Didn't most of that stuff already work with OpenLDAP and Kerberos? Wasn't the only remaining issue the MS-specific bits of the protocol? I mean, yes, those are questions worth asking, but you seem to be assuming the answer is no; I would tend to assume the answer is, mostly, yes.
This is not some upstart, fly-by-night system. Samba has been in heavy use in the enterprise space for many years. I've been amazed at some of the companies I've stumbled across that were using Samba servers even before the AD support was available.
Really? I was about to post a snarky reply when I noticed the name and the low-enough-to-be-convincing slashdot ID, so I'll make it more of a simple question.:Given that Microsoft was required to publish the documentation by the EU, and the fact that this basically proves they did comply with the courts orders, can you really be sure they don't hate it? Sure, it gets them off the hook, which is reason enough for them to have helped with the effort, but they can still hate it.
II think it's meant to be like a how-to, except written by someone who doesn't really know how to.
God, I think you're right. Truly pathetic. Maybe I'll write a How-To Use Windows Server article that complains about the lack of proper command-line and web admin tools, and the lack of/dev/ and/etc/ directories. It would make about as much sense as this nonsense.
There's nothing wrong with the GUI. It's very useful on a desktop. But most Linux software is not designed to be administered from a GUI. There's usually no GUI interface. So, once you run RDP, that only allows you to run remote instances of the two indispensible admin tools you can already run locally: an SSH client and a web browser.
First of all, "enormous bandwidth hog" is completely different from "doesn't exist". Second of all, I dispute the claim WRT to VNC. And third of all, it doesn't matter since there is an RDP server for Linux! Took me all of about 20 seconds to find.
But I agree with other posters that a remote desktop, no matter which variation you choose to use, is a poor way to administer a Linux server. If bandwidth is a concern, straight SSH uses far less than RDP. And anyway, most of the most common server software is designed to be administered via a web interface. So, what are you going to do? Use RPD to run a local web browser? Truly silly. Just make sure your admin web interfaces aren't public.
These days, he simply revises the GPL whenever a company (like Tivo) sends him into one of his rages.
Considering that there's only been three versions, and version one basically never saw the light of day, and version two was considered The GPL for over a quarter of a century, I think you're more than exaggerating. In fact, I think you're trolling.
Or maybe you're right, and RMS has only had one rage in the last thirty years--but then why say "one of his rages"?
Basically, your post seems to be logic-free. But hey, at least we don't have to worry about you revising any of your major contributions to the world every time you fly into one of your little rages. That would require that you make at least one.
That's not the way trademark works. Mickey being trademarked means you can't start selling your own original works based on the mouse. Chinese knockoffs remain illegal. However, that doesn't mean you couldn't distribute works that legally use the image (like SM) if they were in the public domain.
Bugs Bunny is trademarked as well, but a number of Bugs Bunny toons ended up in the public domain anyway when Warner neglected to renew the copyright. Those cartoons can be found on sites like the Internet Archive, but you still can't make your own original BB content without violating Warner's trademark. Even making derivative works is problematic, as you would have to avoid violating the trademarks. Exactly where the boundary betwen copyright and trademark lies when making derivatives is pretty much uncharted waters, and if you ask two different lawyers, you're likely to get at least three different opinions.
Still, if Steamboat Mickey were to end up in the public domain, OP's plan to get rich selling DVDs should be legal*, though it might have some other flaws.:)
* Not that I'm qualified to dispense such judgements. If you make legally risky decisions based on advice from random Internet posts, you deserve whatever consequences may ensue.
Yeah, being born is a suicide mission. Unless they make some truly unexpected discoveries in medicine in the next few decades, not a one of us is getting out alive.
Unless this guarantees that they die prematurely (and I see no evidence of that), it's silly to call this a suicide mission. Sure, there's a lot of potential for failure, but that's called risk, not suicide. Heck, it's not even guaranteed that they can't get back. It's just not obvious yet how they might do so.
But in Columbus's case, it was dumb luck. For all anyone (who actually knew the size of the world) knew, there was nothing but ocean out there for him to discover. He wasn't equipped to make it to the Indies, and he would have died if there hadn't been another honking big landmass out there for him to stumble across. Columbus's voyage is much more accurately described as a suicide mission than this.
(If the landmass hadn't been there, Columbus would have been little more than a tiny, tragic footnote to history; a valuable object lesson to those who ignore science.)
It's worth noting that Dr. Melba S. Ketchum is a DVM (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine), not a PhD or even MD. Still, one could argue that that makes her uniquely qualified to work with Bigfoot--if you want your Bigfoot fixed. If you want reliable, reputable DNA analyses, another source might be better.
I oversimplified. Apple actually claimed it was Samsung's duty to know.
As for a list, I suspect you underestimate the number of people who have been engaged in adversarial legal proceedings with your average corporation. Especially since many of them may have been part of a group or another company, rather than represented as individuals. And maintaining and checking such a list (especially since more than one person can have the same name) is probably prohibitively expensive.
In any case, the court agreed with Samsung, which implies that your suggestion, however logical it may seem, is not standard practice.
Well, gosh, that would be true if it weren't simply false! Samsung most definitely has said they didn't know until after the trial. In the reply that lead to this decision: "The court held only that claims of misconduct 'must be supported by proof that the evidence of misconduct was not discovered until after the verdict was returned,' which is precisely what Samsung has shown here." (Emphasis mine.)
Also isn't it the job of Samsungs lawyers to ask the jury members questions during jury selection to make sure they're not biased? Samsung should be suing their lawyers for missing this, it's not apple's fault.
That's not the issue here. The issue is that Apple has claimed that Samsung should have known about the foreman's connection, and must have been hiding the information deliberately in case they needed to appeal. So Samsung asked, "well, did you know?" If Apple answered in the affirmative, then they open themselves up to the same complaint they made about Samsung. If they answer in the negative, then their claim about Samsung becomes nothing but sheer unfounded speculation. Apple had no winning card to play here, so they chose the least harmful one.
I'm not assuming everyone behaves like me. I'm aware that there are a certain percentage of unredeemable idiots in the world. I simply don't care about their problems.
I suppose I should feel a little sorrow for people with OCD who will have trouble changing their habits in response to a changing world, but really, it's hard to do so.
And your hyperbole is tiresome.
Funny, it seemed like a perfectly reasonable response to the hyperbole that provoked it.
I often carry $50-$100 in cash. The point is that almost none of it is ones! I know nobody who deliberately carries around huge piles of ones.
I'm pretty sure that most money that gets hauled around is $20s, since those are far and away the most commonly used bill these days. There's probably also a lot of fives and tens. All of those will still be bills. Your end-of-the-world scenario seems far-fetched, to put it mildly.
"Haul around"? I rarely have more than three dollars in ones at any given time. And I often have a couple more in quarters; those would be much better as two coins instead of eight.
If a couple of extra coins in your pocket is really something that you have to describe as "hauling around", then you might want to consider going to the gym. Or, at the very least, getting out of your chair more often than once a week!:)
I'm not sure how things work in Boston, but in areas where gas is provided by a regulated public utility, there is little cost to the company for infrastructure improvements.
Just because their mechanism for getting funds is unusual doesn't mean there's little cost.
In fact, it's worse than that. The company's income is held hostage by local government, and if that government is controlled by short-sighted fiscal conservatives who equate rate hikes with higher taxes, then people's lives can be put at danger. Those who believe in "no new taxes" no matter what put us all in danger!
PG&E in California has been known to ask for money for specific improvements, then spending the money on other things.
Which has recently led to things like an explosion that destroyed nearly 40 houses in a suburban neighborhood, and killed eight people and injured many more. PG&E is probably going to be a little more cautious about such things in the near future.
Can't speak for OP, but as someone in exactly the same situation, the answer is the same as "what do you do if a game isn't available for the particular console you own?" I don't play it. I can't even keep up with all the good games that are available for my console. I'm certainly not concerned about the ones that aren't.
Many years ago, I dual-booted Windows so I could play games there, but once I got my first console (a PS1), that became more effort than it was worth. I haven't used Windows since.
Of course, I do hear that its possible to play some PC games under Wine, but I really haven't bothered to try.
are there smaller object that are closer, but still pose a threat?
Who cares? There are larger objects that are closer but still pose a threat. Actual stars! Dozens of them within a 100 light-year radius. Get down and cower now!:)
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Didn't most of that stuff already work with OpenLDAP and Kerberos? Wasn't the only remaining issue the MS-specific bits of the protocol? I mean, yes, those are questions worth asking, but you seem to be assuming the answer is no; I would tend to assume the answer is, mostly, yes.
This is not some upstart, fly-by-night system. Samba has been in heavy use in the enterprise space for many years. I've been amazed at some of the companies I've stumbled across that were using Samba servers even before the AD support was available.
Really? I was about to post a snarky reply when I noticed the name and the low-enough-to-be-convincing slashdot ID, so I'll make it more of a simple question.:Given that Microsoft was required to publish the documentation by the EU, and the fact that this basically proves they did comply with the courts orders, can you really be sure they don't hate it? Sure, it gets them off the hook, which is reason enough for them to have helped with the effort, but they can still hate it.
He means Linux distributions don't generally include an RDP server in their repository. Which is true [...]
$ apt-cache search xrdp
xrdp - Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) server
ORLY? Let me know what crappy distro you're using, so I can make a point of avoiding it. Ubuntu sure ain't one: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=xrdp
(Of course, we both agree that RDP isn't the right solution, but that's a secondary issue.)
II think it's meant to be like a how-to, except written by someone who doesn't really know how to.
God, I think you're right. Truly pathetic. Maybe I'll write a How-To Use Windows Server article that complains about the lack of proper command-line and web admin tools, and the lack of /dev/ and /etc/ directories. It would make about as much sense as this nonsense.
There's nothing wrong with the GUI. It's very useful on a desktop. But most Linux software is not designed to be administered from a GUI. There's usually no GUI interface. So, once you run RDP, that only allows you to run remote instances of the two indispensible admin tools you can already run locally: an SSH client and a web browser.
Actually, a whole lot of Linux servers are administered via a web interface. Which, again, makes RPD a silly, waste-of-time approach.
First of all, "enormous bandwidth hog" is completely different from "doesn't exist". Second of all, I dispute the claim WRT to VNC. And third of all, it doesn't matter since there is an RDP server for Linux! Took me all of about 20 seconds to find.
But I agree with other posters that a remote desktop, no matter which variation you choose to use, is a poor way to administer a Linux server. If bandwidth is a concern, straight SSH uses far less than RDP. And anyway, most of the most common server software is designed to be administered via a web interface. So, what are you going to do? Use RPD to run a local web browser? Truly silly. Just make sure your admin web interfaces aren't public.
These days, he simply revises the GPL whenever a company (like Tivo) sends him into one of his rages.
Considering that there's only been three versions, and version one basically never saw the light of day, and version two was considered The GPL for over a quarter of a century, I think you're more than exaggerating. In fact, I think you're trolling.
Or maybe you're right, and RMS has only had one rage in the last thirty years--but then why say "one of his rages"?
Basically, your post seems to be logic-free. But hey, at least we don't have to worry about you revising any of your major contributions to the world every time you fly into one of your little rages. That would require that you make at least one.
That's not the way trademark works. Mickey being trademarked means you can't start selling your own original works based on the mouse. Chinese knockoffs remain illegal. However, that doesn't mean you couldn't distribute works that legally use the image (like SM) if they were in the public domain.
Bugs Bunny is trademarked as well, but a number of Bugs Bunny toons ended up in the public domain anyway when Warner neglected to renew the copyright. Those cartoons can be found on sites like the Internet Archive, but you still can't make your own original BB content without violating Warner's trademark. Even making derivative works is problematic, as you would have to avoid violating the trademarks. Exactly where the boundary betwen copyright and trademark lies when making derivatives is pretty much uncharted waters, and if you ask two different lawyers, you're likely to get at least three different opinions.
Still, if Steamboat Mickey were to end up in the public domain, OP's plan to get rich selling DVDs should be legal*, though it might have some other flaws. :)
* Not that I'm qualified to dispense such judgements. If you make legally risky decisions based on advice from random Internet posts, you deserve whatever consequences may ensue.
So WTF is this doing on /. anyway? This just seems like it is here because it's a typical lawsuit but a computer is involved
Hey, it's enough of a difference to make it patentable. :)
All things we should be thinking about. If this forces the issue, then great! :)
Yeah, being born is a suicide mission. Unless they make some truly unexpected discoveries in medicine in the next few decades, not a one of us is getting out alive.
Unless this guarantees that they die prematurely (and I see no evidence of that), it's silly to call this a suicide mission. Sure, there's a lot of potential for failure, but that's called risk, not suicide. Heck, it's not even guaranteed that they can't get back. It's just not obvious yet how they might do so.
Oh damn, you beat me to it. Well at least I now know that I'm not the only one. :)
But in Columbus's case, it was dumb luck. For all anyone (who actually knew the size of the world) knew, there was nothing but ocean out there for him to discover. He wasn't equipped to make it to the Indies, and he would have died if there hadn't been another honking big landmass out there for him to stumble across. Columbus's voyage is much more accurately described as a suicide mission than this.
(If the landmass hadn't been there, Columbus would have been little more than a tiny, tragic footnote to history; a valuable object lesson to those who ignore science.)
It's worth noting that Dr. Melba S. Ketchum is a DVM (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine), not a PhD or even MD. Still, one could argue that that makes her uniquely qualified to work with Bigfoot--if you want your Bigfoot fixed. If you want reliable, reputable DNA analyses, another source might be better.
Just sayin'. :)
I oversimplified. Apple actually claimed it was Samsung's duty to know.
As for a list, I suspect you underestimate the number of people who have been engaged in adversarial legal proceedings with your average corporation. Especially since many of them may have been part of a group or another company, rather than represented as individuals. And maintaining and checking such a list (especially since more than one person can have the same name) is probably prohibitively expensive.
In any case, the court agreed with Samsung, which implies that your suggestion, however logical it may seem, is not standard practice.
Well, gosh, that would be true if it weren't simply false! Samsung most definitely has said they didn't know until after the trial. In the reply that lead to this decision: "The court held only that claims of misconduct 'must be supported by proof that the evidence of misconduct was not discovered until after the verdict was returned,' which is precisely what Samsung has shown here." (Emphasis mine.)
Also isn't it the job of Samsungs lawyers to ask the jury members questions during jury selection to make sure they're not biased? Samsung should be suing their lawyers for missing this, it's not apple's fault.
That's not the issue here. The issue is that Apple has claimed that Samsung should have known about the foreman's connection, and must have been hiding the information deliberately in case they needed to appeal. So Samsung asked, "well, did you know?" If Apple answered in the affirmative, then they open themselves up to the same complaint they made about Samsung. If they answer in the negative, then their claim about Samsung becomes nothing but sheer unfounded speculation. Apple had no winning card to play here, so they chose the least harmful one.
I'm not assuming everyone behaves like me. I'm aware that there are a certain percentage of unredeemable idiots in the world. I simply don't care about their problems.
I suppose I should feel a little sorrow for people with OCD who will have trouble changing their habits in response to a changing world, but really, it's hard to do so.
And your hyperbole is tiresome.
Funny, it seemed like a perfectly reasonable response to the hyperbole that provoked it.
I often carry $50-$100 in cash. The point is that almost none of it is ones! I know nobody who deliberately carries around huge piles of ones.
I'm pretty sure that most money that gets hauled around is $20s, since those are far and away the most commonly used bill these days. There's probably also a lot of fives and tens. All of those will still be bills. Your end-of-the-world scenario seems far-fetched, to put it mildly.
"Haul around"? I rarely have more than three dollars in ones at any given time. And I often have a couple more in quarters; those would be much better as two coins instead of eight.
If a couple of extra coins in your pocket is really something that you have to describe as "hauling around", then you might want to consider going to the gym. Or, at the very least, getting out of your chair more often than once a week! :)
I'm not sure how things work in Boston, but in areas where gas is provided by a regulated public utility, there is little cost to the company for infrastructure improvements.
Just because their mechanism for getting funds is unusual doesn't mean there's little cost.
In fact, it's worse than that. The company's income is held hostage by local government, and if that government is controlled by short-sighted fiscal conservatives who equate rate hikes with higher taxes, then people's lives can be put at danger. Those who believe in "no new taxes" no matter what put us all in danger!
PG&E in California has been known to ask for money for specific improvements, then spending the money on other things.
Which has recently led to things like an explosion that destroyed nearly 40 houses in a suburban neighborhood, and killed eight people and injured many more. PG&E is probably going to be a little more cautious about such things in the near future.
Can't speak for OP, but as someone in exactly the same situation, the answer is the same as "what do you do if a game isn't available for the particular console you own?" I don't play it. I can't even keep up with all the good games that are available for my console. I'm certainly not concerned about the ones that aren't.
Many years ago, I dual-booted Windows so I could play games there, but once I got my first console (a PS1), that became more effort than it was worth. I haven't used Windows since.
Of course, I do hear that its possible to play some PC games under Wine, but I really haven't bothered to try.
are there smaller object that are closer, but still pose a threat?
Who cares? There are larger objects that are closer but still pose a threat. Actual stars! Dozens of them within a 100 light-year radius. Get down and cower now! :)
in the subject line is confusing and annoying. We need a "-1 poor communication skills" mod option! :)