Privacy advocates are up in arms about this kind of research, but these people have to get it through their heads that these companies don't give a fuck who you are.
Fair enough, but what happens when someone who does care comes at one of these companies with a subpoena?
They've been making the transition from subscription-based services to packaged software for a while, if I remember correctly. I'm not sure of the date on the messages, but when they announced Freedom 3.0, the writing was on the wall for Premium Services, just based on the fact that Premium Services wouldn't work with 3.0.
I don't think this has to do with 9/11, although it might have nade the decision easier.
...registered the "sourcefourge.net" that I stumbled on to a couple of months back. Check it out sometime; about ten ad windows pop up when you hit it.
Zuccarini's no parodist -- as noted earlier, and in the decision, he only removed the popups when Joe Shields filed suit.
Oh thats scary, isnt this exactly what happened in the book animal farm? This slow chipping away is beginning to unnerve me. Really I believe animal farm is almost as important if not more important to our present day politics as 1984.
"The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic." -- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
As it did to me at first, but think: a bug that causes a crash, if it happens sufficiently rarely, might not be worth fixing from an economic standpoint. While it still sometimes drives me nuts to ignore the bone-jarring crash-causing bugs to fix cosmetic flaws, if the crash happens rarely while the cosmetic flaw stares you in the face every time the program runs, it can make sense.
This was fought tooth and nail by that bastion of non-partisian free speach advocates the ACLU right?
I don't know -- should we go see what they say, or just keep guessing?
From a press release concerning the original verdict, which you'd have found if you had let a thought get past the medulla oblongata, and actually gone to look:
The ACLU of Oregon believes that the safety of the physicians and clinic workers who provide abortion services can be protected without compromising the fundamental protections of free speech guaranteed by the First Amendment. Our involvement as a friend of the court in this case has been designed to help the court find the appropriate line between protected and unprotected speech under our Constitution. We will continue to play that role as this case moves forward.
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Prior to trial, we argued that the Court should have adopted a stricter constitutional standard in this case to distinguish between unlawful threats and protected speech. We still believe the jury should have been asked to determine whether the evidence showed that the defendants intended to threaten these abortion providers.
BTW -- there's no "a" in "speech" and only two "m"s in "amendment". Hope this helps.
Trust me, if you've seen Bangor, Maine, and anywhere outside the US (except canada), anything in the US is going to look nine times more like Bangor than that anywhere.
In a word, "duh." Name any nation where the local culture varies more than between, say, the fishing towns of Maine and the plantation towns of Mississippi. Nuernberg looked a lot like Muenich to me, which looked a lot like Schwangau, but you don't hear me making sweeping statements about the homogeneity of German culture. I just figure that I probably missed something, because it was all so different to me. I do know that growing up in Arkansas was different from living in Chicago -- much more different than these German cities seemed during my brief visit there.
Has there been an instance where RMS revoked an LGPL or BSD license to replace it with the GPL, or did you actually not intend to tell us something we don't already know?
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Long story... now a simple question: Who do I turn to in this clear case of being fucked over?
Maybe you should talk to a lawyer. Maybe you're well and truly screwed -- a lawyer can tell you. If you've got a case, a lawyer can tell you that, too.
If the owner of a bank set the safe combination to 0-0-0 and walked out the fron door on Friday afternoon leaving the alarm off and front door unlocked, they would probably be held responsible for whatever happened due to their negligence.
Yes, but so, of course, would be the guy who walked into that bank and cleaned out the safe.
Another factor is that a suit by Thompson will hardly appear as an act of good faith to a judge. If Thompson can download and examine the source code, they can hardly claim ignorance when they lose the suit.
Dude, read the article. He didn't just *view* it, he connected to the FTP port, and did port scans on the primary nameserver. That's not criminal behavior, but it's *going* to look suspicious -- at least it does when someone I don't know does it to my machines.
He just picked a very bad time to poke around at those machines, is all.
And populated by Chicken Littles, if you're any evidence. Do you realize that under real fascism, you would have been censored, or worse, for what you just posted?
Do you realize how much your statement dilutes the definition of fascism?
For some reason people see it as reasonable to expect to be able to conceal all the details of their online activities to a much greater extent than is possible in real life. Why ?
I can't speak for all, but basically, in real life, you notice when someone's staring at you, photographing you, or pawing through your wallet/purse. You may not be concealing anything, but you can keep an eye on those who are keeping an eye on you. Online it's much harder to watch the watchers.
This is one of the points of David Brin's "transparent society" idea -- that this is a lot less menacing if you know who's watching, what they're looking at, and that you can watch them, too.
Actually, the mass differences are measured by searching for a phenomenon known as "neutrino oscillation." Basically, what it boils down to is that the time evolution of differently-massive neutrinos will be different, as you might expect from Schroedinger's Equation. So, if you have a pure beam of tau neutrinoes, say, and later find that it's become a mixture of tau neutrinos, mu neutrinos, and e neutrinos, you will know that a mass difference exists, and therefore that at least one neutrino has mass. (This is a gross simplification, but I'm not up to an explanation of Hamiltonians and eigenstates at this hour, especially since I've been out of physics for three years now.)
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Privacy advocates are up in arms about this kind of research, but these people have to get it through their heads that these companies don't give a fuck who you are.
Fair enough, but what happens when someone who does care comes at one of these companies with a subpoena?
They've been making the transition from subscription-based services to packaged software for a while, if I remember correctly. I'm not sure of the date on the messages, but when they announced Freedom 3.0, the writing was on the wall for Premium Services, just based on the fact that Premium Services wouldn't work with 3.0.
I don't think this has to do with 9/11, although it might have nade the decision easier.
Only when this happens can the experimental stop running the show, and the theoretical truly open our eyes to the universe's secrets
Feh© Experiment ¥as a proxy for empiricism always runs the show© It's what distinguishes the visionaries from the crackpots© Any good theorist will agree that it's not real until someone sees it©
...registered the "sourcefourge.net" that I stumbled on to a couple of months back. Check it out sometime; about ten ad windows pop up when you hit it.
Zuccarini's no parodist -- as noted earlier, and in the decision, he only removed the popups when Joe Shields filed suit.
Oh thats scary, isnt this exactly what happened in the book animal farm? This slow chipping away is beginning to unnerve me. Really I believe animal farm is almost as important if not more important to our present day politics as 1984.
"The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic." -- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
You want to stay away from the crowd who thinks that all software should be free.
Actually, you probably just need to steer clear of the ones who think that that belief allows them to make *your* software free.
This seems outright heinous to us at first
As it did to me at first, but think: a bug that causes a crash, if it happens sufficiently rarely, might not be worth fixing from an economic standpoint. While it still sometimes drives me nuts to ignore the bone-jarring crash-causing bugs to fix cosmetic flaws, if the crash happens rarely while the cosmetic flaw stares you in the face every time the program runs, it can make sense.
I agree that if someone publishes the president's travel itenarary, they should be tracked down, and will be tracked down, at all costs.
Why? It's legal to post the home addresses, license numbers and photos of abortion doctors -- why *not* the President's itinerary?
Actually, I got the impression that it was limiting the number of displayed users for a given client that the patent focused on.
Also, it should be noted that the client performs this filtering. This sort of stuff has been done server-side by games like Air Warrior for years.
I don't know -- should we go see what they say, or just keep guessing?
From a press release concerning the original verdict, which you'd have found if you had let a thought get past the medulla oblongata, and actually gone to look:
BTW -- there's no "a" in "speech" and only two "m"s in "amendment". Hope this helps.
Trust me, if you've seen Bangor, Maine, and anywhere outside the US (except canada), anything in the US is going to look nine times more like Bangor than that anywhere.
In a word, "duh." Name any nation where the local culture varies more than between, say, the fishing towns of Maine and the plantation towns of Mississippi. Nuernberg looked a lot like Muenich to me, which looked a lot like Schwangau, but you don't hear me making sweeping statements about the homogeneity of German culture. I just figure that I probably missed something, because it was all so different to me. I do know that growing up in Arkansas was different from living in Chicago -- much more different than these German cities seemed during my brief visit there.
(you ain't lived til you tried some real New York Pizza)
And after that, when you're ready for some real food you can come to Chicago.(heh, heh)
I also find that it would be despicable to tell a corporation that they couldn't hire permanent replacements for me.
Why? They're perfectly pleased to say you can't find a replacement for them.
I was afraid someone would bring this up© I don't have a ready answer© I think there's some difference between the two situations, but can't articulate what it is yet©
Perhaps the difference is that adults don't labor under the notion that they must be seen and not heard©
Simple.
Increased sales increased sales + settlement + revenue from Napster equivalent run by the labels.
QED.
Has there been an instance where RMS revoked an LGPL or BSD license to replace it with the GPL, or did you actually not intend to tell us something we don't already know?
At least he signed up© Loser©
Now if it's just comparing regular RPC to XML_RPC then it can still be argued that adding the bloat of XML-RPC so that calls can work across systems or languages is not worth it considering how rarely real cross platform distributed computing is done©
Maybe it's not done because it's been so hard up till now© Maybe nothing good will come out of it, but I can't help but be excited, because a great many things will move from the realm of the possible, into the realm of the easy©
In any case, it's now a hell of a lot easier to see what those remote calls are callin' for© That's got to be worth something in the debug cycle©
Long story... now a simple question: Who do I turn to in this clear case of being fucked over?
Maybe you should talk to a lawyer. Maybe you're well and truly screwed -- a lawyer can tell you. If you've got a case, a lawyer can tell you that, too.
If the owner of a bank set the safe combination to 0-0-0 and walked out the fron door on Friday afternoon leaving the alarm off and front door unlocked, they would probably be held responsible for whatever happened due to their negligence.
Yes, but so, of course, would be the guy who walked into that bank and cleaned out the safe.
Another factor is that a suit by Thompson will hardly appear as an act of good faith to a judge. If Thompson can download and examine the source code, they can hardly claim ignorance when they lose the suit.
Dude, read the article. He didn't just *view* it, he connected to the FTP port, and did port scans on the primary nameserver. That's not criminal behavior, but it's *going* to look suspicious -- at least it does when someone I don't know does it to my machines.
He just picked a very bad time to poke around at those machines, is all.
The Bazaar is being run by Fascists.
And populated by Chicken Littles, if you're any evidence. Do you realize that under real fascism, you would have been censored, or worse, for what you just posted?
Do you realize how much your statement dilutes the definition of fascism?
For some reason people see it as reasonable to expect to be able to conceal all the details of their online activities to a much greater extent than is possible in real life. Why ?
I can't speak for all, but basically, in real life, you notice when someone's staring at you, photographing you, or pawing through your wallet/purse. You may not be concealing anything, but you can keep an eye on those who are keeping an eye on you. Online it's much harder to watch the watchers.
This is one of the points of David Brin's "transparent society" idea -- that this is a lot less menacing if you know who's watching, what they're looking at, and that you can watch them, too.
Actually, the mass differences are measured by searching for a phenomenon known as "neutrino oscillation." Basically, what it boils down to is that the time evolution of differently-massive neutrinos will be different, as you might expect from Schroedinger's Equation. So, if you have a pure beam of tau neutrinoes, say, and later find that it's become a mixture of tau neutrinos, mu neutrinos, and e neutrinos, you will know that a mass difference exists, and therefore that at least one neutrino has mass. (This is a gross simplification, but I'm not up to an explanation of Hamiltonians and eigenstates at this hour, especially since I've been out of physics for three years now.)