There is no such thing as an unbiased judge. Just ask anyone who has had to take a case to the supreme court. You can fairly accurately predict how a judge will rule based on his biases in various areas, especially when there is a moral
element involved in the ruling.
Hmmmm, who was that judge who ruled against 2600?
I bet he was totally unbiased too:)
Second, the actual database itself is composed of submissions. Unless, I explicitly disclaim ownership of the submitted data, how can cddb claim to own it? As far as I know, you need to explicitly give away rights, they cannot be taken.
Hmmmm... not to play devil's advocate here, but the information you keyed in technically belongs to the artist and/or recording company that produced the CD. Perhaps you don't really own that information after all *grin*.
In a peer-to-peer configuration, both peers serve as both client AND server.
Not true. One end can be just a server, while the other end need only be a client. Peer-to-peer simply means that 2 machines normally though of as "clients", e. g., home PC's or workstations, can communicate with each other without the aid of a server machine.
Certificates prove identity. They have nothing to do with "honor".
This is quite true. Nevertheless, I'm certain that a large fraction of those who participate in e-commerce have made the false assumption that such certificates come with some form of implied legitimacy in how the company they are interacting with does business.
Now that digital signatures are considered legal and binding, I wonder if the legal meaning of a digital certificate is affected? Is there now some form of implied contract when they are used for communications?
The converse is also true... just because you pay for it doesn't automatically make it legitimate. Certificates are routinely sold to companies that turn out to be less-than-honorable. (E trade?)
Just keep that in mind the next time you click on that Grant button *grin*.
Apache-SSL provides the same features as vanilla
Apache, which means you can define one or more virtual servers, each with or without SSL, within the same configuration of Apache-SSL. Works great.
Don't sell the Slashdot readers too short... at least they CAN fix the back door problem by changing the source. Can't do the same with MS products. Therefore, from a trust point of view,
the MS products ARE worthless.
Hopefully, their seat in the legislature would get overturned as well.
I can't help but think that laws like the DMCA and UCITA are nothing more than another decade's worth of job security for the law profession *grin*.
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I'm sure Legato HA+ does the trick nicely...
Of course if you want to avoid the common maladay known as multivendorfingerpointing, you may be better off using HP-UX and HP's ServiceGuard. Works well for me.
Just ask the many naturists and nudists out there who are trying to protect their little sections of nude beach from the fundamentalist-bought politicos who think they are doing society a favor.
European naturists merely shake their heads in dismay when they see what's going on here in the US. Many European beaches are top-free and many also permit nudity. And yet the sex crime rate is much lower there than it is here.
There's a big difference between ALLOWING someone to stick it to us and working within the system to fix it. People accept the terms of agreement, not necessarily because they really agree with them, but because the alternative is less desirable.
Seems to me that Eric and Bruce's public disagreements have degenerated into personal attacks. Lets not the rest of us fall into the same trap.
Lets also remember that there are real issues that face us at the root of their disagreement and that we as a community have to decide how to address them, although perhaps in a more civil manner?
The music recording industry is finally being challenged on a front over which it, to the delight of a lot of unsigned and signed musicians, has little control over.
From the artist's perspective the playing field has become a lot more level. Unsigned artists finally have a way to bypass the greedy ones of the music industry. Until now, they preyed upon new artists' lack of clout by demanding the lion's share of any potential earnings in exchange for hollow promises that they often have little intention to keep.
Until now an artist was lucky to have their music heard outside of their own region by anyone other than the A&R weenies.
The Internet and MP3 are forcing a paradigm shift in the industry, and the big record companies don't like it.
Sooner or later, I'm sure they'll wake up to discover that about the only thing that their legal maneuverings will ever accomplish (other than even more alienation between them and the musician community) is an increased focus on development of a newer, better, cheaply (or freely) available, delivery media that they will have no control over.
Nowadays, the question "Why not Linux?" is often being answered simply: "Because it's great at what it's designed to do." Despite what the press might claim, a major chunk of the server market does not fall under the category of "enterprise", and this is where OS's such as Linux can be quite appealing.
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There is no such thing as an unbiased judge. Just ask anyone who has had to take a case to the supreme court. You can fairly accurately predict how a judge will rule based on his biases in various areas, especially when there is a moral
:)
element involved in the ruling.
Hmmmm, who was that judge who ruled against 2600?
I bet he was totally unbiased too
Too bad the Tom's Hardware web site isn't running on it... looks like it's Slashdotted...:)
Hmmmm... not to play devil's advocate here, but the information you keyed in technically belongs to the artist and/or recording company that produced the CD. Perhaps you don't really own that information after all *grin*.
Not true. One end can be just a server, while the other end need only be a client. Peer-to-peer simply means that 2 machines normally though of as "clients", e. g., home PC's or workstations, can communicate with each other without the aid of a server machine.
Certificates prove identity. They have nothing to do with "honor".
:)
This is quite true. Nevertheless, I'm certain that a large fraction of those who participate in e-commerce have made the false assumption that such certificates come with some form of implied legitimacy in how the company they are interacting with does business.
Now that digital signatures are considered legal and binding, I wonder if the legal meaning of a digital certificate is affected? Is there now some form of implied contract when they are used for communications?
Lawyers?
The converse is also true... just because you pay for it doesn't automatically make it legitimate. Certificates are routinely sold to companies that turn out to be less-than-honorable. (E trade?)
Just keep that in mind the next time you click on that Grant button *grin*.
Apache-SSL provides the same features as vanilla
Apache, which means you can define one or more virtual servers, each with or without SSL, within the same configuration of Apache-SSL. Works great.
Don't sell the Slashdot readers too short... at least they CAN fix the back door problem by changing the source. Can't do the same with MS products. Therefore, from a trust point of view,
the MS products ARE worthless.
Hopefully, their seat in the legislature would get overturned as well.
I can't help but think that laws like the DMCA and UCITA are nothing more than another decade's worth of job security for the law profession *grin*.
I'm sure Legato HA+ does the trick nicely...
Of course if you want to avoid the common maladay known as multivendorfingerpointing, you may be better off using HP-UX and HP's ServiceGuard. Works well for me.
Just ask the many naturists and nudists out there who are trying to protect their little sections of nude beach from the fundamentalist-bought politicos who think they are doing society a favor.
European naturists merely shake their heads in dismay when they see what's going on here in the US. Many European beaches are top-free and many also permit nudity. And yet the sex crime rate is much lower there than it is here.
Bill already did this. Every time I get in front of his OS I'm always asking myself "Y" windoze?
:)
--ben
There's a big difference between ALLOWING someone to stick it to us and working within the system to fix it. People accept the terms of agreement, not necessarily because they really agree with them, but because the alternative is less desirable.
Get dressed? Who gets dressed? I thought /. was clothing optional.
Seems to me that Eric and Bruce's public disagreements have degenerated into personal attacks. Lets not the rest of us fall into the same trap.
Lets also remember that there are real issues that face us at the root of their disagreement and that we as a community have to decide how to address them, although perhaps in a more civil manner?
The music recording industry is finally being challenged on a front over which it, to the delight of a lot of unsigned and signed musicians, has little control over.
From the artist's perspective the playing field has become a lot more level. Unsigned artists finally have a way to bypass the greedy ones of the music industry. Until now, they preyed upon new artists' lack of clout by demanding the lion's share of any potential earnings in exchange for hollow promises that they often have little intention to keep.
Until now an artist was lucky to have their music heard outside of their own region by anyone other than the A&R weenies.
The Internet and MP3 are forcing a paradigm shift in the industry, and the big record companies don't like it.
Sooner or later, I'm sure they'll wake up to discover that about the only thing that their legal maneuverings will ever accomplish (other than even more alienation between them and the musician community) is an increased focus on development of a newer, better, cheaply (or freely) available, delivery media that they will have no control over.
Nowadays, the question "Why not Linux?" is often being answered simply: "Because it's great at what it's designed to do."
Despite what the press might claim, a major chunk of the server market does not fall under the category of "enterprise", and this is where OS's such as Linux can be quite appealing.