If you're driving a car and you get pulled over by a police officer, if the officer asks to see your driver's license and you don't produce it, the officer can arrest you. If you driving and you can't produce a license, you're driving without a license, which I assume is a crime in every state, although there might be some exceptions.
It looks like the judge belived that NAC was screwing UCI pretty hard and trying to make them go under. Since UCI is a webhosting company, if they didn't have control of the IP addresses for the time it takes them to get set up at through a different net provider, they would break contract with third parties through no fault of their own. This is a pretty tough case and I think this is less about UCI wanting to have "portable" IP addresses than wanting to keep their buisiness from being shut down as they transition.
Because if they can dictate a corporation's business model, that makes it that much easier for them to dictate it's content.
I don't see the connection here. If there is existing legislation to regulate business practices of a cable company, how does that make it "easier" for the construction of legislation to regulate cable tv content?
There is legislation in place to regulate the speeds at which vehicles can travel on roads. Does this make it "easier" for legislation to be passed that regulate the colors that vehicles can be painted (polka-dots being too wild for social conservatives)?
Yes, DirectX runs on those 90% running Windows. So does OpenGL, and OpenGL can and does run on other platforms too. 95% is a larger percentage than 90%.
Yeah, try that quiz if you want results biased in favor of libertarianism. Not suprising, given that the quiz was made by David Nolan, one of the co-founders of the Libertarian Party. Politics isn't so simple that you can figure it out with ten questions.
Ok, I tried those links and I got:
"You do not have access to this forum thread."
You need to sign up even to read the forums? Doesn't seem very friendly.
I just downloaded it and tried to run it, it popped up a window and immediately crashed, telling me "Illegal instruction". Anyone else have this problem? I'm running debian unstable and using the nvidia drivers for my quadro dcc.
Give credit to Leigh Brackett, she wrote the first draft of The Empire Strikes Back and wrote several of the best movies ever made, The Big Sleep and Rio Bravo. I doubt that The Empire Strikes Back, frequently considered the best Star Wars movie, would be half as good as it is without her talent.
How is allowing a GPL version of the specification unethical? And why have the spec if people can't make "copies" of implementations that adhere to the specifications? I thought the point of releasing specs was interoperability. You're making a great logical leap here.
A cubit isn't a standard measurement, it has different values for different cultures. Biblical cubits are longer than english cubits, etc. I think the english cubit is around 18 inches.
Sorry, but Men Without Hats did "Safety Dance". As you can see from the picture on this rather garish web page, they are not wearing hats, and therefore not involved with computer security.
I agree, it's pretty odd to see Hatch taking such a moderate viewpoint, but he hasn't actually _done_ anything about this issue yet (except with DMCA). I'll have to see the specifics of any real proposal he puts forward until I start thinking he's actually doing things to help the people.
--demiurge You find a file that appears important and obliterate it from memory!!! Score one for the downtrodden hacker!
Crap, if Deckard was a replicant, maybe I'm a replicant and don't know it. Time to get the life insurance policy with triple indemnity for being "retired"....
--demiurge You find a file that appears important and obliterate it from memory!!! Score one for the downtrodden hacker!
The Chinese government has shown a strong reaction against anything that seems to exert more control over China than they do. A recent example of this was the Fa Lun Gong movement that they attempted to crush. So, likewise, with Microsoft being the huge power that it is, the Chinese government is trying to enact policies to stop it.
I'm sure the tangible benefits of the use of Linux and the interesting Marxist-esque position of opensource software were parts of this decision, but attacking Microsoft was probably the primary goal.
--demiurge You find a file that appears important and obliterate it from memory!!! Score one for the downtrodden hacker!
The raising of the price was in their plans all along, even before people started hacking on them. They were lost money selling the actual hardware and made money on the internet service. After the initial publicity push with the $99 dollar, and realising that they weren't turning the profits they liked, raising the price was necessary. The hardware hackers were just an extra annoyance.
-- demiurge You find a file that appears important and obliterate it from memory!!! Score one for the downtrodden hacker!
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No way. Look at Eugene V. Debs. He even ran for president from jail.
One of his slogans was "For President - Convict No. 9653".
If you're driving a car and you get pulled over by a police officer, if the officer asks to see your driver's license and you don't produce it, the officer can arrest you.
If you driving and you can't produce a license, you're driving without a license, which I assume is a crime in every state, although there might be some exceptions.
We totally need a bittorrent set up for these games. Insta-mirror!
You can read the text of the filesharing bill (now law) at http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1501-1550/s b_1506_bill_20040823_enrolled.html
Time to start changing my homepage to MSN?
Try:
affidavit 1
affidavit 2
affidavit 3
remand
restraining order
It looks like the judge belived that NAC was screwing UCI pretty hard and trying to make them go under. Since UCI is a webhosting company, if they didn't have control of the IP addresses for the time it takes them to get set up at through a different net provider, they would break contract with third parties through no fault of their own. This is a pretty tough case and I think this is less about UCI wanting to have "portable" IP addresses than wanting to keep their buisiness from being shut down as they transition.
I fear for our nation...even while the greatest optimist and defender of liberty we have knpown in our life time is laid to rest.
I assume he's talking about Ray Charles.
How is the "free market" as an equalizer going to fix this problem if, as you say, "everyone else" wants junk routers?
Won't supply and demand dictate that the junk wins out? Responsible companies can't make money selling routers to just you.
How?
Is there a radio button to select between those?
I don't see the connection here. If there is existing legislation to regulate business practices of a cable company, how does that make it "easier" for the construction of legislation to regulate cable tv content?
There is legislation in place to regulate the speeds at which vehicles can travel on roads. Does this make it "easier" for legislation to be passed that regulate the colors that vehicles can be painted (polka-dots being too wild for social conservatives)?
Yes, DirectX runs on those 90% running Windows.
So does OpenGL, and OpenGL can and does run on other platforms too. 95% is a larger percentage than 90%.
Yeah, try that quiz if you want results biased in favor of libertarianism. Not suprising, given that the quiz was made by David Nolan, one of the co-founders of the Libertarian Party.
Politics isn't so simple that you can figure it out with ten questions.
Ok, I tried those links and I got:
"You do not have access to this forum thread."
You need to sign up even to read the forums? Doesn't seem very friendly.
I just downloaded it and tried to run it, it popped up a window and immediately crashed, telling me "Illegal instruction". Anyone else have this problem?
I'm running debian unstable and using the nvidia drivers for my quadro dcc.
Give credit to Leigh Brackett, she wrote the first draft of The Empire Strikes Back and wrote several of the best movies ever made, The Big Sleep and Rio Bravo. I doubt that The Empire Strikes Back, frequently considered the best Star Wars movie, would be half as good as it is without her talent.
How is allowing a GPL version of the specification unethical? And why have the spec if people can't make "copies" of implementations that adhere to the specifications? I thought the point of releasing specs was interoperability.
You're making a great logical leap here.
A cubit isn't a standard measurement, it has different values for different cultures. Biblical cubits are longer than english cubits, etc.
I think the english cubit is around 18 inches.
Sounds more like a political idea by Hobbes, but that's just me. ;-)
Now, Slashdot! sounds like a Hitchcock title.
-- the demiurge
-- the demiurge
Can we still buy used cds? :-)
That's what I get usually anyway, and I don't see how it would help the RIAA...
And why is that site using the 'blink' tag? Don't they know that that tag is forbidden and will lower the moral of hackers everywhere?
-- the demiurge
I agree, it's pretty odd to see Hatch taking such a moderate viewpoint, but he hasn't actually _done_ anything about this issue yet (except with DMCA). I'll have to see the specifics of any real proposal he puts forward until I start thinking he's actually doing things to help the people.
--demiurge
You find a file that appears important and obliterate it from memory!!!
Score one for the downtrodden hacker!
Crap, if Deckard was a replicant, maybe I'm a replicant and don't know it. Time to get the life insurance policy with triple indemnity for being "retired"....
--demiurge
You find a file that appears important and obliterate it from memory!!!
Score one for the downtrodden hacker!
The Chinese government has shown a strong reaction against anything that seems to exert more control over China than they do. A recent example of this was the Fa Lun Gong movement that they attempted to crush. So, likewise, with Microsoft being the huge power that it is, the Chinese government is trying to enact policies to stop it.
I'm sure the tangible benefits of the use of Linux and the interesting Marxist-esque position of opensource software were parts of this decision, but attacking Microsoft was probably the primary goal.
--demiurge
You find a file that appears important and obliterate it from memory!!!
Score one for the downtrodden hacker!
The raising of the price was in their plans all along, even before people started hacking on them. They were lost money selling the actual hardware and made money on the internet service. After the initial publicity push with the $99 dollar, and realising that they weren't turning the profits they liked, raising the price was necessary. The hardware hackers were just an extra annoyance.
-- demiurge
You find a file that appears important and obliterate it from memory!!!
Score one for the downtrodden hacker!