There are places in Colorado where it's nearly impossible to stay under the speed limit without having your foot constantly on the brakes for several minutes at a time (these are the roads with the big runaway truck ramps every couple minutes). What people tend to do is coast until they're a bit over the limit and then apply the brakes until they're a fair amount under the limit and let the brakes cool while they coast again. If a cop sees you doing this you'll get a ticket, even if you were just doing it to prevent the larger problem of having your brakes fail.
Look at the parent post again. He was talking about the administrator of his home network. I don't think he should worry too much about censoring himself.
Take a look at the.name TLD. You don't own www.lastname.name, instead you can register www.you.lastname.name. If you go to the generic page, it gives you information about the.name system (and links to a bunch of registrars that can register your name for you).
I seem to recall that MS released a version of.net for OSX and one of the BSD's. These weren't complete production versions (in particular they lacked Windows Forms and the license was intended for personal use), but they showed that it was possible for.net to be a multi-platform technology. Also, links to the mono project seem to come up with some regularity in posts by MS representatives on various newsgroups and message boards.
I was actually thinking along the lives of wav or a lossless encoding. You get the advantages of having a digital copy, but you can then encode it in other formats without stacking the loss of quality. If your music is in 128kbps mp3, you aren't going to get a better sound if any new format comes along. You'll just get smaller file sizes with equal or lesser quality.
The thing is, they aren't CD's for that price. They're mp3 files which are worth less than the CD tracks themselves. With a CD I can re-rip the tracks if a better music format comes along.
In IE6, I can already get a prompt that asks "Do you want to allow software such as ActiveX controls and plug-ins to run?". You can also choose to get prompted for (un)signed controls when they are first downloaded and installed. It looks like you can also set up IE to only run Administrator approved controls, or choose to disable them altogether.
All this change will do is prompt in certain situations regardless of the security settings you have chosen.
It isn't really about restricting advertising in TV shows, it's about the truth of those advertisements. There are restrictions on what you can say in a normal ad (you can't create an ad that says smoking cigarettes will cure lung cancer). The issue is whether the cigarette company could instead pay a tv show to do it for them.
If you read the post, they present evidence that the kernel itself was modified (as opposed to kernel modules). Because the modifications to the kernel weren't released, you can't build a kernel that is able to load their modules. In fact, as they distribute it, the kernel itself won't compile if you enable network device support since they have removed a required config file from the distribution.
The X-Files seasons I've seen at Best Buy seemed to be a fair amount more than $30. Part of it might be that the show has hour long episodes, so it comes on more DVD's than, say, the Simpsons (which tend to be around $30 per season).
I was on a high school band trip a couple years ago. The band was split up onto three planes. The first two were normal with just the random checks. But for the third group, all 60 of them were selected to be searched at the gate and no one else on that flight was. Same exact thing on the way back (same people, but this time they were the first group to leave).
When I encrypted the communication for my Logitech keyboard, it asked me to type in a particular sequence of letters. I assume it's only encrpyted between the keyboard and the base station, because it still worked under Linux (it was only because I hooked it up to my laptop running XP that I discovered it could be encrypted).
I take it you didn't get to the second page, then. An executive at a music company was caught with a copy of a $895 research report that he had gotten from another studio. He had been talking to a guy at the company that wrote the report and had been less than eager to explain how he got a copy of their report.
It's not exactly specific to webbrowsers, but instead to hypermedia. So it would apply to anything that has an HTML component that supports plugins. It does not, however, cover plugins for other aspects (a plugin to display a video inside a hypertext document would be convered by the patent, but a plugin for IE that added a new menu bar to the webbrowser would not be covered).
There are ways of getting stand-alone patches that don't require an internet connection. At RPI when they were distributing 1300+ laptops at the beginning of the year (most likely more, but I don't have the numbers), they also gave out a CD containing the latest antivirus definitions and the RPC patch with a sheet of instructions on setting up and patching the laptop before hooking it up to the network. When I needed to do the patch later, I just used google to find the file and download it on a linux box to burn to a CD.
While I agree that it's a lot of money, the RIAA doesn't demand payment immediately (as I had assumed). One of my friends was sued by the RIAA and was given a few years to pay them. (Many of the people who settle sign an agreement to keep silent, so I can't go into detail). Anyway, that fact could make a difference to this family if they do get donations from people who hear about it. Basically, they could get the money upfront and invest it (savings account or something)and come out ahead, making the RIAA look stupider.
In 9th grade my Biology teacher was doing a foreign exchange program with the IB program (he came from England and the teacher at my school went there for a year). Most people were aware of the differences in popular British English (things that you might see on BBC or movies). But some of the words relating to biology were a bit less well known.
Aluminium wasn't hard, but it was strange to hear for the first time. And I personally prefer the sound over aluminum. But toward the end of the year he went on about "squittles". We all stared at him blankly for a while. Then he said, "You know, squittles, those little furry animals that eat nuts" (and proceeded to act out the motions of a squirrel). Of course, the spelling is the same, but the pronunciation was enough to make it amusing.
It downloads an rpm of the Linux 2.4.13 source, converts it to a.tar.bz2 and then unarchives it in the current directory (using RPM to install would have put it whereever the RPM packager had intended instead of the current directory). So nothing really special, just a copy of the linux source tree from SCO's ftp site.
Any long text gets broken up after so many characters. It's intended to stop a troll (or someone posting very long links) from enlarging everyone's browser window horizontally.
Forget SCO, first they need to pay me $0.01 per transistor so that I won't sue them for switching to Linux. (And that's a hold harmless agreement as long as they only run the system on even numbered days; the fee is $1 per transistor for every day usage)
You'd think they'd take the RIAA's approach. You go after small targets. If I can't afford to represent myself in court I might settle and avoid the issue.
But no, they went after IBM. At least that could be viewed as an attempt to get bought out. But that excuse doesn't work when you go after the US gov't. The IRS and the SEC will be showing up soon. The FBI will be reviewing its records for any mention of the executives. And if none of the above work, taxpayer money will be spent until SCO is completely destroyed.
The really great thing about them going after everyone with a large budget for legal costs is that they are more and more likely to lose at least once. And as soon as they lose one, the GPL takes over and they lose the rest (or that person/company is suddenly responsible for distributing their personal copy of linux to the rest of the world).
Strangely enough, SCO has a link right to the GPL on their SCO source page. How could anyone get through the Preamble and not be convinced SCO's license is bogus?
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There are places in Colorado where it's nearly impossible to stay under the speed limit without having your foot constantly on the brakes for several minutes at a time (these are the roads with the big runaway truck ramps every couple minutes). What people tend to do is coast until they're a bit over the limit and then apply the brakes until they're a fair amount under the limit and let the brakes cool while they coast again. If a cop sees you doing this you'll get a ticket, even if you were just doing it to prevent the larger problem of having your brakes fail.
Look at the parent post again. He was talking about the administrator of his home network. I don't think he should worry too much about censoring himself.
Take a look at the .name TLD. You don't own www.lastname.name, instead you can register www.you.lastname.name. If you go to the generic page, it gives you information about the .name system (and links to a bunch of registrars that can register your name for you).
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I seem to recall that MS released a version of .net for OSX and one of the BSD's. These weren't complete production versions (in particular they lacked Windows Forms and the license was intended for personal use), but they showed that it was possible for .net to be a multi-platform technology. Also, links to the mono project seem to come up with some regularity in posts by MS representatives on various newsgroups and message boards.
I was actually thinking along the lives of wav or a lossless encoding. You get the advantages of having a digital copy, but you can then encode it in other formats without stacking the loss of quality. If your music is in 128kbps mp3, you aren't going to get a better sound if any new format comes along. You'll just get smaller file sizes with equal or lesser quality.
The thing is, they aren't CD's for that price. They're mp3 files which are worth less than the CD tracks themselves. With a CD I can re-rip the tracks if a better music format comes along.
In IE6, I can already get a prompt that asks "Do you want to allow software such as ActiveX controls and plug-ins to run?". You can also choose to get prompted for (un)signed controls when they are first downloaded and installed. It looks like you can also set up IE to only run Administrator approved controls, or choose to disable them altogether.
All this change will do is prompt in certain situations regardless of the security settings you have chosen.
It isn't really about restricting advertising in TV shows, it's about the truth of those advertisements. There are restrictions on what you can say in a normal ad (you can't create an ad that says smoking cigarettes will cure lung cancer). The issue is whether the cigarette company could instead pay a tv show to do it for them.
If you read the post, they present evidence that the kernel itself was modified (as opposed to kernel modules). Because the modifications to the kernel weren't released, you can't build a kernel that is able to load their modules. In fact, as they distribute it, the kernel itself won't compile if you enable network device support since they have removed a required config file from the distribution.
The X-Files seasons I've seen at Best Buy seemed to be a fair amount more than $30. Part of it might be that the show has hour long episodes, so it comes on more DVD's than, say, the Simpsons (which tend to be around $30 per season).
I was on a high school band trip a couple years ago. The band was split up onto three planes. The first two were normal with just the random checks. But for the third group, all 60 of them were selected to be searched at the gate and no one else on that flight was. Same exact thing on the way back (same people, but this time they were the first group to leave).
When I encrypted the communication for my Logitech keyboard, it asked me to type in a particular sequence of letters. I assume it's only encrpyted between the keyboard and the base station, because it still worked under Linux (it was only because I hooked it up to my laptop running XP that I discovered it could be encrypted).
I take it you didn't get to the second page, then. An executive at a music company was caught with a copy of a $895 research report that he had gotten from another studio. He had been talking to a guy at the company that wrote the report and had been less than eager to explain how he got a copy of their report.
Except with Knoppix, the 'K' isn't silent. Knoppix is from Knopper, which is a German name. Unlike English, the k in kn is pronounced.
It's not exactly specific to webbrowsers, but instead to hypermedia. So it would apply to anything that has an HTML component that supports plugins. It does not, however, cover plugins for other aspects (a plugin to display a video inside a hypertext document would be convered by the patent, but a plugin for IE that added a new menu bar to the webbrowser would not be covered).
There are ways of getting stand-alone patches that don't require an internet connection. At RPI when they were distributing 1300+ laptops at the beginning of the year (most likely more, but I don't have the numbers), they also gave out a CD containing the latest antivirus definitions and the RPC patch with a sheet of instructions on setting up and patching the laptop before hooking it up to the network. When I needed to do the patch later, I just used google to find the file and download it on a linux box to burn to a CD.
While I agree that it's a lot of money, the RIAA doesn't demand payment immediately (as I had assumed). One of my friends was sued by the RIAA and was given a few years to pay them. (Many of the people who settle sign an agreement to keep silent, so I can't go into detail). Anyway, that fact could make a difference to this family if they do get donations from people who hear about it. Basically, they could get the money upfront and invest it (savings account or something)and come out ahead, making the RIAA look stupider.
In 9th grade my Biology teacher was doing a foreign exchange program with the IB program (he came from England and the teacher at my school went there for a year). Most people were aware of the differences in popular British English (things that you might see on BBC or movies). But some of the words relating to biology were a bit less well known.
Aluminium wasn't hard, but it was strange to hear for the first time. And I personally prefer the sound over aluminum. But toward the end of the year he went on about "squittles". We all stared at him blankly for a while. Then he said, "You know, squittles, those little furry animals that eat nuts" (and proceeded to act out the motions of a squirrel). Of course, the spelling is the same, but the pronunciation was enough to make it amusing.
Oops... I missed the beginning of it. It'll unarchive it in /usr/src with any other kernel sources you have.
It downloads an rpm of the Linux 2.4.13 source, converts it to a .tar.bz2 and then unarchives it in the current directory (using RPM to install would have put it whereever the RPM packager had intended instead of the current directory). So nothing really special, just a copy of the linux source tree from SCO's ftp site.
Any long text gets broken up after so many characters. It's intended to stop a troll (or someone posting very long links) from enlarging everyone's browser window horizontally.
Forget SCO, first they need to pay me $0.01 per transistor so that I won't sue them for switching to Linux. (And that's a hold harmless agreement as long as they only run the system on even numbered days; the fee is $1 per transistor for every day usage)
You'd think they'd take the RIAA's approach. You go after small targets. If I can't afford to represent myself in court I might settle and avoid the issue.
But no, they went after IBM. At least that could be viewed as an attempt to get bought out. But that excuse doesn't work when you go after the US gov't. The IRS and the SEC will be showing up soon. The FBI will be reviewing its records for any mention of the executives. And if none of the above work, taxpayer money will be spent until SCO is completely destroyed.
The really great thing about them going after everyone with a large budget for legal costs is that they are more and more likely to lose at least once. And as soon as they lose one, the GPL takes over and they lose the rest (or that person/company is suddenly responsible for distributing their personal copy of linux to the rest of the world).
Strangely enough, SCO has a link right to the GPL on their SCO source page. How could anyone get through the Preamble and not be convinced SCO's license is bogus?