This is likely to be an extremely unpopular view but there are very legitimate reasons for a state to seek limits in the distribution of news, and limits to what its citizens communicate to outsiders.
No, there aren't. There isn't even one legitimate reason for a state to censor what its citizens have to say, about anything or to anyone, as long as what they're saying is either truthful or obviously fictitious (eg, I could see not wanting someone to publish that election polling places have closed when they're still open, or the proverbial shouting fire in a crowded theater).
And while they may have the best interests of their constituents at heart, there's another proverb that relates to that: the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
The best defense is not to be there. If someone shoots you, shooting him back (or even shooting first) is no guarantee he won't hit you. If you're somewhere else out of range of his weapon, you do have such a guarantee.
Universal DVDs start with a splash screen, asking if you want to watch previews. After a few seconds, it goes on to the menu (and you can load up the previews from there, if you so desire). So that's one movie company that gets it.
No, BASIC is animism. It lacks many of the features of more advanced religions and is often derided as primitive by others. But it still has many useful features, and many of the others are direct (or indirect) descendants of it.
If you think that Fundamentalist Christians and Catholic priests have anything in common with each other beyond a reverence for Jesus, you really shouldn't be taking part in this discussion.
Isn't there a plain-sight provision with that rule? If the cops have a warrant to search your house for crack, and see a dead body laying on the kitchen floor, they can go ahead and arrest you for murder.
On advice of my lawyer, I can't really say anything else.
Reading through the license, it doesn't seem as bad as you imply. Section 3.2 seems the salient part:
3.2 - In any copy of the Software or in any Modification you create, You must retain and reproduce, any and all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices that are included in the Software in the same form as they appear in the Software. This includes the preservation of attribution notices in the form of trademarks or logos that exist within a user interface of the Software.
So as long as you maintain the trademarks and logos as required, you're otherwise free to use the software as you choose. Should Yahoo! stop publishing Zimbra, there's nothing saying you couldn't keep using it and even keep developing it, as long as you don't change the name or trademarks associated with it. Yes, that means you can't fork it to become Ximbra (for example), but it's not nearly as heavy handed as closed source programs.
And for the purposes of the original list, it's still a handy suite and should be considered by anyone looking to replace Exchange.
Take a look at Zimbra. They have a free version and a licensed (read: supported) version, and because the client is written in AJAX it'll work in most every modern browser. They also have connectors for Outlook and Evolution, and I think Thunderbird, if you'd rather not use a web client.
Zimbra is so good, I'm shocked it wasn't on his list. The one caveat is it's owned by Yahoo!, so if they either go away (doesn't seem likely) or do get bought out by Microsoft (also doesn't seem likely at this time), the support for it may disappear. But then, it's open source, it'll never really die, will it?
They're just doing the jobs that lazy Solar System comets refuse to do. Besides, it's the hard working, entrepreneurial comets that are willing to travel a trillion miles for a chance at a better life for themselves and their satellite debris that made this star system great.
If the guy's college has a legal department, guaranteed there's a law professor in it who'd love to use this as a real-world example of IP law for his/her students.
So what? Those things are just that: things. There are people living today who lived through all of those advances and didn't go into shock over them, why would you think someone getting caught up to all of it at once couldn't handle it?
The things that people from 1955 would be most freaked out about now would be things like gay marriage, lowered blood alcohol levels in drunk driving laws, and having a black President-elect. Societal changes would be much more shocking. And even then, they would adjust, because as the GP pointed out, that's what humans do.
He can always check with his local JAG officer, see if there are any Operation Lighthouse* lawyers available in Austin who can take his case pro bono and sue Dell in small claims court on his behalf.
*I think that's the name of the program for civilian lawyers to donate time to deployed service members, the JAG office will know for sure.
That service wouldn't work for me. You see, I'm lazy. Actually, I'm incredibly lazy. If the choice was between getting up off the couch or being crushed under a collapsing roof, I'd be screwed. So the idea of going to a given website and logging in every day (unless they provide some way to engage in banal postings, of course) is anathema to me. I would end up just writing a bash script that called wget to post my login details to the site once a day from cron. Which, of course, would outlive me, and render the entire exercise pointless.
Although I must admit, the idea of Dallas' version of CSI being stumped because my dead body is in front of them, cut open on a gurney, but I'm apparently still logging into some website does provide a certain entertainment value. So maybe it wouldn't be pointless, after all.
Wasting the customer's money? How long do you think it takes to set up the table properly at the start?
Hint: it's less than the amount of time it'll take you to reply to this, if you do.
And you think it's perfectly OK to fire someone for having a different preference on optimization? Just in the off chance they might do something really stupid in the future? Is that "preemptive firing"? I bet you voted for Bush, didn't you?
If I had someone as obtuse as you working for me, I'd sign you up for management training, counsel you on how to motivate your employees, and teach you the principle of "pick the hill you want to die on". But I wouldn't fire you, that would just be asinine.
Not to mention, cell phones can be traded, sold, or lent out, in exchange for other valuables. Why would someone want to report the existence of such a valuable commodity?
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FTFY.
This is likely to be an extremely unpopular view but there are very legitimate reasons for a state to seek limits in the distribution of news, and limits to what its citizens communicate to outsiders.
No, there aren't. There isn't even one legitimate reason for a state to censor what its citizens have to say, about anything or to anyone, as long as what they're saying is either truthful or obviously fictitious (eg, I could see not wanting someone to publish that election polling places have closed when they're still open, or the proverbial shouting fire in a crowded theater).
And while they may have the best interests of their constituents at heart, there's another proverb that relates to that: the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Well it has been 30 years since the Star Wars Holiday Special.
And the scars have still not healed completely.
Great, now I've got Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters stuck in a loop in my head. Thanks for nothing.
The best defense is not to be there. If someone shoots you, shooting him back (or even shooting first) is no guarantee he won't hit you. If you're somewhere else out of range of his weapon, you do have such a guarantee.
Universal DVDs start with a splash screen, asking if you want to watch previews. After a few seconds, it goes on to the menu (and you can load up the previews from there, if you so desire). So that's one movie company that gets it.
What are the criteria for it to be the year of Linux?
Just an FYI, the plural of "criterion" is "criteria", not "criterions".
No, BASIC is animism. It lacks many of the features of more advanced religions and is often derided as primitive by others. But it still has many useful features, and many of the others are direct (or indirect) descendants of it.
If you think that Fundamentalist Christians and Catholic priests have anything in common with each other beyond a reverence for Jesus, you really shouldn't be taking part in this discussion.
Yeah, it's not like Pennsylvanians have ever mounted armed resistance to taxes before.
Ask a man and wife what colour the living-room couch is and you will get two different answers! =)
Yes, but in that case, at least we'll know which of them is right (unless the other wants to sleep on said couch that night).
Careful, I think redirecting to digg is considered a crime against humanity in some jurisdictions.
Wow...your post is the BEST
Hey now, just because Pudge is an Editor doesn't mean you have to be so worshipful of his posts. They aren't that great.
I have suffered from Paranoid Schizophrenia since the age of 15. I'm 33 now
Wow, you've been using the Internet for quite awhile then!
Isn't there a plain-sight provision with that rule? If the cops have a warrant to search your house for crack, and see a dead body laying on the kitchen floor, they can go ahead and arrest you for murder.
On advice of my lawyer, I can't really say anything else.
Reading through the license, it doesn't seem as bad as you imply. Section 3.2 seems the salient part:
3.2 - In any copy of the Software or in any Modification you create, You must retain and reproduce, any and all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices that are included in the Software in the same form as they appear in the Software. This includes the preservation of attribution notices in the form of trademarks or logos that exist within a user interface of the Software.
So as long as you maintain the trademarks and logos as required, you're otherwise free to use the software as you choose. Should Yahoo! stop publishing Zimbra, there's nothing saying you couldn't keep using it and even keep developing it, as long as you don't change the name or trademarks associated with it. Yes, that means you can't fork it to become Ximbra (for example), but it's not nearly as heavy handed as closed source programs.
And for the purposes of the original list, it's still a handy suite and should be considered by anyone looking to replace Exchange.
Take a look at Zimbra. They have a free version and a licensed (read: supported) version, and because the client is written in AJAX it'll work in most every modern browser. They also have connectors for Outlook and Evolution, and I think Thunderbird, if you'd rather not use a web client.
Zimbra is so good, I'm shocked it wasn't on his list. The one caveat is it's owned by Yahoo!, so if they either go away (doesn't seem likely) or do get bought out by Microsoft (also doesn't seem likely at this time), the support for it may disappear. But then, it's open source, it'll never really die, will it?
Just text "amputation instructions" to 466453. I've used it twice, it works pretty well.
They're just doing the jobs that lazy Solar System comets refuse to do. Besides, it's the hard working, entrepreneurial comets that are willing to travel a trillion miles for a chance at a better life for themselves and their satellite debris that made this star system great.
If the guy's college has a legal department, guaranteed there's a law professor in it who'd love to use this as a real-world example of IP law for his/her students.
So what? Those things are just that: things. There are people living today who lived through all of those advances and didn't go into shock over them, why would you think someone getting caught up to all of it at once couldn't handle it?
The things that people from 1955 would be most freaked out about now would be things like gay marriage, lowered blood alcohol levels in drunk driving laws, and having a black President-elect. Societal changes would be much more shocking. And even then, they would adjust, because as the GP pointed out, that's what humans do.
He can always check with his local JAG officer, see if there are any Operation Lighthouse* lawyers available in Austin who can take his case pro bono and sue Dell in small claims court on his behalf.
*I think that's the name of the program for civilian lawyers to donate time to deployed service members, the JAG office will know for sure.
That service wouldn't work for me. You see, I'm lazy. Actually, I'm incredibly lazy. If the choice was between getting up off the couch or being crushed under a collapsing roof, I'd be screwed. So the idea of going to a given website and logging in every day (unless they provide some way to engage in banal postings, of course) is anathema to me. I would end up just writing a bash script that called wget to post my login details to the site once a day from cron. Which, of course, would outlive me, and render the entire exercise pointless.
Although I must admit, the idea of Dallas' version of CSI being stumped because my dead body is in front of them, cut open on a gurney, but I'm apparently still logging into some website does provide a certain entertainment value. So maybe it wouldn't be pointless, after all.
Wasting the customer's money? How long do you think it takes to set up the table properly at the start?
Hint: it's less than the amount of time it'll take you to reply to this, if you do.
And you think it's perfectly OK to fire someone for having a different preference on optimization? Just in the off chance they might do something really stupid in the future? Is that "preemptive firing"? I bet you voted for Bush, didn't you?
If I had someone as obtuse as you working for me, I'd sign you up for management training, counsel you on how to motivate your employees, and teach you the principle of "pick the hill you want to die on". But I wouldn't fire you, that would just be asinine.
Not to mention, cell phones can be traded, sold, or lent out, in exchange for other valuables. Why would someone want to report the existence of such a valuable commodity?