Well, the uncertainty of particle behavior at the quantum level would provide the perfect "loophole" for God to intervene without violating our laws of physics, no?
And as far as the classic attack on the "certainty" of the theory of evolution: science tries to compress the Universe into something we can understand, and evolution (with its problems) is the best it has gotten. Science, by definition, is classifying the physical world by human means, and trying to get something out of it. Religion is classifying the physical world by the use of God. Wouldn't the two give completely different results?
Signed, a Christian with an avid interest in science who has never found a problem between his two beliefs.
Only one vendor is allowed to visit campus to sell senior portraits?
I'm not a senior, but 95% of my CS II class last year was, so I got to sit in with the advertisement, er, "presentation" by the company that sells caps and gowns and other useless stuff, er, mementos. They have an entire class period to advertise to their market, they have a practical monopoly (if you don't buy from them, you have to check with the school, but you're all but encouraged to buy from them and given order forms and everything), and they mercilessly hawk other unrelated products. It's a government-sponsored monopoly of a market of people who for the most part don't have the experience to realize what's happening and know better.
There's another difference: product differentiation. Bob's Chalk Co. and Fred's Chalk, Inc. both give eessentially the same product: calcium carbonate in small round sticks. Windows and Linux are different enough that changing suppliers has a noticeable effect. Since there'd be no problem switching chalk brands or staying with the same one, I don't blame the school for going just on convenience and history. I do blame the school for the same mentality on computer systems.
The exact theory of a black hole came around Einstein's time, but a physicist in the 1700s-ish theorized that an object could be so heavy even light couldn't get out - even before they realized that gravity does affect light.
Hell, if they had it their way, they'd probably not upgrade at all......
Not likely. I've never understood why a hairdresser and a library both need Win2K systems permanently running telnet.
At least Lowe's is better. Their IBM thin-clients run xcalc and telnet. You've got to run X to get a calculator. No sense in a $10 physical one; pay hundreds of dollars for a graphics terminal (and X server system) to get a virtual one!
Hm. Why don't they pick up an Xbox for $150, install Linux on it (use "hardware installation" so you're not tempted to game), and add a monitor for $100? Half the price, Linux, and a "cool factor".
"I purchased" is an interesting phrase. If I steal someone's car and sell it to you, you didn't buy it from him, you have no right to keep it from him, and the car is still stolen property. You can only try to get the car's worth in damages from me. A closer analogy: if I sold you documents "obtained" from government classified files, you legally purchased the paper and the ink (just like you purchased the disc itself), but you had no right to obtain or use the information it conveys.
I believe a considerable sum for those games went (as profit) to the importer, whose importing of the games may not have been quite legal.
And there is an easy way to play import games: an import console (use a 220/110 adapter if necessary). What, you don't want to pay the price set by the developer of the game system and rightholder of the game kernel? That would put you on the questionable side.
Morally, I think that region-limiting is dumb and only way to artificially increase scarcity -> demand relative to supply -> prices, but the proper, legally approved method is for you and a large group of consumers to demand that the company change its policy, or to develop your own compatible console or an emulator or something that reimplements their BIOS, but doesn't use parts of it (see Connectix' Virtual Game Station PS1 emulator, perfectly legal and found so in court). Then you can mod it and market it as you approve. In a capitalist state, the corporation that developed a product has the right to distribute its product how it wants, and thus not to distribute that product (sadly enough).
When you buy a stamp, you do own it. You can resell it. You can use it on a letter if it hasn't been cancelled. But you don't have the right to copy it, since apart from the design-nature it also has a value-nature, and you'll copy the value-nature too when copying the design-nature.
For all this talk on Slashdot about IP, you people still confuse a physical object and any IP it may contain. Sure, you can buy a fancy new patented invention, but you can't make copies of it without the inventor's approval. Sure, you can buy a clip-art library, but you might want to ensure it's marked royalty-free. Sure, you can buy a PS2 and games for it, and you do own the PS2 box and electronics and the game disks, but you can't make copies of the game or distribute it. It even says so on the game disc: "Do not make illegal copies of this disc."
You own what you buy. You didn't buy what you think you did. You never had the right to use modchips for playing pirated games, because you never had the right to play pirated games. You cannot buy this right without paying three million dollars for the rights to the game.
Modchips are now illegal because their main use has become piracy. A judge has the power to rule an object illegal if its major use is illegal and other uses are insignificant (or something like that that differs on a technicality but still applies here).
You bought neither the game (full rights to the game) nor a license to it. You bought a disc. If you spilled coffee on your keyboard, you'd buy a new one, not call the company and ask for a replacement; why do people think games are any different? Because the data it holds (in a physical form) isn't visible to the unaided eye?
I'm sorry that happened to you. I think it's a bad idea for the companies to do that (at least they should give one free new disk in exchange), but they don't sound like they'll be changing it anytime soon.
It's not "more" illegal, since pirates have demonstrated they don't care for legality. It just makes it that much harder to commit that crime, by putting pressure on people who do care about legality, namely businesses. As another poster noted, it also makes it that much harder to avoid capture, since you have to hide both your illegal games (possible, since it's only data) and obtaining, owning, and installing a modchip (difficult, since it's an object).
It would be a blow to theft if lockpicks were outlawed, would it not? This is even stronger, since modchips are really the only way of "breaking in"; it's extremely hard to make an unmodded console play bootleg games. (I'm privately trying to work on something that could facilitate that, but for my purpose of loading a Linux CD like Knoppix or something.)
Then you need to teach your kid/s the value of money (especially $49.95!) and how discs and other computer-related things are fragile and not disposable. Speaking as a kid, I have only asked for three videogames for my Xbox, one of them specifically a used version. I rented a couple more from Blockbuster coupons (that we get free from MCI's long-distance plan).
If your kid/s aren't old enough to understand the value of fifty dollars, they definitely aren't old enough to use something purchased with it to the point of ruin. And why can't you at least say "I'm only buying this game once; if you break it, you don't get it again"?
So..uh..are you going to make illegal games..illegal? And would you rather be jailed than not have a modchip?
If you people don't start obeying the targeted, reasonable laws that are in place, they'll start passing larger laws with side effects, like the DMCA and this court ruling (though it's not a law).
Nobody (sane) goes to war and uses bombs that also kill civilians just because. They only do it because smaller, targeted snipers, raids, etc. won't or didn't work.
By the way, what's with people's preoccupation for illegally copying games? There are enough free games (though only a few are of equal quality), and a lot of the rest are reasonably priced ("Greatest Hits" are $20ish). Even if you only have a couple bucks (enough for a meal at McDonald's or somewhere) you can rent the game. And there isn't the argument that parallels music CDs saying "there's only one good level on this game" or whatnot. And...if you switch from broadband to dial, you save at least enough money to buy a videogame a month, and you don't have to download it.
Give me a dozen "media keys" that I can configure to launch Mozilla, Mathematica, aim:goaway [AIM away message], etc. over shift keys that are too far from the key being shifted to manage a combination with one hand.
only allow mail connections to their own mail servers unless the user asks otherwise.
Or disable port 25 [semi-good], 80 [little reason], and 139/445/other WinRPC ports [very good], unless the user pays an extra $30/month for a "business account". Cox Internet: broadband capitalism. I would so love to leave Yahoo! for something I myself run, I have to put my webserver on port 8080, and I once had a need to use filesharing across the network (duly opening my firewall remotely just for that) - it was not possible.
Of course, the profit motive may be the only way to get ISPs to block these ports by default...even though there is plenty of money to be saved in lowering attack traffic on your own network.
GCC, since, being related to Linux, they naturally own the copyrights to that and can do what they wish with it. Oh, and they also have the rights to Richard Stallman's fingers. Everything he types is theirs.
In all seriousness, won't the GPL allow them to implement ELF for a castrated GCC and use it in-house?
I've found that viewing Xbox games on TV is much clearer than viewing them on a larger monitor via a video-capture card. Granted, the card only gets 320x240 resolution, and I ought to manage a proper VGA cable for the monitor, but....
Umm. So by your argument, the authors of Windows can never find employment elsewhere, even within Microsoft (because they'd be distributing Windows-derived source without a Windows license). I really doubt that, even though it is Microsoft.
One, you'd have to not look at GPL source either if you plan to do non-GPL work, because incorporating that IP or source code in a project will supposedly GPL the code.
Two, do you by any chance download music or software illegally (i.e., without the consent of the rightholder)? The chance of a lawsuit and the strength of a law over that are much better than those over subconsciously copying MS IP which you yourself describe as "worthless" (wonder why you couldn't prove that in court).
Has anyone actually been sued over this? I can only remember one instance of this happening, but with GPL'd code, and everyone hailed the attack as a great victory.
As far as unemployability, there are always other fields than writing OS code, for example, writing non-OS code, testing code, system administration, etc. And you could even try to get a job with MS developing Windows (joy!).
Incidentally, the message of the parent comment is verging on redundancy; it has probably appeared in every recent article about MS sharing source code.
Then you switch people to Linux. I have a feeling that most of the exploits will be Mozilla-Windows exploits, not generic Mozilla exploits.
Then switch them to Konqueror or something.
Alternatively, keep writing new browsers, or at least complete rewrites of the exploitable parts of Mozilla. By the time the new browser becomes unusable (like IE today), the new section will be ready.
Nice try, but no. The point of Gentoo MacOS is to use Apple's well-designed, proprietary OS with popular, open-source applications. If you want, go get Gentoo for Macintosh hardware / PPC, but you'll lose the benefits of Mac OS X. Not everything has to be open-sourced; frankly, there would be no was OS X could have reached the state it is in now had it been developed open source. There wouldn't have been enough incentive for Apple's talented developers, and management wouldn't have been motivated to include it with Apple computers.
By your definition "victory" would be the Stallmannesque end of all non-Free software and commercial software companies, possibly including Red Hat, Linspire, etc., which may not be a good thing. Many OSS developers have jobs involving proprietary software or a commercial software vendor in order to make a living. Food and shelter don't come open-sourced; only software manages the OSS trick because duplication is practically free.
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Well, the uncertainty of particle behavior at the quantum level would provide the perfect "loophole" for God to intervene without violating our laws of physics, no?
And as far as the classic attack on the "certainty" of the theory of evolution: science tries to compress the Universe into something we can understand, and evolution (with its problems) is the best it has gotten. Science, by definition, is classifying the physical world by human means, and trying to get something out of it. Religion is classifying the physical world by the use of God. Wouldn't the two give completely different results?
Signed, a Christian with an avid interest in science who has never found a problem between his two beliefs.
Only one vendor is allowed to visit campus to sell senior portraits?
I'm not a senior, but 95% of my CS II class last year was, so I got to sit in with the advertisement, er, "presentation" by the company that sells caps and gowns and other useless stuff, er, mementos. They have an entire class period to advertise to their market, they have a practical monopoly (if you don't buy from them, you have to check with the school, but you're all but encouraged to buy from them and given order forms and everything), and they mercilessly hawk other unrelated products. It's a government-sponsored monopoly of a market of people who for the most part don't have the experience to realize what's happening and know better.
There's another difference: product differentiation. Bob's Chalk Co. and Fred's Chalk, Inc. both give eessentially the same product: calcium carbonate in small round sticks. Windows and Linux are different enough that changing suppliers has a noticeable effect. Since there'd be no problem switching chalk brands or staying with the same one, I don't blame the school for going just on convenience and history. I do blame the school for the same mentality on computer systems.
The exact theory of a black hole came around Einstein's time, but a physicist in the 1700s-ish theorized that an object could be so heavy even light couldn't get out - even before they realized that gravity does affect light.
Apparently Stephen Hawking did provide his voice for that episode.
How?
Protect the environment. You can't use "setenv" on a cowdrive.
Hell, if they had it their way, they'd probably not upgrade at all......
Not likely. I've never understood why a hairdresser and a library both need Win2K systems permanently running telnet.
At least Lowe's is better. Their IBM thin-clients run xcalc and telnet. You've got to run X to get a calculator. No sense in a $10 physical one; pay hundreds of dollars for a graphics terminal (and X server system) to get a virtual one!
Hm. Why don't they pick up an Xbox for $150, install Linux on it (use "hardware installation" so you're not tempted to game), and add a monitor for $100? Half the price, Linux, and a "cool factor".
"I purchased" is an interesting phrase. If I steal someone's car and sell it to you, you didn't buy it from him, you have no right to keep it from him, and the car is still stolen property. You can only try to get the car's worth in damages from me. A closer analogy: if I sold you documents "obtained" from government classified files, you legally purchased the paper and the ink (just like you purchased the disc itself), but you had no right to obtain or use the information it conveys.
I believe a considerable sum for those games went (as profit) to the importer, whose importing of the games may not have been quite legal.
And there is an easy way to play import games: an import console (use a 220/110 adapter if necessary). What, you don't want to pay the price set by the developer of the game system and rightholder of the game kernel? That would put you on the questionable side.
Morally, I think that region-limiting is dumb and only way to artificially increase scarcity -> demand relative to supply -> prices, but the proper, legally approved method is for you and a large group of consumers to demand that the company change its policy, or to develop your own compatible console or an emulator or something that reimplements their BIOS, but doesn't use parts of it (see Connectix' Virtual Game Station PS1 emulator, perfectly legal and found so in court). Then you can mod it and market it as you approve. In a capitalist state, the corporation that developed a product has the right to distribute its product how it wants, and thus not to distribute that product (sadly enough).
When you buy a stamp, you do own it. You can resell it. You can use it on a letter if it hasn't been cancelled. But you don't have the right to copy it, since apart from the design-nature it also has a value-nature, and you'll copy the value-nature too when copying the design-nature.
For all this talk on Slashdot about IP, you people still confuse a physical object and any IP it may contain. Sure, you can buy a fancy new patented invention, but you can't make copies of it without the inventor's approval. Sure, you can buy a clip-art library, but you might want to ensure it's marked royalty-free. Sure, you can buy a PS2 and games for it, and you do own the PS2 box and electronics and the game disks, but you can't make copies of the game or distribute it. It even says so on the game disc: "Do not make illegal copies of this disc."
You own what you buy. You didn't buy what you think you did. You never had the right to use modchips for playing pirated games, because you never had the right to play pirated games. You cannot buy this right without paying three million dollars for the rights to the game.
Modchips are now illegal because their main use has become piracy. A judge has the power to rule an object illegal if its major use is illegal and other uses are insignificant (or something like that that differs on a technicality but still applies here).
You bought neither the game (full rights to the game) nor a license to it. You bought a disc. If you spilled coffee on your keyboard, you'd buy a new one, not call the company and ask for a replacement; why do people think games are any different? Because the data it holds (in a physical form) isn't visible to the unaided eye?
I'm sorry that happened to you. I think it's a bad idea for the companies to do that (at least they should give one free new disk in exchange), but they don't sound like they'll be changing it anytime soon.
It's not "more" illegal, since pirates have demonstrated they don't care for legality. It just makes it that much harder to commit that crime, by putting pressure on people who do care about legality, namely businesses. As another poster noted, it also makes it that much harder to avoid capture, since you have to hide both your illegal games (possible, since it's only data) and obtaining, owning, and installing a modchip (difficult, since it's an object).
It would be a blow to theft if lockpicks were outlawed, would it not? This is even stronger, since modchips are really the only way of "breaking in"; it's extremely hard to make an unmodded console play bootleg games. (I'm privately trying to work on something that could facilitate that, but for my purpose of loading a Linux CD like Knoppix or something.)
Then you need to teach your kid/s the value of money (especially $49.95!) and how discs and other computer-related things are fragile and not disposable. Speaking as a kid, I have only asked for three videogames for my Xbox, one of them specifically a used version. I rented a couple more from Blockbuster coupons (that we get free from MCI's long-distance plan).
If your kid/s aren't old enough to understand the value of fifty dollars, they definitely aren't old enough to use something purchased with it to the point of ruin. And why can't you at least say "I'm only buying this game once; if you break it, you don't get it again"?
So..uh..are you going to make illegal games..illegal? And would you rather be jailed than not have a modchip?
If you people don't start obeying the targeted, reasonable laws that are in place, they'll start passing larger laws with side effects, like the DMCA and this court ruling (though it's not a law).
Nobody (sane) goes to war and uses bombs that also kill civilians just because. They only do it because smaller, targeted snipers, raids, etc. won't or didn't work.
By the way, what's with people's preoccupation for illegally copying games? There are enough free games (though only a few are of equal quality), and a lot of the rest are reasonably priced ("Greatest Hits" are $20ish). Even if you only have a couple bucks (enough for a meal at McDonald's or somewhere) you can rent the game. And there isn't the argument that parallels music CDs saying "there's only one good level on this game" or whatnot. And...if you switch from broadband to dial, you save at least enough money to buy a videogame a month, and you don't have to download it.
Give me a dozen "media keys" that I can configure to launch Mozilla, Mathematica, aim:goaway [AIM away message], etc. over shift keys that are too far from the key being shifted to manage a combination with one hand.
No, because people tend to change their sites if they know it'll go onto Slashdot.
only allow mail connections to their own mail servers unless the user asks otherwise.
Or disable port 25 [semi-good], 80 [little reason], and 139/445/other WinRPC ports [very good], unless the user pays an extra $30/month for a "business account". Cox Internet: broadband capitalism. I would so love to leave Yahoo! for something I myself run, I have to put my webserver on port 8080, and I once had a need to use filesharing across the network (duly opening my firewall remotely just for that) - it was not possible.
Of course, the profit motive may be the only way to get ISPs to block these ports by default...even though there is plenty of money to be saved in lowering attack traffic on your own network.
GCC, since, being related to Linux, they naturally own the copyrights to that and can do what they wish with it. Oh, and they also have the rights to Richard Stallman's fingers. Everything he types is theirs.
In all seriousness, won't the GPL allow them to implement ELF for a castrated GCC and use it in-house?
I've found that viewing Xbox games on TV is much clearer than viewing them on a larger monitor via a video-capture card. Granted, the card only gets 320x240 resolution, and I ought to manage a proper VGA cable for the monitor, but....
No, he said (as I understand it) that he was qualified, though not by technical merit.
The word "apprehension" means both "fear" and "understanding". I think he used the latter meaning.
He has more of an intuitive understanding than a technical understanding about Internet wrongdoers.
Umm. So by your argument, the authors of Windows can never find employment elsewhere, even within Microsoft (because they'd be distributing Windows-derived source without a Windows license). I really doubt that, even though it is Microsoft.
One, you'd have to not look at GPL source either if you plan to do non-GPL work, because incorporating that IP or source code in a project will supposedly GPL the code.
Two, do you by any chance download music or software illegally (i.e., without the consent of the rightholder)? The chance of a lawsuit and the strength of a law over that are much better than those over subconsciously copying MS IP which you yourself describe as "worthless" (wonder why you couldn't prove that in court).
Has anyone actually been sued over this? I can only remember one instance of this happening, but with GPL'd code, and everyone hailed the attack as a great victory.
As far as unemployability, there are always other fields than writing OS code, for example, writing non-OS code, testing code, system administration, etc. And you could even try to get a job with MS developing Windows (joy!).
Incidentally, the message of the parent comment is verging on redundancy; it has probably appeared in every recent article about MS sharing source code.
Then you switch people to Linux. I have a feeling that most of the exploits will be Mozilla-Windows exploits, not generic Mozilla exploits.
Then switch them to Konqueror or something.
Alternatively, keep writing new browsers, or at least complete rewrites of the exploitable parts of Mozilla. By the time the new browser becomes unusable (like IE today), the new section will be ready.
"What has it got in its licenses?"
Nice try, but no. The point of Gentoo MacOS is to use Apple's well-designed, proprietary OS with popular, open-source applications. If you want, go get Gentoo for Macintosh hardware / PPC, but you'll lose the benefits of Mac OS X. Not everything has to be open-sourced; frankly, there would be no was OS X could have reached the state it is in now had it been developed open source. There wouldn't have been enough incentive for Apple's talented developers, and management wouldn't have been motivated to include it with Apple computers.
By your definition "victory" would be the Stallmannesque end of all non-Free software and commercial software companies, possibly including Red Hat, Linspire, etc., which may not be a good thing. Many OSS developers have jobs involving proprietary software or a commercial software vendor in order to make a living. Food and shelter don't come open-sourced; only software manages the OSS trick because duplication is practically free.