What we have here is someone that wants to be a celeb.
... but since he insists on pissing in the communal pond, there's no reason we can't take advantage of that to call attention to him - though not in the way he wants.
IBM is saying that people can't run their copy of zOS under emulation using Turbo Hercules. zOS is licensed per machine/cpu/workload. The questions that arise are:
how do you compare workloads across non-compatible hardware?
why should IBM cut the throat of its resellers?
since the OS is tied to the underlying hardware, what incentive is there for someone to take their licensed copy of zOS and transfer it to another machine and run it under an emulator when they have paid-for and better-qualified hardware to run it?
at some point in any disaster scenario, that licensed copy would have to be migrated back to the principle hardware, so you're going to be off-line anyway unless you have a second licensed copy, so ideally you're going to have a second machine anyways (which you should anyway if you can't afford to go down - and if you're using a mainframe, you probably can't)
The lock-in by the airline industry is entirely self-inflicted.
Go back just over a decade. One of the major networks ran a special on airline cabin security, and how the airlines were balking at spending $200 per cockpit to secure the doors leading to the cockpit.
Then we had 9/11.
Talk to anyone working for the airlines, and they'll have stories about waste, stupidity, and feather-bedding.
The airlines have become addicted to a cycle of debt followed by bankruptcy/re-org/merger, then more debt. 30 years at a loss.
Since 1980, the industry has not earned back the cost of capital during the best of times. Conversely, in bad times losses can be dramatically worse. Warren Buffett once said that despite all the money that has been invested in all airlines, the net profit is less than zero.
You're so full of shit it's amazing you can stand.
We're talking about a Groklaw crowd that uses its moderator rights etc. here on slashdot to suppress the truth that Groklaw claims to be digging for. Groklaw sent its crowd over by way of a link in its news pick column. And some of the postings look a lot like written by people who if they're not IBM employees are at least very close to IBM and very much informed.
Look at my user ID. I was here before groklaw ever existed. Nobody "sent" me here. I have never worked for IBM. I don't need anyone else to tell me you're a jerk - your posts speak for themselves.
Go cry a river somewhere else, because the old-timers here aren't going to buy it.
I clearly said that I don't want to speculate about Groklaw's source of funding but I do take note of its slavish loyalty to IBM. That slavish loyalty can have any number of reasons, but it certainly calls into question the assumption of some people that Groklaw is unbiased and "digging for truth" as its slogan says.
Two can play at that game.
I won't speculate about your funding from illegal drug deals or selling new-born children as "the other white meat"...
I won't speculate about your possible connections to terrorist organizations, or attempt count the number of pro-Nazi organizations you may have supported...
Shall I continue, you do you now realize that what you did was no better than damning with faint praise?
You got caught. Make it easy on yourslef - FOAD quietly for a change. You're not even a half-decent troll, you're so transparent.
The most recent amendment to criminal copyright infringement was the No Electronic Theft Act of 1997 (NetAct) which made it a felony to reproduce or distribute copies of copyrighted works electronically regardless of whether the defendant had a profit motive. Thus, it changed the 100-year standard regarding profit motive but retained the element of willfulness. The ease of infringement on the Internet was the primary reason for criminalizing noncommercial infringement as well as recognition of other motivations a nonprofit defendant might have such as anti-copyright or anti-corporate sentiment, trying to make a name in the Internet world and wanting to be a cyber renegade. So, the infringement must be either:
for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain or
involve the reproduction or distribution of one or more copies of a work or works within a 180-day period with a total retail value of $1,000.
Commercial infringers are subject to higher penalties, however. A commercially motivated infringer can receive up to a five-year federal prison term and $250,000 in fines; a noncommercial willful infringer is subject to up to a one-year prison term and $100,000 in fines. The prison term maximum for repeat infringers is up to 10 years for commercially motivated ones and up to six years for noncommercial infringers.
There was no commercial advantage or private financial gain that I can see, and you haven't claimed any such case, and the images in question have no retail value.
Further:
There are four essential elements required to prove felony copyright infringement:
that a registered copyright exists,
that the defendant infringed by reproduction or distribution of the copyrighted work,
that the defendant acted willfully and
that the works infringed were at least 10 copies of one or more copyrighted works with a total value of $2,500 within a 180-day period.
Willfulness continues to be a very illusive concept, but the statute provides no definition. Case law illustrates that certain type of evidence generally is relevant to prove that defendant's conduct was willful. For example, that the defendant had legal notice that conduct similar to his was infringement or that he had actual notice that his conduct was illegal. However, under Section 506(a) of the Act, "evidence of reproduction or distribution of a copyrighted work, by itself, shall not be sufficient to establish willful infringement."
So, unless you went and registered the images in question with the copyright office ahead of time, you lack standing to make a complaint of felony copyright theft. Just being the copyright holder as per the Bern convention is not sufficient - prior documented copyright registration is mandatory for a felony claim.
i witnessed him commit a felony, a felony specifically against my personal rights. . until a judge acquits him of that crime
If you're talking about re-posting pictures elsewhere that don't have a US Copyright registration and have no commercial value, you did NOT witness him "commit a felony". If it's something else, I'm listening, bu
Like their other 2 articles that appeared on slashdot, it's just shit.
Not even high grade shit - it's the sort of stuff you get from some kid who "sort of" has a clue - a demonstration that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Next ksplice article will be about the "black screen of death" virus that overtakes their laptops every day after an hour or two... and how they were able to fix it by hardening their system doing blah blah blah... because it couldn't be that their batteries would die after a couple hours use.
I don't think there is any evidence that Apple's "walled garden" has hurt Apple.
Apple is repeating its own history.
The first time, it became uncompetitive and had its' near-death experience because it insisted on charging a premium for "being different" to the point where it just became uncompetitive. The tipping point was when Photoshop 3 ran faster and better on a cheap Windows box than it did on a pimped-out mac.
We're seeing the same thing again - hardware that is no longer unique (and is in some ways already behind the competition), and an emphasis on the brand instead of value.
Apple can put out several devices a year - their competition in the phone biz can put out a thousand - all pretty much compatible with each other as far as the end user is concerned. We saw how this ended with the clone wars.
YOU ARE A CRIMINAL... A FELON. AN IGNORANT HYPOCRITE. JUSTICE IS COMING.
It's one thing to call somebody "nothing" - quite another to call them a criminal and a felon. That's defamatory libel, unless you can prove that Alongi has been convicted of one or more felonies for which no discharge has been granted.
Calling somebody "nothing" is a matter of opinion, and as such, not defamatory.
Calling somebody a felon is not a matter of opinion - it is something that can either be true or false. As such, there is no 1st Amendment right to free expression of opinion.
It appears that you are making this "felon" claim based on a DMCA notice you may or may not have filed, rather than on any actual criminal conviction. If so, that's not just foolish - it's defamatory libel.
Of course, that's not the real issue for slashdotters - the real issue is how anyone can expect, in this day and age, a hollow threat to NOT attract attention. (Streisand Effect).
Q. What's better than winning an argument on the Internet?
A. Not being retarded.
Q. What's better than winning two arguments on the Internet?
A. ICE CREAM!!!
Instead of getting all upset over the picture link, you could have done like any real slashdotter - checked the url, and if it came from slashdot, do a redirect to goatse or tubgirl or some such. It's one line of php.
The reason I'm interested in this sort of thing is because I've been threatened with law suits and/or DMCA notices 3 times so far this year - and my response each time was to publish the threats and make fun of them. In all 3 cases, the supposedly infringing material is still up, but now firmly linked to the person in question.
I don't know if clone will take the same action - but it's usually the best cure-all for these sorts of threats.
Unfortunately, the only way for you to remove your defamatory postings here is to delete your account. It's something to consider.
In the words of Kris Kristofferson, "freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose."
Kristofferson might have written it, but it's Janis Joplin who put it on the charts:-)
It is true, though, that a lot of people won't take action as long as they have a vested interest in the status quo, even if there are ethical and moral problems.
No, what I'm saying is use an appropriate analogy.
And the iPhone won't matter in a few years - it's already playing catch-up to the Evo 4g, and the Droid X totally whips it, which is funny when you consider that Apple is always claiming that it's combination of hardware and software is what makes it such a good deal.
The hardware isn't any better than anyone else's any more (look at the multi-touch virtual/swipe keypad on the droid x). One droid X can replace 1 iPhone + 1 iPad.
The Telecommunications Act of 1934 does not give the executive branch sweeping powers to shut off any and all telecommunications for indefinite lengths of time.
It applies specifically to wire communications. Most backbone internet traffic goes along optical links. Most cell traffic goes along a combination of optical and radio links.
Here - read your own quote, properly highlighted:
d) Upon proclamation by the President that there exists a state or threat of war involving the United States, the President, if he deems it necessary in the interest of the national security and defense, may, during a period ending not later than six months after the termination of such state or threat of war and not later than such earlier date as the Congress by concurrent resolution may designate, (1) suspend or amend the rules and regulations applicable to any or all facilities or stations for wire communication within the jurisdiction of the United States as prescribed by the Commission, (2) cause the closing of any facility or station for wire communication and the removal therefrom of its apparatus and equipment, or (3) authorize the use or control of any such facility or station and its apparatus and equipment by any department of the Government under such regulations as he may prescribe, upon just compensation to the owners.
No right to interfere with either optical or radio communications in that text...
However, a misbehaving application cannot prevent others from running, which was the case with true preemptive multitasking OSes,
There, fixed it for you.
"Cooperative multi-tasking OS" is an oxymoron, since the OS is not in charge of time slicing.
It's always been possible to write cooperative multi-tasking applications, even in a single-tasking environment.
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Try again. iPhone apps can't call the equivalent even of Windows 3.1 yield(); - they either run in the foreground, or they're suspended - like the DOS 5.0 task swapper.
The few exceptions need to take advantage of a special api call for music, of all things.
If you want a real multi-tasking OS on your phone, you won't get it from Apple. Not this year, and not next year. They're already starting to fall behind in the features race.
Hate to say it, but you - like most Slashdotters - are a dinosaur. Things are only going to get more closed. Contest it if you must, but the day of consumer hardware being sold based on the needs of the developers who write for it, is over. That day is simply over. Consumers rule.
It's because consumers rule that walled gardens will fail in the long term. Otherwise, we'd all be using CompuServe or AOHell. And we'd all be using Macs. And we'd all be using closed standards for data transmission such as Alex teletext at 300 baud, and not http.
Microsoft knows not to tell people "You can't install non-Microsoft applications on your computer." Apple, on the other hand, appears to be trying to move away from "computers" to walled devices like iPhones and iPads.
Problem is they are now falling behind, as the competition is able to come out with better products quicker - look at the Droid X. One of those replaces both an iPhone and an iPad. The multi-touch on-screen keypad is a big thing for people who like to thumb-type, as is the 4.3" screen, 720p video, etc.
But what if I'm a NASCAR driver and perfectly capable of handling my car at 200 MPH? Why should I be restricted just because a bunch of old lady drivers can't be bothered to learn how to go more than 155?
Then drive it on a NASCAR-sanctioned track with other drivers who have accepted the risks.
Your analogy fails.
As for the limits - that's why there's competition. Don't like Apple's walled garden? Buy a Droid X instead. It makes the Evo g4 look anemic - and the Apple iPhone look like Apple traditionally looks - over-priced and under-powered.
We've had at least two incidents that make 9/11 look like small potatoes - the current wars, and the bail-out of the quants. 9/11 ain't what it used to be.
I always enjoyed Heinlein's writings, but he was no sage. You can indeed enslave a free man, unless by "free" you mean free of any family, loved ones, friends, or posessions. If I hold a knife to your child's throat you'll do any damned thing I tell you to.
You're not enslaved. You're biding your time, waiting for the right moment.
When someone's enslaved, they've accepted that is their lot in life, same as drug addicts.
I'd add hosting companies to that, a lot of organisations worldwide host some or many important systems on an outside company that has its servers in the US. Though this has not historically been something the US has cared about.
So you'd be better off with a hosting company in Soviet Russia...
.. or those pinko commies in Kanuckistan.
The first time the US does this, it guarantees a wave of servers is migrated to Canada.
The government already has the power to shutdown telecommunications in times of a national emergency
Riiiight. Pass any sort of law like that, and other countries will insist on putting in infrastructure that makes the Internet work with alternate root servers.
The government doesn't have the right. They have the right to use the emergency broadcast system, nothing more.
Owing more on your house than it's worth has a negative impact on your credit rating, whether you're current on your payments or not. So any employer who does what you say ("checks credit ratings") will view you negatively.
Rental prices are down compared to last year. Also, it's been 2 years now that landlords have taken tenants who have gone through the foreclosure route. You've been living in la-la land if you haven't noticed it. Landlords are settling for a lot less than they used to.
As for the rest, it's all been in the news for the last year. Just look for it. Or don't you know how to search?
You haven't tried to get a job in finance or with the government, have you? Money problems are a HUGE red flag to US employers, especially in industries where financial responsibility is part of the organization's reputation.
The person who walks away, does a short soale, forecloses, whatever - is less of a risk. They've taken their medicine, whether it was a short sale, foreclosure, deed in lieu, or a bankruptcy. They won't be tempted to take a bribe to hold onto their underwater house. Your thinking is naive.
Why would I want to bite you? You've shown you're stupid, and it might be contagious.
http://www.mybudget360.com/mortgages-non-payment-10-billion-dollars-month-free-thanks-bailouts/ $10 Billion a Month Freed up Each Month from People not paying their Mortgage. $1.9 Billion of That is in California so People can continue Leasing their SUV Mercedes and Getting Tans. Thanks Bailouts!
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What we have here is someone that wants to be a celeb.
IBM is saying that people can't run their copy of zOS under emulation using Turbo Hercules. zOS is licensed per machine/cpu/workload. The questions that arise are:
The lock-in by the airline industry is entirely self-inflicted.
Go back just over a decade. One of the major networks ran a special on airline cabin security, and how the airlines were balking at spending $200 per cockpit to secure the doors leading to the cockpit.
Then we had 9/11.
Talk to anyone working for the airlines, and they'll have stories about waste, stupidity, and feather-bedding.
The airlines have become addicted to a cycle of debt followed by bankruptcy/re-org/merger, then more debt. 30 years at a loss.
You're so full of shit it's amazing you can stand.
Look at my user ID. I was here before groklaw ever existed. Nobody "sent" me here. I have never worked for IBM. I don't need anyone else to tell me you're a jerk - your posts speak for themselves.
Go cry a river somewhere else, because the old-timers here aren't going to buy it.
Two can play at that game.
I won't speculate about your funding from illegal drug deals or selling new-born children as "the other white meat" ...
I won't speculate about your possible connections to terrorist organizations, or attempt count the number of pro-Nazi organizations you may have supported ...
Shall I continue, you do you now realize that what you did was no better than damning with faint praise?
You got caught. Make it easy on yourslef - FOAD quietly for a change. You're not even a half-decent troll, you're so transparent.
You can always read my profile - it explains the name issue (tom / the online me ... or you can read through my journal for more details :-)
riiiight ... even though I quoted the actual laws in question wrt your "felony copyright" claim in my emailed response.
As for "bringing justice" - you simply have no grounds for a claim of felony copyright theft, as I explained in private, but since you insist ...
http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/copy-corner66.htm
There was no commercial advantage or private financial gain that I can see, and you haven't claimed any such case, and the images in question have no retail value.
Further:
So, unless you went and registered the images in question with the copyright office ahead of time, you lack standing to make a complaint of felony copyright theft. Just being the copyright holder as per the Bern convention is not sufficient - prior documented copyright registration is mandatory for a felony claim.
If you're talking about re-posting pictures elsewhere that don't have a US Copyright registration and have no commercial value, you did NOT witness him "commit a felony". If it's something else, I'm listening, bu
Like their other 2 articles that appeared on slashdot, it's just shit.
Not even high grade shit - it's the sort of stuff you get from some kid who "sort of" has a clue - a demonstration that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Next ksplice article will be about the "black screen of death" virus that overtakes their laptops every day after an hour or two ... and how they were able to fix it by hardening their system doing blah blah blah ... because it couldn't be that their batteries would die after a couple hours use.
We need a -1 Fucktards mod for story submissions.
This is the 3rd ksplice blog article - and we're now 3 for 3 in crap. It wasn't cosmic rays - it was bad ram.
Who keeps submitting this shit, anyways?
Apple is repeating its own history.
The first time, it became uncompetitive and had its' near-death experience because it insisted on charging a premium for "being different" to the point where it just became uncompetitive. The tipping point was when Photoshop 3 ran faster and better on a cheap Windows box than it did on a pimped-out mac.
We're seeing the same thing again - hardware that is no longer unique (and is in some ways already behind the competition), and an emphasis on the brand instead of value.
Apple can put out several devices a year - their competition in the phone biz can put out a thousand - all pretty much compatible with each other as far as the end user is concerned. We saw how this ended with the clone wars.
It's one thing to call somebody "nothing" - quite another to call them a criminal and a felon. That's defamatory libel, unless you can prove that Alongi has been convicted of one or more felonies for which no discharge has been granted.
Calling somebody "nothing" is a matter of opinion, and as such, not defamatory.
Calling somebody a felon is not a matter of opinion - it is something that can either be true or false. As such, there is no 1st Amendment right to free expression of opinion.
It appears that you are making this "felon" claim based on a DMCA notice you may or may not have filed, rather than on any actual criminal conviction. If so, that's not just foolish - it's defamatory libel.
Of course, that's not the real issue for slashdotters - the real issue is how anyone can expect, in this day and age, a hollow threat to NOT attract attention. (Streisand Effect).
And this: http://www.kristopeit.com/family_tree.php?top_person_id=74&by_photo=1&spouse_photo=1&step_kids=1&show_nicknames=0&show_everyone=1 - replacing your picture in your family tree with a message about someone else saying they are nothing - what's up with that? It makes it look like you and your wife are splitting up and this guy is taking your place.
Q. What's better than winning an argument on the Internet?
A. Not being retarded.
Q. What's better than winning two arguments on the Internet?
A. ICE CREAM!!!
Instead of getting all upset over the picture link, you could have done like any real slashdotter - checked the url, and if it came from slashdot, do a redirect to goatse or tubgirl or some such. It's one line of php.
The reason I'm interested in this sort of thing is because I've been threatened with law suits and/or DMCA notices 3 times so far this year - and my response each time was to publish the threats and make fun of them. In all 3 cases, the supposedly infringing material is still up, but now firmly linked to the person in question.
I don't know if clone will take the same action - but it's usually the best cure-all for these sorts of threats.
Unfortunately, the only way for you to remove your defamatory postings here is to delete your account. It's something to consider.
Kristofferson might have written it, but it's Janis Joplin who put it on the charts :-)
It is true, though, that a lot of people won't take action as long as they have a vested interest in the status quo, even if there are ethical and moral problems.
No, what I'm saying is use an appropriate analogy.
And the iPhone won't matter in a few years - it's already playing catch-up to the Evo 4g, and the Droid X totally whips it, which is funny when you consider that Apple is always claiming that it's combination of hardware and software is what makes it such a good deal.
The hardware isn't any better than anyone else's any more (look at the multi-touch virtual/swipe keypad on the droid x). One droid X can replace 1 iPhone + 1 iPad.
The Telecommunications Act of 1934 does not give the executive branch sweeping powers to shut off any and all telecommunications for indefinite lengths of time.
It applies specifically to wire communications. Most backbone internet traffic goes along optical links. Most cell traffic goes along a combination of optical and radio links.
Here - read your own quote, properly highlighted:
No right to interfere with either optical or radio communications in that text ...
However, a misbehaving application cannot prevent others from running, which was the case with true preemptive multitasking OSes,
There, fixed it for you.
"Cooperative multi-tasking OS" is an oxymoron, since the OS is not in charge of time slicing.
It's always been possible to write cooperative multi-tasking applications, even in a single-tasking environment.
Try again. iPhone apps can't call the equivalent even of Windows 3.1 yield(); - they either run in the foreground, or they're suspended - like the DOS 5.0 task swapper.
The few exceptions need to take advantage of a special api call for music, of all things.
If you want a real multi-tasking OS on your phone, you won't get it from Apple. Not this year, and not next year. They're already starting to fall behind in the features race.
Flip it upside-down and attack it with a hammer, screw-driver, knife and vice-grips. There's nothing that can't be "fixed" with those 4 tools.
And if you make it worse - it was broken anyways. You now have spare parts.
It's because consumers rule that walled gardens will fail in the long term. Otherwise, we'd all be using CompuServe or AOHell. And we'd all be using Macs. And we'd all be using closed standards for data transmission such as Alex teletext at 300 baud, and not http.
Microsoft knows not to tell people "You can't install non-Microsoft applications on your computer." Apple, on the other hand, appears to be trying to move away from "computers" to walled devices like iPhones and iPads.
Problem is they are now falling behind, as the competition is able to come out with better products quicker - look at the Droid X. One of those replaces both an iPhone and an iPad. The multi-touch on-screen keypad is a big thing for people who like to thumb-type, as is the 4.3" screen, 720p video, etc.
Then drive it on a NASCAR-sanctioned track with other drivers who have accepted the risks.
Your analogy fails.
As for the limits - that's why there's competition. Don't like Apple's walled garden? Buy a Droid X instead. It makes the Evo g4 look anemic - and the Apple iPhone look like Apple traditionally looks - over-priced and under-powered.
We've had at least two incidents that make 9/11 look like small potatoes - the current wars, and the bail-out of the quants. 9/11 ain't what it used to be.
You're not enslaved. You're biding your time, waiting for the right moment.
When someone's enslaved, they've accepted that is their lot in life, same as drug addicts.
So you'd be better off with a hosting company in Soviet Russia ...
The first time the US does this, it guarantees a wave of servers is migrated to Canada.
Really?
Government bail-outs for banks, car makers, etc. - "all for everyone's good."
It would have been cheaper to let AIG, etc., go broke, like a capitalist country would have done.
Riiiight. Pass any sort of law like that, and other countries will insist on putting in infrastructure that makes the Internet work with alternate root servers.
The government doesn't have the right. They have the right to use the emergency broadcast system, nothing more.
45.47.0N, 73.50.60W.
Felt it at 1:40pm (guess my clock is off), it lasted for a good minute.
Owing more on your house than it's worth has a negative impact on your credit rating, whether you're current on your payments or not. So any employer who does what you say ("checks credit ratings") will view you negatively.
Rental prices are down compared to last year. Also, it's been 2 years now that landlords have taken tenants who have gone through the foreclosure route. You've been living in la-la land if you haven't noticed it. Landlords are settling for a lot less than they used to.
As for the rest, it's all been in the news for the last year. Just look for it. Or don't you know how to search?
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Mortgage-Defaults-May-Be-cnbc-1964280202.html?x=0
Mortgage Defaults May Be Driving Consumer Spending
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/01/business/01nopay.html
Owners Stop Paying Mortgages, and Stop Fretting
The person who walks away, does a short soale, forecloses, whatever - is less of a risk. They've taken their medicine, whether it was a short sale, foreclosure, deed in lieu, or a bankruptcy. They won't be tempted to take a bribe to hold onto their underwater house. Your thinking is naive.
Why would I want to bite you? You've shown you're stupid, and it might be contagious. http://www.mybudget360.com/mortgages-non-payment-10-billion-dollars-month-free-thanks-bailouts/
$10 Billion a Month Freed up Each Month from People not paying their Mortgage. $1.9 Billion of That is in California so People can continue Leasing their SUV Mercedes and Getting Tans. Thanks Bailouts!
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-04-22/honey-i-lost-the-house-now-it-s-time-to-party-caroline-baum.html
Honey, I Lost the House. Let's Party
Re-using starchy water to boil more starchy foods? Yuck!
Also, zinc batteries out of potatoes are inefficient - better to use a solar cell and rechargables.