Gore certainly did win, for a given value of "win". Of course, so did GW, given that he's the one in the Oval Office right now. Thats not really relevent. And Gore would have had about as much luck passing any legislation removing your right to bear arms as a one-legged man has in an ass-kicking contest. You talk about your "means of revolution" - well, are you gonna actually USE those means, since you've got em?
Last point. The 2nd amendment doesn't say anything about revolution, and it doesn't preclude reasonable gun "control" - it speaks of a well armed and trained militia. Requiring people who buy guns to pass a training course is far from unreasonable. Moreover, theres rarely (if ever) a good reason to go armed, unless you're in a very small minority of people, mostly professionals who are licensed anyway. Home protection is a bullshit argument. Personal protection is a bullshit argument.
A fair amount of games that "don't run on 2k" aren't broken because of any problems with the OS, but because of the installer for the game - One older game I have assumed that anything that wasn't win98 or win95 was an older OS and refused to install. The apcompat.exe utility can often be used to run win95/98 only apps on 2k.
Redefining open to mean uncontrolled is a nice example of fuzzy thinking all in itself. The fact is that an uncontrolled market will rapdily become closed, precisely because of monopolies - you think we have it bad with MS, imagine what it would be like with NO market controls AT ALL. For one thing, no one would own a computer cause we'd all work for minimum wage in coal mines, staying eternally in debt at the company store that only accepts company script. Free(uncontrolled) markets do NOT work in the long run - just like anarchy.
Important thing to remember about a strike - they mean jack unless they're wide scale and organized. This is what unions are about. Theres no organized "tech workers" union, which is probably a good thing.
I feel obligated to point out that the CEO of any major, industry-leading company could leave work this second and never work again and still be quite wealthy. You've got a valid point, lets not dilute it with obvious hyperbole.
Most probably 2(B), actually - "has only limited commercially signifigant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title"
It's not the linux kernel itself, it's the detail in the changelog - it could easily be argued (and MS experts would be HAPPY to testify) that detailing a security flaw has no commercial purpose other than to allow people to exploit the flaw.
actually, considering that a security guards job is to stop illegal activities, I'd say that PERFORMING illegal acts (soliciting oral sex from a minor, selling drugs) is a faily major statement about how competent they are.
My moms a teacher. I'm 24 and just got a new job as a web programmer. She's been teaching for over 20 years. I make more money than she does. Teachers salaries, at least in most of the US, are barely livable - in fact, are often below the poverty line. Theres a long way to go before you start getting the kind of people who are, for example, attracted to law.
On a side note, doctors make HUGE amounts of money, and nobody seems too worried that the profession is full of quacks who are just in it for the cash. Thats because it takes lots of training and accreditation before you can become one, and being a doctor (unless you have some sedate private practice) is a hectic, stressfull job with alot of responsibilty. Alot like teaching, really.
I seem to recall that Nepal has this thing that they like to call "weather". Lots of it. I don't image LOS networkings gonna work real well in a blizzard.
Key point and VERY important to understanding why things like the DMCA are wrong - you DON'T own IP - it's not property. You have rights to control IP. You don't own it. Warez and whatnot are not stealing - wrong, but not stealing.
And a domain names not even IP. As a previous poster said, it's just a contract between you and a registrar. While I don't agree with cyber-squatting, you gotta admit that it really is capitalism at it's best - percieving and grasping an opportunity before anyone else.
No offense, but you're totally wrong in most of your cases - the President can, without the support of Congress, declare a case of national emergency, which gives him GREATLY expanded powers, including the power to declare martial law - I don't know where you get the idea that it doesn't exist in the US, unless you mean it doesn't exist as a manner of course, which obviously it doesn't. The Japanese interment camps WERE legal at the time - they were signed into law! Remember, once a law is passed, it is the LAW until challenged and struck down. While YOU may not think the goverment has the power to do something, it's not you they ask. That's one reason why people find the government control of the media so frighting - it means people don't know what to ask, or even when to ask it. The Gulf War is an excellent example, and this "war" on terrorism will be another.
I don't have quotations handy, but alot of other
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Courts ruling on the DMCA have decided that software is, in fact, a "device" within the context of the law. In fact, the raw, uncompiled source code is considered a device.
Without agreeing with the bill (it's ridiculous), your points aren't valid - people convicted of emebezzlment and similiar crimes are quite often prohibited from working in the financial trade. When a crime depends on technical knowledge or privledged posistion, it's not uncommon, and not unreasonable, to deny the parole access to those posistions and the opportunity to excercise that knowledge - granted, they get a bit extreme in the Mitznick (and lets not forget Randall Schwartz), but the theory is valid.
Screw the turbo boost, I want the microlock. How the hell did that work, anyway?
However, regarding turbo boost, I seem to recall there being some sort of special modification to Kitt where he got turbojets and little wings and whatnot. It was a one-episode doodad a la Star Trek, however.
I don't like it when corporations do it either, and I do work to prevent it - I feel it's just as much a violation of privacy as when the government does it. The important difference is that Safeway can't lock me up or require my complience. And, with corporations, I have (in theory) the force of law on MY side - or at least I should. If it's the goverment tracking this information, then I'm up the creek if I have any problems. And, honestly, I trust corporate employees more than government ones - there's a reason the government beaurocracy has a reputation for corruption, incomptence and sloth that a corporation wouldn't stand for.
Although being "associated" with a hijacker isn't illegal and isn't grounds for detainment
It is now.... up to 7 days worth. And while I'll have to recheck my data, at least some of the terrorists were in the country legally. They rented rooms with valid IDs, under thier real names - what we're talking about here is not so much an ID card (more or less harmless in and of itself) but an unprecedented tracking and cross-refrencing of data - and that, while it will no doubt aid law enforcement, will most certainly have VAST privacy issues.
While I personally enjoy reading about the history of computing and knew at least a little about all the people mentioned, I don't see how what you say at all supports the idea that it'll make you a better programmer - you're confusing the study of these people's knowledge with studying the people themselves. Sure, reading Turing and learning what kind of problems can't be solved by computers is usefull for a programmer - but the history of Turings life is not (at least not within the context of ability to program). Just like the (technical) study of Mozart's music is not the same as the study of Mozart's life.
The cost to produce and market an artist has stayed more or less constant - and the cost of the medium has gone down . It's cheaper to burn CDs than make tapes, for example. So, CD prices could be the same as tape prices, and the music labels would still make MORE profit off a CD than they do off a tape.
Well, they are. It's not really fair to single out tobacco farming, however, there are government subsidies for any number of crops - it's how the government influences which crops get produced. The basic idea is a good one. Of course, exactly WHICH crops we need more of is open to debate, and AFAIK, this subsidy is from (many) years ago, and doesn't take a bill to keep going. Essentially, it's pork barrel.
That's exactly the point, and why they have lawyers - It's obvious to anyone that it's a threat. However, in a LEGAL sense, it's not - they're just "making him aware" of the "potential" for legal action - strictly speaking, this is not a threat. Hopefully, Felton will be able to argue that an implied threat is still a threat, but I don't think thats really the core of what he wants - he wants a precedent that there WAS no potential - that he didn't do anything wrong, thus upholding several of the exemption clauses in the DMCA (which have been blissfully ignored to date)
There was a great DSL re-seller in my area that catered to the tech and gaming market - they were about 15 or 20 bucks a month more than average, but allowed and encouraged you to run servers, alternate OSes, whatever. Very big on the concept that it was YOUR bandwidth you were paying for and you should be able to use it however you want. But, of course, they went under when all the cyber-cafe's in town closed up shop (they provided the access)
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We've got the same set up - all internet access goes through a heavily locked down proxy server, and turn that off and we're locked. Except we're not - a guy got in trouble the other day because he wanted to play counterstrike with no lag, so he ran an wire from his box down the hall right to our switch - presto, potential security breach. Theres always gonna be something.
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Gore certainly did win, for a given value of "win". Of course, so did GW, given that he's the one in the Oval Office right now. Thats not really relevent. And Gore would have had about as much luck passing any legislation removing your right to bear arms as a one-legged man has in an ass-kicking contest. You talk about your "means of revolution" - well, are you gonna actually USE those means, since you've got em?
Last point. The 2nd amendment doesn't say anything about revolution, and it doesn't preclude reasonable gun "control" - it speaks of a well armed and trained militia. Requiring people who buy guns to pass a training course is far from unreasonable. Moreover, theres rarely (if ever) a good reason to go armed, unless you're in a very small minority of people, mostly professionals who are licensed anyway. Home protection is a bullshit argument. Personal protection is a bullshit argument.
A fair amount of games that "don't run on 2k" aren't broken because of any problems with the OS, but because of the installer for the game - One older game I have assumed that anything that wasn't win98 or win95 was an older OS and refused to install. The apcompat.exe utility can often be used to run win95/98 only apps on 2k.
Redefining open to mean uncontrolled is a nice example of fuzzy thinking all in itself. The fact is that an uncontrolled market will rapdily become closed, precisely because of monopolies - you think we have it bad with MS, imagine what it would be like with NO market controls AT ALL. For one thing, no one would own a computer cause we'd all work for minimum wage in coal mines, staying eternally in debt at the company store that only accepts company script. Free(uncontrolled) markets do NOT work in the long run - just like anarchy.
Important thing to remember about a strike - they mean jack unless they're wide scale and organized. This is what unions are about. Theres no organized "tech workers" union, which is probably a good thing.
I feel obligated to point out that the CEO of any major, industry-leading company could leave work this second and never work again and still be quite wealthy. You've got a valid point, lets not dilute it with obvious hyperbole.
Most probably 2(B), actually - "has only limited commercially signifigant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title"
It's not the linux kernel itself, it's the detail in the changelog - it could easily be argued (and MS experts would be HAPPY to testify) that detailing a security flaw has no commercial purpose other than to allow people to exploit the flaw.
actually, considering that a security guards job is to stop illegal activities, I'd say that PERFORMING illegal acts (soliciting oral sex from a minor, selling drugs) is a faily major statement about how competent they are.
My moms a teacher. I'm 24 and just got a new job as a web programmer. She's been teaching for over 20 years. I make more money than she does. Teachers salaries, at least in most of the US, are barely livable - in fact, are often below the poverty line. Theres a long way to go before you start getting the kind of people who are, for example, attracted to law.
On a side note, doctors make HUGE amounts of money, and nobody seems too worried that the profession is full of quacks who are just in it for the cash. Thats because it takes lots of training and accreditation before you can become one, and being a doctor (unless you have some sedate private practice) is a hectic, stressfull job with alot of responsibilty. Alot like teaching, really.
I seem to recall that Nepal has this thing that they like to call "weather". Lots of it. I don't image LOS networkings gonna work real well in a blizzard.
Key point and VERY important to understanding why things like the DMCA are wrong - you DON'T own IP - it's not property. You have rights to control IP. You don't own it. Warez and whatnot are not stealing - wrong, but not stealing.
And a domain names not even IP. As a previous poster said, it's just a contract between you and a registrar. While I don't agree with cyber-squatting, you gotta admit that it really is capitalism at it's best - percieving and grasping an opportunity before anyone else.
No offense, but you're totally wrong in most of your cases - the President can, without the support of Congress, declare a case of national emergency, which gives him GREATLY expanded powers, including the power to declare martial law - I don't know where you get the idea that it doesn't exist in the US, unless you mean it doesn't exist as a manner of course, which obviously it doesn't. The Japanese interment camps WERE legal at the time - they were signed into law! Remember, once a law is passed, it is the LAW until challenged and struck down. While YOU may not think the goverment has the power to do something, it's not you they ask. That's one reason why people find the government control of the media so frighting - it means people don't know what to ask, or even when to ask it. The Gulf War is an excellent example, and this "war" on terrorism will be another.
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I don't have quotations handy, but alot of other posters do. Read them
Courts ruling on the DMCA have decided that software is, in fact, a "device" within the context of the law. In fact, the raw, uncompiled source code is considered a device.
Opera has both of those features now :)
I'm not up on my chip fab technology, but I'd consider a 10x decrease in size "much smaller".
Without agreeing with the bill (it's ridiculous), your points aren't valid - people convicted of emebezzlment and similiar crimes are quite often prohibited from working in the financial trade. When a crime depends on technical knowledge or privledged posistion, it's not uncommon, and not unreasonable, to deny the parole access to those posistions and the opportunity to excercise that knowledge - granted, they get a bit extreme in the Mitznick (and lets not forget Randall Schwartz), but the theory is valid.
Screw the turbo boost, I want the microlock. How the hell did that work, anyway? However, regarding turbo boost, I seem to recall there being some sort of special modification to Kitt where he got turbojets and little wings and whatnot. It was a one-episode doodad a la Star Trek, however.
I don't like it when corporations do it either, and I do work to prevent it - I feel it's just as much a violation of privacy as when the government does it. The important difference is that Safeway can't lock me up or require my complience. And, with corporations, I have (in theory) the force of law on MY side - or at least I should. If it's the goverment tracking this information, then I'm up the creek if I have any problems. And, honestly, I trust corporate employees more than government ones - there's a reason the government beaurocracy has a reputation for corruption, incomptence and sloth that a corporation wouldn't stand for.
Although being "associated" with a hijacker isn't illegal and isn't grounds for detainment
It is now.... up to 7 days worth. And while I'll have to recheck my data, at least some of the terrorists were in the country legally. They rented rooms with valid IDs, under thier real names - what we're talking about here is not so much an ID card (more or less harmless in and of itself) but an unprecedented tracking and cross-refrencing of data - and that, while it will no doubt aid law enforcement, will most certainly have VAST privacy issues.
While I personally enjoy reading about the history of computing and knew at least a little about all the people mentioned, I don't see how what you say at all supports the idea that it'll make you a better programmer - you're confusing the study of these people's knowledge with studying the people themselves. Sure, reading Turing and learning what kind of problems can't be solved by computers is usefull for a programmer - but the history of Turings life is not (at least not within the context of ability to program). Just like the (technical) study of Mozart's music is not the same as the study of Mozart's life.
The cost to produce and market an artist has stayed more or less constant - and the cost of the medium has gone down . It's cheaper to burn CDs than make tapes, for example. So, CD prices could be the same as tape prices, and the music labels would still make MORE profit off a CD than they do off a tape.
Not if it's a bin Laden. Then it's a worm.
Well, they are. It's not really fair to single out tobacco farming, however, there are government subsidies for any number of crops - it's how the government influences which crops get produced. The basic idea is a good one. Of course, exactly WHICH crops we need more of is open to debate, and AFAIK, this subsidy is from (many) years ago, and doesn't take a bill to keep going. Essentially, it's pork barrel.
That's exactly the point, and why they have lawyers - It's obvious to anyone that it's a threat. However, in a LEGAL sense, it's not - they're just "making him aware" of the "potential" for legal action - strictly speaking, this is not a threat. Hopefully, Felton will be able to argue that an implied threat is still a threat, but I don't think thats really the core of what he wants - he wants a precedent that there WAS no potential - that he didn't do anything wrong, thus upholding several of the exemption clauses in the DMCA (which have been blissfully ignored to date)
There was a great DSL re-seller in my area that catered to the tech and gaming market - they were about 15 or 20 bucks a month more than average, but allowed and encouraged you to run servers, alternate OSes, whatever. Very big on the concept that it was YOUR bandwidth you were paying for and you should be able to use it however you want. But, of course, they went under when all the cyber-cafe's in town closed up shop (they provided the access)
We've got the same set up - all internet access goes through a heavily locked down proxy server, and turn that off and we're locked. Except we're not - a guy got in trouble the other day because he wanted to play counterstrike with no lag, so he ran an wire from his box down the hall right to our switch - presto, potential security breach. Theres always gonna be something.
Okay, I'll bite. How exactly does this destroy a CD?