I guess its just like illegal to open someone else's 1040 delivered to your mailbox - though USPS made a mistake - you have a moral, legal(?) obligation to put it back in the send to box.
Quite wrong, actually. The United States Postal Service has special laws protecting its operations. One of them is that it is a felony to interfere with the delivery of mail once it has entered the postal system, which is in effect until a letter or parcel arrives at its intended recipient or is returned to the sender. This is, however, not the case with email. A communication by email has roughly the same legal protection as shouting across a room.
As the author of TFA points out, a business that actually wants to protect its communications ought to use encryption and digital signatures.
Yes, Google stats are very interesting. However, I can't help but feeling this is equivalent to looking at the largest 5 business in the U.S. and saying "That's what business are like." Small businesses are very different, and it would be absurd to ignore them as a market segment (roughly 50% of the U.S. economy). Likewise, small web sites make up a gigantic portion of the Internet, and it would be foolish to ignore their browser stats, which show IE has barely 60% of the pie.
Just because titans like Google are visited primarily by IE does not mean the rest of the web is the same. If 20,000 sites getting 2,000 unique hits per day show that IE has 60% browsershare, that seems pretty meaningful to me, even though these are "niche" sites in your estimation.
This finding is particularly interesting considering the universe is only 13.7 billion years old (which would mean the universe has been expanding faster than light travels)
Sure. There is no restriction to the rate at which spacetime can expand. Relativity only applies to the acceleration of matter.
You have two options: buy their stuff, but don't complain, or don't buy their stuff, and try and support alternative markets - local bands, live concerts, low power FM, etc.
This is undoubtedly what the long term future holds. However, for the next 50 years, if you don't buy their stuff outright, they'll just get a law passed under which the government collects money from you on their behalf. You will pay the RIAA whether you want to or not.
He does this in an idiosyncratic way that will please neither academics nor purists, but which does allow one to taste and smell the Greeks' cultural milieu, and not just to cogitate about it. But cogitate you will, as Cahill gives enough food for thought as post modern man is likely to be able to bear.
This could have been stated ever-so-much more clearly. Advice: don't use words just because you think they make you sound smart. It turns clear prose rotten. These two sentences could stop a fucking train.
when we saw the original Star Wars in a non-multiplex theater, and were in awe
Maybe a bit overstated. Even as a 10-year-old I felt embarassed by the flat, corny dialogue in some parts of #4, especially when Han says to Luke "May the Force be with you." You can tell that Harrison feels like a goon saying that line.
Now that's not to say the Star Wars universe isn't great. I rarely had so much fun as playing SW-KotOR, and much of it was because it was just so cool walking around on Tatooine.
> Yes, it is. We even have a term for it: "breach of contract."
I've almost lost count of the number of times I've seen this misunderstanding. A breach of contract is grounds for a lawsuit, but it is in no way, shape, or form a crime or "illegal." In other words, the other party(-ies) to the agreement can take you to court if they think you've harmed them, and then a judge will decide whether you were justified in breaking the contract.
So no, it is not illegal to break a contract. It is merely actionable by the (possibly) aggreived party.
The first time I did this was with up2date, which is why the redhat-release package had to be done explicitly first, it's probably not necessary with apt.
Correct, it's not necessary with apt. Just start with step 2 of your procedure and it works fine. Because I got my apt sources from 'mirror-select', I edited/etc/apt/sources.list.d/mirror-select.list and changed all the 1s to 2s in the repository URLs. Then 'apt-get update' and away you go.
Reminds me of old-time Usenet discussions
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I forget the names of the groups I used to read back in the day (back when tin was a hot new project), but I do recall the very lively life-extension threads (and other such wonderous topics as "What would we do as a society of immortals?"). A common prediction went like this:
If you can live until 2020, you will be able to live until 2040. And if you can live until 2040, you will be able to live forever.
[The Bush] vision is that the future should be controlled by big corporations with no mediation from the government or anyone else.
I agree with the spirit of this comment, but things would be substantially better off if Republicans actually left the economy alone instead of just saying they do. Republicans interfere with the economy just as much as anyone else, only their interference comes in the form of government protections for established big players. The big guys would not be nearly so big if Republicans stayed out of it.
Obviously its just my opinion, but the way Nautilus browses the file system is backwards compared to 2.4, and the removal of the tree in a left hand pane was a very bad decision. That change alone made me go back to KDE.
I've already foregone my mod points for this topic, so I might as well get out the battle gear. The way Gnome works now is what made me switch to it from KDE. I fully enjoy all of KDE's eye candy and wonderful flexibility, but when it comes down to using it to do real work, doing basic tasks like dragging files around, it gets all flaky (albeit no more flaky than Windows). I feel like Konq is thin, fragile, and unpolished as a file manager. Gnome to me has that Macintosh System 7 goodness. The file manager feels nice and solid, and the spatial-ness is very welcome.
Just because the Gnome developers went in a direction you dislike doesn't make it "backward" in any way. Some things about WIMP interfaces were done correctly 20 years ago, and doing them that way again is just fine.
>> however the fact that both exist and compete for >> resources is in my mind one of the main causes >> behind the failure of Linux on the desktop.
> I agree absolutely.
I disagree absolutely. Following this logic, Linux itself should be abandoned so the kernel hackers could get jobs in Redmond. After all, why "waste" energy?
the people writing Gnome seem to want to impose their personal preferences onto everyone, defending them as design choices
I am baffled and confused by this statement. How, precisely, are the Gnome developers imposing anything at all on anyone? They are crafting their product the way they like it. If you don't like it, that's okay with them -- use a different WM/desktop.
This kind of "reasoning" was very popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth century in Europe -- that if Company A is providing a product for less than Company B, then A is causing a loss to the economy in the amount of B.price - A.price. Of course this argument is the reverse of the truth: the extra money required to buy B's product is a direct reduction in the customer's purchasing power, i.e., the customer's net wealth is decreased, and the aggregate economy stalls. (Corollary: lower-cost alternatives in the marketplace create wealth.)
Frederic Bastiat in 1848 wrote a nice essay called "That Which is Seen and That Which is Not Seen" dealing with this topic handily. A good portable copy is at Memoware.
However, then as now many lawmakers were persuaded by this lie and protected the established players from competition. Because of bullshit analyses like Tocqueville's we can look forward to many more years of a sluggish economy. As soon as we stop shielding big players vis-a-vis "intellectual property" we'll see a nice upturn.
If there were 1000 little stations then result would not be 1000 choices of content, it would be ZERO choices of content
I don't think that would be the case. People broadcasting want to be heard. They'd work it out so that their little slices don't overlap. It's like thousands of pedestrians downtown. You don't say "Oh no! We mustn't have pedestrians because they will all try to use the same bit of sidewalk!" We don't need a pedestrian traffic manager, and we don't need the FCC.
I can't count how many technologically ignorant managers I've met who, giggling and leaning in close, explain that they've thought up the cleverest password ever. It's "password"! It's so obvious no one will think of it!
I'm not sure you can use the Fifth Amendment as a defense if you're being sued by someone.
Let's look it up.
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any
criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Nope, you cannot "plead the 5th" when a private party sues you.
Dump several hundred million dollars of development capital on The GIMP folks and I'd wager we'll see it advance pretty quickly. Repeat after me: The correct way to view FOSS applications and drivers is "Does it work at all?" Yes? Then choose one of the following:
Really, going the Microsoft route for your DRMed music collection seems like the best answer to me, because you can then shop arround for the best price on single-track buys, and often find the hot songs for 79 or 88 cents. Who says the price of legal music downloads is going up?
WMA is definitely not the "best answer" because you never get to own your songs. You only rent them for as long as you keep up your subscription. Stop subscribing and your whole collection goes away. Burning to CD is no defense against this. And let's not forget that Micros~1 has a solid history of fucking with formats as a lever to make you buy something from them -- e.g., your subscription service requires you to upgrade to WMP 11, which of course is available only with Longhorn SP2. Don't want to upgrade? Oh, then you won't mind losing all of your songs.
I'm sky-high on karma and wearing my flameproof underwear today.
"Left Behind" is Shakesphere
Shakesphere? Sheesh. But poor spelling aside, how is this post Insightful or Informative? Are you out of your fucking mind? Left Behind doesn't measure up to a good issue of Spider-Man, let alone Shakespeare. And this comparison is utterly asinine in the first place. Star Wars Episode I made more money than all the Shakespeare productions worldwide for all time have ever made. By this poster's logic, George Lucas is the greatest author to ever live.
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Quite wrong, actually. The United States Postal Service has special laws protecting its operations. One of them is that it is a felony to interfere with the delivery of mail once it has entered the postal system, which is in effect until a letter or parcel arrives at its intended recipient or is returned to the sender. This is, however, not the case with email. A communication by email has roughly the same legal protection as shouting across a room.
As the author of TFA points out, a business that actually wants to protect its communications ought to use encryption and digital signatures.
Exactly, just like I-90 is part of the Honda freeway!
Just because titans like Google are visited primarily by IE does not mean the rest of the web is the same. If 20,000 sites getting 2,000 unique hits per day show that IE has 60% browsershare, that seems pretty meaningful to me, even though these are "niche" sites in your estimation.
Sure. There is no restriction to the rate at which spacetime can expand. Relativity only applies to the acceleration of matter.
This is undoubtedly what the long term future holds. However, for the next 50 years, if you don't buy their stuff outright, they'll just get a law passed under which the government collects money from you on their behalf. You will pay the RIAA whether you want to or not.
This could have been stated ever-so-much more clearly. Advice: don't use words just because you think they make you sound smart. It turns clear prose rotten. These two sentences could stop a fucking train.
10.0% - AT&T
6.5% - Sprint
6.3% - Genuity (level 3)
4.1% - PSINet (cogent)
3.5% - Cable & Wireless
2.8% - XO Communications
2.6% - Verio
1.5% - Qwest
1.3% - Global Crossing
Er, who owns the remaining 33.5% chunk that's unaccounted for in this lineup?
Maybe a bit overstated. Even as a 10-year-old I felt embarassed by the flat, corny dialogue in some parts of #4, especially when Han says to Luke "May the Force be with you." You can tell that Harrison feels like a goon saying that line.
Now that's not to say the Star Wars universe isn't great. I rarely had so much fun as playing SW-KotOR, and much of it was because it was just so cool walking around on Tatooine.
> Yes, it is. We even have a term for it: "breach of contract."
I've almost lost count of the number of times I've seen this misunderstanding. A breach of contract is grounds for a lawsuit, but it is in no way, shape, or form a crime or "illegal." In other words, the other party(-ies) to the agreement can take you to court if they think you've harmed them, and then a judge will decide whether you were justified in breaking the contract.
So no, it is not illegal to break a contract. It is merely actionable by the (possibly) aggreived party.
Correct, it's not necessary with apt. Just start with step 2 of your procedure and it works fine. Because I got my apt sources from 'mirror-select', I edited /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mirror-select.list and changed all the 1s to 2s in the repository URLs. Then 'apt-get update' and away you go.
I agree with the spirit of this comment, but things would be substantially better off if Republicans actually left the economy alone instead of just saying they do. Republicans interfere with the economy just as much as anyone else, only their interference comes in the form of government protections for established big players. The big guys would not be nearly so big if Republicans stayed out of it.
I've already foregone my mod points for this topic, so I might as well get out the battle gear. The way Gnome works now is what made me switch to it from KDE. I fully enjoy all of KDE's eye candy and wonderful flexibility, but when it comes down to using it to do real work, doing basic tasks like dragging files around, it gets all flaky (albeit no more flaky than Windows). I feel like Konq is thin, fragile, and unpolished as a file manager. Gnome to me has that Macintosh System 7 goodness. The file manager feels nice and solid, and the spatial-ness is very welcome.
Just because the Gnome developers went in a direction you dislike doesn't make it "backward" in any way. Some things about WIMP interfaces were done correctly 20 years ago, and doing them that way again is just fine.
>> resources is in my mind one of the main causes
>> behind the failure of Linux on the desktop.
> I agree absolutely.
I disagree absolutely. Following this logic, Linux itself should be abandoned so the kernel hackers could get jobs in Redmond. After all, why "waste" energy?
I am baffled and confused by this statement. How, precisely, are the Gnome developers imposing anything at all on anyone? They are crafting their product the way they like it. If you don't like it, that's okay with them -- use a different WM/desktop.
Frederic Bastiat in 1848 wrote a nice essay called "That Which is Seen and That Which is Not Seen" dealing with this topic handily. A good portable copy is at Memoware.
However, then as now many lawmakers were persuaded by this lie and protected the established players from competition. Because of bullshit analyses like Tocqueville's we can look forward to many more years of a sluggish economy. As soon as we stop shielding big players vis-a-vis "intellectual property" we'll see a nice upturn.
I don't think that would be the case. People broadcasting want to be heard. They'd work it out so that their little slices don't overlap. It's like thousands of pedestrians downtown. You don't say "Oh no! We mustn't have pedestrians because they will all try to use the same bit of sidewalk!" We don't need a pedestrian traffic manager, and we don't need the FCC.
Let's look it up.
Nope, you cannot "plead the 5th" when a private party sues you.
> I'm having a hard time with this one....
No kidding. How about
(5) Repeat (1) and (2)
Wh-what? Can those words be put together to make a sentence?
WMA is definitely not the "best answer" because you never get to own your songs. You only rent them for as long as you keep up your subscription. Stop subscribing and your whole collection goes away. Burning to CD is no defense against this. And let's not forget that Micros~1 has a solid history of fucking with formats as a lever to make you buy something from them -- e.g., your subscription service requires you to upgrade to WMP 11, which of course is available only with Longhorn SP2. Don't want to upgrade? Oh, then you won't mind losing all of your songs.
"Left Behind" is Shakesphere
Shakesphere? Sheesh. But poor spelling aside, how is this post Insightful or Informative? Are you out of your fucking mind? Left Behind doesn't measure up to a good issue of Spider-Man, let alone Shakespeare. And this comparison is utterly asinine in the first place. Star Wars Episode I made more money than all the Shakespeare productions worldwide for all time have ever made. By this poster's logic, George Lucas is the greatest author to ever live.