the bio on Kerry was full of lies. Perhaps it still is... I'm pretty sure that either the Zionists or anti-Zionists have filled up wikipedia with their viewpoint.
I dunno, but I think your opinions might have more validity if you'd demonstrated evidence of even the slightest bit of research. But hey, you're such an intellectual heavyweight that you consider posting near the top of a slashdot discussion to be more important than actually supporting your assertions with evidence.
And yes, during the US election, the Kerry and Bush articles were frequently vandalised, and eventually locked from further editing until all the partisan bullshit that constitutes the US democratic process blew over. (And besides, remember Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and the forged Bush furlough papers? It's not as if the mainstream media wasn't equally full of lies. Read the Washington Mail or the Boston Globe lately?)
doesn't every law "restrict freedom" in some manner?
The problem is the idea of unrestricted freedom is a nonsense in any country with two or more residents. As the old saying goes: "The freedom to swing your fist stops at the beginning of my nose." One of the more embarrasing things about reading discussions by many FOSS advocates (not RMS, incidentally) is that they seem to believe that "freedom" is an absolute, and a well defined absolute at that. Most of the tedious bickering between GPL and BSD group stems from each camp's belief that their idea of freedom is the one true definition.
Only if its labelled CD. In fact, most DRM'd not-CDs, are clearly labelled "Will Not Play In Computer Devices". Whether you can return that depends on your local consumer law.
My computer's optical drive does, thus indicating that it is compatible with the CD specification laid down by Philips and Sony, and the manufacturer lists CDDA as a supported format, so I should be able to play CDs with that logo on any hardware device that (legally) displays that logo (or supports the standard).
And you can. This discussion is specifically about things that closely resemble CDs, but don't conform to that standard. If the conformance information is missing from the packaging (and Phillips insist it is omitted from all DRM'd material) then the conformance of your CD player is an irrelevancy.
In short, you've bought something that does not claim to be a CD, and yet you expect it to behave identically to a CD. That's not actually the manufacturers problem.
But my 45RPM singles won't play on my 78RPM Victrola. And nothing labelled "CD" will refuse to play on anything called a CD player.
The problem arises because of things that look like CDs, and behave quite a lot like CDs, but are not actually CDs. If you find the logo CD-Audio on the packaging you know you're OK. If not, the you've no right to expect that your computer will play them (or even that your CD player will -- my beat up old NAD deck won't).
Tommi, don't you dare try to tell me that playing content I've purchased is a 'privilege'. I paid for that content, and I have the right to enjoy it.
My newly purchased compact disc won't play on my record player. Now, I've a right to enjoy that music, and yet most right-thinking people would tell me that that right is dependent on my actually buying a CD-player, and not something that's similar-but-different.
No the -ac branch is the new fork maintained on slashdot by Anonymous Cowards. It's the kernel of choice for Gay Niggers, Natalie Portman and deceased members of the BSD community.
You can see that Africans, the "distant people" referred to here, are recognized as having the same "sacred rights" that the Constitution was later written to protect.
You misunderstand me. Fair enough, I'm didn't express myself clearly. A mild facetiousness muddled my point.
My point was, the founders wanted a country in which men were created equal, and wrote the Constitution to reflect that. Despite their best efforts, and the longings of the OP, that country has never existed. Sure, black people were afforded rights in the constitution, but in reality those rights were simply not worth the paper they were written on.
It makes no sense to long for an lost, benevolent America that respected the Constitution, and afforded its freedoms to all. The failure to extend the Constitutionally guaranteed rights to the Negro proves that that country has never existed, except in the ideals of the founders (and the OP, and I guess, myself).
Well, the founders missed that America as well, which is why they composed their little fantasy about it, and had it installed as the Constitution. The fact it was a fantasy is clear from the fact that 100-odd years passed between the declaration that "All men are created equal" and the realisation that that could possibly apply to Negroes, too.
It typically takes less than five minutes to break MD5 so it is horribly broken.
But all that enables you to do is replace an MD5'd file with garbage that happens to have the same MD5 sum. It's hard to deliver a payload when you're limited to tricking a target into downloading what would be (essentially) a random string of ones and zeroes.
Why? Adding the payload changes the MD5 value. So H(x) != H(x+q), and an added payload may be detected. This becomes bad only if H(x) = H(y), where x is good and y evil. But since no-one has yet found such a pair (and the fact that finding such a pair is hard is why MD5 is adopted), this result doesn't devalue anything...
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Idiot. He means Saddam got to pick the US emergency response telephone number.
Seriously, you don't have to sell the wikipedia concept to me.
I'm user 151 from some time in early 2001.
And yes, during the US election, the Kerry and Bush articles were frequently vandalised, and eventually locked from further editing until all the partisan bullshit that constitutes the US democratic process blew over. (And besides, remember Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and the forged Bush furlough papers? It's not as if the mainstream media wasn't equally full of lies. Read the Washington Mail or the Boston Globe lately?)
... if you log in, you can change his answers to what you think he should have said.
Actually, the 49ers are looking to sign "SpongeBob SquarePants" in order to toughen up their offensive line...
Eric is right. He doesn't need the GPL because the GPL is for people who actually write code.
Quick precis of the above post:
How dare those limeys not hold the same opinions as me?
They must be ignorant.
Let's ask slashdotters what they think of Microsoft. Again.
That's bound to produce an enlightening, well balanced, polite thread.
We need a new ELER just to bring up that classic "In fact, having been the key man at one or two pivotal historical moments" line from his blog...
Wait, I thought that was Eric Raymond.
... and he's absolutely correct.
In short, you've bought something that does not claim to be a CD, and yet you expect it to behave identically to a CD. That's not actually the manufacturers problem.
But my 45RPM singles won't play on my 78RPM Victrola.
And nothing labelled "CD" will refuse to play on anything called a CD player.
The problem arises because of things that look like CDs, and behave quite a lot like CDs, but are not actually CDs. If you find the logo CD-Audio on the packaging you know you're OK. If not, the you've no right to expect that your computer will play them (or even that your CD player will -- my beat up old NAD deck won't).
Do you recommend that I buy a CD player?
I think you'd find that Alan's Grandson would be called Alan ap Alan.
When your parents are discussing their sexual preferences.
No the -ac branch is the new fork maintained on slashdot by Anonymous Cowards. It's the kernel of choice for Gay Niggers, Natalie Portman and deceased members of the BSD community.
My point was, the founders wanted a country in which men were created equal, and wrote the Constitution to reflect that. Despite their best efforts, and the longings of the OP, that country has never existed. Sure, black people were afforded rights in the constitution, but in reality those rights were simply not worth the paper they were written on.
It makes no sense to long for an lost, benevolent America that respected the Constitution, and afforded its freedoms to all. The failure to extend the Constitutionally guaranteed rights to the Negro proves that that country has never existed, except in the ideals of the founders (and the OP, and I guess, myself).
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Well, the founders missed that America as well, which is why they composed their little fantasy about it, and had it installed as the Constitution. The fact it was a fantasy is clear from the fact that 100-odd years passed between the declaration that "All men are created equal" and the realisation that that could possibly apply to Negroes, too.
Why? Adding the payload changes the MD5 value. So H(x) != H(x+q), and an added payload may be detected. This becomes bad only if H(x) = H(y), where x is good and y evil. But since no-one has yet found such a pair (and the fact that finding such a pair is hard is why MD5 is adopted), this result doesn't devalue anything...