Well, Google has the marketplace cornered for streaming video sites with YouTube. It has the power to effect such a change so don't be so shortsighted.
It really depends upon which side of the fence you are on and which party stands to make or lose the most amount of money. If you side with RIAA or a Publisher, sampling might be an absolute no-no. If you are the artist and your ideas are being used to create new ones, this could be a form of homage to your talent. A Zen master once said, "Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery." Dave Matthews would most likely encourage this.
This is also a solution that is more environmentally friendly than the existings ones such as oiling swamps, deet fogging, or using LP/Natural Gas Traps. Deet is a carcinogen and oiling swamps does damage to other species of wildlife. The system is, admittedly, genius.
Judge Carney is being very short sighted if he expects that this "strong sentence" will dissuade people from stealing technology and giving it to China. I would be less likely to want to steal secrets from the Chinese Government because, if caught, I could be tortured and subject to unthinkable brutality. Note that this is not a suggestion that we implement torture. But another slashdotter noted that Chung's retirement in Federal Prison will give him better healthcare options than many Americans that have been good, law-abiding citizens will have access to. And, these Americans have worked hard for all of their lives. Honestly, a better punishment would be to strip Chung of his citizenship and deport him to China and finally to sanction the Chinese Government.
I do not necessarily mind paying for music. I do mind being told what type of device I can play my music on. That, my friends, is tyranny. This leads me to another gripe: The iPod and its ilk. We bought the device, therefore we own it and should have the right to modify it to work the way we want it. This is very much like purchasing a car, truck, or motocycle and customizing it. We purchase the vehicle so we own it and can modify it (legally) to ways we see fit. In this day and age, it looks like we purchase the license or right to use something which stifles innovation and puts us even further technologically behind other countries.
So bit torrent gets blocked? The neat thing about innovation is that it out paces legislation. There will be another technology that will come out to replace bit torrent in P2P that will defeat Comcast's Great Firewall.
MindlessAutomata, that is an excellent point. Break up the ISP oligarchy and return control to the consumer and you need not involve government. Although, government will become involved because the telecom weenies will start crying unfair competition. They will start spewing their hypocritical rhetoric.
Trouble is, the democrats always want start with a compromise. When you are in a debate cum argument, you never start with a compromise. You do your best to get your way in totality. This is where the republicans succeed, they are ruthless and merciless about pushing their views and only seek bipartisanship when they have exhausted all possible angles.
Someone has to say it: The more things change, the more they stay the same. If torrents and other "legal" P2P sharing is allowed to be blocked, what is the point of this entire legislation? My impression of the FCC was that it was supposed to promote and ensure fairness amongst the telecom and internet providers. I was sincerely hoping that the FCC would grow a spine.
OpenBSD has been used as a router in enterprise environments. Check out http://www.openbsd.org/ or their OpenOSPF and OpenBGP implementations. They strive to be lean, standards compliant, and meet the broadest set of routing criteria. Coincidentally, OpenBSD has an incredibly easy to configure IPSEC stack as well as tools for router redundancy called CARP.
Well, I am not sure what OS your running, but you can use OpenBSD Spamd which works very well. Rather than taking a defensive approach, Spamd goes on the offense by allowing known spam-sending IP addresses to attempt to send to you but throttling the connection down to 1 byte per second. This shakes most people off with no perceivable impact on your part. Even if the spam bot decides to wait the entire time to complete the connection, Spamd ends up dropping the message anyway. I use this solution in my business and I've gone from getting 500+ per day to maybe 2 per week. It is delightfully elegant.
I would also like the EFF to hit the TSA with a lawsuit over their SecureFlight Data Program. The official propaganda has it that this is for traveller convenience. I have an allergy to bullshit and I've got a feeling its more for tracking and ease of data mining for TSA investigators. It ain't got nuthin' to do with traveller convenience - it is all about the convenience for the TSA.
If this is in international waters, then it stands to reason that killing the pirates would be perfectly legal! I hate to sound crass, but, "Target practice, anyone?" It is one thing to aid a starving or sick person and I am all for that and would gladly assist a Somali boat that flies a distress signal. But pirates wreck havoc for all. Just think of the Maersk crew that nearly perished during a heist. On top of that, the pirates were amped up on khat, an amphetamine making them even more unpredictable.
Arm the crew of the container and cargo ships with 20mm cannons to repel the pirates - shoot holes in their boats and let them become shark bait. A few dead pirates and, all of a sudden, the "company," will cease to exist. I have no love for piracy and I believe that the world is too leniant on them. They know this too, that is why they continue.
I realize this view is mighty unpopular, yet I am going to express it. While science is very important, so are social issues. I would like to see the NASA budget considerably shrunk but for only a short period of time, say 12 - 18 months. We have to get our country healthy again and space flight really only effects a small sector of the economy. It will create jobs but only at the most educated levels. A healthy country is a more efficient and productive one. Now, you may feel free to mod me but are you willing to join the censors?
The article conveniently leaves out that by giving control of manufacturing to China, the US loses out in the long run. American jobs go overseas and our technical prowess diminishes. Strong economies produce, export, and sell. Service economies are weak and founded on shale. We have seen the effects of a service-based economy in two recessions: dot-com bomb and the housing bust. Manufacturing economies breed technological innovation, encourage higher education, and engage in heavy research and development. Not to mention, a manufacturing economy gives way to strong national security. Being dependent upon China and others leaves the US in a weaker position.
I would go with FreeBSD. FreeBSD is known for its high reliability and some of the root DNS servers use it. But, I would not use ZFS. ZFS has an achilles heal as we discovered. If you loose a volume in a ZFS setup, you cannot remove the volume. This caused us to scrap its use. I really like the BSDs. FreeBSD by itself, addressed 95% of our computing needs. For the remainder, we use OpenBSD. These two operating systems, when combined, give use a powerful platform.
I have an older Pentium dual-core that runs OpenBSD and has four NIC cards. One NIC card is for the WAN, the second is for my DMZ, the third is the LAN, and the fourth connects to WAP. I loaded the Operating system on a flash card and removed the HD to save power. Not quite as power efficient as the Linksys but much more flexible. The LAN and WLAN operate on 10.0.1.0/29 and 10.0.2.0/29 respectively. The DMZ has publicly available addresses. OpenBSD handles NAT, Firewall/Routing, and IPSEC, OpenSSH Tunneling, and OpenVPN.
I wouldn't accept a free netbook from Google because, in effect, you do not own the netbook. It is almost a zero dollar lease concept so you really would not be allowed to modify it. Therefore, you surrender your privacy to the security or lackthereof of Google. Imagine a massive botnet replicating along a network of Google Netbooks. Furthermore, imagine your private data being accessed or stolen. No, this is not Orwellian 1984 paranoia - this is a 2009 reality.
Don't give me the two wrongs don't equal a right, crap. What about what goes around, comes around? I think that in Darwinian system such as ours, all is fair. After all, AIG, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and Goldman Sachs fucked us, the little guy. If you want to go the philosophical route, A tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye motherfuckers!
Enough is enough! A good corollary would be a tax on paying taxes. No, Google, is not to blame but the system and the lobbyists that built it should be blamed. Software patents are anti-competitive and end up hurting innovation. Software patents are going to cause the computing industry to go the way of manufacturing - the US will no longer be a leader in development.
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Well, Google has the marketplace cornered for streaming video sites with YouTube. It has the power to effect such a change so don't be so shortsighted.
It really depends upon which side of the fence you are on and which party stands to make or lose the most amount of money. If you side with RIAA or a Publisher, sampling might be an absolute no-no. If you are the artist and your ideas are being used to create new ones, this could be a form of homage to your talent. A Zen master once said, "Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery." Dave Matthews would most likely encourage this.
This is also a solution that is more environmentally friendly than the existings ones such as oiling swamps, deet fogging, or using LP/Natural Gas Traps. Deet is a carcinogen and oiling swamps does damage to other species of wildlife. The system is, admittedly, genius.
Judge Carney is being very short sighted if he expects that this "strong sentence" will dissuade people from stealing technology and giving it to China. I would be less likely to want to steal secrets from the Chinese Government because, if caught, I could be tortured and subject to unthinkable brutality. Note that this is not a suggestion that we implement torture. But another slashdotter noted that Chung's retirement in Federal Prison will give him better healthcare options than many Americans that have been good, law-abiding citizens will have access to. And, these Americans have worked hard for all of their lives. Honestly, a better punishment would be to strip Chung of his citizenship and deport him to China and finally to sanction the Chinese Government.
Here you go: http://thunderwoodcollege.com/
LOL! That is funny!
Even the artists themselves do not like DRM! Dave Matthews has spoken out against it from the git go.
I do not necessarily mind paying for music. I do mind being told what type of device I can play my music on. That, my friends, is tyranny. This leads me to another gripe: The iPod and its ilk. We bought the device, therefore we own it and should have the right to modify it to work the way we want it. This is very much like purchasing a car, truck, or motocycle and customizing it. We purchase the vehicle so we own it and can modify it (legally) to ways we see fit. In this day and age, it looks like we purchase the license or right to use something which stifles innovation and puts us even further technologically behind other countries.
So bit torrent gets blocked? The neat thing about innovation is that it out paces legislation. There will be another technology that will come out to replace bit torrent in P2P that will defeat Comcast's Great Firewall.
MindlessAutomata, that is an excellent point. Break up the ISP oligarchy and return control to the consumer and you need not involve government. Although, government will become involved because the telecom weenies will start crying unfair competition. They will start spewing their hypocritical rhetoric.
Trouble is, the democrats always want start with a compromise. When you are in a debate cum argument, you never start with a compromise. You do your best to get your way in totality. This is where the republicans succeed, they are ruthless and merciless about pushing their views and only seek bipartisanship when they have exhausted all possible angles.
Someone has to say it: The more things change, the more they stay the same. If torrents and other "legal" P2P sharing is allowed to be blocked, what is the point of this entire legislation? My impression of the FCC was that it was supposed to promote and ensure fairness amongst the telecom and internet providers. I was sincerely hoping that the FCC would grow a spine.
OpenBSD has been used as a router in enterprise environments. Check out http://www.openbsd.org/ or their OpenOSPF and OpenBGP implementations. They strive to be lean, standards compliant, and meet the broadest set of routing criteria. Coincidentally, OpenBSD has an incredibly easy to configure IPSEC stack as well as tools for router redundancy called CARP.
The neuromancer tagline is pretty apropros. It is a shame that stuff like this has to spring up. I feel bad for the economic victims.
Well, I am not sure what OS your running, but you can use OpenBSD Spamd which works very well. Rather than taking a defensive approach, Spamd goes on the offense by allowing known spam-sending IP addresses to attempt to send to you but throttling the connection down to 1 byte per second. This shakes most people off with no perceivable impact on your part. Even if the spam bot decides to wait the entire time to complete the connection, Spamd ends up dropping the message anyway. I use this solution in my business and I've gone from getting 500+ per day to maybe 2 per week. It is delightfully elegant.
I would also like the EFF to hit the TSA with a lawsuit over their SecureFlight Data Program. The official propaganda has it that this is for traveller convenience. I have an allergy to bullshit and I've got a feeling its more for tracking and ease of data mining for TSA investigators. It ain't got nuthin' to do with traveller convenience - it is all about the convenience for the TSA.
If this is in international waters, then it stands to reason that killing the pirates would be perfectly legal! I hate to sound crass, but, "Target practice, anyone?" It is one thing to aid a starving or sick person and I am all for that and would gladly assist a Somali boat that flies a distress signal. But pirates wreck havoc for all. Just think of the Maersk crew that nearly perished during a heist. On top of that, the pirates were amped up on khat, an amphetamine making them even more unpredictable.
Arm the crew of the container and cargo ships with 20mm cannons to repel the pirates - shoot holes in their boats and let them become shark bait. A few dead pirates and, all of a sudden, the "company," will cease to exist. I have no love for piracy and I believe that the world is too leniant on them. They know this too, that is why they continue.
I realize this view is mighty unpopular, yet I am going to express it. While science is very important, so are social issues. I would like to see the NASA budget considerably shrunk but for only a short period of time, say 12 - 18 months. We have to get our country healthy again and space flight really only effects a small sector of the economy. It will create jobs but only at the most educated levels. A healthy country is a more efficient and productive one. Now, you may feel free to mod me but are you willing to join the censors?
The article conveniently leaves out that by giving control of manufacturing to China, the US loses out in the long run. American jobs go overseas and our technical prowess diminishes. Strong economies produce, export, and sell. Service economies are weak and founded on shale. We have seen the effects of a service-based economy in two recessions: dot-com bomb and the housing bust. Manufacturing economies breed technological innovation, encourage higher education, and engage in heavy research and development. Not to mention, a manufacturing economy gives way to strong national security. Being dependent upon China and others leaves the US in a weaker position.
I would go with FreeBSD. FreeBSD is known for its high reliability and some of the root DNS servers use it. But, I would not use ZFS. ZFS has an achilles heal as we discovered. If you loose a volume in a ZFS setup, you cannot remove the volume. This caused us to scrap its use. I really like the BSDs. FreeBSD by itself, addressed 95% of our computing needs. For the remainder, we use OpenBSD. These two operating systems, when combined, give use a powerful platform.
I have an older Pentium dual-core that runs OpenBSD and has four NIC cards. One NIC card is for the WAN, the second is for my DMZ, the third is the LAN, and the fourth connects to WAP. I loaded the Operating system on a flash card and removed the HD to save power. Not quite as power efficient as the Linksys but much more flexible. The LAN and WLAN operate on 10.0.1.0/29 and 10.0.2.0/29 respectively. The DMZ has publicly available addresses. OpenBSD handles NAT, Firewall/Routing, and IPSEC, OpenSSH Tunneling, and OpenVPN.
I wouldn't accept a free netbook from Google because, in effect, you do not own the netbook. It is almost a zero dollar lease concept so you really would not be allowed to modify it. Therefore, you surrender your privacy to the security or lackthereof of Google. Imagine a massive botnet replicating along a network of Google Netbooks. Furthermore, imagine your private data being accessed or stolen. No, this is not Orwellian 1984 paranoia - this is a 2009 reality.
Don't give me the two wrongs don't equal a right, crap. What about what goes around, comes around? I think that in Darwinian system such as ours, all is fair. After all, AIG, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and Goldman Sachs fucked us, the little guy. If you want to go the philosophical route, A tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye motherfuckers!
That, my friend, is an incredibly astute post! I could not agree more!
Enough is enough! A good corollary would be a tax on paying taxes. No, Google, is not to blame but the system and the lobbyists that built it should be blamed. Software patents are anti-competitive and end up hurting innovation. Software patents are going to cause the computing industry to go the way of manufacturing - the US will no longer be a leader in development.