Maybe a site like Slashdot could charge "micropayments" but rebate to it's users that have high moderation
They could even sell mod points. I might be persuaded to buy a mod point if I see a comment that I really like, or buy a handful if I see an article that I really care about.
I agree. I was astonished how quick a dictionary processor was in Perl, compared to a C++STL implementation, and a C implementation. I thought that it wasn't working, because it came back so quickly. The C implementation took about five seconds, the C++ took about 25. The Perl version took 2 minutes to write, C++ took two hours, C took two days.
I use JunkBuster, which can block or spoof referrer info. Annoyingly, it defaulted to spoofing UserAgent, telling the outside world that I'm running a Macintosh 68K, so sites like download.com only showed me Mac software! It took me ages to fix that problem!
SCO are saying that there is IP in Linux that they own. They are therefore selling licences to use that IP. From a GPL point of view, I don't see the problem. If they are continuing to distribute Linux, then they are jeopardising their rights, but they could probably get away with the current situation in court if they can demonstrate that
they own the IP that is in Linux
they did not know that their IP had been introduced to Linux
Even if they are distributing Linux, I don't think a judge is going to say that their rights are waived just because they had some 'freely redistributable' binaries on their servers, that you can download from a thousand servers all over the world.
How is it possible for someone to patent something on a nationality-less object like the Internet?
The patent system is fucked
The Internet isn't nationality-less, in the same way that the telephone network isn't.
If you're doing business, you have to obey the laws of the nations that you're doing business in. That means if you're shipping product to a U.S. customer, you have to obey U.S. trade law. This is how the EU is getting U.S. e-commerce sites to collect tax on product sold to E.U. residents.
Depends on your definition of difficulty. The software is a little more complex, and takes longer to execute, but the added information available makes the end result more reliable. There will be less false positives. As with any complex task, the more information you have available, the more reliable the answer, even if processing the extra information takes time. In effect, you are raising the stakes. More complex, but possibly a better payoff. It will act as a bigger deterrent to small-time spies, but will be grist for the mill if you have the NSA on your case.
Actualy, I'd prefer that my details be rented than be sold. At least when the rental is up, I might stop receiving the junk. Also a sale implies that the receiver is free to sell it on to others, rental strongly implies an agreement not to do so.
I gained major kudos at work for fixing a 3MB spreadsheet that caused Excel to crash on opening. I loaded it in OOo, saved it, and then it would load in Excel.
How do you propose that people download alternative browsers if IE is totally removed from Windows?
The OEM installs one for them. If someone's installing Windows from an off the shelf package, they can probably lay their hands on a magazine cover CD, or do it the hard way.
a browser more than 9 of 10 people don't want to use
I think you're mistaken to equate using MSIE with specifically not wanting to use Mozilla. For most people, they simply don't consider the possibility of deliberately installing a browser when there's one that comes with the O/S. Installing AOLZilla9, however, when you're an AOL customer, is less of a never-going-to-happen prospect.
If you can circumvent a protection, haven't you also proved the protection measure to be of no effect?
Many have said this, and all would be laughed out of court when trying to pull a technicality like this. I refute it this: by having to create a specific device to circumvent it, you have demonstrated that it is effective. Locks are effective because you have to get a set of lockpicks to bypass them. The only difference is that lockpicks aren't illegal, but circumvention devices are.
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There's a big difference. People accept that character-death is a possibility, and are generally prepared for it. The trauma isn't significant in the majority of cases, and should be expected. Someone taking over a character by hacking the game and sodomising them is very different indeed. It's unexpected, it isn't what the player signed up for, and it's an abusive sexual act, as much as taking a girl's dolls and making them sodomise each other would be.
That events cannot be determined to have been in a specific order. The ambiguity is equal to the spatial separation in light-time. Thus two events A and B separated by, say, 300,000 kilometers that appeared to be simultaneous to an observer half way between them occured both A one second before B, and B one second before A. There is no single answer to "which occurred first".
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I agree. I was astonished how quick a dictionary processor was in Perl, compared to a C++STL implementation, and a C implementation. I thought that it wasn't working, because it came back so quickly. The C implementation took about five seconds, the C++ took about 25. The Perl version took 2 minutes to write, C++ took two hours, C took two days.
I use JunkBuster, which can block or spoof referrer info. Annoyingly, it defaulted to spoofing UserAgent, telling the outside world that I'm running a Macintosh 68K, so sites like download.com only showed me Mac software! It took me ages to fix that problem!
- they own the IP that is in Linux
- they did not know that their IP had been introduced to Linux
Even if they are distributing Linux, I don't think a judge is going to say that their rights are waived just because they had some 'freely redistributable' binaries on their servers, that you can download from a thousand servers all over the world.Does that mean they'll destroy Linux once they've destroyed the economic environment?
Depends on your definition of difficulty. The software is a little more complex, and takes longer to execute, but the added information available makes the end result more reliable. There will be less false positives. As with any complex task, the more information you have available, the more reliable the answer, even if processing the extra information takes time. In effect, you are raising the stakes. More complex, but possibly a better payoff. It will act as a bigger deterrent to small-time spies, but will be grist for the mill if you have the NSA on your case.
Actualy, I'd prefer that my details be rented than be sold. At least when the rental is up, I might stop receiving the junk. Also a sale implies that the receiver is free to sell it on to others, rental strongly implies an agreement not to do so.
I gained major kudos at work for fixing a 3MB spreadsheet that caused Excel to crash on opening. I loaded it in OOo, saved it, and then it would load in Excel.
For a start, I don't think they wanted to depend on the user having WINE and WordView installed. I don't.
I'm not sure what relativity has to do with human ancestry.
Have you any idea how amazingly unlikely that is to actually happen? Oh, sorry, you live in the USA. Carry on.
There's a big difference. People accept that character-death is a possibility, and are generally prepared for it. The trauma isn't significant in the majority of cases, and should be expected. Someone taking over a character by hacking the game and sodomising them is very different indeed. It's unexpected, it isn't what the player signed up for, and it's an abusive sexual act, as much as taking a girl's dolls and making them sodomise each other would be.
That events cannot be determined to have been in a specific order. The ambiguity is equal to the spatial separation in light-time. Thus two events A and B separated by, say, 300,000 kilometers that appeared to be simultaneous to an observer half way between them occured both A one second before B, and B one second before A. There is no single answer to "which occurred first".
(JFDI = Just F*cking Do It)
Sometimes you need to drop all the fancy processes-control procedures and fall back on the JFDI methodology.
But make sure you CYA as well.