I couldn't agree with you more. I have to wonder about these people who justify invasion of privacy, would they be willing to have their entire life monitored, knowing nothing they do is private? Wouldn't they feel the slightest bit violated?
The lesson here is to never under any circumstance, use any technology when you need to have a private conversation or communication. We must all fully think about what we are going to say before we communicate. If you don't want anyone to know about it beside the person(s) who you intend, then you better not say it via telephone, letter, email or otherwise.
At least with this law, it still requires a warrant.
I know user experience is subjective, and it sounds to me that because you are accustomed to using Powerpoint, and you were expecting Impress to be an exact replica, your experience was worse than if you would have gone into the situation with the expectation that it's a different program and you need to learn a different way of doing something.
Yes, same situation up here in Winnipeg. I haven't heard or seen any problems with snow covering our traffic signals. We first started using LED's as far back as 2004.
Nowadays it seems everyone has become a germaphobe. Hand sanitizers in every office, school, many homes. Then there are all the fungicides, pesticides, anti-virals, and antibiotics, that we are consuming whether intentionally or not. And speaking of antibiotics it seems everything is tainted with them, one of the most common is Triclosan. Here is a list: http://drbenkim.com/articles/triclosan-products.htm You might be surprised at some of the products that it's in.
'When the constitution of India provides equality before law, this equality has to be all pervasive and cannot be allowed to be diluted because of money power or lobbying power.' - our legal systems here in North America have long since been diluted, our systems almost always favour those with money and power, anyone who believes otherwise is clearly off in a fantasy world. The fact that those with money can often get out on bail, while the poor guy has to rot in jail, is a perfect example of how unjust our legal systems are.
"But on the strength of its money power it has the added advantage of choosing a court of its own liking which is so far away from the defendant that it becomes problematic and a harassment for the defendant to contest the suit itself." - purposely choosing to file a lawsuit in a certain jurisdiction knowing full well that who you accused has no reasonable way of showing up at court to defend onself, should be in and of itself illegal.
I know I signed up a few years ago, ended up never using it, anyway I checked the website, and sure enough, I WAS ABLE TO download the Linux version, It's old (2007) but it was there to download. I see Gizmo5 being completely absorbed and integrated into Google Voice - it basically says so in the Google Voice blog.
I have no idea how such misinformation gets to be front page news.
Innocent? I'm wouldn't bet on it. Considering Microsoft has come up with "special" pricing for them, leads me to believe that they may not be as innocent as you would like to believe they are. Also apparently funds have cut from the program, yet then they have money to spend on MS licenses? Who knows maybe it was just a ploy to get deep discounts from MS?
It seems to me that many equate free with worthless. Home made pie made with home grown fruit isn't worth any less than a store bought, mass produced pie.
Yeah, yeah, I know some will laugh at the comparison - but the principle is still the same.
A programmer that gets paid isn't a guarantee that that persons code/programmes will be any better quality at their place of employment, than the code/programmes produced at home for free and contributes to open-source such as Linux.
Just because something is made illegal doesn't mean it is wrong. There is a big difference between laws and ethics. History is full of laws that made criminals for no ethically justifiable reason. If somebody wants to make a copy for personal use, how is that wrong? How many times must you pay for the exact same thing, when the first one you bought is still usable (but artificially prevented from reusing or copying to another device)? Personally, I'll stick to paper books - at least I can read it anywhere at any time, and when I'm done with it, if I want to, I can resell it. Pirating for profit is wrong, but DRM hurts everyone. Also DRM is more of an obstacle than effective tool against pirates, and pirates can still be dealt with under copyright law.
After reading many comments on here, I've got to wonder if some will complain just for the sake of complaining. Blah, blah, blah, KDE wasn't totally free, Blah, blah, blah, KDE didn't do this or that..... who cares already that's the past, how about focusing on what KDE is nowadays. The most recent version is very usable, and I would rate it as one of the best desktops to use.
Why do the citizens of the UK put up with this shit from their government? How are they going to know what you're downloading without invading your privacy? Oh wait, that's right, the right to privacy doesn't exist in the UK. It is time for every single person who values privacy to start encrypting everything thing they send or share.
Will Facebook continue to count these dead people as current users, perhaps for the purpose of selling advertising? Sure they can say the have 300 million users, but then they'll say, "oh and by the way, ??? million of them are dead."
Also, I have a friend (not a close friend) who died nearly 2 years ago, nobody has yet reported him dead, I would but I don't have any proof of his death (no obituary published). I guess he's immortal in the eyes of Facebook management. I think in a situation such as this Facebook should try to contact the person and if there is no response in a reasonable amount of time then they should deactivate the account.
I would not buy a dvd of a movie without seeing it first in a theatre, or renting it, and saying that, there are few movies that I would actually want to own. Actually I'm quite content waiting for most movies to come on TV movie channels
Thank You. You pretty much expressed and explained how I feel about this whole copyright situation. The only difference is I truly believe those "copyright industrialists" do know exactly why they are bad, and greedy people know that they are greedy - but their own self interest is more important.
The idea of opting out tools to weed out what you don't want from search engine results is an interesting idea, I assume it would be similar to blacklisting emails addresses. But I'm sure it would require the user to become a member or subscriber of that search engine, which I assume many would be hesitant in doing (privacy issues).
What you're saying makes too much sense for any government official or a lot of business people to understand. The current waste of our tax dollars for expensive software licensing schemes, that actually don't offer any real benefits, makes me more angry every time I hear about it. I know for a fact that our governments like many business purchase more licenses then needed, just in case they might need them (this is done partially due to complicated licensing terms) - many which never get used. With the size of government being what it is, I believe open-source options would be much more economical, once they are established.
I agree with you 100%. Of course there are going to be those who will say how terrible we have it here in Canada - if only they knew the truth. I'm confident to say that the vast majority of Canadians make a good life for ourselves, not any worse than our neighbours to the south. I know that our current healthcare system isn't without it's faults, but I'm still thankful to be Canadian and need not worry about private health care and the constant headaches associated with it. I personally know people here who would have been financially ruined or dead, if we had American style private healthcare.
I don't think he broke any copyright laws. And the DCMA is rubbish anyway. The fact is that he is right, he bought the product and should be able to do whatever and use it however he wants with it. All these EULA's or licensing agreements are completely one sided where the buyer has no rights what so ever. The sooner reasonable copyright laws are applied to software the better.
Buying software should be no different than buying a book, car, music, movie, a can of tuna, or any product.
The CRTC has a history of making bad decisions. Almost always it's to the detriment to the people of Canada and to the benefit of a select few corporations, (Bell, Telus)
I have to agree with you, especially Weak security != permission to exploit Just because I don't have bars on my windows doesn't mean someone has the right to break-in to my house. And if they did, I wouldn't expect them to pay for me to install a security system. Do I feel he should pay for more than what he damaged, absolutely not. The government has chosen to spend more on security, that's their choice, and he shouldn't have to pay for that. But then it is the USA where huge corporations can sue a single person for millions of dollars of sharing a few songs.
Actually that is an example of all food labelling in Canada, the current law allows it, a good portion of our food is grown or produced elsewhere but then is packaged in Canada, or the final processing of the food happens here, so it gets the made in Canada label allowed. I thought I read somewhere that rule was going to be changed, but I can't remember.
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Thank you, for your well stated explanation.
I couldn't agree with you more.
I have to wonder about these people who justify invasion of privacy, would they be willing to have their entire life monitored, knowing nothing they do is private? Wouldn't they feel the slightest bit violated?
The lesson here is to never under any circumstance, use any technology when you need to have a private conversation or communication. We must all fully think about what we are going to say before we communicate. If you don't want anyone to know about it beside the person(s) who you intend, then you better not say it via telephone, letter, email or otherwise.
At least with this law, it still requires a warrant.
I know user experience is subjective, and it sounds to me that because you are accustomed to using Powerpoint, and you were expecting Impress to be an exact replica, your experience was worse than if you would have gone into the situation with the expectation that it's a different program and you need to learn a different way of doing something.
Yes, same situation up here in Winnipeg. I haven't heard or seen any problems with snow covering our traffic signals. We first started using LED's as far back as 2004.
Nowadays it seems everyone has become a germaphobe. Hand sanitizers in every office, school, many homes. Then there are all the fungicides, pesticides, anti-virals, and antibiotics, that we are consuming whether intentionally or not.
And speaking of antibiotics it seems everything is tainted with them, one of the most common is Triclosan. Here is a list: http://drbenkim.com/articles/triclosan-products.htm You might be surprised at some of the products that it's in.
'When the constitution of India provides equality before law, this equality has to be all pervasive and cannot be allowed to be diluted because of money power or lobbying power.'
- our legal systems here in North America have long since been diluted, our systems almost always favour those with money and power, anyone who believes otherwise is clearly off in a fantasy world. The fact that those with money can often get out on bail, while the poor guy has to rot in jail, is a perfect example of how unjust our legal systems are.
"But on the strength of its money power it has the added advantage of choosing a court of its own liking which is so far away from the defendant that it becomes problematic and a harassment for the defendant to contest the suit itself."
- purposely choosing to file a lawsuit in a certain jurisdiction knowing full well that who you accused has no reasonable way of showing up at court to defend onself, should be in and of itself illegal.
I know I signed up a few years ago, ended up never using it, anyway I checked the website, and sure enough, I WAS ABLE TO download the Linux version, It's old (2007) but it was there to download.
I see Gizmo5 being completely absorbed and integrated into Google Voice - it basically says so in the Google Voice blog.
I have no idea how such misinformation gets to be front page news.
who needs a back door to sneak in, when all the windows are only secured with feeble latches?
Well said!
Innocent? I'm wouldn't bet on it. Considering Microsoft has come up with "special" pricing for them, leads me to believe that they may not be as innocent as you would like to believe they are.
Also apparently funds have cut from the program, yet then they have money to spend on MS licenses?
Who knows maybe it was just a ploy to get deep discounts from MS?
It seems to me that many equate free with worthless.
Home made pie made with home grown fruit isn't worth any less than a store bought, mass produced pie.
Yeah, yeah, I know some will laugh at the comparison - but the principle is still the same.
A programmer that gets paid isn't a guarantee that that persons code/programmes will be any better quality at their place of employment, than the code/programmes produced at home for free and contributes to open-source such as Linux.
Just because something is made illegal doesn't mean it is wrong. There is a big difference between laws and ethics. History is full of laws that made criminals for no ethically justifiable reason.
If somebody wants to make a copy for personal use, how is that wrong? How many times must you pay for the exact same thing, when the first one you bought is still usable (but artificially prevented from reusing or copying to another device)? Personally, I'll stick to paper books - at least I can read it anywhere at any time, and when I'm done with it, if I want to, I can resell it.
Pirating for profit is wrong, but DRM hurts everyone. Also DRM is more of an obstacle than effective tool against pirates, and pirates can still be dealt with under copyright law.
After reading many comments on here, I've got to wonder if some will complain just for the sake of complaining. Blah, blah, blah, KDE wasn't totally free, Blah, blah, blah, KDE didn't do this or that ..... who cares already that's the past, how about focusing on what KDE is nowadays. The most recent version is very usable, and I would rate it as one of the best desktops to use.
Why do the citizens of the UK put up with this shit from their government? How are they going to know what you're downloading without invading your privacy? Oh wait, that's right, the right to privacy doesn't exist in the UK.
It is time for every single person who values privacy to start encrypting everything thing they send or share.
Will Facebook continue to count these dead people as current users, perhaps for the purpose of selling advertising? Sure they can say the have 300 million users, but then they'll say, "oh and by the way, ??? million of them are dead."
Also, I have a friend (not a close friend) who died nearly 2 years ago, nobody has yet reported him dead, I would but I don't have any proof of his death (no obituary published). I guess he's immortal in the eyes of Facebook management. I think in a situation such as this Facebook should try to contact the person and if there is no response in a reasonable amount of time then they should deactivate the account.
I would not buy a dvd of a movie without seeing it first in a theatre, or renting it, and saying that, there are few movies that I would actually want to own.
Actually I'm quite content waiting for most movies to come on TV movie channels
Thank You. You pretty much expressed and explained how I feel about this whole copyright situation. The only difference is I truly believe those "copyright industrialists" do know exactly why they are bad, and greedy people know that they are greedy - but their own self interest is more important.
The idea of opting out tools to weed out what you don't want from search engine results is an interesting idea, I assume it would be similar to blacklisting emails addresses. But I'm sure it would require the user to become a member or subscriber of that search engine, which I assume many would be hesitant in doing (privacy issues).
What you're saying makes too much sense for any government official or a lot of business people to understand.
The current waste of our tax dollars for expensive software licensing schemes, that actually don't offer any real benefits, makes me more angry every time I hear about it. I know for a fact that our governments like many business purchase more licenses then needed, just in case they might need them (this is done partially due to complicated licensing terms) - many which never get used.
With the size of government being what it is, I believe open-source options would be much more economical, once they are established.
I agree with you 100%.
Of course there are going to be those who will say how terrible we have it here in Canada - if only they knew the truth. I'm confident to say that the vast majority of Canadians make a good life for ourselves, not any worse than our neighbours to the south. I know that our current healthcare system isn't without it's faults, but I'm still thankful to be Canadian and need not worry about private health care and the constant headaches associated with it. I personally know people here who would have been financially ruined or dead, if we had American style private healthcare.
I don't think he broke any copyright laws. And the DCMA is rubbish anyway.
The fact is that he is right, he bought the product and should be able to do whatever and use it however he wants with it. All these EULA's or licensing agreements are completely one sided where the buyer has no rights what so ever. The sooner reasonable copyright laws are applied to software the better.
Buying software should be no different than buying a book, car, music, movie, a can of tuna, or any product.
Your post doesn't make any sense. By Bill you mean Microsoft, and isn't Steve B. in charge now? And how is this abandoning their customers?
Anyway the way I see it, this is a good thing MS is doing.
The CRTC has a history of making bad decisions. Almost always it's to the detriment to the people of Canada and to the benefit of a select few corporations, (Bell, Telus)
I have to agree with you, especially Weak security != permission to exploit
Just because I don't have bars on my windows doesn't mean someone has the right to break-in to my house. And if they did, I wouldn't expect them to pay for me to install a security system.
Do I feel he should pay for more than what he damaged, absolutely not. The government has chosen to spend more on security, that's their choice, and he shouldn't have to pay for that. But then it is the USA where huge corporations can sue a single person for millions of dollars of sharing a few songs.
Actually that is an example of all food labelling in Canada, the current law allows it, a good portion of our food is grown or produced elsewhere but then is packaged in Canada, or the final processing of the food happens here, so it gets the made in Canada label allowed.
I thought I read somewhere that rule was going to be changed, but I can't remember.