It is illegal to share copyrighted material without prior consent with the exception of fair use. For music and video, courts have stated what actions constitute fair use and not. P2P file sharing has definitevely been ruled out as an example of fair use.
I download music from the internet quite frequently, if I like the song I have downloaded I will usually buy the album if I don't like it I delete it, does this mean I am commiting a crime?
Yes. You are breaking the law. Whether you get caught or not or whether or not it is a good law is a different question.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why I still read Slashdot.
Cool work, Adam. Keep it up.
I had an Algebra teacher in the 8th grade whose husband was an early HIV researcher. He was confident that there had to be a way to combat HIV, it would just take time and creative thinking.
Sounds like you have the "creative" part down, I pray that the time part will be short.
I am not really defending or attacking anyone, simply stating that MS is a unique postiona and therefore has unique issues. In the timeframe that we are talking, Apple would not have been a contender. If it had, Google could have just taken darwin, as it did not need the gui.
If it was all an issue of timing, why didn't Google just take FreeBSD then (like Apple did to "make" Darwin)? That's what Yahoo! did after all.
Your argument doesn't wash, sorry. It's not like the Google Engineers are kicking themselves saying "If only Darwin had been available!" From every interview and presentation I have seen with them, this is simply not the case. They chose Linux because they could get it to run easily on the disparate hardware avialable to them and its source and architecture was completely open to their tinkering. Since then, Linux has grown with them so there has been no need to switch.
This comment is not a knock on FreeBSD, which is a fine OS. It is however a knock on the idea that Darwin would have been the choice if only it had been around at the time. Phewie.
As he states - it is a one-way algorithm. If I have your barcode off your library card, I cannot reconstruct your name, SSN, birthdate, and all that without going into the library's database. With the number-sequence that this system creates, I cannot reconstruct your fingerprint at all. I cannot reconstruct any of the data previously mentioned without going into the database. So, instead of creating a random number with the unix timestamp as a seed, they are creating a random number with your fingerprint as a seed. What is so shocking about that?
Why the heck do they need to uniquely identify my library computer use in the first place? If it is discovered that illegal actions have happened from a library computer, then use good old fashioned police work to track it down.
The reason people want to identify one person easily and specifically is because it makes it easier to comply with general fishing searches should the library be slapped with them. These searches come in the form of "Tell us everyone who has used this computer on this day" in one of its most general forms to "Tell us everyone who visited this site and from which computers" in a more specific version.
That's an awfully wide net to cast. How about they set up surveillance, after receiving court approval, and make sure that they aren't violating anyone's Fourth Amendment rights.
Hmmm... I guess someone needs to go to your library, tell them that they are you - they can even print a fake barcode on any old library card since barcode techology is open and freely available to anyone and everyone. Then, they can surf for child porn on your account. When the feds come to your door, you can explain to them that it is a terrible idea for the library to go to every measure to ensure that patrons are who they say they are.
Or how about not keeping any records of who uses what computer at all? Put the computers in open spaces and staff them with helpful staff people who are always willing to look over ones should and lend a hand with any problems that may arise. This way you are less likely to get a visit for visiting sites that are perfectly legal, but "suspicious" such as anti-war sites, or independent media sites, or foreign news sites, or a host of other topics that might be frowned upon by any government that is made uncomfortable by dissent and/or an educated populace. A similar case can be made for people seeking out medical information. Their searches for more information should have some expectation of privacy.
Computer use tracking happens in places like China where people are put in prison for nothing more than seeking out unfiltered information (among other things). Are you saying you want the US to be more like China in this respect?
There is a difference between requiring fingerprints on record (actually having your fingerprint in a database somewhere) and using your fingerprint to create a random sequence of numbers. If you cannot see that, then you are forcing yourself to be blind to it.
The difference pales when they both can be used to uniquely identify a single person and then be used to tie that person to activities that can rightfully argued are within their rights and should have an expectation of remaining private.
We don't require that everyone who uses a telephone must be uniquely identifiable before using a public phone. There is an expectation of privacy. Phones can similarly be used to gather information and carry on conversations that may contain a further protected nature such as discussions with a lawyer or doctor. At the same time, public telephones can be used for crimes as well, however such is the dual nature of almost any technology. At some point, good old fashioned policing has to be put into effect instead of requiring that all of the rights be stripped away of the overwhelmingly large majority of the decent law abiding people that make up this counry in order to make the job of catching the small minority of criminals easier.
For one thing, because of address space limitations, the largest spreadsheet that you could have can only have 32000 rows. It is a known limitation and I believe it has been addressed in the most recent version (in beta now).
There are some others, but that one jumps out.
There are ways around it, but they are annoying.
Also, its end note engine stinks. It would be cool if OpenOffice supported add on programs like Endnote. Cite while you Write is only available for Office products and everything only on Windows or Mac. A friend of mine who is a cognitive science Phd. candidate would love to switch to Linux exclusively, but this alone stops that transition. For heavy research people, Endnote is a killer app.
Frankly, big corporations (Microsoft comes to mind) do not 'innovate' either. They slavishly copy whatever worked for the competition.
Or, more likely, they buy up small companies working on neat pet projects and then put some developement work into "branding" that technology as their own.
Then they put the original devlopers on other projects. Many times (not always) those developers head for the hills once they have vested and usually that is because they feel stifled at a large company that isn't innovating.
Only that, according to the writeup, he DIDN'T show it on SOMEONE ELSE'S laptop... he showed it on HIS OWN laptop using Linux... which was ALREADY loaded on HIS laptop.
"The solution was to adopt OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 and ALT Linux Compact 2.3, which was already running on the presenter's laptop"
The TABLET PC is a M-I-C-R-O-S-O-F-T initiative. The worked on the specs with a number of vendors, including putting some of their engineers in among the harware engineers at the various partner companies including Toshiba.
That's why organizations/resources like Linux in Libraries exist. They are working for putting Linux in public spaces. There are a number of cool projects that this group has pointed me to including Koha, an open source library system and implementers of open source library solutions like LibLime. Check them out.
My understanding is that PCs that are riddled with spyware generally won't boot after the XP SP2 patch. Most PCs without XP SP2 seem to have some amount of spyware on them.
I use GIMP all the time on Windows and Linux. Now that the Windows version 2.2 with GTK 2.4 supports my Wacom Intuous 2 pad, I'll use it even more.
I use GIMP for image manipulation and for painting and it is a great piece of software. Without it, I would have to spend hundreds of dollars on Photoshop, something that I can't afford.
It doesn't look like the baiter is going to keep the money. Instead, he has used the money as bait to get the scammer to initiate a UPS request for that will result in a heavy box being shipped internationally, at which point the scammer will have a large shipping bill to pay. I bet he'll have the money in the box as well. Charges for a heavy box can run quite high.
That alone should prove to a normal person that there are clearly traffic concerns at play. They have little to no obligation to serve anyone outside of the US, with the statistically negligible exception of US citizens outside the US.
While I agree with most of your post, I have to take issue with this. Given that the 2000 election was decided by ~500 votes, even the statitistically negligible amount of overseas voters gains real-world significance. A campaign site is often the easiest place to find undistilled campaign speeches and platform stances. They do help people decide.
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Under the DMCA, it is illegal. Have you been asleep since 1998?
It is illegal to share copyrighted material without prior consent with the exception of fair use. For music and video, courts have stated what actions constitute fair use and not. P2P file sharing has definitevely been ruled out as an example of fair use.
Yes. You are breaking the law. Whether you get caught or not or whether or not it is a good law is a different question.
I thought JDS was at least semi-officially dead. Seems kind of late to pick it as a desktop.
Much better to choose something like Ubuntu.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why I still read Slashdot.
Cool work, Adam. Keep it up.
I had an Algebra teacher in the 8th grade whose husband was an early HIV researcher. He was confident that there had to be a way to combat HIV, it would just take time and creative thinking.
Sounds like you have the "creative" part down, I pray that the time part will be short.
You're arguing "history" with one of the faithful... if Steve decrees it, it is so.
Stop.
Continuing this discussion is like, as my father-in-law likes to say, wrestling with a pig; You get dirty and the pig just enjoys itself.
If it was all an issue of timing, why didn't Google just take FreeBSD then (like Apple did to "make" Darwin)? That's what Yahoo! did after all.
Your argument doesn't wash, sorry. It's not like the Google Engineers are kicking themselves saying "If only Darwin had been available!" From every interview and presentation I have seen with them, this is simply not the case. They chose Linux because they could get it to run easily on the disparate hardware avialable to them and its source and architecture was completely open to their tinkering. Since then, Linux has grown with them so there has been no need to switch.
This comment is not a knock on FreeBSD, which is a fine OS. It is however a knock on the idea that Darwin would have been the choice if only it had been around at the time. Phewie.
Why the heck do they need to uniquely identify my library computer use in the first place? If it is discovered that illegal actions have happened from a library computer, then use good old fashioned police work to track it down.
The reason people want to identify one person easily and specifically is because it makes it easier to comply with general fishing searches should the library be slapped with them. These searches come in the form of "Tell us everyone who has used this computer on this day" in one of its most general forms to "Tell us everyone who visited this site and from which computers" in a more specific version.
That's an awfully wide net to cast. How about they set up surveillance, after receiving court approval, and make sure that they aren't violating anyone's Fourth Amendment rights.
Hmmm... I guess someone needs to go to your library, tell them that they are you - they can even print a fake barcode on any old library card since barcode techology is open and freely available to anyone and everyone. Then, they can surf for child porn on your account. When the feds come to your door, you can explain to them that it is a terrible idea for the library to go to every measure to ensure that patrons are who they say they are.
Or how about not keeping any records of who uses what computer at all? Put the computers in open spaces and staff them with helpful staff people who are always willing to look over ones should and lend a hand with any problems that may arise. This way you are less likely to get a visit for visiting sites that are perfectly legal, but "suspicious" such as anti-war sites, or independent media sites, or foreign news sites, or a host of other topics that might be frowned upon by any government that is made uncomfortable by dissent and/or an educated populace. A similar case can be made for people seeking out medical information. Their searches for more information should have some expectation of privacy.
Computer use tracking happens in places like China where people are put in prison for nothing more than seeking out unfiltered information (among other things). Are you saying you want the US to be more like China in this respect?
There is a difference between requiring fingerprints on record (actually having your fingerprint in a database somewhere) and using your fingerprint to create a random sequence of numbers. If you cannot see that, then you are forcing yourself to be blind to it.
The difference pales when they both can be used to uniquely identify a single person and then be used to tie that person to activities that can rightfully argued are within their rights and should have an expectation of remaining private.
We don't require that everyone who uses a telephone must be uniquely identifiable before using a public phone. There is an expectation of privacy. Phones can similarly be used to gather information and carry on conversations that may contain a further protected nature such as discussions with a lawyer or doctor. At the same time, public telephones can be used for crimes as well, however such is the dual nature of almost any technology. At some point, good old fashioned policing has to be put into effect instead of requiring that all of the rights be stripped away of the overwhelmingly large majority of the decent law abiding people that make up this counry in order to make the job of catching the small minority of criminals easier.
There are some others, but that one jumps out.
There are ways around it, but they are annoying.
Also, its end note engine stinks. It would be cool if OpenOffice supported add on programs like Endnote. Cite while you Write is only available for Office products and everything only on Windows or Mac. A friend of mine who is a cognitive science Phd. candidate would love to switch to Linux exclusively, but this alone stops that transition. For heavy research people, Endnote is a killer app.
That too... but I thought that was more obvious.
Or, more likely, they buy up small companies working on neat pet projects and then put some developement work into "branding" that technology as their own.
Then they put the original devlopers on other projects. Many times (not always) those developers head for the hills once they have vested and usually that is because they feel stifled at a large company that isn't innovating.
Only that, according to the writeup, he DIDN'T show it on SOMEONE ELSE'S laptop... he showed it on HIS OWN laptop using Linux... which was ALREADY loaded on HIS laptop.
"The solution was to adopt OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 and ALT Linux Compact 2.3, which was already running on the presenter's laptop"
Repeat after me:
The TABLET PC is a M-I-C-R-O-S-O-F-T initiative. The worked on the specs with a number of vendors, including putting some of their engineers in among the harware engineers at the various partner companies including Toshiba.
Actually, there is no pre-rendered content. You could just as easily add your pro-ID comments.
That's why organizations/resources like Linux in Libraries exist. They are working for putting Linux in public spaces. There are a number of cool projects that this group has pointed me to including Koha, an open source library system and implementers of open source library solutions like LibLime. Check them out.
My understanding is that PCs that are riddled with spyware generally won't boot after the XP SP2 patch. Most PCs without XP SP2 seem to have some amount of spyware on them.
This is going to generate a TON of calls.
I like to use knoppix and technet to drop updates onto a fresh install before connecting a fledgeling Windows system on a network.
I wonder if we're still going to be able to get access to Technet articles?
Yeah... in KDE, just Right-Click on the application in your task bar and check Always on top.
Simple.
That's BS FUD and you know it.
I use GIMP all the time on Windows and Linux. Now that the Windows version 2.2 with GTK 2.4 supports my Wacom Intuous 2 pad, I'll use it even more.
I use GIMP for image manipulation and for painting and it is a great piece of software. Without it, I would have to spend hundreds of dollars on Photoshop, something that I can't afford.
This is different... it is a subject search that restricts searches to Mac oriented sites. The same goes for http://www.google.com/microsoft and http://www.google.com/linux. The others are listed here.
It helps counteract the random noises that bubble out from the candidates on TV.
It doesn't look like the baiter is going to keep the money. Instead, he has used the money as bait to get the scammer to initiate a UPS request for that will result in a heavy box being shipped internationally, at which point the scammer will have a large shipping bill to pay. I bet he'll have the money in the box as well. Charges for a heavy box can run quite high.
While I agree with most of your post, I have to take issue with this. Given that the 2000 election was decided by ~500 votes, even the statitistically negligible amount of overseas voters gains real-world significance. A campaign site is often the easiest place to find undistilled campaign speeches and platform stances. They do help people decide.
Otherwise, I agree.
Actually, the Firefox vulnerability was for BMP files not JPEGs.
That's one way to get 1,000,000 downloads in 10 days.