Everyone who lets copyrighted material be stored on their computers are actually commining a crime.
OK. When you install Windows from your legally-purchased Windows CDROM, that is storing copyrighted material on your computer. Putting aside the fact Windows is an abomination, is installing Windows from a legally purchased and licensed CD a crime?
The only problem with those click-throughs in Windows is if you click No (i.e. you don't agree to the terms of the GPL) it won't let you install the software - even though the GPL states that if you don't agree to its terms you may still use it, you just can't redistribute it.
If you live in the UK you do need a license to operate a TV that is capable of recieving "broadcast" programming.
...and intend to use it to receive broadcast television signals (satellite, terrestrial, cable). You do NOT need a licence to use it with: 1) A Video Player (note, not recorder) 2) DVD player 3) Camcorder 4) Console games 4) Any other use where it is used as a monitor to locally-generated signals.
You need to change your WAP settings to other values.. such as your normal ISP dial-up number, username and password - and use 193.113.200.195 as your WAP gateway. Only catch is it might be charged at a higher rate than Orange's own WAP service.
If I remember rightly, a superconducting cable should have zero resistance. So how come it has a maximum current rating? From V=IR, V/R=I... with R=0 I tends to infinity.
If code can be beautiful, then there has to be an opposite - butt ugly code.
May I suggest samples from the Obfuscated C Contest (then again, they may be beautiful in their own right) or some of the worst code submissions ever seen in a computer science course which probably compile but have no right to compile whatsoever....
Thanks for the link. The program in the article refused to compile for me - LOADS of errors. I suspect that is related to trying to cut'n'paste from Netscape, but getting Lynx to dump the page out didn't help either...
Nothing wrong with BNC - if you're wanting to link a small handful of machines (especially older ones) and not planning to stream video over it, then it works quite nicely. And dirt cheap too.
Section 26: (paraphrased)
Making analog backup copies for personal use is fine. Making digital backup copies for personal use is not.
So if I'm reading this right, I can record a programme off the TV with a bog-standard VCR, but I'm in violation of this law for doing precisely the same thing with a TV card and my hard disc?
Very close. IIRC it goes something like "I sincerely hope and pray there's intelligent life out in space, coz there's bugger all down here on earth.". Or something very similar.:)
Thinking of Jupiter... I wonder when they plan to send something to take a close look at Europa - being covered in ice it may well have a liquid water 'ocean'... maybe something is swimming in it?
It's entirely possible for liquid water to exist there (under the ice crust) - the immense gravitational pull from Jupiter does funny things to its moons including heating Io enough to be volcanically active...
The whole internet is supposedly within 7 hops of any page. It looks like the courts have just ruled the internet illegal.
Where does that leave the organisation (BT!) that holds the patent for links... like the creator of DeCSS maybe they should be done for creating the means to mreak the law....
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Everyone who lets copyrighted material be stored on their computers are actually commining a crime.
OK. When you install Windows from your legally-purchased Windows CDROM, that is storing copyrighted material on your computer. Putting aside the fact Windows is an abomination, is installing Windows from a legally purchased and licensed CD a crime?
The only problem with those click-throughs in Windows is if you click No (i.e. you don't agree to the terms of the GPL) it won't let you install the software - even though the GPL states that if you don't agree to its terms you may still use it, you just can't redistribute it.
If you live in the UK you do need a license to operate a TV that is capable of recieving "broadcast" programming.
...and intend to use it to receive broadcast television signals (satellite, terrestrial, cable). You do NOT need a licence to use it with:
1) A Video Player (note, not recorder)
2) DVD player
3) Camcorder
4) Console games
4) Any other use where it is used as a monitor to locally-generated signals.
Orange's WAP gateway sucks.
You need to change your WAP settings to other values.. such as your normal ISP dial-up number, username and password - and use 193.113.200.195 as your WAP gateway. Only catch is it might be charged at a higher rate than Orange's own WAP service.
True, but they require special transformers to be useful.
If I remember rightly, a superconducting cable should have zero resistance. So how come it has a maximum current rating? From V=IR, V/R=I ... with R=0 I tends to infinity.
I bet their stock drops. If it drops any lower they could sell it to the oil industry for drilling purposes.
A fitting tribute to DNA would be for the BBC to re-rn the radio and TV series...
May I suggest samples from the Obfuscated C Contest (then again, they may be beautiful in their own right) or some of the worst code submissions ever seen in a computer science course which probably compile but have no right to compile whatsoever....
Thanks for the link. The program in the article refused to compile for me - LOADS of errors. I suspect that is related to trying to cut'n'paste from Netscape, but getting Lynx to dump the page out didn't help either...
This has to be the first mention of "DFS" I have seen in a long time - since the BBC Micro :-)
Nothing wrong with BNC - if you're wanting to link a small handful of machines (especially older ones) and not planning to stream video over it, then it works quite nicely. And dirt cheap too.
2.2.19 is in there now. Go get it - a mirror site might help.
Never seen this problem but then I always use custom kernels :)
I know :-) In line with the original poster... they're a big organisation and they were distributing culture ;)
The pot of yoghurt I got from Tesco yesterday has more culture in it than Microsoft could ever hope to find.
Making analog backup copies for personal use is fine. Making digital backup copies for personal use is not.
So if I'm reading this right, I can record a programme off the TV with a bog-standard VCR, but I'm in violation of this law for doing precisely the same thing with a TV card and my hard disc?
And yes, I still work in feet, inches, miles, pounds, ounces and stones....
Tesco have somehow got around it by dual pricing everything sold by weight in metric and imperial.
Something else I'd like to see is OpenNAP (and client) support for Ogg Vorbis....
Only if it overheated.
yay. I was wondering what had happened to it... now maybe I can get a new look to my icewm desktop. :)
Very close. IIRC it goes something like "I sincerely hope and pray there's intelligent life out in space, coz there's bugger all down here on earth.". Or something very similar. :)
It's entirely possible for liquid water to exist there (under the ice crust) - the immense gravitational pull from Jupiter does funny things to its moons including heating Io enough to be volcanically active...
Mind you, that hasn't stopped the folks at TOTL.NET trying...
I want this V-Chip out of me... It has stunted my vocabulary....
Where does that leave the organisation (BT!) that holds the patent for links... like the creator of DeCSS maybe they should be done for creating the means to mreak the law....