It was the Bible-thumping nutjob who wanted it. It wasn't really Sen. Conroy's idea, nor was it Rudd's. It is the fault of Sen. Fielding, from the Family First Party. This is Australia's closest thing to the evangelical Christian Right, and nobody likes them. Unfortunately, without his vote, Labor need to persuade at least one Lib or Nat to vote for them, which isn't going to happen.
That is where moral rights legislation such as exists in the UK would be helpful. This basically makes it possible to sue if someone plagiarises your work, and in some other related situations. This protection lasts forever
Except in England, it is the south which is considered civilised and the north not, rather than the US where the opposite applies (assuming CA is given honorary status as northern).
Since most of the DVD players are going to be made by the same few Chinese factories, it would be reasonable to assume that most DVD players can have the region coding removed.
There is a setting which prevents any photo tagged of you being visible to anyone other than your Friends. Most people leave this at the default setting, which is all friends of friends and members of your networks, but that is their own fault.
The people convicted on terror charges in.au have all been pretty incompetent, and have made stupid mistakes. The question is: are our law enforcement and security agencies equally incompetent, or are there no intelligent terrorist in Australia, or are they simply waiting for more evidence before reeling in the real terrorists? I hope it is the second.
Don't put a bounty of "terrorists", put a bounty of US$bignum on specific people, alive, with bringing in the wrong man a one-way ticket to gaol. If the bounty on Osama was a few hundred million, which would be worthwhile simply for the money saved by ending the search for him, then there would be a lot of people having interesting ideas, including a few of his followers. Once he was captured, I am sure the US government would have him tortured and all the useful information extracted from him, before leaving him to rot in gaol somewhere.
My parent's last microwave lasted over 18 years, and was used every day. Now, they were told by the assistant in one of the most reputable department stores locally that they would be lucky to find one which lasted for more than 5 years, and that 3 years was more likely. Furthermore, apparently, apart from one Swedish brand, they were mostly made in the same factory complex in China.
Their old front-loader washing machine lasted for over 15 years, apart from a drive belt, and died because the (very primitive) electronics failed.
I know the plural of anecdote isn't data, but this does seem to invalidate your theory
Fedora has the "agree not to develop WMD's" clause in the license agreement.
At least there is some sort of relevance, as I might want to use a Fedora-based system to control my nuclear missiles (I'm an evil overlord, I have to do something stupid). What really upsets me, though, is that I'm not allowed to use iTunes to control my nuclear bombs.
Pretty much every open source licence I can think of off-hand uses all caps for the non-warranty: the LGPL/GPL, MPL, LPPL, BSD, MIT. Even Microsoft and Apple do the same thing in their disclaimers of liability in their EULAs. I can't see any reason for people to get upset that Mozilla are following a convention accepted by everyone else, especially since anything Microsoft and RMS can agree on is probably a good idea.
But if Firefox becomes generic, then no-one else can trademark it either.
They have mixed up the EULA with the distribution licence, sicne only the distribution licence needs to have the terms relating to US export laws, not using the Firefox trademarks in derivative works. thus Sections 1, 2, 7, and 8 belong in the EULA file, 4 and 5 in WARRANTY, and 3 and 6 in the distribution licence. If these were linked to clearly in the initial page (which overrides the homepage the first time Firefox runs after an install or point upgrade), then that might be enough to count as a proper agreement (in the same way website Terms of Use are), but would not annoy users as much as a pop-up box does.
Alternatively, you could use compulsory attendance, with clear notices about how to spoil your ballot paper (to reduce the number of Donkey votes), and hold the election on a weekend. The fine for non-attendance only has to be high enough to get people to get off their derriÃre and vote, so $200 or so ought to be enough for the first time.
Vista was just a social engineering attack, so it doesn't deserve any hacking credit. Social engineering is just too easy, especially if you put as much effort in as MS did.
It would be Chelsea, not Chelsee, but possibly. In.au, especially.vic.au, they call them Toorak tractors, after one of the richest suburbs in Melbourne. I suspect other places they would use variations on this theme.
Who built the American-made high-speed bombes? Some were built by the Post Office telephone engineers (as were most of the early British models) in Britain, but many were outsourced to the USA.
The logical solution would be for the 32-bit time to be replaced with a 64-bit timestamp without leap seconds, and for leap seconds to be stored separately and added before doing timezone handling. Since the 32-bit time will have to be dealt with soon (so that all software in use in 2038 has epoch-safe time), 64-bit POSIX should specify a new time call which should be used in place of the existing one in all new programs.
Little Brother is a pretty terrible book, as stories go, but it does have a lot of worthwhile stuff buried in it. Whilst some of it leaves you wondering if he wants more tin foil for his hat, overall it is not that bad, and at least most of the tech described is correct, even if it is oversimplified.
No you don't, using stripos() would still work, by using if((stripos($user_agent, "Safari") !== false) && (stripos($user_agent, "Chrome") === false) to test for Safari.
If you couldn't think of that, how do you test for Gecko? Not meaning to be rude or flamey, but presumably you have some way of distinguishing it which already works, and I don't see why that could not be applied here.
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It was the Bible-thumping nutjob who wanted it. It wasn't really Sen. Conroy's idea, nor was it Rudd's. It is the fault of Sen. Fielding, from the Family First Party. This is Australia's closest thing to the evangelical Christian Right, and nobody likes them. Unfortunately, without his vote, Labor need to persuade at least one Lib or Nat to vote for them, which isn't going to happen.
That is where moral rights legislation such as exists in the UK would be helpful. This basically makes it possible to sue if someone plagiarises your work, and in some other related situations. This protection lasts forever
Except in England, it is the south which is considered civilised and the north not, rather than the US where the opposite applies (assuming CA is given honorary status as northern).
Imagine is fairly Marxist: no heaven, no countries, no possessions, brotherhood of man...
Since most of the DVD players are going to be made by the same few Chinese factories, it would be reasonable to assume that most DVD players can have the region coding removed.
There is a setting which prevents any photo tagged of you being visible to anyone other than your Friends. Most people leave this at the default setting, which is all friends of friends and members of your networks, but that is their own fault.
The people convicted on terror charges in .au have all been pretty incompetent, and have made stupid mistakes. The question is: are our law enforcement and security agencies equally incompetent, or are there no intelligent terrorist in Australia, or are they simply waiting for more evidence before reeling in the real terrorists? I hope it is the second.
Don't put a bounty of "terrorists", put a bounty of US$bignum on specific people, alive, with bringing in the wrong man a one-way ticket to gaol.
If the bounty on Osama was a few hundred million, which would be worthwhile simply for the money saved by ending the search for him, then there would be a lot of people having interesting ideas, including a few of his followers.
Once he was captured, I am sure the US government would have him tortured and all the useful information extracted from him, before leaving him to rot in gaol somewhere.
My parent's last microwave lasted over 18 years, and was used every day. Now, they were told by the assistant in one of the most reputable department stores locally that they would be lucky to find one which lasted for more than 5 years, and that 3 years was more likely. Furthermore, apparently, apart from one Swedish brand, they were mostly made in the same factory complex in China.
Their old front-loader washing machine lasted for over 15 years, apart from a drive belt, and died because the (very primitive) electronics failed.
I know the plural of anecdote isn't data, but this does seem to invalidate your theory
Fedora has the "agree not to develop WMD's" clause in the license agreement.
At least there is some sort of relevance, as I might want to use a Fedora-based system to control my nuclear missiles (I'm an evil overlord, I have to do something stupid). What really upsets me, though, is that I'm not allowed to use iTunes to control my nuclear bombs.
The same way SourceForge makes $$ off a free news site!!!!
Ads, boy, ads
Pretty much every open source licence I can think of off-hand uses all caps for the non-warranty: the LGPL/GPL, MPL, LPPL, BSD, MIT. Even Microsoft and Apple do the same thing in their disclaimers of liability in their EULAs. I can't see any reason for people to get upset that Mozilla are following a convention accepted by everyone else, especially since anything Microsoft and RMS can agree on is probably a good idea.
But if Firefox becomes generic, then no-one else can trademark it either.
They have mixed up the EULA with the distribution licence, sicne only the distribution licence needs to have the terms relating to US export laws, not using the Firefox trademarks in derivative works. thus Sections 1, 2, 7, and 8 belong in the EULA file, 4 and 5 in WARRANTY, and 3 and 6 in the distribution licence. If these were linked to clearly in the initial page (which overrides the homepage the first time Firefox runs after an install or point upgrade), then that might be enough to count as a proper agreement (in the same way website Terms of Use are), but would not annoy users as much as a pop-up box does.
Alternatively, you could use compulsory attendance, with clear notices about how to spoil your ballot paper (to reduce the number of Donkey votes), and hold the election on a weekend. The fine for non-attendance only has to be high enough to get people to get off their derriÃre and vote, so $200 or so ought to be enough for the first time.
Vista was just a social engineering attack, so it doesn't deserve any hacking credit. Social engineering is just too easy, especially if you put as much effort in as MS did.
It would be Chelsea, not Chelsee, but possibly. In .au, especially .vic.au, they call them Toorak tractors, after one of the richest suburbs in Melbourne. I suspect other places they would use variations on this theme.
Who built the American-made high-speed bombes? Some were built by the Post Office telephone engineers (as were most of the early British models) in Britain, but many were outsourced to the USA.
The logical solution would be for the 32-bit time to be replaced with a 64-bit timestamp without leap seconds, and for leap seconds to be stored separately and added before doing timezone handling. Since the 32-bit time will have to be dealt with soon (so that all software in use in 2038 has epoch-safe time), 64-bit POSIX should specify a new time call which should be used in place of the existing one in all new programs.
I suspect that would be a lemma of Rule 34:
any image depicting any part of a (not necessarily human) body is arousing for somebody.
The cheapest "unlimited" plan in your area is GoldenIT ADSL-1500/256-PRO, at $89.95/month. At $22.59/week this is far less than half the average wage
Whoever leaked How Not To Be Seen did far more to help the terrorists. What use is gait recognition if you can't even see the person?
I thought they wanted the Taliban to stop growing herbs.
And playing bagpipes is surely worse than setting off a bomb! /joke
Little Brother is a pretty terrible book, as stories go, but it does have a lot of worthwhile stuff buried in it. Whilst some of it leaves you wondering if he wants more tin foil for his hat, overall it is not that bad, and at least most of the tech described is correct, even if it is oversimplified.
No you don't, using stripos() would still work, by using if((stripos($user_agent, "Safari") !== false) && (stripos($user_agent, "Chrome") === false) to test for Safari.
If you couldn't think of that, how do you test for Gecko? Not meaning to be rude or flamey, but presumably you have some way of distinguishing it which already works, and I don't see why that could not be applied here.