Actually I have morpheus, and i also have mozilla as my default browser, but those damn pop up adds STILL show up every once in a while in IE! Very annoying.
Lieberman's probably already prepping another crusade once he's done trying to take video games and good music away from us(hopefully unsuccessfully.), and will probably use reports like this to justify why the gnutella network should be policed.
I'd like to see them try to police the gnutella network. Our government just seems to love engaging in exercises in futilty(i.e. the drug war), so such an attempt wouldn't surpirse me in the least.
"The GPL in this context effectively erects a wall that
prevents the public and private sectors from working together. By
restricting severely the rights of anyone who incorporates GPL code
into their own software program, the GPL makes it impossible for
commercial software companies to build on the types of academic works
that have been put in the public domain and have helped fuel
innovation the last half-century.
"
Correct me if i'm worng, but aren't the GPL and the Public Domain 2 different entities? If even GPL code gets placed into the PD, doesn't that mean that anyone can use it without restriction, just as if commercial software source code is placed into the public domain?
most of the posts are amsuing to read. Considering the Battle.net service is free, people still feel they have to complain, complain, complain. Perhaps they never bothered to look at the Battle.Net Terms of Usage.
Considering Microsoft's "stellar" security record, even Sen. Schumer should be able comprehend the danger of having a backdoor capable of deactivating your OS in so many voter... err... users machines...
lawyers who act on their own without needing to tell their clients. I would immediately move out of the U.S. if lawyers started to do that here. I hope to god our legal system never allows something like this.
I'm just wondering. Whenever you install anything, usually isn't it supposed to ask you if you want to set it as the "default" program to pop up? This was never mentioned, all it said was the it "took 9 mouse clicks" to do it. Need more info!
As evil as they are, they still have the right to do whatever they want
For once, this is something MS can not be legally able to do. There is a difference between defending IP rights and telling people how to use what you sell them. I do believe they are prohbited from imposing restrictions that limit fair use of thier product, are they not?
Are you telling me that a normal person can't tell the difference between a box that says "Killustrator" on it and a box that says "Adobe Illustrator" on it?
First, Adobe *has* to do this. I realize most/.ers don't understand IP law past "information wants to be free!", but trademarks have to be defended in order to remain valid.
I think the point that is being made is that this trademark is invalid.
My guess is that the American public will ultimately value the benefits of real-time public face analysis more than the costs and risks... Or some poor criminal-look-alike will be questioned by police every time he tries to fill his gas tank, buy a Big Mac, or get money from the ATM.)
I thought the spirit of this country was that we would rather let 10 guilty people go free than let one innocent person be harrased.
Problem solved. If you're out in public, you're putting yourself out there anyway, you're up for grabs. Should we tell police not to look at your face as you walk down the street, lest your rights be violated? This is dumb. Like the Barretta theme song says, If you can't do the time, then don't do the crime, yeah, don't do it.
Sadly, people do the time for not committing a crime, and this face to face thing really scares me. The only result i can see coming from this is even more people being arrested on mistaken identity. And when the police makes a mistake, mind you, most of the time it isn't corrected right away. There have been innocent people locked away for even years after they've been cleared of criminal charges. I say this with all sincerity: no good can come from this.
That's why sites that give you anominity don't really give you true anominity. If you are doing something illegal (like making death threats and such), the site that gave you anonymous priveleges has the right to trace you. I'm sure that even/. could do this with their Anonymous Cowards if they wanted to. And I'm sure all messages have an ip attached to them in the server logs.
I was reading this story on how
americans feels that the 1st amendment goes too far, and it made me sad. It seems that the influence from the facist liberals like Joe Lieberman and Hilory Clinton are having their effect. Now that the public knows that censorship has "bipartisan" support, they've begun to tolerate it more, so know you have the liberal people saying censorship is ok, not just the religious right. It's scary to think that when americans are willing to give up their most basic freedom, what freedom will they be willing to give up next?
Japanese Waiter: Don't ask me, I dunno anything, I am product of american education system! I also build poor quality cars and inferior style electronics!
... since not long before that Squaresoft went out of their way to not write games for the GameCube. They've announced plans to bring Final Fantasy XI to both PS2 and Xbox, but haven't even bothered to ask for GameCube dev kits. Doesn't that sound a bit targeted to you?
Could it be that Square didn't ask them because they knew they would say no?
Their differences at the start of it all was philosophical, but it's been getting more and more personal. I think the current state of affairs are more Squaresoft's fault than Nintendo, but others see it differently. All in all, though, it's not entirely one side's fault.
True, but nintendo is the one that still seems to want to hold a grudge.
Something that I have found very interesting about this is that Microsoft is the player on both the PC and the X-box. Both of these machines use windows(albiet a stripped down version of win2k for the x-box). Now the odd thing to that is that it's a simple matter of porting one game between the 2. The kind of odd thing because with the X-box, microsoft is in a sense competing with itself(in a very limited way, granted, since the PC is not a gaming machine alone) as well as Sony and Nintendo. However, should the X-box have exclusive games(are they? i haven't heard of any X-box only games as of yet) for its console, PC-only gamers are not going to like it, as they're going to see it as an attempt at forcing them to get an X-box, since in theory any X-box should easily be portable.
Of course, the X-box is not really targeted at them, but rather the console game audience, but i'm just wondering what kind of reaction the PC game community will give to the X-box.
The way I see how this is going down, Nintendo is going to go off and do its own thing, and just give Square the complimentary "Fuck You", if they ask to port a game to the gamecube. The consequences? Who knows?
They're just petitioning to nintendo to get the features that they want(and IMO, badly needed) onto the GBA. They're not calling the DOJ to go after them.
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Actually I have morpheus, and i also have mozilla as my default browser, but those damn pop up adds STILL show up every once in a while in IE! Very annoying.
I build my computer from scratch. Total control of what software(and hardware) that goes and doesn't go into my computer with none of the bullshit.
Peer-to-Peer File Sharing for Dummies
I'd like to see them try to police the gnutella network. Our government just seems to love engaging in exercises in futilty(i.e. the drug war), so such an attempt wouldn't surpirse me in the least.
Correct me if i'm worng, but aren't the GPL and the Public Domain 2 different entities? If even GPL code gets placed into the PD, doesn't that mean that anyone can use it without restriction, just as if commercial software source code is placed into the public domain?
most of the posts are amsuing to read. Considering the Battle.net service is free, people still feel they have to complain, complain, complain. Perhaps they never bothered to look at the Battle.Net Terms of Usage.
Ah, but you forget... the are running linux now!
of course. let's hardwire our os to only run our software. see you get *more* choices. remember that less = more!
in other news, i found this commercial that scares the living daylights out of me. You'll see why.
hit them where it hurts!
for example, maybe a student can major in masturbation with a minor in domination.
lawyers who act on their own without needing to tell their clients. I would immediately move out of the U.S. if lawyers started to do that here. I hope to god our legal system never allows something like this.
I'm just wondering. Whenever you install anything, usually isn't it supposed to ask you if you want to set it as the "default" program to pop up? This was never mentioned, all it said was the it "took 9 mouse clicks" to do it. Need more info!
For once, this is something MS can not be legally able to do. There is a difference between defending IP rights and telling people how to use what you sell them. I do believe they are prohbited from imposing restrictions that limit fair use of thier product, are they not?
Are you telling me that a normal person can't tell the difference between a box that says "Killustrator" on it and a box that says "Adobe Illustrator" on it?
I think the point that is being made is that this trademark is invalid.
Or some poor criminal-look-alike will be questioned by police every time he tries to fill his gas tank, buy a Big Mac, or get money from the ATM.)
I thought the spirit of this country was that we would rather let 10 guilty people go free than let one innocent person be harrased.
Sadly, people do the time for not committing a crime, and this face to face thing really scares me. The only result i can see coming from this is even more people being arrested on mistaken identity. And when the police makes a mistake, mind you, most of the time it isn't corrected right away. There have been innocent people locked away for even years after they've been cleared of criminal charges. I say this with all sincerity: no good can come from this.
There is no such thing as true anonymous posting.
I was reading this story on how americans feels that the 1st amendment goes too far, and it made me sad. It seems that the influence from the facist liberals like Joe Lieberman and Hilory Clinton are having their effect. Now that the public knows that censorship has "bipartisan" support, they've begun to tolerate it more, so know you have the liberal people saying censorship is ok, not just the religious right. It's scary to think that when americans are willing to give up their most basic freedom, what freedom will they be willing to give up next?
Simpsons Episode #AABF20
Japanese Waiter: Don't ask me, I dunno anything, I am product of american education system! I also build poor quality cars and inferior style electronics!
Could it be that Square didn't ask them because they knew they would say no?
Their differences at the start of it all was philosophical, but it's been getting more and more personal. I think the current state of affairs are more Squaresoft's fault than Nintendo, but others see it differently. All in all, though, it's not entirely one side's fault.
True, but nintendo is the one that still seems to want to hold a grudge.
Of course, the X-box is not really targeted at them, but rather the console game audience, but i'm just wondering what kind of reaction the PC game community will give to the X-box.
The way I see how this is going down, Nintendo is going to go off and do its own thing, and just give Square the complimentary "Fuck You", if they ask to port a game to the gamecube. The consequences? Who knows?
They're just petitioning to nintendo to get the features that they want(and IMO, badly needed) onto the GBA. They're not calling the DOJ to go after them.
is that a troll in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?