Allow me to add a recommendation for Frederick Turner's "The New World" (an epic poem).
"Set four hundred years in the future, Frederick Turner's epic poem, The New World, celebrates American culture in A.D. 2376. As the book opens, the nation-state has been replaced by new political forms: the Riots, violent matriachies, whose members are addicted to psychedelic joyjuice; the Burbs, populations descended from the old middle classes and now slaves to the Riots; the Mad Counties, religious theocracies dominated by fanatical fundamentalists; and the Free Counties, Jeffersonian democracies where arts and sciences flourish."
The meter is based on an enjambed long line divided by a caesura. It is very fun to read.
Princeton Paperbacks, 1985, ISBN 0-691-01420-5
I'll represent. OmniWeb is the only browser I've used for many months. I used to keep Mozilla around just in case, but I just haven't needed it.
Something amazing that the reviewer missed is the fact that you can drive OmniWeb using speech recognition. It just works. Say page up, it goes page up. Say the name of a link, and even on a Slashdot page with many links, it works.
Persistant history (global and window-specific), bookmarks in a drawer, Services, spell checking in forms, and the most intuitive, invisible UI you have ever seen make OmniWeb great.
I am going to write to Blizzard and tell them that the DMCA is a bad law and people who use it are bad people.
Regarding property rights: no one has the right to block the curious mind from observing any part of material reality and sharing the results. No law prevents me from doing that, except for national secrets, insider trading information, and private property.
If I purchase a DVD player or an e-book, and I have that in my living room can it possibly be considered to be someone else's private property? Possession is 9/10ths of the law. It isn't a national secret, and it doesn't defraud anyone if I explore it and I share the results.
If someone pirates a DVD or an e-book, then they have committed a crime. If they used my discoveries to commit this crime, that is not my fault.
My idea is that buying and selling used software is a great way of punishing DMCA users.
Instead of renting or buying new videos and CDs, I will buy them used. It's a great deal. I watched someone walk out of Goodwill with 5 tapes full of X-Files episodes for cheap. Garage sales, e-bay, and used software stores and CD stores have what you want. The bad guys starve, the artist gets your fandom, and you get the goods.
I hope that the DMCA will be unmade or fixed soon, and I know they are working on it but until then these corporations are overstepping their bounds.
Slashdot Mirror
1. Disband the steering committee
2. Announce open seats on the new "get out and push" committee.
Allow me to add a recommendation for Frederick Turner's "The New World" (an epic poem). "Set four hundred years in the future, Frederick Turner's epic poem, The New World, celebrates American culture in A.D. 2376. As the book opens, the nation-state has been replaced by new political forms: the Riots, violent matriachies, whose members are addicted to psychedelic joyjuice; the Burbs, populations descended from the old middle classes and now slaves to the Riots; the Mad Counties, religious theocracies dominated by fanatical fundamentalists; and the Free Counties, Jeffersonian democracies where arts and sciences flourish." The meter is based on an enjambed long line divided by a caesura. It is very fun to read. Princeton Paperbacks, 1985, ISBN 0-691-01420-5
I'll represent. OmniWeb is the only browser I've used for many months. I used to keep Mozilla around just in case, but I just haven't needed it.
Something amazing that the reviewer missed is the fact that you can drive OmniWeb using speech recognition. It just works. Say page up, it goes page up. Say the name of a link, and even on a Slashdot page with many links, it works.
Persistant history (global and window-specific), bookmarks in a drawer, Services, spell checking in forms, and the most intuitive, invisible UI you have ever seen make OmniWeb great.
Plus throbbing Aqua Submit buttons!
DMCA "think! It ain't illegal yet!" (p-funk)
I am going to write to Blizzard and tell them that the DMCA is a bad law and people who use it are bad people.
Regarding property rights: no one has the right to block the curious mind from observing any part of material reality and sharing the results. No law prevents me from doing that, except for national secrets, insider trading information, and private property.
If I purchase a DVD player or an e-book, and I have that in my living room can it possibly be considered to be someone else's private property? Possession is 9/10ths of the law. It isn't a national secret, and it doesn't defraud anyone if I explore it and I share the results.
If someone pirates a DVD or an e-book, then they have committed a crime. If they used my discoveries to commit this crime, that is not my fault.
My idea is that buying and selling used software is a great way of punishing DMCA users.
Instead of renting or buying new videos and CDs, I will buy them used. It's a great deal. I watched someone walk out of Goodwill with 5 tapes full of X-Files episodes for cheap. Garage sales, e-bay, and used software stores and CD stores have what you want. The bad guys starve, the artist gets your fandom, and you get the goods.
I hope that the DMCA will be unmade or fixed soon, and I know they are working on it but until then these corporations are overstepping their bounds.