I wonder how all you who support this and the similar BS would feel if someone put out simple instructions for a tool to unlock and start any car, especially yours.
I'd get mad at the manufacturer for fitting lousy locks into cars, and demand that they fix it. In the meantime, I'd write a thank you letter to the honest person who exposed it (instead of keeping quiet and starting his own car-stealing gang).
Sure it could be defended as a tool to help drivers who locked their keys in their car
NO, it could NOT be defended that way. It could be defended as a warning for customers about a low-quality product ("Unsafe At Any Speed", anyone?)
You see, unlike DVDs, there is NO legitimate use you can make of somebody else's car without the owner's authorization. Therefore your attempt at analogy failed, but I felt like refuting it anyway.
If I had to guess what's happening, MS is floating a trial balloon. They won't pay attention to us, but if InfoWorld starts reporting on the rumors and has some Fortune 500 IT managers saying they'll seriously evaluate alternatives if Samba is locked out of a latter-day CIFS, we'll never hear of this idea again.
Or, if the aforementioned Fortune 500 IT managers are completely spineless and say, "ooooh, they are going to kill Samba! I knew I should't have let those commie flower-power pinko tree-huggin' geeks install Linux on our servers. I'll do exactly as that nice and sweet MS sales rep said and upgrade everything to XP!", they'll go full blast with the idea.
Heck, some PHB's are so PH they probably are ordering the switch right now as somebody showed them the article.
The bulk of the population still does not understand the issues involved and will just write the whole thing off as "another protest, but these ones dress funny."
Funnier than the Gay Pride protests??? Highly unlikely.
You see this, for instance, when using GetRight on windows - you can minimize each download to an icon in the task bar, which visually represents the progress of the download. You also get icon feedback in KDE
GNOME has it too, only they call it "panel applets". There's one for the PPP dialer which right now is telling me the connection throughput. And, of course, there's the various system monitors and the omnipresent clock.
The "application loading" icon is a cool idea GNOME doesn't have. Maybe I'll suggest it in some mailing list.
Life isn't zero sum. Who loses when a cool new thing (press, photography, airplane, Internet) is invented? A few at most. Who wins? Almost everybody else. Same with democracy, individual freedom and the rule of law -- they benefit mostly everyone except a few dozen would-be tyrants. I'd count the GPL and like-minded concepts in that too. Many win, a few lose.
Your argument reeks of the kind of relativism people use to argue that China is actually a great place. These are the people who don't like freedom at all because they hope to be members of the Nomenklatura.
The chinese government is in a difficult position as they want the educated class to be able to use technology for productive purposes. However, they do not want the educated class to be poisoned by outside ideas.
So, basically, they want a magnet which only has a North pole.
Actually, this avoids (or rather postpones) the Final Constitutional DMCA Showdown. I can see various companies screaming hysterically to Adobe...
"You IDIOTS! Do you want the DMCA repealed or what? Drop this lunacy right NOW! The least thing we need is a martyr! We can't, repeat, CAN'T let this go to the Supreme Court until we get the chance to replace a couple justices."
rpm -Uvh is better; the U because it updates things already installed (unlike i) and the vh because of the visual feedback (it takes an awful lot of time).
You might have to go through a couple of interactions to get things right though. For instance, the Ximian FTP site has one or two obsolete RPMs along with the "live" ones you may have to get rid of; also, their way of dividing Mozilla into RPM's doesn't match any other distro I know.
Usually, after two failed "rpm -Uvh ", with some deinstalls and installs from the distro CDs inbetween, you are able to get everything in.
Mr. Carlin (the lawyer on the Barney side) sent me a similar letter in January. A few months earlier, my Geocites site was removed without any explanation from Geocities.
It seems that they went for higher profile sites first, particularily the ones that criticized the educational content of the show. I just decided to take the site down and not try to bother fighting it as I'm in Canada and don't have the time or the resources to fight this.
You can view the whole letter here. Maybe if enough people protest, I'll put the site back up somewhere else.
Hi, I'm J. Castro but you may call me "somewhere else". The aforementioned site is back at http://barney.isverybad.com/.
Then print the article, make some 500 copies and hand them out in the street, or put then under windshield wipers at parking lots. An urge to join the EFF wouldn't hurt either.
Or KWAKBAS (KWAKBAS WAs Killustrator But Adobe Sued)
This, and putting a message on the splash screen & about box urging people not to buy anything from Adobe. Like Graphics Workshop (Windows image-converting shareware) did with Unisys.
Galeon is about as usable as Mozilla at this point.
Maybe, if you have a dual 1.6 GHz P4. Otherwise, Mozilla is horrendously S-L-O-W-E-R! Their user interface (in contrast with the rendering engine, which runs nicely) is a disgusting bloatware. You click on _File, go to lunch, come back and MAYBE the drop-down menu already showed up.
But let me tell you, if they get it to run faster they have a killer. Either them or Galeon + Evolution, provided the latter offer all features I'm used to in Netscape Messenger, and is stable (haven't tested Evolution in a while, actually).
You might be wondering why I didn't mention Konqueror. I use only GNOME because I fell in love with the easy upgradability brought by Red Carpet. (will update my distro too!) Until the KDE folks come out with something similar, or a KDE channel for Red Carpet, I'll stay with GNOME.
Correct. I own the neat domain names [is|are]verybad.[com|org|net] -- yep, all 6 of them -- and have already given some hostnames off them to a few criticism sites:
Whoa, waitasec. Most systems (all?) consider the time_t type (time()'s return) to be signed. They need to, in order to be able to interpret dates prior to 1970 (e.g. births). Try to compile and run the following in your *nix box:
time_t when;
when = 0x7FFFFFFF;
printf("%s\n", ctime(&when));
when = 0x80000000;
printf("%s\n", ctime(&when));
Also, if time_t was unsigned, the wraparound would occur at 4 billion secons instead of 2 -- well into the XXII century.
Sheer curiosity of meeself: how wide are "short", "int", "long" and "long long" in this port? I would guess that decision was made by GCC actually. Right?
Now it seems we have a respectable number of DVD players that decrypt CSS discs without asking permission from the RIAA (and now one with menus too! Yay!). I wonder what will happen if a high-profile non-US-based Linux distro (Mandrake, Conectiva, SuSE) include it in the main package. I'm not counting Red Hat, they're from the USA and would probably be burnt to the ground by the courts at the request of country co-owner MPAA.
But then again, Red Hat might already have passed the threshold of "can survive nasty litigation". They're profitable now, remember. Would be fun to watch.
Because there's no way in hell Unisys can do anything in the courts about PNG -- it does not use anything from Unisys's patents. Their compression algorithm is 100% different.
There is something in common -- both Disgracenote and Urinesys commited despicable acts. Just that, though.
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I'd get mad at the manufacturer for fitting lousy locks into cars, and demand that they fix it. In the meantime, I'd write a thank you letter to the honest person who exposed it (instead of keeping quiet and starting his own car-stealing gang).
Sure it could be defended as a tool to help drivers who locked their keys in their car
NO, it could NOT be defended that way. It could be defended as a warning for customers about a low-quality product ("Unsafe At Any Speed", anyone?)
You see, unlike DVDs, there is NO legitimate use you can make of somebody else's car without the owner's authorization. Therefore your attempt at analogy failed, but I felt like refuting it anyway.
Or, if the aforementioned Fortune 500 IT managers are completely spineless and say, "ooooh, they are going to kill Samba! I knew I should't have let those commie flower-power pinko tree-huggin' geeks install Linux on our servers. I'll do exactly as that nice and sweet MS sales rep said and upgrade everything to XP!", they'll go full blast with the idea.
Heck, some PHB's are so PH they probably are ordering the switch right now as somebody showed them the article.
Funnier than the Gay Pride protests??? Highly unlikely.
GNOME has it too, only they call it "panel applets". There's one for the PPP dialer which right now is telling me the connection throughput. And, of course, there's the various system monitors and the omnipresent clock.
The "application loading" icon is a cool idea GNOME doesn't have. Maybe I'll suggest it in some mailing list.
Your argument reeks of the kind of relativism people use to argue that China is actually a great place. These are the people who don't like freedom at all because they hope to be members of the Nomenklatura.
1. Purchase an e-book. Store it into a notebook.
2. Make sure Advanced eBook Processor decrypts it.
3. Go to a public place with notebook and some boxes of blank diskettes.
4. Speak loudly to crowd, demonstrating the software, telling the Sklyarov story and lambasting DMCA.
5. Give copies of Advanced eBook Processor (NOT the eBook!) to people.
6. if (battery.status == dead) { go(home); recharge(notebook) }
7. Repeat from step 3 until SIGJAIL is received.
So, basically, they want a magnet which only has a North pole.
"You IDIOTS! Do you want the DMCA repealed or what? Drop this lunacy right NOW! The least thing we need is a martyr! We can't, repeat, CAN'T let this go to the Supreme Court until we get the chance to replace a couple justices."
In the best GNU fashion they should call it KINI (KINI Is Not Illustrator).
Or maybe ADWANK (Adobe Doesn't Want ADWANK Named Killustrator).
Then again, maybe not.
You might have to go through a couple of interactions to get things right though. For instance, the Ximian FTP site has one or two obsolete RPMs along with the "live" ones you may have to get rid of; also, their way of dividing Mozilla into RPM's doesn't match any other distro I know.
Usually, after two failed "rpm -Uvh ", with some deinstalls and installs from the distro CDs inbetween, you are able to get everything in.
And in Portuguese it sound like "it's anus" (é cu)!!! Next to that, conversation with a cow is reasonable.
It seems that they went for higher profile sites first, particularily the ones that criticized the educational content of the show. I just decided to take the site down and not try to bother fighting it as I'm in Canada and don't have the time or the resources to fight this.
You can view the whole letter here. Maybe if enough people protest, I'll put the site back up somewhere else.
Hi, I'm J. Castro but you may call me "somewhere else". The aforementioned site is back at http://barney.isverybad.com/.
Then print the article, make some 500 copies and hand them out in the street, or put then under windshield wipers at parking lots. An urge to join the EFF wouldn't hurt either.
Right, and I'll sue all Microsoft executives who are sympathetic to the GPL.
They could call it Kltpzyxm, but then every user would be hurled into the 5th dimension!
Or KWAKBAS (KWAKBAS WAs Killustrator But Adobe Sued)
This, and putting a message on the splash screen & about box urging people not to buy anything from Adobe. Like Graphics Workshop (Windows image-converting shareware) did with Unisys.
beija.eu == kiss.me ;-P
sou.eu == its.me
sefud.eu == yourefuck.ed -- all right, not the same thing but what the hell.
"Make it so."
Maybe, if you have a dual 1.6 GHz P4. Otherwise, Mozilla is horrendously S-L-O-W-E-R! Their user interface (in contrast with the rendering engine, which runs nicely) is a disgusting bloatware. You click on _File, go to lunch, come back and MAYBE the drop-down menu already showed up.
But let me tell you, if they get it to run faster they have a killer. Either them or Galeon + Evolution, provided the latter offer all features I'm used to in Netscape Messenger, and is stable (haven't tested Evolution in a while, actually).
You might be wondering why I didn't mention Konqueror. I use only GNOME because I fell in love with the easy upgradability brought by Red Carpet. (will update my distro too!) Until the KDE folks come out with something similar, or a KDE channel for Red Carpet, I'll stay with GNOME.
http://softwarepatents.areverybad.org
http://scientology.isverybad.org
http://amway.isverybad.org
If you have a suggestion for redirection (or even IP pointing like I do for the LPF in the softwarepatents case) feel free to contact me.
time_t when;
when = 0x7FFFFFFF;
printf("%s\n", ctime(&when));
when = 0x80000000;
printf("%s\n", ctime(&when));
Also, if time_t was unsigned, the wraparound would occur at 4 billion secons instead of 2 -- well into the XXII century.
Sheer curiosity of meeself: how wide are "short", "int", "long" and "long long" in this port? I would guess that decision was made by GCC actually. Right?
Well, yeah, I guess there's plenty of time until 2038 when 32-bit time() will suddenly start telling us it's 1901. ;-P
But then again, Red Hat might already have passed the threshold of "can survive nasty litigation". They're profitable now, remember. Would be fun to watch.
There is something in common -- both Disgracenote and Urinesys commited despicable acts. Just that, though.