rip on the American fashion industry?
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My impression, after the first 15 minutes, was
quite different. I think, it was a "rip" on the
stupid among us, who would like to see a rip on
the "American fashion industry" in particular and
globalization in general. Mr. Katz included.
Well, of course, this will considered a flame
bait... Silly, silly...
Same argument stands -- the "bad guy" will find it anyway... The easier the access, the higher the awareness -- no longer will one's unwillingness to,
say, use the Social Security Number as the student ID
number (UMass Boston's practice, for example), look
freakish...
Then perhaps, the politicians will realize something too and some of those records will not be public anymore...
I lost two ISP accounts within two months because of
alt.usenet.kooks "discussions" with certain Right
Reverend from Colorado. He raised such a stink, it
smelled all the way to Massachusetts. That was in '95,
I think, Exon's bill was in the works...
First -- Saturn.net, then -- GIS.net wet their pants
and yanked me with no warnings or "listening to my
side". GIS.net's (aka thecia.net) Bob Carp left me
a voice message -- you could hear crap dripping from
his undergarments, so scared he was...
Nothing changed, as far as I'm concerned. If you
yell loud enough, an ISP will bend: "For $10/month,
we don't want calls from police," Bob Carp (spit)
told me...
No compiler can make up for poor programming...
The amount of needless string copying is mind
boggling (extrapolating from the bugs in kdelibs-2.2/kdoctools)...
--
"If the cows start flying, there is nothing for me
to do in space" -- captain Zelenyj (Green) from
the "Mistery of the Third Planet".
Those things, that let you pass through the tolls
quickly (and, usually, cheaper). They are the worst.
They identify you car -- you can not transfer the
cartridge to another vehicle legally (and it is enforced). They date/time of every toll crossing is
recorded and stored for who knows how long.
Worse, the information belongs to government -- not
a private company. The excuse is, that it helps reduce
fraud, but as long as they continue to accept cash (easily counterfited -- toll collectors don't check the
banknotes) the excuse is lame.
And you can't just say: "Well, don't use it". Because more and more toll-gates are devoted to "EZ-Pass only" and the gap in between the EZ-Pass
payments and cash is widening.
I think, this things should be anonymous. You buy
the device once and then purchase refills like calling
cards... Similar system works for NYC MTA card -- for
public transportation. It can work for cars too...
Gambling is a luxury. Driving on the public roads is
(usually) not. Pick you battles...
Also, to Microsoft *BSD code is a great resource that they can take from
without returning anything, no wonder they approve the BSD license while trying to fight the GPL
license made to prevent this 'abuse'.
Au contraire! To me, it seems, that they are returning back
to FreeBSD, by explicitly listing it as an "approved" OS. I may now go and make a port (lang/csharp) of their
new language and FreeBSD will have it, Linux will not.
Whether the return is good or not quite is another story, but it is certainly something in return.
Named defendents include the RIAA, SDMI, Verance Corporation
(producer of one of the cracked watermarked schemes) and U.S. Attorney General
John Ashcroft.
The actual article:
... are asking the court to tell the
defendants not to sue or threaten legal action over this new publication or any other
publication, and to tell the U.S. Department of Justice, run by Attorney General John
Ashcroft, not to file criminal charges against USENIX or anyone else over this
matter under the DMCA.
How exactly is this suit "against U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft"?
But this is for network integrity reason! By using RBL, above.net helps
punish a spammer and thus improve the 'net for
everyone.
I'm also puzzled by this differeniating between
blocking e-mail traffic only (acceptable) and blocking all traffic (unacceptable). There is
no qualitative difference. Only quantitative. Such blocking
helps the quality of the Internet by making it
difficult (or impossible, or unaffordable) to
spam.
I don't think, Mundie objects to climbing the
shoulders of the giants. I don't think, he even
objects to MicroSoft's own shoulders being used
by someone else.
His idea is, that such giants should be
able to control, who uses their shoulders and how
they are compensated for such use. And I can
agree with that.
Mind you, you can not use Linus' shoulders
either, unless you are willing to share
yours.
The accents in the Mundie's speach do stink, of
course, but Linus' response is misdirected, IMO.
THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #10: SIMPLE
SIMPLE is an acronym for Sheer Idiot's Monopurpose Programming Language
Environment. This language, developed at the Hanover College for
Technological Misfits, was designed to make it impossible to write code
with errors in it. The statements are, therefore, confined to BEGIN,
END and STOP. No matter how you arrange the statements, you can't make
a syntax error. Programs written in SIMPLE do nothing useful. Thus
they achieve the results of programs written in other languages without
the tedious, frustrating process of testing and debugging.
US is spying -- everybody does -- from the
international space. The Chinese are annoyed --
everybody would -- but there is nothing they can
do, except to engage in provocations of this sort.
Well, this time the provocation went a bit too
far. Like an annoyed driver trying to force a slow
moving car in front of him to speed up, the Chinese fighter got too close and caused a rear-end collision.
If the spy plane did not land on the Chinese
territory, there'd be no story. At all. Now the
Chinese have some leverage and are trying to use
it.
If Jon's point was, that US should apologize,
just to end this quicker -- I disagree. This is not: "be wise, say you are sorry". There is no guilt to admit...
those rabid anglo-saxon libertarians start harping about the government being evil
Would an eastern-european libertarian count? I thought so...
The only reason, government would not (typicly)
try to do all those things that a corporation
will, is that the government is a lot more stupid
and a lot less efficient.
At least, with a corporation one is on more or less on the same level, but you can't even sue
the government, unless it agrees to be sued (IANAL, though).
Mmmm, they use a BSD mascot...
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CPRM Lecture
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The mascot is copyrighted, actually. Something
tells me, they don't have the permission to use it:)
The very people who give lectures on protection
of copyrighted content...
Sad, very sad, that a discussion about Your
Rights Online has degenerated into the fight over abortions. Well...
The sentence I quote from seems broken, but I
think, I get the point.
that it's okay to kill... Abortion is just such a poison.
It is not Ok to kill. Abortion is not
murder. It is a medical procedure, not matter how
much the fetus resembles a human being.
But if you insist, let me agree with you for a
minute. It is a killing -- fine. Why is it so "poisoning"?
Many civilizations provided parents
with full life-and-death power over their children. In Rome, the father owned his sons until death, or until a special legal procedure
was completed -- performed in rare situations.
Our own civilization restricts the rights of
young people tremendously:
no voting
no smoking
no drinking
are the most common restrictions.
In most contries children have to attend schools often against their will. Children are also frequently subjected to violence from their peers with very little protection from society (He punched you in the nose? Well, I'll talk to his parents!). Until you are older you can not fully
own your property either.
This are all accepted limitations on rights based on the age of a person. It is also accepted,
that parents wield significant power over their
children.
So, what's so poisoning about limiting the right to live to those who are born already?
(IMO, it should be limited further -- until
the child is at least a few years old or until
he/she is still breastfed, but birth is probably
better a separator).
-mi
87% of abortion foes are men. 100% of
them will never be pregnant.
What this lawsuit says is that people who see a violent film and then commit a violent act are innocent.
No, the above statement is not true. The
perpetrators are not innocent. The plaintiffs claim, that the people, who encouraged
the crimes and cheered upon completions are also responsible.
Is this reasonable?
Of course not (well, I'll grant you the "in
some instances" exception). And that's not what the plaintiffs argue.
Consider an example of someone hiring a killer.
They are both guilty, but of different things. And
the one hiring is usually punished more, but the
killer is, without a doubt, guilty.
-mi
You are heir to thousands of year of Western culture (do the names Socrates, Plato, Aristotle,
Homer, Solomon, Moses, et al mean anything to you?), only by virture of wise Islamic scholars and
wise Irish monks, who copied and preserved all the ancient literature they could during Europes
dark ages.
Oh yeah? What about the "wise" Islamic commander, who let the famous ancient library burn, because "everything usefull is in Korahn"?
What about book burning and other
science and culture impeding actions of various religions?
What about the most recent destructions in
Afganistan? Islam appears to be in the same stage
now, Christianity was in 700 years ago. Hence the
crusades...
It is not just "a few well known con artists",
who are/were bad, but rather
the opposite -- "a few wise scholars and monks",
who are/were good. And even they would be able to
do a lot more with their wisdom, if not for the
religious Dogmas...
What did the religions create? At best,
they helped protect what was already created. At
worst they destroyed it -- be that the writings
of ancient scientists or the then-conterporary
inventions.
This remark seems to openly admit there is no
way to profit from the mission (or from space
at all even). Well, if there is not --
I'm glad its abandoned. But in all likelyhood,
there is.
Perhaps, if the expected reward was sufficient,
some company may try... I mean, say, 50 years of
exclusive rights for mining the planet or something.
But NOO!. Our hearts would bleed if some enterprenuaral type gets to PROFIT from space
exploration. Remember the ruccus caused by the
advertisements placed on a rocket? God forbid
Nike will paint the Moon -- better never go
there at all (again, that is)...
Before business (the much hated BIG BUSINESS,
first of all) gets into this, the attitudes have
to change. Then -- may be. There will, of
course, be some spectacular flops (a'la Titanic),
but overall this sort of thing is
something to be done by private interests...
No, they don't talk about that. They would
rather governemnt does not encourage it,
which is not a governments job, indeed.
undermines intellectual property (which is true)
And why is it true? The authors can still hold
the copyrights, etc... Look at the SSH for exampe.
You can get its source, but it remains an intellectual property of the creator. Same for the
stuff under "Netscape license". Is not it?
If I give you my rubber duck to play I don't
automaticly abandon my property rights to it.
By saying it is true, Slashdot only helps the
efforts of the desperate MS to make the government
discourage open source software, which is
not a government's business either.
Slashdot Mirror
My impression, after the first 15 minutes, was quite different. I think, it was a "rip" on the stupid among us, who would like to see a rip on the "American fashion industry" in particular and globalization in general. Mr. Katz included.
Well, of course, this will considered a flame bait... Silly, silly...
-mi
Same argument stands -- the "bad guy" will find it anyway... The easier the access, the higher the awareness -- no longer will one's unwillingness to, say, use the Social Security Number as the student ID number (UMass Boston's practice, for example), look freakish...
Then perhaps, the politicians will realize something too and some of those records will not be public anymore...
I lost two ISP accounts within two months because of
alt.usenet.kooks "discussions" with certain Right
Reverend from Colorado. He raised such a stink, it
smelled all the way to Massachusetts. That was in '95,
I think, Exon's bill was in the works...
First -- Saturn.net, then -- GIS.net wet their pants
and yanked me with no warnings or "listening to my
side". GIS.net's (aka thecia.net) Bob Carp left me
a voice message -- you could hear crap dripping from
his undergarments, so scared he was...
Nothing changed, as far as I'm concerned. If you
yell loud enough, an ISP will bend: "For $10/month,
we don't want calls from police," Bob Carp (spit)
told me...
No compiler can make up for poor programming...
The amount of needless string copying is mind
boggling (extrapolating from the bugs in kdelibs-2.2/kdoctools)...
--
"If the cows start flying, there is nothing for me
to do in space" -- captain Zelenyj (Green) from
the "Mistery of the Third Planet".
Those things, that let you pass through the tolls quickly (and, usually, cheaper). They are the worst. They identify you car -- you can not transfer the cartridge to another vehicle legally (and it is enforced). They date/time of every toll crossing is recorded and stored for who knows how long.
Worse, the information belongs to government -- not a private company. The excuse is, that it helps reduce fraud, but as long as they continue to accept cash (easily counterfited -- toll collectors don't check the banknotes) the excuse is lame.
And you can't just say: "Well, don't use it". Because more and more toll-gates are devoted to "EZ-Pass only" and the gap in between the EZ-Pass payments and cash is widening.
I think, this things should be anonymous. You buy the device once and then purchase refills like calling cards... Similar system works for NYC MTA card -- for public transportation. It can work for cars too...
Gambling is a luxury. Driving on the public roads is (usually) not. Pick you battles...
Au contraire! To me, it seems, that they are returning back to FreeBSD, by explicitly listing it as an "approved" OS. I may now go and make a port (lang/csharp) of their new language and FreeBSD will have it, Linux will not. Whether the return is good or not quite is another story, but it is certainly something in return.
What? Noone else noticed? It's Apache.org, that had troubles. Apache.com is a site building custom computers...
How exactly is this suit "against U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft"?
But this is for network integrity reason! By using RBL, above.net helps punish a spammer and thus improve the 'net for everyone.
I'm also puzzled by this differeniating between blocking e-mail traffic only (acceptable) and blocking all traffic (unacceptable). There is no qualitative difference. Only quantitative. Such blocking helps the quality of the Internet by making it difficult (or impossible, or unaffordable) to spam.
Believe it or not, that's the combo we use. Works well, and LyX even shows the expanded $Id$ on the front page...
Just like mules, which were used for ages -- a hybrid of donkey and a horse.
I don't think, Mundie objects to climbing the shoulders of the giants. I don't think, he even objects to MicroSoft's own shoulders being used by someone else.
His idea is, that such giants should be able to control, who uses their shoulders and how they are compensated for such use. And I can agree with that.
Mind you, you can not use Linus' shoulders either, unless you are willing to share yours.
The accents in the Mundie's speach do stink, of course, but Linus' response is misdirected, IMO.
That should've been fortune(6), of course...
SIMPLE is an acronym for Sheer Idiot's Monopurpose Programming Language Environment. This language, developed at the Hanover College for Technological Misfits, was designed to make it impossible to write code with errors in it. The statements are, therefore, confined to BEGIN, END and STOP. No matter how you arrange the statements, you can't make a syntax error. Programs written in SIMPLE do nothing useful. Thus they achieve the results of programs written in other languages without the tedious, frustrating process of testing and debugging.
Obtained from the fortune(1) database.
I did not see anything about uptime in the
article. For all we know, it could've been
rebooting daily...
-mi
The overly agressive fighter pilot passed below spy craft 3 times prior to crash, according to the detained crew.
US is spying -- everybody does -- from the international space. The Chinese are annoyed -- everybody would -- but there is nothing they can do, except to engage in provocations of this sort.
Well, this time the provocation went a bit too far. Like an annoyed driver trying to force a slow moving car in front of him to speed up, the Chinese fighter got too close and caused a rear-end collision.
If the spy plane did not land on the Chinese territory, there'd be no story. At all. Now the Chinese have some leverage and are trying to use it.
If Jon's point was, that US should apologize, just to end this quicker -- I disagree. This is not: "be wise, say you are sorry". There is no guilt to admit...
Would an eastern-european libertarian count? I thought so...
The only reason, government would not (typicly) try to do all those things that a corporation will, is that the government is a lot more stupid and a lot less efficient.
At least, with a corporation one is on more or less on the same level, but you can't even sue the government, unless it agrees to be sued (IANAL, though).
The mascot is copyrighted, actually. Something tells me, they don't have the permission to use it :)
The very people who give lectures on protection of copyrighted content...
Come, come now... You can't that blatant. Not even on /.
P.S. At least, Mr. Ashcroft will never be found in contempt of Congress. Unlike his predecessor...
The SpamCop is moving in exactly this direction.
They jumped to the new Linux kernel, when it was released, and had to go back due to problems, which I myself (as a frequent user) witnessed.
According to their front page, they reverted to Linux-2.2 and their new servers are running FreeBSD... Make your own conclusions.
The sentence I quote from seems broken, but I think, I get the point.
It is not Ok to kill. Abortion is not murder. It is a medical procedure, not matter how much the fetus resembles a human being.
But if you insist, let me agree with you for a minute. It is a killing -- fine. Why is it so "poisoning"?
Many civilizations provided parents with full life-and-death power over their children. In Rome, the father owned his sons until death, or until a special legal procedure was completed -- performed in rare situations.
Our own civilization restricts the rights of young people tremendously:
- no voting
- no smoking
- no drinking
are the most common restrictions.In most contries children have to attend schools often against their will. Children are also frequently subjected to violence from their peers with very little protection from society (He punched you in the nose? Well, I'll talk to his parents!). Until you are older you can not fully own your property either.
This are all accepted limitations on rights based on the age of a person. It is also accepted, that parents wield significant power over their children.
So, what's so poisoning about limiting the right to live to those who are born already? (IMO, it should be limited further -- until the child is at least a few years old or until he/she is still breastfed, but birth is probably better a separator).
-mi
No, the above statement is not true. The perpetrators are not innocent. The plaintiffs claim, that the people, who encouraged the crimes and cheered upon completions are also responsible.
Of course not (well, I'll grant you the "in some instances" exception). And that's not what the plaintiffs argue.
Consider an example of someone hiring a killer. They are both guilty, but of different things. And the one hiring is usually punished more, but the killer is, without a doubt, guilty. -mi
Oh yeah? What about the "wise" Islamic commander, who let the famous ancient library burn, because "everything usefull is in Korahn"?
What about book burning and other science and culture impeding actions of various religions?
What about the most recent destructions in Afganistan? Islam appears to be in the same stage now, Christianity was in 700 years ago. Hence the crusades...
It is not just "a few well known con artists", who are/were bad, but rather the opposite -- "a few wise scholars and monks", who are/were good. And even they would be able to do a lot more with their wisdom, if not for the religious Dogmas...
What did the religions create? At best, they helped protect what was already created. At worst they destroyed it -- be that the writings of ancient scientists or the then-conterporary inventions.
This remark seems to openly admit there is no way to profit from the mission (or from space at all even). Well, if there is not -- I'm glad its abandoned. But in all likelyhood, there is.
Perhaps, if the expected reward was sufficient, some company may try... I mean, say, 50 years of exclusive rights for mining the planet or something.
But NOO!. Our hearts would bleed if some enterprenuaral type gets to PROFIT from space exploration. Remember the ruccus caused by the advertisements placed on a rocket? God forbid Nike will paint the Moon -- better never go there at all (again, that is)...
Before business (the much hated BIG BUSINESS, first of all) gets into this, the attitudes have to change. Then -- may be. There will, of course, be some spectacular flops (a'la Titanic), but overall this sort of thing is something to be done by private interests...
No, they don't talk about that. They would rather governemnt does not encourage it, which is not a governments job, indeed.
And why is it true? The authors can still hold the copyrights, etc... Look at the SSH for exampe. You can get its source, but it remains an intellectual property of the creator. Same for the stuff under "Netscape license". Is not it?
If I give you my rubber duck to play I don't automaticly abandon my property rights to it.
By saying it is true, Slashdot only helps the efforts of the desperate MS to make the government discourage open source software, which is not a government's business either.