I have personally worked on and setup e-com software that does work out taxes. I hadn't thought about whether the fact that this is netside would change the effect of taxes. Personally, I think that the normal tax laws should apply. There's no point in making up new laws just because the mode of communication has changed. It's not like the 'net itself has been the shipping medium, or the physical space where the product was created.
Seriously, if all the laws are duplicated for 'net use, the resulting spaghetti of codified rules will inevitably result in a grand contradiction.
I already mentioned this. The real point is analogue signals and digital signals are different, and you can't use a digital signal to replace an analogue one.
You know, people have expressed distaste about the seemingly arbitrary posting policies -without- being immature about it. The ones I saw weren't moderated down.
Analogue circuits do stuff that digital ones don't. Digital data is more preservable, yes, but it's less accurate, it fits things into integrals... into little tiny boxes -- analogue doesn't do this at all... it's a true medium, where the signal is properly 'carried.' The advantage of digital is the the medium won't distort the message.
To get digital accuracy such that you can't tell the difference is like trying to represent Pi as a fraction. Honestly, to be fully accurate you'd need an infinite number of signal samples.
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Fine. But, you can't see who did it on the net. All you get are packets. Packets constructed by the gunman. Packets that say 'he did it'. Pay attention next time.
I think it's worse than this. My suspicion is that those advocating this kind of action are 'kidz' who read bugtraq that need an excuse to DoS something.
Honestly, knocking out a machine is NOT going to get you anywhere when you're under attack. It *will* add to the traffic on your network, which is the problem in the first place. Drop the offending packets at the router / switch / firewall / tin-cans-and-string / whatever.
DoSing a machine in blind retaliation is pretty stupid -- if you hear a gunshot and fire 'in the general direction' you heard it is obviously not a good idea. Neither is this.
What do you intend to do with the rights? I would assume you'd retain the the rights for quite some time, but is there any point where you would be willing to hand the rights over to the public domain?
Personally, I intend to hold onto any rights that I have until I die. At that point, it's PD for my stuff. Copywrite law is too prohibitive at the moment to allow creative adaptations -- or even verbatim reproductions once the author's deceased. The DMCA obviously complicates this also.
It's not a patent, it's a trademark. You cannot patent things that occur in nature (-- yet, the next DystopyOS release is slated to have this feature).
Have you read the banner when you log in? It looks very 'social-contract' to me. Under this premise, the only thing you can blame are the individual people.
Would you blame New York itself, if you got mugged in central park at night?
Damn, I love the way you write. Well put, and clear in vision. You ought to write more, I always enjoy your stuff.
I have no knowledge of slashdot ever censoring anything in any way, and I'd like it to remain that way, so I'd be confounded if slashdot were to simply comply with this.
Not only that, you/can/ use much of high-ascii (8-bit) in filenames, on most OSs I've used. Unix, DOS, even TRS-80 machines with their color basic, and TRS-DOS. It/does/ become a pain to access those files, and tends to mess up directory browsers and the like (tripwire used to have a problem like this).
I'd never use an OS that wasn't ascii-based at the lowest (character) level.
It's cool. I just hope Sony decides to compete =). I mean, PSX2 + Linux Box + this kind of service == Happy Me. This way you can still sit on your couch...
That's actually funny. On the anarchistic/socialistic graph, open source software is right on the crossover, which IMO, is the best place for any social system to be at.
Slashdot Mirror
Wow. Thanks, that's really informitave.
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I read about something like this months ago in a magazine (I forget which.) It seems pretty cool.
Now, if such paper were sensitive to a stylus... _that_ would be the cat's ass. It could be the interface as well.
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I think there's a zen to it or something. After a while, I would know exactly what everyone (who I knew) meant by anything they said...
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Tell that to Aphex Twin.
If the two are different, then one can't behave exactly the same as the other -- that's what different means.
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I have personally worked on and setup e-com software that does work out taxes. I hadn't thought about whether the fact that this is netside would change the effect of taxes. Personally, I think that the normal tax laws should apply. There's no point in making up new laws just because the mode of communication has changed. It's not like the 'net itself has been the shipping medium, or the physical space where the product was created.
Seriously, if all the laws are duplicated for 'net use, the resulting spaghetti of codified rules will inevitably result in a grand contradiction.
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I already mentioned this. The real point is analogue signals and digital signals are different, and you can't use a digital signal to replace an analogue one.
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You know, people have expressed distaste about the seemingly arbitrary posting policies -without- being immature about it. The ones I saw weren't moderated down.
So, how's puberty going?
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Analogue circuits do stuff that digital ones don't. Digital data is more preservable, yes, but it's less accurate, it fits things into integrals... into little tiny boxes -- analogue doesn't do this at all... it's a true medium, where the signal is properly 'carried.' The advantage of digital is the the medium won't distort the message.
To get digital accuracy such that you can't tell the difference is like trying to represent Pi as a fraction. Honestly, to be fully accurate you'd need an infinite number of signal samples.
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And for those of you who don't wish to register at the news site, the l/p: anoncoward/anoncoward phenomenon is now in effect...
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Fine. But, you can't see who did it on the net. All you get are packets. Packets constructed by the gunman. Packets that say 'he did it'. Pay attention next time.
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I think it's worse than this. My suspicion is that those advocating this kind of action are 'kidz' who read bugtraq that need an excuse to DoS something.
Honestly, knocking out a machine is NOT going to get you anywhere when you're under attack. It *will* add to the traffic on your network, which is the problem in the first place. Drop the offending packets at the router / switch / firewall / tin-cans-and-string / whatever.
DoSing a machine in blind retaliation is pretty stupid -- if you hear a gunshot and fire 'in the general direction' you heard it is obviously not a good idea. Neither is this.
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What do you intend to do with the rights? I would assume you'd retain the the rights for quite some time, but is there any point where you would be willing to hand the rights over to the public domain?
Personally, I intend to hold onto any rights that I have until I die. At that point, it's PD for my stuff. Copywrite law is too prohibitive at the moment to allow creative adaptations -- or even verbatim reproductions once the author's deceased. The DMCA obviously complicates this also.
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It's not a patent, it's a trademark. You cannot patent things that occur in nature (-- yet, the next DystopyOS release is slated to have this feature).
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Have you read the banner when you log in? It looks very 'social-contract' to me. Under this premise, the only thing you can blame are the individual people.
Would you blame New York itself, if you got mugged in central park at night?
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Metamoderators shall have the first born of whoever moderated /that/ down.
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write a program that replicates its source, distribute that =)
yeah, I know, not worth it
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A good question is -how- is it encrypted? Cyphered with rot13? Frobnicated with 8bit XOR 42? Or something useful?
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Damn, I love the way you write. Well put, and clear in vision. You ought to write more, I always enjoy your stuff.
I have no knowledge of slashdot ever censoring anything in any way, and I'd like it to remain that way, so I'd be confounded if slashdot were to simply comply with this.
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Not only that, you /can/ use much of high-ascii (8-bit) in filenames, on most OSs I've used. Unix, DOS, even TRS-80 machines with their color basic, and TRS-DOS. It /does/ become a pain to access those files, and tends to mess up directory browsers and the like (tripwire used to have a problem like this).
I'd never use an OS that wasn't ascii-based at the lowest (character) level.
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Well, slashdot has to defend itself. If it loses and complies, I'll just have to stop reading it.
This may sound harsh, but that's one of the things I respect slashdot for, nothing's ever been censored, that I know of.
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It's cool. I just hope Sony decides to compete =). I mean, PSX2 + Linux Box + this kind of service == Happy Me. This way you can still sit on your couch...
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I was going to buy this book, until I realized that it was priced based on the size of the book and not the original content within. I hear you.
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Well... that trashes one 007 plot =)
Good news, though.
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What's funny is that I'm used to 'CoS' meaning 'Church of Satan'. I think it gives the right connotations, but tarnishes the image of Satanism.
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That's actually funny. On the anarchistic/socialistic graph, open source software is right on the crossover, which IMO, is the best place for any social system to be at.
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