Um, there's a pretty clear victim in attempted murder, surely--the person you were attempting to murder? Same with a failed DDOS--the target is quite clearly *the victim of* a failed attack. Some 'crimes' on the other hand are truly victimless; therefore arguably not crimes at all.
Again, I'm not voicing any opinion on whether there IS an infringement here--I'm not a lawyer (are you?) Point is, once you've distributed code under a particular license, your intentions stop & the license takes over. If you don't like how it pans out, well, you should have chosen a different license. As I already stated, it still takes someone with an enforceable copyright to do anything about it. But this notion that the legal opinion of programmers is worth more than the legal opinion of lawyers is just wishful thinking.
Torvalds isn't a lawyer. He has no idea what constitutes a GPL infringement. His intentions are irrelevant--the code's licensed under the GPL, so an infringement's an infringement whether he likes it or not. I'm not saying in this case there IS any infringement--I'm not a lawyer, either. And it'd still take someone with some claim to copyright to make anything of it anyway. But Torvalds' (& other devs) views are essentially irrelevant here.
'takeout' implies that you, like, take the data out--you don't, you get to have a copy of it--whoo hoo, you get to have a copy of your own data as long as google get to keep the data, too, there's nothing being/taken out/ and until you can actually take your data all the way out--until you can log in to a service which shows all the data google have on you and lets you delete it as you see fit--their claims to be privacy-respecting are hot air
the situation singular? "EDS has been involved in a parade of government IT failures, budget overruns and data losses in recent years, including but not limited to the National Offender Management Information Service, the tax credits system, the Defence Information Infrastructure and the Child Support Agency." (the register) it took them years to actually stump up the £71.25mil to the govt after the tax creds disaster and even then only on condition of further govt contracts the parliamentary committee investigating their effed up ministry of defence system described it as 'catastrophic' and their mistakes as 'truly reprehensible' as for corruption, there's the crooked peer, and the string of their lawyers involved in assorted scandals this of course is EDS, not HP--one would hope things will improve, especially now that they'll be running the new gchq 'big brother' system to monitor each and every online communication not just bashing for the sake of it, in all honesty as a british citizen their relationship with the govt & manner of conducting business really worries me--you won't find many EDS fans in the UK
a cursory glance at the mainstream UK news media will provide all the proof you need
or parliamentary reports for that matter
also guessing their lawyers are a bit busy coping with the billions of pounds of compensation claims against them
though they did have a crooked labour peerin their pockets you could start here
or here
Yes and no: people aren't getting more stupid; but more stupid people are getting into univeristy. Now that an education's a product, if you can afford it, you can have it; if you can't, you can't. Net result: more stupid people with university degrees. Maybe not quite an idiocracy, but certainly no meritocracy. The worry isn't more stupid people--it's more stupid people in positions of authority.
he said 'the community', not nokia official statements, so the FUD's the community's rather than his
FWIW the rumour appears to be that the n900 is to be discontinued and replaced by a maemo 6 device with capacitive multitouch and no slideout keyboard--so even if the FUD has some substance, you could do worse than grab the n900 while you can
as pointed out in a couple of places above, without root access you may still be able to edit your own user prefs for spamassassin, either by editing the/.spamassassin/user_prefs file, or through cpanel dpending on your provider's setup--in the configure options (where you can set required_score for example) you add the FH_DATE_PAST_20XX rule to one of the 'score' boxes with a value of 0--but note that this disables the rule entirely--i did it last night and my inbox was full of spam this morning, currently trying to figure out a +ve value/required_score combination that'll minimize the false +ve risk but still keep the spam down--by default the rule has a score of 3.4 i think, so with a threshold of 5 it might be ok to crank it back a little rather than zero it--you might still get some false +ves tho, i've disabled auto-delete meantime
depends--i have a cheap n cheerful shared hosting account with the same issue, but i do have cpanel access which allows me to override the score for any rule--check out the last link in the summary
basically if you have access to local config files (even through a frontend like cpanel) you can do it without root access
The concept of an unfair advantage is deeply problematic.
Why don't we ban athletes who eat healthily, or train hard? Or who were born with a great physique? If one of the runners in a race was a smoker, why not ban all the non-smokers from racing against him? How about athletes with money to burn on fancy therapies and sport scientists to monitor their every move? There's no such thing as a level playing field. We make all these artificial distinctions (like not having women compete against men) to try and ensure there is, but we're kidding ourselves.
It's hard to see how we might draw a clear line between any of these things and e.g. letting one of the 'runners' use a bike. There may be a case for saying as long as you're actually *running*, anything goes. The alternative would just be *anything* goes - here's the start, here's the finish, first to cross the line wins - like Wacky Races. Before you laugh, think about the competetive advantage being smart gives you in many sporting situations. Is that unfair? If we want the purest form of competition, then giving people's ingenuity and dedication free rein seems to makes sense. Survival of the fittest is a question of environmental adaptiveness, after all.
And it wouldn't half be fun to watch.
since 'copyleft' depends on copyright for any actual *legal weight* i'd guess there are potentially serious implications for FOSS, pretty much as a whole
in terms of the apple-related issues, let's not forget Jobs has a hefty interest in hollywood - his former ownership of pixar bought him the largest single share of disney (~7%) & he still sits on the disney/pixar steering committee - so his interests here can hardly be said to be unconflicted
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Um, there's a pretty clear victim in attempted murder, surely--the person you were attempting to murder? Same with a failed DDOS--the target is quite clearly *the victim of* a failed attack. Some 'crimes' on the other hand are truly victimless; therefore arguably not crimes at all.
Again, I'm not voicing any opinion on whether there IS an infringement here--I'm not a lawyer (are you?)
Point is, once you've distributed code under a particular license, your intentions stop & the license takes over. If you don't like how it pans out, well, you should have chosen a different license. As I already stated, it still takes someone with an enforceable copyright to do anything about it. But this notion that the legal opinion of programmers is worth more than the legal opinion of lawyers is just wishful thinking.
Yeah, that's logical. There's a difference between being qualified to take medicine & being qualified to prescribe it.
Torvalds isn't a lawyer. He has no idea what constitutes a GPL infringement. His intentions are irrelevant--the code's licensed under the GPL, so an infringement's an infringement whether he likes it or not. I'm not saying in this case there IS any infringement--I'm not a lawyer, either. And it'd still take someone with some claim to copyright to make anything of it anyway. But Torvalds' (& other devs) views are essentially irrelevant here.
Well, it did make the BBC News front page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15287391
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7k GBP is around 11k USD; loyalty schmoyalty, you're seriously underpaid
'takeout' implies that you, like, take the data out--you don't, you get to have a copy of it--whoo hoo, you get to have a copy of your own data /taken out/ and until you can actually take your data all the way out--until you can log in to a service which shows all the data google have on you and lets you delete it as you see fit--their claims to be privacy-respecting are hot air
as long as google get to keep the data, too, there's nothing being
yeah, in about version 5 actually--and as a built-in, no add-ons needed
the situation singular? "EDS has been involved in a parade of government IT failures, budget overruns and data losses in recent years, including but not limited to the National Offender Management Information Service, the tax credits system, the Defence Information Infrastructure and the Child Support Agency." (the register)
it took them years to actually stump up the £71.25mil to the govt after the tax creds disaster and even then only on condition of further govt contracts
the parliamentary committee investigating their effed up ministry of defence system described it as 'catastrophic' and their mistakes as 'truly reprehensible'
as for corruption, there's the crooked peer, and the string of their lawyers involved in assorted scandals
this of course is EDS, not HP--one would hope things will improve, especially now that they'll be running the new gchq 'big brother' system to monitor each and every online communication
not just bashing for the sake of it, in all honesty as a british citizen their relationship with the govt & manner of conducting business really worries me--you won't find many EDS fans in the UK
a cursory glance at the mainstream UK news media will provide all the proof you need
or parliamentary reports for that matter
also guessing their lawyers are a bit busy coping with the billions of pounds of compensation claims against them
though they did have a crooked labour peer in their pockets
you could start here or here
ya, EDS really knew how to run a data center--the terms 'incompetence' and 'corruption' spring to mind
Yes and no: people aren't getting more stupid; but more stupid people are getting into univeristy. Now that an education's a product, if you can afford it, you can have it; if you can't, you can't. Net result: more stupid people with university degrees. Maybe not quite an idiocracy, but certainly no meritocracy. The worry isn't more stupid people--it's more stupid people in positions of authority.
he said 'the community', not nokia official statements, so the FUD's the community's rather than his
FWIW the rumour appears to be that the n900 is to be discontinued and replaced by a maemo 6 device with capacitive multitouch and no slideout keyboard--so even if the FUD has some substance, you could do worse than grab the n900 while you can
as pointed out in a couple of places above, without root access you may still be able to edit your own user prefs for spamassassin, either by editing the /.spamassassin/user_prefs file, or through cpanel dpending on your provider's setup--in the configure options (where you can set required_score for example) you add the FH_DATE_PAST_20XX rule to one of the 'score' boxes with a value of 0--but note that this disables the rule entirely--i did it last night and my inbox was full of spam this morning, currently trying to figure out a +ve value/required_score combination that'll minimize the false +ve risk but still keep the spam down--by default the rule has a score of 3.4 i think, so with a threshold of 5 it might be ok to crank it back a little rather than zero it--you might still get some false +ves tho, i've disabled auto-delete meantime
depends--i have a cheap n cheerful shared hosting account with the same issue, but i do have cpanel access which allows me to override the score for any rule--check out the last link in the summary basically if you have access to local config files (even through a frontend like cpanel) you can do it without root access
The concept of an unfair advantage is deeply problematic. Why don't we ban athletes who eat healthily, or train hard? Or who were born with a great physique? If one of the runners in a race was a smoker, why not ban all the non-smokers from racing against him? How about athletes with money to burn on fancy therapies and sport scientists to monitor their every move? There's no such thing as a level playing field. We make all these artificial distinctions (like not having women compete against men) to try and ensure there is, but we're kidding ourselves. It's hard to see how we might draw a clear line between any of these things and e.g. letting one of the 'runners' use a bike. There may be a case for saying as long as you're actually *running*, anything goes. The alternative would just be *anything* goes - here's the start, here's the finish, first to cross the line wins - like Wacky Races. Before you laugh, think about the competetive advantage being smart gives you in many sporting situations. Is that unfair? If we want the purest form of competition, then giving people's ingenuity and dedication free rein seems to makes sense. Survival of the fittest is a question of environmental adaptiveness, after all. And it wouldn't half be fun to watch.
since 'copyleft' depends on copyright for any actual *legal weight* i'd guess there are potentially serious implications for FOSS, pretty much as a whole
it would make sense if it was anyone else
in terms of the apple-related issues, let's not forget Jobs has a hefty interest in hollywood - his former ownership of pixar bought him the largest single share of disney (~7%) & he still sits on the disney/pixar steering committee - so his interests here can hardly be said to be unconflicted
emergency calls?