I will not (haven't for years) spend 1 dollar on a CD, DVD, Itune, Movie Theater ticket, etc. until BOTH the DMCA and the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act have been repealed, and I never miss an opportunity to let someone know that. Without the DMCA, drm means jack.
Anyway, that's my protest.
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The first thing I thought when I read the summary was, "These people aren't fucking environmenntalists, and whoever wrote the article *and* whoever wrote the summary DAMN WELL KNOWS IT."
So I open the comments expecting to see all of them basically repeating same, but instead I had to scroll all the way down here to find your comment.
Ok, in the summary A spokesman from Microsoft contends that 'Microsoft developed its own product-activation technologies well before z4 Technologies filed for its patent.'
But then Microsoft is behind the idea of a "first to file" system according to this page.
Regarding legal reform, the United States is the only country in the world that applies a "first-to-invent" standard for awarding patents. Under a first-to-invent system, the first actual inventor is given priority even though that inventor may file his patent after the filing date of another applicant claiming the same invention. Every other country applies a "first-to-file" standard, meaning that the first person to file a patent application on an invention is given priority. A growing number of U.S. stakeholders -- including the National Association of Manufacturers, the Intellectual Property Owners Association and the American Intellectual Property Law Association -- have recently come out in support of the United States moving towards a first-to-file system. Doing so would not only earn us goodwill internationally, but would also make the U.S. system substantially clearer, simpler and more predictable.
Microsoft should just pay the man and show they have some integrity.
Under the regime of "Bill the Bonker" as he is known here the DoJ were winning the case against MS hands down.
Queue the "Bush Brothers" and after a bit of vote rigging in Florida the DoJ were instructed to quietly drop the case.
deKernel wrote:
You spout unsubstantiated statements like they are facts when, in fact, all have been disproven.
I recall that after Bush came to power the DoJ settled with MicroSoft when (according to the papers I read) they had all but won the case. Also, the issue of vote rigging in Florida is FAR FAR FAR from proven either way. I think it's pretty clear the vote was rigged, but proof, well short of a confession I think we'll never have it. So, what "facts" have been disproven, and where is your substantiation? I want to know.
This is kind of a tangent but I think a major problem with the US political system is that is encourages people to identify with political parties.
I agree. Our legislature (and the people who vote for them) are becoming more and more partisan every year.
I waste a lot of time thinking about various social problems and trying to distill them down to root causes, and I think a lot of problems are the result of having 40 votes from a single body vs 40 votes from another single body (so far there's still a handful that think for themselves). I'd rather have 100 unique minds.
Most of them voted to renew the Patriot Act, and for a minute there I thought there was hope they'd make a big enough stink to get a few Republicans to disobey their leaders.
If George wants this one, it'll pass too, probably with half of the Democrats voting for it.
Doesn't the last 5 years seem almost surreal? WTF happened to our country?
When the fuck are we going to get a decent file dialog on Linux? Even the xml one which wasn't great doesn't seem to work in 1.5 anymore, no matter how many times I copy that shit back into place!
The people who develop firefox think that gtk is attractive and that gnome has usable file dialogues. There's not much you can do about it really, except to use Windows if you must have firefox. Everyone in my office uses KDE (even the two that have fedora) at work; we all switched to Konqueror after 1.5 came out.
This was moderated into oblivion as offtopic? Clear example of moderators using their points to censor. A tangent maybe, but if tangents are "offtopic" why isn't 90% of every thread moderated to minus 1?
When the fuck are we going to get a decent file dialog on Linux? Even the xml one which wasn't great doesn't seem to work in 1.5 anymore, no matter how many times I copy that shit back into place!
The people who develop firefox think that gtk is attractive and that gnome has usable file dialogues. There's not much you can do about it really, except to use Windows if you must have firefox.
Everyone in my office uses KDE (even the two that have fedora) at work; we all switched to Konqueror after 1.5 came out.
I've never actually seen AOL's mail interface, but I'm curious if it's possible to determine if an email/spam was paid for, and then filter it out? So that companies who pay can be guarranteed that their email won't be read.
Really I don't care what AOL does, I just think it would be funny.
Virtualization facilitates a read only, tamper proof OS, and this comes in handy when you want a "trusted" system that supports DRM. I expect this is why Intel and Microsoft are contributing so much money to the open source Xen project.
I think part of the problem is that people now have something 'invested' in iTunes or their iPod and because of that, they'll defend it. Even if you give them proof they may have made a bad choice.
I work with people who denigrate linux at every opportunity for the same reason. They've invested time in memorizing where all of the dialogues and wizards are located.
I also know a lot of people who voted republican and now only defend Bush because they don't want to feel that they made a mistake.
Those are a couple of easy to come up (bias admitted) with examples, but I think it's a pretty common human behavior across the board. There should be a simple term to describe it, so I can say to someone, you're just "______ing".
They are the bad guy because the DMCA and the SBCE happened. Two laws that were the result of bribes and corruption. Because of those laws small studios and theaters are losing billions of dollars every year.
Since these small studios cannot afford to buy a Senator of their own they've been forced into piracy to feed their kids.
Ok, that was kind of tongue in cheek, but really, I do consider buying a movie ticket, dvd, or audio cd to be an immoral act. (I was being serious the first two sentences though).
Yet another option is to call their bluff. Hollywood has played that card with Intel, MS, and the U.S. Congress already and I don't understand why it sways anyone.
Hollywood: If you don't (pass the dmca)(implement drm)(produce tpm compatible chipsets) we're going to take our ball and go home.
Appropriate response: Well take your goddamn ball and go the fuck home then.
Telecommunications companies don't like Common Carrier restrictions. They agreed to them, years ago, because the Public offered them something in return which they would have been fools to pass up: access to public rights-of-way. (Public. That's right. Stuff you owned that got handed over to Private Companies by the Government; that's a tax. In return, you got the Internet. Fair deal?)
Can this right-of-way be revoked at the local government level? Also, is it legal for me to run some CAT-5 to my neighbors house, and for him to do the same with his neighbor? I'm thinking of something where blocks of houses/apartment buildings group together and then use public streets/poles to "peer" together. Not sure how cities could be connected w/o going through the telco's though.
The real problem is that the automakers are excluding any solutions that don't require a combustion engine. They've completely backed off of electric cars now and we'll have hydrogen burning combustion engines before we have all electric cars.
Electric cars give us real choices about how we power our vehicles, and how (and for how long) we maintain them.
I think we need to all agree on a common objective to protest for, and then discuss how to go about it.
For myself, I will not purchase a movie ticket, dvd, or compact disc until BOTH the dmca and the sonny bono copyright extension are repealed (and of course, not replaced with similar legislation). If enough people did that, and made a point of it in public we could win.
Most people (and far too many IT "professionals") are unable to distinguish a computer from an appliance. "Computer literate" should mean more than "I can use Windows+Excel".
The first time I ever installed Linux it worked. That was zip slack on floppies and the total of my computer experience was 3 months using windows 95. Maybe thats your problem. I think a lot of people are handicapped by knowing how to use Windows. They already have a mental picture of "the computer" that's much different from the one presented by Linux.
You bring up a good point: there is hardware that is obscure/new enough that there might be some trouble to get it to work on Linux. You mentioned the Dell OEM soundblaster as an example and I can attest that I"ve seen countless requests for help with that card in a forums.
But that happens in Windows too. I had an MSI tvtuner that came with a horribly broken driver. It took MSI 3 months to release one that worked. By that time I'd already taken it back.
So, I'd guess you'd have to move on to ease of driver install since discussing which OS has better driver support is 100% dependant on what device you're trying to drive.
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I will not (haven't for years) spend 1 dollar on a CD, DVD, Itune, Movie Theater ticket, etc. until BOTH the DMCA and the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act have been repealed, and I never miss an opportunity to let someone know that. Without the DMCA, drm means jack.
Anyway, that's my protest.
Republicans are Fascists in all but name.
Jesus H. Christ, a minute is a long time.
The first thing I thought when I read the summary was, "These people aren't fucking environmenntalists, and whoever wrote the article *and* whoever wrote the summary DAMN WELL KNOWS IT."
So I open the comments expecting to see all of them basically repeating same, but instead I had to scroll all the way down here to find your comment.
But then Microsoft is behind the idea of a "first to file" system according to this page.
Regarding legal reform, the United States is the only country in the world that applies a "first-to-invent" standard for awarding patents. Under a first-to-invent system, the first actual inventor is given priority even though that inventor may file his patent after the filing date of another applicant claiming the same invention. Every other country applies a "first-to-file" standard, meaning that the first person to file a patent application on an invention is given priority. A growing number of U.S. stakeholders -- including the National Association of Manufacturers, the Intellectual Property Owners Association and the American Intellectual Property Law Association -- have recently come out in support of the United States moving towards a first-to-file system. Doing so would not only earn us goodwill internationally, but would also make the U.S. system substantially clearer, simpler and more predictable.
Microsoft should just pay the man and show they have some integrity.Viiv isn't the first; it's more like the 8th but with over 300 million bucks for buying "reviews".
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Kmail pwnz Outlook, especially when using disconnected imap.
Under the regime of "Bill the Bonker" as he is known here the DoJ were winning the case against MS hands down. Queue the "Bush Brothers" and after a bit of vote rigging in Florida the DoJ were instructed to quietly drop the case.
deKernel wrote:You spout unsubstantiated statements like they are facts when, in fact, all have been disproven.
I recall that after Bush came to power the DoJ settled with MicroSoft when (according to the papers I read) they had all but won the case. Also, the issue of vote rigging in Florida is FAR FAR FAR from proven either way. I think it's pretty clear the vote was rigged, but proof, well short of a confession I think we'll never have it. So, what "facts" have been disproven, and where is your substantiation? I want to know.This is kind of a tangent but I think a major problem with the US political system is that is encourages people to identify with political parties.
I agree. Our legislature (and the people who vote for them) are becoming more and more partisan every year. I waste a lot of time thinking about various social problems and trying to distill them down to root causes, and I think a lot of problems are the result of having 40 votes from a single body vs 40 votes from another single body (so far there's still a handful that think for themselves). I'd rather have 100 unique minds.Most of them voted to renew the Patriot Act, and for a minute there I thought there was hope they'd make a big enough stink to get a few Republicans to disobey their leaders.
If George wants this one, it'll pass too, probably with half of the Democrats voting for it.
Doesn't the last 5 years seem almost surreal? WTF happened to our country?
When the fuck are we going to get a decent file dialog on Linux? Even the xml one which wasn't great doesn't seem to work in 1.5 anymore, no matter how many times I copy that shit back into place!
The people who develop firefox think that gtk is attractive and that gnome has usable file dialogues. There's not much you can do about it really, except to use Windows if you must have firefox. Everyone in my office uses KDE (even the two that have fedora) at work; we all switched to Konqueror after 1.5 came out.
This was moderated into oblivion as offtopic? Clear example of moderators using their points to censor. A tangent maybe, but if tangents are "offtopic" why isn't 90% of every thread moderated to minus 1?
When the fuck are we going to get a decent file dialog on Linux? Even the xml one which wasn't great doesn't seem to work in 1.5 anymore, no matter how many times I copy that shit back into place!
The people who develop firefox think that gtk is attractive and that gnome has usable file dialogues. There's not much you can do about it really, except to use Windows if you must have firefox. Everyone in my office uses KDE (even the two that have fedora) at work; we all switched to Konqueror after 1.5 came out.I've never actually seen AOL's mail interface, but I'm curious if it's possible to determine if an email/spam was paid for, and then filter it out? So that companies who pay can be guarranteed that their email won't be read.
Really I don't care what AOL does, I just think it would be funny.
Virtualization facilitates a read only, tamper proof OS, and this comes in handy when you want a "trusted" system that supports DRM. I expect this is why Intel and Microsoft are contributing so much money to the open source Xen project.
m ent/projects/hypervisor/
http://www.research.ibm.com/secure_systems_depart
It's ironic that an open source project is helping make closed systems more closed.
Thanks. I've been hoping for an informative reply.
I think part of the problem is that people now have something 'invested' in iTunes or their iPod and because of that, they'll defend it. Even if you give them proof they may have made a bad choice.
I work with people who denigrate linux at every opportunity for the same reason. They've invested time in memorizing where all of the dialogues and wizards are located.I also know a lot of people who voted republican and now only defend Bush because they don't want to feel that they made a mistake.
Those are a couple of easy to come up (bias admitted) with examples, but I think it's a pretty common human behavior across the board. There should be a simple term to describe it, so I can say to someone, you're just "______ing".
They are the bad guy because the DMCA and the SBCE happened. Two laws that were the result of bribes and corruption. Because of those laws small studios and theaters are losing billions of dollars every year.
Since these small studios cannot afford to buy a Senator of their own they've been forced into piracy to feed their kids.
Ok, that was kind of tongue in cheek, but really, I do consider buying a movie ticket, dvd, or audio cd to be an immoral act.
(I was being serious the first two sentences though).
Is there already a list of mainboards that come with a tpm module? If anyone knows of one please post a link!
Yet another option is to call their bluff. Hollywood has played that card with Intel, MS, and the U.S. Congress already and I don't understand why it sways anyone.
Hollywood: If you don't (pass the dmca)(implement drm)(produce tpm compatible chipsets) we're going to take our ball and go home.
Appropriate response: Well take your goddamn ball and go the fuck home then.
Telecommunications companies don't like Common Carrier restrictions. They agreed to them, years ago, because the Public offered them something in return which they would have been fools to pass up: access to public rights-of-way. (Public. That's right. Stuff you owned that got handed over to Private Companies by the Government; that's a tax. In return, you got the Internet. Fair deal?)
Can this right-of-way be revoked at the local government level? Also, is it legal for me to run some CAT-5 to my neighbors house, and for him to do the same with his neighbor? I'm thinking of something where blocks of houses/apartment buildings group together and then use public streets/poles to "peer" together. Not sure how cities could be connected w/o going through the telco's though.The real problem is that the automakers are excluding any solutions that don't require a combustion engine. They've completely backed off of electric cars now and we'll have hydrogen burning combustion engines before we have all electric cars.
Electric cars give us real choices about how we power our vehicles, and how (and for how long) we maintain them.
I think we need to all agree on a common objective to protest for, and then discuss how to go about it.
For myself, I will not purchase a movie ticket, dvd, or compact disc until BOTH the dmca and the sonny bono copyright extension are repealed (and of course, not replaced with similar legislation). If enough people did that, and made a point of it in public we could win.
Then we could get started on sofware patents.
Most people (and far too many IT "professionals") are unable to distinguish a computer from an appliance. "Computer literate" should mean more than "I can use Windows+Excel".
The first time I ever installed Linux it worked. That was zip slack on floppies and the total of my computer experience was 3 months using windows 95. Maybe thats your problem. I think a lot of people are handicapped by knowing how to use Windows. They already have a mental picture of "the computer" that's much different from the one presented by Linux.
You bring up a good point: there is hardware that is obscure/new enough that there might be some trouble to get it to work on Linux. You mentioned the Dell OEM soundblaster as an example and I can attest that I"ve seen countless requests for help with that card in a forums.
But that happens in Windows too. I had an MSI tvtuner that came with a horribly broken driver. It took MSI 3 months to release one that worked. By that time I'd already taken it back.
So, I'd guess you'd have to move on to ease of driver install since discussing which OS has better driver support is 100% dependant on what device you're trying to drive.
I think Linux wins hands down there though.