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No. But you're missing something if you're not listening to the Black Eyed Peas. Most of pop has *always* been bad. Pop has also always had redemption, hidden somewhere. Right now it's in some hip hop and electronica. And other places, debatably. --
Every so often someone on slashdot points out helpfully that the government cannot own intellectual property. All intellectual property produced by the goverment is in the public domain. This is why the government cannot produce GPL code.
Does this not apply to public universities somehow? If the university owns his code, then isn't it in the public domain?
I realize many universities have sold their research to private companies, I'm just not sure if public universities have been able to do this. --
So, trying to tell me that Nirvana was a studio creation? Are you out of your mind?
Ok, maybe you just mean that "I don't like Modern music." That's fair. But if you try to tell me that Nirvana, NWA, or Richard D James are machines in a factory, then you're either misled or misleading. --
The Microsoft developers might be silly enough to hard code the links to their own private UDDI server, but that would be a relatively easy crack to redirect to an open UDDI server.
Um. Wasn't that the whole point of things like the UCITA and DMCA? They'll put "no redirection" in their EULA. Done. Now, of course, that won't stop me from doing it at home, but it will sure as hell stop my company from doing it. Right? I mean, correct me if I'm wrong.
DeCSS is a device (configured as a program, although it could as easily have been configured as a physical machine, i.e., a "black box") that accomplishes a mechanical task, namely descrambling and decrypting an encrypted, scrambled DVD and copying its content to a hard drive. It is no more "speech" than a key to a library or museum (or a crowbar that could force open their doors) is "speech."
The Declaration of Independence is a device (configured as prose, although it could as easily have been configured as a physical machine i.e., a "black box") that accomplishes a mechanical task, namely telling off King George.
Of course DeCSS can be implemented as a physical device! So can all speech! If that's the only thing I ever learned from my algorithms class, then so be it! The Declaration of Independence is a "Parchment Crowbar" for forcing open restrictive government, asshole! --
Uh, you could easily write a program that would take any strictly formatted computer code, and transform it into grammatical, meaningful English prose. You could also write a program that would take that English prose and transform it back into strictly formatted computer code.
The distinction between parameters and algorithm are vague and unimportant. You could include several decoding keys as a part of the program and allow the user to choose between them. Now they are no longer parameters.
Of course, the algorithm and the parameters are both speech. Now, if you want to tell me that this sort of speech is restricted, there are ways you can defend that position. But saying that it is not speech is silly.
I thought that was the whole point of the folks obsessively encoding DeCSS in different formats. What if DeCSS were encoded as a song? Is it speech, then? A poem? A picture? --
I could grant you a license to the WinNT source code under the GNU License. Then, if you used it, Microsoft would sue *you*, and not me. You are the one that is using their IP without a proper license.
Of course, then you sue me for fraud. So. Since the telcos did the digging and violated property rights, you sue the telco. It is the telco's responsibility to get proper authorization. Then, if the telcos feel that the railroads defrauded them, they are of course free to sue them as well.
Of course, I don't necesarily know what I'm talking about, but that seems like the way things should work. --
Sure. But it would be an inefficiency in password verification. That is, if it took 100x more bandwidth to do it this way, it would still take under 10K of bandwidth. So it doesn't really matter if you're getting a real improvement in security. --
Except that with a smart enough machine, you could be able to dictate at about 200 wpm. No, you couldn't dictate code, but you could dictate business memos that fast. Anything with predictable content that could allow some automated error correction. So speech could have some advantages over keys for power users.
But that doesn't have anything to do with your real point, which is that "The scheme of 100 or so keys arranged in ready proximity to the fingers" is a good idea. And this can't be disputed. The only objections are that those keys could be better layed out, and should accept chorded input. --
Uh, I thought he was reviling against the DMCA. And there were big opressive corporations in 1984 too... It's the combination of the government and the corporation that is terrifying.
And then you had to go trolling and complaining about the moderation. I guarantee, the moderators are just as foolish as you are. This will continue unabated. --
Wow. If that's true then this is really really upsetting. However, several news stories have indicated otherwise. These could have easily been misinformed reporters. Someone else in this thread said that he used to work for aimster, and that it was named Aimster because you could target who you shared with.
Truth is, we'll never know. All meanings were probably intentional. It's just not as scary as it would be if AOL went after meatloaf.com, and we shouldn't suggest that it is. --
Aimster was named after AIM because it incorporates your AOL Instant Messenger buddy list. This is a pretty clear use of a trademarked term, and it *is* trying to indicate that they're related.
AOL is completely whithin their rights, and if they didn't defend themselves than they could easily lose the ability to defend themselves in the future.
The real news story is that the otherwise legally on-top-of-it Aimster team let this slip. --
Unfortunately, all of us were making identical jokes before the bust. The jokes were funny then. Now it's just tired. And a little offensive because real people are hurt. --
If someone wants to hack your source and make you help them, let them pay you! You just charge a lot more for it. It seems like the proper answer is completely clear cut. You have different tiers of service, and the higher tiers get to talk to your coders and get advice. The lower tiers get advised to download the latest RPM. Totally straightforward. --
In my experience, many games need to be run as administrator in order to run in Win2K. This may be your problem.
Since there's no real way to run things in "su" in windows, you can use a nice little trick to make it work - rename the executable "setup.exe", and then it will ask you if you want to run it as administrator.
So. I renamed the B&W executable, and now it asks me for the admin password when I want to run it, and it works fine. --
Harold Hawkins, head of the Office of Naval Research's bioacoustics program, notes that a dolphin can map the sea bottom in its mind's eye with "one, or two, or three" pings from its echo-location system, while the world's fanciest side-scan sonar needs dozens of slow passes to build the same picture.
Does this idea bother anyone else? I know he didn't say it outright, but the author certainly hints that at some point we might want to use dolphin brains to do more accurate sonar. This kinda bugs me. Maybe I'm overreacting.
Then again, computers might be able to dynamically reprogram themselves very nicely if they had RMS' brain trapped inside doing their bidding. Anyone ever read "Satan, His Psychotherapy And Cure By The Unfortunate Doctor Kassler"?
I'm not saying that we have to do something about it... it's just weird. --
Purest Heart was a waste of time. I *totally* understand what you mean about it being an art film, and I *totally* disagree about why people dislike Purest Heart and the rest of the ending.
It was grating, poorly executed, and overly repetetive. I've watched art films. I like art films. An art film, Eva was not. It didn't even finish the series in an emotional sense. It was merely, like Death & Rebirth, a rehashing of the other episodes, simply from an emotional standpoint. --
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Well, the more you look at it, the more clear it is that the US government is a direct result of pure anarchy...
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Don't you just love how the DMCA answers all these confusing legal questions? It's so convenient.
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No. But you're missing something if you're not listening to the Black Eyed Peas. Most of pop has *always* been bad. Pop has also always had redemption, hidden somewhere. Right now it's in some hip hop and electronica. And other places, debatably.
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Any lawyers out there?
Every so often someone on slashdot points out helpfully that the government cannot own intellectual property. All intellectual property produced by the goverment is in the public domain. This is why the government cannot produce GPL code.
Does this not apply to public universities somehow? If the university owns his code, then isn't it in the public domain?
I realize many universities have sold their research to private companies, I'm just not sure if public universities have been able to do this.
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I'll respond!
So, trying to tell me that Nirvana was a studio creation? Are you out of your mind?
Ok, maybe you just mean that "I don't like Modern music." That's fair. But if you try to tell me that Nirvana, NWA, or Richard D James are machines in a factory, then you're either misled or misleading.
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Yeah, it's a little offensive. Try this:
Every interaction I have ever had with Korean society (North and South) has scared the hell out of me. Cultural flaw is an understatement.
Maybe this is flamebait, but it's not because I don't mean it.
Of course I do not believe that Koreans are bad people. Korean culture is worse than the sum of it's parts.
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The Microsoft developers might be silly enough to hard code the links to their own private UDDI server, but that would be a relatively easy crack to redirect to an open UDDI server.
Um. Wasn't that the whole point of things like the UCITA and DMCA? They'll put "no redirection" in their EULA. Done. Now, of course, that won't stop me from doing it at home, but it will sure as hell stop my company from doing it. Right? I mean, correct me if I'm wrong.
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DeCSS is a device (configured as a program, although it could as easily have been configured as a physical machine, i.e., a "black box") that accomplishes a mechanical task, namely descrambling and decrypting an encrypted, scrambled DVD and copying its content to a hard drive. It is no more "speech" than a key to a library or museum (or a crowbar that could force open their doors) is "speech."
The Declaration of Independence is a device (configured as prose, although it could as easily have been configured as a physical machine i.e., a "black box") that accomplishes a mechanical task, namely telling off King George.
Of course DeCSS can be implemented as a physical device! So can all speech! If that's the only thing I ever learned from my algorithms class, then so be it! The Declaration of Independence is a "Parchment Crowbar" for forcing open restrictive government, asshole!
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Uh, you could easily write a program that would take any strictly formatted computer code, and transform it into grammatical, meaningful English prose. You could also write a program that would take that English prose and transform it back into strictly formatted computer code.
The distinction between parameters and algorithm are vague and unimportant. You could include several decoding keys as a part of the program and allow the user to choose between them. Now they are no longer parameters.
Of course, the algorithm and the parameters are both speech. Now, if you want to tell me that this sort of speech is restricted, there are ways you can defend that position. But saying that it is not speech is silly.
I thought that was the whole point of the folks obsessively encoding DeCSS in different formats. What if DeCSS were encoded as a song? Is it speech, then? A poem? A picture?
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I think you're confusing feature set bloat with code bloat. Given the feature set, what he did with emacs on the PDP 10 was just fine, thank you.
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I could grant you a license to the WinNT source code under the GNU License. Then, if you used it, Microsoft would sue *you*, and not me. You are the one that is using their IP without a proper license.
Of course, then you sue me for fraud. So. Since the telcos did the digging and violated property rights, you sue the telco. It is the telco's responsibility to get proper authorization. Then, if the telcos feel that the railroads defrauded them, they are of course free to sue them as well.
Of course, I don't necesarily know what I'm talking about, but that seems like the way things should work.
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Sure. But it would be an inefficiency in password verification. That is, if it took 100x more bandwidth to do it this way, it would still take under 10K of bandwidth. So it doesn't really matter if you're getting a real improvement in security.
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Except that with a smart enough machine, you could be able to dictate at about 200 wpm. No, you couldn't dictate code, but you could dictate business memos that fast. Anything with predictable content that could allow some automated error correction. So speech could have some advantages over keys for power users.
But that doesn't have anything to do with your real point, which is that "The scheme of 100 or so keys arranged in ready proximity to the fingers" is a good idea. And this can't be disputed. The only objections are that those keys could be better layed out, and should accept chorded input.
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Uh, I thought he was reviling against the DMCA. And there were big opressive corporations in 1984 too... It's the combination of the government and the corporation that is terrifying.
And then you had to go trolling and complaining about the moderation. I guarantee, the moderators are just as foolish as you are. This will continue unabated.
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He calls himself the mentor because he's patronizing, predictable, and annoying?
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Wow. If that's true then this is really really upsetting. However, several news stories have indicated otherwise. These could have easily been misinformed reporters. Someone else in this thread said that he used to work for aimster, and that it was named Aimster because you could target who you shared with.
Truth is, we'll never know. All meanings were probably intentional. It's just not as scary as it would be if AOL went after meatloaf.com, and we shouldn't suggest that it is.
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Aimster was named after AIM because it incorporates your AOL Instant Messenger buddy list. This is a pretty clear use of a trademarked term, and it *is* trying to indicate that they're related.
AOL is completely whithin their rights, and if they didn't defend themselves than they could easily lose the ability to defend themselves in the future.
The real news story is that the otherwise legally on-top-of-it Aimster team let this slip.
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Of course there is no way to stop people from cheating in games. As long as we use general purpose computers, this is unavoidable. So what.
HalfLife wend half of the way there when they decided to use WonID. Server operators can ban cheating fools.
The next step required is a network of server operators banning fools. And this means a really really well implemented trust system.
Anyone have a really really well implemented trust system?
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If it were a little more creative.
Unfortunately, all of us were making identical jokes before the bust. The jokes were funny then. Now it's just tired. And a little offensive because real people are hurt.
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Read Diamond Age. Those antennaes come at a cost...
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You're selling support, right?
If someone wants to hack your source and make you help them, let them pay you! You just charge a lot more for it. It seems like the proper answer is completely clear cut. You have different tiers of service, and the higher tiers get to talk to your coders and get advice. The lower tiers get advised to download the latest RPM. Totally straightforward.
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In my experience, many games need to be run as administrator in order to run in Win2K. This may be your problem.
Since there's no real way to run things in "su" in windows, you can use a nice little trick to make it work - rename the executable "setup.exe", and then it will ask you if you want to run it as administrator.
So. I renamed the B&W executable, and now it asks me for the admin password when I want to run it, and it works fine.
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Or maybe he was only joking.
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Harold Hawkins, head of the Office of Naval Research's bioacoustics program, notes that a dolphin can map the sea bottom in its mind's eye with "one, or two, or three" pings from its echo-location system, while the world's fanciest side-scan sonar needs dozens of slow passes to build the same picture.
Does this idea bother anyone else? I know he didn't say it outright, but the author certainly hints that at some point we might want to use dolphin brains to do more accurate sonar. This kinda bugs me. Maybe I'm overreacting.
Then again, computers might be able to dynamically reprogram themselves very nicely if they had RMS' brain trapped inside doing their bidding. Anyone ever read "Satan, His Psychotherapy And Cure By The Unfortunate Doctor Kassler"?
I'm not saying that we have to do something about it... it's just weird.
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Purest Heart was a waste of time. I *totally* understand what you mean about it being an art film, and I *totally* disagree about why people dislike Purest Heart and the rest of the ending.
It was grating, poorly executed, and overly repetetive. I've watched art films. I like art films. An art film, Eva was not. It didn't even finish the series in an emotional sense. It was merely, like Death & Rebirth, a rehashing of the other episodes, simply from an emotional standpoint.
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