"This page provides links to: [...] Classification of comments received into one of these categories: [...]"
My comment isn't listed in any of the categories, so I wrote up a Perl script to see if there were any other inconsistencies. The verdict: 2 comments appear in the categories but not in the master list ( MTC-00031681 and MTC-00030211, both from the second category), and *3115* appear in the master list but not in any categories! That's almost 10% of the messages left uncategorized. Some examples from the first page of output:
Thus we have GNU/Linux, the OS written largely as a pastime, which is going against monopoly commercial OSes head-on.
Both music and programming can and should be done professionally, and as hobbies. Both should also be Free. When Spielberg needs a movie score written, he hires musicians. Cygnus hires programmers, does consulting work, and releases the tools GPL.
Q. Why have you copy-protected the CD?
A. It's an integral part of our plan to increase our profits without providing extra value. It has the nice side-effect of making everybody into lawbreakers. This is the step after "steal underpants".
Q. Are you going to copy-protect all CDs from now on?
A. Shyea!
Q. Can I get a copy of this CD without the copy protection?
A. No. Well, yes. Until we finally get rid of gnutella. And freenet. And ftp. Then no, definitely.
Q. Can I play this disc in my PC?
A. The CD will play in computers that meet the following minimum requirements:
* Internet connection
I tried this until I realized that I can't see the future. Extreme programming works much better for me. Test first, then code to pass the test case, then design by refactoring the code if necessary.
And you know the big power conglomerates aren't going to stand for that. Write your congressperson today!
(T-shirts from thinkgeek will be forthcoming.)
Re:Monsanto akin to evil corporations from the mov
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Monsanto and PCBs
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· Score: 1
The question is how far we should go to help them or allow them to make those profits.
Nestle sold latin american mothers on how great their baby formula was, and dumped it on the market long enough for them to stop lactating. See for yourself
So, yah, sure, we'll tell 1B chinese that they're SOL if they can't afford next year's seed prices, and the lazy Africans with HIV can darn well get jobs and pay as much for their meds as the patent holders think they ought to. Have to protect shareholder value, after all.
Railroad and steel tycoons were more like 150 years ago. The original poster is referring to the earlier situation where the crown would grant limited, scrutinized legal indemnification for risky ventures like long-range seagoing explorations.
Bill Gates, a living being, could get years in prison for creating a monopoly if Microsoft were a sole proprietorship. Yet the worst we even discuss doing to Microsoft Corporation is rearranging the way they do business. Completely backwards.
This page on QuietComputers describes a cheap way to reduce noise by slowing down PS/CPU/case fans using resistors. Works nice in addition to other sorts of quieting solutions, although I've found it sufficient by itself. It works well enough for me that my roommate came in after a power outage and cycled the power 3 times before realizing that the machine was on the whole time...
Great words from Lawrence, but I have to take issue with his notion of a copyright renewable up to 75 years. At least he would require renewing every 5 years, but that's just an inconvenience, not a limit. We need the keys to our culture back within a sufficient time period that we can actually allow our culture to continue to develop!
When something like "happy birthday to you" or "gone with the wind" becomes so much a part of our culture, how can we justify leaving its reins in the hands of the person who happened to put the words together - for an entire lifetime? The author synthesized it from the intellectual beams and trusses of our culture, and our culture then assimilates it. We whistle its tunes and quote its catchphrases, but we can't use it to build larger monuments in the commons. With current trends, none of our descendants will, either - but even with a 75 year copyright, our children's children will be grown before that right would become available to them.
I'll be dead before I can write variations on "Just another brick in the wall", share a copy of the out-of-production "Swing Kids", or put on a production of "Phantom of the Opera" in my neighborhood.
And in one of the finer details of the ruling, the judge ordered Microsoft to be implicated in a story posted to the popular hacker web site Slashdot, which would ensure that the government site would quickly be taken down by a measure known in the hacker community as the Slashdot effect.
I vote for the 3 years inprisonment, executed as house arrest with no visitors. Build a big barbed wire fence around all corporate property and forbid the corporation from taking any action, legal, business or otherwise, for 3 years.
Seriously, this is how messed up our laws are with regard to corporations. You could be locked up, away from your loved ones and all your business activities *as well as* all your recreational and personal activities, for 3 years of your limited lifespan.
Corporations? Fined some money. Boo hoo, the shareholders lose some stock value in exchange for the felony they caused to be committed.
I put carefully selected resistors in series with my fans and removed some unnecessary ones, and have a much quieter system now for no extra cost.
My writeup is here.
I wrote code for this in (Openmarket's - then ICentral's) Shopsite Manager back in 1997. Fill in your products, pick some options, get an e-commerce website. Sigh.
Broadcast 2000 has a lot of potential for both audio and video. Still a little buggy for serious use, but with some work might be brought up to speed. As was pointed out, the author pulled it recently, but thanks to the miracle of the GPL it didn't cost me the work I was already doing with it.
Ambitious, greedy and ruthless go a long way toward filling my definition of evil. Dishonorable would certainly be even worse, but I'm not convinced that the epithet doesn't fit a lot of them.
How about letting americans suffer for absurd american laws? Let Dmitry go home and deal with his own country's idea of freedom, whilst you write a rot13 codec to challenge the DMCA.
I'd guess that's one of the motives behind
Pegasus rockets, which are launched from planes.
As to high altitudes launch sites, last I heard the latitude advantage turned out to be more
workable (and overall more efficient) than an altitude advantage. Easier
to ship Saturn V parts to Florida than
Mt. McKinley...
I just quieted all the fans in my system using
variable/fixed resistors - this is nice because I could set the speed exactly where I wanted it. I did a writeup here on my WikiWikiWeb that has all the details:
Slashdot Mirror
When can we expect bignum support to work, so that we can write a Net::Crypt::SmarterChild::RSA module?
Google shows nothing for "seven capital pleasures". What are you talking about?
I got a letter too. It says to fax it back to
1-866-234-4134, or call 1-800-810-6298 if I have questions.
I think I'll mail the letter back just to be sure, and *boy* do I have questions.
The DOJ page about the public response claims:
"This page provides links to: [...] Classification of comments received into one of these categories: [...]"
My comment isn't listed in any of the categories, so I wrote up a Perl script to see if there were any other inconsistencies. The verdict: 2 comments appear in the categories but not in the master list ( MTC-00031681 and MTC-00030211, both from the second category), and *3115* appear in the master list but not in any categories! That's almost 10% of the messages left uncategorized. Some examples from the first page of output:
Comment MTC-00000004
Comment MTC-00000008
Comment MTC-00000030
Comment MTC-00000035
Comment MTC-00000048
Comment MTC-00000112
Comment MTC-00000120
Comment MTC-00000123
Comment MTC-00000135
Comment MTC-00000139
Comment MTC-00000141
Comment MTC-00000142
Comment MTC-00000145
Comment MTC-00000146
Well said. You might consider entering the wipout.net counter-IP essay contest; they could use more well-written entries.
Thus we have GNU/Linux, the OS written largely as a pastime, which is going against monopoly commercial OSes head-on.
Both music and programming can and should be done professionally, and as hobbies. Both should also be Free. When Spielberg needs a movie score written, he hires musicians. Cygnus hires programmers, does consulting work, and releases the tools GPL.
This is what Orangatango is all about; run a virtual browser through SSL and all Comcast will ever see of your surfing is www.orangatango.com:443.
Q. Why have you copy-protected the CD?
A. It's an integral part of our plan to increase our profits without providing extra value. It has the nice side-effect of making everybody into lawbreakers. This is the step after "steal underpants".
Q. Are you going to copy-protect all CDs from now on?
A. Shyea!
Q. Can I get a copy of this CD without the copy protection?
A. No. Well, yes. Until we finally get rid of gnutella. And freenet. And ftp. Then no, definitely.
Q. Can I play this disc in my PC?
A. The CD will play in computers that meet the following minimum requirements:
* Internet connection
I tried this until I realized that I can't see the future. Extreme programming works much better for me. Test first, then code to pass the test case, then design by refactoring the code if necessary.
And you know the big power conglomerates aren't going to stand for that. Write your congressperson today!
(T-shirts from thinkgeek will be forthcoming.)
The question is how far we should go to help them or allow them to make those profits.
Nestle sold latin american mothers on how great their baby formula was, and dumped it on the market long enough for them to stop lactating. See for yourself
So, yah, sure, we'll tell 1B chinese that they're SOL if they can't afford next year's seed prices, and the lazy Africans with HIV can darn well get jobs and pay as much for their meds as the patent holders think they ought to. Have to protect shareholder value, after all.
Railroad and steel tycoons were more like 150 years ago. The original poster is referring to the earlier situation where the crown would grant limited, scrutinized legal indemnification for risky ventures like long-range seagoing explorations.
Bill Gates, a living being, could get years in prison for creating a monopoly if Microsoft were a sole proprietorship. Yet the worst we even discuss doing to Microsoft Corporation is rearranging the way they do business. Completely backwards.
This page on QuietComputers describes a cheap way to reduce noise by slowing down PS/CPU/case fans using resistors. Works nice in addition to other sorts of quieting solutions, although I've found it sufficient by itself. It works well enough for me that my roommate came in after a power outage and cycled the power 3 times before realizing that the machine was on the whole time...
The audio itself is at:
http://www.wamu.org/ram/2001/r2011220.ram
Great words from Lawrence, but I have to take issue with his notion of a copyright renewable up to 75 years. At least he would require renewing every 5 years, but that's just an inconvenience, not a limit. We need the keys to our culture back within a sufficient time period that we can actually allow our culture to continue to develop!
When something like "happy birthday to you" or "gone with the wind" becomes so much a part of our culture, how can we justify leaving its reins in the hands of the person who happened to put the words together - for an entire lifetime? The author synthesized it from the intellectual beams and trusses of our culture, and our culture then assimilates it. We whistle its tunes and quote its catchphrases, but we can't use it to build larger monuments in the commons. With current trends, none of our descendants will, either - but even with a 75 year copyright, our children's children will be grown before that right would become available to them.
I'll be dead before I can write variations on "Just another brick in the wall", share a copy of the out-of-production "Swing Kids", or put on a production of "Phantom of the Opera" in my neighborhood.
And in one of the finer details of the ruling, the judge ordered Microsoft to be implicated in a story posted to the popular hacker web site Slashdot, which would ensure that the government site would quickly be taken down by a measure known in the hacker community as the Slashdot effect.
I vote for the 3 years inprisonment, executed as house arrest with no visitors. Build a big barbed wire fence around all corporate property and forbid the corporation from taking any action, legal, business or otherwise, for 3 years.
Seriously, this is how messed up our laws are with regard to corporations. You could be locked up, away from your loved ones and all your business activities *as well as* all your recreational and personal activities, for 3 years of your limited lifespan.
Corporations? Fined some money. Boo hoo, the shareholders lose some stock value in exchange for the felony they caused to be committed.
I put carefully selected resistors in series with my fans and removed some unnecessary ones, and have a much quieter system now for no extra cost. My writeup is here.
I wrote code for this in (Openmarket's - then ICentral's) Shopsite Manager back in 1997. Fill in your products, pick some options, get an e-commerce website. Sigh.
Broadcast 2000 has a lot of potential for both audio and video. Still a little buggy for serious use, but with some work might be brought up to speed. As was pointed out, the author pulled it recently, but thanks to the miracle of the GPL it didn't cost me the work I was already doing with it.
Ambitious, greedy and ruthless go a long way toward filling my definition of evil. Dishonorable would certainly be even worse, but I'm not convinced that the epithet doesn't fit a lot of them.
How about letting americans suffer for absurd american laws? Let Dmitry go home and deal with his own country's idea of freedom, whilst you write a rot13 codec to challenge the DMCA.
I'd guess that's one of the motives behind Pegasus rockets, which are launched from planes. As to high altitudes launch sites, last I heard the latitude advantage turned out to be more workable (and overall more efficient) than an altitude advantage. Easier to ship Saturn V parts to Florida than Mt. McKinley...
Imminent death of broadband!
Film at eleven.
Sigh.
I just quieted all the fans in my system using variable/fixed resistors - this is nice because I could set the speed exactly where I wanted it. I did a writeup here on my WikiWikiWeb that has all the details:
Reducing fan noise in your PC