I don't know. If you listen to Robert's confirmation hearings, he was a very intelligent man, you could tell he had a ton of experience and had thought long and hard about what makes a good judge. Miers probably just started thinking about being judge yesterday, and that's definitely a bad thing.
Strict constructionism can be interpretted two ways... 1) some previous court cases maybe weren't decided in the way the judge would have decided, but have been the basis for so many cases, and been reviewed enough times, that they're a basic part of case law. And you don't overturn case law, because that's judicial activism. or 2) to hell with 30 years of judicial precedent, what the original writers of the consistitution intended is more important than what recent judges have said, so overturn case law.
I trusted Roberts to be in the first camp because he was extremely intelligent and deferntial. Roberts tried everything he could to look impartial. Miers was a close friend of Bush, that means she's not so impartial from the start. Yeah, presidential aids have been nominated before, but from the get-go, she's still not nearly as good of a nominee as Roberts was.
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I think most people's biggest question is how well the controller actually works. Do they expect people to play Mario with it, or will most people fall back to the more standard controls? The same question was applied to the DS, and the DS was found to be lacking. My bet is that people young and old will play Mario with the standard controls.
Ahhh. Yes, Indy/CART/WRC/F1 seem to innovate much more than NASCAR (just like Harley vs. sport bikes (in case I missed pissing off anyone there)).
I was thinking that AWD had been developed during WRC racing, but apparently it was for the American military. So, I guess, yay for military spending, or something.
Furthermore, racing doesn't really hold us back in any way
Very high-speed car racing has improved all sorts of uses of aerodynamics in racing over the past, what, 30 - 40 years? As soon as teams started winning, everybody jumped over to using ground effect and other kinds of downforce.
In racing, as soon as somebody starts beating everyone else by using new technology, and they manage to keep the contraption held together for an hour or two, everybody in that league switches over and starts doing the same thing. I can't imagine that's something that holds technology back.
So if you contribute 0.001% of the code in the Linux kernel, does that give you the moral right to violate the GPL license for the kernel?
Or, if you're the CEO of a publicly-traded company, do you get to abuse the trademark to profit on a side-business of your own?
Subway maps are more perhipheral to the organization's main business (moving passengers), but that still shouldn't give anyone the moral right to act against the rule of law.
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EULAs still hold legal weight, just as if it were an agreement. Just look at all the motions and junk David Zamos had to go through.
I mean, there are limits to the agreement... I don't think you can put in your EULA "by using this software, your employer agrees to pay me one million dollars every year". Employees of companies agree to EULAs constantly and don't have to consult their legal departments usually, so they can't hold that much weight. But D Zamos went through a lot of headache over a EULA, so they obviously hold some.
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I should have clarified... I'm a 100% pure-bred command-line guy. And it seems like the only decent Windows tools there are unix-ports.
But yeah, on the wider Windows stuff, it comes from the wider open source community, and isn't Linux only (eg. things like Inkscape, Ethereal, Orbiter, Celestia, Blender,...). They're all stand-outs, and they'll all either still be here with us in 20 years, or some better open-source software will have surpassed them.
That's what I was going for in my original comment... That RIAA execs are worse than calling the kettle black, they're complaining that others steal a couple CD's, while they tie up whole musical careers in a single "Letter of Intent". But I decided to go the care-bears route with the "scowling at old ladies" bit. (we will overcome you... with wuvvv!)
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Windows Package management, and ease of acquisition and setup of programs is nowhere near as good as open source software.
In addition, Linux has a significant amount of software that's available for free to the user, due to its diverse community of developers. Windows has somewhat of a shareware community, but those are more leeches than anything. The best solidly-built freeware on Windows comes from Linux.
Microsoft doesn't have to write all the programs, or filter all the programs to do that. They just need a default package manager that everyone uses. And a good (no nag screens, no half-assed software design, etc) freeware community. Until then, Debian (or redhat, or....) are better.
The manufacturer really doesn't care if the phone is locked or not. They just want to move phones to the service providers (the majority of phones are sold directly from manufacturer to service provider). Manufacturers don't lock phones broadly, they lock it to each individual service provider. Therefore, it's the provider who asks the manufacturer for the lock to be implemented. That's why service providers were talked about in the article.
I can second that. I obtained a phone from an outside source, and while the phone was unlocked and could be connected to any carrier, I was still bound by contract to remain with my carrier for a year, with something like a $250 penalty, even though they didn't subsidize my phone whatsoever.
I don't believe the law differentiates between scanning and publishing (see the my.mp3.com case and the four factors of US fair use law).
If, in fact, US law doesn't differentiate, then Google would have to negotiate a license with the Author's Guild, which would be in the author's best interests (not that they necessarily need to charge Google money, but they would have more control, have a bigger seat at the table,...)
Actually, my first thought was what would various foreplay and sexual activities sound like through one of these? But maybe that means I don't belong on Slashdot.
But the law isn't a total waste of money. The majority of criminals (who are caught) are stupid, and so that's the ones the cops are most worried about.
You might have good security practices, a well-implemented firewall, security policy, and backup practices, so you're worried about the roving gangs with big guns. But the sheriff is most worried about the little lady walking out of the saloon getting her purse stolen, and that's okay.
Watch a COPS TV show lately, perchance? Sure, there are some criminals who are smart and intelligent enough to CYA. But most seem to be really really stupid, and have the means to avoid prosecution in any number of ways, but still manage to get themselves caught.
Even more or less simple computer-wipe killswitches wouldn't be difficult if a tiny bit of forethought went into criminal malfesence, but 99% of the population isn't anywhere near technically savy enough.
Due to the special properties of ROT13, the number of rounds must be even, otherwise the algorithm provides only as much security as simple ROT13. Good implementations would be e.g. 2ROT13, 4ROT13, 6ROT13 or 2048ROT13.
Currently, an implementation of 2ROT13 exists, which is called Pretty Good Double ROT13 Privacy - or short PG2ROT13P - and is meant to be a successor to the infamous Pretty Good Privacy cryptography toolkit.
Long-term goals are also to make the EU parliament and US congress pass laws that require all personal letters, postcards and even face-to-face conversations to be encrypted with 2ROT13.
Wikipedia has a list of the worldwide gross for each episode... Revenge of the Sith was the second highest grossing of all of them. So most statements about piracy or suckiness should be said in a sarcastic way, yes.
I guarentee that you would be suprised to learn the percentage of blogs out there that are just spammers
Umm, read your parent post a couple more times. You're talking about "intentional spamming", and it's not the second wave of internet spam. More like the third through twentieth, depending on how you count all the other cracks and crevices the spam vermin have crawled into before they settled down in the bowels of the blogosphere.
a) require you to use numbers only for your ATM PIN
b) require you to use no special symbols (I wince in pain every time I see this one)
c) REQUIRE you to have at least one number, or one upper + one lower case, or one symbol (not every string in the table above has a number, or a symbol, etc)
I have four basic passwords, but then I have multiple variants of them for various password requirements that various entities force upon me.
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Strict constructionism can be interpretted two ways... 1) some previous court cases maybe weren't decided in the way the judge would have decided, but have been the basis for so many cases, and been reviewed enough times, that they're a basic part of case law. And you don't overturn case law, because that's judicial activism. or 2) to hell with 30 years of judicial precedent, what the original writers of the consistitution intended is more important than what recent judges have said, so overturn case law.
I trusted Roberts to be in the first camp because he was extremely intelligent and deferntial. Roberts tried everything he could to look impartial. Miers was a close friend of Bush, that means she's not so impartial from the start. Yeah, presidential aids have been nominated before, but from the get-go, she's still not nearly as good of a nominee as Roberts was.
I think most people's biggest question is how well the controller actually works. Do they expect people to play Mario with it, or will most people fall back to the more standard controls? The same question was applied to the DS, and the DS was found to be lacking. My bet is that people young and old will play Mario with the standard controls.
I was thinking that AWD had been developed during WRC racing, but apparently it was for the American military. So, I guess, yay for military spending, or something.
brilliant! just brilliant.
Very high-speed car racing has improved all sorts of uses of aerodynamics in racing over the past, what, 30 - 40 years? As soon as teams started winning, everybody jumped over to using ground effect and other kinds of downforce.
In racing, as soon as somebody starts beating everyone else by using new technology, and they manage to keep the contraption held together for an hour or two, everybody in that league switches over and starts doing the same thing. I can't imagine that's something that holds technology back.
Or, if you're the CEO of a publicly-traded company, do you get to abuse the trademark to profit on a side-business of your own?
Subway maps are more perhipheral to the organization's main business (moving passengers), but that still shouldn't give anyone the moral right to act against the rule of law.
I wish I could be employed by Slashdot so I could get access to the magic (-6 offtopic) button.
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I mean, there are limits to the agreement... I don't think you can put in your EULA "by using this software, your employer agrees to pay me one million dollars every year". Employees of companies agree to EULAs constantly and don't have to consult their legal departments usually, so they can't hold that much weight. But D Zamos went through a lot of headache over a EULA, so they obviously hold some.
But yeah, on the wider Windows stuff, it comes from the wider open source community, and isn't Linux only (eg. things like Inkscape, Ethereal, Orbiter, Celestia, Blender, ...). They're all stand-outs, and they'll all either still be here with us in 20 years, or some better open-source software will have surpassed them.
That's what I was going for in my original comment... That RIAA execs are worse than calling the kettle black, they're complaining that others steal a couple CD's, while they tie up whole musical careers in a single "Letter of Intent". But I decided to go the care-bears route with the "scowling at old ladies" bit. (we will overcome you... with wuvvv!)
In addition, Linux has a significant amount of software that's available for free to the user, due to its diverse community of developers. Windows has somewhat of a shareware community, but those are more leeches than anything. The best solidly-built freeware on Windows comes from Linux.
Microsoft doesn't have to write all the programs, or filter all the programs to do that. They just need a default package manager that everyone uses. And a good (no nag screens, no half-assed software design, etc) freeware community. Until then, Debian (or redhat, or ....) are better.
Can we get a study done on how likely RIAA Executives are to hurt small animals, steal from donation pots, and scowl at old ladies?
The manufacturer really doesn't care if the phone is locked or not. They just want to move phones to the service providers (the majority of phones are sold directly from manufacturer to service provider). Manufacturers don't lock phones broadly, they lock it to each individual service provider. Therefore, it's the provider who asks the manufacturer for the lock to be implemented. That's why service providers were talked about in the article.
I can second that. I obtained a phone from an outside source, and while the phone was unlocked and could be connected to any carrier, I was still bound by contract to remain with my carrier for a year, with something like a $250 penalty, even though they didn't subsidize my phone whatsoever.
How is it so cut-and-dry? Is there no gray area in the interpretation of Fair Use law?
If, in fact, US law doesn't differentiate, then Google would have to negotiate a license with the Author's Guild, which would be in the author's best interests (not that they necessarily need to charge Google money, but they would have more control, have a bigger seat at the table, ...)
Actually, my first thought was what would various foreplay and sexual activities sound like through one of these? But maybe that means I don't belong on Slashdot.
You might have good security practices, a well-implemented firewall, security policy, and backup practices, so you're worried about the roving gangs with big guns. But the sheriff is most worried about the little lady walking out of the saloon getting her purse stolen, and that's okay.
Watch a COPS TV show lately, perchance? Sure, there are some criminals who are smart and intelligent enough to CYA. But most seem to be really really stupid, and have the means to avoid prosecution in any number of ways, but still manage to get themselves caught.
Even more or less simple computer-wipe killswitches wouldn't be difficult if a tiny bit of forethought went into criminal malfesence, but 99% of the population isn't anywhere near technically savy enough.
Wikipedia has a list of the worldwide gross for each episode... Revenge of the Sith was the second highest grossing of all of them. So most statements about piracy or suckiness should be said in a sarcastic way, yes.
Umm, read your parent post a couple more times. You're talking about "intentional spamming", and it's not the second wave of internet spam. More like the third through twentieth, depending on how you count all the other cracks and crevices the spam vermin have crawled into before they settled down in the bowels of the blogosphere.
No, far far more sinister. Retaliation... with meat!
a) require you to use numbers only for your ATM PIN
b) require you to use no special symbols (I wince in pain every time I see this one)
c) REQUIRE you to have at least one number, or one upper + one lower case, or one symbol (not every string in the table above has a number, or a symbol, etc)
I have four basic passwords, but then I have multiple variants of them for various password requirements that various entities force upon me.