Circumvention is nothing other than an action for preparing a crime (copyright theft) and therefore should be banned. I know no country on this earth which allows the preparation of crimes, in Europe they throw you directly in prison for that. I'm surprised that this is different in the US.
And when you say that the offenders didn't do the original crime yet then you must also demand that terrorists are only captured after they blown up something and not before their crime. From a legal point of view it's all the same.
You might laugh now about this patent, but I work in Operations Research and such data is vitally important for many businesses.
The required number and size of the stalls must determinded a priori and well-timed refill of toilet paper is extremely important from a logistics/cost point of view. Makashura and Miller have proven this optimizing problem NP-hard and the IBM patent contains an appromation algorithm with a garantueed maximum error of 1/5 of the original cost which is very good. If the PR deparment of IBM wouldn't be so stupid the would make BIG bucks with this patent.
It seems that they make the same error here which they made with the personal computer: letting things go without enough patent coverage, giving the rise to power competitors like Microsoft or Compaq. Not very clever.
Nonsense. There is no death penalty in any state of the European Union. We are civilized people here.
That's a reason why the US can't join the European Union.
Come on, FreeBSD is due to its high techonogical advantages superior to all other operating systems. Take examples like first working IPv6 support, first crash-resistant, high-performance file system (via softupdates), first genuine kernel multithreading support, first compact kernel instead of the obsolete (monolitic kernel and microkernel architectures)... the list is endless. And it has the free, creativity and innovation encouraging BSD licenses unlike other systems with naziesque license shemes.
I wonder why companies are still using their old, obsolete, incompatible stuff instead of such an superior system. I seems like engineering departments with brains cut out.
This is just another lie the goverment pushes out to have nice physical backdoors to spy at us all !!!
And a quantum link any 3rd party can couple a 2nd quatum link to the primary. This is not noted because this is no measurement. When the receiver makes his measurement the waveform collases and collaspes the 2nd link, too !!! Due to coupling the 3rd party can automatically read out the information on the 1st link then and even knows the time of the measurement event. Sorry, I can't call a system with such a huge flaw secure in any way !!!
It's much better to use real encryption which cannot decoded by physicla tricks.
Coding an linux interface for cheap entertainment gadget which is produced by a company which is well known for their insecure future perspectives ?
I mean you don't know how long these things are supported or produced anyway. Perhaps only somes years or so.
Won't it be better to code much more useful stuff like education applications or scientific libraries ? Educational software especially might be much better, important people like Al Lowe started their career with this. Or coding libraries for FEM methods is very much entertaining, too, and of course much more useful. All numerics stuff is just Fortran these days, so there is still much work to do.
Or you could code simulations of gravity wells like black holes using Wolframs new amazing cellular automata.
But instead these guy waste their time with such not very useful music player things.
People buying computers like this for so much money are helping are starving industry and help to get over this stupid recession !
If you are a patriot american you should buy one, if you are non-american you should buy one nevertheless.
A strong economy is good for everyone and makes much jobs and very much wealth.
Is it ok do log an IRC talk and put the log up on the internet ?
IRC is a semi-private communication platform and I wonder if this doesn't violate the EU privacy laws (not the US ones because there are no US privacy laws).
Personally, I wouldn't like people putting up on the web all the stupid questions I ask on IRC.
I think this is not very clever.
If the last extension is ruled unconstitutional by the surpreme court, then this will mean that all copyrights on Disneys works are voided. Prepare the be flooded by cheap Micky Mouse imitations from China and the death of another acient american company due to laywers carrying their head in their rectum.
I would accept any copyright extensions if they serve to protect Micky Mouse and Goofy.
All these examples where the standard theory failed showed the basic flaws of the evolution theory. Now they bring up a extremely complicated theory to get the "standard theory" right. Ironically it contradicts itself the evolutionary theory by such plants and animals with "hidden genes" are more prone to get gene-defect diseases like cancer etc. So that's basically a huge evolutionary drawback which should have eliminated by evolution.
Sorry pals. The standard evolution theory by Darwin is basically flawed. I'm not one of these air-heads who doubt carbon dating etc. But we have record in all older human of a superior alien power interfering which life on this planet. Why should this be in fact wrong ? The acients surely saw something and misinterpreted it, without having much knowledge about the world. However humans are not cracked up such much as they seem to be so it's very unlikely that this is all made up.
You guy defending the evolution theory so keenly are in fact a new kind of religious zealot - you just replaced the trinity with natural sciences.
I wonder when the first fires will burn and the whitchhunts start.
are responsible if the US looses its huge technological advantage over second world countries like the EU or China or Russia.
With this amazing new technology we would be able to do tousnds of new and exciting thing with our television. But the eco-heads like you block this because of bogus "use-restriction"-claims which fall into the very same line like the electro smog claims for mobile phones.
The results ?
The EU, Japan and soon China, too, are ahead of the US with their high quality GSM system for mobile communications and will switch over to the extremely powerful UMTS asap. We have already lost this competition, all important mobile phone technology leaders being non-american.
And because of such stupid argumentation we will loose our lead of entertainment, too.
What will be next ? With more and more technology draining from the US we'll drop below countries like the EU states, China or Russia. Countries which definitely don't care about international problems and the mind-stunning threat of internation terrorism. The world will be a mess and it will be because of whiners like you destroying the worldwide US surpremancy.
Sorry, this is quite a rant but the crashing towers always come in mind when hearing such silly whining about the US industry.
The argument being made that users aren't cheap skates, they will pay for good software.
You mean like these guys who posted serial numbers for the Linux version of Opera here at Slashdot ?
(at an Opera article some months ago)
And like these people who would rather download distro iso instead of buying a full distribution ?
And like these people who would use OpenOffice because it's for free instead of paying a very moderate price for SunOffice ?
There main arguments has in fact already proven wrong: Open Source users are unfortunately often cheap skates.
This "stripped-down" argument is just a bad excuse for warezed Windows programs.
why I don't own a credit card.
The numbers get stolen all the time and abused and they charge you for things you haven't bought like expensive cars, tall buildings and anti-tank missiles. And then you get into trouble.
The other reason why I don't own such a silly credit card is only known to the credit card companies, which won't tell me.
Mad islamist madmen might use these for attacks with biological weapons.
You can block roads for cars but not the air for these buggers.
It would be better if everyone says on the ground.
I mean if we were meant to fly, why we haven't gotten wings then ?
And the result will be Bin Laden laughing in an afghanistan cave somewhere.
If it's at WLAN level then goodbye.
Just wait a little and some shithead scriptkiddie prints 2000 black pages on your printer.
And if there is security all this stuff won't some cheaply.
Some people even say that he is the Princess of Wales (usual case of double life) and all this stuff with the tunnel in Paris was just because he wanted to have more time for incorperating kernel patches. Wasn't this "accident" even around time Alan Cox wanted to take over kernel maintaining from Linus ? And that's also the reason why this tunnel-picture which surfaced on the web won't be printed in any newspaper. It's said that he had forgotten this time to take his fake beard off.
Do these IM clients sufficiently encrypt their data stream (at let's say 3DES strength) ?
Otherwise they ain't suitable for non hobbyist use.
And personally I won't use them in this case for personal chat. Not everybody should know what I'm saying to my girlfriend.
contract-based programming and all relatives.
This in fact enables you dismiss all tests.
Remember: the key to successful programming is not to find all error but not to make in first place.
I personally understand people who use Macs a desktop computers/workstations. At least not everyone has that thight grip at technology and therefore it better for some people to use easy-to-use computers.
But why use them as servers ?
Admins should have a clue how to use computers and therefore shouldn't be dependable on easy-to-use interfaces.
Standard server system are much cheaper even with the obligatory redundancy stuff.
Sorry, but I don't see the points for Macs.
aren't usually very successful. Very often it's only hype and FUD.
The failure of BSD is the best example.
Superior license (not blocking use for embedded devices), superior IP stack (why else is everyone ripping it off) with full functional IP6 support,
superior kernel structure (that's why MAC OS X adopted it and not lunix), better file system, better performance...the list is virtually endless.
And where are we know ?
The OS world is ruled by bug-ridden Windows and hobbyist Linux with their very own design flaws (security, no microkernel etc.). And *BSD, this high quality, scientific system is obviously dead.
There is some support out there but these groups are all dying in the long term.
Sad but true.
Sometimes I think if this Darwin "survival of the fittest" stuff is nothing but a huge scam. At least Darwins theses would imply that *BSD would in fact dominate the OS market, right ?
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Circumvention is nothing other than an action for preparing a crime (copyright theft) and therefore should be banned. I know no country on this earth which allows the preparation of crimes, in Europe they throw you directly in prison for that. I'm surprised that this is different in the US.
And when you say that the offenders didn't do the original crime yet then you must also demand that terrorists are only captured after they blown up something and not before their crime. From a legal point of view it's all the same.
You might laugh now about this patent, but I work in Operations Research and such data is vitally important for many businesses. The required number and size of the stalls must determinded a priori and well-timed refill of toilet paper is extremely important from a logistics/cost point of view. Makashura and Miller have proven this optimizing problem NP-hard and the IBM patent contains an appromation algorithm with a garantueed maximum error of 1/5 of the original cost which is very good. If the PR deparment of IBM wouldn't be so stupid the would make BIG bucks with this patent.
It seems that they make the same error here which they made with the personal computer: letting things go without enough patent coverage, giving the rise to power competitors like Microsoft or Compaq. Not very clever.
Theo thinks that things can be secure only if he can understand them ?
Nonsense. There is no death penalty in any state of the European Union. We are civilized people here. That's a reason why the US can't join the European Union.
Come on, FreeBSD is due to its high techonogical advantages superior to all other operating systems. Take examples like first working IPv6 support, first crash-resistant, high-performance file system (via softupdates), first genuine kernel multithreading support, first compact kernel instead of the obsolete (monolitic kernel and microkernel architectures) ... the list is endless. And it has the free, creativity and innovation encouraging BSD licenses unlike other systems with naziesque license shemes.
I wonder why companies are still using their old, obsolete, incompatible stuff instead of such an superior system. I seems like engineering departments with brains cut out.
This is just another lie the goverment pushes out to have nice physical backdoors to spy at us all !!!
And a quantum link any 3rd party can couple a 2nd quatum link to the primary. This is not noted because this is no measurement. When the receiver makes his measurement the waveform collases and collaspes the 2nd link, too !!! Due to coupling the 3rd party can automatically read out the information on the 1st link then and even knows the time of the measurement event. Sorry, I can't call a system with such a huge flaw secure in any way !!!
It's much better to use real encryption which cannot decoded by physicla tricks.
Coding an linux interface for cheap entertainment gadget which is produced by a company which is well known for their insecure future perspectives ?
I mean you don't know how long these things are supported or produced anyway. Perhaps only somes years or so.
Won't it be better to code much more useful stuff like education applications or scientific libraries ? Educational software especially might be much better, important people like Al Lowe started their career with this. Or coding libraries for FEM methods is very much entertaining, too, and of course much more useful. All numerics stuff is just Fortran these days, so there is still much work to do. Or you could code simulations of gravity wells like black holes using Wolframs new amazing cellular automata.
But instead these guy waste their time with such not very useful music player things.
People buying computers like this for so much money are helping are starving industry and help to get over this stupid recession !
If you are a patriot american you should buy one, if you are non-american you should buy one nevertheless.
A strong economy is good for everyone and makes much jobs and very much wealth.
Is it ok do log an IRC talk and put the log up on the internet ?
IRC is a semi-private communication platform and I wonder if this doesn't violate the EU privacy laws (not the US ones because there are no US privacy laws).
Personally, I wouldn't like people putting up on the web all the stupid questions I ask on IRC.
If you put a disabled person into an high resolution NMR you can let him control robotics devices so that he can walk around.
I think this is not very clever.
If the last extension is ruled unconstitutional by the surpreme court, then this will mean that all copyrights on Disneys works are voided. Prepare the be flooded by cheap Micky Mouse imitations from China and the death of another acient american company due to laywers carrying their head in their rectum.
I would accept any copyright extensions if they serve to protect Micky Mouse and Goofy.
Why not GNU television ?
All these examples where the standard theory failed showed the basic flaws of the evolution theory. Now they bring up a extremely complicated theory to get the "standard theory" right. Ironically it contradicts itself the evolutionary theory by such plants and animals with "hidden genes" are more prone to get gene-defect diseases like cancer etc. So that's basically a huge evolutionary drawback which should have eliminated by evolution.
Sorry pals. The standard evolution theory by Darwin is basically flawed. I'm not one of these air-heads who doubt carbon dating etc. But we have record in all older human of a superior alien power interfering which life on this planet. Why should this be in fact wrong ? The acients surely saw something and misinterpreted it, without having much knowledge about the world. However humans are not cracked up such much as they seem to be so it's very unlikely that this is all made up.
You guy defending the evolution theory so keenly are in fact a new kind of religious zealot - you just replaced the trinity with natural sciences.
I wonder when the first fires will burn and the whitchhunts start.
The results ?
The EU, Japan and soon China, too, are ahead of the US with their high quality GSM system for mobile communications and will switch over to the extremely powerful UMTS asap. We have already lost this competition, all important mobile phone technology leaders being non-american.
And because of such stupid argumentation we will loose our lead of entertainment, too.
What will be next ? With more and more technology draining from the US we'll drop below countries like the EU states, China or Russia. Countries which definitely don't care about international problems and the mind-stunning threat of internation terrorism. The world will be a mess and it will be because of whiners like you destroying the worldwide US surpremancy.
Sorry, this is quite a rant but the crashing towers always come in mind when hearing such silly whining about the US industry.
You mean like these guys who posted serial numbers for the Linux version of Opera here at Slashdot ? (at an Opera article some months ago)
And like these people who would rather download distro iso instead of buying a full distribution ?
And like these people who would use OpenOffice because it's for free instead of paying a very moderate price for SunOffice ?
There main arguments has in fact already proven wrong: Open Source users are unfortunately often cheap skates.
This "stripped-down" argument is just a bad excuse for warezed Windows programs.
why I don't own a credit card.
The numbers get stolen all the time and abused and they charge you for things you haven't bought like expensive cars, tall buildings and anti-tank missiles. And then you get into trouble.
The other reason why I don't own such a silly credit card is only known to the credit card companies, which won't tell me.
Mad islamist madmen might use these for attacks with biological weapons.
You can block roads for cars but not the air for these buggers.
It would be better if everyone says on the ground.
I mean if we were meant to fly, why we haven't gotten wings then ?
And the result will be Bin Laden laughing in an afghanistan cave somewhere.
If it's at WLAN level then goodbye.
Just wait a little and some shithead scriptkiddie prints 2000 black pages on your printer.
And if there is security all this stuff won't some cheaply.
Some people even say that he is the Princess of Wales (usual case of double life) and all this stuff with the tunnel in Paris was just because he wanted to have more time for incorperating kernel patches. Wasn't this "accident" even around time Alan Cox wanted to take over kernel maintaining from Linus ? And that's also the reason why this tunnel-picture which surfaced on the web won't be printed in any newspaper. It's said that he had forgotten this time to take his fake beard off.
Do these IM clients sufficiently encrypt their data stream (at let's say 3DES strength) ?
Otherwise they ain't suitable for non hobbyist use.
And personally I won't use them in this case for personal chat. Not everybody should know what I'm saying to my girlfriend.
contract-based programming and all relatives.
This in fact enables you dismiss all tests.
Remember: the key to successful programming is not to find all error but not to make in first place.
They should only give access to a list of accredited sites. And block all others.
Otherwise they would be fooled endlessly by such simple tricks.
I personally understand people who use Macs a desktop computers/workstations. At least not everyone has that thight grip at technology and therefore it better for some people to use easy-to-use computers.
But why use them as servers ?
Admins should have a clue how to use computers and therefore shouldn't be dependable on easy-to-use interfaces.
Standard server system are much cheaper even with the obligatory redundancy stuff.
Sorry, but I don't see the points for Macs.
aren't usually very successful. Very often it's only hype and FUD. ...the list is virtually endless.
The failure of BSD is the best example.
Superior license (not blocking use for embedded devices), superior IP stack (why else is everyone ripping it off) with full functional IP6 support, superior kernel structure (that's why MAC OS X adopted it and not lunix), better file system, better performance
And where are we know ?
The OS world is ruled by bug-ridden Windows and hobbyist Linux with their very own design flaws (security, no microkernel etc.). And *BSD, this high quality, scientific system is obviously dead.
There is some support out there but these groups are all dying in the long term.
Sad but true.
Sometimes I think if this Darwin "survival of the fittest" stuff is nothing but a huge scam. At least Darwins theses would imply that *BSD would in fact dominate the OS market, right ?
The goverment and hackers might use these lines to spy at you all the time.