But...If you had left your door open and somebody did come in and steal stuff, the actual coming in the house is not a crime! They would not get charged with breaking and entering because there was no breaking involved. So, the only thing left to be charged with is theft. Yes, someone who takes something from your house is stealing...but is making a digital copy of a movie stealing? The studios still have their own copy, unharmed.
I just finished reading "Uriel's Machine" by Robert Lomas and Christopher Knight (an awesome read) that talks about this very incident, and comes to the exact same conclusion...and it was published in 1998. Its actually a great book if you are interested in learning more about the theory that a comet impact on Earth caused Noah's flood, and every other cataclysmic flood talked about in ancient religions. It provides some sources for the basis of it's hypothesis, as well.
It really is too bad that the US isn't a democracy, or else that would work! Its a REPUBLIC, which means our founding fathers thought us too stupid to govern ourselves, and thought we should appoint the richest, most "educated" percent of the population to govern all. So next time somebody says "But we're a DEMOCRACY!", remember that we live in a country where the people are little more but peasants to the will of the congressional members.
What is to prevent AOL from starting a new, tiny company outside of the US, lets say, called AIM Inc., and then sell the copyrights/trademarks used in AIM, as well as the ownership of the patents or whatever of the Oscar protocol, and ownership of the AIM network to this dummy company? All for, lets say, $2? Is there something illegal about this? Then this company would not be forced by the Fascist US Government (FUG) to open up its own network to other companies at no expense to the "competitors". I am just curious, as it seems the only way to avoid the US Government's total lack of understanding of the internet and its global scale, as well as its fascist grip on controlling anything within reach.
How could the French government enforce anything on a US-based company, with (erm, I think) US based servers? I see that Yahoo has http://www.yahoo.fr, so the French could shut that down, and then their people would be forced to, oh no!, got to http://www.yahoo.com. The US government does not pursue Holland-based marijuana seed distributors in US court because the seeds are illegal in the States, even though they are sold online, they just prosecute anyone caught with them in the US.
I say Yahoo should just ignore the French. There is nothing the French government can do to Yahoo. Am I just misinformed? If there is something I am missing, someone please reply and correct me.
Some friends at work recently got back from a MS Developers Conference where they handed out CD's with Visual Studio 7.0 beta and a full version of Windows 2000 Professional (since Visual Studio 7.0 will only run on Windows 2000 Pro.) I loaded it up, read throught the C# book that was included, and was impressed.
C# is highly typed, so you don't spend hours looking through code trying to find a type mismatch.
It is early binding instead of late binding, meaning it is quicker! With Java (late binding), a file search and enumeration of 8000 files on our servers here at work took an hour and a half, and 50000 files with a C(early binding) app took 4 minutes, so C# takes the best of both. Also, because it is early binding, you don't have to worry about references to non-existant objects, when you are using DLL's for instance. C# automatically loads and reviews the routines contained in a DLL automatically, before compile, so a reference to myDLL. will bringup a popup list of the routines availible in that DLL.
Very cool stuff! It will be interesting to see if it takes over as the new, trendy programming language of 2000/2001, as Java has been for a few years.
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But...If you had left your door open and somebody did come in and steal stuff, the actual coming in the house is not a crime! They would not get charged with breaking and entering because there was no breaking involved. So, the only thing left to be charged with is theft. Yes, someone who takes something from your house is stealing...but is making a digital copy of a movie stealing? The studios still have their own copy, unharmed.
I just finished reading "Uriel's Machine" by Robert Lomas and Christopher Knight (an awesome read) that talks about this very incident, and comes to the exact same conclusion...and it was published in 1998. Its actually a great book if you are interested in learning more about the theory that a comet impact on Earth caused Noah's flood, and every other cataclysmic flood talked about in ancient religions. It provides some sources for the basis of it's hypothesis, as well.
It really is too bad that the US isn't a democracy, or else that would work! Its a REPUBLIC, which means our founding fathers thought us too stupid to govern ourselves, and thought we should appoint the richest, most "educated" percent of the population to govern all. So next time somebody says "But we're a DEMOCRACY!", remember that we live in a country where the people are little more but peasants to the will of the congressional members.
What is to prevent AOL from starting a new, tiny company outside of the US, lets say, called AIM Inc., and then sell the copyrights/trademarks used in AIM, as well as the ownership of the patents or whatever of the Oscar protocol, and ownership of the AIM network to this dummy company? All for, lets say, $2? Is there something illegal about this? Then this company would not be forced by the Fascist US Government (FUG) to open up its own network to other companies at no expense to the "competitors". I am just curious, as it seems the only way to avoid the US Government's total lack of understanding of the internet and its global scale, as well as its fascist grip on controlling anything within reach.
How could the French government enforce anything on a US-based company, with (erm, I think) US based servers? I see that Yahoo has http://www.yahoo.fr, so the French could shut that down, and then their people would be forced to, oh no!, got to http://www.yahoo.com. The US government does not pursue Holland-based marijuana seed distributors in US court because the seeds are illegal in the States, even though they are sold online, they just prosecute anyone caught with them in the US.
I say Yahoo should just ignore the French. There is nothing the French government can do to Yahoo. Am I just misinformed? If there is something I am missing, someone please reply and correct me.
Some friends at work recently got back from a MS Developers Conference where they handed out CD's with Visual Studio 7.0 beta and a full version of Windows 2000 Professional (since Visual Studio 7.0 will only run on Windows 2000 Pro.) I loaded it up, read throught the C# book that was included, and was impressed.
C# is highly typed, so you don't spend hours looking through code trying to find a type mismatch.
It is early binding instead of late binding, meaning it is quicker! With Java (late binding), a file search and enumeration of 8000 files on our servers here at work took an hour and a half, and 50000 files with a C(early binding) app took 4 minutes, so C# takes the best of both. Also, because it is early binding, you don't have to worry about references to non-existant objects, when you are using DLL's for instance. C# automatically loads and reviews the routines contained in a DLL automatically, before compile, so a reference to myDLL. will bringup a popup list of the routines availible in that DLL.
Very cool stuff! It will be interesting to see if it takes over as the new, trendy programming language of 2000/2001, as Java has been for a few years.