Just thought I'd remind you that it's bad form to advise the lusers how to turn into a PFY or worse, a BOFH - we wouldn't want to have to break out the cattle prod again now, would we ?
Has anyone seen an FCC approval filing for this yet ?
Surely since they had to pre-announce the first iPhone to protect against the FCC announcing it for them, we could expect to see a similar request before a 3G iPhone comes into being ?
A lot of people really don't seem to understand the full reach of copyright law in many countries.
Here's an example: A company selling CDs in the UK were buying the CDs wholesale in Asia. They were buying them from official channel sources, not pirate copies. They were then selling them in the UK.
At this point we have: 1. A company, selling something in the UK 2. Buying something legitimate in Asia, legally 3. Selling the thing that they just purchased in the UK
Yet they were stopped by the BPI using copyright law and lost on appeal too!
Ouch - I'd like to think I'd be able to stick to my guns, but I KNOW I'd fall at that kind of talk.
It's even worse for people who have done the Right Thing(tm) in the past and watched others walk away with all the money to say no to something like this. If you've seen what you could have had if only you bent slightly, you'd also be tempted by something like this.
Fortunately for everyone, I'm unlikely to ever be in this position again, so I'll keep doing the Right Thing:D
Day 7 - you walk into a pub halfway around the world, and the bartender has the same bitter ready. You're there interviewing for a job with a brewery that competes with the one that makes your favourite bitter.
Let's see... I've written my MP and attended his surgeries. I've got my friends and family about as riled up as I am, and contacting _their_ representatives. I've had flyers printed at my own cost and put them through doors in the neighborhood around election time. I've contact various ministers with regards to bills passing through the system and trying to inform and advise them.
So how do you propose I travel for work then? Losing my job is not a 'small amount of personal sacrifice'. It means losing my house, my car and probably my wife.
I have a good reason for wanting to get to my seat first - luggage. I always obey the carry-on luggage rules, but I often transport delicate and valuable stuff. As a result, I need my overhead space.
Sadly, many people do NOT follow the rules, and unless I get onto the plane fast, I often have no overhead space to stow my gear, meaning that it's out of sight for most of the flight.
This is why I always book seats at the back of the plane:D
Some of what you want can't be done - there's no such thing as a smartphone that works across the world. I spent 5 months in north and west africa last year, and it's often the case that there are no roaming agreements for european or US networks, so your phone won't work at all. And even if you get a local sim card, you'll still be stuck with no data in many places.
The rest - well, it depends on whether you are going to a hospitable or hostile environment. If you're going to a hostile place, make sure you take something to keep yourself amused. A portable game device and LOTS of reading or tv shows and books are essential.
I have no objection to kids playing anywhere they like.
But how do you justify the broken windows and the chronic litter?
I live in a neighborhood with similar issues, and I'll be DAMNED if I will try to understand what is happening from their side. There is NO acceptable reason for trashing a bus shelter or a DLR shelter. There is NO good reason to dump rubbish bins in the street. There is NO acceptable reason for urinating on the stairs to the train platforms.
When they decide to become part of society, I'll treat them like they deserve to be. While they're playing at Lord of the Flies, I'll treat them like the animals they are.
A decade ago, Richard Stallman first published his story, The Right to Read. At the time people laughed and called him an alarmist.
This world is getting closer and closer every day, and laws like this are helping it!
Today we have a world where someone was held without trial for months, for producing software (that was totally legal in the country where it was developed!) that allowed among other things, blind people to read PDFs. J.K. Rowling threatens children with lawsuits over fan sites (well, she did say she wanted to encourage them to read, she didn't say nuffink about enkuraging them to rite!)
I take it you don't work in a large enterprise then? Or actually listen to the kernel developers ?
As of the 2.6 branch, the developers believe that it's all right to do mad things in the kernel, and that it's up to the vendors to stablise this. Not as in operational stability, but as in API / ABI stability.
In an enterprise, you absolutely CANNOT live with a situation where you can either live with a security hole and have everything behave correctly, or accept behaviour changes if you want to patch a security hole. Even in the 2.4 series, we had the thread conversion nightmare, but the 2.6 tree is ever-changing.
This is further compounded by the fact that if you change the kernel and you're on something supported by a vendor, you can kiss your support goodbye.
The end result of all of this is that most Linux computers in large organisations absolutely WILL be running a vanilla vendor shipped kernel. And there sysadmins don't have a leg to stand on when arguing against this, because the kernel developers said that this is what should be done !
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
You say that like it's a good thing... I guess you don't live in the UK:(
We have more and more laws created as a response to the Daily Mail or Sun headlines... Laws that don't actually address the real problem, and just make for a more restrictive society, and all because the government is media run.
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If I gave a shit about any of those people, I'd know where they are and what they're up to. I know this about everyone I care about.
Why would I _care_ about someone I obviously drifted apart from years ago if I drifted apart from them in the first place?
Live now, not then!
Hi Simon,
Good to see you're well.
Just thought I'd remind you that it's bad form to advise the lusers how to turn into a PFY or worse, a BOFH - we wouldn't want to have to break out the cattle prod again now, would we ?
They lack a wide selection of applications? Care to justify that?
I can run almost anything that I can on Linux on OS X, but there is a lot from OS X that I _can't_ run on Linux.
No idea - but you can find more on the story here: http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/news.php?id=113571
Has anyone seen an FCC approval filing for this yet ?
Surely since they had to pre-announce the first iPhone to protect against the FCC announcing it for them, we could expect to see a similar request before a 3G iPhone comes into being ?
16-bit images. Dealbreaker.
A lot of people really don't seem to understand the full reach of copyright law in many countries.
Here's an example: A company selling CDs in the UK were buying the CDs wholesale in Asia. They were buying them from official channel sources, not pirate copies. They were then selling them in the UK.
At this point we have:
1. A company, selling something in the UK
2. Buying something legitimate in Asia, legally
3. Selling the thing that they just purchased in the UK
Yet they were stopped by the BPI using copyright law and lost on appeal too!
I'm going to jail :(
Ouch - I'd like to think I'd be able to stick to my guns, but I KNOW I'd fall at that kind of talk.
:D
It's even worse for people who have done the Right Thing(tm) in the past and watched others walk away with all the money to say no to something like this. If you've seen what you could have had if only you bent slightly, you'd also be tempted by something like this.
Fortunately for everyone, I'm unlikely to ever be in this position again, so I'll keep doing the Right Thing
Yeah, then you just get people responding to every second e-mail telling you that they couldn't open your attachment :(
Day 7 - you walk into a pub halfway around the world, and the bartender has the same bitter ready. You're there interviewing for a job with a brewery that competes with the one that makes your favourite bitter.
NOW it's a problem.
Screw you! Just because you hippies are all over the carbon emissions thing, why should I give up the car?
Oh... wait... you meant... Doh!
I was going to laugh, but I found myself crying instead :(
Let's see... I've written my MP and attended his surgeries. I've got my friends and family about as riled up as I am, and contacting _their_ representatives. I've had flyers printed at my own cost and put them through doors in the neighborhood around election time. I've contact various ministers with regards to bills passing through the system and trying to inform and advise them.
And so far, I've achieved absolutely jack shit.
So how do you propose I travel for work then? Losing my job is not a 'small amount of personal sacrifice'. It means losing my house, my car and probably my wife.
Uh, he said give one example of it WORKING. South Africa is turning into every other African banana republic as we speak.
I have a good reason for wanting to get to my seat first - luggage. I always obey the carry-on luggage rules, but I often transport delicate and valuable stuff. As a result, I need my overhead space.
:D
Sadly, many people do NOT follow the rules, and unless I get onto the plane fast, I often have no overhead space to stow my gear, meaning that it's out of sight for most of the flight.
This is why I always book seats at the back of the plane
Well, it's been a lot of time since Brakpan, so I had time to grow a new one... Krugersdorp was the final straw though ;)
:D
The DZ looks good - I'll pack
Thanks for the headsup - I'll start packing now!
:(
Just one quick question - any dropzones around ?
I'm not joking here... London is ripping my soul out
Being the second fattest chick in the bar does NOT make you skinny!
Some of what you want can't be done - there's no such thing as a smartphone that works across the world. I spent 5 months in north and west africa last year, and it's often the case that there are no roaming agreements for european or US networks, so your phone won't work at all. And even if you get a local sim card, you'll still be stuck with no data in many places.
The rest - well, it depends on whether you are going to a hospitable or hostile environment. If you're going to a hostile place, make sure you take something to keep yourself amused. A portable game device and LOTS of reading or tv shows and books are essential.
I have no objection to kids playing anywhere they like.
But how do you justify the broken windows and the chronic litter?
I live in a neighborhood with similar issues, and I'll be DAMNED if I will try to understand what is happening from their side. There is NO acceptable reason for trashing a bus shelter or a DLR shelter. There is NO good reason to dump rubbish bins in the street. There is NO acceptable reason for urinating on the stairs to the train platforms.
When they decide to become part of society, I'll treat them like they deserve to be. While they're playing at Lord of the Flies, I'll treat them like the animals they are.
A decade ago, Richard Stallman first published his story, The Right to Read. At the time people laughed and called him an alarmist.
This world is getting closer and closer every day, and laws like this are helping it!
Today we have a world where someone was held without trial for months, for producing software (that was totally legal in the country where it was developed!) that allowed among other things, blind people to read PDFs. J.K. Rowling threatens children with lawsuits over fan sites (well, she did say she wanted to encourage them to read, she didn't say nuffink about enkuraging them to rite!)
I wrote something on this topic after seeing the Lawrence Lessig talk from TED - http://blog.penguinpowered.org/2008/01/29/breaking-the-law/
I take it you don't work in a large enterprise then? Or actually listen to the kernel developers ?
As of the 2.6 branch, the developers believe that it's all right to do mad things in the kernel, and that it's up to the vendors to stablise this. Not as in operational stability, but as in API / ABI stability.
In an enterprise, you absolutely CANNOT live with a situation where you can either live with a security hole and have everything behave correctly, or accept behaviour changes if you want to patch a security hole. Even in the 2.4 series, we had the thread conversion nightmare, but the 2.6 tree is ever-changing.
This is further compounded by the fact that if you change the kernel and you're on something supported by a vendor, you can kiss your support goodbye.
The end result of all of this is that most Linux computers in large organisations absolutely WILL be running a vanilla vendor shipped kernel. And there sysadmins don't have a leg to stand on when arguing against this, because the kernel developers said that this is what should be done !
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
:(
You say that like it's a good thing... I guess you don't live in the UK
We have more and more laws created as a response to the Daily Mail or Sun headlines... Laws that don't actually address the real problem, and just make for a more restrictive society, and all because the government is media run.