Well, with software, it has to by copied into RAM to run. This is considered copyright infringement (!) unless specifically allowed by the publisher. The EULA grants you a license to make the RAM copy - thus avoiding the infringement.
So even if you don't get sued/have monetary damages assessed against you for EULA breaking, you can for copyright infringement.
All because of the crazy law regarding the necessary RAM copy without which the product can't be used.
Agreed. Companies will sell at the price which is the maxima of the profit curve, which is driven by demand. Piracy actually moves that point of maximum profit down to lower prices (people might pay $5 for a CD if they can via some work and risk get it for free, but are much less likely to pay $20 if they can get it for free) - hence companies will lower prices.
The gov't bastardized the laws to redefine getting copyrighted works as financial gain, even when they aren't making any money (which is an integral part of the definition of financial in any normal context).
They ran the hubs so they could get warez, movies, etc for free. That doesn't sound like "financial gain", as they got copyrighted works, not money. And they weren't planning on making money reselling any of those works.
The law shouldn't redefine the term financial gain to try to mean something it doesn't - if they want to criminalize activity done for the sake of receiving copyrighted works they should be required to say so in the law directly - not use these tactics to make the law seem less draconian because it only criminalizes activities for "financial gain", hoping that people don't realize that term in the law means more than people expect it to.
He better watch out if he is planning to visit the USA, especially Las Vegas (where another Russian hacker was arrested and charged with a felony for liberating an Adobe e-book format).
MySQL is so popular, that there are so many host that use it and don't offer PostgreSQL. They both are free, but PostgreSQL is better. Transactions, builtin programming language, GIS functions, extensibile types, etc.
LAMP might be a cool acronym, but Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP isn't the best. On an aside, embedding Perl in web pages might be better than the web page specific PHP.
Here is to a new acronym: LAMP = Linux + Apache + Mod_perl + PostgreSQL.
From the (department name got lost because of lack of MySQL database consistancy) department, of course.
Maybe Slashdot should switch to PostgreSQL, it is open source too. And then parts of the article title header would be safe from corruption, but our ideals would stay safe too.:)
Happy Martin Luther King Day everyone! Google, why no special logo for today?!:(
If the notice does not claim it is affirmed/sworn "under penalty of perjury" it is invalid. If you are a DMCA agent, you can disregard that notice.
If it does claim that, and it is wrong, the person sending it just committed perjury, a Federal felony with a sentence up to and including 5 years in prison.
If you don't know which to use, use nodes. XML didn't really need attributes, except to allow HTML compatibility. You can live without attributes if you are writing your own XML-based documents.
They are functionally equivalent in many ways, you can use one or the other, but nodes are cleaner.
Unfortunately, a real 90's guy is one that is out on the street.
Your father in law was either very lucky, very smart, or both (most likely both since he survived 5 mergers).
Well, he probably won't have to worry about mergers anymore, Oracle is too big for anyone to swallow. Oracle is frighteningly huge (which has its own issues for employees in many cases).
Oracle needs to get people to keep buying its product, I know people who are still running Oracle 8 (!), but this point probably deserves to be in a different post or different story.
The current system is in worse shape than being merely unfair, it is unstable.
If the workers are hurt too much, then the consumers (who are the same people as the workers) can't afford to buy stuff.
Now revenues go down, profits go down, wages go down and layoffs go up.
You hit a certain threshold and the vicious circle becomes self-sustaining and self-accelerating.
It results in an economic depression.
The last one (Great Depression) bankrupted a lot of the rich, destroyed many companies, and caused the government to make major changes to the system to prevent it from happening again and also to restart the economy before everyone starved.
Either we change the system now, slowly and at our leisure, or wait until disaster strikes and deal with the consequencies like it or not.
Any merger that *doesn't* cut jobs, surely at least, partially a failure. You may not embrace capitalism wholeheartedly, but look around you, it's not too bad.
What if you can't look around you because the power is off? Why is the power off? Because you couldn't pay the electric bill because you were laid off and can't find another job. Don't worry, you couldn't pay the rent either, so you'll be out in the sunshine and the great outdoors very soon. You'll get to see heaven soon too, since you couldn't afford food or medical care.
Isn't our current economy great?:(
A merged company could use the "redundant" employees ("redundant" or not, they are still people) as part of new operations or expansion. Or they could in-source some of the stuff they sent to India. Imagine that!
Perhaps we should disallow mergers that cause layoffs, and disallow layoffs for 1 year after a merger - this would put a damper on merger related layoffs and give the company time to find new permanent duties for those made "redundant".
Mergers hurt the consumer. I know from personal xperience with cell phone companies - 2 mergers with the first company I signed up with, and 1 with the second - service went from excellent to horrible in both cases.
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Software can't have any hidden bugs?
So how can people sell any software more complicated than "hello_world.c"?
Heck, even the Linux kernel has hidden bugs.
Well, with software, it has to by copied into RAM to run. This is considered copyright infringement (!) unless specifically allowed by the publisher. The EULA grants you a license to make the RAM copy - thus avoiding the infringement.
:)
So even if you don't get sued/have monetary damages assessed against you for EULA breaking, you can for copyright infringement.
All because of the crazy law regarding the necessary RAM copy without which the product can't be used.
I am not a lawyer, but I play one on Slashdot.
Someone (Richard Humphreys) got sentenced to 37 months (3 years, 1 month) in prison for making a joke, albeit about an inappropriate subject.
Agreed. Companies will sell at the price which is the maxima of the profit curve, which is driven by demand. Piracy actually moves that point of maximum profit down to lower prices (people might pay $5 for a CD if they can via some work and risk get it for free, but are much less likely to pay $20 if they can get it for free) - hence companies will lower prices.
To compare the two is so rediculous I can't even come up with a better word than "rediculous".
How about "ridiculous".
Are you willing to go to jail or take a bullet just so you can download Britney?
Someone already has taken a bullet for copyright infringement. See here http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/1/ 15/nation/9906321&sec=nation
The gov't bastardized the laws to redefine getting copyrighted works as financial gain, even when they aren't making any money (which is an integral part of the definition of financial in any normal context).
They ran the hubs so they could get warez, movies, etc for free. That doesn't sound like "financial gain", as they got copyrighted works, not money. And they weren't planning on making money reselling any of those works.
The law shouldn't redefine the term financial gain to try to mean something it doesn't - if they want to criminalize activity done for the sake of receiving copyrighted works they should be required to say so in the law directly - not use these tactics to make the law seem less draconian because it only criminalizes activities for "financial gain", hoping that people don't realize that term in the law means more than people expect it to.
My camera's firmware contains a TCP stack, PPP implementation, SMTP implementation, and dinky FTP server.
No wonder they are so expensive!
Back in the day people that care would reverse engineer.
Now that reverse engineering is de facto illegal in many cases (DMCA, EULAs, et al), those that care need the device to have open specifications.
If it is illegal to liberate the interfaces yourself, you will have to find one that is already open.
He better watch out if he is planning to visit the USA, especially Las Vegas (where another Russian hacker was arrested and charged with a felony for liberating an Adobe e-book format).
count(*) counts even completely NULL rows in Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.4.0.
Is this an Oracle bug or is this correct? What does PostgreSQL do in this case?
Linux + KDE is better.
Plus Linux is the native platform for PostgreSQL. I think it may be the native platform for Apache also.
Linux + Apache2 + Mod_perl + PostgreSQL
Good! Nevada is right next door, and we are growing and diversifying fast. And we are a very pro-freedom state.
:)
A Silicon Valley here in the desert would suit me just fine.
And if it fails to help you keep your job, you have yet another XML item to add to your resume. :)
Try to find a web host the offers PostgreSQL. Most do not. Most do offer MySQL if they are UNIX based.
If it weren't for MySQL, many of the MySQL only web hosts would use PostgreSQL.
Hence the harm.
Something which is seen as "good enough" forces out something that would be better.
MySQL is so popular, that there are so many host that use it and don't offer PostgreSQL. They both are free, but PostgreSQL is better. Transactions, builtin programming language, GIS functions, extensibile types, etc.
LAMP might be a cool acronym, but Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP isn't the best. On an aside, embedding Perl in web pages might be better than the web page specific PHP.
Here is to a new acronym: LAMP = Linux + Apache + Mod_perl + PostgreSQL.
Happy Martin Luther King Day!
from the dept.
From the (department name got lost because of lack of MySQL database consistancy) department, of course. Maybe Slashdot should switch to PostgreSQL, it is open source too. And then parts of the article title header would be safe from corruption, but our ideals would stay safe too. :)
Happy Martin Luther King Day everyone! Google, why no special logo for today?! :(
If the notice does not claim it is affirmed/sworn "under penalty of perjury" it is invalid. If you are a DMCA agent, you can disregard that notice.
If it does claim that, and it is wrong, the person sending it just committed perjury, a Federal felony with a sentence up to and including 5 years in prison.
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Use GoDaddy.com.
They are cheap, efficient, and have good tech support.
If you don't know which to use, use nodes. XML didn't really need attributes, except to allow HTML compatibility. You can live without attributes if you are writing your own XML-based documents.
/>
They are functionally equivalent in many ways, you can use one or the other, but nodes are cleaner.
<connection>
<protocol>tcp</protocol>
<ip>127.0.0.1</ip>
<port>80</port>
</connection>
and
<connection protocol="tcp" ip="127.0.0.1" port="80"
mean the same thing, and I think some parsers will let you treat them as the same transparently (I am not 100% sure on this point).
Unfortunately, a real 90's guy is one that is out on the street.
Your father in law was either very lucky, very smart, or both (most likely both since he survived 5 mergers).
Well, he probably won't have to worry about mergers anymore, Oracle is too big for anyone to swallow. Oracle is frighteningly huge (which has its own issues for employees in many cases).
Oracle needs to get people to keep buying its product, I know people who are still running Oracle 8 (!), but this point probably deserves to be in a different post or different story.
Don't need a revolution.
The current system is in worse shape than being merely unfair, it is unstable.
If the workers are hurt too much, then the consumers (who are the same people as the workers) can't afford to buy stuff.
Now revenues go down, profits go down, wages go down and layoffs go up.
You hit a certain threshold and the vicious circle becomes self-sustaining and self-accelerating.
It results in an economic depression.
The last one (Great Depression) bankrupted a lot of the rich, destroyed many companies, and caused the government to make major changes to the system to prevent it from happening again and also to restart the economy before everyone starved.
Either we change the system now, slowly and at our leisure, or wait until disaster strikes and deal with the consequencies like it or not.
Any merger that *doesn't* cut jobs, surely at least, partially a failure. You may not embrace capitalism wholeheartedly, but look around you, it's not too bad.
What if you can't look around you because the power is off? Why is the power off? Because you couldn't pay the electric bill because you were laid off and can't find another job. Don't worry, you couldn't pay the rent either, so you'll be out in the sunshine and the great outdoors very soon. You'll get to see heaven soon too, since you couldn't afford food or medical care.
Isn't our current economy great?
A merged company could use the "redundant" employees ("redundant" or not, they are still people) as part of new operations or expansion. Or they could in-source some of the stuff they sent to India. Imagine that!
Perhaps we should disallow mergers that cause layoffs, and disallow layoffs for 1 year after a merger - this would put a damper on merger related layoffs and give the company time to find new permanent duties for those made "redundant".
Mergers hurt the consumer. I know from personal xperience with cell phone companies - 2 mergers with the first company I signed up with, and 1 with the second - service went from excellent to horrible in both cases.
But does it run Linux? :)
Now that you mentioned it on Slashdot in front of a lot of geeks who'd love to do something that bizaare, probably not long at all.