The second amendment isn't an endorsement of an armed revolution. It's an endorsement of people to take up arms to defend themselves and not have to wait for the military to step in. Why else would militias be mentioned?
Guns should only be used defensively.
If you have doubts, look at the clause that allows habeas corpus to be suspended in cases of insurrection or rebellion where the public safety requires it.
Forcing game companies to compete with pirates who are effectively free to break all sorts of laws is a bad idea.
Also, lots of times pirates are free to distribute trojans, since their victims aren't likely to incriminate themselves for copyright infringement.
In fact, warez have been a proven vector for malware.
I think that game companies should go hard after pirates, provided of course they have a damn lot better aim than the slipshod steamroller that is the RIAA.
Having said that, I concurrently believe that
1. The legal system should be loser pays to discourage slipshod lawsuits.
Seriously, this would completely ICE the RIAA's campaign. Once people could start getting refunds for legal expenses they never should have been forced to incur or settle to avoid, then they will start fighting back, and as the money never gets spent permanently, the EFF and others could have a legal defense fund that doesn't exhaust itself.
OSS is at a disadvantage because it is above the dirty tactics that MS uses to stay in business
* OEM arm-twisting * monopolistic practices * driver signing that automatically excludes most OSS drivers on windows boxes * gratuitous standards breakage that forces incompatibility with OSS programs that actually care to follow the standards (I'm looking at you IE)
MS wins because it cheats. And it also is chummy enough with the refs that it doesn't get "caught".
I think that not being allowed to speak freely about your company on your own time is a sign of a power imbalance.
Any company that has to censor its employees when they're at home is either dysfunctionally paranoid or has something to hide.
Just think of how many people have to use AC just to post on/.
Companies that censor their employees naturally have nothing but good PR...until they get caught hiding something.
A company that can have a healthy respect for self criticism is likely to be better off anyway.
Of course, with desperate workers not having much room to negotiate, companies are happy to consolidate their power and use their leverage to keep their workers sheared like sheep.
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Some nutcase judge is probably going to rule against LL.
Judicial ignorance of modern technology is at an all time high these days after all.
Except that if you pirate it, you no longer have an incentive to save up for it.
Er, isn't that NOTABUG?
Because the FDA is lobbied to just as readily as congress critters?
Aren't torrent files directly produced using the data itself?
And if so, does that not make torrent files DERIVED WORKS of what they track?
One could just as easily prioritize what gets reported to deal with the fact that police resources are limited?
Smoking weed, illegal or not, doesn't have the urgency that rape or murder does.
If you're in the mob, they even spare you the trouble of signing the contract yourself.
Spammers are not only criminals, they are terrorists.
The people that profit from spam, credit card companies, also are a powerful lobby group.
In short, spam isn't going away.
Your contribution eating congress critters will make sure of that.
Just more "proof" that
Nice Guys Finish Last
Uh, no.
The second amendment isn't an endorsement of an armed revolution. It's an endorsement of people to take up arms to defend themselves and not have to wait for the military to step in. Why else would militias be mentioned?
Guns should only be used defensively.
If you have doubts, look at the clause that allows habeas corpus to be suspended in cases of insurrection or rebellion where the public safety requires it.
which is still better than leaving it unburned and greenhouse potent.
Forcing game companies to compete with pirates who are effectively free to break all sorts of laws is a bad idea.
Also, lots of times pirates are free to distribute trojans, since their victims aren't likely to incriminate themselves for copyright infringement.
In fact, warez have been a proven vector for malware.
I think that game companies should go hard after pirates, provided of course they have a damn lot better aim than the slipshod steamroller that is the RIAA.
Having said that, I concurrently believe that
1. The legal system should be loser pays to discourage slipshod lawsuits.
Seriously, this would completely ICE the RIAA's campaign. Once people could start getting refunds for legal expenses they never should have been forced to incur or settle to avoid, then they will start fighting back, and as the money never gets spent permanently, the EFF and others could have a legal defense fund that doesn't exhaust itself.
if you can hack the hypervisor, you are king.
It's kinda like god getting rootkitted
I wish the framers allowed the president and congress critters to be recalled if they pissed off the public.
At the very least, a "disapproved by voters" should bar a reelection.
That way they won't get away with playing nice long enough to get reelected.
The only reason that people are putting up with this crap anyway is due to learned helplessness.
OSS is at a disadvantage because it is above the dirty tactics that MS uses to stay in business
* OEM arm-twisting
* monopolistic practices
* driver signing that automatically excludes most OSS drivers on windows boxes
* gratuitous standards breakage that forces incompatibility with OSS programs that actually care to follow the standards (I'm looking at you IE)
MS wins because it cheats. And it also is chummy enough with the refs that it doesn't get "caught".
Bear in mind, the good guys have to follow the same rules the bad guys get away with breaking.
For starters they let MS off the hook too easily, which could be the reason that Windows sucks so bad at security in the first place.
Inter-company redundancy isn't profitable once you have a primary connection set up.
Look at a map for the global back bone. It looks rather starry, and not like the meshy web you'd see if redundancy really was given its due.
I hope he tries this.
Personally I would love to see this guy arrested, charged, tried, and convicted.
Come on Jack...keep digging.
Cowadunga duude!
You can't just weasel out of a written contract, even if you're an integrated software/hardware vendor.
Particularly if the other side is a government agency as beefy as the DoD.
Government as referee is different from government as boss.
I think that not being allowed to speak freely about your company on your own time is a sign of a power imbalance.
Any company that has to censor its employees when they're at home is either dysfunctionally paranoid or has something to hide.
Just think of how many people have to use AC just to post on /.
Companies that censor their employees naturally have nothing but good PR...until they get caught hiding something.
A company that can have a healthy respect for self criticism is likely to be better off anyway.
Of course, with desperate workers not having much room to negotiate, companies are happy to consolidate their power and use their leverage to keep their workers sheared like sheep.
How can they be sure they hackt he right guy?
More importantly...how do they make sure they DON'T hack the WRONG guy?