Good point. "Illegal" is a poor choice of words, because it is subjective and varies based on locale. A better critera would be material which poses a clear threat of harm, e.g. your credit card numbers, the source code to WinXP, the launch codes for NORAD missiles, etc.
So what you're saying is that you trust my judgement will keep me from publishing all your credit card numbers on Freenet? If we could trust everybody engaged in doing harm to have the good judgement to avoid doing harm, we wouldn't need any laws, would we?
I don't believe in freedom of speech as an absolute right. It's not. The principle is "You're freedom to swing your fist ends where my nose begins." In other words, the obligation to do no harm trumps the right to free speech. I'm free to call you an asshole, because presumably that does no harm. However, I'm not free to publish your credit card numbers! How does this relate to Freenet? I don't know... most of the anonymous remailers got shut down due to their inability to prevent themselves from being used for criminal behavior. What checks does Freenet have in place to preserve privacy, and yet prevent the distribution of illegal material? Do the developers beleive in an absolute right to distribute copyrighted material, or child porn?
Can't get a girlfriend I know this sounds like a cliche, but this is SO TRUE FOR ME! I really can't get a girlfriend, because my wife keeps scaring them away!
There you go! This SCO thing is really just a plot by the Linux kernel development group to force everybody to upgrade to 2.6! (Hey, it makes as much sense as the claims made on slashdot that Microsoft intentionally released NT4.0 and Win2K to justify an early end of life for those products!)
The question is whether or not you are regarded as a common carrier, and thus not liable for any of the traffic through your node. I'd love to see this go to court, but I don't want to be the one that takes it there!
derived from either AIX or Dynix/ptx If they can't determine specifically which operating system the alleged infringement came from, then what are the grounds for their law suit in the first place? It's more like a fishing expedition. This is analagous to Joe open source coder filing a lawsuit against Microsoft because "we beleive Windows may contain GPL licensed code."
Hard drives fail and are slow as hell. And are several orders of magnitude less expensive per byte stored. Unless something happens to drastically alter the relative price of hard disks vs. RAM, I predict that you're blowing smoke.
Of course, once these thugs find out who you are, you can pay them off for the small fee averaging $3,000 You mean, once these thugs find out who my neighbor with the unencrypted 802.11b Access Point is, he can pay them off... provided they can prove it was actually him, and not any one of his neighbors that made copyrighted material available without authorization...
Followed by a Pepsi promotion where they give away SCO Linux licenses inside Pepsi bottle caps, featuring commercials with the 13 year old kid saying "And I'm here to tell you we're still going to run Linux... legally!"
You mean (gasp)... it's actually possible that SCO executives lied about something? I am shocked! Shocked and appalled that something so unexpected could happen right here in the good ol' USA, where corporate executives, especially corporate executives that also happen to be lawyers, are known to ALWAYS tell the truth -- even if it hurts!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the breaking of CO2 into C and O2 exactly what plants do during photosynthesis? So this is essentially cheap regardless of how much energy it takes, all you need is a large surface area with sunlight striking it, and algae, trees, etc. will do it for you? The problem then becomes how to capture the carbon before it oxidizes again - and we had an article some weeks back on collecting algae on the bottom of the ocean as a method of sequestering carbon.
Yes, the suggestion that we convert the carbon in C02 to diamonds was deliberately tongue-in-cheek, as it is obvious that ridiculous amounts of energy would be required. However, I was hoping to provoke some discussion on whether or not there are actually any feasible methods of sequestering C02 to remove some of the greenhouse effect.
But couldn't we do something useful with all that carbon, say, make artificial diamonds out of it, thus preventing it from forming C02? More O2 and less C02 would be a good thing, wouldn't it? (Unless you're a plant.)
I don't recall ad-free telephones being some sort of fundamental human right. How about turning off the phone at dinner time? I'm sure this obvious solution never occured to those of us awaiting a call back from a job recruiter, our sick relatives at the hospital, a suicidal friend in desparate need of being talked out of doing something stupid, or a child unsure whether or not they can get a ride home from the mall... ever stop to think that I might feel obliged to answer my phone because there are more important people trying to contact me than telemarketers? And that the time I spend convincing somebody who won't take "fuck no!" for an answer could make a life-changing difference to somebody else who isn't a bottom-feeding scumbag?
Officials in the telemarketing industry did not immediately return calls seeking comment. Not suprising, considering they were all very busy looking for new jobs...
Much like the unexamined life in not worth living, unaudited code is not worth trusting. Yes, it is possible to have extensive peer review without completely opening the source, but depending on there being no inadvertent leaks or disassembly going on as part of your security strategy is the height of foolishness. Ultimately, can't most information that can be gleaned from the source also be gleaned from the executable, with a little more persistence? In fact, examining the the executable tells you more about what is actually going on -- auditing the source tells you nothing about compiler bugs or overly-optimistic optimizations.
But, in the broader picture, why are American jobs more important than foreign jobs? Are American lives intrinsically more important than say, Iraqi lives? Are Americans the "chosen people" living in the Promised Land by a divine right conferred on them by God? Maybe Lord Krisna made the same promises to his followers...
If they are a publically traded company, they are required by law to do everything possible to maximize shareholder value. If they don't, shareholders can sue them for failing in this duty. Couldn't they maximize shareholder value by investing in gambling, prostitution, and drugs? Or are there some other contraints they must work under, i.e. the responsibility to earn money in a legal, ethical manner. I'm not convinced the outsourcing gives such a great Return On Investment today -- but given a few more years of experience, it should be much more profitable tomorrow.
Can't answer that, but there are a lot of people on slashdot hard at working trying to make it cost less money -- commoditization of the computer industry may ultimately be the greatest help for development of Indian IT.
Chuck E. Cheese's is apparently still making money. Sure, they charge you $35 for a bad pizza and drinks, but then they give you 100 free tokens! Well... my 3-year old likes it, anyway!
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Good point. "Illegal" is a poor choice of words, because it is subjective and varies based on locale. A better critera would be material which poses a clear threat of harm, e.g. your credit card numbers, the source code to WinXP, the launch codes for NORAD missiles, etc.
So what you're saying is that you trust my judgement will keep me from publishing all your credit card numbers on Freenet? If we could trust everybody engaged in doing harm to have the good judgement to avoid doing harm, we wouldn't need any laws, would we?
I don't believe in freedom of speech as an absolute right. It's not. The principle is "You're freedom to swing your fist ends where my nose begins." In other words, the obligation to do no harm trumps the right to free speech. I'm free to call you an asshole, because presumably that does no harm. However, I'm not free to publish your credit card numbers! How does this relate to Freenet? I don't know... most of the anonymous remailers got shut down due to their inability to prevent themselves from being used for criminal behavior. What checks does Freenet have in place to preserve privacy, and yet prevent the distribution of illegal material? Do the developers beleive in an absolute right to distribute copyrighted material, or child porn?
I think the only crack here is the stuff the writers of this article were smoking?
Can't get a girlfriend I know this sounds like a cliche, but this is SO TRUE FOR ME! I really can't get a girlfriend, because my wife keeps scaring them away!
There you go! This SCO thing is really just a plot by the Linux kernel development group to force everybody to upgrade to 2.6! (Hey, it makes as much sense as the claims made on slashdot that Microsoft intentionally released NT4.0 and Win2K to justify an early end of life for those products!)
The question is whether or not you are regarded as a common carrier, and thus not liable for any of the traffic through your node. I'd love to see this go to court, but I don't want to be the one that takes it there!
derived from either AIX or Dynix/ptx If they can't determine specifically which operating system the alleged infringement came from, then what are the grounds for their law suit in the first place? It's more like a fishing expedition. This is analagous to Joe open source coder filing a lawsuit against Microsoft because "we beleive Windows may contain GPL licensed code."
Hard drives fail and are slow as hell. And are several orders of magnitude less expensive per byte stored. Unless something happens to drastically alter the relative price of hard disks vs. RAM, I predict that you're blowing smoke.
Of course, once these thugs find out who you are, you can pay them off for the small fee averaging $3,000 You mean, once these thugs find out who my neighbor with the unencrypted 802.11b Access Point is, he can pay them off... provided they can prove it was actually him, and not any one of his neighbors that made copyrighted material available without authorization...
Followed by a Pepsi promotion where they give away SCO Linux licenses inside Pepsi bottle caps, featuring commercials with the 13 year old kid saying "And I'm here to tell you we're still going to run Linux... legally!"
You mean (gasp)... it's actually possible that SCO executives lied about something? I am shocked! Shocked and appalled that something so unexpected could happen right here in the good ol' USA, where corporate executives, especially corporate executives that also happen to be lawyers, are known to ALWAYS tell the truth -- even if it hurts!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the breaking of CO2 into C and O2 exactly what plants do during photosynthesis? So this is essentially cheap regardless of how much energy it takes, all you need is a large surface area with sunlight striking it, and algae, trees, etc. will do it for you? The problem then becomes how to capture the carbon before it oxidizes again - and we had an article some weeks back on collecting algae on the bottom of the ocean as a method of sequestering carbon.
Yes, the suggestion that we convert the carbon in C02 to diamonds was deliberately tongue-in-cheek, as it is obvious that ridiculous amounts of energy would be required. However, I was hoping to provoke some discussion on whether or not there are actually any feasible methods of sequestering C02 to remove some of the greenhouse effect.
But couldn't we do something useful with all that carbon, say, make artificial diamonds out of it, thus preventing it from forming C02? More O2 and less C02 would be a good thing, wouldn't it? (Unless you're a plant.)
I don't recall ad-free telephones being some sort of fundamental human right. How about turning off the phone at dinner time? I'm sure this obvious solution never occured to those of us awaiting a call back from a job recruiter, our sick relatives at the hospital, a suicidal friend in desparate need of being talked out of doing something stupid, or a child unsure whether or not they can get a ride home from the mall... ever stop to think that I might feel obliged to answer my phone because there are more important people trying to contact me than telemarketers? And that the time I spend convincing somebody who won't take "fuck no!" for an answer could make a life-changing difference to somebody else who isn't a bottom-feeding scumbag?
Officials in the telemarketing industry did not immediately return calls seeking comment. Not suprising, considering they were all very busy looking for new jobs...
Much like the unexamined life in not worth living, unaudited code is not worth trusting. Yes, it is possible to have extensive peer review without completely opening the source, but depending on there being no inadvertent leaks or disassembly going on as part of your security strategy is the height of foolishness. Ultimately, can't most information that can be gleaned from the source also be gleaned from the executable, with a little more persistence? In fact, examining the the executable tells you more about what is actually going on -- auditing the source tells you nothing about compiler bugs or overly-optimistic optimizations.
And here I thought it was the "Caution: Driver Chews Tobacco" bumber sticker...
But, in the broader picture, why are American jobs more important than foreign jobs? Are American lives intrinsically more important than say, Iraqi lives? Are Americans the "chosen people" living in the Promised Land by a divine right conferred on them by God? Maybe Lord Krisna made the same promises to his followers...
If they are a publically traded company, they are required by law to do everything possible to maximize shareholder value. If they don't, shareholders can sue them for failing in this duty. Couldn't they maximize shareholder value by investing in gambling, prostitution, and drugs? Or are there some other contraints they must work under, i.e. the responsibility to earn money in a legal, ethical manner. I'm not convinced the outsourcing gives such a great Return On Investment today -- but given a few more years of experience, it should be much more profitable tomorrow.
Can't answer that, but there are a lot of people on slashdot hard at working trying to make it cost less money -- commoditization of the computer industry may ultimately be the greatest help for development of Indian IT.
Hey, they've already released the source to part of NT4.0 and Windows 2000... what more could EU want?
Chuck E. Cheese's is apparently still making money. Sure, they charge you $35 for a bad pizza and drinks, but then they give you 100 free tokens! Well... my 3-year old likes it, anyway!
Granted, the arcade may be more social If hanging out with rude, pimply faced pre-teens, drug dealers, and pedophile's is your cup of tea...