I think many people consider software to be abandoned when it is no longer available for purchase. For example, Broderbund no longer sells Ancient Art of War, one of the best RTS games ever released. If you can't buy it, but want to play it, what do you do?
The difference between a game and an OS, is that there really isn't a replacement for AAoW, but there clearly is for Win95. One could argue that a different game could replace the old one, but I'm not trying to argue symantics here. The spirit of the idea is that the owner of the copyright would probably allow people to trade away at will, if it didn't invalidate their copyright. I think this is because they are not trying to market a competing product. Versus Microsoft, who wouldn't want someone to trade their software even if they could retain a valid copyright over it, because they are trying to make money with a competing product.
Thats my take on it anyways.
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I believe the U.S. is not allowed to use.50 caliber or greater weapons on human targets, only equipment. I am told that a canteen is often considered equipment when carried by a potential human target.
Not only are they not idiots, they actually seem to care about how their engine works. I emailed them a while back about a page that turned up very high in a search result, that was obviously not relevant at all. Not only did they look into the problem, but they emailed me back to tell me it was fixed. Think you'll get that kind of service from yahoo?
Holy porn batman! Can you imagine what will happen when the adult entertainment industry gets its mits on one of these?
It does sound pretty cool actually. I could see waking up with the weather, my days schedule, slashdot headlines, and maybe the latest pics of Natalie Portman on my ceiling.
I'm pretty sure that out of the hundreds of thousands of films out there, a handful could be found that have relevant educational content.
As far as the students having more vivid imaginations than anything they could see in a movie, you are missing the point. If the teacher gets fired for showing something with sex in it, then they can't show it. It may be tame by your standards, but she still can't show it. The rest of the file may be great, but she still can't show it with the sex in it.
One of the things she likes to teach her students deals with propoganda, and the media. Some of the films she shows are not shown for their accurate portrayal of history, but for their gross misrepresentations of it. Too bad I can't think of any examples right now...
It just amazes me that people don't see the inherent usefulness of a tool that allows a teacher more flexibility in the materials they use within the scope of what the community will allow.
Ok, so while you are trying to change the community standards, some works of art must be left off limits then?
Why not use this as a tool to help change the standards. Imagine this, using this device, the teacher shows an otherwise unacceptable movie to her students. Some of them go home and talk about what they saw with their parents. One or two of the parents are interested enough in what their kids are saying to go out and rent the movie. They watch it without the rating block, maybe even with their kids present. Over time, the kids are teaching their parents the same things they are learning in school, and maybe even changing their parents minds about some things. Slowly, community standards change, or at least it becomes acceptable to show a particular film uncut, because most of the people in the community are now accepting of it.
Or, you just never show that movie. (I'm taking my ball home because you won't play by my rules)
I couldn't agree with you more, that censorship and prohibition is bad. Does that mean the everyone should always be able to watch and listen to anything? People are not all the same, and not all children are raised the same. What is good for one child to see/hear may not be for another in the same situation.
Beyond that, where do you all get your freaking rose colored glasses, and how can I get some? Why is everything all or nothing in the slashdot world?
Damn, are slashdot readers sarcastic and pessimistic or what? I think the first 25 comments I read thought this was a laughable product.
I see a real use in this. My wife is a highschool history teacher. There are many movies that she would like to be able to show, but because of some bad language, nudity, or violence, she is not able to use the films. Community standards are a bitch. If she could pop a DVD in, hit the PG rating and let it roll, that would be great.
Beyond that, there are some movies that I think my nieces and nephews would enjoy that I have seen, that have bits in them that are just not appropriate at their age. This would help with that too.
I'll probably get flamed all to hell from the slashdot (everything must be free!) zealots now...
You have to take anything you hear from the FAA in the first couple of hours with a grain of salt. This being a federal holiday, there is nothing more than a skeleton crew at most FAA locations. None of the upper management are in today. They'll be in, but it will take them some time.
There are probably only 100 people on site at the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center right now, out of 5000 or so... And most of them are security.
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Actually they don't. There is a transponder which allows the aircraft to be found, but the actual voice recorder and flight recorder have no such tracking device.
That would work, but I'd prefer something that floods the cabin with a gas that knocks everyone unconcious in a hurry.
Just make it a policy, in the event that an air emergency is declared due to a high-jacking, the cabin will be flooded with knockout gas, and the plane will be landed at the nearest available runway. Sure you might lose a couple of people as terrorists try to kill some off to get the pilot to comply, but once the terrorists realize that it doesn't matter what they do in the cabin, they might stop trying.
Hey, thats a pretty good idea. The key could be remotely disabled in the event the pilot is incapacitated. It would at least allow the ground to determine if they want to allow the plane to be flown or not.
Heck, I'd be all for some sort of remote control system controlled by the military. Maybe tie something with a *very* limited range that requires an F-15 pilot to bring his plane to within a couple of hundred yards or something. It would have to use strong encryption obviously, but it could probably be done in a reasonable amount of time, and for reasonable funding. They could use a lot of the same systems as they have for the remote spy-planes.
It wouldn't bother me a bit that my plane was being landed by a fighter-jock with several thousand hours behind a stick...
I kind of doubt that the air traffic control guys would notice any change in voice. Think about how hectic it must be at the airports in question. How many different airplanes, and how many different pilots/copilots they must talk to. If the hijacker used a nuetral American accent when speakin, I really don't think it would have been noticed.
The transponders were reported to have been turned off. I imagine the pilots set them as they were pre-flighting, and then the terrorists took over before they had a chance to punch in the hijack code. Then the terrorists turned them off.
I hadn't heard the reports that the hijack code was detected from a transponder before takeoff. That is interesting.
There is, IIRC they just set the transponder code to 7600. This immediately identifies the plane as being hijacked to the air traffic controllers. It isn't complicated either, just key in the code, and hit send.
Since this never happened, I'm pretty sure the pilots were taken out before the planes took off, and the terrorists were the ones in control from the beginning. That is a pretty freaking scary thought.
Just imagine what must have be going through his head if he didn't do it? Sheer abject terror would be my guess.
I do hope that whatever the American response is, there is not a lot of collateral damage. A surgical strike that only removes Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran from the world scene would probably be the best we can hope for.
I can only imagine what the members of the American forces in the middle east must be thinking right now...
Does this mean that I can find any decent pci video card that is supported under linux, and use it with my sunblade100? It has a pci bus, but all the video cards that sun sells suck in terms of frame rate. I can't play any video full screen on my 24" monitor unless I want to watch a slide show.
I've been following this case since it came out, and I get a sick feeling everytime I read something about it. As I read through the arguments people have posted I can't think of anything really original to say, both sides seem to be covered pretty well. What this leaves me with is a sense of dread and helplessness at what my country is doing to itself. I feel like there is this huge injustice happening right here and now, and the only people that seem upset about it are the geeks that read slashdot. Everything seems to be boiling down to those with the most money have the power, and everyone else is going to be screwed, no matter how correct either morally or legally we might be.
This is purely anecdotal, but I believe it is illegal to boobie-trap personal property to prevent theft. So you can get sued by the prick stealing your car stereo when he loses three fingers to the razor blades you attached to the underside of the chassis.
(American point of view only here, I don't have anecdotal evidence for other regions)
I'm pretty sure that if M$ wrote something that would wipe your system if you installed a stolen copy of office, that it would be illegal. Otherwise, they would be doing it!
I recently received the sunfire 280r I ordered for use as a network management station. One of the first things I noticed was how fast it was able to un-gzip files. It sounds silly, but I didn't think it worked the first time I ran the command, the prompt just came back too fast. I thought, "hey, what the hells wrong with gzip?", then realized that it was just a lot faster than the other systems I had been using.
I know its just anectdotal, but hey, some of the best stuff is!
Why does paying for the site require that it change? Its not like slashdot is claiming to be something it isn't (CNN/NYTimes/BBCOnline/.../). You know what you get for your money ahead of time, so if you don't like it, don't subscribe.
Oh, and I think they should charge based on user number, so Speare pays 84249*.01 per year or something.
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I think many people consider software to be abandoned when it is no longer available for purchase. For example, Broderbund no longer sells Ancient Art of War, one of the best RTS games ever released. If you can't buy it, but want to play it, what do you do?
The difference between a game and an OS, is that there really isn't a replacement for AAoW, but there clearly is for Win95. One could argue that a different game could replace the old one, but I'm not trying to argue symantics here. The spirit of the idea is that the owner of the copyright would probably allow people to trade away at will, if it didn't invalidate their copyright. I think this is because they are not trying to market a competing product. Versus Microsoft, who wouldn't want someone to trade their software even if they could retain a valid copyright over it, because they are trying to make money with a competing product.
Thats my take on it anyways.
I believe the U.S. is not allowed to use .50 caliber or greater weapons on human targets, only equipment. I am told that a canteen is often considered equipment when carried by a potential human target.
Better yet, while trying to prove to a manager that some of our NT (MCSE) admins don't have a clue, this was heard:
NT guy: "Somethings wrong with the network, I can't access my share drive."
LAN guy: "Can you ping your default gateway?"
NT guy: "What address is that?"
LAN guy: (mumbling something about bodily functions and low SAT scores) "Its 172.358.44.261"
NT guy: (remember, he passed Microsofts TCP/IP course) "Nope, it doesn't respond."
And that won't work reliably for 100 autonegotiate ports either. We're having to rewire a 5000 node campus right now because of it.
Why couldn't intelligent life evolve on a gas giant? Who says you have to have solid ground for intelligence to be present?
Not only are they not idiots, they actually seem to care about how their engine works. I emailed them a while back about a page that turned up very high in a search result, that was obviously not relevant at all. Not only did they look into the problem, but they emailed me back to tell me it was fixed. Think you'll get that kind of service from yahoo?
Holy porn batman! Can you imagine what will happen when the adult entertainment industry gets its mits on one of these?
It does sound pretty cool actually. I could see waking up with the weather, my days schedule, slashdot headlines, and maybe the latest pics of Natalie Portman on my ceiling.
I'm pretty sure that out of the hundreds of thousands of films out there, a handful could be found that have relevant educational content.
As far as the students having more vivid imaginations than anything they could see in a movie, you are missing the point. If the teacher gets fired for showing something with sex in it, then they can't show it. It may be tame by your standards, but she still can't show it. The rest of the file may be great, but she still can't show it with the sex in it.
One of the things she likes to teach her students deals with propoganda, and the media. Some of the films she shows are not shown for their accurate portrayal of history, but for their gross misrepresentations of it. Too bad I can't think of any examples right now...
It just amazes me that people don't see the inherent usefulness of a tool that allows a teacher more flexibility in the materials they use within the scope of what the community will allow.
Ok, so while you are trying to change the community standards, some works of art must be left off limits then?
Why not use this as a tool to help change the standards. Imagine this, using this device, the teacher shows an otherwise unacceptable movie to her students. Some of them go home and talk about what they saw with their parents. One or two of the parents are interested enough in what their kids are saying to go out and rent the movie. They watch it without the rating block, maybe even with their kids present. Over time, the kids are teaching their parents the same things they are learning in school, and maybe even changing their parents minds about some things. Slowly, community standards change, or at least it becomes acceptable to show a particular film uncut, because most of the people in the community are now accepting of it.
Or, you just never show that movie. (I'm taking my ball home because you won't play by my rules)
I couldn't agree with you more, that censorship and prohibition is bad. Does that mean the everyone should always be able to watch and listen to anything? People are not all the same, and not all children are raised the same. What is good for one child to see/hear may not be for another in the same situation.
Beyond that, where do you all get your freaking rose colored glasses, and how can I get some? Why is everything all or nothing in the slashdot world?
Damn, are slashdot readers sarcastic and pessimistic or what? I think the first 25 comments I read thought this was a laughable product.
I see a real use in this. My wife is a highschool history teacher. There are many movies that she would like to be able to show, but because of some bad language, nudity, or violence, she is not able to use the films. Community standards are a bitch. If she could pop a DVD in, hit the PG rating and let it roll, that would be great.
Beyond that, there are some movies that I think my nieces and nephews would enjoy that I have seen, that have bits in them that are just not appropriate at their age. This would help with that too.
I'll probably get flamed all to hell from the slashdot (everything must be free!) zealots now...
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You have to take anything you hear from the FAA in the first couple of hours with a grain of salt. This being a federal holiday, there is nothing more than a skeleton crew at most FAA locations. None of the upper management are in today. They'll be in, but it will take them some time.
There are probably only 100 people on site at the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center right now, out of 5000 or so... And most of them are security.
Actually they don't. There is a transponder which allows the aircraft to be found, but the actual voice recorder and flight recorder have no such tracking device.
That would work, but I'd prefer something that floods the cabin with a gas that knocks everyone unconcious in a hurry.
Just make it a policy, in the event that an air emergency is declared due to a high-jacking, the cabin will be flooded with knockout gas, and the plane will be landed at the nearest available runway. Sure you might lose a couple of people as terrorists try to kill some off to get the pilot to comply, but once the terrorists realize that it doesn't matter what they do in the cabin, they might stop trying.
Hey, thats a pretty good idea. The key could be remotely disabled in the event the pilot is incapacitated. It would at least allow the ground to determine if they want to allow the plane to be flown or not.
Heck, I'd be all for some sort of remote control system controlled by the military. Maybe tie something with a *very* limited range that requires an F-15 pilot to bring his plane to within a couple of hundred yards or something. It would have to use strong encryption obviously, but it could probably be done in a reasonable amount of time, and for reasonable funding. They could use a lot of the same systems as they have for the remote spy-planes.
It wouldn't bother me a bit that my plane was being landed by a fighter-jock with several thousand hours behind a stick...
I kind of doubt that the air traffic control guys would notice any change in voice. Think about how hectic it must be at the airports in question. How many different airplanes, and how many different pilots/copilots they must talk to. If the hijacker used a nuetral American accent when speakin, I really don't think it would have been noticed.
The transponders were reported to have been turned off. I imagine the pilots set them as they were pre-flighting, and then the terrorists took over before they had a chance to punch in the hijack code. Then the terrorists turned them off.
I hadn't heard the reports that the hijack code was detected from a transponder before takeoff. That is interesting.
There is, IIRC they just set the transponder code to 7600. This immediately identifies the plane as being hijacked to the air traffic controllers. It isn't complicated either, just key in the code, and hit send.
Since this never happened, I'm pretty sure the pilots were taken out before the planes took off, and the terrorists were the ones in control from the beginning. That is a pretty freaking scary thought.
Just imagine what must have be going through his head if he didn't do it? Sheer abject terror would be my guess.
I do hope that whatever the American response is, there is not a lot of collateral damage. A surgical strike that only removes Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran from the world scene would probably be the best we can hope for.
I can only imagine what the members of the American forces in the middle east must be thinking right now...
Does this mean that I can find any decent pci video card that is supported under linux, and use it with my sunblade100? It has a pci bus, but all the video cards that sun sells suck in terms of frame rate. I can't play any video full screen on my 24" monitor unless I want to watch a slide show.
I've been following this case since it came out, and I get a sick feeling everytime I read something about it. As I read through the arguments people have posted I can't think of anything really original to say, both sides seem to be covered pretty well. What this leaves me with is a sense of dread and helplessness at what my country is doing to itself. I feel like there is this huge injustice happening right here and now, and the only people that seem upset about it are the geeks that read slashdot. Everything seems to be boiling down to those with the most money have the power, and everyone else is going to be screwed, no matter how correct either morally or legally we might be.
Am I alone here? Does anyone else feel like this?
Yes but.
This is purely anecdotal, but I believe it is illegal to boobie-trap personal property to prevent theft. So you can get sued by the prick stealing your car stereo when he loses three fingers to the razor blades you attached to the underside of the chassis.
(American point of view only here, I don't have anecdotal evidence for other regions)
I'm pretty sure that if M$ wrote something that would wipe your system if you installed a stolen copy of office, that it would be illegal. Otherwise, they would be doing it!
I recently received the sunfire 280r I ordered for use as a network management station. One of the first things I noticed was how fast it was able to un-gzip files. It sounds silly, but I didn't think it worked the first time I ran the command, the prompt just came back too fast. I thought, "hey, what the hells wrong with gzip?", then realized that it was just a lot faster than the other systems I had been using.
I know its just anectdotal, but hey, some of the best stuff is!
Why does paying for the site require that it change? Its not like slashdot is claiming to be something it isn't (CNN/NYTimes/BBCOnline/.../). You know what you get for your money ahead of time, so if you don't like it, don't subscribe.
Oh, and I think they should charge based on user number, so Speare pays 84249*.01 per year or something.
In a word, YES!