Whining does not describe my actions, just the uninformed and ignorant call it whining. Actually, whining is a spin term -- such as calling someone cheap or frugal.
If you had read the site this year you would see it is now with Mattel, not just part of it.
It's about large corporations mis-using the laws and the courts to silence complaints, to hide the chinks in their armor, and hide the fact that the emperor wear no clothes.
If the MPAA used as an argument that there is a Linux compatiable DVD player, therefore the compatibility defense argument of must fail. Then, if the lawyer knew this was not true, it would be fraud on the court.
The MPAA used the existance of a Linux version to deflate the legal use of DeCSS. I would hope that in the next oral arguments, that gets the MPAA slapped in the face by the court.
I would have thought that Open Publishing would be having groups of people working on a book, a little bit beyond the unleashed books (Linux Unleashed, OS/2 Unleashed.....).
Bruce Eckel has been doing this for a while with his Thinking in Java and Thinking in C++ books.
Not only that they are on-line, but he takes input from others.
but should the privledge of 100mbit Internet connectivity be given to someone who hasn't 'earned' the privilege of having that type of influence on a public network?
How does one earn the privilege? Once earned, can they then lose it?
I have been using computers back when 64k (yes, k) was considered lots of ram. Does that earn me the privilege? What about being able to spell 'C'?
The problem with high speed home access is that it would allow people to be sloppy with their sites. Just the way that having gb size hard drives and 64mb ram as a 'standard' allowed software developers to become lazy and sloppy, 100mb line speed would allow people to have fat websites just because they have fast home access.
A standard corporate tactic, which Mattel tried to threaten me with, is run up the legal bills. Even though they knew they were wrong (why else would they dismiss when a judge asked what's libelous?).
I caught that Mattel making inconsistant arguments and used it against them. They claimed that they should have an unfettered right to file lawsuits, but they filed (and lost) a lawsuit against someone for filing a lawsuit against them.
Look at the ruling in both the CPHack case and the DeCSS case. They are using the "working in active concert" bit to stop linking and mirrors.
The Napster is turning around the burden of proof on an infringement case.
Even so, big companies is using the expense of litigation to beat people into submission. That is why Jon settled with Mattel, not being able to afford to defend it. Not the issue of propriety of his acts.
Take the high road and make it an issue of rights.
Take it underground, and go through multiple anonymizers
I have taken, and prefer the high road. Hiding, will give the enemy amunition that you are hiding, therefore knowing it's wrong.
If you do something with the belief that you are right, then stand up for what you believe. It's not easy, but large corporations can be fought and you can win. Though some will refer to you as a crackpot.
If you go "underground" anyone who knows, can always surrender your name. You can always submit it to a rogue server from a cash paid public terminal. Use the Gnu or Watcom compiler to make sure that there is no embedded identification code in the executable.
True. Look at any clickwrap agreement. They disclaim any liability for anything, even if they know about it. Microsoft disclaims any liability for Windows, even if they know it will make your machine explode. If you don't agree, you can get a refund, right??
Look at CPHack, you can't check the list too see if they really are filtering smut, not just anything that Mattel does not like.
1. The cuecat. That they are claiming that their rights are being violated by someone who used the software. Cuecat took away the user's rights to use the hardware by the opening of the software. These right to the hardware existed prior to the software being opended
2. Windows. Microsoft's clickwrap agreement works only one way. That they say you can return it if you don't agree, but when you try to get a refund, you only get ran around.
I was wondering if anyone was old enough to remember VM370.
To print, you crease a virtual printer, to read cards, yoou create a virtual card reader, if you needed memory, you create a new virtual machine with more virtual memory.
I used VMS under VM370 in 1981. I think that is before 2000, but maybe I made a Y2k error on my math.
Most employees in the U.S.A. do not have contracts and are "employees at will". That means that they can be fired for any reason w/o notice, except an illegal reason (discrimination, or assertion of rights, etc).
There is a 20 question common law test mostly regarding control of the person by the employer to make the determination. Micosoft got burned on this a few years ago. They called employees contractors, then when caught by the IRS, they paid the IRS. Then these employees then demanded their stock options and got them.
I hope you refer to what the law says. Because it's clearly not true. Everything what happens to to you is your fault. If you have accidents and/or ill often I will fire you.
I refer to the law, notes from congress, and the courts.
Murder is illegal, but people still kill.
Everything that happens to a person dis not always their fault. You stop for a red light, someone rear-ends you, is it yoour fault? Is it your fault your kid gets leukemia? Is it your fault Windows98 has bugs? Nut comes into the office, starts shooting, is it your fault?
Any convicted felon has a hard time getting a job. That's why moost job applicatioons contains a question about past convictions. That is why juvenile records are sealed.
If a person is convicted and goes to jail while on the job, an employer might have to expend effort in replacing them w/o notice, even if the conviction is not related to the job.
This is different from time off for injury (say under the FMLA). Being ill/injured is not something that is a person's fault. Committing a crime is a person's fault.
Putting a person convicted of computer stealing computer data in conputer security is similar to putting an embezzler in a cash counting room or a child molester in a job at a day care provider or a convicted drunk driver as a school bus driver or a perjurer as an attorney.
Adding these types of things would be essentially trojan programs. Same thing as ad-trackers using cookies
I would like to see some of these companies that use this type of things as basis of a charge under the computer tresspass act.
Slashdot Mirror
If you had read the site this year you would see it is now with Mattel, not just part of it.
Sums it up quite well.
Most people don't realize that DeCSS is not about piracy. Or CPHack is not about porn. That my case is not aboout whinning or tying injuries.
It's about large corporations mis-using the laws and the courts to silence complaints, to hide the chinks in their armor, and hide the fact that the emperor wear no clothes.
Just watch your back.
If the MPAA used as an argument that there is a Linux compatiable DVD player, therefore the compatibility defense argument of must fail. Then, if the lawyer knew this was not true, it would be fraud on the court.
I would have thought that Open Publishing would be having groups of people working on a book, a little bit beyond the unleashed books (Linux Unleashed, OS/2 Unleashed.....).
Bruce Eckel has been doing this for a while with his Thinking in Java and Thinking in C++ books.
Not only that they are on-line, but he takes input from others.
If that is true, buy a DVD and then try to run it on a Linux system. It fails, you return it. 1000s of people do this, they may get annoyed.
Maybe they'd get the point.
How does one earn the privilege? Once earned, can they then lose it?
I have been using computers back when 64k (yes, k) was considered lots of ram. Does that earn me the privilege? What about being able to spell 'C'?
The problem with high speed home access is that it would allow people to be sloppy with their sites. Just the way that having gb size hard drives and 64mb ram as a 'standard' allowed software developers to become lazy and sloppy, 100mb line speed would allow people to have fat websites just because they have fast home access.
I caught that Mattel making inconsistant arguments and used it against them. They claimed that they should have an unfettered right to file lawsuits, but they filed (and lost) a lawsuit against someone for filing a lawsuit against them.
Look at the ruling in both the CPHack case and the DeCSS case. They are using the "working in active concert" bit to stop linking and mirrors.
The Napster is turning around the burden of proof on an infringement case.
Even so, big companies is using the expense of litigation to beat people into submission. That is why Jon settled with Mattel, not being able to afford to defend it. Not the issue of propriety of his acts.
I have taken, and prefer the high road. Hiding, will give the enemy amunition that you are hiding, therefore knowing it's wrong.
If you do something with the belief that you are right, then stand up for what you believe. It's not easy, but large corporations can be fought and you can win. Though some will refer to you as a crackpot.
If you go "underground" anyone who knows, can always surrender your name. You can always submit it to a rogue server from a cash paid public terminal. Use the Gnu or Watcom compiler to make sure that there is no embedded identification code in the executable.
Look at CPHack, you can't check the list too see if they really are filtering smut, not just anything that Mattel does not like.
Start disposable credit cards, just like a phone card. Go to a supermarket or mall and pay cash for a "prepayed" credit card.
The float would be a great profit center.
But this would be a debit card on a cash account. Get it recharded when it runs out. Great way to launder cash too.
1. The cuecat. That they are claiming that their rights are being violated by someone who used the software. Cuecat took away the user's rights to use the hardware by the opening of the software. These right to the hardware existed prior to the software being opended
2. Windows. Microsoft's clickwrap agreement works only one way. That they say you can return it if you don't agree, but when you try to get a refund, you only get ran around.
To print, you crease a virtual printer, to read cards, yoou create a virtual card reader, if you needed memory, you create a new virtual machine with more virtual memory.
I used VMS under VM370 in 1981. I think that is before 2000, but maybe I made a Y2k error on my math.
There is a 20 question common law test mostly regarding control of the person by the employer to make the determination. Micosoft got burned on this a few years ago. They called employees contractors, then when caught by the IRS, they paid the IRS. Then these employees then demanded their stock options and got them.
I refer to the law, notes from congress, and the courts.
Murder is illegal, but people still kill.
Everything that happens to a person dis not always their fault. You stop for a red light, someone rear-ends you, is it yoour fault? Is it your fault your kid gets leukemia? Is it your fault Windows98 has bugs? Nut comes into the office, starts shooting, is it your fault?
If a person is convicted and goes to jail while on the job, an employer might have to expend effort in replacing them w/o notice, even if the conviction is not related to the job.
This is different from time off for injury (say under the FMLA). Being ill/injured is not something that is a person's fault. Committing a crime is a person's fault.
Putting a person convicted of computer stealing computer data in conputer security is similar to putting an embezzler in a cash counting room or a child molester in a job at a day care provider or a convicted drunk driver as a school bus driver or a perjurer as an attorney.
I know this because in 1980 I was tutoring a EE and Chem double major, who told me that she had a friend using it to remove caffeine from coffee.
Here is some links:
CO2 Decaf Sin! Do you drink too much coffee?
Co2 in paintball
I only drank one pot of coffee today. I cut down to two pots of coffee a day.
I had no problem reading this.
If you don't smell like coffee when you sweat, you don't drink enough.
Decaffeinated coffee is the devil's brew
"Please stand still on your foot and touch your nose for 30 seconds."
or, if your pulse is over 200 beats/minute.
Adding these types of things would be essentially trojan programs. Same thing as ad-trackers using cookies I would like to see some of these companies that use this type of things as basis of a charge under the computer tresspass act.