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Congressional Committee Approves Database Bill

Posted by michael on from the here-comes-another-one dept.

thisissilly writes "Ready for another set of restrictions to so-called 'intellectual property'? The House Judiciary committee approved a bill to extend copyright-like protection to databases, despite opposition by AT&T, Amazon, Yahoo, and Google, among others. Currently mere compilations of facts, such as phone books, are not copyrightable. This would change that. Coverage from Cnet, Internetnews. No word on a Senate version. Let's stop this one before it grows."

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  1. Compile facts - copyright them - profit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Noooooooooo!

  2. H4xoting111~~~~ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Clicky!

    The parameter after the : specifies the cfg file, go find passwd, kay :)?

  3. Re:Dear Linux professionals by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I believe you do this(logged in as root, of course):

    1. Read RedCrapHat docs.
    2. Figure out how to uninstall X and anything that is related.
    3. Figure out how to remove anything that has to do with RedHat, the RPM system included.
    4. Uninstall the above two.
    5. rm -Rf /
    6. wget http://ftp.slackware.com/slackware-current.tar.bz2
    7. Install Slackware
    8. Install Swaret, http://www.swaret.org (?)
    9. Sign the goatse petition
    10. Install Apache httpd and put up hello.jpg as your index page.
    11. Download, configure and compile the kernel.
    12. Type this in the console: 'uninstall python'
    13. Do it again, but without the quotes this time.
    14. Get a life, nerd!
    15. Join the communist GameDev community!

  4. HELP!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My linux boxen have virii! I are running gentoo.

  5. Re:Dear Linux professionals by ivanmarsh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I hope this is a joke.

    I'd hate to think the state of our military's infrastructure is in the hands of someone so stupid he thinks he's going to get an answer to this question after he mis-posted it to a discussion that has nothing to do with linux or is too fucking dumb to uninstall an RPM.

    rpm -e python dumbass!

    (You should not include the "dumbass!" portion of the above line when you try to uninstall.)

  6. Re:Dear Linux professionals by Sir+Haxa1ot · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I don't quite understand why step 10

    Install Apache httpd and put up hello.jpg as your index page.


    is required. The Pentagon documentation and the contract I agreed to work under states no Web servers or FTP acces is allowed on any box. With the security vulnerability I've just discovered in Python kernel, I will add Python to the list of forbidden schemas.
    --

    Nader-2004

  7. Studies have shown.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Eating balls is bad for your hair.

  8. Re:Sucking Noise by larry+bagina · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    no, that loud sucking noise is CmdrTaco shallow-throating CowboyKneel's knob.

    I suggest you ask your doctor to up your dosage.

    --
    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.