Any reason why I should be able to use code that your tax dollars paid for? Maybe I'm British, maybe German, maybe Chinese, maybe North Korean. Maybe I'm Saddam bin Laden. You still want to give me access to "your" source?
If we're going to do this after strong AI's have had a change to evolve themselves for ten years, then isn't it likely that we'll be doing it if they allow us, and probably only to provide them with the equivelant of Tamagotchi(tm) pets?
I wonder how long before we hear:
Only those with something to hide would refuse to be screened.
Using encryption (for example) just pisses off government, but there's nobody with deep pockets brib^H^H^H^H lobbying them to ban it. But insuring sickly people costs insurers big money. How much would it cost them to buy laws to make screening mandatory, or at least to allow them (all of them) to insist on it if you want a policy?
At the least, I expect to see policy rises for those who refuse a screening, on the basis that only those with something to hide...
To sell cracking software illegal under the "Strictest standard applies" terms of the Berne Convetion, and instruct the peace loving workers and peasants of the Imperialist USA on how to overthrow their bosses, end artificial scarcity, and fulfil the historical dialectic: APPROVED
Summoned to appear by a federal US court: DENIED
And yet the US is the world only military and economic superpower and - de facto - runs the United Nations, and the World Bank. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
At September 16th a lawsuit against Lik Sang International Limited and it's directors has been filed in the High Court of Hong Kong by the companies Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft on infringing on copyrighted material and selling Mod Chips or other development and backup devices for the Plaintiffs consoles.
Why would Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft buy mod chips for their own consoles?
Oh, wait, I see what they mean. They mean "consoles made by the Plaintiffs, but then sold to purchasers with EULA's prohibiting modification in 2 point italic WinDings font on page 32 of the manual."
I see where the confusion is coming from. Well, now that we've cleared that up, perhaps Lik-Sang could just explain Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft's mistake, and we could get back to doing whatever the hell we like with the piles of plastic and copper that the Plaintiffs chose to sell to us, and which we now own.
SONICblue claim that most people are only using the Send Show feature within their house, not to distribute content to friends, families and <insert current boogieman enemy of truth, justice and distributor profits>.
SONICblue already have their own DRM that stops further propagation of recorded content after one transfer, and will adopt any studio suggested DRM standard as soon as it's decided.
They're going to lay off more staff, but probably not a lot (this is what "We don't have anything planned" usually means)
He has no idea how to eat into TiVo's market lead (stating that you're aiming for 30-40% of the market means you think you'll get 10%)
Sorry, one idea. They're going to go hog wild pushing the Commercial Skip feature, and damn the lawyers. And he's not bothered about working with the content pushers to come up with an alternative, as he says that the product has too small a market share to make a difference.
To put all of this into context though, he admits to being a lawyer and wanting to go into politics. So, translating, this means that ReplayTV is used only to send premium content to North Korea and Iraq, that they've already laid off all of their staff and will be suing them to recover past salaries, and that he personally will kill ReplayTV in return for a suitcase full of small non-sequential unmarked bills, a goldfish bowl full of crack, and a nekkid wrasslin' match with a roofied Britney Spears. Or perhaps I'm just reading too much between the lines.
Assuming that he was too cheap to bring in his own CD's to burn copies on. Uncle Sam can bring criminal charges against him for that. Lucas can bring a civil copyright case for the rest, and demonstrate that they had a right to make whatever figure they care to put on the leak. I'm sure that he can subtract an equally imaginary figure for the extra revenue generated by Knowle's excstatic jerkoff review.
I agree that what he did was wrong, but I don't want my tax money paying to keep this guy behind bars when there are career burglars and muggers and rapists walking free simply because we don't the police or court time or the jail space to deal with them. Let's keep some perspective here, and remember who's paying for this show trial.
The 19 CD's worth of Star Wars sounds are quoted as being worth $95,000. Now, given that I'm sure that if he took the only copies of these, then somebody would have noticed sooner, I think we can assume that these are clones (heh).
Wow, if I manage to get copies of them, can I sell them for $95,000 too? Every set of copies I make? Wait, what if the people that I sell them to have the same idea? We can all make $95,000 for each copy we sell? Cool!
What's on trial here is the idea that the artificial scarcity of information should be protected by law. I think that's pretty much an inversion of the intent of copyright law, and that this guy should face criminal charges for the actual value of what he took, i.e. 20 cents a CD. Lucasart can bring civil charges for breach of copyright for the rest, but I'm damned if I want my tax money to pay for this guy to live behind bars.
If you can make games for a PC, you can make games for an X-Box. The tools are essentially the same
If I can work on a Chevy engine, then I can work on a Ford engine. The tools are essentially the same.
However, if a para-legal EULA with my Ford (backed up by threats of tort) prohibited me from working on the engine, then how would I know that? What good would it do me?
Your argument is valid, and yet at the same time utterly bunk. You can develop an X-box game on a PC all the way through the life cycle, sure, so long as you don't mind not testing it, or for that matter, running it at all. I infer from your attitude that you think that all you have to do is to take your game to a Real Live Microsoft Approved Publisher to actually finish it off (hey, that should just take a few hours, right?), which is much like saying that my Ford can only be serviced by a Ford approved dealer, and that if I do it myself I'm on the side of the terrorists.
"Sure, we'll sell games where you can watch someone get their head cut off, THATS good clean fun."
It's good, Biblical fun. Have a look at the Maciejowski Bible sometime. It tells you a lot about Christian - and therefore de facto USian - economic morality (by which I mean: not offending them as has the money). There's a gibbing every second page, but in the adultery scene, Bathsheba has kept her wimple on. I mean, she might be a whore, but she's still got some standards...
Could somebody with longer time in the US please explain. I really don't get it.
There's a cult indoctrination text that goes by the name of the "Bible" that might have something to do with it. The USA is indeed one nation under god.
Metamoderation is the tool of the Serpent, for lo, it is free of context and rewardeth only that which hath the appearance of sense. Thus are those that representeth the herd elevated, and the truly insightful are scourged.
Writing a game that a bot can beat a human at is pretty lame. I spent years hacking a netrek cyborg/bot client, and finally came to the conclusion that I was, by and large, wasting my time. Info features were useful, but as for getting it to fly and aim weapons, it got smacked by clued human players nearly every time, because the mechanics of combat meant that you had to beat the opponent, not beat the game engine. It shocks me just how badly designed most commercial game are in this respect: they give too much info to clients, they trust clients too much, and they allow dreadful behaviour like "Make an immediate turn to point right at opponent X, and fire the railgun. Gib!" Tsk tsk.
Hear my prayer. Smite down the hordes that posteth about triangulation and about GPRS, for they have not read the linked-to article. Curse them with boils and locusts and bad, bad karma, and banisheth also those that moderate them up, for they do spill their karma upon the stony ground. As in Kuro5hin, so shall it be on Slashdot, for ever and ever, amen.
Which means that any kernel developer who has become accustomed to using BitKeeper will retstrain himself from aiding competing free software projects at all.
Accustomed to using it without paying currency for it, I think you mean.
This divides the world of open-source developers into two mutually exclusive groups: those who use bitkeeper for kernel development and those who can ever work on free alternatives.
And those who pay to use bitkeeper to let them work on free alternatives. Just because you can only see two options doesn't mean that there isn't a third. Get a job and buy a copy, hippy.;-)
You know, the thing I love best about Slashdot is being told I know nothing about a subject by a poster that provides no links, no references, no details, no indication of their own level of competence and no alternative solution.
For the record, I'm an astrophysics graduate, and I'm well aware that Drake's Equation is a back-of-the-envelope toy that you fill in with any suppositions you like to arrive at the conclusion that you were looking for in the first place. But (as you'll probably realise when you calm down) this sort of data is exactly what we need to quantify Drake's Equation (or any other you care to name).
By the way, if you have a better method, perhaps you'd like to share it with us.
For all the easily disappointed posters blaring on about how this has nothing to do with the chances of extra-terrestrial intelligence, it's not that hard to decipher the science from the hyperbolic headline. This observation just allows us to infer higher values for the fp and ne terms of Drake's equation. It improves the odds a little.
By any chance, were the women working there either:
Screwing one of the men.
Very young and very keen, but unable to demonstrate enough talent to get jobs as artists or programmers.
I ask because it seems to me that I had a conversation with someone earlier today where this context was explained. Of course, you can't be the same person, because there'd be little point in posting as A/C when I could out you, would there?:-p
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Any reason why I should be able to use code that your tax dollars paid for? Maybe I'm British, maybe German, maybe Chinese, maybe North Korean. Maybe I'm Saddam bin Laden. You still want to give me access to "your" source?
If we're going to do this after strong AI's have had a change to evolve themselves for ten years, then isn't it likely that we'll be doing it if they allow us, and probably only to provide them with the equivelant of Tamagotchi(tm) pets?
I'm glad to see someone filling in step 3 at last.
I wonder how long before we hear: Only those with something to hide would refuse to be screened. Using encryption (for example) just pisses off government, but there's nobody with deep pockets brib^H^H^H^H lobbying them to ban it. But insuring sickly people costs insurers big money. How much would it cost them to buy laws to make screening mandatory, or at least to allow them (all of them) to insist on it if you want a policy? At the least, I expect to see policy rises for those who refuse a screening, on the basis that only those with something to hide...
Because it describes flaws that are present in unpatched versions, which means most versions for the next couple of years.
And yet the US is the world only military and economic superpower and - de facto - runs the United Nations, and the World Bank. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
How about these guys?
Yes, I use one of those. Give it a try, it's a great way of filtering the content rich wheat from the over-interfaced chaff.
... the Mom and Pop ISP user ducks under it.
Why would Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft buy mod chips for their own consoles?
Oh, wait, I see what they mean. They mean "consoles made by the Plaintiffs, but then sold to purchasers with EULA's prohibiting modification in 2 point italic WinDings font on page 32 of the manual."
I see where the confusion is coming from. Well, now that we've cleared that up, perhaps Lik-Sang could just explain Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft's mistake, and we could get back to doing whatever the hell we like with the piles of plastic and copper that the Plaintiffs chose to sell to us, and which we now own.
Here are the pertinent issues:
Just make sure that your site is browsable with lynx. That's a pretty good indication that you've placed content and usability above presentation.
Hmm, I wonder how text-to-speech handles the <blink> tag?
Assuming that he was too cheap to bring in his own CD's to burn copies on. Uncle Sam can bring criminal charges against him for that. Lucas can bring a civil copyright case for the rest, and demonstrate that they had a right to make whatever figure they care to put on the leak. I'm sure that he can subtract an equally imaginary figure for the extra revenue generated by Knowle's excstatic jerkoff review.
I agree that what he did was wrong, but I don't want my tax money paying to keep this guy behind bars when there are career burglars and muggers and rapists walking free simply because we don't the police or court time or the jail space to deal with them. Let's keep some perspective here, and remember who's paying for this show trial.
The 19 CD's worth of Star Wars sounds are quoted as being worth $95,000. Now, given that I'm sure that if he took the only copies of these, then somebody would have noticed sooner, I think we can assume that these are clones (heh).
Wow, if I manage to get copies of them, can I sell them for $95,000 too? Every set of copies I make? Wait, what if the people that I sell them to have the same idea? We can all make $95,000 for each copy we sell? Cool!
What's on trial here is the idea that the artificial scarcity of information should be protected by law. I think that's pretty much an inversion of the intent of copyright law, and that this guy should face criminal charges for the actual value of what he took, i.e. 20 cents a CD. Lucasart can bring civil charges for breach of copyright for the rest, but I'm damned if I want my tax money to pay for this guy to live behind bars.
YMM, of course, V.
If I can work on a Chevy engine, then I can work on a Ford engine. The tools are essentially the same.
However, if a para-legal EULA with my Ford (backed up by threats of tort) prohibited me from working on the engine, then how would I know that? What good would it do me?
Your argument is valid, and yet at the same time utterly bunk. You can develop an X-box game on a PC all the way through the life cycle, sure, so long as you don't mind not testing it, or for that matter, running it at all. I infer from your attitude that you think that all you have to do is to take your game to a Real Live Microsoft Approved Publisher to actually finish it off (hey, that should just take a few hours, right?), which is much like saying that my Ford can only be serviced by a Ford approved dealer, and that if I do it myself I'm on the side of the terrorists.
It's good, Biblical fun. Have a look at the Maciejowski Bible sometime. It tells you a lot about Christian - and therefore de facto USian - economic morality (by which I mean: not offending them as has the money). There's a gibbing every second page, but in the adultery scene, Bathsheba has kept her wimple on. I mean, she might be a whore, but she's still got some standards...
There's a cult indoctrination text that goes by the name of the "Bible" that might have something to do with it. The USA is indeed one nation under god.
Metamoderation is the tool of the Serpent, for lo, it is free of context and rewardeth only that which hath the appearance of sense. Thus are those that representeth the herd elevated, and the truly insightful are scourged.
Writing a game that a bot can beat a human at is pretty lame. I spent years hacking a netrek cyborg/bot client, and finally came to the conclusion that I was, by and large, wasting my time. Info features were useful, but as for getting it to fly and aim weapons, it got smacked by clued human players nearly every time, because the mechanics of combat meant that you had to beat the opponent, not beat the game engine. It shocks me just how badly designed most commercial game are in this respect: they give too much info to clients, they trust clients too much, and they allow dreadful behaviour like "Make an immediate turn to point right at opponent X, and fire the railgun. Gib!" Tsk tsk.
Hear my prayer. Smite down the hordes that posteth about triangulation and about GPRS, for they have not read the linked-to article. Curse them with boils and locusts and bad, bad karma, and banisheth also those that moderate them up, for they do spill their karma upon the stony ground. As in Kuro5hin, so shall it be on Slashdot, for ever and ever, amen.
And the relevance to this situation would be...?
We're talking about the free-beer licensed bitkeeper. What license are you/em> talking about?
Accustomed to using it without paying currency for it, I think you mean.
And those who pay to use bitkeeper to let them work on free alternatives. Just because you can only see two options doesn't mean that there isn't a third. Get a job and buy a copy, hippy. ;-)
You know, the thing I love best about Slashdot is being told I know nothing about a subject by a poster that provides no links, no references, no details, no indication of their own level of competence and no alternative solution.
For the record, I'm an astrophysics graduate, and I'm well aware that Drake's Equation is a back-of-the-envelope toy that you fill in with any suppositions you like to arrive at the conclusion that you were looking for in the first place. But (as you'll probably realise when you calm down) this sort of data is exactly what we need to quantify Drake's Equation (or any other you care to name).
By the way, if you have a better method, perhaps you'd like to share it with us.
For all the easily disappointed posters blaring on about how this has nothing to do with the chances of extra-terrestrial intelligence, it's not that hard to decipher the science from the hyperbolic headline. This observation just allows us to infer higher values for the f p and n e terms of Drake's equation. It improves the odds a little.
(OT, but didn't we used to have <sub> tags here?)
By any chance, were the women working there either:
- Screwing one of the men.
- Very young and very keen, but unable to demonstrate enough talent to get jobs as artists or programmers.
I ask because it seems to me that I had a conversation with someone earlier today where this context was explained. Of course, you can't be the same person, because there'd be little point in posting as A/C when I could out you, would there?