Looks like they want to cut off all the free wirless access so they can charge you for it. Aren't you glad they care about making your internet safe?
Seriously though, one poster asked jokingly why they aren't banning insecure OS's and it sounded funny, but it does point out a problem with the bill. Certainly people running insecure OSs are just as bad for spam, and illegal activities as are free wireless, yet nobody is proposing a bill to fine those users. Naturally, if someone proposed this, MS would throw a shit fit.
Yes, I'm aware of this clause, and I think most software, even proprietary software has a clause like this in the EULA. What I'm talking about is giving it teeth. The anti-patent clause I believe they are proposing for GPL 3, if I understand it correctly, says that if you sue the copyright owner for patent infringement by GPLv3 software, you then lose your right to use all GPLv3 software. Essentially the current clause says, "You can't hit me under any circumstances." Maybe what we should be saying is, "You can't hit me under any circumstances, and if you do, me and all my buddies are gonna hit you back."
I hear people talking about how this is bad for the environment. But which is worse? a 15 gram DVD in a landfill? or wasting a 1/4 gallon of gas for that 2nd trip to the video store?
Just think about how many people are pissed about the last two elections and all the criticism of Diebold from very visable sources like Farenheit 9/11 and all. Regardless of what your view on that was, I think that this is an opportunity for FOSS to really shine in the eyes of voters.
It is within the realm of possibility that Adobe would initiate legal action, but I would not argue that the lawsuit is deserved. From what I know of trademark law, the litmus test is whether or not the average joe would be confused and actually think that gimpshop is an adobe product.
Instead of painting over your keyboard, you can try removing the keys and mixing them up, with the exception of F and J so that you can find the home row by touch. One trick is that you can only mix up the keys with keys on the same row because most keyboards have different sized keys for the rows. This might not have the cool factor of Das Keyboard, but for learning how to touch type it should be just as effective. It's cleaner than paint and it can be easily undone.
Certainly people wasted no time to spin this as the impending death of Linux. But it seems like OS-X has much more install base on desktops than servers, where as with Linux, it's the other way around. I predict that will attract a large user base of non-technical users that Linux has been unable to attract so far. I'm also guessing that it's easier to port between OS-X and Linux for most applications and so I think the net effect will be helpful to Linux in the long term.
The kernel is GPL and licensing software under the GPL implies that you are granting the rights to any applicable patents to any GPL or derivative code.
So if you grant your patents to one GPL project, you're granting your patents to any GPL project.
IANAL, of course, so I may be falsly assuming that a logical argument would stand up legally.
This is probably a very very bad idea. While I do like the idea of putting someone in jail when they violate the GPL, my suspicion is that certian copyrights would be regarded as more important than others, namely those belonging to big corporations that contribute to campaign funds.
I didn't notice this until I looked at the before and after pictures in sequence with the main picture. But it appears that the streak may be the trail of some object hitting the water. If you look where the streak meets the water, there seems to be something bright where the streak meets the water that is not in either of the other 2 images.
I was thinking, what if you could do something to simulate a spyware install on a computer to the point that they would be fooled in to paying out these per-install fees to websites. If they're paying out a lot of money for installs that will promptly be deleted, then it would hurt these companies financially and also hurt the revenue streams to the websites that use these exploits for financial gain.
Convert the OGG to MP3 or to some other format that the player uses and be done with it. I just can't believe that because the player is missing a basically unused format (for the non-geeks) that it is somehow "bad".
Well, belive it. I personally encode all my CDs as ogg or flac and so support for ogg format is the first thing I check for when I look at these types of products. If a company doesn't support ogg, then they're writing off me and others like me who aren't willing to compromise.
It doesn't really matter if you understand why all us crazy geeks like ogg, but if you're a company making portable music devices and want our business, you damn well better know that we do in fact want it.
This is a link my friend gave me. Sorry for the flash animation and the fact that it's in Chinese. if you move your mouse over the bottom right blue block, you will see a line appear with a "2" that one is for north korea.
A friend of mine in China once told me that he saw a map of China's internet backbone and outbound connections. He said that there was only one 4mb link to North Korea. I figure Kim Jong Il probably uses most of that for his porn collection.
I have seen a lot of the in-car CD based mp3 players for around $150 at Fry's, but I have never seen one that supports ogg. I know there is the music keg, but I'm looking for something cheap. Is there anything like that on the market yet?
It sure would be cool if one of these could play from DVD-R media as well.
From what I understand, Google already censors their content in other countries like France and Germany. This is only making the news because it's big bad China. Although it kind of does blow apart this image that they like to present as being crusaders of free speech.
I have never seen this proposed before, but this is a really interesting idea. I think that the longer ideas are kept from falling in to the public domain, the greater the harm to our society. And this scheme of increasing fees accurately reflects this.
As you are probably aware, software patents are a very important issue to the Free Software/Open Source Community. Software patents pose a serious threat. They can impede software development and rob our community of valuable code that would otherwise be availble for anyone to use. And although my political views have a strong tendency towards Libertarianism, I am largely ignorant of how you and the Libertarian party views software patents. Where you stand on the issue of software patents?
From what I know of these two programs, They really do seperate things. It seems more reasonable that there would be more cooperation than competition. There's no point in reinventing the wheel if you can avoid it.
If I were a normal company with a product and some company came along and offered to port my application to other platforms for free, I would most likely jump at the idea. However, if you had a monopoly on the desktop OS market and willing to use illegal tactics to guard your share, how would you behave?
MS may have stated in the past that the reason they don't port Office to Linux is that there is 'no demand'. Now with the Linux desktop share challenging the Mac share, thos arguments are being diluted. If IBM were to offer to port it for free, gee... seems like a great deal for any company... unless you are trying ot illegally maintain your monopoly of course.
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...then I'm all for it.
Looks like they want to cut off all the free wirless access so they can charge you for it. Aren't you glad they care about making your internet safe?
Seriously though, one poster asked jokingly why they aren't banning insecure OS's and it sounded funny, but it does point out a problem with the bill. Certainly people running insecure OSs are just as bad for spam, and illegal activities as are free wireless, yet nobody is proposing a bill to fine those users. Naturally, if someone proposed this, MS would throw a shit fit.
What kind of format would the pages be in i wonder? PDF? Html? Graphic Images? It wasn't apparent from the article.
Yes, I'm aware of this clause, and I think most software, even proprietary software has a clause like this in the EULA. What I'm talking about is giving it teeth. The anti-patent clause I believe they are proposing for GPL 3, if I understand it correctly, says that if you sue the copyright owner for patent infringement by GPLv3 software, you then lose your right to use all GPLv3 software. Essentially the current clause says, "You can't hit me under any circumstances." Maybe what we should be saying is, "You can't hit me under any circumstances, and if you do, me and all my buddies are gonna hit you back."
The parent poster is correct in that this would destroy hobbyist programming, at least in the US.
I'm wondering if the GPL 3 should include a clause to protect against this kind of lawsuit as well as patent lawsuits.
I hear people talking about how this is bad for the environment. But which is worse? a 15 gram DVD in a landfill? or wasting a 1/4 gallon of gas for that 2nd trip to the video store?
Just think about how many people are pissed about the last two elections and all the criticism of Diebold from very visable sources like Farenheit 9/11 and all. Regardless of what your view on that was, I think that this is an opportunity for FOSS to really shine in the eyes of voters.
Does Yahoo mail have or plan to implement free secure POP access like gmail has?
It is within the realm of possibility that Adobe would initiate legal action, but I would not argue that the lawsuit is deserved. From what I know of trademark law, the litmus test is whether or not the average joe would be confused and actually think that gimpshop is an adobe product.
Instead of painting over your keyboard, you can try removing the keys and mixing them up, with the exception of F and J so that you can find the home row by touch. One trick is that you can only mix up the keys with keys on the same row because most keyboards have different sized keys for the rows. This might not have the cool factor of Das Keyboard, but for learning how to touch type it should be just as effective. It's cleaner than paint and it can be easily undone.
Here's how i would have designed the application...
Warning: You're about to spend $251,000,000! That is a lot of Fucking money! Are you sure you wish to continue [OK] [Cancel]
Hey now... I know you said ok... but that really is a fuckload of money.. are you serious about this purchase? [OK] [Cancel]
Ok... But don't say I didn't warn ya. Please press the OK button 50 more times to confirm or Cancel if you change your mind [OK] [Cancel]
Seriously tho.. $12 million in losses... Why not fire some programmers while you're at it.
Certainly people wasted no time to spin this as the impending death of Linux. But it seems like OS-X has much more install base on desktops than servers, where as with Linux, it's the other way around. I predict that will attract a large user base of non-technical users that Linux has been unable to attract so far. I'm also guessing that it's easier to port between OS-X and Linux for most applications and so I think the net effect will be helpful to Linux in the long term.
The kernel is GPL and licensing software under the GPL implies that you are granting the rights to any applicable patents to any GPL or derivative code.
So if you grant your patents to one GPL project, you're granting your patents to any GPL project.
IANAL, of course, so I may be falsly assuming that a logical argument would stand up legally.
This is probably a very very bad idea. While I do like the idea of putting someone in jail when they violate the GPL, my suspicion is that certian copyrights would be regarded as more important than others, namely those belonging to big corporations that contribute to campaign funds.
I didn't notice this until I looked at the before and after pictures in sequence with the main picture. But it appears that the streak may be the trail of some object hitting the water. If you look where the streak meets the water, there seems to be something bright where the streak meets the water that is not in either of the other 2 images.
I was thinking, what if you could do something to simulate a spyware install on a computer to the point that they would be fooled in to paying out these per-install fees to websites. If they're paying out a lot of money for installs that will promptly be deleted, then it would hurt these companies financially and also hurt the revenue streams to the websites that use these exploits for financial gain.
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This is a link my friend gave me. Sorry for the flash animation and the fact that it's in Chinese. if you move your mouse over the bottom right blue block, you will see a line appear with a "2" that one is for north korea.
A friend of mine in China once told me that he saw a map of China's internet backbone and outbound connections. He said that there was only one 4mb link to North Korea. I figure Kim Jong Il probably uses most of that for his porn collection.
I have seen a lot of the in-car CD based mp3 players for around $150 at Fry's, but I have never seen one that supports ogg. I know there is the music keg, but I'm looking for something cheap. Is there anything like that on the market yet?
It sure would be cool if one of these could play from DVD-R media as well.
From what I understand, Google already censors their content in other countries like France and Germany. This is only making the news because it's big bad China. Although it kind of does blow apart this image that they like to present as being crusaders of free speech.
I have never seen this proposed before, but this is a really interesting idea. I think that the longer ideas are kept from falling in to the public domain, the greater the harm to our society. And this scheme of increasing fees accurately reflects this.
As you are probably aware, software patents are a very important issue to the Free Software/Open Source Community. Software patents pose a serious threat. They can impede software development and rob our community of valuable code that would otherwise be availble for anyone to use. And although my political views have a strong tendency towards Libertarianism, I am largely ignorant of how you and the Libertarian party views software patents. Where you stand on the issue of software patents?
From what I know of these two programs, They really do seperate things. It seems more reasonable that there would be more cooperation than competition. There's no point in reinventing the wheel if you can avoid it.
If I were a normal company with a product and some company came along and offered to port my application to other platforms for free, I would most likely jump at the idea. However, if you had a monopoly on the desktop OS market and willing to use illegal tactics to guard your share, how would you behave?
MS may have stated in the past that the reason they don't port Office to Linux is that there is 'no demand'. Now with the Linux desktop share challenging the Mac share, thos arguments are being diluted. If IBM were to offer to port it for free, gee... seems like a great deal for any company... unless you are trying ot illegally maintain your monopoly of course.