This won't really make much difference when Manager Bill at the Social Security Administration takes a bunch of people's personal data home, to work over the weekend, and copies it over to the spyware-infested botnet zombie sitting in his home office.
Non-media digital has the advantage of? Er, uh... you don't have to store the CD?
There is no advantage. Lossy compression schemes like Ogg and MP3 are to CD what cassettes were to LP. A sacrifice in quality, but more convinient. Most of us would buy the LP, record it to cassette, and listen to THAT until the tape wore out, keeping our original LP pristine.
Non-media digital has multiple advantages, including:
Lossless reproducibility
Zero-cost reproducibility
Easy, cheap conversion to a variety of formats for a variety of needs (mp3/ogg for low-overhead portability, flac for high fidelity, cda for old format compatibility,...)
Easy, cheap publication to a variety of media
Easy, cheap distribution
Lossy compression schemes do sacrifice some quality, but not all digital formats are lossy, unless you're a vinyl-only analog purist.
Actually it's a lot easier to become the FOSS evangelist at a proprietary company than at a company that supports Free Software. I've several times been labeled "that open source/linux guy" at companies because, e.g., someone sees me using Firefox or OpenOffice.org.
The kneejerk response is going to be, "OMG teh piracy!!!"
Eventually the RIAA is going to have to accept that, whether they're ready for it or not, CDs are an outdated distribution format, just like cassettes and 8-tracks, whose sales, I'm sure, have also plummeted since their respective heydays.
But of course I would have checked at the beginning of the routine that suspect was non-null; else the whole thing would have been an exercise in futility.
All you United States Postal Service dudes, chew on this for a bit.
You may not be sending or receiving child porn. BUT i GUARANTEE THAT SOMEONE IS SENDING OR RECEIVING CHILD PORN USING YOUR MAILBOX IF YOU ARE SET UP TO USE THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE. In this situation, you are enabling and promoting child abuse.
Or, a cop could see a request for child porn spew out of your mailbox, followed by your order for viagra that you were so ashamed about. Have fun talking your way out of that.
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The question is so flawed that there's no way to answer it. It's like asking, "If you could create something with no volume and no surface area, what color would you paint it?"
It has been proven that DRM cannot disallow redistribution, let alone make a distinction between unauthorized distribution and fair use.
While I am unfamiliar with the different cellular protocols (Like G3), I can tell you for a fact that if it does not have a GPS receiver in it, it's never going to be able to use GPS. It's not something you can do in software and if it already has a GPS receiver in it, then they probably would have said so. There are plenty of bluetooth GPS receivers. Support for these can be implemented in software.
Actually, you're being the parametric opposite of cynical.
Main Entry: cynical Pronunciation: 'si-ni-k&l Function: adjective 1 : CAPTIOUS, PEEVISH 2 : having or showing the attitude or temper of a cynic : as a : contemptuously distrustful of human nature and motives b : based on or reflecting a belief that human conduct is motivated primarily by self-interest - cynically/-k(&-)lE/ adverb synonyms CYNICAL, MISANTHROPIC, PESSIMISTIC mean deeply distrustful. CYNICAL implies having a sneering disbelief in sincerity or integrity . MISANTHROPIC suggests a rooted distrust and dislike of human beings and their society . PESSIMISTIC implies having a gloomy, distrustful view of life .
I mean a lot of people I spoke with seem to have the perception of the FOSS movement as a group of pedants and sticklers for the letter of the law, who have gotten entangled in sophistry and formalistics struggles over nuances of formulations.
Unfortunately, people who would proprietize Free code make this stickling over the law necessary. It would be great to say, "Here's my code; do whatever you want with it as long as the changes are Free," but then people try to exploit loopholes, as in, "I didn't really change the code, so blah blah blah..."
In other words, if people would follow the spirit of the license, then we wouldn't have to be so nitpicky about defining and enforcing the letter.
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I suspect Linus might object to his characterization as a Gnome...is there a race that clearly correlates with KDE?
Pff, nobody's indicted either of the major US political parties yet; I'm pretty sure some guy who swapped out one of his images is going to be OK.
Or perhaps some kind of security-enhanced Linux variant...the NSA could even help develop it!
This won't really make much difference when Manager Bill at the Social Security Administration takes a bunch of people's personal data home, to work over the weekend, and copies it over to the spyware-infested botnet zombie sitting in his home office.
Non-media digital has multiple advantages, including:
Lossy compression schemes do sacrifice some quality, but not all digital formats are lossy, unless you're a vinyl-only analog purist.
Actually it's a lot easier to become the FOSS evangelist at a proprietary company than at a company that supports Free Software. I've several times been labeled "that open source/linux guy" at companies because, e.g., someone sees me using Firefox or OpenOffice.org.
The kneejerk response is going to be, "OMG teh piracy!!!"
Eventually the RIAA is going to have to accept that, whether they're ready for it or not, CDs are an outdated distribution format, just like cassettes and 8-tracks, whose sales, I'm sure, have also plummeted since their respective heydays.
Most groups of Native Americans didn't have writing, let alone written histories.
But of course I would have checked at the beginning of the routine that suspect was non-null; else the whole thing would have been an exercise in futility.
The video.google.nl URL didn't give it away?
Visual basic. Or are we only counting real languages?
How about PowerGen Italia? http://www.powergenitalia.com/
Or Mole Station Nursery? http://www.molestationnursery.com/
All you United States Postal Service dudes, chew on this for a bit.
You may not be sending or receiving child porn. BUT i GUARANTEE THAT SOMEONE IS SENDING OR RECEIVING CHILD PORN USING YOUR MAILBOX IF YOU ARE SET UP TO USE THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE. In this situation, you are enabling and promoting child abuse.
Or, a cop could see a request for child porn spew out of your mailbox, followed by your order for viagra that you were so ashamed about. Have fun talking your way out of that.
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Wow, stereotype much? By that logic, no whites would have voted for Bush because we're all affluent and well-educated.
The parent's comment cannot be modded up enough.
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The question is so flawed that there's no way to answer it. It's like asking, "If you could create something with no volume and no surface area, what color would you paint it?"
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It has been proven that DRM cannot disallow redistribution, let alone make a distinction between unauthorized distribution and fair use.
http://www.dashes.com/anil/stuff/doctorow-drm-ms.
If a person has cancer, and s/he doesn't have $120, yes.
So...places where lots of social networking occurs are good places for social engineering?!
Next you'll be telling me that places with lots of water, fish food, and fish habitat are good places to go fishing!
Actually, you're being the parametric opposite of cynical.
/-k(&-)lE/ adverb
Main Entry: cynical
Pronunciation: 'si-ni-k&l
Function: adjective
1 : CAPTIOUS, PEEVISH
2 : having or showing the attitude or temper of a cynic : as a : contemptuously distrustful of human nature and motives b : based on or reflecting a belief that human conduct is motivated primarily by self-interest
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synonyms CYNICAL, MISANTHROPIC, PESSIMISTIC mean deeply distrustful. CYNICAL implies having a sneering disbelief in sincerity or integrity . MISANTHROPIC suggests a rooted distrust and dislike of human beings and their society . PESSIMISTIC implies having a gloomy, distrustful view of life .
Unfortunately, people who would proprietize Free code make this stickling over the law necessary. It would be great to say, "Here's my code; do whatever you want with it as long as the changes are Free," but then people try to exploit loopholes, as in, "I didn't really change the code, so blah blah blah..."
In other words, if people would follow the spirit of the license, then we wouldn't have to be so nitpicky about defining and enforcing the letter.
Sure, but how am I supposed to extract the sources so I can build 'jar' ?!