What this story really shows again is that newspapers are corrupt: they are capable of censoring the news, and they will do so if it benefits the companies or the people working there.
The biggest problem in this from my perspective, is that the traditional media was able to influence an open effort on the web to keep this censored. The traditional media has for a long time chosen what to report and what not to report. I'm not even saying that they were right or wrong in this particular case to not report the news. It makes me wonder just how open of an effort Wikipedia really is.
The net is a tremendous communication tool, but we really need to fight hard to keep it at the point where we can say what we want without some established power censoring us. Sometimes people need to overthrow their government, Iran is a good example right now, and a communications platform like the net is huge help but only if we can maintain freedom of speech on it.
Wow. Your point about the creative settings in 2nd and reprinting lists in third is right on. I'm not sure I had thought about it quite like that before reading your post, but I certainly agree.
Thanks.
The Voyager Interstellar Mission would seem to show that at least one civilization is not so paranoid as to be prevented from sending out an invite to a home planet.
The golden record inside both Voyagers include directions to Earth.
Well, I suppose someone could write an open source DRM module for mplayer. Would that work for you? This idea reminds me of KPDF. In the configuration options it has a checkbox for: Obey DRM Limitations.
The first time I saw the checkbox I laughed out loud for good minute or so. Classic.
I bought a Turtle Creek card to add Dolby Digital to my MythTV PC. The Turtle Creek card was a "just works" type of solution whereas the Creative card wasn't. I've never used it in Windows, but it works perfectly with my entertainment system on Linux. As an added bonus it was a lot cheaper than a Creative card.
I completely agree. I did prefer Trace as Crow, but Bill is great and really doesn't get the credit he deserves. In the current Rifftrax and Film Crew stuff he is fantastic.
One thing that gets overlooked is that Mike was the head writer for almost the entire run of MST3K. He had a lot to do with the great stuff during Joel's run as well as his own.
In any event, it will be nice to hear from Trace and Frank again.
As others have said, so far Road Runner hasn't been bugging people about it. I'm in Dayton where we have woh.rr and I have easily gone over 40 gigs in a month. So far, so good. It's damn expensive, but if they aren't pulling crap about people using what they pay for then so be it.
I think you hit the nail on the head, you are not a lawyer. To withstand the rigors of legal review and to be successful in court challenges against abusers the GPL will need to be much more specific than what you are suggesting. Protecting those four freedoms is still what the GPL is all about, but laywers the world over are working very hard to put those four freedoms into legal language that can't be bypassed by a clever corporate law team.
This has been modded as funny but it really needs to be modded insightful. Governments the world over are trying very hard to get data such as the Amazon purchase data and store that in a useful database. Buying a book about rootkits very well may put you on a list of, oh, let's call them hackers who need to be kept track of. This, "hacker", book purchase can be cross referenced with the hacker's employment records, possibly including training received.
It is all too possible that your phone or data line could be tapped and monitored because you are suspected of a crime based on nothing more than you having the skills necessary to commit said crime.
Just because I am capable of lifting a baseball bat and swinging it doesn't mean that I should be an immediate suspect should someone be murdered by baseball bat. Having the ability to commit a network intrusion shouldn't make me a suspect of a network intrusion. That should only be the case if there is some indication that it was me.
Those screenshots look very little like my default install of KMail. I think they may be rather old but I'm not sure. In any event, the things that you mention are now all like I first expected them to be. The first line is, "To:". The dictionary choice is made in a menu, not on the main message writing screen. If you don't change it, it uses a default dictionary.
My experience with KMail has been very positive. I totally agree that it is a very intuitive to use program.
I applaud Debian for sticking to what they believe. I, for one, will be taking the free Debian artwork and name and replacing the standard Firefox logo and name on my distro(s) of choice.
I think Debian should have a contest for a new Iceweasel logo every bit as snazzy as the Firefox logo.
TFA says that these are monthly promotional demos. We aren't talking about daily spam here. It's similar to a gaming magazine except you don't have to pay for it.
Game mag you pay $7, Wii monthly promotion you use some bandwidth.
Game mag says upcoming high profile game is editors choice, Wii says try this demo and see what you think.
I'm looking forward to this feature.
I too appreciate what Google has done for Wine here. I also am glad that they are attempting to address the Linux community by releasing this. The problem I see with the approach you are taking is that if everyone, as you say, gladly takes this free version then no one will bother making the equivalent open source version you mentioned.
This really isn't a flame. I see where you are coming from, I just think it's a bit of a dangerous attitude in the long run.
By the way, Digikam is really an excellent bit of software that you may be interested in. It does photo related stuff, kind of like Picasa.
Call it a hunch but I believe that if not now, then definatly in a few years, words like torrent, mp3, and avi will work just as well as bomb or Jihad. Our government has been bought and paid for and today's terror monitoring is tomorrow's corporate sponsored public monitoring.
I would imagine that the bulk of the promotion for the game can be handled by Ubisoft, no Nintendo needed. Nintendo can show a bit of the swordplay in commercials with a large montage of games but they don't need to promote the game on it's own.
If the DRM solution would seriously curtail copyright infringement then I would be more open to that argument. It seems though, that DRM has not slowed down the P2P filesharing. It has, however, made it a pain in the ass to make use of my fair use rights on content that I have paid for.
This DRM battle is about locking people into doing things in a certain way (by and large Microsoft's way on the computer end of things) and convincing people to pay for content multiple times. The RIAA and friends want us to buy a CD to listen to in our cars, a DVD-Audio in our home stereo, and a.WMA from an online service for our portable audio devices.
I feel I should be able to buy that music in one of those ways and move around that content as I please. If I'm lazy and want to pick up a CD for my car but download the CD for my portable device instead of rip it myself then I would be paying for convenience, there certainly seems to be a market for convenience here in the US.
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What this story really shows again is that newspapers are corrupt: they are capable of censoring the news, and they will do so if it benefits the companies or the people working there.
The biggest problem in this from my perspective, is that the traditional media was able to influence an open effort on the web to keep this censored. The traditional media has for a long time chosen what to report and what not to report. I'm not even saying that they were right or wrong in this particular case to not report the news. It makes me wonder just how open of an effort Wikipedia really is. The net is a tremendous communication tool, but we really need to fight hard to keep it at the point where we can say what we want without some established power censoring us. Sometimes people need to overthrow their government, Iran is a good example right now, and a communications platform like the net is huge help but only if we can maintain freedom of speech on it.
Wow. Your point about the creative settings in 2nd and reprinting lists in third is right on. I'm not sure I had thought about it quite like that before reading your post, but I certainly agree. Thanks.
The Voyager Interstellar Mission would seem to show that at least one civilization is not so paranoid as to be prevented from sending out an invite to a home planet. The golden record inside both Voyagers include directions to Earth.
I bought a Turtle Creek card to add Dolby Digital to my MythTV PC. The Turtle Creek card was a "just works" type of solution whereas the Creative card wasn't. I've never used it in Windows, but it works perfectly with my entertainment system on Linux. As an added bonus it was a lot cheaper than a Creative card.
I completely agree. I did prefer Trace as Crow, but Bill is great and really doesn't get the credit he deserves. In the current Rifftrax and Film Crew stuff he is fantastic.
One thing that gets overlooked is that Mike was the head writer for almost the entire run of MST3K. He had a lot to do with the great stuff during Joel's run as well as his own.
In any event, it will be nice to hear from Trace and Frank again.
Airtight.
You can check http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Da tabase/SuggestedPrinters/ for recommendations.
I personally use a Samsung and really like it. They included CUPS tools on the CD that came with the printer. Sorry, I don't recall the model number off hand.
As others have said, so far Road Runner hasn't been bugging people about it. I'm in Dayton where we have woh.rr and I have easily gone over 40 gigs in a month. So far, so good. It's damn expensive, but if they aren't pulling crap about people using what they pay for then so be it.
Turtle Beach cards are working very nicely with Linux these days. I bought one for my MythTV box and now I want one for my main PC.
I think you hit the nail on the head, you are not a lawyer. To withstand the rigors of legal review and to be successful in court challenges against abusers the GPL will need to be much more specific than what you are suggesting. Protecting those four freedoms is still what the GPL is all about, but laywers the world over are working very hard to put those four freedoms into legal language that can't be bypassed by a clever corporate law team.
Eh eh?
[I'll keep my fingers crossed]
This has been modded as funny but it really needs to be modded insightful. Governments the world over are trying very hard to get data such as the Amazon purchase data and store that in a useful database. Buying a book about rootkits very well may put you on a list of, oh, let's call them hackers who need to be kept track of. This, "hacker", book purchase can be cross referenced with the hacker's employment records, possibly including training received. It is all too possible that your phone or data line could be tapped and monitored because you are suspected of a crime based on nothing more than you having the skills necessary to commit said crime. Just because I am capable of lifting a baseball bat and swinging it doesn't mean that I should be an immediate suspect should someone be murdered by baseball bat. Having the ability to commit a network intrusion shouldn't make me a suspect of a network intrusion. That should only be the case if there is some indication that it was me.
Wait a second, did you just rationalize copyright infringement with a pollution argument? Wow. That's one I haven't seen used before.
Those screenshots look very little like my default install of KMail. I think they may be rather old but I'm not sure. In any event, the things that you mention are now all like I first expected them to be. The first line is, "To:". The dictionary choice is made in a menu, not on the main message writing screen. If you don't change it, it uses a default dictionary. My experience with KMail has been very positive. I totally agree that it is a very intuitive to use program.
I applaud Debian for sticking to what they believe. I, for one, will be taking the free Debian artwork and name and replacing the standard Firefox logo and name on my distro(s) of choice. I think Debian should have a contest for a new Iceweasel logo every bit as snazzy as the Firefox logo.
Well, that sounds a little bazaar but if it gets people out of the cathedral I say go for it.
TFA says that these are monthly promotional demos. We aren't talking about daily spam here. It's similar to a gaming magazine except you don't have to pay for it. Game mag you pay $7, Wii monthly promotion you use some bandwidth. Game mag says upcoming high profile game is editors choice, Wii says try this demo and see what you think. I'm looking forward to this feature.
I too appreciate what Google has done for Wine here. I also am glad that they are attempting to address the Linux community by releasing this. The problem I see with the approach you are taking is that if everyone, as you say, gladly takes this free version then no one will bother making the equivalent open source version you mentioned.
This really isn't a flame. I see where you are coming from, I just think it's a bit of a dangerous attitude in the long run.
By the way, Digikam is really an excellent bit of software that you may be interested in. It does photo related stuff, kind of like Picasa.
Call it a hunch but I believe that if not now, then definatly in a few years, words like torrent, mp3, and avi will work just as well as bomb or Jihad. Our government has been bought and paid for and today's terror monitoring is tomorrow's corporate sponsored public monitoring.
I would imagine that the bulk of the promotion for the game can be handled by Ubisoft, no Nintendo needed. Nintendo can show a bit of the swordplay in commercials with a large montage of games but they don't need to promote the game on it's own.
If the DRM solution would seriously curtail copyright infringement then I would be more open to that argument. It seems though, that DRM has not slowed down the P2P filesharing. It has, however, made it a pain in the ass to make use of my fair use rights on content that I have paid for.
.WMA from an online service for our portable audio devices.
This DRM battle is about locking people into doing things in a certain way (by and large Microsoft's way on the computer end of things) and convincing people to pay for content multiple times. The RIAA and friends want us to buy a CD to listen to in our cars, a DVD-Audio in our home stereo, and a
I feel I should be able to buy that music in one of those ways and move around that content as I please. If I'm lazy and want to pick up a CD for my car but download the CD for my portable device instead of rip it myself then I would be paying for convenience, there certainly seems to be a market for convenience here in the US.
>But... Dad!! All the other kids are doing it!! I'll fucking kill the other kids! I've done it before and I'll do it again!