"Interestingly, they also propose that software developers have a "right to develop compatible software." Of course, my right to make my software compatible implies your obligation to document your software and protocols so that I can make my software compatible."
Actually that's not true. Just because you have a right to do something does not mean I am obligated to help you. Yes you can now reverse engineer some product to figure out how it works to make compatible software, but it does not say I have to help you. Just like you have a right to free speech, but I do not have to listen.
"I don't think this is the case here. When I post on Slashdot, I'm giving permission to Slashdot to publish my post on Slashdot, in the particular forum where I submitted my post to, and nowhere else. Would it be alright if I took your Slashdot articles, bound them into a book, and sold them? I don't think so. "
Actually nowhere when you post do you say that you are giving Slashdot permission to publish your post. There is a fundemental difference between an article written by someone and published by Slashdot, and a comment displayed by Slashdot. In the former Slashdot is buying rights to display the article (buying may not involve monetary exchange though.) When you post a comment you are using a facility Slashdot has made aviable to you to display your thoughts. They are in no way agreeing to any conditions other then you still own the content of it. And since it is a public discussion forum, and called a comment, someone can probably quote your entire comment from it without having to reimburse you. It could very well be legally considered to be no different then saying your views on the street for all to here.
"Of course, as soon as IPv6 is implemented, super-high-quality MPEG4 internet-TV stations will take over, and TV will be a thing of the past, so enjoy it while it lasts.:) "
Um you basically said after internet TV stations take over TV will be a thing of a past, but if TV becomes a thing of the past then internet TV stations will also be gone because they are still TV. If anything I'd envision TV sets which just get their programming from the net, but in most other ways will still resemble the TVs we have today. Computers may change fast, people change slow.
Actually I've never once seen/. itself say to boycott the MPAA, I've only seen people posting comments call for this. So its not really hypocritical for/. to say this.
Also there's a lot of people who don't agree with what the MPAA is doing but still are not boycotting DVDs. Personally I don't think a boycott will do any good, people like movies too much for enough people to ever join to make it mean something. So just because some people on/. are now excited doesn't mean its hypocritical.
Well I know the shows producers would own the characters, and possibly parts of the theme of the show, like locations, if they were fictional (like Springfield in The Simpsons)
Plots I'm not as sure as, espically if someone wrote a story using characters I own. Does the author still have a right to the plot even if it was written using unauthorized characters.
What surprised me is they're going to sue a couple colleges too, which means sueing ISPs can't be far behind, because in this case that is all the college is providing to the students.
Actually considering how much of space is just that, empty space, we'd be very lucky to find a wormhole close to us that goes near anything else. Unless for some reason graviational effects of stars and/or planets has an effect on where wormholes open up.
In some cases it is, but in a lot of others its not. We're not talking just about lung cancer caused by smoking here. There are many other types.
But its not like this is the only case, in Canada at least, breast cancer gets 10 or 20 times the funding that prostate cancer research gets, when they both kill about equally.
I wonder if this was some programmer that thought of this, or if some manager suddenly decided it'd be a good idea.
Oh well I'm glad I play Asheron's Call now instead, much better game.
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I heard, but can't confirm anywhere on the pages, that it will compile in Linux as well as Windows.
Also its not quite a traditional "open source" project, as it is possible to still pay for the source and not release your changes, but if you agree to release any source to a product you create with this, its free.
One of the sources of revinue they suggested was sending up scientific experiments. Its already very hard, and takes a long time, to get anything sent up on the shuttle, there are companies doing research that would be willing to pay to get it up sooner.
So how long before we can have a slashdot sidebar tab entry too. Just looking at the news and cnn sidebar tabs shows me how nice they could be for any news type site.
"What if you put a server on a ship in international waters with a radio or satelite connection (or even a cable connection for that matter), and use it for totally illegal purposes?"
Cool idea but if say some big corporation gets mad at you for doing this, since its international waters with no laws, they can just sail out with a bigger boat and run you over.:)
"If the Judge says they are not a monopoly and are without any guilt, then those lawsuits are not going to appear. If MS was sure that it was not guilty, they would just sit back and wait for the not-guilty verdict to be rendered."
Its not quite that simple. If you were being told you have a 50% chance of being convicted of murder and sent away for life, but are offered a chance to work out something less, wouldn't you at least look at it? You can be as sure as you want you are not guilty, but only what the judge thinks will count in the end.
"I'm failing to understand something. Why does it take monay to save iridium? Is there no way we could somehow get the company their tax write-off and have them just open up the network for public use instead of directing them all to suicide? "
It takes money, because you need money to run a system of satalites, espically 66 of them. And the amount is on the order of 100 million+ a year.
"It seems to me that data is data is data, and it would trivial to send any type of traffic over this connection."
It may be, but he wants to send broadband traffic which requires lots of bandwidth. If these things were designed like the cell phone towers we have now they're probably limited to speeds slower then even a 56K modem per circuit.
And while it might be nice to have a free internet traffic route, bandwidth will matter. You're not going to enjoy doing much at 1 byte a second or less.
"I really don't see how they could be forcing anyone to pay the $21.95 for much beyond the first month"
Well look at what they do with cell phones. When I got mine the phone came at a reduced rate, but is technically owned by me. But if I cancel my cell plan I have to pay a penalty because they only sold me the phone on the grounds that I would subscribe to their service for a year.
They'll probably come up with a plan like this eventually, what they have now on their page obviousally isn't sufficent legal grounds.
So if his arguments were said by someone outside the security field you'd take them?
You cannot discount his arguments just on the basis that he is a security consultant. You can examine what he says in greater detail to make sure it makes sense, but outright saying "He is a security consultant therefore his arguments are invalid" is invalid in itself.
I wouldn't count Napster's days being numbered anytime soon. The biggest hurdle if some other program were to overtake it, is to get the masses using it. More so then any program since ICQ do I have non computer friends using Napster, who have never heard of Linux, or open source. If Napster continues to work the masses will not move over. The windows client market is still the one that has to be broken into before something will explode to levels Napster has.
"Can you take this instead of metal-shop or home-ec to fufull your elective requirements? "
We had several computer courses we could take as electives in high school. There were two main branches computer use, which focused on how to use various types of programs, and computer science which was development in pascal. Though this was a few years ago I think my old high school has a few more courses now.
The major problem is we had only one teacher who knew enough about computers to teach just this, and even then his experience was limited. At least he let us play around with anything we felt like if he knew we had a strong interest in computers.
Though the money angle is a good thing to try this could also be one of the biggest hinderences too. Its hard enough for schools to get windows machines up and running, even though that is what the vast majority of teachers are familiar with, and getting Linux up and running is even harder.
Hiring competent tech people is something most schools unfortuantly cannot afford, even though having lots of great hardware with no one knowledgeable in it is a big waste.
The problem with e-mail is its still easy to quickly send off a flame before you give yourself time to think. That's why so many places still give written complaint letters so much attention, because to send a letter takes some real effort, and by the time you have it written up, put it in an envelope, and to the mailbox, you should have calmed down somewhat, and have had time to think. With e-mail I can get off a flame to someone in less time then I could find an envelope, same thing with slashdot comments, and IRC.
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"Interestingly, they also propose that software developers have a "right to develop compatible software." Of course, my right to make my software compatible implies your obligation to document your software and protocols so that I can make my software compatible."
Actually that's not true. Just because you have a right to do something does not mean I am obligated to help you. Yes you can now reverse engineer some product to figure out how it works to make compatible software, but it does not say I have to help you. Just like you have a right to free speech, but I do not have to listen.
"I don't think this is the case here. When I post on Slashdot, I'm giving permission to Slashdot to publish my post on Slashdot, in the particular forum where I submitted my post to, and nowhere else. Would it be alright if I took your Slashdot articles, bound them into a book, and sold them? I don't think so. "
Actually nowhere when you post do you say that you are giving Slashdot permission to publish your post. There is a fundemental difference between an article written by someone and published by Slashdot, and a comment displayed by Slashdot. In the former Slashdot is buying rights to display the article (buying may not involve monetary exchange though.) When you post a comment you are using a facility Slashdot has made aviable to you to display your thoughts. They are in no way agreeing to any conditions other then you still own the content of it. And since it is a public discussion forum, and called a comment, someone can probably quote your entire comment from it without having to reimburse you. It could very well be legally considered to be no different then saying your views on the street for all to here.
"Of course, as soon as IPv6 is implemented, super-high-quality MPEG4 internet-TV stations will take over, and TV will be a thing of the past, so enjoy it while it lasts. :) "
Um you basically said after internet TV stations take over TV will be a thing of a past, but if TV becomes a thing of the past then internet TV stations will also be gone because they are still TV. If anything I'd envision TV sets which just get their programming from the net, but in most other ways will still resemble the TVs we have today. Computers may change fast, people change slow.
Actually I've never once seen /. itself say to boycott the MPAA, I've only seen people posting comments call for this. So its not really hypocritical for /. to say this.
/. are now excited doesn't mean its hypocritical.
Also there's a lot of people who don't agree with what the MPAA is doing but still are not boycotting DVDs. Personally I don't think a boycott will do any good, people like movies too much for enough people to ever join to make it mean something. So just because some people on
Actually my friends and I were bored one day and we checked an atlas, 49 of the 50 states have a city or town called Springfield.
Well I know the shows producers would own the characters, and possibly parts of the theme of the show, like locations, if they were fictional (like Springfield in The Simpsons)
Plots I'm not as sure as, espically if someone wrote a story using characters I own. Does the author still have a right to the plot even if it was written using unauthorized characters.
What surprised me is they're going to sue a couple colleges too, which means sueing ISPs can't be far behind, because in this case that is all the college is providing to the students.
Actually considering how much of space is just that, empty space, we'd be very lucky to find a wormhole close to us that goes near anything else. Unless for some reason graviational effects of stars and/or planets has an effect on where wormholes open up.
"Gee, and Cancer isn't?"
In some cases it is, but in a lot of others its not. We're not talking just about lung cancer caused by smoking here. There are many other types.
But its not like this is the only case, in Canada at least, breast cancer gets 10 or 20 times the funding that prostate cancer research gets, when they both kill about equally.
I wonder if this was some programmer that thought of this, or if some manager suddenly decided it'd be a good idea.
Oh well I'm glad I play Asheron's Call now instead, much better game.
I heard, but can't confirm anywhere on the pages, that it will compile in Linux as well as Windows.
Also its not quite a traditional "open source" project, as it is possible to still pay for the source and not release your changes, but if you agree to release any source to a product you create with this, its free.
One of the sources of revinue they suggested was sending up scientific experiments. Its already very hard, and takes a long time, to get anything sent up on the shuttle, there are companies doing research that would be willing to pay to get it up sooner.
So how long before we can have a slashdot sidebar tab entry too. Just looking at the news and cnn sidebar tabs shows me how nice they could be for any news type site.
"What if you put a server on a ship in international waters with a radio or satelite connection (or even a cable connection for that matter), and use it for totally illegal purposes?"
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Cool idea but if say some big corporation gets mad at you for doing this, since its international waters with no laws, they can just sail out with a bigger boat and run you over.
Actually his singing wasn't the best I must admit, but the dance sequence definatly made up for it. And they only censored the one word.
No way, I'm from Canada and everyone I knew wanted it to win. It was by far the most original song there, not to mention the best performed.
"If the Judge says they are not a monopoly and are without any guilt, then those lawsuits are not going to appear. If MS was sure that it was not guilty, they would just sit back and wait for the not-guilty verdict to be rendered."
Its not quite that simple. If you were being told you have a 50% chance of being convicted of murder and sent away for life, but are offered a chance to work out something less, wouldn't you at least look at it? You can be as sure as you want you are not guilty, but only what the judge thinks will count in the end.
"I'm failing to understand something. Why does it take monay to save iridium? Is there no way we could somehow get the company their tax write-off and have them just open up the network for public use instead of directing them all to suicide? "
It takes money, because you need money to run a system of satalites, espically 66 of them. And the amount is on the order of 100 million+ a year.
"It seems to me that data is data is data, and it would trivial to send any type of traffic over this connection."
It may be, but he wants to send broadband traffic which requires lots of bandwidth. If these things were designed like the cell phone towers we have now they're probably limited to speeds slower then even a 56K modem per circuit.
And while it might be nice to have a free internet traffic route, bandwidth will matter. You're not going to enjoy doing much at 1 byte a second or less.
"I really don't see how they could be forcing anyone to pay the $21.95 for much beyond the first month"
Well look at what they do with cell phones. When I got mine the phone came at a reduced rate, but is technically owned by me. But if I cancel my cell plan I have to pay a penalty because they only sold me the phone on the grounds that I would subscribe to their service for a year.
They'll probably come up with a plan like this eventually, what they have now on their page obviousally isn't sufficent legal grounds.
So if his arguments were said by someone outside the security field you'd take them?
You cannot discount his arguments just on the basis that he is a security consultant. You can examine what he says in greater detail to make sure it makes sense, but outright saying "He is a security consultant therefore his arguments are invalid" is invalid in itself.
I wouldn't count Napster's days being numbered anytime soon. The biggest hurdle if some other program were to overtake it, is to get the masses using it. More so then any program since ICQ do I have non computer friends using Napster, who have never heard of Linux, or open source. If Napster continues to work the masses will not move over. The windows client market is still the one that has to be broken into before something will explode to levels Napster has.
"Can you take this instead of metal-shop or home-ec to fufull your elective requirements? "
We had several computer courses we could take as electives in high school. There were two main branches computer use, which focused on how to use various types of programs, and computer science which was development in pascal. Though this was a few years ago I think my old high school has a few more courses now.
The major problem is we had only one teacher who knew enough about computers to teach just this, and even then his experience was limited. At least he let us play around with anything we felt like if he knew we had a strong interest in computers.
Though the money angle is a good thing to try this could also be one of the biggest hinderences too. Its hard enough for schools to get windows machines up and running, even though that is what the vast majority of teachers are familiar with, and getting Linux up and running is even harder.
Hiring competent tech people is something most schools unfortuantly cannot afford, even though having lots of great hardware with no one knowledgeable in it is a big waste.
The problem with e-mail is its still easy to quickly send off a flame before you give yourself time to think. That's why so many places still give written complaint letters so much attention, because to send a letter takes some real effort, and by the time you have it written up, put it in an envelope, and to the mailbox, you should have calmed down somewhat, and have had time to think. With e-mail I can get off a flame to someone in less time then I could find an envelope, same thing with slashdot comments, and IRC.