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that incident with Debian recently [...] most brilliant minds tend to miss things.
Sorry, but the person who did that was *not* brilliant, by any stretch of the imagination.
Unless you're trying to tell us that Whitfield Diffie, Adi Shamir, or Leonard Adelman personally signed-off on the Debian packages, in which case I'd challenge you to provide a link.
Attempting to draw parallels between actual crypotgraphers who have created state-of-the-art cryptography, and some numbnuts who doesn't actually understand what he's doing is really, really poor logic.
If the Debian fiasco is the best example you have to prove your point, I'd say that you've pretty much admitted you're wrong.
The GST Tax (General Services Tax) is currently at 6%, the Provincial Sales Tax (at least here in British Columbia) is at 7%, so here I pay a grand total of 13% tax on most purchased items and services. In Alberta there is no provincial sales tax.
GST stands for Goods and Services Tax, and it's 5%, not 6%.
You're correct that Alberta has no PST, but neither does NWT, Yukon or Nunavut. BC and Manitoba's PST is 7%, Saskatchewan's is 5%. PEI has the highest PST rate of 10%. The other maritime provinces pay HST (combined GST and PST) of 13%. Ontario's PST is 8%.
So for sales tax, you pay anywhere between 5% (Alberta, NWT, Yukon, Nunavut) and 15% (PEI), with the "average" being 13% (Maritime provinces and Ontario)
you're guilty of copyright infringement simply by using the product that you paid to use. Quite the precedent.
It's also completely and utterly wrong, according to copyright law.
US Title 17, section 117 explicitly states that copying a program into RAM so you can use it is not an infringement.
it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided: (1) that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other manner
The judge quite clearly erred in application of this statute. IIRC the law was amended specifically because of courts ruling that copying to RAM was infringement (which the judge apparently didn't understand.)
my parents all concerned that because I was playing D&D and Battletech that I was well on the way to the lunatic asylum.
Well, their concerns about D&D were unfounded, but the Battletech combat system was intentionally designed to make people crazy. After trying to GM a game of Battletech 20 years ago, I'm still recovering!
Ok, you and the other AC that posted below obviously don't know shit about the economics of computers
And you obviously don't know shit about *anything* including history, economics, or how computers work.
Simple question, what can I do with a bare PC? No software at all, not even an OS, just the hardware in a box. I can't do a goddamned thing with it
You should really read some more before making an idiot of yourself like this.
MS is not the only software company in the world. They're not even the only software company in the world that made DOS. Read some of the replies to your previous post to try to understand how wrong you are.
If all it took was a $2 piece of metal to get 9 more mpg out of a Malibu, don't you think they'd have done it by now?
No, why would you think they would? What is their motivation to spend money they don't have to? Americans have proven that they don't care about fuel efficiency (witness the love of SUVs), so a lower MPG wouldn't increase sales - so why on earth would GM increase the cost of their cars when it has no benefit to them?
Please don't read this to mean that I believe the "MPG enhancers" are a scam - it's just that your logic as to *why* it's a scam is entirely flawed.
A story: the 1541 disk drive used software to determine the head position. It would simply step the head back 38 tracks (the largest amount). If the head was somewhere between 38 (as it most probably was), the stepper motor would the head assembly against a physical stopper, making a very loud and disturbing sound, and eventually moved the head slightly out of position (there was an entire industry created around realigning the heads of these drives.)
Now, why didn't Commodore just put a sensor in there, instead of irritating customers? Cost. The cost of a sensor was around $0.04 - against a drive that originally cost $600.
OK - so what's wrong with that? While not exactly a common term, it's pretty clear he's talking about 10Base-2 or 10Base-5 ethernet, both of which run on co-axial cable (10Base2 runs on RG58, and 10Base-5 runs on RG8).
I used to cable places up with coax, but it was ARCnet back then.
Before the advance of cheap 10Base-T hubs, 10Base-2 was a very economical method of creating LANs, especially for small ad-hoc networks (I set up quite a few LAN parties with it - it was cheap and easy.)
Why would it require "less upgrades"? People upgrade components because they need more capacity. Are you trying to say that a 2GB DIMM from Apple holds more information than a 2GB DIMM from somewhere else?
If you'd said "replacements" that might make some amount of sense, although you'd still need to provide some statistical data to support your claim.
The monopoly of the present that prevents you from seeing that video is the government. Do you think Google gives a shit about what Fox has to say when the government doesn't back it up?
The monopoly of the present that prevents your neighbor from murdering you is the government. Do you think your neighbor gives a shit about your rights when the government doesn't back it up?
Kinda like claiming that Noah was instructed to put "two" of every "species" in an ark (got a source for either?
Are you *really* that stupid? This is elementary logic.
Assume two things are true: 1. The story of Noah is true. 2. Evolution is false.
In order for the first statement to be true, then *by definion* all species that exist today existed before Noah. Therefore, every species that existed today that could not survive the flood must have been placed on the ark by Noah, and you would need a minimum of *two* of them in order to propagate and rebuild.
If you can't figure that out, then it's no wonder you believe that creationism is science.
they know it's the only way they can communicate with the rest of the world. What else are you supposed to do when stringing more than 3 letters together is a challenge? Thank you.
This is the first rational explanation I've ever heard for people who don't know how to spell the word "than".
Did it occur to you that the "recession" you mentioned--that is, a condition in which the supply of labor exceeds demand--means that you aren't worth as much as during times of tight supply? Yup.
Did occur to you that that is completely irrelevant to the topic of whether people should be treated as objects, rather than human beings?
your friend's compensation priced in this non-compete. If your friend didn't like it, he should have asked for more. Yes, because it's well known that during employment negotiations, prospective employees hold all the cards, especially during a recession.
he tried to break his contract after taking from the company (time, money, training, know-how, etc. Exactly! These good-for-nothing people think that just because they spend time doing honest work, that they should get treated like human beings!
PEOPLE ARE FREE TO STRUCTURE THEIR EMPLOYMENT AS THEY WISH. Yup. Because if you don't like it, you're always free to work somewhere else. Even if they're not hiring.
Atari has every right in the world to not only sue these guys, but put them out of business Yes, because god forbid anyone should have the right to freedom of speech, right?
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that incident with Debian recently [...] most brilliant minds tend to miss things.
Sorry, but the person who did that was *not* brilliant, by any stretch of the imagination.
Unless you're trying to tell us that Whitfield Diffie, Adi Shamir, or Leonard Adelman personally signed-off on the Debian packages, in which case I'd challenge you to provide a link.
Attempting to draw parallels between actual crypotgraphers who have created state-of-the-art cryptography, and some numbnuts who doesn't actually understand what he's doing is really, really poor logic.
If the Debian fiasco is the best example you have to prove your point, I'd say that you've pretty much admitted you're wrong.
they're just bringing in the best hired gun that they can
OK, so then why didn't they bring this guy in for the other parts of the trial?
Of course they're nervous.
He also says that the 'noatime' mount option tells the kernel not to read the atime... noatime tells the kernel not to write atimes to the fs.
sweet jebus, is there *anything* technically correct in that article?
The GST Tax (General Services Tax) is currently at 6%, the Provincial Sales Tax (at least here in British Columbia) is at 7%, so here I pay a grand total of 13% tax on most purchased items and services. In Alberta there is no provincial sales tax.
GST stands for Goods and Services Tax, and it's 5%, not 6%.
You're correct that Alberta has no PST, but neither does NWT, Yukon or Nunavut. BC and Manitoba's PST is 7%, Saskatchewan's is 5%. PEI has the highest PST rate of 10%. The other maritime provinces pay HST (combined GST and PST) of 13%. Ontario's PST is 8%.
So for sales tax, you pay anywhere between 5% (Alberta, NWT, Yukon, Nunavut) and 15% (PEI), with the "average" being 13% (Maritime provinces and Ontario)
If someone mentions any American town I could probably name the state it is in.
Springfield. :)
you're guilty of copyright infringement simply by using the product that you paid to use. Quite the precedent.
It's also completely and utterly wrong, according to copyright law.
US Title 17, section 117 explicitly states that copying a program into RAM so you can use it is not an infringement.
it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided:
(1) that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other manner
The judge quite clearly erred in application of this statute. IIRC the law was amended specifically because of courts ruling that copying to RAM was infringement (which the judge apparently didn't understand.)
This is pretty much a slam-dunk appeal.
Lighten up - it's a *joke*
I think limiting an international site's usefulness to its geographic region is silly.
Who said anything about limiting anything?
I was just giving a possible explanation of why he got modded "insightful".
my parents all concerned that because I was playing D&D and Battletech that I was well on the way to the lunatic asylum.
Well, their concerns about D&D were unfounded, but the Battletech combat system was intentionally designed to make people crazy. After trying to GM a game of Battletech 20 years ago, I'm still recovering!
But are Best Buy offering to supply the source code?
How do you know that the relevant source isn't included in the box?
Please do not drink alcohol until you die.
Umm.. if I'm dead, won't that make difficult to drink anything? :)
Knowing that Swiss don't speak Swedish is modded insightful?
Well, as is pointed out any time there's a thread dealing with their politics or court system, this is an American site. :)
Ok, you and the other AC that posted below obviously don't know shit about the economics of computers
And you obviously don't know shit about *anything* including history, economics, or how computers work.
Simple question, what can I do with a bare PC? No software at all, not even an OS, just the hardware in a box. I can't do a goddamned thing with it
You should really read some more before making an idiot of yourself like this.
MS is not the only software company in the world. They're not even the only software company in the world that made DOS. Read some of the replies to your previous post to try to understand how wrong you are.
If all it took was a $2 piece of metal to get 9 more mpg out of a Malibu, don't you think they'd have done it by now?
No, why would you think they would? What is their motivation to spend money they don't have to? Americans have proven that they don't care about fuel efficiency (witness the love of SUVs), so a lower MPG wouldn't increase sales - so why on earth would GM increase the cost of their cars when it has no benefit to them?
Please don't read this to mean that I believe the "MPG enhancers" are a scam - it's just that your logic as to *why* it's a scam is entirely flawed.
A story: the 1541 disk drive used software to determine the head position. It would simply step the head back 38 tracks (the largest amount). If the head was somewhere between 38 (as it most probably was), the stepper motor would the head assembly against a physical stopper, making a very loud and disturbing sound, and eventually moved the head slightly out of position (there was an entire industry created around realigning the heads of these drives.)
Now, why didn't Commodore just put a sensor in there, instead of irritating customers? Cost. The cost of a sensor was around $0.04 - against a drive that originally cost $600.
Google does face additional liability if most videos are copyrighted material, and Viacom would likely be vindicated.
99.999% of everything on youtube is copyrighted.
I upload home videos of my daughter so that family overseas can keep up - they're copyrighted *by me*.
Congratulations, you've bought into the ??AA propaganda that copyrighted == illegal.
However, he calls it coaxial Ethernet.
OK - so what's wrong with that? While not exactly a common term, it's pretty clear he's talking about 10Base-2 or 10Base-5 ethernet, both of which run on co-axial cable (10Base2 runs on RG58, and 10Base-5 runs on RG8).
I used to cable places up with coax, but it was ARCnet back then.
Arcnet and co-ax ethernet are two different things.
Before the advance of cheap 10Base-T hubs, 10Base-2 was a very economical method of creating LANs, especially for small ad-hoc networks (I set up quite a few LAN parties with it - it was cheap and easy.)
How anyone could call the regime of Saddam peaceful is just nonsense.
Your straw man, he is on fire.
Apple hardware [...] requires less upgrades
Umm, *what*?!?!?
Why would it require "less upgrades"? People upgrade components because they need more capacity. Are you trying to say that a 2GB DIMM from Apple holds more information than a 2GB DIMM from somewhere else?
If you'd said "replacements" that might make some amount of sense, although you'd still need to provide some statistical data to support your claim.
The monopoly of the present that prevents you from seeing that video is the government. Do you think Google gives a shit about what Fox has to say when the government doesn't back it up?
The monopoly of the present that prevents your neighbor from murdering you is the government. Do you think your neighbor gives a shit about your rights when the government doesn't back it up?
Kinda like claiming that Noah was instructed to put "two" of every "species" in an ark (got a source for either?
Are you *really* that stupid? This is elementary logic.
Assume two things are true:
1. The story of Noah is true.
2. Evolution is false.
In order for the first statement to be true, then *by definion* all species that exist today existed before Noah. Therefore, every species that existed today that could not survive the flood must have been placed on the ark by Noah, and you would need a minimum of *two* of them in order to propagate and rebuild.
If you can't figure that out, then it's no wonder you believe that creationism is science.
What else are you supposed to do when stringing more than 3 letters together is a challenge? Thank you.
This is the first rational explanation I've ever heard for people who don't know how to spell the word "than".
It's not even that.
He's saying "let's give the media companies an unlimited monopoly, enforcable forever, and then the market will sort it out."
He's a complete fucktard.
Did occur to you that that is completely irrelevant to the topic of whether people should be treated as objects, rather than human beings?