I think I smell the Bill-fucking-Gates, his money, and the odor of political manipulation.
Don't mind me, but I'm very suspicious of this. It seems a bit quick for the DOJ, which was gung-ho to draw-and-quarter the Gates-man to switch sides and say, "He's not that bad...just slap his wrist."
But what can I say, it's only Washington D.C., it's nice to visit but you don't want to live there.
All I can add is more of the same language. Blah, blah, blah...
My legal opinion is still that of "Tool vs. User". Should Remington be held liable when one of their guns is used to commit a crime? I think not. That is the only angle spoken of in the article.
The issue of freedom and intellectual property will not even be raised in-depth because most courts and lawyers are clueless compared to the "freewheeling wisdom" to be found on/.
Let's face it, if something CAN be done -- someone will want to do it. In fact, a whole group of people may find they like it.
Give people the choice! X Windows 4.0 should already have skinning capabilities built in.
Instead, it's going to have to be an add-on and further fragment the desktop/window-manager world.
Do I want my desktop to look like a scene from Star Wars? Not all the time, but it is cool when I'm in the mood. Having my computer configured the way I want it does increase my productivity.
About that mother that is scared of change, I say so what? If they don't want it, don't make them -- but I do, so I should be able to.
My new DVD player, the Apex 600A, plays DVD disks along with CD albums and CD collections of MP3s.
They are available from Circuit City at about $180. But you have to ask for them by name, they are not displayed as they are too cheap and don't have enough ROI (return-on-investment) for CC.
Just think of the possibilies if this was approved!
Non-smokers could sue every magazine in existence because they carry ads of cigarettes thereby telling you who makes them and where to get them, thereby contributing to the rise in smoking deaths.
Nike, Adidas, etc. can be sued because they make running shoes. Everyone who wears those shoes and has been in a traffic accident can sue those companies because those shoes allowed them to run in the street!
Coca-cola, Pepsi, etc. can be sued because they make drinks, and I'm sure that people have choked to death on soft-drinks somewhere.
Hollywood can be sued because they show violence in movies, which shows the common person how to commit violence!
Fear your e-mail? No one wants an exploding computer, so you should!
It doesn't stop there either, from an anonymous Middle-Eastern source, the group of programmers that gave us ICQ are working on solution to the Microsoft "problem".
Reuters Iran...
Expanding on the electronic transmission of explosives so recently reported in the Weekly World News, the original programmers of the ICQ network software have devised a way to transmit the same signals that cause the explosion of the host computer over ICQ network. The explosive packets are encoded with the specific network address to target allowing the routers, hubs, and switches of the Internet to safely transfer the deadly cargo.
It has been leaked that a small band of revolutionaries plans to target every computer within the Microsoft Complex and destroy them and their users. Microsoft will incorporate this FindNDestroy technology into Windows 2010, as an element of anti-piracy software.
Why the fuck do they always bring up "a network of pornographers" or smut or some such shit!!!
We're not adolescents jacking off in the school playground! Computer users, discounting youngster jackoffs in school, are mature adults with jobs.
Such as statement can only be oriented towards the Conservative-Neanderthal-Religious-Right-God-Feari ng-Weirdos of society, who aren't computer users anyways!!!
Been there done that, and if I haven't done it I've thought about it.
1) When I hear all this whimpering about Unrestricted regional viewing, etc. all I want to say is shut up you fucking crybabies!
If you want to view movies from anywhere around the world, buy a player that allows you to do so!
I have an Apex 600A that does this. Panasonic makes a player you can buy that is universal. They're not the only ones.
So if watching a DVD from India is that important to you, invest a bit more for a better player.
2) But as this applies to Open Source and Free Software and the creation of software players for PC DVDs, Open Source The DVD Spec!!!
The Genie is out of the bottle. Let the creaters of deCSS work in a good lab for a bit and turn out a DVD-player that is as good as the commercial ones.
If no one has the balls or the will to do so, SHUT UP and live without DVD.
Netscape and IE both were (and still are) available for free. IE had the upper hand of "already being there" due to it's bundling with the OS.. thereby eliminating the need for Netscape's presence on the computer.
Wake the FUCK up!!! Netscape was around and becoming the market leader before M$ even heard of the Internet. M$ made IE free (dumping is the term) to displace Netscape. Classically illegal behavior.
For the matter, IE could be improved umpteen times and I'll still say IE sucks the sweat of a dead man's balls.
I am not a GNOME Developer and this is NOT flamebait!
When is GNOME going to make further, substantial strides to becoming a more unified system capable of communication between all objects/programs that are coded according to GNOME rules?
By that I mean the following: KDE is recognized as being a more mature, robust environment to work and code within. I feel much of this is due to the planning and organization of the foundation of KDE which is a CORBA-based. Thus rules for communication of applications are defined and enforced.
It appears that GNOME lacks such a well-defined foundation for application communication which is the hallmark of a good desktop environment.
We don't know how you managed to hide the entire planet-wide network in your dorm room, and you must have put the non-U.S. portions in the extra-wide closet that was recently installed.
Slashdot Mirror
Do those satellites have sufficient resolution to locate any of the internet-famous, CAMO-DUDES?
Mom, I want to be a kamo-dood when I grow up!
Sorry, junior. You're the wrong species. When we get back to our planet, talk to your father.
That server is being pounded into submission, either by /.ers or the US Military. The pictures cannot be viewed.
Can someone mirror these pictures? And maybe use Photoshop to magnify the aliens working on the aircraft?
One problem with gun control laws is that
it limits the easy control of the growing
asshole population.
I think I smell the Bill-fucking-Gates, his money, and the odor of political manipulation.
Don't mind me, but I'm very suspicious of this. It seems a bit quick for the DOJ, which was gung-ho to draw-and-quarter the Gates-man to switch sides and say, "He's not that bad...just slap his wrist."
But what can I say, it's only Washington D.C., it's nice to visit but you don't want to live there.
All I can add is more of the same language. Blah, blah, blah...
My legal opinion is still that of "Tool vs. User". Should Remington be held liable when one of their guns is used to commit a crime? I think not. That is the only angle spoken of in the article.
The issue of freedom and intellectual property will not even be raised in-depth because most courts and lawyers are clueless compared to the "freewheeling wisdom" to be found on /.
Let's face it, if something CAN be done -- someone will want to do it. In fact, a whole group of people may find they like it.
Give people the choice! X Windows 4.0 should already have skinning capabilities built in.
Instead, it's going to have to be an add-on and further fragment the desktop/window-manager world.
Do I want my desktop to look like a scene from Star Wars? Not all the time, but it is cool when I'm in the mood. Having my computer configured the way I want it does increase my productivity.
About that mother that is scared of change, I say so what? If they don't want it, don't make them -- but I do, so I should be able to.
They are also region settable -- you can play disks from ANYWHERE in the world!
They are available from Circuit City at about $180. But you have to ask for them by name, they are not displayed as they are too cheap and don't have enough ROI (return-on-investment) for CC.
Just think of the possibilies if this was approved!
Non-smokers could sue every magazine in existence because they carry ads of cigarettes thereby telling you who makes them and where to get them, thereby contributing to the rise in smoking deaths.
Nike, Adidas, etc. can be sued because they make running shoes. Everyone who wears those shoes and has been in a traffic accident can sue those companies because those shoes allowed them to run in the street!
Coca-cola, Pepsi, etc. can be sued because they make drinks, and I'm sure that people have choked to death on soft-drinks somewhere.
Hollywood can be sued because they show violence in movies, which shows the common person how to commit violence!
Etc.
The programmers, don't forget, are in Sweden!
Our constitution, and whatnot don't apply to them!!!
The programmers are in Sweden.
Mattel is in America (USA).
Why did they not say to Mattel (and the world), fuck you -- you're in another country with a different justice system. Nahhnahnah!!!
Someone please tell me?
It doesn't stop there either, from an anonymous Middle-Eastern source, the group of programmers that gave us ICQ are working on solution to the Microsoft "problem".
BEGIN RANT ---
i ng-Weirdos of society, who aren't computer users anyways!!!
Why the fuck do they always bring up "a network of pornographers" or smut or some such shit!!!
We're not adolescents jacking off in the school playground! Computer users, discounting youngster jackoffs in school, are mature adults with jobs.
Such as statement can only be oriented towards the Conservative-Neanderthal-Religious-Right-God-Fear
Been there done that, and if I haven't done it I've thought about it.
END RANT ---
If he had said that Linux was competition, the case would have been ended there as M$ can't be a monopoly.
Summary: Put up or shut up!
Wake the FUCK up!!!
Netscape was around and becoming the market leader before M$ even heard of the Internet. M$ made IE free (dumping is the term) to displace Netscape. Classically illegal behavior.
For the matter, IE could be improved umpteen times and I'll still say IE sucks the sweat of a dead man's balls.
Wake up!
I can occupy a voluminous amount of space with high and flighty words that, when combined, elegantly support what I am about to say.
I choose to be direct.
Open-source the Windows API!!!
Competition Make A Better Market!!!
I laugh as society burns!
I just sit back in my chair of adult-hood and watch America burn.
Beware the SPAM in your pajamas.
When is GNOME going to make further, substantial strides to becoming a more unified system capable of communication between all objects/programs that are coded according to GNOME rules?
By that I mean the following: KDE is recognized as being a more mature, robust environment to work and code within. I feel much of this is due to the planning and organization of the foundation of KDE which is a CORBA-based. Thus rules for communication of applications are defined and enforced.
It appears that GNOME lacks such a well-defined foundation for application communication which is the hallmark of a good desktop environment.
EOS [End-Of-Story]
My position on the entire issue is this:
Ideas are free.
The data that is produced from those ideas is even more free.
They are only bits in the computer-driven world we live in.
If you don't like it, you're wrong.