The reason libraries don't, as a general rule, charge for borrowing their books is that they don't need to. The copyright system says the author must be paid when a COPY IS PRODUCED of their work, not when a copy is used for it's intended purpose - to be read.
Hell, I've got a whole alternate mineshaft full of drunken, extremely bored lawyers sittin' around playin' with themselves, all 300 of whom would probably like nothing better than to sue ya blue for any trumped up reason I care to give 'em.
Really, these mugs make the MPAA's goons look like a bunch of freakin' gucci-shoed panty-waists!
"...free speech is not exactly the most important basic human right out there."
No, it's just the one that makes it possible to enjoy the others.
Yahoo wasn't forced to nuke these auctions by a government, folks. It was forced by it's own lawyers and accountants, who were afraid that France would impound the assets of yahoo.fr -
a different kettle of fish.
They're not really pusillanimous assholes, just greedy, shortsighted fools...
-- "What do you expect from people who talk with their hands and fuck with their faces?"
-- W.C. Fields
LB:"Just link to an AP story or something and let it be."
Or to the MSNBC story if you want the Gore camp's version of events...
---
Strangelove's Law: All politicians are jerks.
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Hmmm...
"Strip" mines, resource "rape" by "Man"...
You don't get much, do you, Hairy?
P.S. - Anything capable of living in the deep cold and vacuum of the asteroid belt is unlikely to be bothered by us breaking up it's rock. It would probably just move. Or else turn us into gooey zombies and invade the Earth by proxy.
Ok, so DUI is "a very serious offence" in the great snowy north. The mind boggles. (insert sound of one mind boggling).
So what? Who the hell wants to go to Canada, anyhow?(hoo?) Whats it all aboot, anyway?
I do remember, when I was just a sprout in North Dakota, the drunken Canuks flooding over the border on the Queen's Birthday. Seems every bar in Canada is closed in honor of the Great White Chief-tess. Oh, the horror! The humanity! The beer they consumed, and then drove home. What a bunch of freakin' hypocrits.
So if you drink and drive and get caught, do one of two things -
1) Lie. Who's gonna know?
2) Stay the hell out (oot?) of Canada.
3) Find another place to cross the border. It is, after all, the longest undefended border in the world. Think hard, then go find a back road, dummy.
"The new board members (the ones, such as myself, who were actually elected) will not be seated until the conclusion of the November/annual board meeting."
Well, that's why we elected you Carl, because these boneheads are getting too damn big for their britches. Go get 'em, boy! Make a massive pain of yourself at the meeting even if they won't seat you, scream & shout - hell, stamp your feet too, it's good theatre - until they start acting like responsible netizens!
"You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred..." -- Super Chicken
I kinda like the "vast right-wing conspiracy" theory spouted by Mr. Agre. He's at least an amusing bufoon.
What I don't like is having this kind of crap show up on/. - I'd kind of like at least ONE place to go without the same moronic political arguments going on.
But there you are. The triumph of propaganda in America, aided and abetted by the MegaMedia titans. We like to call it political speech, though...
Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party USA, The American Nazi Party, The Ku Klux Klan, Greenpeace, PETA, or the Hollywood Squares?
Your customers are idiots. You know it, we know it, hell everyone knows it with the possible exception of your customer, and that's only because, well, they're idiots.
Because they're idiots, they depend on YOU to tell them to use Windows. Otherwise, they might make the mistake of not using Windows, and so be liable to legal action by Microsoft's huge cadre of well paid, extremely rabid lawyers. Grrrrr...
So do yourself a big favor, pal. Force the schmucks to buy a new copy of Windows today, even if they already own one. After all, that copy is only good on the PC it was originally sold with.
Wise up. The profit you save may be ours.
I don't know about you folks, but the fact that the FBI felt it necessary to redact parts of the TITLES of test sections doesn't really make me sleep any easier. I mean, c'mon guys. What the hell is so secret we can't even see what it's called?
Somehow, I think you're taking this way too seriously. Slashdot is full of trolls and idiots, true, and it looks like it's gonna get worse before it gets better (if it does...), but hell, it's just a web site. Don't blow a gasket.
Personally, I'll miss you. I find that you have the proper sarcastic/insightful "voice" for this forum, a nice counterpoint to the wails and babbles of the "usual suspects". Plus, you're often funny, no small thing in this madhouse.
C'mon folks. It's not like the FBI was ever going to allow a REAL investigation of this bullshit. So they called in a team of beholden ringers. So what? I can ignore them just as well...
"The wise man believes only in lies, trusts only himself, and learns to expect the unexpected."
-- Tales of the Unexpected
Bill is a nerd. He always has been a nerd. Otherwise, he would've taken some minor portion of his profits, bought some overgrown central-american country, and relaxed while Steve and the seven dwarves worked the money machine for him.
Instead, he's still MS's "Chief Software Architect", whatever the hell that might be. It certainly doesn't involve actually looking at the code (35 to 60 million lines in W2k) or at the effects of MS's policies.
Maybe ol' Curtis "Launch on Warning" LeMay did have something going. After all, he never did launch...
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Sheesh. Only in France...
The reason libraries don't, as a general rule, charge for borrowing their books is that they don't need to. The copyright system says the author must be paid when a COPY IS PRODUCED of their work, not when a copy is used for it's intended purpose - to be read.
But don't expect logic from the courts.
>%(
Hell, I've got a whole alternate mineshaft full of drunken, extremely bored lawyers sittin' around playin' with themselves, all 300 of whom would probably like nothing better than to sue ya blue for any trumped up reason I care to give 'em.
Really, these mugs make the MPAA's goons look like a bunch of freakin' gucci-shoed panty-waists!
So go ahead, emoticon-boy, make my day...
The sky isn't falling. Really...
Is "Linux Core Kernel Commentary", by Coriolis Press, I believe. Line by line comments...
As for windows source code, all it'll cost ya to look is an NDA from hell, and possibly your first-born male child...
because I have access to the code. It's in ROM.
Read the ROM, debug the code, burn to new ROM.
So long, copy protection.
Really, folks, this isn't even worth worrying about. It's hype for the morons at the MPAA and RIAA. They'll apparently believe anything...
As in Mir-co-grav?
.sig for rent
Suddenly, I feel light-headed...
-- This
"...free speech is not exactly the most important basic human right out there."
No, it's just the one that makes it possible to enjoy the others.
Yahoo wasn't forced to nuke these auctions by a government, folks. It was forced by it's own lawyers and accountants, who were afraid that France would impound the assets of yahoo.fr -
a different kettle of fish.
They're not really pusillanimous assholes, just greedy, shortsighted fools...
-- "What do you expect from people who talk with their hands and fuck with their faces?"
-- W.C. Fields
Don Giovanni is, I believe, one of Mozart's operas...
About a ghost, fittingly enough, who keeps buggin' the hero...
-- This sig for rent
LB:"Just link to an AP story or something and let it be."
Or to the MSNBC story if you want the Gore camp's version of events...
---
Strangelove's Law: All politicians are jerks.
Hmmm...
"Strip" mines, resource "rape" by "Man"...
You don't get much, do you, Hairy?
P.S. - Anything capable of living in the deep cold and vacuum of the asteroid belt is unlikely to be bothered by us breaking up it's rock. It would probably just move. Or else turn us into gooey zombies and invade the Earth by proxy.
Hey, it could happen!...
"The French are an annoying race." -- Winston Churchill
"The wogs begin at Calais." -- Lord Nelson
"Belgium is a country invented by the English to annoy the French." -- Charles De Gaulle
"Screw 'em." -- Andrew Jackson
Ok, so DUI is "a very serious offence" in the great snowy north. The mind boggles. (insert sound of one mind boggling).
So what? Who the hell wants to go to Canada, anyhow?(hoo?) Whats it all aboot, anyway?
I do remember, when I was just a sprout in North Dakota, the drunken Canuks flooding over the border on the Queen's Birthday. Seems every bar in Canada is closed in honor of the Great White Chief-tess. Oh, the horror! The humanity! The beer they consumed, and then drove home. What a bunch of freakin' hypocrits.
So if you drink and drive and get caught, do one of two things -
1) Lie. Who's gonna know?
2) Stay the hell out (oot?) of Canada.
3) Find another place to cross the border. It is, after all, the longest undefended border in the world. Think hard, then go find a back road, dummy.
"The new board members (the ones, such as myself, who were actually elected) will not be seated until the conclusion of the November/annual board meeting."
Well, that's why we elected you Carl, because these boneheads are getting too damn big for their britches. Go get 'em, boy! Make a massive pain of yourself at the meeting even if they won't seat you, scream & shout - hell, stamp your feet too, it's good theatre - until they start acting like responsible netizens!
"You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred..." -- Super Chicken
Who the hell gives a shit what the COE does? These jokers can't even get a real currency together.
Because I'm ALWAYS right, and I NEVER lie...
LOL. Also puke.
/. - I'd kind of like at least ONE place to go without the same moronic political arguments going on.
I kinda like the "vast right-wing conspiracy" theory spouted by Mr. Agre. He's at least an amusing bufoon.
What I don't like is having this kind of crap show up on
But there you are. The triumph of propaganda in America, aided and abetted by the MegaMedia titans. We like to call it political speech, though...
-- "I never talk like that." - me
Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party USA, The American Nazi Party, The Ku Klux Klan, Greenpeace, PETA, or the Hollywood Squares?
What's your excuse?
Your customers are idiots. You know it, we know it, hell everyone knows it with the possible exception of your customer, and that's only because, well, they're idiots.
Because they're idiots, they depend on YOU to tell them to use Windows. Otherwise, they might make the mistake of not using Windows, and so be liable to legal action by Microsoft's huge cadre of well paid, extremely rabid lawyers. Grrrrr...
So do yourself a big favor, pal. Force the schmucks to buy a new copy of Windows today, even if they already own one. After all, that copy is only good on the PC it was originally sold with.
Wise up. The profit you save may be ours.
Thanks - The MS Marketroid Team
Here's a nice paper by Matt Blaze & Steve Bellovin at AT&T/Bell Labs -
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http://www.crypto.com/papers/carnivore-risks.ht
Enjoy. Eat your veggies!...
Gee, thanks for explaining, stubob. I guess I really didn't understand the "Top Secret" clearance I used to hold.
Silly me.
I don't know about you folks, but the fact that the FBI felt it necessary to redact parts of the TITLES of test sections doesn't really make me sleep any easier. I mean, c'mon guys. What the hell is so secret we can't even see what it's called?
Janet Reno needs to be slapped. Repeatedly.
Aw, c'mon Siggy! Don't go away mad....
Somehow, I think you're taking this way too seriously. Slashdot is full of trolls and idiots, true, and it looks like it's gonna get worse before it gets better (if it does...), but hell, it's just a web site. Don't blow a gasket.
Personally, I'll miss you. I find that you have the proper sarcastic/insightful "voice" for this forum, a nice counterpoint to the wails and babbles of the "usual suspects". Plus, you're often funny, no small thing in this madhouse.
So go if you must. You'll be missed.
Ok, just a couple of quick hits, then I really gotta go...
So this guy, who's daddy was a "tech media baron", manages to croak himself with hard drugs, soft women, and too much fuckin' money.
Hey, it's L.A. - It's what goes on. Just look at the picture of Dr. Whatsisface to see the horrid effects drugs can have!
Hand me that bong, wouldya?...
C'mon folks. It's not like the FBI was ever going to allow a REAL investigation of this bullshit. So they called in a team of beholden ringers. So what? I can ignore them just as well...
"The wise man believes only in lies, trusts only himself, and learns to expect the unexpected."
-- Tales of the Unexpected
Bill is a nerd. He always has been a nerd. Otherwise, he would've taken some minor portion of his profits, bought some overgrown central-american country, and relaxed while Steve and the seven dwarves worked the money machine for him.
Instead, he's still MS's "Chief Software Architect", whatever the hell that might be. It certainly doesn't involve actually looking at the code (35 to 60 million lines in W2k) or at the effects of MS's policies.
Maybe ol' Curtis "Launch on Warning" LeMay did have something going. After all, he never did launch...