>To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases >whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding >ten Miles square) (Italics mine) What you missed is that the congress also exercises joint jurisdiction over the rest of the United States (granted in the "necessary and proper" clause of the Constitution).
Please look up "Dual Soveriegnty" in your law dictionary.
You miss the point. Digital music distribution gives you the freedom to pick and choose. If the new n'sync remix of a spice girls cover of a new kids on the block song sucks, you don't have to click that download link. We won't all be downloading anything unless we all like it.
The courts have upheld the shrinkwrap license agreements before. Let's consider why this is really a Good Thing(tm). Compare software to a videotape of a movie. At the beginning of the movie is the infamous "FBI Warning" screen, that states that you are not permitted to show the movie publicly or for profit. This is basically the same as a shrinkwrap license agreement. Mr Lucas invested a lot of time and money into making the film you are watching, and he has a right to say whether or not you are allowed to make a profit off his movie. Shrinkwrap licenses take the same approach to controlling who makes a profit from someone elses code. As much as we all like the open source vs evil empire rhetoric, 3DFX has the legal high ground here IMHO. 3Dfx wrote a license agreement, Creative violated it. Simple. As a (moderately famous) law professor said, "If you have the law on your side, pound on the law. If you have the facts on your side, pound on the facts. If you haven't got the law or the facts, pound on the table." Right now, slashdot is pounding on the table, and we sound pretty foolish doing it.
And pay TicketMaster's outrageouse fees instead of the RIAA's. The Man has music listeners at every turn, it seems... For those of you lucky enough to live in countries where venue owners sell their own tickets, the TicketMaster scam goes something like this. TicketMaster strong-arms owners of entertainment venues (stadiums, concert halls, etc) into selling tickets through TicketMaster. TM then sells the tickets for their usual price, plus a 25% "handling fee". The ticket price goes to the venue owners, and TM makes a 25% profit for taking the ticket out of the printer and passing it across the counter to the fan. The moral is, live music is no better in terms of leeching middlemen sucking profits out of the system.
Not really. That decision only applied to source code, not binaries. Also, I would bet that the ruling in question will be overturned in the name of "national security" when it goes to the supreme court. Also, internatonal treaties are not subject to judicial review, making the constitutionality of laws enforcing the Wassenaar treaty moot. (IIRC, IANAL, IMHO, and all other abbreviated disclaimers apply)
Looks like Jon was wrong. Instead of SexBots, sony is importing BestialityBots...
Seriously, if this technology is anywhere near the level of simulating a dog accurately (and from the look of the article it's not quite there yet) then this is a big step toward being able to simulate a human. OTOH, judging by the writing style, they let a robot write that article...
What you really meant is that linux has no office suites that you like since you listed 3 office programs in your troll^H^H^H^H^H post, right? Then, you go on to refuse to even look at Applix because it's commercial, and in the same breath, recommend we go back to windows/macOS/amiga (commercial OSes) it's been a while since I saw a good open-source office suite for windows... And exactly what do you mean by "lack of a modern web browser"? Is Netscape 4.5 old? Is Mozilla M5 old? Nice of you to back up your "netscape sucks" with FACTS Also, hate to bust your bubble, but Motif is not a web browser. "Linux remains a system for... nerds to use at home." Yet you come trash it on Slashdot... does the phrase "news for nerds" ring a bell?
Beowulf via 10 base-T Beowulf via token-ring Beowulf via USB Beowulf via RS-232 Beowulf via modem Beowulf via telegraph Beowulf via semaphore flags Beowulf via smoke-signals
>What exactly does Slashdot mean? say the entire URL out loud. H-T-T-P colon slash slash slashdot dot org Word games...get it?
What the post above was referring to is the "slashdot effect" or the consequences of a huge flood of visitors linking to the site after it's URL was posted on/.
Look at the responses here. Every post seems to say (I paraphrase) "Their page looks like crap, and it's on a user account, therefore they must be scam artists"
Have we all been brainwashed by the mass-marketeers to the point where we are no longer capable of believing good things can come out of a small startup company? It's no wonder the computer industry is becoming monopolized if we are afraid to buy from the upstarts. What the dominant OEMs seem to have done is ingrained in our minds that a slick public image and a top-of-the-line web site = a reputable dealer. They have succeeded in making a huge barrier to entry into the harware market. Web design costs money, something these guys probably don't have a lot of. I for one would rather see them put all their money and time into developing a better product.
What the whining liberals call "prejudice and racism" was precisely that. The US went to war with Japan in 1941, after they bombed Pearl Harbor. As a knee-jerk reaction, all people of Japanese descent living on the west coast (where they could concievably help an enemy invasion) were sent into internment. Their property was siezed, some never to be returned, and they were carted off to Arizona and Texas to live out the war in prison camps. The majority of the people sent into internment were Neisei (sp?) or second-generation Japanese living in the US. That means they were US citizens and therefore (supposedly) protected under the constitution. Most were *not* aliens living illegally in the US, but naturalized or born citizens.
There, a little truth, the product of "most minimal research" I spent all of 10 minutes researching this, and came up with more facts than your hateful rant contained. Stick that in your negationism pipe and smoke it!
Accordint to This NY times article there are at least two other cases concerning this same question. Let's hope this ruling sticks before both those courts, and is upheld in the (inevitable) appeal to the US supreme court.
Before anyone gets upset about another login-required NY times article, remember login/password=cypherpunks/cypherpunks.
Withous Micros~1's money, Mindcraft is sunk. M$ won't pay a company that produces benchmarks that make NT look bad. The Mindcraft guys know that the future of their [pathetic] company likely rides on the outcome of this test. Logically, it follows that there is no way in Hell they will release a benchmark that shows anything but NT soundly trouncing Linux. If Linux comes close they'll doctor the data, if Linux wins, the results will never see the light of day. If Linux loses, you can bet that a copy of their report will be on every CIO's desk within a week. Linux will be publicly trashed in front of the IT types, and it will likely take many years to get the pointy-hairs to listen to Linux advocates again. Linux has very little to gain here, and a lot to lose.
I can read this rant, therefore you haven't been censored. (although if there ever was an argument for censorship, you're it) You've been moderated, but not censored. Also, most people have a hard time taking *anyone* seriously if they can't even spell "faggot" or "fucking" correctly. Go back to usenet, you little troll.
There's a difference. A bridge is built once, and stays in one place. A piece of software is expected to run, out of the box, on a huge variety of machines, with a variety of OSes, and different programs sharing the system.
When a bridge falls, they can look at the pieces and see which rivet snapped, or which beam should have been stronger. When a something corrupts a computers system memory and crashes it, there's no way to know which program did it, much less which programmer on which project team to blame.
It would be just as accurate and effective if every time windows crashed, somebody went into the M$ building and randomly fired the first programmer he saw.
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>To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases
>whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding
>ten Miles square)
(Italics mine)
What you missed is that the congress also exercises joint jurisdiction over the rest of the United States (granted in the "necessary and proper" clause of the Constitution).
Please look up "Dual Soveriegnty" in your law dictionary.
IMHO, IANAL, and all other disclaimers apply.
Look at the left side of your keyboard.
See the button with a light on it? Push it.
Your Caps-Lock is now off, you may continue posting as usual...
There are so many experts...er, undergrads, in here!
On behalf of all the non-clueless, non-moronic, and non AC college undergrads, HEY!
*sigh* Are we going to start that old "GNU/Linux" vs "Linux" thing again??
Microsoft has a real server competitor? I thought they were still stuggling to *BE* a server competitor...
You miss the point. Digital music distribution gives you the freedom to pick and choose. If the new n'sync remix of a spice girls cover of a new kids on the block song sucks, you don't have to click that download link. We won't all be downloading anything unless we all like it.
The courts have upheld the shrinkwrap license agreements before. Let's consider why this is really a Good Thing(tm).
Compare software to a videotape of a movie. At the beginning of the movie is the infamous "FBI Warning" screen, that states that you are not permitted to show the movie publicly or for profit. This is basically the same as a shrinkwrap license agreement. Mr Lucas invested a lot of time and money into making the film you are watching, and he has a right to say whether or not you are allowed to make a profit off his movie. Shrinkwrap licenses take the same approach to controlling who makes a profit from someone elses code.
As much as we all like the open source vs evil empire rhetoric, 3DFX has the legal high ground here IMHO. 3Dfx wrote a license agreement, Creative violated it. Simple. As a (moderately famous) law professor said, "If you have the law on your side, pound on the law. If you have the facts on your side, pound on the facts. If you haven't got the law or the facts, pound on the table." Right now, slashdot is pounding on the table, and we sound pretty foolish doing it.
>try live music for a change.
And pay TicketMaster's outrageouse fees instead of the RIAA's. The Man has music listeners at every turn, it seems... For those of you lucky enough to live in countries where venue owners sell their own tickets, the TicketMaster scam goes something like this. TicketMaster strong-arms owners of entertainment venues (stadiums, concert halls, etc) into selling tickets through TicketMaster. TM then sells the tickets for their usual price, plus a 25% "handling fee". The ticket price goes to the venue owners, and TM makes a 25% profit for taking the ticket out of the printer and passing it across the counter to the fan. The moral is, live music is no better in terms of leeching middlemen sucking profits out of the system.
How about Beowulf cluster support?
hopefully 32 bits, I'm getting sick of being limited to a paltry 64,000 simultaneous connections!
Not really. That decision only applied to source code, not binaries. Also, I would bet that the ruling in question will be overturned in the name of "national security" when it goes to the supreme court. Also, internatonal treaties are not subject to judicial review, making the constitutionality of laws enforcing the Wassenaar treaty moot. (IIRC, IANAL, IMHO, and all other abbreviated disclaimers apply)
Looks like Jon was wrong. Instead of SexBots, sony is importing BestialityBots...
Seriously, if this technology is anywhere near the level of simulating a dog accurately (and from the look of the article it's not quite there yet) then this is a big step toward being able to simulate a human. OTOH, judging by the writing style, they let a robot write that article...
>It can play with toys, but it does so when it feels like it
Sounds more like a robotic cat to me...
>that is a BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD pun :-)
shockingly bad!
the default Qake2 port is 27910, not 27800
What you really meant is that linux has no office suites that you like since you listed 3 office programs in your troll^H^H^H^H^H post, right? Then, you go on to refuse to even look at Applix because it's commercial, and in the same breath, recommend we go back to windows/macOS/amiga (commercial OSes) it's been a while since I saw a good open-source office suite for windows... And exactly what do you mean by "lack of a modern web browser"? Is Netscape 4.5 old? Is Mozilla M5 old? Nice of you to back up your "netscape sucks" with FACTS Also, hate to bust your bubble, but Motif is not a web browser. "Linux remains a system for ... nerds to use at home." Yet you come trash it on Slashdot... does the phrase "news for nerds" ring a bell?
Beowulf via 10 base-T
Beowulf via token-ring
Beowulf via USB
Beowulf via RS-232
Beowulf via modem
Beowulf via telegraph
Beowulf via semaphore flags
Beowulf via smoke-signals
>What exactly does Slashdot mean?
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say the entire URL out loud.
H-T-T-P colon slash slash slashdot dot org
Word games...get it?
What the post above was referring to is the "slashdot effect" or the consequences of a huge flood of visitors linking to the site after it's URL was posted on
Look at the responses here. Every post seems to say (I paraphrase) "Their page looks like crap, and it's on a user account, therefore they must be scam artists"
Have we all been brainwashed by the mass-marketeers to the point where we are no longer capable of believing good things can come out of a small startup company? It's no wonder the computer industry is becoming monopolized if we are afraid to buy from the upstarts. What the dominant OEMs seem to have done is ingrained in our minds that a slick public image and a top-of-the-line web site = a reputable dealer. They have succeeded in making a huge barrier to entry into the harware market. Web design costs money, something these guys probably don't have a lot of. I for one would rather see them put all their money and time into developing a better product.
>anyone who can hack into my computer can get my encrypted private key.
And anyone who can break into your house/office can get your paper signature. QED
What the whining liberals call "prejudice and racism" was precisely that. The US went to war with Japan in 1941, after they bombed Pearl Harbor. As a knee-jerk reaction, all people of Japanese descent living on the west coast (where they could concievably help an enemy invasion) were sent into internment. Their property was siezed, some never to be returned, and they were carted off to Arizona and Texas to live out the war in prison camps. The majority of the people sent into internment were Neisei (sp?) or second-generation Japanese living in the US. That means they were US citizens and therefore (supposedly) protected under the constitution. Most were *not* aliens living illegally in the US, but naturalized or born citizens.
There, a little truth, the product of "most minimal research" I spent all of 10 minutes researching this, and came up with more facts than your hateful rant contained. Stick that in your negationism pipe and smoke it!
Accordint to This NY times article there are at least two other cases concerning this same question. Let's hope this ruling sticks before both those courts, and is upheld in the (inevitable) appeal to the US supreme court.
Before anyone gets upset about another login-required NY times article, remember login/password=cypherpunks/cypherpunks.
Withous Micros~1's money, Mindcraft is sunk. M$ won't pay a company that produces benchmarks that make NT look bad. The Mindcraft guys know that the future of their [pathetic] company likely rides on the outcome of this test. Logically, it follows that there is no way in Hell they will release a benchmark that shows anything but NT soundly trouncing Linux. If Linux comes close they'll doctor the data, if Linux wins, the results will never see the light of day. If Linux loses, you can bet that a copy of their report will be on every CIO's desk within a week. Linux will be publicly trashed in front of the IT types, and it will likely take many years to get the pointy-hairs to listen to Linux advocates again. Linux has very little to gain here, and a lot to lose.
I can read this rant, therefore you haven't been censored. (although if there ever was an argument for censorship, you're it) You've been moderated, but not censored.
Also, most people have a hard time taking *anyone* seriously if they can't even spell "faggot" or "fucking" correctly. Go back to usenet, you little troll.
There's a difference. A bridge is built once, and stays in one place. A piece of software is expected to run, out of the box, on a huge variety of machines, with a variety of OSes, and different programs sharing the system.
When a bridge falls, they can look at the pieces and see which rivet snapped, or which beam should have been stronger. When a something corrupts a computers system memory and crashes it, there's no way to know which program did it, much less which programmer on which project team to blame.
It would be just as accurate and effective if every time windows crashed, somebody went into the M$ building and randomly fired the first programmer he saw.