Sorry, but your analogy doesn't quite work. Military defense is a job usually given to a designated part of society. Education is not. Besides, to educate people, you often have to give them books. To defend people, you don't need to give them weapons -- that's why you're defending them.
The phrasing that would correlate a little better to your analogy would be "The right of the people to have bullets inside them shall not be infringed" or something.
More than half of words were buzzwords or acronyms.
Anyway, why exactly do you need a PowerPC 603e and two USB ports for..uh..diagnosing cars? Seems to me that the hardware is a bit overkill, and an embedded direct solution might function a little better by avoiding the overhead of simply running Linux. Don't get me wrong; Linux is great for full-powered machines, but this doesn't need to be full powered.
threatening to destroy something of value that belongs to one of their customers
It's Microsoft that gave you the GamerTag under certain terms. You are not allowed to encourage piracy of Microsoft products (posting a URL is encouraging).
What you're arguing is more or less equivalent to claiming that a landlord doesn't have the right to evict people in one building who're handing out fliers about picking the locks on his other buildings.
based on the ethics... I never will.
You're not affecting their sales that much. From what I hear, Halo 2 is still probably going to break even, at least.
into oblivion, you idiot. The best thing that can be done is to keep the torrent relatively hidden....
Or, if there's someone here really bored and really good at programming, write something to spoof the torrent in a slight way to make the game unbootable, and seed it with that.
Harvesting 20 apples from a tree is negligibly more work than harvesting 19. Reaping 20 sheaves of wheat is similarly no more than reaping 19, and putting 20 apple pies in the oven is no harder than putting 19. Yet it is considered theft to steal an apple pie. The marginal cost is probably about half a cent more than the marginal cost of copying software (without packaging, but that goes for the pies, too). So how can you claim a distinction between taking an copy of software and taking an apple pie without the creator's consent?
Not quite. You really don't have to deprive them of anything.
My local Sam's Club has to discard unpurchased rotisserie ribs every evening lest they go bad. Is it theft if I take one about 10 minutes before closing (before they've discarded it) without paying for it?
Yes. There's nothing you're depriving them of, there's nothing they'd lose, but it's still theft, because you've taken something from them without permission.
You can do so much damage impersonating a police officer; as the storyline requires, you can free criminals, and you can seriously mess with the system of justice. My personal philosophy is Patrick Henry-esque in that life under screwed-up conditions, such as perverted justice through a rogue Executive, is worse than no life at all, and that the life of society is worth more than an individual human life (this is just about the only way to justify war). In the grand scheme of things, you'll do almost as much harm impersonating a police officer for a period of time as when killing policemen.
I suppose that's about *this* much morally better than killing cops - breaking into a police station trying to impersonate a cop. Incidentally, in real life, that really doesn't work that well.
It was also the reward for installing CIPA-mandated Internet filters on your connection (no filter, no E-Rate). If it's getting cut back, this means there's less of a penalty for not using filters. W00t.
The EULA can say anything, but I'm pretty sure Apple's not going to care, and Apple's the only person who can care about the EULA. The intent of that was probably to be the "nail in the coffin" for the clones.
Emulation is understood to be impractical, rare, and unsupported. These were not characteristics of the clones. The reasons that the clone licenses were terminated will never appear with PearPC-quality emulation. Once we get VirtualPC quality, they may start worrying, but VPC is still rather rare, and I suppose Microsoft doesn't condone using VPC Mac (though it doesn't complain, either).
That way of thinking [now that x has happened, nobody should vote against y] isn't a sane way for a goverment to run. Neither is idealism.
The most practical, it seems to me, would be to pass this act, and immediately launch a court case to get the "except the government" clause thrown out as unconstitutional. At least that way there'll be a penalty against spammers for the timebeing. It's a lot harder to convince Congress to pass such a bill without the clause than to convince the Supreme Court or any number of district courts.
Personally, I fear corporate access to this data more than government access. The government's motivated by power, not money, and unless I assert my right of armed revolution, I feel the government has enough power over me that this doesn't matter. Besides, I've given plenty of data to them already...pretty much everything I do at my public school, especially what I do on the Internet, is tracked by employees of the government.
This bill excludes programs used by the FBI or spy agencies, though.
What's the proposal? That it include the FBI? The fines, I assume, would be available to the US budget, a part of which Congress itself allots to the FBI and "spy agencies". All that would do is slowly leech money out of the FBI budget and into the rest of the US budget - or at best, keep that money circulating and practically lost.
What should be done is mark the alloted money in the budget as not for spying, if you're trying to prevent that. Don't take back the money that you gave them and will give them.
Yes, good idea, but ideas don't get you anywhere in politics.
It's your ISP, thankfully still implementing SiteFinder blocks. Cox Internet gives:
ibook:~ geoffrey$ host an-unregistered-name.cc an-unregistered-name.cc has address 206.253.214.102 ibook:~ geoffrey$ host alskdfjsldkafjdsalkjskld.cc alskdfjsldkafjdsalkjs kld.cc has address 206.253.214.102
Anyway, the results are not SiteFinder, just "buy this domain or e-mail the registrant". Besides,.cc isn't an autoresolution or even a relatively common domain, which was the problem with SiteFinder.
Incidentally, http://206.253.214.102/ is a notable example of not checking your input string (in this case, the HTTP Host field) before parsing it.
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry, but your analogy doesn't quite work. Military defense is a job usually given to a designated part of society. Education is not. Besides, to educate people, you often have to give them books. To defend people, you don't need to give them weapons -- that's why you're defending them.
The phrasing that would correlate a little better to your analogy would be "The right of the people to have bullets inside them shall not be infringed" or something.
1. File 501(c)(3) registration form
2. NON-PROFIT!!!
More than half of words were buzzwords or acronyms.
Anyway, why exactly do you need a PowerPC 603e and two USB ports for..uh..diagnosing cars? Seems to me that the hardware is a bit overkill, and an embedded direct solution might function a little better by avoiding the overhead of simply running Linux. Don't get me wrong; Linux is great for full-powered machines, but this doesn't need to be full powered.
understatement n. 2. Restraint or lack of emphasis in expression, as for rhetorical effect.
-The American Heritage Dictionary
threatening to destroy something of value that belongs to one of their customers
... I never will.
It's Microsoft that gave you the GamerTag under certain terms. You are not allowed to encourage piracy of Microsoft products (posting a URL is encouraging).
What you're arguing is more or less equivalent to claiming that a landlord doesn't have the right to evict people in one building who're handing out fliers about picking the locks on his other buildings.
based on the ethics
You're not affecting their sales that much. From what I hear, Halo 2 is still probably going to break even, at least.
No, I just have a sense of ethics. Not everybody in this world is motivated by love of money.
Actually, it's linked to your Passport. "MSN account" implies ISP.
into oblivion, you idiot. The best thing that can be done is to keep the torrent relatively hidden....
Or, if there's someone here really bored and really good at programming, write something to spoof the torrent in a slight way to make the game unbootable, and seed it with that.
Sibling poster mentions apple pies.
Harvesting 20 apples from a tree is negligibly more work than harvesting 19. Reaping 20 sheaves of wheat is similarly no more than reaping 19, and putting 20 apple pies in the oven is no harder than putting 19. Yet it is considered theft to steal an apple pie. The marginal cost is probably about half a cent more than the marginal cost of copying software (without packaging, but that goes for the pies, too). So how can you claim a distinction between taking an copy of software and taking an apple pie without the creator's consent?
Not quite. You really don't have to deprive them of anything.
My local Sam's Club has to discard unpurchased rotisserie ribs every evening lest they go bad. Is it theft if I take one about 10 minutes before closing (before they've discarded it) without paying for it?
Yes. There's nothing you're depriving them of, there's nothing they'd lose, but it's still theft, because you've taken something from them without permission.
I didn't buy the last Halo
So? Who cares about one person, somewhere? My eighth-grade history teacher (also a Mac user) probably didn't buy Halo, either; what does that prove?
You can do so much damage impersonating a police officer; as the storyline requires, you can free criminals, and you can seriously mess with the system of justice. My personal philosophy is Patrick Henry-esque in that life under screwed-up conditions, such as perverted justice through a rogue Executive, is worse than no life at all, and that the life of society is worth more than an individual human life (this is just about the only way to justify war). In the grand scheme of things, you'll do almost as much harm impersonating a police officer for a period of time as when killing policemen.
I suppose that's about *this* much morally better than killing cops - breaking into a police station trying to impersonate a cop. Incidentally, in real life, that really doesn't work that well.
I don't see how releasing this required any balls.
Me neither. Though I know Logitech had some problems with getting enough balls for their new line of mice....
disable right-click
Or use a Mac (long click or Cmd-click) and don't even realize that there would have been protections had you used a two-button mouse.
Yeah. This guy wants to run for President...and he's entering a debate illegally and promoting civil disobedience? Uh..
Even George Washington used military force against civil disobeyers.
(not responding to the obvious troll, but to the subject)
I always wonder how Slashdot never gets Slashdotted...550 Service Not Available
Oh.
It was also the reward for installing CIPA-mandated Internet filters on your connection (no filter, no E-Rate). If it's getting cut back, this means there's less of a penalty for not using filters. W00t.
Because most modern computers don't have one (for whatever reason, they've replaced the mechanical power switch with an ACPI shutdown notifier).
The EULA can say anything, but I'm pretty sure Apple's not going to care, and Apple's the only person who can care about the EULA. The intent of that was probably to be the "nail in the coffin" for the clones.
Emulation is understood to be impractical, rare, and unsupported. These were not characteristics of the clones. The reasons that the clone licenses were terminated will never appear with PearPC-quality emulation. Once we get VirtualPC quality, they may start worrying, but VPC is still rather rare, and I suppose Microsoft doesn't condone using VPC Mac (though it doesn't complain, either).
That way of thinking [now that x has happened, nobody should vote against y] isn't a sane way for a goverment to run.
Neither is idealism.
The most practical, it seems to me, would be to pass this act, and immediately launch a court case to get the "except the government" clause thrown out as unconstitutional. At least that way there'll be a penalty against spammers for the timebeing. It's a lot harder to convince Congress to pass such a bill without the clause than to convince the Supreme Court or any number of district courts.
Personally, I fear corporate access to this data more than government access. The government's motivated by power, not money, and unless I assert my right of armed revolution, I feel the government has enough power over me that this doesn't matter. Besides, I've given plenty of data to them already...pretty much everything I do at my public school, especially what I do on the Internet, is tracked by employees of the government.
Doesn't he mean that government spying is intruding in the transaction, not government penalties against a spying transaction?
This bill excludes programs used by the FBI or spy agencies, though.
What's the proposal? That it include the FBI? The fines, I assume, would be available to the US budget, a part of which Congress itself allots to the FBI and "spy agencies". All that would do is slowly leech money out of the FBI budget and into the rest of the US budget - or at best, keep that money circulating and practically lost.
What should be done is mark the alloted money in the budget as not for spying, if you're trying to prevent that. Don't take back the money that you gave them and will give them.
Yes, good idea, but ideas don't get you anywhere in politics.
Incidentally, http://206.253.214.102/ is a notable example of not checking your input string (in this case, the HTTP Host field) before parsing it.
It doesn't differ, but we don't like spyware either.