Repayment is only a deterrent if the perp has been less than successful.
Not if repayment is picking up highway trash for $5/hour. Cause $1,000 damage, work for 200 hours (say 8 hours a week for the next 6 months or something). No option to pay it off, you have to do the work.
The ban was brought in to get rid of the protester in your picture, who's been there for over 4 years (June 2001). It failed miserably, a judicial review a few days earlier found that, due to a technicality, Mr Haw was exempt from the new law.
The law (amongst other things) bans all protests within 1km (about 2/3 of a mile) of parliament, unless you get permission from the police. Like in North Korea, you can apply to the police to have a march celebrating your leader and they'll probably allow it, although they don't have to.
Because people need to have email to the wider world, wires service, desktop editing (video and audio). Basically, anyone more useful than managment needs access to the broadcast network. They tried to seperate the networks a year ago (for selling the corporate side off, not for any security issues), but found it impossible.
While the actual playout stuff is theoretically unroutable - there are a few Solaris/Linux machines on both sides of the fence, all it takes is somebody to mis-patch a bay, or some journo to plug their laptop in, and you can have chaos.
Because when windows 2000 is part of your broadcast infrastructure (and indeed, NT4SP3 - the software doesn't work with a later service pack or OS), you can't just drop tools and update across the board.
The patch comes in, it's tested with various bits of software to make sure it doesn't take us off air, it then gets rolled out into a release, it then gets updated over the next week. Broadcast critical machines are updated manually, we're currently updating braodcast critical machines for the last lot of patches. We can't afford the time and effort to keep up with patches every week. Our latest patch update process started on 28th July, and should be complete by the end of the week. As I understand it the MS05-039 patch has been avaiable for a week or so.
Personally doesn't bother me, as I get to laugh at the windows bunnies.
I have both IE and Firefox on my machine. Why? Because I can't access certain sites that are very MS specific with Firefox.
Yo, you run windows (like most slashdotters), you can't not have IE on your machine.
FWIW I use Linux, some of my friends use macs. We also can't access some sites - odeon.co.uk for example. I haven't been to the odeon for years because of this.
Sadly I can't boycott my government, which continue to have IE-only sites like jobcentreplus.gov.uk and companieshouse.gov.uk. I've made my feelings known to my MP (not that it will do much good)
I note with disappointment that I can't use several government websites, includi ng jobcentreplus.gov.uk. As I'm sure you are aware, many people, including Mac u sers, cannot and will not use Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser. In fact , due to security issues, the U.S. Government advise people to use anything but Internet Explorer - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A674 6-2004Jun2 5.html.
While this government is quite rightly spending money ensuring access to their f acilities for people that don't speak English, or have disabilities, they seem t o ignore the 10% - and growing - of the country that use "alternative" browsers or computers.
I'm sure this situation will improve over the next few months, as the media pick
up on this issue - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4115806.stm . I can - and do - boycott companies like The Odeon that choose to ignore so many of their
customers, however the government still take a large percentage of my income. I
feel it is unfair to have taxation for services I cannot access due to the lazi ness or shortsightedness of certain departments.
BUT, as the price of gasoline crosses $3.50 to 4.00/gal even my car will be too expensive to drive. I believe $3/gal will arrive before Christmas, and $4/gal by the next Christmas, if not sooner. Luckily, work is only 3.7 miles away and I have a nice bike.
Welcome to the real world, our prices were $4 a gallon 10 years ago, they're currently $6.30 and soon to be breaking the $6.84 boundry (£1/litre). European prices are a little less, but still well over $4 a gallon.
I commute 35 miles each way, as it's cheaper in my car (about $12 a day, my car does 40mpg on an average commute) than the train (about $20 a day off peak, $35 peak), pollutes less (I get a taxi home most of the time which means the driver goes the same distance as I would in a much less efficient car), saves the customers over $13k a year, and is faster (peak time when I drive in takes 90 minutes, same as the train. off peak takes 45 minutes, 1 hour faster than the train and 15 minutes faster than having to wait for a taxi which is invariably late.
Some people commute in car's with half the mpg from twice as far, they're spending almost $250 a week on commuting, god knows why as a weekly train ticket is over $50/week cheaper.
The one good thing about our high petrol taxation is a doubling in the price of petrol means an increase of about 20%, it's nowhere near as bad a shock for thee economy.
Sadly the government waste the $70bn ($1200 for every person in the country) on pointless projects. They don't invest it in public transport (less than $10bn/yr) or roads (less than $10bn/yr), or alternative fuel sources. It goes on funding our disgustingly inefficient public services.
Unfortunately, assuming 36 kWh per gallon of gasoline, and $.12 per kWh of electricity, the equivalent of 1 gallon of gas in electricity costs $4.32. This doesn't take into account relative efficiencies, but electricity is definitely not free.
No but at 70p/litre ($1.8 == £1.0, 3.5l = 1 US Gallon), it is a little cheaper.
Nearer 200,000 from the bombs and aftermarth. The Japanese slaughtered 100,000 civilians in Manilla in 1944, the North Korean's massacred as many in Soeul in 1950, the pakistan army raped 200,000 women - some as young as 8 - in 1971. They killed 3 million. In 1994 a million people were killed in Rwanda. War's a nasty buisness.
Even recently, less than a week after the London bombings which made headline news and killed about 50 people, 73 children and parents were murdered on their way to a primary school in Kenya. Didn't see that one as London (5 days old at this point) was still the main news.
You'd think with so much death in the world we'd have no time to joke about anything, however joking is how many peopel deal with tragedy.
Nope. Remember that the font is source code which specifies how to draw each character--and your document is itself source code which describes how to draw each page, including those characters. So you'd need to GPL the source code to your document. Which really doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
So if I take a GPL font, and convert it to a.png (with full redistribution rights), that's fine (I also offer the original font as a seperate download)
If I then use that png in a webpage, does that mean that the HTML licensed under the GPL? What if I have a normal webpage that links to the font to download it? What if I have a page that links to a page that links to the font to download it?
That's not what was asked. Optionally using a later version is not the same as switching to a newer version!
later version of the GPL is a newer version of the GPL. You can take a bog standard GPL project, and, if you want, make a change and release the whole code under GPL v3
Some GPL projects like the linux kernel are a little more restrictive, and you can't do it, but most GPL projects allow switching to a newer version. You can't relicense the code that is already out as v2 (thank god), but any new modifications may be released under version 3 (or later) only.
I.E.
Say I download a project "xbmp", which is version 2 GPL. I then make a modification to it and call it "xbmp2". I can choose to release that modification as version 3 only. Someone else can still download "xbmp" with the version 2 license, but my modifications (and any future modifications to xbmp2) will be covered by the gpl version 3 (or later)
Somebody can't take my GPL V3 project and relicense it as GPL version 2 - that's not allowed and it clearly states that in the GPL v2 (and presumably will state it in the gpl3). You can't relicense a GPL2 project as GPL1 either (if there was a GPL1)
Why not just move the entire Google code base to Microsoft Cluster Server?
We had a situation that brought down part of a broadcast critical program yesterday, a fileserver based on windows server 2003 cluster decided to die. One machine ran out of resources, but responded to pings, which mean that the smbshare wasn't available, as the raid or IP didn't fail over to machine b.
Of course as part of outsourcing parts of the company off, we had to contact a helpdesk 100 miles away to solve the problem and it took 90 minutes to reboot the freaking machine.
Still, another bow in the arrow to replace the server with a redhat cluster server (we have another file server that's been running for 2 1/2 years and never had a single minute of downtime), and bring it back under our control rather than buying a "managed service" from a german company
The best speed camera is one that doesn't catch anyone - obviously it would be working. You'll find that "safety partnerships" or whoever won't pay attention to this.
The big question I have is why are speed cameras never outside schools?
I think that current copyright law would not permit just switching over the liscence without contacting every contributor, since that would probably be a violation. But then again, im not a lawyer:)
Nor have you read the GPL
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
Although as mentioned elsewhere some software licenses are more restrictive, like the linux kernel
Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel
is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not
v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated.
So there's nothing in the GPL forbiding you to use the later version, its only if there are additional restrictions given by the copyright holder(s)
Clik the orange blob in the bottom right, subscribe to the slashdot RSS feed, and drop it in your bookmarks (or on your toolbar). No need to visit slashdot to see if there's any interesting stories, as they'll be in your bookmarks.
I do the same with BBC News too, I can get an idea of what's happening by simply dropping down a list and checking the headlines. If a story grabs my attention I click it and go straight to the story - no need to navigate the horrendus news.bbc.co.uk site (fine for the top 5-10 stories, but after that it's easy to miss stuff)
Certainly beat's Deanna Trois attempt in Star Trek. In Generations, the first time she pilots the ship in 8 years and she crashes it into a planet. In Nemesis they give her another go and IIRC she rams it into a Romulan ship.
collectively agreed to limit motorcycle's max speed to 300 kph (186.411 mph)
I know the imperialists always convert from mph to kph in this manner when telling us of the superiority of the imperial system that their imperial overlords insist on, however do we really have to stoop so low as to give the speed to 6 s.f.? Do we really think the limiters are accurate to less than one thousandth of a percent? That's like saying a running track is length-accurate to about the thickness of you fingernail.
Bandwidth Limit Exceeded <line> The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later. Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.caffeine-junkies.com Port 80
Which is vastly different to Firefox's interpretation:
Bandwidth Limit Exceeded <line> The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later. Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.caffeine-junkies.com Port 80
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Repayment is only a deterrent if the perp has been less than successful.
Not if repayment is picking up highway trash for $5/hour. Cause $1,000 damage, work for 200 hours (say 8 hours a week for the next 6 months or something). No option to pay it off, you have to do the work.
They sped up time? Impressive!
Not really. They moved, which meant that, relative to them, they sped up time for the rest of us!
The ban was brought in to get rid of the protester in your picture, who's been there for over 4 years (June 2001). It failed miserably, a judicial review a few days earlier found that, due to a technicality, Mr Haw was exempt from the new law.
The law (amongst other things) bans all protests within 1km (about 2/3 of a mile) of parliament, unless you get permission from the police. Like in North Korea, you can apply to the police to have a march celebrating your leader and they'll probably allow it, although they don't have to.
Because people need to have email to the wider world, wires service, desktop editing (video and audio). Basically, anyone more useful than managment needs access to the broadcast network. They tried to seperate the networks a year ago (for selling the corporate side off, not for any security issues), but found it impossible.
While the actual playout stuff is theoretically unroutable - there are a few Solaris/Linux machines on both sides of the fence, all it takes is somebody to mis-patch a bay, or some journo to plug their laptop in, and you can have chaos.
Because when windows 2000 is part of your broadcast infrastructure (and indeed, NT4SP3 - the software doesn't work with a later service pack or OS), you can't just drop tools and update across the board.
The patch comes in, it's tested with various bits of software to make sure it doesn't take us off air, it then gets rolled out into a release, it then gets updated over the next week. Broadcast critical machines are updated manually, we're currently updating braodcast critical machines for the last lot of patches. We can't afford the time and effort to keep up with patches every week. Our latest patch update process started on 28th July, and should be complete by the end of the week. As I understand it the MS05-039 patch has been avaiable for a week or so.
Personally doesn't bother me, as I get to laugh at the windows bunnies.
I have both IE and Firefox on my machine. Why? Because I can't access certain sites that are very MS specific with Firefox.
4 6-2004Jun2
Yo, you run windows (like most slashdotters), you can't not have IE on your machine.
FWIW I use Linux, some of my friends use macs. We also can't access some sites - odeon.co.uk for example. I haven't been to the odeon for years because of this.
Sadly I can't boycott my government, which continue to have IE-only sites like jobcentreplus.gov.uk and companieshouse.gov.uk. I've made my feelings known to my MP (not that it will do much good)
I note with disappointment that I can't use several government websites, includi
ng jobcentreplus.gov.uk. As I'm sure you are aware, many people, including Mac u
sers, cannot and will not use Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser. In fact
, due to security issues, the U.S. Government advise people to use anything but
Internet Explorer - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A67
5.html.
While this government is quite rightly spending money ensuring access to their f
acilities for people that don't speak English, or have disabilities, they seem t
o ignore the 10% - and growing - of the country that use "alternative" browsers
or computers.
I'm sure this situation will improve over the next few months, as the media pick
up on this issue - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4115806.stm . I can -
and do - boycott companies like The Odeon that choose to ignore so many of their
customers, however the government still take a large percentage of my income. I
feel it is unfair to have taxation for services I cannot access due to the lazi
ness or shortsightedness of certain departments.
BUT, as the price of gasoline crosses $3.50 to 4.00/gal even my car will be too expensive to drive. I believe $3/gal will arrive before Christmas, and $4/gal by the next Christmas, if not sooner. Luckily, work is only 3.7 miles away and I have a nice bike.
Welcome to the real world, our prices were $4 a gallon 10 years ago, they're currently $6.30 and soon to be breaking the $6.84 boundry (£1/litre). European prices are a little less, but still well over $4 a gallon.
I commute 35 miles each way, as it's cheaper in my car (about $12 a day, my car does 40mpg on an average commute) than the train (about $20 a day off peak, $35 peak), pollutes less (I get a taxi home most of the time which means the driver goes the same distance as I would in a much less efficient car), saves the customers over $13k a year, and is faster (peak time when I drive in takes 90 minutes, same as the train. off peak takes 45 minutes, 1 hour faster than the train and 15 minutes faster than having to wait for a taxi which is invariably late.
Some people commute in car's with half the mpg from twice as far, they're spending almost $250 a week on commuting, god knows why as a weekly train ticket is over $50/week cheaper.
The one good thing about our high petrol taxation is a doubling in the price of petrol means an increase of about 20%, it's nowhere near as bad a shock for thee economy.
Sadly the government waste the $70bn ($1200 for every person in the country) on pointless projects. They don't invest it in public transport (less than $10bn/yr) or roads (less than $10bn/yr), or alternative fuel sources. It goes on funding our disgustingly inefficient public services.
Unfortunately, assuming 36 kWh per gallon of gasoline, and $.12 per kWh of electricity, the equivalent of 1 gallon of gas in electricity costs $4.32. This doesn't take into account relative efficiencies, but electricity is definitely not free.
No but at 70p/litre ($1.8 == £1.0, 3.5l = 1 US Gallon), it is a little cheaper.
400 thousand died in Japan.
Nearer 200,000 from the bombs and aftermarth. The Japanese slaughtered 100,000 civilians in Manilla in 1944, the North Korean's massacred as many in Soeul in 1950, the pakistan army raped 200,000 women - some as young as 8 - in 1971. They killed 3 million. In 1994 a million people were killed in Rwanda. War's a nasty buisness.
Even recently, less than a week after the London bombings which made headline news and killed about 50 people, 73 children and parents were murdered on their way to a primary school in Kenya. Didn't see that one as London (5 days old at this point) was still the main news.
You'd think with so much death in the world we'd have no time to joke about anything, however joking is how many peopel deal with tragedy.
Although I probably wouldn't have known if I weren't working in Japan.
Or watching/reading international news, or reading slashdot like the two sites you linked to?
Nope. Remember that the font is source code which specifies how to draw each character--and your document is itself source code which describes how to draw each page, including those characters. So you'd need to GPL the source code to your document. Which really doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
.png (with full redistribution rights), that's fine (I also offer the original font as a seperate download)
So if I take a GPL font, and convert it to a
If I then use that png in a webpage, does that mean that the HTML licensed under the GPL? What if I have a normal webpage that links to the font to download it? What if I have a page that links to a page that links to the font to download it?
That's not what was asked. Optionally using a later version is not the same as switching to a newer version!
later version of the GPL is a newer version of the GPL. You can take a bog standard GPL project, and, if you want, make a change and release the whole code under GPL v3
Some GPL projects like the linux kernel are a little more restrictive, and you can't do it, but most GPL projects allow switching to a newer version. You can't relicense the code that is already out as v2 (thank god), but any new modifications may be released under version 3 (or later) only.
I.E.
Say I download a project "xbmp", which is version 2 GPL. I then make a modification to it and call it "xbmp2". I can choose to release that modification as version 3 only. Someone else can still download "xbmp" with the version 2 license, but my modifications (and any future modifications to xbmp2) will be covered by the gpl version 3 (or later)
Somebody can't take my GPL V3 project and relicense it as GPL version 2 - that's not allowed and it clearly states that in the GPL v2 (and presumably will state it in the gpl3). You can't relicense a GPL2 project as GPL1 either (if there was a GPL1)
Why not just move the entire Google code base to Microsoft Cluster Server?
We had a situation that brought down part of a broadcast critical program yesterday, a fileserver based on windows server 2003 cluster decided to die. One machine ran out of resources, but responded to pings, which mean that the smbshare wasn't available, as the raid or IP didn't fail over to machine b.
Of course as part of outsourcing parts of the company off, we had to contact a helpdesk 100 miles away to solve the problem and it took 90 minutes to reboot the freaking machine.
Still, another bow in the arrow to replace the server with a redhat cluster server (we have another file server that's been running for 2 1/2 years and never had a single minute of downtime), and bring it back under our control rather than buying a "managed service" from a german company
The best speed camera is one that doesn't catch anyone - obviously it would be working. You'll find that "safety partnerships" or whoever won't pay attention to this.
The big question I have is why are speed cameras never outside schools?
Nor have you read the GPL
Although as mentioned elsewhere some software licenses are more restrictive, like the linux kernel
So there's nothing in the GPL forbiding you to use the later version, its only if there are additional restrictions given by the copyright holder(s)
Surely at the worst you'd just have to provide the font to anyone that has your document and asks
Slashdot bans you if you refresh too often.. so it really is not a practical solution if you want to be up to date.
I have it on a 60 minute refresh, do I really need to know about Moody Non-photo-realistic driving the second the story is out?
One word: Live Bookmarks.
Clik the orange blob in the bottom right, subscribe to the slashdot RSS feed, and drop it in your bookmarks (or on your toolbar). No need to visit slashdot to see if there's any interesting stories, as they'll be in your bookmarks.
I do the same with BBC News too, I can get an idea of what's happening by simply dropping down a list and checking the headlines. If a story grabs my attention I click it and go straight to the story - no need to navigate the horrendus news.bbc.co.uk site (fine for the top 5-10 stories, but after that it's easy to miss stuff)
What TBL originally had in mind was a read/write medium, and he's happy to see that the ability to write is catching up.
I've always considered wiki's to be closer to this collaberative medium.
Spawning the wonderful film Metrosexual Podcasters from Outer Space?
Lets hope the GNAA deal with them swiftly and painfully.
Certainly beat's Deanna Trois attempt in Star Trek. In Generations, the first time she pilots the ship in 8 years and she crashes it into a planet. In Nemesis they give her another go and IIRC she rams it into a Romulan ship.
collectively agreed to limit motorcycle's max speed to 300 kph (186.411 mph)
I know the imperialists always convert from mph to kph in this manner when telling us of the superiority of the imperial system that their imperial overlords insist on, however do we really have to stoop so low as to give the speed to 6 s.f.? Do we really think the limiters are accurate to less than one thousandth of a percent? That's like saying a running track is length-accurate to about the thickness of you fingernail.
Therefore we can estimate the total power to be a huuuuuge amount, 354.14x10^12 Watts.
Wow, that's more than 1.21 jiggawatts!
Yes, it was a huge ammount of power, however it lasted arround 10^-6 seconds - the total ammount of energy produced cost less than $10!
That's easy. Just ask them: a/s/l?
And if they respond they're underage or a Fed.