It's important to recognize that Skylarov's company was selling to Americans, that's how he got into trouble. As long as his product had remained exclusively Russian, he would have been fine.
Obviously, it was a bad arrest, and in violation of all kinds of things, but it was still a bit removed from your claim that the American government will dictate to the world.
I'm really looking forward to RTCW, supposed to be out in January says the guy doing the port.
Don't wait. Multiplayer is more than half the fun of the game, and that's already available. There's lots of Christmas sales right now, go pick it up while they last.
If we're talking about the internet, then "Chinese" is correct, because written characters are the same regardless of whether one speaks Mandarin, Cantonese, or even, largely, Japanese.
Owning a copyright is different from owning a product. It is quite correct for me to say that I own a copy of Tom Clancy's _The Bear and the Dragon_ even though I do not own the copyright to said work.
You are correct, owning a copyright gives you more rights to that work than the GPL, but you can own something without owning the relevant copyright.
the GPL is MORE permissive than first sale doctrine. So if you DID own a copy of linux, instead of licensing it, your rights would be reduced.
Or how about getting them to voluntarily pay?
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Introduce a price per download. Sort of reverse royalties. Mandatory payments only make sense when there is no way to exclude people from the benefits. For example, milk ads benefit all milk producers, so whether, say Berkeley Farms chips in, Berkeley Farms milk will still sell better due to advertising. In the case of ad critic on the other hand, if McDonalds doesn't pay for their ads being downloaded, ad critic will not offer McDonalds ads. Simple enough.
Actually, they are nearly identical. Even chimps have some 99.7% identical DNA. "And flipping a bit in an exec will amost never do any good." That was my point! It will usually be bad, occasionally catastrophic, and only very rarely beneficial. That's why most species have a very high death rate.
Now then, if only some 1% of the population dies before sexual maturity, then darwinism will not occur. The mutation rate is probably higher than that.
If anything is producing evolution in industrialized nations, it's probably a combination of genetic drift (for the worse, because most mutations are harmful, think flipping a random bit in an executable) and who reproduces the most. So, in a million years' time, we'll probably all be moronic Catholics.
Two Soviet tank commanders meet in Paris. The first one asks "so, who won the air war?"
What "light side of the moon?"
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The term "dark side of the moon" refers to the side pointed AWAY FROM THE EARTH, and has nothing to do with whether or not the sun is pointing at it. The moon has a normal night/day cycle, lasting 28 days (this is also the length of one transition from full to new moon and back again. This is not a coincidence).
Didn't you ever see/read 2001? The lunar monolith being exposed to sunrise is a critical plot element.
on average, the digit number would be the same length as the actual code. Hence, this would only save space on half the files. If you also sent the end digit, then it would almost never save space.
Presumably an infinite number. Even if only one in a billion random strings of bits compiled, one one billionth of infinity is still infinity. Of course, there's no way to compile an infinite number of programs, so I guess we'll never know for certain (unless someone can come up with a mathematical proof one way or the other).
Looking at an aggregate without any idea of how long they've been posting for (an average of 1 comment a day for 2 years isn't that bad, for example), or what their life is like (perhaps they have a job where they're stuck from 9-5, but have time to post on slashdot), is very misleading.
I too have posted over 700 comments, but on a day to day basis, I spend very little time posting, and most of it is when I'm stuck at work.
Complaints, for the most part, should NEVER be modded down or otherwise edited, as long as they are relevant and supported by hard facts
But they are NEVER relevant. When I am reading a story about the new linux kernel (for example), complaints about moderation have no place. Moderation has no relationship whatsoever to the linux kernel, nor the arrest of Dmitry Skylarov, nor new patents granted to TIVO.
If you want to whine, make your own website, and link to it in your.sig. Offtopic posts and trolls will continue to be moderated as such, whether you think they are imporant subjects of discussion or not.
No offense, but you sound like a whiny bitch who posts complaints and then can't take it when you get modded down as a result. +2 posts should get the benefit of the doubt? Bullshit. Those with +2 have a power. As a result, they must be put in a more vunerable position to prevent abuses of that power.
As long as you keep "speaking out on this topic" (aka, whining), you will probably continue to be modded down.
Thank you for clearing that up! I've heard people argue about this for years, but no one ever had any proof. I'm glad someone put this issue to rest. I'm going to bookmark those links in case it ever comes up again.
Still, wouldn't it be great if we could harness the sexual frustrations of geeks to improve the world's sex lives? The sex industry is always highly experimental, and quick to adopt new technologies (see vhs, popups, multiangle dvds, etc), but unfortunately seem to lack the brainpower for true R&D.
Seriously, with a bit of money and research, modern technology really ought to be able to develop amazing new sex toys. Or for that matter, what about a porno made by the team behind Final Fantasy? That would be obscenely cool.
I guess, when you come right down to it, I just want a holodeck, with "the safeties off," if you know what I mean...
The approximate quote went something like "I actually really like the quickies too, but they take a lot of work. You need at least a half dozen links, and people just don't send in many interesting, small things for me to use. So send in more quickies, and I'll post them more often." I think it was in a Geeks in Space episode (which are highly entertaining, I listened to most of them while playing Half-life).
I'm mildly interested, but none of the links seem to have them available. Are these things actually reasonably priced, and has anyone seen them in stock anywhere?
Unfortunately, that kills my wrinkle explanation (unless, of course, time travel makes one look younger). Also, that means that Arnold will have to be a ruthless killer, because John Conner didn't order him not to kill people until T2.
Okay, I think I've spent too long thinking about this.
The death penalty is a freedom issue - the freedom to live is a basic human right
Violent criminals are deprived of their human rights, after convicted in a fair trial. Freedom of speech, freedom of representation, freedom to keep and bear arms (yes, some of us do consider this a freedom), privacy rights, and so forth, are all taken from criminals. Right to live is just another right that may be taken.
America doesn't have human rights (if they did, then they've all been bought by the RIAA.)
Huh? I don't follow you. The DMCA sucks, but saying that means we have no human rights because of it is kind of ridiculous
can you _really_ come up with a use for a knife in london?
Yeah, sure, cutting things. That's what a knife does fer chrissake. How do you cut the tape off of boxes, with a safety pin? A knife has first aid uses, for cutting away clothing. Some people enjoy whittling. Granted, one could just leave a knife everywhere one is liable to be, but I'd rather carry mine with me.
You have Bush as a president (Blair is a looser too but not _that_ much..)
I never thought about that. The whole debate makes a lot more sense now, thanks. America has never tried criminal cases without a jury (except court martial, and that only applies to military personnel), so it makes a lot of sense that America tends to trust the government with capital punishment, whereas Europe doesn't.
Hmm, boomerangs, Foster's, Crocodile Hunter, Mel Gibson, Rupert Murdoch. Could idiocy be Australia's main export? That's a rather clever solution to a problem that plagues all nations.
Why not? After all, it's just a robotic skeleton surrounded by living tissue. If you buy that premise, no reason you can't buy idea that the flesh would age and wrinkle.
Hey, hold on, didn't the good terminator dump himself into the vat of molten metal? Huh, I wonder how they're going to get around that one...
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A question though. Do you know anything about how to go about this, or are you just looking to recruit someone who knows what to do?
Obviously, it was a bad arrest, and in violation of all kinds of things, but it was still a bit removed from your claim that the American government will dictate to the world.
Don't wait. Multiplayer is more than half the fun of the game, and that's already available. There's lots of Christmas sales right now, go pick it up while they last.
If we're talking about the internet, then "Chinese" is correct, because written characters are the same regardless of whether one speaks Mandarin, Cantonese, or even, largely, Japanese.
You are correct, owning a copyright gives you more rights to that work than the GPL, but you can own something without owning the relevant copyright.
the GPL is MORE permissive than first sale doctrine. So if you DID own a copy of linux, instead of licensing it, your rights would be reduced.
Introduce a price per download. Sort of reverse royalties. Mandatory payments only make sense when there is no way to exclude people from the benefits. For example, milk ads benefit all milk producers, so whether, say Berkeley Farms chips in, Berkeley Farms milk will still sell better due to advertising. In the case of ad critic on the other hand, if McDonalds doesn't pay for their ads being downloaded, ad critic will not offer McDonalds ads. Simple enough.
Actually, they are nearly identical. Even chimps have some 99.7% identical DNA. "And flipping a bit in an exec will amost never do any good." That was my point! It will usually be bad, occasionally catastrophic, and only very rarely beneficial. That's why most species have a very high death rate.
If anything is producing evolution in industrialized nations, it's probably a combination of genetic drift (for the worse, because most mutations are harmful, think flipping a random bit in an executable) and who reproduces the most. So, in a million years' time, we'll probably all be moronic Catholics.
Two Soviet tank commanders meet in Paris. The first one asks "so, who won the air war?"
Didn't you ever see/read 2001? The lunar monolith being exposed to sunrise is a critical plot element.
on average, the digit number would be the same length as the actual code. Hence, this would only save space on half the files. If you also sent the end digit, then it would almost never save space.
Presumably an infinite number. Even if only one in a billion random strings of bits compiled, one one billionth of infinity is still infinity. Of course, there's no way to compile an infinite number of programs, so I guess we'll never know for certain (unless someone can come up with a mathematical proof one way or the other).
I too have posted over 700 comments, but on a day to day basis, I spend very little time posting, and most of it is when I'm stuck at work.
But they are NEVER relevant. When I am reading a story about the new linux kernel (for example), complaints about moderation have no place. Moderation has no relationship whatsoever to the linux kernel, nor the arrest of Dmitry Skylarov, nor new patents granted to TIVO.
If you want to whine, make your own website, and link to it in your
As long as you keep "speaking out on this topic" (aka, whining), you will probably continue to be modded down.
Thank you for clearing that up! I've heard people argue about this for years, but no one ever had any proof. I'm glad someone put this issue to rest. I'm going to bookmark those links in case it ever comes up again.
Seriously, with a bit of money and research, modern technology really ought to be able to develop amazing new sex toys. Or for that matter, what about a porno made by the team behind Final Fantasy? That would be obscenely cool.
I guess, when you come right down to it, I just want a holodeck, with "the safeties off," if you know what I mean...
The approximate quote went something like "I actually really like the quickies too, but they take a lot of work. You need at least a half dozen links, and people just don't send in many interesting, small things for me to use. So send in more quickies, and I'll post them more often." I think it was in a Geeks in Space episode (which are highly entertaining, I listened to most of them while playing Half-life).
I'm mildly interested, but none of the links seem to have them available. Are these things actually reasonably priced, and has anyone seen them in stock anywhere?
Okay, I think I've spent too long thinking about this.
Violent criminals are deprived of their human rights, after convicted in a fair trial. Freedom of speech, freedom of representation, freedom to keep and bear arms (yes, some of us do consider this a freedom), privacy rights, and so forth, are all taken from criminals. Right to live is just another right that may be taken.
America doesn't have human rights (if they did, then they've all been bought by the RIAA.)
Huh? I don't follow you. The DMCA sucks, but saying that means we have no human rights because of it is kind of ridiculous
can you _really_ come up with a use for a knife in london?
Yeah, sure, cutting things. That's what a knife does fer chrissake. How do you cut the tape off of boxes, with a safety pin? A knife has first aid uses, for cutting away clothing. Some people enjoy whittling. Granted, one could just leave a knife everywhere one is liable to be, but I'd rather carry mine with me.
You have Bush as a president (Blair is a looser too but not _that_ much..)
Again, not a human freedom issue.
I never thought about that. The whole debate makes a lot more sense now, thanks. America has never tried criminal cases without a jury (except court martial, and that only applies to military personnel), so it makes a lot of sense that America tends to trust the government with capital punishment, whereas Europe doesn't.
Hmm, boomerangs, Foster's, Crocodile Hunter, Mel Gibson, Rupert Murdoch. Could idiocy be Australia's main export? That's a rather clever solution to a problem that plagues all nations.
Hey, hold on, didn't the good terminator dump himself into the vat of molten metal? Huh, I wonder how they're going to get around that one...