Find out your intellectual property complaints are baseless? No worries, just manufacture a few deaths and another lawsuit! Its a conspiracy I tell you... IBM, the masters behind the wildly successful OS/2 WARP, can do no wrong.
That has absolutely nothing to do with stupidity. It may have something to do with insensitivity, callousness, or other social factors, but it certainly has nothing to do with stupidity. I would argue that carelessly attaching value judgements like you've done here is much closer to stupidity than the behavior you are complaining about.
Here is what the Copyright Board's decision stated in regards to "Private copying":
On March 19, 1998, Part VIII of the Copyright Act dealing with private copying came into force. Until that time, copying any sound recording for almost any purpose infringed copyright, although, in practice, the prohibition was largely unenforceable. The amendment to the Act legalized copying of sound recordings of musical works onto audio recording media for the private use of the person who makes the copy (referred to as "private copying"). In addition, the amendment made provision for the imposition of a levy on blank audio recording media to compensate authors, performers and makers who own copyright in eligible sound recordings being copied for private use. The Copyright Board's decision issued today sets a levy for this purpose.
This is something else entirely from distribution of someone elses' protected works. To deal with that angle, the government appears to be engaging in a misguided attempt to go after ISPs.
That is certainly important, but I wonder if overly restrictive terms in Apple's terms and conditions would be overruled/nullified by the legal rights to this property. Of course, it depends on what it is that this guy has actually (i.e., legally) purchased.
Perhaps all he has is a non-transferable license to maintain a copy of the music for personal listening purposes, similar to how some hardware vendors (gouge) charge their customers an exorbitant license fee for software. Those software license fees counteract relatively cheap hardware appliances, a similar business model to gaming consoles. Remember, Microsoft, Sony etc lose money on the console hardware but make their profits on the sale of the games.
And Windows' failure to scale up to the hardcore expertise of the average guru is why Windows has its greatest success in the same user group that can claim the toaster as a "must have" piece of technology.
... do we really want to encourage a bunch of code that is a blatant rip-off of existing ideas, just re-implemented? Perhaps a balance needs to be sought in short-lived patents. That was the original concept, IIRC... except the crusty old lawmakers who came up with it didn't realize how the rate of change in technology and ideas would increase.
There is still no comment, but I think the comments to 140 say it all. DYNIX is not relevant here, given that it is based on the BSD lineage: "DYNIX developed at Sequent years ago was derived from BSD 4.1 with patches from 4.2 and new code by Sequent".
The precedent set in the Berkeley v AT&T decision counters much of SCO's mindless spew. I got the idea that by the time Rob and Eric got to that point in the rebuttal that they got sick of repeating the same point over and over again, resulting in comments becoming sparser.
Can somebody just hand Halloween IX to the appropriate judges so they can dismiss this thing already and focus on IBM's counterclaims? hehe Stupid SCO.
I'm sure you've noticed before, but one of the meta-aspects of Slashdot is a certain tendency to some members of the population of readers to believe that there is one correct answer to any question due to the logic and/or facts of the question. This, of course, is an incredibly rare thing to have happen in the real world, but it constantly shocks me how some issues seem to bring zealots out of the woodwork who honestly believe there to be only one true answer.
That is not thought. That is religion.
Anyways, funny/insightful would have been the frame of mind my comment was made under. Personally, I see a number of those conflicts to be important. I think the aspect I have to lean towards most strongly is the right of the owners of the network to choose what traffic is allowed. Customers can vote with their dollar, and that is the only way they have a right to influence the decision of the owners. Owners have the rights of the thing which is owned.
I have to comment on something else, because it bugs me. Your use of "schizophrenic" is, intentionally or not, incorrect. Schizophrenia is a collection of symptoms which involve problems with perception, processing, and receipt of environmental stimuli. It has nothing to do with multiple "personalities" or problems semi-autonomous entities within a collective might have agreeing with each other;)
Ah, yes I supposed I missed your point. Perhaps the file got corrupted and consigned to lost and found. I don't really know, but I'm sure further research (i.e,. google) will provide an answer. I'm assuming that the files you lost in the shutdown were being altered at that time. I can't think of a reason for them to spontaneously disappear otherwise.
As for apcupsd, it works very well. I have a Back-UPS ES 500VA hooked up to a Linux server via the USB cable, and it works very well. I've tested it and watched it compensate for real world outages, as well as observe it doing regular tests. For your ease of reference: Apcupsd's Support for USB UPSes.
An entitity choosing not to receive a message is not censorship, it is the entity exercising its right to choose what it receives. You cannot cry censorship with one breath while advocating stripping any entity of its right to choose what communications it receives with the other. That is logically and ethically inconsistent.
I usually like XFS, but its not really a good idea without a UPS and unattended shutdown (why wouldn't you have that if you are on a UPS? try apcupsd), but I think the same comment goes for ReiserFS. You were probably only doing metadata journalling.
If you aren't using that UPS time to shut down the machine cleanly, a journalling filesystem that only journals metadata isn't going to do you a hell of a lot of good.
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But all dialup is evil. Sometimes those of us in Canada (or those in South Korea) need to get reminded that there are still people who have to use dialup... I bet that it would also shock some that there are people who (hold on to your hats) choose to us dialup.
... the user is a complete idiot? Will the computer learn to compensate, or will the artificial intelligence take on the "logic" (or lack thereof) of the user rather than constantly fix what s/he screws up?
Will the artificial intelligence become bitter and spiteful like human technical support? Will the computer evetually yell at the user one day, and get fired, go on a leave of absence, or quit, just like real tech support does after being in the job too long?
... Linux is about control of the code running on your hardware, not about a perfect out of the box solution that any idiot can deploy without having to turn on their brains.
Linux is as secure as we want it to be without being hampered by bad programmers, because we have the power to fix what they broke, bad strategies, because we have the power to plan what they didn't, and bad default settings, because we have the power to install it how we wish. Linux isn't better because it is magically more secure... it is better because we can make it more secure without relying on someone else to be the vendor.
Ya, I need another copy of the/.drone handbook. I'm not sure what to do here... we hate spam, but we hate AOL, but we like security, but we hate restrictions on our (ab)use of broadband, but we support the rights of network admins to admin their network, but we like freedom, but we hate government interference, but... *bzzzt*
... anyways, I wonder if something like this could provide a solution for mobility-reducing neurological diseases like Parkinsons. I'm rusty on my neurological diseases, but I believe Parkinsons doesn't affect the motor cortext itself, so if mechanical assistance could be controlled from a tap into the motor cortext then perhaps those afflicted with such diseases could resume normal mobility.
I think the pigs would actually prefer to use Darl (what the hell kind of name is "Darl" anyways?) and then discard him. Why let him sleep? Wham, bam, thank you Darl... now get out, I've got an early meeting in the morning, plz/thx.
SuSE is quite overrated, IMHO. I've played with it, but it never really stood out. It used to be in the category of "just another Red Hat spawn", along with Mandrake.
I'm also not sure what he means by "company", because as far as I'm concerned Gentoo Technologies, Inc. has the legal status and enough products for sale to qualify as a company... and the only Linux company that has made any money off me is Mandrake.
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I'm also eagrely awaiting the DVD release of the TV show.
Find out your intellectual property complaints are baseless? No worries, just manufacture a few deaths and another lawsuit! Its a conspiracy I tell you... IBM, the masters behind the wildly successful OS/2 WARP, can do no wrong.
That has absolutely nothing to do with stupidity. It may have something to do with insensitivity, callousness, or other social factors, but it certainly has nothing to do with stupidity. I would argue that carelessly attaching value judgements like you've done here is much closer to stupidity than the behavior you are complaining about.
The war has already been lost. Each time an episode of American Idol airs, another real artist dies. Please, think of the artists...
I'm a Canadian. Mod parent up as insightful =(
Here is an interesting article on Canadian copyright: Will Canada become THE file sharing nation?
Here is what the Copyright Board's decision stated in regards to "Private copying":
This is something else entirely from distribution of someone elses' protected works. To deal with that angle, the government appears to be engaging in a misguided attempt to go after ISPs.That aside, I've already got my response drafted for any SCO invoices that might show up:
I'm still fine tuning it, suggestions are welcome. I will likely put a Calvin pissing on SCO watermark on the reply letter.Perhaps all he has is a non-transferable license to maintain a copy of the music for personal listening purposes, similar to how some hardware vendors (gouge) charge their customers an exorbitant license fee for software. Those software license fees counteract relatively cheap hardware appliances, a similar business model to gaming consoles. Remember, Microsoft, Sony etc lose money on the console hardware but make their profits on the sale of the games.
And Windows' failure to scale up to the hardcore expertise of the average guru is why Windows has its greatest success in the same user group that can claim the toaster as a "must have" piece of technology.
... do we really want to encourage a bunch of code that is a blatant rip-off of existing ideas, just re-implemented? Perhaps a balance needs to be sought in short-lived patents. That was the original concept, IIRC... except the crusty old lawmakers who came up with it didn't realize how the rate of change in technology and ideas would increase.
Slide, Gerstner!
The precedent set in the Berkeley v AT&T decision counters much of SCO's mindless spew. I got the idea that by the time Rob and Eric got to that point in the rebuttal that they got sick of repeating the same point over and over again, resulting in comments becoming sparser.
Can somebody just hand Halloween IX to the appropriate judges so they can dismiss this thing already and focus on IBM's counterclaims? hehe Stupid SCO.
That is not thought. That is religion.
Anyways, funny/insightful would have been the frame of mind my comment was made under. Personally, I see a number of those conflicts to be important. I think the aspect I have to lean towards most strongly is the right of the owners of the network to choose what traffic is allowed. Customers can vote with their dollar, and that is the only way they have a right to influence the decision of the owners. Owners have the rights of the thing which is owned.
I have to comment on something else, because it bugs me. Your use of "schizophrenic" is, intentionally or not, incorrect. Schizophrenia is a collection of symptoms which involve problems with perception, processing, and receipt of environmental stimuli. It has nothing to do with multiple "personalities" or problems semi-autonomous entities within a collective might have agreeing with each other ;)
As for apcupsd, it works very well. I have a Back-UPS ES 500VA hooked up to a Linux server via the USB cable, and it works very well. I've tested it and watched it compensate for real world outages, as well as observe it doing regular tests. For your ease of reference: Apcupsd's Support for USB UPSes.
You will definitely want to read Halloween IX if you haven't already... its an excellent shredding of SCO's idiocy.
An entitity choosing not to receive a message is not censorship, it is the entity exercising its right to choose what it receives. You cannot cry censorship with one breath while advocating stripping any entity of its right to choose what communications it receives with the other. That is logically and ethically inconsistent.
If you aren't using that UPS time to shut down the machine cleanly, a journalling filesystem that only journals metadata isn't going to do you a hell of a lot of good.
*shudder*
Will the artificial intelligence become bitter and spiteful like human technical support? Will the computer evetually yell at the user one day, and get fired, go on a leave of absence, or quit, just like real tech support does after being in the job too long?
In other words, will there be Post Technical Support Disorder built into the AI?
Linux is as secure as we want it to be without being hampered by bad programmers, because we have the power to fix what they broke, bad strategies, because we have the power to plan what they didn't, and bad default settings, because we have the power to install it how we wish. Linux isn't better because it is magically more secure... it is better because we can make it more secure without relying on someone else to be the vendor.
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I think the pigs would actually prefer to use Darl (what the hell kind of name is "Darl" anyways?) and then discard him. Why let him sleep? Wham, bam, thank you Darl... now get out, I've got an early meeting in the morning, plz/thx.
I'm also not sure what he means by "company", because as far as I'm concerned Gentoo Technologies, Inc. has the legal status and enough products for sale to qualify as a company... and the only Linux company that has made any money off me is Mandrake.
Did I just read an argument for taking computers and Internet connections away from the general public?