I'm talking about more than tax breaks. Read up on it a little more. An example is federally funded research, which is given to companies for free, that then turn around and sell it to us with patents for a profit. Medical research is a big deal in this area. The government pays for almost all of it, and then we end up paying for it again with inflated prices. Check out Public Citizen for some recent information.
This is actually a key point: the cease and desist letter points to contract law. IP rights, in and of themselves, are not what brings this about. It's the ability to make ancillary agreements. In this case, Mac Fix-it clearly broke the EULA. They don't have a leg to stand on as long as the EULA is contractually valid, which it shouldn't be, but is.
Actually, I don't see why an individual should be stopped from doing this on their own, but publishing the details is another matter altogether. It amounts to theft.
Gun manufacturers are, however, enablers. For them to reject all responsibility makes no sense. If I give a young child a bottle of poison, am I not to blame when they ingest it? How about an adult, who might not be cognizant of all of the dangers of the poison?
This is exactly the same, if you don't take care of security, it will bite you in the ass and it's no-one's fault but yours. If you leave your door open at night in a dangerous neighborhood, you cannot absolve yourself of responsibility when all of your stuff is stolen. It doesn't make it your fault altogether, but you certainly share the blame.
>If the US government was in bed with corporate America, why are businesses saddled with excessive regulations and taxes?
Prove it. Corporate welfare is larger than any other form of welfare. The big corporations get more tax breaks than the average American, that's for sure. And where, exactly, would we be without the limited regulations that we currently have?
Don't forget that although Ralp Nader )through organizations like Public Citizen) pressured car companies into improving their safety under strong opposition, a year later the car companies themselves were trumpeting the safety features that they had been *forced* to implement! Provide some evidence to back up the assertion that we have "excessive regulation" and "high taxes" for corporations. The fact is that government involvement is needed: economists acknowledge that the market does not solve all problems alone. I am in favor of reducing the entitlement complex that corporations seem to have, however.
That would be a terrible precedent. The benefit of not being sued, versus a court summarily deciding that all Internet content is without fact. Think about it.
Not everyone has read Slashdot for several years, or reads it religiously each day. I, for one, found this to be something interesting that I learned a little about. Similarly with the steganography articles: it's an old concept, I had heard a little about it, but the Slashdot post for once actually gave me new information. This kind of story is much more "news for nerds, stuff that matters" than an announcement of the next kernel prerelease. If it's a little redundant, it's worth the price.
I think that it must be the intentional mis-spellings in the post, to state the obvious. All the more evidence that us modern computer users can't detect mis-spellings at all without our spell checkers.
You know my school still uses laserdiscs? that's a funny medium. The discs are something like 20 in across. Almost all of them are doublesided. People don't mind flipping a disk over if it holds so much data. It's actually easier than keeping track of two discs...
Also, I think that some double-sided dvds are already in existence.
I heard that there actually are methods of lossless video compression that achieve better rates than MPEG 4, that some big names in the industry are patenting right now. I really know none of the details, but does anybody here? Anyone with an NDA want to post anonymously?
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I think emacs (>30 mb for some distros) is a little too large to be a practical embedded part:). GTK and QT already provide standard text editing parts.
Re:If you REALLY want gtk, check this.
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X-Emacs is not the same as GNU-Emacs. The GNU emacs has many more useful programming features. IIRC they have a completely different codebase as well.
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X-Emacs is not the sames as GNU Emacs. I realize that the poster knows this, but the moderator obviously does not.
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it is funny. demonizing somebody will never help you defeat him. this makes bin Laden more understandable. all humor is fundamentally gallows humor, and it serves a useful societal purpose.
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congress's efforts are going towards making that more than a joke. This site may get on the list. heh, now imagine the pain that CIA workers will have in being required to read slashdot posts at the -1 threshold. "who is this goatse.cx, and what is the connection to osama bin laden?"
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I don't think there was any conspiracy, but I do think that Ernie and Bert were meant to be positive role models of a "non-traditional" family. It might not have been explicitly homosexual. It helps for kids with two dads though.
Bravo! Thank you for such an intelligent post. This is a propaganda war, and it's scary that the word "peace" doesn't have the benefit of the positive connotation.
Hasn't 3d Labs always wanted OpenGL to be the standard? And in some sense, haven't DirectX and OpenGL always been competitors? The article heading should have said something like "work for OpenGL 2.0 progressing".
Probably an AMR slot - Audio/Modem Riser. It's a special half-length slot. Basically, the circuitry resides mainly on the motherboard already. It's a cheap way of providing sound or modem funtionalities in an add-on card. For the most part, OEM manufacturers are the only folks that use these slots.
Our school uses X Win 32. This is quite a capable and compact x windows server. It is a commercial product, but by far the best I have found.
there are several projects to create kid-friendly linux software. a good place to start would be the Debian Jr. project, which aims to create an entire distribution. There are also some simple educational games around, like Tux Typer.
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Here there's a good summary.
I'm talking about more than tax breaks. Read up on it a little more. An example is federally funded research, which is given to companies for free, that then turn around and sell it to us with patents for a profit. Medical research is a big deal in this area. The government pays for almost all of it, and then we end up paying for it again with inflated prices. Check out Public Citizen for some recent information.
Actually, I don't see why an individual should be stopped from doing this on their own, but publishing the details is another matter altogether. It amounts to theft.
This is exactly the same, if you don't take care of security, it will bite you in the ass and it's no-one's fault but yours. If you leave your door open at night in a dangerous neighborhood, you cannot absolve yourself of responsibility when all of your stuff is stolen. It doesn't make it your fault altogether, but you certainly share the blame.
Prove it. Corporate welfare is larger than any other form of welfare. The big corporations get more tax breaks than the average American, that's for sure. And where, exactly, would we be without the limited regulations that we currently have?
Don't forget that although Ralp Nader )through organizations like Public Citizen) pressured car companies into improving their safety under strong opposition, a year later the car companies themselves were trumpeting the safety features that they had been *forced* to implement! Provide some evidence to back up the assertion that we have "excessive regulation" and "high taxes" for corporations. The fact is that government involvement is needed: economists acknowledge that the market does not solve all problems alone. I am in favor of reducing the entitlement complex that corporations seem to have, however.
That would be a terrible precedent. The benefit of not being sued, versus a court summarily deciding that all Internet content is without fact. Think about it.
it's been done.
Not everyone has read Slashdot for several years, or reads it religiously each day. I, for one, found this to be something interesting that I learned a little about. Similarly with the steganography articles: it's an old concept, I had heard a little about it, but the Slashdot post for once actually gave me new information. This kind of story is much more "news for nerds, stuff that matters" than an announcement of the next kernel prerelease. If it's a little redundant, it's worth the price.
Why is this moderated to funny?
Has someone finally designed a working Von Neumann machine?
Now the question is...will the existing commercial .com'ers migrate over to .biz? I think it will be some time yet before I try a .biz tld before a .com.
I think that it must be the intentional mis-spellings in the post, to state the obvious. All the more evidence that us modern computer users can't detect mis-spellings at all without our spell checkers.
I believe this is called an amicus brief, or friend of the court brief. They are quite common in cases of wide interest.
Also, I think that some double-sided dvds are already in existence.
I heard that there actually are methods of lossless video compression that achieve better rates than MPEG 4, that some big names in the industry are patenting right now. I really know none of the details, but does anybody here? Anyone with an NDA want to post anonymously?
I think emacs (>30 mb for some distros) is a little too large to be a practical embedded part :). GTK and QT already provide standard text editing parts.
X-Emacs is not the same as GNU-Emacs. The GNU emacs has many more useful programming features. IIRC they have a completely different codebase as well.
X-Emacs is not the sames as GNU Emacs. I realize that the poster knows this, but the moderator obviously does not.
it is funny. demonizing somebody will never help you defeat him. this makes bin Laden more understandable. all humor is fundamentally gallows humor, and it serves a useful societal purpose.
congress's efforts are going towards making that more than a joke. This site may get on the list. heh, now imagine the pain that CIA workers will have in being required to read slashdot posts at the -1 threshold. "who is this goatse.cx, and what is the connection to osama bin laden?"
I don't think there was any conspiracy, but I do think that Ernie and Bert were meant to be positive role models of a "non-traditional" family. It might not have been explicitly homosexual. It helps for kids with two dads though.
Bravo! Thank you for such an intelligent post. This is a propaganda war, and it's scary that the word "peace" doesn't have the benefit of the positive connotation.
Hasn't 3d Labs always wanted OpenGL to be the standard? And in some sense, haven't DirectX and OpenGL always been competitors? The article heading should have said something like "work for OpenGL 2.0 progressing".
Probably an AMR slot - Audio/Modem Riser. It's a special half-length slot. Basically, the circuitry resides mainly on the motherboard already. It's a cheap way of providing sound or modem funtionalities in an add-on card. For the most part, OEM manufacturers are the only folks that use these slots.
there are several projects to create kid-friendly linux software. a good place to start would be the Debian Jr. project, which aims to create an entire distribution. There are also some simple educational games around, like Tux Typer.