Ummmm...can you say "Sting Operation" boys and girls?
But this kind of swap is actually an excellent idea and completely legal in Canada. We have the right to make personal copies. So as long as I bring along my originals, and the other party is copying them for themselves, it's all good. (If I made a copy for the other party, it would be illegale.)
There may be some legitimacy to the application you're looking for, but I've got an easier solution:
1) Don't run apps as Administrator. 2) Don't have your user account in the Administrator's group.
Why should an application have to babysit an account with more privs than it needs? If you run funprog.exe as a user, there are very limited places you should be able to write (in a bug / design problem free world anyawys.)
Of course, there's the issue of the setup application for funprog.exe, but that's MS's problem. Either a user should have a sandbox where it can install it's own private apps, so that they don't need admin to install. Or applications should not be allowed to install to anything outside of/Program Files.
Funny you should make a comment like that in your comments regarding this article. It's that exact lack of sensitivity to foreign policy and belief that got the engineers detained in the first place. (Although I don't know that the engineers themselves were responsible.)
Read up on the history of Kashmir and it'll be clear that this isn't trivial. Besides, the engineers were detained for breaking a law... Maybe that law seems silly to you, but I'm sure there are tons of examples of from your homeland that seem silly to outsiders. Although, they are probably not likely to trigger a war.
Well, technically Slashdot wasn't, notice the "It's funny, laugh" icon... But if you are using "Slashdot" to refer to the readers, it's actually kinda sad how many people don't RTFA, or even look at the friggin' icons. Speaking of which, where is the Tin Foil Hat icon!
I thought the x-prize would push innovation forward, not recycling
Where would Linux and *BSD be today with if this train of thought dominated? Modernizing old technology can be quite innovative, and cheaper to boot since alot of the R&D has been done already. Look at the automotive industry, 100 years of recycling, yet now we have DOHC, VTEC, AWD, Anti-lock breaks etc... Other examples : Cathode ray tubes, modems, mice and keyboards. Rifles. All have seen vast improvements over the course of their lifetime, are still around and vastly superior to their grandparents.
I just wish they would have avoided that and come up with some non-cheesy robot cylons.
There were non-cheezy robot cylons, we didn't get to see much of them though. Just a little at the beginning. Actually, from what I saw of them they look pretty freaking cool.
I'd gladly help up but what kind of Pandora's Box do we open in the process of getting Katie a trademark? Seriously, if we set a precedent here, would every domain owner in the world also have to trademark their domain names to avoid this exact nonsense?
I'd much rather help pay for legal aid, and hurt Penguin with a boycott.
That being said, where do we send the money? And where do we send the money to help the next Katie who gets her rights trampled on? Be nice if a/. subscription went in part to pay for some trained attack lawyers for cases like this. It'd make it more worthwhile having one:)
It appears you don't know what your rights are. Read your Constitution and amendments. I'm not even American yet I seem to know more about it than the typical/.er.
The 1st amendment begins 'Congress shall make no law respecting...' If Congress passes a law that say you can't call someone a shyster on the internet, then you can cry and scream about the 1st ammendment.
Stephen's a shyster, an idiot and a moron, but that has nothing to do with the 1st ammendment that he is not violating.
Moderators : you'd do well to read the US Constitution and Amendments so that next time you can mod such a posting as Offtopic.
Driving -- for the safety of the road. Those drivers who prove themselves unsafe are removed.
I agree this is the intended purpose, unforunately, it really only demonstrates permission, not aptitude and ability. It aught to be treated as a professional license, and owners of said license be held professionaly accountable for their actions. Unfortunately people believe driving is a right, not a privlidge, as the average driver demonstrates.
At most, driver's temporarily lose their license to drive, even if they are grossly neglegent even to the point of taking lives. The only people I know of that aren't licensed either a) don't want one or b) have a medical condition which prohibits driving (like blindness.) How about checking mental fitness!
Marriage -- the license isn't as much a permission as a document proving it happened on the public record.
Silly thing is, here in Ontario Canada, you pay different rates depending on which municipality you register for the license in! We save 50% by applying in a township about 30 minutes outside of the suburbs where we live. (OK my wife did, all I had to do was show up on time sober in a tux!) The rate was around 4 times as high where we actually got married.
Fishing/hunting -- to count limit the number of people who do so. If requests outnumber the number of animals that are meant to be taken, they won't approve them all and/or stop issuing.
Maybe fishing but I'm guessing you are from the US though... Here in Ontario you have to attend courses to demonstrate competency with a firearm before you are issued a license.
4. Work hard promoting 'penguin.com': a CD jacket, translations to various languages, lecture tours, bookstore appearances...
Save yourself some time. Since they seem to not practice due diligence, why don't we have Penguin publish the book for us after we resgister the trademark?:)
Since when are PCs and compatibles the only computers? Back in the 80s, HOME computers were quite cheap, on par with what we'd pay today for a commodity PC today.
In 1983, you could get a complete Commodore 64 System (Montior and floppy drive included) for ~$730 US. Basically, everything you would need (word processing, games etc...)
20 years later, you'd be getting a very good deal to get a modern system for that price. Sure the technology is much more advanced today, but in the end you get the same amount done, for the same price.
Way back when, The OS shipped free with the computer (I'm talking the good ole TI 99/4A, Atari 800XL days) and BASIC for free.
As for hardware, a full outfit (Display, Computer and storage) from Commodore, Atari etc. was cheaper or equivalent to what you'd pay for a stock PC now.
And BTW, you often still have to pay for an OS today. Sometimes, even if you don't want it!
but I doubt people using VAX would even need something that powerful.
VAX users aren't typical, they're likely hospitals, banks or gonvernment institiutions that rely on the incredible stability. Besides, VMS is alive and kicking, why redo software more than necessary? Besides, Darl hasn't sued VAX owners yet!
Yet another motivation to keep my 13 year old Civic on the road. You can keep you Black Box totting, Airbag laiden, Power windows-locks-seats-mirrors-break-clutch-hood release, remote entry monstrosity on the lot. The only Power I've got is breaks and that's the way we likes it. If they really want to track my position, they can damn well follow the oil trail I leave behind! And now, time to get baby girl a new clutch!
"black boxes are the next real step towards fully autonomous vehicles."
You make it sound like a good thing. Drivers on average already suck. The last thing they need is even less control of their vehicles, and fewer reasons for paying attention to the road. Proximity sensitive cruise control! Give me a break. Is it too much to ask to have the driver look where they are going?!
If touching the gas pedal, turning a steering wheel, or looking out the windshield are too cumbersome, there are city buses, trains, street cars; those who feel the need for total automation of their vehicles will make the roads a much safer place by trading their license for a bus pass.
Interestingly, two of these three words were used to make the name Compaq. A company that 22 years ago reverse engineered IBMs BIOS to give us the clones we all enjoy today. I shudder to think where we would be if the DMCA existed in 1982. Seems to me 'hacker tactics' got us where we are now. So in a way, I support Real's position.
Man I hate those damn fatality accidents! I always blamed them on a stuck block button. Nothing sucks more than watching your opponent fall limp and lifeless to the floor.
Fraud is not however. As pointed out by a previous poster, the site owner has allegedly commited fraud Several Times
I suspect that he stands accused of Copyright infringement for hosting episodes on his server, but also for fraud.... However, he wouldn't get much sympathy or paypal donations for your fraud legal defence fund...
I'll do my best to answer all of your well thought out questions
" That critical part wouldn't happen to be the engine, would it?"
No. It would be the compression coil. Or catalyzer.I most certainly would understand if Mal said no to Kaylee asking for a new engine.
"You know, the roughly cylindrical device that looks like a giant turd wrapped in tinfoil and then squashed slightly?"
I'm pretty familiar with how the engine looks in the show, but no. It's not the engine
"A tinfoil-covered turd that just spins slowly, like it's roasting on a spit? I suppose that's there to turn the propeller."
Likely to turn the propeller, but no, it's not the enigne. Nice try though!
"The engine that they stretch an entire episode around, where they treat it like it's some redneck's V8 in his 22 yr old Firebird..."
Teehee Firebird, Firefly! Nice!
"complete with airhead slut (who becomes the mechanic? Engineer? Scotty was an engineer, she's a monkey with a wrench.)."
Well, I don't think any engine is complete without an airhead slut. After all, someone has to sit there and turn the handle to make the tin foil covered slow roasting turd spin the propeller. But in fact, this particular engine originally shipped with a surfer boy, who was later upgraded to an airhead slut. Not a bad upgrade I think.
"Josh Whedon's "great" space western is one part really bad scifi, one part bad western, with a pinch of bad acting."
Don't forget a dash drama! Oh by the way Commander Troll, it's Joss, not Josh.
"all in a very unrealistic setting flying about in spacecraft which much cost a small fortune just doesnt do it for me."
You mean like the hyper-realistic Star Trek $FLAVOR_OF_THE_DECADE? Maybe Farscape? Anything involving a Spaceship, aliens, languages that stopped evolving? Teleporters? Touch screen interfaces that never have fingerprints on them?
It's sci-fi, not a documentary. And while there are some minor plot elements that I still question (even as a huge fan of the show) overall Joss does a much better job of a painting a future universe than most ever have.
It seems that you haven't even watched the show. They aren't just "flying around in space", they are taking whatever job they can just so that they can continue to fly!
They make it painfully obvious that it IS expensive to run the ship, and that most of the time they are just scraping by. In fact in the pilot, they can't afford a replacement for a critical part, and it come back to haunt them further in the season. They are excited when the preacher has fresh vedgetables and spices. Because they generally eat crap.
Try actually watching the show, before criticizing. I looks like all the knowledge you gathered about the show came from a 30 second commerical you might have seen a few years ago.
"Using Linux and GNU is like eating at a soup kitchen or shopping at a goodwill store."
With all due respect you seem to be stuck on the free as in beer. There is far more to open source that that. I particularly like that, using your analogy, this "soup kitchen" not only gives away soup, but provides the recipe so I can improve it. Or take their soup and use it in a burger recipe. And I can charge for delivery if I like!
It would kinda suck if the soup kitchens of the world put out the restaurants... I rather like eating out.
Hey buddy, you're quite free to walk into a soup kitchen RIGHT NOW and eat. Why don't you? Likely because the restaurant makes much better food, has much better ambience, much better service and also serves wine with the meal (They even have better soup!).
The problem with your analogy is that right now, the soup kitchens are making the better food, PLUS wine and a cab ride home. FOR FREE. If the soup kitchen can continue to make better food, and provide better service, good riddance to the restaurant.
But some of the restaurants are learning : Look at Novell, IBM, HP... they've got the idea : they've put soup kitchens IN their restaurants. They give the soup, and sell you tasty bread to go with it. They let you walk to the buffet for free, or you can pay to have a waiter!
If you, or your restaurant can't accept and adapt to that, well... looks like you and your wife won't be eating out much longer.
I don't think you didn't read the patent: "...wherein the transporter software component at each user station automatically effects communication sessions with the distribution service via the non-proprietary network for the purpose of obtaining updates for each of at least a subset of the plurality of different products that are installed on that user station."
Neither your BBS nor HP online system fit the bill, they are not automatic. What they are complaining about seems to refer to Windows Automatic Update and the Apple equivalent, where the user is automatically presented a list of updates that are available based on what is installed.
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But this kind of swap is actually an excellent idea and completely legal in Canada. We have the right to make personal copies. So as long as I bring along my originals, and the other party is copying them for themselves, it's all good. (If I made a copy for the other party, it would be illegale.)
There may be some legitimacy to the application you're looking for, but I've got an easier solution :
/Program Files.
;)
1) Don't run apps as Administrator.
2) Don't have your user account in the Administrator's group.
Why should an application have to babysit an account with more privs than it needs? If you run funprog.exe as a user, there are very limited places you should be able to write (in a bug / design problem free world anyawys.)
Of course, there's the issue of the setup application for funprog.exe, but that's MS's problem. Either a user should have a sandbox where it can install it's own private apps, so that they don't need admin to install. Or applications should not be allowed to install to anything outside of
Or, just run Linux
Funny you should make a comment like that in your comments regarding this article. It's that exact lack of sensitivity to foreign policy and belief that got the engineers detained in the first place. (Although I don't know that the engineers themselves were responsible.)
Read up on the history of Kashmir and it'll be clear that this isn't trivial. Besides, the engineers were detained for breaking a law... Maybe that law seems silly to you, but I'm sure there are tons of examples of from your homeland that seem silly to outsiders. Although, they are probably not likely to trigger a war.
Well, technically Slashdot wasn't, notice the "It's funny, laugh" icon... But if you are using "Slashdot" to refer to the readers, it's actually kinda sad how many people don't RTFA, or even look at the friggin' icons. Speaking of which, where is the Tin Foil Hat icon!
Where would Linux and *BSD be today with if this train of thought dominated? Modernizing old technology can be quite innovative, and cheaper to boot since alot of the R&D has been done already. Look at the automotive industry, 100 years of recycling, yet now we have DOHC, VTEC, AWD, Anti-lock breaks etc... Other examples : Cathode ray tubes, modems, mice and keyboards. Rifles. All have seen vast improvements over the course of their lifetime, are still around and vastly superior to their grandparents.
There were non-cheezy robot cylons, we didn't get to see much of them though. Just a little at the beginning. Actually, from what I saw of them they look pretty freaking cool.
I'd gladly help up but what kind of Pandora's Box do we open in the process of getting Katie a trademark? Seriously, if we set a precedent here, would every domain owner in the world also have to trademark their domain names to avoid this exact nonsense?
/. subscription went in part to pay for some trained attack lawyers for cases like this. It'd make it more worthwhile having one :)
I'd much rather help pay for legal aid, and hurt Penguin with a boycott.
That being said, where do we send the money? And where do we send the money to help the next Katie who gets her rights trampled on? Be nice if a
It appears you don't know what your rights are. Read your Constitution and amendments. I'm not even American yet I seem to know more about it than the typical /.er.
The 1st amendment begins 'Congress shall make no law respecting...' If Congress passes a law that say you can't call someone a shyster on the internet, then you can cry and scream about the 1st ammendment.
Stephen's a shyster, an idiot and a moron, but that has nothing to do with the 1st ammendment that he is not violating.
Moderators : you'd do well to read the US Constitution and Amendments so that next time you can mod such a posting as Offtopic.
I agree this is the intended purpose, unforunately, it really only demonstrates permission, not aptitude and ability. It aught to be treated as a professional license, and owners of said license be held professionaly accountable for their actions. Unfortunately people believe driving is a right, not a privlidge, as the average driver demonstrates.
At most, driver's temporarily lose their license to drive, even if they are grossly neglegent even to the point of taking lives. The only people I know of that aren't licensed either a) don't want one or b) have a medical condition which prohibits driving (like blindness.) How about checking mental fitness!
Marriage -- the license isn't as much a permission as a document proving it happened on the public record.
Silly thing is, here in Ontario Canada, you pay different rates depending on which municipality you register for the license in! We save 50% by applying in a township about 30 minutes outside of the suburbs where we live. (OK my wife did, all I had to do was show up on time sober in a tux!) The rate was around 4 times as high where we actually got married.
Fishing/hunting -- to count limit the number of people who do so. If requests outnumber the number of animals that are meant to be taken, they won't approve them all and/or stop issuing.
Maybe fishing but I'm guessing you are from the US though... Here in Ontario you have to attend courses to demonstrate competency with a firearm before you are issued a license.
Save yourself some time. Since they seem to not practice due diligence, why don't we have Penguin publish the book for us after we resgister the trademark? :)
Since when are PCs and compatibles the only computers? Back in the 80s, HOME computers were quite cheap, on par with what we'd pay today for a commodity PC today.
;)
In 1983, you could get a complete Commodore 64 System (Montior and floppy drive included) for ~$730 US. Basically, everything you would need (word processing, games etc...)
20 years later, you'd be getting a very good deal to get a modern system for that price. Sure the technology is much more advanced today, but in the end you get the same amount done, for the same price.
Of course, let's not talk about modem prices
Way back when, The OS shipped free with the computer (I'm talking the good ole TI 99/4A, Atari 800XL days) and BASIC for free.
As for hardware, a full outfit (Display, Computer and storage) from Commodore, Atari etc. was cheaper or equivalent to what you'd pay for a stock PC now.
And BTW, you often still have to pay for an OS today. Sometimes, even if you don't want it!
VAX users aren't typical, they're likely hospitals, banks or gonvernment institiutions that rely on the incredible stability. Besides, VMS is alive and kicking, why redo software more than necessary? Besides, Darl hasn't sued VAX owners yet!
Yet another motivation to keep my 13 year old Civic on the road. You can keep you Black Box totting, Airbag laiden, Power windows-locks-seats-mirrors-break-clutch-hood release, remote entry monstrosity on the lot. The only Power I've got is breaks and that's the way we likes it. If they really want to track my position, they can damn well follow the oil trail I leave behind! And now, time to get baby girl a new clutch!
You make it sound like a good thing. Drivers on average already suck. The last thing they need is even less control of their vehicles, and fewer reasons for paying attention to the road. Proximity sensitive cruise control! Give me a break. Is it too much to ask to have the driver look where they are going?!
If touching the gas pedal, turning a steering wheel, or looking out the windshield are too cumbersome, there are city buses, trains, street cars; those who feel the need for total automation of their vehicles will make the roads a much safer place by trading their license for a bus pass.
Interestingly, two of these three words were used to make the name Compaq. A company that 22 years ago reverse engineered IBMs BIOS to give us the clones we all enjoy today. I shudder to think where we would be if the DMCA existed in 1982. Seems to me 'hacker tactics' got us where we are now. So in a way, I support Real's position.
Cue [Buffering...] jokes.
Man I hate those damn fatality accidents! I always blamed them on a stuck block button. Nothing sucks more than watching your opponent fall limp and lifeless to the floor.
In doing so you've added at least a full inch to the length of the device, and the big attraction of the device is it's size.
Sorry, wasn't aiming to offend... it's actually a pop culture reference Grep the page for inconceivable and you'll find it.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. ;)
Fraud is not however. As pointed out by a previous poster, the site owner has allegedly commited fraud Several Times
I suspect that he stands accused of Copyright infringement for hosting episodes on his server, but also for fraud.... However, he wouldn't get much sympathy or paypal donations for your fraud legal defence fund...
I'll do my best to answer all of your well thought out questions
" That critical part wouldn't happen to be the engine, would it?"No. It would be the compression coil. Or catalyzer.I most certainly would understand if Mal said no to Kaylee asking for a new engine.
"You know, the roughly cylindrical device that looks like a giant turd wrapped in tinfoil and then squashed slightly?"I'm pretty familiar with how the engine looks in the show, but no. It's not the engine
"A tinfoil-covered turd that just spins slowly, like it's roasting on a spit? I suppose that's there to turn the propeller."Likely to turn the propeller, but no, it's not the enigne. Nice try though!
"The engine that they stretch an entire episode around, where they treat it like it's some redneck's V8 in his 22 yr old Firebird..."Teehee Firebird, Firefly! Nice!
"complete with airhead slut (who becomes the mechanic? Engineer? Scotty was an engineer, she's a monkey with a wrench.)."Well, I don't think any engine is complete without an airhead slut. After all, someone has to sit there and turn the handle to make the tin foil covered slow roasting turd spin the propeller. But in fact, this particular engine originally shipped with a surfer boy, who was later upgraded to an airhead slut. Not a bad upgrade I think.
"Josh Whedon's "great" space western is one part really bad scifi, one part bad western, with a pinch of bad acting."Don't forget a dash drama! Oh by the way Commander Troll, it's Joss, not Josh.
You mean like the hyper-realistic Star Trek $FLAVOR_OF_THE_DECADE? Maybe Farscape? Anything involving a Spaceship, aliens, languages that stopped evolving? Teleporters? Touch screen interfaces that never have fingerprints on them?
It's sci-fi, not a documentary. And while there are some minor plot elements that I still question (even as a huge fan of the show) overall Joss does a much better job of a painting a future universe than most ever have.
It seems that you haven't even watched the show. They aren't just "flying around in space", they are taking whatever job they can just so that they can continue to fly!
They make it painfully obvious that it IS expensive to run the ship, and that most of the time they are just scraping by. In fact in the pilot, they can't afford a replacement for a critical part, and it come back to haunt them further in the season. They are excited when the preacher has fresh vedgetables and spices. Because they generally eat crap.
Try actually watching the show, before criticizing. I looks like all the knowledge you gathered about the show came from a 30 second commerical you might have seen a few years ago.
With all due respect you seem to be stuck on the free as in beer. There is far more to open source that that. I particularly like that, using your analogy, this "soup kitchen" not only gives away soup, but provides the recipe so I can improve it. Or take their soup and use it in a burger recipe. And I can charge for delivery if I like!
It would kinda suck if the soup kitchens of the world put out the restaurants... I rather like eating out.
Hey buddy, you're quite free to walk into a soup kitchen RIGHT NOW and eat. Why don't you? Likely because the restaurant makes much better food, has much better ambience, much better service and also serves wine with the meal (They even have better soup!).
The problem with your analogy is that right now, the soup kitchens are making the better food, PLUS wine and a cab ride home. FOR FREE. If the soup kitchen can continue to make better food, and provide better service, good riddance to the restaurant.
But some of the restaurants are learning : Look at Novell, IBM, HP... they've got the idea : they've put soup kitchens IN their restaurants. They give the soup, and sell you tasty bread to go with it. They let you walk to the buffet for free, or you can pay to have a waiter!
If you, or your restaurant can't accept and adapt to that, well... looks like you and your wife won't be eating out much longer.
Don't be such a soup nazi! :P
I don't think you didn't read the patent :
"...wherein the transporter software component at each user station automatically effects communication sessions with the distribution service via the non-proprietary network for the purpose of obtaining updates for each of at least a subset of the plurality of different products that are installed on that user station."
Neither your BBS nor HP online system fit the bill, they are not automatic. What they are complaining about seems to refer to Windows Automatic Update and the Apple equivalent, where the user is automatically presented a list of updates that are available based on what is installed.
Yes the patent sucks BTW.