Why not "use p2p to do collaborative distributed backups using xor as the encryption scheme"? Then I could just say that I simply backed up my data which happened to be mostly mp3/xvid's. And the reason I downloaded all that other encrypted data from others is because I want to contribute back to my "backup-community". All files are encrypted (using simple xor). So if MPAA/RIAA/M$ claims they have investigated my "backups" and noticed "illegal" software, I could just sue them for violating the DMCA for trying (and succeeding) to break my "crypto".
..or I'll just stick to Freenet (freenetproject.org)
Don't run down stairs. Run up stairs. I've worked as a paperboy for one year and didn't listen to ppl saying it would be more damaging to the knees if I ran downstairs. "Yeah right", I thought. "Of course it's better to run down stairs. It feels easier and must therefore also _be_ easier (on the knees)".
But after 75% of a year my knees suddenly started to hurt. After just a few days they hurt so much I could barely walk even on ordinary road that tilted downwards just 5 or 10 degrees. If the road tilted up, I didn't feel any problem.
I drew the conclusion that I probably should at least try the absurd idea of running upwards the stairs and taking the elevator down, instead. The same day I incorporated that simple change, I could walk downhill again.
..but: There is a slight pain in my knees from that day on if I walk great distances. Just slight enough to remind me of me being stubborn enough to follow my own logic. But I guess that is a price you have to pay to become such an enlighted individual as I;).
P.S.
I tried to search the discussion to see if anyone had already warned you about running down stairs. But I couldn't get all the comments on the same webpage so I could do a text-search using my browsers built-in search function. There were over ten pages of comments at mod 0+. And./'s search function could only search for the word "run" inside subjects - not bodies. Am I missing a feature here?
Hmm.. How very innovative of the inventor. So an "invention" as obvious as this may exist in Japan for 20 years, and still the US "inventor" gets a US patent? Did the PTO know this while issuing the patent? So prior art is only prior art if it is prior art inside the US?
Yes. What's there to stop "them" from scanning and storing the serial numbers from each bill you take out from the ATM? If "they" later want to know who where likely to have paid for x, they can compare the bills serial number from both machines.
To : rinda.vas@amgreetings.com Cc: Attchmnt: Subject : http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-04 -14&res=l ----- Message Text ----- Hi,
I read a news article quoteing a comic strip. But the article didn't say what the joke was. So I tried to access the articles link to the strip but only got your email address instead. As a result I don't understand. Can you please email me the strip or explain the joke to me? Was it funny?
> At the end of the article you will find that "Enterprise" is the lowest rated Star Trek show in history, achieving one third of the
> ratings of Voyager. And Voyager's ratings were always quite low.
I've heard many complaints that Enterprise is "the worst S:T Series so far". I've always assumed that ppl say that because it's natural to start liking sth you get accustomed to. That's simply because the brain seems to work like that. For example:
Ppl choosing to stay in abusive relationships even though they know they get so abused they are literally risking their life.
Or that annoying advertising psychology about ppl hating to see that exact same Coca Cola advertisement for the n:th time.
Ppl get accustomed to a situation and unconsciousely "feel safe" with it. Another example could be ppl who choose to not change their jobs even if they _really_ dislike their job. They "feel safe" having things they have always been. It is human to "reason" (feel) that way.
But when you started suggesting real numbers, that made me question my theory.
Therefore I have to ask you how the rating numbers were compared; did the numbers get compared like this?:
Rating = (TOS rating value for Season 1+2+3..+7)/7
Rating = (TNG rating value for Season 1+2+3..+7)/7
Rating = (DS9 rating value for Season 1+2+3..+7)/7
Rating = (VOY rating value for Season 1+2+3..+7)/7
Rating = (ENT rating value for Season 1+2)/2
That is the likely formula that was used to make the conclusion that "VOY had better ratings than ENT".
But. I wonder if the ratings would differ that drastically if one would compare it like this instead:
Rating = (TOS rating value for Season 1+2)/2
Rating = (TNG rating value for Season 1+2)/2
Rating = (DS9 rating value for Season 1+2)/2
Rating = (VOY rating value for Season 1+2)/2
Rating = (ENT rating value for Season 1+2)/2
The reason would be because the audience hasn't gotten as familiar with the crew of ENT as they have with the other crews.
After reading even the rest of this thread, so far no one has mentioned the FDL license[1].
If you want to know FSF's official view on the licenses one is supposed to use when it comes to Free documentation as opposed to Free software, you may find relevant information here[2] and here[3].
I would personally prefer FSF to distribute the book under the FDL license. However there might be a point in distributing it under their "Verbatim copying only" license[4].
Why? Maybe RMS/FSF is/are protective about what political message they wish to convey to us. If the book would be distributed under FDL, anyone could fork the book, making "pedagogical adjustments/additions". Those adjustments might alter the political message in ways RMS/FSF in some cases wouldn't approve of.
A verbatim copying only license would solve that potential problem. But it would create others. Let's say FSF get lots of feedback in a short time. Maybe they wouldn't respond quick enough. Maybe someone else could fork the book and implement the grammar correction or whatever, faster and better.
But then on the other hand, that forker should assist FSF by offering to help them. Not fork them.
And how about wanting to quote some part of the political message? As long as the quote would be verbatim, that would be ok.
But what if I have a political opinion that is 95% identical to that of the FSF? I would then want to be able to take a chapter from the book, alter it slightly to incorporate my conflicting political conviction, and call it my own. That would not be misquoteing. Perhaps even that would be ok because it is technically not a quote?
The more I think about this, the more ambivalent i am about what license I would wish the book to be distributed under. Perhaps both the FDL and the Verbatim copying only license would give me all the freedom I would possibly need in any imaginary scenario.
Also, I should point out that if it's ok to distribute parts of the book, in online html format under FSF's Verbatim copying only license, then it should be ok to distribute a book containing all the parts, under the same conditions. And the parts of the book are availible online. And the parts are under their Verbatim copying only license.
I also enjoyed reading "Why Free Software Needs Free Documentation"[5].
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Hmm.. I just thought of this:
..or I'll just stick to Freenet (freenetproject.org)
Why not "use p2p to do collaborative distributed backups using xor as the encryption scheme"? Then I could just say that I simply backed up my data which happened to be mostly mp3/xvid's. And the reason I downloaded all that other encrypted data from others is because I want to contribute back to my "backup-community". All files are encrypted (using simple xor). So if MPAA/RIAA/M$ claims they have investigated my "backups" and noticed "illegal" software, I could just sue them for violating the DMCA for trying (and succeeding) to break my "crypto".
# mod below doubleplusfunny:
s/Bill of Rights/Bill of Gates/g;
Don't run down stairs. Run up stairs. I've worked as a paperboy for one year and didn't listen to ppl saying it would be more damaging to the knees if I ran downstairs. "Yeah right", I thought. "Of course it's better to run down stairs. It feels easier and must therefore also _be_ easier (on the knees)".
..but: There is a slight pain in my knees from that day on if I walk great distances. Just slight enough to remind me of me being stubborn enough to follow my own logic. But I guess that is a price you have to pay to become such an enlighted individual as I ;).
./'s search function could only search for the word "run" inside subjects - not bodies. Am I missing a feature here?
But after 75% of a year my knees suddenly started to hurt. After just a few days they hurt so much I could barely walk even on ordinary road that tilted downwards just 5 or 10 degrees. If the road tilted up, I didn't feel any problem.
I drew the conclusion that I probably should at least try the absurd idea of running upwards the stairs and taking the elevator down, instead. The same day I incorporated that simple change, I could walk downhill again.
P.S.
I tried to search the discussion to see if anyone had already warned you about running down stairs. But I couldn't get all the comments on the same webpage so I could do a text-search using my browsers built-in search function. There were over ten pages of comments at mod 0+. And
Hmm.. How very innovative of the inventor. So an "invention" as obvious as this may exist in Japan for 20 years, and still the US "inventor" gets a US patent? Did the PTO know this while issuing the patent? So prior art is only prior art if it is prior art inside the US?
Yes. What's there to stop "them" from scanning and storing the serial numbers from each bill you take out from the ATM? If "they" later want to know who where likely to have paid for x, they can compare the bills serial number from both machines.
..one might wonder. At least I did. So I looked at the url and got a shock:
http://slate.msn.com/id/2084960/
Microsoft? Don't they have automatic filters to ban these kind of dangerous articles/ideas?
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> At the end of the article you will find that "Enterprise" is the lowest rated Star Trek show in history, achieving one third of the
> ratings of Voyager. And Voyager's ratings were always quite low.
I've heard many complaints that Enterprise is "the worst S:T Series so far". I've always assumed that ppl say that because it's natural to start liking sth you get accustomed to. That's simply because the brain seems to work like that. For example:
Ppl choosing to stay in abusive relationships even though they know they get so abused they are literally risking their life.
Or that annoying advertising psychology about ppl hating to see that exact same Coca Cola advertisement for the n:th time.
Ppl get accustomed to a situation and unconsciousely "feel safe" with it. Another example could be ppl who choose to not change their jobs even if they _really_ dislike their job. They "feel safe" having things they have always been. It is human to "reason" (feel) that way.
But when you started suggesting real numbers, that made me question my theory.
Therefore I have to ask you how the rating numbers were compared; did the numbers get compared like this?:
Rating = (TOS rating value for Season 1+2+3..+7)/7
Rating = (TNG rating value for Season 1+2+3..+7)/7
Rating = (DS9 rating value for Season 1+2+3..+7)/7
Rating = (VOY rating value for Season 1+2+3..+7)/7
Rating = (ENT rating value for Season 1+2)/2
That is the likely formula that was used to make the conclusion that "VOY had better ratings than ENT".
But. I wonder if the ratings would differ that drastically if one would compare it like this instead:
Rating = (TOS rating value for Season 1+2)/2
Rating = (TNG rating value for Season 1+2)/2
Rating = (DS9 rating value for Season 1+2)/2
Rating = (VOY rating value for Season 1+2)/2
Rating = (ENT rating value for Season 1+2)/2
The reason would be because the audience hasn't gotten as familiar with the crew of ENT as they have with the other crews.
After reading even the rest of this thread, so far no one has mentioned the FDL license[1].
e DocumentationLicensesm Copying
If you want to know FSF's official view on the licenses one is supposed to use when it comes to Free documentation as opposed to Free software, you may find relevant information here[2] and here[3].
I would personally prefer FSF to distribute the book under the FDL license. However there might be a point in distributing it under their "Verbatim copying only" license[4].
Why? Maybe RMS/FSF is/are protective about what political message they wish to convey to us. If the book would be distributed under FDL, anyone could fork the book, making "pedagogical adjustments/additions". Those adjustments might alter the political message in ways RMS/FSF in some cases wouldn't approve of.
A verbatim copying only license would solve that potential problem. But it would create others. Let's say FSF get lots of feedback in a short time. Maybe they wouldn't respond quick enough. Maybe someone else could fork the book and implement the grammar correction or whatever, faster and better.
But then on the other hand, that forker should assist FSF by offering to help them. Not fork them.
And how about wanting to quote some part of the political message? As long as the quote would be verbatim, that would be ok.
But what if I have a political opinion that is 95% identical to that of the FSF? I would then want to be able to take a chapter from the book, alter it slightly to incorporate my conflicting political conviction, and call it my own. That would not be misquoteing. Perhaps even that would be ok because it is technically not a quote?
The more I think about this, the more ambivalent i am about what license I would wish the book to be distributed under. Perhaps both the FDL and the Verbatim copying only license would give me all the freedom I would possibly need in any imaginary scenario.
Also, I should point out that if it's ok to distribute parts of the book, in online html format under FSF's Verbatim copying only license, then it should be ok to distribute a book containing all the parts, under the same conditions. And the parts of the book are availible online. And the parts are under their Verbatim copying only license.
I also enjoyed reading "Why Free Software Needs Free Documentation"[5].
[1]:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
[2]:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#Fre
[3]:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-gfdl.html
[4]:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#Verbati
[5]:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-doc.html