It also mentions the judge thought they were asking for too much money (though it was only for £137.50, which, even if they only stole a £5 item, doesn't really seem like much when you consider time, legal fees, and punitive damages...though I'm not familiar with UK law)
This wasn't for legal fees. At least some of the threads are still on the CAG web site, and the most relevant one is this one. They were after £137.50 + £115 legal costs.
Yeah, but I'm still browsing old threads and finding references to files that were on megaupload and nowhere else. Just today I was looking for an experimental open source firmware for my wireless router, but the developers have long since abandoned the project, and they only left their files on megaupload.
Yes, but *why* is it unique? There is nothing about its purpose (to protect those who are too immature to make certain decisions for themselves from being abused by those who would use various techniques of persuasion to push them into making the decision in a particular way and therefore end up doing something that may well damage them emotionally, psychologically or financially for a large chunk of their life) that means it should be applied any more universally than, say, laws against drink driving (purpose: to protect innocent bystanders from significant risk of bodily harm and/or death). In fact, I'd say the potential consequences of drink driving are far worse than those of underage sex and/or prostitution, therefore there's more of a case in such a situation.
Here in the UK you can usually travel to a foreign country and do something legal there that is illegal in the UK without fear of repercussion when you return to the UK.
Erm, no you can't. We have some laws against this kind of behaviour (although not as strict as the US ones), e.g. Section 59 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, which prevents you from arranging for a person to leave the country with plans that involve a "relevant offence" (which includes "anything done outside England and Wales and Northern Ireland which is not an offence [...] but would be if done in England and Wales or Northern Ireland") being performed on them. This means that you can't, for instance, take your 14 year old girlfriend to Spain for the purposes of having sex with her, despite the fact that it would be legal to have sex with her if you met her there.
I would love kio_slaves if they were implemented in a desktop independent manner. What good reason is there for virtual file systems to be tied to a GUI?
They are implemented in a desktop independent manner, simply not at kernel level. You can however install a bridge:
Yes, but you're assuming that content creators act rationally. In reality, everyone assumes that the work they produce is going to be one of the rare cases that continues earning for a long period, however unrealistic this may be. And it doesn't matter from a legislative perspective what the reality is: the only question is what stimulates artists to create. And outside of the minority that would create even if there were no possibility of financial reward, length of copyright terms after death is actually a consideration.
One option would be to boot your system off a usb key/external drive
This is very unlikely to be acceptable to the employer. If they require OP to be present and are therefore paying him, it seems quite likely they might need him at short notice (consider, for example, a call center environment with sharp peaks in demand). Rebooting his machine is likely to take too long to be an acceptable delay.
Cockup or conspiracy? Probably cockup - but quite likely they'll discover they've made more by hanging on to cash for a few extra days than this will cost them in customers.
Not with £300 per customer compensation as their first offer.
I switched off NW/RBOS when I (banked with them since 1978) joined their online banking and saw.asp in their URL.
ASPX, not ASP. And I personally don't see an awful lot wrong with ASP.NET MVC. I'm assuming they didn't use vanilla ASP.NET, because their pages aren't using the witless state tracking mechanism that ordinary ASP.NET pages use.
Ok, so how does having copyright last until 75 years AFTER THE DEATH of the author benefit the author?
The question is not how it benefits them after the fact. The question is: does the possibility of earning royalties after death affect the likelihood of creators spending the effort to create their work. And the simple fact is, yes (as much as any revenue possibility does), because people have an instinctive desire to provide for their children. Now, 75 years is probably longer than actually has any useful effect (I'd guess that about 40 years is roughly the limit beyond which it makes no difference at all to how most people think, being roughly how long after you die that it's likely your children will die, on average).
It's because you live in an uncivilized country that doesn't consider working mothers as important. Over here in the UK, the government would have paid for 70% of the costs of that daycare while she was working (assuming you earned less than ~$75K between you).
I love that Libertarians have made such impressive political inroads that, in your obvious and abject fear of them, you resort to your reflexive "MY TEAM IS BETTER THAN THEIR TEAM" screed, and don't even realize that in combining "conservatives" and "libertarians" you're admitting you don't realize they're completely opposing idealogies.
Only if you have a one-dimensional view of political positions. In the classical 2d grid (which places economic focus on individual horizontally while authoritarianism is placed vertically), they both occupy rightward positions, while conservatism is above the axis while libertarianism is below it. "Liberals" (in the US sense) are on the bottom left, while communists are on the top left.
A $750 per week salary doesn't mean the GP poster is only paying $750 per week. I'd imagine he's paying more stuff on top of that: taxes, benefits (medical insurance ain't cheap), expenses, pension contributions, having the space in his office for the employee to work, keeping a working computer for the employee (which means both hardware and time for the IT guys to maintain it), employers' liability insurance, accountant to manage the payroll (which is much more complex than paying an external subcontractor), and so on.
OK, I find it hard to believe he hits $2K, but he's probably up to well over $1K, so maybe he's just rounding? That ties in with it being closer to 10x the $125/wk his outsourced programmers are, too.
please understand, that intent is not the burden in civil law: only the ability*. If you HAVE something that is capable of receiving live broadcast video, then according to the Telecommunications Act you require a license - regardless of whether or not you bought a HDMI-ported TV with the intention of plugging in an antenna or you bought it because your graphics card has an HDMI output and the TV is a quarter the price of a professional panel with the same specification. The fact is that it *can* receive a signal and decode it, therefore the finding is that you are liable.
You don’t need a TV Licence to own or possess a television set. However, if you use it to watch programmes as they are being shown on TV then you need a TV Licence in order to do so. Part 4 of the Communications Act 2003 sets out the requirement for a TV Licence. Section 363 makes it an offence to install or use a television receiver or possess or have control of a television receiver with the intent to install or use it or possess or have control of a television receiver and know or have reasonable grounds for believing that another person intends to install or use it without a valid TV Licence issued under the Communications Act. If you own or possess a television set without installing or using it as a TV receiver (e.g. you only use it to watch videos or DVDs, or as a monitor for a games console) then you don’t need a TV Licence.
Stuff like Asimov, Heinlein, Tolkien, Verne, H. G. Wells, and so on. They may be "classics". But they don't appeal to a modern reader without a background in the genre. They're not a starting point: the writing style is not the same modern style a new reader is likely to be familiar with, which will be offputting, and the science is often outdated which can be a problem for suspension of disbelief. Save them for later.
Look at popular modern books, instead. They'll be more accessible, which will make the entire process easier. Hunger Games, perhaps? Suggestions of Pratchett are good from the fantasy side (Maurice and his Educated Rodents is a great introduction to the idea of metafiction, while Wee Free Men and the sequels are great from a more traditional perspective, all easily accessible to a young reader).
Perhaps if instead of the $120 2TB hard disk you had instead decided to spend the same money on an SSD, you might be a little more concerned about the amount of space things used and a little less concerned about how fast they were (you'd have got about 128GB of space, but it'd be lightning fast to access...).
Different computers need different optimizations because they have different performance characteristics and capabilities. One-size-fits-all solutions will always be suboptimal for some proportion of your market.
Either you're talking about the wrong vulnerability, or Xen.org is wrong. Red Hat has already said this bug affects at least some of their products - and specifically refers to the Xen hypervisor.
This is a bug in CPU exception handling. Xen handles such exceptions itself, then reflects them to the necessary guest OS if required. The fact that Linux is secure doesn't mean Xen will be, even if Linux is the running guest.
Just making a wild guess: because OSX has an executable format designed to cope with varying CPU architectures, and can therefore stuff both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of a library in a single file, while other systems need to have separate files for each version, resulting in both Windows and Linux having separate directory hierarchies (Program Files + Program Files (x86), or/usr/lib +/usr/lib64 under linux) to ensure libraries for one arch don't get loaded by programs for the other.
MS12-042 is a package with fixes for three unrelated flaws. Details for this particular flaw are hidden under "Vulnerability Information" / "User Mode Scheduler Memory Corruption Vulnerability - CVE-2012-0217":
Mitigating Factors for User Mode Scheduler Memory Corruption Vulnerability - CVE-2012-0217 [...] This vulnerability only affects Intel x64-based versions of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Systems with AMD or ARM-based CPUs are not affected by this vulnerability.
It's pretty well documented that once you hit 1080p you need a 37"+ display to see the difference
At regular TV viewing distances (about 2-3m), perhaps this is true. Most people sit a lot closer to their monitors than that.
A person with average eyesight can detect differences on a scale of 1 arc-minute. A 37" (94cm) 1080px vertical (2203px diagonal) display has 0.43mm pixels. The distance at which this level of detail is resolvable for most people is about 94cm/tan(1/60 degrees) = about 1m50.
I sit around 40cm from my monitor. This means (assuming I have average eyesight) I can detect the improvement from increasing beyond this resolution with any display larger than 37"*(40/150) = about 10".
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It also mentions the judge thought they were asking for too much money (though it was only for £137.50, which, even if they only stole a £5 item, doesn't really seem like much when you consider time, legal fees, and punitive damages...though I'm not familiar with UK law)
This wasn't for legal fees. At least some of the threads are still on the CAG web site, and the most relevant one is this one. They were after £137.50 + £115 legal costs.
Yeah, but I'm still browsing old threads and finding references to files that were on megaupload and nowhere else. Just today I was looking for an experimental open source firmware for my wireless router, but the developers have long since abandoned the project, and they only left their files on megaupload.
Yes, but *why* is it unique? There is nothing about its purpose (to protect those who are too immature to make certain decisions for themselves from being abused by those who would use various techniques of persuasion to push them into making the decision in a particular way and therefore end up doing something that may well damage them emotionally, psychologically or financially for a large chunk of their life) that means it should be applied any more universally than, say, laws against drink driving (purpose: to protect innocent bystanders from significant risk of bodily harm and/or death). In fact, I'd say the potential consequences of drink driving are far worse than those of underage sex and/or prostitution, therefore there's more of a case in such a situation.
Here in the UK you can usually travel to a foreign country and do something legal there that is illegal in the UK without fear of repercussion when you return to the UK.
Erm, no you can't. We have some laws against this kind of behaviour (although not as strict as the US ones), e.g. Section 59 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, which prevents you from arranging for a person to leave the country with plans that involve a "relevant offence" (which includes "anything done outside England and Wales and Northern Ireland which is not an offence [...] but would be if done in England and Wales or Northern Ireland") being performed on them. This means that you can't, for instance, take your 14 year old girlfriend to Spain for the purposes of having sex with her, despite the fact that it would be legal to have sex with her if you met her there.
I would love kio_slaves if they were implemented in a desktop independent manner. What good reason is there for virtual file systems to be tied to a GUI?
They are implemented in a desktop independent manner, simply not at kernel level. You can however install a bridge:
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KioFuse
Yes, but you're assuming that content creators act rationally. In reality, everyone assumes that the work they produce is going to be one of the rare cases that continues earning for a long period, however unrealistic this may be. And it doesn't matter from a legislative perspective what the reality is: the only question is what stimulates artists to create. And outside of the minority that would create even if there were no possibility of financial reward, length of copyright terms after death is actually a consideration.
I have to say that I'm:
1. Impressed that they have a forth compiler, and
2. Impressed that I remember enough forth to get something to compile and run at first attempt
(for reference:
: bollocks dup * ;
2 bollocks .
which evaluates to 4)
One option would be to boot your system off a usb key/external drive
This is very unlikely to be acceptable to the employer. If they require OP to be present and are therefore paying him, it seems quite likely they might need him at short notice (consider, for example, a call center environment with sharp peaks in demand). Rebooting his machine is likely to take too long to be an acceptable delay.
That's probably the only reason why it got popular... There weren't any open source NoSQL DBs at the time
Zope? BDB? Both of these were available at the time MySQL became popular.
Cockup or conspiracy? Probably cockup - but quite likely they'll discover they've made more by hanging on to cash for a few extra days than this will cost them in customers.
Not with £300 per customer compensation as their first offer.
I switched off NW/RBOS when I (banked with them since 1978) joined their online banking and saw .asp in their URL.
ASPX, not ASP. And I personally don't see an awful lot wrong with ASP.NET MVC. I'm assuming they didn't use vanilla ASP.NET, because their pages aren't using the witless state tracking mechanism that ordinary ASP.NET pages use.
Ok, so how does having copyright last until 75 years AFTER THE DEATH of the author benefit the author?
The question is not how it benefits them after the fact. The question is: does the possibility of earning royalties after death affect the likelihood of creators spending the effort to create their work. And the simple fact is, yes (as much as any revenue possibility does), because people have an instinctive desire to provide for their children. Now, 75 years is probably longer than actually has any useful effect (I'd guess that about 40 years is roughly the limit beyond which it makes no difference at all to how most people think, being roughly how long after you die that it's likely your children will die, on average).
It's because you live in an uncivilized country that doesn't consider working mothers as important. Over here in the UK, the government would have paid for 70% of the costs of that daycare while she was working (assuming you earned less than ~$75K between you).
I love that Libertarians have made such impressive political inroads that, in your obvious and abject fear of them, you resort to your reflexive "MY TEAM IS BETTER THAN THEIR TEAM" screed, and don't even realize that in combining "conservatives" and "libertarians" you're admitting you don't realize they're completely opposing idealogies.
Only if you have a one-dimensional view of political positions. In the classical 2d grid (which places economic focus on individual horizontally while authoritarianism is placed vertically), they both occupy rightward positions, while conservatism is above the axis while libertarianism is below it. "Liberals" (in the US sense) are on the bottom left, while communists are on the top left.
A $750 per week salary doesn't mean the GP poster is only paying $750 per week. I'd imagine he's paying more stuff on top of that: taxes, benefits (medical insurance ain't cheap), expenses, pension contributions, having the space in his office for the employee to work, keeping a working computer for the employee (which means both hardware and time for the IT guys to maintain it), employers' liability insurance, accountant to manage the payroll (which is much more complex than paying an external subcontractor), and so on.
OK, I find it hard to believe he hits $2K, but he's probably up to well over $1K, so maybe he's just rounding? That ties in with it being closer to 10x the $125/wk his outsourced programmers are, too.
please understand, that intent is not the burden in civil law: only the ability*. If you HAVE something that is capable of receiving live broadcast video, then according to the Telecommunications Act you require a license - regardless of whether or not you bought a HDMI-ported TV with the intention of plugging in an antenna or you bought it because your graphics card has an HDMI output and the TV is a quarter the price of a professional panel with the same specification. The fact is that it *can* receive a signal and decode it, therefore the finding is that you are liable.
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Stuff like Asimov, Heinlein, Tolkien, Verne, H. G. Wells, and so on. They may be "classics". But they don't appeal to a modern reader without a background in the genre. They're not a starting point: the writing style is not the same modern style a new reader is likely to be familiar with, which will be offputting, and the science is often outdated which can be a problem for suspension of disbelief. Save them for later.
Look at popular modern books, instead. They'll be more accessible, which will make the entire process easier. Hunger Games, perhaps? Suggestions of Pratchett are good from the fantasy side (Maurice and his Educated Rodents is a great introduction to the idea of metafiction, while Wee Free Men and the sequels are great from a more traditional perspective, all easily accessible to a young reader).
Perhaps if instead of the $120 2TB hard disk you had instead decided to spend the same money on an SSD, you might be a little more concerned about the amount of space things used and a little less concerned about how fast they were (you'd have got about 128GB of space, but it'd be lightning fast to access...).
Different computers need different optimizations because they have different performance characteristics and capabilities. One-size-fits-all solutions will always be suboptimal for some proportion of your market.
... but isn't Windows 7 Embedded Compact the new name for what used to be called (much more appropriately) WinCE?
In other words, this is an almost-useless piece of junk that runs a nearly dead operating system that is being dropped by MS in its next version.
I bought something very similar in the UK for about £30 a couple of years ago. It was useless then, it'll be useless now.
This new API requires developers to get IV's of liquid pain injected into their bodies, and allows them to experience coding mistakes first hand.
So, it's like coding on Windows ME, then?
I wonder how the EU, which required them to offer a choice of 3rd party browsers to purchasers of older versions of Windows, will react to this news?
In long (64-bit) mode, Intel provides SYSRET and not SYSEXIT in order to conform to AMD's spec.
I believe you are incorrect. They provide both instructions in long mode, but only SYSEXIT in 32-bit compatibility mode. Wikipedia puts it this way:
Either you're talking about the wrong vulnerability, or Xen.org is wrong. Red Hat has already said this bug affects at least some of their products - and specifically refers to the Xen hypervisor.
This is a bug in CPU exception handling. Xen handles such exceptions itself, then reflects them to the necessary guest OS if required. The fact that Linux is secure doesn't mean Xen will be, even if Linux is the running guest.
Just making a wild guess: because OSX has an executable format designed to cope with varying CPU architectures, and can therefore stuff both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of a library in a single file, while other systems need to have separate files for each version, resulting in both Windows and Linux having separate directory hierarchies (Program Files + Program Files (x86), or /usr/lib + /usr/lib64 under linux) to ensure libraries for one arch don't get loaded by programs for the other.
MS12-042 is a package with fixes for three unrelated flaws. Details for this particular flaw are hidden under "Vulnerability Information" / "User Mode Scheduler Memory Corruption Vulnerability - CVE-2012-0217":
It's pretty well documented that once you hit 1080p you need a 37"+ display to see the difference
At regular TV viewing distances (about 2-3m), perhaps this is true. Most people sit a lot closer to their monitors than that.
A person with average eyesight can detect differences on a scale of 1 arc-minute. A 37" (94cm) 1080px vertical (2203px diagonal) display has 0.43mm pixels. The distance at which this level of detail is resolvable for most people is about 94cm/tan(1/60 degrees) = about 1m50.
I sit around 40cm from my monitor. This means (assuming I have average eyesight) I can detect the improvement from increasing beyond this resolution with any display larger than 37"*(40/150) = about 10".