If they're going to want to block "inappropriate" content online, will this extend to online Bibles? After all, Song of Solomon is pretty graphic erotica and acts depicted in their as honorable between consenting adults are considered "sin" and "inappropriate" by many modern radical so-called "Christians" who pick and choose what to believe or discount out of the Bible. After all, if you want to block some inappropriate content, you should block all "inappropriate" content equally.
This way, since everyone will be affected, people will see how blocking content is stupid and instead they should supervise their children rather than insisting that government or corporations do it for them. You know, personal responsibility.
With great games like/bin/sh who needs anything else?;)
Seriously though, Xplane is out for Linux, as are many of id software's offerings. Many Windows games will run on Linux via cedega, often with better performance than when running natively on Windows. What's the problem?
There's no good way to detect if a video or music clip is copyrighted,
Sorry to nitpick, but copyright is automatic so it can be presumed that ALL video or music clips on there are copyrighted (expired copyrights aside).
Now, what one needs to do is detect whether or not one has permission to post the copyrighted materials but that is darn near impossible.
What they ought to do is apply Fair Use guidelines then they would be pretty much in the clear. Entire music videos? Probably not fair use. Music video parodies? Most definitely fair use. George Duhbya Bush's face rotoscoped into a porn flick? Obviously satire, and thusly Fair Use. The Matrix posted in entirety? "Hellboy 2" posted prior to thearical release? Obviously not Fair Use.
Im curious: Where does this leave the blackhats? Are they going to unleash their work as soon as Vista hits the retail market, or are they going to wait until an appreciable number of enterprise environments have deployed it in order to maximize their damage and give Microsoft a black eye?
I saw a flatbed driver deal with an asshole tailgater with the spotlight method. That was the most amusing thing I've ever seen on the highway at night.
The second most amusing was an asshole in a white Corvette (a '93 or thereabouts) driving about 130mph, coming up on traffic, passing in the breakdown lane with a broken-down car parked ahead, noticing the park car at the last possible second and spinning out in front of everyone when avoiding the parked car. THAT was amusing, although if the driver had slid off the road I'd have felt worse for the car than for the driver.
No kidding. I'm a Masshole and I find driving around here frustrating because on the highway any time around rush hour, driving courteously and leaving sufficient following space is just license for three other cars to cut in front of you.:( I would love to move out of this state to somewhere in the midwest where people are at least slightly more courteous.
(US readers butt out, as you can pass on either side)
Actually, here it is illegal to pass on the right, and illegal to use the left lane as a traveling lane; it is for passing only. The problem here is you get the dumbasses with the cruise control set to 55 because "55 is how I drive" or they might be gabbing on their cellphone or eating twinkies, and being totally incapable of multitasking, fluctuating between 45mph and 55mph, making maintaining a safe following distance behind them somewhere between frustrating and impossible.
And then, there are invariably those with the cruise control set to 55mph in a 60, 65, or even 70mph zone (substitute 96.6kph, 104.6kph, or 112.6kph if you must) and REFUSING to budge, and take the polite flash to pass (which means "excuse me, I would like to overtake you, could you please kindly move to the right please) as a personal insult or challenge, and then if the right lane DOES open up and you decide to illegally pass on the right, they invariably suddenly discover their accelerator pedal and speed up.
Yes, you know you're in America when you run into drivers who not only drive badly, but they go well out of their way to be discourteous.:(
- By opening up the Ximian connector for Exchange? - By refining KDE and making it a pleasant environment>? - By making SuSE a distro which requires very little (since 10.1 NO) tweaking to get to real work in a heterogeneous environment? - By making the installation process so easy it's actually enjoyable? - By submitting many, many valuable patches to the kernel? - By submitting many, many valuable patches to OpenOffice.org? - By making ReiserFS journaling actually work?
If this is "forking up" Linux, I sincerely hope that they continue to do so. I've been running SuSE 10.2 off and on and it's shaping up to be a wonderful distribution. The first thing I'm turning off is the Novell-style K-menu, then installing beryl (a great fork of XGL), but aside from those 10.2 is great in what I've tried so far. I still like it more than I like kubuntu (and kubuntu is great).
Novell, keep forking up Linux!:)
Now, what will 10.3 or 11 bring? That's a different question. Up to now Novell has made wonderful contributions to Linux as a whole, gained a lot of exposure for the environment, and as many people believe (true or not) any publicity is good publicity. Their "covenant" with Microsoft is catching the attention of many PHBs, and are more likely to seriously consider choosing something other than Microsoft thanks in part to Novell's actions. From what I see here only reactionists and zealots are attacking Novell over this rather than taking a wait-and-see approach. I'm somewhat doubtful that Microsoft will seriously try to kill Linux, but use their partnership with Novell as a learning exercise to improve the Windows platform, since if they try to break interoperability, "taint" linux, or exercise obvious patents such as the oh-so "innovative" double-click that the DoJ will be all over them, and the EU will be coming down on them very hard. Being a monopoly which was convicted of abusing their monopoly status, Microsoft still has to be very careful in how they tread where agreements such as this are concerned.
Wait and see. If next summer's release proves to be incompatible with the GPL, then it will certainly be time to jump ship.
In related news, Herman-Miller and Steelcase stock rose 3% upon announcement of the acceptance of this standard. No word yet as to how many chairs Ballmer has destroyed.
There's no guarantee that cars that are outside when the picture is taken will be there when the thief shows up. There's also no way to tell from this service if there will be people, other cars, or pets around.
That may be true, but it would help to reduce suspicion of casing an area by doing it online, and driving around a town like Duxbury or Hanover and seeing a Ferrari, Lambo, or Rolls in the driveway would indicate to a professional organized network that there is a large liklihood of there being a vehicle on the premesis that some shieks in the middle east might be interested in. Those organized car theft organizations go for the easiest targets with the least risk and highest ROI, and this kind of tool potentially improves their profitability while lowering their risk.
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You are correct in that you have no reasonable expectation of privacy, however, a company attempting to profit from your likeness without your release (public figures and journalist/photographers aside) you could be incurring a liability. Where in this case your being in the picture is purely incidental and not the prime motivation of profit (the geography is the primary intent) is something that would be better debated by a lawyer in a court of law (of course), or better yet, the legislature.
I don't know about you, but if someone gives me directions verbally I'll get lost. I can follow a map, no problem, or written directions. I can also remember lists and tasks and directions on how to accomplish a task and things like that, but for some reason I've always had a problem remembering driving directions (it some sort of selective short term memory issue or something, I don't know). It's not a matter of not being able to follow a map or not being aware of compass points (If I know generally where I am I never get lost, I've often taking scenic routes without maps when bored while heading back to the office or home after a job, but because I knew the general surrounding geography I've never gotten lost while doing that), it's the inability to simply remember driving directions. Combine that with poorly-marked or unmarked streets, and, well, this kind of service is a breakthrough, regardless of whether or not Microsoft actually invented it. (of course, if Microsoft files for and is awarded a patent on this when there is prior art, I will be pissed)
GPS to me is a godsend, and this kind of thing would be incredible if delivered via wireless. I won't subscribe to a Microsoft service for somthing like this, but if Google or Cingular were to introduce such a service integrated with GPS, it would be something I would subscribe to and use while traveling.:)
In contrast, badly lit environment will favorise eyesight deterioration. Like a dimly lighted environment near the computer in a geek's basement. The geek tend to prefer low light (so the display is more visible), but this deteriorate his eyes faster.
Oh come on, hasn't this been proven false as well? I'm pretty sure it has. . . what DOES deteriorate your eyes is eyestrain. Just exercise your eyes (see my other post in this thread) and don't sit in front of the monitor for hours on end day after day without taking breaks.
I run Linux almost exclusively, or did until very recently (until I get Myth and my PVR-150 and TV@nywhere to cooperate on SuSE I boot Windows frequently now, running it while posting this in fact since I am recording a movie in the background). I have NO problem with running proprietary software. I LIKE Diablo, I LIKE Return to Castle Wolfenstein, I LIKE Video Wave and Media Studio Pro (cinelerra and klives both suck, VideoWave is great for very simple edits, and MediaStudio Pro blows the hell out of Adobe Premier and anything else I have tried at the consumer price level).
What I DIS-like is proprietary operating systems and proprietary formats.
What I dislike about proprietary operating systems such as Windows is:
- The tendency to be available in any color I like, so long as it's blue, or a Microsoft-approved alternate theme (or hex edit Windows binaries to eliminate the DRM which will then allow me to create my own theme, at the risk of introducing incompatibilities)
- Vendors' insistance that ONE license is tied to ONE machine, so if I upgrade a motherboard, I'm forced to buy a new license according to the EULA (illegal since it's a commodity good, not a work for hire under contract, and first sale doctrine applies, thus such tying is not legal, EULA or not)
- The ability of the proprietary vendor to disable my machine at whim, or by mistake (e.g., upgrade from a M$-supplied video or NIC driver triggers activation, resulting in waiting on hold TWICE for twenty minutes but getting my call dropped due to their fluky system, then calling PSS and telling them I want to be transferred to a SUPERVISOR in the activation department so I can talk directly to a human)
- The lack of support for ancient or newer hardware (If I want to run an ancient device from a vendor which went belly-up during the dot-bomb, there's a 99.999% chance that hardware supported by the 1.xx Linux kernels is supported even in 2.6.19, and likewise, if I keep this machine I'm on now when the Linux 3.0.0 kernel and Xorg 38.1.5 comes out, this hardware will STILL run very happily, AND it will STILL make a great HTPC)
In short, I hate forced obsolescence and forced upgrades, because while I usually do periodically build a new bleeding-edge PC (I'm chomping at the bit for 2.6.19 so I can finally get full hardware support on my new machine), it's nice to be able to run new software on ancient machines. Older != useless for every task.
Now, the MAIN reasons I hate working in Windows is:
- Explorer sucks as a file manager. Konqueror is downright orgasmic by comparison because it's so fast, flexible, and extensible
- Explorer (the GUI) sucks because Microsoft has it locked down so tightly. I know about Windowblinds, WinFX, and so forth, but when you come down to it, those are hacks. In kwin (or even metacity) I can make KDE look like an artsy-fartsy wet dream, I can make it look like Windows 95 or even Windows 3.1, or I can make it look exactly like the latest Windows Vista builds. I stick with the plastik theme unless running XGL, but the flexibility is there to do ANYTHING I want with it, without having to pay Microsoft additional fees for the right to modify MY OWN SYSTEM, or without having to "violate" the EULA by hex editing system libraries to enable unsigned themes to be installed.
- The command line environment sucks wind. Powershell would have been a nice inclusion in Vista (that and WinFS would have been the main selling points for me) but sadly it was dropped, and it's probably not as comprehensive as bash on Linux or BSD. The reason? On *nix everything maintenance-oriented is a CLU, and apps are usually front ends for the CLI. on Windows, even with Powershell, the CLI is an afterthough, and the CLUs are generally calls to the COM interfaces, and not standalone utilities of their own, forcing one to learn COM anyhow. If you need to go through that trouble to begin with, why don't they just tell everyone to hard-code C++ utilities for maintenance tasks?
What WILL deteriorate your eyesight is always looking at something at a fixed distance, be it a book, monitor, etc. all day long without taking breaks, day after day, for many months. So, whether you're a software geek, an accountant, an attorney, or ($FOO) just look away from your work every little while. What I do a few times a day to exercise my eyes is look through the blinds by my desk, focus on the blinds, then focus on objects behind the blinds, and repeat a bunch of times.
You can avoid weakening the muscles in your eyes by shifting focus to something distant. Look out the window across the street for example. Ever hear of the 'see clearly method?' I imagine they take this simple exercise (focus on something really, really close, then focus on something really distant. Repeat, rinse, wipe hands on pants) and turn it into an expensive "self help" video, but really, all that method is (probably) about is forcing your eyes to focus at the extremes to give the muscles a workout.
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You got the link wrong. Here is the correct URL.
No, because they check the IP you're coming from as well now - they grew wise to user agent spoofing years ago.
Google for the "bugmenot" Firefox extension.
If they're going to want to block "inappropriate" content online, will this extend to online Bibles? After all, Song of Solomon is pretty graphic erotica and acts depicted in their as honorable between consenting adults are considered "sin" and "inappropriate" by many modern radical so-called "Christians" who pick and choose what to believe or discount out of the Bible. After all, if you want to block some inappropriate content, you should block all "inappropriate" content equally.
This way, since everyone will be affected, people will see how blocking content is stupid and instead they should supervise their children rather than insisting that government or corporations do it for them. You know, personal responsibility.
It means to post nonsense on blogs such as
That's like saying that taking algebra and trig in high school does not prepare one for day-to-day basic arithmatic in the real world.
With great games like /bin/sh who needs anything else? ;)
Seriously though, Xplane is out for Linux, as are many of id software's offerings. Many Windows games will run on Linux via cedega, often with better performance than when running natively on Windows. What's the problem?
Two words:
- Beryl
- Compiz
Both put Windows Vista's new eye candy to shame, AND performs better on older Chipsets. Suck on that, Microsoft!
Sorry to nitpick, but copyright is automatic so it can be presumed that ALL video or music clips on there are copyrighted (expired copyrights aside).
Now, what one needs to do is detect whether or not one has permission to post the copyrighted materials but that is darn near impossible.
What they ought to do is apply Fair Use guidelines then they would be pretty much in the clear. Entire music videos? Probably not fair use. Music video parodies? Most definitely fair use. George Duhbya Bush's face rotoscoped into a porn flick? Obviously satire, and thusly Fair Use. The Matrix posted in entirety? "Hellboy 2" posted prior to thearical release? Obviously not Fair Use.
Im curious: Where does this leave the blackhats? Are they going to unleash their work as soon as Vista hits the retail market, or are they going to wait until an appreciable number of enterprise environments have deployed it in order to maximize their damage and give Microsoft a black eye?
Personally, I am hoping they do the latter.
Is that you, Bill? I thought you were retired?
If you don't agree with groklaw, you could always run for office in the legislature and then found a site called sedlaw or awklaw ;)
It is if you run the version called CentOS.
I saw a flatbed driver deal with an asshole tailgater with the spotlight method. That was the most amusing thing I've ever seen on the highway at night.
The second most amusing was an asshole in a white Corvette (a '93 or thereabouts) driving about 130mph, coming up on traffic, passing in the breakdown lane with a broken-down car parked ahead, noticing the park car at the last possible second and spinning out in front of everyone when avoiding the parked car. THAT was amusing, although if the driver had slid off the road I'd have felt worse for the car than for the driver.
No kidding. I'm a Masshole and I find driving around here frustrating because on the highway any time around rush hour, driving courteously and leaving sufficient following space is just license for three other cars to cut in front of you. :( I would love to move out of this state to somewhere in the midwest where people are at least slightly more courteous.
Actually, here it is illegal to pass on the right, and illegal to use the left lane as a traveling lane; it is for passing only. The problem here is you get the dumbasses with the cruise control set to 55 because "55 is how I drive" or they might be gabbing on their cellphone or eating twinkies, and being totally incapable of multitasking, fluctuating between 45mph and 55mph, making maintaining a safe following distance behind them somewhere between frustrating and impossible.
And then, there are invariably those with the cruise control set to 55mph in a 60, 65, or even 70mph zone (substitute 96.6kph, 104.6kph, or 112.6kph if you must) and REFUSING to budge, and take the polite flash to pass (which means "excuse me, I would like to overtake you, could you please kindly move to the right please) as a personal insult or challenge, and then if the right lane DOES open up and you decide to illegally pass on the right, they invariably suddenly discover their accelerator pedal and speed up.
Yes, you know you're in America when you run into drivers who not only drive badly, but they go well out of their way to be discourteous.
How exactly did they "fork up" Linux?
:)
- By opening up the Ximian connector for Exchange?
- By refining KDE and making it a pleasant environment>?
- By making SuSE a distro which requires very little (since 10.1 NO) tweaking to get to real work in a heterogeneous environment?
- By making the installation process so easy it's actually enjoyable?
- By submitting many, many valuable patches to the kernel?
- By submitting many, many valuable patches to OpenOffice.org?
- By making ReiserFS journaling actually work?
If this is "forking up" Linux, I sincerely hope that they continue to do so. I've been running SuSE 10.2 off and on and it's shaping up to be a wonderful distribution. The first thing I'm turning off is the Novell-style K-menu, then installing beryl (a great fork of XGL), but aside from those 10.2 is great in what I've tried so far. I still like it more than I like kubuntu (and kubuntu is great).
Novell, keep forking up Linux!
Now, what will 10.3 or 11 bring? That's a different question. Up to now Novell has made wonderful contributions to Linux as a whole, gained a lot of exposure for the environment, and as many people believe (true or not) any publicity is good publicity. Their "covenant" with Microsoft is catching the attention of many PHBs, and are more likely to seriously consider choosing something other than Microsoft thanks in part to Novell's actions. From what I see here only reactionists and zealots are attacking Novell over this rather than taking a wait-and-see approach. I'm somewhat doubtful that Microsoft will seriously try to kill Linux, but use their partnership with Novell as a learning exercise to improve the Windows platform, since if they try to break interoperability, "taint" linux, or exercise obvious patents such as the oh-so "innovative" double-click that the DoJ will be all over them, and the EU will be coming down on them very hard. Being a monopoly which was convicted of abusing their monopoly status, Microsoft still has to be very careful in how they tread where agreements such as this are concerned.
Wait and see. If next summer's release proves to be incompatible with the GPL, then it will certainly be time to jump ship.
In related news, Herman-Miller and Steelcase stock rose 3% upon announcement of the acceptance of this standard. No word yet as to how many chairs Ballmer has destroyed.
That may be true, but it would help to reduce suspicion of casing an area by doing it online, and driving around a town like Duxbury or Hanover and seeing a Ferrari, Lambo, or Rolls in the driveway would indicate to a professional organized network that there is a large liklihood of there being a vehicle on the premesis that some shieks in the middle east might be interested in. Those organized car theft organizations go for the easiest targets with the least risk and highest ROI, and this kind of tool potentially improves their profitability while lowering their risk.
You are correct in that you have no reasonable expectation of privacy, however, a company attempting to profit from your likeness without your release (public figures and journalist/photographers aside) you could be incurring a liability. Where in this case your being in the picture is purely incidental and not the prime motivation of profit (the geography is the primary intent) is something that would be better debated by a lawyer in a court of law (of course), or better yet, the legislature.
I don't know about you, but if someone gives me directions verbally I'll get lost. I can follow a map, no problem, or written directions. I can also remember lists and tasks and directions on how to accomplish a task and things like that, but for some reason I've always had a problem remembering driving directions (it some sort of selective short term memory issue or something, I don't know). It's not a matter of not being able to follow a map or not being aware of compass points (If I know generally where I am I never get lost, I've often taking scenic routes without maps when bored while heading back to the office or home after a job, but because I knew the general surrounding geography I've never gotten lost while doing that), it's the inability to simply remember driving directions. Combine that with poorly-marked or unmarked streets, and, well, this kind of service is a breakthrough, regardless of whether or not Microsoft actually invented it. (of course, if Microsoft files for and is awarded a patent on this when there is prior art, I will be pissed)
:)
GPS to me is a godsend, and this kind of thing would be incredible if delivered via wireless. I won't subscribe to a Microsoft service for somthing like this, but if Google or Cingular were to introduce such a service integrated with GPS, it would be something I would subscribe to and use while traveling.
Oh come on, hasn't this been proven false as well? I'm pretty sure it has. . . what DOES deteriorate your eyes is eyestrain. Just exercise your eyes (see my other post in this thread) and don't sit in front of the monitor for hours on end day after day without taking breaks.
I run Linux almost exclusively, or did until very recently (until I get Myth and my PVR-150 and TV@nywhere to cooperate on SuSE I boot Windows frequently now, running it while posting this in fact since I am recording a movie in the background). I have NO problem with running proprietary software. I LIKE Diablo, I LIKE Return to Castle Wolfenstein, I LIKE Video Wave and Media Studio Pro (cinelerra and klives both suck, VideoWave is great for very simple edits, and MediaStudio Pro blows the hell out of Adobe Premier and anything else I have tried at the consumer price level).
What I DIS-like is proprietary operating systems and proprietary formats.
What I dislike about proprietary operating systems such as Windows is:
- The tendency to be available in any color I like, so long as it's blue, or a Microsoft-approved alternate theme (or hex edit Windows binaries to eliminate the DRM which will then allow me to create my own theme, at the risk of introducing incompatibilities)
- Vendors' insistance that ONE license is tied to ONE machine, so if I upgrade a motherboard, I'm forced to buy a new license according to the EULA (illegal since it's a commodity good, not a work for hire under contract, and first sale doctrine applies, thus such tying is not legal, EULA or not)
- The ability of the proprietary vendor to disable my machine at whim, or by mistake (e.g., upgrade from a M$-supplied video or NIC driver triggers activation, resulting in waiting on hold TWICE for twenty minutes but getting my call dropped due to their fluky system, then calling PSS and telling them I want to be transferred to a SUPERVISOR in the activation department so I can talk directly to a human)
- The lack of support for ancient or newer hardware (If I want to run an ancient device from a vendor which went belly-up during the dot-bomb, there's a 99.999% chance that hardware supported by the 1.xx Linux kernels is supported even in 2.6.19, and likewise, if I keep this machine I'm on now when the Linux 3.0.0 kernel and Xorg 38.1.5 comes out, this hardware will STILL run very happily, AND it will STILL make a great HTPC)
In short, I hate forced obsolescence and forced upgrades, because while I usually do periodically build a new bleeding-edge PC (I'm chomping at the bit for 2.6.19 so I can finally get full hardware support on my new machine), it's nice to be able to run new software on ancient machines. Older != useless for every task.
Now, the MAIN reasons I hate working in Windows is:
- Explorer sucks as a file manager. Konqueror is downright orgasmic by comparison because it's so fast, flexible, and extensible
- Explorer (the GUI) sucks because Microsoft has it locked down so tightly. I know about Windowblinds, WinFX, and so forth, but when you come down to it, those are hacks. In kwin (or even metacity) I can make KDE look like an artsy-fartsy wet dream, I can make it look like Windows 95 or even Windows 3.1, or I can make it look exactly like the latest Windows Vista builds. I stick with the plastik theme unless running XGL, but the flexibility is there to do ANYTHING I want with it, without having to pay Microsoft additional fees for the right to modify MY OWN SYSTEM, or without having to "violate" the EULA by hex editing system libraries to enable unsigned themes to be installed.
- The command line environment sucks wind. Powershell would have been a nice inclusion in Vista (that and WinFS would have been the main selling points for me) but sadly it was dropped, and it's probably not as comprehensive as bash on Linux or BSD. The reason? On *nix everything maintenance-oriented is a CLU, and apps are usually front ends for the CLI. on Windows, even with Powershell, the CLI is an afterthough, and the CLUs are generally calls to the COM interfaces, and not standalone utilities of their own, forcing one to learn COM anyhow. If you need to go through that trouble to begin with, why don't they just tell everyone to hard-code C++ utilities for maintenance tasks?
they should, as should video goggle systems that have been around since 1995 or so.
That is false.
What WILL deteriorate your eyesight is always looking at something at a fixed distance, be it a book, monitor, etc. all day long without taking breaks, day after day, for many months. So, whether you're a software geek, an accountant, an attorney, or ($FOO) just look away from your work every little while. What I do a few times a day to exercise my eyes is look through the blinds by my desk, focus on the blinds, then focus on objects behind the blinds, and repeat a bunch of times.
You can avoid weakening the muscles in your eyes by shifting focus to something distant. Look out the window across the street for example. Ever hear of the 'see clearly method?' I imagine they take this simple exercise (focus on something really, really close, then focus on something really distant. Repeat, rinse, wipe hands on pants) and turn it into an expensive "self help" video, but really, all that method is (probably) about is forcing your eyes to focus at the extremes to give the muscles a workout.
You really don't have anything to worry about, because the EULA forbids making ISO images of the consumer editions of Vista.
:D
Right?