it's not right for a private company to fine people for breaking public laws
provided no damage is done to their property
If they don't want their cars to be used to break the law then I think they have a right to write that into the rental contract. Indeed, if they decide that their cars should only be driven on even hours and never when a Garth Brookes track is on the closest country station, then that is fine too. If you don't like the restriction, hire someone else's car.
Of course, to the extent tht the ruling was that they didn't make the restriction clear in the contract, there is an argument they were wrong. _O_
Hell, here lately, I've even found myself reading "man ls"
and "man ps" at work looking for nuances...
It's a little known fact that Ken Thompson added fucntionality to ps and ls which occassionally adds or removes an option at random from executable and man page. This allows, over time, for more possibilities than there are characters available.
An experienced user will usually be able to schedule their work so as to fit in with the functionality changes. _O_
[...a side effect of the sheer size of our country... ]
Oh, horse puckey! There are something like 385 million Europeans in Western Europe alone, all sectioned off into fiercely
competing bureaucracies[...]
He said size not population. The (percieved) problem is that there are too few people. TV and radio solved this by having local companies who operated interoperable systems (though I presume this ws why the US was late with TV). I don't know if that was sanity or government regulation, but it's clearly been missin in the UK mobile market. _O_
I think the US has problems in its wireless industry because our ground telephone system is so solid.
This must be some new use of the word `think' I was not previously aware of.
I've seen all kinds of reasons proposed of thr US lag in mobile telecoms, but they all basicly boil down to the existing US telecoms companies not wanting it to take off and no one else getting the funding together to challenge them.
With a side issue, perhaps, of the low US popuation density. _O_
The portable version is pulled from the OpenBSD CVS tree and modified slightly so
it complies on other UNIX platforms
Which is enough to have made me think twice before using it. I almost decided to pay money rather than risk a modified version.
OpenSSH would be far mroe reasuring is the basic development and testing and day to day brainstorming was being done on the version I actually use. _O_
It is the "proper" pronounciation tought in public school to children.
While RP exists (or rather did, it's been on its way out for ages), what I have heard in clips of this movie isn't RP. It's hollywood's try at an upper class equivalent of `ow do Mary poppins'.
BTW, BBC English (another endangered specie) is very different from RP. BBC was invented by a Scot to be easy to understand by more or less any British English speaker. _O_
You know I really miss those days when all you had to program on was a monochrome VT-100 monitor connected up to a VAX
machine and you were programming your little heart out in Fortran or Cobol... or some times... Assembler.
You are clearly too young to be using the word `nostalgia'.:-) _O_
Right now, it's considered really bad form to blow up TV or radio
stations, or to destroy a civilian communication network. (Doesn't mean it won't be done, of course).
By whom? Certainly it seems to be normal US policy. The Yugoslavian broadcaseters were just behind the Chinese Embassy on the pentagon's hit list. _O_
The `put the box in the next room' solution someone mantione certainly works. I know someone who has done that and other than having to run around the corner to put CDs in it's the perfect solution. an intermediate point is to put a server which can do the hard work in a cupboard somewhere and have a low spec machine with a quiet fan or maybe a laptop as your working machine.
Laptops are also good. I needed to put a firewall in my living room for wireing reasons. I built it from an old laptop. Given no fans and the fact that for most of the time it doesn't touch it's disk, I only really hear it when it does it's overnight system checks (and I'm thinking of moving them to mid morning).
I've ordered some kit from quietpc and I'm going to try silencing my old PC which I keep as a guinea pig. They shipped it this morning, so I can't rally say if it works yet:-). _O_
Who is more free, a wage labourer who owns his small home or a millionare who lives on his yaght and owns no land?
Owning land is no different from owning a TV. It is generally cheaper in the medium term if you don't mind the hastle. Neither will free you from `the system'.
I'm looking to buy a house ATM. This is an indication that I have become less free (because it makes sense to assume I'm gonna be living in the same place for several years due to an increase in entaglements). _O_
CNN and CBS are the most liberal stations in the country.
This is rather like saying someone was the most liberal member of the inquisition.
All major media outlets will always be conservative in outlook. They are either run by people with lots of money (who clearly want things to stay as they are as they have been served so well) or governments (run by politicians who want things to stay as they have been served to well).
Perhaps the furthest from these too models is the BBC with it's arms-length relationship to government. Even there you will rarely hear basic assumptions of the status quo being questioned. _O_
edison, tesla and einstein were great scientists who, through a thorough
and accurate understanding of the best scientific learning of their day, applied existing principles in groundbreaking and
unexpected ways to advance contemporary physics.
I can't off hand think of a single major contribution to physics by Edison.
_O_
Web support sucks. The FAQ, etc. provides some help, not much. Even USENET isn't THAT helpful. You need need to get used to
reading man pages... a LOT.
Sounds like an advantage to me if all the information is in the right place on the system rather than scattered all over the world. probably means it's up to date too. _O_
Ah hah! Now, all of the sudden, people are more willing to stare at a progress bar for 2+ hours (if they're stuck with a modem), weed
through the partial downloads and low bitrate crap, and spend another 45 minutes putting it onto a CDR and labeling it than pony
up $17 for a CD. That indicates to me that people are NOT willing to pay the record industry what it expects for music anymore.
Then CD producers will go out of business and all the worry about what the RIAA may or may not do is irrelevent. I doubt that will happen so I think the RIAA actions are a problem, but feel free to dissagree.
Buy a turntable, and open
yourself up to a world of indie shit you'd have never cared about otherwise.
From your writing style I would guess I had a turntable and was buying vinyl before you were born.
And why would anyone download a crappy MP3 to make a CD of something they have on vinyl? I already have several CDs crated directly from LPs. _O_
Say What? Perhaps you mean indo-european languages.
It's bollocks for all languages. Take a look at a recorded waveform of normal English speech. The only noticable gaps (other than the speaker pausing to think etc) are likely to be in the middle of stops (T, P etc.)
_O_
The music industry on the other hand, they should be eliminated since they are no longer needed in the Internet age.
The artists seem to dissagree as most still want to sign with a company.
Record companies provide venture capital (as it were) and sales and marketing resources. The internet can't replace either role.
Yes you could become a cult band using your own money and word of mouth over the internet, but if you want to be the next Brittany Spears you need more infrastructure than that.
If you want to imagine a radical change which would preserve the rights of artists (and hackers) while loosening the power of big organisations, consider what would happen if it was declared that copyright could not be sold, only delegated for fixed terms (say up to 5 years), with all copyright lapsing a reasonable time after death. _O_
There's obviously something wrong with the music industry. How can so many musicians get so rich?
Because people voluntarilly give them money.
Why do you consider it a prob;lem that some people who make something lots of people enjoy get payed for it? It has no negative effect on you. If you pay the prices you clearly think the work is worth the money. If you don't you are not impacted in any way by what the artists do or don't earn.
I suspect pure jelousy froma talentless kiddie. _O_
SHOULD the government do anything against business?
Look at the suits running amazon an dthe suits in Washinton (DC, not Seattle:-)). Which is more likely to act against your best interests...
I don't like Amazon's business practices so I don't deal with them anymore. I went from spending 1000+ quid one year to nothing from then on. That's not going to make anyone at their head office lose sleep unless enough others did the same of course, but more important is that the 1000 qid now goes to people who are less obnoxious (Books Online mostly, so if someone can tell me why they are evil too my bank manager would be very grateful:-)). _O_
I won't be really happy until I see an organic screen for a desktop system at say... 19 inches.
Ha!
I'm waiting for the printed onto paper onees, then I can paper the wall of my office. Almost enough room for the number of xterms and emacs windos I keep open. _O_
But if it only takes one, as you say, to "fix" the TCP/IP implementation for older flavors of Windows, where has he been for the last
couple of years?
Waiting for Gibson to point out how useful a spoofed IP would be to them?
I presume they have been getting enough sucess with non spoofing attacks.
What disturbs me more than that, however, is the apathy on the part of the big ISPs. It seems that despite their heavy-handed,
do-this-and-the-stormtroopers-will-be-kicking-down -your-door Acceptable Use Policies, they don't really give a shit what is
perpetrated from their networks as long as the account from which it is perpetrated is paid up, and that they can't be successfully
sued for it.
Indeed, the only thing which seems to make my cable supplier wake up is open relay mailers getting used for spam since that gets them onto the various email block lists and all their customers start screaming.
They have in fact gone out of their way to make reporting abuse hard (no abuse@email address).
I suspect the only thing which will work is if a significant number of backbone networks start blocking all IPs from ISPs known to have compromised customer machines.
But unlike spam there is no direct customer pressure to cut down on DOS attacks, so no economic reason for backbones to annoy customers by blocking access to places. _O_
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If they don't want their cars to be used to break the law then I think they have a right to write that into the rental contract. Indeed, if they decide that their cars should only be driven on even hours and never when a Garth Brookes track is on the closest country station, then that is fine too. If you don't like the restriction, hire someone else's car.
Of course, to the extent tht the ruling was that they didn't make the restriction clear in the contract, there is an argument they were wrong.
_O_
It's a little known fact that Ken Thompson added fucntionality to ps and ls which occassionally adds or removes an option at random from executable and man page. This allows, over time, for more possibilities than there are characters available.
An experienced user will usually be able to schedule their work so as to fit in with the functionality changes.
_O_
Oh, horse puckey! There are something like 385 million Europeans in Western Europe alone, all sectioned off into fiercely competing bureaucracies[...]
He said size not population. The (percieved) problem is that there are too few people. TV and radio solved this by having local companies who operated interoperable systems (though I presume this ws why the US was late with TV). I don't know if that was sanity or government regulation, but it's clearly been missin in the UK mobile market.
_O_
So far as I know no one has a cable modem small enough to fit in my shirt pocket, and pulling that cable around would be such a drag.
_O_
This must be some new use of the word `think' I was not previously aware of.
I've seen all kinds of reasons proposed of thr US lag in mobile telecoms, but they all basicly boil down to the existing US telecoms companies not wanting it to take off and no one else getting the funding together to challenge them.
With a side issue, perhaps, of the low US popuation density.
_O_
Which is enough to have made me think twice before using it. I almost decided to pay money rather than risk a modified version.
OpenSSH would be far mroe reasuring is the basic development and testing and day to day brainstorming was being done on the version I actually use.
_O_
While RP exists (or rather did, it's been on its way out for ages), what I have heard in clips of this movie isn't RP. It's hollywood's try at an upper class equivalent of `ow do Mary poppins'.
BTW, BBC English (another endangered specie) is very different from RP. BBC was invented by a Scot to be easy to understand by more or less any British English speaker.
_O_
You are clearly too young to be using the word `nostalgia'.:-)
_O_
This will happen about the time an average humn being can compose an interesting symphpony and score it for full orchestra.
Ie you'd need to change the human beings not the tools.
_O_
By what measure. Presumably people are paying it, hence they think the CD is worth at least that much money.
_O_
By whom? Certainly it seems to be normal US policy. The Yugoslavian broadcaseters were just behind the Chinese Embassy on the pentagon's hit list.
_O_
Er, no.
Is vulcanography not a science because you have to have a volcano to test it?
_O_
So, I presume you are building one in your backyard as we speak, complete with long term waste containment facility...
_O_
Laptops are also good. I needed to put a firewall in my living room for wireing reasons. I built it from an old laptop. Given no fans and the fact that for most of the time it doesn't touch it's disk, I only really hear it when it does it's overnight system checks (and I'm thinking of moving them to mid morning).
I've ordered some kit from quietpc and I'm going to try silencing my old PC which I keep as a guinea pig. They shipped it this morning, so I can't rally say if it works yet:-).
_O_
Who is more free, a wage labourer who owns his small home or a millionare who lives on his yaght and owns no land?
Owning land is no different from owning a TV. It is generally cheaper in the medium term if you don't mind the hastle. Neither will free you from `the system'.
I'm looking to buy a house ATM. This is an indication that I have become less free (because it makes sense to assume I'm gonna be living in the same place for several years due to an increase in entaglements).
_O_
This is rather like saying someone was the most liberal member of the inquisition.
All major media outlets will always be conservative in outlook. They are either run by people with lots of money (who clearly want things to stay as they are as they have been served so well) or governments (run by politicians who want things to stay as they have been served to well).
Perhaps the furthest from these too models is the BBC with it's arms-length relationship to government. Even there you will rarely hear basic assumptions of the status quo being questioned.
_O_
I can't off hand think of a single major contribution to physics by Edison.
_O_
Sounds like an advantage to me if all the information is in the right place on the system rather than scattered all over the world. probably means it's up to date too.
_O_
Then CD producers will go out of business and all the worry about what the RIAA may or may not do is irrelevent. I doubt that will happen so I think the RIAA actions are a problem, but feel free to dissagree.
Buy a turntable, and open yourself up to a world of indie shit you'd have never cared about otherwise.
From your writing style I would guess I had a turntable and was buying vinyl before you were born.
And why would anyone download a crappy MP3 to make a CD of something they have on vinyl? I already have several CDs crated directly from LPs.
_O_
It's bollocks for all languages. Take a look at a recorded waveform of normal English speech. The only noticable gaps (other than the speaker pausing to think etc) are likely to be in the middle of stops (T, P etc.)
_O_
The artists seem to dissagree as most still want to sign with a company.
Record companies provide venture capital (as it were) and sales and marketing resources. The internet can't replace either role.
Yes you could become a cult band using your own money and word of mouth over the internet, but if you want to be the next Brittany Spears you need more infrastructure than that.
If you want to imagine a radical change which would preserve the rights of artists (and hackers) while loosening the power of big organisations, consider what would happen if it was declared that copyright could not be sold, only delegated for fixed terms (say up to 5 years), with all copyright lapsing a reasonable time after death.
_O_
Because people voluntarilly give them money.
Why do you consider it a prob;lem that some people who make something lots of people enjoy get payed for it? It has no negative effect on you. If you pay the prices you clearly think the work is worth the money. If you don't you are not impacted in any way by what the artists do or don't earn.
I suspect pure jelousy froma talentless kiddie.
_O_
Look at the suits running amazon an dthe suits in Washinton (DC, not Seattle:-)). Which is more likely to act against your best interests...
I don't like Amazon's business practices so I don't deal with them anymore. I went from spending 1000+ quid one year to nothing from then on. That's not going to make anyone at their head office lose sleep unless enough others did the same of course, but more important is that the 1000 qid now goes to people who are less obnoxious (Books Online mostly, so if someone can tell me why they are evil too my bank manager would be very grateful:-)).
_O_
Ha!
I'm waiting for the printed onto paper onees, then I can paper the wall of my office. Almost enough room for the number of xterms and emacs windos I keep open.
_O_
Waiting for Gibson to point out how useful a spoofed IP would be to them?
I presume they have been getting enough sucess with non spoofing attacks.
What disturbs me more than that, however, is the apathy on the part of the big ISPs. It seems that despite their heavy-handed, do-this-and-the-stormtroopers-will-be-kicking-down -your-door Acceptable Use Policies, they don't really give a shit what is
perpetrated from their networks as long as the account from which it is perpetrated is paid up, and that they can't be successfully
sued for it.
Indeed, the only thing which seems to make my cable supplier wake up is open relay mailers getting used for spam since that gets them onto the various email block lists and all their customers start screaming.
They have in fact gone out of their way to make reporting abuse hard (no abuse@email address).
I suspect the only thing which will work is if a significant number of backbone networks start blocking all IPs from ISPs known to have compromised customer machines.
But unlike spam there is no direct customer pressure to cut down on DOS attacks, so no economic reason for backbones to annoy customers by blocking access to places.
_O_