Pop quiz. The people that wrote that Constitution: shining examples of law abiding citizens, or bloody handed insurrectionists that got to write the history books?
Name me an increase in civil rights in the USA that hasn't been achieved through protests, civil disobedience or outright armed rebellion.
If you bother to read the article, you'll find that they are comparing it favourably with 120mm. But then, you're really only interested in telling us that yours is 8"x10", aren't you?
What's your position on weenies who don't even give an article that says "Interview" a cursory reading before assuming that it's a Slashdot interview question solicitation?
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Which would preclude its use by the people that they want using it, i.e. Suzy Desktop.
They don't need to do anything particularly evil with it, they just need to ensure that there's no incentive for us filthy socialist hippies to use any other player, or to clamour for any other format.
The evil bit comes in five or ten years, when there's no competition left.
what recourse does an individual in such a situation have when a government-controlled ISP run by appointed officials supports UCE?
Throw a tea party. Civil disobedience is the US approved method for forcing social and economic change. If email is important, it's worth standing up for. If it's not worth standing up for, well, then how important can it be?
But OK, we'll play your game. You can't send email. Wow, that sucks. Are you pissed off? Sure you are. Now, are you pissed off enough to do something about it to get your ISP unblocked?
Care to cite the "optional" parts? AFAIK, the only options are whether to create criminal or civil offences, i.e. whether to bitchslap people with taxpayer's moneym, or whether to just let the MPA* tentacles do the slapping.
Every time I see Angry Young Geeks declaiming that they'll do X or Y or Z to keep their favourite show on the air, I have to wonder why they don't understand that if you aren't in the Neilsen sample, nobody cares.
And why should they care? So you're an avid watcher of the show. Does that mean you're an avid watcher of the commercials?. No, so they don't care. You could try writing to them and telling them that you make >$100K and you watch all the commercials, but to what effect? They already know how many people with what income watch the show. All you're doing is identifying yourself, you're not altering the figures on which their decision will be made.
Fan protests and letter campaigns are a waste of time, as is campaigning to other fans, or even to the general public. What you need to do is to find Neilsen households, and persuade them to watch. I wonder how many Neilsen households understand just how powerful they are. In fact, I wonder how many corporations are covertly tracking them down (one way or another) and targetting them right now to skew the figures.
You're assuming that when a high earner says "no" that they don't keep trying people in the same demographic until one of them says "yes". If they had a disproportionate number of respondants in trailer parks, don't you think the advertisers might get a bit miffed?
See a wide variety of them in use in this image of the 1314 battle of Bannockburn. The alleged "speaker stand" in this image is, of course, a pyschotronic warfare device. Stalkers and Three Letter Agencies take note: I am in this picture, wearing my own AFDB (well, steel, which is heavier but provides excellent shielding).
Kudos to Lyle for bringing the protection of AFDB's to the attention of the common man. While nothing beats a well made AFDB, I also recommend running Mindguard (link unavailable due to zapatopi.net being taken down by Miniature Black Helicopters and/or Slashdotting) 24/7, for those head scratching moments.
This wasn't a Slashdot meta comment. I don't give a snot what OS's you lot are using to view this site, I'm commenting that it's ironic that a project to run the Linux OS on a Microsoft product relies on a Microsoft OS. Not every comment on Slashdot is self referential.
What question are you answering? I think it's ironic relying on a Microsoft product to run a project to allow Linux to run on a Microsoft product. It wasn't a Slashdot meta commentary.
That's precisely what LGPL is for, but LGPL is also on Microsoft's shit list (c.f. their infamous specification download licensing restrictions). Compare and contrast:
BSD: They can take it and use it as long as they don't remove the copyright or license terms from the source. They don't have to tell anyone that you're using it. If we work it out (as we did with the TCP/IP stack) they still don't have to tell anyone that they've modified it, or how they've modified it.
LGPL: They can take it and use it as long as they don't remove the copyright or license terms from the source. They have to tell people they're using it and make the source, including their modifications, available.
Now, how exactly does BSD help interoperability? We had to guess that Microsoft was using the BSD TCP/IP stack, then we had to guess about the changes that they'd made. But it became an open secret that they were using it back in the day (I don't doubt it's been cleanroomed now), so it's not as though it would harm Microsoft to say that they were using it, and to say exactly what version, and with what modifications. We could argue that their improvements (i.e. bug fixes and optimisations rather than protocol changes) are valuable trade secrets, but remember that they got the source free and gratis and that they used it to make a lot of money. They can't afford to give a little back? Even to the extent of just saying "The Microsoft TCP/IP stack is based on the FreeBSD TCP/IP stack version 1.foo, with the following differences..."?
I believe that the only real reason that they prefer BSD over LGPL is that it allows obfuscation and protocol changing behind the scenes, i.e. to reserve the right to harm interoperability if it becomes convenient for them to do so. Sure, they didn't, but then again, they haven't made the source available, and they haven't cornered the server market yet either. Would you bet your life that there aren't proprietary extensions lurking in there just waiting on the day when they can afford to turn them on and cut off non-Microsoft clients from Microsoft servers? Seriously: bet your life on it?
All that said, you're de facto correct. The only reason Microsoft chose BSD TCP/IP was because of the license. But that's their irrational childhood trauma issue, and it's up to us to patiently council them until they get over it. There is hope though. Given that they're making noises about shared source now, I wonder how long it will take for them to realise that LGPL, used judiciously, can be used by them as well as against them.
Given that 50% of both Houses are members of the American Bar Association, I say we burn them first, then decide on the laws by popular referendum. We have the technology to do this now. The only reason we still have government by representatives is that it benefits the representatives.
Shame he didn't sell her something else. That way he might stay employed, rather than being thrown out on his ear for giving one inch more customer service than is absolutely mandated by law.
Very good point. The notion of a "free press" really just means "free to be bought or gagged by anyone other than the government". As you say though, a worrying number of people don't bother doing any background reading, which is why we don't want to see DeCSS pilloried as being purely an 3v1L h4X0r tool.
I for one welcome our new insect - er, media - overlords.
Why limit ourselves to only a few variants of democracy? There are plenty of other options. It's time to give honest plutocracy, argentocracy, timocracy, or even quangocracy a chance.
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Pop quiz. The people that wrote that Constitution: shining examples of law abiding citizens, or bloody handed insurrectionists that got to write the history books?
Name me an increase in civil rights in the USA that hasn't been achieved through protests, civil disobedience or outright armed rebellion.
If you bother to read the article, you'll find that they are comparing it favourably with 120mm. But then, you're really only interested in telling us that yours is 8"x10", aren't you?
What's your position on weenies who don't even give an article that says "Interview" a cursory reading before assuming that it's a Slashdot interview question solicitation?
Which would preclude its use by the people that they want using it, i.e. Suzy Desktop.
They don't need to do anything particularly evil with it, they just need to ensure that there's no incentive for us filthy socialist hippies to use any other player, or to clamour for any other format.
The evil bit comes in five or ten years, when there's no competition left.
Throw a tea party. Civil disobedience is the US approved method for forcing social and economic change. If email is important, it's worth standing up for. If it's not worth standing up for, well, then how important can it be?
Do we live in Hypothetica?
But OK, we'll play your game. You can't send email. Wow, that sucks. Are you pissed off? Sure you are. Now, are you pissed off enough to do something about it to get your ISP unblocked?
Are you seeing the point yet?
Care to cite the "optional" parts? AFAIK, the only options are whether to create criminal or civil offences, i.e. whether to bitchslap people with taxpayer's moneym, or whether to just let the MPA* tentacles do the slapping.
US law regarding copyright is _de facto_ global, according to the Berne Convention.
I could care fewer about that.
You can also OCR a book and redistibute it even more easily, which is where I agree with you.
But when you do this, it's copyright violation, not stealing the content.
Every time I see Angry Young Geeks declaiming that they'll do X or Y or Z to keep their favourite show on the air, I have to wonder why they don't understand that if you aren't in the Neilsen sample, nobody cares.
And why should they care? So you're an avid watcher of the show. Does that mean you're an avid watcher of the commercials?. No, so they don't care. You could try writing to them and telling them that you make >$100K and you watch all the commercials, but to what effect? They already know how many people with what income watch the show. All you're doing is identifying yourself, you're not altering the figures on which their decision will be made.
Fan protests and letter campaigns are a waste of time, as is campaigning to other fans, or even to the general public. What you need to do is to find Neilsen households, and persuade them to watch. I wonder how many Neilsen households understand just how powerful they are. In fact, I wonder how many corporations are covertly tracking them down (one way or another) and targetting them right now to skew the figures.
You're assuming that when a high earner says "no" that they don't keep trying people in the same demographic until one of them says "yes". If they had a disproportionate number of respondants in trailer parks, don't you think the advertisers might get a bit miffed?
I refer you to Tempest for Eliza for a practical demonstration.
Bear in mind that Joel used to work for Microsoft, so he's probably just exorcising some demons by giving it the old college try.
See a wide variety of them in use in this image of the 1314 battle of Bannockburn. The alleged "speaker stand" in this image is, of course, a pyschotronic warfare device. Stalkers and Three Letter Agencies take note: I am in this picture, wearing my own AFDB (well, steel, which is heavier but provides excellent shielding).
Kudos to Lyle for bringing the protection of AFDB's to the attention of the common man. While nothing beats a well made AFDB, I also recommend running Mindguard (link unavailable due to zapatopi.net being taken down by Miniature Black Helicopters and/or Slashdotting) 24/7, for those head scratching moments.
This wasn't a Slashdot meta comment. I don't give a snot what OS's you lot are using to view this site, I'm commenting that it's ironic that a project to run the Linux OS on a Microsoft product relies on a Microsoft OS. Not every comment on Slashdot is self referential.
What question are you answering? I think it's ironic relying on a Microsoft product to run a project to allow Linux to run on a Microsoft product. It wasn't a Slashdot meta commentary.
Welcome to a maibox full of "IANAL, but I play one on Slashdot, and..." messages.
Also, the site is slashdotted, but from what I can make out, it seems to be a Windows client. Ironic, nes pas? Does anyone know if it runs under wine?
That's precisely what LGPL is for, but LGPL is also on Microsoft's shit list (c.f. their infamous specification download licensing restrictions). Compare and contrast:
Now, how exactly does BSD help interoperability? We had to guess that Microsoft was using the BSD TCP/IP stack, then we had to guess about the changes that they'd made. But it became an open secret that they were using it back in the day (I don't doubt it's been cleanroomed now), so it's not as though it would harm Microsoft to say that they were using it, and to say exactly what version, and with what modifications. We could argue that their improvements (i.e. bug fixes and optimisations rather than protocol changes) are valuable trade secrets, but remember that they got the source free and gratis and that they used it to make a lot of money. They can't afford to give a little back? Even to the extent of just saying "The Microsoft TCP/IP stack is based on the FreeBSD TCP/IP stack version 1.foo, with the following differences..."?
I believe that the only real reason that they prefer BSD over LGPL is that it allows obfuscation and protocol changing behind the scenes, i.e. to reserve the right to harm interoperability if it becomes convenient for them to do so. Sure, they didn't, but then again, they haven't made the source available, and they haven't cornered the server market yet either. Would you bet your life that there aren't proprietary extensions lurking in there just waiting on the day when they can afford to turn them on and cut off non-Microsoft clients from Microsoft servers? Seriously: bet your life on it?
All that said, you're de facto correct. The only reason Microsoft chose BSD TCP/IP was because of the license. But that's their irrational childhood trauma issue, and it's up to us to patiently council them until they get over it. There is hope though. Given that they're making noises about shared source now, I wonder how long it will take for them to realise that LGPL, used judiciously, can be used by them as well as against them.
Given that half of the NIC chips I've ever seen are RealTek 8139's, it's even funnier.
Given that 50% of both Houses are members of the American Bar Association, I say we burn them first, then decide on the laws by popular referendum. We have the technology to do this now. The only reason we still have government by representatives is that it benefits the representatives.
Shame he didn't sell her something else. That way he might stay employed, rather than being thrown out on his ear for giving one inch more customer service than is absolutely mandated by law.
Very good point. The notion of a "free press" really just means "free to be bought or gagged by anyone other than the government". As you say though, a worrying number of people don't bother doing any background reading, which is why we don't want to see DeCSS pilloried as being purely an 3v1L h4X0r tool.
I for one welcome our new insect - er, media - overlords.
Why limit ourselves to only a few variants of democracy? There are plenty of other options. It's time to give honest plutocracy, argentocracy, timocracy, or even quangocracy a chance.