No, he's referring to the (music) CDs that shipped with auto-install anti-piracy software hidden on them that behaved basically the same as a rootkit and remotely removing the Other OS feature from the Playstation 3. Not sure about the reference to shutting down businesses, but the other points are valid.
The same is true of everything though, from gold and precious stones to seashells, leaves, and hours of hard labour. If no one wants it then it's worthless.
So, putting the question mark (which is part of the sentence as a whole) inside the quotation marks (thus making it part of what is being quoted) is correct American English grammar?
I used to live somewhere where there was a lot of drug dealing. So if I told you where that was do I get arrested for 'facilitating' the drug trade?
If someone said to you "Hey man, know anywhere to score around here?" and you told them, then potentially yes. In reality not for doing it once, but if you became known as the go-to guy to introduce/direct people, then the law is likely to take a dim view of your activities even though you're not actually selling the drugs yourself.
Not necessarily. They could be different neutrinos, caused by atoms in the way absorbing some neutrinos and emitting others.
It's not entirely an oversimplification to say "that won't happen" - solar neutrinos pass straight through the Earth for example. (See the Wikipedia page)
I like how everything is now "under-secured" as if you have any first hand knowledge of the nature of the attack at RSA or the security measures they had in place.
Someone got in. Seems to me that that is a very good, practical definition of "under-secured".
My elderly parents and semi-technically-literate friends, probably not. Hell my brother doesn't even have an Internet connection, but could still use this.
I often have stuff I've ordered that is too big to fit through my letter box left on my doorstep. It's a very quiet road and there is partial cover so it's nearly safe, but still.
The worst one so far was my latest (contract) mobile phone. You couldn't tell it was a phone from the package, but there was an impossible to miss "MUST BE SIGNED FOR" sticker on it. Needless to say, it wasn't.
(Oh, and this isn't UPS, this is Royal Mail in the UK)
Plus, with no admin password it's local user only (which is still bad, just not root capable).
I don't know about you (obviously), but on my computer my user account owns all the files that I care about, and is the account I use while browsing the internet, checking/sending email, checking my bank account online, etc.
Netscape 3.02 was a better browser than IE3 or IE4
That may be true (though it's not my recollection), but Netscape 4 was a buggy piece of shit that crashed at the drop of a hat - and I say that as someone who used it all the way up until I switched to Linux and started using Galeon instead, and who has never used IE by choice and most likely never will. IE4 was comparable to NN4, and IE 5 simply wiped the floor with it in every way that a user cared about. The years of being stuck at version 4 as they tried to rewrite from scratch for version 5 was the final nail in the coffin.
Microsoft may have been gunning for Netscape, but it committed suicide before they could kill it. At most they delivered the coup de grace.
Yes and no. If you cancel your contract within the first year (X years?) then they'll want the box back. However when I cancelled my contract with Sky after about 7 years I was left with the box to do with as I pleased. (Which in this case was dispose of the useless, failing piece of crap)
However you are correct in that getting another box to watch in another room means paying an additional monthly fee; as far as I know there's no option to just buy the box outright and pay no extra for the service. That is simply out and out greed, and is why I will never do it.
Ironic that you quote that, given that this is one of those groups that not only disapprove of what some people say, but would actively seek to prevent them from being able to say it.
You can write a blogpost or whatever re-documenting the software, but if the original documentation isn't Free then you can't build on and improve it, just like you can't improve/modify software that isn't Free.
I really am surprised that the FSF appears to be taking this stance.
I had malware scanning on my PC because malware could get in the back door via services and other areas. Now, they are installing it right in front of your face trying to masquerade as something else.
That started at least a decade ago. Dressing your malware up as something the user wants is hardly new.
To be fair, the season ticket in 2) only gets you in to one team's games, while the Sky Sports subscription in 3) lets you watch all the other games too.
That said I too despise football and the primitive tribal mentality displayed by so many of its fans.
It doesn't, and it's not Twitter that is under threat of prosecution but the English and Welsh users who have defied the injunction. Twitter have merely announced that they'll comply with any legal requests for information that are made concerning the injunction.
The same way you prove anything - present evidence and let the magistrate/jury/whatever decide. Proving this is difficult, but not impossible - for example your defences won't wash if you tweeted about this a lot over a relatively extended period of time.
The GPL does. It must be delivered to whoever the binaries are given to.
No, it must (at least) be made available on demand to whoever the binaries are given to. The easiest (and preferred) way of fulfilling this obligation is to deliver the source along with the binaries, but that is by no means an absolute requirement.
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No, he's referring to the (music) CDs that shipped with auto-install anti-piracy software hidden on them that behaved basically the same as a rootkit and remotely removing the Other OS feature from the Playstation 3. Not sure about the reference to shutting down businesses, but the other points are valid.
The same is true of everything though, from gold and precious stones to seashells, leaves, and hours of hard labour. If no one wants it then it's worthless.
It isn't dotslash.org either.
So, putting the question mark (which is part of the sentence as a whole) inside the quotation marks (thus making it part of what is being quoted) is correct American English grammar?
Madness.
It's named on the same lines as an fMRI.
If I was a British citizen (or "subject" or whatever you people call yourselves)
My passport says citizen.
I used to live somewhere where there was a lot of drug dealing. So if I told you where that was do I get arrested for 'facilitating' the drug trade?
If someone said to you "Hey man, know anywhere to score around here?" and you told them, then potentially yes. In reality not for doing it once, but if you became known as the go-to guy to introduce/direct people, then the law is likely to take a dim view of your activities even though you're not actually selling the drugs yourself.
Not necessarily. They could be different neutrinos, caused by atoms in the way absorbing some neutrinos and emitting others.
It's not entirely an oversimplification to say "that won't happen" - solar neutrinos pass straight through the Earth for example. (See the Wikipedia page)
I like how everything is now "under-secured" as if you have any first hand knowledge of the nature of the attack at RSA or the security measures they had in place.
Someone got in. Seems to me that that is a very good, practical definition of "under-secured".
Yes, yes I could.
My elderly parents and semi-technically-literate friends, probably not. Hell my brother doesn't even have an Internet connection, but could still use this.
I often have stuff I've ordered that is too big to fit through my letter box left on my doorstep. It's a very quiet road and there is partial cover so it's nearly safe, but still.
The worst one so far was my latest (contract) mobile phone. You couldn't tell it was a phone from the package, but there was an impossible to miss "MUST BE SIGNED FOR" sticker on it. Needless to say, it wasn't.
(Oh, and this isn't UPS, this is Royal Mail in the UK)
Plus, with no admin password it's local user only (which is still bad, just not root capable).
I don't know about you (obviously), but on my computer my user account owns all the files that I care about, and is the account I use while browsing the internet, checking/sending email, checking my bank account online, etc.
Netscape 3.02 was a better browser than IE3 or IE4
That may be true (though it's not my recollection), but Netscape 4 was a buggy piece of shit that crashed at the drop of a hat - and I say that as someone who used it all the way up until I switched to Linux and started using Galeon instead, and who has never used IE by choice and most likely never will. IE4 was comparable to NN4, and IE 5 simply wiped the floor with it in every way that a user cared about. The years of being stuck at version 4 as they tried to rewrite from scratch for version 5 was the final nail in the coffin.
Microsoft may have been gunning for Netscape, but it committed suicide before they could kill it. At most they delivered the coup de grace.
"stringing wires through finished construction" might cost a bit, but it is not difficult at all
Depends on what your walls are made of; here in the UK most of them are brick. Straightforward yes, but "not difficult" it most certainly is not.
Yes and no. If you cancel your contract within the first year (X years?) then they'll want the box back. However when I cancelled my contract with Sky after about 7 years I was left with the box to do with as I pleased. (Which in this case was dispose of the useless, failing piece of crap)
However you are correct in that getting another box to watch in another room means paying an additional monthly fee; as far as I know there's no option to just buy the box outright and pay no extra for the service. That is simply out and out greed, and is why I will never do it.
You're right, it's not a joke. Jokes are funny; that's merely factually incorrect.
In fact, in this day and age is slander even possible?
Well, you could commit slander by, oh I don't know, telling a lot of people verbally...
Ironic that you quote that, given that this is one of those groups that not only disapprove of what some people say, but would actively seek to prevent them from being able to say it.
You can write a blogpost or whatever re-documenting the software, but if the original documentation isn't Free then you can't build on and improve it, just like you can't improve/modify software that isn't Free.
I really am surprised that the FSF appears to be taking this stance.
I had malware scanning on my PC because malware could get in the back door via services and other areas. Now, they are installing it right in front of your face trying to masquerade as something else.
That started at least a decade ago. Dressing your malware up as something the user wants is hardly new.
To be fair, the season ticket in 2) only gets you in to one team's games, while the Sky Sports subscription in 3) lets you watch all the other games too.
That said I too despise football and the primitive tribal mentality displayed by so many of its fans.
It doesn't, and it's not Twitter that is under threat of prosecution but the English and Welsh users who have defied the injunction. Twitter have merely announced that they'll comply with any legal requests for information that are made concerning the injunction.
How could they prove it was me?
The same way you prove anything - present evidence and let the magistrate/jury/whatever decide. Proving this is difficult, but not impossible - for example your defences won't wash if you tweeted about this a lot over a relatively extended period of time.
...to the limit of our current ability to measure it. The Standard Model predicts that it is not spherically symmetrical.
The GPL does. It must be delivered to whoever the binaries are given to.
No, it must (at least) be made available on demand to whoever the binaries are given to. The easiest (and preferred) way of fulfilling this obligation is to deliver the source along with the binaries, but that is by no means an absolute requirement.