Well, if we're going on this tour anyway.. has anybody checked if they happened to be robots too? Zombies? Hell.. dinosaurs? If the peg-leg didn't give it away, what would?
Man. Now I need to start a pira-... bittorrent site with a peg-leg in the logo.
Personally, it wouldn't affect me much if copyright were completely nulled all of a sudden. And yes, my main activities are in all sorts of copyrightable stuff: 3D art, code and music. Still, the only time the copyright laws have directly affected me were when a group I used to work with tried to steal my creations using one of our copyright laws here in the netherlands, and prevent me from using them anymore. In a world where everything can be freely copied, I'd still have work since someone would need to -make- the stuff first and people would just pay me to be the one making it. Yes, sometimes people don't want something generic floating around on the internet; they want something specific.
Of course, it would affect me if the disappearance of these laws were to completely eridicate all software companies and the like. I'm not sure how that would work. But I could imagine they'd be able to live on as well, even if they'd have to change things around a lot. Maybe a donation pool funded style of development?
I'll go out on a limb and guess that, like the "defender of the free world" right after it, he was just listing opinions commonly-held by some Americans, that seem like a bit of a joke to the rest of us people. "Whoosh", as they'd say.
Personally, I think most European countries are less likely (eager?) to go to war than America is. That would make them the safer party for manning the switch.
A friend told me 11.10 removed Ubuntu Classic as an option. I haven't dared "upgrade" to 11.10 yet, even before he told me that. The Ubuntu design decision folks don't seem to be slowing down now, so any coming version will be bad for people who like stuff to be plain and simple. Yes. Gnome is plain and simple, Unity is not-... at least, whenever you've got to mess with anything more advanced than 'durr where is browser be', which happens often when I use Linux.
"Having lots of money" actually counts, in my eyes. At least, if it's inherited. It's still something that just happens to you, that most people aren't blessed with. It also makes the decision to fight crime a lot easier, since you can afford proper equipment.
Nop. Neither would I be if someone succesfully used an SQL injection on a single user's homepage. But this is more like using said rock to break into a bank or a store. There should be bulletproof glass or bars in place for the real places, and proper parsing for the SQL.
Actually, I would be embarassed if it was -my- homepage. But I'm a geek.
... Thanks for pointing out the nepotism. If it were Mark himself saying that, it'd be nothing new. He's been shady for years now. But it's his sister, running the PR. I mean.. when you're the PR person for a well-known cash-cow of a website, you don't want to piss off half the internet.
I tend to be better at English than at Dutch (my native language) and I read it as such too. "Man claiming half of Facebook" sounds more unreal than "half of facebook suffers setbacks".
It's illegal to break those and the wearers know that.. which isn't the case for autistic children and alzheimer-..y elderly. They won't get locked up for "another few years" for breaking it. At worst, they'll be seen as annoying. At best, endearing and cute.
Trust me, given enough time to break it and no incentive not to.. anyone could do it.
If you get access to the hashed password, there's little else that'll slow down hacking attempts. Either make the hash take longer, or make the password more complex.
New hashing algorithm that takes a minute to compute? Some hashing algorithms got turned down specifically for being too fast, and too easy to use in a bruteforcing attempt. [citation needed]
I used to pay for any games, movies and most music I liked. Then, they decided to make viewing and playing said things more of a hassle, requiring complex tools to store the files on my hd. This "protection" required a new disc format, and prices were heightened. New software to prevent me from just playing my own games from my own hd was developed, taking money and development time out of other areas of importance like bugfixes and gameplay. Of course, the money to pay for a license, and for the programmers' time to implement it, had to come from somewhere. My wallet, among those of thousands of others.
In the meantime, an alternative cropped up. It did have a small chance of contracting some computer malware, just like the original offers, but this one had many kinds of media available for free! And I wouldn't even have to spend time and effort ripping it to my hd, because someone else had already gone through that effort for me. Even the protection malware was disabled for me!
While the original offer increased its prices and went through a phase where malware was abundant, said problems did not manage to touch the alternative. Any viruses and most of the lesser-quality wares were quickly eradicated, and it remained available to anyone for free.
Sure, I understood that the developers needed the money too, so whenever I found a game or music album I -really- liked, I'd make sure to buy a copy. Yet the copies remained untouched, as I could always find a safer version to play online. And soon, the temptation to support the developers and artists started to falter. The only games I've bought in the last half year have been from places I've never had trouble with so far. Steam, Blizzard's web store, various natively-Linux games (You'll be hard-pressed to find a game that runs on Linux yet still implements a form of DRM), and free, donation-based games like Dwarf Fortress and Shores of Hazeron (The latter doesn't so much accept donations in money, but they're happy to accept any art and models of a decent quality, it seems)
The thing is that skinner box techniques are known for bringing an emotionally void kind of addiction.. not the kind of fun that most people want out of a game.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, if we're going on this tour anyway.. has anybody checked if they happened to be robots too? Zombies? Hell.. dinosaurs? If the peg-leg didn't give it away, what would?
Man. Now I need to start a pira-... bittorrent site with a peg-leg in the logo.
I'm just going to hang my comment off this one.
Personally, it wouldn't affect me much if copyright were completely nulled all of a sudden. And yes, my main activities are in all sorts of copyrightable stuff: 3D art, code and music. Still, the only time the copyright laws have directly affected me were when a group I used to work with tried to steal my creations using one of our copyright laws here in the netherlands, and prevent me from using them anymore. In a world where everything can be freely copied, I'd still have work since someone would need to -make- the stuff first and people would just pay me to be the one making it. Yes, sometimes people don't want something generic floating around on the internet; they want something specific.
Of course, it would affect me if the disappearance of these laws were to completely eridicate all software companies and the like. I'm not sure how that would work. But I could imagine they'd be able to live on as well, even if they'd have to change things around a lot. Maybe a donation pool funded style of development?
I'll go out on a limb and guess that, like the "defender of the free world" right after it, he was just listing opinions commonly-held by some Americans, that seem like a bit of a joke to the rest of us people. "Whoosh", as they'd say.
Personally, I think most European countries are less likely (eager?) to go to war than America is. That would make them the safer party for manning the switch.
2 is extend and 3 is extinguish?
A friend told me 11.10 removed Ubuntu Classic as an option. I haven't dared "upgrade" to 11.10 yet, even before he told me that. The Ubuntu design decision folks don't seem to be slowing down now, so any coming version will be bad for people who like stuff to be plain and simple. Yes. Gnome is plain and simple, Unity is not-... at least, whenever you've got to mess with anything more advanced than 'durr where is browser be', which happens often when I use Linux.
... Apparently, the preview thingie -is- useful. Slashdot interpreted my (openingbracked) $_DEITY (closingbracket) as a html hack to be removed.
And a commercial for that company, from decades ago, has been playing over and over again for the past few weeks?
Please, , make it stop!
"Having lots of money" actually counts, in my eyes. At least, if it's inherited. It's still something that just happens to you, that most people aren't blessed with. It also makes the decision to fight crime a lot easier, since you can afford proper equipment.
While I appreciate the thought behind it, I think this line of jokes has run its!%$#$!^%!%! NO CARRIER
OS-tan characters. Your wish has been fulfilled-... sort of.
Nop. Neither would I be if someone succesfully used an SQL injection on a single user's homepage. But this is more like using said rock to break into a bank or a store. There should be bulletproof glass or bars in place for the real places, and proper parsing for the SQL.
Actually, I would be embarassed if it was -my- homepage. But I'm a geek.
Is nobody embarassed by the fact that the website of a big organization can be affected by something as simple as an SQL injection?
Let's hope it doesn't turn you into a vegetable instead!
Buy a properly-working equivalent device?
I understand and agree with your point, I just think your example needs some work.
Slashdot's choice of titles tells us that this -is- a display. I was confused at first too, but it seems to be just lighting like you said.
... Thanks for pointing out the nepotism. If it were Mark himself saying that, it'd be nothing new. He's been shady for years now. But it's his sister, running the PR. I mean.. when you're the PR person for a well-known cash-cow of a website, you don't want to piss off half the internet.
Would love an invite as well: dekker3d (at gmail dot com)
I tend to be better at English than at Dutch (my native language) and I read it as such too. "Man claiming half of Facebook" sounds more unreal than "half of facebook suffers setbacks".
Acute de-geeking?
It's illegal to break those and the wearers know that.. which isn't the case for autistic children and alzheimer-..y elderly. They won't get locked up for "another few years" for breaking it. At worst, they'll be seen as annoying. At best, endearing and cute.
Trust me, given enough time to break it and no incentive not to.. anyone could do it.
If you get access to the hashed password, there's little else that'll slow down hacking attempts. Either make the hash take longer, or make the password more complex.
New hashing algorithm that takes a minute to compute? Some hashing algorithms got turned down specifically for being too fast, and too easy to use in a bruteforcing attempt. [citation needed]
I used to pay for any games, movies and most music I liked. Then, they decided to make viewing and playing said things more of a hassle, requiring complex tools to store the files on my hd. This "protection" required a new disc format, and prices were heightened. New software to prevent me from just playing my own games from my own hd was developed, taking money and development time out of other areas of importance like bugfixes and gameplay. Of course, the money to pay for a license, and for the programmers' time to implement it, had to come from somewhere. My wallet, among those of thousands of others.
In the meantime, an alternative cropped up. It did have a small chance of contracting some computer malware, just like the original offers, but this one had many kinds of media available for free! And I wouldn't even have to spend time and effort ripping it to my hd, because someone else had already gone through that effort for me. Even the protection malware was disabled for me!
While the original offer increased its prices and went through a phase where malware was abundant, said problems did not manage to touch the alternative. Any viruses and most of the lesser-quality wares were quickly eradicated, and it remained available to anyone for free.
Sure, I understood that the developers needed the money too, so whenever I found a game or music album I -really- liked, I'd make sure to buy a copy. Yet the copies remained untouched, as I could always find a safer version to play online. And soon, the temptation to support the developers and artists started to falter. The only games I've bought in the last half year have been from places I've never had trouble with so far. Steam, Blizzard's web store, various natively-Linux games (You'll be hard-pressed to find a game that runs on Linux yet still implements a form of DRM), and free, donation-based games like Dwarf Fortress and Shores of Hazeron (The latter doesn't so much accept donations in money, but they're happy to accept any art and models of a decent quality, it seems)
The thing is that skinner box techniques are known for bringing an emotionally void kind of addiction.. not the kind of fun that most people want out of a game.