMO, this is unethical, and at that point, one begins to think about how far those rich people will go to make sure stocks stay high. And therein lies my concern: if I buy an HP server for my company, what assurances do I have that HP didn't install a backdoor program to ensure that I wasn't sending emails to a competitor about some additional servers? That would be illegal and unethical, but let's face the facts folks, the execs already spied on reporters that reported the leaks, what would prevent them from using the same tactics to ensure profitability at the customer's level?
This really isn't a tool, just a little added protection. Visit here, which is a site that runs a script. By using the site, you can visit other sites without having to worry about referred pages, OS and browser info, basically the stuff that is personally identifiable. I don't know if the site itself caches any of your data, but which would you rather have, a site that has your browsing history, or your ISP that may soon give the data to the feds?
I worked in an AOL call center doing tech support for almost 2 years, from 2001 to 2003. It's true, it's a call center, but that center employed close to 500 people, ranging from billing to tech support. There were quite a few people in that Arizona call center that were in the process of getting their IT career started. It's a decent starting point, and the possible loss of the center won't devastate the economy of the city, but it's still quite a few people that are going to have a rough time trying to do better.
I'm running XP Home right now, and the only reason is because I'm required to have Office 2003 for college. Somehow I doubt some of my instructors would know what to do with some of the files I send.
Back on topic: when an XP system starts up, there's a little process that starts up with it called wuaclt.exe, the windows update process. While it's very easy to turn it off, that then requires the use of Windows Updates via IE, but you have to use IE, it won't work with Mozilla or Firefox. Using the update website still requires the install of WGA. Can you get around it? Sure, but since I did a fresh install of my XP last night, I've had WGA install and update. I would get back to my dual-boot Linux, but GRUB doesn't like my hard disk scheme, I did some funky stuff with the hardware that really screws with it.
At this point, it's a never-ending cycle, M$ does an update to get WGA to work, some cracker finds a way around it, M$ goes around that, another cracker gets around it, etc etc. But yes, XP does have the ability to "phone home", and if you disable it, MS will try to get you a different way, which you have to get around.
No such thing as overly hygienic? Well, I've got some good anecdotal evidence for you.
Female friend of mine, serious clean freak, took 5 showers a day. She ended up with yeast infections constantly and when she talked to the doctor, found out she was too clean, her body couldn't fight off the infections.
I grew up playing outside constantly, regular middle-class family. My siblings were the same. Overly hygienic is when some parent gets out the anti-bacterial wipes every time their kid tried to play in mud. I've watched parents pull that stunt before. Kids play outside, and if there's mud, well, curiosity gets to them all the same. I'm not advocating that parents don't clean their kids, a bath once a day or every 2 days is good. But there's no reason to take anti-bacterial wipes with you outside to make sure dirty bacteria doesn't infect the children. For God's sake, YOU'RE OUTSIDE!!!
That's the way I've been doing it since the late 90's. My system now has 2 drives, 200Gb and 160Gb. The smaller drive just has the "My Documents" folder and other associated stuff, personal files like music, but all apps still stay on the larger drive. Larger drive is also partitioned so that I can dual-boot XP and Gentoo, split evenly. Basically, I have a 160Gb drive for personal stuff, and the other drive for OS and apps.
Ubuntuu, Mandriva are some extras. I've gotten Ubuntuu, Mandriva, and Suse all via Torrent.
While Intel may have been sitting on the x86_64 processor before AMD, AMD hit the markets first. And now Intel is using AMD's 64-bit instruction set. If anything, AMD did the innovation there. I realize this is off-topic, but damn... As for SCO, a quick visit to Groklaw is showing more signs that SCO can't get their act together to save their business, which in the end, I hope is true.
Ok, boycott a product. That much I understand and completely agree with. But "The artists are part of the beast as well, why respect them if they're willing participants as well? Don't even listen to it on the radio." that I can't agree with. For instance, I do listen to music on the radio. Why? Because I enjoy rock and metal. MTV doesn't exactly play that anymore. I can buy the album, but to do so contributes to the RIAA and should be avoided. Fair enough. But, I still like the bands. I still enjoy listening to the music. I get to hear another's point of view in such a fashion that is known as art. Now, if a mainstream band uses download subscription services, that I should use. Fair deal for me. But don't start hating the artists because they have something to say and for whatever reason, that's the only method available to them.
Ugh, hate it when I miss that stuff... I will agree with you that we need more knowledgable users, but consider everything that has to go into a "internet surfing" license. I just don't know if that's going to be possible.