Time for a quick civics lesson. IANLAPL (I am no longer a practicing lawyer) so standard disclaimers apply, this is not legal advice, yadda yadda yadda...
This ruling is issued by a Federal District Court (Southern District of New York). It has very little value as legal precedent (many of these cases don't even get published anymore, although this one probably will, especially when it gets appealed). It really only applies as binding "law" to the litigants before the court (MPAA and 2600, plus other named defendants), and possibly by extension to anyone else subject to jurisdiction in the S.D.N.Y. doing the same things (assuming the Court pays attention to its own rulings later on down the line). If somebody else in another jurisdiction upsets the MPAA, they have to bring another lawsuit in that jurisdiction; they can point to this case as "res judicata" (things decided already) but the judge is pretty free to ignore it, especially if the facts differ. Stuff like this happens all the time; different state & federal courts disagree, leading to "splits" in authority between different Circuits (the next level up from District court); often, the Supreme Court decides to weigh in, to make things uniform nationwide again.
My 2 cents: if this upsets you, try "civil disobedience" - post your own links to DeCSS and other "banned" stuff everywhere you can (that is, your own websites - no advocacy for crackers/defacers intended). Keep the suits and lawyers so busy, they lose sight of the bottom line and start losing $$$. Use massive, peaceful protest to help change the current system. Examples: Ghandi, MLK, and now Emmanuel Goldstein?
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Combine the uCsimm with the MicroOptical Integrated Eyeglass Display in order to provide what could possibly be the world's smallest functional Borg headset....
Plus the fact that they look like total BCG's (Birth Control Glasses) should only enhance the Geek appeal....
See the MIT Wearables page for more ideas....
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
They only cite it to show their procedural burden of proof in the appellate court, not on any substantive issue of law (although the fact that they cite a $camintology case at all might give some indication of where their lawyers are coming from). FYI, IANLAPL (I am no longer a practicing lawyer).
II. THE STANDARD OF REVIEW Napster has the burden of demonstrating that the District Court abused its discretion in issuing the preliminary injunction. Religious Technology Center, Church of Scientology Int'l, Inc. v. Scott, 869 F.2d 1306, 1309 (9th Cir. 1989). Appellee's Motion, p. 1
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Wow. Next stop: optical computing.
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Combine this with some nano-engineering, and the previously discussed "Perfect Mirror" Cables , and we might actually be on the way to optical computing, not to mention better optical networking in general.
#include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
As far as the screening process goes, look at their Employment FAQ.
Quote:
Because of the nature of our work, the employment process is thorough and lengthy, so you should apply to NSA several months in advance of your availability date. Applicants must undergo an extensive background investigation, psychological and polygraph exams, and several interviews....
I can give you a personal anecdote (hearsay) about my dad (he passed away in 1977, so this is 25+ year old info, but probably still relevant). My father was convicted of drunk driving back in the late 60's while he was still in college in Arizona. I think that DUI (first offense) was probably a misdemeanor back then, but due to the conviction he lost his driver's license for quite a while (although not permanently). I believe he was in the Air Force at the time, but don't know if he was tried under UCMJ or AZ state law (probably state law, if the AF caught him DUI on base it probably would not cost him his license, but instead days/months in the stockade or whatever). My mom remarked to me several years ago that he constantly got hassles over the DUI conviction when he later joined NSA, as it always came up in security clearance reviews, polygraphs, etc. However it was obviously not a "career killer" type thing.
P.S. I was born in Baltimore (mom didn't trust the Fort Meade hospital) & my brother was born in Fort Meade itself s(she changed her mind I guess) so I should probably make a pilgrimage to the NSA museum someday, if only to see the area where I spent the first two years of my life... I wonder if they give tours of Fort Meade proper (doubtful)?
#include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
I myself have been wondering ever since Win2k came out with this "feature" how exactly M$ was going to issue system patches & upgrades. Can't their installer just overwrite the protected files and update whatever registry entries (or whatever) control this feature? Don't know since I haven't played with Win2k as yet....
#include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Not unless you want to be hauling around a car battery with your now huge, 25 pound laptop....
Roentgen features:
200 ppi 16.3 inch Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display diagonal viewing area 2560x2048 pixels (5,242,880 full color pixels) Subpixels are 42 x 126 microns 15,728,640 transistors 1.64 miles of thin film wiring on the display Aperture ratio of 27.3% Backlight power of 44 Watts The smallest feature is 5 microns The prototype is 21 inches high and 16.5 inches wide, the total depth (including base) is 9.5 inches, the thickness of the display is 2.5 inches The weight is approximately 20 pounds The power dissipated by the new display is similar to the power used by an 18-inch CRT display.
Not quite ready for mobile applications, apparently (even if they used a TransMeta proc);-)
#include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Yeah. You can hardly miss that mile-long page title up there in the titlebar (much less if you bookmark it). "Foresight Institute Slash Server: Slashdot Like Automated Storytelling Homepage" ??? Sheesh. I wish they'd edit their HTML head tags down a bit. Other than that very minor caveat a cool site, though. Check out the following URL for a nifty log-scale chart of CPU power plotted from Ray Kurzweil's book: here (needs Adobe Acrobat reader) According to that chart, by around 2040 we'll be able to buy a human brain's worth of CPU for around $1000 (1999 $ - probably over a million bucks if current inflation holds;-P) Assuming Moore's Law doesn't sputter out before 2020 like the pundits are predicting now. (well at least we'll have a mouse brain's worth by then - Pinky & the Brain gets a whole new lease on life).
#include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
#include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Unabomber's manifesto quoted - but name misspelled
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In the Introduction the author quotes "Industrial Society and Its Future," better known as the Unabomber Manifesto, but credits the author as "Ted Kaczynsky"....
I believe it's spelled Kaczynski, at least that's the way the court documents read....
In The United States District Court For The Eastern District of California
United States of America, Plaintiff v. Theodore John Kaczynski aka "FC" Defendant.
But that's a small caveat, hopefully the publisher will catch that before it goes into the next printing.
#include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Their protocol uses a one-time pad. Thus the overall communications rate is effectively limited by how fast you can generate and communicate the keys. Of course, if you re-use the keys then all bets are off.... #include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Oh yeah, sorry to reply to my own post, but reading further down: With error correction, "The net bit production rate is arround 530 bit/s" [sic]. Maybe we need a Beowulf cluster of these things;-) #include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Unfortunately it only works at 850 bit/sec so far. We might have to dig all those 1200 baud modems back out of the trash heaps...;-) #include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Let's just hope the Pentagon is not as stupid as the Trade Federation. Otherwise they'll put all their battlefield CCC&I on one satellite like those idiots... and watch a whole battalion of "JEDI" stumble around blindly (well, at least they aren't droids, yet) when it goes down.... #include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Well, maybe it's not technically a "back door" into the server, but it certainly seems to compromise their (apparently incredibly weak) password "security" model for Frontpage. Now anybody sniffing for FP passwords can crack them easily, and any 2-bit skript kiddiez can deface these sites at whim with the disseminated passwords. I think I'll go ahead and disable FP extensions on all my sites now.... #include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
I'm kinda surprised nobody has mentioned Avid Technologies (http://www.avid.com/) yet, since they seem to have a lock on Hollywood post-production. May be out of your price range though unless you can pick up a used rig somewhere. #include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
"Apple can't sell support on the MacOS, it is too damn easy to figure out on its own. With all due respect, this isn't Linux here. You don't need a book to figure out how to change your screen resolution."
Feh - never underestimate the stupidity of the end-luser. Why else does Apple have a whole building full of (underpaid and overworked IMO) people in Austin who do nothing but take support calls? I should know, I worked there a lifetime or so ago (1-800-SOS-APPL). Right now their tech support almost surely runs at a loss (or at best break-even). Who is to say that going the RedHat or Sun route (free/low-cost distro, sell support/HW) would not be as profitable? Their money comes from the HW, getting free development input on the SW side can't hurt their bottom line. What they're more afraid of is somebody coming along and porting MacOS X (with everything, not just Darwin/BSD) to Intel, and undercutting their Mac HW profits.
The other problem is cultural though - the Mac userbase has been set in its ways, being used to lots of hand-holding, including free long-term (Apple II was & still is *LIFETIME*) phone tech support 24x7x365. Beyond the obvious costs (the aforementioned building full of bodies), this means you end up supporting old HW and SW long beyond their intended lifetimes, which is an incredible drain. This has changed a bit in recent years; I believe they implemented 1 yr. HW warranty, 90-day free and then pay-per-incident SW support in 1997 (their website mentions this), but they got sued over this & settled recently, see this page for the settlement. They do have the 3-year "AppleCare" HW/SW warranty/support bundle which is possibly a $-maker.
#include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
What's with the Linus quote?
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I know my karma is probably going to take a beating for this, but... hey, I could have AC'd, so be nice. Anyway, here goes....
Does anyone else think that quote from Linus at the end of the piece sounded more like a market-droid than the real Linus talking? "Their digital video and audio products will greatly enhance the Linux multimedia experience" ??? Let's hope Transmeta doesn't have him so insulated from reality now with quote-spewing PR flacks, that he ends up completely out of touch with reality, like Bill Gates....
#include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Uh, wrong. I'm decent at HTML but pretty new to C and C++. However, this is covered in what I have learned so far. In the #include directive, when you quote around header files like "disclaim.h", this means look in the current working directory for a custom header file (i.e. you must keep your.c and.h files together). If you use angle brackets < > then it means "look in the standard directories" for standard ANSI headers like <stdio.h>. It works for me at least... Of course, if I meant "include standard disclaimers" I should indeed have put #include <stddisclaim.h> but since I'm a lawyer I get to write my own custom disclaimers;-).
#include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Now all we need is a utility to have this system kick in after one too many good German beers.... #include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
I think I remember it as "how ya gonna do it? PS/2 it!" It was pretty funny to me at the time (I was a pre-teen then). I thought the Charlie Chaplin ads (for PC Jr.?) were better - some bits were laugh-out-loud funny.
Still nothing to top the Apple 1984 ad though....
#include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
They mean "free" as in "libre" (liberty) not as in "sans coute" (without cost) ; this distinction is clear in French but not English. See e.g. http://www.opensource.org/free-notfree.html for an extended discussion.
Here is a Babelfish translation plus my attempts to clean up the French->English mapping. I knew that high school French would come in handy someday....
The national assembly votes the identification a priori authors of Web sites under penalty of prison. [The French Nat'l Ass'y votes for prior identification of website authors, under penalty of imprisonment]
Summary: The authors of Web sites must give their identity to their shelterer before any public communication under sorrow prison. [Website authors must identify themselves to their ISP/Web host before going public, on penalty of imprisonment.] In the absence of identification the shelterers are responsible for the contents and liable six months to prison. [... the hosts... liable for six months in prison] The national assembly voted yesterday March 22 [on] a bearing amendment on the responsibility for the shelterers [hosts] of Web sites. This vote intervenes after the vote of the senat [sic] on January 19 which prevoyait [previewed] the obligation for the shelterers [hosts] to communicate the identity of an author to any third interessé [interested party] under penalty of six months of prison.
All the Web sites for which the identity of the author is not known a priori [beforehand] are legally under the leading [primary] responsibility of the shelterer [host]. To release me [myself] from this responsibility I should [would need to] obtain the identity of each of the 48000 users of altern.org.
Well on the ecommerce [the e-commerce sites] will be content, what could be better than a file customer [customer on file] which the law obliges you to constitute [identify?] by leaving you any latitude to exploit it commercially.
The objective of this law seems to be the installation of a phenomenon of self-censorship on the level of the shelterer [host] who must proceed to ' diligences appropriées' [with 'due diligence'] following a setting of residence of a third [installing a third party home page?]. And on the level of the author who beyond the preliminary declaration under penalty of prison, [the author] does not have any insurance when [faced] with the marketing of his identity.
This law goes against the European legislation, and to that of all the democratic countries. This vote is not definitif [final], a third and last reading must take place. But it will be a question of rounding the angles [reconciling] between the text of the senate and of the assembly thus one can fear still worse.
Concerning the future of altern.org, as opposed to what I said yesterday before taking note of the exact text, I can continue to exert [work] as long as I accept my new role of watchdog.
Valentine lacambre.
PARTS:
The voted text has [of] the assembly on March 22. (version complete with format pdf).
Discusses and text voted with the senate on January 19 2000.
Discusses and text voted at the national assembly on March 22 2000.
press release of the AFA
ACTIONS:
Write with those which control us [write to our government] {great transliteration eh?}.
Write to the Prime Minister.
#include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Yeah, but humans didn't discover that one (unless you count the proto-ape-man with the bone).
I did forget about the Jupiter/movie vs. Saturn/book distinction. I thought the movie actually scored points on that one, since it looked forward to 2010 (the sequel) when the monoliths turned Jupiter into a baby 2nd sun (not enough mass there to do so, in reality, but Jupiter has much more than Saturn). Or was it that they went to Saturn in the 2001 book, but then to Jupiter in 2010? I'm getting confused... it's been a while since I read the books (and the movies seem to stick with me more for some reason, probably the stunning visuals). Honestly though the whole 2001/2010/2061/3001 series has pretty few internal inconsistencies like that, particularly considering the long period over which Clarke wrote them. Howabout a 3001 movie?!
#include "disclaim.h" "All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Slashdot Mirror
This ruling is issued by a Federal District Court (Southern District of New York). It has very little value as legal precedent (many of these cases don't even get published anymore, although this one probably will, especially when it gets appealed). It really only applies as binding "law" to the litigants before the court (MPAA and 2600, plus other named defendants), and possibly by extension to anyone else subject to jurisdiction in the S.D.N.Y. doing the same things (assuming the Court pays attention to its own rulings later on down the line). If somebody else in another jurisdiction upsets the MPAA, they have to bring another lawsuit in that jurisdiction; they can point to this case as "res judicata" (things decided already) but the judge is pretty free to ignore it, especially if the facts differ. Stuff like this happens all the time; different state & federal courts disagree, leading to "splits" in authority between different Circuits (the next level up from District court); often, the Supreme Court decides to weigh in, to make things uniform nationwide again.
My 2 cents: if this upsets you, try "civil disobedience" - post your own links to DeCSS and other "banned" stuff everywhere you can (that is, your own websites - no advocacy for crackers/defacers intended). Keep the suits and lawyers so busy, they lose sight of the bottom line and start losing $$$. Use massive, peaceful protest to help change the current system. Examples: Ghandi, MLK, and now Emmanuel Goldstein?
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Combine the uCsimm with the MicroOptical Integrated Eyeglass Display in order to provide what could possibly be the world's smallest functional Borg headset....
Plus the fact that they look like total BCG's (Birth Control Glasses) should only enhance the Geek appeal....
See the MIT Wearables page for more ideas....
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
II. THE STANDARD OF REVIEW
Napster has the burden of demonstrating that the District Court abused its
discretion in issuing the preliminary injunction. Religious Technology Center, Church of
Scientology Int'l, Inc. v. Scott, 869 F.2d 1306, 1309 (9th Cir. 1989).
Appellee's Motion, p. 1
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Combine this with some nano-engineering, and the previously discussed "Perfect Mirror" Cables , and we might actually be on the way to optical computing, not to mention better optical networking in general.
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Quote:
Because of the nature of our work, the employment process is thorough and lengthy, so you should apply to NSA several months in advance of your availability date. Applicants must undergo an extensive background investigation, psychological and polygraph exams, and several interviews....
I can give you a personal anecdote (hearsay) about my dad (he passed away in 1977, so this is 25+ year old info, but probably still relevant). My father was convicted of drunk driving back in the late 60's while he was still in college in Arizona. I think that DUI (first offense) was probably a misdemeanor back then, but due to the conviction he lost his driver's license for quite a while (although not permanently). I believe he was in the Air Force at the time, but don't know if he was tried under UCMJ or AZ state law (probably state law, if the AF caught him DUI on base it probably would not cost him his license, but instead days/months in the stockade or whatever). My mom remarked to me several years ago that he constantly got hassles over the DUI conviction when he later joined NSA, as it always came up in security clearance reviews, polygraphs, etc. However it was obviously not a "career killer" type thing.
P.S. I was born in Baltimore (mom didn't trust the Fort Meade hospital) & my brother was born in Fort Meade itself s(she changed her mind I guess) so I should probably make a pilgrimage to the NSA museum someday, if only to see the area where I spent the first two years of my life... I wonder if they give tours of Fort Meade proper (doubtful)?
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Wrong URL, try http://opennap.sourceforge.net/ instead.
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
I myself have been wondering ever since Win2k came out with this "feature" how exactly M$ was going to issue system patches & upgrades. Can't their installer just overwrite the protected files and update whatever registry entries (or whatever) control this feature? Don't know since I haven't played with Win2k as yet....
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Not unless you want to be hauling around a car battery with your now huge, 25 pound laptop....
Roentgen features:200 ppi 16.3 inch Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display
diagonal viewing area
2560x2048 pixels (5,242,880 full color pixels)
Subpixels are 42 x 126 microns
15,728,640 transistors
1.64 miles of thin film wiring on the display
Aperture ratio of 27.3%
Backlight power of 44 Watts
The smallest feature is 5 microns
The prototype is 21 inches high and 16.5 inches wide, the total depth (including base) is 9.5 inches,
the thickness of the display is 2.5 inches
The weight is approximately 20 pounds
The power dissipated by the new display is similar to the power used by an 18-inch CRT display.
Not quite ready for mobile applications, apparently (even if they used a TransMeta proc) ;-)
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Yeah. You can hardly miss that mile-long page title up there in the titlebar (much less if you bookmark it). "Foresight Institute Slash Server: Slashdot Like Automated Storytelling Homepage" ??? Sheesh. I wish they'd edit their HTML head tags down a bit. Other than that very minor caveat a cool site, though. ;-P) Assuming Moore's Law doesn't sputter out before 2020 like the pundits are predicting now. (well at least we'll have a mouse brain's worth by then - Pinky & the Brain gets a whole new lease on life).
Check out the following URL for a nifty log-scale chart of CPU power plotted from Ray Kurzweil's book: here (needs Adobe Acrobat reader)
According to that chart, by around 2040 we'll be able to buy a human brain's worth of CPU for around $1000 (1999 $ - probably over a million bucks if current inflation holds
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Well, I for one, quote him....
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Try securing your systems BEFORE they get cracked. A good few places to start:
Insecure.org, especially this top 50 security tools page.
SecurityFocus the disseminators of the BUGTRAQ list among others.
Attrition.org, especially their security page.
And of course 2600, the l0pht, and Phrack for the latest tasty street info....
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
In the Introduction the author quotes "Industrial Society and Its Future," better known as the Unabomber Manifesto, but credits the author as "Ted Kaczynsky"....
I believe it's spelled Kaczynski, at least that's the way the court documents read....
In The United States District Court
For The Eastern District of California
United States of America,
Plaintiff
v.
Theodore John Kaczynski
aka "FC"
Defendant.
But that's a small caveat, hopefully the publisher will catch that before it goes into the next printing.
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Their protocol uses a one-time pad. Thus the overall communications rate is effectively limited by how fast you can generate and communicate the keys. Of course, if you re-use the keys then all bets are off....
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Oh yeah, sorry to reply to my own post, but reading further down: With error correction, "The net bit production rate is arround 530 bit/s" [sic]. Maybe we need a Beowulf cluster of these things ;-)
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Unfortunately it only works at 850 bit/sec so far. We might have to dig all those 1200 baud modems back out of the trash heaps... ;-)
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Let's just hope the Pentagon is not as stupid as the Trade Federation. Otherwise they'll put all their battlefield CCC&I on one satellite like those idiots... and watch a whole battalion of "JEDI" stumble around blindly (well, at least they aren't droids, yet) when it goes down....
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Well, maybe it's not technically a "back door" into the server, but it certainly seems to compromise their (apparently incredibly weak) password "security" model for Frontpage. Now anybody sniffing for FP passwords can crack them easily, and any 2-bit skript kiddiez can deface these sites at whim with the disseminated passwords. I think I'll go ahead and disable FP extensions on all my sites now....
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
I'm kinda surprised nobody has mentioned Avid Technologies (http://www.avid.com/) yet, since they seem to have a lock on Hollywood post-production. May be out of your price range though unless you can pick up a used rig somewhere.
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
"Apple can't sell support on the MacOS, it is too damn easy to figure out on its own. With all due respect, this isn't Linux here. You don't need a book to figure out how to change your screen resolution."
Feh - never underestimate the stupidity of the end-luser. Why else does Apple have a whole building full of (underpaid and overworked IMO) people in Austin who do nothing but take support calls? I should know, I worked there a lifetime or so ago (1-800-SOS-APPL). Right now their tech support almost surely runs at a loss (or at best break-even). Who is to say that going the RedHat or Sun route (free/low-cost distro, sell support/HW) would not be as profitable? Their money comes from the HW, getting free development input on the SW side can't hurt their bottom line. What they're more afraid of is somebody coming along and porting MacOS X (with everything, not just Darwin/BSD) to Intel, and undercutting their Mac HW profits.
The other problem is cultural though - the Mac userbase has been set in its ways, being used to lots of hand-holding, including free long-term (Apple II was & still is *LIFETIME*) phone tech support 24x7x365. Beyond the obvious costs (the aforementioned building full of bodies), this means you end up supporting old HW and SW long beyond their intended lifetimes, which is an incredible drain. This has changed a bit in recent years; I believe they implemented 1 yr. HW warranty, 90-day free and then pay-per-incident SW support in 1997 (their website mentions this), but they got sued over this & settled recently, see this page for the settlement. They do have the 3-year "AppleCare" HW/SW warranty/support bundle which is possibly a $-maker.
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
I know my karma is probably going to take a beating for this, but... hey, I could have AC'd, so be nice. Anyway, here goes....
Does anyone else think that quote from Linus at the end of the piece sounded more like a market-droid than the real Linus talking? "Their digital video and audio products will greatly enhance the Linux multimedia experience" ??? Let's hope Transmeta doesn't have him so insulated from reality now with quote-spewing PR flacks, that he ends up completely out of touch with reality, like Bill Gates....
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Uh, wrong. I'm decent at HTML but pretty new to C and C++. However, this is covered in what I have learned so far. In the #include directive, when you quote around header files like "disclaim.h", this means look in the current working directory for a custom header file (i.e. you must keep your .c and .h files together). If you use angle brackets < > then it means "look in the standard directories" for standard ANSI headers like <stdio.h>. It works for me at least... Of course, if I meant "include standard disclaimers" I should indeed have put #include <stddisclaim.h> but since I'm a lawyer I get to write my own custom disclaimers ;-).
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Now all we need is a utility to have this system kick in after one too many good German beers....
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
I think I remember it as "how ya gonna do it? PS/2 it!" It was pretty funny to me at the time (I was a pre-teen then). I thought the Charlie Chaplin ads (for PC Jr.?) were better - some bits were laugh-out-loud funny.
Still nothing to top the Apple 1984 ad though....
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
They mean "free" as in "libre" (liberty) not as in "sans coute" (without cost) ; this distinction is clear in French but not English. See e.g. http://www.opensource.org/free-notfree.html for an extended discussion.
... liable for six months in prison]
Here is a Babelfish translation plus my attempts to clean up the French->English mapping. I knew that high school French would come in handy someday....
The national assembly votes the identification a priori authors of Web sites under penalty of prison. [The French Nat'l Ass'y votes for prior identification of website authors, under penalty of imprisonment]
Summary:
The authors of Web sites must give their identity to their shelterer before any public communication under sorrow prison. [Website authors must identify themselves to their ISP/Web host before going public, on penalty of imprisonment.]
In the absence of identification the shelterers are responsible for the contents and liable six months to prison.
[... the hosts
The national assembly voted yesterday March 22 [on] a bearing amendment on the responsibility for the shelterers [hosts] of Web sites.
This vote intervenes after the vote of the senat [sic] on January 19 which prevoyait [previewed] the obligation for the shelterers [hosts] to communicate the identity of an author to any third interessé [interested party] under penalty of six months of prison.
All the Web sites for which the identity of the author is not known a priori [beforehand] are legally under the leading [primary] responsibility of the shelterer [host]. To release me [myself] from this responsibility I should [would need to] obtain the identity of each of the 48000 users of altern.org.
Well on the ecommerce [the e-commerce sites] will be content, what could be better than a file customer [customer on file] which the law obliges you to constitute [identify?] by leaving you any latitude to exploit it commercially.
The objective of this law seems to be the installation of a phenomenon of self-censorship on the level of the shelterer [host] who must proceed to ' diligences appropriées' [with 'due diligence'] following a setting of residence of a third [installing a third party home page?]. And on the level of the author who beyond the preliminary declaration under penalty of prison, [the author] does not have any insurance when [faced] with the marketing of his identity.
This law goes against the European legislation, and to that of all the democratic countries.
This vote is not definitif [final], a third and last reading must take place. But it will be a question of rounding the angles [reconciling] between the text of the senate and of the assembly thus one can fear still worse.
Concerning the future of altern.org, as opposed to what I said yesterday before taking note of the exact text, I can continue to exert [work] as long as I accept my new role of watchdog.
Valentine lacambre.
PARTS:
The voted text has [of] the assembly on March 22. (version complete with format pdf).
Discusses and text voted with the senate on January 19 2000.
Discusses and text voted at the national assembly on March 22 2000.
press release of the AFA
ACTIONS:
Write with those which control us [write to our government] {great transliteration eh?}.
Write to the Prime Minister.
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak
Yeah, but humans didn't discover that one (unless you count the proto-ape-man with the bone).
I did forget about the Jupiter/movie vs. Saturn/book distinction. I thought the movie actually scored points on that one, since it looked forward to 2010 (the sequel) when the monoliths turned Jupiter into a baby 2nd sun (not enough mass there to do so, in reality, but Jupiter has much more than Saturn). Or was it that they went to Saturn in the 2001 book, but then to Jupiter in 2010? I'm getting confused... it's been a while since I read the books (and the movies seem to stick with me more for some reason, probably the stunning visuals). Honestly though the whole 2001/2010/2061/3001 series has pretty few internal inconsistencies like that, particularly considering the long period over which Clarke wrote them. Howabout a 3001 movie?!
#include "disclaim.h"
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX." - Steve Wozniak