Why is it evil for a company to want to control every aspect of their product in the hands of users
Because once they sell it to me it's mine.
I don't disagree with your point, but if Apple were to tell me that I couldn't run any OS other than X on my Mac, or tried to stop me writing [clean-room] an emulator to run OSX on Intel hardware, that'd be evil.
Lots of companies do try to do that shit. Apple does some less than pleasant things, too, like stomping anything that looks like Aqua. Evil is not an axis, it's a continuum.
Intel sends you a cease & desist. They also tell your ISP that you're violating their patents, and your ISP pulls the plug. So yes, there's prior art, but until your case gets to court (k$s and years later) Intel still has a patent. FSF may be able to fight that, but I can't.
The (somewhat weak) defence argument is that IMs are transitory, like phone calls, and you can't log them without the permission of all parties involved.
Since anyone who knows anyone who uses IM knows that messages are routinely logged, this argument is basically a legal appeal against reality.
Since when did US Customs become an authority on copyright law? Yes, they have a responsibility to prevent the import of items which violate the DMCA, but it's on a case by case basis and always subject to appeal.
What part of the DMCA gives NOA the right to ask for the unsold stock?
Sorry, but Britney was always the most searched-for artist on Napster. I always thought that was a symptom of being in a transition period between the MTV generation (being told what to like, and bringing those preferences to the new medium) and the bright and glorious Napster future, where people could actually find music they like for minimal promotional expense on the part of the band. Unfortunately we never got to find out.
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Slashdot really is going downhill. Now even the anonymous cowards have feelings.
Did I call you a drone? Did I insult you in any way?
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I don't administer any kind of network (apart from the 4 Linux & 1 Win98 at home). However, you don't have to be a sysadmin to be patronising and arrogant. And my uid is not particularly low. It's about two orders of magnitude too high to get a proposal of marriage from CmdrTaco.
They are not drones because they are windows users. The reverse would be more accurate.
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Why would I want them fired? I'm not the admin.
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Where I work they have the drones' boxen locked down so they can't change their proxy settings. Thus PeekaBooty is not a problem.
The more inspired drones have installed Opera, which doesn't require administrator access to install in Windows. They could presumably use PB. They're a small minority, though.
PHP is open source. I guess you're going to have to stop using it. I do perl, myself, but only socially.
The subject of a post can be useful if it's accurate. Event a subject like "Re: zerg" can tell you whether or not the post will interest you.
You can get modded down around here for pointing out that water is wet. I don't use either MySQL or mSQL. I prefer databases.
Slashdot used to have a lot of non-Free Software stuff on it. That seems to have gone down in the last few years. Unless you're saying that you post on Slashdot because you like Jon Katz?
I think you read something into my post I didn't intend. As someone with three/. accounts all at the karma cap (2 inactive), I don't feel it befits my position to be morally indignant at anyone's whoredom.
I'm in a charitable mood, so I'll assume the moderator actually meant to mod the post above mine as a troll. That kind of accident can happen all too easily when you're SMOKING CRACK!
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Eiffel.NET is not Eiffel
VB.NET is not VB
they are just C# with a different syntax.
Scheme has been particularly butchered.
Except in the bizarre world of the CLR.
.NET have limited themselves to C# and its "skins", as pointed out in the article.
Programmers have many choices. Programmers who choose to use
Sure, anyone can shake a stick 110 billion times per second
/.ers were a bunch of wankers, but I didn't realise the level of accomplishment.
Wow. I knew
Actually, it's a template.
string is a basic_string of char
and that's about all the STL I know.
Copying a bitmap is one thing. Drawing your own bitmaps using the same color scheme Apple uses is another. Apple doesn't see the difference.
Why is it evil for a company to want to control every aspect of their product in the hands of users
Because once they sell it to me it's mine.
I don't disagree with your point, but if Apple were to tell me that I couldn't run any OS other than X on my Mac, or tried to stop me writing [clean-room] an emulator to run OSX on Intel hardware, that'd be evil.
Lots of companies do try to do that shit. Apple does some less than pleasant things, too, like stomping anything that looks like Aqua. Evil is not an axis, it's a continuum.
Intel sends you a cease & desist. They also tell your ISP that you're violating their patents, and your ISP pulls the plug. So yes, there's prior art, but until your case gets to court (k$s and years later) Intel still has a patent. FSF may be able to fight that, but I can't.
That's why this is a bad scenario.
That's: go to Mars (30 days), stay for 30 days, and come back (30 days). Sum: 120 days
Wow. 3/1 time dilation. How close to c do you have to get to lose the other 30 days?
That means you, too!
Unfortunately, 1 is the lowest score I can post with and still keep my name on the post. If that offends you, complain to Taco.
Troll?
Ignorant fuckwit moderators.
cnnbc.aol.com?
Why is copying the game illegal?
Distributing copies of the game is clearly copyright infringement. Wouldn't you need a supply of blank cartridges to do that?
The (somewhat weak) defence argument is that IMs are transitory, like phone calls, and you can't log them without the permission of all parties involved.
Since anyone who knows anyone who uses IM knows that messages are routinely logged, this argument is basically a legal appeal against reality.
Oh, and I hope he loses.
Since when did US Customs become an authority on copyright law? Yes, they have a responsibility to prevent the import of items which violate the DMCA, but it's on a case by case basis and always subject to appeal.
What part of the DMCA gives NOA the right to ask for the unsold stock?
Sorry, but Britney was always the most searched-for artist on Napster. I always thought that was a symptom of being in a transition period between the MTV generation (being told what to like, and bringing those preferences to the new medium) and the bright and glorious Napster future, where people could actually find music they like for minimal promotional expense on the part of the band. Unfortunately we never got to find out.
Slashdot really is going downhill. Now even the anonymous cowards have feelings.
Did I call you a drone? Did I insult you in any way?
I don't administer any kind of network (apart from the 4 Linux & 1 Win98 at home). However, you don't have to be a sysadmin to be patronising and arrogant. And my uid is not particularly low. It's about two orders of magnitude too high to get a proposal of marriage from CmdrTaco.
They are not drones because they are windows users. The reverse would be more accurate.
Why would I want them fired? I'm not the admin.
Where I work they have the drones' boxen locked down so they can't change their proxy settings. Thus PeekaBooty is not a problem.
The more inspired drones have installed Opera, which doesn't require administrator access to install in Windows. They could presumably use PB. They're a small minority, though.
Depends on how soon he was allowed to divest his VA stock.
Oh, and Taco, based on my experience of marriage,
pants will no longer be optional.
Oh hell, I just have to say it:
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Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these
but I am probably more of a waste of space in person, too.
PHP is open source. I guess you're going to have to stop using it. I do perl, myself, but only socially.
The subject of a post can be useful if it's accurate. Event a subject like "Re: zerg" can tell you whether or not the post will interest you.
You can get modded down around here for pointing out that water is wet. I don't use either MySQL or mSQL. I prefer databases.
Slashdot used to have a lot of non-Free Software stuff on it. That seems to have gone down in the last few years. Unless you're saying that you post on Slashdot because you like Jon Katz?
I think you read something into my post I didn't intend. As someone with three /. accounts all at the karma cap (2 inactive), I don't feel it befits my position to be morally indignant at anyone's whoredom.
I'm in a charitable mood, so I'll assume the moderator actually meant to mod the post above mine as a troll. That kind of accident can happen all too easily when you're SMOKING CRACK!