This is hilarious on SOOO many levels. I don't even know who to root for in this story! Help me Slashdot, should I go for Hallburton, the Patent Office, the trolls?
Go for Prior Art, nobody seems to be barracking for that these days:-(
States don't have rights, people do, that's the issue. (OK, maybe the law in the US gives rights to states, but morally, states have only obligations to the rights of their people.) Freedom of association rights (subject to commitment to non-disclosure) would overrule IBM here, surely.
Um, can I just say that the line, "Human Rights are inalienable," is a grand ideal (and one I will defend to the death), but the practicality of the matter is, clearly these rights are being alienated on dozens of fronts.
Law, constitutional or enacted, does not guarantee freedom unless the people... 1. Trust that law, 2. Trust those who administer and enforce those laws, and 3. Actively participate in guarding those laws.
Sadly, the time is approaching worldwide where the defence of those freedoms will come with great personal risk, therefore many will be less inclined to defend them. It is the dawn of a dark age.
OK, lets get one thing clear, it doesn't matter about the speed. I don't care if it doesn't affect the speed, the issue is that it's a blacklist decided by a government department. Some public servant sitting in an office reads a comment on/. that's actually a joke about bomb plans on the internet, doesn't get the reference, then/. becomes a banned site because of "illegal content".
Don't think this can happen? Think about the stories of "wags" who miss their flight because they're asked a few questions by police about the "bomb in their luggage" joke they cracked to a mate as they were queuing for the plane. That is how Australia's net censorship plans will "work".
The copyright system is broken and beyond economical repair.
That is a statement that carries as much intellectual and factual weight as yours. Back up yours with evidence, and I might support mine with the same (if I can be arsed.)
"Libertarianism virtually doesn't exist outside of the United States."
What?! Get f***ed! In a single line in Australia's constitution guarantees free trade between the states. This, coupled with an interpretation of "trade" as ANY interaction between the people, and support this a with a dead rainforest of case law which supports all the variations of this interpretation, Australia has at least as much liberty as the USA, probably more, because we have the Westminster system (executive by committee, not individual) as the basis of our state and federal parliaments.
Liberty exists by will of the people, not by some stupid fantasy that the USA invented democracy and still has the best one. (And clearly the whole "hanging chads" debacle proves you don't have the best there. S*** American "democracy" makes me angry.)
23 years as a dedicated Mac evangelist and they remove Firewire from the only Mac portable I can afford, the MacBook. I was going to upgrade in April, when my work's sal-sac year started. Now I'll be considering a Dell or Toshiba hackintosh because I can get Firewire on one of those for AU$800 (compared to AU$2099) and a few hours on the torrents. Bastages.
Do you think anybody might consider open-sourcing a bio-fuel method so that the world can break the back of the oil-drug pushers and bring some equity to less developed nations? Is it only the greedy choosing carbon loop chemistry as a career?
And what's the point of solving the carbon problem if we're going to hyper-over-populate the world and give everybody a car? Homo-bonobo is fucked, frankly.
I've noticed that the sort of people who make use of "mobility scooters" are the sort of people who are infirm in their old age because of not looking after their health through their life. They're frequently obese, I regularly see them smoking, and both those demographics rarely exercise, either.
A mobility aid for somebody like Prof Hawking is wonderful. For "Old Mrs Fysh" down the road, it more likely imprisons her in her ill health.
I wouldn't bother with encryption, I'd use a Netbook and WiFi all my images to Flickr, then when I'd used my monthly upload limit, Photobucket, then Facebook. Then at the end of the trip, erase everything from the Netbook before flying home and download all the photos when I got home. (You can make them private easily enough on these services.) It's a lot of work, yeh, but it would give some satisfaction to me to so easily bypass such a silly security measure using such simple tools.;-)
Another fun way to thumb your nose at authority would be to just get a large capacity memory card for your camera, but have the standard one in the camera while traveling. Place the working SD/XD camera card in your shoe, between the sole and inner-sole, under your toes. If you cycle and use SPD pedals, take your bike shoes in your luggage and tape the memory card under the inner-sole, just over the cleat mount bracket. Use metal foil tape, cut to the same shape as the cleat mount and they'll never see it in a million scans.
If they do find it, they'll be putting the anal inspection gloves on, though. That's when the fun backfires:D
The dock is nothing like the windows task bar. I use both daily and that brings into stark relief for me how crap the Taskbar is compared to the Dock. (...and the Dock is no oil painting, either.)
Yet another stupid process/design patent, though, that's the real issue. Hmm, lets patent getting up in the morning.
Privacy only exists in so far as you can go behind a door and change clothes without people going "EE-ewe, ya bits, man!" or walking in a park having a quiet conversation with somebody as you walk and most people are at least 10 metres away.
Privacy is a construct. Do you use a credit card? Your "privacy" went up in smoke when you applied for it. You pay tax, right? Your return was the surrender of your "privacy". These are things we need in to function normally in civil society.
We give a little privacy to earn trust. Look at hermits throughout history, they were as much shunned by as shunning society. So what Google and Facebook hold data on me? So does my employer, the Australian Tax Office, my bank, the transport branch of the Infrastructure Department.
You can run, but you can't hide. If you want to engage in civil society, you have to risk civil contact. It always was the way, and always will be. Before Facebook, before eMail, there was a thing called "reputation". Anybody could trash that, it's way harder to trash who you are online.
Oh great, more crap chosen by boardroom suits, foist upon the first ever generation to not create their own genre. The label model is exploitation, and the only good thing about MySpace was it broke the label model. Now Murdoch owns it, they're working at undermining the whole idea. MySpace was a way for fans to find new bands without A&R men ripping off both artist and audience.
Ah yes, the old "if Apple licenced their OS their 'worries' would be solved" argument.
Apple always was, is and always will be a hardware maker. Their OS, while being the sizzle they sell their steak with, is not what makes the money, it's the hardware. Hackintoshes punch a hole in that model, so Apple (who own the IP on their OS) exercise the right to reserve rights to protect their fair and free trade and people complain about them suing to enforce the end user licence agreement?
From what I can see, all people have said against this dongle (not against PC users) is that Apple will likely sue because this is a breach of the EULA and therefore "piracy" in a broad sense, even if you've bought a copy of Mac OS to do it with. No brainer, really.
If anybody's a douche it's those who think Apple don't know what they're doing and think that punching a hole in their sales through copyright breach will be good for Apple.
Why yes, yes there is. It can randomly spurt out false positives, subjecting people to random stops and questioning...
Now, I'm not defending the machine, it's an abomination if ever there was one, but people don't do any better. They can simply justify their false positives with clever legalese.
I'm what most would call an apple fanboi, but in this case, I say hate the player AND the game. The player chooses to play.
Most countries recognise software as being a process and don't allow full patents for programmes, although the rot is creeping in outside the US with stupid ideas like "innovation patents", which are halfway between a patent and registered design.
The idea that anything can theoretically be patented is an abuse of the recognition of innovation.
So, what Psystar are saying is, "If you develop integrated hardware and software, and protect your copyright, that's an anti-competitive practice."
Good. Copyright really is broken and fucked up then.
Oh, lord, if EM caused cancer we'd all be dead by now. Near where I live, there's a school with a cancer cluster among the teachers. It's over the road from an apple orchard, down the road from a panel beaters and a few blocks from a plastics plant. What has everybody blamed? The power lines overhead. The power lines have been there since the 1950s, but the cancer cluster started recently.
Of course, the carpet bagging consultants are out blaming the power lines because they're a soft target with big litigious payouts. Nobody would ever think to see if the orchard had changed their spraying habits or products, or whether the bodyworks or plastics factory had.
25% wasted power is a bit sucky, though.
Some ancient philosopher or other says, "Oooh, ooh, I'm self aware, and I'm human, therefore animals aren't self aware," and we fall hook, line and sinker for it for the rest of Christendom. Stupid humans, too.
Balance is primarily the reader's responsibility. Read widely and find the truth. It's great when a blog chooses to be balanced, but anything else is censorship.
I've been saying for years that all the arguments used against drugs in sport are nothing more than rehashes of the arguments against playing sport for paid advantage of 150 years ago. "It's bad for your health to train so hard as to win at any cost." "It brings corruption and disrepute to sport." "Sport should be pure and free of outside influence." Just to name a few.
The third example (outside influence) is clearly absurd, as there are sports where outside influence is a major factor. Swimsuit technology that's available to the wealthy nation's swimmers. The first carbon fibre bicycles compared to poorer countries' chromo framed rides.
The solution 150 years ago was 2 sporting tiers, amateur and professional. It probably IS time for a third tier, medically assisted.
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This is hilarious on SOOO many levels. I don't even know who to root for in this story! Help me Slashdot, should I go for Hallburton, the Patent Office, the trolls?
Go for Prior Art, nobody seems to be barracking for that these days :-(
States don't have rights, people do, that's the issue. (OK, maybe the law in the US gives rights to states, but morally, states have only obligations to the rights of their people.) Freedom of association rights (subject to commitment to non-disclosure) would overrule IBM here, surely.
On the 2nd page of your link...
"(Anarchists) evolved from left wing or communist groups of the 60s and 70s"
WTF? Anarchism was around long before communism, at least 150 years in a generally codified form.
Um, can I just say that the line, "Human Rights are inalienable," is a grand ideal (and one I will defend to the death), but the practicality of the matter is, clearly these rights are being alienated on dozens of fronts.
Law, constitutional or enacted, does not guarantee freedom unless the people...
1. Trust that law,
2. Trust those who administer and enforce those laws, and
3. Actively participate in guarding those laws.
Sadly, the time is approaching worldwide where the defence of those freedoms will come with great personal risk, therefore many will be less inclined to defend them. It is the dawn of a dark age.
OK, lets get one thing clear, it doesn't matter about the speed. I don't care if it doesn't affect the speed, the issue is that it's a blacklist decided by a government department. Some public servant sitting in an office reads a comment on /. that's actually a joke about bomb plans on the internet, doesn't get the reference, then /. becomes a banned site because of "illegal content".
Don't think this can happen? Think about the stories of "wags" who miss their flight because they're asked a few questions by police about the "bomb in their luggage" joke they cracked to a mate as they were queuing for the plane. That is how Australia's net censorship plans will "work".
The only thing that will stop this is the looming peak oil energy crisis. Bring it on.
The copyright system is broken and beyond economical repair.
That is a statement that carries as much intellectual and factual weight as yours. Back up yours with evidence, and I might support mine with the same (if I can be arsed.)
"Libertarianism virtually doesn't exist outside of the United States."
What?! Get f***ed! In a single line in Australia's constitution guarantees free trade between the states. This, coupled with an interpretation of "trade" as ANY interaction between the people, and support this a with a dead rainforest of case law which supports all the variations of this interpretation, Australia has at least as much liberty as the USA, probably more, because we have the Westminster system (executive by committee, not individual) as the basis of our state and federal parliaments.
Liberty exists by will of the people, not by some stupid fantasy that the USA invented democracy and still has the best one. (And clearly the whole "hanging chads" debacle proves you don't have the best there. S*** American "democracy" makes me angry.)
23 years as a dedicated Mac evangelist and they remove Firewire from the only Mac portable I can afford, the MacBook. I was going to upgrade in April, when my work's sal-sac year started. Now I'll be considering a Dell or Toshiba hackintosh because I can get Firewire on one of those for AU$800 (compared to AU$2099) and a few hours on the torrents. Bastages.
Do you think anybody might consider open-sourcing a bio-fuel method so that the world can break the back of the oil-drug pushers and bring some equity to less developed nations? Is it only the greedy choosing carbon loop chemistry as a career?
And what's the point of solving the carbon problem if we're going to hyper-over-populate the world and give everybody a car? Homo-bonobo is fucked, frankly.
I've noticed that the sort of people who make use of "mobility scooters" are the sort of people who are infirm in their old age because of not looking after their health through their life. They're frequently obese, I regularly see them smoking, and both those demographics rarely exercise, either. A mobility aid for somebody like Prof Hawking is wonderful. For "Old Mrs Fysh" down the road, it more likely imprisons her in her ill health.
I wouldn't bother with encryption, I'd use a Netbook and WiFi all my images to Flickr, then when I'd used my monthly upload limit, Photobucket, then Facebook. Then at the end of the trip, erase everything from the Netbook before flying home and download all the photos when I got home. (You can make them private easily enough on these services.) It's a lot of work, yeh, but it would give some satisfaction to me to so easily bypass such a silly security measure using such simple tools. ;-)
:D
Another fun way to thumb your nose at authority would be to just get a large capacity memory card for your camera, but have the standard one in the camera while traveling. Place the working SD/XD camera card in your shoe, between the sole and inner-sole, under your toes. If you cycle and use SPD pedals, take your bike shoes in your luggage and tape the memory card under the inner-sole, just over the cleat mount bracket. Use metal foil tape, cut to the same shape as the cleat mount and they'll never see it in a million scans.
If they do find it, they'll be putting the anal inspection gloves on, though. That's when the fun backfires
The dock is nothing like the windows task bar. I use both daily and that brings into stark relief for me how crap the Taskbar is compared to the Dock. (...and the Dock is no oil painting, either.) Yet another stupid process/design patent, though, that's the real issue. Hmm, lets patent getting up in the morning.
Privacy only exists in so far as you can go behind a door and change clothes without people going "EE-ewe, ya bits, man!" or walking in a park having a quiet conversation with somebody as you walk and most people are at least 10 metres away. Privacy is a construct. Do you use a credit card? Your "privacy" went up in smoke when you applied for it. You pay tax, right? Your return was the surrender of your "privacy". These are things we need in to function normally in civil society. We give a little privacy to earn trust. Look at hermits throughout history, they were as much shunned by as shunning society. So what Google and Facebook hold data on me? So does my employer, the Australian Tax Office, my bank, the transport branch of the Infrastructure Department. You can run, but you can't hide. If you want to engage in civil society, you have to risk civil contact. It always was the way, and always will be. Before Facebook, before eMail, there was a thing called "reputation". Anybody could trash that, it's way harder to trash who you are online.
A-bloody-men BROTHER.
Oh great, more crap chosen by boardroom suits, foist upon the first ever generation to not create their own genre. The label model is exploitation, and the only good thing about MySpace was it broke the label model. Now Murdoch owns it, they're working at undermining the whole idea. MySpace was a way for fans to find new bands without A&R men ripping off both artist and audience.
Ah yes, the old "if Apple licenced their OS their 'worries' would be solved" argument. Apple always was, is and always will be a hardware maker. Their OS, while being the sizzle they sell their steak with, is not what makes the money, it's the hardware. Hackintoshes punch a hole in that model, so Apple (who own the IP on their OS) exercise the right to reserve rights to protect their fair and free trade and people complain about them suing to enforce the end user licence agreement? From what I can see, all people have said against this dongle (not against PC users) is that Apple will likely sue because this is a breach of the EULA and therefore "piracy" in a broad sense, even if you've bought a copy of Mac OS to do it with. No brainer, really. If anybody's a douche it's those who think Apple don't know what they're doing and think that punching a hole in their sales through copyright breach will be good for Apple.
Why yes, yes there is. It can randomly spurt out false positives, subjecting people to random stops and questioning...
Now, I'm not defending the machine, it's an abomination if ever there was one, but people don't do any better. They can simply justify their false positives with clever legalese.
I'm what most would call an apple fanboi, but in this case, I say hate the player AND the game. The player chooses to play. Most countries recognise software as being a process and don't allow full patents for programmes, although the rot is creeping in outside the US with stupid ideas like "innovation patents", which are halfway between a patent and registered design. The idea that anything can theoretically be patented is an abuse of the recognition of innovation.
So, what Psystar are saying is, "If you develop integrated hardware and software, and protect your copyright, that's an anti-competitive practice." Good. Copyright really is broken and fucked up then.
Australapithecus?
Oh, lord, if EM caused cancer we'd all be dead by now. Near where I live, there's a school with a cancer cluster among the teachers. It's over the road from an apple orchard, down the road from a panel beaters and a few blocks from a plastics plant. What has everybody blamed? The power lines overhead. The power lines have been there since the 1950s, but the cancer cluster started recently. Of course, the carpet bagging consultants are out blaming the power lines because they're a soft target with big litigious payouts. Nobody would ever think to see if the orchard had changed their spraying habits or products, or whether the bodyworks or plastics factory had. 25% wasted power is a bit sucky, though.
Some ancient philosopher or other says, "Oooh, ooh, I'm self aware, and I'm human, therefore animals aren't self aware," and we fall hook, line and sinker for it for the rest of Christendom. Stupid humans, too.
Balance is primarily the reader's responsibility. Read widely and find the truth. It's great when a blog chooses to be balanced, but anything else is censorship.
I've been saying for years that all the arguments used against drugs in sport are nothing more than rehashes of the arguments against playing sport for paid advantage of 150 years ago. "It's bad for your health to train so hard as to win at any cost." "It brings corruption and disrepute to sport." "Sport should be pure and free of outside influence." Just to name a few.
The third example (outside influence) is clearly absurd, as there are sports where outside influence is a major factor. Swimsuit technology that's available to the wealthy nation's swimmers. The first carbon fibre bicycles compared to poorer countries' chromo framed rides.
The solution 150 years ago was 2 sporting tiers, amateur and professional. It probably IS time for a third tier, medically assisted.