What confuses me is that the judge's ruling is directly at odds with both other caselaw (namely, the
Bernstein/PGP ruling) and supreme court cases such as flag burning.
I think it has to do with the judge's obvious hostility to 2600. Lawless pirates just cannot be allowed to win in court, so he can ignore caselaw to keep them down. Of course, I think that's reprehensible, and the language of the judge makes me think that the appeal will be really strong -- hopefully!
Their strategy seems to be to use an "Office for Linux" as a bridge to Windows, similar to Mac
Office."
Can anybody expand on what exactly that means? MS wants to introduce new audiences to its software, so it ports Office to the Mac or Linux, thinking those users will migrate to Windows? Maybe it's just me, but it seems that the only way that becomes a good plan is when you make inferior ports of the product that are just good enough to make people want them (I understand that many MS ports to the Mac are pretty sub-standard), and boom, you give them some incentive to migrate. But it seems awfully disingenuous. Am I misinterpreting that, or is it more of a speculated, rather than overt, strategy?
(Note that I'm not suggesting MS is above being disingenous; just that given the antitrust climate, an overt strategy like that is pretty conspicuous.)
Well, I would hope so. I'll keep my slant on a Computer Science track since that's what I know.
I just got my BS in Computer Science. I don't count myself as a 'post-grad' in the sense I used it earlier.
However, with just a BS, I'm well on my way to being deep-pocket-ed:)
Aha, I see -- we're in different post-grad worlds. In my world, "post-grad" refers to one who is doing post-graduate work/study, usually for peanuts and solely for the sake of meeting some traditional requirement that "real" scientists do a post-doc. Your post-grad world, however, sure looks like a nice place to visit. (I secretly kept my "pre-grad" CS skills in a lockbox, so that I can immigrate someday...)
Bottom line, Content-ville is seeking to make a profit without fairly compensating the author's they're brokering.
And that's wrong.
Yep. Particularly when the authors seem to be so removed from the process. I think most authors and researchers would be happy to have their work widely disseminated, so long as they know where it is and how it's being used.
Will this connect to the other servers like ICQ and AOL Instant Messenger?
No, I doubt it -- but you might try everybuddy. It does icq, aim, yahoo, and MSN. It's still only partially functional (while others get it work great with ICQ, I have been unable to get it to send messages; receiving ICQ messages works great, however), but it's a nice little package. As it improves, it looks like it will be pretty good.
Anyway, if you are looking for the mysterious 0.94 drivers for the NVidia chipset, I found them on the bot on irc.openprojects.net #nvidia. Supposedly they're on fileplanet also, but I couldn't locate them there. Just figured I'd save the TNT2 users the hassle of waiting for NVidia to put them up on their site.
The folks at duke of url have discussed 4.0.1 and the nvidia drivers, and they are mirroring the drivers. As of now, the drivers are linked right on their main page. I myself am using 4.0 and the.93 drivers and things are working great (except that the.93 driver or an interaction with xfree86 4.0 seems to break dpms power management) -- I'm in no hurry to upgrade right now.
The 'real' next generation wears something funkier that reflects a creative, easy going, relaxed, but yet still stylish attitude. As yet this gap has not been filled: cargo pants, pantalones, and new plastique style the likes of trussadi are approaching the ideal look, but have not got there yet. I don't know of a designer that really has 'the look' at the moment, they're all trying to find it.
Wow. So I'm to understand that big plastic pants have nothing to do with aspiring to "class," and that in reality it's, finally, a genuine and sincere reflection of asthetics among our generation?
Riiiight. I think "Urban Outfitters" has that in its mission statement.
That link has some good info. I just want to reinforce one of the items it suggests people do: Call, rather than email congressional or senate representatives. I worked for a while for a nonprofit that does a lot of lobby activity, and can't stress enough how much more important phone calls to a congressional office are than email. Piles of email are often sorted into "pro" and "con" and treated as a single comment, whereas phone calls are, to the extent that anything gets individual treatment, actually counted.
It's also really critical to be informative if the staffer isn't familiar with the issue. And be polite! It hurts our cause when people are belligerent on the phone to the staff who report these things to the representative.
As someone born and raised in the state of Utah, I can voice here that he's not a stand up guy. He's an ambitious, maybe even savvy, political wheeler-dealer, but I would not go so far as to grant him integrity.
Strictly speaking, the ISP's aren't using this technology. People who use the browsers are. Maybe they should get the licences from Netscape and Microsoft instead.
I agree that they're aiming the licensing at the wrong people. ISPs are just connectivity. But it's sort of an interesting question: Where, exactly, does the "linking" take place? Is it in the browser, when I click on a button, or is it in the html code itself when the author codes it, or is it somewhere else entirely?
It's obvious that this whole link patent mess is going to get the slashdot community up in arms, but I really have to wonder, is it worth it on this one? Obviously, the very notion of this lawsuit is ridiculous (does somebody have a patent on library card catalogs, too?), but it also seems that the "appropriate" target of any efforts to license hyperlinking is impossibly ambiguous.
11 l3-psk-t3-l.netaxs.net (207.106.3.201) 64.130 ms 51.568 ms 43.537 ms 12 l3-consh-t3-l.netaxs.net (207.106.3.193) 105.847 ms 79.604 ms 52.046 ms 13 ns1.havenco.com (207.106.32.14) 47.845 ms 40.472 ms 90.635 ms
netaxs.net is the ISP ostensibly founded by Havenco "advisor" Avi Freedman. Looks like they don't have that high-speed cable out to the ol' bunker yet. Netaxs's web site seems a little outdated, however: The latest system announcements are from November 1998.
I guess I'm learning something about "fair use" -- I didn't know it could be constituted by essentially making some value-added transformation of the product.
On that note, however, couldn't mp3.com argue that it is making a substantive contribution to the music by doing things like allowing users to generate playlists? The average joe, sans CD-burner or DAT or extensive amounts of time ripping his own CDs, can mix tracks, retaining relatively high high quality, and take them anywhere. It seems to me that that kind of argument really would point to a value-added service from my.mp3.com, one that goes beyond simply a "space shift."
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I don't really think this has a "slow-news-day-pseudo-editorial" feel to it. The author(s) went to the trouble to track down the numbers on the inspection records and talk to lots of folks on both sides of the issue. I get the feeling that the article has been in the works for quite some time.
Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt? Well, it sure as hell is scary that some of the area's tech plants have failed nearly half of their inspections! Those of us who are outside of the Bay Area can dismiss this issue as never really affecting us, but the astounding tech production boom is an issue of immediate relevance to the people who do live there--even those not involved with the industry (there are plenty of them still there, last I heard). They all have to drink the water and breathe the air, making this an issue far beyond the scope of simply OSHA.
If the same tech workers were handling any of those chemicals in other settings--university research, for instance--they'd have extensive training and rigorous safety precautions, the violation of which would result in immediate suspension of the entire facility's permits to use such materials.
It's intriguing that some people here on Slashdot say this issue is irrelevant, or muckraking, or "not news for nerds." We use the results of industrial production every single day of our lives, and the more we are immersed in a high-tech world the more we should be aware of the externalized costs of our technological lifestyles. It's absolutely no different from being concerned about the source of the water you drink or the pesticides in your food -- except that this industry exists precisely because of all of us who live and work with computer technology. Frankly I think it's irresponsible not to see the relevance of stories like this.
It was funny to see people defending Mandrake and bashing LinuxOne in the same sentense.
I make no claim to be a linux veteran; I've been using Mandrake since last summer, probably nine months now. However, in my experience with Mandrake they are vastly different from LinuxOne: Mandrake has a large and extremely knowledgable online support base (populated by both Mandrake staff and users), their distro has worked nearly flawlessly for me, and they're delivering a real product that fits with the spirit of open source software. It's really not fair to say they're similar to LinuxOne.
With that experience in mind, I have been a little worried by LinuxOne's reports of their close association with Mandrake -- as it appears that those relations don't really exist, at least to the extent that LinuxOne characterized them, I continue to think very positively of Mandrake. If I bite and actually do a new install (I'm just a home user) again, I'll use Mandrake.
Selecting the first 50 URLs is just as random as selecting the last 50, or 50 arbitrary ones in the middle.
Mmm, not really. What if the list is alphabetical, and entries in the "a" section correlate with porn? Or not porn? The first 50, last 50, or middle fifty are all clusters -- decidedly not random. While you're right that it's possible, but highly unlikely, that a random sample would select the first 50.edu sites, intentionally selecting the first 50.edu sites is certainly not random.
Besides, it's easy to pull out all the.edu's and do a truly random sample. That's probably what they should do to be methodologically precise.
It looks like plenty of folks have found odd results from searches for chocolate chip cookies, including porn. But, reasonably, that's not an argument for filtering software:
Altavista will return steamy Pam Anderson links regardless of filtering; the web user might not be able to get to those links if filtering is installed, but who, when searching for "choc chip cookie," is going to click on "XXX HOT SWEATY SEX WITH PAM"?
It just doesn't line up. I wonder how many sites with the title "Cookie Recipies" actually contain nasty hardcore porn.
I was disappointed that that all of the changes were really badly chosen. I wanted to see Jed. How could they remove him? DiCaprio really played on the "I'm American" thing in a very bad way as well. How could you not hate him? He was a complete asshole. In the book, Richard did some stupid things, yes, but at least we could actually like him. When Leo got in front of the still camera and started acting like a complete idiot, I wanted to shoot him.
They left Jed out of the movie? What the hell...? He was central to just about every important point in the novel. Also pretty central to the point of view of the novel was the narrator was not American.
I picked up the book in my sister's bookstore a year ago, when a friend of hers said, "read this before they make a Leondardo DiCaprio movie of it," and I sure am glad I took his advice. I understand that Garland was actually quite pleased with the movie (from an interview over at Salon; sorry, no URL handy), but you know, when I make big bucks from DiCaprio starring in my story, I'll probably be pleased, too.
because now the MPAA says that I must only use software that they license to view the DVDs.
Something that I don't understand, perhaps because I don't have a DVD drive: the playback software itself is included with the DVD drive, correct? So if I bought a drive I would already own the playback software -- as you point out, I'd have fulfilled all legal requirements of DVD playback. It's not as if the MPAA would lose license revenue, as they already get that from the makers of the DVD drive who bundle their playback software.
Call me crazy, but if the MPAA thinks they're getting the short end of the stick on software licensing revenue, they should provide linux software. As it stands, they're losing nothing from competition, as long as manufacturers bundle Windows playback software. What's wrong with the innovation that lets other, legal owners of all the proper equipment, use that equipment?
I've never grokked docks/wharfs/panels. It seems like an annoying way to duplicate the same functionality
I agree. I mean, they look sort of cool, but are they adding functionality? Everywhere I look, it's "dockapp" this and "wharf" that. Am I doing something wrong by just adding apps and things to my menu and then running them when I want their functionality?
Good question. What I understood from the NPR story on the radio this afternoon was that the board has removed evolution from the required curriculum -- including instruction of natural selection.
So while evolution and natural selection still can be taught, the door is open for any teaching of them to be challenged by opponents of evolution.
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Wow, how insulting. So, if you knew that Tracy Kidder was actually a man, would you complain that he leaves out detail?
Maybe you're really thinking of Margo Kidder? "For someone who played Lois Lane in all those movies, she's actually sort of a journalist."
At least I agree on one point -- Soul of a New Machine is a pretty neat book.
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I think it has to do with the judge's obvious hostility to 2600. Lawless pirates just cannot be allowed to win in court, so he can ignore caselaw to keep them down. Of course, I think that's reprehensible, and the language of the judge makes me think that the appeal will be really strong -- hopefully!
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Can anybody expand on what exactly that means? MS wants to introduce new audiences to its software, so it ports Office to the Mac or Linux, thinking those users will migrate to Windows? Maybe it's just me, but it seems that the only way that becomes a good plan is when you make inferior ports of the product that are just good enough to make people want them (I understand that many MS ports to the Mac are pretty sub-standard), and boom, you give them some incentive to migrate. But it seems awfully disingenuous. Am I misinterpreting that, or is it more of a speculated, rather than overt, strategy?
(Note that I'm not suggesting MS is above being disingenous; just that given the antitrust climate, an overt strategy like that is pretty conspicuous.)
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Aha, I see -- we're in different post-grad worlds. In my world, "post-grad" refers to one who is doing post-graduate work/study, usually for peanuts and solely for the sake of meeting some traditional requirement that "real" scientists do a post-doc. Your post-grad world, however, sure looks like a nice place to visit. (I secretly kept my "pre-grad" CS skills in a lockbox, so that I can immigrate someday...)
Bottom line, Content-ville is seeking to make a profit without fairly compensating the author's they're brokering. And that's wrong.
Yep. Particularly when the authors seem to be so removed from the process. I think most authors and researchers would be happy to have their work widely disseminated, so long as they know where it is and how it's being used.
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As if deep-pocket post-grads are coming out of the woodwork? Maybe I'm at the wrong school...
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No, I doubt it -- but you might try everybuddy. It does icq, aim, yahoo, and MSN. It's still only partially functional (while others get it work great with ICQ, I have been unable to get it to send messages; receiving ICQ messages works great, however), but it's a nice little package. As it improves, it looks like it will be pretty good.
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The folks at duke of url have discussed 4.0.1 and the nvidia drivers, and they are mirroring the drivers. As of now, the drivers are linked right on their main page. I myself am using 4.0 and the .93 drivers and things are working great (except that the .93 driver or an interaction with xfree86 4.0 seems to break dpms power management) -- I'm in no hurry to upgrade right now.
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Wow. So I'm to understand that big plastic pants have nothing to do with aspiring to "class," and that in reality it's, finally, a genuine and sincere reflection of asthetics among our generation?
Riiiight. I think "Urban Outfitters" has that in its mission statement.
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It's also really critical to be informative if the staffer isn't familiar with the issue. And be polite! It hurts our cause when people are belligerent on the phone to the staff who report these things to the representative.
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Which one: Pennsylvania or Virginia?
(Pennsylvania being the state where he was born and spent most of his life, Virginia being the state where he lives in a condo most of the year.)
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As someone born and raised in the state of Utah, I can voice here that he's not a stand up guy. He's an ambitious, maybe even savvy, political wheeler-dealer, but I would not go so far as to grant him integrity.
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I agree that they're aiming the licensing at the wrong people. ISPs are just connectivity. But it's sort of an interesting question: Where, exactly, does the "linking" take place? Is it in the browser, when I click on a button, or is it in the html code itself when the author codes it, or is it somewhere else entirely?
It's obvious that this whole link patent mess is going to get the slashdot community up in arms, but I really have to wonder, is it worth it on this one? Obviously, the very notion of this lawsuit is ridiculous (does somebody have a patent on library card catalogs, too?), but it also seems that the "appropriate" target of any efforts to license hyperlinking is impossibly ambiguous.
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12 l3-consh-t3-l.netaxs.net (207.106.3.193) 105.847 ms 79.604 ms 52.046 ms
13 ns1.havenco.com (207.106.32.14) 47.845 ms 40.472 ms 90.635 ms
netaxs.net is the ISP ostensibly founded by Havenco "advisor" Avi Freedman. Looks like they don't have that high-speed cable out to the ol' bunker yet. Netaxs's web site seems a little outdated, however: The latest system announcements are from November 1998.
I think something smells fishy, too.
On that note, however, couldn't mp3.com argue that it is making a substantive contribution to the music by doing things like allowing users to generate playlists? The average joe, sans CD-burner or DAT or extensive amounts of time ripping his own CDs, can mix tracks, retaining relatively high high quality, and take them anywhere. It seems to me that that kind of argument really would point to a value-added service from my.mp3.com, one that goes beyond simply a "space shift."
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Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt? Well, it sure as hell is scary that some of the area's tech plants have failed nearly half of their inspections! Those of us who are outside of the Bay Area can dismiss this issue as never really affecting us, but the astounding tech production boom is an issue of immediate relevance to the people who do live there--even those not involved with the industry (there are plenty of them still there, last I heard). They all have to drink the water and breathe the air, making this an issue far beyond the scope of simply OSHA.
If the same tech workers were handling any of those chemicals in other settings--university research, for instance--they'd have extensive training and rigorous safety precautions, the violation of which would result in immediate suspension of the entire facility's permits to use such materials.
It's intriguing that some people here on Slashdot say this issue is irrelevant, or muckraking, or "not news for nerds." We use the results of industrial production every single day of our lives, and the more we are immersed in a high-tech world the more we should be aware of the externalized costs of our technological lifestyles. It's absolutely no different from being concerned about the source of the water you drink or the pesticides in your food -- except that this industry exists precisely because of all of us who live and work with computer technology. Frankly I think it's irresponsible not to see the relevance of stories like this.
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With that experience in mind, I have been a little worried by LinuxOne's reports of their close association with Mandrake -- as it appears that those relations don't really exist, at least to the extent that LinuxOne characterized them, I continue to think very positively of Mandrake. If I bite and actually do a new install (I'm just a home user) again, I'll use Mandrake.
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Mmm, not really. What if the list is alphabetical, and entries in the "a" section correlate with porn? Or not porn? The first 50, last 50, or middle fifty are all clusters -- decidedly not random. While you're right that it's possible, but highly unlikely, that a random sample would select the first 50 .edu sites, intentionally selecting the first 50 .edu sites is certainly not random.
Besides, it's easy to pull out all the .edu's and do a truly random sample. That's probably what they should do to be methodologically precise.
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Altavista will return steamy Pam Anderson links regardless of filtering; the web user might not be able to get to those links if filtering is installed, but who, when searching for "choc chip cookie," is going to click on "XXX HOT SWEATY SEX WITH PAM"?
It just doesn't line up. I wonder how many sites with the title "Cookie Recipies" actually contain nasty hardcore porn.
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I picked up the book in my sister's bookstore a year ago, when a friend of hers said, "read this before they make a Leondardo DiCaprio movie of it," and I sure am glad I took his advice. I understand that Garland was actually quite pleased with the movie (from an interview over at Salon; sorry, no URL handy), but you know, when I make big bucks from DiCaprio starring in my story, I'll probably be pleased, too.
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Call me crazy, but if the MPAA thinks they're getting the short end of the stick on software licensing revenue, they should provide linux software. As it stands, they're losing nothing from competition, as long as manufacturers bundle Windows playback software. What's wrong with the innovation that lets other, legal owners of all the proper equipment, use that equipment?
Good comment, lalas.
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-perhaps I'm just simpleminded?
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So while evolution and natural selection still can be taught, the door is open for any teaching of them to be challenged by opponents of evolution.
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