---Uhhh, XM owns the broadcasting equipment and the frequency that it's carried over (in the US). Opie's right to free speech ends at XMs right to choose who uses their property.
XM does not own the frequency. It is on lease from the FCC for a limited time, pending renewal.
Also, I failed remember about what monopolies on communications networks meant: Because they do have a monopoly, they should be required by law to carry X program if paid for. If we trust them to temporally control a chunk of spectrum, they had better make it worth it to us citizens by allowing content they dont like.
Why isnt a clause like "Will promote the public welfare by obeying the Bill of Rights" in all FCC contracts? It is in our ham manual.
---By that same analogy, should I have the right to spraypaint 'BUSH SUCKS' on all the billboards I can? I mean, it's obviously political speech, something well within normally constitutionally protected bounds.
Bad analogy unless one company owns all billboards. And Billboards arent a chunk of our RF spectrum the last I checked.
---Even if you get offended over this, pick and choose your battles. He didn't even get canned for something he said off the air. XM disagreed with what he did on their airtime, and they had every right to can him. You miss his show? Cancel your subscription.
Thats the rub: I've never heard of this guy, nor have I any inclination to listen to him, nor have I listened to XM/Sirius. I liken this situation to that of a Phone operator (AT&T or like) disconnecting a business because they didnt like what that business does (you name it: pornography, alcohol stores, sex toy shops, phone spammers).
We have here a company who runs "uncensored" channels, buys temporary permission from the FCC, and maintains a corporate charter while revoking free speech (but what I understand, quite disrespectable). That, I see, is the problem.
Even the KKK was able to petition, with the help of the ACLU, to peacefully march in Skokie. Even that trash of a group should be able to have a say in public streets or airwaves.. It would serve to show how disgusting they are, but they still deserve that freedom. What do you think the phrase "I disapprove of what you say, but I defend to the death your right to say it" means? (attributed to Voltaire, but possibly not his work).
---however its blatantly against the intent that the founding fathers and their philosophical influences. The concepts of freedom of speech, religion, and others were only intended to prevent the government from explicitly denying them from the people. It was up to private citizens to form their social relationships however they saw fit, including restrictions on what one could and couldn't do or say.
That isnt quite true. If we look towards the creator of Capitalism, Adam Smith, we see that large governments and corporations were a direct affront to the freedom of capitalism. Instead, Smith saw that if everybody sold and bought from others, it would be an unstoppable market force. In the individual market place, also higher taxes along with tariffs hurt citizens who wished to trade.
Corporate entities in history harms true Capitalism as they do now. That's why Smith was against them.
---A corporation is not part of the government and therefore is not bound by the Bill of Rights. They are only bound by the laws of the government. Corporations do not trample over anyone's rights; they do not have the power to. Laws are what is used to limit corporate power. Use them.
When this Country was created, that was patently not true. Corporations were only created for public good. For example, bridges were created under a limited term corporate charter. After their goal was completed, the corporation charter was dissolved and profits were shared fairly. If a corporate charter broke laws, the managers would be found liable (unlike todays illegal hires) and risked a charter nullification. Check out this if you want to see one source of the many I use.
Perhaps it IS idealism, but I would rather look at it from a standpoint that we did wrong 100 years ago and would want to return to they was we originally handled it. Now that's individualism at its best.
I hate to post to myself, but as Flibberdy said in a close post, I do not agree we should use Auto updates from MS.
Well, what does MS patches do? They patch MS software. I look through my collection and most is GPL'ed and only a few are closed source. The only things MS would patch is Windows itself. Fine, I can accept that... or can I?
What else are the patches doing? I really dont know. in Linux or other unix based systems, I know what's happening or can figure out rather fast. Also, MS has a long history of leaving holes for months/years while rapidly patching "DRM explots". What I might use as a DVD copier now might be deemed as a "Media Exploit" on my XP laptop and patched. I dont consider these types of patches fixes. They break more then they fix.
And logically, what I really care about are remote holes. You all know what I'm talking about: SMB, MS-RPC, and other services that you cant shut off that could lead to remote root condition. And those patches are offered up on an individual basis. I need not snarf the 120 MB Service pack gunk unless some corporate program requires it.
Ive got mod points, but comments are more important than mods.
1. First thing I do is disable all call-home nags from Windows, along with setting my timeserver to something local. As a default configuration, my machine has no need to go to the net. I also free up unused services that gobble ram (desktop switching gunk).
2. I then install any sort of device drivers that I might need. These include for me are: VNC video driver, Daemon Tools (for mounting isos and other images).
3. Then I install AVG and run it as non-resident. I know what to scan and what not to scan, so I target objects that are questionable. I also might download a decent firewall, but I'd like something with the rulesets like ipfw or iptables. I will also get AdAware for busting the few things I might get.
4. Lastly, I then install the utility apps. Thats my biggest time right there. Ill give a list.
a. Open Office b. Firefox, Thunderbird, necessary plugins c. Abiword (much quicker version of "open office") d. portaputty e. XMing f. VNCserver (if I hadn't already installed it) g. Winamp Pre-AOL version h. VideoLAN i. TOR j. Bunch of emulators with plenty-o-roms. NES/SNES/N64/MAME/PSX sure beats 'web games'. k. Azureus/BitTyrant (both really good bittorrent clients and servers) l. Video Codecs and a hacked version of VirtualDub (watching corrupt vids) m. DVD shrink (for sneakernet of a vid I like) n. Possibly Cygwin (mainly for RSYNC and DD for tough to deal with problems). Scripting in a GUI environment doesnt work well. Instead, use VBscript. o. Something to read PDF's. I prefer Ghostscript.
All parts of government are bound by the Bill of Rights.
A corporate charter is a part of government allowing a group of people to be seen as "one".
Therefore, corporations should be bound by the same restrictions that government is.
Another line of thinking is that corporations were allowed to be made for the public good (which is not true, but a popular viewpoint). In this case, is it 'public good' to allow them to trample over citizens' rights?
---Automatically storing files locally with contents and names that are defined remotely is a security risk. It would not be a security breach in itself, but it could create an opportunity to exploit unrelated bugs which would otherwise not be remotely exploitable.
Fair enough. I've heard of exploits that rely upon certain local file names and do "bad things".
Why hasnt there been, to combat the weird file names issue, a browser extension to view history, along with all applicable links to files?
Would it be that hard to create a flat file, and serially link it with "Website name, File" and display this graphically within the browser?
I work at a newly opened Sbux. We had a water quality control guy there for testing of our city water, and while I was talking to him, he explained that some municipalities have too clean of water.
He explained that brewing coffee or tea requires a bit of ions in the water for a better brew, as the coffee can attach to ions and disperse through the drink.
After actually comparing city unfiltered h2o and their filtered h20, the "filtering" is definitely adding large amounts of ions.. At least thats where the salt for the softener goes. I can easily taste super-clean water, and I love that over these designers spring waters.
However, I go back to slightly softened water for french press brewing.
The difference is that you no longer have access to C code. You instead, have access to binary code.
Machine code has very similar patterns of loops and data handlers, and can be stepped through them instruction by instruction.
If there is a "bad" check, one can load the stack and crash the buffer, writing on executable code. The gunk you used to crash the buffer happens to execute properly as if you wrote it.
Or do you think source code is needed for No-CD patches, or the newest crack for Adobe software or 3DSMax?
He would have your beleagured Stephen Hawking dead. He is a 9/11 apologist. He hates different religions because they ARE different (And muslim, but thats aside the point).
I do have one idea: The ground from the wire was not absolute ground. If it was relative ground, and linked to absolute ground, it would, for sure, crash the machine.
Magic sparks fly when you hook up on a TV the chassis ground with the "ground plug" ground.
---i think a lot of people here are simply arguing semantics. creditright? wtf? let's just make up a new word because we don't understand the old one.
That is one of the bad things about English: words do get lost in translation or are never properly ported to our vernacular.
---and, let's abolish copyright and make up something entirely new and different, like say... droit d'auteur! i don't understand frênçh, but that sounds totally cool, and it's completely original !
Rather than the "cool" aspect, renaming something like Copyright a nonsensical name removes any emotional atttachment on the old name. After that, we can then proceed to argue more clearly.
---the bottom line is: if you talk about how much you love gpl, then turn around and download spider-man 3, then you are a hypocrite. agree/disagree?
We can focus on many different values or changing situations, but I prefer something a bit different. I ask myself these questions...
1. If I copy this, who do I hurt?
(Some will call it duplicitous morals, but those of humongous companies dont mind jipping their own people. I dont care about them. However, I do support the small studios and independents, in that I would miss them if they couldnt afford to survive)
2. Have they created quality media prior to this?
(The last thing I wish to do is run somebody into bankruptcy if they are a valuable member of the creating arts. If I value them, I will pay. If, instead, they leech on the public domain without return, or act in general plain revolting to citizens, I will have no compunction to let them rot. In essence, have they proved their worth?)
Rules under GPL is a sort of optional, selectable commune that one can readily remove themselves from. If you want to bask in the fruits of others, you will also share what you have created with our help. At any time, one can drop the GPL, but one must also drop their derivatives. There is always commercial software. You do not accept Copyright, in so much that is the default license mandated by the government. The GPL is the substitution allowed by law that allows one to use freely under terms of contract.
Downloading a movie (ex. Spider Man 3) constitutes a copyright violation. There is no other license to fall back on, nor do they offer statutory copyright payments. Downloading a movie that is currently in the theater without watching said movie is immoral if you like the show. I would like to buy a copy of the show when I go to the theaters, but that is not "allowed" by purely profit-based constraints.
Later on, when it comes to HD media, is it also immoral to download it if you cannot crack the key? By evidence from the majority of/.'ers and Diggers, no, its not.
Even later on if the show is on broadcast TV, is it immoral to copy it to DVD from broadcast stream? I dont think so either.
You can argue my morals and ethics of why or why not so, but the argument is clear: There are millions of people sharing their collections. They all know it is "wrong", but they do it anyways. The majority has spoken about copyrights and is against them. There is no congress(wo)man running anti-copyright or reform-copyright. There are no representatives for the people in this regard, so we must make our collective voice clear.
You live in Providence (most likely RI). I used to live there LONG AGO...
You work for a medial equipment manufacturer.
You have low ethics, as probably would your employer.
I surmise you work for Afferent Corporation on 275 Westminster St. The phone number is (401) 453-9933.
It is based in Providence, and due to the lack of polish on the website, it is a "low brow" company. I compare that to, say Boston Scientific.
Oh well... Guess I'll leave it to be if somebody wants to alert the BSA about this and get slashdot's logs. The BSA does seem rather crazy in how they fight for people to make confessions like this.
My old high school had many hidden rooms and forgotten doors that I found. I was a bandie so we had free range of the school during breaks in marching band.
Our school was a double decker with a pure figure 8 on the bottom with extra fingers, and a partial figure 8 on the 2'nd floor. There were 4 basements, none of which were connected, and 1 that was completely forgotten about (you had to go to the courtyard of one of the figure 8's and then go down an external set of stairs).
I would have LOVED having our school as a Unreal map, considering it was really cool topology and all.
But I was accused of being a loner and was dragged in as a "Crazy bomber". Some dumb fucks said I was doing bomb testing in our back yard. The sheriff came around asking permission to look outside. We said go ahead. After that, the sheriff laughed his ass off. We successfully sued the school over defamation of name.
Last thing I needed is being known to have the map of the school in a first person shooter.
---Good challenge. BTW, you don't need 18 rounds, you need 17 because there's no need to check the floor 99 after you've checked 98.
Admitted. I was considering a 100 floor test to make sure the marbles BREAK at floor 100 (you know, "marble" ball bearings). Just to make sure, I'll retest here..
I thought it at first, but we cannot assume breaks because we ARE dealing with engineers. They do funky stuff. We need to check them veeery carefully.
---However, I believe you missed one important issue. In order for the solution to be efficient, it's not important how many rounds you do but how many floors you have to walk up and down.
Its illegal for buildings these days not to have elevators because of that nice law ADA. Therefore, I dismissed that consideration.
But not to dismiss your (very true) concern, what would be the best proportion for Drop/stair_step ? That would change the whole algorithm completely.
I was thinking something a bit different about the marble problem (I love logic puzzles).
1. Drop marble A on 1'st floor. Also drop marble B at 10'th floor. 2. If marble A breaks, answer is floor 1. If ONLY marble 10 breaks, the floor is from 2 to 10. Test with remaining good marble. 3. If neither breaks, switch marble tests to 11 and 20. 4. Retest # 2 but in appropiate tested floors.
If floor 99 was the target, my test would only take 18 rounds (or 28 total marble drops). Your method of go up by 3, would take 35 tests.
I've yet to get even a bachelors degree (and Im studying for chemistry at that).
And well, it seems my opinions are not valued here. I dont like communism, nor do I like capitalism, for both the very same reasons.
Both eventually lead to the reduction of my ownership. Communism just doesnt play pretend, and never grant ownership.
Capitalism in our country lead to corporatism. This in turn has lead to the rental of many objects, including our very house, vehicle, and other smaller items. When you cant pay house rents, where do you place your "stuff"? Thats right.. your car. But more likely these days, if you default on one thing, interest goes up drastically so you cant pay for anything else either.
Corporate capitalism leads to the same result that communism leads to: the loss of ownership of vital resources.
---... even if his argument lacks weigh (for example, I own everything of "mine" but the structure I live in - even that will change, minus mortgage, in a month or too)
True that my argument does lack weight. I dont do in depth research for a slashdot post, nor would I expect anybody else to do the same. I would have just hoped that others of the "intelligent" community could see eye-to-eye and argue on a fair platform rather than -1'ing me to obscurity. Just goes to show that Sturgeons Law is true, even when talking about people.
I do appreciate it when you do understand my (not very well explained) point. Thank you.
---American "capitalism" is about as close to the capitalist ideal as soviet communism was to the communist ideal. That is to say, not very. For starters, america has ever stronger and further reaching patent and copyright monopoly laws - despite propagandists describing these as intellectual "property", they are antithetical to real free-market capitalism at least.
You know what's sad? Most Americans wouldnt get that. Those of us who grew up during that time saw the footage of the breadlines and whatnot. We think communism as 2 countries: Russia and Cuba.
---And given America's current state, it's painfully clear to an outside observer (I'm in the EU) that, no, American style capitalism doesn't work - America's heading for a fall, and it'll be a big one (the trick for us europeans would be not getting dragged down with you idiots).
It started when I was in economics class in the university (last semester) when I asked the hard questions. "Why do corporations continually destroy the environment?" My answer was that the environment wasnt factored in gains/losses on the corporate bottom line. In order for the local environment to matter, one would have to charge for breathable air, potable water, and such requirement for life.
How to avoid the future collapse: Do as China does. Build your own infrastructure and build your own factories and rely on external places less. If the USA does collapse, the EU could become the next United States (just not "of America").
---In communism the state owns everything. Therefore you own 0%, which is a much lower rate than under coporate capitalism.
I agree completely with the first part. However, I do not agree with the "much lower rate" comment.
One may start out with a much lower rate of "other-ownership" with corporate capitalism, but once the ball starts rolling, the ownership climbs back to the top. Instead of having one entity owning everything, you have a few companies (which usually go back to bankers and loaning institutions) racking back up the money and lost property.
In Communism, you never had it. In corporate capitalism, you once had it but are now "renting" it. Either way, you dont have it.
---In communism, one owner owns everything. We call this a monopoly.
And that owner is the government. In non-corrupt commune based countries, that means it belongs to the people.
---Under coporate capitalism, I can choose between several coporations to sell my soul to.
That sounds like an oligopoly. My point is that once things are under the rental agreement, it removes Ownership, which was paramount to being free.
---Even better, I can choose to sell just parts of my soul to various coporations instead of being force to sell 100% of my soul to one state monopoly.
Then, I guess this is an exercise on determining either corporations or the state is worse. I'm just dead set that rules set forth indicate that they're equal.
Go to school and skip deposition. Go to deposition and skip school.
Skipping a deposition is illegal in that the judge can "punish" you with jail time. Skipping school is illegal to truancy laws and can be punished with... jail time.
Best recourse: petition a judge for deposition for Saturday so that it doesnt conflict with local truancy laws.... if you want the deposition in the first place.
Communism instills ownership of the state on all tangible assets. Corporatism instills that ownership is of the corporation via all applicable tools to do so.
Ask yourself this: How much stuff do you OWN (not rent, borrow, lease, or other keywords) ?
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---Uhhh, XM owns the broadcasting equipment and the frequency that it's carried over (in the US). Opie's right to free speech ends at XMs right to choose who uses their property.
XM does not own the frequency. It is on lease from the FCC for a limited time, pending renewal.
Also, I failed remember about what monopolies on communications networks meant: Because they do have a monopoly, they should be required by law to carry X program if paid for. If we trust them to temporally control a chunk of spectrum, they had better make it worth it to us citizens by allowing content they dont like.
Why isnt a clause like "Will promote the public welfare by obeying the Bill of Rights" in all FCC contracts? It is in our ham manual.
---By that same analogy, should I have the right to spraypaint 'BUSH SUCKS' on all the billboards I can? I mean, it's obviously political speech, something well within normally constitutionally protected bounds.
Bad analogy unless one company owns all billboards. And Billboards arent a chunk of our RF spectrum the last I checked.
---Even if you get offended over this, pick and choose your battles. He didn't even get canned for something he said off the air. XM disagreed with what he did on their airtime, and they had every right to can him. You miss his show? Cancel your subscription.
Thats the rub: I've never heard of this guy, nor have I any inclination to listen to him, nor have I listened to XM/Sirius. I liken this situation to that of a Phone operator (AT&T or like) disconnecting a business because they didnt like what that business does (you name it: pornography, alcohol stores, sex toy shops, phone spammers).
We have here a company who runs "uncensored" channels, buys temporary permission from the FCC, and maintains a corporate charter while revoking free speech (but what I understand, quite disrespectable). That, I see, is the problem.
Even the KKK was able to petition, with the help of the ACLU, to peacefully march in Skokie. Even that trash of a group should be able to have a say in public streets or airwaves.. It would serve to show how disgusting they are, but they still deserve that freedom. What do you think the phrase "I disapprove of what you say, but I defend to the death your right to say it" means? (attributed to Voltaire, but possibly not his work).
---I admire your idealism,
Thanks.
---however its blatantly against the intent that the founding fathers and their philosophical influences. The concepts of freedom of speech, religion, and others were only intended to prevent the government from explicitly denying them from the people. It was up to private citizens to form their social relationships however they saw fit, including restrictions on what one could and couldn't do or say.
That isnt quite true. If we look towards the creator of Capitalism, Adam Smith, we see that large governments and corporations were a direct affront to the freedom of capitalism. Instead, Smith saw that if everybody sold and bought from others, it would be an unstoppable market force. In the individual market place, also higher taxes along with tariffs hurt citizens who wished to trade.
Corporate entities in history harms true Capitalism as they do now. That's why Smith was against them.
---A corporation is not part of the government and therefore is not bound by the Bill of Rights. They are only bound by the laws of the government. Corporations do not trample over anyone's rights; they do not have the power to. Laws are what is used to limit corporate power. Use them.
When this Country was created, that was patently not true. Corporations were only created for public good. For example, bridges were created under a limited term corporate charter. After their goal was completed, the corporation charter was dissolved and profits were shared fairly. If a corporate charter broke laws, the managers would be found liable (unlike todays illegal hires) and risked a charter nullification. Check out this if you want to see one source of the many I use.
Perhaps it IS idealism, but I would rather look at it from a standpoint that we did wrong 100 years ago and would want to return to they was we originally handled it. Now that's individualism at its best.
I hate to post to myself, but as Flibberdy said in a close post, I do not agree we should use Auto updates from MS.
Well, what does MS patches do? They patch MS software. I look through my collection and most is GPL'ed and only a few are closed source. The only things MS would patch is Windows itself. Fine, I can accept that... or can I?
What else are the patches doing? I really dont know. in Linux or other unix based systems, I know what's happening or can figure out rather fast. Also, MS has a long history of leaving holes for months/years while rapidly patching "DRM explots". What I might use as a DVD copier now might be deemed as a "Media Exploit" on my XP laptop and patched. I dont consider these types of patches fixes. They break more then they fix.
And logically, what I really care about are remote holes. You all know what I'm talking about: SMB, MS-RPC, and other services that you cant shut off that could lead to remote root condition. And those patches are offered up on an individual basis. I need not snarf the 120 MB Service pack gunk unless some corporate program requires it.
I'd say that is inadequate.
Ive got mod points, but comments are more important than mods.
1. First thing I do is disable all call-home nags from Windows, along with setting my timeserver to something local. As a default configuration, my machine has no need to go to the net. I also free up unused services that gobble ram (desktop switching gunk).
2. I then install any sort of device drivers that I might need. These include for me are: VNC video driver, Daemon Tools (for mounting isos and other images).
3. Then I install AVG and run it as non-resident. I know what to scan and what not to scan, so I target objects that are questionable. I also might download a decent firewall, but I'd like something with the rulesets like ipfw or iptables. I will also get AdAware for busting the few things I might get.
4. Lastly, I then install the utility apps. Thats my biggest time right there. Ill give a list.
a. Open Office
b. Firefox, Thunderbird, necessary plugins
c. Abiword (much quicker version of "open office")
d. portaputty
e. XMing
f. VNCserver (if I hadn't already installed it)
g. Winamp Pre-AOL version
h. VideoLAN
i. TOR
j. Bunch of emulators with plenty-o-roms. NES/SNES/N64/MAME/PSX sure beats 'web games'.
k. Azureus/BitTyrant (both really good bittorrent clients and servers)
l. Video Codecs and a hacked version of VirtualDub (watching corrupt vids)
m. DVD shrink (for sneakernet of a vid I like)
n. Possibly Cygwin (mainly for RSYNC and DD for tough to deal with problems). Scripting in a GUI environment doesnt work well. Instead, use VBscript.
o. Something to read PDF's. I prefer Ghostscript.
Thats it in a nutshell.
Who exactly approves the corporate charter?
The government approves the corporate charter.
All parts of government are bound by the Bill of Rights.
A corporate charter is a part of government allowing a group of people to be seen as "one".
Therefore, corporations should be bound by the same restrictions that government is.
Another line of thinking is that corporations were allowed to be made for the public good (which is not true, but a popular viewpoint). In this case, is it 'public good' to allow them to trample over citizens' rights?
I love the noir element in the first movie...
Which ended with Shredder falling into a dump truck, and Casey pulling the "Compact" lever... "Whoops".
---Automatically storing files locally with contents and names that are defined remotely is a security risk. It would not be a security breach in itself, but it could create an opportunity to exploit unrelated bugs which would otherwise not be remotely exploitable.
Fair enough. I've heard of exploits that rely upon certain local file names and do "bad things".
Why hasnt there been, to combat the weird file names issue, a browser extension to view history, along with all applicable links to files?
Would it be that hard to create a flat file, and serially link it with "Website name, File" and display this graphically within the browser?
I work at a newly opened Sbux. We had a water quality control guy there for testing of our city water, and while I was talking to him, he explained that some municipalities have too clean of water.
He explained that brewing coffee or tea requires a bit of ions in the water for a better brew, as the coffee can attach to ions and disperse through the drink.
After actually comparing city unfiltered h2o and their filtered h20, the "filtering" is definitely adding large amounts of ions.. At least thats where the salt for the softener goes. I can easily taste super-clean water, and I love that over these designers spring waters.
However, I go back to slightly softened water for french press brewing.
And yet, an ampule of pure morphine costs to produce along with profit about 50 cents.
At least thats what my good friend and anesthesiologist said.
Thats patently false.
The difference is that you no longer have access to C code. You instead, have access to binary code.
Machine code has very similar patterns of loops and data handlers, and can be stepped through them instruction by instruction.
If there is a "bad" check, one can load the stack and crash the buffer, writing on executable code. The gunk you used to crash the buffer happens to execute properly as if you wrote it.
Or do you think source code is needed for No-CD patches, or the newest crack for Adobe software or 3DSMax?
the troll (me) says....
FEED MEE!!!
Warning. CTS is a loon.
He would have your beleagured Stephen Hawking dead. He is a 9/11 apologist. He hates different religions because they ARE different (And muslim, but thats aside the point).
And he's making a dumb movie. hurrah.
The Most Amazing Idiot.
Hmm. Ive never seen this story before.
I do have one idea: The ground from the wire was not absolute ground. If it was relative ground, and linked to absolute ground, it would, for sure, crash the machine.
Magic sparks fly when you hook up on a TV the chassis ground with the "ground plug" ground.
---i think a lot of people here are simply arguing semantics. creditright? wtf? let's just make up a new word because we don't understand the old one.
/.'ers and Diggers, no, its not.
That is one of the bad things about English: words do get lost in translation or are never properly ported to our vernacular.
---and, let's abolish copyright and make up something entirely new and different, like say... droit d'auteur! i don't understand frênçh, but that sounds totally cool, and it's completely original !
Rather than the "cool" aspect, renaming something like Copyright a nonsensical name removes any emotional atttachment on the old name. After that, we can then proceed to argue more clearly.
---the bottom line is: if you talk about how much you love gpl, then turn around and download spider-man 3, then you are a hypocrite. agree/disagree?
We can focus on many different values or changing situations, but I prefer something a bit different. I ask myself these questions...
1. If I copy this, who do I hurt?
(Some will call it duplicitous morals, but those of humongous companies dont mind jipping their own people. I dont care about them. However, I do support the small studios and independents, in that I would miss them if they couldnt afford to survive)
2. Have they created quality media prior to this?
(The last thing I wish to do is run somebody into bankruptcy if they are a valuable member of the creating arts. If I value them, I will pay. If, instead, they leech on the public domain without return, or act in general plain revolting to citizens, I will have no compunction to let them rot. In essence, have they proved their worth?)
Rules under GPL is a sort of optional, selectable commune that one can readily remove themselves from. If you want to bask in the fruits of others, you will also share what you have created with our help. At any time, one can drop the GPL, but one must also drop their derivatives. There is always commercial software. You do not accept Copyright, in so much that is the default license mandated by the government. The GPL is the substitution allowed by law that allows one to use freely under terms of contract.
Downloading a movie (ex. Spider Man 3) constitutes a copyright violation. There is no other license to fall back on, nor do they offer statutory copyright payments. Downloading a movie that is currently in the theater without watching said movie is immoral if you like the show. I would like to buy a copy of the show when I go to the theaters, but that is not "allowed" by purely profit-based constraints.
Later on, when it comes to HD media, is it also immoral to download it if you cannot crack the key? By evidence from the majority of
Even later on if the show is on broadcast TV, is it immoral to copy it to DVD from broadcast stream? I dont think so either.
You can argue my morals and ethics of why or why not so, but the argument is clear: There are millions of people sharing their collections. They all know it is "wrong", but they do it anyways. The majority has spoken about copyrights and is against them. There is no congress(wo)man running anti-copyright or reform-copyright. There are no representatives for the people in this regard, so we must make our collective voice clear.
I do HOPE to mean that DoD release isnt the "Department of Defense"....
Hmmm..
You live in Providence (most likely RI). I used to live there LONG AGO...
You work for a medial equipment manufacturer.
You have low ethics, as probably would your employer.
I surmise you work for Afferent Corporation on 275 Westminster St. The phone number is (401) 453-9933.
It is based in Providence, and due to the lack of polish on the website, it is a "low brow" company. I compare that to, say Boston Scientific.
Oh well... Guess I'll leave it to be if somebody wants to alert the BSA about this and get slashdot's logs. The BSA does seem rather crazy in how they fight for people to make confessions like this.
Same here.
My old high school had many hidden rooms and forgotten doors that I found. I was a bandie so we had free range of the school during breaks in marching band.
Our school was a double decker with a pure figure 8 on the bottom with extra fingers, and a partial figure 8 on the 2'nd floor. There were 4 basements, none of which were connected, and 1 that was completely forgotten about (you had to go to the courtyard of one of the figure 8's and then go down an external set of stairs).
I would have LOVED having our school as a Unreal map, considering it was really cool topology and all.
But I was accused of being a loner and was dragged in as a "Crazy bomber". Some dumb fucks said I was doing bomb testing in our back yard. The sheriff came around asking permission to look outside. We said go ahead. After that, the sheriff laughed his ass off. We successfully sued the school over defamation of name.
Last thing I needed is being known to have the map of the school in a first person shooter.
---Good challenge. BTW, you don't need 18 rounds, you need 17 because there's no need to check the floor 99 after you've checked 98.
Admitted. I was considering a 100 floor test to make sure the marbles BREAK at floor 100 (you know, "marble" ball bearings). Just to make sure, I'll retest here..
1. 1-10 (check floor 1 for defective floor 1 BREAK marbles)
2. 11-20
3. 21-30
4. 31-40
5. 41-50
6. 51-60
7. 61-70
8. 71-80
9. 81-90
10. 91-100 100-BREAK
11-18. 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99-BREAK
I thought it at first, but we cannot assume breaks because we ARE dealing with engineers. They do funky stuff. We need to check them veeery carefully.
---However, I believe you missed one important issue. In order for the solution to be efficient, it's not important how many rounds you do but how many floors you have to walk up and down.
Its illegal for buildings these days not to have elevators because of that nice law ADA. Therefore, I dismissed that consideration.
But not to dismiss your (very true) concern, what would be the best proportion for Drop/stair_step ? That would change the whole algorithm completely.
I was thinking something a bit different about the marble problem (I love logic puzzles).
1. Drop marble A on 1'st floor. Also drop marble B at 10'th floor.
2. If marble A breaks, answer is floor 1. If ONLY marble 10 breaks, the floor is from 2 to 10. Test with remaining good marble.
3. If neither breaks, switch marble tests to 11 and 20.
4. Retest # 2 but in appropiate tested floors.
If floor 99 was the target, my test would only take 18 rounds (or 28 total marble drops). Your method of go up by 3, would take 35 tests.
I've yet to get even a bachelors degree (and Im studying for chemistry at that).
But by that time, they are locked in a 3 year plan with minimum pages per month.
Rental agreements factor out the 'free' in free-market.
And well, it seems my opinions are not valued here. I dont like communism, nor do I like capitalism, for both the very same reasons.
Both eventually lead to the reduction of my ownership. Communism just doesnt play pretend, and never grant ownership.
Capitalism in our country lead to corporatism. This in turn has lead to the rental of many objects, including our very house, vehicle, and other smaller items. When you cant pay house rents, where do you place your "stuff"? Thats right.. your car. But more likely these days, if you default on one thing, interest goes up drastically so you cant pay for anything else either.
Corporate capitalism leads to the same result that communism leads to: the loss of ownership of vital resources.
---... even if his argument lacks weigh (for example, I own everything of "mine" but the structure I live in - even that will change, minus mortgage, in a month or too)
True that my argument does lack weight. I dont do in depth research for a slashdot post, nor would I expect anybody else to do the same. I would have just hoped that others of the "intelligent" community could see eye-to-eye and argue on a fair platform rather than -1'ing me to obscurity. Just goes to show that Sturgeons Law is true, even when talking about people.
I do appreciate it when you do understand my (not very well explained) point. Thank you.
---American "capitalism" is about as close to the capitalist ideal as soviet communism was to the communist ideal. That is to say, not very. For starters, america has ever stronger and further reaching patent and copyright monopoly laws - despite propagandists describing these as intellectual "property", they are antithetical to real free-market capitalism at least.
You know what's sad? Most Americans wouldnt get that. Those of us who grew up during that time saw the footage of the breadlines and whatnot. We think communism as 2 countries: Russia and Cuba.
---And given America's current state, it's painfully clear to an outside observer (I'm in the EU) that, no, American style capitalism doesn't work - America's heading for a fall, and it'll be a big one (the trick for us europeans would be not getting dragged down with you idiots).
It started when I was in economics class in the university (last semester) when I asked the hard questions. "Why do corporations continually destroy the environment?" My answer was that the environment wasnt factored in gains/losses on the corporate bottom line. In order for the local environment to matter, one would have to charge for breathable air, potable water, and such requirement for life.
How to avoid the future collapse: Do as China does. Build your own infrastructure and build your own factories and rely on external places less. If the USA does collapse, the EU could become the next United States (just not "of America").
---In communism the state owns everything. Therefore you own 0%, which is a much lower rate than under coporate capitalism.
I agree completely with the first part. However, I do not agree with the "much lower rate" comment.
One may start out with a much lower rate of "other-ownership" with corporate capitalism, but once the ball starts rolling, the ownership climbs back to the top. Instead of having one entity owning everything, you have a few companies (which usually go back to bankers and loaning institutions) racking back up the money and lost property.
In Communism, you never had it. In corporate capitalism, you once had it but are now "renting" it. Either way, you dont have it.
---In communism, one owner owns everything. We call this a monopoly.
And that owner is the government. In non-corrupt commune based countries, that means it belongs to the people.
---Under coporate capitalism, I can choose between several coporations to sell my soul to.
That sounds like an oligopoly. My point is that once things are under the rental agreement, it removes Ownership, which was paramount to being free.
---Even better, I can choose to sell just parts of my soul to various coporations instead of being force to sell 100% of my soul to one state monopoly.
Then, I guess this is an exercise on determining either corporations or the state is worse. I'm just dead set that rules set forth indicate that they're equal.
And I believe it's a catch 22.
... jail time.
You have 2 options:
Go to school and skip deposition.
Go to deposition and skip school.
Skipping a deposition is illegal in that the judge can "punish" you with jail time.
Skipping school is illegal to truancy laws and can be punished with
Best recourse: petition a judge for deposition for Saturday so that it doesnt conflict with local truancy laws.... if you want the deposition in the first place.
Why capitalism doesnt work.
Communism instills ownership of the state on all tangible assets.
Corporatism instills that ownership is of the corporation via all applicable tools to do so.
Ask yourself this: How much stuff do you OWN (not rent, borrow, lease, or other keywords) ?