I sure hope that this offer doesn't go under due to abuse of their offer. Reminds me of the free pc story that was posted earlier. Sure the idea was good, and the execution was bad, but i think some of there undoing was the people who turned off their ads. "Mac's are fast, you just have to be patient."
Well, the difference is that the PCs that were being given away cost $500 a piece, whereas it doesn't cost anything to add records to their DNS. (Of course, they have to pay for an administrator, etc., but the amount they pay doesn't vary with the amount of names they register.)
Does the usage of a particular country's domain force you to abide by their rules, even if the servers are not physically located in the country in question?
I can't imagine this being a significant problem. If you're not in the country, the worst they can do is take away the domain.
The people who got PCs from FreePC made an explicit agreement with FreePC not to bypass/block the ads, in exchange for a free PC. If you made an agreement with your cable company to get free cable if you sat through all the commercials in the shows you watch, it would indeed be unethical to leave the room during the commercials.
My only complant is that if you ate 4 of these things with the Nutrent content it has some people might get sick or overdose on Vitamin A and Iron.
Exactly! I'd be seriously concerned about the health of anyone who tries to subsist entirely on Dilberitos, because you'd need like 8 of them a day to get enough calories, and then you'd 800% of all those vitamins. While some are safe in any amount (like Vitamin C), other vitamins and minerals can be dangerous to consume in excess.
The problem with really big displays is that the computer can't send enough signals to the screen to get a decent refresh at a high resolution. It'd probably be possible to get 2048x1530 or something ludicrously high like that, but you'd have to accept visible rescanning rates. In other words, completely useless for typical applications.
Since LCD displays are digital, it shouldn't be hard for the display to include memory and buffer the image on the screen. It might do that anyway.
It's perfectly possible to work on complex software projects without a debugger, it's just more difficult.
Case in point: at a place I worked recently, I had to work with a large legacy system written in QuickBasic (the compiling version of QBasic). I would guess there was a total of several hundred thousand lines of code. QuickBasic is a poor language anyway, and to top it all off, I couldn't use the debugger because it wouldn't work when the programs were linked with nonstandard libraries, which all of the programs were. I made extensive modifications to some programs, and I did all my debugging by sticking PRINT statements in the code. So it's possible.
Also, I think it's funny that you say "No need to get personal, friend", and then "whatever little high school programming assignment you have". I guess that's not getting personal?
It's nitpicking, but it's important to realize this. Because someday somebody's going to find out what the REAL contents of the universe are. and maybe modern theory will be just a little bit off, but close. Or maybe we'll find out that the vast majority of the universe is made out of licorice flavored jelly beans.
As silly as that sounds, the "dark matter" theory and the "licorice" theory stand on equal ground scientifically until the actual proof of the matter comes in.
Certainly, you and I personally have no direct evidence that the center of the sun is not made of jelly beans. However, we also have no direct evidence that we are not the proverbial brains in vats. I suppose you can set your standard of evidence so high that "the center of the sun in not made of jelly beans" remains an unproven theory. Even if you do so, it is rediculous to suggest that the jelly bean theory and the dark matter theory are on equal ground, just because both are unproven. The difference is that the dark matter theory has a body of evidence supporting, while the jelly bean theory does not. While the evidence for dark matter may not meet the standard of proof, that does not relegate it to the same level as all unproven theories.
You could just change the logo so that it's obviously not Apple's logo anymore. You could use some other fruit, or just go the route the Intel Secrets site did, and put a big No symbol (red circle with a diagonal slash through it) over the Apple logo.
This suggests that their sharing-detection would be vulnerable to abuse by an open-source reimplementation of their closed-source library. It also I think explains why they found it necessary to close the library: They've got a security flaw that could be easily exploited here.
How does a closed source library keep you from spoofing your MAC address? The library is in user-space.
I hate to respond to an AC flame, but... making it illegal/immoral to ridicule/insult/decry the government is the first step to a totalitarian regime. Patriotism does not imply morality, nor does morality imply patriotism.
And you don't have the right to publicly humiliate the President of the US, no matter what your opinion of him. What Wankel did was so unpatriotic, I don't see it as being too far removed from using the American flag to wipe his ass.
Um... you certainly do have those rights. Unless you actually slander the President, it's a First Amendment right to humiliate him verbally. And you have the right to do whatever the hell you want to an American flag that belongs to you.
Your analogy of vandalism is way off. It's not like anyone actually thought Clinton said he wants to see porn on the Internet.
"So what constitutes fair use of a DVD in your eyes -- besides simply buying a DVD and using one of the MPAA's authorized players? Any use by which you buy it at a price."
That quote is actually very significant. All that the DMCA prohibits is decrypting, etc., without the authorization of the copyright holder. If that isn't authorization by the copyright holder to play legally purchased DVDs by any means one chooses, including a DeCSS-based player under Linux, I don't know what is.
If the 1 in 37M figure was the final probability, they must have taken the size of the data set into account. But if that was taken into account, why did the article say:
"British authorities say the mismatch probably was caused by the rapidly increasing size of their database, which has grown from 470,000 potential suspects to 660,000 in the past year."
Also, your numbers are too high to come out with a final probability of 1 in 37M.
So the choice producers are ending up with is either submit to Monsanta and loose sale or change production/recepies to NOT include soya alltogether, and thus raising production costs!
Yeah, but banning GM foods from import would just select the second scenario automatically, if there isn't enough non-GM soya available.
I mean, there either is enough production capacity to feed everyone on non-GM food or there isn't.
If there is, then consumers could by only non-GM food if they so desired, and no one would import GM food because they couldn't sell it. If there isn't, you can't ban GM food because people would starve.
If the organic food is actually available (that is, if there isn't a constant shortage of it), and GM food still sells, that simply means that some consumers place price over whether food is GM or not. Even if GM food were unsafe for consumption, it is hardly the job of the government to force consumers not to buy it. Smoking is undeniably more unhealthy than GM foods could possibly be, but nobody complains about tobacco being shoved down their throat, even if it can still be imported.
You explained why using GNOME implies using Linux. To be synonymous, using Linux would have to imply using GNOME as well, which clearly is not the case.
If there were sufficient consumer demand for non-GM food, organic growers would have booming business and would be expanding their operations. Moreover, high demand for non-GM food would lead food companies whose food was non-GM to prominently label it as such. Other companies would have to follow suit, as consumers would begin thinking that anything without a non-GM label was GM. Since none of this stuff is happening, apparently not many people care whether their food is GM or not. I find it hard to believe that those people who do care are unable to find organic growers.
2) Encryption/copyright - Err.. I thought I already agreed on that one.
3) Spying - In that case, Denmark should sue the US/UK, instead of France.
2) Forcing genetic engineered food down our throut
Surely no one is forcing consumers to buy the food. Or is the US your only supplier of food?
3) Forcing very strict encryption- and data-protectionlaws. Thanks to the US it's now illegal in Denmark to make backup-copies. Hey, it's even 'illegal' to surf the web (yeah, really stupid law, but apparently the pressure was so strung that the law needed to be rushed through).
Yeah, these laws are stupid. Keep in mind that they are being forced on US citizens too.
3) Spying on everyboddy
Sorry, but everyone spies on everyone. As other/.ers have mentioned, France itself has a track record of spying. I'm not saying spying isn't bad, but it's not the basis for a complaint that the US is worse than other countries in that regard.
If your file cabinet is locked, the police can't make you give them a key. They can (and will) break it open if they have a warrant, but if your cabinet's make out of reinforced invincibilium and they can't cut through it, they're just SOL.
Nope. For the bill to apply, it must be the case that
"(d) that the key cannot reasonably be obtained by the person [law enforcement] with the appropriate permission without the giving of a notice under this section"
Since anyone could get the key from any DVD player, law enforcement would be able to get it without you, and this bill wouldn't apply.
For example, if a heroin dealer has book with details of all his dealings then according to the free speach arguement he should be able to withold these as evidence...
Um.. your analogy doesn't take encryption into account at all, which is the whole point. A better analogy is that the drug dealer used code names for everyone in the book. He cannot be punished for refusing to tell the police who the people mentioned really are.
Well, considering that, the 'ping tidal wave' (tm) would just go the other way, wouldn't it? China would effectively sever itself from the internet, but in the process cut all westbound links from the Americas, and all the eastbound links from EurAsia and Africa... (Yeah, they can do that with a backhoe too) The trans-Atlantic links would buckle under the added strain of valid traffic... Mayham.
Sorry, traffic from Europe to America doesn't go through Asia more than a miniscule fraction of the time. Cutting Asia off the Internet would have a negligible effect on the trans-Atlantic connections.
Truly, you can't have an effective distributed DoS attack from one area in the network. That defeats the whole point of it being distributed.
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I sure hope that this offer doesn't go under due to abuse of their offer. Reminds me of the free pc story that was posted earlier. Sure the idea was good, and the execution was bad, but i think some of there undoing was the people who turned off their ads. "Mac's are fast, you just have to be patient."
Well, the difference is that the PCs that were being given away cost $500 a piece, whereas it doesn't cost anything to add records to their DNS. (Of course, they have to pay for an administrator, etc., but the amount they pay doesn't vary with the amount of names they register.)
Does the usage of a particular country's domain force you to abide by their rules, even if the servers are not physically located in the country in question?
I can't imagine this being a significant problem. If you're not in the country, the worst they can do is take away the domain.
Um...the message you quoted doesn't contain the phrase "open source".
The people who got PCs from FreePC made an explicit agreement with FreePC not to bypass/block the ads, in exchange for a free PC. If you made an agreement with your cable company to get free cable if you sat through all the commercials in the shows you watch, it would indeed be unethical to leave the room during the commercials.
My only complant is that if you ate 4 of these things with the Nutrent content it has some people might get sick or overdose on Vitamin A and Iron.
Exactly! I'd be seriously concerned about the health of anyone who tries to subsist entirely on Dilberitos, because you'd need like 8 of them a day to get enough calories, and then you'd 800% of all those vitamins. While some are safe in any amount (like Vitamin C), other vitamins and minerals can be dangerous to consume in excess.
I have no respect for that man after the Dilhole lawyer letter.
Oh, come on. I'm sure United Media owns enough rights to the strip to send out lawyer letters with or without his approval.
The problem with really big displays is that the computer can't send enough signals to the screen to get a decent refresh at a high resolution. It'd probably be possible to get 2048x1530 or something ludicrously high like that, but you'd have to accept visible rescanning rates. In other words, completely useless for typical applications.
Since LCD displays are digital, it shouldn't be hard for the display to include memory and buffer the image on the screen. It might do that anyway.
It's perfectly possible to work on complex software projects without a debugger, it's just more difficult.
Case in point: at a place I worked recently, I had to work with a large legacy system written in QuickBasic (the compiling version of QBasic). I would guess there was a total of several hundred thousand lines of code. QuickBasic is a poor language anyway, and to top it all off, I couldn't use the debugger because it wouldn't work when the programs were linked with nonstandard libraries, which all of the programs were. I made extensive modifications to some programs, and I did all my debugging by sticking PRINT statements in the code. So it's possible.
Also, I think it's funny that you say "No need to get personal, friend", and then "whatever little high school programming assignment you have". I guess that's not getting personal?
It's nitpicking, but it's important to realize this. Because someday somebody's going to find out what the REAL contents of the universe are. and maybe modern theory will be just a little bit off, but close. Or maybe we'll find out that the vast majority of the universe is made out of licorice flavored jelly beans.
As silly as that sounds, the "dark matter" theory and the "licorice" theory stand on equal ground scientifically until the actual proof of the matter comes in.
Certainly, you and I personally have no direct evidence that the center of the sun is not made of jelly beans. However, we also have no direct evidence that we are not the proverbial brains in vats. I suppose you can set your standard of evidence so high that "the center of the sun in not made of jelly beans" remains an unproven theory. Even if you do so, it is rediculous to suggest that the jelly bean theory and the dark matter theory are on equal ground, just because both are unproven. The difference is that the dark matter theory has a body of evidence supporting, while the jelly bean theory does not. While the evidence for dark matter may not meet the standard of proof, that does not relegate it to the same level as all unproven theories.
I'm pretty sure you can't use either logo.
You could just change the logo so that it's obviously not Apple's logo anymore. You could use some other fruit, or just go the route the Intel Secrets site did, and put a big No symbol (red circle with a diagonal slash through it) over the Apple logo.
Just make sure your theme doesn't use the Apple logo, that's all they care about.
This suggests that their sharing-detection would be vulnerable to abuse by an open-source reimplementation of their closed-source library. It also I think explains why they found it necessary to close the library: They've got a security flaw that could be easily exploited here.
How does a closed source library keep you from spoofing your MAC address? The library is in user-space.
I hate to respond to an AC flame, but ... making it illegal/immoral to ridicule/insult/decry the government is the first step to a totalitarian regime. Patriotism does not imply morality, nor does morality imply patriotism.
And you don't have the right to publicly humiliate the President of the US, no matter what your opinion of him. What Wankel did was so unpatriotic, I don't see it as being too far removed from using the American flag to wipe his ass.
Um... you certainly do have those rights. Unless you actually slander the President, it's a First Amendment right to humiliate him verbally. And you have the right to do whatever the hell you want to an American flag that belongs to you.
Your analogy of vandalism is way off. It's not like anyone actually thought Clinton said he wants to see porn on the Internet.
"So what constitutes fair use of a DVD in your eyes -- besides simply buying a DVD and using one of the MPAA's authorized players?
Any use by which you buy it at a price."
That quote is actually very significant. All that the DMCA prohibits is decrypting, etc., without the authorization of the copyright holder. If that isn't authorization by the copyright holder to play legally purchased DVDs by any means one chooses, including a DeCSS-based player under Linux, I don't know what is.
Disclaimer: IANAL
If the 1 in 37M figure was the final probability, they must have taken the size of the data set into account. But if that was taken into account, why did the article say:
"British authorities say the mismatch probably was caused by the rapidly increasing size of their database, which has grown from 470,000 potential suspects to 660,000 in the past year."
Also, your numbers are too high to come out with a final probability of 1 in 37M.
So the choice producers are ending up with is either submit to Monsanta and loose sale or change production/recepies to NOT include soya alltogether, and thus raising production costs!
Yeah, but banning GM foods from import would just select the second scenario automatically, if there isn't enough non-GM soya available.
I mean, there either is enough production capacity to feed everyone on non-GM food or there isn't.
If there is, then consumers could by only non-GM food if they so desired, and no one would import GM food because they couldn't sell it. If there isn't, you can't ban GM food because people would starve.
If the organic food is actually available (that is, if there isn't a constant shortage of it), and GM food still sells, that simply means that some consumers place price over whether food is GM or not. Even if GM food were unsafe for consumption, it is hardly the job of the government to force consumers not to buy it. Smoking is undeniably more unhealthy than GM foods could possibly be, but nobody complains about tobacco being shoved down their throat, even if it can still be imported.
You explained why using GNOME implies using Linux. To be synonymous, using Linux would have to imply using GNOME as well, which clearly is not the case.
1) GM food
If there were sufficient consumer demand for non-GM food, organic growers would have booming business and would be expanding their operations. Moreover, high demand for non-GM food would lead food companies whose food was non-GM to prominently label it as such. Other companies would have to follow suit, as consumers would begin thinking that anything without a non-GM label was GM. Since none of this stuff is happening, apparently not many people care whether their food is GM or not. I find it hard to believe that those people who do care are unable to find organic growers.
2) Encryption/copyright - Err.. I thought I already agreed on that one.
3) Spying - In that case, Denmark should sue the US/UK, instead of France.
2) Forcing genetic engineered food down our throut
Surely no one is forcing consumers to buy the food. Or is the US your only supplier of food?
3) Forcing very strict encryption- and data-protectionlaws. Thanks to the US it's now illegal in Denmark to make backup-copies. Hey, it's even 'illegal' to surf the web (yeah, really stupid law, but apparently the pressure was so strung that the law needed to be rushed through).
Yeah, these laws are stupid. Keep in mind that they are being forced on US citizens too.
3) Spying on everyboddy
Sorry, but everyone spies on everyone. As other /.ers have mentioned, France itself has a track record of spying. I'm not saying spying isn't bad, but it's not the basis for a complaint that the US is worse than other countries in that regard.
Also, it's been a *long* time since the Court heard a case of original jurisdiction
Haven't there been cases somewhat recently of states suing each other over water rights or something?
If your file cabinet is locked, the police can't make you give them a key. They can (and will) break it open if they have a warrant, but if your cabinet's make out of reinforced invincibilium and they can't cut through it, they're just SOL.
Nope. For the bill to apply, it must be the case that
"(d) that the key cannot reasonably be obtained by the person [law enforcement] with the appropriate permission without the giving of a notice under this section"
Since anyone could get the key from any DVD player, law enforcement would be able to get it without you, and this bill wouldn't apply.
For example, if a heroin dealer has book with details of all his dealings then according to the free speach arguement he should be able to withold these as evidence...
Um.. your analogy doesn't take encryption into account at all, which is the whole point. A better analogy is that the drug dealer used code names for everyone in the book. He cannot be punished for refusing to tell the police who the people mentioned really are.
Well, considering that, the 'ping tidal wave' (tm) would just go the other way, wouldn't it? China would effectively sever itself from the internet, but in the process cut all westbound links from the Americas, and all the eastbound links from EurAsia and Africa... (Yeah, they can do that with a backhoe too) The trans-Atlantic links would buckle under the added strain of valid traffic... Mayham.
Sorry, traffic from Europe to America doesn't go through Asia more than a miniscule fraction of the time. Cutting Asia off the Internet would have a negligible effect on the trans-Atlantic connections.
Truly, you can't have an effective distributed DoS attack from one area in the network. That defeats the whole point of it being distributed.