Re:Again presenting other's words as your own
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it's not ripped off. He just excercised the rights afforded to him by the GPL. he even included a link to the "source". remember, information wants to be free!
how the hell do you inform everyone? most people who sign up for gamespy give a bogus or a spam trap email that will never be checked. How the hell are they gonna notify all of them?
typically the reason apache is enabled on many macos machines is for web development. up until now, it was a bit difficult to get ssi and php and other server side stuff working while developing on a mac. now that apache and osx can work together, the combination is used much more often.
As you've said, that the key is whether Gator really informs the user what it is doing. But that's not what the plaintiffs are saying here:
Terence Ross, the lawyer representing the publishers, said the placement of pop-up ads on the publishers' Web sites "alters the display of the Web site, which constitutes copyright infringement."
Read that very carefully. According to these people, altering the display of the Web site constitutes copyright infringement. If the court lets that through unqualified, then turning off images, Javascript, changing fonts, ad blockers, not having the latest Flash plugin, could fall into the same category.
I agree with suing Gator because it's spyware, but that suit should be brought by users, not webmasters.
I definitely agree with you on this. After all, gator does not even modify the pages themselves or replace the ads. They just ADD EXTRA popups to what is already there. it is like the crap the pizza places put on your doorknob every few days because they are too cheap to put it in the mail like all the other junk mail advertisers.
if gator loses in the court case they will lose alot of money. this in itself may kill gator. if that doesn't, the midset of the advertisers that do not want to be associated with this month's scum queens will stop advertising with gator. soon enough companies will find out they will get sued if they mess with other people's content, and then spyware will die. I am against most law suits too, but this one may actually benefit more people than just the lawyers involved.
most people that actually do let gator install with another application are newbies that assume that it is a vital component of the application they are installing. It should be clearly marked "optional advertising software" at least have the words optional and advertising highlighted.
the problem is that most people don't really know what it is. for example i have never met a single person that actually installed gator knowingly. My wife for example installed audiogalaxy (i wasn't home , so i would have given her the pyware free one, of course) And i came home and saw gain popups. Then i went through the installer for audiogalaxy. there was 1 checkbox asking if you would like gator installed for you. and it was cheacked by default. my wife, not being a big geek simply just clicked next. Now, my wife knows a little bit about computers and stuff, so i would imaginfe that there are TONS of people out there who simply clicked "next". These people don't read the EULA that actually tells them what it is. If gator was a program you downloaded by itself, i could agree with you, but it is virtually forced upon other people. For the most part when you install a program and it asks you if you would like a specific component installed, they will say yes, just to be safe, like maybe that component is vital to the program.
Re:TI-8x and Negative Kelvin...
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Pet Bugs?
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Albert hoffman, the man that discovered LSD was not in berkeley, but in Basel, Swizerland.
source: http://www.stainblue.com/ah.html
i remember changing the FOV in quake 1 and 2 was considered a cheat, so servers would not let you on if you were using a nonstandard FOV setting. I would doubt that anything has changed in that arena, so I bet you would not even be able to play online using "surround gaming" since it needs an FOV change.
you don't get it. when wireless networking affected the radio astronomy nobody cared. now that the same wireless networking is affecting tv, more people are noticing. your comment was ALMOST right.
it should have read: It's probably because there are a couple of hundred radio astronomers as opposed to a couple of hundred million television viewers...
But who am I to explain this to a brilliant AC like you?
if a cd is only soulless 1s and 0s then a record is simply a plank of plastic with hills and valleys within the grooves that vibrate the needle, generating sound which then gets run through an amplifier. same shit, different method. Not soul/soulless.
play was not moby's first album. Moby has been around for longer than pearl jam. Not as popular, but I have known of him the whole time pearl jam has been around and i haven't exactly been looking for him.
apparently, in sweden, when pirates don't want to get raided by cops that break through thier windows, they contact aliens to hovor around thier apartment building and throw paper airplanes around to knock the cops off. Sophisticated warez skills there.
I think it's only appropriate that i downloaded the source of that page, and ripped the shockwave game so i can play it later, or maybe pass it around to my friends.
it's not just switching to windows. if lots of dumbasses get ahold of these machines and start talking to other people not in the know, lidows, and indirectly linux, will get a reputation for not doing what it is supposed to do. for not operating correctly. I can see uninformed mainstream media covering this in the near future, and even some uninformed people starting a class action suit against walmart or the lindows people, simply because they do not understand how thier computer works.
however the people buying this most likely don't know much and will think that it is supposed to run "computer programs" that they bvuy at compusa. when they find out it doesn't run windows programs (even though it did not claim to" they will get angry. i met a guy that was pissed because his mac couldn't open an "exe file" correctly.
yes because everybody knows that everyone considers the ability to play the cd in thier computer. 99% percent of people buying those cd's couldn't give a rats ass that the cd doesn't play in thier computer. and to the people pissed off that it doesn't, the label on the back clearly states "this disc is not intended for use in computer cd-rom drives"
Re:Gentoo really that cutting edge?
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gentoo is free. and since when is profitting off of open source software against the rules? linus doesn't live in a college dorm room anymore, he profits off of it every day. (albeit indirectly)
so redhat is against the rules? or mandrake? they sell it.
on one hand you want the government to abide by the rules set forth for this, but you do not want the government to abide by the rules about enforcing the DCMA?
this device is for people who are interested in having it and that can afford it. no one is trying to force it on anyone. i know if i went blind i would pray for my vision to come back. this device may answer the prayers of some people that think the same way. For people who are happy with braile, let them be happy with braile. No one is trying to force this upon anyone.
I am suprised that RIAA or MPAA has not attempted to integrate Digital Rights Management software into this thing. That would plug the analog hole for sure
actually i seem to remember somewhere in the licence agreement for officially licensed nintendo carts that lending was against the license. however, i ignored it as i am sure everyone else did.
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it's not ripped off. He just excercised the rights afforded to him by the GPL. he even included a link to the "source". remember, information wants to be free!
how the hell do you inform everyone? most people who sign up for gamespy give a bogus or a spam trap email that will never be checked. How the hell are they gonna notify all of them?
typically the reason apache is enabled on many macos machines is for web development. up until now, it was a bit difficult to get ssi and php and other server side stuff working while developing on a mac. now that apache and osx can work together, the combination is used much more often.
As you've said, that the key is whether Gator really informs the user what it is doing. But that's not what the plaintiffs are saying here:
Terence Ross, the lawyer representing the publishers, said the placement of pop-up ads on the publishers' Web sites "alters the display of the Web site, which constitutes copyright infringement."
Read that very carefully. According to these people, altering the display of the Web site constitutes copyright infringement. If the court lets that through unqualified, then turning off images, Javascript, changing fonts, ad blockers, not having the latest Flash plugin, could fall into the same category.
I agree with suing Gator because it's spyware, but that suit should be brought by users, not webmasters.
I definitely agree with you on this. After all, gator does not even modify the pages themselves or replace the ads. They just ADD EXTRA popups to what is already there. it is like the crap the pizza places put on your doorknob every few days because they are too cheap to put it in the mail like all the other junk mail advertisers.
if gator loses in the court case they will lose alot of money. this in itself may kill gator. if that doesn't, the midset of the advertisers that do not want to be associated with this month's scum queens will stop advertising with gator. soon enough companies will find out they will get sued if they mess with other people's content, and then spyware will die. I am against most law suits too, but this one may actually benefit more people than just the lawyers involved.
most people that actually do let gator install with another application are newbies that assume that it is a vital component of the application they are installing. It should be clearly marked "optional advertising software" at least have the words optional and advertising highlighted.
the problem is that most people don't really know what it is. for example i have never met a single person that actually installed gator knowingly. My wife for example installed audiogalaxy (i wasn't home , so i would have given her the pyware free one, of course) And i came home and saw gain popups. Then i went through the installer for audiogalaxy. there was 1 checkbox asking if you would like gator installed for you. and it was cheacked by default. my wife, not being a big geek simply just clicked next. Now, my wife knows a little bit about computers and stuff, so i would imaginfe that there are TONS of people out there who simply clicked "next". These people don't read the EULA that actually tells them what it is. If gator was a program you downloaded by itself, i could agree with you, but it is virtually forced upon other people. For the most part when you install a program and it asks you if you would like a specific component installed, they will say yes, just to be safe, like maybe that component is vital to the program.
Albert hoffman, the man that discovered LSD was not in berkeley, but in Basel, Swizerland.
source: http://www.stainblue.com/ah.html
Unix was created in the 1960's by bell labs, and only improved upon by students and staff at berkeley in the 70's.
Source: http://www.netaction.org/opensrc/future/unix.html
i remember changing the FOV in quake 1 and 2 was considered a cheat, so servers would not let you on if you were using a nonstandard FOV setting. I would doubt that anything has changed in that arena, so I bet you would not even be able to play online using "surround gaming" since it needs an FOV change.
thye don't do it to hurt the linuxers. they do it because they see 3rd party applications that are able to read thier file formats as a threat.
you don't get it. when wireless networking affected the radio astronomy nobody cared. now that the same wireless networking is affecting tv, more people are noticing. your comment was ALMOST right.
it should have read:
It's probably because there are a couple of hundred radio astronomers as opposed to a couple of hundred million television viewers...
But who am I to explain this to a brilliant AC like you?
what did the moon do for humanity? not much i would imagine since we haven't been there in about 30 years.
they are not trying to sell it to you. they are trying to sell it to people that currently use floppies for data storage.
if a cd is only soulless 1s and 0s then a record is simply a plank of plastic with hills and valleys within the grooves that vibrate the needle, generating sound which then gets run through an amplifier. same shit, different method. Not soul/soulless.
play was not moby's first album. Moby has been around for longer than pearl jam. Not as popular, but I have known of him the whole time pearl jam has been around and i haven't exactly been looking for him.
apparently, in sweden, when pirates don't want to get raided by cops that break through thier windows, they contact aliens to hovor around thier apartment building and throw paper airplanes around to knock the cops off. Sophisticated warez skills there.
I think it's only appropriate that i downloaded the source of that page, and ripped the shockwave game so i can play it later, or maybe pass it around to my friends.
it's not just switching to windows. if lots of dumbasses get ahold of these machines and start talking to other people not in the know, lidows, and indirectly linux, will get a reputation for not doing what it is supposed to do. for not operating correctly. I can see uninformed mainstream media covering this in the near future, and even some uninformed people starting a class action suit against walmart or the lindows people, simply because they do not understand how thier computer works.
however the people buying this most likely don't know much and will think that it is supposed to run "computer programs" that they bvuy at compusa. when they find out it doesn't run windows programs (even though it did not claim to" they will get angry. i met a guy that was pissed because his mac couldn't open an "exe file" correctly.
yes because everybody knows that everyone considers the ability to play the cd in thier computer. 99% percent of people buying those cd's couldn't give a rats ass that the cd doesn't play in thier computer. and to the people pissed off that it doesn't, the label on the back clearly states "this disc is not intended for use in computer cd-rom drives"
gentoo is free. and since when is profitting off of open source software against the rules? linus doesn't live in a college dorm room anymore, he profits off of it every day. (albeit indirectly) so redhat is against the rules? or mandrake? they sell it.
apple has a smaller user base than linux, and it is "well supported"
on one hand you want the government to abide by the rules set forth for this, but you do not want the government to abide by the rules about enforcing the DCMA?
this device is for people who are interested in having it and that can afford it. no one is trying to force it on anyone. i know if i went blind i would pray for my vision to come back. this device may answer the prayers of some people that think the same way. For people who are happy with braile, let them be happy with braile. No one is trying to force this upon anyone.
I am suprised that RIAA or MPAA has not attempted to integrate Digital Rights Management software into this thing. That would plug the analog hole for sure
actually i seem to remember somewhere in the licence agreement for officially licensed nintendo carts that lending was against the license. however, i ignored it as i am sure everyone else did.