The court in that case didn't rule on whether 1201 trumped 107 thru 109. The summary specifically notes that "defendants presented no affidavits or evidentiary material".
Well, because I believe that Siverlight will become an important component in future applications. The majority of people will probably be happy to spice up their web applications with a little silverlight as it will run on Windows and MacOS.
Like ActiveX, you mean?
ActiveX might have been successful if fools like you had been around to implement it on Linux.
Protecting your trademark is not a "loophole". All sorts of projects, whether they're commercial (Redhat) or not (Mozilla), protect their trademarks. Worst case scenario?-- you take the source and strip out trademarked graphics/names, recompile, and then you're free to distribute the results however you want (under the GPL).
And including proprietary code in your GPL program to make it unredistributable isn't a loophole, so long as people can strip out your code, recompile, and distribute the result, right?
Certainly the movie studios are obnoxiously attempting to prevent format-shifting, in order to sell you the same movie twice. But that doesn't mean they are violating any of your rights.
(For reference : see DOS Int 13h, AH=05h. Sector-sizes from 128 to 1024 bytes could be choosen), but never has been used as such
It *was* used, back in the 80s. For instance, Tandon sold MS-DOS machines with larger sector sizes.
The problem was there were lots of MS-DOS programs that accessed the disk directly, or didn't know about the sector size parameter. Hence people tended to end up with their data scrambled. (I worked in data recovery at the time.)
The downside is that we've had 512 byte sectors for so long, everyone's hardcoded the number in their apps and drivers. The biggest risk involved is to patch all that software... one little glitch could hose a ton of data.
Yup. I worked in data recovery during the late 80s. A number of manufacturers used larger sector sizes to allow for bigger hard drives in their MS-DOS machines. However, that meant they had to use a specially patched version of MS-DOS.
Every now and again someone would decide to upgrade to Microsoft's regular MS-DOS, or run Norton defragment... and their entire hard drive would get trashed, and we'd be called in to try and recover whatever we could.
No, if they want no pregnancy or infidelity causing conflict, they should send people who really believe in family values. Yeah, that's it, send Republicans.
Hundreds of 'em.
Just load 'em into the space ships and launch them off to Centaurus. Or somewhere. Anywhere.
That's exactly what Microsoft did with ActiveX. They pushed ActiveX as cross-platform, delivering an ActiveX SDK for the Mac and supporting ActiveX components in IE.
Then after a while, they dropped ActiveX support, saying it was too much effort to make it work on OS X.
Then after a while longer, they dropped IE too.
Same with WMV. Seen Windows Media Player for the Mac? No? That's because they dropped it a while back, and killed all support for DRM-protected Windows Media on the Mac. (Instead they suggest that people use a third party QuickTime plugin that only handles unprotected WMV.)
Jeez, lots of Microsoft fanboys or astroturfers moderating today.
The hand-held market is the dominant computing platform and Jobs is going after it with a vigor not seen since the first Macintosh came out.
I'm not aware of any Apple handheld computing platform.
A platform is something you can build on, hence the name.
The iPhone is closed, so it's not a platform. The iPod is closed, so it's not a platform. If you want to count closed hardware, Nintendo are the ones going after the handheld market in a big way...
School education has nothing to do with how skilled you are and how well you can get the job done.
So, where do you get your dental work done? Some guy in a garage? Or do you go to a dentist who went to school and studied the subject?
I'm prepared to bet you also get your medical treatment from a qualified doctor, rather than someone who didn't go to medical school but has read a bunch of books and seen every episode of "ER".
I'm also dismayed by the number of people who seem to think it's unimportant if the Dean of Admissions at MIT lied to get a job at MIT.
Then again, this is Slashdot, where there are hundreds of people who don't have a degree, who have a massive chip on their shoulders about the way they think they are treated. In any discussion of computer science education, for example, you'll have hundreds of postings saying that CS is irrelevant to working in software. It's not altogether surprising that the same people see nothing wrong with lying about having a degree in order to get around some perceived unfairness.
I mean, it really isn't a reasonable assumption to make that a page's links won't change from one day to the next.
That's why HTTP has a mechanism to say that pages shouldn't be cached. But you don't seem to use that mechanism, so you can hardly blame the ISPs when your pages get cached.
It also has a mechanism to say when the page is expected to change, so that it can be cached until you next move the pages around. You don't seem to bother to set that either.
So I'm afraid from here, it looks like idiocy on your part, not on my ISP's part.
Hey - idea - you don't have scripting turned off, do you?
By default, yes. If your site requires scripting, perhaps you ought to, oh, actually say so on the site?
That means that we either are forced to serve to anyone who doesn't send HTTP_REFERER, which means we're going to get deep mined a lot, or we have to block anyone who shows an invalid HTTP_REFERER, which means that many legitimate customers (who probably have no idea what HTTP_REFERER even is) see blanks or error blocks where the images are supposed to be.
Well, you're apparently OK with serving 404 errors to legitimate potential customers, so what's the problem?
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The court in that case didn't rule on whether 1201 trumped 107 thru 109. The summary specifically notes that "defendants presented no affidavits or evidentiary material".
Like ActiveX, you mean?
ActiveX might have been successful if fools like you had been around to implement it on Linux.
How about just calling it Thirty-pieces-of-silverlight?
I trust he contacted the BSA and Microsoft a few months later?
The way I see it, the company would have to be really dumb to fire someone for refusing to install pirated software.
Why are students punished for stealing school supplies? Surely it's the school's fault for not keeping everything locked up well enough?
Something you may wish to bear in mind is that research reveals that pessimists have a more accurate view of the world than optimists.
Then again, optimists have a longer life expectancy, so maybe a little delusion is good.
And including proprietary code in your GPL program to make it unredistributable isn't a loophole, so long as people can strip out your code, recompile, and distribute the result, right?
Wrong. See USC title 17 sections 107 thru 109.
It *was* used, back in the 80s. For instance, Tandon sold MS-DOS machines with larger sector sizes.
The problem was there were lots of MS-DOS programs that accessed the disk directly, or didn't know about the sector size parameter. Hence people tended to end up with their data scrambled. (I worked in data recovery at the time.)
Yup. I worked in data recovery during the late 80s. A number of manufacturers used larger sector sizes to allow for bigger hard drives in their MS-DOS machines. However, that meant they had to use a specially patched version of MS-DOS.
Every now and again someone would decide to upgrade to Microsoft's regular MS-DOS, or run Norton defragment... and their entire hard drive would get trashed, and we'd be called in to try and recover whatever we could.
No, if they want no pregnancy or infidelity causing conflict, they should send people who really believe in family values. Yeah, that's it, send Republicans.
Hundreds of 'em.
Just load 'em into the space ships and launch them off to Centaurus. Or somewhere. Anywhere.
Wait for OS X 10.5 and "Time Machine".
No, it's worse than that. He said the *tapes* are 4 years old. They've been using the same *tapes* for backup for 4 years.
That's like playing Russian Roulette with your data. Once a tape gets that old you might as well not bother backing up to it at all.
Enjoy the 30 pieces of silver.
That's exactly what Microsoft did with ActiveX. They pushed ActiveX as cross-platform, delivering an ActiveX SDK for the Mac and supporting ActiveX components in IE.
Then after a while, they dropped ActiveX support, saying it was too much effort to make it work on OS X.
Then after a while longer, they dropped IE too.
Same with WMV. Seen Windows Media Player for the Mac? No? That's because they dropped it a while back, and killed all support for DRM-protected Windows Media on the Mac. (Instead they suggest that people use a third party QuickTime plugin that only handles unprotected WMV.)
Jeez, lots of Microsoft fanboys or astroturfers moderating today.
I'm not aware of any Apple handheld computing platform.
A platform is something you can build on, hence the name.
The iPhone is closed, so it's not a platform. The iPod is closed, so it's not a platform. If you want to count closed hardware, Nintendo are the ones going after the handheld market in a big way...
Well, I just deleted my Orkut account. Fuck 'em.
So will Calling All Cars have a launch party with a slaughtered goat?
Oh, how about to be allowed to build a Flash player of my own without being threatened with legal action?
OK, so it's not interesting at all unless you're prepared to drink the .NET Kool-Aid and run Novell Linux to get patent lawsuit immunity.
So, where do you get your dental work done? Some guy in a garage? Or do you go to a dentist who went to school and studied the subject?
I'm prepared to bet you also get your medical treatment from a qualified doctor, rather than someone who didn't go to medical school but has read a bunch of books and seen every episode of "ER".
It's just you.
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Popular Mechanics tested a bunch of CFL bulbs against incandescents, and the CFLs scored higher than the incandescents.
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I'm also dismayed by the number of people who seem to think it's unimportant if the Dean of Admissions at MIT lied to get a job at MIT.
Then again, this is Slashdot, where there are hundreds of people who don't have a degree, who have a massive chip on their shoulders about the way they think they are treated. In any discussion of computer science education, for example, you'll have hundreds of postings saying that CS is irrelevant to working in software. It's not altogether surprising that the same people see nothing wrong with lying about having a degree in order to get around some perceived unfairness.
That's why HTTP has a mechanism to say that pages shouldn't be cached. But you don't seem to use that mechanism, so you can hardly blame the ISPs when your pages get cached.
It also has a mechanism to say when the page is expected to change, so that it can be cached until you next move the pages around. You don't seem to bother to set that either.
So I'm afraid from here, it looks like idiocy on your part, not on my ISP's part.
By default, yes. If your site requires scripting, perhaps you ought to, oh, actually say so on the site?
Well, you're apparently OK with serving 404 errors to legitimate potential customers, so what's the problem?
I'm waiting for "Call of Duty 5: Republican Chickenhawk".