There are cases where limiting the speed of a car to the speed limit could be detrimental to safety. Sometimes you need to accelerate past something to get out of its way ( imagine a situation where a truck is drifting in to your lane as you are passing it. )
If you're passing at 75 and the truck is going to hit you then the only way out is to accelerate. You can't do that if your car is limited to 75 mph.
I do think however think that cars that are capable of 120 mph or more are excessive. There is no way to use that kind of speed on a public road safely.
Getting back on topic... Most of the time that you listen to music (watch a movie.. whatever) one of the big corporations will own the copyright and in that case DRM will not interfere with your legal rights (fair use aside for the moment). However what about when you want to listen to music that your friends made with no DRM issues (80 mph to get past the truck). Will your player let you play that music, or will publishing be exlusively in the hands of the big companies?
Would it be possible for you to post that letter here along with the response you got? Maybe if more slashdotters saw examples of such letters then they would find it easier to write to their own representitives.
It would also be really interesting to see what response you got.
So? Sometimes killing is OK. If you have to kill an animal because it is in pain (or just becasue you want to eat it) - a gun is often the least painful way to do it.
Copyrights protect a single implementation. They do not protect your idea.
Another developer can see your neat new fuzzy-logic spellchecker in your word processor and work out how to implement it themselves. This would not infringe on your copyright.
If you had a patent on a fuzyy-logic spellchecker then (depending on the scope of your patent) the other developer would be infringing on your patented idea.
The article made it very clear that national and international ISP's had to obey the law for their Pennsylvania customers. It didn't say that the law applied to an ISP providing service for someone in California or Korea. But if that same ISP has customers in Pennsylvania, then it must filter those customers access.
Easiest solution: People in Pennsylvania no longer have internet access because it becomes too risky for ISP's to take on these customers.
Sheesh, nice rewrite of history. "Communism was just a peaceful movement that was hammered by the jack-booted thugs of a jealous, threatened United States Government."
Where did that appear in my post? I never said that communism was a good thing, nor did I say that it was a bad thing. Ditto for the US Government. I also did not talk about the various implementations of communism. I agree with you that the Russian communist regeime was oppressive but it is not the only possible implementation of communism. I disagree with your assertion that communism is inherently oppresive.
The purpose of my post was to point out that both Microsoft and the American Government have spread FUD about a philosophy that they felt was threatening to them. Both tried to force a pre-packaged opinion on people who hadn't taken the time to study communism or the GPL themselves.
Communism and the GPL are both political philosophies and it is perfectly valid to compare the two.
The GPL is the implementation of a philosophy. Its provides an alternative to the capitalist method of producing and distributing (selling) software. Microsoft are opposed to the GPL becuase the wide adoptation of the GPL will threaten their current business model.
Communism in the 1950's was an alternative to the American capitalist society, and the American government were opposed to it because wide support for communism would threaten to undermime the democracy of the United States.
Both GPL and communism have been targetted by FUD campaigns to ensure that most people who don't really know what they are about will avoid them and oppose them.
Finally, just to be sure that you don't misunderstand me here: GPL is not communism.
You do not need to register under the data protection act in order to hold a list of email addresses. If you were holding meat-space addresses then you would have to register.
How do you know which of your CDs have this protection until you buy them??
Phillips have said that they won't allow these broken cd's to carry the CD[Compact Disc] logo, so as long as that logo is on the cd case then you should be safe.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh dear!
I remember reading that in 2001 just after Bush was elected. I never guessed that it could be so accurate.
You got it.
Page widening posts don't affect Mozilla.
I haven't tried Konq or Opera, but IE definitely supports page widening posts.
Sig a Sig Aaaaaaaaaaah
You deserve to be shot for that sig.
There is never a good excuse for bad punning.
There are cases where limiting the speed of a car to the speed limit could be detrimental to safety. Sometimes you need to accelerate past something to get out of its way ( imagine a situation where a truck is drifting in to your lane as you are passing it. )
If you're passing at 75 and the truck is going to hit you then the only way out is to accelerate. You can't do that if your car is limited to 75 mph.
I do think however think that cars that are capable of 120 mph or more are excessive. There is no way to use that kind of speed on a public road safely.
Getting back on topic...
Most of the time that you listen to music (watch a movie.. whatever) one of the big corporations will own the copyright and in that case DRM will not interfere with your legal rights (fair use aside for the moment). However what about when you want to listen to music that your friends made with no DRM issues (80 mph to get past the truck). Will your player let you play that music, or will publishing be exlusively in the hands of the big companies?
It would also be really interesting to see what response you got.
It wouldn't be reverse engineering if you looked at the code.
I'll take that CD-Burner then - you won't be needing it for backups anymore - here have a free box of floppy discs.
So? Sometimes killing is OK. If you have to kill an animal because it is in pain (or just becasue you want to eat it) - a gun is often the least painful way to do it.
Another developer can see your neat new fuzzy-logic spellchecker in your word processor and work out how to implement it themselves. This would not infringe on your copyright.
If you had a patent on a fuzyy-logic spellchecker then (depending on the scope of your patent) the other developer would be infringing on your patented idea.
Why should you be rewarded for an idea anyway - can you really come up with an idea for software so unique that it isn't absolutely bloody obvious ?
Its not a religion. Its a cult. There is a difference.
Easiest solution: People in Pennsylvania no longer have internet access because it becomes too risky for ISP's to take on these customers.
cowboyneal in drag ?
We won't miss you either
Asparaguses don't generally go around eating people. What was your point again ?
By not trying to pass irresponisble and immoral legislation that pisses people off.
Where did that appear in my post? I never said that communism was a good thing, nor did I say that it was a bad thing. Ditto for the US Government. I also did not talk about the various implementations of communism. I agree with you that the Russian communist regeime was oppressive but it is not the only possible implementation of communism. I disagree with your assertion that communism is inherently oppresive.
The purpose of my post was to point out that both Microsoft and the American Government have spread FUD about a philosophy that they felt was threatening to them. Both tried to force a pre-packaged opinion on people who hadn't taken the time to study communism or the GPL themselves.
The GPL is the implementation of a philosophy. Its provides an alternative to the capitalist method of producing and distributing (selling) software. Microsoft are opposed to the GPL becuase the wide adoptation of the GPL will threaten their current business model.
Communism in the 1950's was an alternative to the American capitalist society, and the American government were opposed to it because wide support for communism would threaten to undermime the democracy of the United States.
Both GPL and communism have been targetted by FUD campaigns to ensure that most people who don't really know what they are about will avoid them and oppose them.
Finally, just to be sure that you don't misunderstand me here: GPL is not communism.
Bah! I bet you use that stupid Very Irritating editor.
You do not need to register under the data protection act in order to hold a list of email addresses. If you were holding meat-space addresses then you would have to register.
adding new kernel modules does not require a recompile
What you are describing sounds like the YOU ARE HERE program that Hiro uses in Snowcrash with the blueprints of the ship overlayed on his goggles.
Please don't feed the trolls
Phillips have said that they won't allow these broken cd's to carry the CD[Compact Disc] logo, so as long as that logo is on the cd case then you should be safe.
Doh! Too late!