I remember a program for my pilot (when it was called a pilot even) that assigned "programs" to two button pairs, you could set up much more than the 4 programs (notepad, phone, todo, calendar) you would setup other programs to run if you pressed say calendar-phone perhaps your outiline (brainforest) would launch....
Do you want to install our new service that does "real good thngs" for you?
Note: It will not telling you that our service also sends back your every mouseclick and keystroke to our master computer or steals your "spare" cpu cycles to meet our nefarious ends.
With the only indication of these thing being buried deep in some legaleeze laden near undecipheral EULA
This movie does not deal with true asmovian robots.
The three laws were to be so deeply ingrained in the positronic brain of the robot that to disobey any of them would cause "roblock", the robot would freeze up.
As mentioned above, there were a group of robots working in a radiation laboratory. The robots would rush in to save the humans, only to destroy themselves (the radiation frys positronic brains and is relatively harmless to humans) so a new batch of robots was purchased with part of the first law "or through inaction..." removed.
The Robots themselves came up with a zeroeth law:
A robot may not allow humanity to come to harm, even at the expense of the other laws.
I thought bianry only drivers could be released as kernel modules, without disclosing source.. If so then there is no excuse for a hardware mfg to not support linux.
They don't want to spend the time?
They could hire a linux save programmer on Non Disclosure, or perhaps one of us could volunteer with the understanding that while the module would be offered binary only(that is not "free as in speach"), it would still be "free as in beer"
Would any of us with the programming ability and the proper knowlege set step up to the plate in those curcumstances?
The biggest problem with the last presidential election was the issue of properly reading the ballots. What did the voter mean when the chad had a little dimple but was not punched all the way out.
Take home records = bad
How about this. The voting machine presents each candidate clearly, Once all the issues have been voted, the machine re-caps the vote back to the voter. After checking the vote and ensuring it's the will of the voter, 2 ballots are printed in OCR human and machine readable. The voter can again ensure his/her will is properly recorded.
At the polling place there are several ballot boxes, One for the official count and several for 3rd parties. The 3rd parties provide their own "chain of custody" and all ballots are then counted.
remember - He who votes deciedes nothing, He who counts the vote decides everything.
Also if the database is in the hands of the author, it's His idea of what is malicious or not. If it's my computer it should be MY idea of what is malicious.
Ok, So the problem is that mailing lists and other legitimate mass email senders will be burned by this.
The sender may or may not attach a coupon of "computational effort" to an email. No coupon, my mail program puts your message in a SPAM file, and clears it a few days later automatically, unless you are on my whitelist (no coupon ok whitelist). If you are on my whitelist your messageis put in my inbox.
I know which mailing lists I want, and I put them in the whitelist.
The problem then becomes, can the spammers spoof my whitelist? and can they counterfiet the "coupon"?
A place I worked once used "The Coordinator", instead of sending an email you had a choice of "comment", "request Action", "Request Comment" and instead of replying you "Commited to" It was all based on some sort of communicaqtions theory/psych stuff. People hated it. "I want to reply- but I don't want to commit to anything" sort of stuff.
Wether open source hardware ( or even open source itself) becomes illegal will depend on what we all do with it. If we use it to violate other's copyrights it will become illegal.
" False, I believe. Mere information should be public domain--if I want to find out, oh, what your telephone number is, there shouldn't be any penalty whatsoever if someone tells it to me. "
Planesdragons phone number is (924)555-3265
If that were your real phone number, how would you feel right now?
Now suppose "Plaindraggin" never pays his bills and has lots of collection agents hunting him. As a result of your phone number *being made* pupblic domain you start getting calls at all hours.
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I belive a treaty - once ratified - supercedes even the constitution. IIRC.
I remember a program for my pilot (when it was called a pilot even) that assigned "programs" to two button pairs, you could
set up much more than the 4 programs (notepad, phone, todo, calendar) you would setup other programs to run if you pressed say calendar-phone perhaps your outiline (brainforest) would launch....
I can't remember the name though.
I just looked at Speakeasy's site, It seems to me that their lowest rate, home DSL is almost $50.00 a month.
When I had my own place =I think= I was paying only $20.00 or
$30.00 for SBC dsl - was I wrong?
Sure Speakeasy will let you share with your neighbors, they also charge twice as much.
The prompt window would probably say
Do you want to install our new service that does "real good thngs" for you?
Note: It will not telling you that our service also sends back your every mouseclick and keystroke to our master computer or steals your "spare" cpu cycles to meet our nefarious ends.
With the only indication of these thing being buried deep in some legaleeze laden near undecipheral EULA
This movie does not deal with true asmovian robots.
The three laws were to be so deeply ingrained in the positronic brain of the robot that to disobey any of them would cause "roblock", the robot would freeze up.
As mentioned above, there were a group of robots working in a radiation laboratory. The robots would rush in to save
the humans, only to destroy themselves (the radiation frys positronic brains and is relatively harmless to humans)
so a new batch of robots was purchased with part of the first law "or through inaction..." removed.
The Robots themselves came up with a zeroeth law:
A robot may not allow humanity to come to harm, even at the expense of the other laws.
These robots could kill to safeguard humanity.
I thought bianry only drivers could be released as kernel modules, without disclosing source.. If so then there is no
excuse for a hardware mfg to not support linux.
They don't want to spend the time?
They could hire a linux save programmer on Non Disclosure, or perhaps one of us could volunteer with the understanding that while the module would be offered binary only(that is not "free as in speach"), it would still be "free as in beer"
Would any of us with the programming ability and the proper knowlege set step up to the plate in those curcumstances?
If I had the programming knowledge I would.
Hmm Morse code as a "trinary ascii" where dot is say a positive voltage and dash a negative, the empty space a zero volt /-\--
/\- 3 states.
looks like a in 5 states even counting an inter character 0.
or perhaps
I wonder if TeacherReview.com could allow the teacher a rebuttle, instead of deleteing any reviews.
no, you are correct. The Borg have no privacy as well.
Ok,
The biggest problem with the last presidential election was the issue of properly reading the ballots. What did the voter mean when the chad had a little dimple but was not punched all the way out.
Take home records = bad
How about this. The voting machine presents each candidate clearly, Once all the issues have been voted, the
machine re-caps the vote back to the voter. After checking the vote and ensuring it's the will of the voter, 2 ballots are
printed in OCR human and machine readable. The voter can again ensure his/her will is properly recorded.
At the polling place there are several ballot boxes, One for the official count and several for 3rd parties. The 3rd parties provide their own "chain of custody" and all ballots are then counted.
remember - He who votes deciedes nothing, He who counts the vote decides everything.
I am a Republican who thinks SCO is reprehensible!
Please if you can, make it short ( or make a short version), and share it with us all.
Everyone Druske can't be the only one! Don't rely on IBM or HP to do this, add your voice to theirs, and to Druske's
Also if the database is in the hands of the author, it's His idea of what is malicious or not. If it's my computer it should be MY idea of what is malicious.
The difference between big-batch-o-CDs and radio is that the radio can come up with somthing I have not heard yet.
Ok, So the problem is that mailing lists and other legitimate mass email senders will be burned by this.
The sender may or may not attach a coupon of "computational effort" to an email. No coupon, my mail program puts your message in a SPAM file, and clears it
a few days later automatically, unless you are on my whitelist (no coupon ok whitelist). If you are on my whitelist your messageis put in my inbox.
I know which mailing lists I want, and I put them in the whitelist.
The problem then becomes, can the spammers spoof my whitelist? and can they counterfiet the "coupon"?
So that MS isn't the only one who can do this.
or perhaps you have to go so far as remove the battery.
>> I know some top notch places that'll get you a beer AND a dance for $15 ;)
:^)
They said Ladies...
A large clothing retail chain (now out of business) used SCO for POS as well. (the whole time I worked there I lobbyied for Linux!)
Wasn't there a Slashdot story about a star trek knock off being made? This one was english- was serious - had a different ship and crew (still a TOS)
The first episode was set on Andor (where the Andorian Sci. officer had to choose between sides in a civil war and loyalty to ship).
I don't think it's open source. I think it's outsource. Sending all coding to India or China where the programmers are happy with peanut wages.
Mouse? Roared?
Lotus notes was just as bad before IBM owned it.
A place I worked once used "The Coordinator", instead of sending an email you had a choice of "comment", "request Action", "Request Comment" and instead of replying you "Commited to" It was all based on some sort of communicaqtions theory/psych stuff. People hated it.
"I want to reply- but I don't want to commit to anything" sort of stuff.
Wether open source hardware ( or even open source itself) becomes illegal will depend on what we all do with it. If we use it to violate other's copyrights it will become illegal.
With great power, come great responsibility.
" False, I believe. Mere information should be public domain--if I want to find out, oh, what your telephone number is, there shouldn't be any penalty whatsoever if someone tells it to me. "
Planesdragons phone number is (924)555-3265
If that were your real phone number, how would you feel right now?
Now suppose "Plaindraggin" never pays his bills
and has lots of collection agents hunting him. As a result of your phone number *being made* pupblic domain you start getting calls at all hours.