If I'm not mistaken, every state in the union has laws banning some such desecration of the flag on the books. The SCOTUS decisions Texas v. Johnson and United States v. Eichman have made those laws unenforceable. So technically, its still illegal to burn the flag, but the law cannot be enforced. Of course, the GP's original assertion is still wrong.
I'm as socialist as they come, but you're still on my friends list. I like to hear an anarchocapitalist point of view so I can compare and contrast it to my own anarchosocialist views.
As far as your modding issues, people tend to mod down what they don't like. We try to catch it in metamod at least.
they both won and every drive sold now includes both technologies. [emphasis added]
When there were two competiting standards some equipment did not include both. I agree with the GP's advice of sitting back and waiting until a clear victor emerges. It it turns out to be a DVD+-R thing, I'll at least not have any equipment that only supports one standard.
I suppose the analog would be reading an audio file as a set of x86 instructions. I do have the feeling that your computer would crash upon "executing" such a file.
I beg to differ. I voted last Tuesday and helped elect two members of my school board (some of the first people I've ever helped elect in 3 years of voting). Being a college student, I'm quite far from being ultra-wealthy.
Your ballot choices means zilch -- everyone you vote into office just extends the future power of that office.
In many cases, yes. If that is the case, you should be running for office in order to reverse that trend. Once I graduate, I plan to run for office frequently. At the very least, if you vote for the candidate who will extend said power less than the other, you'd be doing yourself a favor.
In a true free market, every [d]ollar is vote, but being a billionaire isn't total control of the poor.
Actually, in those terms, they do. I can't find the reference, but if you take the net assets of the bottom 49% of America, you get $0.
Hording doesn't make wealth, hard work does.
You've never met someone with a trust fund. You've also never met anyone that worked in a factory for 40+ years of their life and still live paycheck to paycheck. I suggest you learn about compound interest.
The poor have more opportunities to become rich in a free market than in a regulated one.
Granted. Of course, the poor have more opportunities to become even poorer in a free market than in a regulated one. Many inner-city minorities are actually doing the logical thing by dropping out of school and selling drugs. Even if they do graduate, their diploma isn't worth shit. If they're lucky they might get a government grant to go to a community college and... well their jobs have been outsourced to India, so nothing doing there, etc. If you really sit down and think about it, these people are doing a cost-benefit analysis and figuring out that selling drugs is the best shot they have to getting out of the poverty trap.
I asked a poll worker how everything worked and he explained how it was all "triple redundant" and that "my vote would count this time". Other than that, I couldn't get much more out of him as he was busy. I'd like to know what role the paper copy plays in the official results. If the paper copies are only used in recounts, then all a crafty attacker would have to do is make sure he altered the votes enough that any recount would not need to be triggered.
Issues 2-5 went down hard when there were some polls that showed them ahead a few days before the election. I'm a bit suspicious when I hear issue 2 is going to pass 60/40 and it gets shut down 35/65 (or something similar).
It runs Linux so there are many programs that can extend its functionality, often to the point of that on a $500 router. I run the dd-wrt firmware, but there are many others available if you google.
The only thing they can reasonably be worried about is the hit that their servers will take... perhaps they need some time to ramp them up or something. Even then, they can post a torrent and all will be well.
It depends on what your aims are. If its political and/or ideological purity, then I would go with the "you assert your patents and you don't use the software" line. I personally don't think adding any such clauses in GPLv3 will do much to stop software patents since there is always the option of taking the last build of any software that was released under GPLv2 and forking it to stay under GPLv2.
Of course, you'll never win on those grounds since there is much case law dealing with the rights of corporations. I do agree with you, though. Corporations are not people, and therfore, are not entitled to any rights.
This type of fictious person along with limited liability of the shareholders makes for some fun scenarios:
1) I pay Steve to break in to your computer, plant a virus/trojan/rootkit which opens your computer up to other virus/trojans/etc. I'm a co-conspirator in this action and will probably get a similar amount of jail time.
2) I pay my corporation to break in to your computer, plant a virus... I'll never see legal proceedings because I'm not liable for what the corporation did.
Well Windows in the computer world does mean something, but it isn't (or shouldn't) be a trademark. I've used X-Windows. As far as "Win" being an abbreviation, does that mean if I name my program Koffe I should pay KDE?
I see your points, but I think trademarks in this manner doesn't really help anyone. The guy called his program Windows Defender because it "defends windows". So long as the guy isn't purporting to be affiliated with MS, I don't see the problem.
Its fast ( 1 sec load on my XP2400+) Its efficient (1.exe, no extra plugins, no installer) It displays PDF files... and doesn't screw around with anything else.
What P2P are people using for movies and TV shows?
BitTorrent, and to a lesser extent, Usenet.
Speaking to the speed of BitTorrent, I'd have to say it depends on the seeder/leecher ratio. If you're trying to download the newest episode of $SHOW as soon as it's posted, you'll be downloading slowly. When that ratio is better, a few hours later, you can usually get close to maxing out your connection.
Of course, Usenet will almost always max out your connection, but you'll pay a bit extra for unlimited access.
What sort of "legitimate application" needs to be hidden using a rootkit?
The kind distributed by a company who will sue Symantec into the ground for libel and defamation of character if Symantec goes on record as saying said company is distributing spyware, malware, rootkits, etc.
Stop voting in the booth, vote in the checkout aisle.
You know as well as I do that if you don't do the bidding of the right people, you won't find yourself with any "shelf space". Its white bread or wheat bread, anything else is illegal. Feel free to vote in the checkout aisle, just don't complain to anyone when your rye bread is nowhere to be found.
Well, it wouldn't really be for us. When people see that ATI's Linux drivers suck, while nVidia's Linux drivers are nearly as good as their Windows drivers, ATI is going to lose a sale. Why wouldn't ATI put out specs (or at least write a driver that isn't half-assed)? Better drivers for their hardware is a positive selling point.
The summary leaves out quite a bit of information:
First, this bill was brought up on the suspensions calendar, which is reserved for bills that are supposed to get about 2/3 of the vote. These bills are not amendable and are only debatable for less than 30 minutes. This bill will now go to the Rules Committee, which will consider amendments and longer debat
Second, the Democrats don't necessarily disagree with the legislation, but want to be sure, via amendments, that the Internet is not wholly exempt from all FEC campaign finance laws. The text of the bill is simply
Paragraph (22) of section 301 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 431(22)) is amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: `Such term shall not include communications over the Internet.'.
I'd want some amendments that make sure that any interests, be them liberal, conservative, etc., cannot give unlimited amounts of money, so long as done over the Internet. That could be reasonably interpreted from the law... so long as its over the Internet, its exempt. Now, some of you "money is speech" libertarians might like that, but I, for one, am not.
Mark Wallis says there is a bug in the WPA handshake. Its a priority for him, but he's been busy with his life recently. I'd really like him to iron out the bugs so I can use AES rather than TKIP, but I'll survive if he doesn't.
I've tried all the how-tos on his website as well as those on Fedoraforum.org. No beans, the card simply won't connect. It will work great with WEP or no encryption, but I'm a tinfoil-hatter, so that won't work for me;-)
Why should HW vendors write drivers when there's almost no pressure to do so?
Pardon me, but I didn't say vendors should write drivers. I said they should open up their hardware and give developers a chance to write drivers.
ATI still won't let developers see its hardware specs for many of its cards. The people working on GATOS have been begging for some information about their cards. Recently, ATI has been more open, but in the past they've been repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot by not writing Linux drivers for their own cards and keeping the specs closed so no one else could write them.
I agree. Its just that most people don't buy hardware based on how Linux/BSD will support it. Most people hear from their geek friends about some sort of Linux thingy and how great it is. They get a live-cd and try to do something mundane like print or listen to music and the damn thing doesn't work. If Linux/BSD wants more market share, more hardware needs to be supported out of the box. Now, that being said, I will fault chipset makers for not helping out the FOSS community by opening up their specs. They need to get their shit in gear as well.
For instance, I have a wireless card on my computer that is based on the Ralink 2500 chipset. I give thanks to Ralink for GPLing their drivers and to Mark Wallis for his work on those drivers, but the simple fact is the drivers still don't run WPA reliably. I'm certainly not going to use WEP. In all honesty, as soon as WPA is fully functional, I'll be leaving Windows for good.
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If I'm not mistaken, every state in the union has laws banning some such desecration of the flag on the books. The SCOTUS decisions Texas v. Johnson and United States v. Eichman have made those laws unenforceable. So technically, its still illegal to burn the flag, but the law cannot be enforced. Of course, the GP's original assertion is still wrong.
I'm as socialist as they come, but you're still on my friends list. I like to hear an anarchocapitalist point of view so I can compare and contrast it to my own anarchosocialist views.
As far as your modding issues, people tend to mod down what they don't like. We try to catch it in metamod at least.
they both won and every drive sold now includes both technologies. [emphasis added]
When there were two competiting standards some equipment did not include both. I agree with the GP's advice of sitting back and waiting until a clear victor emerges. It it turns out to be a DVD+-R thing, I'll at least not have any equipment that only supports one standard.
I suppose the analog would be reading an audio file as a set of x86 instructions. I do have the feeling that your computer would crash upon "executing" such a file.
yes, even music can be seen as software
It could be. You'd be wrong, but it could be.
The original post was aimed at inner-city minorities.
You were not in the inner-city.
You are, most likely, not a minority.
Keep your QED for when you actually prove something.
Minimum wage will guarantee poverty. Every. Single. Time.
Selling drugs usually gets you poverty.
There is a difference.
Today, no one but the ultra-wealthy have a vote.
... well their jobs have been outsourced to India, so nothing doing there, etc. If you really sit down and think about it, these people are doing a cost-benefit analysis and figuring out that selling drugs is the best shot they have to getting out of the poverty trap.
I beg to differ. I voted last Tuesday and helped elect two members of my school board (some of the first people I've ever helped elect in 3 years of voting). Being a college student, I'm quite far from being ultra-wealthy.
Your ballot choices means zilch -- everyone you vote into office just extends the future power of that office.
In many cases, yes. If that is the case, you should be running for office in order to reverse that trend. Once I graduate, I plan to run for office frequently. At the very least, if you vote for the candidate who will extend said power less than the other, you'd be doing yourself a favor.
In a true free market, every [d]ollar is vote, but being a billionaire isn't total control of the poor.
Actually, in those terms, they do. I can't find the reference, but if you take the net assets of the bottom 49% of America, you get $0.
Hording doesn't make wealth, hard work does.
You've never met someone with a trust fund. You've also never met anyone that worked in a factory for 40+ years of their life and still live paycheck to paycheck. I suggest you learn about compound interest.
The poor have more opportunities to become rich in a free market than in a regulated one.
Granted. Of course, the poor have more opportunities to become even poorer in a free market than in a regulated one. Many inner-city minorities are actually doing the logical thing by dropping out of school and selling drugs. Even if they do graduate, their diploma isn't worth shit. If they're lucky they might get a government grant to go to a community college and
I asked a poll worker how everything worked and he explained how it was all "triple redundant" and that "my vote would count this time". Other than that, I couldn't get much more out of him as he was busy. I'd like to know what role the paper copy plays in the official results. If the paper copies are only used in recounts, then all a crafty attacker would have to do is make sure he altered the votes enough that any recount would not need to be triggered.
Issues 2-5 went down hard when there were some polls that showed them ahead a few days before the election. I'm a bit suspicious when I hear issue 2 is going to pass 60/40 and it gets shut down 35/65 (or something similar).
It runs Linux so there are many programs that can extend its functionality, often to the point of that on a $500 router. I run the dd-wrt firmware, but there are many others available if you google.
The only thing they can reasonably be worried about is the hit that their servers will take ... perhaps they need some time to ramp them up or something. Even then, they can post a torrent and all will be well.
It depends on what your aims are. If its political and/or ideological purity, then I would go with the "you assert your patents and you don't use the software" line. I personally don't think adding any such clauses in GPLv3 will do much to stop software patents since there is always the option of taking the last build of any software that was released under GPLv2 and forking it to stay under GPLv2.
Of course, you'll never win on those grounds since there is much case law dealing with the rights of corporations. I do agree with you, though. Corporations are not people, and therfore, are not entitled to any rights.
...
This type of fictious person along with limited liability of the shareholders makes for some fun scenarios:
1) I pay Steve to break in to your computer, plant a virus/trojan/rootkit which opens your computer up to other virus/trojans/etc. I'm a co-conspirator in this action and will probably get a similar amount of jail time.
2) I pay my corporation to break in to your computer, plant a virus
I'll never see legal proceedings because I'm not liable for what the corporation did.
Well Windows in the computer world does mean something, but it isn't (or shouldn't) be a trademark. I've used X-Windows. As far as "Win" being an abbreviation, does that mean if I name my program Koffe I should pay KDE?
I see your points, but I think trademarks in this manner doesn't really help anyone. The guy called his program Windows Defender because it "defends windows". So long as the guy isn't purporting to be affiliated with MS, I don't see the problem.
Try Foxit PDF reader
.exe, no extra plugins, no installer) ... and doesn't screw around with anything else.
Its fast ( 1 sec load on my XP2400+)
Its efficient (1
It displays PDF files
What P2P are people using for movies and TV shows?
BitTorrent, and to a lesser extent, Usenet.
Speaking to the speed of BitTorrent, I'd have to say it depends on the seeder/leecher ratio. If you're trying to download the newest episode of $SHOW as soon as it's posted, you'll be downloading slowly. When that ratio is better, a few hours later, you can usually get close to maxing out your connection.
Of course, Usenet will almost always max out your connection, but you'll pay a bit extra for unlimited access.
What sort of "legitimate application" needs to be hidden using a rootkit?
The kind distributed by a company who will sue Symantec into the ground for libel and defamation of character if Symantec goes on record as saying said company is distributing spyware, malware, rootkits, etc.
Ladies and gentlemen, begin your merger rumours!
... but what will the call the new company?
Interesting
Tihoo! or Yahvo!?
Stop voting in the booth, vote in the checkout aisle.
You know as well as I do that if you don't do the bidding of the right people, you won't find yourself with any "shelf space". Its white bread or wheat bread, anything else is illegal. Feel free to vote in the checkout aisle, just don't complain to anyone when your rye bread is nowhere to be found.
I'd think about trying the BSDs if they had live-cd versions of recent releases.
OK... Why should ATI do anything for us?
Well, it wouldn't really be for us. When people see that ATI's Linux drivers suck, while nVidia's Linux drivers are nearly as good as their Windows drivers, ATI is going to lose a sale. Why wouldn't ATI put out specs (or at least write a driver that isn't half-assed)? Better drivers for their hardware is a positive selling point.
The summary leaves out quite a bit of information:
... so long as its over the Internet, its exempt. Now, some of you "money is speech" libertarians might like that, but I, for one, am not.
First, this bill was brought up on the suspensions calendar, which is reserved for bills that are supposed to get about 2/3 of the vote. These bills are not amendable and are only debatable for less than 30 minutes. This bill will now go to the Rules Committee, which will consider amendments and longer debat
Second, the Democrats don't necessarily disagree with the legislation, but want to be sure, via amendments, that the Internet is not wholly exempt from all FEC campaign finance laws. The text of the bill is simply
Paragraph (22) of section 301 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 431(22)) is amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: `Such term shall not include communications over the Internet.'.
I'd want some amendments that make sure that any interests, be them liberal, conservative, etc., cannot give unlimited amounts of money, so long as done over the Internet. That could be reasonably interpreted from the law
Mark Wallis says there is a bug in the WPA handshake. Its a priority for him, but he's been busy with his life recently. I'd really like him to iron out the bugs so I can use AES rather than TKIP, but I'll survive if he doesn't.
;-)
I've tried all the how-tos on his website as well as those on Fedoraforum.org. No beans, the card simply won't connect. It will work great with WEP or no encryption, but I'm a tinfoil-hatter, so that won't work for me
Why should HW vendors write drivers when there's almost no pressure to do so?
Pardon me, but I didn't say vendors should write drivers. I said they should open up their hardware and give developers a chance to write drivers.
ATI still won't let developers see its hardware specs for many of its cards. The people working on GATOS have been begging for some information about their cards. Recently, ATI has been more open, but in the past they've been repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot by not writing Linux drivers for their own cards and keeping the specs closed so no one else could write them.
I agree. Its just that most people don't buy hardware based on how Linux/BSD will support it. Most people hear from their geek friends about some sort of Linux thingy and how great it is. They get a live-cd and try to do something mundane like print or listen to music and the damn thing doesn't work. If Linux/BSD wants more market share, more hardware needs to be supported out of the box. Now, that being said, I will fault chipset makers for not helping out the FOSS community by opening up their specs. They need to get their shit in gear as well.
For instance, I have a wireless card on my computer that is based on the Ralink 2500 chipset. I give thanks to Ralink for GPLing their drivers and to Mark Wallis for his work on those drivers, but the simple fact is the drivers still don't run WPA reliably. I'm certainly not going to use WEP. In all honesty, as soon as WPA is fully functional, I'll be leaving Windows for good.