The GNU GPL (General Public License) states that you have to distribute the source code with any binaries you distribute.
The main issue here to me (and others) isn't the binaries, but what happened to the original copyright notices from the original GPL authors. There, we have a serious problem.
For those who don't RTFA, you should. The second trackback from the post on the 18th points to a post on Rakaz's blog (he's the author of phpAdsNew) from the 19th. They admit guilt and dig their hole deeper. Damn. They're SCOing themselves in the foot.
MXS responds... round 2 from rakaz
Totally out of the blue I received an e-mail from Jonathan Miller at Maui X-Stream. Okay, not totally out of the blue, but still a bit unexpected. In this email Jonathan concedes that VX30 Ad-Stats......
Get this quote: "As I believe you are aware we do have a product called VX30 Ad-Stats that is based upon phpAdsNew." - Jonathan Miller of Maui X-Stream
Darl must be beaming and handing out cigars by now...
Endorsing such blatant disregard for privacy is pretty bad. If anything happens to Pamela Jones now that her info is out there... Well, let's just say the bastard better not have a web server!
Fear the wrath of Slashdot! Quake at your keyboard villain...
Oh, Quake 4 at your keyboard, eh? Wow. Can I play?
Imagine this application in the film industry: The hardest thing to do when you're putting 3D stuff (say a CG Spider-Man) into a real filmed scene is matching the lighting perfectly maninly due to surfaces that reflect light (the diffuse light that the video talked about). The 3D technique for generating these diffuse reflections currently is HDRI. To get a good HDRI image on a live set, you usually have to take a reflective sphere into the camera frame where the object you'll be putting in will be. You see FX guys doing this all the time with black booms that have shiny spheres on the end in "making of" documentaries.
Now imagine that instead of using traditional lights to light a set, the film makers used projector arrays. All of the reflection data for the lighting would be measured as everything went. No more modelling a proxy of an actor so the shadow is cast upon your 3D object! No more having to re-create most of the scene in 3D just to get the lighting and shadows right. Hell, you might even be able to re-shoot the acting accurately after the 3D elements have been finalized (currently a nightmare).
This will revolutionize the film-making industry when it matures. Mark my word. You think effects look good now? This will enable photo-real images like you've never seen.
Most printers (and Acrobat, I believe) offer the ability to print multiple pages to one sheet of paper. Unless you need the hardcopy for constant reference, printing 4 pages per side per sheet of paper can be quite readable. It cuts down on wasted paper and cuts down on printing time.
but is there a technical reason why you can't just make the little plastic bubble bigger
Because all it would do is make the LED focus differently possibly making it dimmer. The "bulb" doesn't do much but protect the pins inside, protect the layer of aluminum-gallium-arsenide between the pins and focus the light produced. There are colored LEDs that have clear casings even. Here's a good explanation.
Dawnell Leadbetter said that she was contacted by a debt collection agency in January and told to pay a $4,500 for downloading copyright-protected music or face a lawsuit for hundreds of thousands of dollars
I know I've heard of something like this before... There's a word for it... Never given a chance to exonerate herself of the "charges". From acusation to credit damaging collection agency without even a notification... Threat making folks plying her with further threats... Oh yeah:
extort - verb
obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"
The first is the standard degausser. This may render the drive inoperable, but will erase data securely with just a run through the machine. An example I found was this. There are many more out there.
The second method is to set up a *nix box with some hot swap drive bays and use that (I actually prefer this method). You can find removable bays all over the place and use *nix to format the drive writing all 0s to it.
I don't think anyone makes a machine exactly like you describe, but both of these methods will do the trick. Good luck!
If you are trying to prevent person A from killing person B, simply preemptively kill person A. No drugs needed, just cleanup and pinning the blame somewhere.... It works for the US government!
Yeah, I'm a sick bastard sometimes. This question sounds like something from a 50s sci-fi or something. I honestly don't think it's possible to turn off something as complicated as a desire to kill with some kind of hormone or inhibitor though.
Cost of client usage/bandwidth spike for past ten days: $380
Having your geek cred estabilished by not just being slashdotted, but being a dupe twice: Priceless
Some charts and graphs never get seen. For the ones that do something special, there's Slashdot. Accepted in large violent spikes of page views everywhere.
I'm guessing that the contracts you're negotiating pay decently right? Hire an attorney. Not to sue them. Not full-time. Maybe not even to look at a specific contract. To change the way these negotiations happen.
You don't need to spend a lot of money believe it or not (and you can write it off as a business expense). Use the resource wisely: If you can only afford to consult with him/her once, then just do that. Ask about the legal ramifications of insisting on the types of contract changes you want. Ask for advice in speaking to the PHBs (a lawyer's job is language). Ask for advice on making such arguments for changes and coming across as more professional than the PHB (which always works). If you can, come up with your own boilerplate contracts and have the lawyer edit/check them - when the PHB hands you a boilerplate contract counter with your own. This technique works well.
If you can afford to tap the attorney occasionally (lawer friends are great to have), then tell the PHB that you need to pass the contract by your "legal department" and ask if there is a contact person at the client company that you should coordinate contractual changes with. This gives you more bargaining power and eliminates the "well that actually means" responses.
Basically it comes down to treating yourself as a business. Always keep in mind what your "staff" is and who will want oversight of particular things (even if the only people are you and you). If you were an employee of a large company negotiating, you would have to pass the contracts by the legal department right? Then the company of you has to as well. I know this is starting to get metaphysical - think of it this way: departmentalize yourself. Think of the different aspects of your "business" as it's own department like you would in a company (accounting, legal, billing, customer service, janitorial, security). If you sould like a mega-corp, the PHBs will treat you with a different level of respect.
I know about Linux PDAs and such but is there a Linux-based mp3 player.
My Samsung YP-T5 acts just like a USB drive. No particular OS needed. Fedora Core 3 works for sure. The software that comes with it for encoding MP3s is Windows based, but there are plenty of encoders for Linux. Sure it's a small MP3 player storage wise, but it has an FM tuner. The players that act like a drive will always work regardless of OS.
My point here is that generalizing from the "ancient Greeks" to Archimedes is a mistake. He's not some demigod of science, but he was among the most advanced scientists of his time.
Heretic! You will never reach infinity! You will never be fully polygonal! It is written in the Palimpsest! Great Archimedes, please help this heathen see the power of pi!
Matthew 18:21-22 can be translated one of two ways from the original text: either seventy-seven or seventy times seven.
21 Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, "Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?"
22 Jesus answered, "I tell you, not seven times, but seventy times seven times."
The translation between languages alone add plenty of variables into numerology. This particular portion of the NT has been debated for centuries.
What it comes down to for me is that I don't know for sure. I wasn't there. None of us where. I do have an educated (I believe) guess as to what I feel was probable though. To me, this kind of questioning and thinking can be powerfuly religious if not merely an interesting exercise in sociology.
Why didn't he just say 'eternal' -- there wasn't a word for it?
Poetic license? From someone somewhere along the way? Who knows?
I wouldn't consider myself an expert, but I've put a significant amount of time into studying the Bible.
As an exercise in school, we translated some passages of the bible from latin to english using translating dictionaries. I would recommend it to get a feel for how much can be interpreted along the way. When sentences don't quite make sense, it's hard to be clinical and not be creative.
Thanks for the scripture. I've been looking for a quote like that! Now to remember - 2 Peter 3:8... 2 Peter 3:8... 2 Peter 3:8...
By the way, one of my absolute favorites to use on the religiously devout is Genesis 6:6-7 "And the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So the Lord said, 'I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.'" I pull this one out when we start talking about religous consumerism. All those plastic icons are doing wonders for God's green earth.
I can understand seven billion years. I can't understand seven years. You will find that the intellectual contortions needed to accept the bible in any form will become more and more difficult as you learn more about science.
Remember where the people of the era where when it was "written". For them any number over a few thousand must have seemed un-knowingly huge. It's a culture where infinity was conveyed with a phrase like "seventy times seven times" (490!). In my humble opinion, the "seven days" was merely a way to convey seven stages and partition events with some reference to time. Sadly, some people fail to allow the "holy word" to be re-thought even though they are reading a translation in the first place.
So, we make it a nicely-formatted XML text file, obviously.
This sounds dangerous to me. Suppose and RPM writes a garbled line to the file by mistake. That could hose every app on the system. Don't get me wrong - a single file is a good idea, but it would take quite a bit of error checking for me to trust it.
When it comes down to it, I would prefer some heirarchal system. I think the habit of some apps (like Apache) having their conf files in a subdirectory of/etc might be a good way to go.
The venom over me not knowing what it was is incredible. I put that in there as a qualifier. Only one person actually offered to let me know what WS-Security was and they even did it with some venom. Even now that I know what it is, I don't trust MS to a) implement it correctly b) take the security aspect seriously. c) sandbox it at all
Better to talk out of it than be it completely I guess.
The goal of Indigo is to simplify the process of building distributed applications, where software components communicate across a network using Web services protocols. For example, the Indigo communications system will allow an application written with Microsoft's.Net tools to share information with a Java application without the need for special code to bridge the two systems.
I'm sorry, but this sounds like a recipe for making windows security even worse. There are enough cross-network/cross-application exploits in windows already. Now they're giving the exploits their own framework. The article mentioned "WS-Security" - but I have no idea what that is. As a power user this makes Windows even less attractive than it was.
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Darl must be beaming and handing out cigars by now...
Fear the wrath of Slashdot! Quake at your keyboard villain...
Oh, Quake 4 at your keyboard, eh? Wow. Can I play?
--Quaking Rodent
Now imagine that instead of using traditional lights to light a set, the film makers used projector arrays. All of the reflection data for the lighting would be measured as everything went. No more modelling a proxy of an actor so the shadow is cast upon your 3D object! No more having to re-create most of the scene in 3D just to get the lighting and shadows right. Hell, you might even be able to re-shoot the acting accurately after the 3D elements have been finalized (currently a nightmare).
This will revolutionize the film-making industry when it matures. Mark my word. You think effects look good now? This will enable photo-real images like you've never seen.
Most printers (and Acrobat, I believe) offer the ability to print multiple pages to one sheet of paper. Unless you need the hardcopy for constant reference, printing 4 pages per side per sheet of paper can be quite readable. It cuts down on wasted paper and cuts down on printing time.
By the way, that wasn't off-topic at all.
The second method is to set up a *nix box with some hot swap drive bays and use that (I actually prefer this method). You can find removable bays all over the place and use *nix to format the drive writing all 0s to it.
I don't think anyone makes a machine exactly like you describe, but both of these methods will do the trick. Good luck!
Yeah, I'm a sick bastard sometimes. This question sounds like something from a 50s sci-fi or something. I honestly don't think it's possible to turn off something as complicated as a desire to kill with some kind of hormone or inhibitor though.
Happy fools!
- Time spent doing large HTML chard: 14 hours
- Price per month of web hosting: $20
- Cost of client usage/bandwidth spike for past ten days: $380
- Having your geek cred estabilished by not just being slashdotted, but being a dupe twice: Priceless
Some charts and graphs never get seen. For the ones that do something special, there's Slashdot. Accepted in large violent spikes of page views everywhere.You don't need to spend a lot of money believe it or not (and you can write it off as a business expense). Use the resource wisely: If you can only afford to consult with him/her once, then just do that. Ask about the legal ramifications of insisting on the types of contract changes you want. Ask for advice in speaking to the PHBs (a lawyer's job is language). Ask for advice on making such arguments for changes and coming across as more professional than the PHB (which always works). If you can, come up with your own boilerplate contracts and have the lawyer edit/check them - when the PHB hands you a boilerplate contract counter with your own. This technique works well.
If you can afford to tap the attorney occasionally (lawer friends are great to have), then tell the PHB that you need to pass the contract by your "legal department" and ask if there is a contact person at the client company that you should coordinate contractual changes with. This gives you more bargaining power and eliminates the "well that actually means" responses.
Basically it comes down to treating yourself as a business. Always keep in mind what your "staff" is and who will want oversight of particular things (even if the only people are you and you). If you were an employee of a large company negotiating, you would have to pass the contracts by the legal department right? Then the company of you has to as well. I know this is starting to get metaphysical - think of it this way: departmentalize yourself. Think of the different aspects of your "business" as it's own department like you would in a company (accounting, legal, billing, customer service, janitorial, security). If you sould like a mega-corp, the PHBs will treat you with a different level of respect.
;^)
What it comes down to for me is that I don't know for sure. I wasn't there. None of us where. I do have an educated (I believe) guess as to what I feel was probable though. To me, this kind of questioning and thinking can be powerfuly religious if not merely an interesting exercise in sociology.
Poetic license? From someone somewhere along the way? Who knows?As an exercise in school, we translated some passages of the bible from latin to english using translating dictionaries. I would recommend it to get a feel for how much can be interpreted along the way. When sentences don't quite make sense, it's hard to be clinical and not be creative.By the way, one of my absolute favorites to use on the religiously devout is Genesis 6:6-7 "And the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So the Lord said, 'I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.'" I pull this one out when we start talking about religous consumerism. All those plastic icons are doing wonders for God's green earth.
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These two have kept my train ride going for a while
When it comes down to it, I would prefer some heirarchal system. I think the habit of some apps (like Apache) having their conf files in a subdirectory of /etc might be a good way to go.
The venom over me not knowing what it was is incredible. I put that in there as a qualifier. Only one person actually offered to let me know what WS-Security was and they even did it with some venom. Even now that I know what it is, I don't trust MS to a) implement it correctly b) take the security aspect seriously. c) sandbox it at all
Better to talk out of it than be it completely I guess.
It would have been so perfect if the ruling had been "Worst lawsuit - evar!"