Well, it's this little thing called the Fair Trading Agreement that wes signed with the U.S. Basically, our government signed a bunch of laws to change our copyright act to become more like the DMCA. This is, of course, against even what the ACCC (the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) recommended to the government. The ACCC, for non-Aussies, is a Commonwealth statutory authority whose main function is to promotes competition and fair trade in the market place to benefit consumers, business and the community. Amazingly, for a govt. body, it does an exceptionally good job - it's stepped on a number of toes and pissed off some fairly powerful people which tends to show that they're fairly unbiased.
As usual, nobody's talking about it except fringe groups, and this is mainly because of the complicated nature of the problem, along with how quietly they're passing the legislation.
Incidently, I suspect you must come from the U.S. where you have "freedom of speech". Australia, contrary to popular opinion, does not have this formally ratified in our constitution. So I hope you weren't laughing when you read my comment, otherwise you would have looked a bit of a fool. Actually, even if we did have freedom of speech then you would have looked a fool laughing at your computer anyway, so loss there I suppose.
I'd bitch about the US more, but my own country (Canada) is trying to become the US as fast as it can. Who's the bigger loser -- the loser, or the loser who looks up to him? Oy, what a world.
Same with Australia, my country. So much for the "Land of the Free".
"They hate us because we're free" - shouldn't this be "They hate us because we say we're free even though we're not really, we just like to think we are."
Well, I maintain there is no excuse for the Roman Catholic church to teach that which isn't in Holy Scripture.
I strongly suggest you read church history again. Luther didn't initially want to split with the church. He was a monk, for goodness sake! He actually read scripture properly.
Roman Catholics who follow the traditions of the church rather than follow the Bible should consider very carefully what they are doing.
Nothing is wrong with a monopoly, however it tends to breed corruption and abuse. In the Roman Catholic church's case, these things happened. Why do you think the church had a counter-reformation???
What about how the Reformation tackled: transubstantiation, Papal Succession, the ability of priests to marry, idolatory, salvation by works, and the way that the church held (and still holds) Roman Catholic dogma over Holy Scripture. There are more, but I think this will do for now.
Really, Indulgences were a way of raising money for the church, and I see it as a symptom of the wider corruption that had occurred in the Roman Catholic church.
Good grief. I think you should review your church history! At the time the Roman Catholic church was a massively corrupt bureaucracy that supressed ordinary people, was largely usurped by those who wanted power, and didn't teach about God's grace to mankind. In fact, much of the doctrine taught was contrary to the gospels. Papal bull, anyone?
I take a different view: just imagine all the problems that we'd still be dealing with if the Reformation had never happened!
... I guess that's also a valid point so I concede this point. I suppose where I'm arguing from is that a Christian is not supposed to go out and deliberately sin. Paraphrasing Romans: before Christ you were dead in your sins, so why would you want to go back to your old "dead" self?
Stuff it. I'm going to kill my moderating ability just to reply to this.
I think that this question itself is loaded. The question isn't a valid one, because if you had complete faith in Jesus you wouldn't rape and kill his mother!
The LED story only effects modems, and not even high speed equipment, besides which how many people are going to have the equipment to monitor somebodies modem for info? The keyboard clicking story seems dodgy too.
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Uh, GNOME isn't a window manager, it a desktop environment. I don't really think the comparison is valid, personally.
For the text editor, I think AbiWord is pretty good.
Ha! I would *so* love for that story to be true...
... just like a firewall - on your wall!
You reckon you wasted your life on sendmail.cf? Check this out:
I tried to post this to slashdot, but I got the following: "Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Reason: Please use fewer 'junk' characters."
sendmail blows slashdot's little brain.
wtf? How on *earth* is this a troll?!?
Exactly what language packs might they be referring to? There's no such thing for OOo, or even StarOffice AFAIK.
I used to think this, also. Unfortuneately, RTF support is crap, and .DOC support is better!
.RTF support!!!
Note to OOo developers: fixup your
I don't think so. Sounds remarkably informed to me!
Well, it's this little thing called the Fair Trading Agreement that wes signed with the U.S. Basically, our government signed a bunch of laws to change our copyright act to become more like the DMCA. This is, of course, against even what the ACCC (the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) recommended to the government. The ACCC, for non-Aussies, is a Commonwealth statutory authority whose main function is to promotes competition and fair trade in the market place to benefit consumers, business and the community. Amazingly, for a govt. body, it does an exceptionally good job - it's stepped on a number of toes and pissed off some fairly powerful people which tends to show that they're fairly unbiased.
As usual, nobody's talking about it except fringe groups, and this is mainly because of the complicated nature of the problem, along with how quietly they're passing the legislation.
Incidently, I suspect you must come from the U.S. where you have "freedom of speech". Australia, contrary to popular opinion, does not have this formally ratified in our constitution. So I hope you weren't laughing when you read my comment, otherwise you would have looked a bit of a fool. Actually, even if we did have freedom of speech then you would have looked a fool laughing at your computer anyway, so loss there I suppose.
I'd bitch about the US more, but my own country (Canada) is trying to become the US as fast as it can. Who's the bigger loser -- the loser, or the loser who looks up to him? Oy, what a world.
Same with Australia, my country. So much for the "Land of the Free".
"They hate us because we're free" - shouldn't this be "They hate us because we say we're free even though we're not really, we just like to think we are."
... kind of reminds me of SimCity, where you can pull up a graph of the city and work out where crime "hotspots" are.
But shouldn't it be sectioned under here?
Well, I maintain there is no excuse for the Roman Catholic church to teach that which isn't in Holy Scripture.
I strongly suggest you read church history again. Luther didn't initially want to split with the church. He was a monk, for goodness sake! He actually read scripture properly.
Roman Catholics who follow the traditions of the church rather than follow the Bible should consider very carefully what they are doing.
More like honour! Let's face it, AC/DC songs all sound pretty much the same.
Nothing is wrong with a monopoly, however it tends to breed corruption and abuse. In the Roman Catholic church's case, these things happened. Why do you think the church had a counter-reformation???
What about how the Reformation tackled: transubstantiation, Papal Succession, the ability of priests to marry, idolatory, salvation by works, and the way that the church held (and still holds) Roman Catholic dogma over Holy Scripture. There are more, but I think this will do for now.
Really, Indulgences were a way of raising money for the church, and I see it as a symptom of the wider corruption that had occurred in the Roman Catholic church.
Good grief. I think you should review your church history! At the time the Roman Catholic church was a massively corrupt bureaucracy that supressed ordinary people, was largely usurped by those who wanted power, and didn't teach about God's grace to mankind. In fact, much of the doctrine taught was contrary to the gospels. Papal bull, anyone?
I take a different view: just imagine all the problems that we'd still be dealing with if the Reformation had never happened!
So this one could have been correct? Damn.
The ISP in question had some issues with that particular point of presence that got solved later. It would have been nice for this to be true though!
Anyway, well deserved "Interesting" score!
I worked for an ISP where apparently one of the reps told a customer there line could be slow because of sunspots.
That one got to a national computer magazine and there was much embarrasment all around.
How long have they been developing HURD for? Seems like ages. I'm really not sure that it'll ever be finally released to be honest with you.
http://freedesktop.org/Software/TranslucentWindows
... I guess that's also a valid point so I concede this point. I suppose where I'm arguing from is that a Christian is not supposed to go out and deliberately sin. Paraphrasing Romans: before Christ you were dead in your sins, so why would you want to go back to your old "dead" self?
Stuff it. I'm going to kill my moderating ability just to reply to this.
I think that this question itself is loaded. The question isn't a valid one, because if you had complete faith in Jesus you wouldn't rape and kill his mother!
The LED story only effects modems, and not even high speed equipment, besides which how many people are going to have the equipment to monitor somebodies modem for info? The keyboard clicking story seems dodgy too.
Get it together, slashdot! Talk about paranoia.
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