Reverse Engineering a product to make money is and should be legal. Determining the inputs and outputs of a program and using that to write your own logic and that does the same thing is completely moral. You are stealing nothing, you are creating a compatible interface to your own logic. Reading out the logic from a chip and writing it to another and selling it is not reverse engineering. It is copyright infringement, and possibly breach of contract depeding on your relationship with the vendor.
AOL will never make RoadRunner only accessible through the AOL interface. It will an integrated option for people who use AOL and don't want two seperate bills. If the AOL interface were forced upon the cable modem users a very signifigant percentage would move to DSL. I know I would, DSL is available where I live, so I would never put up with AOL.
I think that your first three suggestions are pretty good ones, reasonable restrictions that will increase the participation of average people in the political process is agood thing, it will allow for less corporate tax breaks in the name of progress. We should reduce everyone's taxes not just specific corporations. However your last suggestion would be a pretty bad one. The only people who could participate would be ones that could leave their job for 3 months. There are not a lot of people for whom this would realistically be an option even if they were paid well and legally gauranteed the same job at the end of their term. Forcing people to do this would also be wrong, it isacceptable in the jury trials because those need to be unbiased, the usually last less than a week, and taking a week off of work to fulfill a community duty is not that hard for most people. The pay should certainly be raised but it is still more reasonable. The office of the president is the check and balance that you want, he can veto, but not absolutely and any president can find a member of his or her own party to submit any bill they choose.
I have encoded mp3s and the ones I do myself sometimes actually sound better compared to the ripped.wav This is on the same player. I don't care if it technically is worse, I only care about how good it sounds to me from my electronically noisy cheap speaker cheap sound card computer system
Education should be about how to think, not what to think. The educational process should be focused on the ability to learn, and to understand what you have learned, make distinctions between things (which is a part of understanding what you have learned) and then use this to create new thoughts and ideas. This is the way a classical education works. We should teach children to read Aristotle, Plato, Socrates and all the other classical authors, these people not only being extremely fundamental to understanding Western Civilization, but also deal with the process of logically dealing with the world. Teaching a language like Latin rather than Spanish focuses on the process of understanding language rather than the myth of classroom learning teaching how to really speak a language. Learning to speak a language like Spanish is made much easier after learning another language because grammatical structures have many similarities in the west and it becomes mostly dealing with a new vocabulary.
or they could do it by having a moderation option for -1 posts that says move to offtopic posts. Then the post would move to and off topic sid like for example using this story sid=00/07/04/1412229/offtopic Then all the people who want to read osm stories and look at beer spam could do so.
actually grdb at http://bucket.pp.ualr.edu/~bit/grdb.html will allow you to take the colors and fonts from your gtk themes and apply them thru X app-defaults to Xt, motif, and tcltk applications.
I use Gnome and KDE because I have two computers, and I really find Gnome to be much more aesthetically pleasing. Maybe KDE2 will look a lot nicer, but right now Gnome 1.2 is very much more to my liking. KDE doesn't really have anything going for it in terms of apps. All apps are compatible across both desktops so long as the libs are installed. I think that the Gnome-Panel is really a fine piece of work, and the new control panel is very nice looking as well. Gnome is not at all buggy, I have nearly no problems with it. The only thing I have problems with is Netscape.
Linux doesn't need to decide. We need some more optimizations and compile-time options, but we need different distros focused at different solutions. We could have a Debian based distro with a kernel compiled for maximum speed with some stability checks left out in order to make it faster, with XFree configured for maximum graphics performance as well. A set up like this would work for some one who's primary purpose is gaming, and general things. A second distro could concurrently exist with the kernel tweaked for maximum io for servers. It wouldn't need anything more than the standard install, it would just be slightly different. These two distros could just be Debian variants on one CD so a person could pick the one they wanted at install time.
If Microsoft insists on trying to maintain that information they release to anyone on the Internet is a trade secret they are going to get smacked down by a judge. The whole idea is completely ludicrous. If Microsofts case that posting about how to use Winzip to get around the EULA is ruled as being illegal under the DMCA then Winzip by extension must also be illegal and so anyone using it or distributing it is doing so with the intent to violate Microsofts trade secrets. This is also completely ludicrous. The only place where they have a chance in succedding is getting the repostings of the documents off of slashdot.
They registered it because in today's world if you don't patent something that may be patentable someone else will and they might sue you for patent infringement. They're doing it because they have to,and maybe because they want to.
Some interesting definitions from the act: (5)(A) A "digital musical recording" is a material object-- (i) in which are fixed, in a digital recording format, only sounds, and material, statements, or instructions incidental to those fixed sounds, if any, and (ii) from which the sounds and material can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. This means that whatever is on your hard drive is automatically not protected by the act because a hard drive has things on it other than music. (6) "Distribute" means to sell, lease, or assign a product to consumers in the United States, or to sell, lease, or assign a product in the United States for ultimate transfer to consumers in the United States. If the person you are assigning the data to is not in the U.S. then are you violating the law? No person shall import, manufacture, or distribute any digital audio recording device or digital audio interface device that does not conform to-- (1) the Serial Copy Management System; This is very evil! It would seem that it makes cd-roms illegal, and dvd-roms possibly because the copyright protection can be easily circumvented. the amount of the royalty payment for each digital audio recording device shall not be less than $1 nor more than the royalty maximum. The royalty maximum shall be $8 per device, except that in the case of a physically integrated unit containing more than 1 digital audio recording device, the royalty maximum for such unit shall be $12. This what you have to pay to be allowed to manufacture, import, or sell a device which allows an ordinary person to use their music.
I guess that you've never used a MS product either. The computer I'm using right now has Win98SE on it and it doesn't crash so much as the performance degrades if it's been running more than a few hours and internet explorer starts responding very strangely to the wheel on my Microsoft Intellimouse with IntelliEye. Linux works a lot better with my mouse, and the internet access is faster and the GUI is more responsive (Red Hat 6.1 w/ GNOME and sawmill) This however is just my experiences. These do not necessarily reflect the truth.
I think that the obvious conclusion is that nearly everyone who could afford to buy cds did, along with downloading music they didn't buy. The argument that it's ok as long as we download something that we wouldn't buy anyway seems to have a financial proof to it now. I know that in the past I have never spent more than $30 a year on cds, even before I knew what an mp3 was, and that I have spent more than that now, that I listen to music that sounds interesting to me from Napster, then buy the cd because I like the songs on it.
I think that these types of puzzles should get their own section on slashdot. That way all the people who hate them can ignore them and the rest of us can try to figure them out. Also there should be more than just chess problems, there should be a good variety. This way different people can apply their skills. Not everybody is good at chess and not everybody is good with words.
I think that censoring libraries is ineffective, legislators in the U.S. can not block porn going into private homes, and if a child is at a friends house and they want to see some pictures they will find them. If a child has been taught about sex in a healthy way and the idea not hidden from them, or books of the Bible cut out (like the Song of Solomon).
Actually in Kansas they added 5 times the material about evolution to the standards they just shifted the emphasis from macro- to micro-. So after the change students had to know more about it, they just don't have tow the party line.
People who buy iMacs because they like the cases aren't necessarily stupid, they're also probably buying the right computer for themselves. It sets up quickly and they can get online with a minimum of effort.
Yeah but the devices are only going to 10 meters. Maybe in the future they could get > km but only then would it be viable for local loop type conncetions.
Going into a technical field doesn't interfere with her desire to use AOL to talk to her friends, it's just that she is more interested in other majors (like chemistry) she's smart and able to use a computer, but her interest just isn't in that direction. I know that she's been encouraged to do stuff with computers, it's just not what she's interested in. You're right though basing an argument on one person doesn't really work, but I know that there are people who do not have the talent to administer or program computers easily. And I believe that a larger percentage of women aren't talented in that way, because of my personal experience with the people I know.
The assumption in these articles is that the reason that women don't enter technical fields as much is because they are discouraged. I don't think that is really very common. I know one of my friends that both of her parents are computer programmers but she doesn't really have an interest in working with computers. Her approach is more "What is the easiest way to do what I want?" where what she wants to do is communicate with her friends. Incidentally all my English teachers since High School have been men, and I didn't really think of them as being not manly at all. They were all heterosexual guys.
Why do these studies always measure the number of women going into computer science? Why don't they also look at related fields such as electrical and computer engineering? Also there are more women in English majors than men why don't they consider this a bad thing and start recruiting men to do more of the things that are traditionally female dominated?
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Reverse Engineering a product to make money is and should be legal. Determining the inputs and outputs of a program and using that to write your own logic and that does the same thing is completely moral. You are stealing nothing, you are creating a compatible interface to your own logic. Reading out the logic from a chip and writing it to another and selling it is not reverse engineering. It is copyright infringement, and possibly breach of contract depeding on your relationship with the vendor.
AOL will never make RoadRunner only accessible through the AOL interface. It will an integrated option for people who use AOL and don't want two seperate bills. If the AOL interface were forced upon the cable modem users a very signifigant percentage would move to DSL. I know I would, DSL is available where I live, so I would never put up with AOL.
HP clacs can do RPN and Algebraic notation so if you don't like RPN you can use the "normal" way.
I think that your first three suggestions are pretty good ones, reasonable restrictions that will increase the participation of average people in the political process is agood thing, it will allow for less corporate tax breaks in the name of progress. We should reduce everyone's taxes not just specific corporations. However your last suggestion would be a pretty bad one. The only people who could participate would be ones that could leave their job for 3 months. There are not a lot of people for whom this would realistically be an option even if they were paid well and legally gauranteed the same job at the end of their term. Forcing people to do this would also be wrong, it isacceptable in the jury trials because those need to be unbiased, the usually last less than a week, and taking a week off of work to fulfill a community duty is not that hard for most people. The pay should certainly be raised but it is still more reasonable. The office of the president is the check and balance that you want, he can veto, but not absolutely and any president can find a member of his or her own party to submit any bill they choose.
I have encoded mp3s and the ones I do myself sometimes actually sound better compared to the ripped .wav This is on the same player. I don't care if it technically is worse, I only care about how good it sounds to me from my electronically noisy cheap speaker cheap sound card computer system
Education should be about how to think, not what to think. The educational process should be focused on the ability to learn, and to understand what you have learned, make distinctions between things (which is a part of understanding what you have learned) and then use this to create new thoughts and ideas. This is the way a classical education works. We should teach children to read Aristotle, Plato, Socrates and all the other classical authors, these people not only being extremely fundamental to understanding Western Civilization, but also deal with the process of logically dealing with the world. Teaching a language like Latin rather than Spanish focuses on the process of understanding language rather than the myth of classroom learning teaching how to really speak a language. Learning to speak a language like Spanish is made much easier after learning another language because grammatical structures have many similarities in the west and it becomes mostly dealing with a new vocabulary.
or they could do it by having a moderation option for -1 posts that says move to offtopic posts. Then the post would move to and off topic sid like for example using this story sid=00/07/04/1412229/offtopic Then all the people who want to read osm stories and look at beer spam could do so.
actually grdb at http://bucket.pp.ualr.edu/~bit/grdb.html will allow you to take the colors and fonts from your gtk themes and apply them
thru X app-defaults to Xt, motif, and tcltk applications.
I use Gnome and KDE because I have two computers, and I really find Gnome to be much more aesthetically pleasing. Maybe KDE2 will look a lot nicer, but right now Gnome 1.2 is very much more to my liking. KDE doesn't really have anything going for it in terms of apps. All apps are compatible across both desktops so long as the libs are installed. I think that the Gnome-Panel is really a fine piece of work, and the new control panel is very nice looking as well. Gnome is not at all buggy, I have nearly no problems with it. The only thing I have problems with is Netscape.
Linux doesn't need to decide. We need some more optimizations and compile-time options, but we need different distros focused at different solutions. We could have a Debian based distro with a kernel compiled for maximum speed with some stability checks left out in order to make it faster, with XFree configured for maximum graphics performance as well. A set up like this would work for some one who's primary purpose is gaming, and general things.
A second distro could concurrently exist with the kernel tweaked for maximum io for servers. It wouldn't need anything more than the standard install, it would just be slightly different.
These two distros could just be Debian variants on one CD so a person could pick the one they wanted at install time.
If Microsoft insists on trying to maintain that information they release to anyone on the Internet is a trade secret they are going to get smacked down by a judge. The whole idea is completely ludicrous.
If Microsofts case that posting about how to use Winzip to get around the EULA is ruled as being illegal under the DMCA then Winzip by extension must also be illegal and so anyone using it or distributing it is doing so with the intent to violate Microsofts trade secrets. This is also completely ludicrous. The only place where they have a chance in succedding is getting the repostings of the documents off of slashdot.
They registered it because in today's world if you don't patent something that may be patentable someone else will and they might sue you for patent infringement. They're doing it because they have to ,and maybe because they want to.
Some interesting definitions from the act:
(5)(A) A "digital musical recording" is a material object--
(i) in which are fixed, in a digital recording format, only sounds, and material, statements, or instructions
incidental to those fixed sounds, if any, and
(ii) from which the sounds and material can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated,
either directly or with the aid of a machine or device.
This means that whatever is on your hard drive is automatically not protected by the act because a hard drive has things on it other than music.
(6) "Distribute" means to sell, lease, or assign a product to consumers in the United States, or to sell,
lease, or assign a product in the United States for ultimate transfer to consumers in the United States.
If the person you are assigning the data to is not in the U.S. then are you violating the law?
No person shall import, manufacture, or distribute any digital audio recording device or digital audio
interface device that does not conform to--
(1) the Serial Copy Management System;
This is very evil! It would seem that it makes cd-roms illegal, and dvd-roms possibly because the copyright protection can be easily circumvented.
the amount of the royalty payment for each digital audio recording device shall not be less than $1 nor more than the royalty maximum. The royalty
maximum shall be $8 per device, except that in the case of a physically integrated unit containing more than 1 digital audio recording device, the royalty maximum for such unit shall be
$12.
This what you have to pay to be allowed to manufacture, import, or sell a device which allows an ordinary person to use their music.
I guess that you've never used a MS product either. The computer I'm using right now has Win98SE on it and it doesn't crash so much as the performance degrades if it's been running more than a few hours and internet explorer starts responding very strangely to the wheel on my Microsoft Intellimouse with IntelliEye. Linux works a lot better with my mouse, and the internet access is faster and the GUI is more responsive (Red Hat 6.1 w/ GNOME and sawmill) This however is just my experiences. These do not necessarily reflect the truth.
Are you thinking of sid=moderation?
I think that the obvious conclusion is that nearly everyone who could afford to buy cds did, along with downloading music they didn't buy. The argument that it's ok as long as we download something that we wouldn't buy anyway seems to have a financial proof to it now. I know that in the past I have never spent more than $30 a year on cds, even before I knew what an mp3 was, and that I have spent more than that now, that I listen to music that sounds interesting to me from Napster, then buy the cd because I like the songs on it.
I think that these types of puzzles should get their own section on slashdot. That way all the people who hate them can ignore them and the rest of us can try to figure them out. Also there should be more than just chess problems, there should be a good variety. This way different people can apply their skills. Not everybody is good at chess and not everybody is good with words.
I think that censoring libraries is ineffective, legislators in the U.S. can not block porn going into private homes, and if a child is at a friends house and they want to see some pictures they will find them. If a child has been taught about sex in a healthy way and the idea not hidden from them, or books of the Bible cut out (like the Song of Solomon).
Actually in Kansas they added 5 times the material about evolution to the standards they just shifted the emphasis from macro- to micro-. So after the change students had to know more about it, they just don't have tow the party line.
People who buy iMacs because they like the cases aren't necessarily stupid, they're also probably buying the right computer for themselves. It sets up quickly and they can get online with a minimum of effort.
what did the origional post have to do with religion?
Yeah but the devices are only going to 10 meters. Maybe in the future they could get > km but only then would it be viable for local loop type conncetions.
Going into a technical field doesn't interfere with her desire to use AOL to talk to her friends, it's just that she is more interested in other majors (like chemistry) she's smart and able to use a computer, but her interest just isn't in that direction. I know that she's been encouraged to do stuff with computers, it's just not what she's interested in.
You're right though basing an argument on one person doesn't really work, but I know that there are people who do not have the talent to administer or program computers easily. And I believe that a larger percentage of women aren't talented in that way, because of my personal experience with the people I know.
The assumption in these articles is that the reason that women don't enter technical fields as much is because they are discouraged. I don't think that is really very common. I know one of my friends that both of her parents are computer programmers but she doesn't really have an interest in working with computers. Her approach is more "What is the easiest way to do what I want?" where what she wants to do is communicate with her friends.
Incidentally all my English teachers since High School have been men, and I didn't really think of them as being not manly at all. They were all heterosexual guys.
Why do these studies always measure the number of women going into computer science? Why don't they also look at related fields such as electrical and computer engineering?
Also there are more women in English majors than men why don't they consider this a bad thing and start recruiting men to do more of the things that are traditionally female dominated?