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Easy: How many years has this taken? What ever happened to our Constitutional guarantee of a speedy trial?
This got +5 insightful? Your constitutional right to a speedy trial is only guaranteed in criminal cases. This was clearly a civil case, and the constitution provides no guarantees of a speedy trial.
Wow, you're beautiful, intelligent, have similar interests (RPGs, Civ, etc) and like similar music to me (Who else has heard of Legendary Pink Dots?) If things don't work out with that tech journalist boyfriend of yours, let's meet!
So true. If people think this will help, let's look at the taxes on smoking. Look at the unwealthy people that still continue to smoke cigarettes despite the cost.
I'm not so sure. If the taxes on cigarettes reflected the true societal cost of smoking, you might find those cigarettes now cost $100 a pack. I highly doubt any unwealthy people would be smoking cigarettes that cost $100 a pack.
---- "We need the computer power you're not using. [climateprediction.net]
Does anybody else find it ironic that people are using idle computers, who by definition, are wasting power, to predict how the climate will be affected by global warming? Does this thing predict how much carbon is emitted by all of the computers it is borrowing idle cycles from? Because that would be uber!
"Out with your iPhone, we've added "Send to Web Gallery" on your iPhone. Pick one, emails to special address, that photo will show up on your web gallery. Can tell friends about it, View others' web galleries right on your iPhone, great iPhone experience, fully integrated."
Does this mean we're getting an iPhone update?
No you dummy, he just said "Pick one, emails to special address, that photo will show up on your web gallery." You can already email pictures right from the iPhone. For all kinds of fun, figure out your friends and family members "special email address" and start uploading their old spring break photos from college to the "grandkids first memories" gallery.
Monitoring of foreign communications has never required a warrant, nor should it. This simply reflects the current technological state of affairs with respect to foreign signals intelligence.
Let's say I'm a US Citizen. I go on a trip to a foreign country, and call my family back home. Because it's a foreign call travelling to the US, it gets picked up and data mined. My privacy has just been invaded, without a warrant or due cause, even though my US constitution specifically forbids this from happening to me, a US Citizen. Now do you see the dilemma? They can't just, after the fact, scratch the whole record of my privacy being invaded. My privacy was invaded, without probable cause, just because I used a telephone in a foreign country.
Wake up and smell the fascism America... Seriously, fascism, the merger of corporate (AT&T) and government (GWB) power, is nearly complete. In all major industries: energy, telecommunications, healthcare, food, drugs, pharmaceuticals, government and corporations are complicit in building the police state of tomorrow. It will be much worse than 1984...
For more very interesting thoughts see this article, "The DEA's War on Pain Doctors"
Wow, that's a shocking article, and shows you yet another example of how the federal government under the Bush administration is ruining america. Doctors are being thrown in jail for practicing medicine?!?!??! WTF? Clinics are invaded by jackbooted thugs who handcuff and brutalize 90 year old patients that are on oxygen. What is wrong with these people? In any other civilized country, these practices would not be tolerated, and the agents that did such things would rightfully serve time behind bars for their crimes against medical professionals, but not in GWB's America...
Some of us honestly view reproduction as being the domain of animals. Given that we have more than enough other human beings who are quite happy to devote their own lives to that activity, this means that those of us who have that attitude are also able to persue the expansion and enhancement of our minds, without fear as to the possible consequences to the human population.
Newsflash! We are animals. We might be highly evolved animals, but we are still animals. And every animal on this planet has hard-wired into their biological circuitry the need to reproduce. This need is so strong that it permeates our every waking moment. Just because you're able to repress it temporarily doesn't mean it doesn't exist. And just because we are highly evolved animals doesn't mean we aren't animals.
Every time there's a problem in my system and I make a mistake, the bank tells me to fuck myself, no matter how expensive or burdensome it is. And any time there's a problem in the bank's system and they make a mistake, the bank tells me to fuck myself, no matter how expensive or burdensome it is.
You know, the beauty of capitalism is that you, as a customer, can tell your bank to go fuck itself, and get a new bank. It sounds to me like that bank doesn't deserve your business. Take it somewhere else, or else you are just rewarding them for poor customer service.
These are very good points. Along with this, I will point out one area where WoW really has been revolutionary: the UI. If WoW got one thing gloriously right, it was their very moddable and customizable user interface via a LUA scripting system. I hope this catches on in future game's of a variety of genres, not just MMO's, because it really allows you remove the largest barrier in enjoying button-heavy and information spamming games.
I have to say, we have been absolutely spoiled by WoW's interface customization. Blizzard was smart when they realized that they couldn't design the best game interface for all players, and let you completely change it to match your style of play. Every single aspect of your gameplay interface can be changed and customized, and this a great thing.
I'm not sure I can play another MMORPG that doesn't allow this functionality.
You think that is funny until it's your own seven year old that tells a teacher to fuck off, or starts cursing in a WalMart.
If your seven year old is telling people to fuck off then it sounds like you're really a terrible parent. I hate to tell you this, but the words that come out of your kids mouth are your responsibility. Not the FCCs, not the governments, not your fellow citizens, YOURS. If you don't want your kid telling people to fuck off then maybe you need to discipline them and let them know that using curse words in daily conversation is not socially acceptable.
Anybody that thinks I should spend MY tax dollars raising their children needs to go take a flying fuck... (yes, I'm an adult, and I'm allowed to curse when I feel like it)
Get on the private jet and go see this guy in person, use the RDF to mess with him and get this shit cleared up.
No, if you give people that try to extort you what they want (cash and publicity in this case), then tomorrow you'll have 20 other nut-job wannabe "security researchers" trying the same thing. It doesn't end. If this guy wanted to make a responsible disclosure he could have done so at any time. In his case, he is holding out to see if he can get a better offer from Apple or from the black market. Reputable companies don't play extortion games, just like the US doesn't negotiate with terrorists.
My final conspiracy question is whether supermarket loyalty-card programs allow real employees to see names and shopping lists, in the small-scale aggregate. My guess is "No".
A colleague of mine used to be an Informix DBA at a large nationwide grocery store chain that used supermarket loyalty cards. Every purchase a customer ever made on their loyalty card was stored in a database, for all time and eternity. Of course, low level workers in the stores don't have access to that data, but he did, and I'm sure that marketing, sales, and executive level people also had the ability to mine this data.
The scary thing is that they probably know more about you than you know about yourself. Did you know they can even use this data to tell what time of month you/your wife has their period (based on when they bought tampons)?
I don't believe you truly addressed the grandparent's point about financial incentive to invent technology. Although I agree that overly broad software patents in general are bad, in a world where no patents exist, why would anyone want to spend millions of dollars inventing something that will promptly be stolen and imitated by a million cheaper knock-off competitors?
From the grandparent poster:
Consider the h.264 video codec. It cost millions of dollars to develop, and is protected ONLY by software patents. Europe wants to play the prisoner's dilemma to their own advantage. They want companies in the US and Japan to keep developing high tech, leaving US customers to pay for it, so that they can use it for free themselves (and they certainly do).
I tend to agree.
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And it is better if it will be done by a consortium (in a standardized way), so as for all to benefit.
This sounds like communist/socialist propaganda. We know from history that just "wanting" to do something for the benefit of all man doesn't work in practice. We are lazy, selfish, greedy human beings and do nothing that isn't out of self-interest. Why do you keep trying to pretend this is not so?
It's practically a cliche to assume that the pro sw-patent front is primarily MS. Here in the EU the lobbying came from many quarters but a big push was made by the Business Software Alliance. This consortium/group does include Microsoft but also Apple, Adobe, IBM, Intel and Symantec. As long as we go around telling ourselves "as long as MS isn't overtly pushing for swpat's all's well on the frontline", we're all the more vulnerable.
The BSA is a Microsoft front group. I would estimate that 90% of their funding comes from Microsoft.
The people are stupid. Why would you tell them anything?
Nice attitude. Do you by chance work in the office of our vice president? All kidding aside, this is a very stupid argument to make. How about "we deserve as taxpayers to know how OUR money is being spent."
1. Buy the PC that gives you the best hardware for the lowest price. If that means taking a Windows PC that has "free" extra memory and a bigger hard disk drive then do it.
Some of us are opposed to having our money line the coffers of a convicted monopolist that thinks they have the right to put a "tax" on all electronic devices and media in the world. This same convicted monopolist has a stated goal of destroying Linux and open source, from which we personally derive our personal income.
So yeah, let's just say I'm opposed to loading a gun, handing it to someone, and asking him to hold it to my head and pull the trigger. Is there something wrong with that?
Do you know I watched this on my Windows Mobile phone and seems to have broken it the video just keeps looping over and over I'm not certain but I think the "happy" midi tune plays every now and again
BillG called and he said "working as designed" so I decided to close your bug report...
I think the FSF and Groklaw are both horribly deluded in this matter. I'm not a lawyer, but by damn if they actually believe in what they're saying, THEIR lawyers need to be DISBARRED!
You bring up some interesting points. I find it hard to believe that Eben Moglen is that bad of a lawyer that he doesn't realize this is going to come up. Maybe it will take a precedent setting court decision to find out if the GPLv3 can actually bind third parties that only "contribute" to distribution, but don't actually distribute copyrighted code.
To "convey" a work means any kind of propagation that enables other parties to make or receive copies.
So Microsoft gave you a certificate which ENABLED you to receive a copy of SLES from Novell. Seems pretty clear-cut to me. They didn't distribute, but they ENABLED distribution.
Sorry I feel like I need to capitalize and bold it because you don't seem to understand what loophole GPLv3 was designed to close (this exact one).
The present one, use what you like to do what you like, is infinitely preferable from the point of view of freedom of information and expression.
To put this quote in context, we're talking about Apple's preferred model of selling the iPhone against the "present model" of the wireless industry.
I think you're deeply mistaken about the present model. The present model is that a wireless company locks you into a contract by offering a subsidized phone in return for you signing a 2 year contract. During this 2 years, the wireless company completely locks down your phone, to the point where you can only access the "mobile web", which in reality is just a web store hawking their partner's wares, heavily advertised and highly overpriced. They charge $2.99 for ringtones, and block access to all sites that might let you download ringtones for free. They want to charge $2.99 for music downloads too, and actively block any competitive means to download music, including even actively blocking built in Bluetooth OBEX file transfer capability and USB sync capability. In other words, you can't even get your own media on the device from your own computer.
Apple is changing this model by stipulating that the wireless vendor can't block content. The whole internet is available. In addition, they let you sync content from your PC, without even caring about where you got that content. The fact that Apple is finally standing up to the wireless companies that have been seriously exploiting their customers for so long is a GOOD THING.
I will give you that at this time, Apple hasn't given us a way to get ringtones onto the iPhone yet. I'm sure this will be added, and we will have to wait and see how it is done. My best guess: Apple will sell ringtones on the iTunes store for 99 cents (much better than the phone company), but will also let you add your own if you sync them from iTunes.
Is Apple evil? Well, if you consider wanting to make money by offering a superior product evil, then yes, they fall into that definition (for some here on Slashdot, just being a for-profit company is evil). I consider them a beneficial force in the market. They innovate where others merely copy. The succeed where others fail because they take bold and daring risks, introducing products that we didn't even know we needed until we saw how much better they made our lives (Mac, iPod, iPhone, etc.)
Imagine having to track down not just a lawyer, but one familiar with MS Visual Legal#++.
[clippy]It looks like you're trying to write a legally binding software license! Would you like to: a. Let Microsoft distribute your work for free? b. Let Microsoft distribute your work for free and charge money for it? c. Let Microsoft distribute your work for free, charge money for it, and sue your other customers? [/clippy]
But it seems PJ and many people here is hoping Microsoft will be found to have distributed copyrighted works on account of those vouchers. As I see things, the only possible way one could argue the vouchers are distribution would be under some sort of contributory infringement theory---the kind of liability you would have if, for instance, you distribute coupons that some pal of yours will redeem for pirated software. You're liable even if you're not distributing, because you're contributing to the infringement by your pirate friend.
RTFA. There is a new term in the GPLv3 called "conveyance." By issuing vouchers, Microsoft is not directly distributing GPL code, but they are "conveying" it.
To "convey" a work means any kind of propagation that enables other parties to make or receive copies. Mere interaction with a user through a computer network, with no transfer of a copy, is not conveying.
Sounds like Microsoft is "conveying" GPL code to me, but methinks a judge will have to decide.
I disagree. Novell does have some pretty neat products, and it would be a shame to see them die. You can be pretty damn certain that if Microsoft does drag Novell down with this, their products will disappear into a digital black hole rather than being open sourced.
I will always have a soft spot in my heart having worked at Novell (and WordPerfect pre-merger), but you have to admit they have terrible management. If their products do end up disappearing into a digital black hole instead of being open-sourced it will be their own fault. Any company that is dying can choose to open-source assets that might otherwise be lost. In reality the bankruptcy court will most likely auction these assets off to pay off the creditors.
I feel truly sorry for the engineers and developers that have poured their heart and soul into their software, only to have some executives with MBAs sell them out for an extra wing on the McMansion, a new yacht, and probably move on to another company.
Now, the question becomes this: If you don't use Microsoft Office, but you offer to fix someone's computer that does, can Microsoft apply the terms of that EULA to you, even though you never agreed to it?
'cause that's what the FSF is trying to do.
No, that's not what Microsoft is doing. Microsoft is pulling up to your house with the latest and greatest SLES distro and saying "try this cool Linux software", we'll even give you free copies of it. Then MS went and told all your neighbors you let them install Linux on your computer, and if they're using a different kind of Linux they better "pay up or else." FSF called their bluff and said "fine, you can do that, but if you want to keep distributing newer versions of SLES, you can't be threatening to sue people for using that code."
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No you dummy, he just said "Pick one, emails to special address, that photo will show up on your web gallery." You can already email pictures right from the iPhone. For all kinds of fun, figure out your friends and family members "special email address" and start uploading their old spring break photos from college to the "grandkids first memories" gallery.
Wake up and smell the fascism America... Seriously, fascism, the merger of corporate (AT&T) and government (GWB) power, is nearly complete. In all major industries: energy, telecommunications, healthcare, food, drugs, pharmaceuticals, government and corporations are complicit in building the police state of tomorrow. It will be much worse than 1984...
Newsflash! We are animals. We might be highly evolved animals, but we are still animals. And every animal on this planet has hard-wired into their biological circuitry the need to reproduce. This need is so strong that it permeates our every waking moment. Just because you're able to repress it temporarily doesn't mean it doesn't exist. And just because we are highly evolved animals doesn't mean we aren't animals.
I'm not sure I can play another MMORPG that doesn't allow this functionality.
Anybody that thinks I should spend MY tax dollars raising their children needs to go take a flying fuck... (yes, I'm an adult, and I'm allowed to curse when I feel like it)
The scary thing is that they probably know more about you than you know about yourself. Did you know they can even use this data to tell what time of month you/your wife has their period (based on when they bought tampons)?
From the grandparent poster:I tend to agree.
From your post:This sounds like communist/socialist propaganda. We know from history that just "wanting" to do something for the benefit of all man doesn't work in practice. We are lazy, selfish, greedy human beings and do nothing that isn't out of self-interest. Why do you keep trying to pretend this is not so?
So yeah, let's just say I'm opposed to loading a gun, handing it to someone, and asking him to hold it to my head and pull the trigger. Is there something wrong with that?
Sorry I feel like I need to capitalize and bold it because you don't seem to understand what loophole GPLv3 was designed to close (this exact one).
I think you're deeply mistaken about the present model. The present model is that a wireless company locks you into a contract by offering a subsidized phone in return for you signing a 2 year contract. During this 2 years, the wireless company completely locks down your phone, to the point where you can only access the "mobile web", which in reality is just a web store hawking their partner's wares, heavily advertised and highly overpriced. They charge $2.99 for ringtones, and block access to all sites that might let you download ringtones for free. They want to charge $2.99 for music downloads too, and actively block any competitive means to download music, including even actively blocking built in Bluetooth OBEX file transfer capability and USB sync capability. In other words, you can't even get your own media on the device from your own computer.
Apple is changing this model by stipulating that the wireless vendor can't block content. The whole internet is available. In addition, they let you sync content from your PC, without even caring about where you got that content. The fact that Apple is finally standing up to the wireless companies that have been seriously exploiting their customers for so long is a GOOD THING.
I will give you that at this time, Apple hasn't given us a way to get ringtones onto the iPhone yet. I'm sure this will be added, and we will have to wait and see how it is done. My best guess: Apple will sell ringtones on the iTunes store for 99 cents (much better than the phone company), but will also let you add your own if you sync them from iTunes.
Is Apple evil? Well, if you consider wanting to make money by offering a superior product evil, then yes, they fall into that definition (for some here on Slashdot, just being a for-profit company is evil). I consider them a beneficial force in the market. They innovate where others merely copy. The succeed where others fail because they take bold and daring risks, introducing products that we didn't even know we needed until we saw how much better they made our lives (Mac, iPod, iPhone, etc.)
All of this Apple bashing needs to stop.
a. Let Microsoft distribute your work for free?
b. Let Microsoft distribute your work for free and charge money for it?
c. Let Microsoft distribute your work for free, charge money for it, and sue your other customers?
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To "convey" a work means any kind of propagation that enables other parties to make or receive copies. Mere interaction with a user through a computer network, with no transfer of a copy, is not conveying.
Sounds like Microsoft is "conveying" GPL code to me, but methinks a judge will have to decide.
I feel truly sorry for the engineers and developers that have poured their heart and soul into their software, only to have some executives with MBAs sell them out for an extra wing on the McMansion, a new yacht, and probably move on to another company.