There is an inherent difference in IP and other property. IP can be coppied at no cost to the author. Other property can only be gained by taking it from someone else. In a soceity governed by natural law, IP does not exist - anyone can write, copy, or try anything. Other property belongs to an individual.
The contitution of the USA created the concept of IP, by allowing anyone who created IP to have exclusive use of it for a limited time. This allowed creators of new IP to profit from it, and created what is probably the geatest technological boom ever.
Before the US Constitution allowed the creaters of IP to own their IP, kings had traditionally granted monopolies, so that (for example) only the King's brother-in-law's friend could produce textiles. This practice held back technology for centuries. This practice, incidentally, was amazingly similar to allowing the RIAA to collect royalties on all songs played over Internet radio stations regardless of who creates them.
Imagine if the works of Shakespeare were still copyrighted, and if the works of the greatest english poet could only be printed in textbooks if $10 per page were paid to the original authors.
Finally, given that the author will not be alive to collect royalites, who will profit? Answer: big corporations! Who will suffer? Answer: Students!
> All the comments expressing joy seriously make me sick. The man disagreed with you > on essentially political matters.
Destroying tens of billions of dollars in IP; using the force of arms (& courts) to destroy the productive work of millions; raging a campaign of terror that makes Osama, Stallin, & Hitler look mild...is what you call "political"? Please kill yourself before you breed.
> If you want to make it a "rights" question, the right he was trying to take away > wasn't even a constitutional one!
The Constitution says that "No Person Shall be Deprived of Life, Liberty, or Property Without Due Process of Law" in the 8th and 14th amendments. The Constitution says that Congress shall protect the rights of IP creators by securing to them the exclusive use of their IP "for a limited time" (article 1.) The Constitution says that "no law shall pass expost-facto" (the 8th amendment.) If you didn't know this, please kill yourself before you breed.
> It was an esoteric statutory right that few really know anything about.
If you really believe that, please kill yourself before you breed.
> Were he Stalin, or Hitler, then yes, perhaps this would be warranted.
Yes, he was, and yes, this is warranted. Now, please, kill yourself before you breed.
> But really, no-one here knows a damn thing about Jack Valenti other than the fact > that he advocated for a different IP scheme than you. If you are happy for the > death of someone who opposed you on such a ridiculously insignificant aspect of > life, then you are fifteen times worse than you imagine Valenti to be.
IP is the most valuable property that I produce. I trade my IP for my home, my vehicle, my food, my clothes. Jack stole more IP from me than I have ever been able to sell. He, his family, and his friends deserve to see their children raped and tortured to death. Now please, kill your children and yourself...quickly!
> Absolutely sickening. Save the moral outrage for something worth your outrage.
You are sickening. I hope we meet face to face one day.
> Is there any reason to be this disrespectful to the guy? He may have been a > highly disliked human being - but he was still a human being. No one > deserves the crap you guys have been laying on him the DAY AFTER HIS DEATH. > > This is the first time I've been ashamed to have a Slashdot account.
This bastard destroyed tens of billions of dollars through absurdly frivolous lawsuits aimed at everyone who created IP who was not a member of his IP mafia family. He deserves what he's getting in Hell at this moment. He will continue to deserve it for the rest of eternity. It's just a shame he has surviving "family" members & "friends," in as much as cretins like Jack can ever have family or friends.
As for your claim that he was human? I don't think so!
Ding Dong the Jack is Dead Which Jack? The Wicked Jack! Ding Dong the Wicked Jack is Dead
Ding Dong the Jack is Dead Which Jack? The Wicked Jack! Ding Dong the Wicked Jack is Dead
One jerk down, several million employees and shareholders to go. If we did have a blood bath that would be unrivaled, even in the Soviet purges, we would finally be able to start creating IP without worrying about the IP maffia. We would finally be able to create the future, instead of living in the feudalism of the past. Of course, that would mean the deaths of every employee (current and former) and every stock holder (current and former) of every member company in the RIAA, MPAA, and BSA. I don't think we have the balls to do it.
I'm obviously an idiot, because I don't understand one thing: What's the difference between the NFL's terrorism in supressing a person's God given right to free speech, and a possible act of terrorism that would supress the rights of NFL fans to life? (I'm asking about flying a jumbo jet into a football stadium during a game.) The only difference I can see is that the NFL started this.
I'm not calling for terrorist attacks on NFL fans, but I do want to note this: If we do not use violence at some point, the DMCA will continue to be abused. We are like the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, arming ourselves with old hunting rifles about a year before the SS arrives.
As we all know, Microsoft locks onto a target group of PCs, but the real pirates just keep patching. The honest idiots get tagged as pirates. We all know this abusurd anti-piracy doesn't work. In one of my MIS classes, out of 25 students, everyone either had a pirated copy of VS.NET working, or had failed to get a legit copy to work. That's 100%. 100% of honest users fail to get it to work. 100% of dishonest users get it to work. Enough said.
Andy Out!
As a long time advocate for torturing to death the children of the RIAA's lawyers, I think this is WONDERFUL!!! Thank God they are finally really looking at the song, instead of claiming that every MP3 with certain words in the title is pirated! Maybe one day I can get a job other than pursuing civil rights actions against the RIAA / MPAA / BSA, or giving away military style rifles to disgruntled grad students who will not graduate because the only current copy of their dissertation was taken down by a fraudulent DMCA notice.
The match-up is this: 20,000 small claims court lawsuits for slander against a corporate megalith. I'm mailng that demand letter this week. I'll see Balmer in court...personally.
After receiving over 5,000 spams a day (for months) referencing domains regsitered by registerfly.com, I gave up being nice and asking for the contact information of the scum sending these eMails. I began a war on their customer service, sales, and tech support accounts. I'm responsible for at least 5,000 spams being delivered to them daily, and will continue to do so until they are out of business.
> Where can I download a respected dictionary for no more than the current cost of bandwidth without infringing copyright? > Or are you talking about Wiktionary, which was nowhere near as complete as Wikipedia last time I looked?
I disagree that the question is the cost of a dictionary vs. the cost of bandwidth. Disaster recovery tools are rarely as cheap as the electricity to run a system for one day. My proposed disaster recovery system does cost money.
As for a few free dictionaries, try searching the downloads at zdnet.com, try looking through a few archives of Linux programs, or even Googling for them.
> I'll bet your Tb disc array/raid is using those pesky rotating magnetic storage devices. Without a backup? I sense a big > "doh!" moment sometime in the next 2-4 years. And yes, you will be able to return the drive to the manufacturer and say > "it failed before the 5 years was up!", and get a replacement -- a blank replacement.
I mirror all my data, and can pick up replacement disks at the local Fry's any time.
I also donate coppies of my library to anyone who will pay for the disks. I've got 2 coworkers, 1 friend, and 2 family members that keep their own coppies. Plus, when it was smaller (80 GB or so) I would burn it to DVDs every Christmas and give it to everyone I knew. Even with DL DVDs, just 320 GB would take around 40 discs.
1. We are always short of bandwidth. If I had a 1 Gb/s connection instead of a 768 Kb/s connection, I could download the torrent that's running in the background much faster. As it is, I had to stop seeding 3 others to grab this one before my 1 TB disk array arrives.
2. My grandparents stood on the beach in Galveston, TX and wathed 80% of the merchant marine traffic sink within sight of the shore due to German U-Boats (WW2.) Today, we expect that high speed internet will always be available. We don't even bother to keep a few months of food around. There is a problem here.
3. We should keep the resources that can be kept local as local as possible. There's no reason to go to http://www.bartleby.com/ to look up a word in a dictionary, when you can download a dictionary program. I mentioned my 1TB disk array. I'm archiving the educational basics (OCW, eTexts, audio books, online resources, digitized lectures, etc.) and storing them on my USB hard disks. Someone did mention a 200GB HDD and downloading the non-commerical parts of the internet. That's where I'm headed, kinda. Right now, we assume that we will always have PCs that are always connected to the Internet. I am trying to replace that model with PCs that connect to a disk array for reference, and then occasionally connect to the tnternet for real-time stuff. For example, my tablet computer only needs 11GB for its software (Win, Office, Adobe Suite, VS.NET, and a dozen free apps) the rest of my HDD is data I transfer back and forth as I expect to need it from a disk array. At the very least, companies who know the are reliant on certain reference sites can set up local backups. Schools and libraries can set up local archives. This will never replace Slashdot, but it will add reliability to Wikipedia during a crisis.
I was going to spend $$$ on a TB USB connected set of drives, and a bunch of books today. I was going to use Amazon.com, but I went with buy.com. $304 for 1 TB shipped (x2 500GB SATA/USB HDDs.) I'm not willing to order the books from Half.com as they only deliver half what they promise, but I will certainly never order from Amazon.com again, unless they appologize and pay $$$ for their errors.
After years of following these cases, and wathing the rights of every citizen be stripped away, one copyright at a time, I'm left with one obvious conclusion: THERE'S NO HOPE FOR OUR SOCIETY. Give us another 30 years of the DMCA, and we'll slide back to the 7th century.
I don't see a difference between Osama's bombers and these RIAA / BSAA / MPAA guys.
Unfortunately, our misguided presidente (Bush) is sending marines against the wrong side.
The FBI is immune from the laws they enforce. They are allowed to put kiddie porn on your PC then arrest you for having it.
The DEA is immune from the drug laws they enforce. They are allowed to put drugs in your backpack and arrest you for having it. Posession (by a 14 year old girl) of 5 lbs of drugs as she crosses from Mexico (on a shopping trip) to Texas (where she lives) is a capital crime. It has been since the early '90s. There is no requirement that she knew the drugs were in there. She could have turned her back for 90 seconds, and some scum bag put the drugs in there. She's still comitted a capital crime.
The ATF is immune from the gun laws they enforce. They were sent several weapons to evaluate to see if these semi-auto firearms could fall under the ATF's arbitrary definition of what is readily convertible to a machine gun. They said the guns were OK, and sent the back. Two years later, after the person who was manufacturing these firearms testified against the ATF, they raided his home and seized the arms claiming that they were machineguns.
Nothing is going to change until we begin ambushing law enforcement, and Congress hangs from 535 jibbets.
> There is a BIG difference between being able to design a circuit on paper (or SPICE) > and actually being able to put components together and make them work in the real world.
Actually, no. Assembling the circuits is easy. Getting a "gnetleman engineer" to admit that this schematics are crap is the hard part. If you don't build what you spec out, I gurantee you that it does not work. It's not even close.
> While there's no proof that amniotic stem cells are as potent as embryonic stem cells
Ummm...embryonic stem cells have no use in treating humans...they always cause terminal cancer. There are no exceptions. "Potent"??? Are they looking for a bio-weapon? True, embryonic stem cells do kill more surely and in smaller doses than does mustard gas, but they take so dang long that they would be useless.
If Google (or Microsoft's www.Books.Live.Com) wants to open this up to us, they can do one of 2 things:
(1) provide a complete index, possibly sortable, so I can have an easy set of links to mirror
(2) send a backup to a company that will sell the DVD version of their collection. One company makes money selling $1 DVDs at dollar stores, and we all see 4-disc sets fo John Wayne videos at Wal-Mart for $5.50. Microsoft or Google could send such a company a backup of their book collection once a year, and copmelte sets of, say, 25 DVD-9 discs (2TB) were available for $50? Bean counters can raise the price, but as long as we are free to copy them, I'm sure that universities would be willing to buy
I went to microsoft.com, and looked up the EULA for a package of their software that I ws thinking about buying. It looked OK, so I bought it. Microsoft then asked me to agree to a license after I buy software that was totally different. I tried to get my money back, and they had me fired for piracy.
While I was out of work, I tried to code on Wine95 so it will run PowerPoint97, and Microsoft hires the BSA to go with the SS (Secret Service) and FBI to raid my home. Have you ever come home from college classes to see a SS agnet holding your mom on the ground, while another SS agent holds a gun to her head? I have. They said that Office97 EULA prevented Office from being run on anything other than a licensed MS OS.
I got rid of that legal mess, despite being unable to sue due to corrupt judges & courts, then I decided to sell my MS shelf-ware. I listed it on ebay, with a $1 opening bid. The auctions are closed for piracy. WTF? I write some legal letters, and find that it is eBay's policy not to allow any auctions of MS software that opens below the retail value. (PRICE FIXING!) This was unopened full retail boxes software that had been given to me as prizes at a few competitions. There was no restriction on my transferring it.
I was still looking for a job, and DMCA notices took down my resumes.
After 4 years part time, I got a full time job teaching college computer classes, and have to work with MS software. Among other niceties, an isntall of 2003 server will be owned before it finishes running Windows update. XP can not defrag it's own hard disk, and can not run a basic NAT setup on some versions. There are so many licensing restrictions that you can not use the S/W. Vista can not run in a VM unless you buy the $300 version. I promise we will never train with VISTA until MS allows every version to run in a VM. MS' OSes will not run on Live discs legally. (How silly!) It just is not licensed in a way that allows it to be used.
Yes, I hate MS. I handed out oever 1,000 knoppix dvds and cds in the last year. Microsoft's share holders are the owners of the company, and they are responsible for the abuses I have suffered.
Slashdot Mirror
There is an inherent difference in IP and other property. IP can be coppied at no cost to the author. Other property can only be gained by taking it from someone else. In a soceity governed by natural law, IP does not exist - anyone can write, copy, or try anything. Other property belongs to an individual.
The contitution of the USA created the concept of IP, by allowing anyone who created IP to have exclusive use of it for a limited time. This allowed creators of new IP to profit from it, and created what is probably the geatest technological boom ever.
Before the US Constitution allowed the creaters of IP to own their IP, kings had traditionally granted monopolies, so that (for example) only the King's brother-in-law's friend could produce textiles. This practice held back technology for centuries. This practice, incidentally, was amazingly similar to allowing the RIAA to collect royalties on all songs played over Internet radio stations regardless of who creates them.
Imagine if the works of Shakespeare were still copyrighted, and if the works of the greatest english poet could only be printed in textbooks if $10 per page were paid to the original authors.
Finally, given that the author will not be alive to collect royalites, who will profit? Answer: big corporations! Who will suffer? Answer: Students!
Andy Out!
We are at war. Either the employees, customers, and stock holders in the BSA lay dead or in jail...or my friends and myself will.
There will be bombings of meetings, shootings, assasinations, lawsuits, prosecutions, etc.
Lock & Load!!!
Andy Out!
Where's their next stock holder meeting? Is it near VA Tech?
I've got to load some mags, get directions, and head out.
Bye!
The real story is that the MPAA wants to be able to disable your DVDs if they don't like you.
Andy Out!
> All the comments expressing joy seriously make me sick. The man disagreed with you
> on essentially political matters.
Destroying tens of billions of dollars in IP; using the force of arms (& courts) to destroy the productive work of millions; raging a campaign of terror that makes Osama, Stallin, & Hitler look mild...is what you call "political"? Please kill yourself before you breed.
> If you want to make it a "rights" question, the right he was trying to take away
> wasn't even a constitutional one!
The Constitution says that "No Person Shall be Deprived of Life, Liberty, or Property Without Due Process of Law" in the 8th and 14th amendments. The Constitution says that Congress shall protect the rights of IP creators by securing to them the exclusive use of their IP "for a limited time" (article 1.) The Constitution says that "no law shall pass expost-facto" (the 8th amendment.) If you didn't know this, please kill yourself before you breed.
> It was an esoteric statutory right that few really know anything about.
If you really believe that, please kill yourself before you breed.
> Were he Stalin, or Hitler, then yes, perhaps this would be warranted.
Yes, he was, and yes, this is warranted. Now, please, kill yourself before you breed.
> But really, no-one here knows a damn thing about Jack Valenti other than the fact
> that he advocated for a different IP scheme than you. If you are happy for the
> death of someone who opposed you on such a ridiculously insignificant aspect of
> life, then you are fifteen times worse than you imagine Valenti to be.
IP is the most valuable property that I produce. I trade my IP for my home, my vehicle, my food, my clothes. Jack stole more IP from me than I have ever been able to sell. He, his family, and his friends deserve to see their children raped and tortured to death. Now please, kill your children and yourself...quickly!
> Absolutely sickening. Save the moral outrage for something worth your outrage.
You are sickening. I hope we meet face to face one day.
Andy Out!
> Is there any reason to be this disrespectful to the guy? He may have been a
> highly disliked human being - but he was still a human being. No one
> deserves the crap you guys have been laying on him the DAY AFTER HIS DEATH.
>
> This is the first time I've been ashamed to have a Slashdot account.
This bastard destroyed tens of billions of dollars through absurdly frivolous lawsuits aimed at everyone who created IP who was not a member of his IP mafia family. He deserves what he's getting in Hell at this moment. He will continue to deserve it for the rest of eternity. It's just a shame he has surviving "family" members & "friends," in as much as cretins like Jack can ever have family or friends.
As for your claim that he was human? I don't think so!
Andy Out!
Ding Dong the Jack is Dead
Which Jack?
The Wicked Jack!
Ding Dong the Wicked Jack is Dead
Ding Dong the Jack is Dead
Which Jack?
The Wicked Jack!
Ding Dong the Wicked Jack is Dead
One jerk down, several million employees and shareholders to go. If we did have a blood bath that would be unrivaled, even in the Soviet purges, we would finally be able to start creating IP without worrying about the IP maffia. We would finally be able to create the future, instead of living in the feudalism of the past. Of course, that would mean the deaths of every employee (current and former) and every stock holder (current and former) of every member company in the RIAA, MPAA, and BSA. I don't think we have the balls to do it.
Andy Out!
I'm obviously an idiot, because I don't understand one thing: What's the difference between the NFL's terrorism in supressing a person's God given right to free speech, and a possible act of terrorism that would supress the rights of NFL fans to life? (I'm asking about flying a jumbo jet into a football stadium during a game.) The only difference I can see is that the NFL started this.
I'm not calling for terrorist attacks on NFL fans, but I do want to note this: If we do not use violence at some point, the DMCA will continue to be abused. We are like the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, arming ourselves with old hunting rifles about a year before the SS arrives.
Andy Out!
As we all know, Microsoft locks onto a target group of PCs, but the real pirates just keep patching. The honest idiots get tagged as pirates. We all know this abusurd anti-piracy doesn't work. In one of my MIS classes, out of 25 students, everyone either had a pirated copy of VS.NET working, or had failed to get a legit copy to work. That's 100%. 100% of honest users fail to get it to work. 100% of dishonest users get it to work. Enough said. Andy Out!
As a long time advocate for torturing to death the children of the RIAA's lawyers, I think this is WONDERFUL!!! Thank God they are finally really looking at the song, instead of claiming that every MP3 with certain words in the title is pirated! Maybe one day I can get a job other than pursuing civil rights actions against the RIAA / MPAA / BSA, or giving away military style rifles to disgruntled grad students who will not graduate because the only current copy of their dissertation was taken down by a fraudulent DMCA notice.
Andy Out!
We do not need to import 65,000 H1B visas to fill our need for CS degrees. We need to hire the Americans who can do the jobs.
Andy Out!
The match-up is this: 20,000 small claims court lawsuits for slander against a corporate megalith. I'm mailng that demand letter this week. I'll see Balmer in court...personally.
Andy Out!
After receiving over 5,000 spams a day (for months) referencing domains regsitered by registerfly.com, I gave up being nice and asking for the contact information of the scum sending these eMails. I began a war on their customer service, sales, and tech support accounts. I'm responsible for at least 5,000 spams being delivered to them daily, and will continue to do so until they are out of business.
Andy Out!
> Where can I download a respected dictionary for no more than the current cost of bandwidth without infringing copyright?
n guage/TheSage-English-Dictionary-and-Thesaurus.htm ln guage/Simple-dictionary-applications.html. htmi onary.phtml
> Or are you talking about Wiktionary, which was nowhere near as complete as Wikipedia last time I looked?
I disagree that the question is the cost of a dictionary vs. the cost of bandwidth. Disaster recovery tools are rarely as cheap as the electricity to run a system for one day. My proposed disaster recovery system does cost money.
As for a few free dictionaries, try searching the downloads at zdnet.com, try looking through a few archives of Linux programs, or even Googling for them.
Here are a few I found in 3 minutes of searching:
http://wordweb.info/free/
http://users.erols.com/whitaker/words.htm
http://www.newfreedownloads.com/Home-Education/La
http://www.newfreedownloads.com/Home-Education/La
http://www.writeexpress.com/d/dictionary-software
http://www.myzips.com/software/XTerm-Medical-Dict
http://www.myzips.com/software/Rhymesaurus.phtml
Andy Out!
> I'll bet your Tb disc array/raid is using those pesky rotating magnetic storage devices. Without a backup? I sense a big
> "doh!" moment sometime in the next 2-4 years. And yes, you will be able to return the drive to the manufacturer and say
> "it failed before the 5 years was up!", and get a replacement -- a blank replacement.
I mirror all my data, and can pick up replacement disks at the local Fry's any time.
I also donate coppies of my library to anyone who will pay for the disks. I've got 2 coworkers, 1 friend, and 2 family members that keep their own coppies. Plus, when it was smaller (80 GB or so) I would burn it to DVDs every Christmas and give it to everyone I knew. Even with DL DVDs, just 320 GB would take around 40 discs.
Andy Out!
1. We are always short of bandwidth. If I had a 1 Gb/s connection instead of a 768 Kb/s connection, I could download the torrent that's running in the background much faster. As it is, I had to stop seeding 3 others to grab this one before my 1 TB disk array arrives.
2. My grandparents stood on the beach in Galveston, TX and wathed 80% of the merchant marine traffic sink within sight of the shore due to German U-Boats (WW2.) Today, we expect that high speed internet will always be available. We don't even bother to keep a few months of food around. There is a problem here.
3. We should keep the resources that can be kept local as local as possible. There's no reason to go to http://www.bartleby.com/ to look up a word in a dictionary, when you can download a dictionary program. I mentioned my 1TB disk array. I'm archiving the educational basics (OCW, eTexts, audio books, online resources, digitized lectures, etc.) and storing them on my USB hard disks. Someone did mention a 200GB HDD and downloading the non-commerical parts of the internet. That's where I'm headed, kinda. Right now, we assume that we will always have PCs that are always connected to the Internet. I am trying to replace that model with PCs that connect to a disk array for reference, and then occasionally connect to the tnternet for real-time stuff. For example, my tablet computer only needs 11GB for its software (Win, Office, Adobe Suite, VS.NET, and a dozen free apps) the rest of my HDD is data I transfer back and forth as I expect to need it from a disk array. At the very least, companies who know the are reliant on certain reference sites can set up local backups. Schools and libraries can set up local archives. This will never replace Slashdot, but it will add reliability to Wikipedia during a crisis.
Andy Out!
I was going to spend $$$ on a TB USB connected set of drives, and a bunch of books today. I was going to use Amazon.com, but I went with buy.com. $304 for 1 TB shipped (x2 500GB SATA/USB HDDs.) I'm not willing to order the books from Half.com as they only deliver half what they promise, but I will certainly never order from Amazon.com again, unless they appologize and pay $$$ for their errors.
Andy Allen
After years of following these cases, and wathing the rights of every citizen be stripped away, one copyright at a time, I'm left with one obvious conclusion: THERE'S NO HOPE FOR OUR SOCIETY. Give us another 30 years of the DMCA, and we'll slide back to the 7th century.
I don't see a difference between Osama's bombers and these RIAA / BSAA / MPAA guys.
Unfortunately, our misguided presidente (Bush) is sending marines against the wrong side.
Andy Out!
The state of the politician's union is this:
The FBI is immune from the laws they enforce. They are allowed to put kiddie porn on your PC then arrest you for having it.
The DEA is immune from the drug laws they enforce. They are allowed to put drugs in your backpack and arrest you for having it. Posession (by a 14 year old girl) of 5 lbs of drugs as she crosses from Mexico (on a shopping trip) to Texas (where she lives) is a capital crime. It has been since the early '90s. There is no requirement that she knew the drugs were in there. She could have turned her back for 90 seconds, and some scum bag put the drugs in there. She's still comitted a capital crime.
The ATF is immune from the gun laws they enforce. They were sent several weapons to evaluate to see if these semi-auto firearms could fall under the ATF's arbitrary definition of what is readily convertible to a machine gun. They said the guns were OK, and sent the back. Two years later, after the person who was manufacturing these firearms testified against the ATF, they raided his home and seized the arms claiming that they were machineguns.
Nothing is going to change until we begin ambushing law enforcement, and Congress hangs from 535 jibbets.
Andy Out!
> There is a BIG difference between being able to design a circuit on paper (or SPICE)
> and actually being able to put components together and make them work in the real world.
Actually, no. Assembling the circuits is easy. Getting a "gnetleman engineer" to admit that this schematics are crap is the hard part. If you don't build what you spec out, I gurantee you that it does not work. It's not even close.
Andy Out!
> While there's no proof that amniotic stem cells are as potent as embryonic stem cells
Ummm...embryonic stem cells have no use in treating humans...they always cause terminal cancer. There are no exceptions. "Potent"??? Are they looking for a bio-weapon? True, embryonic stem cells do kill more surely and in smaller doses than does mustard gas, but they take so dang long that they would be useless.
Andy Out!
Nothing is going to change until we shoot the bastards.
Andy Out!
You've ripped off my line. I called this (Vista is Microsoft's OS2) months ago!
Andy Out!
If Google (or Microsoft's www.Books.Live.Com) wants to open this up to us, they can do one of 2 things:
(1) provide a complete index, possibly sortable, so I can have an easy set of links to mirror
(2) send a backup to a company that will sell the DVD version of their collection. One company makes money selling $1 DVDs at dollar stores, and we all see 4-disc sets fo John Wayne videos at Wal-Mart for $5.50. Microsoft or Google could send such a company a backup of their book collection once a year, and copmelte sets of, say, 25 DVD-9 discs (2TB) were available for $50? Bean counters can raise the price, but as long as we are free to copy them, I'm sure that universities would be willing to buy
Andy Out!
I went to microsoft.com, and looked up the EULA for a package of their software that I ws thinking about buying. It looked OK, so I bought it. Microsoft then asked me to agree to a license after I buy software that was totally different. I tried to get my money back, and they had me fired for piracy.
While I was out of work, I tried to code on Wine95 so it will run PowerPoint97, and Microsoft hires the BSA to go with the SS (Secret Service) and FBI to raid my home. Have you ever come home from college classes to see a SS agnet holding your mom on the ground, while another SS agent holds a gun to her head? I have. They said that Office97 EULA prevented Office from being run on anything other than a licensed MS OS.
I got rid of that legal mess, despite being unable to sue due to corrupt judges & courts, then I decided to sell my MS shelf-ware. I listed it on ebay, with a $1 opening bid. The auctions are closed for piracy. WTF? I write some legal letters, and find that it is eBay's policy not to allow any auctions of MS software that opens below the retail value. (PRICE FIXING!) This was unopened full retail boxes software that had been given to me as prizes at a few competitions. There was no restriction on my transferring it.
I was still looking for a job, and DMCA notices took down my resumes.
After 4 years part time, I got a full time job teaching college computer classes, and have to work with MS software. Among other niceties, an isntall of 2003 server will be owned before it finishes running Windows update. XP can not defrag it's own hard disk, and can not run a basic NAT setup on some versions. There are so many licensing restrictions that you can not use the S/W. Vista can not run in a VM unless you buy the $300 version. I promise we will never train with VISTA until MS allows every version to run in a VM. MS' OSes will not run on Live discs legally. (How silly!) It just is not licensed in a way that allows it to be used.
Yes, I hate MS. I handed out oever 1,000 knoppix dvds and cds in the last year. Microsoft's share holders are the owners of the company, and they are responsible for the abuses I have suffered.
Andy Out!