I thought they were a banner ad company to be honest... and I'm 38 - you older than that?
Facebook is pretty much everywhere now, myspace is becoming a niche product used to pubilicise new bands. There's also another one waiting in the wings I forget the name (something silly like 'boing' but not that) ready to take over if facebook dies.
If you have to modify the kernel, the changes you made have to be redistributed, or you're violating copyright. I stand by the validity of my statement that you can write an application which merely runs atop Linux and happens to talk to some of the kernel code, and not be infringing. Write your app from scratch, and you can pretty much do anything you like with it as far as terms and licenses.
Bullshit. That's a completely bogus distinction and nothing to do with the text of the GPL.
If you modify the *source code* then distribute binaries based on the modified source code you must distribute the source.
GPL has *nothing* to say about in-memory modification of a preloaded binary. That is not even covered by copyright law so it couldn't.
This could very well subject it to the GPLv2 as it requires the Linux kernel to operate.
Do does apache, or any one of a million other apps.
Hell, so does oracle. Is oracle GPL now?
Kernel vs. User mode is irrelevant to the discussion (and anyway there's a specific exemption for kernel modules just in case) - GPL mentions neither. It only talks about derived works.
You write a program that does not incorporate significant amounts of GPLed source code, and does not link to a GPLed library except in the standard ways. It's as simple as that.
bzzt. You must create a binary that doesn't link to GPL *at all*. GPL is a walled garden that must never ever be touched by non-gpl code. LGPL is designed to get around this (for gcc, etc.).
If you link to a gpl library but don't distribute it then you are in violation of the gpl (this is the entire mysql business plan in fact) - gpl covers a lot more than just distribution.. it covers linking too.
So the previous poster is correct - if you follow the fsf logic then all fsf software *would* be the property of sun, at&t, HP IBM, etc.
Redhat ship a version of their software with proprietary binaries. Oops they're in violation too. SuSE are too. Better shut them down...
Taken that literally the GPL could destroy commercial use of Linux overnight. Luckily nobody does, except RMS and a few slashdotters.
Exactly this happens with the 'secure' chip-on-pin credit cards. I have an old one and it's a bit wonky. Also the signature long since faded into nonexistance.
Hand card to cashier. Scan card. Won't scan. Scan card again. Won't scan. "That's wierd. It won't scan. Sign here instead."
I then walk out with the goods. No valid security check was made. This has happened multiple times at multiple shops.
Apple is also working on Wide Area Bonjour, which allows a Bonjour-savvy client to register with an external DNS server, authenticate, and obtain DNS location discovery and naming information for services and devices behind a NAT layer.
Actually they're not just working on it it's live.. if you have a server that provide a service it can register with the global mdns responder and be available worldwide.
It's the kind of thing that DNS SRV records are designed for (and rarely got used for) except you don't have to start with the domain name. You can ask for example for a list of ftp servers then work down from there.
Apple have disabled the Microsoft protocol. Won't affect them in the slightest I'd expect.
mDNS is actually fairly useful.. you can advertise servers across the network using it, and it's an easy protocol to implement (a few hundred lines of code will do it).
UPNP is an XML infested mess with a huge spec that I wouldn't try to implement unless I had a deathwish. And in all that mess they forgot to add any user or machine verification.. the upshot being if you enable it on a router you can disable its firewall with a 10 line perl script.
No they shouldn't. Teams and companies are collective nouns.
Just because in the US you have this strange idea that companies are only one person (maybe all the employees cease to be individuals when they work there?) don't try to convince the rest of the world of it.
mDNSResponder is primarily for Rendezvous/Zeroconf/whatever it's called this week. That's what OSX uses itself and is what is implemented in printers etc. If they've hacked in UPNP capability (rather a shame, as Rendezvous is a far nicer protocol) then it's no surprise you get issues.
But what if you purchase [license] the song in downloadable, digital form [mp3, flac, AAC, or whatever]? Is it currently legal in that event to stream the song to another device in your home? Obviously any 're-encoding' might be disallowed by the format shifting, but what if you had an Apple computer, bought an AAC file on iTunes, and played it wirelessly via an iTV or another Apple product?
The UK law was written before that was feasable. There's no fair use law so technically copyright law applies - unless the license for what you downloaded allows you to stream (copy) it to another device you're breaking the law.
In this the VCR is illegal.. it's an anacronism we never got around to fixing and means that (a) 90% of the UK population are criminals, and (b) nobody gives a crap, so the law has become a running joke.
We did try to reform it - the gowers review in 2005 - but it never went anywhere.
Okay sure, spend $50 on some sensor or $150 on sensor+lock and it will accept a fake finger. But that's not your average biometric installation.
You didn't see mythbusters did you? They got a top of the line biometric sensor which the manufacturer claimed had *never* been broken, had all sorts of buzzword compliant checks (pulse, temperature, etc.).
Both are quite valid investigations. RF emmissions are something to be investigated - There's a reason why it's illegal to give a child under 13 a mobile phone. As far as the youtube thing goes they're 100% correct - google should be taking responsibility and preemptively shutting these things down. If it doesn't it may find itself on the wrong end of a lawsuit.
I suspect pure biofuel is a more efficient way of using the crop rather than using flour.
OTOH modern diesels are pretty optimised to petroleum based fuels... biodiesel was an idea that only came back relatively recently - and it took regulation to make the car manufacturers design their engines so they didn't fall apart when you used it (even now most diesels can't use more than about B20 without modification).
Hopefully it'll start taking off a bit more... seems to be slowly in the UK (although the first attempt to sell it on the forecourt went bust) but really until you can buy it everywhere it'll be a curiosity.
For LESS than the amount of money we've *already spent* on the "Iraq War", ( and using 1980's technology.... ) we *could have already* orbited a constellation of solar power satellites, beaming ZERO EMISSION ELECTRICITY right down to ground-stations plugged into the existing grid.
GWB: What's this doohickey do? Tech: That adjusts the satellite position.. hey! You just blew up Paris! GWB: Paris? That's near iraq right?
That's, what, £7,000? For a new car? Definately on the cheap end. My little Peugeot cost me £7500 and that was discounted (should have been about £9000).
Cyclist blindness won't go away.. they'll just run into you/cut you up in electric flimsy cars rather than petrol cars.
Not that cyclists help themselves sometimes.. driving in the dark with dark clothing and no hi-vis (I'd say the same about pedestrians too.. crossing the road in the dark with a dark jacket on and not near any street lights.. aargh!). I'd mention running red lights but car drivers to that just as much as cyclists (probably more, if round here is anything to go by).
Easy - Simply don't give them authority to do it. Deposits don't require authority. Withdrawls require a signed mandate on record from yourself. Or do banks in the US simply allow anyone who says so to take money out of your account?
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I thought they were a banner ad company to be honest... and I'm 38 - you older than that?
Facebook is pretty much everywhere now, myspace is becoming a niche product used to pubilicise new bands. There's also another one waiting in the wings I forget the name (something silly like 'boing' but not that) ready to take over if facebook dies.
I live in a city of 3.6 million and that's considered polite and normal behaviour.
Is the where you live that far down the toilet that the normal standards of society don't apply?
That's why texting has become so popular... I rarely get or make voice calls for the reasons you state. OTOH I get texts all the time.
Well in c/c++ just the x is enough... not tried in perl.
If you have to modify the kernel, the changes you made have to be redistributed, or you're violating copyright. I stand by the validity of my statement that you can write an application which merely runs atop Linux and happens to talk to some of the kernel code, and not be infringing. Write your app from scratch, and you can pretty much do anything you like with it as far as terms and licenses.
Bullshit. That's a completely bogus distinction and nothing to do with the text of the GPL.
If you modify the *source code* then distribute binaries based on the modified source code you must distribute the source.
GPL has *nothing* to say about in-memory modification of a preloaded binary. That is not even covered by copyright law so it couldn't.
This could very well subject it to the GPLv2 as it requires the Linux kernel to operate.
Do does apache, or any one of a million other apps.
Hell, so does oracle. Is oracle GPL now?
Kernel vs. User mode is irrelevant to the discussion (and anyway there's a specific exemption for kernel modules just in case) - GPL mentions neither. It only talks about derived works.
libraries are okay because they're just linked
Incorrect. You *cannot* link a GPL library into a non-gpl app. Check with your lawyers. Seriously..
You write a program that does not incorporate significant amounts of GPLed source code, and does not link to a GPLed library except in the standard ways. It's as simple as that.
bzzt. You must create a binary that doesn't link to GPL *at all*. GPL is a walled garden that must never ever be touched by non-gpl code. LGPL is designed to get around this (for gcc, etc.).
If you link to a gpl library but don't distribute it then you are in violation of the gpl (this is the entire mysql business plan in fact) - gpl covers a lot more than just distribution.. it covers linking too.
So the previous poster is correct - if you follow the fsf logic then all fsf software *would* be the property of sun, at&t, HP IBM, etc.
Redhat ship a version of their software with proprietary binaries. Oops they're in violation too. SuSE are too. Better shut them down...
Taken that literally the GPL could destroy commercial use of Linux overnight. Luckily nobody does, except RMS and a few slashdotters.
Tmobile is *not* unlimited it has a 1GB cap. They just say unlimited in the marketing (for some reason this isn't illegal yet here).
Oh and enjoy the fact that they'll cut you off if you use voip, IM or even streaming video (no youtube for you!).
Exactly this happens with the 'secure' chip-on-pin credit cards. I have an old one and it's a bit wonky. Also the signature long since faded into nonexistance.
Hand card to cashier.
Scan card. Won't scan.
Scan card again. Won't scan.
"That's wierd. It won't scan. Sign here instead."
I then walk out with the goods. No valid security check was made. This has happened multiple times at multiple shops.
Any DNS server that *can't* be configured to ignore requests for internal names from external addresses is pretty broken.
Apple is also working on Wide Area Bonjour, which allows a Bonjour-savvy client to register with an external DNS server, authenticate, and obtain DNS location discovery and naming information for services and devices behind a NAT layer.
Actually they're not just working on it it's live.. if you have a server that provide a service it can register with the global mdns responder and be available worldwide.
It's the kind of thing that DNS SRV records are designed for (and rarely got used for) except you don't have to start with the domain name. You can ask for example for a list of ftp servers then work down from there.
mDNS - Apple
UPNP - Microsoft
Apple have disabled the Microsoft protocol. Won't affect them in the slightest I'd expect.
mDNS is actually fairly useful.. you can advertise servers across the network using it, and it's an easy protocol to implement (a few hundred lines of code will do it).
UPNP is an XML infested mess with a huge spec that I wouldn't try to implement unless I had a deathwish. And in all that mess they forgot to add any user or machine verification.. the upshot being if you enable it on a router you can disable its firewall with a 10 line perl script.
No they shouldn't. Teams and companies are collective nouns.
Just because in the US you have this strange idea that companies are only one person (maybe all the employees cease to be individuals when they work there?) don't try to convince the rest of the world of it.
mDNSResponder is primarily for Rendezvous/Zeroconf/whatever it's called this week. That's what OSX uses itself and is what is implemented in printers etc. If they've hacked in UPNP capability (rather a shame, as Rendezvous is a far nicer protocol) then it's no surprise you get issues.
Dasani for a start - that's why it failed in the UK.. people found out (one of the great product disasters of the century IMO).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3566233.stm
But what if you purchase [license] the song in downloadable, digital form [mp3, flac, AAC, or whatever]? Is it currently legal in that event to stream the song to another device in your home? Obviously any 're-encoding' might be disallowed by the format shifting, but what if you had an Apple computer, bought an AAC file on iTunes, and played it wirelessly via an iTV or another Apple product?
The UK law was written before that was feasable. There's no fair use law so technically copyright law applies - unless the license for what you downloaded allows you to stream (copy) it to another device you're breaking the law.
In this the VCR is illegal.. it's an anacronism we never got around to fixing and means that (a) 90% of the UK population are criminals, and (b) nobody gives a crap, so the law has become a running joke.
We did try to reform it - the gowers review in 2005 - but it never went anywhere.
Okay sure, spend $50 on some sensor or $150 on sensor+lock and it will accept a fake finger. But that's not your average biometric installation.
You didn't see mythbusters did you? They got a top of the line biometric sensor which the manufacturer claimed had *never* been broken, had all sorts of buzzword compliant checks (pulse, temperature, etc.).
They broke it with a photocopy of a fingerprint.
Both are quite valid investigations. RF emmissions are something to be investigated - There's a reason why it's illegal to give a child under 13 a mobile phone. As far as the youtube thing goes they're 100% correct - google should be taking responsibility and preemptively shutting these things down. If it doesn't it may find itself on the wrong end of a lawsuit.
I suspect pure biofuel is a more efficient way of using the crop rather than using flour.
OTOH modern diesels are pretty optimised to petroleum based fuels... biodiesel was an idea that only came back relatively recently - and it took regulation to make the car manufacturers design their engines so they didn't fall apart when you used it (even now most diesels can't use more than about B20 without modification).
Hopefully it'll start taking off a bit more... seems to be slowly in the UK (although the first attempt to sell it on the forecourt went bust) but really until you can buy it everywhere it'll be a curiosity.
For LESS than the amount of money we've *already spent* on the "Iraq War", ( and using 1980's technology.... ) we *could have already* orbited a constellation of solar power satellites, beaming ZERO EMISSION ELECTRICITY right down to ground-stations plugged into the existing grid.
GWB: What's this doohickey do?
Tech: That adjusts the satellite position.. hey! You just blew up Paris!
GWB: Paris? That's near iraq right?
That's, what, £7,000? For a new car? Definately on the cheap end. My little Peugeot cost me £7500 and that was discounted (should have been about £9000).
Cyclist blindness won't go away.. they'll just run into you/cut you up in electric flimsy cars rather than petrol cars.
Not that cyclists help themselves sometimes.. driving in the dark with dark clothing and no hi-vis (I'd say the same about pedestrians too.. crossing the road in the dark with a dark jacket on and not near any street lights.. aargh!). I'd mention running red lights but car drivers to that just as much as cyclists (probably more, if round here is anything to go by).
Easy - Simply don't give them authority to do it. Deposits don't require authority. Withdrawls require a signed mandate on record from yourself. Or do banks in the US simply allow anyone who says so to take money out of your account?