Phil Katz was the creator of pkzip. It's odd, when I was a kid first getting into computers I learned about usenet and pkzip and all of the other things you learn by osmosis when you throw yourself into the hobby of computers and programming. And now I see all these names, that I first learned back then, in the news pretty frequently because they have passed away. It's pretty unfortunate that some of these people are dying so young.
Well Linux is really just the kernel, no external apps at all including shells. Hence the debate on classifying a distribution as Linux as opposed to GNU/Linux, since the kernel alone doesn't allow for much productivity.
Big difference. That stuff isn't part of the operating system, it extra software that a distributor is providing you. In most cases all of that software is free or is open source. So not only do they provide it to you and give you the choice on whether or not you want to use it ( as opposed to Windows which does everything in it's power to force you), you have the source if you want to change or see how something works.
In addition to that you said yourself that you installed everything, that's uneccessary (I do it too, so if I learn about a new tool I don't have to bother installing it), but you are given complete freedom to install just the OS or the OS plus any extra software you want (that is provided that is).
maybe allow sensor equipped snipers to distinguish friend from foe
God help the poor soldier that takes a shit and leaves the device behind. Even worse, someone suggested tracking POW's with it. I can see our special forces going in to rescue POW's as their unerring soldier tracking devices leads them directly to a latrine.
Uh yeah, you tell their ISP. If people can form a group large enough to force someone to capitulate then change is made, if not, you didn't have enough people who wanted what you wanted in the first place. It's called democracy.
It's the way the net was built in the first place, so I'd safe I'm still pretty safe here in the real world, where are you?
Again and again and again... the internet is a public place. If you leave your mailserver set up as an open relay tough shit on you if I send mail through it. Not that I personally would, but you're the idiot that doesn't know how to configure a server. The internet should not be ruled by legislation of any kind, but by consensus. Hence organizations and concepts such as the RBL, IF you are stupid enough to leave you're mailservers open to relaying, we'll put you on this public list... available to anyone who wnats to ban incoming mail from your servers. This make sense and it works. Why involve the government? Because people are too used to whining and complaining that someone should fix things instead of fixining them themselves.
... why should you get paid to receive mail? The postage that's paid on snail mail doesn't go into your pocket, why would you expect the same of email?
I've said it countless times, you cannot have it both ways, the internet can be a public place or it can be regulated. It's nice that you want freedom for the things you want to do, but want restrictions on the things the YOU don't like others doing, but it's hypocrytical. The internet is here by consensus, not by fiat. I like the fact that the net is frontierland and it turns my stomach to see regulations of any kind being enforced by the government of any country.
If your talking about a distribution list where one address sends to a large number of people, you are most likely mistaken. The spammer sent a fraudulent email to ONE address. The owner of the list sent it on to HUNDREDS of people.
See if you are correct I could move to WA set up an email account that forwards all my mail to a thousand other emails I set up and wait to get spammed, I could then sue and clean up becuase I've just been spammed thousands of times.
or at least cool in the sense that I'm going to use it. Who cares if you are viewed as cool.
Maybe it would be cool to have some sort of db in the style of firefly where you could find similiar artists based on the music you like. Oh wait usenet, damn we've had that for years, a way to find new music based on the recommendations of fans not corporations.
Tangentially (sp?) I'm against anything that makes it easier for Joe Shmoe to shoulder his way into a sub culture that I belong to. Usually when bands, activities, or whatever go mainstream they get watered down and become crap. Some becuase they watered down themselves to become mainstream, others because too many morons jumped on the bandwagon and ruined things for everyone else.
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Yes the infamous American education. Just like the biased education of wherever you came from. Every country has it's own version of history deal with it. You have no more grounding in fact than anyone else.
Waaah. Aside from the fact that other people may have had more success with a character, who cares if the characters aren't equal at the same levels. Ignoring the role of the player behind the character, the game is a psuedo-rpg, which simulates some environment. All men are not created equal nor are all character classes, nor should they be. Otherwise what's the point of playing different characters?
Actually yes I can stop phone calls from ringing that I don't want. And again, it't my choice to have a public phone number at all. It's not illegal to call someone in the middle of the night, just poor etiquette, and that's how email should be regulated, through social sanctions rather than government interference.
Then don't post your damn email. If I wanted my phone number private, I could make it so. Besides the fact that I don't complain about people calling me, I have a filtering device, perhaps you've heard of it, it's called caller id. Just like the devices I have to filter out unwanted mail.
... I keep seeing these arguments about how it costs you your time and money to recieve spam as opposed to the sender and it's a good thing the government is doing something about it. Bullcrap. You put your servers out on a public network. It is your responsibility to filter your own unwanted mail. It is PUBLIC. You have no say in the matter. If you're so concerned about it, that filter your mail with increasing restrictions until you're happy.
Not to mention the fact that you are allowing the government the power to effectively censor email. Where is this going to end?
I always find it amazing that people are so narrow minded and hypocritical that they only see their side of the issue. The majority of the people that are saying these spam laws are a good thing would be screaming bloody murder if there was about laws passed to censor cryptography from email.
Give us your money so you can be happy? It's like M$ is turning to televangelism to sell their products.
Seriously though. Not everyone is willing to spend the money every three years on new software. In fact I'm willing to bet that nowadays the average computer owner doesn't upgrade his OS at all until he buys a new machine. My parents have been happily using Winblows 95 since it came out and I personally have only been using 98 for a couple of months. It wasn't until games stopped working that I switched. (That's all windows is to me.. a tool for playing games. It's nearly useless for serious work)
I find it hard to believe that it's even in doubt that code IS expression. It's no different than record of symbols that contain meaning. It's your MEANING and METHOD of combining symbols that makes anything like this expression. If code is not expression, is the stream of 0's and 1's that makes up the content of a DVD expression. If not then this case is irrelavent, if so then code is expression as well.
Expression is the material embodiment of thought. It's that simple. (* Well maybe not that simple, material may be the wrong word. Expression is the persistent embodiment of thought, something that may be shared by others, maybe that's a little closer).
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Just because the media has decided to pervert a term that's been around since at least the fifties to their own use does not make it right. In fact most real publications with clued in writers will make the distinction. Also it's not Slashdot vs. the World. It's real hackers and people who are aware of the subculture vs joe sixpack.
Yeah I'm not suprised. Of course the question is, is the EULA legally binding in states that have adopted UCITA? Of cours I live in MD so as far as I know, I am bound by this ridiculous license (not that I use Windows, I should say I am potentially bound). However, what constititutes a machine?
Can I stick a new processor on my mother board? Can I add a processor to a SMP machine that was running with only one? What happend if the original processor dies? Can I add/subtract RAM? Change the keyboard? Get a new monitor? Move my cpu to a new motherboard? Add a hardrive? Subtract a hard drive?
You cannot define a computer like this. And no software company should be allowed to force you to buy another copy opf their software becuase you've upgraded your hardware. I'll say it again, it's none of their business. Assuming I've paid for a copy of the software I should be able to use it as many times as I want let alone transfer a single copy to a new machine while deleting it from the old one. It's very comparable ( I know most RW analogies aren't very good) to reading a book and then lending it to a friend. Except in the case of the book, both my friend and I both have a copy of the information while in the OS case only one has the information one machine has completely forgotten it.
The point is that it's none of MS business whether or not a machine will be running windows or not. How is the reseller supposed to know what the purchaser plans to do. If I buy a naked pc and take it home to put Linux or FreeBDS on it, I don't want MS sending me crap in the mail much less assuming that I am pirating their crappy software. However, if the customer has to opt in ("yes I am getting windows from another source and I am willing to release that information to outside parties") then it's not such a big deal.
And on top of everything else, this would include consumers who have traded up their pc's for a new one. Myabe they allready have a copy of windows, why should they be hassled in any way? I'm sure the click through prevents you from running(*) the same copy of windows on two or more of your personal machines at once (which is bullshit in my book but I digress), but as long as it's only running(*) on only one machine at a time you should be allowed.
* Note --- I use the word running for lack of a better term to describer the state of windows operation on a machine.
...but according to UCITA if I purchase passport (I live in MD), purchase of the product means that I agree to whatever license agreement is included... at which point I cannot use the service (not that I would want to, mind you) because of our UCITA that forced me to agree to the license sight unseen in the forst place.
So basically M$ is using UCITA to prevent me from using the product because I am bound by UCITA. Forgive me if I feel a bit like Yossarian here.
I agree with your sentiment but not your specifics:
The bottom line, the year 1933 marks the END of the United States as a Rebublic, and the beginning of "democracy". Democracy (mob rule), is the absolute WORST form of government that ever could be. Since 1933, the Federal government has gone to no end in implimenting the "will of the people", Constitution be dammed
We are no more a democracy than any other country. We are a representative republic. The masses do not make the rules in this country. Representatives make the rules based on what they believe is the will of the portion of the masses that they represent (at least in theory). As far as Democracy being the worst form of government that could ever be. That's pretty much meaningless. No government exists without the support of the masses at least not for long. In the end numbers win out over any other type of power.
(established by George Washington, the only man in history that I know of to ever TURN DOWN a throne).
read more history, kings and kngs to be have abdicated, and turned down thrones throughout history
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Phil Katz was the creator of pkzip. It's odd, when I was a kid first getting into computers I learned about usenet and pkzip and all of the other things you learn by osmosis when you throw yourself into the hobby of computers and programming. And now I see all these names, that I first learned back then, in the news pretty frequently because they have passed away. It's pretty unfortunate that some of these people are dying so young.
Well Linux is really just the kernel, no external apps at all including shells. Hence the debate on classifying a distribution as Linux as opposed to GNU/Linux, since the kernel alone doesn't allow for much productivity.
In addition to that you said yourself that you installed everything, that's uneccessary (I do it too, so if I learn about a new tool I don't have to bother installing it), but you are given complete freedom to install just the OS or the OS plus any extra software you want (that is provided that is).
Wrong boyo, forcing someone to capitulate is democracy, it's called majority rules.
maybe allow sensor equipped snipers to distinguish friend from foe God help the poor soldier that takes a shit and leaves the device behind. Even worse, someone suggested tracking POW's with it. I can see our special forces going in to rescue POW's as their unerring soldier tracking devices leads them directly to a latrine.
It's the way the net was built in the first place, so I'd safe I'm still pretty safe here in the real world, where are you?
Again and again and again... the internet is a public place. If you leave your mailserver set up as an open relay tough shit on you if I send mail through it. Not that I personally would, but you're the idiot that doesn't know how to configure a server. The internet should not be ruled by legislation of any kind, but by consensus. Hence organizations and concepts such as the RBL, IF you are stupid enough to leave you're mailservers open to relaying, we'll put you on this public list... available to anyone who wnats to ban incoming mail from your servers. This make sense and it works. Why involve the government? Because people are too used to whining and complaining that someone should fix things instead of fixining them themselves.
I've said it countless times, you cannot have it both ways, the internet can be a public place or it can be regulated. It's nice that you want freedom for the things you want to do, but want restrictions on the things the YOU don't like others doing, but it's hypocrytical. The internet is here by consensus, not by fiat. I like the fact that the net is frontierland and it turns my stomach to see regulations of any kind being enforced by the government of any country.
I know I know there are other servers started first, you know what I mean.
See if you are correct I could move to WA set up an email account that forwards all my mail to a thousand other emails I set up and wait to get spammed, I could then sue and clean up becuase I've just been spammed thousands of times.
Maybe it would be cool to have some sort of db in the style of firefly where you could find similiar artists based on the music you like. Oh wait usenet, damn we've had that for years, a way to find new music based on the recommendations of fans not corporations.
Tangentially (sp?) I'm against anything that makes it easier for Joe Shmoe to shoulder his way into a sub culture that I belong to. Usually when bands, activities, or whatever go mainstream they get watered down and become crap. Some becuase they watered down themselves to become mainstream, others because too many morons jumped on the bandwagon and ruined things for everyone else.
Yes the infamous American education. Just like the biased education of wherever you came from. Every country has it's own version of history deal with it. You have no more grounding in fact than anyone else.
Waaah. Aside from the fact that other people may have had more success with a character, who cares if the characters aren't equal at the same levels. Ignoring the role of the player behind the character, the game is a psuedo-rpg, which simulates some environment. All men are not created equal nor are all character classes, nor should they be. Otherwise what's the point of playing different characters?
Uhhh that doesn't make it buggy. All character functions return int, because they are the same thing.
Dumbass.
Then don't post your damn email. If I wanted my phone number private, I could make it so. Besides the fact that I don't complain about people calling me, I have a filtering device, perhaps you've heard of it, it's called caller id. Just like the devices I have to filter out unwanted mail.
Not to mention the fact that you are allowing the government the power to effectively censor email. Where is this going to end?
I always find it amazing that people are so narrow minded and hypocritical that they only see their side of the issue. The majority of the people that are saying these spam laws are a good thing would be screaming bloody murder if there was about laws passed to censor cryptography from email.
Give us your money so you can be happy? It's like M$ is turning to televangelism to sell their products.
Seriously though. Not everyone is willing to spend the money every three years on new software. In fact I'm willing to bet that nowadays the average computer owner doesn't upgrade his OS at all until he buys a new machine. My parents have been happily using Winblows 95 since it came out and I personally have only been using 98 for a couple of months. It wasn't until games stopped working that I switched. (That's all windows is to me.. a tool for playing games. It's nearly useless for serious work)
Expression is the material embodiment of thought. It's that simple. (* Well maybe not that simple, material may be the wrong word. Expression is the persistent embodiment of thought, something that may be shared by others, maybe that's a little closer).
Just because the media has decided to pervert a term that's been around since at least the fifties to their own use does not make it right. In fact most real publications with clued in writers will make the distinction. Also it's not Slashdot vs. the World. It's real hackers and people who are aware of the subculture vs joe sixpack.
Can I stick a new processor on my mother board? Can I add a processor to a SMP machine that was running with only one? What happend if the original processor dies? Can I add/subtract RAM? Change the keyboard? Get a new monitor? Move my cpu to a new motherboard? Add a hardrive? Subtract a hard drive?
You cannot define a computer like this. And no software company should be allowed to force you to buy another copy opf their software becuase you've upgraded your hardware. I'll say it again, it's none of their business. Assuming I've paid for a copy of the software I should be able to use it as many times as I want let alone transfer a single copy to a new machine while deleting it from the old one. It's very comparable ( I know most RW analogies aren't very good) to reading a book and then lending it to a friend. Except in the case of the book, both my friend and I both have a copy of the information while in the OS case only one has the information one machine has completely forgotten it.
And on top of everything else, this would include consumers who have traded up their pc's for a new one. Myabe they allready have a copy of windows, why should they be hassled in any way? I'm sure the click through prevents you from running(*) the same copy of windows on two or more of your personal machines at once (which is bullshit in my book but I digress), but as long as it's only running(*) on only one machine at a time you should be allowed.
* Note --- I use the word running for lack of a better term to describer the state of windows operation on a machine.
Yep and then we'll all be naked sitiing in trees outside M$ headquarters.
So basically M$ is using UCITA to prevent me from using the product because I am bound by UCITA. Forgive me if I feel a bit like Yossarian here.
The bottom line, the year 1933 marks the END of the United States as a Rebublic, and the beginning of "democracy". Democracy (mob rule), is the absolute WORST form of government that ever could be. Since 1933, the Federal government has gone to no end in implimenting the "will of the people", Constitution be dammed
We are no more a democracy than any other country. We are a representative republic. The masses do not make the rules in this country. Representatives make the rules based on what they believe is the will of the portion of the masses that they represent (at least in theory). As far as Democracy being the worst form of government that could ever be. That's pretty much meaningless. No government exists without the support of the masses at least not for long. In the end numbers win out over any other type of power. (established by George Washington, the only man in history that I know of to ever TURN DOWN a throne).
read more history, kings and kngs to be have abdicated, and turned down thrones throughout history