But that would imply that they aren't property. We can't be having that.
If you put it in the peoples' heads that IP, rather than someone's private property, is only a monopoly granted by the government, well then they might just want to abolish it. Better to leave them thinking that anyone who wants to abolish "Intellectual Property" is a communist.
If your party is out of power, dissent is patriotic.
If your party is in power, support of the government is patriotic.
If the two parties are sharing legislative power, the only patriotic thing to do is shut up and keep funding foreign wars and bail out financial companies.
The times when the two parties have to share legislative power is when they reveal what they're really all about, and that they're really not that different from each other.
My question is this: What is the EPA _really_ trying to accomplish with this? Covering CO2 under the Clean Air Act would completely hamstring American businesses, forcing them to severely cut CO2 emissions. At this point, that is barely even technologically feasible, much less cost-effective, much less profit-producing. So what, are they _trying_ to bankrupt America businesses? Are they _trying_ to return us to the Stone Age? Are they _trying_ to give American companies as much of a handicap as possible in the global market, such that they will now have to compete with now even cheaper alternatives made in countries that don't have such off-the-wall regulations?
No, you're not thinking evil enough. Laws banning narcotics, prostitution, gambling, and speeding would be death to our economy and our society if they were objectively enforced. But the intention is to selectively enforce it.
Selective enforcement is the reason we need to take away the government's monopoly on prosecuting certain cases.
Nobody holds a gun to the jury members' heads and forces them to convict an alleged criminal or find in favor of a plaintiff. If you, through jury duty, convict someone in court of breaking a law, you're an active enabler of that particular law.
Whereas streaming video is hypothetically latency sensitive, but very high bandwidth, so the solution there is not to prioritize the packets, but to have the client buffer up some data first, hopefully making it latency insensitive as long as the bandwidth stays fairly steady.
The only media deal that can make sense is to buy the NFL, MLB, NASCAR or NBA because people will pay up for sports even in a recession. If the Disney channel suddenly becomes a premium channel I won't be getting it. even though i have a child.
Not that it means that the leagues would be powerless to fight back if Comsney pulled some real shenanigans, but you get more than just a kid's channel if you buy Disney.
As it is, the only voice they hear are those of lobbyist for major media companies who want laws like this on the books.
Are you seriously making the argument that the poor little Congressmen's minds are confused about basic right and wrong because they're overwhelmed with the voices of lobbyists?
They're not confused, they're complicit. To be fair, so are the cops that arrest people for crap like this, judges that don't throw out cases like these, and juries who convict people on charges like these.
See the monstrosity called US Code and US Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Written by lawyers, which coincidentally, takes an army of lawyers to manage.
It's only been a few weeks since the law dubbed Zugangserschwerungsgesetz (access impediment law)
Consistently separating words by spaces became a general custom about the tenth century A.D., and lasted until about 2009, when Germans abandoned the practice.
Slashdot has a char limit on sigs, but my original list also included left, right, and fascism. I wanted to compare them to "cracker" and how they've lost their meaning and are just used to balkanize people, but it would have been way too long with all of that.
FWIW, I wrote in Paul for President last time, as well as voted for him in the primaries (and had to register as a dirty Republican to do it), although I don't agree with everything he says or does. Even though he's not a Libertarian, both him and the Libertarians seem to think there really isn't anything that government does well. I don't quite go that far.
But he's the first politician that ever motivated me to vote, and that says something, I guess.
It's not so much that the good, competent people aren't usually willing to improve things, as if they need some catalyst. It's that, most of the time, the (for lack of a better word) shitty people will fight the good, competent people tooth and nail until the situation is so obviously bad that it can't be denied and can't be sustained. And the shitty people vastly outnumber the good, competent people.
Anything else would be a premature admission of guilt on the part of the shitty people. They won't admit guilt until they're backed into a corner.
Anyway, this is what usually happens, there are exceptions of course.
This capability is especially convenient for managing network overload due to P2P traffic. Conventionally, P2P is filtered out using a technique called deep packet inspection, or DPI, which looks at the data portion of all packets. With flow management, you can detect P2P because it relies on many long-duration flows per user. Then, without peeking into the packets' data, you can limit their transmission to rates you deem fair.
If routers started doing this, wouldn't torrent clients just start randomizing their port numbers? According to him, different port numbers will get counted as a different "flow". I'd think, if they wanted to do this, they'd at least have to look at IPs, port numbers are easy to change.
And there weren't any copiers back when the first books first came out.
Yes, of course! We would have a completely clear picture of the Word of God today in 2009, if only God had a copy machine in 33! Damn the Devil, that wily bastard, delaying the invention of the photocopier by 2000 years!
But today, in the Middle Bullshit Era, if you do that you might have someone snitch you out. Then you could be kicked out of the university for being in violation of the stated Ethics Policy, which you have no doubt signed at some point.
I've thought about that several times, and have even done that with some trusted friends in the same classes. But torrents are a lot safer than doing that with some random person.
Nah, I was joking about the cost/portions in EU. Your meats might very well be more hygenic, I don't know. But when I made a short trip to Europe, I noticed that all day I would get about as much meat/fish as I do in one meal in the US, and it was more expensive, even after adjusting for exchange!
Diets in the EU seem to be more based on bread, pasta, and potatoes, I guess. It's a nice place to visit, but I'd never want to live there, because I just couldn't handle the diet, all those baked foods don't fill me up. Just a culture difference, I guess.
That's one of the best things about the US, we have lots of land to grow all kinds of food and herd animals on, so food is relatively cheap here. But for some reason we can't make beer like you guys.
I see your point, but that can't be all there is to it. If we take sept 11 for example, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that the cockpit needs to be locked, secure from both attackers and the pilots themselves. And sure, the average person might not understand the concept of an air gap, but they don't understand how a real crack works either. So, given two possible solutions, one rational, and the other "omfg, we're gonna die unless we have a panopticon prison state!" that they're equally unclear on, there must be something else going on that makes fear the default position.
Over the years, I've started thinking it has a lot to do with controling TV. If you control what the box says, you control the reality, or at least the perceived reality, of the populace. From another angle, that's another good point for putting more strict controls on the internet, from the point of view of those in power. I'm sure they would love to turn the internet into glorified TV for content, and into a walled garden for things that actually do need a real grown up global comm system, like software updates. All without encryption of course, except for license holders.
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But that would imply that they aren't property. We can't be having that.
If you put it in the peoples' heads that IP, rather than someone's private property, is only a monopoly granted by the government, well then they might just want to abolish it. Better to leave them thinking that anyone who wants to abolish "Intellectual Property" is a communist.
A communist who hates them for their freedom.
How does rockbox work on your sansa? What's the battery life like? Thanks
FTA:
Since last week, apparently.
Market forces aren't creating this situation. It's monopoly forces that are at work, in the form of copyright.
Just wanted to say great sig.
I'll be reminded of it every time I see one of those "The more you tighten your grip...." one-liner posts.
Not quite.
If your party is out of power, dissent is patriotic.
If your party is in power, support of the government is patriotic.
If the two parties are sharing legislative power, the only patriotic thing to do is shut up and keep funding foreign wars and bail out financial companies.
The times when the two parties have to share legislative power is when they reveal what they're really all about, and that they're really not that different from each other.
No, you're not thinking evil enough. Laws banning narcotics, prostitution, gambling, and speeding would be death to our economy and our society if they were objectively enforced. But the intention is to selectively enforce it.
Selective enforcement is the reason we need to take away the government's monopoly on prosecuting certain cases.
Nuremberg defense.
Nobody holds a gun to the jury members' heads and forces them to convict an alleged criminal or find in favor of a plaintiff. If you, through jury duty, convict someone in court of breaking a law, you're an active enabler of that particular law.
But buffering funds terrorism!
Disney owns espn and abc.
http://corporate.disney.go.com/careers/who_espn.html
http://corporate.disney.go.com/careers/who_abc_tv_group.html
Not that it means that the leagues would be powerless to fight back if Comsney pulled some real shenanigans, but you get more than just a kid's channel if you buy Disney.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u2ZsoYWwJA
Where the fuck are all my mod points now? The ones I haven't needed and been using on trolls and funnies.
That pretty much sums up everything in this country now.
Heard about this?
http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/
Supposedly they're shipping right now, but I'm waiting for someone to post a video review.
Are you seriously making the argument that the poor little Congressmen's minds are confused about basic right and wrong because they're overwhelmed with the voices of lobbyists?
They're not confused, they're complicit. To be fair, so are the cops that arrest people for crap like this, judges that don't throw out cases like these, and juries who convict people on charges like these.
No.
See police, courts, and speeding tickets.
See patents and the patent office.
See the monstrosity called US Code and US Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Written by lawyers, which coincidentally, takes an army of lawyers to manage.
Consistently separating words by spaces became a general custom about the tenth century A.D., and lasted until about 2009, when Germans abandoned the practice.
Slashdot has a char limit on sigs, but my original list also included left, right, and fascism. I wanted to compare them to "cracker" and how they've lost their meaning and are just used to balkanize people, but it would have been way too long with all of that.
FWIW, I wrote in Paul for President last time, as well as voted for him in the primaries (and had to register as a dirty Republican to do it), although I don't agree with everything he says or does. Even though he's not a Libertarian, both him and the Libertarians seem to think there really isn't anything that government does well. I don't quite go that far.
But he's the first politician that ever motivated me to vote, and that says something, I guess.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/u_s_holds_going_out_of_business
It's not so much that the good, competent people aren't usually willing to improve things, as if they need some catalyst. It's that, most of the time, the (for lack of a better word) shitty people will fight the good, competent people tooth and nail until the situation is so obviously bad that it can't be denied and can't be sustained. And the shitty people vastly outnumber the good, competent people.
Anything else would be a premature admission of guilt on the part of the shitty people. They won't admit guilt until they're backed into a corner.
Anyway, this is what usually happens, there are exceptions of course.
If you're not familiar with the process of binary diff (I wasn't) there's a paper linked from the article that explains some about bsdiff:
http://www.daemonology.net/papers/bsdiff.pdf
Wayback from 2007/07/09:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070709234208/http://www.daemonology.net/papers/bsdiff.pdf
If routers started doing this, wouldn't torrent clients just start randomizing their port numbers? According to him, different port numbers will get counted as a different "flow". I'd think, if they wanted to do this, they'd at least have to look at IPs, port numbers are easy to change.
Yes, of course! We would have a completely clear picture of the Word of God today in 2009, if only God had a copy machine in 33! Damn the Devil, that wily bastard, delaying the invention of the photocopier by 2000 years!
Sorry, couldn't resist.
But today, in the Middle Bullshit Era, if you do that you might have someone snitch you out. Then you could be kicked out of the university for being in violation of the stated Ethics Policy, which you have no doubt signed at some point.
I've thought about that several times, and have even done that with some trusted friends in the same classes. But torrents are a lot safer than doing that with some random person.
Nah, I was joking about the cost/portions in EU. Your meats might very well be more hygenic, I don't know. But when I made a short trip to Europe, I noticed that all day I would get about as much meat/fish as I do in one meal in the US, and it was more expensive, even after adjusting for exchange!
Diets in the EU seem to be more based on bread, pasta, and potatoes, I guess. It's a nice place to visit, but I'd never want to live there, because I just couldn't handle the diet, all those baked foods don't fill me up. Just a culture difference, I guess.
That's one of the best things about the US, we have lots of land to grow all kinds of food and herd animals on, so food is relatively cheap here. But for some reason we can't make beer like you guys.
I see your point, but that can't be all there is to it. If we take sept 11 for example, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that the cockpit needs to be locked, secure from both attackers and the pilots themselves. And sure, the average person might not understand the concept of an air gap, but they don't understand how a real crack works either. So, given two possible solutions, one rational, and the other "omfg, we're gonna die unless we have a panopticon prison state!" that they're equally unclear on, there must be something else going on that makes fear the default position.
Over the years, I've started thinking it has a lot to do with controling TV. If you control what the box says, you control the reality, or at least the perceived reality, of the populace. From another angle, that's another good point for putting more strict controls on the internet, from the point of view of those in power. I'm sure they would love to turn the internet into glorified TV for content, and into a walled garden for things that actually do need a real grown up global comm system, like software updates. All without encryption of course, except for license holders.