So what? It's a friggin' wart. It's not going to hurt you. Do you really need to be seen urgently? And I bet if you walked into the ER carrying one severed arm with the other, you'd be seen a lot sooner. I live in the US, and I'd gladly wait three months for a wart checkup if it means that an unexpected injury or illness won't bankrupt me.
No, you haven't. If I release a GPLed program and you distribute it in a way not allowed by the GPL, you haven't misappropriated anything; you've merely violated my copyright.
Fair enough. But "loophole" or not, it was a perfectly legitimate website. It's disingenuous at best, and fraudulent at worst, to call allofmp3 an "illegal website." The fact is that it was a legal business that the US happened to not like.
Consider this carefully: there is no right to profit.
So? You can only rob physical items, not opportunities and ideas If you own a diner, and I open a better one down the street, perhaps you won't be able to tell as many burgers. Does that mean that I've robbed you of sales in some metaphorical sense? You bet. Is the wrong? No. Is it legally actionable that I've caused the theft of your customers? Not in a million years.
allofmp3 WAS legitimate in Russia. It paid royalties to ROMS, the Russian organization responsible for collecting copyright fees. The RIAA simply didn't like ROMS' rates and structures (even though Russia, as a sovereign nation, has every right to set its own royalties), and declared allofmp3 illegal.
Any previous advanced civilization on earth would have depleted its mineral resources in its rise to high technology, just as we have. That we have (or had, anyway) oil, coal and natural gas in abundance indicates that we are indeed the first civilization to arise on this planet. These resources take hundreds of millions of years to form, and complex life hasn't been around long enough for that to have happened twice.
Not only are we the first civilization, but we are likely to be the last. Any future society is unlikely to progress beyond an agrarian feudal society due to dearth of natural resources. We can't screw this one up!
It's not a matter of what they had in terms of land, population and resources. It's a matter of starting conditions. China was undeveloped and dominated by the West until the middle 20th century. Russia, before World War I, was an agrarian backwater where serfdom had barely ceased 100 years before that. No, the playing field was not fair for these communist nations.
That said, I don't think pure communism can work regardless of starting conditions.
But socialism is NOT communism, and you're doing a disservice to us all by conflating the two concepts. Please, stop it. Western Europe is socialist, and it's doing quite well, thank you. Their personal liberties (outside a few cases involving Nazi relics) are not curtailed in any way, and in some ways, they're more free than we are here. Europeans can start businesses, associate with whom they please, say what they would in public, and they live under socialist governments that also happen to be democracies.
Western Europe is socialist. What you're talking about is communism, which inevitably decays to centralized authoritarianism, much like an atom of uranium will inevitably decay to lead. Don't confuse the proven ideas of socialism with the misguided efforts of communists. You poison the concept of socialism that way.
And what, exactly, is wrong with a touch of socialism? It's not the boogeyman. It works well in Europe and Canada, and it works here, in the form of social security, disability, unemployment insurance and so on. Stop listening to those who have conditioned you to react with a violent, kneejerk response to the word "socialism" and start thinking for yourself. Examine what a concept actually is before denouncing it. We seem to have lost the ability to rationally discuss certain topics because certain words have become taboo.
Okay, for the sake of argument, assume the OP meant a CPU with one instruction, the mythical decrement-and-branch-if-zero. I'd rather have a 2ghz x86 chip than a 10ghz single-instruction processor.:-)
Almost every "Web 2.0" site I visit actually works less well than equivalent sites did years ago. Now, photo galleries use ajax and javascript to switch pages, making it impossible to, say, open each page in a new tab and switch between them. Obscenely huge tables are loaded and sorted using javascript instead of letting me sort on the server side. Forum software prevents me from replying in a new window, or heck, even gracefully switching between threads. Keyboard support is often non-existent, since everyone thinks it's cool to reimplement the button element with sixteen DIVs and a Javascript widget framework.
You know what the worst is, though? The most useless example of sheep-like trend following?
Go to eBay.com's front page, and mouseover one of the menus at the top. The damn server PERFORMS AN AJAX QUERY to eBay to get the four items in the menu. They should know better.
Please, just wake me up when the "web 2.0" fad is over.
Hey. We do the same thing at my place, but with a little bit of a twist.
If somebody comes in through google for visit A, then two weeks later, comes back directly to the site for visit B and buys something,we attribute that sale to A. We figure that somebody found out about the site through google on visit A, so we can attribute the sale to the corresponding adwords campaign. There are advantages to building your own reporting tools.:-)
He can statically link with LGPLv2 libraries as well -- he just needs to provide the object files that can be used to relink the code. I really don't think that's a big deal.
Bullshit. First, it should be advertised as "up to X on the web" or somesuch, not overall. It needs to be obvious that some capping is performed.
If the system really can't cope with capacity, there is a very fair, reasonable policy for dealing with the system. It has two parts:
Using QoS to give HTTP, VOIP and other traffic higher priority. That means that when the pipe isn't being used, lower-priority traffic can use the full pipe.
A real-time network status display that indicates roughly what portion of an ISP's network is being used for what type of traffic at a given time. Using this, the client can be reassured that the ISP isn't capping traffic for other, nefarious reasons.
Anything else is just your usual corporate scum work. I can't stomach living in a society like this sometimes. Where is the outrage? Where are the regulations? This is greed, not necessity.
You're a fucking shill. Now, I'm ordinarily a little more civil than that, but I think it's warranted here. Why would any ordinary person so consistently defend the huge corporate conglomerate and its anti-consumer practices? What does the ordinary user gain from what TW is doing?
Time Warner has a legal, natural monopoly on internet access in many areas. In exchange for that privilege, it needs to serve the public interest. Just as the electric company is not allowed to suddenly increase rates 200% and only provide power during peak hours to people who pay an extra fee, cable modem companies should not be able to discriminate like this.
Just because you personally don't use newsgroups, P2P networks and so on does not mean that someday the kind of traffic you enjoy won't be throttled as well. It harms everybody. Comparing that traffic to spam is disingenuous to the point of fraud. Spam is sent uninvited; newsgroup traffic, on the other hand, is initiated by the customer doing exactly what it is that he signed up for.
Why the hell would you promote a company that limits your access to what you paid for, and gives you nothing in return, unless you were being paid to do it? Get the fuck out.
You couldn't be more wrong, sir. Error handling in CSS is defined in great detail in the CSS spec, and it's important that browsers handle it properly so that future CSS revisions can provide new properties and syntax without breaking old clients. ACID2 ensures that browsers are forward-compatible with future versions of CSS.
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What's the legal argument against running modified code on a tivo that you own? If it's my device, book, DVD or anything else, I ought to be able to do anything I want to it so long as I don't distribute the result.
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So what? It's a friggin' wart. It's not going to hurt you. Do you really need to be seen urgently? And I bet if you walked into the ER carrying one severed arm with the other, you'd be seen a lot sooner. I live in the US, and I'd gladly wait three months for a wart checkup if it means that an unexpected injury or illness won't bankrupt me.
How is an AV program supposed to distinguish an in-process Explorer COM extension from Explorer itself?
No, you haven't. If I release a GPLed program and you distribute it in a way not allowed by the GPL, you haven't misappropriated anything; you've merely violated my copyright.
"I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." - Charles Babbage
Fair enough. But "loophole" or not, it was a perfectly legitimate website. It's disingenuous at best, and fraudulent at worst, to call allofmp3 an "illegal website." The fact is that it was a legal business that the US happened to not like.
Nerds are people first and nerds second, and as people, we should all be concerned about the actions of thus most unctuous and corrupt government.
Consider this carefully: there is no right to profit.
So? You can only rob physical items, not opportunities and ideas If you own a diner, and I open a better one down the street, perhaps you won't be able to tell as many burgers. Does that mean that I've robbed you of sales in some metaphorical sense? You bet. Is the wrong? No. Is it legally actionable that I've caused the theft of your customers? Not in a million years.
allofmp3 WAS legitimate in Russia. It paid royalties to ROMS, the Russian organization responsible for collecting copyright fees. The RIAA simply didn't like ROMS' rates and structures (even though Russia, as a sovereign nation, has every right to set its own royalties), and declared allofmp3 illegal.
Any previous advanced civilization on earth would have depleted its mineral resources in its rise to high technology, just as we have. That we have (or had, anyway) oil, coal and natural gas in abundance indicates that we are indeed the first civilization to arise on this planet. These resources take hundreds of millions of years to form, and complex life hasn't been around long enough for that to have happened twice.
Not only are we the first civilization, but we are likely to be the last. Any future society is unlikely to progress beyond an agrarian feudal society due to dearth of natural resources. We can't screw this one up!
It's not a matter of what they had in terms of land, population and resources. It's a matter of starting conditions. China was undeveloped and dominated by the West until the middle 20th century. Russia, before World War I, was an agrarian backwater where serfdom had barely ceased 100 years before that. No, the playing field was not fair for these communist nations.
That said, I don't think pure communism can work regardless of starting conditions.
But socialism is NOT communism, and you're doing a disservice to us all by conflating the two concepts. Please, stop it. Western Europe is socialist, and it's doing quite well, thank you. Their personal liberties (outside a few cases involving Nazi relics) are not curtailed in any way, and in some ways, they're more free than we are here. Europeans can start businesses, associate with whom they please, say what they would in public, and they live under socialist governments that also happen to be democracies.
There is nothing wrong with socialism.
Western Europe is socialist. What you're talking about is communism, which inevitably decays to centralized authoritarianism, much like an atom of uranium will inevitably decay to lead. Don't confuse the proven ideas of socialism with the misguided efforts of communists. You poison the concept of socialism that way.
A concentration of population is not the same as a concentration of economic might.
And what, exactly, is wrong with a touch of socialism? It's not the boogeyman. It works well in Europe and Canada, and it works here, in the form of social security, disability, unemployment insurance and so on. Stop listening to those who have conditioned you to react with a violent, kneejerk response to the word "socialism" and start thinking for yourself. Examine what a concept actually is before denouncing it. We seem to have lost the ability to rationally discuss certain topics because certain words have become taboo.
*sigh*
Okay, for the sake of argument, assume the OP meant a CPU with one instruction, the mythical decrement-and-branch-if-zero. I'd rather have a 2ghz x86 chip than a 10ghz single-instruction processor. :-)
I bet you had to install a custom CA certificate in the browser though, or the ad-blocker's installation program did that for you.
Almost every "Web 2.0" site I visit actually works less well than equivalent sites did years ago. Now, photo galleries use ajax and javascript to switch pages, making it impossible to, say, open each page in a new tab and switch between them. Obscenely huge tables are loaded and sorted using javascript instead of letting me sort on the server side. Forum software prevents me from replying in a new window, or heck, even gracefully switching between threads. Keyboard support is often non-existent, since everyone thinks it's cool to reimplement the button element with sixteen DIVs and a Javascript widget framework.
You know what the worst is, though? The most useless example of sheep-like trend following?
Go to eBay.com's front page, and mouseover one of the menus at the top. The damn server PERFORMS AN AJAX QUERY to eBay to get the four items in the menu. They should know better.
Please, just wake me up when the "web 2.0" fad is over.
Holy cow, I didn't know you read Slashdot! I'm impressed, sir. :-)
Hey. We do the same thing at my place, but with a little bit of a twist.
:-)
If somebody comes in through google for visit A, then two weeks later, comes back directly to the site for visit B and buys something,we attribute that sale to A. We figure that somebody found out about the site through google on visit A, so we can attribute the sale to the corresponding adwords campaign. There are advantages to building your own reporting tools.
"The internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it."
So import your custom CA certificate into Firefox, and it won't complain anymore. Problem solved. Firefox is doing exactly what it's supposed to do.
He can statically link with LGPLv2 libraries as well -- he just needs to provide the object files that can be used to relink the code. I really don't think that's a big deal.
If the system really can't cope with capacity, there is a very fair, reasonable policy for dealing with the system. It has two parts:
Anything else is just your usual corporate scum work. I can't stomach living in a society like this sometimes. Where is the outrage? Where are the regulations? This is greed, not necessity.
You're a fucking shill. Now, I'm ordinarily a little more civil than that, but I think it's warranted here. Why would any ordinary person so consistently defend the huge corporate conglomerate and its anti-consumer practices? What does the ordinary user gain from what TW is doing?
Time Warner has a legal, natural monopoly on internet access in many areas. In exchange for that privilege, it needs to serve the public interest. Just as the electric company is not allowed to suddenly increase rates 200% and only provide power during peak hours to people who pay an extra fee, cable modem companies should not be able to discriminate like this.
Just because you personally don't use newsgroups, P2P networks and so on does not mean that someday the kind of traffic you enjoy won't be throttled as well. It harms everybody. Comparing that traffic to spam is disingenuous to the point of fraud. Spam is sent uninvited; newsgroup traffic, on the other hand, is initiated by the customer doing exactly what it is that he signed up for.
Why the hell would you promote a company that limits your access to what you paid for, and gives you nothing in return, unless you were being paid to do it? Get the fuck out.
You couldn't be more wrong, sir. Error handling in CSS is defined in great detail in the CSS spec, and it's important that browsers handle it properly so that future CSS revisions can provide new properties and syntax without breaking old clients. ACID2 ensures that browsers are forward-compatible with future versions of CSS.
What's the legal argument against running modified code on a tivo that you own? If it's my device, book, DVD or anything else, I ought to be able to do anything I want to it so long as I don't distribute the result.