In many places you cannot legally store a loaded gun. This is because we all know how well kids listen, especially the ones who are most likely to cause trouble with guns. Keeping the gun by your bed, unloaded is a crock of shit. Keep a Louisville, and you are better off.
Ever load a gun in the dark, quickly, after you were just in REM? Try picking up a club, it is easier.
I would much rather prefer that my wife of one of my children are able to pick up a handgun I own to defend themselves
This is one of the problems with guns though. People in the house like children using them and getting hurt, or killing someone. Introduce a gun into your home, and you run this risk. Don't have a gun, and you run the risk that someone will break in, and you *might* have the chance to go get your gun, load it, and shoot before they get you. Practice your hand to hand combat, before you get a gun to make your penis feel bigger.
P2P does not risk life and limb when it is used illegally. Many things are regulated in society with success: Cars, drugs...guns
Guns are no less dangerous than a car, when put in the wrong hands. They deserve no fewer restrictions. As the Canadian gun registry has shown, we shouldn't register individual guns like we do for cars, but the gun owners should be registered.
P2P doesn't need that kind of registration system, but ISPs should have the right to protect themselves by shaping the packets. It isn't right or fair to their legal customers, but if they want to put themselves out of business [by losing people offended by the policy], that is their business. For ISPs like Sympatico where there is no alternative to 1000s of people though, any kind of upload restriction just stinks [not that it matters much for dialup].
Of course people determined will find another way, but if the most popular music sharing net is run BY the music industry then they can pick off violators easily, and make money hand over fist.
Although Napster was grown on illegality, it could have thrived on legality. The reason it was killed was because a short sighted music industry didn't grab ahold of it, and expoit it for what it was: A God Send. They could have had a monopoly on the next VCR, the next DVD!
They still don't *get* it.
There will never be a software version mass produced that controls copyrighted material, unless the network is RUN by the people profiting from the interests of the copyright holders. Anything else will have a hack that makes copyrighted stuff free for the taking. If the music industry runs the network, THEN and only THEN will they have my support in stopping piracy.
You just shot your logic in the foot with the "probably".
The law does not work on Probably, and Maybe. It either is unlawful or it isn't. Sharing copyrighted files is illegal in many places, but networks that *can* share copyrighted problems are not. Guns are bad in many cases and should be restricted, but they are not illegal. They can be used for good or bad. Perhaps P2P needs some restrictions, but not outright prohibition.
From the website of Intertrust:
InterTrust develops and licenses intellectual property for digital rights management (DRM), digital policy management (DPM), and trusted computing. We hold 26 U.S. patents and have approximately 90 patent applications pending worldwide. Our patent portfolio covers software and hardware techniques that can be implemented in a broad range of products that use DRM and trusted computing technologies, including digital media platforms and web services, and the enterprise infrastructure. Our research, engineering, and IP groups focus on development of next-generation technologies, invention protection, and licensing.
Locations and Employees
InterTrust is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and the Company has 35 employees.
So 35 people and a pack of lawyers are taking on Micro$oft? Good luck brave souls.
I bought Doom with my brother on two floppies for about $8C from Radio Shack. Then our harddrive crashed before we could install it, and had to live with playing Star Trek 25th on our temporary 10 MEGAbyte harddrive [I kid you not]. When we got our new hard drive, we also upgraded to 8megs of RAM. Wow that game was great. I would play it in a nearly dark room with the speakers up, and still remember JUMPING as some doors opened to imps.
I was appalled by the review that R. Ebert gave it. I can't trust him to dis bad movies anymore because he "shit the bed" on his remarks about Nemesis. He might plug some pretty good ones, but how can we trust a critic who spoils one of the best scenes late in the movie? Don't trailers do enough of that!
As for this article, people have already pointed out how flawed the research is.
Yes, I could have opened Mozilla, or Konquerer, and looked up: "Labtec optical mouse scroll wheel in Mandrake 9.0"
I'm sure it would have burst forth with information!
Now if they'd included that little information in the scree with the mouse drivers, then I would have known to restart X, however the hell I do that using the GUI?!
I just remembered too that when playing with Red Hat 6.0 2 years ago, I managed to make the menu bar on the main window disapear. Then I couldn't choose to reboot the machine through software without opening a terminal screen and typing the command to shut down the computer.
I tried: stop shutdown reboot quit down bakeco okies shutthehelldown man exit and I think I finally stumbled upon: halt
If interfaces in Linux were less breakable, and had more helpful documentation, then I could recommend it to more than just Computer Science undergrads.
It's OK, I didn't take the restart X server as critisim.
It does highlight a point though. If restarting the server is something that a user should know how to do, then why isn't there a standard option to do that when "logging off" or "shutting down", like "log off as current user" is in Windows?
Well that may well be, but that just proves my point. The program where I could configure the mouse didn't tell me to do that, because it assumed I wan't a newbie looking to use a system that is billed as "easy enough for any computer user to use".
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In many places you cannot legally store a loaded gun. This is because we all know how well kids listen, especially the ones who are most likely to cause trouble with guns. Keeping the gun by your bed, unloaded is a crock of shit. Keep a Louisville, and you are better off.
Ever load a gun in the dark, quickly, after you were just in REM? Try picking up a club, it is easier.
I would much rather prefer that my wife of one of my children are able to pick up a handgun I own to defend themselves
This is one of the problems with guns though. People in the house like children using them and getting hurt, or killing someone. Introduce a gun into your home, and you run this risk. Don't have a gun, and you run the risk that someone will break in, and you *might* have the chance to go get your gun, load it, and shoot before they get you. Practice your hand to hand combat, before you get a gun to make your penis feel bigger.
Excuse me, a gun is not a life sustaining piece.
What do you mean?
"One critic says 'No technology is foolproof--anyone who has a computer knows how many times it crashes.' "
That is utter foolishness. A gun will not have an OS, it will be hard coded. My microwave doesn't 'crash' and I don't think my gun would either.
The more serious concern is how easy it would be to fool the gun. I can fool my microwave pretty easily, so I'd expect the same from a gun.
There are all sorts of reasons to use Linux in schools. One being the Thin client model found at K 12 Linux.
I would pull out my Network card!
H4X0R that, beotch!
Isn't this like watching paint dry compared to... UNREAL touraments?
Why would I watch hackers hack, when I can see graphics of blood and gore in a game of tag that even an ape can enjoy and understand?
I mean, I'm a geek, but this just seems a little too bizzare for all but the uber-geeks of the world.
P2P does not risk life and limb when it is used illegally. Many things are regulated in society with success: Cars, drugs...guns
Guns are no less dangerous than a car, when put in the wrong hands. They deserve no fewer restrictions. As the Canadian gun registry has shown, we shouldn't register individual guns like we do for cars, but the gun owners should be registered.
P2P doesn't need that kind of registration system, but ISPs should have the right to protect themselves by shaping the packets. It isn't right or fair to their legal customers, but if they want to put themselves out of business [by losing people offended by the policy], that is their business. For ISPs like Sympatico where there is no alternative to 1000s of people though, any kind of upload restriction just stinks [not that it matters much for dialup].
Of course people determined will find another way, but if the most popular music sharing net is run BY the music industry then they can pick off violators easily, and make money hand over fist.
Although Napster was grown on illegality, it could have thrived on legality. The reason it was killed was because a short sighted music industry didn't grab ahold of it, and expoit it for what it was: A God Send. They could have had a monopoly on the next VCR, the next DVD!
They still don't *get* it.
There will never be a software version mass produced that controls copyrighted material, unless the network is RUN by the people profiting from the interests of the copyright holders. Anything else will have a hack that makes copyrighted stuff free for the taking. If the music industry runs the network, THEN and only THEN will they have my support in stopping piracy.
stuff they're uploading is probably copyrighted
You just shot your logic in the foot with the "probably".
The law does not work on Probably, and Maybe. It either is unlawful or it isn't. Sharing copyrighted files is illegal in many places, but networks that *can* share copyrighted problems are not.
Guns are bad in many cases and should be restricted, but they are not illegal. They can be used for good or bad. Perhaps P2P needs some restrictions, but not outright prohibition.
Is your ID in reference to CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet of the Simpsons?
Bill Gates could settle this dispute by simply "buying them out".
From the website of Intertrust:
InterTrust develops and licenses intellectual property for digital rights management (DRM), digital policy management (DPM), and trusted computing. We hold 26 U.S. patents and have approximately 90 patent applications pending worldwide. Our patent portfolio covers software and hardware techniques that can be implemented in a broad range of products that use DRM and trusted computing technologies, including digital media platforms and web services, and the enterprise infrastructure. Our research, engineering, and IP groups focus on development of next-generation technologies, invention protection, and licensing.
Locations and Employees
InterTrust is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and the Company has 35 employees.
So 35 people and a pack of lawyers are taking on Micro$oft? Good luck brave souls.
I get almost no spam at yahoo. I use other domains for email too, and yahoo beats them all. I wonder at what price though?
And someone made the point here, only the end user doesn't notice the spam. The Spammers are still costing the ISP and hence the customers.
I'm sad to inform you that you've been affected by AOL.
You no longer can discern the difference between "loose" and "lose".
Cut your modem cable, pick up a real book, and you'll be cured by next week.
I bought Doom with my brother on two floppies for about $8C from Radio Shack. Then our harddrive crashed before we could install it, and had to live with playing Star Trek 25th on our temporary 10 MEGAbyte harddrive [I kid you not]. When we got our new hard drive, we also upgraded to 8megs of RAM. Wow that game was great. I would play it in a nearly dark room with the speakers up, and still remember JUMPING as some doors opened to imps.
Good times...
You mean for once the Antivirus companies are going to HELP us?
Big difference from selling virus code to China.
Someone here has alluded that you can't scan for this malicious file. I'm curious why not?
Maybe I should try rubbing Viagra on my 20 year old Wangs to bring them back?
Pioneer 10 will just have to do it the old fashioned way. No drug stores out there...
I tried selling her half used bottle of skin cream on eBay the other week. If she did a google for it, then I might be in a world of hurt.
At least it wasn't yeast infection cream, huh?*
*No infection had ever occurred to my knowledge.
I'd sell it on eBay. It could turn into a lot of money after all.
Hey, I managed to sell an empty, used, chewed BIC pen. CEO bobble heads could be pricesless...
I saw it, and loved it.
I was appalled by the review that R. Ebert gave it. I can't trust him to dis bad movies anymore because he "shit the bed" on his remarks about Nemesis. He might plug some pretty good ones, but how can we trust a critic who spoils one of the best scenes late in the movie? Don't trailers do enough of that!
As for this article, people have already pointed out how flawed the research is.
Yes, I could have opened Mozilla, or Konquerer, and looked up:
"Labtec optical mouse scroll wheel in Mandrake 9.0"
I'm sure it would have burst forth with information!
Now if they'd included that little information in the scree with the mouse drivers, then I would have known to restart X, however the hell I do that using the GUI?!
That is exactly what I said, except you took it to be me complaining. I was mearly stating the obvious, and you just backed up what I said:
The people driving the development aren't working toward a standard distro.
I just remembered too that when playing with Red Hat 6.0 2 years ago, I managed to make the menu bar on the main window disapear. Then I couldn't choose to reboot the machine through software without opening a terminal screen and typing the command to shut down the computer.o okies
I tried:
stop
shutdown
reboot
quit
down
bakec
shutthehelldown
man exit
and I think I finally stumbled upon:
halt
If interfaces in Linux were less breakable, and had more helpful documentation, then I could recommend it to more than just Computer Science undergrads.
It's OK, I didn't take the restart X server as critisim.
It does highlight a point though. If restarting the server is something that a user should know how to do, then why isn't there a standard option to do that when "logging off" or "shutting down", like "log off as current user" is in Windows?
Well that may well be, but that just proves my point. The program where I could configure the mouse didn't tell me to do that, because it assumed I wan't a newbie looking to use a system that is billed as "easy enough for any computer user to use".