Let's just say, theoretically, that you thought that your copy of windows was legit but it wasn't. Your retailer passed off a high quality fake. You'll run WGA and it'll let you know that your version of windows is pirated. Microsoft gives you a legit version in exchange for ratting out the retailer who sold you the bogus setup.
What makes you think those restrictions weren't originally based on health reasons anyway?
They most likely were.
It doesn't take a scientist to figure out that if you eat something and get sick, you probably shouldn't eat that anymore!
If they observed people getting sick or dying after eating specific things and hypothesized that those things were the cause of the sickness/death and experimented with not eating them; they most certainly were scientists. It doesn't take a lab coat and coke bottle glasses to be a scientist.
If this proxy is simply a website with a "Insert Web address here:" field and a "Go" button, it would look like any other website to their routers. Unless you're willing to impose and then troubleshoot a "deny by default" policy on all web traffic, it'll be easy to play cat and mouse with the network admins for quite a long time.
The school would be completely within its rights to threaten to not allow graduation for anyone who accessed the proxy with the school's computers, but they have no right to dictate what legal activities a student may partake in while that student isn't under the egiss of the school.
In other words, the school has nothing to do with what you do while you're on your own time.
Although I'm not a Jew or a Muslim I think that their dietary restrictions are wonderful.
Before we knew about high cholesterol, they didn't eat pork. Before we knew about prions they didn't eat animals that eat meat. Before we knew about microbes, they didn't eat carrion.
I wish we could get the USPS to charge his Institute for Policy Innovation a surcharge for delivering their mail to people. Get the telcos to charge the Institute for Policy Innovation for letting its outgoing calls into their networks.
Opposition to net neutrality is about men in suits who "don't get this whole intarweb thing" but want to milk it for every dime they can.
If memory serves, it was finally being able to weld titanium that lead to the huge progresses we made in supersonic flight during the 1950s and 1960s. Aircraft skinned in 100% aluminum couldn't take the heat generated by supersonic flight, but titanium's propensity to oxidize made it impossible to build airplanes out of it, then someone got the brilliant idea of using He to displace atmospheric oxygen and voila SR-71!
Replacing steel frame rails or unibody with Ti would make a huge difference in the weight of an automobile as well, problem is that if cars are too good people won't need to buy replacements as often. The auto industry needs repeat customers.
The point that I was making is that some people simply do not like to or want to drink. Being law abiding has little to do with it.
Just because someone happens to obey one law (incidentally) that is not enough to make them "law abiding". Besides, why should we obey stupid laws? At 18 you're a legal adult, there is no compelling argument to prevent you from making the decision on your own if you want to drink or not.
And how many of those law abiding none beer drinking college students are filling up their iPods with music that the ripped off from the p2p network du jour?
Beyond that, the game was rated M, which is the rating for 17+, which is the same age range as NC-17 which is the adult film category in the states.
No where near.
Adult films do not receive MPAA ratings. In the 1970s when X was used to denote films that were not for children, the adult films industry began to self-impose the X rating upon their films. XXX was later used to specify films that contained explicit sexual content. Namely graphic scenes of penetration and "money shots".
Bravo. Our encounter on the other thread would have lead me to believe otherwise, but this is a fantastic summary of events and explanation thereof.
If you want to fix the blame for the problem in our political system everyone should stop trying to fix it on Democrats or Republicans. The current cancer can mostly be traced to lobbyists who are corrupting both parties and the whole system, and the politicians they buy from both parties. Most of the lobbyists do in fact work for corporations though some for work for Unions and other special interest groups too.
Bingo. I'm left wondering how to fix the problem, let's ignore for a moment that no politician would ever vote to enact it do we forbid them to work for any company for X years after leaving office? Do we forbid them, their spouses and children? Where does it end?
It's the downside to living in the free society that we enjoy, you and I are free to have a rancorous disagreement here on Slashdot and because our society is so free we can't stop the money from corrupting nearly every aspect of government.
You are correct in so far as the previous poster's assertion that licensing == code leakage. Perhaps I didn't properly understand the point in the rebuttal. I was pointing out that commercial source code does in fact sometimes leak.
Maybe I've been here too long and am just used to the old layout, but I really don't like this new one. Would it be asking too much to request an option in preferences to return the previous layout.
You can't have it both ways. Either you are done talking about the subject, in which case I do get the last word or you're not.
I'm of the opinion its a choice best left to the woman involved
You have every right to that opinion, but it's just that. Regardless of if you like it or not, other people are also free to have other opinions and act on them accordingly.
(i.e. why don't both you and the Chinese learn to mind your own fucking business for a change).
Protecting the innocent and weak from the malicious and strong is my fucking business.
Like I've said I could care less about abortion or gun control. They are dead last on the list of issues I care about since I'm not planning on making any babies and I don't care whether I have a gun or not since they are more trouble than useful. The only thing I care about is the fact dickheads like you are voting for the worst political leaders imaginable, people who are doing grievous harm to both America and the world, because YOU are completely OBSESSED with these two issues, not me.
If that's true, then why won't you lobby the Democrats to change the party's position? Take the issues away from the Republicans. Without us, the Republians lose. If these issues are really unimportant, you'll have no problem with abandoning them in order to oust the Republicans. Right?
Sure, there are fringe people who disagree with the mainstream, but any scientific theory has people on its fringe.
It was once fringe thinking that the earth revolved around the sun. There are some people that STILL believe that our solar system is at the center of the universe. That's what is important about science. It doesn't matter who believes what, the only thing that matters is what you can PROVE.
If these fringe scientists are so wrong, it should be easy to disprove their conclusions. Right?
I'd like to say, "see how it feels?", but I find no satisfaction in that.
I, on the other hand do find satisfaction in this.
India has been courting big business for a few years now. Their huge population creates a great supply of labor and when demand is low that translates into dirt cheap prices. Now, in spite of these low prices Apple has decided to pull out.
I'd find a lot of satisfaction in it if the service and customer service jobs that have been flowing to India started flowing elsewhere.
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Let's just say, theoretically, that you thought that your copy of windows was legit but it wasn't. Your retailer passed off a high quality fake. You'll run WGA and it'll let you know that your version of windows is pirated. Microsoft gives you a legit version in exchange for ratting out the retailer who sold you the bogus setup.
LK
What makes you think those restrictions weren't originally based on health reasons anyway?
They most likely were.
It doesn't take a scientist to figure out that if you eat something and get sick, you probably shouldn't eat that anymore!
If they observed people getting sick or dying after eating specific things and hypothesized that those things were the cause of the sickness/death and experimented with not eating them; they most certainly were scientists. It doesn't take a lab coat and coke bottle glasses to be a scientist.
Or, maybe God really did say so.
LK
If this proxy is simply a website with a "Insert Web address here:" field and a "Go" button, it would look like any other website to their routers. Unless you're willing to impose and then troubleshoot a "deny by default" policy on all web traffic, it'll be easy to play cat and mouse with the network admins for quite a long time.
LK
The school would be completely within its rights to threaten to not allow graduation for anyone who accessed the proxy with the school's computers, but they have no right to dictate what legal activities a student may partake in while that student isn't under the egiss of the school.
In other words, the school has nothing to do with what you do while you're on your own time.
LK
Keep your little whore cat in the house.
If they only spay the females, you have valid point. But if they neuter the males too, then the only motive would be to protect their profit stream.
LK
Cats eat meat. Not Kosher or Halal.
Although I'm not a Jew or a Muslim I think that their dietary restrictions are wonderful.
Before we knew about high cholesterol, they didn't eat pork. Before we knew about prions they didn't eat animals that eat meat. Before we knew about microbes, they didn't eat carrion.
LK
She seems to have had a change of heart.
Either that, or she's tired of getting death threats.
LK
I wish we could get the USPS to charge his Institute for Policy Innovation a surcharge for delivering their mail to people. Get the telcos to charge the Institute for Policy Innovation for letting its outgoing calls into their networks.
Opposition to net neutrality is about men in suits who "don't get this whole intarweb thing" but want to milk it for every dime they can.
LK
If memory serves, it was finally being able to weld titanium that lead to the huge progresses we made in supersonic flight during the 1950s and 1960s. Aircraft skinned in 100% aluminum couldn't take the heat generated by supersonic flight, but titanium's propensity to oxidize made it impossible to build airplanes out of it, then someone got the brilliant idea of using He to displace atmospheric oxygen and voila SR-71!
LK
Replacing steel frame rails or unibody with Ti would make a huge difference in the weight of an automobile as well, problem is that if cars are too good people won't need to buy replacements as often. The auto industry needs repeat customers.
LK
The point that I was making is that some people simply do not like to or want to drink. Being law abiding has little to do with it.
Just because someone happens to obey one law (incidentally) that is not enough to make them "law abiding". Besides, why should we obey stupid laws? At 18 you're a legal adult, there is no compelling argument to prevent you from making the decision on your own if you want to drink or not.
LK
And how many of those law abiding none beer drinking college students are filling up their iPods with music that the ripped off from the p2p network du jour?
LK
Beyond that, the game was rated M, which is the rating for 17+, which is the same age range as NC-17 which is the adult film category in the states.
No where near.
Adult films do not receive MPAA ratings. In the 1970s when X was used to denote films that were not for children, the adult films industry began to self-impose the X rating upon their films. XXX was later used to specify films that contained explicit sexual content. Namely graphic scenes of penetration and "money shots".
LK
Statutes ARE laws. Regulation, et all must be authorized by a law.
LK
This didn't change the result of the war.
LK
Al Gore says that the vortex is George W. Bush's fault.
LK
Bravo. Our encounter on the other thread would have lead me to believe otherwise, but this is a fantastic summary of events and explanation thereof.
If you want to fix the blame for the problem in our political system everyone should stop trying to fix it on Democrats or Republicans. The current cancer can mostly be traced to lobbyists who are corrupting both parties and the whole system, and the politicians they buy from both parties. Most of the lobbyists do in fact work for corporations though some for work for Unions and other special interest groups too.
Bingo. I'm left wondering how to fix the problem, let's ignore for a moment that no politician would ever vote to enact it do we forbid them to work for any company for X years after leaving office? Do we forbid them, their spouses and children? Where does it end?
It's the downside to living in the free society that we enjoy, you and I are free to have a rancorous disagreement here on Slashdot and because our society is so free we can't stop the money from corrupting nearly every aspect of government.
LK
You are correct in so far as the previous poster's assertion that licensing == code leakage. Perhaps I didn't properly understand the point in the rebuttal. I was pointing out that commercial source code does in fact sometimes leak.
LK
Why do I feel more inclined to act violently when I read about that asshat Jack Thompson than I do after playing Raven Shield for a few hours?
LK
No an occassional Windows NT / Cisco code _theft_, but a leak of an actual OEM ..
package. I'm waiting
Who would want to steal the source code to the proprietary system that the Metropolis public library system uses?
Windows source code and the HL2 source code are two relatively recent examples of code theft & leakage.
LK
The new Slashdot layout.
Maybe I've been here too long and am just used to the old layout, but I really don't like this new one. Would it be asking too much to request an option in preferences to return the previous layout.
LK
But you keep on reading.
LK
You can't have it both ways. Either you are done talking about the subject, in which case I do get the last word or you're not.
I'm of the opinion its a choice best left to the woman involved
You have every right to that opinion, but it's just that. Regardless of if you like it or not, other people are also free to have other opinions and act on them accordingly.
(i.e. why don't both you and the Chinese learn to mind your own fucking business for a change).
Protecting the innocent and weak from the malicious and strong is my fucking business.
Like I've said I could care less about abortion or gun control. They are dead last on the list of issues I care about since I'm not planning on making any babies and I don't care whether I have a gun or not since they are more trouble than useful. The only thing I care about is the fact dickheads like you are voting for the worst political leaders imaginable, people who are doing grievous harm to both America and the world, because YOU are completely OBSESSED with these two issues, not me.
If that's true, then why won't you lobby the Democrats to change the party's position? Take the issues away from the Republicans. Without us, the Republians lose. If these issues are really unimportant, you'll have no problem with abandoning them in order to oust the Republicans. Right?
LK
Sure, there are fringe people who disagree with the mainstream, but any scientific theory has people on its fringe.
It was once fringe thinking that the earth revolved around the sun. There are some people that STILL believe that our solar system is at the center of the universe. That's what is important about science. It doesn't matter who believes what, the only thing that matters is what you can PROVE.
If these fringe scientists are so wrong, it should be easy to disprove their conclusions. Right?
LK
I'd like to say, "see how it feels?", but I find no satisfaction in that.
I, on the other hand do find satisfaction in this.
India has been courting big business for a few years now. Their huge population creates a great supply of labor and when demand is low that translates into dirt cheap prices. Now, in spite of these low prices Apple has decided to pull out.
I'd find a lot of satisfaction in it if the service and customer service jobs that have been flowing to India started flowing elsewhere.
LK