I thought the DMCA only stipulates laws for devices designed specifically copyright violation? A marker pen clearly doesn't fall into this category. Otherwise they could have outlawed CD burners, photocopiers and who knows what else by now.
He is talking about Linux, the kernel component of GNU/Linux. When talking only about the kernel, the correct name IS Linux, because thats what the kernel is called. The entire OS is the Linux kernel + a bunch of low and high level apps.. many of which the GNU project created. Hence the argument that the OS should be called GNU/Linux instead of just Linux.
Hence, by logical extension, the argument that the OS should be called KDE/XFree86/GNU/Linux instead of just GNU/Linux.
Really Alan? Please direct me to a commercialy available DVD->DVD copier, or a DVD->VHS unit?
DVD->VHS HOWTO
Take DVD player. Take VHS recorder. Take RF or SCART cable. Connect output of DVD player to input of VHS recorder. Press 'record' on VHS recorder. Press 'play' on DVD player. Wait.
1) Don't Pay. Tell the bank to stop the direct debit, or whatever it is you're paying by. They'll kill your account all right.
2) Spam. In particular, spam everyone on news.admin.net-abuse.email, and all the techies and admins at your ISP that you can find. Oh, and the FTC, too. WARNING - not recommended. You'll be lynched.
Wasn't there something in a Dilbert book once about an ISP Scott Adams had signed up for long ago and no longer used, but was cheap enough that it wasn't worth his time to cancel?:-)
One thing, though...
"Why not make it possible to cancel electronically?"
"Can't do that," he said, "for security reasons. We have to verify your identity."
Makes perfect sense to me. Imagine a script kiddie doing mass spoof unsubscribes... collect a list of AOLers and kill *all* their accounts at once!
This was the number one hit on Google for 'canada france hawaii'. Do a bit of research on the telescopes you're posting about, before you just generalize!
* Destruction of Death Star: WTC. Don't flame me for this, I am not trivializing this horrific tragedy or siding with the terrorists, but both the Death Star and the WTC were symbols of the supremacy of the US/the Empire.
Absolutely. We musn't trivialise the horror of that day at Endor. Cowardly Rebel terrorists caused a Super Star Destroyer carrying thousands of brave Imperial troops to crash into the Death Star, causing massive loss of life among innocent civilian construction workers and engineers aboard the incomplete station. Everyone knows someone who lost a loved one that day...
Russia is unlikely to go to Mars by themselves, but as the only country with much relevant BFB experience (I understand that much of the Saturn 5 blueprints have been lost).
It's not that the Saturn V blueprints are missing, more that all those 1960s components are no longer in production, and all those engineers are retired... NASA are having to scour eBay for 8086 processors for the Shuttle, so finding the parts for a Saturn (which last flew six years before the first Shuttle) would be a nightmare!
The Russian Energia rocket is much more recent, but it would still be difficult to reactivate. It's heartbreaking to see Buran as a lawn ornament... But realistically our best bet for a BFB is the US Magnum, which is basically Energia built out of Shuttle technology. Shuttle tanks, engines and SRBs *are* still in service, and the components and engineers are readily available.
The Russians would be a key partner though for anyone else. In particular they still have the most expertise for long-term missions, in particular of building stuff that is maintainable.
Yep, that's their big advantage. You'd want the Mars ship to be Russian-built. They kept Mir alive through disaster after disaster, seven years after it was supposed to be replaced. That sort of durability is an absolute must for interplanetary work.
Question: could we supply a Mars ship by leaving a string of Progress drones along its path, and let it collect 'em along the way?
Tasteless? How, exactly?
Tasteless to consider the friends and loved ones of the thousands aboard the Death Star? Tasteless to think that perhaps Stormtroopers are people too, rather than mere faceless lightsaber-fodder?
Or, tasteless to think that perhaps some of our own have more in common with Darth Vader than we like to think?...
ReplayTV's are basically computers with software, modems, hard drives and graphics chips. The capability to send usage information through the modem is inherent in such a system.
So leave out the modem! Market a cut-down Tivoid that (a) acts as a VCR and (b) has an option to filter out the ads. None of this phoning home nonsense. It can take its TV guide direct from Teletext.
Problems: how do you update the software when the TV companies work out how to beat your ad-recognition system? And just how much is the hardware of a Tivoid subsidised by the money from subscriptions? Would a standalone box with no strings attached be prohibitively expensive?
Alternatively, could we set up some sort of embedded system (cheap processor, small memory, TV tuner) that just plain kills both audio and video when it identifies ads? Something you'd plug your aerial through? Again, software update trouble, but it could at least be made very cheaply.
Interestingly, Just this morning I received an mailshot from a company selling a piece of software for a windows PC that emulates an Acorn A5000. It is shipped with RISC-OS3 and is available for 30UKP from Virtual Acorn [virtualacorn.co.uk]
Hey, looks nice! Maybe I can finally try out ArcElite...
Aw, boo. Only runs on something called 'Windows'. Sorry, but I really don't fancy installing one kooky OS in order to run another kooky OS in order to run *one game*...
A Buran orbiter would be nice, but you'd need an Energiya rocket to get the thing to orbit. Energiya was discontinued in the early nineties along with Buran itself, and there's no other rocket in the world powerful enough to get that thing up. Maybe the U.S. Magnum rocket could do it, if it ever gets built...
Incidentally, anyone know which is the most powerful rocket still in service? I think it's Russia's Proton, but might be the U.S Titan or Europe's Ariane V...
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I've only ever read that he wishes the/over all/ system be called GNU/Linux. e.g., GNU = most of the userland components, Linux = the kernel. After all, a kernel is only one part of an operating system, and the GNU components play a rather huge part in the over all system.
Great in the Elder Days when all things were console. Not so now, we've come a long way since then. Should I call my system 'KDE/XFree86/GNU/Linux' now?
Uh, don't you perhaps mean iMacs?
Although of course we'd all like to see the back of emacs for good, firing it into the Sun does seem a little excessive;-)
... The country's going entirely digital in the next ten to twenty years. We now have a choice of who we'd like to run the whole TV network:
1) Bill Gates
2) Rupert Murdoch
Thanks a lot. I think I'll have to stay on the net permanently now. At least the BBC's still around...
Ogg. Fine. Drunken old witch with large family. Sings colourful songs about hedgehogs from time to time. Vorbis. Also fine. Sinister megalomaniac priest with scary eyes and voices in his head.
What the hell those two have to do with each other, though, besides living on the same planet, escapes me. One or the other would make sense...
Well, we've now got rid of pretty much all the old Imperial measurements. We still measure road distances in miles, and we still drink in pints. Everything else is primarily metric now. And a good thing too. The only people under the age of about forty who can understand ounces are cannabis dealers.
There was some fuss recently about some street trader who got in trouble with trading standards officers for selling bananas or something by the pound (pound weight, not pound cost). Tabloid fury, Europe, fascism, Our British Heritage, yadda, yadda. Of course he's entitled to sell them by the pound, or by the elephant, or by the gigatonne, or by whatever weird or wonderful measure he can think of. The trouble was that he didn't mark 'em in metric as well...
As for the Euro, we'll join as soon as (a) Gordon thinks it won't spoil his bank balance too much, and (b) Tony thinks he can win a referendum on the matter. Speculation is continual over exactly when this will be, but a referendum next spring seems a popular bet. That'd put us in the euro properly two or three years down the line.
Yes, once in a while you can see the European origins of this distribution, like in the A4 bias for default paper sizes, but generally they're pretty good about providing "en" language users a good interface.
What, you mean with default currency set to '£', for instance?
Piracy on the High Seas is a wonderfully emotive term regarding an unlawful act of attacking a vessel in international waters. I don't really get the connection with the civil offence of copyright violation. However, it sounds a lot better in court to accuse people of piracy rather than just copyright violation.
I think it's historical in origin. A pirate, having plundered a merchant ship, would steal the cargo and then go and sell it in some dodgy port. Of course, no questions asked about where the goods had come from. So in later years, the term 'pirate' came to be applied to goods being sold of dubious origin.
It's a similar thing to what happened to 'bootleg' and illegal records. They haven't been smuggled over the border in someone's shoe, but the idea of the thing is the same.
... Google aren't really expecting people to post stuff that isn't an ad. So the automated systems are geared towards advertisers. Of course they would be. If Google must have ads, what they want is to make 'em useful and as relevant as possible to the search.
It strikes me as a little bit silly of the artist to complain that Google removed these ads. They were completely irrelevant and attracting no clickthroughs, and so an automated system removed them. As far as I can tell the whole thing was entirely automatic.
How can a robot be expected to tell the difference between 'net-art', a poorly written ad, and a downright deceitful ad? It can't. Big surprise there, then...
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I thought the DMCA only stipulates laws for devices designed specifically copyright violation? A marker pen clearly doesn't fall into this category. Otherwise they could have outlawed CD burners, photocopiers and who knows what else by now.
Tell that to Dmitry.
It's about time that encryption was recognised as a tool to keep governments from spying on private citizens.
Well, how about this...
1) Phil Zimmermann releases PGP.
2) US Government tries to stop him on the grounds that this counts as exporting weapons.
Therefore
3) The US Government says that PGP is classed as a weapon.
Now
4) US citizens have a right under the Constitution to bear arms
So
5) US citizens have a right under the Constitution to use strong encryption
He is talking about Linux, the kernel component of GNU/Linux. When talking only about the kernel, the correct name IS Linux, because thats what the kernel is called. The entire OS is the Linux kernel + a bunch of low and high level apps.. many of which the GNU project created. Hence the argument that the OS should be called GNU/Linux instead of just Linux.
Hence, by logical extension, the argument that the OS should be called KDE/XFree86/GNU/Linux instead of just GNU/Linux.
Really Alan? Please direct me to a commercialy available DVD->DVD copier, or a DVD->VHS unit?
DVD->VHS HOWTO
Take DVD player.
Take VHS recorder.
Take RF or SCART cable.
Connect output of DVD player to input of VHS recorder.
Press 'record' on VHS recorder.
Press 'play' on DVD player.
Wait.
... Imagine Yoda there.
'Strong the Force is, but commercially more successful has Spider-Man been. Powerful is the Dark Side with this one...'
p.s... FP. w00t. Etc.
1) Don't Pay. Tell the bank to stop the direct debit, or whatever it is you're paying by. They'll kill your account all right.
2) Spam. In particular, spam everyone on news.admin.net-abuse.email, and all the techies and admins at your ISP that you can find. Oh, and the FTC, too. WARNING - not recommended. You'll be lynched.
Wasn't there something in a Dilbert book once about an ISP Scott Adams had signed up for long ago and no longer used, but was cheap enough that it wasn't worth his time to cancel? :-)
One thing, though...
"Why not make it possible to cancel electronically?"
"Can't do that," he said, "for security reasons. We have to verify your identity."
Makes perfect sense to me. Imagine a script kiddie doing mass spoof unsubscribes... collect a list of AOLers and kill *all* their accounts at once!
That's its *name*. Look: CFHT.
This was the number one hit on Google for 'canada france hawaii'. Do a bit of research on the telescopes you're posting about, before you just generalize!
* Destruction of Death Star: WTC. Don't flame me for this, I am not trivializing this horrific tragedy or siding with the terrorists, but both the Death Star and the WTC were symbols of the supremacy of the US/the Empire.
Absolutely. We musn't trivialise the horror of that day at Endor. Cowardly Rebel terrorists caused a Super Star Destroyer carrying thousands of brave Imperial troops to crash into the Death Star, causing massive loss of life among innocent civilian construction workers and engineers aboard the incomplete station. Everyone knows someone who lost a loved one that day...
It's not that the Saturn V blueprints are missing, more that all those 1960s components are no longer in production, and all those engineers are retired... NASA are having to scour eBay for 8086 processors for the Shuttle, so finding the parts for a Saturn (which last flew six years before the first Shuttle) would be a nightmare!
The Russian Energia rocket is much more recent, but it would still be difficult to reactivate. It's heartbreaking to see Buran as a lawn ornament... But realistically our best bet for a BFB is the US Magnum, which is basically Energia built out of Shuttle technology. Shuttle tanks, engines and SRBs *are* still in service, and the components and engineers are readily available.
The Russians would be a key partner though for anyone else. In particular they still have the most expertise for long-term missions, in particular of building stuff that is maintainable.
Yep, that's their big advantage. You'd want the Mars ship to be Russian-built. They kept Mir alive through disaster after disaster, seven years after it was supposed to be replaced. That sort of durability is an absolute must for interplanetary work.
Question: could we supply a Mars ship by leaving a string of Progress drones along its path, and let it collect 'em along the way?
I'd like to see Earth improve its moon count, as we have only one.
Actually, we sort of have two. There's an asteroid called Cruithne that has a curious orbit around the Earth and Sun...
Tasteless? How, exactly? Tasteless to consider the friends and loved ones of the thousands aboard the Death Star? Tasteless to think that perhaps Stormtroopers are people too, rather than mere faceless lightsaber-fodder? Or, tasteless to think that perhaps some of our own have more in common with Darth Vader than we like to think?...
ReplayTV's are basically computers with software, modems, hard drives and graphics chips. The capability to send usage information through the modem is inherent in such a system.
So leave out the modem! Market a cut-down Tivoid that (a) acts as a VCR and (b) has an option to filter out the ads. None of this phoning home nonsense. It can take its TV guide direct from Teletext.
Problems: how do you update the software when the TV companies work out how to beat your ad-recognition system? And just how much is the hardware of a Tivoid subsidised by the money from subscriptions? Would a standalone box with no strings attached be prohibitively expensive?
Alternatively, could we set up some sort of embedded system (cheap processor, small memory, TV tuner) that just plain kills both audio and video when it identifies ads? Something you'd plug your aerial through? Again, software update trouble, but it could at least be made very cheaply.
Umm... did you just advocate a Microsoft product on Slashdot? Gamecube all the way!
Interestingly, Just this morning I received an mailshot from a company selling a piece of software for a windows PC that emulates an Acorn A5000. It is shipped with RISC-OS3 and is available for 30UKP from Virtual Acorn [virtualacorn.co.uk] Hey, looks nice! Maybe I can finally try out ArcElite... Aw, boo. Only runs on something called 'Windows'. Sorry, but I really don't fancy installing one kooky OS in order to run another kooky OS in order to run *one game*...
A Buran orbiter would be nice, but you'd need an Energiya rocket to get the thing to orbit. Energiya was discontinued in the early nineties along with Buran itself, and there's no other rocket in the world powerful enough to get that thing up. Maybe the U.S. Magnum rocket could do it, if it ever gets built... Incidentally, anyone know which is the most powerful rocket still in service? I think it's Russia's Proton, but might be the U.S Titan or Europe's Ariane V...
I've only ever read that he wishes the /over all/ system be called GNU/Linux. e.g., GNU = most of the userland components, Linux = the kernel. After all, a kernel is only one part of an operating system, and the GNU components play a rather huge part in the over all system.
Great in the Elder Days when all things were console. Not so now, we've come a long way since then. Should I call my system 'KDE/XFree86/GNU/Linux' now?
Personally I get along in RH 7.2 KDE with 80MB (K6/2 400, upgrade from P90!), no problem at all...
Commercials on Teletubbies?...
:-)
"Eh-oh, Tinky-Winky!"
"Eh-oh, Po!"
"Big hug!"
(showerhead rises from ground)
"And now a word from our sponsors."
(Po's screen lights up and displays a very child-oriented McDonalds ad)
Wow. It's at times like these that I *really* appreciate the BBC...
Uh, don't you perhaps mean iMacs? Although of course we'd all like to see the back of emacs for good, firing it into the Sun does seem a little excessive ;-)
... The country's going entirely digital in the next ten to twenty years. We now have a choice of who we'd like to run the whole TV network: 1) Bill Gates 2) Rupert Murdoch Thanks a lot. I think I'll have to stay on the net permanently now. At least the BBC's still around...
Ogg. Fine. Drunken old witch with large family. Sings colourful songs about hedgehogs from time to time.
Vorbis. Also fine. Sinister megalomaniac priest with scary eyes and voices in his head.
What the hell those two have to do with each other, though, besides living on the same planet, escapes me. One or the other would make sense...
Well, we've now got rid of pretty much all the old Imperial measurements. We still measure road distances in miles, and we still drink in pints. Everything else is primarily metric now. And a good thing too. The only people under the age of about forty who can understand ounces are cannabis dealers.
There was some fuss recently about some street trader who got in trouble with trading standards officers for selling bananas or something by the pound (pound weight, not pound cost). Tabloid fury, Europe, fascism, Our British Heritage, yadda, yadda. Of course he's entitled to sell them by the pound, or by the elephant, or by the gigatonne, or by whatever weird or wonderful measure he can think of. The trouble was that he didn't mark 'em in metric as well...
As for the Euro, we'll join as soon as (a) Gordon thinks it won't spoil his bank balance too much, and (b) Tony thinks he can win a referendum on the matter. Speculation is continual over exactly when this will be, but a referendum next spring seems a popular bet. That'd put us in the euro properly two or three years down the line.
Yes, once in a while you can see the European origins of this distribution, like in the A4 bias for default paper sizes, but generally they're pretty good about providing "en" language users a good interface. What, you mean with default currency set to '£', for instance?
Piracy on the High Seas is a wonderfully emotive term regarding an unlawful act of attacking a vessel in international waters. I don't really get the connection with the civil offence of copyright violation. However, it sounds a lot better in court to accuse people of piracy rather than just copyright violation.
I think it's historical in origin. A pirate, having plundered a merchant ship, would steal the cargo and then go and sell it in some dodgy port. Of course, no questions asked about where the goods had come from. So in later years, the term 'pirate' came to be applied to goods being sold of dubious origin.
It's a similar thing to what happened to 'bootleg' and illegal records. They haven't been smuggled over the border in someone's shoe, but the idea of the thing is the same.
... Google aren't really expecting people to post stuff that isn't an ad. So the automated systems are geared towards advertisers. Of course they would be. If Google must have ads, what they want is to make 'em useful and as relevant as possible to the search.
It strikes me as a little bit silly of the artist to complain that Google removed these ads. They were completely irrelevant and attracting no clickthroughs, and so an automated system removed them. As far as I can tell the whole thing was entirely automatic.
How can a robot be expected to tell the difference between 'net-art', a poorly written ad, and a downright deceitful ad? It can't. Big surprise there, then...