I like when people get caught in starting their mouth before putting the brain into gear.
This qualifies for a Darwin Award (actually what they call an honorable mentioning)
For those who [still] don't know what a Darwin Award is: It is an award given to people who have contributed to the human race by removing themselves from the gene-pool.
My dad recently called me and asked: What do you prefer? MPEG1 or divX when I encode the video sequences?
So I think the question is wasted on me.
However - my position towards my kids have always been: No restrictions except religious and extreme websites.
They have yet to disappoint me.
I am a huge database containing data organized in a complex biological pattern of questions and answers.
Some right - some wrong - some ridiculous.
But that doesn't matter - it is a database anyway.
And while we are at it - I would like to copyright 2005 calenderwise. I will make one and you ALL have to pay royalty if you use any day of that year.
Hmm - what about personal information? I know what I bought at the store. The store will now being infringing on my copyright since they are copying my database into theirs?
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I refuse to be an old-timer just because I know several flavors of ASM (Z80,masm,29K,PPC).
What will the next be? That we can recognize a computer 8 out of 10 times....Geez
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition (except the spelling control)
Even as WiFi box is usig GPL source they haven't released their source as they are obliged to accordingly to GPL.
Interesting point which also brings up some concern about built-in backdoors etc...
The idea is sound. I have two grown kids. I am not tired of life and if somebody asked me if I would like to go to Mars on a one-way mission, then I would be stupid to refuse.
Survival is not sufficient. There are riscs which must be taken - always.
Dangers??? I could be run over by a truck tomorrow instead of sitting in a spaceship on the ultimate voyage. And what about if I accepted and thereby made it possibe for my children and my childrens children to have better lifes?
In a blink. What a way to go. Watching the scenery of your own private planet. Ultimate freedom.
I built this for a science project years ago....
The magnet stripes you can buy are alternating polarized NSNSNSNSNS to increase their lifespan. So you have to use special (not monopole - he he) magnets made for this purpose. Long thin ones polarised N on one thin side and south on the other.
You can get them - but you have to search for them
I have a few of these, and Sony is quite insufficient in this aspect.
By total coincidence one of my friends made me aware of these guys, and they seem to have everything for VAIOs that is.
I am NOT affiliated with them, but it took me so long to find this place that if it helps somebody else then.....
During the latest END (Exotic Newcastle Disease) outbreak here in Southern California an estimated 5million birds were killed. Domesticated, pets and wildlife.
So these numbers are very small even as they seem high to certain people. And I don't mean anything negative with that.
It really comes down to this: If Return of the King is released next week on DVD here in US, then mr. and mrs. X in Germany will know about it. This is how open societies work.
If they know about it, then they will want it too. There are three ways around that. Either have a region-free/region-adaptable DVD player - or - a total US setup - or - get a pirated DVD. It is not so much a matter of money rather than conveniency that makes the third option viable.
In other words: there is a demand which is intentionally left open to exploit. I think the movie industry is whining over their own stupidity.
Just think of the prohibition. Just how much criminality did that stupid piece of law induce. Sigh...
As others have noticed: There is no reason to present these code fragments to a closed court, because the fragments in question are already publically available.
There can be only one reason then. SCO must have additional arguments which will either not stand the daylight or could damage SCO significantly should they be publically known. I wonder what that could be? Something about their employees leaking the code without permissions and against contractual bindings?
It was to be expected. It is the way it had to be.
Consider what politicians are doing every day: Trying to sell their ideas as todays sliced bread. Are the pamflets they are handing out at election time spam or information?
How do you spot the difference between "get rid of your debt" and "we clearly need more jobs for people".
Of cause - you can't - you asked the politicians to limit something they can't live without.
Harddisks are cheap these days so I see to that I always have identical duplicates of disks.
For that purpose Linux always comes through. disk duplication is not a problem. But of cause if you don't have identical drives then it is more problematic.
Extreme tech failed to recognize that SIP phones can call regular phones or cellular phones: basically any phone with a phone number.
This is achieved uding SIP/POTS gateways. There is nothing magic about it. It works just as h323 protocol gateways.
But SIP is much more lean and faster than the h.323 protocoll because the h.323 decribes an enourmous amount of facilities rarely used.
Don't kill me, but it seems there are valid points to M$ fax:
1) M$ writes that under the settlement the claimants must sign under penalty of purjury. That is not possible using the website and thus may invalidate the claimants rights under the settlement.
2) On that background M$ fax doesn't seem unreasonable if the settlement stipulates that they must not impeede the claimants in getting their reward under the settlement. They are in that case just protecting themselves from (yet) another lawsuit from disgruntled claimants.
The other DNS registrars should sue Verisign for all those domains that they are illegally using and not paying for.
Everybody else has to pay $ for a domain name, and so should Verisign be forced to pay for all those domain names they now are using. Suitably they could pay FSF.
If you are unhappy with Verisigns piracy then just call their 800 number and support the phone company.
Ultimately you own your own computer and with an inexpensive linux firewall in front of the poor Windoze machines you have full controll over what goes on.
Paranoid - not at all. Realistic - yes. Today an incredible amount of information is gathered because it is worth money, and your privacy is worth invading. It is naive to think that you won't have to pay to protect it. The companies doing this are not alone, they are just the ones you now know of. Wake up.
There are only pedators and prey. What do you want to be?
Sounds first as a good idea. But given the amount of handling and the sheer volume of mail this is absolutely without any merit. It is academic as voting on the law of gravity.
The only purpose it serves is to raise the rates and make life just a bit more unbearable
Safety begins and ends with all of us using common sense and taking an interest in the community around us.
Maybe people will finally wake up, realize that they actually run this country and exercise their (not copy but constitutional) right to elect politicians who can rectify this situation.
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"access to communications infrastructure they need to protect our nation."
This phrase has been used before. Interesting - I thought the terrorist threat came from outside - not inside?
Could it be because of the old lame Shogun effect? The common enemy. Protect yourself by paying me to find problems that should worry you.
Are we still free? Are we still allowed to think that we are free?
Beware of the killer tomatoes.....
I like when people get caught in starting their mouth before putting the brain into gear.
This qualifies for a Darwin Award (actually what they call an honorable mentioning)
For those who [still] don't know what a Darwin Award is: It is an award given to people who have contributed to the human race by removing themselves from the gene-pool.
My dad recently called me and asked: What do you prefer? MPEG1 or divX when I encode the video sequences?
So I think the question is wasted on me.
However - my position towards my kids have always been: No restrictions except religious and extreme websites.
They have yet to disappoint me.
I am a huge database containing data organized in a complex biological pattern of questions and answers.
Some right - some wrong - some ridiculous.
But that doesn't matter - it is a database anyway.
And while we are at it - I would like to copyright 2005 calenderwise. I will make one and you ALL have to pay royalty if you use any day of that year.
Hmm - what about personal information? I know what I bought at the store. The store will now being infringing on my copyright since they are copying my database into theirs?
This message is subject to the GPL. You may copy it.
I refuse to be an old-timer just because I know several flavors of ASM (Z80,masm,29K,PPC).
What will the next be? That we can recognize a computer 8 out of 10 times....Geez
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition (except the spelling control)
Even as WiFi box is usig GPL source they haven't released their source as they are obliged to accordingly to GPL.
Interesting point which also brings up some concern about built-in backdoors etc...
The struggle for power in Iraq is at this time dominated by the fundamentalist groups which all of them favor non-democratic governmental forms.
Linux clearly being beyond governmental control must to these people appear to be very very dangerous.
All tyranies builds on the foundation of controlling information and information flow. So this initiative is clearly not in their favor.
The idea is sound. I have two grown kids. I am not tired of life and if somebody asked me if I would like to go to Mars on a one-way mission, then I would be stupid to refuse.
Survival is not sufficient. There are riscs which must be taken - always.
Dangers??? I could be run over by a truck tomorrow instead of sitting in a spaceship on the ultimate voyage. And what about if I accepted and thereby made it possibe for my children and my childrens children to have better lifes?
In a blink. What a way to go. Watching the scenery of your own private planet. Ultimate freedom.
I built this for a science project years ago....
The magnet stripes you can buy are alternating polarized NSNSNSNSNS to increase their lifespan. So you have to use special (not monopole - he he) magnets made for this purpose. Long thin ones polarised N on one thin side and south on the other.
You can get them - but you have to search for them
I have a few of these, and Sony is quite insufficient in this aspect.
By total coincidence one of my friends made me aware of these guys, and they seem to have everything for VAIOs that is.
I am NOT affiliated with them, but it took me so long to find this place that if it helps somebody else then.....
During the latest END (Exotic Newcastle Disease) outbreak here in Southern California an estimated 5million birds were killed. Domesticated, pets and wildlife.
So these numbers are very small even as they seem high to certain people. And I don't mean anything negative with that.
Thanks - I liked the Christmas play, the drug abuse adv and the Honda in particular. Just what the Doctor ordered for a Monday :-)
It really comes down to this: If Return of the King is released next week on DVD here in US, then mr. and mrs. X in Germany will know about it. This is how open societies work.
If they know about it, then they will want it too. There are three ways around that. Either have a region-free/region-adaptable DVD player - or - a total US setup - or - get a pirated DVD. It is not so much a matter of money rather than conveniency that makes the third option viable.
In other words: there is a demand which is intentionally left open to exploit. I think the movie industry is whining over their own stupidity.
Just think of the prohibition. Just how much criminality did that stupid piece of law induce. Sigh...
As others have noticed: There is no reason to present these code fragments to a closed court, because the fragments in question are already publically available.
There can be only one reason then. SCO must have additional arguments which will either not stand the daylight or could damage SCO significantly should they be publically known. I wonder what that could be? Something about their employees leaking the code without permissions and against contractual bindings?
He -he...
:-)
Cmon guys. You must remember the old bw sci-fi: Invasion
They came from...... Vega.
So this is kind of old news. Not exactly lightspeed
It was to be expected. It is the way it had to be.
Consider what politicians are doing every day: Trying to sell their ideas as todays sliced bread. Are the pamflets they are handing out at election time spam or information?
How do you spot the difference between "get rid of your debt" and "we clearly need more jobs for people".
Of cause - you can't - you asked the politicians to limit something they can't live without.
Harddisks are cheap these days so I see to that I always have identical duplicates of disks.
For that purpose Linux always comes through. disk duplication is not a problem. But of cause if you don't have identical drives then it is more problematic.
Extreme tech failed to recognize that SIP phones can call regular phones or cellular phones: basically any phone with a phone number.
This is achieved uding SIP/POTS gateways. There is nothing magic about it. It works just as h323 protocol gateways.
But SIP is much more lean and faster than the h.323 protocoll because the h.323 decribes an enourmous amount of facilities rarely used.
Even though a thing is legal does not necessarily mean that it satisfies conditions set forth in a contract.
The settlement may have provisions that disables the option of digital signitures. You are dealing with lawyers, not ebay.
Don't kill me, but it seems there are valid points to M$ fax:
1) M$ writes that under the settlement the claimants must sign under penalty of purjury. That is not possible using the website and thus may invalidate the claimants rights under the settlement.
2) On that background M$ fax doesn't seem unreasonable if the settlement stipulates that they must not impeede the claimants in getting their reward under the settlement. They are in that case just protecting themselves from (yet) another lawsuit from disgruntled claimants.
The other DNS registrars should sue Verisign for all those domains that they are illegally using and not paying for.
Everybody else has to pay $ for a domain name, and so should Verisign be forced to pay for all those domain names they now are using. Suitably they could pay FSF.
If you are unhappy with Verisigns piracy then just call their 800 number and support the phone company.
Cool stuff. But what if it gets infected with a virus?
Would it explode or merely cough up something?
My Laptop is sick......
Well keep it warm and give it two aspirins and call again tomorrow....
Ultimately you own your own computer and with an inexpensive linux firewall in front of the poor Windoze machines you have full controll over what goes on.
Paranoid - not at all. Realistic - yes. Today an incredible amount of information is gathered because it is worth money, and your privacy is worth invading. It is naive to think that you won't have to pay to protect it. The companies doing this are not alone, they are just the ones you now know of. Wake up.
There are only pedators and prey. What do you want to be?
Sounds first as a good idea. But given the amount of handling and the sheer volume of mail this is absolutely without any merit.
It is academic as voting on the law of gravity.
The only purpose it serves is to raise the rates and make life just a bit more unbearable
Safety begins and ends with all of us using common sense and taking an interest in the community around us.
Maybe people will finally wake up, realize that they actually run this country and exercise their (not copy but constitutional) right to elect politicians who can rectify this situation.