And only an American would think that the language spoken in India is Indian (There are at least 20 different ones, and a veritable shit load of dialects).
Interesting. Cause here in Europe, all copper I've ever seen has been two-wire.... And yes, you can get "alarm-cables" here too, but they're dry two-wire setups, not four wires...
That, is only because the GPL is a license, not a contract. Had it been a contract, it could have allowed anyone to sue. Of course, the smart thing with using a license, not a contract, is that you don't ever have to argue about if the contract was agreed to or not. I still think that fraudulent advertisement could be used thou...
He could in that case very well sue them for false advertisement (that the code is GPL when it is not). In addition, the copyright holder could sue them for copyright infringement.
Why doesn't the GPL contain a clause that allows others than the copuright holder to sue for violations? That would have been awesome! Think about the suefest!
The greatest thing about having a ticket system is that you actually get statistics on what IT does, how it performs, that IT can use to justifty its operating costs to management.
>Push for a new voting method. Approval voting, instant runoff, proportional representation... they're all better than what we have now. This is how you effect change in the long term, with an election structure that makes it easy for more than two parties to thrive.
Or move to any European country, where we already have that:)
Well, getting the feeling for it shouldn't be any harder than getting the feeling for a currency. I just spent a year in Australia, originally coming from Sweden. 1 AUD is roughtly 5.6 SEK. Roughly because it's more for certain products, less for others (_buying_ a dollar for crowns allways yields the same price of course...
After about two months, I was thinking about prices in dollar. $8-$12 is good for a lunch, $1 for an avocado is a bit pricey but ok, and so on.
I guess different people adapt to changes like that more or less easily...
And well, now I've moved to Norway, and 1NOK = 1.1SEK or something like that (but in the store, it's more like 1NOK = 0.8SEK, it's expensive over here)
Great Britain, a democratic _republic_?! You must be joking mister, or else you must have lived your entire life in the colonies! Britain, if I might inform you, is a _Monarchy_.
(No, i do know what you are reffering, to, and I'm not even Brittish, but I just found it incredibly funny)
And since then are you free to leave you please? In the real world, to leave, you acutually have to have somewhere else to go. And usually, if you live in a dictatorship country, your chances of getting a work-visa let alone a permanent visa in any other country are pretty slim.
Here in Sweden, there are just so many more "communities" that there seems to be abroad, so there is not need for MySpace. I have to detail what I mean by community here, as that word has a slightly more specific meaning in Sweden than in native-english countries: A commonity is a website that works like something inbetween a dating site and a traditional BBS, and they are almost allways advertisement-only-supported. The most popular example is lunarstorm.se where about 80% of everyone between 15 and 20yrs of age has an account. Second largest is helgon.net which caters for the large swedish goth/punk/metal/synth (and nowdays unfourtunately also emo) crowd.
Of you truly think that that is as viral as it can be, let me license some software to you under an EULA that says that any and all software you ever develop, or has developed, must be licensed under that same license. And that all software that sits on the same medium, or on another medium close to that one, has to. And that that this does not only apply to you, but must be made part of any bsuiness contract you will ever negotiate in the future and thus apply to anyone you have commercial contact with (and maybe I'll even add that a marriage is a business contract just to piss your wife/husband off).
I'll call my license GNU Punishment LARTer.
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> The sticking point - is that the creators of the content have rights too... And there seems, currently, to be no way of protecting those rights short of a full lockdown.
That, my friend, is head on the nail! The problem is, without monitoring _all_ private communication, we _can_not_ guarantee that people can not infinge on copyrights. Bits are bits, and without actually reading the messages (e.g. emails), you _can_not_know_ if they contain forbidden material.
The question is not whether the rights of artists is more or less important than the rights of culture consumers, but whether the rights of artists (and media companies) are more important than our free, open and democratic society. Do _you_ want all you mail and phonecalls monitored?
A friend of mine grew up in Polad during the soviet era. According to him, when you phoned someone, you'd here a recorded message saying "This phonecall is monitored, this phonecall is monitored" before you got your connection.
Do you want to live in Soviet to protect the artists?
Network block devices / iSCSI / IDE-over-ethernet or whatever your favourite network storage for today is, and a front-end server to raid it all. You have endless possibilities. With that solution, you have a good hotswappability too - just hotswap a whole 1U machine!
Once uppon a time, when your car weared out, you'd grab your wrench and other tools and you'd fix it. Once uppon a time, when you bought an LP, you'd tape it to a casette tape (or reel tape) and you'd play that, maybe in your car.
Today, you are saved from this DIY attitude by laws that forbid you from fixing your car (without a license from the maker to use the special tools only they make), forbid you from copying your music for personal use to another medium.
How is music different? It isn't. But the times are.
This makes it all the easier to argue against the "war on piracy" in all other countries. People outside the US don't like to be controlled by a government they didn't get to vote for...
I for one know a shitload of people who will vote for http://piratpartiet.se/, and so will I, in the upcoming election in Sweden. The revolution has begun.
I must admin I'm what you could call a power user, but I was totally stunned by the UI of OS/2. I still haven't seen a desktop manager that is on par with it when it comes to orthogonality, simplicity, generality and flexibility. I must admit there are more good-looking ones out now (hey, even RHs bluecurve theme is kinda cute), but all DMs out now are so inflexible. For example, if you open a folder in GNOME in folder-mode, you can't get the tree-view/explorer-view thing just by selecting the view menu and selecting another view method... The desktop doesn't work as any other folder-view. You can't add backgrounds to folders. Things doesn't have as many properties, etc... But the world just wasn't ready for it then. Maybe it is now?
About a year ago, I wrote an introduction for free software writers to hardware design and the Free Hardware Design movement for a course on Free Software philosophy, theory, legal frameworks and politics held at Gothenburg University, Sweden. The article will later be published in a book together with some other articles written by other students at the course.
Hm, I think the most dangerous situation is actually software developement. Developers constantly create new binaries as non-root users, which are then uploaded to their homepages, downloaded to other systems and run (possibly as root), often by other developers who in turn create binaries and upload them to their webpages...
Think about a virus that when invoked infects all running processes under the same UID (maybe using the debugger API), overriding exec*(), so that new processes will be infected too, and, if one process happens to be gcc, changes it so that it will generate infected binaries...
Hm, what I outlined above can't actually be _that_ hard to do, and it probably _would_ spread. For extra bonus, add a change to emacs that adds infectious source-kode to all.c-files, and hides it when editing the files. Extra dubbelplusbonus if that code doesn't show up in diff output, or cvs diff output, aswell as in grep, cat, less or more output... Another nasty possibility would be to only infect CVS so that it checks in virus-code (but strips it when checking out using the infected version of cvs)...
That's if you'r alone. If you'r coding together with someone on the same project, an ordinary whiteboard is the most valueable thing you can have. And even if you'r alone, a whiteboard still helps.
That depends. One of the most interresting things is that some countries force all (yung) men to join the army. How then is attacking that country and sparing civilians (while killing all soldiers) in any way more humane than killing soldiers and "civilians" alike?
I am a man and live in a country where this is true (sweden), though we haven't been involved in a real war in quite some time. As many people here, I'm fighting to create a society where men and women are more equal. But we'l never get real equality as long as men are expected to die to defend the women when it all comes to its edge.
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And only an American would think that the language spoken in India is Indian (There are at least 20 different ones, and a veritable shit load of dialects).
Interesting. Cause here in Europe, all copper I've ever seen has been two-wire.... And yes, you can get "alarm-cables" here too, but they're dry two-wire setups, not four wires...
That, is only because the GPL is a license, not a contract. Had it been a contract, it could have allowed anyone to sue.
Of course, the smart thing with using a license, not a contract, is that you don't ever have to argue about if the contract was agreed to or not.
I still think that fraudulent advertisement could be used thou...
He could in that case very well sue them for false advertisement (that the code is GPL when it is not). In addition, the copyright holder could sue them for copyright infringement.
Why doesn't the GPL contain a clause that allows others than the copuright holder to sue for violations? That would have been awesome! Think about the suefest!
The greatest thing about having a ticket system is that you actually get statistics on what IT does, how it performs, that IT can use to justifty its operating costs to management.
>Push for a new voting method. Approval voting, instant runoff, proportional representation... they're all better than what we have now. This is how you effect change in the long term, with an election structure that makes it easy for more than two parties to thrive.
:)
Or move to any European country, where we already have that
Well, getting the feeling for it shouldn't be any harder than getting the feeling for a currency. I just spent a year in Australia, originally coming from Sweden. 1 AUD is roughtly 5.6 SEK. Roughly because it's more for certain products, less for others (_buying_ a dollar for crowns allways yields the same price of course...
After about two months, I was thinking about prices in dollar. $8-$12 is good for a lunch, $1 for an avocado is a bit pricey but ok, and so on.
I guess different people adapt to changes like that more or less easily...
And well, now I've moved to Norway, and 1NOK = 1.1SEK or something like that (but in the store, it's more like 1NOK = 0.8SEK, it's expensive over here)
Nonono, don't fire the guy - he's a god-sent asset, he just happens to be in the wrong department - just transfer him to sales!
Great Britain, a democratic _republic_?! You must be joking mister, or else you must have lived your entire life in the colonies! Britain, if I might inform you, is a _Monarchy_.
(No, i do know what you are reffering, to, and I'm not even Brittish, but I just found it incredibly funny)
And since then are you free to leave you please? In the real world, to leave, you acutually have to have somewhere else to go. And usually, if you live in a dictatorship country, your chances of getting a work-visa let alone a permanent visa in any other country are pretty slim.
Here in Sweden, there are just so many more "communities" that there seems to be abroad, so there is not need for MySpace. I have to detail what I mean by community here, as that word has a slightly more specific meaning in Sweden than in native-english countries: A commonity is a website that works like something inbetween a dating site and a traditional BBS, and they are almost allways advertisement-only-supported. The most popular example is lunarstorm.se where about 80% of everyone between 15 and 20yrs of age has an account. Second largest is helgon.net which caters for the large swedish goth/punk/metal/synth (and nowdays unfourtunately also emo) crowd.
> If that isn't viral, I don't know what is.
Of you truly think that that is as viral as it can be, let me license some software to you under an EULA that says that any and all software you ever develop, or has developed, must be licensed under that same license. And that all software that sits on the same medium, or on another medium close to that one, has to. And that that this does not only apply to you, but must be made part of any bsuiness contract you will ever negotiate in the future and thus apply to anyone you have commercial contact with (and maybe I'll even add that a marriage is a business contract just to piss your wife/husband off).
I'll call my license GNU Punishment LARTer.
> The sticking point - is that the creators of the content have rights too... And there seems, currently, to be no way of protecting those rights short of a full lockdown.
That, my friend, is head on the nail! The problem is, without monitoring _all_ private communication, we _can_not_ guarantee that people can not infinge on copyrights. Bits are bits, and without actually reading the messages (e.g. emails), you _can_not_know_ if they contain forbidden material.
The question is not whether the rights of artists is more or less important than the rights of culture consumers, but whether the rights of artists (and media companies) are more important than our free, open and democratic society. Do _you_ want all you mail and phonecalls monitored?
A friend of mine grew up in Polad during the soviet era. According to him, when you phoned someone, you'd here a recorded message saying "This phonecall is monitored, this phonecall is monitored" before you got your connection.
Do you want to live in Soviet to protect the artists?
Network block devices / iSCSI / IDE-over-ethernet or whatever your favourite network storage for today is, and a front-end server to raid it all. You have endless possibilities. With that solution, you have a good hotswappability too - just hotswap a whole 1U machine!
Once uppon a time, when your car weared out, you'd grab your wrench and other tools and you'd fix it. Once uppon a time, when you bought an LP, you'd tape it to a casette tape (or reel tape) and you'd play that, maybe in your car.
Today, you are saved from this DIY attitude by laws that forbid you from fixing your car (without a license from the maker to use the special tools only they make), forbid you from copying your music for personal use to another medium.
How is music different? It isn't. But the times are.
> So it's a good thing that warzones are always carefully put far away from any civilians are or will ever be, right? ....right?
They are. From an american perspective. Remember: Non-american "civilians" are illegal combatants.
This makes it all the easier to argue against the "war on piracy" in all other countries. People outside the US don't like to be controlled by a government they didn't get to vote for...
I for one know a shitload of people who will vote for http://piratpartiet.se/, and so will I, in the upcoming election in Sweden. The revolution has begun.
Have you seen the recent movie V for Vendetta? Maybe it's not _that_ far from the truth... Maybe it's Time to blow the Big Ben?
I must admin I'm what you could call a power user, but I was totally stunned by the UI of OS/2. I still haven't seen a desktop manager that is on par with it when it comes to orthogonality, simplicity, generality and flexibility. I must admit there are more good-looking ones out now (hey, even RHs bluecurve theme is kinda cute), but all DMs out now are so inflexible. For example, if you open a folder in GNOME in folder-mode, you can't get the tree-view/explorer-view thing just by selecting the view menu and selecting another view method... The desktop doesn't work as any other folder-view. You can't add backgrounds to folders. Things doesn't have as many properties, etc... But the world just wasn't ready for it then. Maybe it is now?
About a year ago, I wrote an introduction for free software writers to hardware design and the Free Hardware Design movement for a course on Free Software philosophy, theory, legal frameworks and politics held at Gothenburg University, Sweden. The article will later be published in a book together with some other articles written by other students at the course.
It is of course available online, at http://redhog.org/Projects/School/FreeSoftware/fre ehardware.pdf.
Hm, I think the most dangerous situation is actually software developement. Developers constantly create new binaries as non-root users, which are then uploaded to their homepages, downloaded to other systems and run (possibly as root), often by other developers who in turn create binaries and upload them to their webpages...
.c-files, and hides it when editing the files. Extra dubbelplusbonus if that code doesn't show up in diff output, or cvs diff output, aswell as in grep, cat, less or more output... Another nasty possibility would be to only infect CVS so that it checks in virus-code (but strips it when checking out using the infected version of cvs)...
Think about a virus that when invoked infects all running processes under the same UID (maybe using the debugger API), overriding exec*(), so that new processes will be infected too, and, if one process happens to be gcc, changes it so that it will generate infected binaries...
Hm, what I outlined above can't actually be _that_ hard to do, and it probably _would_ spread. For extra bonus, add a change to emacs that adds infectious source-kode to all
There are Free Software ext2 drivers for all major OSes:
Windows: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ext2ifs/
MacOS X: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ext2fs/
OS/2: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ext2-os2/
The problem is, they don't come pre-installed...
That's if you'r alone. If you'r coding together with someone on the same project, an ordinary whiteboard is the most valueable thing you can have. And even if you'r alone, a whiteboard still helps.
That depends. One of the most interresting things is that some countries force all (yung) men to join the army. How then is attacking that country and sparing civilians (while killing all soldiers) in any way more humane than killing soldiers and "civilians" alike?
I am a man and live in a country where this is true (sweden), though we haven't been involved in a real war in quite some time. As many people here, I'm fighting to create a society where men and women are more equal. But we'l never get real equality as long as men are expected to die to defend the women when it all comes to its edge.
-Disassemble! Reassemble!
-No, you can'r reassemble it. It's dead.
-No reassemble?
-No.
-No, no disassemble! No disassemble!! NO DIIISSSASSEMBLEEE! *leaves screaming*
Please, leave this poor robot alone!