Nah, if you hire a hitman you are still charged with murder. Why can't you be charged under CAN-SPAM act if you sell a list of e-mail addresses to a known spammer? Or fined for unwanted calls if you sell my phone list to telemarketers? He should also be charged with embezzlement for selling AOLs property, and probably both charges at the same time, because they pertain to different victims.
Uh.. I should have no say in what goes into my body? Even if my doctor is perfectly informed, he/she can not be perfectly in tune with my priorities. I should be able to take a dangerous drug to enhance my life quality as opposed to making unpleasent lifestyle changes or just tolerating the symptoms that are less physically threatening than the drug. But how many doctors will inform me about that drug unless I heard of it from an advertisement first? How many patients will hear about birth control, day after pill and viagra in religious states?
Speaking from experience as a parent with reasonably high standards about what constitutes acceptable viewing material.
Maybe you can explain to the rest of us what's so bad about a human body that your children would be harmed by some images of Janet Jackson? They didn't nurse with a blindfold after all. Or is it just a control thing?
Sorry but that is the very definition of public. Not private.
So you alright with cameras in public restrooms then? Most places are public to use but private in the sense of information disclosure. When I am on the street, only people who already know me recognize me and link whatever I am doing to my identity. I keep my privacy in regard to strangers and people watching security cameras for criminal activity. Unless they post MPEGs of juicy bits on the web, which happens to be illegal.
On the other hand, post office kiosks link my picture to at least address of the recepient and probably my own identity, as they will likely require use of credit card of driver license with a mag stripe. Any judge can issue a court order to disclose it. If you are a witness in a criminal trial, do you really want the would to know you are taking "anonynous" HIV tests every year because defense is trying to undermine your credibility.
Oh sure, I don't want anonymous pictures in public restrooms either. But for most activities, your privacy is safe if there is no link to your identity.
Well, the rootless windows Cygwin opened all had the same title on the taskbar and closing them from the right click menu killed the server rather than doing an xkill. Did they fix that now?
Are you kidding? I used to run xterm and Emacs over 2400 baud and it was tolerable, even before I tried lbxproxy. On the other hand, TightVNC is not usable for serious work even over a cable modem. As I understand, VNC sends bitmaps while X11 forwards drawing calls and many things like images and fonts are cached on the server.
Even if everything else was the same, VNC has to refresh the whole screen, while with X you can just open a couple of small windows from remote. How can it have a better performance?
Like this one. You can just publish it as an applet on UNIX host's web server and access it from a browser on any platform without any install at all.
Last I checked, Cygwin X server takes over your whole screen by default and doesn't look native even in rootless mode. Has any progress been made recently?
Is that they have to be published, compulsory licencing and challenge in court is an option and educational use is free. Instead of an innovation being locked up inside a company, other people can expand on it and even sell their work back to the original inventor. This could discourage one-click style patents because then the filer can not then argue in court that single-tap on a touch screen is not separately patentable.
Sure big companies (and small "IP" companies) will abuse patents, but they do that already, along with abusing copyrights and contracts (shrink-wrap). The only way for common people to live in a sane world is to constantly push back.
Expecting your browser to sandbox every browser window separately is a little like expecting Superman to escort you through the projects every time you go for a walk over lunch.
Not likely, unless it also contains AC, FP and EOPA (every other possible abbreviation). These kind of things should be just expanded and translated as regular phrases.
Also, a dictionary under GPL would be a more horrible abuse of IP than even DMCA and Amazon's one-click. Imagine having to allow people to copy your printed book for free because you looked up french words you wanted to use in your novell on some web site? Surely any knowledge of human languages should be in public domain.
So if 8% of the population doesn't agree with a law, it should go unenforced much of the time? I am sure that in red states you can find people who think beating up a gay is a good thing, and prosecutors might not retry a mere battery case when there is a bigger fish to fry.
Sure jury nullification can not be outlawed, otherwise jurors can be jailed for not returning the verdict that judge/prosectors/government wants and the whole concept of fair trial is a joke. But if you actually do it, you are spitting in the faces of millions of people who voted for this law, and forcing your own opinion on them instead. Kind of like republicans who tried to impeach Clinton. Scary!
My friend voted guilty in a prostitution case, even though he doesn't believe it should be illegal and there were signs of entrapment. Judges make it very clear that your role is to find out if a law was broken, not act on your personal opinions. Most people have trouble to disobey authority or believe merits of the rule of law outweigh it's disadvantages. I wouldn't be suprised if DMCA makes it illegal to uninstall other people's software. I do wonder if you can sue someone for loss of your illegally gotten gains or if a judge would through out the case as a waste of public money. Hmmm, can pirates hide behind Microsoft's monopoly wrongdoings?
I am pretty sure you can call police if someone stole your opium-based prescription painkiller and get them to return it to you if recovered successfully. Glucoma is common among heavy computer users - talk to your doctor about treatments you can use while programming.
The scientific method is a process for proving something as definitely untrue or possibly true.
Ah, I am kind of curious how you are going to prove/dispove evolution - should bible-thumpers now be justified in pointing out it's not scientific? How about orgins of universe? Black holes?
I thought scientific method is just choosing the most probable explanation based on the best of current human knowledge and intuition and without restriction of having to conform to some standards of religious/political correctness.
Come on, it's non-invasive. All it's going to do is insert a few targetted text ads into your thoughts. Just don't install any windows into your scull, or you could become a spam zombie. Umm. SPAM! Itchy... Tasty!
marware has shoulder straps for all models. Most iPods are light and should be no problem for jogging. I don't know if I would use a 1G or Photo iPod, and I guess people with really tiny shoulders might want to try a mini.
Are you suggesting I should buy an $100+ item to support a "free" website I casually visited for 10 minutes? Chances are that a) I don't really need it and b) I can find a better price elsewhere. If not, all I am doing is saving them some bandwidth. As other people pointed out, if I just load/click ads and don't buy anything, advertisers will just lower pay/click rate.
I wouldn't block ads (Safari + adBlock.css) if I found them useful even occasionally. For example, I actually treat Google sponsored links as a feature. I just search for some item, then buy from whichever free or payed match offers the lowest price.
I suggest that free sites either come up with a reasonable micropayment model (10-25 cents per day, refundable if you pay and don't find much to see) or do the research to find something of a good value to many of their viewers and partner with these merchants to offer a discount when you go through the website.
Ah... Hint1: Why do you think iPod Mini comes with a shoulder strap? Hint2 Hint3: Not every part of your body is shaking equally vigourously when you jog. If you have been using a belt clip, it's time to try something different. Cured skips on my 3G iPod like a charm.
I don't know how you can jog with a flash-based player though. Never decide you don't like your original playlist and want to select something different in the middle?
urges slashdotters to use humane methods to teach their PCs. Too many have been hurt while learning. Every day thousands of PCs toil 24/7 in virus-infested environments, are being forced to run far faster than their natural speed or even have their skins ripped off and replaced with pieces of transparent plastic that expose their living guts. There are also distrurbing reports of unwilling computers being used for sexual gratification of the users.
Proponents of computer abuse often claim that PCs have no feelings. Yet, PETC tests reveal that an average computer matches or exceeds its user in many tests of intelligence, including a chess game. Please treat your PC as you want to be treated - don't force it to work more than 8 hours per day, lay off overclocking and always use protection when visiting questionable websites.
It's scary to see someone so far gone as to think intellectual property laws are designed to help some rich bastards make more money rather than for public benefit.
Sure, it's in public interest to let people recoup costs of their research and make a living. But not make infinite profit - than they will be a drain on the society and in fact discouraged to invent more. That's why patents expire after 20 years, which is quite reasonable for manufacturing and medical research. For software it should be more like 2 years.
Also, in exchange for limited protection, patent applicants are required to disclose their invention to the public. I can invent some more on top of it and make the original patent holder pay me to use my enhancements!
Finally, there is compulsory licencing if you get too greedy.
The purpose of patents is to encourage inventors to publish their research and license it to people for a smaller price than what it would cost to re-discover the concept. Now a Microsoft employee says their source code must stay secret to prevent competitors from copying their features. Fine by me if they don't turn around and patent the same features. If you license an invention, the owner shouldn't be still keeping secrets from you to prevent you from actually taking advantage of it.
Let's change the law so that a software patent application must include free (as in BSD license) source code of a complete, currently sellable (as determined by courts later if disputed) application that takes advantage of the concept. Don't like it? Keep your secrets and don't bitch if someone rediscovers them.
The point is to recover high frequencies stripped of by low bit rate (64kbps) MP3 encoding, based on existing low frequencies and some hints on what is missing. The result is that you can listen to music radio over a 56K line. It's not great, but it will not hurt your ears. Musicmatch radio took a good advantage of this format.
But at higher bit rate high frequences are already encoded and do not have to be recovered. Given that you are not going to encode surround sound at 64kbps, MP3Pro and MP3 surround will never be used together.
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Nah, if you hire a hitman you are still charged with murder. Why can't you be charged under CAN-SPAM act if you sell a list of e-mail addresses to a known spammer? Or fined for unwanted calls if you sell my phone list to telemarketers? He should also be charged with embezzlement for selling AOLs property, and probably both charges at the same time, because they pertain to different victims.
Uh.. I should have no say in what goes into my body? Even if my doctor is perfectly informed, he/she can not be perfectly in tune with my priorities. I should be able to take a dangerous drug to enhance my life quality as opposed to making unpleasent lifestyle changes or just tolerating the symptoms that are less physically threatening than the drug. But how many doctors will inform me about that drug unless I heard of it from an advertisement first? How many patients will hear about birth control, day after pill and viagra in religious states?
Speaking from experience as a parent with reasonably high standards about what constitutes acceptable viewing material.
Maybe you can explain to the rest of us what's so bad about a human body that your children would be harmed by some images of Janet Jackson? They didn't nurse with a blindfold after all. Or is it just a control thing?
Sorry but that is the very definition of public. Not private.
So you alright with cameras in public restrooms then? Most places are public to use but private in the sense of information disclosure. When I am on the street, only people who already know me recognize me and link whatever I am doing to my identity. I keep my privacy in regard to strangers and people watching security cameras for criminal activity. Unless they post MPEGs of juicy bits on the web, which happens to be illegal.
On the other hand, post office kiosks link my picture to at least address of the recepient and probably my own identity, as they will likely require use of credit card of driver license with a mag stripe. Any judge can issue a court order to disclose it. If you are a witness in a criminal trial, do you really want the would to know you are taking "anonynous" HIV tests every year because defense is trying to undermine your credibility.
Oh sure, I don't want anonymous pictures in public restrooms either. But for most activities, your privacy is safe if there is no link to your identity.
Yeah, bin Laden family name will guarantee your package can travel without inspection even when everyone else's is grounded.
Well, the rootless windows Cygwin opened all had the same title on the taskbar and closing them from the right click menu killed the server rather than doing an xkill. Did they fix that now?
Are you kidding? I used to run xterm and Emacs over 2400 baud and it was tolerable, even before I tried lbxproxy. On the other hand, TightVNC is not usable for serious work even over a cable modem. As I understand, VNC sends bitmaps while X11 forwards drawing calls and many things like images and fonts are cached on the server.
Even if everything else was the same, VNC has to refresh the whole screen, while with X you can just open a couple of small windows from remote. How can it have a better performance?
Uhh.. The purpose of free software is to do a nice thing for other people and possibly get them to like you? Why would you care if they run Windows?
Like this one. You can just publish it as an applet on UNIX host's web server and access it from a browser on any platform without any install at all.
Last I checked, Cygwin X server takes over your whole screen by default and doesn't look native even in rootless mode. Has any progress been made recently?
Is that they have to be published, compulsory licencing and challenge in court is an option and educational use is free. Instead of an innovation being locked up inside a company, other people can expand on it and even sell their work back to the original inventor. This could discourage one-click style patents because then the filer can not then argue in court that single-tap on a touch screen is not separately patentable.
Sure big companies (and small "IP" companies) will abuse patents, but they do that already, along with abusing copyrights and contracts (shrink-wrap). The only way for common people to live in a sane world is to constantly push back.
Expecting your browser to sandbox every browser window separately is a little like expecting Superman to escort you through the projects every time you go for a walk over lunch.
What's the big deal?
void newWindow(const char *url) {
signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN);
if (!fork())
execl("/usr/bin/mozilla", "mozilla", url, NULL);
}
I thought IE even had this option since Win9x - start each browser window in a new process or something to that effect in explorer options.
Not likely, unless it also contains AC, FP and EOPA (every other possible abbreviation). These kind of things should be just expanded and translated as regular phrases.
Also, a dictionary under GPL would be a more horrible abuse of IP than even DMCA and Amazon's one-click. Imagine having to allow people to copy your printed book for free because you looked up french words you wanted to use in your novell on some web site? Surely any knowledge of human languages should be in public domain.
but that doesn't mean they are always acting in the interests of those people.
And how is a juror more qualified to act on their interests than an elected representative?
So if 8% of the population doesn't agree with a law, it should go unenforced much of the time? I am sure that in red states you can find people who think beating up a gay is a good thing, and prosecutors might not retry a mere battery case when there is a bigger fish to fry.
Sure jury nullification can not be outlawed, otherwise jurors can be jailed for not returning the verdict that judge/prosectors/government wants and the whole concept of fair trial is a joke. But if you actually do it, you are spitting in the faces of millions of people who voted for this law, and forcing your own opinion on them instead. Kind of like republicans who tried to impeach Clinton. Scary!
My friend voted guilty in a prostitution case, even though he doesn't believe it should be illegal and there were signs of entrapment. Judges make it very clear that your role is to find out if a law was broken, not act on your personal opinions. Most people have trouble to disobey authority or believe merits of the rule of law outweigh it's disadvantages. I wouldn't be suprised if DMCA makes it illegal to uninstall other people's software. I do wonder if you can sue someone for loss of your illegally gotten gains or if a judge would through out the case as a waste of public money. Hmmm, can pirates hide behind Microsoft's monopoly wrongdoings?
I am pretty sure you can call police if someone stole your opium-based prescription painkiller and get them to return it to you if recovered successfully. Glucoma is common among heavy computer users - talk to your doctor about treatments you can use while programming.
The scientific method is a process for proving something as definitely untrue or possibly true.
Ah, I am kind of curious how you are going to prove/dispove evolution - should bible-thumpers now be justified in pointing out it's not scientific? How about orgins of universe? Black holes?
I thought scientific method is just choosing the most probable explanation based on the best of current human knowledge and intuition and without restriction of having to conform to some standards of religious/political correctness.
Come on, it's non-invasive. All it's going to do is insert a few targetted text ads into your thoughts. Just don't install any windows into your scull, or you could become a spam zombie. Umm. SPAM! Itchy... Tasty!
marware has shoulder straps for all models. Most iPods are light and should be no problem for jogging. I don't know if I would use a 1G or Photo iPod, and I guess people with really tiny shoulders might want to try a mini.
Are you suggesting I should buy an $100+ item to support a "free" website I casually visited for 10 minutes? Chances are that a) I don't really need it and b) I can find a better price elsewhere. If not, all I am doing is saving them some bandwidth. As other people pointed out, if I just load/click ads and don't buy anything, advertisers will just lower pay/click rate.
I wouldn't block ads (Safari + adBlock.css) if I found them useful even occasionally. For example, I actually treat Google sponsored links as a feature. I just search for some item, then buy from whichever free or payed match offers the lowest price.
I suggest that free sites either come up with a reasonable micropayment model (10-25 cents per day, refundable if you pay and don't find much to see) or do the research to find something of a good value to many of their viewers and partner with these merchants to offer a discount when you go through the website.
Ah...
Hint1: Why do you think iPod Mini comes with a shoulder strap?
Hint2
Hint3: Not every part of your body is shaking equally vigourously when you jog. If you have been using a belt clip, it's time to try something different. Cured skips on my 3G iPod like a charm.
I don't know how you can jog with a flash-based player though. Never decide you don't like your original playlist and want to select something different in the middle?
urges slashdotters to use humane methods to teach their PCs. Too many have been hurt while learning. Every day thousands of PCs toil 24/7 in virus-infested environments, are being forced to run far faster than their natural speed or even have their skins ripped off and replaced with pieces of transparent plastic that expose their living guts. There are also distrurbing reports of unwilling computers being used for sexual gratification of the users.
Proponents of computer abuse often claim that PCs have no feelings. Yet, PETC tests reveal that an average computer matches or exceeds its user in many tests of intelligence, including a chess game. Please treat your PC as you want to be treated - don't force it to work more than 8 hours per day, lay off overclocking and always use protection when visiting questionable websites.
It's scary to see someone so far gone as to think intellectual property laws are designed to help some rich bastards make more money rather than for public benefit.
Sure, it's in public interest to let people recoup costs of their research and make a living. But not make infinite profit - than they will be a drain on the society and in fact discouraged to invent more. That's why patents expire after 20 years, which is quite reasonable for manufacturing and medical research. For software it should be more like 2 years.
Also, in exchange for limited protection, patent applicants are required to disclose their invention to the public. I can invent some more on top of it and make the original patent holder pay me to use my enhancements!
Finally, there is compulsory licencing if you get too greedy.
The purpose of patents is to encourage inventors to publish their research and license it to people for a smaller price than what it would cost to re-discover the concept. Now a Microsoft employee says their source code must stay secret to prevent competitors from copying their features. Fine by me if they don't turn around and patent the same features. If you license an invention, the owner shouldn't be still keeping secrets from you to prevent you from actually taking advantage of it.
Let's change the law so that a software patent application must include free (as in BSD license) source code of a complete, currently sellable (as determined by courts later if disputed) application that takes advantage of the concept. Don't like it? Keep your secrets and don't bitch if someone rediscovers them.
The point is to recover high frequencies stripped of by low bit rate (64kbps) MP3 encoding, based on existing low frequencies and some hints on what is missing. The result is that you can listen to music radio over a 56K line. It's not great, but it will not hurt your ears. Musicmatch radio took a good advantage of this format.
But at higher bit rate high frequences are already encoded and do not have to be recovered. Given that you are not going to encode surround sound at 64kbps, MP3Pro and MP3 surround will never be used together.