Not "innocent", he was somply "not proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt." as 18th century judge Sir William Blackstone said, "It is better to let ten guilty men go free than to wrongly incarcerate one innocent man."
OJ was later held responsible for their deaths in civil court.
As this is the internationalnetwork different countries' laws are being argued as if everyone's laws are the same. In Britain iinm there is no "fair use" and MP3s ripped from your own CDs are in fact illegal.
Here in the US they are legal under "fair use" until you distribute them without the copyright holder's permission, at which point they become "illegal MP3s".
Note that I did not say "copyright owner" but "copyright holder". In the US you don't OWN a copyright. To make an analogy to real property, if you are renting a house from your landlord you don't own the house and you don't own the lease. You don't own the poem you wrote, you have a "limited" time monopoly on it, and you do not own the copyright, as it will expire (although you and your crandchildren will likely expire first, thanks to our corporate-owned overlords in Congress).
distributing music the way it has been done for so long is no longer viable
It could be if the RIAA labels weren't run by stupid selfishness. There is no reason why a CD should cost as much as the labels charge; the cost of recording and stamping CDs has plummeted deeply since the advent of the CD, yet the price hasn't come down at all.
Five dollar Metallica CDs would sell like hotcakes, and there would be profits for all involved. The labels' greed and stupidity are the only things killing their industry.
Your friend is gone; he no longer owns anything. His worldly possessions, including his accounts and passwords, belong to those he left behind. They have asked you to open the locked box, open it.
There is no ethical delimma. You are being asked to open something by that something's owner. NOT cracking passwords would be wrong.
"Is this thing on? Tasting, tasting, 1, 2, 3... SLURP!" -Tommy Smothers, Smothers Brothers LIVE at the Purple Onion
"In a nation-wide taste test, ICAAN's hamburgers were named the best in the country. Tasters said the burger had a certain "je ne sais quoi." In other news, scientists have identified "je ne sais quoi" as a lack of rat feces" -Misquoted from Alex Fossella
"But I don't LIKE spam!" -'Woman' in Monty python skit about the taste of spam.com
"A domain is the place that someone has people who work for them take care of. There's four kinds of domains: Domain of the King, Domain of the [insert name of some kind of Lord of the Rings monster here], Domain of the Public, and Domain of the Name. They have long been sought after by those in positions of power, such as kings or wiki creators. When it comes to domains, it's pretty much like this: in the right hands, everything is peachy. But in the wrong hands, vampires crawl from the bowels of the Earth and feast at our eyeballs." -Uncyclopedia on Domains
"Taste is the Greek god of individual preference. Inbred son of Zeus and Apollo, Taste usually governs endless and pointless debates between retarded entities on internet forums. In sculptures and various other artworks he is depicted wearing a bean flavoured cape and ice-cream shoes, holding a banana-like sceptre." -Uncyclopedia on taste
"Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art." -Oscar Wilde on taste
"Domain tasting is the practice of a domain name registrant using the five-day "grace period" at the beginning of the registration of an ICANN-regulated second level domain to test the marketability of the domain." - Wikipedia on Domain Tasting
"On the streets these days, a dime bag of kittens costs a pretty penny." - Oscar Wilde on slashdot's Offtopic moderation
Since I wear a goatee, I should write a computer language! I noticed that Thomas E. Kurtz's black and white picture in TFA (yes, I did. I must be new here) bears a striking resemblance to me at one point in my life, although his mustache is a lot thinker than mine ever was and his glasses are a lot nerdier than mine were. And I never EVER wore a suit and tie unless somebody got married or buried.
I don't understan the "However, today this light weigh [sic] language losing it's [sic] popularity (less then 2% of the industry). This why: [sic]" with a picture of a much heavier geezer still wearing a mustache but less nerdy glasses. I don't get the author's point, as the facial hair is the same in both pictures.
James Gosling, meanwhile, bears a striking resemblance to Dave Irvin, a local businessman who couldn't use a computer as a doorstop, let alone write a computer language..
What is the one thing all the folks in those pictures have in common?
THAY'RE ALL NERDS and look like they are! As such they all deserve our deepest respect and brotherhood.
"I am, and always will be, a pocket-protector wearing NERD!" - Niel Armstrong, first human to set foot on another world.
-mcgrew (If I ran the zoo I wouldn't be a nerd but I don't so I am)
This is the single most important threat to our democratic system of govt.
I disagree. IMO the biggest threat to our once democratic republic is our method of financing campaigns. As long as ten million dollars worth of ads compared to another candidate's one million dollars can change your mind, the voting machine itself is a tiny threat. Bill Gates is not an Illinois resident and has no right to vote for any Illinois Representative, yet his money gives him far more pull with my congressman than my mere vote does.
And he can contribute to both major party candidates so it wouldn't matter to him which one lost, he would win.
Ideally nobody should be able to contribute. All elections should be financed by the government itself.
Almost as windmill-tilting is the idea that one should not be able to contribute to a candidate he or she isn't eligible to vote for (neither my employer if out of state or a corporation, nor my union, should be able to contribute), and nobody should be able to contribute to more than one candidate in any given race.
I think we'll see it sometime after pigs are genetically engineered to fly.
Step two is unnecessary. Let the machine tabulate the vote and print the ballot, which the voter can examine before insertion into the ballot box.
The machines in Illinois aren't Diebold, but it's funny- iirc the election before last, that's exactly the way it was. You could double check your vote on-screen before submission, then was printed a human-readable paper ballot that the election judge pout in the ballot box.
The primary election this time (my choice, Ron Paul, lost big time) was different. The paper ballot wasn't human-readable. That in itself made me suspicious, considering this IS Illinois, where we're so patriotic that even dying doesn't keep us from voting.
What I find hilarious is the very same malware troll was in the SCO thread, where it would have been an ontopic troll.
It was modded offtopic rather than "troll". At least this time the mods got it right, any link to malware should be modded "troll".
I really should start going to the Biters Anonymous meetings again, I've been responding to the troll posts, at least to the extent of saying DON'T CLICK THAT LINK. But damn, it's like giving up cigarettes.
So, anything that's been passed for general release is exempt.
Including snuff films that were shot thirty years ago? "Classified work" is particularly meaningless out of context as you presented it.
Oh, and you're an idiot.
I doubt you're the first one to say that.
You're really informed on this subject aren't you?
No. No more than 99% of the other people on slashdot. Your new law is obscenity in itself and anyone having a copy should be jailed under its own pretext.
Incidentally, here's the definition of "extreme" - it has to be both "grossly offensive, disgusting or obscene" and involve sexual violence, or sexual acts with a dead body.
The rape scene in sudden Impact is grossly offensive, disgusting and obscene, and involves sexual violence to the extent that a woman winds up in a nursing home over it. And BTW, the rape scene in that movie WOULD sexually excite a true rapist.
All I know about your police state, Commissioner, is what your countrymen tell me on the internet. I know of my own country's police state first hand, having had my rights grossly violated by its secret police.
Just because torturing someone to death is worse than shooting them in the head doesn't make shooting them not murder, and just because Zimbabwe's police state is worse than the US's police state doesn't make the US not a police state.
Do you not get the FUCKING POINT? Actually the post was on-topic and would have probably been moderated up (or "funny") had the malware not been linked.
So next time, Mr AC, leave out the malware. Your name WAS on that troll!
Come on, you know wikipedia is unreliable! Didn't the mainstream media say so? You should link to the uncyclopedia instead.
"Always remember: Drink apple juice, cause O.J. will kill you." ~ Oscar Wilde (quoted from the uncyclopedia).
And just so the mods mark me "overrated", "flamebait" or "troll" rather than "offtopic", I really shoud link to the uncyclopedia "UnNews" article on Hans Reiser:
Should ReiserFS be removed from Linux? Eric S. Raymond: "It's bad public relations to have a murderous file system in the kernel. Though he is of course innocent until and only if proven guilty. We should replace it with iPodFS or the modern youth, with their Game Boy 360s and Grand Theft Zunes, won't bother with our tribe's finest POSIX-compliant work. Besides, my VA Software IPO money ran out.."
Richard M. Stallman: "The Free Software Foundation's position on ReiserFS is that a GPLed file system is for the good of the user community and encourages others to licence superior file systems suitably. There are those who considered a file system built from a sordid tale of blood, adultery and financial misappropriation should have the 'taint' flag set, but for some reason they changed their minds when I offered to explain our position in song.."
Linus Torvalds: "My name is Linus Torvalds, and I pronounce "ReiserFS" as 'unsupported.'."
Steve Ballmer: "I'm sorry, I couldn't hear your question over my own cackling glee at Linux developers being arrested for murder.."
Simon Cowell: "That was terrible, I mean just awful. The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death kernel star wannabes.."
[edit] The votes are in! And Hans Reiser makes it through to the next level of FILESYSTEM IDOL! To be screened November 28th, 9am, at Alameda County Superior Court!
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There's no evidence he did, either. You can'r respect someone's wishes if he doesn't make those wishes known.
You have a LIFE????
Things I hate about /.(
these guys
I hear the FBI was installing software to track Slashdot posters. Is that true?
No, if that was the case uncyclopedia would be down. They host quite a few slashdot posters, here are some:
Good-evening,-Mr.-Gates
Microsoft Hates Apple
Bill Hitler
Microsoft's latest product after researching the black market
A Microsoft campaign to persuade people to install Vista
A screenshot of GNU/Linux® in use, with the GNU/X-Windows GNU/Ubuntu desktop
Rotating Gears, a game which comes preinstalled with Linux®. It is considered to be the best open-source game ever created, next to Russian Roulette.
Pimp Your Linux® ~ Use Fedora Core
Natalie Portman
Hot Grits
A Beowolf cluster
In Soviet Russia...
I slashdotted slashdot by linking to a slashdot article on slashdot.
Sorry.
Not "innocent", he was somply "not proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt." as 18th century judge Sir William Blackstone said, "It is better to let ten guilty men go free than to wrongly incarcerate one innocent man."
OJ was later held responsible for their deaths in civil court.
Illegal MP3s copied from his CDs on his computer?
As this is the internationalnetwork different countries' laws are being argued as if everyone's laws are the same. In Britain iinm there is no "fair use" and MP3s ripped from your own CDs are in fact illegal.
Here in the US they are legal under "fair use" until you distribute them without the copyright holder's permission, at which point they become "illegal MP3s".
Note that I did not say "copyright owner" but "copyright holder". In the US you don't OWN a copyright. To make an analogy to real property, if you are renting a house from your landlord you don't own the house and you don't own the lease. You don't own the poem you wrote, you have a "limited" time monopoly on it, and you do not own the copyright, as it will expire (although you and your crandchildren will likely expire first, thanks to our corporate-owned overlords in Congress).
When ain't the slashdot commentators gonna never learn? Ewe muss bee knew hear.
cul8r dood.
distributing music the way it has been done for so long is no longer viable
It could be if the RIAA labels weren't run by stupid selfishness. There is no reason why a CD should cost as much as the labels charge; the cost of recording and stamping CDs has plummeted deeply since the advent of the CD, yet the price hasn't come down at all.
Five dollar Metallica CDs would sell like hotcakes, and there would be profits for all involved. The labels' greed and stupidity are the only things killing their industry.
Alas, I say, the actions of the RIAA, and MPAA amount to nothing more than terrorism
They're not treeorists. Terrorism is physical violence against civilians for political change. The MAFIAA are Extortionists, not terrorists.
Your friend is gone; he no longer owns anything. His worldly possessions, including his accounts and passwords, belong to those he left behind. They have asked you to open the locked box, open it.
There is no ethical delimma. You are being asked to open something by that something's owner. NOT cracking passwords would be wrong.
"Is this thing on? Tasting, tasting, 1, 2, 3... SLURP!" -Tommy Smothers, Smothers Brothers LIVE at the Purple Onion
"In a nation-wide taste test, ICAAN's hamburgers were named the best in the country. Tasters said the burger had a certain "je ne sais quoi." In other news, scientists have identified "je ne sais quoi" as a lack of rat feces"
-Misquoted from Alex Fossella
"How does your Domain Taste??" -Digg on domain tasting
"But I don't LIKE spam!" -'Woman' in Monty python skit about the taste of spam.com
"A domain is the place that someone has people who work for them take care of. There's four kinds of domains: Domain of the King, Domain of the [insert name of some kind of Lord of the Rings monster here], Domain of the Public, and Domain of the Name. They have long been sought after by those in positions of power, such as kings or wiki creators. When it comes to domains, it's pretty much like this: in the right hands, everything is peachy. But in the wrong hands, vampires crawl from the bowels of the Earth and feast at our eyeballs." -Uncyclopedia on Domains
"Taste is the Greek god of individual preference. Inbred son of Zeus and Apollo, Taste usually governs endless and pointless debates between retarded entities on internet forums. In sculptures and various other artworks he is depicted wearing a bean flavoured cape and ice-cream shoes, holding a banana-like sceptre." -Uncyclopedia on taste
"Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art." -Oscar Wilde on taste
"Domain tasting is the practice of a domain name registrant using the five-day "grace period" at the beginning of the registration of an ICANN-regulated second level domain to test the marketability of the domain." - Wikipedia on Domain Tasting
"On the streets these days, a dime bag of kittens costs a pretty penny." - Oscar Wilde on slashdot's Offtopic moderation
Oh, you take me back to the good old days of Quake and Quake II when I ran the Springfield Fragfest site!
I guess I did get killed over the internet. A lot! Damn but it's dangerous in here.
I wonder, would they come to the US and arrest an American for such a film? I know a lot of hookers...
Since I wear a goatee, I should write a computer language! I noticed that Thomas E. Kurtz's black and white picture in TFA (yes, I did. I must be new here) bears a striking resemblance to me at one point in my life, although his mustache is a lot thinker than mine ever was and his glasses are a lot nerdier than mine were. And I never EVER wore a suit and tie unless somebody got married or buried.
I don't understan the "However, today this light weigh [sic] language losing it's [sic] popularity (less then 2% of the industry). This why: [sic]" with a picture of a much heavier geezer still wearing a mustache but less nerdy glasses. I don't get the author's point, as the facial hair is the same in both pictures.
James Gosling, meanwhile, bears a striking resemblance to Dave Irvin, a local businessman who couldn't use a computer as a doorstop, let alone write a computer language..
What is the one thing all the folks in those pictures have in common?
THAY'RE ALL NERDS and look like they are! As such they all deserve our deepest respect and brotherhood.
"I am, and always will be, a pocket-protector wearing NERD!" - Niel Armstrong, first human to set foot on another world.
-mcgrew (If I ran the zoo I wouldn't be a nerd but I don't so I am)
How fucking dumb are these people working for there companies?
Thank you for that typo, I needed a laugh!
This is the single most important threat to our democratic system of govt.
I disagree. IMO the biggest threat to our once democratic republic is our method of financing campaigns. As long as ten million dollars worth of ads compared to another candidate's one million dollars can change your mind, the voting machine itself is a tiny threat. Bill Gates is not an Illinois resident and has no right to vote for any Illinois Representative, yet his money gives him far more pull with my congressman than my mere vote does.
And he can contribute to both major party candidates so it wouldn't matter to him which one lost, he would win.
Ideally nobody should be able to contribute. All elections should be financed by the government itself.
Almost as windmill-tilting is the idea that one should not be able to contribute to a candidate he or she isn't eligible to vote for (neither my employer if out of state or a corporation, nor my union, should be able to contribute), and nobody should be able to contribute to more than one candidate in any given race.
I think we'll see it sometime after pigs are genetically engineered to fly.
-mcgrew
Step two is unnecessary. Let the machine tabulate the vote and print the ballot, which the voter can examine before insertion into the ballot box.
The machines in Illinois aren't Diebold, but it's funny- iirc the election before last, that's exactly the way it was. You could double check your vote on-screen before submission, then was printed a human-readable paper ballot that the election judge pout in the ballot box.
The primary election this time (my choice, Ron Paul, lost big time) was different. The paper ballot wasn't human-readable. That in itself made me suspicious, considering this IS Illinois, where we're so patriotic that even dying doesn't keep us from voting.
What I find hilarious is the very same malware troll was in the SCO thread, where it would have been an ontopic troll.
It was modded offtopic rather than "troll". At least this time the mods got it right, any link to malware should be modded "troll".
I really should start going to the Biters Anonymous meetings again, I've been responding to the troll posts, at least to the extent of saying DON'T CLICK THAT LINK. But damn, it's like giving up cigarettes.
-mcgrew
So, anything that's been passed for general release is exempt.
Including snuff films that were shot thirty years ago? "Classified work" is particularly meaningless out of context as you presented it.
Oh, and you're an idiot.
I doubt you're the first one to say that.
You're really informed on this subject aren't you?
No. No more than 99% of the other people on slashdot. Your new law is obscenity in itself and anyone having a copy should be jailed under its own pretext.
Incidentally, here's the definition of "extreme" - it has to be both "grossly offensive, disgusting or obscene" and involve sexual violence, or sexual acts with a dead body.
The rape scene in sudden Impact is grossly offensive, disgusting and obscene, and involves sexual violence to the extent that a woman winds up in a nursing home over it. And BTW, the rape scene in that movie WOULD sexually excite a true rapist.
All I know about your police state, Commissioner, is what your countrymen tell me on the internet. I know of my own country's police state first hand, having had my rights grossly violated by its secret police.
Just because torturing someone to death is worse than shooting them in the head doesn't make shooting them not murder, and just because Zimbabwe's police state is worse than the US's police state doesn't make the US not a police state.
Now go away, fool.
I can't afford it any more =(
Do you not get the FUCKING POINT? Actually the post was on-topic and would have probably been moderated up (or "funny") had the malware not been linked.
So next time, Mr AC, leave out the malware. Your name WAS on that troll!
"Princeton Professor, Ed Felton was arrested today for violation of the DMCA..."
"Always remember: Drink apple juice, cause O.J. will kill you." ~ Oscar Wilde (quoted from the uncyclopedia).
And just so the mods mark me "overrated", "flamebait" or "troll" rather than "offtopic", I really shoud link to the uncyclopedia "UnNews" article on Hans Reiser:
Just because you go to prison for murder doesn't invalidate your copyrights, whether your code is proprietary or GPL or other license.