1) It creates MORE government, not less. Republicans are supposed to be for smaller government, but this flies in the face of that policy.
no!! Republicans are supposed to be for whatever the heck they want to be for. People who assign "roles" to the various parties make them sound like they're ordained by God or by the Constitution. If you supported Republicans because they looked like they were for small government, maybe you should consider supporting a different party.
Especially on compound bills like these, parties don't work well. Each person should vote his conscience, not the will of his party's whip.
I'm sure there are many people who are, e.g., against both the war in Iraq and against abortion. It's very hard to classify them as "Democrats" or "Republicans."
What about Vatican II? I don't think even a drop of blood was spilt over that...and that was pretty serious, as far as reformations and changes in thinking.
Most countries are party to the Berne Convention, which requires a life+50 copyright minimum, transferable to most of the world.
If you want to rewrite the Berne Convention in view of modern technology, I think that's a great idea. The main reason Victor Hugo and others wanted this is to have an internationally-transferable copyright. Since we've now globalized enough that it's the rare antisocial nation (like the USSR before the 1970s or so) that doesn't respect foreign copyrights, the original purpose of Berne is a bit redundant.
What about a variant of this, since there are some objections to your original idea?
Copyright lasts 5 years or so by default, and is assigned to the individual human creator, or a group of human creators who all directly contributed to the work. If you "apply" for copyright before it expires, you, or anyone/anything you transfer it to, holds it for 10 years or so from the date of application, whereupon it falls to the public domain.
Oh, and it costs money (say $10?) to file the application.
This prevents large corporations from initially having the copyright. And you can only transfer copyright in an application, which limits large corporation to holding it for exactly 10 years. If you put the copyright in your will and you die within the 5 years, you're considered as having filed the application.
By the way, this would require withdrwaing from the Berne Convention, which requires a 50-year copyright term.
And how many people died as a direct result of the Protestant reformation?
That was in the era when, e.g., duels to restore "offended honor" were commonplace and often resulted in deaths for both. How many people died as a result of Vatican II?
Compare, please, to the number of people who died as a part of the revolution in physics at the advent of quantum mechanics and general relativity.
What's all this about Albert Einstein encouraging Roosevelt to develop the atomic bomb? Even if you argue this was solely for defense against Germany, a) America is the only country so far to have used atomic/nuclear weapons in war, and b) it was the "revolution in physics," as you said, that gave government scientists in both Germany and America the foundation to build atomic weapons.
The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki would have been impossible without the physics developed at the beginning of the 20th century. Compare that, please, to the number of people killed in the Protestant reformation...which probably numbers in the thousands, but definitely not in the millions.
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If I understand you right, you have a lot of old hardware and cabling.
Before you dispose of them (however you decide), take pictures and send it to a website that archives these pictures. Especially if you have a lot of old hardware or obscure cabling, pictures of these may be a little hard to find, for people who're looking for some exact shape or model of old cabling.
VGMusic.com's Gallery is an example of such a website. (though with a slant toward gaming consoles). For example, if you're looking for a picture of a wire connecting a male 9-pin serial to a male telephone cord, the site has one at wires/w-m_9Serial-m_Tele.jpg.
Or go ahead and make your own website, or look for another one. I'm sure VGMusic's page is not the only such one, nor the most popular. It's just one I happened to notice once and bookmark.
Think? You do know that it's possible to secure a Windows machine and keep it malware-free, right? And that there exist exploits on Linux system?
Or is that not the kind of "thinking" that you like?
And did you "think" about the fact that many Windows users have Windows-only software?
Blindly following a Windows monoculture and closed mindset is not thinking. Blindly following a Linux monoculture and closed mindset is not thinking either.
Remind me not to buy anything from your business. If indeed you have a viable business of people who "think" like that.
I work at a University IT helpdesk, and after far too many malware problems from far too many dumb lusers (and many of them repeat visits), I've adopted a new policy. If a student or member of faculty comes in with malware problems for the first time, I fix it for them and I give them a Gentoo Linux install CD to go away with. If they come back with viruses/spyware a second time, I tell the luser to stop bothering me, and that I gave them the solution to install last time. Linux is an OS immune to these kinds of problems.
Let's hope you get fired sometime soon.
Seriously, that's no "help" to them. You're not fulfilling the role of a "help desk". Maybe you'd like to take the support calls that Windows-only software isn't working anymore (nor under WINE)? Windows isn't a completely worthless OS.
And I suspect the reason you're giving them Gentoo is a) you're too stupid to know how to secure a Windows machine. Believe me, it's very possible. and b) you're too stupid to pick a reasonable distribution. Gentoo install is not quite what a "luser" needs if they want Linux. Try Knoppix next time, if you really want to continue your anti-Windows crusade.
And do you think you're really converting anybody? You're just turning people away from the helpdesk and sending them to friends who actually know the answer.
"What exactly does open source showboating look like?"
It looks a lot like www.osuosl.org.
(I'm going to take the karma hit because kveton doesn't deserve it.)
Shut up. You're the perfect example of anti-open source showboating. Are you doing anything to help open source? Didn't think so. Show some respect for the OSL. Would you prefer that people stop hosting or mirroring projects because they don't have sufficient hosting?
Do you even read your own BS, Mr. Anonymous Coward? Coward indeed.
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I don't see how I can determine that Roger Grimes actually owns the server running HackIIS Contest or not.
Roger Grimes may or may not own the server. But the front site of the server definitely claims that it's run by Grimes, and that you're invited to hack it. So either a) the site owner gave you authorization or b) Grimes hacked into the site to place his message, which would cause many penalties for him first. You'd have a reasonable defense that you thought the message was legitimate, it having been left on the front page of the site for a few days.
If you read the description of the prize, it seems like it was created by Phil Shapiro, the submitter of the story.
So can I create my own Nebula Peas prize and give it to some random free software project, like Hebcal or something, and get it posted on the front page of Slashdot?
(No offense against Hebcal; I just picked the first nonfamous project that I saw browsing SourceForge.)
Can someone remind me what happened on the 9th of November?!?
1494 - Cosimo the Elder is first Medici ruler of Florence. 1799 - Napoleon takes power in the 18th Brumaire coup. 1989 - Berlin Wall begins to fall. 2004 - Halo 2 released for Xbox.
Oh wait. You were talking about 9/11. If I'm not mistaken, that phrase originates from the US. So it probably means 11th of September. Just as much as US citizens need reminding that the "rest of the world" exists, you need reminding that the US exists.
I interlaced pi with the digits in order. That sequence can never contain, e.g., "1234", because either the first and third digits or the second and fourth digits have to be consecutive.
That number is a) infinite, b) more normal (equal distribution of all digits), c) based on pi, and d) most probably doesn't contain your social security.
The control group wasn't all PRNGs. Most hardware random-number generators are indeed not pseudo-random: they use quantum effects or something to generate truly random numbers.
Pi isn't "random" in the sense that it isn't a chance physical constant like, say, the gravitational constant. It's the only ratio of circumference to diameter possible in a Euclidean geometry. It's half the period of the solution to d^2 y/dx^2 = -y. Quantum effects, however, are God rolling dice, so they are truly random.
Yes, but it's the FCC regulations that Skype needs to listen to if they want to sell in the US. "Emergency 112" is not going to go over well with the US government.
What would be nice is if it recognized a bunch of emergency phone numbers. My cell phone, for example, recognizes 112, 911, and 08 as emergency numbers.
If they start classifying things like Skype as a voice telecommunications service and requiring 911 calls to function, then what's next? 911 requirements for Teamspeak?
Here's the clearest line. If calling 911 makes sense (you can dial numbers as if it were a regular telephone), then calling 911 should work.
I'm pretty sure Teamspeak doesn't connect you to the public telephone network, so 911 is not a requirement. SkypeOut does. You can call most local, long-distance, and international numbers, so 911 service is to be expected.
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1) It creates MORE government, not less. Republicans are supposed to be for smaller government, but this flies in the face of that policy.
no!! Republicans are supposed to be for whatever the heck they want to be for. People who assign "roles" to the various parties make them sound like they're ordained by God or by the Constitution. If you supported Republicans because they looked like they were for small government, maybe you should consider supporting a different party.
Especially on compound bills like these, parties don't work well. Each person should vote his conscience, not the will of his party's whip.
I'm sure there are many people who are, e.g., against both the war in Iraq and against abortion. It's very hard to classify them as "Democrats" or "Republicans."
What about Vatican II? I don't think even a drop of blood was spilt over that...and that was pretty serious, as far as reformations and changes in thinking.
voice chat for games and such?
It'll be regulated just as much as existing cell phone company laws regulate walkie-talkies.
Most countries are party to the Berne Convention, which requires a life+50 copyright minimum, transferable to most of the world.
If you want to rewrite the Berne Convention in view of modern technology, I think that's a great idea. The main reason Victor Hugo and others wanted this is to have an internationally-transferable copyright. Since we've now globalized enough that it's the rare antisocial nation (like the USSR before the 1970s or so) that doesn't respect foreign copyrights, the original purpose of Berne is a bit redundant.
What about a variant of this, since there are some objections to your original idea?
Copyright lasts 5 years or so by default, and is assigned to the individual human creator, or a group of human creators who all directly contributed to the work. If you "apply" for copyright before it expires, you, or anyone/anything you transfer it to, holds it for 10 years or so from the date of application, whereupon it falls to the public domain.
Oh, and it costs money (say $10?) to file the application.
This prevents large corporations from initially having the copyright. And you can only transfer copyright in an application, which limits large corporation to holding it for exactly 10 years. If you put the copyright in your will and you die within the 5 years, you're considered as having filed the application.
By the way, this would require withdrwaing from the Berne Convention, which requires a 50-year copyright term.
And how many people died as a direct result of the Protestant reformation?
/nuclear weapons in war, and b) it was the "revolution in physics," as you said, that gave government scientists in both Germany and America the foundation to build atomic weapons.
That was in the era when, e.g., duels to restore "offended honor" were commonplace and often resulted in deaths for both. How many people died as a result of Vatican II?
Compare, please, to the number of people who died as a part of the revolution in physics at the advent of quantum mechanics and general relativity.
What's all this about Albert Einstein encouraging Roosevelt to develop the atomic bomb? Even if you argue this was solely for defense against Germany, a) America is the only country so far to have used atomic
The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki would have been impossible without the physics developed at the beginning of the 20th century. Compare that, please, to the number of people killed in the Protestant reformation...which probably numbers in the thousands, but definitely not in the millions.
If I understand you right, you have a lot of old hardware and cabling.
Before you dispose of them (however you decide), take pictures and send it to a website that archives these pictures. Especially if you have a lot of old hardware or obscure cabling, pictures of these may be a little hard to find, for people who're looking for some exact shape or model of old cabling.
VGMusic.com's Gallery is an example of such a website. (though with a slant toward gaming consoles). For example, if you're looking for a picture of a wire connecting a male 9-pin serial to a male telephone cord, the site has one at wires/w-m_9Serial-m_Tele.jpg.
Or go ahead and make your own website, or look for another one. I'm sure VGMusic's page is not the only such one, nor the most popular. It's just one I happened to notice once and bookmark.
Religions have a tendency to kill people when challenged.
So what? You can change the theory while killing the data.
Yes, religions tend to kill people a lot. But they're also capable of change. Where do you think the word "Protestant" came from?
Think? You do know that it's possible to secure a Windows machine and keep it malware-free, right? And that there exist exploits on Linux system?
Or is that not the kind of "thinking" that you like?
And did you "think" about the fact that many Windows users have Windows-only software?
Blindly following a Windows monoculture and closed mindset is not thinking. Blindly following a Linux monoculture and closed mindset is not thinking either.
Remind me not to buy anything from your business. If indeed you have a viable business of people who "think" like that.
I work at a University IT helpdesk, and after far too many malware problems from far too many dumb lusers (and many of them repeat visits), I've adopted a new policy.
If a student or member of faculty comes in with malware problems for the first time, I fix it for them and I give them a Gentoo Linux install CD to go away with. If they come back with viruses/spyware a second time, I tell the luser to stop bothering me, and that I gave them the solution to install last time. Linux is an OS immune to these kinds of problems.
Let's hope you get fired sometime soon.
Seriously, that's no "help" to them. You're not fulfilling the role of a "help desk". Maybe you'd like to take the support calls that Windows-only software isn't working anymore (nor under WINE)? Windows isn't a completely worthless OS.
And I suspect the reason you're giving them Gentoo is a) you're too stupid to know how to secure a Windows machine. Believe me, it's very possible. and b) you're too stupid to pick a reasonable distribution. Gentoo install is not quite what a "luser" needs if they want Linux. Try Knoppix next time, if you really want to continue your anti-Windows crusade.
And do you think you're really converting anybody? You're just turning people away from the helpdesk and sending them to friends who actually know the answer.
"What exactly does open source showboating look like?"
It looks a lot like www.osuosl.org.
(I'm going to take the karma hit because kveton doesn't deserve it.)
Shut up. You're the perfect example of anti-open source showboating. Are you doing anything to help open source? Didn't think so. Show some respect for the OSL. Would you prefer that people stop hosting or mirroring projects because they don't have sufficient hosting?
Do you even read your own BS, Mr. Anonymous Coward? Coward indeed.
Sacré bleu!
I don't see how I can determine that Roger Grimes actually owns the server running HackIIS Contest or not.
Roger Grimes may or may not own the server. But the front site of the server definitely claims that it's run by Grimes, and that you're invited to hack it. So either a) the site owner gave you authorization or b) Grimes hacked into the site to place his message, which would cause many penalties for him first. You'd have a reasonable defense that you thought the message was legitimate, it having been left on the front page of the site for a few days.
put up with its PMS all the time
Hehheh. Almost read that as "put up with RMS all the time".
This is the FBI.
Oh, "this is the FBI" as in "you have to remember that this is how the FBI operates," not as in "I represent the FBI. Don't you dare do that."
If you read the description of the prize, it seems like it was created by Phil Shapiro, the submitter of the story.
So can I create my own Nebula Peas prize and give it to some random free software project, like Hebcal or something, and get it posted on the front page of Slashdot?
(No offense against Hebcal; I just picked the first nonfamous project that I saw browsing SourceForge.)
Can someone remind me what happened on the 9th of November?!?
1494 - Cosimo the Elder is first Medici ruler of Florence.
1799 - Napoleon takes power in the 18th Brumaire coup.
1989 - Berlin Wall begins to fall.
2004 - Halo 2 released for Xbox.
Oh wait. You were talking about 9/11. If I'm not mistaken, that phrase originates from the US. So it probably means 11th of September. Just as much as US citizens need reminding that the "rest of the world" exists, you need reminding that the US exists.
3.11243145596276859305182..
I interlaced pi with the digits in order. That sequence can never contain, e.g., "1234", because either the first and third digits or the second and fourth digits have to be consecutive.
That number is a) infinite, b) more normal (equal distribution of all digits), c) based on pi, and d) most probably doesn't contain your social security.
Hey, moron!
He said initially. He knows that.
Of course it's RIGHT.
Moron.
So, what's a good new name for pizza that includes a word like "freedom?".
Freezza?
"and one physical chaos-generating machine"
The control group wasn't all PRNGs. Most hardware random-number generators are indeed not pseudo-random: they use quantum effects or something to generate truly random numbers.
Pi isn't "random" in the sense that it isn't a chance physical constant like, say, the gravitational constant. It's the only ratio of circumference to diameter possible in a Euclidean geometry. It's half the period of the solution to d^2 y/dx^2 = -y. Quantum effects, however, are God rolling dice, so they are truly random.
Then so does the company.
Yes, but it's the FCC regulations that Skype needs to listen to if they want to sell in the US. "Emergency 112" is not going to go over well with the US government.
What would be nice is if it recognized a bunch of emergency phone numbers. My cell phone, for example, recognizes 112, 911, and 08 as emergency numbers.
It's quite likely that KHTML developers will have to write their own code to pass the acid2 test.
God forbid an open source project will have to reimplement functionality from a commercial developer, in order to ensure compatibility.
(It's a joke, guys.)
If they start classifying things like Skype as a voice telecommunications service and requiring 911 calls to function, then what's next? 911 requirements for Teamspeak?
Here's the clearest line. If calling 911 makes sense (you can dial numbers as if it were a regular telephone), then calling 911 should work.
I'm pretty sure Teamspeak doesn't connect you to the public telephone network, so 911 is not a requirement. SkypeOut does. You can call most local, long-distance, and international numbers, so 911 service is to be expected.