All of these systems that they are trying to shut down are very simple to use. It brings piracy to the masses, not just the uber l33t groups.
We are fighting over convenience.
People use a system because of what they can find there. It doesn't matter how elegant a system is, if another dumbed down one has 100 times as many users, and a 100 times as many files available, you'll use that.
The owners of the copyright whose losses you theoretically caused are in the US. Therefore you are under US jurisdiction.
You insult Islam on your blog, which is read in Saudi Arabia. Therefore you are under the jurisdiction of Saudi Arabia, and will be extradited and executed.
In an alternate universe where all drugs are legal, company X sprays cocane clouds over citys in order to increase its sales
Nicotine is legal, but in most Western countries it's not legal to give away free cigarettes, or to sel to minors at all. And alcohol is legal, it is also heavily controlled. Making something legal doesn't mean making it free of all restrictions. If cocaine was legal, and a company did spray clouds of it over a city, it'd be sued out of existence. But since cocaine is now illegal, there is no control of what is sold, it can be cut with any poison with the right colour and consistency.
Besides nothing tells commercially available drugs are going to be cheap (cheaper than now, yes but not cheap, monopolies are way to easy to be established).
There isn't a monopoly on alcohol or nicotine or coffee, etc, except in those countries where the governments mandate it. Since a compnay can't just murder its rivals to maintain market share, they will compete on price.
Do what you do to your own body, fine, but what happens when YOU are carjacked and murdered for the money in your wallet and the parts to your car, just so someone can get their fix?
People don't get murdered so someone can get a fix of legal drugs, like nicotine and alcohol, because they're cheap and burger flippers can afford them. The illegality of opiates, marijuana and cocaine causes markups of thousands of percent, which drives users into crime to pay for it. If these were legal, they'd be cheap, not contaminated, and users would not die from ODs or become criminals to pay for them. Most drug addicts would be much less a drain on society than alcoholics.
Prohibition didn't work for alcohol, and doesn't work for other drugs, for the same reason.
"Just Say No" -- if people don't want to do this, you really can't force them to.
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Please follow the uniformed police officer to the designated 'Free Speech Zone'
Actually, this is how "protests" are managed here in Hong Kong now. You're allowed to protest as long as you do it in a place where you're well out of sight of any of our unelected leaders (one thing we have in common with the US). Though it beats the Mainland way of arresting and locking up protesters within seconds of their unfurling their banners and taking them away to labour camps (even less salubrious than Guantanamo Bay).
In one celebrated incident a year or so ago the police played Beethoven at high volume to drown out the protesters so they wouldn't offend the cadre attending some meeting.
But I am still anxiously awaiting Adobe to release free versions of their Base PDF fonts.
They're certainly free (beer). Install a free copy of Acrobat reader and you'll notice a directory "Resources" including (in my version):
Arial MT, Times New Roman PS, Courier and Palatino each in 4 styles, Symbol, ITC Zapf Dingbats,
Adobe Sans MM, Adobe Serif MM.
You can install these with your other Type 1 fonts to make them generally available. Get an older version (2?) to get Helvetica instead of Arial.
common TrueType fonts such as Times New Roman, Ariel, and Courier...
These fonts were Apple/MS's (they worked together on Truetype) clones of the standard Adobe fonts: Times, Helvetica and Courier. Every font vendor has clone (same size at least) versions of these.
Yes, actually it looks like no kerning at all. Kerning is usually a function of the application, not the OS. Word, for instance, in different versions had working or broken pair kerning. That's one reason you use a DTP app (Ventura, Pagemaker, etc) instead of a word processor.
No they can't, not in the US anyway. typeright.org: "The US Copyright Office still officially refuses to accord protection for typeface designs."
There are licensing and trademark issues, but not copyright. As the poster said, the lawyer works on intimidation, not actually getting judgements. (Unless the DMCA has radically changed this, which is possible as it seems to have all kinds of unintended consequences.)
i cant go out and buy [insert computer part] for a mac that isn't made by mac.
You can buy standard PC RAM, IDE or SCSI hard disks, and video and other PCI cards from many companies (if they've bothered to write drivers -- and with OSX open source drivers are coming). Also you can attach most USB devices to recent Macs, including keyboards, use VGA monitors.
Basically you can upgrade your Mac to the max without paying Apple a dime.
Don't get me wrong, it's still dangerous, but it certainly wouldn't stay in the air for a million years... or even for one year. Probably more like a few hours. Then you just have to clean the pieces up off the ground.
I meant it would be dangerous for a million years -- in the air, water and eventually enter the food chain. And vapourizing it high up would spread it around making it impossible to "just clean up the pieces". Of course, either way is preferable to a nuclear detonation.
you'll still have 12 Kg or so of plutonium or some bio/ chemical agent(not to mention the possibility or unexpended fuel) landing somewhere. Blowing them up with another missile still has it's advantages.
Then you'd get the 12 kg of Pu vaporized and in the air causing cancer for the next million years or so. Probably preferable to have it localised where it impacts and more easily recovered. (Unless that's the centre of a city.)
They would have no reason for giving their database to 'the Man' so he could spy on you and see how often you travel from A to B.
Because "the man" asked them to. As flight schools had "no reason" to hand over their lists of students, as ISPs had "no reason" to hand over their customer info... Once the information exists, and law enforcement wants it, it can just ask for it, in these days with any or no excuse.
By your logic it is my moral obligation to ride my skateboard in traffic and ride my girfriend's horse down the freeway.
It looked like you were saying that cyclists didn't have the right to use roads becasue these were paid for by motorists. That's the part I disagreed with. Who uses roads and how is a much wider question. And of course you can ride a horse on most roads, though probably not freeways.
After many times being threatened by drivers and told to "Get off the road you poofter", I'm a little sensitive on being told I don't have the right to use roads, especially as I'd face an even more violent reaction if I took the only alternative in many places, the footpath.
in Australia you pay a hefty amount for registration every year on cars and such which in turn pays for a lot of the infrastructure, while cyclists don't pay a thing
"A lot" not being anywhere near "all". Cyclists pay tax, and subsidise the immense amount spent on highways and other infrastructure for motorists. Thus we have the legal and moral right to use roads.
Not to mention paying the police and ambulance services, and medical expenses of those killed or injured by cars. Or the huge cost to the environment and people's health of the poisonous exhaust.
Japan's economy has been stagnant for almost a decade. If Africa's economy remains stagnant for a decade, how are they better off than they are now?
Japan's economy is not simply characterised by the word "stagnant". If that came along with all the other indicators, they would still be infinitely better off than currently. Even Japan's banking system, fucked up as it is, is more functional than just about any African country's.
The yen is still a hard currency, which African country could you say that for?
Try testdisk. Free. Recoverd a disk with a gig of downloads for me when Windows trashed the partition table. It takes a long time to analyse a disk, so be patient, then it presents what it thinks the partition table should be, you accept it and it writes it. Obviously, can't run this from the damaged disk itself.
Yeah, right. A former head of the CIA was busted for copying stuff to his home PC/laptop. Not to mention the Chinese scientist accused of espionage for circumventing rules similarly and exposing nuclear secrets (details -- see Google, but I'm pretty sure). Rules on paper are much dfferent than rules in practice.
No, all you need to do is make it so it doesn't normally display on the front page. Such as changing the date to 1980. Or using users' preferences that build each page to order -- add a "dupe" pref normally set to "don't show", that perverse users can change.
You can see how someone might get confused though. But you can't blame Taco for going by the title.
Of course you shouldn't go by title. I just plugged "MIT" into Slashdot's search box and found the dupe immediately. What Slashdot NEEDS (OK, what I want) is for an automated system that compares a submission with recent articles for similarity -- this is off-the-shelf stuff now. These could be weighted to favour more recent ones, but I leave the formula up to experimentation. This would be useful to present related links, as well as warning of possible dupes.
I had a similar problem, editing a news site being fed articles from an office in Beijing. I had incredible trouble with the Chinese editors who never checked what was already on the site (this is the same day) and sent different versions of the same story (eg from Xinhua, China Daily, People's Daily). Wasted a huge amount of time. Not to mention the typos -- they couldn't be fucked to use a spellchecker, check URLS, etc. It's dead and buried now of course.
)Of course, we wouldn't know anything about their OS.
The raionale was that we'd been studying the Roswell ship in the Area 51 buker for 50 years, and so did understand their OS. (Assumes no major changes in the OS 50 years, which seems reasonable in the situation.)
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We are fighting over convenience.
People use a system because of what they can find there. It doesn't matter how elegant a system is, if another dumbed down one has 100 times as many users, and a 100 times as many files available, you'll use that.
You insult Islam on your blog, which is read in Saudi Arabia. Therefore you are under the jurisdiction of Saudi Arabia, and will be extradited and executed.
Nicotine is legal, but in most Western countries it's not legal to give away free cigarettes, or to sel to minors at all. And alcohol is legal, it is also heavily controlled. Making something legal doesn't mean making it free of all restrictions. If cocaine was legal, and a company did spray clouds of it over a city, it'd be sued out of existence. But since cocaine is now illegal, there is no control of what is sold, it can be cut with any poison with the right colour and consistency.
Besides nothing tells commercially available drugs are going to be cheap (cheaper than now, yes but not cheap, monopolies are way to easy to be established).
There isn't a monopoly on alcohol or nicotine or coffee, etc, except in those countries where the governments mandate it. Since a compnay can't just murder its rivals to maintain market share, they will compete on price.
People don't get murdered so someone can get a fix of legal drugs, like nicotine and alcohol, because they're cheap and burger flippers can afford them. The illegality of opiates, marijuana and cocaine causes markups of thousands of percent, which drives users into crime to pay for it. If these were legal, they'd be cheap, not contaminated, and users would not die from ODs or become criminals to pay for them. Most drug addicts would be much less a drain on society than alcoholics.
Prohibition didn't work for alcohol, and doesn't work for other drugs, for the same reason.
"Just Say No" -- if people don't want to do this, you really can't force them to.
Actually, see the women of KDE here. About half of them are worth a look...
Actually, this is how "protests" are managed here in Hong Kong now. You're allowed to protest as long as you do it in a place where you're well out of sight of any of our unelected leaders (one thing we have in common with the US). Though it beats the Mainland way of arresting and locking up protesters within seconds of their unfurling their banners and taking them away to labour camps (even less salubrious than Guantanamo Bay).
In one celebrated incident a year or so ago the police played Beethoven at high volume to drown out the protesters so they wouldn't offend the cadre attending some meeting.
Someone!Please mod this crap down!
Following up myself: go to Bitstream's catalogue, where you can select a font and "testdrive" it. This renders your text. The kerning there is fine.
They're certainly free (beer). Install a free copy of Acrobat reader and you'll notice a directory "Resources" including (in my version): Arial MT, Times New Roman PS, Courier and Palatino each in 4 styles, Symbol, ITC Zapf Dingbats, Adobe Sans MM, Adobe Serif MM.
You can install these with your other Type 1 fonts to make them generally available. Get an older version (2?) to get Helvetica instead of Arial.
These fonts were Apple/MS's (they worked together on Truetype) clones of the standard Adobe fonts: Times, Helvetica and Courier. Every font vendor has clone (same size at least) versions of these.
Yes, actually it looks like no kerning at all. Kerning is usually a function of the application, not the OS. Word, for instance, in different versions had working or broken pair kerning. That's one reason you use a DTP app (Ventura, Pagemaker, etc) instead of a word processor.
No they can't, not in the US anyway.
typeright.org: "The US Copyright Office still officially refuses to accord protection for typeface designs."
There are licensing and trademark issues, but not copyright. As the poster said, the lawyer works on intimidation, not actually getting judgements. (Unless the DMCA has radically changed this, which is possible as it seems to have all kinds of unintended consequences.)
You can buy standard PC RAM, IDE or SCSI hard disks, and video and other PCI cards from many companies (if they've bothered to write drivers -- and with OSX open source drivers are coming). Also you can attach most USB devices to recent Macs, including keyboards, use VGA monitors.
Basically you can upgrade your Mac to the max without paying Apple a dime.
I meant it would be dangerous for a million years -- in the air, water and eventually enter the food chain. And vapourizing it high up would spread it around making it impossible to "just clean up the pieces". Of course, either way is preferable to a nuclear detonation.
Then you'd get the 12 kg of Pu vaporized and in the air causing cancer for the next million years or so. Probably preferable to have it localised where it impacts and more easily recovered. (Unless that's the centre of a city.)
Because "the man" asked them to. As flight schools had "no reason" to hand over their lists of students, as ISPs had "no reason" to hand over their customer info... Once the information exists, and law enforcement wants it, it can just ask for it, in these days with any or no excuse.
It looked like you were saying that cyclists didn't have the right to use roads becasue these were paid for by motorists. That's the part I disagreed with. Who uses roads and how is a much wider question. And of course you can ride a horse on most roads, though probably not freeways.
After many times being threatened by drivers and told to "Get off the road you poofter", I'm a little sensitive on being told I don't have the right to use roads, especially as I'd face an even more violent reaction if I took the only alternative in many places, the footpath.
"A lot" not being anywhere near "all". Cyclists pay tax, and subsidise the immense amount spent on highways and other infrastructure for motorists. Thus we have the legal and moral right to use roads.
Not to mention paying the police and ambulance services, and medical expenses of those killed or injured by cars. Or the huge cost to the environment and people's health of the poisonous exhaust.
Japan's economy is not simply characterised by the word "stagnant". If that came along with all the other indicators, they would still be infinitely better off than currently. Even Japan's banking system, fucked up as it is, is more functional than just about any African country's.
The yen is still a hard currency, which African country could you say that for?
Why does Africa want and economy like that?!
I'm not the original fool, but the standard of living in Japan is infinitely higher than any African country.
Try testdisk. Free. Recoverd a disk with a gig of downloads for me when Windows trashed the partition table. It takes a long time to analyse a disk, so be patient, then it presents what it thinks the partition table should be, you accept it and it writes it. Obviously, can't run this from the damaged disk itself.
Yeah, right. A former head of the CIA was busted for copying stuff to his home PC/laptop. Not to mention the Chinese scientist accused of espionage for circumventing rules similarly and exposing nuclear secrets (details -- see Google, but I'm pretty sure). Rules on paper are much dfferent than rules in practice.
No, all you need to do is make it so it doesn't normally display on the front page. Such as changing the date to 1980. Or using users' preferences that build each page to order -- add a "dupe" pref normally set to "don't show", that perverse users can change.
Of course you shouldn't go by title. I just plugged "MIT" into Slashdot's search box and found the dupe immediately. What Slashdot NEEDS (OK, what I want) is for an automated system that compares a submission with recent articles for similarity -- this is off-the-shelf stuff now. These could be weighted to favour more recent ones, but I leave the formula up to experimentation. This would be useful to present related links, as well as warning of possible dupes.
I had a similar problem, editing a news site being fed articles from an office in Beijing. I had incredible trouble with the Chinese editors who never checked what was already on the site (this is the same day) and sent different versions of the same story (eg from Xinhua, China Daily, People's Daily). Wasted a huge amount of time. Not to mention the typos -- they couldn't be fucked to use a spellchecker, check URLS, etc. It's dead and buried now of course.
The raionale was that we'd been studying the Roswell ship in the Area 51 buker for 50 years, and so did understand their OS. (Assumes no major changes in the OS 50 years, which seems reasonable in the situation.)