Because a republican would rather slit his own wrist then vote for a democrat no matter how shitty the republican candidate is or how much they disagree with him.
As a republican, I felt the same way. So, I became a registered libertarian (without Bush, I wouldn't have been nearly incensed enough to realize how much was wrong with our system), and can vote for kerry with a clean conscience (I don't like him either, but a vote for anyone else is a vote for Bush/Ashcroft).
And to think, I owe my awareness of our system, and my desire to change it to the man in the oval office. Thanks Bush. Nice guy - just don't want him running anything (not even the local Circle K).
I attended a "alternative" high school for a bit.
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I attended a "alternative" high school for a bit, and nearly everything was computerized. The materials were done over NovaNet, and specifically say "These are to be used for reference, and not as a replacement for the book".
The books were not available, and we were quite literally set up to fail. It was impossible to even pass without taking tons of notes (I have my library barcode number from when I was 5, all my credit cards, my blockbuster card, and discount card #s memorized, so it's not my memorization skills at fault). This was the school for failures, too.
As for why I was there, a bad case of ADHD - I literally couldn't pass my classes. It was not because of tests, but because I couldn't focus long enough to finish the homework.
Give it a try sometime. Believe it or not, you can still start into a command line. It's the reduced "MS-Dos Console" present in windows xp, but it's still usually good enough to get the job done.
It sure beats the recovery console, that's for sure.
I don't have problems with licenses. It's the pseudo-contract EULA crap that I have a problem with, because they are not licenses.
Licenses can only give you additional rights, they can't take anything back, because that would be a contract.
So, yes, feel free to remove the GPL from any product you get, or refuse to abide by it's distribution terms. Copyright law says you then cannot distribute it, but you can still make whatever changes you want and use it in whatever way you want.
You don't have to "agree" to anything at all to use GPL software. You have a legal copy, and copyright law says you can do certain things. Copyright law also says you can't do certain things (such as distribute copies without authorization).
The GPL DOES NOT TAKE ANY RIGHTS AWAY. It just says if you want to distribute it, here are some terms you can legally do it under. If you don't like it, don't distribute the software. The reason you don't have to read (or agree) to the GPL to use GPL software is because YOU DO NOT NEED A LICENSE TO RUN SOFTWARE. That's right- thanks to Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 117, you can make all the copies you need (including copying into ram - executing, and copying to hd - installing) to run the program.
It's not the GPL saying you can't distribute the code however you want, it's copyright law. Licences don't affect running the software. Copyright has to do with the "right to copy", not the "right to use".
It is the law that says you can't copy willy-nilly. It's the GPL that says you can, but only if you follow certain terms.
You do not sue someone for a GPL violation. You sue them for copyright infringement, because they didn't agree to the terms for copying. It's copyright law that takes the freedoms, not the GPL. There is not one thing you could do before the GPL, that you can not do afterwards. There are a number of things you can, that you could not before.
Licenses generally don't show up in court, because if you get a licese you use declared invalid, it means you are breaking the law to distribute it. It doesn't give you any more rights, so there isn't much point.
1) Minors can't buy from iTMS (see need for credit card). The only way they could buy is if they have an allowance system, under which, the parent is legaly responsible for the music. The contract is with whom ever owns the card the accoutnn is registered to.
Well, I had a credit card (in my own name) well before I was 18. I could have purchased iTunes songs - I cannot enter into contracts on my parent's behalf, even if I do steal their credit.
Secondly, ever heard of prepaid iTunes cards? They sell to minors (deliberatly, I might add), you can't see a copy of the terms at the point of sale (another reason courts could rule it not legally binding), _and_ every time they change the iTunes TOS, it's modifying the terms of a sale post-sale. If it's included (even by reference), a modification to the included part is still amending the terms of sale.
2) The terms are not amended after the sale. You have to agree to these terms BEFORE you buy the music. Unless, of course, you do prepaid cards, gift certificates, what have you. Anyhow, it's the price that gives you the right to have the songs, not the "agreeing to use only unauthorized progams" that gives you the rights. After all, anything else is unenforcable to minors, who they quite specifically target.
5) Want to bet? I do it all the time. When I purchase a program, law (and judicial precident) say I have the right to reverse engineer it. I simply remove the so-called EULAs from the program. Obviously, I have a right to use the software (I paid for it, I had better have the right to), and they are trying to amend the terms post-sale anyway. All it takes is 30-60 seconds and softice to make those little annoying dialogs go away.
One, EULAs have never shown to be legally binding.
For example, take a video game. Do you need to agree to the EULA to run it? Of course not: 1- Minors can't enter into contracts. Can only people 18+ buy games? 2- They are amending the terms of sale, after the sale has taken place. This is not legal. 3- Contract laws require that you actually receive something in exchange for what you are offering. Now, the theory behind the EULA is that your computer (and through extension, you) makes a copy when you run it, as such, you need a license to copy. However, Copyright law specifically allows fair use, which allows you to do more than the EULA anyway, and copyright law lets you make copies anyway. As such, you are literally getting nothing in return. 4- Click-through agreements have never been shown to count as a legal agreement 5- What if you just skip it altogether?
The reality is, the companies who use EULAs are abusing the system, and trying to treat a license like a contract. It is not. A license doesn't have any of the above issues (the GPL is, for example, a license).
For example, copyright law says that you may not distribute copies. However, a license can say "you can go ahead and distribute copies, but only if you do X, Y, and Z". A license giveth, a license does not take. As such, minors can use licenses, too.
For example, suppose I were to were to write some sheet music, and give it to you. Copyright law is fairly specific about what you can do with it. For the most part, it just means you can't distribute copies. Now, suppose I placed the text "You may make and distribute copies, provided this copyright notice is present on all copies". This is a license. It gives you rights you do not normally had. You do not need to "enter" into any agreement at all. If you don't want to use it, you don't have to.
Does anyone know what the internationally accepted method of naming such a planet is? Is it simply the first person to record it can name it, or is there a more beaurocratic system in place?
I tried for a couple hours to get it working, with a custom-built Wolk kernel, RedHat 9, and a Shuttle SN41G2 XPC. While I was finally able to get ACPI working like it should, I never did manage to get suspend to ram working.
IIRC, Orbitz was using Linux. I thought it was kind of cool. Guess the guys are scumbags after all.
I guess it just goes to show that like with anything in life, just because a corporation or government is "good" today, doesn't mean it will be "good" tomorrow. All the more reason to keep corporations and our governments from collecting unnecessary information in the first place.
As an internet webmaster, I certainly would like to hire the guy for a little SEO work. From the sounds of the article, this guy sounds like he knows what makes PageRank tick.
The rest of us only find out through experimentation.
Fortunatly, I didn't have to learn the hard[est] way. The guy didn't answer his phone, and the address was fake, so I know it would have been fraud.
Fortunatly, the Post Office was unable to read the address (I have really bad handwriting), so they returned it to sender. In the end I got my money back, just not after receiving a big "Screw You" from EBay.
I _have_ been scammed in the past. This is especially galling, as I only buy from people with at least 20 feedback, and at least 90% positive.
1) I've had 3 items under $25 never get sent. Ebay won't cover them, as there is a $25 deductable.
2) I had one guy send a shoe in a box (I had bid on a video capture card - Ebay won't handle disputes over the quality of an item).
3) I bid on a PS2, sent the $200 money order, EBay sends me an e-mail in a couple days, saying there is a high chance of fraud, don't send the money. Of course, because it was a money order and I had no proof I had sent, EBay wouldn't cover it.
You seem to do well, but some of us get burned more than our fair share.
Don't want to give away my karma-whoring tips, but I will anyway.
Steps: 1) Go to site, login. Look at page title. 2) Go to google news, search for title 3) Don't click the First link above the main search results, go down 2 lines to where the link is repeated. Replace partner=GOOGLE with partner=SLASHDOT, just in case their admins ever check the log.
Have fun. It took me about 5 minutes of searching to figure this one out. I even tried doing a google redirect - it won't work.
Slashdot Mirror
Here.
Because a republican would rather slit his own wrist then vote for a democrat no matter how shitty the republican candidate is or how much they disagree with him.
As a republican, I felt the same way. So, I became a registered libertarian (without Bush, I wouldn't have been nearly incensed enough to realize how much was wrong with our system), and can vote for kerry with a clean conscience (I don't like him either, but a vote for anyone else is a vote for Bush/Ashcroft).
And to think, I owe my awareness of our system, and my desire to change it to the man in the oval office. Thanks Bush. Nice guy - just don't want him running anything (not even the local Circle K).
I attended a "alternative" high school for a bit, and nearly everything was computerized. The materials were done over NovaNet, and specifically say "These are to be used for reference, and not as a replacement for the book".
The books were not available, and we were quite literally set up to fail. It was impossible to even pass without taking tons of notes (I have my library barcode number from when I was 5, all my credit cards, my blockbuster card, and discount card #s memorized, so it's not my memorization skills at fault). This was the school for failures, too.
As for why I was there, a bad case of ADHD - I literally couldn't pass my classes. It was not because of tests, but because I couldn't focus long enough to finish the homework.
Give it a try sometime. Believe it or not, you can still start into a command line. It's the reduced "MS-Dos Console" present in windows xp, but it's still usually good enough to get the job done.
It sure beats the recovery console, that's for sure.
I don't have problems with licenses. It's the pseudo-contract EULA crap that I have a problem with, because they are not licenses.
Licenses can only give you additional rights, they can't take anything back, because that would be a contract.
So, yes, feel free to remove the GPL from any product you get, or refuse to abide by it's distribution terms. Copyright law says you then cannot distribute it, but you can still make whatever changes you want and use it in whatever way you want.
Because the GPL is a License, NOT A CONTRACT.
You don't have to "agree" to anything at all to use GPL software. You have a legal copy, and copyright law says you can do certain things. Copyright law also says you can't do certain things (such as distribute copies without authorization).
The GPL DOES NOT TAKE ANY RIGHTS AWAY. It just says if you want to distribute it, here are some terms you can legally do it under. If you don't like it, don't distribute the software. The reason you don't have to read (or agree) to the GPL to use GPL software is because YOU DO NOT NEED A LICENSE TO RUN SOFTWARE. That's right- thanks to Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 117, you can make all the copies you need (including copying into ram - executing, and copying to hd - installing) to run the program.
It's not the GPL saying you can't distribute the code however you want, it's copyright law. Licences don't affect running the software. Copyright has to do with the "right to copy", not the "right to use".
Your school was better than mine.
In all seriousness, half the software my elementary had were on casette tapes.
I'm 20.
THE GPL IS A LICENSE, NOT A CONTRACT!
It is the law that says you can't copy willy-nilly. It's the GPL that says you can, but only if you follow certain terms.
You do not sue someone for a GPL violation. You sue them for copyright infringement, because they didn't agree to the terms for copying. It's copyright law that takes the freedoms, not the GPL. There is not one thing you could do before the GPL, that you can not do afterwards. There are a number of things you can, that you could not before.
Licenses generally don't show up in court, because if you get a licese you use declared invalid, it means you are breaking the law to distribute it. It doesn't give you any more rights, so there isn't much point.
1) Minors can't buy from iTMS (see need for credit card). The only way they could buy is if they have an allowance system, under which, the parent is legaly responsible for the music. The contract is with whom ever owns the card the accoutnn is registered to.
Well, I had a credit card (in my own name) well before I was 18. I could have purchased iTunes songs - I cannot enter into contracts on my parent's behalf, even if I do steal their credit.
Secondly, ever heard of prepaid iTunes cards? They sell to minors (deliberatly, I might add), you can't see a copy of the terms at the point of sale (another reason courts could rule it not legally binding), _and_ every time they change the iTunes TOS, it's modifying the terms of a sale post-sale. If it's included (even by reference), a modification to the included part is still amending the terms of sale.
2) The terms are not amended after the sale. You have to agree to these terms BEFORE you buy the music.
Unless, of course, you do prepaid cards, gift certificates, what have you. Anyhow, it's the price that gives you the right to have the songs, not the "agreeing to use only unauthorized progams" that gives you the rights. After all, anything else is unenforcable to minors, who they quite specifically target.
5) Want to bet? I do it all the time. When I purchase a program, law (and judicial precident) say I have the right to reverse engineer it. I simply remove the so-called EULAs from the program. Obviously, I have a right to use the software (I paid for it, I had better have the right to), and they are trying to amend the terms post-sale anyway. All it takes is 30-60 seconds and softice to make those little annoying dialogs go away.
Missed a link:
Sec. 117. - Limitations on exclusive rights: Computer programs. Forgot to put anything in my A brackets.
One, EULAs have never shown to be legally binding.
For example, take a video game. Do you need to agree to the EULA to run it? Of course not:
1- Minors can't enter into contracts. Can only people 18+ buy games?
2- They are amending the terms of sale, after the sale has taken place. This is not legal.
3- Contract laws require that you actually receive something in exchange for what you are offering. Now, the theory behind the EULA is that your computer (and through extension, you) makes a copy when you run it, as such, you need a license to copy. However, Copyright law specifically allows fair use, which allows you to do more than the EULA anyway, and copyright law lets you make copies anyway. As such, you are literally getting nothing in return.
4- Click-through agreements have never been shown to count as a legal agreement
5- What if you just skip it altogether?
The reality is, the companies who use EULAs are abusing the system, and trying to treat a license like a contract. It is not. A license doesn't have any of the above issues (the GPL is, for example, a license).
For example, copyright law says that you may not distribute copies. However, a license can say "you can go ahead and distribute copies, but only if you do X, Y, and Z". A license giveth, a license does not take. As such, minors can use licenses, too.
For example, suppose I were to were to write some sheet music, and give it to you. Copyright law is fairly specific about what you can do with it. For the most part, it just means you can't distribute copies. Now, suppose I placed the text "You may make and distribute copies, provided this copyright notice is present on all copies". This is a license. It gives you rights you do not normally had. You do not need to "enter" into any agreement at all. If you don't want to use it, you don't have to.
Had an extra u in there.
It's on page two (I already did a correction) Nigritude Ultramarine.
Does anyone know what the internationally accepted method of naming such a planet is? Is it simply the first person to record it can name it, or is there a more beaurocratic system in place?
I tried for a couple hours to get it working, with a custom-built Wolk kernel, RedHat 9, and a Shuttle SN41G2 XPC. While I was finally able to get ACPI working like it should, I never did manage to get suspend to ram working.
IIRC, Orbitz was using Linux. I thought it was kind of cool. Guess the guys are scumbags after all.
I guess it just goes to show that like with anything in life, just because a corporation or government is "good" today, doesn't mean it will be "good" tomorrow. All the more reason to keep corporations and our governments from collecting unnecessary information in the first place.
Correction, on page number two (mixed two thoughts together). Here, have another free shot at my karma!
Shameless Nigritude Ultramarine Plug.
As an internet webmaster, I certainly would like to hire the guy for a little SEO work. From the sounds of the article, this guy sounds like he knows what makes PageRank tick.
The rest of us only find out through experimentation.
Hey, I'm the number 2 Nigruitude Ultramarine site on the web!
Fortunatly, I didn't have to learn the hard[est] way. The guy didn't answer his phone, and the address was fake, so I know it would have been fraud.
Fortunatly, the Post Office was unable to read the address (I have really bad handwriting), so they returned it to sender. In the end I got my money back, just not after receiving a big "Screw You" from EBay.
I _have_ been scammed in the past. This is especially galling, as I only buy from people with at least 20 feedback, and at least 90% positive.
1) I've had 3 items under $25 never get sent. Ebay won't cover them, as there is a $25 deductable.
2) I had one guy send a shoe in a box (I had bid on a video capture card - Ebay won't handle disputes over the quality of an item).
3) I bid on a PS2, sent the $200 money order, EBay sends me an e-mail in a couple days, saying there is a high chance of fraud, don't send the money. Of course, because it was a money order and I had no proof I had sent, EBay wouldn't cover it.
You seem to do well, but some of us get burned more than our fair share.
Hey, I found an even better, faster way to do this. Drop me a line at my URL, and I'll tell you how to do it.
No, I won't share it here.
Don't want to give away my karma-whoring tips, but I will anyway.
Steps:
1) Go to site, login. Look at page title.
2) Go to google news, search for title
3) Don't click the First link above the main search results, go down 2 lines to where the link is repeated. Replace partner=GOOGLE with partner=SLASHDOT, just in case their admins ever check the log.
Have fun. It took me about 5 minutes of searching to figure this one out. I even tried doing a google redirect - it won't work.
Reg Free Link here .
They are making this harder to do...
Well, if it's a rip of a DVD-9, it's about 1/9 of a movie. Not that much, really.
This is an example of 90's style SEO gone horribly wrong: Nigritude Ultramarine
Or perhaps Ultramarine, and nigratude too!.
Or even Nigratude? We've got that!.
Hey, this is even on topic!
Actually, it already does. If you use Windows Server 2003, it will block invalid keys.