Trials within the USA are largely based on comparing similar trials that occurred in the past. Look at any law-film and you will always see arguments like "as occurred in the trial XXXX in the state of XXXX back in 19XX", and then claim similarities and expect the same outcome. This is just the way the US trial system works. This is also why every time a brand new issue pops-up, like the first file-sharing trial, the first post DMCA-based trial, etc, its outcome becomes very important. It will in essence set a precedent for future trials.
The European law system on the other hand is not so tight on past occurrences. They look more at what the current law says. Of course they also look at similar trials from the past as well, but the weight they put on it is not as heavy as in the US.
This difference was explained to me by a lawyer friend (yes I have one sorry) who studied in Spain and moved to live in the US. He says that the system works in a drastically different way.
Someone will eventually make an adblock either by hacking the format or by blanking the ad content fed via the network connection. I can't really guess how, but I'm sure someone will do it.
wake me up when Linux starts taking over Microsoft in Desktops.
I'm happy about it, but not surprised. As the old generation of IT admins go away, newer ones are more flexible and have ways of saving money without MS in the equation. Linux is not the only solution, but one competitive alternative. Different is the Desktop, partially because it is not baked up big companies like the kernel and enterprise tools are. Canonical is an exception, but sadly a more or less lonely one.
Does it have an ad blocker that doesn't suck big time like the one they used to have? If yes, I might consider it. Otherwise thanks but not interested. Please focus on what customers want rather than claim that your small market share is all due to Microsoft practices.
that's why I don't memorize things anymore. For example, I always have my multiplication table next to me, because having memorized things like 8x7 would have cost me valuable memory space in my brain.
I used to carry around my whole encyclopedia of books with me, in case someone asked me something unexpected, such as "how much thicker do appliance cables need to be in the US compared to Europe". Of course I first need to look-up who is this guy "Europe", but by having all books next to me I can eventually figure it out.
I'm evaluating not memorizing my password anymore either. I will write them down or have them tattoo on my arm. But this IT bastards make me change it periodically, and I'm running out of real-state here. They must have a private deal with the tattoo studio. Damn it, I didn't find such a business model in any of my books. Otherwise I'd be rich by now and would be enjoying the Caribbean instead of reading slashdot.
The preload it with Ubuntu 9.04. You have to be insane to use an OS which is an year and a half old. If anything, they should have gone for 10.10 Lucid, which is an LTS release.
I think the main advantage of SMS is, ironically, that it is not free. Thanks to this, SMS has been so far pretty much inmune to spam. I don't know the techincal difficulties, but setting up bogus cell phone numbers and injecting spam SMS has been so far not a common practice. I live in Europe and I love that calling on my cell phone is charged to the *caller* --as opposed to NA, where you pay your own air time--. This means that I only get calls from people that really wanna talk to me. Same with SMS, I only get texts from people that really want to text me. I like it this way, even if it costs me more.
The only reason to get married is if you feel that your partner is the person you want to be with for your whole life.
Sorry, but I and many other people will disagree about that. Lots of people get married so that they can stay legally in a country, either with a girlfriend or on their own. Other people get married to people they barely know, just because they are told to do so by their parents based on cultural traditions. Other people get married because their girlfriend got pregnant and she doesn't want to become a mom without marrying. In my personal situation, I got married because I love my wife, I wanna pay less taxes, and in the country where I live (Germany) it makes it easier with kids when you are married. It has nothing to do with "the person of your whole life". If you believe that marrying will correlate to "whole life" you should read some statistics about divorce rates.
I don't mean to troll and I'm sure you are a very romantic person. But please let's realize that not everyone believes in the myth of marriage.
No, that's not a simple solution. It is an alternative to *some* problems. Very often you don't have a GPL or BSD alternative to commercial software. CAD design is one example. Professional video editing is another one.
Plase don't give out your religious views about open source as universal solutions. Pleople will buy it once, and after hitting their heads on the wall will stop listening to you.
I have been reading some answers to the OP and I've though I should clarify some things:
- Google uses a lot of own-collected data, and when they have no data they use information from Teleatlas - GPS is *not* the same as "navigation system". What you use to get driving directions is a "navigation system", not a GPS. - GPS is is typically used to refer to the American satellite constelation that your navigation system uses to get your position. However, its proper name is "Navstar" or Navstar/GPS - The general term for satellite constellations used for global positioning is called GNSS, which stands for Global Navigation Satellite System. This includes Navstar, Galileo, Glonass, Compass, etc. - Navstar/GPS is *not* a two-way communication system. It was not designed that way and it will likely never be.
After reading so many responses I think people just don't get it. Open source just means that "someone" gets the source code. That's why why it is often needed to specify for whom this is open source. For instance, it is not uncommon for our company to buy products which are "open source to customers". So we but a product, get the source code, and sign an NDA that we cannot redistribute it. Sometimes we can modify it under the waiver for liability and such. Open source does not mean free, it does not mean that you have to redistribute changes, it just means that "someone" gets the source code. Everything else is refinement of the open source concept and includes GPL, BSD, CCL, and any of the many open source license derivatives.
so please stop claiming that open source and GPL is the same or any along those lines.
I hate the RIAA as much as everyone here does. I'm against DRM as much as everyone here is. Now that said, this article is just anti-RIAA funboyism.
RIAA et al have always said that the main purpose of their lawsuits was not to get money from private persons --with the exeption of those few mass-sharing--, but rather to get people to realize that downloading illegally constitutes a punishable crime. This should in theory get people to buy more music.
I would guess that according to their math they believe that all these actions have been a success, because they probably claim that without their actions they would have lost much more than the 16M US$. At the same time, they will always claim that piracy is much more than what it is and try to lobby more power to them.
In the end, nothing new here. And this article is clearly missleading.
I don't mean to troll, and I'm sure it was a fun and great learning experience for the students. In this regard, it is a big success and kudos for the team. But as far as the technology goes, I'm not very impressed. I mean, they took at very light vehicle, filled it up with standard batteries, and made it go. There is no true innovation here, just putting pieces together. And we should not blame them for this. The breakthrough we are all waiting for is in the batteries. Until this happens, all articles about electric vehicles will be along the same lines
As for their plan trip, I hope they have a good maintenance team driving next to them. The Panamerican road is by no means a proving ground or race track. In some parts its asphalt is quite damaged. I'm not saying that it can't be driven, but they are not very suitable for such a tuned vehicle with low clearance.
It is kind of funny how history made this package evolve. The XBMC, which abreviates "XBOX Media Center", was originally developed for the XBOX. And now, it supports different platforms and operating systems but not the XBOX any longer. If you don't know its history, you'd find it a joke what XBMC stands for.
At the expense of the middle and lower classes, as always. Most western economies are based on speculation and credit. You get money, which is just a paper with temporary value assigned to it, and invest now with the hope that you will get more out in the future. At some point shit happens, people need their money back and this is not there anymore, leading to devaluations of currency, inflation, crisis, etc. Then governments kick in and either borrow money, print new bills, or whatever it takes to stabilize the market.
Debt is never paid. Really. No government will give crap about repaying something when they are only staying in charge for 4 or maybe 8 years. Instead, they just pay the interests and kick the ball for future governments. Organizations like IMF, BID, WB, etc. live from this. They cry loud if a government wants to repay part of a debt in advance (it happened at some point with Mexico, I remember).
In any case, the upper class and large corporations are the one that benefited from the whole process of borrowing money and investing. So in the end, the middle and lower classes are the ones that suffers the most from repaying back interests. And since debt is never repaid back, this represents somehow a way of controlling the borrowing country. It has happened many times that lender nations negotiated refinancing debts in exchange of better trade policies, acceptance of patents, less local subsidies, etc. etc.
This is great. Now porn websites can save bandwidth by sending dialogs and love sounds as text, and letting them the T2S engine speak them out on your side.
HP cartridges cost almost twice as much as the ones from their competitors. I know, this is slashdot and people want links but I don't feel like spending time to search the obvious. to give HP some credit, their cartridges include new heads but it is another known fact that heads last much longer than a single cartridge and this is an unnecessary and unecological design decision.
I give you an analogy of what Google is doing: some mailman is going around all houses distributing mail as usual. That's his job and that's all he says that he does when people inside a building ask him "who are you?". Now the mailman knows that sometimes people have "interesting conversations" inside their apartments. So as the mailman drops post under your door, he also puts his ear on each apartment's door for 30 seconds and if he hears something cool, he records it. Then he logs all these conversations and uses them for his own profit, maybe selling it, making statistics about where people argue more or tend to have more sex, or whatever. This is what Google is doing, and it is not right. In Europe it is also illegal. Period.
Now going in the direction of common sense: not everyone knows how to secure a network. Some people pay an "expert" to install their routers and they still get it set it up in unsecured mode. Are you still gonna blame those owners for not knowing this? Don't defend Google's actions by blaming unskilled users who all they want is easy access to internet.
The idea of terrorism is to spread terror, while inducing people to doubt about the capability of your government to maintain control of the society and institutions. That's the definition I was told by a Peruvian friend who lived through their Sendero Luminoso era. Based on this definition, terrorists have somehow won against North America, and partially everywhere else too. Osama Bin Laden even said it himself "Americans won't live in the same way anymore", and by looking at how U.S.A. has reacted, I'd say he's right. We can say that Western and freedom has won because we have controlled the situation and always manage to chase and punish those responsible. But for them dying for the cause is not an issue. So depending whom you ask, both terrorist and democratic western countries (or however you wanna call them) will claim that have won. Now if you ask me, I think we have all lost. Both parties are investing millions of man hours and monetary resources just to fight, instead of working together towards a joint goal. From the perspective of humanity that's a sad loss.
most pdf issues have to do with the reader and not with the format itself. Not saying that pdf is perfect, but it would be unfair to put Sumatra, Foxit, and Acrobat Reader on the same "pdf" boat.
I honestly don't see what has been Mandriva's place during the past year. I have tried it a few times and threw it away after few days. Let's start from the basis. Many people have moved to laptops in recent times. Now: why on Earth would install a distro which does not support any type of encryption? All major distros support encryption in some way. Ubuntu supports both whole disk pre-authentication or home encryption via PAM-login. Suse has something similar. I've been waiting for Mandriva long time on this, and given up. The last release messed up my system big time. I've installed from the latest live-CD and right away it offered me to upgade to a new release. It turned out that this release was an older one, so it was a downgrade rather than an upgrade. It messed up my system. The bug had been filed weeks before, but no one seemed to care to fix it.
I've heard of Mandriva as a good KDE distro. But with LinuxMint out there I just can't imagine a competition. Besides, I somehow don't like the corporate feeling behind. Don't misunderstand me, I understand that people need a job and money. But as an end user, the Ubuntu, Mint, or Debian experience is a much nicer one. You have more of a community feeling.
I wish the Mandriva team all the best. They revolutionized the concept of friendly Linux. And for that they get my hat off.
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Trials within the USA are largely based on comparing similar trials that occurred in the past. Look at any law-film and you will always see arguments like "as occurred in the trial XXXX in the state of XXXX back in 19XX", and then claim similarities and expect the same outcome. This is just the way the US trial system works. This is also why every time a brand new issue pops-up, like the first file-sharing trial, the first post DMCA-based trial, etc, its outcome becomes very important. It will in essence set a precedent for future trials.
The European law system on the other hand is not so tight on past occurrences. They look more at what the current law says. Of course they also look at similar trials from the past as well, but the weight they put on it is not as heavy as in the US.
This difference was explained to me by a lawyer friend (yes I have one sorry) who studied in Spain and moved to live in the US. He says that the system works in a drastically different way.
Someone will eventually make an adblock either by hacking the format or by blanking the ad content fed via the network connection. I can't really guess how, but I'm sure someone will do it.
I'm sure someone already patented this, so they will claim money from every person that reacts in this way.
wake me up when Linux starts taking over Microsoft in Desktops.
I'm happy about it, but not surprised. As the old generation of IT admins go away, newer ones are more flexible and have ways of saving money without MS in the equation. Linux is not the only solution, but one competitive alternative. Different is the Desktop, partially because it is not baked up big companies like the kernel and enterprise tools are. Canonical is an exception, but sadly a more or less lonely one.
Does it have an ad blocker that doesn't suck big time like the one they used to have? If yes, I might consider it. Otherwise thanks but not interested. Please focus on what customers want rather than claim that your small market share is all due to Microsoft practices.
that's why I don't memorize things anymore. For example, I always have my multiplication table next to me, because having memorized things like 8x7 would have cost me valuable memory space in my brain.
I used to carry around my whole encyclopedia of books with me, in case someone asked me something unexpected, such as "how much thicker do appliance cables need to be in the US compared to Europe". Of course I first need to look-up who is this guy "Europe", but by having all books next to me I can eventually figure it out.
I'm evaluating not memorizing my password anymore either. I will write them down or have them tattoo on my arm. But this IT bastards make me change it periodically, and I'm running out of real-state here. They must have a private deal with the tattoo studio. Damn it, I didn't find such a business model in any of my books. Otherwise I'd be rich by now and would be enjoying the Caribbean instead of reading slashdot.
The preload it with Ubuntu 9.04. You have to be insane to use an OS which is an year and a half old. If anything, they should have gone for 10.10 Lucid, which is an LTS release.
I think the main advantage of SMS is, ironically, that it is not free. Thanks to this, SMS has been so far pretty much inmune to spam. I don't know the techincal difficulties, but setting up bogus cell phone numbers and injecting spam SMS has been so far not a common practice. I live in Europe and I love that calling on my cell phone is charged to the *caller* --as opposed to NA, where you pay your own air time--. This means that I only get calls from people that really wanna talk to me. Same with SMS, I only get texts from people that really want to text me. I like it this way, even if it costs me more.
Yeah... let's make the waste containers for the toilets also transparent. Then wait for the stewardess to say "enjoy your meal."
The only reason to get married is if you feel that your partner is the person you want to be with for your whole life.
Sorry, but I and many other people will disagree about that. Lots of people get married so that they can stay legally in a country, either with a girlfriend or on their own. Other people get married to people they barely know, just because they are told to do so by their parents based on cultural traditions. Other people get married because their girlfriend got pregnant and she doesn't want to become a mom without marrying. In my personal situation, I got married because I love my wife, I wanna pay less taxes, and in the country where I live (Germany) it makes it easier with kids when you are married. It has nothing to do with "the person of your whole life". If you believe that marrying will correlate to "whole life" you should read some statistics about divorce rates.
I don't mean to troll and I'm sure you are a very romantic person. But please let's realize that not everyone believes in the myth of marriage.
No, that's not a simple solution. It is an alternative to *some* problems. Very often you don't have a GPL or BSD alternative to commercial software. CAD design is one example. Professional video editing is another one.
Plase don't give out your religious views about open source as universal solutions. Pleople will buy it once, and after hitting their heads on the wall will stop listening to you.
I have been reading some answers to the OP and I've though I should clarify some things:
- Google uses a lot of own-collected data, and when they have no data they use information from Teleatlas
- GPS is *not* the same as "navigation system". What you use to get driving directions is a "navigation system", not a GPS.
- GPS is is typically used to refer to the American satellite constelation that your navigation system uses to get your position. However, its proper name is "Navstar" or Navstar/GPS
- The general term for satellite constellations used for global positioning is called GNSS, which stands for Global Navigation Satellite System. This includes Navstar, Galileo, Glonass, Compass, etc.
- Navstar/GPS is *not* a two-way communication system. It was not designed that way and it will likely never be.
After reading so many responses I think people just don't get it. Open source just means that "someone" gets the source code. That's why why it is often needed to specify for whom this is open source. For instance, it is not uncommon for our company to buy products which are "open source to customers". So we but a product, get the source code, and sign an NDA that we cannot redistribute it. Sometimes we can modify it under the waiver for liability and such. Open source does not mean free, it does not mean that you have to redistribute changes, it just means that "someone" gets the source code. Everything else is refinement of the open source concept and includes GPL, BSD, CCL, and any of the many open source license derivatives.
so please stop claiming that open source and GPL is the same or any along those lines.
I hate the RIAA as much as everyone here does. I'm against DRM as much as everyone here is. Now that said, this article is just anti-RIAA funboyism.
RIAA et al have always said that the main purpose of their lawsuits was not to get money from private persons --with the exeption of those few mass-sharing--, but rather to get people to realize that downloading illegally constitutes a punishable crime. This should in theory get people to buy more music.
I would guess that according to their math they believe that all these actions have been a success, because they probably claim that without their actions they would have lost much more than the 16M US$. At the same time, they will always claim that piracy is much more than what it is and try to lobby more power to them.
In the end, nothing new here. And this article is clearly missleading.
I don't mean to troll, and I'm sure it was a fun and great learning experience for the students. In this regard, it is a big success and kudos for the team. But as far as the technology goes, I'm not very impressed. I mean, they took at very light vehicle, filled it up with standard batteries, and made it go. There is no true innovation here, just putting pieces together. And we should not blame them for this. The breakthrough we are all waiting for is in the batteries. Until this happens, all articles about electric vehicles will be along the same lines
As for their plan trip, I hope they have a good maintenance team driving next to them. The Panamerican road is by no means a proving ground or race track. In some parts its asphalt is quite damaged. I'm not saying that it can't be driven, but they are not very suitable for such a tuned vehicle with low clearance.
I wish them best of luck!
It is kind of funny how history made this package evolve. The XBMC, which abreviates "XBOX Media Center", was originally developed for the XBOX. And now, it supports different platforms and operating systems but not the XBOX any longer. If you don't know its history, you'd find it a joke what XBMC stands for.
orbital velocity of what?
At the expense of the middle and lower classes, as always. Most western economies are based on speculation and credit. You get money, which is just a paper with temporary value assigned to it, and invest now with the hope that you will get more out in the future. At some point shit happens, people need their money back and this is not there anymore, leading to devaluations of currency, inflation, crisis, etc. Then governments kick in and either borrow money, print new bills, or whatever it takes to stabilize the market.
Debt is never paid. Really. No government will give crap about repaying something when they are only staying in charge for 4 or maybe 8 years. Instead, they just pay the interests and kick the ball for future governments. Organizations like IMF, BID, WB, etc. live from this. They cry loud if a government wants to repay part of a debt in advance (it happened at some point with Mexico, I remember).
In any case, the upper class and large corporations are the one that benefited from the whole process of borrowing money and investing. So in the end, the middle and lower classes are the ones that suffers the most from repaying back interests. And since debt is never repaid back, this represents somehow a way of controlling the borrowing country. It has happened many times that lender nations negotiated refinancing debts in exchange of better trade policies, acceptance of patents, less local subsidies, etc. etc.
>> even text-to-speech
This is great. Now porn websites can save bandwidth by sending dialogs and love sounds as text, and letting them the T2S engine speak them out on your side.
HP cartridges cost almost twice as much as the ones from their competitors. I know, this is slashdot and people want links but I don't feel like spending time to search the obvious. to give HP some credit, their cartridges include new heads but it is another known fact that heads last much longer than a single cartridge and this is an unnecessary and unecological design decision.
This is why you don't use unnecessary things like Aero (and graphical displays) on servers.
This is why you don't use unnecessary things like Windows Server 2008 R2 on servers.
There. Fixed it for you
Sorry, but your analogy doesn't cut it.
I give you an analogy of what Google is doing: some mailman is going around all houses distributing mail as usual. That's his job and that's all he says that he does when people inside a building ask him "who are you?". Now the mailman knows that sometimes people have "interesting conversations" inside their apartments. So as the mailman drops post under your door, he also puts his ear on each apartment's door for 30 seconds and if he hears something cool, he records it. Then he logs all these conversations and uses them for his own profit, maybe selling it, making statistics about where people argue more or tend to have more sex, or whatever. This is what Google is doing, and it is not right. In Europe it is also illegal. Period.
Now going in the direction of common sense: not everyone knows how to secure a network. Some people pay an "expert" to install their routers and they still get it set it up in unsecured mode. Are you still gonna blame those owners for not knowing this? Don't defend Google's actions by blaming unskilled users who all they want is easy access to internet.
The idea of terrorism is to spread terror, while inducing people to doubt about the capability of your government to maintain control of the society and institutions. That's the definition I was told by a Peruvian friend who lived through their Sendero Luminoso era. Based on this definition, terrorists have somehow won against North America, and partially everywhere else too. Osama Bin Laden even said it himself "Americans won't live in the same way anymore", and by looking at how U.S.A. has reacted, I'd say he's right. We can say that Western and freedom has won because we have controlled the situation and always manage to chase and punish those responsible. But for them dying for the cause is not an issue. So depending whom you ask, both terrorist and democratic western countries (or however you wanna call them) will claim that have won. Now if you ask me, I think we have all lost. Both parties are investing millions of man hours and monetary resources just to fight, instead of working together towards a joint goal. From the perspective of humanity that's a sad loss.
most pdf issues have to do with the reader and not with the format itself. Not saying that pdf is perfect, but it would be unfair to put Sumatra, Foxit, and Acrobat Reader on the same "pdf" boat.
I honestly don't see what has been Mandriva's place during the past year. I have tried it a few times and threw it away after few days. Let's start from the basis. Many people have moved to laptops in recent times. Now: why on Earth would install a distro which does not support any type of encryption? All major distros support encryption in some way. Ubuntu supports both whole disk pre-authentication or home encryption via PAM-login. Suse has something similar. I've been waiting for Mandriva long time on this, and given up. The last release messed up my system big time. I've installed from the latest live-CD and right away it offered me to upgade to a new release. It turned out that this release was an older one, so it was a downgrade rather than an upgrade. It messed up my system. The bug had been filed weeks before, but no one seemed to care to fix it. I've heard of Mandriva as a good KDE distro. But with LinuxMint out there I just can't imagine a competition. Besides, I somehow don't like the corporate feeling behind. Don't misunderstand me, I understand that people need a job and money. But as an end user, the Ubuntu, Mint, or Debian experience is a much nicer one. You have more of a community feeling. I wish the Mandriva team all the best. They revolutionized the concept of friendly Linux. And for that they get my hat off.