Thats why Linus needs to move the kernel.org server not from California to Oregon, but from Oregon to the EU*. That way MS can bitch all they want about vFat in the kernel, but can't get it out of the kernel cause the EU (for the time being, and if MS does try to enforce this agienst Linux, won't ever) have software patents.
*this would also mean Linus and everyone working on the kernel would have to move to the EU, and also a fork in the kernel in the US that does not included vFat.
It's also worth thinking about - the Linux kernel infringes this patent. Is Linux going to have FAT support ripped out of it now? That'd be really bad coz suddenly it can't interoperate with all those devices using FAT.
I would think it would have to be pulled out of kenerl.org sources (sense they are hosted on servers in the USA). However, it could be kept in unoffical sources in the EU. In fact, if Microsoft does go after Linux on this, it could further bolster the EU to reject software patents for the sham they are.
I really wish the DoJ would take a hard look at MS and see that it really has not learned it's lesson when it comes to dealing in an anti-compitative way, but seeing that the idiot (Bush) is in charge of that particular portion of the Executive Branch, there is no way in hell anything is going to change in the near future...
The 22nd Amendment was a horriable amendment, it now makes the president unaccountable in his second term. REPEAL the 22nd Amendment, do NOT praise it. If the 22nd Amendment wasn't there, we might very well still have Clinton in office (would rather have Slick Willy in office then Dubya), hell, Regan could have had another term, that wouldn't have been so bad ether...
Your average joe is not going to take a soldering iron to his/her DVR, and that is what this piece of legeslation is aimed at. Geeks will always be able to get around DRM because WE ARE GEEKS, we know how it works, we know how to get around. Averge Joe on the other hand could care less.
As long as DRM is implimented by humans, it will always be cracked, however, only by a small percentage of the population.
This might confirm my theory of the dumbing down of the American male in relation to watching sports. You have to have a low IQ (not have this gene) in order to get any plesure out of sweaty men trying to put a little ball in a hoop, or a bunch of sweaty mean in protective gear falling on top of each other to stop another sweaty man from scoring.
I swear, ESPN will be THE downfall of American socity.
Most (all?) states require that you pass *enviromental tests every year before allowing your car on the road. No GPS tracker, No pass on the test, Your car is now illegal to drive. If you get pulled over, it's the pound you in the ass prison.
*enter any other reason for the state to grab more money from your wallet
The University of Utah was a founding member of ARPAnet, Novell use to have it's headquarters in Provo (they still have some offices there), polygamy used to be widely practiced, legally, (still is illegally) you can thank the Republicans for taking that away (twin relics of barbarism, slavery and polygamy) of course your average/.er has enough trouble trying to get one wife let alone 20 (ya Brother Joseph and Brother Brigham!)
Better then the.xxx domain, or this silly port/channel idea would be to phase out any root TLD that is not a country TLD. That means phasing out.com,.net,.org etc. Just stop registering new domain names for those TLD's, if a business wants a.com address, they can have.com.us, a non-profit?.org.us. This can also be done for any other country, a Canadian business?.com.ca UK?.com.co.uk and so on.
This is already done with other countries, google.ca is for Canada, google.co.uk is for the UK, google.de is for Germany and so on. Besides with search engines the way they are now, lengthy domain names are beginning to not matter as much as they once did.
If you do it this way, the US could enforce what ever the hell type of restrictions on.us, so those that want a 'clean' internet can set their browser to only query the.us TLD and no other. P0rn could even be completely blocked on the.us domain. As long as there is an opt-out for those who want the p0rn, then this would be fine. Though you would still have plan IP addresses to deal with, that is easy to handle with geo-location (whatever the technically word is, I do know that all IP addresses are at least associated with a country). Of course I do not know if IPv6 has a similar method, though with the current rate of adoption of IPv6 with in America, that won't be a problem for a long time.
Note that the article said that the ridiculous port/channel approach was supposed to be an opt-in thing, where you opt-in to block all the p0rn ports/channels.
Similarly, back in March, when Utah passed another anti-porn bill, it was for opting in for a filter that ISP's where being forced to run. The filter would only be turned on if requested.
This is the key, and an understanding of the Mormon concept of Free Agency is helpful to see why Utah is creating these laws that are for opting in and not outright banning p0rn all together.
Unlike what most Mormon missionaries (DISCLAIMER: I was one) would like you to believe that are a vast number of theological differences between Mormonism and Christianity. I would contend that Mormonism is NOT Christianity, and that Christianity today does not follow the true teachings of the man Jesus of Nazareth. Many of these differences are obvious, and despite the Churches recent attempts to white wash it's history, they are still present in an abundance of literature, most of it online. Polygamy is is most famous, with Blood Atonement, and Adam-God running close second and third. These former teachings are not actively taught in Mormon circles and are even condemned as heresy.
Something that is commonly taught is the doctrine of Free Agency. With in Mormonism, forcing someone to do something is not 'Christ like', in fact, Lucifer, when presenting his plan on how he would bring about the salvation of man said that he would make sure everyone would be saved, taking all the honor away from the Father. This would be done by taking away mans free agency. Jesus stepped up and said he would preserved the agency of man, giving the Honor to the Father, and not taking it himself, even if not all men where 'saved'. Jesus' plan was chosen, and as a result, Lucifer rebelled, began the 'War in Heaven' and was cast out (down).
This is why the Mormons in Utah will never out right ban p0rn where the Southern Baptist and other "Christians" will. Mormons are pro-life, and anti-homosexual marriage, however, to many "Christians", on the abortion issue, Mormons have it wrong. With in the Mormon Church, abortion is allowable in the cases of rape, incest, or if the health of the mother is in jeopardy. To "Christians" who believe life
Oh come on, Orrin is wacky, (same as Bennett) but with Utah being the reddest state in the union (yes, it is redder then Texas), their seats are the SAFEST of all the seats in the US Senate. Barring more people moving from California to Utah (which is happening), Orrin and Bob can come afford wacky radical right wing extremist ideas, the rest of Congress can not.
Maybe that is what we need to do, organize a mass/. move to Utah county kind of like what the Free State project is doing in New Hampshire. As an added incentive to move, Provo has a FTTH project called iProvo that is going smoothly, and Fiber is being laid out in Orem, and other Utah counties via UTOPIA. Come on/. FIBER TO THE HOME! We can take over Utah!
It wouldn't be to far from what the Chinese are doing with the internet in their country, except now it is a whole state doing it. Actually, something like would work, it may get struck down by the US Supreme Court, but there are so many sheep^H^H^H^H^HMormons, who would vote for a constitutional amendment just cause their (perceived, all be it false) notion of the "Prophet" desiring such legislation.
Kind of funny, seeing that the University of Utah was apart of Arpanet, though, to be fair, the U is not very Orthodox Mormon friendly (and good for them, some one has to counter balance BYU).
(Not that I think it's worth wasting any time and effort on finding it. Rather than trying to find the latest screw-up by Microsoft engineers, it would be far more productive to worry about improving Linux and free software on general purpose hardware.)
There just getting ready for the inevitable day that there is no such thing as general purpose hardware, and you are forced to hack your hardware to do whatever the hell you want, instead of what content prodecers only want you do use the hardware for.
Where talking Alberta here, the one province that is ususualy lumped into Jesusland because of the insande amount of fundy christians. If your going to live in Alberta you might as well live in the USA.
I would much rather a sercurity app be F/OSS so I *can* see all of the code and spot possible vulnerabilities myself. Of course that is dismissing hte fact that, according to TFA most people are not coders and not contributing to the code, still, as far as security by obscurity goes, that never works out, just look at Microsoft...
Romney, a Republican, has been mentioned as a possible presidential candidate. OK, now I'm scared.
ok, you don't have to worry about Romney being elected as president, he won't even make it pass the republican primaries, why? cause he is a mormon. fundy christians will never let a mormon (to them non-christian) run, end of story.
With the emergence of "Bird Flu" that is spreading rapedily across the world and now 'fireballs' appearing in the sky, all I have is one thing to say...
If you had to worry about patents, then you wouldn't need todo the R.E. sense patents lay out the framework in the patent application which is publicly available.
I certianly wouldn't want to buy any of these right now, sure the bit rate is good for the iPod video, or even a computer screen, but blowing them up on a TV must suck!
Combine that with the fact that an average season (22-24 episodes) would cost $43.78 - $47.76 and I would much rather spend that money buying something that can be displayed on my TV!
I am sure, over time as download bandwidth increases, the size of these shows will grow and eventually I will be able to play full HDTV on my HDTV.
Of course there is also the issue with DRM. Seeing that this comes from Apple, I assume the DRM is FairPlay, if so, I have no problems with ripping it out (not that i would offer it to others to download, just cause I feel uneasy with DRM in general).
and when I first saw the title I mistakenly read 'remaking Princess Bride as a movie' and was shocked at the thought of the Rock portraying Fezzik (andre the giant's part)...*shudder*
Hey now, if it weren't for Glen Larson being Mormon, then we wouldn't have Battlestar Galactica and no Kobol which means no remaked series with sexy human cylons...I mean...I think I had a point...
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Thats why Linus needs to move the kernel.org server not from California to Oregon, but from Oregon to the EU*. That way MS can bitch all they want about vFat in the kernel, but can't get it out of the kernel cause the EU (for the time being, and if MS does try to enforce this agienst Linux, won't ever) have software patents.
*this would also mean Linus and everyone working on the kernel would have to move to the EU, and also a fork in the kernel in the US that does not included vFat.
I would think it would have to be pulled out of kenerl.org sources (sense they are hosted on servers in the USA). However, it could be kept in unoffical sources in the EU. In fact, if Microsoft does go after Linux on this, it could further bolster the EU to reject software patents for the sham they are.
I really wish the DoJ would take a hard look at MS and see that it really has not learned it's lesson when it comes to dealing in an anti-compitative way, but seeing that the idiot (Bush) is in charge of that particular portion of the Executive Branch, there is no way in hell anything is going to change in the near future...
The 22nd Amendment was a horriable amendment, it now makes the president unaccountable in his second term. REPEAL the 22nd Amendment, do NOT praise it. If the 22nd Amendment wasn't there, we might very well still have Clinton in office (would rather have Slick Willy in office then Dubya), hell, Regan could have had another term, that wouldn't have been so bad ether...
Palpatine is that you?
Your average joe is not going to take a soldering iron to his/her DVR, and that is what this piece of legeslation is aimed at. Geeks will always be able to get around DRM because WE ARE GEEKS, we know how it works, we know how to get around. Averge Joe on the other hand could care less.
As long as DRM is implimented by humans, it will always be cracked, however, only by a small percentage of the population.
This might confirm my theory of the dumbing down of the American male in relation to watching sports. You have to have a low IQ (not have this gene) in order to get any plesure out of sweaty men trying to put a little ball in a hoop, or a bunch of sweaty mean in protective gear falling on top of each other to stop another sweaty man from scoring.
I swear, ESPN will be THE downfall of American socity.
Most (all?) states require that you pass *enviromental tests every year before allowing your car on the road. No GPS tracker, No pass on the test, Your car is now illegal to drive. If you get pulled over, it's the pound you in the ass prison. *enter any other reason for the state to grab more money from your wallet
The University of Utah was a founding member of ARPAnet, Novell use to have it's headquarters in Provo (they still have some offices there), polygamy used to be widely practiced, legally, (still is illegally) you can thank the Republicans for taking that away (twin relics of barbarism, slavery and polygamy) of course your average /.er has enough trouble trying to get one wife let alone 20 (ya Brother Joseph and Brother Brigham!)
Better then the .xxx domain, or this silly port/channel idea would be to phase out any root TLD that is not a country TLD. That means phasing out .com, .net, .org etc. Just stop registering new domain names for those TLD's, if a business wants a .com address, they can have .com.us, a non-profit? .org.us. This can also be done for any other country, a Canadian business? .com.ca UK? .com.co.uk and so on.
.us, so those that want a 'clean' internet can set their browser to only query the .us TLD and no other. P0rn could even be completely blocked on the .us domain. As long as there is an opt-out for those who want the p0rn, then this would be fine. Though you would still have plan IP addresses to deal with, that is easy to handle with geo-location (whatever the technically word is, I do know that all IP addresses are at least associated with a country). Of course I do not know if IPv6 has a similar method, though with the current rate of adoption of IPv6 with in America, that won't be a problem for a long time.
This is already done with other countries, google.ca is for Canada, google.co.uk is for the UK, google.de is for Germany and so on. Besides with search engines the way they are now, lengthy domain names are beginning to not matter as much as they once did.
If you do it this way, the US could enforce what ever the hell type of restrictions on
Note that the article said that the ridiculous port/channel approach was supposed to be an opt-in thing, where you opt-in to block all the p0rn ports/channels.
Similarly, back in March, when Utah passed another anti-porn bill, it was for opting in for a filter that ISP's where being forced to run. The filter would only be turned on if requested.
This is the key, and an understanding of the Mormon concept of Free Agency is helpful to see why Utah is creating these laws that are for opting in and not outright banning p0rn all together.
Unlike what most Mormon missionaries (DISCLAIMER: I was one) would like you to believe that are a vast number of theological differences between Mormonism and Christianity. I would contend that Mormonism is NOT Christianity, and that Christianity today does not follow the true teachings of the man Jesus of Nazareth. Many of these differences are obvious, and despite the Churches recent attempts to white wash it's history, they are still present in an abundance of literature, most of it online. Polygamy is is most famous, with Blood Atonement, and Adam-God running close second and third. These former teachings are not actively taught in Mormon circles and are even condemned as heresy.
Something that is commonly taught is the doctrine of Free Agency. With in Mormonism, forcing someone to do something is not 'Christ like', in fact, Lucifer, when presenting his plan on how he would bring about the salvation of man said that he would make sure everyone would be saved, taking all the honor away from the Father. This would be done by taking away mans free agency. Jesus stepped up and said he would preserved the agency of man, giving the Honor to the Father, and not taking it himself, even if not all men where 'saved'. Jesus' plan was chosen, and as a result, Lucifer rebelled, began the 'War in Heaven' and was cast out (down).
This is why the Mormons in Utah will never out right ban p0rn where the Southern Baptist and other "Christians" will. Mormons are pro-life, and anti-homosexual marriage, however, to many "Christians", on the abortion issue, Mormons have it wrong. With in the Mormon Church, abortion is allowable in the cases of rape, incest, or if the health of the mother is in jeopardy. To "Christians" who believe life
Oh come on, Orrin is wacky, (same as Bennett) but with Utah being the reddest state in the union (yes, it is redder then Texas), their seats are the SAFEST of all the seats in the US Senate. Barring more people moving from California to Utah (which is happening), Orrin and Bob can come afford wacky radical right wing extremist ideas, the rest of Congress can not.
/. move to Utah county kind of like what the Free State project is doing in New Hampshire. As an added incentive to move, Provo has a FTTH project called iProvo that is going smoothly, and Fiber is being laid out in Orem, and other Utah counties via UTOPIA. Come on /. FIBER TO THE HOME! We can take over Utah!
Maybe that is what we need to do, organize a mass
DISCLAIMER: I AM AN UN-ORTHADOX MORMON
It wouldn't be to far from what the Chinese are doing with the internet in their country, except now it is a whole state doing it. Actually, something like would work, it may get struck down by the US Supreme Court, but there are so many sheep^H^H^H^H^HMormons, who would vote for a constitutional amendment just cause their (perceived, all be it false) notion of the "Prophet" desiring such legislation.
Kind of funny, seeing that the University of Utah was apart of Arpanet, though, to be fair, the U is not very Orthodox Mormon friendly (and good for them, some one has to counter balance BYU).
(Not that I think it's worth wasting any time and effort on finding it. Rather than trying to find the latest screw-up by Microsoft engineers, it would be far more productive to worry about improving Linux and free software on general purpose hardware.)
There just getting ready for the inevitable day that there is no such thing as general purpose hardware, and you are forced to hack your hardware to do whatever the hell you want, instead of what content prodecers only want you do use the hardware for.
Where talking Alberta here, the one province that is ususualy lumped into Jesusland because of the insande amount of fundy christians. If your going to live in Alberta you might as well live in the USA.
FUD!
I would much rather a sercurity app be F/OSS so I *can* see all of the code and spot possible vulnerabilities myself. Of course that is dismissing hte fact that, according to TFA most people are not coders and not contributing to the code, still, as far as security by obscurity goes, that never works out, just look at Microsoft...
Bah, don't worry about it, there was a 'vortex' *cough*wormhole*cough* but it was closed a few years ago by John Crichton.
Romney, a Republican, has been mentioned as a possible presidential candidate.
OK, now I'm scared.
ok, you don't have to worry about Romney being elected as president, he won't even make it pass the republican primaries, why? cause he is a mormon. fundy christians will never let a mormon (to them non-christian) run, end of story.
NO! It's the end of the world! Never cross the STRE^H^H^H^H LINKS!
With the emergence of "Bird Flu" that is spreading rapedily across the world and now 'fireballs' appearing in the sky, all I have is one thing to say...
Hallowed are the Orii
It JUST squeezes in to airline regulation size for carryon with the case.
Accept you don't have to squeeze it into the carry on sense most(all?) of the US airlines don't consider a laptop as carry on (same as Amtrak).
*breaks aamcf's lower virtbrea, and pulls out katana, holding it out in front of aamcf*
"It is a good way to die"
Only thing to worry about now is patents.
If you had to worry about patents, then you wouldn't need todo the R.E. sense patents lay out the framework in the patent application which is publicly available.
and then the men with the hands of blue will ebola anyone who came in contact with DVD Jon...
I certianly wouldn't want to buy any of these right now, sure the bit rate is good for the iPod video, or even a computer screen, but blowing them up on a TV must suck! Combine that with the fact that an average season (22-24 episodes) would cost $43.78 - $47.76 and I would much rather spend that money buying something that can be displayed on my TV! I am sure, over time as download bandwidth increases, the size of these shows will grow and eventually I will be able to play full HDTV on my HDTV. Of course there is also the issue with DRM. Seeing that this comes from Apple, I assume the DRM is FairPlay, if so, I have no problems with ripping it out (not that i would offer it to others to download, just cause I feel uneasy with DRM in general).
and when I first saw the title I mistakenly read 'remaking Princess Bride as a movie' and was shocked at the thought of the Rock portraying Fezzik (andre the giant's part)...*shudder*
Hey now, if it weren't for Glen Larson being Mormon, then we wouldn't have Battlestar Galactica and no Kobol which means no remaked series with sexy human cylons...I mean...I think I had a point...