Bullshit. If you steal a haircut or a massage, you're taking up someone's time. They could have used that time to give a paying customer a massage.
If you make a copy of software without paying for it, they have lost nothing -- no time, no effort, no opportunity to sell that copy to a paying customer.
I also wonder how market share affects this. Linux is growing in the server market. Oracle isn't being used in these machines. Which means less money for Ellison. I wonder how this will work out. Any suggestions?
Oracle for Linux. Not as a "yeah, you can also run in here if you really want to but why would you", but as a first-class system, the way IBM is pushing Linux.
Yeah, but if he had vandalized, say, stores, do you really think dozens of men armed with machine guns would have raided his house? No, the local police would have arrested him the usual way, he'd serve a few months, then get out on probation with a few hours of community service. But because this involved computers, he's treated like a terrorist.
Call it what it really is, "Usage restriction", "Usage annoyance", "Copy prevention", "Copy annoyance", anything but "Copy protection", a newspeak word brought to you by the same people who made up the word "pirate", equating someone who copies bits without authorization to someone who robs, rapes, and murders on the high seas.
So switch to another registrar. They don't hold any sort of monopoly on domain registration.
When people complain about VeriSign, it's always about the customer service. But the part of VeriSign that has end-user customers, the registrar, is NOT a monopoly.
The part of VeriSign that has a monopoly is the Registry, and nobody ever complains about their customer service, because the registry's only customers are the registrars.
They then started charging for the domain names, even though they had been given no mandate to do so.
That's not true at all -- Before, the NSF was paying NSI $70 for every registration. That was the original contract they agreed to with NSI.
After a while, the NSF said, "We can't afford to keep paying for everyone's domain registration!" and renegotiated the contract with NSI such that NSI would charge end users directly.
Still, there were protests. They went like this:
"I shouldn't have to pay you for a domain! Change things back the way they used to be!"
"Oh, you mean you want everyone's tax dollars to pay for domain registration?"
Sounds like a good deal to me -- The.TV corporation paid Tuvalu $50 million for the original rights, in addition to all the money spent promoting it and putting together the IT around it.
Earlier they define symbols for water and dirt, by explaining their chemical composition. Those symbols appear on the water and land, so there wouldn't be any confusion over which is which.
Don't forget that most (all?) states take a digital picture of you when they make your license, so the government now has an immense database of faces.
I'll let everyone else debate whether this is Big Brother or healthy law enforcement. But one thing's for sure: buy stock in face-recognition software companies!
The disconcert cluster that we used for the dictionary attack contained more than two-hundred workstations, mostly from CAEN (that is the computer aided engineering network at UMich). The peak
Ok, i give up -- where did you steganographically hide the rest of that sentence?
Spam is not a freedom. Freedom of speech means two consenting people can talk to each other. It does not mean that you can follow someone around and shout at them, or harass them mercilessly.
As the saying goes, your right to move your fist around ends where my nose begins.
I don't know about you, but i had no idea what catenate meant until i came across "cat". And in C, i don't remember "malloc" as "memory allocate", i remember it because it sounds like the name of an Aztec god who will grant you great things but destroy you if you misuse the gift. It's an apt name for that function.
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Bullshit. If you steal a haircut or a massage, you're taking up someone's time. They could have used that time to give a paying customer a massage.
If you make a copy of software without paying for it, they have lost nothing -- no time, no effort, no opportunity to sell that copy to a paying customer.
I also wonder how market share affects this. Linux is growing in the server market. Oracle isn't being used in these machines. Which means less money for Ellison. I wonder how this will work out. Any suggestions?
Oracle for Linux. Not as a "yeah, you can also run in here if you really want to but why would you", but as a first-class system, the way IBM is pushing Linux.
Yeah, but if he had vandalized, say, stores, do you really think dozens of men armed with machine guns would have raided his house? No, the local police would have arrested him the usual way, he'd serve a few months, then get out on probation with a few hours of community service. But because this involved computers, he's treated like a terrorist.
Nice.
"Copyright infringers", "Unauthorized duplicators", stuff like that.
Call it what it really is, "Usage restriction", "Usage annoyance", "Copy prevention", "Copy annoyance", anything but "Copy protection", a newspeak word brought to you by the same people who made up the word "pirate", equating someone who copies bits without authorization to someone who robs, rapes, and murders on the high seas.
So switch to another registrar. They don't hold any sort of monopoly on domain registration.
When people complain about VeriSign, it's always about the customer service. But the part of VeriSign that has end-user customers, the registrar, is NOT a monopoly.
The part of VeriSign that has a monopoly is the Registry, and nobody ever complains about their customer service, because the registry's only customers are the registrars.
They then started charging for the domain names, even though they had been given no mandate to do so.
That's not true at all -- Before, the NSF was paying NSI $70 for every registration. That was the original contract they agreed to with NSI.
After a while, the NSF said, "We can't afford to keep paying for everyone's domain registration!" and renegotiated the contract with NSI such that NSI would charge end users directly.
Still, there were protests. They went like this:
"I shouldn't have to pay you for a domain! Change things back the way they used to be!"
"Oh, you mean you want everyone's tax dollars to pay for domain registration?"
"Uh, gee, i mean, uh..."
Sounds like a good deal to me -- The .TV corporation paid Tuvalu $50 million for the original rights, in addition to all the money spent promoting it and putting together the IT around it.
I expect to hear from people on my innovators of history part, but bear in mind I said most....
You didn't say "most".
I would have submitted this first, but i was hit by a flying pig on the way to my computer..
Don't call it Copy Protection. Call it Copy Restriction or Usage Restriction.
Very nice. Keep up the good work. I'm glad i spotted this post before it was modded down.
Please continue your research and keep us updated.
Open software, eh? So i can buy some closed, proprietary software, copy it, and then return it?
:)
Earlier they define symbols for water and dirt, by explaining their chemical composition. Those symbols appear on the water and land, so there wouldn't be any confusion over which is which.
... or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the National ID System
Don't forget that most (all?) states take a digital picture of you when they make your license, so the government now has an immense database of faces.
I'll let everyone else debate whether this is Big Brother or healthy law enforcement. But one thing's for sure: buy stock in face-recognition software companies!
You're joking, right? If not, what page of the transmission are you talking about? I can't find anything like that.
The Slashdot headline was not an error - it was a joke. This guy didn't get the joke. That's why it was modded down.
The disconcert cluster that we used for the dictionary attack contained more than two-hundred workstations, mostly from CAEN (that is the computer aided engineering network at UMich). The peak
Ok, i give up -- where did you steganographically hide the rest of that sentence?
Spam is not a freedom. Freedom of speech means two consenting people can talk to each other. It does not mean that you can follow someone around and shout at them, or harass them mercilessly.
As the saying goes, your right to move your fist around ends where my nose begins.
Two of the last three companies I've worked for have been driven out of business by MS.
Which ones?
Network Solutions is currently squatting on several domains of mine that I had let expire.
How long ago did they expire? Could you name a few?
I don't know about you, but i had no idea what catenate meant until i came across "cat". And in C, i don't remember "malloc" as "memory allocate", i remember it because it sounds like the name of an Aztec god who will grant you great things but destroy you if you misuse the gift. It's an apt name for that function.
and the Tab feature (people call an Opera ripoff) is great.
Who's calling it an Opera ripoff? I started a thread about it on the Mozilla newsgroups way back in 1999.