coming from somebody who would greatly beneficiate from such rules being passed.
It is safe to say that he would also benefit from such rules being passed. That is, in addition to the beneficiaticizing he would already be doing.
Re:On the phone with SCO (Take 2)
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Today's SCO News
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I want someone to ask why they sent the 1500 threatening letters when their current action is only in regards to contract law, not copyright or patent law. Those 1500 folks clearly don't have contracts with SCO, so... do they not consider those 1500 threatening letters to be a part of their "current actions", or what?
1) Will it work with an iPod and my Mac? I've got a PC, but I'm not interested in something that I can only listen to on that PC.
2) Will the selection be *way* better than the Apple Music Store?
It looks like the answer is "no" to both questions. Pressplay's selection looks *horrible*. If you're going to get me into a music subscription, your catalog better include every artist I've ever heard of, bar none.
I want you recording bootlegs at concerts so I can listen to bands that haven't even been picked up by indies. Does that sound extreme? Well, for that I'd pay $50/mo, and I couldn't care less about whether I own the music because at that point, I'd be a subscriber for the rest of my life. No doubt about it.
Since Apple is letting me keep the music, I won't ever request that kind of selection from them, but I'm not particularly drawn to them either, because I know they're not going to carry Legowelt, or Neutral Milk Hotel, or whatever. Last I checked, they only had one incomplete Radiohead album. I'm bored already. So, question #2 is keeping me away from Apple, too.
Someday, someone will build the service I'm looking for. I long for the Central Intelligence Corporation.
Right. And if the serial number is printed on the bill, and you distribute the public key, you can prove that the RFID tag was put there by the holders of the private key (hopefully the gov't).
Encrypt the bill's serial number with the treasury dept's private key?
Seems like that'd be pretty effective...
Of course, they can't possibly make this a *required* feature of all bills. You have to be able to microwave the money and still use it, otherwise y'all Europeans will start screaming bloody murder.
The privacy invasion happens when you aren't paying attention: When you don't realize that your subway card placed you at the scene of the crime, or whatever. As they gain more and more surveillance techniques, eventually it'll be impossible to pay attention to all of them.
afaik, nukes aren't getting built because no one will insure them. All the environmentalist wackos have done is not allow the government to say, "It's ok, you don't need insurance, we'll pick up the peices if anything goes wrong." IMHO, that's a good thing no matter what your politics are.
Once you roll insurance costs into the manufacture of a new nuclear power plant, apparently it doesn't make so much sense anymore. (I could be wrong. I hope I am. I like nukes.)
And when they decide to pay those mainframe devs with real money, some of us kids might be a little more interested in learning. I know a few guys with a ton of mainframe experience... they keep getting shuffled between giant companies, with pay cuts every time. Screw that.
Just when you think the movie has taken everything to the max, they kick it up to eleven.
And then they do it again.
And again.
The last time I had my mind blown that many times cost $50,000 and I got hepatitis. Brotherhood of the Wolf was righteous.
Y'all don't seem to understand.
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P2P Meets Push
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This means that we firewalled users can give you pr0n. Now you will have more sources for pr0n. This is good, no?
I'd love to share my stuff, but port forwarding is annoying, and I've only got one IP. This would allow me to share back.
What I don't understand is... why doesn't gnutella support this sort of thing? How come I can't check with my ultrapeer to see if someone wants one of my songs? Would that require maintaining a heavier connection to my ultrapeer?
I've got all this pr0n, and all this bandwidth... but no IPs to share it with.
Re:Have to side with the GNU folks here.
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Ghostscript Leaves GNU
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And those GPL programs are not a part of the GNU project. The GPL does not require that you follow the GNU coding guidelines.
I'm glad to hear from someone who sounds like they know what they're talking about.
The BBC article I keep linking in this thread says humans have been breeding dogs for about 15,000 years. I'm not sure the article is accurate, but that's still a miniscule amount of time, evolutionarily. It seems possible that wolves and dogs could, 15,000 years from now, interbreed regularly and be solidly within the same species. Not likely, but possible. It just seems silly to say they're separate species after such a brief period of time.
Also, asses and horses have an additional barrier that wolves and dogs do not: asses and horses do not produce sexually viable offspring. The two situations are not analogous.
According to this article, they probably went from very wolf-like to poodle in under 500 years. (That figure is a few screens down.)
If that's really so shocking... think about what we can do with humans with just a little inbreeding. And humans have much, much less genetic diversity than wolves, so there's less material to work with.
In my experience, the answer to that question depends where you look. I've always been told it wolves were canis lupus and domestic dogs were canis familiaris, but here's one page that uses the two interchangeably. You can google for "Canis familiaris" or "Canis lupus familiaris" and get plenty of hits either way. If you google for "Canis lupus lupus" and "Canis lupus familiaris", all the resulting hits are in German. Ugh.
I want Google to start including scientific journals.
Here's an interesting and relevant article suggesting that dogs and wolves are more similar than previously believed. Fun parallel.
2) Species is most often defined: If two animals can and do interbreed, then they are the same species.
So, they argue, timber wolves and huskies are physically separated, if not genetically separated, and are thus different species. Huskies and poodles are not physically separated, so they are not different species.
Of course, this is a ludicrous argument, because poodles/huskies/great danes etc. were all recent man-made breeding experiments, derived from wolves under 5000 years ago. If they're really all that separate, they've only been separate momentarily.
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coming from somebody who would greatly beneficiate from such rules being passed.
It is safe to say that he would also benefit from such rules being passed. That is, in addition to the beneficiaticizing he would already be doing.
I want someone to ask why they sent the 1500 threatening letters when their current action is only in regards to contract law, not copyright or patent law. Those 1500 folks clearly don't have contracts with SCO, so... do they not consider those 1500 threatening letters to be a part of their "current actions", or what?
Never get involved in a land war in Asia? Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line?
No, you let Steve answer. That's why they call it a man-in-the-middle attack.
Whoever is doing these article-text trolls is a damn genius. I'm quite impressed.
You couldn't install XP SP1 if you had stolen your copy of XP. That doesn't sound like a fair comparison to me, though.
1) Will it work with an iPod and my Mac? I've got a PC, but I'm not interested in something that I can only listen to on that PC.
2) Will the selection be *way* better than the Apple Music Store?
It looks like the answer is "no" to both questions. Pressplay's selection looks *horrible*. If you're going to get me into a music subscription, your catalog better include every artist I've ever heard of, bar none.
I want you recording bootlegs at concerts so I can listen to bands that haven't even been picked up by indies. Does that sound extreme? Well, for that I'd pay $50/mo, and I couldn't care less about whether I own the music because at that point, I'd be a subscriber for the rest of my life. No doubt about it.
Since Apple is letting me keep the music, I won't ever request that kind of selection from them, but I'm not particularly drawn to them either, because I know they're not going to carry Legowelt, or Neutral Milk Hotel, or whatever. Last I checked, they only had one incomplete Radiohead album. I'm bored already. So, question #2 is keeping me away from Apple, too.
Someday, someone will build the service I'm looking for. I long for the Central Intelligence Corporation.
Right. And if the serial number is printed on the bill, and you distribute the public key, you can prove that the RFID tag was put there by the holders of the private key (hopefully the gov't).
Encrypt the bill's serial number with the treasury dept's private key?
Seems like that'd be pretty effective...
Of course, they can't possibly make this a *required* feature of all bills. You have to be able to microwave the money and still use it, otherwise y'all Europeans will start screaming bloody murder.
The privacy invasion happens when you aren't paying attention: When you don't realize that your subway card placed you at the scene of the crime, or whatever. As they gain more and more surveillance techniques, eventually it'll be impossible to pay attention to all of them.
And what method did the government use to "not allow it to start operation"? Did the gov't simply fail to indemnify the insurance & power companies?
It is, after all, from the I-can-see-my-house-from-here dept.
The difference is that a driveway is personal property whereas yuor email service is a means of public communication.
Fine. Let us know where you live so we can fill your mailbox with stale popcorn.
afaik, nukes aren't getting built because no one will insure them. All the environmentalist wackos have done is not allow the government to say, "It's ok, you don't need insurance, we'll pick up the peices if anything goes wrong." IMHO, that's a good thing no matter what your politics are.
Once you roll insurance costs into the manufacture of a new nuclear power plant, apparently it doesn't make so much sense anymore. (I could be wrong. I hope I am. I like nukes.)
Hey, pal. Keep up. They're AlBooks now. Short for Al Gore. Or Aluminum, depending on your preference.
And when they decide to pay those mainframe devs with real money, some of us kids might be a little more interested in learning. I know a few guys with a ton of mainframe experience... they keep getting shuffled between giant companies, with pay cuts every time. Screw that.
Amen.
Just when you think the movie has taken everything to the max, they kick it up to eleven.
And then they do it again.
And again.
The last time I had my mind blown that many times cost $50,000 and I got hepatitis. Brotherhood of the Wolf was righteous.
This means that we firewalled users can give you pr0n. Now you will have more sources for pr0n. This is good, no?
I'd love to share my stuff, but port forwarding is annoying, and I've only got one IP. This would allow me to share back.
What I don't understand is... why doesn't gnutella support this sort of thing? How come I can't check with my ultrapeer to see if someone wants one of my songs? Would that require maintaining a heavier connection to my ultrapeer?
I've got all this pr0n, and all this bandwidth... but no IPs to share it with.
And those GPL programs are not a part of the GNU project. The GPL does not require that you follow the GNU coding guidelines.
Am I being trolled?
Ack. Exactly:
If two animals can and do interbreed and produce viable offspring, they are the same species.
I'm glad to hear from someone who sounds like they know what they're talking about.
The BBC article I keep linking in this thread says humans have been breeding dogs for about 15,000 years. I'm not sure the article is accurate, but that's still a miniscule amount of time, evolutionarily. It seems possible that wolves and dogs could, 15,000 years from now, interbreed regularly and be solidly within the same species. Not likely, but possible. It just seems silly to say they're separate species after such a brief period of time.
Also, asses and horses have an additional barrier that wolves and dogs do not: asses and horses do not produce sexually viable offspring. The two situations are not analogous.
According to this article, they probably went from very wolf-like to poodle in under 500 years. (That figure is a few screens down.)
If that's really so shocking... think about what we can do with humans with just a little inbreeding. And humans have much, much less genetic diversity than wolves, so there's less material to work with.
In my experience, the answer to that question depends where you look. I've always been told it wolves were canis lupus and domestic dogs were canis familiaris, but here's one page that uses the two interchangeably. You can google for "Canis familiaris" or "Canis lupus familiaris" and get plenty of hits either way. If you google for "Canis lupus lupus" and "Canis lupus familiaris", all the resulting hits are in German. Ugh.
I want Google to start including scientific journals.
Here's an interesting and relevant article suggesting that dogs and wolves are more similar than previously believed. Fun parallel.
1) You are obviously correct.
2) Species is most often defined: If two animals can and do interbreed, then they are the same species.
So, they argue, timber wolves and huskies are physically separated, if not genetically separated, and are thus different species. Huskies and poodles are not physically separated, so they are not different species.
Of course, this is a ludicrous argument, because poodles/huskies/great danes etc. were all recent man-made breeding experiments, derived from wolves under 5000 years ago. If they're really all that separate, they've only been separate momentarily.
My sig used to be:
"Bad artists copy. Good artists steal" - Elwood P Dowd
I don't think you ripped anyone off. Or I don't care, at least. You referred to Pablo Francisco's joke.
<emphasis voice=arnold>I just want to make tortillas.</emphasis>
(You watch a lot of comedy central stand-up, don't you.)