"What if the law in the US says you cannot follow the law in China?"
... and what if China then passes a law saying you cannot follow US law?
Sovereignty means the country establishes the rules within their boundaries. If the US doesn't like it, they can always go to war with China. It will be the quickest war ever - China immediately dumps their vast US currency holdings on the open market, the US dollar becomes (even more) worthless within 1 minute due to programmed trading, etc.
China and Japan (and pretty much the rest of the world) are already looking to divest themselves of their reserves of US dollars, since Barneke has made it clear that he will destroy the dollar's value in a stupid attempt to delay the consequences of the collapsed housing bubble as long as possible, which will only make it worse when the time of reconning arrives,
The USD is no longer a "reserve currency". This has broad implications for the US' ability to "project force", and its loss of superpower status.
> "privacy is overrated and overvalued. desire for privacy is motivated by largely baseless fears and insecurities."
... which is why you posted as an AC... you have "baseless fears and insecurities"?
Since you think privacy is useless, why not install a webcam in your shower. After all, according to your premise, all the pedophiles out there should be able to see your kids "neked".
Pravacy has its uses - one being that people should have better things to do than snoop on other people's lives.
>" performing surgery to someone on mars? There is a rather large prorogation delay, even if data is sent at the speed of light, this is not fast enough to perform surgery. Things happen quickly, the surgeon needs feedback, etc. "
The delay isn't 10 seconds - its between 10 and 50 minutes, depending on the relative positions of the two planets. By the time they see the cuts not in the right place, the problem will have solved itself - the patient will be dead.
You're already in trouble if you need open heart surgery. The risks are "acceptable", considering the alternatives.
The mars scenario, on the other hand - the idea of scanning someone and waiting for advice won't work. Even if they could be scanned in zero seconds, and a diagnostic reached in zero seconds, the time delay is between 10 and 50 minutes..Heck, look what happens with only a 4 minute delay http://www.jamesoberg.com/2004marsconquest.html
I once said the same thing. Took me over a decade to "see the light" was really just a bunch of control freaks armed with lies and superstition, and their coteries of "useful idiots".
And athiests have our own "good news", that there is no god, so you don't have to figure out which one is the "one true god". We are equally free to spread our "religious beliefs", and interestingly enough, we're making major headway, to the point that many societies are now "post-chistian" or "post-religion"
"Salvation" is itself useless. "Salvation" from what? God's anger? So much for a loving god. Cry me a river about "christians are the most prosecuted religion". You're free to believe what you want, but we're the future, because christianity doesn't make sense. A bible that teaches unconditional love, but featuring a god whose love is extremely conditional. "Believe, or go to hell" - what a f*cking joke. Talk about your classic cognitive dissonence. Christianty preys on people who are vulnerable, offering all sorts of promises, but really enslaving them.
Feeling persecuted because the truth hurts? Awwwww, pooor baaaby. Go tell your judgmental god about how evil I am, exposing the fraud of "unconditional love".
Just be careful not to meditate too much on the contradiction - you'll end up a non-believer.
While a person CAN be held to have a valid trademark just by usage, if you're not in the same jurisdiction, or not offering the same product or service, you can ignore him.
The "not offering same product or service" is easy to understand - if there is little likelihood that a consumer would be confused between your "product" and his non-existent "product", then you also have a valid right to the same trademark. Lexus Peas was sued for infringing ont he Lexus brand, and the judge held that there was no chance of confusion in consumers minds between a can of peas and a car.
The "same jurisdiction" is also easy to understand - if he wants to "do something about it", he'll have to sue you in your jurisdiction, and that costs $$$, and a link pharmer simply won't spend the money.
Also, you can put a disclaimer at the bottom (without a link back) saying your blog has no relationship to the link pharmer, explaining the pharming business, etc. This way, you might become the cononical reference on the net for that particular url.
Obviously, your blog is taking traffic away. Why not point us to the landing page so everyone else can choose one link to "reverse-pharm" with a blog with some content using the same name.
The ps2 is selling here for $99. I wouldn't buy it as a present for either of my daughters... they're not "into games." The Wii, however, looks like something they'd both enjoy. So, if the decision is between something cheap that they won't use, or something more expensive but that they will use, its really no choice.
They've already had a $30 price drop on the Wii here a couple of weeks ago, and I'm expecting it to drop anoterh $50 after the holiday season - just in time for the older one's birthday:-)
Contrary to the assestion that "this will be a blow to Nintendo...", Nintendo doesn't give a hoot - they're going to be able to do the same thing, except why bother when demand STILL exceeds supply for the Wii?
If you had to buy just ONE, which one would you want to buy?
Now if you had to buy 3 as gifts, which one would you want to buy?
There's a difference between agreeing with someone's life choices (condoning them) and respecting their life choices, even if you disagree with them, but I don't think that's the real issue.
You can love someone without agreeing with them on everything... but if they then do something that causes you to lose all respect for them, the love goes pretty darned quick as well.
How would you feel if the shoe was on the other foot, with a satanist saying you should be "perfected", that Christians don't really know god, etc.
Anyone who really loved someone wouldn't do what Coulter does. She doesn't love jews. Love includes respect. And that includes respect for their choices - including religion - not going around saying "we're the Fed-Ex to God", and that jews, or any other people, need to be "perfected". That implies 2 things - that Coulter believes she's "perfected" and others aren't.
If Coulter really wants to get people to convert, she should walk the walk, not talk the talk. And the first step would be to foreswear going around throwing gasoline everywhere and trying to strike sparks. Her brand of christianity is the "resounding like a hollow gong" mentioned in 1 Cor 13.
>"We must build strong armed forces through science and technology. To attain the strategic objective of building computerized armed forces and winning IT-based warfare, we will accelerate composite development of mechanization and computerization, carry out military training under IT-based conditions, modernize every aspect of logistics, intensify our efforts to train a new type of high-caliber military personnel in large numbers and change the mode of generating combat capabilities."
Filled my bullshit bingo card across, down, and both diagonals! Sure he doesn't work in marketing?
The REAL problem is the batteries. Bacteria found out they can get high eating them. So all they want to do now is listen to music on their iNanoNano and breed.
"Sorry Eurodude - They're Canadian not American. They live in my neighbourhood."
... but the lawsuit is in Texas. The reason is that patent trolls *HEART* Texas.
If the US were to get rid of software patents, this wouldn't be happening.
Let them sue in Texas. Let them ALL sue in Texas, clog up the system so bad that it stops working ocmpletely. Texas judges who hear patent cases have an average of 191 cases each - keep piling them on. Once it gets to the point where cases take 15, 20, or 30 years to complete the trial and appeals process, patent trolls will die.
So keep those patent troll lawsuits going boys - by the time you get through, the patents will have expired, and who knows - maybe yours will be the case that invalidates ALL software patents. Assholes!
Never said Microsoft were the makers of the OLPC. What should be clear is that installing closed-source software on any PC makes it less than an system, same as welding the hood shut on the car. Sure, you can open the doors, trunk, etc., but you can't fix the engine yourself, or get someone else to - you have to wait for the software vendor to fix it.
The only "borderline stupid" is calling something open when it isn't. An OLPC with Windows is NOT an open system, any more than any other computer with Windows on it would be. The software would come with many restrictions - EULAs, no source code, no reverse engineering, a bunch of DRM, restrictions on transfering the software, etc.
Heck, TIVO is more open - at least they give you the source, even if you can't really use it, you're free to study it, adapt it to other devices, give it away, etc.
You can even pipe it through gzip or bzip2 to make it smaller, and if you want to make it REALLY small, first create a bunch of huge files, and fill them with zeros, then delete the files.
Or you can mount the image later via the loopback device, fill the dead space with zeros, and compress.
Slashdot Mirror
"As usual, this is slashdot, and you are expected to pull your own weight! Google is simply a URL away ;)"
Its okay for slashdotters to use Yahoo!, now that congress says they're evil.
"What if the law in the US says you cannot follow the law in China?"
Sovereignty means the country establishes the rules within their boundaries. If the US doesn't like it, they can always go to war with China. It will be the quickest war ever - China immediately dumps their vast US currency holdings on the open market, the US dollar becomes (even more) worthless within 1 minute due to programmed trading, etc.
China and Japan (and pretty much the rest of the world) are already looking to divest themselves of their reserves of US dollars, since Barneke has made it clear that he will destroy the dollar's value in a stupid attempt to delay the consequences of the collapsed housing bubble as long as possible, which will only make it worse when the time of reconning arrives,
The USD is no longer a "reserve currency". This has broad implications for the US' ability to "project force", and its loss of superpower status.
> "privacy is overrated and overvalued. desire for privacy is motivated by largely baseless fears and insecurities."
Since you think privacy is useless, why not install a webcam in your shower. After all, according to your premise, all the pedophiles out there should be able to see your kids "neked".
Pravacy has its uses - one being that people should have better things to do than snoop on other people's lives.
... or people need to start using pgp /gpg, and social networking platforms need to incorporate such technology more transparently into their sites.
>" performing surgery to someone on mars? There is a rather large prorogation delay, even if data is sent at the speed of light, this is not fast enough to perform surgery. Things happen quickly, the surgeon needs feedback, etc. "
The delay isn't 10 seconds - its between 10 and 50 minutes, depending on the relative positions of the two planets. By the time they see the cuts not in the right place, the problem will have solved itself - the patient will be dead.
You're already in trouble if you need open heart surgery. The risks are "acceptable", considering the alternatives.
The mars scenario, on the other hand - the idea of scanning someone and waiting for advice won't work. Even if they could be scanned in zero seconds, and a diagnostic reached in zero seconds, the time delay is between 10 and 50 minutes..Heck, look what happens with only a 4 minute delay http://www.jamesoberg.com/2004marsconquest.html
> "I will never denounce my Faith though"
I once said the same thing. Took me over a decade to "see the light" was really just a bunch of control freaks armed with lies and superstition, and their coteries of "useful idiots".
And athiests have our own "good news", that there is no god, so you don't have to figure out which one is the "one true god". We are equally free to spread our "religious beliefs", and interestingly enough, we're making major headway, to the point that many societies are now "post-chistian" or "post-religion"
"Salvation" is itself useless. "Salvation" from what? God's anger? So much for a loving god. Cry me a river about "christians are the most prosecuted religion". You're free to believe what you want, but we're the future, because christianity doesn't make sense. A bible that teaches unconditional love, but featuring a god whose love is extremely conditional. "Believe, or go to hell" - what a f*cking joke. Talk about your classic cognitive dissonence. Christianty preys on people who are vulnerable, offering all sorts of promises, but really enslaving them.
Feeling persecuted because the truth hurts? Awwwww, pooor baaaby. Go tell your judgmental god about how evil I am, exposing the fraud of "unconditional love".
Just be careful not to meditate too much on the contradiction - you'll end up a non-believer.
I'm sure we've all read the "Ingrish" instruction manuals. This went WAY beyond "Do not iron shirt while wearing."
>"when we in Europe hear American politicians speak, we have to adjust our mindset quite a bit, because to us it sounds like so much bollocks"
"when we hear politicians speak, we have to adjust our mindset quite a bit, because to us its so much bollock"
There, fixed it for you!
I guess it's better than in Soviet Amerika, where politician's mindset adjusts YOU!
Why a plane? Last I heard, boats still plied the oceans.
Also, why back to Russia? Maybe just up to Canada, down to Mexico or South America ... or up to Alaska, and then a quick hop across the Bering Straits.
Or even still in the US mainland, using someone else's identity. Identity theft isn't always just for money.
This is what we have juries for - to decide the facts.
More likely, the link pharmer is noticing that he's getting fewer hits because the blog is now ranked higher in searches, since it has actual content.
While a person CAN be held to have a valid trademark just by usage, if you're not in the same jurisdiction, or not offering the same product or service, you can ignore him.
The "not offering same product or service" is easy to understand - if there is little likelihood that a consumer would be confused between your "product" and his non-existent "product", then you also have a valid right to the same trademark. Lexus Peas was sued for infringing ont he Lexus brand, and the judge held that there was no chance of confusion in consumers minds between a can of peas and a car.
The "same jurisdiction" is also easy to understand - if he wants to "do something about it", he'll have to sue you in your jurisdiction, and that costs $$$, and a link pharmer simply won't spend the money.
Also, you can put a disclaimer at the bottom (without a link back) saying your blog has no relationship to the link pharmer, explaining the pharming business, etc. This way, you might become the cononical reference on the net for that particular url.
Obviously, your blog is taking traffic away. Why not point us to the landing page so everyone else can choose one link to "reverse-pharm" with a blog with some content using the same name.
The ps2 is selling here for $99. I wouldn't buy it as a present for either of my daughters ... they're not "into games." The Wii, however, looks like something they'd both enjoy. So, if the decision is between something cheap that they won't use, or something more expensive but that they will use, its really no choice.
They've already had a $30 price drop on the Wii here a couple of weeks ago, and I'm expecting it to drop anoterh $50 after the holiday season - just in time for the older one's birthday :-)
All over the place. 2 weeks ago in Canada, Zellers was selling PS2s for $99 and DS Lite for $109.
With the rising Canadian dollar, urther cuts are possible before Christmas. Watch for them at $89 after Christmas.
For once, it was right!.
Contrary to the assestion that "this will be a blow to Nintendo ...", Nintendo doesn't give a hoot - they're going to be able to do the same thing, except why bother when demand STILL exceeds supply for the Wii?
If you had to buy just ONE, which one would you want to buy?
Now if you had to buy 3 as gifts, which one would you want to buy?
The Wii wins on both counts.
There's a difference between agreeing with someone's life choices (condoning them) and respecting their life choices, even if you disagree with them, but I don't think that's the real issue.
You can love someone without agreeing with them on everything ... but if they then do something that causes you to lose all respect for them, the love goes pretty darned quick as well.
How would you feel if the shoe was on the other foot, with a satanist saying you should be "perfected", that Christians don't really know god, etc.
Anyone who really loved someone wouldn't do what Coulter does. She doesn't love jews. Love includes respect. And that includes respect for their choices - including religion - not going around saying "we're the Fed-Ex to God", and that jews, or any other people, need to be "perfected". That implies 2 things - that Coulter believes she's "perfected" and others aren't.
If Coulter really wants to get people to convert, she should walk the walk, not talk the talk. And the first step would be to foreswear going around throwing gasoline everywhere and trying to strike sparks. Her brand of christianity is the "resounding like a hollow gong" mentioned in 1 Cor 13.
Thank God I'm an Atheist.
>"We must build strong armed forces through science and technology. To attain the strategic objective of building computerized armed forces and winning IT-based warfare, we will accelerate composite development of mechanization and computerization, carry out military training under IT-based conditions, modernize every aspect of logistics, intensify our efforts to train a new type of high-caliber military personnel in large numbers and change the mode of generating combat capabilities."
Filled my bullshit bingo card across, down, and both diagonals! Sure he doesn't work in marketing?
"... for a second, I could have sworn I read 'flashlight' in the summary as 'fleshlight'"
You need to print yourself up some new glasses.
"Slashdotted!"
No, they're just busy printing up another web server.
The REAL problem is the batteries. Bacteria found out they can get high eating them. So all they want to do now is listen to music on their iNanoNano and breed.
"Sorry Eurodude - They're Canadian not American. They live in my neighbourhood."
If the US were to get rid of software patents, this wouldn't be happening.
Let them sue in Texas. Let them ALL sue in Texas, clog up the system so bad that it stops working ocmpletely. Texas judges who hear patent cases have an average of 191 cases each - keep piling them on. Once it gets to the point where cases take 15, 20, or 30 years to complete the trial and appeals process, patent trolls will die.
So keep those patent troll lawsuits going boys - by the time you get through, the patents will have expired, and who knows - maybe yours will be the case that invalidates ALL software patents. Assholes!
Never said Microsoft were the makers of the OLPC. What should be clear is that installing closed-source software on any PC makes it less than an system, same as welding the hood shut on the car. Sure, you can open the doors, trunk, etc., but you can't fix the engine yourself, or get someone else to - you have to wait for the software vendor to fix it.
The only "borderline stupid" is calling something open when it isn't. An OLPC with Windows is NOT an open system, any more than any other computer with Windows on it would be. The software would come with many restrictions - EULAs, no source code, no reverse engineering, a bunch of DRM, restrictions on transfering the software, etc.
Heck, TIVO is more open - at least they give you the source, even if you can't really use it, you're free to study it, adapt it to other devices, give it away, etc.
"It would be hard for OLPC to say it was 'open' and then be closed to Microsoft. Open means open."
So when is Microsoft going to release the source? Or does "open" mean "closed"?
"Need to do constant hard drive images (and the space needed to store them). I think this requires a reboot which is annoying."
For future reference, no rebooting is required.
- Assuming an external drive (/dev/sdc1) mounted on /media/external_drive -
dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/media/external_drive/backup-2007-10-30.img
You can even pipe it through gzip or bzip2 to make it smaller, and if you want to make it REALLY small, first create a bunch of huge files, and fill them with zeros, then delete the files.
Or you can mount the image later via the loopback device, fill the dead space with zeros, and compress.