At least the floppies you could use them for something else.. how about a law that says that they can not use cd-r, only allow them to use cd-rw? Free cd-rw for us all!
The simplest solution is accept the corn and process it into a non plantable form before distributing... ie ground. If the kernels are destroyed they can only be eaten.
Perhaps the answer to these draconian laws is to force their hand and have them start jailing large numbers of people for trivial stuff. How long before the politicians start to see that they have helped no one with these laws?
I have a Commodore Super Pet I have been eyeing as a new home for an Athlon. Kick the existing monitor out of it and either replace it with a modern CRT or with an LCD monitor. Just imagine showing up at the local LAN party with one of these!
About ten years ago Ontario tried photo radar. It was so massively unpopular it was a major reason the provincial government was defeated at election time. It was immediately repealed by the sucessor government.
Looks like we are arguing a non issue here. Yes a Solaris box can be rooted, so can a linux box, OS X and I'm sure even my old C-64 could be compromised. The idea is not to become totally impervious, because it can not be done. The idea is to deflect as much damage as possible which can be done by move #1, dump microsoft. Your odds of being squashed by a truck are much less if you don't lie down on the yellow line.
Napster is first, who is next? If this can happen to Napster who never even carries the offending material, what about IRC servers? What about News Servers? How about your favorite search engines? This is a very slippery slope.
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It would be cool to be just like Max Headroom, but I could live without the stutter.
At least the floppies you could use them for something else.. how about a law that says that they can not use cd-r, only allow them to use cd-rw? Free cd-rw for us all!
Does this mean latex is now a firewall?
Here is a link for a win32 port of Xine, a nice video player
http://www.matthewgrooms.net/
The simplest solution is accept the corn and process it into a non plantable form before distributing... ie ground. If the kernels are destroyed they can only be eaten.
Perhaps the answer to these draconian laws is to force their hand and have them start jailing large numbers of people for trivial stuff. How long before the politicians start to see that they have helped no one with these laws?
I have a Commodore Super Pet I have been eyeing as a new home for an Athlon. Kick the existing monitor out of it and either replace it with a modern CRT or with an LCD monitor. Just imagine showing up at the local LAN party with one of these!
Gee, would anyone at this online convention believe CleverNickName when he says "Hi! I'm Wil Wheaton!" in all virtual Wesleyness?
About ten years ago Ontario tried photo radar. It was so massively unpopular it was a major reason the provincial government was defeated at election time. It was immediately repealed by the sucessor government.
Looks like we are arguing a non issue here. Yes a Solaris box can be rooted, so can a linux box, OS X and I'm sure even my old C-64 could be compromised. The idea is not to become totally impervious, because it can not be done. The idea is to deflect as much damage as possible which can be done by move #1, dump microsoft. Your odds of being squashed by a truck are much less if you don't lie down on the yellow line.
Napster is first, who is next? If this can happen to Napster who never even carries the offending material, what about IRC servers? What about News Servers? How about your favorite search engines? This is a very slippery slope.
Hrm, here is a concept as a Quake player... nah, never happen.