If I lose it for good, I revoke my software key on the server and inform them and prove who I am and get a new copy issued when I get a new USB key. They don't give a new copy until I permanently revoke my software key and prove my identity and that I bought a copy previously attached to that key.
So they would have to store whatever you bought or something? Or a secret key associated to you, which they will know? Sounds very stupid.
Besides: If I have the key I can do whatever I want. Including decrypting the bought file and putting it onto the web.
Windows by default has a fairly rigorous ACL system... with ridiculous defaults. World-writeable \system? come on!
And there's still loads of other conceptual garbage in windows, just to make it "easy" for their users. Unless they ditch that, windows is NEVER going to be on par with any unix. And these fuckups are _very_ deep in the system, like their "case-preserving but not case-sensitive" filesystem, "ressource-forks" (or whatever they're called), again in the filesystem; unicode-or-not problems and so on..
We'd go for "easy to use", but we do consider windows-servers as "hard to use", so unless this Active Directory can run on linux and manage unix- and windows-accounts, it has to be considered "not up to the job" or "fringe-solution".
Besides, the statistical non-backing is this: Death penalty has a positive influence on violent crimes with a factor of 0.11. This is not significant (0.20 would be) but that it is positive says enough. If death penalty would be of any use, it would have to be negative, below -0.20 to be significant.
Bacause he isn't, by definition. He was a tyrant, an opressor, a dictator, and so on. But terror from the side of the state is not called terrorism.
no reason to get so content that you call the guy who kept the attacks from happening for 4 years evil.
So? I see him as responsible for an upsurge in new terrorists because of his actions. I see him as responsible for violating civil liberties, responsible for violating constitutional rights, responsible for turning a republic into a proto-fascist state. And I do consider this evil.
If you consider the sentence "software as such is not patentable" to open a grey area, then yes. Because the reasoning of the EPO is, that if "murder as such is illegal", it's ok to murder for a specific purpose..
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Cracking: Breaking cryptographic, copyprotection measures or digital restriction management systems.
At least that is what "cracking" used to mean before ESR thought he could use it as substitute for "breaking into computer systems".
What the hell is that "Widget" you are talking about? A "Widget" by definition is a "graphical user interface component", and it's been that since at least 1983. Whoever thought this could mean some small program as well, is a moron.
They don't. It's only your sense of smell and your perception which considers some specific smells as "stinking". Most probably an evolutionary development to save your live: People thinking methane would smell great haven't left any offspring.
The standard unix tools need to be redesigned to be as easily spoken as they are interperated by the average user. Absolutely. There's a nice article on this. The author implemented an "ls" which outputs "644" on "ls -p". I'm all for something like that. Special switches to GNU ls or whatever to allow things like this. As long as there are enough letters left for parameters, do it.
Why the hell would I use a window-environment at all?
80xSomething, textmode. The same as the braille-device has. Various consoles, a screenreader in the background which starts reading on a specific key on any console and in any program (be that shell, editor or webbrowser); maybe a hacked up "screen"-program could do that, that would also allow for dozens of virtual terminals without logging in dozens of times. I've seen a *real hacker* work on a vt220 with screen, slrn, bitchx, mutt, dozens of consoles, vim, ssh. Incredibly fast.
In fact, most unices would already do nicely, I suspect, given some nice text-to-speech software and good drivers for braille-hardware.
Yeah, I always thought he wasn't that bad, despite nobody around me could stand him. HOWEVER I found his mother (that doctor, don't ask me, I'm not really into Star Trek) a fucking nuisance.
No, this is at the very least PART of the correct answer
Right, its called "defense in depth". So he really should use the builtin firewall on each of the Fisher Price OS servers and workstations.
On the other hand, anyone using a windows-based firewall as a perimeter defense is a complete moron. You either use some firewall-in-a-box, and for bigger networks, you use some *BSD or Linux.
I tried iRATE, but the rate of music I like that this gets me is about 5%. Even after downloading about 200 hundred songs and rating them. I suspect that there just isn't enough free music available that satisfies my fringe-taste.
On the other hand, I found some three or four bands I really like. Still, the ratio sucks, compared to other means of getting good music. Like my local specialty store, specialized on medieval music. Like alt.binaries.sounds.world-music -- you download one song, and if you like it, there's a whole album available on shift-mouse, shift-S (yeah, try to beat this with a web-based system).
who ignore email infringement notices are hardly uncommon.
We throw them away too. Because YOU writing ME that some customer of mine violates your copyright doesn't imply that he really is, you could be lying. Only a judge can rule that something really is an infringement and order us to take action. WE ARE NOT JUDGES, we therefore ARE NOT ALLOWED to make a legal decision whether something is illegal or not. This is the law, and we citizens are not allowed to take it into our own hands and decide that our customer is "guilty".
And in fact, this false allegiations of copyright infringement already happend. Some wanted to have removed works which really were in public domain, others sent complaints according to laws that do not exist in our country, and still others sent complaints because of similar filenames (in one case, some open source package was confused with a movie, just because of the same name).
So we simply don't act on them. You have to write us a letter, on paper, and then we'll forward this to the respective customer alleged of infringing, for him to do what he sees fit. If our customer does not do what the sender wants, he may involve a judge to order us to put the material down, or to disclose the identity of the alleged infringer.
Yes, that's how they work, and that is where the problem lies in the first place. That model is targeted at a retail-CD-market, and not a donwload-market. You're trying to justify high costs with the need for cross-subsidies -- But these subsidies are NOT necessary anymore, since everyone can distribute its music online at nearly no cost.
And the case of Schnappi (in german) proves that a song can sell gold just because it was (illegally!) spread on the internet.
Actually, in my country, there are no "illegal downloads". The only things illegal to download from the net would be child porn or unlicensed software. But the download of movies, books, music, whatever else is legal.
Its the upload of works on which you don't own the copyrights or have a license to which is illegal.
The music industry speaking of "illegal downloads" is telling a lie in respect of the laws of my country.
Actually, "innovation" in pharmaceuticals often is only patenting some DNA of a virus that already exists. Of course there is some investment involved in identifying this DNA, but this is still not innovation. But obviously patentable -- how would the examiner know the difference between an arbitrary invented DNA and one lifted from a virus?
The kind of argument Stallman makes about patents not being a good fit for literature can also be made for why copyright is not a good fit for automobiles or planes.
In that sense yes, and I can make some arguments why patents are very bad for pharmazeutics and biotechnology. I've made that point here
Your point being "they're not as bad with automobiles or planes, therefore they won't be too bad with software"? Well, they are damaging everywhere in the first place.
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If I lose it for good, I revoke my software key on the server and inform them and prove who I am and get a new copy issued when I get a new USB key. They don't give a new copy until I permanently revoke my software key and prove my identity and that I bought a copy previously attached to that key.
So they would have to store whatever you bought or something? Or a secret key associated to you, which they will know? Sounds very stupid.
Besides: If I have the key I can do whatever I want. Including decrypting the bought file and putting it onto the web.
No it does not.
http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/165701363
http://www.mxlogic.com/news_events/07_11_05.html
Windows by default has a fairly rigorous ACL system ... with ridiculous defaults. World-writeable \system? come on!
And there's still loads of other conceptual garbage in windows, just to make it "easy" for their users. Unless they ditch that, windows is NEVER going to be on par with any unix. And these fuckups are _very_ deep in the system, like their "case-preserving but not case-sensitive" filesystem, "ressource-forks" (or whatever they're called), again in the filesystem; unicode-or-not problems and so on..
We'd go for "easy to use", but we do consider windows-servers as "hard to use", so unless this Active Directory can run on linux and manage unix- and windows-accounts, it has to be considered "not up to the job" or "fringe-solution".
You are so right.
Besides, the statistical non-backing is this: Death penalty has a positive influence on violent crimes with a factor of 0.11. This is not significant (0.20 would be) but that it is positive says enough. If death penalty would be of any use, it would have to be negative, below -0.20 to be significant.
Why do people not count Hussein as a terrorist?
Bacause he isn't, by definition. He was a tyrant, an opressor, a dictator, and so on. But terror from the side of the state is not called terrorism.
no reason to get so content that you call the guy who kept the attacks from happening for 4 years evil.
So? I see him as responsible for an upsurge in new terrorists because of his actions. I see him as responsible for violating civil liberties, responsible for violating constitutional rights, responsible for turning a republic into a proto-fascist state. And I do consider this evil.
If you consider the sentence "software as such is not patentable" to open a grey area, then yes. Because the reasoning of the EPO is, that if "murder as such is illegal", it's ok to murder for a specific purpose..
Cracking: Breaking cryptographic, copyprotection measures or digital restriction management systems.
At least that is what "cracking" used to mean before ESR thought he could use it as substitute for "breaking into computer systems".
What the hell is that "Widget" you are talking about? A "Widget" by definition is a "graphical user interface component", and it's been that since at least 1983. Whoever thought this could mean some small program as well, is a moron.
Next week's research topic: Do farts stink?
They don't. It's only your sense of smell and your perception which considers some specific smells as "stinking". Most probably an evolutionary development to save your live: People thinking methane would smell great haven't left any offspring.
*Just build a lightsaber. A real one. That's all.
* Force choke me. From where you are right now. Go ahead...it's OK.
So you'd expect christians to turn water into wine and to raise from the dead three days after being crucified?
The standard unix tools need to be redesigned to be as easily spoken as they are interperated by the average user.
/bin/ed of course ;).
Absolutely. There's a nice article on this. The author implemented an "ls" which outputs "644" on "ls -p". I'm all for something like that. Special switches to GNU ls or whatever to allow things like this. As long as there are enough letters left for parameters, do it.
And then, there is
Why the hell would I use a window-environment at all?
80xSomething, textmode. The same as the braille-device has. Various consoles, a screenreader in the background which starts reading on a specific key on any console and in any program (be that shell, editor or webbrowser); maybe a hacked up "screen"-program could do that, that would also allow for dozens of virtual terminals without logging in dozens of times. I've seen a *real hacker* work on a vt220 with screen, slrn, bitchx, mutt, dozens of consoles, vim, ssh. Incredibly fast.
In fact, most unices would already do nicely, I suspect, given some nice text-to-speech software and good drivers for braille-hardware.
I enjoy the character Wesley.
Yeah, I always thought he wasn't that bad, despite nobody around me could stand him. HOWEVER I found his mother (that doctor, don't ask me, I'm not really into Star Trek) a fucking nuisance.
Of course not some "Hello fans rejoice". What is this Hello anyway, does it run on linux or can you read it? it's Ringworld fans rejoice!
No, this is at the very least PART of the correct answer
Right, its called "defense in depth". So he really should use the builtin firewall on each of the Fisher Price OS servers and workstations.
On the other hand, anyone using a windows-based firewall as a perimeter defense is a complete moron. You either use some firewall-in-a-box, and for bigger networks, you use some *BSD or Linux.
You've got a problem with your "drug"-setup. It's a victimless crime. Buyer and seller are both doing something they both want. There is no victim.
There might be someone addicted to the drug, but that should be a problem of health-care and maybe taxes, but not of criminal law.
I tried iRATE, but the rate of music I like that this gets me is about 5%. Even after downloading about 200 hundred songs and rating them. I suspect that there just isn't enough free music available that satisfies my fringe-taste.
On the other hand, I found some three or four bands I really like. Still, the ratio sucks, compared to other means of getting good music. Like my local specialty store, specialized on medieval music. Like alt.binaries.sounds.world-music -- you download one song, and if you like it, there's a whole album available on shift-mouse, shift-S (yeah, try to beat this with a web-based system).
If anything that is used for piracy was illegal, you would have to throw out your computer.
Actually no. But you might have to scrap your motor-boat.
who ignore email infringement notices are hardly uncommon.
We throw them away too. Because YOU writing ME that some customer of mine violates your copyright doesn't imply that he really is, you could be lying. Only a judge can rule that something really is an infringement and order us to take action. WE ARE NOT JUDGES, we therefore ARE NOT ALLOWED to make a legal decision whether something is illegal or not. This is the law, and we citizens are not allowed to take it into our own hands and decide that our customer is "guilty".
And in fact, this false allegiations of copyright infringement already happend. Some wanted to have removed works which really were in public domain, others sent complaints according to laws that do not exist in our country, and still others sent complaints because of similar filenames (in one case, some open source package was confused with a movie, just because of the same name).
So we simply don't act on them. You have to write us a letter, on paper, and then we'll forward this to the respective customer alleged of infringing, for him to do what he sees fit. If our customer does not do what the sender wants, he may involve a judge to order us to put the material down, or to disclose the identity of the alleged infringer.
Yes, that's how they work, and that is where the problem lies in the first place. That model is targeted at a retail-CD-market, and not a donwload-market. You're trying to justify high costs with the need for cross-subsidies -- But these subsidies are NOT necessary anymore, since everyone can distribute its music online at nearly no cost.
And the case of Schnappi (in german) proves that a song can sell gold just because it was (illegally!) spread on the internet.
Actually, in my country, there are no "illegal downloads". The only things illegal to download from the net would be child porn or unlicensed software. But the download of movies, books, music, whatever else is legal.
Its the upload of works on which you don't own the copyrights or have a license to which is illegal.
The music industry speaking of "illegal downloads" is telling a lie in respect of the laws of my country.
Actually, "innovation" in pharmaceuticals often is only patenting some DNA of a virus that already exists. Of course there is some investment involved in identifying this DNA, but this is still not innovation. But obviously patentable -- how would the examiner know the difference between an arbitrary invented DNA and one lifted from a virus?
OTOH, it might be more accessible if he'd used a more accessible example.
Definitly. I'd have used Shakespeare:
Claim 1. A story which contains two lovers from adversary families.
The kind of argument Stallman makes about patents not being a good fit for literature can also be made for why copyright is not a good fit for automobiles or planes.
In that sense yes, and I can make some arguments why patents are very bad for pharmazeutics and biotechnology. I've made that point here
Your point being "they're not as bad with automobiles or planes, therefore they won't be too bad with software"? Well, they are damaging everywhere in the first place.