When the French Govt. took Yahoo! t ocourt to try to stop them allowing access to German wartime memorabilia from France, the US courts told Chirac and his merry men to go take a jump.
The RIAA trying to deny access to a site based in China is exactly the same point of law - I'd expect the same result from the US courts (unless it goes to Rhenquist and his vote-buying buddies in the Supreme court, in which case all bets are off).
One simple workaround would be for the US ISPs to sponsor an anonymous proxy somewhere in the depths of cyberspace (Niue, for example), and publicise the existence of this proxy to the whole of the US audience. All users could use this proxy to access the 'illegal' content from China, and the RIAA would then be left with no target to aim at, and may just resort to shooting itself (foot, head - who cares?).
So a government that doesn't have to pay software licence fees (and can therefore afford to tax a bit less, rationalise on support, etc. etc.) is by definition going to have an economy that is going nowhere?
You'd have to hope it was distributed, though - if Sony start getting loads of shit from your IP, they'll have you for trying to DOS them soon as look at you.
Don't know when Dijkstra started on about GOTO - but in the mid-70s when I was learning to code, we were specifically warned off GOTO as a tool, simply because for a sufficiently complex program, you reached the point where you no longer knew where all your GOTOs went.
Rely on the compiler to optimise, unless you're assembling. B.
I agree about the suits, but the flecibility that using an appserver (I'm using Tomcat for development) to allow me to write servlets that talk over TCP to a custom java application that does all my DB queries, with tools that will allow me to create my application in around a month - all this makes me thank Sun for J2EE.
I'll never program in D-flat, though - why bother to learn another bloody language?
If you really, really tried to put a back door into an OS project, some clever so-and-so will be bound to sneakily read the (Open!) source code, and spot it.
There's no problem with having an open verified branch - the fact that it's verified would mean it's less easily penetrated/exploited, so everyone would benefit.
If I had any mod points, I'd mod your post up to 'Funny' - 'cause you can't really be serious, can you?
Of course, being as how Boeing's stock price is lower than the execs would like it to be (nobody wants the damn planes anymore, doh!), this could just be an experiment to see if anti-gravity stories can levitate stock prices to a level where options can be exercised at a profit - or am I just a twisted old cynic?
had to look up 'cullion' - guessed it might be related to 'couillon', though since the author saw fit to use the French for bellringers in the same sentence, why not leave 'bollock' in French, rather than dragging up such an obscure English word?
I reckon the whole article was written for a bet - $10 if you use the word 'cullion'...
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When the French Govt. took Yahoo! t ocourt to try to stop them allowing access to German wartime memorabilia from France, the US courts told Chirac and his merry men to go take a jump.
The RIAA trying to deny access to a site based in China is exactly the same point of law - I'd expect the same result from the US courts (unless it goes to Rhenquist and his vote-buying buddies in the Supreme court, in which case all bets are off).
One simple workaround would be for the US ISPs to sponsor an anonymous proxy somewhere in the depths of cyberspace (Niue, for example), and publicise the existence of this proxy to the whole of the US audience. All users could use this proxy to access the 'illegal' content from China, and the RIAA would then be left with no target to aim at, and may just resort to shooting itself (foot, head - who cares?).
Just my 0.02...
Don't make me laugh - I've never met an humanities student (or professor) bright enough to hack their way out of a wet paper bag.
Fuckwits in humanities departments - now that;s a different matter....
They did, but there's a place near me called Lindow Moss, where they found a certain 'Pete Bog' - a neolithic burial who's now in Manchester
Museum.
If Lindows could try to tie their name to this, Microsoft could go hang.
So a government that doesn't have to pay software licence fees (and can therefore afford to tax a bit less, rationalise on support, etc. etc.) is by definition going to have an economy that is going nowhere?
I think not, you misguided free market troll...
My significant other works in a lab - when she's baking, it's precise measurement and fixed procedure.
On the other hand, she's a brilliant cook too - she knows all the basics and then just lets her imagination rip.
Me - I'm an inveterate fiddler, so my cooking's either superb or awful, and my baking ('cept for savouries) is headed binwards as soon as I start.
This is an example of the Simpsons hiding irony so that US audiences aren't frightened by it.
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It's based on the following (true) quote:
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
You'd have to hope it was distributed, though - if Sony start getting loads of shit from your IP, they'll have you for trying to DOS them soon as look at you.
.sig, this'd be it
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Don't know when Dijkstra started on about GOTO - but in the mid-70s when I was learning to code, we were specifically warned off GOTO as a tool, simply because for a sufficiently complex program, you reached the point where you no longer knew where all your GOTOs went.
Rely on the compiler to optimise, unless you're assembling.
B.
I agree about the suits, but the flecibility that using an appserver (I'm using Tomcat for development) to allow me to write servlets that talk over TCP to a custom java application that does all my DB queries, with tools that will allow me to create my application in around a month - all this makes me thank Sun for J2EE. I'll never program in D-flat, though - why bother to learn another bloody language?
There are tools for checking for possible buffer overflows - implement these in your debugger, and you'll catch pretty much all of them.
The advantage of OS is that you've got *lots* of folks looking at the code, so very little will get past everyone.
I use OS where appropriate, proprietary software when I have to.
Being a Brit, I'd be much happier to see our government running OS solutions than M$, anyday....
If you really, really tried to put a back door into an OS project, some clever so-and-so will be bound to sneakily read the (Open!) source code, and spot it. There's no problem with having an open verified branch - the fact that it's verified would mean it's less easily penetrated/exploited, so everyone would benefit. If I had any mod points, I'd mod your post up to 'Funny' - 'cause you can't really be serious, can you?
You could try www.gravity-society.org - I think it's the same stuff.
Of course, being as how Boeing's stock price is lower than the execs would like it to be (nobody wants the damn planes anymore, doh!), this could just be an experiment to see if anti-gravity stories can levitate stock prices to a level where options can be exercised at a profit - or am I just a twisted old cynic?
had to look up 'cullion' - guessed it might be related to 'couillon', though since the author saw fit to use the French for bellringers in the same sentence, why not leave 'bollock' in French, rather than dragging up such an obscure English word? I reckon the whole article was written for a bet - $10 if you use the word 'cullion'...