I don't believe in using moderator points to silence a valid opinion
It isn't silencing opinion, since the post is not an opinion. It makes some statements and assumptions about compatability that I guess the moderators did not agree with. "I'm assuming Excel, Access and Publisher have perfect compatibility" - how can that be insightful or informative, especially considering the other posts in this thread that bash Access's backwards-compatability?
...and he added that the Open Office XML format has an 'extremely liberal' license.
Isn't "liberal" an insult in the US? I get the impression it's a synonym for evil in some circles. We can't have them saying horrid things like that about OSS!
You're asking the publishers to trust Google to implement a system that can't be exploited, or to fix exploits before too much damage is done. Given the pagerank-stealing fiasco, I wouldn't invest that trust in anyone, and I say that as a Google fan and Google Mail user.
When Google returns an excerpt with the second, third, and fourth sentence, then just do another search for the fourth sentence, and Google will return an excerpt with the fifth, sixth, seventh sentence, etc.
Why not just go to B&N or Borders and read the book at that rate?
Because you could get a computer to do the searching automatically, and reconstruct the entire text in a matter of minutes or hours, and upload it to eCamel for the entire world to download.
The word Olympic may be used, without sanction, to identify a business or goods or services if:
c. such business, goods or services are operated, sold and marketed in the state of Washington, west of the Cascade Mountain range, and marketing outside this area is not substantial
Just because some people here happily violate copyright, and some people here defend the GPL, doesn't mean that any double-standards are happening. There is undoubtedly some overlap between those groups, but don't go tarring us all with the same brush.
A root kit is a set of tools used by an intruder after cracking a computer system. These tools can help the attacker maintain his or her access to the system and use it for malicious purposes.
The term rootkit is used to describe the mechanisms and techniques whereby malware, including viruses, spyware, and trojans, attempt to hide their presence from spyware blockers, antivirus, and system management utilities.
Thanks for all that FUD. The way I see it, countries should be able to control their own domains. The U.S. will keep the null domain (i.e. no country suffix), but domain names in the.uk area will be controlled by an organization appointed by the UK government,.cn by the Chinese government, etc. and all countries should agree to propagate the changes.
This issue first came to my attention when the South African government tried to sieze control from the US-nominated administrator. Can anyone remember what happened in that case?
Who decides where.cn domain names go at the moment?
The first Compaq machines had a compatible BIOS as the result of a clean-room implementation, but it wasn't reverse engineered.
Clean room design is still reverse engineering, that doesn't make it illegal. Feel free to correct the wikipedia article if you have good reason to believe that it was not "reverse-engineered".
This is of limited use to the general public - how are you going to find out who owns Printer 21052817? You could use it to determine whether two sheets were printed by the same printer, but how much use is that?
I suppose a school could now determine who was using the IT lab printer at that time to print out that picture of Paris Hilton with the principal's head photoshopped on.
People of conscience wouldn't support American companies building torture devices or weapons for oppressive regimes,
There is a similar situation in the UK, with a company that is making the cuffs that are used in Guantanamo Bay. These cuffs are widely regarded as instruments of torture, and there are campaigners trying to get the company to stop making them.
so impractical but real How-To articles appeal to me
You don't think that the mod could actually work, do you? That picture of the IDE controller wired up to the motherboard is a photoshop job. The paragraphs above it about compatability are nonsense.
You've got to admit, this is borderline "news". I love it, and I don't begrudge it being on Slashdot, but I'm totally unsurprised that another editor made a different call and rejected it.
I don't have a lot of sympathy for Real, because their software is rubbish. Even on a level playing field they would have been wiped out, in fact I suspect the only reason that they are still around is that they are the biggest player that isn't Microsoft, so people support it out of principle. Okay, I forgot about QuickTime in that comparison, but I think it still holds because QuickTime is also rubbish. Both of them just keep on crashing and stopping other software from working.
Sure, they have the connections, but routing extra traffic through those peering links will probably only cascade this problem. The intermediate providers will see a jump in trafic coming through from L3 and Cogent, and they will have to consider how to recoup the costs that that is imposing on them.
It's a web, and when one strand breaks, it increases the strain on the other strands.
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I agree, "Offtopic" is inappropriate. I use "Overrated" as a catch-all for factually incorrect posts.
You're asking the publishers to trust Google to implement a system that can't be exploited, or to fix exploits before too much damage is done. Given the pagerank-stealing fiasco, I wouldn't invest that trust in anyone, and I say that as a Google fan and Google Mail user.
Because you could get a computer to do the searching automatically, and reconstruct the entire text in a matter of minutes or hours, and upload it to eCamel for the entire world to download.
I wonder if they've ever kicked a genuine celebrity from EQ for using their own name. It'd be hilarious if CmdrTaco had got kicked for that reason...
Linus does!
There's nothing wrong with the headline. It used to read "BitTorrent guilty of net piracy" a few hours ago, but I emailed them and they fixed it.
Oops, sorry if I over-reacted, I didn't realise you were making a specific point about an earlier post.
Just because some people here happily violate copyright, and some people here defend the GPL, doesn't mean that any double-standards are happening. There is undoubtedly some overlap between those groups, but don't go tarring us all with the same brush.
See also Sysinternals's Rootkit Revealer:
While I don't entirely disacree with you, I think that's what the phrase "chilling effect" was coined for.
Thanks for all that FUD. The way I see it, countries should be able to control their own domains. The U.S. will keep the null domain (i.e. no country suffix), but domain names in the .uk area will be controlled by an organization appointed by the UK government, .cn by the Chinese government, etc. and all countries should agree to propagate the changes.
.cn domain names go at the moment?
This issue first came to my attention when the South African government tried to sieze control from the US-nominated administrator. Can anyone remember what happened in that case?
Who decides where
Phil Hibbs.
Clean room design is still reverse engineering, that doesn't make it illegal. Feel free to correct the wikipedia article if you have good reason to believe that it was not "reverse-engineered".
I think it was pretty momentous when Compaq first reverse-engineered the IBM PC BIOS.
This is of limited use to the general public - how are you going to find out who owns Printer 21052817? You could use it to determine whether two sheets were printed by the same printer, but how much use is that?
I suppose a school could now determine who was using the IT lab printer at that time to print out that picture of Paris Hilton with the principal's head photoshopped on.
There is a similar situation in the UK, with a company that is making the cuffs that are used in Guantanamo Bay. These cuffs are widely regarded as instruments of torture, and there are campaigners trying to get the company to stop making them.
You don't think that the mod could actually work, do you? That picture of the IDE controller wired up to the motherboard is a photoshop job. The paragraphs above it about compatability are nonsense.
If it were true, it would be dumped from Uncyclopedia or moved to True Facts and Other Deleted Prose.
You've got to admit, this is borderline "news". I love it, and I don't begrudge it being on Slashdot, but I'm totally unsurprised that another editor made a different call and rejected it.
I don't have a lot of sympathy for Real, because their software is rubbish. Even on a level playing field they would have been wiped out, in fact I suspect the only reason that they are still around is that they are the biggest player that isn't Microsoft, so people support it out of principle. Okay, I forgot about QuickTime in that comparison, but I think it still holds because QuickTime is also rubbish. Both of them just keep on crashing and stopping other software from working.
Sure, they have the connections, but routing extra traffic through those peering links will probably only cascade this problem. The intermediate providers will see a jump in trafic coming through from L3 and Cogent, and they will have to consider how to recoup the costs that that is imposing on them.
It's a web, and when one strand breaks, it increases the strain on the other strands.