Say you're at a fufu coffee place and you've downloaded what you wanted. You leave and the RIAA mp3 detector discovers pirated music on your hard drive. You can then be picked up by the massive RIAA Robocop and broken into fucking pieces as a deterrent to the other users.
OMFG this is the most awesome thing I have ever heard of. I WANT THIS LAW NOW.
Who the hell is this Torvalds character? Why the hell should we care what he has to say about Linux?
I swear, what's with these SCO articles with every Tom, Dick, and Nigel's opinion? What next, will we have Edna Graustein, of Kansas City MO's opinion on the validity of SCO's claims?
"They" don't begrudge Microsoft for being profit-minded. I'm not sure which "they" you are talking about, but "I" begrudge Microsoft for trying to control and manipulate their users and destroy competition even when they have near 100% marketshare.
You miss my point, but you prove it nonetheless. Try to walk into a corporate boardroom and convince a Fortune 100 company to buy into Free Software because "Microsoft tr[ies] to control and manipulate their users and destroy competition even when they have near 100% marketshare! Don't be a sharecropper!" They'll have security escort you out for being a paranoid whack-job. The same arguments have only a token level of success with John Q. Public.
On the other hand, if one has numbers that prove uptime is higher, TCO is lower, customers are happier - the boardroom will buy this. John Q. Public will buy this.
Basically, the whole "Microsoft is the root of all evil" shtick only appeals to a few people. If you want to appeal to the masses, talk value, not mudslinging.
The best thing for large scale adoption of Free Software is for this and other RMS/ESR sort of religious, philosophical propaganda to be buried where corporate manager types can't find it. The thing that these people don't understand is that, although the average bearded crypto-communist zealot may begrudge Microsoft et al. for being profit minded, other corporations don't.
If the arguments for Free Software revolve around price vs. performance, and how it will increase your corporations profit, then corporate managers are willing to tune in. I can't see this conversation happening in a board meeting: "We should convert all our major systems from Microsoft to Free alternatives because I just read on the Web the other day that 'we're nothing but sharecroppers!'"
This is a whole lot of blather from someone who doesn't even understand the law as it stands. The legislation having to do with copyright and the webcasting exemptions is written in very circuitous language so as to prohibit any system which is "interactive" in nature, i.e. allowing the user to make requests with the guarantee they will be played, or any system which announces a playlist in advance. In short, what this guy is proposing the RIAA lobbyists already foresaw, and explicitly disallowed in the legislation. Whether this is right or wrong is another debate, but this guy's belief that he has found some sort of legal loophole would have been completely torpedoed if he had bothered to read the relevant laws.
This whole article isn't much more relevant than an "RIAA SuXX0rS" geocities home page.
From what I've heard, slashdot has engaged in saber-rattling in the past with respect to http://alterslash.org, "The Unofficial Slashdot digest". At the very least, Malda would rather see it gone; I believe someone asked about it once in an IRC interview and he was very short about it. As a matter of fact, alterslash used to have a number of other features, which were probably disabled to various "anti-trolling" measures put into place on Slashdot. God forbid they should acknowledge or cooperate with a site that actually adds a dime worth of value to the Slashdot experience!
I think VA/OSDN/Slashdot would have to have some grapefruit-sized balls to try to pimp-slap anyone for appropriating "copyrighted" content. The only thing they actually create in terms of content are the pithy editorial sound bites and the occasional Slashback/Quickies. Somebody remember I said that when VA runs out of cash and decides to get sue-happy.
Perish the thought that there's anything hypocritical or biased about Slashdot staff! They remind me of the National Enquirer or the Sun; they'll let you know on the front page about the startling new evidence that the apocalypse is nigh, and on the inside back page there's ads for blessed power crystals and holy napkins to protect you from it!
The porn czars would really have to factor the cost of a huge render farm amortized over time.
I mean, they've got an endless supply of fresh faced young whores who'll let 30 guys fuck holes not even discovered yet and spit on them, and drink a gallon of jizm for maybe $500-$1000 a movie. If the hoe wants to make it in the industry, she pays for her own fake tits and brazilian waxes, etc. The profit margin is huge because they can film 10 of them a day and sell every copy for $50 to some sex deprived sticky fingered geek. Even better yet, put it on a website for $29.95 a month, and the geek can whack it as much as he wants.
I'm sure that there's some cost analysis going on there, for instance to determine that "even a hard core pud whacker can't use more than $X worth of bandwidth a day wrestling the purple headed bishop, and even if he goes over that he'll have to take a day off to recouperate, so the average turkey jerker uses $Y a month of bandwidth; if we make it difficult enough for him to cancel his account, for instance if he has to call an 800 number and ask to cancel his monthly subscription to DIRTY CUM DUMPSTER WHORES DOT COM in person, he'll probably keep his subscription until he cancels his credit card, which means our profits will go SKY HIGH!"
That being said, barring the emergence of an extremely low-cost photorealistic rendering farm that can generate cum loving whores faster than an L.A. casting couch, this would have to be a long term investment of capital by one of the leading corporations in the porn industry, with views on transforming the porn industry; for instance, being able to cater to combinations of fetishes and deviations not already provided for in the market (necro-sado-bestio-scata-philia?) There would have to be a proven profit potential for any sane person to consider this; in other words, people would either have to pay more or BUY MORE PORN.
It looks like a lot of the movies presaging future technologies are based on the works of Philip K. Dick. If that isn't a good reason to be mildly schizophrenic, hide out in your bungalow and eat LSD all day, I don't know what is!
Well if everybody believed that, it would almost be true, no? In matter of fact, you're 100% wrong. Congress basically has the right to tax us, regulate interstate commerce, regulate immigration, coin money, deliver mail, grant copyrights, raise an army, and a few other less interesting things. Outside of that, everything else belongs to the states. I'll just quote the relevant parts of the Constitution:
Article 1, Section 8: (powers delegated to Congress)
Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
To establish post offices and post roads;
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
To provide and maintain a navy;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;--And
To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.
10th Amendment:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
There is a clear maximum in the dielectric loss for water at a frequency of approximately 20GHz, the same point at which the dielectric constant ' goes through a point of inflexion as it decreases with increasing frequency. The 2.45GHz operating frequency of domestic ovens is selected to be some way from this maximum in order to limit the efficiency of the absorption. Too efficient absorption by the outer layers would inevitably lead to poor heating of the internal volume in large samples. This introduces the concept of skin depth or penetration depth, a subject which will be more fully discussed for conduction losses in Chapter 3, although the general principles discussed there apply to dielectric loss also.
Oh wait, the USPS isn't actually issuing the Certificate, just verifying the identity? Well, I'm sure it's still evil and Microsoft is probably behind all of it.
IANAGL, but I think the point is that a lot of free software has no corporate backing; e.g. the author's are just a bunch of random guys who you might or might not be able to track down or sue. This is the case where users have no recourse.
On the other hand, if your corporation writes some new piece of free software which is contributed to by the public, or which incorporates pre-existing free code, you might be liable for that code which you had no control over; e.g. if there are deliberate backdoors.
No doubt there's FUD involved, but that doesn't mean that there's a grain of truth.
Speaking as someone who just installed Knoppix and the Nvidia drivers you're full of it.
Just grab the GLX and Kernel [4363 is latest] tar.gz's. Unpack them, export IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=true. go into the Kernel directory, make, go into the GLX directory, make, go into/etc/X11, edit XF86CONFIG-4 [e.g. remove dri, etc.. replace nv with nvidia], add nvidia to your/etc/modules
now either reboot or isnmod nvidia and launch startx. Boom NVIDIA drivers.
WOW THAT'S SO SIMPLE I CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY ANYONE USES MICROSOFT
Did you know that there are no rocks on Uranus? It's actually just a big ball of gas. Although if we did probe Uranus deeply enough, we might find that it has a semi-metallic core of some sort.
Seriously, how do astrophysicists talk about the 7th planet from the Sun without giggling? It's just one ass joke after the other.
Slashdot Mirror
Um, yes, but if the bullet is going faster than the speed of sound, then the fuckers head will already be exploded by the time he hears it!!
I wonder if this will work if you're using Trillian.
Say you're at a fufu coffee place and you've downloaded what you wanted. You leave and the RIAA mp3 detector discovers pirated music on your hard drive. You can then be picked up by the massive RIAA Robocop and broken into fucking pieces as a deterrent to the other users.
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OMFG this is the most awesome thing I have ever heard of. I WANT THIS LAW NOW.
http://www.theonion.com/onion3204/killerrobotpoli
Red ink flows like a river of blood... another corpse turned over to the charnel house.
Anyone the ratio of Netscape to Internet Explorer posts on Slashdot?
Who the hell is this Torvalds character? Why the hell should we care what he has to say about Linux?
I swear, what's with these SCO articles with every Tom, Dick, and Nigel's opinion? What next, will we have Edna Graustein, of Kansas City MO's opinion on the validity of SCO's claims?
You might also enjoy John Carpenter's craptacular classic They Live! Also, Stanislaw Lem's The Futurological Conference .
A million LAMP sites doesn't make one useable Linux desktop.
"They" don't begrudge Microsoft for being profit-minded. I'm not sure which "they" you are talking about, but "I" begrudge Microsoft for trying to control and manipulate their users and destroy competition even when they have near 100% marketshare.
You miss my point, but you prove it nonetheless. Try to walk into a corporate boardroom and convince a Fortune 100 company to buy into Free Software because "Microsoft tr[ies] to control and manipulate their users and destroy competition even when they have near 100% marketshare! Don't be a sharecropper!" They'll have security escort you out for being a paranoid whack-job. The same arguments have only a token level of success with John Q. Public.
On the other hand, if one has numbers that prove uptime is higher, TCO is lower, customers are happier - the boardroom will buy this. John Q. Public will buy this.
Basically, the whole "Microsoft is the root of all evil" shtick only appeals to a few people. If you want to appeal to the masses, talk value, not mudslinging.
I Agree With This Post.
The best thing for large scale adoption of Free Software is for this and other RMS/ESR sort of religious, philosophical propaganda to be buried where corporate manager types can't find it. The thing that these people don't understand is that, although the average bearded crypto-communist zealot may begrudge Microsoft et al. for being profit minded, other corporations don't.
If the arguments for Free Software revolve around price vs. performance, and how it will increase your corporations profit, then corporate managers are willing to tune in. I can't see this conversation happening in a board meeting: "We should convert all our major systems from Microsoft to Free alternatives because I just read on the Web the other day that 'we're nothing but sharecroppers!'"
This is a whole lot of blather from someone who doesn't even understand the law as it stands. The legislation having to do with copyright and the webcasting exemptions is written in very circuitous language so as to prohibit any system which is "interactive" in nature, i.e. allowing the user to make requests with the guarantee they will be played, or any system which announces a playlist in advance. In short, what this guy is proposing the RIAA lobbyists already foresaw, and explicitly disallowed in the legislation. Whether this is right or wrong is another debate, but this guy's belief that he has found some sort of legal loophole would have been completely torpedoed if he had bothered to read the relevant laws.
This whole article isn't much more relevant than an "RIAA SuXX0rS" geocities home page.
I thought we decided that Sun was evil this week. Did I miss a memo?
From what I've heard, slashdot has engaged in saber-rattling in the past with respect to http://alterslash.org, "The Unofficial Slashdot digest". At the very least, Malda would rather see it gone; I believe someone asked about it once in an IRC interview and he was very short about it. As a matter of fact, alterslash used to have a number of other features, which were probably disabled to various "anti-trolling" measures put into place on Slashdot. God forbid they should acknowledge or cooperate with a site that actually adds a dime worth of value to the Slashdot experience!
I think VA/OSDN/Slashdot would have to have some grapefruit-sized balls to try to pimp-slap anyone for appropriating "copyrighted" content. The only thing they actually create in terms of content are the pithy editorial sound bites and the occasional Slashback/Quickies. Somebody remember I said that when VA runs out of cash and decides to get sue-happy.
Perish the thought that there's anything hypocritical or biased about Slashdot staff! They remind me of the National Enquirer or the Sun; they'll let you know on the front page about the startling new evidence that the apocalypse is nigh, and on the inside back page there's ads for blessed power crystals and holy napkins to protect you from it!
The porn czars would really have to factor the cost of a huge render farm amortized over time.
I mean, they've got an endless supply of fresh faced young whores who'll let 30 guys fuck holes not even discovered yet and spit on them, and drink a gallon of jizm for maybe $500-$1000 a movie. If the hoe wants to make it in the industry, she pays for her own fake tits and brazilian waxes, etc. The profit margin is huge because they can film 10 of them a day and sell every copy for $50 to some sex deprived sticky fingered geek. Even better yet, put it on a website for $29.95 a month, and the geek can whack it as much as he wants.
I'm sure that there's some cost analysis going on there, for instance to determine that "even a hard core pud whacker can't use more than $X worth of bandwidth a day wrestling the purple headed bishop, and even if he goes over that he'll have to take a day off to recouperate, so the average turkey jerker uses $Y a month of bandwidth; if we make it difficult enough for him to cancel his account, for instance if he has to call an 800 number and ask to cancel his monthly subscription to DIRTY CUM DUMPSTER WHORES DOT COM in person, he'll probably keep his subscription until he cancels his credit card, which means our profits will go SKY HIGH!"
That being said, barring the emergence of an extremely low-cost photorealistic rendering farm that can generate cum loving whores faster than an L.A. casting couch, this would have to be a long term investment of capital by one of the leading corporations in the porn industry, with views on transforming the porn industry; for instance, being able to cater to combinations of fetishes and deviations not already provided for in the market (necro-sado-bestio-scata-philia?) There would have to be a proven profit potential for any sane person to consider this; in other words, people would either have to pay more or BUY MORE PORN.
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?
Still, I'd like to see CGI advance to the point where it is totally impossible to see an visual difference from reality...
Apparently you haven't seen video of the Half-Life 2 demos. I'd give you a link, but I found it on P2P myself...
DING DING DING!!! Give the man a cigar.
It looks like a lot of the movies presaging future technologies are based on the works of Philip K. Dick. If that isn't a good reason to be mildly schizophrenic, hide out in your bungalow and eat LSD all day, I don't know what is!
Well if everybody believed that, it would almost be true, no? In matter of fact, you're 100% wrong. Congress basically has the right to tax us, regulate interstate commerce, regulate immigration, coin money, deliver mail, grant copyrights, raise an army, and a few other less interesting things. Outside of that, everything else belongs to the states. I'll just quote the relevant parts of the Constitution:
Article 1, Section 8: (powers delegated to Congress)
Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
To establish post offices and post roads;
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
To provide and maintain a navy;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;--And
To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.
10th Amendment:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
From the page in question:
There is a clear maximum in the dielectric loss for water at a frequency of approximately 20GHz, the same point at which the dielectric constant ' goes through a point of inflexion as it decreases with increasing frequency. The 2.45GHz operating frequency of domestic ovens is selected to be some way from this maximum in order to limit the efficiency of the absorption. Too efficient absorption by the outer layers would inevitably lead to poor heating of the internal volume in large samples. This introduces the concept of skin depth or penetration depth, a subject which will be more fully discussed for conduction losses in Chapter 3, although the general principles discussed there apply to dielectric loss also.
Oh wait, the USPS isn't actually issuing the Certificate, just verifying the identity? Well, I'm sure it's still evil and Microsoft is probably behind all of it.
Insert obligatory "the government wants to track you down/harvest your organs/make you a slave of corporate America" conspiracy theory here.
How much longer until we have to have bags of rocks tied around our necks and blinders on our eyes like in Harrison Bergeron?
IANAGL, but I think the point is that a lot of free software has no corporate backing; e.g. the author's are just a bunch of random guys who you might or might not be able to track down or sue. This is the case where users have no recourse.
On the other hand, if your corporation writes some new piece of free software which is contributed to by the public, or which incorporates pre-existing free code, you might be liable for that code which you had no control over; e.g. if there are deliberate backdoors.
No doubt there's FUD involved, but that doesn't mean that there's a grain of truth.
Speaking as someone who just installed Knoppix and the Nvidia drivers you're full of it.
/etc/X11, edit XF86CONFIG-4 [e.g. remove dri, etc.. replace nv with nvidia], add nvidia to your /etc/modules
Just grab the GLX and Kernel [4363 is latest] tar.gz's. Unpack them, export IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=true. go into the Kernel directory, make, go into the GLX directory, make, go into
now either reboot or isnmod nvidia and launch startx. Boom NVIDIA drivers.
WOW THAT'S SO SIMPLE I CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY ANYONE USES MICROSOFT
- Asking a question on IRC and being told to RTFM
- Posting to a newsgroup and being told to RTFM
- Writing an email and being told to RTFM
- Posting to Slashdot and being told to RTFM
Did I miss any?Did you know that there are no rocks on Uranus? It's actually just a big ball of gas. Although if we did probe Uranus deeply enough, we might find that it has a semi-metallic core of some sort.
Seriously, how do astrophysicists talk about the 7th planet from the Sun without giggling? It's just one ass joke after the other.