No, but something is illegal. This software tricks the user (and doesnt tell them unless they read some wierd EULA etc.) into thinking that the advert is somethign to do with you.
Unless it is obvious that the additions are not part of the original site (a scribble in a book is obviously not part of the original text, you know that, even if someone else scribbles), then it should be illegal (dunno if it is), as it is basiclly reselling your copyrighted material (they get a profit), but without telling the end user. Its like buying full proced software which is a nicely pressed copy of a cd. Its one thing to alter things
1) you(user)rself
2) With your(user) knowledge.
It's another to attempt to secretly change it.
It's akin to me taking a radiohead song, and inserting an instrumental in the middle, then selling the edited CD
1) without paying radiohead
2) pretending that my inserted instrumental is radiohead.
Matters not, thers 100000000000000 gifs out there. People make gifs without a second thought. A few people create new images as.pngs, but not that many, and theres still images dating back 10 years on the web - these arent going to change any time soon.
Regarding obb. I may start encoding in ogg instead of mp3, but I'm not re-encoding 3000 mp3's (some of which the CD's are long scratched).
Several of us in #ljr on openprojects.net have being getting this for ages.
I'm getting one atack about every 20 minutes, most are from servers that dont have anything on, although I've had a couple of "real" websites attack me.
http://isorox.dyndns.org/~iso/ is a monitoring thing.
When researching to start a local community run wireless LAN, the main problem I found (apart from lack of licencing information for the UK), was where to host base stations in view of everyone.
If the community was to create a site, or set it as the default homepage, for a store for local things like pizza and other shopping, then I can see that store chipping in enough for a base station, and the transmitter too!
...which prevents me from distributing copies without your permission. But it does not prevent me from locally modifying your content for personal use...
No, however
1) Ask the majority of users of this software if this feature is installed, and how to idntify the "enhanced" bits, and they will not know. This is the creator of the software providing the means to secretly change your content, without making it clear (http://roblimo.com has a yellow background, doesnt mean that its to do with this software) to the user. Akin to a newspaper printing a quote from a polititan which is "modified" slightly, and not saying it has ben changed except right at the back page, in small letters.
2) The company is providing the means, and is enforcing the products users, to change your content. This is prety much the same as redistrobuting the content itself, and is (or should be), no more legal then me distributing software to modify a program and change things like menu names, copyright notices etc.
3) The big thing this sort of software wil have to fight is from big companies. I cant see Microsoft being pleased with a "playstation" link on its xbox page, and those democrats wont like an alternative destination to get to Bush instead of Gore, or whatever.
When I started to get into linux 2 years ago, linuxnewbie.org was an invaluable resource, and the plain english NHF's, and friendly people, were a welcome break from the (then) cryptic HOWTO's and man pages.
Now I generally hang out at linuxjunior.org - which is similar in function.
Newbies dont know now to post "my rpm wont install" to kernel-hackers, and many people get fed up the 5th time in the day they tell someone to type ls -a to see their ".foo" file. Thats where these sites (and sites like linuxorbit and linuxquestions) come in.
Copuple with the horrible GUI windows-esque installs of distros like mandrake, and WM's like KDE, its never been easier to make the move. People can sit at a linux box, never even having heard of it before, and manage to get to their favourite website (if the system is set up).
While any pro-newbie move is good, this would have been news 2 or 3 years ago, not now.
Dunno what its like in other countries, but in the UK polls are open 7AM - 9PM - 14 hours. If people work 14 hours without a lunch break (5 minutes to vote) I'm amazed.
Nethertheless, you can apply for a proxy or postal vote, so your vote still gets counted, same as if you were on holiday/in hospital etc.
A facinating comment that deserves to be modded up
Just off the cuff, even if we did get a killer app, I wonder how long until a company ports it to windows - maybe Microsoft would. If not they'd copy the idea. Micrsoft would rather have an open source killer app on windows then not on windows.
However, the whole killer app idea is very interesting. Lots of linux developers are some of the worlds best coders, most are experienced and almost all are competent - if they arent then no one uses their code. Survival of the fittest (code).
The innovators in the world are few and far between. When I say innovators I mean the people that come up with completely new stuff, not changing the color of the start button.
As many people have said before, whats the point in 500 text editors? OK, people do a text editor as one of their first apps when learning programming, and thats great. Trouble is they then (generally) move on to mp3 players, IRC clients, etc. etc.
Catch up is a big role to play (XML works in IE5.5 but not in mozilla/opera/konqurer/browser-of-choice, or so I hear), but the new killer apps is whats important. I wish I could tell you what a killer app would be, but I cant. I dont innovate, I dont know anyone that does.I dont even know how to innovate, althoguh I'd guess its more of a flash of inspiration you have in the bus queue.
I read the original comment as sarcasm, I know that american humor is very different to brittish though - so you probably took it as face value. He was saying if its ok to take groups down that may contain illegal material (in your eyes, not in the eyes of a jury), surely its ok to not rent to people who may commit crimes.
OTOH AFAIK its legal (in the UK) to choose who to rent your [whatever]. A person might perfectly legally insist that you must be a non-smoker for example, even if they live 50 miles from the house.
They made them to sell lots of money to the millions of people that flocked to cornwall for the eclipse (heh!). basicly like looking through a black plastic bag.
AS the previous poster said, the danger is nothing to do with looking at the sun (I do it every day driving west at night/east in the "morning"). The danger is when you look when its dark, your pupils are dilated, to let more light in for more detail. When the sun emerges after totality, your iris is open wide, and you get a lot of sunlight in - causing the problems. The "hysteria" in 99 was media induced, most people ignored it (and the cloud didnt do much). You still got the people frightened to go outside, or even looking at the/TV/ with the goggles on, but most people had the brains to realise what is safe.
Southern chilie has about 3 hours of daylight today, and north Norway has another couple of months:)
I remember the August 99 eclipse, very wierd, but you have to be there to appreciate it, in the space of a couple of minutes it goes from light to pitch black and back, the wildlife gets confused, and its very freaky. Goes windy and cold too.
Of course, British weather being what it is meant that we had about 3000 metres of cloud cover. Made it spookier in some ways.
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No, but something is illegal. This software tricks the user (and doesnt tell them unless they read some wierd EULA etc.) into thinking that the advert is somethign to do with you.
Unless it is obvious that the additions are not part of the original site (a scribble in a book is obviously not part of the original text, you know that, even if someone else scribbles), then it should be illegal (dunno if it is), as it is basiclly reselling your copyrighted material (they get a profit), but without telling the end user. Its like buying full proced software which is a nicely pressed copy of a cd. Its one thing to alter things
1) you(user)rself
2) With your(user) knowledge.
It's another to attempt to secretly change it.
It's akin to me taking a radiohead song, and inserting an instrumental in the middle, then selling the edited CD
1) without paying radiohead
2) pretending that my inserted instrumental is radiohead.
Matters not, thers 100000000000000 gifs out there. People make gifs without a second thought. A few people create new images as .pngs, but not that many, and theres still images dating back 10 years on the web - these arent going to change any time soon.
Regarding obb. I may start encoding in ogg instead of mp3, but I'm not re-encoding 3000 mp3's (some of which the CD's are long scratched).
Nope, look at your EULA
Several of us in #ljr on openprojects.net have being getting this for ages.
I'm getting one atack about every 20 minutes, most are from servers that dont have anything on, although I've had a couple of "real" websites attack me.
http://isorox.dyndns.org/~iso/ is a monitoring thing.
Seeing the double extension [...] victim of the SirCam virus
.tar.gz file today and nearly died!
Yup, I saw a
what about that wasted time rebooting, losing work through crashing etc.
What possible need is there for windows unless you spend your days playing obscure games?
When researching to start a local community run wireless LAN, the main problem I found (apart from lack of licencing information for the UK), was where to host base stations in view of everyone.
If the community was to create a site, or set it as the default homepage, for a store for local things like pizza and other shopping, then I can see that store chipping in enough for a base station, and the transmitter too!
actually doesnt this make goatse.cx kinda redundant?
VMWare would be the obvious answer, wine if it works right would be another.
...which prevents me from distributing copies without your permission. But it does not prevent me from locally modifying your content for personal use...
No, however
1) Ask the majority of users of this software if this feature is installed, and how to idntify the "enhanced" bits, and they will not know. This is the creator of the software providing the means to secretly change your content, without making it clear (http://roblimo.com has a yellow background, doesnt mean that its to do with this software) to the user. Akin to a newspaper printing a quote from a polititan which is "modified" slightly, and not saying it has ben changed except right at the back page, in small letters.
2) The company is providing the means, and is enforcing the products users, to change your content. This is prety much the same as redistrobuting the content itself, and is (or should be), no more legal then me distributing software to modify a program and change things like menu names, copyright notices etc.
3) The big thing this sort of software wil have to fight is from big companies. I cant see Microsoft being pleased with a "playstation" link on its xbox page, and those democrats wont like an alternative destination to get to Bush instead of Gore, or whatever.
When I started to get into linux 2 years ago, linuxnewbie.org was an invaluable resource, and the plain english NHF's, and friendly people, were a welcome break from the (then) cryptic HOWTO's and man pages.
Now I generally hang out at linuxjunior.org - which is similar in function.
Newbies dont know now to post "my rpm wont install" to kernel-hackers, and many people get fed up the 5th time in the day they tell someone to type ls -a to see their ".foo" file. Thats where these sites (and sites like linuxorbit and linuxquestions) come in.
Copuple with the horrible GUI windows-esque installs of distros like mandrake, and WM's like KDE, its never been easier to make the move. People can sit at a linux box, never even having heard of it before, and manage to get to their favourite website (if the system is set up).
While any pro-newbie move is good, this would have been news 2 or 3 years ago, not now.
Dunno what its like in other countries, but in the UK polls are open 7AM - 9PM - 14 hours. If people work 14 hours without a lunch break (5 minutes to vote) I'm amazed.
Nethertheless, you can apply for a proxy or postal vote, so your vote still gets counted, same as if you were on holiday/in hospital etc.
Even 'joke' posts deserve an informative response. Private wealth and social upliftment in Africa is an issue that deserves to be discussed seriously.
but is it news for nerds?
when you can just drive down from Canada with a suitcase nuke. And next time you remember that before making another insult
A facinating comment that deserves to be modded up
Just off the cuff, even if we did get a killer app, I wonder how long until a company ports it to windows - maybe Microsoft would. If not they'd copy the idea. Micrsoft would rather have an open source killer app on windows then not on windows.
However, the whole killer app idea is very interesting. Lots of linux developers are some of the worlds best coders, most are experienced and almost all are competent - if they arent then no one uses their code. Survival of the fittest (code).
The innovators in the world are few and far between. When I say innovators I mean the people that come up with completely new stuff, not changing the color of the start button.
As many people have said before, whats the point in 500 text editors? OK, people do a text editor as one of their first apps when learning programming, and thats great. Trouble is they then (generally) move on to mp3 players, IRC clients, etc. etc.
Catch up is a big role to play (XML works in IE5.5 but not in mozilla/opera/konqurer/browser-of-choice, or so I hear), but the new killer apps is whats important. I wish I could tell you what a killer app would be, but I cant. I dont innovate, I dont know anyone that does.I dont even know how to innovate, althoguh I'd guess its more of a flash of inspiration you have in the bus queue.
I read the original comment as sarcasm, I know that american humor is very different to brittish though - so you probably took it as face value. He was saying if its ok to take groups down that may contain illegal material (in your eyes, not in the eyes of a jury), surely its ok to not rent to people who may commit crimes. OTOH AFAIK its legal (in the UK) to choose who to rent your [whatever]. A person might perfectly legally insist that you must be a non-smoker for example, even if they live 50 miles from the house.
They made them to sell lots of money to the millions of people that flocked to cornwall for the eclipse (heh!). basicly like looking through a black plastic bag.
/TV/ with the goggles on, but most people had the brains to realise what is safe.
AS the previous poster said, the danger is nothing to do with looking at the sun (I do it every day driving west at night/east in the "morning"). The danger is when you look when its dark, your pupils are dilated, to let more light in for more detail. When the sun emerges after totality, your iris is open wide, and you get a lot of sunlight in - causing the problems. The "hysteria" in 99 was media induced, most people ignored it (and the cloud didnt do much). You still got the people frightened to go outside, or even looking at the
Gotta go, make bzImage just error 2'ed
Southern chilie has about 3 hours of daylight today, and north Norway has another couple of months :)
I remember the August 99 eclipse, very wierd, but you have to be there to appreciate it, in the space of a couple of minutes it goes from light to pitch black and back, the wildlife gets confused, and its very freaky. Goes windy and cold too.
Of course, British weather being what it is meant that we had about 3000 metres of cloud cover. Made it spookier in some ways.
Most of my kernel is modules, they're in /lib/modules/2.4.5/
Binary driver like winmodem ones can just be copied there and modprobed.
Oh no! - its $5 a gallon here.
better not play it out of an good quality analog port and record on another sound card as a wav, compressed to mp3
How would I uninstall something in Debian?
apt-get remove foobar
Valuable science? Definitely not.
This thing is a real application of solar sail tech in 2 years time (!!) Thats valuable science in itself.
don't people test these things??
You just did, you have filled a bug report in, havent you?
What service _is_ that (mobile wireless 5Mb?!) and where else can I buy it from?
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Long range directional 802.11b. With line of site there no problem with directional 10 mile 2.4GHz at 11mbps (http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2001/
It'd work flying near towns or cities, or maybe interstates, which could have arials put up.