My guess is that if code if upheld as speech, then all the other limits/punishments associated with speech would go with it. Specifically, damages for malicious code would be actionable in the same way that damages caused by libel or slander are actionable. Criminal penalties would also apply for code that intentionally caused damage.
What do you mean, "you think" ??? If you've dealt with Gates and Co, you pretty much know it from day one. . . I work in a Micro$oft house, so I go to M$ activities, like their "Direct Access" and "TechNet" quarterly briefings. They've been pushing Y2K as a sales plan for Office 97->Office 2K path and upgrades from Win 3.x (yes, plenty of places still use it. ..) and 95 to 98 and NT WS.
You assume that lobbying has existed in its' present form for 212 years. Bad assumption. And, I'll insult you all you like, if stating the facts is considered an insult. The bottom line is, most Americans support the right to keep and bear arms: in fact, you'll find that the majority of households have at least one firearm. . .
Not that any of this is germane to Slashdot, but the bottom line is this: every time a major effort to ban guns, as a whole, nationwide is tried, it fails miserably. Reality: Deal with it. . .
"We must obviously conclude that Government knows best" ????? Methinks not.
The fact is, the Constitution of the United States has been amended numerous times, and previously- existing portions removed. The fact that the citizens of the United States have not seen fit to rescind the Second Amendment in the 212 years of the American Republic should tell you something: namely, that we don't see the need to remove it. ...
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Certification is a fact of the World of Suits. We all have to deal with it. It provides a quantifiable measure of expertise that can be understood by non-tech types. Anyone who's submitted a resume in the last few years knows how loading a resume with buzzwords gets it in front of the HR types, who then pass it to the technical types who DO understand (or at least should. ..) what you really can do. But you have to get by the HR types first, and ANY certification helps you do so.
Now. ..as to Red Hat Certification. If they were smart, they'd also offer a course to non-Linux admins, etc (admittedly, a longer course, but...), AND they'd modularize it (hmm. ..like M$ did...). Not all admins need to write code, but they DO need to configure users, run Apache, etc... In the long run, a basic "CLE", like the CNE or MCSE needs to evolve, if we really want Linux in the corporate environment. If you need to show ultimate expertise, i.e. writing new kernels, etc, why not a "Master" certification as well, like Novell has ????
Corn and Soybeans, Dairy herd, and a smattering of hogs (primarily for internal use. ..)
I got my father to be the first one in the county using computers for agriculture as well. . . 15 years ago, on a PC (forgot whether it was PC/XT or PC/AT. ..)
There's a fallacy at play here. . . .
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Several comments. . . .
1. Let's look at those insect-free tomatoes. My wife gardens, so I have some experience here. The main bug problem is a variety of caterpillar that eats the leaves of the tomato plant, thus stunting its' growth, and its' yield of tomatoes in the end. You seem to claim that removing ONE species, amongst many, somewhere in the middle of the food chain, will cause catastrophe ???
The only system I know of in which one bug can cause/prevent utter system catastrophe is Microsoft Windows. . . .
2. The "natural cycle" you are claiming exists, is, in fact, ANOTHER fallacy. I could plant those acres in, for example, wheat instead of tomatoes, STILL not providing a habitat for the tomato-leaf-chomping caterpillars, and still not cause catastrophe. Nature is flexible, and adapts to changes in the local environment. Sort of like Linux. . . .
3. The "Dust Bowl" was caused by over-farming and aquifer depletion. NOT by genetic engineering of either the breeding or laboratory variety.
Your serve. . .
There's a fallacy at play here. . . .
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. . . in the "resistance against insects" quote.
You breed or gene-gineer plants to be resistant of certain types of insect attacks. For example, you might engineer a tomato whose leaves taste bad to any insect that wants to munch on the leaves. But that won't prevent pollination, and the insects will find other plants to munch on. But this British professor seems not to want us to realize that. . . .
Evil thought. ..along the lines of a shot of "Lucy Linux" with a "This is your love life on LINUX", and a shot of (insert you preferred hideous, vaugely female image here), with a "This is your love life on Windows.
Alas, that wouldn't quite work. . . unless your runtime had every concievable videocard and sound card built-in, as well as modems and NICs. . .
It would only work for a clearly specified set of sound/videocards, and THAT would cut the market.
A **BETTER** strategy might be to make a low-end LINUX with a wide variety of supported boxes, an idiot-proof setup program, and an auto-configured, auto-running XFree86 or KDE. . . drop the compilers, extra configurability, etc, for a fixed version. . .
(I realize I'm advocating a Win-95'ing of LINUX, to get newbies into it. ..then show how much BETTER it runs, when you learn to customize it to your individual system. ..and then, they're suddenly one of us. . . )
A minor point: macro virus protection IS, in fact, a default option in Office 97: you have to give the drones at M$ the credit for that. Even if it looks like Macro Viruses originated from a disgruntled MS Employee. . . .
Excellent points. But something was forgotten. There may not be standing to sue Illiad in a US Court, but the law is different in Canada: free speech is NOT an absolute right under Canadian Law. Mind you, I'm not an expert on Canadian jurisprudence, but I recall government-enforced censorship of newspapers and books in Canada in the not-too-distant past (the cases that come to mind were a fairly sensational murder-rape trial in Ontario, and the book "Spymaker", coverage of the former and sales/posession of the later being prohibited in Canada. ..) Admittedly, Illiad said he has good representation, and it's paid for, but the parody exemption is a US convention, and applies nowhere else. . . .
Not far-fetched (and pretty dry)
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Give it a little time. Sony manufactures the Xybernaut boxes, and owns a big piece of Xybernaut. . . . .
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But methinks we're on a good trend here. . .
What do you mean, "you think" ??? If you've dealt with Gates and Co, you pretty much know it from day one. . . I work in a Micro$oft house, so I go to M$ activities, like their "Direct Access" and "TechNet" quarterly briefings. They've been pushing Y2K as a sales plan for Office 97->Office 2K path and upgrades from Win 3.x (yes, plenty of places still use it. . .) and 95 to 98 and NT WS.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/
First thing they want you to do, is to upgrade to Win98. . . .
But now, for some strange reason, there's a link to the Win95 Y2K fix. . .
Funny, that. . . .
You assume that lobbying has existed in its' present form for 212 years. Bad assumption. And, I'll insult you all you like, if stating the facts is considered an insult. The bottom line is, most Americans support the right to keep and bear arms: in fact, you'll find that the majority of households have at least one firearm. . .
Not that any of this is germane to Slashdot, but the bottom line is this: every time a major effort to ban guns, as a whole, nationwide is tried, it fails miserably. Reality: Deal with it. . .
And on that note, I'm out of this argument. . .
"What will happen when the idiot drivers out there
can watch Jerry Springer on their glasses in
traffic ??"
Hmmm.... in a short time, there'd be a lot less
idiot drivers ??? Think of it as evolution in
action. . . .
"We must obviously conclude that Government knows
..
best" ????? Methinks not.
The fact is, the Constitution of the United States
has been amended numerous times, and previously-
existing portions removed. The fact that the
citizens of the United States have not seen fit
to rescind the Second Amendment in the 212 years
of the American Republic should tell you
something: namely, that we don't see the need to
remove it. .
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Certification is a fact of the World of Suits. We all have to deal with it. It provides a quantifiable measure of expertise that can be understood by non-tech types. Anyone who's submitted a resume in the last few years knows how loading a resume with buzzwords gets it in front of the HR types, who then pass it to the technical types who DO understand (or at least should. . .) what you really can do. But you have to get by the HR types first, and ANY certification helps you do so.
.as to Red Hat Certification. If they were smart, they'd also offer a course to non-Linux admins, etc (admittedly, a longer course, but...), AND they'd modularize it (hmm. . .like M$ did...). Not all admins need to write code, but they DO need to configure users, run Apache, etc... In the long run, a basic "CLE", like the CNE or MCSE needs to evolve, if we really want Linux in the corporate environment. If you need to show ultimate expertise, i.e. writing new kernels, etc, why not a "Master" certification as well, like Novell has ????
Now. .
Corn and Soybeans, Dairy herd, and a smattering .)
.)
of hogs (primarily for internal use. .
I got my father to be the first one in the county
using computers for agriculture as well. . . 15
years ago, on a PC (forgot whether it was PC/XT
or PC/AT. .
Several comments. . . .
1. Let's look at those insect-free tomatoes.
My wife gardens, so I have some experience here.
The main bug problem is a variety of caterpillar
that eats the leaves of the tomato plant, thus
stunting its' growth, and its' yield of tomatoes
in the end. You seem to claim that removing ONE
species, amongst many, somewhere in the middle of
the food chain, will cause catastrophe ???
The only system I know of in which one bug can
cause/prevent utter system catastrophe is
Microsoft Windows. . . .
2. The "natural cycle" you are claiming exists,
is, in fact, ANOTHER fallacy. I could plant
those acres in, for example, wheat instead of
tomatoes, STILL not providing a habitat for the
tomato-leaf-chomping caterpillars, and still not
cause catastrophe. Nature is flexible, and adapts
to changes in the local environment. Sort of like
Linux. . . .
3. The "Dust Bowl" was caused by over-farming and
aquifer depletion. NOT by genetic engineering of
either the breeding or laboratory variety.
Your serve. . .
. . . in the "resistance against insects" quote.
You breed or gene-gineer plants to be resistant of
certain types of insect attacks. For example, you
might engineer a tomato whose leaves taste bad to
any insect that wants to munch on the leaves. But
that won't prevent pollination, and the insects will find
other plants to munch on. But this British professor
seems not to want us to realize that. . . .
Evil thought. . .along the lines of a shot of
"Lucy Linux" with a "This is your love life on
LINUX", and a shot of (insert you preferred
hideous, vaugely female image here), with a
"This is your love life on Windows.
Any Questions ???
Alas, that wouldn't quite work. . . unless your
.then show how much .and then,
runtime had every concievable videocard and sound
card built-in, as well as modems and NICs. . .
It would only work for a clearly specified set of
sound/videocards, and THAT would cut the market.
A **BETTER** strategy might be to make a low-end
LINUX with a wide variety of supported boxes, an
idiot-proof setup program, and an auto-configured,
auto-running XFree86 or KDE. . . drop the
compilers, extra configurability, etc, for a fixed
version. . .
(I realize I'm advocating a Win-95'ing of LINUX,
to get newbies into it. .
BETTER it runs, when you learn to customize
it to your individual system. .
they're suddenly one of us. . . )
A minor point: macro virus protection IS, in fact,
a default option in Office 97: you have to give
the drones at M$ the credit for that. Even if
it looks like Macro Viruses originated from a
disgruntled MS Employee. . . .
Excellent points. But something was forgotten. .) Admittedly, Illiad said he has good representation, and it's paid for, but the parody exemption is a US convention,
There may not be standing to sue Illiad in a US
Court, but the law is different in Canada: free
speech is NOT an absolute right under Canadian Law. Mind you, I'm not an expert on Canadian jurisprudence, but I recall government-enforced censorship of newspapers and books in Canada in the not-too-distant past (the cases that come to mind were a fairly sensational murder-rape trial
in Ontario, and the book "Spymaker", coverage of the former and sales/posession of the later being
prohibited in Canada. .
and applies nowhere else. . . .
Give it a little time. Sony manufactures the
Xybernaut boxes, and owns a big piece of Xybernaut. . . . .
. . . the Triumph of the Bill ???