Because, God knows, lawyers have such an ironclad positive reputation already and no one at all is seeking legal reforms. These two jokers might have brought the legal system's halcyon days of salad and song to a crushing end!
What is interesting is that 1, 2, and 3 are already illegal by federal law, and are aimed toward viruses, worms, and scams rather than spyware.
However, #4 is truly the interesting one. This is the supposed spyware one, but doesn't apply to any known spyware. This looks more like its against pagejacking, which doesn't require any software installed at all; simple JavaScript will suffice. At its best, it could be used against some really obnoxious adware, but not spyware.
I don't see anything here that has the slightest thing to do with spyware.
The statistical risk of humans getting wiped out in the next 100 years [...] is 1 in 455. You're 10 times more likely to get wiped out by a civilization-ending event in the next 100 years than you are getting killed in a commercial airline crash
Let's see.. this would put the odds of getting wiped out in a commercial airline crash at 1 in 4550 -- meaning, if this were true, that there would be dozens of commerical airline crashes every day. Three per week out of O'Hare alone.
That alone makes me call BS on this whole article.
All GPL'ed software they modified is available from their FTP servers and many of the changes they've made have incorporated into back into the original software.
Now granted, Xandros Deluxe does cost money. That's because they are selling non-Open Source software along with their Linux distribution, such as CrossOver. However, Xandros didn't make CrossOver -- they are just a reseller.
If you don't want the commericial software along with the open source stuff, then get the "open circulation" edition which is available via BitTorrent and costs nothing (or $5 if you want them to burn it to a CD and mail it to you).
So, they are complying in every way with the GPL, contribute patches, and offer a free edition. What's your problem again?
I think greylisting is an interesting idea, but doesn't work very well.
When it was tried on my isp, it cut down spam by only 20%. It seems the spam software is adapting to recognize greylisting and react accordingly. However, it had a cost that some very important emails from known people or organizations but unknown email addresses (such as machine-generated emails that had time critical information in it) were delayed by up to 40 minutes. Because I was not root, I didn't have access to the gtreylist database and there's no way for a mere user to command the system to "just send on everything that belongs to me, I don't care if its spam... I need it all now." After a delay on a particularly time sensitive email for nearly an hour, I asked to be excluded from the greylisting service.
Greylisting, I fear, it another example of "it works for 10 minutes, then you are stuck with it"
However, there are such devices as tripods and a self-timers on cameras.
You may not be much of a motorcycle rider, so I'll let you off lightly. She claims to have been riding a Ninja. Ninjas are crotch rockets with no cargo capacity. Just where would she have put this tripod?
Besides, it seems a bit unrealistic that she would set up a tripod, set a timer, and take a photo of herself looking through binoculars... unless she's REALLY narcissistic.
Since she herself appears in several of the photographs.. all taken at head level and mostly in open areas where its unlikely there were 5 1/2 foot high stable structures to place the camera on for a timer shot. Looking at the photos makes it plainly obvious there was at least one other person there taking photos while she was looking through binoculars and looking at her geiger counter.
Even worse, the designs on their webpage show about 3-5 vehicle bays per station. God help the system should there be a backup of cars waiting to get into a station during rush that is bigger than the station side rain can hold. It could back up onto the main line and grind the whole system into a deadlock. End of traffic jams my ass.
Also all the vehicle bays at the station seem to be on a single thread so no one can leave a station until everyone in front of them leaves the station. Taxi 2000 rage is thereby invented. Also if there's a delay at the last vehicle bay at the station, no one else can enter the station at all. Insanity.
Those aren't reasons for a 3-person car. Those are reasons not to make the cars very big.
So, why a 3-person car rather than a 2-person car? If I were to take the reasons you stated as the driving forces on vehicle size, I would have chosen 2-person cars.
You make some really good points. However, most people aren't the average Slashdotter and don't know not to click Yes on Active X controls. They don't know a bad URL when they see one. They easily fall for tricks that would send them to sites that contain trojans and buffer-overflow exploits.
Just as a jackhammers aren't very dangerous to knowledgeable professionals, they can be very dangerous when used by masses who don't know any better.
Even with experienced people, accidents can happen. I've actually been hit by a nasty piece of spyware because I had two windows up, hit enter on the other window just as focus switched to the Active X popup, thus essentially clicking Yes.. D'OH! That was a mess.
The information they're blocking is not even controversial. These are well-documented facts, the images are evidence, they're raw data. Google is blanking out portions of _history_.
Isn't this interesting?
Someone posts a question to a tech forum website, which then gets turned into a conjecture, which then becomes an accusation by Slashdot, which then becomes solid indesputable fact by the parent poster here... all despite the fact that you can get to the information very easily by doing a Google search on "Abu Ghraib photos". Not that anyone even bothered to TRY....
Whatever happened to fact-checking and thinking for yourself? What happened to never taking anything at face-value? Are we so used to be screwed by faceless corporations that we make these reactionary knee-jerk blind leaps without any real evidence to back them up?
I am not familiar with Perfigo, but it seems as though they make equipment which will not allow a device to obtain non-trivial network access unless/until it has been shown to be up to snuff according to various configurable criteria
Got it in one! Right on.
That's exactly what Perfigo does. Its becoming rather popular on college campuses to protect their networks from morons coming back from summer vacation with their laptops and desktops loaded with worms, virii, trojans, major security holes, etc.
Stop twisting people's words to make your stupid argument. We are all saying "There is an X" and you are saying "There's no such Y!".
There is no such right to (or guarantee of) payment
Basic contract law disagrees with you. If I sell my mowing services for $30 and you receive benefit of that by having your lawn mowed by me, I damned well have the right to receive payment from you.
Rockstar is selling entertainment in the form of GTA:SA. If you receive benefit of that by playing the game, Rockstar has the right to be paid for it.
The contracts you make to sell your works are of your own doing, and if nobody pays for your product, then you are not entitled to anything.
In this case, I invite you not to pay your power bill. Call your power company up and tell them they have no right or guarantee of payment. I urge you. Please do that.
Arguing what any user may or may not do as a result of copying something is pointless, there are many possibilities.
and followed it up with:
P2P filesharing, for example, extends market and adds value to the work.
Even ignoring the fact you said a particular argument was "pointless" then almost immediately used the exact same argument, you are still full of BS.
That last one, #4, is what should legitimize some forms of what's now considered "piracy". P2P filesharing, for example
Yeah, if you completely ignore #1: "The purpose and character of the use". If the purpose of the use is to consume a game, movie, music, etc. without paying for it, then its not fair use.
Great - another corporations-have-a-right-to-profit thinker. Corporations don't have a right to profit
This general thought has been copied over and over again and each time the thought was wrong.
The grandparent never said "the right to profit (verb)" as in the "right to make a profit". He said "the profit*s* (noun, plural) they have a right to" as in the "right to actually receive full payment for a product they are selling from those who are receiving that product".
Having the right to receive their due profits is not the same has having a right to make a profit.
Furthermore, the grandparent was right. Corporations and individuals both have a right to the profits they are entitled to -- by definition. Those entitlements are granted by all kinds of laws including copyright, trademark, anti-theft, and anti-piracy laws.
Or how about "America has the best healthcare system in the world!" Well, we're the only industrializaed nation that doesn't have national healthcare coverage, and we have some of most expensive medical bills in the world, so objectively we don't.
Forgetting the Straw Man for a moment, I have to point out the two words in your passage I made bold.
The US may very well have the "best" healthcare system in the world -- depending on what the definition of "best" is. Such a statement can't be confirmed nor denied objectively at all, because it is, by its very nature, subjective.
To you, "best" means "nationalized" and "inexpensive". However, those are not in everyone's defintion of "best". Someone else's definition of "best" might be "privatized in such a way that promotes the development of new treatments and drugs". Using that definition of "best", the US might be considered have the best healthcare in the world.
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Because, God knows, lawyers have such an ironclad positive reputation already and no one at all is seeking legal reforms. These two jokers might have brought the legal system's halcyon days of salad and song to a crushing end!
There are lots of things going on. It takes many miles, lots of planning, and lots of energy to turn around a battleship.
Who says battleships can't dance?
What is interesting is that 1, 2, and 3 are already illegal by federal law, and are aimed toward viruses, worms, and scams rather than spyware.
However, #4 is truly the interesting one. This is the supposed spyware one, but doesn't apply to any known spyware. This looks more like its against pagejacking, which doesn't require any software installed at all; simple JavaScript will suffice. At its best, it could be used against some really obnoxious adware, but not spyware.
I don't see anything here that has the slightest thing to do with spyware.
I've had Russian coffee.. and for once, the Soviet Russia joke is TRUE!
Man that stuff could be used to pave roads!
It looks nifty, but I really don't know why they put 3 of these big turbine ventilators on top of the machine when my CPU and GPU are water cooled?
Same reason there's a big hunkin' fan in front of your car's engine.
At the top of the water-cooled system is, quite simply, a radiator. Something has to cool the water that cools the system!
The statistical risk of humans getting wiped out in the next 100 years [...] is 1 in 455. You're 10 times more likely to get wiped out by a civilization-ending event in the next 100 years than you are getting killed in a commercial airline crash
Let's see.. this would put the odds of getting wiped out in a commercial airline crash at 1 in 4550 -- meaning, if this were true, that there would be dozens of commerical airline crashes every day. Three per week out of O'Hare alone.
That alone makes me call BS on this whole article.
Not true --
All GPL'ed software they modified is available from their FTP servers and many of the changes they've made have incorporated into back into the original software.
Now granted, Xandros Deluxe does cost money. That's because they are selling non-Open Source software along with their Linux distribution, such as CrossOver. However, Xandros didn't make CrossOver -- they are just a reseller.
If you don't want the commericial software along with the open source stuff, then get the "open circulation" edition which is available via BitTorrent and costs nothing (or $5 if you want them to burn it to a CD and mail it to you).
So, they are complying in every way with the GPL, contribute patches, and offer a free edition. What's your problem again?
I think greylisting is an interesting idea, but doesn't work very well.
When it was tried on my isp, it cut down spam by only 20%. It seems the spam software is adapting to recognize greylisting and react accordingly. However, it had a cost that some very important emails from known people or organizations but unknown email addresses (such as machine-generated emails that had time critical information in it) were delayed by up to 40 minutes. Because I was not root, I didn't have access to the gtreylist database and there's no way for a mere user to command the system to "just send on everything that belongs to me, I don't care if its spam... I need it all now." After a delay on a particularly time sensitive email for nearly an hour, I asked to be excluded from the greylisting service.
Greylisting, I fear, it another example of "it works for 10 minutes, then you are stuck with it"
However, there are such devices as tripods and a self-timers on cameras.
You may not be much of a motorcycle rider, so I'll let you off lightly. She claims to have been riding a Ninja. Ninjas are crotch rockets with no cargo capacity. Just where would she have put this tripod?
Besides, it seems a bit unrealistic that she would set up a tripod, set a timer, and take a photo of herself looking through binoculars... unless she's REALLY narcissistic.
Humans don't have a communication instinct.
Any parent of an infant would disagree with you greatly.
How was that known to be fake?
Since she herself appears in several of the photographs.. all taken at head level and mostly in open areas where its unlikely there were 5 1/2 foot high stable structures to place the camera on for a timer shot. Looking at the photos makes it plainly obvious there was at least one other person there taking photos while she was looking through binoculars and looking at her geiger counter.
Even worse, the designs on their webpage show about 3-5 vehicle bays per station. God help the system should there be a backup of cars waiting to get into a station during rush that is bigger than the station side rain can hold. It could back up onto the main line and grind the whole system into a deadlock. End of traffic jams my ass.
Also all the vehicle bays at the station seem to be on a single thread so no one can leave a station until everyone in front of them leaves the station. Taxi 2000 rage is thereby invented. Also if there's a delay at the last vehicle bay at the station, no one else can enter the station at all. Insanity.
Those aren't reasons for a 3-person car. Those are reasons not to make the cars very big.
So, why a 3-person car rather than a 2-person car? If I were to take the reasons you stated as the driving forces on vehicle size, I would have chosen 2-person cars.
Okay, that just made me shoot soda out my nose. :)
You make some really good points. However, most people aren't the average Slashdotter and don't know not to click Yes on Active X controls. They don't know a bad URL when they see one. They easily fall for tricks that would send them to sites that contain trojans and buffer-overflow exploits.
Just as a jackhammers aren't very dangerous to knowledgeable professionals, they can be very dangerous when used by masses who don't know any better.
Even with experienced people, accidents can happen. I've actually been hit by a nasty piece of spyware because I had two windows up, hit enter on the other window just as focus switched to the Active X popup, thus essentially clicking Yes.. D'OH! That was a mess.
The information they're blocking is not even controversial. These are well-documented facts, the images are evidence, they're raw data. Google is blanking out portions of _history_.
Isn't this interesting?
Someone posts a question to a tech forum website, which then gets turned into a conjecture, which then becomes an accusation by Slashdot, which then becomes solid indesputable fact by the parent poster here... all despite the fact that you can get to the information very easily by doing a Google search on "Abu Ghraib photos". Not that anyone even bothered to TRY....
Whatever happened to fact-checking and thinking for yourself? What happened to never taking anything at face-value? Are we so used to be screwed by faceless corporations that we make these reactionary knee-jerk blind leaps without any real evidence to back them up?
Cisco, for years, has aquired many smaller companies
At least we are consistent.
I am not familiar with Perfigo, but it seems as though they make equipment which will not allow a device to obtain non-trivial network access unless/until it has been shown to be up to snuff according to various configurable criteria
Got it in one! Right on.
That's exactly what Perfigo does. Its becoming rather popular on college campuses to protect their networks from morons coming back from summer vacation with their laptops and desktops loaded with worms, virii, trojans, major security holes, etc.
Stop twisting people's words to make your stupid argument. We are all saying "There is an X" and you are saying "There's no such Y!".
There is no such right to (or guarantee of) payment
Basic contract law disagrees with you. If I sell my mowing services for $30 and you receive benefit of that by having your lawn mowed by me, I damned well have the right to receive payment from you.
Rockstar is selling entertainment in the form of GTA:SA. If you receive benefit of that by playing the game, Rockstar has the right to be paid for it.
The contracts you make to sell your works are of your own doing, and if nobody pays for your product, then you are not entitled to anything.
In this case, I invite you not to pay your power bill. Call your power company up and tell them they have no right or guarantee of payment. I urge you. Please do that.
You're funny.
You said:
Arguing what any user may or may not do as a result of copying something is pointless, there are many possibilities.
and followed it up with:
P2P filesharing, for example, extends market and adds value to the work.
Even ignoring the fact you said a particular argument was "pointless" then almost immediately used the exact same argument, you are still full of BS.
That last one, #4, is what should legitimize some forms of what's now considered "piracy". P2P filesharing, for example
Yeah, if you completely ignore #1: "The purpose and character of the use". If the purpose of the use is to consume a game, movie, music, etc. without paying for it, then its not fair use.
Great - another corporations-have-a-right-to-profit thinker. Corporations don't have a right to profit
This general thought has been copied over and over again and each time the thought was wrong.
The grandparent never said "the right to profit (verb)" as in the "right to make a profit". He said "the profit*s* (noun, plural) they have a right to" as in the "right to actually receive full payment for a product they are selling from those who are receiving that product".
Having the right to receive their due profits is not the same has having a right to make a profit.
Furthermore, the grandparent was right. Corporations and individuals both have a right to the profits they are entitled to -- by definition. Those entitlements are granted by all kinds of laws including copyright, trademark, anti-theft, and anti-piracy laws.
Open source means bug free
That's the funniest thing I've ever heard.
Or how about "America has the best healthcare system in the world!" Well, we're the only industrializaed nation that doesn't have national healthcare coverage, and we have some of most expensive medical bills in the world, so objectively we don't.
Forgetting the Straw Man for a moment, I have to point out the two words in your passage I made bold.
The US may very well have the "best" healthcare system in the world -- depending on what the definition of "best" is. Such a statement can't be confirmed nor denied objectively at all, because it is, by its very nature, subjective.
To you, "best" means "nationalized" and "inexpensive". However, those are not in everyone's defintion of "best". Someone else's definition of "best" might be "privatized in such a way that promotes the development of new treatments and drugs". Using that definition of "best", the US might be considered have the best healthcare in the world.
It was a good Straw Man argument though.
Unless you try to run a 1.5 app/applet using a 1.4 or earlier JRE/JDK and it uses any VM or library changes present only in 1.5.
.class files.
This sounds like a good argument for NOT building it yourself and just using the distributed 1.4 version of the
Java is fairly good at being backward compatible. Java programs compiled with the 1.4 compiler will run just peachy under the 1.5 JVM.
A notable example of a brazen daylight robbery was the recent theft of "The Scream".
Are you kidding? "The Scream" was stolen? Oh my god! I hadn't heard!
(end sarcasm mode)
Thanks for catching up with the whole point of this article.