Isn't there supposed to be something about having to defend your copyrights or some such?
Yes and no.
No, in that you don't lose it if you don't defend it.
Yes, in that if you don't sue no one else will (or can) sue on your behalf, it has to be you as the copyright holder. (That's why the FSF recommend assigning them copyright of any GPLed work you create, so they can pursue any violations on your behalf with their presumably superior resources)
if you remove the anonymity you'll remove a lot of the asshole factor online
I don't disagree, but just being forced to use your real name isn't going to strip away your anonymity.
My user name here is my real name - ok, so the C is an initial. My name is Tim Campbell. I'll even tell you that I live in the UK (London to be precise). Good luck finding anything at all out about me though - and if by some chance you manage to do so, you won't know it's me anyway.
Of course I have an advantage (google my name and you'll see what I mean), but the point holds - so you know the guy you're talking to is called Jo Johnson. Great. So are how many other tens of thousands of people?
That reminds me of something that happened to a work mate a few years ago. His card details were used fraudulently and his account emptied, taking him over his overdraft limit. So he got on to the bank, and got the money refunded pretty quickly.
A few days later he had to get back on to the bank to get them to refund the charges for going over his overdraft limit.
They did refund the charges, but you'd have thought that would have been taken care of at the same time...
I've seen them, but that's not the point - the point is that the kiosk itself should be mounting the stick as read-only regardless of how the stick itself is configured. There should be absolutely no way for the kiosk to write to the stick; otherwise you risk an error (or something malicious, as in this case) wiping out the customer's data or (again, as in this case) potentially infecting their machine.
Not only that, but whatever government won the election was going to have an extremely tough time staying in power at the next one; the measures necessary to cut our country's deficit are unlikely to win many votes.
I've got an HTC Desire and it too has a problem with your ear pressing on-screen buttons during calls.
Interesting - I too have an HTC Desire and I have not had that problem at all. I have had the "trouser pocket" problem, but have mostly learnt not to hit the top button while it's in my pocket (a case has also helped with that, making it physically harder to press it).
...on 5 different web pages to install 5 different extensions...
and I'm done.
Don't get me wrong, I use Firefox as my primary browser (only ever using IE when I have to for work), but it's a little more fiddly than you make it out to be...
Indeed, and I have had more or less that reaction in the past - "Why is it all in Latin? I don't like that..."
On the plus side if you use copy that is obviously placeholder, even at the most cursory of glances, it does make it less likely that it will be sent live by accident - and even if it is, there's no chance of actually offending anyone.
Many Java apps made assumptions about file names and directory locations, and this prevented them from running on other OSes.
That's the fault of the programmer(s), not Java.
Besides, while you have valid points, they are irrelevant to the topic at hand; MS signed a licence saying that they could not introduce Windows-specific classes into the java.* package hierarchy, and yet they did so. No one would have cared if they'd put them in com.microsoft.*, but they chose not to do so.
Not saying it's the same, but I've been a member here and regular visitor for longer than I care to mention, I hit the karma cap back when it was a number not a word, and I've not had mod points in years. In fact for quite a while I wasn't even eligible to metamod.
I've no idea what my crime was; I do remember reading the great slashdot troll thread, but don't remember commenting on it. Perhaps I did, and that's what did it; perhaps a comment I made elsewhere just pissed off one of the admins. I've never cared enough to ask to be honest.
I know you're aiming for funny, but they don't put the word French at the start, so it would be ARCE - which (for us Brits at least) is still potentially mildly amusing.
The Metropolitan Police are the London police force.
Nit-picking here, but there is a separate force that serves the City of London. I don't know how the jurisdictions work (or even if that's a valid concept any more in the UK), but the Met serves Greater London, not the City of London (which is essentially the Square Mile).
Exactly, that whole "he's not been elected!" thing pissed me off too. We don *not* elect our prime minister. We elect a party, the party selects the prime minister. Usually (though not always) this is the leader at the time. If that person leaves, dies, is arrested and jailed, etc, the party selects another. The voters have no further say on the matter.
Then I can only conclude that you've never attended (or perhaps just not paid attention in) any science classes - a meter is something used to measure or detect something (e.g. a voltmeter), while a metre is the SI unit of distance.
Either that or standards have dropped drastically in the last 15 years or so, in which case I'll be having some rather forthright discussions with the teachers I know...
And 20% malicious apps? As if there weren't enough problems getting iphone 4s as it is....
That's pure FUD which was debunked in the recent article discussing it - short story is 20% of apps request permissions that could be used in malicious ways. That's a different thing entirely to them actually being malicious.
I don't want malicious apps on my phone either, but I do want to be treated like an adult and told that an app I have is malicious ("...and so we strongly recommend you remove it immediately..."), not like a child and have it removed on my behalf.
So - troll or shockingly poor reading comprehension on the part of the submitter?
I'd almost like to think the former, especially how polarised the readership of this site can be (for a site presumably catering to intelligent, tech-savvy people there is an *incredible* amount of fanboyism), though I'm not sure the latter isn't somehow preferable; at least ignorance can be taught out of people.
The original poster said that the longest he'd ever seen a manufacturer claim is 25 years. The fact that Kodak claims 100+ years is knowledge, regardless of the veracity of that claim.
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Isn't there supposed to be something about having to defend your copyrights or some such?
Yes and no.
No, in that you don't lose it if you don't defend it.
Yes, in that if you don't sue no one else will (or can) sue on your behalf, it has to be you as the copyright holder. (That's why the FSF recommend assigning them copyright of any GPLed work you create, so they can pursue any violations on your behalf with their presumably superior resources)
if you remove the anonymity you'll remove a lot of the asshole factor online
I don't disagree, but just being forced to use your real name isn't going to strip away your anonymity.
My user name here is my real name - ok, so the C is an initial. My name is Tim Campbell. I'll even tell you that I live in the UK (London to be precise). Good luck finding anything at all out about me though - and if by some chance you manage to do so, you won't know it's me anyway.
Of course I have an advantage (google my name and you'll see what I mean), but the point holds - so you know the guy you're talking to is called Jo Johnson. Great. So are how many other tens of thousands of people?
There should be a law prohibiting the keeping of copies without express permission
There is - copyright.
That reminds me of something that happened to a work mate a few years ago. His card details were used fraudulently and his account emptied, taking him over his overdraft limit. So he got on to the bank, and got the money refunded pretty quickly.
A few days later he had to get back on to the bank to get them to refund the charges for going over his overdraft limit.
They did refund the charges, but you'd have thought that would have been taken care of at the same time...
Has anyone ever lost karma for pointing out that kdawson is a bit of an idiot?
I've seen them, but that's not the point - the point is that the kiosk itself should be mounting the stick as read-only regardless of how the stick itself is configured. There should be absolutely no way for the kiosk to write to the stick; otherwise you risk an error (or something malicious, as in this case) wiping out the customer's data or (again, as in this case) potentially infecting their machine.
Not only that, but whatever government won the election was going to have an extremely tough time staying in power at the next one; the measures necessary to cut our country's deficit are unlikely to win many votes.
I've got an HTC Desire and it too has a problem with your ear pressing on-screen buttons during calls.
Interesting - I too have an HTC Desire and I have not had that problem at all. I have had the "trouser pocket" problem, but have mostly learnt not to hit the top button while it's in my pocket (a case has also helped with that, making it physically harder to press it).
There is no "fiddling", I just click "install"
and I'm done.
Don't get me wrong, I use Firefox as my primary browser (only ever using IE when I have to for work), but it's a little more fiddly than you make it out to be...
Read/write SD card access may well be to store save games, high score info, preferences, etc.
Phonebook access is a definite no-no though, I agree there.
Indeed, and I have had more or less that reaction in the past - "Why is it all in Latin? I don't like that..."
On the plus side if you use copy that is obviously placeholder, even at the most cursory of glances, it does make it less likely that it will be sent live by accident - and even if it is, there's no chance of actually offending anyone.
You can thank idiots who do browser sniffing the wrong way for that.
If you're doing browser sniffing you're already doing it the wrong way.
Many Java apps made assumptions about file names and directory locations, and this prevented them from running on other OSes.
That's the fault of the programmer(s), not Java.
Besides, while you have valid points, they are irrelevant to the topic at hand; MS signed a licence saying that they could not introduce Windows-specific classes into the java.* package hierarchy, and yet they did so. No one would have cared if they'd put them in com.microsoft.*, but they chose not to do so.
Remember that very few people have rendering and fonts for every written language on the planet, so most people will be cut off from many websites.
If they don't have the rendering capabilities for the URL, they almost certainly can't read the content on the site anyway.
Not saying it's the same, but I've been a member here and regular visitor for longer than I care to mention, I hit the karma cap back when it was a number not a word, and I've not had mod points in years. In fact for quite a while I wasn't even eligible to metamod.
I've no idea what my crime was; I do remember reading the great slashdot troll thread, but don't remember commenting on it. Perhaps I did, and that's what did it; perhaps a comment I made elsewhere just pissed off one of the admins. I've never cared enough to ask to be honest.
I know you're aiming for funny, but they don't put the word French at the start, so it would be ARCE - which (for us Brits at least) is still potentially mildly amusing.
The Metropolitan Police are the London police force.
Nit-picking here, but there is a separate force that serves the City of London. I don't know how the jurisdictions work (or even if that's a valid concept any more in the UK), but the Met serves Greater London, not the City of London (which is essentially the Square Mile).
But since when did a botnet node's mail server have to listen on port 25?
Exactly, that whole "he's not been elected!" thing pissed me off too. We don *not* elect our prime minister. We elect a party, the party selects the prime minister. Usually (though not always) this is the leader at the time. If that person leaves, dies, is arrested and jailed, etc, the party selects another. The voters have no further say on the matter.
Then I can only conclude that you've never attended (or perhaps just not paid attention in) any science classes - a meter is something used to measure or detect something (e.g. a voltmeter), while a metre is the SI unit of distance.
Either that or standards have dropped drastically in the last 15 years or so, in which case I'll be having some rather forthright discussions with the teachers I know...
People may hate nag screens, but they tend to hate unexplained surprise changes to things they own even more.
And 20% malicious apps? As if there weren't enough problems getting iphone 4s as it is....
That's pure FUD which was debunked in the recent article discussing it - short story is 20% of apps request permissions that could be used in malicious ways. That's a different thing entirely to them actually being malicious.
I don't want malicious apps on my phone either, but I do want to be treated like an adult and told that an app I have is malicious ("...and so we strongly recommend you remove it immediately..."), not like a child and have it removed on my behalf.
So - troll or shockingly poor reading comprehension on the part of the submitter?
I'd almost like to think the former, especially how polarised the readership of this site can be (for a site presumably catering to intelligent, tech-savvy people there is an *incredible* amount of fanboyism), though I'm not sure the latter isn't somehow preferable; at least ignorance can be taught out of people.
The original poster said that the longest he'd ever seen a manufacturer claim is 25 years. The fact that Kodak claims 100+ years is knowledge, regardless of the veracity of that claim.