I was thinking Richard Stallman, Bruce Perens and Linus, just imagine the fun and flamefests:-) Or perhaps Steve Jobs, Eric Raymond and Maddog or...... If the three people are chosen correctly AND they have the power to enforce anything it could be funny to watch. I suppose they should really pick a Mac and *nix member and then perhaps a Borland person (or some other non-MS based windows developer).
Your meant to wait until someone goes and pays for the pdf (or cracks the server to get a copy) and then
posts the text here in/.
places the pdf in Freenet and every other distributed file-sharing tool
links to mirrors of the pdf which are promptly/.ed and then mirrored some more by the/.ers
Then we just wait for the legal letters to take down copyrighted material and we see what the/. editors do! I suspect they would remove it without trace unlike the Scientoligits. I would also suspect that they would be far more vulnerable to incuring monetary expense than in the kerberos case as this is an expensive document (I hate to think of the $/Mb on this) and unless they delete posts before anyone sees them they could certainly be accused of reckless behaviour and neglegence for posting such a story as this when they should know better than anyone what the/.ers are like.
When a society is fundamentally capitalist they can accuse anything of being for "commercial advantage or private financial gain"! Linus wrote the kernel so someone would give him a job based on that work (TRUE||FALSE)?
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yep, but if you make ANY change to the kernel you are no longer covered by their QA. The inclusion or exclusion of any part could lead to unpredicatable behaviour even in the components that were already there. They test exact kernels, any change means that while it might be more likely to be good thanks to their QA, you can no longer accept their QA as they didn;t test what you are doing (did they even compile it with the same compiler, asm tools etc.). I'm not saying that this is a bad thing or criticising or anything, I'm just saying that if you are caring about reliability you must be aware of all the variables you introduce (what sort of stress testing did they do on your motherboards chipset let alone changing software)
Can anyone else say DMCA violation! Now if the above is not Free Speech I do not know what is! I can see at a glance (because I understand the language) that the password is stored in the file incredibly trivially (i.e. it is not encrypted, it is simply obfuscated to avoid the password being recognisable at a passing glance). It seems in fact to be deliberatly easy to decrypt just so that people can recover passwords from it in their heads (if they know ascii tables). This is an informative critique of the cisco system and an appropraite part of a discussion on their administration. Now if Cisco threaten action under the DMCA would this be a perfect test case for what we really want to protect, or would the potential cracking link mean we would all rather the Felten case or.....
I am not an American btw and my interest is in seeing this law quashed. I'm with AC that we should do all in our power to protect ourselves from it at the expense of the US until the cost (what else would the US administration understand other than money) is so great they repeal the law. I hope the original poster is not American or planing on going there before the law is quashed cause if he is we all know what could happen!
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I would have to agree that you are better off running a stock distribution kernel IF your stock distribution kernel supports what you want, but if you are going to recompile the kernel in any way you are breaking the QA experience. Once you compile any kernel yourself you could be introducing issues and the only way to be sure to be sure is to then test your own kernel before implementing it in a mission critical setting. I personally have always found that the debian kernels are very good becuase they usually spend months in unstable and testing where users run them as is AND compile there own kernels for whatever crazy hardware or software config they need. RH (and as you did, I am just choosing them as an easy example) is not an open company, and their kernels are not tested in such a wide way (debian gets a good run at multiple platforms straight away) and their users are not as "powerful" as debian users (sweeping generalisation that I would say is fair, the % of debian users running self-compiled kernels must be higher than the same % for RH). I think it would be brilliant if we could get all linux distributors (from embedded to RH to Linus) to publish information on the kernels they use and test in one place so that anyone who needs to compile their own kernel can view the experiences of the most relevant people/kernels/settings and get a good idea of the issues they might experience with different setups.
Hmm, perhaps it is you who doesn't appreciate that Sony is entering into a battlefield and it really wants to win. I would presume that Sony would keep the revenue you are refering to by releasing toolkits for game designers which are non-free and therefore incur the licensing charges if you use them AND if you want to put the PS3 logo onto a game you will have to pay them to do conformance testing and certification. Just because the OS (and perhaps/probably a lot of the system software) is free does not mean that Sony have to resort to making money on the hardware. You can write and release a "DVD" for the PS3 with a game on it and release it under the GPL, but if you want the stupid people to feel safe buying any games you have to pay Sony, everyone wins (except the people who will bitch about the $xk to get tested and the $yk / unit no matter what x and y are).
Sony (minimally) releases a Playstation 2 Linux kit.
Sony commits to a seven year deal with the Linux Based Tivo.
I suspect Sony will start shipping Dual boot Laptops and PCs soon where the user will have to buy windows or it gets wiped off.
I suspect the Playstation 3 will run linux! You scoff, but with Sony's experience.... It would probably be a seriously modified kernel with many patches that would never see an AC let alone LT release but....
Imagine a PS3 with DVD-R(W), TIVO, FIREWIRE, USB, KDE/OpenOffice and Mozilla (use debs please sony and make it deb compatible as far as possible), do you want all those idiots who want a computer to go out and get one of them or a Dell box with Win9x/Me/XP/BS and then ask you how to....
I think Sony are just plain ahead of the game here , and the consumer computer market is about to be redefined (finally) for the first time since win3.x.
Is anyone out there actually using this service and can they tell how the network is attempting to enforce this? Are they simply saying if you want them to provide you with an email service you must use one of their clients for the account? Or are they saying if you want to use email you must use one of their accounts (i.e. you can't use any other pop/smtp/imap email provider to collect or receive mail). Are they blocking ports? Finally if this is an anti-spam measure, why are they talking about POP? POP is for collecting mail not sending it! If they were talking about SMTP then it would make sense. Are they simply looking for a way to ensure they are filtering all email?
Then maybe this is another one of those times where not aving the entire planet under USA law (remember the USA only holds a few percent of the worlds population, it has just a smidge more pollution though). Imagine if they try this on Freenet or something similar, the distributed nature of the beast would mean that it would quickly become in the entire networks interest to fight back, and the best approach IMHO would be to DOS the RIAA machines back. Preferably hunt for exploits and use them to wipe out the networking code (or cripple it so they can't threaten the service) but just plain bombarding them with packets would do. The likes of Freenet has a completely legitimate purpose (off-site backup of non-private data for one) and so if the networks fought back it would be interesting to see if it could ever be taken to court, or even if users of the network could be. Personally I can't imagine the RIAA are going to have employed the staff they need to win a technological battle.
No, let the RIAA sell to the teeny boppers and let the real music be released through credible means. A child market is fine, lets just try to ensure that they lose all control over the adult market (and here the adult-child distinction is simply the difference between the music that is created solely for marketing reasons and the music that is created for anything else). Imagine the fun of each artist deciding whether they want to jump on the cash wagon and sell to a select market, or go for credibility and hope they are good enough to make good money. Personally I would rather see the MPAA, RIAA and every media company (especially TV stations) hauled through the courts for child exploitation, but I doubt that is going to happen.
I've been boycotting Videos, CDs and DVDs now for nearly two years and have broken it once... on my birthday I went from the early house (drinking establishment that opens in the morning) to the off-licence to get some vodka to drink while I was dragged to the cinema to watch Scary Movie. Other than that I have not bought a single CD or DVD or rented any films. I want to buy a DVD so I can test playing them on my Linux box but keep stopping myself. The closest I have come was the "Still Smokin" DVD by Dr. Dre, Snoop et al which is a Region 0 DVD and a German Metal DVD which didn't carry any logos or info on encoding (not even a DVD logo on the box, pity it just looked tooooo crap). I'd say that so far the movie and music industries have lost about $4000 of mine (I bought quite a few videos and went to the cinema frequently along with the odd CD purchase). Join in everyone, look for alternative ways to ethically spend your money, tell poeple that you do it and why (though it is a challenge to explain it), discourage your friends from spending their money. When your elected oficials are looking to get re-elected tell them! The only fears are that if the boycott is successful some stupid politicians will make more laws in the industries favour (hence tell everyone so that these laws can become potential vote losers and wont be touched by the conservative politicians democracy breeds) and that artists we would actually like to hear will fail and dissappear (that's why we need every artist on the planet to register their prefered direct donation method so we can support artists in a way that tells them why you aren't buying their product). As long as all other things remain equal, the boycott will be successful as the MPAA/RIAA/etc will be forced into either raising prices to compensate for the lost revenue, which will in turn lose them more revenue until the entire model collapses OR they will re-evaluate what they are doing to bring the boycotters back into the fold. For me to return they would need to drop copy-protection and all other format obfuscation (including trying to license media with EULAs and regoinal encoding), and a price reduction or long term freeze would help.
And are you a Linux user? If so PLEASE go and get demudi up and running on that box and see what latencies you get there for comparable tasks and then come back and tell us! Demudi is spawned from the Hammerfall's ability to offer (Semi-)Professional audio capabilities to Linux. I have a Hammerfall about 5 metres from me at the moment, but it's not mine and I would be beaten severly if I touched it:-(
You never answered my question (though you did point out some items I may not have been so aware of). I was curious as to whether Jamie with his "inside track" would be in a position to provide his own speculation as to whether the anti Software Patents lobby has a hope, or whether we have already lost the battle. I am concerned that it appears my quadrant of the world (Europe) is as stupid as Jamie suggests and I now ask Slashdot for any good sources of information so I can start to educate my local politicians (in Ireland). I recently enjoyed the experience of stumbling into a Eurpoean Patent Office stand at a conference here in Dublin though unfortunately I the person who could even begin to address my concerns was a patent examiner for chemicals and I only got about 15 minutes of his time because it was the end of the day. What he told me left me seriously disturbed for days and to be honest I still am. The only reassuring thing he had to say was that they realise the USPTO are idiots and that if someone doesn't register for a patent in a way that covers Ireland within one year of applying for the patent anywhere it is fair game!
Forcing all net users to use an approved black box
Is that Windows XP, XBox, Playstation or just Windows Media formats
It is possible and coming to a planet near you soon! We are deluding ourselves if we think that the "hackers" will ever constitute a critical mass for a file sharing system, if we have to write the software and collate the media and upload it and.....
Hmmm, I guess all the hackers will be Chinese in the near future cause we know the American bullies are not going to try and touch them! In fact, I can't imagine the US declaring an EU citizen a terrorist for the like of this either so yet again I think it is simply the States shafting themselves with their own stupidity.
Good luck to them prosecuting me, I'm not American and will happily never visit ANY country which would extradite me to the US for breaching the DMCA by playing my music on my Linux supported mp3 player/USB hard disk.
Sometimes I hate ACs just because you can't get any idea of context for comments. I would wonder if you are a UK resident or have the opinion from the outside. I am not a UK resident though I was for 4 years. IMHO the UKs problems are no worse then 5-10 countries worldwide. Most countries have drunken oafs out on the piss every weekend causing havoc, and most major soccer playing countries have problems with football violence (if you think the UK is the worst please go to support a side playing Galatasary in Turkey). The UKs possible exceptional problem (though I think Germany also has the same problem) is the usage of football by right-wing bigots to create havoc.
Perfect! So the lawyers make a lot more money as do paper-pushers (company reps) and a few other punters (just kept around to say I saw what he did). The job just bacame about 5 times as expensive! What is the true threat of this terrorism? Is it the loss of human life or the loss of a viable economy as everyone adopts scaremongering measures. From the sounds of it your solution is useless anyway as he would just be done for teaching all the lusers watching him how to compromise systems.
More seriously, every person is a unique individual and while certain predispositions (such as a propensity to post on slashdot) may incline that group to be more likely to have a certain view I strongly believe that no conclusions can ever be drawn about the individual. However when it comes to slashdot, a large percentage of the posters are American and when it comes to Americans a large percentage of them are very insular (be they in slashdot, media or just my humble experiences of all the Americans I have met... and they were the ones who weren't in the states at the time!). Americans are tarred by the brush of the media in such a way that the individuality you love of the different states is washed away in the corporate melee to win the lowest common denominator market. In my country of Europe (hehe) the divisions of language are protecting the Sky's of this world from blending us into one culture.
It was a joke, and one born of sarcasm, for the only things I probably dislike about slashdot (trolls, moderation etc. are all imperfect but I don't care). And finally I play cricket too, in Ireland!
The UK in fact are not simply considering introducing a mandatory National ID card, but are in fact considering weakening the Human Rights Act to allow them to do it. It took the UK many years to implement the European Statute of Human Rights (against lots of petty minded protest) and now it seems like at the first scapegoat opportunity they are going to destroy it! I am extremely happy that I no longer live in the UK with their Big Brother attitudes (CCTV, encryption key hand-over laws etc.) and I sincerely hope that if they do ruin the Human Rights Act the EU finally tells them where to go and gets rid of it's rubbish.
Congratulations, you have passed slashdot's "you are a dumb insular American test"! Just kidding:-)
While Americans ignore most of the worlds sport and simply invent their own to have American World Champions, many countries play the same sports! This reference to "All Black" refers to the New Zealand Rugby Union team who are historically one of the most respected and best forces in Rugby. They are called All Blacks as their strip is all black! The press are mentioning this as it was obviously a publicity stunt by The PC Company to ensure greter coverage in their native NZ (and in fact it is a good enough gimmic to probably get some attention outside NZ). A quick look at a google search and this page also suggests Mr. Howlett might have been chosen as "the fastest man in NZ rugby". I guess we won't really know unless someone can show us the material The PC Company are putting out.
I'm not American, but in recent years I have been boycotting many American corporations due to the influence they have on the US legal system and their seemingly inexhaustable ability to gain any IP law they require. I am seriously concerned by the aparently relentless push by US based coporations to bring an American style Intellectual Property regime to the rest of the world. As a Free Software advocate I find few ideas as repellent as "Software Patents"! My question to you is how do you see the International Intellectual Property arguments going, and ultimatley will we reach a system where everyone is under the thumb of software patents or where the US is forced to give up on this terrible idea?
So I guess Debian isn't a REAL linux distro? You could update Corel to Debian (though it broke their samba integration into the file manager and a few other of their "improvements") so you could look at Corel as an easier way to install Debian! What EXACTLY prevented Corel from being a REAL linux distro? (My guess is nothing, your just a flamebait merchant)
If you had your way I guess no-one would be allowed to run linux unless they can install a system from source over the web from a base floppy using a text editor to adjust the mbr and partition table.
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I was thinking Richard Stallman, Bruce Perens and Linus, just imagine the fun and flamefests:-) Or perhaps Steve Jobs, Eric Raymond and Maddog or ...... If the three people are chosen correctly AND they have the power to enforce anything it could be funny to watch. I suppose they should really pick a Mac and *nix member and then perhaps a Borland person (or some other non-MS based windows developer).
Ooops, I meant Scientolo gits
- posts the text here in
/.
- places the pdf in Freenet and every other distributed file-sharing tool
- links to mirrors of the pdf which are promptly
/.ed and then mirrored some more by the /.ers
Then we just wait for the legal letters to take down copyrighted material and we see what theWhen a society is fundamentally capitalist they can accuse anything of being for "commercial advantage or private financial gain"! Linus wrote the kernel so someone would give him a job based on that work (TRUE||FALSE)?
yep, but if you make ANY change to the kernel you are no longer covered by their QA. The inclusion or exclusion of any part could lead to unpredicatable behaviour even in the components that were already there. They test exact kernels, any change means that while it might be more likely to be good thanks to their QA, you can no longer accept their QA as they didn;t test what you are doing (did they even compile it with the same compiler, asm tools etc.). I'm not saying that this is a bad thing or criticising or anything, I'm just saying that if you are caring about reliability you must be aware of all the variables you introduce (what sort of stress testing did they do on your motherboards chipset let alone changing software)
Can anyone else say DMCA violation! Now if the above is not Free Speech I do not know what is! I can see at a glance (because I understand the language) that the password is stored in the file incredibly trivially (i.e. it is not encrypted, it is simply obfuscated to avoid the password being recognisable at a passing glance). It seems in fact to be deliberatly easy to decrypt just so that people can recover passwords from it in their heads (if they know ascii tables). This is an informative critique of the cisco system and an appropraite part of a discussion on their administration. Now if Cisco threaten action under the DMCA would this be a perfect test case for what we really want to protect, or would the potential cracking link mean we would all rather the Felten case or .....
I am not an American btw and my interest is in seeing this law quashed. I'm with AC that we should do all in our power to protect ourselves from it at the expense of the US until the cost (what else would the US administration understand other than money) is so great they repeal the law. I hope the original poster is not American or planing on going there before the law is quashed cause if he is we all know what could happen!
I would have to agree that you are better off running a stock distribution kernel IF your stock distribution kernel supports what you want, but if you are going to recompile the kernel in any way you are breaking the QA experience. Once you compile any kernel yourself you could be introducing issues and the only way to be sure to be sure is to then test your own kernel before implementing it in a mission critical setting. I personally have always found that the debian kernels are very good becuase they usually spend months in unstable and testing where users run them as is AND compile there own kernels for whatever crazy hardware or software config they need. RH (and as you did, I am just choosing them as an easy example) is not an open company, and their kernels are not tested in such a wide way (debian gets a good run at multiple platforms straight away) and their users are not as "powerful" as debian users (sweeping generalisation that I would say is fair, the % of debian users running self-compiled kernels must be higher than the same % for RH). I think it would be brilliant if we could get all linux distributors (from embedded to RH to Linus) to publish information on the kernels they use and test in one place so that anyone who needs to compile their own kernel can view the experiences of the most relevant people/kernels/settings and get a good idea of the issues they might experience with different setups.
Hmm, perhaps it is you who doesn't appreciate that Sony is entering into a battlefield and it really wants to win. I would presume that Sony would keep the revenue you are refering to by releasing toolkits for game designers which are non-free and therefore incur the licensing charges if you use them AND if you want to put the PS3 logo onto a game you will have to pay them to do conformance testing and certification. Just because the OS (and perhaps/probably a lot of the system software) is free does not mean that Sony have to resort to making money on the hardware. You can write and release a "DVD" for the PS3 with a game on it and release it under the GPL, but if you want the stupid people to feel safe buying any games you have to pay Sony, everyone wins (except the people who will bitch about the $xk to get tested and the $yk / unit no matter what x and y are).
Sony (minimally) releases a Playstation 2 Linux kit.
....
Sony commits to a seven year deal with the Linux Based Tivo.
I suspect Sony will start shipping Dual boot Laptops and PCs soon where the user will have to buy windows or it gets wiped off.
I suspect the Playstation 3 will run linux! You scoff, but with Sony's experience.... It would probably be a seriously modified kernel with many patches that would never see an AC let alone LT release but....
Imagine a PS3 with DVD-R(W), TIVO, FIREWIRE, USB, KDE/OpenOffice and Mozilla (use debs please sony and make it deb compatible as far as possible), do you want all those idiots who want a computer to go out and get one of them or a Dell box with Win9x/Me/XP/BS and then ask you how to
I think Sony are just plain ahead of the game here , and the consumer computer market is about to be redefined (finally) for the first time since win3.x.
Is anyone out there actually using this service and can they tell how the network is attempting to enforce this? Are they simply saying if you want them to provide you with an email service you must use one of their clients for the account? Or are they saying if you want to use email you must use one of their accounts (i.e. you can't use any other pop/smtp/imap email provider to collect or receive mail). Are they blocking ports? Finally if this is an anti-spam measure, why are they talking about POP? POP is for collecting mail not sending it! If they were talking about SMTP then it would make sense. Are they simply looking for a way to ensure they are filtering all email?
Then maybe this is another one of those times where not aving the entire planet under USA law (remember the USA only holds a few percent of the worlds population, it has just a smidge more pollution though). Imagine if they try this on Freenet or something similar, the distributed nature of the beast would mean that it would quickly become in the entire networks interest to fight back, and the best approach IMHO would be to DOS the RIAA machines back. Preferably hunt for exploits and use them to wipe out the networking code (or cripple it so they can't threaten the service) but just plain bombarding them with packets would do. The likes of Freenet has a completely legitimate purpose (off-site backup of non-private data for one) and so if the networks fought back it would be interesting to see if it could ever be taken to court, or even if users of the network could be. Personally I can't imagine the RIAA are going to have employed the staff they need to win a technological battle.
No, let the RIAA sell to the teeny boppers and let the real music be released through credible means. A child market is fine, lets just try to ensure that they lose all control over the adult market (and here the adult-child distinction is simply the difference between the music that is created solely for marketing reasons and the music that is created for anything else). Imagine the fun of each artist deciding whether they want to jump on the cash wagon and sell to a select market, or go for credibility and hope they are good enough to make good money. Personally I would rather see the MPAA, RIAA and every media company (especially TV stations) hauled through the courts for child exploitation, but I doubt that is going to happen.
I've been boycotting Videos, CDs and DVDs now for nearly two years and have broken it once... on my birthday I went from the early house (drinking establishment that opens in the morning) to the off-licence to get some vodka to drink while I was dragged to the cinema to watch Scary Movie. Other than that I have not bought a single CD or DVD or rented any films. I want to buy a DVD so I can test playing them on my Linux box but keep stopping myself. The closest I have come was the "Still Smokin" DVD by Dr. Dre, Snoop et al which is a Region 0 DVD and a German Metal DVD which didn't carry any logos or info on encoding (not even a DVD logo on the box, pity it just looked tooooo crap). I'd say that so far the movie and music industries have lost about $4000 of mine (I bought quite a few videos and went to the cinema frequently along with the odd CD purchase). Join in everyone, look for alternative ways to ethically spend your money, tell poeple that you do it and why (though it is a challenge to explain it), discourage your friends from spending their money. When your elected oficials are looking to get re-elected tell them! The only fears are that if the boycott is successful some stupid politicians will make more laws in the industries favour (hence tell everyone so that these laws can become potential vote losers and wont be touched by the conservative politicians democracy breeds) and that artists we would actually like to hear will fail and dissappear (that's why we need every artist on the planet to register their prefered direct donation method so we can support artists in a way that tells them why you aren't buying their product). As long as all other things remain equal, the boycott will be successful as the MPAA/RIAA/etc will be forced into either raising prices to compensate for the lost revenue, which will in turn lose them more revenue until the entire model collapses OR they will re-evaluate what they are doing to bring the boycotters back into the fold. For me to return they would need to drop copy-protection and all other format obfuscation (including trying to license media with EULAs and regoinal encoding), and a price reduction or long term freeze would help.
And are you a Linux user? If so PLEASE go and get demudi up and running on that box and see what latencies you get there for comparable tasks and then come back and tell us! Demudi is spawned from the Hammerfall's ability to offer (Semi-)Professional audio capabilities to Linux. I have a Hammerfall about 5 metres from me at the moment, but it's not mine and I would be beaten severly if I touched it :-(
You never answered my question (though you did point out some items I may not have been so aware of). I was curious as to whether Jamie with his "inside track" would be in a position to provide his own speculation as to whether the anti Software Patents lobby has a hope, or whether we have already lost the battle. I am concerned that it appears my quadrant of the world (Europe) is as stupid as Jamie suggests and I now ask Slashdot for any good sources of information so I can start to educate my local politicians (in Ireland). I recently enjoyed the experience of stumbling into a Eurpoean Patent Office stand at a conference here in Dublin though unfortunately I the person who could even begin to address my concerns was a patent examiner for chemicals and I only got about 15 minutes of his time because it was the end of the day. What he told me left me seriously disturbed for days and to be honest I still am. The only reassuring thing he had to say was that they realise the USPTO are idiots and that if someone doesn't register for a patent in a way that covers Ireland within one year of applying for the patent anywhere it is fair game!
Is that Windows XP, XBox, Playstation or just Windows Media formats
It is possible and coming to a planet near you soon! We are deluding ourselves if we think that the "hackers" will ever constitute a critical mass for a file sharing system, if we have to write the software and collate the media and upload it and .....
Hmmm, I guess all the hackers will be Chinese in the near future cause we know the American bullies are not going to try and touch them! In fact, I can't imagine the US declaring an EU citizen a terrorist for the like of this either so yet again I think it is simply the States shafting themselves with their own stupidity.
Good luck to them prosecuting me, I'm not American and will happily never visit ANY country which would extradite me to the US for breaching the DMCA by playing my music on my Linux supported mp3 player/USB hard disk.
Sometimes I hate ACs just because you can't get any idea of context for comments. I would wonder if you are a UK resident or have the opinion from the outside. I am not a UK resident though I was for 4 years. IMHO the UKs problems are no worse then 5-10 countries worldwide. Most countries have drunken oafs out on the piss every weekend causing havoc, and most major soccer playing countries have problems with football violence (if you think the UK is the worst please go to support a side playing Galatasary in Turkey). The UKs possible exceptional problem (though I think Germany also has the same problem) is the usage of football by right-wing bigots to create havoc.
Perfect! So the lawyers make a lot more money as do paper-pushers (company reps) and a few other punters (just kept around to say I saw what he did). The job just bacame about 5 times as expensive! What is the true threat of this terrorism? Is it the loss of human life or the loss of a viable economy as everyone adopts scaremongering measures. From the sounds of it your solution is useless anyway as he would just be done for teaching all the lusers watching him how to compromise systems.
Most importantly it was a joke dude :-)
More seriously, every person is a unique individual and while certain predispositions (such as a propensity to post on slashdot) may incline that group to be more likely to have a certain view I strongly believe that no conclusions can ever be drawn about the individual. However when it comes to slashdot, a large percentage of the posters are American and when it comes to Americans a large percentage of them are very insular (be they in slashdot, media or just my humble experiences of all the Americans I have met ... and they were the ones who weren't in the states at the time!). Americans are tarred by the brush of the media in such a way that the individuality you love of the different states is washed away in the corporate melee to win the lowest common denominator market. In my country of Europe (hehe) the divisions of language are protecting the Sky's of this world from blending us into one culture.
It was a joke, and one born of sarcasm, for the only things I probably dislike about slashdot (trolls, moderation etc. are all imperfect but I don't care). And finally I play cricket too, in Ireland!
The UK in fact are not simply considering introducing a mandatory National ID card, but are in fact considering weakening the Human Rights Act to allow them to do it. It took the UK many years to implement the European Statute of Human Rights (against lots of petty minded protest) and now it seems like at the first scapegoat opportunity they are going to destroy it! I am extremely happy that I no longer live in the UK with their Big Brother attitudes (CCTV, encryption key hand-over laws etc.) and I sincerely hope that if they do ruin the Human Rights Act the EU finally tells them where to go and gets rid of it's rubbish.
Congratulations, you have passed slashdot's "you are a dumb insular American test"! Just kidding :-)
While Americans ignore most of the worlds sport and simply invent their own to have American World Champions, many countries play the same sports! This reference to "All Black" refers to the New Zealand Rugby Union team who are historically one of the most respected and best forces in Rugby. They are called All Blacks as their strip is all black! The press are mentioning this as it was obviously a publicity stunt by The PC Company to ensure greter coverage in their native NZ (and in fact it is a good enough gimmic to probably get some attention outside NZ). A quick look at a google search and this page also suggests Mr. Howlett might have been chosen as "the fastest man in NZ rugby". I guess we won't really know unless someone can show us the material The PC Company are putting out.
I'm not American, but in recent years I have been boycotting many American corporations due to the influence they have on the US legal system and their seemingly inexhaustable ability to gain any IP law they require. I am seriously concerned by the aparently relentless push by US based coporations to bring an American style Intellectual Property regime to the rest of the world. As a Free Software advocate I find few ideas as repellent as "Software Patents"! My question to you is how do you see the International Intellectual Property arguments going, and ultimatley will we reach a system where everyone is under the thumb of software patents or where the US is forced to give up on this terrible idea?
So I guess Debian isn't a REAL linux distro? You could update Corel to Debian (though it broke their samba integration into the file manager and a few other of their "improvements") so you could look at Corel as an easier way to install Debian! What EXACTLY prevented Corel from being a REAL linux distro? (My guess is nothing, your just a flamebait merchant)
If you had your way I guess no-one would be allowed to run linux unless they can install a system from source over the web from a base floppy using a text editor to adjust the mbr and partition table.