Call me paranoid but this seems like just too easy to tap into and monitor traffic. Or access wifi webcams. Or hundreds of other ways to use/misuse this system to watch the sheep.
If they could use PGP I'd have less a problem with it. You could scan the ballot and then encrypt the file to the state's public key and send it off. But you can still track the file to the sender so short of using anonymous remailers this still isn't private.
We have a heavy Linux community and Windows too at Scot's. We try to be very friendly. The mods are so concerned about n00b bashing that they will edit posts that try to use it. A huge tip file and other stuff as well.
I know you were being funny but why the heck don't we arm Pilots? Almost all are ex military and know how to handle guns and they can be given guns with rubber bullet ammo or other ammo that is less likely to puncture the airframe. I'd feel much safer (not that I really worried) with armed pilots.
I haven't read the PDF yet but I suspect its not directly aimed at Joe User. It is aimed at US(Linux user ITs or geeks) to GIVE to Joe User with a copy of Fedora or Mandrake. Yes you are correct that the stores will sell you windows but the end users are getting frustrated with Windows enough to be looking for solutions. This is one. They aren't likely to know about Linux but they may know about you. So get off your duff and show them the better way.
There is no proof. If there was we'd be looking at impeachment. I just can't figure out why we are there. Old Hussian was a nasty dictator and the world is better off with him gone but I've yet to see that he was a direct threat to US security. There is some evidence that he helped fund or supply terrorist but so has Saudi Arabia and we sure are not bombing and invading them, or Syria, or Yemman... But Iraq does have Oil and if we can take over and put our puppet...ur if we can give them Freedom then they might be able to better supply the US and we can stop using Arab oil.
I don't support Bush even if I tend to agree with Republicans. But even I can see a con job and a grab for oil for what it is.
However that doesn't make a DDOS attack right. If Bush's message is so bad then why shouldn't it be heard. All this does is drive up sympathy and plays in to the terrorist fear mindset that is the cornerstone of the Bush agenda.
How is repacking a GPL'd program theft?
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How can you steal something that is free? I admit that I have yet to read the links. Off to do that now but that line in the story above sure seems incorrect to me.
As I understand this Mozilla was paid by AOL to set this up for them. Not that this changed any of the procedures to create Netscape. Ever since Mozilla was founded they have crated Mozilla first and then rebranded and added the custom Netscape code on top after they rolled out Mozilla. One of the reasons the 1.7 codebase was locked is because Netscape was based on it. All the past locked branches have been timed with Netscape launches. Ex: Moz1.4 = NS7.1
I'm yet to figure out why it would have been so hard to just send the same cord/brick piece back with it that I sent in...
I assume like most such places your laptop was assigned to a tech with more the one project on his bench. Tech got sloppy and mixed your power cord with the one sitting next to it on the workbench.
Not a good excuse but understandable HOW it happened. Better work habits by the tech would prevent that.
So, to go back to the analogy, I think you should be able to charge for what you make, be it software or tables. But I also think that the person you sell that item too should be able to make one of his own, and give it away or sell it or whatever.
The problem with tables versus software is that it is far easier for me to replicate software then a table. That is the whole point of copyright. Because the fruits of that kind of labor are so easy to replicate you are granted protection against people replicating your work and not compensating you for the efforts. As a programmer do you work any less to produce your one copy the program as the carpenter did to produce his first copy of the table.
If I could use a Star Trek replicator and create a table based on that first copy made by the carpenter then how would the carpenter earn a living? Perhaps if the design of the table protected by copyright he could charge me a fee if I wanted to use a replicator to make his design of table.
You say people have "itches" to scratch and thus software as needed will be created. Would that not lead to only custom specialized software being made? If I create something that is used by many but only one guy pays me for it then I'll most likely starve to death. Or I've got to charge a huge amount for that first copy.
Just because it is easy to replicate doesn't devalue the worth of each copy. Quickbooks cost me $400 to purchase or I can get a pirated copy for free. Either way my ability to do work increases just the same. Thus the program has value in of itself just by the amount of work it helps me produce. Without copyrights the author can only get money from me if I feel generous enough to find and pay him. Which often doesn't happen. Ask any shareware author or even donatation asking OSS author. A plumber fixes a leak and that work is of value. But I can't really replicate it. I can do the work myself but that is paid by me in the loss of my time. A programmer creates a program do perform some function and that is also of value. Why is his work allowed to be stolen simply because you can copy a CD? Is this not a slave labor of sorts?
[i]It is trivial to do what "caller ID" does in an open fashion. And it is absolutely crucial that we do exactly that. No "complicated" licenses, no fancy agreements, no lawyers. Just pick a standard, and follow it.[/i]
Exactly my thought. So why is this an issue? Can we not write on own code for sendmail and other open email servers? Why does this sound like RMS is FUDing us just a bit? Sure MS' software will be non-GPL be we expect that. How does this stop anyone from writing SenderID checking software that is GPL'd or GPL friendly?
Why is it my fucking job to train end users?
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I REPAIR computers for a living. I don't do training. Why do end users think that it is my job to train them how to use a computer? Did any of you pay a mechanic to learn how to drive? Why do end users expect that all IT/geek types are happy to train them, for free non the less, about everything from Basic mouse use to how to do some formula in Excel?
Is this like most software recommendations. These fucking companies say you need X to run it. And it will work, but it's so slow that you really need X*2? In other words I'm going to need a fucking gig of Ram to just to play a game?
One of the major week points in Linux is a like of a good groupware application that can compete with Exchange. I just got a copy of Novell's Linux Technical Resource Kit which is a set of free DVDs of some of Novell's Linux products.
I'm looking forward to trying out GroupWise. I was always a fan of it and a Linux based version could bring a good groupware solution to the SOHO market.
isn't this why the name was changed from 'free software' to open-source? Free as in Speech, not as in Free Beer.
I would like to know where this perception came from. People love free things, even if they are completely worthless people will still try them. Why doesn't that extend into the software arena?
The problem is that most free items are offered as a loss leader, promotional item, or has some other limits to get you to try and then buy the product. Once I have Mozilla there is nothing else to buy. People expect some kind of "catch" so they are put off and frightened when they find there isn't one. It sounds too good to be true.
I tried to install this patch and it said it was unsigned!!!! Not to be paranoid but how can I confirm this is real? I don't like to install patches that I can't get PGP signed key for or some other method to validate the code.
I sell servers to small SOHO type businesses, doctors, lawyers, accountants, etc. There is never large amounts of data but it does exceed the CD-ROM limits and DVD are just to unreliable. It is too easy to burn a coaster and they have poor shelf life. And even at 9gb they are often too small to put all the data on one disk.
And getting the office receptionist(often the person who will do the job of managing the media) to swap disks is often asking too much. It has to fit on one tape/disk/whatever or it isn't going to get done.
Tape especially DAT drives give most bang for the buck.
I don't understand why this was in a court. What use is this to the person that filed the suit. It can't work. Is this just an asshole with a axe to grind who found a stupid/ignorant judge?
I service PCs for a living and this spyware shit is really paying the bills. It's great that I get more work but you feel dirty like you are having to work on a sewer line.
I'm glad I have the work but also dislike having the need to do the work. I think alot of people of turning away from the internet because of all this spyware crap.
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Call me paranoid but this seems like just too easy to tap into and monitor traffic. Or access wifi webcams. Or hundreds of other ways to use/misuse this system to watch the sheep.
If they could use PGP I'd have less a problem with it. You could scan the ballot and then encrypt the file to the state's public key and send it off. But you can still track the file to the sender so short of using anonymous remailers this still isn't private.
We have a heavy Linux community and Windows too at Scot's. We try to be very friendly. The mods are so concerned about n00b bashing that they will edit posts that try to use it. A huge tip file and other stuff as well.
http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/
I know you were being funny but why the heck don't we arm Pilots? Almost all are ex military and know how to handle guns and they can be given guns with rubber bullet ammo or other ammo that is less likely to puncture the airframe. I'd feel much safer (not that I really worried) with armed pilots.
I haven't read the PDF yet but I suspect its not directly aimed at Joe User. It is aimed at US(Linux user ITs or geeks) to GIVE to Joe User with a copy of Fedora or Mandrake. Yes you are correct that the stores will sell you windows but the end users are getting frustrated with Windows enough to be looking for solutions. This is one. They aren't likely to know about Linux but they may know about you. So get off your duff and show them the better way.
There is no proof. If there was we'd be looking at impeachment. I just can't figure out why we are there. Old Hussian was a nasty dictator and the world is better off with him gone but I've yet to see that he was a direct threat to US security. There is some evidence that he helped fund or supply terrorist but so has Saudi Arabia and we sure are not bombing and invading them, or Syria, or Yemman... But Iraq does have Oil and if we can take over and put our puppet...ur if we can give them Freedom then they might be able to better supply the US and we can stop using Arab oil.
I don't support Bush even if I tend to agree with Republicans. But even I can see a con job and a grab for oil for what it is.
However that doesn't make a DDOS attack right. If Bush's message is so bad then why shouldn't it be heard. All this does is drive up sympathy and plays in to the terrorist fear mindset that is the cornerstone of the Bush agenda.
How can you steal something that is free? I admit that I have yet to read the links. Off to do that now but that line in the story above sure seems incorrect to me.
Or the best lawyer Linus can find. He owns the copyright to the kernel thus he is the fall guy for it.
Damn. It blue screened AGAIN?
As I understand this Mozilla was paid by AOL to set this up for them. Not that this changed any of the procedures to create Netscape. Ever since Mozilla was founded they have crated Mozilla first and then rebranded and added the custom Netscape code on top after they rolled out Mozilla. One of the reasons the 1.7 codebase was locked is because Netscape was based on it. All the past locked branches have been timed with Netscape launches. Ex: Moz1.4 = NS7.1
I assume like most such places your laptop was assigned to a tech with more the one project on his bench. Tech got sloppy and mixed your power cord with the one sitting next to it on the workbench.
Not a good excuse but understandable HOW it happened. Better work habits by the tech would prevent that.
So, to go back to the analogy, I think you should be able to charge for what you make, be it software or tables. But I also think that the person you sell that item too should be able to make one of his own, and give it away or sell it or whatever.
The problem with tables versus software is that it is far easier for me to replicate software then a table. That is the whole point of copyright. Because the fruits of that kind of labor are so easy to replicate you are granted protection against people replicating your work and not compensating you for the efforts. As a programmer do you work any less to produce your one copy the program as the carpenter did to produce his first copy of the table.
If I could use a Star Trek replicator and create a table based on that first copy made by the carpenter then how would the carpenter earn a living? Perhaps if the design of the table protected by copyright he could charge me a fee if I wanted to use a replicator to make his design of table.
You say people have "itches" to scratch and thus software as needed will be created. Would that not lead to only custom specialized software being made? If I create something that is used by many but only one guy pays me for it then I'll most likely starve to death. Or I've got to charge a huge amount for that first copy.
Just because it is easy to replicate doesn't devalue the worth of each copy. Quickbooks cost me $400 to purchase or I can get a pirated copy for free. Either way my ability to do work increases just the same. Thus the program has value in of itself just by the amount of work it helps me produce. Without copyrights the author can only get money from me if I feel generous enough to find and pay him. Which often doesn't happen. Ask any shareware author or even donatation asking OSS author. A plumber fixes a leak and that work is of value. But I can't really replicate it. I can do the work myself but that is paid by me in the loss of my time. A programmer creates a program do perform some function and that is also of value. Why is his work allowed to be stolen simply because you can copy a CD? Is this not a slave labor of sorts?
[i]It is trivial to do what "caller ID" does in an open fashion. And it is absolutely crucial that we do exactly that. No "complicated" licenses, no fancy agreements, no lawyers. Just pick a standard, and follow it.[/i]
Exactly my thought. So why is this an issue? Can we not write on own code for sendmail and other open email servers? Why does this sound like RMS is FUDing us just a bit? Sure MS' software will be non-GPL be we expect that. How does this stop anyone from writing SenderID checking software that is GPL'd or GPL friendly?
I REPAIR computers for a living. I don't do training. Why do end users think that it is my job to train them how to use a computer? Did any of you pay a mechanic to learn how to drive? Why do end users expect that all IT/geek types are happy to train them, for free non the less, about everything from Basic mouse use to how to do some formula in Excel?
Is this like most software recommendations. These fucking companies say you need X to run it. And it will work, but it's so slow that you really need X*2? In other words I'm going to need a fucking gig of Ram to just to play a game?
Cool.
One of the major week points in Linux is a like of a good groupware application that can compete with Exchange. I just got a copy of Novell's Linux Technical Resource Kit which is a set of free DVDs of some of Novell's Linux products.
I'm looking forward to trying out GroupWise. I was always a fan of it and a Linux based version could bring a good groupware solution to the SOHO market.
The problem is that most free items are offered as a loss leader, promotional item, or has some other limits to get you to try and then buy the product. Once I have Mozilla there is nothing else to buy. People expect some kind of "catch" so they are put off and frightened when they find there isn't one. It sounds too good to be true.
I tried to install this patch and it said it was unsigned!!!! Not to be paranoid but how can I confirm this is real? I don't like to install patches that I can't get PGP signed key for or some other method to validate the code.
I sell servers to small SOHO type businesses, doctors, lawyers, accountants, etc. There is never large amounts of data but it does exceed the CD-ROM limits and DVD are just to unreliable. It is too easy to burn a coaster and they have poor shelf life. And even at 9gb they are often too small to put all the data on one disk.
And getting the office receptionist(often the person who will do the job of managing the media) to swap disks is often asking too much. It has to fit on one tape/disk/whatever or it isn't going to get done.
Tape especially DAT drives give most bang for the buck.
I don't understand why this was in a court. What use is this to the person that filed the suit. It can't work. Is this just an asshole with a axe to grind who found a stupid/ignorant judge?
The US Army is even making the videos that will be sold by them...
Damn Cruel and Unusual clause will stop it. I mean somethings are just too inhumane. He's ONLY a spammer....
Is that it will be quickly followed by.
Welcome!
"You've got Bail!"
I service PCs for a living and this spyware shit is really paying the bills. It's great that I get more work but you feel dirty like you are having to work on a sewer line.
I'm glad I have the work but also dislike having the need to do the work. I think alot of people of turning away from the internet because of all this spyware crap.