Call me paranoid but I am starting to look around for hosting options outside the US. The stories of the massive collateral damage when they take away shared servers and seize domain names is getting me nervous.
I think every company that acquires an open source project could learn something from how Oracle handled openoffice.org
The uncertainty and the lack of commitment by Oracle practically forced the community to fork the project. And even after that, Oracle had a chance of do the right think and donate the name to the Open Document Foundation, but they just sat down and done nothing, LibreOffice became a strong fork, and in the end they realized an "asset" that they bought from Sun was basically worthless.
You know, if the RIAA and other collecting agencies start acting like assholes as always, and start taking down user created contend up and down, maybe more people would get a glance at how terrible the current copyright regime is. Since common people never create anything, and just consume, they never get to see how bad things really are.
So now we have the war on anonymous, as if we didn't have enough wars on abstract things already. Next we are going to see the war on obesity, the war on atmospheric carbon dioxide, the war on everyone, and the war on wars.
Is there really a different at this point in history? Considering how many industry insiders pass to occupy positions in the government, and after that go back to continue working for the industry in a higher position or as bribeist, sorry, lobbyist, I'd say the line that separates both has become very blurry.
Actually, their customers have been getting hurt by Sony for a long time. What really makes this sad is how many of them don't even realize it and continue giving money to Sony.
That is exactly what I thought when I started reading. One person rents a car, one person can drive it. In this case a car equals a person. Even if the car was full of passengers, there still would be only one driver. It is a terrible analogy for an IP address.
Don't know about smallpox, but if you're too poor to find a dollar to pay for a song to support an artist you like, you're probably not making much of a contribution to society anyway. Copyright has problems, but overall it's a reasonable way to ensure that those who enjoy the works give a little contribution back to the creators. And those who don't like it, don't have to give anything.
No, the reasonable way to ensure that CREATORS are supported is education. We should learn from our parents that we should support those CREATORS whom make works that we enjoy. I will support them whether there is a law forcing me to do it or not, because that is how I am educated.
I emphasize the word "creators" because current copyright laws are not made to ensure that we contribute back to creators, they are made so parasites can take those contributions away from the creators so they can profit indefinitely from them, depriving both creators and the rest of the society from using the culture generated in their time. This is how the music industry works, and it is the one behind this laws, and so I don't buy anything but independent music for the time being.
"For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened that unleashed the power of the imagination. We learned to talk."
Must have been Ghandi or Jesus or someone.
Jesus wouldn't say "For millions of years" because he believes his father only made us 4,000 years ago. Wise man wouldn't say "For millions of years" because he believes we only came into existence about 200,000 years ago.
How the hell is any of that crap making anyone any money? I still don't see how they have any sort of business model.
AFAIK by selling the "private" data that the users post. The data is then primarily used for profiling by advertisers.
But, there was a note not long ago about Starkbucks taking profile pictures from facebook to use in ads. So I am guessing they sell all kinds of data for all kinds of purposes.
As a Mexican all that I can say is that I will not have children in this country, I will find a way to migrate and have them somewhere else. I don't usually care about the whole security theater that this country does, but I will not have my children biometric information stored on some government database, no, it is just not ever going to happen.
I never thought I could be more ashamed of this country. Don't let this happen in your countries people.
You change your capslock key because it's not just a waste of space, it's a negative function and it's in the way.
Best to not put them on the keyboard in the first place.
The reason they are removing the key is so people stop writing all in uppercase, not because is a waste of space or it's in the way (and you are probably referring to a different sort of negative function, not it's use to type comments in uppercase).
How to say this, we want that key there, we just don't want the current functionality that it has by default, it is a very convenient space in the keyboard.
If you are on Windows there is a reg change you can make that will turn you CAPS into a CTRL key and it is the greatest thing I've ever done to my computer.
If you are on Linux is ridiculously easy to change the Caps Locks key to something different.
As a heavy Vim (and also a Vimperator) user who turned his Caps Lock key into an Escape key, this was also the greatest thing I have done, and my ability to work would be severely hindered by the lose of this key now. That alone means I wouldn't get a Google Netbook, but I am sure I am not their target market anyway (nor the iPad's).
That is one of the reasons I like KDE, I know that it isn't complete yet, and I sure have experienced some annoyances and bugs when it passed from 3 to 4, but there is consistency and it offers an experience that gnome won't offer, not to mention it counts with some excellent apps for a variety of things.
It's one of the few image viewers in linux I enjoy using, it's fast and does what is supposed to well, tho I am trying to get, accustomed, to gwenview, as geeqie can't do everything that I want, still, it is a good program to see pictures.
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And yet another misleading title and summary. There aren't 30 error pages, there is only one, and it is not even a 404 error page (or that creative).
Call me paranoid but I am starting to look around for hosting options outside the US. The stories of the massive collateral damage when they take away shared servers and seize domain names is getting me nervous.
I think every company that acquires an open source project could learn something from how Oracle handled openoffice.org
The uncertainty and the lack of commitment by Oracle practically forced the community to fork the project. And even after that, Oracle had a chance of do the right think and donate the name to the Open Document Foundation, but they just sat down and done nothing, LibreOffice became a strong fork, and in the end they realized an "asset" that they bought from Sun was basically worthless.
You know, if the RIAA and other collecting agencies start acting like assholes as always, and start taking down user created contend up and down, maybe more people would get a glance at how terrible the current copyright regime is. Since common people never create anything, and just consume, they never get to see how bad things really are.
Can we have a "florian mueller" tag, and something to filter out articles tagged "florian mueller"?
So now we have the war on anonymous, as if we didn't have enough wars on abstract things already. Next we are going to see the war on obesity, the war on atmospheric carbon dioxide, the war on everyone, and the war on wars.
Is there really a different at this point in history? Considering how many industry insiders pass to occupy positions in the government, and after that go back to continue working for the industry in a higher position or as bribeist, sorry, lobbyist, I'd say the line that separates both has become very blurry.
1) use non-US based search engines
I'm actually wondering which search engines are operating outside the US (and ad-networks, and payment processors). Can anybody list some?
Actually, their customers have been getting hurt by Sony for a long time. What really makes this sad is how many of them don't even realize it and continue giving money to Sony.
Maybe not the streets, but they are definitely roaming the governments of pretty much every nation.
That is exactly what I thought when I started reading. One person rents a car, one person can drive it. In this case a car equals a person. Even if the car was full of passengers, there still would be only one driver. It is a terrible analogy for an IP address.
Would we see as many songs if songwriters couldn't support themselves through writing songs?
Care to explain how the current copyright laws are helping any new songwriters to support themselves?
Don't know about smallpox, but if you're too poor to find a dollar to pay for a song to support an artist you like, you're probably not making much of a contribution to society anyway. Copyright has problems, but overall it's a reasonable way to ensure that those who enjoy the works give a little contribution back to the creators. And those who don't like it, don't have to give anything.
No, the reasonable way to ensure that CREATORS are supported is education. We should learn from our parents that we should support those CREATORS whom make works that we enjoy. I will support them whether there is a law forcing me to do it or not, because that is how I am educated.
I emphasize the word "creators" because current copyright laws are not made to ensure that we contribute back to creators, they are made so parasites can take those contributions away from the creators so they can profit indefinitely from them, depriving both creators and the rest of the society from using the culture generated in their time. This is how the music industry works, and it is the one behind this laws, and so I don't buy anything but independent music for the time being.
A very wise man once pronounced:
"For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened that unleashed the power of the imagination. We learned to talk."
Must have been Ghandi or Jesus or someone.
Jesus wouldn't say "For millions of years" because he believes his father only made us 4,000 years ago.
Wise man wouldn't say "For millions of years" because he believes we only came into existence about 200,000 years ago.
The statement is very vague, had the word been "allowed" then the title of this post would be accurate.
No corporation is required to screw its customers, yet most seem to be doing it, many of them don't even bother to hide it anymore.
How the hell is any of that crap making anyone any money? I still don't see how they have any sort of business model.
AFAIK by selling the "private" data that the users post. The data is then primarily used for profiling by advertisers.
But, there was a note not long ago about Starkbucks taking profile pictures from facebook to use in ads. So I am guessing they sell all kinds of data for all kinds of purposes.
Oh, wait...
As a Mexican all that I can say is that I will not have children in this country, I will find a way to migrate and have them somewhere else. I don't usually care about the whole security theater that this country does, but I will not have my children biometric information stored on some government database, no, it is just not ever going to happen.
I never thought I could be more ashamed of this country. Don't let this happen in your countries people.
In any event, I don't think "But he's doing it too!" has ever been considered a valid legal defense.
If it were, we all could get away with fraud and bribing (lobbying) as the rich folks does.
Google's doing something better.
You change your capslock key because it's not just a waste of space, it's a negative function and it's in the way.
Best to not put them on the keyboard in the first place.
The reason they are removing the key is so people stop writing all in uppercase, not because is a waste of space or it's in the way (and you are probably referring to a different sort of negative function, not it's use to type comments in uppercase).
How to say this, we want that key there, we just don't want the current functionality that it has by default, it is a very convenient space in the keyboard.
If you are on Windows there is a reg change you can make that will turn you CAPS into a CTRL key and it is the greatest thing I've ever done to my computer.
If you are on Linux is ridiculously easy to change the Caps Locks key to something different.
http://www.jveweb.net/en/archives/2010/11/making-better-use-of-the-caps-lock-key-in-linux.html
As a heavy Vim (and also a Vimperator) user who turned his Caps Lock key into an Escape key, this was also the greatest thing I have done, and my ability to work would be severely hindered by the lose of this key now. That alone means I wouldn't get a Google Netbook, but I am sure I am not their target market anyway (nor the iPad's).
welcome our new immaculate boa overlords (or shall I say overladys?).
Really? Can you find a bug in this...
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
printf("hello, world");
return 0;
}
But Microsoft did not write that routine, had they done it, it would read something like:
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
printf("hello, world");
get_administrative_privileges();
collapse_system();
return 0;
}
That is one of the reasons I like KDE, I know that it isn't complete yet, and I sure have experienced some annoyances and bugs when it passed from 3 to 4, but there is consistency and it offers an experience that gnome won't offer, not to mention it counts with some excellent apps for a variety of things.
It's one of the few image viewers in linux I enjoy using, it's fast and does what is supposed to well, tho I am trying to get, accustomed, to gwenview, as geeqie can't do everything that I want, still, it is a good program to see pictures.