I have. I quit a company because the head of the company (small company) was using company profits to buy drugs.
What kind of fucking lousy shithead are you? If the guy uses HIS goddammed profits as he sees fit (it's HIS OWN GODDAMMED FUCKING MONEY) who the fuck are you to complain about it? What substances he buys and gets in his own body is none of anybody else's business. You're just no better than the fucking religious busybodies who wreck other people's lives because they can't get one!!!
Not "citron". Citroen. The 1950-60's DS was the best car ever made - an uncle made a dune-buggy out of one, and we'd go in a plowed field at 100 km/h and we could not feel a single bump. Heck, Rolls-Royce licenses Citroen brakes and suspension...
Unfortunately, all the little children keep running out to buy Shitney
Spears and the Buttfuck Boy Band Brothers' latest garbage, keeping
up sales, and keeping the gooey, DRM goodness flowing.
The idea is not to have only the SAME number of ballots out that you had in, but to make sure that the ones in the box are the actual blank ones handed over by the scrutineer...
Except it's not irreplaceable. It requires a screwdriver to replace. Pop
the casing off, unplug old battery, plug in replacement, put case back on.
Wipe hands on pants.
Er, you obviously never saw any Apple product from up close. Apple products
are not computers; they're fashion statements made for technical ignoramuses
for whom looks is everything. The boxen are designed for looks only,
and heaven forbid the user may want to look inside, much less
change something inside! This is a job better left to the Apple priest, at the
friendly neighbourhood Apple temple. And the priests only take first-born virgins
for payment! And to enforce this, products have been designed to be firmly sealed
and openable only after the proper tools and incantations and rain dances have
been applied in the prescribed fashion.
What's worse, whole industries have been suckered-up with the Apple
mantra, and have been overcharged for dubious-quality software that
is full of little legacy shortcomings (like, for example, not being able
to move a dialog box around to see another window, or resizing file list column
widths that are carefully designed to hide the last few characters of file names)
[okay, okay, this has been FINALLY addressed in OS-X], or handicapped
mice (poor mouse. Just one stupid button. And no scroll wheel) on otherwise
rather good but still grossly overpriced hardware...
Apple users are blissfully letting themselves bled dry by a company that's
nothing but image. And they love it and ask for more!
An irreplaceable battery is simply a horrible design decision, and very
poor engineering. Any other company, and people would be screaming to the
sky at how shitty a job they've done. But since it's apple, they get a
pass from all the people who worship the company.
Yup. Apple users are lemmings. Ignorant of technical stuff, they are gleefully
bending over forward and pull down their pants and spread their legs for Apple
to rape them.
Here in the UK all ballot papers for a specific election (eg MP, MEP,
local councillor) have a unique number - so the ballot isn't technically secret.
Electronic voting would need the same - having a unique number for each vote
- and no duplicate numbers - to rule out the same person voting twice.
Whooa! Are you sure the serial number isn't on a detachable stub that you tear-off
from the ballot after showing it to the scrutineer before stuffiting in the
box?
This way, you have both anonymous voting AND a thorough accounting of the ballots.
A court order signed by a judge (a.k.a. judicial oversight)
is required to compel banks, hospitals and other instituions to turn over
personal information about their clients.
Allowing the RIAA to obtain ISP subscriber's names and information without
judicial oversight is a very questionable policy which removes a fundamental
protection mechanism that helps prevent abuse against the accused.
Whenever a judge grants law-enforcement agency a search-warrant, it's after
the agency has demonstrated that they have reasonable suspicion that they would
get evidence to assist in a criminal investigation.
The sworn-in policemen who do the investigation have been trained in investigating
in such a way that (almost!) guarantees that the evidence will be presented
to the relevant court untainted.
Not so with the RIAA evidence used to get subpoenas in cases of
file-sharing. There is no mechanism to compel that the evidence
be collected by properly-trained law-enforcement agents.
Again, the similarities between railroads (the high-technology of 100 years
ago) and the Internet is blatant.
Railroads have their own bona-fide police department to patrol their property,
to prevent merchandise theft from the trains (it happens more often than you
think - a RR cop once told me that they found a guy who boarded cars that carried
cigarettes, and that he threw out the cases one by one along the track. They
caught the guy after he fell-off and got sliced by the train. Automobiles carried
on the trains are unlocked, and have all the legal papers with them. You get
off with one, and you basically got yourself a free car and no-one can prove
you stole it. Needless to say, you don't stop by when you drive by the new car
compound in railroad yards...).
Those private police departments are vested with exactly the same powers granted
to public police departments; they are not just security guards,
but fully sworn-in police officers. The only difference is that they patrol
the railroad (yes, they give rail parking tickets!!! but not speeding tickets
for trains, though, nor do they go after a train that runs a red light - usually,
this one carries it's
own punishment with it).
Well, what's to prevent networks for having their own private police force?
Those netcops would be sworn-in and would gather evidence and conduct investigations
in a way that's compatible with the judicial system.
But one has to admit that the thought of a boy-in-blue acquiring the mental
skills to do computer investigation boggles the mind. And if ever this would
happen, it's likely that the anal-retentive mindset would clash with the mental
openness of computer geeks...
That said, it's a tough call who's making the copy in the case of something like P2P software. Could someone design a P2P app that exploits this exception? It would require that the person making the copy not be the person with the original.
Simple: I can e-mail the MP3 for you. Just ask for one, I'll e-mail it for you.
Private Copying allows you to visit your friend, use your friends CD collection, computer and blanks (or your own for the last two) to produce a copy and take it with you. However, your friend is not allowed to make a copy to give to you.
3 hours ago, I walked out of the public library with 4 music CDs. I just finished copying the fourth one minutes ago, and the CDs will go back to the library tomorrow.
Lather, rinse and repeat.
So far, I have more than 3200 MP3. All borrowed AND LEGALLY COPIED.
David Bowie predicted that, because of the Internet and piracy, copyright is going to be dead in ten years. Do you agree?
No. If copyright dies, if patents die, if the protection of intellectual property is eroded, then people will stop investing. That hurts everyone. People need to have the incentive so that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit.
David Bowie predicted that, because of the Internet and piracy, copyright is going to be dead in ten years. Do you agree?
No. If copyright dies, if patents die, if the protection of intellectual property is eroded, then people will stop investing. That hurts everyone. People need to have the incentive so that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit.
Bullshit. Look at the Open Source movement.
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Just got a job in a small company to supervise the porting of their >10 year old application from DOS to Linux... Hardly a chilling effect!!!
Not "citron". Citroen. The 1950-60's DS was the best car ever made - an uncle made a dune-buggy out of one, and we'd go in a plowed field at 100 km/h and we could not feel a single bump. Heck, Rolls-Royce licenses Citroen brakes and suspension...
In French, Citron means "LEMON"...
This is funny. Frank Herbert did not shy from taking words from languages left and right.
Do you know what Legume means? Iin french, it means vegetable - in the food sense as well as in the brain-dead sense...
Now, why the morons who write slashcode have to strip out the HTML entities?You mean the Backdoor Boys???
The idea is not to have only the SAME number of ballots out that you had in, but to make sure that the ones in the box are the actual blank ones handed over by the scrutineer...
You obviously never dealt with the buttfuck-happy glazy-eyed lemmings that are suckered into buying Apple products...
Er, you obviously never saw any Apple product from up close. Apple products are not computers; they're fashion statements made for technical ignoramuses for whom looks is everything. The boxen are designed for looks only, and heaven forbid the user may want to look inside, much less change something inside! This is a job better left to the Apple priest, at the friendly neighbourhood Apple temple. And the priests only take first-born virgins for payment! And to enforce this, products have been designed to be firmly sealed and openable only after the proper tools and incantations and rain dances have been applied in the prescribed fashion.
What's worse, whole industries have been suckered-up with the Apple mantra, and have been overcharged for dubious-quality software that is full of little legacy shortcomings (like, for example, not being able to move a dialog box around to see another window, or resizing file list column widths that are carefully designed to hide the last few characters of file names) [okay, okay, this has been FINALLY addressed in OS-X], or handicapped mice (poor mouse. Just one stupid button. And no scroll wheel) on otherwise rather good but still grossly overpriced hardware...
Apple users are blissfully letting themselves bled dry by a company that's nothing but image. And they love it and ask for more!
Suckers.Yup. Apple users are lemmings. Ignorant of technical stuff, they are gleefully bending over forward and pull down their pants and spread their legs for Apple to rape them.
And they love it!!!
This way, you have both anonymous voting AND a thorough accounting of the ballots.
Whenever a judge grants law-enforcement agency a search-warrant, it's after the agency has demonstrated that they have reasonable suspicion that they would get evidence to assist in a criminal investigation.
The sworn-in policemen who do the investigation have been trained in investigating in such a way that (almost!) guarantees that the evidence will be presented to the relevant court untainted.
Not so with the RIAA evidence used to get subpoenas in cases of file-sharing. There is no mechanism to compel that the evidence be collected by properly-trained law-enforcement agents.
Again, the similarities between railroads (the high-technology of 100 years ago) and the Internet is blatant.
Railroads have their own bona-fide police department to patrol their property, to prevent merchandise theft from the trains (it happens more often than you think - a RR cop once told me that they found a guy who boarded cars that carried cigarettes, and that he threw out the cases one by one along the track. They caught the guy after he fell-off and got sliced by the train. Automobiles carried on the trains are unlocked, and have all the legal papers with them. You get off with one, and you basically got yourself a free car and no-one can prove you stole it. Needless to say, you don't stop by when you drive by the new car compound in railroad yards...).
Those private police departments are vested with exactly the same powers granted to public police departments; they are not just security guards, but fully sworn-in police officers. The only difference is that they patrol the railroad (yes, they give rail parking tickets!!! but not speeding tickets for trains, though, nor do they go after a train that runs a red light - usually, this one carries it's own punishment with it).
Well, what's to prevent networks for having their own private police force? Those netcops would be sworn-in and would gather evidence and conduct investigations in a way that's compatible with the judicial system.
But one has to admit that the thought of a boy-in-blue acquiring the mental skills to do computer investigation boggles the mind. And if ever this would happen, it's likely that the anal-retentive mindset would clash with the mental openness of computer geeks...
Seriously, who gives a bleep about SCO OS???
Seriously, who gives a bleep about SCO OS???
Hmmm. This definitely will be easier than between France and England...
... will the 600 soldiers who captured him will get their $41,666.67 share of the $25M reward money????
... is a way of outputting POV files.
If it is viable without life support AND it will be able to develop sentience, you can't kill it. Otherwise, it's fair game.
Or, if we're on IRC, I'll send it to you.
Lather, rinse and repeat.
So far, I have more than 3200 MP3. All borrowed AND LEGALLY COPIED.
In the US, you get the best democracy money can buy!!!
David Bowie predicted that, because of the Internet and piracy, copyright is going to be dead in ten years. Do you agree?
No. If copyright dies, if patents die, if the protection of intellectual property is eroded, then people will stop investing. That hurts everyone. People need to have the incentive so that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Bullshit. Look at the Open Source movement.
We loved you all the time you were alive.
We'll greatly miss-you.