Well, Apple has done it three times: with System 7, Power Macintosh, and now OS X. In the old days this was a pretty major pain in the butt (of course Mac fans took it all, like abused lovers) but these days the sw vendors are being nice and shipping both binaries (OS X and Classic) together. So, while undesirable, isn't the end of the world.
I doubt they'd actually want to, though, because high userid numbers make the place look more popular than it is. ("Look Ma, half a million accounts!")
No, I put one in my bedroom window as a show of solidarity with the victims, and in support of the war effort (which I do support). But with this assault on liberty I now question whether it should stay up.
Incorrect. The Senate trashed civil liberties today. I am appalled at their decision to do so. This moment is not one that makes me proud to be an American - not sure if the flag comes down today.
Okay, this may not be entirely relevant for national politics, but I have quite a bit of experience in local politics (San Francisco, where I am the co-author of a successful City charter amendment) so I can share some insight here.
Woody Allen said it: "Seventy percent of success in life is showing up." In this case, more than 70%. Lobbying your representative in person makes much more of a difference than letters or calls to an assistant, who is invariably working his/her butt off to make sure said pol can make the 100s of public events per week. Our organization, along with several others with whom we allied for this purpose, was quite successful using this method (as well as an initiative campaign) to get our measure before the voters.
But, you may ask: "why would he/she listen to me?" If you're on your own, you're right, you may not get much in the way of face time (though you can usually talk to a policy aide). But if you have a few hundred members of your organization, you will get some attention, particularly if you can get some press too. Show that you have a significant number of people who vote with you, and the doors may open a bit more for you.
Relevant to the anti-liberty legislation: it's surely a greased pig that can't be stopped, but there are some lessons for grassroots organizing here. Does the EFF have local chapters? Can one be set up in each city or congressional district? Use this as a means of organizing people like you to write letters in concert, or show up to an office en masse, or hold a protest. The Free-Dmitry protests, while they haven't gotten the US Attorney to back down, were successful in getting Adobe to back down very quickly, and can be extended to future terrorism legislation, or (more importantly) abominations like the SSSCA.
Yes, money talks. But so also does grassroots organizing. If we don't have as much of the former as our opponents (MPAA et al., or Ashcroft) we can make up for it with the latter.
That seems like a really good one. But I'd really like the reverse: a bigass HD and MP3 server that's accessible via ethernet from my laptop. (I don't have desktops or servers at home - they take up way too much space.) I don't care so much about fan noise.
Still I might get this just 'cause its so damn cool.
Poll taxes and literacy tests as qualifications for voting ostensibly "applied to everyone" - but they were in practice very inconsistently applied, and they certainly discriminated against the poor as well as racial minorities. So they were banned in sixties, and good riddance.
We don't have to accept that. That's my point. There is a choice: defend fair use, keep using stuff that allows it (Red Book compatible CDs), and keep developing and releasing under GPL tools like DeCSS, damn the consequences.
It would royally, massively suck. Which is why we need to fight it now with everything we've got. Start by not buying anything using it - DIVX failed in the market, evil DRM can too.
You know, this all looks to me like a pretty clear violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, which prohibits "agreements, combinations or conspiracies in restraint of trade." If RIAA and MusicNet aren't a combination in restraint of trade, I don't know what is!
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They need to inflate TCO to make their CIO-wannabe readers think they're saving money when they buy whatever's being advertised.
Well, Apple has done it three times: with System 7, Power Macintosh, and now OS X. In the old days this was a pretty major pain in the butt (of course Mac fans took it all, like abused lovers) but these days the sw vendors are being nice and shipping both binaries (OS X and Classic) together. So, while undesirable, isn't the end of the world.
Well, Tim Baker can suck my fat cock. If he doesn't want to sell me CDs that I can use fairly, well, I won't buy them. Fuck him!
Right, but it was a good demonstration that their steganography detection tools work.
I doubt they'd actually want to, though, because high userid numbers make the place look more popular than it is. ("Look Ma, half a million accounts!")
Will slashdot delete all those unused and bitchslapped troll accounts?
Wrinkles
No, I put one in my bedroom window as a show of solidarity with the victims, and in support of the war effort (which I do support). But with this assault on liberty I now question whether it should stay up.
that's funny, I didn't notice. the gif is cut off at the top. Someone tell the American Legion!
Slashdot could reverse the topic icon, if it wanted to...
Is your Congressmember in a "safe" (gerrymandered) district? Chances are 10-1 that he/she is. If so: forget it.
Many of these items sunset in 2003, in the House bill. Of course if that is abandoned, there goes the sunset provision.
Incorrect. The Senate trashed civil liberties today. I am appalled at their decision to do so. This moment is not one that makes me proud to be an American - not sure if the flag comes down today.
Woody Allen said it: "Seventy percent of success in life is showing up." In this case, more than 70%. Lobbying your representative in person makes much more of a difference than letters or calls to an assistant, who is invariably working his/her butt off to make sure said pol can make the 100s of public events per week. Our organization, along with several others with whom we allied for this purpose, was quite successful using this method (as well as an initiative campaign) to get our measure before the voters.
But, you may ask: "why would he/she listen to me?" If you're on your own, you're right, you may not get much in the way of face time (though you can usually talk to a policy aide). But if you have a few hundred members of your organization, you will get some attention, particularly if you can get some press too. Show that you have a significant number of people who vote with you, and the doors may open a bit more for you.
Relevant to the anti-liberty legislation: it's surely a greased pig that can't be stopped, but there are some lessons for grassroots organizing here. Does the EFF have local chapters? Can one be set up in each city or congressional district? Use this as a means of organizing people like you to write letters in concert, or show up to an office en masse, or hold a protest. The Free-Dmitry protests, while they haven't gotten the US Attorney to back down, were successful in getting Adobe to back down very quickly, and can be extended to future terrorism legislation, or (more importantly) abominations like the SSSCA.
Yes, money talks. But so also does grassroots organizing. If we don't have as much of the former as our opponents (MPAA et al., or Ashcroft) we can make up for it with the latter.
Still I might get this just 'cause its so damn cool.
Watch out! Someday RIAA may get them to put some sort of DRM crapola in there. Make sure to keep backups of your firmware "upgrades"
Which makes it just as useful as Slashdot!
It's correct. sllort is on the ball these days.
Poll taxes and literacy tests as qualifications for voting ostensibly "applied to everyone" - but they were in practice very inconsistently applied, and they certainly discriminated against the poor as well as racial minorities. So they were banned in sixties, and good riddance.
We don't have to accept that. That's my point. There is a choice: defend fair use, keep using stuff that allows it (Red Book compatible CDs), and keep developing and releasing under GPL tools like DeCSS, damn the consequences.
Yes, once it's deleted, it will allow the user to recover valuable hard drive space.
It would royally, massively suck. Which is why we need to fight it now with everything we've got. Start by not buying anything using it - DIVX failed in the market, evil DRM can too.
You know, this all looks to me like a pretty clear violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, which prohibits "agreements, combinations or conspiracies in restraint of trade." If RIAA and MusicNet aren't a combination in restraint of trade, I don't know what is!
EBCDIC!
Fuck that!