Shouldn't that be GNU/BSD?
GNU/Apache
GNU/Mozilla
GNU/Scrabble Brand Crossword Game
Hmmm - no.
I run Apache and Mozilla under Solaris, personally; BSD with its own libraries, and I believe you made up "Scrabble Brand Crossword Game".
Please go and learn something before you regret it in 10 years time when you're on the job market and this post can easilly be traced back to yourself.
For Windows Update to work, everything must be installed where MS expects it - if you moved IE to C:\Your Programs\Internet Exploiter\ then Windows Update wouldn't get it.
Similarly, for such a Linux tool to work, it would require that everything is installed in a particular, predictable way; this is how apt_get et. al work.
If you've installed Apache SSL into/usr/webserver/secure/featherything/indian/apache- with-modssl/ then no automatic update facility has a chance of finding it...
D&L's photos have value to the photographer, but only because the photographer has put work into creating them.
The photographer, had s/he not been commissioned to do the work, could not care less about Don, Lucy, or their wedding photos.
Having done the work, they have value to the person who created them - the value, to be specific, is the fact that they can sell these photos to Don, Lucy, maybe D&L's parents, and maybe even a couple of guests.
That value must, necessarily, be enough to keep the photographer in work. Duh.
Cindy Crawford has not come to the photographer asking for a service - Cindy Crawford is providing a service, as is the photographer, to the customer, which is the magazine publisher. So that analogy does not hold water.
If you want, for your wedding, you could commission a photographer on the basis of "You can have some of the profits we make from selling these" - good luck in getting a photographer.
The basic profit for the wedding photographer is in the couple's and parents' books. Additional copies also help, but are financially much less significant.
Say a wedding guest has a camera identical to the photographer's, hangs over the professional's shoulder and takes the same photo... it is still the professional who has done the work - the guest is the theif.
The end result might be the same, but the guest's photo would not exist if the professional had not got the people arranged with the right background, lighting, etc.
Maybe paying a flat fee for "labour" would be one approach, but if that would include rights to the images, it'd be taking far more from the photographer, and should therefore cost you much more money.
Therefore, the status-quo is more likely to survive than be replaced - unless DRM takes off platonically, in which case you can have the images, but cannot share them / take credit for them.
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Google must be doing pretty well if this is the worst criticism they can find about them.
Nah, Google can find much worse criticism about themselves, they just omit it from the search results:)
Try linuxfromscratch.org. Okay, it's to get a personalised build, not a CD installation, but my Celeron433/196MB was running solid for well over 24h to build a whole system. Probably more like 36h, certainly took about 3 days (though obviously I couldn't always co-ordinate it to be busy all the time I was asleep, only X, etc, take that long!)
So then it comes down to how good MS's authentication is - if they can prove that nobody other than myself could have got access to my PC and "upgraded" Media Player without my consent, then fair enough.
If they can't show that their authentication method guarantees this, surely I cannot be held liable. A lot of people come into my house, can they prove it was me who visited windowsupdate.com?
As anybody who's tried to make a phone call in a metal-framed building will tell you.
Very good idea, IMHO.
Vibrating phones are no better if you're still going to answer the bloody thing and start talking into it.
If you're on-call, part of that deal is that you've not just got the phone with you, but are capable of answering in. In a cinema, you are not capable of answering it - if you're sitting next to me, you'll be LARTed and unable to speak at all!
If your intentions were good, you'd pay the provider of the content, not a thief.
That's exactly the same as saying, "My intentions are good, because I bought my DVD from the local market for $1.
Do business with me if you want my money didn't make Al Capone legitimate for selling alcohol during the Prohibition, nor did it legitimise his paying customers.
If it's illegal, it's illegal.
And there are bigger issues in the world than your "right" to watch the latest movies for $1. Heard of Kashmir? No, probably not.
The Mercedes I'd like to drive costs $50,000. I'm not prepared to pay that, so paying this guy I know $100 to steal one is justified.
Of course, he won't steal it from a person, he'll nick it from the factory, so nobody really loses out, and Mercedes-Benz have insurance. If their security isn't good enough to stop my stooge from stealing it, then that's their problem, not mine.
Hmm, that stands up, morally and legally.
Maybe on your world, not a world I'd like to share with you.
Have you actually used that spec and example code to create real, usable RTF?
I'm trying at the moment, and some things (page numbers in footers, particularly) are simply not documented in the RTF documentation or sample code.
In the UK, the biggest problem we have is some pr0n merchant giving the gov't money, and the FIA giving the gov't UKP1m at around the same time Europe (not the UK) decided to give Formula 1 (that's real cars, to you round-and-round-in-a-fscking-loop-indy-car-peanut- brains)
continued tobacco sponsorship until 2006.
The thing I don't get, though, is that Sony seem to be calling the shots here - a Japanese company making American laws! For fuck's sake, get a clue, the ONLY time you've been attacked on your own soil before 2001 was by the fscking Japanese, and you went and used nuclear warfare against them. In 50 years time will Afghan companies be writing American law?
The average joe-schmoe user has never though about these issues, and doesn't know how to think about them. They have no reason to suppose that MS are any worse than anyone else. They've returned their car for product-recalls, they've updated from windowsupdate.com. They're blissful in ignorance.
I'd be willing to bet the answer would be a resounding "Yes", especially from patriotic USians.
_data_ is "anything". Its format is Binary, whether you choose to represent it as ASCII or anything else.
But if the use requires permission, that's a good thing - though there is still a gap between allowing and understanding.
Oh, and I'm not crying - I've not flashed for ages. It's the old "They came for the.... but I was not a...., so I did not defend them - then they came for me, and there was no-one left to defend me" approach. Don't worry about me, I get paranoid that PINE now parses HTML!
In 100Kb, you've said "Damn, it's another bl**dy flash site". No more room for video, unless they get lucky, and get a 1-frame shot of your appalled face to go with it.
Now don't get me wrong, this is an invasion of privacy, especially if they have full control of a machine (say, Windows). I could think of a few things I'd grab, though, if I was feeling malicious. And I'm a pretty honest guy.
Slashdot Mirror
The BSA will be knocking on the door any minute... follow the white rabbit.
2 clicks away... http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/6/19/05641/7357
GNU/Apache
GNU/Mozilla
GNU/Scrabble Brand Crossword Game
Hmmm - no.
I run Apache and Mozilla under Solaris, personally; BSD with its own libraries, and I believe you made up "Scrabble Brand Crossword Game".
Please go and learn something before you regret it in 10 years time when you're on the job market and this post can easilly be traced back to yourself.
Similarly, for such a Linux tool to work, it would require that everything is installed in a particular, predictable way; this is how apt_get et. al work.
If you've installed Apache SSL into /usr/webserver/secure/featherything/indian/apache- with-modssl/ then no automatic update facility has a chance of finding it...
The photographer, had s/he not been commissioned to do the work, could not care less about Don, Lucy, or their wedding photos.
Having done the work, they have value to the person who created them - the value, to be specific, is the fact that they can sell these photos to Don, Lucy, maybe D&L's parents, and maybe even a couple of guests.
That value must, necessarily, be enough to keep the photographer in work. Duh.
If you want, for your wedding, you could commission a photographer on the basis of "You can have some of the profits we make from selling these" - good luck in getting a photographer.
The basic profit for the wedding photographer is in the couple's and parents' books. Additional copies also help, but are financially much less significant.
Say a wedding guest has a camera identical to the photographer's, hangs over the professional's shoulder and takes the same photo... it is still the professional who has done the work - the guest is the theif.
The end result might be the same, but the guest's photo would not exist if the professional had not got the people arranged with the right background, lighting, etc.
Maybe paying a flat fee for "labour" would be one approach, but if that would include rights to the images, it'd be taking far more from the photographer, and should therefore cost you much more money.
Therefore, the status-quo is more likely to survive than be replaced - unless DRM takes off platonically, in which case you can have the images, but cannot share them / take credit for them.
Nah, Google can find much worse criticism about themselves, they just omit it from the search results :)
Why not just all mirror this code, let HP figure that one out...
Try linuxfromscratch.org. Okay, it's to get a personalised build, not a CD installation, but my Celeron433/196MB was running solid for well over 24h to build a whole system. Probably more like 36h, certainly took about 3 days (though obviously I couldn't always co-ordinate it to be busy all the time I was asleep, only X, etc, take that long!)
If they can't show that their authentication method guarantees this, surely I cannot be held liable. A lot of people come into my house, can they prove it was me who visited windowsupdate.com?
Very good idea, IMHO.
Vibrating phones are no better if you're still going to answer the bloody thing and start talking into it.
If you're on-call, part of that deal is that you've not just got the phone with you, but are capable of answering in. In a cinema, you are not capable of answering it - if you're sitting next to me, you'll be LARTed and unable to speak at all!
Yes there is such a thing...
You find that the kewl people on /. are just spotty 16-year old boys.
Can anyone find me a quote of GWB so much as mentioning the Middle East before Sep 11th, besides defending ignoring the Kyoto (sp?) Agreement?
That's exactly the same as saying, "My intentions are good, because I bought my DVD from the local market for $1.
Do business with me if you want my money didn't make Al Capone legitimate for selling alcohol during the Prohibition, nor did it legitimise his paying customers.
If it's illegal, it's illegal.
And there are bigger issues in the world than your "right" to watch the latest movies for $1. Heard of Kashmir? No, probably not.
The Mercedes I'd like to drive costs $50,000. I'm not prepared to pay that, so paying this guy I know $100 to steal one is justified.
Of course, he won't steal it from a person, he'll nick it from the factory, so nobody really loses out, and Mercedes-Benz have insurance. If their security isn't good enough to stop my stooge from stealing it, then that's their problem, not mine.
Hmm, that stands up, morally and legally.
Maybe on your world, not a world I'd like to share with you.
As the thread-starter said, though, theft isn't civil disobedience when it's just plain theft.
The RIAA are ripping off both artists and "consumers" (I remember when we were called "fans"). That doesn't make it right to steal music.
Also, whilst it was made available in sheet-music form, they didn't have photocopiers then.
Have you actually used that spec and example code to create real, usable RTF?
I'm trying at the moment, and some things (page numbers in footers, particularly) are simply not documented in the RTF documentation or sample code.
The thing I don't get, though, is that Sony seem to be calling the shots here - a Japanese company making American laws! For fuck's sake, get a clue, the ONLY time you've been attacked on your own soil before 2001 was by the fscking Japanese, and you went and used nuclear warfare against them. In 50 years time will Afghan companies be writing American law?
Phuq this, I'm off.
I'd be willing to bet the answer would be a resounding "Yes", especially from patriotic USians.
Ohh, you're taking me back to my ICL Ei TeamServers... the big ones had 486DX2/25 with 32MB... and were they cheap?!
But if the use requires permission, that's a good thing - though there is still a gap between allowing and understanding.
Oh, and I'm not crying - I've not flashed for ages. It's the old "They came for the .... but I was not a ...., so I did not defend them - then they came for me, and there was no-one left to defend me" approach. Don't worry about me, I get paranoid that PINE now parses HTML!
In 100Kb, you've said "Damn, it's another bl**dy flash site". No more room for video, unless they get lucky, and get a 1-frame shot of your appalled face to go with it.
Now don't get me wrong, this is an invasion of privacy, especially if they have full control of a machine (say, Windows). I could think of a few things I'd grab, though, if I was feeling malicious. And I'm a pretty honest guy.
That's nothing to do with how much money they have - not even vaguely related.