The Justice League, God, Jesus, and Satan himself will also be siding with the EFF in this case to halt the DMCA's reign of terror.
Yeah, right. I highly doubt anything will ever come with this. Call me a cynic, but ever since the DeCSS case, I've lost all faith in the government using common sense when working on technology oriented legislation.
By this same standard, any game which features characters with american names, and is in english, with allusions to the american culture, should be under similar scrutiny.
I'm sure that if the Lego were a Polynesian company, this wouldn't be an issue either.
Napster's main downfall was making itself incorporated, and therefore starting an actual company. If it was just non-profit software, the RIAA wouldn't have had much of a case. But creating an actual company that revolved around "file sharing" was a big mistake. Hopefully Aimster will learn from this.
I think that it's all a matter of publicity. Two years ago, the same people would probably have said the same thing about Linux or any other unix flavor. FreeBSD isn't a term heard very much in the mainstream, and I think that's the only reason for this. I personally use FreeBSD on my main workstation as well, for the exact same reasons.
I'm sure that as soon as more people here about FreeBSD, it won't be as strange to be running it on the desktop. Right now, Linux is a major buzzword, and that's the only reason why it's more "acceptable" to have it on the desktop.
This happened 15 years ago, and it just gets posted to slashdot now??!!@@$@
I wonder how many people submitted this in that time before it finally got posted on here. I mean, this is rather significant compared to the recent failed space probes, which appeared on here almost immediately after they were reported.
I saw this in the fall at the film festival here, and it was absolutely excellent. I highly recommend it, Willem Dafoe was almost unrecognizable, and John Malkovich did an superb job. However, it does pay to have seen the original Nosferatu beforehand. I believe it's currently available on DVD.
Well given his record on education in Texas...
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While governor of Texas, he oversaw legislation to make all text books censored and specially written to the state's specifications. Which is no wonder why they have text books that depict world maps where the equator passes through the southern part of the US.
Given this, I don't think technology in education will be one of Bush's main priorities (nor would I want it to be, given what he might do to it).
But since MS does make almost every category of software product, couldn't they argue that if they're not working for the competition making either office productivity suites or operating systems (where MS makes most of its sales revenue), that the non-compete clause would be invalid?
Given the current saturation of cell phones, there could be a study that showed they cause instant death or mutations, and I doubt that many people would stop using them. That's pathetic.
Tovris has a product which would let you send X.509 messages from any mail client that supports SSL. Platform independant.
The product is called the Mithril Secure Server and it acts as a proxy which sits in front of a mail server performing X.509 encryption/decryption on incomming and outgoing mail. A lot of ISPs are installing this in order to upsell managed security.
SSL authentication for IMAP/POP/SMTP is required to maintain security from the proxy box to the desktop. This is a very elegant solution which is packaged as a network appliance. Pretty much plug and play for any standards based email servers.
Check it out: http://www.tovaris.com.
Email sales@tovaris.com for more information on pricing, etc.
I've found that what separates most companies in terms of their privacy is how well _they_ follow it. The policy might look nice on paper, but is meaningless if you don't make an effort to actually follow it.
I remember how long everyone waited for Tansmeta to announce what they were doing, and when they finally did, as cool as it seemed, the enthusiasm just died. Don't get me wrong, I'd like to get my own Crusoe portable, but I'm not as enthused about it as I was when they first announced it.
Let's just hope that more hype like this about Transmeta doesn't totally finish them off.
Given all of the recent cases of distribution of copyrighted works, there is still no good solution that I can see. Years ago when copying tapes and pirating software was in its infancy, the companies just wrote it off as a loss and didn't think much of it since it was a relatively insignificant percentage.
Now that music and software piracy is really taking off, they're starting to actually look into solutions. And from my point of view, I think that there is no solution, and it's all going to come down to the trust/honor thing. The record companies obviously can't prevent digital distribution from taking place, and they're going to actually address the issue soon rather than turning their backs to any possible solution that isn't 100% in their favor.
I think that the only current solution is offering the material online for download with a fee, and just assuming that the majority of users will get it this way legally, rather than resorting to piracy. Granted, there are always going to be some people who will copy the material from others, but the same can be said about people who steal music from record stores. Something's going to have to change, and the ball is in the industry's court.
So far one single corporation was granted access to sell the photos. This does not end a monopoly, but rather looks like it would be starting one (regardless of the fact that they may claim they'll license others in the future, right now there's still only one).
That's true. But is it really worth putting the GPL in _every_ single.deb because of this? I mean, it's not just the space it would take up, but it would be a real pain in the ass to do.
Given the recent arguemtns by RMS on the debian-policy list, it's about time that they made it so that binary packages don't need to be shipped with a copy of the GPL, but instead only a URL for where they can find it.
For those who don't read that list, RMS was making a big fuss about how every single.deb should have a full copy of the GPL even though every Debian user already has the GPL in/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, there's a chance that someone who doesn't use Debian downloads a package and plays with it, and since they won't necessarily have the GPL on their system, if the package doesn't contain it, they're violating the GPL.
Who cares about the acutal size of it. The point is, as cool as this sounds, will anyone actually use it? Probably not.
And I was referring to the size of IE, which is the bloatware. My point is that IE is trying to achieve far too many things than it was meant for. It's a web browser. Nothing more.
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The Justice League, God, Jesus, and Satan himself will also be siding with the EFF in this case to halt the DMCA's reign of terror.
Yeah, right. I highly doubt anything will ever come with this. Call me a cynic, but ever since the DeCSS case, I've lost all faith in the government using common sense when working on technology oriented legislation.
By this same standard, any game which features characters with american names, and is in english, with allusions to the american culture, should be under similar scrutiny.
I'm sure that if the Lego were a Polynesian company, this wouldn't be an issue either.
Napster's main downfall was making itself incorporated, and therefore starting an actual company. If it was just non-profit software, the RIAA wouldn't have had much of a case. But creating an actual company that revolved around "file sharing" was a big mistake. Hopefully Aimster will learn from this.
I think that it's all a matter of publicity. Two years ago, the same people would probably have said the same thing about Linux or any other unix flavor. FreeBSD isn't a term heard very much in the mainstream, and I think that's the only reason for this. I personally use FreeBSD on my main workstation as well, for the exact same reasons.
I'm sure that as soon as more people here about FreeBSD, it won't be as strange to be running it on the desktop. Right now, Linux is a major buzzword, and that's the only reason why it's more "acceptable" to have it on the desktop.
Heh, all though this is pretty worrisome, at the same time you have to wonder how much they already know about us...
This happened 15 years ago, and it just gets posted to slashdot now??!!@@$@
I wonder how many people submitted this in that time before it finally got posted on here. I mean, this is rather significant compared to the recent failed space probes, which appeared on here almost immediately after they were reported.
I actually thought it was an excellent movie, and a pretty good review of it. ;)
I saw this in the fall at the film festival here, and it was absolutely excellent. I highly recommend it, Willem Dafoe was almost unrecognizable, and John Malkovich did an superb job. However, it does pay to have seen the original Nosferatu beforehand. I believe it's currently available on DVD.
While governor of Texas, he oversaw legislation to make all text books censored and specially written to the state's specifications. Which is no wonder why they have text books that depict world maps where the equator passes through the southern part of the US.
Given this, I don't think technology in education will be one of Bush's main priorities (nor would I want it to be, given what he might do to it).
Now all we need is BlueTooth and/or 802.11 base stations on every corner!
But since MS does make almost every category of software product, couldn't they argue that if they're not working for the competition making either office productivity suites or operating systems (where MS makes most of its sales revenue), that the non-compete clause would be invalid?
Given the current saturation of cell phones, there could be a study that showed they cause instant death or mutations, and I doubt that many people would stop using them. That's pathetic.
Tovris has a product which would let you send X.509 messages from any mail client that supports SSL. Platform independant.
The product is called the Mithril Secure Server and it acts as a proxy which sits in front of a mail server performing X.509 encryption/decryption on incomming and outgoing mail. A lot of ISPs are installing this in order to upsell managed security.
SSL authentication for IMAP/POP/SMTP is required to maintain security from the proxy box to the desktop. This is a very elegant solution which is packaged as a network appliance. Pretty much plug and play for any standards based email servers.
Check it out: http://www.tovaris.com.
Email sales@tovaris.com for more information on pricing, etc.
I assume everyone has seen Office Space? :)
I hope she got to keep her stapler!
I've found that what separates most companies in terms of their privacy is how well _they_ follow it. The policy might look nice on paper, but is meaningless if you don't make an effort to actually follow it.
I remember how long everyone waited for Tansmeta to announce what they were doing, and when they finally did, as cool as it seemed, the enthusiasm just died. Don't get me wrong, I'd like to get my own Crusoe portable, but I'm not as enthused about it as I was when they first announced it.
Let's just hope that more hype like this about Transmeta doesn't totally finish them off.
Hopefully someone will now have legal grounds to sue all those porn sites with the popup windows :)
Ballmer's showing signs of an advanced "Greenspan complex."
For the love of god please do not let Shrub appoint Ballmer as chair of the Federal Reserve Board!!
I think that basing a space mission on the biggest time wasting windows game could possibly beat that inches to centimeters thing......
Given all of the recent cases of distribution of copyrighted works, there is still no good solution that I can see. Years ago when copying tapes and pirating software was in its infancy, the companies just wrote it off as a loss and didn't think much of it since it was a relatively insignificant percentage.
:)
Now that music and software piracy is really taking off, they're starting to actually look into solutions. And from my point of view, I think that there is no solution, and it's all going to come down to the trust/honor thing. The record companies obviously can't prevent digital distribution from taking place, and they're going to actually address the issue soon rather than turning their backs to any possible solution that isn't 100% in their favor.
I think that the only current solution is offering the material online for download with a fee, and just assuming that the majority of users will get it this way legally, rather than resorting to piracy. Granted, there are always going to be some people who will copy the material from others, but the same can be said about people who steal music from record stores. Something's going to have to change, and the ball is in the industry's court.
But then again, we all knew this
So far one single corporation was granted access to sell the photos. This does not end a monopoly, but rather looks like it would be starting one (regardless of the fact that they may claim they'll license others in the future, right now there's still only one).
That's true. But is it really worth putting the GPL in _every_ single .deb because of this? I mean, it's not just the space it would take up, but it would be a real pain in the ass to do.
Given the recent arguemtns by RMS on the debian-policy list, it's about time that they made it so that binary packages don't need to be shipped with a copy of the GPL, but instead only a URL for where they can find it.
.deb should have a full copy of the GPL even though every Debian user already has the GPL in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, there's a chance that someone who doesn't use Debian downloads a package and plays with it, and since they won't necessarily have the GPL on their system, if the package doesn't contain it, they're violating the GPL.
For those who don't read that list, RMS was making a big fuss about how every single
Who cares about the acutal size of it. The point is, as cool as this sounds, will anyone actually use it? Probably not.
And I was referring to the size of IE, which is the bloatware. My point is that IE is trying to achieve far too many things than it was meant for. It's a web browser. Nothing more.
The developers need to sit down for a minute so that they realize what they did: they built an OS into IE. Do you know how incredibly wrong that is?
For those who didn't think that IE was bloatware already......
Wow, maybe they're trying to get it to compete with emacs?