User: molog

Re:Protest violation of copyright by violating it?

On: Interesting Way To Protest Napster

I thought that was trademark infringement, when you pass yourself off as something else. Copyright violation is making an unauthorized replication of the copyrighted work right?
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Re:5000 little Kevins

On: Slashback: Justice, Delving, Printing, Noir

Kevin wasn't even that much of a problem in the first place. He caused no damage, and didn't profit from anything that he found. He has been abused and had his rights stripped by a stupid justice system that locks people up for breaking into a computer system but will let violent criminals out in a few months. Kevin Mitnick is not a threat to society and those around him. Some of the people who are getting early parole all the time might not have the same thing said about them.
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Re:AMD clock locked

On: Slashback: Justice, Delving, Printing, Noir

This is fraud in what way? When I buy something, do I not have the right to jump up and down on it, spit on it, throw it against a wall, burn it or anything else. Why should it be fraud for me to open it up and alter it? I'm allowed to buy a car and put different parts in it or change stuff that is in there. What is so different about a CPU? If someone wants to get the most power they can from a product that they bought, more power to them. In this case, literally.
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Re:This Is Ridiculous

On: FSF Proposes .gnu TLD To ICANN

You seem to really like using this quote, although I suspect that RMS never said it. Do you have some sort of personal attachment to the subject matter or something? You seem quite infatuated with it.
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Re:Are hurricanes good for the community?

On: Are Bad Licenses Good For The Community?

I said it might stand to reason. Might was the key word. I was not simply implying that it was more like a general hypothesis with no back up data that people make all the time. I am quite aware of the fallacy you are referring to. It was meant merely as an observation of what seems to happen. Sorry if I offended you.
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Re:Salon article (slightly OT)

On: Getting Ready for The X-Men

...white people collectively seem to have a whole "just make it go away" attitude about the whole thing. Heh. -K

As an (ahem) white person I take offense to your lumping me into a category so fricken broad that I am associated with murders, morons, and all sorts of different things. You have just become guilty of what you seem to want to fight.
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Re:If only Apple had gambled like IBM

On: Getting Ready for The X-Men

I thought people reverse engineered IBM's stuff and that IBM fought it tooth and nail. Did IBM acutely open up their stuff?
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Re:Are hurricanes good for the community?

On: Are Bad Licenses Good For The Community?

This brings up something that I have always thought about. The US economy really took off after WWII because of all the destruction that occurred in Europe making an opportunity for builders and all sorts of things. This example shows that destruction in Miami caused the city to become more modern and swept away some of the old things. Before the great Chicago fire, Chicago was pretty much a slum and the fire cleared away much of the crap and the city flourished after that. It makes one wonder if the best thing that could happen to the world is if something destroys most of the infrastructure. That way things that sucked before but were kept around because it was established would be gone and a decent alternative could be made. Honestly, how many of us hate the road system in our city? In fact with everything wiped away, good public transit systems could be put in place and all sorts of good things. Well this has gone into too many what ifs. Since order creates chaos somewhere, it might stand to reason that chaos creates order somewhere.
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Re:Linux Chix

On: Ask Ingo Molnar About TUX

Just in case this is not a troll, which I believe it is, you took that quote out of context. At the time when everyone was giving their source away it was seen as very counter to everything that the programmers at the time believed in. Thus it was stated in the tense of that time period that it was audacious. It is common now and an industry is in place.
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Re:they DO require a warrant

On: FBI E-Mail Wiretaps - The Carnivore System

Even if this is originally intended as a positive thing, this can be abused latter down the line. Once the government can monitor all communications it will be abused despite the positive affects it could have. They would not have to waste thousands of man hours to analyze one hours worth of traffic. Parsers and analyzers have been getting better and they could easily sort out the people they would want to go after for just about anything. I might be paranoid but I have good reason to be.
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Re:I don't understand

On: DRAM Industry vs RAMBUS

And now Rambus is simply reaping the rewards of vigilance by persuing their patent claims.

Well actually many of their patents infringe on IBM's patents which cover nearly all aspects of computing platforms in general including RAM. I am wondering where they are in all of this. Big Blue could easily come in and put the smack down on this little punk. Either way, there is more prior art then needed to tell Rambus to fuck off.

I don't see how Rambus will sell anything at three times the price with no performance gain.

More bandwidth. Lower pin count. Better granularity. I'm not going to sit here and argue about whether or not Rambus's RAM is technically superior or not -- that's been done at length here already.

Latency. It has been argued here, extensively I might add, how much Rambus sucks. Where have you been?
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Re:idiot

On: French Prosecutor Opens Echelon Probe

For that matter, neither does Jesus.

Actually there was a guy named Jesus who was crucified in Palastine. Maybe you meant that he wasn't a deity, but he did exist.
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Re:Slightly misleading article...

On: Sony Dismisses Claims Against Playstation Emulator

Why is Sony evil? Because they want to protect the market for a product they make? Because they want to make sure people aren't ripping off products they own?

Well the Playstation was a loss leader if I remember right. They made most of their money from games and the emulators just opened up another area for people to play Playstation games so really this wasn't done to make sure people weren't ripping them off.

I know I don't like Sony because of their part in the DeCSS fiasco as well as their strong arm tactics for demolishing smaller competition.

There are reasons why the anti-corporate sentiments are raising up. Corporations are given the same rights as individuals and then are given some that normal people don't get, like getting bailed out by the government without any adverse affects or not having taxes.

On top of this it is the corporations, not the government, that is trying to take away all our rights and freedoms. The laws were passed by the government but the corporations are pulling the strings and have the control. I am biased but do you want our world run by entities whose existence values a dollar higher than a human life?
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Re:Games?

On: Games: The Boundary Of Open Development?

Did you read his post? He mearly stated the same thing that games are now more about art, so the engine should be opensourced while the files that make up the art and story of the game would be the sellable product.
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Re:I'm Sorry...

On: Gnome On Your PDA?

He has drug convictions? Could you please give a source of information for these allegations or are you just slandering him?
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Re:True

On: Microsoft's New Language

C--? Isn't that BCPL?
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Re:The thickness of the box

On: Software Packaging And The Environment?

Really? Not to sound too cynical but can you tell me exactly how a monitor destroys the environment?
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Re:A Pattern

On: Debian Developer And QT License Contributer Speaks

Let's see. I can include BSD code in GPLed software. I am absolutely not allowed to include GPL code in software that has BSD type license. And you are talking about freedom ?

I will try to explain this. The GPL is made specifically to keep software free and open forever and that derivatives will be free and open forever. The BSD license can almost be thought of as public domain. You can basically take the code and put it in a non-free, non-open program and that is fine. Because the BSD allows itself to be put under any license under the sun, you can stick it in a GPL program because you can make that code GPL, it is no longer BSD at that point. GPL code on the other hand must always be free and open so you can not stick it in a BSD license code base because it could be closed off. That is where this issue comes into play.
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I've always wondered

On: License Cocktail With GPL In Doom

If someone wanted to link to GPL code without using the GPL for their work, could they make a wrapper library which calls the code they want, make dynamically, release it as LGPL and then dynamically link their code to that wrapper library?
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Here's an idea

On: CNET Patents Banner Advertising Networks

People always talk about patenting stupid stuff, well why isn't there a huge push from the geek community to submit to the patent office stupid, trivial, obvious things to see if you could get them. If we could, have some huge webpage with all the stupid patents that have been collected and try to get media coverage of our exposure of a worthless patent system. Image hundreds of geeks with patents that they filed specifically to show the patent office is handing out crap, and actually getting it. What do you all think?
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Re:Color me impressed...

On: RMS On 'Open' Motif

It may be "damn ugly" compared to something that is completely customizable like enlightenment, but it has two things that a lot of the current batch of WM's don't have going for it:

Sorry, but Motif is a tool kit for making an application. It is not a WM. The things that we have that are close to Motif are the GTK and QT. Motif widgets are ugly, and they are slow. I think you are thinking about something else.
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Re:One would hope

On: Linux Games Come Of Age

If you don't mind me asking, who is the real 'Steve Woston'? I haven't heard of him before and I was just wondering if he is a well known game programmer or something?
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Two years

On: Linux Games Come Of Age

That is how long I believe it will take for Linux to really take off and get games released for it from the big companies either at the same time as the Windows launch or specifically for Linux. My reasoning is this. We have the beginning of the game market right now. 3D graphics have pretty much been made able to be used easier, sound is beginning to get better support. Next year more games will show up and the protocols that are being used as well as all the base software will mature and Linux will gain more users (for good or ill). Then the second year is when we will see the titles really start to show up rather then waiting for a year for a company to pick up the port. This is just an educated guess, and I am known to be wrong but I think this is how things may happen.
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Re:One would hope

On: Linux Games Come Of Age

Here is something from your user info.

Lead programmer for J-J-J-Julius Games, a leading and cutting-edge game company based out of Baltimore, MD.

Really? I don't see any thing on the web and your URL doesn't go anywhere.

I have worked on many ground-breaking products within the industry, including Spork II, Star Trek: The Fillament Legacy, and Pitfall for Nokia 5125.

I have done a search for these games and they just don't seem to come up on any search I do on the search engines or gaming sites. You claim to be a great game programmer but your titles are unknown and your company doesn't seem to exist. If you are not a troll then please explain.
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Re:PDF format, copy protection, etc

On: Publishing-Online or "Dead Tree" Format?

A thought just occurred to me. Put the file in ASCII with html or something like that if you really want formatting, and then when someone buys it from a web site, get a their public PGP key from them (if they don't have one give them the link for PGPi or something along these lines) encrypt it then have them download. Yeah after they decrypt it then can freely distribute it but so what? Anything you do will be cracked eventually and this way the most of the first to download will be honest. Just a thought.
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