Christianity shouldn't be part of any constitution, nor should any other religion. Constitutions are about politics, when you let religion touch politics, reason goes out the door. Some people with agendas like that, but it's not in the best interests of the people. Mr pope over there in Italy tells people in africa that condoms cause AIDS. Eh... riiight... fucking twat.
I was sitting by the computers at school, typed in slasdot.org, pushed enter. Big red screen popped up, saying "the website you were trying to access has been blocked because it contains information of related to: Criminal skills"... Maybe there was some story about Mitnick or something on the frontpage?
Check out LinuxBIOS. While it could probably be blocked by manufacturers, it's interesting enough. And there will allways be some small manufacturers that will sell you DRM-free hardware, probably the same ones that are selling 'pirated' brand rippoff, but still working, hardware today. Think Chinese factories. They don't have anything to gain from making you abide by some fucked up copyright law, and they're allready showing their disregard of it now. Actually, this kind of DRM would be illegal in a lot of countries that still have fair use in place. So, I'm not too worried. Sure, the average user will probably be locked up by their own hardware, but eventually, we'll have something like open hardware in place, for those that want it.
Well, he did use his own phone... I would hardly call that a perfect crime... He should have stolen one. Not from a kid at his school or anything, but from a perfect stranger. He'd probably have a few hours before it was blocked. I mean, the friggin phone was registered in his own name... How dumb can you get?
Sorta funny. The stoner kids at my school were the ones wearing DARE shirts (yes, everywhere, I know), but the superintendent didn't like it so he sent them home to change...:)
Sounds like a really dumb thing to do, considering that you have probably signed a contract with your ISP saying that you are personally responsible for anything that comes out of that IP. Your choice though...
There are all sorts of conveniences you could apply this same logic to. Why not have a ministry of washing machines, for example? Wouldn't it be a convenience of the people?
Well, yes but that would be dumb, whereas providing your nation with good and reliable access to information wouldn't be such a dumb thing to do.
What do governments do? They provide infrastructure. That's one of the reasons they collect taxes. The swedish government collects more taxes, so people expext to get more and better infrastructure. I don't know about you, but I would consider backbones infrastructure... It's something done not for direct profit, but for the convenience of the people.
Other countries work differently, and it might do you well to travel a little outside the US...
Slashdot Mirror
Link please :D
You may quote this, but that's just germans and brits getting it wrong. The scandinavian countries are Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
Port knocking?
hm?
It's all about mindshare. If it's in the constitution we have to continue dealing with it.
Christianity shouldn't be part of any constitution, nor should any other religion. Constitutions are about politics, when you let religion touch politics, reason goes out the door. Some people with agendas like that, but it's not in the best interests of the people. Mr pope over there in Italy tells people in africa that condoms cause AIDS. Eh... riiight... fucking twat.
I was sitting by the computers at school, typed in slasdot.org, pushed enter. Big red screen popped up, saying "the website you were trying to access has been blocked because it contains information of related to: Criminal skills"... Maybe there was some story about Mitnick or something on the frontpage?
Check out LinuxBIOS. While it could probably be blocked by manufacturers, it's interesting enough. And there will allways be some small manufacturers that will sell you DRM-free hardware, probably the same ones that are selling 'pirated' brand rippoff, but still working, hardware today. Think Chinese factories. They don't have anything to gain from making you abide by some fucked up copyright law, and they're allready showing their disregard of it now. Actually, this kind of DRM would be illegal in a lot of countries that still have fair use in place. So, I'm not too worried. Sure, the average user will probably be locked up by their own hardware, but eventually, we'll have something like open hardware in place, for those that want it.
Funny, never saw that stuff before staying in the US. Euro shower curtains tend to be woven synthetic or glass for some reason... :/
Well, he did use his own phone... I would hardly call that a perfect crime... He should have stolen one. Not from a kid at his school or anything, but from a perfect stranger. He'd probably have a few hours before it was blocked. I mean, the friggin phone was registered in his own name... How dumb can you get?
Sorta funny. The stoner kids at my school were the ones wearing DARE shirts (yes, everywhere, I know), but the superintendent didn't like it so he sent them home to change... :)
And then, of course, people would make their own games, get free ones, or stop playing alltogether.
Doesn't google run it's own proprietary OS? Thought I read that somewhere...
Sounds like a really dumb thing to do, considering that you have probably signed a contract with your ISP saying that you are personally responsible for anything that comes out of that IP. Your choice though...
from 20-30k for cheap non-smart missiles, from 100-300k for the really big, smart ones. If I remember that Discorey show correctly...
They just said DRM to build up a sufficient level of antipathy against VoteHere.
Actually, the way I read it, it says "Give the church money.". Seems to have worked pretty well for the catholic church throughout history.
But it may just be that atheist bias of mine speaking...
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if he got into some kind of trouble for doing this.
There are all sorts of conveniences you could apply this same logic to. Why not have a ministry of washing machines, for example? Wouldn't it be a convenience of the people?
Well, yes but that would be dumb, whereas providing your nation with good and reliable access to information wouldn't be such a dumb thing to do.
and free hospitals :D
What do governments do? They provide infrastructure. That's one of the reasons they collect taxes. The swedish government collects more taxes, so people expext to get more and better infrastructure. I don't know about you, but I would consider backbones infrastructure... It's something done not for direct profit, but for the convenience of the people.
Other countries work differently, and it might do you well to travel a little outside the US...
Looks like you weren't too lucky there, your mirror is down :P
Pay some code monkey to fix the kernel bug for you?
How about TI-BASIC?
Terrabyte array (interesting reading, ugly box)
:)
also, 160 gig drives are the cheapest per gig at the moment. I just finished last week