I wonder if there's any "argument" in this ADTI diatribe Villanueva hasn't answered already in the letter you mention. If there is, I can't wait for Our Man In The Andes' response.
Former AAP (Association of American Publishers) changes its name to BPAA. An AAP spokesman said, "we IP bullying trusts have to standardize on naming conventions".
Yikes. This is problematic. We sysadmins all know that, more often than not, problems that crop up at disadvantageous times tend to absolutely require human intervention despite all our feeble attempts to automate everything. So the boss (let's say a small ISP/ASP owner) calls up the sysadmin in panic (or rather knocks into his house if answering the phone isn't allowed either), saying the server/database/RAS/whatever has to be back up right now, and the sysadmin answers "Sorry, no can do, we're in the Sabbath"????
(...) both SuSE and TurboLinux keep some of their own software (such as SuSE's YaST installer) non-free. (...)
Conectiva appears to be the odd one out; they're a fully free distribution as far as I know.
Man, if they drop Conectiva's Synaptic in favor of a proprietary installer I (and many many more) will be MAJORLY pissed. Synaptic is free, and it rocks.
Ask them to offer the option of removing that POS losemodem for an additional $5 price cut. I can see businesses interested in these machines, and businesses normally don't need modems at all. Ditto for people with broadband.
In particular the DVD companies are about to get their ass handed to them for the use of the DVD zone encoding for illegal price manipulation. If the case sticks (it should) the studios stand to receive fines of tens of billions of dollars each. And don't think foreign courts can't enforce judegments on a US company, they can, if necessary sequestering the copyrights of the company.
Any sources about that one??? I so wish that were true!;)
Amen to that brother. It seems people can't get the notion that there is such a thing as just punishment, and then by definition any punishment greater than that is too much. They give in completely to anger, and whenever something bad happens to the person they don't like, they say, "Fuck Person X! If he didn't want to be punished he should have obeyed the law!" I can almost see the foam forming on the lips.
Someone should ask Jack Valenti, "How much fine/jail time would be too much punishment for copyright violation?" Or to the Drug Czar (whoever it is now), or John Ashcroft, "How much jail time for marijuana possession would be too much?"
Whatever happened to the concept of 'Innocent until proven guilty'?
It has slowly mutated: 1) Innocent until proven guilty 2) Guilty until proven innocent 3) Guilty, period. 4) Guilty, and suggesting there may be such a thing as "innocence" is a crime too. 5) CBDTPA
By know you may have already realized the long delay to receive username/password is why people don't download. What I have to ask you is WHY, pray tell, it takes so damn long? Do people manually check addresses or something? You have to/usr/lib/sendmail something to the person straightaway!
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You make one dollar a year??? Sheesh, I don't think minimum wage is that low even in Burkina Faso!
HA! I will pass along this parable to many people. Can you send me your e-mail and/or real name so I can properly credit you? ;)
I wonder if there's any "argument" in this ADTI diatribe Villanueva hasn't answered already in the letter you mention. If there is, I can't wait for Our Man In The Andes' response.
Former AAP (Association of American Publishers) changes its name to BPAA. An AAP spokesman said, "we IP bullying trusts have to standardize on naming conventions".
going to be disappointed if you can't convince SuSE, Conectiva and TurboLinux that per-seat licensing (*snicker*) is a good thing?
If the US decides to blacklist (anyone who does business with)^N Iran, it'll get pretty lonely. Same for any other "axis-of-evil" country.
See Helms-Burton. It's impractical. They're not enforcing it.
If Nader declares "Americans should never dress up like Carmen Miranda in public", you'd start seeing fruit salads over every Republican's head.
...because Tubes Rock!
Yikes. This is problematic. We sysadmins all know that, more often than not, problems that crop up at disadvantageous times tend to absolutely require human intervention despite all our feeble attempts to automate everything. So the boss (let's say a small ISP/ASP owner) calls up the sysadmin in panic (or rather knocks into his house if answering the phone isn't allowed either), saying the server/database/RAS/whatever has to be back up right now, and the sysadmin answers "Sorry, no can do, we're in the Sabbath"????
Sorry, this won't fly with me.
(...) both SuSE and TurboLinux keep some of their own software (such as SuSE's YaST installer) non-free. (...)
Conectiva appears to be the odd one out; they're a fully free distribution as far as I know.
Man, if they drop Conectiva's Synaptic in favor of a proprietary installer I (and many many more) will be MAJORLY pissed. Synaptic is free, and it rocks.
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Sõrrý, cöùldn't rêsîst. Thè Dëvîl màdê më dò ît.
How would you revise or restructure IP and copyright law to make both sides of the fence happy?
No way Jose. Some people will only be happy when everybody in the world owns them aleph-infinite dollars.
I can almost see the big ad campaign next July: "Spirit of $76!"
Maybe they can hire Mel Gibson?
I had the same problem. Every time I saw the word "Bill" my brain instantly added "Gates" to the end.
Is there a shrink present that can analyze this behavior?
Yes. You have Oedipus Complex. Your 50 minutes are up. Next!
Better yet:
Jon "Maddog" Hall.
Try to top that.
Lemme guess -- SiS video, right? In which section of XF86Config do you put this?
Ask them to offer the option of removing that POS losemodem for an additional $5 price cut. I can see businesses interested in these machines, and businesses normally don't need modems at all. Ditto for people with broadband.
The only thing I can say is that it appears to be a win/win situation for Wal-Mart.
And a lin/lin situation for us.
(Sorry, I couldn't resist. The Devil made me do it)
In particular the DVD companies are about to get their ass handed to them for the use of the DVD zone encoding for illegal price manipulation. If the case sticks (it should) the studios stand to receive fines of tens of billions of dollars each. And don't think foreign courts can't enforce judegments on a US company, they can, if necessary sequestering the copyrights of the company.
;)
Any sources about that one??? I so wish that were true!
to give me all the ~400MHz mobos left. They make great firewalls. ;-)
I guess Rosen won't be happy until each and every pirate is charged with crimes against humanity and convicted by the International Court of Justice
No, she won't be happy even then, and you know why?
The ICJ's maximum penalty is life in prison. Yep, no death penalty for those pirates. Unacceptable!
Amen to that brother. It seems people can't get the notion that there is such a thing as just punishment, and then by definition any punishment greater than that is too much. They give in completely to anger, and whenever something bad happens to the person they don't like, they say, "Fuck Person X! If he didn't want to be punished he should have obeyed the law!" I can almost see the foam forming on the lips.
Someone should ask Jack Valenti, "How much fine/jail time would be too much punishment for copyright violation?" Or to the Drug Czar (whoever it is now), or John Ashcroft, "How much jail time for marijuana possession would be too much?"
...putting a Linux firewall behind the Windows machine and the Internet? Let them try to uninstall that.
Whatever happened to the concept of 'Innocent until proven guilty'?
It has slowly mutated:
1) Innocent until proven guilty
2) Guilty until proven innocent
3) Guilty, period.
4) Guilty, and suggesting there may be such a thing as "innocence" is a crime too.
5) CBDTPA
By know you may have already realized the long delay to receive username/password is why people don't download. What I have to ask you is WHY, pray tell, it takes so damn long? Do people manually check addresses or something? You have to /usr/lib/sendmail something to the person straightaway!