> I will get modded down and flamed to death here at slashdot for giving the other side of the story.
Nice job, there's now a smouldering crater where that straw man used to be. As far as I know, the conventional wisdom on Slashdot isn't that copyright should be abolished completely, or made unduly hard to enforce. Many of us are copyright holders.
Speaking only for myself, I object to the DMCA because it lacks concrete provisions protecting fair use; academic analysis, review, parody, copying for backup, time-shifting, transfer to other media. I submit that a copyright law which lacks those provisions is deleterious to the public interest far out of proportion to how much it might benefit copyright holders like yourself, and that it should be scrapped altogether until such time as a suitable law can be adopted.
We might even have an interesting debate on that point, i/e the relative value to society of strict copyright versus fair use. But to characterize the landscape of this issue as "Support the DMCA or support widespread, bald-faced piracy" is disingenuous.
> From everything I keep hearing in the news, nobody uses email anymore.
You speak in jest (I think), but I increasingly try not to use email for anything I care about. I find XMPP (Jabber) to be much more convenient, and what with Google Talk, anybody can interface with it easily.
> It goes against base thermodynamic principles, but we don't hear the Darwinites... whining about that.
"Creationists always try to use the second law
to disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw.
The second law is quite precise about where it applies.
Only in a closed system must the entropy count rise.
The Earth is not a closed system, it's powered by the Sun
so fuck the damn creationists! Doomsday, get my gun!"
Each process running on Linux has a "niceness" value which you as the user can set. The value indicates which ones you want to have more access to CPU power. The numbers range from 19, meaning roughly "only use the CPU when noone else needs it", to -20 meaning "all your CPU are belong to it".
The new scheduler will make those values behave more like they're supposed to relative to one another, and hopefully use fewer resources for itself in doing so.
Anybody who's read my posting history knows I'm a dyed-in-the-wool liberal, but I don't think we can singularly blame the GOP for this one. There's resistance to nuclear power coming from both extreme ends of the spectrum. Environmental activists who don't understand the science on the left, and oil industry lobbyists on the right.
I'm constantly frustrated with people who I know are well-intentioned and genuinely concerned, who are so afraid of nuclear power. I mean I agree, solar and wind power are great ideas, but right now we're generating power using f'ing COAL.
> Apart for 2b and 8 ( which are debatable at best), the rest seem to be normal > business activites which any other for-profit organisation would undertake.
Perhaps, perhaps not. In any case, individuals and corporations which have been tried and convicted for criminal behavior don't enjoy the same freedom of action as those who have not.
> you can easily go get that music in a lot of other places. > Walmart's doing nothing to prevent that.
Continuing the trend... Bullshit. Preventing their customers from having any other choice in the marketplace has been WalMart's primary modus operandi for at least 15 years.
> but the computer still needed significant human help.
As I understand it, the humans provided patterns of moves that were historically proven to be strong ones. I suspect that if you gave big blue as many years (and sufficient storage) to chew on the problem as most of the human grand masters have, it would come up with some amazing opening sequences on its own.
> The loss of intelligence in the Islamic world happened under Clinton's watch.
And yet, even with all that lost intelligence, even with all the horrible, horrible things Clinton supposedly did to our intelligence and national security apparatus... it was still able to provide written warning of pretty much exactly what was going to happen and put it in Bush's hands on August 6th.
Using Windowmaker desktop, FF 2.0.0.6 and the gcjwebplugin it does indeed pop up full screen, but I can alt-drag it away (like any other window) and then xkill it. Irritating but not invincible.
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My wife would have _loved_ a Cortana teddy.
You obviously don't play Civilization
> I will get modded down and flamed to death here at slashdot for giving the other side of the story.
Nice job, there's now a smouldering crater where that straw man used to be. As far as I know, the conventional wisdom on Slashdot isn't that copyright should be abolished completely, or made unduly hard to enforce. Many of us are copyright holders.
Speaking only for myself, I object to the DMCA because it lacks concrete provisions protecting fair use; academic analysis, review, parody, copying for backup, time-shifting, transfer to other media. I submit that a copyright law which lacks those provisions is deleterious to the public interest far out of proportion to how much it might benefit copyright holders like yourself, and that it should be scrapped altogether until such time as a suitable law can be adopted.
We might even have an interesting debate on that point, i/e the relative value to society of strict copyright versus fair use. But to characterize the landscape of this issue as "Support the DMCA or support widespread, bald-faced piracy" is disingenuous.
> From everything I keep hearing in the news, nobody uses email anymore.
You speak in jest (I think), but I increasingly try not to use email for anything I care about. I find XMPP (Jabber) to be much more convenient, and what with Google Talk, anybody can interface with it easily.
> It goes against base thermodynamic principles, but we don't hear the Darwinites ... whining about that.
"Creationists always try to use the second law
to disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw.
The second law is quite precise about where it applies.
Only in a closed system must the entropy count rise.
The Earth is not a closed system, it's powered by the Sun
so fuck the damn creationists! Doomsday, get my gun!"
-- MC Stephen Hawking
I don't disagree with anything about your post. All I can say in response is, _coal_. Goddamn coal.
Each process running on Linux has a "niceness" value which you as the user can set. The value indicates which ones you want to have more access to CPU power. The numbers range from 19, meaning roughly "only use the CPU when noone else needs it", to -20 meaning "all your CPU are belong to it".
The new scheduler will make those values behave more like they're supposed to relative to one another, and hopefully use fewer resources for itself in doing so.
> Republicans, you mean.
Anybody who's read my posting history knows I'm a dyed-in-the-wool liberal, but I don't think we can singularly blame the GOP for this one. There's resistance to nuclear power coming from both extreme ends of the spectrum. Environmental activists who don't understand the science on the left, and oil industry lobbyists on the right.
I'm constantly frustrated with people who I know are well-intentioned and genuinely concerned, who are so afraid of nuclear power. I mean I agree, solar and wind power are great ideas, but right now we're generating power using f'ing COAL.
> Democrat party
Democratic Party.
> I need to talk to spark my life up.
;)
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(sorry for feeding the troll, couldn't resist
> I don't think I ever signed a contract with them specifying what behavior they are bound to?
No, but they signed one with your government. It's called a corporate charter.
Troll? Do the moderators know what Zyklon B is?
> Any process that has people as part of the process is a flawed process.
Right you are, Mr. McKittrick! Get the men out of the loop.
> Apart for 2b and 8 ( which are debatable at best), the rest seem to be normal
> business activites which any other for-profit organisation would undertake.
Perhaps, perhaps not. In any case, individuals and corporations which have been tried and convicted for criminal behavior don't enjoy the same freedom of action as those who have not.
> You can price anything right if you choose not to pay your suppliers.
... but enough about the RIAA.
> Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away P? M?
Prematurely?
> you can easily go get that music in a lot of other places.
> Walmart's doing nothing to prevent that.
Continuing the trend... Bullshit. Preventing their customers from having any
other choice in the marketplace has been WalMart's primary modus operandi for
at least 15 years.
> they hadn't even invented magic. To us the game was sci-fi!
Well, you know what they say; any sufficiently primitive magic is indistinguishable from technology.
> but the computer still needed significant human help.
As I understand it, the humans provided patterns of moves that were historically proven to be strong ones. I suspect that if you gave big blue as many years (and sufficient storage) to chew on the problem as most of the human grand masters have, it would come up with some amazing opening sequences on its own.
> I digged out my Transformers toys when the movie was out, but playing with them doesn't give me the same thrill as they did 20 years ago.
/me cuddles his masterpiece edition Optimus Prime
Then your fandom is WEAK.
> The loss of intelligence in the Islamic world happened under Clinton's watch.
And yet, even with all that lost intelligence, even with all the horrible, horrible things Clinton supposedly did to our intelligence and national security apparatus... it was still able to provide written warning of pretty much exactly what was going to happen and put it in Bush's hands on August 6th.
> Yeah, wtf? It's almost as if they bought it to just play video games...
If they bought a PS3 planning to use it to play video games, they're really going to be mad.
Using Windowmaker desktop, FF 2.0.0.6 and the gcjwebplugin it does indeed pop up full screen, but I can alt-drag it away (like any other window) and then xkill it. Irritating but not invincible.
> Besides, it is safer to just run reach command through sudo. (Better auditing among other things).
Yeah, but output redirection doesn't work like you might hope under sudo. Didn't know about sudo -i, thanks for the tip!
> She couldn't use flash on 64bit linux
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/jantivus.list
I know you're just trying to rant, but in case anybody else is interested:
sudo su -
echo 'deb http://janvitus.interfree.it/ubuntu/ feisty-upure64 main-amd64' >
apt-get update
apt-get install nspluginwrapper
and voila, you can use the flash plugin on 64bit linux.