In KDE, and I assume with others, you can use SlowKeys, StickyKeys to make the Shift Lock for you automatically or with some shift sequence (double click shift?).
Yes, if the macro can modify, edit, or destroy _this_ document, then someone can send you whatever corrupt documents they wish. They could not set global settings, or operate outside the document. No problem, really.
If a macro lets you write documents that can change other documents, your system, or the outside internet, the the program is as broken as ms office.
Compare the number of civilians killed in 2001-09-11 with civilians killed in Iraq.
Yes, a wealthy party will not resort to kamikazee tactics. But a desparate party will.
Was islam a proper motivation for killing civilians in a tall building?
Was oil/israel a proper motivation for killing civilians in Iraq?
Was responding to kidnappers a proper motivation for killing civilians apartment buildings in Lebanon?
If one really wants to stop acts of terrorism, without a total police state, understanding the root cause would be a good place to start. Refusal to hear the problems that instigate the actions is willfull stupidity/arrogance. Perhaps the problem may have something to to with our forceful dominance in the region and our support of the eastern eurpean nation inserted in the middle of the middle east that occupies, isolate and expand over others long held residence.
How again does invading unstable countries make use safer?
Someone please explain how perpetuating the "american invaders" view could make us safer.
We are disliked because of our invasion, control, and arms supply to the region. How can more invasions, more control. and more arms to israel us earn friends?
"No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title."
Is overridden by:
"Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;"
So when the prior DMCA statement abridges the freedom of the press (like in preventing fair use), it is not valid.
Remember that "freedom of the press" was trying to avoid the publishing monopoly control such as the Stationers had in 1557. But we have recreated such a monopoly with current infinite copyright, and DMCA restrictions. Both, which violate the spirit of the freedom of the press and violate the constitutional limits places on information monopolies.
Obviously you were not the target audience of the post, and for the most part, missed the points of it. If the comment was bs, replying with 16x the bs is not very useful. I guess I did trigger an unintentional troll-bait reaction.
> Just buy the Mac like the rest of us OS X lovers did.
I did, but I run Fedora on it. Sorry, both OSX and Windows seem quite limited.
Yes, with that, my post makes no sense at all. So what?
Then delvelopers will be encouraged to test on MS-Windows and Apple-[Cider]-Windows.
Writing Apple specific executables (DRM...) would no longer be very important.
This would create some direct WIN32 OS competition for MS.
And of course the portable WIN32 apps are more likely to run fine in WINE or ReactOS.
And hopefully, Apple would buy Cider, and once and for all sell OSX for any PC, competing directly with microsoft, and give up on the hardware tie in stuff.
Perhaps for short term events the most relevent feature is the day. "Lets meet on the third next month"... But for the long term, documents, software and historical things, the most significant thing is the year./* This malloc function was first written 1991-07-16 */ The date in which we should complete the moon station is 2023-05-03. The Stationers publishing monopoly started at: 1557-10-15.
Over time, the month and day become trivia.
So perhaps European dates make sense for speech, or appointments. But for anything written or stored for long term access, ISO dates are presented in more more relevent and significant order.
With that, I would add for long term documents, more important than all of this is that the year is actually written, and not in Y99 form.
I live in the US, and I use international dates, unless a form forces an order.
Some europeans like European dates over US dates, but European dates are reverse significant order (while times are in significant order).
KDE uses international dates.
The date/time rollover is more natural, using interational dates. I think you may be less likely to write a 13th month check if you use international dates:
As a time rolls from: 10:59:59 to: 11:00:00
A date rolls from: 2005-12-31 to: 2006-01-01
But whatever the order you want to use, please stop using Y99 dates: 01/02/03.
We should really stop using Y99 dates, Okay? It's embarassing that geeky slashdot uses Y99 dates:
article.pl?sid=06/08/02
We should really all be using International dates:(IS0 8601) It is the most constistient format:
Date components are most to least significant order.
Time components are most to least significant order.
Digit components are most to least significant order.
Good example, international date:
Most to least components being AA-EE AAaa-BB-CC DD:EE 2006-08-02 10:30
Bad examples:
Y99 US Date order:
BB/CC/aa DD:EE 08/02/06 10:30
European Date order: CC-BB-AAaa DD:EE 02.08.2006 10:30
Y99 European Date order: (what this article is about) CC.BB.aa DD:EE 02.08.06 10:30
Y99 International dates: (what slashdot uses in uris/db?) aa-BB-CC DD:EE 06-08-02 10:30
But, then we must of course examine our creator/creators.
The creator(s) are one of:
1) more complicated than us. So they even more likely created by another being than us. by the "intricate things have a creator" theory. 2) more complicated than us as a whole. The creator society as a whole created us.(**) 2) less complicated than us. Our creators used there intelligence, and directed evolution to create us. (***) 3) we are not allowed to think about this according to our religion, sorry.
(**) Similar to how a single person cannot build a jumbo jet, but thousands of people can. (***) Note that we can create machines that can make calculations faster than any human. Note also that we can use software evolution to create efficient algorithms.
Yes, I am Anti-DRM. It attempts to circumvent any publishing control limits allowed by the government. Copyright law is already about 100 years longer than what most people would consider a reasonable "limited time". DRM attempts to remove the monopoly limit entirely.
some other news: artists mostly no longer make these decisions. Perhaps they sold-out, perhaps they are dead. The modern "Stationers" media companies often have the exclusive control.
Some choices to obtain music:
1. Buy music infested with DRM, which may overstep the US legal copyright limits. 2. Buy music from Russian MP3 sites, which may avoid US legal copyright limits. 3. Only subscribe to DRM-free music services like emusic.com. 4. Only buy from opensource/creative-commons music labels like magnatune. 5. No music
If state that only 3-5 are really legally legitimate, many people will ignore the legal or moral problems with DRM music or Russian music, because they do not directly see any negative impact.
Though I would suggest 4 if you really want to encourage healthy legal creativity.
This obsession with information as eternal property, causes the higher quality original to be locked away in some safe. While very high quality originals (and ability to create high quality copies) may exist, those who profit from the copies will only allow lower quality copies to be made, to maximize the number of times to re-sell the copy. Meanwhile if the "owner" looses interest, the original fades into nothing. The surviving copies would likely be the most common, low quality copies, or perhaps nothing at all if the DRM serves is purpose.
The eternal information property... DRM model can only lead to "dark" data in a new dark information age.
I think a big step for Wine would to be able to run the ReactOS desktop. Then a Wine Desktop could be running in its own virtual terminal. One could also create a Wine/Linux distribution, to create another free windows development/run environment. A Wine/Linux distribution would use Linux drivers. This currently would have an advantage over ReactOS, as ReactOS is limited to use blob windows drivers, or a few open source drivers.
If you can successfully run the ReactOS desktop in Wine, please share. I have tried it a few times (running ROS exploerer.exe desktop in Wine), but it is not quite usable.
Since bribery is still really not illegal in the US, Funny church money still plays a role in government (in addition to the role of corporate funny money).
The result: We need to invade countries to take oil for our suv trips to walmart, and so people can go to church and learn about the magical being that really wants us to believe in the unbelievable.
Here are the steps to follow: 1. Upscale your DVD collection, writing using standard DVD's, in the DVD format, except enhanced for resolution, and perhaps formats (Perhaps Theora, DivX, MP4, in addition to MPEG2). Call this DVD-HD. 2. Find a player that plays these DVD-HD discs. Buy this player. 3. When/If you find a commercial disc encoded with "DVD-HD", buy it as well. 4. Remember, don't buy the other HD-DRM discs (Unless it has be worked-around) 5. You can buy a DVD20 or DVD45 writer for data backups. 6. If a "DVD-HD" player is sold that plays "DVD20-HD" or DVD45-HD", buy this player. 7. Or just use VLC on a PC. 8. When/If you find a commercial DVD20 or DVD45 disc encoded with "DVD-HD", buy it as well.
0. If you bought into HD-DRM-DVD, then you expect the next step to be expiring media, then rentals only . Have fun.
We live in an age were every individual can have their own printing press. Obviously we cannot have that much freedom. Information is dangerous for the masses. Only the publishing/media companies know best. To restore order, publishing should only be done by the big media companies. The material should of course be screened by the Department of Homeland Security, to fight Terrorism. 120 years for copyright is not enough. 1000 years would be fair. Restore something even better than the Stationers monopoly of 1557!! Down with "Freedom of Press (Piracy)".
Slashdot Mirror
In KDE, and I assume with others, you can use SlowKeys, StickyKeys to make the Shift Lock for you automatically or with some shift sequence (double click shift?).
Yes, if the macro can modify, edit, or destroy _this_ document, then someone can send you whatever corrupt documents they wish. They could not set global settings, or operate outside the document. No problem, really.
If a macro lets you write documents that can change other documents, your system, or the outside internet, the the program is as broken as ms office.
Compare the number of civilians killed in 2001-09-11 with civilians killed in Iraq.
Yes, a wealthy party will not resort to kamikazee tactics. But a desparate party will.
Was islam a proper motivation for killing civilians in a tall building?
Was oil/israel a proper motivation for killing civilians in Iraq?
Was responding to kidnappers a proper motivation for killing civilians apartment buildings in Lebanon?
If one really wants to stop acts of terrorism, without a total police state, understanding the root cause would be a good place to start. Refusal to hear the problems that instigate the actions is willfull stupidity/arrogance. Perhaps the problem may have something to to with our forceful dominance in the region and our support of the eastern eurpean nation inserted in the middle of the middle east that occupies, isolate and expand over others long held residence.
How again does invading unstable countries make use safer?
Someone please explain how perpetuating the "american invaders" view could make us safer.
We are disliked because of our invasion, control, and arms supply to the region.
How can more invasions, more control. and more arms to israel us earn friends?
"No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title."
Is overridden by:
"Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;"
So when the prior DMCA statement abridges the freedom of the press (like in preventing fair use), it is not valid.
Remember that "freedom of the press" was trying to avoid the publishing monopoly control such as the Stationers had in 1557.
But we have recreated such a monopoly with current infinite copyright, and DMCA restrictions. Both, which violate the spirit of the freedom of the press and violate the constitutional limits places on information monopolies.
Obviously you were not the target audience of the post, and for the most part, missed the points of it.
If the comment was bs, replying with 16x the bs is not very useful. I guess I did trigger an unintentional troll-bait reaction.
> Just buy the Mac like the rest of us OS X lovers did.
I did, but I run Fedora on it. Sorry, both OSX and Windows seem quite limited.
Yes, with that, my post makes no sense at all. So what?
This is a good thing if it catches on.
Then delvelopers will be encouraged to test on MS-Windows and Apple-[Cider]-Windows.
Writing Apple specific executables (DRM...) would no longer be very important.
This would create some direct WIN32 OS competition for MS.
And of course the portable WIN32 apps are more likely to run fine in WINE or ReactOS.
And hopefully, Apple would buy Cider, and once and for all sell OSX for any PC, competing directly with microsoft, and give up on the hardware tie in stuff.
Best for listening to iDRM data would be a "retractable baton", as suggested for the MPAA/RIAA by some.
Perhaps for short term events the most relevent feature is the day. /* This malloc function was first written 1991-07-16 */
"Lets meet on the third next month"...
But for the long term, documents, software and historical things, the most significant thing is the year.
The date in which we should complete the moon station is 2023-05-03.
The Stationers publishing monopoly started at: 1557-10-15.
Over time, the month and day become trivia.
So perhaps European dates make sense for speech, or appointments.
But for anything written or stored for long term access, ISO dates are presented in more more relevent and significant order.
With that, I would add for long term documents, more important than all of this is that the year is actually written, and not in Y99 form.
Again, don't confuse international dates (ISO 8661) with European dates.
Sometimes when I am updating some code documents with dates, I will replace the US Y99 dates with international dates,
So:
01/02/03 - code creation
becomes:
2003-01-02 - code creation
2006-08-02 - fixed a bug
International dates are significantly in order, as times are.
Yes, ISO 8661 dates.
I live in the US, and I use international dates, unless a form forces an order.
Some europeans like European dates over US dates, but European dates are reverse significant order (while times are in significant order).
KDE uses international dates.
The date/time rollover is more natural, using interational dates. I think you may be less likely to write a 13th month check if you use international dates:
As a time rolls from:
10:59:59
to:
11:00:00
A date rolls from:
2005-12-31
to:
2006-01-01
But whatever the order you want to use, please stop using Y99 dates: 01/02/03.
We should really stop using Y99 dates, Okay?
It's embarassing that geeky slashdot uses Y99 dates:
article.pl?sid=06/08/02
We should really all be using International dates:(IS0 8601)
It is the most constistient format:
Date components are most to least significant order.
Time components are most to least significant order.
Digit components are most to least significant order.
Good example, international date:
Most to least components being AA-EE
AAaa-BB-CC DD:EE
2006-08-02 10:30
Bad examples:
Y99 US Date order:
BB/CC/aa DD:EE
08/02/06 10:30
European Date order:
CC-BB-AAaa DD:EE
02.08.2006 10:30
Y99 European Date order: (what this article is about)
CC.BB.aa DD:EE
02.08.06 10:30
Y99 International dates: (what slashdot uses in uris/db?)
aa-BB-CC DD:EE
06-08-02 10:30
In related news, several members of the notorious gun hackers gang were found dead today. Strangely, their bodies were smeared with peanut butter.
But, then we must of course examine our creator/creators.
The creator(s) are one of:
1) more complicated than us. So they even more likely created by another being than us. by the "intricate things have a creator" theory.
2) more complicated than us as a whole. The creator society as a whole created us.(**)
2) less complicated than us. Our creators used there intelligence, and directed evolution to create us. (***)
3) we are not allowed to think about this according to our religion, sorry.
(**) Similar to how a single person cannot build a jumbo jet, but thousands of people can.
(***) Note that we can create machines that can make calculations faster than any human. Note also that we can use software evolution to create efficient algorithms.
but we are pretty sure that the deleted files proved our case.
Yes, I am Anti-DRM. It attempts to circumvent any publishing control limits allowed by the government.
Copyright law is already about 100 years longer than what most people would consider a reasonable "limited time". DRM attempts to remove the monopoly limit entirely.
some other news: artists mostly no longer make these decisions. Perhaps they sold-out, perhaps they are dead. The modern "Stationers" media companies often have the exclusive control.
Some choices to obtain music:
1. Buy music infested with DRM, which may overstep the US legal copyright limits.
2. Buy music from Russian MP3 sites, which may avoid US legal copyright limits.
3. Only subscribe to DRM-free music services like emusic.com.
4. Only buy from opensource/creative-commons music labels like magnatune.
5. No music
If state that only 3-5 are really legally legitimate, many people will ignore the legal or moral problems with DRM music or Russian music, because they do not directly see any negative impact.
Though I would suggest 4 if you really want to encourage healthy legal creativity.
This obsession with information as eternal property, causes the higher quality original to be locked away in some safe. While very high quality originals (and ability to create high quality copies) may exist, those who profit from the copies will only allow lower quality copies to be made, to maximize the number of times to re-sell the copy. Meanwhile if the "owner" looses interest, the original fades into nothing. The surviving copies would likely be the most common, low quality copies, or perhaps nothing at all if the DRM serves is purpose.
... DRM model can only lead to "dark" data in a new dark information age.
The eternal information property
I think a big step for Wine would to be able to run the ReactOS desktop.
Then a Wine Desktop could be running in its own virtual terminal.
One could also create a Wine/Linux distribution, to create another free windows development/run environment.
A Wine/Linux distribution would use Linux drivers. This currently would have an advantage over ReactOS,
as ReactOS is limited to use blob windows drivers, or a few open source drivers.
If you can successfully run the ReactOS desktop in Wine, please share. I have tried it a few times (running ROS exploerer.exe desktop in Wine), but it is not quite usable.
Oiginal US.
14+14
1909
28+28 years
1976
75 years
1998
120 years
(As a reference, The Stationers held a publishing monopoly in the 1500's for 137 years)
Since bribery is still really not illegal in the US,
Funny church money still plays a role in government (in addition to the role of corporate funny money).
The result: We need to invade countries to take oil for our suv trips to walmart, and so people can go to church and learn about the magical being that really wants us to believe in the unbelievable.
I guess we could build a dome and live in it to escape the environment that we created.
Of course you have to carefully control population inside of a dome.
doesn't quite sound quite safe.
this perhaps allows the police to disable the weopons of the bad-guys/revolutionists,
or the other way around.
Note, "HD" is possible on DVD5 or above.
Here are the steps to follow:
1. Upscale your DVD collection, writing using standard DVD's, in the DVD format, except enhanced for resolution, and perhaps formats (Perhaps Theora, DivX, MP4, in addition to MPEG2).
Call this DVD-HD.
2. Find a player that plays these DVD-HD discs. Buy this player.
3. When/If you find a commercial disc encoded with "DVD-HD", buy it as well.
4. Remember, don't buy the other HD-DRM discs (Unless it has be worked-around)
5. You can buy a DVD20 or DVD45 writer for data backups.
6. If a "DVD-HD" player is sold that plays "DVD20-HD" or DVD45-HD", buy this player.
7. Or just use VLC on a PC.
8. When/If you find a commercial DVD20 or DVD45 disc encoded with "DVD-HD", buy it as well.
0. If you bought into HD-DRM-DVD, then you expect the next step to be expiring media, then rentals only . Have fun.
We live in an age were every individual can have their own printing press.
Obviously we cannot have that much freedom. Information is dangerous for the masses.
Only the publishing/media companies know best.
To restore order, publishing should only be done by the big media companies.
The material should of course be screened by the Department of Homeland Security, to fight Terrorism.
120 years for copyright is not enough. 1000 years would be fair.
Restore something even better than the Stationers monopoly of 1557!!
Down with "Freedom of Press (Piracy)".