Linus didn't correct Terry Gross for calling him LIE-nus.
Naturally, she also pronounced Linux Linn-ucks.
Five years running Linux, I can't break myself from calling it Line-ex, which pronunciation is more apprpriate to a pickup truck bed liner (trade marked, even).
Because you sold the DVD to me, or is there another meaning to "sold" which prevents me from playing my DVD on my DVD player (using, of course, my operating system)?
Playing my DVD on my equipment is absolutely my right, else to some extent you retain ownership of what you sold me. That would be fraud.
First sale. It's not your DVD, I can do as I wish, as long as I don't distribute copies hither and yon. Forbidding the distribution of DeCSS is censorship, which should not happen in a free country.
If you're in the US, on Tuesday drop a postcard in the mailbox to your represetative letting him know how the DMCA influenced your vote. Do remember to vote.
Election Day this year in the United States is November fifth. Vote against those who voted for the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, pretty much anybody in either house of Congress in 1998 (you can vote against at least one, you have a one in three chance of voting against two). Do let them know why you're voting as you do, let whomever you vote for know why too. For those of you beyond the jusrisdiction of the DMCA, speak to your MP or other elected representative on these issues, vote according to their reactions when Election Day comes.
Have a little care for the people who need text access (i.e. visually impaired) on your website and make at least part of it accessable to those of your potential customers who might not be enthralled by pretty pictures, flash, java, or whatever.
One would think that by now that China and its Renegade Province of Taiwan would have served sufficiently as a laboratory of internet cyber-terrorism. They've been attacking each others' systems for a few years now.
So far, the result has been some defaced web pages, and the deprecation by both governments of Microsoft software.
OK, so send money, the lawyers will follow (one hopes the guns are superfluous).
But if you don't want this election to go as expected, send Ms. Grubb the money she needs to get her message out to the voters.
And if you do happen to live in the district, do remember to vote. (Hell, even if you live elsewhere, you too can probably find some candidates to vote for who weren't in Congress in 1998).
The Digital Millenium Copyright Act was passed by voice vote in one House of Congress, by Unanamous Consent in the other. Not one senator or representative is on record voting against the DMCA. Thus, your vote for any member of the Congress of 1998 signifies your approval of the DMCA.
The smaller the genetic diversity in your crop, the more you'll need chemical intervention to prevent infections. Doesn't matter whether your crop is sheep, corn or data.
Symantec and its competitors in the Microsoft ecology are dependant on a monocultural environment as its userbase.
It's obvious paranoia to think they developed their undoubted expertise by developing viruses.
My memory may be at fault, but Mickey Rat could be a reference to a lead character in Air Pirates Funnies, an underground comic as widely distributed (well, through the same head shop channels) as Zap Comics or The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.
The depraved and violent things those cartoon animals did to each other, well, perhaps they could have been ignored if Walt hadn't seen them and enforced trademarks and copyright, which is why nobody much has seen Air Pirate Funnies for decades.
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Naturally, she also pronounced Linux Linn-ucks.
Five years running Linux, I can't break myself from calling it Line-ex, which pronunciation is more apprpriate to a pickup truck bed liner (trade marked, even).
Well, we also need posters who can count.
We need to know how they voted.
We need to know exactly how the votes were counted, else a charge of fraud sticks, even if not proven.
We do not need more evidence our courts or accountants are corrupt. Please make the process transparent, or the rule of law becomes a farce.
How do these proprietary add-ons benefit GNU developers?
If you did, did it change your vote?
Is your future vote for or against your legislator going to depend on your legislator's opinion of the DMCA and its effects?
I'm not gonna comment on the 84% Love Calculator gave "Richard Stallman loves Microsoft".
I wish them well, never heard a better reason to use a better browser than Explorer.
Because you sold the DVD to me, or is there another meaning to "sold" which prevents me from playing my DVD on my DVD player (using, of course, my operating system)?
First sale. It's not your DVD, I can do as I wish, as long as I don't distribute copies hither and yon. Forbidding the distribution of DeCSS is censorship, which should not happen in a free country.
Here I thought the flip animation they had in Honor among Enemies was a neat gimmick.
Have you voted your opinion of that vote?
If you're in the US, on Tuesday drop a postcard in the mailbox to your represetative letting him know how the DMCA influenced your vote. Do remember to vote.
They want us to vote online?
Wo whose files are exempt from copyright? I guess everyone not in the RIAA?
Have a little care for the people who need text access (i.e. visually impaired) on your website and make at least part of it accessable to those of your potential customers who might not be enthralled by pretty pictures, flash, java, or whatever.
So far, the result has been some defaced web pages, and the deprecation by both governments of Microsoft software.
But if you don't want this election to go as expected, send Ms. Grubb the money she needs to get her message out to the voters.
And if you do happen to live in the district, do remember to vote. (Hell, even if you live elsewhere, you too can probably find some candidates to vote for who weren't in Congress in 1998).
The Digital Millenium Copyright Act was passed by voice vote in one House of Congress, by Unanamous Consent in the other. Not one senator or representative is on record voting against the DMCA. Thus, your vote for any member of the Congress of 1998 signifies your approval of the DMCA.
Pretty much nobody in the USA is at all likely to develop anything based on SELinux.
Symantec and its competitors in the Microsoft ecology are dependant on a monocultural environment as its userbase.
It's obvious paranoia to think they developed their undoubted expertise by developing viruses.
Well, isn't it?
"So you guys are all German. Why don't you sing in German?"
"Because we do Rock and Roll, and Rock and Roll in German is wretched on the ear."
I'm not convinced, but that's what the man claimed, and I guess lots of Germans still agree.
The depraved and violent things those cartoon animals did to each other, well, perhaps they could have been ignored if Walt hadn't seen them and enforced trademarks and copyright, which is why nobody much has seen Air Pirate Funnies for decades.