Ever since I found Wiktionary last fall, I have neglected my moderation and meta-moderation duties here on/. It's been some time since I've logged into this account.
Articles I've seen vandalized have been targets of recurring vandalism; some obscure, some very 'popular'. Part of the problem is that not everyone knows how to correctly revert a candalized article. Part of the problem stems from vandal monitoring via recent changes. Articles that get locked don't necessarily stay locked indefinately anyhow...the vandals are free to try again a year later. For some reason, the vandalism tends to have a childish, scatalogical nature; once locked, the vandals quickly lose interest and find some other target.
You do have a very good point about popular articles being correctly reverted faster. The mentality that seems to prevail is that it's better to lock down a known target, rather than let 'x' number of viewers see a vandalized page.
I do hope those are all stolen DVDs - please don't tell me you *reward* the media giants.
I think you misstated a point. If something can be seen, heard, felt or smelled, it will be duplicated by someone, then converted to a medium of choice for distribution. NO MATTER WHAT. I believe the media giants understand this.
Copyright nonsense has lost all pretense of existing for the public good. So between now and the final bitter end of all legal copyright protection, the existing magnates wish to maximize their profits. How quickly they are stopped is directly proportional to how greedily they behave.
Of course, once copyright goes away, our beloved FSF has a bit of a problem too...
But who owns the resulting Intelectual Property? Are protein folds copyright-able? Of course IBM will max out on the IP issues here. Who will they sell access to their data to? Free access to inquiring minds in the general public? Or very rich giant pharm. companies? Will those pharm. comps use that as an excuse to inflate their costs even more, and pass those "costs" onto us?
I'd feel a lot better about donating *my* spare cycles that was in the public interest, not in the interest of some megacorp's bottom line.
The reason bash, tsh, ksh, sh and other *nix commands are referenced in lower case is because the proper commands are syntactically lower case, and silly *nix commands are case sensitive! Additioanlly, none of those shells are formal (or proper, or recognised) languages. The point was about inappropriate lower-casing of letters, such as the "W" in Weierstrass.
And how would that study classify *nix geeks that have lost the ability to capitalize letters at the start of sentences? (This is English, not bash, tsh, ksh or sh.)
Oh, my fucking GOD! I always thought ALL YOUR BASE/ARE BELONG TO US was a joke, not a code phrase!
P.S. You're getting modded to oblivion because you're changing subjects so much, your posts are incoherent. Well, that, and the fallacies. And the whining.
You are confusing executed code with distributing the copylefted source code in question.
Also, you are confounding the binary distribution of a program with offering a web service (where the logic is performed on the server, NOT the client computer.)
Lastly, there is nothing that mandates a web service to not be password or subscription restricted, therefore not public. The courts so far have not considered posting an image on a web page to be a public display, (owner still retains copyright) so they'll likely eventually extend the same argument for programs covered by copyright. (If they haven't already.)
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Ever since I found Wiktionary last fall, I have neglected my moderation and meta-moderation duties here on /. It's been some time since I've logged into this account.
Excuse me, but we are *NOT* talking about slander! They were arrested for disorderly conduct.
RTFA.
Articles I've seen vandalized have been targets of recurring vandalism; some obscure, some very 'popular'. Part of the problem is that not everyone knows how to correctly revert a candalized article. Part of the problem stems from vandal monitoring via recent changes. Articles that get locked don't necessarily stay locked indefinately anyhow...the vandals are free to try again a year later. For some reason, the vandalism tends to have a childish, scatalogical nature; once locked, the vandals quickly lose interest and find some other target.
You do have a very good point about popular articles being correctly reverted faster. The mentality that seems to prevail is that it's better to lock down a known target, rather than let 'x' number of viewers see a vandalized page.
Now wiktionary isn't responding at all. :-(
Vandalism only.
I do hope those are all stolen DVDs - please don't tell me you *reward* the media giants.
I think you misstated a point. If something can be seen, heard, felt or smelled, it will be duplicated by someone, then converted to a medium of choice for distribution. NO MATTER WHAT. I believe the media giants understand this.
Copyright nonsense has lost all pretense of existing for the public good. So between now and the final bitter end of all legal copyright protection, the existing magnates wish to maximize their profits. How quickly they are stopped is directly proportional to how greedily they behave.
Of course, once copyright goes away, our beloved FSF has a bit of a problem too...
But who owns the resulting Intelectual Property? Are protein folds copyright-able? Of course IBM will max out on the IP issues here. Who will they sell access to their data to? Free access to inquiring minds in the general public? Or very rich giant pharm. companies? Will those pharm. comps use that as an excuse to inflate their costs even more, and pass those "costs" onto us?
I'd feel a lot better about donating *my* spare cycles that was in the public interest, not in the interest of some megacorp's bottom line.
This certainly sheds some light on the lack of neutrality with your Hulk voting thinggy.
It's a trap?
Heh, I read that and thought "Don't pick on my girlfriend Bambi!" One look at Bambi, and you'd by quite jealous, I'm sure.
Um, nevermind. Please resume PETA bashing while I eat another steak. Rare.
"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent." -F. Nietzsche
I *really* enjoyed this one. Approaching this subject with humor has a kind of relief...Thank you Mr. Daniel Wright from Brooklyn.
# whois pattentlysilly.com
(Even the above line sounds funny when spoken aloud.)
The reason bash, tsh, ksh, sh and other *nix commands are referenced in lower case is because the proper commands are syntactically lower case, and silly *nix commands are case sensitive! Additioanlly, none of those shells are formal (or proper, or recognised) languages. The point was about inappropriate lower-casing of letters, such as the "W" in Weierstrass.
Now, I'm no tree-hugger. I am not an eco-terrorist. I drive an SUV.
But isn't it a little disconcerting that it took an active spewing volcano over two months to get pingged for excessive emissions?
Day after day of spewing tons of pollutants, and it takes OVER TWO MONTHS to pass up the status-quo industrial polluters?
Hmmmmmm...
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And how would that study classify *nix geeks that have lost the ability to capitalize letters at the start of sentences? (This is English, not bash, tsh, ksh or sh.)
/. poll...
Reminds me of a very recent
I *really* wish /. had an optional checkbox so that it would pipe previews through "spell".
If their remedial training budget is tight, they can always use /. grammar nazis. Mandatory: 3 /. posts per workday...
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What, pray tell, is a "good" politician?
There is no baby. The bath water has no H2O, only H2SO4. Things that thrive in that environment are not "good" things.
Paying people for their phonecam pictures of a favorable vote? Nah, rigging it is.
P.S. You're getting modded to oblivion because you're changing subjects so much, your posts are incoherent. Well, that, and the fallacies. And the whining.
Video link for those who don't hate yahoo videos' commercials...
Jesus Built My Hotrod
I now see where I missread your parent post.
You were changing the topic from GPL to closed source commercially licensed software, completely offtopic.
You are confusing executed code with distributing the copylefted source code in question.
Also, you are confounding the binary distribution of a program with offering a web service (where the logic is performed on the server, NOT the client computer.)
Lastly, there is nothing that mandates a web service to not be password or subscription restricted, therefore not public. The courts so far have not considered posting an image on a web page to be a public display, (owner still retains copyright) so they'll likely eventually extend the same argument for programs covered by copyright. (If they haven't already.)