"Slashdot" (by which I mean the majority of site members, not necessarily the site operators themselves) is probably pro PirateBay because PirateBay does nothing that Google doesn't. It is a search engine, pure and simple, and identifies available torrents. You can in fact find exactly the same links on Google as PirateBay puts on its site.
Since it is not based in the USA it does not have to follow US based DMCA requirements. It was originally based in Sweden, and until recently successfully fought off legal challenges to its operation. From what I can gather, Swedish law changed or the interpretation of it did, and PirateBay was unable to be successful in its defence of its activities.
What concerns Slashdot about PirateBay is that whilst the owners of PirateBay may have made statements supporting "piracy", the actual operation of the site complied with the law at the time, and it seems that there was a determined attempt to "get" the site, and their opinions were used against the site operators. In the US this would raise freedom of speech issues.
You are probably correct in saying that "Slashdot" is anti-EULA. The GPL, however is is not a EULA. A EULA restricts your rights beyond normal copyright, whereas the GPL gives you greater rights than copyright provides, but you are expected to comply with the whole of the GPL in order to have those rights. There is nothing inconsistent in Slashdot supporting something giving you greater freedom than allowed by copyright.
Personally I am not "anti" copyright, and I don't think that "Slashdot" is either. What "Slashdot" probably would regard as a reasonable compromise is a restriction of the duration of copyright to somewhere between 15-20 years. One of the intents of copyright is to permit artists to be paid for their work, which it does, but also to ensure that ideas and thoughts get out into the public domain. In software that doesn't happen, because software is not supported for 70-90 years (the approximate duration of copyright at present) and becomes lost to public knowledge.
From the website the third party is offering "support configuration and installation" for $49 and does not appear to be claiming to be the author.
The module is a Drupal PHP module and is therefore making the source code available to the end user. Because it is GPL software they are allowed to modify it for their own purposes. He or she is therefore completely compliant with the GPL.
It is perfectly OK to sell services or even the actual GPL software for a billion dollars whilst a white persian cat is sitting on your lap, as long as you provide the source code to the party that pays for it.
End of (non-)story and a Merry Jeebusmus to you all.
Yes, but if you do your test search whilst you are located in China, I suspect your Google results will be filtered or blocked in some way, reducing the coherency of the results to below that of Baidu.
Toshiba have demonstrated fuel cells for laptops since at least 2006. They may not be pretty, but the principle should not be patentable (at least by Apple).
From an extremely quick glance, Apples patent seems to be for a failry specific implementation of a hydrogen driven system, not Toshiba's methanol driven system. Also the patent diagrams illustrates a number of elements required in their design, so I would guess that it is their complete implementation that they're patenting not the general principle.
Ignoring the fact that Airbus avionics fall back through several modes into direct input mode if needed, I strongly suspect that modern Boeings are very similar to Airbus and are fly by wire or fly by light for the simple reason it is a route to better fuel management, which is a critical factor for airlines nowadays.
You just can't go into a sales pitch to an airline saying that our aircraft will consume 10-20% more fuel than a rival and will therefore have much higher operational costs.
Actually I believe it is less difficult to win in the UK - James Dyson for one has been quoted as saying that the US process of patent defence is extremely complex compared to the UK and European one.
Also probably because the patents are registered in the US, and Delaware happens to be where most companies are registered (incl Google, according to the action).
Its probably easier to win a patent case in the UK than in the US, but a US judgement will allow them to knock on the doors of other companies (hello Apple) and get royalties.
On the other hand, the lasttime BT tried to pull this off they crashed and burned rather ignominiously,
I personally have seen companies who had to re-engineer a whole embedded controller from Linux to Windows CE just so they did not bump into GPL v3 issues.
Which seems to be examples of poor decision making as Linux has remained on GPL v2 and there are no plans to change its status. This is a little ironic as I believe one motivating factor was the "Tivo-isation" of Linux in a certain brand of set top boxes/ recorders
It may be eight years of work, but the question is why bother?
I am sure the costs of running a major law firm are substantial but equally sure that eight years of effort so everyone affected gets a rebate of between $1 and $20 is a reason why law courts are clogged.
The work that you do is cheapened by the facts of this case. If the case involved people dying or injured and the settlement was several thousand dollars per person, you would get a pat on the back; however in this case it deserves a raspberry.
Let's assume for the sake of this discussion that you are a USian. As a result of political infighting you have heads of state that are reviled in a vitriolic manner by about half the population.
Lets take a list of your heads of state: Nixon (out due to Watergate) Ford (ok, but reviled for Nixon pardon) Carter (amiable bloke, but seemed to let America go to sleep on his watch) Reagan (surprisingly effective, considering he was slowly losing his marbles) H.W.Bush (had the bad luck to say "No new taxes" when ambush adverting was getting going) Clinton (also effective, but American expectation of clean personal life when married to Hillary?? pleasse) George Bush (endless disputes about chads) Obama (has the bad luck to be black, leading to morons disputing his legitimacy to be President)
In the UK, Queen Lizzie enjoys the support of a large majority of the population, and most of the political shenanigans gets directed, not at the Head of State, but at the (semi) elected Prime Minister, thus keeping the head of state out of most of the sh1t. I'd say the UK system works better in that regard.
As for the tv cameras, I strongly suspect that most US shopping malls have the same coverage as our city centres, and your heavily robbed 7-11s probably have their own personal systems etc. Most states have surveillance of one sort or another; the only question is where and how much.
And we've (nearly) all been British Citizens and not British Subjects since the Nationality Act 1981 (subject is used but is normally incorrect)
hes had his Gmail account broken into. Having broken in, one of the simplest tricks is to add an auto-forward onto the gmail account, so you continue to get the mail from the account and can follow what is happening. Filters to move/delete emails from certain people are good wheezes too.
A scientific fact is indisputable e.g. a measurement (unless of course your measurement apparatus is defective in some way - see neutrinos and light speed). A theory is open to debate - evidence concerning whether a theory is correct or not may be obtained from scientific facts.
Why did I mean to say Evolution was an untested hypothesis? A theory is something which is satisfactorily tested or proven, but which may possibly be proven false should new evidence arise, even if the likelihood of that evidence arising is small. I would say that Evolution has been proven to a reasonable degree of satisfaction to qualify as a theory.
One can argue that Evolution is not a scientific fact - and it is indeed a theory (albeit one backed by lots of evidence).
However it would be extremely foolhardy to do a subject at University (Genetics) which depends on the Theory of Evolution as one of its main supporting pillars, unless you have a complete understanding of it.
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"Slashdot" (by which I mean the majority of site members, not necessarily the site operators themselves) is probably pro PirateBay because PirateBay does nothing that Google doesn't. It is a search engine, pure and simple, and identifies available torrents. You can in fact find exactly the same links on Google as PirateBay puts on its site.
Since it is not based in the USA it does not have to follow US based DMCA requirements. It was originally based in Sweden, and until recently successfully fought off legal challenges to its operation. From what I can gather, Swedish law changed or the interpretation of it did, and PirateBay was unable to be successful in its defence of its activities.
What concerns Slashdot about PirateBay is that whilst the owners of PirateBay may have made statements supporting "piracy", the actual operation of the site complied with the law at the time, and it seems that there was a determined attempt to "get" the site, and their opinions were used against the site operators. In the US this would raise freedom of speech issues.
You are probably correct in saying that "Slashdot" is anti-EULA. The GPL, however is is not a EULA. A EULA restricts your rights beyond normal copyright, whereas the GPL gives you greater rights than copyright provides, but you are expected to comply with the whole of the GPL in order to have those rights. There is nothing inconsistent in Slashdot supporting something giving you greater freedom than allowed by copyright.
Personally I am not "anti" copyright, and I don't think that "Slashdot" is either. What "Slashdot" probably would regard as a reasonable compromise is a restriction of the duration of copyright to somewhere between 15-20 years. One of the intents of copyright is to permit artists to be paid for their work, which it does, but also to ensure that ideas and thoughts get out into the public domain. In software that doesn't happen, because software is not supported for 70-90 years (the approximate duration of copyright at present) and becomes lost to public knowledge.
From the website the third party is offering "support configuration and installation" for $49 and does not appear to be claiming to be the author.
The module is a Drupal PHP module and is therefore making the source code available to the end user. Because it is GPL software they are allowed to modify it for their own purposes. He or she is therefore completely compliant with the GPL.
It is perfectly OK to sell services or even the actual GPL software for a billion dollars whilst a white persian cat is sitting on your lap, as long as you provide the source code to the party that pays for it.
End of (non-)story and a Merry Jeebusmus to you all.
Yes, but if you do your test search whilst you are located in China, I suspect your Google results will be filtered or blocked in some way, reducing the coherency of the results to below that of Baidu.
Toshiba have demonstrated fuel cells for laptops since at least 2006. They may not be pretty, but the principle should not be patentable (at least by Apple).
http://www.pcworld.com/article/157606/toshibas_fuel_cell_laptop.html
From an extremely quick glance, Apples patent seems to be for a failry specific implementation of a hydrogen driven system, not Toshiba's methanol driven system. Also the patent diagrams illustrates a number of elements required in their design, so I would guess that it is their complete implementation that they're patenting not the general principle.
The fact that people have been talking about exactly this sort of application for decades would make it not novel and thus not patentable.
The general concept may not be patentable, but specific working implementations may very well be innovative and patentable.
Some people get it for the articles, but I just get it for the pictures
It used to leak like a sieve; as far as I'm aware its old habitys have been cured in the last few versions
Ignoring the fact that Airbus avionics fall back through several modes into direct input mode if needed, I strongly suspect that modern Boeings are very similar to Airbus and are fly by wire or fly by light for the simple reason it is a route to better fuel management, which is a critical factor for airlines nowadays.
You just can't go into a sales pitch to an airline saying that our aircraft will consume 10-20% more fuel than a rival and will therefore have much higher operational costs.
Actually I believe it is less difficult to win in the UK - James Dyson for one has been quoted as saying that the US process of patent defence is extremely complex compared to the UK and European one.
Also probably because the patents are registered in the US, and Delaware happens to be where most companies are registered (incl Google, according to the action).
Its probably easier to win a patent case in the UK than in the US, but a US judgement will allow them to knock on the doors of other companies (hello Apple) and get royalties.
On the other hand, the lasttime BT tried to pull this off they crashed and burned rather ignominiously,
I personally have seen companies who had to re-engineer a whole embedded controller from Linux to Windows CE just so they did not bump into GPL v3 issues.
Which seems to be examples of poor decision making as Linux has remained on GPL v2 and there are no plans to change its status. This is a little ironic as I believe one motivating factor was the "Tivo-isation" of Linux in a certain brand of set top boxes/ recorders
Its less than half of the proportion who declared themselves as Jedi in the UK census (0.7%).
I would argue that your home nations troops should generally be supported even if you disapprove of the politicians motives in sending them there...
The exit of money from my bank account...
It may be eight years of work, but the question is why bother?
I am sure the costs of running a major law firm are substantial but equally sure that eight years of effort so everyone affected gets a rebate of between $1 and $20 is a reason why law courts are clogged.
The work that you do is cheapened by the facts of this case. If the case involved people dying or injured and the settlement was several thousand dollars per person, you would get a pat on the back; however in this case it deserves a raspberry.
..that the attorneys are going to get substantially more than $1.50 ($16,500,000 shared between them)
Let's assume for the sake of this discussion that you are a USian.
As a result of political infighting you have heads of state that are reviled in a vitriolic manner by about half the population.
Lets take a list of your heads of state:
Nixon (out due to Watergate)
Ford (ok, but reviled for Nixon pardon)
Carter (amiable bloke, but seemed to let America go to sleep on his watch)
Reagan (surprisingly effective, considering he was slowly losing his marbles)
H.W.Bush (had the bad luck to say "No new taxes" when ambush adverting was getting going)
Clinton (also effective, but American expectation of clean personal life when married to Hillary?? pleasse)
George Bush (endless disputes about chads)
Obama (has the bad luck to be black, leading to morons disputing his legitimacy to be President)
In the UK, Queen Lizzie enjoys the support of a large majority of the population, and most of the political shenanigans gets directed, not at the Head of State, but at the (semi) elected Prime Minister, thus keeping the head of state out of most of the sh1t. I'd say the UK system works better in that regard.
As for the tv cameras, I strongly suspect that most US shopping malls have the same coverage as our city centres, and your heavily robbed 7-11s probably have their own personal systems etc. Most states have surveillance of one sort or another; the only question is where and how much.
And we've (nearly) all been British Citizens and not British Subjects since the Nationality Act 1981 (subject is used but is normally incorrect)
hes had his Gmail account broken into. Having broken in, one of the simplest tricks is to add an auto-forward onto the gmail account, so you continue to get the mail from the account and can follow what is happening. Filters to move/delete emails from certain people are good wheezes too.
Of course, I've never done such a thing myself...
But the Beeb came with a built-in assembler!
It did, but an assembler is no good for debugging
I have the first Transformer, I'm very pleased with it.
Does it change into a car or plane when you need it to?
I wrote a 6502 disassembler/monitor thus removing the need for such shenanigans.
A scientific fact is indisputable e.g. a measurement (unless of course your measurement apparatus is defective in some way - see neutrinos and light speed).
A theory is open to debate - evidence concerning whether a theory is correct or not may be obtained from scientific facts.
Why did I mean to say Evolution was an untested hypothesis? A theory is something which is satisfactorily tested or proven, but which may possibly be proven false should new evidence arise, even if the likelihood of that evidence arising is small. I would say that Evolution has been proven to a reasonable degree of satisfaction to qualify as a theory.
One can argue that Evolution is not a scientific fact - and it is indeed a theory (albeit one backed by lots of evidence).
However it would be extremely foolhardy to do a subject at University (Genetics) which depends on the Theory of Evolution as one of its main supporting pillars, unless you have a complete understanding of it.
I wonder if this gives BT chance to appeal against the News2bin rulings against it?