This is a logic flaw. Usually those repercussions are things which other people want to say. As such, they would be unable to say what they wanted to say (the reprecussions) due to repercussions existing a priori (the ban on reprecussions).
Part of free speach is the fact that we still have to deal with the assholes.
I worked at the university doing tech support for students in the dorms. The section I worked in was filled with the sororities. As such you can imagine the computer problems (they varied from computer is physically destroyed to bonzi buddy won't go away). Of course the challenge was fixing the computer in a room with 6 19-year-old, very attractive women while they were changing (literally). My highlight was attempting to defrag a drive (so this is basically watching the bar go across the screen) while 3 girls where dancing and singing around the room. They were in towels just out of the shower and waiting for me to leave.
Sure, the conditions weren't that bad, but you try fixing computer equipment under those conditions; it's not easy!!!
Yes, and the phrase you're looking for is: "I hate you."
Which isn't "free". Sun included some rather un-nice licensing things in their ECC when they gave it to OpenSSL. I believe the issue was that it forbids sueing Sun for anything but I'm not sure. There was a rather large thread on the OpenBSD mailing list about it.
Last I heard, OpenBSD was going to fork OpenSSL off and maintain their own version as these restrictions no longer allowed them to include OpenSSL that fit their charter.
Perhaps someone that knows more about this could comment?
If you read what I wrote you'd notice that I didn't advocate ISP liablity for that which passes through their wires. I merely meant to point out it is possible that it is possible such requirements could come in the future.
Personally, thats a little bit too much big brother for me but then again most of what the government has done lately is. It wouldn't suprise me.
Yes, but I think the key thing the people creating these ads are miss is that they won't sit there. They'll click on off to some other space across this internet place. I'm on broadband but if an ad came up the took up the whole page, I'd hit stop, and then go someplace else.
Peer to Peer networks have to go from Peer to another Peer. For almost everybody this means going across the routers, switches and wires of ISPs, backbones, and other telecommunications providers. Laws can mandate that these companies be held responsible for things going across their wires and forcing them to filter content.
I do that very same thing here. The internet connection comes in, goes through a firewall and then to snort both of which squeeze off peer to peer connections. This is to reduce bandwidth consumption and to make the boys over in legal happy.
The software might be independent but the pipes it travels across are not. Lessig's book goes into this in great detail.
I agree. I don't argue with them. I point out their suggestions don't work at all and then usually turn the other direction and walk out of the store (and buy online). I very rarely shop at a computer store but sometimes I need things faster than UPS can provide.
I've long since become BOFHish and don't feel bad for being direct but sometimes its hard for me even browsing in a store listening to a salesperson try and talk two people (who don't know any better) into a a 3,000 dollar system.
Sometimes it's difficult to refrain from telling them to kiss my ass.
Well, I would just make them feel like an idiot. Last time I was in compusa I wanted to know something simple about one card (they didn't know). They proceeded to try and sell me a much more expensive card that wouldn't have done the job. And I made it very clear to the salesperson I knew he didn't know what he was talking about (I had said expensive card). "So how exactly does one cram a PCI card into an ISA slot?"
My favorite thing is when they try and sell the "extended replacement warrenty". "Would like to add a 5 replacement plan on this 35 dollar nearly disposable ink-jet printer for only 135.99?" Yeah, right.
Just look at who's buying all those expensive shoes and clothes.
Ah yes shoes. I remember helping a friend of mine move out of her apartment. She had 22 pairs of sandals. That was just sandals. She was fairly frugal. Another girl friend of mine had a 200 dollar pair of boots that weren't waterproof and had no traction in the snow. We came to the understanding that she'll never understand my need for gizmos and gadgets and I'll never understand the need for 3 pairs of shoes.:)
I believe you meant Ashcroft. Rumsfeld (though I'm sure he has many faults) really could not be construed as creating a police state in the US. That would be the Attorney General.
Then again, if you live in Iraq, then I guess Rumsfeld would apply.
Yes, I know; I was merely pointing out I'm a fan of almost all of them.:)
The accent I liked most was of someone I knew up at college who was from around Cambridge I think. She moved to the States with family, but was still very charming.
Hmm, I think I'd rather have the UK. I'm told the food isn't as good (I really don't know what "patties and mash" consists of) but a woman with a British accent.....
Russia lost the Russo-Japanese War in 1905 I believe. And there was some concern during WWII that Japan would attack again. Japan had other plans that time though.
Yes, but I believe SUSE is/(are being) aquired by Novell and that group has already thrown their weight into the ring.
I kinda find the SCO thing funny as the more people they pester, the more end up joining the fight against them. Novell, IBM, OSDL has a lot of big names involved with it. They're doing quite well I think.
Because, you know, people who are shopping for 64-bit laptops aren't capable of reinstalling whatever OS comes with the laptop. I'm guessing XP Home? I would imagine most users who would buy such a thing are "Power Users" and would wipe the machine for XP Pro or Linux anyway.
Oh and my first computer (as in one I purchased for myself) was an emachines 366id. Its still working perfectly in the room next door for my father's business. It didn't have any spyware on it when it came.... it had ME but well thats another story. My brother and sister both have emachines and they're both still going as well.
Actually, I'm more interested in a gecko runtime enviroment that was mentioned when Firebird came around. I don't like Firebird at all and only use mozilla for its rendering (I use epiphany) so if I could cut out the parts I don't need and could just have a rendering engine for epiphany that would be great.
A country that can't pay its bills; has millions of people without access to healthcare and has a substantal amount of money allocated to Defense spending is now going to spend a fortune on manned spaceflight.
I just graduated from college with a terrific debt and the first thing I thought of when this proposal came up was how we would spend money to go to space but not to assure college education to anyone who wanted it. Then I thought about how my generation was going to pay the bills to support the retiring baby-boomers. Then I thought about how many friends / family members are having trouble finding jobs in this economy.
I guess solving real problems doesn't get any attention in an election year.
The university when I went there (graduated in August) was not very keen on firewalling ports due to censorship issues. And modern Kazaa is smart enough to jump around ports so is rather hard to simply firewall out. Snort with flexible response, however, makes its fairly easy to terminate all Kazaa sessions effectively stopping it. I know several of the departments on campus use snort to monitor their networks and it wouldn't suprize me if they blocked Kazaa.
So assuming snort is monitoring your connection, downloading.mp3s = bad idea. I'd say (hypothetically of course) you're probably better off downloading at home and bringing a CD to work.
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This is a logic flaw. Usually those repercussions are things which other people want to say. As such, they would be unable to say what they wanted to say (the reprecussions) due to repercussions existing a priori (the ban on reprecussions).
Part of free speach is the fact that we still have to deal with the assholes.
I worked at the university doing tech support for students in the dorms. The section I worked in was filled with the sororities. As such you can imagine the computer problems (they varied from computer is physically destroyed to bonzi buddy won't go away). Of course the challenge was fixing the computer in a room with 6 19-year-old, very attractive women while they were changing (literally). My highlight was attempting to defrag a drive (so this is basically watching the bar go across the screen) while 3 girls where dancing and singing around the room. They were in towels just out of the shower and waiting for me to leave.
Sure, the conditions weren't that bad, but you try fixing computer equipment under those conditions; it's not easy!!!
Yes, and the phrase you're looking for is: "I hate you."
Bah, I just got rid of my SparcStation 2. It was the DNS server here for quite some time. I love the pizza boxes :)
Which isn't "free". Sun included some rather un-nice licensing things in their ECC when they gave it to OpenSSL. I believe the issue was that it forbids sueing Sun for anything but I'm not sure. There was a rather large thread on the OpenBSD mailing list about it.
Last I heard, OpenBSD was going to fork OpenSSL off and maintain their own version as these restrictions no longer allowed them to include OpenSSL that fit their charter.
Perhaps someone that knows more about this could comment?
Someone wake me up when the songs are down to .99 YEN a piece. I think thats a good rate :).
I use a mozilla-based browser with the ad blocking userContent.css that can be found here. I find that also helps.
If you read what I wrote you'd notice that I didn't advocate ISP liablity for that which passes through their wires. I merely meant to point out it is possible that it is possible such requirements could come in the future.
Personally, thats a little bit too much big brother for me but then again most of what the government has done lately is. It wouldn't suprise me.
Yes, but I think the key thing the people creating these ads are miss is that they won't sit there. They'll click on off to some other space across this internet place. I'm on broadband but if an ad came up the took up the whole page, I'd hit stop, and then go someplace else.
I think a lot of people would do that.
Peer to Peer networks have to go from Peer to another Peer. For almost everybody this means going across the routers, switches and wires of ISPs, backbones, and other telecommunications providers. Laws can mandate that these companies be held responsible for things going across their wires and forcing them to filter content.
I do that very same thing here. The internet connection comes in, goes through a firewall and then to snort both of which squeeze off peer to peer connections. This is to reduce bandwidth consumption and to make the boys over in legal happy.
The software might be independent but the pipes it travels across are not. Lessig's book goes into this in great detail.
I agree. I don't argue with them. I point out their suggestions don't work at all and then usually turn the other direction and walk out of the store (and buy online). I very rarely shop at a computer store but sometimes I need things faster than UPS can provide.
I've long since become BOFHish and don't feel bad for being direct but sometimes its hard for me even browsing in a store listening to a salesperson try and talk two people (who don't know any better) into a a 3,000 dollar system.
Sometimes it's difficult to refrain from telling them to kiss my ass.
Well, I would just make them feel like an idiot. Last time I was in compusa I wanted to know something simple about one card (they didn't know). They proceeded to try and sell me a much more expensive card that wouldn't have done the job. And I made it very clear to the salesperson I knew he didn't know what he was talking about (I had said expensive card). "So how exactly does one cram a PCI card into an ISA slot?"
My favorite thing is when they try and sell the "extended replacement warrenty". "Would like to add a 5 replacement plan on this 35 dollar nearly disposable ink-jet printer for only 135.99?" Yeah, right.
Just look at who's buying all those expensive shoes and clothes.
:)
Ah yes shoes. I remember helping a friend of mine move out of her apartment. She had 22 pairs of sandals. That was just sandals. She was fairly frugal. Another girl friend of mine had a 200 dollar pair of boots that weren't waterproof and had no traction in the snow. We came to the understanding that she'll never understand my need for gizmos and gadgets and I'll never understand the need for 3 pairs of shoes.
I believe you meant Ashcroft. Rumsfeld (though I'm sure he has many faults) really could not be construed as creating a police state in the US. That would be the Attorney General.
Then again, if you live in Iraq, then I guess Rumsfeld would apply.
Yes, I know; I was merely pointing out I'm a fan of almost all of them. :)
The accent I liked most was of someone I knew up at college who was from around Cambridge I think. She moved to the States with family, but was still very charming.
Hmm, I think I'd rather have the UK. I'm told the food isn't as good (I really don't know what "patties and mash" consists of) but a woman with a British accent .....
.... sorry *ahem* drifted off there. Carry on ...
Russia lost the Russo-Japanese War in 1905 I believe. And there was some concern during WWII that Japan would attack again. Japan had other plans that time though.
Yes, but I believe SUSE is/(are being) aquired by Novell and that group has already thrown their weight into the ring.
I kinda find the SCO thing funny as the more people they pester, the more end up joining the fight against them. Novell, IBM, OSDL has a lot of big names involved with it. They're doing quite well I think.
Because, you know, people who are shopping for 64-bit laptops aren't capable of reinstalling whatever OS comes with the laptop. I'm guessing XP Home? I would imagine most users who would buy such a thing are "Power Users" and would wipe the machine for XP Pro or Linux anyway.
.... it had ME but well thats another story. My brother and sister both have emachines and they're both still going as well.
Oh and my first computer (as in one I purchased for myself) was an emachines 366id. Its still working perfectly in the room next door for my father's business. It didn't have any spyware on it when it came
When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried.
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Actually, I'm more interested in a gecko runtime enviroment that was mentioned when Firebird came around. I don't like Firebird at all and only use mozilla for its rendering (I use epiphany) so if I could cut out the parts I don't need and could just have a rendering engine for epiphany that would be great.
So, anyone have a website log or e-mail from before November 23,1999?
:)
Damn, and this whole Slashdot thing starting on Nov 24th. We're hosed!!
End Sarcasm.
If you think that's going to help the economy, you're way to naive for me.
A country that can't pay its bills; has millions of people without access to healthcare and has a substantal amount of money allocated to Defense spending is now going to spend a fortune on manned spaceflight.
I just graduated from college with a terrific debt and the first thing I thought of when this proposal came up was how we would spend money to go to space but not to assure college education to anyone who wanted it. Then I thought about how my generation was going to pay the bills to support the retiring baby-boomers. Then I thought about how many friends / family members are having trouble finding jobs in this economy.
I guess solving real problems doesn't get any attention in an election year.
The university when I went there (graduated in August) was not very keen on firewalling ports due to censorship issues. And modern Kazaa is smart enough to jump around ports so is rather hard to simply firewall out. Snort with flexible response, however, makes its fairly easy to terminate all Kazaa sessions effectively stopping it. I know several of the departments on campus use snort to monitor their networks and it wouldn't suprize me if they blocked Kazaa.
.mp3s = bad idea. I'd say (hypothetically of course) you're probably better off downloading at home and bringing a CD to work.
So assuming snort is monitoring your connection, downloading
Umm, totem can (optionally AFAIK) use gstreamer as its backend. By default it uses xine.
Rhythmbox also has the ability to use xine or gstreamer. I use the xine backend as the gstreamer version causes the music to skip yet.