Its Intellectual Property Law Clinic's attorneys-in-training, working under the supervision of law professors, are going to bat against the RIAA by helping outside lawyers to defend their clients, pro bono.
Even a literate layman who takes the time to read the US Constitution can see that the concept of intellectual "property" is unamerican. "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries"
If I rent a hoouse I have an exclusive right for a limited time, but it isn't my property. If "IP" was "property" than rather than giving "exclusive right" for a "limited time" the founding fathers would have said "ownership".
So why does a law school have an "Intellectual Property Law Clinic" when the Constitution is so clear that it's NOT property?
In the last two motherboards I had, the CPU died when their fans got so dirty they stopped. Yes, by "dirt" I am indeed referring to dust.
And I thought I had a bad hard drive once, and it turned out to be a marginally bad cable. It did indeed give me BSODs (win98) as well as some other flakeyness, and like the present problem didn't affect the Linux side at all.
Believe or not, that actually is his name, Here's a link to the office. Dr. Yeh (YAY!) is the one who turned me into a cyborg (see the journal my sig points to for details). Resistance IS futile and you WILL be assimilated!
And there's an attempted murder; no TWO of them, (my car, which was stolen shortly after I bought it, was used as a murder weapon) and an alien, in my journals, too.
Oh wait, I almost forgot about Mo, he was murdered (IMO anyway) by a guard when he was in jail.
There's an old Chinese curse which says "may you live in interesting times". I surely do!
More likely the memory has a bit of corrosion or dirt where it connects, or possibly the hard drive cables do, since it got like that gradually. When it stops running completely (meaning the Mandriva side woin't work either, so far not the slightest hiccup) I'll take it apart and clean it out.
If it wasn't for their "embrace-extend-extinguish" motto, their "DOS ain't done 'til Lotus won't run", their refusal to interoperate, their reluctance to follow US and EU law I'd agree with you.
But until Gates, Balmer, and their entire Board of Directors and upper management staff are gone I see no prospect whatever of them changing their tune. Microsoft is bad news for anybody not directly associated with them, and bad news for many who are. If they actually were drinking their own koolaid I'd be a bit more sympathetic to them.
IMO We would all be better off if Microsoft ceased to exist tomorrow.
I'm not Jewish, and my kids are girls. But decisions on a child's health are the domain of his or her parents and doctors, not government. On the same note, it shouldn't be government's decision whether or not to have an abortion, even though I find the idea of abortion personally distasteful.
When I was stationed in Thailand I had a friend who had jungle rot on his penis, necessitating circumcision. After it healed he made no complaints about loss of pleasure during sex. He wished his parents would have had it done when he was an infant.
Again, keep your nanny state laws off my family. I'm not Muslim either but I would respect their beliefs and not bring a dog into their house. I'm not Bhuddist but I wouldn't wear shoes into their house. Have a little respect for other people's beliefs or rightly be called a clod (or worse).
Man, do I feel sorry for you! Considering all the "your mouse has moved. Allow/Deny?" jokes here, I bet your "freaks" list just got so big you need a mainframe to just look at it.
That is, a mainframe running XP. Even a mainframe won't run Vista well!;)
sorry if it bothers you.. jsut filter it or stay in the linux or other sections
Considering that the article is about how badly Vista sucks, my guess is that the logged in AC (extra "anonymous" modifier) is either a big Microsoft fan, a Microsoft programmer, or likes to throw chairs. At any rate I'd bet money he doesn't have any computers with any OS except Windows and hates to see his favorite company called out for the incompetents, liars, and thieves they are.
Let's hope they learn from these mistakes before Windows 7 comes out.
As someone who doesn't like Microsoft software and fervently wishes it weren't ubiquitous, I hope they DON'T learn from their mistakes. I'd like to see 90% of all computers sold running various distros of Linux, or actually any other OS but Windows. If Microsoft keeps it up that's what's going to hapopen. Don't discourage them!
So did I, Microsoft employees and stockholders must have mod points. Or maybe it's the MBAs who piped in in the thread about the IMB atoms saying stupid stuff like "knowledge is worthless, only money matters." Sucks when a troll mods a funny post as "troll". That was classic! I hope the nerdier mods here correct the injustice.
Modding myself down with the "no karma bonus" box.
Insightful? If the box says it will run Vista (or if the Vista box says it will run on 512mb) it should run Vista with 512mb or it's a classic bait and switch. And you shouldn't have to reconfigure anything or add any hardware, it should WORK. Speaking of which, my box at home has 512mb and it runs XP fine. Most of the time anyway; sometimes it has trouble booting, bluescreening and rebooting itself repeatedly.
I have better uses for my money (like paying my eye doctor, Dr. Odin) than buying yet more memory for a computer that worked fine with 98 and works fine with mandriva/KDE. If I were the guy who typed the GP post I'd be pissed too.
Did thieves just take over all corporations this century, or was I just not paying attention the first half century of my life? When did lying become acceptable?
Microsoft and its employees should stop making excuses for their piss-poor crapware and actually produce a quality product instead of the bloated buggy crap they shovel out the door these days. If I bought whole computers instead of building them from spare parts I'd buy a mac.
It attempted to download and run something on the computer I'm using. There's an "extra anonymous modifier" om the post so it's a registered slashdot user.
I have nobody in my "foes" list but if this guy had not posted anonymously, he'd have been the first. Is there any way to unmask these asshats? Maybe the program he was trying to plant was benign, but I really doubt it. At any rate, that is the last link I click from an A/C post.
People scream the loudest when they're annoyed by morons. And yes, "lawn" is a four letter word. As to "fuck" you obviously haven't been reading my journals. From Dork Side of the Moon-
The next week Tami, AKA "the psycho bitch from hell", went off on Lance on the phone. Tami had never liked Lance.
Actually nobody liked Lance, but all felt sorry for him and tolerated him. The man badly needs psychaitric help.
"Fuck off and die" Tami had told him.
So he left a message on her answering machine pretending to be me. "Hi, lover, this is Steve" the message started, and he continued, saying how much he'd enjoyed the sex with her and was looking forward to it again. Nobody was fooled; it was unmistakably Lance. Tami's alien husband, who thinks I'm fucking her anyway (I'm not), seemed to want Lance's blood.
Nobody had much more to do with him after that, especially me, and including the woman he wanted to fuck that he thought I was fucking that triggered the violent outburst against me the week earlier.
I seldom mince words. Nobody here seems to mind much.
Both the sunrise and the Hubble bring profit, but neither brings monetary profit.
How about profiting as a secondary function?
In the case of IBM's atom movement, it may indeed bring profit some day. But as with telescopes, profit is not its primary purpose. Gaining knowledge is its primary purpose.
Who the fuck modded you 5;insightful?
Certainly not bankers and stockbrokers! I'd say most likely some nerds who know the value of knowledge, and know that money is not the answer to everything. It's simply a tool to facilitate barter, nothing more.
We slashdot nerds don't worship our tools, unlike you Wall Street Journal greedheads.
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Its Intellectual Property Law Clinic's attorneys-in-training, working under the supervision of law professors, are going to bat against the RIAA by helping outside lawyers to defend their clients, pro bono.
Even a literate layman who takes the time to read the US Constitution can see that the concept of intellectual "property" is unamerican. "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries"
If I rent a hoouse I have an exclusive right for a limited time, but it isn't my property. If "IP" was "property" than rather than giving "exclusive right" for a "limited time" the founding fathers would have said "ownership".
So why does a law school have an "Intellectual Property Law Clinic" when the Constitution is so clear that it's NOT property?
In the last two motherboards I had, the CPU died when their fans got so dirty they stopped. Yes, by "dirt" I am indeed referring to dust.
And I thought I had a bad hard drive once, and it turned out to be a marginally bad cable. It did indeed give me BSODs (win98) as well as some other flakeyness, and like the present problem didn't affect the Linux side at all.
Not even a Norse god?
Believe or not, that actually is his name, Here's a link to the office. Dr. Yeh (YAY!) is the one who turned me into a cyborg (see the journal my sig points to for details). Resistance IS futile and you WILL be assimilated!
And there's an attempted murder; no TWO of them, (my car, which was stolen shortly after I bought it, was used as a murder weapon) and an alien, in my journals, too.
Oh wait, I almost forgot about Mo, he was murdered (IMO anyway) by a guard when he was in jail.
There's an old Chinese curse which says "may you live in interesting times". I surely do!
More likely the memory has a bit of corrosion or dirt where it connects, or possibly the hard drive cables do, since it got like that gradually. When it stops running completely (meaning the Mandriva side woin't work either, so far not the slightest hiccup) I'll take it apart and clean it out.
You or the Ferrari? I mean, a guy like you is going to need a BIG car!
And I thought the FBI put you in prison for draft evasion, when did you get out? And how's Ethel doing?
If it wasn't for their "embrace-extend-extinguish" motto, their "DOS ain't done 'til Lotus won't run", their refusal to interoperate, their reluctance to follow US and EU law I'd agree with you.
But until Gates, Balmer, and their entire Board of Directors and upper management staff are gone I see no prospect whatever of them changing their tune. Microsoft is bad news for anybody not directly associated with them, and bad news for many who are. If they actually were drinking their own koolaid I'd be a bit more sympathetic to them.
IMO We would all be better off if Microsoft ceased to exist tomorrow.
I'm not Jewish, and my kids are girls. But decisions on a child's health are the domain of his or her parents and doctors, not government. On the same note, it shouldn't be government's decision whether or not to have an abortion, even though I find the idea of abortion personally distasteful.
When I was stationed in Thailand I had a friend who had jungle rot on his penis, necessitating circumcision. After it healed he made no complaints about loss of pleasure during sex. He wished his parents would have had it done when he was an infant.
That and the research showing that uncircimsized men having unprotected sex are three times more likely to contract AIDS than uncircumcised men would have me INSIST on circumcision were I to have a son.
Again, keep your nanny state laws off my family. I'm not Muslim either but I would respect their beliefs and not bring a dog into their house. I'm not Bhuddist but I wouldn't wear shoes into their house. Have a little respect for other people's beliefs or rightly be called a clod (or worse).
You give athiests a bad name.
Come on man, I'm trying to quit!
Nobody knows everything, not even me. I've been on the internet since 1997 and never heard of it, and thank you for the info.
Seems slashdot could filter out that kind of garbage... isn't it supposed to be a tech site?
Give MS a break!
They did.
Circumcision reduces the threat of HIV, and is required of Jews by their religion. Keep your god damned laws off my kids and their bodies!
I worked on Vista security during its development
;)
Man, do I feel sorry for you! Considering all the "your mouse has moved. Allow/Deny?" jokes here, I bet your "freaks" list just got so big you need a mainframe to just look at it.
That is, a mainframe running XP. Even a mainframe won't run Vista well!
I'm seriously thinking about filtering out all anonymous posts.
Modding myself down with the "no karma bonus" box... where do these asshats come from anyway?
I've been using Vista since it came out and have helped to install it on several machines in our office.
You fiend! How much are you extorting them for removal?
Come to think of it that would be a nice racket...
Marketing gone wild...
I just had visions of marketing showing its tits, damn you!
sorry if it bothers you .. jsut filter it or stay in the linux or other sections
Considering that the article is about how badly Vista sucks, my guess is that the logged in AC (extra "anonymous" modifier) is either a big Microsoft fan, a Microsoft programmer, or likes to throw chairs. At any rate I'd bet money he doesn't have any computers with any OS except Windows and hates to see his favorite company called out for the incompetents, liars, and thieves they are.
Yes, I'm an insensitive clod. So sue me.
Let's hope they learn from these mistakes before Windows 7 comes out.
As someone who doesn't like Microsoft software and fervently wishes it weren't ubiquitous, I hope they DON'T learn from their mistakes. I'd like to see 90% of all computers sold running various distros of Linux, or actually any other OS but Windows. If Microsoft keeps it up that's what's going to hapopen. Don't discourage them!
So did I, Microsoft employees and stockholders must have mod points. Or maybe it's the MBAs who piped in in the thread about the IMB atoms saying stupid stuff like "knowledge is worthless, only money matters." Sucks when a troll mods a funny post as "troll". That was classic! I hope the nerdier mods here correct the injustice.
Modding myself down with the "no karma bonus" box.
I wouldn't say "funny", I'd say "pathetic". What's even more pathetic is that the guy probably thinks it's hilarious.
I bet he's on my "freaks" list.
Modding myself down with the "no karma bonus" box.
Insightful? If the box says it will run Vista (or if the Vista box says it will run on 512mb) it should run Vista with 512mb or it's a classic bait and switch. And you shouldn't have to reconfigure anything or add any hardware, it should WORK. Speaking of which, my box at home has 512mb and it runs XP fine. Most of the time anyway; sometimes it has trouble booting, bluescreening and rebooting itself repeatedly.
I have better uses for my money (like paying my eye doctor, Dr. Odin) than buying yet more memory for a computer that worked fine with 98 and works fine with mandriva/KDE. If I were the guy who typed the GP post I'd be pissed too.
Did thieves just take over all corporations this century, or was I just not paying attention the first half century of my life? When did lying become acceptable?
Microsoft and its employees should stop making excuses for their piss-poor crapware and actually produce a quality product instead of the bloated buggy crap they shovel out the door these days. If I bought whole computers instead of building them from spare parts I'd buy a mac.
It attempted to download and run something on the computer I'm using. There's an "extra anonymous modifier" om the post so it's a registered slashdot user.
I have nobody in my "foes" list but if this guy had not posted anonymously, he'd have been the first. Is there any way to unmask these asshats? Maybe the program he was trying to plant was benign, but I really doubt it. At any rate, that is the last link I click from an A/C post.
No, a tupperware container with nutty mice is not alive. The eggs on your mom's ovaries are alive, as is every other cell in her body.
Both the sunrise and the Hubble bring profit, but neither brings monetary profit.
How about profiting as a secondary function?
In the case of IBM's atom movement, it may indeed bring profit some day. But as with telescopes, profit is not its primary purpose. Gaining knowledge is its primary purpose.
Who the fuck modded you 5;insightful?
Certainly not bankers and stockbrokers! I'd say most likely some nerds who know the value of knowledge, and know that money is not the answer to everything. It's simply a tool to facilitate barter, nothing more.
We slashdot nerds don't worship our tools, unlike you Wall Street Journal greedheads.
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