Domain names are the human-friendly form of Internet addresses. While designed to serve the function of enabling users to locate computers in an easy manner, domain names have acquired a further significance as business identifiers and, as such, have come into conflict with the system ofbusiness identifiers that existed before the arrival of the Internet and that are protected by intellectual property rights.
Translation: Looks like this Internet thing is going to make us a lot of money. However, the rules of the game are too simple, making it difficult for us to manipulate them
Our lawyers must correct this oversight in the usual manner, by lobbying governments to hold summits (making the appearance of officiality), and out of those drafting labyrinthine documents, incomprehensible to all but them, ensuring the continued necessity of their employ and the employ of future generations of lawyers.
Only when we are satisified that our recommendations are incomprehensible to both the politicians and their constituents (and therefore easily manipulated and extensible by us) will they become law.
Go to it boys and girls! --------------------------------- "The Internet interprets censorship as damage,
I think that is the most remarkable statement from this piece.
It shows what kind of world is created when free software is used: one of mutual trust, cooperation, and admiration; rather than one filled with lawyers enforcing dubious claims of "Intellectual Property".
"Intellectual Property" that will be abandoned once it is no longer profitable.
The enormous cost to humanity, both financially and psychologically, of using proprietary software and protocols has yet to be tallied.
Cheers to all Andrew and all of the Samba developers! --------------------------------- "The Internet interprets censorship as damage,
Katz is from the fluff school of journalism, which pervades every media outlet today whether it be in print or on the Web.
The rules are simple: assume your readers to be stupid and proceed to treat them as such.
A person may be ignorant; it is the journalist's duty to inform them of the facts. That is precisely what I, and I think a lot of other persons, have against Katz.
Take his "Descent into Linux" series.
His ordeal, as he notes in the beginning of the first part, was begun partly because of the improper representation of various characters in MS Word.Frankly, I do not care what platform or word processor he uses. However, a few paragraphs down we see this:
After years of writing online, my technology as well as my opinions had suddenly become controversial.
A person who has had "years of writing online" should know enough to author and submit his writings in HTML, solving any possible incompatibility between viewing platforms.
Katz apparently does not know this. Ignorance or stupidity? You decide. --------------------------------- "The Internet interprets censorship as damage,
Pretty much reinforces what I already know, including that:
Steve Wozniak and Tim Berners-Lee: Hackers. Steve Jobs and Ted Nelson: Techno-yuppie money-grubbers;
nevertheless, according to a certain CmdrTaco,
"I don't bother explaining acronyms," says Malda, "so obviously Slashdot scares away the faint of heart. It's a built-in filter -- if you can't understand what's going on, read a different site."
that is what we come here for.
Clue: Can Katz. --------------------------------- "The Internet interprets censorship as damage,
I shall ignore the second part of your story because it is absurd. As other posters have noted, you should have examined the package before accepting it; the shipping company is liable for damages that occured in transit.
In the first part of your story you mentioned the flames over the unintended characters most of us see when you post stories you composed with MS Word. You do not need to "learn Linux" in order to remedy that. You only need to learn basic HTML and compose your posts using it. There are numerous 10 minute HTML tutorials on the Web to which you can turn. Download BBEdit Lite 4.1 an excellent freeware (i.e. gratis, but no source code provided) editor for the Mac; use it instead of MS Word.
You are on the Web. The Web came about precisely because of the myriad of incompatible document formats and the difficulty in retrieving them that Tim Berners-Lee found at CERN. If you are unwilling to learn even the slightest bit about the tools of this environment, then go back to the print world and take the rest of the clueless, sycophantic journalists with you.
How can you be so damn ignorant? no...wait I already have the answers:
As you have admitted, you have been a Mac user for 10 years;
You are a writer/journalist.
'Nuff said.
P.S. If you have a Mac, then why the bloody !@#$ are you not installing LinuxPPC?!!
Slashdot Mirror
Translation: Looks like this Internet thing is
going to make us a lot of money. However, the
rules of the game are too simple, making it
difficult for us to manipulate them
Our lawyers must correct this oversight in the
usual manner, by lobbying governments to hold
summits (making the appearance of officiality),
and out of those drafting labyrinthine documents,
incomprehensible to all but them, ensuring the
continued necessity of their employ and the
employ of future generations of lawyers.
Only when we are satisified that our
recommendations are incomprehensible to both the
politicians and their constituents (and therefore
easily manipulated and extensible by us) will
they become law.
Go to it boys and girls!
---------------------------------
"The Internet interprets censorship as damage,
from this piece.
It shows what kind of world is created when free
software is used: one of mutual trust,
cooperation, and admiration; rather than one
filled with lawyers enforcing dubious claims of
"Intellectual Property".
"Intellectual Property" that will be abandoned
once it is no longer profitable.
The enormous cost to humanity, both financially
and psychologically, of using proprietary
software and protocols has yet to be tallied.
Cheers to all Andrew and all of the Samba
developers!
---------------------------------
"The Internet interprets censorship as damage,
pervades every media outlet today whether it be in
print or on the Web.
The rules are simple: assume your readers to be
stupid and proceed to treat them as such.
A person may be ignorant; it is the journalist's
duty to inform them of the facts. That is
precisely what I, and I think a lot of other
persons, have against Katz.
Take his "Descent into Linux" series.
His ordeal, as he notes in the beginning of the
A person who has had "years of writing online"first part, was begun partly because of the
improper representation of various characters in
MS Word.Frankly, I do not care what platform or
word processor he uses. However, a few paragraphs
down we see this:
should know enough to author and submit his
writings in HTML, solving any possible
incompatibility between viewing platforms.
Katz apparently does not know this.
Ignorance or stupidity? You decide.
---------------------------------
"The Internet interprets censorship as damage,
including that:
Steve Wozniak and Tim Berners-Lee: Hackers.
Steve Jobs and Ted Nelson: Techno-yuppie money-grubbers;
nevertheless, according to a certain CmdrTaco,
that is what we come here for.Clue: Can Katz.
---------------------------------
"The Internet interprets censorship as damage,
I shall ignore the second part of your story because it is absurd. As other posters have noted, you should have examined the package before accepting it; the shipping company is liable for damages that occured in transit.
In the first part of your story you mentioned the flames over the unintended characters most of us see when you post stories you composed with MS Word. You do not need to "learn Linux" in order to remedy that. You only need to learn basic HTML and compose your posts using it. There are numerous 10 minute HTML tutorials on the Web to which you can turn. Download BBEdit Lite 4.1 an excellent freeware (i.e. gratis, but no source code provided) editor for the Mac; use it instead of MS Word.
You are on the Web. The Web came about precisely because of the myriad of incompatible document formats and the difficulty in retrieving them that Tim Berners-Lee found at CERN. If you are unwilling to learn even the slightest bit about the tools of this environment, then go back to the print world and take the rest of the clueless, sycophantic journalists with you.
How can you be so damn ignorant? no...wait I already have the answers:
'Nuff said.
P.S. If you have a Mac, then why the bloody !@#$ are you not installing LinuxPPC?!!