I don't think you thought that part through well enough. Preventing discrimination and harassment against students because of their sexual orientation is a reasonable objective, especially given how much "gay" has become schoolyard slang. But you really haven't given enough thought to the consequences of forwarding e-mails containing those words to staff.
Imagine that a student is trying to talk to another student, in private, about their own sexual orientation. By forwarding the e-mail that way, you've forcibly outed this student who thought they were having a private conversation. They probably wouldn't want staff to know about that, and it could conceivably even result in certain conservative staff members discriminating against students.
So on earlier stories about this, there were a number of posters claiming that there was no evidence that this went further up than the News of the World staff, and that any attacks on Murdoch and News Corp were politically-motivated "piling on", in the words of Fox and Friends. I hope that they can admit they were wrong now.
Have you actually looked at the other parties' platforms? The Liberals and NDP are both in favour of ensuring consumer rights to circumvent DRM on material one legally owns, among other things. If everyone had exactly the same opinions and just wanted to screw the consumer, the bill would have passed already.
FF11 (and Phantasy Star Universe) predates Games for Windows Live, which is Microsoft's official solution for cross-platform play. I'm pretty sure it's now a requirement that games with cross-platform play can only do it through GFWL - and that limits your platforms to only Windows and 360.
You're not, actually - that's part of the problem. They only got 4.5 hours by turning the 3D off. I would imagine that battery performance would be much worse with 3D, and that's not even taking other factors like sound (which they had off) into consideration.
Not true on the N64! Check the Neo-Geo master list. They measure in Mbits so you have to divide by 8, but the biggest Neo game is KOF 2003 at 716Mb or 89.5MB. It looks like the Neo first passed 64MB in 1998 with Shock Troopers 2 (64.25), KOF '98 (85.375), Last Blade 2 (69.25) and Real Bout Fatal Fury 2 (67.375), while RE2 on N64 came out a year later in 1999. 64MB was pretty huge for a mainstream home console cart at the time, though.
That's not the case in a lot of places - you may just have bad luck there! I've never come across anyone who thinks like that anywhere I've studied English or Russian literature, and I've had more than a few professors assign all public domain texts online to save students paying for textbooks.
ISPs are not common carriers, and never have been. It's a common misconception on Slashdot for some reason. Like this article notes, ISPs have historically not wanted to be regulated under the pre-existing common carrier regulations.
I'm sure the GP doesn't actually own the hardware, but I'm very fond of my Game Doctor SF7. I dump all my own original cartridges with it. They're surprisingly not that hard to get even in this day and age.
Two of those are directly based on other games (FreeCiv is a remake of Civilization, The Battle for Wesnoth is heavily based on Langrisser), and Tremulous is based on the Quake 3 engine. That significantly reduces their scope and brings them closer to "normal" FOSS development process, which really seems to support the GP's point.
OSI tried to register "open source" as a trademark, but didn't receive it. I don't think companies are legally bound to follow OSI's principles when describing something as "open source."
If they're using the OSI trademark or something along those lines, which Microsoft doesn't seem to be, it's a different situation.
I personally would appreciate a link to a separate section that provides all of the details.
There is one. If you look at the bottom of the page, there are links to "Read Obama's Technology and Innovation Plan" and "Read Obama's Science Agenda." Those are PDFs containing the full unexpurgated text from the previous revision of the page. As far as I can tell, what they've done is turn the page into a summary of Obama's positions while still providing links to the full statements for people who want the details.
Blizzard always releases every one of their games for Mac on the same day as the Windows versions; that goes back to long before Cedega existed. A Mac version of Diablo 3 doesn't mean anything to a potential Linux version, unfortunately.
Touch Dic is a great choice for unintentional double entendres, but my absolute favourite is the Japanese-only Saturn game 6 Inch Maidarin - a.k.a. Six Inch My Darling. I've never played it and I hope never to, because that title is just simply too great to ruin by contextualizing it.
The Mother translation in question was released as a ROM, not an IPS, and was a translation made by Nintendo themselves - it was a dump of the complete translated game they ended up deciding not to release. It is true that he wasn't respecting their IP rights, though in this case Nintendo was likely not losing much money since they ended up scrapping the English version.
IANAL, but there have been other court cases since that show intent is significant. Look at MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd., where it was ruled that Grokster's service illegal because it was advertised for illegal purposes even though it did have non-infringing uses. Sega v. Maphia had similar results, when it was noted that the BBS operators were "knowingly allow[ing] others to upload and download the Sega games and expressly solicited others to upload games to his BBS."
As for it being hard to prove intent, The Pirate Bay has been very outspoken about their opinions on copyright and downloading. I don't think anyone would have a hard time proving intent with the material made available on their own site.
The Mac windowing system does work differently that way. Tool palettes are a separate type of window, which will also come to the front when you click on one of the document windows from their application. It's a small difference, but it makes the multiple-window system work a lot better than GIMP's version.
That's not so uncommon on other systems either. Most of my Xbox games are primarily d-pad based for controls, but most of those that do use the analogue stick primarily do use the d-pad for alternate functions - for instance, Magatama puts the camera on the d-pad, while both Half-Life 2 and Toejam & Earl 3 put item selection there.
It doesn't. I was responding to the assertation that there aren't any issues with reproductions of scientology texts in the US, not the earlier discussion about violations of freedom of speech.
The GP is probably referring to this case; the Church of Scientology issued a DMCA takedown notice asking Slashdot to remove a comment containing Scientology texts, and Slashdot complied.
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I don't think you thought that part through well enough. Preventing discrimination and harassment against students because of their sexual orientation is a reasonable objective, especially given how much "gay" has become schoolyard slang. But you really haven't given enough thought to the consequences of forwarding e-mails containing those words to staff. Imagine that a student is trying to talk to another student, in private, about their own sexual orientation. By forwarding the e-mail that way, you've forcibly outed this student who thought they were having a private conversation. They probably wouldn't want staff to know about that, and it could conceivably even result in certain conservative staff members discriminating against students.
So on earlier stories about this, there were a number of posters claiming that there was no evidence that this went further up than the News of the World staff, and that any attacks on Murdoch and News Corp were politically-motivated "piling on", in the words of Fox and Friends. I hope that they can admit they were wrong now.
Didn't even bother to post anonymous coward to make it look like you weren't defending yourself in the third person, huh?
Did you check their sizing chart? They give you the measurements of the shirts in inches. It's not exactly an obtuse measurement.
It's a good thing you're not doing anything frivolous with your time as an adult like posting on Slashdot.
Have you actually looked at the other parties' platforms? The Liberals and NDP are both in favour of ensuring consumer rights to circumvent DRM on material one legally owns, among other things. If everyone had exactly the same opinions and just wanted to screw the consumer, the bill would have passed already.
FF11 (and Phantasy Star Universe) predates Games for Windows Live, which is Microsoft's official solution for cross-platform play. I'm pretty sure it's now a requirement that games with cross-platform play can only do it through GFWL - and that limits your platforms to only Windows and 360.
You're not, actually - that's part of the problem. They only got 4.5 hours by turning the 3D off. I would imagine that battery performance would be much worse with 3D, and that's not even taking other factors like sound (which they had off) into consideration.
Not true on the N64! Check the Neo-Geo master list. They measure in Mbits so you have to divide by 8, but the biggest Neo game is KOF 2003 at 716Mb or 89.5MB. It looks like the Neo first passed 64MB in 1998 with Shock Troopers 2 (64.25), KOF '98 (85.375), Last Blade 2 (69.25) and Real Bout Fatal Fury 2 (67.375), while RE2 on N64 came out a year later in 1999. 64MB was pretty huge for a mainstream home console cart at the time, though.
That's not the case in a lot of places - you may just have bad luck there! I've never come across anyone who thinks like that anywhere I've studied English or Russian literature, and I've had more than a few professors assign all public domain texts online to save students paying for textbooks.
That did in fact happen pretty much exactly like how you described.
ISPs are not common carriers, and never have been. It's a common misconception on Slashdot for some reason. Like this article notes, ISPs have historically not wanted to be regulated under the pre-existing common carrier regulations.
I'm sure the GP doesn't actually own the hardware, but I'm very fond of my Game Doctor SF7. I dump all my own original cartridges with it. They're surprisingly not that hard to get even in this day and age.
Two of those are directly based on other games (FreeCiv is a remake of Civilization, The Battle for Wesnoth is heavily based on Langrisser), and Tremulous is based on the Quake 3 engine. That significantly reduces their scope and brings them closer to "normal" FOSS development process, which really seems to support the GP's point.
OSI tried to register "open source" as a trademark, but didn't receive it. I don't think companies are legally bound to follow OSI's principles when describing something as "open source."
If they're using the OSI trademark or something along those lines, which Microsoft doesn't seem to be, it's a different situation.
There is one. If you look at the bottom of the page, there are links to "Read Obama's Technology and Innovation Plan" and "Read Obama's Science Agenda." Those are PDFs containing the full unexpurgated text from the previous revision of the page. As far as I can tell, what they've done is turn the page into a summary of Obama's positions while still providing links to the full statements for people who want the details.
Blizzard always releases every one of their games for Mac on the same day as the Windows versions; that goes back to long before Cedega existed. A Mac version of Diablo 3 doesn't mean anything to a potential Linux version, unfortunately.
Touch Dic is a great choice for unintentional double entendres, but my absolute favourite is the Japanese-only Saturn game 6 Inch Maidarin - a.k.a. Six Inch My Darling. I've never played it and I hope never to, because that title is just simply too great to ruin by contextualizing it.
The Mother translation in question was released as a ROM, not an IPS, and was a translation made by Nintendo themselves - it was a dump of the complete translated game they ended up deciding not to release. It is true that he wasn't respecting their IP rights, though in this case Nintendo was likely not losing much money since they ended up scrapping the English version.
IANAL, but there have been other court cases since that show intent is significant. Look at MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd., where it was ruled that Grokster's service illegal because it was advertised for illegal purposes even though it did have non-infringing uses. Sega v. Maphia had similar results, when it was noted that the BBS operators were "knowingly allow[ing] others to upload and download the Sega games and expressly solicited others to upload games to his BBS." As for it being hard to prove intent, The Pirate Bay has been very outspoken about their opinions on copyright and downloading. I don't think anyone would have a hard time proving intent with the material made available on their own site.
The Mac windowing system does work differently that way. Tool palettes are a separate type of window, which will also come to the front when you click on one of the document windows from their application. It's a small difference, but it makes the multiple-window system work a lot better than GIMP's version.
Kernel source was closed for a few months a bit back, but it's open again as of 10.4.7.
That's not so uncommon on other systems either. Most of my Xbox games are primarily d-pad based for controls, but most of those that do use the analogue stick primarily do use the d-pad for alternate functions - for instance, Magatama puts the camera on the d-pad, while both Half-Life 2 and Toejam & Earl 3 put item selection there.
It doesn't. I was responding to the assertation that there aren't any issues with reproductions of scientology texts in the US, not the earlier discussion about violations of freedom of speech.
The GP is probably referring to this case; the Church of Scientology issued a DMCA takedown notice asking Slashdot to remove a comment containing Scientology texts, and Slashdot complied.