Are you serious? How the fuck did this get modded insightful.
Why the hell would this affect products based off a Linux kernel that does not verify any drivers. Secondly who would build a serious firewall on Realtek hardware? They are notoriously problematic and unreliable.
Heh.
This was never even mentioned in my college "Computer Analysis/Programmer" course. The whole thing was pretty much a joke from my POV.
My favorite thing to do was break my teachers example applications with no code access. It was absolutely hilarious to school the teacher on data validation when that is what she was supposed to be teaching the class.
I mean who the hell thinks poping up a a damned message box on the key up event that tests for '', 'abcdef...' (yes, I'm fucking serious her tests were exclusive instead of inclusive) is a good idea. (A simple copy and paste skips validation)
I thought "Ladies Night" was a clever device with which to attract women which in sufficient quantity (and quality) would attach male customers. The presence of said women would result in the male visitors to spend more on drinks and add value to the cover charge.
Seems like the women pay by subjecting themselves to the male company.
Haha
I got this call from this fuckwit trying to sell a mayor for the local city.
"I'm calling to tell you what is running for Mayor for... Would you let me know how you plan to vote?"
"Well, thanks to this call I know I certainly will not vote for . And you can go fuck yourself for wasting my time."
Yes, I'm an ass. These fuckers wake me up and I have absolutely no respect for them.
If I'm a good mood they get to "Hi, I'm calling from xxxx..." before I say "go fuck youself" and hang up.
This is inexcusable. They are paid to do a fucking job and they should bloody well do it if they don't want to be fired.
If I saw that kind of nonsense I wouldn't have stopped until I got the moron fired.
So your competent enough to be able to connect to a VPN and remember an IP address but you couldn't just change your resolvers to a known set of public resolvers?
My teacher thought he was pretty funny when he showed me he was watching my screen. Within 30 seconds I had found the process, killed it, and started writing a log-in script to do it automatically at log in. After he realized my screen was no longer on his screen he tried to reboot my computer. Somehow he accidentally selected all the computers in the lab and rebooted all the machines except mine. Needless to say all the other students were quite upset that they lost their work because he was fooling around.
Moral of the story: These things only cause trouble for people that a) don't know what they are doing and b) are actually working.
That is not entirely true. They are required by law to hold up their end of the license "for the term of copyright on the Program". This means that they could not attempt to sue people or stop the distribution of software as the policy states.
They are free to take a copy of this program and license it under a different license and refuse to license the changed version under the GPL. This has no effect on the GPL distributed code which still can be distributed freely.
One of the key points of the GPL is to protect users from companies just deciding it's not free anymore. It gives users the ability to fork the code and continue as if nothing had happened under a different name.
Second, we have eyewitnesses who independently testified to the event, outside of the religious texts. And perhaps more to the same point, those religious texts (aside from the Gospel of John) were floating around the area while the eyewitnesses who say the saw the risen Christ were mostly still alive: standard historical analysis methods tell us that it is extremely unlikely that the gospels would have survived if a large number of people (around 500 people) would have been around as eyewitnesses to deny the events contained therein.
Proof that a story survived does not mean that it is accurate. First of all people would need know of these events to be able to deny them. At the time few people could read let alone write.
I'd respond to your other statements but you provide absolutely no supporting evidence for most if not all your claims.
On the whole I find the whole thing terribly amusing. I spent most of my childhood with Christians attempting "convert" or force me into accepting their belief system. They don't seem to like it much when someone else rocks the boat the other way.
Funny, I wonder why the following paragraph from the GPL gave me that idea:
"All rights granted under this License are granted for the term of
copyright on the Program, and are irrevocable provided the stated
conditions are met. This License explicitly affirms your unlimited
permission to run the unmodified Program. The output from running a
covered work is covered by this License only if the output, given its
content, constitutes a covered work. This License acknowledges your
rights of fair use or other equivalent, as provided by copyright law."
If they releasing the code under the GPL is irrevocable.
They can additionally license it under different terms but these do not affect other licensing agreements such as the one they entered into when they released it under the GPL.
This is not relevant as if the 3rd party viewer is licensed under the GPL distribution cannot be prohibited.
Prohibiting access to the second life service would be acceptable.
I agree that Microsoft through either negligence or incompetence has caused a lot of these problems but they have made what I believe to be good steps to resolve this issue with UAC.
Internet service providers should be responsible for disconnecting infected hosts and forcing their clients to properly maintain their systems. If a ISP chooses not to do anything about the issue they can simply be null routed.
Once burned twice shy.
Operating on the assumption that cops are out to screw you might let a few criminals run free to be caught buy I feel my freedom is worth such a risk.
Should we do away with warrants, trials, and human rights simply because it's the most expedient method of insuring "criminals" are behind bars? I think not.
"Hopefully if you ever need the assistance of the police, you won't run into one that you've pissed off along the way."
You make it sound like they are doing this out of some sort of benevolence. We pay for our police service via our taxes. If they get pissy and refuse to do their job because we exercise our rights they should be fired if not imprisoned.
You are correct that prohibiting certain software from connecting to their service is not a violation of the GPL but if you read the summary:
"The Second Life viewer has been available under the GPL for three years. Linden Lab, the maker of Second Life, recently released a 'third party viewer' policy that all but erases the freedoms granted under the GPL. It includes such draconian measures as 'You agree to update or delete at our request any data that you have received from Second Life or our servers and systems using a Third-Party Viewer,' 'You must not mask IP or MAC addresses' (reported to the server), 'you must have a published privacy policy explaining your practices regarding user data,' and 'You acknowledge and agree that we may require you to stop using or distributing a Third-Party Viewer for accessing Second Life if we determine that there is a violation.'"
Imposing additional restrictions on distribution is a clear violation.
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Are you serious? How the fuck did this get modded insightful. Why the hell would this affect products based off a Linux kernel that does not verify any drivers. Secondly who would build a serious firewall on Realtek hardware? They are notoriously problematic and unreliable.
Heh. This was never even mentioned in my college "Computer Analysis/Programmer" course. The whole thing was pretty much a joke from my POV. My favorite thing to do was break my teachers example applications with no code access. It was absolutely hilarious to school the teacher on data validation when that is what she was supposed to be teaching the class. I mean who the hell thinks poping up a a damned message box on the key up event that tests for '', 'abcdef...' (yes, I'm fucking serious her tests were exclusive instead of inclusive) is a good idea. (A simple copy and paste skips validation)
I thought "Ladies Night" was a clever device with which to attract women which in sufficient quantity (and quality) would attach male customers. The presence of said women would result in the male visitors to spend more on drinks and add value to the cover charge.
Seems like the women pay by subjecting themselves to the male company.
I believe the extradition is what his lawyers are trying to say would cause him 'problems'.
I got this call from this fuckwit trying to sell a mayor for the local city.
"I'm calling to tell you what is running for Mayor for
"Well, thanks to this call I know I certainly will not vote for . And you can go fuck yourself for wasting my time."
Yes, I'm an ass. These fuckers wake me up and I have absolutely no respect for them.
If I'm a good mood they get to "Hi, I'm calling from xxxx..." before I say "go fuck youself" and hang up.
This is inexcusable. They are paid to do a fucking job and they should bloody well do it if they don't want to be fired. If I saw that kind of nonsense I wouldn't have stopped until I got the moron fired.
Umm.. How about not using your ISP's DNS servers?
So your competent enough to be able to connect to a VPN and remember an IP address but you couldn't just change your resolvers to a known set of public resolvers?
This is explains why I avoid Abobe * like the plague.
Yes.
My teacher thought he was pretty funny when he showed me he was watching my screen. Within 30 seconds I had found the process, killed it, and started writing a log-in script to do it automatically at log in. After he realized my screen was no longer on his screen he tried to reboot my computer. Somehow he accidentally selected all the computers in the lab and rebooted all the machines except mine. Needless to say all the other students were quite upset that they lost their work because he was fooling around. Moral of the story: These things only cause trouble for people that a) don't know what they are doing and b) are actually working.
I'm pretty sure someone is screwing up the math. Aren't you forgetting all the crap in the atmosphere that's going to diffuse the light?
The Russian's have several nuclear devices in space: http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf82.html
After seven fucking years of legal fees wouldn't it have been cheaper for Novell to just to buy SCO and fire the damned CEO?
If I recall correctly Pi is used to calculate the Area, Surface area, and volume of an Ellipse.
Hi, There ours was installed for 15k and we get it pumped semiannually for $60/visit.
That is not entirely true. They are required by law to hold up their end of the license "for the term of copyright on the Program". This means that they could not attempt to sue people or stop the distribution of software as the policy states.
They are free to take a copy of this program and license it under a different license and refuse to license the changed version under the GPL. This has no effect on the GPL distributed code which still can be distributed freely.
One of the key points of the GPL is to protect users from companies just deciding it's not free anymore. It gives users the ability to fork the code and continue as if nothing had happened under a different name.
Second, we have eyewitnesses who independently testified to the event, outside of the religious texts. And perhaps more to the same point, those religious texts (aside from the Gospel of John) were floating around the area while the eyewitnesses who say the saw the risen Christ were mostly still alive: standard historical analysis methods tell us that it is extremely unlikely that the gospels would have survived if a large number of people (around 500 people) would have been around as eyewitnesses to deny the events contained therein.
Proof that a story survived does not mean that it is accurate. First of all people would need know of these events to be able to deny them. At the time few people could read let alone write.
I'd respond to your other statements but you provide absolutely no supporting evidence for most if not all your claims.
On the whole I find the whole thing terribly amusing. I spent most of my childhood with Christians attempting "convert" or force me into accepting their belief system. They don't seem to like it much when someone else rocks the boat the other way.
Funny, I wonder why the following paragraph from the GPL gave me that idea:
"All rights granted under this License are granted for the term of copyright on the Program, and are irrevocable provided the stated conditions are met. This License explicitly affirms your unlimited permission to run the unmodified Program. The output from running a covered work is covered by this License only if the output, given its content, constitutes a covered work. This License acknowledges your rights of fair use or other equivalent, as provided by copyright law."
If they releasing the code under the GPL is irrevocable. They can additionally license it under different terms but these do not affect other licensing agreements such as the one they entered into when they released it under the GPL.
This is not relevant as if the 3rd party viewer is licensed under the GPL distribution cannot be prohibited. Prohibiting access to the second life service would be acceptable.
Hi, Google "RegisterFly". (It's a registrar that went under and did so horribly.)
I agree that Microsoft through either negligence or incompetence has caused a lot of these problems but they have made what I believe to be good steps to resolve this issue with UAC. Internet service providers should be responsible for disconnecting infected hosts and forcing their clients to properly maintain their systems. If a ISP chooses not to do anything about the issue they can simply be null routed.
"Hopefully if you ever need the assistance of the police, you won't run into one that you've pissed off along the way."
You make it sound like they are doing this out of some sort of benevolence. We pay for our police service via our taxes. If they get pissy and refuse to do their job because we exercise our rights they should be fired if not imprisoned.
You are correct that prohibiting certain software from connecting to their service is not a violation of the GPL but if you read the summary:
"The Second Life viewer has been available under the GPL for three years. Linden Lab, the maker of Second Life, recently released a 'third party viewer' policy that all but erases the freedoms granted under the GPL. It includes such draconian measures as 'You agree to update or delete at our request any data that you have received from Second Life or our servers and systems using a Third-Party Viewer,' 'You must not mask IP or MAC addresses' (reported to the server), 'you must have a published privacy policy explaining your practices regarding user data,' and 'You acknowledge and agree that we may require you to stop using or distributing a Third-Party Viewer for accessing Second Life if we determine that there is a violation.'"
Imposing additional restrictions on distribution is a clear violation.