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Lofgren's Anti-DRM Bill
blastedtokyo writes "House representative Zoe Lofgren introduced the Digital Choice and Freedom Act. Perhaps the most interesting section is the part that invalidates 'non-negotiable shrink wrap licenses' (EULAs) that limit rights. On top of this, it states that both digital and analog media need to be subject to fair use rules for backing up. The full text of the bill is also available." News.com.com.com.com and Infoworld have stories as well, which both note that there is no chance of these bills being passed this year.
Couldn't help it...
first prost?
Complacent Communist Computernews Company?
Got brain?
fuckin'robbed me
The flag icon for Slashdot's 'United States' section is missing its first stripe - the stripe that represents Delaware, the first state admitted to the Union. While a simple oversight could be forgiven, it should be known from here on out that Slashdot is in fact aware of the missing stripe, and even worse, refuses to do anything about it!
This vulgar flag desecration and rabid anti-Delawarism must be put to a stop. Let the Slashdot crew know that we will not accept a knowingly mutilated flag or the insinuation that Delawarians deserve to be cut out of the union. I ask you, what has Delaware done to deserve this insolence, this wanton disregard, this bigotry?
This intentional disregard of a vital national symbol is unpatriotic. Why, the flippant remarks CmdrTaco made about our flag border on terrorism! I urge you to join the protest in each 'United States' story. Sacrifice your karma for your country by pointing out this injustice. Let's all work together to get our flag back. Can you give your country any less?
I would have thought they could afford to purchase CDs. If they have to stoop to stealing them, we are in sad shape.
It looks like this guy is just fishing for votes from the tech community. Irefuse to fall for such a cynical ploy.
I respect this web magazine quite a bit and read it multiple times a day. However, this article has to be your most clueless from my perspective:
This is why:
All software has bugs. All software has security holes. Lots and lots of them. Microsoft is hardly alone in this regard. The more usability and features you add to your products, the more bugs and security holes you add to your products.
The logic is straightforward.
I find it hilarious that people think that going to Linux or whatever other software is going to give them less bugs and security holes. Well, yes to some extent, because you have less usability and less features. But there are still thousands of bugs and thousands of security holes (you really can't count anything by counting only the ones that are published).
If anything, Microsoft's foray into "trusted computing" is dumb. I'm sure there are people at the company (including Bill G) who know it is technically impossible for computers to be secure or trusted. It's just a really stupid marketing tactic. See where it landed Oracle with their "Unbreakable Database" . (A great article, by the way).
This whole "trusted computing" distraction is wasting a lot of people's time. A bug is found, reported, and then fixed. It's really just a matter of choosing whose bugs you prefer. I think Microsoft fixes more bugs faster because they have more resources to do it, so I choose Microsoft's bugs. Anyone else is welcome to make their own decision, but if you haven't ever used other companies buggy software, I don't want to hear your opinion about how buggy Microsoft's software is.
Michael has been too busy doing other things to read Slashdot.
Whoops just got off a forum with no HTML tags, sorry /.
Do you know what "Offtopic" means?
MOD PARENT UP!!!!
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It's nice that this fucking liberal gave us her addresses. It's about time someone firebombed these two offices and film the buring corpses falling from the windows. We need to set an example with these bastards. DEATH TO LIBERALISM!