Umm, do we really *have* a right to privacy? I don't believe it's in the Bill of Rights; it's just one of those things we all expect should be there.
The Ninth Amendment: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
In layman's terms: "Even though we didn't mention them, you still have them."
Sorry, while I generally disagree with the RIAA, this guy *is* pirating.
Read this line.
ago I ripped my 270 CDs to MP3 and pawned them to get a bigger hard drive
That means he kept the MP3s and sold the CDs. That's wrong. Ripping for personal use is fine, but in theory he is violating copyright by keeping the MP3s and selling the originals.
Funny thing is, we also shelled out the big buck$ for the MSDN Universal.
I, too, needed access to undocumented interfaces (specifically Card&Socket Services in NT4SP3).
The MSDN tech support guy sent me sample code, after making me swear up and down (and probably promising him my first-born -- I don't remember) that I wouldn't use it on anything EXCEPT NT4SP3.
The code worked, no muss, no fuss, and (amazingly) no NDA (though we treated it as "Company Confidential" info).
2) Drop the in-jokes please. Calling everything "GNU-" putting funny little things in the help files etc. etc. etc. we want to convince people that we're making a professional quality product. And nothing spoils that faster than giving the appearance of a hack.
This is an incredibly sketchy practice on the part of Verisign and it pissed me off (as I'm sure it does many of you). Imagine if the U.S. government or IRS sent notices like this that said "Warning: If you don't send us X amount of dollars by March 31st, you will be in danger of facing criminal prosecution".
Actually, they do. But it's 15 April, not 31 March.
Agreed. The attitude you bemoan is what allows Hollywood to buy and sell Senators (Fritz Holling and Dianne Feinstein come to mind), and to push such drivel as the CBDTPA.
On a side note, has anyone yet pointed out the irony that when someone tries to regulate the movie industry they cry "First Amendment"?
Why do we give a damn about the Oscars? This is simply the fscking Hollywood types patting themselves on the back.
These are the guys who are pushing the abomination of CBDTPA.
These assholes have an overinflated sense of their own importance. I mean, they essentially shut down Hollywood Blvd for a week before hand. A fscking week!
Do we really care about these jerks?
P.S. Since I didn't watch, did Valenti make a Grammy-ish "Evils of Piracy" speech?
You know, in this sort of thing, we actually have more power than our numbers would indicate...
When your friends need a new computer, who do they call for advice?
Point out that this will damage the economy, as you will not buy any new computing equipment, and you will be advising your (sizeable) circle of acquaintances to do the same thing.
People, when you contact your congresscritter, if he has no idea what you're talking about, refer him to Rick Boucher (D-VA). There's a guy who has a clue.
The following is a complaint regarding SPAM from the Spencer Public Schools.
In addition, by using all caps for the word "spam", you are abusing Hormel's very reasonable and good-natured policy regarding the use of the term "spam" for junk email.
They ask that you use all lowercase for spam. All uppercase is a Hormel tradmark for the meat product.
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Salyuts were launched before Skylab, and had longer lifespans, but were still considered "short term". The first "long term" station was Mir.
Frankly, it shouldn't matter how many commercial spinoffs NASA creates. NASA provides the reach to exceed our grasp... As Robert Burns put it, "A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"
Now, I'm not going metaphysical on you, but in this case, the journey itself is the ends, not the means!
It took Rocketdyne many, many tests to get the F-1 to work
If you're in L.A., you can see an F-1 (I think it's an F-1, might be a J-1) engine at the Boeing Rocketdyne facility in Canoga Park. It's in the front parking lot, on Canoga Ave.
my HP III printers I have on my network, which are built like tanks and working just fine 8 YEARS LATER
And THAT'S why newer HP printers are cruddy pieces of sh*t. There's no profit, people are running printers for 15 years! Throw in some planned obsolescence, to keep that revenue stream up!
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Umm, do we really *have* a right to privacy? I don't believe it's in the Bill of Rights; it's just one of those things we all expect should be there.
The Ninth Amendment: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
In layman's terms: "Even though we didn't mention them, you still have them."
Sorry, while I generally disagree with the RIAA, this guy *is* pirating.
Read this line.
ago I ripped my 270 CDs to MP3 and pawned them to get a bigger hard drive
That means he kept the MP3s and sold the CDs. That's wrong. Ripping for personal use is fine, but in theory he is violating copyright by keeping the MP3s and selling the originals.
You mean like IE5.5 SP2 broke Netscape style plugins?
Damn it, dude! You stole my post!
What about point-ed sticks?
Funny thing is, we also shelled out the big buck$ for the MSDN Universal.
I, too, needed access to undocumented interfaces (specifically Card&Socket Services in NT4SP3).
The MSDN tech support guy sent me sample code, after making me swear up and down (and probably promising him my first-born -- I don't remember) that I wouldn't use it on anything EXCEPT NT4SP3.
The code worked, no muss, no fuss, and (amazingly) no NDA (though we treated it as "Company Confidential" info).
2) Drop the in-jokes please. Calling everything "GNU-" putting funny little things in the help files etc. etc. etc. we want to convince people that we're making a professional quality product. And nothing spoils that faster than giving the appearance of a hack.
Yeah, I mean, nothing makes things look more professional than putting in a flight simulator for the credits!!!(WARNING -- ANNOYING JAVASCRIPT POPUPS!)
Like making sure that your HTML documentation doesn't cause a horizontal scroll bar to kick in?
Has *ANYBODY* (except the MPAA) heard people say, "I'd get Cable (or DSL) if only I could watch TV on my computer?"
Hell, no! What I hear is "I'd get broadband if it was available in my area and didn't cost an arm and a leg".
Hint to Jack Valenti... People don't want to watch TV on their 17-19" monitors. That's what the 32" TV is for.
This is an incredibly sketchy practice on the part of Verisign and it pissed me off (as I'm sure it does many of you). Imagine if the U.S. government or IRS sent notices like this that said "Warning: If you don't send us X amount of dollars by March 31st, you will be in danger of facing criminal prosecution".
Actually, they do. But it's 15 April, not 31 March.
It's not like the plot calls for winged Nazgûl dive-bombing Isengard.
:-)
Now there's a movie I'd break my self-imposed CBDTPA movie boycott to go see!
Agreed. The attitude you bemoan is what allows Hollywood to buy and sell Senators (Fritz Holling and Dianne Feinstein come to mind), and to push such drivel as the CBDTPA.
On a side note, has anyone yet pointed out the irony that when someone tries to regulate the movie industry they cry "First Amendment"?
Why do we give a damn about the Oscars? This is simply the fscking Hollywood types patting themselves on the back.
These are the guys who are pushing the abomination of CBDTPA.
These assholes have an overinflated sense of their own importance. I mean, they essentially shut down Hollywood Blvd for a week before hand. A fscking week!
Do we really care about these jerks?
P.S. Since I didn't watch, did Valenti make a Grammy-ish "Evils of Piracy" speech?
Yeah, it failed in the marketplace, so they decided to get legislation so that everyone would have to buy it!
You know, in this sort of thing, we actually have more power than our numbers would indicate...
When your friends need a new computer, who do they call for advice?
Point out that this will damage the economy, as you will not buy any new computing equipment, and you will be advising your (sizeable) circle of acquaintances to do the same thing.
Dianne Feinstein (D-California)
I'm ashamed to be a Californian right now.
People, when you contact your congresscritter, if he has no idea what you're talking about, refer him to Rick Boucher (D-VA). There's a guy who has a clue.
The following is a complaint regarding SPAM from the Spencer Public Schools.
In addition, by using all caps for the word "spam", you are abusing Hormel's very reasonable and good-natured policy regarding the use of the term "spam" for junk email.
They ask that you use all lowercase for spam. All uppercase is a Hormel tradmark for the meat product.
Salyuts were launched before Skylab, and had longer lifespans, but were still considered "short term". The first "long term" station was Mir.
Frankly, it shouldn't matter how many commercial spinoffs NASA creates. NASA provides the reach to exceed our grasp... As Robert Burns put it, "A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"
Now, I'm not going metaphysical on you, but in this case, the journey itself is the ends, not the means!
Come on, at least make it "destruktor-module 7" or something. Then again, I suppose ours wasn't really that great.
No, if you're going to name it that way, it *HAS* to be "Eludium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator"!!!!!
Slightly OT, but what the hell...
It took Rocketdyne many, many tests to get the F-1 to work
If you're in L.A., you can see an F-1 (I think it's an F-1, might be a J-1) engine at the Boeing Rocketdyne facility in Canoga Park. It's in the front parking lot, on Canoga Ave.
The North Magnetic Pole vas in Siberia, Keptin!
my HP III printers I have on my network, which are built like tanks and working just fine 8 YEARS LATER
And THAT'S why newer HP printers are cruddy pieces of sh*t. There's no profit, people are running printers for 15 years! Throw in some planned obsolescence, to keep that revenue stream up!
If this actually goes through in the next couple weeks, I expect a lot of people to jump ship and move on to brighter pastures
Which makes Carly's job easier, because then she doesn't have to do 15K layoffs, but only 15K-shipjumpers!
The head of the Department of Justice is an Executive Branch position, and therefore falls under item "2) Buying off the Bush administration."
Item 2 by definition includes the Attorney General (head of the Department of Justice).