The sad truth is, once media attention has been drawn to any particular auction there will always be some idiots who make fantasy bids on fake accounts.
Copyright forbids making new copies, not to move existing ones. So here is an idea: Let us design a P2P application where downloading a file automatically deletes the original. Participating in this network would be legal, because no new copy is ever made. Files are just wandering from one shared folder to another.
Of course we cannot stop users from copying files that they own into their shared folder or vice versa. But it is not the P2P app which makes these copies, it is the user himself. The RIAA will not be able to distinguish between the users who use the program legally (i.e. who never make copies) and those who don't.
Actually, it does work. When the Académie Francaise decides what the proper usage is, newspapers and publishers will follow. And by the time people have read the term "courriel" a thousand times in their papers they will have become used to it. They may still say "email" but it will no longer seem to be a correct word of the written language.
We observe a similar thing over here in Germany, where the government introduced a (minor) spelling reform a couple of years ago. Absolutely nobody seems to like it, but most written publications use the new spelling and it looks only half as painful now as it did five years ago.
Of course, i guess this wasn't so obvious to the webmasters, was it...;)
OTOH, Sharereactor has been going on for years and it does the same thing (only for edonkey instead of BitTorrent). Apparently it is not so clearcut whether this kind of linking is illegal. Maybe the BT sites just yielded to pressure where ShareReactor did not.
Actually, you got that one dead wrong. A well-written P2P network can function without any loss of quality even if each user shares only a single file.
Here is how I arrive at this conclusion: If I start emule with no files shared and start downloading a moderately popular file (an old TV episode, say) then as soon as I have a few megabytes, my upload pipeline will get maxed out and stay maxed out until I remove the downloaded file from the shared folder. Thus, even with a single file I contribute as much to the network as my bandwidth allows. No point in sharing hundreds of files.
As a corollary, I advise all users of the edonkey network to keep a very small number files in their shared directory. That way, nobody can get hurt by the MAFIAA, but everybody can still get everything.
Actually, most of Emacs is written in LISP. Anyway, you can write functional programs in a procedural language, it is just a matter of coding discipline. It's just not very convenient.
and that is the true reason why they must be rejected. A society cannot claim to be a democracy unless it has free and secret elections.
An election is secret only if the voter is required to conceal his/her vote. This prevents votes from being bought (since the buyer cannot know if he actually gets the goods) and it prevents people from being pressurized into voting for a particular party (with online votes, a tyrannical husband can easily make sure his wife votes the right way).
Of course, vote by postal letter has the same problem which is why most democracies allow it only in case of unability to otherwise attend and also make it at least somewhat inconvenient.
The money per unit time saved is actually much higher, because time waiting for the microwave is not usually time lost. You can set the table, take out the garbage, clear away yesterday's dishes, or a million other things that need doing anyway.
0 does not divide anything, so the implication 0|(a*b) => 0|a or 0|b is vacuously true (even if you consider that 0|0 is true, the implication still holds since a*b=0 => a=0 or b=0).
Similarly, for p = 1:
1|(a*b)
=> a*b != 0
=> a != 0 or b != 0
=> 1|a or 1|b
I remember, nearly twenty years ago, when I had my lovely Atari ST, shareware was software that its authors shared with the general public to enjoy. We had never heard of the GPL, but the spirit was similar.
Over the years, the meaning of the word changed. First you were asked to pay something, if you liked the program, then you would only get the docs if you payed, then nags, and finally the crippleware and timebombs we see today.
Now shareware seems to mean that there is a downloadable evaluation version which can be activated online. This is a pure marketing features and says nothing about the software itself. As soon as MS can devise secure delivery over the net, Office will become shareware, too, finally reducing the notion ad absurdum.
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If you use a RAID controller for connecting your harddisk(s) then you cannot install Win2000 or WinXP without a floppy containing the RAID drivers.
The rule is "recursive" or "transitive", but not "viral".
Neither of your suggestions work. "Recursive" would mean that the GPL is explained in terms of the GPL. It is not. Transitivity is a property of relations as in: "if a is related to b and b is related to c then a is related to c". Since the GPL is not a relation it cannot be transitive.
If you want to use a scientific analogy I suggest "dominant": If a program combines GPL'd code with other code, then the entire program is GPL'd.
Some of the holes in IE allow to install arbitrary code on a machine which visits a malicious website. This has been used very widely here to waylay modem users. The website clandestinely installs a dialer program and sets is as default internet connection. The new number is of course a very expensive 0190 pay number and depending on how soon the user notices, this can easily cost a few thousand euros. There is currently no viable defense: if your computer dials the number, then you have to pay (a new law is being considered, though). Since all phone bills are collected by a central instance (German Telekom) refusing to pay is not an option, because they will simply cut your telephone line.
A webcam is not human-to-computer communication, at least not in the sense that Gartner is talking about. What he means is simply that discrete information input such as text or choosing from a menu will continue to be mostly based on mouse and keyboard rather than speech, handwriting or gestures.
A friend of mine has toyed with a theory of "computable" numbers, lying somewhere between the reals and the rationals. A "computable" number is one where there exists a Turing Machine that will output it, as time goes to infinity. Since there are fewer TMs then real numbers, it's clearly smaller then the set of reals, yet equally clearly, it's larger then the rationals, since it includes things like Pi, e, and, most interestingly, any number we could ever conceivably communicate to each other in such a way that we could construct it. That's the most interesting part of it; it's not the full reals, yet you can't point to a real number or reference one that is not in this "computable" set. Not directly germane, but perhaps interesting to anybody following the posts this deeply.
This is not quite correct. I can communicate a number to you without being able to compute it. One way to construct such a number is via the Turing halting problem. For example, enumerate the set of all Turing machines (there are standard ways of doing this, pick any you like). Then define r to be the real number between 0 and 1 whose nth digit (in binary) is 0 if the nth Turing machine halts and 1 if it doesn't.
This is a well-defined real number. It cannot be computed by a Turing machine because that would solve the halting problem.
I am not an expert in the field, but I believe there is a whole hierarchy of sets of definable numbers, depending on the language you permit to be used in definitions. And, like with Gödel, no matter what language you take, there will be some definable numbers that escape you.
On a related note, consider the following delicious paradox.
Let M be the set of all natural numbers that can be defined in less than 300 bytes. Let n be the smallest natural number not in this set.
"US is one of the top western countries on Amnesty International lists regarding Human rights..."
Ah, but is that statement still true if you remove the word "western?"
Yes, indeed it is. For example I found this on the Amnesty International homepage:
The vast majority of executions worldwide were carried out in a tiny handful of countries. In 2001, 90 per cent of all known executions took place in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the USA.
Also, the land of the free recently took the world record for the highest incarceration rate from Russia.
Nonsense. The cost of this lawsuit is measured in millions of dollars, which is something a state can pay for without blinking. At the very worst it will be few dollars per inhabitant.
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Maybe reselling one song is not worthwhile. But reselling a collection would be.
It will probably go for a zillion.
The sad truth is, once media attention has been drawn to any particular auction there will always be some idiots who make fantasy bids on fake accounts.
RMS is using Debian on his own machine and the FSF actually helped to fund Debian.
Learn to read, people.
or, in my case, a definitive 404 not found
Wouldn't that be the wrong hand?
Copyright forbids making new copies, not to move existing ones. So here is an idea: Let us design a P2P application where downloading a file automatically deletes the original. Participating in this network would be legal, because no new copy is ever made. Files are just wandering from one shared folder to another.
Of course we cannot stop users from copying files that they own into their shared folder or vice versa. But it is not the P2P app which makes these copies, it is the user himself. The RIAA will not be able to distinguish between the users who use the program legally (i.e. who never make copies) and those who don't.
This is a very clever way to stop people getting bored by media reports on terrorism. Bush needs to keep the hype alive.
Actually, it does work. When the Académie Francaise decides what the proper usage is, newspapers and publishers will follow. And by the time people have read the term "courriel" a thousand times in their papers they will have become used to it. They may still say "email" but it will no longer seem to be a correct word of the written language.
We observe a similar thing over here in Germany, where the government introduced a (minor) spelling reform a couple of years ago. Absolutely nobody seems to like it, but most written publications use the new spelling and it looks only half as painful now as it did five years ago.
OTOH, Sharereactor has been going on for years and it does the same thing (only for edonkey instead of BitTorrent). Apparently it is not so clearcut whether this kind of linking is illegal. Maybe the BT sites just yielded to pressure where ShareReactor did not.
Actually, you got that one dead wrong. A well-written P2P network can function without any loss of quality even if each user shares only a single file.
Here is how I arrive at this conclusion: If I start emule with no files shared and start downloading a moderately popular file (an old TV episode, say) then as soon as I have a few megabytes, my upload pipeline will get maxed out and stay maxed out until I remove the downloaded file from the shared folder. Thus, even with a single file I contribute as much to the network as my bandwidth allows. No point in sharing hundreds of files.
As a corollary, I advise all users of the edonkey network to keep a very small number files in their shared directory. That way, nobody can get hurt by the MAFIAA, but everybody can still get everything.
Actually, most of Emacs is written in LISP. Anyway, you can write functional programs in a procedural language, it is just a matter of coding discipline. It's just not very convenient.
and that is the true reason why they must be rejected. A society cannot claim to be a democracy unless it has free and secret elections.
An election is secret only if the voter is required to conceal his/her vote. This prevents votes from being bought (since the buyer cannot know if he actually gets the goods) and it prevents people from being pressurized into voting for a particular party (with online votes, a tyrannical husband can easily make sure his wife votes the right way).
Of course, vote by postal letter has the same problem which is why most democracies allow it only in case of unability to otherwise attend and also make it at least somewhat inconvenient.
The money per unit time saved is actually much higher, because time waiting for the microwave is not usually time lost. You can set the table, take out the garbage, clear away yesterday's dishes, or a million other things that need doing anyway.
0 does not divide anything, so the implication
0|(a*b) => 0|a or 0|b
is vacuously true (even if you consider that 0|0 is true, the implication still holds since a*b=0 => a=0 or b=0).
Similarly, for p = 1:
1|(a*b)
=> a*b != 0
=> a != 0 or b != 0
=> 1|a or 1|b
I remember, nearly twenty years ago, when I had my lovely Atari ST, shareware was software that its authors shared with the general public to enjoy. We had never heard of the GPL, but the spirit was similar.
Over the years, the meaning of the word changed. First you were asked to pay something, if you liked the program, then you would only get the docs if you payed, then nags, and finally the crippleware and timebombs we see today.
Now shareware seems to mean that there is a downloadable evaluation version which can be activated online. This is a pure marketing features and says nothing about the software itself. As soon as MS can devise secure delivery over the net, Office will become shareware, too, finally reducing the notion ad absurdum.
If you use a RAID controller for connecting your harddisk(s) then you cannot install Win2000 or WinXP without a floppy containing the RAID drivers.
Mod parent up, please.
Well maybe the MPAA is evil and the RIAA is just dumb, but there is another difference between the two that you did not mention.
If the big music labels die, the consumer is not going to suffer. Music will continue to be produced.
If the big movie studios die, or stop being profitable, everyone will lose.
Therefore I am more willing to forgive some of the MPAA's (admittedly dreadful) sins than the RIAA's.
Neither of your suggestions work. "Recursive" would mean that the GPL is explained in terms of the GPL. It is not. Transitivity is a property of relations as in: "if a is related to b and b is related to c then a is related to c". Since the GPL is not a relation it cannot be transitive.
If you want to use a scientific analogy I suggest "dominant": If a program combines GPL'd code with other code, then the entire program is GPL'd.
Some of the holes in IE allow to install arbitrary code on a machine which visits a malicious website. This has been used very widely here to waylay modem users. The website clandestinely installs a dialer program and sets is as default internet connection. The new number is of course a very expensive 0190 pay number and depending on how soon the user notices, this can easily cost a few thousand euros. There is currently no viable defense: if your computer dials the number, then you have to pay (a new law is being considered, though). Since all phone bills are collected by a central instance (German Telekom) refusing to pay is not an option, because they will simply cut your telephone line.
A webcam is not human-to-computer communication, at least not in the sense that Gartner is talking about. What he means is simply that discrete information input such as text or choosing from a menu will continue to be mostly based on mouse and keyboard rather than speech, handwriting or gestures.
This is a well-defined real number. It cannot be computed by a Turing machine because that would solve the halting problem.
I am not an expert in the field, but I believe there is a whole hierarchy of sets of definable numbers, depending on the language you permit to be used in definitions. And, like with Gödel, no matter what language you take, there will be some definable numbers that escape you.
On a related note, consider the following delicious paradox.
Let M be the set of all natural numbers that can be defined in less than 300 bytes. Let n be the smallest natural number not in this set.
Yes, indeed it is. For example I found this on the Amnesty International homepage:
Also, the land of the free recently took the world record for the highest incarceration rate from Russia.
Nonsense. The cost of this lawsuit is measured in millions of dollars, which is something a state can pay for without blinking. At the very worst it will be few dollars per inhabitant.
Glad I don't live there, my ass.