I think he's saying that it wasn't burglary, just like it wasn't Anal Sodomy.
So, perhaps, you've got an agenda against Republicans and want to stop what they're about. Should Michael have used the title 'Electronic Anal Sodomy in the Senate'? That makes just as much sense as 'Burglary'.
Why should anybody continue to play 'politics as usual'??
The point of some people who enter politics is to cut back and limit government's reach. A 'just play the game the way we've always played it' mentality sorta goes against that.
It might not be 'conservative' to shake things up, but shaking things up and shutting down some of the bullshit is what it's all about for some people. Perhaps a 'civil discourse' in goverment will become more practical once some wings have been clipped and a bunch of bureaucrats have moved out of Washington permanently.
The FSF makes a big point of encouraging software authors to transfer the copyright to the FSF, though. For practical reasons from the point of view of the software, i.e. it then has an organization behind enforcing the GPL, whereas it's a layer removed from said organization if the copyright remains with the author. If said copyright transfer occurs, no, the author does not have control any longer.
Two of the three projects using embedded devices that I wrote the code for used 4 bit processors. The third used an 8 bit processor. There are still many millions of 4 and 8-bit processors being designed into products. You can't even order a mask for said parts (the vendor won't even answer the phone, or often times even provide the emulator and tools) if you're not talking 500K+ quantities.
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My SS10sx has always had those VSIMMs installed. When I chanced upon it there were two 4 meg modules installed, and yes, it has the second video board. You have to run Solaris, as nobody else has ever figured out how to support the cgfourteen (that I know of) in 24 bit color. It's such a small segment of the framebuffer 'market' that I suppose it'll never be supported with any 'free' X server.
But really, one of the coolest things to run on a bunch of old Sparc boxes would be Amoeba. It's ported to Sparc, ya know.
Tannenbaum rulez, after all.
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I connect to most of my Sun hardware through Serial Port A while installing the OS and then through the Ethernet from that point on. I do have a luscious SS10sx, which is a rare box in that it has two cgfourteen framebuffers built in (24 bit color, maaaaan!) which is a great dual-head classic sparc box, but for the most part you never need to plug a keyboard into a sun machine to get good use out of it.
The obsession with having a keyboard and monitor attached to the machine. It's so pee-cee. Your MOM's computer has a keyboard and monitor.
This all brings back nostalgic memories of installing NetBSD on old lunchbox IPX and IPC machines using an Apple serial cable, null modem, dumb terminal, and an NFS share from a Slackware box. Those were the days of adventure... or something.
It would be 'freedom of choice' if there was full disclosure, at all levels, whenever any entity started using the SPEWS information to engage in blocking activity.
As it stands, a few vigilant nerds get riled up and start punching the system around, and the freedom of 'less powerful' individuals goes by the wayside. This is BOFH stuff, and it discredits the professionalism of IT as a whole.
Doing nothing also does not work. A combination of all these things might work. What have we got to loose?
What have we got to lose? Maybe you should study the history of what we lost when Joe McCarthy went on his rampage against a similarly containable 'threat' in the 1950's....
People may begin to "start taking their business elsewhere" when a gestapo-friendly ISP just aligns themselves with an anti-spam outfit rather than providing the service the customer paid for.
And yes, I know I'll evoke a squeal of hysteria for even hinting that any form of anti-spam zealotry could be dubious.
Yes, but you fail to understand the purpose of this anti-copying feature. It isn't to make it impossible for determined criminals to copy currency, it's to make it difficult enough that only determined criminals will try.
The court system would be clogged with newbs and 'regular folk' who copied a few $20 and/or their 10 year old son did it.
By implementing a layer of 'prohibition' like this they filter those folks out, which means there will be more resources available to hammer hard on the people who need the hammering (the people conterfeiting on a large scale). Which is a good thing, unless you're some sort of fringe character who thinks counterfeiting is kewl.
It was in a skid lot with a bunch of Power Macs, including a Beige G3 and a bunch of working 7300's, a large working (in great shape, and workgroup class - fast!) LaserJet printer, and some other stuff like external drives. I paid $15 for the skid lot.
I used to have Issue #2 of Kilobaud magazine. Which carried the original ad for the Apple 1. A single-board computer, with no case. Just a circuit board, for $666.00.
I regret selling that (a complete set of Kilobaud).
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If Windows hadn't taken off, Microsoft still had OS/2, to be accurate.
I tried running Shufflepuck on my SE/30 awhile ago. The machine was far too fast so the game was impossible to play. I need to rustle up an older 68000 based Mac to play that one, because I do remember it with relish.
I bought a Pentium II 400 MHz machine a few months ago for $15. I got a 17" monitor out by the dumpster at the same auction site for free. I have keyboards on hand that came from a skid lot of hardware that I paid $1 for (for the whole skid, mostly it was Macs and Mac keyboards.
Let's see. I've spent about $15.25 now and I've got a damned fine machine....
I suppose shipping would be the $2-3 or so of gas I burned hauling it home...
It's even possible that I now have that IIfx that you refer to. I bought a IIfx at auction last week, it has National Instrument data acquisition cards in it and LabView 2. I bought it at auction in Indianapolis.
You could get Microsoft Quickbasic for the Mac about then. Maybe a few years after 1984 but not many. I found a copy (that works great and I look forward to installing on my Powerbook 165c) on a hard drive out of a Mac that I scrapped last week.
My Powerbook 165c is considerably smaller than my IBM PC Convertible and far, FAR more powerful. It's about the size of a ream of paper. The PC Convertible is about the size of three reams of Paper.
(Don't forget that IBM had their own competing OS - PC DOS - that MS-DOS was a clone of, and this was what was generally installed on clone machines.)
PC-DOS and MS-DOS weren't 'clone' siblings. They were the same code base. Microsoft produced both, but IBM was involved and as the 'golden' OEM had seperate marketing arrangements. Back in the day the only way to get MS-DOS was to buy it bundled with a machine. You were NEVER able to retail-box buy a copy of MS-DOS prior to version 6.22. There was an MS-DOS 6.0 'step up' available by retail, but the only way to get MS-DOS in the old days was bundled with hardware as an OEM purchase.
PC-DOS on the other hand was available as a shrink-wrapped box item on the retail shelf. From IBM.
There's a long complex versioning history for MS-DOS and it's quite colorful. For instance Version 2.0 was the first version to support the hard drive. The hard drive didn't have a 'door' to close, so whereas when formatting a floppy with 2.0 it prompted you to put a blank disk in the drive and close the door, if you typed 'Format C:' it didn't need to prompt you. It just went off and formatted the C: drive. The obvious verify Y/N warning was added with 2.1.
But it's obscene to blather about MS-DOS in a Macintosh topic, isn't it??
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They're politicians. What can you expect? The solution is to cut back drastically on the power of government.
Or other ultra-whitey Republicans acusing Democrats of racism?
The layers of irony in you accusing somebody you call 'ultra-white' of racism are thick. Particularly the context you do it within,
I think he's saying that it wasn't burglary, just like it wasn't Anal Sodomy.
So, perhaps, you've got an agenda against Republicans and want to stop what they're about. Should Michael have used the title 'Electronic Anal Sodomy in the Senate'? That makes just as much sense as 'Burglary'.
Why should anybody continue to play 'politics as usual'??
The point of some people who enter politics is to cut back and limit government's reach. A 'just play the game the way we've always played it' mentality sorta goes against that.
It might not be 'conservative' to shake things up, but shaking things up and shutting down some of the bullshit is what it's all about for some people. Perhaps a 'civil discourse' in goverment will become more practical once some wings have been clipped and a bunch of bureaucrats have moved out of Washington permanently.
The FSF makes a big point of encouraging software authors to transfer the copyright to the FSF, though. For practical reasons from the point of view of the software, i.e. it then has an organization behind enforcing the GPL, whereas it's a layer removed from said organization if the copyright remains with the author. If said copyright transfer occurs, no, the author does not have control any longer.
Two of the three projects using embedded devices that I wrote the code for used 4 bit processors. The third used an 8 bit processor. There are still many millions of 4 and 8-bit processors being designed into products. You can't even order a mask for said parts (the vendor won't even answer the phone, or often times even provide the emulator and tools) if you're not talking 500K+ quantities.
My SS10sx has always had those VSIMMs installed. When I chanced upon it there were two 4 meg modules installed, and yes, it has the second video board. You have to run Solaris, as nobody else has ever figured out how to support the cgfourteen (that I know of) in 24 bit color. It's such a small segment of the framebuffer 'market' that I suppose it'll never be supported with any 'free' X server.
A beowulf cluster of IPXs would be cool.
But really, one of the coolest things to run on a bunch of old Sparc boxes would be Amoeba. It's ported to Sparc, ya know.
Tannenbaum rulez, after all.
I connect to most of my Sun hardware through Serial Port A while installing the OS and then through the Ethernet from that point on. I do have a luscious SS10sx, which is a rare box in that it has two cgfourteen framebuffers built in (24 bit color, maaaaan!) which is a great dual-head classic sparc box, but for the most part you never need to plug a keyboard into a sun machine to get good use out of it.
The obsession with having a keyboard and monitor attached to the machine. It's so pee-cee. Your MOM's computer has a keyboard and monitor.
This all brings back nostalgic memories of installing NetBSD on old lunchbox IPX and IPC machines using an Apple serial cable, null modem, dumb terminal, and an NFS share from a Slackware box. Those were the days of adventure... or something.
It would be 'freedom of choice' if there was full disclosure, at all levels, whenever any entity started using the SPEWS information to engage in blocking activity.
As it stands, a few vigilant nerds get riled up and start punching the system around, and the freedom of 'less powerful' individuals goes by the wayside. This is BOFH stuff, and it discredits the professionalism of IT as a whole.
Doing nothing also does not work. A combination of all these things might work. What have we got to loose?
What have we got to lose? Maybe you should study the history of what we lost when Joe McCarthy went on his rampage against a similarly containable 'threat' in the 1950's....
Even 'professionals' sometimes need their wings clipped from time to time.
People may begin to "start taking their business elsewhere" when a gestapo-friendly ISP just aligns themselves with an anti-spam outfit rather than providing the service the customer paid for.
And yes, I know I'll evoke a squeal of hysteria for even hinting that any form of anti-spam zealotry could be dubious.
whatever the fuck else hicks eat in their squalid hovels in flyover territory.
Hopefully a few earthquakes will shake off the crusty scum that tends to built up on the edges of the North American continent.
Yes, but you fail to understand the purpose of this anti-copying feature. It isn't to make it impossible for determined criminals to copy currency, it's to make it difficult enough that only determined criminals will try.
The court system would be clogged with newbs and 'regular folk' who copied a few $20 and/or their 10 year old son did it.
By implementing a layer of 'prohibition' like this they filter those folks out, which means there will be more resources available to hammer hard on the people who need the hammering (the people conterfeiting on a large scale). Which is a good thing, unless you're some sort of fringe character who thinks counterfeiting is kewl.
And it's annoying for people like me who ssh into some of the sites where I have an active email address and use pine to read it.
It was in a skid lot with a bunch of Power Macs, including a Beige G3 and a bunch of working 7300's, a large working (in great shape, and workgroup class - fast!) LaserJet printer, and some other stuff like external drives. I paid $15 for the skid lot.
I used to have Issue #2 of Kilobaud magazine. Which carried the original ad for the Apple 1. A single-board computer, with no case. Just a circuit board, for $666.00.
I regret selling that (a complete set of Kilobaud).
If Windows hadn't taken off, Microsoft still had OS/2, to be accurate.
I tried running Shufflepuck on my SE/30 awhile ago. The machine was far too fast so the game was impossible to play. I need to rustle up an older 68000 based Mac to play that one, because I do remember it with relish.
I bought a Pentium II 400 MHz machine a few months ago for $15. I got a 17" monitor out by the dumpster at the same auction site for free. I have keyboards on hand that came from a skid lot of hardware that I paid $1 for (for the whole skid, mostly it was Macs and Mac keyboards.
Let's see. I've spent about $15.25 now and I've got a damned fine machine....
I suppose shipping would be the $2-3 or so of gas I burned hauling it home...
It's even possible that I now have that IIfx that you refer to. I bought a IIfx at auction last week, it has National Instrument data acquisition cards in it and LabView 2. I bought it at auction in Indianapolis.
You could get Microsoft Quickbasic for the Mac about then. Maybe a few years after 1984 but not many. I found a copy (that works great and I look forward to installing on my Powerbook 165c) on a hard drive out of a Mac that I scrapped last week.
My Powerbook 165c is considerably smaller than my IBM PC Convertible and far, FAR more powerful. It's about the size of a ream of paper. The PC Convertible is about the size of three reams of Paper.
But anyway....
PC-DOS and MS-DOS weren't 'clone' siblings. They were the same code base. Microsoft produced both, but IBM was involved and as the 'golden' OEM had seperate marketing arrangements. Back in the day the only way to get MS-DOS was to buy it bundled with a machine. You were NEVER able to retail-box buy a copy of MS-DOS prior to version 6.22. There was an MS-DOS 6.0 'step up' available by retail, but the only way to get MS-DOS in the old days was bundled with hardware as an OEM purchase.
PC-DOS on the other hand was available as a shrink-wrapped box item on the retail shelf. From IBM.
There's a long complex versioning history for MS-DOS and it's quite colorful. For instance Version 2.0 was the first version to support the hard drive. The hard drive didn't have a 'door' to close, so whereas when formatting a floppy with 2.0 it prompted you to put a blank disk in the drive and close the door, if you typed 'Format C:' it didn't need to prompt you. It just went off and formatted the C: drive. The obvious verify Y/N warning was added with 2.1.
But it's obscene to blather about MS-DOS in a Macintosh topic, isn't it??