It'd be far more valuable to allow commercial use of - e.g. old BBC broadcasts
The BBC makes an enormous amount of money repackaging and reselling its old programs. There's simply no way they'd allow others to undercut them on stuff they've spent a lot of money on producing (and since we Brits are paying for the BBC, I support them thoroughly on this.)
I think their ideas are pretty well thought out (and not massively dissimilar from how Lucas allows his universe to be used for non-commercial fan films).
Now seriously Branson has had his trains touching on 140mph for a while now
Pendolinos are great. I commuted Crewe/Stoke to Manchester for a while and (shock, horror) Branson's Virgin service was quiet, convenient and hardly ever late.
There is no British Rail network. It got broken up and sold off 15 years ago.
And, of course, since private enterprise is always much more efficient than public ownership, that's why today the railways are now safe, clean, cheap and reliable.
If my experience of the London-Brighton line is anything to go by, the money would be much better spent: i) installing more seats or adding extra carriages ii) actually cleaning the inside of the trains from time to time.
It's no use getting a WiFi connection if you have to stand up the whole bloody way.
And in addition : passports issued after the 2004 cut-off must contain biometric data. But my three-year-old machine-readable will be fine until it expires.
Actually they don't (yet). What that telegram shows is that you need a machine readable passport (MRP) and they'll take some biometric data from you at the port of entry (i.e. compulsory fingerprinting).
Well, let me explain, as I posted the original. I labeled it "troll", because if I hadn't, it would've been modded a (-1 Troll) or (-1 Flamebait) almost immediately. The only way to trick the dumber mods, who have no tolerance for my (legitimate) attack on the US's stance on the International Court, was to pretend it was a joke.
Thus, it got to +5, where more people could see it.
at least someplace where we can capture and prosecute the fsckers.
They've been caught. There's an extradition treaty in place. There's no will to extradite because, in the grand scheme of things, a theft of $400,000 is not worth the paperwork. The Indians will punish them, and I can guarantee to you the conditions in Indian prisons make US prisons look like holiday camps.
But the Indian police have already arrested the perpetrators. If you want to extradite them, I'm sure the Indian authorities will be glad to let you have them (seriously, it's probably more hassle than its worth to process them themselves, with the US peering over their shoulders.)From TFA
"Distressing as this incident has been, it is a sad but realistic fact that no system can be 100 percent foolproof. The deterrence of prompt action is, therefore, critical," Karnik noted. "In this context, the proactive efficiency and the prompt success of the police reinforces the reputation of India as a country with a strong legal and enforcement framework."
Contrary to some people's opinion, the world outside the US is not a lawless desert.
Why is identity theft by foreigners considered more scary that identity theft by Americans. I'd bet you $100 that the vast, vast, vast majority of credit card fraud on Americans is committed by their fellow countrymen[0].
Copyrights are not a "reasonable" position anymore... because the "right" to micro-controll and manipulate how every last person uses information in the information age is no longer, workable tenable, or acceptable any more.
You don't understand Copyrights. Copyrights do not protect or restrict the flow or use of information, they protect particular expressions of information. Considering only copyrights (patents muddy the water here somewhat), you're perfectly allowed to re-use any information you get from anyplace. What you can't do is use the same expression of that information.
Back on February 23 I learned from Linus that Tridge was reverse-engineering BK so that he could pull stuff out of BK trees without agreeing to the BK license. -- Larry
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I did not use BitKeeper at all in writing this tool and thus was never subject to the BitKeeper license. I developed the tool in a completely ethical and legal manner. -- Tridge
Curiouser and curiouser.
And, incidentally, since Larry is so offended by Tridge's reverse engineering, I take it that he's taken the moral stand, and backed up his strong principles by making sure that none of BitMover's employees use Samba, either at work or in their spare time.
we run horrendously unsupported software from India, and we have it fall prey to Russian hackers.
Might as well give it a shot. It's not as if the American software market hasn't proven itself completely incapable of manufacturing secure software. Given that my PC is going to become as spam-zombie for a Russian gang in either case, I'd be worse of paying $200 for Windows than $20 for an Indian OS (Microsoft Hindus[tm], perhaps).
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I think their ideas are pretty well thought out (and not massively dissimilar from how Lucas allows his universe to be used for non-commercial fan films).
Get with the program. You need to jazz up your submission a lot. Your's is much too calm.
If a product is not going to "Kill", "Murder" or "Burninate" the opposition, I'm not listening.
OK. That's the weirdest non-sequitor I've ever seen (without acid).
The Republicans are back in power?!? Damn, I didn't know I was that stoned.
Really.
Damn right. Everyone knows that Brighton is a suburb of Hove, actually.
There is no British Rail network. It got broken up and sold off 15 years ago.
And, of course, since private enterprise is always much more efficient than public ownership, that's why today the railways are now safe, clean, cheap and reliable.
If my experience of the London-Brighton line is anything to go by, the money would be much better spent :
i) installing more seats or adding extra carriages
ii) actually cleaning the inside of the trains from time to time.
It's no use getting a WiFi connection if you have to stand up the whole bloody way.
And in addition : passports issued after the 2004 cut-off must contain biometric data. But my three-year-old machine-readable will be fine until it expires.
Actually they don't (yet). What that telegram shows is that you need a machine readable passport (MRP) and they'll take some biometric data from you at the port of entry (i.e. compulsory fingerprinting).
Well, let me explain, as I posted the original. I labeled it "troll", because if I hadn't, it would've been modded a (-1 Troll) or (-1 Flamebait) almost immediately. The only way to trick the dumber mods, who have no tolerance for my (legitimate) attack on the US's stance on the International Court, was to pretend it was a joke.
Thus, it got to +5, where more people could see it.
Why is identity theft by foreigners considered more scary that identity theft by Americans. I'd bet you $100 that the vast, vast, vast majority of credit card fraud on Americans is committed by their fellow countrymen[0].
[0] Or women.
Curiouser and curiouser.
And, incidentally, since Larry is so offended by Tridge's reverse engineering, I take it that he's taken the moral stand, and backed up his strong principles by making sure that none of BitMover's employees use Samba, either at work or in their spare time.
0. FOX News satellite broadcasts pointing in opposite direction.