Assuming that writing spamware is equivilent to spamming (which is the same logic used in the DCMA), I'd agree with you were he charged with a crime surrounding spamware. He hasen't been. He's in jail because of the DCMA, and if you find the DCMA to be an unjust law you should support his release from jail. Again - the issue at hand vis-a-vis Dmitry is his percieved violation of the DCMA.
In the strictest sense, this is good.. but I'm sure Sun would have prefered Microsoft to actually produce a compliant VM and make that the default. This seems like one of those one-step-forward/two-steps-back improvements.
One Yankee dollar is about $1.55 Canadian, so right there you already have a discrephancy..
Pah. It's not that the Canadian dollar is worth less, it's that the Yankee dollar is worth more.. from which follows that, in giving one's '2', americans place too much worth in their own opinons.
First, there have only been a very small number of worthwile sites to actually try to charge for content. This places those that do in a worse position than they otherwise would be, as there are so many other free alternatives to their offerings. In otherwords, the question should be 'Why won't you charge for content?'
The other, obvious, reason is that people already pay to access the internet; paying for content is simply paying twice. Not to mention the lack of a standardized system of micropayment. Just my 2.
They changed to the more restrictive license later, after Free Software had become fairly successfull(sic).
The given quote from the license faq adderssed that issue - according to the pine folk, the license was changed due to misintrepretations. The fact that people misinterpreted the license _after_ free software became more common is what one would expect, as people used to free software probably assumed the pine license to be similar/equal to 'free' licenses.
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But to spent 30 million on a company costs 30m.. either they took 30m out of the bank or took on debt, they lost money somewhere. They're accounting for that now. It's real money.
You're assuming that there's no gradient to this kind of knowledge. While this system dosen't give parents any more information than they can already get from the school anyway, it does reduce the amount of effort on the part of the parent to get the information from having to phone the school, getting secretaries to check records, and such. The change, and the (potential) problem comes from the fact that, under this system, parents can now easily check the status of their kids throughout the day while at work on their desktop. The potential effects of this (which I can see, at least) are that
control-freak parents will activly monitor their children, rather than the passive monitoring they can now do;
It will further erode the need on the part of parents to observe their children on a personal level in order to have an impression of how they are doing. Whereas before, parents had to have at least a suspicion of deviant behavior before they would access these records, that need is being removed. Updates on a student's performance in school can now, for the lazy parent, be reduced from archaic things like talking and observing in the home to web-browsing.
every class, homework assignment, and sandwich a student attends/hands it|ignores/consumes will now be on a long-term record. Students will operate with the knowledge that, once a day is over, their parents will be able, if they want to, scrutinize their actions of a few years ago with greater precision than a police would in an investigation. That's what is scientifically termed a 'mindfuck'.
Following from point 3, students will be (further) socialized to accept background monitoring of their every action as normal behavior. Why would a student who has gone through this _begin_ to consider a system such as Carnivore to be anything but status-quo? Put another way, why _would_ a system such as Carnivore be anything but status-quo?
from point 4, current and future parents will be (further) socialized to view a database of day-to-day actions on the part of their underlings to be expected. Why would they think _their_ superiors don't have the right to the same level of knowledge?
I guess what I'm saying is that the damage this will cause is that it will unnecessarily erode the expectation of privacy on the part of the current and future generations of decision-makers, towards themselves and those they have responsability for.
Are there any plans for Civilization III to be made for the Mac, Linux or other gaming platforms?
The publisher, Hasbro Interactive, makes decisions regarding ports to other platforms. Since this is a major release, you'll most likely see ports to other platforms, but there are no commitments yet. We'll keep you posted.
Please. The 'energy crisis' has become an issue only since the election; Bush made an 'energy policy' one the primary planks of his election platform. Remember the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve? Who might have brought that into discussion? Why? Since the election, two of the four-or-so major actions of the white house - cancelling Kyoto, and the new energy policy - have concerned energy policy. In fact, one of the primary reasons stated for cancelling Kyoto was because the CO2 limitations contained within it could not be sustained due to the 'energy crisis'.
A quick trip to whitehouse.gov reveals the following from a speech Bush made concerning energy:
But if we fail to act, this great country could face a darker future, a future that is, unfortunately, being previewed in rising prices at the gas pump and rolling blackouts in the great state of California.
My administration has developed a sane national plan to help meet our energy needs this year and every year. If we fail to act on this plan, energy prices will continue to rise. For two decades, the share of the average family budget spent on energy steadily declined. But since 1998, it has skyrocketed by 25 percent.
If we fail to act, Americans will face more and more widespread blackouts. If we fail to act, our country will become more reliant on foreign crude oil, putting our national energy security into the hands of foreign nations, some of whom do not share our interests.
All that being said, what else has happend in the past year or so which might have precipitated this crisis? California finally felt the brunt of it's flawed deregulation; fuel prices have risin since their historic lows of 97/98, and... that's it. Oh, and Bush came into office. In short, this 'crisis' - if there even is one - is in the public's mind largely because Bush considers it important.
As for the substance of Bush plan on the environment, read the report yourself, as well as some of the articles I linked to. It is not simply technologies which are 20 years away which have seen funding cut, or been ignored; technologies which currently work, but are not widly used, have had what research funding they have cut. The vast bulk of the energy plan concerns building of new refineries, plants, distribution lines and extraction points, as well as environmental deregulation. (It is important to note, again, that a mere two years ago, energy prices were at historic lows; since then, as prices have risen, the invisible hand of capitalism has moved in and plans for new construction of these very same elements of energy infrastructure have appeared).
Enough long-winded ranting.. I just want to see what technologies we have, twenty years from now, for energy.. so much cool stuff is coming down the line.
You're ignoring the fact that, by fighting this case, they're setting a precident for future cases where someone tries to sue someone else over domain refferal. Read www.fordreallysucks.com. You'll then see that their fight dosen't have anything to do with ford's or gm's cars; it has everything to do with their behavior in regards to the internet; i.e. litigous, bullying, and irrational.
I'm a geek (I think..), and I stopped watching the program after the first episode. More because I've grown tired of the x-files, and the pilot wasn't.. ah.. 'good'. Anyway, the fickle-nes s of geeks is probably contributes to the phenomenon.
Good ol' Shep, what with his self-starting initiative and hard work. Why, taking the insinuations of the article as fact, Shep
) Thought up and built a great table - mostly by himself - , despite mean ol' Russian mission control's attempts to stop him,
) Has single-handidly brought about the idea that long-term inhabitants in space should have training in simple handy-work skills, the utility of which will certainly bring a sense of peace into orbit (why, the table alone is the social center of the iss!), and
) Handled, without incident, the nasty Russian's irrational obsession over national property on the station - a concept which NASA must be unfamiliar with...
Bah humbug. I'm beginning to see why they changed the station's name from the iss..
Well, first, I have one.. but, your analogy is off. LS-120 can read/write 1.44mb disks, but they do so at a slower rate than 1.44mb-only drives. Add to that the fact that the drives cost a few times more than a good 1.44mb drive, and the media cost much more than cheap-o 1.44mb disks, and the analogy dosen't hold water. None of which is to say I'm going out tomorrow to buy one a ddrw, but still...
That's the company line, I don't really think it's the case... 10.0, in itself, wasn't usable on a day-to-day basis, and many parts of it wern't nearly as polished as you'd expect a commercial app to be. This frequency of updates speaks to that being the case.
good ol' salon had an article on this awhile back; essentially, the profit margins in the vaccine trade arn't high enough to justify making them, for some. Read the article.. it's title 'ready for some lockjaw' for a reason.
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Assuming that writing spamware is equivilent to spamming (which is the same logic used in the DCMA), I'd agree with you were he charged with a crime surrounding spamware. He hasen't been. He's in jail because of the DCMA, and if you find the DCMA to be an unjust law you should support his release from jail. Again - the issue at hand vis-a-vis Dmitry is his percieved violation of the DCMA.
I saw that series too.. I was struck more by how much of an ass he is than his relative intelligence. More of a Steve Jobs than a Gibson.
Linus has,in fact,grown,and explosively-JonKatz
In the strictest sense, this is good.. but I'm sure Sun would have prefered Microsoft to actually produce a compliant VM and make that the default. This seems like one of those one-step-forward/two-steps-back improvements.
Linus has,in fact,grown,and explosively-JonKatz
Pah. It's not that the Canadian dollar is worth less, it's that the Yankee dollar is worth more.. from which follows that, in giving one's '2', americans place too much worth in their own opinons.
Linus has,in fact,grown,and explosively-JonKatz
The other, obvious, reason is that people already pay to access the internet; paying for content is simply paying twice. Not to mention the lack of a standardized system of micropayment. Just my 2.
Linus has,in fact,grown,and explosively-JonKatz
They changed to the more restrictive license later, after Free Software had become fairly successfull(sic).
The given quote from the license faq adderssed that issue - according to the pine folk, the license was changed due to misintrepretations. The fact that people misinterpreted the license _after_ free software became more common is what one would expect, as people used to free software probably assumed the pine license to be similar/equal to 'free' licenses.
Linus has,in fact,grown,and explosively-JonKatz
There are no artists anymore.. just ipists.
Linus has,in fact,grown,and explosively-JonKatz
But to spent 30 million on a company costs 30m.. either they took 30m out of the bank or took on debt, they lost money somewhere. They're accounting for that now. It's real money.
Linus has,in fact,grown,and explosively-JonKatz
Because qtvr is prior art.. it came out years before ipix
Linus has,in fact,grown,and explosively-JonKatz
Linux:Cancer as Windows:Germ Warfare
Linus has,in fact,grown,and explosively-JonKatz
- control-freak parents will activly monitor their children, rather than the passive monitoring they can now do;
- It will further erode the need on the part of parents to observe their children on a personal level in order to have an impression of how they are doing. Whereas before, parents had to have at least a suspicion of deviant behavior before they would access these records, that need is being removed. Updates on a student's performance in school can now, for the lazy parent, be reduced from archaic things like talking and observing in the home to web-browsing.
- every class, homework assignment, and sandwich a student attends/hands it|ignores/consumes will now be on a long-term record. Students will operate with the knowledge that, once a day is over, their parents will be able, if they want to, scrutinize their actions of a few years ago with greater precision than a police would in an investigation. That's what is scientifically termed a 'mindfuck'.
- Following from point 3, students will be (further) socialized to accept background monitoring of their every action as normal behavior. Why would a student who has gone through this _begin_ to consider a system such as Carnivore to be anything but status-quo? Put another way, why _would_ a system such as Carnivore be anything but status-quo?
- from point 4, current and future parents will be (further) socialized to view a database of day-to-day actions on the part of their underlings to be expected. Why would they think _their_ superiors don't have the right to the same level of knowledge?
I guess what I'm saying is that the damage this will cause is that it will unnecessarily erode the expectation of privacy on the part of the current and future generations of decision-makers, towards themselves and those they have responsability for.Linus has,in fact,grown,and explosively-JonKatz
- Are there any plans for Civilization III to be made for the Mac, Linux or other gaming platforms?
The publisher, Hasbro Interactive, makes decisions regarding ports to other platforms. Since this is a major release, you'll most likely see ports to other platforms, but there are no commitments yet. We'll keep you posted.Linus has,in fact,grown,and explosively-JonKatz
There's also no ambassador to the United Nations. Not that that'll matter much without us debt payment, but still...
Linus has,in fact,grown,and explosively-JonKatz
A quick trip to whitehouse.gov reveals the following from a speech Bush made concerning energy:
But if we fail to act, this great country could face a darker future, a future that is, unfortunately, being previewed in rising prices at the gas pump and rolling blackouts in the great state of California.
My administration has developed a sane national plan to help meet our energy needs this year and every year. If we fail to act on this plan, energy prices will continue to rise. For two decades, the share of the average family budget spent on energy steadily declined. But since 1998, it has skyrocketed by 25 percent.
If we fail to act, Americans will face more and more widespread blackouts. If we fail to act, our country will become more reliant on foreign crude oil, putting our national energy security into the hands of foreign nations, some of whom do not share our interests.
I don't want to quote the entire thing; read it for yourself. Also pass a glance at the National Energy Report. Read this article in The Economist, this article (also in The Economist), CNN has an easy-to-digest overview of the positions of Bush and Clinton, as well as some articles on the matter. Note, in all of these articles, where much of the article's substance comes from: Bush. Bush himself makes clear his long interest in the subject matter.All that being said, what else has happend in the past year or so which might have precipitated this crisis? California finally felt the brunt of it's flawed deregulation; fuel prices have risin since their historic lows of 97/98, and ... that's it. Oh, and Bush came into office. In short, this 'crisis' - if there even is one - is in the public's mind largely because Bush considers it important.
As for the substance of Bush plan on the environment, read the report yourself, as well as some of the articles I linked to. It is not simply technologies which are 20 years away which have seen funding cut, or been ignored; technologies which currently work, but are not widly used, have had what research funding they have cut. The vast bulk of the energy plan concerns building of new refineries, plants, distribution lines and extraction points, as well as environmental deregulation. (It is important to note, again, that a mere two years ago, energy prices were at historic lows; since then, as prices have risen, the invisible hand of capitalism has moved in and plans for new construction of these very same elements of energy infrastructure have appeared).
Enough long-winded ranting.. I just want to see what technologies we have, twenty years from now, for energy.. so much cool stuff is coming down the line.
Linus has,in fact,grown,and explosively-JonKatz
touché
Linus has,in fact,grown,and explosively-JonKatz
good point, but the word you're thinking of (I think) is 'memorial'
Linus has,in fact,grown,and explosively-JonKatz
rtfa. that issue was raised, considered, and ignored.
Linus has,in fact,grown,and explosively-JonKatz
we spawned the Shat-ner, but he's since left for numerous lights of the u.s.
Linus has,in fact,grown,and explosively-JonKatz
... perhaps to 127.0.0.1?
Linus has,in fact,grown,and explosively-JonKatz
You're ignoring the fact that, by fighting this case, they're setting a precident for future cases where someone tries to sue someone else over domain refferal. Read www.fordreallysucks.com. You'll then see that their fight dosen't have anything to do with ford's or gm's cars; it has everything to do with their behavior in regards to the internet; i.e. litigous, bullying, and irrational.
Linus has,in fact,grown,and explosively-JonKatz
I'm a geek (I think..), and I stopped watching the program after the first episode. More because I've grown tired of the x-files, and the pilot wasn't .. ah.. 'good'. Anyway, the fickle-nes s of geeks is probably contributes to the phenomenon.
Linus has,in fact,grown,and explosively-JonKatz
Bah humbug. I'm beginning to see why they changed the station's name from the iss..
Linus has,in fact,grown,and explosively-JonKatz
Well, first, I have one.. but, your analogy is off. LS-120 can read/write 1.44mb disks, but they do so at a slower rate than 1.44mb-only drives. Add to that the fact that the drives cost a few times more than a good 1.44mb drive, and the media cost much more than cheap-o 1.44mb disks, and the analogy dosen't hold water. None of which is to say I'm going out tomorrow to buy one a ddrw, but still...
Linus has,in fact,grown,and explosively-JonKatz
That's the company line, I don't really think it's the case... 10.0, in itself, wasn't usable on a day-to-day basis, and many parts of it wern't nearly as polished as you'd expect a commercial app to be. This frequency of updates speaks to that being the case.
Linus has,in fact,grown,and explosively-JonKatz
good ol' salon had an article on this awhile back; essentially, the profit margins in the vaccine trade arn't high enough to justify making them, for some. Read the article.. it's title 'ready for some lockjaw' for a reason.
Linus has,in fact,grown,and explosively-JonKatz