Vmware lets you run windows applications on the windows os from within a virtual environment running linux. You still need a liscensed copy of windows, and when windows crashes, you still suffer.
If you scroll down the page, you'll find the story about Kevin Roseler, an employee at Origin Systems, who was dismissed after he abused his priviledges at Ultima Online to generate castles/gold/etc. and sell it for $7000 on Ebay. What he did wasn't technically legal, but it was an abuse of power and whatnot.
Not only that, but it was quickly determined (in 1796 or so) that this clause of the constitution actually did have some teeth. Antitrust laws have some issues, but they're not ex-post facto in nature. Perhaps unconstitutionally vague or broad.
One of his better ideas concerned kicking obnoxious people off a community website. The problem to overcome: people kicked off can easily get a new nick and come back. His solution: implement a "Microsoft mode" where instead of being out-right disabled, the person experiences all sorts of phoney but realisistic errors. Eventually, he gets so disgusted/fed-up that he leaves and doesn't come back. When I heard of this, I thought it would be a great idea for first-posters on slashdot. But then I realized that it wouldn't work for two reasons: 1) The source is open, so anyone can see it's there and not be fooled by it. 2) It only works if it isn't widely disclosed. Otherwise, the person knows to go and get a new nick anyway.
Albeit, the idiots here don't read the source, and it still might worthwhile to implement it.
Whilst some people are going to scream "free speech", these computers are library resources and the library is free to decide what they get used for.
Sorry, try again. Libraries that are funded/run by US governments are beholden to the constitution; Federal ones by the first ammendment, and state/local ones by the first ammendment via the fourteenth. The whole point of a constitutional democracy is to have the government not be free to do whatever it likes. If you're into that sort of thing, then hop on over to Australia, where their consitution doesn't protect civil rights.
The original rationale behind allowing libraries to ban objectionable books was that the amount of money available for purchasing books is scarce. Because a library cannot own all books, there is some leeway granted in determining which books are to be carried.
Bandwith, however, is not scarce under the current scheme of non-hourly rates. As such, there is no independent and clear government purpose in regulating which speech can be heard and such filters are therefore unconstitutional. This is independent of the fact that dumbing down adult speech to protect minors is not exactly constitutional either.
What, did you ever see him whip out a mouse and go gui? He spouted verbal commands at a computer capable of parsing natural english. It's not exactly the same as command-line, but it's much further from gui.
This'll only make the things more valuable to collectors. Most of 'em never take the things out of the package anyway, much less waste any of the precious fuel in the "original batteries -- oooooh!".
_The_Horse,_Hunter,_And_Stag_ A Quarrel had arisen between the Horse and the Stag, so the Horse came to a Hunter to ask his help to take revenge on the Stag. The Hunter agreed, but said: "If you desire to conquer the Stag, you must permit me to place this piece of iron between your jaws, so that I may guide you with these reins, and allow this saddle to be placed upon your back so that I may keep steady upon you as we follow after the enemy." The Horse agreed to the conditions, and the Hunter soon saddled and bridled him. Then with the aid of the Hunter the Horse soon overcame the Stag, and said to the Hunter: "Now, get off, and remove those things from my mouth and back." "Not so fast, friend," said the Hunter. "I have now got you under bit and spur, and prefer to keep you as you are at present."
Home Secretary Jack Straw now proposes all CSPs be required to take reasonable steps to ensure their system is capable of being intercepted.
Well, just run IIS, right guys? You do have to wonder, though. Any system that lets technoignorant lawenforcement snoop is bound to have lots of holes for normal malicious citizens to exploit. Or is it just a matter of handing out root to the local constable.
But then, the English populace never did have many guarantees of privacy or speech or anything, really. At least here in the US, we make the pretense of having such guarantees.
And never mind that police can't be trusted not to torture and mutilate innocent people. I'm not prepared to trust anyone with my online communications whom I can't even trust not to assault my rectum, to put it bluntly.
Since when has the average consumer stopped being a moron? Hell, since when has the average human stopped being a moron? People are and forever will be sheep and desperately want someone or something like Micros~1 to show up and tell them that everything will be ok, that they don't have to think for themselves any more. People will always gravitate to people with wealth and power (eg Gates), and people will always root for the dog on top.
The real secret to success is understanding this universal axiom and finding some way to bilk it for what it's worth.
"I would trade my right to loiter in the company of a gang member for the liberation of my neighborhood in an instant." Justice Scalia, dissenting in City of Chicago vs. Morales
I've yet to find a decision on which I agree with Scalia.
A friend of mine has his house wired and is quite happy with it. It's good to see X10 doing something to build an established user base before Micros~1 kicks into gear and tries to dominate this industry (which they are very much considering doing; there's quite a lot of growth potential and, at a couple $ per light switch in America, there's quite a lot of money to be had).
Microsoft has been collecting digital rights to artwork for the purpose of propping up their own encyclopedia software while denying competitor's products the benefit of using such artwork. I find it disgusting, and yes, Microsoft has a history of rewriting history with a pro-MS slant.
The whole point of this research (or at least one of the biggest points) is that if we can clone stem cells, then we can start replacing people's organs from within their existing bodies. That's much cheaper and more ethical than farming humans for the purpose of harvesting organs.
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Vmware lets you run windows applications on the windows os from within a virtual environment running linux. You still need a liscensed copy of windows, and when windows crashes, you still suffer.
for Selling Fantasy Real-Estate.
If you scroll down the page, you'll find the story about Kevin Roseler, an employee at Origin Systems, who was dismissed after he abused his priviledges at Ultima Online to generate castles/gold/etc. and sell it for $7000 on Ebay. What he did wasn't technically legal, but it was an abuse of power and whatnot.
Not only that, but it was quickly determined (in 1796 or so) that this clause of the constitution actually did have some teeth. Antitrust laws have some issues, but they're not ex-post facto in nature. Perhaps unconstitutionally vague or broad.
except in a few countries like England, Ireland, and Japan.
It's a pubic-hair wig used by stage actors. It's an adequate description for many Americans, I admit.
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One of his better ideas concerned kicking obnoxious people off a community website. The problem to overcome: people kicked off can easily get a new nick and come back. His solution: implement a "Microsoft mode" where instead of being out-right disabled, the person experiences all sorts of phoney but realisistic errors. Eventually, he gets so disgusted/fed-up that he leaves and doesn't come back. When I heard of this, I thought it would be a great idea for first-posters on slashdot. But then I realized that it wouldn't work for two reasons:
1) The source is open, so anyone can see it's there and not be fooled by it.
2) It only works if it isn't widely disclosed. Otherwise, the person knows to go and get a new nick anyway.
Albeit, the idiots here don't read the source, and it still might worthwhile to implement it.
Whilst some people are going to scream "free speech", these computers are library resources and the library is free to decide what they get used for.
Sorry, try again. Libraries that are funded/run by US governments are beholden to the constitution; Federal ones by the first ammendment, and state/local ones by the first ammendment via the fourteenth. The whole point of a constitutional democracy is to have the government not be free to do whatever it likes. If you're into that sort of thing, then hop on over to Australia, where their consitution doesn't protect civil rights.
The original rationale behind allowing libraries to ban objectionable books was that the amount of money available for purchasing books is scarce. Because a library cannot own all books, there is some leeway granted in determining which books are to be carried.
Bandwith, however, is not scarce under the current scheme of non-hourly rates. As such, there is no independent and clear government purpose in regulating which speech can be heard and such filters are therefore unconstitutional. This is independent of the fact that dumbing down adult speech to protect minors is not exactly constitutional either.
Or were you hoping for a knee-jerk government power-grab solution?
What, did you ever see him whip out a mouse and go gui? He spouted verbal commands at a computer capable of parsing natural english. It's not exactly the same as command-line, but it's much further from gui.
This'll only make the things more valuable to collectors. Most of 'em never take the things out of the package anyway, much less waste any of the precious fuel in the "original batteries -- oooooh!".
_The_Horse,_Hunter,_And_Stag_
A Quarrel had arisen between the Horse and the Stag, so the Horse came to
a Hunter to ask his help to take revenge on the Stag. The Hunter agreed, but
said: "If you desire to conquer the Stag, you must permit me to place this
piece of iron between your jaws, so that I may guide you with these reins, and
allow this saddle to be placed upon your back so that I may keep steady upon
you as we follow after the enemy." The Horse agreed to the conditions, and the
Hunter soon saddled and bridled him. Then with the aid of the Hunter the Horse
soon overcame the Stag, and said to the Hunter: "Now, get off, and remove
those things from my mouth and back."
"Not so fast, friend," said the Hunter. "I have now got you under bit and
spur, and prefer to keep you as you are at present."
Home Secretary Jack Straw now proposes all CSPs be required to take reasonable steps to ensure their system is capable of being intercepted.
Well, just run IIS, right guys?
You do have to wonder, though. Any system that lets technoignorant lawenforcement snoop is bound to have lots of holes for normal malicious citizens to exploit. Or is it just a matter of handing out root to the local constable.
But then, the English populace never did have many guarantees of privacy or speech or anything, really. At least here in the US, we make the pretense of having such guarantees.
And never mind that police can't be trusted not to torture and mutilate innocent people. I'm not prepared to trust anyone with my online communications whom I can't even trust not to assault my rectum, to put it bluntly.
Since when has the average consumer stopped being a moron? Hell, since when has the average human stopped being a moron? People are and forever will be sheep and desperately want someone or something like Micros~1 to show up and tell them that everything will be ok, that they don't have to think for themselves any more. People will always gravitate to people with wealth and power (eg Gates), and people will always root for the dog on top.
The real secret to success is understanding this universal axiom and finding some way to bilk it for what it's worth.
I could've sworn that quote was by Eisenhower, not Ford.
Laches only applies to trademarks and patents. Copyright is something entirely different and does not require such vigilant defence.
"I would trade my right to loiter in the company of a gang member for the liberation of my neighborhood in an instant." Justice Scalia, dissenting in City of Chicago vs. Morales
I've yet to find a decision on which I agree with Scalia.
Someone forgot to take out the text about netware in the "Taking down the internet" spoof...
Try editing video. Too much disk space is almost enough.
A friend of mine has his house wired and is quite happy with it. It's good to see X10 doing something to build an established user base before Micros~1 kicks into gear and tries to dominate this industry (which they are very much considering doing; there's quite a lot of growth potential and, at a couple $ per light switch in America, there's quite a lot of money to be had).
I could've sworn that it was more about measuring the bumps on one's head rather than the contents thereof.
here you go
Microsoft has been collecting digital rights to artwork for the purpose of propping up their own encyclopedia software while denying competitor's products the benefit of using such artwork. I find it disgusting, and yes, Microsoft has a history of rewriting history with a pro-MS slant.
The whole point of this research (or at least one of the biggest points) is that if we can clone stem cells, then we can start replacing people's organs from within their existing bodies. That's much cheaper and more ethical than farming humans for the purpose of harvesting organs.