Because even if the software was copied illegally by the victim, you are still liable for any damages. The "NO WARRANTY" thing is rubbish, and more so when you caused damages knowingly.
The Eurostar is the high-speed train that crosses the Channel Tunnel. Migrants would jump from a bridge trying to latch onto the speeding train and cross the tunnel. The chance of death was slightly less than "certain", and yet they did it.
In Spain we have the results in less than 4 hours, doing paper balloting, and the system is scalable: it works just as well for 2 million voters as for 20 million as for 200 million.
How?
Simple: the ballots are counted in the same table where they were cast. Then, when everyone in the table is satisfied that the count is accurate (every table has observers from political parties) the results are sent to the electoral commission's communication centre. Everyone can see the partial results on the Internet and on TV as they are received and the data are updated. This all means that counting takes as long as the slowest tables, but when, at midnight, 99% of the votes have been counted, the results are pretty fixed, so the candidates give their winning speeches (everyone won, you know), they celebrate their victory, uncork the champagne and everyone goes to bed happy.
In the following days it is when the ballot boxes are sent to the courts, parties challenge some tables and the absentee votes arrive, recounts are made and and perhaps one or two or three seats change hands, but that's all.
I tell all this because the way you all talk about paper balloting, it is like they fedexed all the state's ballot boxes to a central warehouse then they counted all them there.
My bank uses a two-factor authentication system, the second factor being a card with a 10x10 matrix of double-digit numbers. When you login, the website asks you for your username, PIN and the number which appears in certain coordinates in the matrix card.
It used to ask you for it in the login page itself. Nowadays you need to have a mobile phone number associated with your account; when you try to login, the coordinates are sent to you by SMS. In that way, even if a phisher gets your username, PIN and full matrix, they cannot login because they don't know what coordinate is asked to you (and you receive the unsolicited SMS, so you can alert the bank). They would have to steal your cellphone too.
Ah, and you have to enter those numbers using an on-screen keypad which moves around randomly anter you click on each number, so keyloggers are now useless too.
The thing the most similar to a rebate I've seen here in Spain is a coupon in dishwasher liquid bottles' labels. You cut the coupon and give it to the retailer when you buy another bottle, and you get a discount.
I'm quite sure advertising something as "30 euros (after rebate)" would be illegal here. At most you'd see "50 euros - coupon inside for 20-euro refund!".
In modern Spanish, the gentleman's name is Don Quijote (the X was pronounced in the same way as J is pronounced now -- that's why Mexico, Texas and Oaxaca are pronounced as "Méjico", "Tejas" and "Oajaca" in Spanish).
And the reason for the naming is simple: one spacecraft (the Hidalgo -- Don Quijote himself) will ram the asteroid (a windmill) while the other one (Sancho) looks from afar.
For some years now we've been able to do this in Spain, even before the Internet was popular.
You had to call a phone number to request a draft, which was sent to you. If you agreed with it you could simply take it to the tax office and you were done.
Now you can connect to the tax authority's webpage using a X.509 digital certificate (which is issued free of charge by the state), request the draft and even file online.
When you make a work consisting in the combination of works covered by two different licenses, the resulting work must be licensed under the terms of both licenses at the same time. If they have conflicting clauses, then the licenses are incompatible and the work is not distributable at all.
The GPL says a couple of things about this: in clause 2 it says: "[...] when you
distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based
on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of
this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the
entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it." In clause 4 it says "You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program
except as expressly provided under this License." And in clause 6 it says "Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the
Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the
original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to
these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further
restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein."
In plain English this means: when you make the combined work I talked about before, the whole work must be distributed under the terms of both licenses combined; but as the GPL requests that it be distributed under the terms of the GPL (no less, no more), if the "other" license includes restrictions the GPL does not have, then both licenses are incompatible and you cannot distribute the resulting work.
So, whether your license is GPL-compatible is not just a matter of opinion. You only have to ask yourself: "does this license have any restrictions the GPL does not have?" If it does, then the license is GPL-incompatible. If it does not, then the license is GPL-compatible.
My cable-modem Internet connection (300 kbps upstream / 75 downstream) costs 45 Euro/month plus sales tax (16%), which amounts to 52 Euro. That prize includes the fixed cost on telephone. These figures are for R, in Galicia.
ADSL (256 kbps upstream / 128 kbps downstream) costs about the same, but phone calls are usually more expensive than with cable.
I like them because you can write with them at lightning speed - there's almost no friction with the paper. I used to bring these home and my brother now loves them:-)
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There's a Spanish saying, "tell me who you are with and I'll tell you who you are". I guess this is scientific proof.
Using robotic arms to sign official documents? In Spain we use rubber stamps.
Because even if the software was copied illegally by the victim, you are still liable for any damages. The "NO WARRANTY" thing is rubbish, and more so when you caused damages knowingly.
The Eurostar is the high-speed train that crosses the Channel Tunnel. Migrants would jump from a bridge trying to latch onto the speeding train and cross the tunnel. The chance of death was slightly less than "certain", and yet they did it.
In Spain we have the results in less than 4 hours, doing paper balloting, and the system is scalable: it works just as well for 2 million voters as for 20 million as for 200 million.
How?
Simple: the ballots are counted in the same table where they were cast. Then, when everyone in the table is satisfied that the count is accurate (every table has observers from political parties) the results are sent to the electoral commission's communication centre. Everyone can see the partial results on the Internet and on TV as they are received and the data are updated. This all means that counting takes as long as the slowest tables, but when, at midnight, 99% of the votes have been counted, the results are pretty fixed, so the candidates give their winning speeches (everyone won, you know), they celebrate their victory, uncork the champagne and everyone goes to bed happy.
In the following days it is when the ballot boxes are sent to the courts, parties challenge some tables and the absentee votes arrive, recounts are made and and perhaps one or two or three seats change hands, but that's all.
I tell all this because the way you all talk about paper balloting, it is like they fedexed all the state's ballot boxes to a central warehouse then they counted all them there.
My bank uses a two-factor authentication system, the second factor being a card with a 10x10 matrix of double-digit numbers. When you login, the website asks you for your username, PIN and the number which appears in certain coordinates in the matrix card.
It used to ask you for it in the login page itself. Nowadays you need to have a mobile phone number associated with your account; when you try to login, the coordinates are sent to you by SMS. In that way, even if a phisher gets your username, PIN and full matrix, they cannot login because they don't know what coordinate is asked to you (and you receive the unsolicited SMS, so you can alert the bank). They would have to steal your cellphone too.
Ah, and you have to enter those numbers using an on-screen keypad which moves around randomly anter you click on each number, so keyloggers are now useless too.
Look at the European data protection directive.
Google Trends agrees.
The thing the most similar to a rebate I've seen here in Spain is a coupon in dishwasher liquid bottles' labels. You cut the coupon and give it to the retailer when you buy another bottle, and you get a discount.
I'm quite sure advertising something as "30 euros (after rebate)" would be illegal here. At most you'd see "50 euros - coupon inside for 20-euro refund!".
In modern Spanish, the gentleman's name is Don Quijote (the X was pronounced in the same way as J is pronounced now -- that's why Mexico, Texas and Oaxaca are pronounced as "Méjico", "Tejas" and "Oajaca" in Spanish).
And the reason for the naming is simple: one spacecraft (the Hidalgo -- Don Quijote himself) will ram the asteroid (a windmill) while the other one (Sancho) looks from afar.
If it's tasty and nutritive, why not?
(There, top this!) ;-)
If they work like Spanish speed trap cameras... 245 km/h, 243 km/h, 249 km/h, 162 km/h with a bonus.
For some years now we've been able to do this in Spain, even before the Internet was popular.
You had to call a phone number to request a draft, which was sent to you. If you agreed with it you could simply take it to the tax office and you were done.
Now you can connect to the tax authority's webpage using a X.509 digital certificate (which is issued free of charge by the state), request the draft and even file online.
Wasn't 2015 supposed to be the year astronauts would go to Mars.
Come on guys, first we don't have the spaceship in 2001, then Lucas films the prequels and now this...
I can type faster than I could 13 years ago, too, and without having to change layout.
Official announcement
Perhaps he wanted it to look like he directed 1-3 first?
You're requested, not required.
Requested is "pretty please...". Required is "do it or else".
Why, he invented EMACS!
Yes, security in Spain is rude in US-bound planes. Try going anywhere else :-)
Using printf for this is inefficient. Use puts instead :-)
They aren't rogue, they're just incompetent. Thousands of euros in fines are witness to that.
When you make a work consisting in the combination of works covered by two different licenses, the resulting work must be licensed under the terms of both licenses at the same time. If they have conflicting clauses, then the licenses are incompatible and the work is not distributable at all.
The GPL says a couple of things about this: in clause 2 it says: "[...] when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it." In clause 4 it says "You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License." And in clause 6 it says "Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein."
In plain English this means: when you make the combined work I talked about before, the whole work must be distributed under the terms of both licenses combined; but as the GPL requests that it be distributed under the terms of the GPL (no less, no more), if the "other" license includes restrictions the GPL does not have, then both licenses are incompatible and you cannot distribute the resulting work.
So, whether your license is GPL-compatible is not just a matter of opinion. You only have to ask yourself: "does this license have any restrictions the GPL does not have?" If it does, then the license is GPL-incompatible. If it does not, then the license is GPL-compatible.
My cable-modem Internet connection (300 kbps upstream / 75 downstream) costs 45 Euro/month plus sales tax (16%), which amounts to 52 Euro. That prize includes the fixed cost on telephone. These figures are for R, in Galicia.
ADSL (256 kbps upstream / 128 kbps downstream) costs about the same, but phone calls are usually more expensive than with cable.
I like them because you can write with them at lightning speed - there's almost no friction with the paper. I used to bring these home and my brother now loves them :-)