actually, this is dependant on the laws of whatever country you happen to be in...if, like i thought it was, the gpl is global, then your argument is void.
Find me a country that has adequate internet access along with an absence of copyright laws that allow you to download copyrighted music for free, and it's void.
Japanese doesn't use inflection for any meaning at all. You can speak Japanese without using any inflection, you would just sound like a robot.
Sometimes it's easier to understand two words that sound similar with inflection, but the way they are written or even spoken is different without any inflection.
well yes I download songs. it's legal too, just like taping from radio. it's not infringement.
You know, this is what I don't understand about a lot of people on here. It is infringement. It is not like taping from the radio. You are creating a full duplication of an un-edited copyrighted work that was released for the purpose of sale (not radio play) nor was the person who released it authorized to release it.
You do realize that radio stations pay royalty fees to play songs on the radio, right? Unless you are downloading and recording from a legal netradio station, you are infringing.
most (defined as over 50% of the population) dont have a clue what linux is, most people wouldnt care even if they did, that the sad fact of the matter... take a poll on the street and see how many blank stares you get when you ask them what linux is, try asking them what it is if they tell you they know... good luck
More assumptions. Have you actually left your parents basement long enough to look at the world outside? Linux is mentioned in a news story in any major city probably twice a month. Most people read the news. Get it?
Nope...read the quote again. It's not an assumption, it's a "safe bet." In other words, the odds show that the judge won't know what Linux is. In another form: When reaching into a bag of 10 dimes and 25 slugs, "It's a safe bet that the token pulled out (averge small claims court judge) is a slug (doesn't know what Linux is.)
What you are missing is that he is assuming it is a safe bet. I contend that it isn't, and hasn't been for quite some time.
It's a safe bet that the averge small claims court judge doesn't know what Linux is.
Uh, what? You just said, "Don't assume that's why I came to the conclusion I did." Then follow it up with a stereotype about people you know who work in law offices. Are you trying to say that there are more geeks as police officers than judges? Are you trying to say that they don't read the news?
CNN has ran 779 stories on Linux. It is not some elite club, and most people know that Linux is an operating system. They may not know the details, but most people know that it's an operating system at least.
You are assuming, based on stereotypes, that judges will not know what Linux is. No matter what you try to label it as, that is what you are doing.
Two conclusions are possible: the judge in question already knew what Linux was. (Doubtful.) Or the judge was simply satisfied that the plantiff had installed something (i.e., not pirated the original software), and that he could name it easily (i.e., didn't pause to invent a name).
Why do you automatically assume that you are some elite clubmember who knows what linux is? Let me tell you a story, about something that happened in 1998.
I got stopped by a police officer outside of my apartment in the bay area. He immediately took a hostile attitude towards me, and accused me of being on drugs due to an genetic eye-condition that causes my eyes to not be able to contract. After dragging me out of my car, and trying to search me and being taken aback by my awareness of my prevention of search rights, he called for back up.
The second cop car got there to cool things down (the first cop and I did get physical, but I was defending myself.) and saw my t-shirt and immediately pulled the other cop aside. He walked over to me and said, "So, are you a programmer or do you just run Linux for fun?" We then had a discussion about Linux, my programming job, and the other cop got suspended for his actions.
This was in 1998. Don't assume people don't know what Linux is just because they aren't in an IT field, it just makes an ass out of you.
Check here and you'll see that things have been much worse just in the last 30 years.
But since it's the tech sector everything is so much worse and bigger. Overseas jobs, unemployment, etc. When it is someone elses field, they offer sympathies. When it's their own, they scream for government intervention to stop the greedy capitalist scum they work for.
Completely ignoring the fact that with broadband, you're typically 30ms minimum from your nearest neighbor, and good gaming requires a guarantee of 16ms max.
You are just purely on crack. I think you mean 160ms for gaming. How do you think that the network adapter works for gaming? Well, over the inter-fucking-net. Not over some magical 16ms ether.
They're a bunch of liars. Fool me once, shame on me. Except they didn't fool anyone the first time.
I think your problem is that you are an idiot that doesn't know what you are talking about. Not them making empty promises. Sony actually makes good electronic components for consumers.
"US Shrugs Off World's IP Address Shortage", but the rest of the world is shrugging of the US - and rightly so.
It really is the world that is saying, screw you yankeys!. The US has 70% of IPv4 address space. The rest of the world wants a bigger pie. So they have incentive to grow, the US doesn't. It's pretty simple logic, and the US can just take their sweet ass time doing it, and don't have any problems. They can also let the overseas providors (NTT, for example) do it, and not worry about it at all.
Anyway, virtually "the rest of the world" has had better mobile phone service than the US (for those who installed networks) - that doesn't seem to have caused any kind of problem for them. Just as the US is now (slowly) catching up, I expect the same thing to happen with IPv6...
Just to clarify on this, it isn't so much that the US is behind it is that they took a different road. CDMA is more expandable than GSM. CDMA2000 is being deployed in Japan and the UK, because it has more capabilities than GSM. They are both 3G systems, but for international compatibility, GSM is the way to go.
The US has better support for bandwidth applications over cell-phones, but because the US is so much larger (geographically speaking) it's harder to provide the same level of coverage. Another major reason why the actual cellphones outside of the US make US cell pohones look like toys is because of the consumer markets.
Americans typically go for the cheaper deal, and don't want the capabilities. SMS never took off in the US like it did elsewhere, so it is an add-on feature instead of a must-have.
But, most ISPs in Japan have IPv6 support. NTT has had full commercial IPv6 support since 2000. NTT is also the major ISP in Japan, and all the smaller ones have followed suit.
So, to answer your original question about just one: NTT. NTT also has providors in San Francisco and New York offering IPv6 capabilities.
I suppose you wouldn't consider buying an X-Box and acquiring the game through a means that doesn't give MS money? If downloading and burning it isn't your thing, you could probably buy a used company. This way MS doesn't get any more money from you since the original buyer already paid...
I actually only buy used CDs, and if the MPAA starts suing their end-users I'll only buy used DVDs as well. The fact remains that I am feeding into the "Consumer buying XBox" category. I support a gaming store and increase their XBox sales. This means, that as a consumer, I voted that the XBox is ok.
If I buy CDs, I also will only buy from the local stores. I haven't bought a CD in ages though, as netradio has my attention:)
And fanboys, listen up: quit buying XBoxes to put Linux on them! You know that's just your excuse to/. so you can feel ok about subscribing to XBox Live.
I totally agree with this, but I still want one. I want to play Apex racing. It's something I enjoy. Racing games just have a nice little sweet spot in my heart, and the PC just falls short because you either have NFS or Nascar games. There is nothing as involved as Apex racing (or Auto Modelista) for the PC.
So what am I going to do? Buy an Xbox, and Apex racing. Then I hope they don't recover the cost of the XBox with me buying just one game (or another really good racing game that comes out.) That's why it won't work, because of people like me who don't care enough about the evil DRM (I think some DRM can be good, but I'm not arguing that here and now) to not buy what we want. It's a trade-off of ideals vs. benefit. The ideals I stand for aren't in major jeopardy by buying an X-Box.
I hate it, but it's just the way it goes. Unless you can point to a PC racing game that has the same depth as Gran Turismo and Apex Racing, the XBox gets my purchase.
Its simply too late to dump SMTP. If we would have thought about this 5 or so years ago it maybe would have been possible but now we have so many using this system its inpossible to change to a newer standard.
Just like gopher with http? You can also add a plethora of validation ontop of SMTP. SMTP, as a protocol, isn't bad. It's possible to add validation, to only accept from SMTP servers that use some sort of valid key.
Then you get to keep SMTP, and slowly migrate servers. Setup a non-profit organization for distributing SMTP authentication keys that are unique to the mail server (think SSL) and if the mail comes from that server is spam, you just block that servers key. If the server doesn't have a key, put it into a validation list or send backa response saying they need to use a mail server that supports signed-SMTP.
Easy solution, not a complete overhaul of SMTP. The problem comes in with who signs the certificates, because then you have to trust the source that delivers them. Like Verisign, et al.
The point I was trying to make was where private companies have taken over previously public institutions, there has not been the success foreseen by the original poster.
This is largely nonsense. Many things enter the public sector silently, and make leaps and bounds in their progress and commercial success.
NASA has contracts for the leads of certain types of projects to bring them into the private sector. You know the tempurpedic pillows? Those are based off the seats in space shuttles. A lot of parallel computing systems that are in the public market started from government research.
Privatizing something as large as "Space" is similar to saying, "We should privatize police." There already is some, in limited capacity. There should be a public market for satellite launches, and other things in a regulated capacity. I don't think anybody is saying that NASA should be replaced, just expended on by public companies.
Besides which, there is a lot of public companies mingling with NASA. Go take a trip out to Ames RC, half the workers there are contracted to NASA from private companies.
but I don't think his characterization of Americans as paranoid gun nuts was too far off the mark.
Paranoid? That's off the mark. Taking a select minority sample of people and trying to make it seem that's the majority is misleading and unethical. Basing an argument off of anything Moore says is more than dangerous, it's like kissing a rattle snake.
But does the fact that I don't get overtime anyway prevent them from forcing me to fill out a timecard? Of course not. I still have to specify my day in 15-minute increments, and I'll get paid for 8 hours regardless. (Well, except if I work for less than 8 hours.)
Ouch, you are getting spanked on that. You should renegotiate your contract. You know, like a baseball player.. or something:)
There is some work being done that is mapping traffic patterns out and comparing them with electron flow, which is more accurate than analogous high/low pressure fronts. I wish I could find some google links for you, but coming up empty. You may just google around for "electron flow traffic congestion" and see if anything strikes your fancy.
$1000.00 for a speeding ticket(3 months suspension and a $500.00 fine added for 3 speeding tickets in a year) and $5000.00 plus 3 months community service for tailgaiting or reckless driving would fix the problem quicky.
Sure, fine for tailgating, but have it set for $10K for those going less than the speed limit in the left hand line.
The dangerous thing about speeding is that most people don't have a clue how to drive. They know how to get in a car, and move it to their destination.
The example given in the article is about a 23 yr old girl who uses her parents' account. Whether it's her parents' responsibility for her actions with their service or not, I am not one to say
Since it's a civil case, they are entitled (and almost required) to put everybodies name on the case. Her parents are interested parties (In the sense of being involved) and thus, listed on the subpoena.
see, in the real world, you're responsible for the actions of your children until they are 18, whether you like it or not
Only in civil matters. Criminal courts, you aren't. The thing that really got me in the article was one of the quotes from her dad. "I never knew this was illegal."
Sharing files isn't illegal. Copyright infringment for non-profit, or ill-intent to reduce value of anothers, isn't going to be persecuted in criminal courts. But they're succeeding, they won the fear of the citizens.
Barnes nailed it, "They are trying to scare people."
I happen to remember reading here when Gartner said, "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, GET RID OF ALL IIS INSTALLATIONS" that everybody agreed with Gartner. They're not in any way pro-MS.
The only thing they are is pro-money. Gartner is just an advertising company thinly veiled as a "Market Research" firm.
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actually, this is dependant on the laws of whatever country you happen to be in...if, like i thought it was, the gpl is global, then your argument is void.
Find me a country that has adequate internet access along with an absence of copyright laws that allow you to download copyrighted music for free, and it's void.
Japanese are highly inflected.
Japanese doesn't use inflection for any meaning at all. You can speak Japanese without using any inflection, you would just sound like a robot.
Sometimes it's easier to understand two words that sound similar with inflection, but the way they are written or even spoken is different without any inflection.
well yes I download songs. it's legal too, just like taping from radio. it's not infringement.
You know, this is what I don't understand about a lot of people on here. It is infringement. It is not like taping from the radio. You are creating a full duplication of an un-edited copyrighted work that was released for the purpose of sale (not radio play) nor was the person who released it authorized to release it.
You do realize that radio stations pay royalty fees to play songs on the radio, right? Unless you are downloading and recording from a legal netradio station, you are infringing.
most (defined as over 50% of the population) dont have a clue what linux is, most people wouldnt care even if they did, that the sad fact of the matter... take a poll on the street and see how many blank stares you get when you ask them what linux is, try asking them what it is if they tell you they know... good luck
More assumptions. Have you actually left your parents basement long enough to look at the world outside? Linux is mentioned in a news story in any major city probably twice a month. Most people read the news. Get it?
Nope...read the quote again. It's not an assumption, it's a "safe bet." In other words, the odds show that the judge won't know what Linux is. In another form: When reaching into a bag of 10 dimes and 25 slugs, "It's a safe bet that the token pulled out (averge small claims court judge) is a slug (doesn't know what Linux is.)
What you are missing is that he is assuming it is a safe bet. I contend that it isn't, and hasn't been for quite some time.
Building a Webpage Without a star-pattern as a background nor using the blink tag. would be a better course.
Just my $0.02.
It's a safe bet that the averge small claims court judge doesn't know what Linux is.
Uh, what? You just said, "Don't assume that's why I came to the conclusion I did." Then follow it up with a stereotype about people you know who work in law offices. Are you trying to say that there are more geeks as police officers than judges? Are you trying to say that they don't read the news?
CNN has ran 779 stories on Linux. It is not some elite club, and most people know that Linux is an operating system. They may not know the details, but most people know that it's an operating system at least.
You are assuming, based on stereotypes, that judges will not know what Linux is. No matter what you try to label it as, that is what you are doing.
Two conclusions are possible: the judge in question already knew what Linux was. (Doubtful.) Or the judge was simply satisfied that the plantiff had installed something (i.e., not pirated the original software), and that he could name it easily (i.e., didn't pause to invent a name).
Why do you automatically assume that you are some elite clubmember who knows what linux is? Let me tell you a story, about something that happened in 1998.
I got stopped by a police officer outside of my apartment in the bay area. He immediately took a hostile attitude towards me, and accused me of being on drugs due to an genetic eye-condition that causes my eyes to not be able to contract. After dragging me out of my car, and trying to search me and being taken aback by my awareness of my prevention of search rights, he called for back up.
The second cop car got there to cool things down (the first cop and I did get physical, but I was defending myself.) and saw my t-shirt and immediately pulled the other cop aside. He walked over to me and said, "So, are you a programmer or do you just run Linux for fun?" We then had a discussion about Linux, my programming job, and the other cop got suspended for his actions.
This was in 1998. Don't assume people don't know what Linux is just because they aren't in an IT field, it just makes an ass out of you.
Check here and you'll see that things have been much worse just in the last 30 years.
But since it's the tech sector everything is so much worse and bigger. Overseas jobs, unemployment, etc. When it is someone elses field, they offer sympathies. When it's their own, they scream for government intervention to stop the greedy capitalist scum they work for.
People shouldn't have to hack their own hardware to play movies that they have purchased legally.
People shouldn't buy hardware that doesn't do what they want. If it doesn't do what you want, don't buy it or modify it.
Do you bitch about your car not having a big enough drink holder, and having to modify it?
Completely ignoring the fact that with broadband, you're typically 30ms minimum from your nearest neighbor, and good gaming requires a guarantee of 16ms max.
You are just purely on crack. I think you mean 160ms for gaming. How do you think that the network adapter works for gaming? Well, over the inter-fucking-net. Not over some magical 16ms ether.
They're a bunch of liars. Fool me once, shame on me. Except they didn't fool anyone the first time.
I think your problem is that you are an idiot that doesn't know what you are talking about. Not them making empty promises. Sony actually makes good electronic components for consumers.
"US Shrugs Off World's IP Address Shortage", but the rest of the world is shrugging of the US - and rightly so.
It really is the world that is saying, screw you yankeys!. The US has 70% of IPv4 address space. The rest of the world wants a bigger pie. So they have incentive to grow, the US doesn't. It's pretty simple logic, and the US can just take their sweet ass time doing it, and don't have any problems. They can also let the overseas providors (NTT, for example) do it, and not worry about it at all.
Anyway, virtually "the rest of the world" has had better mobile phone service than the US (for those who installed networks) - that doesn't seem to have caused any kind of problem for them. Just as the US is now (slowly) catching up, I expect the same thing to happen with IPv6...
Just to clarify on this, it isn't so much that the US is behind it is that they took a different road. CDMA is more expandable than GSM. CDMA2000 is being deployed in Japan and the UK, because it has more capabilities than GSM. They are both 3G systems, but for international compatibility, GSM is the way to go.
The US has better support for bandwidth applications over cell-phones, but because the US is so much larger (geographically speaking) it's harder to provide the same level of coverage. Another major reason why the actual cellphones outside of the US make US cell pohones look like toys is because of the consumer markets.
Americans typically go for the cheaper deal, and don't want the capabilities. SMS never took off in the US like it did elsewhere, so it is an add-on feature instead of a must-have.
But, most ISPs in Japan have IPv6 support. NTT has had full commercial IPv6 support since 2000. NTT is also the major ISP in Japan, and all the smaller ones have followed suit.
So, to answer your original question about just one: NTT. NTT also has providors in San Francisco and New York offering IPv6 capabilities.
Name a single ISP anywhere in the world that is planning on rolling out IPv6?
*.ne.jp
I suppose you wouldn't consider buying an X-Box and acquiring the game through a means that doesn't give MS money? If downloading and burning it isn't your thing, you could probably buy a used company. This way MS doesn't get any more money from you since the original buyer already paid...
:)
I actually only buy used CDs, and if the MPAA starts suing their end-users I'll only buy used DVDs as well. The fact remains that I am feeding into the "Consumer buying XBox" category. I support a gaming store and increase their XBox sales. This means, that as a consumer, I voted that the XBox is ok.
If I buy CDs, I also will only buy from the local stores. I haven't bought a CD in ages though, as netradio has my attention
And fanboys, listen up: quit buying XBoxes to put Linux on them! You know that's just your excuse to /. so you can feel ok about subscribing to XBox Live.
I totally agree with this, but I still want one. I want to play Apex racing. It's something I enjoy. Racing games just have a nice little sweet spot in my heart, and the PC just falls short because you either have NFS or Nascar games. There is nothing as involved as Apex racing (or Auto Modelista) for the PC.
So what am I going to do? Buy an Xbox, and Apex racing. Then I hope they don't recover the cost of the XBox with me buying just one game (or another really good racing game that comes out.) That's why it won't work, because of people like me who don't care enough about the evil DRM (I think some DRM can be good, but I'm not arguing that here and now) to not buy what we want. It's a trade-off of ideals vs. benefit. The ideals I stand for aren't in major jeopardy by buying an X-Box.
I hate it, but it's just the way it goes. Unless you can point to a PC racing game that has the same depth as Gran Turismo and Apex Racing, the XBox gets my purchase.
Its simply too late to dump SMTP. If we would have thought about this 5 or so years ago it maybe would have been possible but now we have so many using this system its inpossible to change to a newer standard.
Just like gopher with http? You can also add a plethora of validation ontop of SMTP. SMTP, as a protocol, isn't bad. It's possible to add validation, to only accept from SMTP servers that use some sort of valid key.
Then you get to keep SMTP, and slowly migrate servers. Setup a non-profit organization for distributing SMTP authentication keys that are unique to the mail server (think SSL) and if the mail comes from that server is spam, you just block that servers key. If the server doesn't have a key, put it into a validation list or send backa response saying they need to use a mail server that supports signed-SMTP.
Easy solution, not a complete overhaul of SMTP. The problem comes in with who signs the certificates, because then you have to trust the source that delivers them. Like Verisign, et al.
The point I was trying to make was where private companies have taken over previously public institutions, there has not been the success foreseen by the original poster.
This is largely nonsense. Many things enter the public sector silently, and make leaps and bounds in their progress and commercial success.
NASA has contracts for the leads of certain types of projects to bring them into the private sector. You know the tempurpedic pillows? Those are based off the seats in space shuttles. A lot of parallel computing systems that are in the public market started from government research.
Privatizing something as large as "Space" is similar to saying, "We should privatize police." There already is some, in limited capacity. There should be a public market for satellite launches, and other things in a regulated capacity. I don't think anybody is saying that NASA should be replaced, just expended on by public companies.
Besides which, there is a lot of public companies mingling with NASA. Go take a trip out to Ames RC, half the workers there are contracted to NASA from private companies.
but I don't think his characterization of Americans as paranoid gun nuts was too far off the mark.
Paranoid? That's off the mark. Taking a select minority sample of people and trying to make it seem that's the majority is misleading and unethical. Basing an argument off of anything Moore says is more than dangerous, it's like kissing a rattle snake.
But does the fact that I don't get overtime anyway prevent them from forcing me to fill out a timecard? Of course not. I still have to specify my day in 15-minute increments, and I'll get paid for 8 hours regardless. (Well, except if I work for less than 8 hours.)
:)
Ouch, you are getting spanked on that. You should renegotiate your contract. You know, like a baseball player.. or something
Yeah, those with real jobs that have Internet access while at work. Let's see, 40 + 17 is... ummm... hold on...
40 hours? Shit...
I've been here since 7am this morning, at least I get paid overtime...
There is some work being done that is mapping traffic patterns out and comparing them with electron flow, which is more accurate than analogous high/low pressure fronts. I wish I could find some google links for you, but coming up empty. You may just google around for "electron flow traffic congestion" and see if anything strikes your fancy.
$1000.00 for a speeding ticket(3 months suspension and a $500.00 fine added for 3 speeding tickets in a year) and $5000.00 plus 3 months community service for tailgaiting or reckless driving would fix the problem quicky.
Sure, fine for tailgating, but have it set for $10K for those going less than the speed limit in the left hand line.
The dangerous thing about speeding is that most people don't have a clue how to drive. They know how to get in a car, and move it to their destination.
first post yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Only 17 hours a week? I think they need to survey more slashdotters.
The example given in the article is about a 23 yr old girl who uses her parents' account. Whether it's her parents' responsibility for her actions with their service or not, I am not one to say
Since it's a civil case, they are entitled (and almost required) to put everybodies name on the case. Her parents are interested parties (In the sense of being involved) and thus, listed on the subpoena.
see, in the real world, you're responsible for the actions of your children until they are 18, whether you like it or not
Only in civil matters. Criminal courts, you aren't. The thing that really got me in the article was one of the quotes from her dad. "I never knew this was illegal."
Sharing files isn't illegal. Copyright infringment for non-profit, or ill-intent to reduce value of anothers, isn't going to be persecuted in criminal courts. But they're succeeding, they won the fear of the citizens.
Barnes nailed it, "They are trying to scare people."
I happen to remember reading here when Gartner said, "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, GET RID OF ALL IIS INSTALLATIONS" that everybody agreed with Gartner. They're not in any way pro-MS.
The only thing they are is pro-money. Gartner is just an advertising company thinly veiled as a "Market Research" firm.