I started my comment with As long as documentation is given that somebody is paying for editing an article. Besides, Sarah Stierch was an employee of WMF, not a plain contributor of Wikipedia.
As long as documentation is given that somebody is paying for editing an article, and of course if the contributed text respects NPOV (and the subject is considered worth to be present in Wikipedia), there is no problem at all.
After all, you may use Wikipedia articles in a commercial work: it is sufficient that it is released under CC-BY-SA. So what's bad in being paid for writing?
Wikibooks is a project under the umbrella of wikipedia which aims to create "a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit". Were it for me, the mathematical demonstrations will go there...
(disclaimer: I have a degree in maths)
You do not really have big battles over articles like "Pythagorean theorem"
Funny you say this, since in Italian Wikipedia it gets modified (for the worse) twice a month:-)
Since the end of the 70s, smaller Italian coins (5, 10, 20 lire: more or less.3,.6 and 1.2 cents) disappeared, since they were worth more than their nominal value. The funniest thing was that to avoid the same fate for 50 and 100 lire the Government decided to coin new coins which were identical to the old ones except that they were smaller in size!
If I am not wrong, there is a subdomain.tm.fr for trade marks estabilished in France, so there is even more tenuous ground for Kraft. But we saw what happened in Italy with armani.it, formerly owned by a Luca Armani who has an (office) stamp shop and who was forced to resign it and to get timbrificio.com instead.
I haven't seen this story picked up on any other news outlet yet
Maybe you looked at the wrong sources:-)
Anyway, if you are interested in knowing more, have a look at the records at SPEWS .
ciao,.mau.
I had a 5mx, and I switched to SL-5500 last year. Psion has a more usable keyboard (dunno about C-7x0, it would be too much of a hassle to import one in Italy), but Z is workable.
I like Zaurus because I have a real PC in my pocket!
When I think of an adventure, my mind goes to Infocom... or even the PDP-11 version of Zork, whose name I am forgetting in this moment.
It is obvious that those kind of games do not exist anymore - what the heck, even Linux starts with a GUI!
ciao,.mau.
What kind of twisted in-bred retard would type in uk.co by accident?
I am old enough to remember the times of JANET which, in a very British way, wrote the address backwards. Thus, an address like user@example.co.uk should be entered as user@uk.co.example. True, in those days the treat was to mistype.uk.ac, but the basic idea is the same...
ciao,.mau.
I never had problems even at 60Hz. I can notice that 72Hz is better, but 80Hz gives me nothing more. What I found very useful is photocromatic lenses (I have a heavy myopia). It seems that polarizing light helps my sight!
The controversy was all about Apple's assertion that all you need is ethernet.
Apple is used to such things. I remember that back in 1986 I had to write my thesis on a Mac (one of the first models, just two floppy discs) with no arrow keys. Everytime I wanted to correct my text, I had to move my hand to the
mouse, and positioning the cursor in the needed place.
It's quite funny that people still look at the elimination of the sites as an act against free speech.
First of all, if any US citizen wants to mirror the old contents, he is quite free to do it, and the Italian police could not do anything to him, since he is not subject to Italian law.
Pity that things are a bit different. I had a look at the Google cache of one of the sites. The revealing lines are those at the bottom, which I try to translate below. (Well, I am a
bit at a loss, I do not know the English form
for a lot of those terms)
Connections are really speedy... so you'll quickly download a tonful of good stuff... 11 PORN sites + videochat with online bad chicks+ access to the BIG BROTHEL (!!)
+ 2000 headlines with cellular phone number... what fucking else do you want?
Well, the links are to a URL, "sesso.exe", which seems suspiciously like a dialer (don't know if you call it so - it's a program which
closes the connection to your ISP, and opens
another one to a premium number). So the site was actually hosting a scam, and this matches the closing from "Guardia di Finanza" (the Italian police corps more or less like the SEC).
It could even be that the allegations of "the Church had the sites closed!" are a cover up from the owners of the sites, so that the real reason is not shown.
I find it odd that nobody has asked the question: "How the _HELL_ did Italian authorities get the jurisdiction to put up a block on a site located in the U.S.?"
IANAL, but (unfortunately:-)) I know a few lawyers. When talking about a similar case in a now-dead "Italian Internet Governance Project", they explained me that an Italian citizen is liable for Italian law even if he did not commit his (Italian) crime in Italy!
Therefore I believe that the people who registered the domains are Italian citizens, and this gave Italian police the necessary loophole.
A stranger thing: I am rather sure that a pronunciation from the Corte Costituzionale (More or less an equivalent of the Supreme Court) stated that blasphemy is only against the name of God, and not against the Virgin Mary.
I ordered some CDs from amazon.com a few weeks back. Two days ago I received a notice that I needed to go to my local postal depot to pay a customs charge before I could collect my package
My experience (more than 10 years in buying abroad) is more mixed.
It is true that every purchase of goods went through custom offices, but I noticed that there was not a consistent behaviour. Especially if I had a small order (say, a Linux distro when they were made of 2 disks for 20$) the package was cleared and I got it at home: but larger orders were stopped, and I had to pay both custom duties (4.5% from US to Italy) and VAT (20%).
Nowadays I prefer to use offshore services like
http://www.play247.com/ for music. As for books,
amazon.co.uk charges me with Italian VAT (it's
just 4% in that case), so I think that the scenario depicted in the "news" at Yahoo! is already being enforced at least in part.
I keep wondering why big companies like HP and Sun choose linux, instead of freeBSD. Although I'm not an expert on any of them, as far as I understand the BSD structure resembles SunOS and HP/UX more than Linux.
AFAIK, SunOs 4.x (for those of us who are old enough) was more BSD-oriented, but Solaris 2 had phased towards System V. This could be one of the reasons behind the choice.
You're missing the point. Sysadmins should behave in such a way that when they crucify users that get out of line and then set the crosses on fire, the users think that they *are* being nice to them.
Not quite.
Users must think that sysadmins are being nice
to them in spite of their incredible tight scheduling, so that they will think twice before
bothering them again.
A sysadmin wants to deal with systems, not with users.
If estimation on the number of received spam messages are correct, people will eventually be forced to subscribe to "pay-for-despamming" mailboxes, where the ISPs will screen incoming email. True, some hardcore unix fan will still manage to have a real shell on a remote machine, and work harder and harder to update their procmail scripts, but the future won't be their.
Look, don't try to talk this over the OS advocacy gulf.
I think it's you that started the OS war again:-)
I can't speak for NT, but on Unix the "low level" necessary to do real work is C, not assembler... you may even write device drivers in C, at least in part, since the model is sufficiently formal.
When I was young, I tried to make sense of Sparc assembler, and I could not make heads out of tails. True, my only exposure was to 6502 assembler and a bit of 8086, but this showed me that assembler was no more so relevant. And it was 10 years ago!
YMMV, of course, especially if you are programming space probes, or real real time games.
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I started my comment with As long as documentation is given that somebody is paying for editing an article. Besides, Sarah Stierch was an employee of WMF, not a plain contributor of Wikipedia.
As long as documentation is given that somebody is paying for editing an article, and of course if the contributed text respects NPOV (and the subject is considered worth to be present in Wikipedia), there is no problem at all. After all, you may use Wikipedia articles in a commercial work: it is sufficient that it is released under CC-BY-SA. So what's bad in being paid for writing?
Wikibooks is a project under the umbrella of wikipedia which aims to create "a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit". Were it for me, the mathematical demonstrations will go there... (disclaimer: I have a degree in maths)
You do not really have big battles over articles like "Pythagorean theorem" :-)
Funny you say this, since in Italian Wikipedia it gets modified (for the worse) twice a month
Since the end of the 70s, smaller Italian coins (5, 10, 20 lire: more or less .3, .6 and 1.2 cents) disappeared, since they were worth more than their nominal value. The funniest thing was that to avoid the same fate for 50 and 100 lire the Government decided to coin new coins which were identical to the old ones except that they were smaller in size!
Needless to say, no Italian newspaper ever cares to cite that the news was pointed out by an Italian blogger, Gianluca Neri of Macchianera.
If I am not wrong, there is a subdomain .tm.fr for trade marks estabilished in France, so there is even more tenuous ground for Kraft. But we saw what happened in Italy with armani.it, formerly owned by a Luca Armani who has an (office) stamp shop and who was forced to resign it and to get timbrificio.com instead.
Whoever tried to use the phone keys understood the logic beneath WAP: you needed a TLA which could be digited with just three keypress.
I haven't seen this story picked up on any other news outlet yet :-)
Anyway, if you are interested in knowing more, have a look at the records at SPEWS .
ciao, .mau.
Maybe you looked at the wrong sources
I had a 5mx, and I switched to SL-5500 last year. Psion has a more usable keyboard (dunno about C-7x0, it would be too much of a hassle to import one in Italy), but Z is workable. I like Zaurus because I have a real PC in my pocket!
When I think of an adventure, my mind goes to Infocom... or even the PDP-11 version of Zork, whose name I am forgetting in this moment. .mau.
It is obvious that those kind of games do not exist anymore - what the heck, even Linux starts with a GUI!
ciao,
What kind of twisted in-bred retard would type in uk.co by accident? .uk.ac, but the basic idea is the same... .mau.
I am old enough to remember the times of JANET which, in a very British way, wrote the address backwards. Thus, an address like user@example.co.uk should be entered as user@uk.co.example. True, in those days the treat was to mistype
ciao,
I never had problems even at 60Hz. I can notice that 72Hz is better, but 80Hz gives me nothing more.
.mau.
What I found very useful is photocromatic lenses (I have a heavy myopia). It seems that polarizing light helps my sight!
ciao,
But when the Uzi people finally get wind of this fellow, you can bet he'll change his tune.
Ever wondered why Uzis are called that way?
ciao, .mau.
For one, I routinely use vt100 emulation.
ciao, .mau.
What? somebody actually wants to boost online music sales?
ciao, .mau.
Apple is used to such things. I remember that back in 1986 I had to write my thesis on a Mac (one of the first models, just two floppy discs) with no arrow keys. Everytime I wanted to correct my text, I had to move my hand to the mouse, and positioning the cursor in the needed place.
ciao, .mau.
It's quite funny that people still look at the elimination of the sites as an act against free speech.
First of all, if any US citizen wants to mirror the old contents, he is quite free to do it, and the Italian police could not do anything to him, since he is not subject to Italian law.
Pity that things are a bit different. I had a look at the Google cache of one of the sites. The revealing lines are those at the bottom, which I try to translate below. (Well, I am a bit at a loss, I do not know the English form for a lot of those terms)
Connections are really speedy... so you'll quickly download a tonful of good stuff... ... what fucking else do you want?
11 PORN sites + videochat with online bad chicks+ access to the BIG BROTHEL (!!) + 2000 headlines with cellular phone number
Well, the links are to a URL, "sesso.exe", which seems suspiciously like a dialer (don't know if you call it so - it's a program which closes the connection to your ISP, and opens another one to a premium number). So the site was actually hosting a scam, and this matches the closing from "Guardia di Finanza" (the Italian police corps more or less like the SEC).
It could even be that the allegations of "the Church had the sites closed!" are a cover up from the owners of the sites, so that the real reason is not shown.
ciao, .mau.
I find it odd that nobody has asked the question: "How the _HELL_ did Italian authorities get the jurisdiction to put up a block on a site located in the U.S.?"
IANAL, but (unfortunately :-)) I know a few lawyers. When talking about a similar case in a now-dead "Italian Internet Governance Project", they explained me that an Italian citizen is liable for Italian law even if he did not commit his (Italian) crime in Italy!
Therefore I believe that the people who registered the domains are Italian citizens, and this gave Italian police the necessary loophole.
A stranger thing: I am rather sure that a pronunciation from the Corte Costituzionale (More or less an equivalent of the Supreme Court) stated that blasphemy is only against the name of God, and not against the Virgin Mary.
ciao, .mau.
You Americans never saw Sinclair ZX80, obviously.
.mau.
This was a fine example of something quite completely unlike a keyboard...
ciao,
I ordered some CDs from amazon.com a few weeks back. Two days ago I received a notice that I needed to go to my local postal depot to pay a customs charge before I could collect my package
My experience (more than 10 years in buying abroad) is more mixed.
It is true that every purchase of goods went through custom offices, but I noticed that there was not a consistent behaviour. Especially if I had a small order (say, a Linux distro when they were made of 2 disks for 20$) the package was cleared and I got it at home: but larger orders were stopped, and I had to pay both custom duties (4.5% from US to Italy) and VAT (20%).
Nowadays I prefer to use offshore services like http://www.play247.com/ for music. As for books, amazon.co.uk charges me with Italian VAT (it's just 4% in that case), so I think that the scenario depicted in the "news" at Yahoo! is already being enforced at least in part.
ciao, .mau.
I keep wondering why big companies like HP and Sun choose linux, instead of freeBSD. Although I'm not an expert on any of them, as far as I understand the BSD structure resembles SunOS and HP/UX more than Linux.
AFAIK, SunOs 4.x (for those of us who are old enough) was more BSD-oriented, but Solaris 2 had phased towards System V. This could be one of the reasons behind the choice.
ciao, .mau.
You're missing the point. Sysadmins should behave in such a way that when they crucify users that get out of line and then set the crosses on fire, the users think that they *are* being nice to them.
Not quite.
ciao,Users must think that sysadmins are being nice to them in spite of their incredible tight scheduling, so that they will think twice before bothering them again.
A sysadmin wants to deal with systems, not with users.
If estimation on the number of received spam messages are correct, people will eventually be forced to subscribe to "pay-for-despamming" mailboxes, where the ISPs will screen incoming email. True, some hardcore unix fan will still manage to have a real shell on a remote machine, and work harder and harder to update their procmail scripts, but the future won't be their.
.mau.
What a sad thought.
ciao,
Look, don't try to talk this over the OS advocacy gulf.
I think it's you that started the OS war again :-)
I can't speak for NT, but on Unix the "low level" necessary to do real work is C, not assembler... you may even write device drivers in C, at least in part, since the model is sufficiently formal.
When I was young, I tried to make sense of Sparc assembler, and I could not make heads out of tails. True, my only exposure was to 6502 assembler and a bit of 8086, but this showed me that assembler was no more so relevant. And it was 10 years ago!
YMMV, of course, especially if you are programming space probes, or real real time games.
ciao, .mau.