Buying a CD or an lp does not grant you a right to listen to the content contained therein. That is a right you already have, regardless of whether you own the media or not. Can you borrow your friend's White Album CD and listen to it on your CD player? Of course you can, whether you own the album on lp, cassette, 8-track, or whatever. When you buy a CD, you are purchasing a piece of plastic, not the "right to use the content on the CD."
The purpose of copyright law is not so that the music industry can charge the public "listening fees" for music. The purpose of copyright law is so that only the owner of the copyright has the right to create new copies of the content. This way, people will purchase only copies of the content authorized by the owners of the content, and the owners of the content are protected from revenue generated by others copying and selling their work.
You, as a free person, have the right to listen to and enjoy whatever content you damn well please. You simply don't have the right to resell or redistribute copies of content that belongs to someone else and is protected under copyright law.
This strange idea that buying a piece of media "grants" one the right to enjoy its content is a very dangerous one. It is not the intent of copyright law, and its implications could lead to the world that many consumer advocates fear: one in which the right to play media that they have rightfully purchased is replaced with a "pay to play" rental system in which our personal freedoms are greatly limited.
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"How many six year olds does it take to design software?"
In all honesty, if Bill were to write a manifesto concerning Linux as a threat to Windows, it would probably look something very much like this piese of satire.
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"How many six year olds does it take to design software?"
For most of these questions, the answers are going to be identical.
The war on drugs: Al Bush: Drugs represent a danger to the poor and disadvantaged in our inner cities, as well as young people everywhere. Since we know what's best for them, we're going to give more power to all of the police and anti-drug groups who say that they need more power. Al Bush is not soft on crime!
Minority religions: George Gore: Our nation prides itself on freedom of religion. It's in our Constitution. Everyone should be free to worship or not to worship as they wish. We respect the spiritual decisions of all Americans, and recognize the importance of religion to American life, and that the government has no place in it.
Why give a tax cut? George Bush: It's your money!
Al Gore: It's your government!
Electoral Reform: Al Bush: No answer.
Intellectual Property: George Gore: We must protect the rights of those who create and invent, while at the same time protecting the rights of consumers. We'll get "experts" in these areas to produce more great, high quality legislation like the DMCA to make sure this happens. What? What check from the MPAA? I don't know what you're talking about.
Encryption: This one was answered by the candidates elsewhere. Gore is for continual bans on its export, Bush believes in opening the market, as well as making encryption and privacy an important right for all Americans.
Rising Political protests: Al Bush: Certainly, the concerns of those protesters are valid, and we should take them into account before turning the world into one giant Starbucks.
Asteroid Defenses: George Gore: We don't know much about that, but we'll hire "experts" to "inform" us what to do.
The Future of the Country, and of Humanity: Al Bush: Blah blah dawn of a new millennium blah blah we're prosperous now but we need to be even more so blah blah spiritual renewal blah blah fairness and opportunities for all people and stuff like that.
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"How many six year olds does it take to design software?"
Gore doesn't really give us anything apart from politispeak regarding encryption. "a balanced
encryption policy that increases privacy and security for families and businesses, while
addressing the legitimate needs of national security and law enforcement." What the hell is that supposed to mean? It's a wishy-washy non-answer that doesn't tell us much.
Bush's answer, on the other hand, is a complete, detailed response that not only addresses the concerns surrounding use and export of encryption, but also points out that the Bush campaign has taken the time to deal with the important issue of information collection and notification. With specific examples of how they are enacting these principles today:
Notice and Consent. Everyone has the right to know what information is collected and
how it will be used, and to accept or decline the collection or dissemination of this
information - particularly financial and medical information.
Access. Individuals have the right to correct any inaccurate personal information.
Security. Institutions must provide sufficient security to prevent unauthorized access to
personal information.
Bravo, Bush! Say what you like about George Doubya personally, or Republican policies in general, but you have to admit that they seem to care a whole lot more about the rights and freedoms of individuals.
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"How many six year olds does it take to design software?"
I work in a Novell environment, and have done so for the past three years. The entire university system here is one giant NDS. And I'm one of the guys who make the network go. So, I can tell you with some amount of certainty that there is no network directory as mature, feature-rich, and easily manageable as NDS. Active Directory doesn't come close, although they are scrambling to catch up.
Can Microsoft leverage its OS hegemony to oust NDS in favor of AD? Perhaps. But there are a lot of us Novell people out there who will fight it tooth and nail. We like NDS, and we are not going to let bonehead management get fooled into an inferior system like AD.
Now, if Microsoft loses... First, what makes you think that if MS gets broken up, everyone's going to flock over to Linux? We're still going to have tons of Windows boxes that need to access network objects. And even if everyone does go to Linux, there is not a UN*X answer to the power of NDS. I would say that if MS gets broken up, things would look very good for Novell. Why do you think that NDS doesn't make sense in a Linux world? We will still have desktop workstations that need to access network objects. And NDS STILL is (IMBO) the best way of managing large users, groups, and network objects.
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"How many six year olds does it take to design software?"
This scientist owes our fantastically improbable existence to the presence of something we cannot see, have no hope of seeing, and cannot even prove exists.
Where have I heard this one before? *snicker*
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Why is this flamebait? Axel isn't the only person here who would like to sneak a camera into Fry's, underneath their stupid security personell.
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Has Micron made a PC chipset before? While they may be great at designing DRAM, and even logic, it is very difficult to produce a stable chipset. Look at the history of VIA and SiS. Lack of chipset stability is one of the main drawbacks to the Athlon. If Micron goes forth with this venture, expect it to be a while before they can get the chipset to an acceptable level of reliability.
I hope they do well, and I hope this come to realization. I also hope that VIA and AMD can produce better chipsets (like the AMD760), so that there are no more drawbacks to using a great CPU.
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"How many six year olds does it take to design software?"
Not that there is anything wrong with Slack. It's one of my favorites. But it would be really cool to be able to switch distributions simply by switching removable disks.
OTOH, I already have LILO entires for RH, SuSE, and Slack. But it's the GEEK FACTOR, damnit!
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i listened to teh john katz one morning on teh npr because taht's the station that i use for my radio alarm. anyway, he was talking about how he finds teh geeks liek fascinating and stuff. he told of one geek who had no college education and had to look on teh net to see how to tie his tie in order to go to teh job interview. well, he got a fancy tech job because he had skillz, and teh john katz thought that was great.
anyway, my point is that geeks stuff is his thing, and since he is writing for teh geek website, he writes about EVERYTHING in those terms ok bye.
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I know for a fact that many Christian organizations need sysadmins, programmers, and other technology workers. Wycliffe Bible Translators in particular develops a lot of its own software, including language/translation software, and has a great need:
http://www.wycliffe.org/computer/compjob.htm
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We'll be in the same place we are now, very simple, just take audio out from your computer, use a double male line to the audio in port, and record onto mp3 or whatever replaces it, encryption scheme bypassed. if you can _LISTEN_ to music, you can get around any and all encryption of it.
Or, even better: intercept (either in software or in hardware) the actual cleartext digital stream going to your dsp. Convert to CDDA, rinse, repeat.
Repeat after me: digital media cannot be copy protected! Write this out 5,000,000 times, or, better yet, just use copy and paste:-).
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Not to be nitpicky, but if you are referring to L2, the Pentium Pro kept its L2 cache in the same ceramic package, but on a different die, running at the same clock speed. That's why it was so fscking expensive.
HTH.
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First, Apple is (primarily) a computer vendor, not a software vendor. Porting MacOS to Intel systems would result in MacOS fans purchasing cheap-o $300 Compaqs (rather than $1800 G5s) to run OS X. This is not a slam on Macintoshes. High-end is their business. Rather, it is a slam on consumers who don't understand the value of quality hardware. This would be suicide for the core (no pun intended) of Apple's business.
Second, the IRQ conflicts and hardware headaches in PCs are not Windows' fault. All of the Linux-Intel people out there know this. It is the result of the outdated internal PC architecture (pronounced "eye-suh"), and is somewhat cleaned up with the advent of PCI/AGP-only computers with more intelligent chipsets.
Third, and most importantly, a viable port of MacOS to Windows would require that MacOS support ALL of the peripherals and components that Windows supports. And that's a LOT of crap. Linux supports an amazing amount of hardware - mostly through the hard work of thousands of independent system programmers. Could you immagine how long it would take for the entire PC hardware industry to create drivers for a completely new OS? It would take at least until 2005 - that is, if you could convince everyone that the time, money, and effort to do so would pay off.
I don't mean this as a flame. Similar to Peter Lalor's idea is one that I had: if the Microsoft breakup is allowed to stand, expect to see a Unix/Linux port of Office, IE, and Media Player real soon. And that would be great for a lot of us.
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Mars does not have the gavitational capacity to maintain an Oxygen atmosphere. It would slowly escape into space over the course of several million years. HTH.
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"How many six year olds does it take to design software?"
The purpose of copyright law is not so that the music industry can charge the public "listening fees" for music. The purpose of copyright law is so that only the owner of the copyright has the right to create new copies of the content. This way, people will purchase only copies of the content authorized by the owners of the content, and the owners of the content are protected from revenue generated by others copying and selling their work.
You, as a free person, have the right to listen to and enjoy whatever content you damn well please. You simply don't have the right to resell or redistribute copies of content that belongs to someone else and is protected under copyright law.
This strange idea that buying a piece of media "grants" one the right to enjoy its content is a very dangerous one. It is not the intent of copyright law, and its implications could lead to the world that many consumer advocates fear: one in which the right to play media that they have rightfully purchased is replaced with a "pay to play" rental system in which our personal freedoms are greatly limited.
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"How many six year olds does it take to design software?"
In all honesty, if Bill were to write a manifesto concerning Linux as a threat to Windows, it would probably look something very much like this piese of satire.
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"How many six year olds does it take to design software?"
The war on drugs:
Al Bush: Drugs represent a danger to the poor and disadvantaged in our inner cities, as well as young people everywhere. Since we know what's best for them, we're going to give more power to all of the police and anti-drug groups who say that they need more power. Al Bush is not soft on crime!
Minority religions:
George Gore: Our nation prides itself on freedom of religion. It's in our Constitution. Everyone should be free to worship or not to worship as they wish. We respect the spiritual decisions of all Americans, and recognize the importance of religion to American life, and that the government has no place in it.
Why give a tax cut?
George Bush: It's your money!
Al Gore: It's your government!
Electoral Reform:
Al Bush: No answer.
Intellectual Property:
George Gore: We must protect the rights of those who create and invent, while at the same time protecting the rights of consumers. We'll get "experts" in these areas to produce more great, high quality legislation like the DMCA to make sure this happens. What? What check from the MPAA? I don't know what you're talking about.
Encryption:
This one was answered by the candidates elsewhere. Gore is for continual bans on its export, Bush believes in opening the market, as well as making encryption and privacy an important right for all Americans.
Rising Political protests:
Al Bush: Certainly, the concerns of those protesters are valid, and we should take them into account before turning the world into one giant Starbucks.
Asteroid Defenses:
George Gore: We don't know much about that, but we'll hire "experts" to "inform" us what to do.
The Future of the Country, and of Humanity:
Al Bush: Blah blah dawn of a new millennium blah blah we're prosperous now but we need to be even more so blah blah spiritual renewal blah blah fairness and opportunities for all people and stuff like that.
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"How many six year olds does it take to design software?"
Bush's answer, on the other hand, is a complete, detailed response that not only addresses the concerns surrounding use and export of encryption, but also points out that the Bush campaign has taken the time to deal with the important issue of information collection and notification. With specific examples of how they are enacting these principles today:
Notice and Consent. Everyone has the right to know what information is collected and how it will be used, and to accept or decline the collection or dissemination of this information - particularly financial and medical information.
Access. Individuals have the right to correct any inaccurate personal information.
Security. Institutions must provide sufficient security to prevent unauthorized access to personal information.
Bravo, Bush! Say what you like about George Doubya personally, or Republican policies in general, but you have to admit that they seem to care a whole lot more about the rights and freedoms of individuals.
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"How many six year olds does it take to design software?"
Can Microsoft leverage its OS hegemony to oust NDS in favor of AD? Perhaps. But there are a lot of us Novell people out there who will fight it tooth and nail. We like NDS, and we are not going to let bonehead management get fooled into an inferior system like AD.
Now, if Microsoft loses... First, what makes you think that if MS gets broken up, everyone's going to flock over to Linux? We're still going to have tons of Windows boxes that need to access network objects. And even if everyone does go to Linux, there is not a UN*X answer to the power of NDS. I would say that if MS gets broken up, things would look very good for Novell. Why do you think that NDS doesn't make sense in a Linux world? We will still have desktop workstations that need to access network objects. And NDS STILL is (IMBO) the best way of managing large users, groups, and network objects.
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"How many six year olds does it take to design software?"
Where have I heard this one before? *snicker*
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I hope they do well, and I hope this come to realization. I also hope that VIA and AMD can produce better chipsets (like the AMD760), so that there are no more drawbacks to using a great CPU.
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"How many six year olds does it take to design software?"
Desktop environments that don't require a PIII 800 to run smoothly.
Websites that aren't full of tables, frames, and layers that take two minutes to render.
Newsgroups that aren't full of illiterates, flames, and spam.
Those elegant, sturdy, indestructable IBM keyboards that you could spill coffee on and they would still work.
/. polls that are interesting and enlightening, and actually tell us something about the current readership.
JennyCam, back when Jenny was naked all the time.
Local BBSes, back when they were cool and had real geeks on them.
New Star Trek series that don't suck.
That's about all that I can think of now. Anyone care to add to the list?
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Be careful, you never know when the Thought Police are going to go after your ideas next.
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2. Learn how to spell correctly. The plural of Jew is not Jew's, it's Jewen.
thankyoudrivethrough.
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I have yet to get a job offer.
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"How many six year olds does it take to design software?"
OTOH, I already have LILO entires for RH, SuSE, and Slack. But it's the GEEK FACTOR, damnit!
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"How many six year olds does it take to design software?"
anyway, my point is that geeks stuff is his thing, and since he is writing for teh geek website, he writes about EVERYTHING in those terms ok bye.
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http://www.wycliffe.org/computer/compjob.htm
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"How many six year olds does it take to design software?"
Or, even better: intercept (either in software or in hardware) the actual cleartext digital stream going to your dsp. Convert to CDDA, rinse, repeat.
Repeat after me: digital media cannot be copy protected! Write this out 5,000,000 times, or, better yet, just use copy and paste :-).
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"How many six year olds does it take to design software?"
Not to be nitpicky, but if you are referring to L2, the Pentium Pro kept its L2 cache in the same ceramic package, but on a different die, running at the same clock speed. That's why it was so fscking expensive.
HTH.
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"How many six year olds does it take to design software?"
Second, the IRQ conflicts and hardware headaches in PCs are not Windows' fault. All of the Linux-Intel people out there know this. It is the result of the outdated internal PC architecture (pronounced "eye-suh"), and is somewhat cleaned up with the advent of PCI/AGP-only computers with more intelligent chipsets.
Third, and most importantly, a viable port of MacOS to Windows would require that MacOS support ALL of the peripherals and components that Windows supports. And that's a LOT of crap. Linux supports an amazing amount of hardware - mostly through the hard work of thousands of independent system programmers. Could you immagine how long it would take for the entire PC hardware industry to create drivers for a completely new OS? It would take at least until 2005 - that is, if you could convince everyone that the time, money, and effort to do so would pay off.
I don't mean this as a flame. Similar to Peter Lalor's idea is one that I had: if the Microsoft breakup is allowed to stand, expect to see a Unix/Linux port of Office, IE, and Media Player real soon. And that would be great for a lot of us.
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