The other way around! An excerpt from this morning's newspaper...
Rob Young announced plans to buy Microsoft today. This comes after stock in Young's Red Hat software corporation went up 4,000% on rumors of a new Linux kernel (3.0) yesterday. According to Young, who is now worth an estimated 1.42 trillion $US, his first actions will be to fire Bill Gates, and release the source code to Windows NT, 2000, Office, and Internet Exlorer under the Gnu GPL. Microsoft could not be reached for comment.
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Put the sum total of all human knowledge; literature, art, music, and science on CDs and store them there. Then after we wipe ourselves out, the future archeaologists will know how life was. Or, you could wire it up with 10-base T and rig up a 10,000 x Beowulf cluster:)
No, what the author is trying to say is that the software is *already* coverend under US export law, due to it's being written in the US. However, that doesn't mean that complience with those laws needs to be a term of the license agreement. It's as unnecessary as putting a clause in the GPL restricting users from beating someone to death with the manual!
Segfault is in the UK. UF is in Canada. The first amendment doesn't apply to them. Also, from what I've heard, the British courts take a very dim view of frivilous lawsuits, so segfault is probably safe. (and could possibly make a few bucks off a counter-suit) I don't know much about Canadian fair use/parody laws, but I suspect its something close to ours. If so, {mystery company} hasn't got a chance of winning. If illiad loses there, he can always move UF to a server here in the states, and fight them with legal precedent on his side. I suspect that if this isn't just a hoax or an empty threat, the case will be thrown out of court so fast Bill's head will spin.
stage 4: collapse (profits dry up, employees abandon ship, companies go bankrupt) alternate stage 4: lawyers win (legislation and lawsuits preserve the status quo, new technologies get shafted)
As a sidenote, it seems to me that the way for Internet distribution of music to take off is to break the big recording companies stranglehold on radio. If artists signed with goodnoise or MP3.com started getting radio time, the internet music business would go big time, and leave the current bunch of (insert profanity here) record companies in the dust.
No taxes on internet commerce is a great idea. We currently have a bill in the works here in Texas to exempt e-commerce from state sales taxes, it would be nice to see this nation-wide.
T-1 bandwidth for every home is a great soundbyte, but it would be expensive as hell to implement. Besides, what would you do with it, once his republican cronies bring out CDA 3.0? It'll be like surfing from a Utah public library!
We probably will see scoring wars, but the IRC example is a bit misleading. Slashdot moderators can make you harder to hear, but they can't silence you altogether. Peer review is a great idea, but if you give the power to too many people (like 400, for example), there's bound to be problems. I give the new moderation system about 2 weeks... Bets anyone?
Now I'll just put on my asbestos overalls, set my threshold to -64768 and watch the moderator/AC flame-duels erupt...
first off,/dev/zero isnt good enough, as there would be reidual magnetic forces from the old data . multiple passes from/dev/rand would obscure the pattern better, but a truly motivated agancy could probably still recover your data. Physical destruction of the disk is the only 100% sure way to destroy the data, if you have data to hide, keep it all on zip disks, they burn faster than an aluminum hard drive...
If Gore wins the presidency, crypto controls will be so tight it'll be a crime to export a cap'n crunch decoder ring. What a choice we have in America... inept but well meaning (democrats) vs. devious but good at it (republicans) vs. right, but ignored (liberetarians) *sigh* I'm moving to the moon... who's with me?
Here's a quick-and-dirty test of the bandwidth of your optic nerve (note: this is a *large* nerve bundle, not a single neuron we're testing here). I cranked my monitor up to its maximum resolution/color depth/refresh rate setting, closed one eye, and put my nose up against the monitor glass (so the screen takes up my entire field of view). Since I can still see the vertical refresh flicker, my monitor is not outputting more information than my eye can handle, therefore the bandwidth of one optic nerve must be greater than the maximum bandwidth of my video card! (~110MBits)
...and now we all know why I'm in computer science, and not biology!
But then you run into the problem of everyone having their CD drives in different places. i.e. mine is/dev/hdc (IDE 2 drive 1) my roommates is on/dev/hdd (IDE 2 drive 2). My Mac at home has a SCSI CD-rom, my old box has a noname CD that plugs into the soundcard (with a proprietary interface). And so on, ad nauseum, et cetera...
IANAL, but it seems like they wouldn't have a leg to stand on when it comes to holding/. responsible. I quote: "The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. Slashdot is not responsible for what they say. " This case is *not* about anonymous cowards, but about people who have an account. Furthermore, Yahoo is not named as a defendant in the case, so/. likely wouldn't be either.
Indiana Jones found Star Wars objects in Egyptian glyphs, too. Watch "Raiders of the Lost Ark". In the scene where they open the big stone vault with the Ark in it, There is a column behind Indy with carvings of R2D2 and C3PO on it...
That's real Egyptian history, and it really has nothing to do with the fact that Geoge Lucas made both movies!
Of couse I knew, but you don't argue by giving both sides of the issue. I was replying to a post extolling the virtues of the military's research. I was simply trying to make the point that the purpose of any military is to kill people and break things, and therefore the goal of military research would be easier and more efficient ways to kill people and break things.
> don't forget that it was the US Military that invented your precious Internet
The military did invent the internet. Credit given where credit is due.
>And, most great technological creations came out of war. WTF? great inventions like nuclear weapons... Its nice living less than an hour from the end of life as we know it...isnt it
>It's the end of the cold war that has brought about a general lack of funding for general research Not true, it's moved a lot of research into the private sector, building things that don't explode...
>a lot of us computer people work for Defense contractors Same goes for Microsoft. That doesnt make them automatically right...
>A lot of Americans still believe a strong military is important The same forward - thinking bunch who believes New Mexico is a foriegn country, Reagan knew what he was talking about, and Elvis is still alive...
>Just because you don't think so doesn't mean your point of view is necessarily gospel. same for you...
If you hit something hard enough to cause you to fly out of your seat and smash your face into the windshield, a three dimensional wave in the glass is the least of your worries. Come to think of it, hitting the glass with your face would set up bigger vibrations than this thing could. Of course if you would just wear your seatbelt, you won't hit the glass at all, making this all a moot point...
If the patch traps the CPU ID instruction, it's irrelevant whether the chip thinks it's turned on or not. All you have to do is stop that instruction from reaching the chip... Now, what I would like to see it a patch that returns a random serial number instead of simply blocking the CPU ID instruction.
They even quoted the Halloween memos!
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Which were ignored by the mainstream press since, well, Halloween...
"the problem with standing up for free speech is you end up defending sons-of-bitches" - I don't know who said that, but it applies here.
I hate spam as much as the next guy, but jail terms for email spamming is more than a little ridiculous. I have to side with the ACLU on this one. If you would rather have government control over mail transfer than do a little exercise with your delete-key finger, you should have your head examined.
If there were no mouse, how would we aim a railgun? Most games benefit from using a mouse. I admit I use the keyboard a lot in windowing interfaces, but anyone who thinks grep and cat are more intuitive than a scrollbar and a double-click is a lunatic.
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The other way around!
An excerpt from this morning's newspaper...
Rob Young announced plans to buy Microsoft today. This comes after stock in Young's Red Hat software corporation went up 4,000% on rumors of a new Linux kernel (3.0) yesterday. According to Young, who is now worth an estimated 1.42 trillion $US, his first actions will be to fire Bill Gates, and release the source code to Windows NT, 2000, Office, and Internet Exlorer under the Gnu GPL. Microsoft could not be reached for comment.
Put the sum total of all human knowledge; literature, art, music, and science on CDs and store them there. Then after we wipe ourselves out, the future archeaologists will know how life was. Or, you could wire it up with 10-base T and rig up a 10,000 x Beowulf cluster :)
No, what the author is trying to say is that the software is *already* coverend under US export law, due to it's being written in the US. However, that doesn't mean that complience with those laws needs to be a term of the license agreement.
It's as unnecessary as putting a clause in the GPL restricting users from beating someone to death with the manual!
Segfault is in the UK. UF is in Canada. The first amendment doesn't apply to them. Also, from what I've heard, the British courts take a very dim view of frivilous lawsuits, so segfault is probably safe. (and could possibly make a few bucks off a counter-suit) I don't know much about Canadian fair use/parody laws, but I suspect its something close to ours. If so, {mystery company} hasn't got a chance of winning. If illiad loses there, he can always move UF to a server here in the states, and fight them with legal precedent on his side.
I suspect that if this isn't just a hoax or an empty threat, the case will be thrown out of court so fast Bill's head will spin.
stage 4: collapse (profits dry up, employees abandon ship, companies go bankrupt)
alternate stage 4: lawyers win (legislation and lawsuits preserve the status quo, new technologies get shafted)
As a sidenote, it seems to me that the way for Internet distribution of music to take off is to break the big recording companies stranglehold on radio. If artists signed with goodnoise or MP3.com started getting radio time, the internet music business would go big time, and leave the current bunch of (insert profanity here) record companies in the dust.
No taxes on internet commerce is a great idea. We currently have a bill in the works here in Texas to exempt e-commerce from state sales taxes, it would be nice to see this nation-wide.
T-1 bandwidth for every home is a great soundbyte, but it would be expensive as hell to implement. Besides, what would you do with it, once his republican cronies bring out CDA 3.0? It'll be like surfing from a Utah public library!
We probably will see scoring wars, but the IRC example is a bit misleading. Slashdot moderators can make you harder to hear, but they can't silence you altogether. Peer review is a great idea, but if you give the power to too many people (like 400, for example), there's bound to be problems. I give the new moderation system about 2 weeks... Bets anyone?
Now I'll just put on my asbestos overalls, set my threshold to -64768 and watch the moderator/AC flame-duels erupt...
first off, /dev/zero isnt good enough, as there would be reidual magnetic forces from the old data . multiple passes from /dev/rand would obscure the pattern better, but a truly motivated agancy could probably still recover your data. Physical destruction of the disk is the only 100% sure way to destroy the data, if you have data to hide, keep it all on zip disks, they burn faster than an aluminum hard drive...
Why does it always seem that Vice Presidents make an ass out of themselves?
It's called "Impeachment Insurance".
If Gore wins the presidency, crypto controls will be so tight it'll be a crime to export a cap'n crunch decoder ring. What a choice we have in America... inept but well meaning (democrats) vs. devious but good at it (republicans) vs. right, but ignored (liberetarians) *sigh* I'm moving to the moon... who's with me?
How many hits (and AC comments) anti-M$ articles get from *.microsoft.com
It wouldn't be that hard to implement, methinks...
Here's a quick-and-dirty test of the bandwidth of your optic nerve (note: this is a *large* nerve bundle, not a single neuron we're testing here). I cranked my monitor up to its maximum resolution/color depth/refresh rate setting, closed one eye, and put my nose up against the monitor glass (so the screen takes up my entire field of view). Since I can still see the vertical refresh flicker, my monitor is not outputting more information than my eye can handle, therefore the bandwidth of one optic nerve must be greater than the maximum bandwidth of my video card! (~110MBits)
...and now we all know why I'm in computer science, and not biology!
But then you run into the problem of everyone having their CD drives in different places. i.e. mine is /dev/hdc (IDE 2 drive 1) my roommates is on /dev/hdd (IDE 2 drive 2). My Mac at home has a SCSI CD-rom, my old box has a noname CD that plugs into the soundcard (with a proprietary interface). And so on, ad nauseum, et cetera...
IANAL, but it seems like they wouldn't have a leg to stand on when it comes to holding /. responsible. I quote: /. likely wouldn't be either.
"The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. Slashdot is not responsible for what they say. "
This case is *not* about anonymous cowards, but about people who have an account. Furthermore, Yahoo is not named as a defendant in the case, so
Indiana Jones found Star Wars objects in Egyptian glyphs, too.
Watch "Raiders of the Lost Ark". In the scene where they open the big stone vault with the Ark in it, There is a column behind Indy with carvings of R2D2 and C3PO on it...
That's real Egyptian history, and it really has nothing to do with the fact that Geoge Lucas made both movies!
Of couse I knew, but you don't argue by giving both sides of the issue. I was replying to a post extolling the virtues of the military's research. I was simply trying to make the point that the purpose of any military is to kill people and break things, and therefore the goal of military research would be easier and more efficient ways to kill people and break things.
Who really cares?
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> don't forget that it was the US Military that invented your precious Internet
The military did invent the internet. Credit given where credit is due.
>And, most great technological creations came out of war.
WTF? great inventions like nuclear weapons... Its nice living less than an hour from the end of life as we know it...isnt it
>It's the end of the cold war that has brought about a general lack of funding for general research
Not true, it's moved a lot of research into the private sector, building things that don't explode...
>a lot of us computer people work for Defense contractors
Same goes for Microsoft. That doesnt make them automatically right...
>A lot of Americans still believe a strong military is important
The same forward - thinking bunch who believes New Mexico is a foriegn country, Reagan knew what he was talking about, and Elvis is still alive...
>Just because you don't think so doesn't mean your point of view is necessarily gospel.
same for you...
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If you hit something hard enough to cause you to fly out of your seat and smash your face into the windshield, a three dimensional wave in the glass is the least of your worries. Come to think of it, hitting the glass with your face would set up bigger vibrations than this thing could. Of course if you would just wear your seatbelt, you won't hit the glass at all, making this all a moot point...
If the patch traps the CPU ID instruction, it's irrelevant whether the chip thinks it's turned on or not. All you have to do is stop that instruction from reaching the chip... Now, what I would like to see it a patch that returns a random serial number instead of simply blocking the CPU ID instruction.
Which were ignored by the mainstream press since, well, Halloween...
"the problem with standing up for free speech is you end up defending sons-of-bitches" - I don't know who said that, but it applies here.
I hate spam as much as the next guy, but jail terms for email spamming is more than a little ridiculous. I have to side with the ACLU on this one. If you would rather have government control over mail transfer than do a little exercise with your delete-key finger, you should have your head examined.
If there were no mouse, how would we aim a railgun?
Most games benefit from using a mouse. I admit I use the keyboard a lot in windowing interfaces, but anyone who thinks grep and cat are more intuitive than a scrollbar and a double-click is a lunatic.
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