I'm glad that they are taking a stand, but how can they sue if they haven't done anything?
From the article: According to Monday's complaint, the Motion Picture Association of America, which represents major Hollywood studios, has been quoted in newspaper articles as threatening to sue 321 to stop it from distributing DVD Copy Plus, saying it may violate the DMCA.
How can they sue if they heard that they might face litigation? This makes no sense. 321 Studio has not been officially acused of doing anything wrong. Can they really be sued for being bullied?
we see the hint of a possible connection between the arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays and locations on the sky of nearby dormant galaxies
Can't they be a bit more specific? Are they talking about gamma radiation? They shouldn't use such general terms, otherwise I might confuse this with the messages from Krang that keep getting trapped in my skull. (I'm assuming they aren't referring to some intergalactic dude named "Ray".)
I know it isn't kosher to reply to your own reply, but I thought about the original posting. Basic research can lead to good things, but applied research is not good in and of itself. For example, check out the work of Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck and his pursuit of the
drip free teapot.
He has been richly rewarded.
Its not possible to figure out what direction this sort of information will lead the science community. That is why it is called "basic research." The principle argument is that it helps us understand the universe around us. The implicit assumption is that people will be able to exploit whatever knowledge eventually comes out of this research.
There is a good deal of tension between advocates of basic versus applied research, and there needs to be a better dialog. Currently it is a bunch of people throwing around assumptions about the merits of both types of research, but no one seems to really engage the other. (IMHO).
As an aside, there was a link from the article about the Japanese detector. Seems that one of the tubes blew which set of a cascade that destroyed most of the remaining tubes. I can't imagine the boom that one made...
Does this mean I can take my machine to Michigan and get my $25 deposit back?
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From the list of the cast of characters:
Linus Torvalds.... Himself
Richard Stallman.... Himself
Eric Raymond.... Himself
Bruce Perens.... Himself
...
Rob Malda.... Himself (On Inflatable Couch)
With studs like this running around it is definitely a real chick flick. With this sort of beef hanging around this will definitely be the big date movie of the summer!
MS wants you to think that they are the only OS for a PC and that this is one of the good kinds of monopolies. Why would anybody be surprised at this? Many elementary and middle schools are mac based, and those that aren't are ms based. Linux doesn't have much of a hold here (yes there are exceptions).
All in all, this isn't bad advice. They are telling schools to cover their a$$. I don't like it, but I would make the same recomendations. I've tried to sell linux to folks, but they don't have the time nor know-how to make what they see is a huge change away from mac or windows.
Read the article. The pages are hosted by a group hostile to the German Government. Note one interesting quote from the article on InfoWorld:
We always have trouble with people sabotaging our system and people were following these instructions,
Hmmm. They might want to try reading the instructions and then figure out what people are doing! If I were a paying customer on the train I would rather their efforts go in making the train safe rather than trying to control documents already on the internet on how to stop the train. Then again, I'm an idealist.
From the article: They are also calling on African countries to take action by getting together to reduce their costs.
I hope that the West doesn't view this as a threat to their business interests and try to squash it. We have done that with textile industries in Africa. The result is that we have kept an extremely important industry out of a developing continent because we are trying to protect our own markets. This has had a devestating affect on the African economies.
It looks like the Africans are responding and they should be allowed to compete. The real question is whether or not we allow free commerce and don't try to force Africa to stop this practice.
Governments in the West have been extremely influential in the spread of information technology here. Africa should have the same opportunity.
There's also the leakage problem. It is such a light gas that it is very difficult to avoid losing some. This means that it is beneficial to use it in very well ventilated places. The bad news: this is not what you look for in a house on Iceland!
When will Apple just win the PC war? I mean, they DO have the superior computer.
Not only that but they have the absolute bestest interface of all time because they don't have a command line! Oh 5h17... what's that icon in the middle of the toolbar?
This is pure speculation with no basis in reality. It is bad enough that zdnet rewards writers to fabricate this stuff, why should slashdot repeat it? All this does is reward zdnet by creating more hits for their advertising clients.
You are right, we should not be advocating laws that reduce a persons ability to send packets across a wire. However, there should be accountability. That means that people should not be able to fake their return address.
The dual nature of rights is that they must include responsibilities for other persons rights. A person should not be banned from sending me email about how to find pictures of underage girls, but by the same token that person should not be able to hide behind a fake email address so that I am not able to let him know why I do not appreciate the message being sent to me. People who send me spam should be willing to accept the risk that I can do unto them as they do unto me.
If car companies are not allowed to flash "YOU WON A PRIZE... come here to get it" on my TV...
I was under the distinct impression that they can do this. The only difference is that the content on TV is all turned off at the same time so that I see ads on every channel when I try to surf away!
Could you imagine the uproar if companies could download software to your TV and then keep you from changing channels when their adds came on? For some reason people don't seem to mind these abuses when it is on their computer. This community has done a piss poor job of making people realize that their computers are their own personal property. There is no other product that we own in which we would put up with this sort of stuff. Opening a socket on someone elses machine is not an invitation to enter my house and do what ever the hell they want!
I'd have a really hard time believing any 13-inch long critter has gone undiscovered in Southern California.
I'm assuming that you are excluding Hollywood of course.
As for the article... eeeyu! A bug big enough to feed a coyote, that's a bit much. They ought to have leash laws for these crickets. Imagine if they grew into large populations like mormom crickets?
So we should paint the asteroid bright orange and engrave the word DANGEROUS on the side of it?
That would have the beneficial side effect of marking it for space ships. Of course this is assuming that ET reads english.
Simply altering the surface albedo in places, for example by selectively dropping white chalk or black carbon powder to darken or lighten some regions, could be enough to do the trick.
Now this is a cool idea. If they make it white on one end and black on the other maybe they could make it spin. If this were possible, could they create a cloud of dust between the asteroid and the sun for a temporary effect?
I agree. Once something pops on slashdot it's time to just move on and get on with our lives. We should not have to ever see another article on 3d imaging, DSL on the American west coast, KDE, or Bill Gates. Considering all the attention Uncle Bill gets around here, we especially don't need to hear anything else about him!
The alignment would be all that bad. All you need is to do is to divide the screen into two pictures. Then tape a piece of cardboard so that it divides the two images. Now put a couple of lenses at the other end of the cardboard. Instant stereoscope!
The technology of the roaring 90's (1890's) meets the technology of the twenty-first century. Just think, we all thought that we would get flying cars.
It never ceases to amaze me how angry and venomous, yet utterly clueless a few people can be...
Wow, you need to point that browser over to a real news site and see what people are doing to each other in other parts of die welt. Here, I'm just glad that I can choose not to click on the link with the digital crappers. Considering that they mentioned Japan, though, the article is probaly for real....
M$ can compete with it by crushing it. M$ has done this before. How come we arrogantly assume that M$ is somehow unable to deal with the GPL when it got to where it is today by crushing other open software projects during its very beginnings.
M$ does create an OS and software packages that my dad can use. So far linux has not. The only people who care about the GPL are a subset of programmers. Civilians look at software as a commodity that comes in a box, and hence it is not a foreign idea to pay for it.
The bigger issue for M$ is the Free Software Foundation and others who are trying to convince people that software is not a commodity but is equal to speech and ideas. These sorts of ideas are what is disruptive.
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Do you mean that it is irrelevant to you? For some people, Knuth for example, the obsession with algorithms is very important. Thank goodness that they did do this so that you and I could borrow their work and not invent it ourselves. Some people spend a great deal of time trying to construct and refine algorithms. I would guess that few people in our society care, but it is greater than.001% of the people in the scientific computation communittee.
Not only that, did they realy have to explain the jokes? Who would have thought that the square root of a million has been found? I realize that the general populace lacks some mathematical sophistication, but that is not a reason to be that condescending.
Slashdot Mirror
From the article:
According to Monday's complaint, the Motion Picture Association of America, which represents major Hollywood studios, has been quoted in newspaper articles as threatening to sue 321 to stop it from distributing DVD Copy Plus, saying it may violate the DMCA.
How can they sue if they heard that they might face litigation? This makes no sense. 321 Studio has not been officially acused of doing anything wrong. Can they really be sued for being bullied?
Can't they be a bit more specific? Are they talking about gamma radiation? They shouldn't use such general terms, otherwise I might confuse this with the messages from Krang that keep getting trapped in my skull. (I'm assuming they aren't referring to some intergalactic dude named "Ray".)
I know it isn't kosher to reply to your own reply, but I thought about the original posting. Basic research can lead to good things, but applied research is not good in and of itself. For example, check out the work of Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck and his pursuit of the drip free teapot. He has been richly rewarded.
There is a good deal of tension between advocates of basic versus applied research, and there needs to be a better dialog. Currently it is a bunch of people throwing around assumptions about the merits of both types of research, but no one seems to really engage the other. (IMHO).
As an aside, there was a link from the article about the Japanese detector. Seems that one of the tubes blew which set of a cascade that destroyed most of the remaining tubes. I can't imagine the boom that one made...
Does this mean I can take my machine to Michigan and get my $25 deposit back?
Linus Torvalds .... Himself
Richard Stallman .... Himself
Eric Raymond .... Himself
Bruce Perens .... Himself
Rob Malda .... Himself (On Inflatable Couch)
With studs like this running around it is definitely a real chick flick. With this sort of beef hanging around this will definitely be the big date movie of the summer!
All in all, this isn't bad advice. They are telling schools to cover their a$$. I don't like it, but I would make the same recomendations. I've tried to sell linux to folks, but they don't have the time nor know-how to make what they see is a huge change away from mac or windows.
We always have trouble with people sabotaging our system and people were following these instructions,
Hmmm. They might want to try reading the instructions and then figure out what people are doing! If I were a paying customer on the train I would rather their efforts go in making the train safe rather than trying to control documents already on the internet on how to stop the train. Then again, I'm an idealist.
They are also calling on African countries to take action by getting together to reduce their costs.
I hope that the West doesn't view this as a threat to their business interests and try to squash it. We have done that with textile industries in Africa. The result is that we have kept an extremely important industry out of a developing continent because we are trying to protect our own markets. This has had a devestating affect on the African economies.
It looks like the Africans are responding and they should be allowed to compete. The real question is whether or not we allow free commerce and don't try to force Africa to stop this practice. Governments in the West have been extremely influential in the spread of information technology here. Africa should have the same opportunity.
There's also the leakage problem. It is such a light gas that it is very difficult to avoid losing some. This means that it is beneficial to use it in very well ventilated places. The bad news: this is not what you look for in a house on Iceland!
Not only that but they have the absolute bestest interface of all time because they don't have a command line! Oh 5h17... what's that icon in the middle of the toolbar?
These are the sorts of instructions I don't like to see in a mod! At least it doesn't mention chewing gum...
This is pure speculation with no basis in reality. It is bad enough that zdnet rewards writers to fabricate this stuff, why should slashdot repeat it? All this does is reward zdnet by creating more hits for their advertising clients.
The dual nature of rights is that they must include responsibilities for other persons rights. A person should not be banned from sending me email about how to find pictures of underage girls, but by the same token that person should not be able to hide behind a fake email address so that I am not able to let him know why I do not appreciate the message being sent to me. People who send me spam should be willing to accept the risk that I can do unto them as they do unto me.
I was under the distinct impression that they can do this. The only difference is that the content on TV is all turned off at the same time so that I see ads on every channel when I try to surf away!
Could you imagine the uproar if companies could download software to your TV and then keep you from changing channels when their adds came on? For some reason people don't seem to mind these abuses when it is on their computer. This community has done a piss poor job of making people realize that their computers are their own personal property. There is no other product that we own in which we would put up with this sort of stuff. Opening a socket on someone elses machine is not an invitation to enter my house and do what ever the hell they want!
I'm assuming that you are excluding Hollywood of course.
As for the article... eeeyu! A bug big enough to feed a coyote, that's a bit much. They ought to have leash laws for these crickets. Imagine if they grew into large populations like mormom crickets?
So we should paint the asteroid bright orange and engrave the word DANGEROUS on the side of it? That would have the beneficial side effect of marking it for space ships. Of course this is assuming that ET reads english.
Well.. yeah.. it would be bad, but it would look cool. It would be even better if it had stripes like a barber pole!
Now this is a cool idea. If they make it white on one end and black on the other maybe they could make it spin. If this were possible, could they create a cloud of dust between the asteroid and the sun for a temporary effect?
I agree. Once something pops on slashdot it's time to just move on and get on with our lives. We should not have to ever see another article on 3d imaging, DSL on the American west coast, KDE, or Bill Gates. Considering all the attention Uncle Bill gets around here, we especially don't need to hear anything else about him!
The technology of the roaring 90's (1890's) meets the technology of the twenty-first century. Just think, we all thought that we would get flying cars.
Wow, you need to point that browser over to a real news site and see what people are doing to each other in other parts of die welt. Here, I'm just glad that I can choose not to click on the link with the digital crappers. Considering that they mentioned Japan, though, the article is probaly for real....
M$ can compete with it by crushing it. M$ has done this before. How come we arrogantly assume that M$ is somehow unable to deal with the GPL when it got to where it is today by crushing other open software projects during its very beginnings.
M$ does create an OS and software packages that my dad can use. So far linux has not. The only people who care about the GPL are a subset of programmers. Civilians look at software as a commodity that comes in a box, and hence it is not a foreign idea to pay for it.
The bigger issue for M$ is the Free Software Foundation and others who are trying to convince people that software is not a commodity but is equal to speech and ideas. These sorts of ideas are what is disruptive.
Do you mean that it is irrelevant to you? For some people, Knuth for example, the obsession with algorithms is very important. Thank goodness that they did do this so that you and I could borrow their work and not invent it ourselves. Some people spend a great deal of time trying to construct and refine algorithms. I would guess that few people in our society care, but it is greater than .001% of the people in the scientific computation communittee.
Not only that, did they realy have to explain the jokes? Who would have thought that the square root of a million has been found? I realize that the general populace lacks some mathematical sophistication, but that is not a reason to be that condescending.