"The 1976 Act grew out of Congressional recognition that the United States was rapidly lagging behind Japan and other countries in technology innovation. In order to protect our ability to innovate and regain global leadership in technology, Congress extended copyright protection to technology innovations, including software. The 1976 Act had the desired effect. The U.S. economy responded rapidly, and within 10 years had regained global technology leadership."
Ya know im just not quite remembering 1986 that way. I was pretty sure the Japanese were still quite ahead of us on the consumer electronic goodies, walkman and discman and so on.
I also read what Doofus had to say about copyrights and the constitution. I have to wonder if hes getting hsi drigs from the same dealer Rush Limbaugh is. So hes saying that GNU is illegal because you cant use it in a proprietary fashion. Thing isyou cantyou anything copryrigthed in such a fashion without the permission of the creator(s). Those creators get to say how the stuff is used. I donno how many 5 drink minimum lunches you have to go to to think that an author/inventor/whatever is forced, by law, to sell their material.
I have to wonder if he believes this crap or is just too stupid to know what hes saying.
Come on guys, everyone knows what spam is. Its plain and simple. What this seems to be is a description of common behavior patterns of ppl who send spam. Thing is that this is going to have false hits. Filtering on content is really the only way to be sure (other thing nuking from orbit)
Well then if someone's information gets stolen because Dell packages it and refuses to tell people how to remove it Dell is also liable. And Dell now also has the responsibility to keep all that crap updated in case there is a 'non-intentional' privacy exploit. anything less is negligence.
*oops* This is why you dont get in bed with some of these people boys and girls.
Funny, i stopped recommending Dell a number of years ago. and this is why, Useless tech support, Using lexmark OEMed printers that abuse the DCMA and are counter to competition and customers choice not to be price gouged.
Let see i recall the time that i had a dead *clicking* harddrive and the tech wanted me to boot to a dos floppy to attempt to access the NTFS formatted hard drive. All of these things i made him aware of. i left the receiver on the clicking drive for 5 minutes while i wasted time making up the dos floppy he requested. this is but one of a number of unpleasant and unproductive support calls to dell.
So now i have 3 reasons. 1) stupid support 2) OEMed DMCA abuse, and 3) factory installed spyware.
Its really quite amazing in 2003 that x86 users will find need to have to putz around in the bios. Of course traditionally the firmware on a Macintosh has been nothing of any value to the end user. and not even configurable. With openfirmware the users *still* didn't have to futz with anything (although they could, which they shouldn't)
I suppose the best way to move away from the 'old' BIOS and ignore this nightmare of alleged 'Trusted computing' Is to find some way to develop and OF based 'BIOS' that will do what bios needs to do. So basically seamless replacement. So when the Vendors are ready to finally move on, all the groundwork is already there. no need to do as massive a retool.
Well considering all the suits that are going to and from SCO, anyone with a clue would request an immediate injunction until the the issues that they were being sued over were resolved in court.
Seems like SCO announcing they are going to sue anyone else while all the other crap is up in the air is merely part of the pump and dump scheme.
perhaps the most telling thing here is that the businesses are whining. Perhaps for the moment someone would want to search for something and *not* be sold an item?
more power to him. I think if a few of these spammers got a taste of the anger people feel about spam they will settle down. Of course im also for wanted dead or alive posters for spammers.
Well at this point I feel I need to say this again.
Back a while ago I was ranting about how some ISPs feel the need to aggressively log everything and even pay people to read them all.. sad really. I had mentioned that 'soon' the media companies would try to press into legislation making it mandatory to report the alleged 'copyright violations' of their users. I use quotes as real violations and what the **AA considers to be violations are a set of diverging functions.
Well my warning went unheeded, and look what happens. They now want to grant (presumably non-binding) 'amnesty' for probably breaking NDA, privacy, and perhaps the law, out of coerced self interest.
What does this have to do with my thing about logging? Well mark my words! If the **AA even gets a wiff that extensive traffic logging was going on and the ISP didnt report 'copyright violation' your amnesty is out the window. What? You say there are too many logs to read? Too bad you had the logs in your possession, you should have checked them. You purged the logs? Oops sorry you destroyed evidence you should have kept.
It has come to my attention that Best Buy is attempting to abuse the DMCA to stifle the release of the 'black friday' sale specials, on the site fatwallet.com. As I do all my product and buying research and nearly all of my equipment purchases online, this quite frankly, ticks me off. Not only will I not by patronizing best buy in 'black friday' I will not be doing so ever again.
Perhaps you will learn that being asinine does not win you friends.
Chemical batteries are really limited by a few thing, 2 of these being their crystal lattice, and of course their electro-chemical potential. The latter if a fact of physics not much to do there. The crystal lattice effects life and recharging ability.
Frankly i dont see much more happening in the field of chemical batteries for a while. You are already operating at basically the lowest chemical level.
Data storage on the other hand still has leaps and bounds to grow. The data storage capacity possible by quantum physics is no where near being reached.
If you could store a bit of data with every electron that get pushed around in a chemical batter the storage size would suck the paint off your house and give your family a permanent orange afro:)
I totally hated taking cobol. The only way i can describe it is programming with a collegiate dictionary strapped to your hands. The damned thing is needlessly wordy. i mean who thought replacing y = x +2 with make y the result of x plus 2 (or something, im not about to grab my book and find out.
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Ya know since IBM has alleged patent disputes with SCO they may decide to press it, if for no reason than petty revenge:)
revengenceful!
Im going to have to take a time trip. Darl Says:
"The 1976 Act grew out of Congressional recognition that the United States was rapidly lagging behind Japan and other countries in technology innovation. In order to protect our ability to innovate and regain global leadership in technology, Congress extended copyright protection to technology innovations, including software. The 1976 Act had the desired effect. The U.S. economy responded rapidly, and within 10 years had regained global technology leadership."
Ya know im just not quite remembering 1986 that way. I was pretty sure the Japanese were still quite ahead of us on the consumer electronic goodies, walkman and discman and so on.
I also read what Doofus had to say about copyrights and the constitution. I have to wonder if hes getting hsi drigs from the same dealer Rush Limbaugh is. So hes saying that GNU is illegal because you cant use it in a proprietary fashion. Thing isyou cantyou anything copryrigthed in such a fashion without the permission of the creator(s). Those creators get to say how the stuff is used. I donno how many 5 drink minimum lunches you have to go to to think that an author/inventor/whatever is forced, by law, to sell their material.
I have to wonder if he believes this crap or is just too stupid to know what hes saying.
I think that CA is legislating via the 'Nemo' Principle. That is they think fish survive after being flushed down the toilet.
you need to contact your state atty general.
Im advocating disorganized violence against spammers.
-Decriminalize anti-spam violence in 04!
Come on guys, everyone knows what spam is. Its plain and simple. What this seems to be is a description of common behavior patterns of ppl who send spam. Thing is that this is going to have false hits. Filtering on content is really the only way to be sure (other thing nuking from orbit)
I know a State University of NY school that turned off all person to person communication on the VAX. They were using email as IM.
Any clicking drive should always be replaced if its under warranty. (the drive i called about was)
Well then if someone's information gets stolen because Dell packages it and refuses to tell people how to remove it Dell is also liable. And Dell now also has the responsibility to keep all that crap updated in case there is a 'non-intentional' privacy exploit. anything less is negligence.
*oops* This is why you dont get in bed with some of these people boys and girls.
Funny, i stopped recommending Dell a number of years ago. and this is why, Useless tech support, Using lexmark OEMed printers that abuse the DCMA and are counter to competition and customers choice not to be price gouged.
Let see i recall the time that i had a dead *clicking* harddrive and the tech wanted me to boot to a dos floppy to attempt to access the NTFS formatted hard drive. All of these things i made him aware of. i left the receiver on the clicking drive for 5 minutes while i wasted time making up the dos floppy he requested. this is but one of a number of unpleasant and unproductive support calls to dell.
So now i have 3 reasons. 1) stupid support 2) OEMed DMCA abuse, and 3) factory installed spyware.
Since when has the flavor of kernel determined if something is unix or not?
As i understand this will be marketed under the brand name "Stimutacs" The logo will be of the god marduk.
Its really quite amazing in 2003 that x86 users will find need to have to putz around in the bios. Of course traditionally the firmware on a Macintosh has been nothing of any value to the end user. and not even configurable. With openfirmware the users *still* didn't have to futz with anything (although they could, which they shouldn't)
I suppose the best way to move away from the 'old' BIOS and ignore this nightmare of alleged 'Trusted computing' Is to find some way to develop and OF based 'BIOS' that will do what bios needs to do. So basically seamless replacement. So when the Vendors are ready to finally move on, all the groundwork is already there. no need to do as massive a retool.
Well considering all the suits that are going to and from SCO, anyone with a clue would request an immediate injunction until the the issues that they were being sued over were resolved in court.
Seems like SCO announcing they are going to sue anyone else while all the other crap is up in the air is merely part of the pump and dump scheme.
perhaps the most telling thing here is that the businesses are whining. Perhaps for the moment someone would want to search for something and *not* be sold an item?
With Richard Stallman as Cats? and Darl as the ship captain? and Zigs being codewords for lawsuits?
I call on congress to de-criminalize anti-spam violence now!
more power to him. I think if a few of these spammers got a taste of the anger people feel about spam they will settle down. Of course im also for wanted dead or alive posters for spammers.
""What started life as a pseudo real-time-strategy game for the Apple Mac has turned into the number-one-selling Xbox game of all time"
Yeah that game that was soo cool it was never released after bungie sold out.
thanks:)
remember, you love the leader:)
Well at this point I feel I need to say this again.
Back a while ago I was ranting about how some ISPs feel the need to aggressively log everything and even pay people to read them all.. sad really. I had mentioned that 'soon' the media companies would try to press into legislation making it mandatory to report the alleged 'copyright violations' of their users. I use quotes as real violations and what the **AA considers to be violations are a set of diverging functions.
Well my warning went unheeded, and look what happens. They now want to grant (presumably non-binding) 'amnesty' for probably breaking NDA, privacy, and perhaps the law, out of coerced self interest.
What does this have to do with my thing about logging? Well mark my words! If the **AA even gets a wiff that extensive traffic logging was going on and the ISP didnt report 'copyright violation' your amnesty is out the window. What? You say there are too many logs to read? Too bad you had the logs in your possession, you should have checked them. You purged the logs? Oops sorry you destroyed evidence you should have kept.
Its about to get a lot more ugly boys and girls.
It has come to my attention that Best Buy is attempting to abuse the DMCA to stifle the release of the 'black friday' sale specials, on the site fatwallet.com. As I do all my product and buying research and nearly all of my equipment purchases online, this quite frankly, ticks me off. Not only will I not by patronizing best buy in 'black friday' I will not be doing so ever again.
Perhaps you will learn that being asinine does not win you friends.
Chemical batteries are really limited by a few thing, 2 of these being their crystal lattice, and of course their electro-chemical potential. The latter if a fact of physics not much to do there. The crystal lattice effects life and recharging ability.
Frankly i dont see much more happening in the field of chemical batteries for a while. You are already operating at basically the lowest chemical level.
Data storage on the other hand still has leaps and bounds to grow. The data storage capacity possible by quantum physics is no where near being reached.
If you could store a bit of data with every electron that get pushed around in a chemical batter the storage size would suck the paint off your house and give your family a permanent orange afro:)
Imagine a computer that ran on heat and got colder the more you used it.. then i could pay video games and have ice cold beer.
Oh thats not what they mean by reversible? Damn
I totally hated taking cobol. The only way i can describe it is programming with a collegiate dictionary strapped to your hands. The damned thing is needlessly wordy. i mean who thought replacing y = x +2 with make y the result of x plus 2 (or something, im not about to grab my book and find out.