They don't care about MAC addresses, they are useless from a tracking standpoint (unless you want to hunt down a machine in your local network)... Providing the MAC to law enforcement will only tell them what kind of device it is, and who the vendor that made it is. Unless they create a giant registry and force people to register their MAC addresses.
Providing a MAC address to law enforcement provides them with nothing. Yes MACs are unique to a device (manufacturer info and a unique number), but it's trivial to have your computer broadcast a different MAC address. Which means it's useless.
Let me get a hold of your registry and I can pretend to be anyone on that list.
The Pirate Bay is about theft, plain and simple. [...] but the propaganda is propaganda on both sides.
It would appear that one side's propaganda is working. There is no theft in piracy. Unauthorized copying, yes, but no theft. This has been explained countless times here. I find it saddening that even here on slashdot, we hear people who bought the "theft" propagands from the *IAAs.
I would go even further an state that the Pirate Bay, despite its name, isn't "only about piracy" (if we replace "theft" from the PP with "piracy"). It is probably a more accurate statement, but copying files, even copy-written ones does not necessarily imply copyright infringement. Some countries have a concept called "fair-use". The RIAA and the MPAA really do not like this concept, but some countries have extended this concept to the digital domain.
If I borrow a CD from a friend and make a copy for my own personal use, that is "fair use". If I go and make copies and sell them, that is copyright infringement and piracy (distributing someone elses material for profit w/o permission). If you extend this to the digital domain then downloading an mp3 from a friend is the equivalent of borrowing the CD, only it's faster and a lot easier to find friends willing to exchange music.
Think back a decade or so. The record industry was not happy about cassette tapes. People could copy LP's all they wanted or dub tapes at double speed!! Did it kill music sales?
Later CDRs came out. People could copy CD's faster than the 2x of cassette tapes. Did that kill CD sales?
Then MP3s and P2P appeared. Super quick distribution.. but guess what? CDs are still selling and total sales have not dropped (though they haven't increased as much as predicted, which is not necessarily and indicator of anything).
The whole issue is control. the **AAs want to control all forms of distribution to milk every last cent, but at the same time they have not kept up with the technology and are refusing to give customers the product they want in the form they want it.
I want cheap high quality downloads with no DRM. Make it easier and better than the free alternatives and I'll pay, until then I find the path of least resistance.
It finally looks like some movie services are catching up, but nothing is quite there yet.
q: How many guitars does a guitarist need?
a: Just one more.
There is always going to be someone that thinks they need something just a little bit different to suit their particular needs. In reality the number of open source licenses could be dramatically reduced, but the human condition makes us each think we are unique and have special needs and requirements for our unique project.
Are there too many open source licenses? Yeah. It's way to complicated for the end user. Will this ever change? Most likely not.
what's truly amazing is that the toddler was also apparently able to read, understand, and accept Windows Live's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. (But minors can't legally execute contracts, can they?)
What's with this? Seriously, who the hell takes the time to read these things every time they're presented with one? What an unnecessarily snarky summary
Plus it's stupid and wrong. A EULA isn't a contract. There is no (new) consideration and where's the "meeting of the minds"? It does not meet the standards of a contract. A EULA is a "license agreement", basically a threat and nothing more. It may be enforceable in some jurisdictions (though I haven't personally seen any evidence of that), but it isn't a contract.
Only if it can be proven that both parties to the contract agreed to the contract.
That would be the "meeting of the minds" portion of contract law. Beyond that is the "consideration". Even if the terms are "accepted", without an exchange of value it is not a contract.
Generally, when you purchase software monies were exchanged for a license to use a particular piece of software (something of value must be exchanged for there to be a contract, whether that be a penny or a single mustard seed, there needs to be something of value). Once the offer has been accepted and consideration is provided the contract has been fulfilled. BUT software makers attempt to change the terms after the exchange with a EULA. The manufacturer has no rights to modify the terms of the contract at that point. A new contract could be formed, but that requires a new offer, acceptance of said offer and NEW consideration (something of value that differs from the original contract).
IANAL, but in with my limited legal knowledge I am convinced the types of items that are mentioned in a EULA must be made clear before purchase if they are meant to be enforceable. My best guess is that they aren't meant to be enforceable. The companies just take advantage of people's ignorance, "Well you agreed to X,Y,Z in the EULA..." And I'm quite sure that > 90% of the time it works.
I'd love to see some case law involving EULAs. Does anyone know of someone that has be sued because of breaching terms in a EULA?
If they are Japanese made maybe. My North American made model barely fits on the desktop. Also it's loud and doesn't do well in the closet (needs plenty of ventilation.. but that's a whole other issue). Buy american my ass.
I'd upgrade if possible, but with the poor economy that's just not financially feasible at this time. Heck, I can't afford the disposal fee for the current one let alone how much it is to procure a better slimmer model.
If it's a matter of some guy creating human-animal hybrids on his own personal island, I don't see that it's anyone else's business.
What if it's a couple torturing or killing their own kids?
Torturing generally implies the infliction of severe pain or anguish on another being. One view of freedom is you are free to do what you want as long as it doesn't interfere with the freedom of others. Inflicting pain on someone would be interfering with their "freedom". The question is what rights do hybrids have? Are they place below animals? Do they have the rights of animals (such as anti-cruelty laws etc)? Do they have the full rights of humans, or do they have something in between humans and animals (as their name implies)?
IMHO The question of what rights hybrids should have needs to be answered before the creature exists. By seriously exploring this issue whether they should in fact exist will become a lot more clear.
Nope. That was done at SRI. So was the base research for the gui (scrolling pages, interacting with screens using the mouse etc). All funded with war money iirc.
The researches from there ended up at Xerox PARC. Steve Jobs was introduced to the GUI at PARC, but it hardly started there.
Oh, but no BSD instance. BSD finally died. Sure it said it was feeling fine and claimed, "I think I'll go for a walk... I'm happy I'm happy." But it was dead. Though, since netcraft was also dead no one was able to confirm the death.
You must have missed the part about VMWare. He was implying running XP(32) on a virtual machine (simulating a 32bit proc with 3gb ram, well under the threshold for XP) on his Core 8 Octa proc with enough ram to run many such instances.
I assume there would be a VMWare instance running some linux distro and of course OSXVIII (which could finally be purchased for any computer).
And then Harrison Ford can play Johnny in the Johnny Mnemonic sequel?
I'm not fully opposed to a sequel of Blade Runner (though I am adamantly opposed to a sequel of Johnny Mnemonic). Yes it has a huge probability of going horribly wrong, but if it had Harrison as the lead at least it would stand a chance. Find some look alike for the girl replicant (replicants don't age) and give it a shot. It could be interesting. Of course if Deckard was actually a replicant, then using Harrison wouldn't make much sense...
Bah, fuck it. I changed my mind. No way it could be good. It's been too long and the original is too much of a cult classic for anything to stand up to it now. It's bloody 2009! Why didn't you try this in the 90's? Now it will just sully everyone's memories of how good the original was and possibly ruin a bunch of film careers.
Former president of the University of South Australia? I question how many people know that the current one is Professor Peter HÃj let alone the previous president.
I assume the USA must be the Australian equivalent to MIT.
Easily. I just priced a dual-core atom intel board, case w/ PS, 2GB RAM, 500GB HD, DVD multi drive for $250 CAN (before taxes).
That setup will have as much processing power as I need and will use noticeably less power and space than my aging althon64 based desktop. Chuck it in the closet and voila, nice small home server that uses less juice than a light bulb.
Only 2 sata ports on the board, but for now 500GB plus my 1TB will be fine (I can always add on some external storage).
I asked the same question about CentOS (or any other free distro.. there were some people pushing to host a Ubuntu repository on campus). It probably boiled down to corporate/school policy on licensing.
The licensing was support (iirc), but it was on a per machine basis and it depended on the use of that machine. Seriously. It must be based upon the idea that a server will require more support than a workstation and a workstation more than a desktop (seems backwards to me, but that's how they charged)
Students were not allowed to assist with maintenance. The person in charge of that lab was pretty useless. Most of the linux geeks (myself included) put up with the lab when we had too, but usually would work on our own laptops. You would have to be careful about library versions though as most of your code would be tested either on those workstations or on a solaris server.. easy enough though (well.. except the RH machines were always the furthest behind in libraries and pretty much any software period).
The weird licensing had something along the lines of n-tiers of licensing for commercial (3 or 4, don't remember) and n-1 tiers for schools, so you'd get shoe-horned into something that possibly wouldn't quite fit.
No clue what they are running now. Probably a year old version of RH knowing the history. Personally I think the *nix lab was better off when it was Solaris on x86.. heck the AIX on PowerPC was better maintained and a lot more stable.
(sorry about the no multi-quote I was typing in a hurry and didn't have time to mess with that)
Dvorak is an idiot. To use the old adage: "Guns don't kill people. People kill people."
If a bank trusts a spreadsheet based on a bad formula that is provided by the bank itself, is it the spreadsheet's fault? If the CEO chooses that saving 1 cent a year by outsourcing the call center to India, is that the spreadsheet's fault? Please.
Yes, but spreadsheets are often used to poor ends. I enjoy that Canada has stronger spreadsheet laws (than the US). I don't have a spreadsheet in my house and I feel safer for it.
People always ask, "But what if some accounting or statistics sneak up at night?"
Well I can call my accountant or go into work to finish it. Spreadsheets don't deserve a place in the home and I'm better off without them. What if my kid got a hold of my spreadsheets? I would have to be held liable for that and as for morally? I can't take that risk and have it hanging over my head.
Imagine if kids didn't show up to school with spreadsheets ever? The world would be a better place. Less mistakes would be made, kids would know how to work things out (by hand).
Mark my words. Nothing ever gets solved with a spreadsheet.
It's not dumping if the competition (Linux) is free.
Last I saw, Linux wasn't free, RedHat, Novell and Canonical all sell it (plus assorted support and licensing offerings) for quite a sum.
No kidding. At the university I went to the linux lab with Red Hat cost more to license than an equivalent sized XP installed lab.
Granted the linux lab was licensed as workstation installs (more expensive, but desktop didn't allow multiple users remoting in) and the windows labs were desktop install so we're not comparing apples to apples (and I vaguely remember there was some weirdness with the RedHat licensing for education that made them jump up one level further, missing options for education licensing as opposed to commercial). Still, one would assume the linux licensing would have a slight edge regardless of the install type.
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They don't care about MAC addresses, they are useless from a tracking standpoint (unless you want to hunt down a machine in your local network)... Providing the MAC to law enforcement will only tell them what kind of device it is, and who the vendor that made it is. Unless they create a giant registry and force people to register their MAC addresses.
Providing a MAC address to law enforcement provides them with nothing. Yes MACs are unique to a device (manufacturer info and a unique number), but it's trivial to have your computer broadcast a different MAC address. Which means it's useless.
Let me get a hold of your registry and I can pretend to be anyone on that list.
The Pirate Bay is about theft, plain and simple. [...] but the propaganda is propaganda on both sides. It would appear that one side's propaganda is working. There is no theft in piracy. Unauthorized copying, yes, but no theft. This has been explained countless times here. I find it saddening that even here on slashdot, we hear people who bought the "theft" propagands from the *IAAs.
I would go even further an state that the Pirate Bay, despite its name, isn't "only about piracy" (if we replace "theft" from the PP with "piracy"). It is probably a more accurate statement, but copying files, even copy-written ones does not necessarily imply copyright infringement. Some countries have a concept called "fair-use". The RIAA and the MPAA really do not like this concept, but some countries have extended this concept to the digital domain.
If I borrow a CD from a friend and make a copy for my own personal use, that is "fair use". If I go and make copies and sell them, that is copyright infringement and piracy (distributing someone elses material for profit w/o permission). If you extend this to the digital domain then downloading an mp3 from a friend is the equivalent of borrowing the CD, only it's faster and a lot easier to find friends willing to exchange music.
Think back a decade or so. The record industry was not happy about cassette tapes. People could copy LP's all they wanted or dub tapes at double speed!! Did it kill music sales?
Later CDRs came out. People could copy CD's faster than the 2x of cassette tapes. Did that kill CD sales?
Then MP3s and P2P appeared. Super quick distribution.. but guess what? CDs are still selling and total sales have not dropped (though they haven't increased as much as predicted, which is not necessarily and indicator of anything).
The whole issue is control. the **AAs want to control all forms of distribution to milk every last cent, but at the same time they have not kept up with the technology and are refusing to give customers the product they want in the form they want it.
I want cheap high quality downloads with no DRM. Make it easier and better than the free alternatives and I'll pay, until then I find the path of least resistance.
It finally looks like some movie services are catching up, but nothing is quite there yet.
This reminds me of a musician joke:
q: How many guitars does a guitarist need?
a: Just one more.
There is always going to be someone that thinks they need something just a little bit different to suit their particular needs. In reality the number of open source licenses could be dramatically reduced, but the human condition makes us each think we are unique and have special needs and requirements for our unique project.
Are there too many open source licenses? Yeah. It's way to complicated for the end user. Will this ever change? Most likely not.
Wow, I think you just describe the plot of *batteries not included.
.. and numerous grammatical errors...
I stopped reading at, "than what is?". I can stand the occasional than/then mistake, but then/than? No way.
Does your home telephone play games and music?
It can play jingle bells.. well... I can play jingle bells on it, kinda.
what's truly amazing is that the toddler was also apparently able to read, understand, and accept Windows Live's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. (But minors can't legally execute contracts, can they?)
What's with this? Seriously, who the hell takes the time to read these things every time they're presented with one? What an unnecessarily snarky summary
Plus it's stupid and wrong. A EULA isn't a contract. There is no (new) consideration and where's the "meeting of the minds"? It does not meet the standards of a contract. A EULA is a "license agreement", basically a threat and nothing more. It may be enforceable in some jurisdictions (though I haven't personally seen any evidence of that), but it isn't a contract.
Contracts are legally binding
Only if it can be proven that both parties to the contract agreed to the contract.
That would be the "meeting of the minds" portion of contract law. Beyond that is the "consideration". Even if the terms are "accepted", without an exchange of value it is not a contract.
..." And I'm quite sure that > 90% of the time it works.
Generally, when you purchase software monies were exchanged for a license to use a particular piece of software (something of value must be exchanged for there to be a contract, whether that be a penny or a single mustard seed, there needs to be something of value). Once the offer has been accepted and consideration is provided the contract has been fulfilled. BUT software makers attempt to change the terms after the exchange with a EULA. The manufacturer has no rights to modify the terms of the contract at that point. A new contract could be formed, but that requires a new offer, acceptance of said offer and NEW consideration (something of value that differs from the original contract).
IANAL, but in with my limited legal knowledge I am convinced the types of items that are mentioned in a EULA must be made clear before purchase if they are meant to be enforceable. My best guess is that they aren't meant to be enforceable. The companies just take advantage of people's ignorance, "Well you agreed to X,Y,Z in the EULA
I'd love to see some case law involving EULAs. Does anyone know of someone that has be sued because of breaching terms in a EULA?
sudoapt-get install answers-devel
There fixed that for yah. No torture necessary, you just need ask the right way.
Wives also make good laptops, i hear.
If they are Japanese made maybe. My North American made model barely fits on the desktop. Also it's loud and doesn't do well in the closet (needs plenty of ventilation.. but that's a whole other issue). Buy american my ass.
I'd upgrade if possible, but with the poor economy that's just not financially feasible at this time. Heck, I can't afford the disposal fee for the current one let alone how much it is to procure a better slimmer model.
If it's a matter of some guy creating human-animal hybrids on his own personal island, I don't see that it's anyone else's business.
What if it's a couple torturing or killing their own kids?
Torturing generally implies the infliction of severe pain or anguish on another being. One view of freedom is you are free to do what you want as long as it doesn't interfere with the freedom of others. Inflicting pain on someone would be interfering with their "freedom". The question is what rights do hybrids have? Are they place below animals? Do they have the rights of animals (such as anti-cruelty laws etc)? Do they have the full rights of humans, or do they have something in between humans and animals (as their name implies)?
IMHO The question of what rights hybrids should have needs to be answered before the creature exists. By seriously exploring this issue whether they should in fact exist will become a lot more clear.
Xerox invented the GUI and the mouse.
Nope. That was done at SRI. So was the base research for the gui (scrolling pages, interacting with screens using the mouse etc). All funded with war money iirc.
The researches from there ended up at Xerox PARC. Steve Jobs was introduced to the GUI at PARC, but it hardly started there.
If you are interested in the history of the PC (and its tie-ins to drug use and the counter culture) I reccomend the book 'What the dormouse said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry. Some of it was a bit dry, but overall a good read about the early days of the PC and how we got to where we are today.
Oh, but no BSD instance. BSD finally died. Sure it said it was feeling fine and claimed, "I think I'll go for a walk... I'm happy I'm happy." But it was dead. Though, since netcraft was also dead no one was able to confirm the death.
You must have missed the part about VMWare. He was implying running XP(32) on a virtual machine (simulating a 32bit proc with 3gb ram, well under the threshold for XP) on his Core 8 Octa proc with enough ram to run many such instances.
I assume there would be a VMWare instance running some linux distro and of course OSXVIII (which could finally be purchased for any computer).
And then Harrison Ford can play Johnny in the Johnny Mnemonic sequel?
I'm not fully opposed to a sequel of Blade Runner (though I am adamantly opposed to a sequel of Johnny Mnemonic). Yes it has a huge probability of going horribly wrong, but if it had Harrison as the lead at least it would stand a chance. Find some look alike for the girl replicant (replicants don't age) and give it a shot. It could be interesting. Of course if Deckard was actually a replicant, then using Harrison wouldn't make much sense...
Bah, fuck it. I changed my mind. No way it could be good. It's been too long and the original is too much of a cult classic for anything to stand up to it now. It's bloody 2009! Why didn't you try this in the 90's? Now it will just sully everyone's memories of how good the original was and possibly ruin a bunch of film careers.
Huh. I was shooting for funny, but I'll take what I can get mod-wise. +4 interesting is good enough for the girls I go with.
Former president of the University of South Australia? I question how many people know that the current one is Professor Peter HÃj let alone the previous president.
I assume the USA must be the Australian equivalent to MIT.
Easily. I just priced a dual-core atom intel board, case w/ PS, 2GB RAM, 500GB HD, DVD multi drive for $250 CAN (before taxes).
That setup will have as much processing power as I need and will use noticeably less power and space than my aging althon64 based desktop. Chuck it in the closet and voila, nice small home server that uses less juice than a light bulb.
Only 2 sata ports on the board, but for now 500GB plus my 1TB will be fine (I can always add on some external storage).
You can generate them offline and with a good set of dice you get real entropy.
I think we have a different definition of "good set of dice". My set of dice are "good" if they roll 20's consistently.
For all I care, the doctor/financial advisor can be a luddite, using pen and paper for all his/her records, as long as they do the job well.
Personally if my GP or accountant started smashing mills or looms I'd probably take my business elsewhere regardless of their apparent performance.
I asked the same question about CentOS (or any other free distro.. there were some people pushing to host a Ubuntu repository on campus). It probably boiled down to corporate/school policy on licensing.
The licensing was support (iirc), but it was on a per machine basis and it depended on the use of that machine. Seriously. It must be based upon the idea that a server will require more support than a workstation and a workstation more than a desktop (seems backwards to me, but that's how they charged)
Students were not allowed to assist with maintenance. The person in charge of that lab was pretty useless. Most of the linux geeks (myself included) put up with the lab when we had too, but usually would work on our own laptops. You would have to be careful about library versions though as most of your code would be tested either on those workstations or on a solaris server.. easy enough though (well.. except the RH machines were always the furthest behind in libraries and pretty much any software period).
The weird licensing had something along the lines of n-tiers of licensing for commercial (3 or 4, don't remember) and n-1 tiers for schools, so you'd get shoe-horned into something that possibly wouldn't quite fit.
No clue what they are running now. Probably a year old version of RH knowing the history. Personally I think the *nix lab was better off when it was Solaris on x86.. heck the AIX on PowerPC was better maintained and a lot more stable.
(sorry about the no multi-quote I was typing in a hurry and didn't have time to mess with that)
Dvorak is an idiot. To use the old adage: "Guns don't kill people. People kill people."
If a bank trusts a spreadsheet based on a bad formula that is provided by the bank itself, is it the spreadsheet's fault? If the CEO chooses that saving 1 cent a year by outsourcing the call center to India, is that the spreadsheet's fault? Please.
Yes, but spreadsheets are often used to poor ends. I enjoy that Canada has stronger spreadsheet laws (than the US). I don't have a spreadsheet in my house and I feel safer for it.
People always ask, "But what if some accounting or statistics sneak up at night?"
Well I can call my accountant or go into work to finish it. Spreadsheets don't deserve a place in the home and I'm better off without them. What if my kid got a hold of my spreadsheets? I would have to be held liable for that and as for morally? I can't take that risk and have it hanging over my head.
Imagine if kids didn't show up to school with spreadsheets ever? The world would be a better place. Less mistakes would be made, kids would know how to work things out (by hand).
Mark my words. Nothing ever gets solved with a spreadsheet.
It's not dumping if the competition (Linux) is free.
Last I saw, Linux wasn't free, RedHat, Novell and Canonical all sell it (plus assorted support and licensing offerings) for quite a sum.
No kidding. At the university I went to the linux lab with Red Hat cost more to license than an equivalent sized XP installed lab.
Granted the linux lab was licensed as workstation installs (more expensive, but desktop didn't allow multiple users remoting in) and the windows labs were desktop install so we're not comparing apples to apples (and I vaguely remember there was some weirdness with the RedHat licensing for education that made them jump up one level further, missing options for education licensing as opposed to commercial). Still, one would assume the linux licensing would have a slight edge regardless of the install type.
Sadly the supposed "efficiency" of hemp oil as a magical bio-fuel is a constant myth propogated by the pro-MJ crowd.
Those damn Michael Jackson fans and the crazy propaganda they spew!
Something tells me that you have no idea what so ever.
UID right? Too high. You should be at least in the 5 digit range to make a claim like that.