>That's a really grate rationale for copyright violation. Hey, the website sucks, so violating copyright law is ok.
Out of context quotes are fun to play with, aren't they?
"That's a really grate rationale for copyright violation."
Which storm drain are you saying has a rationale for copyright violation?
Please, I think if you read further, you'll clearly discover that I'm calling into question wether the author is the Record, or if this came from a public news source.
>We who want our copyrights to be respected should have more respect for others'.
I agree. However, you're crediting the wrong people with writing the story. It's almost guaranteed the Record had nothing to do with this story. It's almost certainly an Associated Press story. Interestingly, the Associated Press, while somewhat worred about copyrights, isn't much worried about the internet, hence the fact that many Associated Press stories appear online.
I am somewhat uncertain as to wether this is, in fact, an infringement of the copyright from Associated Press. Even if it isn't exactly the same as the Associated Press' copy, I would not be at all surprised if the article were wholly rewritten from an Associated Press' copy. This is the Record we're talking about here.
Unfortunately, the person writing the copy didn't cite the original author, so I cannot be certain if it is an Associated Press story or not. However, my suspicions strongly point to yes, as the Record has only a few reporters on staff.
>Had the poster taken a couple of minutes to read, understand and restate the facts in his own words, it would have been perfectly legal.
Unlikely. According to all the English teachers I've ever talked to, that's plagarism, as is indeed a copyright violation in the same way as renaming all the variables in a piece of software doesn't get you off the copyright violation hook. Even re-coding it from scratch doesn't help if you provably are basing the software off of someone else's code.
>We who want our copyrights to be respected should have more respect for others'.
That I agree with. The duplication of the article probably does break copyright, however, the question is whether it is that terrible newspaper's copyright, or the Associated Press' copyright. One of them is interested in keeping a Disney-like iron fist grip on what little work is actually theirs, and the other has absolutely ZERO interest in worrying about an individual distributing one example copy of their work.
>Sounds like the Record managed to add value to me...
Anyone who reads the record knows that they rarely add any value to anything. Their entire front section (not even page) is nothing but a cut and paste of all the highlights from the Associated Press.
It's a cookie cutter newspaper that is almost out of business due to low circulation. There's a good reason for that. The Record absolutely sucks.
Last time I read they were printing hundreds of complaints in the letters to the editor that the cartoon section was crap. They never fixed it. Probably, I'm guessing, they're out of money.
Their website sucks too. Content which is already paid for by advertisers, such as movie listings, is kept under lock and key outside their free section.
The Record isn't even a local newspaper anymore, having been bought out by big media. As a company, they need to die out, like other crap newspapers. Another, better, local newspaper will take their place. As it is, unfortunately, the age of their company is squeezing out far better competition. Independent newspapers from a city just 30 minutes away are many times more interesting than the Record.
As TCPA 47 U.S.C. 227 didn't work to stop spam (or even make anybody any money suing spammers), I highly doubt anything else in there will apply to computers.
>I call from a "non-existent" phone number (a number I have which I simply always route to BUSY). That's the number sales droids get in stores, is on my checks, etc. The same number either line shows for CID (but only one line can do ANI as this #).
As a busy store owner, I can attest that when I'm busy, I rarely answer "PRIVATE CALL" caller ID blockers. Too many immature morons using it just to waste my time. Also, I refuse to do phone orders if you can't at least be courteous enough to provide a verifiable callback number.
If you often find stores not answering your call, now you know why.
Hello. It appears your number is not in my accepted callers database. Please note I charge $5 per minute for sales consultations. Entering your credit card number now signifies your acceptance to charge your credit card as per the DMCA [or insert whatever law it is in the USA that makes pushing buttons acceptance of a legal contract -- I'm guessing]. If you are not a sales agent, please press pound. If you are a sales agent, but would prefer not to pay $5 per minute for a sales consultation, please hang up now. Thank you.
2 accidents, 1 reported because the driver was a bitch (sqeezed about $400 from the insurance company for a bumper) and the other one reported because of bylaws (taxi driver), no damage reported. So, about $400 payout total. Never had a ticket in my life.
Insurance result: $3000 a year for a 2001 corolla. And that's the cheap insurance. The insurance company I *was* with wanted $7,500 a year. I told them I'd just drive without insurance (fine is only $5,000 [maximum]).
From memory, I know there's more than this for a propane vehicle, but here's a map of places selling Natural Gas for cars in my area (Kitchener is on that map, which is where I am right now), specifically.
It's definitely not the world's most *convenient* gas, but you can certainly drive all over the area I live without running dry (besides, most people keep their old gas tank just in case).
You can find a list of Propane enabled Sunocos in my Province using this tool. Heck, the gas station beside my store sells propane (I'd probably go as far to say about 25% of the gas stations here sell propane).:-D
Not that there's all that many propane cars -- most of the propane ends up in BBQ tanks.
Plenty of them in my town. I guess it depends on how many stations are selling alternate fuel (In the case of my town, they're mostly Propane and Gas).
>American cars are just as well engineered as Japanese cars,
That's because the Americans gave up making cars and just use OEM Japanese cars now. (ok, ok, that's overboard, but it happens)
example: GEO Prism is an OEM Toyota Corolla.
When American companies do that, yeah, quality tends to be the same as the Japanese cars, assuming the American companies don't ask for "Special" OEM versions made of second grade parts.
>The obvious solution here is to borrow somebody else's truck, or rent one for a day.
I can pretty much assume the answer from the guy down the street with a truck will be "No, I have to go to work today, sucker. You can tag along, but, well, your job is on the other side of town. Sorry."
Now, as far as renting goes, how does one get to the rental place to rent the vehicle?
Don't say buses. Most places that have snow that bad have buses leaving every 6 - 8 hours or so during winter snowstorms.
>Can you make binaries of your new program and distribute them? If not, I can't see how you call this open-source.
Let's dissect what you just said and turn it into english words.
Can you make a car out of it? If not, I can't see how it's an airplane.
A binary is not source, unless the software was built using machine language. This project wasn't. Therefore, the entire idea of suggesting that limiting the distribution of binaries somehow impacts the freeness of the source is a red herring and makes zero sense.
You would be correct in saying this project is closed-binary. The difference is huge.
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>ufortunately, djbdns is not open-source.
Incorrect, it is open source.
It isn't GPL.
There's a big difference.
>Until a true open source alternative to BIND appears, we're stuck with it.
By "true alternative" do you mean it has to be GPLable?
Get real. djbdns' source is 100% available for you to look at and patch to your hearts content. If you find an error, send a fix to DJB and he'll add it after review. He'll even give you $500 as a reward for your hard work. Find me a GPL program that makes an offer like that.
Now, if he doesn't like your patch, you can post the patch on the internet. You can even put it alongside the source. You can even make an autopatch program that will patch djbdns during make so that dumb users can handle the process
Here's bernstein's statement about the freedom of his software. Feel free to print it out and sign it if you're insane on the idea he can revoke your license.
>They still haven't fully figured out that they're a consumer products company, making things for people with no technical savvy, whose main means of resolving a problem is power-cycling the hardware and seeing if it gets better. And when it doesn't get better, they say, "Boy, Company X makes crappy stuff. I'll buy from Company Y from now on."
Sure they have. They operate under different names like most consumer companies. When the consumer switches to company Y, there's a chance it'll be Linksys and the consumer wouldn't even know it.
>If he doesn't need a computer, then he has no excuse to be in front of it playing games then, does he?
Sure he does. Perhaps someone else uses the office at times, and they need a computer when they use the office. Being that laptops are so notoriously expensive, it tends to mean it's cheaper to place office computers in up to 4 places this worker might be before giving them a laptop.
The only argument then is that he was wasting electricity playing solitaire. That's a poor excuse, unless you think tech support should live in a lightless dungeon.:-D
Being that this was a government job, it wouldn't surprise me at alll if most of his work was spent signing and filling out forms rather than working on a computer.
>Maybe this was a few yesrs ago, but aren't jtag programmers pretty fcking expensive?
They were, but for "other" reasons, JTAG hardware and software has come down in price. Down to $0 in the case of Jkeys (can't link it due to DMCA), and about $1 in parts (if you build the crappy 5 resistor model) or $5 in parts (if you build the proper buffered model).
Here's a JTAG unit you can build yourself for next to nothing.
>Aren't XM and Sirius satellite radio also available over the Internet - about $10 a month?
Nooo, not over the internet, that is....
And they're both completely and utterly illegal in Canada. Period.
>BBC.co.uk is free
Uggghhhh... It's like AM. But WORSE! And more expensive to run!
>Muzak services Canada I would think.
Hell no. Totally illegal to pay for Muzak here.
>What gives???
Canada has media under a soviet style grip. Only in Canada can you be silenced for, well, being Howard Stern. Okay, probably in some other countries too.
The Canadian Broadcast Standard Council ruled that Q-107 violated local code by airing Stern shows that contained allegedly racist comments slurring African Americans and Jews and sexist references about sharks eating women.
No. The resale of foreign media channels in Canada is strictly regulated by the CRTC, and, in most cases, is generally illegal unless there's 35% Canadian Content added.
Crazy? Yes. Stupid? Yes.
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>The full screen option has been there as long as I remember. Definately available on the free RealOne player and above.
The Linux variant doesn't (or didn't) do fullscreen for the longest time I remember. I think it did do double sizing. Which looked like hell.
>That's a really grate rationale for copyright violation. Hey, the website sucks, so violating copyright law is ok.
Out of context quotes are fun to play with, aren't they?
"That's a really grate rationale for copyright violation."
Which storm drain are you saying has a rationale for copyright violation?
Please, I think if you read further, you'll clearly discover that I'm calling into question wether the author is the Record, or if this came from a public news source.
>We who want our copyrights to be respected should have more respect for others'.
I agree. However, you're crediting the wrong people with writing the story. It's almost guaranteed the Record had nothing to do with this story. It's almost certainly an Associated Press story. Interestingly, the Associated Press, while somewhat worred about copyrights, isn't much worried about the internet, hence the fact that many Associated Press stories appear online.
I am somewhat uncertain as to wether this is, in fact, an infringement of the copyright from Associated Press. Even if it isn't exactly the same as the Associated Press' copy, I would not be at all surprised if the article were wholly rewritten from an Associated Press' copy. This is the Record we're talking about here.
Unfortunately, the person writing the copy didn't cite the original author, so I cannot be certain if it is an Associated Press story or not. However, my suspicions strongly point to yes, as the Record has only a few reporters on staff.
>Had the poster taken a couple of minutes to read, understand and restate the facts in his own words, it would have been perfectly legal.
Unlikely. According to all the English teachers I've ever talked to, that's plagarism, as is indeed a copyright violation in the same way as renaming all the variables in a piece of software doesn't get you off the copyright violation hook. Even re-coding it from scratch doesn't help if you provably are basing the software off of someone else's code.
>We who want our copyrights to be respected should have more respect for others'.
That I agree with. The duplication of the article probably does break copyright, however, the question is whether it is that terrible newspaper's copyright, or the Associated Press' copyright. One of them is interested in keeping a Disney-like iron fist grip on what little work is actually theirs, and the other has absolutely ZERO interest in worrying about an individual distributing one example copy of their work.
>Sounds like the Record managed to add value to me...
Anyone who reads the record knows that they rarely add any value to anything. Their entire front section (not even page) is nothing but a cut and paste of all the highlights from the Associated Press.
It's a cookie cutter newspaper that is almost out of business due to low circulation. There's a good reason for that. The Record absolutely sucks.
Last time I read they were printing hundreds of complaints in the letters to the editor that the cartoon section was crap. They never fixed it. Probably, I'm guessing, they're out of money.
Their website sucks too. Content which is already paid for by advertisers, such as movie listings, is kept under lock and key outside their free section.
The Record isn't even a local newspaper anymore, having been bought out by big media. As a company, they need to die out, like other crap newspapers. Another, better, local newspaper will take their place. As it is, unfortunately, the age of their company is squeezing out far better competition. Independent newspapers from a city just 30 minutes away are many times more interesting than the Record.
As TCPA 47 U.S.C. 227 didn't work to stop spam (or even make anybody any money suing spammers), I highly doubt anything else in there will apply to computers.
>I call from a "non-existent" phone number (a number I have which I simply always route to BUSY). That's the number sales droids get in stores, is on my checks, etc. The same number either line shows for CID (but only one line can do ANI as this #).
As a busy store owner, I can attest that when I'm busy, I rarely answer "PRIVATE CALL" caller ID blockers. Too many immature morons using it just to waste my time. Also, I refuse to do phone orders if you can't at least be courteous enough to provide a verifiable callback number.
If you often find stores not answering your call, now you know why.
Hello. It appears your number is not in my accepted callers database. Please note I charge $5 per minute for sales consultations. Entering your credit card number now signifies your acceptance to charge your credit card as per the DMCA [or insert whatever law it is in the USA that makes pushing buttons acceptance of a legal contract -- I'm guessing]. If you are not a sales agent, please press pound. If you are a sales agent, but would prefer not to pay $5 per minute for a sales consultation, please hang up now. Thank you.
>$200 a month? What do you drive?
That's *NOTHING*.
2 accidents, 1 reported because the driver was a bitch (sqeezed about $400 from the insurance company for a bumper) and the other one reported because of bylaws (taxi driver), no damage reported. So, about $400 payout total. Never had a ticket in my life.
Insurance result: $3000 a year for a 2001 corolla. And that's the cheap insurance. The insurance company I *was* with wanted $7,500 a year. I told them I'd just drive without insurance (fine is only $5,000 [maximum]).
>Because it's a very useful feature on a LAN, and one that is blocked by any firewall out there.
Hey, lots of us agree, on a LAN it's great.
So why does it respond to anything outside of your LAN's netblock? Dumb software.
All I know is that I've spent a lot of time working with cheap-ass tools lavelled "Chrome Vanadium" and I'm still just fine.
I think.
>So there you have it, each side of the disc is either the DVD or the CD.
Now that is interesting. I had always been under the impression that the thickness of the polycarbonate on a CD prevented a CD/DVD sandwich.
I guess you learn something new everyday!
From memory, I know there's more than this for a propane vehicle, but here's a map of places selling Natural Gas for cars in my area (Kitchener is on that map, which is where I am right now), specifically.
:-D
It's definitely not the world's most *convenient* gas, but you can certainly drive all over the area I live without running dry (besides, most people keep their old gas tank just in case).
You can find a list of Propane enabled Sunocos in my Province using this tool. Heck, the gas station beside my store sells propane (I'd probably go as far to say about 25% of the gas stations here sell propane).
Not that there's all that many propane cars -- most of the propane ends up in BBQ tanks.
Plenty of them in my town. I guess it depends on how many stations are selling alternate fuel (In the case of my town, they're mostly Propane and Gas).
>American cars are just as well engineered as Japanese cars,
That's because the Americans gave up making cars and just use OEM Japanese cars now. (ok, ok, that's overboard, but it happens)
example: GEO Prism is an OEM Toyota Corolla.
When American companies do that, yeah, quality tends to be the same as the Japanese cars, assuming the American companies don't ask for "Special" OEM versions made of second grade parts.
>The obvious solution here is to borrow somebody else's truck, or rent one for a day.
I can pretty much assume the answer from the guy down the street with a truck will be "No, I have to go to work today, sucker. You can tag along, but, well, your job is on the other side of town. Sorry."
Now, as far as renting goes, how does one get to the rental place to rent the vehicle?
Don't say buses. Most places that have snow that bad have buses leaving every 6 - 8 hours or so during winter snowstorms.
Let's put it this way:
It's $500 more than most any other "secure" open source project has put up.
$10 an hour is more than you'd make auditing, oh, say, the Linux kernel for fun.
The fact that:
(a) Nobody has claimed they have found an error in DJBs code
(b) Nobody has claimed that DJB has refused to pay them (AFAIK)
shows the code is, at present, known secure.
>Can you make binaries of your new program and distribute them? If not, I can't see how you call this open-source.
Let's dissect what you just said and turn it into english words.
Can you make a car out of it? If not, I can't see how it's an airplane.
A binary is not source, unless the software was built using machine language. This project wasn't. Therefore, the entire idea of suggesting that limiting the distribution of binaries somehow impacts the freeness of the source is a red herring and makes zero sense.
You would be correct in saying this project is closed-binary. The difference is huge.
>ufortunately, djbdns is not open-source.
Incorrect, it is open source.
It isn't GPL.
There's a big difference.
>Until a true open source alternative to BIND appears, we're stuck with it.
By "true alternative" do you mean it has to be GPLable?
Get real. djbdns' source is 100% available for you to look at and patch to your hearts content. If you find an error, send a fix to DJB and he'll add it after review. He'll even give you $500 as a reward for your hard work. Find me a GPL program that makes an offer like that.
Now, if he doesn't like your patch, you can post the patch on the internet. You can even put it alongside the source. You can even make an autopatch program that will patch djbdns during make so that dumb users can handle the process
For the disbelievers, here's the source code.
Here's bernstein's statement about the freedom of his software. Feel free to print it out and sign it if you're insane on the idea he can revoke your license.
>They still haven't fully figured out that they're a consumer products company, making things for people with no technical savvy, whose main means of resolving a problem is power-cycling the hardware and seeing if it gets better. And when it doesn't get better, they say, "Boy, Company X makes crappy stuff. I'll buy from Company Y from now on."
Sure they have. They operate under different names like most consumer companies. When the consumer switches to company Y, there's a chance it'll be Linksys and the consumer wouldn't even know it.
>If he doesn't need a computer, then he has no excuse to be in front of it playing games then, does he?
:-D
Sure he does. Perhaps someone else uses the office at times, and they need a computer when they use the office. Being that laptops are so notoriously expensive, it tends to mean it's cheaper to place office computers in up to 4 places this worker might be before giving them a laptop.
The only argument then is that he was wasting electricity playing solitaire. That's a poor excuse, unless you think tech support should live in a lightless dungeon.
Being that this was a government job, it wouldn't surprise me at alll if most of his work was spent signing and filling out forms rather than working on a computer.
>Maybe this was a few yesrs ago, but aren't jtag programmers pretty fcking expensive?
They were, but for "other" reasons, JTAG hardware and software has come down in price. Down to $0 in the case of Jkeys (can't link it due to DMCA), and about $1 in parts (if you build the crappy 5 resistor model) or $5 in parts (if you build the proper buffered model).
Here's a JTAG unit you can build yourself for next to nothing.
If you're lucky there'll be a jtag-type port on the unit where you can reflash the memory.
:-)
If not, bring on the soldering iron and fix it properly.
Ok, one more time...
>Aren't XM and Sirius satellite radio also available over the Internet - about $10 a month?
Nooo, not over the internet, that is....
And they're both completely and utterly illegal in Canada. Period.
>BBC.co.uk is free
Uggghhhh... It's like AM. But WORSE! And more expensive to run!
>Muzak services Canada I would think.
Hell no. Totally illegal to pay for Muzak here.
>What gives???
Canada has media under a soviet style grip. Only in Canada can you be silenced for, well, being Howard Stern. Okay, probably in some other countries too.
The Canadian Broadcast Standard Council ruled that Q-107 violated local code by airing Stern shows that contained allegedly racist comments slurring African Americans and Jews and sexist references about sharks eating women.
You ain't seen nothin' yet!
CRTC orders that Al-Jazeera may broadcast in Canada, as long as they self-censor for abusive comments ("Hi Mom! Your pants are down!").
That's just the tip of the iceberg.
>Isn't there Muzak in Canada?
No. The resale of foreign media channels in Canada is strictly regulated by the CRTC, and, in most cases, is generally illegal unless there's 35% Canadian Content added.
Crazy? Yes. Stupid? Yes.
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