Cellular phone jammers are illegal in the USA... is anyone else up for joining me on a bill that allows (If not mandates.) jamming devices to be installed in every theatre in the country?
Under "lemon laws," free software authors most likely will not face any liability, mostly because the software is FREE. Lemon laws exist to protect paying consumers from being sold something under the pretense of it being a quality product, and ending up with a piece of junk. If someone gets a product for free, however, the consumer cannot go after the provider, because the consumer got it for free anyway.
The same sort of thing would likely be written into software lemon laws. It would have to be, to protect students from software they produce and release for free as part of a programmer's educational process. Volunteers who code for charities and non-profits are in the same boat. Coders giving away their code to people who know that they aren't getting a commercial product don't have much to worry about.
1- Do true UNIX desktop machines count as PCs? Is a Sun Blade 100 (Sun's $1000 desktop) a PC under these rules? Since this licensing is obviously targeted to XP Professional, what about serious UNIX workstations? Is an X86 OEM or UNIX workstation with two or four CPUs and 2 gigs of RAM even really a PC?
2- For a large high school, the savings offered by Red Hat with StarOffice could probably pay the salary of a decent Linux admin to manage the computer labs and train the teaching staff, if not teach full time. I think we can expect to see this really take off once teaching/school administration journals are full of articles about the savings offered by running Open/Free/Cheap Software.
3- Has anyone else noticed that Apple and Red Hat are both trying to push into schools with open source operating systems running a ton of well supported GNU software? If Red Hat and Apple work together to make it easier to kids to learn both systems and the associated tools, Microsoft will have some serious trouble from the Open Source world in education.
Hopefully this will get enough press that we will all know just when Rep. Boucher will be moving against the DMCA, so that the rest of the Senate hears the voice of support for Rep. Boucher at once. All the webmasters in the techie world should remember to keep an eye one this one and post regular updates, our best hope here is to stay united.
All I have to say is "pork project." I only wish I had the free time to find out what company put them up to this so I could put the CEOs email on Slashdot.
What does the constitution have to do with it? The constitution is a framework to build on. It set up a republic, which has become a representative democracy as the people (Excluding residents of our nation's wretched capital.) were given the right to vote for their representatives over time.
In practice, America IS a representative democracy. Simply because the founding fathers never intended for such to happen does not change the way our nation actually operates.
Yes we do. The United States is a representative democracy. Unfortunately most Americans are too lazy to keep an eye on their representatives, and allow our leaders to do really stupid, unamerican things, all the while assuming that our three tiered system of checks and balances would allow the courts the smack the law back into line; never realizing that high-level judges are appointed by politicians, who now appoint corrupt and/or incompetent (A certain judge Limbaugh comes to mind.) judges to guarantee that politics overrides justice.
"No, but the government does pay for police, surveillance, etc. to watch for people stealing your car from you."
It certainly does. But those police do not (Usually and legally.) get to pre-emptively monitor me in my home or workplace. CBDTPA is pre-emptive and nondiscriminate, allowing the government to restrict my freedoms and monitor me without probable cause and/or reasonable suspicion.
"No you can't/search me/without probable cause/and the proper ammunition/they call reasonable suspicion" - Wyclef Jean.
"Unfortunately the only postings/articles I have seen which offer a resolution to online piracy have been limited to ways in which the entertainment industry needs to change its business model."
Change happens. The entertainment industry has to change to keep up with the rest of the world. What congress needs to understand is that the government does not exist to to protect business models from potential threats. It is one thing for the government to punsh those who redistribute someone else's intellectual property without permission, it is another thing entirely for the government to tie the hands of the people, restricting legitimate use of computers, in an attempt to preempt theft.
Does the government put antitheft systems into our cars to prevent people from from stealing them? No. Should the government put antitheft systems into digital devices to protect music? No.
Change happens. Old industries die, new ones are born. That is the nature of reality. The entertainment industry MUST change, and a democratic government has no choice but to sit back and watch.
Good god... someone start a clock that runs until lawsuits force google to shut this down and the feds arrest everyone who posts a mirror. Save this one to a text file!
During the release of the Playstation 2, Sony badass Ken Kutaragi announced that the Playstation 3 would be released in 2005. If you want to get the details, check out these google results.
Depends on who you listen too. Many of the x-tians believe in some sort of divine master plan that guides everything along, which would pretty much hang the responsibility on dad...
I think you are missing my point. For people who already know about that stuff, the command line is great, and cygwin is a wonderful option. But when it comes to converting people over to Open Source, trying to hook people on *NIX command line utilities really isn't too likely to get you anywhere.
Along with all the talk of mirrors, performace, bugs, etc., we all need to make sure and thank the following people:
- StarDivision, for creating StarOffice in the first place. - Sun Microsystems, for buying StarDivision and opening the StarOffice source code. - Everyone who worked on the development of OpenOffice, coders, testers, web admins, and so on. - All the government, business, and educational facilities out there who continue to mirror the files for us all to download!
These people have done a great job providing the open source community with one of the best apps out there. No matter how much we bitch, moan, and flame, remember that we only care because we love what you do so damned much!
" Sixty percent of those surveyed believe in ESP, psychic power, and alien abduction."
If that scares you, wait until you realize that an equal number of Americans believe that an invisible man who lives in the sky sent watches over every one of us, all the time, and will torture us for all eternity if we refuse to believe that he sent his son to earth, had the guy killed, and then brought him back from the dead!
Most people are idiots, especially when it comes to science or the supernatural, especially if rationalizing a difference between the two is involved. It doesn't help any that the work of theoretical scientists sometimes gets treated and taught as fact with no proof, and is then later discredited in the press. A good example is black holes, which have long been treated as fact with no real proof, and just recently the news was full of stories stating that black holes might/do not exist. This only confuses the public, most of whom have almost no chance of ever (Conciousley.) interacting with a black hole, and makes it hard for people to know who to trust when science is concerned.
Actually, I recently needed last-minute tickets to San Diego (And back.) and SW was my only option. Each departure and arrival was on time, the planes were some of the cleanest (Albeit not the newest.) I have ever been on, and the staff provided the best service I have ever had on an airline.
Of course, lunch was quite literally peanuts, but we brought sandwiches, so who cares?
Running the Cygwin XFree is a bit much for trying to convert Microsoft zealots to open source. They need something easier and simpler, like VNC with a VNC server on the other end (This is why Exceed sells so well: point-and-click.).
Anyone who needs those utilities already knows how to get them.People who use Windows or MacOS over Linux do it because the GUI handles all the details for them, not because they want to manage it all from the command line.
"Piracy is not a private offense, it hurts everyone by diminishing the incentive to invest in the creation of music."
And the MPAA's abusive contracts, anticompetitive activities (Such as lobbying to limit media to approved formats only.) and attempts to drive music sales with music videos and standard, radio friendly songs doesn't? If "diminishing the incentive to invest in the creation of music." is a crime, than Hillary Rosen and her industry cohorts should all be in jail for life.
Slashdot Mirror
Atari still lives!
Oh how I miss those arcades.
Now bring back pinball!
Napster spent millions
Only the lawyers got rich.
H. Rosen smiles.
Agreed!
Cellular phone jammers are illegal in the USA... is anyone else up for joining me on a bill that allows (If not mandates.) jamming devices to be installed in every theatre in the country?
Apple goes server
BSD - oh so secure!
Bill Gates runs in fear.
Apple's small server
just 1U so powerful
I think I have wood
Under "lemon laws," free software authors most likely will not face any liability, mostly because the software is FREE. Lemon laws exist to protect paying consumers from being sold something under the pretense of it being a quality product, and ending up with a piece of junk. If someone gets a product for free, however, the consumer cannot go after the provider, because the consumer got it for free anyway.
The same sort of thing would likely be written into software lemon laws. It would have to be, to protect students from software they produce and release for free as part of a programmer's educational process. Volunteers who code for charities and non-profits are in the same boat. Coders giving away their code to people who know that they aren't getting a commercial product don't have much to worry about.
1- Do true UNIX desktop machines count as PCs? Is a Sun Blade 100 (Sun's $1000 desktop) a PC under these rules? Since this licensing is obviously targeted to XP Professional, what about serious UNIX workstations? Is an X86 OEM or UNIX workstation with two or four CPUs and 2 gigs of RAM even really a PC?
2- For a large high school, the savings offered by Red Hat with StarOffice could probably pay the salary of a decent Linux admin to manage the computer labs and train the teaching staff, if not teach full time. I think we can expect to see this really take off once teaching/school administration journals are full of articles about the savings offered by running Open/Free/Cheap Software.
3- Has anyone else noticed that Apple and Red Hat are both trying to push into schools with open source operating systems running a ton of well supported GNU software? If Red Hat and Apple work together to make it easier to kids to learn both systems and the associated tools, Microsoft will have some serious trouble from the Open Source world in education.
Can I teach it to poop on Ozzy Osbourne's carpet?
Hopefully this will get enough press that we will all know just when Rep. Boucher will be moving against the DMCA, so that the rest of the Senate hears the voice of support for Rep. Boucher at once. All the webmasters in the techie world should remember to keep an eye one this one and post regular updates, our best hope here is to stay united.
All I have to say is "pork project." I only wish I had the free time to find out what company put them up to this so I could put the CEOs email on Slashdot.
What does the constitution have to do with it? The constitution is a framework to build on. It set up a republic, which has become a representative democracy as the people (Excluding residents of our nation's wretched capital.) were given the right to vote for their representatives over time.
In practice, America IS a representative democracy. Simply because the founding fathers never intended for such to happen does not change the way our nation actually operates.
"...we don't have a democratic government..."
Yes we do. The United States is a representative democracy. Unfortunately most Americans are too lazy to keep an eye on their representatives, and allow our leaders to do really stupid, unamerican things, all the while assuming that our three tiered system of checks and balances would allow the courts the smack the law back into line; never realizing that high-level judges are appointed by politicians, who now appoint corrupt and/or incompetent (A certain judge Limbaugh comes to mind.) judges to guarantee that politics overrides justice.
"No, but the government does pay for police, surveillance, etc. to watch for people stealing your car from you."
It certainly does. But those police do not (Usually and legally.) get to pre-emptively monitor me in my home or workplace. CBDTPA is pre-emptive and nondiscriminate, allowing the government to restrict my freedoms and monitor me without probable cause and/or reasonable suspicion.
"No you can't/search me/without probable cause/and the proper ammunition/they call reasonable suspicion" - Wyclef Jean.
"Unfortunately the only postings/articles I have seen which offer a resolution to online piracy have been limited to ways in which the entertainment industry needs to change its business model."
Change happens. The entertainment industry has to change to keep up with the rest of the world. What congress needs to understand is that the government does not exist to to protect business models from potential threats. It is one thing for the government to punsh those who redistribute someone else's intellectual property without permission, it is another thing entirely for the government to tie the hands of the people, restricting legitimate use of computers, in an attempt to preempt theft.
Does the government put antitheft systems into our cars to prevent people from from stealing them? No. Should the government put antitheft systems into digital devices to protect music? No.
Change happens. Old industries die, new ones are born. That is the nature of reality. The entertainment industry MUST change, and a democratic government has no choice but to sit back and watch.
Good god... someone start a clock that runs until lawsuits force google to shut this down and the feds arrest everyone who posts a mirror. Save this one to a text file!
During the release of the Playstation 2, Sony badass Ken Kutaragi announced that the Playstation 3 would be released in 2005. If you want to get the details, check out these google results.
Depends on who you listen too. Many of the x-tians believe in some sort of divine master plan that guides everything along, which would pretty much hang the responsibility on dad...
I think you are missing my point. For people who already know about that stuff, the command line is great, and cygwin is a wonderful option. But when it comes to converting people over to Open Source, trying to hook people on *NIX command line utilities really isn't too likely to get you anywhere.
Along with all the talk of mirrors, performace, bugs, etc., we all need to make sure and thank the following people:
- StarDivision, for creating StarOffice in the first place.
- Sun Microsystems, for buying StarDivision and opening the StarOffice source code.
- Everyone who worked on the development of OpenOffice, coders, testers, web admins, and so on.
- All the government, business, and educational facilities out there who continue to mirror the files for us all to download!
These people have done a great job providing the open source community with one of the best apps out there. No matter how much we bitch, moan, and flame, remember that we only care because we love what you do so damned much!
" Sixty percent of those surveyed believe in ESP, psychic power, and alien abduction."
If that scares you, wait until you realize that an equal number of Americans believe that an invisible man who lives in the sky sent watches over every one of us, all the time, and will torture us for all eternity if we refuse to believe that he sent his son to earth, had the guy killed, and then brought him back from the dead!
Most people are idiots, especially when it comes to science or the supernatural, especially if rationalizing a difference between the two is involved. It doesn't help any that the work of theoretical scientists sometimes gets treated and taught as fact with no proof, and is then later discredited in the press. A good example is black holes, which have long been treated as fact with no real proof, and just recently the news was full of stories stating that black holes might/do not exist. This only confuses the public, most of whom have almost no chance of ever (Conciousley.) interacting with a black hole, and makes it hard for people to know who to trust when science is concerned.
Actually, I recently needed last-minute tickets to San Diego (And back.) and SW was my only option. Each departure and arrival was on time, the planes were some of the cleanest (Albeit not the newest.) I have ever been on, and the staff provided the best service I have ever had on an airline.
Of course, lunch was quite literally peanuts, but we brought sandwiches, so who cares?
Running the Cygwin XFree is a bit much for trying to convert Microsoft zealots to open source. They need something easier and simpler, like VNC with a VNC server on the other end (This is why Exceed sells so well: point-and-click.).
Anyone who needs those utilities already knows how to get them.People who use Windows or MacOS over Linux do it because the GUI handles all the details for them, not because they want to manage it all from the command line.
"...a claim that marks him for a corporate whore, but it seems that there are some things even whores won't do."
Nice way to earn allies, asshole.
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
"Piracy is not a private offense, it hurts everyone by diminishing the incentive to invest in the creation of music."
And the MPAA's abusive contracts, anticompetitive activities (Such as lobbying to limit media to approved formats only.) and attempts to drive music sales with music videos and standard, radio friendly songs doesn't? If "diminishing the incentive to invest in the creation of music." is a crime, than Hillary Rosen and her industry cohorts should all be in jail for life.