The same people who believe the film industry was "rightly" stepping up to stop people from creating derivative works are the people who forget that both the movie creators and the derivative work creator had original ideas and are innovative business people deserving to make a livelihood. If the public wants to buy a cheap little Hondo Civic with plastic crap glued onto it (yeah yeah, you're offended, boohoo) and call it a race car, but you're Honda and you say "hell no" then shouldn't I be allowed to bold plastic crap onto the kids car and let him think he owns a race car? Of course I should.
"But," you say, "the car is the kids, and the movie is the..." well, who *does* own a movie once its shown to you and you remember it? Surely you the public viewer of the movie have some rights to view it in a different format? What if you bought the DVD with a companion kit that replaced the soundtrack?
The only reason Lucas would win this is because it was a public presentation which holds special status (for no good reason). "This film cannot be shown... " blah blah blah. Read that little red screen sometime and laugh as you have your twenty buddies in your living room.
My teachers in H.S. got cease and desists from movie producers for showing educational videos in a classroom.
The real problem with "write once run everywhere" was what Microsoft identified -- you won't necessarily sell the platform people develop on anymore. If people can build or use your API on any platform, its much harder to compete.
I'm sure there are *nix people who get upset when they see WxPython programs for download for Windows too.
Java's a great idea -- I still don't like the language personally:)
We often look at science through a historical lens and too infrequently do we consider how those scientists were seen at their own time.
How was relativity research received at the time? How about the concept of a void? Or the curvature of the Earth?
I'd like to see *all* science treated fairly, I really don't care if its based on a belief that the universe is a billion years old or that a god created it. If you can study it and make hypotheses and try to prove it, its science.
I'm sure there are lots of people out there who think string theory isn't science or that multi-dimensional space isn't "real". I think science has more to do with assisting people's ability to think broadly.
The concept of "thinking well" must be very well defined to not actually act as a form of censorship of science in and of itself.
You've missed a problem a lot of people miss. All the key does is prove that it is it. It doesn't prove that you are you unless it is activated by information only you have or includes write-once information in it about you.
If the key includes digital fingerprint and iris information signed by my private key which I keep in a safe and never reveal, and the public key is signed by a public notary, then we have an identification system.
So we don't like the Taliban because they're totalitarians. They don't like liberal society. As a result of 9/11, America becomes less liberal. Wow, looks like they won people.
Open your eyes and demand your freedom back -- that's the only way to beat them.
That's where my mind went at first too, then I realized that if all children had these, they could validate each other and ignore people who don't have validated ages.
That said, there's now going to be a market for forged identifiers for sale to pedofiles... watch out for the dude trashing the garbage near the school looking for discarded USB devices.
Even better is that somehow Christian Fundamentalist types (I'm in that group) somehow manage to side with a pair of industries (MPAA/RIAA members) who have historically been the most rebellious and counter-culture.
Who thinks its ok to produce music that incites violence against the police? The RIAA of course. Who thinks copying music is bad? The same people... oh wait... hello, McFly?
Its no more proprietary than any other standard -- they even vied for position as the replacement for DVD. Go call up Sony and tell them you want to make some Blu-Ray devices and see what they say.
Nicely said...... PS, go back through Slashdot and read the article about how to secure one's posessions in college and check if the same guy told the dude to just ignore his computer and go screw every girl on campus instead.
I've talked to my friends who have big screen TVs and huge houses and then find out they're a third of a million in debt and feel much happier with my 27" TV from six years ago and my townhouse.
I'd understood originally (before I quit reading IPv6 tech notes in or around 1998) that globally routable IPv6 addresses would be assigned by country, region, locality, ISP, user.
Part of the problem of course comes with mobility of your subnet. If I move my company from one ISP to another in Toronto and I bring my subnet with me now, they just update BGP info. If I want to add another ISP feed, again, they just advertise another segment available.
With IPv6 there are too many small networks that won't be globally routable because the tables would be too big for current routing equipment. That's why we have/19 filters on BGP routers these days (as much as I think that's stupid).
I thought to myself "hey, I can put IPv6 addresses on my LAN" then I realized "hey, I'll never have enough PCs on my LAN to justify not using 10.x.y.z"
Sure, IPv6 has some nice features for LAN use... but, umm, I don't have problems it solves. I want IPv6 for my ISP -- I want a home IP address for my cable modem that is publishable via DNS with something more than a 5 minute expiry.
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Here's a better request:
Find me *every* example of the Patriot Act being used against *actual* terrorists.
Then account for all the other uses.
Done.
The same people who believe the film industry was "rightly" stepping up to stop people from creating derivative works are the people who forget that both the movie creators and the derivative work creator had original ideas and are innovative business people deserving to make a livelihood. If the public wants to buy a cheap little Hondo Civic with plastic crap glued onto it (yeah yeah, you're offended, boohoo) and call it a race car, but you're Honda and you say "hell no" then shouldn't I be allowed to bold plastic crap onto the kids car and let him think he owns a race car? Of course I should.
..." well, who *does* own a movie once its shown to you and you remember it? Surely you the public viewer of the movie have some rights to view it in a different format? What if you bought the DVD with a companion kit that replaced the soundtrack?
... " blah blah blah. Read that little red screen sometime and laugh as you have your twenty buddies in your living room.
"But," you say, "the car is the kids, and the movie is the
The only reason Lucas would win this is because it was a public presentation which holds special status (for no good reason). "This film cannot be shown
My teachers in H.S. got cease and desists from movie producers for showing educational videos in a classroom.
You totally missed the joke there.
;-)
...
"Oh wait, you believe that's a girl" should've given it away.
Give yourself some more time to think about the perv dude on the other side of the keyboard you can't see typing sweet nothings to ya.
Ew
NB. I knew guys in college that logged into chat rooms as girls purposely to make fun of the guys they tricked later
I'd be happier if they bought the Alpha tech from HP/Compaq. I'm sure they'd be happy too ;-)
The real problem with "write once run everywhere" was what Microsoft identified -- you won't necessarily sell the platform people develop on anymore. If people can build or use your API on any platform, its much harder to compete.
:)
I'm sure there are *nix people who get upset when they see WxPython programs for download for Windows too.
Java's a great idea -- I still don't like the language personally
We often look at science through a historical lens and too infrequently do we consider how those scientists were seen at their own time.
How was relativity research received at the time? How about the concept of a void? Or the curvature of the Earth?
I'd like to see *all* science treated fairly, I really don't care if its based on a belief that the universe is a billion years old or that a god created it. If you can study it and make hypotheses and try to prove it, its science.
I'm sure there are lots of people out there who think string theory isn't science or that multi-dimensional space isn't "real". I think science has more to do with assisting people's ability to think broadly.
The concept of "thinking well" must be very well defined to not actually act as a form of censorship of science in and of itself.
You've missed a problem a lot of people miss. All the key does is prove that it is it. It doesn't prove that you are you unless it is activated by information only you have or includes write-once information in it about you.
If the key includes digital fingerprint and iris information signed by my private key which I keep in a safe and never reveal, and the public key is signed by a public notary, then we have an identification system.
Keys without ID information are just keys.
I'm with you ...
So we don't like the Taliban because they're totalitarians. They don't like liberal society. As a result of 9/11, America becomes less liberal. Wow, looks like they won people.
Open your eyes and demand your freedom back -- that's the only way to beat them.
That's where my mind went at first too, then I realized that if all children had these, they could validate each other and ignore people who don't have validated ages.
... watch out for the dude trashing the garbage near the school looking for discarded USB devices.
That said, there's now going to be a market for forged identifiers for sale to pedofiles
You've never used chat ... ... oh wait, you believe that's a girl?
Sorry.
Neither did Spiderman ...
... oh wait ... hello, McFly?
Jeez.
Even better is that somehow Christian Fundamentalist types (I'm in that group) somehow manage to side with a pair of industries (MPAA/RIAA members) who have historically been the most rebellious and counter-culture.
Who thinks its ok to produce music that incites violence against the police? The RIAA of course. Who thinks copying music is bad? The same people
The bill provides for the "not including to family members ... [blah blah] ... copyright owner ... "
It makes a senator who's never used the Internet feel happy and safe with his big pay-off from big music.
They just want to use a good technology they developped in house.
Haven't you followed the news on Blu-Ray?
Personally I'd love to see Sony just use Memory Stick Pro or something for their memory format instead of another proprietary format.
Its no more proprietary than any other standard -- they even vied for position as the replacement for DVD. Go call up Sony and tell them you want to make some Blu-Ray devices and see what they say.
They'll ask for licensing fees and be happy.
Well, yes, I forgot, I am married, and she's got a Slashdot account too ;-).
So yes, I was a lot richer when single and having not had a couple children, but much happier with the family to come home to.
If the editor's user id is smaller than your own, you owe them respect ;-)
... )
Otherwise (as is your case
Actually, Timothy's Slashdot ID is only about half of mine; both five digits though.
How many major medical discoveries in the last 75 years have to do with the Nazi scientists we gave Asylum to in the rest of the western world?
I just got a new Titanium-Ceramic frying pan :)
Nicely said ... ... PS, go back through Slashdot and read the article about how to secure one's posessions in college and check if the same guy told the dude to just ignore his computer and go screw every girl on campus instead.
Yup yup, its that AC dude.
I've talked to my friends who have big screen TVs and huge houses and then find out they're a third of a million in debt and feel much happier with my 27" TV from six years ago and my townhouse.
Part of the high price comes from the inherent difficulties in manufacturing large LCD panels as well. The price differential though is just silly.
Sharp makes several nice VGA/Composite screens that can be used as TVs or monitors.
I'd understood originally (before I quit reading IPv6 tech notes in or around 1998) that globally routable IPv6 addresses would be assigned by country, region, locality, ISP, user.
/19 filters on BGP routers these days (as much as I think that's stupid).
Part of the problem of course comes with mobility of your subnet. If I move my company from one ISP to another in Toronto and I bring my subnet with me now, they just update BGP info. If I want to add another ISP feed, again, they just advertise another segment available.
With IPv6 there are too many small networks that won't be globally routable because the tables would be too big for current routing equipment. That's why we have
I thought to myself "hey, I can put IPv6 addresses on my LAN" then I realized "hey, I'll never have enough PCs on my LAN to justify not using 10.x.y.z"
... but, umm, I don't have problems it solves. I want IPv6 for my ISP -- I want a home IP address for my cable modem that is publishable via DNS with something more than a 5 minute expiry.
Sure, IPv6 has some nice features for LAN use