What's the difference between off-roading (which car manufacturers make vehicles targetted at consumers for) and using an alternate DNS?
When you use an alternate DNS you're going where most don't usually go. It really doesn't mean you deserve to be chucked off the internet. It does mean, however, that the company should offer (at a slightly higher price) an upgraded service. Why? Because if you don't, someone else will. And the old saying goes for your competition too, give 'em an inch and they'll take a mile.:)
I'd say replacing the steering column is like asking them to route IPv6...
Cough, cough. Transliteration translation time (please don't take it as a serious flame).
Ok, so like I said earlier, you broke your own vehicle by using it on roads other than provided by your manufacturer. A manufaturer, whether it be Ford, Chevy, or Toyota, cannot possibly be expected every single possible variation in road quality that any single user could require--it's not technically (well...financially) feasible. Instead you target providing vehicles that will fulfill the needs of 98% of their customer base. Trying to completely satisfy the remaining 2% would probably cost as much as supporting the entire remaining 98% all together. That is, the needs of the 2% are so widely varied that trying to come up with a vehicle that fits everyone's need would bankrupt them.
Given that you're the one who kind-of broke your own vehicle, I'd have to say that the onus is on you, actually, to find a work around. Which, I guess is what you're trying to do in submitting the Ask Chilton's topic.
Why did I do that? Because of this paragraph you wrote (specifically the highlighted bit):
>I'm sorry if your ISP tech support didn't give you the touchy feelies when you called and complained that you broke your service. I do, in fact understand your frustrations, but have enough experience to also understand that there are limitations as to what a company targets when providing a service--same is true regardless of industry. If that were not true, then there'd be some spiffy newspaper that everyone on the planet read. But, for obvious reasons, it doesn't exist.
The fact is if the internet only relied on what ISPs could provide to their home customers, the world would end up a mish mash of incompatible, expensive service providers, just like the bad old days of Compu$erve, Delphi, Prodigy, Genie, and Q-Link. Blech!
Assuming your local administrator isn't using up all the non-routeable IPs, those should not connect anywhere. If you get an error message back that looks different from the one you get from this (assuming you aren't running a server yourself) then they are running a proxy. If they are both the same then either they aren't running a proxy, or you are using a broken web-browser that doesn't return proper error messages, such as IE.
Not as guaranteed to product a result as the parent message, but way easier!:-)
I got an (approximately) 6 month suspension from the school's computer system because I used file manager! Yes, you know, the old explorer utility for windows 3.1... This was at EDSS in the WRDSB nee WCBE. There, as far back as 1996 they were filtering virtually everything. Even sites like Nintendo.com were filtered making one of the only fun ways to do an essay (on something you're interested in) boring. Funny enough, there were hints that they were going to filter FTP because it was "too much of a risk".
Fortunately my parents weren't broke, so between a small amount of my paper route and a lot of their help I was able to get a laptop.
I learned something from that experience, though. My kids will get their own laptops, and I will _refuse_ to allow them to use the school's computer systems. I'll even try it on as religious grounds if the school says they have to use theirs (maybe I can say I'm Amish?:-) Well, that's only if I choose not to homeschool 'em (why not? The only thing I experienced in school was learning to be a social idiot! Probably a lesson best not learned.)
>So should the web return to the days of pure ASCII?
For someone who calls themselves "reality master", one might hope you would realize that HTTP/HTML have supported extended ("foreign") character sets since inception, thereby violating ASCII standards all along (for the client).
You can access them by typing an ampersand, followed by the mnemonic of the character you are accessing, followed by a semicolon.
This process is described in my 1995 HTML sourcebook.
So, in other words, there were no such "ASCII only HTML" days you speak of.
>Should Slashdot disallow any HTML postings? HTML is useful.
Not when people abuse it to make page widening, huge blinking text and scrolling marquees. Not to mention linking IMG tags to child-porn and other illegal items.
>Look at how it used on Slashdot -- italics, boldface, links, etc.
Look at how that's been done since ASCII was used for conversation.
Bold: *bold text* Italics: ~italicized text~ Underline (betcha that would confuse you if I did it with HTML): _underlined text_ Link: You can go to http://slashdot.org/ for more info. [Most text-only readers will auto-parse anything with the http:// infront of it as a web-link and treat it as such].
>Not to mention that proportional fonts are infinitely easier to read.
A: Not for ascii art. B: Invalid argument. Proportional fonts came out of my 1985 Star NX-1000 Dot-Matrix printer, well before HTML.
>How can you possible be in favor of HTML on the web, yet not in favor of HTML in Usenet?
I would suppose because they are different?
Next thing you know people will want to implement FTP over usenet...
>Put it this way: If Usenet were invented today and they included HTML, could you honestly say it would occur to you to say, "you know what would make this better? ASCII only!"
Hell yes.
>Depends on your newsreader. If you're using a Windows newsreader, it typically uses the IE COM component to display the HTML.
*Some* newsreaders do. Hardly even close to typically (netscape news, freeagent come to mind).
>The point is that should be under the reader's control
Then take the problem into your own hands instead of depending on the world to do it for you. Add a module to your newsreader to strip all CR/LFs from postings unless they are followed by another set of CR/LRs. This isn't even high-school programming level work -- anyone with a "programming for dummies" book could do it.
Your problem is fixed, and you can post the solution to benefit everyone tomorrow.
"He was packing a whole bunch of compact flash cards - too many, I told him. But he was driven - not by the money, he said, but by the principal."
Why is it I have just lost all faith in this reporter? I just find it hard to believe that the head of this guy's old school would chauffer him across the border.
The temperature is falling! The temperature is falling!
Oh wait, no it isn't!
The temperature is rising! The temperature is rising!
Will someone please turn off these squak boxes. They're getting on my nerves. I will never trust anyone who changes their opinions like a politician.
At least Oil companies always have the same motives (makes them easier to track).
So an ice shelf falls. That's what things do when you apply gravity to them. The fact that it was "unexpected" simply goes to show that the scientists following this ice shelf are not qualified to research it. Nothing in science (especially stuff like ice melting or breaking) is totally unexpected unless there's either a lack of research into the subject (not likely -- people know what ice is and how it works) or the scientists involved didn't measure the phenomenon properly.
My main worry about pollution harming me doesn't come from this Global warming/cooling/changing/whatever it comes from smog making it hard for me to breathe on certain summer days. Now, fix that and I have no beefs with you -- this is an obvious problem that needs fixing. But do it in the name of global "xyz" and you're find a tough opponent.
So here's the question: Did you really fire her because of her greeting card obsession, or because she didn't do her work?
In other words, if she sat there and looked blank during her greeting card time, would you have kept her?
And, as your example proves, goof-offs will find something else to do other than work every single time you block them. And, worse yet, if you block everyone you guarantee at least one or two freshly disgruntled employees who now work less, or, worse yet, become shit-stirrers and keep the departmental productivity even lower than theirs.
>Therefore you cannot use VNC with Gnome (for example) without sending the source code of Gnome (or a written offer) to the receiving computer.
Oh please. Read the GPL and notice the clause (5 to be exact) that lets you continue to use the GPL software without agreeing to the terms of the GPL. Read it. Its there.
If you don't agree to the GPL you can continue to use the software with the usual copyright restrictions: Not to copy it to others, Not to put your name on it. Very simple, really.
So where were we? Oh yeah, you can't use VNC because GNOME is GPL. Well, then simply choose not the accept the GPL license and (according to your interpretation) your rights are "restored".
I could understand this misunderstanding if the GPL was wrapped up in legalese like most MS licences, but it isn't. It's an easy read for most adults.
And before you suggest that the bitmap is a derived work, you're right. But the license clearly says Program, not derivative work. A.bmp is not a program by any sane programmer's definition, and therefore doesn't count.
>This is like saying you own a Ferrari and a Yugo but Ferrari says you can't drive the Yugo if you want to drive the Ferrari. I don't see a problem there.
And people who post stuff like that as A/C are truly the scum of slashdot. Why must you hide from what you say? Is it because you're really just a jerk who couldn't use a computer to work his way out of a paper bag?
>As opposed to not having a sky marshal, and having the terrorist pull out a glass knife from where he's sown it inside his shoe, and...take over the plane without a fight?
I can fight someone with a glass knife -- they have to be within the distance of my fist before they can hurt me with it (unless they are particularly skilled). It would probably take quite a few slashes with the knife before they'd be able to kill me, ensuring that I'd have a chance to hurt them. Do that five (or less) more times and the person should be KO and the crisis averted.
If they have a gun they only need to see me to kill me with it. All the hijacker needs to do is be out of arms reach of anybody and he has control of the airplane.
In this case I prefer that the threat be standing next to me.
>When you want to mix with the rest of society you have to conform to certain standards
Part of those standards dictate that you aren't allowed to make others bleed or experience pain without their express consent.
>Steve won't play by those rules. Steve deserves everything he gets.
And so do the airport security. If you don't play by the rules of society (which are defined as laws) then you go to jail.
>If I see any wanker pretending to be a borg in an airport I'll have a quiet word to a national guardsman, just to make the fool think twice about doing it again.
>I don't know what line of work you are in, but I'll gladly accept YOUR free services, since you don't really seem to think work has any value.
No, he just thinks your work has a value of $1.23 per 80 minutes of it. Which, if you compare it to any other media isn't bad at all (a rental movie generally costs $1 an hour, a book about $0.50 an hour [for me], etc, etc).
...and enjoy virtually rock solid and generally full featured burning for free! Not to mention that you get the code.
This was why I made sure I kept a linux box running 24/7 (at first -- now there's many more reasons). Software like Nero (and all windows burning software, actually) wasn't as reliable or intuitive.
I see no reason why the DVD version would be lacking at all (unless it doesn't support your drive)...
First we should realise that most terrorist attacks against the US on US soil are done by Americans.
>the 50 million survivors are left with nothing more than wagging their fingers at him since we can't use nukes and we can't afford conventional military action with 5 out of 6 people dead.
So that's 300 million affected.
>Or we can nuke the bastard. Maybe a few million will die if the nut has it in the middle of his capital city
Maybe so.
So let's say that, by statistics, this nut is in America's largest capital city (since in all likelyhood he is American) and America chooses to nuke New York to rid America of him.
Don't you just think that maybe Bush will be in jail when 10 million Americans are killed in the attempt to kill someone who has not actually killed anyone yet, and for whom the only proof availiable to prove his guilt comes from his executioner, and (to top it all off) comes from someone who says that if you are accused of doing what that person does America will destroy another 10 million of its own population in your name?
Errr -- it really doesn't make any sense to do that in a free world. Now, if this were China, well, then it would make sense.
>But would you say 640x480 is sufficient resolution for sketching?
Yes, unless you are sketching as art, or are making very detailed sketches.
If your sketches are detailed you're SOL in a classroom, or you'll end up like a lot of out first-time teachers -- adjusting your style so students quit bothering you with "I can't see that!"
>Yeh, protesters staring down tanks make for great photos and propaganda -- outside of china -- But it won't do shit inside.
Yeah, but as long as the rest of the world knows that China is an opressive place, that's great in and of itself.
4 billion out of 5 billion ain't bad.
>If the protesters would have waited, and moved for slow reforms rather then 'revolution' China might be a free society now.
If Americans (for example) had done the same, do you think America would be as free as it is today?
Revolution needs to be swift, IMHO. Slow revolutions rarely happen... (well, as far as I can see, every government that has been thrown over in modern history had it happen pretty quickly, or it happened with a lot of bloodshed).
>Yeh, democracy is nice, but there was no pressing need to have a revolution at the time.
Any country that kills protestors with tanks has a pressing need for more freedom. I really don't care if its in the form of democracy or not, but there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to go out on the street and shout out your opinions (barring doing it at 3:00 am and waking up everyone:)
>Maybe Tiananmen was do soon, and the students really blew it.
No, the timing was perfect. Now, instead of 1 billion ranting Chinese people ranting on the inside and getting nowhere, the name "Tiananmen Square" has become synonymous with opressive killer non-freedom government. Its as much a household name as "Nazi".
They couldn't have gotten it any better. I expect those words to come up, along with file photos, over and over during their olympics.
Should be fun to see how many olympic news sites China thinks it can censor without the IOC getting upset.
Sure, they can love themselves, be all us on the outside can have disdain for them.
who said its against the law to use a public key if you lose yours for your purchased software? (this isn't as uncommon as you might think -- just think -- a corporation has 100's if not 1000's of licenses -- there's a very good chance one or two will get lost this year just from techs being stupid enough to leave the CD key card behind).
Now who said MS had the right to shut you down if they only suspect you have pirated their software. Shouldn't they have to prove you guilty first?
Well, there's the DMCA and UCITA, but they don't cover me, and they don't cover most users of M$ software.
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What's the difference between off-roading (which car manufacturers make vehicles targetted at consumers for) and using an alternate DNS?
:)
When you use an alternate DNS you're going where most don't usually go. It really doesn't mean you deserve to be chucked off the internet. It does mean, however, that the company should offer (at a slightly higher price) an upgraded service. Why? Because if you don't, someone else will. And the old saying goes for your competition too, give 'em an inch and they'll take a mile.
I'd say replacing the steering column is like asking them to route IPv6...
Cough, cough. Transliteration translation time (please don't take it as a serious flame).
Ok, so like I said earlier, you broke your own vehicle by using it on roads other than provided by your manufacturer. A manufaturer, whether it be Ford, Chevy, or Toyota, cannot possibly be expected every single possible variation in road quality that any single user could require--it's not technically (well...financially) feasible. Instead you target providing vehicles that will fulfill the needs of 98% of their customer base. Trying to completely satisfy the remaining 2% would probably cost as much as supporting the entire remaining 98% all together. That is, the needs of the 2% are so widely varied that trying to come up with a vehicle that fits everyone's need would bankrupt them.
Given that you're the one who kind-of broke your own vehicle, I'd have to say that the onus is on you, actually, to find a work around. Which, I guess is what you're trying to do in submitting the Ask Chilton's topic.
Why did I do that? Because of this paragraph you wrote (specifically the highlighted bit):
>I'm sorry if your ISP tech support didn't give you the touchy feelies when you called and complained that you broke your service. I do, in fact understand your frustrations, but have enough experience to also understand that there are limitations as to what a company targets when providing a service--same is true regardless of industry. If that were not true, then there'd be some spiffy newspaper that everyone on the planet read. But, for obvious reasons, it doesn't exist.
The fact is if the internet only relied on what ISPs could provide to their home customers, the world would end up a mish mash of incompatible, expensive service providers, just like the bad old days of Compu$erve, Delphi, Prodigy, Genie, and Q-Link. Blech!
Easier:
:-)
Try browsing to this or this.
Assuming your local administrator isn't using up all the non-routeable IPs, those should not connect anywhere. If you get an error message back that looks different from the one you get from this (assuming you aren't running a server yourself) then they are running a proxy. If they are both the same then either they aren't running a proxy, or you are using a broken web-browser that doesn't return proper error messages, such as IE.
Not as guaranteed to product a result as the parent message, but way easier!
HTH.
You think that's bad?
:-) Well, that's only if I choose not to homeschool 'em (why not? The only thing I experienced in school was learning to be a social idiot! Probably a lesson best not learned.)
I got an (approximately) 6 month suspension from the school's computer system because I used file manager! Yes, you know, the old explorer utility for windows 3.1... This was at EDSS in the WRDSB nee WCBE. There, as far back as 1996 they were filtering virtually everything. Even sites like Nintendo.com were filtered making one of the only fun ways to do an essay (on something you're interested in) boring. Funny enough, there were hints that they were going to filter FTP because it was "too much of a risk".
Fortunately my parents weren't broke, so between a small amount of my paper route and a lot of their help I was able to get a laptop.
I learned something from that experience, though. My kids will get their own laptops, and I will _refuse_ to allow them to use the school's computer systems. I'll even try it on as religious grounds if the school says they have to use theirs (maybe I can say I'm Amish?
>I've especially considered it during the interminable downtime, as those are always times I need web access. But I'd probably get fired for that :-(
:-) That way there's no school equipment involved at all.
Why not dial out? If you're really desperate, dial out on your cellphone with a laptop!
>So should the web return to the days of pure ASCII?
For someone who calls themselves "reality master", one might hope you would realize that HTTP/HTML have supported extended ("foreign") character sets since inception, thereby violating ASCII standards all along (for the client).
You can access them by typing an ampersand, followed by the mnemonic of the character you are accessing, followed by a semicolon.
This process is described in my 1995 HTML sourcebook.
So, in other words, there were no such "ASCII only HTML" days you speak of.
>Should Slashdot disallow any HTML postings? HTML is useful.
Not when people abuse it to make page widening, huge blinking text and scrolling marquees. Not to mention linking IMG tags to child-porn and other illegal items.
>Look at how it used on Slashdot -- italics, boldface, links, etc.
Look at how that's been done since ASCII was used for conversation.
Bold: *bold text*
Italics: ~italicized text~
Underline (betcha that would confuse you if I did it with HTML): _underlined text_
Link: You can go to http://slashdot.org/ for more info. [Most text-only readers will auto-parse anything with the http:// infront of it as a web-link and treat it as such].
>Not to mention that proportional fonts are infinitely easier to read.
A: Not for ascii art.
B: Invalid argument. Proportional fonts came out of my 1985 Star NX-1000 Dot-Matrix printer, well before HTML.
>How can you possible be in favor of HTML on the web, yet not in favor of HTML in Usenet?
I would suppose because they are different?
Next thing you know people will want to implement FTP over usenet...
>Put it this way: If Usenet were invented today and they included HTML, could you honestly say it would occur to you to say, "you know what would make this better? ASCII only!"
Hell yes.
>Depends on your newsreader. If you're using a Windows newsreader, it typically uses the IE COM component to display the HTML.
*Some* newsreaders do. Hardly even close to typically (netscape news, freeagent come to mind).
>The point is that should be under the reader's control
Then take the problem into your own hands instead of depending on the world to do it for you. Add a module to your newsreader to strip all CR/LFs from postings unless they are followed by another set of CR/LRs. This isn't even high-school programming level work -- anyone with a "programming for dummies" book could do it.
Your problem is fixed, and you can post the solution to benefit everyone tomorrow.
"He was packing a whole bunch of compact flash cards - too many, I told him. But he was driven - not by the money, he said, but by the principal."
Why is it I have just lost all faith in this reporter? I just find it hard to believe that the head of this guy's old school would chauffer him across the border.
The temperature is falling! The temperature is falling!
Oh wait, no it isn't!
The temperature is rising! The temperature is rising!
Will someone please turn off these squak boxes. They're getting on my nerves. I will never trust anyone who changes their opinions like a politician.
At least Oil companies always have the same motives (makes them easier to track).
So an ice shelf falls. That's what things do when you apply gravity to them. The fact that it was "unexpected" simply goes to show that the scientists following this ice shelf are not qualified to research it. Nothing in science (especially stuff like ice melting or breaking) is totally unexpected unless there's either a lack of research into the subject (not likely -- people know what ice is and how it works) or the scientists involved didn't measure the phenomenon properly.
My main worry about pollution harming me doesn't come from this Global warming/cooling/changing/whatever it comes from smog making it hard for me to breathe on certain summer days. Now, fix that and I have no beefs with you -- this is an obvious problem that needs fixing. But do it in the name of global "xyz" and you're find a tough opponent.
So here's the question: Did you really fire her because of her greeting card obsession, or because she didn't do her work?
In other words, if she sat there and looked blank during her greeting card time, would you have kept her?
And, as your example proves, goof-offs will find something else to do other than work every single time you block them. And, worse yet, if you block everyone you guarantee at least one or two freshly disgruntled employees who now work less, or, worse yet, become shit-stirrers and keep the departmental productivity even lower than theirs.
>Therefore you cannot use VNC with Gnome (for example) without sending the source code of Gnome (or a written offer) to the receiving computer.
.bmp is not a program by any sane programmer's definition, and therefore doesn't count.
Oh please. Read the GPL and notice the clause (5 to be exact) that lets you continue to use the GPL software without agreeing to the terms of the GPL. Read it. Its there.
If you don't agree to the GPL you can continue to use the software with the usual copyright restrictions: Not to copy it to others, Not to put your name on it. Very simple, really.
So where were we? Oh yeah, you can't use VNC because GNOME is GPL. Well, then simply choose not the accept the GPL license and (according to your interpretation) your rights are "restored".
I could understand this misunderstanding if the GPL was wrapped up in legalese like most MS licences, but it isn't. It's an easy read for most adults.
And before you suggest that the bitmap is a derived work, you're right. But the license clearly says Program, not derivative work. A
>This is like saying you own a Ferrari and a Yugo but Ferrari says you can't drive the Yugo if you want to drive the Ferrari. I don't see a problem there.
You don't park downtown much, do you?
>Nobody gives a fuck how much you like your OS.
Maybe not on the street, but here they do.
And people who post stuff like that as A/C are truly the scum of slashdot. Why must you hide from what you say? Is it because you're really just a jerk who couldn't use a computer to work his way out of a paper bag?
>As opposed to not having a sky marshal, and having the terrorist pull out a glass knife from where he's sown it inside his shoe, and...take over the plane without a fight?
I can fight someone with a glass knife -- they have to be within the distance of my fist before they can hurt me with it (unless they are particularly skilled). It would probably take quite a few slashes with the knife before they'd be able to kill me, ensuring that I'd have a chance to hurt them. Do that five (or less) more times and the person should be KO and the crisis averted.
If they have a gun they only need to see me to kill me with it. All the hijacker needs to do is be out of arms reach of anybody and he has control of the airplane.
In this case I prefer that the threat be standing next to me.
>When you want to mix with the rest of society you have to conform to certain standards
Part of those standards dictate that you aren't allowed to make others bleed or experience pain without their express consent.
>Steve won't play by those rules. Steve deserves everything he gets.
And so do the airport security. If you don't play by the rules of society (which are defined as laws) then you go to jail.
>If I see any wanker pretending to be a borg in an airport I'll have a quiet word to a national guardsman, just to make the fool think twice about doing it again.
Would you make him bleed?
I would hope not.
>Disable them all in the bios to save interupts.
Why save on interrupts if the devices you're using only require one between them all?
Shouldn't take too long to crack, the Chinese have a way with consumer electronics, why not government electrioncs?
>I don't know what line of work you are in, but I'll gladly accept YOUR free services, since you don't really seem to think work has any value.
No, he just thinks your work has a value of $1.23 per 80 minutes of it. Which, if you compare it to any other media isn't bad at all (a rental movie generally costs $1 an hour, a book about $0.50 an hour [for me], etc, etc).
...and enjoy virtually rock solid and generally full featured burning for free! Not to mention that you get the code.
This was why I made sure I kept a linux box running 24/7 (at first -- now there's many more reasons). Software like Nero (and all windows burning software, actually) wasn't as reliable or intuitive.
I see no reason why the DVD version would be lacking at all (unless it doesn't support your drive)...
First we should realise that most terrorist attacks against the US on US soil are done by Americans.
>the 50 million survivors are left with nothing more than wagging their fingers at him since we can't use nukes and we can't afford conventional military action with 5 out of 6 people dead.
So that's 300 million affected.
>Or we can nuke the bastard. Maybe a few million will die if the nut has it in the middle of his capital city
Maybe so.
So let's say that, by statistics, this nut is in America's largest capital city (since in all likelyhood he is American) and America chooses to nuke New York to rid America of him.
Don't you just think that maybe Bush will be in jail when 10 million Americans are killed in the attempt to kill someone who has not actually killed anyone yet, and for whom the only proof availiable to prove his guilt comes from his executioner, and (to top it all off) comes from someone who says that if you are accused of doing what that person does America will destroy another 10 million of its own population in your name?
Errr -- it really doesn't make any sense to do that in a free world. Now, if this were China, well, then it would make sense.
>But would you say 640x480 is sufficient resolution for sketching?
Yes, unless you are sketching as art, or are making very detailed sketches.
If your sketches are detailed you're SOL in a classroom, or you'll end up like a lot of out first-time teachers -- adjusting your style so students quit bothering you with "I can't see that!"
>Yeh, protesters staring down tanks make for great photos and propaganda -- outside of china -- But it won't do shit inside.
:)
Yeah, but as long as the rest of the world knows that China is an opressive place, that's great in and of itself.
4 billion out of 5 billion ain't bad.
>If the protesters would have waited, and moved for slow reforms rather then 'revolution' China might be a free society now.
If Americans (for example) had done the same, do you think America would be as free as it is today?
Revolution needs to be swift, IMHO. Slow revolutions rarely happen... (well, as far as I can see, every government that has been thrown over in modern history had it happen pretty quickly, or it happened with a lot of bloodshed).
>Yeh, democracy is nice, but there was no pressing need to have a revolution at the time.
Any country that kills protestors with tanks has a pressing need for more freedom. I really don't care if its in the form of democracy or not, but there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to go out on the street and shout out your opinions (barring doing it at 3:00 am and waking up everyone
>Maybe Tiananmen was do soon, and the students really blew it.
No, the timing was perfect. Now, instead of 1 billion ranting Chinese people ranting on the inside and getting nowhere, the name "Tiananmen Square" has become synonymous with opressive killer non-freedom government. Its as much a household name as "Nazi".
They couldn't have gotten it any better. I expect those words to come up, along with file photos, over and over during their olympics.
Should be fun to see how many olympic news sites China thinks it can censor without the IOC getting upset.
Sure, they can love themselves, be all us on the outside can have disdain for them.
Well...
who said its against the law to use a public key if you lose yours for your purchased software? (this isn't as uncommon as you might think -- just think -- a corporation has 100's if not 1000's of licenses -- there's a very good chance one or two will get lost this year just from techs being stupid enough to leave the CD key card behind).
Now who said MS had the right to shut you down if they only suspect you have pirated their software. Shouldn't they have to prove you guilty first?
Well, there's the DMCA and UCITA, but they don't cover me, and they don't cover most users of M$ software.
>Unfortunately, yes, not everyone respects copyright.
I'd say the ratio of people not respecting copyright is about equal to the ratio of products sold that don't respect people's pocketbooks.
Just an observation, is all.