Re:Copyrights on software should be shortened
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Fair IP Laws?
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Good points, but: "A copyright on a piece of music or literature should not extend beyond the life of the author or composer." In theory, this is good. However, in practice, authors/composers/etc. have a nasty habit of dying right after or right in the middle of works. (Mozart, for example, died partway through his Requiem.)
Read the article again, please. A non-profit agency (which receives additional funding from the state) is running the network. The revenue they collect will go to cover their own expenses, period.
We switched our e-mail system from pure POP3 (using Netscape) to Lotus Notes about a year and a half ago. Despite all the propaganda we've put in place, there are still people who won't use Notes. Most give me some bull about how "it's too hard, I don't know how to get my mail". I'm pretty confident this is just stubborn whining because the default opening screen in Notes has a gigantic bright yellow envelope, labeled "Mail" in large letters, occupying the upper left corner of the screen. Happily, though, the number of whiners is subject to attrition, and is down to the single digits now.
Most other posters have already discussed decent strategies. Just keep on the propaganda, and be patient.
UTC, though they will probably know it better as GMT. It's a common time standard to which you can both adjust.
Bear in mind that the entire country of India is 5 1/2 hours ahead of GMT, and does not observe Daylight Savings Time. So when it's noon GMT, it's 17:30 Indian Standard Time, 08:00 Eastern Daylight, 07:00 Eastern Standard/Central Daylight, etc.
The difference between that ruling and this bill is that the bill presumes that video games are speech and thus kinda protected, while the judge's ruling declares them to be Something Else and thus not at all protected.
Hear, hear. I've got it running on my parents' Winbox, and whenever I mooch^H^H^H^H^Hvisit I have it clear out all the piggybacking crap my teenaged brother installs. It's a nice little program. Now if only it could knock some sense into the kid...
"The Judge in this article is Stephen Limbaugh Sr."
As the article quite clearly states, in the attribution for a lead quote. But then, we all know that karmalust blinds even the wisest slashdotter.
OT: If the case was heard and the ruling issued at the Eagleton Federal Courthouse in downtown STL, then it was all done in a building that looks like a gigantic penis. (It's most phallic from either directly north or directly south.)
If I'm not mistaken, he also went on television in tears and told his flock that, if he didn't receive X million dollars within Y hours to build a new arena at his university, God would "call him home". (That's the inspiration for some of the "Fundamentally Oral Bill" stuff.)
It can be considered "delivery" once it's bidirectional - they deliver content from the outside world to your TV or computer, and they deliver content from your computer to the outside world. Similarly, the Postal Service delivers letters from elsewhere to your mailbox and (provided you've got a stamp) from your mailbox to elsewhere.
And cable television providers are not under the same rules as telcos - they contract with local governments, who typically guarantee monopoly within a particular geographic area in exchange for universal availability of service and public access programming. These contracts are outside the realm of the FCC but well within the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice.
Finally, the federal government has not built or maintained roads since the National Road was built from Washington to Vandalia, IL. Since then they've given the states money to build federal highways, which the states are then responsible for maintaining.
I got my brother started on Redmond Linux on a P2/266 just before they changed their name. (Yes, I sprang for the $30. fsking non-existent broadband options.) Installation was a breeze, even for him, and his transition from the Windows UI to the modified KDE took very little time. And once I added StarOffice, he didn't need to go back. I'm slowly pushing him towards increased use of the CLI, and eventually to Debian, but Redmond Linux has been a good first step so far.
Reading these comments here, I'm not surprised to see a few whiny comments ("We don't want it to look like MS!"), but I *am* surprised to see so much feedback for "starter" distros (like Mandrake, RH, or Redmond). Good. We mustn't alienate as we conquer.
P.S. Why'd they change to "Lycoris"? Someone needs to restore some dignity to the Redmond name. Besides, "Lycoris" sounds like a disease. ("I'm sorry, Johnny, but you have lycoris. You have six weeks to live." "Gosh, Doc, what do I tell my family?")
If you put it that way... I'll let my boxen analyze extra-terrestrial radio data while I go feed the starving millions or advance the cause of human rights or whatever.
Ah...... that changes things then. I was posting under the impression that you were being a hypocritical whiny nonvoter. You are none of those things (though, if you vote, whining is your right). Sorry.
Just for the record, I voted in my first election 2 weeks after my eighteenth birthday, and have only missed one since (I moved and was ineligible, but am now).
Just how, exactly, do you intend to achieve campaign finance reform if you are unwilling to participate in the political process??? Do you expect Trent Lott to wake up one morning and say, "Gosh, I've been betraying all those people who didn't vote for me by taking all of that money from corporations and PACs. Today I think I'll fix that so that everyone has equal voice."?
Hate to remind you, but if you can vote but don't, politicians don't give a flying f*ck about you. They're more interested in those that do vote. And since those are primarily senior citizens and the Christian Right, we get overreaching protection for Social Security and <pulling out the big guns> JOHN ASHCROFT.
"All that matters is that it's a lie presented as fact to hurt the object." Ummm, IANAL and you probably aren't either, but isn't that fraud?
As I understand it (see prev. paragraph), libel just refers to the tone of the information. It can be true or false, but it is always damning. Fraud, OTOH, can be either damning or praising but always involves deception.
So the kid who artificially inflated stock prices was fraudulent, but not libelous. If, however, he had artificially deflated those prices, he'd be doing both.
Doesn't really matter anyway, though, because you know John Ashcroft is gonna take another little power trip on this one.
I'll agree. Some Thinkpads even come with the IBM "UltraBay" - the keyboard lifts up, providing access to the hard drive, battery, RAM, and CD/floppy bay - so that you can easily swap out components.
I found the parts for a TP760XL on eBay for a decent price (~$300 total) and assembled it myself. Right now I've got Debian on there, and I've only had a few minor display issues. However, thanks to extensive documentation on www.linux-laptop.net and the helpful folks on the linux-thinkpad mailing list, I fixed those; now it runs like a dream.
I'm not terribly impressed with my 760XL's battery life. However, with a little auction savvy, you can get a decent spare for a reasonable price.
Whether you go for a Thinkpad or some other laptop, though, it'd still be a hell of a lot cheaper and less stressful than building your own.
If they were waterproof, or water-resistant, they'd be very popular with outdoor venues - don't have to worry too much about the rain that way.
That said, if they were waterproof, there'd be some moron trying to use them in his swimming pool.
Good call. Just keep the letter coherent, the terminology clear, and the reasoning in the forefront:
Dear Representative Smith:
As a [programmer/sysadmin/whatever] and one of your voting constituents, I must voice my strong opposition to Bill X. Bill X is bad because Y. Y is bad because Z. Z will corrupt children's minds and make them burn flags, have bad breath, and be unkind to puppies.
Sincerely, J. Geek
And don't forget to make it look clean and professional - no crumpled or brightly colored sheet of paper, no scribbly handwriting, no bizarre fonts.
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Good points, but:
"A copyright on a piece of music or literature should not extend beyond the life of the author or composer."
In theory, this is good. However, in practice, authors/composers/etc. have a nasty habit of dying right after or right in the middle of works. (Mozart, for example, died partway through his Requiem.)
Read the article again, please. A non-profit agency (which receives additional funding from the state) is running the network. The revenue they collect will go to cover their own expenses, period.
Mod parent up, please.
We switched our e-mail system from pure POP3 (using Netscape) to Lotus Notes about a year and a half ago. Despite all the propaganda we've put in place, there are still people who won't use Notes. Most give me some bull about how "it's too hard, I don't know how to get my mail". I'm pretty confident this is just stubborn whining because the default opening screen in Notes has a gigantic bright yellow envelope, labeled "Mail" in large letters, occupying the upper left corner of the screen. Happily, though, the number of whiners is subject to attrition, and is down to the single digits now.
Most other posters have already discussed decent strategies. Just keep on the propaganda, and be patient.
UTC, though they will probably know it better as GMT. It's a common time standard to which you can both adjust.
Bear in mind that the entire country of India is 5 1/2 hours ahead of GMT, and does not observe Daylight Savings Time. So when it's noon GMT, it's 17:30 Indian Standard Time, 08:00 Eastern Daylight, 07:00 Eastern Standard/Central Daylight, etc.
The Million Man March was led by Louis Farrakhan in 1996. Huge difference.
The difference between that ruling and this bill is that the bill presumes that video games are speech and thus kinda protected, while the judge's ruling declares them to be Something Else and thus not at all protected.
(He's a federal judge, not state, BTW.)
And on the MSN link I saw a banner for the new Netscape version. It happens.
Hear, hear. I've got it running on my parents' Winbox, and whenever I mooch^H^H^H^H^Hvisit I have it clear out all the piggybacking crap my teenaged brother installs. It's a nice little program. Now if only it could knock some sense into the kid...
"The Judge in this article is Stephen Limbaugh Sr."
As the article quite clearly states, in the attribution for a lead quote. But then, we all know that karmalust blinds even the wisest slashdotter.
OT: If the case was heard and the ruling issued at the Eagleton Federal Courthouse in downtown STL, then it was all done in a building that looks like a gigantic penis. (It's most phallic from either directly north or directly south.)
If I'm not mistaken, he also went on television in tears and told his flock that, if he didn't receive X million dollars within Y hours to build a new arena at his university, God would "call him home". (That's the inspiration for some of the "Fundamentally Oral Bill" stuff.)
"FIRST POST!", then goatse.cx, then this... oy.
It can be considered "delivery" once it's bidirectional - they deliver content from the outside world to your TV or computer, and they deliver content from your computer to the outside world. Similarly, the Postal Service delivers letters from elsewhere to your mailbox and (provided you've got a stamp) from your mailbox to elsewhere.
And cable television providers are not under the same rules as telcos - they contract with local governments, who typically guarantee monopoly within a particular geographic area in exchange for universal availability of service and public access programming. These contracts are outside the realm of the FCC but well within the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice.
Finally, the federal government has not built or maintained roads since the National Road was built from Washington to Vandalia, IL. Since then they've given the states money to build federal highways, which the states are then responsible for maintaining.
Yeah, but it'd be impossible to steal. And it'd look really good with only an occasional coat of shortening.
I got my brother started on Redmond Linux on a P2/266 just before they changed their name. (Yes, I sprang for the $30. fsking non-existent broadband options.) Installation was a breeze, even for him, and his transition from the Windows UI to the modified KDE took very little time. And once I added StarOffice, he didn't need to go back. I'm slowly pushing him towards increased use of the CLI, and eventually to Debian, but Redmond Linux has been a good first step so far.
Reading these comments here, I'm not surprised to see a few whiny comments ("We don't want it to look like MS!"), but I *am* surprised to see so much feedback for "starter" distros (like Mandrake, RH, or Redmond). Good. We mustn't alienate as we conquer.
P.S. Why'd they change to "Lycoris"? Someone needs to restore some dignity to the Redmond name. Besides, "Lycoris" sounds like a disease. ("I'm sorry, Johnny, but you have lycoris. You have six weeks to live." "Gosh, Doc, what do I tell my family?")
If you put it that way... I'll let my boxen analyze extra-terrestrial radio data while I go feed the starving millions or advance the cause of human rights or whatever.
ha! If you put it like that I think streaming could be the downfall of the whole proposal. "You want to webcast WHAT???"
Word.
Keep us updated, please, Taco. And good luck!
(Are you going to webcast the wedding?)
Yeah, so it's really cool that he was able to port a TCP/IP stack to the Mindstorms RCX. But isn't this just a novelty act?
Ah...... that changes things then. I was posting under the impression that you were being a hypocritical whiny nonvoter. You are none of those things (though, if you vote, whining is your right). Sorry.
Just for the record, I voted in my first election 2 weeks after my eighteenth birthday, and have only missed one since (I moved and was ineligible, but am now).
Just how, exactly, do you intend to achieve campaign finance reform if you are unwilling to participate in the political process??? Do you expect Trent Lott to wake up one morning and say, "Gosh, I've been betraying all those people who didn't vote for me by taking all of that money from corporations and PACs. Today I think I'll fix that so that everyone has equal voice."?
Hate to remind you, but if you can vote but don't, politicians don't give a flying f*ck about you. They're more interested in those that do vote. And since those are primarily senior citizens and the Christian Right, we get overreaching protection for Social Security and <pulling out the big guns> JOHN ASHCROFT.
Fer cryin' out loud, man, WAKE UP!
Yeah, but how much is a toonie really worth? US$0.03?
"All that matters is that it's a lie presented as fact to hurt the object."
Ummm, IANAL and you probably aren't either, but isn't that fraud?
As I understand it (see prev. paragraph), libel just refers to the tone of the information. It can be true or false, but it is always damning. Fraud, OTOH, can be either damning or praising but always involves deception.
So the kid who artificially inflated stock prices was fraudulent, but not libelous. If, however, he had artificially deflated those prices, he'd be doing both.
Doesn't really matter anyway, though, because you know John Ashcroft is gonna take another little power trip on this one.
I'll agree. Some Thinkpads even come with the IBM "UltraBay" - the keyboard lifts up, providing access to the hard drive, battery, RAM, and CD/floppy bay - so that you can easily swap out components.
I found the parts for a TP760XL on eBay for a decent price (~$300 total) and assembled it myself. Right now I've got Debian on there, and I've only had a few minor display issues. However, thanks to extensive documentation on www.linux-laptop.net and the helpful folks on the linux-thinkpad mailing list, I fixed those; now it runs like a dream.
I'm not terribly impressed with my 760XL's battery life. However, with a little auction savvy, you can get a decent spare for a reasonable price.
Whether you go for a Thinkpad or some other laptop, though, it'd still be a hell of a lot cheaper and less stressful than building your own.
If they were waterproof, or water-resistant, they'd be very popular with outdoor venues - don't have to worry too much about the rain that way. That said, if they were waterproof, there'd be some moron trying to use them in his swimming pool.
Dear Representative Smith:
As a [programmer/sysadmin/whatever] and one of your voting constituents, I must voice my strong opposition to Bill X. Bill X is bad because Y. Y is bad because Z. Z will corrupt children's minds and make them burn flags, have bad breath, and be unkind to puppies.
Sincerely,
J. Geek
And don't forget to make it look clean and professional - no crumpled or brightly colored sheet of paper, no scribbly handwriting, no bizarre fonts.