I hate using the phone. I prefer to talk to people face to face when I can, but when I can't, I prefer to use IM. There are a number of reasons for this, but probably the strongest one is that IM is the least intrusive manner of communication that still gives a conversational feel. It gives a perfect balance between email(answer whenever you get around to it) and phone(answer me now, regardless of what you're doing).
You don't need the DMCA. File suit against ebay for copyright infringement and subpoena the name and information. Should be a piece of cake -- Ebay may even just give up the info when the suit is filed to avoid having to deal with it.
Oh, and you can sue an ebay account... You don't have to know who's doing it, if you can prove someone is infringing your copyrights, it should be fairly easy to convince a judge to issue a subpoena for the information. RIAA is suing an IP address right now, right? And it looks as though they'll win.
They were actively indexing files, downloading files, and making those files available for download. Big difference from simply telling people there are files shared out.
uhm, no... It doesn't.
Read the decision -- I know it's a bit long, but it's very easy reading for a court order. The order specifically says that there is copyright infringement going on. The only thing this does is absolve Grokster and Streamcast of responsibility for it because they're not "substantially contributing" to the infringement. One of the key points in their defense was the fact that they could all close their doors tomorrow and there would be no change in what was being traded on the networks. The other key point they made was that there was a substantial non-infringing use for the technology. There's a huge difference between their position and the college students who were working hard to ensure people could trade music and movies -- they can't claim ignorance, and they likely won't be able to claim non-infringing use of their networks either.
Also, as soon as they (the college students) shut their networks down the file-trading stopped (over their networks at least) -- this case is mostly about gnutella and whether or not Grokster and Streamcast control gnutella and kazaa.... Neither of them do(they control some software used to access the networks, but there is no control over the networks -- that was a key point in their defense), and as a result they walk -- your college students won't likely be so lucky, although I think the lawsuit is ridiculous.
Have you ever used OpenOffice? How hard do you really think it is to use a word-processor? A person who knows how to use OpenOffice also knows how to use Word/Excel/Powerpoint. It even generates files that are compatible with the MS programs. If a student can't use Word after learning to use OpenOffice, the problem does not lie in the software, believe me!
Don't take this the wrong way -- Office XP has got some really nifty features. I even use them maybe once every three to six months -- but really, they're not irreplaceable. I'll write letters in notepad/vi/emacs/joe/pico/whatever the heck is available if I'm just writing text. If I actually have to format some text, Abiword or OpenOffice both do the job admirably 99.99999999% of the time, and that's good enough for me (and I'd suspect most people).
Writing it in Java is a good way to ensure that I'll never run it on my machine. I have no desire to continue the JVM hell... Write in Perl, or C, or something that doesn't require me to load up yet another JVM just to run it.
How in the world can you say an 11 year old knows what he's doing is illegal?? There's a reason we don't make kids completely responsible for their actions before a certain age -- it's because they aren't!! They have no concept of laws and consequences for breaking them. They need to be taught this, but prosecuting them in court for a felony is ridiculous. Just the cost to the taxpayers of such a ridiculous prosecution is outrageous.
umm.... NO. Microsoft's EULA specifically removes the rights you as a consumer are guaranteed(fair use, etc). The GPL grants you extra rights -- such as allowing you to copy and distribute derivative works, if you follow a set of conditions. This is not a EULA, and it does not infringe your rights. So, no -- there is no connection between the two. Read the GPL before you attempt to comment on it -- it's really pretty easy to read and understand.
If you've ever bought a blank "music" cd or a blank cassette, you've paid. This bothers me a bit, though -- anyone who downloads music is considered a thief (by RIAA), but they charge everyone who uses cdrs and tapes, regardless of what we use them for. It seems a bit to me like they're stealing from me.
Ah... but you do not understand. There are other people who can, and may very well, do the fixing. As the person responsible for the systems though, I have to know what's going on so I can make the necessary decisions to ensure it's done, and done correctly. That's responsibility -- it certainly doesn't mean that I'm the only one who can fix things -- on the contrary, I work hard to ensure there are other people who know how to fix anything I can. And, I trust the people who work for me (now -- my last shop was horrible) completely. I know they'll get the job done -- but that doesn't relieve me of the responsibility.
My point was that if you don't want the responsibility, don't take the job (or move on, as you said you did). Don't tell your boss lies and push your work off on your co-workers -- they hate people who pull stunts like that. And what is he going to do the day his boss comes to his house and sees his cell phone works fine?
All that said, being the single point of failure for several systems is pretty bad. I did it for four years on my ship -- I'll never let that happen again.
All you're proving here is your complete lack of responsibility.
I carry a cell phone -- my choice, I'm not required to -- 24/7. If something I'm responsible for is down, I want to know immediately. Pushing your responsibilities off on other people because you're too good to carry a cell/pager, and too dishonest to tell your boss that, is a sure-fire way to make sure you're first on the RIF list when cutbacks happen -- and for your co-workers' sake, I hope you are. If you don't pull your weight because you're too special to do what's expected of you, you don't deserve the job. If the job is too demanding for you, find another one -- don't push your work-load off on your co-workers. We hate people like that -- I've worked with them for years. I've had to resort to blocking caller-id, or going outside and using my cell to call people back into work, because they won't answer the phone if it comes up with a work number. Pathetic.
Okay, I get you. I honestly thought from your first comment that you were saying first sale has no basis in law! You're obviously correct that there's a major point of discord between the DMCA and the copyright act of 1976. Hopefully at some point our supreme court will step in and fix it.
This ability to transfer ownership of a DVD, book, CD, or VHS tape is because of the "principle of first sale." This is not a legal right, however, and only exists because it has been technologically impossible to prevent up to now, and because IP vendors were content with the revenue from the first sale.
Do some research before you start spouting about things you don't understand -- the right of first sale is codified in law, and has been affirmed by the supreme court in numerous cases. There may be debate about how it applies to some digital media by some corporations, but that doesn't change the fact that it certainly is a legal right.
Sounds about right -- they had VT100's (the real ones) in half the lab when I was there(to access the Vax 11/70 that I heard was removed right after I left), four tables of amber terminals that you could access several different systems on, and four tables of PS/2's that were on a Novell network. I learned Fortran on that vax from Dr. Schmidt -- still the best professor I've ever had.
You recall correctly -- they had eight PS/2's in the back corner of the Computer Science Lab. I don't know when they got rid of them -- when I left in 1991 they still had them. I learned Pascal on those computers... and got my first taste of Novell networks...
you use the extreme case to prove your example. It doesn't work -- if the gun is pointed properly down-range, the round shouldn't hurt anyone anyway.
I would contend that anyone who uses his 15 year old son's birthdate for the combination to his gun safe is a complete idiot -- he did not take all reasonable precautions. In addition, if your 15 year old son takes a gun to school and shoots someone with it, you have failed as a parent -- the problem goes much deeper than whether or not a 15 year old has access to a gun. I owned my own guns by the time I was 16, and I used them responsibly -- I certainly never shot anyone with them.
I was using anecdotal evidence -- it doesn't prove that it can't happen, all I'm saying is that in my experience, proper training and use of firearms eliminates "accidents."
Your alarm clock doesn't have an explosion going off inside it every time it goes off. Same goes for my wristwatch. You're correct that solid-state electronics are great, but when you expose them to extreme circumstances (such as putting them in a gun), you rapidly reduce their MTBF. I know, I've worked on military electronics for seven years -- expose electronics to constant vibration, random shocks, salt-water(sweat), and you have a recipe for random failures. Constant random failures.
You're correct that there's a "non-zero" chance that a weapon will fail when you pull the trigger anyway -- but that chance is miniscule. I've been shooting since I was six years old (I'm 27 now), and I've had one failure of a rifle (gun blew up in my face due to faulty, home-loaded ammunition), several failures with one rifle that simply couldn't handle the ammunition I wanted to use it with (I returned that gun immediately), and two failures with the Colt.45 I currently use (brought on by flat-nosed ammunition -- I've since put about 1000 rounds of various other ammunition through it with no failures). I'd say that's a pretty good track record for over 21 years of shooting. You'll also notice a common thread in each of those incidents -- the ammunition is almost always at fault for any failures of a firearm. If you keep a gun clean and lubricated, and use the proper ammunition in it, you should never have a failure. So no, I don't worry in the slightest bit that my gun will fail to fire in the middle of the night if someone breaks into my home -- I know for a fact that it will. And I also know how to rapidly fix it if by some chance it does fail -- that's where training comes in.
No. You have to be careless -- guns are not beings, they're simply objects. There are rules for their use -- if these rules are followed, the risk of them causing harm to their user is, for all intents and purposes, nil. I've been using guns for over twenty years, and never been harmed by a gun -- neither has anyone I know (I grew up in rural Kansas -- everyone owns several guns and uses them on a regular basis).
Luck has no factor in the use of a gun -- anyone who says they're "unlucky" and got hurt by a gun really means they were careless.
If you don't like their drivers, don't use them. If you're that much of an open source zealot, I'm surprised you would tarnish your image by loading such horrible, closed source drivers by the great satan of video cards. I mean, come on! If Nvidia's drivers really make your kernel insecure and unstable, you'd be a fool to load them, right? Why not just buy an ATI and have done with it? Having an insecure and unstable kernel would be a pretty serious problem to me -- I think I'd be willing to settle for an inferior card (what's that? oh -- somebody's telling me that ATI now has the best, not the worst 3d card on the market right now -- and their drivers are open source, right?).
Nvidia doesn't care about the people who have a religious hatred of anything they can't look at the source to. Neither does anyone else outside that group of people. Fortunately for all of us, they choose to ignore your zealotry and still make the drivers available free of charge for the rest of us who live in the real world.
While I agree that in principle, open source is better, we're talking about a driver for a video card here. Even Alan Cox says (right here on slashdot, no less) he can't think of a good reason for them to open source their drivers -- I'm not going to try to pretend that I know more about kernel development than he does -- and the more people whine and moan that they won't, the more radical and ridiculous the whole open source movement seems.
Why? The network card is a realtek -- well supported under linux, from what I hear anyway (I don't own one). The other NIC on the board is a 3com, also well supported under linux.
This comment is posted every single time anyone mentions anything about Nvidia, and it's starting to get old. Nvidia can't open-source the drivers, due to licensing issues. Also, why do you honestly care? Nvidia is supporting the linux (and now the FreeBSD) crowd just as well as they are the windows crowd -- personally, as long as they keep releasing drivers, I don't care whether they open-source or not.
Insightful, indeed.
I don't know where you live, but just about everywhere in the country you're held accountable for your guns. It's a class D felony in Virginia, where I live, to leave a gun where it is accessible in any way to a minor. There are signs all over every gun shop I've been in recently. We also have another law that requires a minimum prison term of five years(no parole) for any crime committed with a firearm.
Als, one of the NRA's biggest programs is their program to train children not to mess with guns (Eddie Eagle -- stop, don't touch, tell an adult...) So, I don't know where you're getting your information, but it's all wrong -- do some research.
Typing requires a surface. It's difficult to type without a desk(quickly, anyway). Typing can be noisy -- at least all the nice keyboards I've used make noise. That said, I prefer to type -- if I can. Otherwise, such as when I'm standing up or taking notes in class, a tablet would be really nice. Now if they would just drop the price -- I haven't seen one under 2200 bucks.
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Windows XP and Office XP run on the opteron. There was also an article on slashdot a while back about it. Linux ports are definitely in progress, but I don't know if there's anything solid running on 64 bit x86 machines right now.
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I hate using the phone. I prefer to talk to people face to face when I can, but when I can't, I prefer to use IM. There are a number of reasons for this, but probably the strongest one is that IM is the least intrusive manner of communication that still gives a conversational feel. It gives a perfect balance between email(answer whenever you get around to it) and phone(answer me now, regardless of what you're doing).
Oh, and you can sue an ebay account... You don't have to know who's doing it, if you can prove someone is infringing your copyrights, it should be fairly easy to convince a judge to issue a subpoena for the information. RIAA is suing an IP address right now, right? And it looks as though they'll win.
They were actively indexing files, downloading files, and making those files available for download. Big difference from simply telling people there are files shared out.
Read the decision -- I know it's a bit long, but it's very easy reading for a court order. The order specifically says that there is copyright infringement going on. The only thing this does is absolve Grokster and Streamcast of responsibility for it because they're not "substantially contributing" to the infringement. One of the key points in their defense was the fact that they could all close their doors tomorrow and there would be no change in what was being traded on the networks. The other key point they made was that there was a substantial non-infringing use for the technology. There's a huge difference between their position and the college students who were working hard to ensure people could trade music and movies -- they can't claim ignorance, and they likely won't be able to claim non-infringing use of their networks either.
Also, as soon as they (the college students) shut their networks down the file-trading stopped (over their networks at least) -- this case is mostly about gnutella and whether or not Grokster and Streamcast control gnutella and kazaa.... Neither of them do(they control some software used to access the networks, but there is no control over the networks -- that was a key point in their defense), and as a result they walk -- your college students won't likely be so lucky, although I think the lawsuit is ridiculous.
Dystopia, right?
Don't take this the wrong way -- Office XP has got some really nifty features. I even use them maybe once every three to six months -- but really, they're not irreplaceable. I'll write letters in notepad/vi/emacs/joe/pico/whatever the heck is available if I'm just writing text. If I actually have to format some text, Abiword or OpenOffice both do the job admirably 99.99999999% of the time, and that's good enough for me (and I'd suspect most people).
That said, great idea.
How in the world can you say an 11 year old knows what he's doing is illegal?? There's a reason we don't make kids completely responsible for their actions before a certain age -- it's because they aren't!! They have no concept of laws and consequences for breaking them. They need to be taught this, but prosecuting them in court for a felony is ridiculous. Just the cost to the taxpayers of such a ridiculous prosecution is outrageous.
umm.... NO. Microsoft's EULA specifically removes the rights you as a consumer are guaranteed(fair use, etc). The GPL grants you extra rights -- such as allowing you to copy and distribute derivative works, if you follow a set of conditions. This is not a EULA, and it does not infringe your rights. So, no -- there is no connection between the two. Read the GPL before you attempt to comment on it -- it's really pretty easy to read and understand.
If you've ever bought a blank "music" cd or a blank cassette, you've paid. This bothers me a bit, though -- anyone who downloads music is considered a thief (by RIAA), but they charge everyone who uses cdrs and tapes, regardless of what we use them for. It seems a bit to me like they're stealing from me.
There are other people who can, and may very well, do the fixing. As the person responsible for the systems though, I have to know what's going on so I can make the necessary decisions to ensure it's done, and done correctly. That's responsibility -- it certainly doesn't mean that I'm the only one who can fix things -- on the contrary, I work hard to ensure there are other people who know how to fix anything I can. And, I trust the people who work for me (now -- my last shop was horrible) completely. I know they'll get the job done -- but that doesn't relieve me of the responsibility.
My point was that if you don't want the responsibility, don't take the job (or move on, as you said you did). Don't tell your boss lies and push your work off on your co-workers -- they hate people who pull stunts like that. And what is he going to do the day his boss comes to his house and sees his cell phone works fine?
All that said, being the single point of failure for several systems is pretty bad. I did it for four years on my ship -- I'll never let that happen again.
All you're proving here is your complete lack of responsibility.
I carry a cell phone -- my choice, I'm not required to -- 24/7. If something I'm responsible for is down, I want to know immediately. Pushing your responsibilities off on other people because you're too good to carry a cell/pager, and too dishonest to tell your boss that, is a sure-fire way to make sure you're first on the RIF list when cutbacks happen -- and for your co-workers' sake, I hope you are. If you don't pull your weight because you're too special to do what's expected of you, you don't deserve the job. If the job is too demanding for you, find another one -- don't push your work-load off on your co-workers. We hate people like that -- I've worked with them for years. I've had to resort to blocking caller-id, or going outside and using my cell to call people back into work, because they won't answer the phone if it comes up with a work number.
Pathetic.
Okay, I get you. I honestly thought from your first comment that you were saying first sale has no basis in law! You're obviously correct that there's a major point of discord between the DMCA and the copyright act of 1976. Hopefully at some point our supreme court will step in and fix it.
Do some research before you start spouting about things you don't understand -- the right of first sale is codified in law, and has been affirmed by the supreme court in numerous cases. There may be debate about how it applies to some digital media by some corporations, but that doesn't change the fact that it certainly is a legal right.
Sounds about right -- they had VT100's (the real ones) in half the lab when I was there(to access the Vax 11/70 that I heard was removed right after I left), four tables of amber terminals that you could access several different systems on, and four tables of PS/2's that were on a Novell network. I learned Fortran on that vax from Dr. Schmidt -- still the best professor I've ever had.
You recall correctly -- they had eight PS/2's in the back corner of the Computer Science Lab. I don't know when they got rid of them -- when I left in 1991 they still had them. I learned Pascal on those computers... and got my first taste of Novell networks...
you use the extreme case to prove your example. It doesn't work -- if the gun is pointed properly down-range, the round shouldn't hurt anyone anyway.
I would contend that anyone who uses his 15 year old son's birthdate for the combination to his gun safe is a complete idiot -- he did not take all reasonable precautions. In addition, if your 15 year old son takes a gun to school and shoots someone with it, you have failed as a parent -- the problem goes much deeper than whether or not a 15 year old has access to a gun. I owned my own guns by the time I was 16, and I used them responsibly -- I certainly never shot anyone with them.
I was using anecdotal evidence -- it doesn't prove that it can't happen, all I'm saying is that in my experience, proper training and use of firearms eliminates "accidents."
Your alarm clock doesn't have an explosion going off inside it every time it goes off. Same goes for my wristwatch. You're correct that solid-state electronics are great, but when you expose them to extreme circumstances (such as putting them in a gun), you rapidly reduce their MTBF. I know, I've worked on military electronics for seven years -- expose electronics to constant vibration, random shocks, salt-water(sweat), and you have a recipe for random failures. Constant random failures. .45 I currently use (brought on by flat-nosed ammunition -- I've since put about 1000 rounds of various other ammunition through it with no failures). I'd say that's a pretty good track record for over 21 years of shooting. You'll also notice a common thread in each of those incidents -- the ammunition is almost always at fault for any failures of a firearm. If you keep a gun clean and lubricated, and use the proper ammunition in it, you should never have a failure. So no, I don't worry in the slightest bit that my gun will fail to fire in the middle of the night if someone breaks into my home -- I know for a fact that it will. And I also know how to rapidly fix it if by some chance it does fail -- that's where training comes in.
You're correct that there's a "non-zero" chance that a weapon will fail when you pull the trigger anyway -- but that chance is miniscule. I've been shooting since I was six years old (I'm 27 now), and I've had one failure of a rifle (gun blew up in my face due to faulty, home-loaded ammunition), several failures with one rifle that simply couldn't handle the ammunition I wanted to use it with (I returned that gun immediately), and two failures with the Colt
No. You have to be careless -- guns are not beings, they're simply objects. There are rules for their use -- if these rules are followed, the risk of them causing harm to their user is, for all intents and purposes, nil. I've been using guns for over twenty years, and never been harmed by a gun -- neither has anyone I know (I grew up in rural Kansas -- everyone owns several guns and uses them on a regular basis).
Luck has no factor in the use of a gun -- anyone who says they're "unlucky" and got hurt by a gun really means they were careless.
I mean, come on! If Nvidia's drivers really make your kernel insecure and unstable, you'd be a fool to load them, right? Why not just buy an ATI and have done with it? Having an insecure and unstable kernel would be a pretty serious problem to me -- I think I'd be willing to settle for an inferior card (what's that? oh -- somebody's telling me that ATI now has the best, not the worst 3d card on the market right now -- and their drivers are open source, right?).
Nvidia doesn't care about the people who have a religious hatred of anything they can't look at the source to. Neither does anyone else outside that group of people. Fortunately for all of us, they choose to ignore your zealotry and still make the drivers available free of charge for the rest of us who live in the real world.
While I agree that in principle, open source is better, we're talking about a driver for a video card here. Even Alan Cox says (right here on slashdot, no less) he can't think of a good reason for them to open source their drivers -- I'm not going to try to pretend that I know more about kernel development than he does -- and the more people whine and moan that they won't, the more radical and ridiculous the whole open source movement seems.
Why? The network card is a realtek -- well supported under linux, from what I hear anyway (I don't own one). The other NIC on the board is a 3com, also well supported under linux.
This comment is posted every single time anyone mentions anything about Nvidia, and it's starting to get old. Nvidia can't open-source the drivers, due to licensing issues. Also, why do you honestly care? Nvidia is supporting the linux (and now the FreeBSD) crowd just as well as they are the windows crowd -- personally, as long as they keep releasing drivers, I don't care whether they open-source or not.
Insightful, indeed.
I don't know where you live, but just about everywhere in the country you're held accountable for your guns. It's a class D felony in Virginia, where I live, to leave a gun where it is accessible in any way to a minor. There are signs all over every gun shop I've been in recently. We also have another law that requires a minimum prison term of five years(no parole) for any crime committed with a firearm.
Als, one of the NRA's biggest programs is their program to train children not to mess with guns (Eddie Eagle -- stop, don't touch, tell an adult...) So, I don't know where you're getting your information, but it's all wrong -- do some research.
Typing requires a surface. It's difficult to type without a desk(quickly, anyway). Typing can be noisy -- at least all the nice keyboards I've used make noise. That said, I prefer to type -- if I can. Otherwise, such as when I'm standing up or taking notes in class, a tablet would be really nice. Now if they would just drop the price -- I haven't seen one under 2200 bucks.
Windows XP and Office XP run on the opteron. There was also an article on slashdot a while back about it. Linux ports are definitely in progress, but I don't know if there's anything solid running on 64 bit x86 machines right now.