If something is easy to discover and easy to implement, then someone else will discover and implement it. Since we aren't all dead and blown to smithereens yet, looks like it isn't easy.
And if it is so easy that someone else can discover and implement it, then what's the point of censorship?
Always, always always... ask yourself, when someone wants to protect you from yourself, what is their real agenda?
I know it's slashdot, I know it's custmary to insert foot first and maybe not ever think, but pay attention here... this is a lesson that applies to all sorts of things in life.
If something is easy to do, like making an H-bomb, then you don't need fucking articles in magazines to fucking blow the place up. The people who want to do that will already know how. Then the question is, what prevents them from doing so, and the answer is real simple, gosh, maybe it's not easy after all.
So then you have to ask yourself, why would the government want to suppress an idea that doesn't have any practical idea?
And that's when you realize the first amendment is a fucking good idea.
It's not the popular ideas that need the protection of the first amendment, it's the unpopular ones.
The trouble is, now these terrorists will know that they can hogtie the FBI and who knows how many government lawyers in a colossal waste of time simply by threatening to publish news!
We do not need this calamity confounding our precious givernement custodians of truth and prosperity. This is a windfall for the terrorists and a sad day for true Americans everywhere.
You will never see reports about the people who had that plan and did it right and got away with it.
You can't distinguish between people who had no plan and those who had your plan but set their sights too high. Maybe these people simply planned on $15M and got caught before reaching their goal.
I taught myself Japanese in the navy, on a ship homeported there, and learned stroke order from a couple of cheap books. Once you get the general idea, the rest follow. If it took you until 4th year of university, you must be relying on memory alone, and not doing a very good job of it. It's just a matter of learning some basic tricks they use, like why guchi is three strokes instead of four, the general flow. That will get you 99% of the stroke order within a few days.
There's not much less interesting to a politician that a zillion copies of the same letter. It just plain smells.
Write your own! If you want, look at the EFF letter as a model. But don't just rephrase it. Use those parts which get your dander up more than the rest, and write your own words as to why it pisses you off so much.
In the navy, we called them dinner, especially if they landed on the mast near the radar antennae. Mystery meat. Or scab steak if it was country fried.
Let Darl and Disney battle it out over the "IP rights" to Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine...
Heck, throw in Microsoft Minesweeper (tm), we could have a three way battle where there is no confusion about having to choose one to root for. Just let them battle.
There was one in the first gulf war that got hit by a cheap surface to air missle, lost 2 out of 3 wing spars and half the wing skin, yet made it back to base and was repaired and bombing again 48 hours later.
What makes you think the GPL needs revising? What kind of control freak are you to even think of revising a license used by millions of people? Why don't you just go invent your own license?
Keerist, the gall of some people... if you don't like something, fine, do your own, but to think of changing other people's choice because you don't like it.... keerist in a bucket
This air force guy had talked about his experiences flying MiGs against US forces, not in actual combat, but as evaluation of captured and bought planes. He may have had actual combat experience, I don't know, but his knowledge on this score came from evaluation, not combat. Hope I didn't mislead anybody:-)
It is absolutely traceable to better GUI design. Old style cockpits were full of gauges that had to be scanned, constantly, always checking temperature gauges and a zillion things which almost always had the proper readings and did not change, scan the instruments, scan outside, scan the instruments, scan outside... boring as hell scanning those gauges, because they were almost always showing what they should have been... can you spell repetitive? boring?
Glass cockpits and HOTAS, Hands On Throttle And Stick, changed everything. The computer monitored instrumentation, and only showed what was out of spec, and alerted you when that happened. HOTAS meant doing everything from the two controls, stick and throttle. No more moving your hands from the primary flight controls to reach for one of dozens of toggle switches and dials which all looked the same, while pulling 5Gs and still trying to scan all those round gauges and track the situation outside and look where your fingers were.
I knew a retired air force pilot who had flown patched up MiGs collected from battlefields, who said the biggest difference between planes of the same era was that the US planes had HOTAS and glass cockpits, and the Russians still had round gauages and toggle switches. Even if the Russian got on the tail of a US fighter, he had to reach up or over while pulling Gs, trying to reach the arming and firing switches and having to do it quick with one of his hands which really should have stayed on the throttle and stick because he was in combat, but no, so he lost a bit of maneuvering while the American was doing it all with ease because his hands were on the controls that mattered and his eyes were outside the cockpit instead of scanning dozens of round gauges.
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I just want to know: Does that count?
Not into bit 31 it doesn't.
Can you roll over?
If something is easy to discover and easy to implement, then someone else will discover and implement it. Since we aren't all dead and blown to smithereens yet, looks like it isn't easy.
... ask yourself, when someone wants to protect you from yourself, what is their real agenda?
And if it is so easy that someone else can discover and implement it, then what's the point of censorship?
Always, always always
I know it's slashdot, I know it's custmary to insert foot first and maybe not ever think, but pay attention here ... this is a lesson that applies to all sorts of things in life.
If something is easy to do, like making an H-bomb, then you don't need fucking articles in magazines to fucking blow the place up. The people who want to do that will already know how. Then the question is, what prevents them from doing so, and the answer is real simple, gosh, maybe it's not easy after all.
So then you have to ask yourself, why would the government want to suppress an idea that doesn't have any practical idea?
And that's when you realize the first amendment is a fucking good idea.
It's not the popular ideas that need the protection of the first amendment, it's the unpopular ones.
The trouble is, now these terrorists will know that they can hogtie the FBI and who knows how many government lawyers in a colossal waste of time simply by threatening to publish news!
We do not need this calamity confounding our precious givernement custodians of truth and prosperity. This is a windfall for the terrorists and a sad day for true Americans everywhere.
You will never see reports about the people who had that plan and did it right and got away with it.
You can't distinguish between people who had no plan and those who had your plan but set their sights too high. Maybe these people simply planned on $15M and got caught before reaching their goal.
I taught myself Japanese in the navy, on a ship homeported there, and learned stroke order from a couple of cheap books. Once you get the general idea, the rest follow. If it took you until 4th year of university, you must be relying on memory alone, and not doing a very good job of it. It's just a matter of learning some basic tricks they use, like why guchi is three strokes instead of four, the general flow. That will get you 99% of the stroke order within a few days.
This all assumes they really do have good instances of infringement to disclose to IBM.
... something. If they come up with anything at all, it is likely to be shot down fast and hard by IBM.
... exactly nothing?
Pretty much only SCO and a few suckemup analysts believe that.
Pretty much the rest of the world doesn't believe it.
They have 30 days to come up with
And then, who cares if it is public or not?
What if they come up with
... it all depends on how bribable our legal system is, either directly or indirectly. SCO got a lot of clams from investors recently ...
Tell me, please, how the General Public License can be a contract if I have signed nothing?
There's not much less interesting to a politician that a zillion copies of the same letter. It just plain smells.
Write your own! If you want, look at the EFF letter as a model. But don't just rephrase it. Use those parts which get your dander up more than the rest, and write your own words as to why it pisses you off so much.
Shakespeare didn't have copyright protection, neither did Bach, Mozart, Beethoven.
Interesting that no one since has been deemed better in those particular categories.
Hey! I shoulda taken out a patent or copyright or trademark or SOME SORT of IP on my slashdot name.
Sunzabictches stealing my idea.
I oughta offer Darl a partnership to take my case, it's got more validity and a better chance od getting actual moeny from some sucker.
In the navy, we called them dinner, especially if they landed on the mast near the radar antennae. Mystery meat. Or scab steak if it was country fried.
Let Darl and Disney battle it out over the "IP rights" to Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine ...
Heck, throw in Microsoft Minesweeper (tm), we could have a three way battle where there is no confusion about having to choose one to root for. Just let them battle.
... that Darl McBride is a seagull?
Bet they run Microsoft Embedded Windows XP Professional. It's probably as ready as they ever will be.
There was one in the first gulf war that got hit by a cheap surface to air missle, lost 2 out of 3 wing spars and half the wing skin, yet made it back to base and was repaired and bombing again 48 hours later.
Or so I remember reading.
I guess that's about typical for the dot-bomb economy :-)
How about to whom are you going to speak it? or is that the point of it ...
... and can't download such a huge picture. Could someone condense it down a bit and send me a copy?
What makes you think the GPL needs revising? What kind of control freak are you to even think of revising a license used by millions of people? Why don't you just go invent your own license?
... if you don't like something, fine, do your own, but to think of changing other people's choice because you don't like it .... keerist in a bucket
Keerist, the gall of some people
This air force guy had talked about his experiences flying MiGs against US forces, not in actual combat, but as evaluation of captured and bought planes. He may have had actual combat experience, I don't know, but his knowledge on this score came from evaluation, not combat. Hope I didn't mislead anybody :-)
It is absolutely traceable to better GUI design. Old style cockpits were full of gauges that had to be scanned, constantly, always checking temperature gauges and a zillion things which almost always had the proper readings and did not change, scan the instruments, scan outside, scan the instruments, scan outside ... boring as hell scanning those gauges, because they were almost always showing what they should have been ... can you spell repetitive? boring?
Glass cockpits and HOTAS, Hands On Throttle And Stick, changed everything. The computer monitored instrumentation, and only showed what was out of spec, and alerted you when that happened. HOTAS meant doing everything from the two controls, stick and throttle. No more moving your hands from the primary flight controls to reach for one of dozens of toggle switches and dials which all looked the same, while pulling 5Gs and still trying to scan all those round gauges and track the situation outside and look where your fingers were.
I knew a retired air force pilot who had flown patched up MiGs collected from battlefields, who said the biggest difference between planes of the same era was that the US planes had HOTAS and glass cockpits, and the Russians still had round gauages and toggle switches. Even if the Russian got on the tail of a US fighter, he had to reach up or over while pulling Gs, trying to reach the arming and firing switches and having to do it quick with one of his hands which really should have stayed on the throttle and stick because he was in combat, but no, so he lost a bit of maneuvering while the American was doing it all with ease because his hands were on the controls that mattered and his eyes were outside the cockpit instead of scanning dozens of round gauges.
*That* is a classic GUI redesign.
They will also be candidates. Now we're doomed!