You give the users a locked-down PC, replete with onerous Pointsec whole-disk encryption so that your stupid email announcements are safe from prying eyes, and no one can repair the HDD in case Windows doesn't shut down properly. Right, you do that, but then you also allow users to run a VM image of a standard WinXP build. They can do whatever they want in the VM, blow it up, infect it, whatever. The VM has no access to anything internal to the corp. Also, the VM isn't backed up, so if it gets too far removed from safety, it gets nuked, and a new one installed.
Done. And done. People at work are bringing in their own laptops and launching their daily reads on the corporate network... there's little to stop them from crossing the domain barrier and infecting the corporate network. With a VM, at least you can build images that won't ever do that.
Pearl Jam didn't publish lyrics for their album "Ten". alt.music.pearljam had lively discussions about what they'd heard, in addition to what they meant.
I don't see the infringement at all. I never will. I heard it, he heard it, we compared notes, we agree it's probably "somebody else's sky". Make the compelling argument that I can't freely discuss this with someone else, or make the text available for anyone else to read and evaluate.
"As long as the original copyright has expired"... which would be fine if we were talking about 28 years. Now we're talking about author's death plus 90. Who benefits from that? No one. It's a monopoly on a work that's potential a hundred years in the past, and for what?
28 years, period. No extensions, no lifetime benefits. It's ridiculous.
If you affiliate with a known criminal enterprise, you've already declared yourself ex social. As such, you should be fair game for immediate dismissal from the society, by whatever means are deemed appropriate.
In other words, you flash Crip signs and dress the part, bullet in the head. The game has changed, the rules have changed, and law enforcement is still forced to play on a different field. No. That's enough.
Putting games online makes it much easier to grab untold millions of potential viewers that cannot be served by local television. Think of the myriad of agreements that would need to be negotiated for each market.
Now think of the single agreement, managed by the Premier League, negotiated directly with subscribers. It's really simple: they can cut out the middleman.
Furthermore, here's the kicker: traditional broadcasters can work in concert with the Premier League to add their own value, i.e. commentary, insight, etc to get a slice of the pie. Choose a broadcast version, commentary or no, basic video or no, etc. The MLB has a provable model of business, and it does work.
The only downside is MLB locks up all local radio simulcasts on the Internet, so you can't watch a graphical game play out with your favorite broadcaster calling the action. The "added value" presumably kicks back to the radio team in some way. Fair enough, AM radios are cheap.
...it's a publicly-traded company problem. It's a problem for any company that wants a profit and answers to shareholders. Period. If Sony could capture 80% of the television market by clubbing baby seals, they would. If Coca-Cola could wipe out Pepsi by a legal loophole, they'd exploit it in a second.
Don't limit your imagination to big pharma. Likewise, don't knock the advance of big pharma, either. It's not ginseng that's keeping you alive after your wild 80s, it's a cocktail of antivirals.
Declare them domestic terrorists. Shoot on sight. The End.
The rest of you can debate this endlessly, but the intellectual masturbation is sad in the face of people getting shot trying to buy milk down the street. Shoot. Them. All.
... a place where you can bring your iPod and fill it up on the spot with music you're hearing while browsing. Or a place where two guys or gals get into a mock debate each week on five albums. In other words, what MTV tried to be twenty years ago until they turned into whatever the hell they are now.
If Asus posts MD5/ SHA hashes on their site for their packages, you can run your own checksum on the end results to ensure you have the right drivers. The weak link might be if someone hacked the Asus webpage to change the hash values, but the hash values can be stored inside the downloaded archive and compared. You can verify your packages.
I would probably prefer to see Asus using public methods of torrent seeding, but whatever gets an Asus download to me quicker is fine with me. Direct links are always hit or miss and I'm a "set it and forget it" kind of guy.
Guilds are different than unions, in that a guild would make you whole if you employed guild members. In other words, if I hire a union electrician and he screws up my job, the union would send another electrician to make it right, on them, in order to preserve the union reputation. Consequently, membership in a union was not automatic nor guaranteed.
Contrast this with how unions typically operate in corporate settings, for example, and we see how much it has changed since the days of guilds. I have yet to see the CWA or Teamsters boot someone from a union for non-performance.
The research librarians were trained and skilled in doing research; as it became easier to do research, their abilities would presumably keep pace. In other words, you might be able to do what an RL did ten years ago by yourself, but imagine what they are doing today. You can't outsource experience or knowledge, and it will never come in a can.
Umm, I call shenanigans. Verizon DOES block your ability to use 3rd-party mail servers. GMail is web-based, son. A server at a friend's ISP, connecting over port 25, is BLOCKED by Verizon, period end of story.
Now, I use another port and so go my merry way, but Verizon, having blocked port 25, can block any ports they wish under the same guiding principle. Verizon sets limits.
DISH has great customer service, technical support, and the best DVR you can find from a content provider. Plus, their packages are cheap and stocked with goodies.
Once AT&T buys it, that will all go away. AT&T will screw up the customer service, raise the prices on all bundles, add surcharges, and limit content. AT&T has something of a reverse Midas touch: everything it buys turns to shit.
On the post: Time For IT Guys To Unshackle Corporate Computers
Why not a VM sandbox?
Done. And done. People at work are bringing in their own laptops and launching their daily reads on the corporate network... there's little to stop them from crossing the domain barrier and infecting the corporate network. With a VM, at least you can build images that won't ever do that.
-C
On the post: Music Publishers Force Lyrics API Offline; How Dare Anyone Make Lyrics Useful
Hmmm, let's talk it out.
I don't see the infringement at all. I never will. I heard it, he heard it, we compared notes, we agree it's probably "somebody else's sky". Make the compelling argument that I can't freely discuss this with someone else, or make the text available for anyone else to read and evaluate.
-C
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such as free speech
On the post: What's Wrong With Paying Homage To A Literary Classic By Writing A Sequel?
troll much?
28 years, period. No extensions, no lifetime benefits. It's ridiculous.
On the post: Facing Five Years In Prison For Posting A Photo On MySpace Wearing Gang Colors
Hardly it.
In other words, you flash Crip signs and dress the part, bullet in the head. The game has changed, the rules have changed, and law enforcement is still forced to play on a different field. No. That's enough.
On the post: Premier League's Fear Of The Internet A Case Study In What Not To Do
Are you a semi-evolved form of troll?
Now think of the single agreement, managed by the Premier League, negotiated directly with subscribers. It's really simple: they can cut out the middleman.
Furthermore, here's the kicker: traditional broadcasters can work in concert with the Premier League to add their own value, i.e. commentary, insight, etc to get a slice of the pie. Choose a broadcast version, commentary or no, basic video or no, etc. The MLB has a provable model of business, and it does work.
The only downside is MLB locks up all local radio simulcasts on the Internet, so you can't watch a graphical game play out with your favorite broadcaster calling the action. The "added value" presumably kicks back to the radio team in some way. Fair enough, AM radios are cheap.
-C
On the post: Big Pharma Abusing Patent Laws To Seize And Destroy Legal Indian Generic Drugs
It's not a big pharma problem...
Don't limit your imagination to big pharma. Likewise, don't knock the advance of big pharma, either. It's not ginseng that's keeping you alive after your wild 80s, it's a cocktail of antivirals.
-C
On the post: Facing Five Years In Prison For Posting A Photo On MySpace Wearing Gang Colors
Dealing with gangs.
The rest of you can debate this endlessly, but the intellectual masturbation is sad in the face of people getting shot trying to buy milk down the street. Shoot. Them. All.
On the post: Indie Record Shops Learning To Adapt
Destinations of Interest also include...
-C
On the post: Asus The Latest To Recognize That BitTorrent Is Quite Useful
Lineage, verifiable files, etc
I would probably prefer to see Asus using public methods of torrent seeding, but whatever gets an Asus download to me quicker is fine with me. Direct links are always hit or miss and I'm a "set it and forget it" kind of guy.
-C
On the post: Professional Unions And The Labor Struggles Of The 21st Century
Re: Guilds
Contrast this with how unions typically operate in corporate settings, for example, and we see how much it has changed since the days of guilds. I have yet to see the CWA or Teamsters boot someone from a union for non-performance.
-C
On the post: Why Not Apply A Three Strikes Rule To Everything?
The argument used...
c.f. http://www.skepticsfieldguide.net/
AND
http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html
On the post: Wall Street Journal Gets Rid Of Its Research Librarian
flawed premise in WSJ argument
Bad move by WSJ.
On the post: Verizon's DNS Policy May Be Bad, But It's Not A Network Neutrality Violation
Now, I use another port and so go my merry way, but Verizon, having blocked port 25, can block any ports they wish under the same guiding principle. Verizon sets limits.
On the post: The Hidden Message Behind EchoStar's Potential Marriage To AT&T: U-Verse Sucks And Satellite TV Is Dying
So long to DISH then
Once AT&T buys it, that will all go away. AT&T will screw up the customer service, raise the prices on all bundles, add surcharges, and limit content. AT&T has something of a reverse Midas touch: everything it buys turns to shit.
-C
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