`(vi) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
See, you're not swearing that the file in question belongs to the copyright holder that you represent. You're only swearing that you allege that the file in question belongs to a copyright holder that you represent. BIG difference.
The only explanation for this kind of language is that it was deliberately written to be unenforceable.
It has always felt a bit annoying distro to use, especially with sudo and apt.
What's annoying about sudo and apt? You don't have to use sudo if you don't want to, adding a real root user is easy. But using sudo is good practice on any Linux system. And apt? Apt is one of the major reasons to use a debian based distro.
Changing the default GUI depends on your distribution packaging alternative GUIs without fucking it up. If your distribution can't package a default GUI without fucking it up, they're likely to not do the alteratives very well either.
The solution is to get a GUI agnostic distro. Debian proper has good packages for whatever GUI you care to run.
Just yesterday my boss called IT here because his domain name was resolving to someone else's IP address, so he couldn't log in with remote desktop. IT says they'd have to reimage the machine to fix it. I have no idea if that's true, but the Windows professionals here seem to think so. In either case, that's not working "pretty well".
But that's not all. He declined the reimage, and asked for a static IP so he could just use that to log in with remote desktop. No problem, they allocated the new IP address. Now he can't log in to his computer. They ended up reimaging his machine anyway.
What sort of system breaks logging in just because you changed your IP address? How does that fall under "It works. Pretty well."?
Now it's entirely possible that our IT is just incompetent. But if you're working under the assumption of competent admins, Linux works just as well as Windows does. The only reason to go with Windows is because it can be admined with less effort by people with less training. That doesn't actually seem to be the case to me.
I dual boot, so I will occasionally reboot my system as the urge to do something that works better in the other OS grows
The problem is that Linux is dramatically better with basic tasks like file management and window management. All Windows really is is a glorified game front end.
I dual boot, so I will occasionally reboot my system as the urge to do something that works better in the other OS grows (Windows for playing games, Linux for developing stuff).
I dual boot too, but what "works better in the other OS" isn't just dev stuff. Linux is so much better at even basic file management and window management that it's hard to do much of anything in Windows anymore. It's nothing but a front end for games.
If you want to play a few well supported games for a long time, then it's worth wrangling with Wine. If all you want is Civ4 and Counterstrike you're good to go. If you want to pick up games off the shelf and expect them to work, Wine is not the answer.
Compatibility demands have increased since the Nesticle days and even since the FCE Ultra 0.98 days, and users are less willing to put up with known emulation glitches in specific games than they used to be.
Maybe I'm misremembering, but NesDS seems a lot less compatible than FCEU did back in the day.
If that's the goal, then I don't know why the teacher doesn't give them a generic set of code to build off of (written by a make-believe programmer whom they "work with" or that existed in a book) - and each student still works entirely independently of each other.
Because then students wouldn't be able to ask each other "hey, how did you do this?" or "hey, wouldn't this be a better way to do that?" Collaboration improves learning.
This is very much in line with current EU consumer data protection laws. I'm glad to see the EU taking a strong stance in online privacy.
At what cost? Giving the government the power to silence speech is really not worth the trade off.
Unfortunately it will hit companies that sell consumer data for profit but well, I can't really feel sorry for them.
I don't care much for those companies either. But in reality having the information that I put out there copied doesn't really cost me much. Opening the door to government censorship will be far more harmful.
You should not be able to sell data about ME without my consent, period.
The government should not be able to force me to keep your secrets, period.
I am not living on this planet to provide data mining opportunities for companies into this sort of thing.
Nor am I. I'm not living on this planet to let you control what I say either.
It's an awfully big risk for the content providers to let a subscription service use a DRM-Free format for rentals.
What exactly are they risking? Someone who wants a video for free can get it already. The only thing they risk is making their rental service more attractive.
Flash and Silverlight represent the mid-1990s way of doing things with third party browser addons. Back when we needed crutches like these, they were useful. The leg has healed, though, so it's time to throw the crutches under a bus.
No. We never needed flash to play internet video. If you link to a video directly, it will play in your system's default video player.
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The problem is the way the DMCA is written:
See, you're not swearing that the file in question belongs to the copyright holder that you represent. You're only swearing that you allege that the file in question belongs to a copyright holder that you represent. BIG difference.
The only explanation for this kind of language is that it was deliberately written to be unenforceable.
What I don't understand is why these bloggers aren't using the tools available to them to remain anonymous.
It has always felt a bit annoying distro to use, especially with sudo and apt.
What's annoying about sudo and apt? You don't have to use sudo if you don't want to, adding a real root user is easy. But using sudo is good practice on any Linux system. And apt? Apt is one of the major reasons to use a debian based distro.
Changing the default GUI depends on your distribution packaging alternative GUIs without fucking it up. If your distribution can't package a default GUI without fucking it up, they're likely to not do the alteratives very well either.
The solution is to get a GUI agnostic distro. Debian proper has good packages for whatever GUI you care to run.
Yeah, I've tried to make Windows usable with DexPot and Cygwin. I still spend more time trying to make it usable than actually using it.
Just yesterday my boss called IT here because his domain name was resolving to someone else's IP address, so he couldn't log in with remote desktop. IT says they'd have to reimage the machine to fix it. I have no idea if that's true, but the Windows professionals here seem to think so. In either case, that's not working "pretty well".
But that's not all. He declined the reimage, and asked for a static IP so he could just use that to log in with remote desktop. No problem, they allocated the new IP address. Now he can't log in to his computer. They ended up reimaging his machine anyway.
What sort of system breaks logging in just because you changed your IP address? How does that fall under "It works. Pretty well."?
Now it's entirely possible that our IT is just incompetent. But if you're working under the assumption of competent admins, Linux works just as well as Windows does. The only reason to go with Windows is because it can be admined with less effort by people with less training. That doesn't actually seem to be the case to me.
I dual boot, so I will occasionally reboot my system as the urge to do something that works better in the other OS grows
The problem is that Linux is dramatically better with basic tasks like file management and window management. All Windows really is is a glorified game front end.
I dual boot, so I will occasionally reboot my system as the urge to do something that works better in the other OS grows (Windows for playing games, Linux for developing stuff).
I dual boot too, but what "works better in the other OS" isn't just dev stuff. Linux is so much better at even basic file management and window management that it's hard to do much of anything in Windows anymore. It's nothing but a front end for games.
If you want to play a few well supported games for a long time, then it's worth wrangling with Wine. If all you want is Civ4 and Counterstrike you're good to go. If you want to pick up games off the shelf and expect them to work, Wine is not the answer.
What's wrong with a terminal and SSH?
It's the baby boomers that fucked us over, not the internet generation.
The effect of doing so, especially in a way as public as this, will severely affect company's ability to attract talent.
Zynga has talent?
How do you avoid getting screwed over the old fashioned way.
By being the guy who screws other people over. This is the only way in America.
He should know. He was the one that destroyed it. Has any President commited more unconstitutional acts than Lincoln?
Will Facebook gladly pay on Tuesday for an open faced Hamburger today?
Ah that explains it.
Compatibility demands have increased since the Nesticle days and even since the FCE Ultra 0.98 days, and users are less willing to put up with known emulation glitches in specific games than they used to be.
Maybe I'm misremembering, but NesDS seems a lot less compatible than FCEU did back in the day.
If that's the goal, then I don't know why the teacher doesn't give them a generic set of code to build off of (written by a make-believe programmer whom they "work with" or that existed in a book) - and each student still works entirely independently of each other.
Because then students wouldn't be able to ask each other "hey, how did you do this?" or "hey, wouldn't this be a better way to do that?" Collaboration improves learning.
Compare emulating an NES on a handheld to emulating it on a PC. FCEU runs well on a 200mhz Pentium. Shouldn't a 500mhz ARM do better?
I don't think you can be tongue-in-cheek and hypocritical at the same time.
This is very much in line with current EU consumer data protection laws. I'm glad to see the EU taking a strong stance in online privacy.
At what cost? Giving the government the power to silence speech is really not worth the trade off.
Unfortunately it will hit companies that sell consumer data for profit but well, I can't really feel sorry for them.
I don't care much for those companies either. But in reality having the information that I put out there copied doesn't really cost me much. Opening the door to government censorship will be far more harmful.
You should not be able to sell data about ME without my consent, period.
The government should not be able to force me to keep your secrets, period.
I am not living on this planet to provide data mining opportunities for companies into this sort of thing.
Nor am I. I'm not living on this planet to let you control what I say either.
Everyone knows that if you want less of something you tax it. Sales tax disincentivises purchases and costs our economy jobs.
If that argument works for capitol gains taxes it should work for sales taxes too right?
That seems to be the typical solution to post-industrial alienation.
It's an awfully big risk for the content providers to let a subscription service use a DRM-Free format for rentals.
What exactly are they risking? Someone who wants a video for free can get it already. The only thing they risk is making their rental service more attractive.
Flash and Silverlight represent the mid-1990s way of doing things with third party browser addons. Back when we needed crutches like these, they were useful. The leg has healed, though, so it's time to throw the crutches under a bus.
No. We never needed flash to play internet video. If you link to a video directly, it will play in your system's default video player.