2) Send them money through the mail. No, really, send money, since a cheque is traceable directly to you.
Postal money orders, cash for check Besides, I said nothing bout steeling. Propose the idea to artists, if the RIAA gets on your ass, show payment in full for the material ya own. This requires artist co-operation, but hey, most are really hip to the idea of cutting out the middleman.
3) Send an explanation? Should you? "Yeah, I stole your album from the net so I could circumvent the RIAA and make sure it goes right to you."
Allow artists to become retailers of their own music by proposing they do things your way. Deal with artists exclusivly who employ would use this business model, boycott tradidtional RIAA channels. Sue the RIAA when they harrass your distrobution center [i.e. file sharing networks].
This has nothing to do with forcing artists to accept your money on your terms. This has to do with transforming the enemy [file sharing] into your friend. Free distrubion from your perspective.
An ya know... the pepole who actually are starving artists, they responce was, "oh kick ass, you mean all I need to do is have a website and approperate links to payment means".
If the artest doesn't agree with this system, well you are under no obligation to buy via the established means.
While this is clearly a troll, there is a grain of wisdom in here. People generally don't have to seek power, they get granted it, for various reasons. In the case of Germany, the Nazis grew from a period of ecconomic recession, given power to resolve the problems the nation was experencing. And yes, you can easily compair the RIAA to the Nazi rise to power. Basicly they RIAA is being given this power to deal with what is percieved as an ecconimic crisis, and in order to justify them selves, they found a pretty convienent scapegoat, filesharing.
While the Nazi case is a very extreem one, it's an important one to remember because well it can happen, it did happen, and it can happen again. Got a problem, find a scapegoat, rally the people in a common goal to deal with the scapegoat. Oh it must be working, I guess the scapegoat was really to blame, but don't stop now. Doesn't matter the fact the problem was resolved by a people united and the scapegoat had nothing at all to do with the problem in the first place, creating an external enemy WORKS!
I prefer not using the term Nazis beause it's far too commonly used just for shock value. But if the shoe fits, so be it.
Now the problem with the RIAA is by declairing "file sharing" as the enemy, it's something very self defeating because their consumers use filesharing. They start cracking down on their consumers, guess what, they are going to loose. The RIAA has been given this power by artists who really need an asshole. Metalica, while I may disagree with them, couldn't relaly be *the* asshole without it cutting into their music sales. So the RIAA becomes the asshole, so people with the Metalica attidude can have plauseable deniablity. "It's not ME, it's the RIAA".
So what's the solution, as this troll pointed out, convience artists that the RIAA's present vision is incompatable with their interests.
Perl jam, while i'm not a huge huge fan, sells stickets exclusivly though their fan club, rather then going through ticket bastard.
Interesting enough, they also have NO problem with fans bringing dat recorders to shows, provided that bootlegs are not sold for money or profit. Now the problem is getting your dat recorder in past security, who are more often then not instructed to now alow recording devices.
The reason why I bring those guys up is the fact that they are the major exception to a pretty hip band who if they were not quite so popular wouldn't be able to make their own rules.
Users in brazil, ones who actually don't engage in spamming but are by-standards of specific isp policies to just block the nation, find they have to move away from hotmail because it too is becomming a major source of spam. This is frustrating to these people for they were refered to hotmail by the honest advise of people who support spam-lists.
Ahhh... my mistake... or rather I blame apple for having model designations that are pretty meaningless... i.e. old iMac is like an eMac, and new iMac is a lamp with a monitor attached. I'll update my terms to reflect old imac, new imac, emac, and complain form time to time that apple can't stick with one name for one product line. [side note: it would be if toyota decide to make the corolla more camry like, and visa versa]
Dispite the fact that i'm not a mac fan... I do enjoy the system design concepts that reduce the level of wire. Typical home setup includes the following.
1. Power wire for mointor and computer
2. wire for monitor
3. wire for speakers
4. Wire for keyboard mouse
5. Wires for printer
I personaly have much more I list here... as well as a gigantic rats next behind the system dispite the fact I went through alot of bother an effort to reduce the distance these wires have to go.
Going lcd and a traditional monitor makes sence. Room for drives, room for power supply, perhaps room for battery backup as well. Add some physical protection for the LCD and i'd consider one. While some users would prefer a thinner footprint, I would enjoy all that crap being pushed behind my monitor without having to look at it. My desk is already geared for a traditional monitor after all, the only diffrencw would be I have no place to put my feet.
Apple should take note of this. The use of lcd screens in their imac would resolve the following issues...
1. Extra heat your monitor. Let's face it CRTs and computers don't mix. 2. Degausing doesn't just demagnatize the screen but anything and everything. let's face it, CRTs and magnetic media don't mix
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Now the obvious question... is there a market for this sorta design? Personaly i'd say yes. I wouldn't nessicarly go with a traditional monitor layout, but there is a sorta apeal with lugables. Anyold joe can hookup a keyboard and mouse and plug it in the wall.
Something like this could in theory house batteries, a fuck of alot more then your average laptop. Also I like the idea of a cable run for my keyboard and mouse from my monitor. If i'm not mistaken Xerox did this in their workstations way back when.
Auto accidents are on the rise with a virus infects high tech clothing. While no loss of data has been reported, users of this new technology are annoyed with when the virus forces their onscreen display to say, "CLICK MY ASS".
Actually some floppies I had fell on a wall heater and I noted that they shrank just like shrinky-dinks(sp). Made for some interesting art projects. Problem is I can't remember the make and model. I attempted to heat others and all I got was the smell of cheep molten plastic goo and a dead gerbil:S
Problem is in cases where i've seen that tried, some other company with a bankrole comes in an snags it. Unless there was a public trust exclusivly for the purpose of buying up companies to add their welth to the OSS movement, it's none too practical as it takes too long to aquire funds from public.
The Windows method for this has made more sense: you choose something called "eject" to eject media (or press an eject button, the easiest method. The buttons are often missing on the Mac!), and the trash can is used for destroying files.
I think this is a pretty poor example. I'm no fan of the mac, but there was a reason they did things this way. In fact, I like how the mac handles the floppy drive. Keep in mind that there was a time when floppy disks were actually used by people, and early macs were released without hard drives. It being turn key technology, and users not understanding that you nessicarly needed to keep the disk in when it was loading up aspects of it's OS, or when writing to a disk, mac control provided an eliment of safty. Unlike microsoft dos, the mac responds to you putting a floppy in. Always has, major bonus when installing multi disk applications. There is a disk change line that windows seems most oblivious to. If you are talking CD-rom, all the macs I know have eject buttons, but there are provisions to over-ride the user if the computer still needs that disk. The whole trash can thing I admit was silly, most people I new either used apple-e to eject, or did so from the onscreen menu.
But as far as corel, I would agree. Last time I looked at it, it was using a very dated windows 3.1 style interface. I found it most tedius to use, basicly having to recal how I would operate a vintage piece of software. Corel doesn't really have a product I use, but my mother does. Vast collection of clipart and ease of adding borders to family photos. A few large stumbling blocks like duplex printing that never works right. It has an idiot proof system where you print a page, turn it over, and print it again and you tell it what sorta orientation it has. No one is really sure as to how you flip the page, and wished there was an over-ride button so it wouldn't print this page every time. But aside from irrating annoyances and large stumbling blocks, corel does have a few products geard tward my grandmother.
Exactly. Do we really need semi-conductors when tubes work just fine? Given the popularity of radio sets, the reduction in power consumption was most spiffy, let alone benifits of portable transister radios.
Logical applications:
1. Mobile phones. resolves the issue of wrist watch based trancievers being too bulky. [side note, would be spiffy if your jacket phone took off the shelf rechargable batteries] Mobile video phones as well.
2. Mobile media players. Portable media players, wether they be cassette, CD, or solid state digital are subject to being thrashed about on the body, bumping into things, and falling off.
3. Displays. thinner display could be the future to digital paper.
4. Portable computing. The artical doesn't cover input, to me it seems a rather nice alternative to lugging around a laptop.
Nope, spamhaus doesn't censor, I do. I use their list but I am the censor who actually engages in the censorship.
Technically speaking it is censorship in it's purest form. When one person or a group acts as a censor to block objectionable material from larger group of pepole, this is the version defination of censorship. The diffrence is I was asked to take such measures, I was asked to protect people from material they had no wish in seeing.
Is it any less censorship in Germany because people can choose to either move to other countries, or choose an ISP not governed by German law? Hell no!
Yep, it's my choice to block spam. I do not want my users exposed to it. I choose to censor spam. while I use spamhaus's service, I am the final censor. I consider spam to be most objectionable. I engage in censorship.
It's clearly Germany's choice to *block* access to www.stormfront.org. They don't want their nationals exposed to objectionable material. They choose to censor it. They are engaging in censorship. It's both censorship, the choice to remove material that is considered morally, politically, or otherwise objectionable.
And you know, I object so spam, it's among the most objectionable material i'm exposed to, according to me and countless others objecting to it.
I'm sure i'm going to be slapped down many points for saying this. But in many ways, I don't see this as being much diffrent then the spamhaus project, among other sources of blacklisting spam sites.
Now don't get me wrong, I use spamhaus my self. But make no mistake, it is a form of censorship. I use it specificly to censor sites that have had prior evidence of sending spam.
The only key diffrence here is that Germany seems to be taking a stand on hate groups. In america there are a vast number of ISPs that wouldn't host white power groups. The key diffrence here is it's not a violation of free speech to let some other joe host it.
I don't condone what they are doing. Germany clearly has made a choice as to content they deem unacceptable, that's no excuse for screwing up the with. If they really want to censor groups that promote violance and hate, I would propose they do it on a proxy server instead.
I personaly wouldn't support a sensor stormfront.org. After visiting the site, it made me physicaly ill esp after seeing kids.stormfront.org. "I am only thirteen years old and I really do not need your hateful thoughts in my head." Yep, and providing a nice link to the freal story on marten luther king, with nice info on how somehow jewish run companies are responcible for rap lyrics promoting the killing of white people. [white powder... white powder]. While I hate this crap, it's part of free speech, the inalienable right for people to make total asses out of them selves.
Let me copy that CD and pay for a licensed case and label to asfix on it.
This would work for big corps and independence alike.
Copyright holders get thier cash, artists get royalities, everyone wins.
It's a small step but I think it's the first one nessecary to establish that we buy the content, not the media. I don't pay $12.99 for the CD to hang on my x-mas tree afterall.
Yes, Microsoft is the exception here. There are actually likely to be using stuff from ages past, that whole issue with downward compatability.
Not to apear anti-corperation... even for a company like, "Microsoft" a "don't use it loose it" policy would serve to enhance their product too. Because they do use it.
While they wouldn't be hip to shorter copyrights for software, microsoft could stand to benifit as well. Most of my believe in promoting inovation deals with products which lost their comercial value. Most microsoft products still have comercial value.
or rather I wish I had a contact list of shareholders.
Near as I can tell, the claim is 18 months ago ibm might have made a booboo. Somehow this may be connected to linux.
What I don't know is did this eledged code make it's way into linux, or is it much earlier.
Is there a version number the the kernal that has the inapproperate code? The sent out letters warning people not to run linux, but did they ever specificy a version number?
If not the kernal then what else.
I would think that the shareholders need to be made aware of this. Assuming that they are correct, then by not providing basic information as to what specific products are affected, they are serving to compound damages. This can be done without issues of distributing what they consider to be their IP.
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This is just another reason not to do business with SCO. Any professional company, including microsoft, when issuing a complaint about something they consider to be violating their IP, they contact the person, tell them specificly what product and version number they have issues with, and ask them nicely to resolve the issue. I've seen how this works, while you might disagree with microsoft, in matters like they they are a hell of alot more professional then SCO.
Seriously, how would you respond to a user who submits a bug report, "Linux crashes" without even telling you what Distrobution.
For a time you could get 1701 monitors from goodwill for cheep, as well as other NTSC compatable monitors like magnavox. Basicly people didn't realize or understand they were indeed useful. I never tried svideo input on it, but hey.
I must admit, I had one of those. It was pretty spiffy for the time. I eventually picked up an Amiga 1080 some years later though. Quality was so good you could see the wires on "kung fu the legond continues". These are, or rather *were* more often reccomended for editing then the 1701s. I believe the 1701 had something like a.41mm dot pitch.
My last monitor of this vintage was a magnavox actually. Stereo, which while all monitor speakers are lame, it what I used when I wanted to pop in a tape at night..31 dot pitch, while that's nothing to scream home about, it was a 14inch and the best resolution it saw was 640*400. 8CM536 I believe was it's model number, but don't quote me, it died a horrible death.
These days, these shops are refusing donations of TVs and monitors due to the high cost of disposal. Major pitty. I understand where they are comming from though. Someone comes in with a big ass monitor and they thing someone will buy it. Alas, not nessicarly useful on your typical PC.
But since you wish you had another one, hit e-bay. while you can't find them for sub $10 at goodwill anymore, it looks like they are fetching $50.00/$60.00. Personaly i'd go for something with lower then.41mm dot pitch my self, but that's just me.
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Yeah, y'know, because there are lots of starving Ethiopians with networked clusters lying around. "Operating systems" are usually listed right after "wheat" on their want lists...
Seriously, though, this is some of the worst hyperbole I've read at this site. The last thing those struggling to eat are worrying about is kernel recompiles.
The thing is the person has a point. It's not like SCO actually developed the code in the first place. It was just something that they bought, pure and simple, a comercial product already developed.
Part of "don't copy that floppy campain" uses a guilt trip that you should support the programers that developed a game or application. Actually the anti-piracy movement kida made me ill. The attitude that you should support these people who made the software is a damn good idea. But when ya buy your software on closeout, it's not like you are supporting the programers anymore, and buying a used copy doesn't support the programers. That's just a superficial justification chant of the hippocrical oaf.
This was the point this person was making, the simple fact that you should support the people who activly develop the software, you should support the workers... this is a very marxist attidude. SCO represents the very embodyment of the bourgeoisie. It's far worse cause SCO didn't reallly develop their product in the first place. We can buy other people's work and sell it, whooo hooo!
If your honest goal is to support the developers of the software you use, then by no means should you support SCO. Those people were paid for their work long ago, you are not feeding a programer, your feeding a fat cat. But this is an emotional rational. If SCO actually bought the code to actually improve upon it and did a good job, my feelings would be diffrent. But it's overpriced crap from a left over 80's business model that has been shown to not work.
Linux on the other hand is a diffrent model, the product it self is free. It is presently in development and being inovated. While there isn't presently a single desktop enviroment that I would reccomend to my grandmother, it on the whole is a decent product. I would never say it has a maxist model, that would be far too limiting.
It isn't about Ethiopians with a networked clusters. It's about your common man. If you are talking america, businesses toss away pentium II class machines daily that your average joe can pickup on the street. It's about a product that can be used by anyone who wants it, without fear of a jail sentance the likes of which a person who commits a violent crime is unlikely to see. Linux in it self offers a viable legal solution to the piracy problem. And, arguably makes a contribution to the planet earth. It promotes the freedom to experiment and inovate.
And yea, linux can be implemented in Africa to faciliate communication between farmers to resove the issue that their family managed farms lost their passed down knowlege of how to farm! Aids ya know, it's a killer. Digital copys of an African Farmers Almanac would be fucking useful, but not practical based on SCO's cost, or microsoft's for that matter (side note, i'd be happy to donate a copy of backoffice to any African farm aide organization, but I wouldn't want to infect africa with exchange server).
What the fuck has SCO done? Jack squat.
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Q: You said the more you dug, the more you found. What kinds of things did you find? A: In the last 18 months, we found that IBM had donated some very high-end enterprise-computing technologies into open-source. Some of it looked like it was our intellectual property and subject to our licensing agreements with IBM...... We have examples of code being lifted verbatim.
Ok, does IBM contribute to the linux kernel? Did IBM actually give away large chunks of source?
Will someone in SCO actually get their story straight? Are we talking about old IP incorperated into the linux kernel ages ago, or something as recent as 18 months? What the hell are these people talking about?
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2) Send them money through the mail. No, really, send money, since a cheque is traceable directly to you.
Postal money orders, cash for check Besides, I said nothing bout steeling. Propose the idea to artists, if the RIAA gets on your ass, show payment in full for the material ya own. This requires artist co-operation, but hey, most are really hip to the idea of cutting out the middleman.
3) Send an explanation? Should you? "Yeah, I stole your album from the net so I could circumvent the RIAA and make sure it goes right to you."
Allow artists to become retailers of their own music by proposing they do things your way. Deal with artists exclusivly who employ would use this business model, boycott tradidtional RIAA channels. Sue the RIAA when they harrass your distrobution center [i.e. file sharing networks].
This has nothing to do with forcing artists to accept your money on your terms. This has to do with transforming the enemy [file sharing] into your friend. Free distrubion from your perspective.
An ya know... the pepole who actually are starving artists, they responce was, "oh kick ass, you mean all I need to do is have a website and approperate links to payment means".
If the artest doesn't agree with this system, well you are under no obligation to buy via the established means.
While this is clearly a troll, there is a grain of wisdom in here. People generally don't have to seek power, they get granted it, for various reasons. In the case of Germany, the Nazis grew from a period of ecconomic recession, given power to resolve the problems the nation was experencing. And yes, you can easily compair the RIAA to the Nazi rise to power. Basicly they RIAA is being given this power to deal with what is percieved as an ecconimic crisis, and in order to justify them selves, they found a pretty convienent scapegoat, filesharing.
While the Nazi case is a very extreem one, it's an important one to remember because well it can happen, it did happen, and it can happen again. Got a problem, find a scapegoat, rally the people in a common goal to deal with the scapegoat. Oh it must be working, I guess the scapegoat was really to blame, but don't stop now. Doesn't matter the fact the problem was resolved by a people united and the scapegoat had nothing at all to do with the problem in the first place, creating an external enemy WORKS!
I prefer not using the term Nazis beause it's far too commonly used just for shock value. But if the shoe fits, so be it.
Now the problem with the RIAA is by declairing "file sharing" as the enemy, it's something very self defeating because their consumers use filesharing. They start cracking down on their consumers, guess what, they are going to loose. The RIAA has been given this power by artists who really need an asshole. Metalica, while I may disagree with them, couldn't relaly be *the* asshole without it cutting into their music sales. So the RIAA becomes the asshole, so people with the Metalica attidude can have plauseable deniablity. "It's not ME, it's the RIAA".
So what's the solution, as this troll pointed out, convience artists that the RIAA's present vision is incompatable with their interests.
Would would be a BETTER protect is not buying that CD, but giving the artist them selfs moolah.
I mean... part of the RIAA's claim is for artist's rights, and their need for an income. I think this goal is great. So let's do it!
Perl jam, while i'm not a huge huge fan, sells stickets exclusivly though their fan club, rather then going through ticket bastard.
Interesting enough, they also have NO problem with fans bringing dat recorders to shows, provided that bootlegs are not sold for money or profit. Now the problem is getting your dat recorder in past security, who are more often then not instructed to now alow recording devices.
The reason why I bring those guys up is the fact that they are the major exception to a pretty hip band who if they were not quite so popular wouldn't be able to make their own rules.
Users in brazil, ones who actually don't engage in spamming but are by-standards of specific isp policies to just block the nation, find they have to move away from hotmail because it too is becomming a major source of spam. This is frustrating to these people for they were refered to hotmail by the honest advise of people who support spam-lists.
Ahhh... my mistake... or rather I blame apple for having model designations that are pretty meaningless... i.e. old iMac is like an eMac, and new iMac is a lamp with a monitor attached. I'll update my terms to reflect old imac, new imac, emac, and complain form time to time that apple can't stick with one name for one product line. [side note: it would be if toyota decide to make the corolla more camry like, and visa versa]
Dispite the fact that i'm not a mac fan... I do enjoy the system design concepts that reduce the level of wire. Typical home setup includes the following.
1. Power wire for mointor and computer
2. wire for monitor
3. wire for speakers
4. Wire for keyboard mouse
5. Wires for printer
I personaly have much more I list here... as well as a gigantic rats next behind the system dispite the fact I went through alot of bother an effort to reduce the distance these wires have to go.
Going lcd and a traditional monitor makes sence. Room for drives, room for power supply, perhaps room for battery backup as well. Add some physical protection for the LCD and i'd consider one. While some users would prefer a thinner footprint, I would enjoy all that crap being pushed behind my monitor without having to look at it. My desk is already geared for a traditional monitor after all, the only diffrencw would be I have no place to put my feet.
Apple should take note of this. The use of lcd screens in their imac would resolve the following issues...
1. Extra heat your monitor. Let's face it CRTs and computers don't mix.
2. Degausing doesn't just demagnatize the screen but anything and everything. let's face it, CRTs and magnetic media don't mix
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Now the obvious question... is there a market for this sorta design? Personaly i'd say yes. I wouldn't nessicarly go with a traditional monitor layout, but there is a sorta apeal with lugables. Anyold joe can hookup a keyboard and mouse and plug it in the wall.
Something like this could in theory house batteries, a fuck of alot more then your average laptop. Also I like the idea of a cable run for my keyboard and mouse from my monitor. If i'm not mistaken Xerox did this in their workstations way back when.
Auto accidents are on the rise with a virus infects high tech clothing. While no loss of data has been reported, users of this new technology are annoyed with when the virus forces their onscreen display to say, "CLICK MY ASS".
Glove sales are up... and public restrooms are wondering why there are footprints on the flush control.
Actually some floppies I had fell on a wall heater and I noted that they shrank just like shrinky-dinks(sp). Made for some interesting art projects. Problem is I can't remember the make and model. I attempted to heat others and all I got was the smell of cheep molten plastic goo and a dead gerbil :S
What? My empty can of curry pringles has a logical application? Cool beans.
Problem is in cases where i've seen that tried, some other company with a bankrole comes in an snags it. Unless there was a public trust exclusivly for the purpose of buying up companies to add their welth to the OSS movement, it's none too practical as it takes too long to aquire funds from public.
The Windows method for this has made more sense: you choose something called "eject" to eject media (or press an eject button, the easiest method. The buttons are often missing on the Mac!), and the trash can is used for destroying files.
I think this is a pretty poor example. I'm no fan of the mac, but there was a reason they did things this way. In fact, I like how the mac handles the floppy drive. Keep in mind that there was a time when floppy disks were actually used by people, and early macs were released without hard drives. It being turn key technology, and users not understanding that you nessicarly needed to keep the disk in when it was loading up aspects of it's OS, or when writing to a disk, mac control provided an eliment of safty. Unlike microsoft dos, the mac responds to you putting a floppy in. Always has, major bonus when installing multi disk applications. There is a disk change line that windows seems most oblivious to. If you are talking CD-rom, all the macs I know have eject buttons, but there are provisions to over-ride the user if the computer still needs that disk. The whole trash can thing I admit was silly, most people I new either used apple-e to eject, or did so from the onscreen menu.
But as far as corel, I would agree. Last time I looked at it, it was using a very dated windows 3.1 style interface. I found it most tedius to use, basicly having to recal how I would operate a vintage piece of software. Corel doesn't really have a product I use, but my mother does. Vast collection of clipart and ease of adding borders to family photos. A few large stumbling blocks like duplex printing that never works right. It has an idiot proof system where you print a page, turn it over, and print it again and you tell it what sorta orientation it has. No one is really sure as to how you flip the page, and wished there was an over-ride button so it wouldn't print this page every time. But aside from irrating annoyances and large stumbling blocks, corel does have a few products geard tward my grandmother.
Exactly. Do we really need semi-conductors when tubes work just fine? Given the popularity of radio sets, the reduction in power consumption was most spiffy, let alone benifits of portable transister radios.
Logical applications:
1. Mobile phones. resolves the issue of wrist watch based trancievers being too bulky. [side note, would be spiffy if your jacket phone took off the shelf rechargable batteries] Mobile video phones as well.
2. Mobile media players. Portable media players, wether they be cassette, CD, or solid state digital are subject to being thrashed about on the body, bumping into things, and falling off.
3. Displays. thinner display could be the future to digital paper.
4. Portable computing. The artical doesn't cover input, to me it seems a rather nice alternative to lugging around a laptop.
I want to do something good. I want to vote for someone other then GW bush this comming election.
I don't want to do something bad, like misunderstand the the voting instructions.
Nope, spamhaus doesn't censor, I do. I use their list but I am the censor who actually engages in the censorship.
Technically speaking it is censorship in it's purest form. When one person or a group acts as a censor to block objectionable material from larger group of pepole, this is the version defination of censorship. The diffrence is I was asked to take such measures, I was asked to protect people from material they had no wish in seeing.
Is it any less censorship in Germany because people can choose to either move to other countries, or choose an ISP not governed by German law? Hell no!
Yep, it's my choice to block spam. I do not want my users exposed to it. I choose to censor spam. while I use spamhaus's service, I am the final censor. I consider spam to be most objectionable. I engage in censorship.
It's clearly Germany's choice to *block* access to www.stormfront.org. They don't want their nationals exposed to objectionable material. They choose to censor it. They are engaging in censorship.
It's both censorship, the choice to remove material that is considered morally, politically, or otherwise objectionable.
And you know, I object so spam, it's among the most objectionable material i'm exposed to, according to me and countless others objecting to it.
I'm sure i'm going to be slapped down many points for saying this. But in many ways, I don't see this as being much diffrent then the spamhaus project, among other sources of blacklisting spam sites.
Now don't get me wrong, I use spamhaus my self. But make no mistake, it is a form of censorship. I use it specificly to censor sites that have had prior evidence of sending spam.
The only key diffrence here is that Germany seems to be taking a stand on hate groups. In america there are a vast number of ISPs that wouldn't host white power groups. The key diffrence here is it's not a violation of free speech to let some other joe host it.
I don't condone what they are doing. Germany clearly has made a choice as to content they deem unacceptable, that's no excuse for screwing up the with. If they really want to censor groups that promote violance and hate, I would propose they do it on a proxy server instead.
I personaly wouldn't support a sensor stormfront.org. After visiting the site, it made me physicaly ill esp after seeing kids.stormfront.org. "I am only thirteen years old and I really do not need your hateful thoughts in my head." Yep, and providing a nice link to the freal story on marten luther king, with nice info on how somehow jewish run companies are responcible for rap lyrics promoting the killing of white people. [white powder... white powder]. While I hate this crap, it's part of free speech, the inalienable right for people to make total asses out of them selves.
Meanwhile, i'll just censor spam.
The Amish would care if a representive came by and asked for royalities. It's not like they're afraid to go after Girl Scouts for royalities.
You try explaining to a Girl Scout why they can't sing Puff the Magic Dragon
I've said this many times.
Let me copy that CD and pay for a licensed case and label to asfix on it.
This would work for big corps and independence alike.
Copyright holders get thier cash, artists get royalities, everyone wins.
It's a small step but I think it's the first one nessecary to establish that we buy the content, not the media. I don't pay $12.99 for the CD to hang on my x-mas tree afterall.
Yes, Microsoft is the exception here. There are actually likely to be using stuff from ages past, that whole issue with downward compatability.
Not to apear anti-corperation... even for a company like, "Microsoft" a "don't use it loose it" policy would serve to enhance their product too. Because they do use it.
While they wouldn't be hip to shorter copyrights for software, microsoft could stand to benifit as well. Most of my believe in promoting inovation deals with products which lost their comercial value. Most microsoft products still have comercial value.
or rather I wish I had a contact list of shareholders.
Near as I can tell, the claim is 18 months ago ibm might have made a booboo. Somehow this may be connected to linux.
What I don't know is did this eledged code make it's way into linux, or is it much earlier.
Is there a version number the the kernal that has the inapproperate code? The sent out letters warning people not to run linux, but did they ever specificy a version number?
If not the kernal then what else.
I would think that the shareholders need to be made aware of this. Assuming that they are correct, then by not providing basic information as to what specific products are affected, they are serving to compound damages. This can be done without issues of distributing what they consider to be their IP.
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This is just another reason not to do business with SCO. Any professional company, including microsoft, when issuing a complaint about something they consider to be violating their IP, they contact the person, tell them specificly what product and version number they have issues with, and ask them nicely to resolve the issue. I've seen how this works, while you might disagree with microsoft, in matters like they they are a hell of alot more professional then SCO.
Seriously, how would you respond to a user who submits a bug report, "Linux crashes" without even telling you what Distrobution.
For a time you could get 1701 monitors from goodwill for cheep, as well as other NTSC compatable monitors like magnavox. Basicly people didn't realize or understand they were indeed useful. I never tried svideo input on it, but hey.
.41mm dot pitch.
.31 dot pitch, while that's nothing to scream home about, it was a 14inch and the best resolution it saw was 640*400. 8CM536 I believe was it's model number, but don't quote me, it died a horrible death.
.41mm dot pitch my self, but that's just me.
I must admit, I had one of those. It was pretty spiffy for the time. I eventually picked up an Amiga 1080 some years later though. Quality was so good you could see the wires on "kung fu the legond continues". These are, or rather *were* more often reccomended for editing then the 1701s. I believe the 1701 had something like a
My last monitor of this vintage was a magnavox actually. Stereo, which while all monitor speakers are lame, it what I used when I wanted to pop in a tape at night.
These days, these shops are refusing donations of TVs and monitors due to the high cost of disposal. Major pitty. I understand where they are comming from though. Someone comes in with a big ass monitor and they thing someone will buy it. Alas, not nessicarly useful on your typical PC.
But since you wish you had another one, hit e-bay. while you can't find them for sub $10 at goodwill anymore, it looks like they are fetching $50.00/$60.00. Personaly i'd go for something with lower then
Yeah, y'know, because there are lots of starving Ethiopians with networked clusters lying around. "Operating systems" are usually listed right after "wheat" on their want lists...
Seriously, though, this is some of the worst hyperbole I've read at this site. The last thing those struggling to eat are worrying about is kernel recompiles.
The thing is the person has a point. It's not like SCO actually developed the code in the first place. It was just something that they bought, pure and simple, a comercial product already developed.
Part of "don't copy that floppy campain" uses a guilt trip that you should support the programers that developed a game or application. Actually the anti-piracy movement kida made me ill. The attitude that you should support these people who made the software is a damn good idea. But when ya buy your software on closeout, it's not like you are supporting the programers anymore, and buying a used copy doesn't support the programers. That's just a superficial justification chant of the hippocrical oaf.
This was the point this person was making, the simple fact that you should support the people who activly develop the software, you should support the workers... this is a very marxist attidude. SCO represents the very embodyment of the bourgeoisie. It's far worse cause SCO didn't reallly develop their product in the first place. We can buy other people's work and sell it, whooo hooo!
If your honest goal is to support the developers of the software you use, then by no means should you support SCO. Those people were paid for their work long ago, you are not feeding a programer, your feeding a fat cat. But this is an emotional rational. If SCO actually bought the code to actually improve upon it and did a good job, my feelings would be diffrent. But it's overpriced crap from a left over 80's business model that has been shown to not work.
Linux on the other hand is a diffrent model, the product it self is free. It is presently in development and being inovated. While there isn't presently a single desktop enviroment that I would reccomend to my grandmother, it on the whole is a decent product. I would never say it has a maxist model, that would be far too limiting.
It isn't about Ethiopians with a networked clusters. It's about your common man. If you are talking america, businesses toss away pentium II class machines daily that your average joe can pickup on the street. It's about a product that can be used by anyone who wants it, without fear of a jail sentance the likes of which a person who commits a violent crime is unlikely to see. Linux in it self offers a viable legal solution to the piracy problem. And, arguably makes a contribution to the planet earth. It promotes the freedom to experiment and inovate.
And yea, linux can be implemented in Africa to faciliate communication between farmers to resove the issue that their family managed farms lost their passed down knowlege of how to farm! Aids ya know, it's a killer. Digital copys of an African Farmers Almanac would be fucking useful, but not practical based on SCO's cost, or microsoft's for that matter (side note, i'd be happy to donate a copy of backoffice to any African farm aide organization, but I wouldn't want to infect africa with exchange server).
What the fuck has SCO done? Jack squat.
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..... We have examples of code being lifted verbatim.
Q: You said the more you dug, the more you found. What kinds of things did you find?
A: In the last 18 months, we found that IBM had donated some very high-end enterprise-computing technologies into open-source. Some of it looked like it was our intellectual property and subject to our licensing agreements with IBM.
Ok, does IBM contribute to the linux kernel? Did IBM actually give away large chunks of source?
Will someone in SCO actually get their story straight? Are we talking about old IP incorperated into the linux kernel ages ago, or something as recent as 18 months? What the hell are these people talking about?