These are embedded devices, so very likely use uclibc not glibc, and the only GPL parts will be the kernel itself.
The timing *is* susipcious though.. some nice anti-cisco rants just after they go after Apple for trademark violation.
Yet these groups *still* do nothing about the blatant GPL violation in the broadcom kernels (which are linux kernels released with huge proprietary precompiled binary parts, and of what source there is it's all marked with restrictive nonredistribution licenses).
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Easily fixed with a transparent proxy. Torrent's won't go through them because they're not HTTP requests.
There are already ISPs that monitor for certain kinds of HTTP traffic (eg. T-mobile web'n'walk prohibits streaming video, and they actively check for it, even though it's embedded in webpages).
I've been on projects where that's a temptation but it's a shame Linus has fallen for it.
Yes you have less testers on one or other of the branches (mostly people stick to unstable) but if you merge them then you essentially force everyone onto the unstable branch and lose a lot of credibility with those that like to stick to stable releases.
In my own case I haven't upgraded a linux kernel since this policy change because my servers are too important to risk bringing in unstable code.
Filesystems in Windows are a different animal to what they are in other OS's.. *way* harder. If you ever checkout the ntfsd list you'll see how many odd cases you have to handle because people make this mistake almost daily (oddly enough most of them are trying to do encryption).
Eve is as boring as hell. They claim x thousand people playing it but I played it for a month and met *nobody* except a few bots. Plus the quests are lame - all take X to planet Y and speak to Z.
The European servers died at ten past midnight (the portal opened at midnight). After a server reboot they died *again* about 15 minutes later.
Oh and blizz sent out a load of duff CDs (many people can't read CD4) and they sent out the wrong keys with the collectors edition so you can't get the 'exclusive' content unless you take a pair of scissors to your box and send bits of it to an address in France...
If it was opt in they wouldn't bother with the law. DRM is *already* opt in and both Microsoft and Apple have 'opted in' with their players and media distribution.
The only purpose of a new law would be to make it mandatory.
You wouldn't be able to use winamp to stream radio. You would have to use Windows Media Player, and that'll only play through signed (by microsoft) drivers and definately not straight to disk.
Every HDDVD announcement someone posts "Could this be the much-needed nail in the coffin for Blu-Ray?" Every Bluray announcement someone posts "Could this be the much-needed nail in the coffin for HDDVD?"
I say just let the companies have their pissing contest and I'll get a dual format player in a year or two.
It's interesting because I'll finally have a decent copy.. never got around to burning the copies I downloaded months ago (we were going to port to solaris 10 for a customer but they balked at the cost & went with solaris 9 instead).
I saw it on TV 20 years ago. It's really easy - if you simulate lightning (there are whole warehouses built that can do this) then occasinally you will get something exactly like the effect shown.
Well most people would describe tubgirl as nasty. A lot of the things the US thinks of as nasty though I suspect we'd see as 'a bit raunchy' and not bother otherwise.
On primitime TV last week we had a gay kiss with tongues. Nobody complained (as far as I'm aware). Soft porn is unencrypted and free generally. Hardcore is encrypted, but you can buy it on the high street. A lot of our 'family' newspapers have a fairly high breast count on every page.. it's considered normal & children see it every day.
In the US I suspect any of those three happening would have generated a press frenzy.
The scary thing is there is actually some truth to this.
If we weren't so hung up about our bodies then the porn industry would have trouble - soft porn would be all but dead.. who cares when you can see breasts every day of your live?
She was convicted not primarily becasue of the popups, but because of what she did afterwards. Instead of hastily switching the monitor off and changing the subject she *left them there*. That could be either crass stupidity or intent - the law really doesn't distinguish - exposing a minor to porn, even accidentally, carries a jail sentence.
Maybe they don't have more than one machine at home! Just because they're network administrators doesn't mean they have to OWN a network!
Any self respecting geek has a home network. Someone calling themselves a network administrator who doesn't have a network is probably someone who got a certificate at college and thinks of computers only as a job - and I wouldn't let them within 100 miles of a corporate network.
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There's no way the US would invade a country that *really* has WMD. Too risky.
Well it'd solve global warming anyway...
says something to the effect of "everything you need I have given to you"
Cool. That means I already own a Wii and a PS3 and all the games for it.
I just need to work out where God has hidden it.
If so, is there anything that kills 100% of any virus, guaranteed?
A 20 megaton warhead should do the trick.
Heck, even plain bleach if you can't afford the uranium.
There is no current bird flu threat, only a bunch of fuss about the possibility of one in the future.
And of course if it does mutate we'll be back to square one.. because then it'll be a new kind of virus not the one we have now.
I'd laugh my ass off if the millions spent by governments stockpiling 'bird flu vaccine' turned out to be completely wasted.
These are embedded devices, so very likely use uclibc not glibc, and the only GPL parts will be the kernel itself.
The timing *is* susipcious though.. some nice anti-cisco rants just after they go after Apple for trademark violation.
Yet these groups *still* do nothing about the blatant GPL violation in the broadcom kernels (which are linux kernels released with huge proprietary precompiled binary parts, and of what source there is it's all marked with restrictive nonredistribution licenses).
Easily fixed with a transparent proxy. Torrent's won't go through them because they're not HTTP requests.
There are already ISPs that monitor for certain kinds of HTTP traffic (eg. T-mobile web'n'walk prohibits streaming video, and they actively check for it, even though it's embedded in webpages).
Illegal!=Wrong, so yes, they are innocent of any wrongdoing.
That's a slashdot first.. breaking the law isn't wrong!
I've been on projects where that's a temptation but it's a shame Linus has fallen for it.
Yes you have less testers on one or other of the branches (mostly people stick to unstable) but if you merge them then you essentially force everyone onto the unstable branch and lose a lot of credibility with those that like to stick to stable releases.
In my own case I haven't upgraded a linux kernel since this policy change because my servers are too important to risk bringing in unstable code.
Filesystems in Windows are a different animal to what they are in other OS's.. *way* harder. If you ever checkout the ntfsd list you'll see how many odd cases you have to handle because people make this mistake almost daily (oddly enough most of them are trying to do encryption).
It's not significantly larger than a good mpeg2 drop so the size is nothing new.
Of course it does raise the issue that if the movies are only that big then the pissing match over media sizes is utterly irrelevant.
Eve is as boring as hell. They claim x thousand people playing it but I played it for a month and met *nobody* except a few bots. Plus the quests are lame - all take X to planet Y and speak to Z.
The European servers died at ten past midnight (the portal opened at midnight). After a server reboot they died *again* about 15 minutes later.
Oh and blizz sent out a load of duff CDs (many people can't read CD4) and they sent out the wrong keys with the collectors edition so you can't get the 'exclusive' content unless you take a pair of scissors to your box and send bits of it to an address in France...
If it was opt in they wouldn't bother with the law. DRM is *already* opt in and both Microsoft and Apple have 'opted in' with their players and media distribution.
The only purpose of a new law would be to make it mandatory.
You wouldn't be able to use winamp to stream radio. You would have to use Windows Media Player, and that'll only play through signed (by microsoft) drivers and definately not straight to disk.
Every HDDVD announcement someone posts "Could this be the much-needed nail in the coffin for Blu-Ray?"
Every Bluray announcement someone posts "Could this be the much-needed nail in the coffin for HDDVD?"
I say just let the companies have their pissing contest and I'll get a dual format player in a year or two.
It's interesting because I'll finally have a decent copy.. never got around to burning the copies I downloaded months ago (we were going to port to solaris 10 for a customer but they balked at the cost & went with solaris 9 instead).
cows are partly fed on offal made from other cows. That's how we managed to get BSE into the food chain.
It would be illegal to make copies though in most countries.
I saw it on TV 20 years ago. It's really easy - if you simulate lightning (there are whole warehouses built that can do this) then occasinally you will get something exactly like the effect shown.
Define marriage. That's a western term.
The bible describes a child leaving their parents to live with their wife. There's no ceremony, no legal documents.. nothing. The rest is tradition.
Well most people would describe tubgirl as nasty. A lot of the things the US thinks of as nasty though I suspect we'd see as 'a bit raunchy' and not bother otherwise.
On primitime TV last week we had a gay kiss with tongues. Nobody complained (as far as I'm aware).
Soft porn is unencrypted and free generally. Hardcore is encrypted, but you can buy it on the high street.
A lot of our 'family' newspapers have a fairly high breast count on every page.. it's considered normal & children see it every day.
In the US I suspect any of those three happening would have generated a press frenzy.
The scary thing is there is actually some truth to this.
If we weren't so hung up about our bodies then the porn industry would have trouble - soft porn would be all but dead.. who cares when you can see breasts every day of your live?
She was convicted not primarily becasue of the popups, but because of what she did afterwards. Instead of hastily switching the monitor off and changing the subject she *left them there*. That could be either crass stupidity or intent - the law really doesn't distinguish - exposing a minor to porn, even accidentally, carries a jail sentence.
Maybe they don't have more than one machine at home! Just because they're network administrators doesn't mean they have to OWN a network!
Any self respecting geek has a home network. Someone calling themselves a network administrator who doesn't have a network is probably someone who got a certificate at college and thinks of computers only as a job - and I wouldn't let them within 100 miles of a corporate network.