No, really. Since when, out of morbid curiosity, does an on-topic political exaggeration get troll rated? If the moderator thought this was wrong, they should have posted a rebuttal.
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Why spend the R&D effort developing something unique and original (something that may or may not be successfull) when you can wait for someone else to do that work, prove its viability, and capitolize on it?
Which companies spend more money on unique and original material than on sequels? Right now, self-plagarism is all the rage.
When you agreed to their license, which was a binding legal contract. If you don't agree to their license, and therefore don't get their product, you're not affected.
DRM doesn't intrinsically interfere with fair use, because non DRM'd media is not affected. The license, not the technology, is what harms your rights.
And the fact that Apple's 'contract' allows the company to take away user rights after the agreement has nothing to do with anything.
The Editorial Review from the Library Journal (on the Amazon.com site)
The aim of this four-volume set is to spotlight some 400 works that have been censored, banned, or condemned because of their political, social, religious, or sexual content. The entries, which include a summary, censorship history, and brief bibliography, range widely from Aristotle through Galileo and on up to Adolf Hitler and Judy Blume. Such well-known prohibited works as de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom, the Communist Manifesto, and Huckleberry Finn are included here, but so are many other works that are now less controversial, e.g., Milton's Areopagitica and Uncle Tom's Cabin. Some of the censorship histories are several pages long, but others are very short; Born on the Fourth of July gets only 50 words. Though most of the works are worth notice, too many describe fairly vapid objections: Fail-Safe was challenged by a school librarian who thought the book would undermine "America's confidence in their defense system." But as one might expect, many of the entries, such as the one for The Satanic Verses, are harrowing. Prepared by well-qualified scholars who have written and lectured extensively on censorship, the set is a very readable gathering of much useful information. It provides more depth and is more current than either Anne L. Haight's Banned Books (1978. 4th ed.) or ALA's Banned Books Resource Guide (1995). (Index not seen.)APeter A. Dollard, Alma Coll. Lib., Mt. Pleasant, MI
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I see. Then let me ask another question: why is the software running in any Microsoft OS always so "buggy", if the OS is not to blame? How is it that I can download and install random applications from Sourceforge and run it in Linux without problem, yet XP seems to have so many problems in running applications from one of the leading aerospace companies in the world, which is the case in my company?
Perhaps the developers who ported the software to XP were not interested in doing a decent job of it?
It does not even have to be some weird Microsoft-centric implementation of standard ANSI APIs. The application could be demanding that the hardware perform actions that will cause the machine to crash. (Look up Intel's bug list for some of its CPUs. Now THAT is eye-opening!)
Not to mention the fact that even owning encryption software is considered as proving you have something to hide. There was a court case recently (sorry, no link) where the fact that the defendant had a copy of PGP was taken as evidence that there was kiddie p0rn at some point on the defendant's computer.
And don't forget who catches the shit for the policies of our partners. France, Russia, and Germany were selling shit to Saddam as fast as they could, but which one of these countries is the primary target of Al Quaeda in Iraq?
Rember the Saddam / Rumsfeld handshake? How about Cheney's Haliburton making deals to set up oil drilling sites for Saddam while Iraq was embargo'ed under Clinton?
If you want to comment on the fact that European businesses were propping Saddam up, I've got no beef with that. Just don't forget that there were US-based firms just as interested in making a buck out of the samr situation.
As for your other points, they seem to boil down to;
- if the US does not use its might to push contries around, other contries will step up to use their might to do the same thing.
- al-Quaeda attacked in order to protest the fact that Saddam was getting paided off.
Yeah! Anyone that had business dealings with Saddam should have the s#!t fined out of them.
Oh wait, that includes Haliburton and most of the senior officials of this administration. Never mind.
I know! People were predicting that someone could be arrested merely for discussing a security flaw, resulting in security researchers being afraid to visit the U.S., and what a load of hogwash that turned out to be.
Bzzt! Wrong, but thanks for playing.
First off, we have the ElcomSoft case mentioned here at slashdot. More recently, there was the Cisco security issue that earned the research a lawsuit that was also written about here.
And, yes there have been articles about security researchers refusing to travel to US conferences because of these issues. Although if you try searching, you will find articles about the impact that the Patriot Act and 'no fly' lists have on science conferences are dominant.
Hate to break it to you, the 'Wire' in wiretap is not an electrical wire or a data wire but something completely different. It refers to Telegraph wire and later telephone wire.
Plus, you really do not want to go with that definition. It would exclude taps that are purely software-based or are physically separate from the communication cabling but still capable of recording what is sent over the wires.
The part about bribes given through the "Oil for Food" should be taken with a LARGE grain of salt.
The ONLY primary source for this is Ahmed Chalabi. He claimed to find documents proving this allegation. And he will NOT let anyone else view / read / verify these document.
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No, really. Since when, out of morbid curiosity, does an on-topic political exaggeration get troll rated? If the moderator thought this was wrong, they should have posted a rebuttal.
From the Slashdot FAQ;
Troll -- A Troll is similar to Flamebait, but slightly more refined. This is a prank comment intended to provoke indignant (or just confused) responses. A Troll might mix up vital facts or otherwise distort reality, to make other readers react with helpful "corrections." Trolling is the online equivalent of intentionally dialing wrong numbers just to waste other people's time.
Great.
So every time the GWOT is about to end, it will get another 95 year extension.
You'd better not cry,
You'd better not pout, I'm telling you why...
Santa Claus sold his naughty/nice database to the DOJ.
And ticks and leeches are part of our ecosystem. I still would not want them in my neighborhood.
Tasers are a 'non'-lethal weapon too. And look how that turned out. [as submitted here at /.]
Despite what Dick Cheney would have you think it is not a white-and-black issue.
So who is the PHB? Can't be Rummy, he just got canned.
Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds
Literature Suppressed on Religious Grounds
Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds
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It does not even have to be some weird Microsoft-centric implementation of standard ANSI APIs. The application could be demanding that the hardware perform actions that will cause the machine to crash. (Look up Intel's bug list for some of its CPUs. Now THAT is eye-opening!)
It is an improvement.
Who were the Spice Girls? Never heard of them.
Not to mention the fact that even owning encryption software is considered as proving you have something to hide. There was a court case recently (sorry, no link) where the fact that the defendant had a copy of PGP was taken as evidence that there was kiddie p0rn at some point on the defendant's computer.
And here I thought that the P0rn industry was the prime mover of most innovations, from the introduction of currency to publishing to WWW.
Ladies and Gentlemen, introducing the latest version of "We had to destroy the village in order to save it."
If you want to comment on the fact that European businesses were propping Saddam up, I've got no beef with that. Just don't forget that there were US-based firms just as interested in making a buck out of the samr situation.
As for your other points, they seem to boil down to;
- if the US does not use its might to push contries around, other contries will step up to use their might to do the same thing.
- al-Quaeda attacked in order to protest the fact that Saddam was getting paided off.
Yeah! Anyone that had business dealings with Saddam should have the s#!t fined out of them. Oh wait, that includes Haliburton and most of the senior officials of this administration. Never mind.
First off, we have the ElcomSoft case mentioned here at slashdot. More recently, there was the Cisco security issue that earned the research a lawsuit that was also written about here.
And, yes there have been articles about security researchers refusing to travel to US conferences because of these issues. Although if you try searching, you will find articles about the impact that the Patriot Act and 'no fly' lists have on science conferences are dominant.
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Hate to break it to you, the 'Wire' in wiretap is not an electrical wire or a data wire but something completely different. It refers to Telegraph wire and later telephone wire.
Plus, you really do not want to go with that definition. It would exclude taps that are purely software-based or are physically separate from the communication cabling but still capable of recording what is sent over the wires.
The part about bribes given through the "Oil for Food" should be taken with a LARGE grain of salt.
The ONLY primary source for this is Ahmed Chalabi. He claimed to find documents proving this allegation. And he will NOT let anyone else view / read / verify these document.
Furbees!!!