1. Encrypt the files and make them available on a web-page.
2. Wait until the Internet Archive dudes have done their thing.
3.... (backed-up for ever!)...
4. profit!
Normal ('straight') employees are now penalized for not acting unnaturally. (For the obtuse: for doing the same work & hours & etc, the normal employee will get less income).
It would be far more wise to spend the funds towards therapy for these poor things, to rather help them to live closer to natural normal standards.
We who use opensource software, and by that I mean mostly Linux users, do not need to 'pirate' any software.
We usually have better free equivalents readily at hand, an apt-get, yum, or rpm away.
The FA looks more like an attempt at FUD by (Microsoft - to avoid lying) commercial interrests - it's just another bought blogger/journalist.
Quoting from the site:
"U++ is a C++ cross-platform rapid application development framework focused on programmers productivity. It includes a set of libraries (GUI, SQL, etc..), and an integrated development environment. ... TheIDE can work with GCC, MinGW and Visual C++ 9.0 as contained in free Windows Vista SDK and contains a full featured debugger. TheIDE can also be used to develop non-U++ applications."
We have not yet sorted out if software is a service or a commodity: if it is the latter then the '==physical key"-conjecture might hold; if a service then it is all in the mind...
It seems the judge did not ask for, nor got sufficient evidence, which points to ($#@$ stupid) lawyers/barristers representing the cases.
My gut feel is, apart from this miscarriage of justice, that the issue can only be resolved by investigating the intentions for encryption: if that intention was to protect the data from perusal by others, then this falls clearly under the gambit of "the privilege against self incrimination".
The first principle for any application that has a non-specialized user base is that it must be intuitively usuable.
From the blurb: "The project hopes to answer questions such as 'What is the typical monitor resolution of a GIMP user?' and 'Is the GIMP used primarily for photo editing or drawing?'"" This does not give any pertinent information on making obvious actions available in the UI.
The above two 'questions' are nonsensical: they refer to functional areas/modules/settings that should be choices offered by the UI. Once that choice is made the UI should allow immediate, intuitively obvious actions for that choice.
The (to call a spade a spade) stupid UI currently offered by the GIMP made me drop it, and revert to simple easy, obvious bitmap editors.
The troubles MS has re Vista makes me wonder if business is really all that well over there.
Honest people will spell out why they feel you have wronged them; they won't idly allude and
threaten...
Before MS continue along these lines, they should take time out and do an analysis of the skills
and type of people they will be attacking. FOSS is for and by free people.
They will be starting a war they cannot win...
I happened on floppies (8.25) from 23 years ago at university & wanted to check if they still worked, so I've installed an old 1.2 Mb floppy drive and to my amazement it was ALL still readable (and writable).... and did it bring back memories! LOL
I did not do anything special to protect these floppies, just threw them in a box & basically forgot about them until about a week ago.
What is the lifetime on these media? I've read recently (on slashdot) that there is a limited lifetime on CD's as well - what would that be?
You are wrong: "programming" isn't hard, what is "hard" is finding that
unique algorithm that will precisely solve the problem on hand, once you
have that, implementing becomes a breeze.
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1. Encrypt the files and make them available on a web-page. ... (backed-up for ever!) ...
2. Wait until the Internet Archive dudes have done their thing.
3.
4. profit!
Normal ('straight') employees are now penalized for not acting unnaturally. (For the obtuse: for doing the same work & hours & etc, the normal employee will get less income). It would be far more wise to spend the funds towards therapy for these poor things, to rather help them to live closer to natural normal standards.
Your score should have been +1000, Spot-on
The rule of precedent should apply, as you imply, regardless of the medium.
We who use opensource software, and by that I mean mostly Linux users, do not need to 'pirate' any software. We usually have better free equivalents readily at hand, an apt-get, yum, or rpm away. The FA looks more like an attempt at FUD by (Microsoft - to avoid lying) commercial interrests - it's just another bought blogger/journalist.
There is a very stable C++ IDE in Ultimate++.
Quoting from the site:
"U++ is a C++ cross-platform rapid application development framework focused on programmers productivity. It includes a set of libraries (GUI, SQL, etc..), and an integrated development environment.
...
TheIDE can work with GCC, MinGW and Visual C++ 9.0 as contained in free Windows Vista SDK and contains a full featured debugger. TheIDE can also be used to develop non-U++ applications."
We have not yet sorted out if software is a service or a commodity: if it is the latter then the '==physical key"-conjecture might hold; if a service then it is all in the mind...
It seems the judge did not ask for, nor got sufficient evidence, which points to ($#@$ stupid) lawyers/barristers representing the cases.
My gut feel is, apart from this miscarriage of justice, that the issue can only be resolved by investigating the intentions for encryption: if that intention was to protect the data from perusal by others, then this falls clearly under the gambit of "the privilege against self incrimination".
Maybe they can pick up some caveats from the Bourbaki fraternity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbaki
An interesting article (well worth reading) is here: http://planetmath.org/encyclopedia/NicolasBourbaki.html
The first principle for any application that has a non-specialized user base is that it must be intuitively usuable.
From the blurb: "The project hopes to answer questions such as 'What is the typical monitor resolution of a GIMP user?' and 'Is the GIMP used primarily for photo editing or drawing?'""
This does not give any pertinent information on making obvious actions available in the UI.
The above two 'questions' are nonsensical: they refer to functional areas/modules/settings that should be choices offered by the UI.
Once that choice is made the UI should allow immediate, intuitively obvious actions for that choice.
The (to call a spade a spade) stupid UI currently offered by the GIMP made me drop it, and revert to simple easy, obvious bitmap editors.
The troubles MS has re Vista makes me wonder if business is really all that well over there. Honest people will spell out why they feel you have wronged them; they won't idly allude and threaten ...
Before MS continue along these lines, they should take time out and do an analysis of the skills
and type of people they will be attacking. FOSS is for and by free people.
They will be starting a war they cannot win...
I happened on floppies (8.25) from 23 years ago at university & wanted to check if they still worked, so I've installed an old 1.2 Mb floppy drive and to my amazement it was ALL still readable (and writable). ... and did it bring back memories! LOL
I did not do anything special to protect these floppies, just threw them in a box & basically forgot about them until about a week ago.
What is the lifetime on these media? I've read recently (on slashdot) that there is a limited lifetime on CD's as well - what would that be?
You are wrong: "programming" isn't hard, what is "hard" is finding that unique algorithm that will precisely solve the problem on hand, once you have that, implementing becomes a breeze.
It all boils down to a search for algorithms.
Read up on the following to get an idea of why the "hardness" really exists: Rice's Theorem, the Halting Problem, the Totality problem