it's a legitimate PO Box and phone number, but you'd be hard pressed to get me on that phone. it's my internet line. Any legal dispute can be initiated through the post, so that's not a concern.
you make it sound as if only liberals hate diamonds. My wife's very conservative, yet doesn't like diamonds at all. Or gold, for that matter...prefers silver.
What is it about microsoft articles that cause the average IQ to plummet around here?
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that taking anything Microsoft says for its face value is like taking what a congressman says about campaign contributions at face value.
I do believe he was referring to "if SCO wins on that claim that the GPL is invalid". At that point, the best thing Linus can do is a huge, lashing strike at SCO of their own doing. Poetic justice, if you ask me.
yes, yes it is. The more people who have to come into their waiting room with laptops and wireless NICs, the fewer people who complain about the wait. Mission accomplished.
like blacksmithing or something. Copyright is to advance the useful arts and sciences, not to pay you for photos you took 40 years ago. Just because economic conditions are fouled up against your favor doesn't make you any more entitled than Jimmy Factory Worker who takes photos in his spare time. Archive scouring is not the purpose of copyright.
Not a single poll I've ever seen on the subject shows the public feels that copying "intellectual property" (a severe misnomer) should be illegal. Why? Perhaps because our society doesn't think it makes sense. Does it? No. Does that suck for people who "own" the information? Only the ones who do it strictly for profit. Think about it...Say you buy a magazine, and want to show your friend an article out of it. You scan it, and send it to him becausae he lives in New York and you live in Arizona. No different than showing it to your friend who lives down the road a few miles. But one's a crime and the other isn't. It's not merely a lack of caring about copyright, it's about breaking down unnatural (and even natural, in the case of distance) walls.
For me, services like Kazaa and Morpheus represent a new global public library, the only difference being that you don't have to return the items. Granted, I don't use the services myself due to being on dialup and due to not wanting to be sued, but I consider the suppression of information dispersal technology to be a far greater crime than whatever presumptuous "lost sales" (I have a lot of theories on that, but that's for another time) the creator of the information or the information's new overlord ("copyright holder") allegedly may have not recieved.
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You forgot a few categories.
1. Corporations for fleets (i.e. Haliburton uses them due to durability) 2. Fire/Civil Air Patrol Emergency Services/other governmental departments (or a volunteer firefighter like myself who doesn't want to own a truck, like myself) 3. Police officers (yes, some buy retired Police Interceptors for personal vehicles)
Saying that all Crown Vic owners are rapists is like saying all people who have muscle cars have small penises. Wait, that may be true. I don't want to track someone down who has a muscle car and check.
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I'm with ya, buddy. When I first went searching for my current car (1998 Crown Victoria Police Interceptor), I found it, but found that they didn't even make the model with a stickshift. While I understand this makes sense since the police's hands are often busy with equipment, the civilian model is also unavailable as a standard. Another problem is the interior. Sure, the exterior is standard whilte. But interior is a special colour that the parts department called "Law Enforcement Blue" and took 6 months to get floor mats. 6 months! Nevermind if you want to get a spotlight on a street appearance package crown victoria police interceptor, or if you want the CNG-powered version with spotlights...I don't understand the exclusivity of packages being combined with other packages at all.
Did anyone else notice that they equated scanning to cracking? While I know that's certainly one of the possible preludes to attacks, it's certainly not a definite. I've used scanners quite legitimately more than once (checking what was visible from outside a firewall for my father in law, and testing to see if a non-responding server that I myself was responsible for even had its services running, despite it not being at my present locality). The internet was built to be open initially, and while it's understandable that it now needs security, people need to realize there's more to the internet than ports 80 and 6667, (plus those ones that most users don't ever see, like their port 25 services or port , ). There is far more to networking than HTTP, and the internet is a network.
It's getting to where knowledge is a crime, and while I feel it would be prudent to learn more and more about computer security, I fear that merely knowing it might make me liable to be wrongly prosecuted. There's just come to be so many legal barriers or poltergeists that it just carries too great of risks for the curious to enter the field.
Why would they want to make a worm that runs on multiple systems? If they did that, they might get hit when they run a different operating system, or perhaps they feel like not being a dick to people who run what they consider in their elitism to be superior to Windows (not saying I agree or disagree that Linux, BSD, Unix, OSX, and so on are better, just that it may be a purely political or philosophical reason).
so in other words, I should sue my auto insurance company for charging me a higher rate for being under 25? sorry, if they're gonna screw me for being under 25 they should be able to do the same to people over 55
Companies like SBC and Verizon had no idea they'd have to deal with this when the laws were past, just as a man who breaks his collarbone has no idea how much it's going to affect his walking till it happens. I know of someone had told me before it happened that when I got my collarbone broken it would hurt a lot to walk till i had a brace thingie on it, I would have thought they were crazy. Same goes for the DMCA. Why would it be a problem for the telecoms? Until it happens, that is.
Now on the other hand, when I did break my collarbone, I recall getting up off the ground and saying something to the extent of "Holy fuck this hurts!" every time I took a step. I'm sure something similar is what the telecoms see when they are served a thick stack of papers by the RIAA, only it's going to hurt in the pocketbook, not the shoulder. It's not just the objective of the law, but the position of the damage.
Windows is the leader in market, Linux is the leader in cost-effectiveness and actual work-related statistics. Only when you compare apples to oranges like this do any of Linux's "problems" mean a thing.
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exactly. po boxes are fine, and any legal proceeding can be initiated through the post.
if i had steady work i'd do that, but i'm an out of work contractor
it's a legitimate PO Box and phone number, but you'd be hard pressed to get me on that phone. it's my internet line. Any legal dispute can be initiated through the post, so that's not a concern.
that, my friends, is why I have a PO Box and why I don't volunteer my real phone number.
Wait... you mean that you'd marry a girl like that?
I know I sure wouldn't.
you make it sound as if only liberals hate diamonds. My wife's very conservative, yet doesn't like diamonds at all. Or gold, for that matter...prefers silver.
What is it about microsoft articles that cause the average IQ to plummet around here?
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that taking anything Microsoft says for its face value is like taking what a congressman says about campaign contributions at face value.
hear, hear!
I do believe he was referring to "if SCO wins on that claim that the GPL is invalid". At that point, the best thing Linus can do is a huge, lashing strike at SCO of their own doing. Poetic justice, if you ask me.
You also forget some details.
1: greenland isn't likely to stay as icy if the north pole doesn't.
2: northern canada
3: alaska
4: siberia
5: scandinavia
I'll stop there but you get the picture.
I'm a firefighter. All that stuff is legit. And for your information, the spotlight came with the car. I am friends with the local police anyhow.
yes, yes it is. The more people who have to come into their waiting room with laptops and wireless NICs, the fewer people who complain about the wait. Mission accomplished.
a new article at Netcraft has announced that upon Sco's retarded announcement, BSD usage has risen a hundredfold! /end semi-troll
like blacksmithing or something. Copyright is to advance the useful arts and sciences, not to pay you for photos you took 40 years ago. Just because economic conditions are fouled up against your favor doesn't make you any more entitled than Jimmy Factory Worker who takes photos in his spare time. Archive scouring is not the purpose of copyright.
Not a single poll I've ever seen on the subject shows the public feels that copying "intellectual property" (a severe misnomer) should be illegal. Why? Perhaps because our society doesn't think it makes sense. Does it? No. Does that suck for people who "own" the information? Only the ones who do it strictly for profit. Think about it...Say you buy a magazine, and want to show your friend an article out of it. You scan it, and send it to him becausae he lives in New York and you live in Arizona. No different than showing it to your friend who lives down the road a few miles. But one's a crime and the other isn't. It's not merely a lack of caring about copyright, it's about breaking down unnatural (and even natural, in the case of distance) walls.
For me, services like Kazaa and Morpheus represent a new global public library, the only difference being that you don't have to return the items. Granted, I don't use the services myself due to being on dialup and due to not wanting to be sued, but I consider the suppression of information dispersal technology to be a far greater crime than whatever presumptuous "lost sales" (I have a lot of theories on that, but that's for another time) the creator of the information or the information's new overlord ("copyright holder") allegedly may have not recieved.
You forgot a few categories.
1. Corporations for fleets (i.e. Haliburton uses them due to durability)
2. Fire/Civil Air Patrol Emergency Services/other governmental departments (or a volunteer firefighter like myself who doesn't want to own a truck, like myself)
3. Police officers (yes, some buy retired Police Interceptors for personal vehicles)
Saying that all Crown Vic owners are rapists is like saying all people who have muscle cars have small penises. Wait, that may be true. I don't want to track someone down who has a muscle car and check.
I'm with ya, buddy. When I first went searching for my current car (1998 Crown Victoria Police Interceptor), I found it, but found that they didn't even make the model with a stickshift. While I understand this makes sense since the police's hands are often busy with equipment, the civilian model is also unavailable as a standard. Another problem is the interior. Sure, the exterior is standard whilte. But interior is a special colour that the parts department called "Law Enforcement Blue" and took 6 months to get floor mats. 6 months! Nevermind if you want to get a spotlight on a street appearance package crown victoria police interceptor, or if you want the CNG-powered version with spotlights...I don't understand the exclusivity of packages being combined with other packages at all.
Did anyone else notice that they equated scanning to cracking? While I know that's certainly one of the possible preludes to attacks, it's certainly not a definite. I've used scanners quite legitimately more than once (checking what was visible from outside a firewall for my father in law, and testing to see if a non-responding server that I myself was responsible for even had its services running, despite it not being at my present locality). The internet was built to be open initially, and while it's understandable that it now needs security, people need to realize there's more to the internet than ports 80 and 6667, (plus those ones that most users don't ever see, like their port 25 services or port , ). There is far more to networking than HTTP, and the internet is a network.
It's getting to where knowledge is a crime, and while I feel it would be prudent to learn more and more about computer security, I fear that merely knowing it might make me liable to be wrongly prosecuted. There's just come to be so many legal barriers or poltergeists that it just carries too great of risks for the curious to enter the field.
Why would they want to make a worm that runs on multiple systems? If they did that, they might get hit when they run a different operating system, or perhaps they feel like not being a dick to people who run what they consider in their elitism to be superior to Windows (not saying I agree or disagree that Linux, BSD, Unix, OSX, and so on are better, just that it may be a purely political or philosophical reason).
the point is it's a pain in the ass to re-image every workstation. With BSD it's way easier/less likely to be needed.
so in other words, I should sue my auto insurance company for charging me a higher rate for being under 25? sorry, if they're gonna screw me for being under 25 they should be able to do the same to people over 55
Companies like SBC and Verizon had no idea they'd have to deal with this when the laws were past, just as a man who breaks his collarbone has no idea how much it's going to affect his walking till it happens. I know of someone had told me before it happened that when I got my collarbone broken it would hurt a lot to walk till i had a brace thingie on it, I would have thought they were crazy. Same goes for the DMCA. Why would it be a problem for the telecoms? Until it happens, that is.
Now on the other hand, when I did break my collarbone, I recall getting up off the ground and saying something to the extent of "Holy fuck this hurts!" every time I took a step. I'm sure something similar is what the telecoms see when they are served a thick stack of papers by the RIAA, only it's going to hurt in the pocketbook, not the shoulder. It's not just the objective of the law, but the position of the damage.
Try getting an off-lease IBM Thinkpad that doesn't come with Windows in good shape.
three, sir
Three!
Windows is the leader in market, Linux is the leader in cost-effectiveness and actual work-related statistics. Only when you compare apples to oranges like this do any of Linux's "problems" mean a thing.