I, for one, welcome our newcard overlords. I'd like to remind them that as an excellent karma poster, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground peripheral caves
I, for one, welcome our new chess-playing overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted Slashdot poster, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground card factories.
Wired News are also running a story on the Madden franchise, which debuts its 2004 version this week, and was recently voted into the Pro Football Hall Of Fame.
I can't believe Wired was recently voted into the Pro Football HoF...that's awesome! I wonder why I didn't see it mentioned on espn.com. I'll have to check out Canton next time I'm passing through Ohio.
Yes, that seems a likely scenario. The ESA (RIAA is not involved here) will just go out and file suit without even having a person check the file out. "Sorry your honor, we never bothered to look at the evidence." A more likely scenario is, upon receiving no response, the ESA will look at the file and the story ends right there.
In addition to calling or ignoring, the recipient also has the option of hitting the "reply" button and send an e-mail back. I'm not sure how this all relates to "any form of democracy", though.
I'm just wondering if any other dist mirrors have received any threats similar to this.
I read the letter and didn't see any threat. It said, to paraphrase, "we believe file x to be infringing. Please remove it or contact us." Geez, the tone of the letter isn't even threatening.
But hey, that's ok, let's get mad at the agency trying to enforce copyrights for the artists that make the software instead of the people illegally distributing the software, thus making such checks necessary.
Go to dell.com and enter this number in search: 311-3729 You'll get 1 hit back...that's your item. Sale runs until Monday...yes, it's a Dell sale so you don't need to use the spam link for the discount.
maybe this is an ideal opportunity to get your pet peeve finally addressed!
It's open source...your opportunity is now. Make the change yourself...don't wait for someone else to address it.
The ability to review and change source code is touted as open source's strongest point. It would appear, from the response to this article, it's also one of open source's least used attributes.
I don't like it either, but I was at a loss for a word or phrase that describs the place between frequently and infrequently. Moderately often? Somewhat occasionally? Oftentimes but not regularly?
Besides, I'm a weatherman (among other things). I'm used to using ambiguous phrases:)
Maybe because the people that run the network are not the same people who work on the voting system? "Hey Bob, could you fix this critical bug in the Vote-O-Matic?" "Sure Dave, just as soon as I finish updating our website."
Where I work the marketing department releases material with spelling errors not infrequently. Their work is not a reflection on my ability to write a magazine article, e.g.
Open source is not a panacea for what ails the world. What a voting system needs is a review by qualified people (not just anyone who might take an interest in it). And I mean the whole system, hardware, software, communications. Once a system is approved there needs to be some way to ensure that only approved systems are used in elections. Sorry, a job of this scope requires the government to oversee it.
Well you're an idiot then. First, where is the word "terrorist" mentioned? Um, nowhere. Poor reading skills aside, let's now do the math:
Taliban-run government, bad thing. You can look up Taliban elsewhere for details.
Government holds an admitted supporter of the Taliban, one who tried to enter Afghanistan and take up arms against the US military, for 5 weeks without charges.
I suggest you look up the laws on "material witness". The government can detain someone deemed a material witness (with a warrant signed by a federal judge) if said witness is a flight risk. This guy had already attempted to travel to Afghanistan via China, so yeah, flight risk seems reasonable.
Despite your indignation, Hawash's attorney, Stephen Houze, said, "Hawash is not getting a raw deal.
Stephen Houze: This has been a very fair and even-handed proceeding with the government and we're satisfied with the course of action that we've taken" (source for quote)
...they might have issue with you releasing it into the wild (amazon listing). I'm sure the software is still being sold elsewhere too. As everyone else has said, perhaps legal advice is in order. Maybe you can pick up the IP, get some VC, and soon you'll be TCB!
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I, for one, welcome our newcard overlords. I'd like to remind them that as an excellent karma poster, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground peripheral caves
I, for one, welcome our new chess-playing overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted Slashdot poster, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground card factories.
...what happens when a beowulf cluster of SCO lawyers attacks a Linux cluster of Opertons. Film at 11.
Either way is better than being an AC.
Real men use Fahrenheit!
Science: Iron-eating Bug Found to Thrive in 250F Heat
Corallary: real scientists use Kelvin!
Science: Iron-eating Bug Found to Thrive in 394K Heat
Remember, if we start using celsius for temperature the terrorists have already won.
Wired News are also running a story on the Madden franchise, which debuts its 2004 version this week, and was recently voted into the Pro Football Hall Of Fame.
I can't believe Wired was recently voted into the Pro Football HoF...that's awesome! I wonder why I didn't see it mentioned on espn.com. I'll have to check out Canton next time I'm passing through Ohio.
Think about it.
You are asked to delete your files or get sued
Yes, that seems a likely scenario. The ESA (RIAA is not involved here) will just go out and file suit without even having a person check the file out. "Sorry your honor, we never bothered to look at the evidence." A more likely scenario is, upon receiving no response, the ESA will look at the file and the story ends right there.
In addition to calling or ignoring, the recipient also has the option of hitting the "reply" button and send an e-mail back. I'm not sure how this all relates to "any form of democracy", though.
Oh, look, someone without the balls to post under a real user name. As if we didn't see that coming.
I'm just wondering if any other dist mirrors have received any threats similar to this.
I read the letter and didn't see any threat. It said, to paraphrase, "we believe file x to be infringing. Please remove it or contact us." Geez, the tone of the letter isn't even threatening.
But hey, that's ok, let's get mad at the agency trying to enforce copyrights for the artists that make the software instead of the people illegally distributing the software, thus making such checks necessary.
Oh sorry, that should be a question.
Would you please SUYT? Thank you.
I wondered why CowboyNeal hasn't been showing up in the polls...he's been out camping!
Let me say that I like CN and think he should be in all the polls. This post is intended to be good natured and not mean spririted.
At this point, I was glumly contemplating the task of trying to take pictures smoke rings while shooting them.
How about, "At this point, I was contemplating getting out of my house and making some friends so they could take pictures of the smoke rings for me"
Go to dell.com and enter this number in search:
311-3729
You'll get 1 hit back...that's your item. Sale runs until Monday...yes, it's a Dell sale so you don't need to use the spam link for the discount.
You got rooked...should have been +1 Funny.
So for users, there is really no advanatage to open souce over closed source other than price.
maybe this is an ideal opportunity to get your pet peeve finally addressed!
It's open source...your opportunity is now. Make the change yourself...don't wait for someone else to address it.
The ability to review and change source code is touted as open source's strongest point. It would appear, from the response to this article, it's also one of open source's least used attributes.
I don't like it either, but I was at a loss for a word or phrase that describs the place between frequently and infrequently. Moderately often? Somewhat occasionally? Oftentimes but not regularly?
:)
Besides, I'm a weatherman (among other things). I'm used to using ambiguous phrases
Maybe because the people that run the network are not the same people who work on the voting system? "Hey Bob, could you fix this critical bug in the Vote-O-Matic?" "Sure Dave, just as soon as I finish updating our website."
Where I work the marketing department releases material with spelling errors not infrequently. Their work is not a reflection on my ability to write a magazine article, e.g.
Open source is not a panacea for what ails the world. What a voting system needs is a review by qualified people (not just anyone who might take an interest in it). And I mean the whole system, hardware, software, communications. Once a system is approved there needs to be some way to ensure that only approved systems are used in elections. Sorry, a job of this scope requires the government to oversee it.
Defending the Taliban against what? Um, The US perhaps?
Taliban-run government, bad thing. You can look up Taliban elsewhere for details.
Government holds an admitted supporter of the Taliban, one who tried to enter Afghanistan and take up arms against the US military, for 5 weeks without charges.
I suggest you look up the laws on "material witness". The government can detain someone deemed a material witness (with a warrant signed by a federal judge) if said witness is a flight risk. This guy had already attempted to travel to Afghanistan via China, so yeah, flight risk seems reasonable.
Despite your indignation, Hawash's attorney, Stephen Houze, said, "Hawash is not getting a raw deal.
Stephen Houze: This has been a very fair and even-handed proceeding with the government and we're satisfied with the course of action that we've taken"
(source for quote)
For German speakers, there is another article about this in Der Spiegel.
Didn't help...I can speak but not read german, you insensitive clod!
...they might have issue with you releasing it into the wild (amazon listing). I'm sure the software is still being sold elsewhere too. As everyone else has said, perhaps legal advice is in order. Maybe you can pick up the IP, get some VC, and soon you'll be TCB!
He sounds like he has a drive to succeed...maybe you should contact him.
With freedom comes responsibility. Are you upset you can't walk into a crowded nightclub and start yelling "fire"?
Perhaps you should put more effort into learning history, spelling, and grammar.