If I had any mod points at the moment I'd mode you up....Here I am trying to be a smart aleck about grammer nazi's and I typo a word in the middle of it....groan:>
Does anyone recall any cases where a company or individual was violating the Open Source Software License, and was legally forced to correct the violation. I'm looking for legal precedent of the enforceablity of such a license.
that TLD mentioned in the article as his next project scares me, funny how a TLD can make you a bit jumpy./. filters wont let me say what that tld is but its in the article.
Imagine the thrill of hacking this thing. Issue your own commands, like, STOMP, CHARGE, SPIN IN CIRCLES TILL YOU PUKE, etc....hope that wireless command is encrypted.
Think for a moment slashdotters. Calling Alchohol Restrictions "rediculous" is obviously a matter of opinion. One of the great parts of our government is that local states/counties/cities are left alone to decide some matters for themselves. The local people take a vote and if the majority of the people wanted to outlaw owning a cat then the city could legally pass such an ordinance and owning a cat would be illegal....stupid? well i think so but if the majority doesnt then its not stupid. The same goes for alcohol, it has been proven over and over again that alcohol realted car accidents, public intoxication, personal injury etc, cases are lower in areas that have laws against selling of alcohol. These counties are safer to live in. That is a fact backed up by numbers. So in answer to the posters question, does this effect where you live? yes it does. You need to find an area with a majority of the people that agree with you on matters of this importance. I live in KY one of the greatest alcohol producing states in the nation, and some 85 percent of its counties are "dry". Yes its the Bible Belt, but that just means that people believe a certain thing and express it with their votes.
so If an article linking my site gets posted to Slashdot and my website/isp is flooded and pukes, can I sue VA??? This is a very very dangerous precident.
I bet Hooters ISP is freaking out trying to figure out what all this traffic is, and why its going to hamsterdamn's Hooters.....wonder if a Hooters has ever been/.ed. And of course we all know what Hemos browses at the office when he is supposed to be working:>
>>products that "are dirty, expensive, sometimes dangerous and often frustrating, especially for people in the cities." you left out the obvious option....it could be robotic prostitutes....sorry couldnt resist.
The general public will stand for a loss of freedom as long as its for someone else. The majority of voting Americans are between 35-55, this age group really has little concept of what an mp3 is, what linux is, thinks the internet is just hackers and porn, never heard of Free Software, browse the web via AOL, etc. There are exceptions of course, many in this age group are bright and visible contributers to an online society, but I would estimate 70 percent of voters dont care about online interests. Where the laws will change is when they start encrouching in areas that affect them. The danger that they are not yet aware of is some of the precidences being set in laws that were made this year. I still feel confident that will time these will be judged to be unconstitional and eventually overturned. Secondly feel enourgaged that a Republican President is in the house, as crippled and uncertain as this might be traditionally those that give more expect more, i.e democrats normally have pushed an agenda of the government "caring" for the people, as in welfare, social security, government run health care, emissions testing, etc...while this is all great (if you dont mind the taxes to pay for them), if you arent careful this makes a more and more powerful government that has the power to legislate away your rights. While I didnt vote for Mr. Bush I feel confident that the recent trend will slow and possible reverse especially if Bush gets to appoint 2 supreme court justices.
Evan here has a good point, If consumers demanded stable finished products, not buggy code that would later require fast internet connections for 40 meg patch downloads (or pay money for a CD with the patches on it), A lot more programs would be delayed months if not years. This seems to be a classic case of market demand pushing an inferior product. Personally I'm still waiting for SP3 for Win2k to be released, lord knows there have been enough security fixes, and critical updates to warrant it.
How about the Intel P4, does marketing an item then having to recall all of them because they dont work, count as vaporware? For months after release I couldnt buy one....so I got an Athlon and computed happily ever after
Look just because I made a humurous comment about your moderation didnt mean you had to mark mine as a troll also, the comment was relevant and insightful, with a sprinkling of humor....oh well i quess it was too much of a casserole of types to figure out so you just pulled troll out of your hat....
great!! now we have to go the local computer store and upon up all the new Pentium 4's to make sure that IBM didnt use recycled parts. Yes sirree, this here new computer comes with IBM latest and greatest, what they call a four eight six processor. For a limited time only we will throw in a one hundred and twenty million byte harddrive for free with a 6 yr commitment to MSN.
you realize of course if Gore wins in a recount that every state will have to do a recount. Its only fair and has been stated here before there were several states that were withing a few percentage points. If the vote can change that much in a recount, they all need to be recounted, and recounted, and recounted...Id be really suspsicios of the system if they come out differently.
No! This means the big ass brown planes and moving trucks can pull in and deliver your data. 1-5 days depending on what class of service you pay for....oh come on UPS, the package delivery people...oh never mind
First problem was that the CEO had a laptop and left it on his desk. I imagine he saw his buddies at a golf outing with one and decided he had to have one also. Laptops are meant to be carried with you or locked away. If its going to sit on his desk all nite get him a desktop. Or at least one of those laptop locking cables.
Secondly, everyone should know that if you want all the information about a company you dont steal the CEO's laptop you get his secretaries!!!
This is pretty old news really, only new part is that Intel is doing it now, yrs ago I had an old Compaq 4/66 painted black and mounted in the entertainment center, playing doom on the TV, (rocket launcher made a great sound over the surround sound system, shook the house), and used a wireless keyboard and gamepad....its been yrs so I dont remember the brands, but both items were infared. As for ergonomics, I just hit the recline button, laid the keyboard on my lap (built in trackball) roughly aimed at the receiver box on top the TV, and played for hours and hours....worked like a charm, no lag but occasionally the wife would walk past and block the signal but it recovered instantly and didnt hinder the game play anymore then the fact that I couldnt see the TV. For everyday office use I dont see a use for them, but for home entertainment, I loved it.
A process whereby each user of an appplication or process be it software or hardware is assigned a unique identifier. This identifier consists of two parts. The first identifier piece is assigned by the controller of the application or by the process itself and is known to the system and the user. The second identifier is chosen by the user and is unknown to the controller of the application. Upon a request to use an application or process, the user is prompted for both the system assigned identifier as well as his uniquely chosen identifier. Upon authentication of these identifiers, the user is allowed access. This will also provide a mechanism whereby access within an application or process can be controlled.................................................. ....................................................notice the scope this allows, this could apply to keys to your house, PIN numbers at ATM's phone numbers, userid and passwords, etc.
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you guys are lucky, mine is sept 11, everyone forgot my birthday last year, including me.
If I had any mod points at the moment I'd mode you up....Here I am trying to be a smart aleck about grammer nazi's and I typo a word in the middle of it....groan :>
Does anyone recall any cases where a company or individual was violating the Open Source Software License, and was legally forced to correct the violation. I'm looking for legal precedent of the enforceablity of such a license.
that TLD mentioned in the article as his next project scares me, funny how a TLD can make you a bit jumpy. /. filters wont let me say what that tld is but its in the article.
Closer to an Al-Gore-ithm, any process whereby math computations are repeated endlessly until the desired result is obtained.
Imagine the thrill of hacking this thing. Issue your own commands, like, STOMP, CHARGE, SPIN IN CIRCLES TILL YOU PUKE, etc....hope that wireless command is encrypted.
he aint the big bopper, but our man Roy is dead.
Think for a moment slashdotters. Calling Alchohol Restrictions "rediculous" is obviously a matter of opinion. One of the great parts of our government is that local states/counties/cities are left alone to decide some matters for themselves. The local people take a vote and if the majority of the people wanted to outlaw owning a cat then the city could legally pass such an ordinance and owning a cat would be illegal....stupid? well i think so but if the majority doesnt then its not stupid. The same goes for alcohol, it has been proven over and over again that alcohol realted car accidents, public intoxication, personal injury etc, cases are lower in areas that have laws against selling of alcohol. These counties are safer to live in. That is a fact backed up by numbers. So in answer to the posters question, does this effect where you live? yes it does. You need to find an area with a majority of the people that agree with you on matters of this importance. I live in KY one of the greatest alcohol producing states in the nation, and some 85 percent of its counties are "dry". Yes its the Bible Belt, but that just means that people believe a certain thing and express it with their votes.
Its a new /. record, all 3 links are slashdotted as I type this....slashdotters are hungry for news, postings have been kinda slow today.
so If an article linking my site gets posted to Slashdot and my website/isp is flooded and pukes, can I sue VA??? This is a very very dangerous precident.
I bet Hooters ISP is freaking out trying to figure out what all this traffic is, and why its going to hamsterdamn's Hooters.....wonder if a Hooters has ever been /.ed. And of course we all know what Hemos browses at the office when he is supposed to be working :>
>>products that "are dirty, expensive, sometimes dangerous and often frustrating, especially for people in the cities." you left out the obvious option....it could be robotic prostitutes....sorry couldnt resist.
The general public will stand for a loss of freedom as long as its for someone else. The majority of voting Americans are between 35-55, this age group really has little concept of what an mp3 is, what linux is, thinks the internet is just hackers and porn, never heard of Free Software, browse the web via AOL, etc. There are exceptions of course, many in this age group are bright and visible contributers to an online society, but I would estimate 70 percent of voters dont care about online interests. Where the laws will change is when they start encrouching in areas that affect them. The danger that they are not yet aware of is some of the precidences being set in laws that were made this year. I still feel confident that will time these will be judged to be unconstitional and eventually overturned. Secondly feel enourgaged that a Republican President is in the house, as crippled and uncertain as this might be traditionally those that give more expect more, i.e democrats normally have pushed an agenda of the government "caring" for the people, as in welfare, social security, government run health care, emissions testing, etc...while this is all great (if you dont mind the taxes to pay for them), if you arent careful this makes a more and more powerful government that has the power to legislate away your rights. While I didnt vote for Mr. Bush I feel confident that the recent trend will slow and possible reverse especially if Bush gets to appoint 2 supreme court justices.
Evan here has a good point, If consumers demanded stable finished products, not buggy code that would later require fast internet connections for 40 meg patch downloads (or pay money for a CD with the patches on it), A lot more programs would be delayed months if not years. This seems to be a classic case of market demand pushing an inferior product. Personally I'm still waiting for SP3 for Win2k to be released, lord knows there have been enough security fixes, and critical updates to warrant it.
How about the Intel P4, does marketing an item then having to recall all of them because they dont work, count as vaporware? For months after release I couldnt buy one....so I got an Athlon and computed happily ever after
Look just because I made a humurous comment about your moderation didnt mean you had to mark mine as a troll also, the comment was relevant and insightful, with a sprinkling of humor....oh well i quess it was too much of a casserole of types to figure out so you just pulled troll out of your hat....
great!! now we have to go the local computer store and upon up all the new Pentium 4's to make sure that IBM didnt use recycled parts. Yes sirree, this here new computer comes with IBM latest and greatest, what they call a four eight six processor. For a limited time only we will throw in a one hundred and twenty million byte harddrive for free with a 6 yr commitment to MSN.
you realize of course if Gore wins in a recount that every state will have to do a recount. Its only fair and has been stated here before there were several states that were withing a few percentage points. If the vote can change that much in a recount, they all need to be recounted, and recounted, and recounted...Id be really suspsicios of the system if they come out differently.
Dew knot trussed you're spell checker two fined awl miss steaks.
No! This means the big ass brown planes and moving trucks can pull in and deliver your data. 1-5 days depending on what class of service you pay for....oh come on UPS, the package delivery people...oh never mind
First problem was that the CEO had a laptop and left it on his desk. I imagine he saw his buddies at a golf outing with one and decided he had to have one also. Laptops are meant to be carried with you or locked away. If its going to sit on his desk all nite get him a desktop. Or at least one of those laptop locking cables. Secondly, everyone should know that if you want all the information about a company you dont steal the CEO's laptop you get his secretaries!!!
This is pretty old news really, only new part is that Intel is doing it now, yrs ago I had an old Compaq 4/66 painted black and mounted in the entertainment center, playing doom on the TV, (rocket launcher made a great sound over the surround sound system, shook the house), and used a wireless keyboard and gamepad....its been yrs so I dont remember the brands, but both items were infared. As for ergonomics, I just hit the recline button, laid the keyboard on my lap (built in trackball) roughly aimed at the receiver box on top the TV, and played for hours and hours....worked like a charm, no lag but occasionally the wife would walk past and block the signal but it recovered instantly and didnt hinder the game play anymore then the fact that I couldnt see the TV. For everyday office use I dont see a use for them, but for home entertainment, I loved it.
so in actuality it died months ago? how long do those radio signals take to get back to the earth?
A process whereby each user of an appplication or process be it software or hardware is assigned a unique identifier. This identifier consists of two parts. The first identifier piece is assigned by the controller of the application or by the process itself and is known to the system and the user. The second identifier is chosen by the user and is unknown to the controller of the application. Upon a request to use an application or process, the user is prompted for both the system assigned identifier as well as his uniquely chosen identifier. Upon authentication of these identifiers, the user is allowed access. This will also provide a mechanism whereby access within an application or process can be controlled .................................................. ........................................ ............notice the scope this allows, this could apply to keys to your house, PIN numbers at ATM's phone numbers, userid and passwords, etc.
It would have too, if crappy click-thru software license agreements hold up in court then a "I Agree" on a web page should.