No you are missing the point. The point is that piracy is not an emotionally charged word. This is especially true given that piracy on the high seas is rare in most of the world today and people think of pirates as being a quaint figment of the past rather than any real threat.
If they were calling it, say, "intellectual property looting and pillaging" you would have a point. Piracy may have been a loaded word when it was first applied to unauthorized copying of books over a century ago when thousands of lives were lost annually to piracy on the high seas, but it certainly isn't anymore.
The term "piracy" has been applied unauthorized copying as early as the 19th century, and although RMS might get a cheap laugh in his speech by saying "they're making it the moral equivalent of attacking a ship", few people think of buccaneers when someone mentions software piracy or music piracy. At least not those with a level of maturity higher than those who think the "Is your refrigerator running?" crank calls are hilarious.
I wish people would stop calling people who share software, pirates. I agree. In fact, while we're busy insisting that words can't take on new meaning or have multiple meanings, I wish they'd stop referring to "executing" software unless they were killing it, or "running" it unless the softwere grew legs and ran away.
The CATO institute is a libertarian think tank. Libertarianism falls into the left wing of the traditional classification of politial thought in some ways and right wing in others.
Does it still have the menu on top and taskbar on the bottom? Takes up too much screen real estate. You wouldn't have ever right clicked on the panel and seen an items marked "New Panel" and "Delete this panel", would you? You can have as few (say, zero) or as many panels as you like, drag them to any edge you like, stack more than one on any edge too if you like.
I personally like to take advantage of my large 800x600 monitors and have panels stacked five deep on every edge of my two monitors, so I can have one widget per panel. BTW has anyone else noticed how unusable slashdot is when the browser window is 300x200? You'd think they'd be more careful to test it on typical configurations like mine.
This is also why user polls indicate that people want things like Adobe Photoshop on Linux, yet it hasn't materialized....When the focus of the application is the user interface, not back end functionality, it doesn't make financial sense for them to pick and choose one GUI environment to support or have to support multiple GUI configurations
Funny that it hasn't stopped Adobe from producing a Linux version of Acrobat Reader.
The parent was suggesting setting up the framework in advance, not allowing people to just point a finger and claim something as property. Acutal claims could then be laid like they were during the gold rush where you have to physically occupy the resource you're claiming.
1. How many people are willing to risk a firing squad for accessing a website? Not a lot, I'd wager. There are no doubt a few people who would, and those people can probably circumvent the firewall quite easily, and the chinese government likely doesn't care. It's an awakening of the masses that they want to prevent, and the threat that this might be a honeypot and clicking that URL could mean the end of your life and family is enough to prevent that.
2. You seem to be looking at this from the perspective of a western country, and how, say, Americans would react if they were suddenly subject to China-like restrictions. From what I know from speaking to people at my university, the average chinese person doesn't view the government as oppressive and has no burning desire to overthrow the government. Indeed if a billion chinese wanted to overthrow the governement, they would probably have succeeded.
It might be a bit of a band-aid, but, I'd be satisfied if my clients would face public ridicule for adware... I think you mean your FORMER clients. - Your former client
The Bill of Rights restricts the actions "the government" may take against "the people". That means the US government may not act against anyone in ways that violate the constition anywhere... regardless of whether or not they are on US soil.
I don't know about you but DRM makes me more likely to look for "alternative sources" than if I could purchase an unencumbered copy. If I buy something, I want to be use it how I please on any of my computers or portable devices and without asking for anybody's permission to reinstall or anything.
Um.. no. Maybe YOU do, but most people watch it because it's entertaining and they do stuff most of us here would dream of... blowing things up, building stuff, having all kinds of tools and equipment at our disposal.
If ogling a Keri is the only reason you have for watching the show, you really need to get out more.
That's precisely the idea behind the system of pollution credits in the Kyoto treaty. Companies get some number of tradable pollution credits. That way companies have an economic incentive to curb emissions so that they can sell off their credits to other companies who pay real dollars to keep on polluting. Regulating the supply of pollution credits allows one to curb the total amount of pollution going into the atmosphere.
Hurricane Katrina had tropical storm-strength winds extending 200 mi from center and hurricane-force winds extending 100mi at landfall, so you would have sampled a very tiny part of the storm. I'm guessing sound wouldn't carry very well with all that wind, so that accounts for the lack of thunder.
Yes, anything that's a product must be kept off slashdot. If anyone stands to make money from the added publicity, it's more important to thwart that than to point slashdotters to a new product that might interest them.
No, because as far as the end user is concerned, you're buying a product from company A, and that product is backed by company A's warranty and reputation. Whether they built it themselves, or bought company B's products from the market and slapped their logo over it is irrelevant.
only if you are using that a non fossil-fuel energy source to get that hydrogen. It is currently cheapest to get hydrogen from hydro-carbons. (if memory serves)
Duh... then we just need to make sure that all the workers at the plant have Alzheimer's
The protests gathered pace, and when 600 MySpace customers complained and a campaign began to boycott the site and relocate to rival sites such as Friendster, Linkedin, revver.com and Facebook.com, News Corp relented and restored the links.
And you're not bothered by the people you'd be putting out of a job, the other customers who used to benefit from your service (especially if your company provided an important service like electricity), and by the fact that you're probably not causing any real change and by escaping away, you're discarding your ability to actually promote any real change?
Bugs... things NSA spooks plant to listen in on people who don't want to be listened in on. Pun. A type of joke. Expected response is something along the lines of "hahaha"
There are hundreds of other technology sites out there. Sometimes Slashdot will link to a story first, sometimes last. Often it will be duped enough that it's first AND last.
Slashdot Mirror
They're going to have multiple parliaments so that if one fails they have a backup? Oh wait... that doesn't seem to be what they are suggesting.
No you are missing the point. The point is that piracy is not an emotionally charged word. This is especially true given that piracy on the high seas is rare in most of the world today and people think of pirates as being a quaint figment of the past rather than any real threat.
If they were calling it, say, "intellectual property looting and pillaging" you would have a point. Piracy may have been a loaded word when it was first applied to unauthorized copying of books over a century ago when thousands of lives were lost annually to piracy on the high seas, but it certainly isn't anymore.
The term "piracy" has been applied unauthorized copying as early as the 19th century, and although RMS might get a cheap laugh in his speech by saying "they're making it the moral equivalent of attacking a ship", few people think of buccaneers when someone mentions software piracy or music piracy. At least not those with a level of maturity higher than those who think the "Is your refrigerator running?" crank calls are hilarious.
I wish people would stop calling people who share software, pirates.
I agree. In fact, while we're busy insisting that words can't take on new meaning or have multiple meanings, I wish they'd stop referring to "executing" software unless they were killing it, or "running" it unless the softwere grew legs and ran away.
The CATO institute is a libertarian think tank. Libertarianism falls into the left wing of the traditional classification of politial thought in some ways and right wing in others.
Does it still have the menu on top and taskbar on the bottom?
Takes up too much screen real estate.
You wouldn't have ever right clicked on the panel and seen an items marked "New Panel" and "Delete this panel", would you? You can have as few (say, zero) or as many panels as you like, drag them to any edge you like, stack more than one on any edge too if you like.
I personally like to take advantage of my large 800x600 monitors and have panels stacked five deep on every edge of my two monitors, so I can have one widget per panel. BTW has anyone else noticed how unusable slashdot is when the browser window is 300x200? You'd think they'd be more careful to test it on typical configurations like mine.
No
This is also why user polls indicate that people want things like Adobe Photoshop on Linux, yet it hasn't materialized....When the focus of the application is the user interface, not back end functionality, it doesn't make financial sense for them to pick and choose one GUI environment to support or have to support multiple GUI configurations
Funny that it hasn't stopped Adobe from producing a Linux version of Acrobat Reader.
The parent was suggesting setting up the framework in advance, not allowing people to just point a finger and claim something as property. Acutal claims could then be laid like they were during the gold rush where you have to physically occupy the resource you're claiming.
1. How many people are willing to risk a firing squad for accessing a website? Not a lot, I'd wager. There are no doubt a few people who would, and those people can probably circumvent the firewall quite easily, and the chinese government likely doesn't care. It's an awakening of the masses that they want to prevent, and the threat that this might be a honeypot and clicking that URL could mean the end of your life and family is enough to prevent that.
2. You seem to be looking at this from the perspective of a western country, and how, say, Americans would react if they were suddenly subject to China-like restrictions. From what I know from speaking to people at my university, the average chinese person doesn't view the government as oppressive and has no burning desire to overthrow the government. Indeed if a billion chinese wanted to overthrow the governement, they would probably have succeeded.
It might be a bit of a band-aid, but, I'd be satisfied if my clients would face public ridicule for adware...
I think you mean your FORMER clients.
- Your former client
The Bill of Rights restricts the actions "the government" may take against "the people". That means the US government may not act against anyone in ways that violate the constition anywhere... regardless of whether or not they are on US soil.
I don't know about you but DRM makes me more likely to look for "alternative sources" than if I could purchase an unencumbered copy. If I buy something, I want to be use it how I please on any of my computers or portable devices and without asking for anybody's permission to reinstall or anything.
Um.. no. Maybe YOU do, but most people watch it because it's entertaining and they do stuff most of us here would dream of... blowing things up, building stuff, having all kinds of tools and equipment at our disposal.
If ogling a Keri is the only reason you have for watching the show, you really need to get out more.
That's precisely the idea behind the system of pollution credits in the Kyoto treaty. Companies get some number of tradable pollution credits. That way companies have an economic incentive to curb emissions so that they can sell off their credits to other companies who pay real dollars to keep on polluting. Regulating the supply of pollution credits allows one to curb the total amount of pollution going into the atmosphere.
Hurricane Katrina had tropical storm-strength winds extending 200 mi from center and hurricane-force winds extending 100mi at landfall, so you would have sampled a very tiny part of the storm. I'm guessing sound wouldn't carry very well with all that wind, so that accounts for the lack of thunder.
Yes, anything that's a product must be kept off slashdot. If anyone stands to make money from the added publicity, it's more important to thwart that than to point slashdotters to a new product that might interest them.
No, because as far as the end user is concerned, you're buying a product from company A, and that product is backed by company A's warranty and reputation. Whether they built it themselves, or bought company B's products from the market and slapped their logo over it is irrelevant.
only if you are using that a non fossil-fuel energy source to get that hydrogen. It is currently cheapest to get hydrogen from hydro-carbons. (if memory serves)
Duh... then we just need to make sure that all the workers at the plant have Alzheimer's
The protests gathered pace, and when 600 MySpace customers complained and a campaign began to boycott the site and relocate to rival sites such as Friendster, Linkedin, revver.com and Facebook.com, News Corp relented and restored the links.
They worked this time, apparently
And you're not bothered by the people you'd be putting out of a job, the other customers who used to benefit from your service (especially if your company provided an important service like electricity), and by the fact that you're probably not causing any real change and by escaping away, you're discarding your ability to actually promote any real change?
So all electric companies should stop doing business in the US then? At least in states that use the electic chair as an execution method.
Bugs... things NSA spooks plant to listen in on people who don't want to be listened in on. Pun. A type of joke. Expected response is something along the lines of "hahaha"
Someone should point out my sig to them :)
There are hundreds of other technology sites out there. Sometimes Slashdot will link to a story first, sometimes last. Often it will be duped enough that it's first AND last.