Personally, I'd prefer it if $HUMAN_RIGHTS_VIOLATOR *now* can't use GPL-ed code, but I'm prepared to sacrifice that in order that $REFORMED_DEMOCRACY can use the same code *in*the*future*.
I recently found some software AiR-Boot that was briefly GPL, but since the invasion of Iraq the author changed the terms and now says "You may only use this software, if you are NOT and were NEVER working for american (US) government at any time", also moving it from a US to a Russian server.
You know they could of leveraged their position a little for some good , since they are going to be giving them a lot of software
Vietnam already has all the MS software they could want. What this is doing is legitimizing it, as MS did recently by "selling" 50,000 licences to the govt of Indonesia for bootleg software they were already running. Most likely the US govt has been leaning on them, and as Vietnam now exports a lot to the US, (I just heard that the US is Vietnam's largest trading partner now, probably for textiles and shoes) they had to pay attention or face trade sanctions.
Yeah, the same Americans who 35 years ago were protesting the US's attempt to keep the communists from taking over Vietnam are now complaining that said communists are running a repressive regime.
Actually, the Americans compalaining about the Vietnam govt in this instance are mostly Vietnam-born, mostly form the South I'd guess. So no irony there I'm afraid.
r, if each set-top-box or WMC PC has a secure file- sharing system preinstalled, then most of the upload bandwidth can be shared among people
If I'm paying for a file, I don't feel I need to contribute to the vendor by letting them use my bandwidth to send it to to other custoners. This would just lead to software to choke off uploads.
What is the point to bashing this?... no purpose to bashing... This is MS bashing, pure and simple... needlessly bashing
So you think he's bashing them? Having read Bram's comments, what he seems to be responding to is the way (he says) they misunderstood and misrepresented BT; which strikes me as a quite legitimate response.
He was there about a month after the bomb (according to the byline). Especially if it had rained before then, the fallout should mostly have been washed away to the sea.
I'd guess the reason it was censored is not so much the effects on the Japanese, for which few would have had sympathy then, but that he mentions the POW camps sited close to munitions factories and bombed regardless.
he only problem with Yahoo is that they don't have one single customer service email address. If they do they sure as hole don't listen NOR DO THEY EVER REPLY WITH A HUMAN REPLY EMAIL.
I actually pay to have a "premium" Yahoo email account, mostly through inertia. A year ago I started getting loads of viruses and tried to ask them if they could just delete these ratjer than delivering, as they were all a common easily identifed pattern. So I sent about six emails to their customer service address asking if this was possible, and not one time did any reply have any sign that they'd read my mail beyond sighting a keyword like "mail" or "virus", and directed me to the same useless FAQ pages I'd already scoured. None of these assholes would pass the Turing Test. So I just gave up trying. It really is past time to get my om domain and control my own mail.
I think the big whoop here is the fact that fucktards are using them to prey on kids.
Maybe. I just find it hard to imagine that the citd chatroom "Girls 13 And Under For Older Guys" actually has any real women, let alone girls, in it, aside from perhaps (older) hookers and female FBI agents.
Note how both Yoda and Obi-Wan (whom we would assume should know better) are both bent on getting Luke to destroy Darth. Obi-Wan never fails in this persuit even though Padame's dying words to him were insistant that there was still good in Anakin. It takes young Luke (who is apparently the "real" chosen one and thus has great insight) to realize that one of the characteristics of the Force is that redemption is possible for all -- even Anakin. This is the real moral of Star Wars
So the possible redemption of one man is worth allowing him to murder millions of people while he "works out his issues"? If that's the real moral of SW, it's not one I (and apprently Yoda and Obi-Wan) have any sympathy for. If Darth had been killed earlier, aside from those he directly had a hand in killing surviving, most likely the Empire would have fallen sooner and entire planets saved from oppression.
I hate them, they rub on my wrist when I try to type
My father slipped off a ladder and the watch band caught on a nail -- not saving his life, he wasn't high up, but wrenching his arm. After than he boght a fob watch. Or as most nurses seem to do when on duty, strap a wrist watch to the belt. Watches don't have to be on the wrist. I however like a simple waterproof one that I wear all the time except when in bed, I use it to time my laps when swimming for instance.
The legislation merely states possession is wrong. Why is for the legislators to determine.
or in other words, it IS a thought crime.
We all know the reason why legislators do this, because it lets them say they're "doing something", however useless. To protest at the disproportionality, one is labelled "soft on kiddie porn", or simply a paedophile oneself.
>>These would then become stepping stones to other planets in our solar system and beyond.
>Which would then need to be terraformed
Actually, that's what TFA is about. The author is evidently an advocate of the space colony ideas of Gerard O'Neill and others. This plans first satellites in near earth orbit, then using asteroids and comets to build ever larger ones. Eventually we have the expertise at building large habitats and keeping their biospheres going and might then have some idea how to go about terraforming a planet or moon. It's going to take centuries at best to do that, space colonies are achievable in years or decades.
A deliberate viewer would get what any pr0n consumer would
I thought you were talking about the "supplier", not the "consumer".
It is not the Spanish Inquisition
No one's being burnt at the stake for questioning how many apsects God has, but 20 years for looking at photos seems long step in that direction; of severe, life-destroying punishment for immoral thought.
I would be very interested to know how they find ways to hop the Great Firewall of China twice...
China doesn't really care about through traffic, but about what their citizens are reading and writing. The "firewall" is just a wordplay, not a useful metaphor for how China manages its part of the net.
And obviously gets something or they wouldn't do it.
Ok, if it's obvious, what?
This may be overreaching,
You think? Makes the Spanish Inquisition look like a gameshow.
I realise you personally (probably) don't condone this, but it looks very like scapegoating to me. It was bad enough when the Israelites did it with real goats, but these are human beings, no matter how distasteful their viewing preferences are.
You may never have killed anyone, for example, but I assure you that people have died to get that cocaine to you.
Because it's an illegal business. The same way the bootleggers were machine-gunning each other in Prohibition. Make it legal, tax it, the price goes down and violence goes away.
While I generally agree on victimless crimes inevitably corrupting the legal system, there _is_ a clear victim here -- the pr0n subject. And a direct causal link to the viewer. the viewer represents a valuable resource -- a potential customer. They might be enticed by free samples.
So you put the guy in jail for 20 years for being a potential customer?
Prosecute the people who took or sold the images. They committed or profitted from the crime.
Ah yes, I noticed the 20 years thing after I read the article:) "Charging people with possession for the mere act of seeing something is positively Orwellian." Uhh, Yeah, that would be orwellian, but thats not what is happening here...
It is exactly Orwellian, "thought crime" specifically. He didn't do anything in the real world, just looked at some images. (If he paid for them, that's another thing, but since it wasn't mentioned in TFA, which would have made a stronger case, then I assume he didn't.)
One can sit on the subway and read American Psycho, one of the most revolting stories I've attempted to read without being arrested for thinking about extreme torture, murder and sexual abuse. One can look at books, movies or comics about "True Crime", complete with photos of dead bodies without harassment. As a society we can certainly disapprove of some or all of these actions, but to make it a serious crime worthy of decades of jail time boggles the mind.
Really. Do you know what the definition of 'pixel' is? Just how pornographic do you think a '1-1 pixel image' is capable of being?
If you use "height=1 width=1" in the IMG tag the browser displays at that size, regardless of its actual size. But the full image file is in your cache.
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I recently found some software AiR-Boot that was briefly GPL, but since the invasion of Iraq the author changed the terms and now says "You may only use this software, if you are NOT and were NEVER working for american (US) government at any time", also moving it from a US to a Russian server.
Vietnam already has all the MS software they could want. What this is doing is legitimizing it, as MS did recently by "selling" 50,000 licences to the govt of Indonesia for bootleg software they were already running. Most likely the US govt has been leaning on them, and as Vietnam now exports a lot to the US, (I just heard that the US is Vietnam's largest trading partner now, probably for textiles and shoes) they had to pay attention or face trade sanctions.
Actually, the Americans compalaining about the Vietnam govt in this instance are mostly Vietnam-born, mostly form the South I'd guess. So no irony there I'm afraid.
If I'm paying for a file, I don't feel I need to contribute to the vendor by letting them use my bandwidth to send it to to other custoners. This would just lead to software to choke off uploads.
So you think he's bashing them? Having read Bram's comments, what he seems to be responding to is the way (he says) they misunderstood and misrepresented BT; which strikes me as a quite legitimate response.
More conservative dictionaries prefer "programme", eg Cambridge. Newspaper style guides are often useful, but not authoritative.
I'd guess the reason it was censored is not so much the effects on the Japanese, for which few would have had sympathy then, but that he mentions the POW camps sited close to munitions factories and bombed regardless.
Really? Check out Gallery Carre. [This is not a referrer link, and I maintain it IS on topic, though NSFW.]
I actually pay to have a "premium" Yahoo email account, mostly through inertia. A year ago I started getting loads of viruses and tried to ask them if they could just delete these ratjer than delivering, as they were all a common easily identifed pattern. So I sent about six emails to their customer service address asking if this was possible, and not one time did any reply have any sign that they'd read my mail beyond sighting a keyword like "mail" or "virus", and directed me to the same useless FAQ pages I'd already scoured. None of these assholes would pass the Turing Test. So I just gave up trying. It really is past time to get my om domain and control my own mail.
Maybe. I just find it hard to imagine that the citd chatroom "Girls 13 And Under For Older Guys" actually has any real women, let alone girls, in it, aside from perhaps (older) hookers and female FBI agents.
So the possible redemption of one man is worth allowing him to murder millions of people while he "works out his issues"? If that's the real moral of SW, it's not one I (and apprently Yoda and Obi-Wan) have any sympathy for. If Darth had been killed earlier, aside from those he directly had a hand in killing surviving, most likely the Empire would have fallen sooner and entire planets saved from oppression.
My father slipped off a ladder and the watch band caught on a nail -- not saving his life, he wasn't high up, but wrenching his arm. After than he boght a fob watch. Or as most nurses seem to do when on duty, strap a wrist watch to the belt. Watches don't have to be on the wrist. I however like a simple waterproof one that I wear all the time except when in bed, I use it to time my laps when swimming for instance.
or in other words, it IS a thought crime.
We all know the reason why legislators do this, because it lets them say they're "doing something", however useless. To protest at the disproportionality, one is labelled "soft on kiddie porn", or simply a paedophile oneself.
>Which would then need to be terraformed
Actually, that's what TFA is about. The author is evidently an advocate of the space colony ideas of Gerard O'Neill and others. This plans first satellites in near earth orbit, then using asteroids and comets to build ever larger ones. Eventually we have the expertise at building large habitats and keeping their biospheres going and might then have some idea how to go about terraforming a planet or moon. It's going to take centuries at best to do that, space colonies are achievable in years or decades.
Except for "one's".
If he'd paid for them, yes. No suggestion he did, and I think the prosecutor would have mentioned it. So how did he "contribute"?
I thought you were talking about the "supplier", not the "consumer".
It is not the Spanish Inquisition
No one's being burnt at the stake for questioning how many apsects God has, but 20 years for looking at photos seems long step in that direction; of severe, life-destroying punishment for immoral thought.
China doesn't really care about through traffic, but about what their citizens are reading and writing. The "firewall" is just a wordplay, not a useful metaphor for how China manages its part of the net.
The current term is CTP, computer to plate, perhaps to remove the ambiguity.
Ok, if it's obvious, what?
This may be overreaching,
You think? Makes the Spanish Inquisition look like a gameshow.
I realise you personally (probably) don't condone this, but it looks very like scapegoating to me. It was bad enough when the Israelites did it with real goats, but these are human beings, no matter how distasteful their viewing preferences are.
Because it's an illegal business. The same way the bootleggers were machine-gunning each other in Prohibition. Make it legal, tax it, the price goes down and violence goes away.
So you put the guy in jail for 20 years for being a potential customer?
Prosecute the people who took or sold the images. They committed or profitted from the crime.
It is exactly Orwellian, "thought crime" specifically. He didn't do anything in the real world, just looked at some images. (If he paid for them, that's another thing, but since it wasn't mentioned in TFA, which would have made a stronger case, then I assume he didn't.)
One can sit on the subway and read American Psycho, one of the most revolting stories I've attempted to read without being arrested for thinking about extreme torture, murder and sexual abuse. One can look at books, movies or comics about "True Crime", complete with photos of dead bodies without harassment. As a society we can certainly disapprove of some or all of these actions, but to make it a serious crime worthy of decades of jail time boggles the mind.
If you use "height=1 width=1" in the IMG tag the browser displays at that size, regardless of its actual size. But the full image file is in your cache.
Tim Berners-Lee?