I spoke to Michael Reagan on the air about this very subject about 8 months ago. Some people (like mike) just don't get it. What Mike was talking about was the Clinton administrations easing of computer export restrictions to countries like China.
The Genie is out of the bottle. Beowulf, actually allows one to build faster computers for LESS money. If you buy a "million dollar" super-computer and you spend a million dollars on nodes for a Beowulf cluster, typically the Beowulf if going to be capable of doing the work faster.
I'm not too worried about China getting nuclear technology through eased export restrictions, I'm worried about well funded terrorist groups getting access to nukes, Bin Laden's boys or that death cult in Japan are far scarier to me than China.
It is questionable if he had to legally answer such questions about his personal life.
There's no question as to whether or not he had to answer. He was NOT allowed to lie, personal life or not.
It is a valid line of questioning to establish a pattern of behavior, as it relates to persuing a sexual relationship with his underlings.
He was deposed for a CIVIL lawsuit. There is no 5th amendment protection.
The investigations primary purpose was to ruin him.
No, the reason he was deposed was for a CIVIL lawsuit for sexual harrassment. It was about getting money for Paula Jones. Not ruining anyone. His lying nearly ruined him.
I'd give that he has embarrassed his office, but there is absolutely no reason to throw him out of office besides a campaign by republicans to fuck the democrats over.
Not even the fact that he committed a felony? Mark Furhman can no longer be a police officer for committing the same crime during the OJ Simpson trial.
Because many republicans and democrats have done exactly what clinton did.
How many others in government have lied under oath?
I remember when we had to imagine a guy who was thinking about using an abacus. We'd have to do metamath using the imaginary abacus, in the mind of the imaginary guy to get our work done.
I began playing Diablo as a wizard. I found it not to my liking, I tried the brute strength of the barbarian. That too was not to my liking, so I tried the Rogue. It was sweet. She could fire arrows at incredible speed. I liked ranged attacks. Then when they introduced the Bard I fell in love. TWO swords AND the ability to ID stuff. It was great.
When playing a FPS, I usually choose the one who looks the *most* like me.
I don't think that there's anything "odd" or different about it, you just use the characters and models that you dig.
However, it did freak me out when I was playing as a Rogue on Battle.Net and some guy kept calling me "Baby", "Honey", and "Sweet Cheeks".
OK, I made that last one up, but you get the point.
"SCREW YOU Big Business! I'm going to copy and distribute as many DVDs as I like now, hahahahaha!"
You're another one who just doesn't fucking get it do you?
DeCSS isn't needed to copy DVDs. I never was needed for that. If you can read the data, you can copy the data.
If I have written on a note in my desk "XXDX11212220222002341" You may have no idea what that means, but you can still copy it as many times as you like. DeCSS is useless for piracy. Having a 4 foot long fork doesn't help you eat the world's largest bowl of soup.
Remember those old 3.5" floppies that had holes punched in the media that would cause failures if you tried to sequentially copy them?
People wrote programs that copied around those missing sectors, problem solved.
The DeCSS genie is out of the bottle. I even have a copy of the source. It's too late. That fight is over.
The author has a good point, next month I'm going to begin the stock investment phase of my retirement planning. I just may throw a share or two into one of these companies just so that I can show up at a stockholder meeting.
Christ, people, if we ever want to stop this idea that all computer people are "hacker doodz", then we need to stop acting like five year olds whenever the chance might present itself.
Take the stick out of your ass, this was funny. My only regret is that I didn't think of it.
Did you ever think that not everyone should be on the internet? The more clueless morons we get here, the more of a call for regulation there will be.
According to that release, the MOL support requires you to obtain a MacOS ROM file. They include a ROM grabbing util, but they also say that MacOS 8.6 and higher CDs have a MacOS ROM file on them, my question is this. Will this allow the use of MacOS on CHRP systems? Or any other Non-Apple, but supported by LinuxPPC machine?
It comes to us via the Sony Vs Connectix battle. In the most recent ruling the judge's opinion includes the following...
17 U.S.C. S 102(b) (Copyright protection does not extend to any "idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery" embodied in the copyrighted work.). Software engineers designing a product that must be compatible with a copyrighted product frequently must "reverse engineer" the copyrighted product to gain access to the functional elements of the copyrighted product. See Andrew Johnson-Laird, Software Reverse Engineering in the Real World, 19 U. Dayton L. Rev. 843, 845-46 (1994).
Copyrighted software ordinarily contains both copyrighted and unprotected or functional elements. Sega Enters. Ltd. v. Accolade, Inc., 977 F.2d 1510, 1520 (9th Cir. 1993) (amended opinion); see 17 U.S.C. S 102(b) (Copyright protection does not extend to any "idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery" embodied in the copyrighted work.). Software engineers designing a product that must be compatible with a copyrighted product frequently must "reverse engineer" the copyrighted product to gain access to the functional elements of the copyrighted product. See Andrew Johnson-Laird, Software Reverse Engineering in the Real World, 19 U. Dayton L. Rev. 843, 845-46 (1994).
As long as they aren't trying to pretend that they ARE you, I don't think that you should have any recourse.
If someone buys up all of the property around your house and refuses to "give" it to you when you want to add another room on, you shouldn't be able to go to the courts and demand that they "give" away something that is theirs.
Who deems what is a "legitimate" use? What if someone takes SomeFormOfYourCompanyName.com and puts up a site which is nothing but negative opinions about it. Is that legit?
How much of a step is it then before Consumer Reports gets sued for using the name of a trademarked product or company name?
I think that domain registration should be handled by a country with slightly more SANE IP laws than the US.
Perfect example is this, Nina Hartley (yes, the porn chick) registered nina.com for use as her personal website and some off the wall purse maker who makes nina handbags tried to legally wrestle the domain name from her. It's her FUCKING NAME and she actually had to spend money to fight in court to use it.
Look at the fight between amazon.com and that amazon lesbian book store.
I say, first come. First served. If I had the insight to host a website about small soft breasts and registered microsoft.com, first M$ would be SOL. However we should limit the number of domains that any 1 person or company can own.
Someone registered kano.com before I did, that doesn't mean that I should sue does it?
I was hoping that this would happen. Maybe Rob could swing a cameo or two. No, BS I was saying to my wife when I found out that this season would be the last that I hoped that they'd spin off a Lone Gunmen series and it now looks like I've gotten my wish.
I've only "used" two different distros, but I've installed even more and fielded questions from other people who have been running them. I installed SuSE once, and I hope that I never have to again. Yes, it's installer is very powerful and can be customized as you see fit, but I like RedHat(6.1) & Mandrake (7.0)'s system of installing.
RPM is a great way to add onto an existing Distro as well. I like that. SuSE is a good solid, stable distro but I would like to know how it beat out Debian, RedHat and Mandrake.
Tens of thousands (if not millions) of transistors on the CPU are dedicated to memory page address translation, and useless "backwards compatible" instructions that can run 8088 code!
The 8088 is a dinosaur. As the PC has evolved there have been certain legacy hangers on that were left in for that ~5% of people out there who still need to work with 15 year old programs and nothing new is good enough.
High speed wireless will do much more for PDAs than it will for obsolete desktops.
Did you even READ my post? High speed wireless internet access will help make the PDA a great partner to the PC and when we can get FAST PDAs then they can replace the PC.
Does anyone remember the CDA? It was tossed out because it was unconstitutional.
All we need is a friendly judge and POOF DMCA goes bye bye.
It is a perfectly valid response to a "bad" law.
In the US it was illegal to help slaves escape, good people willingly broke that bad law.
This is a BAD law. It doesn't protect copyright holders anymore than the "war on drugs" helps drug addicts. This is about MONEY, pure and simple. It's a law that gives a copany the ability to extort money from their customers with the US government acting as their hired gun in a legal shakedown.
It must be stopped, if we break this law enough and they haul us into court we will get a friendly judge who will throw the case out.
I'm not even going to get into jury nullification.
IMO, when PDAs get identical performance to PCs we'll have terminals to carry with us that we can plug into full size monitors and keyboards (& etc...) once we reach a destination, be it work or home. and while we're stuck in gridlock we can retrieve messages and respond to them as well.
There's always the possibility of the mythical VR HeadGear wich can make the monitor obsolete.
The way that I see it the PDA is held back by these factors.
SLOWNESS! Storage capacity. Display quality.
Once these things are on par with PCs then the PDA will have a chance to really shine. Who knows how long that'll be though.
However, it is not this judge's position to decide if the law is moral, only if this action violates it. And it does.
Actually it is within a judge's power to throw out a law on constitutional grounds. If a judge thinks that source code is expression then POOF there magically is grounds to trash DMCA.
It's just a question of getting a judge who is friendly to the cause.
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I spoke to Michael Reagan on the air about this very subject about 8 months ago. Some people (like mike) just don't get it. What Mike was talking about was the Clinton administrations easing of computer export restrictions to countries like China.
The Genie is out of the bottle. Beowulf, actually allows one to build faster computers for LESS money. If you buy a "million dollar" super-computer and you spend a million dollars on nodes for a Beowulf cluster, typically the Beowulf if going to be capable of doing the work faster.
I'm not too worried about China getting nuclear technology through eased export restrictions, I'm worried about well funded terrorist groups getting access to nukes, Bin Laden's boys or that death cult in Japan are far scarier to me than China.
LK
It is questionable if he had to legally answer such questions about his personal life.
There's no question as to whether or not he had to answer. He was NOT allowed to lie, personal life or not.
It is a valid line of questioning to establish a pattern of behavior, as it relates to persuing a sexual relationship with his underlings.
He was deposed for a CIVIL lawsuit. There is no 5th amendment protection.
The investigations primary purpose was to ruin him.
No, the reason he was deposed was for a CIVIL lawsuit for sexual harrassment. It was about getting money for Paula Jones. Not ruining anyone. His lying nearly ruined him.
I'd give that he has embarrassed his office, but there is absolutely no reason to throw him out of office besides a campaign by republicans to fuck the democrats over.
Not even the fact that he committed a felony? Mark Furhman can no longer be a police officer for committing the same crime during the OJ Simpson trial.
Because many republicans and democrats have done exactly what clinton did.
How many others in government have lied under oath?
Name some names. If you can.
LK
I remember when we had to imagine a guy who was thinking about using an abacus. We'd have to do metamath using the imaginary abacus, in the mind of the imaginary guy to get our work done.
LK
We promise to make the next 10,000 suck less!
You know what this means? You heard it here first boys and girls, Slashdot is FIRING Jon Katz.
Yippie!
I began playing Diablo as a wizard. I found it not to my liking, I tried the brute strength of the barbarian. That too was not to my liking, so I tried the Rogue. It was sweet. She could fire arrows at incredible speed. I liked ranged attacks. Then when they introduced the Bard I fell in love. TWO swords AND the ability to ID stuff. It was great.
When playing a FPS, I usually choose the one who looks the *most* like me.
I don't think that there's anything "odd" or different about it, you just use the characters and models that you dig.
However, it did freak me out when I was playing as a Rogue on Battle.Net and some guy kept calling me "Baby", "Honey", and "Sweet Cheeks".
OK, I made that last one up, but you get the point.
LK
"SCREW YOU Big Business! I'm going to copy and distribute as many DVDs as I like now, hahahahaha!"
You're another one who just doesn't fucking get it do you?
DeCSS isn't needed to copy DVDs. I never was needed for that. If you can read the data, you can copy the data.
If I have written on a note in my desk "XXDX11212220222002341" You may have no idea what that means, but you can still copy it as many times as you like. DeCSS is useless for piracy. Having a 4 foot long fork doesn't help you eat the world's largest bowl of soup.
Remember those old 3.5" floppies that had holes punched in the media that would cause failures if you tried to sequentially copy them?
People wrote programs that copied around those missing sectors, problem solved.
The DeCSS genie is out of the bottle. I even have a copy of the source. It's too late. That fight is over.
The author has a good point, next month I'm going to begin the stock investment phase of my retirement planning. I just may throw a share or two into one of these companies just so that I can show up at a stockholder meeting.
LK
Christ, people, if we ever want to stop this idea that all computer people are "hacker doodz", then we need to stop acting like five year olds whenever the chance might present itself.
Take the stick out of your ass, this was funny. My only regret is that I didn't think of it.
Did you ever think that not everyone should be on the internet? The more clueless morons we get here, the more of a call for regulation there will be.
LK
According to that release, the MOL support requires you to obtain a MacOS ROM file. They include a ROM grabbing util, but they also say that MacOS 8.6 and higher CDs have a MacOS ROM file on them, my question is this. Will this allow the use of MacOS on CHRP systems? Or any other Non-Apple, but supported by LinuxPPC machine?
LK
Do you feel that the credibility of the candidate involved can have any adverse or positive influence on the way people view "internet campaigns"?
"I took the initiative in creating the internet." Is not something that we (around these parts) are likely to forget.
LK
When the law is contradictory to judicial opinion and another law, a judge must decide which is valid.
We've got the stick, not we just need the right judge to beat the MPAA and DVDCA over the head with it.
LK
I see a perfect way to kill the DeCSS lawsuit.
It comes to us via the Sony Vs Connectix battle. In the most recent ruling the judge's opinion includes the following...
17 U.S.C. S 102(b) (Copyright protection does not extend to any "idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery" embodied in the copyrighted work.). Software engineers designing a product that must be compatible with a copyrighted product frequently must "reverse engineer" the copyrighted product to gain access to the functional elements of the copyrighted product. See Andrew Johnson-Laird, Software Reverse Engineering in the Real World, 19 U. Dayton L. Rev. 843, 845-46 (1994).
What more do we need as ammunition?
LK
Copyrighted software ordinarily contains both copyrighted and unprotected or functional elements. Sega Enters. Ltd. v. Accolade, Inc., 977 F.2d 1510, 1520 (9th Cir. 1993) (amended opinion); see 17 U.S.C. S 102(b) (Copyright protection does not extend to any "idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery" embodied in the copyrighted work.). Software engineers designing a product that must be compatible with a copyrighted product frequently must "reverse engineer" the copyrighted product to gain access to the functional elements of the copyrighted product. See Andrew Johnson-Laird, Software Reverse Engineering in the Real World, 19 U. Dayton L. Rev. 843, 845-46 (1994).
This spells "kiss my ass" to the DVDCA.
LK
As long as they aren't trying to pretend that they ARE you, I don't think that you should have any recourse.
If someone buys up all of the property around your house and refuses to "give" it to you when you want to add another room on, you shouldn't be able to go to the courts and demand that they "give" away something that is theirs.
Who deems what is a "legitimate" use? What if someone takes SomeFormOfYourCompanyName.com and puts up a site which is nothing but negative opinions about it. Is that legit?
How much of a step is it then before Consumer Reports gets sued for using the name of a trademarked product or company name?
LK
I think that domain registration should be handled by a country with slightly more SANE IP laws than the US.
Perfect example is this, Nina Hartley (yes, the porn chick) registered nina.com for use as her personal website and some off the wall purse maker who makes nina handbags tried to legally wrestle the domain name from her. It's her FUCKING NAME and she actually had to spend money to fight in court to use it.
Look at the fight between amazon.com and that amazon lesbian book store.
I say, first come. First served. If I had the insight to host a website about small soft breasts and registered microsoft.com, first M$ would be SOL. However we should limit the number of domains that any 1 person or company can own.
Someone registered kano.com before I did, that doesn't mean that I should sue does it?
LK
"YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES!"
I was hoping that this would happen. Maybe Rob could swing a cameo or two. No, BS I was saying to my wife when I found out that this season would be the last that I hoped that they'd spin off a Lone Gunmen series and it now looks like I've gotten my wish.
LK
I've only "used" two different distros, but I've installed even more and fielded questions from other people who have been running them. I installed SuSE once, and I hope that I never have to again. Yes, it's installer is very powerful and can be customized as you see fit, but I like RedHat(6.1) & Mandrake (7.0)'s system of installing.
RPM is a great way to add onto an existing Distro as well. I like that. SuSE is a good solid, stable distro but I would like to know how it beat out Debian, RedHat and Mandrake.
LK
Tens of thousands (if not millions) of transistors on the CPU are dedicated to memory page address translation, and useless "backwards compatible" instructions that can run 8088 code!
The 8088 is a dinosaur. As the PC has evolved there have been certain legacy hangers on that were left in for that ~5% of people out there who still need to work with 15 year old programs and nothing new is good enough.
High speed wireless will do much more for PDAs than it will for obsolete desktops.
Did you even READ my post? High speed wireless internet access will help make the PDA a great partner to the PC and when we can get FAST PDAs then they can replace the PC.
LK
Then s/he would be inaccurate.
Jurassic park introduced the term "'raptor" to the common person, but it's full name velociraptor means that it's fast moving.
There were dinosaurs of all sizes and speeds, the thing that they all have in common is they're all extinct(as far as we know).
That was the obvious meaning, of the statement.
LK
If she meant it as a compliment, she wouldn't have been talking about replacing them.
LK
Does anyone remember the CDA? It was tossed out because it was unconstitutional.
All we need is a friendly judge and POOF DMCA goes bye bye.
It is a perfectly valid response to a "bad" law.
In the US it was illegal to help slaves escape, good people willingly broke that bad law.
This is a BAD law. It doesn't protect copyright holders anymore than the "war on drugs" helps drug addicts. This is about MONEY, pure and simple. It's a law that gives a copany the ability to extort money from their customers with the US government acting as their hired gun in a legal shakedown.
It must be stopped, if we break this law enough and they haul us into court we will get a friendly judge who will throw the case out.
I'm not even going to get into jury nullification.
LK
IMO, when PDAs get identical performance to PCs we'll have terminals to carry with us that we can plug into full size monitors and keyboards (& etc...) once we reach a destination, be it work or home. and while we're stuck in gridlock we can retrieve messages and respond to them as well.
There's always the possibility of the mythical VR HeadGear wich can make the monitor obsolete.
The way that I see it the PDA is held back by these factors.
SLOWNESS!
Storage capacity.
Display quality.
Once these things are on par with PCs then the PDA will have a chance to really shine. Who knows how long that'll be though.
LK
Who gives this person the authority to declare that the PC is a dinosaur?
The PC has just entered it's golden age.
HIGH SPEED wireless internet access is what will prevent PDAs from becoming the device of choice.
When we can get PDA that are as powerful as that day's PCs and the ability to access our data no matter where we are, THEN the PC will be a dinosaur.
The PC as we know it isn't going anywhere any time soon.
LK
However, it is not this judge's position to decide if the law is moral, only if this action violates it. And it does.
Actually it is within a judge's power to throw out a law on constitutional grounds. If a judge thinks that source code is expression then POOF there magically is grounds to trash DMCA.
It's just a question of getting a judge who is friendly to the cause.
LK
Someone will want to port linux to it though... which will lead to hooking them up with that "B" word.
Go to sourceforge.net, that project is already underway.
LK
What would going to the moon have to do with The Red Planet?
As I'm sure you know MARS is the red planet, now if you substitute Mars for moon in your joke, I'd find it funny.
Otherwise it looks like you missed the pass.
LK