But what about storing the encrypted data as highpass information in a picture.:P Are you seriously telling me that the government will be able to tell if the details in a certain landscape are generated or real? I don't think so.
IANAL either, but it's pretty standard practice to include language in a contract or license to the effect of "If any clause in this document is found to be illegal, all the other clauses not affected by that finding shall remain in effect."
The question is, is THAT clause legal or not?
I dunno but let's look at section 7 from the GNU GPL:
7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.
If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under any particular circumstance, the balance of the section is intended to apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other circumstances.
(Emphasis mine.)
So, let's hope that statements like that are valid.:)
Well.. I am very anti-open source. I think the government should make it illegal and sue any people who work on open source projects.
Truthfully, I have had people disparage me and things I've written and I don't care. I would never even think of putting a "Oh, btw you can't attack me in any way if you use this." line into a license. That kind of a line is just a sign of insecurity and stupidity IMO.
Fortunately, I am working on a free replacement to Passport. It's called GMOTB (GNU Mark of the Beast). All versions will be version 6.66. The software is free (as in beer) and free (as in speech), except you will have to give us an irrevocable perpetual non-exclusive license to your soul. We will not have to safeguard your soul or keep it private, and we can cross-sell souls with some of the other companies with businesses in this same IP space (such as the Christians and Muslims). Even though they don't like us very much. We are protecting our IP space from thieves like open source advocates by enforcing our patents in several key areas including "A Method and Apparatus for Parallel Achievement of Salvation", and "An Apparatus for Storing Large Numbers of 1's and 0's and Changing them Periodically to New Arrangements Based on their Current Arrangements to Create Mathematical Models of Real-World Phenomena". Needless to say, although Bill Gates has been one of our strategic partners for a long time, we feel it is important enough to win in this market segment that we have struck out on our own to give consumers true choice.
That statement sounds like unarguable truth, but it's really not. The First Amendment promises the right to free speech, and this speech includes the right to criticize your government. It doesn't say anything about having to vote first.
Yep, this country should never go down the path of forcing or coercing people to vote. However, I think elected officials should tell people who don't bother to vote that they will ignore their complaints. If you piss them off enough, then they will become more engaged and start to vote. That is good overall, even if it costs you votes because you were the one who told them off.
Guess what? The whole world uses Microsoft Office. Rarely is a document generated just so that it can be printed by the same person.
Shrug, then MS just changes their format slightly and patents the changes, and they really lock out everyone else. For that reason, this isn't necessarily a fair standard.
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I grew up as a Catholic and then I drifted away from religion during my teenage years, then I spent several years trying to understand the nature of religion and why so many people believe in Xyblaph (my word for you-know-who so as not to favor one religion over another). (And no, I am not trying to mock other religions, just using my own word so that if I piss people off, I can hopefully have an equal chance of pissing everyone off. If this does bother you, then I am sorry, don't keep reading, but *my* beliefs tell me I should use this word.)
It was for me a shock when I finally decided I couldn't _not_ believe in Xyblaph anymore. I had tried to deny it but then I realized that it made sense to believe in this. I think people must come to terms with their existence, and religions provide good avenues people can use to learn from others as they have come to discover Xyblaph, but I don't truly believe they are different at the core. People spent their lives trying to understand Xyblaph, and as others listened to them, they came to understand things that made sense, and those ideas were recorded and are useful for helping others to discover Xyblaph.
At their core, the three religions do share a great deal, and I think those shared beliefs are the most fundamental and important ones. There are differences about what to abstain from and when, when and where to go to religious services, when "special miracles" and events took place, and what prayers to say. There are also special figures of importance, as well as their words and deeds. It is very very good to have a community of people who have come to understand these things and who have struggled with these things in the same way that you are, and their support is very useful for anyone who thinks about things larger than their immediate existence. However, I don't believe these other things are important for what they literally are (for example the holy days of the year), but are more important for what they force you to do.
For example, I don't think that the actual words of prayers are important. The point of having prayers that you memorize and say repeatedly is that after a while you stop thinking about the prayer, but you use them to get you into a frame of mind to do the introspection that is the real purpose of the prayer. That's why when I hear people saying that so-and-so is praying "wrong" it pisses me off so much. Who cares what the actual words are? The point is that the person doing the praying is doing the same thing internally no matter what the actual words are.
Same goes for rituals in services, same goes for having different types of things to abstain from, same thing goes for having holidays where you meet with family and friends. They are split into different kinds, including celebrations and times of reflection. The actual names of these things and the actual activities carried out are not the main point, the point is to have a community framework within which you can explore your thoughts about things beyond yourself and share these things with others.
At any rate, I am sorry if I offended anyone or made it seem like I was trivializing your religion. I didn't mean to, but I guess I just have a different take on what is critical to me in a belief system, and how small differences really get blown out of proportion.
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The only way to prevent these attacks is to decrease the motivation to perform them. This is done by being a nicer country, and by being implacably and harshly punitive in our response to such attacks.
And the only way to be a "nicer" country is to say "Go ahead and kill Israel." If you believe that Israel has a right to exist, then you can't be nicer since that is the central sticking point.
On a side note, monopolies are legel, abused monopolies are not. Patents grant legal monopolies, abuse of patent should be prosecutable (think of
Brazil against pharmaceutical laboratories, selling remedies 10 times their costs. If it's not an abuse of monopoly, what is?).
Sure, 10 times the cost of making that one little pill, but it costs a lot to develop the drug and then you have the interest on those costs piling up for years before any revenue comes in, and you have the other failed drugs that they try to make but that never work or kill people or whatever happens.
BUT...I do agree with you, and personally I would do something like this: Make licensing fees proportional to the average incomes of the nation the drugs are being licensed to. That way, rich nations pay a boatload, and poor nations pay very little, and it is based on their "average" ability to pay. and if the costs aren't being covered, then raise the prices on everyone so that the rich nations have to pay much more proportionally.
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Raytheon and Teledyne (among other companies) have technology that lets planes fly themselves. What could be done is to have AI that absolutely prevents airplanes from flying into certain illegal areas (like cities.:))
Yeah but this is more of a national tragedy. You may not have known anyone in the OKC building, but almost everyone knows someone, or is within a hop or two of knowing someone who died.
I have the distinct feeling that *all* terrorist groups and *all* nations that harbor terrorist groups will eventually pay for this. I am not suggesting that the US will nuke those countries, or that they will take action this week or even this year, but there will be a push to make it totally unacceptable for nations to perpetuate these kinds of organizations.
And, I totally agree with the sentiments on disrupting the American lifestyle. I am still at work, I will teach my class today, even if no one shows up. Please encourage everyone you know to do the best they can at continuing their normal lives.
Some MUDs (small text ones) base their business models on this idea. It's probably a nice way to run the business by letting people play for free, then adding in little extras for a fee. I can see examples in the future where you have to bid for clan castle locations and the "best" locations go to the highest bidder, so clans, tons of rl people would pay for the best.
Well. There may be a correlation between intelligence and competence and having graduated from college, but I wouldn't say it's causal in either direction. And, I think Bush and Gore may just be a couple of the odd outliers on both sides.
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And they don't even seem to realize. MS doesn't mind, actually, MS encourages Ximian to succeed, since MS controls the back-end, the authentication
middleware.
Nuh uh.
Reverse engineering for compatibility is allowed, and because all software is an expression of pure mathematical thought and since anyone can think up their own pure idea and express them, there's no way microsoft can stop Ximian. Oh wait, unless the government lets companies buy pieces of the First Amendment and makes it so that only certain people can express certain thoughts, and the government takes away the rights of people to use their own property. That would really suck if the government did that.
No shit. Microsoft just released a news report saying that they've cured cancer. Then they wrote that they would charge for the cure. Those bastards, always trying to screw us over. Is it any wonder we pick on them so much?
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Yeah, this is just great. So when MS wants to attack the GPL and Linux they just say "But but but, we're protectiing the children from pr0n!"
But what about storing the encrypted data as highpass information in a picture. :P Are you seriously telling me that the government will be able to tell if the details in a certain landscape are generated or real? I don't think so.
IANAL either, but it's pretty standard practice to include language in a contract or license to the effect of "If any clause in this document is found to be illegal, all the other clauses not affected by that finding shall remain in effect."
:)
The question is, is THAT clause legal or not?
I dunno but let's look at section 7 from the GNU GPL:
7. If, as a consequence of a court judgment or allegation of patent infringement or for any other reason (not limited to patent issues), conditions are imposed on you (whether by court order, agreement or otherwise) that contradict the conditions of this License, they do not excuse you from the conditions of this License. If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.
If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under any particular circumstance, the balance of the section is intended to apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other circumstances.
(Emphasis mine.)
So, let's hope that statements like that are valid.
Well.. I am very anti-open source. I think the government should make it illegal and sue any people who work on open source projects.
Truthfully, I have had people disparage me and things I've written and I don't care. I would never even think of putting a "Oh, btw you can't attack me in any way if you use this." line into a license. That kind of a line is just a sign of insecurity and stupidity IMO.
And this, too:
:)
The Logo may be displayed only on Web pages that make accurate references to Microsoft or its products or services,
Could have lots of fun with this.
I think we should all make a little webpage using Frontpage and put a comment disparaging this license requirement on it. :)
Fortunately, I am working on a free replacement to Passport. It's called GMOTB (GNU Mark of the Beast). All versions will be version 6.66. The software is free (as in beer) and free (as in speech), except you will have to give us an irrevocable perpetual non-exclusive license to your soul. We will not have to safeguard your soul or keep it private, and we can cross-sell souls with some of the other companies with businesses in this same IP space (such as the Christians and Muslims). Even though they don't like us very much. We are protecting our IP space from thieves like open source advocates by enforcing our patents in several key areas including "A Method and Apparatus for Parallel Achievement of Salvation", and "An Apparatus for Storing Large Numbers of 1's and 0's and Changing them Periodically to New Arrangements Based on their Current Arrangements to Create Mathematical Models of Real-World Phenomena". Needless to say, although Bill Gates has been one of our strategic partners for a long time, we feel it is important enough to win in this market segment that we have struck out on our own to give consumers true choice.
That statement sounds like unarguable truth, but it's really not. The First Amendment promises the right to free speech, and this speech includes the right to criticize your government. It doesn't say anything about having to vote first.
Yep, this country should never go down the path of forcing or coercing people to vote. However, I think elected officials should tell people who don't bother to vote that they will ignore their complaints. If you piss them off enough, then they will become more engaged and start to vote. That is good overall, even if it costs you votes because you were the one who told them off.
Guess what? The whole world uses Microsoft Office. Rarely is a document generated just so that it can be printed by the same person.
Shrug, then MS just changes their format slightly and patents the changes, and they really lock out everyone else. For that reason, this isn't necessarily a fair standard.
Why do I feel a beer commercial coming on...
We salute you "Mr. News-For-Nerds Website Emergency Response Team Administrator..."
I grew up as a Catholic and then I drifted away from religion during my teenage years, then I spent several years trying to understand the nature of religion and why so many people believe in Xyblaph (my word for you-know-who so as not to favor one religion over another). (And no, I am not trying to mock other religions, just using my own word so that if I piss people off, I can hopefully have an equal chance of pissing everyone off. If this does bother you, then I am sorry, don't keep reading, but *my* beliefs tell me I should use this word.)
It was for me a shock when I finally decided I couldn't _not_ believe in Xyblaph anymore. I had tried to deny it but then I realized that it made sense to believe in this. I think people must come to terms with their existence, and religions provide good avenues people can use to learn from others as they have come to discover Xyblaph, but I don't truly believe they are different at the core. People spent their lives trying to understand Xyblaph, and as others listened to them, they came to understand things that made sense, and those ideas were recorded and are useful for helping others to discover Xyblaph.
At their core, the three religions do share a great deal, and I think those shared beliefs are the most fundamental and important ones. There are differences about what to abstain from and when, when and where to go to religious services, when "special miracles" and events took place, and what prayers to say. There are also special figures of importance, as well as their words and deeds. It is very very good to have a community of people who have come to understand these things and who have struggled with these things in the same way that you are, and their support is very useful for anyone who thinks about things larger than their immediate existence. However, I don't believe these other things are important for what they literally are (for example the holy days of the year), but are more important for what they force you to do.
For example, I don't think that the actual words of prayers are important. The point of having prayers that you memorize and say repeatedly is that after a while you stop thinking about the prayer, but you use them to get you into a frame of mind to do the introspection that is the real purpose of the prayer. That's why when I hear people saying that so-and-so is praying "wrong" it pisses me off so much. Who cares what the actual words are? The point is that the person doing the praying is doing the same thing internally no matter what the actual words are.
Same goes for rituals in services, same goes for having different types of things to abstain from, same thing goes for having holidays where you meet with family and friends. They are split into different kinds, including celebrations and times of reflection. The actual names of these things and the actual activities carried out are not the main point, the point is to have a community framework within which you can explore your thoughts about things beyond yourself and share these things with others.
At any rate, I am sorry if I offended anyone or made it seem like I was trivializing your religion. I didn't mean to, but I guess I just have a different take on what is critical to me in a belief system, and how small differences really get blown out of proportion.
The only way to prevent these attacks is to decrease the motivation to perform them. This is done by being a nicer country, and by being implacably and harshly punitive in our response to such attacks.
And the only way to be a "nicer" country is to say "Go ahead and kill Israel." If you believe that Israel has a right to exist, then you can't be nicer since that is the central sticking point.
On a side note, monopolies are legel, abused monopolies are not. Patents grant legal monopolies, abuse of patent should be prosecutable (think of
Brazil against pharmaceutical laboratories, selling remedies 10 times their costs. If it's not an abuse of monopoly, what is?).
Sure, 10 times the cost of making that one little pill, but it costs a lot to develop the drug and then you have the interest on those costs piling up for years before any revenue comes in, and you have the other failed drugs that they try to make but that never work or kill people or whatever happens.
BUT...I do agree with you, and personally I would do something like this: Make licensing fees proportional to the average incomes of the nation the drugs are being licensed to. That way, rich nations pay a boatload, and poor nations pay very little, and it is based on their "average" ability to pay. and if the costs aren't being covered, then raise the prices on everyone so that the rich nations have to pay much more proportionally.
Raytheon and Teledyne (among other companies) have technology that lets planes fly themselves. What could be done is to have AI that absolutely prevents airplanes from flying into certain illegal areas (like cities. :))
Yeah but this is more of a national tragedy. You may not have known anyone in the OKC building, but almost everyone knows someone, or is within a hop or two of knowing someone who died.
I have the distinct feeling that *all* terrorist groups and *all* nations that harbor terrorist groups will eventually pay for this. I am not suggesting that the US will nuke those countries, or that they will take action this week or even this year, but there will be a push to make it totally unacceptable for nations to perpetuate these kinds of organizations.
And, I totally agree with the sentiments on disrupting the American lifestyle. I am still at work, I will teach my class today, even if no one shows up. Please encourage everyone you know to do the best they can at continuing their normal lives.
Some MUDs (small text ones) base their business models on this idea. It's probably a nice way to run the business by letting people play for free, then adding in little extras for a fee. I can see examples in the future where you have to bid for clan castle locations and the "best" locations go to the highest bidder, so clans, tons of rl people would pay for the best.
You mean like this?
You know what. I tried to fucking post the first fucking line of this message and I got this stupid fucking message:
Your comment violated the postercomment compression filter. Comment aborted
Nice filtering that nukes real messages.
No, send 50 bucks to the EFF and send 50 bucks to join the NRA.
Well. There may be a correlation between intelligence and competence and having graduated from college, but I wouldn't say it's causal in either direction. And, I think Bush and Gore may just be a couple of the odd outliers on both sides.
And they don't even seem to realize. MS doesn't mind, actually, MS encourages Ximian to succeed, since MS controls the back-end, the authentication
middleware.
Nuh uh.
Reverse engineering for compatibility is allowed, and because all software is an expression of pure mathematical thought and since anyone can think up their own pure idea and express them, there's no way microsoft can stop Ximian. Oh wait, unless the government lets companies buy pieces of the First Amendment and makes it so that only certain people can express certain thoughts, and the government takes away the rights of people to use their own property. That would really suck if the government did that.
nononono...you mean Attack of the IPs.
No shit. Microsoft just released a news report saying that they've cured cancer. Then they wrote that they would charge for the cure. Those bastards, always trying to screw us over. Is it any wonder we pick on them so much?
OOOH big tough words from an AC.
Bet you won't find these kinds of figures on Microsoft's TCO comparisons with Linux. :P