Don't forget that there was a complete hoax name for Jedi. I can't remember what it was, but I recall that there were hats and jackets made to fool the press...
And so this will inform the appeal. It is particularly onerous to permit or deny speech (using prior restraint, may I add) based on the ideology of the originators.
30% PRI members
30% PAN or PRD members
40% undecided; these split 80-20 for the PRI due to free washing machines, televisions, and other gifts provided by the local PRI boss.
This year, the Mexican public voted No to this arrangement and elected the opposition leader, Vicente Fox.
Money != passion. Money == pre-existing power and influence. Allow vote auctions and you entrench those in power, particularly because they typically have more $ to give out, mainly because they've extorted it from their corporate supporters, just like the parties do now.
This licensing infighting is really, really confusing to those who just want a damn browser already. It's exactly the kind of thing that the proprietary vendors want, as it makes open source look sketchy. A strong leader can and should paper it over, focusing public attention on the benefits of the software, instead of all the internal battles. Until then, I'm still using Netscape, and it's still crashing.
I was on an American Airlines flight from L.A. last week, really oversold,
not a single free seat -- they were paying people to get off. Long story short,
it's one mechanical problem after another and we're sitting on the ground for
hours. One guy sitting a few rows ahead keeps turning around and eyeballing
me. He waves and says, "Hey, aren't you Napster's lawyer?" I tell him I am
and he announces, "Napster's lawyer is on the plane!" Everyone in coach
cheers. Right then I knew the record industry was in trouble.
I studied Japanese for years and am just learning Perl - I quite enjoyed your example. Actually, the use of particles (ni, de, wo, wa, he, etc.) makes Japanese substantially MORE specific in certain ways, because they specify the part of speech exactly.
For those not conversant in Japanese, the particles mean:
X ni - to or into X (or indirect object)
X wo - X is direct object
X wa - X is subject or topic
X ga - X is subject
X he - to X (direction, e.g. for sending)
X de - using X
So, you could come up with a programming language that said:
"Konnichi wa" wo [mail-program] de [mailing-list] he [SPAM] suru; # Spam "Hello" to the mailing list using the mail program
An addition: While I like much of Joe Lieberman's record, he has a dismal record on free speech, joining with Bill Bennett and others in trashing pop culture and advocating censorship. Given the absolutely pathetic record of the Clinton administration on the First Amendment and related issues (DMCA, COPA, crypto regulations, V-Chip, and so on) I fear that Gore/Lieberman may be bad news in that regard.
The only GOOD news about Joe L. is that he's in favor of allowing gays to serve openly in the military, which is a fairly pro-freedom thing to do.
Nader has a good record on the First Amendment but his opposition to free trade makes him totally unacceptable in my book.
Bush/Cheney are trying to look nice but may themselves be just as bad, with their record on other civil liberties such as gay rights, and I would doubt seriously that they would go to the mat for the First Amendment. And the justices they'd nominate for the Supreme Court would be likely to permit speech regulation (in the tradition of Byron White) - yuck.
So the choice is a pretty bad one, all things considered. Where's Jesse Ventura when you need him?
If you're a Member at Large of ICANN (I signed up), you should demand that at-large nominees for the ICANN board of directors support fair arbitration for domain name disputes. Someone who knows Lawrence Lessig and the rest of them should ask them what their positions are on this key issue.
Given the circumstances, I would think that re-arbitration is the best route at this time for the little guy under fire. But wouldn't refusal to participate in the first arbitration be grounds for the second arbitrator to vote for the plaintiff?
I too was amused by the headline. OK, it's less than objective. But the fun of/. is that it's got a point of view, and a sense of humor, in addition to being useful and informative.
Not only are the numbers snake oil, they're just not big enough to impress me - and I suspect the PHBs are the same way. "5% productivity improvement??!? I won't buy anything unless it's REVOLUTIONARY! Where's my 100% improvement?"
it is illegal to reproduce copyrighted works without the holder's permission.
Right, and if (for example) a frame from the Star Wars DVD ended up on a T-shirt, that would be copyright infringement. But DeCSS is available under the GPL, as I recall, so there is NO copyright infringement here, at least of the traditional kind.
I'll put mine on too. As I recall there was a protest at the trial with a (large?) number of people wearing the shirt, and they didn't get carted away to the slammer...
This is no longer the case, as the feds have lifted their export controls, but it used to be. You could buy books of PGP binary code in OCR text with convenient checksums at the bottom of each page (the better to scan it in) and then convert 'em back to data on the other end. This was used to create a version available for free in the Netherlands, among other things.
It's a complete hassle to transfer to different devices/computers/etc since it's so fair-use unfriendly.
Forget fair use unfriendly - this shit is just USE unfriendly, fair or foul.
Anything that makes you think about your "rights" to use something before you use it is just something that gets in the way of the music, and will (I think) cause SDMI to be burnt, black toast before the year is out. The Music Clip from Sony (one early, though proprietary, example) was widely panned because it is so damn difficult to use. I don't see how any other SDMI hardware / software will be any different.
Think of it this way: do you want YOUR music experience to be like a website you have to log into every day??
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Well, it's true that they're not particularly stylish, so the fashion police would have a case...
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30% PRI members
30% PAN or PRD members
40% undecided; these split 80-20 for the PRI due to free washing machines, televisions, and other gifts provided by the local PRI boss.
This year, the Mexican public voted No to this arrangement and elected the opposition leader, Vicente Fox.
Money != passion. Money == pre-existing power and influence. Allow vote auctions and you entrench those in power, particularly because they typically have more $ to give out, mainly because they've extorted it from their corporate supporters, just like the parties do now.
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This is good news, though. I think.
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20M Napster fans can't be wrong!
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http://www.wired.com/news/p olitics/0,1283,38207,00.html
Interesting record: supporting surveillance, data collection, and Clipper, but also cracking down on federal websites that abuse privacy.
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For those not conversant in Japanese, the particles mean:
X ni - to or into X (or indirect object)
X wo - X is direct object
X wa - X is subject or topic
X ga - X is subject
X he - to X (direction, e.g. for sending)
X de - using X
So, you could come up with a programming language that said:
"Konnichi wa" wo [mail-program] de [mailing-list] he [SPAM] suru; # Spam "Hello" to the mailing list using the mail program
Might be an interesting experiment.
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Interesting commentary.
An addition: While I like much of Joe Lieberman's record, he has a dismal record on free speech, joining with Bill Bennett and others in trashing pop culture and advocating censorship. Given the absolutely pathetic record of the Clinton administration on the First Amendment and related issues (DMCA, COPA, crypto regulations, V-Chip, and so on) I fear that Gore/Lieberman may be bad news in that regard.
The only GOOD news about Joe L. is that he's in favor of allowing gays to serve openly in the military, which is a fairly pro-freedom thing to do.
Nader has a good record on the First Amendment but his opposition to free trade makes him totally unacceptable in my book.
Bush/Cheney are trying to look nice but may themselves be just as bad, with their record on other civil liberties such as gay rights, and I would doubt seriously that they would go to the mat for the First Amendment. And the justices they'd nominate for the Supreme Court would be likely to permit speech regulation (in the tradition of Byron White) - yuck.
So the choice is a pretty bad one, all things considered. Where's Jesse Ventura when you need him?
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Indeed. Getting slashdotted is exactly what he wants. abcnews.com is not measuring the negative feedback on /., just pageviews. Next!
In other words, lighten up.
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Perhaps this is why W2K isn't selling so well?
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Right, and if (for example) a frame from the Star Wars DVD ended up on a T-shirt, that would be copyright infringement. But DeCSS is available under the GPL, as I recall, so there is NO copyright infringement here, at least of the traditional kind.
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The watermark keeps whispering "buy quality, buy riaa, buy quality, buy riaa" in the background.
Forget fair use unfriendly - this shit is just USE unfriendly, fair or foul.
Anything that makes you think about your "rights" to use something before you use it is just something that gets in the way of the music, and will (I think) cause SDMI to be burnt, black toast before the year is out. The Music Clip from Sony (one early, though proprietary, example) was widely panned because it is so damn difficult to use. I don't see how any other SDMI hardware / software will be any different.
Think of it this way: do you want YOUR music experience to be like a website you have to log into every day??
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is the kind of emails you'll get at your usps address once the spammers buy the database.