There are countries where they might assume you're rude and uncultured if you're an American, and that's one thing. But there are also countries where they'll kill you if you're an American, and that's quite another.
Either way, it's nobody's business but mine where my citizenship is held, unless they work at customs or have some other legitimate reason for knowing and I consent to their knowing.
Not exactly. His conviction was overturned on what you could call a technicality. Nonetheless, he is not a convicted felon, although by rights he should be.
Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. The sooner people accept this, and build business models that take this into account, the sooner people will start making money again.
- Bruce Schneier
Why do geeks simply never say "It's a way to work together with your friends over the Web!" Why do we have to use nonsense words like "dashboard" and "collaboration" when there are perfectly lovely plain English substitutes?
For the same reason that it's called Greenland instead of Endless Acres Of Uncomfortable And Frozen Tundra. For the same reason they're called sweetbreads instead of cow kidneys.
She wasn't required to take the case in the first place. Lawyers aren't slaves who wait in some dungeon until someone from above selects them and forces them to work in a courtroom. She chose to take the case.
That wouldn't be a bad idea from Apple's point of view, but they would almost surely have to change their name in order to do that. The last time they got sued by Apple the record company for trademark violation, which happened about every other year for a while, the ruling was that there was a sufficient lack of ambiguity between Apple the computer company and Apple the record company as long as Apple the computer company doesn't try to sell music. I've been waiting for the other shoe to drop ever since Apple the computer company opened up the iTunes music store.
Personally, I think they should just save themselves a huge headache and change the name of the company to Macintosh once and for all and be done with it. Most people call the computers "Macs" anyway.
I also happen to think think that it could work out famously for me personally if Apple the computer company did this, since I happen to be one of those small artists (which is really just a nice way to say unpopular artists) who is signed to a small label and who also occasionally recieves a check directly from Apple the computer company for songs sold on our page of the iTunes music store.
Linux is hardly beyond your capabilities, but as with any new skill, there will be a learning curve. Learn about Linux on some computers that don't matter before you try and deploy it in a business environment.
You have lots of different distros from which to choose, although you'll probably want to go one of two different routes. If you want to dive in head first, then use Slackware, which will have the steepest learning curve. If you want to be eased in the friendly way, then try Ubuntu. I'm sure you're getting all kinds of advice about which distro to pick for your first install because everybody has their own opinion on which one is best, so maybe you should just read about all the major ones yourself and then pick one on your own. However, speaking as someone who has tried a whole lot of them, I think that Slackware is a great way to go if you want to learn by making mistakes, and Ubuntu is the way to go if you want to learn the easy way.
Anyway, I'd get a couple old desktops, set them up in your home, one as a server, and one as a desktop machine, and just try to do stuff with them until you get good at it.
If you want a book suggestion, I think that "How Linux Works" from No Starch Press is a great introduction to Linux.
Civil Disobedience? Consider these two tenets of Ghandi's civil disobedience and think about if you plan on adhering to them.
"When any person in authority seeks to arrest a civil resister, he will voluntarily submit to the arrest, and he will not resist the attachment or removal of his own property, if any, when it is sought to be confiscated by authorities."
"A civil resister will never insult his opponent, and therefore also not take part in many of the newly coined cries which are contrary to the spirit of ahimsa."
I don't know anything about you, but this doesn't sound like what most copyright violators and DRM violators do.
It was well organized, common practice in the civil rights movement in the U.S. Dewing the 60s for the civilly disobedient to notify the police ahead of time that they would be breaking the law, where they would be breaking the law, how, and when. Are you doing that?
Civil disobedience is performed in tandem with many organized events and tactics in order to achieve a specific well defined goal, usually changing a law, or changing the enforcement of a law. It's not something that one person can do alone. It's a large team effort.
Social movements take time, effort, and organization to succeed. Most usually fail. I think it's silly to imply that you're on par with two of the few that didn't, Ghandi's revolution, and the U.S. civil rights movement, when you're clearly not. You're not practicing civil disobedience. You're just breaking the law. Anybody hooligan can do that, and no real social change will ever come of it.
You could always just get up from your computer desk and walk to the library. I hear they have old issues of newspapers there, and they don't charge a thing for you to read them.
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There are countries where they might assume you're rude and uncultured if you're an American, and that's one thing. But there are also countries where they'll kill you if you're an American, and that's quite another.
Either way, it's nobody's business but mine where my citizenship is held, unless they work at customs or have some other legitimate reason for knowing and I consent to their knowing.
So, your Windows machines get malware on them occasionally and they're not even connected to the Internet.
How does that happen?
Not exactly. His conviction was overturned on what you could call a technicality. Nonetheless, he is not a convicted felon, although by rights he should be.
Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. The sooner people accept this, and build business models that take this into account, the sooner people will start making money again. - Bruce Schneier
Why do geeks simply never say "It's a way to work together with your friends over the Web!" Why do we have to use nonsense words like "dashboard" and "collaboration" when there are perfectly lovely plain English substitutes?
For the same reason that it's called Greenland instead of Endless Acres Of Uncomfortable And Frozen Tundra. For the same reason they're called sweetbreads instead of cow kidneys.
She wasn't required to take the case in the first place. Lawyers aren't slaves who wait in some dungeon until someone from above selects them and forces them to work in a courtroom. She chose to take the case.
openbsd.org runs on Solaris and it hasn't hurt their image.
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#wwwsolaris
That wouldn't be a bad idea from Apple's point of view, but they would almost surely have to change their name in order to do that. The last time they got sued by Apple the record company for trademark violation, which happened about every other year for a while, the ruling was that there was a sufficient lack of ambiguity between Apple the computer company and Apple the record company as long as Apple the computer company doesn't try to sell music. I've been waiting for the other shoe to drop ever since Apple the computer company opened up the iTunes music store.
Personally, I think they should just save themselves a huge headache and change the name of the company to Macintosh once and for all and be done with it. Most people call the computers "Macs" anyway.
I also happen to think think that it could work out famously for me personally if Apple the computer company did this, since I happen to be one of those small artists (which is really just a nice way to say unpopular artists) who is signed to a small label and who also occasionally recieves a check directly from Apple the computer company for songs sold on our page of the iTunes music store.
Oh my god, we have portable teleporters now? Yipee!
Linux is hardly beyond your capabilities, but as with any new skill, there will be a learning curve. Learn about Linux on some computers that don't matter before you try and deploy it in a business environment.
You have lots of different distros from which to choose, although you'll probably want to go one of two different routes. If you want to dive in head first, then use Slackware, which will have the steepest learning curve. If you want to be eased in the friendly way, then try Ubuntu. I'm sure you're getting all kinds of advice about which distro to pick for your first install because everybody has their own opinion on which one is best, so maybe you should just read about all the major ones yourself and then pick one on your own. However, speaking as someone who has tried a whole lot of them, I think that Slackware is a great way to go if you want to learn by making mistakes, and Ubuntu is the way to go if you want to learn the easy way.
Anyway, I'd get a couple old desktops, set them up in your home, one as a server, and one as a desktop machine, and just try to do stuff with them until you get good at it.
If you want a book suggestion, I think that "How Linux Works" from No Starch Press is a great introduction to Linux.
Civil Disobedience? Consider these two tenets of Ghandi's civil disobedience and think about if you plan on adhering to them.
"When any person in authority seeks to arrest a civil resister, he will voluntarily submit to the arrest, and he will not resist the attachment or removal of his own property, if any, when it is sought to be confiscated by authorities."
"A civil resister will never insult his opponent, and therefore also not take part in many of the newly coined cries which are contrary to the spirit of ahimsa."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience
I don't know anything about you, but this doesn't sound like what most copyright violators and DRM violators do.
It was well organized, common practice in the civil rights movement in the U.S. Dewing the 60s for the civilly disobedient to notify the police ahead of time that they would be breaking the law, where they would be breaking the law, how, and when. Are you doing that?
Civil disobedience is performed in tandem with many organized events and tactics in order to achieve a specific well defined goal, usually changing a law, or changing the enforcement of a law. It's not something that one person can do alone. It's a large team effort.
Social movements take time, effort, and organization to succeed. Most usually fail. I think it's silly to imply that you're on par with two of the few that didn't, Ghandi's revolution, and the U.S. civil rights movement, when you're clearly not. You're not practicing civil disobedience. You're just breaking the law. Anybody hooligan can do that, and no real social change will ever come of it.
You could always just get up from your computer desk and walk to the library. I hear they have old issues of newspapers there, and they don't charge a thing for you to read them.