I agree all of this can seem damned ugly, but we really have no choice. If some people fly through the roof, let them. The alternative, a legislated and policed Internet, is not an alternative.
And they must succeed, for if they do not, the legal eagles will be here to clean up and then the world will have to go off searching for a new Internet.
The freedom of the Internet is, IMHO, the top priority here. It is the one thing we may never trivialise. We're a fifth column here. The net is powerful -/. is powerful - and if it's legislated and policed, you can kiss most of that goodbye.
So let them let off steam. Let them blacklist all of Spain. After all, Spain should do something. Let Spain work it out. If it does work out, it's not only a victory for anti-spam forces like us, it's a victory for a free Internet.
I might see this wrong, but it appears Apple are caught between the proverbial rock and hard place. The Big Five finally gave in and trusted them. If they don't dance for this peanut gallery, they might lose their rights, their iPod and iTunes business, the whole ball of wax.
I'm not saying Apple would not do this anyway, but in this particular case they do not have much of a choice.
I wish I had time to discuss this, but I have my own patent lawsuits to pursue.
I am namely the inventor of the 'serif', or actually not me, but my good friend Christopher Lambert, who bequeathed the patent to me because he always felt I'd inspired him to patent the idea in the first place.
We were walking out back of my place in Queensland, Australia, and a sheep passed us by. The sheep had just - you know - and there was still a dingleberry hanging from its - you know - and I pointed it out to Christopher.
'Hey Chris! Look what's there!" I said, pointing to the sheep's dingleberry.
'If there's a name for it I sure don't know!' Christopher replied.
But of course there's a name for it. In both Australian and American. Whatever: Christopher swears he got the idea for the serif from that conversational exchange. And he patented it.
So now anyone not using a Swiss font has to pay ME. Or so I figure. But this will be in the court system for a LONG time - and I'll be in court rooms for about as long, so I don't have time to discuss this JPEG thing.
But I ran into Darl in the corridors and he says to say hello.
Maybe I'm missing something too, but as others have pointed out (or will soon point out):
1. I don't own Google and none of you do either.
2. What Google do is their business, not ours.
3. What we do is our business, and we can opt to not use a Gmail account.
4. I can't see what kind of retard would want or need a GB for email no one ever looks at anyway. I like the storage but I would never use it for email - forget it, just forget it.
5. The same people who think this is not only cool but necessary are probably those that thought Expose was a new operating system - all because they're not capable of managing their own work.
6. There are lots of big companies who market excellent mass storage technologies. You'd probably be better off and with a more secure solution with them.
7. I'd be an idiot to entrust my email to a company like Google. They're going to let me search for my own email. Gee, but what exactly stands between my email and anyone else's search?
8. I really don't see the marketing point in it - from Google's standpoint. I like them but I fail to see how this is going to help them.
9. Most of what you'll read between now and Gmail is talking head tripe written by wannabes who want to get some e-zine real estate and have no better way to do it. All privacy concerns considered, it's the same old mish-mosh all over again, and frankly I think it's a shameful bore.
I think the new name is linteresting. It's linfective and very lintelligent. This little lincident with the itigation shows that great minds are not lidle for ong. With Microsoft linsisting they have lintellectual property rights on '---' any other countermeasure will ikely prove to be lineffective.
Just as long as Linus doesn't come along and claim he owns the letter 'L' - which is hardly going to happen. He and Bill Gates weren't born on the same day, or come from the same mold.
But let's not have any lillusions: Microsoft are a lillegal monopoly. They bode lill for the rest of the Linternet.
Actually, there is little reason to listen to the confused rantings of the GNOMies anyway. Theirs may be a popular platform, but from the POV, it was long ago a lost cause.
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Good idea!
We've got unopened copies for the PDP-1 and the DEC Rainbow, maybe we can cut a deal too!
I agree all of this can seem damned ugly, but we really have no choice. If some people fly through the roof, let them. The alternative, a legislated and policed Internet, is not an alternative.
/. is powerful - and if it's legislated and policed, you can kiss most of that goodbye.
And they must succeed, for if they do not, the legal eagles will be here to clean up and then the world will have to go off searching for a new Internet.
The freedom of the Internet is, IMHO, the top priority here. It is the one thing we may never trivialise. We're a fifth column here. The net is powerful -
So let them let off steam. Let them blacklist all of Spain. After all, Spain should do something. Let Spain work it out. If it does work out, it's not only a victory for anti-spam forces like us, it's a victory for a free Internet.
Tada.
I might see this wrong, but it appears Apple are caught between the proverbial rock and hard place. The Big Five finally gave in and trusted them. If they don't dance for this peanut gallery, they might lose their rights, their iPod and iTunes business, the whole ball of wax.
I'm not saying Apple would not do this anyway, but in this particular case they do not have much of a choice.
I wish I had time to discuss this, but I have my own patent lawsuits to pursue.
I am namely the inventor of the 'serif', or actually not me, but my good friend Christopher Lambert, who bequeathed the patent to me because he always felt I'd inspired him to patent the idea in the first place.
We were walking out back of my place in Queensland, Australia, and a sheep passed us by. The sheep had just - you know - and there was still a dingleberry hanging from its - you know - and I pointed it out to Christopher.
'Hey Chris! Look what's there!" I said, pointing to the sheep's dingleberry.
'If there's a name for it I sure don't know!' Christopher replied.
But of course there's a name for it. In both Australian and American. Whatever: Christopher swears he got the idea for the serif from that conversational exchange. And he patented it.
So now anyone not using a Swiss font has to pay ME. Or so I figure. But this will be in the court system for a LONG time - and I'll be in court rooms for about as long, so I don't have time to discuss this JPEG thing.
But I ran into Darl in the corridors and he says to say hello.
Exactly. And we're smart enough to realise they are right.
So now everybody back to work on the drivers for 2.7!
Yeah, true, but this is all this courtroom bullshit. They gotta prove stuff and shit like that.
'And doctor, did you do a DNA test of the strands of hair found on the victim?'
'Yes I did. The DNA matches that of the defendant.'
And hey, it's nice for all those AOL grannies to hear anyway. Maybe someday they'll get a clue (but don't hold yer breath).
Now I know what Tarantino dreams about and and why.
The clandestine repair effort livened an already intense period for security pros already juggling a bevy of Windows security patches.
So basically if the Internet falls apart we can still blame Microsoft.
Oh good.
Yes. That was all Kay's ideas. The term 'object-oriented' too.
I invented the term 'object-oriented' and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
-- Alan Kay
Day 2 will be Attrion.org creator, Jericho
Jeriho was at Attrition. Muge was at l0pt.
What we should do...
Is use steganography.
We embed an MP3 inside a JPEG.
Then, just to really screw them up, we embed the JPEG inside an MP3.
Maybe I'm missing something too, but as others have pointed out (or will soon point out):
1. I don't own Google and none of you do either.
2. What Google do is their business, not ours.
3. What we do is our business, and we can opt to not use a Gmail account.
4. I can't see what kind of retard would want or need a GB for email no one ever looks at anyway. I like the storage but I would never use it for email - forget it, just forget it.
5. The same people who think this is not only cool but necessary are probably those that thought Expose was a new operating system - all because they're not capable of managing their own work.
6. There are lots of big companies who market excellent mass storage technologies. You'd probably be better off and with a more secure solution with them.
7. I'd be an idiot to entrust my email to a company like Google. They're going to let me search for my own email. Gee, but what exactly stands between my email and anyone else's search?
8. I really don't see the marketing point in it - from Google's standpoint. I like them but I fail to see how this is going to help them.
9. Most of what you'll read between now and Gmail is talking head tripe written by wannabes who want to get some e-zine real estate and have no better way to do it. All privacy concerns considered, it's the same old mish-mosh all over again, and frankly I think it's a shameful bore.
Flamebait? Who's the retard? This is a joke, you idiot!
Hey, why is everybody ripping off Microsoft? First it's Sun Microsystems with their Looking Glass, now it's this shit...
Hey Microsoft did this years ago!
You remember BOB, don't you?
There seem to be some privacy issues already. Just turn off your cookies and for goodness sake don't 'sign up'.
But for my money, the A9 GUI blew it. It's just not nice. I get a good feeling @ Google - this looks pale, fuzzy, cluttered - and confusing.
Besides, it's only Google anyway - it's not like Vivisimo - so I'll stick with the actual supplier for now and ignore this impertinent middleman.
For now...
That's US$ per CPU hour - that's not going to add up. There's real time, system time, and CPU time. CPU time isn't squat.
I think the new name is linteresting. It's linfective and very lintelligent. This little lincident with the itigation shows that great minds are not lidle for ong. With Microsoft linsisting they have lintellectual property rights on '---' any other countermeasure will ikely prove to be lineffective.
Just as long as Linus doesn't come along and claim he owns the letter 'L' - which is hardly going to happen. He and Bill Gates weren't born on the same day, or come from the same mold.
But let's not have any lillusions: Microsoft are a lillegal monopoly. They bode lill for the rest of the Linternet.
Ah. So Bill has hired Mudhen from the Puzzle Palace to try to steal Scotty's and Linus's secrets. Not much to worry about.
This is the first consumer Mac update in five months.
What are they up to? Where is my dual G5 PowerBook anyway?
Rack mounted PCs? No thanks.
But an Xgrid cluster something like VA Tech's in my closet I can hook up to the laptops would be nice.
If I sell this scratchy iPod mini I should have enough loose change...
If we have to, I think we can take Brin and Page over Ballmer and Gates any day.
At least Brin and Page can really program.
I tell everyone 'wait until Service Pack 1' to buy an iPod mini. It's luck if you get all the details right first thing off.
Agreed. Someone at the factory in Taiwan could be having a bad hair day and then everything will be wrong.
Lemon laws for everything!
I hoped so too.
Actually, there is little reason to listen to the confused rantings of the GNOMies anyway. Theirs may be a popular platform, but from the POV, it was long ago a lost cause.
Yes, I think so. And it's a shame too.
Why else would Bil Joy really quit?
They're hard put, and making some really questionable decisions. How much better if it were MS in this kettle.