shelf space *is* product. Any excess is quite saleable. In fact the profitability of supermarkets often depends on just how much space they sell to outside suppliers.
And yes, if my toaster has one, advertisers will have a line to it.
In fact, they'll pay the toaster manufacturer to make sure they do. If I were such a toaster manufacturer I'd solicit such business if I could.
Of course your milage may vary, but I'm not at all sure what benifit I would derive from worrying about my milk going sour while I'm out of town. For that matter, when I'm out of town for long enough for milk to go sour I've emptied my fridge first, pulled its plug out of the wall and gone to a certain amount of trouble to arrange to be somewhere I don't recieve email.
I have nothing against the internet. I'm here, aren't I? I'm even producing content right now. But there's such a thing as appropriate technology.
tells me *one way I can get where I've told it I want to go* after I get out of my car and start walking.
KFG
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than a Cuisinart.
And the day my coffee grinder has an IP address is the day I start grinding my coffee with a mortor and pestle.
I require my fridge to keep my food cold. That's it's job. To hold it's interior at a certain temperature. It's *my* job to select that temperature, as well as what goes in my fridge, and when.
The internet is a wonderful tool for dispersing information ( but not the only one, and only sometimes the best one).
It's a lousy tool for making toast, and the logic needed to do so is easily included in the toaster, where it belongs. And I sure as hell don't want to give my toaster the ability to ask me if I wouldn't really like to have some genuine Welch's Brand Grape Jelly with my toast.
Spam is bad enough as it is.
As for *everyone* being a content provider, if that includes the moron down the street, and his entire moron family. . . why? What's the point, either to me or *him*?
Please note that your local bakery takes up shelf space to sell their excess production at a lower price, rather than looking for a smaller rental space. In fact, they over produce a bit on purpose just so they can do this.
Not to mention that selling more for less consists of the entire mass market philosophy.
The point being that it's overall profits that count, not unit price.
Somtimes it's good to have a global scale, and sometimes it's good to be able to go have a beer where everyone knows your name.
The internet is like an planet sized mall. A BBS is like your neighborhood bar.
Yes, you and your friends can meet at a bar in the mall, but it *isn't* really the same thing.
I guess we just have to redefine "neighborhood" now.
There are certainly benifits to the "mall" model, I admit. I "know" people all over the world, whom I've never actually met, who I could call on to put me up on their couch for a couple of days if I needed it.
The flip side is that I, perhaps, know fewer in my own meat space neighborhood of whom I could ask this favor.
The world is different for "interneters" than it is for BBSers.
"But all this is based in the traditional meaning of "terrorist", which I don't think is what they're aiming at here. They're aiming at the new definition of "terrorist", that amalgamation of terrorist organizations and nation-states that support them and/or are hostile to the "western democracies"."
And such already have access to nearly all the knowledge they need, or the research facilities to develop that knowledge on their own.
have a right to pur your life in jeopardy, even to go so far as the virtual certainty of losing it, in order to attempt the preservation of your liberty.
If you enslave me and guaruntee my life I will escape or die.
I rather think the Mr. Jefferson fully understood, and supported, this attitude as he penned those famous words.
So, I have life, and am fighting for liberty, even though it may kill me.
Do you know where the word comes from? It roughly translates into the English phrase "Throw a monkey wrench into the works," only in this case the "wrench" is a sabot, or wooden shoe.
You take your shoe off, throw it into the machine and, Presto! Instant terrorism.
Nothing more than simple, everyday objects are required to be a very effective terrorist.
Remember the first attempt to bring down the World Trade Center? ( If you were shocked and stunned by 9/11 you weren't paying attention. They had already tried it and *told* us they would try again). It took one guy, a van and some high school chemistry. That's all.
The second ( and sucessful) attempt wasn't much more complicated really. It required a few people who could fly the planes rather than one who could drive a car, but other than that the plan was *less* technologically advanced than the first attempt, requiring some Stanley knives and some purely *human* engineering.
The natural reaction was to make it illegal for little old ladies to knit on long flights.
The fact that your own grandmother is now in danger of being arrested as a terrorist because she tried to sneak a plastic crochet hook onto an airplane hidden in her sock is just one of the indications that we may not be reacting to the whole situation in an exactly rational manner.
Ok, so science editors are in favor of restricting information usable to terrorists. I suppose it's a noble motivation, but to what real end? All they need is a shoe, or a wrench.
Shall we also leave out key bits of intro to chemistry or physics texts? Isn't basic knowledge of exothermic chemical reactions and the fact that F=ma of more real use to a terrorist that just about anything else?
Or that if you stab someone with a knife they fall down?
Do we really think that restricting knowledge of how to produce ebola virus is relevant when the e. coli bacterium is cheaper, easier and just as effective to use, and knowledge of it is already common? Or the influenza virus?
Anyone with access to a Walmart can already do just about as much terrorist damage as they could want.
Beyond that though, his compiler, text editor, common libraries and so on are bits of software he is likely to use, but insist on its being "finished," and as any tech can tell you, when using them he's just as much a "luser" as anybody else.
He may also be *very* interested in the specific terms of the common libraries licenses, and it is for him that that specific differences exist in the first place.
My position stands.
However, I fully admit I've got a "drawer full" of software that works, but isn't finished, because at that point I moved on to something else. It is the major weakness of the Bazaar model of software development. No matter what license it uses.
like, by the article and stuff, it doesn't write to the MBR. It writes to sector 33 of the boot *track.*
The problem is that since the entire track is reserved for boot information, not just the sector holding your MBR, things like LILO and GRUB may be residing there as well.
Boot loaders are legitimate boot records. Software registration codes are not. They don't belong in the boot track, whether they write to the MBR or not.
That's revisionism you're talking there, and the guy who once modded me down as Flamebait for saying a pocket sized spiral bound notebook was the best "PDA" I've ever had is going to be gunning for your ass.
When we play Solitare around here we use a $3000 machine, and don't you forget it.
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Good question. Why not sue them for infringement for reproducing your post and find out?
KFG
Some of us were smart enough to quit after V.
KFG
Precisely, therefore my fridge does not need an IP address.
Q.E.D.
KFG
shelf space *is* product. Any excess is quite saleable. In fact the profitability of supermarkets often depends on just how much space they sell to outside suppliers.
The analogy stands.
KFG
the closest we got to meeting was *at a bar.*
KFG
And yes, if my toaster has one, advertisers will have a line to it.
In fact, they'll pay the toaster manufacturer to make sure they do. If I were such a toaster manufacturer I'd solicit such business if I could.
Of course your milage may vary, but I'm not at all sure what benifit I would derive from worrying about my milk going sour while I'm out of town. For that matter, when I'm out of town for long enough for milk to go sour I've emptied my fridge first, pulled its plug out of the wall and gone to a certain amount of trouble to arrange to be somewhere I don't recieve email.
I have nothing against the internet. I'm here, aren't I? I'm even producing content right now. But there's such a thing as appropriate technology.
KFG
tells me *one way I can get where I've told it I want to go* after I get out of my car and start walking.
KFG
than a Cuisinart.
And the day my coffee grinder has an IP address is the day I start grinding my coffee with a mortor and pestle.
I require my fridge to keep my food cold. That's it's job. To hold it's interior at a certain temperature. It's *my* job to select that temperature, as well as what goes in my fridge, and when.
The internet is a wonderful tool for dispersing information ( but not the only one, and only sometimes the best one).
It's a lousy tool for making toast, and the logic needed to do so is easily included in the toaster, where it belongs. And I sure as hell don't want to give my toaster the ability to ask me if I wouldn't really like to have some genuine Welch's Brand Grape Jelly with my toast.
Spam is bad enough as it is.
As for *everyone* being a content provider, if that includes the moron down the street, and his entire moron family. . . why? What's the point, either to me or *him*?
KFG
Please note that your local bakery takes up shelf space to sell their excess production at a lower price, rather than looking for a smaller rental space. In fact, they over produce a bit on purpose just so they can do this.
Not to mention that selling more for less consists of the entire mass market philosophy.
The point being that it's overall profits that count, not unit price.
KFG
My liberty and your life are *always* in some form of conflict and the more liberty the both of us have the more both of our lives are at risk.
Yes, this is part of the price of liberty, and *exactly* what Franklin was talking about.
KFG
Somtimes it's good to have a global scale, and sometimes it's good to be able to go have a beer where everyone knows your name.
The internet is like an planet sized mall. A BBS is like your neighborhood bar.
Yes, you and your friends can meet at a bar in the mall, but it *isn't* really the same thing.
I guess we just have to redefine "neighborhood" now.
There are certainly benifits to the "mall" model, I admit. I "know" people all over the world, whom I've never actually met, who I could call on to put me up on their couch for a couple of days if I needed it.
The flip side is that I, perhaps, know fewer in my own meat space neighborhood of whom I could ask this favor.
The world is different for "interneters" than it is for BBSers.
KFG
the answer to that is relative, not a constant.
It is relative to how much I can count on the terms of the Bill of Rights to protect me.
Therefore, the *first* thing I do to protect my life is protect the social contract that guaruntees my liberty.
And yes, people have been killed for doing nothing more than this.
KFG
"But all this is based in the traditional meaning of "terrorist", which I don't think is what they're aiming at here. They're aiming at the new definition of "terrorist", that amalgamation of terrorist organizations and nation-states that support them and/or are hostile to the "western democracies"."
And such already have access to nearly all the knowledge they need, or the research facilities to develop that knowledge on their own.
KFG
have a right to pur your life in jeopardy, even to go so far as the virtual certainty of losing it, in order to attempt the preservation of your liberty.
If you enslave me and guaruntee my life I will escape or die.
I rather think the Mr. Jefferson fully understood, and supported, this attitude as he penned those famous words.
So, I have life, and am fighting for liberty, even though it may kill me.
Is that so hard to understand?
KFG
The license of the player software is independant of the license to use the key code. I have purchased the right to use both.
KFG
Do you know where the word comes from? It roughly translates into the English phrase "Throw a monkey wrench into the works," only in this case the "wrench" is a sabot, or wooden shoe.
You take your shoe off, throw it into the machine and, Presto! Instant terrorism.
Nothing more than simple, everyday objects are required to be a very effective terrorist.
Remember the first attempt to bring down the World Trade Center? ( If you were shocked and stunned by 9/11 you weren't paying attention. They had already tried it and *told* us they would try again). It took one guy, a van and some high school chemistry. That's all.
The second ( and sucessful) attempt wasn't much more complicated really. It required a few people who could fly the planes rather than one who could drive a car, but other than that the plan was *less* technologically advanced than the first attempt, requiring some Stanley knives and some purely *human* engineering.
The natural reaction was to make it illegal for little old ladies to knit on long flights.
The fact that your own grandmother is now in danger of being arrested as a terrorist because she tried to sneak a plastic crochet hook onto an airplane hidden in her sock is just one of the indications that we may not be reacting to the whole situation in an exactly rational manner.
Ok, so science editors are in favor of restricting information usable to terrorists. I suppose it's a noble motivation, but to what real end? All they need is a shoe, or a wrench.
Shall we also leave out key bits of intro to chemistry or physics texts? Isn't basic knowledge of exothermic chemical reactions and the fact that F=ma of more real use to a terrorist that just about anything else?
Or that if you stab someone with a knife they fall down?
Do we really think that restricting knowledge of how to produce ebola virus is relevant when the e. coli bacterium is cheaper, easier and just as effective to use, and knowledge of it is already common? Or the influenza virus?
Anyone with access to a Walmart can already do just about as much terrorist damage as they could want.
That includes you.
KFG
given the complexity of human taste, that such is even really possible.
For music I have found nothing so effective at finding things I like but haven't heard of as simply listening to college radio stations.
KFG
Which is exactly when he he "breaks" it again. :)
Beyond that though, his compiler, text editor, common libraries and so on are bits of software he is likely to use, but insist on its being "finished," and as any tech can tell you, when using them he's just as much a "luser" as anybody else.
He may also be *very* interested in the specific terms of the common libraries licenses, and it is for him that that specific differences exist in the first place.
My position stands.
However, I fully admit I've got a "drawer full" of software that works, but isn't finished, because at that point I moved on to something else. It is the major weakness of the Bazaar model of software development. No matter what license it uses.
KFG
But the licenses are specifically written for that other 1% for whom the differences are critical, so your observation rather loses its point.
Developers "use" software too.
KFG
The problem is that Linus isn't a GPL zealot, so I'm not sure that he'll say anything at all. Why should he?
Linus's kernel is licensed under the GPL, but Linus, and Linux, do not "stand" for it.
I think you've been taking RMS's insistence that it be called GNU/Linux way too much to heart.
RMS and GNU *do* stand for the GPL, and as RMS himself will be delighted to explain to you, at extreme length, Linux is not GNU.
KFG
OSS will soon embrace, extend and ultimately absorb closed source software into Open Source.
Welcome to the new world order, Brother. Get used to it.
KFG
with a virus checker enabled, you probably shouldn't install it.
Preventing this sort of nonsense is what it's *intended* to prevent.
N'est pas?
KFG
like, by the article and stuff, it doesn't write to the MBR. It writes to sector 33 of the boot *track.*
The problem is that since the entire track is reserved for boot information, not just the sector holding your MBR, things like LILO and GRUB may be residing there as well.
Boot loaders are legitimate boot records. Software registration codes are not. They don't belong in the boot track, whether they write to the MBR or not.
KFG
it writes to the boot *track,* so it's not going to munge your partition table, but may well munge other important boot records.
Nothing belongs in that *track* other than boot information. Period.
KFG
That's revisionism you're talking there, and the guy who once modded me down as Flamebait for saying a pocket sized spiral bound notebook was the best "PDA" I've ever had is going to be gunning for your ass.
When we play Solitare around here we use a $3000 machine, and don't you forget it.
KFG