Just a reality check on the scope here. Is it civil disobedience? Or just selectively ignoring the law?
I usually think of civil disobedience whenever people are willing to risk being beaten, imprisoned, burned at the stake, etc. for cherished religious and political liberties.
Now while there are really important free-speech issues involved in the case, the 'right' to sample music before purchasing doesn't really fall into the same category as what Gandhi and M.L.King were fighting for. I seriously doubt most Napster users are prepared to go to jail over this.
The BBC recently carried this story about polymer muscles for microbots. (Not useful on the macro scale, but still interesting.)
Another quickie: Clinton gave out his passphrase!
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"Clinton first signed the bill on paper, then did his own card-swiping and mouse-clicking, expressing apparent relief when it all worked.He inserted a card encoded with his signature into a computer and entered the code name 'Buddy' -- which happens to be the name of his dog. The presidential signature appeared on the screen. The president grinned."
-- Associated Press, 30-Jun-2000. Emphasis added.
OK, kids, now don't go ordering quad Xeons on the President's credit card...
How would you "patch" the GPL and expect it to apply to past GPLed releases of a piece of code? For example:
I release Goof 0.3 under GPL
Microsoft steals my app and bundles it with Office
FSF and I take them to court, but we lose
I attempt to release Goof 0.3.5 under GPL++
As I see it, I still wouldn't be able to claim any damages from the theft of the old code. What's worse, couldn't they turn around and accuse me of violating their intellectual property rights, using code that was now part of MS Office?
When all the dust settles, operating systems that run Win32 apps will be a commodity anybody can build
I'd take it farther than that. Win32 will be the next Java: a pseudo-ubiquitous application environment sitting on top of the native operating system, with its specifications controlled by a single company.
"We got tired of waiting for the Wine project to implement the Windows 5.5 APIs so we did it ourselves, but support on BeOS is kind of dodgy..." It would be really ironic if IBM became the leading supplier of Windows-compliant open-source operating systems.
If there was some way to delete the recordings after downloading them, you could have an auxilliary storage device nearby and do continuous video (instead of just 20 minutes).
Yeah, they probably implement this with the HTTP DELETE command. sure.
I primarily use IDEs because of not having a proper file structure for my own projects. If someone has their source code organized properly then the command-line tools aren't too bad.
The one feature I miss the most is the ability to edit multiple files simultaneously. (Yeah, I'm a wimp using pico.) That's usually when I end up with gnotepad (such as it is).
An' if you buy stuff on eBay the prices are even more inflated. Case in point: the Gumby tribute album. Go ahead and laugh, but somebody paid $26 US for it... this is a hunk of plasticine we're talking about.:-)
Capitalism at work. Reduced speed - double fine zone.
The Sony licensees paid a lot of money to get their hands on the developer kits, but they claim there are no (?) libraries available for such things as multiprocessor programming.
What are the odds that one of the developers will open-source their libraries under GPL or something? LOL
I recently took an Oracle-run training class from a very bright teacher (Hi Anton!) who takes every opportunity to talk to the developers in person during conventions, and grill them for information about Oracle's design decisions and such.
He says that now when they see him, they turn and run.:-)
Isn't that how it works though? The EULA forces you to If you won't agree to the restrictions, you are violating the license, just as signing a non-disclosure agreement removes some of your "freedom of speech" because you can't talk or write about what you've learned.
Nobody ever said intellectual property law had to make intuitive sense.;-)
Unfortunately, the domain registry for.us is not very useful. To get a domain, you have to track down the registrar for the locality and hope that your fully-qualified domain name works out to fewer than 26 characters because it won't resolve properly beyond that.
Slashdot would become something like www.slashdot.acton.ma.us, which is pretty unwieldy for a commercial domain.
Last time I checked, the nameserver for my town didn't even exist anymore.:-/
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong. I'd love to be wrong about this because I agree, US-specific stuff should be localized, but.us is pointless for commercial sites.
Does this mean that XFree86 4.0 didn't make it into the new RedHat release? Darn. (I got 4.0 to build, but xfs doesn't work anymore, and I'm too lazy to figure out what I did wrong.)
... which of course I can't view on my Linux box because WMP for Unix has been discontinued. (Another reason why Microsoft wanted to invest with NBC?:-)
Well yes, let's hope that the users of a dangerous technology are intelligent enough to handle it.
Usually they have to be trained and licensed (such as airline pilots) but other times, access to the technology is governed by how rich a person is, or whether they're in the military in a foreign country (giving rocket launchers to teenage kids), or whether the person is an idiot who was hired by an incompetent manager.
Anyway, the average IQ might be high to start with, and might even remain high, but it will nonetheless go relatively lower over time. So it's still a concern.
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Just a reality check on the scope here. Is it civil disobedience? Or just selectively ignoring the law?
I usually think of civil disobedience whenever people are willing to risk being beaten, imprisoned, burned at the stake, etc. for cherished religious and political liberties.
Now while there are really important free-speech issues involved in the case, the 'right' to sample music before purchasing doesn't really fall into the same category as what Gandhi and M.L.King were fighting for. I seriously doubt most Napster users are prepared to go to jail over this.
How long before we see robots driving taxis a la Total Recall?
Or taxis running over robots? Has that been done already?
The BBC recently carried this story about polymer muscles for microbots. (Not useful on the macro scale, but still interesting.)
"Clinton first signed the bill on paper, then did his own card-swiping and mouse-clicking, expressing apparent relief when it all worked.He inserted a card encoded with his signature into a computer and entered the code name 'Buddy' -- which happens to be the name of his dog. The presidential signature appeared on the screen. The president grinned."
-- Associated Press, 30-Jun-2000. Emphasis added.
OK, kids, now don't go ordering quad Xeons on the President's credit card ...
Okay, I wasn't using my brain. I'm glad I'm not a lawyer. (Those guys must have some really boring dreams ... mixed in with some really nasty ones.)
How would you "patch" the GPL and expect it to apply to past GPLed releases of a piece of code? For example:
As I see it, I still wouldn't be able to claim any damages from the theft of the old code. What's worse, couldn't they turn around and accuse me of violating their intellectual property rights, using code that was now part of MS Office?
Just a thought.
You easily could have found this link at ask.com, for want of a better source.
Personally I like having the fans on, because I don't have to buy a white-noise generator. :)
As John Lithgow said (and Robert Redford said better): Too many secrets.
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When all the dust settles, operating systems that run Win32 apps will be a commodity anybody can build
I'd take it farther than that. Win32 will be the next Java: a pseudo-ubiquitous application environment sitting on top of the native operating system, with its specifications controlled by a single company.
"We got tired of waiting for the Wine project to implement the Windows 5.5 APIs so we did it ourselves, but support on BeOS is kind of dodgy..." It would be really ironic if IBM became the leading supplier of Windows-compliant open-source operating systems.
If there was some way to delete the recordings after downloading them, you could have an auxilliary storage device nearby and do continuous video (instead of just 20 minutes).
Yeah, they probably implement this with the HTTP DELETE command. sure.
I primarily use IDEs because of not having a proper file structure for my own projects. If someone has their source code organized properly then the command-line tools aren't too bad.
The one feature I miss the most is the ability to edit multiple files simultaneously. (Yeah, I'm a wimp using pico.) That's usually when I end up with gnotepad (such as it is).
No, because it'll take forever for them to find a translator ...
...
I guess
An' if you buy stuff on eBay the prices are even more inflated. Case in point: the Gumby tribute album. Go ahead and laugh, but somebody paid $26 US for it ... this is a hunk of plasticine we're talking about. :-)
Capitalism at work. Reduced speed - double fine zone.
The Sony licensees paid a lot of money to get their hands on the developer kits, but they claim there are no (?) libraries available for such things as multiprocessor programming.
What are the odds that one of the developers will open-source their libraries under GPL or something? LOL
we usually get late, sub-standard transfers with chuff-all extras.
Um, what does 'chuff-all' mean? ...
I recently took an Oracle-run training class from a very bright teacher (Hi Anton!) who takes every opportunity to talk to the developers in person during conventions, and grill them for information about Oracle's design decisions and such.
:-)
He says that now when they see him, they turn and run.
Isn't that how it works though? The EULA forces you to If you won't agree to the restrictions, you are violating the license, just as signing a non-disclosure agreement removes some of your "freedom of speech" because you can't talk or write about what you've learned.
;-)
Nobody ever said intellectual property law had to make intuitive sense.
Unfortunately, the domain registry for .us is not very useful. To get a domain, you have to track down the registrar for the locality and hope that your fully-qualified domain name works out to fewer than 26 characters because it won't resolve properly beyond that.
:-/
.us is pointless for commercial sites.
Slashdot would become something like www.slashdot.acton.ma.us, which is pretty unwieldy for a commercial domain.
Last time I checked, the nameserver for my town didn't even exist anymore.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong. I'd love to be wrong about this because I agree, US-specific stuff should be localized, but
> With a defined way to get into the "peer group"
:)
Here we're back to that same issue again, of how do you earn the right to be trusted? There's no karma system at Mozilla.
Sorry, I meant that MY actions confirmed e7's Law. I did NOT intend any slight against RedHat.
Does this mean that XFree86 4.0 didn't make it into the new RedHat release? Darn. (I got 4.0 to build, but xfs doesn't work anymore, and I'm too lazy to figure out what I did wrong.)
(Which, btw, just confirms my sig. LOL)
... which of course I can't view on my Linux box because WMP for Unix has been discontinued. (Another reason why Microsoft wanted to invest with NBC? :-)
Well yes, let's hope that the users of a dangerous technology are intelligent enough to handle it.
Usually they have to be trained and licensed (such as airline pilots) but other times, access to the technology is governed by how rich a person is, or whether they're in the military in a foreign country (giving rocket launchers to teenage kids), or whether the person is an idiot who was hired by an incompetent manager.
Anyway, the average IQ might be high to start with, and might even remain high, but it will nonetheless go relatively lower over time. So it's still a concern.