"Replace "home" with "store" or other place of business. Homes are treated specially under the law (at least in some jurisdictions) precisely because they are special. Computers providing services on a public network are hardly akin to private dwellings."
Dead on! Certain private spaces are assumed to be publicly accessable, unless told otherwise: stores, offices, parking lots, etc. If the doors are locked, however, the public is on notice that the free access is not available at that time.
Personally, I assume that computers that are connected to the internet and not protected are publicly accessable. If they are password protected, then I am on some sort of notice that they were not intended to be publicly accessable.
"yeah there's some non-windows computer jobs out there"
Get a new career.
Sure, for kids with no skills and no future, drug selling is a lucrative career. There are always options. We as a society expect them to make the decision to work at some drudge job for
How serious you are about the impact of your actions is made manifest by the actions you take. I get sick of all the whining that MS is so big that it will just take over the world and ruin it for all of us and there is nothing we can do about it. Boo hoo, poor little us. Slashdotters need to take their future (and the future of the world) into their own hands. If you don't like MS, don't whine about it, refuse to use their products or work for those who do.
Or maybe we aren't that serious. Or maybe we are just the whiner generation.
"For these devices to succeed they have to be amenable to absolute manipulation in the same way that standard, non-digital physical objects are, and that's a mighty challenge that I don't think anyone has been able to succeed at to date."
The Newton was darn close with the latest revision, the 2100. With today's technology, it would be possible for Apple to make a device that could truely replace a notebook, but clearing the user-adoption hurdle woudl be a real challenge. Notebooks just serve their purpose very well and people are very used to them.
Interestingly, it seems to me that Win 95 wasn't so much a rip off of the MacOS of the time as everyone seems to think, but it took a lot more from NeXTstep: Gray 3D windows; square buttons; each open document appearing at the bottom of the desktop; etc. The taskbar seems to have a lot in common with the NeXT Dock.
"Still, you've got to admit that this would be a huge psychological deterant."
I don't know, man, I think any Abrams or Apache or F-16 is pretty fucking psychologically deterring (at least to me), but that hasn't stopped a bunch of Iraquis from blowing the shit out of millions of dollars of fine American hardware using nothing more than some old Soviet RPG's and AK 47's from 30-50 years ago.
Frankly, I think computer gaming is going the way of the dodo. Consoles are killing the computer gaming market. There are a few games that can be played better on a computer (strategy games come to mind) but most games can be played just as well on a console and the limited controllers in most cases force the programmers to be more creative and make games with better gaming experiences.
Graphics are theoretically much better on a computer than on the consoles, but I have been astounded with the qualilty of games on PS2, xbox, and GameCube. I never cease to be surprised how good games can look on these consoles that have a fraction of the graphics horsepower of my PC.
Then there is the fact that when I have a game that looks really good on the PC, it still suks because it is such a lousy play.
The benefit to Apple of dual-booting XP and OSX is that it manages perceptiions. People don't want to buy a Mac and get stuck nto being able to play their games, or use a theoretical piece of "essential" software. I suspect that for the vast majority of the users, this is just a perception, but now Apple can say "Hey, XP sucks, but if you really, really need it, you can run it on our hardware." Then people buy a Mac, boot XP a couple of times because it is cool, and then never boot it again.
in my view, an Apple brand monitor with component inputs for hooking up a game console would be more useful than XP dual booting for "Mac gaming."
"This American Life is a wonderful production that should be encouraged to continue. How does that happen? Pay up. Stealing episodes because you like it so much doesn't make it right."
Recording a radio broadcast is not stealing at all. If that is not stealing, then why would recording a rebroadcast of the same show from a computer be stealling?
The only reason the latter is considered stealing is because the MPAA folks have tried (fairly successfully) to brainwash the public into thinking it is. Why do they take this position? Because recording from the Net is relatively easy, can be done unattended, and produces a high quality copy.
Media Publishers' marketing woes aside, I don't think recording a broadcast is stealing, legally or morally.
I agree. I'm not pleased with the prospect that the Zionists and the Christian-fundies are turning the U.S. into a damned police state just like they have in the Shit-hole(y) Land.
To be fair, here in the U.S. is the choice of who runs for high offices really open to much choice? Democrat or Republican, many felt that both choices were awful (and I intend to agree). Pretty much the same can be said of any third party candidate, too. As South Park has explained so well, pretty much every election in history has been about choosing between a douche and a turd, when in reality you wouldn't likely ever choose either one.
There is a key difference, though, that I will openly admit. Voting for a U.S. president (or senator, or representative, etc.) is basically choosing which jark will try to screw you and censor you. In these elections, such as Iran's, IMHO, it's essentially about choosing who's going to try and kill who and censor you. (A bit of a generalization, I'll admit)
I was agreeing with you right up until your last paragraph when your Ferrari smashed into the brick wall.
Agreed. Look at, for example:
http://www.john.lerwill.btinternet.co.uk/spirit/al laresame.htm
And see if you can spot the odd one out. A quick hint - "brother" is defined as a male (or female) _muslim_. I have asked many Muslims to double check this as best I can.
This doesn't even make sense. "Brother" as used in that paragraph is clearly used as an indefinite noun meaning "others." Remember, what you are reading is a translation. Arabic has male and female genders in the language, unlike, for the most part, English so no Arab would call a female Muslim his "brother."
http://www.macroknow.com/books/philosophy/religion.htm
This table is good as well. Compare the religions and see how much Islam sticks out. Bias perhaps, but anyone is welcome to give me better quotes.
I'm not even sure what this table is supposed to be comparing. Between Judaism and Islam it appears to be comparing a translation of the opening versus of the Bible and the Qur'an. Especially with no context given, that's kind of a mindless exercise. It's like comparing the opening paragraphs of Moby Dick and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
I don't see why MS is spending so much time and money developing new bugs. Why not just cut and past the old bugs from XP, etc. into Vista? Quick, easy, cheap.
Hell, for that matter, why bother even doing that? Why not just develop a new package design, label it Vista, and stick the same old XP software in it? 99% of MS customers wouldn't be able to tell the difference anyway.
"When an ISP automatically and temporarily stores data without human intervention so that the system can operate and transmit data to its users, the necessary element of volition (willful intent to infringe) is missing," the court said.
Right. So I set up a machinegun outside my house to fire automatically at anyone who passes by on the street and it works and kills a few people. I haven't committed murder becuase I set up an "automatic" gun so the requisite "intent" is missing?
Whoever this judge is, he needs to take a refresher course on the law.
"You have only yourself to blame. You elected, the government that is implementing these useless measures as a propaganda stunt. The press is the one generating most of the fear. People killed by terrorists in the US are so rare that anyone who is terrorized is an idiot or is misinformed."
You are absolutely right.
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security." --Benjamin Franklin
It was true then and it is just as true now. I don't need the government to "protect" me, I need the government to disappear.
""Put another way," what percentage of the Muslim world has expressed support for freedom of speech at the expense of their compatriots?"
What does this mean? If I could understand the question, I could provide the answer. If you are simply asking what portion of Muslims believe in free speech in the sense of "anything goes, so long as it's speech," I would suspect it is nearly the same as the precentage of Christians who believe in it, but considerably less than the percentage of athiests who believe in it. However, even athiests have certain magic words and phrases that are anathema.
I'm not sure how freedom of speech comes at the expense of their compartiots.
In common parlance, when one says the "4th Century" the listener or reader does, and should, assume the 4th Century AD is referenced, since this is the current timescale, i.e. 20th Century refers to the 20th Century A.D., not B.C.
This article is talking about the 4th Century B.C. or B.C.E., however you want to designate it.
"P.s. Maybe people would be nicer to prostitutes if they were FREE"
LOL, I love that line. Good point too.
But, in reality, one way or the other, all men pay for sex. The difference with a prostitute, as opposed to a wife or girlfriend, for instance, is that you don't have to pretend to listen to the prostitute talk about her feelings. You can just walk way. He he.
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Dead on! Certain private spaces are assumed to be publicly accessable, unless told otherwise: stores, offices, parking lots, etc. If the doors are locked, however, the public is on notice that the free access is not available at that time.
Personally, I assume that computers that are connected to the internet and not protected are publicly accessable. If they are password protected, then I am on some sort of notice that they were not intended to be publicly accessable.
But this is a good approximation. :-)
Get a new career.
Sure, for kids with no skills and no future, drug selling is a lucrative career. There are always options. We as a society expect them to make the decision to work at some drudge job for How serious you are about the impact of your actions is made manifest by the actions you take. I get sick of all the whining that MS is so big that it will just take over the world and ruin it for all of us and there is nothing we can do about it. Boo hoo, poor little us. Slashdotters need to take their future (and the future of the world) into their own hands. If you don't like MS, don't whine about it, refuse to use their products or work for those who do.
Or maybe we aren't that serious. Or maybe we are just the whiner generation.
Windows is just like drugs, kids. All you have to do is say "no."
The Newton was darn close with the latest revision, the 2100. With today's technology, it would be possible for Apple to make a device that could truely replace a notebook, but clearing the user-adoption hurdle woudl be a real challenge. Notebooks just serve their purpose very well and people are very used to them.
Interestingly, it seems to me that Win 95 wasn't so much a rip off of the MacOS of the time as everyone seems to think, but it took a lot more from NeXTstep: Gray 3D windows; square buttons; each open document appearing at the bottom of the desktop; etc. The taskbar seems to have a lot in common with the NeXT Dock.
I don't know, man, I think any Abrams or Apache or F-16 is pretty fucking psychologically deterring (at least to me), but that hasn't stopped a bunch of Iraquis from blowing the shit out of millions of dollars of fine American hardware using nothing more than some old Soviet RPG's and AK 47's from 30-50 years ago.
Difference was, mine had real wings instead of a metal hoop and had a rubber-band for the engine.
Graphics are theoretically much better on a computer than on the consoles, but I have been astounded with the qualilty of games on PS2, xbox, and GameCube. I never cease to be surprised how good games can look on these consoles that have a fraction of the graphics horsepower of my PC.
Then there is the fact that when I have a game that looks really good on the PC, it still suks because it is such a lousy play.
The benefit to Apple of dual-booting XP and OSX is that it manages perceptiions. People don't want to buy a Mac and get stuck nto being able to play their games, or use a theoretical piece of "essential" software. I suspect that for the vast majority of the users, this is just a perception, but now Apple can say "Hey, XP sucks, but if you really, really need it, you can run it on our hardware." Then people buy a Mac, boot XP a couple of times because it is cool, and then never boot it again.
in my view, an Apple brand monitor with component inputs for hooking up a game console would be more useful than XP dual booting for "Mac gaming."
Recording a radio broadcast is not stealing at all. If that is not stealing, then why would recording a rebroadcast of the same show from a computer be stealling?
The only reason the latter is considered stealing is because the MPAA folks have tried (fairly successfully) to brainwash the public into thinking it is. Why do they take this position? Because recording from the Net is relatively easy, can be done unattended, and produces a high quality copy.
Media Publishers' marketing woes aside, I don't think recording a broadcast is stealing, legally or morally.
Whoever wrote the poll obviously doesn't know her Apple history.
I agree. I'm not pleased with the prospect that the Zionists and the Christian-fundies are turning the U.S. into a damned police state just like they have in the Shit-hole(y) Land.
I was agreeing with you right up until your last paragraph when your Ferrari smashed into the brick wall.
This doesn't even make sense. "Brother" as used in that paragraph is clearly used as an indefinite noun meaning "others." Remember, what you are reading is a translation. Arabic has male and female genders in the language, unlike, for the most part, English so no Arab would call a female Muslim his "brother."
http://www.macroknow.com/books/philosophy/religion .htm
This table is good as well. Compare the religions and see how much Islam sticks out. Bias perhaps, but anyone is welcome to give me better quotes.
I'm not even sure what this table is supposed to be comparing. Between Judaism and Islam it appears to be comparing a translation of the opening versus of the Bible and the Qur'an. Especially with no context given, that's kind of a mindless exercise. It's like comparing the opening paragraphs of Moby Dick and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
I agree there is more than a little effort on the part of the U.S. government to censor dissenting views in this country. Also, paying off a credit card apparently sends flags to Homeland (in)Security. http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detai l&pk=RAISEALARM-02-28-06
Hell, for that matter, why bother even doing that? Why not just develop a new package design, label it Vista, and stick the same old XP software in it? 99% of MS customers wouldn't be able to tell the difference anyway.
To fire but not to murder.
What is the intent of a bot that crawls the net and copies copyrighted content to google's servers to be reposted by Google?
Right. So I set up a machinegun outside my house to fire automatically at anyone who passes by on the street and it works and kills a few people. I haven't committed murder becuase I set up an "automatic" gun so the requisite "intent" is missing?
Whoever this judge is, he needs to take a refresher course on the law.
Man, you have to start using capitals or I'll have to get my mind out of the gutter. :-)
The author would like Firefox users to not "affectionate" Firefox so much. I, for one, would like the author to get a dictionary.
You are absolutely right.
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security." --Benjamin Franklin
It was true then and it is just as true now. I don't need the government to "protect" me, I need the government to disappear.
What does this mean? If I could understand the question, I could provide the answer. If you are simply asking what portion of Muslims believe in free speech in the sense of "anything goes, so long as it's speech," I would suspect it is nearly the same as the precentage of Christians who believe in it, but considerably less than the percentage of athiests who believe in it. However, even athiests have certain magic words and phrases that are anathema.
I'm not sure how freedom of speech comes at the expense of their compartiots.
This article is talking about the 4th Century B.C. or B.C.E., however you want to designate it.
LOL, I love that line. Good point too.
But, in reality, one way or the other, all men pay for sex. The difference with a prostitute, as opposed to a wife or girlfriend, for instance, is that you don't have to pretend to listen to the prostitute talk about her feelings. You can just walk way. He he.
Now they can track exactly what effect their propaganda blogs are having and whether they are successful in their efforts to squelch dissent.