It further allows vendors to disable software remotely as a means for repossessing products; makes shrinkwrap licensing terms more enforceable; prevents license transfers from one party to another without vendor approval; outlaws reverse engineering; and lets vendors disclaim warranties.
And they think this will hold up in court? If a vendor remotely disables something that you pay for, that is called sabotage with malicious intent. On shrinkwrap licensing: If it doesn't have my signature, it is not a legally binding conaract. On license transfer: Big business needs to learn that I pay for a product, not a license. I have the right to sell, trade, or transfer MY software to whomever I please. On reverse engineering: Again, I own the software. What I decide to do with it on MY internal network is totally my decision, and it will not be illegal.
What I see here are some industry hotshots trying to get something into law that they can use in court. I hate to break it to them, but this will be torn apart in court.
This sounds like an excellent project for FreeBSD to tackle. I've deployed large mail stores and mail servers on FreeBSD and BSD in general with no problems.
To answer the people that had concerns about having their IPs logged while posting anonymously on Slashdot, here's a little snippet from comments.pl in the Slash code:
The lawyers actually got organized back in April. They started out by warning some 700 Internet Service Providers they would be held responsible for anyone offering bootleg copies on their services.
And the ISP community at large laughed them back into the shadows. Some even sent back forms to the lawyers describing their hourly consulting rates for finding and deleting said content, and included an application to start consulting service.
Why not have a `Cyber Patrol` which is constantly vigilant, watching the World Wide Web?
Because you're on crack? A good portion of trading happens independent of the public, and independent of the World Wide Web. Policing those means would be a breach of privacy for the traders, and therefore would be unacceptable.
Does the world really have a right to our home address and telephone number?
Of course they do.
So, the next time someone tells you -- `You just can't stop information from being passed around the Internet!` -- think twice. We can stop most of it with a little determination.
No you can't. 99.99995% of the time, it'll be mirrored somewhere. That's the good thing about digital media. Providing you have the space to store it, there's really no cost for materials to reproduce it, aside from possible bandwidth costs.
And you can't track it. Most of the best stuff is being traded on the inside, you are only privy to the stuff that bubbles to the surface.
Truthfully, most of the crap that comes out of the big studios isn't even worth the disk space it occupies. Especially the Phantom Menace.
Regardless of what big business may tell you, we have the right to link to anything we damn well please. They do not have the right to limit our freedom to link via unenforcable, implied content licensing agreements. They, however, being the providers of the content at the destination of the link in question, have the right to block based on the HTTP_REFERER string or other means.
It's time for the studios and media to wake up and realize that the public isn't their bitch anymore.
By the way, Universal, do you plan on releasing anything resembling a good movie in the near future? Or do you intend on blowing all your dough on legal battles?
I've been following the development of the eMachines over the past year or so, and finally got to try one out last month.
I don't think I'd use one as my primary machine, but as a low cost mid-range server running FreeBSD they'd be excellent. Just pop in a NIC and there you go.
And here we have Something For Nothing Boy. And what's he saying? "Make sure you don't include a license on your work that would prevent me from stealing it, cause I can't code, but I need to release a commercial version!"
You can license your work, but if the protocol is not openly implementable across different licenses then it is proprietary to GPL-based platforms and therefore unusable by larger segments of the computing community.
How would you feel if you wrote a nice platform independant messaging client, with plugin modules to easily add support for AIM, or ICQ, or any future protocol, etc, and then MS came, took the code, released it in future versions of windows, and sold banner space, increasing their revenues while denying users the benefits of the OSS that you wrote, and without even paying you for it?
I'd feel pretty good, because, in the end, they'd still have to give me credit for it.:)
I hope they are ordered to release it. I don't mind being spammed, as long as it means N$I will get the shaft. Does this mean we can start rioting outside their headquarters now? (:
AOL also didn't integrate ICQ into netscape (they stayed with AIM for that). why?!
Smart move, actually.. Once they start putting ads in all their products, they'll have even more products to sell ad space in instead of just having only one big product to sell ad space in.
It'd be sweet to see a GPL'd cross platform solution come out of the Free Software community.
As long as the protocol itself is freely implementable/extendable under other licenses and not hindered by any licensing restrictions of the GPL, it has a chance of working.
I still have my C64 and 1541s hooked up at home (the 1541s having self-added toggle switches to let me switch them between device 8 and 9) and still power it up on a regular basis. I was heavily into BBSing until I started getting into the internet, and I remember staying up late reading RFCs and other tidbits through an 80-column(!) terminal program on my C64 (I think it was NovaTerm..) This was before the whole WWW thing hit and people will still using Gopher to pass stuff around. You haven't lived until you've used Gopher at 1200 baud. (:
I started out at the age of 4 with a VIC 20 (ding! a whole 4K of ram!) and haven't looked back since.
It shouldn't be too hard.. Lots of the unique features of FreeBSD may seem "different" when compared to analogous Linux techniques, but once you get the hang of how (and why) things work on FreeBSD, I think you'll find it to be a pleasant experience.
Another excellent resource is the Complete FreeBSD Book, which costs about $40, but is well worth it. If you decide to go with FreeBSD, an Internet-based installation will work, but all the hard-core FreeBSD users have FreeBSD Disc Sets from Walnut Creek CDROM.
In the end, I guess it took me about a week of normal use to get accustomed to FreeBSD's way of the world. After a few days you'll start to notice that, in the ways that FreeBSD differs from Linux, those ways will make total sense from an implementation or an overall-system standpoint.
As someone who's been using FreeBSD extensively for the past 18 months, I can safely say that my FreeBSD systems are the only machines that I actually look forward to doing admin tasks on. The system's design is so well documented and intuitive that it makes my job a hell of a lot easier.
That and who can't love the cute little Daemon logo? (:
Hey, I just heard.. Some MSNBC fighter jets just shot down the Slashdot Copter and the Slashdot Infrared-Equipped Airplane. Will the news media now be obsessed with finding CowboyNeal?:P
I can't wait for the newest print edition to arrive. In the meanwhile I guess I can look over "Our Dumb Century".. Gotta love the story about an old school foe of Bill Gates getting attacked by 'Killer Microsoft Robots';>
Whichever stance the music industry takes on the whole MP3 issue, one thing will be for certain: Copying will be possible. Period. They will have to live with that. Honestly, I think that's what scares them the most. That it's possible to essentially rip an entire disc with little or no effort. It's also easy to rip anything that you can pull an audio stream from. Aside from the fact that all the songs they release these days suck, I'd say the music industry has some tough days ahead.
How long before someone hacks one to spawn a shoutcast server whenever someone picks up the phone? (:
Seriously though, if they expect any serious person to use it for Internet access for any reasonable period of time, they'd better add reclining seats in front of them.
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And they think this will hold up in court? If a vendor remotely disables something that you pay for, that is called sabotage with malicious intent. On shrinkwrap licensing: If it doesn't have my signature, it is not a legally binding conaract. On license transfer: Big business needs to learn that I pay for a product, not a license. I have the right to sell, trade, or transfer MY software to whomever I please. On reverse engineering: Again, I own the software. What I decide to do with it on MY internal network is totally my decision, and it will not be illegal.
What I see here are some industry hotshots trying to get something into law that they can use in court. I hate to break it to them, but this will be torn apart in court.
And I suppose yours does?
This sounds like an excellent project for FreeBSD to tackle. I've deployed large mail stores and mail servers on FreeBSD and BSD in general with no problems.
Well, it's not exactly a squirt gun, but it's close..
if($$USER{uid} > 0) {
$ident=$ENV{REMOTE_ADDR};
} else {
$ident="anonymous";
}
The SQL INSERT happens right after this, so I'd say you're pretty much safe. Now as far as the HTTP server logs go, that's another can of worms.. ..
And the ISP community at large laughed them back into the shadows. Some even sent back forms to the lawyers describing their hourly consulting rates for finding and deleting said content, and included an application to start consulting service.
Why not have a `Cyber Patrol` which is constantly vigilant, watching the World Wide Web?
Because you're on crack? A good portion of trading happens independent of the public, and independent of the World Wide Web. Policing those means would be a breach of privacy for the traders, and therefore would be unacceptable.
Does the world really have a right to our home address and telephone number?
Of course they do.
So, the next time someone tells you -- `You just can't stop information from being passed around the Internet!` -- think twice. We can stop most of it with a little determination.
No you can't. 99.99995% of the time, it'll be mirrored somewhere. That's the good thing about digital media. Providing you have the space to store it, there's really no cost for materials to reproduce it, aside from possible bandwidth costs.
And you can't track it. Most of the best stuff is being traded on the inside, you are only privy to the stuff that bubbles to the surface.
Truthfully, most of the crap that comes out of the big studios isn't even worth the disk space it occupies. Especially the Phantom Menace.
It's time for the studios and media to wake up and realize that the public isn't their bitch anymore.
By the way, Universal, do you plan on releasing anything resembling a good movie in the near future? Or do you intend on blowing all your dough on legal battles?
I don't think I'd use one as my primary machine, but as a low cost mid-range server running FreeBSD they'd be excellent. Just pop in a NIC and there you go.
Now if only you didn't have to pay the M$ tax...
You can license your work, but if the protocol is not openly implementable across different licenses then it is proprietary to GPL-based platforms and therefore unusable by larger segments of the computing community.
How would you feel if you wrote a nice platform independant messaging client, with plugin modules to easily add support for AIM, or ICQ, or any future protocol, etc, and then MS came, took the code, released it in future versions of windows, and sold banner space, increasing their revenues while denying users the benefits of the OSS that you wrote, and without even paying you for it?
I'd feel pretty good, because, in the end, they'd still have to give me credit for it. :)
I hope they are ordered to release it. I don't mind being spammed, as long as it means N$I will get the shaft. Does this mean we can start rioting outside their headquarters now? (:
Overall, I think the Microsoft Developer Conference was a bit more lively, though. (:
Smart move, actually.. Once they start putting ads in all their products, they'll have even more products to sell ad space in instead of just having only one big product to sell ad space in.
As long as the protocol itself is freely implementable/extendable under other licenses and not hindered by any licensing restrictions of the GPL, it has a chance of working.
For what it was designed to do, it was designed pretty nicely.
I started out at the age of 4 with a VIC 20 (ding! a whole 4K of ram!) and haven't looked back since.
Here's a quick listing of the various categories living in /usr/ports:
archivers astro audio benchmarks biology cad chinese comms converters databases deskutils devel distfiles editors emulators games german graphics irc japanese java korean lang mail math mbone misc net news palm plan9 print russian security shells sysutils templates textproc vietnamese www x11 x11-clocks x11-fm x11-fonts x11-servers x11-toolkits x11-wm
Probably the best advice I can give is to review the FreeBSD Web Site and especially the FreeBSD Handbook. Remember, you can always search the FreeBSD mailing list archives if you have problems.
Another excellent resource is the Complete FreeBSD Book, which costs about $40, but is well worth it. If you decide to go with FreeBSD, an Internet-based installation will work, but all the hard-core FreeBSD users have FreeBSD Disc Sets from Walnut Creek CDROM.
In the end, I guess it took me about a week of normal use to get accustomed to FreeBSD's way of the world. After a few days you'll start to notice that, in the ways that FreeBSD differs from Linux, those ways will make total sense from an implementation or an overall-system standpoint.
That and who can't love the cute little Daemon logo? (:
Let's not forget about their speedy "it takes 4 to 5 days for anything to come through" automated fax system..
Neat show.
I can't wait for the newest print edition to arrive. In the meanwhile I guess I can look over "Our Dumb Century".. Gotta love the story about an old school foe of Bill Gates getting attacked by 'Killer Microsoft Robots' ;>
Random Link o' Humor: BO2K Fun
Jeez, at least come up with a semi-creative parody..
Seriously though, if they expect any serious person to use it for Internet access for any reasonable period of time, they'd better add reclining seats in front of them.
Random Link o' Humour: Slashdot Trading Cards
What next? Slashdot Trading Cards?