Yup. That's the only thing P2P is good for: downloading copyrighted files. Certainly no one like me would use it to share GPLed software.
Why would you not use an ordinary webserver to distribute GPL'd software? Then people can find it from Google and download it with a normal web-browser (instead of having to run P2P software).
Re:SCO.TXT w/ English trans
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SCO Roundup
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Do you know what "6X7liA1zmJhyA" means? I have a Czech dictionary, but I douldn't find that word in there.
"I will not buy this tobacconist, it is scratched."
You say SPEWS should only block the spammer's IP address and not yours. Then what incentive does your ISP have to not to play whack-a-mole? (i.e as soon as a spammer js blocked, the ISP just hands them another unused addy in your neighborhood. And another, and another. Maybe swap your address with theirs, too).
At what point shouldn't SPEWS just say screw it, block the whole class C (instead of waiting for the next one to popup)?
The first six animated cartoons that Walt Disney were public-domain fairytales such as "Little Red Riding-Hood" and "Puss in Boots". [Note that if life+70 copyright terms had been in place in 1922, these stories would not have been public-domain and Walt could not have legally used them.]. They weren't much of a success, and his "Laugh-O-Gram" animation studio went bankrupt at the end of the year.
His first real success was "Alice's Wonderland", featuring a live actress plus animated cartoon characters. [ Again, note that under modern copyright law, Lewis Carroll would've held copyright to the Alice stories until 1968, too late for Walt to ever use them. ] He produced 60 more "Alice" comedies by 1927.
Next, he produced a series of 26 "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit" cartoons. Ironically, he lost the copyrights to Oswald, and so was forced to change him to "Mortimer Mouse", then "Mickey Mouse".
If Hilary Rosen did not make the policy, who did? Which particular people should we know about who are pulling the strings?
The stockholders (possibly including your relatives and even you, if y'all have any money invested in mutual funds). Most of them are over 40, don't know or care what a "P2P" is, and don't want to lose what's left of their retirement investments just so college students can download songs for free.
Good luck convincing them that the RIAA needs to die or radically change...
Just had a thought. They could make CDs and DVDs out of "corn plastic" (see recent story).
Good idea: after you've used up the single-play rights, they'd make a delicious snack!
And now every movie and album could be available in multiple tasty flavors. Hah, P2P pirates! Maybe you can download the songs, but you can't download them in teriyaki or cheddar...
16 khz flyback noise -- violence ?
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Bizarre thought: what if it's not the programming, but the recent introduction of TV sets themselves?
The flyback transformers in cheap TV sets tend to make a very high-pitched whine (around 15.75 khz). Most adults cannot hear this frequency, especially if they have become deaf to it from a lifetime of TV exposure. Those who/can/ still hear it find it extremely irritating [1].
So, if you take an entire country of adults who've retained the ability to hear above 15 khz, and now expose them to constant loud subliminal noise from cheap imported TV sets, it might very well stress people out and cause violence and bad behavior even if they only showed innocuous programming.
[1] Just search Google Groups for "flyback transformer"
+ words like irritating, annoying, etc.
"Don't be too proud of this technological middleware you have created. The power to deploy a servlet is insignificant, compared to the power
of the Open Source!"
Why would you want to do this unless you were stealing source?
If this technique works (haven't read it, page is slashdotted), maybe it could be used to implement Java-style runtime reflection for C++, which would be extremely cool and useful. Get a pointer to a method, decompile it to find out the expected arguments and return type, and dynamically invoke it.
Let's say free access happens. What happens when people start using it (in mass) to conduct fraud, send death threats to the President, start a boutique email spam business, etc.
"Free" doesn't have to mean anonymous; they should probably make people sign up for accounts beforehand,
so they can verify you're a NYC resident and enforce
appropriate terms of service, etc.
Moreover, if you access this via untrusted public terminals, how do you know they're not recording the keystrokes (i.e. whatever password you use to connect to the thing) ?!
PUT THE VALUE OF a ADDED TO c INTO THE LOCATION IN MEMORY REFERENCED BY d
You could easily come up with reasonable dialects for stuff like that:
Store Value(a + c) in MemoryLocation(d).
It's control expressions that are hard to express in natural language.
Re:It wouldn't be adopted instantaneously.
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The problem would be: do servers accept connections from legacy SMTP connections (which means spammers can just connect on SMTP and take advantage of the lack of identification), or do servers refuse to accept connections from legacy SMTP connections (which means that either everyone has to upgrade at once, or people using SMTP software have their connections dropped)
Presumably AMTP servers (a name I'm making up, A for authenticated) would accept connections from legacy SMTP servers, but prefiltered with various ad-hoc spamblock techniques we use now (Bayesian filtering, limits on connection rates, etc.)
So exactly what are the effects of a stiff wind on smart dust? It seems to me that even a moderate wind would wreak havoc on the survellaince attempts of dust, or am I missing something?
Perhaps the motes could deploy little claws, to anchor themselves onto the first thing they bump into (a blade of grass, a tree, the seat of the enemy general's pants, etc.)
Something along the lines of the Open Gaming Licence, that spells out what a work of fanfic may/may not do, and what legalese one must comply with to publish it.
Pure FUD. Code never becomes GPL unless you choose to make it GPL.
Exactly. However, the choice is irreversable. That's not FUD, it's the whole point of GPL. GPL code can never ever become proprietary again. You cannot undo GPL-ness.
If you take ten million lines of GPL code and add a single line of proprietary code, the result is GPL.
Wrong. The result is a copyright violation. You cannot use SOMEONE ELSE'S proprietary code unless you get the author's permission.
I meant YOUR proprietary code, code owned by you (as opposed to GPL code, which is no longer exclusively owned or controlled by you or anyone else).
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Why would you not use an ordinary webserver to distribute GPL'd software? Then people can find it from Google and download it with a normal web-browser (instead of having to run P2P software).
"I will not buy this tobacconist, it is scratched."
You say SPEWS should only block the spammer's IP address
and not yours. Then what incentive does your ISP have to
not to play whack-a-mole? (i.e as soon as a spammer js
blocked, the ISP just hands them another unused addy
in your neighborhood. And another, and another. Maybe
swap your address with theirs, too).
At what point shouldn't SPEWS just say screw it, block
the whole class C (instead of waiting for the next one
to popup)?
"No WANT fix core!!!! Me play trucks NOW!!!!"
"Uh-oh, reactor go poo..."
"Look! Pretty lava!"
>;KIn particular, one of his best-known jokes was:
"In America, you can always find a party;
In Russia, the Party can always find you!"
"We'll be giving the dog what the dog wants to eat," James F. Lyons, president of direct-marketing consultancy Optima Direct told the paper
Excellent. I'd like your liver, with grilled onions.
I suggest "intellectual content", to talk about bits and ideas, since it doesn't carry any hidden notions of control or ownership.
The first six animated cartoons that Walt Disney were public-domain fairytales such as "Little Red Riding-Hood" and "Puss in Boots". [Note that if life+70 copyright terms had been in place in 1922, these stories would not have been public-domain and Walt could not have legally used them.]. They weren't much of a success, and his "Laugh-O-Gram" animation studio went bankrupt at the end of the year.
Next, he did a pair of dental-hygiene films for a local dentist. (woo...)
His first real success was "Alice's Wonderland", featuring a live actress plus animated cartoon characters. [ Again, note that under modern copyright law, Lewis Carroll would've held copyright to the Alice stories until 1968, too late for Walt to ever use them. ] He produced 60 more "Alice" comedies by 1927.
Next, he produced a series of 26 "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit" cartoons. Ironically, he lost the copyrights to Oswald, and so was forced to change him to "Mortimer Mouse", then "Mickey Mouse".
WARNING: avoid eating spicy foods on any trip where you might have to use the zero-gee toilet later!
The stockholders (possibly including your relatives and even you, if y'all have any money invested in mutual funds). Most of them are over 40, don't know or care what a "P2P" is, and don't want to lose what's left of their retirement investments just so college students can download songs for free.
Good luck convincing them that the RIAA needs to die or radically change...
Maybe not, if they could get Rick James to endorse it:
It's a very geeky OS...
The kind you don't install for mothe-rrrr
It'll never bring your system down
Once you burn it on CD.
It's super-FREAX, super-FREAX, it's super freeware, yow!
Good idea: after you've used up the single-play rights, they'd make a delicious snack!
And now every movie and album could be available in multiple tasty flavors. Hah, P2P pirates!
Maybe you can download the songs, but you can't download them in teriyaki or cheddar...
Bizarre thought: what if it's not the programming,
/can/ still hear it find it
but the recent introduction of TV sets themselves?
The flyback transformers in cheap TV sets tend to
make a very high-pitched whine (around 15.75 khz).
Most adults cannot hear this frequency, especially
if they have become deaf to it from a lifetime of
TV exposure. Those who
extremely irritating [1].
So, if you take an entire country of adults who've
retained the ability to hear above 15 khz, and now
expose them to constant loud subliminal noise from
cheap imported TV sets, it might very well stress
people out and cause violence and bad behavior
even if they only showed innocuous programming.
[1] Just search Google Groups for "flyback transformer"
+ words like irritating, annoying, etc.
"Don't be too proud of this technological middleware you have created.
The power to deploy a servlet is insignificant, compared to the power
of the Open Source!"
If this technique works (haven't read it, page is slashdotted), maybe it could be used to implement Java-style runtime reflection for C++, which would be extremely cool and useful. Get a pointer to a method, decompile it to find out the expected arguments and return type, and dynamically invoke it.
"Free" doesn't have to mean anonymous; they should probably make people sign up for accounts beforehand, so they can verify you're a NYC resident and enforce appropriate terms of service, etc.
Maybe they could put out a remastered DVD with the soundtrack composed of all Middle-Earth themed songs by Led Zeppelin.
Moreover, if you access this via untrusted public terminals, how do you know they're not recording
the keystrokes (i.e. whatever password you use to
connect to the thing) ?!
You could easily come up with reasonable dialects for stuff like that:
Store Value(a + c) in MemoryLocation(d).
It's control expressions that are hard to express in natural language.
Presumably AMTP servers (a name I'm making up, A for authenticated) would accept connections from legacy SMTP servers, but prefiltered with various ad-hoc spamblock techniques we use now (Bayesian filtering, limits on connection rates, etc.)
Perhaps the motes could deploy little claws, to anchor themselves onto the first thing they bump into (a blade of grass, a tree, the seat of the enemy general's pants, etc.)
This was the "Kardashev scale" proposed by
Russian astronomer Nikolai Kardashev.
Something along the lines of the
Open Gaming Licence,
that spells out what a work of fanfic may/may not do,
and what legalese one must comply with to publish it.
Exactly. However, the choice is irreversable. That's not FUD, it's the whole point of GPL. GPL code can never ever become proprietary again. You cannot undo GPL-ness.
I meant YOUR proprietary code, code owned by you (as opposed to GPL code, which is no longer exclusively owned or controlled by you or anyone else).
If you take ten million lines of GPL code and add a
single line of proprietary code, the result is GPL.
If you take ten million lines of proprietary code and
add a single line of GPL code, the result is still GPL.
Utilizing GPL code is thermodynamically irreversable,
just like utilizing fire. Sometimes it makes economic
sense to do so, sometimes not.