This is a good point. I just got a new Xerox printer, and it took me a good 10 minutes to convince my roommate that it was a printer _manufactured by_ xerox, not a copy machine.
I'm also rather peeved that it did not fully support the advertised PCL5 emulation, and consequently is not entirely functional under Linux.:\
Part of the web of trust is that you give less trust to people who are likely to violate your trust, or trust people who are likely to violate your trust.
So as long as you make good decisions about whose keys you sign (and at what trust level) it should work.
Mostly because it's unneccessary, and costly. Besides the cost issue, I doubt that any governments out there are going to keep people from selling (or giving away) distributions of linux. My only worry is that Network Solutions would screw up and move some linux-related domain if someone produced one of these trademarks.
Ultimately, our government derives its power from force and the threat of force. So the only circumstance where MegaCorp can become more powerful than the government is if it has the ability to administer than the government.
That aside, if the corporations code were abolished, then all the assets of all the corporations in the US would go to the shareholders, and any concerted effort thereafter would have unlimited liability. In other words, if the business was sued, the plaintiffs could reach the owners' assets. Who would invest under such circumstances?
The thing that you are forgetting is that corporations are a legal fiction. They exist only because the state allows them to exist. So no, under no circumstance would SuperCorp be able to run the government. The government could always nullify corporate law.
Plus, keep in mind that the president is not the whole game. Even with a libertarian president, it is unlikely that congress would allow any very libertarian amendments to be passed.
IANAL, but my dad is, and I have spoken with him at length on this topic.
Essentially, your friend is wrong and Colombia House dosen't know it. Yes, you can void the contract. No, that does not mean you can keep the CDs - you would still have to return them.
While I think it's great that they're making it open source, I think it's important to consider what license it will be under. Will it be Free Software? If so, great!
Here at UC Santa Cruz, you can run a business from your dorm room, but you cannot use other campus facilities (ie., super-fast internet) for profit, with an exception for selling miscellanious used tangible personal property.
I'm sitting in my dorm room at college, and I can tell you that these desks are far from ergonomic. At this point, I think that if your landlord provides a workspace, then it must be an ergonomic one.
Aside from that, in this college setting we cannot remove the furniture from the room. How, then, would my employer (if I were telecommuting) be able to pay for an ergonomic setting?
no. Net and org are run by the same registrars as com. It is commonplace for a corporation to register all 3, even if their business has nothing whatsoever to do with network infrastructure. Witness google.com/net/org. NSI will allow you to register any of the 3 with no restrictions other than ability to pay.
I discussed this with my father, who has done trials in this particular courthouse, and he had the following things to say:
1) It's OK for them to send the notice by e-mail as long as your interests will be sufficiently represented at the courthouse, which appears to have been the case. In fact, as long as your interests are sufficiently represented, they don't need to give you any notice at all!
2) The TRO would not affect you until you were served by a process server. Until then, you can keep serving up that program!
3) A TRO only lasts for 10 days. It's supposed to only be put in place if the plaintiff would suffer irreperable financial harm if the TRO is not given, and the judge thinks the plaintiff is likely to win. However, my father also said that many judges in this court take more the perspective of granting a TRO unless the defendant would suffer financial harm as a result.
This is a list of all the mirrors posted to slashdot so far, as well as from a few other places. Most of them are unverified.
By the way, if you decide to mirror these youself, be sure to mirror the css-auth program (especially source code!) and not the decss.exe program, as the source is much more useful than the binary.
Well, gnuchess is a Free Software chess program. You can search for it on freshmeat. I am presently working on an optimized brute-force solution to this.
Slashdot Mirror
ah, so.
This is a good point. I just got a new Xerox printer, and it took me a good 10 minutes to convince my roommate that it was a printer _manufactured by_ xerox, not a copy machine.
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I'm also rather peeved that it did not fully support the advertised PCL5 emulation, and consequently is not entirely functional under Linux.
Actually, I personally know someone who was working at the PARC until he quit last year. So it has been around at least that long.
Part of the web of trust is that you give less trust to people who are likely to violate your trust, or trust people who are likely to violate your trust.
So as long as you make good decisions about whose keys you sign (and at what trust level) it should work.
Looks to me like the IP address is for a firewall at Weil, Gotshal, & Manges (sounds like a law firm to me) whose service is provided by PSInet.
My god it's early. When I first read that I was thinking about an enviornment chassis, ie., for factories or telephone poles.
My brain -> "Hmm, that's an odd first post. Off-topic, and yet not a troll. Perhaps he has the wrong story."
Mostly because it's unneccessary, and costly. Besides the cost issue, I doubt that any governments out there are going to keep people from selling (or giving away) distributions of linux. My only worry is that Network Solutions would screw up and move some linux-related domain if someone produced one of these trademarks.
Ultimately, our government derives its power from force and the threat of force. So the only circumstance where MegaCorp can become more powerful than the government is if it has the ability to administer than the government.
That aside, if the corporations code were abolished, then all the assets of all the corporations in the US would go to the shareholders, and any concerted effort thereafter would have unlimited liability. In other words, if the business was sued, the plaintiffs could reach the owners' assets. Who would invest under such circumstances?
The thing that you are forgetting is that corporations are a legal fiction. They exist only because the state allows them to exist. So no, under no circumstance would SuperCorp be able to run the government. The government could always nullify corporate law.
Plus, keep in mind that the president is not the whole game. Even with a libertarian president, it is unlikely that congress would allow any very libertarian amendments to be passed.
How exactly does one interview a computer?
IANAL, but my dad is, and I have spoken with him at length on this topic.
Essentially, your friend is wrong and Colombia House dosen't know it. Yes, you can void the contract. No, that does not mean you can keep the CDs - you would still have to return them.
Gee, mabye that's because they are from Uruguay and English is their second language. Not everyone is entirely fluent is English, you know.
Besides which, I doubt you could do much better in your second language, if you have one, which I also doubt.
While I think it's great that they're making it open source, I think it's important to consider what license it will be under. Will it be Free Software? If so, great!
(see This page at the Free Software Foundation to find out the difference between open source software and free software.)
Here at UC Santa Cruz, you can run a business from your dorm room, but you cannot use other campus facilities (ie., super-fast internet) for profit, with an exception for selling miscellanious used tangible personal property.
Too bad the IP filtering works on an IP level and dosen't know about DNS. ;)
I'm sitting in my dorm room at college, and I can tell you that these desks are far from ergonomic. At this point, I think that if your landlord provides a workspace, then it must be an ergonomic one.
Aside from that, in this college setting we cannot remove the furniture from the room. How, then, would my employer (if I were telecommuting) be able to pay for an ergonomic setting?
no. Net and org are run by the same registrars as com. It is commonplace for a corporation to register all 3, even if their business has nothing whatsoever to do with network infrastructure. Witness google.com/net/org. NSI will allow you to register any of the 3 with no restrictions other than ability to pay.
I discussed this with my father, who has done trials in this particular courthouse, and he had the following things to say:
1) It's OK for them to send the notice by e-mail as long as your interests will be sufficiently represented at the courthouse, which appears to have been the case. In fact, as long as your interests are sufficiently represented, they don't need to give you any notice at all!
2) The TRO would not affect you until you were served by a process server. Until then, you can keep serving up that program!
3) A TRO only lasts for 10 days. It's supposed to only be put in place if the plaintiff would suffer irreperable financial harm if the TRO is not given, and the judge thinks the plaintiff is likely to win. However, my father also said that many judges in this court take more the perspective of granting a TRO unless the defendant would suffer financial harm as a result.
Hope that clears this up.
This is a list of all the mirrors posted to slashdot so far, as well as from a few other places. Most of them are unverified.
. gz c ss-auth/css-auth.tar.gz g z t h/ a r.bz2
By the way, if you decide to mirror these youself, be sure to mirror the css-auth program (especially source code!) and not the decss.exe program, as the source is much more useful than the binary.
Without further ado, the list:
ftp://cm-d0415.resnet.ucsc.edu/pub/css-auth.tar
http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~f.vanwaveren/
http://www.zpok.demon.co.uk/deCSS/css-auth.tar.
http://www.mit.edu/afs/sipb/user/mycroft/css-au
http://www.eyrie.demon.co.uk/derek/dvd/css
http://livid.on.openprojects.net/css-auth-0_4_t
http://www.cgocable.net/~jdionne/css/
http://members.home.com/christopherlee/dvd/
http://ananke.hack.pl
http://24.108.23.121/DeCSS
http://members.xoom.com/freedecss/
http://63.225.181.97/decss
http://www.bard.org.il/~marc/dvd
http://osiris.978.org/~brianr/css/
http://earnestdesigns.com/dvd
http://www.fortunecity.com/westwood/lacroix/584
http://members.tripod.com/donotsueme/
http://www.fortunecity.com/westwood/lacroix/584
http://members.tripod.com/donotsueme/
http://www.geocities.com/donotsueme/
http://donotsueme.homepage.com
http://www.homestead.com/donotsueme/index.html
http://donotsueme.freeservers.com/
http://www.angelfire.com/punk/donotsueme
Well, gnuchess is a Free Software chess program. You can search for it on freshmeat. I am presently working on an optimized brute-force solution to this.
Are there any projects working on getting an Free Software realplayer? I'd love to run realplayer on my Debian system.
Mabye we can get streambox to release the source...
The real question, is what a non-geek is doing posting to slashdot.
One word for you: Beowulf. ;)
PS to moderators: This is not a troll!
nineteenth of January. And transmeta's webpage is at www.transmeta.com.
If you have 70 friends, then what are you doing on Slashdot?
:b
Maybe we should have a requirement that people get a certain score on the nerd test in order to post.