Regardless of how awful the government there may be, that doesn't give us the justification to go in there and mandate how they will govern.
Of course it's much easier to justify a war with Iraq when it HAS an awful government, a history of war with neighboring countries, and vast amounts of weapons. Which is why The CIA made sure it was so.
"Hidden elements of the U.S. government overthrew a democratically elected president of Iran (Mossadegh) because he wanted to reduce the profits of U.S. and British oil companies doing business in Iran. The U.S. government supported a very weak man, the Shah of Iran, who became very violent toward his own citizens. Eventually, people in Iran overthrew the Shah. The U.S. government's actions de-stabilized the country and encouraged the violence that came after.
"People in Iran began supporting terrorism against the United States, in retaliation for hidden U.S. government interference with the Iranian government.
"To counteract Iranian support of violence against the U.S., the U.S. government began supporting and encouraging Iraq in a war against Iran. This was very profitable for U.S. weapons manufacturers. Weapons manufacturers in the U.S. were delivering weapons to Iraq under long-term contracts until the same month as the U.S. began war on Iraq the first time. (However, most Iraqi weapons come from Russia, apparently.)"
Yes, I'm well aware this is blatently offtopic. I don't give a shit about karma any more.. The people of America need to know what this war is really about, and you can bet your ass CNN isn't going to tell them.
You have no idea how LITTLE information a DOS format actually erases do you? "NONE AT ALL"
Here's a better idea.
Boot knoppix
switch to a root shell
for wipe in 5 4 3 2 1; do dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda ; done ; dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
Go to bed; it'll be all finished by morning.
Perhaps they should make it the only game in town; similar to DNS, the usefulness of this technique is diluted if there's an ever-growing number of new antispam outfits all pushing their own trademark and haiku.
And I doubt they would charge for it; the big and easy money comes from sueing spammers. If more people use Habeus and more people filter on it, the mark becomes more valuable and they can claim larger damages when spammers misappropriate it. If there were even the smallest charge for personal use, the mark would become worthless overnight, not because of the cost but because of the administrative effort in paying. Most people would not bother; they'd just stop using it.
The Haiku is an original artistic work, protected by copyright.
The business method of using copyright and trademark laws to combat spam has been registered, and is Patent Pending. I can see where they're going with this; Eventually they'll be granted a patent, part of which involves the concept of using a copyrighted and trademarked phrase to identify non-spam email.
And spam send using the Habeus mark will then be in clear violation of their Copyright, their Trademark, and their Patent.
I've read the FAQ, and I think this might actually be the smartest and most productive legal move anyone's made since Richard drafted the GPL..
For example, I'm free to mention the word "SPAM(tm)" which is a trademark of Hormel; I can mention the relationship between the SPAM meat product and bulk email. I can mention SPAM in a comedy sketch, although I probably couldn't use a restaurant full of vikings since that's too similar to a previous and still copyrighted work. Or I could sell a recipe book that mentions SPAM as an ingredient, as long as it was clear that the book was not an official publication of Hormel foods.
OTOH if I was selling my own processed meat product under the name "SPAM", I would expect to hear from Hormel's legal department fairly promptly.
Unauthorised use of a Trademark is illegal.
Unauthorised copying of a complete artistic work such as a Haiku poem is illegal.
Unauthorised use of a Patented method of having your email recognised as not spam is also illegal.
Spam containing the Habeus headers BECOMES illegal not because it is spam, but because it is an unauthorised use of a registered trademark, a copyrighted Haiku, and a registered patent.
Try searching for Second superpower -moore and all the references to the James Moore article magically vanish. Wow, that was hard.... and no, I see very little difference between the term as defined in this article, and the term as defined elsewhere. "Public Opinion" in the Moore article, "Public Opinion" in all the other search results. Where's the Googlewash?
The register article didn't make it very clear what the 'original' definition was supposed to be, and I had assumed that the US Government and/or pro-war groups had been trying to redefine the "Axis of Evil" as the "Second Superpower.", because otherwise I just don't see what the problem is.
I don't know that it was supposed to be an april fool's joke; do a quick google search for "Corporations are not people" for a bit of the background on this. A few people have even tried to 'incorporate' themselves to draw attention to the problem that corporations have an unfair advantage; they get all the same rights, are often given unfair tax breaks and handouts, yet have none of the responsibilites and culpability that an actual human being has..
So why not turn it around.. this is just the kind of thinking that we need to get people thinking about the whole stupid 'corporation==person' issue.
They've tried the 'most user friendly' version of Linux and it was terrible, so the other distro's must surely be worse.. and obviously they'll never recommend Linux to their friends either.
Not that I actually care but if you really wanted to kill Linux from ever becoming a popular desktop OS, what Lindows is doing might well be the most successful way of going about it.
If you put the whole computer in a closet or ceiling you can easily run cables for keyboard, mouse, video and sound. Video is the only tricky one, the signal degrades quite quickly so you want to go as direct as possible.
What the fuck are you talking about? More than half? There are 140 million pirates in the United States?
Fact: 234 million Americans did not vote for Bush.
Most people I've talked to don't consider 'filesharing' to be theft. Perhaps the majority don't have any opinion, but in my experience practically everyone who has a computer has either downloaded music, or copied CD's from friends.
Think about it. How many of your friends copy music? And how many don't?
I would _hope_ that they phone up at least once pretending to be a prospective customer; If the guy on the other end says "what the fuck? I don't do that stuff!" then it could be a revenge-posting Or perhaps it's just not even an issue; printing and putting up hundreds of posters just to get someone else's phone cut off is a hassle; probably easier to just find out where the guy lives and go beat the shit out of him.
OTOH if these people are advertising something illegal the police could phone them up and arrange a meeting, then arrest them when they turn up..?
A while back, the Church of Scientology sent google a DMCA takedown notice, to have xenu.net removed from their index.
Google removed them, but at the bottom of any search where the xenu.net link would have appeared they had a notice explaining that some results had been removed and a link to the DMCA notice (which had the censored URL in it, of course..)
I really wish that Google had made this their 'cast-iron' policy and handled all other result-removal requests the same way.
Capacitors take up space; it'd be much easier to design a power supply on the card which ALWAYS draws the same amount of power (slightly more than the maximum you'd expect the chip to use) and dumps any excess power into a 'dummy load'.
This is similar to the concept of sending junk data over your encrypted channel when it's not in use, to foil traffic analysis.
Anyhow, just after I posted this, I thought of an example; Illustrator. And I think Adobe's insistence that kIllustrator be renamed was just as reprehensable.
And on the original topic, if lindows is so much like Windows, wouldn't "Star Office" be much more easily confused with "Microsoft Office"?
Perhaps the case would be easier to defend if they'd just called the product "Linux Windows" from the beginning.
Fine, but none of those product names are already a COMMON ENGLISH WORD..
Try calling your product..
Ummm...
Fuck. Every product I can think of that uses a generic english word for a trademark just happens to come from the same company.
Can anyone find me an example of this from any company other than Microsoft? I mean sure, if Ford came out with a model called "Car" or Nike produced a shoe called "Shoe" and trademarked that then you might have a point. But they don't.
A lot of people at WLUG complained about that too, so isomer put all the man pages up on a Wiki. Not many of them have examples yet, feel free to contribute your own.
My favorite is zcat(1) of course, Although zcat'ing compressed patches was about the only really good example I could think of. Most other times there's a -z switch that does the same job:(
About 15 YEARS ago, I was reading the documentation for the A86 assembler. The author warned that any non-trivial amount of code compiled with his assembler could be identified and proven in court from the compiler's unique 'footprint'.
Same concept as this except that it was added by the assembler itself, hiding a simple pattern to identify the compiler, and I think it was a bit more subtle than this example.
Just in case anyone thought this was a new idea...
Perhaps the point of the FBI's mandatory polygraphs is to ensure that all their agents CAN still fool the polygraph. Being able to lie convincingly is an asset in many situations.
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Curious, but has anyone here, who is whining about how bad this is, been affected by the current implementation of the act?
Are Americans ignorant of history now, as well as geography?
I would apologise for being inflamatory but I don't feel that it's unjustified. Your statement ranks right up there with "if you have nothing to hide"
Regardless of how awful the government there may be, that doesn't give us the justification to go in there and mandate how they will govern.
Of course it's much easier to justify a war with Iraq when it HAS an awful government, a history of war with neighboring countries, and vast amounts of weapons. Which is why The CIA made sure it was so.
"Hidden elements of the U.S. government overthrew a democratically elected president of Iran (Mossadegh) because he wanted to reduce the profits of U.S. and British oil companies doing business in Iran. The U.S. government supported a very weak man, the Shah of Iran, who became very violent toward his own citizens. Eventually, people in Iran overthrew the Shah. The U.S. government's actions de-stabilized the country and encouraged the violence that came after.
"People in Iran began supporting terrorism against the United States, in retaliation for hidden U.S. government interference with the Iranian government.
"To counteract Iranian support of violence against the U.S., the U.S. government began supporting and encouraging Iraq in a war against Iran. This was very profitable for U.S. weapons manufacturers. Weapons manufacturers in the U.S. were delivering weapons to Iraq under long-term contracts until the same month as the U.S. began war on Iraq the first time. (However, most Iraqi weapons come from Russia, apparently.)"
Yes, I'm well aware this is blatently offtopic. I don't give a shit about karma any more.. The people of America need to know what this war is really about, and you can bet your ass CNN isn't going to tell them.
three words back;
Norton disk recovery
You have no idea how LITTLE information a DOS format actually erases do you? "NONE AT ALL"
Here's a better idea.
Boot knoppix
switch to a root shell
for wipe in 5 4 3 2 1; do dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda ; done ; dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
Go to bed; it'll be all finished by morning.
Perhaps they should make it the only game in town; similar to DNS, the usefulness of this technique is diluted if there's an ever-growing number of new antispam outfits all pushing their own trademark and haiku.
And I doubt they would charge for it; the big and easy money comes from sueing spammers. If more people use Habeus and more people filter on it, the mark becomes more valuable and they can claim larger damages when spammers misappropriate it. If there were even the smallest charge for personal use, the mark would become worthless overnight, not because of the cost but because of the administrative effort in paying. Most people would not bother; they'd just stop using it.
"Habeus SWE(tm)" is a trademark.
The Haiku is an original artistic work, protected by copyright.
The business method of using copyright and trademark laws to combat spam has been registered, and is Patent Pending. I can see where they're going with this; Eventually they'll be granted a patent, part of which involves the concept of using a copyrighted and trademarked phrase to identify non-spam email.
And spam send using the Habeus mark will then be in clear violation of their Copyright, their Trademark, and their Patent.
I've read the FAQ, and I think this might actually be the smartest and most productive legal move anyone's made since Richard drafted the GPL..
Not in this context.
For example, I'm free to mention the word "SPAM(tm)" which is a trademark of Hormel; I can mention the relationship between the SPAM meat product and bulk email. I can mention SPAM in a comedy sketch, although I probably couldn't use a restaurant full of vikings since that's too similar to a previous and still copyrighted work. Or I could sell a recipe book that mentions SPAM as an ingredient, as long as it was clear that the book was not an official publication of Hormel foods.
OTOH if I was selling my own processed meat product under the name "SPAM", I would expect to hear from Hormel's legal department fairly promptly.
He does have a point;
Unauthorised use of a Trademark is illegal.
Unauthorised copying of a complete artistic work such as a Haiku poem is illegal.
Unauthorised use of a Patented method of having your email recognised as not spam is also illegal.
Spam containing the Habeus headers BECOMES illegal not because it is spam, but because it is an unauthorised use of a registered trademark, a copyrighted Haiku, and a registered patent.
That's the whole point. Go read the FAQ.
Try searching for Second superpower -moore and all the references to the James Moore article magically vanish. Wow, that was hard.. .. and no, I see very little difference between the term as defined in this article, and the term as defined elsewhere. "Public Opinion" in the Moore article, "Public Opinion" in all the other search results. Where's the Googlewash?
The register article didn't make it very clear what the 'original' definition was supposed to be, and I had assumed that the US Government and/or pro-war groups had been trying to redefine the "Axis of Evil" as the "Second Superpower.", because otherwise I just don't see what the problem is.
No, we need a quantum evil bit that can be both 0 and 1 at the same time!
I don't know that it was supposed to be an april fool's joke; do a quick google search for "Corporations are not people" for a bit of the background on this. A few people have even tried to 'incorporate' themselves to draw attention to the problem that corporations have an unfair advantage; they get all the same rights, are often given unfair tax breaks and handouts, yet have none of the responsibilites and culpability that an actual human being has..
So why not turn it around.. this is just the kind of thinking that we need to get people thinking about the whole stupid 'corporation==person' issue.
Oh yeah.. like how this works? (Clue.. the red dot means it's false..)
Hell yes. Hit those 'boom car' drivers with annual performance royalties!! And soon, please!!
I would bet most end up with a pirate copy of XP.
They've tried the 'most user friendly' version of Linux and it was terrible, so the other distro's must surely be worse.. and obviously they'll never recommend Linux to their friends either.
Not that I actually care but if you really wanted to kill Linux from ever becoming a popular desktop OS, what Lindows is doing might well be the most successful way of going about it.
If you put the whole computer in a closet or ceiling you can easily run cables for keyboard, mouse, video and sound. Video is the only tricky one, the signal degrades quite quickly so you want to go as direct as possible.
What the fuck are you talking about? More than half? There are 140 million pirates in the United States?
Fact: 234 million Americans did not vote for Bush.
Most people I've talked to don't consider 'filesharing' to be theft. Perhaps the majority don't have any opinion, but in my experience practically everyone who has a computer has either downloaded music, or copied CD's from friends.
Think about it. How many of your friends copy music? And how many don't?
Everybody does it, right? It's not illegal, right?
If more than half the population are openly ignoring a law because they think the law is WRONG, it's probably time to change that law.
Oh! Wait.. My bad, I stupidly assumed that the USA is still a democracy.. clearly that's no longer the case.
I would _hope_ that they phone up at least once pretending to be a prospective customer; If the guy on the other end says "what the fuck? I don't do that stuff!" then it could be a revenge-posting Or perhaps it's just not even an issue; printing and putting up hundreds of posters just to get someone else's phone cut off is a hassle; probably easier to just find out where the guy lives and go beat the shit out of him.
OTOH if these people are advertising something illegal the police could phone them up and arrange a meeting, then arrest them when they turn up..?
A while back, the Church of Scientology sent google a DMCA takedown notice, to have xenu.net removed from their index.
Google removed them, but at the bottom of any search where the xenu.net link would have appeared they had a notice explaining that some results had been removed and a link to the DMCA notice (which had the censored URL in it, of course..)
I really wish that Google had made this their 'cast-iron' policy and handled all other result-removal requests the same way.
Capacitors take up space; it'd be much easier to design a power supply on the card which ALWAYS draws the same amount of power (slightly more than the maximum you'd expect the chip to use) and dumps any excess power into a 'dummy load'.
This is similar to the concept of sending junk data over your encrypted channel when it's not in use, to foil traffic analysis.
Anyhow, just after I posted this, I thought of an example; Illustrator. And I think Adobe's insistence that kIllustrator be renamed was just as reprehensable.
And on the original topic, if lindows is so much like Windows, wouldn't "Star Office" be much more easily confused with "Microsoft Office"?
Perhaps the case would be easier to defend if they'd just called the product "Linux Windows" from the beginning.
Fine, but none of those product names are already a COMMON ENGLISH WORD..
Try calling your product..
Ummm...
Fuck. Every product I can think of that uses a generic english word for a trademark just happens to come from the same company.
Can anyone find me an example of this from any company other than Microsoft? I mean sure, if Ford came out with a model called "Car" or Nike produced a shoe called "Shoe" and trademarked that then you might have a point. But they don't.
A lot of people at WLUG complained about that too, so isomer put all the man pages up on a Wiki. Not many of them have examples yet, feel free to contribute your own.
:(
My favorite is zcat(1) of course, Although zcat'ing compressed patches was about the only really good example I could think of. Most other times there's a -z switch that does the same job
About 15 YEARS ago, I was reading the documentation for the A86 assembler. The author warned that any non-trivial amount of code compiled with his assembler could be identified and proven in court from the compiler's unique 'footprint'.
Same concept as this except that it was added by the assembler itself, hiding a simple pattern to identify the compiler, and I think it was a bit more subtle than this example.
Just in case anyone thought this was a new idea...
Actually it is encrypted by hardware crypto processors before it is stored anywhere. Yes, my day job is at a bank.
:)
But it's not encrypted very securely. Yes, I read the Register
Perhaps the point of the FBI's mandatory polygraphs is to ensure that all their agents CAN still fool the polygraph. Being able to lie convincingly is an asset in many situations.