would this mean that connecting to any PC that is behind NAT anyware is illgal in Mitchigan.
And I think it Makes freenet completly out of the question.
But if you had electronic voting, it would be iligal as it would be disguising the source of the transmition.
Badly drafted law.
Or more like drafted just how the RIAA etc wanted it done without any thought to the consiquences.
If your client is looking to satisfy a requirement, and they're considering doing it in a completely half-baked way, that will only marginally address their concern, and create a number of additional problems along the way,
Man you just completly described my job.:)
And for the record I do tend to point it out to them. And get the objection lodged in the requirements docs.
Scramjets are in their early stages, but the potential is absolutely amazing. London to Sydney in less than five hours. Probably London to New York in less than one. Cheap LEO... *takes sedative to calm down*
OK we are still 10-20 years off, but it is defiantly one to watch.
I had a spitfire come and buz round my house for a while last summer, was very, very cool.
What is the going rate for a spitfire nowedays?
concorde just anoys my dad when he tries to listen to the archers omnibus on a sunday morning. Very pretty but very noisy.
Isn't this blatantly anti competitive. Not mercurially illegal but stifling competition.
If there were a standard chip/motherboard interface then you would be able to choose the chip that you want and the board that you want based on your preferences. Once this grace period is over (3 years) you will have less combinations available.
When are businesses going to realise open standards = growth.
Mind you I use mini-itx at home anyway so I shouldn't complain.
I think file sharing has gone the same way as Drugs (well at least pot), most (young) people do not see anything wrong with it and many quite happily do it. Yet is illegal.
I am much of a philosopher but I would say if nobody supports a law then the law should be changed not the people?
The content may be beyond a lot of beginners, but folks need to look at what is possible
Does anyone have suggestions on what would be a good newbie firewall and security book (or site). This is tempting but if it is too deap then I may not get time to read it.
Would prefer something accessable, but if this is the best by far I will go for it.
You can't patent software.
Unforutnaly the Captilist pigs from the big corperations are lobbying their best to change this. Along with > 50 year copyright. Hopefully stupid patents such as this may help common sense prevale over here.
But then how the fsck are we supposed to get to the '@' symbol?? The future of email is doomed!!!
You could try Alt + 064
Or switch your keyboard to some funny forign keyboard that has @ somewhere else.
Hmm prehaps I took that question a little too seriously:)
>pure FUD
it is nice of you to moderate your own post for us.
>personally have not had a single Red Hat
>distribution in 10 years that was better than
>the at the time Windows version
Which makes me wonder if you have ever even HAD a version of red hat. I am on RH8 and it works great.
>The command line guys may find stability, but it
>takes them 2 days to do a 10 minute task.
I allways thought command line was more efficent for most things. Just not as pretty or easy to use.
Anyway I recon you are trolling and if I wasn't so bored then I wouln't have botherd rising to it.
What the hell? Do we need analysts to tell us ideology has no value in business?
I disaggee entirely.
Open source = sharing ideas not controled by endless need to make money
M$ = Powerd by the need to make as much money as possible and screw everyone over in the process
Which would you rather work with? One thing that gets overlooked a little is the BillG invented the idea of people paying for software.
A long time ago, probably before most of you were even born BillG wrote a letter (you can read it here it is very interesting) complaining that he was being expected to do work for free. the best quote of the whole thing is "What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free?" well it turns out lots of hobbyist can and make some very good software into the bargin.
Gee I would love to live in Norway, a place where the corts and goverment procicuters have nothing better to do than to victimise teanagers who piss of the american recording industry. What a lovely crime free place it must be
Over here in the real world there are many crimes being commited and criminals getting away with it. I think I saw in the scum (sun newspaper UK) that 90% of crimes go unpunnished. Calling in a specilist white collar crime unit to prosicute someone for something they did when they were 15 is ridiculas. Well I suppose school uniforms do have white collars, but that is not the point.
what a pathetic waste of time and resources this retial is, I hope the fool who took the bribe to make it go ahead realises what a stupid use of the court system this is.
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Has it been 8 years, man that makes me feel old Q:
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lot has changed online in the last 8 years, do you think that you will have any difficulty geting back into online culture, or do you intend to keep a healthy distance from it?
If they had not stopped after the appolo missions and built on that techology it was fesable that they could have made it to Mars in the mid 80s. The book 'Voyage' by steven baxter (here) is a fictional account of what could have happed. Based on some plans that NASA acutaly drew up. Strangely enough it also goes into a lot of detail about nuclear rockets.
The big problem now is that we have lost most of the knowlege and experiance gaind from the appolo missions. I doubt that they would even be able to get somone to the moon again under the curent climit.
It is a shame that NASA gets used as a plotical scape goat. They are trying to do some truly amazing stuff but have so many cuts and projects canned that they are ineffective. The shuttls aren't going to last foever (AFAIK they are about 10 years past their use by date). With China and India having goverments very keen on space and with NASA having increased pressure from ESA and commercial launch operations, I can't see nasa ever doing anything amazing again unless there is some serious long term political milage from it (and hence commitment to it).
I would love to see people go to Mars but I have kind of put it in the not in my lifetime file for now.
Any other SF readers keen on mars should try the above book and Kim Stanley Robinsons Mars Trilogy. [red|green|blue] Mars.
I don't see how the structure of an 'internet tax' would work.
Now the basic premice seems to be that you charge people a sales tax even if they don't reside in the domain (state country whatever) that the company operates from.
so all of the states do this to bolster revinues, and lots of internet companies (the ones that can affort to) are suddenly registered companies in the cayman islands. Just operating a depot from whatever state they used to pay taxes to. so the state looses out.
A simmalar issue has occoured in the UK. All UK bussiness have to charge VAT (which is the same as GST basicaly a percentage charged on top of almost everything you buy.) Now all UK ISPs have to charge this for their services. But AOL is a US registerd company so it can avoid paying it and undercut all the local companies. Even though it sells its services from the UK to UK residents it is exempt from the tax. There are articles on the register
here, here,
here,
here,
and here
I may be wrong but AFAIK this is a FOLLOW UP to a previous story.
In story 1 there was an artical saying that SCO would possibly be going to charge $96 for each linux CPU. in story 2(this one) there is a denial by SCO of the first story.
They could have both been put into the same artical but there is no problem with having seperate ones either
I don't mind inane comments on./, they are part of the charm, but them getting modded up irks me.
At the time unix was conceived, software patents were not legal in Europe.
AFAIK they are still not for the moment, the eropean parlement is being heavlily lobbied by all the usual suspects to make it so. I am sure there is a campaign against, anyone have the address?
is why we suddenly loose all these rights because something is digital
I know the argument is that you can produce perfect coppies with digital so they need to protect their rights in other ways. Surly there should be a differance between protecting rights and destroying fair use.
where would the law stand if I bought a new LP and sampled it, do I loose fair use because now I have it in digital form?
I think the idea of having a encryption for somehitng like e books or even DVDs is stupid, they will be hacked. The hacks will become widespread and the encryption will become obsolete. So why bother in the first place. All it is doing is criminalising people who are otherwise law abiding, just like the drug laws.
In a democracy, if the majoraty of people believe that a law is wrong should it still be enforced or should it be changed?
I think there is a lot of scope for cases to get more interesing. Case modding was never going to get into the mainstream cause it was a little (well a lot) too geekey. But with power becoming less relivant for the average user, price and looks are going to start becoming selling points I know mac clued up to this ages ago but PC makers arn't there yet.
Mini ITX has a lot of potential, even if it is a bit under powered at the moment.My fave case for this is the netbox cubit. It looks very nice but it is a little pricy for my liking. There are a few more cases over at mini itx
I have been carting round my tower for too long so now I want to go to the other extreme.
Hey I was just having a bit of a rant.
AFAIK the consititution was put in place to guarinee rights to every citizen (well to start with every 'free man'). I can't quote things but I beleive that it contained things like freedom of expression, freedom from tirrany and the like.
It is not so much that their are derivations from the constitution, it is that we are living in a very different world from when the constitution was written (for example the redcoats aren't lightly to try and retake the states any more). More relivantly, a system where votes are dependent on financing by large coperations which then expect to have influence on polocy is probably not what the founders indended.
The complaint about the cort system was rational. A fair juditial system should not have outcomes which depend uppon the political alignments of the judges that are chosen for a case
Sorry if I offended you but I did point out that I was having a bit of a rant. anyway by the time you are at consitution V1.27 prehaps it is worthe thinking about upgrading to V2.0
This court is generally considered to be liberal, but in fact there are a large number of conservative justices on the 9th Circuit. Decisions in the 9th Circuit often depend on exactly which 3 judges (out of 25 or so) get chosen to hear the appeal.
Is it just me or does this sound like a completly crazy interpritation of justice. Do ya remember her the bird with a blidfold a some scales. (the idea is that justice is blind and judges on merrit alone, or something like that).
This ridicules the whole idea, it should not depend on which judges are chosen. (Sorry I seem to be in ideilistic mode tonight.) Why don't you americans realise that the way things work over there is a mockary of justice and democacy and sort it out.
Why not work out a consitituion V2.0, sure there were some great ideas in the first one but something has got really messed up along the way.
Anyway I am jealous, at least you guys have got a constitution that garintiees some rights.
By the way, what happened with the yahoo/nazi/france thing, I never remember that getting sorted out?
Sorry about the rant but I couldn't believe it when I read that, set me off -1 flamebate/offtopic me if you must.
It may depend on where you are.
Travel news is great for me and the 'where's my nearest' thing can be handy.
but if your operator, country dosn't have that sort of thing then it may be a bit limited.
acutaly wap is starting to make a bit of a comback. When it first came out it was slow, expensive and difficult to read/navigate on small screens.
With GPRS and larger colour screens it is actualy quite useable.
There is an artical about the rise of wap here. If you ask me it wouldn't have flopped if it wasn't so overhyped in the first place.
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would this mean that connecting to any PC that is behind NAT anyware is illgal in Mitchigan. And I think it Makes freenet completly out of the question.
But if you had electronic voting, it would be iligal as it would be disguising the source of the transmition. Badly drafted law. Or more like drafted just how the RIAA etc wanted it done without any thought to the consiquences.
Man you just completly described my job.
And for the record I do tend to point it out to them. And get the objection lodged in the requirements docs.
Scramjets are in their early stages, but the potential is absolutely amazing. London to Sydney in less than five hours. Probably London to New York in less than one. Cheap LEO... *takes sedative to calm down* OK we are still 10-20 years off, but it is defiantly one to watch.
I had a spitfire come and buz round my house for a while last summer, was very, very cool. What is the going rate for a spitfire nowedays? concorde just anoys my dad when he tries to listen to the archers omnibus on a sunday morning. Very pretty but very noisy.
Isn't this blatantly anti competitive. Not mercurially illegal but stifling competition.
If there were a standard chip/motherboard interface then you would be able to choose the chip that you want and the board that you want based on your preferences. Once this grace period is over (3 years) you will have less combinations available.
When are businesses going to realise open standards = growth.
Mind you I use mini-itx at home anyway so I shouldn't complain.
I think file sharing has gone the same way as Drugs (well at least pot), most (young) people do not see anything wrong with it and many quite happily do it. Yet is illegal. I am much of a philosopher but I would say if nobody supports a law then the law should be changed not the people?
You can't patent software. Unforutnaly the Captilist pigs from the big corperations are lobbying their best to change this. Along with > 50 year copyright. Hopefully stupid patents such as this may help common sense prevale over here.
Or switch your keyboard to some funny forign keyboard that has @ somewhere else.
Hmm prehaps I took that question a little too seriously
>pure FUD it is nice of you to moderate your own post for us. >personally have not had a single Red Hat >distribution in 10 years that was better than >the at the time Windows version Which makes me wonder if you have ever even HAD a version of red hat. I am on RH8 and it works great. >The command line guys may find stability, but it >takes them 2 days to do a 10 minute task. I allways thought command line was more efficent for most things. Just not as pretty or easy to use. Anyway I recon you are trolling and if I wasn't so bored then I wouln't have botherd rising to it.
Open source = sharing ideas not controled by endless need to make money
M$ = Powerd by the need to make as much money as possible and screw everyone over in the process
Which would you rather work with? One thing that gets overlooked a little is the BillG invented the idea of people paying for software.
A long time ago, probably before most of you were even born BillG wrote a letter (you can read it here it is very interesting) complaining that he was being expected to do work for free. the best quote of the whole thing is "What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free?" well it turns out lots of hobbyist can and make some very good software into the bargin.
Gee I would love to live in Norway, a place where the corts and goverment procicuters have nothing better to do than to victimise teanagers who piss of the american recording industry. What a lovely crime free place it must be
Over here in the real world there are many crimes being commited and criminals getting away with it. I think I saw in the scum (sun newspaper UK) that 90% of crimes go unpunnished.
Calling in a specilist white collar crime unit to prosicute someone for something they did when they were 15 is ridiculas. Well I suppose school uniforms do have white collars, but that is not the point.
what a pathetic waste of time and resources this retial is, I hope the fool who took the bribe to make it go ahead realises what a stupid use of the court system this is.
Q:
If they had not stopped after the appolo missions and built on that techology it was fesable that they could have made it to Mars in the mid 80s. The book 'Voyage' by steven baxter (here) is a fictional account of what could have happed. Based on some plans that NASA acutaly drew up. Strangely enough it also goes into a lot of detail about nuclear rockets.
The big problem now is that we have lost most of the knowlege and experiance gaind from the appolo missions. I doubt that they would even be able to get somone to the moon again under the curent climit.
It is a shame that NASA gets used as a plotical scape goat. They are trying to do some truly amazing stuff but have so many cuts and projects canned that they are ineffective. The shuttls aren't going to last foever (AFAIK they are about 10 years past their use by date). With China and India having goverments very keen on space and with NASA having increased pressure from ESA and commercial launch operations, I can't see nasa ever doing anything amazing again unless there is some serious long term political milage from it (and hence commitment to it).
I would love to see people go to Mars but I have kind of put it in the not in my lifetime file for now. Any other SF readers keen on mars should try the above book and Kim Stanley Robinsons Mars Trilogy. [red|green|blue] Mars.
have a look here for more info.
ps my 2ps worth is that its a fake but lets make them DENY IT!
I don't see how the structure of an 'internet tax' would work.
Now the basic premice seems to be that you charge people a sales tax even if they don't reside in the domain (state country whatever) that the company operates from.
so all of the states do this to bolster revinues, and lots of internet companies (the ones that can affort to) are suddenly registered companies in the cayman islands. Just operating a depot from whatever state they used to pay taxes to. so the state looses out.
A simmalar issue has occoured in the UK. All UK bussiness have to charge VAT (which is the same as GST basicaly a percentage charged on top of almost everything you buy.) Now all UK ISPs have to charge this for their services. But AOL is a US registerd company so it can avoid paying it and undercut all the local companies. Even though it sells its services from the UK to UK residents it is exempt from the tax. There are articles on the register here, here, here, here, and here
I may be wrong but AFAIK this is a FOLLOW UP to a previous story.
./, they are part of the charm, but them getting modded up irks me.
In story 1 there was an artical saying that SCO would possibly be going to charge $96 for each linux CPU.
in story 2(this one) there is a denial by SCO of the first story.
They could have both been put into the same artical but there is no problem with having seperate ones either
I don't mind inane comments on
is why we suddenly loose all these rights because something is digital
I know the argument is that you can produce perfect coppies with digital so they need to protect their rights in other ways. Surly there should be a differance between protecting rights and destroying fair use.
where would the law stand if I bought a new LP and sampled it, do I loose fair use because now I have it in digital form?
I think the idea of having a encryption for somehitng like e books or even DVDs is stupid, they will be hacked. The hacks will become widespread and the encryption will become obsolete. So why bother in the first place. All it is doing is criminalising people who are otherwise law abiding, just like the drug laws.
In a democracy, if the majoraty of people believe that a law is wrong should it still be enforced or should it be changed?
I think there is a lot of scope for cases to get more interesing. Case modding was never going to get into the mainstream cause it was a little (well a lot) too geekey.
But with power becoming less relivant for the average user, price and looks are going to start becoming selling points
I know mac clued up to this ages ago but PC makers arn't there yet.
Mini ITX has a lot of potential, even if it is a bit under powered at the moment.My fave case for this is the netbox cubit. It looks very nice but it is a little pricy for my liking.
There are a few more cases over at mini itx
I have been carting round my tower for too long so now I want to go to the other extreme.
Hey I was just having a bit of a rant.
AFAIK the consititution was put in place to guarinee rights to every citizen (well to start with every 'free man'). I can't quote things but I beleive that it contained things like freedom of expression, freedom from tirrany and the like.
It is not so much that their are derivations from the constitution, it is that we are living in a very different world from when the constitution was written (for example the redcoats aren't lightly to try and retake the states any more). More relivantly, a system where votes are dependent on financing by large coperations which then expect to have influence on polocy is probably not what the founders indended.
The complaint about the cort system was rational. A fair juditial system should not have outcomes which depend uppon the political alignments of the judges that are chosen for a case
Sorry if I offended you but I did point out that I was having a bit of a rant. anyway by the time you are at consitution V1.27 prehaps it is worthe thinking about upgrading to V2.0
This ridicules the whole idea, it should not depend on which judges are chosen. (Sorry I seem to be in ideilistic mode tonight.) Why don't you americans realise that the way things work over there is a mockary of justice and democacy and sort it out.
Why not work out a consitituion V2.0, sure there were some great ideas in the first one but something has got really messed up along the way.
Anyway I am jealous, at least you guys have got a constitution that garintiees some rights.
By the way, what happened with the yahoo/nazi/france thing, I never remember that getting sorted out?
Sorry about the rant but I couldn't believe it when I read that, set me off -1 flamebate/offtopic me if you must.
It may depend on where you are.
Travel news is great for me and the 'where's my nearest' thing can be handy.
but if your operator, country dosn't have that sort of thing then it may be a bit limited.
acutaly wap is starting to make a bit of a comback. When it first came out it was slow, expensive and difficult to read/navigate on small screens.
With GPRS and larger colour screens it is actualy quite useable.
There is an artical about the rise of wap here. If you ask me it wouldn't have flopped if it wasn't so overhyped in the first place.