Having companies own the highway is no protection, consider: federal wiretap laws, child protection laws, weird ISP privacy & usage requirements, etc...
Neither Municipal or Private business will be immune from calls for restrictions. The real answer is to change the publics attitude about free speech, and freedom of information.
Interesting. I always thought of c|net as more like a newspaper; publish and never change. I didn't think this change was a bad thing, just surprising.
Retention policies will probably become a big issue in the near future, as people's expectations are broken. I can see it now: The NY Times "paper of record" changes its story online and somebody is outraged... that should be fun.
You can see a reference to the "Shadow over open source" in the comments section, but the story doesn't say it. No copy in google cache or the wayback machine.
This is just the RIAA floating their idea and keeping the issue alive. The value is in going to Congress and saying: the ISP's sell based on illegal MP3 downloads and they don't deny it.
During one of [Hunter S.] Thompson's infamous digressions, he relates a story from the '68 presidential campaign in which Lyndon Johnson "told his manager to start a massive rumor campaign about his opponent's lifelong habit of enjoying carnal knowledge of his own barnyard sows." The campaign manager protests that nobody will believe that the guy's a "pigfucker."
"I know," Johnson replied. "But let's make the sonofabitch deny it."
I agreed with what you posted, but remember
The Greatest Generation by TOM BROKAW and all its hype? It doesn't seem anymore correct to use war, instead of pop-culture, as a hook. They are both just hype, and the substance has to carry the book... maybe this is a "don't judge a book by it's cover" thing: don't judge a book by its hype or hook. Or maybe its: judge a book by whether it has a hook and hype? The more I think about it, the less it seems like pop-culture matters: people treat serious subjects just as badly.
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And leeching off of Matt Groening's genius and writing a book on the Simpsons isn't interesting or insightful.
I think this is a good idea... at some point an article has to be "finished" for most purposes.
You can do this with wikipedia content any time you want: make a copy, edit to your liking, give it your stamp of approval. Companies can do this also. They can even sell the 'finished' product. From the license:
"...to assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it, with or without modifying it, either commercially or noncommercially."
This is a compromise that is hard to argue against, and has support in hymn-project.org :
Why is the apple ID left intact in the
output files generated by hymn? Is it
intentional?
It is intentional. Hymn
is not meant to be a tool to enable copyright
infringement. Having the apple ID in the output files
allows anyone sharing such files on P2P networks to be
tracked down. I can't think of a legitimate reason to
remove the apple ID, so long as the songs are playable
everywhere. As long as it is technically feasible to do
so, hymn will leave the apple ID intact.
IronPython-0.6 is now available as Open Source Software under the Common Public License version 1.0.
A single zip file containing both the source code and the binary executables can
be downloaded below.
I just started using it, and there has been a lot of change in 'del.icio.us/tag/python' but it was pycon last week, so maybe there won't be much change in the list of links. (A static list of python links isn't that exciting.)
...I'll just take this opportunity to say good-bye to all my friends in the US, before the lights on your subnet goes out. As much as I'll miss slashdot, I'm sure you will miss Internet more.
The poster was pointing out that TCP/IP is 'peer-to-peer' and so our subnets will go dark. I was joking that we won't quit using it even if it is illegal -- both p2p and IP. It would be typical of US law to make all p2p illegal then years from now mitigate that to protect IP networks, all the while with everyone using IP anyway.
Your point about the law killing P2P effectively in the US is right I think. Even if the technology could provide safety/anonymity it would be little used if prison was a possibility.
This argument boils down to deciding if "Media Player" encompasses the codecs that "make it go" or not.
Or if IE is a part of Windows. Debating what the name "Media Player" includes is just quicksand.
This is political anyway: a lack of competition is driving this, not a technical distinction. Gates tried to argue that MS must decide what is included in Windows, rather then that MS must decide what common functionality is in Windows. MS wants its own software to define Windows, not software that is comparable and API compatible. (Seems like a reasonable argument.) Their monopoly status is what brings this on: EU is trying to (re)create the market, and keep other markets viable for the future.
Michael Powell thinks that high-speed is different then everything else, and getting it widely adopted it the most important thing. Thus the incentive to companies that they can sell the connection and service.
The FCC could make many rules to spread connections other then this: protection of municipality systems, co-op guidelines neighborhood systems, etc... but this administration would prefer to hope that competition between two companies will be enough.
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Neither Municipal or Private business will be immune from calls for restrictions. The real answer is to change the publics attitude about free speech, and freedom of information.
Retention policies will probably become a big issue in the near future, as people's expectations are broken. I can see it now: The NY Times "paper of record" changes its story online and somebody is outraged... that should be fun.
You can see a reference to the "Shadow over open source" in the comments section, but the story doesn't say it. No copy in google cache or the wayback machine.
No. Those who don't know the material will spend the money; they are the reason.
If we could get them to care, then we would be someplace. But it doesn't seem like this movie will inspire anyone to go read the books.
I agreed with what you posted, but remember The Greatest Generation by TOM BROKAW and all its hype? It doesn't seem anymore correct to use war, instead of pop-culture, as a hook. They are both just hype, and the substance has to carry the book... maybe this is a "don't judge a book by it's cover" thing: don't judge a book by its hype or hook. Or maybe its: judge a book by whether it has a hook and hype? The more I think about it, the less it seems like pop-culture matters: people treat serious subjects just as badly.
You seem unhappy; maybe you should read The Gospel According to The Simpsons: The Spiritual Life of the World's Most Animated Family to find peace.
(just joking)
You can do this with wikipedia content any time you want: make a copy, edit to your liking, give it your stamp of approval. Companies can do this also. They can even sell the 'finished' product. From the license:
You must be crazy to think I'm going to click that link with /them/ watching.
IronPython-0.6 is now available as Open Source Software under the Common Public License version 1.0. A single zip file containing both the source code and the binary executables can be downloaded below.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/live-bookm arks.html
I just started using it, and there has been a lot of change in 'del.icio.us/tag/python' but it was pycon last week, so maybe there won't be much change in the list of links. (A static list of python links isn't that exciting.)
I agree for the most part: calling studies and statistics 'science' is common.
Got any studies proving this? or Statistics.
Solar Lottery : A Novel
by PHILIP K. DICK
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The poster was pointing out that TCP/IP is 'peer-to-peer' and so our subnets will go dark. I was joking that we won't quit using it even if it is illegal -- both p2p and IP. It would be typical of US law to make all p2p illegal then years from now mitigate that to protect IP networks, all the while with everyone using IP anyway.
Your point about the law killing P2P effectively in the US is right I think. Even if the technology could provide safety/anonymity it would be little used if prison was a possibility.
I would like to add a requirement: you have to make a public statement of good intent; to be honest and decent.
What? You got a problem with honest and decent?
Political organization backing should need to be disclosed anywhere by anyone at any time.
How do you define a [Political organization], then, and separate it from a [corporation | grassroots group | foreign disinformation campaign]?
Sudafed is now a behind the counter drug in many states (slowing sales) because end users used it to make meth.
Or if IE is a part of Windows. Debating what the name "Media Player" includes is just quicksand.
This is political anyway: a lack of competition is driving this, not a technical distinction. Gates tried to argue that MS must decide what is included in Windows, rather then that MS must decide what common functionality is in Windows. MS wants its own software to define Windows, not software that is comparable and API compatible. (Seems like a reasonable argument.) Their monopoly status is what brings this on: EU is trying to (re)create the market, and keep other markets viable for the future.
The FCC could make many rules to spread connections other then this: protection of municipality systems, co-op guidelines neighborhood systems, etc... but this administration would prefer to hope that competition between two companies will be enough.
The network is your swap file.