First of all, could you quote chapter and verse regarding the law you mentioned?
IIRC, some cities have mandatory assistance laws, but generally it's not required.
Remember that the US is a collection of fifty states, which is each a collection of a number of counties, which is each a collection of a number of cities and townships. Each level has its own government, and each level can create its own laws.
(Case in point: the drinking age is not a federal law. It's law in all fifty states, but it's not federal law. Basically, the federal government said, "Raise your drinking age to 21 or we won't give you any money for roads" and the states capitulated. But it's not a federal law.)
Anyway, my second point: most areas have "good-samaritan laws", protecting people that help victims. IMNSHO, that's the better route to go: don't force people to help, but don't penalize them for trying.
You need to get your facts straight before telling us to get ours straight.
For the defense of Liberty: Soapbox, Ballot box, Jury box, Ammo box. Use in that order.
Quake 1 was entirely the work of id Software. Therefore, id could do whatever they wanted with it without consulting anyone else. TrollTech (makers of Qt) operate under the same methodology -- "GPL, or buy a license".
However, Tux Racer includes code written by others, who must be consulted before Tux Racer is licensed under another license.
Now, if the original author had insisted that contributors assign copyright to him, there would be no problem, because it would effectively become his code. But AFAIK it isn't.
I know I wouldn't want to contribute code to a project that would be later stolen and turned into a proprietary product.
On the other hand, PHP was completely rewritten from versions 3 to 4. Therefore, PHP4 is no longer GPLed, but is instead under some sort of BSD/MIT/Apache-esque license. Maybe that's what you mean by your last paragraph.
In any case the rules are silly. I don't need to come to a full stop at a stop sign, I just need to slow down enough that I can see if anything is comming and come to a full stop if needed.
I agree there... about 2/3 of the stop signs around here could have simply been yield signs.
Most of them are treated like yield signs anyway... personally, I stop.
My pet peeve is people who don't realize that you're supposed to STOP before turning right on red. I get horns honked at me almost every day for that.
Just a quick note on the parent thread: sometimes red light running is justified... but most of the time it isn't. I always stop and check for others, even if it looks deserted.
Maybe that's just because I've only been driving for a year and a half.
IIRC, it was exactly this topic that was being discussed when Justice Potter Steward uttered his immortal line: "I can't define it, but I know it when I see it."
> set in the future where paper books are non-existant, and people are unable to read electronic replacements if they haven't paid the subscription fees.
For a start, you could look at RMS's essay, "The Right to Read". It's set in virtually the same type of world. (If you haven't read it yet, read it. It's a very good essay.)
Granted, you would need to spice it up a bit...
> You could throw in some "clues" about what the movie was alluding to...
Honestly, that seems a little bit lame. It might be better to set it up as a slower movie, without as much action...
The 'Tycho uprising' in "The Right to Read" might provide a suitable background.
> I wonder how far a kick-ass movie script with the above would get in Hollywood before someone realises what it's about and quietly kills the project?
Probably not very far... but it can't hurt to try...
1. It's very rare that anyone is offline when I search. I would guess that about 80% of the time, the first result I try works. Only once in a great while do I ever need to try a third or fourth result.
2. If Napster goes subscription-only, the selection will decrease, since fewer people will be willing to use it.
3. I originally went to OpenNap because I couldn't find what I wanted on official Napster servers. Again, I've never been disappointed with OpenNap.
4. True, payments to artists from CD sales are pitifully low. That's still no excuse to condone putting more money into the RIAA's pockets, without giving any more to the artists?
5. Like I said, 99% of what I download is not controlled by the RIAA. (The 1% was one time I tried a song before buying a CD.) Why should the RIAA get paid when they have nothing to do with what I download?
(By the way, how much is the RIAA paying you to troll?)
Tell me this: how long have you been working for Napster? Are you a regular employee or some bum paid $10 to express their opinion?
A subscription is the Right Thing to do. It will allow artists to get money they rightfully deserve for their work.
I seriously doubt that.
First of all, I usually download MP3s of things that aren't in the RIAA's grasp. (Last week, it was the final theme to Spaceship Earth. Before that, it was "Barney Gets Shot", and before that, it was the monorail narration from Walt Disney World.)
Second, how much of the money do you actually think will get to the artists? My guess is, none.
Third, 'the money they rightfully deserve' may or may not be that. That's a whole other argument.
Be sure and not complain when you cant find that obscure song you were looking for. Or when the service quality just plain sucks.
I've had much better quality from OpenNAP than from any official server. Not to mention that I've found virtually all of the 'obscure songs' I mentioned earlier on OpenNAP servers.
Seriously, though, maybe it's because I'm not advanced enough in this field, or maybe because I'm a complete idiot, but I could barely understand anything in that book.
I'll try again once I get into a university. Where I'm at now, the "Computer Science" program means you take calculus and one extra programming class. (In C++, but forget about 'learning' anything... it doesn't even get to classes)
If it can target traffic, they can get a search warrant saying, "all traffic passing
through Earthlink originating or terminating at x.x.x.x". No judge would grant the former; the latter would be much easier to get.
(IANAL! I'm not a constitutional expert or a police officer either!!!!) In traditional 4th Amendment cases, the rule has been, basically, "Anything you see on the way to or from the warranted area can be seized." Therefore, police typically get warrants saying, "We think there might be drugs/a murder weapon/kiddie porn in the far corner of the bedroom, or in (some other area in the house)". With enough possible locations, you can generally look at every room in the house as long as you want to.
This is because it's quite clear to me that anything that is intercepted can be considered searched. Anything that's archived can be considered seized.
Again, the 'in plain sight' doctrine applies. (What's it called exactly again? It's been like 3 years since I've had Poli Sci...) Whatever gets searched in the process of finding the warranted information is considered "in plain sight", and can therefore be seized without an additional warrant.
The obvious solution is for people to start whipping out the constitution, pointing to the 4th amendment, and telling the police, "go get a proper warrant, or go fuck yourself".
The only problem with this solution is that it's called "resisting arrest". In the eyes of the police, anything over yessir/nosir/anythingyousaysir is resisting arrest. Denying officers entry based on the 4th Amendment is resisting arrest. Even asking what's going on during a no-knock raid is resisting arrest, and is likely to get you shot.
create your own? That way, if you want to keep it free, you can. It's Yahoo's prerogative to charge whatever they want, and the market will decide what is successful.
The only Yahoo service I use is their mail-redirection, and that's because I may have to change ISPs every so often. (my listed address just bounces mail to my 'real' address.)
New Year's Eve 2000, Epcot Center, Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida, USA. For a short time, many merchandise stands sold a hand-held rotating message projector. It had a number of messages preprogrammed, and included a way to insert your own message. But it didn't tell time.
Everyone at Epcot seemed to have one, except me. Bummer.
I dreamt, somehow, that I had to recode all the source for my, *ahem* 'bodily functions'... I got them written, compiled, ran it... and woke up peeing myself.
I've been seeing ads on the TV here in the US for a device called the GlobalPC. It looks very similar to the device shown in the article, it sells for $299, it's 8 bit color (I think), etc etc etc.
Is this the same thing? If not, could a GlobalPC be used in a similar way?
Umm... correct me if I'm wrong. (And I probably am.)
If I recall correctly, Andover gave CmdrTaco & Co. full artistic freedom when it comes to/... and that means if Taco wants this story on the front page, Taco gets the story on the front page. If you don't like that policy, don't read it.
Besides, I like Taco's style. And I like Hemos, and CowboyNeal, and all the other editors we all like to pick on, too. Maybe even JonKatz.
> Cross platform. Yes, on the server, the cross platform promise of Java works.
Since when do you need to have multiple server architectures run the same code?
> Integration with other languages and platforms, such as CORBA, Microsoft COM, etc.
PHP does that. Perl does that (I think.) Cold Fusion does that.
Java IS slow. I'm on a AMD K6-2 350 and a Java Hello World took about 3 seconds to respond to a "destroy" request. Most programs take around 1 second. A slightly larger program is slow enough to be unusable.
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Argh.... previews don't show the .sig anymore?
First of all, could you quote chapter and verse regarding the law you mentioned?
IIRC, some cities have mandatory assistance laws, but generally it's not required.
Remember that the US is a collection of fifty states, which is each a collection of a number of counties, which is each a collection of a number of cities and townships. Each level has its own government, and each level can create its own laws.
(Case in point: the drinking age is not a federal law. It's law in all fifty states, but it's not federal law. Basically, the federal government said, "Raise your drinking age to 21 or we won't give you any money for roads" and the states capitulated. But it's not a federal law.)
Anyway, my second point: most areas have "good-samaritan laws", protecting people that help victims. IMNSHO, that's the better route to go: don't force people to help, but don't penalize them for trying.
You need to get your facts straight before telling us to get ours straight.
For the defense of Liberty: Soapbox, Ballot box, Jury box, Ammo box. Use in that order.
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The difference is community involvement.
Quake 1 was entirely the work of id Software. Therefore, id could do whatever they wanted with it without consulting anyone else. TrollTech (makers of Qt) operate under the same methodology -- "GPL, or buy a license".
However, Tux Racer includes code written by others, who must be consulted before Tux Racer is licensed under another license.
Now, if the original author had insisted that contributors assign copyright to him, there would be no problem, because it would effectively become his code. But AFAIK it isn't.
I know I wouldn't want to contribute code to a project that would be later stolen and turned into a proprietary product.
On the other hand, PHP was completely rewritten from versions 3 to 4. Therefore, PHP4 is no longer GPLed, but is instead under some sort of BSD/MIT/Apache-esque license. Maybe that's what you mean by your last paragraph.
IIRC, it was originally "The Madness of George III". No "King". And it was III... Was there a George IV?
I agree there... about 2/3 of the stop signs around here could have simply been yield signs.
Most of them are treated like yield signs anyway... personally, I stop.
My pet peeve is people who don't realize that you're supposed to STOP before turning right on red. I get horns honked at me almost every day for that.
Just a quick note on the parent thread: sometimes red light running is justified... but most of the time it isn't. I always stop and check for others, even if it looks deserted.
Maybe that's just because I've only been driving for a year and a half.
IIRC, it was exactly this topic that was being discussed when Justice Potter Steward uttered his immortal line: "I can't define it, but I know it when I see it."
It's "Eastasia". One word.
You also forgot "Ignorance is strength", which would be the operative clause here.
BTW, the IP is: 23.75.345.200
Instead, they should have used, say, 192.168.x.x?
> set in the future where paper books are non-existant, and people are unable to read electronic replacements if they haven't paid the subscription fees.
For a start, you could look at RMS's essay, "The Right to Read". It's set in virtually the same type of world. (If you haven't read it yet, read it. It's a very good essay.)
Granted, you would need to spice it up a bit...
> You could throw in some "clues" about what the movie was alluding to...
Honestly, that seems a little bit lame. It might be better to set it up as a slower movie, without as much action...
The 'Tycho uprising' in "The Right to Read" might provide a suitable background.
> I wonder how far a kick-ass movie script with the above would get in Hollywood before someone realises what it's about and quietly kills the project?
Probably not very far... but it can't hurt to try...
1. It's very rare that anyone is offline when I search. I would guess that about 80% of the time, the first result I try works. Only once in a great while do I ever need to try a third or fourth result.
2. If Napster goes subscription-only, the selection will decrease, since fewer people will be willing to use it.
3. I originally went to OpenNap because I couldn't find what I wanted on official Napster servers. Again, I've never been disappointed with OpenNap.
4. True, payments to artists from CD sales are pitifully low. That's still no excuse to condone putting more money into the RIAA's pockets, without giving any more to the artists?
5. Like I said, 99% of what I download is not controlled by the RIAA. (The 1% was one time I tried a song before buying a CD.) Why should the RIAA get paid when they have nothing to do with what I download?
(By the way, how much is the RIAA paying you to troll?)
Heh.
Thankfully, CBS still broadcasts over the airwaves...
(Disclaimer: I've never used a phony H card. I don't use DirecTV. I don't even LIKE DirecTV.)
Tell me this: how long have you been working for Napster? Are you a regular employee or some bum paid $10 to express their opinion?
A subscription is the Right Thing to do. It will allow artists to get money they rightfully deserve for their work.
I seriously doubt that.
First of all, I usually download MP3s of things that aren't in the RIAA's grasp. (Last week, it was the final theme to Spaceship Earth. Before that, it was "Barney Gets Shot", and before that, it was the monorail narration from Walt Disney World.)
Second, how much of the money do you actually think will get to the artists? My guess is, none.
Third, 'the money they rightfully deserve' may or may not be that. That's a whole other argument.
Be sure and not complain when you cant find that obscure song you were looking for. Or when the service quality just plain sucks.
I've had much better quality from OpenNAP than from any official server. Not to mention that I've found virtually all of the 'obscure songs' I mentioned earlier on OpenNAP servers.
Yeah, they did...
But if it's any consolation, the video quality was crap.
I *have* read Knuth, and I'm still a poser!
Seriously, though, maybe it's because I'm not advanced enough in this field, or maybe because I'm a complete idiot, but I could barely understand anything in that book.
I'll try again once I get into a university. Where I'm at now, the "Computer Science" program means you take calculus and one extra programming class. (In C++, but forget about 'learning' anything... it doesn't even get to classes)
(IANAL! I'm not a constitutional expert or a police officer either!!!!) In traditional 4th Amendment cases, the rule has been, basically, "Anything you see on the way to or from the warranted area can be seized." Therefore, police typically get warrants saying, "We think there might be drugs/a murder weapon/kiddie porn in the far corner of the bedroom, or in (some other area in the house)". With enough possible locations, you can generally look at every room in the house as long as you want to.
This is because it's quite clear to me that anything that is intercepted can be considered searched. Anything that's archived can be considered seized.
Again, the 'in plain sight' doctrine applies. (What's it called exactly again? It's been like 3 years since I've had Poli Sci...) Whatever gets searched in the process of finding the warranted information is considered "in plain sight", and can therefore be seized without an additional warrant.
The obvious solution is for people to start whipping out the constitution, pointing to the 4th amendment, and telling the police, "go get a proper warrant, or go fuck yourself".
The only problem with this solution is that it's called "resisting arrest". In the eyes of the police, anything over yessir/nosir/anythingyousaysir is resisting arrest. Denying officers entry based on the 4th Amendment is resisting arrest. Even asking what's going on during a no-knock raid is resisting arrest, and is likely to get you shot.
It's sad, but it's true.
create your own? That way, if you want to keep it free, you can. It's Yahoo's prerogative to charge whatever they want, and the market will decide what is successful.
The only Yahoo service I use is their mail-redirection, and that's because I may have to change ISPs every so often. (my listed address just bounces mail to my 'real' address.)
Is the custom control software open source? I'd be real interested in exactly how they did this...
Even better.
New Year's Eve 2000, Epcot Center, Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida, USA. For a short time, many merchandise stands sold a hand-held rotating message projector. It had a number of messages preprogrammed, and included a way to insert your own message. But it didn't tell time.
Everyone at Epcot seemed to have one, except me. Bummer.
Heheh... I've had this happen ONCE.
I dreamt, somehow, that I had to recode all the source for my, *ahem* 'bodily functions'... I got them written, compiled, ran it... and woke up peeing myself.
(Good thing I wrote THAT one first!)
I've been seeing ads on the TV here in the US for a device called the GlobalPC. It looks very similar to the device shown in the article, it sells for $299, it's 8 bit color (I think), etc etc etc.
Is this the same thing? If not, could a GlobalPC be used in a similar way?
(Score: -1, Disagrees with Moderator)
/... and that means if Taco wants this story on the front page, Taco gets the story on the front page. If you don't like that policy, don't read it.
Umm... correct me if I'm wrong. (And I probably am.)
If I recall correctly, Andover gave CmdrTaco & Co. full artistic freedom when it comes to
Besides, I like Taco's style. And I like Hemos, and CowboyNeal, and all the other editors we all like to pick on, too. Maybe even JonKatz.
Lighten up!
> Cross platform. Yes, on the server, the cross platform promise of Java works.
Since when do you need to have multiple server architectures run the same code?
> Integration with other languages and platforms, such as CORBA, Microsoft COM, etc.
PHP does that. Perl does that (I think.) Cold Fusion does that.
Java IS slow. I'm on a AMD K6-2 350 and a Java Hello World took about 3 seconds to respond to a "destroy" request. Most programs take around 1 second. A slightly larger program is slow enough to be unusable.
Yep... Ignorance is Strength, too.
You're thinking GeoWorks.
I never really used it, so I don't know about the alt key stuff....