So, you are saying, it's a better idea to hand it to the geriatric capitalist shackle? I don't see how it's any better, one case says ISPs get hassled and the other says users (on both ends) get hassled. There isn't any half way, ether ISPs can charge whatever they want for things that should be free or they can't.
I use LMMS (going to maybe become a maintainer for the Fedora RPM once I get my act together) and I generally know how to use it, I made one of those docs on the wiki (and plan to make more). Some of the limitations of LMMS are:
*It's hard to get VST. I haven't gotten it working yet, but it may work if you know more about compiling than me or use another distro.
*It doesn't (seem to?) have effects, HOWEVER, it controls filters (low pass, high pass, etc) at the sample level. Using the tools it does have, you can simulate a lot of common effects, it just takes a bit more work. There are plans to add effects as well (perhaps some of it already exists, try it yourself...).
* It can be somewhat unstable. Save a lot. Also, for some odd reason, it seems to not crash when run from the terminal, but it does when run from a menu (KDE and Gnome). I don't know about desktop links.
Some things it does better than FL are:
* It has said filters in a more easy to use location.
* The triple osc makes more sense (IMO) (there's a "hidden" moduatlion- expland the control window for the tri-osc to the right and you will see it. I don't know why it's hidden, it seems to work fine).
Knowing what someone is doing doesn't constitute spyware and locking-in-rooms-until-21. Not everything is black and white, or even as simple as you want it to be.
The problem is the "padded room" mentality. People expect kids to know how to act without ever being shown the reason- sometimes not even told. You being allowed to target practice can be compared to the kids whom are told absolutely nothing about guns, never allowed to see them, etc... they do not know the power they have.
Kids are not seen as human beings, they are seen as ether a pet or a trophy, and thus protected at all costs... but in the long run, the one most protected is the one least able to protect themselves. Kids who never are allowed to do anything that could be "dangerous" have no idea what to do when such a thing happens without someone to protect them.
Whatever happened to "learning from mistakes" and "learning from experience"? Both concepts seem totally lost in the nanny, do-your-homework-or-else state we live in.
Do you know the concept of a "boss button"? Rather trivial to hide what you are doing... and at the very least you can close a window quite fast without any special setup.
And how would you like it if someone sat down at your computer any time they wanted to see what you are doing? What do you expect your kids to do when they move out? They will rebel against your overbearing spying, thus destroying any reason you may have done it in the first place. Kind of like telling a 3 year old not to stick his hand on the stove: he will just want to do it more, where the best method maybe to let him, or at least feel the heat coming off of it...
People they expect kids to magically "grow up" at the 18/21 point make me sad. If they have never HAD to grow up, or more, never were allowed to see the outcome of their actions, what makes you think 18 is different than 12? Better make those mistakes while there is someone (ie, you) for them to fall back on than hope it all works out afterwards. An analogy would be not testing a new jet engine because it may blow up and just put it on jets and hope it works.
That's why I am registered on most sites as "Joe Smith", though I did stop doing that lately... if someone is going to find out who I am it's not a complex task.
Not really. As systems become more capable, the need to optimize (a major part of modeling) starts to go down. Also, major improvements can be done to things like lighting - that do not take a whole lot of work, that make the whole model look better. Real-time ray-traced lighting? I wish, but hopefully it's not going to be that much longer.
One must seriously question *why* it is considered wrong. Surly much of what is bad about it comes from the fact it is so illegal and taboo that the only way it can be done is in the most painful way to those involved. If it was legal, it would become a business like any other (and thus regulated, unlike the black-market crap that goes on now) and I predict that much of the secret photographing/abductions/etc would stop because they would be too costly and hard compared to the legal way.
Prohibition caused much more crime then it stopped, and always will, just look at the "war on drugs" and people killed in gun fights or because of drugs laden with toxins every day. When there is a demand for something, making it illegal to produce it in an ethical way will simply make it's production non-ethical, this has been proven many times in history and isn't changing any time soon.
You can say that some 14 year old can't make an informed decision- maybe they can't, I can't speak for them and nether can you. But I can say that it's certainly the lesser of evils.
*Waits for down modding and FBI to show up at door*
I can do lots of bad stuff with an XPI extension, like turn your machine into a spam zombie, download kiddie porn and randomly delete your documents. Would you mind much if I blame the Mozilla foundation for things like that?
Feel free. If you can get an exploit to work using Firefox extensions that manages to infect people, then I think many would like to know about it.
Problem is you can't do the importent part of what I said: INFECT people with it. You can make a plugin to do anything you want, but there are a number of things to prevent you from actually getting it installed.
So when you infect 100+ people with a Firefox extension hack, you will THEN be entitled to your high horse. Until then, your full of hot air.
Mod parent up. An importent part of having a religion is knowing it takes a back seat to logic, and if many times it shows to be wrong, it's time to throw it away. People who put fiction above all means of logic hurt everyone, and that's what religion-from-birth does to people.
Establish criminal and civil liability for writing bad software. Everything goes to a civil court these days, so it's often a battle of who has the better lawyer (mostly because there's no good laws governing EULAs...). What is the software provider's responsibility? Establish industry guidelines for QA testing for off-the-shelf software. Throw some people in jail for writing malicious software. Any company that misrepresents its software for the purpose of taking control of someone's machine should be subject to criminal liability. I don't want to hire a lawyer and roll the dice on a lawsuit. I want the police to press charges and the DA to prosecute, all without my involvement (unless I get to testify).
This would practically destroy open source (they already make little/no money, if they were made liable for what their software MAY SOMEDAY do there simply would be no more development) and probably public beta tests as well. It's easy to say "bad software" from your point of view, but what exactly IS "bad software"? A program that works fine normally, but crashes the computer under a very rare situation? These proof of theories that exploit the OS? rm, that could be accidentally used to delete the whole hard drive? A very secure OS that has one security glitch that is promptly fixed?
The side effects of your proposal are much different than I am guessing you intended, then again I am not sure what you intended.
The difference is, that was Microsoft, this is Apple. I would bet if Microsoft was to press for that again right now, it would be mocked and ridiculed by everybody again...
Meanwhile on OSS, we don't have to worry much about this at all most of the time, and still have no government organization or stupid laws making it that way.
I figure I'll be modded down into oblivion, but what the hell.
I have to agree. I used to be an editor on wikipedia (I didn't really write but I fixed errors, formated and such) but I left because The Powers That Be started to become very obnoxious, bowing to the most verbose admins (who normally had an ax to grind) and outside influences.
Many times I seen the "deletionists" (A nice word for the pro-censership group) rip apart things that they didn't agree with, praying on the less noticed pages of categories because they didn't have as many people to protect them. One basically said this: "All of the pages on this topic should be deleted, but this one is VFD because not as many people care about it". I lack a link because it was a while since I left, but if you read the VFD page you will see much sentiment like this.
There is too little oversight to the oversight and too few things to protect the site from rogue admins. Once an admin ran a script deleting most userboxes without any type of approval and a whole flamewar started, that is STILL not over.
Wikipedia's problems are the same ones related to democracy in general: the people who talk the most, have the most power and have the most time tend to be the most most bias, and the people who are less bias or of an unsupported view tend to be intimidated and shut out. I can't think of a simple fix to this, but Lord Jimbo doesn't really help the situation.
As some other posters noted, these prions improve/allow memory. One must wonder, if they can do this with cattle, how long it is until they figure out how to do it to humans...
The RIAA are media trolls. What they say doesn't *HAVE* to be in any way true; the average person doesn't know or care. Most people are so terrified of the RIAA *already* that they don't care that they are full of shit (many people I know follow this pattern).
If anything, this being in the news could totally destroy the scantily of everyone "on the wall" about the issue (the fear wall, not the moral wall). The RIAA has just caused a whole COUNTRY, one that used to be the second/first most powerful in the world, to surrender. To most people, this is all it takes to bend over and get fucked by the RIAA.
Face it, we can never win the legal battle; they have more money for bribes then all of our networth combined and public opinion hasn't mattered in the US since WWII. We all need to treat the RIAA like any troll: ignore them. The more we act up in arms over it the more publicity they get, the more people fear them and the more power they get.
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So, you are saying, it's a better idea to hand it to the geriatric capitalist shackle? I don't see how it's any better, one case says ISPs get hassled and the other says users (on both ends) get hassled. There isn't any half way, ether ISPs can charge whatever they want for things that should be free or they can't.
I use LMMS (going to maybe become a maintainer for the Fedora RPM once I get my act together) and I generally know how to use it, I made one of those docs on the wiki (and plan to make more). Some of the limitations of LMMS are:
*It's hard to get VST. I haven't gotten it working yet, but it may work if you know more about compiling than me or use another distro.
*It doesn't (seem to?) have effects, HOWEVER, it controls filters (low pass, high pass, etc) at the sample level. Using the tools it does have, you can simulate a lot of common effects, it just takes a bit more work. There are plans to add effects as well (perhaps some of it already exists, try it yourself...).
* It can be somewhat unstable. Save a lot. Also, for some odd reason, it seems to not crash when run from the terminal, but it does when run from a menu (KDE and Gnome). I don't know about desktop links.
Some things it does better than FL are:
* It has said filters in a more easy to use location.
* The triple osc makes more sense (IMO) (there's a "hidden" moduatlion- expland the control window for the tri-osc to the right and you will see it. I don't know why it's hidden, it seems to work fine).
* It's only really beta, so a lot will be added.
* The string synth is very useful.
Goatse? Theres a lot worse, haven't you see some of these people's userpages? I mean, did they even bother reading the W3 specification of CSS?
Knowing what someone is doing doesn't constitute spyware and locking-in-rooms-until-21. Not everything is black and white, or even as simple as you want it to be.
The problem is the "padded room" mentality. People expect kids to know how to act without ever being shown the reason- sometimes not even told. You being allowed to target practice can be compared to the kids whom are told absolutely nothing about guns, never allowed to see them, etc... they do not know the power they have.
Kids are not seen as human beings, they are seen as ether a pet or a trophy, and thus protected at all costs... but in the long run, the one most protected is the one least able to protect themselves. Kids who never are allowed to do anything that could be "dangerous" have no idea what to do when such a thing happens without someone to protect them.
Whatever happened to "learning from mistakes" and "learning from experience"? Both concepts seem totally lost in the nanny, do-your-homework-or-else state we live in.
AA was intended to train tactics, spotting and reactions, not conditioning; that's what we have boot camp for.
Do you know the concept of a "boss button"? Rather trivial to hide what you are doing... and at the very least you can close a window quite fast without any special setup.
And how would you like it if someone sat down at your computer any time they wanted to see what you are doing? What do you expect your kids to do when they move out? They will rebel against your overbearing spying, thus destroying any reason you may have done it in the first place. Kind of like telling a 3 year old not to stick his hand on the stove: he will just want to do it more, where the best method maybe to let him, or at least feel the heat coming off of it...
People they expect kids to magically "grow up" at the 18/21 point make me sad. If they have never HAD to grow up, or more, never were allowed to see the outcome of their actions, what makes you think 18 is different than 12? Better make those mistakes while there is someone (ie, you) for them to fall back on than hope it all works out afterwards. An analogy would be not testing a new jet engine because it may blow up and just put it on jets and hope it works.
That's why I am registered on most sites as "Joe Smith", though I did stop doing that lately... if someone is going to find out who I am it's not a complex task.
Not really. As systems become more capable, the need to optimize (a major part of modeling) starts to go down. Also, major improvements can be done to things like lighting - that do not take a whole lot of work, that make the whole model look better. Real-time ray-traced lighting? I wish, but hopefully it's not going to be that much longer.
One must seriously question *why* it is considered wrong. Surly much of what is bad about it comes from the fact it is so illegal and taboo that the only way it can be done is in the most painful way to those involved. If it was legal, it would become a business like any other (and thus regulated, unlike the black-market crap that goes on now) and I predict that much of the secret photographing/abductions/etc would stop because they would be too costly and hard compared to the legal way.
Prohibition caused much more crime then it stopped, and always will, just look at the "war on drugs" and people killed in gun fights or because of drugs laden with toxins every day. When there is a demand for something, making it illegal to produce it in an ethical way will simply make it's production non-ethical, this has been proven many times in history and isn't changing any time soon.
You can say that some 14 year old can't make an informed decision- maybe they can't, I can't speak for them and nether can you. But I can say that it's certainly the lesser of evils.
*Waits for down modding and FBI to show up at door*
Short answer: No. Long answer: It hasn't since a bit after the end of WWII.
How is perent flamebait? It's true Apple will be another MS, if not much, much worse!
There is worse. Windows fanboys. They DO exist, really!
Problem is you can't do the importent part of what I said: INFECT people with it. You can make a plugin to do anything you want, but there are a number of things to prevent you from actually getting it installed.
So when you infect 100+ people with a Firefox extension hack, you will THEN be entitled to your high horse. Until then, your full of hot air.
Mod parent up. An importent part of having a religion is knowing it takes a back seat to logic, and if many times it shows to be wrong, it's time to throw it away. People who put fiction above all means of logic hurt everyone, and that's what religion-from-birth does to people.
This would practically destroy open source (they already make little/no money, if they were made liable for what their software MAY SOMEDAY do there simply would be no more development) and probably public beta tests as well. It's easy to say "bad software" from your point of view, but what exactly IS "bad software"? A program that works fine normally, but crashes the computer under a very rare situation? These proof of theories that exploit the OS? rm, that could be accidentally used to delete the whole hard drive? A very secure OS that has one security glitch that is promptly fixed?
The side effects of your proposal are much different than I am guessing you intended, then again I am not sure what you intended.
The difference is, that was Microsoft, this is Apple. I would bet if Microsoft was to press for that again right now, it would be mocked and ridiculed by everybody again...
Meanwhile on OSS, we don't have to worry much about this at all most of the time, and still have no government organization or stupid laws making it that way.
I figure I'll be modded down into oblivion, but what the hell.
I have to agree. I used to be an editor on wikipedia (I didn't really write but I fixed errors, formated and such) but I left because The Powers That Be started to become very obnoxious, bowing to the most verbose admins (who normally had an ax to grind) and outside influences.
Many times I seen the "deletionists" (A nice word for the pro-censership group) rip apart things that they didn't agree with, praying on the less noticed pages of categories because they didn't have as many people to protect them. One basically said this: "All of the pages on this topic should be deleted, but this one is VFD because not as many people care about it". I lack a link because it was a while since I left, but if you read the VFD page you will see much sentiment like this.
There is too little oversight to the oversight and too few things to protect the site from rogue admins. Once an admin ran a script deleting most userboxes without any type of approval and a whole flamewar started, that is STILL not over.
Wikipedia's problems are the same ones related to democracy in general: the people who talk the most, have the most power and have the most time tend to be the most most bias, and the people who are less bias or of an unsupported view tend to be intimidated and shut out. I can't think of a simple fix to this, but Lord Jimbo doesn't really help the situation.
You forgot you are on slashdot, Cynical is +1. ;)
As some other posters noted, these prions improve/allow memory. One must wonder, if they can do this with cattle, how long it is until they figure out how to do it to humans...
/tinfoilhat
The RIAA are media trolls. What they say doesn't *HAVE* to be in any way true; the average person doesn't know or care. Most people are so terrified of the RIAA *already* that they don't care that they are full of shit (many people I know follow this pattern).
If anything, this being in the news could totally destroy the scantily of everyone "on the wall" about the issue (the fear wall, not the moral wall). The RIAA has just caused a whole COUNTRY, one that used to be the second/first most powerful in the world, to surrender. To most people, this is all it takes to bend over and get fucked by the RIAA.
Face it, we can never win the legal battle; they have more money for bribes then all of our networth combined and public opinion hasn't mattered in the US since WWII. We all need to treat the RIAA like any troll: ignore them. The more we act up in arms over it the more publicity they get, the more people fear them and the more power they get.