Will they do anything about lotery? Do you wanna hear something interesting?
Here in Brazil a corrupted senator used to use lotery to "clean" his public stolen money. He used to bet hundreds of thousands dollars, and many times he won. Yes, he have even won the big prize all alone! He washed about 80% of his money this way, the other 20% was acceptable loss.
This dam act will only affect the regular citizen, and as RIAA efforts to avoid mp3 sharing over the internet will do nothing, nothing then make lawyers much more rich!
Hey guys! Why don't you come and code here with us. In Brazil! Yes, here we can sell everything we code (inclunding supra-power-encryption products), and we also can reverse engeneer anything we want. And there's no way such a law like SSSCA exists:o)
Come on! Let's go to the country of freedom, no terrorist attack risk here too. The last terrorist attack here was in 1979! And it's summer all year long!
Let's go to Brazil! Mi casa es tu casa (but we don't speak spanish here, we speak portuguese)
Hey folks, this is the country of liberty! Yes, we are free. Free to reverse engeneering anything we want, including cryptographic methods. Free to sell our cryptographic method all over the world. Free to develop our own digital devices. Free to do whatever we want with our own source code (including giving it away, or GPL it)
I agree with almost everything you said. But what I meant is that the education quality in Americans universities is based on private capital, and they needs private investments to maintain their quality.
If the development of new technologies becomes even more expensive these private capital will stop being invested in Americans universities and will start being invested in foreigns universities, and that will make things go to an undesirable way.
The status quo might be this you have pictured, but the private money is pretty important in all this balance. SSSCA will probably do what I have previewd with education. But, who knows?
Take a picture, put it in a safe. The world will change if SSSCA is aproved.
Imagine if technology development becomes much more bourocratic in US, with lot's of government licenses and taxes and bourocracy. Will the big corporations, that already keep their production in foreign coutries, spend money in development in the US? I don't think so.
What are the reactions? Try to imagine it? The developement will be done in foreign coutries (like Brazil or India, or even China, Cuba), and these countries will have a big economy growth, and will be a solid growth, because the technology development will be done there, where there's no bouracracy.
What about US? The high investments in University will stop, it won't be interesting for big corporations (like Sun, IBM, HP) to invest in Amaricans Universities. So the college education will lower quality, which will take a step back for US economy in a long term.
There are many and many companies that has born in garages. Companies like Sun, HP, and many others we all know. They will stop appearing, they will appear where home-made technology is possible. That's horrible for US, but wonderful for the rest of the world.
Imagine US without linux. Without BSD, how secure will be US internet? IIS? Apache will be outlaw! Imagine all the servers around US infected with Nimda, and nobody but M$ can do anything to change this.
The most amazing thing of all these virii it that they all exist only due to one (and no more than one) function in the whole VBA language:
CopyMacro
Maybe it has another name today, but it means exactly the same, copy a macro from a document to another. THAT'S AMAZING!!! Erradicating all these dam virii is much more easy to erradicate malaria from a non-tropical country, kill all the vectors.
That's wright we don't even need to kill the vector, all we need is to avoid the vectors to infect the host. This dam macro must not exist anymore!!!
Simple as that, and M$ doesn't seems to want to solve the problem.
There are plenty of specific kernel patches for specific tasks, like high security, and graphics enhancements, or even an experimental enhancments patch, we all know them and hear about them every week here in/.
The big advantage of these patches is that the resulting OSs have full compability with GNU/Linux. Wich is very good, because then developers don't need to offer basic support, and can focus only in the OS funcionality.
Please, correct me if I'm wrong. But the more users a P2P network has the better it is, isn't it?
If this affirmation is right, then Fasttrack doesn't want to be a good P2P network. A week ago I tryied to connect Fasttrack network using giFT, and then I discoverd that their servers has banned giFT.:o/
They have banned all non-MS/non-Macs users! That sux! Why don't they let the comunity access their network? If there was an official *nix client, that's ok. But they don't build one and don't let anybody buid any!
I keep wondering when will RIAA realize that there's no way to stop this revolution. They are trying to stop a train (they can't do that)
I can't believe that RIAA will try again. But now I wanna see. How will they shutdown each supernode? And the worst of this all, the more they fight against more and more users seems to appear. Fasttrack is getting even bigger than Napster.
Please, somebody from RIAA, asnwer my question. Does RIAA have any kind of technitians working for them?
Do you wanna know what's going to happen? Big companies (like HP and IBM) will stop production and research activities in US. The money they spend today in americans university will be spent in other countries universities, like Brazil, India or China. In US there will be only the offices, all the production will be done in foreing countries or foreign countries.
The high-tech jobs will be discontinued, many will be fired out. All US will have to use Windows or OS/2 or another "new" OS that will probably be supported by the government.
The technology research will be affected, no company will finance a research, because most of the money will go to the lawyers' hands. Meanwhile in other countries, where is much easier to develop technologies, the big corporations will finance more and more resarches and will help the development of know-how all over the world (all over the world but in US).
The high geeks will leave US, the gurus will find better jobs in foreign countries, all technology production will leave US. Most of the FreeSoftware comunity will leave, and then, maybe one day, US will ban the internet.
Much more horrible things might happen, this is just a few reactions. Let's wait to see what will happen.
Maybe I'm beeing too pessimist, but at least 70% of all I have said will happen.
I know I have already said this, and it might sounds redundant or even flamebait. But I hate so much this kind of laws/acts that I think that it must be repeated over and over. Maybe then I can change people minds in a way nobody accept this anymore:
This new is a live proof that Money Rules the World, and for now we can't do anything. In the name of liberty big corporations maintain their lobbists so they can have aproved the law they want.
Of course there are always the electors interests, but many times it's much smaller then the money involved in such big consequences of the aprovement of this kind of laws/acts.
Don't you believe me? I won't be scared if MPAA/RIAA 'forces' the congress to discuss the prohibition of CD-R drives selling. It might no be voted, but I think that it might be at least discussed.
Hope this and a day. Once again: It's sad but true.
To tell the truth I've never used *BSD ports. I hear a lot that they are wonderful. I don't know how it works, but I'm sure that I'll try it.
The only thing I hope is that they let every choices to me. I use slackware and tarballs for one reason: the word automatic have been sounding weird for me.
Since I got tired of Mandrake and rpm automatic for me means this:
In a way somebody though it was better, not necessarily the way I need or want.
Hope not to find this kind of automation with ports.
For the last week I've been feeling the same way: "Why do we have to blame someone?". "Why do we have to point a guilty to be jailed and executed?"
The terrorist attack seems to me like if a child in the neighborhood have broken a 7' tall glass in your house. Tell me, what can we do about this?
We are not even sure about who has done it. Ok, there are some evidences, but we are not sure (yet). So, what can we do?
Maybe is that boy who always find some troble aroud the neighborhood, we go to his parents house and ask them to do something. What can they do? They'll tell you that you must first prove that he did such a thing.
After a weed or two, we have already changed the glass, you dog that almost died due to the 'accident' is ok now. What would we do? Throw a stone in the neighbor house?
And if you start having trouble with the problematic parents, nobody in the neighborhood will like it.
Let's think about it. Let's discuss about it. Maybe we can find the right thing to do.
I'm very happy to hear this. AsI've said before for Mono x GNU fight, variety means freedom, freedom of choice.
If we had only one license, GPL, it would be horrible, we would have no choice but use GPL. But we have choices, we can choose between many kinds of FreeSoftware/OpenSource Licenses.
I prefer a hard argueing about which license is better, then a discussion about how nice would be to have at least an option for GPL
Let's fight, let's defend our point of view, our preferences. Let's build a comunity with variety and freedom of choice
As already said. This will affect only the normal user that has nothing with illegal pratices. All it'll do is get information about what normal people do.
Major terrorist will find a way to skip this dam pseudo-protection, if they can come to a country like US steel 4 airplanes and crash two of them at WTC imagine what can do! We techies know that it'll not work, and will only spend money that could be spent in a more intelligent way.
I wonder, do they have any kind of technical consulting?
I'd like to know if there's any kindo of economic issue. I know that today is much more expensive, but what about in the future, is it a technology that worth?
Hey, don't forget that I'm talking about direct issues, I know that it'll surely improve aerodynamics, and mechanics and other sciences. I wanna know about the ornithopter itself.
As I said before, Brazilian government did allowed a local manufacter to break patent rights. But it didn't really break, since no production has started.
All this worth because the patent owner now accept to charge as much royalities from Brazilian factories as they charge from American factories.
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Will they do anything about lotery? Do you wanna hear something interesting?
Here in Brazil a corrupted senator used to use lotery to "clean" his public stolen money. He used to bet hundreds of thousands dollars, and many times he won. Yes, he have even won the big prize all alone! He washed about 80% of his money this way, the other 20% was acceptable loss.
This dam act will only affect the regular citizen, and as RIAA efforts to avoid mp3 sharing over the internet will do nothing, nothing then make lawyers much more rich!
Hey guys! Why don't you come and code here with us. In Brazil! Yes, here we can sell everything we code (inclunding supra-power-encryption products), and we also can reverse engeneer anything we want. And there's no way such a law like SSSCA exists :o)
Come on! Let's go to the country of freedom, no terrorist attack risk here too. The last terrorist attack here was in 1979! And it's summer all year long!
Let's go to Brazil! Mi casa es tu casa (but we don't speak spanish here, we speak portuguese)
Don't forget that when VCRs became more popular, most of the VideoTapes rented was about pornography.
I think it's the natural way. If it can be used to pornography, then it can be used by masses.
Hey folks, this is the country of liberty! Yes, we are free. Free to reverse engeneering anything we want, including cryptographic methods. Free to sell our cryptographic method all over the world. Free to develop our own digital devices. Free to do whatever we want with our own source code (including giving it away, or GPL it)
Do you know what country am I talking about?
Needless to say anything else.
I agree with almost everything you said. But what I meant is that the education quality in Americans universities is based on private capital, and they needs private investments to maintain their quality.
If the development of new technologies becomes even more expensive these private capital will stop being invested in Americans universities and will start being invested in foreigns universities, and that will make things go to an undesirable way.
The status quo might be this you have pictured, but the private money is pretty important in all this balance. SSSCA will probably do what I have previewd with education. But, who knows?
Take a picture, put it in a safe. The world will change if SSSCA is aproved.
Imagine if technology development becomes much more bourocratic in US, with lot's of government licenses and taxes and bourocracy. Will the big corporations, that already keep their production in foreign coutries, spend money in development in the US? I don't think so.
What are the reactions? Try to imagine it? The developement will be done in foreign coutries (like Brazil or India, or even China, Cuba), and these countries will have a big economy growth, and will be a solid growth, because the technology development will be done there, where there's no bouracracy.
What about US? The high investments in University will stop, it won't be interesting for big corporations (like Sun, IBM, HP) to invest in Amaricans Universities. So the college education will lower quality, which will take a step back for US economy in a long term.
There are many and many companies that has born in garages. Companies like Sun, HP, and many others we all know. They will stop appearing, they will appear where home-made technology is possible. That's horrible for US, but wonderful for the rest of the world.
Imagine US without linux. Without BSD, how secure will be US internet? IIS? Apache will be outlaw! Imagine all the servers around US infected with Nimda, and nobody but M$ can do anything to change this.
What will you choose, the present or the future?
The most amazing thing of all these virii it that they all exist only due to one (and no more than one) function in the whole VBA language:
- CopyMacro
Maybe it has another name today, but it means exactly the same, copy a macro from a document to another. THAT'S AMAZING!!! Erradicating all these dam virii is much more easy to erradicate malaria from a non-tropical country, kill all the vectors.That's wright we don't even need to kill the vector, all we need is to avoid the vectors to infect the host. This dam macro must not exist anymore!!!
Simple as that, and M$ doesn't seems to want to solve the problem.
There are plenty of specific kernel patches for specific tasks, like high security, and graphics enhancements, or even an experimental enhancments patch, we all know them and hear about them every week here in /.
The big advantage of these patches is that the resulting OSs have full compability with GNU/Linux. Wich is very good, because then developers don't need to offer basic support, and can focus only in the OS funcionality.
Maybe this is the way for Nich OSs.
I have previewed a terrible scenario for US if SSSCA passed as a real law (see it here)
Does US's lawmakers have ever realized that these previews have a high probability to become true if SSSCA is aproved?
Please, correct me if I'm wrong. But the more users a P2P network has the better it is, isn't it?
If this affirmation is right, then Fasttrack doesn't want to be a good P2P network. A week ago I tryied to connect Fasttrack network using giFT, and then I discoverd that their servers has banned giFT. :o/
They have banned all non-MS/non-Macs users! That sux! Why don't they let the comunity access their network? If there was an official *nix client, that's ok. But they don't build one and don't let anybody buid any!
I'd like to understand this, please.
I keep wondering when will RIAA realize that there's no way to stop this revolution. They are trying to stop a train (they can't do that)
I can't believe that RIAA will try again. But now I wanna see. How will they shutdown each supernode? And the worst of this all, the more they fight against more and more users seems to appear. Fasttrack is getting even bigger than Napster.
Please, somebody from RIAA, asnwer my question. Does RIAA have any kind of technitians working for them?
Sorry for saying it again. But I think it's pertinent yet.
my opinion
Money rules the world, and we must work all together so it won't happen never more. :o/
Do you wanna know what's going to happen? Big companies (like HP and IBM) will stop production and research activities in US. The money they spend today in americans university will be spent in other countries universities, like Brazil, India or China. In US there will be only the offices, all the production will be done in foreing countries or foreign countries.
The high-tech jobs will be discontinued, many will be fired out. All US will have to use Windows or OS/2 or another "new" OS that will probably be supported by the government.
The technology research will be affected, no company will finance a research, because most of the money will go to the lawyers' hands. Meanwhile in other countries, where is much easier to develop technologies, the big corporations will finance more and more resarches and will help the development of know-how all over the world (all over the world but in US).
The high geeks will leave US, the gurus will find better jobs in foreign countries, all technology production will leave US. Most of the FreeSoftware comunity will leave, and then, maybe one day, US will ban the internet.
Much more horrible things might happen, this is just a few reactions. Let's wait to see what will happen.
Maybe I'm beeing too pessimist, but at least 70% of all I have said will happen.
I know I have already said this, and it might sounds redundant or even flamebait. But I hate so much this kind of laws/acts that I think that it must be repeated over and over. Maybe then I can change people minds in a way nobody accept this anymore:
This new is a live proof that Money Rules the World, and for now we can't do anything. In the name of liberty big corporations maintain their lobbists so they can have aproved the law they want.
Of course there are always the electors interests, but many times it's much smaller then the money involved in such big consequences of the aprovement of this kind of laws/acts.
Don't you believe me? I won't be scared if MPAA/RIAA 'forces' the congress to discuss the prohibition of CD-R drives selling. It might no be voted, but I think that it might be at least discussed.
Hope this and a day. Once again: It's sad but true.
I agreed with the moderation. You have your point, but the way you showed it is horrible, it's flamebait.
Please, for you and for all of us. Try to not be so rude. We all will have a much better slashdot. ;o)
Thanks
What's going to happen with the others sharing services? Will they keep working? I would be afraid of such a fee!
Will the programmers be intimidated with such a value?
I'm not from US, but, anyway, I heard something about a lobbist organization for Techonology and Science development.
Does anybody remembers its name?
To tell the truth I've never used *BSD ports. I hear a lot that they are wonderful. I don't know how it works, but I'm sure that I'll try it.
The only thing I hope is that they let every choices to me. I use slackware and tarballs for one reason: the word automatic have been sounding weird for me.
Since I got tired of Mandrake and rpm automatic for me means this:
Hope not to find this kind of automation with ports.
hehe. We can keep fight until end of times here!
Probably Emacs might be as good as vi, but I don't know Emacs enough.
As simple as it gets!
For the last week I've been feeling the same way: "Why do we have to blame someone?". "Why do we have to point a guilty to be jailed and executed?"
The terrorist attack seems to me like if a child in the neighborhood have broken a 7' tall glass in your house. Tell me, what can we do about this?
We are not even sure about who has done it. Ok, there are some evidences, but we are not sure (yet). So, what can we do?
Maybe is that boy who always find some troble aroud the neighborhood, we go to his parents house and ask them to do something. What can they do? They'll tell you that you must first prove that he did such a thing.
After a weed or two, we have already changed the glass, you dog that almost died due to the 'accident' is ok now. What would we do? Throw a stone in the neighbor house?
And if you start having trouble with the problematic parents, nobody in the neighborhood will like it.
Let's think about it. Let's discuss about it. Maybe we can find the right thing to do.
I'm very happy to hear this. AsI've said before for Mono x GNU fight, variety means freedom, freedom of choice.
If we had only one license, GPL, it would be horrible, we would have no choice but use GPL. But we have choices, we can choose between many kinds of FreeSoftware/OpenSource Licenses.
I prefer a hard argueing about which license is better, then a discussion about how nice would be to have at least an option for GPL
Let's fight, let's defend our point of view, our preferences. Let's build a comunity with variety and freedom of choice
As already said. This will affect only the normal user that has nothing with illegal pratices. All it'll do is get information about what normal people do.
Major terrorist will find a way to skip this dam pseudo-protection, if they can come to a country like US steel 4 airplanes and crash two of them at WTC imagine what can do! We techies know that it'll not work, and will only spend money that could be spent in a more intelligent way.
I wonder, do they have any kind of technical consulting?
I'd like to know if there's any kindo of economic issue. I know that today is much more expensive, but what about in the future, is it a technology that worth?
Hey, don't forget that I'm talking about direct issues, I know that it'll surely improve aerodynamics, and mechanics and other sciences. I wanna know about the ornithopter itself.
As I said before, Brazilian government did allowed a local manufacter to break patent rights. But it didn't really break, since no production has started.
All this worth because the patent owner now accept to charge as much royalities from Brazilian factories as they charge from American factories.
No patent was really broken.