Come on people, the cops aren't THAT stupid. Get some white posterboard and make the logos of your local Baby Bell and stick them to the side of your van. THEN you'll get away with it.;-)
Well, you have the right to say whatever you want, but I also have the right not to listen. Businesses that have this notion that they are somehow entitled to demand that I look at their idiotic banner ads (or worse, those fucking flash ads that take half the page on zdnet) should wake up or go to hell.
One would think that the intelligent players would already be expanding their business beyond the dead dinosaur fuel industry into alternative fuels. There's no reason the big fuel makers can't also dominate the production of alternative energy as well. If anything, they're the ones who have the know-how and the backing to implement such a massive widescale infrastructure upgrade. Alternative cars will NOT be feasible for Joe Average Consumer until there is a fueling station on everything block like there is today with gasoline and it takes less than 5 minutes to refuel. That means no sitting overnight while you tricklecharge your 60HP Rice Rocketmobile and that means not having to drive 30 miles away to fuel up your eco-geek car because they're the only ones that sell Absurdoline on your metropolitan area.
But that's a LOT more work than it currently is. Rip, mix, burn. I can drop a CD in the drive, start ripping it, and walk away until it's done in a few minutes then swap discs and repeat until I've ripped my entire CD collection. If I have to sit there for 60-75 minutes per CD babysitting it and then seperating that out into individual mp3 tracks it will be a pain in the ass and not worth it.
What's the point of copy protecting a "Charlie Pride" CD?? Who the hell is Charlie Pride and why would anyone want to rip the CD? Copy protect a Metallica CD for christ sakes. They seem to like to fuck their fans for a buck.
Well, then it wouldn't get very far unless it's attacking Unix boxes. How many Windows or Mac machines have you seen with a C compiler on them? (well, barring MacOS X which is Unix). Now... a Perl worm would be funny.
Well, while I see people mentioning that the Olympics might help the situation in China, I can only point out another similarly repressive regime hosted the 1936 Olympics. The Olympics are just a marketing gimmick and a bunch of games not a political statement. They don't have magical powers to overthrow an evil dictatorship. The people of China will see what their government wants them to see at the Olympics. Anything on TV will be censored and most likely only include events that Chinese athletes win, etc.
OK, so did he or did he not violate the DMCA? If he did by giving the talk then what is the problem? The law is the law. Don't bitch at Adobe about this, contact your congressman and tell them how you feel. We can't just arbitrarily decide which laws we want to obey from day to day. The proper way to deal with idiotic laws is to get Congress to repeal them.
Wrong. Of course Mandrake has a telnet client. It isn't installed in the default installation but just bring up the software manager and install the telnet package.
Now see, that's a problem. The geezer shouldn't be sharing his inferior mp3 files in the first place. That's called copyright infringement and got a company called Napster in quite a bit of trouble recently. If connecting the lineout of his stereo to his computer is good enough for him then so be it. I mean hell, how else can you make mp3's out of all those audio tapes you have lying around?
Ummm. Why don't you just buy an iBook then? If you're in college you'd have a portable computer that can do everything the iMac can for only a few hundred dollars more... albeit with a really tiny hard drive, but hey, that's what firewire is for right?
Well, I think you'd find a lot of people aren't having a problem with the "last mile" and getting connectivity. My problem is the last 3 and a half miles between my apartment and the CO meaning I can't get DSL.
This is supposed to be an International Space Station. If everytime a module goes up we have to bash each other, or everytime a problem happens we have to single out what country made it, we're never going to get anything done. I'm really suprised rabid nationalism has lasted for this long. It really doesn't make sense in the 21st century for us to be constantly lambasting each other over the stupidest things. It's one thing to poke fun at each other for a good natured laugh but people actually take some of this shit seriously and harbor resentment towards other nationalities because of it. I don't have any problems with Canadians or any other country that isn't openly at war with my country. We're all states on this big blue planet... we really should learn to cooperate a little better than bickering children.
Well, free as in the way fixing your own plumbing or building your own addition to your house is free. It's not "free" it's just that you don't have to shell out money for labor since you're supplying the labor. Now, if you work for free then I suppose the tech support you provide for your software is free also. Personally I put a valuation on my time and consider whether it's worth it to do the job myself or spend the money to have someone else do it. To me, for example, I'm willing to pay for some grease monkey to do an oil change on my car because I'd rather not crawl under it and deal with it. To others they'd rather pay someone to fix their computers because they don't want to be bothered with it. They want to type reports, browse the web, etc. When it breaks they use the wonderful system of capitalism to barter services from another person with money. When you need a lawyer you give money to the lawyer to provide their services. When the lawyer needs an accountant, they give money to the accountant, and so on. It's a wonderful system we have here.
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Personally I'd rather just see some kind of top 10 laws that everybody should learn in school from a very early age. Maybe sum them up into even less like:
1. Don't kill
2. Don't lie
3. Don't steal
I think those 3 laws could just about cover ever major crime in existence. Everyone should know these rules and respect them. Any other law is fluff and can safely be ignored with the defense of ignorance.
Or they were captured by a Japanese scout party! Noonan was killed and the female was taken back to their Ferrengi prison camp on Saipan to act as a love slave. Err.. I mean the Japanese prison camp on Saipan.
Hmm, so essentially, modern information pirates (Napster users, warez kiddies, library patron d00dz) are just like the monks from hundreds of years ago. Just think if the publishers had wielded the same power back then! Monks had to hand copy all those books making it extremely difficult and expensive to copy a book. Today we can copy a book in microseconds and transmit it to 10,000 people throughout the world with a few seconds.
He actually is most likely gearing up for some kind of election soon. He needs 1) air time and publicity, and 2) a plan to benefit the people.. tax those rich corporations until we run them out of town to benefit the schools.
Quasi-government body? NASA is a government agency, wholly funded (about $12-14 billion this year I believe) by the United States taxpayers. They are nothing like the US Postal Service. They are not subject to taxes.
Now, as you say, this is a stupid precedent to be setting and I hope LA gets slapped for trying it. I would expect any kind of space tourism to happen only outside the jurisdication of counties that conduct business like this, perhaps offshore.
Don't worry about it..NET will answer all your questions when they roll it out. Really though, I do get pissed off at companies touting products and then giving no explanation as to what they really are. For the longest time I thought Clariton was some female product to use during their period. Who would've though it was for allergies! Their commercials didn't say ANYTHING about allergies. Why can't people market things without fluffing it up into absolutely meaningless nonsense?
Damn right. I did the same thing with the car I leased that I recently returned. I took a sledgehammer and dented the shit out of it and then ripped out all the wiring I could find, slashed all the seats, and cut the tires. Man, that teaches them to lease stuff to me and expect it back.
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Come on people, the cops aren't THAT stupid. Get some white posterboard and make the logos of your local Baby Bell and stick them to the side of your van. THEN you'll get away with it. ;-)
Well, you have the right to say whatever you want, but I also have the right not to listen. Businesses that have this notion that they are somehow entitled to demand that I look at their idiotic banner ads (or worse, those fucking flash ads that take half the page on zdnet) should wake up or go to hell.
One would think that the intelligent players would already be expanding their business beyond the dead dinosaur fuel industry into alternative fuels. There's no reason the big fuel makers can't also dominate the production of alternative energy as well. If anything, they're the ones who have the know-how and the backing to implement such a massive widescale infrastructure upgrade. Alternative cars will NOT be feasible for Joe Average Consumer until there is a fueling station on everything block like there is today with gasoline and it takes less than 5 minutes to refuel. That means no sitting overnight while you tricklecharge your 60HP Rice Rocketmobile and that means not having to drive 30 miles away to fuel up your eco-geek car because they're the only ones that sell Absurdoline on your metropolitan area.
But that's a LOT more work than it currently is. Rip, mix, burn. I can drop a CD in the drive, start ripping it, and walk away until it's done in a few minutes then swap discs and repeat until I've ripped my entire CD collection. If I have to sit there for 60-75 minutes per CD babysitting it and then seperating that out into individual mp3 tracks it will be a pain in the ass and not worth it.
What's the point of copy protecting a "Charlie Pride" CD?? Who the hell is Charlie Pride and why would anyone want to rip the CD? Copy protect a Metallica CD for christ sakes. They seem to like to fuck their fans for a buck.
Just an FYI, if you're ever in Afghanistan, don't mention that you run an Internet porn site or you may find yourself on death row there.
Well, then it wouldn't get very far unless it's attacking Unix boxes. How many Windows or Mac machines have you seen with a C compiler on them? (well, barring MacOS X which is Unix). Now... a Perl worm would be funny.
Well, while I see people mentioning that the Olympics might help the situation in China, I can only point out another similarly repressive regime hosted the 1936 Olympics. The Olympics are just a marketing gimmick and a bunch of games not a political statement. They don't have magical powers to overthrow an evil dictatorship. The people of China will see what their government wants them to see at the Olympics. Anything on TV will be censored and most likely only include events that Chinese athletes win, etc.
OK, so did he or did he not violate the DMCA? If he did by giving the talk then what is the problem? The law is the law. Don't bitch at Adobe about this, contact your congressman and tell them how you feel. We can't just arbitrarily decide which laws we want to obey from day to day. The proper way to deal with idiotic laws is to get Congress to repeal them.
Wrong. Of course Mandrake has a telnet client. It isn't installed in the default installation but just bring up the software manager and install the telnet package.
Now see, that's a problem. The geezer shouldn't be sharing his inferior mp3 files in the first place. That's called copyright infringement and got a company called Napster in quite a bit of trouble recently. If connecting the lineout of his stereo to his computer is good enough for him then so be it. I mean hell, how else can you make mp3's out of all those audio tapes you have lying around?
Ummm. Why don't you just buy an iBook then? If you're in college you'd have a portable computer that can do everything the iMac can for only a few hundred dollars more... albeit with a really tiny hard drive, but hey, that's what firewire is for right?
Well, I think you'd find a lot of people aren't having a problem with the "last mile" and getting connectivity. My problem is the last 3 and a half miles between my apartment and the CO meaning I can't get DSL.
This is supposed to be an International Space Station. If everytime a module goes up we have to bash each other, or everytime a problem happens we have to single out what country made it, we're never going to get anything done. I'm really suprised rabid nationalism has lasted for this long. It really doesn't make sense in the 21st century for us to be constantly lambasting each other over the stupidest things. It's one thing to poke fun at each other for a good natured laugh but people actually take some of this shit seriously and harbor resentment towards other nationalities because of it. I don't have any problems with Canadians or any other country that isn't openly at war with my country. We're all states on this big blue planet... we really should learn to cooperate a little better than bickering children.
Well, free as in the way fixing your own plumbing or building your own addition to your house is free. It's not "free" it's just that you don't have to shell out money for labor since you're supplying the labor. Now, if you work for free then I suppose the tech support you provide for your software is free also. Personally I put a valuation on my time and consider whether it's worth it to do the job myself or spend the money to have someone else do it. To me, for example, I'm willing to pay for some grease monkey to do an oil change on my car because I'd rather not crawl under it and deal with it. To others they'd rather pay someone to fix their computers because they don't want to be bothered with it. They want to type reports, browse the web, etc. When it breaks they use the wonderful system of capitalism to barter services from another person with money. When you need a lawyer you give money to the lawyer to provide their services. When the lawyer needs an accountant, they give money to the accountant, and so on. It's a wonderful system we have here.
Personally I'd rather just see some kind of top 10 laws that everybody should learn in school from a very early age. Maybe sum them up into even less like:
1. Don't kill
2. Don't lie
3. Don't steal
I think those 3 laws could just about cover ever major crime in existence. Everyone should know these rules and respect them. Any other law is fluff and can safely be ignored with the defense of ignorance.
Or they were captured by a Japanese scout party! Noonan was killed and the female was taken back to their Ferrengi prison camp on Saipan to act as a love slave. Err.. I mean the Japanese prison camp on Saipan.
Was this guy like Rambo or something? "It's not over! It's never over!" ;-)
Hmm, so essentially, modern information pirates (Napster users, warez kiddies, library patron d00dz) are just like the monks from hundreds of years ago. Just think if the publishers had wielded the same power back then! Monks had to hand copy all those books making it extremely difficult and expensive to copy a book. Today we can copy a book in microseconds and transmit it to 10,000 people throughout the world with a few seconds.
He actually is most likely gearing up for some kind of election soon. He needs 1) air time and publicity, and 2) a plan to benefit the people.. tax those rich corporations until we run them out of town to benefit the schools.
Quasi-government body? NASA is a government agency, wholly funded (about $12-14 billion this year I believe) by the United States taxpayers. They are nothing like the US Postal Service. They are not subject to taxes.
Now, as you say, this is a stupid precedent to be setting and I hope LA gets slapped for trying it. I would expect any kind of space tourism to happen only outside the jurisdication of counties that conduct business like this, perhaps offshore.
Don't worry about it. .NET will answer all your questions when they roll it out. Really though, I do get pissed off at companies touting products and then giving no explanation as to what they really are. For the longest time I thought Clariton was some female product to use during their period. Who would've though it was for allergies! Their commercials didn't say ANYTHING about allergies. Why can't people market things without fluffing it up into absolutely meaningless nonsense?
Damn right. I did the same thing with the car I leased that I recently returned. I took a sledgehammer and dented the shit out of it and then ripped out all the wiring I could find, slashed all the seats, and cut the tires. Man, that teaches them to lease stuff to me and expect it back.
Sshhh!! Don't tell anyone or everyone will start up an ISP and get free bandwidth too. :-)