Anyone know how this affects Kazaa Lite running under Wine? I have everything but E:/Program Files mounted read-only, so I figure I shouldn't worry too much. But the lights on my DSl router are unusually non-blinking; maybe their network did crash.
Hopefully it could be shown in court that the vast majority of/. readers are not likely to perform such an act, regardless of how inflammatory the statement maybe.
I don't like this argument. A similar line was a part of the 2600 vs. MPAA trial, where it was argued that it would (probably) be ok for the New York Times to publish a list of links to illegal sites, but not for 2600. That point was left standing in the appeal. But I hope if it comes up in the next appeal (the Supreme Court?) it becomes an issue, since it would mean your organization would need to know beforehand whether or not a court would approve or your and your audience's intentions. And since nobody would know this and few would want to risk a trial to find out, it would have a chilling effect on free speech.
I, for one, wouldn't have any idea how to help my aunt use her Gateway Computer if they decided to include some things but not others.
The people making this argument are missing the point. There is a free market for PCs. With modular components, an OEM can choose (until MS figures out a way around this) to add whatever additional components are necessary. Only selling to networked customers? Dump the modem component, and leave out the games as well. Found a better media player? Well, replace the inferior version and gain an edge against your competitors.
In a nutshell, if your aunt can't use her Gateway Computer because it doesn't have the features she needs, why did you buy it? Go someplace that understands it's customers a little better.
So the metaphor stands: somebody else using your work for their benefit without consideration for the investment of your time and energy is *similar* to somebody copying a CD without consideration for the machinery, both creative and economic, that went into its creation.
Actually, try this metaphor on for size
a university professor gave you a writing assignment to do,
you couldn't take another class until you completed his course, and couldn't complete his class without passing the assignment
you got an "A", hoping for recognition,
the professor made money off of it,
allegedly, he would give you a small percentage of his profits, which would be directed toward paying off the $1000 "classroom fee",
and you could of course choose not to go to college, and instead become a freelance writer with just a high school diploma and no contacts. Lots of luck, buddy.
Yeah, I guess the metaphor does stand.
"Wouldn't you be pissed if somebody else gained from your hard work without you getting a damn thing?"
Well, I have two WB stations, WPIX in New York and KTLA in Los Angeles, just because I hated missing shows. If I missed something, I could just wait another 3 hours to see it again. There is also an east and west coast FOX station, although I have just the east.
Before my Tivo, it was worth the extra $1.50/month. But now, I could probably drop one or the other.
... This amazing phenomenon was first described in 1971 by researcher Martha McClintock, now with the University of Chicago. Having asked around a bit, I'd say it's common knowledge among women, but I'll bet not one male in 50 has ever heard of it. Women do have their little secrets....
...Later research has suggested that synchrony is caused by some sort of scent cue, or pheromone.
Scientists at the Sonoma State Hospital Brain Behavior Research Center in California identified several women who were believed to be menstrual pacesetters--they made other women conform to their cycles.
The scientists placed cotton pads under the dominant women's arms for a day, and then wiped the pads on the upper lips of five female subjects three times a week. (One wonders how much the subjects got paid for this.)
Within five months, four of the recipients were menstruating at the same time as their donors.
Interestingly, men also have an effect on women's menstrual cycles--and not just because they make women pregnant. Women who associate with males frequently find that their periods become shorter and more regular....
No, the attachment bug is far more subtle than that. It
doesn't happen based on headers, which are rightfully the section of
an e-mail that mail readers are SUPPOSED to process. Instead, the bug
is that any message that has the word "begin" at the beginning of a
line will be treated as a garbled attachment from that point on.
Coincidentally, I just discovered this feature today when the WORM_MYPARTY.A virus slipped through the MIME attachment filters in my mailing list management software. It exists between begin...end lines directly within a plaintext message. This is the syntax for uuencoded data, yes? BTW, my mail client, Eudora, happily converted this to an attachment (which anti-virus software promptly erased). But some testing shows that it will only do it while the lines look like uuencode, so it may not suffer from the same problem as Outlook.
Note that this is just Ellison at a customer conference, and nowhere did the article mention the government's opinion. I recently read (sorry, no link) that few in the government is taking this the least bit seriously, including Congress. Remember that it wasn't too long ago that some House members (a few Republicans) were advocating not filling out the 2000 census form or lying on it, despite it being required by the Constitution.
In terms of cost, I would think the cost of the hardware is a pittance compared to the difficulties in organizing disparate agencies, each with their own data formats.
I'd much rather have 2000 binaries in/usr/bin than 2000 path entries in my $PATH
... and/or $LD_LIBRARY_PATH, plus $KDEDIR, $QTDIR, etc.
But as a Slackware user compiling things myself under/opt using --prefix=/opt/whatever, I haven't had much problem with this. I can always symlink if I need to, or set LD_LIBRARY_PATH specific to the application as needed.
And let us geeks have at it? Virtual landscapes, virtual races, hey-even a pedal powered flight sim. Almost all their games are car racing, which seems a little incongruent. It's the visual stimulation that makes a grueling workout fun--pedaling harder because you think you're going up a hill, not because the LED went from 4 to 5.
It would need to be a decent recumbant or upright. This product doesn't look very ergonomic.
I'm looking for such a bike now, but I just started looking. Maybe there are some good choices out there already.
-Auction the rights to develop each Microsoft product for platforms that Microsoft does not support. Microsoft will then give the winner of
each auction full acess to the product's source code under a NDA.
Loophole here. What prevents a Microsoft front from winning the auction and sitting on it, preventing anyone from doing anything?
Hmmm... I get the skull and bones, Star of David, and a "thumbs up". This is the first I heard of it. I am filled with self-loathing for having laughed out loud upon seeing it for myself. Very weird!
Pardon my ignorance. But is what they are calling "unripe", because the plaintiffs were never actually prosecuted under the DMCA, also known as a prior restraint on free speech?
So, if unripe cases can't be tried, is the only way to overturn a bad law to break it and get caught, hoping that unconstitutionality will save your ass in the end (the 2600 case)? If no one is brave enough to martyr themselves, isn't that what judges call "a chilling effect"?
Over the years of using Unix systems, whenever I need to work at figuring what command line combinations work for what I need, or what obscure command does something powerful, I write it down on an index card and file it away. Most of these you would never run across in the basic Unix books, although I'll bet most of these can be found in the blue Unix Power Tools book somewhere. In general, these are from Usenet postings gleaned from searches, after man pages turned up nothing (man -k doesn't often help if you don't already know what to look for). Some examples:
nroff -man whatever | less
viewing a man page outside of the regular search path for man
ldd -d
dynamic linkage dependencies
ls -l | sort +4n
sort files by size
find args | xargs command
I have seen the light. Xargs is the light. Learn to love xargs
perl -pi -e 'replacement pattern' file(s)
Inplace editing of files
truss/strace
Trace system calls. Very useful!
SQL for tricky queries, formulas for table/index size estimates
rcs/cvs options I commonly use
Anything else I think would be hard to find again if I had to
I also love how everyone except Crichton has an Australian accent. And how badly they're trying to hide it. Yes, I know it's because the show's
filmed there.
Ever heard the actors in Xena or Hercules talk off camera? Or Marina Sirtis' real accent (or perhaps a lack of one,
depending on where you live)? It really throws your brain for a loop, doesn't it?
I think the gist in Farscape is that the Peacekeepers all speak with an Australian accent.
Whenever Crichton tries to infiltrate them, he fakes a horribly done British-type accent.
BTW, I agree with all the praise previously posted here. Top-notch writing that never spoonfeeds to the audience. I thinks it's unique in the way it has set up the characters and their interactions. The main characters are all (until the 3rd season) escaped prisoners, their dishonorably discharged captor, or a clueless alien (human) outsider. There is always an inherent mistrust that surfaces occasionally, just as it would in real life. They mostly work together out of mutual benefit, but ultimately they each want to go back to their home planet, and no one is going to sacrifice their chance so someone else can go first. They've backstabbed and stolen from each other, and even forceably cut off one of the ship pilot's arms (it regenerated) to trade for information. You do need to pay attention; if a character is lying or scheming, there won't be a wink to the audience to let us in on it.
And if you're watching 2nd season in reruns, it gets even better. Scorpius royally kicks ass! What a truly frightening character.
Let's not forget, also, that a minor revolutionary in Israel caused a ripple effect that eventually brought down
the Roman Empire, bringing about the Dark Ages. If anything, the US needs to avoid this possibility.
This is just a Me Too reply. I am hoping that if this entire discussion constists of people asking to filter Katz, someone will take the hint. Not Katz himself,though--being flamed to hell for each article hasn't stopped him yet.
Please, fix the filters! Just seeing his article headline on the main page is annoying. Slashdot was more enjoyable when all traces of Katz are filtered.
From the decisions I've read, a lot depends on whether the chosen judge Gets It. Here's an example
that represents the worst case of a clueless arbiter. It was ruled by Mr. Michael Ophir that bodacious-tatas.com should be transfered to
the Tata Group in India.
Here's the rationale, using the standard criteria:
(i) your domain is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the complainant has rights; and
(ii) you have no rights or legitimate interests in respect to the domain name; and
(iii) your domain name has been registered and is being used in bad faith.
i) TATA exists as a string within the domain name, thus, confusingly similar
ii) If (i), then the TATA Group has a legitimate interest in the domain, therefore the respondent does not
iii) If (ii), then it is used in bad faith. Plus, it's porn!
Judicial bootstrapping! Most judgments aren't that bad, but there are more examples like that (absolutporno.com, et. al.). It seems that porn sites are treated as a lower class.
I weaned off of all commercial radio about two years ago and haven't missed it a bit. There was a cool "alternative" station that started in the area in the early 90's, that played a wide variety of music. One thing I remember is the number of female bands that got played, like Jewel, Alanis Morissette, the Murmurs, Joan Osborne, etc. Well, it inevitably was bought out by corporate radio, which got bought out by even bigger corporate radio, and suddenly around every 8 songs was a 3-year old Pearl Jam hit (I am not exaggerating). So much for "modern" rock!
I was never a big Pearl Jam fan anyway, but the fact that there was never a hope of hearing anything new and interesting made listening pointless. Thankfully, there's a college radio station here (where I realized alternative music wasn't dead, it just wasn't profitable enough for commercial radio), an independent nonprofit radio station, and NPR for my non-AOLTW news. But the internet has been a great place for discovering new music. Usually I just pick a genre for an internet radio station that posts their playlist. If I hear something I like, I'll do some research on it or listen to other songs by that band. If they have a CD out, chances are that there's a fan base with information on the web. Due to exploring, I have found some great music I never would have heard of otherwise, like Le Tigre, Marine Research, and the Softies. Also, I listen to the genre playlists on MP3.com. Some of it is pretty good, but more importantly I want to support people trying to work around the entrenched music industry.
Finding music you like does take work. Actually, that's been one argument of the music industry--that they do all the leg work for you. Unfortunately, profit is the bottom line, and insipid has a bigger market than cool.
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Anyone know how this affects Kazaa Lite running under Wine? I have everything but E:/Program Files mounted read-only, so I figure I shouldn't worry too much. But the lights on my DSl router are unusually non-blinking; maybe their network did crash.
I don't like this argument. A similar line was a part of the 2600 vs. MPAA trial, where it was argued that it would (probably) be ok for the New York Times to publish a list of links to illegal sites, but not for 2600. That point was left standing in the appeal. But I hope if it comes up in the next appeal (the Supreme Court?) it becomes an issue, since it would mean your organization would need to know beforehand whether or not a court would approve or your and your audience's intentions. And since nobody would know this and few would want to risk a trial to find out, it would have a chilling effect on free speech.
The people making this argument are missing the point. There is a free market for PCs. With modular components, an OEM can choose (until MS figures out a way around this) to add whatever additional components are necessary. Only selling to networked customers? Dump the modem component, and leave out the games as well. Found a better media player? Well, replace the inferior version and gain an edge against your competitors.
In a nutshell, if your aunt can't use her Gateway Computer because it doesn't have the features she needs, why did you buy it? Go someplace that understands it's customers a little better.
- a university professor gave you a writing assignment to do,
- you couldn't take another class until you completed his course, and couldn't complete his class without passing the assignment
- you got an "A", hoping for recognition,
- the professor made money off of it,
- allegedly, he would give you a small percentage of his profits, which would be directed toward paying off the $1000 "classroom fee",
- and you could of course choose not to go to college, and instead become a freelance writer with just a high school diploma and no contacts. Lots of luck, buddy.
Yeah, I guess the metaphor does stand."Wouldn't you be pissed if somebody else gained from your hard work without you getting a damn thing?"
HELL YES! And I'm glad I'm not a musician.
Depends on what drug you're on at the time.
... and maybe your clone will want to kill you to get your heart!
Well, I have two WB stations, WPIX in New York and KTLA in Los Angeles, just because I hated missing shows. If I missed something, I could just wait another 3 hours to see it again. There is also an east and west coast FOX station, although I have just the east.
Before my Tivo, it was worth the extra $1.50/month. But now, I could probably drop one or the other.
Please tell me this is a reporter's goof. I just can't twist this statement enough to make sense of it.
Why was this moderated as Funny? They really do need the money.
...Later research has suggested that synchrony is caused by some sort of scent cue, or pheromone.
Scientists at the Sonoma State Hospital Brain Behavior Research Center in California identified several women who were believed to be menstrual pacesetters--they made other women conform to their cycles.
The scientists placed cotton pads under the dominant women's arms for a day, and then wiped the pads on the upper lips of five female subjects three times a week. (One wonders how much the subjects got paid for this.)
Within five months, four of the recipients were menstruating at the same time as their donors.
Interestingly, men also have an effect on women's menstrual cycles--and not just because they make women pregnant. Women who associate with males frequently find that their periods become shorter and more regular....
No, the attachment bug is far more subtle than that. It doesn't happen based on headers, which are rightfully the section of an e-mail that mail readers are SUPPOSED to process. Instead, the bug is that any message that has the word "begin" at the beginning of a line will be treated as a garbled attachment from that point on.
Coincidentally, I just discovered this feature today when the WORM_MYPARTY.A virus slipped through the MIME attachment filters in my mailing list management software. It exists between begin...end lines directly within a plaintext message. This is the syntax for uuencoded data, yes? BTW, my mail client, Eudora, happily converted this to an attachment (which anti-virus software promptly erased). But some testing shows that it will only do it while the lines look like uuencode, so it may not suffer from the same problem as Outlook.
you're complaining about this on Slashdot?!
Note that this is just Ellison at a customer conference, and nowhere did the article mention the government's opinion. I recently read (sorry, no link) that few in the government is taking this the least bit seriously, including Congress. Remember that it wasn't too long ago that some House members (a few Republicans) were advocating not filling out the 2000 census form or lying on it, despite it being required by the Constitution.
In terms of cost, I would think the cost of the hardware is a pittance compared to the difficulties in organizing disparate agencies, each with their own data formats.
I'd much rather have 2000 binaries in /usr/bin than 2000 path entries in my $PATH
... and/or $LD_LIBRARY_PATH, plus $KDEDIR, $QTDIR, etc.
But as a Slackware user compiling things myself under /opt using --prefix=/opt/whatever, I haven't had much problem with this. I can always symlink if I need to, or set LD_LIBRARY_PATH specific to the application as needed.
And let us geeks have at it? Virtual landscapes, virtual races, hey-even a pedal powered flight sim. Almost all their games are car racing, which seems a little incongruent. It's the visual stimulation that makes a grueling workout fun--pedaling harder because you think you're going up a hill, not because the LED went from 4 to 5.
It would need to be a decent recumbant or upright. This product doesn't look very ergonomic.
I'm looking for such a bike now, but I just started looking. Maybe there are some good choices out there already.
-Auction the rights to develop each Microsoft product for platforms that Microsoft does not support. Microsoft will then give the winner of each auction full acess to the product's source code under a NDA.
Loophole here. What prevents a Microsoft front from winning the auction and sitting on it, preventing anyone from doing anything?
Hmmm... I get the skull and bones, Star of David, and a "thumbs up". This is the first I heard of it. I am filled with self-loathing for having laughed out loud upon seeing it for myself. Very weird!
Pardon my ignorance. But is what they are calling "unripe", because the plaintiffs were never actually prosecuted under the DMCA, also known as a prior restraint on free speech?
So, if unripe cases can't be tried, is the only way to overturn a bad law to break it and get caught, hoping that unconstitutionality will save your ass in the end (the 2600 case)? If no one is brave enough to martyr themselves, isn't that what judges call "a chilling effect"?
Over the years of using Unix systems, whenever I need to work at figuring what command line combinations work for what I need, or what obscure command does something powerful, I write it down on an index card and file it away. Most of these you would never run across in the basic Unix books, although I'll bet most of these can be found in the blue Unix Power Tools book somewhere. In general, these are from Usenet postings gleaned from searches, after man pages turned up nothing (man -k doesn't often help if you don't already know what to look for). Some examples:
- nroff -man whatever | less
- ldd -d
- ls -l | sort +4n
- find args | xargs command
- perl -pi -e 'replacement pattern' file(s)
- truss/strace
- SQL for tricky queries, formulas for table/index size estimates
- rcs/cvs options I commonly use
- Anything else I think would be hard to find again if I had to
-Chadviewing a man page outside of the regular search path for man
dynamic linkage dependencies
sort files by size
I have seen the light. Xargs is the light. Learn to love xargs
Inplace editing of files
Trace system calls. Very useful!
I also love how everyone except Crichton has an Australian accent. And how badly they're trying to hide it. Yes, I know it's because the show's filmed there.
Ever heard the actors in Xena or Hercules talk off camera? Or Marina Sirtis' real accent (or perhaps a lack of one, depending on where you live)? It really throws your brain for a loop, doesn't it?
I think the gist in Farscape is that the Peacekeepers all speak with an Australian accent. Whenever Crichton tries to infiltrate them, he fakes a horribly done British-type accent.
BTW, I agree with all the praise previously posted here. Top-notch writing that never spoonfeeds to the audience. I thinks it's unique in the way it has set up the characters and their interactions. The main characters are all (until the 3rd season) escaped prisoners, their dishonorably discharged captor, or a clueless alien (human) outsider. There is always an inherent mistrust that surfaces occasionally, just as it would in real life. They mostly work together out of mutual benefit, but ultimately they each want to go back to their home planet, and no one is going to sacrifice their chance so someone else can go first. They've backstabbed and stolen from each other, and even forceably cut off one of the ship pilot's arms (it regenerated) to trade for information. You do need to pay attention; if a character is lying or scheming, there won't be a wink to the audience to let us in on it.
And if you're watching 2nd season in reruns, it gets even better. Scorpius royally kicks ass! What a truly frightening character.
Let's not forget, also, that a minor revolutionary in Israel caused a ripple effect that eventually brought down the Roman Empire, bringing about the Dark Ages. If anything, the US needs to avoid this possibility.
s/Israel/Mecca
This is just a Me Too reply. I am hoping that if this entire discussion constists of people asking to filter Katz, someone will take the hint. Not Katz himself,though--being flamed to hell for each article hasn't stopped him yet.
Please, fix the filters! Just seeing his article headline on the main page is annoying. Slashdot was more enjoyable when all traces of Katz are filtered.
From the decisions I've read, a lot depends on whether the chosen judge Gets It. Here's an example that represents the worst case of a clueless arbiter. It was ruled by Mr. Michael Ophir that bodacious-tatas.com should be transfered to the Tata Group in India.
Here's the rationale, using the standard criteria:
(i) your domain is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the complainant has rights; and
(ii) you have no rights or legitimate interests in respect to the domain name; and
(iii) your domain name has been registered and is being used in bad faith.
i) TATA exists as a string within the domain name, thus, confusingly similar
ii) If (i), then the TATA Group has a legitimate interest in the domain, therefore the respondent does not
iii) If (ii), then it is used in bad faith. Plus, it's porn!
Judicial bootstrapping! Most judgments aren't that bad, but there are more examples like that (absolutporno.com, et. al.). It seems that porn sites are treated as a lower class.
Both the crappytire decision and the michaelbloombergsucks decision are listed at domainbattles.com.
The crappy tire decision links from this site:
The site also has a link to the decision for the current topic:
MichaelBloombergSucks.com complaint denied NAF decision
I weaned off of all commercial radio about two years ago and haven't missed it a bit. There was a cool "alternative" station that started in the area in the early 90's, that played a wide variety of music. One thing I remember is the number of female bands that got played, like Jewel, Alanis Morissette, the Murmurs, Joan Osborne, etc. Well, it inevitably was bought out by corporate radio, which got bought out by even bigger corporate radio, and suddenly around every 8 songs was a 3-year old Pearl Jam hit (I am not exaggerating). So much for "modern" rock!
I was never a big Pearl Jam fan anyway, but the fact that there was never a hope of hearing anything new and interesting made listening pointless. Thankfully, there's a college radio station here (where I realized alternative music wasn't dead, it just wasn't profitable enough for commercial radio), an independent nonprofit radio station, and NPR for my non-AOLTW news. But the internet has been a great place for discovering new music. Usually I just pick a genre for an internet radio station that posts their playlist. If I hear something I like, I'll do some research on it or listen to other songs by that band. If they have a CD out, chances are that there's a fan base with information on the web. Due to exploring, I have found some great music I never would have heard of otherwise, like Le Tigre, Marine Research, and the Softies. Also, I listen to the genre playlists on MP3.com. Some of it is pretty good, but more importantly I want to support people trying to work around the entrenched music industry.
Finding music you like does take work. Actually, that's been one argument of the music industry--that they do all the leg work for you. Unfortunately, profit is the bottom line, and insipid has a bigger market than cool.