Whether it is right or not doesn't take away from the fact that this has been going on in ohio since the 90's that I know of and no one until know decided it was an outrage enough to do something about it.
No, however what you stated was that there was a law that allows this. This is demonstrably not the case.
Let's apply a little critical thinking. Maybe you and your friends have trouble with law enforcement for some specific reason. Maybe you lack that bit of reason in a person's brain that would prevent them from, I don't know, threatening acts of violence against officers of the law in a public forum that leaves a traceable record of where you posted from that could probably be used, with reasonable certainty, to prove your true identity in a court of law.
Now, maybe I don't know my "ass from a whole [sic]," But my reasoning tells me that if there's no law that permits officers to do this and it happened to me, I better damn well get a lawyer who can defend me on this one. I mean, the law can't seriously expect me to carry all of my identification papers to the corner store when all I'm doing is buying a soda and heading home again. And I don't know how many stops I've been in where simply being polite and saying something along the lines of "here's my name, here's my birth date, can't you just call me in?" has gotten me a lot farther than "I know my rights, I don't have to tell you shit, pig!" would have.
I am willing to just shoot them instead of having to put up with their BS any more wow, your name really hits the mark doesn't it.
There is some ordinance in Ohio that says if you don't identify yourself to a police officer when asked, you are obstructing official business. He did identify himself, he's not required by law to prove he is who he says he is. Showing your identification != identifying yourself.
Ahh... but does the.exe run in wine?
If not I suppose I'd just fire up win2k on a vmware instance, just for the purposes of registration.
I long for the days when you just waved at the tech, told them that you had things under control, they left, and you were running on the OS of your choice as fast as you could say "sudo ifup eth1"
What you are referring to is the 4th related article: "Search for Higgs 'God Particle' gets interesting." It had been rumored that Fermilab had seen something that they were keeping under wraps for the summer publication cycle. Speculation was that it was the Higgs Boson but turns out it was the Cascade B.
I just don't see the need for this license at all. There exists a multitude of licensing options because all this finite detail about exactly how and why and when and where you can use free software does matter to a lot of people. There are a good number of die-hard BSDers that believe that "as long as I get credit, do as you like".
For many, more restrictions are important to them. For them GPL, Apache, or one of the other 53 OSI approved licenses exists so you can pin down exactly what rights you wish to maintain. It's not necessarily about whether or not you profit off of it.
Besides, lots of people profit off of free code. Just because it's not important to you doesn't mean it's not important.
New Coke didn't fool me. New Coke was a distraction so you wouldn't notice that Coke Classic changed from cane sugar to corn sweetner. Do you still drink Coke?
Of course that's a good thing. When Safari is installed on every system that has iTunes installed we won't have to worry about supporting IE anymore. Umm.. You're aware that iTunes has Safari built-in right?
Bad little stevedore.
Americans are complaining about 10mbps not being fast enough to be called "broadband".
I don't think it's quite as drastic as you think. Sure, most people living in major cities here in the U.S. can get 1-2 Mb connections. or at least that's how they're advertised... However that's "up to" speed, meaning that you might get that in a burst, when the pigs are out flying. My cablemodem service is advertised as up to 1.5 Mbps but it really averages close to 300k or so, depending on load. I've peaked it at about 978 kbps. This is through our cable providers which ordinarily have municipal monopolies (oftentimes regional however) and legislation to open these circuits up is often met with resistance because we "already have competition in the broadband sector" in the form of DSL which is unreliable as hell and normally caps at 256 or 512 kbps.
How much do I pay for my connection? Well, I really have no choice in the matter: it's $65 USD per month, Which I understand is only about 3 Euros, but it's quite a lot of money to me.:)
Fiber service is just starting to be rolled out in major coastal cities here in the U.S. with prices around $250 per month for 100mbps service-- according to a pal who works for Verizon on the west coast. Agreed with you on the point of fiber being in a lot more U.S. Infrastructure, but the last mile is still mostly twisted copper and coax.
On the bright side, it looks like Australia is now outstripping the U.S Technologically and Economically, the next move is militarily, and then you guys can be the kid on the block everyone else hates:)
Normally the way the "buzzphrase" is used, I would agree. But seriously, Plan9 is a really unique and specialized architecture built by some real luminaries in the field of computer science. Try it out and read up on it before you dismiss it so quickly: if you have the hardware and the types of tasks that this OS is suited for, it's a remarkable thing.
your link went to a directory, where I found a pdf from a newer and more accurate sea level monitoring station at Tuvalu, http://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDO60033/IDO60033.2004.p df
Which puts the trend at +5.9mm/yr since 2003.
Now, tell again - which is the real bucket of bolts? ISS or Atlantis? The problem with ISS isn't its age, but one of pedigree. Currently, the station has major components from Russia, ESA, Canada, U.S., Italy and Japan. That's a lot of different tech to be cramming together into one bucket.
Releasing obfuscated source code does not count as releasing source code under the terms of the GPL.
Unless of course you are the copyright holder and wish to distribute obfuscated code under the terms of the GPL. If you're the copyright holder, you can pretty much do whatever you want.
That's one of the things that confused me about these questions: if you REALLY don't want to release your source, and I can understand why somebody might not want to, then why would you want to release it obfuscated? Or was this the classic attempt to get around the GPL?
I'm amazed that nobody's really brought up the major misunderstanding here: Unless your code is integral to the OS itself (e.g. kernel drivers), writing proprietary code for linux is not really a problem. Writing software for linux does not automatically contaminate your code... where would people get an idea like this?
I don't know where you got that idea. Mars currently holds an atmosphere. It's not nearly as dense as ours, but it is there. Logic would dictate that since Mars's gravity is.6 of the Earth's, that it ought to at least be able to support.6atm of pressure.
That said, if I'm wrong about that, and I'm certain I am, maybe a complete terraform isn't possible. But that doesn't mean you couldn't build any number of football-pitch sized pressurized bubbles.
Dear Sir,
I am writing to inform you that I have recieved a message from your future self. Included is the text from that message.
Hello, me! I just wanted to let you know that I (you) got rich by investing in this man's method of time travelling messages! I (you) invested $2000 just one week after I (you) recieved this very message, and within six months I (you) was a millionare!
signed, Me (You).
Yes, as long as we don't kill ourselves first. Yeah, except we already have found a good Earth 2.0 candidate and it's called Mars. Using roughly apollo-era technology, we can get there in a mere 9 months. Without the discovery of some loophole in physics that allows us to travel significantly faster than we are currently capable of, any other candidate will take more than a lifetime to get to.
Using existing or near-term feasible technology we could slap multiple bases on Mars within a decade, and begin a terraforming process that could very well be mostly finished within the time it would take us to get to the very nearest other solar system, candidate-bearing or not.
Thank god Earth 2.0 won't rely on javascript.
Unless you're not possessive of your computer enough to log out when you leave the room and they're your roommate. Or your roommate's drunken buddies that don't like you very much.
I think that you have a responsibility to take reasonable precautions. I wouldn't leave my computer running and unlocked in a room where my roomates drunken buddies who don't like me very much could get at it, for a number of reasons nastier than sharing some non-drm'ed music. If I leave the keys in my car and one of those drunken buddies drives it into a house, I'm liable for the damages, and I don't see why a computer should be any different. Sorry for the car analogy but it actually works in this case.
But more importantly, you can just say it was shared by one of the people that got it from you through one of the thousands upon thousands of trojans most people have on their machines.
There's just no excuse for this anymore. Get a real OS FFS. Even Windows hasn't really had that problem since SP2.
if i sold you a car, then ripped out the seats before you picked it up and claimed i didn't guarantee seats in the sale contract, it just wouldn't fly and neither would this.
If I had signed a contract with you that stated explicitly that seats were not included, then it damn well would fly. Because people are expected to *gasp* read what they sign. Unfortunately "it's boring" and "I can't understand it" are not reasonable defences in this type of case.
The second it gets hacked (probably very soon) you can claim in court that someone else could easily have faked your name. Even otherwise you just call a technical expert to testify that someone could easily write code to re-write the information to be fake. (IANAL)
Btw> I'm not making a startement on whether it is write or wrong, I'm simply questioning whether it is enforceable to sue someone for copyright infringement with this as evidence.
You can claim whatever you like. The fact is, the likelihood of someone correctly guessing that you have purchased a specific song from iTMS, and, though I don't know if there's a time/date stamp (but I would assume there is) getting that correct too, is pretty darn infinitesimal. I think this could qualify as "beyond reasonable doubt."
Either way, Apple's never claimed they will do this. The MPAA has strong-armed people into paying their settlements on far less incriminating evidence than a users' name actually being attached to the file. Chances are Apple has included this information to comply with their licensing terms for selling DRM free music.
Well, last time I checked, Microsoft is still bundling IE and not Netscape, and is being allowed to do so.
Despite a court ruling to the contrary. That's kinda the point. Microsoft lost the anti-trust case and they still do the same shit.
Otherwise, fundamentally I agree with your post: Microsoft's bundling of a search program doesn't prevent anyone from installing Google's if they want to.
...interstate commerce despite remaining within the state...
Interstate
-adjective
1. connecting or involving different states: interstate commerce.
It's really not a complicated concept. Unless you're a lawyer and words don't mean what they mean... Oh. Apparently I'm an insensitve clod.
Okay. Alice is a homeowner and Bob is an arsonist. Bob burns down Alice's house. Since Alice didn't want to sell, her house has no known value. Does this mean that Bob doesn't have to pay anything to Alice? Or alternatively, can we compute the value, by looking at the property in question, and comparing it with other, similar property, for which we have a history of value as determined by the market?
Honestly, how someone can be against the idea of appraisal is just astounding to me.
So, surely, Bob the arsonist is the same as government imminent domain? In that case, not only should the government be forced to "compensate" for Alice's loss, but also do time in a penitentiary. The poster was not arguing against appraisal per se, but coercion. That smell is your straw man is burning.
Or are you an ass, who thinks that the states have gotten addicted to federal money and somehow have a right to it because they cannot properly balance the amount of government spending in their state with the amount of revenue they, themselves, can raise?
The federal government takes taxes to fund interstate commerce. That road money is meant to build equal access infrastructure for the people from which it is collected, regardless of whether their state complies with extra-jurisdictional demands from the feds. It's not the feds money, nor is it the states... it's yours and mine.
For someone who claims to be a lawyer, your argumentation style appears to rest on using the word "ass" until you think you're right. Thank god you're not my lawyer.
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No, however what you stated was that there was a law that allows this. This is demonstrably not the case.
Let's apply a little critical thinking. Maybe you and your friends have trouble with law enforcement for some specific reason. Maybe you lack that bit of reason in a person's brain that would prevent them from, I don't know, threatening acts of violence against officers of the law in a public forum that leaves a traceable record of where you posted from that could probably be used, with reasonable certainty, to prove your true identity in a court of law.
Now, maybe I don't know my "ass from a whole [sic]," But my reasoning tells me that if there's no law that permits officers to do this and it happened to me, I better damn well get a lawyer who can defend me on this one. I mean, the law can't seriously expect me to carry all of my identification papers to the corner store when all I'm doing is buying a soda and heading home again. And I don't know how many stops I've been in where simply being polite and saying something along the lines of "here's my name, here's my birth date, can't you just call me in?" has gotten me a lot farther than "I know my rights, I don't have to tell you shit, pig!" would have.
If not I suppose I'd just fire up win2k on a vmware instance, just for the purposes of registration.
I long for the days when you just waved at the tech, told them that you had things under control, they left, and you were running on the OS of your choice as fast as you could say "sudo ifup eth1"
What you are referring to is the 4th related article: "Search for Higgs 'God Particle' gets interesting." It had been rumored that Fermilab had seen something that they were keeping under wraps for the summer publication cycle. Speculation was that it was the Higgs Boson but turns out it was the Cascade B.
Hmm....
>br/> Germany pop.: 82,400,996 (July 2007 est.)
China pop.: 1,321,851,888 (July 2007 est.)
I'm sure china having sixteen times the population of germany has nothing to do with it.
And Slashdot poster Chairboy was no more.
Besides, lots of people profit off of free code. Just because it's not important to you doesn't mean it's not important.
and a six way camera to live-update streetview.
Bad little stevedore.
I don't think it's quite as drastic as you think. Sure, most people living in major cities here in the U.S. can get 1-2 Mb connections. or at least that's how they're advertised... However that's "up to" speed, meaning that you might get that in a burst, when the pigs are out flying. My cablemodem service is advertised as up to 1.5 Mbps but it really averages close to 300k or so, depending on load. I've peaked it at about 978 kbps. This is through our cable providers which ordinarily have municipal monopolies (oftentimes regional however) and legislation to open these circuits up is often met with resistance because we "already have competition in the broadband sector" in the form of DSL which is unreliable as hell and normally caps at 256 or 512 kbps.
How much do I pay for my connection? Well, I really have no choice in the matter: it's $65 USD per month, Which I understand is only about 3 Euros, but it's quite a lot of money to me. :)
Fiber service is just starting to be rolled out in major coastal cities here in the U.S. with prices around $250 per month for 100mbps service-- according to a pal who works for Verizon on the west coast. Agreed with you on the point of fiber being in a lot more U.S. Infrastructure, but the last mile is still mostly twisted copper and coax.
On the bright side, it looks like Australia is now outstripping the U.S Technologically and Economically, the next move is militarily, and then you guys can be the kid on the block everyone else hates :)
your link went to a directory, where I found a pdf from a newer and more accurate sea level monitoring station at Tuvalu,p df
Which puts the trend at +5.9mm/yr since 2003.
http://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDO60033/IDO60033.2004.
Is the groan at the uselessness of this "article?"
Let's re-summarize:
"There was a rumor that might excite you, but it's not true."
Wow, the level of content is staggering.
I don't know where you got that idea. Mars currently holds an atmosphere. It's not nearly as dense as ours, but it is there. Logic would dictate that since Mars's gravity is .6 of the Earth's, that it ought to at least be able to support .6atm of pressure.
That said, if I'm wrong about that, and I'm certain I am, maybe a complete terraform isn't possible. But that doesn't mean you couldn't build any number of football-pitch sized pressurized bubbles.
I am writing to inform you that I have recieved a message from your future self. Included is the text from that message.
Here's my address..
Wow, satire really is dead.
Either way, Apple's never claimed they will do this. The MPAA has strong-armed people into paying their settlements on far less incriminating evidence than a users' name actually being attached to the file. Chances are Apple has included this information to comply with their licensing terms for selling DRM free music.
Otherwise, fundamentally I agree with your post: Microsoft's bundling of a search program doesn't prevent anyone from installing Google's if they want to.
-adjective
1. connecting or involving different states: interstate commerce.
It's really not a complicated concept. Unless you're a lawyer and words don't mean what they mean... Oh. Apparently I'm an insensitve clod. So, surely, Bob the arsonist is the same as government imminent domain? In that case, not only should the government be forced to "compensate" for Alice's loss, but also do time in a penitentiary. The poster was not arguing against appraisal per se, but coercion. That smell is your straw man is burning. The federal government takes taxes to fund interstate commerce. That road money is meant to build equal access infrastructure for the people from which it is collected, regardless of whether their state complies with extra-jurisdictional demands from the feds. It's not the feds money, nor is it the states... it's yours and mine. For someone who claims to be a lawyer, your argumentation style appears to rest on using the word "ass" until you think you're right. Thank god you're not my lawyer.