If there's one thing the music companies have made clear, it's that we don't own anything when we purchase songs online. We're merely licensing the song for limited uses under their EULA.
Would you feel the same way if the white kids had hung up swastikas and some jewish kids had beaten up the ring-leader?
Yes.
Would those jewish kids deserve 'attempted murder' when the bigot walked out of the hospitol hours later with less damage than most people involved in a car crash?
They're not really complaining about the fact that it's 9 AM, but that in their timezone it will be only 6 AM. It's hardly fair to fault them for that.
I'm not sure who added the final blurb, "So our 1st amendment rights don't trump the right of the federal government to violate them?", but that entirely reminded me recently of another "trump" made recently. "The decision means that federal anti-drug laws trump state laws that allow the use of medical marijuana, said CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin. Ten states have such laws."
I'm dead serious here. If the federal government keeps on their power trip fascism journey...
Okay... big difference here. In one case, the federal government is passing a law that trumps state laws. There's no problem there; ever heard of "supreme law of the land"? The people have no Constitutional right to "medical" marijuana.
In the second case (the one this topic is about) the US AG is attempting to invalidate the First Amendment through personal fiat. That's a totally different case. The two are not comparable, and equating them does a disservice to the discussion of Gonzales' crazy ideas about the Constitution.
Yeah, sure. Or the fact that THEIR TECH SUPPORT IS IN INDIA.
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like yelling.
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like yelling.
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like yelling.
Eliminate bullshit like software licensing, tracking and auditing. Running everything in an IP-unencumbered fashion to the greatest extent possible will make everyone happier.
Your lawyers are going to love that one.
Really, how is blowing off legal licensing and getting sued "fun"? Someone has to be an adult at your company...
You've managed to lambaste NASA for the space shuttle, for returning to Apollo-style launches, -and- for pursuing the space elevator. What's your alternative technology? The warp drive?
Dude, this is Slashdot. We're going to parse the URL list using a Perl script and then run wget -i on the resulting output, saving the files to the directory/usr/share/marble and using chmod to set appropriate permissions for our machine's users.
the shift knob has been modified to allow a robot arm to be attached
That seems like such an ugly hack. I mean, is there a robotic foot for the gas pedal? Why not just have a humanoid robot with hands on the steering wheel? It would seem a lot more efficient to have the computer control engine shifting directly, not through a lever designed for humans.
Plus there's always the chance of a short-circuit melting the cable. A space shuttle mission a while ago experimented with tethers in space, but it melted because an electronic cable built into the tether overheated.
Yes, but it's advertised in the Slashdot story as a "test of a space elevator". To make an analogy to your computer programmer analogy, that's like testing out the bootloader code for a new OS and announcing you've "completed a successful beta test of the new operating system".
Dude, we're talking about Iraq here. We kill innocent civilians every day (most of the time by accident, hopefully). Liability is not in the US soldier's vocabulary.
All over the place. Quite a bit of Google's experimental technologies are powered by Python. Of course, most of the time it isn't obvious since it just spits out an HTML page. Occasionally you'll see ".py" in the URL.
Do a google for "Google Python" and you'll find some more about the connection.
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If there's one thing the music companies have made clear, it's that we don't own anything when we purchase songs online. We're merely licensing the song for limited uses under their EULA.
Complete bull. The browser UI hasn't even been developed yet, and the Mozilla community expects the phone community to accept it with open arms?
Come up with an innovative and usable UI *first*, then try to get it onto phones.
Hopefully it can best Safari's Javascript performance. Firefox is pitifully slow compared to WebCore's javascript core.
Heavens, a company discussing how to "deal with the hackers targeting their systems"? What a scandal.
They're not really complaining about the fact that it's 9 AM, but that in their timezone it will be only 6 AM. It's hardly fair to fault them for that.
Judicial nominations affect all three to a very large degree.
I know plenty of teens that still "tidy" their rooms and speak respectfully to elders, myself included.
What, you mean one of those "better kind of parent" people? Not everyone is utterly incompetent and defeatist when it comes to parenting.
How does one move to one of these Media Access Control devices? Or do you mean Mac, as in "Macintosh Personal Computer"?
Most of NASA's budget inevitably goes to people (ie, payroll) and bureaucratic oversight, not operations.
Okay... big difference here. In one case, the federal government is passing a law that trumps state laws. There's no problem there; ever heard of "supreme law of the land"? The people have no Constitutional right to "medical" marijuana.
In the second case (the one this topic is about) the US AG is attempting to invalidate the First Amendment through personal fiat. That's a totally different case. The two are not comparable, and equating them does a disservice to the discussion of Gonzales' crazy ideas about the Constitution.
Yeah, sure. Or the fact that THEIR TECH SUPPORT IS IN INDIA. Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like yelling. Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like yelling. Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like yelling.
Your lawyers are going to love that one.
Really, how is blowing off legal licensing and getting sued "fun"? Someone has to be an adult at your company...
A fire would have the same effect on books.
Death Metal ... actually takes talent to make...
Yeah. Right.
You've managed to lambaste NASA for the space shuttle, for returning to Apollo-style launches, -and- for pursuing the space elevator. What's your alternative technology? The warp drive?
Dude, this is Slashdot. We're going to parse the URL list using a Perl script and then run wget -i on the resulting output, saving the files to the directory /usr/share/marble and using chmod to set appropriate permissions for our machine's users.
Right click save as. Pfft.
the shift knob has been modified to allow a robot arm to be attached
That seems like such an ugly hack. I mean, is there a robotic foot for the gas pedal? Why not just have a humanoid robot with hands on the steering wheel? It would seem a lot more efficient to have the computer control engine shifting directly, not through a lever designed for humans.
Plus there's always the chance of a short-circuit melting the cable. A space shuttle mission a while ago experimented with tethers in space, but it melted because an electronic cable built into the tether overheated.
Yes, but it's advertised in the Slashdot story as a "test of a space elevator". To make an analogy to your computer programmer analogy, that's like testing out the bootloader code for a new OS and announcing you've "completed a successful beta test of the new operating system".
How about aspirin?
Dude, we're talking about Iraq here. We kill innocent civilians every day (most of the time by accident, hopefully). Liability is not in the US soldier's vocabulary.
It may not be public domain, but it certainly does qualify as the worst operating system ever. :)
I heard there was oil on the dark side of the moon...
All over the place. Quite a bit of Google's experimental technologies are powered by Python. Of course, most of the time it isn't obvious since it just spits out an HTML page. Occasionally you'll see ".py" in the URL. Do a google for "Google Python" and you'll find some more about the connection.