It would not have been illegal. Up until just a few years ago, distributing copyrighted materials without expecting any compensation was not a crime (or at least, not a punishable crime). They (the US gov't) had to recently explicitly add to the codes covering this (sorry, IANAL, do not remember more detail) to prevent giving away copyrighted materials.
This kind of reminds me about old BBS games. Can't recall the name off hand, but if you were attacking players on the local board, things were pretty much instantaneous, except that things took place over days instead of minutes, so that you had more time to think and plan.
Attacks against other BBSes involved waiting a long time.. you'd all spend days pooling proper armies (ie. tanks are stronger against X, etc) and then send the attack.. and it would take days before you'd even hear word of how it went.
Since this thread has been dedicated to it, and you bring it up, could we patent n-click (where n>1) purchasing? Thus we kill all the competition in one stone. Hell, Amazon should do it. They patented 1-click, they patented n-click, thus they own all clicks:)
I know, I know, the jokes are getting old (hence this thread)...
We can argue, of course, about how well the US lives up to that high standard, but it is the standard
I think you two are arguing the same point. _Ideally_ foreigners are treated the same way. However, this is not always the case (mainly because the public doesn't give a shit). It's much like _Ideally_ the Constitution guarantees Freedom of Speech. In practice, the DMCA forbids it. Parallels? I think so.
Of course, if someone has a gun to your head, you're gonna tell them your PIN. And assuming they can remember 4 digits, then you're still just as fucked if it was cash.
With Sun's creation of the KVM and MIDP, would it be possible to spread a virus to all the supported platforms? I suppose the virus still needs an 'in' though.. so it may not be possible.
Make sure to prominantly display complex looking regular expressions, even if they actually do nothing more than find out where that damn porn file you downloaded yesterday went to.
There is probably not a single non-techie in the world that understands regular expressions. Hell I'm willing to bet not a lot of techies do either.
My school is doing this.
In all the residence packages they sent to 1st year students, they included a pamphlet to become a resident geek (although they had a more technical name). Basically, they expect you to know shit already, give you a quick training on the network, then pay you a pittance (but hey, money==beer) to fix up computers during the first couple weeks.
I'd do it, but I'd rather spend the time drinking beer than making beer money. That's what credit's for, eh?
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Yeah I realized that at least each node has to internally decode each request, and so it's probably possible to pull that info out.
I didn't realize there were key servers... could an anti-freenet body use that info to inject false info into the network?
Ie. RIAA notes the key "break/sdmi" (not sure of the syntax of a key...), so inserts many many jpegs from goats.cx with that key? The caching nature of the network would help spread the false key, making it harder to find the original?
I suppose a workaround would be for people with the original to just append _original to the file until that gets noticed, then prepend actual_ and so on...
I think it's interesting the profusion of send beer comments. Hell, if I got a 24 in the mail, I'd be estatic. I'd subscribe. Hey.. now that's a.com idea. b-e-e-r.com delivers to your door every friday at 6 promptly. Never be without beer at that party again. (copyright me, 2001).
What causes this infatuation? From what I've seen IRL, it's common in engineering students, so is it just that a lot of free (speech) software programmers were/are engineering students?
OTOH, we see that not all of the/. posters, nor even a majority of them, write about beer. So is it just a vocal minority? Beer can make people vocal?
I think it would make a good poll for the front page: Beer:
1- I am I am I am I am I am an engineer.. I can I can... demolish 40 beers!
2- Beer is a toxin. I would never knowinly pollute my body. Beer is the Windows of nutrition.
3- I can't drink, I'm too stoned to open the bottle.
4- Helping the ugly get laid...
5- Helping CowboyNeal get laid...
I think you're both right.
I wrote a single user appointment tracking program. I did it in Java, using JDBC. I gave not two shits about the underlying architecture, and just used basic, simple SQL. Thus, it made no difference which back-end I used.
OTOH the company I currently work for does commercial databasing, and in such a case it does make a difference. When you go from being in total control of the state of the database to having no idea what's happening, a huge change takes place.
Now, for me to have implemented full scale EVERYTHING in the JDBC app would have been a waste of my time.
I've seen the results of databases full of links to air, and it's ugly, so, like the saying goes, the right tool for the job.
Either that, or when all the nerds (it is/.) saw your post, a light bulb went on over their heads.
Imagine Dwayne, and imaginary nerd. He sees you post, and thinks, "this dude sounds like an expert." He calls Mr. Smiley on the phone, and 30 minutes later, has his first baggie of weed delivered to his door.
So, he gets the delivery boy to roll it, and ten minutes later they're both high as a kite. Next thing he knows, he feels loose and relaxed. And Hungry! So he walks over to the 7-11 for some munchies, and runs across a hot hot girl. Relaxed by the weed, he actually..... talks to her! Next thing he knows, he's got a girlfriend, he's finally had -sex- and he's experienced the joys of Ms. Jane.
Of course it's +1 informative:)
Re:Freenet - dodging the issue
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(A small number of people are already using Freenet. Most of them are pornography fans, but a few, according to Clarke, are Chinese dissidents who employ Freenet to escape official scrutiny.)
You paraphase "only Pornographers are using it" from the article, but think about it for a second. Everything on freenet is encrypted (if I understand correctly). Even the operators of nodes have NO IDEA what's being stored on their node. I would hope that the most info the average person could glean about freenet traffic would be the amount of data flowing through the pipes, and not the content. It kind of defeats the point if everyone knows the content of the network, eh?
So how does the author know how much porn is on Freenet? How could he possibly have any idea? There is no central DB. The same hash could give you two different items on different days! Although it seems likely to me that he's right, there is no way for him to back up his claim (that I know of... anyone with more info...?).
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Have you ever read the GPL?
It specifically disclaims any and all liabilities and warranties.
If the Microsoft EULA disclaiming responsibility is invalid, isn't the GPLs? If you argue that GPLed software is free, so consumer protection laws don't apply, then what if you paid Red Hat $15 for their distribution?
Regardless of whether you paid them for the packaging or the 1-800 support number, you bought something from 'em, so shouldn't they be liable if your linux box ruins your MySQL database?
Re:Oh please, did you see Urban Legend II?
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Wasn't part of Urban Legend 1 filmed at U of Toronto?
That big auditorium was, I seem to recall a tourguide at UT telling me that.
Teachers no longer have any authority or power over the students. If a teacher tells a student off, the students parents bitch to the principals. If a teacher boots a student, the parents bitch to the principals. The teacher can't physically go within like 5 feet of the student without getting in trouble.
Since they no longer have any mental or physical power over the students, they have no choice but to use legal power.
The alternatives to granting laws giving teachers protection are:
a) Making teachers immune to parents
b) Making parents stop using teachers as babysitters, then complaining when teachers try to teach their kids "you don't have the right to tell my kid that stealing is bad"
c) Letting teachers beat the kids again
Out of curiousity, where do you rank Canada in your comparison? On the one hand, we have to kiss some ass to the USA below us... but we have (had in Alberta) good access to healthcare, school, etc.
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It would not have been illegal. Up until just a few years ago, distributing copyrighted materials without expecting any compensation was not a crime (or at least, not a punishable crime). They (the US gov't) had to recently explicitly add to the codes covering this (sorry, IANAL, do not remember more detail) to prevent giving away copyrighted materials.
This kind of reminds me about old BBS games. Can't recall the name off hand, but if you were attacking players on the local board, things were pretty much instantaneous, except that things took place over days instead of minutes, so that you had more time to think and plan.
Attacks against other BBSes involved waiting a long time.. you'd all spend days pooling proper armies (ie. tanks are stronger against X, etc) and then send the attack.. and it would take days before you'd even hear word of how it went.
It was lots of fun.
Thing is though, why is a corporation now a 'he'? A corporation is not a person, and is not awarded any such rights.
Since this thread has been dedicated to it, and you bring it up, could we patent n-click (where n>1) purchasing? Thus we kill all the competition in one stone. Hell, Amazon should do it. They patented 1-click, they patented n-click, thus they own all clicks :)
I know, I know, the jokes are getting old (hence this thread)...
I always took his comment to be an offhand inside joke (ie. inside to the trek community), not some sort of statement about the Trek universe.
I think you two are arguing the same point. _Ideally_ foreigners are treated the same way. However, this is not always the case (mainly because the public doesn't give a shit). It's much like _Ideally_ the Constitution guarantees Freedom of Speech. In practice, the DMCA forbids it. Parallels? I think so.
Well, suppose you break into some dude's house 5 times. He's gonna charge you with 5 counts of B&E. How that affects sentencing, I'm not sure.
Of course, if someone has a gun to your head, you're gonna tell them your PIN. And assuming they can remember 4 digits, then you're still just as fucked if it was cash.
With Sun's creation of the KVM and MIDP, would it be possible to spread a virus to all the supported platforms? I suppose the virus still needs an 'in' though.. so it may not be possible.
Right. Grade 1's would all really benefit from a guest lecture detailing routing algorithms and quantum effects on chip design.
Make sure to prominantly display complex looking regular expressions, even if they actually do nothing more than find out where that damn porn file you downloaded yesterday went to.
There is probably not a single non-techie in the world that understands regular expressions. Hell I'm willing to bet not a lot of techies do either.
My school is doing this.
In all the residence packages they sent to 1st year students, they included a pamphlet to become a resident geek (although they had a more technical name). Basically, they expect you to know shit already, give you a quick training on the network, then pay you a pittance (but hey, money==beer) to fix up computers during the first couple weeks.
I'd do it, but I'd rather spend the time drinking beer than making beer money. That's what credit's for, eh?
Yeah I realized that at least each node has to internally decode each request, and so it's probably possible to pull that info out.
...
I didn't realize there were key servers... could an anti-freenet body use that info to inject false info into the network?
Ie. RIAA notes the key "break/sdmi" (not sure of the syntax of a key...), so inserts many many jpegs from goats.cx with that key? The caching nature of the network would help spread the false key, making it harder to find the original?
I suppose a workaround would be for people with the original to just append _original to the file until that gets noticed, then prepend actual_ and so on
I think it's interesting the profusion of send beer comments. Hell, if I got a 24 in the mail, I'd be estatic. I'd subscribe. Hey.. now that's a .com idea. b-e-e-r.com delivers to your door every friday at 6 promptly. Never be without beer at that party again. (copyright me, 2001).
/. posters, nor even a majority of them, write about beer. So is it just a vocal minority? Beer can make people vocal?
What causes this infatuation? From what I've seen IRL, it's common in engineering students, so is it just that a lot of free (speech) software programmers were/are engineering students?
OTOH, we see that not all of the
I think it would make a good poll for the front page: Beer:
1- I am I am I am I am I am an engineer.. I can I can... demolish 40 beers!
2- Beer is a toxin. I would never knowinly pollute my body. Beer is the Windows of nutrition.
3- I can't drink, I'm too stoned to open the bottle.
4- Helping the ugly get laid...
5- Helping CowboyNeal get laid...
I think you're both right.
I wrote a single user appointment tracking program. I did it in Java, using JDBC. I gave not two shits about the underlying architecture, and just used basic, simple SQL. Thus, it made no difference which back-end I used.
OTOH the company I currently work for does commercial databasing, and in such a case it does make a difference. When you go from being in total control of the state of the database to having no idea what's happening, a huge change takes place.
Now, for me to have implemented full scale EVERYTHING in the JDBC app would have been a waste of my time.
I've seen the results of databases full of links to air, and it's ugly, so, like the saying goes, the right tool for the job.
Either that, or when all the nerds (it is /.) saw your post, a light bulb went on over their heads.
:)
Imagine Dwayne, and imaginary nerd. He sees you post, and thinks, "this dude sounds like an expert." He calls Mr. Smiley on the phone, and 30 minutes later, has his first baggie of weed delivered to his door.
So, he gets the delivery boy to roll it, and ten minutes later they're both high as a kite. Next thing he knows, he feels loose and relaxed. And Hungry! So he walks over to the 7-11 for some munchies, and runs across a hot hot girl. Relaxed by the weed, he actually..... talks to her! Next thing he knows, he's got a girlfriend, he's finally had -sex- and he's experienced the joys of Ms. Jane.
Of course it's +1 informative
You paraphase "only Pornographers are using it" from the article, but think about it for a second. Everything on freenet is encrypted (if I understand correctly). Even the operators of nodes have NO IDEA what's being stored on their node. I would hope that the most info the average person could glean about freenet traffic would be the amount of data flowing through the pipes, and not the content. It kind of defeats the point if everyone knows the content of the network, eh?
So how does the author know how much porn is on Freenet? How could he possibly have any idea? There is no central DB. The same hash could give you two different items on different days! Although it seems likely to me that he's right, there is no way for him to back up his claim (that I know of... anyone with more info...?).
Have you ever read the GPL?
It specifically disclaims any and all liabilities and warranties.
If the Microsoft EULA disclaiming responsibility is invalid, isn't the GPLs? If you argue that GPLed software is free, so consumer protection laws don't apply, then what if you paid Red Hat $15 for their distribution?
Regardless of whether you paid them for the packaging or the 1-800 support number, you bought something from 'em, so shouldn't they be liable if your linux box ruins your MySQL database?
Wasn't part of Urban Legend 1 filmed at U of Toronto?
That big auditorium was, I seem to recall a tourguide at UT telling me that.
Yeah it's a stupid law. It'd be like passing a law that says we could go to jail for looking at /. while at work :)
So it looks like we agree. Teachers have a shitty deal. This law is stupid. Possibly they could use legislation for the good, but this ain't it.
Seeing as I just finished high school this year, tax isn't something I'm an expert in.
But in Ontario (Canada?) the basic deductable is like 8k. So with 3k over that you payed all 3 of it?
Ugh.
(If tax doesn't work like that, then i'm very confused, and would appreciate any corrections)
hey, that's some good math on my part :)
half a million = 5 million... oops
Well, look at it this way.
Teachers no longer have any authority or power over the students. If a teacher tells a student off, the students parents bitch to the principals. If a teacher boots a student, the parents bitch to the principals. The teacher can't physically go within like 5 feet of the student without getting in trouble.
Since they no longer have any mental or physical power over the students, they have no choice but to use legal power.
The alternatives to granting laws giving teachers protection are:
a) Making teachers immune to parents
b) Making parents stop using teachers as babysitters, then complaining when teachers try to teach their kids "you don't have the right to tell my kid that stealing is bad"
c) Letting teachers beat the kids again
Take your pick.
Out of curiousity, where do you rank Canada in your comparison? On the one hand, we have to kiss some ass to the USA below us... but we have (had in Alberta) good access to healthcare, school, etc.
50% of $1,000,000 leaves you with $5,000,000
i don't know what welfare pays, lets say $200 a week... that's $10,000 a year.
With $10,000, you could just get by.
With half a million, you'd be a rich bastard.
I'd pick the half a mil, i've always wanted a Corvette.