No one said Borders didn't have the right to do this (as you say, being a corporation, private property, etc.). What the public is saying is, "Fine, do this and I'll shop elsewhere."
The free market in action. And it works.
Re:How long can the US DoJ go on?
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"Strange things happen under law, but since Adobe has withdrawn it's complaint, how long can the US Department of [in]Justice continue to persue the case? It's going to be real hard to convict Dmitry if Adobe says on the stand "No, of course Rot13 is not encryption. We mistakenly thought so at one time, but the computing community rather dramatically pointed out our error."
"AFAIK, UK law allows prosecutions to proceed in the face of reluctant or hostile complaintants. US law is far more complaint dependant."
Not if the violation(!) is a felony (in the "federal law broken" aspect of the term). If a person is murdered, for instance, the gummint will still pursue the case even if the people most affected by the killing refuse to prosecute.
And I believe Adobe knew this, and realized full well that Dmitry would still be prosecuted after they "withdrew" their complaint.
"The Tree of Liberty must, from time to time, be watered with the blood of patriots" -Thomas Jefferson
And ill probably be arrested for quoting him.
Interestingly, the media already had a field day with that quote...it was on Timothy McVeigh's "radical t-shirt" when he was arrested.
"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us." -- DOUGLAS, WILLIAM ORVILLE (1898-1980, United States Supreme Court Justice)
Its not that he found the problem, people always do that. He was selling software that cracks it for $99. Did everyone forget that?
So? He was selling software. He was selling software that would allow fair-use back-ups of your legally purchased ebooks (what? you've never lost a hard drive?) and viewing on your other computer. So what if he was selling the software.
As much as I'm for Free Software (in both senses), you sound like we shouldn't support him because he was *gasp* SELLING software.
These are evil precedents being set; Technology is bad. Napster is condemmned because it allows people to do illegal things. Dmitry is arrested because of what people might do with the software.
News flash, people. You can abuse almost any technology, but these recent legal maneuvers make the inanimate device at fault (and by extention, its creator), with no responsibility resting on the end user. Might as well make hammers illegal so that people won't use them as a weapon...
> b) if the kernel DOES work, it is extremely unstable, booting me back to the login prompt or just locking up altogether with a kernel panic. What's the advantage of modularlizing vs. putting it in the kernel? Which is faster?
Putting everything in the kernel makes it more bloated (obviously). Modules are called only when needed, reducing the initial kernel size.
> d) ReiserFS support is non-existent in make menuconfig, unless I do some magic ritual of checking certain checkboxes
Not Mandrake's fault. Assuming you're in xconfig, that's all defined by the kernel package.
> e) I keep getting write_intr errors at around sector 3500 of my hard drive. Is it a bad hard drive, or is it just Linux?
Doubt if it's Linux. Sounds more like a bios config problem, or your hard drive's going south.
"The United States seems not to comprehend a tradition that places an enormous premium on honor, face, and responsibility."
And where is the honor in presenting a false apology? We could say "gee, it's all our fault, can we puhleese have our people and our plane back?" and we *might* get the people. IF it happened in international (by most country's definition...just saying you own fifty miles out from shore doesn't make it so) waters, it appears that this pilot had a previous record of hotdogging these very same planes. Ergo, it stands to reason that while it might have been an accident, it was probably caused by the Chinese pilot's actions. That makes him reckless and responsible.
You don't apologize when some punk teenager runs into your car, and the US should feel no need to apologize to a country who is, ultimately, responsible for the actions of its soldiers.
Since BMG bought into Napster, the main ploy of the RIAA and Sony (et al) has been to aquire the technology. They will NEVER settle, and plan to pick up the technology and user-base (of 50 million people) by driving Napster to bankruptcy through the fines and punitive damages. Then Sony and all the others will pick up the Napster infrastructure for next to nothing (if that).
Linus also owns the trade-mark. No matter how much you contribute, you'll never own any part of the trade-mark. Which is as it should be. After all, if it wasn't for Linus, most of the people reading this would still be using Windoze.
Surely you're not so naive as to believe that the only faces they're looking for are _current_ criminals?
Ah, but the innocent have nothing to fear..
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...that's what my mother would say. "I'd gladly give up a minor freedom if it would help catch criminals."
Of course, she's never had her door broken down by cops with the wrong address in the middle of the night, without so much as a semblence of an apology, either.
She's never had her car confiscated because a pot seed (from her nephew's friend) was found in her vehicle.
She's never had her boat drilled full of holes because an invited guest's son was being watched by the Coast Guard.
She's never been stopped and had all of her cash "impounded" because she matched a "profile."
She's never been questioned because she bought an airline ticket with cash.
Of course, she's a Republican, too, so your mileage may vary...
"No one is claiming that it is Open Source, or even Free Software. It's a story about some people being able to see the source if they need to/care enough."
And what good does that do, if they're not allowed to make changes?
"What the Palm has isn't HWR but stroke/letter recongnition. Try again."
True enough. I find it amusing that Graffiti originated on the Newt, but was dropped in favor of real HWR...then Palm snaps it up for use on their address book, and then thinks they have a real handheld computer.
Imagine my suprise seeing Paul's name on slashdot. With an article about the ATA driver...too cool.
Of course, I see the anti-Newtons are out, praising their little Palm-toys...people just can't stand to hear about anything that even remotely threatens (in their mind) their choice of hardware/software. Pity.
I haven't even thought about Newton software for quite a while (use it every day, but when it already does everthing I need, it's just another tool), but it might be kind of cool to throw two or three hundred megs into it.
Thanks Paul.
Old Newtons never die...they just replace their batteries...
>This is not fair the illegal actions of a few are hurting the masses. Or even if the illegal actions of the masses are hurting the just few. They should try to enforce the laws, not raise taxes to fix the effects of broken laws.
>I'm nervously awaiting the day they start taxing bandwidth to cover piracy, you know its coming.
I don't choose my operating sysems based on it's "coolness factor." I use what works. I'd still be using my Amiga if half-way-modern hardware wasn't so bloody expensive (and if I hadn't been zapped by a lightning pulse). Linux beats the pants off of Windows, and while I'm sure that BSD or QNX or whatever is "cooler" now, Linux works for what I want to do, and 2.4 will only widen its usability.
As for 2.4 being "obsolete," everthing's relative. Look at it this way: now you can run 2.6-beta and feel superior.
I have great confidence in Linus, and Alan, and all the others that have worked to make 2.4 a reality, and I'm glad they held off on it's release until they felt it was ready for prime time. So what if it took longer than the media expected; those people aren't booting by default into Linux, I'll tell you that. I suspect the reported "impatience of the Linux community," if you will, was largely their own manufacture. (Which is not to say I wasn't HOPING 2.4 would be released soon...but I expected it around March, and would still be content if it wasn't released today, knowing that when it WAS released, it would be stable and up-to-date.)
...the more star systems slip through your fingers.
The hacks will be out there, just as they are for the Playstations and DC's. Sure, they'll get more complicated, but so what? We'll still defeat the protection in the small percentage of sets we control.
> I don't think freedom of speech covers speech with fake identity.
Actually, it does. Many of our founding fathers wrote under pseudonyms, as do many (most) political activists under oppressive governments.
It wouldn't really be "FREE speech" otherwise, would it?
As an aside, when the anti-spamming bill was voted on by the House, out of four hundred and some odd votes, only ONE vote was cast against it on the grounds of freedom of speech (among other things). ONE VOTE. And that was cast by the only representative with libertarian leanings, Ron Paul.
I don't know about you, but when I see all the republicrats agreeing so wholeheartedly on something like this, it makes me nervous...
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No one said Borders didn't have the right to do this (as you say, being a corporation, private property, etc.). What the public is saying is, "Fine, do this and I'll shop elsewhere."
The free market in action. And it works.
"Strange things happen under law, but since Adobe has withdrawn it's complaint, how long can the US Department of [in]Justice continue to persue the case? It's going to be real hard to convict Dmitry if Adobe says on the stand "No, of course Rot13 is not encryption. We mistakenly thought so at one time, but the computing community rather dramatically pointed out our error."
"AFAIK, UK law allows prosecutions to proceed in the face of reluctant or hostile complaintants. US law is far more complaint dependant."
Not if the violation(!) is a felony (in the "federal law broken" aspect of the term). If a person is murdered, for instance, the gummint will still pursue the case even if the people most affected by the killing refuse to prosecute.
And I believe Adobe knew this, and realized full well that Dmitry would still be prosecuted after they "withdrew" their complaint.
"The Tree of Liberty must, from time to time, be watered with the blood of patriots" -Thomas Jefferson
And ill probably be arrested for quoting him.
Interestingly, the media already had a field day with that quote...it was on Timothy McVeigh's "radical t-shirt" when he was arrested.
"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us." -- DOUGLAS, WILLIAM ORVILLE (1898-1980, United States Supreme Court Justice)
Its not that he found the problem, people always do that. He was selling software that cracks it for $99. Did everyone forget that?
So? He was selling software. He was selling software that would allow fair-use back-ups of your legally purchased ebooks (what? you've never lost a hard drive?) and viewing on your other computer. So what if he was selling the software.
As much as I'm for Free Software (in both senses), you sound like we shouldn't support him because he was *gasp* SELLING software.
These are evil precedents being set; Technology is bad. Napster is condemmned because it allows people to do illegal things. Dmitry is arrested because of what people might do with the software.
News flash, people. You can abuse almost any technology, but these recent legal maneuvers make the inanimate device at fault (and by extention, its creator), with no responsibility resting on the end user. Might as well make hammers illegal so that people won't use them as a weapon...
> b) if the kernel DOES work, it is extremely unstable, booting me back to the login prompt or just locking up altogether with a kernel panic. What's the advantage of modularlizing vs. putting it in the kernel? Which is faster?
Putting everything in the kernel makes it more bloated (obviously). Modules are called only when needed, reducing the initial kernel size.
> d) ReiserFS support is non-existent in make menuconfig, unless I do some magic ritual of checking certain checkboxes
Not Mandrake's fault. Assuming you're in xconfig, that's all defined by the kernel package.
> e) I keep getting write_intr errors at around sector 3500 of my hard drive. Is it a bad hard drive, or is it just Linux?
Doubt if it's Linux. Sounds more like a bios config problem, or your hard drive's going south.
You're Chinese, aren't you?
"The United States seems not to comprehend a tradition that places an enormous premium on honor, face, and responsibility."
And where is the honor in presenting a false apology? We could say "gee, it's all our fault, can we puhleese have our people and our plane back?" and we *might* get the people. IF it happened in international (by most country's definition...just saying you own fifty miles out from shore doesn't make it so) waters, it appears that this pilot had a previous record of hotdogging these very same planes. Ergo, it stands to reason that while it might have been an accident, it was probably caused by the Chinese pilot's actions. That makes him reckless and responsible.
You don't apologize when some punk teenager runs into your car, and the US should feel no need to apologize to a country who is, ultimately, responsible for the actions of its soldiers.
They'll probably do the same with Microsoft, what with the Bush administration's leanings.
Since BMG bought into Napster, the main ploy of the RIAA and Sony (et al) has been to aquire the technology. They will NEVER settle, and plan to pick up the technology and user-base (of 50 million people) by driving Napster to bankruptcy through the fines and punitive damages. Then Sony and all the others will pick up the Napster infrastructure for next to nothing (if that).
Linus also owns the trade-mark. No matter how much you contribute, you'll never own any part of the trade-mark. Which is as it should be. After all, if it wasn't for Linus, most of the people reading this would still be using Windoze.
And what makes you think they aren't?
Surely you're not so naive as to believe that the only faces they're looking for are _current_ criminals?
...that's what my mother would say. "I'd gladly give up a minor freedom if it would help catch criminals."
Of course, she's never had her door broken down by cops with the wrong address in the middle of the night, without so much as a semblence of an apology, either.
She's never had her car confiscated because a pot seed (from her nephew's friend) was found in her vehicle.
She's never had her boat drilled full of holes because an invited guest's son was being watched by the Coast Guard.
She's never been stopped and had all of her cash "impounded" because she matched a "profile."
She's never been questioned because she bought an airline ticket with cash.
Of course, she's a Republican, too, so your mileage may vary...
Stop that.
"No one is claiming that it is Open Source, or even Free Software. It's a story about some people being able to see the source if they need to/care enough."
And what good does that do, if they're not allowed to make changes?
FUD, FUD, FUD.
...you're still here.
Web browser? Hell, I've a web *server* on my Newton MP2100! :-)
"What the Palm has isn't HWR but stroke/letter recongnition. Try again."
True enough. I find it amusing that Graffiti originated on the Newt, but was dropped in favor of real HWR...then Palm snaps it up for use on their address book, and then thinks they have a real handheld computer.
Imagine my suprise seeing Paul's name on slashdot. With an article about the ATA driver...too cool.
Of course, I see the anti-Newtons are out, praising their little Palm-toys...people just can't stand to hear about anything that even remotely threatens (in their mind) their choice of hardware/software. Pity.
I haven't even thought about Newton software for quite a while (use it every day, but when it already does everthing I need, it's just another tool), but it might be kind of cool to throw two or three hundred megs into it.
Thanks Paul.
Old Newtons never die...they just replace their batteries...
>This is not fair the illegal actions of a few are hurting the masses. Or even if the illegal actions of the masses are hurting the just few. They should try to enforce the laws, not raise taxes to fix the effects of broken laws.
>I'm nervously awaiting the day they start taxing bandwidth to cover piracy, you know its coming.
Welcome to modern republicrat "justice."
I don't choose my operating sysems based on it's "coolness factor." I use what works. I'd still be using my Amiga if half-way-modern hardware wasn't so bloody expensive (and if I hadn't been zapped by a lightning pulse). Linux beats the pants off of Windows, and while I'm sure that BSD or QNX or whatever is "cooler" now, Linux works for what I want to do, and 2.4 will only widen its usability.
As for 2.4 being "obsolete," everthing's relative. Look at it this way: now you can run 2.6-beta and feel superior.
I have great confidence in Linus, and Alan, and all the others that have worked to make 2.4 a reality, and I'm glad they held off on it's release until they felt it was ready for prime time. So what if it took longer than the media expected; those people aren't booting by default into Linux, I'll tell you that. I suspect the reported "impatience of the Linux community," if you will, was largely their own manufacture. (Which is not to say I wasn't HOPING 2.4 would be released soon...but I expected it around March, and would still be content if it wasn't released today, knowing that when it WAS released, it would be stable and up-to-date.)
...the more star systems slip through your fingers.
The hacks will be out there, just as they are for the Playstations and DC's. Sure, they'll get more complicated, but so what? We'll still defeat the protection in the small percentage of sets we control.
First Microsloth, now Charbucks.
I think I'll stick with Linux and roasting my own beans...
> I don't think freedom of speech covers speech with fake identity.
Actually, it does. Many of our founding fathers wrote under pseudonyms, as do many (most) political activists under oppressive governments.
It wouldn't really be "FREE speech" otherwise, would it?
As an aside, when the anti-spamming bill was voted on by the House, out of four hundred and some odd votes, only ONE vote was cast against it on the grounds of freedom of speech (among other things). ONE VOTE. And that was cast by the only representative with libertarian leanings, Ron Paul.
I don't know about you, but when I see all the republicrats agreeing so wholeheartedly on something like this, it makes me nervous...
That's an Xbox screenshot, I'll have you know!
Oh my...what a witty retort... Come back when you graduate from junior high school.