ThoughtCrime? FutureCrime? have you been reading bigbrother backwards?
"Dont go out in the street, there are 10 killers loose, we have a list of them, we know where they are, we know theyll shoot everybody they see, but we wont tell who or where for, uhm security reasons,..."
Thats is how life seems to work.. Think about it.. Bacteria form spores when they reach the end of the petri dish. Most bacteria will therefore survive even when the petri dish runs out.
We are running out of petri dish, and our x-prizes are our spores. Coincidence?
I think not!
We are not home save though, The Easter Islanders had a petri dish.. But they used all their wood, and Easter Island Civilization collapsed from 100.000's to a few 100 people.
So now is the question: do we get to eat the dish, before we make spores?
Seems to me there is only two usefull science goals: Earth Preservation, AND Space Exploration.
Hm, seems you are eager to give up some essential liberties.
So am I actually allowed to -walk- over public space? Or do I need a goverment permit or something?
Can private employed cleaners, clean waste from public streets? It doesnt -belong- to them.
Can someone leave a TV in the middle of the street, watch it get picked up, and complain about theft?
In The Netherlands, you MUST take reasonable steps to identify and protect your property. Heck, if a garden doesnt have a visible sign, or clue it belongs to a private citizin, you can easily get away with tresspassing. The land MUST be marked as private property, otherwise the tresspasser is not even breaking a law.
Whats more, if you leave your bike unlocked, you can get a fine.. Thats right, your "Inviting people to break the law".
Obviously the Dutch governement is also quickly taking away these terrorist-friendly liberties from all of us.
Just today, the Dutch police started to "preventive frisk" traffic on a major -highway-. Imahine this: every car stopped, searched, for NO reason, but you are there. This is the next salami slice our terrorist hunting governement eats, after passing a law making it legal to search people (for no reason, except you being there) in High Crime areas. (Such as Downtown Amsterdam, thou compared to Uptown Washington, Amsterdam really is the garden of eden.)
Boy, you will love our new terrorist-unfriendly overlords. Me, I might move to France.
I guess you didnt like the "leeches" wordspeak. Fine, call it vampires. Call it "standing on giants". I, personally, like leeches, and welcome our non-inventive overlords.
17 Years is WAY to long, but thats just my silly humble opinion.
I totally agree, there should be -some- protection for innovators, but it should be little. Oh, say 2 years max. On a -really- great invention.
I compare innovation with "art", and the -true- artists know that copying is fine, and probably is his best compliment, the artist is already designing its next work. Which will be even better.
Id like to read the licence agreement between Ximian, and MS saying: here have our Exchange client code for, um free, and um, yeah you can GPL it. Hard to believe really.
Do they care that people can easily switch away from the MS desktop though.
What I cant get my head around is, youd expect MS to very carefully licence this to Ximian, including little paragraphes, how this code cannot be made GPL and all that.
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ThoughtCrime? FutureCrime? have you been reading bigbrother backwards?
"Dont go out in the street, there are 10 killers loose, we have a list of them, we know where they are, we know theyll shoot everybody they see, but we wont tell who or where for, uhm security reasons,
WTF?
"/Dread"
WTF is that? So it can infect the rest of the world?
This reeks of criminal negligence IMHO, they know of a crime, and they wont tell how or who will do it to you..
"/Dread"
patent law isnt written by Microsoft like the proposed EU's.. yet.
"/Dread"
No other source of free information has been so usefull in developing my (rather lame by 2004 standards) homepage, and thus web knowladge.
I loved it, recommended it to all I knew interested in webdesign, and by bog, more designers could learn from it.
"/Dread"
Thats is how life seems to work.. Think about it.. Bacteria form spores when they reach the end of the petri dish. Most bacteria will therefore survive even when the petri dish runs out.
We are running out of petri dish, and our x-prizes are our spores. Coincidence?
I think not!
We are not home save though, The Easter Islanders had a petri dish.. But they used all their wood, and Easter Island Civilization collapsed from 100.000's to a few 100 people.
So now is the question: do we get to eat the dish, before we make spores?
Seems to me there is only two usefull science goals: Earth Preservation, AND Space Exploration.
"/Dread"
Cant wait to see that BFG M-II, scaled up to blast some astroids.
"/Dread"
There is no such thing as unlimited free speech. Not in the EU, not in the US.
There are a lot of good reasons to stop "some" speech.
Consider:
- "Hi, Im William H. Vanderbilt, could I get a free ride on this here staten ilse ferry?" (I am not William H. Vanderbilt)
- "Fuck you cop"
- "Ill shoot you dead"
Three easy examples of were speech is limited.
Is it a good thing to ban "hate" speech? Hell, I dont know, define "hate"
"/Dread"
Challenge EVERYTHING*
"/Dread"
*Except EA Games.
are there any nice MS disses? Like "fsck Excel, we invented this crap"?
"/Dread"
As of today, a Dutch Progress db software develop firm, is SCO-1, and RHEL+1, the other old crap will be fased out.
;-)
Yay for us!
"/Dread"
Hm, seems you are eager to give up some essential liberties.
So am I actually allowed to -walk- over public space? Or do I need a goverment permit or something?
Can private employed cleaners, clean waste from public streets? It doesnt -belong- to them.
Can someone leave a TV in the middle of the street, watch it get picked up, and complain about theft?
In The Netherlands, you MUST take reasonable steps to identify and protect your property. Heck, if a garden doesnt have a visible sign, or clue it belongs to a private citizin, you can easily get away with tresspassing. The land MUST be marked as private property, otherwise the tresspasser is not even breaking a law.
Whats more, if you leave your bike unlocked, you can get a fine.. Thats right, your "Inviting people to break the law".
Obviously the Dutch governement is also quickly taking away these terrorist-friendly liberties from all of us.
Just today, the Dutch police started to "preventive frisk" traffic on a major -highway-. Imahine this: every car stopped, searched, for NO reason, but you are there. This is the next salami slice our terrorist hunting governement eats, after passing a law making it legal to search people (for no reason, except you being there) in High Crime areas. (Such as Downtown Amsterdam, thou compared to Uptown Washington, Amsterdam really is the garden of eden.)
Boy, you will love our new terrorist-unfriendly overlords. Me, I might move to France.
"/Dread"
wow, thanks,
"Dread"
AFAIK, these wifi thingies have antenna's. My casemodded Asus p4p800, does not. However, it would look cool, so where can I get one?
"/Dread"
I guess you didnt like the "leeches" wordspeak. Fine, call it vampires. Call it "standing on giants". I, personally, like leeches, and welcome our non-inventive overlords.
17 Years is WAY to long, but thats just my silly humble opinion.
I totally agree, there should be -some- protection for innovators, but it should be little. Oh, say 2 years max. On a -really- great invention.
I compare innovation with "art", and the -true- artists know that copying is fine, and probably is his best compliment, the artist is already designing its next work. Which will be even better.
"/Dread"
No commodoties would *exist* as such, without some *invention*(*) first
Dell and MS are leeches, and as such they work. Now, without any hosts, leeches die.
"/Dread"
(*) I use the term loosely.
I thought there was only economy-friendly global-warmth-effects?
Isnt that why dubya didnt sign Kyoto?
"/Dread"
"Handle a gun safely"
Im assuming you mean *safe for YOU* here..
"/Dread"
But about every company I work for, keeps full backups for at least a year, the old daily weekly monthly scheme comes to mind..
"/Dread"
I was under the impression, the code was licenced from MS, which is why they had no option to NOT sell it.
Perhaps that was wrong, and the thing is reverse engineered.
"/Dread"
If I follow their reasoning, -information- is to blame.
Lets make -everything- a secret, and be happy.
wow, how insightfull.
"/Dread"
"legal hassle for using it. Pbbbt."
Now THAT can only mean patents. The code is written by ximian, there lies the copyright.
There are NO patents I guess, otherwise Novell *is* in trouble.
I would have expected a lawsuit from MS over the licencing terms, a contract issue, hurting NO end-users.
"/Dread"
Hey, I dont mod myself ;-)
But -GPL- source code is a big difference than a -binary- paid for licenced connector.
"/Dread"
Id like to read the licence agreement between Ximian, and MS saying: here have our Exchange client code for, um free, and um, yeah you can GPL it. Hard to believe really.
"/Dread"
EVERY pop client can "talk to exchange"
Almost nothing works with Exchange leaving the mail on the server, and full swing calendering functions. Now something on Linux does. For free.
"/Dread"
Yeah, sure they get paid.
Do they care that people can easily switch away from the MS desktop though.
What I cant get my head around is, youd expect MS to very carefully licence this to Ximian, including little paragraphes, how this code cannot be made GPL and all that.
"/Dread"