background checks prior to the sale of anything more harmful than mini-marhsmallows
Don't kid yourself. Mini-marshmallows can be turned into the regular sized marshmallows with a microwave and 50 pounds of sulfide based fertilizer. The regular sized marshmallows can then be turned into the even more deadly jumbo marshmallow. I know what you're saying, if we outlaw marshmallows, only outlaws will have marshmallows; however, studies show that if we flood the criminal world with chocolate and graham crackers, they will consume 87% of their marshmallows. If we then set up routine marshmallow checkpoints on the roads, and marshmallow detectors at the airports, we can expect to get 99% of the marshmallows off of the streets by 2018.
Dividends do not drive stock price. Neither Cisco nor Microsoft, the two highest valued companies with a combined market cap of almost a trillion dollars, pay dividends. Companies which don't pay dividends have more money to invest in growth, which usually helps their stock price. You're not going to get rich off of dividends, you'd make more money by putting your money in a savings account.
I don't really see why there are country domains in a place where geography means so little.
But geography doesn't mean so little. Most people in Russia are fluent in Russian, but know little or no English and if they go to www.microsoft.ru they know they are going to get the content in their language. Ok, that can be done with www.microsoft.com using multiviews, but people in England know they can go to www.amazon.co.uk and get prices in their currency.
Stargazing during the day doesn't work too well. Besides, it's the northern lights, it's not like breaking out a telescope and trying to find a particular star, just look out your window, or *gasp* walk outside.
The grocery store analogy doesn't fit because at the store, you purchase a specific product one time. This deals with different services sold by the university avaialable over a period of time.
But they didn't pay for the service they took. They paid for a service, but that doesn't entitle them to any service.
a quick and easy check of the okstate.edu site reveals that students pay anywhere from $5 to $15 per credit hour for "Technology Fees" Some paying $100 dollar hours for computer fees.
The fact that they paid technology fees doesn't mean that they paid for the service that they took. If I go to a grocery store, I can't take whatever I want even though I've paid them for food.
I personally can't wait till the oil dries up in the middle east, so we can say "Guess what, you have nothing we want anymore. Enjoy the wasteland you call home."
And it's about that time that they demonstrate to us the power of their nuclear arsenal.
another NASA funding cut; when will people realize that knowledge cannot and shouldn't be measured in dollar signs?
Everything can be measured in dollar signs. You clearly think we need to spend more money on it, which means you're thinking of it in dollars. If you can't measure it in dollars, how do you determine how much money to spend on it?
Suppose that you offer it to them using some anonymous means: they pay you money, you return the domain to NSI, IBM complains to the FBI, the FBI takes the money from you and gives it back to IBM.
That would make it a legal issue, which there is no reason for it to be. I had assumed you were referring to some sort of self-regulation, similar to the way the NCAA makes sure that their members don't pay athletes, the NCAA can take action against the colleges, but can't involve the FBI since it's not illegal. There's no victim in the sale of a domain name, therefore there's no reason to make a federal law prohibiting the sale of them.
That's a good point. But suppose offering of such contracts were illegal, i.e. the domain name would returned to the provider if such a contract were offered.
Even so, let's say I register ibm.com and IBM decides they want it (we'll ignore the fact that they already have it), so they pay me for it, they then report to NSI that they paid me for it, NSI takes it away from me and IBM registers it. If IBM wasn't allowed to register it because they were the ones that tried to buy it, they'd just get someone else to pay for it.
but not making them open source is like kissing and stabbing someone at the same time
How is it like stabbing you? If you don't want to use non-opensourced software, then don't use it, and your life will continue to be the same (as opposed to getting stabbed, where your life will be significantly worse). They haven't taken anything away from you by not opensourcing it. Do you feel that every closed-source company out there has stabbed you?
They should follow the GPL like Linux, where companies can sell as long as they open source
They are a company who's goal is to make money, if they GPL'd it, there would be five dollar cd's on cheapbytes, and they would make less money.
It would seem their support for open source is lukewarm
Their support for opensource isn't lukewarm, it's non-existant.
one should question their intentions like wise of REAL
They intend to make as much money as they can, their first step in the linux market is to gain as much marketshare as possible.
By your logic that people's votes should only count if they have to go out of their way to cast them, should we award multiple votes to people who live further away from voting centers and offer people who live close to a voting center a fraction of a vote? Should there be a bonus for people who don't have cars? Extra votes for people who are sick that day?
No, of course not. Everyone gets one vote becuase everyone is one citizen, period, end of sentence. It's the responsibility of the government to make our lives better, if they can make our lives easier (which they can with internet voting), then they have the responsibility to do so.
all internet connections to everywhere in China were routed through some government office that blocked "unsuitable" material. It's doubtless that people found ways around this
If you tunnel a connection to a proxy (a proxy outside of China, of course) through ssh, the censormachine won't know what websites you're visiting.
Copyrights protect implementations of algorithms, not the algorithms themselves. An independent implementation of the encryption algorithm would not be subject to the conditions of the restricted license.
The MPAA argues that an independent implementation of the CSS decryption algorithm is illegal, I'm sure a similar license could be made so that a new encryption/decryption algorithm can not be used by the MPAA (or any other commercial/government organization) without violating the same laws that the MPAA claims DeCSS violates. You shouldn't even need to keep the algorithm secret, give it to everyone who agrees to the license, and if the MPAA gets their hands on it, they've either stolen a trade secret or had it leaked to them, in either case they're not allowed to use it (according to them, anyways).
Why is stuff like this patentable? Why is it that someone can take an idea that is used in the real world, and add the phrase on the internet and get a patent?
One click shopping? I go to the grocery store, when it's time to pay, I swipe my credit card through the credit card swipe machine thing and go on my way. This is the same as one click shopping, with the addition that you not only need to move your wrist (to position your mouse over the button) but also have to move your finger as well.
And now they've essentially patented giving someone a commission on the internet. If I can't take an existing idea and add the phrase in the state of Georgia on the end and patent it, then why should I be able to add the phrase on the internet and patent it? If someone can patent gambling on the internet, shouldn't I be able to patent gambling in Las Vegas?
And what about those poor suckers that have an top of the line sound card, and top or the line video card and top of the line UDMA controller. What are they going to give up on... which vendor's RedHat release are they to run?
If someone has their hard drive connected to an ata/66 port on their abit motherboard, they won't be able to install RedHat (or any other distro, I'd imagine) because RedHat requires a hard drive to install and doesn't recognize drives connected to the ata/66 on an abit motherboard. This is quite different from a sound card, which isn't required during installation and a driver can be installed at a later time if the distro doesn't have one.
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That if I own a web server I shouldn't be allowed to take down whatever I want to?
No, if you own a web server, you shouldn't feel that you have to take down whatever someone else wants you to.
background checks prior to the sale of anything more harmful than mini-marhsmallows
Don't kid yourself. Mini-marshmallows can be turned into the regular sized marshmallows with a microwave and 50 pounds of sulfide based fertilizer. The regular sized marshmallows can then be turned into the even more deadly jumbo marshmallow. I know what you're saying, if we outlaw marshmallows, only outlaws will have marshmallows; however, studies show that if we flood the criminal world with chocolate and graham crackers, they will consume 87% of their marshmallows. If we then set up routine marshmallow checkpoints on the roads, and marshmallow detectors at the airports, we can expect to get 99% of the marshmallows off of the streets by 2018.
I'm patenting air, so all you people breathing owe me money.
Since you just have a patent on air, you can only sue those that make air, not those that breathe it.
Dividends do not drive stock price. Neither Cisco nor Microsoft, the two highest valued companies with a combined market cap of almost a trillion dollars, pay dividends. Companies which don't pay dividends have more money to invest in growth, which usually helps their stock price. You're not going to get rich off of dividends, you'd make more money by putting your money in a savings account.
And of course, the obvious, use your old Amiga 500 as a door wedge
Everyone knows you're supposed to use the docking stations from your old laptops as door wedges.
I don't really see why there are country domains in a place where geography means so little.
But geography doesn't mean so little. Most people in Russia are fluent in Russian, but know little or no English and if they go to www.microsoft.ru they know they are going to get the content in their language. Ok, that can be done with www.microsoft.com using multiviews, but people in England know they can go to www.amazon.co.uk and get prices in their currency.
'Course, that was in the 80s, and I'm not sure if the problem still exists.
It does not. If it did, there would be people with Disney or C-SPAN burnt into their tv's since those networks always have their logo on the screen.
Wake Up from your nice, cumfy beds
Something tells me you're not asleep in your bed.
this is kinda late to be stargazing
Stargazing during the day doesn't work too well. Besides, it's the northern lights, it's not like breaking out a telescope and trying to find a particular star, just look out your window, or *gasp* walk outside.
The grocery store analogy doesn't fit because at the store, you purchase a specific product one time. This deals with different services sold by the university avaialable over a period of time.
But they didn't pay for the service they took. They paid for a service, but that doesn't entitle them to any service.
a quick and easy check of the okstate.edu site reveals that students pay anywhere from $5 to $15 per credit hour for "Technology Fees" Some paying $100 dollar hours for computer fees.
The fact that they paid technology fees doesn't mean that they paid for the service that they took. If I go to a grocery store, I can't take whatever I want even though I've paid them for food.
I personally can't wait till the oil dries up in the middle east, so we can say "Guess what, you have nothing we want anymore. Enjoy the wasteland you call home."
And it's about that time that they demonstrate to us the power of their nuclear arsenal.
companies like eMachines that are blatently stealing Apple's designs... well, I think they're theives. Am I wrong?
They're as much a thief as generic clothing manufacturers and beige case makers (there was someone who originated the beige case, afterall).
I doubt the U.S. is going to extradite anyone from Andover to France over a slashdot post.
What would it take to _really_ lock this thing down?
Superglue in the IDE port.
another NASA funding cut; when will people realize that knowledge cannot and shouldn't be measured in dollar signs?
Everything can be measured in dollar signs. You clearly think we need to spend more money on it, which means you're thinking of it in dollars. If you can't measure it in dollars, how do you determine how much money to spend on it?
Suppose that you offer it to them using some anonymous means: they pay you money, you return the domain to NSI, IBM complains to the FBI, the FBI takes the money from you and gives it back to IBM.
That would make it a legal issue, which there is no reason for it to be. I had assumed you were referring to some sort of self-regulation, similar to the way the NCAA makes sure that their members don't pay athletes, the NCAA can take action against the colleges, but can't involve the FBI since it's not illegal. There's no victim in the sale of a domain name, therefore there's no reason to make a federal law prohibiting the sale of them.
That's a good point. But suppose offering of such contracts were illegal, i.e. the domain name would returned to the provider if such a contract were offered.
Even so, let's say I register ibm.com and IBM decides they want it (we'll ignore the fact that they already have it), so they pay me for it, they then report to NSI that they paid me for it, NSI takes it away from me and IBM registers it. If IBM wasn't allowed to register it because they were the ones that tried to buy it, they'd just get someone else to pay for it.
I can't help thinking that the problem of domain squatting could easily be solved by simply not allowing domains to be transferred between owners.
If you couldn't sell a domain name to someone, you could offer them a 1,000 year contract to point the domain name to an IP address of their choice.
but not making them open source is like kissing and stabbing someone at the same time
How is it like stabbing you? If you don't want to use non-opensourced software, then don't use it, and your life will continue to be the same (as opposed to getting stabbed, where your life will be significantly worse). They haven't taken anything away from you by not opensourcing it. Do you feel that every closed-source company out there has stabbed you?
They should follow the GPL like Linux, where companies can sell as long as they open source
They are a company who's goal is to make money, if they GPL'd it, there would be five dollar cd's on cheapbytes, and they would make less money.
It would seem their support for open source is lukewarm
Their support for opensource isn't lukewarm, it's non-existant.
one should question their intentions like wise of REAL
They intend to make as much money as they can, their first step in the linux market is to gain as much marketshare as possible.
By your logic that people's votes should only count if they have to go out of their way to cast them, should we award multiple votes to people who live further away from voting centers and offer people who live close to a voting center a fraction of a vote? Should there be a bonus for people who don't have cars? Extra votes for people who are sick that day?
No, of course not. Everyone gets one vote becuase everyone is one citizen, period, end of sentence. It's the responsibility of the government to make our lives better, if they can make our lives easier (which they can with internet voting), then they have the responsibility to do so.
all internet connections to everywhere in China were routed through some government office that blocked "unsuitable" material. It's doubtless that people found ways around this
If you tunnel a connection to a proxy (a proxy outside of China, of course) through ssh, the censormachine won't know what websites you're visiting.
Copyrights protect implementations of algorithms, not the algorithms themselves. An independent implementation of the encryption algorithm would not be subject to the conditions of the restricted license.
The MPAA argues that an independent implementation of the CSS decryption algorithm is illegal, I'm sure a similar license could be made so that a new encryption/decryption algorithm can not be used by the MPAA (or any other commercial/government organization) without violating the same laws that the MPAA claims DeCSS violates. You shouldn't even need to keep the algorithm secret, give it to everyone who agrees to the license, and if the MPAA gets their hands on it, they've either stolen a trade secret or had it leaked to them, in either case they're not allowed to use it (according to them, anyways).
I haven't tried it, but I'd think that creating a hard link to /etc/passwd should work.
Why is stuff like this patentable? Why is it that someone can take an idea that is used in the real world, and add the phrase on the internet and get a patent?
One click shopping? I go to the grocery store, when it's time to pay, I swipe my credit card through the credit card swipe machine thing and go on my way. This is the same as one click shopping, with the addition that you not only need to move your wrist (to position your mouse over the button) but also have to move your finger as well.
And now they've essentially patented giving someone a commission on the internet. If I can't take an existing idea and add the phrase in the state of Georgia on the end and patent it, then why should I be able to add the phrase on the internet and patent it? If someone can patent gambling on the internet, shouldn't I be able to patent gambling in Las Vegas?
And what about those poor suckers that have an top of the line sound card, and top or the line video card and top of the line UDMA controller. What are they going to give up on... which vendor's RedHat release are they to run?
If someone has their hard drive connected to an ata/66 port on their abit motherboard, they won't be able to install RedHat (or any other distro, I'd imagine) because RedHat requires a hard drive to install and doesn't recognize drives connected to the ata/66 on an abit motherboard. This is quite different from a sound card, which isn't required during installation and a driver can be installed at a later time if the distro doesn't have one.