Given the compactness of the Constitution, it's not very conclusive how much attention was paid to a one-clause issue based on the text alone. I suppose we'd have to look at how much the issue came up in correspondence.
What about the other point I raised, and the points others raised?
IP law got careful coverage in the US Constitution for a good reason; the Framers were well aware of its benefits. How is one clause in one section "careful coverage"?
Also, you forgot to mention how much benefit the US got from not respecting copyright from European authors, including not becoming a full party to the Berne Convention until very recently.
If we are not to be told the truth now, then when? 40 years hence? How complete will the record be? How will we know that it has not been tampered with?
We want documentation, complete and thorough, of the scope and findings of the wiretaps (redacted for privacy, of course), even if we won't see it for a few decades, and we want this documentation to have been reviewed by all branches of government. Warrants provide some kind of documentation. If our intelligence agencies are unsatisfied even with retroactive warrants issued by what is perceived to be a rubber-stamp court, this implies to us that the government is being malicious.
Don't give us this "it's for your own good" bullshit. Even if we don't get to see it, we want somebody outside of the agency performing the tap to approve, and we want to eventually find out exactly what was recorded. This is what separation of powers is all about; adherence to this principle is non-negotiable, and transgression thereof shall be punished as severely as possible in the court of public opinion.
A successful third party will (in all likelihood) kill off one of the two large parties. Now, you are the big ticket, and in order to win elections, you will need the votes of a number of voters you have previously disenfranchised, who may have mostly unshared or even contradictory views to yours. You compromise, becoming a part of the system you sought to end, or you lose elections. Your plan for reform is self-limiting.
I can't remember the exact number, but there was a song in The Meaning of Life that mentioned the diameter of the galaxy. "The Galaxy Song" I think is what the song is titled.
"[P]rocess" has typically referred to the manipulation of physical substance, as have the other phrases in that clause. It is ambiguous whether this should apply to manipulation of information, and having allowed the practice for many years by interpreting the ambiguity in one direction, substantial evidence has accumulated that patents which primarily address the manipulation of information are harmful and therefore run afoul of the bit in the Constitution about "progress", which authorizes Congress to create the patent system; and in the absence of any law explicitly stating that "process" must refer to information processing too, I don't see why the Court could not strike down the practice.
Look, I might even vote for the guy, but if he or any other presidential candidate, if elected, manages to undo even a fraction of past wrongs done unto the People---and I'm not just talking about what has changed in the past eight years---then I will eat my socks.
Show me an executive and a bloc of legislators who would willingly relinquish powers. A few examples notwithstanding, these sorts of people don't make it into government. Not here and now, anyway. The principles embodied in our primary charters, those from the Enlightenment, are res non gratae to modern politics. If acknowledged at all, they are given lip service. The judiciary upholds the principles sometimes; but without a constructive force creating new law to rebuild them, all we have is case law, which is a crapshoot.
I noticed from Cox a correlation between sustained service outages and file sharing. If you go too long within some period of time, they will shut off your access for about a day. It would not surprise me at all if they started doing this for VoIP.
I have also noticed that they've been bugging approximately every month to upgrade the bandwidth of our service for some obscene cost (over the long term).
It appears that they have been being evil enough to annoy users, but not so evil as to cause serious outrage.
disfunctio does not exist, nor does erectilis; although erecta and flaccida would give you what you expect (the common words for "penis" are usually feminine), I do not think that it was ever used with respect to that part of the anatomy. However, I do know the word which is closer in sense to "hard-on" but would probably be used in spam, and I have used that word above.
I have always said that parenthood is a powerful poison of the mind; it seems to cause profound and uncontrolled reversion to instinct, something which is often harmful and dangerous to modern society and to the individuals thereof.
Then again, many of these individuals may not have been thinking beings beforehand: mindless children become mindless adolescents become mindless adults.:P
The real effects seem to be that while a process which sets this flag has control of the system, any DTrace events that fire off during this time will not be detected, as if they never occurred, regardless of whether what is being traced has anything to do with that process. It seems to break a few important(?) idioms used by DTrace users, so that the results returned are not what they should be.
The furor seems to be that this subtle breakage has gone undocumented; and although only iTunes currently uses it, that does not stop other software (including software that should not be there) from using it. That a DTrace developer discovered this, combined with that this is in all likelihood being done for no reason other than that of DRM, is what makes this notable. If I were working on DTrace, I'd probably be pissed too.
Free software projects are often a moving target. The copyright to newer versions is updated every time an update is committed.
Also, if authors want their revenue, fine. But the only way, IMO, that they can do this without losing it to the "pirates" is to get all the money up front. Once the worms are out of the can, good luck getting them back in.
A Frogpad strapped to the underside of the arm together with a Smartphone/PDA has always sounded to me like an excellent combo, since it's the only platform (not counting an on-screen keyboard, which I have always disliked) that can be operated with one free hand while standing.
All that corn requires lots of fertilizer, and that fertilizer, which eventually finds its way into the Mississippi River, doesn't make matters any better for the big-ass hypoxia off our coast.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong on this, but there are a few.js files that IIRC control global preferences: all.js and firefox.js. I think all you have to do is to update those.
For instance, I'm using 3.0b2 right now, and there's a line in firefox.js:
or whatever, then I'm fairly sure that it will change the default.
If you want to lock users out of changing any settings, change the permissions on their personal prefs.js (this file will be in the same place in every users' home) so that they can't write to it; maybe change its ownership too. Admittedly, something more fine-grained than that will probably need some modifications to the Firefox code base. I assume that a second global settings file could be used, so that preferences are read in the order of (global default, user, global mandatory). I haven't had a look at the code, but while it's a non-trivial change, it is probably straightforward.
Still...
...sometimes you Windows admins, on the whole, are such unimaginative, uninquisitive weenies. Put it outside of point-and-click and all of a sudden it's not worth investigating or trying to do.:P
Slashdot Mirror
I know that's what we are referring to.
Given the compactness of the Constitution, it's not very conclusive how much attention was paid to a one-clause issue based on the text alone. I suppose we'd have to look at how much the issue came up in correspondence.
What about the other point I raised, and the points others raised?
Also, you forgot to mention how much benefit the US got from not respecting copyright from European authors, including not becoming a full party to the Berne Convention until very recently.
If we are not to be told the truth now, then when? 40 years hence? How complete will the record be? How will we know that it has not been tampered with?
We want documentation, complete and thorough, of the scope and findings of the wiretaps (redacted for privacy, of course), even if we won't see it for a few decades, and we want this documentation to have been reviewed by all branches of government. Warrants provide some kind of documentation. If our intelligence agencies are unsatisfied even with retroactive warrants issued by what is perceived to be a rubber-stamp court, this implies to us that the government is being malicious.
Don't give us this "it's for your own good" bullshit. Even if we don't get to see it, we want somebody outside of the agency performing the tap to approve, and we want to eventually find out exactly what was recorded. This is what separation of powers is all about; adherence to this principle is non-negotiable, and transgression thereof shall be punished as severely as possible in the court of public opinion.
Duverger's Law
A successful third party will (in all likelihood) kill off one of the two large parties. Now, you are the big ticket, and in order to win elections, you will need the votes of a number of voters you have previously disenfranchised, who may have mostly unshared or even contradictory views to yours. You compromise, becoming a part of the system you sought to end, or you lose elections. Your plan for reform is self-limiting.
I can't remember the exact number, but there was a song in The Meaning of Life that mentioned the diameter of the galaxy. "The Galaxy Song" I think is what the song is titled.
"[P]rocess" has typically referred to the manipulation of physical substance, as have the other phrases in that clause. It is ambiguous whether this should apply to manipulation of information, and having allowed the practice for many years by interpreting the ambiguity in one direction, substantial evidence has accumulated that patents which primarily address the manipulation of information are harmful and therefore run afoul of the bit in the Constitution about "progress", which authorizes Congress to create the patent system; and in the absence of any law explicitly stating that "process" must refer to information processing too, I don't see why the Court could not strike down the practice.
Look, I might even vote for the guy, but if he or any other presidential candidate, if elected, manages to undo even a fraction of past wrongs done unto the People---and I'm not just talking about what has changed in the past eight years---then I will eat my socks.
Show me an executive and a bloc of legislators who would willingly relinquish powers. A few examples notwithstanding, these sorts of people don't make it into government. Not here and now, anyway. The principles embodied in our primary charters, those from the Enlightenment, are res non gratae to modern politics. If acknowledged at all, they are given lip service. The judiciary upholds the principles sometimes; but without a constructive force creating new law to rebuild them, all we have is case law, which is a crapshoot.
I think this is just for this subdomain, which I don't remember being announced anyway.
Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
I doubt jury misconduct; jury idiocy is more likely.
OK, the policies might be different. But the mechanism is there.
I noticed from Cox a correlation between sustained service outages and file sharing. If you go too long within some period of time, they will shut off your access for about a day. It would not surprise me at all if they started doing this for VoIP.
I have also noticed that they've been bugging approximately every month to upgrade the bandwidth of our service for some obscene cost (over the long term).
It appears that they have been being evil enough to annoy users, but not so evil as to cause serious outrage.
Sounds like a good headline to me.
Slight correction: Cialis tibi verpam redibit.
;)
I fell into the English-language trap of using the present to stand in for the future. verba praematura eiecta sunt.
Cialis tibi verpam redit.
disfunctio does not exist, nor does erectilis; although erecta and flaccida would give you what you expect (the common words for "penis" are usually feminine), I do not think that it was ever used with respect to that part of the anatomy. However, I do know the word which is closer in sense to "hard-on" but would probably be used in spam, and I have used that word above.
Who is this "Dear Leader"?
"Unfortunately, we're stuck with us as a species."
I have always said that parenthood is a powerful poison of the mind; it seems to cause profound and uncontrolled reversion to instinct, something which is often harmful and dangerous to modern society and to the individuals thereof.
:P
Then again, many of these individuals may not have been thinking beings beforehand: mindless children become mindless adolescents become mindless adults.
(Note: IANA DTrace user or developer.)
The real effects seem to be that while a process which sets this flag has control of the system, any DTrace events that fire off during this time will not be detected, as if they never occurred, regardless of whether what is being traced has anything to do with that process. It seems to break a few important(?) idioms used by DTrace users, so that the results returned are not what they should be.
The furor seems to be that this subtle breakage has gone undocumented; and although only iTunes currently uses it, that does not stop other software (including software that should not be there) from using it. That a DTrace developer discovered this, combined with that this is in all likelihood being done for no reason other than that of DRM, is what makes this notable. If I were working on DTrace, I'd probably be pissed too.
SSSHHHHHHH!!! They're not supposed to know about that!</whisper>
Greenreaper, to be quite honest, I don't think any of them were wanting that information. ;)
Frankly, though, I'm skeptical that he is who he says he is.
Free software projects are often a moving target. The copyright to newer versions is updated every time an update is committed.
Also, if authors want their revenue, fine. But the only way, IMO, that they can do this without losing it to the "pirates" is to get all the money up front. Once the worms are out of the can, good luck getting them back in.
A Frogpad strapped to the underside of the arm together with a Smartphone/PDA has always sounded to me like an excellent combo, since it's the only platform (not counting an on-screen keyboard, which I have always disliked) that can be operated with one free hand while standing.
Anybody ever tried this?
All that corn requires lots of fertilizer, and that fertilizer, which eventually finds its way into the Mississippi River, doesn't make matters any better for the big-ass hypoxia off our coast.
For instance, I'm using 3.0b2 right now, and there's a line in firefox.js: If you patch it to read or whatever, then I'm fairly sure that it will change the default.
If you want to lock users out of changing any settings, change the permissions on their personal prefs.js (this file will be in the same place in every users' home) so that they can't write to it; maybe change its ownership too. Admittedly, something more fine-grained than that will probably need some modifications to the Firefox code base. I assume that a second global settings file could be used, so that preferences are read in the order of (global default, user, global mandatory). I haven't had a look at the code, but while it's a non-trivial change, it is probably straightforward.
Still...
...sometimes you Windows admins, on the whole, are such unimaginative, uninquisitive weenies. Put it outside of point-and-click and all of a sudden it's not worth investigating or trying to do.