I'd rather learn left handed dvorak. The biggest slowdown to my productivity is moving my right hand between mouse and keys. I know most of the keyboard shortcuts, but not every application supplies these for every command. Being able to do most of my typing with one hand would help a lot.
Reductio ad adsurdum. Yes it was extreme. I went for the most trivial crime and most extreme penalty, to be sure that everyone would agree that it was excessive. It would also be a little extreme for telemarketing.
The point is, there is a point with all crimes where the penalty will be too extreme. Anything other than being told off seems like an excessive penalty for jay walking. Several million dollars seems a little excessive for telemarketing, and if everyone could be bothered, this is what the penalty would be.
So, the question is, when does a fine become so high that it ceases to be a deterrent, and starts to become brutality?
I mean, sure $500 is a reasonable amount for a single violation. Most businesses could afford that. But if a lot of people decide to sue, then it strikes me that this would be like the RIAA's recent claim of the GDP of several countries.
This is irritating, but do we really thin kthe crime is bad enough to charge an individual a potential $5 000 000 (assuming 10 000 irate victims)?
The only successful purpose of a tax is to generate revenue for governments. They do this quite effectively. When used to discourage certain types of behaviour, they simply aren't very effective. People will either pay the taxes, or find a way to avoid them.
Has anyone ever been put off drining, smoking or driving because of taxes? How about earning money? Owning a large house? Selling goods and services? All of these things are taxed. They have very little effect in reducing demand.
The technolgoy industry should be on our side. They want to sell a PVR to everyone who bought a VCR. I think they'll prefer an open market for this. Being tied to a cable company will not give them the level of flexibility that they would like.
They are still (probably) being monitored. They're only being monitored by the authorities. We don't get to monitor them ourselves, or to see whether the police are behaving themselves.
But really the problem is that the government (or London Transport at any rate) are acting very suspiciously, and we want to know what they're up to. They are quite clearly disabling those camera because of the demonstration. They had similar "maintanance" for the "stop the war" demonstrations, and the only cameras that were taken down were those along the protest route.
There are many possible reasons for them to take the cameras down. Some of the potential reasons are genuinely honest, (Example - they may feel that the cameras should only be used for monitoring traffic, not people), but they really should tell us why they're doing this.
Different cameras, I think. These are general purpose traffic webcams that simply take snaps of the roads every few minutes to give drivers an idea of how much traffic there is. I.e. These
Yeah, they're expensive, but large stream powered models are fantastic. I saw a layout with radio controlled trains. It's nice to have that sort of flexibility.
First, read the DMCA (might be an idea to get help from a sympathetic lawyer to translate from legalese). Make sure you are 100% compliant. See if the letter is. Specifically, (according to chillingeffects.org) the letter has to contain:
The name, address, and electronic signature of the complaining party [512(c)(3)(A)(i)]
The infringing materials and their Internet location [512(c)(3)(A)(ii-iii)]
Sufficient information to identify the copyrighted works [512(c)(3)(A)(iv)]
A statement by the owner that it has a good faith belief that there is no legal basis for the use of the materials complained of [512(c)(3)(A)(v)]
A statement of the accuracy of the notice and, under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on the behalf of the owner. [512(c)(3)(A)(vi)]
It may well be that the letters are not fully compliant. Usually they don't sign these because the complainant isn't the RIAA. See what happens if you respond asking for a compliant letter.
It may be that they do include a signature, in which case you're up the creek. Also it is essential that you are compliant with te provisions since two can play at that game.
An age old problem (adjusted for inflation). If you owe someone $12000, then you have a proble. If you owe someone $100 000 000, then they have a problem.
The simple fact is that they couldn't possible have paid the damages the RIAA was asking. If the RIAA had won, they would have simply ruined the life of some college kids for no gain, and if they had lost, they would have had no gain. Trouble is, the kids didn't see this as a fight worth risking ruining their lives over.
That's their choice. It's their lives. The legal system is seriously screwed up if it can potentially cause those sorts of problem in a civil lawsuit though.
The RIAA don't care. It's cheaper for them to do this than produce CDs
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A lot of manufacturers aren't supporting the community. Know what that means don't you?
Which community?
You're exposed to the development model. While in a closed-source OS (BeOS), the process is hidden from you. For all you know the (former) BeOS developers could have been wrangling with the same issues as you, but since the majority are never exposed to that. They believe that something mysterious and magical is happening when they go to use their computers.
Can I ask you a question? What exactly does this have to do with DRI and DirectFB?
That's two questions. The answer to the first is "Yes", and the answer to the second is a complaint that drivers are rather difficult to install in Linux compared with just about any non MS OS. Said complaint was quite rightly modded down as a troll.
1. Compile your kernel without module versioning.
Can I do that? Fair enough. I'll look into it.
2. Good luck getting it signed. However, that's up to you. Most people don't understand what a driver does, much less why one would need to be written.
It's not essential to get it signed. Even XP will still use unsigned drivers, and unless MS want to annoy a lot of developers by forcing them to use a special "development" version of windows. Generally speaking nobody needs to do write drivers.
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mp3s. I don't really want to have to abbreviate "Ray Stevens - Jeremiah Peabody's Poly Unsaturated Quick Dissolving Fast Acting Pleasant Tasting Green And Purple Pills" just because if an inadequacy in the filesystem.
1. Loadable modules are nice. The seem to keep complaining if the driver version differs from the kernel version.
2. If I want to write a third party GPLed driver for windows, then I can. Most people don't need to and so they don't bother.
3. I suggest proper coffee. Make sure it's freshly ground.
Troll mode off, if I did decide to write a kernel, I'd probably write something very different from Linux. Aspects of it are quite good, especially the support for obscure filesystems, but really adding drivers is rather unpleasant. Somehow BeOS makes life seem so much easier. Just drag and drop. Things just work.
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You just have to create your own CD filesystem, and cope with the fact that it's incompatible with all other CDs in the world
Maybe they block them if there is a pro-gov event as well. Most people tend not to protest if they support the government.
A non-conspiracy possiblity is simply that they can't cope with that many hits. These are designed to be looked at a few hundred times a day by people wondering what the best route to the M4 is, not by several thousand trying to watch the may day protests.
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I'd rather learn left handed dvorak. The biggest slowdown to my productivity is moving my right hand between mouse and keys. I know most of the keyboard shortcuts, but not every application supplies these for every command. Being able to do most of my typing with one hand would help a lot.
Reductio ad adsurdum. Yes it was extreme. I went for the most trivial crime and most extreme penalty, to be sure that everyone would agree that it was excessive. It would also be a little extreme for telemarketing.
The point is, there is a point with all crimes where the penalty will be too extreme. Anything other than being told off seems like an excessive penalty for jay walking. Several million dollars seems a little excessive for telemarketing, and if everyone could be bothered, this is what the penalty would be.
So, the question is, when does a fine become so high that it ceases to be a deterrent, and starts to become brutality?
Yes, but the death penalty for jaywalking would also be a deterrent. It doesn't mean it's right. The penalty sould fit the crime.
I mean, sure $500 is a reasonable amount for a single violation. Most businesses could afford that. But if a lot of people decide to sue, then it strikes me that this would be like the RIAA's recent claim of the GDP of several countries.
This is irritating, but do we really thin kthe crime is bad enough to charge an individual a potential $5 000 000 (assuming 10 000 irate victims)?
The only successful purpose of a tax is to generate revenue for governments. They do this quite effectively. When used to discourage certain types of behaviour, they simply aren't very effective. People will either pay the taxes, or find a way to avoid them.
Has anyone ever been put off drining, smoking or driving because of taxes? How about earning money? Owning a large house? Selling goods and services? All of these things are taxed. They have very little effect in reducing demand.
imagine how trivial invading across an undefended border would be....
I dunno... General Hull tried this in 1812, and got his ass whipped.
The technolgoy industry should be on our side. They want to sell a PVR to everyone who bought a VCR. I think they'll prefer an open market for this. Being tied to a cable company will not give them the level of flexibility that they would like.
My comment was based on another Slashdot comment. It was probably yours. I felt I should share since not everyone posts in the sections.
Plus side - Having a wrist phone would be pretty cool. Be nicer if it was 3g with a video phone, of course.
Minus side - I like a keypad. Texting on these things will be a pain, and since about 70% of my mobile comms is text based, this is a big issue.
They are still (probably) being monitored. They're only being monitored by the authorities. We don't get to monitor them ourselves, or to see whether the police are behaving themselves.
But really the problem is that the government (or London Transport at any rate) are acting very suspiciously, and we want to know what they're up to. They are quite clearly disabling those camera because of the demonstration. They had similar "maintanance" for the "stop the war" demonstrations, and the only cameras that were taken down were those along the protest route.
There are many possible reasons for them to take the cameras down. Some of the potential reasons are genuinely honest, (Example - they may feel that the cameras should only be used for monitoring traffic, not people), but they really should tell us why they're doing this.
Different cameras, I think. These are general purpose traffic webcams that simply take snaps of the roads every few minutes to give drivers an idea of how much traffic there is. I.e. These
But you don't get to know about it. That's the whole point!
Yeah, they're expensive, but large stream powered models are fantastic. I saw a layout with radio controlled trains. It's nice to have that sort of flexibility.
- The name, address, and electronic signature of the complaining party [512(c)(3)(A)(i)]
- The infringing materials and their Internet location [512(c)(3)(A)(ii-iii)]
- Sufficient information to identify the copyrighted works [512(c)(3)(A)(iv)]
- A statement by the owner that it has a good faith belief that there is no legal basis for the use of the materials complained of [512(c)(3)(A)(v)]
- A statement of the accuracy of the notice and, under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on the behalf of the owner. [512(c)(3)(A)(vi)]
It may well be that the letters are not fully compliant. Usually they don't sign these because the complainant isn't the RIAA. See what happens if you respond asking for a compliant letter.It may be that they do include a signature, in which case you're up the creek. Also it is essential that you are compliant with te provisions since two can play at that game.
I think they were running an actual server raqther than just supplying the software. I may be wrong here.
They certainly had a lot of songs that they were sharing. The penalty is sort of appropriate for that crime, although it still seems rather harsh.
An age old problem (adjusted for inflation). If you owe someone $12000, then you have a proble. If you owe someone $100 000 000, then they have a problem.
The simple fact is that they couldn't possible have paid the damages the RIAA was asking. If the RIAA had won, they would have simply ruined the life of some college kids for no gain, and if they had lost, they would have had no gain. Trouble is, the kids didn't see this as a fight worth risking ruining their lives over.
That's their choice. It's their lives. The legal system is seriously screwed up if it can potentially cause those sorts of problem in a civil lawsuit though.
The RIAA don't care. It's cheaper for them to do this than produce CDs
A lot of manufacturers aren't supporting the community. Know what that means don't you?
Which community?
You're exposed to the development model. While in a closed-source OS (BeOS), the process is hidden from you. For all you know the (former) BeOS developers could have been wrangling with the same issues as you, but since the majority are never exposed to that. They believe that something mysterious and magical is happening when they go to use their computers.
I don't give a damn. As long as it works.
Can I ask you a question? What exactly does this have to do with DRI and DirectFB?
That's two questions. The answer to the first is "Yes", and the answer to the second is a complaint that drivers are rather difficult to install in Linux compared with just about any non MS OS. Said complaint was quite rightly modded down as a troll.
1. Compile your kernel without module versioning.
Can I do that? Fair enough. I'll look into it.
2. Good luck getting it signed. However, that's up to you. Most people don't understand what a driver does, much less why one would need to be written.
It's not essential to get it signed. Even XP will still use unsigned drivers, and unless MS want to annoy a lot of developers by forcing them to use a special "development" version of windows. Generally speaking nobody needs to do write drivers.
mp3s. I don't really want to have to abbreviate "Ray Stevens - Jeremiah Peabody's Poly Unsaturated Quick Dissolving Fast Acting Pleasant Tasting Green And Purple Pills" just because if an inadequacy in the filesystem.
1. Loadable modules are nice. The seem to keep complaining if the driver version differs from the kernel version.
2. If I want to write a third party GPLed driver for windows, then I can. Most people don't need to and so they don't bother.
3. I suggest proper coffee. Make sure it's freshly ground.
Troll mode off, if I did decide to write a kernel, I'd probably write something very different from Linux. Aspects of it are quite good, especially the support for obscure filesystems, but really adding drivers is rather unpleasant. Somehow BeOS makes life seem so much easier. Just drag and drop. Things just work.
You just have to create your own CD filesystem, and cope with the fact that it's incompatible with all other CDs in the world
Maybe they block them if there is a pro-gov event as well. Most people tend not to protest if they support the government.
A non-conspiracy possiblity is simply that they can't cope with that many hits. These are designed to be looked at a few hundred times a day by people wondering what the best route to the M4 is, not by several thousand trying to watch the may day protests.
Fair enough. We're the ones that are cut off though, not the government. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/travel/jamcams/north_c entral.shtml
Yes, but it doesn't make the reverse engineered printer cartidges illegal.