"It may be impossible to write a law that accounts for every conceivable technological innovations, however a judge will know an illegal act when she sees it."
Um... is this anything like "we can't define pornography but we'll know it when we see it."
This idea that judges will be able to just tell, upon seeing it, that something is illegal (in terms of the DMCA) frightens me. Government makes the laws, the police enforce them, the judicial system passes down judgement based on them. This sounds like an expansion of the judge's roll that allows the judge to decide what needs policing, in terms of the DMCA.
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On another note, does this ruin Slashdot's interview batting average? I have not been keeping track, but has anyone who was approached about an interview and then given questions ever backed out before?
OK, there was someone a while back who basically decided not to answer the questions given and give his or her own editorial, but I've already forgotten who that was and it will counts, sort of, since they did reply, if not meaningfully.
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Actually, you do write code with C++ Builder. C++ Builder is to C++ as Delphi is to ObjectPascal -- it's a slick GUI with drop-n-drag form building that let's you define interactions between controls. But it only creates the function wrappers, it's still up to you to go into the editor and write the code of what happens when button X is pushed.
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Ok, back to the real world. Have you worked in the industry are you just a student? Do you know the kind of pressures programmers are under out here?
Thanks for asking the questions I always wonder about. I've not contributed much to the open source community, being more of a taker than a giver, so I don't presume to speak for them. Whenever I see someone spouting the 'all closed source is bad!' litany though, I wonder what they've really done for open source or if they're just very vocal fanboys. -- Making iDirt 1.82 a safer place, one bug at a time.
I think what is really sad about this is that William Henning submitted his own story to Slashdot, or that's how the web page makes it look at least. If I were on the Slashdot approval team, I'd automatically reject any story submitted by it's author in favor of waiting to see if someone else actually thinks its worth submitting. To do otherwise is to encourage people to promote their own sites here. -- Making iDirt 1.82 a safer place, one bug at a time.
That sounds reasonable to me. I think the moderation has helped to cut down on the amount of garbage most people see, but I feel the best kind of moderation is the kind I can control myself.
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No, definitely not just you. I use about 2 fingers on each hand and, like you, manage to keep up a very good WPM with an OK typo rate. I'll just keep waiting for the jack in my head or an inskin. -- Making iDirt 1.82 a safer place, one bug at a time.
Hmm... proving once again that "military intelligence" is an oxymoron since the "hypersonic robot scramjet plane" was last seen heading for the Atlantic...;-) --
Yeah, whatever it was -- space junk (Mir?), a meteor, an asteroid -- it was very cool looking. I wish I'd had a camera with me, not that it would probably have gotten a very good picture. --
After reading the article you linked to, I see one astronomer saying "possibly space junk, but probably a meteor" and another saying "it couldn't have been a meteor, it must have been space junk." So even the experts don't seem to know what it was. --
I was out driving in Detroit, MI and I think I saw the same one! It looked like a gigantic sparkler trail in the sky, moving WSW -> ENE, slowly breaking up into smaller trails. --
If I recall correctly, the winner is so fried mentally from forcing himself to walk that he doesn't realize the walk is over and just keeps walking, walking, walking...
The contestant was a married man just trying to get a little more food and money for his family by participating on the show. The chase took place all over the country and he had to call in from time to time to let the network know he was alive. Hunters, for the show, were in pursuit of him.
Near the end of his run he finds out that the show's producer has actually had his family killed and he's gets made the same offer to join the team of Hunters that Arnie got in the movie version. Instead, he hijacks an airliner and crashes it into the building that the show is produced from.
I've probably left out some stuff in there somewhere, but the book was far superior to the movie.
This is a real dilemma. Is it more sad that: 1. I find myself wanting 'killfiles' for/.? 2. I would ever want to killfile ESR and Bruce Perens?
It is this sort of public clashing among well-known advocates of Open Source/Free Software/Name Of The Week that enemies of such movements gleefully point fingers to prove the movement is doomed/falling apart/not business worthy.
I think it said "we've got a cpu that pretends to be another cpu and it needs a place to store the instructions it's actually running to run the instructions it thinks it's running, and we're patenting how it does that." But I'm probably wrong.
"Also, I've got to say that BSD does seem to be preferred for MUD's, which are from a programming perspective very similar to IRC."
My experience has been mostly the opposite. I run an iDirt which started on a Linux server at a college, moved to a BSD server at an ISP (now defunct), and is now hosted on a Linux server at mudsrus.com. Most MUD servers I've seen or looked at are Linux servers and some code bases, including iDirt, don't enjoy the trip to BSD.
I had problems with "The Diamond Age," mostly that it didn't really seem to have an ending as much as Stephenson just stopped writing. A lot of the nanotech ideas were very cool though. I had some of the same problems with "Snow Crash" -- he just seemed to stop writing.
I personally recommend anything written by Bruce Sterling, especially his short stories collections.
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I notice (after posting this myself) that Badgerman earlier had picked up on that and some other good points back here.
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From PPI's Napster proposal:
"It may be impossible to write a law that accounts for every conceivable technological innovations, however a judge will know an illegal act when she sees it."
Um ... is this anything like "we can't define pornography but we'll know it when we see it."
This idea that judges will be able to just tell, upon seeing it, that something is illegal (in terms of the DMCA) frightens me. Government makes the laws, the police enforce them, the judicial system passes down judgement based on them. This sounds like an expansion of the judge's roll that allows the judge to decide what needs policing, in terms of the DMCA.
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Making iDirt 1.82 a safer place, one bug at a time.
On another note, does this ruin Slashdot's interview batting average? I have not been keeping track, but has anyone who was approached about an interview and then given questions ever backed out before?
OK, there was someone a while back who basically decided not to answer the questions given and give his or her own editorial, but I've already forgotten who that was and it will counts, sort of, since they did reply, if not meaningfully.
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"You do not write C++ code with this."
Actually, you do write code with C++ Builder. C++ Builder is to C++ as Delphi is to ObjectPascal -- it's a slick GUI with drop-n-drag form building that let's you define interactions between controls. But it only creates the function wrappers, it's still up to you to go into the editor and write the code of what happens when button X is pushed.
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Not yet, I just checked. Sort of surprising, actually.
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Thanks for asking the questions I always wonder about. I've not contributed much to the open source community, being more of a taker than a giver, so I don't presume to speak for them. Whenever I see someone spouting the 'all closed source is bad!' litany though, I wonder what they've really done for open source or if they're just very vocal fanboys.
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[74]~> telnet www.linuxdoc.org 80
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Trying 152.19.254.81...
Connected to www.linuxdoc.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 18:56:34 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.4 (Unix) PHP/3.0.6 mod_perl/1.17
Last-Modified: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 16:09:58 GMT
ETag: "51-226d-389856d6"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 8813
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
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I think what is really sad about this is that William Henning submitted his own story to Slashdot, or that's how the web page makes it look at least. If I were on the Slashdot approval team, I'd automatically reject any story submitted by it's author in favor of waiting to see if someone else actually thinks its worth submitting. To do otherwise is to encourage people to promote their own sites here.
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Not really how Godwin's Law works, but I understand the sentiment.
The actual definition of Godwin's Law here.
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Borland's version of the news here.
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Or will you just killfile the ACs?
That sounds reasonable to me. I think the moderation has helped to cut down on the amount of garbage most people see, but I feel the best kind of moderation is the kind I can control myself.
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No, definitely not just you. I use about 2 fingers on each hand and, like you, manage to keep up a very good WPM with an OK typo rate. I'll just keep waiting for the jack in my head or an inskin.
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Making iDirt 1.82 a safer place, one bug at a time.
Hmm ... proving once again that "military intelligence" is an oxymoron since the "hypersonic robot scramjet plane" was last seen heading for the Atlantic... ;-)
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Yeah, whatever it was -- space junk (Mir?), a meteor, an asteroid -- it was very cool looking. I wish I'd had a camera with me, not that it would probably have gotten a very good picture.
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After reading the article you linked to, I see one astronomer saying "possibly space junk, but probably a meteor" and another saying "it couldn't have been a meteor, it must have been space junk." So even the experts don't seem to know what it was.
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I was out driving in Detroit, MI and I think I saw the same one! It looked like a gigantic sparkler trail in the sky, moving WSW -> ENE, slowly breaking up into smaller trails.
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If I recall correctly, the winner is so fried mentally from forcing himself to walk that he doesn't realize the walk is over and just keeps walking, walking, walking...
Hmm. Close.
The contestant was a married man just trying to get a little more food and money for his family by participating on the show. The chase took place all over the country and he had to call in from time to time to let the network know he was alive. Hunters, for the show, were in pursuit of him.
Near the end of his run he finds out that the show's producer has actually had his family killed and he's gets made the same offer to join the team of Hunters that Arnie got in the movie version. Instead, he hijacks an airliner and crashes it into the building that the show is produced from.
I've probably left out some stuff in there somewhere, but the book was far superior to the movie.
This is a real dilemma. Is it more sad that: /.?
1. I find myself wanting 'killfiles' for
2. I would ever want to killfile ESR and Bruce Perens?
It is this sort of public clashing among well-known advocates of Open Source/Free Software/Name Of The Week that enemies of such movements gleefully point fingers to prove the movement is doomed/falling apart/not business worthy.
I think it said "we've got a cpu that pretends to be another cpu and it needs a place to store the instructions it's actually running to run the instructions it thinks it's running, and we're patenting how it does that." But I'm probably wrong.
Ack, my bad, "iDirt" should have linked to here. Boy, is my face red...
"Also, I've got to say that BSD does seem to be preferred for MUD's, which are from a programming perspective very similar to IRC."
My experience has been mostly the opposite. I run an iDirt which started on a Linux server at a college, moved to a BSD server at an ISP (now defunct), and is now hosted on a Linux server at mudsrus.com. Most MUD servers I've seen or looked at are Linux servers and some code bases, including iDirt, don't enjoy the trip to BSD.
That would explain all of the downtime so far ...
DOS == Denial Of Service
Read the previous post again with this definition in hand and all will be made clear, Grasshopper.
I had problems with "The Diamond Age," mostly that it didn't really seem to have an ending as much as Stephenson just stopped writing. A lot of the nanotech ideas were very cool though. I had some of the same problems with "Snow Crash" -- he just seemed to stop writing.
I personally recommend anything written by Bruce Sterling, especially his short stories collections.