I think we need to combine the forces of South Park and DVD Jon...the future Janus Jon, a.k.a. the chosen one to stop the advancing forces of evil. I wrote a song to cheer us all up for the upcoming battle.
(Melody: What Would Brian Boitano Do)
What would DVD Jon do If he was here right now, He'd make a plan And he'd follow through, That's what DVD Jon'd do.
When DVD Jon was in the cs lab, Cracking that hard code, He broke two ciphers and a CSS tab, While wearing a blind fold.
When DVD Jon was in the alps, Fighting grizzly bears, He used his magical fire breath, And saved the maidens fair.
So what would DVD Jon do If he were here today, I'm sure he'd break a code or two, That's what DVD Jon'd do.
I want this V-chip out of me, It has stunted my vo-ca-bu-lar-y.
And I just want my president To stop fighting everyone
For Garcia I'll be an activist, too, Cos that's what DVD Jon would do.
And what would DVD Jon do, He'd call all the hackers in town, And tell them to unite for true That's what DVD Jon would do.
When DVD Jon travelled through time To the year 3010, He fought the evil robot kings and saved the human race again
And when DVD Jon built the pyramids, He beat up Kubela Kong.
Cos DVD Jon doesn't take shit from an-e-y-body
So lets all get together, And unite to save our rights And we'll save RMS and Linus too, Cos that's what DVD Jon do.
And we'll save RMS and Linus too, Cos that's what DVD Jon dooooo, That's what DVD Jon do.
***
Yeah, I've just been made redundant so I have too much time on my hands these remaining days in the office. DVD Jon: Hvis du leser dette håper jeg du ikke tar det ille opp.
Scandinavian is a "language" that many Icelanders learn in school. It is sort of a hodge-podge mix of Danish, Swedish and Norwegian, using the words and accentuation that is the easiest for anyone from the three Scandinavian countries to understand. This way, they don't have to learn each of Swedish, Danish and Norwegian, but can get away with one "language".
IANAI(celander), so, Icelanders, correct me if I got this all wrong.
I actually have to agree with the parent - the interview didn't focus on "fair rights", it focused on a very narrow point - particularly, playing DVDs under Linux.
Which is an example of how "fair rights" (whatever those are) are infringed by the very laws Mr. Valenti is advocating.
I agree, though, that this wasn't demonstrated as an example of copyright law (in this case the fair use portion thereof) being violated.
In my opinion, people with strong meanings on anything, not bothering to understand both sides' arguments from the respective side's viewpoint, as well as their own, tend to come across as arrogant rather easily. Done it a million times myself. Will do it again.
Ok...the vikings and others had shipburials. Due to the immense differences in practicality between: I) hauling a ship out of water onto land and into a pre-dug hole, and II) hauling a ship out of water and thousands of meters up a mountainside, I'd assume most people here (moderators included) would consider the above post less than insightful.
Before anyone even considers the "What if it was built on-site, for this particular purpose?"-nonsense, it appears that this would be well above the tree-line, even in nice'n'hot Turkey, and it's not the sort of altitude that people would like to do hard work in.
To further debunk your middle-of-England analogy: The middle of England is never too far from navigable rivers. Viking ships had very shallow keels, allowing them to navigate many of them.
Furthermore, viking shipbuilding skills were wide-spread after conquests to the East, West and South. Any rich fuck could commision a few people knowledgeable in the art to chop down some lumber and make a boat on-site.
Your argument has no relevance to the matter at hand. Sorry if mine has a sort of neurotic twist to it...the coffee got to me hours ago.
this was funny...I opened up the google link, closed it without seeing the significane of the notice, read the next post...now it's gone!
To think: The joint power of daft legislators and deft slasdotters!
You know, real piracy. Not some 14 year old girl that wants to give her friend some songs, but the people who mass produce and sell these songs on the black market.
We do it thusly, and until your assertion, I thought this was pretty much standard SI.
Prefixes indicating order of magnitude: lowercase Units based on improper nouns: lowercase. Units based on names: UPPERCASE
Of course, if name-based units are written out in full, the initial letter is in lowercase, to avoid any possibility of confusion between the unit and the person.
Some examples, kg, kilogram mW, milliwatt W, watt, named after Mr. Watt Nm, newtonmeter
If this is not standard SI that I'm presenting, please flame me to hell and inform me what the standard is....
Shit...I'm in sales, I should just be quiet about these things and say something about added value.
As the author of the article points out, this up-scaling of the services offered by a single mail repository, the easy searchability and the sheer amount of users this will get should make us at least think about the possible problems that may arise from a civic/liberty perspective.
In my understanding, he's not suggesting we should all run away from google, screaming. Rather he's trying to provoke us into becoming more informed about the consequences this may have for us as individuals, and as a community.
So, you're suggesting that the cliboard authors should prescribe a solution for any cut'n'paste needs ever?
What about different kinds of data? What if you're pasting multiple ranges from a spread sheet into text for instance?
In my experience, this is the one kind of thing that could, perhaps, make me appreciate windows. The ability to copy a row from, say, Excel, and paste it into an appointment in some undisclosed program;), and the data still making sense. (I work in an environment with a lot of semi-repetitive tasks where this feature alone can save me a noticable bit of time every day).
Combine the ability to impose hyperabstract models intuitively onto the data and to sense/"see"/"touch" the data you're working on, and the GUI starts making sense over the command line. Yet the core GUI developers cannot foresee all types of data that will ever be displayed, and so they'll need to provide a model that's flexible, but inherently powerful, for application developers to use. Otherwise we'll all be stuck with the limitations of the GUI people's imaginations.
If this doesn't make sense, ignore it... I need more coffee this, oh-but-too-early morning.
In unveiling its new strategy, Clear Channel named long-time digital media strategist Michael Hudes as executive vice president of corporate development.
in other news, I name myself Lord of the Realm, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India.
Which was supposed to be f***ing DISBANDED after WWII. The US is not SUPPOSED to have a standing army.
Well...since wars aren't ran with horses and muskets anymore, it may be advisable (and I say this as a European) to have a few tanks and jets and stuff...I mean, for your own protection. I don't necessarily agree with the constant use of it abroad, though. Then again, sometimes I do.
Never mind, I'll leave this for you Americans to figure out amicably amongst yourself
Breathe, man.
Come on, this is just a big geometry & mechanics problem. Essentially, if you can fit your car into some sort of box, you can make allowance for the whole volume of that box when rotating & moving the car. Unless you park like a North-Dakotan (read: the painted lines are seen as a centerline (and then parked diagonally on)) or your car has wing-like protrusions, you can ensure no edge of your car will extend out of the virtual box (which, btw is probably enforced by some sort of walls delineating the area within which it is safe to park). Thereby, by the laws of physics and...
Fuck it. If you really are that paranoid, sell your car, buy a tent, move away from people. Can't help you.
So discussing this in a public forum, allowing your thoughts to be commented upon, and in general allowing your thought process to be improved through discussion is worthless as a precursor to such activities?
Should I run out and fight immediately every time I dislike something?
Or should we, as citizens of whatever countries, conspire to make the world more just, ourselves more fair, and try replacing the rotting parts of governments before we burn our civil structures to the ground?
In my limited life experience, it takes about two to five years before the vague notions of the few become the clear norm of the many.
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...is exactly what the phrase "intellectual property" means. Honestly: Who can own a meme?
...something about grandmothers making toys called "Cabbage Patch Kids" created a peculiar image.
I think we need to combine the forces of South Park and DVD Jon...the future Janus Jon, a.k.a. the chosen one to stop the advancing forces of evil. I wrote a song to cheer us all up for the upcoming battle.
(Melody: What Would Brian Boitano Do)
What would DVD Jon do
If he was here right now,
He'd make a plan
And he'd follow through,
That's what DVD Jon'd do.
When DVD Jon was in the cs lab,
Cracking that hard code,
He broke two ciphers and a CSS tab,
While wearing a blind fold.
When DVD Jon was in the alps,
Fighting grizzly bears,
He used his magical fire breath,
And saved the maidens fair.
So what would DVD Jon do
If he were here today,
I'm sure he'd break a code or two,
That's what DVD Jon'd do.
I want this V-chip out of me,
It has stunted my vo-ca-bu-lar-y.
And I just want my president
To stop fighting everyone
For Garcia I'll be an activist, too,
Cos that's what DVD Jon would do.
And what would DVD Jon do,
He'd call all the hackers in town,
And tell them to unite for true
That's what DVD Jon would do.
When DVD Jon travelled through time
To the year 3010,
He fought the evil robot kings
and saved the human race again
And when DVD Jon built the pyramids,
He beat up Kubela Kong.
Cos DVD Jon doesn't take shit from an-e-y-body
So lets all get together,
And unite to save our rights
And we'll save RMS and Linus too,
Cos that's what DVD Jon do.
And we'll save RMS and Linus too,
Cos that's what DVD Jon dooooo,
That's what DVD Jon do.
***
Yeah, I've just been made redundant so I have too much time on my hands these remaining days in the office. DVD Jon: Hvis du leser dette håper jeg du ikke tar det ille opp.
You must be from Skåne.
Scandinavian is a "language" that many Icelanders learn in school. It is sort of a hodge-podge mix of Danish, Swedish and Norwegian, using the words and accentuation that is the easiest for anyone from the three Scandinavian countries to understand. This way, they don't have to learn each of Swedish, Danish and Norwegian, but can get away with one "language". IANAI(celander), so, Icelanders, correct me if I got this all wrong.
Which is an example of how "fair rights" (whatever those are) are infringed by the very laws Mr. Valenti is advocating.
I agree, though, that this wasn't demonstrated as an example of copyright law (in this case the fair use portion thereof) being violated.
In my opinion, people with strong meanings on anything, not bothering to understand both sides' arguments from the respective side's viewpoint, as well as their own, tend to come across as arrogant rather easily. Done it a million times myself. Will do it again.
Ok...the vikings and others had shipburials. Due to the immense differences in practicality between:
I) hauling a ship out of water onto land and into a pre-dug hole, and
II) hauling a ship out of water and thousands of meters up a mountainside, I'd assume most people here (moderators included) would consider the above post less than insightful.
Before anyone even considers the "What if it was built on-site, for this particular purpose?"-nonsense, it appears that this would be well above the tree-line, even in nice'n'hot Turkey, and it's not the sort of altitude that people would like to do hard work in.
To further debunk your middle-of-England analogy: The middle of England is never too far from navigable rivers. Viking ships had very shallow keels, allowing them to navigate many of them.
Furthermore, viking shipbuilding skills were wide-spread after conquests to the East, West and South. Any rich fuck could commision a few people knowledgeable in the art to chop down some lumber and make a boat on-site.
Your argument has no relevance to the matter at hand. Sorry if mine has a sort of neurotic twist to it...the coffee got to me hours ago.
this was funny...I opened up the google link, closed it without seeing the significane of the notice, read the next post...now it's gone! To think: The joint power of daft legislators and deft slasdotters!
...and say "Arrrr!"
Huh?
...
In my country it would be kWh.
We do it thusly, and until your assertion, I thought this was pretty much standard SI.
Prefixes indicating order of magnitude: lowercase
Units based on improper nouns: lowercase.
Units based on names: UPPERCASE
Of course, if name-based units are written out in full, the initial letter is in lowercase, to avoid any possibility of confusion between the unit and the person.
Some examples,
kg, kilogram
mW, milliwatt
W, watt, named after Mr. Watt
Nm, newtonmeter
If this is not standard SI that I'm presenting, please flame me to hell and inform me what the standard is.
Shit...I'm in sales, I should just be quiet about these things and say something about added value.
Sorry, this is one of those sit/set, sitzen/setzen, lernen/lehren pairs from Germanic languages.
Leach is a transitive verb meaning to suck/drain something out of something else.
Leak is an intransitive word meaning to spill out of something. The substance itself is the agent.
So a leech leaches the blood out of you, but if there's a leak in your oil pan, the oil leaks out all by itself.
Kind regards,
tormenta,
-Teaching native English speakers their own language since 1997
Ok, you consulted your dictionary. Now go get a writer's dictionary.
As the author of the article points out, this up-scaling of the services offered by a single mail repository, the easy searchability and the sheer amount of users this will get should make us at least think about the possible problems that may arise from a civic/liberty perspective.
In my understanding, he's not suggesting we should all run away from google, screaming. Rather he's trying to provoke us into becoming more informed about the consequences this may have for us as individuals, and as a community.
Yes, but does the rest of the world deserve them?
Funny ...
I just run Perl's regexp syntax validator on the headline, and if any part of it goes through, it's spam.
So, you're suggesting that the cliboard authors should prescribe a solution for any cut'n'paste needs ever?
;), and the data still making sense. (I work in an environment with a lot of semi-repetitive tasks where this feature alone can save me a noticable bit of time every day).
What about different kinds of data? What if you're pasting multiple ranges from a spread sheet into text for instance?
In my experience, this is the one kind of thing that could, perhaps, make me appreciate windows. The ability to copy a row from, say, Excel, and paste it into an appointment in some undisclosed program
Combine the ability to impose hyperabstract models intuitively onto the data and to sense/"see"/"touch" the data you're working on, and the GUI starts making sense over the command line. Yet the core GUI developers cannot foresee all types of data that will ever be displayed, and so they'll need to provide a model that's flexible, but inherently powerful, for application developers to use. Otherwise we'll all be stuck with the limitations of the GUI people's imaginations.
If this doesn't make sense, ignore it... I need more coffee this, oh-but-too-early morning.
It's called Slashdot, you insensitive clod.
Yeah, the battery charger that runs off the engine output, right?
in other news, I name myself Lord of the Realm, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India.
Ha, ha, ...ha
Maybe funny if come randomly across. Maybe not when the editor tells us: Look at this and laugh.
Maybe.
Well...since wars aren't ran with horses and muskets anymore, it may be advisable (and I say this as a European) to have a few tanks and jets and stuff...I mean, for your own protection. I don't necessarily agree with the constant use of it abroad, though. Then again, sometimes I do.
Never mind, I'll leave this for you Americans to figure out amicably amongst yourself
I think in the days of good ol' Ben, temporal was more of a religious-philosophical term, as in sense number two to four in the first entry here.
Breathe, man. Come on, this is just a big geometry & mechanics problem. Essentially, if you can fit your car into some sort of box, you can make allowance for the whole volume of that box when rotating & moving the car. Unless you park like a North-Dakotan (read: the painted lines are seen as a centerline (and then parked diagonally on)) or your car has wing-like protrusions, you can ensure no edge of your car will extend out of the virtual box (which, btw is probably enforced by some sort of walls delineating the area within which it is safe to park). Thereby, by the laws of physics and ...
Fuck it. If you really are that paranoid, sell your car, buy a tent, move away from people. Can't help you.
So discussing this in a public forum, allowing your thoughts to be commented upon, and in general allowing your thought process to be improved through discussion is worthless as a precursor to such activities?
Should I run out and fight immediately every time I dislike something?
Or should we, as citizens of whatever countries, conspire to make the world more just, ourselves more fair, and try replacing the rotting parts of governments before we burn our civil structures to the ground?
In my limited life experience, it takes about two to five years before the vague notions of the few become the clear norm of the many.