I must admit that I couldn't finish the first. Someday I'll read what Brin did to the third, but I was thinking more of his Uplift series, The Postman, and The Practice Effect.
I've always found Benford and Bear a bit on the edge -- usually, but not always, a good read.
I think they just randomly chose three B's to follow Azimov.
Eventually being at the top will become a cat-and-mouse game, and with the head cut off the drive towards centralization of wealth and power will be effectively stopped.
Being the good conspiracy theorist that I am, I find it very interesting that Sharman had a part in it. Can you think of anyone who would be more interested in making the DMCA look silly? They had to have known what Google would do -- although the fact that Google is linking to a copy of the complaint at Chilling Effects is a real riot. Any attempt to break that link or get the complaint removed is a guarenteed 1st amendment case; with the lawyers involved from the start. Chilling Effects is run by lawyers who are already pissed off. People like Lessig, and Wendy Seltzer (see earlier slashdot article on Wendy's recently becoming EFF's council).
Geeze. I didn't even notice Google'd linked to Chilling Effects. Bwahahaha! That means that the first thing Google did was contact either the Berkman Center or EFF and get them to put up the complaint immediately so they could link to it in a location which is going to be very hard to shut down. They're just begging for someone to try to use the DMCA on it.
I wonder if we're going to see more on this. It looks a bit like a setup to make the DMCA look like the stupid law it is.
Use poetic aliterative variable names which connotate the emotion behind the variable rather than stark descriptive variable names which denotate the purpose of the variable.
Use a pretty turn of algorithm rather than a boring direct approach.
Write additional haiku, odes, sonets, etc. in the comments rather than describe your intentions in writing a particular step in the code.
From what I understand, the people who started the revolution and who were then booted out by the allytollas are looking back rather fondly upon the 60s and 70s. Basically, the Shah was an ass, but not nearly as much of an ass.
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I just re-read The Diamond Age. Maybe I'll go for a third reading.
I must admit that I couldn't finish the first. Someday I'll read what Brin did to the third, but I was thinking more of his Uplift series, The Postman, and The Practice Effect.
I've always found Benford and Bear a bit on the edge -- usually, but not always, a good read.
I think they just randomly chose three B's to follow Azimov.
There are exceptions, such as Brin.
You seem to think that our legal system is both 100% effective and infinitely quick. I assure you, it is neither.
No I'm not. I haven't even proposed taking the money away from them. Let the money follow normal laws of inheritance.
All I want to do is correct capitalism's basic flaw. The market does not remain free.
I'm not a socialist. Business is the cellular structure of society. Big business is cancer.
I'm just trying to kill the disease without killing the patient.
to be one of the 500 wealthiest people.
Also, break up the 500 largest companies.
Rinse, lather, repeat.
Eventually being at the top will become a cat-and-mouse game, and with the head cut off the drive towards centralization of wealth and power will be effectively stopped.
Score: Google 1
Kazaa 0 or 1 (unclear)
DMCA -2
Not only do they link up to the complaint. They submit the complaint to Chilling Effects and link up to the complaint there.
I predict that Sharman will complain about that link next -- but just enough to force the issue into court.
It doesn't legitimize anything. Follow the path from Sharman to the Chilling Effects database -- thanks to Google, at least in part.
I think the DMCA just got screwed.
Being the good conspiracy theorist that I am, I find it very interesting that Sharman had a part in it. Can you think of anyone who would be more interested in making the DMCA look silly? They had to have known what Google would do -- although the fact that Google is linking to a copy of the complaint at Chilling Effects is a real riot. Any attempt to break that link or get the complaint removed is a guarenteed 1st amendment case; with the lawyers involved from the start. Chilling Effects is run by lawyers who are already pissed off. People like Lessig, and Wendy Seltzer (see earlier slashdot article on Wendy's recently becoming EFF's council).
Geeze. I didn't even notice Google'd linked to Chilling Effects. Bwahahaha! That means that the first thing Google did was contact either the Berkman Center or EFF and get them to put up the complaint immediately so they could link to it in a location which is going to be very hard to shut down. They're just begging for someone to try to use the DMCA on it.
I wonder if we're going to see more on this. It looks a bit like a setup to make the DMCA look like the stupid law it is.
The only problem I had was that google didn't turn the text in the complaint into links. (You know, "Oops. Our software does that automatically,")
You beat me to it.
First thing I did, even before posting, was to check the complaint.
If Microsloth was doing their best if fix Windoze666 they'd be broke. Instead they're doing their best to rip everybody off.
All your IP are belong to us.
just to get your slashdot fix.
Wendy was good at getting us to refocus without being overbearing.
Wendy was really sharp on the dvd-discuss mailing list. Good for her.
Completely bogus. I have always been a poet, and will always be a poet. It's just that only computers and computer geeks can read some of my poetry.
Dancing on the lawn
Little are at play --
Blind to the land mine.
Use poetic aliterative variable names which connotate the emotion behind the variable rather than stark descriptive variable names which denotate the purpose of the variable.
Use a pretty turn of algorithm rather than a boring direct approach.
Write additional haiku, odes, sonets, etc. in the comments rather than describe your intentions in writing a particular step in the code.
From what I understand, the people who started the revolution and who were then booted out by the allytollas are looking back rather fondly upon the 60s and 70s. Basically, the Shah was an ass, but not nearly as much of an ass.
Business is the cellular structure of society. Big business is cancer.
Sure, but our congressmen get paid to do that. No Iranian company is going to pay a U.S. congressman to supress an Iranian's rights.
They'll probably subpoena the entire MIT student body via the D.C. court.