dead-lock, n (1779) 1: a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : STANDSTILL 2: a tie score --Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary so if you want to talk about English, shut up and buy a dictionary.
Spam is "pork with ham, salt, sodium nitrite". The pork is shoulder meat, which is of decent quality. The gel is gelatin that separates naturally from the meat when it is cooked.
Well, Macrovision can be worked around. And it doesn't even affect recording via methods other than VHS.
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What you say is basically true but remember one important thing: corporations don't have _natural_ rights. There is no reason for them to have a legal right to exist other than because it's good for society in general as well as the individuals within the society. A corporation's "rights" are assigned artificially by law and the government, and should be removed or ignored if it isn't in the best interest of the nation at large. Of course, whether the government ever really knows what's best is an open topic, but definitely let's not get too deep into the "they have a right to do it" issue. Whether it is good or bad for the economy and people is a topic to consider.
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It's just the sort of thing that people will never doubt because it sounds like it ought to be true. People don't think much, in either direction.
If you were paying attention you would notice that the topic on this article is "Linux" and if you use a graphical browser, is right next to a picture of Tux, the Linux penguin. I don't see how that's unclear.
The Bible is a book. God is not a book. Thus: the Bible is not God. Therefore the Bible by itself cannot be considered completely authoritative. God retains the right to opinions that are not expressed in the Bible:)
Well yes, especially considering that Perl is also licensed under the GPL... so "let's make a GPL Perl" would be "let's take the Artistic license file out of the tgz" which would even be legal...
Actually US export law has a special exception that allows US citizens to take strong-encryption products with them on a trip outside the US, with certain restrictions (you are required to keep track of where you go, though you don't have to give the log to anyone) and as long as the products remain within your posession. IANAL of course, and obviously this still doesn't have anything to do with US companies who want to make DVD players for export.
Grin, maybe the intended test was an "ftp site stress test" as in "put some big files that/. idiots will rush to download and leak news that it's something they actually want" sort of test. Probably not, but it'd be funny if someone used Slashdot for such a purpose.
Frankly the problem Hollywood has is that what we do isn't actually very dramatic. It's like watching a writer write. His finished product might be beautiful or exciting or wonderful to comtemplate, but the process, what he DOES and lives for, is pretty dull. A movie is like 90 minutes... can you write much of a program in 90 minutes? Or how about this... let's say for some reason you and 5 friends were shown a room with a bunch of bulk cat5, rj-45 heads, a crimper or two, a hub, and a very large box of assorted hardware, and told you had 90 minutes to build a network, would it be exciting to watch? No, especially if you don't understand the issues involved, though certainly you and your friends would have a blast. Ours is not a spectator sport.
Actually elderly people become very interested in the Internet when they learn that all their relatives have email. Lots of retired people just love writing and reading emails all day. It's becoming a big thing in at least the Naples area.
Usually you get that sort of thing from the people who are atheist to "get back" at some vague (society, god) or specific (their parents) target. The people who are atheist because it makes the most sense to them usually don't, because they know that they have no material in particular to argue _with_, other than that other religions don't have any material either. So no, I don't respect rambling atheists;)
That isn't really true. People learn lots of different ways. Some prefer a top-down approach, where they learn an easy or automatic way to do things first (like RPM) and get into the deeper stuff like compiling later. I mean, some people do say "the only way to learn to program is to do it in assembly" but for most people, starting with C or C++ or some HLL makes more sense, but of course, to become a real programmer, you'll have to learn asm eventually. Tho learning asm is usually easier once you understand high-level programming concepts.
I think copyright law applies to the government differently somehow; if you'll notice a lot of licenses have separate sections that cover "government use".
It's really unfair to bash the judgement here. A law is a law; judges exist to uphold the law. The theory behind this country's legal system is that it is run by laws, not judges, as much as possible. So let's look at this. If it's not legal in California to give loans for gambling, then if you loan someone money for gambling, IT'S ILLEGAL. Wow. And despite the way people VIEW credit cards, any purchase you make on a credit card IS A LOAN. That's the reality, even if most people don't THINK about it that way. And since it's clear to the credit card company that the money is going to a casino, it's obvious that they're LOANing the woman money TO GAMBLE WITH. The fact that the transaction was automatically handled by a computer does NOT make it legal in any way. It isn't about what the company could do, or whether it was intentional. If you break the law and don't know about it, you've still broken the law. That's why large companies hire lawyers. IANAL of course (lawyers on Slashdot? don't make me laugh) but this decision seems completely reasonable to me. The woman's motives are irrelevant. "Common sense" means the opinion of a large majority of people, and is also irrelevant. If you don't like this decision, direct your wrath at the LAW. If you live in California, write letters to your politicians. Sitting around whining about how stupid the "system" is, when all the system has done is uphold the law, is just pointless.
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dead-lock, n (1779) 1: a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : STANDSTILL 2: a tie score
--Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary
so if you want to talk about English, shut up and buy a dictionary.
Oh wow, you're such a rhetorical genius.
Do you even know what so-called "national security" IS?
Spam is "pork with ham, salt, sodium nitrite".
The pork is shoulder meat, which is of decent quality.
The gel is gelatin that separates naturally from the meat when it is cooked.
I've cured stupidity before.
Well, Macrovision can be worked around. And it doesn't even affect recording via methods other than VHS.
What you say is basically true but remember one important thing: corporations don't have _natural_ rights. There is no reason for them to have a legal right to exist other than because it's good for society in general as well as the individuals within the society. A corporation's "rights" are assigned artificially by law and the government, and should be removed or ignored if it isn't in the best interest of the nation at large. Of course, whether the government ever really knows what's best is an open topic, but definitely let's not get too deep into the "they have a right to do it" issue. Whether it is good or bad for the economy and people is a topic to consider.
It's just the sort of thing that people will never doubt because it sounds like it ought to be true. People don't think much, in either direction.
Take some time next month to learn what "open source" actually means.
If you were paying attention you would notice that the topic on this article is "Linux" and if you use a graphical browser, is right next to a picture of Tux, the Linux penguin. I don't see how that's unclear.
Laugh, I didn't want to touch THAT part of the issue with a 10-ft pole :)
The Bible is a book. God is not a book. Thus: the Bible is not God. Therefore the Bible by itself cannot be considered completely authoritative. God retains the right to opinions that are not expressed in the Bible :)
Well yes, especially considering that Perl is also licensed under the GPL... so "let's make a GPL Perl" would be "let's take the Artistic license file out of the tgz" which would even be legal...
woo, tell it like it is man
Actually US export law has a special exception that allows US citizens to take strong-encryption products with them on a trip outside the US, with certain restrictions (you are required to keep track of where you go, though you don't have to give the log to anyone) and as long as the products remain within your posession. IANAL of course, and obviously this still doesn't have anything to do with US companies who want to make DVD players for export.
Grin, maybe the intended test was an "ftp site stress test" as in "put some big files that /. idiots will rush to download and leak news that it's something they actually want" sort of test. Probably not, but it'd be funny if someone used Slashdot for such a purpose.
Pretty good there, much better than the sort of "first post" crap that normally gets the -1 honor. Very nice.
IIRC the jiffies rollover doesn't usually cause a freeze. I think it's also more than a year.
Cox still cautions against using it. As far as I know Linus still uses 2.7.2.3 ;)
Frankly the problem Hollywood has is that what we do isn't actually very dramatic. It's like watching a writer write. His finished product might be beautiful or exciting or wonderful to comtemplate, but the process, what he DOES and lives for, is pretty dull. A movie is like 90 minutes... can you write much of a program in 90 minutes? Or how about this... let's say for some reason you and 5 friends were shown a room with a bunch of bulk cat5, rj-45 heads, a crimper or two, a hub, and a very large box of assorted hardware, and told you had 90 minutes to build a network, would it be exciting to watch? No, especially if you don't understand the issues involved, though certainly you and your friends would have a blast. Ours is not a spectator sport.
Actually elderly people become very interested in the Internet when they learn that all their relatives have email. Lots of retired people just love writing and reading emails all day. It's becoming a big thing in at least the Naples area.
Usually you get that sort of thing from the people who are atheist to "get back" at some vague (society, god) or specific (their parents) target. The people who are atheist because it makes the most sense to them usually don't, because they know that they have no material in particular to argue _with_, other than that other religions don't have any material either. So no, I don't respect rambling atheists ;)
That isn't really true. People learn lots of different ways. Some prefer a top-down approach, where they learn an easy or automatic way to do things first (like RPM) and get into the deeper stuff like compiling later. I mean, some people do say "the only way to learn to program is to do it in assembly" but for most people, starting with C or C++ or some HLL makes more sense, but of course, to become a real programmer, you'll have to learn asm eventually. Tho learning asm is usually easier once you understand high-level programming concepts.
I think copyright law applies to the government differently somehow; if you'll notice a lot of licenses have separate sections that cover "government use".
It's really unfair to bash the judgement here. A law is a law; judges exist to uphold the law. The theory behind this country's legal system is that it is run by laws, not judges, as much as possible.
So let's look at this. If it's not legal in California to give loans for gambling, then if you loan someone money for gambling, IT'S ILLEGAL. Wow. And despite the way people VIEW credit cards, any purchase you make on a credit card IS A LOAN. That's the reality, even if most people don't THINK about it that way. And since it's clear to the credit card company that the money is going to a casino, it's obvious that they're LOANing the woman money TO GAMBLE WITH. The fact that the transaction was automatically handled by a computer does NOT make it legal in any way. It isn't about what the company could do, or whether it was intentional. If you break the law and don't know about it, you've still broken the law. That's why large companies hire lawyers.
IANAL of course (lawyers on Slashdot? don't make me laugh) but this decision seems completely reasonable to me. The woman's motives are irrelevant. "Common sense" means the opinion of a large majority of people, and is also irrelevant. If you don't like this decision, direct your wrath at the LAW. If you live in California, write letters to your politicians. Sitting around whining about how stupid the "system" is, when all the system has done is uphold the law, is just pointless.