Their patent could be nullified because they didn't metion it ?
You interpret the mere omission of the patent declaration as a free license to use said patent in any application ? I seriously doubt any judge will follow you in this.
And, don't forget, if the US legal system has made anything clear, it's that it will stick to patents until the argument go into absurdities (and even then, remember one-click ?)
But the point is, you are insane if you think that argument you just made will hold up.
Obviously the court accepts the dmca, a court does not have the authority to change laws (creative interpretations are one way to go about slightly changing it, but more than a very minor change is obviously out of the question)
Too bad neurons do not discharge electrons, they just cause a magnetic wave to propagate through a kalium/natrium solution with a membrane between them. There won't be many electrones moved around, and they'll all move nearly perpendicular on the direction of the fired neuron.
Ok let's give you the same treatment. Every one of your bad mistakes. Did you ever had a fight ? Did he hit back (harder I hope, as you probably deserved) ? Did you hit him back again ? again harder I hope ? You can obviously see where this is going.
What matters in the justice system is not revenge. That's for 12 year old kids and "defense" departments. It's minimizing damage. The object is not to hurt anyone unless it's necessary.
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If you think this is the case you should not live in a capitalistic country. It's just not the way things work.
You must tolerate inefficiency, stupidity, etc for a while, after which you MAY get the chance to undo some of the damage.
You need to convince the people who don't know their own field and the people with wrong (as in not conforming to your view of the world) assumptions both think of you as useful and not dangerous to them (I'm still working on the not dangerous part).
Outclassing people in an attempt to gain something will not work. Even though it constructs a better product it's a destructive action, which not only shows that you have the ability to attack others, but that you're good enough to succeed. So don't do it.
A good product is very simple, in the end gain > losses. I believe netscape 6.0 does not satisfy that condition. Even though the code is good (I've had a demo, and indeed, it works very nicely, it all clicks together perfectly) it is a complete disaster.
The "good" product managed to destroy the entire product line of the company creating it. It may be interesting from an artistic point of view (and therefore appeal to open source programmers) but the product sucks.
A startup saving money by making use of a few under-developed apps. How is this a bad thing ? It may cost more in the (very) long term but if it's basically free (boss makes it himself) and lessens the personnel costs in the near term, it's obviously a VERY good thing.
Bad quality products can be very good business-wise too you know.
Just as I am very curious why there are always individuals on slashdot that question the integrity of the whole group based on reactions of (different) members.
XBOX hacking good : YES (xxx %) NO (xxx %) Camera hacking cool : YES (xxx %) NO (xxx %)
This is a forum, with many people, some agree with you, others don't (even on this point there will be people who agree and people who don't). Some may be hypocritical, but I don't agree with you on this point, where do you see the many people saying this is a bad thing ?
This is not the American government, 2 groups of people having different viewpoints actually results in a mixed reaction of the whole. (which is a statement made to question just how representative american representative "democracy" is, wanna bet there will be 2 viewpoints on this as well ?)
Seriously though, koffice will use the exact same fileformat as staroffice. Is that wonderful enough for you ?
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'Because it tracks where they go every day it would mean they would not have to be picked up every time there is an offence committed,' Wyre said.
This logically implies that unregistered "sex offenders" WILL be picked on every time there is an offence committed, most likely before any serious researching is done.
So when this is extended beyond known offenders that means it will be YOU being tracked, your every move logged.
To be entirely fair, because of the way UDP nat has to work (and because you can lie over the originating address of a packet) you can still get them to open a connection.
This is obviously hacking, and should (and is where I am natted) a punishable offence.
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Their patent could be nullified because they didn't metion it ?
You interpret the mere omission of the patent declaration as a free license to use said patent in any application ? I seriously doubt any judge will follow you in this.
And, don't forget, if the US legal system has made anything clear, it's that it will stick to patents until the argument go into absurdities (and even then, remember one-click ?)
But the point is, you are insane if you think that argument you just made will hold up.
Obviously the court accepts the dmca, a court does not have the authority to change laws (creative interpretations are one way to go about slightly changing it, but more than a very minor change is obviously out of the question)
You do NOT need deCSS to create an image of a dvdrom, obviously. A 1-1 copy will work fine.
Too bad neurons do not discharge electrons, they just cause a magnetic wave to propagate through a kalium/natrium solution with a membrane between them. There won't be many electrones moved around, and they'll all move nearly perpendicular on the direction of the fired neuron.
the purpose of nat "firewalls" (which is what most people run) is to make computers unaddressable.
Take that out and you're fucked on the firewall part.
So this is a non-issue. There are already running programs, so ...
Ok let's give you the same treatment. Every one of your bad mistakes. Did you ever had a fight ? Did he hit back (harder I hope, as you probably deserved) ? Did you hit him back again ? again harder I hope ? You can obviously see where this is going.
What matters in the justice system is not revenge. That's for 12 year old kids and "defense" departments. It's minimizing damage. The object is not to hurt anyone unless it's necessary.
If you think this is the case you should not live in a capitalistic country. It's just not the way things work.
You must tolerate inefficiency, stupidity, etc for a while, after which you MAY get the chance to undo some of the damage.
You need to convince the people who don't know their own field and the people with wrong (as in not conforming to your view of the world) assumptions both think of you as useful and not dangerous to them (I'm still working on the not dangerous part).
Outclassing people in an attempt to gain something will not work. Even though it constructs a better product it's a destructive action, which not only shows that you have the ability to attack others, but that you're good enough to succeed. So don't do it.
A good product is very simple, in the end gain > losses. I believe netscape 6.0 does not satisfy that condition. Even though the code is good (I've had a demo, and indeed, it works very nicely, it all clicks together perfectly) it is a complete disaster.
The "good" product managed to destroy the entire product line of the company creating it. It may be interesting from an artistic point of view (and therefore appeal to open source programmers) but the product sucks.
Why don't you ask the people who are supposed to provide you with that ?
Hint : the address starts with "white house"
Exactly why do you think the US has 100 times more prisoners per resident than some other countries ?
A startup saving money by making use of a few under-developed apps. How is this a bad thing ? It may cost more in the (very) long term but if it's basically free (boss makes it himself) and lessens the personnel costs in the near term, it's obviously a VERY good thing.
Bad quality products can be very good business-wise too you know.
Just as I am very curious why there are always individuals on slashdot that question the integrity of the whole group based on reactions of (different) members.
XBOX hacking good : YES (xxx %) NO (xxx %)
Camera hacking cool : YES (xxx %) NO (xxx %)
This is a forum, with many people, some agree with you, others don't (even on this point there will be people who agree and people who don't). Some may be hypocritical, but I don't agree with you on this point, where do you see the many people saying this is a bad thing ?
This is not the American government, 2 groups of people having different viewpoints actually results in a mixed reaction of the whole. (which is a statement made to question just how representative american representative "democracy" is, wanna bet there will be 2 viewpoints on this as well ?)
Except of course in this case a technical "security measure" stands between you and your own fotos.
So there is a circumvention of a security measure in this case.
As soon as they release the source, the community maintains it. Try that with windows drivers.
People are not on internet for businesses, they're (when they're windows machines work for once) on the internet for eachother.
A commercial internet will die the same way all the others have (compuserve comes to mind).
Privatization is what this is all about. The us dept of commerce decided to privatise the root dns, and see what good it does.
OBVIOUSLY companies abuse priveleged positions to make money. For a lot it's the only reason they make money in the first place.
Remember ... if it's not meant to do DRM then they need to give the user the ability to lie (via a physical switch on the machine for example).
They don't do that, so you can be sure they want it for DRM and for DRM only.
Please include the tactic apache would use to force users to upgrade, AND the tactic to prevent a fork of the apache project.
Otherwise, you're full of shit
There is at least one gaping hole in your argument, namely that blacklists are also suppressing free speech. You Suck.
How easy is it to install applications that don't belong on that os anyway ?
eg.
How easy is it to install trillian on mac os X ?
Well can't help you with Microsoft there, but on the Santa Claus issue I am somewhat of a pragmatist.
As long as they bring me presents they (obviously) exist.
does something that they think will bring in more money ... I am shocked.
You should be thankful (to god that is, not to them) they're only redirecting UNUSED domains.
Now would somebody please whisper that there is oil in the dns system so he'll get the department of offence^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdefense involved.
They lied ;-p
Seriously though, koffice will use the exact same fileformat as staroffice. Is that wonderful enough for you ?
'Because it tracks where they go every day it would mean they would not have to be picked up every time there is an offence committed,' Wyre said.
This logically implies that unregistered "sex offenders" WILL be picked on every time there is an offence committed, most likely before any serious researching is done.
So when this is extended beyond known offenders that means it will be YOU being tracked, your every move logged.
To be entirely fair, because of the way UDP nat has to work (and because you can lie over the originating address of a packet) you can still get them to open a connection.
This is obviously hacking, and should (and is where I am natted) a punishable offence.