Basically at the company I work for any mods or bugfixes to OS software we do we send back. The real pragmatic reason to do this is that you will never not upgrade to a later version and it is more cost effective to send those patches back for inclusion in future releases than to have to manually repatch everything again.
By not sending mods back you just set yourself up for a lot of pain in the future.
Ok we are talking deep space, but they have passed the region where the solar wind, which is detectable goes subsonic and so the probes might now be traveling faster than very very tenuous medium around them.
It makes poor business sense to "steal" GPL code
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The reason being i that GPL code is not exactly static, releases are often, for features or for bug fixes. So it is good business sense to put you changes back otherwise you have to spend each time on every release of the original tree putting your changes in again.
Not a very good business practice really, it is more cost effective to get your changes into the code tree than to "steal" a GPL'd product.
By itself a mono propellant has a horrendous ISP, which is a measure of the effeciency of a rocket motor. It does however make a good oxidiser for Hybrid motors, which have a liquid oxidiser and solid fuel in the chamber, plastic is a good fuel.
I have been using XMLRPC for about 9 months now and it has been superb. Easy to use, tons of clients, just what we wanted. Basically it provided a mechanism for Web apps to talk to all our backend systems via a middle tier. Nice and fast and stable.
This would stop address spoofing right now, all ISP's should implement this. So what are the chances of getting ISP's to roll out itrace if they don't even bother to try and fix the problem in the first place.
I know I won't be popular here on/. but maybe a few lawsuits against ISP's not implementing egress filtering might change the current situation. Maybe implicating them due to negligence or some such.
Sorry but Java support in IE sucks big time, it is not even fully 1.1 compliant. Hence we are using the 1.3 plug in to get proper support for java applets as opposed to the mangled mess that is the Microsoft JVM.
I have sent him a polite email pointing out a well known web server that happens to be open source, the netcraft site so he can see the survey and also noted that Linux is open source, just in case he didn't make the connection.
If you email him please be poilite and point out the errors in his article rather than flaming him to death.
So you say living a life of sin and having faith in Jesus means you will go to heaven? So if I led the whole human race away from God but believed in god myself I would get to sit with God?
But how can sacrificing anything (animal / son of god) take away my responsibility for my actions?
So you say that in order to find salvation for my soul I only need faith and faith alone. If i am the most despical monster on the planet it does not matter, only my faith does?
If not I nominate you for the position of arch bigot. This would be an example of something I would not want my children to see without having a chance to expose it for the bullshit it is.
So organised Catholic religion is bad because it does not emphasise Christ, but organised Christian religion which has the same practices as Catholic religion is good because it does emphasise belief in Christ.
I thought your earlier posts suggested that nothing can exist between a human and thier god and all that claimed to do so was bad.
So as long a someone claims a devotion to Christ then they are not guilty of sin, no matter what they do as a person, because Jesus died upon a cross to absolve them of all responsability for thier actions?
Do you mean lower frequencies / longer wavelengths or higher frqencies / shorter wavelengths. Lower wavelengths and higher wavelengths don't mean much at all.
Captain Pedant runs away from the lynch mob as no one likes a smart ass.
visible light and radio waves are all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. Radio waves are lower frequencies and light is a higher frequency. A Photon is a quanta or package of electromagnetic energy. Photons travel as waves and arrive and depart as particles, hence wave / particle duality.
As a photons travel at the same speed the frequency is a indication of the amount of energy in the package or quanta of of the electromagnetic energy. Higher frequency == more energy.
I wonder if the MPAA has just laid a dog egg in thier undergarments after hearing about this tech.:)
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Jesus Christ as the Son of God who died for your sins
Sorry I take responsability for my actions sinful or otherwise, no one can take that responsabilty for me.
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Why is it illegal for good reason?
What is legal/illegal about connecting up stuff to a copper wire pair?
I can understand not running a charge of a million volts down the wire and using it to send out extra long wave radio tranmissions of stuff, but as long as your equipment at both ends falls into spec what does it matter what signal you send over it?
I don't think anyone has a problem with content of games being copyright. Copyright is not evil, the implimentation is.
In your example of a game, imagine the longevity of said game with an OS engine and copyright content. Yes it would still sell and you would end up with an awesome community.
While I'm as big a fan of Linux as the next/.er, I'm fed up with all of the controversy it has generated through the actions of a few of its users.
Explain why it has been illegal? The only violation of the law is to have access control in the first place. The US law allows for fair use copying of material that you have purchased, fair use includes allowing you to play back for example media in anyway that you see fit.
CSS violates your rights under fair use and infact is reinforcing a monopoly situation with implimentation of access control, for example region encoding. Copying of DVD's has been a problem long before the CSS encryption code was broken so therefore CSS does not prevent copying of content.
The DeCSS fiasco should never have happened in the first place
I am 100% behind you there, if the CSS did not violate fair use rights then there would not be a need for DeCSS and it's contribution towards playing DVD movie streams on any OS / Hardware platform.
if something is illegal then it is obviously wrong, and attempting to break the law is stupid, plain and simple.
I guess it depends on what country you are in doesn't it. There has been a lot of cases where US law is attepting to extend it's reach to the rest of the world. Now I wonder if th door can swing both ways. Europe has some extensive laws regarding competetiveness, I wonder if legal action can be brought against any of the abusers of consumer rights. DeCSS is part of an effort to allow DVD films to play on non CSS licenced OS's, it is reverse engineering and is not illegal.
Anyway, this is a great step forward, since I can now watch my small by growing collection of DVDs on my Linux box.
That is of course if your Linux box happens to run on x86 architechture. If you happen to run another OS (non Windows) that runs on x86 architechture or you happen to run Linux on a non x86 architechture then you are out of luck. Why is it that I can buy a DVD, DVD Drive, x86 PC and depending on what OS I use it is deemed illegal for me to try and get it to play or not? Same hardware just different 1's and 0's in the machines RAM.
Hardware support is getting better, as soon as more hardware people work out it is more cost effective to be a hardware company than try and be a software developer as well and that opening up your drivers increases your market and is hence a better move for the shareholders then the situation will be a wholelot better.
It would be nice to see this out, but until you can watch a DVD movie through x86 Linux it is vapour.
It seems that this charter information is only beginning to surface again in the public mindshare.
I would say that denial of copyright fair use, enforcement of player monopoly for consumer playback and legal intimidation to aquire rights above that granted by law are not in the public interest.
Even if this gets nowhere maybe the whole issue will hit mainstream.
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I think the amazing part is not the tech, but basically the vision and drive to see it through to completeion.
Well done guys.
Look at the ingredients needed to make this work, Microsoft OS, Microsoft VBScript, Microsoft Outlook.
All it takes is to run vbscript in a sandbox!!! Don't divert the blame for this thing from the root cause.
Basically at the company I work for any mods or bugfixes to OS software we do we send back. The real pragmatic reason to do this is that you will never not upgrade to a later version and it is more cost effective to send those patches back for inclusion in future releases than to have to manually repatch everything again.
By not sending mods back you just set yourself up for a lot of pain in the future.
Ok we are talking deep space, but they have passed the region where the solar wind, which is detectable goes subsonic and so the probes might now be traveling faster than very very tenuous medium around them.
The reason being i that GPL code is not exactly static, releases are often, for features or for bug fixes. So it is good business sense to put you changes back otherwise you have to spend each time on every release of the original tree putting your changes in again.
Not a very good business practice really, it is more cost effective to get your changes into the code tree than to "steal" a GPL'd product.
By itself a mono propellant has a horrendous ISP, which is a measure of the effeciency of a rocket motor. It does however make a good oxidiser for Hybrid motors, which have a liquid oxidiser and solid fuel in the chamber, plastic is a good fuel.
I have been using XMLRPC for about 9 months now and it has been superb. Easy to use, tons of clients, just what we wanted. Basically it provided a mechanism for Web apps to talk to all our backend systems via a middle tier. Nice and fast and stable.
So does that fact you get taxed for royalties mean that you can copy away?
It seems strange that one can get taxed for royalties for making copies and it would be illegal to make copies of media after paying such a tax.
Sounds like some government got bought out.
As I am an author of this comment and it can be viewed in germany, how can I get some royalties?
This would stop address spoofing right now, all ISP's should implement this. So what are the chances of getting ISP's to roll out itrace if they don't even bother to try and fix the problem in the first place.
/. but maybe a few lawsuits against ISP's not implementing egress filtering might change the current situation. Maybe implicating them due to negligence or some such.
I know I won't be popular here on
Sorry but Java support in IE sucks big time, it is not even fully 1.1 compliant. Hence we are using the 1.3 plug in to get proper support for java applets as opposed to the mangled mess that is the Microsoft JVM.
Is john_taschek@ziffdavis.com
I have sent him a polite email pointing out a well known web server that happens to be open source, the netcraft site so he can see the survey and also noted that Linux is open source, just in case he didn't make the connection.
If you email him please be poilite and point out the errors in his article rather than flaming him to death.
So you say living a life of sin and having faith in Jesus means you will go to heaven? So if I led the whole human race away from God but believed in god myself I would get to sit with God?
But how can sacrificing anything (animal / son of god) take away my responsibility for my actions?
So you say that in order to find salvation for my soul I only need faith and faith alone. If i am the most despical monster on the planet it does not matter, only my faith does?
If not I nominate you for the position of arch bigot. This would be an example of something I would not want my children to see without having a chance to expose it for the bullshit it is.
So organised Catholic religion is bad because it does not emphasise Christ, but organised Christian religion which has the same practices as Catholic religion is good because it does emphasise belief in Christ.
I thought your earlier posts suggested that nothing can exist between a human and thier god and all that claimed to do so was bad.
So as long a someone claims a devotion to Christ then they are not guilty of sin, no matter what they do as a person, because Jesus died upon a cross to absolve them of all responsability for thier actions?
Captain Pedant to the rescue
Do you mean lower frequencies / longer wavelengths or higher frqencies / shorter wavelengths. Lower wavelengths and higher wavelengths don't mean much at all.
Captain Pedant runs away from the lynch mob as no one likes a smart ass.
So what about organised Christian religion, are they guilty of the same sins?
visible light and radio waves are all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. Radio waves are lower frequencies and light is a higher frequency. A Photon is a quanta or package of electromagnetic energy. Photons travel as waves and arrive and depart as particles, hence wave / particle duality.
As a photons travel at the same speed the frequency is a indication of the amount of energy in the package or quanta of of the electromagnetic energy. Higher frequency == more energy.
I wonder if the MPAA has just laid a dog egg in thier undergarments after hearing about this tech. :)
Jesus Christ as the Son of God who died for your sins
Sorry I take responsability for my actions sinful or otherwise, no one can take that responsabilty for me.
Why is it illegal for good reason?
What is legal/illegal about connecting up stuff to a copper wire pair?
I can understand not running a charge of a million volts down the wire and using it to send out extra long wave radio tranmissions of stuff, but as long as your equipment at both ends falls into spec what does it matter what signal you send over it?
If you want to slate the man off then have the balls to say who you are.
You can only speak for yourself in this, if anyone has a problem with this guy posting then they can say so themselves.
For all I know you are posting this as an effort to direct bad PR from Mattel because you are in thier employ.
I don't think anyone has a problem with content of games being copyright. Copyright is not evil, the implimentation is.
In your example of a game, imagine the longevity of said game with an OS engine and copyright content. Yes it would still sell and you would end up with an awesome community.
While I'm as big a fan of Linux as the next
Explain why it has been illegal? The only violation of the law is to have access control in the first place. The US law allows for fair use copying of material that you have purchased, fair use includes allowing you to play back for example media in anyway that you see fit.
CSS violates your rights under fair use and infact is reinforcing a monopoly situation with implimentation of access control, for example region encoding. Copying of DVD's has been a problem long before the CSS encryption code was broken so therefore CSS does not prevent copying of content.
The DeCSS fiasco should never have happened in the first place
I am 100% behind you there, if the CSS did not violate fair use rights then there would not be a need for DeCSS and it's contribution towards playing DVD movie streams on any OS / Hardware platform.
if something is illegal then it is obviously wrong, and attempting to break the law is stupid, plain and simple.
I guess it depends on what country you are in doesn't it. There has been a lot of cases where US law is attepting to extend it's reach to the rest of the world. Now I wonder if th door can swing both ways. Europe has some extensive laws regarding competetiveness, I wonder if legal action can be brought against any of the abusers of consumer rights. DeCSS is part of an effort to allow DVD films to play on non CSS licenced OS's, it is reverse engineering and is not illegal.
Anyway, this is a great step forward, since I can now watch my small by growing collection of DVDs on my Linux box.
That is of course if your Linux box happens to run on x86 architechture. If you happen to run another OS (non Windows) that runs on x86 architechture or you happen to run Linux on a non x86 architechture then you are out of luck. Why is it that I can buy a DVD, DVD Drive, x86 PC and depending on what OS I use it is deemed illegal for me to try and get it to play or not? Same hardware just different 1's and 0's in the machines RAM.
Hardware support is getting better, as soon as more hardware people work out it is more cost effective to be a hardware company than try and be a software developer as well and that opening up your drivers increases your market and is hence a better move for the shareholders then the situation will be a wholelot better.
It would be nice to see this out, but until you can watch a DVD movie through x86 Linux it is vapour.
Who set this to troll, the MPAA?
It seems that this charter information is only beginning to surface again in the public mindshare.
I would say that denial of copyright fair use, enforcement of player monopoly for consumer playback and legal intimidation to aquire rights above that granted by law are not in the public interest.
Even if this gets nowhere maybe the whole issue will hit mainstream.