(thankfully there was no DMCA or other restrictive laws back then)
"Restrictive" like, I don't know, copyright itself? Software became copyrightable in 1980. The initial release of MS-DOS was in 1981. And copyright is all you need to sell a "license to use", rather than a mere copy of the software.
I think he's trying to refer to DMCA "effective prevention measures" and "circumvention technology". Or else he's just trying to invoke the/. hatred of all things MAFIAA.
That's funny, patent encumberment is exactly what MS complained about upon being invited to join the WHATWG (the people responsible for HTML5 (W3C moved on to XHTML (apparently there's such a thing as XHTML5. WTF? (nested parenthesis (w00t!))))).
clients to get into the kitchen and asses for themselves the quality of the food
I'm no doctor; I have no idea what the "recommended temperature" is for e.g. a hamburger (equivalent to well done I think?). I have no idea how to tell whether a given piece of food is safe to eat (there are some obvious signs for "no, it's not remotely safe", but nothing to indicate "yes, it is safe").
So if I buy a Dell with Ubuntu on it and for some reason I reinstall Ubuntu on it then put it on ebay I must provide the new owner with all the source code for all the software that I have installed on it. The Ubuntu repositories wouldn't count.
Provide a written offer. Most likely he's enough of a geek to be able to find the source on his own, given he's buying it with Ubuntu and not Windows. Alternatively, he might just want the hardware, in which case he doesn't want/need the source at all (and you could just as well zero the harddrive before sending it to him so there's no FLOSS on the computer).
A small PC store started to include a CD of FOSS programs like Gimp, FireFox, Thunderbird, 7Zip, Putty, and other good software that everybody in the know downloads. It is a nice introduction to FOSS for the customers. Now it seems to me that the store is now responsible to keep the source code for many of those programs available to the people they gave the disk to. At that point I just wouldn't do it since it could be a huge legal hassle and risk for no real gain to me.
You sure about that? It looks like they could just set up an FTP server and put a URL on the disk. (Of course, Linux is GPLv2, so rules are a little different, but...)
Under the GPL, AFAIK the car would come with either source code or a written offer to provide source code. Joe is (IANAL) legally obligated to forward such materials to Jim (except for first sale which is potentially dubious w.r.t. software), and the written offer, if it came with the car in place of code, must be transferable.
The theater is a supplier in the product/service market (technically, they make most of their money off the concession stand, but that's totally irrelevant). It is a consumer in the factor market (the movie (or license) is a factor of production of a service). Bob isn't involved in the factor market at all; Ed is the consumer, and Hollywood is the producer.
I think if you give them permission to search your car for e.g. guns and they find e.g. pot they can still arrest you and charge you and convict you because the search was, at the time, reasonable, even though they found stuff they weren't supposed to be looking for. IANAL.
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(thankfully there was no DMCA or other restrictive laws back then)
"Restrictive" like, I don't know, copyright itself? Software became copyrightable in 1980. The initial release of MS-DOS was in 1981. And copyright is all you need to sell a "license to use", rather than a mere copy of the software.
I think he's trying to refer to DMCA "effective prevention measures" and "circumvention technology". Or else he's just trying to invoke the /. hatred of all things MAFIAA.
That's funny, patent encumberment is exactly what MS complained about upon being invited to join the WHATWG (the people responsible for HTML5 (W3C moved on to XHTML (apparently there's such a thing as XHTML5. WTF? (nested parenthesis (w00t!))))).
Reread that -- he's using metric.
And hoping that Facebook won't be hacked.
I think you just identified the most expedient way to dispel FB's aura of trust/"not google"ness.
Said gov't is stupid: "going to the beach" != "cured of depression"
Well maybe you're a college student and you don't want e.g. your mom seeing e.g. your (boy|girl)friend.
"index" == robots.txt.
some people post their entire daily routine online
That's mostly Twitter.
No, some information is IIRC forced public (like your name and picture).
clients to get into the kitchen and asses for themselves the quality of the food
I'm no doctor; I have no idea what the "recommended temperature" is for e.g. a hamburger (equivalent to well done I think?). I have no idea how to tell whether a given piece of food is safe to eat (there are some obvious signs for "no, it's not remotely safe", but nothing to indicate "yes, it is safe").
So if I buy a Dell with Ubuntu on it and for some reason I reinstall Ubuntu on it then put it on ebay I must provide the new owner with all the source code for all the software that I have installed on it. The Ubuntu repositories wouldn't count.
Provide a written offer. Most likely he's enough of a geek to be able to find the source on his own, given he's buying it with Ubuntu and not Windows. Alternatively, he might just want the hardware, in which case he doesn't want/need the source at all (and you could just as well zero the harddrive before sending it to him so there's no FLOSS on the computer).
A small PC store started to include a CD of FOSS programs like Gimp, FireFox, Thunderbird, 7Zip, Putty, and other good software that everybody in the know downloads. It is a nice introduction to FOSS for the customers. Now it seems to me that the store is now responsible to keep the source code for many of those programs available to the people they gave the disk to.
At that point I just wouldn't do it since it could be a huge legal hassle and risk for no real gain to me.
You sure about that? It looks like they could just set up an FTP server and put a URL on the disk. (Of course, Linux is GPLv2, so rules are a little different, but...)
Under the GPL, AFAIK the car would come with either source code or a written offer to provide source code. Joe is (IANAL) legally obligated to forward such materials to Jim (except for first sale which is potentially dubious w.r.t. software), and the written offer, if it came with the car in place of code, must be transferable.
Again: IANAL, YMMV, TINLA.
The theater is a supplier in the product/service market (technically, they make most of their money off the concession stand, but that's totally irrelevant). It is a consumer in the factor market (the movie (or license) is a factor of production of a service). Bob isn't involved in the factor market at all; Ed is the consumer, and Hollywood is the producer.
"Your honor, your ruling was overturned" != "The appeals court is in any way going to censure you"
"censure" != "censor"
Recommend this to the AC.
Xbox 360 is pretty well DRM locked down, so no help is forthcoming.
DMCA == software/data
Wiimote == hardware
Just as they would have to prove that he was indeed the one who 'fsked' the route tables.
HIs passwords, his account.
I think if you give them permission to search your car for e.g. guns and they find e.g. pot they can still arrest you and charge you and convict you because the search was, at the time, reasonable, even though they found stuff they weren't supposed to be looking for. IANAL.
Because you might well be carting around several Libraries of Congress worth of data on the computer, but not in ink and paper.
They don't need you to preview in order to track you. 3xx redirection + cookie setting works just fine.
This one's better.
RTFA: the official policy was different from the informal policy.
[from his sig]
This comment is worded exactly as intended. Any lame "Fixed that for you" jokes won't be modded into oblivion.
FTFY. You can't mod and post simultaneously.