This has been needing to be done for a while. Now, we just need to get a speaker like Stallman to do a tour and speak to businesses around the US so as to distill their mistrust of OSS.
We could use more people who are willing to intelligently discuss and explain GNU/GPL and OSS. If there were any way I could make it; I'd be hearing Stallman.
Emulation is great. I work at a website that helps develop savestate editors for emulation systems/ROMs. There is some questionable legality to this; but emulation tends to go after systems that are older (re: there aren't too many N64 emus but there are a lot of SNES emus) or weren't released in certain countries (FF ROMs). I don't see anything wrong with an emulator for a newer system. All emulators do is allow games to be played on computers so that you don't have to go to the trouble of finding/fixing/buying a GB or NES or SNES. *shrugs* Emulation wa sugoi.
So; above.net just decided to block Macromedia in attempt to get them to stop spamming? What an aggressive step. They effectively took down a website because of a newsletter.
I've been to www.macromedia.com many times; and not once have I recieved spam from them. So why take down the entire site to stop the newsletter that many people probably never get?
And the students are the ones who ultimately pay the price. The administrators may get some bad press, but in the end, students are the ones who feel the crunch from this fiasco. Why? Because low scores on standardized tests mean less money and poorer teachers for that school. By the time the school board realizes the students may have done okay on the tests, it will be too late.
Whatever happened to the days when standardized tests were graded by a machine that checked for markings on the answer sheets? What was wrong with that system? It tended to be fairly accurate.
Slashdot Mirror
This has been needing to be done for a while. Now, we just need to get a speaker like Stallman to do a tour and speak to businesses around the US so as to distill their mistrust of OSS.
We could use more people who are willing to intelligently discuss and explain GNU/GPL and OSS. If there were any way I could make it; I'd be hearing Stallman.
Phoenix
Emulation is great. I work at a website that helps develop savestate editors for emulation systems/ROMs. There is some questionable legality to this; but emulation tends to go after systems that are older (re: there aren't too many N64 emus but there are a lot of SNES emus) or weren't released in certain countries (FF ROMs). I don't see anything wrong with an emulator for a newer system. All emulators do is allow games to be played on computers so that you don't have to go to the trouble of finding/fixing/buying a GB or NES or SNES. *shrugs* Emulation wa sugoi.
So; above.net just decided to block Macromedia in attempt to get them to stop spamming? What an aggressive step. They effectively took down a website because of a newsletter.
I've been to www.macromedia.com many times; and not once have I recieved spam from them. So why take down the entire site to stop the newsletter that many people probably never get?
Phoenix
And the students are the ones who ultimately pay the price. The administrators may get some bad press, but in the end, students are the ones who feel the crunch from this fiasco. Why? Because low scores on standardized tests mean less money and poorer teachers for that school. By the time the school board realizes the students may have done okay on the tests, it will be too late.
Whatever happened to the days when standardized tests were graded by a machine that checked for markings on the answer sheets? What was wrong with that system? It tended to be fairly accurate.
Just my opinion; I could be wrong.
Phoenix