it's hardly new. Remember fur coats getting splashed with paint? this is just more of the same. Hardly anyone wears a fur coat any more, but they're not completely abolished. the same may happen with SUVs. Yes there are legitimate uses, but most are just not very efficient peoplemovers (one or 2 at a time)
>Reasonable (and legal!) quantities of food items may be brought along for personal use or sharing.
I'm just wondering one thing here: Could I bring some space-cake(both for personal use and for sharing)? it's illegal in the US... but not everywhere. And I guess getting the munchies is a big nono on a mission to mars
> How many times do you see a URL listed on a web page that isn't a link? It'd be nice if the browser could at least make those links automatically.
yes, that would be useful.
Now please correct me if I'm wrong.. but wasn't there a problem in the US where you werent allowed to link to DeCSS, but you WERE allowed to give the link as plain text? Could have some legal implications..
licensing the engine to other sites, and adwords (1 single, text-only, sponsored link). These are the 2 ways I know for sure are already happening, and they may have more ways.
>I may despise MS, for example, for their software and marketing practices. But ultimately, they too are human.
no they're not. They're a company, and definately NOT human. Their employees, CEOs, Bill Gates and even their lawyer are human. calling MS human is like calling a human "carbohydrates and water".
>So, how is that different from monitoring your kids internet usage?
the bible has its pages numbered, the internet doesn't. I suppose you could rip all the bad pages out of the bible. Could be a fun experiment to annoy fundamentalist < insert favourite religious followers > , bet THEY won't like being censored..
//rdj
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>It looks like this is a native MFC thing and has been around for awhile.
yes, it's native. yes, it's been around for some time. but MFC is hardly XP (that's cross platform, not office or windows..)
Blake's seven is an old BBC SF series, and IMO one of the all time best.. very dystopian. I can really recommend it, even if the special effects are a bit dated. (what do you expect from a late 70s/begin 80s show:)
>or if I were to write some software which decrypted audio-visual content in a way that was illegal in the US but legal in Australia (alas this is not the case) and post that on my website? Would I be liable to prosecution under US law?
yes. Ask jon johansen, who put up DeCSS in Norway but was sued in the US.
- ALL camera surveillance contains sensitive material (race, for one)
- tapes/pictures/whatever will be deleted within 24 hours, or within a short period of time if you have a VERY good reason. Don't count on getting that permission
- The public will be informed that they're under surveillance, and who gave the order.
-camera surveillance will be reported to the 'registration dept.' (registratiekamer)
>So the US law doesn't apply to the alleged criminals actions/data, and the russian law doesn't apply to the agents
ah, but only US law actually counts. All other laws from other countries are conspiracy to overthrow the USA's leadership-role in human rights and free trade. As an american, you cannot be arrested for breaking other country's laws. If they do anyway, they're wrong and we will start tradesanctions, to help them see the error of their ways before they hurt american business.
> If my receipe were "GPLed", she would then not be allowed to serve her modified dish to anyone without telling them the entire receipe.
Not entirely.. you don't actually have to distribute the recipe with the dish, you have to provide a good way for people to get your recipe, like a stack of papers on the corner of the table, at a cost no higher than the medium (=the paper its printed on). If they're not interested in the source, the GPL doesn't force you to stuff it down their throats. (try a distro from the cover of some magazine.. they usually don't include sources)
> Or, if you prefer, go build your own kernel, your own version of the Gnu tools, your own version of your favourite window manager, and so on... Good luck...
Or use Debian. Debian is not a company. Aside from incongruencies in your comparison between software and public transport. But please let's not start a flamewar on THAT again...
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it's hardly new. Remember fur coats getting splashed with paint? this is just more of the same. Hardly anyone wears a fur coat any more, but they're not completely abolished. the same may happen with SUVs. Yes there are legitimate uses, but most are just not very efficient peoplemovers (one or 2 at a time)
//rdj
>Reasonable (and legal!) quantities of food items may be brought along for personal use or sharing.
I'm just wondering one thing here: Could I bring some space-cake(both for personal use and for sharing)? it's illegal in the US... but not everywhere. And I guess getting the munchies is a big nono on a mission to mars
//rdj
> How many times do you see a URL listed on a web page that isn't a link? It'd be nice if the browser could at least make those links automatically.
yes, that would be useful.
Now please correct me if I'm wrong.. but wasn't there a problem in the US where you werent allowed to link to DeCSS, but you WERE allowed to give the link as plain text? Could have some legal implications..
//rdj
licensing the engine to other sites, and adwords (1 single, text-only, sponsored link). These are the 2 ways I know for sure are already happening, and they may have more ways.
//rdj
come to think of it.. attaching ads is changing the content, and could possibly be a copyright violation.
//rdj
>A good joke is timeless. If you don't find the joke humoruous, that's your loss, not mine...
;)
indeed, and calling full house better than monty python is a classic
//rdj
>I may despise MS, for example, for their software and marketing practices. But ultimately, they too are human.
no they're not. They're a company, and definately NOT human. Their employees, CEOs, Bill Gates and even their lawyer are human. calling MS human is like calling a human "carbohydrates and water".
//rdj
>So, how is that different from monitoring your kids internet usage?
the bible has its pages numbered, the internet doesn't. I suppose you could rip all the bad pages out of the bible. Could be a fun experiment to annoy fundamentalist < insert favourite religious followers > , bet THEY won't like being censored..
//rdj
>It looks like this is a native MFC thing and has been around for awhile.
yes, it's native. yes, it's been around for some time. but MFC is hardly XP (that's cross platform, not office or windows..)
//rdj
be a bastard and check it server-side. javascript can be turned off...Too bad for opera users posing as IE though..
//rdj
> I agree that cool people don't need people to tell them that they're cool. (Or do they? If no one calls you cool, are you actually cool?)
if people keep telling you over and over and over that you're cool, you probably aren't
//rdj
Blake's seven is an old BBC SF series, and IMO one of the all time best.. very dystopian. I can really recommend it, even if the special effects are a bit dated. (what do you expect from a late 70s/begin 80s show :)
//rdj
oh great.. just what I was waiting for. I'm looking at a pornwebsite, and get all these silly links on sex ed, breastcancer and venereal diseases.
//rdj
>or if I were to write some software which decrypted audio-visual content in a way that was illegal in the US but legal in Australia (alas this is not the case) and post that on my website? Would I be liable to prosecution under US law?
yes. Ask jon johansen, who put up DeCSS in Norway but was sued in the US.
//rdj
- ALL camera surveillance contains sensitive material (race, for one)
- tapes/pictures/whatever will be deleted within 24 hours, or within a short period of time if you have a VERY good reason. Don't count on getting that permission
- The public will be informed that they're under surveillance, and who gave the order.
-camera surveillance will be reported to the 'registration dept.' (registratiekamer)
and then there's some more rules.
//rdj
next will be plants in different colours, RGB, radiocontrolled showing pepsi and burgerking commercials. or WWF wrestling.
//rdj
son: Dad, why are you called running bison?
dad: cos when grandma and granddad created me, they saw a bison running..
son: dad, why's my brother called flying eagle?
dad: well son.. when your brother was conceived, mom and me saw an eagle fly by..
son: dad, why..
dad: stop asking stupid questions, tearing rubber
//rdj
>So the US law doesn't apply to the alleged criminals actions/data, and the russian law doesn't apply to the agents
ah, but only US law actually counts. All other laws from other countries are conspiracy to overthrow the USA's leadership-role in human rights and free trade. As an american, you cannot be arrested for breaking other country's laws. If they do anyway, they're wrong and we will start tradesanctions, to help them see the error of their ways before they hurt american business.
//rdj
Oh.. not that long ago.. german government, for one, is sponsoring GnuPG. Here's the press release.
//rdj
> If my receipe were "GPLed", she would then not be allowed to serve her modified dish to anyone without telling them the entire receipe.
Not entirely.. you don't actually have to distribute the recipe with the dish, you have to provide a good way for people to get your recipe, like a stack of papers on the corner of the table, at a cost no higher than the medium (=the paper its printed on). If they're not interested in the source, the GPL doesn't force you to stuff it down their throats. (try a distro from the cover of some magazine.. they usually don't include sources)
//rdj
at least it's a 43 Megaton CLEAN explosion, vs a glow-in-the-dark-til-Y3K explosion.. Still a problem, but at least it's over in a few milliseconds :)
//rdj
You want fair from an insurerer? Insurers do profits, not fairness.
//rdj
> Or, if you prefer, go build your own kernel, your own version of the Gnu tools, your own version of your favourite window manager, and so on... Good luck...
Or use Debian. Debian is not a company. Aside from incongruencies in your comparison between software and public transport. But please let's not start a flamewar on THAT again...
//rdj
Good chair:
Check!
Some kind of physical activity for fitness:
Check!
Regular breaks away from my chair:
Check!
Blake's 7 quote:
Check!
//rdj, not making much sense as usual
Just make sure that it's neck-collars, not bracelets or anklets. Those would permanently damage the jocks...
//rdj