You think I'm wealthy because I took a bunch of electives?
I delivered pizza to make ends meet. And worked credit collections part time at a jewelry company. And I have some Stafford loans I'm still paying on that would like to disagree with your assessment.
Man - thanks for the best laugh I've had all day. Wow.
Now if you'll excuse me I have to take my private jet over to my yacht. I'm having Bill Gates over for brunch.
I got my degree because I love the subject. Until I met the girl that became my wife, I had no plans on graduating. I had close to 50 hours in non-essential electives. You only need 8 in that particular group to graduate. I just kept taking classes that interested me.
If I wanted to spend that much effort on purely a money making college experience, I'd have taken business classes. Managers make more than the managed. Or I could have been a lawyer.
Plenty of jobs pay more than code monkey. If money to attract women was my sole object, I chose pretty poorly.
X just sucks. I find it appalling that the best UNIX minds are unable to admit that truth.
Of course, we have nothing better, but we will never have anything if we keep repeating the mantra that X is perfect or good enough.
Well - you're not repeating that mantra, are you? So go start a project that is better than X.
And no, I'm not trying to be a smartass. Really - go do it. You don't even need to know how to code. Good administrative skills are enough to start a project. Wrangle like minds. Start a message board. Exchange ideas.
Unlike some other programming paradigms, open source welcomes revolutions. So go start one.
Point the first: If they think this won't get hacked, they're out of their freaking minds. You think spyware is bad now, just leave a huge hole in your OS where other people can come in and change stuff. This proposal will make the problem worse, day one. Or should I say 0-day.
Point the second: Accountability. Assuming this could get implemented and be magically unhackable, what all are they actually allowed to do, and who will oversee this?
Put another way, let's say I release an email client that is legal to use for non-commercial purposes. May I read all of your email to see that you're sticking to the EULA? May I delete the ones that are commercial?
How far can this go, and what checks and balances do they propose?
Well, you don't have to sit there the whole time. Set a few drives up for a DoD wipe and go home. Do that every night before you leave for home and it'll be done in no time.
Use a couple of old spare crappy PCs left lying around. Every business has at least a few of those.
If it is, then I'd have to recommend something quick and painless. Like jumping balls first into a swimming pool full of razor blades and margarita salt.
The Magna Carta is a part of what makes the West the West. It's where we got some of our earliest notions about law.
A lot of other nations (you know who I'm talking about) who don't have the Magna Carta in their history still haven't quite grasped a lot of the concepts of modern jurisprudence.
They tend to be places that lock you up indefinitely for overly political speech, or stone you to death in a public place for not having the "correct" notions about God.
I'd say the Magna Carta has had an enormous bearing on US law - hardly a footnote.
Today the Court strikes down as inadequate the most generous set of procedural protections ever afforded aliens detained by this country as enemy combatants. The political branches crafted these procedures amidst an ongoing military conflict, after much careful investigation and thorough debate. The Court rejects them today out of hand, without bothering to say what due process rights the detainees possess, without explaining how the statute fails to vindicate those rights, and before a single petitioner has even attempted to avail himself of the law's operation.... One cannot help but think, after surveying the modest practical results of the majority's ambitious opinion, that this decision is not really about the detainees at all, but about control of federal policy regarding enemy combatants.
The game of bait-and-switch that today's opinion plays upon the Nation's Commander in Chief will make the war harder on us. It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed. That consequence would be tolerable if necessary to preserve a time-honored legal principle vital to our constitutional Republic. But it is this Court's blatant abandonment of such a principle that produces the decision today...
Bolding mine. How would anyone know if they've tried to use the courts if they haven't had access to them in the first place? And saying that Habeas Corpus isn't a "time-honored legal principal"?
...a hospital computer will begin ordering abortions simply because it doesn't like people. The people will rise and revolt against the machines forcing human minds to develop, and then the spice will flow.
In a communist country, ideas other than communism (such as capitalism) are the progressive ones.
All depends on where you're at when you say you're a progressive. All that means is "for change", and what that means depends entirely on where you happen to be at the moment.
Second, can the court opt that no, "we aren't going to dismiss it just because you think you're going to lose" ??
Seriously.
Every time one of these cases gets close to actually reaching a decision - the RIAA bails. Everyone knows why.
When is a judge going to know why and force the RIAA to lie in the bed they've made?
When will "making available" actually be tested to its conclusion in a court of law?
We all know why the RIAA doesn't want to - it's obviously bogus. I'm sure there are judges out there that know it too. Is there anything a judge can do to force the issue and demand the RIAA keep playing?
If it is essential that the threat to sue must be "in good faith" or else its extortion - isn't bailing every time you get near a decision a clear determinant of them not operating in good faith?
Can a judge do more than simply dismiss with prejudice?
That's because God wrote their book, and faith is the exact opposite of skepticism.
In a way you have to admire people with faith. They want so badly to be good people that they're willing to even discount things their own eyes show them, because seeing these things would break their faith.
It's amazing, really.
That's why no argument can ever be enough. It would screw up their relationship with God. They're understandably grouchy when scientists come up with stuff like this. It requires another round of mental gymnastics to keep their faith in order. Each round getting harder and harder to do as science keeps raising the bar.
Find some microbes on Mars, for instance. Watch what happens next.
They can't do simple math. Unless you make less than $200 a week, that is. Then their decision would be acceptable because then they'd have a net savings.
Otherwise they are obstacle in your story, not FOSS.
First off, it's no big deal to snoop USB, which makes dongles pretty easy to crack.
You have to petition the USB folks so you get a unique vendor's ID, which is a pain. Plus, they are finite.
You'd have to get Microsoft to give you a digital certificate to make your dongle driver legit - also a pain. And you'd have to go through a driver installation just to load your software, more of a pain.
Finally, dongle bound software is just as crackable with a monitor. There has to be some code that goes out and checks the dongle, then returns "yes this is authorized" or "no let's not run". Just zap that bit and the dongle goes away.
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Having that statement applied TO Rupert Murdoch, rather than BY Rupert Murdoch.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
*gasp* *wheese* *pant*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
You think I'm wealthy because I took a bunch of electives?
I delivered pizza to make ends meet. And worked credit collections part time at a jewelry company. And I have some Stafford loans I'm still paying on that would like to disagree with your assessment.
Man - thanks for the best laugh I've had all day. Wow.
Now if you'll excuse me I have to take my private jet over to my yacht. I'm having Bill Gates over for brunch.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I got my degree because I love the subject. Until I met the girl that became my wife, I had no plans on graduating. I had close to 50 hours in non-essential electives. You only need 8 in that particular group to graduate. I just kept taking classes that interested me.
If I wanted to spend that much effort on purely a money making college experience, I'd have taken business classes. Managers make more than the managed. Or I could have been a lawyer.
Plenty of jobs pay more than code monkey. If money to attract women was my sole object, I chose pretty poorly.
I like that article. Reminds me of the Ladder Theory.
Seriously. Cut it out.
You'll get laid just as much as you do now, but with less headaches.
And maybe by asserting yourself you might impress some girl. Strange that pushing them away seems to attract them, but it is sometimes true.
Bad people are more focused than we are.
We started off talking about women, and inside of four posts we're discussing the merits of different browser types.
Seriously. Read this.
Pointless partisan hackery is destructive.
Well - you're not repeating that mantra, are you? So go start a project that is better than X.
And no, I'm not trying to be a smartass. Really - go do it. You don't even need to know how to code. Good administrative skills are enough to start a project. Wrangle like minds. Start a message board. Exchange ideas.
Unlike some other programming paradigms, open source welcomes revolutions. So go start one.
Point the first: If they think this won't get hacked, they're out of their freaking minds. You think spyware is bad now, just leave a huge hole in your OS where other people can come in and change stuff. This proposal will make the problem worse, day one. Or should I say 0-day.
Point the second: Accountability. Assuming this could get implemented and be magically unhackable, what all are they actually allowed to do, and who will oversee this?
Put another way, let's say I release an email client that is legal to use for non-commercial purposes. May I read all of your email to see that you're sticking to the EULA? May I delete the ones that are commercial?
How far can this go, and what checks and balances do they propose?
Homer Simpson says
In this house we all obey
Thermodynamics
Well, you don't have to sit there the whole time. Set a few drives up for a DoD wipe and go home. Do that every night before you leave for home and it'll be done in no time.
Use a couple of old spare crappy PCs left lying around. Every business has at least a few of those.
You're not wanted here. Grown ups are talking in here.
Cary, is that you?
If it is, then I'd have to recommend something quick and painless. Like jumping balls first into a swimming pool full of razor blades and margarita salt.
Way to go, NYCL!
Not to worry, NYCL wrote letters to both judges, reminding them of what the RIAA lawyers had forgotten.Not only is that a fantastic thing to do, it's also pretty darn funny. Forgotten, indeed.
The Magna Carta is a part of what makes the West the West. It's where we got some of our earliest notions about law.
A lot of other nations (you know who I'm talking about) who don't have the Magna Carta in their history still haven't quite grasped a lot of the concepts of modern jurisprudence.
They tend to be places that lock you up indefinitely for overly political speech, or stone you to death in a public place for not having the "correct" notions about God.
I'd say the Magna Carta has had an enormous bearing on US law - hardly a footnote.
Read the dissenting opinion.
Today the Court strikes down as inadequate the most generous set of procedural protections ever afforded aliens detained by this country as enemy combatants. The political branches crafted these procedures amidst an ongoing military conflict, after much careful investigation and thorough debate. The Court rejects them today out of hand, without bothering to say what due process rights the detainees possess, without explaining how the statute fails to vindicate those rights, and before a single petitioner has even attempted to avail himself of the law's operation.Bolding mine. How would anyone know if they've tried to use the courts if they haven't had access to them in the first place? And saying that Habeas Corpus isn't a "time-honored legal principal"?
Amazing, isn't it?
Quotes taken from here.
It compares nicely to the length of a Presidential term or two, doesn't it?
...a hospital computer will begin ordering abortions simply because it doesn't like people. The people will rise and revolt against the machines forcing human minds to develop, and then the spice will flow.
In a communist country, ideas other than communism (such as capitalism) are the progressive ones.
All depends on where you're at when you say you're a progressive. All that means is "for change", and what that means depends entirely on where you happen to be at the moment.
Seriously.
Every time one of these cases gets close to actually reaching a decision - the RIAA bails. Everyone knows why.
When is a judge going to know why and force the RIAA to lie in the bed they've made?
When will "making available" actually be tested to its conclusion in a court of law?
We all know why the RIAA doesn't want to - it's obviously bogus. I'm sure there are judges out there that know it too. Is there anything a judge can do to force the issue and demand the RIAA keep playing?
If it is essential that the threat to sue must be "in good faith" or else its extortion - isn't bailing every time you get near a decision a clear determinant of them not operating in good faith?
Can a judge do more than simply dismiss with prejudice?
You wouldn't even need that many.
Senate has 49 Democrats, and 2 Independents who caucus with the D's. That's 51 votes right there. You'd only need to get to 66 to make it.
You'd need 15.
Still wouldn't happen though.
And that's why he did it. A permanent record.
Yes, the impeachment is going nowhere. Even if Pelosi did go forward with it, a split Senate would never get the 2/3 majority to actually oust Bush.
But at least people in the future will be able to look at the record and know that we all weren't duped.
That's because God wrote their book, and faith is the exact opposite of skepticism.
In a way you have to admire people with faith. They want so badly to be good people that they're willing to even discount things their own eyes show them, because seeing these things would break their faith.
It's amazing, really.
That's why no argument can ever be enough. It would screw up their relationship with God. They're understandably grouchy when scientists come up with stuff like this. It requires another round of mental gymnastics to keep their faith in order. Each round getting harder and harder to do as science keeps raising the bar.
Find some microbes on Mars, for instance. Watch what happens next.
In your scenario, your management is the problem.
They can't do simple math. Unless you make less than $200 a week, that is. Then their decision would be acceptable because then they'd have a net savings.
Otherwise they are obstacle in your story, not FOSS.
A couple of problems with that.
First off, it's no big deal to snoop USB, which makes dongles pretty easy to crack.
You have to petition the USB folks so you get a unique vendor's ID, which is a pain. Plus, they are finite.
You'd have to get Microsoft to give you a digital certificate to make your dongle driver legit - also a pain. And you'd have to go through a driver installation just to load your software, more of a pain.
Finally, dongle bound software is just as crackable with a monitor. There has to be some code that goes out and checks the dongle, then returns "yes this is authorized" or "no let's not run". Just zap that bit and the dongle goes away.