Maybe they want to go in the next movies far beyond current philosophic childs play, and catch some other direction in next movies. What if they need to have the brain functioning while they are searching for something inside? What if what machines are really doing with humanity is, well, to find God or something like that? I'm not exactly the religious type, but that kind of things is not so unusual in science fiction.
Added value, not just the "plain" music, but something extra, is a good way to sell the media, and justify all the distribution channel and associated costs.
But there must be some way to give the artist and even the record company a some kind of reward for the music itself, for a theme or album you really liked, unattached to any media or way to get it (even if you hear it in the radio and liked it). It could be a "donation" system, or some kind of voting with money attached, or things like that.
Immature in the way that it have a lot of space for fundamental changes and improvements. Other "mature" systems maybe are difficult to improve in such ways as Linux did in each major version including 2.6.
Put all the legislators computers directly connected to internet, with no firewall, no nat, no port blocking, and show them this way how long could survive our information society with the kind of measures they are aproving laws for.
most of my spam don't comes anymore from open relays in china (but maybe yes with spamvertized sites in china) but from anywhere in the world, from DSL dinamic sites, where people without a clue install very open gateways/computers, maybe not even knowing that they have a mail server installed, and as a plus a lot share they hard disk, have nimda/codered installed, or are available zombies to be used for script kiddies for whatever bad idea they have.
If AOL feels that i.e. 70% of their spam comes from that kind of sites, well, they have to take some measure. I could have taken the same measures for my own email or even for the domains I administer if most of my email comes from such sites (or that don't have reverse resolution, or things like that).
Also, I think that exist a RBL for dialup IPs, so this is a logical extension of that concept.
That will be more like "every N months, security measures/censorship will double", and the limitation will be public opinion. Once most people sees government as plain evil or plain dumb (you know, never attribute to malice what can be explained by idiocy), trouble will start to happens, and the trend could go back (well, at least I hope so).
Some of the nominations there are about security people that are plain dumb, not about stupid security laws and regulations, like don't let ice cream, water, tea etc to pass instead of cofee or beer, or consider safe glass instead of screwdrivers.
Is ironic that most of the measures assumed that the terrorist are dumb and use always the same method or container for what they will do, not changing a bit their habits (puting bombs in backpacks instead of big, uncontrolled bags?) showing that the real dumbs are in the controlling points, and that the more effective measure of terrorism is letting the same dumb people to do his job, with that is enough.
Why not combine both? Put spamvertized sites slashdot front page, so this sites and maybe the entire countries that host them be slashdotted, and you did part of your job (post/moderate stories here) and at the same time, did something against spam (most of those sites will dissapear after several slashdotting incidents faster than because spam complains). With the time, you mail address will be the scariest one for spammers, and you will be slowly off of most lists.
The problem is that the spammers NOT use the word spam to describe what they do, they call it "multilevel marketing", "internet promotions" or crap like that. The ones that use that name are mainly the ones that fight against it, and avoiding that they use the word "spam" will make that, well, could complicate things (more people understand what is spam that the ones that understand what UCE means)
Lets say that you are sick, and for that you head hurts, and you take an aspirin to solve this. You just did a temporary fix to one of the simptoms, but not are cured of the real problem. And worse, you became addict to aspirin, so you will have another problems (i.e. have the risk of losing a critical mails).
Ignoring a problem will not make it disappear, but could make it grow worse until you really notes it, and maybe then will be too late.
Considering that most spam is, directly or indirectly, an insult to the intelligence of the one that receives it, this kind of things is simply coherent with other messages.
That remember me when Becquerel discovered that uranium salts caused images on photographic plates. Surely he or most of the people of this time didn't think that it could give us, well, all that is related, from atomic bombs and clocks to new energy sources, a lot of advances in medicine, a big leap in the understanding of the universe, and more.
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You mean that UT 2003 Linux binaries don't work so well under linux, or that you are trying to run windows binaries under wine or something like that? In the second case, well, exist linux binaries, so if we have linux, we can enjoy UT2003. I think that Medal of Honor runs under WineX, so under linux you have this also. And about other FPS, I think that Return to Castle Wolfenstein also count as one, and look like it runs very well under linux, and is not 7 years old yet.
But the point of running Duke3D is not running old games because there is no new game, is playing those old games because them are good, and a lot of us enjoyed a lot playing it. The same counts for Doom, or even the original wolfenstein 3D if there are linux binaries.
Ok, the graphics and the hardware requeriments are not the same of new games, but, you know? abstraction is part of the fun what we see, we read and we play. Anyway, I agree that the pixelated dancers could look more realistics.
The author seems to define "software" as complex desktop applications, that do all the things he thinks that should have (and that have some suspicios similarities with some commercial applications), and must work as he wants.
With that conditions he could have a point. But that position could be briefed as i.e. "there is no open source software exactly like microsoft office, and in the other hand, there is a commercial software that is exactly like microsoft office"
But for other, the definition of "perfect" and "software" could be different. Of course, if I say that i.e. "cut" is perfect he could say that it don't have a GUI interface, that it could cut separating fields based on regular expressions as field separator and so on. But if I define perfect as "it do what is intended to do", well, it, and most of Open Source software IS working perfectly, afaik.
They are suing one of the students for running Phind? Whats next? Sue google or FTPSearch because exist ftp servers and websites with mp3 and warez that can be found with them?
In any case, the ones that are sharing the copyrighted material are the ones that are sharing part of their hard disk to the lan. Why not sue all of them? Better yet, why not sue all the windows users that in internet shares they hard disks? In that way, RIAA will get enough money to make them happy for some centuries and don't bother anymore, and we will be free of those dumb users that shares their C: disk with internet, and becames a possible zombie for orchested attacks and things like that.
One thing is implementations of this technology and the other, the good use of that kind of ideas. DRM should be a technology that must be designed to prevent you from controlling the technology/data/media/etc that you don't own.
Current or future implementations could be misused to avoiding to control what you own, but if it is well used, could be a good idea.
Those lasers will follow the RFC 3514 convention, so evil people will turn on the evil bit to have a laser in red color, and good ones will have it turned off.
That will be used unless the evil ones are really evils, and turn off the bit disregarding RFC and Geneva conventions, in that case the good ones will change the bit to look different.
Fortunatelly they will not be used in the Iraq war, because invaders (the ones that you traditionally call evils) and iraqis (the evil ones according to US) will use the same color.
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Maybe they want to go in the next movies far beyond current philosophic childs play, and catch some other direction in next movies. What if they need to have the brain functioning while they are searching for something inside? What if what machines are really doing with humanity is, well, to find God or something like that? I'm not exactly the religious type, but that kind of things is not so unusual in science fiction.
But there must be some way to give the artist and even the record company a some kind of reward for the music itself, for a theme or album you really liked, unattached to any media or way to get it (even if you hear it in the radio and liked it). It could be a "donation" system, or some kind of voting with money attached, or things like that.
If Microsoft made a movie in the Matrix universe, it surely will be called "Deja-vu"
Immature in the way that it have a lot of space for fundamental changes and improvements. Other "mature" systems maybe are difficult to improve in such ways as Linux did in each major version including 2.6.
Put all the legislators computers directly connected to internet, with no firewall, no nat, no port blocking, and show them this way how long could survive our information society with the kind of measures they are aproving laws for.
If AOL feels that i.e. 70% of their spam comes from that kind of sites, well, they have to take some measure. I could have taken the same measures for my own email or even for the domains I administer if most of my email comes from such sites (or that don't have reverse resolution, or things like that).
Also, I think that exist a RBL for dialup IPs, so this is a logical extension of that concept.
That will be more like "every N months, security measures/censorship will double", and the limitation will be public opinion. Once most people sees government as plain evil or plain dumb (you know, never attribute to malice what can be explained by idiocy), trouble will start to happens, and the trend could go back (well, at least I hope so).
Is ironic that most of the measures assumed that the terrorist are dumb and use always the same method or container for what they will do, not changing a bit their habits (puting bombs in backpacks instead of big, uncontrolled bags?) showing that the real dumbs are in the controlling points, and that the more effective measure of terrorism is letting the same dumb people to do his job, with that is enough.
was a porn filter in the library of the university of Essex. But they did it bad and the university homepage become filtered
Why not combine both? Put spamvertized sites slashdot front page, so this sites and maybe the entire countries that host them be slashdotted, and you did part of your job (post/moderate stories here) and at the same time, did something against spam (most of those sites will dissapear after several slashdotting incidents faster than because spam complains). With the time, you mail address will be the scariest one for spammers, and you will be slowly off of most lists.
I suppose that now MPlayer versions will get boring names... who else could name 0.90 version "The RTFMCounter"?
... seems to have a qwerty keyboard.
The problem is that the spammers NOT use the word spam to describe what they do, they call it "multilevel marketing", "internet promotions" or crap like that. The ones that use that name are mainly the ones that fight against it, and avoiding that they use the word "spam" will make that, well, could complicate things (more people understand what is spam that the ones that understand what UCE means)
Ignoring a problem will not make it disappear, but could make it grow worse until you really notes it, and maybe then will be too late.
Considering that most spam is, directly or indirectly, an insult to the intelligence of the one that receives it, this kind of things is simply coherent with other messages.
That remember me when Becquerel discovered that uranium salts caused images on photographic plates. Surely he or most of the people of this time didn't think that it could give us, well, all that is related, from atomic bombs and clocks to new energy sources, a lot of advances in medicine, a big leap in the understanding of the universe, and more.
But the point of running Duke3D is not running old games because there is no new game, is playing those old games because them are good, and a lot of us enjoyed a lot playing it. The same counts for Doom, or even the original wolfenstein 3D if there are linux binaries.
Ok, the graphics and the hardware requeriments are not the same of new games, but, you know? abstraction is part of the fun what we see, we read and we play. Anyway, I agree that the pixelated dancers could look more realistics.
But for other, the definition of "perfect" and "software" could be different. Of course, if I say that i.e. "cut" is perfect he could say that it don't have a GUI interface, that it could cut separating fields based on regular expressions as field separator and so on. But if I define perfect as "it do what is intended to do", well, it, and most of Open Source software IS working perfectly, afaik.
mif (condition) {
(actions when condition is true)
} else {
(actions when condition is false)
} maybe {
(actions when you don't know)
}
In any case, the ones that are sharing the copyrighted material are the ones that are sharing part of their hard disk to the lan. Why not sue all of them? Better yet, why not sue all the windows users that in internet shares they hard disks? In that way, RIAA will get enough money to make them happy for some centuries and don't bother anymore, and we will be free of those dumb users that shares their C: disk with internet, and becames a possible zombie for orchested attacks and things like that.
Current or future implementations could be misused to avoiding to control what you own, but if it is well used, could be a good idea.
LGPL contradicts the spirit of open technology also? After all, you with an open source library could make propietary programs.
I think that this could be possitive. It could make open source access more information, to have more things that can be used with it, not less.
openssh is open, and is not so easily hacked (and when it is, is because errors in the implementation, not because you can see the code).
... now DRM will be good, now there is open implementations of it?
That will be used unless the evil ones are really evils, and turn off the bit disregarding RFC and Geneva conventions, in that case the good ones will change the bit to look different.
Fortunatelly they will not be used in the Iraq war, because invaders (the ones that you traditionally call evils) and iraqis (the evil ones according to US) will use the same color.