Copyright exists to promote the sciences and the useful arts. And to answer your question, yes, most everyone has forgotten this, if they ever knew.
Indeed, it also a time limited monopoly not intended to last to the end of days, even though some American corporations tries to make it that way. One of the reason it is a time limited monopoly is in recognition of the fact that science and art is not done in a vacuum but builds upon work and ideas of others.
The actual text maybe copyrightable, but one still has fair use, one can excerp bits and rewrite other parts. This ruling does not stop people drawing attention to the fac that they are being bullied. It's daft but its not fatal.
But it surely will make the bullied thinking about even quoting pieces of the cease-and-desist-letter since who will decide what is fair use? Perhaps the bullied will be bullied with another cease-and-desist letter?
Sorry, you obviously are a product of the modern educational system. The Founding Fathers actually thought this through, that is why the Constitution is written the way it is, with the various provisions and the Bill of Rights. Or as Winston Churchill once said, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the other ways that have been tried."
Yeah, several your "founding fathers" where slave owners...
I read the Newsweek article but is difficult to believe what "mainstream" media like Newsweek write. Too often they are very wrong and just spout out state propaganda justifying whatever upcoming war.
From Venezuela is Not Florida
But Venezuela is not Pakistan. In fact, it's not Florida or Ohio either. One reason that Chavez could be confident of the vote count is that Venezuela has a very secure voting system. This is very different from the United States, where millions of citizens cast electronic votes with no paper record. Venezuelan voters mark their choice on a touch-screen machine, which then records the vote and prints out a paper receipt for the voter. The voter then deposits the vote in a ballot box. An extremely large random sample - about 54 percent - of the paper ballots are counted and compared with the electronic tally.
The authoritative study of civilian casualties was done by a group from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Here is a link to an article bolstering the validity of the study; it has links to a review of the original study.
The "iraq body count" guys are just counting dead listed in press releases.
Heck, even Microsoft touts Internet Explorer as secure;-) The touting of Firefox's security by followers are quite less than there used to be, even on Slashdot.
I'm not particularly upset, though. I.B.M. already is known to systematically exploit their huge patent portfolio, as would be expected by their shareholders, but I've not heard of them doing so, recently at least, in an offensive manner. I.B.M. has been trying hard, for business reasons, to be a "good citizen". If anyone has to have such a patent, best that it be them. If nothing else, it'll put a bit of a damper on the true patent trolls.
IBM has a very large patent portfolio and is able to obtain cross-licenses that small companies cannot in general. Just the fact that they have a huge patent portfolio backed with even more money is a sufficient deterrence to smaller companies: it is like holding a loaded gun to someones head. IBM fully uses this for their profit.
if Diebold has done nothing wrong then they should have nothing to hide, that includes sourcecode, open the sourcecode and allow peer review by experts like those that build BSD & the Linux kernel
Peer review should by done by those that cares about security. For the Linux kernel, security comes after features and performance, so people with the mindset of OpenBSD developers are better for this kind of peer review. Note that there are Linux developers that cares about security, but the Linux community in general seems not to care that much.
In the tests I ran, it wiped the floor with ext2 and (OpenBSD) ffs, especially when extracting lots of small files. I have no idea how it compares to more modern filesystems like XFS, ZFS, etc.
Did you enable "softdep" on the partitions you used (for OpenBSD)? This will give a big boost for some file operations involving many files (like untarring). Note that Linux by default enables async, which OpenBSD does not.
I would like to add that KDE 3.5 starts faster and loads applications quicker than earlier versions, in contrast to some other desktop environment I shall not name. Kudos to the KDE developers to work on this.
The present crisis with regards to North-Korea and nuclear weapons is a result of the Bush administration's extreme hardline policies. Clinton at least made progress, and Bush reneged on deals made with North-Korea. The fact is that North-Korea has very real fears of US agression, and Iraq shows very well what happens if you are percieved as weak by USA.
There have been many warnings during these last years that the extreme hardline policies does not work, and will convince the North-Korean leadership that USA will invade them. Many will blame USA for this, and rightly so.
Clinton had his faults, but Bush and his croonies are maniacs.
> kmail looks good to me too. I'm probably going to eventually switch from Sylpheed to kmail, after I get all my old mail moved from local folders to a local IMAP server.
I started using kmail when it could filter incoming mail on IMAP folders without require Sieve support on the IMAP server. Works pretty well, but has its warts here and there.
> I'm struggling to understand her opening position on this matter (or why such a blatantly pointed statement is considered "news for nerds").
Don't you think that handing out private information to an organization known for torturing and kidnapping people is outragous? Especially since EU citizens have no legal protection at all from US abuse of power?
To make it even more pointed, she could have mentioned that the organization is also running secret prisons around the world.
A useful changelog is not just a list of each and every commit, for that you just use the history log of the repository. A changelog is a compact and informative overview of changes without going into the nitty gritty details.
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The time limits have been extended several times, as I alluded to in my post. I think that the present copy right time limits are far too generous.
Indeed, it also a time limited monopoly not intended to last to the end of days, even though some American corporations tries to make it that way. One of the reason it is a time limited monopoly is in recognition of the fact that science and art is not done in a vacuum but builds upon work and ideas of others.
But it surely will make the bullied thinking about even quoting pieces of the cease-and-desist-letter since who will decide what is fair use? Perhaps the bullied will be bullied with another cease-and-desist letter?
What about George Bush: 'God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq'?
I've been using OpenBSD PF for years and is much better than iptables. There is also a nice, up-to-date User's Guide available as well.
Yeah, several your "founding fathers" where slave owners...
Bingo! But a proper paper trail will make election fraud much more difficult.
I read the Newsweek article but is difficult to believe what "mainstream" media like Newsweek write. Too often they are very wrong and just spout out state propaganda justifying whatever upcoming war.
The "iraq body count" guys are just counting dead listed in press releases.
And only those written in English
Heck, even Microsoft touts Internet Explorer as secure ;-) The touting of Firefox's security by followers are quite less than there used to be, even on Slashdot.
Funny that security is not touted as much as a feature anymore compared to the early Firefox releases.
IBM has a very large patent portfolio and is able to obtain cross-licenses that small companies cannot in general. Just the fact that they have a huge patent portfolio backed with even more money is a sufficient deterrence to smaller companies: it is like holding a loaded gun to someones head. IBM fully uses this for their profit.
Peer review should by done by those that cares about security. For the Linux kernel, security comes after features and performance, so people with the mindset of OpenBSD developers are better for this kind of peer review. Note that there are Linux developers that cares about security, but the Linux community in general seems not to care that much.
Did you enable "softdep" on the partitions you used (for OpenBSD)? This will give a big boost for some file operations involving many files (like untarring). Note that Linux by default enables async, which OpenBSD does not.
I would like to add that KDE 3.5 starts faster and loads applications quicker than earlier versions, in contrast to some other desktop environment I shall not name. Kudos to the KDE developers to work on this.
> So why do they release a new distro, instead of contribing to mWall?
Because they have "radically different goals" than monowall. This is in the second sentence in http://www.pfsense.com/
> have my home e-mail server configured to reject all HTML messages. You'd be surprised how much spam that cuts out...
:-)
If you use spamd in greylisting mode, you will be even more surprised
There have been many warnings during these last years that the extreme hardline policies does not work, and will convince the North-Korean leadership that USA will invade them. Many will blame USA for this, and rightly so.
Clinton had his faults, but Bush and his croonies are maniacs.
> kmail looks good to me too. I'm probably going to eventually switch from Sylpheed to kmail, after I get all my old mail moved from local folders to a local IMAP server.
I started using kmail when it could filter incoming mail on IMAP folders without require Sieve support on the IMAP server. Works pretty well, but has its warts here and there.
> So a few people have to suffer for the good of all. I'd rather be safe than free!
Those saying that always means that someone else has to suffer. The notion of self-sacrifice does not occur to them.
> I'm struggling to understand her opening position on this matter (or why such a blatantly pointed statement is considered "news for nerds").
Don't you think that handing out private information to an organization known for torturing and kidnapping people is outragous? Especially since EU citizens have no legal protection at all from US abuse of power?
To make it even more pointed, she could have mentioned that the organization is also running secret prisons around the world.
A useful changelog is not just a list of each and every commit, for that you just use the history log of the repository. A changelog is a compact and informative overview of changes without going into the nitty gritty details.
Well, they are developing using their own time, so I think they need others to tell them how to spend their own time.
Perhaps "most people" needs to broaden their horizons?