Any body else notice that first poster on SC joined that forum on Dec 31, 2003, has made 1650 posts in about 70 days, and yet is "breaking his self imposed exile" with his yellowstone ravings?
True enough. But if price is no longer an issue, then OSS has the chance to prove itself on its own merits. And if it is the rule that pirated software is being used, then this is a great chance to educate people about the existence of OSS, before spending patterns are ossified. And they will be ossified, eventually.
Second of all, if the market for open source were limited to those who already knew about it, then open source could not grow.
Third, it seems clear to me that if officially registered software is, as a rule, not used, then open source would indeed have a great opportunity here.
I forgot how libertarian/. is. The problem is, the web does not exist in a vacuum, but within a series of societies. Like it or not, you must expect that these societies will demand certain things of the net. This is reality.
I understand the distinctions that you are trying to make, but I respectfully disagree. The only qualification I need to make is to limit my claims to jurisdictions within which private possession of an image of child abuse is a criminal act, which, for instance, is the case in the USA, and most (if not all) of Europe.
And it is not emotional to point out the obvious: if you sell the web as a place where such criminal acts are tolerated, then you are begging for some sort of greater regulation, whatever that maybe.
"We allow images of consensual sex in our cinemas, but not images of bestiality or child abuse. Why should the net be any different?" My personal answer: because the internet should not be another TV or cinema, it should be a free, user-as-peer and user-controllable media; a "reversible" media, as Baudrillard would put it; not user-as-consumer.
D you not realize how idiotic your reply is? You are actually begging them to regulate it, if you think out-loud that it should be a haven for criminal content. You do accept that child abuse is criminal, don't you?
btw, Baudrillard's audience is rapidly shrinking to lit-crit departments, and those who find the Matrix to be philosophical. His chief use to scholarship is to provide the muddle-headed with clever sounding catchphrases that can be bandied about with abandon.
My bet is that you are a troll. Giving up privacy, even incrementally, has nothing to do with an increase in your security. To the contrary, it is to create a state in which the only thing protected is the state.
The funny thing is that the more the state demands from your privacy, the more the state is apt to block access to information on the grounds of state-secrecy.
I find it rather hilarious that you would submit your comments on this trivial BB anonymously, while minimum wage earners are being forced to submit digital copies of parts of their bodies -- forever, mark you -- so that they can earn 5 bucks an hour. So that they can work with the worst customers in the world. So that they can someday become manager of a fast food joint (if they have ambition). So that... You don't even have the guts to put a username between you and your opinions, but you have no problem with obviously intrusive systems.
If you consider data to be simply data, then of course you are right. A palm is no different a medium of information than is a swipe card (which you no doubt use everyday). But if you don't see the difference between a swipe card that you can leave behind when you are not working, and a part of your body, then I wonder about your humanity.
This is bad news for workers in the service industry, since McDs always leads the technological way, and sets the de facto working standards. Moreover, let's not forget that McDs is not above snooping; for instance, they infiltrated the London branch of Greenpeace from 1989-1991 (they actually employed two competing detective agencies!).
usually when lyrics are printed, the booklet says something like "used by permission." this does not mean that nobody is getting screwed, but at least there is some sort of formal notification of rights being stated.
Heisenberg be damned; the whole project has its own UP; that's why they are predicting, not reporting, an earthquake based on a mass of physical and statistical data.
Perhaps, but don't forget that they must be mentally sound as well, and your post does not take this into account. There is no reason to believe that athletes and game show contestants are more likely to be mentally sound than anyone else. In fact, people who would decide to go to Mars "in a heartbeat" may in fact not be completely mentally sound. They certainly would not be the most reflective people around.
if you live in belgium, then you can give back the parts to electronics dealers, or dispose of them ecologically soundly at a community dump. we pay a small recycling tax on all electronics over here, and that is used for disposal.
ps, this post comes from a p166.
merry xmas, potor
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My work account at my belgian university is filtered by the university, and they do a great job. I used to look at all the mail they filtered, and found that, after a year, they never filtered out anything valuable. So now I have the mail deleted from the server, and I never see it. About three or four messages get through the filter and in to my inbox every day, but that's no problem.
I also have an account on a free internet mail service with pop3 compatibility, which i use for web registrations, etc. I never get spam there, which is why i do not list the service on this forum. And I am quite free in using this address; for instance, it is listed on my fark users page.
However, many people don't, especially if it's an item (like an iPod) that they could easily say that they owned it before hand.
i realize that you qualify this claim, but one still has to prove that one owned the item before leaving canada. the official way to do this is to bring the item to a customs office and have them officially note the item; they give you a green card proving ownership. without this, you are stuck...
my friend, malware is wider concept than the concepts of virus and worm.
perhaps you missed this sentence, which is not only the leader, but also in bold:
A computer scientist at Washington University in St. Louis has developed technology to stop malicious software - malware - such as viruses and worms long before it has a chance to reach computers in the home and office.
"such as" does not limit the set of target programs to viruses and worms; in fact, it expands the set beyond them. it just so happens that the article only talks about them.
Indeed. Funny how malware does not seem to infest products we actually pay for. The desire to find free software leads us to download products that are more and more iffy. The key is not detecting malware, for malware will always be one step ahead. The key is carefully screening what we will download, searching out reviews, reading the EULA before the install, and basically being intelligent.
I am not against freeware -- far from it. However, I would say that there is freeware addiction out there that opens the doors to malware. Moreover, I am not against this product; it will certainly be helpful. Yet, those who put their trust in yet another algorithm will certainly get bit again, albeit in some other way.
you're right; there is no etymological relation, but Martial seems to use volatus (volatu)as appositive to praecipens (praecipiti), ie. rushing head-long. See Epirgram 11, verse 91, line 9.
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Any body else notice that first poster on SC joined that forum on Dec 31, 2003, has made 1650 posts in about 70 days, and yet is "breaking his self imposed exile" with his yellowstone ravings?
cheers, potor
Second of all, if the market for open source were limited to those who already knew about it, then open source could not grow.
Third, it seems clear to me that if officially registered software is, as a rule, not used, then open source would indeed have a great opportunity here.
Der Soldat ist was er isst.
I forgot how libertarian /. is. The problem is, the web does not exist in a vacuum, but within a series of societies. Like it or not, you must expect that these societies will demand certain things of the net. This is reality.
And it is not emotional to point out the obvious: if you sell the web as a place where such criminal acts are tolerated, then you are begging for some sort of greater regulation, whatever that maybe.
btw, Baudrillard's audience is rapidly shrinking to lit-crit departments, and those who find the Matrix to be philosophical. His chief use to scholarship is to provide the muddle-headed with clever sounding catchphrases that can be bandied about with abandon.
My bet is that you are a troll. Giving up privacy, even incrementally, has nothing to do with an increase in your security. To the contrary, it is to create a state in which the only thing protected is the state.
The funny thing is that the more the state demands from your privacy, the more the state is apt to block access to information on the grounds of state-secrecy.
If you consider data to be simply data, then of course you are right. A palm is no different a medium of information than is a swipe card (which you no doubt use everyday). But if you don't see the difference between a swipe card that you can leave behind when you are not working, and a part of your body, then I wonder about your humanity.
This is bad news for workers in the service industry, since McDs always leads the technological way, and sets the de facto working standards. Moreover, let's not forget that McDs is not above snooping; for instance, they infiltrated the London branch of Greenpeace from 1989-1991 (they actually employed two competing detective agencies!).
usually when lyrics are printed, the booklet says something like "used by permission." this does not mean that nobody is getting screwed, but at least there is some sort of formal notification of rights being stated.
Heisenberg be damned; the whole project has its own UP; that's why they are predicting, not reporting, an earthquake based on a mass of physical and statistical data.
Sugar Hill Gang are certainly old school, but they weren't innovators. That's not to say I don't appreciate them.
cheers, potor
cheers, potor
orthography is not the same as grammar.
if you live in belgium, then you can give back the parts to electronics dealers, or dispose of them ecologically soundly at a community dump. we pay a small recycling tax on all electronics over here, and that is used for disposal. ps, this post comes from a p166. merry xmas, potor
I also have an account on a free internet mail service with pop3 compatibility, which i use for web registrations, etc. I never get spam there, which is why i do not list the service on this forum. And I am quite free in using this address; for instance, it is listed on my fark users page.
cheers, potor
i am confused; you "don't work the retail channel" and yet you explain what it is like to deal with ignorant low-end computer customers?
cheers, potor
I am not against freeware -- far from it. However, I would say that there is freeware addiction out there that opens the doors to malware. Moreover, I am not against this product; it will certainly be helpful. Yet, those who put their trust in yet another algorithm will certainly get bit again, albeit in some other way.
cheers, potor
I agree to a limited extent; my walkmans do break, but not my excellent stereo component deck. I love Maxell XLII 90s.
contrary to the beeb article, lee will not be boycotting the premier. check lee's website, which is now /.'d.
you're right; there is no etymological relation, but Martial seems to use volatus (volatu)as appositive to praecipens (praecipiti), ie. rushing head-long. See Epirgram 11, verse 91, line 9.