Government's role is to promote the welfare of the people.
No, it's not. That's your mother's job.
Prenventing and punishing use of force and fraud is the legitimate role of government. Not providing "free" money to one group by taking it from another.
Yep. Maybe while we're in this legal atmosphere, we should get together and sue all the baby bells and long-distance carriers as well? Maybe we can shut down the internet and the phone system at the same time. Let's also sue the power companies, because they supply the electrons that make copyright infringement in the digital millenium possible.
Without, of course, reciting The Register, because we hate them. Or something. Even though "Roblimo" writes articles for NewsForge which then appear on The Register, because of an agreement between VA Sheep's Bladders and The Register, because we don't hate them. Or something. Colonel Mustard, with the Candlestick in the Kitchen. I think.
Ahhh, they list "SDMI Compliant" and "Upgradable, supports DRM" in the "features" section, so the RIAA will probably consider them an "approved device."... not a pair of features I want... I found a 32MB model for $60. I'm not sure I want it, simply because of the SDMI/DRI stuff.
The problem with this system is that it's one-way transparency. We are transparent to them (the people in power who will have access to this system), but they are not tranto us. If I can get a list of who has looked at my records, and then look at their records -- in the same level of detail that they gained about me -- then I won't have as much of a problem with it. Reciprocal transparency will make it more fair, and help alleviate abuses. If Senator Porkbarrel's office investigates me, and I can investigate them right back, then they might think twice about using it.
This legislation, like the Peruvian legislation, does not affect your personal choice of software one whit. It's about a customer -- the government -- deciding what it wants to spend money on.
Actually, capitalism is designed to put the inherent greed and selfishness of humans (i.e., the survival instinct) to work for society, and it does a pretty good job of it. Certainly better than non-capitalist systems, such as command economies.
the point he was making was the writing bade code shouldn't bring down the OS. don't be so damn defensive that you can't read the words in front of you.
You're right. My bad. Sorry, everyone! Sorry! Won't happen again...
Uh-huh. STFU -- I suppose that all of your early code in a new project is perfect. Are you really serious?
After all, now that I'm finished with it, it works, no memory leaks, crashes or anything -- running on production NT and Win2k servers (pays the bills, even though I want to gnaw my hands off some days) for about six months now.
But, of course, I am a total moron for doing a double free() anywhere, ever, regardless, right?
Gone are those heady days when you had to be REALLY CAREFUL, or your application could hose the whole operating system and crash the computer. Ah, those thrilling days of Windows 1.x, 2,x, 3.x, 9x, 2000, er... yeah, where you make any little mistake with memory, or locks, or pointers, and you're watching the BIOS POST again... uh-huh...
I didn't think that any part of IIS was part of the kernel in Win2k. But I have trouble explaining why a bad pointer access in an ISAPI filter blue screens the OS, other than... there's some kernel stuff happening there! I wonder if the buffer and ISAPI filter gets handed is kernel memory...
Every blue screen on win2k pro I've ever had was a direct result of an ISAPI filter apparently crashing the kernel.
I'm not kidding. I was developing the filter, and in its early stages, it had memory leaks, dangling pointers, double free()s, etc. Blue screens! By killing the web server! Wow!
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.running programs should look different from program launchers in my opinion. (That's a mistake I think OSX makes, kind of mixing the two)
After using MacOSX for a while, I'm not sure that it is a mistake. Think about this: people want to run their programs. They need a way to tell the computer "I want to use Word." They don't care if the system starts a new copy, or if it brings to the front an existing copy. So, by placing launcher+task icons in the Dock, just clicking on the "Word" icon does the right thing, every time. They do provide the little arrow to distinguish running apps vs launchers, as secondary information, but that's what it is -- secondary.
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My brother works for them. He's SOOOOO glad they were spun off a few years ago!
Government's role is to promote the welfare of the people.
No, it's not. That's your mother's job.
Prenventing and punishing use of force and fraud is the legitimate role of government. Not providing "free" money to one group by taking it from another.
Heh. The cycle of life in New Orleans turns again... out with the old scumbags, in with the new...
How can it be a "gift" if it must be purchased? Is Arthur Anderson involved in the deal somehow?
which nation was I talking about?
The Land of the Free and the Home of the...
ah, fuck it
Why should an ISP have to block ANY website?
For the same reason the telcos block the phone numbers of suspected copyright infringers!
Yep. Maybe while we're in this legal atmosphere, we should get together and sue all the baby bells and long-distance carriers as well? Maybe we can shut down the internet and the phone system at the same time. Let's also sue the power companies, because they supply the electrons that make copyright infringement in the digital millenium possible.
Without, of course, reciting The Register, because we hate them. Or something. Even though "Roblimo" writes articles for NewsForge which then appear on The Register, because of an agreement between VA Sheep's Bladders and The Register, because we don't hate them. Or something. Colonel Mustard, with the Candlestick in the Kitchen. I think.
Ahhh, they list "SDMI Compliant" and "Upgradable, supports DRM" in the "features" section, so the RIAA will probably consider them an "approved device." ... not a pair of features I want ... I found a 32MB model for $60. I'm not sure I want it, simply because of the SDMI/DRI stuff.
if, for example, you install RedHat on a laptop and for some stupid reason or another the DVD player won't play DVD's on it
I agree. It IS a stupid reason. Ask Hollings and Biden ("the Disney Duo") about it...
If we can't trust wild, unconfirmed rumors, what can we trust?
The Office of Homeland Security!
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Who's going to complain?
Everyone who doesn't use IE, and a lot of people who do.
The problem with this system is that it's one-way transparency. We are transparent to them (the people in power who will have access to this system), but they are not tranto us. If I can get a list of who has looked at my records, and then look at their records -- in the same level of detail that they gained about me -- then I won't have as much of a problem with it. Reciprocal transparency will make it more fair, and help alleviate abuses. If Senator Porkbarrel's office investigates me, and I can investigate them right back, then they might think twice about using it.
Does spending a week winding up a huge rubber band count?
trying to determine my rights for me
This legislation, like the Peruvian legislation, does not affect your personal choice of software one whit. It's about a customer -- the government -- deciding what it wants to spend money on.
Actually, capitalism is designed to put the inherent greed and selfishness of humans (i.e., the survival instinct) to work for society, and it does a pretty good job of it. Certainly better than non-capitalist systems, such as command economies.
Let's say that I've got a fax-modem in my mail server. Does that count? Is it now a "Telephone Fax Machine?"
There's an apropos quote from Carlin, or somebody. What was it? hmmm... oh, yes:
"Fuck the fucking fuckers!"
Maybe congress should pass a law requiring all marketing/advertising/solicitation to be traceable to the advertiser/marketer/solicitor.
In the case of phone calls: valid caller-ID information, and, on request, phone number and address.
In the case of faxes and postal mail: a valid phone number and address.
In the case of email: valid headers, address and phone number.
the point he was making was the writing bade code shouldn't bring down the OS. don't be so damn defensive that you can't read the words in front of you.
You're right. My bad. Sorry, everyone! Sorry! Won't happen again...
your second mistake was writing bad code.
Uh-huh. STFU -- I suppose that all of your early code in a new project is perfect. Are you really serious?
After all, now that I'm finished with it, it works, no memory leaks, crashes or anything -- running on production NT and Win2k servers (pays the bills, even though I want to gnaw my hands off some days) for about six months now.
But, of course, I am a total moron for doing a double free() anywhere, ever, regardless, right?
Gone are those heady days when you had to be REALLY CAREFUL, or your application could hose the whole operating system and crash the computer. Ah, those thrilling days of Windows 1.x, 2,x, 3.x, 9x, 2000, er... yeah, where you make any little mistake with memory, or locks, or pointers, and you're watching the BIOS POST again... uh-huh...
I didn't think that any part of IIS was part of the kernel in Win2k. But I have trouble explaining why a bad pointer access in an ISAPI filter blue screens the OS, other than... there's some kernel stuff happening there! I wonder if the buffer and ISAPI filter gets handed is kernel memory...
Every blue screen on win2k pro I've ever had was a direct result of an ISAPI filter apparently crashing the kernel.
I'm not kidding. I was developing the filter, and in its early stages, it had memory leaks, dangling pointers, double free()s, etc. Blue screens! By killing the web server! Wow!
India's ISPs can stick it in their collective ear
.running programs should look different from program launchers in my opinion. (That's a mistake I think OSX makes, kind of mixing the two)
After using MacOSX for a while, I'm not sure that it is a mistake. Think about this: people want to run their programs. They need a way to tell the computer "I want to use Word." They don't care if the system starts a new copy, or if it brings to the front an existing copy. So, by placing launcher+task icons in the Dock, just clicking on the "Word" icon does the right thing, every time. They do provide the little arrow to distinguish running apps vs launchers, as secondary information, but that's what it is -- secondary.
Touche!
Mmmm... I'd love to see Gnome and KDE compiled with VectorC or intel's compiler...