Here is the non-infringing ad they did subsequently.
The text says : Gaul ladies and gentlemen, you're upset to have the dumbest right in the world ? We too !!! Demonstrate it by joining the RPR (name of the party at the time)
There are a few links, one of them being an interview with Uderzo, the comic author, but I can find neither the original ad nor any link in english.
In 1998, French right-wingers did an ad campaign in which they claimed to be the dumbest right in the world. The funny part is that the ad was illustrated with an image from French comic book serie Astérix, without the authorization of the author. The author complained about the copyright infringement (especially as the authors always refused to associate their characters with politics), and the ad was quickly removed.
How much points does that score in the competition ?
Pity there's not a similar lightweight native Firefox derivative for Windows. But... Firefox is already a lightweight derivative... of Mozilla Suite (SeaMonkey)... Or so I've heard... four (five?) years ago...:P
Surely decades of floppy-carried virii should have convinced them of what a frigging stupid idea that is? <sarcasm>Yes, that's why autorun is deactivated by default for floppy drives.</sarcasm>
You might be right, but I would say "it depends". No system is crashproof if you have root access You can write to/dev/kmem to crash a Linux system...
The GP is light on details but you can interpret it as "They found a flaw working as an unprivileged user, and wrote a program exploiting that flaw, crashing the system" or "They wrote a program requiring root acces that would purposefully trash the system".
With the 2nd interpretation, Ballmer didn't prove anything else that "don't run your system as root/admin".
People are clueless and it's Windows that's lying, not the disk manufacturer. Many FLOSS applications either use KB, or mention KiB (like Nautilus, cfdisk... I will need to check about Konqueror...).
Chipsets use power of two physically. So using *iB allow for round numbers. But hard drives, optical drives,... are neutral. Hey, there's 2352 bytes in an audio cd and you can put 2336 bytes of data in a CD sector (Mode 2). So using standards is just good behaviour.
<rant>Now, US still use feets and stones, so why should one be surprised about people asking for fucked up units ?</rant>
<Cthon98> hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars <Cthon98> ********* see! <AzureDiamond> hunter2 <AzureDiamond> doesnt look like stars to me <Cthon98> <AzureDiamond> ******* <Cthon98> thats what I see <AzureDiamond> oh, really? <Cthon98> Absolutely <AzureDiamond> you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2 <AzureDiamond> haha, does that look funny to you? <Cthon98> lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as ******* <AzureDiamond> thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that <Cthon98> yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as ******* <AzureDiamond> awesome! <AzureDiamond> wait, how do you know my pw? <Cthon98> er, I just copy pasted YOUR ******'s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 cause its your pw <AzureDiamond> oh, ok.
Is it just me, or does anyone else also see that Microsoft started to go downhill faster and market even more shitty products than normal just after Gates handed the keys to Ballmer. It works the other way : Why do you think Gates did hand the keys to Ballmer in the first place ?:P
The second relates to the collection or possession of information useful in the preparation of an act of terrorism. Also every student in chemistry, materials science... can be charged. Hey, they are dangerous people, they know stuff...
if it's got WGA like Windows Vista? Then no thanks.
That's the only reason we're staying away from Vista, And I guess it was the same reason to keep w2k and stay away from xp ? Why are you using xp then ? If this is your only reason, you better switch right now, as applications will soon require this sp anyway, or require vista.
Many points you make are done automatically on a default FreeBSD install :
Suspicious network activities (bad logins, reverse DNS issues...) are printed on the console and e-mailed to you each day.
Every root logins also printed on the console.
System modifications (user accounts, system files permissions, disk usage, start scripts modifications) are alse mailed to you (some maybe only once a week)
I only check regularly the console, and once a month or so I check the e-mails. (It's my home server BTW, don't need much maintenance).
Worse is that some (probably lots of) people have been brainwashed to "buy" that.
While trying to correct someone that an illegal copy is not theft, I found someone last week that really thinks that videotaping a broadcast show is stealing.
Note that this is not even an illegal copy (at least here in France).
And by a quick logic spin, they assumed that if I don't support that an illegal copy is stealing, it is that I support doing illegal copies...
I also found one trying to argue by citing me an ad of the French equivalent of RIAA...
Wii continue to outsell its pricier and technologically superior competitors Well, obviously Mike Snider / Brent Jones have an axe to grind against the Wii.
But can you really say that the Wii is technologically inferior ? The clockspeed isn't the only parameter to measure technology... One can argue that the Wii is technologically superior because of its controller novel design. Hey, it allows you to make killing motions, while you can't with the other consoles pityful controllers !
I was just commenting on the "no, it's not a difference in lightning", and the fact than some say or imply than an illusion illustrate a perception flaw .
It *is* a difference in *perceived* lightning, and it works the way it should work, that is, color constancy is not a flaw. In other words, it is a lightning illusion, so I thought the "no, it's not" wasn't accurate.
Actually both comments are correct, but with a different point of view.
One meant (I think), if the image is a photo of two real spheres lit with coloured lights, the squares are not actually the same color (in a white light), and the pixel value is irrelevant(that was the blue car in the night bit).
The other said, the pixel value is the same and you don't perceive it as such, so you have been cheated.
You're making an interesting point. I don't think the effect is caused by lateral inhibition *only*. As another poster said, it's basically white balance.
Now an interesting question would be : has lateral inhibition a role in white balancing ?
Lateral inhibition is at a low level in perception, but overall lightning, and 3D construction are at higher levels.
What I meant is not that an abusive clause nullify the whole license, but that the clause is removed so that the behaviour *for that specific clause* is becoming that of the normal copyright law.
Lightning change through the day, so the actual color of reflecting objects also is changing. But the object didn't physically change and your brain "corrects" color, that is abstracts them (you wouldn't say your blue car to be blue the day and dark gray the night, it's simply blue).
In the illusion at hand, left sphere is interpreted as being lit by a red light, while the red sphere is interpreted as being lit by a blue light.
Of course, "Ceci ne sont pas des sphères", only pixels, so the comparison on interpreted colors fails. But given two real spheres, lit one by a red light and one by a blue light, and reflecting like in the picture, the colors would be different with these two spheres lit by a same white light.
In some countries you can't. In France you don't have the right to release to "public domain". That's why there's the WTFPL. Incidentally, written by a French.
That's stupid but you can't decide that your work is public domain, That's not stupid, that's logical (ok, sometime something that is logical may seem stupid). Public domain is not a license, but means an expiration of copyright so you don't need a license anymore. Also publishing with no license means default copyright protection, which means no copy allowed at all. That's also the way GPL works : If you disagree with its terms, or that some clause of the license is ruled abusive, default copyright protection applies, which means no distribution (by anyone other that the author(s) ).
A dozen system files have been updated as part of this undocumented stealth update... and yet not a single antivirus software reported this. Why? 1) Most antivirus software can only detect known viruses. They do not detect viral activity, only a numeric signature. Won't detect stealth updates, if that update doesn't match a signature.
2) For the few behavioral antivirus software, my guess is that they're monitoring activity under some user accounts, and that they're not able to monitor activity of the "System" accounts and other special accounts.
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Here is the non-infringing ad they did subsequently.
The text says : Gaul ladies and gentlemen, you're upset to have the dumbest right in the world ? We too !!! Demonstrate it by joining the RPR (name of the party at the time)
There are a few links, one of them being an interview with Uderzo, the comic author, but I can find neither the original ad nor any link in english.
In 1998, French right-wingers did an ad campaign in which they claimed to be the dumbest right in the world.
The funny part is that the ad was illustrated with an image from French comic book serie Astérix, without the authorization of the author.
The author complained about the copyright infringement (especially as the authors always refused to associate their characters with politics), and the ad was quickly removed.
How much points does that score in the competition ?
If we were to exclude the fools, at the end of the day, one would end up all alone, like a fool!
S'il fallait excepter les imbéciles, à la fin du compte, on se retrouverait tout seul, comme un imbécile !
-- Raymond Devos
You might be right, but I would say "it depends". /dev/kmem to crash a Linux system...
No system is crashproof if you have root access
You can write to
The GP is light on details but you can interpret it as "They found a flaw working as an unprivileged user, and wrote a program exploiting that flaw, crashing the system" or "They wrote a program requiring root acces that would purposefully trash the system".
With the 2nd interpretation, Ballmer didn't prove anything else that "don't run your system as root/admin".
Exactly. I already posted on that.
... are neutral. Hey, there's 2352 bytes in an audio cd and you can put 2336 bytes of data in a CD sector (Mode 2). So using standards is just good behaviour.
People are clueless and it's Windows that's lying, not the disk manufacturer. Many FLOSS applications either use KB, or mention KiB (like Nautilus, cfdisk... I will need to check about Konqueror...).
Chipsets use power of two physically. So using *iB allow for round numbers. But hard drives, optical drives,
<rant>Now, US still use feets and stones, so why should one be surprised about people asking for fucked up units ?</rant>
Are these new "features" that need the source to be closed RIAA or NSA oriented ?
You're talking about indirect damages right ? That's actually the damages done by MPAA/RIAA lawyers ? :P
:)
So the analogy would be that flash memory chips are radiating copyright infringement lawsuits ?
Actually, Aussies just discovered ADSL networking, now 200x as fast as their current POTS network :)
;)
I kid, please don't bite
IRC did that years ago...
<Cthon98> hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars
<Cthon98> ********* see!
<AzureDiamond> hunter2
<AzureDiamond> doesnt look like stars to me
<Cthon98> <AzureDiamond> *******
<Cthon98> thats what I see
<AzureDiamond> oh, really?
<Cthon98> Absolutely
<AzureDiamond> you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2
<AzureDiamond> haha, does that look funny to you?
<Cthon98> lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as *******
<AzureDiamond> thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that
<Cthon98> yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as *******
<AzureDiamond> awesome!
<AzureDiamond> wait, how do you know my pw?
<Cthon98> er, I just copy pasted YOUR ******'s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 cause its your pw
<AzureDiamond> oh, ok.
Source : http://bash.org/?244321
Would you want me to help you writing your resignation letter ?
That's the only reason we're staying away from Vista, And I guess it was the same reason to keep w2k and stay away from xp ? Why are you using xp then ?
If this is your only reason, you better switch right now, as applications will soon require this sp anyway, or require vista.
Many points you make are done automatically on a default FreeBSD install :
Suspicious network activities (bad logins, reverse DNS issues...) are printed on the console and e-mailed to you each day.
Every root logins also printed on the console.
System modifications (user accounts, system files permissions, disk usage, start scripts modifications) are alse mailed to you (some maybe only once a week)
I only check regularly the console, and once a month or so I check the e-mails. (It's my home server BTW, don't need much maintenance).
Worse is that some (probably lots of) people have been brainwashed to "buy" that.
While trying to correct someone that an illegal copy is not theft, I found someone last week that really thinks that videotaping a broadcast show is stealing.
Note that this is not even an illegal copy (at least here in France).
And by a quick logic spin, they assumed that if I don't support that an illegal copy is stealing, it is that I support doing illegal copies...
I also found one trying to argue by citing me an ad of the French equivalent of RIAA...
And these are supposedly educated people...
But can you really say that the Wii is technologically inferior ? The clockspeed isn't the only parameter to measure technology... One can argue that the Wii is technologically superior because of its controller novel design. Hey, it allows you to make killing motions, while you can't with the other consoles pityful controllers !
Well, I took 5 minutes to reproduce the illusion in Gimp, and it definately works : here
Needn't to do it after all, it's also right here in the Wikipedia.
I agree it *is* an illusion.
I was just commenting on the "no, it's not a difference in lightning", and the fact than some say or imply than an illusion illustrate a perception flaw .
It *is* a difference in *perceived* lightning, and it works the way it should work, that is, color constancy is not a flaw. In other words, it is a lightning illusion, so I thought the "no, it's not" wasn't accurate.
Actually both comments are correct, but with a different point of view.
One meant (I think), if the image is a photo of two real spheres lit with coloured lights, the squares are not actually the same color (in a white light), and the pixel value is irrelevant(that was the blue car in the night bit).
The other said, the pixel value is the same and you don't perceive it as such, so you have been cheated.
You're making an interesting point. I don't think the effect is caused by lateral inhibition *only*.
As another poster said, it's basically white balance.
Now an interesting question would be : has lateral inhibition a role in white balancing ?
Lateral inhibition is at a low level in perception, but overall lightning, and 3D construction are at higher levels.
I will point to some other illusions :
White's illusion
Searching for illusions, I found the illusion at hand is due to color constancy
BTW, welcome as a Slashdot registered user !
Agreeed.
;)
What I meant is not that an abusive clause nullify the whole license, but that the clause is removed so that the behaviour *for that specific clause* is becoming that of the normal copyright law.
Now, I understand this doesn't make much sense
I think that's not what the parent meant.
Lightning change through the day, so the actual color of reflecting objects also is changing. But the object didn't physically change and your brain "corrects" color, that is abstracts them (you wouldn't say your blue car to be blue the day and dark gray the night, it's simply blue).
In the illusion at hand, left sphere is interpreted as being lit by a red light, while the red sphere is interpreted as being lit by a blue light.
Of course, "Ceci ne sont pas des sphères", only pixels, so the comparison on interpreted colors fails.
But given two real spheres, lit one by a red light and one by a blue light, and reflecting like in the picture, the colors would be different with these two spheres lit by a same white light.
Also publishing with no license means default copyright protection, which means no copy allowed at all. That's also the way GPL works : If you disagree with its terms, or that some clause of the license is ruled abusive, default copyright protection applies, which means no distribution (by anyone other that the author(s) ).
2) For the few behavioral antivirus software, my guess is that they're monitoring activity under some user accounts, and that they're not able to monitor activity of the "System" accounts and other special accounts.