For the duration of the war on terror, which will be, essentially, forever.
Oh, I would be perfectly fine with suspending the Constitution and its associated rights. In war time. In time of Congressionally-declared war. In areas declared a combat zone.
Because if they declare formal war and declare the homeland a combat zone, it will be so obvious to everyone that they're just imposing martial law on their own citizens, so they wouldn't dare try. However corrupt our government may be, it stills want the perception of being the "beacon of democracy."
In any case, you should look to RMS' specific morals before you try to decry morality, generally. RMS's morals are to provide maximum value to society as a whole. Period. He has striven to do so by giving people rights, and taking steps to protect those rights.
I'm decrying neither morality nor the GPL, just RMS's specific view that proprietary code needs to be liberated. This is as much bull as saying the citizens of Iraq need to be liberated. Sure, they were under a bad government, and proprietary code is often an abuse of the public knowledge, but do we really need to have an activist go and mess with someone else's problem just to attempt to right every infringement of ethics?
And this isn't giving people rights. You have a right to secrecy and privacy. You have the right to provide a service without a good - if I open a barber shop, I am under no obligation to offer my scissors for sale, or even offer to give away my method of cutting hair. Similarly, software developers seem to have a right to allow their software to serve on others' computers without actually opening up the code to their software, which they reserve as a trade secret. The right to copy someone else's code is a "right" to infringe others' rights.
I'm not saying that proprietary code is better than Free code. Given the choice, I'll almost always encourage Freeing code (except when the code needs to be hidden for an extra level of security, albeit through obscurity). But if code has been made proprietary, why bother the coder by stealing his secrets?
Stop complaining and show some respect for man that has firm moral believes and stands up and speaks out for them.
At the risk of invoking Godwin 2001(tm), Osama bin Laden has strong moral beliefs and stands up for them pretty strongly. Simply calling a set of beliefs "moral" does not make them moral. There is a set of basic moral beliefs that everyone shares: killing or hurting people is generally bad, keeping your word is generally good, etc. Some respect for private property is also in this, and code is considerable as private property. I don't see RMS's statement as quite moral per se, although they do follow his stated "moral code".
No Christian fundamentalist would force a gay man into having sex with a woman. The most they'd do is pressure him to be chaste. So there's a point when following your own moral code will violate the general human morality. I think "liberating" proprietary code is past this line. Go ahead and boycott it, but it's immoral to refuse to respect the wishes of the coder that his code not be publicized.
This article has been submitted by Roland Piquepaille, proceed to the linked articles with extreme caution!
So?
a) Primidi.com is only linked through rel=nofollow in the article summary. This means that Google doesn't increase his pagerank.
b) There are no links to his personal website in the submission. The linked articles are not on his website; therefore, all your criticism about Blogads and whatever else is moot.
c) Everyone links their name to their personal website when submitting stories. Just because Roland found a way around Slashdot, saw the complaints, stopped, and Slashdot stopped giving him page rank, doesn't mean that you should continue to ignore his stories.
So long as you don't click on his name, it's as if "An anonymous reader" submitted the story. And if you're going to his site, caveat clickor.
Oddly, a high percentage of the newly missing persons seem to have worked for the Chicago Tribune.
What's a Chicago Tribune? These people have always been unemployed. Something seems to have made them disappear. I don't think Chicago ever had a newspaper...definitely not anything called a Tribune. Nope, never heard of it.
Example: let's say two persons had a contest: who was the most intelligent. And say 5 minutes before the contest started, person A shot person B in the head, several times. It would be a bit ridiculous to claim that person A won, wouldn't it.
Well, not quite, but if you asked something like which person is worth more, and instead of trying to prove his abilities he just shot the other guy, then yes, he is now worth more.
(Except for the minor quibble that murderers have negative worth.)
My take on it as it was a test a member of the IT staff came up with and implemented on his/her own without knowledge or approval of IT management. It probably didn't take long for the network people at wisc.edu to notice the bandwidth spikes and identify the cause.
So isn't that a success? They've basically proven that DoSsing a site that's administered by someone else is a quick way of taking it down.
All network access, for all services, goes through me.
Single point of failure? I was going to call his bluff. But then, this is the US Armed Forces. We had a single point of failure (yellowcake) in our reason to go to war.
(No offense intended, just a true American who knows that bureaucracy doesn't favor any party except the current government.)
3. Paper records for the voter. Worst case, every voter has a copy of their own vote. Hard to use for a recount, but could help identify irregularities.
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. This used to be the standard, until they caught on to Big Business asking their employees to show them their voting receipt to make sure they were voting for the right candidate. Especially around the turn of the century, this became an effective way to abuse immigrant workers, who had little choice in employment and didn't know much about the political system.
No, you were right. "Wry" means "ironic" or "twisted" (usually referring to humor). "Rye" is a type of grain. A catcher "in the rye" = "in the field of grain" makes sense, but a catcher "in the wry" = "in the ironically humorous ___" doesn't.
Besides, the book explains that Holden wanted to be in a field of rye where children are playing, and prevent them from falling off a cliff or something. So he would be a catcher (of children) in the rye (field).
So, in other words, AOL are going to have something much more limited than libgaim (AIM protocol only) available in the "near future"?
And legal.
IIRC anyone who's ever agreed to AIM's click-through license has promised that they won't try to crack the protocol. And it's hard to crack the protocol without running AIM. The only previous open library for AIM was TOC, which is very limited.
And if you're going to break the AIM client license and reverse-engineer it, then why not as well break the Open AIM license and get something equally legal but with better compatibility? Or use Open AIM for the purposes they allow you to (if you can manage it) and not break any licenses?
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This seems to me a case of "give them a yard and they demand a mile".
Noooo! I never said that the GPL was bad. The GPL's great. All I complained about was that RMS said that closed-source code ought to be "liberated".
His solution to this moral dilema is the GPL.
The GPL's great. Forcing people to GPL their code isn't.
For the duration of the war on terror, which will be, essentially, forever.
Oh, I would be perfectly fine with suspending the Constitution and its associated rights. In war time. In time of Congressionally-declared war. In areas declared a combat zone.
Because if they declare formal war and declare the homeland a combat zone, it will be so obvious to everyone that they're just imposing martial law on their own citizens, so they wouldn't dare try. However corrupt our government may be, it stills want the perception of being the "beacon of democracy."
In any case, you should look to RMS' specific morals before you try to decry morality, generally. RMS's morals are to provide maximum value to society as a whole. Period. He has striven to do so by giving people rights, and taking steps to protect those rights.
I'm decrying neither morality nor the GPL, just RMS's specific view that proprietary code needs to be liberated. This is as much bull as saying the citizens of Iraq need to be liberated. Sure, they were under a bad government, and proprietary code is often an abuse of the public knowledge, but do we really need to have an activist go and mess with someone else's problem just to attempt to right every infringement of ethics?
And this isn't giving people rights. You have a right to secrecy and privacy. You have the right to provide a service without a good - if I open a barber shop, I am under no obligation to offer my scissors for sale, or even offer to give away my method of cutting hair. Similarly, software developers seem to have a right to allow their software to serve on others' computers without actually opening up the code to their software, which they reserve as a trade secret. The right to copy someone else's code is a "right" to infringe others' rights.
I'm not saying that proprietary code is better than Free code. Given the choice, I'll almost always encourage Freeing code (except when the code needs to be hidden for an extra level of security, albeit through obscurity). But if code has been made proprietary, why bother the coder by stealing his secrets?
Stop complaining and show some respect for man that has firm moral believes and stands up and speaks out for them.
At the risk of invoking Godwin 2001(tm), Osama bin Laden has strong moral beliefs and stands up for them pretty strongly. Simply calling a set of beliefs "moral" does not make them moral. There is a set of basic moral beliefs that everyone shares: killing or hurting people is generally bad, keeping your word is generally good, etc. Some respect for private property is also in this, and code is considerable as private property. I don't see RMS's statement as quite moral per se, although they do follow his stated "moral code".
No Christian fundamentalist would force a gay man into having sex with a woman. The most they'd do is pressure him to be chaste. So there's a point when following your own moral code will violate the general human morality. I think "liberating" proprietary code is past this line. Go ahead and boycott it, but it's immoral to refuse to respect the wishes of the coder that his code not be publicized.
I refuse to use any product that Google made, bought, or comes into contact with.
Good luck avoiding those Google text ad websites.
anyone under 40 must surely know that they'll never see a peny of it anyhow
And everyone over 40 surely knows that the only way they'll see a penny of it is if they keep taxing those of us under 40.
Never underestimate the power of the AARP in actually getting people to the ballot box.
In fact, forget the blackjack! And the hookers! I just want my Futurama!
or farm implement
What's this, personal experience or extensive market research?
Luckily, your expert usage of English grammer re-assures me.
Hehe.
A great segway
Ooh. I get to be grammar Nazi and IP lawyer at the same time.
The word you're looking for is segue, not Segway.
This article has been submitted by Roland Piquepaille, proceed to the linked articles with extreme caution!
So?
a) Primidi.com is only linked through rel=nofollow in the article summary. This means that Google doesn't increase his pagerank.
b) There are no links to his personal website in the submission. The linked articles are not on his website; therefore, all your criticism about Blogads and whatever else is moot.
c) Everyone links their name to their personal website when submitting stories. Just because Roland found a way around Slashdot, saw the complaints, stopped, and Slashdot stopped giving him page rank, doesn't mean that you should continue to ignore his stories.
So long as you don't click on his name, it's as if "An anonymous reader" submitted the story. And if you're going to his site, caveat clickor.
When I was a kid I somehow convinced myself that Obi-Wan was named like the droids. You know, R2-D2, C-3PO, OB1-Kenobi...right?
they will likely move their alienware support devision to india too
Thus making it...IllegalAlienware!
Some people beleive that they can be of service to goverments which have the right to tell them (and you) what to do.
Some people treat their government as a public service, which is told what to do by the people.
Well we were told not to ask what our country could do for us, but to ask what we could do for our ccuntry....
Oddly, a high percentage of the newly missing persons seem to have worked for the Chicago Tribune.
What's a Chicago Tribune? These people have always been unemployed. Something seems to have made them disappear. I don't think Chicago ever had a newspaper...definitely not anything called a Tribune. Nope, never heard of it.
</bigbrother>
Ingenious! Now if you'll excuse me, I have some code to download and change the settings (of).
Putting parentheses on the preposition ending that sentence doesn't make it better.
I've gone maybe three or four times in the past year and a half
"Hollywood, I wish I knew how to quit you..."
Example: let's say two persons had a contest: who was the most intelligent. And say 5 minutes before the contest started, person A shot person B in the head, several times. It would be a bit ridiculous to claim that person A won, wouldn't it.
Well, not quite, but if you asked something like which person is worth more, and instead of trying to prove his abilities he just shot the other guy, then yes, he is now worth more.
(Except for the minor quibble that murderers have negative worth.)
My take on it as it was a test a member of the IT staff came up with and implemented on his/her own without knowledge or approval of IT management. It probably didn't take long for the network people at wisc.edu to notice the bandwidth spikes and identify the cause.
So isn't that a success? They've basically proven that DoSsing a site that's administered by someone else is a quick way of taking it down.
All network access, for all services, goes through me.
Single point of failure? I was going to call his bluff. But then, this is the US Armed Forces. We had a single point of failure (yellowcake) in our reason to go to war.
(No offense intended, just a true American who knows that bureaucracy doesn't favor any party except the current government.)
Quit being so goddamned phony.
3. Paper records for the voter. Worst case, every voter has a copy of their own vote. Hard to use for a recount, but could help identify irregularities.
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. This used to be the standard, until they caught on to Big Business asking their employees to show them their voting receipt to make sure they were voting for the right candidate. Especially around the turn of the century, this became an effective way to abuse immigrant workers, who had little choice in employment and didn't know much about the political system.
No, you were right. "Wry" means "ironic" or "twisted" (usually referring to humor). "Rye" is a type of grain. A catcher "in the rye" = "in the field of grain" makes sense, but a catcher "in the wry" = "in the ironically humorous ___" doesn't.
Besides, the book explains that Holden wanted to be in a field of rye where children are playing, and prevent them from falling off a cliff or something. So he would be a catcher (of children) in the rye (field).
So, in other words, AOL are going to have something much more limited than libgaim (AIM protocol only) available in the "near future"?
And legal.
IIRC anyone who's ever agreed to AIM's click-through license has promised that they won't try to crack the protocol. And it's hard to crack the protocol without running AIM. The only previous open library for AIM was TOC, which is very limited.
And if you're going to break the AIM client license and reverse-engineer it, then why not as well break the Open AIM license and get something equally legal but with better compatibility? Or use Open AIM for the purposes they allow you to (if you can manage it) and not break any licenses?