If something is meant to be private, then why even temporarily put links to it on your publicly visible pages? Additionally, if something really is private, then lock it down in the httpd.conf so that only certain IP addresses can access it. Then, its basically invisible to the rest of the world.
Of course, if there's a bug in your server software all bets are off. Which is why it's better not to put private stuff where it can be seen on a public network.
I checked out the list and was surprised at the number of formerly big name artists, Warren Zevon, Boz Skaggs, Earth, Wind, & Fire, who are no longer on RIAA labels. That right there ought to tell ya something.
Hey I agree with you like 99%. Where I disagree is in the part about stores not carrying the CDs.
I have seen with my own eyes, in Lexington, KY, a section in a music store (a big chain store, no less, but I forget which) labeled "Local Artists." In that section you will find CDs from Catawampus Universe, Taildragger, Ten Foot Pole, and other bands that practically no one outside of the Bluegrass Area and a club or two in Tokyo has even heard of. Not all stores are against selling CDs by local artists. It really depends on the management at the store. If they really enjoy the local music club scene, and they're in it 'cause they enjoy music, then you're more likely to see smaller bands in the store.
Now, that gives me an idea for an online music service..... Better call my patent attorney.;-)
In other industries, this is known as not having a good business plan. I'm unaware of how this is illegal and wanting clarity on this issue..
It's because ISPs and phone companies operate in a regulated market, and not a free market. Telcos are pretty much required (for the moment) to offer wholesale access to their lines to competitors at a rate that is fair because the telcos usually have a monopoly on the lines in a given geographical area. This was all spelled out in the Communications Reform Act of 1996 in the USA. It is up to the regulators and the courts to determine what is fair pricing, and these things are usually determined by lawsuits such as this.
Just generate a session id, store everything in a database. If they have to login to use the site, even better, just retrieve the data for their user ID and generate a new session ID.
No cookies, and you can still track just how many times the user clicked on the link for dirty pics of smutty grannies.;-)
That said, I don't give a crap about cookies. I turn 'em on and leave 'em for every where I go. It doesn't matter to me what gets stored in a cookie on my machine. After all, it could just as easily be stored in a database connected to the web server rather than on my machine.
Sheesh, people. McNealy was right, you have no privacy on the web, get over it!
The person asking this question needs to hire a lawyer who knows a little something about copyright. He obviously has no understanding of what releasing open source code means and what releasing something to the public domain means.
My suggestion to him, other than hiring a lawyer to explain a few things to him, is to just sell his code and his soul the the corporate devil. At least that way, he'll have some money.
Hey, if he wants to release his code to the public domain, that's great, too. However, then he'll have lost all control over who uses it and how.
Yes, but before they can even consider criminal prosecution for copyright violation, there must be a certain amount of "economic" damage, i.e. measurable in dollars. I believe it is even codified in the law as $X, but I could be mistaken.
Since, for the most part, Linux is given away for free and since not one of the copyright holders on any part of the kernel expects to receive a single dime in compensation for their contributions to the kernel from everyone who uses it, you can't very easily establish a monetary harm in the SCO case.
I know that "damage" caused by copyright infringement should not just be limited by money, but generally that is what it is about and that's how the legal system seems to operate. It's very hard to prove damages when someone takes something that you're giving away for free to begin with. It's why many in business have a hard time taking the GPL and people who develop under the GPL seriously. The only basis you'll have for assessing the damage is how much money they've made off of your copyrighted material.
Now, if still you want to sue SCO in civil court for violating your copyright on some portion of the kernel, then go right ahead.
Y'know, I never bought that line, myself. I look at it this way: the enemy of my enemy is still my enemy, but if I can help one crush the other without weaking my position toward the surviving enemy, then I'll gladly help in order to have one less enemy to face.
>As Deep Throat (of Watergate fame) said: "Follow the money."
Yes, and when you do, you find that the board of SCO is not at all the same as it was when it was called Caldera. A major change happened in ownership last year. Bascially, SCO is run by a bunch of people who have a history of making money by suing people. I'm sure they are very ignorant of just what went on at Caldera and the commitment that Caldera had to contributing to Linux. I'm sure they want to be ignorant, because these guys are up to their business as usual tactics. (Don't believe me, just check it out for yourself. You can find the SEC filings and several newspaper articles about it online.)
Don't worry. This will go to court. IBM will expose just how much Caldera contributed. It will be proven that Caldera is the same company that today calls itself SCO, albeit management has changed. It will be proven that Caldera approved of what was going on, and that if anything SCO should be suing itself. These guys will lose their trial (heh, David Boies;-) and be stuck with huge legal fees.
SCO will go completely broke over this and not even Microsoft will save them. They'll have to auction all their property to pay their debts, and I'll be buying the UNIX IP for a buck or two.
Yeah, just look at those top filings of #4 documents: executives exercising options to buy at $0.66 and selling at $10.66. Very sweet deal if you can get it.
I have used GNU autotools on the projects that I've worked, whether my own or started by someone else.
There's a feature of GNU autotools that lets you make dist to roll a tarball of your package. Very easy, very neat and you don't have to worry about installers when you send source code.
Actually, at the NSA (and CIA, too IIANM), they shred documents with a cross-cut shredder, then dump it all into a mulching vat where the documents are slowly dissolved and made into a greyish goo which can be used to make brown paper. I don't recall if they actually make the paper at the end or how they dispose of the goo, if they don't make paper from it.
If you're really paranoid about getting rid of data, mulching and consequently making paper, is much better than burning because burning leaves shriveled bits behind that can be analyzed to gain some notion of what was on the paper to begin with. Yes, I have seen most of a burned document recovered using chemical and laser analysis of the charred remnants. You would be surprised at what actually survives an attempted or accidental destruction by fire. Also, you can get better quality paper and more destruction of data by using high-powered jets to spray the ink out of the paper. (one company was advertising just such a method for cleaning paper to get better quality recycled paper. I forget just what they proposed doing with the ink.)
No, I'm not a spook. I don't work for the above agencies, but I have had some short term experience in document recovery and archival preservation, plus most of what you want to know about effective document recovery can be found in non-classified sources (books and the 'Net).
No, I'm not going googling for you. Do your own legwork, ya lazy bums!:-)
Umm, I use CD-RWs all the time. Not for data exchange, but for back ups. I'd rather burn over top of my previous backup than have to be constantly destroying used CD-R media.
I just checked it out. (Sorry, but I'm a busy guy.) All I can say is, why do they center all the text in the snippets? Makes it harder to read the stuff and follow the code when indentation is often used as a visual assist in expressing the logical flow of code. Also, centering everything makes posting Python code rather cumbersome. (Not exactly the word I want, but it's as close as I'm going to get right now.)
To fish for by trailing a baited line from behind a slowly moving boat. To fish in by trailing a baited line: troll the lake for bass. To trail (a baited line) in fishing. Slang. To patrol (an area) in search for someone or something: " [Criminals] troll bus stations for young runaways" (Pete Axthelm). Music. To sing in succession the parts of (a round, for example). To sing heartily: troll a carol. To roll or revolve.
Actually, "trolling" in this case refers to a method of fishing, and not trolling in an online forum. Though I've always linked the two in my mind as an online troll is leaving carefully baited hooks (his vituperative messages) and waiting to see who bites.
I use FreeBSD, and upgraded to 5.1 from 4.7 about a week after 5.1 was released. Though I did have some issues with X and DRI, I got it working with not much effort. (About 20 minutes of searching the web turned up some instructions that directed me to set ForcePCIMode on in my drivers section of XF86Config.)
Though 5.1 is a new technology release and so not as stable or as fast as 4.8, it is still quite stable and quite fast at most everything I do. I've had no problems with doing my usual work, and some "weird" behavior in or two apps actually went away when recompiled on 5.1 versus 4.7.
That said, I haven't gotten YMessenger to work, and I've been too lazy to try fixing it myself. (It just appears to need to be relinked against a certain lib, and I haven't bothered to find out which one that is.)
Generally, I've not had any trouble running Linux apps under emulation, either.
All my Java 1.4 stuff works, too.
I know that anecdotal evidence proves nothing, but I just thought I'd weigh in with a mostly positive experience of someone who has been a FreeBSD user for quite some time.
Yes, I also use GNU/Linux, too. In fact, I have two machines running GNU/Linux at home, only 1 running FreeBSD, and one other running OpenBSD. Though I may switch one of the GNU/Linux machines to FreeBSD in the near future (maybe after 5-STABLE is branched).
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If something is meant to be private, then why even temporarily put links to it on your publicly visible pages? Additionally, if something really is private, then lock it down in the httpd.conf so that only certain IP addresses can access it. Then, its basically invisible to the rest of the world.
Of course, if there's a bug in your server software all bets are off. Which is why it's better not to put private stuff where it can be seen on a public network.
I would have thought that was pretty obvious.
I checked out the list and was surprised at the number of formerly big name artists, Warren Zevon, Boz Skaggs, Earth, Wind, & Fire, who are no longer on RIAA labels. That right there ought to tell ya something.
Hey I agree with you like 99%. Where I disagree is in the part about stores not carrying the CDs.
;-)
I have seen with my own eyes, in Lexington, KY, a section in a music store (a big chain store, no less, but I forget which) labeled "Local Artists." In that section you will find CDs from Catawampus Universe, Taildragger, Ten Foot Pole, and other bands that practically no one outside of the Bluegrass Area and a club or two in Tokyo has even heard of. Not all stores are against selling CDs by local artists. It really depends on the management at the store. If they really enjoy the local music club scene, and they're in it 'cause they enjoy music, then you're more likely to see smaller bands in the store.
Now, that gives me an idea for an online music service..... Better call my patent attorney.
He needs a translatio studii.
(For the medievalists.;-)
I'm American, yet I speak four languages including my native language.
:-)
What does that make me a quadrilateral?
In other industries, this is known as not having a good business plan. I'm unaware of how this is illegal and wanting clarity on this issue..
It's because ISPs and phone companies operate in a regulated market, and not a free market. Telcos are pretty much required (for the moment) to offer wholesale access to their lines to competitors at a rate that is fair because the telcos usually have a monopoly on the lines in a given geographical area. This was all spelled out in the Communications Reform Act of 1996 in the USA. It is up to the regulators and the courts to determine what is fair pricing, and these things are usually determined by lawsuits such as this.
Just generate a session id, store everything in a database. If they have to login to use the site, even better, just retrieve the data for their user ID and generate a new session ID.
;-)
No cookies, and you can still track just how many times the user clicked on the link for dirty pics of smutty grannies.
That said, I don't give a crap about cookies. I turn 'em on and leave 'em for every where I go. It doesn't matter to me what gets stored in a cookie on my machine. After all, it could just as easily be stored in a database connected to the web server rather than on my machine.
Sheesh, people. McNealy was right, you have no privacy on the web, get over it!
(Don't worry. I've still got karma to burn.)
The person asking this question needs to hire a lawyer who knows a little something about copyright. He obviously has no understanding of what releasing open source code means and what releasing something to the public domain means.
My suggestion to him, other than hiring a lawyer to explain a few things to him, is to just sell his code and his soul the the corporate devil. At least that way, he'll have some money.
Hey, if he wants to release his code to the public domain, that's great, too. However, then he'll have lost all control over who uses it and how.
Yes, but before they can even consider criminal prosecution for copyright violation, there must be a certain amount of "economic" damage, i.e. measurable in dollars. I believe it is even codified in the law as $X, but I could be mistaken.
Since, for the most part, Linux is given away for free and since not one of the copyright holders on any part of the kernel expects to receive a single dime in compensation for their contributions to the kernel from everyone who uses it, you can't very easily establish a monetary harm in the SCO case.
I know that "damage" caused by copyright infringement should not just be limited by money, but generally that is what it is about and that's how the legal system seems to operate. It's very hard to prove damages when someone takes something that you're giving away for free to begin with. It's why many in business have a hard time taking the GPL and people who develop under the GPL seriously. The only basis you'll have for assessing the damage is how much money they've made off of your copyrighted material.
Now, if still you want to sue SCO in civil court for violating your copyright on some portion of the kernel, then go right ahead.
The enemy of the enemy is my friend.
Y'know, I never bought that line, myself. I look at it this way: the enemy of my enemy is still my enemy, but if I can help one crush the other without weaking my position toward the surviving enemy, then I'll gladly help in order to have one less enemy to face.
Yeah, it's off-topic, but I've got karma to burn.
Doesn't that just give the warm fuzzies all over!
For the sarcasm impaired, I'm being facetious.
>As Deep Throat (of Watergate fame) said: "Follow the money."
;-) and be stuck with huge legal fees.
Yes, and when you do, you find that the board of SCO is not at all the same as it was when it was called Caldera. A major change happened in ownership last year. Bascially, SCO is run by a bunch of people who have a history of making money by suing people. I'm sure they are very ignorant of just what went on at Caldera and the commitment that Caldera had to contributing to Linux. I'm sure they want to be ignorant, because these guys are up to their business as usual tactics. (Don't believe me, just check it out for yourself. You can find the SEC filings and several newspaper articles about it online.)
Don't worry. This will go to court. IBM will expose just how much Caldera contributed. It will be proven that Caldera is the same company that today calls itself SCO, albeit management has changed. It will be proven that Caldera approved of what was going on, and that if anything SCO should be suing itself. These guys will lose their trial (heh, David Boies
SCO will go completely broke over this and not even Microsoft will save them. They'll have to auction all their property to pay their debts, and I'll be buying the UNIX IP for a buck or two.
Yeah, just look at those top filings of #4 documents: executives exercising options to buy at $0.66 and selling at $10.66. Very sweet deal if you can get it.
I have used GNU autotools on the projects that I've worked, whether my own or started by someone else.
There's a feature of GNU autotools that lets you make dist to roll a tarball of your package. Very easy, very neat and you don't have to worry about installers when you send source code.
Actually, at the NSA (and CIA, too IIANM), they shred documents with a cross-cut shredder, then dump it all into a mulching vat where the documents are slowly dissolved and made into a greyish goo which can be used to make brown paper. I don't recall if they actually make the paper at the end or how they dispose of the goo, if they don't make paper from it.
:-)
If you're really paranoid about getting rid of data, mulching and consequently making paper, is much better than burning because burning leaves shriveled bits behind that can be analyzed to gain some notion of what was on the paper to begin with. Yes, I have seen most of a burned document recovered using chemical and laser analysis of the charred remnants. You would be surprised at what actually survives an attempted or accidental destruction by fire. Also, you can get better quality paper and more destruction of data by using high-powered jets to spray the ink out of the paper. (one company was advertising just such a method for cleaning paper to get better quality recycled paper. I forget just what they proposed doing with the ink.)
No, I'm not a spook. I don't work for the above agencies, but I have had some short term experience in document recovery and archival preservation, plus most of what you want to know about effective document recovery can be found in non-classified sources (books and the 'Net).
No, I'm not going googling for you. Do your own legwork, ya lazy bums!
Umm, I use CD-RWs all the time. Not for data exchange, but for back ups. I'd rather burn over top of my previous backup than have to be constantly destroying used CD-R media.
Until the PC (or whatever they'll be calling) is so cheap that just replacing it is less expensive than repairing it.
I just checked it out. (Sorry, but I'm a busy guy.) All I can say is, why do they center all the text in the snippets? Makes it harder to read the stuff and follow the code when indentation is often used as a visual assist in expressing the logical flow of code. Also, centering everything makes posting Python code rather cumbersome. (Not exactly the word I want, but it's as close as I'm going to get right now.)
While trawling is a method of fishing very similar if not identical to trolling, trolling is still a method of fishing.
According to dictionary.com:
The verb troll has the following definitions:
To fish for by trailing a baited line from behind a slowly moving boat.
To fish in by trailing a baited line: troll the lake for bass.
To trail (a baited line) in fishing.
Slang. To patrol (an area) in search for someone or something: " [Criminals] troll bus stations for young runaways" (Pete Axthelm).
Music.
To sing in succession the parts of (a round, for example).
To sing heartily: troll a carol.
To roll or revolve.
You need to get more, AC.
Actually, "trolling" in this case refers to a method of fishing, and not trolling in an online forum. Though I've always linked the two in my mind as an online troll is leaving carefully baited hooks (his vituperative messages) and waiting to see who bites.
Sorry, Bjarne, but your home directory sums up what I think of this proposal.
I mean, we're only just now getting compilers that properly handle the C++ standard from 5 years ago. Why muck things up now?
It should have been named for Presidnet James Monroe, then it would be fitted for its first mission to be to Liberia.
Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.
Damn! I thought this was /. Crap! It is slashdot, unless my browser is lying to me.
It sure looks like a Yahoo! message board to me, though.
The real question is:
"Is the desktop ready for Linux?"
It's amazing what passes for "news" around here!
I use FreeBSD, and upgraded to 5.1 from 4.7 about a week after 5.1 was released. Though I did have some issues with X and DRI, I got it working with not much effort. (About 20 minutes of searching the web turned up some instructions that directed me to set ForcePCIMode on in my drivers section of XF86Config.)
Though 5.1 is a new technology release and so not as stable or as fast as 4.8, it is still quite stable and quite fast at most everything I do. I've had no problems with doing my usual work, and some "weird" behavior in or two apps actually went away when recompiled on 5.1 versus 4.7.
That said, I haven't gotten YMessenger to work, and I've been too lazy to try fixing it myself. (It just appears to need to be relinked against a certain lib, and I haven't bothered to find out which one that is.)
Generally, I've not had any trouble running Linux apps under emulation, either.
All my Java 1.4 stuff works, too.
I know that anecdotal evidence proves nothing, but I just thought I'd weigh in with a mostly positive experience of someone who has been a FreeBSD user for quite some time.
Yes, I also use GNU/Linux, too. In fact, I have two machines running GNU/Linux at home, only 1 running FreeBSD, and one other running OpenBSD. Though I may switch one of the GNU/Linux machines to FreeBSD in the near future (maybe after 5-STABLE is branched).