The online form is very easy and simple. FOllowing the contact information and boilerplate I filed this complaint:
The SCO group has been repeatedly making claims of intellectual property rights to computer code contained within the Linux Operating System Kernel. They are demanding, under threat of prosecution, $199 from home users of the Linux OS Kernel or $699 from business users. I fall under the home users category.
The SCO Group have offered no proof of their legal right to such claims (they have repeatedly refused requests for clarification) and all available evidence indicates that the claims are spurious.
I believe the claims are in fact fraudulent, a "shake down" attempt on the part of the SCO Group. I am hoping that the FTC will investigate these claims; I am confident that they are spurious claims, but in the unlikely event that an investigation finds SCO's claims to be founded in fact I will of course either license my Linux OS or cease using it and find an alternative.
It was very simple and took only a few minutes. I encourage other slashdotters to do likewise.
I will get rid of all of my IBM computers and Linux servers and switch to Dell servers preinstalled with Windows 2003. Then evrey one concerned will lose, including me:(
Everyone except Dell and Microsoft, you mean. In the words of (appropriately?) Deep Throat, Follow the money...
I don't know if a SD card reader would work under Linux due to all the DRM crapola. I don't know of any open SD reader/writer drivers. There's a closed one for one of the Linux PDAs however.
The Sharp Zaurus can use SD cards, but the 'security' features aren't present and they use the whole volume - so essentially it treats it as an MMC card.
This is the same scenario as the firing squad -- everyone knows that one gun contains a blank, but noone knows which one it is... therefore each person has a lingering hope that they were the one with the blank.
Not exactly. The blanks prevent anyone else (such as the deceased's buddies) from knowing who fired the fatal shot. The soldier firing the blank knows it; blanks mostly just make noise, firing a lead slug at high velocity makes the gun kick back against your shoulder with unmistakable force.
The analogy does work for the originator, though; the non-paedophiles (deceased's buddies) won't know who fired the shot (put the kiddie porn on Freenet). The one who did fire the shot (the pervert) will know it, though.
What Freenet's anonymity offers is the ability to leave moral choices (in the manner of its use) completely up to the individual conscience. The price of that is that you have to leave the manner in which others use it up to their individual consciences.
As my post implied, I haven't seen Office Space so I can't make a direct comparison. I find The Office painfully boring and unfunny; so sue me, I made a joke about it.
I'm a Irish/American dual citizen, have spent roughly equal amounts of my life on each side of the Pond, and enjoy both British and American comedy. Let's not project cultural blindness where none exists, okay?
They don't have to convince experts, they have to convince 12 people too dumb to get out of jury duty.
Or, potentially, 12 people who are smart enough to understand and accept their civic duties, knowing that the idiots who avoid basic responsibilities also have to live in the society they won't maintain.
and you don't have to worry about entanglements with a more powerful outside authority (FBI).
Wizards.
You might also note that an example of short-term benefit from betrayal was mentioned in the paper (Phrank's running off with the forest ring), along with the longer-term consequences.
Neither milieu (EQ or Mafia) could accurately be described as a zero-sum game within its own context.
I'm neither a player nor a professional sociologist, but I found the paper insightful as well as absolutely fascinating.
Any zone in which people interact is fodder for sociological analysis, and online gaming is particularly interesting because there is a level of abstraction built into the interaction (although, as the paper points out, it isn't completely isolated from "RL" relationships).
I'd look for more of these as time goes by; the creation of a virtual world comes close to addressing one of the major deficits of the 'social sciences', the inability to (ethically) set up an experiment to test a theory. It's limited, of course, since the players
1) are products of an existing culture,
2) are self-selected, and
3) are not subject to the same limitations in virtuality as in corporeality.
Nevertheless, this is an arena in which sociological concepts can in a limited fashion actually be tried out. I think we'll learn a surprising amount from it, and hopefully it will even have practical use if we go on to create new societies in space.
Thanks for the clarification, I think I misunderstood the original poster's point.
This analysis happens to apply to both candidates, doesn't it.
Not sure how it applies to Gore, it seems to me he's behaved himself pretty well since the debacle (not speaking to his behaviour at that time). No way of knowing how he'd have behaved as President, but he hasn't been out of line in his current non-position.
It seems to me that you're trying to imply that people who vote Democratic are simply stupider (more prone to error) than people who vote Republican. Perhaps you're not, but you're giving that impression.
Even stipulating that there were more errors accrued by Democrats (I'd like to see the figures though, and judge for myself whether there's any statistically significant difference), that still doesn't mean that the discrepancy was due to Democratic Party voters using the equipment incorrectly. It could equally be true that Republican-controlled districts were simply more lenient toward errors which favored Republican votes. The Republicans certainly claimed that the Democrats were so biased in judging problematical votes.
Finally, IIRC Gore offered at one point that all the votes should be recounted; overvotes, undervotes, all votes. He should have done itn much earlier in the process, before it was so plain that simple stalling would gain GWB the Oval Office, but the offer was made.
Such a recount might well have had GWB win anyway (most post hoc analyses lean that way), in which case there would be no shadow on his legitimacy.
Bush chose not to take that chance, however, showing that he was less interested in the American political process or the will of the American people than in a favorable result for himself - a philosophy he has continued to exhibit since.
If the worry is that those evil terrorists will see the source of your secure applications, the BSD license allows you to hide the altered source, doesn't it?
So even if you accept the idea that security through obscurity is a necessity for such applications (a very questionable assumption at best) you can go ahead and obscure them. Where's the ache?
The trailer's dialogue is lame beyond belief. "I am a death dealer... for centuries my kind have waged a hidden war against the Lycans (tm)..."
Looks like another "it's an excuse for special effects and damn the physics. Damn the acting too" movie. Yawn.
The day when special effects can carry a movie past lame dialogue, stupid plots and wooden acting are mercifully passing, as FX become cheaper and thereby less remarkable. That day is not yet, though... I hope this movie is better than the trailer makes it appear, but I doubt it.
The problem, I think, is that they are not allowed to tell you they are using your records in this way.
Another things libraries could do would be to set up an email list to tell you that your records were not examined by the FBI today. The PATRIOT Act forbids them to tell you if the FBI has taken the records, but it doesn't compel them to lie. If you suddenly stop receiving that email, then you know those records aren't private any more.
I've never understood why kilo- or k* down to unit are lower case (hecto- h* and deca- da* fer Gossake. The use of da* for deca- and d* for deci- is particularly stupid IMO.)
All the other unit prefixes above unit are upper case (M*, G*, T*) and all the other lower case prefixes refer to less than unit (dm, cm, mm).
Wouldn't it be more sensible to use uppercase above unit and lowercase below?
I should have known I wasn't the first to think of it. I like your formulation better, and will change it forthwith. Do you know who first said it? I'd like to give credit if I'm quoting somebody.
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I would hope that nuclear power plants also strive for great physical security.
Political donations from the movie industry in 2002 (cost of copyrights): $10,498,466
~2,450,000 deaths x SSDB: ~ $624,750,000
Everyone except Dell and Microsoft, you mean. In the words of (appropriately?) Deep Throat, Follow the money...
The Sharp Zaurus can use SD cards, but the 'security' features aren't present and they use the whole volume - so essentially it treats it as an MMC card.
"Between Ego and Entropy there is no need for a Devil." H.L. Mencken
Never mind the sperm whale, where the hell did my dolphins disappear to?
Not exactly. The blanks prevent anyone else (such as the deceased's buddies) from knowing who fired the fatal shot. The soldier firing the blank knows it; blanks mostly just make noise, firing a lead slug at high velocity makes the gun kick back against your shoulder with unmistakable force.
The analogy does work for the originator, though; the non-paedophiles (deceased's buddies) won't know who fired the shot (put the kiddie porn on Freenet). The one who did fire the shot (the pervert) will know it, though.
What Freenet's anonymity offers is the ability to leave moral choices (in the manner of its use) completely up to the individual conscience. The price of that is that you have to leave the manner in which others use it up to their individual consciences.
I'm a Irish/American dual citizen, have spent roughly equal amounts of my life on each side of the Pond, and enjoy both British and American comedy. Let's not project cultural blindness where none exists, okay?
Oh, and don't be a dick.
Strange, I was under the impression that Office Space was actually funny.
Sometimes it's hard to figure out whether an AC's opinions are worthwhile, and sometimes you know from the first word.
You mean "I"? ;)
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4)profit!
(Phew! Been saving those up...)
Or, potentially, 12 people who are smart enough to understand and accept their civic duties, knowing that the idiots who avoid basic responsibilities also have to live in the society they won't maintain.
Wizards.
You might also note that an example of short-term benefit from betrayal was mentioned in the paper (Phrank's running off with the forest ring), along with the longer-term consequences.
Neither milieu (EQ or Mafia) could accurately be described as a zero-sum game within its own context.
Any zone in which people interact is fodder for sociological analysis, and online gaming is particularly interesting because there is a level of abstraction built into the interaction (although, as the paper points out, it isn't completely isolated from "RL" relationships).
I'd look for more of these as time goes by; the creation of a virtual world comes close to addressing one of the major deficits of the 'social sciences', the inability to (ethically) set up an experiment to test a theory. It's limited, of course, since the players
Nevertheless, this is an arena in which sociological concepts can in a limited fashion actually be tried out. I think we'll learn a surprising amount from it, and hopefully it will even have practical use if we go on to create new societies in space.This analysis happens to apply to both candidates, doesn't it.
Not sure how it applies to Gore, it seems to me he's behaved himself pretty well since the debacle (not speaking to his behaviour at that time). No way of knowing how he'd have behaved as President, but he hasn't been out of line in his current non-position.
Even stipulating that there were more errors accrued by Democrats (I'd like to see the figures though, and judge for myself whether there's any statistically significant difference), that still doesn't mean that the discrepancy was due to Democratic Party voters using the equipment incorrectly. It could equally be true that Republican-controlled districts were simply more lenient toward errors which favored Republican votes. The Republicans certainly claimed that the Democrats were so biased in judging problematical votes.
Finally, IIRC Gore offered at one point that all the votes should be recounted; overvotes, undervotes, all votes. He should have done itn much earlier in the process, before it was so plain that simple stalling would gain GWB the Oval Office, but the offer was made.
Such a recount might well have had GWB win anyway (most post hoc analyses lean that way), in which case there would be no shadow on his legitimacy.
Bush chose not to take that chance, however, showing that he was less interested in the American political process or the will of the American people than in a favorable result for himself - a philosophy he has continued to exhibit since.
So even if you accept the idea that security through obscurity is a necessity for such applications (a very questionable assumption at best) you can go ahead and obscure them. Where's the ache?
Looks like another "it's an excuse for special effects and damn the physics. Damn the acting too" movie. Yawn.
The day when special effects can carry a movie past lame dialogue, stupid plots and wooden acting are mercifully passing, as FX become cheaper and thereby less remarkable. That day is not yet, though... I hope this movie is better than the trailer makes it appear, but I doubt it.
Another things libraries could do would be to set up an email list to tell you that your records were not examined by the FBI today. The PATRIOT Act forbids them to tell you if the FBI has taken the records, but it doesn't compel them to lie. If you suddenly stop receiving that email, then you know those records aren't private any more.
Better to stick to The Great Root, then? :)
Thanks! It is an awfully good one; I think I must have read it and had it percolate back up. Looks like he had quite a few of them! :)
All the other unit prefixes above unit are upper case (M*, G*, T*) and all the other lower case prefixes refer to less than unit (dm, cm, mm).
Wouldn't it be more sensible to use uppercase above unit and lowercase below?
I should have known I wasn't the first to think of it. I like your formulation better, and will change it forthwith. Do you know who first said it? I'd like to give credit if I'm quoting somebody.