Whilst I agree wholeheartedly with the concept of free speech, surely the line has to be drawn when that speech includes personal information, such as somebody's address ?
What if they were publishing the doctors' credit card numbers instead - would that still be protected as free speech ?
It's only becoming the trend if you ignore Linux (and probably BSD). In fact, using cramFS, the space requirements for Linux are actually going down, not up.
This is quite amusing, since AOL owns Netscape, Netscape is basing its new browser on Mozilla, and Mozilla has a plugin called 'Jabberzilla'. Thus they're probably blocking their own client !
Also for more amusement, try loading www.aol.com in Mozilla - it tells you to upgrade to Internet Explorer !!
This prime number _IS_ deCSS. The MPAA will either have to ban this prime number, ban gzip, or ban anyone from telling people that the number is deCSS.
Either way, I don't see this getting through the courts, even in the US...
And people wonder why the economy seems to be flagging.
It couldn't be anything to do with...oh let's see...too much ridiculous litigation/sueing/countersueing/patenting blocking real innovation now could it ???
I stand corrected of course. Pi IS constant and can be calculated as the limit to infinity of an infinite sum. Still, the device in the book (for measuring 'local' pi) sounded pretty cool.
...but I've always wanted to make a shell command called 'iam' with weird command line options, just so people would type in 'iam --help|less'. But then I've always had a sadistic sense of humour;-)
Cameras do not reduce street crime, it has been shown that they simply move it from areas with cameras to areas without. Violent crime is still on the increase.
This is real. I saw a demonstration of this technology (of face recognition) 15 YEARS AGO ! Imagine how much it has come on since then.
Some people may be fine living in a society where the authorities know exactly where you are 24 hours a day, but personally I find it a little bit disturbing.
Don't confuse patents with copyright. IANAL, but as I understand it, the law in this country (UK) says that if I write a program, (or indeed create any work- poem, essay, etc), then I automatically own the copyright.
What I can't do is to patent that (intangible) idea. Thus another company could come along and create a program that did the same as mine, AS LONG AS THEY DON'T USE MY CODE DIRECTLY, i.e. it is a 'clean room' implementation, and it would be perfectly legal.
IMO this is a good thing since it means that a) I have the advantage since I created the program first, and b) I and the other company must compete on the merits of our code.
As another poster pointed out, this is precisely the opposite of what companies like Microsoft do.
I've always wanted to set up a site called 'internetrandomnumber.com'. Basically the idea would be you connect to either 'long.internetrandomnumber.com' or 'int.internetrandomnumber.com' and all the site does is returns a 'random' number in the requested format.
With a sufficient number of hosts connecting the numbers you get back should be about as random as you can get.
Hey, I could even charge a micropayment each time somebody connects.
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I don't know about the US, but certainly in the UK you can ask to be 'ex-directory'.
What if they were publishing the doctors' credit card numbers instead - would that still be protected as free speech ?
I visit those sites to try to understand how they think, how they justify themselves, and to see if I'm missing anything in my way of thinking.
I think this is a very healthy pastime, if you can resist the urge to flame everything you read !!
It's only becoming the trend if you ignore Linux (and probably BSD). In fact, using cramFS, the space requirements for Linux are actually going down, not up.
Redhat have contributed a lot to the community whereas M$ only contributes to Bill G.'s bank balance.
Also for more amusement, try loading www.aol.com in Mozilla - it tells you to upgrade to Internet Explorer !!
All your 'belong to us' are belong to me are belong to ME !
Someone set up you the bomb !
I'd hardly call that a failure...
NASA also reported a strange black monolith right next to the lander.
I don't get that either. What if I claim the number 'turns out' to be exactly 0.5 ? Can anybody disprove me ?
Salsaman
This prime number _IS_ deCSS. The MPAA will either have to ban this prime number, ban gzip, or ban anyone from telling people that the number is deCSS.
Either way, I don't see this getting through the courts, even in the US...
It couldn't be anything to do with...oh let's see...too much ridiculous litigation/sueing/countersueing/patenting blocking real innovation now could it ???
Nah...
I hope that's clearer now :-)
...but I've always wanted to make a shell command called 'iam' with weird command line options, just so people would type in 'iam --help|less'. But then I've always had a sadistic sense of humour ;-)
I think it's 'Eon' by Greg Bear where they have a Pi measuring machine, just to check the value of Pi in weird spaces.
Surely by your logic it should be decreasing.
They will be in London Friday 8th-18th June !
So why haven't they caught the BBC bombers yet ? Surely with all these cameras around it should be dead easy.
Well, obviously we don't have enough, maybe we should install a few more. Sheeesh.
Some people may be fine living in a society where the authorities know exactly where you are 24 hours a day, but personally I find it a little bit disturbing.
Also these guys , the surveillance camera players.
Salsaman
Yeah, but you are missing the point. You'd have an advantage with the software, because you'd automatically own the COPYRIGHT to it.
What I can't do is to patent that (intangible) idea. Thus another company could come along and create a program that did the same as mine, AS LONG AS THEY DON'T USE MY CODE DIRECTLY, i.e. it is a 'clean room' implementation, and it would be perfectly legal.
IMO this is a good thing since it means that a) I have the advantage since I created the program first, and b) I and the other company must compete on the merits of our code.
As another poster pointed out, this is precisely the opposite of what companies like Microsoft do.
With a sufficient number of hosts connecting the numbers you get back should be about as random as you can get.
Hey, I could even charge a micropayment each time somebody connects.
Anybody interested in a new '.com' venture ?