In the Phillipines, being "invited to answer questions" involves a small, windowless room below the old fortress, a rubber hose, and several extremely unfriendly police investigators...
Ok, so as everyone knows, the answer is wrong. "What do you get when you multiply seven by nine" is *not* 42. So what happened? Did the 6 get flipped around somehow?
"A service provider is one who provides a service."
Nah, I'll never fly with the legal beagles... Too much logic for 'em.
Maybe we should ask the poor artists how happy they are getting ripped off endlessly by the recording industry. $0.18/unit vs. $17.00/unit sounds just slightly like rape to me...
The price really isn't the major factor for me. $300 for a hackable version is ok, if it means Netpliance isn't gonna dry up and blow away due to a bad buisness model.
I have to agree with others that they need to expand their thinking on this one - sell the locked-up ver. with a 12-18 mo. serv. contract, but sell the hackable ver. at just slightly above cost. They's probably sell tons of the things.
"... the Internet is creating a generation of culture and content pirates. They steal other peoples ideas, and they don't pay for them, and they take no moral responsibility for that."
As a well-respected enforcer for a local criminal orginization says:
"Too bloody right, mate! You steal sumtin' from me, I'm gonna break yer fookin legs, ain't I?"
The lack of a difference between government theft and free-market theft becomes quite apparent, yes?
5. The break up of the DVD CCA and future administration of the CSS to go to a non-profit entity which will administer it in the best interests of the consumer.
Couple of problems here, mainly the "free association" and "takings" clauses of the US constitution.
"...we don't need to argue that an accident in court suddenly invalidates a trade secret..."
It wasn't an accident. Don. It was the Rules of Evidence.
Fine. Re-seal the durn thing. It is, as you point out, the right thing to do. The fact that it is also completely useless will dawn on the Court eventually...
But... After we spent all that money getting teeny-tiny cell phones for ratty and his pals to use? Not to mention having to teach the little dickens to dial the damn things...
"If you ever have to take a test like this, answer honestly."
Wrong. (BZZZZZZT!)
Always answer impertinent and obnoxious questionaires with the wildest, most unlikely answers your fevered little brain can come up with. It's your DUTY to corrupt the data as much as possible.
I've been saying for a couple of months that M$ was going to gobble up some happless company to get their hands on a branded UNIX. I'd still keep an eye on folks like SCO.
I wonder if all the Interix people going to Redmond are gonna be fitted with those neat-o laser-eye thingies...
>Linus has been bought off by gov't spooks to ensure the insecurity of Freedom's last OS, Linux.
Actually, my spies tell me that Linus has been "borked" by the sinister "Man in the White Gloves" and his mutant cro-magnon henchman, "Three-finger Mickey"...
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to judges who are geopolitically challenged.
"Yo, Froggy-boy! Mind your own shop! We're not in your pissant country..."
Deflection tactics 101: When asked a question you don't want to answer, act dumb and answer one you *do* want to. Ref: Politics, Debate
Sorry guys, but no cigar.
As far as I can see, MS is in the right here. Stupid, bullheaded, and arrogant - but right.
"...the U.S. House Commerce Committee is considering a law that places a bounty on illegal spammers."
Ooooo! Do we get to take heads?
Somebody at MS should go deep-six this stupid lawyer. He's too dumb to live.
Ignore it, folks. In the immortal words of some brit (whose name I mis-remember), "Sue and be damned!"
The DMCA is a load of equine effuvium.
In the Phillipines, being "invited to answer questions" involves a small, windowless room below the old fortress, a rubber hose, and several extremely unfriendly police investigators...
Ok, so as everyone knows, the answer is wrong.
"What do you get when you multiply seven by nine" is *not* 42.
So what happened? Did the 6 get flipped around somehow?
And what happened to the dolphins, anyway?....
"A service provider is one who provides a service."
Nah, I'll never fly with the legal beagles...
Too much logic for 'em.
Maybe we should ask the poor artists how happy they are getting ripped off endlessly by the recording industry.
$0.18/unit vs. $17.00/unit sounds just slightly like rape to me...
The price really isn't the major factor for me. $300 for a hackable version is ok, if it means Netpliance isn't gonna dry up and blow away due to a bad buisness model.
I have to agree with others that they need to expand their thinking on this one - sell the locked-up ver. with a 12-18 mo. serv. contract, but sell the hackable ver. at just slightly above cost. They's probably sell tons of the things.
I love the quote from the policy dweeb -
"... the Internet is creating a generation of culture and content pirates. They steal other peoples ideas, and they don't pay for them, and they take no moral responsibility for that."
As a well-respected enforcer for a local criminal orginization says:
"Too bloody right, mate! You steal sumtin' from me, I'm gonna break yer fookin legs, ain't I?"
The lack of a difference between government theft and free-market theft becomes quite apparent, yes?
...the 'horse before the cart'...
It's also the reason most cars have the engine in front...
;)
1. An end to regional coding.
It already is illegal under Intl. law...
5. The break up of the DVD CCA and future administration of the CSS to go to a non-profit entity which will administer it in the best interests of the consumer.
Couple of problems here, mainly the "free association" and "takings" clauses of the US constitution.
I like the rest, tho...
Yadda yadda yadda... so-on & so-forth...
C'mon, folks. This is the LA TIMES...
You didn't really expect them to ignore the party line, now did'ja?...
"...we don't need to argue that an accident in court suddenly invalidates a trade secret..."
It wasn't an accident. Don. It was the Rules of Evidence.
Fine. Re-seal the durn thing. It is, as you point out, the right thing to do. The fact that it is also completely useless will dawn on the Court eventually...
Well, I get Harry Browne with a score of 74 at the top of my list. Figures that a Lib would be on top, although Pat Pukeannon was about 4th...
Howzabout this:
Jon "Maddog" Hall for President!
Campaign motto: "He's NOT insane!"
(big grin)
"Floppy included" - What could possibly be on it?
A complete copy of the spindizzy plans...
But... After we spent all that money getting teeny-tiny cell phones for ratty and his pals to use? Not to mention having to teach the little dickens to dial the damn things...
"If you ever have to take a test like this, answer honestly."
Wrong. (BZZZZZZT!)
Always answer impertinent and obnoxious questionaires with the wildest, most unlikely answers your fevered little brain can come up with. It's your DUTY to corrupt the data as much as possible.
Howzabout "quetal.com"?...
Something about "lubricating the intrusion of the government into the body politic"...
Mark Twain, maybe?
I've been saying for a couple of months that M$ was going to gobble up some happless company to get their hands on a branded UNIX. I'd still keep an eye on folks like SCO.
I wonder if all the Interix people going to Redmond are gonna be fitted with those neat-o laser-eye thingies...
>Linus has been bought off by gov't spooks to ensure the insecurity of Freedom's last OS, Linux.
Actually, my spies tell me that Linus has been "borked" by the sinister "Man in the White Gloves" and his mutant cro-magnon henchman, "Three-finger Mickey"...
Pass it on...
Agreed. I've been using Becker's 3c59x driver for a while now, no problems at all. Used the 3c509 before that.
It does show that they have their heads in the right place, though...
I think you're Dodging the issue...
;)
Let us not forget the story of the statistician who drowned while fording a very wide river with an average depth of 6 inches...
This is stupid, even for the Aussie blue-noses.
Can't we just cut 'em off from the net altogether?