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So I guess we're breaking the DMCA by reading this...:P. Anyway, is that a valid clause? IANAL but you can't tell me something in confidentiality and strip me of my right to repeat it unless I've signed an NDA or some such thing.
Kudos to you for being a subscriber, but how is the free software movement [...] assosiated[sic] with the Mp3/FileSharing movement? Proprietary systems don't run under the same rules that OSS does; creating a WCII workalike and calling it *Craft is as much a troll as I suspect your post is.
is the same problem that Spielberg, Scorsese, and other directors have: it's selling (or renting) movies purported to be theirs without them being their movies. If I sculpted a bathrobe onto David, then sold it as a Michelangelo that was edited for content, it's not a Michelangelo. It's a bastard copy that subverts the creator's intent. I don't have a problem if you want to rip the DVD to your computer, edit out scenes, burn it onto a CD-R and show it to your kids; but for a company to do this, I think, is bad news.
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"Up to 17% of schoolchildren are being labeled for ADHD" doesn't mean anything. It could be that 17% of schoolchildren have ADHD. The second says "probably not the head of a profitable airline"--who's to say? This is completely speculative; nobody knows if he'd be the head of a profitable airline or not, and the source is the New York Times, not a doctor or career psychologist. The last one is from adhdfraud.com; I don't think I'd go there for informed, unbiased ADHD research.
That said, I don't have ADD/ADHD or advice for the gentlemen who seeks it.
As an aside, usually when the patent expires the companies will patent not the drug, or a similar drug--but the method of delivering it to the body. When Prozac expires, the next day they'll patent a method for time-releasing methane hydrocarbon (or whatever Prozac is) over four hours in the human body. So effectively they have twice the patent, and other drugs have to time-release it over five hours, or other crap. Just one more way drug companies can screw you, really.
Happen to own a copy of the book...
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and I'm also an Economics major. The economics is really mostly dead-on, except that the author seems to imply that research is of more worth than profit. Which is of course true, but not in a free-market system--or anything related to it. If anybody's interested on how you and I get screwed over, though, go read some Noam Chomsky. All the government thinktanks develop cancer drugs, malaria drugs, whatever, and once they're perfected, they're sold for pennies to corporations who then sell them for $102/pill. Really, the only way to salvage this is to either have the government manufacture drugs (but socialism is just one step from COMMUNISM BOO HISS) or impose rules on drug makers (which again is regulation--companies hate this.) The people need to realize that health care is a right, not a privilege. And that's why I scoff when Bush declares himself a compassionate conservative and then cuts welfare programs, or cuts his oil buddies' tax rates. Disclaimer: I'm a member of the Green Party, and I think that we should have a maximum income... better to screw those that live well than those that are too busy being hungry to sit around with bags of money and diamond back scratchers.
Really, I figured he would've quit right the second that AOLTW bought Nullsoft, as we've seen happen with countless other small good companies when bought by AOLTW or Microsoft. Winamp 2.92 (2.x branch is still maturing--though probably not after this) is super. Anyway, I'm sure that a talented developer such as himself can get a job most anywhere, or even just work like Linus does at some place that gives him money while he essentially independently develops kickass software.
Jesus Christ, why does slashdot cover microsoft more than they cover BSD and Linux combined? Feels like I'm at a Godamn Windows rumor mill. Meanwhile, my submission on University of Idaho's cloning of a donkey is rejected.
Without touching all this nonsense about trees, I'd like to take issue with One causative factor in radiation release could simply be the earth being torn up during the flood - the Bible describes the earth as a single continent before the flood (Genesis 1: "And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." ), from the OP (emphasis in original). That, to me, reads that the water is gathered to one place. Which is true. All the oceans in the world are interconnected. Though that is exclusionary of the Great Lakes, or indeed any lakes on Pangea, of which I'd figure there to be some, given the existence of aquatic dinosaurs that were contemporary of and existed near land-borne ones.
% Americatown is themed with a random assortment of United States politics and
% pop culture. Each table is shaped like a state. The Simpsons sit at
% Massachusetts.
Homer: I can't believe they stuck us at Taxachusetts! [points to table] Hey, you know, I once knew a man from Nantucket.
Bart: And?
Homer: Let's just say the stories about him are greatly exaggerated.
Waiter: Howdy gangstas! I'm average American Joe Salaryman waiter.
Bart: These prices suck! 10,000 yen for coleslaw?
Lisa: Don't you serve anything that's even remotely Japanese?
Waiter: Don't ask me; I don't know anything! I'm product of American education system. I also build poor-quality cars and inferior-style electronics.
Homer: [cackles] Oh, they got our number!
Just because it's a technical university doesn't mean art doesn't have a place. I'd rather walk through there than I would walk through Omikr0n's Huge Grey Windowless Towers of Doom and Efficiency, myself.
I agree wholeheartedly. A random sampling of four Jon Katz articles from the past few months shows... eight instances of the word "so-called". Which leads me to my next point -- JonKatz is, in fact, Ginger, the super-troll which spews forth entire articles from a dictionary of some 6,000 words.
Or maybe he just rewrites the same article with a different topic every few days.
As I read it, the story wasn't saying that they were stealing a service.. they were changing their use of the service to allow more channels to be broadcast. It didn't cost the company anything more except lost potential profit.
I'm not as much worried about the tech side of things as I am about abortion and the death penalty in America. I heard recently that Emperor Bush stopped funds going to countries that allow abortion -- um, hello, look in your backyard, asshole. It isn't the President's place to make moral decisions for the American people, and we should keep it that way. I don't agree with late-term abortion - but I also don't think it's my place to decide what happens in a perfect stranger's uterus. Past this, if we make abortion illegal, then it'll still happen - except it won't be in a sterile, healthy environment, it will be in a back alley with a coat hanger. It happened before it was legalized (decriminalized? I forget.)
Yeah, sorry about the rant... just needed a forum to express my views.
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I use ZoneAlarm and only give out Internet connections at my free will -- if a program ever tries to access the Internet and I don't want it to, it doesn't. Which is why I'm thankful when I see RealPlayer accessing its server while playing a local file.
It's worth noting that random pornography companies have created programs that dial up long-distance and you pay them for the call (some obscure Middle Eastern countries or something, I forget).. Wired covered that a while ago.
I hate doing this, considering I just replied to another post, but..
Policing Napster downloads isn't all fine and dandy, it violates their policy. If you agreed to the policy, you're therefore free to be banned from the service. Black and white. On or off. One or zero. That's it - nothing deeper.
If there is an investigation system, then the only people who would be authorized to use it are Napster Inc., or people they in turn authorize.
Besides, I have author permission on all 700 of my mp3's. I ripped and encoded them, gave myself permission.. Now, I don't allow you to copy them. Nyeh.
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:P. Anyway, is that a valid clause? IANAL but you can't tell me something in confidentiality and strip me of my right to repeat it unless I've signed an NDA or some such thing.
So I guess we're breaking the DMCA by reading this...
Kudos to you for being a subscriber, but how is
the free software movement [...] assosiated[sic] with the Mp3/FileSharing movement? Proprietary systems don't run under the same rules that OSS does; creating a WCII workalike and calling it *Craft is as much a troll as I suspect your post is.
is the same problem that Spielberg, Scorsese, and other directors have: it's selling (or renting) movies purported to be theirs without them being their movies. If I sculpted a bathrobe onto David, then sold it as a Michelangelo that was edited for content, it's not a Michelangelo. It's a bastard copy that subverts the creator's intent. I don't have a problem if you want to rip the DVD to your computer, edit out scenes, burn it onto a CD-R and show it to your kids; but for a company to do this, I think, is bad news.
"Up to 17% of schoolchildren are being labeled for ADHD" doesn't mean anything. It could be that 17% of schoolchildren have ADHD. The second says "probably not the head of a profitable airline"--who's to say? This is completely speculative; nobody knows if he'd be the head of a profitable airline or not, and the source is the New York Times, not a doctor or career psychologist. The last one is from adhdfraud.com; I don't think I'd go there for informed, unbiased ADHD research.
That said, I don't have ADD/ADHD or advice for the gentlemen who seeks it.
If so, we don't need to worry at all!
Well, assuming they can find qbasic.exe somewhere.
Oops, 403, rather.
Forbidden
You don't have by mission ton of ACCESS/mycpu g.htm on this servers.
Apache/1.3.20 Server at kuschel.citybug.de Port 80
By mission ton. Kudos to babelfish.
As an aside, usually when the patent expires the companies will patent not the drug, or a similar drug--but the method of delivering it to the body. When Prozac expires, the next day they'll patent a method for time-releasing methane hydrocarbon (or whatever Prozac is) over four hours in the human body. So effectively they have twice the patent, and other drugs have to time-release it over five hours, or other crap. Just one more way drug companies can screw you, really.
and I'm also an Economics major. The economics is really mostly dead-on, except that the author seems to imply that research is of more worth than profit. Which is of course true, but not in a free-market system--or anything related to it. If anybody's interested on how you and I get screwed over, though, go read some Noam Chomsky. All the government thinktanks develop cancer drugs, malaria drugs, whatever, and once they're perfected, they're sold for pennies to corporations who then sell them for $102/pill. Really, the only way to salvage this is to either have the government manufacture drugs (but socialism is just one step from COMMUNISM BOO HISS) or impose rules on drug makers (which again is regulation--companies hate this.) The people need to realize that health care is a right, not a privilege. And that's why I scoff when Bush declares himself a compassionate conservative and then cuts welfare programs, or cuts his oil buddies' tax rates. Disclaimer: I'm a member of the Green Party, and I think that we should have a maximum income... better to screw those that live well than those that are too busy being hungry to sit around with bags of money and diamond back scratchers.
Really, I figured he would've quit right the second that AOLTW bought Nullsoft, as we've seen happen with countless other small good companies when bought by AOLTW or Microsoft. Winamp 2.92 (2.x branch is still maturing--though probably not after this) is super. Anyway, I'm sure that a talented developer such as himself can get a job most anywhere, or even just work like Linus does at some place that gives him money while he essentially independently develops kickass software.
Jesus Christ, why does slashdot cover microsoft more than they cover BSD and Linux combined? Feels like I'm at a Godamn Windows rumor mill. Meanwhile, my submission on University of Idaho's cloning of a donkey is rejected.
Looks like the Fizzer worm will soon come to an end.
It's good that he didn't say something like "I guess one could say the Fizzer worm has fizzed out!"
About the space bit: not entirely true.
Without touching all this nonsense about trees, I'd like to take issue with One causative factor in radiation release could simply be the earth being torn up during the flood - the Bible describes the earth as a single continent before the flood (Genesis 1: "And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." ), from the OP (emphasis in original). That, to me, reads that the water is gathered to one place. Which is true. All the oceans in the world are interconnected. Though that is exclusionary of the Great Lakes, or indeed any lakes on Pangea, of which I'd figure there to be some, given the existence of aquatic dinosaurs that were contemporary of and existed near land-borne ones.
% Americatown is themed with a random assortment of United States politics and
% pop culture. Each table is shaped like a state. The Simpsons sit at
% Massachusetts.
Homer: I can't believe they stuck us at Taxachusetts! [points to table] Hey, you know, I once knew a man from Nantucket.
Bart: And?
Homer: Let's just say the stories about him are greatly exaggerated.
Waiter: Howdy gangstas! I'm average American Joe Salaryman waiter.
Bart: These prices suck! 10,000 yen for coleslaw?
Lisa: Don't you serve anything that's even remotely Japanese?
Waiter: Don't ask me; I don't know anything! I'm product of American education system. I also build poor-quality cars and inferior-style electronics.
Homer: [cackles] Oh, they got our number!
Just because it's a technical university doesn't mean art doesn't have a place. I'd rather walk through there than I would walk through Omikr0n's Huge Grey Windowless Towers of Doom and Efficiency, myself.
News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
Obviously, Slashdot users get much more use out of snowflakes than penises.
If you actually thought that, I don't think you'd post as an AC.
Or maybe he just rewrites the same article with a different topic every few days.
Um, Passport doesn't store passwords -- it's used for access to online retailers, et al. You're thinking of IE or maybe the OS.
As I read it, the story wasn't saying that they were stealing a service.. they were changing their use of the service to allow more channels to be broadcast. It didn't cost the company anything more except lost potential profit.
Yeah, sorry about the rant... just needed a forum to express my views.
I use ZoneAlarm and only give out Internet connections at my free will -- if a program ever tries to access the Internet and I don't want it to, it doesn't. Which is why I'm thankful when I see RealPlayer accessing its server while playing a local file. It's worth noting that random pornography companies have created programs that dial up long-distance and you pay them for the call (some obscure Middle Eastern countries or something, I forget).. Wired covered that a while ago.
Well-- use id3v2 then :P
I hate doing this, considering I just replied to another post, but.. Policing Napster downloads isn't all fine and dandy, it violates their policy. If you agreed to the policy, you're therefore free to be banned from the service. Black and white. On or off. One or zero. That's it - nothing deeper. If there is an investigation system, then the only people who would be authorized to use it are Napster Inc., or people they in turn authorize. Besides, I have author permission on all 700 of my mp3's. I ripped and encoded them, gave myself permission.. Now, I don't allow you to copy them. Nyeh.