Settings like this that make sites break are a support problem. Furthermore, it's going to become less effective as webhosts are moving to having a DNS entry in their domain point to someone else's ad server. I think ads.nytimes.com was serving up ads for a while but it was resolving to a doubleclick.net IP address. In short, it's not an effective solution and it breaks lots of sites. It *should* be hidden.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Did you see the notes on linuxtoday.com/advogato today about how mozilla may be losing its banner-ad-blocking capabilities because of an essentially identical situation in a different corporation?
Yeah, I saw it. Following the link to the bugzilla entry yields an interesting discussion.
The code is still in Mozilla but is turned off by a default preference. You can turn it back on and all the old functionality comes back.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
I had difficulty the firt time as well. But there is a trouble shooting guide in the Samba documentation which takes you step by step through some simple tests that can pinpoint where the problem actually lies. In nmhy case it was misunderstanding one of the samba.conf option lines.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
What's the problem? The FSF licensed GCC to Motorola for use as a compiler on some system of theirs. The FSF got some cash, Motorola got a compiler, GCC continued to be licensed under the GPL as before. The GPL clearly states that the copyright holder can release under multiple licenses. People gave copyright to the FSF. They generally do good things with the money they get. I've donated to them.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
This was a ruling for a summary judgement. A summary judgement in favor of Napster would have thrown the case out completely. In order to prevail on a summary judgement, Napster needs to show, as a matter of law, that they qualify for the ISP exemption. If there are issues of fact which need to be determined before they can be ruled to qualify for the ISP exemption, they don't qualify for a summary judgement.
They can present these issues of fact and still claim the ISP exemption at trial. This isn't a "win" for the RIAA as it has been portrayed. It is the absence of a loss.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
The strong statement in your title is not supported by the body of your post.
The GPL is not meaningless without the FSF. Any organization could serve as the clearinghouse for copyright assignment for an Open SOurce project. I'm still not convinced that one is necessary.
A Class Action suit by those who contributed code to the Kernel could be formed with Linus as the lead complaintant. The problem of perhaps not being able to identify the individuals is thereby avoided. Anyone claiming to be in the group could demonstrate it by providing copies of the patches they provided.
In the case that someone contributed code that they didn't have the authority to contribute, the FSF would be in just as much trouble as the Linux Kernel group. But, frankly, this is not a real problem. The code in question could be pulled out and replaced with functionally equivalent and non-infringing code fairly quickly. Furthermore, the complaint would have to disclose exactly what code was infringing.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
you want the FSF to include your code. Do not sign otherwise. The assignment of rights allows them to indisputably claim ownership of the code when and if the need to defend the copyright. Only the copyright holder has standing in the court to press such a suit. Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Buy some software. Find the license. Read it. Find what you have to do to agree to the license. DON'T DO THAT. Open and examine everything else in the box without doing that which would agree to the license. If to agree to the license, you have to click somewhere while installing, go right up to that point and then decline. Return the software and insist on getting your full money back without a restocking fee. Be prepared to sue in small claims court to recover your full amount spent. Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
There is nothing wrong with a business model that uses contractual revenues in the future to subsidize an up front outlay. This is commonly done in cell phone contracts. In that case, there is legal language that you sign. The contract has cancellation fees and cancellation is rigorously defined.
Netpliance did not choose this model. They chose to simplify the up front purchase without requiring agreement to a contract. They didn't want to scare away customers who aren't sure if they really want to make this kind of committment. They chose to sell through outlets (i.e. Circuit City) that were not able to handle prcessing a contract.
Companies should expect that their customers will act in their economic self-interest. If you need to compel behavior to protect your business model, you need to put it in a contract and not resort to shady tactics like charging people for services that they did not authorize or retroactively changing your terms of service. Netpliance can't have it both ways: wanting not to scare away people who are afraid of a committment and enforcing a committment that people have not made.
Their business model is broken as designed. It is based on a fundamental contempt for their customer. They do not deserve our resepect. If they need to compel behavior after the sale, they need to execute a properly drafted contract.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Are you suggesting that the guinea pig is not a trojan houre? A TH is an innocuous looking program that actually calies nefarious code. The code that this TH carried was a game virus that infected characters and could be passed from character to character. How is this not a TH?
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Why, though, would you want this in a handheld device? A standard unix startup includes device initialization, filesystem integrity checks, etc. and then login. In other words, it's designed to set up everything, then allow the user to work. In a handheld, I want to be able to work NOW.
Why would you want a different OS/API on every device?
The long startup times on Linux desktop systems are due to two things: probing for hardware and runniong the Sys V init scripts. In a closed box, you don't need to probe for hardware. You also don't need to design a Linux system to require either filesystem checks or lengthy startup scripts. They could load a pre-initialized Linux kernel into memory (or, better yet, into execute-in-place mappable memory) practically instantly.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
My Ideal universe: - Has Flat Curvature - Has Positive Curvature - Has Negative Curvature
I'm all for Positive Curviture. Yeah, Baby!
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Re:Business plan is not broken
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Tivo Hacking?
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Perhaps the real rational decision is to buy the TiVo without the service. The last time I checked, the service was optional.
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Re:Do it yourself video recorder
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Tivo Hacking?
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· Score: 3
Don't be too hard on TiVo. Realize that they are likely selling the hardware at a loss depending on customer's monthly subscription to make up the difference.
People who make business plans should expect that most of their customers will make rational economic decisions. Despite P.T. Barnum's advice, a business plan that counts on the stupidity of its customers is broken and reflects the company's contempt of its customer. We should not respect broken business plans. We should behave in ways that benefit us. If that means cracking open the TiVo, then it should be done.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Is it possible to force the three seperate companies not to cooperate?
If they continue to collaberate in violation of US Antitrust law, then they would have to be tried again on the new charges. Frankly, the prior poster was correct. There is just too much incentive for each company to renege on the agreement. (And what it is that Microsoft does best with respect to agreements?)
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Get a grip, guys. if your comments were worth anything, people would be willing to pay subscription rates to read Slashdot. Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Did you see the barred spirals after the first collision? It makes me wonder if the barred spirals that we observe are formed by the collision of a galazy with a less luminous but very massive object. I don't think they say how many years the animation simulates.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
When previewing, use the back button before repairing the damage or submitting rather than editing in the window on the preview page or submitting from there. The editing tool on the same page as the preview eats things when it shouldn't. It used to convert < into < for example, but now that's fixed. Instead, it eats HTML tags.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
MS Reader: I like my books unencumbered. Windows Media Player: I don't want anything to do with SDMI. Pocket Internet Explorer: Is that for playing pocket pool?
Frankly I've been seeing AP stories hyping this intro for a couple of days now and I realize that I don't care in the least.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
I doubt I'll ever have to replace my great works of literature CD-Rom, though, unless I'm careless (or future computers no longer have the ability to read it because it is in some proprietary format.)
I guess you don't know that some of the very first CDs pressed are already deteriorating due to delamination of the substrate. We just don't know how long current media will hold up.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Oh, bah! I use the middle button to paste URLs into Netscape 4.7 on Linux. It goes immediately to the page rather than having to insert the text into the URL control and then editing out the old text. And since the page is a much larger target it's quick and easy. I sure hope that this "feature" can be configured away.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, the site is *much* to broken to be Slash. (Selecting Nested and hitting the Change button brings up the reply page.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Settings like this that make sites break are a support problem. Furthermore, it's going to become less effective as webhosts are moving to having a DNS entry in their domain point to someone else's ad server. I think ads.nytimes.com was serving up ads for a while but it was resolving to a doubleclick.net IP address. In short, it's not an effective solution and it breaks lots of sites. It *should* be hidden.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Please do not search Amazon for books! Go to NoAmazon.com instead. It's much better and will explain why Amazon is evil.
I prefer to reserve the word evil to actual instances of moral reprehensibility.
That said, how do I do anything but harm Amazon
if I use their servers to search for books but never buy from them?
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Did you see the notes on linuxtoday.com/advogato today about how mozilla may be losing its banner-ad-blocking capabilities because of an essentially identical situation in a different corporation?
Yeah, I saw it. Following the link to the bugzilla entry yields an interesting discussion.
The code is still in Mozilla but is turned off by a default preference. You can turn it back on and all the old functionality comes back.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
I had difficulty the firt time as well. But there is a trouble shooting guide in the Samba documentation which takes you step by step through some simple tests that can pinpoint where the problem actually lies. In nmhy case it was misunderstanding one of the samba.conf option lines.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
What's the problem? The FSF licensed GCC to Motorola for use as a compiler on some system of theirs. The FSF got some cash, Motorola got a compiler, GCC continued to be licensed under the GPL as before. The GPL clearly states that the copyright holder can release under multiple licenses. People gave copyright to the FSF. They generally do good things with the money they get. I've donated to them.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
This was a ruling for a summary judgement. A summary judgement in favor of Napster would have thrown the case out completely. In order to prevail on a summary judgement, Napster needs to show, as a matter of law, that they qualify for the ISP exemption. If there are issues of fact which need to be determined before they can be ruled to qualify for the ISP exemption, they don't qualify for a summary judgement.
They can present these issues of fact and still claim the ISP exemption at trial. This isn't a "win" for the RIAA as it has been portrayed. It is the absence of a loss.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
The strong statement in your title is not supported by the body of your post.
The GPL is not meaningless without the FSF. Any organization could serve as the clearinghouse for copyright assignment for an Open SOurce project. I'm still not convinced that one is necessary.
A Class Action suit by those who contributed code to the Kernel could be formed with Linus as the lead complaintant. The problem of perhaps not being able to identify the individuals is thereby avoided. Anyone claiming to be in the group could demonstrate it by providing copies of the patches they provided.
In the case that someone contributed code that they didn't have the authority to contribute, the FSF would be in just as much trouble as the Linux Kernel group. But, frankly, this is not a real problem. The code in question could be pulled out and replaced with functionally equivalent and non-infringing code fairly quickly. Furthermore, the complaint would have to disclose exactly what code was infringing.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
you want the FSF to include your code. Do not sign otherwise. The assignment of rights allows them to indisputably claim ownership of the code when and if the need to defend the copyright. Only the copyright holder has standing in the court to press such a suit.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
said that he didn't even have a computer in his home.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Buy some software. Find the license. Read it. Find what you have to do to agree to the license. DON'T DO THAT. Open and examine everything else in the box without doing that which would agree to the license. If to agree to the license, you have to click somewhere while installing, go right up to that point and then decline. Return the software and insist on getting your full money back without a restocking fee. Be prepared to sue in small claims court to recover your full amount spent.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
I'd really like to see that ruling. It defies logic.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
There is nothing wrong with a business model that uses contractual revenues in the future to subsidize an up front outlay. This is commonly done in cell phone contracts. In that case, there is legal language that you sign. The contract has cancellation fees and cancellation is rigorously defined.
Netpliance did not choose this model. They chose to simplify the up front purchase without requiring agreement to a contract. They didn't want to scare away customers who aren't sure if they really want to make this kind of committment. They chose to sell through outlets (i.e. Circuit City) that were not able to handle prcessing a contract.
Companies should expect that their customers will act in their economic self-interest. If you need to compel behavior to protect your business model, you need to put it in a contract and not resort to shady tactics like charging people for services that they did not authorize or retroactively changing your terms of service. Netpliance can't have it both ways: wanting not to scare away people who are afraid of a committment and enforcing a committment that people have not made.
Their business model is broken as designed. It is based on a fundamental contempt for their customer. They do not deserve our resepect. If they need to compel behavior after the sale, they need to execute a properly drafted contract.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Are you suggesting that the guinea pig is not a trojan houre? A TH is an innocuous looking program that actually calies nefarious code. The code that this TH carried was a game virus that infected characters and could be passed from character to character. How is this not a TH?
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Why, though, would you want this in a handheld device? A standard unix startup includes device initialization, filesystem integrity checks, etc. and then login. In other words, it's designed to set up everything, then allow the user to work. In a handheld, I want to be able to work NOW.
Why would you want a different OS/API on every device?
The long startup times on Linux desktop systems are due to two things: probing for hardware and runniong the Sys V init scripts. In a closed box, you don't need to probe for hardware. You also don't need to design a Linux system to require either filesystem checks or lengthy startup scripts. They could load a pre-initialized Linux kernel into memory (or, better yet, into execute-in-place mappable memory) practically instantly.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
My Ideal universe:
- Has Flat Curvature
- Has Positive Curvature
- Has Negative Curvature
I'm all for Positive Curviture. Yeah, Baby!
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Perhaps the real rational decision is to buy the TiVo without the service. The last time I checked, the service was optional.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Don't be too hard on TiVo. Realize that they are likely selling the hardware at a loss depending on customer's monthly subscription to make up the difference.
People who make business plans should expect that most of their customers will make rational economic decisions. Despite P.T. Barnum's advice, a business plan that counts on the stupidity of its customers is broken and reflects the company's contempt of its customer. We should not respect broken business plans. We should behave in ways that benefit us. If that means cracking open the TiVo, then it should be done.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Is it possible to force the three seperate companies not to cooperate?
If they continue to collaberate in violation of US Antitrust law, then they would have to be tried again on the new charges. Frankly, the prior poster was correct. There is just too much incentive for each company to renege on the agreement. (And what it is that Microsoft does best with respect to agreements?)
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Get a grip, guys. if your comments were worth anything, people would be willing to pay subscription rates to read Slashdot.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Did you see the barred spirals after the first collision? It makes me wonder if the barred spirals that we observe are formed by the collision of a galazy with a less luminous but very massive object. I don't think they say how many years the animation simulates.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
When previewing, use the back button before repairing the damage or submitting rather than editing in the window on the preview page or submitting from there. The editing tool on the same page as the preview eats things when it shouldn't. It used to convert < into < for example, but now that's fixed. Instead, it eats HTML tags.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
MS Pocket PC
<yawn> Does it run Linux?
MS Reader: I like my books unencumbered. Windows Media Player: I don't want anything to do with SDMI. Pocket Internet Explorer: Is that for playing pocket pool?
Frankly I've been seeing AP stories hyping this intro for a couple of days now and I realize that I don't care in the least.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
I doubt I'll ever have to replace my great works of literature CD-Rom, though, unless I'm careless (or future computers no longer have the ability to read it because it is in some proprietary format.)
I guess you don't know that some of the very first CDs pressed are already deteriorating due to delamination of the substrate. We just don't know how long current media will hold up.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Oh, bah! I use the middle button to paste URLs into Netscape 4.7 on Linux. It goes immediately to the page rather than having to insert the text into the URL control and then editing out the old text. And since the page is a much larger target it's quick and easy. I sure hope that this "feature" can be configured away.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected