It seems to me that AOL oughta be passing that money on to the actual people who received the spam. I'm sure their argument was that it was wasting precious space on their servers, but they are still not the people who really suffer from having to wade through the spam every day.
Have you ever waded through hundreds (i'm sure it was millions in aols case) of spammails, trying to erase them all, to regain some of the lost space on your vsm partition? I can tell you, it's a LOT of work. Of course, not worth 600k, but I'm glad they won.:)
Understood. I think that Rob is having some problems resolving how to handle the S/N ratio without being in some way unfair or unethical by blocking people.
Well, most suggested articles get rejected. I guess its an 1-100 ratio for the posted vs the non-posted articles. Which is a good thing.
Actually, I've only been disappointed (really disappointed) with slashdot the last two days. The ESR article, and then this article.
If it gets "back to normal" with no more "direct advertisements" articles, then my view on slashdot will recover allright. But if these two days show a trend, then.. ohwell, we'll see:-)
You may have noticed I run my own weblog that is an alternative to Slashdot if you want less noise. People tell me that the two weblogs compliment each other because they fulfill different goals.
Ohyes, I'm a "regular reader". If you take a look at the comments, you will see that I've already posted a couple. I try to get around whenever I remember to. Its like, I read slashdot and userfriendly and a couple of other sites everyday. When I remember, I try to go through freshmeat and technocrat too:)
I had a great time speaking in Iceland and would love to go to Norway. If there's a conference there, tell me about the call for papers.
I'll try to remember that. I'll inform you if I see something, but I'll first notice when the conference is 'ongoing' and not when they are planning it, so ohwell:-)
Oh - it won't be overt - just a little back room deal "Hey andover, think I can get to talk a little bit about this new startup company we decided to fund? Oh - by the way, do you want a part of their IPO?"
Sorry, I don't find that comment to my original post remotely funny.
I do work the press - it's an essential skill for business and the kind of advocacy I've been doing for years. But this page is going to end up being 99.6% your comments and 0.4% my posting, so I think the system tends to converge on some sort of objectivity.
Do not misunderstand me. I'm not critizing you. I'm critizing slashdot for posting this, AND for posting the ESR posting yesterday. The point is, slashdot should not be the equivalent of the norwegian magazine "Se and hør" (see and hear, a weekly tabloid magazine with interviews and articles about known-persons lives).
Slashdot has a history of posting technical and geek-engaging articles. But the last two days, they've posted one article written BY *ESR*, *about* ESR, and in addition, today, they posted this article with a link to YOUR open letter, without any comments.
Of course, we readers will make a lot of comments. The point is that slashdot SHOULD NOT (imho) post these articles. Slashdot ain't a tabloid press.
I'm still a fan of ESR, even though his star DID fall (for me) yesterday, after the posting. And, I'm still a fan of you. But... ohwell .
About the posting/comment percentage. Yes, comments does out-space the article, but nobody read 300 comment, or however may there are. They read the score 5 comments, and no more. And, too few have moderator-abilities. I used to have them, but last time I got an oportunity to moderate was 3 weeks ago. And before that? A couple of months. More people should be able to moderate, so that good articles which is 'recently posted' got moderated up, if they were any good.
The last ramble there, in the last paragraph, is because articles have a tendency to get modreated down, if they are 'critizing'. As 'trolls'.
If anyone wants to interview me and write an objective article, my email's up there in the header.
I would've loved to speak with you IRL, asking you all sorts of questions, but I'm no journalist. I'm sure PING at the University of Oslo would love to get a speech from you if you accidentally go to norway, but well, I guess that won't happen;(
In all cases, I was not critizing you. I was critizing slashdot for posting this kind of "tabloid-coverage".
BTW, last time I posted this exact same sentiment, I ended up moderated at "0 - Troll." Do these people even know what a troll IS? READ YOUR DAMNED MODERATOR GUIDELINES OR CHOOSE 'I don't want to moderate' IN YOUR PREFERENCES. Danke.
Well, it is OFFTOPIC, since it doesn't go 'straight for the article'. That's one thing slashdot is missing. It is missing a possibility for people to make comments about 'recent posts'. An external forum, dedicated to 'ideas' and 'comments'. We have the "per article" forum, but we need an 'external' forum at the same time, where one could discuss "everything", and it would be heard more than one day at a time.
Yesterday we had ESR ramble on about his new riches. Today we have perens rambeling on about his way to earn money.
What is wrong with this picture? Well, for me, it seems like both ESR and Perens get to write their own articles, and get either the entire article, or a link to the article (with no comments attached), posted to slashdot.
This is.. in my eyes.. bad taste. The problem, is that they are getting free marketing.. or more correctly,they got the oportunity to market *themselves* again and again, since slashdot posts THEIR views on their things - as main articles.
I deeply respect both perens and esr. I was one of those who sat enthralled by him at the University of Oslo when he was there. And perens? Well, I've visited his websites and read a bit by and about him.
Both of them, are respected figures in the open source community.
The problem right now, is that slashdot is giving them "their own" self-promotion. And that, in my eyes, is a Bad Thing[tm].
I urge slashdot to STOP posting self-promotioning articles, and start doing their own comments on things.
shut the hell up! don't you want to watch tv programmes from around the world instead of the same old boring craps on cable??!?! such as some brit humour and some european commercials and full frontal nudity all the time?!?! come on you fool
Get your wrists UP off the table, and curl your fingers so they look like claws. Don't use armrests for your elbows. Your arms should be dangling loose, not resting on anything.
Actually, I've never experienced pain in my arms except from using the mouse over extended periods of time. I remember that my wrist hurt a bit when I played civilization for weeks in a row. But that's a LONG time ago.
Keyboards don't bother me. I type at a rate of 550chars/min, and I've been typing touch for the last.. 5-6 years or something, but I've never experienced any pain when typing, except when someone forced one of those "wrist-support" thingomajigs on me. After I removed it (and threw it away) my wrists got better again.
My typing-technique is to let the palms rest at the table, when my fingers type. My thumbs are both placed over the spcacebar. It gives me access to all keys, at the same time that my hands are supported. Then you just relax your arms and start typing. Just make sure your hands positions feel 'natural'. If they feel 'wrong' -- then you'll get pain (I think). If it feels 'perfect' then everything is ok.
Bad genes are weeded out of the gene pool by natural selection. Darwin anyone? The human race will become a genetic utopia in time. Give us a few million years, and I think we'll all be better off.
Depends.
The problem is that darwinism doesn't work as it should anymore. "Weaklings" simply don't die of, because the society tries to protect everyone. Wanting to 'get rid' of the "weaklings" brings screams for humanity and comparisions with Hitler.
If we had a society where only the people with 'good genes' got to mate and produce children, THEN we would have darwinism in action. But, its not that way. And its getting worse.
What worries me most, is that people can get children, even if they are "unable to" -- by use of science. They take the fathers sperm, compine with a mothers egg, and let them merge outside their bodies, and then inserts it into the woman.. or something like that. I don't know exactly how it works. Point is.. if they wasn't able to get the kids in the first place, then that was natures way of saying 'sorry mate, you folks dont have genes that match'. I think.
no, it wasn't. do some research before you go around badmouthing a perfectly legitimate open source project like xemacs.
I agree.
I was wrong about xemacs. I don't know why my braincells remembered xemacs. What i'm certain of, is that I've heard / read (somewhere), that the reason for RMS to make the GPL - was because someone ripped off emacs.
I was wrong about xemacs. Totally wrong. cross-wiring of my synapses or something (yes, yes, appologies sucks)
RIAA refers to Napster as "burglar's tools". But what is a burglar's tools?
I don't know the laws, IANAL.
And, that RIAA representative wasn't the brightest. But, napsters servers can be compared to a "thieving guild" or however it is spelled. It provides the tools, the server, the information on how, and the oportunity to - trade copyrighted mp3's illegally.
If they made the napster, and bound it to IRC channels and DCC chats, or something, then they could've claimed it was just a tool, and that they couldn't be helt responsible. But, because of them providing the servers and so forth, this just seems to much like a "Guild of thieves" in my eyes. Although, it is a guild I would like to be a member of.. in this case.:)
Even though I enjoy beeing able to find the latest hits and download them from the net -- that doesn't make it more "right" or "legal". otoh, if we could cut out "the music industry", and the artist made their songs and melodies on their own website, prohibiting redistribution... THEN we would be in a "good" society. The artists could then make a LOT of money on advertisement. Probably a lot more than they make today. Today most of the money goes straight into the music industry's pockets, and not the artists. THAT is why they are interested in quenching mp3's. They really don't care about the artists, even though that are what they say they do.
So, of course I hope that napster will win. I also hope that the music industry will continue fighting this battle, not realising that its a hopeless struggle (for them). That way, they will be ruined. And when they are ruined, then people will start distrbuting their own mp3's, from their own website, and earn money for themselves, not needing the stupid bloodsucking musicindustry.:)
The big question here is - what licence was the "stolen" software written in ? And how are they presenting it? If it was released under the GPL, then other companies may use the source, and I remember correctly, they ONLY need to provide the source (and licence it under GPL), but they don't need to give credits... I think..
If the software was released into public domain, then sun has done absolutely nothing wrong legally, but of course a lot wrong morally.
Wasn't this what happened to emacs? Someone made xemacs and made it closed source. Then Richard Stallman made the GNU licence and distributed all future versions of emacs under that licence - simply because the corp behind xemacs "stole his work". It wasn't stealing in the legal sense, but it was in the moral sense.
Wellwell, I don't know enough about this to say for sure, but I have a feeling Sun has talked a lot to their lawyers before doing this, and thus - I guess nothing can be done.
More often than not, I side with the defendant. Not so in this case. They take another companys broadcast, and rebroadcasts without their prior permission. In my book, that is a bad thing.
I don't know if they are doing something legally wrong, but I seriously think it is morally wrong. Less users watch the original broadcasters, and some watch the new one. The originals loses advertisement money, and the rebroadcaster earns them -- by theft.
Therefore I think iCrave should be severly spanked by the canadian law system:-)
IMHO that's not enough when you're going to kill somebody. For the death penalty, you should have to prove guilt beyond even an unreasonable doubt, beyond any damn trace or shadow of a doubt whatsoever
I agree with you. I'm pro-death-penalty -- but only in cases where there is a risk of repeated crimes - in addition to that its proven 100% . Eye witnesses which cannot possibly be doubted, and so forth (That is, eye witnesses that have no reason to lie whatsoever, and there should be several of them). Or, in some cases, other unrevocably evidence (i'm sure it exists.. DNA, in addition to vidcams, in addition to... )..
And, I don't consider it any doubt, if the defendant argues that "But, someone took a blood and semen sample of me in addition to hacking into the vidcam and manipulating the video + they paid of the eye witnesses.
On the other hand.
I do also understand the view when they punish almost everything with death. It reduces crime. You don't "take the chance" to steal some chocolate, when you know you'll be killed if you are discovered.
However, I feel that its a waste of good energy, to kill of people who aint dangerous. Death penalty should be used when we're talking about people who are a *danger* to other people physically. In all other cases, the punishment should be "lifetime in slavery". A thief should be imprisoned and put to hard work. 10% of what the state earned on his work should be put into his comfort. In other words, if he worked reallyreally hard, he would get a bed instead of just plain cement - to sleep on.:-)
Maybe we should just execute all the criminals, then, DumbFuq.
Actually, i think "body-punishment" (I don't know the english word. I think of when you "physically" punish the perp) is a Good Thing(tm). Cold blooded murder should be punished by Death. Theft should be punished by cutting one hand of, or death - if its "major theft". Random violence (when the victim didn't provoke the attacker knowingly) should be punished by 50 kisses from the whip.. and so on.
All in public of course.
I have a nagging feeling that crimes would drop *extremely* fast.
Offtopic, but I think you should be corrected nevertheless. The third millenium won't begin for another 13 months, so I really think you are greeting us welcome a tad to early.:-)
First, i don't like the idea of banning neither religions, free speech or programs made by people / companies that has a certain belief. I have this nagging feeling when I hear about germans banning nazism. Of course, nazism is a Bad Thing(tm), but on the other hand.. it should be *legal* to have certain kind of opinions, and it should be legal to meet other people with the same opinions.
The same thing applies to Scientology. Its a Bad Thing(tm), but on the other hand, I think its bad banning them, and I think its absurd to ban Windows 2000 just because a tiny little program inside it, is made by a company funded by clams. (Clams, slang for "scientologists").
But, when we think about OUR goals, that is, killing of microsoft, scientology, nazism, and so forth.. I think the germans make good use of their laws. And, I guess it really could help SuSE, if windows2000 cannot be sold in Germany. I vision the entire German population using Linux and so forth. Oh, sweet dreams.:-)
But, on the whole, I really think it stinks that they ban win2000, just because of some clams. Even though I don't like clams.. except for dinner.. I think:-)
It is important. It would lower my blood pressure when visiting sites that specify too small fonts or unreadable colours (dark blue on black, anyone?)
Well, your claimed webpages that doesn't do "noframes" decently (iow display more than "this page require frame-support) is broken. I'll claim that pages with dark blue on black is broken;)
But OK, i see your point here, even though we disagree about the frames.
Well, I don't agree with you there. I like to read Finnish when I can. Content negotiation is wonderful magic when it is used efficiently.
Even though I'm norwegian, I really prefer to read the web in english. At least when the original site is english. Its the same when I read books. If the author is english, I prefer to read the english books instead of those translated into norwegian. If the author is norwegian, its the other way around.
I recently found that Debian had suddenly gotten support for norwegian. And that the browser I was using had *shudder* set norwegian as the preferred language. My eyes nearly popped out of their sockets when I screamed 'noooo'.:-) I quickly changed the settings and reloaded.
I *DONT* want to read debians homepages in norwegian!:-)
.. And.. I *DO NOT* like to use programs that is translated to norwegian neither. Even though Opera is available in norwegian, I prefer the english version.. when I use windows that is.
The problem with Windows CE is that MicroSoft cannot make much money of it. The hardware prices are dropping, and nobody will pay TOO much for a palmpilot. If the palms get as expensive as laptops, people will buy a laptop. palms need to cost less than half that price, preferably even less than a third.
Then microsoft suddenly faces a problem. How much is it possible to get paid, for an operativ system for these thingomajigs? Not much -- if we want to believe Eric S. Raymonds -- who had made this one of "The 7 bullets Microsoft need to dodge within the next 18 months".
And this is one of the points I think he is right about. Just look at all the hardware makers abandoning CE.:-)
As a server, Linux still has many places to sit, but on a corporate desktop, I'm sorry to say it's just not ready.
.. yet..
I think the only things we need to make Linux ready for the corporate desktop is:
- A decent webbrowser. (mozilla / opera coming soon) - A decent Email program (hmm.. kMail is usable, but not great) - A decent Office suite (kOffice coming soon)
What more is really needed? *Really* needed? News programs is not that important to the 'big businesses' (i think?), aol instant messagers thingomajigs (or their equivalents) should not be a difficult thing to find, and so on. Quite frankly, I think we'll be ready for the corporate desktop within 6 months.
IMHO the browser comparison focuses on the wrong things. Frame support is not important, nor is anim gif support or interlaced gif support.
Hm, I don't completely agree with you there. First of -- both frame and table support IS important today, when so much of the web actually uses it. Support for graphics on the other hand is just a nice thing to have.
I'd like to know which render the pages correctly, according to spec. Which support CSS (according to spec)?
I agree. Those things should be considered carefully. The browser which follows the standards, in addition to having a decent user interface, is the one to go for.
of course, it should be *small* and *fast* too.:)
Which allow the user to specify their own style sheets, overriding the pages' layout?
Is that important? Why?
Which support content negotiation?
You mean like multiple language support and so on? Personally I would prefer to have the web in as few languages as possible. Preferably everything in english, and sites that concerns one nation only - in that nations native language.
As you may have noticed, I'm not natively english / american speaking. I'm sure my english writing / spelling and so on sucks. But that's not the important thing. The important thing is that its a HELL of a task to translate things into an umzillion different languages - only major corps with lots of money to hire translators OR major organizations with many helpers - would be able to translate to "everything".
The problem here, is that the bigger will get even bigger, and those who cannot cope and translate into enough languages.. will never become 'anything'.
On the other hand, I don't use any kind of proxy at home, so when the Linux version emerges I will certainly be buying a copy (it can't be worse than Netscape, right?)
I forgot to add - Opera DO support proxies. But apparantly not "proxy authentification" or whatever. Using proxies is always a Good Thing if there are more than one computer attached -- especially if you've got limited bandwidth.
Yes, I have tried Opera. It looked really good, but unfortunately is completely useless for this office environment since it doesn't support NTLM proxy authentication.
That is when you send in a suggestion that they add that kind of authentication.:-) I'm sure they'll add support for it if enough people cry for it. (or maybe after ONE cry;)
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It seems to me that AOL oughta be passing that money on to the actual people who received the spam. I'm sure their argument was that it was wasting precious space on their servers, but they are still not the people who really suffer from having to wade through the spam every day.
:)
Have you ever waded through hundreds (i'm sure it was millions in aols case) of spammails, trying to erase them all, to regain some of the lost space on your vsm partition? I can tell you, it's a LOT of work. Of course, not worth 600k, but I'm glad they won.
Understood. I think that Rob is having some problems resolving how to handle the S/N ratio without being in some way unfair or unethical by blocking people.
.. ohwell, we'll see :-)
:)
:-)
Well, most suggested articles get rejected. I guess its an 1-100 ratio for the posted vs the non-posted articles. Which is a good thing.
Actually, I've only been disappointed (really disappointed) with slashdot the last two days. The ESR article, and then this article.
If it gets "back to normal" with no more "direct advertisements" articles, then my view on slashdot will recover allright. But if these two days show a trend, then
You may have noticed I run my own weblog that is an alternative to Slashdot if you want less noise. People tell me that the two weblogs compliment each other because they fulfill different goals.
Ohyes, I'm a "regular reader". If you take a look at the comments, you will see that I've already posted a couple. I try to get around whenever I remember to. Its like, I read slashdot and userfriendly and a couple of other sites everyday. When I remember, I try to go through freshmeat and technocrat too
I had a great time speaking in Iceland and would love to go to Norway. If there's a conference there, tell me about the call for papers.
I'll try to remember that. I'll inform you if I see something, but I'll first notice when the conference is 'ongoing' and not when they are planning it, so ohwell
I tried to get RMS on my board, but of course he doesn't want his name used for marketing.
And that, is a good thing. RMS is a figure respected for his "free" stance. If he got involved with a corp - he would lose a lot of faith.
Oh - it won't be overt - just a little back room deal "Hey andover, think I can get to talk a little bit about this new startup company we decided to fund? Oh - by the way, do you want a part of their IPO?"
Sorry, I don't find that comment to my original post remotely funny.
I do work the press - it's an essential skill for business and the kind of advocacy I've been doing for years. But this page is going to end up being 99.6% your comments and 0.4% my posting, so I think the system tends to converge on some sort of objectivity.
.. ohwell .
;(
Do not misunderstand me. I'm not critizing you. I'm critizing slashdot for posting this, AND for posting the ESR posting yesterday. The point is, slashdot should not be the equivalent of the norwegian magazine "Se and hør" (see and hear, a weekly tabloid magazine with interviews and articles about known-persons lives).
Slashdot has a history of posting technical and geek-engaging articles. But the last two days, they've posted one article written BY *ESR*, *about* ESR, and in addition, today, they posted this article with a link to YOUR open letter, without any comments.
Of course, we readers will make a lot of comments. The point is that slashdot SHOULD NOT (imho) post these articles. Slashdot ain't a tabloid press.
I'm still a fan of ESR, even though his star DID fall (for me) yesterday, after the posting. And, I'm still a fan of you. But.
About the posting/comment percentage. Yes, comments does out-space the article, but nobody read 300 comment, or however may there are. They read the score 5 comments, and no more. And, too few have moderator-abilities. I used to have them, but last time I got an oportunity to moderate was 3 weeks ago. And before that? A couple of months. More people should be able to moderate, so that good articles which is 'recently posted' got moderated up, if they were any good.
The last ramble there, in the last paragraph, is because articles have a tendency to get modreated down, if they are 'critizing'. As 'trolls'.
If anyone wants to interview me and write an objective article, my email's up there in the header.
I would've loved to speak with you IRL, asking you all sorts of questions, but I'm no journalist. I'm sure PING at the University of Oslo would love to get a speech from you if you accidentally go to norway, but well, I guess that won't happen
In all cases, I was not critizing you. I was critizing slashdot for posting this kind of "tabloid-coverage".
BTW, last time I posted this exact same sentiment, I ended up moderated at "0 - Troll." Do these people even know what a troll IS? READ YOUR DAMNED MODERATOR GUIDELINES OR CHOOSE 'I don't want to moderate' IN YOUR PREFERENCES. Danke.
Well, it is OFFTOPIC, since it doesn't go 'straight for the article'. That's one thing slashdot is missing. It is missing a possibility for people to make comments about 'recent posts'. An external forum, dedicated to 'ideas' and 'comments'. We have the "per article" forum, but we need an 'external' forum at the same time, where one could discuss "everything", and it would be heard more than one day at a time.
Yesterday we had ESR ramble on about his new riches. Today we have perens rambeling on about his way to earn money.
.. in my eyes .. bad taste. The problem, is that they are getting free marketing.. or more correctly,they got the oportunity to market *themselves* again and again, since slashdot posts THEIR views on their things - as main articles.
What is wrong with this picture? Well, for me, it seems like both ESR and Perens get to write their own articles, and get either the entire article, or a link to the article (with no comments attached), posted to slashdot.
This is
I deeply respect both perens and esr. I was one of those who sat enthralled by him at the University of Oslo when he was there. And perens? Well, I've visited his websites and read a bit by and about him.
Both of them, are respected figures in the open source community.
The problem right now, is that slashdot is giving them "their own" self-promotion. And that, in my eyes, is a Bad Thing[tm].
I urge slashdot to STOP posting self-promotioning articles, and start doing their own comments on things.
shut the hell up! don't you want to watch tv programmes from around the world instead of the same old boring craps on cable??!?! such as some brit humour and some european commercials and full frontal nudity all the time?!?! come on you fool
:-)
I don't own a TV...
And, I live in europe.
So, YOU made a fool out of yourself.
Get your wrists UP off the table, and curl your fingers so they look like claws. Don't use armrests for your elbows. Your arms should be dangling loose, not resting on anything.
.. 5-6 years or something, but I've never experienced any pain when typing, except when someone forced one of those "wrist-support" thingomajigs on me. After I removed it (and threw it away) my wrists got better again.
Actually, I've never experienced pain in my arms except from using the mouse over extended periods of time. I remember that my wrist hurt a bit when I played civilization for weeks in a row. But that's a LONG time ago.
Keyboards don't bother me. I type at a rate of 550chars/min, and I've been typing touch for the last
My typing-technique is to let the palms rest at the table, when my fingers type. My thumbs are both placed over the spcacebar. It gives me access to all keys, at the same time that my hands are supported. Then you just relax your arms and start typing. Just make sure your hands positions feel 'natural'. If they feel 'wrong' -- then you'll get pain (I think). If it feels 'perfect' then everything is ok.
Bad genes are weeded out of the gene pool by natural selection. Darwin anyone? The human race will become a genetic utopia in time. Give us a few million years, and I think we'll all be better off.
.. or something like that. I don't know exactly how it works. Point is .. if they wasn't able to get the kids in the first place, then that was natures way of saying 'sorry mate, you folks dont have genes that match'. I think.
Depends.
The problem is that darwinism doesn't work as it should anymore. "Weaklings" simply don't die of, because the society tries to protect everyone. Wanting to 'get rid' of the "weaklings" brings screams for humanity and comparisions with Hitler.
If we had a society where only the people with 'good genes' got to mate and produce children, THEN we would have darwinism in action. But, its not that way. And its getting worse.
What worries me most, is that people can get children, even if they are "unable to" -- by use of science. They take the fathers sperm, compine with a mothers egg, and let them merge outside their bodies, and then inserts it into the woman
But ohwell.
no, it wasn't. do some research before you go around badmouthing a perfectly legitimate open source project like xemacs.
I agree.
I was wrong about xemacs. I don't know why my braincells remembered xemacs. What i'm certain of, is that I've heard / read (somewhere), that the reason for RMS to make the GPL - was because someone ripped off emacs.
I was wrong about xemacs. Totally wrong. cross-wiring of my synapses or something (yes, yes, appologies sucks)
Sorry.
RIAA refers to Napster as "burglar's tools". But what is a burglar's tools?
:)
:)
I don't know the laws, IANAL.
And, that RIAA representative wasn't the brightest. But, napsters servers can be compared to a "thieving guild" or however it is spelled. It provides the tools, the server, the information on how, and the oportunity to - trade copyrighted mp3's illegally.
If they made the napster, and bound it to IRC channels and DCC chats, or something, then they could've claimed it was just a tool, and that they couldn't be helt responsible. But, because of them providing the servers and so forth, this just seems to much like a "Guild of thieves" in my eyes. Although, it is a guild I would like to be a member of.. in this case.
Even though I enjoy beeing able to find the latest hits and download them from the net -- that doesn't make it more "right" or "legal". otoh, if we could cut out "the music industry", and the artist made their songs and melodies on their own website, prohibiting redistribution... THEN we would be in a "good" society. The artists could then make a LOT of money on advertisement. Probably a lot more than they make today. Today most of the money goes straight into the music industry's pockets, and not the artists. THAT is why they are interested in quenching mp3's. They really don't care about the artists, even though that are what they say they do.
So, of course I hope that napster will win. I also hope that the music industry will continue fighting this battle, not realising that its a hopeless struggle (for them). That way, they will be ruined. And when they are ruined, then people will start distrbuting their own mp3's, from their own website, and earn money for themselves, not needing the stupid bloodsucking musicindustry.
The big question here is - what licence was the "stolen" software written in ? And how are they presenting it? If it was released under the GPL, then other companies may use the source, and I remember correctly, they ONLY need to provide the source (and licence it under GPL), but they don't need to give credits. .. I think..
If the software was released into public domain, then sun has done absolutely nothing wrong legally, but of course a lot wrong morally.
Wasn't this what happened to emacs? Someone made xemacs and made it closed source. Then Richard Stallman made the GNU licence and distributed all future versions of emacs under that licence - simply because the corp behind xemacs "stole his work". It wasn't stealing in the legal sense, but it was in the moral sense.
Wellwell, I don't know enough about this to say for sure, but I have a feeling Sun has talked a lot to their lawyers before doing this, and thus - I guess nothing can be done.
More often than not, I side with the defendant. Not so in this case. They take another companys broadcast, and rebroadcasts without their prior permission. In my book, that is a bad thing.
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I don't know if they are doing something legally wrong, but I seriously think it is morally wrong. Less users watch the original broadcasters, and some watch the new one. The originals loses advertisement money, and the rebroadcaster earns them -- by theft.
Therefore I think iCrave should be severly spanked by the canadian law system
and harvest your organs for transplants!
Intelligent move. instead of just wasting all thouse organs, why not use them? At least they are intelligent when they kill people.
IMHO that's not enough when you're going to kill somebody. For the death penalty, you should have to prove guilt beyond even an unreasonable doubt, beyond any damn trace or shadow of a doubt whatsoever
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I agree with you. I'm pro-death-penalty -- but only in cases where there is a risk of repeated crimes - in addition to that its proven 100% . Eye witnesses which cannot possibly be doubted, and so forth (That is, eye witnesses that have no reason to lie whatsoever, and there should be several of them). Or, in some cases, other unrevocably evidence (i'm sure it exists.. DNA, in addition to vidcams, in addition to
And, I don't consider it any doubt, if the defendant argues that "But, someone took a blood and semen sample of me in addition to hacking into the vidcam and manipulating the video + they paid of the eye witnesses.
On the other hand.
I do also understand the view when they punish almost everything with death. It reduces crime. You don't "take the chance" to steal some chocolate, when you know you'll be killed if you are discovered.
However, I feel that its a waste of good energy, to kill of people who aint dangerous. Death penalty should be used when we're talking about people who are a *danger* to other people physically. In all other cases, the punishment should be "lifetime in slavery". A thief should be imprisoned and put to hard work. 10% of what the state earned on his work should be put into his comfort. In other words, if he worked reallyreally hard, he would get a bed instead of just plain cement - to sleep on.
Maybe we should just execute all the criminals, then, DumbFuq.
.. and so on.
Actually, i think "body-punishment" (I don't know the english word. I think of when you "physically" punish the perp) is a Good Thing(tm). Cold blooded murder should be punished by Death. Theft should be punished by cutting one hand of, or death - if its "major theft". Random violence (when the victim didn't provoke the attacker knowingly) should be punished by 50 kisses from the whip
All in public of course.
I have a nagging feeling that crimes would drop *extremely* fast.
welcome to the 3rd millenium ...
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Offtopic, but I think you should be corrected nevertheless. The third millenium won't begin for another 13 months, so I really think you are greeting us welcome a tad to early.
When reading this, two things occured to me.
.. I think the germans make good use of their laws. And, I guess it really could help SuSE, if windows2000 cannot be sold in Germany. I vision the entire German population using Linux and so forth. Oh, sweet dreams. :-)
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First, i don't like the idea of banning neither religions, free speech or programs made by people / companies that has a certain belief. I have this nagging feeling when I hear about germans banning nazism. Of course, nazism is a Bad Thing(tm), but on the other hand.. it should be *legal* to have certain kind of opinions, and it should be legal to meet other people with the same opinions.
The same thing applies to Scientology. Its a Bad Thing(tm), but on the other hand, I think its bad banning them, and I think its absurd to ban Windows 2000 just because a tiny little program inside it, is made by a company funded by clams. (Clams, slang for "scientologists").
But, when we think about OUR goals, that is, killing of microsoft, scientology, nazism, and so forth
But, on the whole, I really think it stinks that they ban win2000, just because of some clams. Even though I don't like clams.. except for dinner.. I think
It is important. It would lower my blood pressure when visiting sites that specify too small fonts or unreadable colours (dark blue on black, anyone?)
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:-) I quickly changed the settings and reloaded.
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.. I *DO NOT* like to use programs that is translated to norwegian neither. Even though Opera is available in norwegian, I prefer the english version .. when I use windows that is.
Well, your claimed webpages that doesn't do "noframes" decently (iow display more than "this page require frame-support) is broken. I'll claim that pages with dark blue on black is broken
But OK, i see your point here, even though we disagree about the frames.
Well, I don't agree with you there. I like to read Finnish when I can. Content negotiation is wonderful magic when it is used efficiently.
Even though I'm norwegian, I really prefer to read the web in english. At least when the original site is english. Its the same when I read books. If the author is english, I prefer to read the english books instead of those translated into norwegian. If the author is norwegian, its the other way around.
I recently found that Debian had suddenly gotten support for norwegian. And that the browser I was using had *shudder* set norwegian as the preferred language. My eyes nearly popped out of their sockets when I screamed 'noooo'.
I *DONT* want to read debians homepages in norwegian!
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The problem with Windows CE is that MicroSoft cannot make much money of it. The hardware prices are dropping, and nobody will pay TOO much for a palmpilot. If the palms get as expensive as laptops, people will buy a laptop. palms need to cost less than half that price, preferably even less than a third.
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Then microsoft suddenly faces a problem. How much is it possible to get paid, for an operativ system for these thingomajigs? Not much -- if we want to believe Eric S. Raymonds -- who had made this one of "The 7 bullets Microsoft need to dodge within the next 18 months".
And this is one of the points I think he is right about. Just look at all the hardware makers abandoning CE.
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As a server, Linux still has many places to sit, but on a corporate desktop, I'm sorry to say it's just not ready.
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I think the only things we need to make Linux ready for the corporate desktop is:
- A decent webbrowser. (mozilla / opera coming soon)
- A decent Email program (hmm.. kMail is usable, but not great)
- A decent Office suite (kOffice coming soon)
What more is really needed? *Really* needed? News programs is not that important to the 'big businesses' (i think?), aol instant messagers thingomajigs (or their equivalents) should not be a difficult thing to find, and so on. Quite frankly, I think we'll be ready for the corporate desktop within 6 months.
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IMHO the browser comparison focuses on the wrong things. Frame support is not important, nor is anim gif support or interlaced gif support.
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.. will never become 'anything'.
Hm, I don't completely agree with you there. First of -- both frame and table support IS important today, when so much of the web actually uses it. Support for graphics on the other hand is just a nice thing to have.
I'd like to know which render the pages correctly, according to spec. Which support CSS (according to spec)?
I agree. Those things should be considered carefully. The browser which follows the standards, in addition to having a decent user interface, is the one to go for.
of course, it should be *small* and *fast* too.
Which allow the user to specify their own style sheets, overriding the pages' layout?
Is that important? Why?
Which support content negotiation?
You mean like multiple language support and so on? Personally I would prefer to have the web in as few languages as possible. Preferably everything in english, and sites that concerns one nation only - in that nations native language.
As you may have noticed, I'm not natively english / american speaking. I'm sure my english writing / spelling and so on sucks. But that's not the important thing. The important thing is that its a HELL of a task to translate things into an umzillion different languages - only major corps with lots of money to hire translators OR major organizations with many helpers - would be able to translate to "everything".
The problem here, is that the bigger will get even bigger, and those who cannot cope and translate into enough languages
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On the other hand, I don't use any kind of proxy at home, so when the Linux version emerges I will certainly be buying a copy (it can't be worse than Netscape, right?)
I forgot to add - Opera DO support proxies. But apparantly not "proxy authentification" or whatever. Using proxies is always a Good Thing if there are more than one computer attached -- especially if you've got limited bandwidth.
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Yes, I have tried Opera. It looked really good, but unfortunately is completely useless for this office environment since it doesn't support NTLM proxy authentication.
:-) I'm sure they'll add support for it if enough people cry for it. (or maybe after ONE cry ;)
That is when you send in a suggestion that they add that kind of authentication.
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