I'd be surprised if GPLv3 wasn't strongly against DRM, given one of Stallman's early papers Right-to-Read.Scarey stuff, and DRM has exactly these aims.
Any filtering or other technology to catch one undesireable will always catch false-positives. I never got the impression that this was acceptible under common law or the US Constitution.
After 12 years, we finally have a SlashDot Manual of Style:)
My question is: Is this optimum? Highly formatted articles may be easy to parse quickly and give a great deal of uniformity to the site. But they may also appear repetitive, formulaic and boring. A blog and not a newsite. Worse, the style requirements require rejecting fresh articles when too much editing is required.
But SlashDot has been remarkably successful, and it's difficult/dangerous to tamper with success. Still, some explicit consideration of how much stylistic diversity should be posted is always in order. Editors can still decide that status quo is the best choice.
If you like crappy kbds, replacements are easy. I'm partial to IBM model "M" from the 1980s -- 1989 was a very good year:) So I clean mine when the mood strikes me. Tape between the keys to extract hair, spray foam cleaner and soak upside down for keytops/sides. Some people say they can go into the dishwasher top rack. I'd be worried about water drainage
Otherwise, I don't worry: These are _my_ germs, mostly things on my hands that I've already built up an immunity to or have no way of avoiding even if my kbd was sterile. I won't let others use my kbd, and I really try to avoid using others kbds. A much bigger problem is money and door handles. Lots of people touch them and I could get some new virus/bacterium.
BTW: toilet set tops are often very clean. But less so the undersides where women want men to put their fingers to raise and lower toilet seats! Default=up might be more sanitary.
From my 20+ year perspective, there's been remarkably little evolution in any Internet protocol. Mostly devolution to the masses:)
Email was compelling from day one. The technology has changed, but only in details: bangpaths are gone and the abomination of HTML afflicts us. Popularity and exploits are results of the Metcalfe Effect.
But email is still very much email. `ytalk` has morphed into [G]AIM. WWW similarly unchanged although it has seen more technical changes, including a wholesale shift from gopher:
Three-phase power is kinda screwy and needs to be kept balanced. Is the high-drawer that justifies three-phase running during these restarts? If one leg is overloaded, it can get dragged down and the return path overloaded. Check your neutrals, grounds and voltages.
Sure, air breathing engines can go fast. But not nearly fast enough. And then there's the ole square law. I'm more worried about rocket structural integrity. Tanks see very different stresses horizontal vs vertical. Even prestressed.
All predators have to eat fairly frequently (~weekly) in spite of evolving feast-or-famine metabolisms and energy reserves. Nevermind their prey, they cannot afford to run significant risk of crippling injury during their predatation. That's why prey are helpless. If they had a chance, they wouldn't be stable, suitable prey.
Raptor attacks would [rein]force hominids into social bands. Even stoning would be an unacceptible risk to the fragile wings. So raptors would only attack out of absolute panic starvation/desparation.
After the Pentium3 Serial Number fiasco, I very much doubt the CPU mfrs will put DRM in hardware or CPU firmware. So [RI|MP]AA are trying to go after the BIOS writers. So the machine won't boot unsigned OSes which won't run unsigned apps. Even apart from the laudable FreeBIOS project, this just won't fly. Consumers won't stand for it any more than the P3SN. MS might be able to force the issue, but they don't own enough content for it to be worth the cost in sales or profits.
Who here has just one computer? My kids each have their own (my daughter is building her third). Old machines get retired to guestroom use. I have two on a KVM, and a half dozen nearby. Of course, we're not all geeks, and some people have only one comp {shudder in Horror}.
I don't like DRM. Not at all. They'll have to discount it heavily, or have some pretty compelling content (which is nowhere to be seen) before I buy. But it will probably be a dedicated DRM applicance, 'cuz there's no way to secure a PC computer. None when the user has root and access to hardware. Not even strong crypto.
... ostensibly to licence Unix-ish stuff (XENIX?). They might not have needed to pay, but wanted to anyways. Unfortunately, I don't believe there's any legal remedy for malicious prosecution. I'm not sure it's against the Sherman Anti-Trush laws which cover many other dubious activities.
Yes, style matters. I can deal with that, and the numbers are different too. All fine.
But the/. editors seem to take a very cavalier approach to rejecting. They say so, and are totally unapologetic about posting later, substantially idential (including style) submissions. They give the impression of not considering much, and just posting what strikes their eye/fancy.
Of course that is their right. I do not know what the Submissions Inbox looks like. It might well be a spamfest. But the editors cannot escape the consequences of their selection method. If they encourage the wrong submitters, they have only themselves to blame; much like the woman who demands a polished approach cannot complain when her BF uses it on other women.
I just know that I'm discouraged by the selection process. Perhaps others are too. Our absence will leave the editors with those who are willing to run their gauntlet. They must be very careful that gauntlet is functional lest they be left with dregs.
I put some of what I consider quality in my Submissions. They get posted on K5 everytime. But at/. , it appears the editors aren't very careful readers, and quantity matters.
Since I'm not willing to grind out quantity, I just stop submitting.
Well, what did they expect? Deionized water will pick up anything remotely ionizable (metal?). The lack of damage was likely due to a good groundpath..
Oil is a good (but messy) cooling solution. I think I'd prefer mineral oil for reduced possibility of microbial growth. You'd want heatslugs vertical to improve natureal convection. And I wound't trust ithe typical PCBthermisters with that much ambiient cooling.
The 10:1 compression (from CD) is lossy, and it certainly shows: just pipe your MP3 player through any decent home stereo, and sync the CD with the MP3. There certainly is a difference. But it doesn't much matter under the usual [noisy] MP3 listening environments.
The problem with standards is they confound things and treat them similarly. Each [software] project has different goals, expected lifetimes, maintainability and communications concerns. And sometimes subsections are different.
About the only thing a good standard will do is present options, advantages and disadvantages, and require that an explicit decision be made after appropriate discussion.
You want and need good legal advice. That can only be given by apocryphal competant lawyers.
IANAL, but IMHO you most definitely are liable for unusual hazards to present to visitors. I'm not sure how you avoid liability for libel and copyright violations except perhaps by prompt action. Common-carrier is not common-storer, although public warehouses have existed for centuries.
Here, it is very easy for you to wrapper IMG tags to require a click, and maybe tag them with source URL for those many lusers who surf with Status lines turned off, or who have no clue to look. Then at least the user specifically asked for it, rather than having it unknowably thrust upon her when hitting a previously-safe page.
No, he was not censored. His work was not published with objectionable bits removed. The Chinese govt would like to _ban_ it so that it is not published at all. That is not censorship, that is banning. Nor will they succeed, because he's alraedy being hosted elsewhere.
You may think this pedantic, but you forget that words have connotation. Or do you consider unauthorized copying to be identical to piracy?
"The Blogoshpere has been censored". Sorry, no. The Blogosphere isn't one work, it is a mottly collection of works.
Otherwise,/. rejecting any submissions would be censorship of/..
As for MSFT, they most certainly need defending. They do so many clueless things. And reasonable defense in one place makes later criticism more credible and less dismissable as biased animus.
This ain't censorship. Look it up: censorship is deleting parts of a work. Effectively it steals the authors work for the censors' ends.
This doesn't even meet the test of "banning". MSN is not trying to prevent others from publishing (although China is!).
This is most like "refusal to publish", which the/. editurds can hardly protest given the number of stories they reject! Including all of mine so I stop submitting.
Perhaps you don't like MSNs' possible reasons or motivation for refusing to publish. OK. I don't like/.'s either. Adjust your business accordingly. They won't like it, but you have your rights too.
I'm not familiar with S.Korean law, but I don't believe there's any requirement an indicted person be notified of the indictment prior to arraignment. IANAL.
My email reader does not render HTML. When I encounter pure HTML email, I just delete it. Or bounce it back to spoof@... as eBay and PayPal have requested.
In the unusual case (once per week) that I actually _want_ to look at a website mentioned in email, I cut'n'paste.
HTML email is abomination. Autoload images is evil.
There are two issues here: recognizing something known versus determining what something unkonwn is.
To someone who knows nothing, PhtoShop sounds like a place to buy/print photos. And Windows Medial Player sounds like a game of newpaper/TV congomerates:)
To the Unix cogniscenti, cp, du are nothing more than CoPy, Disk Usage, etc. It is a question of something learned.
I'm sorry, but I don't see that Apple is into P2P unless someone has statistics showing that sharing is substantial compared to sales. They've just got an effective sales scheme I call C2P.
That shouldn't take away from Apple's achievement. They've shown the popularity of back-catalog music, and how sales can be made in a digital age, something the RIAA cannot see (likely from greed).
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My question is: Is this optimum? Highly formatted articles may be easy to parse quickly and give a great deal of uniformity to the site. But they may also appear repetitive, formulaic and boring. A blog and not a newsite. Worse, the style requirements require rejecting fresh articles when too much editing is required.
But SlashDot has been remarkably successful, and it's difficult/dangerous to tamper with success. Still, some explicit consideration of how much stylistic diversity should be posted is always in order. Editors can still decide that status quo is the best choice.
Otherwise, I don't worry: These are _my_ germs, mostly things on my hands that I've already built up an immunity to or have no way of avoiding even if my kbd was sterile. I won't let others use my kbd, and I really try to avoid using others kbds. A much bigger problem is money and door handles. Lots of people touch them and I could get some new virus/bacterium.
BTW: toilet set tops are often very clean. But less so the undersides where women want men to put their fingers to raise and lower toilet seats! Default=up might be more sanitary.
Email was compelling from day one. The technology has changed, but only in details: bangpaths are gone and the abomination of HTML afflicts us. Popularity and exploits are results of the Metcalfe Effect.
But email is still very much email. `ytalk` has morphed into [G]AIM. WWW similarly unchanged although it has seen more technical changes, including a wholesale shift from gopher:
Raptor attacks would [rein]force hominids into social bands. Even stoning would be an unacceptible risk to the fragile wings. So raptors would only attack out of absolute panic starvation/desparation.
OTOH, a dedicated applicance _is_ possible.
I don't like DRM. Not at all. They'll have to discount it heavily, or have some pretty compelling content (which is nowhere to be seen) before I buy. But it will probably be a dedicated DRM applicance, 'cuz there's no way to secure a PC computer. None when the user has root and access to hardware. Not even strong crypto.
I cannot imaging that user arma has no influence on Submission acceptance, or that rejection [for spamesque cause] wouldn't hammer karma.
But the /. editors seem to take a very cavalier approach to rejecting. They say so, and are totally unapologetic about posting later, substantially idential (including style) submissions. They give the impression of not considering much, and just posting what strikes their eye/fancy.
Of course that is their right. I do not know what the Submissions Inbox looks like. It might well be a spamfest. But the editors cannot escape the consequences of their selection method. If they encourage the wrong submitters, they have only themselves to blame; much like the woman who demands a polished approach cannot complain when her BF uses it on other women.
I just know that I'm discouraged by the selection process. Perhaps others are too. Our absence will leave the editors with those who are willing to run their gauntlet. They must be very careful that gauntlet is functional lest they be left with dregs.
Since I'm not willing to grind out quantity, I just stop submitting.
Oil is a good (but messy) cooling solution. I think I'd prefer mineral oil for reduced possibility of microbial growth. You'd want heatslugs vertical to improve natureal convection. And I wound't trust ithe typical PCBthermisters with that much ambiient cooling.
About the only thing a good standard will do is present options, advantages and disadvantages, and require that an explicit decision be made after appropriate discussion.
IANAL, but IMHO you most definitely are liable for unusual hazards to present to visitors. I'm not sure how you avoid liability for libel and copyright violations except perhaps by prompt action. Common-carrier is not common-storer, although public warehouses have existed for centuries.
Here, it is very easy for you to wrapper IMG tags to require a click, and maybe tag them with source URL for those many lusers who surf with Status lines turned off, or who have no clue to look. Then at least the user specifically asked for it, rather than having it unknowably thrust upon her when hitting a previously-safe page.
You may think this pedantic, but you forget that words have connotation. Or do you consider unauthorized copying to be identical to piracy?
Otherwise, /. rejecting any submissions would be censorship of /. .
As for MSFT, they most certainly need defending. They do so many clueless things. And reasonable defense in one place makes later criticism more credible and less dismissable as biased animus.
This doesn't even meet the test of "banning". MSN is not trying to prevent others from publishing (although China is!).
This is most like "refusal to publish", which the /. editurds can hardly protest given the number of stories they reject! Including all of mine so I stop submitting.
Perhaps you don't like MSNs' possible reasons or motivation for refusing to publish. OK. I don't like /.'s either. Adjust your business accordingly. They won't like it, but you have your rights too.
In the unusual case (once per week) that I actually _want_ to look at a website mentioned in email, I cut'n'paste.
HTML email is abomination. Autoload images is evil.
To someone who knows nothing, PhtoShop sounds like a place to buy/print photos. And Windows Medial Player sounds like a game of newpaper/TV congomerates :)
To the Unix cogniscenti, cp, du are nothing more than CoPy, Disk Usage, etc. It is a question of something learned.
That shouldn't take away from Apple's achievement. They've shown the popularity of back-catalog music, and how sales can be made in a digital age, something the RIAA cannot see (likely from greed).