The DMCA passed unanimously. It would be pretty silly to not for for John Kerry because he voted for it. If you want to find a polititian that didn't and wouldn't have voted for it, you'd need to get really, really, really fringe. I mean like way past Al Shapron, into deep libertarian land.
The question asked what solution providers should do, his answer was basically:
"Red Hat makes all their money off of support, whereas MS support is entirely separate from our products, and frankly we don't care if we don't make a dime off of support, so if you want to sell something and support it, you're better off selling Windows"
Ironically he has made one of the most insigtfull comments i've ever heard about what's wrong with MS. Whenever Windows breaks, generating a support call, MS's *real* customers (channel partners) get $$, and MS never hears about it.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. Warrants may be issued, but the issuing of a warrant doesn't mean my right to be secure is now forfeit, it just means that a reasonable search can now take place.
Your post suggests that the issuing of a warrant means they can now leagally destroy anything in their path to get at anyhting you have. That doesn't strike me as reasonable.
Wheather or not you think this sucks is irrelevant, the time for debate is over, about 200 years over. This was decided long ago, and your opinion lost. Sorry.
Holy shit! How come I never saw this before? eMusic blows away iTunes and Napster.
They have all the music I want, *way* cheaper, and with no DRM.
For me Napster is basically unusable, because my mp3 player isn't an iPod. Why the hell would I pay $15 for an album, that I can now only play on my computer?
Note, all the music I want is jazz -- which eMusic has tons of -- a quick search for Britney Spears turns up nothing, so if you into that, sorry, go blow your money on iTunes.
"You have attempted to circumvent copyright protection, this is illegal and has been prevented".
They will acquire a look on their face, not unlike that of a dog that just urinated on the floor, and pray that no one finds out what they attempted to do, lest they be punished.
Indeed, our only hope is the 2nd amendment. (Sorry to the Australians, you're just plain screwed)
From the article: Windows source code file being traded on the Internet appears to be roughly 660 megabytes in size. That is far short of the estimated 40 gigabytes of data that makes up the entire 40 million lines of code in the Windows operating system.
I guess this journalist is assuming each line of windows code is a thousand characters long, and the compression ratio of zip is 1:1. I expect about as much of tech journalists. They spell great, but can't do 3rd grade math.
40 million lines of code == about 800 million characters (20 chars per line) == about 800 million bytes (it's ascii) == about 800 MB == about 100 MB compressed
The file I see is about 220 MB. If anything, it's too big.
You think I'd be a happy if I lost my job to outsourcing to Russian? You think I'd be totally OK if my income went down 30% because of outsourcing to Australia?
Like "Oh I don't mind that I can't feed my kids, as long as I know some white guy out there got my job and not some Indian, beacuse I really hate them." Please.
This seriously has nothing to do with race man. We want job secuirty and good pay. And I want you to have those things as well. I just don't want to lose *my* a job to you, or Dmitri, or Bruce, or John, or Sally, or ANYONE!!!!
doesn't the MyDoom virus depend on a dope sysadmin clicking on a binary attachment to spread?
Alas, to gain usability, distros targeting mass market desktop users are starting to make them log in as root by default (Lindows).
If Linux is ever as popular as windows, I'll bet most people will be running as root. And, they'll not hesitate to download zips and run them. Come to think of it, we can't even tell them "Don't click on.exe files"
-- We got zips in the wire. Drop all you got on my position.
Page 6 is where they start tackling to oh-so-difficult question of wheather writing and publishing viruses is wrong...!!!...in the United States some legal scholars argue that it is protected as free speech....if a visitor downloads a virus to spread, the responsibility is entirely the visitor's.
"I'm not responsible for people who do silly things and distribute them among their friends"
Computer programming is to Computer Science what soldering is to Electrical Engineering. Ok, that's an exaggeration but you get the point.
A true Computer Science degree is really a specialized math degree, with some real-world computer stuff thrown in just to make you lose sleep.
At NO point in my program (nor any other programs I looked at) did one take a class called "Programming in C" or "Programming in Java". Those courses exist...for NON MAJORS. Teaching a CS major programming is like teaching an English major English.
At my school (University of Utah), the primary difference between Computer Science and Computer Engineering was, you needed much better grades to get into Computer Science.
At the end of your freshman year, the top 70 students got to continue in CS, the rest have to switch to CE or EE or Art History or something. With about 200 students taking the freshman CS courses, you really had to bust ass to make the cut. Now I find out those slackers are making more than me? WTF!!!!
Geez to think of all the partying I could have done that year.
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The DMCA passed unanimously. It would be pretty silly to not for for John Kerry because he voted for it. If you want to find a polititian that didn't and wouldn't have voted for it, you'd need to get really, really, really fringe. I mean like way past Al Shapron, into deep libertarian land.
Hey, we have same-sex marriage, cheerleaders, naked cowboys and the playboy mansion. We are are the alpha and the omega of all sexual revolution.
Meanwhile, in the EU, there is 'nudity'. ooooh!!! How forward-thinking are you!!!!
He isn't referring to SCO.
The question asked what solution providers should do, his answer was basically:
"Red Hat makes all their money off of support, whereas MS support is entirely separate from our products, and frankly we don't care if we don't make a dime off of support, so if you want to sell something and support it, you're better off selling Windows"
Ironically he has made one of the most insigtfull comments i've ever heard about what's wrong with MS. Whenever Windows breaks, generating a support call, MS's *real* customers (channel partners) get $$, and MS never hears about it.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. Warrants may be issued, but the issuing of a warrant doesn't mean my right to be secure is now forfeit, it just means that a reasonable search can now take place.
Your post suggests that the issuing of a warrant means they can now leagally destroy anything in their path to get at anyhting you have. That doesn't strike me as reasonable.
Wheather or not you think this sucks is irrelevant, the time for debate is over, about 200 years over. This was decided long ago, and your opinion lost. Sorry.
Exactly. Or the Apache license.
If you code for the fun or to provide the world with something, use BSD/MIT/Apache license.
If you're trying to make a pointless statement, by all means use GPL.
Holy shit! How come I never saw this before? eMusic blows away iTunes and Napster.
They have all the music I want, *way* cheaper, and with no DRM.
For me Napster is basically unusable, because my mp3 player isn't an iPod. Why the hell would I pay $15 for an album, that I can now only play on my computer?
Note, all the music I want is jazz -- which eMusic has tons of -- a quick search for Britney Spears turns up nothing, so if you into that, sorry, go blow your money on iTunes.
Flash! ah-ahh!
Savior of the Universe!
Flash! ah-ahh!
He'll save everyone of us!
Flash! ah-ahh!
He's a miracle!
Flash! ah-ahh!
King of the impossible!
He's for everyone of us!
Stands for everyone of us!
He saves with a mighty hand!
Every man every woman!
Every child-he's a mighty!
Flash.
He's just a man
With a man's courage
Nothing but a man
But he can never fail
No-one but the pure at heart
May find the Golden Grail
Actually what it'll say is:
"You have attempted to circumvent copyright protection, this is illegal and has been prevented".
They will acquire a look on their face, not unlike that of a dog that just urinated on the floor, and pray that no one finds out what they attempted to do, lest they be punished.
Indeed, our only hope is the 2nd amendment. (Sorry to the Australians, you're just plain screwed)
Pretty much everyone outside the tiny world of geek activism thinks DRM is a great idea. So if your going to start boycotting, get a really big net.
Evidence: The DMCA passed the House and Senate unanimously, and was quickly and proudly signed by Bill Clinton.
It's scary to think just how thoughtless *all* of our representatives are.
..Not that this applies here but...
If you want to prevent confusion between 0 and O, you need to omit both, unless the user somehow knows which one is not possible.
If you are using lower case, make sure to omit 1 and l too.
When generating random passwords to be emailed to people, I omit IilLoO01. You could omit 2Z5S as well. (who knows what font it will end up in).
Launch sideways.
From the article:
Windows source code file being traded on the Internet appears to be roughly 660 megabytes in size. That is far short of the estimated 40 gigabytes of data that makes up the entire 40 million lines of code in the Windows operating system.
I guess this journalist is assuming each line of windows code is a thousand characters long, and the compression ratio of zip is 1:1. I expect about as much of tech journalists. They spell great, but can't do 3rd grade math.
40 million lines of code
== about
800 million characters (20 chars per line)
== about
800 million bytes (it's ascii)
== about
800 MB
== about
100 MB compressed
The file I see is about 220 MB. If anything, it's too big.
Good writer
Really? I haven't seen any of his stuff. Could you post some of it here?
Dude, put away the race card.
You think I'd be a happy if I lost my job to outsourcing to Russian? You think I'd be totally OK if my income went down 30% because of outsourcing to Australia?
Like "Oh I don't mind that I can't feed my kids, as long as I know some white guy out there got my job and not some Indian, beacuse I really hate them." Please.
This seriously has nothing to do with race man. We want job secuirty and good pay. And I want you to have those things as well. I just don't want to lose *my* a job to you, or Dmitri, or Bruce, or John, or Sally, or ANYONE!!!!
doesn't the MyDoom virus depend on a dope sysadmin clicking on a binary attachment to spread?
.exe files"
Alas, to gain usability, distros targeting mass market desktop users are starting to make them log in as root by default (Lindows).
If Linux is ever as popular as windows, I'll bet most people will be running as root. And, they'll not hesitate to download zips and run them. Come to think of it, we can't even tell them "Don't click on
--
We got zips in the wire. Drop all you got on my position.
its time for socialism comrade.
You mean Anonymous Comrade?
..it has no strageic value, so you know it will never be bombed if there is a war.
So you want to take up a collection, and give the money to Darl McBride, SCO lawyers, and SCO investors? You realise that's what you're saying right?
A much better analogy is, what if someone created smallpox in a laboratory, then made it freely available to anyone who wanted it.
Page 6 is where they start tackling to oh-so-difficult question of wheather writing and publishing viruses is wrong...!!! ...in the United States some legal scholars argue that it is protected as free speech. ...if a visitor downloads a virus to spread, the responsibility is entirely the visitor's.
"I'm not responsible for people who do silly things and distribute them among their friends"
Can we just kill these kids now?
All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landings there
12 year olds can write computer programs -- that's irrellivant. You just totally hit my pet peeve. Everyone thinks:
Computer Science == Computer Programming
Computer Programming == Easy
==>
Computer Science == Easy
Computer programming is to Computer Science what soldering is to Electrical Engineering. Ok, that's an exaggeration but you get the point.
A true Computer Science degree is really a specialized math degree, with some real-world computer stuff thrown in just to make you lose sleep.
At NO point in my program (nor any other programs I looked at) did one take a class called "Programming in C" or "Programming in Java". Those courses exist...for NON MAJORS. Teaching a CS major programming is like teaching an English major English.
At my school (University of Utah), the primary difference between Computer Science and Computer Engineering was, you needed much better grades to get into Computer Science.
At the end of your freshman year, the top 70 students got to continue in CS, the rest have to switch to CE or EE or Art History or something. With about 200 students taking the freshman CS courses, you really had to bust ass to make the cut. Now I find out those slackers are making more than me? WTF!!!!
Geez to think of all the partying I could have done that year.
I've been to Bora Bora, and the cosmic rays did get me.
I would like to see us collaberate with the Europeans.
Yes, let's go the whole 9 yards on this one.
It's 1st and 10 on our own 20 and we've got a long way to go for a touchdown. But a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
We can sacrifice a pound of flesh, until flights to Mars are a dime a dozen.