Now, I personally think the law is stupid, and there are a great deal of other laws I think are stupid. However, the law is not unconstitutional (well, it hasn't been ruled unconstitutional yet), and therefore he is a criminal.
Now, jurisdiction issues aside, what's left to do?
The cynic side of me says: Nothing. We can't change it, we might as well learn to live around it. Until Dateline does a story about how some 14 year old is spending 10 years in jail for breaking the security of her N'Sync lyric download with a captain crunch decoder ring, nothing will change.
And the non-cynic side of me can't think of any reason that its not true.
Thank God IANAL, but I have a question to/for/about one.
Can the law firm working for Adobe demand that legal fees be paid to them from Killus..., the product formerly known as Killustrator? Wouldn't this be Adobe's problem?
Especially since they never tried contacting them without a lawyer...
(And yes, I know they can, but is there any legal basis to believe that they should get paid).
Just a little side note, the reason that MP3 probably treats the Human Voice better is the way it was originally designed. Tom's Diner was the test song that was used as the standard.
Sometimes money actually does win. Why wouldn't Microsoft be able to pay for research to make a better compression algorithm?
And before people bark at how lousy the OS is, there's a difference: with the OS, they have a huge legacy they must support without recompiling code. With applications, they have the benefit of being able to set their own standards over and over again repeatedly (as is the general complaint from Open Source people).
So while this has the effect of making it hard to copy, it also allows them to freely change anything they want.
Now, I'm not much of a MS fan, however, it must be pointed out that their office software does work very well, and works well with itself. So, while you can argue that the OS is brain-dead, the software, (minus the paperclip) is of decent quality.
Go ahead and let Hollywood purchase large areas of the space station for movie sets (Then at least they could do Ender's Game well.) Or how about letting corporate types pay for trips up there? How about having a conference center? Why not a place to negotiate peace treaties, far from the prying eyes of the press?
The idea that space can be some utopia just needs to end. We need to realize that money can be made, and start doing it.
Why can we sit around and care about what happens to the environment? Because people have money, and this comes from a good economy. When people are out of work/ have no money they don't care about the environment.
Just go to a country with extreme poverty and ask them if you can put in a big factory that will pump soot into the air and poision all the water around, but everyone will have enough food to eat and be able to afford a house to sleep in.
When your family is starving, even the short term solutions start looking pretty good.
Exactly my point... You have the dollar. Which is just a piece of paper. Let's do a different example. If I'm you're employer and I give you a check for $500 to pay you, which would I rather you do: hide the check under your pillow, or deposit it in a bank? Now think of the dollar bill as the same thing. However, the "government" now has the value of the currency.
For years we've been hearing of pirated software from China, Hong Kong, Singapore (sp?), etc. Why is it at all a shock that these developers would ignore a "good" license just like they ignore a "bad" one?
How stupid would that be? The US givernment loves people tokeep cash under the matresses, etc. Banks don't like it, but for the government, every dollar you have in cash is one dollar you have loaned the government interest free.
Now, you could convince me that the congressman was in the hands of the banking industry, but the Treasury loves people hoarding money.
I think it's even more interesting to attach the word "viral" to a license. I'm wondering how many executives will be out there responding to the tech guys desire for linux, "Linux, isn't that that Virus writing OS?"
Pretty sneaky if you ask me.
So are we really using too many resources?
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Let me start by stating I am not an economist...
That being said, here's my dilemma: If I have control over a limited resource, then I charge as much as I can for it. If my resource isn't all that limited, then I have to lower my costs in competition with others, but never below the cost of my resource (unless for strategy reasons, yadda, yadda, yadda).
One of the underlying beliefs of the eco-terrorists is that some group is using up more resources than they should be allowed to use. But if that group is producing more, then why shouldn't they also get to use them?
I could go on with examples, but I should need to. The argument should swing towards, "Is there actual value being produced?" and "Is the world paying too much for too little," or some other tripe like that. Not, "How dare rich people spend money."
If the universe didn't come out of a singularity then it always existed
"Always" implies for all time. Time did not exist prior to the Universe, thus you'd be correct. Remember, the Big Bang theory states that not only was all the matter in the universe created, but the space the universe is in, as well as time, were created as well.
Nothing existed before the universe. In the words of RockBiter, "A hole would be something, this was Nothing."
This is pretty much impossible to imagine, since there is nothing to hook our imaginiations to. Much like imaging what happens to you after you die if there is no afterlife.
Red Hat is providing support for Lucent deployment of applications using GNUPro tool suite on many embedded platforms used extensively throughout Lucent's Wide Area Network Switching Products.
That they would mention Lucent as the second bullet in their list of achievements... scary.
Since one of the other options was that the sun was in an unstable phase which would end with a nova or other major solar event in the next few thousand years. Clarke based one of his books on it, and it's also mentioned in McGervey's Quantum Mechanics.
The problem with that is that the standard for http and internet stuff says typing in a number is assumed to be the 32 bit IP address. You can try your own SSN for fun.
I would really like to know what kind of surveys they did before they released that Cat. Did they think anybody liked to bring various products to the computer to scan them in?
I actually brainstormed for a while trying to come up with something I could do with one that would make it entertaining to use... Nothing.
-- Book inventory? Why? Was I running a library?
-- A quick way to enter commands: I had it hooked up to a shell and printed out bar codes so I could scan in longer commands. Problem is, the longer the command, the less often you use it. Therefore, useless.
-- Fun for a child with some kind of game? Once again, annoying since you have to rescan things slowly occasionally.
So in short, the original reason of having it was stupid, and I couldn't come up with any useful alternate ways of using it.
But on a different note, have they already had there IPO?;)
To me this shows something different. We have heard time and time again that Native Americans and other indigenous (sp?) people from Australia and other continents live at one with the land, taking only what they need.
1) There are many demonstartions of Indians driving entire Buffalo herds over cliffs since that was easier than having to hunt 5 or 10 at a time.
2) Early man was not at one with the land, any more than man today is at one with the land.
3) Early man seemed to have some drive to eat meat... makes you wonder why, if we'd be better off as vegetarians.
Also in the document they state that they update the MSR (machine status registers), so an OS, or any program for that matter, could find out how fast the processor was operating at.
Page 26, they have a neat little graph that says that if the chassis has 70% of some optimal cooling capacity, the throttling won't happen. So since this is will keep an overheated processor from being cooked, I can only see this as a positive.
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He broke the law.
Now, I personally think the law is stupid, and there are a great deal of other laws I think are stupid. However, the law is not unconstitutional (well, it hasn't been ruled unconstitutional yet), and therefore he is a criminal.
Now, jurisdiction issues aside, what's left to do?
The cynic side of me says: Nothing. We can't change it, we might as well learn to live around it. Until Dateline does a story about how some 14 year old is spending 10 years in jail for breaking the security of her N'Sync lyric download with a captain crunch decoder ring, nothing will change.
And the non-cynic side of me can't think of any reason that its not true.
Can the law firm working for Adobe demand that legal fees be paid to them from Killus..., the product formerly known as Killustrator? Wouldn't this be Adobe's problem?
Especially since they never tried contacting them without a lawyer...
(And yes, I know they can, but is there any legal basis to believe that they should get paid).
And before people bark at how lousy the OS is, there's a difference: with the OS, they have a huge legacy they must support without recompiling code. With applications, they have the benefit of being able to set their own standards over and over again repeatedly (as is the general complaint from Open Source people).
So while this has the effect of making it hard to copy, it also allows them to freely change anything they want.
Now, I'm not much of a MS fan, however, it must be pointed out that their office software does work very well, and works well with itself. So, while you can argue that the OS is brain-dead, the software, (minus the paperclip) is of decent quality.
The idea that space can be some utopia just needs to end. We need to realize that money can be made, and start doing it.
Just go to a country with extreme poverty and ask them if you can put in a big factory that will pump soot into the air and poision all the water around, but everyone will have enough food to eat and be able to afford a house to sleep in.
When your family is starving, even the short term solutions start looking pretty good.
Hope that clears things up for you.
Now, you could convince me that the congressman was in the hands of the banking industry, but the Treasury loves people hoarding money.
2) Extend service to the rest of the world
3) Offend no existing users.
I can't see why no company has jumped on this juicy opportunity yet.
Pretty sneaky if you ask me.
That being said, here's my dilemma: If I have control over a limited resource, then I charge as much as I can for it. If my resource isn't all that limited, then I have to lower my costs in competition with others, but never below the cost of my resource (unless for strategy reasons, yadda, yadda, yadda).
One of the underlying beliefs of the eco-terrorists is that some group is using up more resources than they should be allowed to use. But if that group is producing more, then why shouldn't they also get to use them?
I could go on with examples, but I should need to. The argument should swing towards, "Is there actual value being produced?" and "Is the world paying too much for too little," or some other tripe like that. Not, "How dare rich people spend money."
Just my 2 cents on a lazy Sunday...
If the universe didn't come out of a singularity then it always existed
"Always" implies for all time. Time did not exist prior to the Universe, thus you'd be correct. Remember, the Big Bang theory states that not only was all the matter in the universe created, but the space the universe is in, as well as time, were created as well.
Nothing existed before the universe. In the words of RockBiter, "A hole would be something, this was Nothing."
This is pretty much impossible to imagine, since there is nothing to hook our imaginiations to. Much like imaging what happens to you after you die if there is no afterlife.
Red Hat is providing support for Lucent deployment of applications using GNUPro tool suite on many embedded platforms used extensively throughout Lucent's Wide Area Network Switching Products.
That they would mention Lucent as the second bullet in their list of achievements... scary.
I might be missing the point here...
No might about it. You've missed it.
Because of course, it is fairly trivial to make a laser diode suddenly act like a class 3b laser product.
No. Let's think... Red light, low power, and you can still blink. This is not going to cause any problems except for fear mongers.
No wait, that's Macrovision. Sorry.
Since one of the other options was that the sun was in an unstable phase which would end with a nova or other major solar event in the next few thousand years. Clarke based one of his books on it, and it's also mentioned in McGervey's Quantum Mechanics.
The problem with that is that the standard for http and internet stuff says typing in a number is assumed to be the 32 bit IP address. You can try your own SSN for fun.
e.g. 219863456 = 13.26.217.160
I would really like to know what kind of surveys they did before they released that Cat. Did they think anybody liked to bring various products to the computer to scan them in?
;)
I actually brainstormed for a while trying to come up with something I could do with one that would make it entertaining to use... Nothing.
-- Book inventory? Why? Was I running a library?
-- A quick way to enter commands: I had it hooked up to a shell and printed out bar codes so I could scan in longer commands. Problem is, the longer the command, the less often you use it. Therefore, useless.
-- Fun for a child with some kind of game? Once again, annoying since you have to rescan things slowly occasionally.
So in short, the original reason of having it was stupid, and I couldn't come up with any useful alternate ways of using it.
But on a different note, have they already had there IPO?
The Holy grail, but then, maybe
NOBODY EXPECTS THE RE-RELEASE
To me this shows something different. We have heard time and time again that Native Americans and other indigenous (sp?) people from Australia and other continents live at one with the land, taking only what they need.
1) There are many demonstartions of Indians driving entire Buffalo herds over cliffs since that was easier than having to hunt 5 or 10 at a time.
2) Early man was not at one with the land, any more than man today is at one with the land.
3) Early man seemed to have some drive to eat meat... makes you wonder why, if we'd be better off as vegetarians.
Also in the document they state that they update the MSR (machine status registers), so an OS, or any program for that matter, could find out how fast the processor was operating at.
... just thought I'd add my 2 cents.
Page 26, they have a neat little graph that says that if the chassis has 70% of some optimal cooling capacity, the throttling won't happen. So since this is will keep an overheated processor from being cooked, I can only see this as a positive.