Some of the more interesting attacks on scientology detractors were against people who were only QUOTING BITS of the OT Manuals, trying to make a point. This practice is known as "fair use" and copyright does NOT prevent it.
Harassing such people is not "asserting copyright".
No one is saying that the Scientologistas can't believe whatever they want, secretly or not. As far as I know, the only thing said about what they believe generally has been occasionally ridicule that they think we're all alien spirits trapped in neanderthal bodies (vast oversimplification, of course).
The real problem comes into what they DO. In particular, people who wish to leave scientology have their lives destroyed with private information obtained during the rituals of the "religion". People who attack scientology are "fair game" and can be harassed beyond their means by the great financial power of the "church". And these are only the despicable actions that are obvious in the daylight.
Do you honestly suggest that the Vatican would go to these lengths of harassment over their secret doctrines? Perhaps 300 years ago, but I really can't see them squandering any more of the little moral capital they have left on such things today. Most people now agree that such behavior is wrong, period, and no credible organization (note that I don't include governments in the category of "credible organizations") will get away with it. I myself left the catholic church, and no one ever revealed things that had been said in confession in order to make my life hell.
P.S. I can't recall any non-believers being killed by Bhuddists or other non-deistic religions. Care to back that up?
The problem is some pimply teenage twits who doesn't [sic] understand that the products (CDs, video
games, etc.) they love so much are really, really hard to create.
Damn shame then that the people who do the hard work (Clue: NOT THE GODDAMN RIAA OR MPAA) only see a minor fraction of pennies on the dollar of what their hard work has earned.
The good news is, it doesn't sound like the entire MIT Museum is being closed. The hall of hacks was a cool bit of MIT culture, but the *really* excellent stuff at the museum were the kinetic sculptures, and I'd recommend that any slashdotter visit to see them. Things like a wishbone connected to a machine that made the wishbone walk back and forth on a board, a toy chair balanced to tumble around randomly, and several things where oil is making interesting textures on gears & stuff. Perhaps my description doesn't do them justice, but I spent a good couple of hours fascinated by the different things in that section. There was also a large section of holography that was pretty interesting. Hopefully, the article is accurate enough that it's not the whole museum that is closing....
Not entirely offtopic: my wife's favorite stupid consumer question, from when she worked at a bookstore: "Do you have that book, you know, the one with the blue cover?"
Uhhh.... No. It's not office loading faster, it's framerates so fast you can blast your opponents into oblivion before they even see you coming. There's definitely some adrenaline there.
Keep in mind that this is a NEW CPU ARCHITECTURE, the Ultrasparc III. It may not be a total slam dunk to get the kernel ported to it despite it being binary compatable and all that.
I am confident that I absolutely am NOT confused with another company. I did not state that there was no charge circuit, I stated that for some reason MY charge circuit would not activate unless I had it within a few inches of a halogen lamp. Yes, I left it sit for long periods of time in sunny rooms. No, I did not get it to work under those circumstances. Furthermore, it was not a "complete robot kit". As I stated, it was a solar cell, a circuit board and parts, and a motor. I had to supply the rest of the parts should I want to.
Was that Solarbotics "fault"? No. The disappointment over the kit contents in particular was probably a misunderstanding on my part of what I was ordering.
Was it something that a naive beginner might want to keep in mind before charging in headfirst? Yes, absolutely.
I bought one of the original Solarbotics kits many ages ago. It seemed to claim to be a complete robot kit; however, when I got done with it, it was a solar cell & a motor. That's not entirely terrible, but it was certainly disappointing.
Worse, it claimed to be able to charge up and then go; the idea being that you set it in a brighly lit room, and the motor would go every so often (and if it were incorporated into a robot, it would move). Unfortunately, I never seemed to be able to get it to charge off of anything less bright than a 300W Halogen bulb! For whatever reason (and I don't recall enough electronics from school to debug it) it did not seem to *ever* go in a lit room, even sun lit.
This is not to say that Solarbotics are bad or you shouldn't be interested, etc. But if you're a complete duffer when it comes to electronics, you might be better off with a Mindstorms kit.
I find it easier to understand why one would spy for the US than the USSR. The US _loves_ spies
Exactly. I was listening to excerpts of some of the other correspondence. Leaving aside whether it was really Hanssen or not, whoever it was makes a big deal about how they chose this course when they were 14, etc. etc. In other words, they intended to be a spy and worked into a position where they could do that, not got into a sensetive position and then decided to defect.
I think that Courtney Love's opinions on the subject make a lot of sense. A street performer cannot force you to pay them for their labor. They hope that you recognize some value in their labor and will pay them what you think that labor is worth. If it really is worth anything to any significant number of people, they will make some money.
While in "real life" the constraints of physical space prevent this from being especially lucrative, I think the existence of Shareware proves that it can be done to better effect in the electronic realm. What's to prevent shareware books and shareware music? (And note I'm not talking about time limited nagware either).
1) A single copy of Solaris scales almost linearly from 1 CPU to 64. Linux doesn't. I'd like to congratulate the admin who runs 16 4 CPU Linux boxes instead of 1 64 CPU Sun box for being a masochist when it comes to multiplying his administrative overhead by 16.
2) Solaris has clustering too. In particular, I've seen the recently released 3.0 SunCluster software do scalable apache really beautifully, and scales over multiple nodes. Let's see, going with the current supported limit (supported means Sun will troubleshoot your problems; unsupported doesn't mean it won't work) of 4 that means a total of 256 CPUs serving your webpages etc. And only have to manage 4 system images, instead of 64 or more. And of course the next generation servers will support nearly twice as many CPU's and the OS will still scale pretty much linearly. So tell me again, Mr. Troll, how VA Linux smokes Sun's "best boxes".
I was a blue collar worker once myself (dishwasher at a nursing home). The union? Teamsters. What did they do for me? Rape my wages, that was all, thanks. (I was a student part time worker, they took out full time dues until we got a new steward who was willing to fight the system).
Yeah, like you're going to fit a kitchen sink like perl on a palmtop. I don't know much about Python, but I suspect it's similar. Java at least has proven small implementations....
http://www.symbol.com/news/pressreleases/pr_manu_. html
Symbol is partnering with various folks to provide a palm on steroids running java on linux. I've seen some of these customized for a particular vendor partner, and they rock.
Being more friendly and cordial
than he really needed to be, Berke agreed to do our interview in
exchange for keeping his personal info confidential.
Sounds an awful lot like "blackmail". But again, all said, it was pretty good of him to actually respond. Hopefully others won't take this as license to harass him further.
The advantage SCSI has over some new protocol is that it is mature and stable. There is nothing in SCSI-3 that is absolutely locked to the transport medium; in fact the specification has been split into parts dealing with the protocol itself and and the various types of transport available.
I wouldnt have one on my machine.
Good, that means that many more drives for the rest of us.
No no no.
The value of a thing
Is the price it will bring
in unrestricted trade.
If you can't understand that, or how that applies to this situation, then you will never be a rich man.
Unfortnately this lies on several fallacies. The foremost being an assumption that I want to be a rich man. (and for the punny types, I don't want to be a rich woman either).
The more important one being that the current situation with the RIAA cartel (thanks to a previous poster for that) THERE IS NOT UNRESTRICTED TRADE GOING ON HERE. The Cartel monopolizes the means of distribution through many techniques, and has split it up for their own benefit, not the benefit of the consumers, nor that of their artists who they treat as chattel, except when it does good PR for them to allow Metallica to get righteously indignant in public.
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Harassing such people is not "asserting copyright".
The real problem comes into what they DO. In particular, people who wish to leave scientology have their lives destroyed with private information obtained during the rituals of the "religion". People who attack scientology are "fair game" and can be harassed beyond their means by the great financial power of the "church". And these are only the despicable actions that are obvious in the daylight.
Do you honestly suggest that the Vatican would go to these lengths of harassment over their secret doctrines? Perhaps 300 years ago, but I really can't see them squandering any more of the little moral capital they have left on such things today. Most people now agree that such behavior is wrong, period, and no credible organization (note that I don't include governments in the category of "credible organizations") will get away with it. I myself left the catholic church, and no one ever revealed things that had been said in confession in order to make my life hell.
P.S. I can't recall any non-believers being killed by Bhuddists or other non-deistic religions. Care to back that up?
MOTHS DON'T EAT COTTON
Moth Larvae do!
Damn shame then that the people who do the hard work (Clue: NOT THE GODDAMN RIAA OR MPAA) only see a minor fraction of pennies on the dollar of what their hard work has earned.
The good news is, it doesn't sound like the entire MIT Museum is being closed. The hall of hacks was a cool bit of MIT culture, but the *really* excellent stuff at the museum were the kinetic sculptures, and I'd recommend that any slashdotter visit to see them. Things like a wishbone connected to a machine that made the wishbone walk back and forth on a board, a toy chair balanced to tumble around randomly, and several things where oil is making interesting textures on gears & stuff. Perhaps my description doesn't do them justice, but I spent a good couple of hours fascinated by the different things in that section. There was also a large section of holography that was pretty interesting. Hopefully, the article is accurate enough that it's not the whole museum that is closing....
Not entirely offtopic: my wife's favorite stupid consumer question, from when she worked at a bookstore: "Do you have that book, you know, the one with the blue cover?"
Uhhh.... No.
It's not office loading faster, it's framerates so fast you can blast your opponents into oblivion before they even see you coming. There's definitely some adrenaline there.
That's "All Your Bucks Are Belong To Us"
Keep in mind that this is a NEW CPU ARCHITECTURE, the Ultrasparc III. It may not be a total slam dunk to get the kernel ported to it despite it being binary compatable and all that.
Was that Solarbotics "fault"? No. The disappointment over the kit contents in particular was probably a misunderstanding on my part of what I was ordering.
Was it something that a naive beginner might want to keep in mind before charging in headfirst? Yes, absolutely.
Worse, it claimed to be able to charge up and then go; the idea being that you set it in a brighly lit room, and the motor would go every so often (and if it were incorporated into a robot, it would move). Unfortunately, I never seemed to be able to get it to charge off of anything less bright than a 300W Halogen bulb! For whatever reason (and I don't recall enough electronics from school to debug it) it did not seem to *ever* go in a lit room, even sun lit.
This is not to say that Solarbotics are bad or you shouldn't be interested, etc. But if you're a complete duffer when it comes to electronics, you might be better off with a Mindstorms kit.
Exactly. I was listening to excerpts of some of the other correspondence. Leaving aside whether it was really Hanssen or not, whoever it was makes a big deal about how they chose this course when they were 14, etc. etc. In other words, they intended to be a spy and worked into a position where they could do that, not got into a sensetive position and then decided to defect.
Are you the kind of person who tortures small girls?
While in "real life" the constraints of physical space prevent this from being especially lucrative, I think the existence of Shareware proves that it can be done to better effect in the electronic realm. What's to prevent shareware books and shareware music? (And note I'm not talking about time limited nagware either).
Isn't that what happened to Linda Tripp, essentially?
1) A single copy of Solaris scales almost linearly from 1 CPU to 64. Linux doesn't. I'd like to congratulate the admin who runs 16 4 CPU Linux boxes instead of 1 64 CPU Sun box for being a masochist when it comes to multiplying his administrative overhead by 16.
2) Solaris has clustering too. In particular, I've seen the recently released 3.0 SunCluster software do scalable apache really beautifully, and scales over multiple nodes. Let's see, going with the current supported limit (supported means Sun will troubleshoot your problems; unsupported doesn't mean it won't work) of 4 that means a total of 256 CPUs serving your webpages etc. And only have to manage 4 system images, instead of 64 or more. And of course the next generation servers will support nearly twice as many CPU's and the OS will still scale pretty much linearly. So tell me again, Mr. Troll, how VA Linux smokes Sun's "best boxes".
I'd really like to see a VA Linux box that can "smoke" a fully loaded E10k. What were those TPC benchmark values again?
I was a blue collar worker once myself (dishwasher at a nursing home). The union? Teamsters. What did they do for me? Rape my wages, that was all, thanks. (I was a student part time worker, they took out full time dues until we got a new steward who was willing to fight the system).
Yeah, like you're going to fit a kitchen sink like perl on a palmtop. I don't know much about Python, but I suspect it's similar. Java at least has proven small implementations....
Symbol is partnering with various folks to provide a palm on steroids running java on linux. I've seen some of these customized for a particular vendor partner, and they rock.
If you had READ the interview, you'd know that Mr. Breathed ANSWERED this very question in his replies.
Being more friendly and cordial than he really needed to be, Berke agreed to do our interview in exchange for keeping his personal info confidential.
Sounds an awful lot like "blackmail". But again, all said, it was pretty good of him to actually respond. Hopefully others won't take this as license to harass him further.
I wouldnt have one on my machine.
Good, that means that many more drives for the rest of us.
No no no. The value of a thing Is the price it will bring in unrestricted trade. If you can't understand that, or how that applies to this situation, then you will never be a rich man.
Unfortnately this lies on several fallacies. The foremost being an assumption that I want to be a rich man. (and for the punny types, I don't want to be a rich woman either).
The more important one being that the current situation with the RIAA cartel (thanks to a previous poster for that) THERE IS NOT UNRESTRICTED TRADE GOING ON HERE. The Cartel monopolizes the means of distribution through many techniques, and has split it up for their own benefit, not the benefit of the consumers, nor that of their artists who they treat as chattel, except when it does good PR for them to allow Metallica to get righteously indignant in public.
Hopefully the opposite. MOD THIS UP!
Strange, that Bill Joy is on the board of napster, but doesn't agree with it's principles...
I thought he said he was a shareholder, which is not quite the same as "on the board."