The proposal in the Swedish Pirate Party's program is 5 years from publication. I don't know why the Greens in the EP thought that they needed 20 years, but either way it's infinitely better than today's life + 70 years which is usually 3 or 4 generations from publication and is obviously insane.
Someone who doesn't consider an offer from another company, with a much higher salary, is an idiot. I really don't believe that managers expect all employees to be idiots.
Send in all your data to "Ask Slashdot". It will get repeated every couple of months for all eternity. It's not lossless as there are tiny variations, but they are usually to small to notice.
In Sweden all university and college education is free of charge for the students, payed by taxes. No tuition, no fees. You also get a combination of benefits and cheap loans so you can study full-time instead of having to work to cover living expenses. If you want to get in at a popular school you still need good grades or test results, of course.
There are certainly not "lots of computers available without Windows", unless you restrict yourself to certain types of computers. I've been looking for cheap netbooks recently and I haven't found a single one sold in Sweden without Windows pre-installed.
Next, plans to use Ubuntu, which this is perfect and right up Canonicals alley, so you would think! WRONG! WRONG! Canoncial (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/848154 ) PULLED the plug on the ARM V6 support and only supports the OMAP, basically TI is paying them to support the Beagleboards, so anything else ARM based is hosed, and you will have to go to Debian, or others. Thats fine, BUT... your targeting this to be used to do things like oh, play MP3's.. well then you have just run a foul of the DFSG, and 99.9999% of the Debian stuff has NO MP3 support unless you RECOMPILE IT! So your not going to do apt-get install mediaplayersoftware as it has NO MP3 support. Its great that it supports Ogg, but I provide Ogg formatted streams, and NO ONE USES them, but me. No arch or fedora doesn't count, first RPM based, and thanks but I've had enough dealings with RPM's on CentOS to say NO THANK YOU! Versus on Debian based DEBS and apt, simple as apt-get install, done.
I'm using Debian Squeeze. A quick test shows:
MPlayer plays MP3s
Rhythmbox plays MP3s
VLC plays MP3s
Totem plays MP3s
Audacity plays MP3s
Iceweasel plays MP3s (using the Totem plugin)
I do not recall recompiling any of them. I do have APT sources for the non-free repositories though.
Why would they need to "mature" by adopting "stances" on every political issue? If their current program is important enough that 9% of the voters want them to work on the issues presented in it, maybe they should just keep doing that.
Is there any reason to believe that there would be "complete fragmentation" without a cutoff? The Netherlands, for example, has proportional representation without any threshold and the Staten-Generaal is still dominated by 4 or 5 large parties.
Why are they inventing a new language if all they want is typing? Just use C, compile it to bytecode and run it in a sandbox. It has the added advantage that every programmer on earth already knows it (no, someone who doesn't know C is not a programmer).
Recorded audio. It's separate from the copyright on the actual music, which is owned by the composer or whoever he/she sold it to. Copyright on recorded audio was added with the Rome convention in 1961, when the record companies started realising that people might soon be able to copy records to other media.
It's worth noting that the Swedish Pirate Party's MEP tried to get this issue back to the parliament months ago for a new vote (which should be allowed by the parliament's rules of procedure, since the old vote was done by the previous parliament before the last election in 2009 and there are provisions that allow a new vote if the council is too slow in adopting a directive from the parliament and there's an election inbetween), but the parliament's directorate stalled for four months, and then decided, less than 10 days ago, that the rules didn't apply in this case after all.
No need to bribe hundreds of parliamentarians when you can just pay off one or two persons in the directorate.
The point is still valid if you're doing any sort of off-site backup, or work with large data files (e.g. HD video) that you want to send to and receive from other people.
And the minute that starts happening on a large scale, anonymous filesharing is finally going to take off among the larger internet populace. It will be interesting to see whether it will be Freenet, OneSwarm, one of those secret Japanese protocols, or something else.
Really, is the risk of getting the attention of the copyright/lawsuit industry significantly higher than the risk of, say, him going crazy and murdering you in your sleep or you getting hit by lightning while crossing the street? How many other people are sharing those same extremely popular files as your mate, and how many of them are getting caught?
The usual punishment used to be 80 day-fines, which in Sweden would mean between 2400 SEK and 16000 SEK depending on the person's income (1 SEK is roughly 0.11 â). But in a recent case, not significantly dissimilar to earlier ones, the court suddenly went crazy and handed down a jail sentence (suspended, but that doesn't change the legal value) to a 60 year old man. No one really knows why they did that, but it's very convenient for Sweden's new prosecutors who are specialised on filesharing since they can now argue that there is a possibility of a jail sentence in future filesharing cases they are investigating. This gives them considerably more freedom to use search warrants and other invasive methods during the investigation.
...when they implemented the IPRED EU directive which gives the copyright lobby the right to force ISPs to give them the names of suspected filesharers, the traffic dropped by almost 30% on the day the law came into effect. However, it started increasing again almost immediately and a year later it's higher than ever before, and still increasing - just like it has been since the late 90s.
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The proposal in the Swedish Pirate Party's program is 5 years from publication. I don't know why the Greens in the EP thought that they needed 20 years, but either way it's infinitely better than today's life + 70 years which is usually 3 or 4 generations from publication and is obviously insane.
The more money you make, the sooner you can retire. And never have to work again.
Someone who doesn't consider an offer from another company, with a much higher salary, is an idiot. I really don't believe that managers expect all employees to be idiots.
You should ask your current employer for a raise to match your new offer. If they don't match it, then no, it obviously doesn't pay to be loyal.
Send in all your data to "Ask Slashdot". It will get repeated every couple of months for all eternity. It's not lossless as there are tiny variations, but they are usually to small to notice.
When the power goes, we may have more important things to worry about than looking at videos of each other's kids.
Does a Tor relay keep logs of all circuits that go through it?
Wait... first you say "University is free", then you say "Free here would mean every idiot going". Is it free or isn't it?
In Sweden all university and college education is free of charge for the students, payed by taxes. No tuition, no fees. You also get a combination of benefits and cheap loans so you can study full-time instead of having to work to cover living expenses. If you want to get in at a popular school you still need good grades or test results, of course.
It seems to work pretty well.
There are certainly not "lots of computers available without Windows", unless you restrict yourself to certain types of computers. I've been looking for cheap netbooks recently and I haven't found a single one sold in Sweden without Windows pre-installed.
I'm using Debian Squeeze. A quick test shows:
I do not recall recompiling any of them. I do have APT sources for the non-free repositories though.
Why would he call the Linux kernel GNU/Linux?
Why would they need to "mature" by adopting "stances" on every political issue? If their current program is important enough that 9% of the voters want them to work on the issues presented in it, maybe they should just keep doing that.
Is there any reason to believe that there would be "complete fragmentation" without a cutoff? The Netherlands, for example, has proportional representation without any threshold and the Staten-Generaal is still dominated by 4 or 5 large parties.
Why are they inventing a new language if all they want is typing? Just use C, compile it to bytecode and run it in a sandbox. It has the added advantage that every programmer on earth already knows it (no, someone who doesn't know C is not a programmer).
Recorded audio. It's separate from the copyright on the actual music, which is owned by the composer or whoever he/she sold it to. Copyright on recorded audio was added with the Rome convention in 1961, when the record companies started realising that people might soon be able to copy records to other media.
It's worth noting that the Swedish Pirate Party's MEP tried to get this issue back to the parliament months ago for a new vote (which should be allowed by the parliament's rules of procedure, since the old vote was done by the previous parliament before the last election in 2009 and there are provisions that allow a new vote if the council is too slow in adopting a directive from the parliament and there's an election inbetween), but the parliament's directorate stalled for four months, and then decided, less than 10 days ago, that the rules didn't apply in this case after all.
No need to bribe hundreds of parliamentarians when you can just pay off one or two persons in the directorate.
The point is still valid if you're doing any sort of off-site backup, or work with large data files (e.g. HD video) that you want to send to and receive from other people.
And the minute that starts happening on a large scale, anonymous filesharing is finally going to take off among the larger internet populace. It will be interesting to see whether it will be Freenet, OneSwarm, one of those secret Japanese protocols, or something else.
Really, is the risk of getting the attention of the copyright/lawsuit industry significantly higher than the risk of, say, him going crazy and murdering you in your sleep or you getting hit by lightning while crossing the street? How many other people are sharing those same extremely popular files as your mate, and how many of them are getting caught?
In short, is it worth worrying about at all?
The â was supposed to be a euro-sign. Come on, Slashdot, this isn't the 1990s. Fix your input handling.
The usual punishment used to be 80 day-fines, which in Sweden would mean between 2400 SEK and 16000 SEK depending on the person's income (1 SEK is roughly 0.11 â). But in a recent case, not significantly dissimilar to earlier ones, the court suddenly went crazy and handed down a jail sentence (suspended, but that doesn't change the legal value) to a 60 year old man. No one really knows why they did that, but it's very convenient for Sweden's new prosecutors who are specialised on filesharing since they can now argue that there is a possibility of a jail sentence in future filesharing cases they are investigating. This gives them considerably more freedom to use search warrants and other invasive methods during the investigation.
...when they implemented the IPRED EU directive which gives the copyright lobby the right to force ISPs to give them the names of suspected filesharers, the traffic dropped by almost 30% on the day the law came into effect. However, it started increasing again almost immediately and a year later it's higher than ever before, and still increasing - just like it has been since the late 90s.
In Sweden (and most of Europe, I think) you need a permit to carry or store any laser pointer stronger than 5 mW outside your own home.
...they were just script kiddies who knew one single method, and thought it would be cool to try it on kernel.org.