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  1. Re:Sugar is toxic on Is Sugar Toxic? · · Score: 1

    You don't need gallons of pure vinegar to kill yourself. Most anything you can buy is heavily diluted to avoid this problem.

  2. Re:It's complete bullshit on Is Sugar Toxic? · · Score: 1

    Ultimately, it's still about nothing more than the math and your own strength of will.

    You seem to have the human body all figured out. So how does one heal cancer with math and willpower?

  3. Re:no GPL issue with tivoization on GPL Violations By D-Link and Boxee · · Score: 1

    You can get damages for prior violations, and prevent distribution or force compliance with terms for the future.

    I understand this. What I meant is that I don't think ceasing future distribution is enough to satisfy the forgiveness part of the GPLv3 which would restore distribution rights. Yes, it's copyright you'd have to deal with, that is just how GPL works, but if you actually repair the violation you can avoid that end of the stick too.

  4. Re:Reasonable expectations on GPL Violations By D-Link and Boxee · · Score: 1

    so why do people think they have a "right" to run modified code on a proprietary computer system?

    Because the proprietor doesn't have the "right" to distribute GPLv3 code without following the terms of the license.

  5. Re:no GPL issue with tivoization on GPL Violations By D-Link and Boxee · · Score: 1

    The GPLv3 isn't entirely clear on this, but I suspect "ceasing all violation" might mean that you have to honor the terms of license for existing distribution. Otherwise you could violate for a while, make your profit and be clear 60 days after.

  6. Re:No GPL-3 software means no violation on GPL Violations By D-Link and Boxee · · Score: 1

    Well if it's only in the default firmware, it's like they didn't distribute at all! Right? Right?

  7. Re:Smokin' on Hypertext Creator: Structure of the Web 'Completely Wrong' · · Score: 1
    The internet as we know it is highly decentralized and barely restricted, just about anyone can connect a device a device and do whatever as long as they don't cause significant interference. And while "the internet" is highly available, individual nodes are anybodies guess. A system that relies on the availability of a large number of individual nodes to render pages (or whatever you want to call them) will have to deal with that.

    And perhaps more importantly, what is the "problem" in the first place?

    You are positioning a problem to be solved.

    Which is not "Amazon", "eBay" or dial-a-wank porn sites. But frankly, they're just business ; you're welcome to them.

    Good news, Facebook is fast picking up all the juicy bits of Xanadu: information (on the users anyway) is well categorized, you can interlink like crazy since it's all under one umbrella, everyone is unique and authenticated, etc. How about *you* keep the walled garden and we keep the crappy, non-visionary, hacked together WWW?

  8. Re:Yawn on Hypertext Creator: Structure of the Web 'Completely Wrong' · · Score: 1

    Spam? Gone, because it could be backtraced to its original secured source and either be filtered, or allowed legal action to be taken.

    Great Firewall? Gone for the same reason...

  9. Re:Small example of our archaic operating systems on Hypertext Creator: Structure of the Web 'Completely Wrong' · · Score: 1

    Maybe people just don't want unexpected dependency problems? Nah, that's just silly.

  10. Re:Smokin' on Hypertext Creator: Structure of the Web 'Completely Wrong' · · Score: 1

    This is an uninteresting administrative issue.

    No, it's a core design issue for anything used on the internet. If you just want to run Xanadu on your LAN and have an isolated cluster of information then you are correct. Of course that doesn't require massive PR campaigns, it requires a deployable

    The gap between the "semantic" storage and communication of ideas and "document-based" storage and communication of ideas is ... "wide" is not enough, "gaping" or "yawning" (as in "abyss") might be better.

    No, that is the gap between the pipedream of a WWW replacement and something that can actually cope with a net that is not under the control of one or a few monolith gatekeepers.

    BTW, if you don't like it, feel free to propose something better yourself.

    Suggesting something better then infeasible? Just about anything we have can cope with outages and removed sites better, so I propose we continue onwards to HTML5, since it is better suited for the internet as we know it.

  11. Re:Curious on Next-Gen Low-Latency Open Codec Beats HE-AAC · · Score: 1

    I searched around with that a little and this says that since 1.1 everything is encrypted: http://sourceforge.net/blog/potm-200911/

  12. Re:Um, she says borrowing a CD/DVD is ok ... on NZ MP Enjoys Copyright Infringement, Votes For 3 Strikes · · Score: 1

    How about you don't get all snarky on people with literal interpretations of a law that isn't interpreted literally by the courts then?

  13. Re:Um, she says borrowing a CD/DVD is ok ... on NZ MP Enjoys Copyright Infringement, Votes For 3 Strikes · · Score: 1

    Downloads are not CDs though, which "files" strongly implies. If you make the mix-CD out of your own CDs you'd have to loan those as well as deleting copies you've made so as to not retain a copy.

  14. Re:Um, she says borrowing a CD/DVD is ok ... on NZ MP Enjoys Copyright Infringement, Votes For 3 Strikes · · Score: 1
    I'll just repeat. This is what you actually claimed:

    Again, copyright infringement involves violation of the limitations on the right to make a copy. No copy of the DVD made, no copyright infringement.

    Not that lending wasn't covered, no, that nothing outside of copying was. And yes, lending (for a fee) is actually covered under copyright laws in some (many?) jurisdictions, but please feel free to say that you clearly only meant the specific instance when making general claims, just like you are now.

  15. Re:The Xanadu Project? on Hypertext Creator: Structure of the Web 'Completely Wrong' · · Score: 1

    Not unless 99% of the complexity was optional...

  16. Re:WTF? on Hypertext Creator: Structure of the Web 'Completely Wrong' · · Score: 1

    Not to mention guaranteed availability of all referenced content. That is what actually makes it impossible to do well.

  17. Re:Smokin' on Hypertext Creator: Structure of the Web 'Completely Wrong' · · Score: 2

    Assuming they host an older version. Hell, assuming they are up.

  18. Re:Um, she says borrowing a CD/DVD is ok ... on NZ MP Enjoys Copyright Infringement, Votes For 3 Strikes · · Score: 1

    I doubt the ISP will have a complete log of what you actually copied. We've seen false positives with DMCA takedown notices, there will be basically no protection against that here. Realistically a claim is all that they need.

  19. Re:Um, she says borrowing a CD/DVD is ok ... on NZ MP Enjoys Copyright Infringement, Votes For 3 Strikes · · Score: 1
    And both of them are different from copying:

    Again, copyright infringement involves violation of the limitations on the right to make a copy. No copy of the DVD made, no copyright infringement.

    Backpedal away.

  20. Re:Um, she says borrowing a CD/DVD is ok ... on NZ MP Enjoys Copyright Infringement, Votes For 3 Strikes · · Score: 1

    Even if you delete all your copies, if the license (what you actually buy) prohibits transfer of itself you are out of luck.

  21. Re:Um, she says borrowing a CD/DVD is ok ... on NZ MP Enjoys Copyright Infringement, Votes For 3 Strikes · · Score: 1

    There is the small mater of having to bring evidence for a negative. "I didn't download that" presumably doesn't count as evidence.

  22. Re:Um, she says borrowing a CD/DVD is ok ... on NZ MP Enjoys Copyright Infringement, Votes For 3 Strikes · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough, showing a movie to 100 people doesn't involve any copying either. Want to try that with the copyright argument on a judge?

  23. Re:HE-AAC is worse than LE-AAC in terms of quality on Next-Gen Low-Latency Open Codec Beats HE-AAC · · Score: 1

    More evidence that FLOSS only copies and can't innovate!

  24. Re:HE-AAC is worse than LE-AAC in terms of quality on Next-Gen Low-Latency Open Codec Beats HE-AAC · · Score: 1

    Doesn't the test linked in the summary put Vorbis almost up to par with Nero's encoder? With both of them smoking AAC-LC?

  25. Re:Curious on Next-Gen Low-Latency Open Codec Beats HE-AAC · · Score: 1

    It sounds a ton better if nothing else. Though I have never been able to figure out if mumble actually encrypts the voice data, or just uses SSL for authentication...