If creators were given control over every element and use of everything they made, there would be no raw material left for others.
I like that part. You say that copyright originally started as an instrument of censorship. You couldn't be more wrong. Copyright protects the author and helps them continue producing their goods. The average writer has no ability to distribute and collect money for their works. If copyright didn't exist the large media conglomerates would simply take that little man's idea and reproduce it a million times.
Copyright protects the author against the large media conglomerates. They have to give him something in exchange for his ideas. It does not exist to protect the large media conglomerates.
BTW. I agree with you about social contract. I guess I would call it just being gentlemenly.
It's nice to know that it just isn't male geeks who are interested copyright. Slashdot needs more women. (No, I'm not one:P) That's one of the things I really don't like about slashdot. You never get to hear a womens view on things. I personally like the different perspective. Women are a lot more balanced. Instead of saying who cares about the law like most slashees do, Ms./Mrs. Litman has struck a balance between the authors rights and the consumers rights.
This is also one of the more enjoyable Katz articles. I don't see many of them.
Free email isn't going anywhere soon. Even if they made no banner revenue at all, they would still give away email. Why do you think so many sites give away email? It's the one sure way to get people to come back to your site. If you want for people to revisit your site, you offer some kind of useful free service. Since email is generally considered the most useful service on the internet it's a given.
Once you've got their eyeballs, you can sell them stuff.
BTW Thanks for the eprom link. I'll probably never do it, but I'm an intellectual pack-rat. I hoard useless info in my head. Never know when you might be called to burn that emergency eprom.:)
Standard "why don't they just free the software" response: For one thing, they might have licensed technology and not licensed the right to sub-license it to the community. (This may be much of why NVIDIA hasn't freed the drivers for its video cards.)
Yeah, I know that it's not likely that any company will ever do this. I'm aware of the money and IP that they have invested in those dev tools. Just wishful thinking.
The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by the Federalist's. Hamilton and others supported the kind of strong government that Franklin feared. Luckily, Franklin managed to stop Jackson from establishing an American aristocracy. Unfortunately, after the Civil War, the government started a campaign of continuously increasing it's powers and ignoring Constitutional rights in favor of public safety. BTW, I seem to remember that the A&S Acts were recalled very quickly. It's doubtful that they would have stood up to the Supreme Court since they went directly against the 1st amendment.
Yes, I know you can cut history a thousand different ways. This is just my slant. It may be different tomorrow. I learn every day.
Exactly. You're innocent until proven guilty. The constitution made it so that search and seizure required a very good reason. These days they just need any reason.
It's not unconstitutional to do this, but it is a violation of the spirit of the constitution. What's going to happen of course is that some criminal will sue Amtrak for violating his privacy.
That'll happen before anybody actually protests. Why are people so complacent?
This is OT but since were talking about consoles. Why don't the companies that are going out of business release the development tools to the public. That way people could still right games for them. I know there is a compiler online for the nes and the snes, but their cart based so you couldn't just trade them. Besides their old. Dreamcast was cd based wasn't it. (I've never really got my hands on one.)
It would be nice if they did opensource their development tools. After all, it's not like they are going to license any more games for their platform.
Back on topic, the great thing about consoles is that the programmers can't just throw in a little extra and say "Oh, they'll upgrade".
I was joking sparky! I just said that because people are always complaining about Mozilla being bloated. And yes any browser that weighs in at over 3 megs is bloated. See Opera for and example of what a browser should be. If their linux version was even half as good as the Win32 version, I would buy one in an instance. I have nothing against Mozilla. I haven't really used it in months. It may be doing fine.
Bloat isn't necessarily bad. Netscape isn't as bad as you think. At least not the version I'm using. 4.76 on Mandrake 8.0 beta 2.
You would have to follow the lesson on how to boil a frog. Turn up the heat slowly. That's the way the gaming industry works now. Every game is just one requirement more. But it really won't work. That's part of the reason people are turning to consoles. They don't have to spend a fortune upgrading them. Besides, not everyone plays PC games. Their sort of a subculture. Microsoft's dotnet plan is really ditching Intel and all the other hardware manufacturers. A lot of the reason to upgrade will be gone when part of the software is on a server. Servers won't make up for a PC market.
Some of us don't care if it's a clever marketing ploy. A clever marketing ploy can be very entertaining. Michael is probably the best editor slashdot has. He doesn't just spam us with a million and one stories about the big bad corps, and he actually replies to slashdot posts.
Has anyone actually read the article? They are getting their info mainly from credit bureaus and whatnot. This isn't exactly stuff that government couldn't find out about. This just makes it quicker for them. I like my privacy, but I know that there are somethings that I can't keep other people from finding out. My address. My phone number.
Actually, it's probably a little bit nicer. Some people obviously lose it past a certain age. I'm not saying everyone does, but some people do. It's a lot easier to tell them "Look this is what the rules say. You understood this when we hired you. We don't want to do this." than "Look you can't handle this job anymore because you old."
Kernel level firewall control was what I was referring to. You would get to choose which applications got to have ports. Still it's not just as simple as Netscape: port 80 only. Your browser opens more ports than that. Besides port 80 is actually the port your browser connects to on the web server if I'm not mistaken.
Also just having a firewall like this isn't perfect protection. Most people would give their browser automatic permission. There's nothing to stop some app from waiting till you start netscape and sending off for http://www.133t.com/name=JohnDoe&mastercard=somenu mber&expiration=023001. There really should also be permissions for what applications are supposed to be able to communicate with what other applications and in what ways.
New binary-only game should be able to open my browser for me, but I should see a pop-up before hand letting me know that another app has activated the browser and would like to go to so and so url. I believe that there is some built-in firewalling in kernel 2.4. There is an app over at kde.com to configure it.
What is it about linux users that lets them completely obviate someone's good point with "it works fine for me".
Actually you little troll, I never said that he wasn't having problems. I just replied that I hadn't had any problems. So it may be something specific to his system like oh...say his modem. As I said YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary.
I seem to see a lot of posts about "Mozilla crashes all the time" and "No it doesn't. It works fine on my system."
Popular Science did an article about blood substitutes a couple of years ago. There are a lot of people looking into this. Some are trying to strip the blood cells so that they will all be O negative. That isn't really a blood substitute, but they are trying to solve the problem of matching types.
Another is to use a chemical based on teflon. It naturally dissolves large quantities of oxygen. The experiments on humans came out alright, but after a few days the test subjects showed some enlargement of their liver. This is the same stuff that was shown in the movie The Abyss. The stuff they made the mouse swim around in.
I don't know why this is going to be a module as opposed to say, a compile-time option for the kernel.
Because everyone has a different way they want to do security. If they included all of those into the kernel, you would probably have a 70 Megabyte file. This keeps the bloat out of the kernel. It also frees linus from having to write all these different options into the kernel. (I think that's the big reason.)
This way you can download the kernel compile it, and then you can pick your security module based on you preference. Also you can change security modules on the fly since they are modules.
Actually the kernel team wouldn't have to do that. Just let there be one distro that dedicates itself to developing a secure kernel. They could do OpenBSD style code reviews and admins could upgrade when they released stable versions. Debian isn't using 2.4 yet because they are waiting for the kernel to become stable. The problem is that everyone wants to get the latest greatest thing. BTW, I am no different. I'm just installed Mandrake 8.0 beta 2. I'm just not a sysadmin.
ZoneAlarm sucks. It doesn't work, it hangs regularly, it trashes performance, it's nagware and it gives wierd error messages at random intervals.
It works great for me. I don't know what you mean by nagware. It tells you when there is a new version, but you can turn that off. The only time it has ever crashed on me has been when I was running Gozilla. YMMV
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If creators were given control over every element and use of everything they made, there would be no raw material left for others.
I like that part. You say that copyright originally started as an instrument of censorship. You couldn't be more wrong. Copyright protects the author and helps them continue producing their goods. The average writer has no ability to distribute and collect money for their works. If copyright didn't exist the large media conglomerates would simply take that little man's idea and reproduce it a million times.
Copyright protects the author against the large media conglomerates. They have to give him something in exchange for his ideas. It does not exist to protect the large media conglomerates.
BTW. I agree with you about social contract. I guess I would call it just being gentlemenly.
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
Thus passes the Glory of the World.
One of my favorite latin phrases. But I don't think I've ever really seen the glory of the world.
I think your a little off topic. Copyright and privacy are related, but this article isn't really one of those instances.
It's nice to know that it just isn't male geeks who are interested copyright. Slashdot needs more women. (No, I'm not one :P) That's one of the things I really don't like about slashdot. You never get to hear a womens view on things. I personally like the different perspective. Women are a lot more balanced. Instead of saying who cares about the law like most slashees do, Ms./Mrs. Litman has struck a balance between the authors rights and the consumers rights.
This is also one of the more enjoyable Katz articles. I don't see many of them.
Free email isn't going anywhere soon. Even if they made no banner revenue at all, they would still give away email. Why do you think so many sites give away email? It's the one sure way to get people to come back to your site. If you want for people to revisit your site, you offer some kind of useful free service. Since email is generally considered the most useful service on the internet it's a given.
Once you've got their eyeballs, you can sell them stuff.
Ha! For a minute there I thought your uid was 12. Lowest uid grammar nazi.
BTW Thanks for the eprom link. I'll probably never do it, but I'm an intellectual pack-rat. I hoard useless info in my head. Never know when you might be called to burn that emergency eprom. :)
Standard "why don't they just free the software" response: For one thing, they might have licensed technology and not licensed the right to sub-license it to the community. (This may be much of why NVIDIA hasn't freed the drivers for its video cards.)
Yeah, I know that it's not likely that any company will ever do this. I'm aware of the money and IP that they have invested in those dev tools. Just wishful thinking.
The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by the Federalist's. Hamilton and others supported the kind of strong government that Franklin feared. Luckily, Franklin managed to stop Jackson from establishing an American aristocracy. Unfortunately, after the Civil War, the government started a campaign of continuously increasing it's powers and ignoring Constitutional rights in favor of public safety. BTW, I seem to remember that the A&S Acts were recalled very quickly. It's doubtful that they would have stood up to the Supreme Court since they went directly against the 1st amendment.
Yes, I know you can cut history a thousand different ways. This is just my slant. It may be different tomorrow. I learn every day.
Exactly. You're innocent until proven guilty. The constitution made it so that search and seizure required a very good reason. These days they just need any reason.
It's not unconstitutional to do this, but it is a violation of the spirit of the constitution. What's going to happen of course is that some criminal will sue Amtrak for violating his privacy.
That'll happen before anybody actually protests. Why are people so complacent?
This is OT but since were talking about consoles. Why don't the companies that are going out of business release the development tools to the public. That way people could still right games for them. I know there is a compiler online for the nes and the snes, but their cart based so you couldn't just trade them. Besides their old. Dreamcast was cd based wasn't it. (I've never really got my hands on one.)
It would be nice if they did opensource their development tools. After all, it's not like they are going to license any more games for their platform.
Back on topic, the great thing about consoles is that the programmers can't just throw in a little extra and say "Oh, they'll upgrade".
I was joking sparky! I just said that because people are always complaining about Mozilla being bloated. And yes any browser that weighs in at over 3 megs is bloated. See Opera for and example of what a browser should be. If their linux version was even half as good as the Win32 version, I would buy one in an instance. I have nothing against Mozilla. I haven't really used it in months. It may be doing fine.
Bloat isn't necessarily bad. Netscape isn't as bad as you think. At least not the version I'm using. 4.76 on Mandrake 8.0 beta 2.
It was just a joke. Put down the pitchforks.
You would have to follow the lesson on how to boil a frog. Turn up the heat slowly. That's the way the gaming industry works now. Every game is just one requirement more. But it really won't work. That's part of the reason people are turning to consoles. They don't have to spend a fortune upgrading them. Besides, not everyone plays PC games. Their sort of a subculture. Microsoft's dotnet plan is really ditching Intel and all the other hardware manufacturers. A lot of the reason to upgrade will be gone when part of the software is on a server. Servers won't make up for a PC market.
Linux users don't need to upgrade because they never right bloated.....ooo wait, Mozilla.
Check that thought.
Some of us don't care if it's a clever marketing ploy. A clever marketing ploy can be very entertaining. Michael is probably the best editor slashdot has. He doesn't just spam us with a million and one stories about the big bad corps, and he actually replies to slashdot posts.
Lighten up.
Yahweh is usually translated I-am-that-I-am, but it can be translated as the-self-existing-one.
Has anyone actually read the article? They are getting their info mainly from credit bureaus and whatnot. This isn't exactly stuff that government couldn't find out about. This just makes it quicker for them. I like my privacy, but I know that there are somethings that I can't keep other people from finding out. My address. My phone number.
Actually, it's probably a little bit nicer. Some people obviously lose it past a certain age. I'm not saying everyone does, but some people do. It's a lot easier to tell them "Look this is what the rules say. You understood this when we hired you. We don't want to do this." than "Look you can't handle this job anymore because you old."
Kernel level firewall control was what I was referring to. You would get to choose which applications got to have ports. Still it's not just as simple as Netscape: port 80 only. Your browser opens more ports than that. Besides port 80 is actually the port your browser connects to on the web server if I'm not mistaken.
Also just having a firewall like this isn't perfect protection. Most people would give their browser automatic permission. There's nothing to stop some app from waiting till you start netscape and sending off for http://www.133t.com/name=JohnDoe&mastercard=somenu mber&expiration=023001. There really should also be permissions for what applications are supposed to be able to communicate with what other applications and in what ways.
New binary-only game should be able to open my browser for me, but I should see a pop-up before hand letting me know that another app has activated the browser and would like to go to so and so url. I believe that there is some built-in firewalling in kernel 2.4. There is an app over at kde.com to configure it.
What is it about linux users that lets them completely obviate someone's good point with "it works fine for me".
Actually you little troll, I never said that he wasn't having problems. I just replied that I hadn't had any problems. So it may be something specific to his system like oh...say his modem. As I said YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary.
I seem to see a lot of posts about "Mozilla crashes all the time" and "No it doesn't. It works fine on my system."
Popular Science did an article about blood substitutes a couple of years ago. There are a lot of people looking into this. Some are trying to strip the blood cells so that they will all be O negative. That isn't really a blood substitute, but they are trying to solve the problem of matching types.
Another is to use a chemical based on teflon. It naturally dissolves large quantities of oxygen. The experiments on humans came out alright, but after a few days the test subjects showed some enlargement of their liver. This is the same stuff that was shown in the movie The Abyss. The stuff they made the mouse swim around in.
I don't know why this is going to be a module as opposed to say, a compile-time option for the kernel.
Because everyone has a different way they want to do security. If they included all of those into the kernel, you would probably have a 70 Megabyte file. This keeps the bloat out of the kernel. It also frees linus from having to write all these different options into the kernel. (I think that's the big reason.)
This way you can download the kernel compile it, and then you can pick your security module based on you preference. Also you can change security modules on the fly since they are modules.
Actually the kernel team wouldn't have to do that. Just let there be one distro that dedicates itself to developing a secure kernel. They could do OpenBSD style code reviews and admins could upgrade when they released stable versions. Debian isn't using 2.4 yet because they are waiting for the kernel to become stable. The problem is that everyone wants to get the latest greatest thing. BTW, I am no different. I'm just installed Mandrake 8.0 beta 2. I'm just not a sysadmin.
It works great for me. I don't know what you mean by nagware. It tells you when there is a new version, but you can turn that off. The only time it has ever crashed on me has been when I was running Gozilla. YMMV