Or name the virus DMCA.w32 so that the headlines can read DMCA Hits Computers Nationwide . Just a thought.
Hmm, not a bad idea, a VB script virus that when executed, not only replicates itself by mailing itself to everyone in the victims address book, but also sets the victims browser home page to an Anti-DMCA website. The down side here is the site chosen may be charged with releasing the virus and the media will imply that since evil hackers hate the DMCA, that the DMCA must be good.
"Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee has asked state prosecutors to seek an injunction blocking the launch of Windows XP. His reasoning?
The bribe^H^H^H^H^Campaign Contribution check from Bill Gates must have bounced.
Bah! I'm waiting for the day when I can actually vote online.
This is a bad idea, people need to goto a voting station where the can be have some security and privacy. If voting is moved to the internet, security becomes a major issue, it has been proven many times now, when Hackers decide to break something, it ususally breaks. Also if everyone is voting online, how many people will have their spouses looking over their shoulders, or Bosses or Union Thugs ?? I don't even like the idea of electionic voting systems, because there is no paper trail, just because I click on Nader, does not mean the program will register Nader and I will have no way to prove it later.. I say go back to the printed ballot and a ink pen.
The sad truth is, the RIAA has already bought the Judge off, who will after much "Careful Consideration" throw the case out and will never get to trial. Mark my words the RIAA's lawyers are too smart for this.
What happened is Microsoft tried to Embrace and Extend Java and Sun was having none of that. Sun sued Microsoft, not to keep them from bundling it, but to force them to make MS Java 100% compatible with the standards set forth by Sun and agreed to by Microsoft when the licensed Java from Sun. The bundling part of it is just Microsoft thowing a temper tantrum.
They held Kevin Mitnick for over 4 years without bail. Of course he was a felon who had fled before, so that was understandable. However taking over four years for the criminal case to come to trial is neither fair nor speedy and is therefore unconstitutional. He is one guy who should get a good lawyer and sue the government what they did to him, but it was probably part of his plea bargin, that he could not bring a civil suit.
If he isn't an American citizen, then the Bill of Rights doesn't apply to him.
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights applies to everyone who resides in the United States. Even if he does not live here, he is visiting, while he is here he is entitled to the same treatment as anyone else, his citizenship has no bearing on this at all. He is innocent until proven guilty and has the right not to incriminate himself. He is entitled to a Lawyer and a fair and speedy trial. Now if only we could get those rights enforced. Otherwise the INS would deal with illegal aliens with machine guns.
Indeed. Fortunately, I had the distinctive pleasure of being able to put this guy's pink slip right into his inbox the next day.
WOW, I am glad I don't work for you and I feel very bad for anyone who does. Not only are you closed minded about new ideas, but you fire people for having new ideas and to top that off you aren't even man enough to fire them in person, you send them email. Nice Guy
I know I should not feed the trolls, some times I can not resist.
We just got a Linux machine. Coincidentally a customer just asked us to put stuff on RH. What a mess. If this is wht it's like now I grateful I never surcumbed to the temptation to give it a try in it's earlier incarnations.
"Jerry Butler in his book "Raw Talent" discussed the inequity of pay for porn actors versus actresses. He claimed that actresses made in the $1000-1500 range as their day rate, which the male actors made about a third of that, $300-500 a day. "
Lets face it, most men would do it for a Ham sandwich.
Perhaps I will write a stupid little program that draws ASCII lines on the screen by moving the cursor around and pressing the "- | \/" keys, I will call it ASCII Illustrator and I will release it under the GPL. Then when they sick thier dogs on me, I can tell them to screw off, the word "Illustrator" is a common use word and they can not trademark it anymore than Intel could trademark "486".
Geez, the company that made my VCR seems to be doing just fine without requiring me to subscribe to a service, or stiffing me for a monthly fee...I guess TiVo's business model must suck the high hard one.
Have you ever tried to call the company that makes your VCR and ask them to record a show for you, because the time changed and you forgot to reset the timer ? Chances are good they would laugh at you. For that $10 a month fee (which is hardly stiffling), my TiVO records the TV shows I like and even knows when they have been prempted so I don't miss the last 15 minutes (I hate that). I can set it up to record shows with certain actors or directors. It makes some pretty good guesses about shows I might like to watch and records them, based on what It knows I like to watch. It use to be I paid $65 a month for 200 channels of Digital cable and nothing was ever on. Now with TiVO there is always something waiting for me when I get home from work. This works so well for me I bought the lifetime subscription. I highly recomend the TiVO, because once you've had one you never want to go back.
And are you fine waiting for fixes for features that don't exactly work? For instance, can StarOffice actually load a PowerPoint presentation without massive font and style corruption, or is it still broken?
All of this is nonsence. If by time you mean installing and configuring Linux, I can buy a preinstalled Linux box and at that point it is no more difficult to configure and use than Windows. Even if I am installing Linux from scratch, it is still no more difficult than installing Windows from scratch. Anyone who says differently has A. Never installed Linux, B. Never installed Windows or C. Never installed either Linux or Windows. As for bandwidth, I can order almost any Linux Distribution from CheapBytes for $3.95. The problem you are having with StarOffice is easily fixed, don't use PowerPoint in the first place, use StarOffice.
How is M$ going to enforce this 2 install limit?
through the net? a cd is a read only media right?
I gather from various news articles on this subject, when you did a reinstall your system would immeadiatly connect to the internet and transmit your COA back to Microsoft and if this was reinstall# 3, Microsoft would refuse to validate the install and WinXP would refuse to fucntion without a validated COA. If the system could not connect to the internet, it would give you, what Microsoft would consider a reasonable time period, say 15 days, to connect and get validated or again WinXP would stop working. This is also how the subscription would work, after 350 days, WinXP would warn you to update your subscription within 15 days, ie buy a new validation or it stops working until you pay for the upgrade.
and the (previous) remedy was to re-install, you can only do this twice?
The initial install at the factory will count as 1 install, so you will only get 1 reinstall. The upside is with the new subscriber system, you will have to upgrade every year anyway, so you should get an extra reinstall with each upgrade.
..or else it is automatically considered illegitimate if it could contribute in any way to something illegal.
I think most everyone is missing the fact that P2P has been with us since the beginning of the Internet. The day after the Internet came online with 4 nodes, one of those nodes became an FTP server. P2P is filesharing, and is nothing more than methods of transfering data from one person or organization to another person or organization and I use this legitimently every single day. Is it not P2P when I download the latest Linux kernel or grab RedHat 7.1 iso. Not to mention the fact that I use Samba to transfer files from my Linux box to my Wifes Windows box on my home network.
The problem isn't that there aren't any legitiment uses for P2P, because there are plenty. The problem is we are trying to find a legitiment use for P2P which justifies downloading music, the copyright holder may not want downloaded from Napster or Gnutella.
I have a sister who is a teacher. At this school, every teacher is required to make and post rules for the classroom, amoung my sister's rules are:
These rules sound fair and just to me, but I should point out they are not the ten Commandments, which starts out with
I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.
This does not sound fair and just to me, this sounds like persectution of those who are not Jewish or Christian.
How can we at once remain religiously neutral and yet still introduce moral topics that often are intertwined with larger spirtual and religious issues?
Religion does not have a monopoly on moral issues. It is very easy to introduce moral topics in a secular way, instead of God punishing the wicked, society will do the punishing.
We don't need seperation of church and state. I'm all for prayer in schools, ten commandments in the courthouse, etc. That's what our country was founded on. Religious freedom, not religious seperation from society.
If hanging the ten commandments the court house and prayer in school encouraged religious freedom, I'd be all for it. The problem is that neither of these do. Prayer in school subjects non christian students to harassment because they are different. A Judge who posts religious icons in his court room is not likely to be a fair and impartial Judge, he is showing right up front that he is incapable of leaving his prejudices at home or that odd need christians have to force thier own brand of morailty down everyone elses throat.
I would be interested to know how you would feel if you ended up in a court room as a defendent and on the wall was hanging a passage from the Koran or a sign that read "God is dead, so you have to deal with me."
The DMCA is Unconstitutional and itself illegal and UnAmerican. Posting the DeCSS code is an act of Civil Disobediance against this very bad law. Civil Disobedience is an American tradition dating back to the Boston Tea Party, I doubt you would argue the Founding Fathers were wrong nor do I suspect you think the Civil Rights movement of the 60's was wrong either. Some times we have to take the fight to the streets and alleys otherwise things don't change and this is one of those times.
What I felt was inefficient was all the manageability and configuration.
Perhaps it is a matter of taste. I have absolutly no difficulty managing and/or configuring even a Debian box. The configuration files all more or less follow the same format and is just a matter of setting the proper variables, the important variables are usually clearly documented within the config file itself or in the man page.
I switched from Linux to Windows back in 1996. Haven't looked back since.
If you haven't tried Linux since 1996, you are in no postition to make judgments on the current state of Linux. That is like judging Windows 2000 based on Windows 95. I would be interested to hear what you felt was inefficient about the Unix model was in 1996, maybe some or all of these problems have been addressed.
Porn is a 14 billion USD business in America alone.
I wonder if the Politicians understand the making porn illegal, or unfairly regulating it, would cause further damage to our already slowing economy. 14 Billion dollars of lost revenue and thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of lost jobs is alot of damage. Of course GW could always try to make up for the lost revenue by drilling for more oil in Alaska.
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Or name the virus DMCA.w32 so that the headlines can read DMCA Hits Computers Nationwide . Just a thought.
Hmm, not a bad idea, a VB script virus that when executed, not only replicates itself by mailing itself to everyone in the victims address book, but also sets the victims browser home page to an Anti-DMCA website. The down side here is the site chosen may be charged with releasing the virus and the media will imply that since evil hackers hate the DMCA, that the DMCA must be good.
I wonder when Microsoft is going to have Linux declared a Windows Circumvention Device and have Linus jailed under the DMCA.
"Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee has asked state prosecutors to seek an injunction blocking the launch of Windows XP. His reasoning?
The bribe^H^H^H^H^Campaign Contribution check from Bill Gates must have bounced.
Bah! I'm waiting for the day when I can actually vote online.
This is a bad idea, people need to goto a voting station where the can be have some security and privacy. If voting is moved to the internet, security becomes a major issue, it has been proven many times now, when Hackers decide to break something, it ususally breaks. Also if everyone is voting online, how many people will have their spouses looking over their shoulders, or Bosses or Union Thugs ?? I don't even like the idea of electionic voting systems, because there is no paper trail, just because I click on Nader, does not mean the program will register Nader and I will have no way to prove it later.. I say go back to the printed ballot and a ink pen.
The sad truth is, the RIAA has already bought the Judge off, who will after much "Careful Consideration" throw the case out and will never get to trial. Mark my words the RIAA's lawyers are too smart for this.
What happened is Microsoft tried to Embrace and Extend Java and Sun was having none of that. Sun sued Microsoft, not to keep them from bundling it, but to force them to make MS Java 100% compatible with the standards set forth by Sun and agreed to by Microsoft when the licensed Java from Sun. The bundling part of it is just Microsoft thowing a temper tantrum.
They held Kevin Mitnick for over 4 years without bail. Of course he was a felon who had fled before, so that was understandable. However taking over four years for the criminal case to come to trial is neither fair nor speedy and is therefore unconstitutional. He is one guy who should get a good lawyer and sue the government what they did to him, but it was probably part of his plea bargin, that he could not bring a civil suit.
If he isn't an American citizen, then the Bill of Rights doesn't apply to him.
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights applies to everyone who resides in the United States. Even if he does not live here, he is visiting, while he is here he is entitled to the same treatment as anyone else, his citizenship has no bearing on this at all. He is innocent until proven guilty and has the right not to incriminate himself. He is entitled to a Lawyer and a fair and speedy trial. Now if only we could get those rights enforced. Otherwise the INS would deal with illegal aliens with machine guns.
Indeed. Fortunately, I had the distinctive pleasure of being able to put this guy's pink slip right into his inbox the next day.
WOW, I am glad I don't work for you and I feel very bad for anyone who does. Not only are you closed minded about new ideas, but you fire people for having new ideas and to top that off you aren't even man enough to fire them in person, you send them email. Nice Guy
I know I should not feed the trolls, some times I can not resist.
We just got a Linux machine. Coincidentally a customer just asked us to put stuff on RH. What a mess. If this is wht it's like now I grateful I never surcumbed to the temptation to give it a try in it's earlier incarnations.
I am not sure what is messy about
rpm -ivh program.to.install.rpm
or
"Jerry Butler in his book "Raw Talent" discussed the inequity of pay for porn actors versus actresses. He claimed that actresses made in the $1000-1500 range as their day rate, which the male actors made about a third of that, $300-500 a day. "
Lets face it, most men would do it for a Ham sandwich.
Perhaps I will write a stupid little program that draws ASCII lines on the screen by moving the cursor around and pressing the "- | \ /" keys, I will call it ASCII Illustrator and I will release it under the GPL. Then when they sick thier dogs on me, I can tell them to screw off, the word "Illustrator" is a common use word and they can not trademark it anymore than Intel could trademark "486".
But then I think that's true of *all* TV - that it's really not that important to get my panties in a wad about it - so I guess I'm in the minority.
You are right, if you don't like television, TiVO has nothing to offer you.
Geez, the company that made my VCR seems to be doing just fine without requiring me to subscribe to a service, or stiffing me for a monthly fee...I guess TiVo's business model must suck the high hard one.
Have you ever tried to call the company that makes your VCR and ask them to record a show for you, because the time changed and you forgot to reset the timer ? Chances are good they would laugh at you. For that $10 a month fee (which is hardly stiffling), my TiVO records the TV shows I like and even knows when they have been prempted so I don't miss the last 15 minutes (I hate that). I can set it up to record shows with certain actors or directors. It makes some pretty good guesses about shows I might like to watch and records them, based on what It knows I like to watch. It use to be I paid $65 a month for 200 channels of Digital cable and nothing was ever on. Now with TiVO there is always something waiting for me when I get home from work. This works so well for me I bought the lifetime subscription. I highly recomend the TiVO, because once you've had one you never want to go back.
Is your time free?
Is your bandwidth free?
And are you fine waiting for fixes for features that don't exactly work? For instance, can StarOffice actually load a PowerPoint presentation without massive font and style corruption, or is it still broken?
All of this is nonsence. If by time you mean installing and configuring Linux, I can buy a preinstalled Linux box and at that point it is no more difficult to configure and use than Windows. Even if I am installing Linux from scratch, it is still no more difficult than installing Windows from scratch. Anyone who says differently has A. Never installed Linux, B. Never installed Windows or C. Never installed either Linux or Windows. As for bandwidth, I can order almost any Linux Distribution from CheapBytes for $3.95. The problem you are having with StarOffice is easily fixed, don't use PowerPoint in the first place, use StarOffice.
How is M$ going to enforce this 2 install limit? through the net? a cd is a read only media right?
I gather from various news articles on this subject, when you did a reinstall your system would immeadiatly connect to the internet and transmit your COA back to Microsoft and if this was reinstall# 3, Microsoft would refuse to validate the install and WinXP would refuse to fucntion without a validated COA. If the system could not connect to the internet, it would give you, what Microsoft would consider a reasonable time period, say 15 days, to connect and get validated or again WinXP would stop working. This is also how the subscription would work, after 350 days, WinXP would warn you to update your subscription within 15 days, ie buy a new validation or it stops working until you pay for the upgrade.
and the (previous) remedy was to re-install, you can only do this twice?
The initial install at the factory will count as 1 install, so you will only get 1 reinstall. The upside is with the new subscriber system, you will have to upgrade every year anyway, so you should get an extra reinstall with each upgrade.
Seriously, the two-install thing is going to be a MAJOR hassle for a lot of folks.
It is going to especially annoying when they find out the factory install counts as one install and so they get only one reinstall.
I think most everyone is missing the fact that P2P has been with us since the beginning of the Internet. The day after the Internet came online with 4 nodes, one of those nodes became an FTP server. P2P is filesharing, and is nothing more than methods of transfering data from one person or organization to another person or organization and I use this legitimently every single day. Is it not P2P when I download the latest Linux kernel or grab RedHat 7.1 iso. Not to mention the fact that I use Samba to transfer files from my Linux box to my Wifes Windows box on my home network.
The problem isn't that there aren't any legitiment uses for P2P, because there are plenty. The problem is we are trying to find a legitiment use for P2P which justifies downloading music, the copyright holder may not want downloaded from Napster or Gnutella.
I have a sister who is a teacher. At this school, every teacher is required to make and post rules for the classroom, amoung my sister's rules are:
These rules sound fair and just to me, but I should point out they are not the ten Commandments, which starts out with
I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.
This does not sound fair and just to me, this sounds like persectution of those who are not Jewish or Christian.
How can we at once remain religiously neutral and yet still introduce moral topics that often are intertwined with larger spirtual and religious issues?
Religion does not have a monopoly on moral issues. It is very easy to introduce moral topics in a secular way, instead of God punishing the wicked, society will do the punishing.
We don't need seperation of church and state. I'm all for prayer in schools, ten commandments in the courthouse, etc. That's what our country was founded on. Religious freedom, not religious seperation from society.
If hanging the ten commandments the court house and prayer in school encouraged religious freedom, I'd be all for it. The problem is that neither of these do. Prayer in school subjects non christian students to harassment because they are different. A Judge who posts religious icons in his court room is not likely to be a fair and impartial Judge, he is showing right up front that he is incapable of leaving his prejudices at home or that odd need christians have to force thier own brand of morailty down everyone elses throat.
I would be interested to know how you would feel if you ended up in a court room as a defendent and on the wall was hanging a passage from the Koran or a sign that read "God is dead, so you have to deal with me."
The DMCA is Unconstitutional and itself illegal and UnAmerican. Posting the DeCSS code is an act of Civil Disobediance against this very bad law. Civil Disobedience is an American tradition dating back to the Boston Tea Party, I doubt you would argue the Founding Fathers were wrong nor do I suspect you think the Civil Rights movement of the 60's was wrong either. Some times we have to take the fight to the streets and alleys otherwise things don't change and this is one of those times.
What I felt was inefficient was all the manageability and configuration.
Perhaps it is a matter of taste. I have absolutly no difficulty managing and/or configuring even a Debian box. The configuration files all more or less follow the same format and is just a matter of setting the proper variables, the important variables are usually clearly documented within the config file itself or in the man page.
I switched from Linux to Windows back in 1996. Haven't looked back since.
If you haven't tried Linux since 1996, you are in no postition to make judgments on the current state of Linux. That is like judging Windows 2000 based on Windows 95. I would be interested to hear what you felt was inefficient about the Unix model was in 1996, maybe some or all of these problems have been addressed.
Porn is a 14 billion USD business in America alone.
I wonder if the Politicians understand the making porn illegal, or unfairly regulating it, would cause further damage to our already slowing economy. 14 Billion dollars of lost revenue and thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of lost jobs is alot of damage. Of course GW could always try to make up for the lost revenue by drilling for more oil in Alaska.