Wow! So if I read that right, anyone who is involved in providing evidence for a court has to be a licensed investigator in the state that they are working? What a complete PITA! No wonder it's close to impossible to find decent technical representation for court cases!
On another note, did anyone notice this:
(3) engages in the business of securing, or accepts employment to secure, the electronic tracking of the location of an individual or motor vehicle other than for criminal justice purposes by or on behalf of a governmental entity; or (emphasis mine)
So if you're doing nasty sneaking for a govt. entity, you just need low morals, no license:D
What irks me about these stories is that Ray is actively helping the record labels hide behind the RIAA!
The RIAA didn't back down on squat here... Sony is the company suing Crain and Sony is the company who have withdrawn that part of their claims.
By not naming the actual labels in these stories, Ray is letting them hide behind the RIAA. This is the whole purpose of the RIAA and exactly what the RIAA and the lables want. Why not start the stories more along the lines of:
"Texas grandmother Rhonda Crain got Sony, the label behind Lemar, Britney Spears and Westlife to drop its monetary claims against her. Sony is a member of the RIAA."
This way you start to bring together the bands that are financing this terrorism in readers' minds, rather than hoping they will go away and put this together by themselves. If the average Jane or John reads about the RIAA suing someone over music piracy, they think 'Oh well, big company at it again'. If they read that the label behind Britney Spears is suing a grandmother, they're going to be that much more opposed to Britney Spears.
Until this action hurts the artists, the artists won't pressure the labels to stop. Until the labels feel pressure from this, they will continue to let the RIAA guide them and organise these lawsuits for them. So we HAVE to make the artists hurt.
How much abuse of this law have we seen? Lexmark suing over ink cartridges springs to mind... Suppression of research papers, etc.
You NEED to write your congrescritter and explain that no matter how much you may like him, if he votes for this bill, you WILL vote against him in the next election.
Explain, politely, that this is such a big issue in the world today, that even if you don't like the other candidate, you'll vote for him anyway just to punish the incumbent. Get your friends and relatives to do the same...
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The main catch is that you need at least 200 regular freefall jumps before you can legally learn to fly one in most places. Some countries have even higher requirements than this.
They should have got one of the writers from lost - they seem to have studied Jordan very closely.... forever inserting new characters, spinning off new sub plots and never resolving anything.
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The problem is very real in the UK. Every single shop in London has signs up explaining that they're out of stock. My local Game retailer is taking over 100 calls per day asking about stock. They get in about 25 a week in multiple shipments and these are almost always gone later the same day.
On one memorable occasion, they got a batch of 50 on a Friday morning and still had 2 left on Saturday.
This isn't a shop in the middle of London - it's out on the east of town in the arse end of nowhere.
I'm not sure that one is being related 100% correctly. I'm not sure when this happened or who the canopy manufacturer was, but most skydiving work these days is done with mini-dv cameras.
Maybe they meant that the tape had to be recovered and inserted into a new cassette. I know I've done that once already:)
How is affirmative action NOT racism? The whole idea is to give opportunities or funding only to people with specific colour skins.
No examination of background occurs... If they really wanted to 'help previously disadvantaged people' then a white kid with two generations of family who worked the mines should be _just_ as eligible as a black kid from the same background.
Again, affirmative action exists to benefit people of specif races only and explicitly excludes other equally disadvantaged people purely on the basis of their race. It's plain and simple racism, just with a fancier name.
This really isn't that much of a blow from a practical standpoint. Anyone in Germany who wants an unlocked iPhone can just nip over to France and grab one for a FAR more reasonable rate than EU999.
It's more of a problem from an ethical / political standpoint.
I think you're missing a major point here though... I rely on having unlocked phones and always will, but I still keep to my O2 12 month contract.
I travel in Africa a lot and in many places out there, I cannot roam on my UK sim. So when I'm in-country, I simply remove my O2 sim, put it in my wallet, and load up a local sim.
I couldn't do this with an unlocked phone.
Both O2 and Vodaphone supply phones unlocked (except for the iPhone from O2) and this is a major reason I stick with these providers (depending on signal where I'm living at the time).
I have to sit through these 'ads' when I take my wife to the cinema. I tried to pirate the cinema, but we live in London, so the screen was slightly bigger than the house and wouldn't fit.
On the plus side, these aren't quite so much of a downer as when you're out to see a nice fun escapism movie and have to sit through an ad of a guy dying on his motorcycle because he didn't see the car door. Or the one where the guy is drinking and the next thing the table lurches forward and leaves the waitress as a bloody mess on the floor and it cuts to a car that has killed someone. Road safety ads can really kill the buzz on an evening out!
You know, I am SOOO sick of those adverts. I mean, how do they KNOW that I wouldn't steal a purse ? Maybe I'm only in this dark movie theatre to steal some purses, then go outside and steal any cars that they keys in the purses open.
I wish I could mod you up... The poster who replied to you represents almost everything that is wrong with the Linux community today (with the exception of not getting into the stable API / ABI issue:D), and really doesn't represent the majority of people who would really like to support you.
I've had it with the whole region. I gave up a good, comfortable life to come out here and change things for the better, and all I've seen is people trying to rip each other off. I've seen short sighted, narrow minded stupidity. I've seen corruption at every single level I've dealt at. I've seen evil that boggles the mind.
And through all of this, I've seen people standing with their hands out expecting someone else to make it all better. But you can't explain to them that it's THEIR responsibility, they wanted democracy, they wanted the foreign devils out, now they have to make sure their leaders do what they want.
You can't give someone freedom - they HAVE to take it. You can't help people who won't carry on that help when you're gone.
I'm sure other people have positive stories, where change has lasted. But I'm so depressed that I couldn't give a damn any more.
I hope he manages to team up with someone with local business savvy who won't screw him over.
In Nigeria? Good luck with that! Hell, anywhere in this whole damn region, good luck! I've not had a single good experience dealing with any company in Nigeria. I've had a _few_ good experiences in Togo and Benin, but Nigeria, CAR and Niger were just nightmares.
I've also found the "I've done something, why won't everone beat a path to my door and give me lots of money" attitude to be VERY prevalent out here.
Seriously, please don't speak for 'people'. Pretty much everyone I know makes light of death and disaster, and the closer they are to it, the harder they joke. It IS a release for most of us, and it's a way to put what happened into perspective and carry on with our lives.
Reason I ask is that because I'm sure it isn't. If you want to keep buying content from ITMS, you will probably have to upgrade your version of iTunes at some point.
A future version of iTunes may not allow syncing with your iPhone unless it is updated to the latest firmware.
I'm sure there was a case with one of the iPod family where you were pretty much forced to upgrade or not be able to buy any more content a while back.
Legally speaking, the parent to your post is 100% correct. You ONLY have to release source if you release binaries. If you take a GPL project, modify it, and then use it yourself, you have NO legal obligation to give the source back to the community.
The same goes for a corporation - If a corp takes a GPL product and uses it in-house, they can make billions off of it and never have to contribute a single line of code back.
Contract phones from O2 and Vodafone are unlocked and can be used on any network anywhere in the world. Contract phones from Orange and T-mobile are normally locked to that network.
I have a definite need for unlocked phones only as I spend a lot of time running around places like Niger, CAR, Togo, etc. and I need to be able to slot a local sim card into my handset for various testing work I am doing. This is why I stay with O2 and Vodafone:D
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Wow! So if I read that right, anyone who is involved in providing evidence for a court has to be a licensed investigator in the state that they are working? What a complete PITA! No wonder it's close to impossible to find decent technical representation for court cases!
:D
On another note, did anyone notice this:
(3) engages in the business of securing, or accepts employment to secure, the electronic tracking of the location of an individual or motor vehicle other than for criminal justice purposes by or on behalf of a governmental entity; or (emphasis mine)
So if you're doing nasty sneaking for a govt. entity, you just need low morals, no license
What irks me about these stories is that Ray is actively helping the record labels hide behind the RIAA!
The RIAA didn't back down on squat here... Sony is the company suing Crain and Sony is the company who have withdrawn that part of their claims.
By not naming the actual labels in these stories, Ray is letting them hide behind the RIAA. This is the whole purpose of the RIAA and exactly what the RIAA and the lables want. Why not start the stories more along the lines of:
"Texas grandmother Rhonda Crain got Sony, the label behind Lemar, Britney Spears and Westlife to drop its monetary claims against her. Sony is a member of the RIAA."
This way you start to bring together the bands that are financing this terrorism in readers' minds, rather than hoping they will go away and put this together by themselves. If the average Jane or John reads about the RIAA suing someone over music piracy, they think 'Oh well, big company at it again'. If they read that the label behind Britney Spears is suing a grandmother, they're going to be that much more opposed to Britney Spears.
Until this action hurts the artists, the artists won't pressure the labels to stop. Until the labels feel pressure from this, they will continue to let the RIAA guide them and organise these lawsuits for them. So we HAVE to make the artists hurt.
Just not in the direction he wants.
How much abuse of this law have we seen? Lexmark suing over ink cartridges springs to mind... Suppression of research papers, etc.
You NEED to write your congrescritter and explain that no matter how much you may like him, if he votes for this bill, you WILL vote against him in the next election.
Explain, politely, that this is such a big issue in the world today, that even if you don't like the other candidate, you'll vote for him anyway just to punish the incumbent. Get your friends and relatives to do the same...
The main catch is that you need at least 200 regular freefall jumps before you can legally learn to fly one in most places. Some countries have even higher requirements than this.
They should have got one of the writers from lost - they seem to have studied Jordan very closely.... forever inserting new characters, spinning off new sub plots and never resolving anything.
The problem is very real in the UK. Every single shop in London has signs up explaining that they're out of stock. My local Game retailer is taking over 100 calls per day asking about stock. They get in about 25 a week in multiple shipments and these are almost always gone later the same day.
On one memorable occasion, they got a batch of 50 on a Friday morning and still had 2 left on Saturday.
This isn't a shop in the middle of London - it's out on the east of town in the arse end of nowhere.
I'm not sure that one is being related 100% correctly. I'm not sure when this happened or who the canopy manufacturer was, but most skydiving work these days is done with mini-dv cameras.
:)
Maybe they meant that the tape had to be recovered and inserted into a new cassette. I know I've done that once already
How is affirmative action NOT racism? The whole idea is to give opportunities or funding only to people with specific colour skins.
No examination of background occurs... If they really wanted to 'help previously disadvantaged people' then a white kid with two generations of family who worked the mines should be _just_ as eligible as a black kid from the same background.
Again, affirmative action exists to benefit people of specif races only and explicitly excludes other equally disadvantaged people purely on the basis of their race. It's plain and simple racism, just with a fancier name.
This really isn't that much of a blow from a practical standpoint. Anyone in Germany who wants an unlocked iPhone can just nip over to France and grab one for a FAR more reasonable rate than EU999.
It's more of a problem from an ethical / political standpoint.
I think you're missing a major point here though... I rely on having unlocked phones and always will, but I still keep to my O2 12 month contract.
I travel in Africa a lot and in many places out there, I cannot roam on my UK sim. So when I'm in-country, I simply remove my O2 sim, put it in my wallet, and load up a local sim.
I couldn't do this with an unlocked phone.
Both O2 and Vodaphone supply phones unlocked (except for the iPhone from O2) and this is a major reason I stick with these providers (depending on signal where I'm living at the time).
I have to sit through these 'ads' when I take my wife to the cinema. I tried to pirate the cinema, but we live in London, so the screen was slightly bigger than the house and wouldn't fit.
On the plus side, these aren't quite so much of a downer as when you're out to see a nice fun escapism movie and have to sit through an ad of a guy dying on his motorcycle because he didn't see the car door. Or the one where the guy is drinking and the next thing the table lurches forward and leaves the waitress as a bloody mess on the floor and it cuts to a car that has killed someone. Road safety ads can really kill the buzz on an evening out!
You know, I am SOOO sick of those adverts. I mean, how do they KNOW that I wouldn't steal a purse ? Maybe I'm only in this dark movie theatre to steal some purses, then go outside and steal any cars that they keys in the purses open.
This is slander! Or libel! Or something!
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I wish I could mod you up... The poster who replied to you represents almost everything that is wrong with the Linux community today (with the exception of not getting into the stable API / ABI issue :D), and really doesn't represent the majority of people who would really like to support you.
Oh well... you still have the cricket... right ?
You know what? Fuck 'em.
I've had it with the whole region. I gave up a good, comfortable life to come out here and change things for the better, and all I've seen is people trying to rip each other off. I've seen short sighted, narrow minded stupidity. I've seen corruption at every single level I've dealt at. I've seen evil that boggles the mind.
And through all of this, I've seen people standing with their hands out expecting someone else to make it all better. But you can't explain to them that it's THEIR responsibility, they wanted democracy, they wanted the foreign devils out, now they have to make sure their leaders do what they want.
You can't give someone freedom - they HAVE to take it. You can't help people who won't carry on that help when you're gone.
I'm sure other people have positive stories, where change has lasted. But I'm so depressed that I couldn't give a damn any more.
I hope he manages to team up with someone with local business savvy who won't screw him over.
:(
In Nigeria? Good luck with that! Hell, anywhere in this whole damn region, good luck! I've not had a single good experience dealing with any company in Nigeria. I've had a _few_ good experiences in Togo and Benin, but Nigeria, CAR and Niger were just nightmares.
I've also found the "I've done something, why won't everone beat a path to my door and give me lots of money" attitude to be VERY prevalent out here.
It's just sad, and I can't wait to go home
Seriously, please don't speak for 'people'. Pretty much everyone I know makes light of death and disaster, and the closer they are to it, the harder they joke. It IS a release for most of us, and it's a way to put what happened into perspective and carry on with our lives.
If you want to manage tomtom maps under linux, have a look at my brief howto at
http://www.penguinpowered.org/documentation/tomtom_maps.html
You sure it is that simple?
Reason I ask is that because I'm sure it isn't. If you want to keep buying content from ITMS, you will probably have to upgrade your version of iTunes at some point.
A future version of iTunes may not allow syncing with your iPhone unless it is updated to the latest firmware.
I'm sure there was a case with one of the iPod family where you were pretty much forced to upgrade or not be able to buy any more content a while back.
Dude, chill, seriously...
Legally speaking, the parent to your post is 100% correct. You ONLY have to release source if you release binaries. If you take a GPL project, modify it, and then use it yourself, you have NO legal obligation to give the source back to the community.
The same goes for a corporation - If a corp takes a GPL product and uses it in-house, they can make billions off of it and never have to contribute a single line of code back.
I'm not sure I agree with that... One of my biggest gripes with Free software is with regards to the user interfaces. Most of them just suck.
I see a lot of value in a decent front-end for Cups or Samba, and I'm happy to pay Apple because they provide me with these.
That's not strictly speaking true...
:D
Contract phones from O2 and Vodafone are unlocked and can be used on any network anywhere in the world. Contract phones from Orange and T-mobile are normally locked to that network.
I have a definite need for unlocked phones only as I spend a lot of time running around places like Niger, CAR, Togo, etc. and I need to be able to slot a local sim card into my handset for various testing work I am doing. This is why I stay with O2 and Vodafone
Nah - just add a 'Citation Needed' bit - that should fully discredit it ;)
Near as I can tell, this has very little to do with the RIAA.
If we're going to spend so much discussion and effort demonising someone, shouldn't we go after the ACTUAL plaintiff ?
How about a headline that mentions the evil bastards once in a while instead of allowing them to hide behind their PR flacks.
If you want to hate someone here, hate Atlantic records - they are the bad guys here!