How about: burn software patents and the extortionists who use them.
100:1 says this is a sad attempt to boost the stock so some white-collar criminal can sell quick and get rich before it falls again. I wouldn't bet on the SEC looking into it, either. But you could probably buy the stock, wait for CNN or someone else to pick up on this story, watch it rise, then sell it before people realize that overreaching pipsqueak extortionists have no hope of taking on Sony, Adobe, AOL/TimeWarner, Microsoft, etc with a bogus claim to having "invented" something that's in widespread use and later trying to pull a stickup job on the entire digital economy... nhah ghaanna haaayphen. Why should only company executives get to profit off manipulation of stock? But if I were the legal dept of one of those companies, I'd be writing "fuck off" letters right now.
The biggest problem with the "issue" is that a lot of the industry types ARE jackbooted fascist clowns and mafiosos in disguise who think nothing should be though or spoken without paying them a tribute and they should get royalties if you dream about mickey mouse and that you are a thief if you go to the bathroom too often during commercials.
I say the solution is to have the industry dress up like clowns in jackboots. That way we can see Valenti et al for what they really are. Unfortunately, the reasonable voices (such as myself) are unlikely to be heard until these enemies of freedom push society within an inch of permanent intellectual servitude.
That's an interesting site, but did anyone notice that the translations at the bottom of the page are completely different in meaning? I don't know Latin but from comparing and puzzling out the few words I can pick out in the Latin, it kinda looks like both translators are making rather heavy-handed polemical translations. So much for honesty. And to make it more confusing, Cecil the Dope says it is real Latin and that it isn't, but doesn't provide any translation. Hrmph.
It will have a beowulf cluster of them. Can you imagine that?
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Nah, bullshit. Don't consult specialists, no one really knows a whole lot about back pain. I've sat in an office chair so uncomfortable that I actually picked it up and threw it in the trash and then asked my manager for a chair since mine was gone; during that time, I had no back pain. You can blame the chair some, but not completely.
Like many things, back pain is caused by a number of factors, most of which are poorly understood, yet there are a few good solutions that are routinely ignored.
Sit with comfortable monitor height and keyboard height. Forearms level, not leaning or craning the neck.
Get up and stretch periodically. Consider a massage.
Find a chair that is comfortable.
Get excercise. You can sit longer if your back muscles are stronger. Try yoga. Read that again: YOU CAN SIT LONGER IF YOUR BACK MUSCLES ARE STRONGER. Try yoga, and look for classes/studios with a lot of people in your age group.
Acknowledge that it might be psychological. This does not mean "it's in your head": it means that stress will make you hurt, especially if you don't take care of yourself otherwise.
Not exactly rocket science, but it got me back from a back injury and keeps me pain free (as long as I follow my own rules;-)
But most people don't use an archive that will be readable indefinitely - e.g. mbox - and most people honestly aren't capable of managing such archives. Drive dies? Start over. Hotmail account expires? It's all gone. Guard this stuff closely, we're a long way before preserving these memories is easy or normal.
In a recent cabal, the Illuminati pondered ratcheting back some of this new-fangled "freedom" that some people had been enjoying. Apparently the use of such "freedom" has been interfering with some rather important conspiracies recently. The alien landing, the zero-point-energy car, and the reason my sunglasses keep disappearing were safely handled with a cover-up, but some leaders privately worried that one of these days, the Grand Conspiracy of Everything might have less than complete control over the lives of humanity.
Didn't they also pass a law against proving that someone is gay?
Seriously, the article made it sound as if there were misappropriation of photos. Via film, use of someone's likeness in a fictional context has long been legally regarded as wrong - it implies something about someone that's counter to fact, so it doesn't get - and doesn't deserve - the same protection as a street photo in a journalistic context.
It depends on the website's presentation. "See these gayboys" can and should get them into trouble. "Man, these guys make me horny" is legit, though in today's "let's blame the internet" environment, it's still likely to catch shit. I say, "Blame Canada". Why? I'm a dumb American, I confuse Australia with Austria.
Lazy, lazy, lazy. You are lazy. If you think about standards and graceful degradation from day one, it's not all that hard. If you don't, you make horrible messes and you can only blame your own incompetent ass. There are plenty of really valid descriptions of how to do this in previous comments.
I agree that NS4 is a piece of shit, but a lot of people have it and won't upgrade because their computer works, and they don't want it getting broken. And you ought to have pity on those who have only dial-up connections and can't spend all night downloading new browsers (but you probably don't and make horribly fat pages). But congrats for being an elitist who hasn't earned the privilege..
Perl is ugly, hard to read, "write only", etc. This is complete horseshit, probably stemming from lack of experience with using Perl. Perl is very easy to write and read.
gotta agree with you there. most people objecting to perl are straight programmers looking at code written by BOFHs who couldn't care less if you can read their code. But I've seen the code those programmers are writing in a variety of languages and it's no fucking better. And often it's just worse and less concise because of the straitjackets the language puts you in. One would have thought, for instance, that Java would have done better than to repeat all the tired design of the umpteenth homegrown C++ string class, but no such luck; no one else has anything to be proud of (object-oriented shouln't be a synonym for verb-deficient).
I could go on and on but I expect to find Perl in 2023 (Perl 6.20936, btw), I have doubts about any other current language but C. Perl allows for elegance that other languages simply can't (e.g. "next if $foo;" at the beginning of a loop): bad programmers suck no matter what their language.
I also have to agree that a block comment, say/# blah blah #/ is overdue.
There's an old japanese folk tale where a guy lives upstairs from a seafood restaurant or something, but the point is that he gets the smell of the fish and it makes his plain rice taste better. The restaurant owner gets mad that he's getting something for nothing and takes this to the judge. The judge is a sort of Solomon figure, and he wisely decides that if he is enjoying the smell of fish, then he must pay - by giving the restaurant owner the sound of money. So he jingles a purse, and it's called even.
The truth is that most of it, I already DO own, but it's easier - and less taxing on my hard drive - to download whatever songs I happen to find than to rip a whole disk. Plus it's more fun for playing random mixes, which is what I really like.
But I have not bought a single CD that I have not heard in MP3 format first, either through streaming audio (god bless WFMU) or through "piracy". And if I don't like it enough to buy it, I'm not going to listen to it, either.
Since I don't actually have the CDs, I'd be happy to pay the RIAA by jingling a few coins in my pocket and let them listen.
Dumb fucking mafiosos. It's nothing to do with right and wrong, and everything to do with forcing all artists to go through them. You might think of them as the world's most corrupt union. If you really think it's about right and wrong in any way, I've got a bridge to sell you.
I thought that the protocol allows for getting full listings, but that the clients, in general, do not. Gnutella is now at an advantage in that it really is really distributed. People who run big OpenNap nodes might find themselves getting nastygrams.
On the other hand, Hilary Rosen is a gigantic fucking stupid neanderthal cunt who should be shot into outer space naked.
If I were a label musician, well, first off I'd be completely fucked having sold my career to the mafia, but second, I'd be wondering why an organization that I subsidize "for my protection" is spending my money to stop people from hearing about my music.
I haven't bought a single CD in the past two years unless I previewed songs via mp3. I buy far more CDs than the average person. Copyright infringement has made me spend more money, not less, on the CDs I want to own. It's also completely eliminated purchases I'm not satisfied with and made me a happier customer.
It's also let me buy music I never would have known about otherwise, because the music industry does such a shitty job of letting people know about its artists. Imagine a bookstore that had the best-seller list in display cases, the vast majority of their inventory in a back room where you can't see it or know what's there, and no ability to browse whatsoever (though you can listen to someone read chapters aloud in between endless advertisements). You have just imagined the current operation of the music industry and their partners in crime, the playlist managers. And you've just seen how phenomenally fucking stupidly the music industry is behaving; someone has set up a lending library around the corner and they are trying to shut it down on the theory that one person bought it and others are enjoying it for free (the CARP fees for webcasting are an offer to take $1 from the library each time a book is loaned (for free)). Don't tell me that getting mp3s and burning CDs from it is stealing unless you want to get smacked; it's like going to the library and photocopying a book; you aren't likely to do it to save money, because if you could just buy the damn thing it would be much quicker and easier and possibly even cheaper and definitely better than making a copy. ($20 CDs kinda fuck up that equation, but I don't recall the part of copyright law that says you can raise prices indefinitely without consequence)
If the RIAA really went after individuals, they'd be shooting their best customers and their best new promotional vehicle since radio. Really smart!
I agree, up to a point. But an emulator might be an interesting "viral" technique for them. For one thing, it gets onto the desktops where linux might be a threat, like in large installations of workstations for, i dunno, the peruvian govt.
Once they get into your machine that way, well, there's all kinds of little features, e.g. sound, that might "accidentally" break here and there unless you are using a particular linux distro. With whom they would naturally have a partnering agreement, since somebody's got to do the support for that. What's next? Gee, you need to use this "drm-approved" sound driver if you want our emulator to work. Sorry. Pretty soon they've taken over your allegedly free system in any way they please.
It doesn't have to work all that well. It shouldn't, in fact. It should work just well enough that it gets adopted, but badly enough to make sure it doesn't outshine their own OS.
Right. For example, the head count at the Harvard Extension School is much larger than the undergraduate head count. And sometimes, courses are taught by the same professors. And you can enroll for single courses as you wish.
Always check with whatever colleges are local to see what's available.
Though the managers are definitely mostly completely clueless. The fact is that as long as there is a market, there will be commercial versions. But as long as they need it, there will be open source versions. The liability issue is a total red herring, because software licenses generally close off all hope of suing anyone if something goes wrong. And just because you are willing to pay commercial vendors doesn't mean it will sustain their business. But open source support - that's available as long as there is a user base and a few people - or even one - who know what to do.
I've used commercial SSH clients, and I wasn't terribly impressed. But I keep a floppy with Putty on hand.
Nope, there's no fair use of this sort. "One note is too much": ask Biz Markie. So, yes, the copyright was violated 83 times. Of course, you'd have to be criminally insane to believe that this represents the intention of the law or the betterment of civilization, but apparently that's not so hard.
Great, so if I'm at a party at your house and I use your phone to call in a death threat to the President, you should go to jail for having an unsecured phone line, right? Retard.
Very funny. 12000 IIS bugs last week, I STILL get code red probes every day. Off the top of your head, when was the last apache bug like this?
BTW, things like this DO encourage people to upgrade. I had some suspicious signal 11s a couple months ago, and I bet that black hats have been playing around with these exploits for a while.
Now fix your boxes, if you haven't already. Fixes have been available for a week already.
I think you're right. There's no reason to think that life would have been so devastated. Species, yes, but remember that everything that dies leaves an expansion niche for something that survives. It's possible, of course, that you wouldn't have much diversity for a while, but as surviving species expanded into different kinds of enviroments (previously made unavailable due to competing species), you'd see differentiation rather rapidly.
Yeah, I'm sticking to the minimal but polished and useful WindowMaker for now. It doesn't hold my hand, but it doesn't get in my way. If I could settle on a good file manager, I'd forget about gnome and think of it as an application framework for some really good programs. I could care less about the whole desktop thing.
10+ mod points to whoever gets the reference in my first sentence.
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So how did you explain the eBook case to your non-technical friend? It can be quite difficult to do so.
100:1 says this is a sad attempt to boost the stock so some white-collar criminal can sell quick and get rich before it falls again. I wouldn't bet on the SEC looking into it, either. But you could probably buy the stock, wait for CNN or someone else to pick up on this story, watch it rise, then sell it before people realize that overreaching pipsqueak extortionists have no hope of taking on Sony, Adobe, AOL/TimeWarner, Microsoft, etc with a bogus claim to having "invented" something that's in widespread use and later trying to pull a stickup job on the entire digital economy... nhah ghaanna haaayphen. Why should only company executives get to profit off manipulation of stock? But if I were the legal dept of one of those companies, I'd be writing "fuck off" letters right now.
I say the solution is to have the industry dress up like clowns in jackboots. That way we can see Valenti et al for what they really are. Unfortunately, the reasonable voices (such as myself) are unlikely to be heard until these enemies of freedom push society within an inch of permanent intellectual servitude.
That's an interesting site, but did anyone notice that the translations at the bottom of the page are completely different in meaning? I don't know Latin but from comparing and puzzling out the few words I can pick out in the Latin, it kinda looks like both translators are making rather heavy-handed polemical translations. So much for honesty. And to make it more confusing, Cecil the Dope says it is real Latin and that it isn't, but doesn't provide any translation. Hrmph.
It will have a beowulf cluster of them. Can you imagine that?
Like many things, back pain is caused by a number of factors, most of which are poorly understood, yet there are a few good solutions that are routinely ignored.
- Sit with comfortable monitor height and keyboard height. Forearms level, not leaning or craning the neck.
- Get up and stretch periodically. Consider a massage.
- Find a chair that is comfortable.
- Get excercise. You can sit longer if your back muscles are stronger. Try yoga. Read that again: YOU CAN SIT LONGER IF YOUR BACK MUSCLES ARE STRONGER. Try yoga, and look for classes/studios with a lot of people in your age group.
- Acknowledge that it might be psychological. This does not mean "it's in your head": it means that stress will make you hurt, especially if you don't take care of yourself otherwise.
Not exactly rocket science, but it got me back from a back injury and keeps me pain free (as long as I follow my own rulesBut most people don't use an archive that will be readable indefinitely - e.g. mbox - and most people honestly aren't capable of managing such archives. Drive dies? Start over. Hotmail account expires? It's all gone. Guard this stuff closely, we're a long way before preserving these memories is easy or normal.
Close. People use Macs because they like them. People use PCs because they have no choice or because they like "to be on the side that's winning"."
In a recent cabal, the Illuminati pondered ratcheting back some of this new-fangled "freedom" that some people had been enjoying. Apparently the use of such "freedom" has been interfering with some rather important conspiracies recently. The alien landing, the zero-point-energy car, and the reason my sunglasses keep disappearing were safely handled with a cover-up, but some leaders privately worried that one of these days, the Grand Conspiracy of Everything might have less than complete control over the lives of humanity.
Is it true that all Australians are bi-sexual?
Didn't they also pass a law against proving that someone is gay?
Seriously, the article made it sound as if there were misappropriation of photos. Via film, use of someone's likeness in a fictional context has long been legally regarded as wrong - it implies something about someone that's counter to fact, so it doesn't get - and doesn't deserve - the same protection as a street photo in a journalistic context.
It depends on the website's presentation. "See these gayboys" can and should get them into trouble. "Man, these guys make me horny" is legit, though in today's "let's blame the internet" environment, it's still likely to catch shit. I say, "Blame Canada". Why? I'm a dumb American, I confuse Australia with Austria.
But its not enought to suck suds, you have to have Moxie too...
What? A vendor who hides behind draconian EULAs and can't be sued or compelled to follow the law by their own government isn't a good choice?
I agree that NS4 is a piece of shit, but a lot of people have it and won't upgrade because their computer works, and they don't want it getting broken. And you ought to have pity on those who have only dial-up connections and can't spend all night downloading new browsers (but you probably don't and make horribly fat pages). But congrats for being an elitist who hasn't earned the privilege..
gotta agree with you there. most people objecting to perl are straight programmers looking at code written by BOFHs who couldn't care less if you can read their code. But I've seen the code those programmers are writing in a variety of languages and it's no fucking better. And often it's just worse and less concise because of the straitjackets the language puts you in. One would have thought, for instance, that Java would have done better than to repeat all the tired design of the umpteenth homegrown C++ string class, but no such luck; no one else has anything to be proud of (object-oriented shouln't be a synonym for verb-deficient).
I could go on and on but I expect to find Perl in 2023 (Perl 6.20936, btw), I have doubts about any other current language but C. Perl allows for elegance that other languages simply can't (e.g. "next if $foo;" at the beginning of a loop): bad programmers suck no matter what their language.
I also have to agree that a block comment, say /# blah blah #/ is overdue.
The truth is that most of it, I already DO own, but it's easier - and less taxing on my hard drive - to download whatever songs I happen to find than to rip a whole disk. Plus it's more fun for playing random mixes, which is what I really like.
But I have not bought a single CD that I have not heard in MP3 format first, either through streaming audio (god bless WFMU) or through "piracy". And if I don't like it enough to buy it, I'm not going to listen to it, either.
Since I don't actually have the CDs, I'd be happy to pay the RIAA by jingling a few coins in my pocket and let them listen.
Dumb fucking mafiosos. It's nothing to do with right and wrong, and everything to do with forcing all artists to go through them. You might think of them as the world's most corrupt union. If you really think it's about right and wrong in any way, I've got a bridge to sell you.
On the other hand, Hilary Rosen is a gigantic fucking stupid neanderthal cunt who should be shot into outer space naked.
If I were a label musician, well, first off I'd be completely fucked having sold my career to the mafia, but second, I'd be wondering why an organization that I subsidize "for my protection" is spending my money to stop people from hearing about my music.
I haven't bought a single CD in the past two years unless I previewed songs via mp3. I buy far more CDs than the average person. Copyright infringement has made me spend more money, not less, on the CDs I want to own. It's also completely eliminated purchases I'm not satisfied with and made me a happier customer.
It's also let me buy music I never would have known about otherwise, because the music industry does such a shitty job of letting people know about its artists. Imagine a bookstore that had the best-seller list in display cases, the vast majority of their inventory in a back room where you can't see it or know what's there, and no ability to browse whatsoever (though you can listen to someone read chapters aloud in between endless advertisements). You have just imagined the current operation of the music industry and their partners in crime, the playlist managers. And you've just seen how phenomenally fucking stupidly the music industry is behaving; someone has set up a lending library around the corner and they are trying to shut it down on the theory that one person bought it and others are enjoying it for free (the CARP fees for webcasting are an offer to take $1 from the library each time a book is loaned (for free)). Don't tell me that getting mp3s and burning CDs from it is stealing unless you want to get smacked; it's like going to the library and photocopying a book; you aren't likely to do it to save money, because if you could just buy the damn thing it would be much quicker and easier and possibly even cheaper and definitely better than making a copy. ($20 CDs kinda fuck up that equation, but I don't recall the part of copyright law that says you can raise prices indefinitely without consequence)
If the RIAA really went after individuals, they'd be shooting their best customers and their best new promotional vehicle since radio. Really smart!
Once they get into your machine that way, well, there's all kinds of little features, e.g. sound, that might "accidentally" break here and there unless you are using a particular linux distro. With whom they would naturally have a partnering agreement, since somebody's got to do the support for that. What's next? Gee, you need to use this "drm-approved" sound driver if you want our emulator to work. Sorry. Pretty soon they've taken over your allegedly free system in any way they please.
It doesn't have to work all that well. It shouldn't, in fact. It should work just well enough that it gets adopted, but badly enough to make sure it doesn't outshine their own OS.
Always check with whatever colleges are local to see what's available.
I'm still trying figure out how this one will suck a little bit, but less than other systems.
Though the managers are definitely mostly completely clueless. The fact is that as long as there is a market, there will be commercial versions. But as long as they need it, there will be open source versions. The liability issue is a total red herring, because software licenses generally close off all hope of suing anyone if something goes wrong. And just because you are willing to pay commercial vendors doesn't mean it will sustain their business. But open source support - that's available as long as there is a user base and a few people - or even one - who know what to do.
I've used commercial SSH clients, and I wasn't terribly impressed. But I keep a floppy with Putty on hand.
Nope, there's no fair use of this sort. "One note is too much": ask Biz Markie. So, yes, the copyright was violated 83 times. Of course, you'd have to be criminally insane to believe that this represents the intention of the law or the betterment of civilization, but apparently that's not so hard.
Great, so if I'm at a party at your house and I use your phone to call in a death threat to the President, you should go to jail for having an unsecured phone line, right? Retard.
Very funny. 12000 IIS bugs last week, I STILL get code red probes every day. Off the top of your head, when was the last apache bug like this? BTW, things like this DO encourage people to upgrade. I had some suspicious signal 11s a couple months ago, and I bet that black hats have been playing around with these exploits for a while. Now fix your boxes, if you haven't already. Fixes have been available for a week already.
I think you're right. There's no reason to think that life would have been so devastated. Species, yes, but remember that everything that dies leaves an expansion niche for something that survives. It's possible, of course, that you wouldn't have much diversity for a while, but as surviving species expanded into different kinds of enviroments (previously made unavailable due to competing species), you'd see differentiation rather rapidly.
Yeah, I'm sticking to the minimal but polished and useful WindowMaker for now. It doesn't hold my hand, but it doesn't get in my way. If I could settle on a good file manager, I'd forget about gnome and think of it as an application framework for some really good programs. I could care less about the whole desktop thing.
10+ mod points to whoever gets the reference in my first sentence.