If you want to be corporately evil without the hoards of geekdom realising it, be evil on April the first.
Today is the day when Microsoft could start a hostile takeover of every linux company, and Google could announcetheir new policy of "Hang it, we'll start worshipping satan", without anyone being the wiser.
I think the problem is, that belief in a deity is seen as incompatible with accepting evolution as a scientific fat. Ofcourse, this isn't a problem unless you take the Bible to be a literal account of the nature of the universe. The problem with that is that you would also have to believe that the sun goes round the earth, that mankind came before the animals, and that animals came before mankind.
If you suggest to people that the bible can be taken metaphorically beforehand, I bet you'd see a substantial difference in the results.
Lack of obligation for the content holders to check. The fact that there's no compensation for the victim of a takedown if they aren't infringing. The fact that there's a viable weaponif you want something taken down for a short time.
Well, perhaps. Depends how good their DMCA department is. If you did just send an email without any identification, they'd have no obligation to do anything. But even if you do get away with it, it doesn't make it legal.
Most engineers I know don't have any desire for any specific machine. All they want is a piece of software. The machine is just a means to an end. What do you want to run? If it works on Windows, then part of your job is learning to use the equipment.
YouTube are obliged to do this. It's unreasonable for them to track down the copyright holder.
The response is to file a DMCA counter notice, on the grounds that it doesn't infringe NBD's copyright. YouTube will put it back. NBD can then take it up withthe person who posted it.
Now, every camera has to be figured out. Every camera has a different interface. And I'm talking about the point and shoots.
Yeah, but no. Fully auto is usually the same interface. Point camera and press the button. And automatic is good enough for most people, especially in a non-SLR.
That's true. I recently bought a cheap radio. I was surprised that even though it had an analogue tuning knob, it had a digital frequency display. Presumably LCDs and chips can be made so cheaply that a sliding plastic indicator actually involves a significant increase in the cost.
The same thing as if you offer pirate CDs to another country by mail order.
Not sure what happens there either... I imagine that the law you're offering from applies, but it's also possible to prosecute in the country you're selling to if you do a substantial amount of business there.
It's just an extreme example of how you can use extremely high frequencies cheeply. Obviously they're not particularly useful at this price, but it's cheap...
Yeah. Clearly this is different (the lack of gravity will probably affect things too), but she wanted to take part, and since that's not possible, this is the closest possible match to the ground conditions.
After a while it will become sufficiently clear that the record industry is not willing to take anyone to court, that eventually enough people will end up challenging as to make this a prohibitively costly excercise. If they drop enough cases, there will probabyl be a few lawyers who will take virtually any case on, on the assumption that they will be able to claim their fees. Either the RIAA will stop doing this, or they will actually start to see a case through. At the moment though, getting a lawyer and challenging the evidence (which is pretty weak, consisting of an IP address, and a list of files that may or may not be what they claim) seems to be a pretty safe option.
The GPL doesn't explicitely state that other code must be GPL licenced. Jut that is must permit modification and redistribution (amongst other things), and doesn't restrict anything that the GPL mandates must not be restricted.
My problem is understanding why the creationists are so obsessed with evolution being wrong. After all, Heliocentrism vs. Geocentrism has all the same merits (i.e. we can see the sun goes round the earth, proving the opposite to the layman is difficult, Heliocentrism is a theory, literal interpretation of the bible says the arth is the centre of the solar system), biut doesn't cause nearly as much debate.
Well, I just got an impression that it sounded a little bit hysterical. Only very small bits of the sky are falling - not all of it. But, yes, an interesting story, and cetainly an issue about potential problems caused by all this stuff in orbit.
Yes. This will only apply to new software. Anything that Novell have rights to use will coninue to be licenced to them. They simply will not have the rights to redistibute anything that was distributed to them under GPL v3
And the plane was in the debris' flight path for, what? 0.2 seconds? Seems like it would be a pretty difficult to hit even if the pilot was trying.
Or let's put it this way. If all 10000 or so of Russia's satellites were deorbitted at the same time in those 25 square nautical miles, the chances are that they would still all miss.
You need to make it clearly better. People are already using youTube. Why should they switch? Most people I know use MSN messenger. Is it the best? Probably not, but all my friends use it. The other options aren't sufficiently better to make any of us want to swap.
Surely they realise this. Are the marketting suits really that stupid?
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If you want to be corporately evil without the hoards of geekdom realising it, be evil on April the first.
Today is the day when Microsoft could start a hostile takeover of every linux company, and Google could announcetheir new policy of "Hang it, we'll start worshipping satan", without anyone being the wiser.
I think the problem is, that belief in a deity is seen as incompatible with accepting evolution as a scientific fat. Ofcourse, this isn't a problem unless you take the Bible to be a literal account of the nature of the universe. The problem with that is that you would also have to believe that the sun goes round the earth, that mankind came before the animals, and that animals came before mankind.
If you suggest to people that the bible can be taken metaphorically beforehand, I bet you'd see a substantial difference in the results.
Lack of obligation for the content holders to check. The fact that there's no compensation for the victim of a takedown if they aren't infringing. The fact that there's a viable weaponif you want something taken down for a short time.
Well, perhaps. Depends how good their DMCA department is. If you did just send an email without any identification, they'd have no obligation to do anything. But even if you do get away with it, it doesn't make it legal.
Most engineers I know don't have any desire for any specific machine. All they want is a piece of software. The machine is just a means to an end. What do you want to run? If it works on Windows, then part of your job is learning to use the equipment.
I'm beginning to wonder if anyone, and I mean ANYONE, could fire off a DMCA request and get something taken down
Yes you could. You'd probably be committing a crme though.
YouTube are obliged to do this. It's unreasonable for them to track down the copyright holder.
The response is to file a DMCA counter notice, on the grounds that it doesn't infringe NBD's copyright. YouTube will put it back. NBD can then take it up withthe person who posted it.
Now, every camera has to be figured out. Every camera has a different interface. And I'm talking about the point and shoots.
Yeah, but no. Fully auto is usually the same interface. Point camera and press the button. And automatic is good enough for most people, especially in a non-SLR.
That's true. I recently bought a cheap radio. I was surprised that even though it had an analogue tuning knob, it had a digital frequency display. Presumably LCDs and chips can be made so cheaply that a sliding plastic indicator actually involves a significant increase in the cost.
The same thing as if you offer pirate CDs to another country by mail order.
Not sure what happens there either... I imagine that the law you're offering from applies, but it's also possible to prosecute in the country you're selling to if you do a substantial amount of business there.
It's just an extreme example of how you can use extremely high frequencies cheeply. Obviously they're not particularly useful at this price, but it's cheap...
Yeah. Clearly this is different (the lack of gravity will probably affect things too), but she wanted to take part, and since that's not possible, this is the closest possible match to the ground conditions.
A TV remote uses Terahertz frequencies. The components you need depend on what you're using it for.
(6 blokes, shared house, you get the idea ;p).
Yeah. The rough treatment they receive is compenssated for by the fact that blokes never do the vacuuming:P
After a while it will become sufficiently clear that the record industry is not willing to take anyone to court, that eventually enough people will end up challenging as to make this a prohibitively costly excercise. If they drop enough cases, there will probabyl be a few lawyers who will take virtually any case on, on the assumption that they will be able to claim their fees. Either the RIAA will stop doing this, or they will actually start to see a case through. At the moment though, getting a lawyer and challenging the evidence (which is pretty weak, consisting of an IP address, and a list of files that may or may not be what they claim) seems to be a pretty safe option.
Keep it to the court. Stop airing your dirty laudry in public. We don't decide whether you're breaking the law. That's why we have a legal system.
The GPL doesn't explicitely state that other code must be GPL licenced. Jut that is must permit modification and redistribution (amongst other things), and doesn't restrict anything that the GPL mandates must not be restricted.
My problem is understanding why the creationists are so obsessed with evolution being wrong. After all, Heliocentrism vs. Geocentrism has all the same merits (i.e. we can see the sun goes round the earth, proving the opposite to the layman is difficult, Heliocentrism is a theory, literal interpretation of the bible says the arth is the centre of the solar system), biut doesn't cause nearly as much debate.
Well, I just got an impression that it sounded a little bit hysterical. Only very small bits of the sky are falling - not all of it. But, yes, an interesting story, and cetainly an issue about potential problems caused by all this stuff in orbit.
Yes. This will only apply to new software. Anything that Novell have rights to use will coninue to be licenced to them. They simply will not have the rights to redistibute anything that was distributed to them under GPL v3
Okay. You cross the road. A car comes past 20 seconds later.
Did it come remotely close to hitting you?
And the plane was in the debris' flight path for, what? 0.2 seconds? Seems like it would be a pretty difficult to hit even if the pilot was trying.
Or let's put it this way. If all 10000 or so of Russia's satellites were deorbitted at the same time in those 25 square nautical miles, the chances are that they would still all miss.
5 nautical miles away. A short drive, and it would have hit.
You need to make it clearly better. People are already using youTube. Why should they switch? Most people I know use MSN messenger. Is it the best? Probably not, but all my friends use it. The other options aren't sufficiently better to make any of us want to swap.
Surely they realise this. Are the marketting suits really that stupid?
Yeah. It was John Chapman.