Hi there, Mr "Desktop users have no business compiling their own kernels anyway.", meet Mr "I just want to support Linux with my Pornmaster Digital Dildo". To do this, Mr D needs to be able to provide a driver for it that he can ship on the support CD in the Pornmaster single unit package, and the Pornmaster Bedtop Deluxe. And Pornmaster customers expect their teledildonics investment to work on their old hardware. So what does he build he drivers for, Mr K? Debian Stable Cobweb Edition, or Ubuntu Shiny Ferret, or the new Horny Hobbit distro? It's got to work on all of them.
The problem is precisely BECAUSE desktop users have no business compiling their kernel that the kernel APIs have to be stable, so that users can expect to buy a new teledildonics device and install it in their 5 year old Lindows box and just have it work, just like they can do with their Windows XP laptop that their nephew bought them for their birthday in 2002.
The lack of a stable API allows Linux to move forward unhindered by market share.
Windows 2000 SP4 is my main man, when I have to use Windows.
But, OK, I'm talking about Windows NT. I don't think any of the DOS based Windows ever survived long enough to get to "legacy" level. Microsoft's just so lucky Apple's operating system people were even more screwed up than they were through the '90s.:)
In California, for instance, plug-in hybrid cars would allow PG&E to better deploy energy from wind farms. Wind blows at night here often. If demand doesn't exist, it gets dumped. If thousands or even millions of drivers had their cars plugged in, they could refuel on cheap power in the wee hours.
This is not the same as having cars feeding power back into the grid, which is what most of the rest of the article is about. Seems like the reporter is confusing the two concepts.
You suggested otherwise when you said it was a simple matter to go to some web archive to prove your innocence.
No, I suggested that it's a hard matter for the asshole to establish any evidence that his fake copyright registration is valid.
Which is why pretty much every country that signed Berne still maintains a copyright office and registration.
Why, yes, I agree, this has nothing to do with the Berne Convention, especially since (as I noted elsewhere) the US has conformed to the Berne Convention in this respect since 1989. My point is not to support the idea that registration is optional, but rather that the scenario you're proposing isn't even vaguely possible.
Most modems back in the '80s just ran either RD, TD, or (RD|TD) through the LED. It was cheap and easy and gave you a good activity signal. Nobody cared about people sniffing the data through the LED, and really hardly anyone is ever going to be in a situation where they're even potentially exposed. And for virtually all the rest, this is hardly the low hanging fruit... if you can get close enough to read the LED, you're close enough to see what the target is doing any number of easier ways.
So I say I just say I wrote the songs in 2000, but never put them on the web until 2008.
Defense: "Where else did you publish them before 2008? Do you have any evidence of that?"
It's not like you can just print out a page from some web archive and expect a judge to (1) understand what it is, and (2) accept it's validity.
You'll still have to do that if you're going to use the grandparent's clever scheme.
With copyright registration, it's black and white. You registered the materials at date X and the government has validated your claim. You'll get a lot less legal hassles and require a lot less legal maneuvering.
Where did I suggest otherwise? I'm not the fella suggesting backdating a web page to fraudulently claim copyright on someone else's material. That's the grandparent article.
One of the things that we do in order to strongly discourage out of tree drivers/filesystems is that we constantly make changes to the API, without regard to making life easy to the out-of-tree kernel module. Most of the time the changes are justified --- although sometimes people have suspected that some changes made had benefits that were so marginal that it seemed that the main justification was to screw over externally maintained drivers/filesystems. -- Theodore Tso mit.edu>
This kind of thing has been a huge obstacle to Linux on the desktop. The lack of a stable kernel API tells hardware manufacturers to stick with Windows. Even the past few years, with the introduction of Vista, has been less disruptive than every year is on Linux.
To anyone doing boolean logic, "false" implies "not true".
You don't really need to explain why the poster of the article made the mistake of using a word that has unfortunate connotations. I understand that this kind of subtlety isn't second-nature to self-described "nerds". That doesn't change the fact that context matters, and in this context "false" implies a hell of a lot more than "not true".
(1) I steal dudes recordings. (2) Put up a webpage with a bogus Creative Commons License. Say it's Copyright 2000. I made it seven years before he put up his website! (3) Checks of web caches don't show your copyright anywhere before 2008. You lose and pay court costs and legal fees.
The US has been following the Berne Convention since 1989.
These "copyright forms" are bullshit, they're not required by law, they're just something the host pulled out of history to bullshit out of their screwup.
Please replace "false" with "incorrect". The word "false" implies deliberate fraud, and while that undoubtedly happens the cited articles do not suggest that fraudulent papers are in the majority.
It's not too onerous to open up "about:config" type "proxy" and googling the results if it's not obvoius.
Yeh, it is.
It's almost too onerous to have to change the proxy settings through a preferences tab. For a mobile device, you should be able to have proxy settings (and possibly other settings) based on SSID or network address, so it just works.
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Hi there, Mr "Desktop users have no business compiling their own kernels anyway.", meet Mr "I just want to support Linux with my Pornmaster Digital Dildo". To do this, Mr D needs to be able to provide a driver for it that he can ship on the support CD in the Pornmaster single unit package, and the Pornmaster Bedtop Deluxe. And Pornmaster customers expect their teledildonics investment to work on their old hardware. So what does he build he drivers for, Mr K? Debian Stable Cobweb Edition, or Ubuntu Shiny Ferret, or the new Horny Hobbit distro? It's got to work on all of them.
The problem is precisely BECAUSE desktop users have no business compiling their kernel that the kernel APIs have to be stable, so that users can expect to buy a new teledildonics device and install it in their 5 year old Lindows box and just have it work, just like they can do with their Windows XP laptop that their nephew bought them for their birthday in 2002.
The lack of a stable API allows Linux to move forward unhindered by market share.
Windows 2000 SP4 is my main man, when I have to use Windows.
But, OK, I'm talking about Windows NT. I don't think any of the DOS based Windows ever survived long enough to get to "legacy" level. Microsoft's just so lucky Apple's operating system people were even more screwed up than they were through the '90s. :)
Lately I've found that a version of Windows doesn't really become stable until it's legacy.
They get charged cheaply at night, and the grid has an additional "battery" for use during an unexpected surge, or even just to smooth the signal.
Yes, I know that.
The article was talking about the latter idea (smoothing the signal) and suddenly without explanation jumped to the former (using them as a battery).
This is not the same as having cars feeding power back into the grid, which is what most of the rest of the article is about. Seems like the reporter is confusing the two concepts.
I mean, OK, it's nice to have the name and URL both in the dropdown from the location bar, but do they have to use so much space doing it?
Camino had that months earlier, without burning nearly as much real estate on it.
You suggested otherwise when you said it was a simple matter to go to some web archive to prove your innocence.
No, I suggested that it's a hard matter for the asshole to establish any evidence that his fake copyright registration is valid.
Which is why pretty much every country that signed Berne still maintains a copyright office and registration.
Why, yes, I agree, this has nothing to do with the Berne Convention, especially since (as I noted elsewhere) the US has conformed to the Berne Convention in this respect since 1989. My point is not to support the idea that registration is optional, but rather that the scenario you're proposing isn't even vaguely possible.
No, "Vista" gets you a free pass on bugs. "Beta" is the new "stable".
Most modems back in the '80s just ran either RD, TD, or (RD|TD) through the LED. It was cheap and easy and gave you a good activity signal. Nobody cared about people sniffing the data through the LED, and really hardly anyone is ever going to be in a situation where they're even potentially exposed. And for virtually all the rest, this is hardly the low hanging fruit... if you can get close enough to read the LED, you're close enough to see what the target is doing any number of easier ways.
1) Scare congress into passing tough new regulations on colleges.
2) Get colleges to pay for your copyright enforcement.
3) Profit! Maybe...
The problem is that even after you do all this, do you actually make more money?
So I say I just say I wrote the songs in 2000, but never put them on the web until 2008.
Defense: "Where else did you publish them before 2008? Do you have any evidence of that?"
It's not like you can just print out a page from some web archive and expect a judge to (1) understand what it is, and (2) accept it's validity.
You'll still have to do that if you're going to use the grandparent's clever scheme.
With copyright registration, it's black and white. You registered the materials at date X and the government has validated your claim. You'll get a lot less legal hassles and require a lot less legal maneuvering.
Where did I suggest otherwise? I'm not the fella suggesting backdating a web page to fraudulently claim copyright on someone else's material. That's the grandparent article.
Oh no, we will have to learn to type code by tapping on a single key and read the results in the flickering of the hard drive light.
When they can manage the same trick in a noisy office environment with dozens of keyboards and monitors in use, then I'll worry.
This kind of thing has been a huge obstacle to Linux on the desktop. The lack of a stable kernel API tells hardware manufacturers to stick with Windows. Even the past few years, with the introduction of Vista, has been less disruptive than every year is on Linux.
So, you missed the reference too?
Google "Andres Serrano".
To anyone doing boolean logic, "false" implies "not true".
You don't really need to explain why the poster of the article made the mistake of using a word that has unfortunate connotations. I understand that this kind of subtlety isn't second-nature to self-described "nerds". That doesn't change the fact that context matters, and in this context "false" implies a hell of a lot more than "not true".
A web cache is not considered "evidence".
Cite?
Imagine this scenario.
(1) I steal dudes recordings.
(2) Put up a webpage with a bogus Creative Commons License. Say it's Copyright 2000. I made it seven years before he put up his website!
(3) Checks of web caches don't show your copyright anywhere before 2008. You lose and pay court costs and legal fees.
The US has been following the Berne Convention since 1989.
These "copyright forms" are bullshit, they're not required by law, they're just something the host pulled out of history to bullshit out of their screwup.
call me again when Mono has an implementation.
Mono is the camel's nose under the tent.
Were you trying to be modded +funny?
"Yes"
Who is this "OOS" you're referring to?
Please replace "false" with "incorrect". The word "false" implies deliberate fraud, and while that undoubtedly happens the cited articles do not suggest that fraudulent papers are in the majority.
It's not too onerous to open up "about:config" type "proxy" and googling the results if it's not obvoius.
Yeh, it is.
It's almost too onerous to have to change the proxy settings through a preferences tab. For a mobile device, you should be able to have proxy settings (and possibly other settings) based on SSID or network address, so it just works.
My sarcasm is never misplaced. Misunderstood, perhaps, but not misplaced.