You're confusing ideology (copyright==bad, or whatever) with practicality.
The practical matter is that most people are "honest" for some definition of honesty broadly defined in society. That means that, while the average person isn't terribly concerned with whether something's legal or not, they're generally beholden to their idea of propriety.
You're correct that violating the GPL to steal "our" stuff or violating copyright law to steal "their" stuff is legally equivalent. But the feeling is that "their" stuff is too expensive - that is, it provides too little value for its cost (not price). On the other hand, those of use who use the GPL in one form or other feel that it asks little enough in return for what it provides.
In other words, we react to renting and copying DVDs the same way we react to people walking their dogs in public parks (assuming they clean up after 'em). Similarly, we react to GPL violations the way we'd react to someone letting their dog shit in the neighborhood sandbox.
Yeah. It's a damn shame Pluto exists. Now we can't call Sedna 'IX' instead. If we called it IX, we wouldn't have to worry about whether it's a planet or not.
Therefore we need to download stuff like this and google toolbars to add pop up blocking and all kind of other third party stuff to get IE up to some modern day level.
No you don't. Download one of Mozilla, Opera, Firefox, Safari, Amya, Galeon, Konquerer, OmniWeb, etc.
Really, the fact that IE can't be bothered to support an 8-year old standard (CSS1 came out in '96) is not my problem, and it shouldn't be yours either. If you're downloading all this extra crap, you're (badly) treating the symptoms, not the cause. There is no fix for IE without destroying Microsoft - it's an ideological problem, not a technical one. So abandon it and use something that works.
> I didn't know anyone in NY who waited for a the Walk Signal to turn before start walking.
Would you walk across the road if the Walk Signal said "GO!!" but there was a cement truck bearing down on the intersection? So why do you trust the signal to tell you when not to walk?
Really, trusting a machine with vastly fewer inputs and massively less intelligence than you to tell you whether it's safe to cross the road is the behavior of a sheep.
> Can somebody tell me which government agency is actually run by sane, competent people?
Yup. The Supreme Court. That is one group of people deserving of an enormous amount of respect. Both the majority opinions and the dissents are well-reasoned and well-argued. The Court chooses its own schedule and cases and is consistently willing to put in the time and effort to give each one the attention it deserves. While I don't agree with everything the Court produces, those are people who really think before they talk. That's very refreshing, and it's comforting to know they're there to calm the Legislative's and the Executive's volatility.
Well, I don't know about IE and its "*WE FULLY SUPPORT* ((((about 3% of)))) *CSS1*", but under Mozilla, with CSS2, you don't have to look at flash either. You can replace it with a "click here if this isn't crap" button instead. You can even make it little so things flow around it nicely. It's amazing how many ads I dont even see anymore (and this is all without image blocking either) courtesy of a little bit of CSS.
userContent.css is your friend. Your dear and good friend. Use it, love it, spread the word.
Yes. Let's mandate that British ISPs block access to 'abhorrent' material. And while we're at it, let's add pornography and spam too. It's worked so well everywhere else in the world, it's a wonder the Brits haven't done this earlier.
These guys don't even need to *read* history! It's only been happening for as long as there's been an internet, and yet they still manage not to notice.
It's a logo. And it means "the warning formerly spelled out in words"?
Hasn't this been tried before?
As I recall, Prince, the artist formerly known by a random logo that meant "the artist formerly known as Prince", and formerly known as Prince, tried this already. And, well, he's back to using a real name, more or less.
So I'm thinking if "do not copy this movie under penalty of prison and $100,000 fine" doesn't cut it, then 'squiggle' won't either. But what do I know? I'm past 20, so I'm clearly not hip enough 4 teh coo' kidz.
As has been mentioned before, NASA has an incredible handicap:
They can't let people die.
When someone dies in an accident at NASA, it has to be thoroughly investigated. The investigation has to point to a clear proximate cause, which must be eliminated from every future design (and past ones). All this must be clearly documented in excruciating detail in order to maintain the fiction that space travel is safe.
On the other hand, a space program which is allowed a more realistic viewpoint (that being "Space is dangerous. It's really far away, and there's no air, and it's colder than Siberia. People will die. We make it as unlikely as is feasable, but shit happens.") can have vastly more efficient designs. Three craft (lacking major design flaws) have a much higher chance of succeeding at least once than one over-engineered ship. No matter how well-made (and NASA's made some incredibly solid machinery, no doubt about that), there's always that one-in-a-billion chance that something will go wrong, and there's nothing quite like a backup or two to keep things on track.
I'd be almost as happy to see the Russians or Chinese set up a proper moon base as I would be to see good ol' Stars and Stripes waving over a dome (you know they'd make it wave).
Good luck to the Russians indeed. And anyone else who's venturing off our little blue marble. We need all the luck we can get.
Hopefully this sort of flagrant violation will draw at least a modicum of public attention.
This isn't some hardened criminal mastermind at work. It's not a seasoned cracker attacking military targets. This isn't even some script kiddie poking at IIS. It's a MACHINE. A machine that respects robots.txt for Eris' sake!
If medical records and other "real" secrets are this visible, something is terribly wrong and I want to see public floggings. Seriously, this is not a case of weak security, or poor security, or incompetent security. It's a case of there not being so much as a screen door between the public and sensitive information.
This is actually a case where I think the government (or at least the courts) can do some good. You'll notice banks don't get hacked on a daily basis. That's because they'd lose squintillions of dollars if it happened. But nobody cares about my medical records because it costs money not to have incompetent asses running things. On the other hand, if revealing to without were punishible by a $1000 fine per person, per offense, you'd notice a severe tightening of security in a mighty big hurry.
It's a shame that suing people is sometimes the only way to get their attention, but with the decline of basic civil responsibility it might be inevitable.
I too appreciate not being paid to design webpages. Otherwise I'd never get away with an arrogant position like "The W3C and Mozilla say it's good, so you 95% of the population can screw off".
Remember kids, IE's "100% support for CSS1" means they support about 30% of CSS1 100% of the way. CSS1 core != CSS1. The rest of CSS1 and all of CSS2 are probably botched. Not that I'd know - I've been using Moz since about 0.6.
>...I have never had an issue with any of the Apple hardware I have owned that I couldn't get fixed by an Apple tech in a few days.
Really? Then could you/**PLEASE**/ tell me how to boot an iMac from CD? A way that works, I mean. That works every time, not every fifth time?
And no, "stick the CD in; power up; hold c" is not the right answer, Apple's protestations notwithstanding.
I've got a lab of 20 iMacs and none of them boot reliably from the CD. Yes, we've got the newest firmware. No, the CD drives aren't broken. Yes, we've tried that; it still didn't work.
Well, for starters, ol' Bill owns patents and copyrights and the source code to a lot of the world's most frequently-compromised software, and doesn't have a sterling history in the patching department himself. So not only is Microsoft enormously contributing to the problem, it's deliberately standing in the way of solutions.
Think what that would do for the world! Poser-powered PCs? They'd absolutely *FLY* off the shelves. e=mc^2 says I could stop worrying about the electric bills and heat he house with computers. One poser a decade would more than do it.
Utility computing my arse! What we really want is computing *without* using utilities, and this is it, folks, the real deal. Buy your poserPC today!;)
You simply ask them to come back tomorrow with statements, on company letterhead, signed by the CEO and/or head corporate counsel, expressly permitting the BSA to act on their behalf on matters related to copyright infringement.
If hell freezes over (if it's anywhere near here, it might well) and they *do* come back, mention a little something about warrants, probable cause, search and seisure laws, and how they don't apply to private citizens. Though tresspass laws do.
"...the Full Screen Superstitial is guaranteed to play perfectly for every consumer, every time."
Oh, I doubt that. I doubt that very much. I have CSS2 on my side, after all. That, and I never go to MSN, ESPN, Lycos, or the rest anyway, and certainly won't now.
And what's the guarantee? Free week's worth of ads every time someone hits your page with lynx? This guarantee business is baloney from so many points of view.
There's something about that that turned my stomach; the idea that in five years, this screamingly fast 286 would be landfill material. But thinking more about things, the iPod situation is actually a whole lot different.
Yeah. No matter how much or how little you used that old 286, in 5 years when the battery died it would be obsolete 3 times over. A piece of junk. Only worth giving away to avoid the recycling fees. In contrast, a 500-charges-old ipod should still be a fine piece of hardware, capable of giving many years of continued service.
Consider a heatsink. It removes lots of heat from a CPU, but generates no heat at all. That said, any devices which cools something beyond ambient temperature will generate heat of its own, which is nearly what you said.
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You're confusing ideology (copyright==bad, or whatever) with practicality.
The practical matter is that most people are "honest" for some definition of honesty broadly defined in society. That means that, while the average person isn't terribly concerned with whether something's legal or not, they're generally beholden to their idea of propriety.
You're correct that violating the GPL to steal "our" stuff or violating copyright law to steal "their" stuff is legally equivalent. But the feeling is that "their" stuff is too expensive - that is, it provides too little value for its cost (not price). On the other hand, those of use who use the GPL in one form or other feel that it asks little enough in return for what it provides.
In other words, we react to renting and copying DVDs the same way we react to people walking their dogs in public parks (assuming they clean up after 'em). Similarly, we react to GPL violations the way we'd react to someone letting their dog shit in the neighborhood sandbox.
Yeah. It's a damn shame Pluto exists. Now we can't call Sedna 'IX' instead. If we called it IX, we wouldn't have to worry about whether it's a planet or not.
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Offhand, I'd say today we're not tracking *anybody*...
No you don't. Download one of Mozilla, Opera, Firefox, Safari, Amya, Galeon, Konquerer, OmniWeb, etc.
Really, the fact that IE can't be bothered to support an 8-year old standard (CSS1 came out in '96) is not my problem, and it shouldn't be yours either. If you're downloading all this extra crap, you're (badly) treating the symptoms, not the cause. There is no fix for IE without destroying Microsoft - it's an ideological problem, not a technical one. So abandon it and use something that works.
I sure hope the military's got better machine translation than the rest of us do.
The reason doctors don't make websites complaining that I'm an idiot surgeon is because they're idiot users.
> I didn't know anyone in NY who waited for a the Walk Signal to turn before start walking.
Would you walk across the road if the Walk Signal said "GO!!" but there was a cement truck bearing down on the intersection? So why do you trust the signal to tell you when not to walk?
Really, trusting a machine with vastly fewer inputs and massively less intelligence than you to tell you whether it's safe to cross the road is the behavior of a sheep.
> Can somebody tell me which government agency is actually run by sane, competent people?
Yup. The Supreme Court. That is one group of people deserving of an enormous amount of respect. Both the majority opinions and the dissents are well-reasoned and well-argued. The Court chooses its own schedule and cases and is consistently willing to put in the time and effort to give each one the attention it deserves. While I don't agree with everything the Court produces, those are people who really think before they talk. That's very refreshing, and it's comforting to know they're there to calm the Legislative's and the Executive's volatility.
Well, I don't know about IE and its "*WE FULLY SUPPORT* ((((about 3% of)))) *CSS1*", but under Mozilla, with CSS2, you don't have to look at flash either. You can replace it with a "click here if this isn't crap" button instead. You can even make it little so things flow around it nicely. It's amazing how many ads I dont even see anymore (and this is all without image blocking either) courtesy of a little bit of CSS.
userContent.css is your friend. Your dear and good friend. Use it, love it, spread the word.
Well, the matrix *did* crash. So you tell me.
The Gimp: It was good, it is better, it has a long way to go to be perfect.
The Gimp team: May you continue to love your work so I can continue to love your product.
Many thanks, and best of luck going forward.
Yes. Let's mandate that British ISPs block access to 'abhorrent' material. And while we're at it, let's add pornography and spam too. It's worked so well everywhere else in the world, it's a wonder the Brits haven't done this earlier.
These guys don't even need to *read* history! It's only been happening for as long as there's been an internet, and yet they still manage not to notice.
Ok, let me get this straight.
It's a logo. And it means "the warning formerly spelled out in words"?
Hasn't this been tried before?
As I recall, Prince, the artist formerly known by a random logo that meant "the artist formerly known as Prince", and formerly known as Prince, tried this already. And, well, he's back to using a real name, more or less.
So I'm thinking if "do not copy this movie under penalty of prison and $100,000 fine" doesn't cut it, then 'squiggle' won't either. But what do I know? I'm past 20, so I'm clearly not hip enough 4 teh coo' kidz.
As has been mentioned before, NASA has an incredible handicap:
They can't let people die.
When someone dies in an accident at NASA, it has to be thoroughly investigated. The investigation has to point to a clear proximate cause, which must be eliminated from every future design (and past ones). All this must be clearly documented in excruciating detail in order to maintain the fiction that space travel is safe.
On the other hand, a space program which is allowed a more realistic viewpoint (that being "Space is dangerous. It's really far away, and there's no air, and it's colder than Siberia. People will die. We make it as unlikely as is feasable, but shit happens.") can have vastly more efficient designs. Three craft (lacking major design flaws) have a much higher chance of succeeding at least once than one over-engineered ship. No matter how well-made (and NASA's made some incredibly solid machinery, no doubt about that), there's always that one-in-a-billion chance that something will go wrong, and there's nothing quite like a backup or two to keep things on track.
I'd be almost as happy to see the Russians or Chinese set up a proper moon base as I would be to see good ol' Stars and Stripes waving over a dome (you know they'd make it wave).
Good luck to the Russians indeed. And anyone else who's venturing off our little blue marble. We need all the luck we can get.
Hopefully this sort of flagrant violation will draw at least a modicum of public attention.
This isn't some hardened criminal mastermind at work. It's not a seasoned cracker attacking military targets. This isn't even some script kiddie poking at IIS. It's a MACHINE. A machine that respects robots.txt for Eris' sake!
If medical records and other "real" secrets are this visible, something is terribly wrong and I want to see public floggings. Seriously, this is not a case of weak security, or poor security, or incompetent security. It's a case of there not being so much as a screen door between the public and sensitive information.
This is actually a case where I think the government (or at least the courts) can do some good. You'll notice banks don't get hacked on a daily basis. That's because they'd lose squintillions of dollars if it happened. But nobody cares about my medical records because it costs money not to have incompetent asses running things. On the other hand, if revealing to without were punishible by a $1000 fine per person, per offense, you'd notice a severe tightening of security in a mighty big hurry.
It's a shame that suing people is sometimes the only way to get their attention, but with the decline of basic civil responsibility it might be inevitable.
Hey, my calculator has an M68K in it!
I too appreciate not being paid to design webpages. Otherwise I'd never get away with an arrogant position like "The W3C and Mozilla say it's good, so you 95% of the population can screw off".
Remember kids, IE's "100% support for CSS1" means they support about 30% of CSS1 100% of the way. CSS1 core != CSS1. The rest of CSS1 and all of CSS2 are probably botched. Not that I'd know - I've been using Moz since about 0.6.
> ...I have never had an issue with any of the Apple hardware I have owned that I couldn't get fixed by an Apple tech in a few days.
/**PLEASE**/ tell me how to boot an iMac from CD? A way that works, I mean. That works every time, not every fifth time?
Really? Then could you
And no, "stick the CD in; power up; hold c" is not the right answer, Apple's protestations notwithstanding.
I've got a lab of 20 iMacs and none of them boot reliably from the CD. Yes, we've got the newest firmware. No, the CD drives aren't broken. Yes, we've tried that; it still didn't work.
Not bashin' Macs here - I just want help!
Well, for starters, ol' Bill owns patents and copyrights and the source code to a lot of the world's most frequently-compromised software, and doesn't have a sterling history in the patching department himself. So not only is Microsoft enormously contributing to the problem, it's deliberately standing in the way of solutions.
> ...the same levels of poser consumption...
;)
Think what that would do for the world! Poser-powered PCs? They'd absolutely *FLY* off the shelves. e=mc^2 says I could stop worrying about the electric bills and heat he house with computers. One poser a decade would more than do it.
Utility computing my arse! What we really want is computing *without* using utilities, and this is it, folks, the real deal. Buy your poserPC today!
If the BSA shows up
You simply ask them to come back tomorrow with statements, on company letterhead, signed by the CEO and/or head corporate counsel, expressly permitting the BSA to act on their behalf on matters related to copyright infringement.
If hell freezes over (if it's anywhere near here, it might well) and they *do* come back, mention a little something about warrants, probable cause, search and seisure laws, and how they don't apply to private citizens. Though tresspass laws do.
Then escort them off your property.
With a shotgun, if you're incorporated in Texas:)
"...the Full Screen Superstitial is guaranteed to play perfectly for every consumer, every time."
Oh, I doubt that. I doubt that very much. I have CSS2 on my side, after all. That, and I never go to MSN, ESPN, Lycos, or the rest anyway, and certainly won't now.
And what's the guarantee? Free week's worth of ads every time someone hits your page with lynx? This guarantee business is baloney from so many points of view.
There's something about that that turned my stomach; the idea that in five years, this screamingly fast 286 would be landfill material. But thinking more about things, the iPod situation is actually a whole lot different.
Yeah. No matter how much or how little you used that old 286, in 5 years when the battery died it would be obsolete 3 times over. A piece of junk. Only worth giving away to avoid the recycling fees. In contrast, a 500-charges-old ipod should still be a fine piece of hardware, capable of giving many years of continued service.
Not quite, yourself.
Consider a heatsink. It removes lots of heat from a CPU, but generates no heat at all. That said, any devices which cools something beyond ambient temperature will generate heat of its own, which is nearly what you said.