If your tactic were successful, it would seem to be more evidence for why DMCA is needed... that a lone hacker (albeit in an educational and consumer protection minded way) would be able to damage a large corporation and nullify the investments they made in new technology. --
David Yas, publisher of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, said the wiretapping law was established to protect citizens against government oppression.
"The preamble to the law said electronic devices are a danger to the privacy of all citizens. This case turns that notion on its head because here we had an individual trying to protect himself from a misdeed on the part of public officials and he's the one who ends up being arrested for it and prosecuted," Yas said.
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but isn't this just a dmoz-type list of some of the more significant Linux statistics made, excluding the bad ones?
Mark Twain said "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics". And I strongly agree, because it seems that for every pro-linux statistic, there's an anti-linux statistic.
Statistics can easily be done badly, or be completely irrelevant for realistic applications, and packaging many statistics together just encourages the reader even more to ignore the details. --
Besides the loss of 250 jobs as Psion, this also sounds like a blow to Bluetooth, which Psion's CEO calls "late on the uptake and much smaller than anticipated" in the BBC piece.
Uh oh, are the editors reading the articles again? --
"Barney" is trademarked. Search for serial number 75979265 at tess.uspto.gov.
The same mark can be registered by multiple organizations, as long as the trademarks are for different industries. Eg. if you make "Barney" spoons, you'd be in trouble. But if you made "Barney" motor oil, you'd be okay. --
Well, anonymity here means "anonymous, unless there's sufficient evidence to suspect that you're breaking US laws". Meaning that users of cotse.com are subject to US laws. Similarly, if it were hosted in China, it would be anonymous except when in conflict with China's laws. --
POSTNET looks like e-mail and USENET with the difference that posters keep the posts. Messages are not send to somebody; they remain in your hard disk and others come and get them.
Meaning there's really no anonymity, because they know your IP before they read your post. This is the opposite of what cotse.com is trying to do. --
Also, it seems to me that the large number of active distros is direct evidence that people disagree on what the standard should be.
Alternatives to RedHat (or KDE, Debian) exist because, first, developers disagree with RedHat/et al. enough that they're willing to devote time to develop alternatives. And then users agree with the developers enough to support it, advertise it, and enhance it. --
The "Standard" in LSB won't be accurate if there's still large contention among linux users as to which implementation of feature X is the best. IMHO, LSB's role is to standardize things which have already been long hashed out and it's mostly obvious that there's one good winner. Standardizing things too early leads to a stifling of innovation (why do I feel dirty when I use that word now?).
I don't think LSB's role should be to lock things to arbitrarily just to get a common platform. If large-scale forced standardization is your thing, go with that other OS. --
We vacate the judgment on remedies, because the trial judge engaged in impermissible ex parte contacts by holding secret interviews with members of the media and made numerous offensive comments about Microsoft officials in public statements outside of the courtroom, giving rise to an appearance of partiality.
So do stock market investors not RTFA? MS's stock is up 5%. It doesn't seem like MS is that much better off. --
The court decided to "vacate [the break-up order] in its entirety", but left the "findings of fact" and "conclusions of law" intact, which means that Microsoft is still guilty of anti-competitive behaviour.
The court has decided to send the case back to a lower court to be reconsidered.
I don't think anyone is arguing that they can't be allowed to do this. I think it's more a question of "should", or, at the least, that it seems to go against our community's acceptable practices.
For me, this is another example of a company which ignores their users and instead strongarms them into doing what the company wants. Companies don't HAVE to act like this-- there are many who don't and still flourish. It's just more encouragement to develop open-sourced hands-off alternatives. --
There once was a taylor who moved to the South and opened a store. The Klu Klux Klan got wind of this and sent some children to yell nasty names and curses outside his store. The taylor saw that these children would drive away his business so he quickly dashed outside and said to the children "I will give each of you a quarter to keep swearing at my store." The children happily agreed, took the money, and continued swearing. The next day they came back and the taylor said "oh, I'm afraid the quaters were just for yesterday, today I will only give you a dime each." The children were a little upset but they took the money and kept swearing. The next day the taylor only offered them a nickle each, half the children left but the other half were happy to swear at his store for a nickle. The next day even more children gave up because the taylor would only pay them a penny each and on the last day none of the children would swear at his store because the taylor refused to pay them at all. --
Just a clarification, since I got stuck on it for a second.
In the real world, "tangible" means something like "written down".
On the internet, everything is "written down", so ones first instinct would be to say that everything on the 'net is tangible. But tangible really means something like "written down, and saved", especially in the light of things like IRC. Still, logs abound, so things on the internet are much more likely to be tangible than in real life. --
I would assume so. Certainly the removal of a few comments wouldn't have a drastic effect on communinity sites. The effect would be nearly the same as if the author hand't made the comment in the first place, and that happens all the time.
Otherwise, you'd be arguing that community rights override individual rights, which would grate on america's strong sense of individualism. --
Slashdot Mirror
Look under "Additional Requirements". I believe it already supports a USB keyboard and mouse.
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- "They have sought to obfuscate by justifying their policy (citing) a problem that doesn't even exist," [said by Tucows President and CEO]
Michael's simply unobfuscating it for you.--
If your tactic were successful, it would seem to be more evidence for why DMCA is needed... that a lone hacker (albeit in an educational and consumer protection minded way) would be able to damage a large corporation and nullify the investments they made in new technology.
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David Yas, publisher of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, said the wiretapping law was established to protect citizens against government oppression.
"The preamble to the law said electronic devices are a danger to the privacy of all citizens. This case turns that notion on its head because here we had an individual trying to protect himself from a misdeed on the part of public officials and he's the one who ends up being arrested for it and prosecuted," Yas said.
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Mark Twain said "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics". And I strongly agree, because it seems that for every pro-linux statistic, there's an anti-linux statistic.
Statistics can easily be done badly, or be completely irrelevant for realistic applications, and packaging many statistics together just encourages the reader even more to ignore the details.
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Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but in the specific case of George Clinton, he doesn't make much in royalties because of mismanagement.
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Yes, there are six books in the Perl CD v1.0. Speaking of which, when are the pirated versions of v2.0 going to show up on the web?
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Uh oh, are the editors reading the articles again?
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The same mark can be registered by multiple organizations, as long as the trademarks are for different industries. Eg. if you make "Barney" spoons, you'd be in trouble. But if you made "Barney" motor oil, you'd be okay.
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Which would you rather continuously wear: a tattoo or a Nixon mask?
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ser# 74731075: "ILLUSTRATOR", for Adobe Systems Incorporated.
ser# 73210166: "ILLUSTRATOR", for Illustrator Pen Products, Inc.
ser# 73657866: "ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR", for Adobe Systems Incorporated.
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so you're not mistaken for a similar looking criminal.
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Well, anonymity here means "anonymous, unless there's sufficient evidence to suspect that you're breaking US laws". Meaning that users of cotse.com are subject to US laws. Similarly, if it were hosted in China, it would be anonymous except when in conflict with China's laws.
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Meaning there's really no anonymity, because they know your IP before they read your post. This is the opposite of what cotse.com is trying to do.
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Alternatives to RedHat (or KDE, Debian) exist because, first, developers disagree with RedHat/et al. enough that they're willing to devote time to develop alternatives. And then users agree with the developers enough to support it, advertise it, and enhance it.
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I don't think LSB's role should be to lock things to arbitrarily just to get a common platform. If large-scale forced standardization is your thing, go with that other OS.
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This is like watching a robot scurrying around when its two drivers are fighting over the joystick.
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- We vacate the judgment on remedies, because the trial judge engaged in impermissible ex parte contacts by holding secret interviews with members of the media and made numerous offensive comments about Microsoft officials in public statements outside of the courtroom, giving rise to an appearance of partiality.
So do stock market investors not RTFA? MS's stock is up 5%. It doesn't seem like MS is that much better off.--
The court has decided to send the case back to a lower court to be reconsidered.
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Much as I loathe adult filters, I wish they had one for this service, just so I don't get the random fellatio image on my screen at work.
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For me, this is another example of a company which ignores their users and instead strongarms them into doing what the company wants. Companies don't HAVE to act like this-- there are many who don't and still flourish. It's just more encouragement to develop open-sourced hands-off alternatives.
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More technical info on the HomePlug standard can be found here (3000 words).
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There once was a taylor who moved to the South and opened a store. The Klu Klux Klan got wind of this and sent some children to yell nasty names and curses outside his store. The taylor saw that these children would drive away his business so he quickly dashed outside and said to the children "I will give each of you a quarter to keep swearing at my store." The children happily agreed, took the money, and continued swearing. The next day they came back and the taylor said "oh, I'm afraid the quaters were just for yesterday, today I will only give you a dime each." The children were a little upset but they took the money and kept swearing. The next day the taylor only offered them a nickle each, half the children left but the other half were happy to swear at his store for a nickle. The next day even more children gave up because the taylor would only pay them a penny each and on the last day none of the children would swear at his store because the taylor refused to pay them at all.
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In the real world, "tangible" means something like "written down".
On the internet, everything is "written down", so ones first instinct would be to say that everything on the 'net is tangible. But tangible really means something like "written down, and saved", especially in the light of things like IRC. Still, logs abound, so things on the internet are much more likely to be tangible than in real life.
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Otherwise, you'd be arguing that community rights override individual rights, which would grate on america's strong sense of individualism.
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