now here's a real group focused on piracy. i lived briefly with one, a real nasty person too. they make about anywhere from 100-300 bucks a pop and purely at the expense of the sat companies.
good to see this defined as what it is, not DMCA.
fact is, they are very clearly breaking the law, very deliberately, and they make a considerable sum doing so. the one i knew, earned about 50k in a year. i am glad the asshole is not part of my life anymore. a real pathetic schmuck too, so worried about IRS that he spent it all on toys (stereo, new machines) and strippers, then sat around and said he couldn't afford rent, or couldn't find a job because he was just unemployed and not reporting his Stolen income. he was 27 at the time.
sad to see a 19 yo kid getting stomped on. 19 yo kids just see the law as something to break anyway.
as in, charging more to register vehicles in the state. it can even be progressive to tax cars based on weight and mpg, or equal to maintain gas tax revenues.
course, if those crazy oregonians arent out helping each other die so much;) they're probably finding ways to switch to biodiesel or something more eco-friendly.
i think that GPS is a pure play for GPS interests, anyone find out how many GPS related tech companies are in oregon? i'm sure there's more than a few in neighboring Cali as well.
like most bad ideas, this one will go down in flames soon enough. perhaps they'll wise up in oregon and start implanting mandatory gps chips IN oregonians. after all, isn't that what the point of doing this with GPS really is????????
well, i'm replying after one hellofa party. i'm trashed, but lucid none the less, which is bad news for you pal.
i know my history (my second degree) and i can tell u that yes, the Southern Dems were racists after 1900 thru Mr. Strom "ageless wonder" Thurmond. He left the party because it turns out, the GOP suited his affiliation better than the dems who shunned his racist rhetoric.
lincoln was the last GOP president who did anything for blacks, and if you'll recall, he was also one of the earliest Repubs (actually, there before the term GOP). i think W isn't a racist (hate him otherwise), has a mixed cabinet, etc. but, last time i checked, David Duke was out there stealing republican votes from rebuplican voters. wake up, smell the roses, the GOP has been anti-immigration for years, and if you think it was just an economic stupidity, you're wrong.
i'm a dem sympathizer (i would sooner admit being a miami dolphins fan too), and have voted more dems than backwards racists party.
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al did do alot on the legislative side. just like (this gets little recognition) Dan Quayle was the legislative sponsor (and fought hard for i'll add) the Patriot missile as a senator. he does deserve credit for seeing the future way back then . . ..
even tho i voted Gore in y2k, i still think the humor (and a better spelling too i might add) is really funny! didn't you people see SNL couple weeks back?? i'm sure even Al likes it at this point.
what are all you Lusers doing debating this old issue on/. on New Years EVE fur gosh sakes??????
t - 01:07 remaining in year.
i'm smokin sum good stuff and going out. laters everyone, have fun
evercrack has all of those things you were trying to escape from, but couldn't. greed, tyranny, impotence (not sexual) and all of the other bad things that computers never do to people, but people do to people. and yes, those developers, support people and gamers are made up of people, just like me and (perhaps) you.
So, your escape dreamworld isn't working out for you? Try starcrack, its simple, quick and painless. Battle.net is free, u can get off it quick (down to ten hours a week, easy), and the backstabbing is only a loss.
. . . is it's own eventual destruction, or conversion into the book publishing industry. it is out of hand, fixing prices, and simply unresponsive to market demands these days. if it all fell apart, there might be fewer backstreet boys, and more musicians making better livings and owning their own works once again. . . . .
not trying to be original here, but . . ... . ... . .
RTFM
"As in previous years, software locked in the pre-release, beta-testing stage is considered vaporware, even if it's widely available. It hasn't shipped until it's shrink-wrapped."
mono isn't a full release yet, even 1.0 includes vapor ware (forms feature). all the good wishes to mono and ximian.
until recently, i have been out of the BIG corporate business world, choosing more artistic, and entrepreneurial clients.
being back only reminds me of one thing. Truly large CORPORATIONS do NOT HAVE SEX DRIVES (m$ excluded, but they just get off on fucking other companies up the ass). fact is, corporates lust for power. aol was never the monolith that TW is, until today. they were a very flat corporate culture comapared to TW.
bottom line. using the words corporate and sex together is silly. your warning level is at 20%, thank you, drive thru.
they sold their dating service, it was the only thing i ever used on the damn thing (boss paid for aol, i couldn't complain, just brought my own dsl). selling that service, was shooting one's self in the temple (not the head, obviously, that was well protected up their asses).
fact is, all of my friends who were aol addicts were hooking up with girls online. that's why they had aol, period. now, they're doomed to be a first rate version of msn, and that aint sayin much.
i agree. fact is, stuff that has been developed last 10 years will take a long time to gain acceptance or finish development.
for instance, nanotechnology. of course it started in the 1950s, but is really just coming of age today.
heck, after a self-sustaining nano factory goes out of control and turns us all into purple goo, it will be the most important innovation of the 21st century.
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what's up with this non-starcrack starcraft shite on/. i just wanna hear about ghost.
thank you for the correction. i thought hara-kiri is what you would do when shamed by failure or disgrace. i will use seppuku from now on. is there any difference between the two, or do you choose one based on what you feel about the individual who performed the act.
might this case qualify as hara-kiri??????
what do i know, i am just a gaijin anyhow. . . . but a damn good lookin savage at that:)
what i meant to infer by that comment was actually, quite a simple point, but i guess i was not explicit. if you issue software without a license agreement, and more specifically, without a provision of safe harbor, u could become liable for the uses or damages (god forbid) that your software makes possible.
that's why the gpl, bsd and others are so important, they give a proven, widely used way to protect copyrights for the litte guy, without a team of lawyers or the fear of liability for being creative.
i have released gpl stuff, and am working on a portal for a large company that i am licensing to them under the clarified artistic license (it's an intranet thing, see article 3, section two).
the whole gist of apple's licensing schemes (not an expert, just pointing out broad sweeps of thought here) is to maintain control of some of the core processes and things in their system to insure consistency and quality, while increasing free distribution as much as possible. in addition, it has viral provisions, like the gpl that guarantee that if you make changes, the community and company will benefit.
Apple also could be girding for future trade secrets disputes by proving it aggressively polices its intellectual property
they do this because if they do not aggressively pursue enforcement of certain Intellectual Property (IP) laws, a court may find one day that their brand has been allowed to erode. In other words, their TM will become watered down from a legal standpoint, so its stronger for them to sue everyone they can, than to let most of it slide and then lose when it counts.
this is what happens to a company after they sue m$ and win the battle, while losing the war.
as us apple power users say . . .
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plug the thing that looks like a telephone cord into the thing that looks like a telephone jack on the thing that looks like a computer . . .
aww, shucks, who are u kidding? probably some jerk-off m$ publicity house post, what, looking for more switchers? your stock photo gallery revoked your membership for using it like a twit?
have used my.mac account for three years now as primary outside email (have 10 domains) and its a champ.
apple hasn't tried the gpl. all of the darwin stuff is that isn't apple original is BSD, my very favorite liscence on earth. there is some gpl software included with the distro and tools and whatnot.
favorite thing about BSD license is that it's really really really free. restricts just about 0 uses of the code (which is why WinDoze has some of it lurkin around under the hood too, tho bastardized it may be). u can be commercial, or non-profit or mad scientist with it, and not have anyone sue you.
but the gnu-darwin geniuses are killing the distro. a damn shame.
are they smoking someting better than i have?????
if they were so concerned with these issues, why didn't you just get to work on debian?? oh, wait, HP made a DMCA threat to someone also, oh, can't do debian anymore.
they knew how it is, and was, and will be. why are they bothering to commit hari kari? just quit the project like a normal bunch zealots and go to work for richard stallman on the ever popular GNU Hurd.
i have created free software my self, and it pains me to see such blind idiocy by someone who should be more responsible. apple even releases an x86 darwin themselves, so the project is more meaningless.
the legal decision was quite specific. the intent was for legal use. intellectual property is like that, its all ideas.
yes, it does suggest jurisdiction. as important as anything else, but thats what's interesting about net law. imagine what the laws of the sea were like five hundred years ago. every case made precedent. same thing here.
but the interpretation that the DMCA has intent written into it is one of the reasons people have said all along that it was a bad piece of legislation.
i said on mac , and a dog it is. i'd say chimera, omniweb, or mozilla when pulling multiple pages (for stability purposes) are the fastest on my old assed mac. opera finally released first non-beta, its putrid
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good to see this defined as what it is, not DMCA.
fact is, they are very clearly breaking the law, very deliberately, and they make a considerable sum doing so. the one i knew, earned about 50k in a year. i am glad the asshole is not part of my life anymore. a real pathetic schmuck too, so worried about IRS that he spent it all on toys (stereo, new machines) and strippers, then sat around and said he couldn't afford rent, or couldn't find a job because he was just unemployed and not reporting his Stolen income. he was 27 at the time.
sad to see a 19 yo kid getting stomped on. 19 yo kids just see the law as something to break anyway.
course, if those crazy oregonians arent out helping each other die so much ;) they're probably finding ways to switch to biodiesel or something more eco-friendly.
i think that GPS is a pure play for GPS interests, anyone find out how many GPS related tech companies are in oregon? i'm sure there's more than a few in neighboring Cali as well.
like most bad ideas, this one will go down in flames soon enough. perhaps they'll wise up in oregon and start implanting mandatory gps chips IN oregonians. after all, isn't that what the point of doing this with GPS really is????????
i know my history (my second degree) and i can tell u that yes, the Southern Dems were racists after 1900 thru Mr. Strom "ageless wonder" Thurmond. He left the party because it turns out, the GOP suited his affiliation better than the dems who shunned his racist rhetoric.
lincoln was the last GOP president who did anything for blacks, and if you'll recall, he was also one of the earliest Repubs (actually, there before the term GOP). i think W isn't a racist (hate him otherwise), has a mixed cabinet, etc. but, last time i checked, David Duke was out there stealing republican votes from rebuplican voters. wake up, smell the roses, the GOP has been anti-immigration for years, and if you think it was just an economic stupidity, you're wrong.
screen's lookin a little fuzzy right now
itunes screen saver, don't fail me now.
sh>cd happy
sh>ls new year
agnostic reply below
al did do alot on the legislative side. just like (this gets little recognition) Dan Quayle was the legislative sponsor (and fought hard for i'll add) the Patriot missile as a senator. he does deserve credit for seeing the future way back then . . . .
even tho i voted Gore in y2k, i still think the humor (and a better spelling too i might add) is really funny! didn't you people see SNL couple weeks back?? i'm sure even Al likes it at this point.
what are all you Lusers doing debating this old issue on /. on New Years EVE fur gosh sakes??????
t - 01:07 remaining in year.
i'm smokin sum good stuff and going out. laters everyone, have fun
evercrack has all of those things you were trying to escape from, but couldn't. greed, tyranny, impotence (not sexual) and all of the other bad things that computers never do to people, but people do to people. and yes, those developers, support people and gamers are made up of people, just like me and (perhaps) you.
So, your escape dreamworld isn't working out for you? Try starcrack, its simple, quick and painless. Battle.net is free, u can get off it quick (down to ten hours a week, easy), and the backstabbing is only a loss.
grant
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. . . is it's own eventual destruction, or conversion into the book publishing industry. it is out of hand, fixing prices, and simply unresponsive to market demands these days. if it all fell apart, there might be fewer backstreet boys, and more musicians making better livings and owning their own works once again. . . . .
and clean those stains off your Ellen Fiess shirt, that kind of behavior will give you hairy palms .. . . . .. schmuck
didn't you see the switchers campaign????? isn't that just a bit aggressive?
lemme guess, you've been wearing that Ellen Fiess t-shirt this whole time, and couldn't remember why or what the ad was about?????????
RTFM
"As in previous years, software locked in the pre-release, beta-testing stage is considered vaporware, even if it's widely available. It hasn't shipped until it's shrink-wrapped."
mono isn't a full release yet, even 1.0 includes vapor ware (forms feature). all the good wishes to mono and ximian.
. . . vaporware performs critical task . . . . shows about progress of soviet state . . . is just like silicon valley vorkers paradise . . .
better to promote free-vaporware than vaporware you're paying for if it's released or not.
i don't know about how much aol code lives there, but the customer base does, and its tough to code that.
c, article is wrong, blogs caused the bubble to burst when people found out what really happens to their computers . . ..
still employed tho, must not be working, boss isn't too angry yet. guess there really is something to being self-employed :)
they sold to match.com, and that's a pay service, stupid aol execs, what did they think people paid 23.95 a mo. for in the first place.
being back only reminds me of one thing. Truly large CORPORATIONS do NOT HAVE SEX DRIVES (m$ excluded, but they just get off on fucking other companies up the ass). fact is, corporates lust for power. aol was never the monolith that TW is, until today. they were a very flat corporate culture comapared to TW.
bottom line. using the words corporate and sex together is silly. your warning level is at 20%, thank you, drive thru.
fact is, all of my friends who were aol addicts were hooking up with girls online. that's why they had aol, period. now, they're doomed to be a first rate version of msn, and that aint sayin much.
for instance, nanotechnology. of course it started in the 1950s, but is really just coming of age today.
heck, after a self-sustaining nano factory goes out of control and turns us all into purple goo, it will be the most important innovation of the 21st century.
what's up with this non-starcrack starcraft shite on /. i just wanna hear about ghost.
might this case qualify as hara-kiri??????
what do i know, i am just a gaijin anyhow. . . . but a damn good lookin savage at that :)
what i meant to infer by that comment was actually, quite a simple point, but i guess i was not explicit. if you issue software without a license agreement, and more specifically, without a provision of safe harbor, u could become liable for the uses or damages (god forbid) that your software makes possible.
that's why the gpl, bsd and others are so important, they give a proven, widely used way to protect copyrights for the litte guy, without a team of lawyers or the fear of liability for being creative.
i have released gpl stuff, and am working on a portal for a large company that i am licensing to them under the clarified artistic license (it's an intranet thing, see article 3, section two).
the whole gist of apple's licensing schemes (not an expert, just pointing out broad sweeps of thought here) is to maintain control of some of the core processes and things in their system to insure consistency and quality, while increasing free distribution as much as possible. in addition, it has viral provisions, like the gpl that guarantee that if you make changes, the community and company will benefit.
they do this because if they do not aggressively pursue enforcement of certain Intellectual Property (IP) laws, a court may find one day that their brand has been allowed to erode. In other words, their TM will become watered down from a legal standpoint, so its stronger for them to sue everyone they can, than to let most of it slide and then lose when it counts.
this is what happens to a company after they sue m$ and win the battle, while losing the war.
aww, shucks, who are u kidding? probably some jerk-off m$ publicity house post, what, looking for more switchers? your stock photo gallery revoked your membership for using it like a twit?
have used my .mac account for three years now as primary outside email (have 10 domains) and its a champ.
favorite thing about BSD license is that it's really really really free. restricts just about 0 uses of the code (which is why WinDoze has some of it lurkin around under the hood too, tho bastardized it may be). u can be commercial, or non-profit or mad scientist with it, and not have anyone sue you.
/rantyes, it does suggest jurisdiction. as important as anything else, but thats what's interesting about net law. imagine what the laws of the sea were like five hundred years ago. every case made precedent. same thing here.
but the interpretation that the DMCA has intent written into it is one of the reasons people have said all along that it was a bad piece of legislation.
i said on mac , and a dog it is. i'd say chimera, omniweb, or mozilla when pulling multiple pages (for stability purposes) are the fastest on my old assed mac. opera finally released first non-beta, its putrid