>So yeah, I'm all for killing off humans in third- >world countries
You're making me wish we had a draft. Would you still be up for it if men with guns took you to the front, to be the means to this end, or be killed doing your part? Or do you think "other people" should take this responsibility and leave you alone?
Until 1960, American cars had chrome. They had chrome everywhere you could put chrome. They had chrome around the windows, long, wide solid strips of chrome all around the body outlines, big solid chrome hubcaps, chrome grilles, chrome!
A large part of that chrome came from Rhodesia, which is, guess where?
Civil unrest in Rhodesia led directly to shortages of chrome, and American cars suddenly had far, far less chrome in 1961 than they did in 59-60.
The country hasn't had a minute of peace since then. In the last few decades, Africa has basically fought World War III, in both political and sociological terms.
The only explanation I can find for the perception gap is that, while most people in the Rhineland were light skinned, most in the Congo basin are dark skinned.
Seriously, a full scale war has been fought, and tyranny won, and the west doesn't give a f?ck.
Whoever said that either gets all his news from ESPN, slashdot and the onion, or else they have selective filters that shelter them from news about Africa.
There's a lot of misunderstanding about genetic engineering. It's treated as some kind of highly secret art in the media, but genetic work of the kind we're talking about in the corn is done routinely in undergrad biology labs. It's not rocket science. It's not even differential calculus. It's just upperdivision lab work in any university worth a damn. Hell, you probably do some of it in junior college these days.
You make it sound like "large universities" were some sort of obscure, secret places. Lots of people go to college, and guess what? Most of them go to large universities.
Sure, if you could have bought zip media for something like floppy prices, they might have taken off. But they never have. You still pay pretty much $100-150 for 10 Zips. $100 would get you 1000 floppy disks if you look hard enough.
CDRW's are so much cheaper than zip disks that it seems totally ridiculous to even use zip anymore. CDR's are cheap enough that I don't even care that they're write once per session. It does not bother me to destroy a cdr at the time that I would normally erase a floppy, and the types of things that I want on a floppy for storage or transport purposes, tend to fit hundreds of times over on a 3.5".
What we really needed was a fast floppy disk. I still can't believe there has never been one.
Iomega was in a position to replace the floppy, but in order to do that, they would have had to license the hardware and the media to other manufacturers, and we would have needed a $1 or $2 per disk media by now. Today, you tend to think nothing of giving a CDR to a client, partly because the cost is negligible, and partly because you can be fairly certain the client has a machine that can read an ISO9660 filesystem. Zips and Bernoulli carts had a great niche for certain types of work for a while, but the high media costs and the volatility of the media, as well as the relative scarcity of the drives, makes it not such a great choice.
"Being realistic, they *have* to bluster and otherwise overreact: they have a fiduciary responsibility for professional feather ruffling, given the apparent source of the expliut."
That strategy could easily backfire, when the "kid" turns out to be a CS professor at Berlin or Cern. Or a US Defense agency. You get the idea. (Unfortunately, it NEVER works out to poetic justice like that.)
It does not. And if everyone involved has the guts to go ahead and let a jury decide, we might ALL be better off. Until someone does this, it's an open question whereby the mere threat of anything and everything is enough to control the behavior of individuals.
A big customer could claim this damages their ability to operate and sue HP for suppressing information, the absense of which could lead to increased vulnerabilities in their systems.
It's too bad that people have egos, also, because if things like hard crypto implementations, security information, and so on were simply released anonymously into various outlets (e.g., not just the net), there would be nobody to sue.
In this case I think there won't be anybody to sue either -- the individual who made the report might not be subject to US law.
Take this to its logical conclusion, and realize that computer systems in the USA will tend to be less secure than their counterparts in free countries that do not suppress information exchange. I wish it were simpler to relocate to Europe; it sure as hell appears to be easy for them to relocate to the USA.
I suppose you'd like an assasins' guild too, so that amateurs and people outside your sphere of influence don't commit murders? It doesn't work that way. Sorry.
If suits like this go to trial, and don't result in huge gains for the plaintiff, the caselaw will tend to discourage others. In some ways that would be better than a repeal.
These are lithographs, stone etchings that were used to print onto ink soluble media, right?
I hope the masters are safe somewhere, and that the technique for printing with them isn't a lost art already.
A gif of the image or an iron-on t-shirt simply doesn't have a certain quality that seeing an original print of this type of work does have.
I remember two life-changing moments in the development of my art appreciation:
1. Seeing a Van Gogh painting in a museuem gallery.
I had seen this picture many, many times, in books, on posters, etc. It is a very simple painting of sunflowers. But when I saw the real thing, it absolutely took my breath away. There is a third dimension to the paint that is utterly lost in a photograph of it, and there are qualities to the color of the original that would be impossible to describe, and a photograph only comes so close to capturing this, and only for one angle, one set of light conditions, etc.
2. Salvador Dali's Psychedelic Toreador. I have had a print of this painting for years, and see something different in the detail every time I look at it. However, I never realized how very large Dali's original paintings are! There is extraordinary detail that might be well-reproduced on a laser print, but even if the details are there, something is lost.
I'm not an artist or an art student, so I surely lack the language to say what I'm trying to say here. I suppose it's that I would like to see this etching in person, and that I'm really interested in the process used to make this type of work. Oh, and that in 10,000 years, the alien archaeologists will find the stone originals intact.
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How would you feel if it were a public library system making the roms available? Would it be the same, or different somehow?
>Here's the catch: They are buying the car off >you.
So you want to have your cake and eat it to.
You could have bought your car back for its salvage value.
Last year I had a tree fall on one of my cars, crushing the roof. The car was worth about $1800, totalled, the insurance check was around $1500 after deductible. I bought it back for the salvage value of $250, and then sold it for $800 after verifying that it could be registered and inspected.
This is extremely common with vintage cars. Book value might be zero, but for some cars, just a piece or two can easily be worth hundreds or thousands of dollars. VW Type 3 Ghia, anyone?
>their very own existence is blasphemous to any >polytheist religion....
As soon as such a religion controls the seat of government of a Western nation from an independent city-state, historically entrenched in its means with billions of followers, we might just have to get back to you on that.
"I might not agree with what you say, but I'll die defending your right to say it."
But... Was Voltaire volunteering to defend your rights, or was he speaking in protest against a system that could conscript him to fight, forcing him to die in your defense?
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I have a fundamental problem with government budgets being based on raw speculation.
>When are we going to see law suits against junk
>mail? I'd love that.
When several things change:
1. The junk (snail) mail arrives COD, and paying for it becomes compulsory.
2. The cost of disposal of the junk mail falls on you.
3. The post office will deliver the junk mail even at the expense of not delivering regular mail.
Those are the factors that differentiate spam from junk mail.
>So yeah, I'm all for killing off humans in third-
>world countries
You're making me wish we had a draft. Would you still be up for it if men with guns took you to the front, to be the means to this end, or be killed doing your part? Or do you think "other people" should take this responsibility and
leave you alone?
Until 1960, American cars had chrome. They had chrome everywhere you could put chrome. They had chrome around the windows, long, wide solid strips of chrome all around the body outlines, big solid chrome hubcaps, chrome grilles, chrome!
A large part of that chrome came from Rhodesia, which is, guess where?
Civil unrest in Rhodesia led directly to shortages of chrome, and American cars suddenly had far, far less chrome in 1961 than they did in 59-60.
The country hasn't had a minute of peace since then. In the last few decades, Africa has basically fought World War III, in both political and sociological terms.
The only explanation I can find for the perception gap is that, while most people in the Rhineland were light skinned, most in the Congo basin are dark skinned.
Seriously, a full scale war has been fought, and tyranny won, and the west doesn't give a f?ck.
Whoever said that either gets all his news from ESPN, slashdot and the onion, or else they have selective filters that shelter them from news about Africa.
There's a lot of misunderstanding about genetic engineering. It's treated as some kind of highly secret art in the media, but genetic work of the
kind we're talking about in the corn is done routinely in undergrad biology labs. It's not rocket science. It's not even differential calculus. It's just upperdivision lab work in any university worth a damn. Hell, you probably do some of it in junior college these days.
You make it sound like "large universities" were some sort of
obscure, secret places. Lots of people go to college, and guess
what? Most of them go to large universities.
Sure, if you could have bought zip media for something like floppy prices, they might have taken off. But they never have. You still pay pretty much $100-150 for 10 Zips. $100 would get you 1000 floppy disks if you look hard enough.
CDRW's are so much cheaper than zip disks that it seems totally ridiculous to even use zip anymore.
CDR's are cheap enough that I don't even care that they're write once per session. It does not bother me to destroy a cdr at the time that I would normally erase a floppy, and the types of things that I want on a floppy for storage or transport purposes, tend to fit hundreds of times over on a 3.5".
What we really needed was a fast floppy disk. I still can't believe there has never been one.
Iomega was in a position to replace the floppy, but in order to do that, they would have had to license the hardware and the media to other manufacturers, and we would have needed a $1 or $2 per disk media by now. Today, you tend to think nothing of giving a CDR to a client, partly because the cost is negligible, and partly because you can be fairly certain the client has a machine that can read an ISO9660 filesystem.
Zips and Bernoulli carts had a great niche for certain types of work for a while, but the high media costs and the volatility of the media, as well as the relative scarcity of the drives, makes it not such a great choice.
"Being realistic, they *have* to bluster and otherwise overreact: they have a fiduciary responsibility for professional feather ruffling, given the apparent source of the expliut."
That strategy could easily backfire, when the "kid" turns out to be a CS professor at Berlin or Cern. Or a US Defense agency. You get the idea. (Unfortunately, it NEVER works out to poetic justice like that.)
It does not. And if everyone involved has the guts to go ahead and let a jury decide, we might ALL be better off. Until someone does this, it's an open question whereby the mere threat of anything and everything is enough to control the behavior of individuals.
A big customer could claim this damages their ability to operate and sue HP for suppressing information, the absense of which could lead to increased vulnerabilities in their systems.
It's too bad that people have egos, also, because if things like hard crypto implementations, security information, and so on were simply released anonymously into various outlets (e.g., not just the net), there would be nobody to sue.
In this case I think there won't be anybody to sue either -- the individual who made the report might not be subject to US law.
Take this to its logical conclusion, and realize that computer systems in the USA will tend to be less secure than their counterparts in free countries that do not suppress information exchange. I wish it were simpler to relocate to Europe; it sure as hell appears to be easy for them to relocate to the USA.
I suppose you'd like an assasins' guild too, so that amateurs and people outside your sphere of influence don't commit murders? It doesn't work that way. Sorry.
If suits like this go to trial, and don't result in huge gains for the plaintiff, the caselaw will tend to discourage others. In some ways that would be better than a repeal.
These are lithographs, stone etchings that were
used to print onto ink soluble media, right?
I hope the masters are safe somewhere, and that the technique for printing with them isn't a lost art already.
A gif of the image or an iron-on t-shirt simply doesn't have a certain quality that seeing an original print of this type of work does have.
I remember two life-changing moments in the development of my art appreciation:
1. Seeing a Van Gogh painting in a museuem gallery.
I had seen this picture many, many times, in books, on posters, etc. It is a very simple painting of sunflowers. But when I saw the real thing, it absolutely took my breath away. There is a third dimension to the paint that is utterly lost in a photograph of it, and there are qualities to the color of the original that would be impossible to describe, and a photograph only comes so close to capturing this, and only for one angle, one set of light conditions, etc.
2. Salvador Dali's Psychedelic Toreador.
I have had a print of this painting for years, and see something different in the detail every time I look at it. However, I never realized how very large Dali's original paintings are! There is extraordinary detail that might be well-reproduced on a laser print, but even if the details are there, something is lost.
I'm not an artist or an art student, so I surely lack the language to say what I'm trying to say here. I suppose it's that I would like to see this etching in person, and that I'm really interested in the process used to make this type of work. Oh, and that in 10,000 years, the alien archaeologists will find the stone originals intact.
How would you feel if it were a public library system making the roms available? Would it be the same, or different somehow?
Either that, or nobody else showed; either way it must have been pretty lame. Or maybe everybody was later than me? (I waited a while).
James
Tempe AZ
I need to see certain university deans doing prison time for this. Randal L. Schwartz, anyone?
>He sues them, claiming he had not given them
>permission, and therefore they were violating
>his rights.
Carmaker won, and he's bankrupt now because of legal expenses??? Or what????
>Here's the catch: They are buying the car off
>you.
So you want to have your cake and eat it to.
You could have bought your car back for its salvage value.
Last year I had a tree fall on one of my cars, crushing the roof. The car was worth about $1800, totalled, the insurance check was around $1500 after deductible. I bought it back for the salvage value of $250, and then sold it for $800
after verifying that it could be registered and inspected.
This is extremely common with vintage cars. Book value might be zero, but for some cars, just a piece or two can easily be worth hundreds or thousands of dollars. VW Type 3 Ghia, anyone?
Legislation that takes away the ability to exercise one's rights is not distinct from that which takes away one's rights directly.
Certain modifications to various guns are forbidden by law, so, in fact there are similar restrictions, in a sense.
They become jealous when they realize that they spend 6 hours a day in front of the tube, and you don't.
If Windows runs on Itanium and not on AMD, that's the end of AMD.
>their very own existence is blasphemous to any
>polytheist religion....
As soon as such a religion controls the seat of government of a Western nation from an independent city-state, historically entrenched
in its means with billions of followers, we might just have to get back to you on that.
Voltaire always sez it best...
"I might not agree with what you say, but I'll die defending your right to say it."
But... Was Voltaire volunteering to defend your rights, or was he speaking in protest against a system that could conscript him to fight, forcing him to die in your defense?