One man's tyrant is another mans savior and champion. Our last president was much closer to a tyrant than Obama will ever be, but he's a-okay in many people's books. Obama is a tyrant in your eyes, but to me is nothing but a mediocre person willing to sacrifice principle for mob appeal, while wearing the guise of a liberal populist (he isn't). We must always realize that we are no right (no matter who you are), being that there is no right and wrong in politics, only shades of gray shaped by our individual values. Sure, some people think universal health care is a terrible socialist plot to destroy truth, justice, and the American way of life, but there is an equal number of people who think its a terrible shame that we don't recognize health as an important metric of the worth of our country. Whose right? Both and neither.
For the record, GP never said "Obama is a tyrant".
Wow. Like shooting fish in a barrel. Couldn't you at least LOOK it up before you claim it says "indentured" servitude??? Here's the actual article from the U.S. Constitution - "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
I don't consider copyright infringement a crime (between a citizen and the government). It's a civil matter between two private parties. Fining someone a million dollars is equivalent to enslaving them to RIAA for the rest of their natural lives, and therefore should be unconstitutional.
IANAL. It probably is. But do you have the money to appeal that?
EULAs though aren't usually legally enforceable. In fact, I hope they do include them to be struck down by various courts leading to the elimination of them for software too.
IANAL ... that's a little hopeful. But EULAs in which you can't read before buying and which you cannot refuse are not worth the paper (or whatever) they're printed (or whatever) on.
This is very important, because if Ford* needs to release the information needed to repair the Focus* to the state of Massachusetts, they will basically make it available everywhere in the world where Ford sells this car.
Similar to other US state laws regarding pollution or safe materials, this will affect us worldwide
Or they'll add a state-specific encryption key needed to unlock the computer for repair work. And they'll only release the key for vehicles sold in Massachusetts.
I think you mean "to repair shops located in MA". This would be a business opportunity for repair shops in MA!
1) Submit fake application to get the code 2) Get the code 3) Leak it 4) (IANAL) They can't sue b/c it's legally not a trade secret or anything else 5) ??? 6) Profit!
No. The reason it's a bad analogy is because it misses the key and only crucial point: the fundamental disconnect between "your things" and "cannot take" when the latter is arbitrarily imposed on you by a party that has no legitimate claim on the former. The landlord has no claim on "your things" unless you have breached contract somehow, like not paying rent. Otherwise taking "your things" with you when moving out is an activity not to be questioned at all. A better analogy might be that the mere act of moving in resulted in the landlord claiming "your things" were now "his things" without any justification supported by law or common cultural practice. The Google Data Liberation Group is (belatedly, IMHO) expending energy to rectify a situation that should never have existed in the first place. A laudable effort, to be sure, but one that should not have been necessary.
What if the landlord assisted you in acquiring (legally) the items in question (i.e. Google Docs helps you make documents, you don't make them all on your own, though you contribute all of the actual creativity)? If e.g. he helped pay for them, on the assumption that doing so would raise the rent and help him re-rent it to someone else later (once you're gone/moved-out), then it might be reasonable for him to at least request compensation for the items. Depending on the contract, he might be able to force such compensation. IANAL.
It used to gall me that the Washington Post, a supposedly respectable newspaper, would run page after page of bra and panty ads every day. Now we're getting malware from the NYT. Pretty soon we'll start seeing this crap on respectable sites like/. Now get off my lawn!
* Since I haven't regularly seen ads on most sites in about 5 years, I can only assume those ads (and the people who made them) died the grisly death they deserved.
Firefox has not been around 9 years. More like 5 years under that name, and maybe 2 years before that as Phoenix/Firebird but it wasn't really very good in the early years. Perhaps you might want to install NoScript and Adblocker by default to any machine you may have to clean up.
We don't expect that from the New York Times because they are more professional and you'd think their web staff would be computer savvy enough to avoid giving customers and readers the fake antivirus web popup that actually infects the computer with adware than remove actual malware.
But as usual they contracted the web ad service to contracted companies that usually subcontract it out to others, so it is hard to find the company that submitted the pop-up fake AV scan.
The NYT has hit hard times with a low reader rate in subscriptions, and had to move to an ads based model. They should have done what most liberal web sites do and use Google adsense or something that is text based ads that Google tends to filter out the malware ads. This is something you expect from Fox News, not The New York Times. But then Liberals can be just as careless as Neocons when it comes to earning money from advertising. IIRC Fox News' web site is going towards a paid business model and might end the advertising as all subscribers will be paying customers, unless that business plan fails. Will the New York Times web site follow Fox News in going paid only?
No. Fox is a conservative news source and has relatively few actual competitors, at least in terms of the news market (as opposed to the advertising market). Most people who watch/read Fox are conservatives, and there's only one conservative news source in town. On the other hand, most news sources are liberal, so NYT can't afford to alienate its consumers unless most/all of its competitors do the same.
They actually appear to embed the ad code directly into the page (you can see which campaigns the ads are for; the one that hit me was for Vonyage, near the bottom of the page). In my case, it wrote a weakly obfuscated script that redirected the whole page to sex-and-the-city.cn (... err, yeah) which redirected to protection-check07.
Poor NYT, they now have a special rule in my ad filters.
Probably inserted by some server-side scripting provided by said ad agency.
I hope that there ends up being a way of defining a document such that you can just freaking open it later regardless of what software you decide to migrate to.
That's existed for the longest time^H^H^Ha while now: It's called Unicode.
Eh, I was joking mostly. I really don't know why I got modded insightful, if I were metamodding I would disagree with that. In any case, I actually use MS Office (blasphemy, I know) because I can get it cheap and I actually like 2007.
How do you save OpenDocument stuff? The built in support is technically compliant but fails miserably at interoperating with any other implementation.
Problem is: LyX (the good LaTeX editor) lacks any layouting capabilities. You can't visually design the basic classes (document, paragraph, text, etc). That is a no-go for me, because I don't want to learn yet another layouting language, no matter how good it is. (I don't want to learn any of those, but unfortunately I already know one.)
What I really really wonder is, why everybody creates this false dichotomy of "text/console = keyboard controlled" and "graphics/GUI = mouse controlled". I meant just give me a visual layout designer that you type into like you would write code or in VI, but that renders everything graphically.
Example input: "NbLsfancy\ncvchw50%h25%IHello\nS" (where \n = <Enter>) Resulting instructions executed: New { box (and put cursor on it) }, layout mode { inherit style from class "fancy", center vertically, center horizontally, width 50%, height 25% }, input mode { insert "Hello" }, save file It's not hard to code something like this. It's extremely fast, to work with it. And with a list of possible commands in a given state always visible, the key highlighted, auto-completion, context-help and update of that on every key press (basically like in a good code editor), it's also very intuitive.
Unfortunately, there are too many weird people who like Emacs.
[...] far more complex data is encoded in standardized formats [...] sound, still images, vector graphics, even video [...]
Text is far more complicated than any of these, with vector graphics being the most complicated left, IMHO. Sound, raster graphics, and video are just arrays with a fixed data type. There are other data fields, of course, but they are vastly less important. A rich text document, on the other hand, may have to deal with concepts like page layout, paragraph options, text options, text positioning, hierarchical styling, embedded objects, and everyone's favorite embedded scripts. That's why all off their files look like two or more markup languages are colliding in a spectacular explosion. That is if you are lucky and they are not, on top of all that, compressed binaries.
Embedded scripts should be nixed for the security concerns alone. If you need to send someone a script, send them a script, not an MS Word document.
perhaps, but if it was 'accidentally' destroyed in the struggle to arrest you, it's a much greyer area me thinks. We're not talking about goody twoshoe cops here.
All I'm saying is there are laws and there is the reality on the street when stuff goes down. They don't match up 1:1.
...and if the court doesn't believe whatever bullshit excuse the cop makes up, he's out of a job. Would he really take that risk when it's much easier for him to just not beat you just this one time because you have a camcorder?
ObTopic:Wiretapping by FBI/etc. is one thing. Wiretapping by private citizens is quite another. The FBI is employed by the people (like the cop is) and thus must obey the constitution. The legality of private wiretapping is a complex issue and it looks like the blanket laws in place in whichever twelve states it happens to be are too restrictive/simplistic.
What happened was this: 1)Tripp gives tapes to FEDERAL government in exchange for "immunity" 2)By the Fifth Amendment, that evidence is inadmissible in STATE court (or at least, that's what Wikipedia is trying to say).
Linux - The Pre is a little linux box. I can download a terminal app, then type in things like, "sudo apt-get" etc... How awesome is that? It means I come much closer to really owning this device than I would with an iPhone.
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An hypothesis is disproved through a variety of criteria in order to eliminate any potentially overlooked causal relationships.
And we've ruled out experimentation? We really can't use "When I did X, Y happened" as part of the criteria?
No, but you do need to do said experiment a large number of times.
One man's tyrant is another mans savior and champion. Our last president was much closer to a tyrant than Obama will ever be, but he's a-okay in many people's books. Obama is a tyrant in your eyes, but to me is nothing but a mediocre person willing to sacrifice principle for mob appeal, while wearing the guise of a liberal populist (he isn't). We must always realize that we are no right (no matter who you are), being that there is no right and wrong in politics, only shades of gray shaped by our individual values. Sure, some people think universal health care is a terrible socialist plot to destroy truth, justice, and the American way of life, but there is an equal number of people who think its a terrible shame that we don't recognize health as an important metric of the worth of our country. Whose right? Both and neither.
For the record, GP never said "Obama is a tyrant".
Wow. Like shooting fish in a barrel. Couldn't you at least LOOK it up before you claim it says "indentured" servitude??? Here's the actual article from the U.S. Constitution - "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
I don't consider copyright infringement a crime (between a citizen and the government). It's a civil matter between two private parties. Fining someone a million dollars is equivalent to enslaving them to RIAA for the rest of their natural lives, and therefore should be unconstitutional.
IANAL. It probably is. But do you have the money to appeal that?
Very well said! This post deserves a score higher! Yes it's language, it's human, and it's not logical :-)
Does "it" refer to the GP, English, or both?
No results for CHEESE... Is this close enough?
EULAs though aren't usually legally enforceable. In fact, I hope they do include them to be struck down by various courts leading to the elimination of them for software too.
IANAL
... that's a little hopeful. But EULAs in which you can't read before buying and which you cannot refuse are not worth the paper (or whatever) they're printed (or whatever) on.
Or they'll add a state-specific encryption key needed to unlock the computer for repair work. And they'll only release the key for vehicles sold in Massachusetts.
I think you mean "to repair shops located in MA". This would be a business opportunity for repair shops in MA!
1) Submit fake application to get the code
2) Get the code
3) Leak it
4) (IANAL) They can't sue b/c it's legally not a trade secret or anything else
5) ???
6) Profit!
Said chemical is especially dangerous in combination with Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO).
No. The reason it's a bad analogy is because it misses the key and only crucial point: the fundamental disconnect between "your things" and "cannot take" when the latter is arbitrarily imposed on you by a party that has no legitimate claim on the former. The landlord has no claim on "your things" unless you have breached contract somehow, like not paying rent. Otherwise taking "your things" with you when moving out is an activity not to be questioned at all. A better analogy might be that the mere act of moving in resulted in the landlord claiming "your things" were now "his things" without any justification supported by law or common cultural practice. The Google Data Liberation Group is (belatedly, IMHO) expending energy to rectify a situation that should never have existed in the first place. A laudable effort, to be sure, but one that should not have been necessary.
What if the landlord assisted you in acquiring (legally) the items in question (i.e. Google Docs helps you make documents, you don't make them all on your own, though you contribute all of the actual creativity)? If e.g. he helped pay for them, on the assumption that doing so would raise the rent and help him re-rent it to someone else later (once you're gone/moved-out), then it might be reasonable for him to at least request compensation for the items. Depending on the contract, he might be able to force such compensation. IANAL.
Isn't it sad how the parent misspelled the wrong goatse URL (it's .fr now)?
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It used to gall me that the Washington Post, a supposedly respectable newspaper, would run page after page of bra and panty ads every day. Now we're getting malware from the NYT. Pretty soon we'll start seeing this crap on respectable sites like /. Now get off my lawn!
* Since I haven't regularly seen ads on most sites in about 5 years, I can only assume those ads (and the people who made them) died the grisly death they deserved.
There, fixed that for you.
If you do fix it, they may want it (see link by 1st AC child of OP). Comma is intentionally wrong.
Would that be this one? That's pretty darned old. Reminds me a bit of the title text display bug that used to hit XKCD et al.
link is highly germane to the discussion
Firefox has not been around 9 years. More like 5 years under that name, and maybe 2 years before that as Phoenix/Firebird but it wasn't really very good in the early years. Perhaps you might want to install NoScript and Adblocker by default to any machine you may have to clean up.
It's called "Mozilla Suite".
We don't expect that from the New York Times because they are more professional and you'd think their web staff would be computer savvy enough to avoid giving customers and readers the fake antivirus web popup that actually infects the computer with adware than remove actual malware.
But as usual they contracted the web ad service to contracted companies that usually subcontract it out to others, so it is hard to find the company that submitted the pop-up fake AV scan.
The NYT has hit hard times with a low reader rate in subscriptions, and had to move to an ads based model. They should have done what most liberal web sites do and use Google adsense or something that is text based ads that Google tends to filter out the malware ads. This is something you expect from Fox News, not The New York Times. But then Liberals can be just as careless as Neocons when it comes to earning money from advertising. IIRC Fox News' web site is going towards a paid business model and might end the advertising as all subscribers will be paying customers, unless that business plan fails. Will the New York Times web site follow Fox News in going paid only?
No. Fox is a conservative news source and has relatively few actual competitors, at least in terms of the news market (as opposed to the advertising market). Most people who watch/read Fox are conservatives, and there's only one conservative news source in town. On the other hand, most news sources are liberal, so NYT can't afford to alienate its consumers unless most/all of its competitors do the same.
They actually appear to embed the ad code directly into the page (you can see which campaigns the ads are for; the one that hit me was for Vonyage, near the bottom of the page). In my case, it wrote a weakly obfuscated script that redirected the whole page to sex-and-the-city.cn (... err, yeah) which redirected to protection-check07.
Poor NYT, they now have a special rule in my ad filters.
Probably inserted by some server-side scripting provided by said ad agency.
I hope that there ends up being a way of defining a document such that you can just freaking open it later regardless of what software you decide to migrate to.
That's existed for the longest time^H^H^Ha while now: It's called Unicode.
Eh, I was joking mostly. I really don't know why I got modded insightful, if I were metamodding I would disagree with that. In any case, I actually use MS Office (blasphemy, I know) because I can get it cheap and I actually like 2007.
How do you save OpenDocument stuff? The built in support is technically compliant but fails miserably at interoperating with any other implementation.
Problem is: LyX (the good LaTeX editor) lacks any layouting capabilities. You can't visually design the basic classes (document, paragraph, text, etc). That is a no-go for me, because I don't want to learn yet another layouting language, no matter how good it is. (I don't want to learn any of those, but unfortunately I already know one.)
What I really really wonder is, why everybody creates this false dichotomy of "text/console = keyboard controlled" and "graphics/GUI = mouse controlled".
I meant just give me a visual layout designer that you type into like you would write code or in VI, but that renders everything graphically.
Example input: "NbLsfancy\ncvchw50%h25%IHello\nS" (where \n = <Enter>)
Resulting instructions executed: New { box (and put cursor on it) }, layout mode { inherit style from class "fancy", center vertically, center horizontally, width 50%, height 25% }, input mode { insert "Hello" }, save file
It's not hard to code something like this. It's extremely fast, to work with it. And with a list of possible commands in a given state always visible, the key highlighted, auto-completion, context-help and update of that on every key press (basically like in a good code editor), it's also very intuitive.
Unfortunately, there are too many weird people who like Emacs.
[...] far more complex data is encoded in standardized formats [...] sound, still images, vector graphics, even video [...]
Text is far more complicated than any of these, with vector graphics being the most complicated left, IMHO. Sound, raster graphics, and video are
just arrays with a fixed data type. There are other data fields, of course, but they are vastly less important. A rich text document, on the other hand,
may have to deal with concepts like page layout, paragraph options, text options, text positioning, hierarchical styling, embedded objects, and everyone's favorite embedded scripts. That's why all off their files look like two or more markup languages are colliding in a spectacular explosion. That is if you are lucky and they are not, on top of all that, compressed binaries.
Embedded scripts should be nixed for the security concerns alone. If you need to send someone a script, send them a script, not an MS Word document.
Funny, I looked through the source for this "proprietary" UI, and I couldn't find it - everything is covered by the GPLv2.
Just because it's not X11, doesn't mean it's proprietary.
My best guess: GP meant "nonstandard".
perhaps, but if it was 'accidentally' destroyed in the struggle to arrest you, it's a much greyer area me thinks. We're not talking about goody twoshoe cops here.
All I'm saying is there are laws and there is the reality on the street when stuff goes down. They don't match up 1:1.
...and if the court doesn't believe whatever bullshit excuse the cop makes up, he's out of a job. Would he really take that risk when it's much easier for him to just not beat you just this one time because you have a camcorder?
ObTopic:Wiretapping by FBI/etc. is one thing. Wiretapping by private citizens is quite another. The FBI is employed by the people (like the cop is) and thus must obey the constitution. The legality of private wiretapping is a complex issue and it looks like the blanket laws in place in whichever twelve states it happens to be are too restrictive/simplistic.
What happened was this:
1)Tripp gives tapes to FEDERAL government in exchange for "immunity"
2)By the Fifth Amendment, that evidence is inadmissible in STATE court (or at least, that's what Wikipedia is trying to say).
What if the exam software half works, and the only broken part is the "no cheating" part?
Wait, the pre comes rooted?