So Ted Stevens played a huge role in developing Alaska on my dime. I don't need to laud him for that.
Of course you don't, because you're on the losing side of that zero-sum game. If you were an Alaskan, though, might you vote for him? Sure, you might feel dirty. It might be hard to sleep at night. But that bed of money would make the sleeping easier.
Or the republicans who decided pornography and medical marijuana were among the top priorities at the DOJ? Those republicans? Or the republicans who were basically 100% for the PATRIOT act, gutting FISA..
You were doing pretty well at showing the inferiority of Republicans to Democrats, until you listed those things. The Democrats are in strong agreement with Republicans on those issues. The Democrats vote to outlaw porn, they vote to outlaw drugs, they voted for PATRIOT, and the voted for the FISA amendment. The Republicans suck, but I assure you, if you are an American, the Democrats are your enemy also.
I would get a camcorder and record the activity. I would then turn that over to the police and wait for the wheels of justice to smash the dealer into hamburger.
Did I learn MORE than someone using Win 3.1? No. I learned different stuff. I did learn about PEEKs and POKEs and an oddball OS running on very, very limited hardware.
Actually, you did learn something. You learned about memory-mapped I/O, something that most programmers of higher-level OSes are never exposed to (because they use APIs instead). Later, when you get down in the dirt and have to write a driver or something, your C64 general programming experience has prepared you for something that normally only OS hackers are prepared for.
Oh, and your VIC-20 experience probably warped you toward memory efficiency, in a way that the later machines wouldn't. Or at least that happened to me, and it took a while to unlearn.;)
What gives YOU the RIGHT to something created by someone else?
The fact that they offered it to me in exchange for my money, and then they confirmed that offer by accepting my money. If they weren't giving up something as part of an exchange, then what gave them the right to my money?
Many software packages include the license as a plain text file. Changing the text file changes the license that appears in the installer. What If you were to change the license to your liking, remove sections you disapprove of, or remove it entirely, and then install the package?
That goes back to the problem of EULAs not being verifiable contracts. They do not have a copy of the contract you agreed to with your signature. There was no two-way communication or signal to the license-offerer that you actually accepted anything. They can sort of inductively say, "He must have agreed to the EULA" but there's no actually evidence to show to a court.
What's exciting about your scenario, is that if they installer requires internet access, then the user can make the argument, "Well, I assumed that the modified contract was sent to their server and someone (or something) over there agreed that my changes were acceptable. By telling the installer to proceed, the copyright holder agrees to.." Turnabout is fair play.
Well, a more realistic approach would be to use a human minor (especially likely for a game). "Your honor, my son installed the game on my computer. I never agreed to any contract at all."
The downside to that argument is that EA can then say (remember, we're talking about a game's DRM being malware), "Your honor, his son installed our malware on his computer. If his computer is so important to him, why is he letting a minor have root access to it?"
And once you see it that way, the argument extends to the lucky cat. Sure, you didn't ever consent to EA's malware being installed on your computer, but you also had a cat near your keyboard.
If you give a gun to a chimp and the chimp shoots someone, they don't blame the chimp.
I just want to say I'm amazed I was modded funny here. I presume someone thought that the idea of being paid hourly to write a program and yet also retain the copyright and then resell it multiple times, is so perverted that the situation is hysterical.
But I'm telling you: that's the real world I'm talking about. Things really work like that.
Do you really think people are going to vote to repeal the 14th amendment? If they do (not that I can imagine it) then yes, I guess we should regress to slavery. I propose that the slaves be whomever votes to legalize it.
Likewise, I'm fine with the feds being in charge of education, if the people ever choose to pass an amendment granting that power to congress.
I do think it's interesting that the people have not yet chosen to do that. You should explain to people why they should. When the amendment passes, you'll know you have made the right argument.
Required service is no different from an income tax - in either case they are taking your time and life and efforts to benefit the government (or, less cynically, society at large).
Well, it's really more like a per-capita tax. If it were like income tax, then people with 24 hour days would have to do n hours of service, and people with 36 hour days would have to do n*1.7 hours of service (notice it's not n*1.5; it's progressive). Then there would be the people who game the system by existing 24 hours a day but spending y hours on a deductible activity, so that they get taxed as though they had 24-y hour days. And then, much like how capital gains has a different tax rate than income, people who use time machines to increase the size of their days, would use a different formula for determining their community service.
The worst part is that for every x hours of community service performed, only x*0.6 hours actually serves the community, and x*0.4 hours is used to serve some special interest, so that the special interest can give x*.003 hours of kickback service back to the lawmakers. In the case of Series of Tubes guy, he will claim he didn't even know you were out in front of his house, pulling weeds.
Would a requirement that programs are released as open source make it more or less difficult to find someone to do the job?
Here's how my previous job worked: We would find someone who wanted something, and charge them hourly to write it, and then give 'em a binary to which we're the copyright holder. Then that program would be a "product" that we would sell to other people in the same business. It was great for us (and not so great for them, but they didn't know better).
If you make it so that we don't have a proprietary product (developed at your expense) to keep selling over and over, then we're going to ask for more at the "charge them hourly to write it" part. (Well, either that, or you're going to do business with someone more competitive than us, who is ok with only being paid once for each unit of work.)
And to be fair, the business was actually a lot more honest than I just made it sound. And it is still a standard practice in the business (there just wasn't anymore more competitive than us). That's how things will be, until enough people like you say they're willing to pay for free software, so that it reaches critical mass and becomes the new standard.
If your scanner doesn't say program X is malware, does that mean you should run program X?
Of course not. Quit downloading and running random programs, and your results will be the same whether scanners work, don't work, or you don't have one at all.
It's amazing that they analyze the name so hard. I would just throw a database at the problem. It's inconceivable that IBM doesn't have a shitload of demographic databases around, which already have name-sex pairs. Just select sex, count(*) where name='terry' group by sex. If the ratio is overwhelming in one direction, choose that, and if the margin of error is too high (and I'd set that pretty low to avoid pissing off Miss Pat), pick neutral. That would work with any language, too (assuming IBM has a database for that culture).
Nobody forces you to buy a shitty car. If you're willing to vote
for a politician who promises to force car manufacturers to not suck, why aren't you willing to just vote with your wallet and buy a not-shitty car? You already have the power to get what you want, even if the government doesn't share your agenda and step in. Can't you sell your Hummer for parts and buy that Prius today, regardless of who becomes the next president?
1) Dying to protect them and their right to do so. or
2) Wasting a whole lot of money to oppress a country that they had no point in invading in the first place, and causing needless deaths.
I'm not taking a side on the issue, but shouldn't either one be more important than having to move back into an apartment?
Wouldn't many of the people who hold position #2, say that they're having to move back into an apartment because of waste? If the problems are related by cause-and-effect, the issue of relative importance doesn't really come into play, does it? Government waste (causing higher taxes or uhigher interest rates -- both destructive to business) and a trashed economy are the same thing.
I agree. And winning the state legislatures would also be a way to reform the voting laws to remove some of the barriers to third parties ending up in Washington. Imagine if your state switched to condorcet voting. Ain't gonna happen until you elect people to locally make that change.
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Of course you don't, because you're on the losing side of that zero-sum game. If you were an Alaskan, though, might you vote for him? Sure, you might feel dirty. It might be hard to sleep at night. But that bed of money would make the sleeping easier.
GP was talking about honesty, not competency.
You were doing pretty well at showing the inferiority of Republicans to Democrats, until you listed those things. The Democrats are in strong agreement with Republicans on those issues. The Democrats vote to outlaw porn, they vote to outlaw drugs, they voted for PATRIOT, and the voted for the FISA amendment. The Republicans suck, but I assure you, if you are an American, the Democrats are your enemy also.
Why do you think I eventually stopped beating my wife?
As long as people keep opting-in to running botnet nodes, we'll have this problem. Don't like it? Stop participating in the botnet.
And if the police do nothing?
Even worse, if you do that and then try to resell your copy of Integrity-178B on eBay, they kick you off.
Need, schmeed. A 64-bit environment is what people have. What should they do, run their flash plugin inside a 386 emulator?
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Actually, you did learn something. You learned about memory-mapped I/O, something that most programmers of higher-level OSes are never exposed to (because they use APIs instead). Later, when you get down in the dirt and have to write a driver or something, your C64 general programming experience has prepared you for something that normally only OS hackers are prepared for.
Oh, and your VIC-20 experience probably warped you toward memory efficiency, in a way that the later machines wouldn't. Or at least that happened to me, and it took a while to unlearn. ;)
The fact that they offered it to me in exchange for my money, and then they confirmed that offer by accepting my money. If they weren't giving up something as part of an exchange, then what gave them the right to my money?
That goes back to the problem of EULAs not being verifiable contracts. They do not have a copy of the contract you agreed to with your signature. There was no two-way communication or signal to the license-offerer that you actually accepted anything. They can sort of inductively say, "He must have agreed to the EULA" but there's no actually evidence to show to a court.
What's exciting about your scenario, is that if they installer requires internet access, then the user can make the argument, "Well, I assumed that the modified contract was sent to their server and someone (or something) over there agreed that my changes were acceptable. By telling the installer to proceed, the copyright holder agrees to .." Turnabout is fair play.
Well, a more realistic approach would be to use a human minor (especially likely for a game). "Your honor, my son installed the game on my computer. I never agreed to any contract at all."
The downside to that argument is that EA can then say (remember, we're talking about a game's DRM being malware), "Your honor, his son installed our malware on his computer. If his computer is so important to him, why is he letting a minor have root access to it?"
And once you see it that way, the argument extends to the lucky cat. Sure, you didn't ever consent to EA's malware being installed on your computer, but you also had a cat near your keyboard.
If you give a gun to a chimp and the chimp shoots someone, they don't blame the chimp.
I just want to say I'm amazed I was modded funny here. I presume someone thought that the idea of being paid hourly to write a program and yet also retain the copyright and then resell it multiple times, is so perverted that the situation is hysterical.
But I'm telling you: that's the real world I'm talking about. Things really work like that.
Do you really think people are going to vote to repeal the 14th amendment? If they do (not that I can imagine it) then yes, I guess we should regress to slavery. I propose that the slaves be whomever votes to legalize it.
Likewise, I'm fine with the feds being in charge of education, if the people ever choose to pass an amendment granting that power to congress.
I do think it's interesting that the people have not yet chosen to do that. You should explain to people why they should. When the amendment passes, you'll know you have made the right argument.
Well, it's really more like a per-capita tax. If it were like income tax, then people with 24 hour days would have to do n hours of service, and people with 36 hour days would have to do n*1.7 hours of service (notice it's not n*1.5; it's progressive). Then there would be the people who game the system by existing 24 hours a day but spending y hours on a deductible activity, so that they get taxed as though they had 24-y hour days. And then, much like how capital gains has a different tax rate than income, people who use time machines to increase the size of their days, would use a different formula for determining their community service.
The worst part is that for every x hours of community service performed, only x*0.6 hours actually serves the community, and x*0.4 hours is used to serve some special interest, so that the special interest can give x*.003 hours of kickback service back to the lawmakers. In the case of Series of Tubes guy, he will claim he didn't even know you were out in front of his house, pulling weeds.
Here's how my previous job worked: We would find someone who wanted something, and charge them hourly to write it, and then give 'em a binary to which we're the copyright holder. Then that program would be a "product" that we would sell to other people in the same business. It was great for us (and not so great for them, but they didn't know better).
If you make it so that we don't have a proprietary product (developed at your expense) to keep selling over and over, then we're going to ask for more at the "charge them hourly to write it" part. (Well, either that, or you're going to do business with someone more competitive than us, who is ok with only being paid once for each unit of work.)
And to be fair, the business was actually a lot more honest than I just made it sound. And it is still a standard practice in the business (there just wasn't anymore more competitive than us). That's how things will be, until enough people like you say they're willing to pay for free software, so that it reaches critical mass and becomes the new standard.
If your scanner doesn't say program X is malware, does that mean you should run program X?
Of course not. Quit downloading and running random programs, and your results will be the same whether scanners work, don't work, or you don't have one at all.
It's amazing that they analyze the name so hard. I would just throw a database at the problem. It's inconceivable that IBM doesn't have a shitload of demographic databases around, which already have name-sex pairs. Just select sex, count(*) where name='terry' group by sex. If the ratio is overwhelming in one direction, choose that, and if the margin of error is too high (and I'd set that pretty low to avoid pissing off Miss Pat), pick neutral. That would work with any language, too (assuming IBM has a database for that culture).
There's no antidote. It's a question of what's the best treatment.
It's not hard, as long as enough people like you, send in their checks.
But nobody puts their wallet where their mouth is.
Wait until after business hours before you start that long FTP transfer. Anything over a hundred kilobytes can wait until night.
I don't get it.
Nobody forces you to buy a shitty car. If you're willing to vote for a politician who promises to force car manufacturers to not suck, why aren't you willing to just vote with your wallet and buy a not-shitty car? You already have the power to get what you want, even if the government doesn't share your agenda and step in. Can't you sell your Hummer for parts and buy that Prius today, regardless of who becomes the next president?
Wouldn't many of the people who hold position #2, say that they're having to move back into an apartment because of waste? If the problems are related by cause-and-effect, the issue of relative importance doesn't really come into play, does it? Government waste (causing higher taxes or uhigher interest rates -- both destructive to business) and a trashed economy are the same thing.
I agree. And winning the state legislatures would also be a way to reform the voting laws to remove some of the barriers to third parties ending up in Washington. Imagine if your state switched to condorcet voting. Ain't gonna happen until you elect people to locally make that change.