Wow... the Patriot Act II. It almost sounds like a Hollywood movie! "Bigger, Brasher, More Almost-Naked Women... It's the Patriot Act II."
No, the thing Hitler didn't get was subtelty. You have to make these changes in a slow and controlled way. You can't just take a whole civilisation and lob them in death camps - you have to persuade them that it's for the good of the nation and patriotism and all that cock-n-bull first.
Of course, wiping what mental capability they have is useful first, and that brings us back to Hollywood...
No... Copyright says that this idea is being held TEMPORARILY by the author to protect their interests. Once they have had their chance to get their reward then the material drops in to the public domain.
It is a holding bay for ideas that has been created for just long enough that the creator of the works gets a reward, not an absolute protection. Once the protection given to the author stops providing a social good, then the work can and should drop in to the Public Domain.
I also agree with you that patents are pretty crap. But in most countries there is the protection that it is only for things that are not obvious. For example - nobody can patent the wheel, because there is prior art and it's obvious.
I'm keen to see where the SCO case goes. If the code is, as you say, an accidental misappropriation, there should not really be any legal penalty for that - there should have to be proof of some intention to permanently deprive the code owners of their code. And in the case of a GNU project there is sufficient ease to withdraw distribution of it and remove the code.
Last time I checked the PNG standard has alpha transparency, and if Interent Explorer does not support alpha transparency, then it does not support PNG.
So not only can't they think up good business plans, but they commit the cardinal formatting sin of mixing numbered lists and bullet points. When will those in business actually READ Word for Dummies rather than just have it on the shelf to look cool.
It can not mean Disk Operating System - it mangles disks, it barely operates without special "surgery" sessions (with the steel-toe cap boots and the epoxy resin) and it's not at all systematic.
Now take this toffy nosed description and stick it in/dev/null!
That's dumb. Surely that's the job of floodbots and other technical and political decisions by the operators of the chatroom - eg. an IRC rooms moderators etc.
Yeah, I know. Most of your suggestions are based on common sense, wheras mine are based on being very angry. Which is definitely not the best way to formulate and disseminate useful opinions.
Anyway, I'd quite like to see schools run democratically - each student gets a vote. That would rule enormously.
I didn't have time for a point by point response...
"students don't have much privacy to begin with"
Yep. That's bad. Really bad actually. They should have as much as other citizens. Because, in effect, they are citizens.
"school provided computers, during classtime"
Who pays for those computers? - taxpayers. Therefore they ought to have a say in whether Junnior's privacy is being invaded.
"used to walk around the classroom and peek over your shoulder. Was that an invasion to privacy?"
Yes. Precedent does not justify wrongdoing.
"If you got caught writing a note, the teacher could read it aloud if they wanted."
Invasion of privacy! Copyright infringement. You wrote the note - and therefore it belongs to you, and if someone reads it aloud who has not been given permission, they are infringing your copyright: public performance is implied to be forbidden.
"Kids are given more "rights to privacy" than we ever had before, despite technology allowing fo r monitoring."
As they should be. Privacy is the most amazingly wicked thing ever. Give it to them.
"Video cameras in the school."
That sucks.
"But monitoring computer use. The school has EVERY right."
No they don't. Nobdody has given them the right to spy on what you are doing. They have siezed the right. And that is an invasion of privacy. Simple. As. That.
Plus it forms persuasive precedent. The government or colleges or whatever can say: "Schools are doing it, why can't we?"
With all this new networking technology, could you not have a group of trolls posting 'all your base are belong to us' jokes and goatse.cx links to/. COLLABORATIVELY?
Perhaps if they managed to teach kids something, then I might tolerate it, but seeing as most kids learn jack-shit from school.
We're in a society based around freedom, why not give people the right to it, rather than running schools like a fascist shithole which our 'boys' go and "regime change" every few years.
School is there to teach, not to read my email. (I'm mainly pissed off because they've filtered outgoing SSH from my college... because that's what HACKERS use, and HACKERS are BAD PEOPLE and spread VIRUSES!! Whoo!)
Hitch-hikers! Hitch-hikers! Nothing else is required. Listening to the cassette version of Hitch-Hikers taught me more about science, technology and literature and started more literary fires in my mind than 13 years of schooling... Douglas Adams has saved my life a number of times over.
Honestly. That's the sort of stuff schools ought to be teaching. HHGG ought to be compulsory for every schoolkid to read AND listen to. Nothing else matters.
I'm just waiting until Steiner writes a full postcolonial criticism of a bunch of Quake 3 Arena or Unreal Tournament chatlogs.
Just think about that for a second: George Steiner writing about the meaning, usage and a critical response to "w00t w00t! 1 frGGed u! i @m 7h3 13373zt h4x0rRrzsZz l0l l0l l0l!!!1!!!"
That would honestly be the greatest piece of academic writing, ever!
It's a statement on the publics inability to cope with change, when you have good programmers and designers working to make good windowing environments (X) run bad GUI's (Win).
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Religion - a perfect excuse for the various insanity defences available in most good judicial systems near you!
How can Microsoft just reel in support for a product? There was no bloody support in the first place!
Wow... the Patriot Act II. It almost sounds like a Hollywood movie! "Bigger, Brasher, More Almost-Naked Women... It's the Patriot Act II."
No, the thing Hitler didn't get was subtelty. You have to make these changes in a slow and controlled way. You can't just take a whole civilisation and lob them in death camps - you have to persuade them that it's for the good of the nation and patriotism and all that cock-n-bull first.
Of course, wiping what mental capability they have is useful first, and that brings us back to Hollywood...
No... Copyright says that this idea is being held TEMPORARILY by the author to protect their interests. Once they have had their chance to get their reward then the material drops in to the public domain.
It is a holding bay for ideas that has been created for just long enough that the creator of the works gets a reward, not an absolute protection. Once the protection given to the author stops providing a social good, then the work can and should drop in to the Public Domain.
I also agree with you that patents are pretty crap. But in most countries there is the protection that it is only for things that are not obvious. For example - nobody can patent the wheel, because there is prior art and it's obvious.
I'm keen to see where the SCO case goes. If the code is, as you say, an accidental misappropriation, there should not really be any legal penalty for that - there should have to be proof of some intention to permanently deprive the code owners of their code. And in the case of a GNU project there is sufficient ease to withdraw distribution of it and remove the code.
"PNG support (minus alpha transparency)"
Last time I checked the PNG standard has alpha transparency, and if Interent Explorer does not support alpha transparency, then it does not support PNG.
Shame really. It's a really good format.
Why not do it from above? The Cat-5 could be like puppet strings...
"It seems that a web petition is nearly as inacurate as a slashdot poll."
Or even worse than that... a US Presidential Election.
"Now that that case is put to rest it's about time they made sure that the next generation of DRM technology can't be run under WINE or on the MAC."
Too right. That Microsoft DRM crap isn't coming anywhere near my OS X box while I've got my root boots on!
I'd agree, but it's impossible to legislate common sense. Especially in a country such as the USA where it seems to be a rare commodity item.
Use whatever is going to be the most suitable. It's as easy as that.
So not only can't they think up good business plans, but they commit the cardinal formatting sin of mixing numbered lists and bullet points. When will those in business actually READ Word for Dummies rather than just have it on the shelf to look cool.
No, just have two databases - one for the good bits and one for the bad bits.
You may have a little trouble syncronising the two, as (by definition) you'd have to have the bad bits stored in an Access server...
But DOS == denial of service.
/dev/null!
It can not mean Disk Operating System - it mangles disks, it barely operates without special "surgery" sessions (with the steel-toe cap boots and the epoxy resin) and it's not at all systematic.
Now take this toffy nosed description and stick it in
That's dumb. Surely that's the job of floodbots and other technical and political decisions by the operators of the chatroom - eg. an IRC rooms moderators etc.
An ISP making these regulations is dumb.
Proof! Microsoft are always late on the bandwagon...
Yeah? Mine is consistently telling me that my ding-dong isn't long enough, yet I still seem to get the pretty girls, and not to mention Viagra...
So I need work on my willy, but I still get bucket loads of 'Hot Teens'. Yet I need Viagra. What a blow for targeting advertising.
Yeah, I know. Most of your suggestions are based on common sense, wheras mine are based on being very angry. Which is definitely not the best way to formulate and disseminate useful opinions.
Anyway, I'd quite like to see schools run democratically - each student gets a vote. That would rule enormously.
I didn't have time for a point by point response...
"students don't have much privacy to begin with"
Yep. That's bad. Really bad actually. They should have as much as other citizens. Because, in effect, they are citizens.
"school provided computers, during classtime"
Who pays for those computers? - taxpayers. Therefore they ought to have a say in whether Junnior's privacy is being invaded.
"used to walk around the classroom and peek over your shoulder. Was that an invasion to privacy?"
Yes. Precedent does not justify wrongdoing.
"If you got caught writing a note, the teacher could read it aloud if they wanted."
Invasion of privacy! Copyright infringement. You wrote the note - and therefore it belongs to you, and if someone reads it aloud who has not been given permission, they are infringing your copyright: public performance is implied to be forbidden.
"Kids are given more "rights to privacy" than we ever had before, despite technology allowing fo r monitoring."
As they should be. Privacy is the most amazingly wicked thing ever. Give it to them.
"Video cameras in the school."
That sucks.
"But monitoring computer use. The school has EVERY right."
No they don't. Nobdody has given them the right to spy on what you are doing. They have siezed the right. And that is an invasion of privacy. Simple. As. That.
Plus it forms persuasive precedent. The government or colleges or whatever can say: "Schools are doing it, why can't we?"
With all this new networking technology, could you not have a group of trolls posting 'all your base are belong to us' jokes and goatse.cx links to /. COLLABORATIVELY?
Perhaps if they managed to teach kids something, then I might tolerate it, but seeing as most kids learn jack-shit from school.
We're in a society based around freedom, why not give people the right to it, rather than running schools like a fascist shithole which our 'boys' go and "regime change" every few years.
School is there to teach, not to read my email. (I'm mainly pissed off because they've filtered outgoing SSH from my college... because that's what HACKERS use, and HACKERS are BAD PEOPLE and spread VIRUSES!! Whoo!)
Hitch-hikers! Hitch-hikers! Nothing else is required. Listening to the cassette version of Hitch-Hikers taught me more about science, technology and literature and started more literary fires in my mind than 13 years of schooling... Douglas Adams has saved my life a number of times over.
Honestly. That's the sort of stuff schools ought to be teaching. HHGG ought to be compulsory for every schoolkid to read AND listen to. Nothing else matters.
Yeah... great. Invasion of privacy! Whoo!
And who said kids aren't growing up in a world of freedom and privacy. Fuck that.
I'm just waiting until Steiner writes a full postcolonial criticism of a bunch of Quake 3 Arena or Unreal Tournament chatlogs.
Just think about that for a second: George Steiner writing about the meaning, usage and a critical response to "w00t w00t! 1 frGGed u! i @m 7h3 13373zt h4x0rRrzsZz l0l l0l l0l!!!1!!!"
That would honestly be the greatest piece of academic writing, ever!
It's a statement on the publics inability to cope with change, when you have good programmers and designers working to make good windowing environments (X) run bad GUI's (Win).
What a fucking waste of time.
So the connection is slow already, and to speed it up loads, what do you do?
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Post it on
And who says people are dumb?