"If you do not occupy or otherwise improve your claimed property, you shall be considered derelect and in abandoment of said property and all entitlements therein"...or similar wording on the US lawbooks for over 100 years now.
Why would property located outside of the United States' jurisdiction be subject to US property laws?
I wouldn't be surprised in this atmosphere of fear and uncertainty for the USA to proclaim software is 'too important to be left to amateurs' and make the GPL illegal. Or you'd need a licence to write code or SOMETHING.
Fortunately for all of us, there's the First Amendment. You can no more easily or lawfully regulate who can write code than regulate who can write a novel, or who can paint a picture.
No, it infers that with open source anyone who wants to CAN look at it.
No, it infers that with open source, anyone who wants to can look at SOME source code, which may or may not be the same as the code running on the actual voting machines.
No, and by that I mean zero, laptops need a DVD-R.
I'm a film editor and the studio has just told be to be in their office in LA tomorrow morning with a rough cut of the project.
Do you buy a cellphone for a camera?
Maybe you don't, and maybe I don't, but there are a lot of people out there staring at the phone displays going "Hmm... phone without a camera, or phone with a camera for $50 more... which is a better deal?" And they're choosing the camera phone.
You're making the mistake of assuming other people's needs are the same as yours. You think having a DVD-R drive in a laptop is dumb? Then uy a laptop that doesn't have a DVD-R. Why would you want to restrict the options presented to the rest of us?
No one is buying a phone for its camera. They buy a camera for that. Power saved.
Power usage of cell phone + power usage of digital camera > Power usage of camera phone.
I mean look at the Game Boy.
Yes, let's. The reason they've been able to increase battery life with each hardware revision is because they've stripped out extraneous features, right? The LCDs are darker and display fewer colors, the processor is less powerful... No, wait. Actually the opposite happened. There must be some other factor involved.
fbi shills kept marking my message to -1 to silence this post
Your bizarre, unsubstantiated, unsubstantiable anti-governmental conspiracy theory would be entirely unremarkable, except for this new Slashdot-related twist on the old "I'm being silenced for telling THE TRUTH" bit. I gotta give you credit, you're taking kookery to whole new places.
'In March 2001 a team comprised of Auto-ID Center sponsors (technology & end users) was assembled to plan and implement a Field Test aimed at taking the Auto-ID EPC technology from the laboratory to the real world environment with the objective of proving the power and effectiveness of the EPC and to blaze a trail for future adoption'
Well gee, it sounds like they decided what the outcome of the test needed to be before they even began. How convenient!
I'm betting the numbers are so heavily fudged that they can be used as a hot ice cream topping.
I'm not sure I understand the comment on it not being smart to put XFS/JFS/ReiserFS/Ext3 on a firewire drive... can somebody explain why that's not smart?
Because Win98 won't be able to recognize the partition, silly.
This article is not written for people who want a serious, reliable storage server. It's for home users who want to say "dude I've got a terabyte of storage on my network!"
I guess I'm just an alarmist, but when you need to call someone, a land line is significantly more reliable than a cable phone or cell phone.
Assuming you're in your home when this urgent need to call someone arises.
Here in the NYC metro area, the only time I've been unable to get a cell phone call through (this was 9/11), all the landline circuits were overloaded too. I eventually managed to catch a friend in the outer suburbs on AIM, and had him call my mother and let her know I was alright.
Right now, when you say "Linux" to a layperson, they don't know what the fuck you're talking about. A Live CD is a painless way for them to find out.
I still don't think the average user has any incentive to try Linux out. They don't feel the costs of Windows licensing because it came with their computer. They've been conditioned to expect the occasional email virus or system crash; to them it comes with the territory when using a computer.
Linux needs a killer app for the desktop market. Work-alikes for popular office suites and web browsers are great, but they're never going to spark a revolution.
In my profession (medicine), knowledge is completely unlicensed
So I can start up a pharmaceutical plant that produces the latest prescription drugs, and Pfizer and Bristol-Meyers Squibb won't be able to lay a finger on me?
I don't know who gave you your legal advice, but I'd suggest getting a second opinion, or at least having someone re-explain things to you. If there's one thing a work NEVER is while protected by copyright, it's "public domain".
The strange thing here for me is why Microsoft would do this from a business perspective.
In short? Because everyone else -- from Proxomitron to Mozilla to Google Toolbar -- is doing it. The innovators in Redmond are being forced to play catch-up with the market to give customers what they do or will come to expect.
Now, I don't know that much about Word macros, but I'm assuming that most of the ones that would mess up a Windows box are different from those that would mess up an OS X box.
You're missing half of the point.
You want your OS X virus scanner to identify those Windows-based Word macro viruses, even if they can't affect your Apple, so that they cannot affect other, Windows-based machines, when you pass that document along to someone else.
Without that virus check, you may not be susceptible to Word macro viruses, but you could still be communicable.
BTW, why don't they just move their asses to the voting booth ?
I don't know about you, but if you're like most Americans you don't get Election Day off from work, and your workplace is a good 30-45 minutes away from the district where you live and am registered to vote. Going to a polling place is physically inconvenient.
For example, you have to seriously consider a candidate's program before voting
That's a suggestion, not a requirement. You don't think large blocs of voters always vote a straight party line regardless of individual candidate's positions?
large banks of people sit at phones all day voting by using these bought PINs.
This would be a great way to get busted for election fraud. How long do you think it would take for the elections committee to notice that the phone number for voting is being deluged by hundreds or thousands of voters who all happen to be calling from the same handful of extensions, on the same exchange, in the business center across town?
Besides, I don't see how "I'll sell you my PIN number for $50" would be any more common than "I'll go to the polling place and vote for whomever you want for $50".
No matter what you think of iron, this is tremendous publicity for new toolmaking practices in general. If the public gets a taste for it, this could be the beginning of the end for bronze.
Not just CD-R's, either. With portable music player capacities exceeding 40GB these days, why not just store all your music files on your iPod exclusively?
Can anyone say that its not possible that this is *already* happening in the OSS world today?
I don't think anyone can say with 100% certainty. In fact, if we're considering all Open Source Software projects across the board, from Linux and Apache all the way down to the crappiest little utility on Sourceforge, it's almost 100% certain that at least ONE project does contain an exploit of some kind.
However, the nature of OSS makes it a HELLOFA lot easier to investigate whether an exploit exists. If you put backdoor in closed source software, you may never get caught, but try to do the same with OSS and you eventually probably will.
what happens if i'm using this software, and slashdot has a separate server dedicated to serving up all their images? then all the beautiful slashdot artwork goes away.
In the case of Slashdot's glowing purple Games section, this would be a Good Thing.
Slashdot Mirror
"If you do not occupy or otherwise improve your claimed property, you shall be considered derelect and in abandoment of said property and all entitlements therein" ...or similar wording on the US lawbooks for over 100 years now.
Why would property located outside of the United States' jurisdiction be subject to US property laws?
I wouldn't be surprised in this atmosphere of fear and uncertainty for the USA to proclaim software is 'too important to be left to amateurs' and make the GPL illegal. Or you'd need a licence to write code or SOMETHING.
Fortunately for all of us, there's the First Amendment. You can no more easily or lawfully regulate who can write code than regulate who can write a novel, or who can paint a picture.
No, it infers that with open source anyone who wants to CAN look at it.
No, it infers that with open source, anyone who wants to can look at SOME source code, which may or may not be the same as the code running on the actual voting machines.
No, and by that I mean zero, laptops need a DVD-R.
I'm a film editor and the studio has just told be to be in their office in LA tomorrow morning with a rough cut of the project.
Do you buy a cellphone for a camera?
Maybe you don't, and maybe I don't, but there are a lot of people out there staring at the phone displays going "Hmm... phone without a camera, or phone with a camera for $50 more... which is a better deal?" And they're choosing the camera phone.
You're making the mistake of assuming other people's needs are the same as yours. You think having a DVD-R drive in a laptop is dumb? Then uy a laptop that doesn't have a DVD-R. Why would you want to restrict the options presented to the rest of us?
No one is buying a phone for its camera. They buy a camera for that. Power saved.
Power usage of cell phone + power usage of digital camera > Power usage of camera phone.
I mean look at the Game Boy.
Yes, let's. The reason they've been able to increase battery life with each hardware revision is because they've stripped out extraneous features, right? The LCDs are darker and display fewer colors, the processor is less powerful... No, wait. Actually the opposite happened. There must be some other factor involved.
fbi shills kept marking my message to -1 to silence this post
Your bizarre, unsubstantiated, unsubstantiable anti-governmental conspiracy theory would be entirely unremarkable, except for this new Slashdot-related twist on the old "I'm being silenced for telling THE TRUTH" bit. I gotta give you credit, you're taking kookery to whole new places.
as soon as one of them waddles into their store, ones favorite happy meal will be ready for you by the time you get to the counter!!!
Judging by the level of service currently seen at "fast" food establishments, this seems doubtful...
'In March 2001 a team comprised of Auto-ID Center sponsors (technology & end users) was assembled to plan and implement a Field Test aimed at taking the Auto-ID EPC technology from the laboratory to the real world environment with the objective of proving the power and effectiveness of the EPC and to blaze a trail for future adoption'
Well gee, it sounds like they decided what the outcome of the test needed to be before they even began. How convenient!
I'm betting the numbers are so heavily fudged that they can be used as a hot ice cream topping.
I'm not sure I understand the comment on it not being smart to put XFS/JFS/ReiserFS/Ext3 on a firewire drive... can somebody explain why that's not smart?
Because Win98 won't be able to recognize the partition, silly.
This article is not written for people who want a serious, reliable storage server. It's for home users who want to say "dude I've got a terabyte of storage on my network!"
I guess I'm just an alarmist, but when you need to call someone, a land line is significantly more reliable than a cable phone or cell phone.
Assuming you're in your home when this urgent need to call someone arises.
Here in the NYC metro area, the only time I've been unable to get a cell phone call through (this was 9/11), all the landline circuits were overloaded too. I eventually managed to catch a friend in the outer suburbs on AIM, and had him call my mother and let her know I was alright.
"Why does nobody get this" you ask?
It's probably just because we're not super-smart like you.
Right now, when you say "Linux" to a layperson, they don't know what the fuck you're talking about. A Live CD is a painless way for them to find out.
I still don't think the average user has any incentive to try Linux out. They don't feel the costs of Windows licensing because it came with their computer. They've been conditioned to expect the occasional email virus or system crash; to them it comes with the territory when using a computer.
Linux needs a killer app for the desktop market. Work-alikes for popular office suites and web browsers are great, but they're never going to spark a revolution.
teach them some basic computing principles, including conducting research on the internet.
Surely that's not a computing principle?
In my profession (medicine), knowledge is completely unlicensed
So I can start up a pharmaceutical plant that produces the latest prescription drugs, and Pfizer and Bristol-Meyers Squibb won't be able to lay a finger on me?
copying copyrighted news. It's public domain.
Um... wrong? By definition?
I don't know who gave you your legal advice, but I'd suggest getting a second opinion, or at least having someone re-explain things to you. If there's one thing a work NEVER is while protected by copyright, it's "public domain".
The strange thing here for me is why Microsoft would do this from a business perspective.
In short? Because everyone else -- from Proxomitron to Mozilla to Google Toolbar -- is doing it. The innovators in Redmond are being forced to play catch-up with the market to give customers what they do or will come to expect.
Now, I don't know that much about Word macros, but I'm assuming that most of the ones that would mess up a Windows box are different from those that would mess up an OS X box.
You're missing half of the point.
You want your OS X virus scanner to identify those Windows-based Word macro viruses, even if they can't affect your Apple, so that they cannot affect other, Windows-based machines, when you pass that document along to someone else.
Without that virus check, you may not be susceptible to Word macro viruses, but you could still be communicable.
Prescott-Russell is a backwater. Half the places there are still on dialup, for starters.
Oh my god! What SAVAGES!
BTW, why don't they just move their asses to the voting booth ?
I don't know about you, but if you're like most Americans you don't get Election Day off from work, and your workplace is a good 30-45 minutes away from the district where you live and am registered to vote. Going to a polling place is physically inconvenient.
For example, you have to seriously consider a candidate's program before voting
That's a suggestion, not a requirement. You don't think large blocs of voters always vote a straight party line regardless of individual candidate's positions?
large banks of people sit at phones all day voting by using these bought PINs.
This would be a great way to get busted for election fraud. How long do you think it would take for the elections committee to notice that the phone number for voting is being deluged by hundreds or thousands of voters who all happen to be calling from the same handful of extensions, on the same exchange, in the business center across town?
Besides, I don't see how "I'll sell you my PIN number for $50" would be any more common than "I'll go to the polling place and vote for whomever you want for $50".
Seen on Slashdot, circa 750 BC:
No matter what you think of iron, this is tremendous publicity for new toolmaking practices in general. If the public gets a taste for it, this could be the beginning of the end for bronze.
Not just CD-R's, either. With portable music player capacities exceeding 40GB these days, why not just store all your music files on your iPod exclusively?
I'm betting the ones running the Democrat candidate websites have to worry about where they spend money.
Ah yes, the old "Democrats = working class, GOP = rich people" myth.
The only proper rebuttal to this would be the "Democrats love to spend as much money as they can, GOP spends as little as possible" myth, I suppose.
Is it really that hard to assign one person the task of being responsible for domain renewals?
Problem is, the renewal notices are being sent to a Hotmail account, and the mailbox overflows with junk before anyone at Microsoft can get to it...
Can anyone say that its not possible that this is *already* happening in the OSS world today?
I don't think anyone can say with 100% certainty. In fact, if we're considering all Open Source Software projects across the board, from Linux and Apache all the way down to the crappiest little utility on Sourceforge, it's almost 100% certain that at least ONE project does contain an exploit of some kind.
However, the nature of OSS makes it a HELLOFA lot easier to investigate whether an exploit exists. If you put backdoor in closed source software, you may never get caught, but try to do the same with OSS and you eventually probably will.
what happens if i'm using this software, and slashdot has a separate server dedicated to serving up all their images? then all the beautiful slashdot artwork goes away.
In the case of Slashdot's glowing purple Games section, this would be a Good Thing.