The Dewey Decimal system has been obsolete for years. Even libraries that don't have the resources to recatalog all of their old holdings even frequently use Library of Congress cataloging for new items and just shelve them seperately.
Even with no further extensions to the copyright law, you can be pretty sure that any software will be pretty much useless by the time its copyright has expired. The copyright of a program written today will last almost twice as long as the entire history of digital computers. Unless you expect technological advancement to grind to an unexpected halt in the near future, it's probably not worth worrying about what's going to happen to your code when its copyright expires.
On the other hand, people are stupid enough that the Y2K bug happened.
Why does anyone want to use a format other than Windows Media? Most Americans use Windows computers and shouldn't need a format that's open and works on more systems.
I suppose Cupertino is an international country, so Apple users might want to use Quicktime.
omni- is from Latin, pan- is from Greek, as is graph. They mean the same thing, and when adding suffixes one generally chooses one from the same language the rest of the word came from.
And sudo passwd root works just fine to enable the root account without touching NetInfo.
It's not really much more secure than having it enabled in the first place (assuming the root password was assigned by the user on the first startup, rather than set to some default value that most users would never change).
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If Apple was going to allow someone to start making cheap Mac clones again, it probably wouldn't be with a dead OS that would be 5 years behind when AOL had it running stable on Intel hardware. And that ton of code that runs under it is pretty useless, since the people who own that code have stopped supporting it under OS 9, and they're not going to go through the effort of porting it to an OS no one in their right mind would ever want to use.
Your problem has nothing to do with open source vs. closed source. Management style has very little to do with the license that software is made available under.
I'd bet that working for SCO when they were distributing GPL'ed software was just as bad as it was after they decided that they owned every piece of software ever written and had no reason to have anything to do with open source.
Consumers don't buy software? Well there goes Microsoft's entire business model. I'm sure they'll realize that all of their revenues have been imaginary any day now.
I doubt any retailer would demand a licensing fee from Froogle to receive free advertising. All of their competitors would be happy to steal their business by letting Froogle use their data for free.
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The Constitution was killed off by the National Security Act in 1947. Nothing that's happened in the past 50 years has really had much of an effect beyond that.
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So you want the government to control all data? Yeah, that would work well.
Or are you suggesting that everyone get together democratically to create an entirely new entity and somehow prevent it from becoming exactly like the democratically-created entity we already have?
Hell, why not subcontract out all lawmaking and have Congress meet once a year to update all the references to the corporate databases of laws? It would save taxpayer money in so many ways. Congress wouldn't need to employ so many staffers to get things done, the Federal Register could be reduced to a few pages telling people where to go to find the laws.
And anyone who actually wants to know the previously perfectly legal action they're about to take is now a felony, all they'll need to do is pay the Law Company $100 to look through their database.
of course, the probability that you have enough hard drive space is incredibly tiny, unless you bought up all the assets of one of the bigger failed dot-coms.
When did Google claim they're going to have ads that are relevant to any search that you might do? What if no one selling the product you're looking for chose to advertise with Google? Would that make them liars too?
Are the TV networks unethical if they refuse to take huge fines from the FCC to run ads for illegal products?
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The Dewey Decimal system has been obsolete for years. Even libraries that don't have the resources to recatalog all of their old holdings even frequently use Library of Congress cataloging for new items and just shelve them seperately.
On the other hand, people are stupid enough that the Y2K bug happened.
I suppose Cupertino is an international country, so Apple users might want to use Quicktime.
omni- is from Latin, pan- is from Greek, as is graph. They mean the same thing, and when adding suffixes one generally chooses one from the same language the rest of the word came from.
Oh wait, I forgot... This is /. Obviously not. But if you ever manage to get yourself one, see how long that lasts when you treat her as a user.
It's not really much more secure than having it enabled in the first place (assuming the root password was assigned by the user on the first startup, rather than set to some default value that most users would never change).
You're either a troll or an idiot.
So when I forward all of the spam I receive to SpamCop, my ISP should consider me a spammer and take away my account?
That's interesting, except that you're a big fat liar.
What I want to know is why our schools aren't putting more funding into reading comprehension. You could certainly use an in depth course.
I'd bet that working for SCO when they were distributing GPL'ed software was just as bad as it was after they decided that they owned every piece of software ever written and had no reason to have anything to do with open source.
Consumers don't buy software? Well there goes Microsoft's entire business model. I'm sure they'll realize that all of their revenues have been imaginary any day now.
Yes, well presumably Amnesty International's definition of human rights and freedom does not contain "America rulez!! Yeeeehaw!"
I doubt any retailer would demand a licensing fee from Froogle to receive free advertising. All of their competitors would be happy to steal their business by letting Froogle use their data for free.
The Constitution was killed off by the National Security Act in 1947. Nothing that's happened in the past 50 years has really had much of an effect beyond that.
Or are you suggesting that everyone get together democratically to create an entirely new entity and somehow prevent it from becoming exactly like the democratically-created entity we already have?
And anyone who actually wants to know the previously perfectly legal action they're about to take is now a felony, all they'll need to do is pay the Law Company $100 to look through their database.
Guess what. They disagree with you.
Reading a bad definition of what it is to be a fact on slashdot is not a legal argument.
of course, the probability that you have enough hard drive space is incredibly tiny, unless you bought up all the assets of one of the bigger failed dot-coms.
Are the TV networks unethical if they refuse to take huge fines from the FCC to run ads for illegal products?
CVS and Rite Aid are very reliable.
And you'll end up with a lot of SimCity 4 strategies that don't suggest you buy anything in the game.
Umm, PageRank is the only way google ranks sites, since PageRank is their name for all of the different algorithms they're using.