I think that would only allow them to download it for evaluation of the file contents... I can't imagine it would give them carte blanche to distribute copyrighted material to all and sundry while they're doing it. I think the GP has an interesting point. Not one that I imagine would ever brought up in a legal setting of course; it still tickles me though.
"Should pedophiles be allowed to work with children? Should a rapist be allowed to work in a women's shelter?"
Ahem, I think what you mean to say is:
- Should paedophiles be allowed to report the actions of other paedophiles in their job? - Should rapists be allowed be allowed to report the actions of other rapists in their job?
"has NO business acting high and mighty and pretending to be on the side of the good guy"
I think you mistake "reporting a story" for "acting high and mighty". Unless you are naive enough to assume that all journalists/editors are morally whiter-than-white you should really shut up.
Ummm, no, yerself. If it's reached the stage that even Slashbots believe security audits, proof of concept exploit software and being able to do what you like to your own computer systems should be illegal then we should all just give up now. Without people that know what they're doing securing or helping to secure software, we are nowhere.
Not a problem, I assure you... vanishing posts confuse me too sometimes. All I can say is, he wasn't -1, Troll when I replied!:) I'm glad you had the maturity to apologise as well. Thanks.
Yeah, it's amazing isn't it. Like yourself, not being able to use "simple logic in meat-space". Your example only works if you were to do it on your own skull. Think!
You don't actually understand what an analogy is do you? To claim Gates is, or is like, Hitler, is absurd. Hitler is dead and Gates is not a political leader.
To make the comparison of Gates/Hitler and Nazi Party/Microsoft (in terms of control and viciousness in their respective arenas) is both relevant and vaguely insightful as an extension of Gates' use of "communist" to describe Free Culture proponents.
Trying not to seem too much like a "me too" post - but these are all very interesting questions that I would like to see answers for. Are there experienced OSS developers here or has slashdot (as I've always suspected) a high mouth-to-trouser ratio?:)
Inform your network that you're changing and they can give you a ID number (I don't remember its specific name) which identifies your phone number, so you can tell your new network - or even the same one - when you switch. My girlfriend's switched networks 3 times in as many years without changing numbers; it's easy.
Quite. What happens if you *don't* have credit on your phone? If you only have it for emergency calls (please don't tell me they charge you to call 911 as well?) can you not receive calls/messages?
Sure, cos the last word with stylesheets is with the user. When they turn off styles (your browser does let you do that, surely) then the content is in a logical and consistent order. Ergo, it is good.
My apologies to you if I offended. Your post was the straw that broke the camel's back. On the subject of substance abuse I don't smoke and rarely drink coffee, so that can't be the problem. Perchance it's all the time spent staring at Slashdot waiting for an interesting story to appear?
I hadn't heard of this Mr Rogers person, not being a yank and being but young in years, but having done a search for him and his catch-phrase I'm happy to say that any appeal it may have held has long since been squeezed out of me by the users of Slashdot. Thanks guys!:)
Yes, we can all say these simple phrases. Now get over it you damn idiots! Who the hell started this stupid phrase? I'd rather sit through pages of beowulf-clustered, linux-running insensitive korean clod jokes in soviet russia than read another damn "can you say X" line.
I think you'll find Wal-Mart's business model is super-saturate an area with outlets being fed from a central depot in that area, selling at little to no profit to starve local competition. When all local competition has died the surplus stores are removed and the prices hiked up to profitable levels again, whilst the Wal-Mart juggernaut rides on.
In fact, lets do "troll" now. A good example would be - oh! your post! Now isn't that a co-incidence?
The GP made a legitimate comment about alternative methods to embed plugins and how this would further fracture what little standard compliance there is on the web, and you took it as an opportunity to rant about how clever you think you are.
> If you don't like the product, then don't buy it?
What the hell does this ignorance mean? You do not have to buy IE for it to affect you. My operating system doesn't even run IE but I still come across websites that are intentionally "broken" in its favour.
It's an annoying and weak-minded habit people on Slashdot have of bringing everything down to "consumer rights this" and "boycott that". A lot of things just don't work that way. Pretending they do gets us nowhere.
I don't think I'd be too bothered if I couldn't go back into a casino if I knew we just earned 1.3m in two days to be split between 3 people tax free.
In fact, if you have any intelligence at all, once you made that kind of money you wouldn't play another game of chance for high stakes again. Just enjoy life...
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You must be new here... the required response is:
"I don't have eyes, you insensitive clod!"
Which has them rolling in the aisles, I promise you.
I think there is one and only one instance where you need to have a slightly subtler understanding of what's going on *inside* the computer to understand why it won't let you carry out functionX.
And that's in image manipulation software (Photoshop, PSP, Gimp) where you want to do some funky manipulation/blurring/effects on a palette-based image. You generally have to convert to RGB first. A short and simple step which can be very confusing for beginners. It wouldn't be difficult to go on the assumption that, if the user wants to perform functionX on imageA, then it's single dependency can be executed too.
Selecting functionX(imageA) implies functionX(functionY(imageA)). If that's not what they want they can always hit undo, something art programs don't have a problem with...
I would also add to that, the removal of the Clerk St Odeon cinema from smack-bang in the middle of studentstville and the rise of digital TV (eg Freeview). With competition like that, and the trek required to get to a half-way decent cinema from the Newington/Marchcmont area, it's no wonder they're making a loss.
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I think that would only allow them to download it for evaluation of the file contents... I can't imagine it would give them carte blanche to distribute copyrighted material to all and sundry while they're doing it. I think the GP has an interesting point. Not one that I imagine would ever brought up in a legal setting of course; it still tickles me though.
"Should pedophiles be allowed to work with children? Should a rapist be allowed to work in a women's shelter?"
Ahem, I think what you mean to say is:
- Should paedophiles be allowed to report the actions of other paedophiles in their job?
- Should rapists be allowed be allowed to report the actions of other rapists in their job?
"has NO business acting high and mighty and pretending to be on the side of the good guy"
I think you mistake "reporting a story" for "acting high and mighty". Unless you are naive enough to assume that all journalists/editors are morally whiter-than-white you should really shut up.
Ummm, no, yerself. If it's reached the stage that even Slashbots believe security audits, proof of concept exploit software and being able to do what you like to your own computer systems should be illegal then we should all just give up now. Without people that know what they're doing securing or helping to secure software, we are nowhere.
Not a problem, I assure you... vanishing posts confuse me too sometimes. All I can say is, he wasn't -1, Troll when I replied! :) I'm glad you had the maturity to apologise as well. Thanks.
Yeah, it's amazing isn't it. Like yourself, not being able to use "simple logic in meat-space". Your example only works if you were to do it on your own skull. Think!
You don't actually understand what an analogy is do you? To claim Gates is, or is like, Hitler, is absurd. Hitler is dead and Gates is not a political leader.
To make the comparison of Gates/Hitler and Nazi Party/Microsoft (in terms of control and viciousness in their respective arenas) is both relevant and vaguely insightful as an extension of Gates' use of "communist" to describe Free Culture proponents.
Understand now?
Hell yeah; it just... gets under your skin that doesn't it? ;)
Trying not to seem too much like a "me too" post - but these are all very interesting questions that I would like to see answers for. Are there experienced OSS developers here or has slashdot (as I've always suspected) a high mouth-to-trouser ratio? :)
Inform your network that you're changing and they can give you a ID number (I don't remember its specific name) which identifies your phone number, so you can tell your new network - or even the same one - when you switch. My girlfriend's switched networks 3 times in as many years without changing numbers; it's easy.
Quite. What happens if you *don't* have credit on your phone? If you only have it for emergency calls (please don't tell me they charge you to call 911 as well?) can you not receive calls/messages?
Sure, cos the last word with stylesheets is with the user. When they turn off styles (your browser does let you do that, surely) then the content is in a logical and consistent order. Ergo, it is good.
That'll teach them not to run their CCD-scanning software as root....
My apologies to you if I offended. Your post was the straw that broke the camel's back. On the subject of substance abuse I don't smoke and rarely drink coffee, so that can't be the problem. Perchance it's all the time spent staring at Slashdot waiting for an interesting story to appear?
:)
I hadn't heard of this Mr Rogers person, not being a yank and being but young in years, but having done a search for him and his catch-phrase I'm happy to say that any appeal it may have held has long since been squeezed out of me by the users of Slashdot. Thanks guys!
Yes, we can all say these simple phrases. Now get over it you damn idiots! Who the hell started this stupid phrase? I'd rather sit through pages of beowulf-clustered, linux-running insensitive korean clod jokes in soviet russia than read another damn "can you say X" line.
That's bound to be a luggage combination. I have the exact same one...
I think you'll find Wal-Mart's business model is super-saturate an area with outlets being fed from a central depot in that area, selling at little to no profit to starve local competition. When all local competition has died the surplus stores are removed and the prices hiked up to profitable levels again, whilst the Wal-Mart juggernaut rides on.
In fact, lets do "troll" now. A good example would be - oh! your post! Now isn't that a co-incidence?
The GP made a legitimate comment about alternative methods to embed plugins and how this would further fracture what little standard compliance there is on the web, and you took it as an opportunity to rant about how clever you think you are.
> If you don't like the product, then don't buy it?
What the hell does this ignorance mean? You do not have to buy IE for it to affect you. My operating system doesn't even run IE but I still come across websites that are intentionally "broken" in its favour.
It's an annoying and weak-minded habit people on Slashdot have of bringing everything down to "consumer rights this" and "boycott that". A lot of things just don't work that way. Pretending they do gets us nowhere.
You're just *so* early 90s... the new speak is an STI - sexually transmitted infection.
Why, because organisms produce "scrotemes"?
I don't think I'd be too bothered if I couldn't go back into a casino if I knew we just earned 1.3m in two days to be split between 3 people tax free.
In fact, if you have any intelligence at all, once you made that kind of money you wouldn't play another game of chance for high stakes again. Just enjoy life...
You must be new here... the required response is:
"I don't have eyes, you insensitive clod!"
Which has them rolling in the aisles, I promise you.
Would I lie to you?
But then again, he *did* say a CS degree. Not SE.
I think there is one and only one instance where you need to have a slightly subtler understanding of what's going on *inside* the computer to understand why it won't let you carry out functionX.
And that's in image manipulation software (Photoshop, PSP, Gimp) where you want to do some funky manipulation/blurring/effects on a palette-based image. You generally have to convert to RGB first. A short and simple step which can be very confusing for beginners. It wouldn't be difficult to go on the assumption that, if the user wants to perform functionX on imageA, then it's single dependency can be executed too.
Selecting functionX(imageA) implies functionX(functionY(imageA)). If that's not what they want they can always hit undo, something art programs don't have a problem with...
How long is this gonna last before it gets modded into oblivion? I could reply to it but... what's the point. "-1, Troll" is all too appropriate.
I would also add to that, the removal of the Clerk St Odeon cinema from smack-bang in the middle of studentstville and the rise of digital TV (eg Freeview). With competition like that, and the trek required to get to a half-way decent cinema from the Newington/Marchcmont area, it's no wonder they're making a loss.