You're taking this awfully personally. Why not just admit your zealotry and get on with your life? And what's the point of karma if I can't spend it drawing whines from zealots?
Heh, a *BSD fan came back from the dead to mod you down. I'm sure there's an overlap between them and the Apple faithful--both stung by legitimate criticism and in denial about an ever dwindling market share.
If *you* had to "go after" USENET where would *YOU* start?
I'd go after a "premium" news service provider, using the argument that they knew and profited from the fact that most of the traffic they carry is copyright infringement. Mainstream ISPs already severely limit what binary groups they carry and impose bandwidth/transfer caps on their NNTP servers.
USENET could, in fact, be one of the targets of the currently stalled INDUCE Act and its spawn.
No, it wouldn't kill USENET, but it sure would put a dent in its usability in the part of the world that honors U.S. copyrights.
. I suggest that the states base registration fees on the EPA mileage for the model of car.
Which won't force rich people who drive SUVs to change a thing, but will be a nasty regressive tax on those who can't afford to "upgrade" to more fuel efficient cars.
Some bars and liquor stores have taken to swiping licenses. There's nothing stopping them from gathering that information into a database, which, aside from potential use for intrusive marketing, could also serve as an unwelcome reminder of where one was, say, in a divorce trial.
While this sort of privacy invasion is still possible by means of the bouncer memorizing the information after having verified that the patron is of age, this practice makes it much too easy.
Don't be so sure. I bet if the right phone call were made, the threat of a chilling in the current climate of economic cooperation between Corporate America and the PRC would have your site down in an instant. Of course, unless you're a high value target, you'd be safe there--but your site would be safe here in that case, as well.
. . . as would be the ability to patent a color. Now that smell is as quantifiable via parameters as color is via wavelength, I would think this would tend to close the door on patentability. Of course, it is never wise to underestimate the malfeasance of our "represenative" lawmakers when in the presence of the smell of fresh cash.
Those hopes were pretty misplaced, considering Novell has what appears to be the Midas touch in reverse with anything they get their hands on, WordPerfect being the first example that comes to mind.
So let's extend this Al tube thing a little more. $NATION is making Aluminum tubes that could be used for nuclear weapons, if one step was added to the production line. They've gained expertise in Al tube manufacture, they've convinced the public and the world that the Al tubes are for peaceful purposes, and they're cranking them out like mad. Then they make the one tiny production line change that makes them suitable for weapons production. At that point, it's too late.
Geez. It's not like every little trivial utility that's free on the PC costs money for the Mac (although I admit that since Unix has taken over, this has gotten better), but there's no free download of a Linux distribution for it, either?
(Insert rant about people needing to support Mac developers because the market is so tiny in the space below.)
Right--and Diebold didn't hold a copyright on the material they were trying to take down, and therefore wasn't the copyright holder, and therefore committed perjury.
If that isn't perjury, then I can claim to be the copyright holder of anything, send a takedown notice, and not be guilty of perjury since I did not lie about being a representative of myself.
The takedown notices were sent under penalty of perjury, right? And there isn't even the wiggle room of the perjury clause only pertaining to the statement that the sender is an agent of the copyright holder, since the documents weren't covered by copyright.
Bet they're well enough connected that none of them will be prosecuted for it, though.
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You're taking this awfully personally. Why not just admit your zealotry and get on with your life? And what's the point of karma if I can't spend it drawing whines from zealots?
Check your math--market share is a percentage. Everyone else has been increasing, too.
Heh, a *BSD fan came back from the dead to mod you down. I'm sure there's an overlap between them and the Apple faithful--both stung by legitimate criticism and in denial about an ever dwindling market share.
Bless you, sir.
I'd go after a "premium" news service provider, using the argument that they knew and profited from the fact that most of the traffic they carry is copyright infringement. Mainstream ISPs already severely limit what binary groups they carry and impose bandwidth/transfer caps on their NNTP servers.
USENET could, in fact, be one of the targets of the currently stalled INDUCE Act and its spawn.
No, it wouldn't kill USENET, but it sure would put a dent in its usability in the part of the world that honors U.S. copyrights.
Which won't force rich people who drive SUVs to change a thing, but will be a nasty regressive tax on those who can't afford to "upgrade" to more fuel efficient cars.
While this sort of privacy invasion is still possible by means of the bouncer memorizing the information after having verified that the patron is of age, this practice makes it much too easy.
Don't be so sure. I bet if the right phone call were made, the threat of a chilling in the current climate of economic cooperation between Corporate America and the PRC would have your site down in an instant. Of course, unless you're a high value target, you'd be safe there--but your site would be safe here in that case, as well.
Um, yeah. Me, either. Heil Bush.
It's even funnier if you take the first part of the second paragraph as the last sentence of the first paragraph :).
. . . as would be the ability to patent a color. Now that smell is as quantifiable via parameters as color is via wavelength, I would think this would tend to close the door on patentability. Of course, it is never wise to underestimate the malfeasance of our "represenative" lawmakers when in the presence of the smell of fresh cash.
Those hopes were pretty misplaced, considering Novell has what appears to be the Midas touch in reverse with anything they get their hands on, WordPerfect being the first example that comes to mind.
Perhaps someone could convince them it's the predominate eeevil pirate-to-pirate system :).
ActiveX drive-by installs should be written into law as a specific example of something that is not a user trying to "explicitly choose" something.
I never thought I'd see the day I'd be pedantic about something like that :).
Actually, it should be "All your brake are belong to us." Brake should be singular.
So let's extend this Al tube thing a little more. $NATION is making Aluminum tubes that could be used for nuclear weapons, if one step was added to the production line. They've gained expertise in Al tube manufacture, they've convinced the public and the world that the Al tubes are for peaceful purposes, and they're cranking them out like mad. Then they make the one tiny production line change that makes them suitable for weapons production. At that point, it's too late.
Nice!
For the definiton of active that means "hasn't had a release in a year and a half"? This fixes that latest major release at 11 April 03.
(Insert rant about people needing to support Mac developers because the market is so tiny in the space below.)
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Eliminating the low denominations would be tantamount to admitting how much the currency has been devalued. Ain't ever gonna happen.
Thanks, and congratulations!
If that isn't perjury, then I can claim to be the copyright holder of anything, send a takedown notice, and not be guilty of perjury since I did not lie about being a representative of myself.
me too I'd love to read about that!
Bet they're well enough connected that none of them will be prosecuted for it, though.