I did a quick traceroute to france.linuxone.net (to see if I could guess where their server was, geographically).
It started with this:
bash-2.03$ traceroute france.linuxone.net
traceroute to ram.linuxopen.com (216.101.248.93)
("ram.linuxopen.com?" The whois entry for this says it's registered to LinuxOne, inc. - are they planning to change their name to confuse people?)
It [the traceroute] ended with this:
12 core4-g2-0.snfc21.pbi.net (209.232.130.77) 39.969 ms 38.057 ms 37.433 ms
13 rback3-fe2-0.snfc21.pbi.net (206.171.134.134) 41.637 ms 49.016 ms 50.158 ms
14 * adsl-216-101-248-93.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (216.101.248.93) 2559.41 ms 2972.05 ms
Is "snfc21" in San Francisco?
(Or does pacbell.net have adsl available somehwere in France?)
I was also under the vague impression (I could be wrong about this) that pacbell's Terms of Service for their adsl lines involved not running servers...Is LinuxOne busted? (That'd be pretty funny, after the hassle they gave the reporter about his Yahoo account Terms of Service...)
Well, I thought it was kind of funny, anyway... A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
This sounds like the missile will break up once the outer shell has been weakened.
As far as I know, that's ALWAYS how it works. I believe "anti-missile missiles" work similarly - they fly up "close enough" to the target missile and explode, which damages the target missile enough to make it fall apart (probably an oversimplification, but you get the idea).
What else are you going to do? Deploy giant catcher's mitts and hope you can stop the missile unharmed?
I don't really see how spraying anthrax or plutonium across the countryside is really an acceptable solution.
Well...it's not, really. But like I said - what else can you do? I suspect it's preferable to having the missile actually reach its intended target and go off...
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
...they built the important stuff on Linux...but the video is "windows media only". Does this mean drivers won't be able to see the ads for their own car as they drive around?
P.S. I have to agree with the "hideous" side of the argument - this car seems to have all of the BAD aspects of 50's retro mixed with the bad aspects of modern "extruded"-looking cars...
But, obviously, that's just my opinion. A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
I agree, but let's have some minimal amount of information. The story in question does not provide useful information about the image quality, sound quality, useful range, etc. I do not know if it is manual focus, fixed focus, or auto-focus. I don't know if I can mount it on a tripod or whether I just have to set it on the dresser when using it.;)
While I tend to agree that the average content-per-story ratio does seem to have slipped somewhat lately, it looks (at a glance) like much of the information you mention is here...it's just in the postings from people who have used/seen the camera rather than the "story" itself.
While one can therefore argue that the Powers That Be® of Slashdot are getting lazy and letting the posters do their work for them, pretty much all of the stories do become reasonably informative, once The Slashdot Community® gets to work posting on them (and filtering out the trolls, etc...)
Now, if we could get some of the moderators to not be quite so quick with the "troll" lables (the proportion of what, to me, seem like unreasonable "troll" or "flamebait" or "offtopic" ratings on relevant postings seems a bit high lately...so expect to see this post marked "offtopic" or something any minute now...) we'd be doing pretty good.... A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
Next they'll start using stegonography to hide their evil bills in otherwise innocent legalese. Oh wait, that would be illegal, wouldn't it.
Say, any chance we could get a judge to agree that "hiding unrelated messages [laws] in the text of a bill" is a form of steganography, and therefore a form of encryption...and get our overpaid legislators flung in prison for violating their own bill?
Hey, I can dream, can't I?
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
With a simple authorization by a professor or some other administrator, a student could be given full unrestrained access for academic studies. Its not as if censorware would render the internet useless. It would simply be protecting our greatest national resource.
This attitude, quite frankly, scares me.
There seem to be a lot of laws these days that apply to large chunks of the populace, but aren't intended to actually be enforced...except when the Powers That Be® feel like it. "We can just suspend the law if we really think we need to" just doesn't make good policy.
There's more at stake here than a need to Protect The Children® from naked people. The ability of students, still learning to form "informed opinions", need to be able to see more than the narrow (and sometimes bizarre) collection of sites allowed by a censorware filter. Political sites (yes, including those of a non-extreme nature) seem to be a regular thing showing up in the block lists. Our political structure in the USA is already messed up enough - I'd really rather there be at least a chance that future voters will be able to get enough information to make good decisions, even if they aren't wealthy enough to have their own private internet hookups.
Bear in mind, also, that the implication here is that libraries will have to go out and spend the money appropriated from us in taxes for commercial censorware, which gives a private organization control over the content viewable in a public organization. Perhaps a "public" peer-reviewed, open, server-based filter wouldn't be so bad, but as far as I know no such option currently exists.
So, to sum up, I think the risk involved in keeping people (especially younger individuals who may not have the experience yet to know when important information is being hidden from them) without private internet connections from seeing things that a private company's corporate agenda doesn't like is a far greater risk than having Little Johnny perhaps see a naked person before one of the library employees walks by and makes him stop...
I am also bothered in general by a bunch of sequestered, overpaid, lawyer-types in a little corner of the country determining what my local library can and can't do, but that's a whole other issue...
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
Does anyone else think 3Dfx's naming conventions are completely stupid?
It's pretty annoying, but not as bad as ATI's
("New ATI Rage Fury Anger Pissed Hate MAX PRO 2000"....)
I actually do think ATI makes good all-around cards (I'm using one of the OEM R128 cards who's specific confusing name I forget right now, and it works just fine), but the names are rather obnoxious in my opinion.
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
So I rip the DVD and transfer it through the network to my desktop. Is that wrong? Legally, yes, but not morally.]
I doubt that's illegal - it sounds like "space shifting" to me - much as making a cassette copy of a CD (or MP3's!) that you legally own to play in your car's cassette (or mp3) player.
I've not actually seen any DivX;) movies yet, but what I've been reading seems to indicate that there IS a loss of quality when you "crunch down" the DVD data for CDs, so I would expect the situation to be analogous to videotape or cassette copying, in legal terms.
At least, until the MPAA/RIAA scrapes together enough money to make a down payment on some more legislators....
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
I think that either this story is in error or is an early "April-Fool's Day" joke.
From "Glassbook's" own FAQ (emphasis added):
What happens to the book when I'm done reading it?
Since you own the e-book, once you have read it you can store in the Library that is included with the Glassbook Reader. In the future, users will be able to loan or give their e-books to others using the Glassbook Plus Reader.
Can I print and copy my e-books?
To protect copyrights, publishers establish their own guidelines for how much of their e-books can be printed and/or copied. This means that these permissions will differ from book to book. For example, some of the free books from the Glassbook Bookstore have no restrictions on copying and printing. For example, a publisher might give consumers the ability to print several pages of a cookbook within a set period of time.
Either there's been a serious mix-up at adobe and/or glassbooks (If any of their books are printable, a public domain work copied from Project Gutenberg ought to be!), or someone's pulling our collective legs. The FAQ implies that giving "your copy" of an e-book to someone else is intended to be allowed (presumably, they're trying to find some way of ensuring that your copy disappears when you give it to someone else). I find it hard (though, sadly, not impossible) to imagine Adobe refusing to allow printing from a public domain work...
Has anyone else downloaded and confirmed this? Unfortunately, as is all-to-often the case, only Windows and Mac users can get an 'e-book' reader, so I can't download it myself and check...you can download the book from here.
If these restrictions are really printed here, it looks like we should be complaining to the publisher ("VolumeOne") more than Glassbooks.
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
That's funny, there seems to be this "trash" thing on my KDE desktop....looks remarkably similar to the windows "recycle bin".
One has to ask how often the home user has to mess with his system's configuration, outside the context of "How do I want the 57 icons on my 'desktop' arranged today?"...
Further, I find that (unless you're always running as root, which I think no self-respecting pre-installed-linux-box seller would set up) it's significantly more difficult to accidentally delete a crucial system file from a linux box than it is from a home Windows box.
I think the problem is less one of "linux is too hard" and more of "linux used to be too hard and we think that it must still be." The comment about the "missing recycle bin" illustrates this - those of us who have been using linux probably didn't notice when that showed up (I know I never use it, and didn't even think about it until it was mentioned here), and those who haven't looked at linux since it's gotten easier-to-use interfaces (e.g. KDE and Gnome) obviously won't have noticed either. It's just an issue of perceptions.
Well, okay, that and a need for easier-to-use install routines for new software - though I hear there are projects underway for that, too.
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
Presuming I get to this before anyone else does...too late!:-) Here's a bit from the whois query...
Registrant:
American Chair & Seating (CHAIR-DOM)
132 R. Washington Street,
Quincy, MA 02169
US
Domain Name: CHAIR.COM A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
So, to sum up the story, a corporation with a bunch of money starts a mass of homogeneous website for "fandom" (note the "little 'f'") to protect them from bullying IP lawyers...and their IP lawyers are now attacking any "fandom" that isn't in the "Fandom.com" club.
To me, this raises a couple of questions:
Are IP lawyers running on 'automatic pilot' everywhere? Do the companies they work for actually realize what their lawyers are doing?
Does this qualify as a "protection" racket? ("You've got a nice fan site there. It'd be a shame if something happened to it. Lawyers sometimes do things, you see...join us. We'll protect you....")
Does anyone really beleive a 50+ year old 'generic' term is really suitable for trademarking???
Is this just a USA thing, or is this sort of "rabid packs of wild lawyers" problem worldwide?
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
The problem, as I see it, is that if Government Inc. is giving you the line, they also have the right to tell you what you can put on it (either in terms or hardware or the types of data), perhaps look at the data any time they want, and, unlike other large corporations, they've got people with guns to enforce their will.
Do we really want the same corporation that gave us the DMCA providing us with our internet access? How long before the lines had to be monitored to "Protect The Children®"?
(I may be wrong about this, but as I recall, the US Post Office has more of a monopoly than some may realize - I believe it's literally illegal to use a private courier [e.g. UPS or Federal Express] for your regular mail! Do we even want to risk any chance of this happening to ISP's?)
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
Here's a bizarre thought. How much power would we get if managed to turn our sewage treatment plants into Microbial
fuel cells?
I don't know if it'd be efficient, but it would be potentially funny.
"And in the news today, the temperature is expected to top 110F tomorrow, and power demand will be at an all time high, so please eat lots of fiber to keep our power plants going!"
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
Summer is when we typically have our "power crunch"
As a fellow Californian (Oh, 'scuze me, I mean "a fellow Californian, Dude"), I've been wondering the same things you are. I know MY power consumption in winter goes down to about 1/3 of what it was in the summer (and that's just to keep the apartment down to around 80F!)
I concur, this sounds "manufactured" to me, as well.
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
To make things worse, I'm under the impression that if we wanted to help out by generating our own power and putting our surplus on "the grid" for others to use, we either have to pay excessive amounts of money to jump through various procedural hoops, or are completely forbidden to do it.
"Home Power" magazine (they also put their current issues online in.pdf format) has a series of "guerilla solar" articles about people "sneaking" power they've produced onto the grid, which I find pretty amusing. Maybe enough people "sneaking" "illegal" power back onto the grid might help (and reduce reliance on ponderous corporations and governmental regulations to keep us powered.)
My god, did I just mix "Green"-style "Renewable Energy" and "Down with Giant Corporations" rhetoric with "Libertarian"-style "I should be able to get [power] wherever and want and sell it to whoever wants it" and "If I want to be self-sufficient it's my business"? Shouldn't "Green" and "Libertarian" rhetoric cancel each other out in a giant explosion or something?...
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
people who don't live in cities are all anti-social? rubbish. ever heard of telecommuting?
I make no such claim...the question was, how does society benefit from paying to give a wire to people out in the 'boonies'? (The telecommuting question just emphasizes my question - Would someone who is telecommuting move to a place with no phone lines? And if they were foolish enough to do so, how do we benefit by paying to give him, her, or it phone lines anyway?)
I also like being able to go (nearly) anywhere and hookup a modem and/or make a phone call...but again, this is off the point of "how does society benefit from paying for someone else's access to phone lines?" Obviously I think society benefits from being able to hear my voice from all over the world, but does society necessarily agree?:-)
While the "people I think are useless" comment was, also, way off the mark (whether or not someone is 'useless' in anyone's opinion isn't really relevant to this), your point regarding "paving the way for growth" does make good sense, and I must applaud the fact that you (unlike too many people) actually used the word "diversity" in a social context to mean "diversity of viewpoint" (or so I interpret it, anyway)
Of course, the followup question is does society benefit enough, and (as another poster mentioned) will poking phone lines into isolated communities 'ruin' or homogenize them?
(I've no idea why I'm suddenly so curious about these issues, but they are interesting, I think.)
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
Re:A browser story,and nobody mentioned konqueror
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Ah, I was wondering if somebody'd get around to comparing Konqueror with it...
Having to occasionally deal with pages with gigantic (not necessarily even nested) tables which takes Netscape forever to put on the screen, I've been very impressed by Konqueror's ability to render the tables on the screen as the data comes in rather than making me wait a minute or two before putting the whole thing on the screen in one mass like Netscape does.
Javascript support seems to be still a little bit lacking (I do mean "a little bit" - Lately I only occasionally run into limitations e.g. theonion.com has some "javascript:onion_pop(URL)" links, which Konqueror still doesn't support...
Oh, and it looks like the "won't let go of URL" bug may not be COMPLETELY gone, but I've only run into it once so far in the last day of heavy use, so it no longer seems to be an issue most of the time. I'm now able to use it for about 90-95% of my browsing.
To get back on the official topic, though - I'd still like to try Mozilla again, but I'm waiting for a relatively easy-to-build "browser only" version. I've no interest at all in a gigantic "do-everything" application. (Anybody know if there is already a 'just the browser' version available with more reasonable resource requirements?)
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
abandoning the commitment to universal service would be a great loss to society.
This comment, in my opinion, is a little bit excessive. At the risk of sounding a bit callous, I have to ask (honest question, now, no flamebait intended):
If Joe Q. Example decides to live out in the middle of the Nevada desert where there are no utilities, how, exactly, does society benefit by paying to give him a phone hookup? Does someone antisocial enough to want to live far, far away from society in general really benefit that society by having a phone connection to it?
I realize that's a bit of an extreme example, but at least it illustrates the point. Comments? Clarifications? "Shut the heck up you idiot"'s?:-)
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
And where does this power come from? In many cases (I won't go so far as to say all cases) it comes from Government, Inc. The DMCA is an obvious example.
Government regulation of things like power and cable TV also seems to always mean a Government granted monopoly, leaving one company exclusive access to a bunch of consumers to pull money from, until they are wealthy enough to bully small competitors, even if their official monopoly is repealed.
Unfortunately, since this [the monopoly-caused imbalance of power] has already happened, getting Government inc. out of businesses they shouldn't have meddled with in the first place without leaving a nasty power imbalance between the former monopoly and the small potential competitors is going to be really tricky business...
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
I haven't had much time to mess with it, as I just got kdebase-2.0.1 compiled, but I can say I haven't had any problems for the last 1/2 hour or so...
I'm hoping the annoying "won't let go of a previous URL no matter what you type in" bug is gone, and I'm hoping there's a bit more javascript support (the only two complaints I've had with it since the the later beta versions and on). I notice it still doesn't seem to support "javascript:" URLs.
I now use Konqueror for nearly all of my browsing. I generally only switch back to Netscape 4.76 when I need support for a javascript feature that's not supported in kjs (and/or khtml?) or when Konqueror wouldn't let me go to the page I wanted (due to the aforementioned "won't let go of URL" bug which I suspect is probably fixed in 2.0.1).
Other than that, in regards to KDE2 as a whole, the only other real complaint I have is that I can't get kmultimedia to compile properly from source. (Specifically, kmidi throws up a bunch of errors [e.g. "playlist.cpp:49: conflicting types for `class KApplication * thisapp' "] and dies. everything else seems to compile okay...though lately I've been getting "bad MD5 cookie" errors trying to run Kaiman on one of my systems, and I don't know why....)
Ah, the joys of compiling everything myself. Since it won't compile of my machines that I've tried it on recently, but I haven't seen anyone else complaining about it, I figure it's something I've done with my setup, and therefore not really a KDE2 problem anyway.
Does anyone know of a good place to see what aspects of the DOM and which javascript functions have been implemented so far? I haven't noticed anything in the "CHANGELOG" files...
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
These tools need to be improved so that they can run Windows applications flawlessly.
I don't know, to me asking for Linux to be a Windows software platform is like asking for a VTOL jet with four-wheel drive....
On the other hand, I suspect that deep down it isn't "Windows Applications", specifically, that you 'need' and want, but rather applications that do the same thing at least as well, and in a similar manner to and compatible with the Windows versions (especially, to be blunt,games and easier-to-set-up hardware accelerated 3D, and more support for the media formats (e.g. 'WMF') that Microsoft is force-feeding everyone through their present control of the market [in my opinion]). This I can certainly agree with.
Widely available good replacements for proprietary formats will hopefully become more common. I can't afford 'flash' authoring utilities (and I don't think they're available for Linux anyway), but would love to see some progress with the '.mng over.ogg' concept that someone mentioned some time back, for example.
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't know... "Use this stick to poke a hole in this piece of paper" doesn't seem all that "technical" to me...
Functionally, it's pretty much the same as "fill in the appropriate circle with a #2 pencil" in complexity, in my opinion.
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
I did a quick traceroute to france.linuxone.net (to see if I could guess where their server was, geographically).
It started with this:
bash-2.03$ traceroute france.linuxone.nettraceroute to ram.linuxopen.com (216.101.248.93)
("ram.linuxopen.com?" The whois entry for this says it's registered to LinuxOne, inc. - are they planning to change their name to confuse people?) It [the traceroute] ended with this:
12 core4-g2-0.snfc21.pbi.net (209.232.130.77) 39.969 ms 38.057 ms 37.433 ms
13 rback3-fe2-0.snfc21.pbi.net (206.171.134.134) 41.637 ms 49.016 ms 50.158 ms
14 * adsl-216-101-248-93.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (216.101.248.93) 2559.41 ms 2972.05 ms
Is "snfc21" in San Francisco?
(Or does pacbell.net have adsl available somehwere in France?)
I was also under the vague impression (I could be wrong about this) that pacbell's Terms of Service for their adsl lines involved not running servers...Is LinuxOne busted? (That'd be pretty funny, after the hassle they gave the reporter about his Yahoo account Terms of Service...)
Well, I thought it was kind of funny, anyway...
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
As far as I know, that's ALWAYS how it works. I believe "anti-missile missiles" work similarly - they fly up "close enough" to the target missile and explode, which damages the target missile enough to make it fall apart (probably an oversimplification, but you get the idea).
What else are you going to do? Deploy giant catcher's mitts and hope you can stop the missile unharmed?
I don't really see how spraying anthrax or plutonium across the countryside is really an acceptable solution.
Well...it's not, really. But like I said - what else can you do? I suspect it's preferable to having the missile actually reach its intended target and go off...
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
...Our new voting software is coming to us from the makers of "Edlin"?....
That does it, I'm changing my name to Illegal Operation. See you in the White House!
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
...they built the important stuff on Linux...but the video is "windows media only". Does this mean drivers won't be able to see the ads for their own car as they drive around? P.S. I have to agree with the "hideous" side of the argument - this car seems to have all of the BAD aspects of 50's retro mixed with the bad aspects of modern "extruded"-looking cars... But, obviously, that's just my opinion.
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
While I tend to agree that the average content-per-story ratio does seem to have slipped somewhat lately, it looks (at a glance) like much of the information you mention is here...it's just in the postings from people who have used/seen the camera rather than the "story" itself.
While one can therefore argue that the Powers That Be® of Slashdot are getting lazy and letting the posters do their work for them, pretty much all of the stories do become reasonably informative, once The Slashdot Community® gets to work posting on them (and filtering out the trolls, etc...)
Now, if we could get some of the moderators to not be quite so quick with the "troll" lables (the proportion of what, to me, seem like unreasonable "troll" or "flamebait" or "offtopic" ratings on relevant postings seems a bit high lately...so expect to see this post marked "offtopic" or something any minute now...) we'd be doing pretty good....
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
Say, any chance we could get a judge to agree that "hiding unrelated messages [laws] in the text of a bill" is a form of steganography, and therefore a form of encryption...and get our overpaid legislators flung in prison for violating their own bill?
Hey, I can dream, can't I?
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
This attitude, quite frankly, scares me.
There seem to be a lot of laws these days that apply to large chunks of the populace, but aren't intended to actually be enforced...except when the Powers That Be® feel like it. "We can just suspend the law if we really think we need to" just doesn't make good policy.
There's more at stake here than a need to Protect The Children® from naked people. The ability of students, still learning to form "informed opinions", need to be able to see more than the narrow (and sometimes bizarre) collection of sites allowed by a censorware filter. Political sites (yes, including those of a non-extreme nature) seem to be a regular thing showing up in the block lists. Our political structure in the USA is already messed up enough - I'd really rather there be at least a chance that future voters will be able to get enough information to make good decisions, even if they aren't wealthy enough to have their own private internet hookups.
Bear in mind, also, that the implication here is that libraries will have to go out and spend the money appropriated from us in taxes for commercial censorware, which gives a private organization control over the content viewable in a public organization. Perhaps a "public" peer-reviewed, open, server-based filter wouldn't be so bad, but as far as I know no such option currently exists.
So, to sum up, I think the risk involved in keeping people (especially younger individuals who may not have the experience yet to know when important information is being hidden from them) without private internet connections from seeing things that a private company's corporate agenda doesn't like is a far greater risk than having Little Johnny perhaps see a naked person before one of the library employees walks by and makes him stop...
I am also bothered in general by a bunch of sequestered, overpaid, lawyer-types in a little corner of the country determining what my local library can and can't do, but that's a whole other issue...
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
It's pretty annoying, but not as bad as ATI's ("New ATI Rage Fury Anger Pissed Hate MAX PRO 2000"....)
I actually do think ATI makes good all-around cards (I'm using one of the OEM R128 cards who's specific confusing name I forget right now, and it works just fine), but the names are rather obnoxious in my opinion.
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
I doubt that's illegal - it sounds like "space shifting" to me - much as making a cassette copy of a CD (or MP3's!) that you legally own to play in your car's cassette (or mp3) player.
I've not actually seen any DivX;) movies yet, but what I've been reading seems to indicate that there IS a loss of quality when you "crunch down" the DVD data for CDs, so I would expect the situation to be analogous to videotape or cassette copying, in legal terms.
At least, until the MPAA/RIAA scrapes together enough money to make a down payment on some more legislators....
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
I think that either this story is in error or is an early "April-Fool's Day" joke.
From "Glassbook's" own FAQ (emphasis added):
What happens to the book when I'm done reading it?
Since you own the e-book, once you have read it you can store in the Library that is included with the Glassbook Reader. In the future, users will be able to loan or give their e-books to others using the Glassbook Plus Reader.
Can I print and copy my e-books?
To protect copyrights, publishers establish their own guidelines for how much of their e-books can be printed and/or copied. This means that these permissions will differ from book to book. For example, some of the free books from the Glassbook Bookstore have no restrictions on copying and printing. For example, a publisher might give consumers the ability to print several pages of a cookbook within a set period of time.
Either there's been a serious mix-up at adobe and/or glassbooks (If any of their books are printable, a public domain work copied from Project Gutenberg ought to be!), or someone's pulling our collective legs. The FAQ implies that giving "your copy" of an e-book to someone else is intended to be allowed (presumably, they're trying to find some way of ensuring that your copy disappears when you give it to someone else). I find it hard (though, sadly, not impossible) to imagine Adobe refusing to allow printing from a public domain work...
Has anyone else downloaded and confirmed this? Unfortunately, as is all-to-often the case, only Windows and Mac users can get an 'e-book' reader, so I can't download it myself and check...you can download the book from here.
If these restrictions are really printed here, it looks like we should be complaining to the publisher ("VolumeOne") more than Glassbooks.
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
That's funny, there seems to be this "trash" thing on my KDE desktop....looks remarkably similar to the windows "recycle bin".
One has to ask how often the home user has to mess with his system's configuration, outside the context of "How do I want the 57 icons on my 'desktop' arranged today?"...
Further, I find that (unless you're always running as root, which I think no self-respecting pre-installed-linux-box seller would set up) it's significantly more difficult to accidentally delete a crucial system file from a linux box than it is from a home Windows box.
I think the problem is less one of "linux is too hard" and more of "linux used to be too hard and we think that it must still be." The comment about the "missing recycle bin" illustrates this - those of us who have been using linux probably didn't notice when that showed up (I know I never use it, and didn't even think about it until it was mentioned here), and those who haven't looked at linux since it's gotten easier-to-use interfaces (e.g. KDE and Gnome) obviously won't have noticed either. It's just an issue of perceptions.
Well, okay, that and a need for easier-to-use install routines for new software - though I hear there are projects underway for that, too.
A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for Evil.
Presuming I get to this before anyone else does ...too late! :-) Here's a bit from the whois query...
Registrant:American Chair & Seating (CHAIR-DOM)
132 R. Washington Street,
Quincy, MA 02169
US
Domain Name: CHAIR.COM
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So, to sum up the story, a corporation with a bunch of money starts a mass of homogeneous website for "fandom" (note the "little 'f'") to protect them from bullying IP lawyers...and their IP lawyers are now attacking any "fandom" that isn't in the "Fandom.com" club.
To me, this raises a couple of questions:
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Okay. I'll consider.
Okay, I'm done considering now.
NO!....
The problem, as I see it, is that if Government Inc. is giving you the line, they also have the right to tell you what you can put on it (either in terms or hardware or the types of data), perhaps look at the data any time they want, and, unlike other large corporations, they've got people with guns to enforce their will.
Do we really want the same corporation that gave us the DMCA providing us with our internet access? How long before the lines had to be monitored to "Protect The Children®"?
(I may be wrong about this, but as I recall, the US Post Office has more of a monopoly than some may realize - I believe it's literally illegal to use a private courier [e.g. UPS or Federal Express] for your regular mail! Do we even want to risk any chance of this happening to ISP's?)
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Uh, oh....
Does this mean we'll be seeing a "Universal Lifeline Power" surcharge on our electric bills now?
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I don't know if it'd be efficient, but it would be potentially funny.
"And in the news today, the temperature is expected to top 110F tomorrow, and power demand will be at an all time high, so please eat lots of fiber to keep our power plants going!"
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As a fellow Californian (Oh, 'scuze me, I mean "a fellow Californian, Dude"), I've been wondering the same things you are. I know MY power consumption in winter goes down to about 1/3 of what it was in the summer (and that's just to keep the apartment down to around 80F!)
I concur, this sounds "manufactured" to me, as well.
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To make things worse, I'm under the impression that if we wanted to help out by generating our own power and putting our surplus on "the grid" for others to use, we either have to pay excessive amounts of money to jump through various procedural hoops, or are completely forbidden to do it.
"Home Power" magazine (they also put their current issues online in .pdf format) has a series of "guerilla solar" articles about people "sneaking" power they've produced onto the grid, which I find pretty amusing. Maybe enough people "sneaking" "illegal" power back onto the grid might help (and reduce reliance on ponderous corporations and governmental regulations to keep us powered.)
My god, did I just mix "Green"-style "Renewable Energy" and "Down with Giant Corporations" rhetoric with "Libertarian"-style "I should be able to get [power] wherever and want and sell it to whoever wants it" and "If I want to be self-sufficient it's my business"? Shouldn't "Green" and "Libertarian" rhetoric cancel each other out in a giant explosion or something?...
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I make no such claim...the question was, how does society benefit from paying to give a wire to people out in the 'boonies'? (The telecommuting question just emphasizes my question - Would someone who is telecommuting move to a place with no phone lines? And if they were foolish enough to do so, how do we benefit by paying to give him, her, or it phone lines anyway?)
I also like being able to go (nearly) anywhere and hookup a modem and/or make a phone call...but again, this is off the point of "how does society benefit from paying for someone else's access to phone lines?" Obviously I think society benefits from being able to hear my voice from all over the world, but does society necessarily agree? :-)
While the "people I think are useless" comment was, also, way off the mark (whether or not someone is 'useless' in anyone's opinion isn't really relevant to this), your point regarding "paving the way for growth" does make good sense, and I must applaud the fact that you (unlike too many people) actually used the word "diversity" in a social context to mean "diversity of viewpoint" (or so I interpret it, anyway)
Of course, the followup question is does society benefit enough, and (as another poster mentioned) will poking phone lines into isolated communities 'ruin' or homogenize them?
(I've no idea why I'm suddenly so curious about these issues, but they are interesting, I think.)
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Ah, I was wondering if somebody'd get around to comparing Konqueror with it...
Having to occasionally deal with pages with gigantic (not necessarily even nested) tables which takes Netscape forever to put on the screen, I've been very impressed by Konqueror's ability to render the tables on the screen as the data comes in rather than making me wait a minute or two before putting the whole thing on the screen in one mass like Netscape does.
Javascript support seems to be still a little bit lacking (I do mean "a little bit" - Lately I only occasionally run into limitations e.g. theonion.com has some "javascript:onion_pop(URL)" links, which Konqueror still doesn't support...
Oh, and it looks like the "won't let go of URL" bug may not be COMPLETELY gone, but I've only run into it once so far in the last day of heavy use, so it no longer seems to be an issue most of the time. I'm now able to use it for about 90-95% of my browsing.
To get back on the official topic, though - I'd still like to try Mozilla again, but I'm waiting for a relatively easy-to-build "browser only" version. I've no interest at all in a gigantic "do-everything" application. (Anybody know if there is already a 'just the browser' version available with more reasonable resource requirements?)
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This comment, in my opinion, is a little bit excessive. At the risk of sounding a bit callous, I have to ask (honest question, now, no flamebait intended):
If Joe Q. Example decides to live out in the middle of the Nevada desert where there are no utilities, how, exactly, does society benefit by paying to give him a phone hookup? Does someone antisocial enough to want to live far, far away from society in general really benefit that society by having a phone connection to it?
I realize that's a bit of an extreme example, but at least it illustrates the point. Comments? Clarifications? "Shut the heck up you idiot"'s? :-)
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And where does this power come from? In many cases (I won't go so far as to say all cases) it comes from Government, Inc. The DMCA is an obvious example.
Government regulation of things like power and cable TV also seems to always mean a Government granted monopoly, leaving one company exclusive access to a bunch of consumers to pull money from, until they are wealthy enough to bully small competitors, even if their official monopoly is repealed.
Unfortunately, since this [the monopoly-caused imbalance of power] has already happened, getting Government inc. out of businesses they shouldn't have meddled with in the first place without leaving a nasty power imbalance between the former monopoly and the small potential competitors is going to be really tricky business...
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I'm using it right now...
I haven't had much time to mess with it, as I just got kdebase-2.0.1 compiled, but I can say I haven't had any problems for the last 1/2 hour or so...
I'm hoping the annoying "won't let go of a previous URL no matter what you type in" bug is gone, and I'm hoping there's a bit more javascript support (the only two complaints I've had with it since the the later beta versions and on). I notice it still doesn't seem to support "javascript:" URLs.
I now use Konqueror for nearly all of my browsing. I generally only switch back to Netscape 4.76 when I need support for a javascript feature that's not supported in kjs (and/or khtml?) or when Konqueror wouldn't let me go to the page I wanted (due to the aforementioned "won't let go of URL" bug which I suspect is probably fixed in 2.0.1).
Other than that, in regards to KDE2 as a whole, the only other real complaint I have is that I can't get kmultimedia to compile properly from source. (Specifically, kmidi throws up a bunch of errors [e.g. "playlist.cpp:49: conflicting types for `class KApplication * thisapp' "] and dies. everything else seems to compile okay...though lately I've been getting "bad MD5 cookie" errors trying to run Kaiman on one of my systems, and I don't know why....)
Ah, the joys of compiling everything myself. Since it won't compile of my machines that I've tried it on recently, but I haven't seen anyone else complaining about it, I figure it's something I've done with my setup, and therefore not really a KDE2 problem anyway.
Does anyone know of a good place to see what aspects of the DOM and which javascript functions have been implemented so far? I haven't noticed anything in the "CHANGELOG" files...
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I don't know, to me asking for Linux to be a Windows software platform is like asking for a VTOL jet with four-wheel drive....
On the other hand, I suspect that deep down it isn't "Windows Applications", specifically, that you 'need' and want, but rather applications that do the same thing at least as well, and in a similar manner to and compatible with the Windows versions (especially, to be blunt ,games and easier-to-set-up hardware accelerated 3D, and more support for the media formats (e.g. 'WMF') that Microsoft is force-feeding everyone through their present control of the market [in my opinion]). This I can certainly agree with.
Widely available good replacements for proprietary formats will hopefully become more common. I can't afford 'flash' authoring utilities (and I don't think they're available for Linux anyway), but would love to see some progress with the '.mng over .ogg' concept that someone mentioned some time back, for example.
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