Is all the GPL code in Android under such a version of GPL, that this is legal? I mean, it prevents the user from changing certain parts of the GPL software, something which at least some versions of GPL require, as far as I understand.
GPLv2 only requires that you give out source to the GPLed components that you use (as well as any modifications); it doesn't require that the source actually be usable.
This process has become known as TiVoization, after TiVo, who locks things down in a similar way.
This endaround the GPL is one of the main reasons that GPLv3 was created; what Motorola is doing here is not legal with GPLv3 code (note that the Linux kernel is, and probably always will be, GPLv2...).
Can you cite a law that says that I have to speak to police officers respectfully? I think it's a good idea in most circumstances, but I think you have the right to express your displeasure with an officer of the law.
There is no such law. However, there is an absence of a law that keeps him from tasing you for no good reason...
I've had teachers who would take the higher of the exam grade only, or the exam grade mixed with the "other stuff" you mentioned. Seemed like a good compromise -- if you felt that you knew the material well enough to skip the class, you were allowed to. Otherwise, you allowed the perception of "effort" to allowed to be factored in.
My iPhone died just last night: Cat knocked it off a railing onto a wood floor twenty feet below. I don't learn, as he did the same thing some months back, and it weathered that fine, but, last night, the "Home" key quit working. I thought I'd open it up to see if I might be able to fix it. Umm, that phone won't be going back together...
Anyway, absent all the rumors about the new iPhone's coming out in a month or two, I might have considered getting some sort of Android phone at this point, but, instead, I just bought a cheap unlocked phone from Amazon, and will wait to see what the new one is like.
Not that I believe that the leak was intentional by any stretch, but the rumors have definitely paid off for Apple in this case...
Now, the NDA prevents the researchers from releasing that GPL code to the public or disclosing publicly unavailable modifications to existing code.
And, it is this part that makes the code a violation of the GPL, which states that IBM may make no restrictions on what may done with the source code they distribute under it.
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You're correct in most of what you wrote.
However, the Apple ][ (and even the///, which had somewhere around chips) had all of its chips in sockets.
And, the keyboard was very definitely decoded in hardware -- there was a single character buffer. This was actually quite a pain, as it meant that you couldn't check to see whether a particular key was pressed for a game, etc. Since the Apple ][ didn't have lowercase characters, one of the popular mods was to replace the character ROM with one that had lowercase characters. However, there was then still no way to *enter* lowercase characters (the shift key didn't do anything for alpha characters). The next mod (which I did dozens of times while working for an Apple dealer) was to solder a wire from one of the keyboard interface pins to the gameport controller. You could then check the gameport "button" state to see whether the shift key was up or down...
One of those defenses is someone put that gun there to frame me and I didn't know it was there. The honest intent thing is that he had no malice in possessing it but the mere possession was illegal. If you could realistically convict someone in the UK simply by planting an illegal item, even if it was obvious it was planted then your country is in a WORLD of hurt. It would be ridiculously easy to go around and get an entire city thrown in jail simply by planting illegal items, hell you could go house to house and clear out entire neighborhoods. No sane Jurist is going to let innocent people be convicted where it's clear the evidence was planted. The family likely has had their live ruined but the guy isn't going to jail now that their clear evidence of a frame job.
Sadly, you're giving the juries too much credit.
The way that the juries are currently being instructed (coincidentally, they just showed a judge saying this on the news last night), the judge is saying that he/she is the "decider of the law", while the juries are the "decider of the facts".
Therefore, in the cases we're discussing, where possession is enough for a conviction, the only duty/privilege for the jury is "was the defendant in possession of the item in question". Since the answer to this question is "yes", then, according to the judge, the juries must find for guilt.
This gets to the whole argument about the removal of "jury nullification"...
There was a recent discussion on Slashdot recently, relating to a man who, after being beat up by a customs officer, was arrested for "assault", because, while being dazed after just having been punched, he didn't follow the officer's instructions to lie down quickly enough. THis, according to the law, is grounds for an assault charge ("not following an officer's orders" or some such). After finding him guilty, the jury mentioned that they were sick about having to convict him, but, since it was clear that he didn't follow the instruction immediately, they felt that they had to find him guilty.
People who hear about the Salem witch trials will usually laugh about the ignorance of the citizens involved, not realizing that the current situation is earily similar...
How bout, facebook makes it easy for women to filter and select the few men they all want to sleep with, so those men sleep with huge numbers of women (and disease spreads rampantly).
Wow, that's one of the most insightful statements I've ever read on Slashdot...
This is pretty much similar to Blockbuster "censoring" porn in their video rental stores.
You can get porn from other video rental stores, but it's Blockbuster's decision to not provide it from their stores. How does this infringe upon your rights at all? Don't like their stance on what they choose to carry in their own store? Don't provide them with your business. It's as simple as that.
My DVD player isn't restricted to playing only Blockbluster movies...
So imagine you are the truck driver, you have waited your turn, made sure nobody was on your turning side, that there were no vehicles coming at the intersection that could collide with you and you start making a turn, you are almost done making it when someone walks into the side of your truck and you do not stop, continue going for another 2-3 meters while they have fallen and are crashed by the wheels.
We had a couple of situations here in Portland, OR in the last couple of years, where a large truck stopped at a light at an intersection, with its right turn signals on. While the light was still red, a bicycle pulled up into the bike lane on the right side of the truck. When the light changed, they both went... and the truck won.
This situation isn't nearly as blatant as the one you mentioned, and a lot of people want to blame the truck driver. However, as in your situation, I just don't think it's reasonable to expect the driver to keep track of bicycles that might pull up after he has stopped (I'm not sure he would even be able to see them), assuming that he did indeed signal ahead of time (around here, turn signals, if used, are often more of a "I'm turning now" indication, rather than "I plan to turn soon"). And, as a biker, one really needs recognize and avoid such situations, as one's life is often at risk.
The 100% mechanical, non-electric typewriter that I learned to type on had a caps-lock key. It worked like a car's parking brake pedal.
Just a small nit: On any typewriter that I've ever used, it was actually a Shift Lock, not Caps Lock (i.e. press "2" and get a quotation mark instead [different layout]).
FWIW, I'm reading this from a hospital room, sitting watching my father die from the after-effects of anesthesia -- he went in for a knee replacement, and came out with mostly nonfunctional lungs.
I don't state this as a "you insensitive clod" kind of thing, just as a note that what you mention is entirely correct...
The idea is to have effectively... a clean install for each game.
VMware Workstation has the concept of "linked clones", which would work well for this -- only the differences from the base use up any disk space. In fact, VMware Workstation allows a whole tree of snapshots and clones, any of which may be active. I don't believe the others support this.
In fact, from what I've seen all of the VMware products (player, workstation, server, ESXi) use pretty much the same emulation engine, it's just that the frontends don't always support all of the features. Often, one can get some of the features anyway, by editing the "vmx" or "vmdk" files (and there are resources on the intraweb for making this easier).
To me, the killer feature of the non-opensource VirtualBox is its ability to expose an RDP server, which seems to work considerably better than the VNC server that VMware supports...
becoming at one point the most popular typeface in the world
There are people that keep tabs on that? And they call us geeks...
There is actually a documentary on that, available via instant viewing at Netflix, titled, appropriately enought, Helvetica. Quite interesting, actually... Though, after watching it, you'll be constantly noticing just how prevalent that font actually is...
He's conservative to the point of being a Libertarian, which is essentially where he falls. If you don't like his positions, then you probably wouldn't agree with the Founding Fathers either (which he quotes all the time).
I wouldn't care if Glenn Beck were to match my political positions exactly. He is intellectually dishonest, which makes him (and, frankly, those who support him) pond scum, in my book...
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GPLv2 only requires that you give out source to the GPLed components that you use (as well as any modifications); it doesn't require that the source actually be usable.
This process has become known as TiVoization, after TiVo, who locks things down in a similar way.
This endaround the GPL is one of the main reasons that GPLv3 was created; what Motorola is doing here is not legal with GPLv3 code (note that the Linux kernel is, and probably always will be, GPLv2...).
I think that's supposed to be douché...
Where's the "judgmental prick" moderation when you need it?
You must be a kick at parties...
There is no such law. However, there is an absence of a law that keeps him from tasing you for no good reason...
I've had teachers who would take the higher of the exam grade only, or the exam grade mixed with the "other stuff" you mentioned. Seemed like a good compromise -- if you felt that you knew the material well enough to skip the class, you were allowed to. Otherwise, you allowed the perception of "effort" to allowed to be factored in.
For what it's worth...
My iPhone died just last night: Cat knocked it off a railing onto a wood floor twenty feet below. I don't learn, as he did the same thing some months back, and it weathered that fine, but, last night, the "Home" key quit working. I thought I'd open it up to see if I might be able to fix it. Umm, that phone won't be going back together...
Anyway, absent all the rumors about the new iPhone's coming out in a month or two, I might have considered getting some sort of Android phone at this point, but, instead, I just bought a cheap unlocked phone from Amazon, and will wait to see what the new one is like.
Not that I believe that the leak was intentional by any stretch, but the rumors have definitely paid off for Apple in this case...
Some people have the guts to stand up for their rights, even when doing do nets them nothing.
Others prefer to post anonymously.
The latter group owe a huge debt to the former...
And, it is this part that makes the code a violation of the GPL, which states that IBM may make no restrictions on what may done with the source code they distribute under it.
You're correct in most of what you wrote.
However, the Apple ][ (and even the ///, which had somewhere around chips) had all of its chips in sockets.
And, the keyboard was very definitely decoded in hardware -- there was a single character buffer. This was actually quite a pain, as it meant that you couldn't check to see whether a particular key was pressed for a game, etc. Since the Apple ][ didn't have lowercase characters, one of the popular mods was to replace the character ROM with one that had lowercase characters. However, there was then still no way to *enter* lowercase characters (the shift key didn't do anything for alpha characters). The next mod (which I did dozens of times while working for an Apple dealer) was to solder a wire from one of the keyboard interface pins to the gameport controller. You could then check the gameport "button" state to see whether the shift key was up or down...
Sadly, you're giving the juries too much credit.
The way that the juries are currently being instructed (coincidentally, they just showed a judge saying this on the news last night), the judge is saying that he/she is the "decider of the law", while the juries are the "decider of the facts".
Therefore, in the cases we're discussing, where possession is enough for a conviction, the only duty/privilege for the jury is "was the defendant in possession of the item in question". Since the answer to this question is "yes", then, according to the judge, the juries must find for guilt.
This gets to the whole argument about the removal of "jury nullification"...
There was a recent discussion on Slashdot recently, relating to a man who, after being beat up by a customs officer, was arrested for "assault", because, while being dazed after just having been punched, he didn't follow the officer's instructions to lie down quickly enough. THis, according to the law, is grounds for an assault charge ("not following an officer's orders" or some such). After finding him guilty, the jury mentioned that they were sick about having to convict him, but, since it was clear that he didn't follow the instruction immediately, they felt that they had to find him guilty.
People who hear about the Salem witch trials will usually laugh about the ignorance of the citizens involved, not realizing that the current situation is earily similar...
Wow, that's one of the most insightful statements I've ever read on Slashdot...
And yet, those people are your bosses, and are the sole reason that your job even exists. You must feel so inadequate...
After I've purchased them, they cease to be Apple's devices; they are now mine, and I object to Apple controlling what can be run on my devices...
My DVD player isn't restricted to playing only Blockbluster movies...
We had a couple of situations here in Portland, OR in the last couple of years, where a large truck stopped at a light at an intersection, with its right turn signals on. While the light was still red, a bicycle pulled up into the bike lane on the right side of the truck. When the light changed, they both went ... and the truck won.
This situation isn't nearly as blatant as the one you mentioned, and a lot of people want to blame the truck driver. However, as in your situation, I just don't think it's reasonable to expect the driver to keep track of bicycles that might pull up after he has stopped (I'm not sure he would even be able to see them), assuming that he did indeed signal ahead of time (around here, turn signals, if used, are often more of a "I'm turning now" indication, rather than "I plan to turn soon"). And, as a biker, one really needs recognize and avoid such situations, as one's life is often at risk.
Just a small nit: On any typewriter that I've ever used, it was actually a Shift Lock, not Caps Lock (i.e. press "2" and get a quotation mark instead [different layout]).
The "Informative" mod is the best part...
Though, to be fair, while it is, indeed, roughly twice the actual level, the perceived difference is considerably more minor...
FWIW, I'm reading this from a hospital room, sitting watching my father die from the after-effects of anesthesia -- he went in for a knee replacement, and came out with mostly nonfunctional lungs.
I don't state this as a "you insensitive clod" kind of thing, just as a note that what you mention is entirely correct...
VMware Workstation has the concept of "linked clones", which would work well for this -- only the differences from the base use up any disk space. In fact, VMware Workstation allows a whole tree of snapshots and clones, any of which may be active. I don't believe the others support this.
In fact, from what I've seen all of the VMware products (player, workstation, server, ESXi) use pretty much the same emulation engine, it's just that the frontends don't always support all of the features. Often, one can get some of the features anyway, by editing the "vmx" or "vmdk" files (and there are resources on the intraweb for making this easier).
To me, the killer feature of the non-opensource VirtualBox is its ability to expose an RDP server, which seems to work considerably better than the VNC server that VMware supports...
I don't mind their increasing the ETF. I do, however, disagree with:
There is actually a documentary on that, available via instant viewing at Netflix, titled, appropriately enought, Helvetica. Quite interesting, actually... Though, after watching it, you'll be constantly noticing just how prevalent that font actually is...
I don't think that word means what you think it means...
HDMI is adaptable only to DVI-D, and more and more laptops are coming with HDMI out...
I wouldn't care if Glenn Beck were to match my political positions exactly. He is intellectually dishonest, which makes him (and, frankly, those who support him) pond scum, in my book...