Yeah, but his point is that you have to be an authorised licensee in order to crack the DRM in the first place; so this isn't about unauthorised people infringing on other people's copyrights, this is authorised licensees excercising their right to fair use in spite of the copy protection (assuming that they don't go around giving copies to their friends).
It looks to me like Malda asked these guys to submit patches, they did all the work of making the HTML standards compliant, and now they're withholding the patches. They're asking for some people to submit the patches... why don't they just do it themselves?
The Mafiosos he knows probably do not read Wired or Slashdot.
But, would you really want to expose yourself to ALL slashdotters and Wired readers (this is a substantially large group of people) on the assumption that none of them will report you to the mob? That's quite the risk, IMHO.
(of course, this all assumes that it's a true story, which is a big assumption....)
(including $15 for a metal spatula for New York State schools (which is $4 at Walmart for a good one)
Lol, if you think that's a good idea of misspending, you've got another thing coming.
You should come to my university and see the $600 doorknob. There was a joke in the student paper about how the administration uses gold bars to wipe their butts instead of toilet paper...
Now how does digitial signing on a non-connected machine help you know the source wasn't tampered with?
It doesn't, really, but it does guarantee you that the source hasn't been tampered with since it was signed. Before it was signed is anybody's guess. Worst case scenario, the guy doing the signing is also the guy writing trojans into the code. You can bet that nobody has touched the code since he signed it, but can you trust the guy doing the signing?
Ideally, each developer would sign the code as they release it; then there can be no middle-men to tamper with the code.
I once saw the on screen scrolling Guide (now owned by TV Guide) crash and it was sitting at an AmigaDOS console prompt.
One time, at 3 AM, I was surfing, and when I got to the TV Guide channel, what did I see? A MacOS 9 desktop, with some pebbles as the desktop wallpaper. I must have watched that sit there doing nothing for 2 hours before the mouse started to move and then I got to watch some guy launch the TVGuide program:)
So basically, what you are saying is this: Boies was stupid enough to walk away from a Cravath partnership, and he's basically lost every case he's taken since?
Yeah, he sounds like a winner:)
The moral of the story is, never send Boies to do a man's job...:)
I guess you could count the posted discussion as original content... but what person in their right mind would consider a dozen 'In Soviet Russia 2. ??? 3. Profit!!! overlords welcome you!' useful in understanding a news story?
If you set your preferences to sort by score, and hide everything below score 3, you actually wind up with a list of comments that are worth reading. All the trolls are gone, and the posts are genuinely Insightful, Funny, etc.
I often don't even read the linked article because I can get a decent summary from the Insightful/Informative/Interesting posts.
Freenet merily uses n times the amount of data being moved in bandwidth passing that data up a chain of nodes to preserve anonimity.
That's the whole point of Freenet! It's not designed to be the easiest way to get the latest DVD rips, it's designed to be a way to communicate 100% anonymously, for example if you're living in a repressive regime, and you need to send a message without getting killed.
If integrity is right behavior due to moral values within, extegrity is right behavior due to a system of rules imposed from without. Sounds about like what the product they're hawking is for.
That's an interesting take. I guess that means that if you have strict principles that guide your behavior, you have a lot of integrity; but if you are simply a law-abiding person with few principles, you have a lot of extegrity...:)
Ok, if there are 1,000,000 people with this level of concern, and they each sent 50 USD to the Mozilla Foundation [...], then the Moz Foundation would have 50,000,000 USD available to support development.
You know what? You're right. A few years ago, I said I never donated to anything because I was broke, and that I would later on. Well, now I have a bit of money, and I've been wondering who I should donate to. I've been thinking about donating to RedHat, since I've used their distro since 8.0 (and I use Fedora now), but I already have a box of 8.0 and 9, so that's out...
Reading your post made me realize that Mozilla is the one piece of software that I've always used and relied on, regardless of what distro I've used in the past, hell, I even used Mozilla back before I ever started using Linux.
Scum like you make me puke. You're whats wrong with the world, don't you see it?!
I, for one, will be glad to see you rotting in prison, you putrid, disgusting excuse for a human being.... I say, as I listen to my 4-day-long XMMS playlist, composed 75% or more of music that I haven't paid for in any way, shape, or form.:)
How many of you have old 486's or pentium's that still run?
I do, I do!:)
I have an old 486, it still works fine. I leave it off most of the time, simply because it's just not useful to me. It runs a recent LFS system (maybe a year old). Slow as hell, of course, but I think it's impressive that a very recent version of linux is running on an old 486. That impresses me, just try running XP on it:)
Sorry to reply to myself, but let's just work it out:
$10/hour, 40 hours a week, 4 weeks in a month = $1,600 per month.
$19/hour, 40 hours a week, 4 weeks a month = $3,040 per month.
In Edmonton, the cheapest apartments are about $400/mo, but we'll be a bit generous and assume that you don't want to live in a slum. So, $700/mo for your apartment, plus $50/mo for cable internet, plus $25/mo phone, plus heat/water/power will probably run you up $100/mo (I'm not sure on this one, my roommate pays those bills:)
So, for the $19/hour job, if you factor in those expenses, plus taxes, you're still left with around $2,000/mo for things like food, entertainment, etc. That's a lot of money (to me, anyway).
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Yeah, but his point is that you have to be an authorised licensee in order to crack the DRM in the first place; so this isn't about unauthorised people infringing on other people's copyrights, this is authorised licensees excercising their right to fair use in spite of the copy protection (assuming that they don't go around giving copies to their friends).
I think you're thinking of IUMA.
I have a job programming computers and I don't make enough money to feed myself
:)
:)
No wonder, you're not very good (j/k)
perl -e 'while(true){ fork; }'
perl -e 'fork while true'
Ah, much better
It looks to me like Malda asked these guys to submit patches, they did all the work of making the HTML standards compliant, and now they're withholding the patches. They're asking for some people to submit the patches... why don't they just do it themselves?
The Mafiosos he knows probably do not read Wired or Slashdot.
But, would you really want to expose yourself to ALL slashdotters and Wired readers (this is a substantially large group of people) on the assumption that none of them will report you to the mob? That's quite the risk, IMHO.
(of course, this all assumes that it's a true story, which is a big assumption....)
(including $15 for a metal spatula for New York State schools (which is $4 at Walmart for a good one)
Lol, if you think that's a good idea of misspending, you've got another thing coming.
You should come to my university and see the $600 doorknob. There was a joke in the student paper about how the administration uses gold bars to wipe their butts instead of toilet paper...
Linux feels like...
:P
Linux feels nothing, it is a piece of software.
For those wanting a laugh, try this one:
$ curl -sI http://slashdot.org/ | grep Bender
Now how does digitial signing on a non-connected machine help you know the source wasn't tampered with?
It doesn't, really, but it does guarantee you that the source hasn't been tampered with since it was signed. Before it was signed is anybody's guess. Worst case scenario, the guy doing the signing is also the guy writing trojans into the code. You can bet that nobody has touched the code since he signed it, but can you trust the guy doing the signing?
Ideally, each developer would sign the code as they release it; then there can be no middle-men to tamper with the code.
I once saw the on screen scrolling Guide (now owned by TV Guide) crash and it was sitting at an AmigaDOS console prompt.
:)
One time, at 3 AM, I was surfing, and when I got to the TV Guide channel, what did I see? A MacOS 9 desktop, with some pebbles as the desktop wallpaper. I must have watched that sit there doing nothing for 2 hours before the mouse started to move and then I got to watch some guy launch the TVGuide program
Your message was posted over 2 hours after someone else pointed out the same thing
Right, because I always make it a point to read AC's at -1.
over 2 hours after I acknowledged my mistake.
Score 1, also below my threshhold.
So basically, what you are saying is this: Boies was stupid enough to walk away from a Cravath partnership, and he's basically lost every case he's taken since?
:)
:)
Yeah, he sounds like a winner
The moral of the story is, never send Boies to do a man's job...
Yeah, but it's Bill that's getting laid. And Bill has a kid...
The problem with your argument is that you're a moron.
Torvalds is married, and has 3 children.
I guess you could count the posted discussion as original content... but what person in their right mind would consider a dozen 'In Soviet Russia 2. ??? 3. Profit!!! overlords welcome you!' useful in understanding a news story?
If you set your preferences to sort by score, and hide everything below score 3, you actually wind up with a list of comments that are worth reading. All the trolls are gone, and the posts are genuinely Insightful, Funny, etc.
I often don't even read the linked article because I can get a decent summary from the Insightful/Informative/Interesting posts.
Freenet merily uses n times the amount of data being moved in bandwidth passing that data up a chain of nodes to preserve anonimity.
That's the whole point of Freenet! It's not designed to be the easiest way to get the latest DVD rips, it's designed to be a way to communicate 100% anonymously, for example if you're living in a repressive regime, and you need to send a message without getting killed.
They had a saying... "DOS ain't done 'till Lotus won't run!"
"But it's ok guys, Microsoft won't screw us over this time!"
If integrity is right behavior due to moral values within, extegrity is right behavior due to a system of rules imposed from without. Sounds about like what the product they're hawking is for.
:)
That's an interesting take. I guess that means that if you have strict principles that guide your behavior, you have a lot of integrity; but if you are simply a law-abiding person with few principles, you have a lot of extegrity...
I'm surprised that nobody else has brought this up, but hear me out...
:)
If "interior" is the opposite of "exterior", then what is the opposite of "extegrity"?
somebody could post the gandhi reference again
Which reference are you talking about? The one that goes "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win"?
Ok, if there are 1,000,000 people with this level of concern, and they each sent 50 USD to the Mozilla Foundation [...], then the Moz Foundation would have 50,000,000 USD available to support development.
You know what? You're right. A few years ago, I said I never donated to anything because I was broke, and that I would later on. Well, now I have a bit of money, and I've been wondering who I should donate to. I've been thinking about donating to RedHat, since I've used their distro since 8.0 (and I use Fedora now), but I already have a box of 8.0 and 9, so that's out...
Reading your post made me realize that Mozilla is the one piece of software that I've always used and relied on, regardless of what distro I've used in the past, hell, I even used Mozilla back before I ever started using Linux.
I'm mailing my cheque today, they've earned it.
It looks like they accept credit card payments.
Scum like you make me puke. You're whats wrong with the world, don't you see it?!
... I say, as I listen to my 4-day-long XMMS playlist, composed 75% or more of music that I haven't paid for in any way, shape, or form. :)
I, for one, will be glad to see you rotting in prison, you putrid, disgusting excuse for a human being.
How many of you have old 486's or pentium's that still run?
:)
:)
I do, I do!
I have an old 486, it still works fine. I leave it off most of the time, simply because it's just not useful to me. It runs a recent LFS system (maybe a year old). Slow as hell, of course, but I think it's impressive that a very recent version of linux is running on an old 486. That impresses me, just try running XP on it
Tremendous standard of living and no TAXES, to boot.
Considering you're the second person to mention it, you should try reading my post.
Sorry to reply to myself, but let's just work it out:
:)
$10/hour, 40 hours a week, 4 weeks in a month = $1,600 per month.
$19/hour, 40 hours a week, 4 weeks a month = $3,040 per month.
In Edmonton, the cheapest apartments are about $400/mo, but we'll be a bit generous and assume that you don't want to live in a slum. So, $700/mo for your apartment, plus $50/mo for cable internet, plus $25/mo phone, plus heat/water/power will probably run you up $100/mo (I'm not sure on this one, my roommate pays those bills
So, for the $19/hour job, if you factor in those expenses, plus taxes, you're still left with around $2,000/mo for things like food, entertainment, etc. That's a lot of money (to me, anyway).