easiest thing already disconnecting millions of users
Not perfect, not blocking everyone, but still blocking Facebook's target audience for at least a while. A nice and cheap solution. Filtering all DNS queries, on the other hand, would be expensive and ISPs would not as easily agree to it. Filtering all traffic? Heh.
I'll blow my mod points for this: Facebook is permitted not to pay, but Germany is also permitted to... let's say it like this, not expose its citizens to dangers of Facebook. If they broke the law in Germany, their services can be expelled from Germany, with easiest thing already disconnecting millions of users in Germany from Facebook: "Hey, mr. DNS Person from the ISP, please point www.facebook.com to this IP... kthxbye"
Then use your Mac, find that pesky Autorun.inf, whatever, and delete it. Besides, it's your workplace's concern to protect its machines. It's not your concern to buy antivirus software to protect THEM. Oh, you mean the photo booths shouldn't have viruses on them? Of course they shouldn't, they're specialized devices and I have no idea what Windows is doing on them. Sadly, probably because the developer who wrote the software finds it easier to do things in.Net.
And having all those profiles listed as friends serves what purpose, exactly? So you can more easily fill the news feed with more-than-ever-spam of who plowed the fields in FarmVille?
Agreed! On other platforms I can easily see and delete the infection from USB storage. And if it's not a USB storage autorun infection, well, the other person wants protection, they are welcome to ensure it for themselves:)
Or, actually, the kiosk owners/designers wouldn't need to worry if their specialty device ran, gasp, something else than Windows. This can be considered an appliance, not a computer, so even anti-Linux desktop zealots can't complain.
Windows autorun viruses: Annoying if you use Windows, easy to ignore if you don't.
Vuvuzelas: Annoying if you watch soccer, easy to ignore if you don't.
IANAL, really. So all I can do is take text of AGPL and add emphasis...
To "propagate" a work means to do anything with it that, without permission, would make you directly or secondarily liable for infringement under applicable copyright law, except executing it on a computer or modifying a private copy. Propagation includes copying, distribution (with or without modification), making available to the public, and in some countries other activities as well.
Also...
You are not required to accept this License in order to receive or run a copy of the Program. Ancillary propagation of a covered work occurring solely as a consequence of using peer-to-peer transmission to receive a copy likewise does not require acceptance. However, nothing other than this License grants you permission to propagate or modify any covered work. These actions infringe copyright if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or propagating a covered work, you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so.
This is the first time I skimmed over AGPL, and overall, it seems to me that AGPL is a somewhat more vague license than GPL and LGPL. Text of GNU Affero General Public License
However Google Docs (as a whole) does not exploit a loophole in GPL since Google never released it. It is probably using some free software behind the scenes, but it could be BSD/MIT licensed only, or using other licenses. Or even GPL. Heck, if people did not use Affero GPL, then it's all legitimate.
I'm 22, my buddies don't have game-playing kids. Matching games? We get by. We have laptops. I don't have a home entertainment PC nor consoles, neither do my buddies. Games are just a few hours of fun for us every now and then, not a profession.
Don't be an all-knowing douche. My point is (and you know it): 80 key joystick is absurd; laptops even reduced keycount from 104.
Basically all I know: It's a business method patent actually, and a vague one at that; everyone hopes it's vague enough that throwing it out means other vague patents, such as (most) software patents get thrown out.
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satisfactory to Government, that is.
Not perfect, not blocking everyone, but still blocking Facebook's target audience for at least a while. A nice and cheap solution. Filtering all DNS queries, on the other hand, would be expensive and ISPs would not as easily agree to it. Filtering all traffic? Heh.
Hence, an imperfect, but satisfactory solution.
I'll blow my mod points for this: Facebook is permitted not to pay, but Germany is also permitted to ... let's say it like this, not expose its citizens to dangers of Facebook. If they broke the law in Germany, their services can be expelled from Germany, with easiest thing already disconnecting millions of users in Germany from Facebook: "Hey, mr. DNS Person from the ISP, please point www.facebook.com to this IP... kthxbye"
Then use your Mac, find that pesky Autorun.inf, whatever, and delete it. Besides, it's your workplace's concern to protect its machines. It's not your concern to buy antivirus software to protect THEM. Oh, you mean the photo booths shouldn't have viruses on them? Of course they shouldn't, they're specialized devices and I have no idea what Windows is doing on them. Sadly, probably because the developer who wrote the software finds it easier to do things in .Net.
And having all those profiles listed as friends serves what purpose, exactly? So you can more easily fill the news feed with more-than-ever-spam of who plowed the fields in FarmVille?
Agreed! On other platforms I can easily see and delete the infection from USB storage. And if it's not a USB storage autorun infection, well, the other person wants protection, they are welcome to ensure it for themselves :)
Or, actually, the kiosk owners/designers wouldn't need to worry if their specialty device ran, gasp, something else than Windows. This can be considered an appliance, not a computer, so even anti-Linux desktop zealots can't complain.
Ah, yes, but in Soviet Russia, humans rise against the ROBOTS!
Windows autorun viruses: Annoying if you use Windows, easy to ignore if you don't.
Vuvuzelas: Annoying if you watch soccer, easy to ignore if you don't.
Also...
This is the first time I skimmed over AGPL, and overall, it seems to me that AGPL is a somewhat more vague license than GPL and LGPL. Text of GNU Affero General Public License
I think GNU Image Manipulation Program is quite ok. They didn't have to use the acronym if they thought it ridiculous, you know.
Affero GPL, aka AGPL.
However Google Docs (as a whole) does not exploit a loophole in GPL since Google never released it. It is probably using some free software behind the scenes, but it could be BSD/MIT licensed only, or using other licenses. Or even GPL. Heck, if people did not use Affero GPL, then it's all legitimate.
Oh, you mean !=? Nice.
Precisely. You don't use it. You may be forced to pay for it, but you don't need it.
HOSTS!!! I meant HOSTS!!! Sorry.
Hosts, yes. Whoops.
Except, of course, out of respect for your guests.
Excuse me, was I talking about you or me?
I'm 22, my buddies don't have game-playing kids. Matching games? We get by. We have laptops. I don't have a home entertainment PC nor consoles, neither do my buddies. Games are just a few hours of fun for us every now and then, not a profession.
Don't be an all-knowing douche. My point is (and you know it): 80 key joystick is absurd; laptops even reduced keycount from 104.
They carry over their own ultimate joysticks, which double as home theaters.
I like my ultimate joystick. It's got 90+ buttons, multitouch, and on the separate controller, two extra analog axes and a few extra buttons.
Basically all I know: It's a business method patent actually, and a vague one at that; everyone hopes it's vague enough that throwing it out means other vague patents, such as (most) software patents get thrown out.
This is Slashdot. Like 4chan, we have a collective consciousness. No explanation needed. Bilski, what is it? I have a new tagline:
Slashdot. We Know.
"Let's go East!"
"Mkay -- 6, 3, 6, 3, 6, 3, 6, 3..."
See?
Treat your customers like your family: exploit them.
I wish I could give away stuff I love for free. I used to.
But now, the stuff I find boring leaves me no time for the things I love.