For now, most of the homes that buy "internet appliances" only have one, or maybe two, the market is just starting, and it's slow. To have to buy an "internet appliance multiplexor" that can share your phone line with many home internet appliances would be an excessive burden, if all you have is an iVCR. However, the manufacturers are going to have to get their heads together and come up with a standard for home internet connectivity, and then you'll have a $50 box that plugs into the phone line, and all your household devices (including your Windows PC, then 1-6 months later your Linux PC) will connect to it via ethernet, USB, power lines, radio, or whatever, and it'll dial up the internet on demand. https should cover the manufacturers' security concerns. I'm looking forward to it.
Computer code is expressive. To that extent, it is a matter of First Amendment concern. But computer code is not purely expressive any more than the assassination of a political figure is purely a political statement.
Well, that explains his decision - computer code, free speech, murder - they all need curtailing equally.
Pirates! Thieves! Anarchists, the lot of you! These Vorbis project people should be locked up for creating tools for copyright violation! Anyone with a.ogg file on their hard drive is guilty of conspiracy to defraud musicians!
So how, in a civil action, does the copyright owner establish an entitlement to other than nominal damages? He's not making any money at all off the abandoned software, so there's no possibility of damages.
If in getting a free copy of Word 2.0 I decide that I do not need to buy Word 2000, then they have lost a sale, and could claim the lost revenue from that sale. It's tenuous, but that's what expensive lawyers are for.
Turns out, he may have been right about the presence of a cosmological constant. He was only wrong about the effect of such a constant...
So doesn't that make it a different constant? Just because it could be described as "cosmological" doesn't mean that E was right to say that there was such a thing.
And does ANYONE else know that just before his death, Darwin said he had been very wrong about evolution?
So? IMO, he was wrong about being wrong. he was wrong in a number of ways. He believed in acquired feature inheritance, which is to say "If I spend my life picking strawberries, and my brother spends his life picking cherries, my children will be shorter than my brother's children". This is mostly discredited nowadays.
Then again, maybe he was just hedging his bets and trying to make sure he got a place in Heaven.
The problem is that evolution is still a theory, meaning that it isn't proven
This has probably been said elsewhere in this story, but it's worth saying here. Scientific theories can never be proven. They can only either be disproven, or stand the test of time for long enough to be accepted. Yet still, scientists keep on trying to disprove old theories, even in small ways, like Einstein's extensions to Newton's laws. Another way of putting the problem is that science cannot answer any question that contains the word "is". Saying "Evolution is just another theory" is like saying "Gravity is just another theory". It isn't going to get disproven any time soon, and if it does, I won't be worried about floating away. They'll just replace it with another explanation of why I'm stuck down here.
If you write a love note to Sally, the whole world doesn't automatically get the right to read it, even though you "distributed" it to selected members of the world (Sally).
But can Sally distribute or publish it? You sent it to her, so she owns it now, surely, or is she prohibited from publishing it because you have copyright? I don't see that your example is valid, which is the same problem as with the sock fellow. You may be right, and music "sharing" may be wrong, but you need to come up with some beter arguements and examples.
Copyright is a privilege that society affords to content creators. It involves denying the rest of society the right to do various things that basically do not affect the original creator, and do not require trespassing or sock-drawer-raiding, and in no way deny anyone the use of their socks. We use the term "intellectual property" because property is a close analogy, and makes it easy to understand. It isn't a property issue, it's a rights issue. The law doesn't grant the copyright holder ownership in the property sense, it denies society the right to do what they want with their own property (eg, a DVD). Note that I am not taking sides, just pointing out a different way of looking at the law.
Wired have an story under the title "ICANN't Believe That Domain Name", but it is linked to from here as "ICAAN't Believe That Domain Name"! They can't even get their puns right.
the horrendously idiotic region controls that the MPAA has built into it
I wouldn't object to the region coding so much, so long as it was only used to control the release schedule for a limited time - for instance, encode a region lock expiry date on the disc, and STOP USING REGION CODING ON DVDs OF 30 YEAR OLD FILMS! It's the region-coding of EVERY DVD that hollywood makes that pisses me off. The only region-free DVDs that I own are BBC discs (Black Adder, and the Flumps), I think.
So, as a Windows user who has just installed Mandrake 6.1 on my home machine, what should I be doing to secure it? Where do I learn this stuff? I find Linux rather daunting and unapproachable, even as a sophisticated user who has been using and programming computers for 20 years.
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GeekFlavor Free-for-All!
THE STORY
A while ago, I had a great website called Geekflavor, which had daily-updated geek news. It ran on perl, and recreated itself every few minutes to get the latest headlines from other sites. I tried different hosting services, however, but none of them (this one included) were very perl-friendly. So I gave up, and never got around to finding another one. Maybe one day, when I have more time....
SO WHAT?
So -- I have decided to Open Source this website! I am giving away the password and making it a free-for-all. As long as it's nothing illegal or pornographic, you can upload whatever you like. The site has got good bandwidth, so that's not a problem. All I ask is that you leave this page (index.html) intact, with the exception of adding links to additional pages (which you can do with a text editor).
HOW DO I PLAY? Login: geekflav Password: dnzvmsii FTP site: ftp.geekflavor.com
Simply place all html files in the/htdocs directory, and cgi scripts in the/cgi-bin directory. Perl seems to work well, it's just that my site relied on crontab, which was disabled by the admins.
Shell access is also available, but you have to use SSH software (i.e., you can't just telnet to Geekflavor.com). Try PenguiNet -- It's my client of choice. This is useful for editing existing files (such as adding links from this page to other pages), and tweaking scripts.
RULES
Since it's a free-for-all, nothing is really sacred. Anyone can modify anything that has been uploaded by anyone else. This is meant to be creative and productive, however, rather than destructive. I hope that this site will grow and evolve in an interesting way, rather than simply serving as a giant spamwad. Also, I ask that you leave this text intact for the benefit of others.
Have fun!
[feel free to add anything below this line, such as links to uploaded pages, etc.]
Am I the first to modify this? -Sean
Before it becomes too much of a free for all -Mike
Hot grits rule - Andy
www.cyberia200o.org : cyberia : sub-dir on www.geekflavor.com
why would the Autistic License be more likely for a mega corp to accept? For reasons of pride, to top it? Because prophet Larry said so?
I said like the AL. I meant I thought it was unlikely that they'd go with the "compulsory sharing" (yes, I know that's an unfair descripton) philosophy of the FSF. Seems I was wrong. Heigh, ho.
Any licence that does not involve payment can be revoked. This is why the FSF recommend that anyone releasing GPL code should sign over their copyright to the FSF.
By GPLing SO they taking a jab at MS in several ways. The first is that it stays free,
Not necessarily - they still own the copyright, so they can revoke the GPL-granted rights at will. The problem with free-as-in-beer is, you sometimes get what you pay for.
I can't see a big corp going for the GPL with a major product like this, if only for reasons of pride. I would think something more like the Artistic licence would be likely, probably their home-grown variant. Maybe they'll just fix the problems with the SCSL.
I haven't seen any other examples of this, but from the example provided, it looks distracting. The poster is talking tangentially about modems, and the highlight emphasises a basically unimportant part of the post and makes it look like the most important part. However, it can be disabled, which I will probably do. Deja is IMO a great way to browse usenet, and I'm really glad they removed the stupid "rating" sidebar that they had at one time.
If I can make an audiocassette copy of a CD, or a VHS copy of a television broadcast, why shouldn't I be able to make a copy of a DVD that I own?
Copyright law and the U.S. Supreme Court's 1984 "Betamax" decision provide for "fair use" of copyrighted material. For example, scholars and critics can quote lines from a book in a review without fear of incurring copyright liability. Or, a soap opera fan can tape an over the air TV show during the day to watch later that night -- under the Betamax decision, an unscrambled broadcast can be copied for this type of "time shift" personal use.
BUT "fair use" is not an open-ended concept. It does not justify any action an individual may take with a copyrighted work, whether they have purchased the copy or not. It is a right to use what is available, not a right of access to works for fair use purposes. For example, the law has always recognized that a show sent by scrambled pay-per-view signal may not be viewed or copied through the use of an unauthorized, illegal descrambler. The owner of the signal has - and has always had -- a legal right to scramble the signal to prevent unauthorized access to the signal for viewing or to make copies of the show.
Most importantly, this concept of fair use does not override specific statutory enactment such as the DMCA, which are intended by Congress to give clear protection to the rights of the creative community to use technological means to protect its product. It is this protection which has enabled the motion picture industry to launch new products in digital format, such as DVDs.
Slashdot Mirror
Are you using censorware? I would imagine that if you were, the images would be blocked because the URLs aren't being translated.
But we're catching up fast. I'm worried.
For now, most of the homes that buy "internet appliances" only have one, or maybe two, the market is just starting, and it's slow. To have to buy an "internet appliance multiplexor" that can share your phone line with many home internet appliances would be an excessive burden, if all you have is an iVCR. However, the manufacturers are going to have to get their heads together and come up with a standard for home internet connectivity, and then you'll have a $50 box that plugs into the phone line, and all your household devices (including your Windows PC, then 1-6 months later your Linux PC) will connect to it via ethernet, USB, power lines, radio, or whatever, and it'll dial up the internet on demand. https should cover the manufacturers' security concerns. I'm looking forward to it.
Well, that explains his decision - computer code, free speech, murder - they all need curtailing equally.
Pirates! Thieves! Anarchists, the lot of you! These Vorbis project people should be locked up for creating tools for copyright violation! Anyone with a .ogg file on their hard drive is guilty of conspiracy to defraud musicians!
If in getting a free copy of Word 2.0 I decide that I do not need to buy Word 2000, then they have lost a sale, and could claim the lost revenue from that sale. It's tenuous, but that's what expensive lawyers are for.
Nah, this was posted at 09:21!
So doesn't that make it a different constant? Just because it could be described as "cosmological" doesn't mean that E was right to say that there was such a thing.
So? IMO, he was wrong about being wrong. he was wrong in a number of ways. He believed in acquired feature inheritance, which is to say "If I spend my life picking strawberries, and my brother spends his life picking cherries, my children will be shorter than my brother's children". This is mostly discredited nowadays.
Then again, maybe he was just hedging his bets and trying to make sure he got a place in Heaven.
This has probably been said elsewhere in this story, but it's worth saying here. Scientific theories can never be proven. They can only either be disproven, or stand the test of time for long enough to be accepted. Yet still, scientists keep on trying to disprove old theories, even in small ways, like Einstein's extensions to Newton's laws. Another way of putting the problem is that science cannot answer any question that contains the word "is". Saying "Evolution is just another theory" is like saying "Gravity is just another theory". It isn't going to get disproven any time soon, and if it does, I won't be worried about floating away. They'll just replace it with another explanation of why I'm stuck down here.
But can Sally distribute or publish it? You sent it to her, so she owns it now, surely, or is she prohibited from publishing it because you have copyright? I don't see that your example is valid, which is the same problem as with the sock fellow. You may be right, and music "sharing" may be wrong, but you need to come up with some beter arguements and examples.
Copyright is a privilege that society affords to content creators. It involves denying the rest of society the right to do various things that basically do not affect the original creator, and do not require trespassing or sock-drawer-raiding, and in no way deny anyone the use of their socks. We use the term "intellectual property" because property is a close analogy, and makes it easy to understand. It isn't a property issue, it's a rights issue. The law doesn't grant the copyright holder ownership in the property sense, it denies society the right to do what they want with their own property (eg, a DVD). Note that I am not taking sides, just pointing out a different way of looking at the law.
A more pertinant example is king size rolling papers, of which it is estimated 99% are used for marijuana.
Wired have an story under the title "ICANN't Believe That Domain Name", but it is linked to from here as "ICAAN't Believe That Domain Name"! They can't even get their puns right.
I wouldn't object to the region coding so much, so long as it was only used to control the release schedule for a limited time - for instance, encode a region lock expiry date on the disc, and STOP USING REGION CODING ON DVDs OF 30 YEAR OLD FILMS! It's the region-coding of EVERY DVD that hollywood makes that pisses me off. The only region-free DVDs that I own are BBC discs (Black Adder, and the Flumps), I think.
So, as a Windows user who has just installed Mandrake 6.1 on my home machine, what should I be doing to secure it? Where do I learn this stuff? I find Linux rather daunting and unapproachable, even as a sophisticated user who has been using and programming computers for 20 years.
THE STORY
A while ago, I had a great website called Geekflavor, which had daily-updated geek news. It ran on perl, and recreated itself every few minutes to get the latest headlines from other sites. I tried different hosting services, however, but none of them (this one included) were very perl-friendly. So I gave up, and never got around to finding another one. Maybe one day, when I have more time....
SO WHAT?
So -- I have decided to Open Source this website! I am giving away the password and making it a free-for-all. As long as it's nothing illegal or pornographic, you can upload whatever you like. The site has got good bandwidth, so that's not a problem. All I ask is that you leave this page (index.html) intact, with the exception of adding links to additional pages (which you can do with a text editor).
HOW DO I PLAY?
Login: geekflav
Password: dnzvmsii
FTP site: ftp.geekflavor.com
Simply place all html files in the /htdocs directory, and cgi scripts in the /cgi-bin directory. Perl seems to work well, it's just that my site relied on crontab, which was disabled by the admins.
Shell access is also available, but you have to use SSH software (i.e., you can't just telnet to Geekflavor.com). Try PenguiNet -- It's my client of choice. This is useful for editing existing files (such as adding links from this page to other pages), and tweaking scripts.
RULES
Since it's a free-for-all, nothing is really sacred. Anyone can modify anything that has been uploaded by anyone else. This is meant to be creative and productive, however, rather than destructive. I hope that this site will grow and evolve in an interesting way, rather than simply serving as a giant spamwad. Also, I ask that you leave this text intact for the benefit of others.
Have fun!
[feel free to add anything below this line, such as links to uploaded pages, etc.]
Am I the first to modify this? -Sean
Before it becomes too much of a free for all -Mike
Hot grits rule - Andy
www.cyberia200o.org : cyberia : sub-dir on www.geekflavor.com
Fifteen minutes, by my watch. The front page is now 404ing.
I said like the AL. I meant I thought it was unlikely that they'd go with the "compulsory sharing" (yes, I know that's an unfair descripton) philosophy of the FSF. Seems I was wrong. Heigh, ho.
Any licence that does not involve payment can be revoked. This is why the FSF recommend that anyone releasing GPL code should sign over their copyright to the FSF.
Not necessarily - they still own the copyright, so they can revoke the GPL-granted rights at will. The problem with free-as-in-beer is, you sometimes get what you pay for.
I can't see a big corp going for the GPL with a major product like this, if only for reasons of pride. I would think something more like the Artistic licence would be likely, probably their home-grown variant. Maybe they'll just fix the problems with the SCSL.
I haven't seen any other examples of this, but from the example provided, it looks distracting. The poster is talking tangentially about modems, and the highlight emphasises a basically unimportant part of the post and makes it look like the most important part. However, it can be disabled, which I will probably do. Deja is IMO a great way to browse usenet, and I'm really glad they removed the stupid "rating" sidebar that they had at one time.
I can save documents in Word 97 format, but SO 5.1a won't load them back in again!
Copyright law and the U.S. Supreme Court's 1984 "Betamax" decision provide for "fair use" of copyrighted material. For example, scholars and critics can quote lines from a book in a review without fear of incurring copyright liability. Or, a soap opera fan can tape an over the air TV show during the day to watch later that night -- under the Betamax decision, an unscrambled broadcast can be copied for this type of "time shift" personal use.
BUT "fair use" is not an open-ended concept. It does not justify any action an individual may take with a copyrighted work, whether they have purchased the copy or not. It is a right to use what is available, not a right of access to works for fair use purposes. For example, the law has always recognized that a show sent by scrambled pay-per-view signal may not be viewed or copied through the use of an unauthorized, illegal descrambler. The owner of the signal has - and has always had -- a legal right to scramble the signal to prevent unauthorized access to the signal for viewing or to make copies of the show.
Most importantly, this concept of fair use does not override specific statutory enactment such as the DMCA, which are intended by Congress to give clear protection to the rights of the creative community to use technological means to protect its product. It is this protection which has enabled the motion picture industry to launch new products in digital format, such as DVDs.