I think my RIAA boycot just became a boycot of all copyrighted material*. I will never pay for a license to use again. No movie theaters, video game rentals, the works... until someone fixes this nonsense.
Arresting scientists crosses the line. I wouldn't feel right supplying the cartells that make this possible.
non-RIAA success story? iTunes is the user friendly graphical frontend for the RIAA. Thats what makes it 'legal'. It works roughly like this:
1) You give your money to apple 2) Apple pays the labels (which compose the RIAA) 3) The labels do nothing then pay the musicians 4% if they feel like it.
The RIAA doesn't hate itunes. They love getting money for nothing, but fear they will loose control. This price hike is just them determining how high they can jack the cost before the market kicks them in the ass for it.
Don't focus on installing the GNU distro itself. Distros are mostly set apart by package management. A review should walk through installing a couple packages.
Stepmania seems to be the most popular of the two, but seems to depend on propriatary data ripped from DDR (which became an issue when someone tried to put it in debian).
Pydance only has 3 songs for it, but is otherwise ok.
If a celebrity has a public phone number the celebrity will get swamped with calls. People don't seem to think this requires a ground-up overhaul of the phone system.
Spam only really bothers people with public addresses. It is not a huge issue for those who take basic precautions.
Friends depends on MSN messenger. Messenger depends on hotmail. Hotmail shows you msn.com and their stupid engine. Search their stupid engine for "GPL" get "SCO: IBM cannot enforce GPL"
It all ties together. If they buy out AOL, MSN will become The One Messenger, and all hell breaks loose.
We have some good Free games, but we aren't doing very much with them.
We have the great quake 1 engine, all we need is graphics and level data, but no one has contributed to Open Quartz in years. One doesn't even need to know how to program to contribute!
The critics loved Ikaruga, but Tenmado our Free clone is completely neglected.
"But Warez is a crime. And it should be punished."
Give him a fine, then. Throwing someone in a dungeon for non-violent crime is an overly harsh punishment. It's not like he is a menace to society. The streets are no safer without him walking around on them.
Actually this is where the term "open source" falls flat on its face. Whether or not code is "open source" has nothing to do with being able to see the code, or so those who invented the term claim. A program is "open source" if you are free to run it, share it, change it, and share the changes. The seeing code is necessary for that, but not the point.
If you can just see the code but not share it, that is something else. I don't think there is a word for that.
There were no passwords on ITS because of stallman's philosophy
from stallman's biography:
"The hackers who wrote the Incompatible Timesharing System decided that file protection was usually used by a self-styled system manager to get power over everyone else," Stallman would later explain. "They didn't want anyone to be able to get power over them that way, so they didn't implement that kind of a feature. The result was, that whenever something in the system was broken, you could always fix it."
Through such vigilance, hackers managed to keep the AI Lab's machines security-free. Over at the nearby MIT Laboratory for Computer Sciences, however, security-minded faculty members won the day. The LCS installed its first password-based system in 1977. Once again, Stallman took it upon himself to correct what he saw as ethical laxity. Gaining access to the software code that controlled the password system, Stallman implanted a software command that sent out a message to any LCS user who attempted to choose a unique password. If a user entered "starfish," for example, the message came back something like:
I see you chose the password "starfish." I suggest that you switch to the password "carriage return." It's much easier to type, and also it stands up to the principle that there should be no passwords.
He is talking about the rights of the user vs rights of the owner, on public machines. Stores, for example, have owners, but they also public places. The rights of the customers are balanced against the rights of the owners.
"considering someone leaked the memo must have been a recipient"
We cant be certain of that.
Maybe someone did some cracking. Maybe some of them are careless with their passwords. Maybe it was printed off, for some reason, and then lifted from a "to be shredded" pile. Maybe not.
"Since the strongest selling point of the CC system is that there are really sixteen CC licenses that are formed by mixing and matching four binary attributes"
Actually there are only 11 licenses because some of those binary attributes are incompatible. Like "share-alike", which is what they call copyleft, the "viral" part of the GPL, which forces derivative works to have the same license; and "noDerivs" which forbids derivative works completely.
If copyleft "infects" derivative works, then noDerivs aborts them. It doesn't make any sense to get upset about one, but not the other, unless you're a troll or just resent the GPL for some reason.
Their "strongest selling point" can be a weakness because CC licenses are incompatible with each other.
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I think my RIAA boycot just became a boycot of all copyrighted material*. I will never pay for a license to use again. No movie theaters, video game rentals, the works... until someone fixes this nonsense.
Arresting scientists crosses the line. I wouldn't feel right supplying the cartells that make this possible.
* = That doesn't permit redistribution.
non-RIAA success story? iTunes is the user friendly graphical frontend for the RIAA. Thats what makes it 'legal'. It works roughly like this:
1) You give your money to apple
2) Apple pays the labels (which compose the RIAA)
3) The labels do nothing then pay the musicians 4% if they feel like it.
The RIAA doesn't hate itunes. They love getting money for nothing, but fear they will loose control. This price hike is just them determining how high they can jack the cost before the market kicks them in the ass for it.
I prefer "I use a GNU variant including xwindows and linux". Thats long, so I contract it to "GNU variant" or "GNU distro".
The way I see it, Linus only wrote 2%* of a small chunk of the OS. What gives him the right to rename the GNU system?
* According to his wiki.
Don't focus on installing the GNU distro itself. Distros are mostly set apart by package management. A review should walk through installing a couple packages.
I know of 2 freesource clones of DDR.
Stepmania seems to be the most popular of the two, but seems to depend on propriatary data ripped from DDR (which became an issue when someone tried to put it in debian).
Pydance only has 3 songs for it, but is otherwise ok.
It's good to see emulators opening. The FSM (free software movement) and emu culture can both benefit from a little collaboration.
Emu culture gets the standard benefits of freesource, and the GNU system gets sorely needed games.
I don't know if you guys are aware, but aparently 'linux' is just a kernal, which everybody calls 'kernal' instead of its name.
If a celebrity has a public phone number the celebrity will get swamped with calls. People don't seem to think this requires a ground-up overhaul of the phone system.
Spam only really bothers people with public addresses. It is not a huge issue for those who take basic precautions.
Friends depends on MSN messenger.
Messenger depends on hotmail.
Hotmail shows you msn.com and their stupid engine.
Search their stupid engine for "GPL" get "SCO: IBM cannot enforce GPL"
It all ties together. If they buy out AOL, MSN will become The One Messenger, and all hell breaks loose.
We have some good Free games, but we aren't doing very much with them.
We have the great quake 1 engine, all we need is graphics and level data, but no one has contributed to Open Quartz in years. One doesn't even need to know how to program to contribute!
The critics loved Ikaruga, but Tenmado our Free clone is completely neglected.
How do you feel about people sharing your book?
"But Warez is a crime. And it should be punished."
Give him a fine, then. Throwing someone in a dungeon for non-violent crime is an overly harsh punishment. It's not like he is a menace to society. The streets are no safer without him walking around on them.
The Dangers of Software Patents is an old one.
You can listen to it here if you're interested. I highly recommend all of stallman's stuff. They are at least as interesting as reading slashdot.
This is a case of attacking the right people for the wrong reasons. WinTax is the real issue.
Actually this is where the term "open source" falls flat on its face. Whether or not code is "open source" has nothing to do with being able to see the code, or so those who invented the term claim. A program is "open source" if you are free to run it, share it, change it, and share the changes. The seeing code is necessary for that, but not the point.
If you can just see the code but not share it, that is something else. I don't think there is a word for that.
Originality is to the meme pool as random mutation is to the gene pool.
Echoing is valuable because it filters out bad originality.
There were no passwords on ITS because of stallman's philosophy
from stallman's biography:
"The hackers who wrote the Incompatible Timesharing System decided that file protection was usually used by a self-styled system manager to get power over everyone else," Stallman would later explain. "They didn't want anyone to be able to get power over them that way, so they didn't implement that kind of a feature. The result was, that whenever something in the system was broken, you could always fix it."
Through such vigilance, hackers managed to keep the AI Lab's machines security-free. Over at the nearby MIT Laboratory for Computer Sciences, however, security-minded faculty members won the day. The LCS installed its first password-based system in 1977. Once again, Stallman took it upon himself to correct what he saw as ethical laxity. Gaining access to the software code that controlled the password system, Stallman implanted a software command that sent out a message to any LCS user who attempted to choose a unique password. If a user entered "starfish," for example, the message came back something like:
I see you chose the password "starfish." I suggest that you switch to the password "carriage return." It's much easier to type, and also it stands up to the principle that there should be no passwords.
He is talking about the rights of the user vs rights of the owner, on public machines. Stores, for example, have owners, but they also public places. The rights of the customers are balanced against the rights of the owners.
No passwords may seem strange to us, but try to try to keep in mind the context that created that attitude.
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The MIT AI lab was a tight knit community. It was very open, like a family for stallman. Passwords were just a way for the school to exercise control.
http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch06.ht
http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/os-and-jedgar
That's only a problem, depending on your point of view.
If people start porting to the GNU system but not GPLing, spyware, copy protection, and the rest of that trash wont be far behind.
>> IBM still has a policy of never smearing a competitor as far as I am aware... ;)
>lol, you make them sound so fluffy
I thought that was sarcasm. They invented FUD for crying out loud!
"considering someone leaked the memo must have been a recipient"
We cant be certain of that.
Maybe someone did some cracking. Maybe some of them are careless with their passwords. Maybe it was printed off, for some reason, and then lifted from a "to be shredded" pile. Maybe not.
Could the patent on the MP3 format be used to prevent or hinder this, if the guy with the patent was interested in stopping them?
We can't get players that can play everything, why can they legally get scanners that scan for everything?
"Since the strongest selling point of the CC system is that there are really sixteen CC licenses that are formed by mixing and matching four binary attributes"
Actually there are only 11 licenses because some of those binary attributes are incompatible. Like "share-alike", which is what they call copyleft, the "viral" part of the GPL, which forces derivative works to have the same license; and "noDerivs" which forbids derivative works completely.
If copyleft "infects" derivative works, then noDerivs aborts them. It doesn't make any sense to get upset about one, but not the other, unless you're a troll or just resent the GPL for some reason.
Their "strongest selling point" can be a weakness because CC licenses are incompatible with each other.
"You, OTOH, are demonstrating the regrettable Slashdot tendency to label everything that doesn't follow the Stallmanite line a troll."
:)
If only that was true