They never said that they wouldn't do something like this. Read the post to which you are replying. The KDE people said they wouldn't do something like the GNOME Foundation, they didn't. The KDE League is a marketing organization, it has NOTHING, repeat NOTHING to do with development. It's bad enough when people don't read the articles, but come on, read the post you are replying to atleast.
I want to know what's going to happen with those 2000 votes that supposedly went to buchanan(sp) that should have gone to gore because florida made an ugly ballot. Normally I'd say that it doesn't matter, but in this race 2000 votes means a LOT. IMHO the best thing right now would be for florida to just hold another vote, with easier to read ballots. This would almost definately ensure that gore would win because he would probably get a substantial portion of nader's ~10,000 votes.
I have read the article, and I saw nothing of a contest. Lucasfilms "judges" will determine what is put up, but usually a contest rewards the person who entered the contest, not the judges. The only thing I see Lucasfilms doing here is providing soundclips, which while nice, could easily be extracted from the movies with a little work. The way I read the article it did have a bit of a "you can do this because we are letting you" tone to it, but that's probably just as much from atomfilms because they obviously want people to submit parodies only to them.
You can use copyrighted materials all you want provided it is in critique or parody. They both come under fair use. This is just George Lucas going on a power trip. What else is new? Didn't he do this a few years ago with fanfic sites? Maybe he should stop to think that fanfic and parody are what keep starwars interesting and alive after all of these years. That crap he pushed out as "episode one" certainly isn't doing anything.
Take a look at the case of "Amish Paradise". Al thought he had permission (his label lied to him and said they had asked), and was very sorry about it, but he still couldn't be sued over it.
Technically his label did ask, but the answer was "no". And from what I saw despite the fact that Weird Al publicly appologized to Coolio, Coolio still made a big stink about it mostly directed at Al himself. Some people just don't know how to accept an appology. IMHO Coolio is a dick for saying no anyway. Nirvana considered "Smells like Nirvana" to be the sign that they had finally made it big.
It's kind of like the MPAA with movies sure you can make a movie that isn't rated but don't expect any theater to run it.
Is this actually true anywhere? I hear lots of people say this on slashdot but where I live (Philadelphia) there seem to be plenty of theaters that play unrated movies. Sure it doesn't happen often, but then again, how often do you see an unrated movie with a budget large enough to hit movie theaters. Maybe people are just more forgiving around here.
The ideal ticket for the next election might be Jesse (Ventura) and Jello. They would *really* rock the vote.
Actually Jello is running in this election under the green party he is just not doing ANY campaigning. I guess running for mayor all those years back gave him a bad taste for campaigning.
Learn more about Jello at the Alternative Tentacles website. Also, you can order his new CD (the one mentioned on the H2K front page) here.
The CD is going to be watermarked with SDMI, so noone can copy it, right?
I strongly doubt it. All of Jello's work is published under his record label (Alternative Tentacles) and I really can't see him falling into the SDMI bullshit
Actually, if you read the article it says that sega is going to license the hardware design to interested parties, ie they design the hardware, someone else builds it, which would fit with getting out of the hardware business.
Please please please read the constitution before posting things like this. Things like illegal search and seizure and free speech protect you from the government, NOT from private citizens. Corporations are considered to be private citizens for the most part (they gain a few things, like not having to serve jury duty, in exchange for losing a few rights, but they're basically people). When you walk into a store you lose most of your rights. Sure they can't force you to submit to a strip search, but they can ask to search your bags.
Believe me, although it is impractical speed wise, I dearly wish Linux had a VMWare like product that attempted to EMULATE the microprocessor rather than attempting to run it in native mode. Apart from speed, there are cool things you can do with an emulated system, even if it is slow.
Uhm...chill. Yah that about says it. I got $20 that says Jesus himself would have gotten a good chuckle out of that comment. Come on, do you really want a god with no sense of humor?
that the response to microsoft was just that, a response to microsoft. Microsoft's lawyers send andover a request, andover had no obligation to uphold this request. A court order on the other hand is, well an order. If andover got a court order telling them to hand over their logs, they would, any company would, atleast any company that wished to remain in business.
Have you ever actually READ the constitution? "Congress shall make no law..." The first ammendment applies to the government and the government alone. It is impossible for a private citizen (which includes corporations) to violate anyone's first ammendment rights. I don't see the government involved here at all.
4) People who use Linux almost exclusively but have a few applications that are only available in windows flavors, and dual booting would be excessive work. Ie, creating website graffics using gimp, and creating macromedia flash for the same website.
5) People who can't justify buying a windows license for a few applications.
6) People who have written a windows version of a program and want to get a linux port out quick using libwine (Ie, Corel, yes I know Corel Office uses wine not libwine, but the plan is to use libwine in the future).
7) Not contributing to the Microsoft Defense Fund (not buying software from MS).
IANAL: If Sony had taken this to court and had lost, it would have killed any future chance they had at suing Conectix (or however you spell it) on these grounds. Sony probably wasn't able to put their case together in time and as such dropped the case so they can regroup and sue Conectix at some future date. Money could not have been in the consideration, Sony has far more money than Conectix ever will. If they keep suing eventually Conectix will run out of money.
If you don't protect a trademark you risk losing it. Napster really HAS to sue The Offspring or else they risk the trademark falling out of their hands. Yes it's stupid, but what American laws aren't? The Offspring really should have gotten permission first.
Now if Napster wants to not be dickheads they should offer some kind of settlement in the range of $1US. I think that would fullfil their obligations under US trademark law.
Actually GLX *IS* an extention in the way X uses the term extention. Just as Display [Post,Ghost]script, or MIT Shared Memory are extentions.
It's not about censorship though...
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Personally I feel that many people have it wrong about Farenheit 451: the book has nothing to do with censorship. Think about it, what's the point in censoring books if you censor ALL books, not just the ones that are subversive to your cause? Farenheit 451 is a novel about what happens when people stop caring and just want their lives to be easy. People don't want to have to think about the things in life that make them upset, so they burn the books. Poetry is sad, books contain controversial ideas. Everyone has their nice TV room where they watch programs that have no plot, where nothing ever goes wrong, and where everything always turns out being happy.
The scarry thing is that present day society is heading right down this path. Look at today's society. People injur themselves due to an action that is entirely their fault, but they sue some company. Why? Because it's easier. It's easier to make company X pay you for your mistakes than it is to admit your mistakes. Parents don't want to raise their children, so they blame teachers, they blame the internet, they blame everyone but themselves.
Farenheit 451 isn't our future, it's our present. Replace book burning with law suit and it's our society.
Just FYI before people go off on a "NT needs to be disconnected to get a C2 rating" rant: C2 *REQUIRES* the computer to be disconnect from any sort of network, modem, can and string. IIRC it also can't have a floppy drive and must physically be in a secure location. One more note, an NT box *CAN* be C2. You can't get an OS certified, only a particular machine running under a very specific configuration.
I've been preaching the "No Attachment" message to my users for three years now and they still think I'm an idoit ("But how will we share files?")
That's not a solution. The problem here is the broken windows software design. Microsoft has made a decision in all of its software to make it easier to use at the cost of security. The real solution here is to disable the auto-matic launching of executable files of any type; to get rid of microsoft word macros, or atleast turn them off by default; to make it so the user needs to initiate any action that could be dangerous to the system.
Solutions like "don't send attachments" or blocking attachments of certain types only provide the user with a false sense of security. What happens when a user gets an email with a link in it that points to "That important document you asked me about"? The user clicks on it thinking 'well it's not an attachment and besides outlook filters out bad stuff so I have to be safe'; word launches, reads and executes the happy go lucky script. The only thing that has changed is how the "virus" spreads. The problem is is that the "virus" is still spreading.
Microsoft and sysadmins in general need to start educating their users and putting some effort into securing things. You can't just hide from a problem and assume everything is ok.
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They never said that they wouldn't do something like this. Read the post to which you are replying. The KDE people said they wouldn't do something like the GNOME Foundation, they didn't. The KDE League is a marketing organization, it has NOTHING, repeat NOTHING to do with development. It's bad enough when people don't read the articles, but come on, read the post you are replying to atleast.
I want to know what's going to happen with those 2000 votes that supposedly went to buchanan(sp) that should have gone to gore because florida made an ugly ballot. Normally I'd say that it doesn't matter, but in this race 2000 votes means a LOT. IMHO the best thing right now would be for florida to just hold another vote, with easier to read ballots. This would almost definately ensure that gore would win because he would probably get a substantial portion of nader's ~10,000 votes.
I have read the article, and I saw nothing of a contest. Lucasfilms "judges" will determine what is put up, but usually a contest rewards the person who entered the contest, not the judges. The only thing I see Lucasfilms doing here is providing soundclips, which while nice, could easily be extracted from the movies with a little work. The way I read the article it did have a bit of a "you can do this because we are letting you" tone to it, but that's probably just as much from atomfilms because they obviously want people to submit parodies only to them.
You can use copyrighted materials all you want provided it is in critique or parody. They both come under fair use. This is just George Lucas going on a power trip. What else is new? Didn't he do this a few years ago with fanfic sites? Maybe he should stop to think that fanfic and parody are what keep starwars interesting and alive after all of these years. That crap he pushed out as "episode one" certainly isn't doing anything.
Take a look at the case of "Amish Paradise". Al thought he had permission (his label lied to him and said they had asked), and was very sorry about it, but he still couldn't be sued over it.
Technically his label did ask, but the answer was "no". And from what I saw despite the fact that Weird Al publicly appologized to Coolio, Coolio still made a big stink about it mostly directed at Al himself. Some people just don't know how to accept an appology. IMHO Coolio is a dick for saying no anyway. Nirvana considered "Smells like Nirvana" to be the sign that they had finally made it big.It's kind of like the MPAA with movies sure you can make a movie that isn't rated but don't expect any theater to run it.
Is this actually true anywhere? I hear lots of people say this on slashdot but where I live (Philadelphia) there seem to be plenty of theaters that play unrated movies. Sure it doesn't happen often, but then again, how often do you see an unrated movie with a budget large enough to hit movie theaters. Maybe people are just more forgiving around here.
The ideal ticket for the next election might be Jesse (Ventura) and Jello. They would *really* rock the vote.
Actually Jello is running in this election under the green party he is just not doing ANY campaigning. I guess running for mayor all those years back gave him a bad taste for campaigning.
Learn more about Jello at the Alternative Tentacles website. Also, you can order his new CD (the one mentioned on the H2K front page) here.
The CD is going to be watermarked with SDMI, so noone can copy it, right?
I strongly doubt it. All of Jello's work is published under his record label (Alternative Tentacles) and I really can't see him falling into the SDMI bullshit
Actually, if you read the article it says that sega is going to license the hardware design to interested parties, ie they design the hardware, someone else builds it, which would fit with getting out of the hardware business.
Please please please read the constitution before posting things like this. Things like illegal search and seizure and free speech protect you from the government, NOT from private citizens. Corporations are considered to be private citizens for the most part (they gain a few things, like not having to serve jury duty, in exchange for losing a few rights, but they're basically people). When you walk into a store you lose most of your rights. Sure they can't force you to submit to a strip search, but they can ask to search your bags.
MS can't put you in jail etc
...yet
Believe me, although it is impractical speed wise, I dearly wish Linux had a VMWare like product that attempted to EMULATE the microprocessor rather than attempting to run it in native mode. Apart from speed, there are cool things you can do with an emulated system, even if it is slow.
http://www.bochs.com/ - x86 CPU emulator
Uhm...chill. Yah that about says it. I got $20 that says Jesus himself would have gotten a good chuckle out of that comment. Come on, do you really want a god with no sense of humor?
/me puts on his asbestos underwear.
Three Letter Agency/Acronym, or the Theater of Living Arts if you live in/around Philadelphia, PA.
that the response to microsoft was just that, a response to microsoft. Microsoft's lawyers send andover a request, andover had no obligation to uphold this request. A court order on the other hand is, well an order. If andover got a court order telling them to hand over their logs, they would, any company would, atleast any company that wished to remain in business.
Have you ever actually READ the constitution? "Congress shall make no law..." The first ammendment applies to the government and the government alone. It is impossible for a private citizen (which includes corporations) to violate anyone's first ammendment rights. I don't see the government involved here at all.
Microsoft's plan for the future also saw everyone moving to Xenix at some point after DOS 2.0. My how their plans have changed.
You are missing something:
4) People who use Linux almost exclusively but have a few applications that are only available in windows flavors, and dual booting would be excessive work. Ie, creating website graffics using gimp, and creating macromedia flash for the same website.
5) People who can't justify buying a windows license for a few applications.
6) People who have written a windows version of a program and want to get a linux port out quick using libwine (Ie, Corel, yes I know Corel Office uses wine not libwine, but the plan is to use libwine in the future).
7) Not contributing to the Microsoft Defense Fund (not buying software from MS).
IANAL: If Sony had taken this to court and had lost, it would have killed any future chance they had at suing Conectix (or however you spell it) on these grounds. Sony probably wasn't able to put their case together in time and as such dropped the case so they can regroup and sue Conectix at some future date. Money could not have been in the consideration, Sony has far more money than Conectix ever will. If they keep suing eventually Conectix will run out of money.
If you don't protect a trademark you risk losing it. Napster really HAS to sue The Offspring or else they risk the trademark falling out of their hands. Yes it's stupid, but what American laws aren't? The Offspring really should have gotten permission first.
Now if Napster wants to not be dickheads they should offer some kind of settlement in the range of $1US. I think that would fullfil their obligations under US trademark law.
Actually GLX *IS* an extention in the way X uses the term extention. Just as Display [Post,Ghost]script, or MIT Shared Memory are extentions.
Personally I feel that many people have it wrong about Farenheit 451: the book has nothing to do with censorship. Think about it, what's the point in censoring books if you censor ALL books, not just the ones that are subversive to your cause? Farenheit 451 is a novel about what happens when people stop caring and just want their lives to be easy. People don't want to have to think about the things in life that make them upset, so they burn the books. Poetry is sad, books contain controversial ideas. Everyone has their nice TV room where they watch programs that have no plot, where nothing ever goes wrong, and where everything always turns out being happy.
The scarry thing is that present day society is heading right down this path. Look at today's society. People injur themselves due to an action that is entirely their fault, but they sue some company. Why? Because it's easier. It's easier to make company X pay you for your mistakes than it is to admit your mistakes. Parents don't want to raise their children, so they blame teachers, they blame the internet, they blame everyone but themselves.
Farenheit 451 isn't our future, it's our present. Replace book burning with law suit and it's our society.
Just FYI before people go off on a "NT needs to be disconnected to get a C2 rating" rant: C2 *REQUIRES* the computer to be disconnect from any sort of network, modem, can and string. IIRC it also can't have a floppy drive and must physically be in a secure location. One more note, an NT box *CAN* be C2. You can't get an OS certified, only a particular machine running under a very specific configuration.
I've been preaching the "No Attachment" message to my users for three years now and they still think I'm an idoit ("But how will we share files?")
That's not a solution. The problem here is the broken windows software design. Microsoft has made a decision in all of its software to make it easier to use at the cost of security. The real solution here is to disable the auto-matic launching of executable files of any type; to get rid of microsoft word macros, or atleast turn them off by default; to make it so the user needs to initiate any action that could be dangerous to the system.
Solutions like "don't send attachments" or blocking attachments of certain types only provide the user with a false sense of security. What happens when a user gets an email with a link in it that points to "That important document you asked me about"? The user clicks on it thinking 'well it's not an attachment and besides outlook filters out bad stuff so I have to be safe'; word launches, reads and executes the happy go lucky script. The only thing that has changed is how the "virus" spreads. The problem is is that the "virus" is still spreading.
Microsoft and sysadmins in general need to start educating their users and putting some effort into securing things. You can't just hide from a problem and assume everything is ok.
From what I understand slashdot got hit by a DDOS a few days ago and it was down for several hours.