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It is amazing how many people do not understand what censorship actually means.
Sad really
I guess it is now censorship when a corporation decided not to play an ad that would piss off the majority of the country
Just like it is censorship when the public decides to not boycott a movie/tv show because the ignorant actor/actress made some boneheaded statements about their assinine political views.
Oh, and we cannot forget book publishers not publishing books that contain views they don't like. Obviously this is censorship, and not a business decision.
Nope, wasn't referring to that one. Just most of the other blatant code thefts (any remember doublespace?) and illegal abuses of monopoly position over the years.
Nearly (if not) all of the holes in the linux kernel lately have been local exploit only. Windows on the other hand seems to have a pretty serious problem with remote exploits. Which do you feel is more of a concern?
What leads you to believe this is someone from the Linux community? I say it is equally likely someone who hates Linux and wants to make it look bad. Out of work MCSE? SCO employee (assuming they still have people there who can code)? Who knows. Given that this whole SCO mess has been nothing more than a PR war I wouldn't put it past them to have someone do this to improve their image.
What leads you to believe any Linux developers is behind this? I say it is just as likely to be someone who hates linux and wants to make it look bad (out of work MCSE maybe?:) ). Possibly even SCO themselves, would that really be that strange given everything else that have done up to this point.
Strike that, it would be strange if SCO still had anyone working for them that could code.
I have read some posts saying that 'terroist' organizations may or may not have anything to do with 'terrorism' but I still dont understand why they are calling this a victory for civil liberties. I agree that the patriot act is infringing upon our civil rights, but I do not understand how attacking it in this way will accomplish anything.
It seems to me that if an organization is truely 'terrorist' then experts should not be supporting or advising them, regardless of weather or not their advise has anything to do with violence. It seems safe to assume that any sort of support or advise will in some way help the organization to continue its operations. If these organizations are dedicated to social change by means of violence, and I think most of us agree that that goal is less than exlemplary, then I see no reason why it should'nt be illegal to provide them with advise or support.
And a terrorist organization is defined by who?
That is the problem. All the government need to is declare someone (or some group) a terrorist, and suddenly all these unconstitutional things become possible. I agree with the points you are making, but the single largest failure here is that "terrorists" groups are whoever the government currently says they are.
Well, it does but when it happens you never hear about it. (someone mades a big deal of doing something out of the kindness of their hearts, they were really doing it for publicity or to impress people)
Oh I completly agree they were excessive. Frankly they seem to be writing a book on negative publicity:)
My only point is that by suing the people actually committing the crime, they are doing what most people on slashdot were calling for them to do in the first place. (ie, stop hassling the software developers and go after the people abusing it).
I'm not getting what you are saying then. Technically a crime has been committed. Does the RIAA go after the tool that was used or the person who committed the crime? Ignorance is no excuse in the law.
I don't remember anyone going to jail when Clinton illegally pulled the FBI records of some 500+ Republicians...
Not that it makes this right, but let's face it, since Watergate this kind of stuff has been happening with both sides and nobody has been punished yet.
Sorry, not even comparable. Have a look at the two architectures. That is like saying a stealth bomber is just like a WWI biplane because they both do basically the same thing.
I think this explains why they didn't have time to correctly respond to the Judge's request that the produce evidence in the IBM case. The were apparently already working on their next frivolous lawsuit.
They would have found C to be the fastest of all ("all the performance of assembly with all the ease of assembly":) ) if they had actually used a decent compiler like Intel's or something. GCC is a VERY nice cross platform compiler realistically I don't know anyone who uses it in HPC.
A few frames? Hell, one byte should be enough to enact a drastic (at least half) change to the result message digest in any well written hash algorithm.
Sure it will, PSU has a napster caching server running locally that has a few TBs or so of songs in it. Streaming and song downloads will attempt to hit that first.
"Penn State" is the abbreviated nickname for Pennsylvania State University, a governmental-run university with its head campus in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (the state capital); there are a grand total of 18 satellite campuses throughout Pennsylvania. Penn State is known for its football team, the Nittany Lions. For any more detailed information, check the link. (I went to Gannon, so I could tell you more about that school.)
Actually the "head" campus is University Park and is located several hours away from Harrisburg. in a city called "State College"
Yup, PSU has 21 campuses in Pennsylvania. Roughly half of the student population is at a non University Park (what most people consider the "main") campus.
However several of the other campuses do not even have Residence halls (like the one I started at, New Kensington) so technically they don't all have students who are able to participate in the Napster pilot.
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It is amazing how many people do not understand what censorship actually means.
Sad really
I guess it is now censorship when a corporation decided not to play an ad that would piss off the majority of the country
Just like it is censorship when the public decides to not boycott a movie/tv show because the ignorant actor/actress made some boneheaded statements about their assinine political views.
Oh, and we cannot forget book publishers not publishing books that contain views they don't like. Obviously this is censorship, and not a business decision.
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Which is why expert witnesses exist. The average Judge and jury doesn't understand how MOST evidence works.
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Nope, wasn't referring to that one. Just most of the other blatant code thefts (any remember doublespace?) and illegal abuses of monopoly position over the years.
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Illegally, I thought that was pretty well documented...
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Nearly (if not) all of the holes in the linux kernel lately have been local exploit only. Windows on the other hand seems to have a pretty serious problem with remote exploits. Which do you feel is more of a concern?
What leads you to believe this is someone from the Linux community? I say it is equally likely someone who hates Linux and wants to make it look bad. Out of work MCSE? SCO employee (assuming they still have people there who can code)? Who knows. Given that this whole SCO mess has been nothing more than a PR war I wouldn't put it past them to have someone do this to improve their image.
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What leads you to believe any Linux developers is behind this? I say it is just as likely to be someone who hates linux and wants to make it look bad (out of work MCSE maybe? :) ). Possibly even SCO themselves, would that really be that strange given everything else that have done up to this point.
Strike that, it would be strange if SCO still had anyone working for them that could code.
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I have read some posts saying that 'terroist' organizations may or may not have anything to do with 'terrorism' but I still dont understand why they are calling this a victory for civil liberties. I agree that the patriot act is infringing upon our civil rights, but I do not understand how attacking it in this way will accomplish anything.
It seems to me that if an organization is truely 'terrorist' then experts should not be supporting or advising them, regardless of weather or not their advise has anything to do with violence. It seems safe to assume that any sort of support or advise will in some way help the organization to continue its operations. If these organizations are dedicated to social change by means of violence, and I think most of us agree that that goal is less than exlemplary, then I see no reason why it should'nt be illegal to provide them with advise or support.
And a terrorist organization is defined by who?
That is the problem. All the government need to is declare someone (or some group) a terrorist, and suddenly all these unconstitutional things become possible. I agree with the points you are making, but the single largest failure here is that "terrorists" groups are whoever the government currently says they are.
Finkployd
Well, it does but when it happens you never hear about it. (someone mades a big deal of doing something out of the kindness of their hearts, they were really doing it for publicity or to impress people)
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Oh I completly agree they were excessive. Frankly they seem to be writing a book on negative publicity :)
My only point is that by suing the people actually committing the crime, they are doing what most people on slashdot were calling for them to do in the first place. (ie, stop hassling the software developers and go after the people abusing it).
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I'm not getting what you are saying then. Technically a crime has been committed. Does the RIAA go after the tool that was used or the person who committed the crime? Ignorance is no excuse in the law.
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I wouldn't be too excited, just about everyone's stock did that today. Look at RHAT and (to a lesser extent) IBM
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Ummm, yeah. Filegate. Remember? Clinton somehow ends up with 500+ FBI records of Republicians. It wasn't THAT long ago...
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I don't remember anyone going to jail when Clinton illegally pulled the FBI records of some 500+ Republicians...
Not that it makes this right, but let's face it, since Watergate this kind of stuff has been happening with both sides and nobody has been punished yet.
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2.) gnutella... napster first.
Sorry, not even comparable. Have a look at the two architectures. That is like saying a stealth bomber is just like a WWI biplane because they both do basically the same thing.
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I think this explains why they didn't have time to correctly respond to the Judge's request that the produce evidence in the IBM case. The were apparently already working on their next frivolous lawsuit.
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They would have found C to be the fastest of all ("all the performance of assembly with all the ease of assembly" :) ) if they had actually used a decent compiler like Intel's or something. GCC is a VERY nice cross platform compiler realistically I don't know anyone who uses it in HPC.
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A few frames? Hell, one byte should be enough to enact a drastic (at least half) change to the result message digest in any well written hash algorithm.
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Really? MD4? Anyone tell them that algorithm is fundamentally flawled and should not be used?
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Or to put it another way, there is no spoon :)
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Will this save PSU bandwidth? Doubt it.
Sure it will, PSU has a napster caching server running locally that has a few TBs or so of songs in it. Streaming and song downloads will attempt to hit that first.
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"Penn State" is the abbreviated nickname for Pennsylvania State University, a governmental-run university with its head campus in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (the state capital); there are a grand total of 18 satellite campuses throughout Pennsylvania. Penn State is known for its football team, the Nittany Lions. For any more detailed information, check the link. (I went to Gannon, so I could tell you more about that school.)
Actually the "head" campus is University Park and is located several hours away from Harrisburg. in a city called "State College"
And there are 21 campuses.
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How is this funny? The RIAA loves Napster 2.0
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21 campuses? Wow
Yup, PSU has 21 campuses in Pennsylvania. Roughly half of the student population is at a non University Park (what most people consider the "main") campus.
However several of the other campuses do not even have Residence halls (like the one I started at, New Kensington) so technically they don't all have students who are able to participate in the Napster pilot.
So I are very pleased at what I2 has done with Shib
Ummmmm yeah. This started out as "we are very pleased" then I decided I should not speak for the entire University.
Subject/verb agreement, my old nemesis, we meet again.
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