What's better--working for an hour to remove works from the tyranny of copyright, or working in a "regular job" for an hour and donating the proceeds to EFF?
what exactly are you doing to remove works from the tyranny of copyright? if you are referring to transcribing, or prooring for project gutenberg then you are simply making those books more accessable. those books have already fallen out of the hands of the copyright holders.
the only ways i know of to legally get copyrighted works from the holders of the copyrighted material is to
a) purchase the copyright, b) wait for the copyright to expire, c) work to change the law to make the copyright expire sooner
this isnt to say that working for projects like gutenberg is bad-i think it's great. just dont make it out to be something it's not, and it's not freeing works from the tyranny of copyright.
im down with your pain. now we have the desktop, the startmenu, the systemtray-does office still come with a little quicklaunch menu? it is pretty rediculous though.
the post office is a fortun 500 company and not a federally funded organization. a better analogy would be discontinuing medicare and medicaid because those people using it should be purchasing helth insurance.
OK, this is almost certainly a really dumb question - but why can't we just put our own hash into the system?
well based on what the parent to your post said:
First off, if you really want backdoors enabled, that thread on tivocommunity.com details how to do it by changing the hash yourself. You can change the hash it's checking on the disk and voila, no problem.
really though, i'm surprised he doesnt give out his public key so people can encrypt the messages they send to him. this would at least create a pain in the ass for the cia.
i'm not quite sure why you replied to me. i don't believe i said anything condeming, or accusatory. for what it's worth, i believe both ibm and microsoft are wrong, that an 75 cents at a gas station will get you a condom.
perhaps the local advertising folks screwed up, or perhaps ibm is blaming them to cover their asses.
personally i dont appreciate either technique. i'm sick of seeing advertising everywhere i go-even if it is for linux. i would like to step outside and not see anything being advertised, but that is just me.
because when slashdot started there was no registration required at the nyt. when they started requiring registration they were grandfathered in. dont get your panties in a wad.
i was thinking more of the swap fragmentation, and also disk fragmentation in general. i suppose if it is on a filesystem that doesnt change much (/usr/share) then it wouldn't matter. i really dont know how osx (and bsd for that matter) allocate space. surely apple has done it in a fairly intellegent fashion.
ive never used osX but if it's like linux swap space has it's own partition. the swap space also doenst reside on the same type of file system as the rest of the computer. i dont know what file system is used for linux swap, but i doubt it is ext3.
also you can enable journaling on a per partition basis, at least in linux, so you could enable it for your/home partition but not for swap if it was hfs+.
now if your acer notbook was running windows, then sure the swap space was on a fatxx or ntfs file system. it would then fall victim the the 10-15% preformace loss. i seriously doubt osx is designed in the same way.
Can't they just produce 'flashable' sets, and make the actual problem, the copyrighted code they use in them, float the free part of the internet?
wouldnt this require the end user to have access to an eprom burner? i realize some people have access to these, but i dont think enought people would to make it profitable for the company.
i see your point to some degree. linus has always said something to the effect of "use the right tool for the job". at the time he started linux, the right tool(s) were those produced by the gnu folks. now the right tool is bitkeeper. it's not that i dont agree with you, but i dont find linus's perspective to be completely contradictory.
really? you seriously think software is more tangible than say free speech?
i assume you mean tangible the engilish word:
Discernible by the touch; palpable: a tangible roughness of the skin.
Possible to touch.
Possible to be treated as fact; real or concrete: tangible evidence.
Possible to understand or realize: the tangible benefits of the plan.
Law. That can be valued monetarily: tangible property.
if you look at the first definition, i doubt you could apply this more to software than speech. sure you can touch a tape wich contains speech or software. but you are not touching speech or software directly.
wrt the second, i can reaize software, but i can also realize free speech. i was arrested a couple weeks ago in dc while realizeing free speech. the effects of free speech are quite evident on society, as are the effects of sofware. i would say they are equally tangible in this reguard.
now lets look at the third. can software really be valued monetarily? say some company charges $30 for software X. if i make a copy of it is each copy worth $30 or is each worth half of the original ($15). say i email software X to 1000 people. how much are those copies worth? since it's sofware they can be exact copies, does it devalue the original in some way?
take gnu sofware when considering the third definition. it can be obtained for free, and you are free to copy it. there is no monitary values associated with these transactions what so ever.
market share and control are directly related.. if you have control of the commodities then you have control of the market. this quite direcetly leads to market share. the two are not mutually exclusive or independent.
their target audiences have yet to discover the wonders of alt.binaries..... once people start using usenet in the same numbers as the people currently using kazaa, you will see them start targeting usenet.
recently thought there was a sting on people distributing warez on usenet, i believe.
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What's better--working for an hour to remove works from the tyranny of copyright, or working in a "regular job" for an hour and donating the proceeds to EFF?
what exactly are you doing to remove works from the tyranny of copyright? if you are referring to transcribing, or prooring for project gutenberg then you are simply making those books more accessable. those books have already fallen out of the hands of the copyright holders.
the only ways i know of to legally get copyrighted works from the holders of the copyrighted material
is to
a) purchase the copyright,
b) wait for the copyright to expire,
c) work to change the law to make the copyright expire sooner
this isnt to say that working for projects like gutenberg is bad-i think it's great. just dont make it out to be something it's not, and it's not freeing works from the tyranny of copyright.
im down with your pain. now we have the desktop, the startmenu, the systemtray-does office still come with a little quicklaunch menu? it is pretty rediculous though.
looking at the screen shots i noticed that the location bars simply say:
My Computer\ something\something else\...
does this mean they are getting away from drive letters? what a novel concept.
second
link
if you agree with microsofts position that ie is part of the os and the two are inseparable, then this applies to part of the operating system.
perhaps they dont transfer the entire screen, but the differences-->similar to rsync.
i shot a man in reno, just to watch him die...
the post office is a fortun 500 company and not a federally funded organization. a better analogy would be discontinuing medicare and medicaid because those people using it should be purchasing helth insurance.
OK, this is almost certainly a really dumb question - but why can't we just put our own hash into the system?
well based on what the parent to your post said:
First off, if you really want backdoors enabled, that thread on tivocommunity.com details how to do it by changing the hash yourself. You can change the hash it's checking on the disk and voila, no problem.
i would assume it is possible.
really though, i'm surprised he doesnt give out his public key so people can encrypt the messages they send to him. this would at least create a pain in the ass for the cia.
hey does anyone have a website that lists voting history with the ablility to sort the data in various ways:
eg senator xxx voted the following was:
2232 antipiracy bill for
bill# bill name for/against
etc.
i'm not quite sure why you replied to me. i don't believe i said anything condeming, or accusatory. for what it's worth, i believe both ibm and microsoft are wrong, that an 75 cents at a gas station will get you a condom.
you're right about the chicago stuff. evidently it was supposed to be done with biodegradable chalk:
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http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article.php/754
perhaps the local advertising folks screwed up, or perhaps ibm is blaming them to cover their asses.
personally i dont appreciate either technique. i'm sick of seeing advertising everywhere i go-even if it is for linux. i would like to step outside and not see anything being advertised, but that is just me.
because when slashdot started there was no registration required at the nyt. when they started requiring registration they were grandfathered in. dont get your panties in a wad.
actually it was spraychalked.. they have this chalk that comes in a can with a propelant similar to that found in spraypaint.
i was thinking more of the swap fragmentation, and also disk fragmentation in general. i suppose if it is on a filesystem that doesnt change much (/usr/share) then it wouldn't matter. i really dont know how osx (and bsd for that matter) allocate space. surely apple has done it in a fairly intellegent fashion.
eek. it should be possible to put the swap on it's own partition, and not journal that one (the swaps partition) right?
ive never used osX but if it's like linux swap space has it's own partition. the swap space also doenst reside on the same type of file system as the rest of the computer. i dont know what file system is used for linux swap, but i doubt it is ext3.
/home partition but not for swap if it was hfs+.
also you can enable journaling on a per partition basis, at least in linux, so you could enable it for your
now if your acer notbook was running windows, then sure the swap space was on a fatxx or ntfs file system. it would then fall victim the the 10-15% preformace loss. i seriously doubt osx is designed in the same way.
i had no idea they inculded the stuff needed to flash them. that's really cool thanks for pointing it out.
Can't they just produce 'flashable' sets, and make the actual problem, the copyrighted code they use in them, float the free part of the internet?
wouldnt this require the end user to have access to an eprom burner? i realize some people have access to these, but i dont think enought people would to make it profitable for the company.
i see your point to some degree. linus has always said something to the effect of "use the right tool for the job". at the time he started linux, the right tool(s) were those produced by the gnu folks. now the right tool is bitkeeper. it's not that i dont agree with you, but i dont find linus's perspective to be completely contradictory.
really? you seriously think software is more tangible than say free speech?
i assume you mean tangible the engilish word:
if you look at the first definition, i doubt you could apply this more to software than speech. sure you can touch a tape wich contains speech or software. but you are not touching speech or software directly.
wrt the second, i can reaize software, but i can also realize free speech. i was arrested a couple weeks ago in dc while realizeing free speech. the effects of free speech are quite evident on society, as are the effects of sofware. i would say they are equally tangible in this reguard.
now lets look at the third. can software really be valued monetarily? say some company charges $30 for software X. if i make a copy of it is each copy worth $30 or is each worth half of the original ($15). say i email software X to 1000 people. how much are those copies worth? since it's sofware they can be exact copies, does it devalue the original in some way?
take gnu sofware when considering the third definition. it can be obtained for free, and you are free to copy it. there is no monitary values associated with these transactions what so ever.
more tangible than speech? i dont think so.
market share and control are directly related.. if you have control of the commodities then you have control of the market. this quite direcetly leads to market share. the two are not mutually exclusive or independent.
their target audiences have yet to discover the wonders of alt.binaries..... once people start using usenet in the same numbers as the people currently using kazaa, you will see them start targeting usenet.
recently thought there was a sting on people distributing warez on usenet, i believe.