Which is actually the same thing. You want each individual, whether as a private citizen or as a member of the government, to have as much responsibility and accountability as possible. Therefore in government you want the power distributed to each individual representitive rather than them having to "toe the party line" or follow the dictats of the leader.
On the subject of sub-titles, why not have all of the different language sub-titles available for all region encodings and allow the viewer to choose which, if any, sub-titles to watch?
OS can easily be leased. I remember from the days when I was a mainframe systems programmer that the OS, compilers, runtime libraries etc were separately leased. Also you had to apply the updates, as if you were more than 2 versions behind, you got no support. The hardware was purchased, but with a maintanence contract.
In other areas, people are taught how to use and maintain (and in some cases even how to make their own) the tools they use. The computer is a very powerful and versatile tool, which makes it even more important that users are taught how to use and maintain it efficiently.
Does that not depend on why your car is broken? You would feel a fool if you had to keep on calling the breakdown truck when you keep running out of fuel because you never bothered to learn how to fill it up. Or if you had to take it to the service station when the washer bottle ran out of water, or the oil ran low. There are certain 'running' maintenance operations that it is expected that owners do on their cars themselves, but many people are not prepared to learn enough about their computer to be able to perform equivalent simple maintenance.
One solution to this would be for systems to establish a 'permanent' (ie be connected all the time you are online) connection to a remailer. Then continuously exchange a steady strea, of fixed packet length encrypted data. That way a snopper cannot perform traffic analyis nor even determine when you are sending or receiving email/messages. You would, of course, have to 'trust' the remailer.
You should not have to always do it the hard way, but you should be taught/learn the hard way first. It is often more important to understand the 'why' rather than just know the 'how'.
For many people the computer is an important tool and they just want to get on and use it. However this is the wrong attitude and approach. As the computer is an important tool, people should learn how to use and maintain it properly. Users of other tools are taught how how they work, how to correctly use them and often day-to-day maintenance and elementary fault finding. So why should computer users be different?
As the declared purpose of patents is to encourage the sharing of knowledge, what right have the lawyers to obfuscate the description of the invention. To comply with the spirit pf patents, they should be clarifying it not obfuscating it.
Does it matter if it already is a patent? As the purpose of anti-patents is to be used as reference to the existence of prior art to prevent future patenting of the idea, then the existence of a prior patent does not prevent the anti-patent from being published (though it might cause some action from the existing patent holder)
If we are talking primarily about protecting open source from patent abuse, then surely by its nature open source is self-publishing. Does the release of an open source product not both publish and fully disclose the details of that product?
If a false statement is made in court, then it should be subject to greater penalty as it is then either perjury or perverting the course of justice, which are serious crimes.
Zero Party System
Why have parties at all? Why not have it so that representatives actually represent the people? So that the MP, sentator, congressman etc. have a mandate to represent the views and interests of the (local) community who elected them, and to vote accordingly not as instructed by the party hierarchy.
You have a bootable testing CD or floppy. You boot from this, and it performs tests of the hardware which can include more stringent disk/disk controller and memory tests than would be possible when running under most 'end-user' OSs.
Will Intel replace non-Intel motherboards (eg Asus CUC2000) which are based on the i820 but only have SDRAM slots, not RDRAM? Or will Intel only replace Intel branded boards?
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Which is actually the same thing. You want each individual, whether as a private citizen or as a member of the government, to have as much responsibility and accountability as possible. Therefore in government you want the power distributed to each individual representitive rather than them having to "toe the party line" or follow the dictats of the leader.
Actually Amazon may be a bad example, as it works quite well with text mode browsers such as lynx
On the subject of sub-titles, why not have all of the different language sub-titles available for all region encodings and allow the viewer to choose which, if any, sub-titles to watch?
Does it? I always thought of it being 'civil' as opposed to 'military'. Ie peaceful as opposed to violent or armed disobedience.
OS can easily be leased. I remember from the days when I was a mainframe systems programmer that the OS, compilers, runtime libraries etc were separately leased. Also you had to apply the updates, as if you were more than 2 versions behind, you got no support. The hardware was purchased, but with a maintanence contract.
In other areas, people are taught how to use and maintain (and in some cases even how to make their own) the tools they use. The computer is a very powerful and versatile tool, which makes it even more important that users are taught how to use and maintain it efficiently.
Does that not depend on why your car is broken? You would feel a fool if you had to keep on calling the breakdown truck when you keep running out of fuel because you never bothered to learn how to fill it up. Or if you had to take it to the service station when the washer bottle ran out of water, or the oil ran low. There are certain 'running' maintenance operations that it is expected that owners do on their cars themselves, but many people are not prepared to learn enough about their computer to be able to perform equivalent simple maintenance.
One solution to this would be for systems to establish a 'permanent' (ie be connected all the time you are online) connection to a remailer. Then continuously exchange a steady strea, of fixed packet length encrypted data. That way a snopper cannot perform traffic analyis nor even determine when you are sending or receiving email/messages. You would, of course, have to 'trust' the remailer.
Oops.. That should have been not a commercial competitor.
Linux may be a commercial competitor, but is a competitor in that every PC running Linux is one less Windows licence sold.
Back in the pre-PC days of CP/M and Z80, much software was PD because it had been developed as part of a US Government or university contract.
You should not have to always do it the hard way, but you should be taught/learn the hard way first. It is often more important to understand the 'why' rather than just know the 'how'.
For many people the computer is an important tool and they just want to get on and use it. However this is the wrong attitude and approach. As the computer is an important tool, people should learn how to use and maintain it properly. Users of other tools are taught how how they work, how to correctly use them and often day-to-day maintenance and elementary fault finding. So why should computer users be different?
As the declared purpose of patents is to encourage the sharing of knowledge, what right have the lawyers to obfuscate the description of the invention. To comply with the spirit pf patents, they should be clarifying it not obfuscating it.
Does it matter if it already is a patent? As the purpose of anti-patents is to be used as reference to the existence of prior art to prevent future patenting of the idea, then the existence of a prior patent does not prevent the anti-patent from being published (though it might cause some action from the existing patent holder)
If we are talking primarily about protecting open source from patent abuse, then surely by its nature open source is self-publishing. Does the release of an open source product not both publish and fully disclose the details of that product?
So how does the patent office define 'public'?
If a false statement is made in court, then it should be subject to greater penalty as it is then either perjury or perverting the course of justice, which are serious crimes.
Zero Party System
Why have parties at all? Why not have it so that representatives actually represent the people? So that the MP, sentator, congressman etc. have a mandate to represent the views and interests of the (local) community who elected them, and to vote accordingly not as instructed by the party hierarchy.
And it does not launch the browser if it is not already running.
OpenSSL allows the use of DSA as well as RSA.
You have a bootable testing CD or floppy. You boot from this, and it performs tests of the hardware which can include more stringent disk/disk controller and memory tests than would be possible when running under most 'end-user' OSs.
Especially as this DeCSS is not for decoding DVDs but to remove Cascading Style Sheets from HTML sources.
Shouldn't the university have looked at the page (which would take no more than 30s) before spending much administration and legal time on the matter?
As the problem is in the MTH, I suspect that all m/b manufacturers who use SDRAM with the i820 will be affected.
Will Intel replace non-Intel motherboards (eg Asus CUC2000) which are based on the i820 but only have SDRAM slots, not RDRAM? Or will Intel only replace Intel branded boards?