In essence, a web browser is a translator. It translates HTML into something formatted. By claiming that Dialectizer or whatever it is infringes upon a copyright means that just going to their web site with a web browser is infringing upon their copyright.
Corporate people like to spend money. So, the only way to make GTK and QT be a success is to charge large sums of money for them. Remember, to be an "Open Standard", one must be required to pay money to be called "standards compliant". Well, atleast this is what The Open Group believes. And all those other standards groups want you to pay a few zillion for documentation on the standard. Oh joy. I love standards.
Sort of makes me think of the Selective Service System in the US. For years and years, you filled out a card, and they payed postage. Starting this year, they had a newer, friendly card to fill out, and you have to PAY for the postage when you mail it. Shows you how much the US government values our lives.
Fortunately, I went to the Selective Service web site, and found out I can register to get killed in the event of war online, for free. After I did that, I let them have my twenty bucks and some loose change (yes, my gripe was that big).
So, for all you U.S. younger-ones out there, when you have to register for the draft, be sure to do it online, and save yourself the 22 cents your life is worth. Wait, so my life is worthless now.
Will lose a chunk to email? Too late! How many times in the past year have you written a letter to anybody on real paper? Probably very few times, if any.
I know I haven't. Wow wait a day to have a letter sent across town, when you can email in a minute, or use ICQ or AIM and do it in a second?
I'm sure this same thing happened when the telephone came around. "Oh, the postal service is losing money thanks to that danged old telephone thing." I can just see an old Postmaster doing that.
It is for the NSA Line Troller, silly. If they have monitoring capabilites out the Wazoo, then what does it matter if you a cryptographic key a mile long? They saw you type in your PGP passphrase, so why bother!
It is nice to be paranoid. It keeps you from getting mugged, or whatever. Trutfully, I care not about the NSA decrypting my OTPs for the PUPS archive. All they would get is source code for 7th Edition unix. I have nothing to hide, bring it on! I'm more worried about somebody putting a packet sniffer on the same lan as a secure web server that is taking credit card orders, cracking all of those and getting my credit card number, than some guy at the NSA looking around in my home directory.
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That is just one great movie. I won't describe it, just get it and watch it.
In essence, a web browser is a translator. It translates HTML into something formatted. By claiming that Dialectizer or whatever it is infringes upon a copyright means that just going to their web site with a web browser is infringing upon their copyright.
Corporate people like to spend money. So, the only way to make GTK and QT be a success is to charge large sums of money for them. Remember, to be an "Open Standard", one must be required to pay money to be called "standards compliant". Well, atleast this is what The Open Group believes. And all those other standards groups want you to pay a few zillion for documentation on the standard. Oh joy. I love standards.
Government crap online. Wow.
Sort of makes me think of the Selective Service System in the US. For years and years, you filled out a card, and they payed postage. Starting this year, they had a newer, friendly card to fill out, and you have to PAY for the postage when you mail it. Shows you how much the US government values our lives.
Fortunately, I went to the Selective Service web site, and found out I can register to get killed in the event of war online, for free. After I did that, I let them have my twenty bucks and some loose change (yes, my gripe was that big).
So, for all you U.S. younger-ones out there, when you have to register for the draft, be sure to do it online, and save yourself the 22 cents your life is worth. Wait, so my life is worthless now.
--ebunga
Will lose a chunk to email? Too late! How many times in the past year have you written a letter to anybody on real paper? Probably very few times, if any.
I know I haven't. Wow wait a day to have a letter sent across town, when you can email in a minute, or use ICQ or AIM and do it in a second?
I'm sure this same thing happened when the telephone came around. "Oh, the postal service is losing money thanks to that danged old telephone thing." I can just see an old Postmaster doing that.
--Ebunga
It is for the NSA Line Troller, silly. If they have monitoring capabilites out the Wazoo, then what does it matter if you a cryptographic key a mile long? They saw you type in your PGP passphrase, so why bother!
It is nice to be paranoid. It keeps you from getting mugged, or whatever. Trutfully, I care not about the NSA decrypting my OTPs for the PUPS archive. All they would get is source code for 7th Edition unix. I have nothing to hide, bring it on! I'm more worried about somebody putting a packet sniffer on the same lan as a secure web server that is taking credit card orders, cracking all of those and getting my credit card number, than some guy at the NSA looking around in my home directory.
Yeah, on Solaris, too. Probably Trusted Solaris.