That can't be true. If you can claim you were the author of the code then that's equivalent to being able to claim copyright on it. If you have copyright on it you could then release it under another license, even a commercial one.
What the GPL doesn't require is attribution but that's different then allowing somebody to claim code as their own.
The document doesn't say to make false allegations of intimidation. What it says is that in jurisdictions where intimidation and misinformation has happened in the past be proactive. It says to make sure that the media reports on the past unethical activities so that people are both watching out for it and aware of their rights as voters.
I was raised Catholic though I am best non-practicing. I moved to the middle of the bible belt and have on a number of occasions been preached at about Christianity by my co-workers. One time I figured telling them I was Catholic would make them go away. Instead it redoubled their efforts. To many, not all, maybe not most, but to many of them Catholism and Christianity are mutually exclusive.
But in the long run, do you want to have third party binary carbage in YOUR KERNEL?
I actually don't care. All I care is that I have a solution that works. I happen to be somebody who makes use of the Philips USB camera driver, I purchased my particular device because at the time it was the best camera in terms of features that had some form of linux support.
But in the long run, do you want to have third party binary carbage in YOUR KERNEL? No way to check out what's in there. Except perhaps reverse engineering, which isn't an option to everyone. Programming is hard. Reverse engineering is harder.
Your statement is meaningless. You shouldn't trust binary code because reverse engineering is hard. Granted, it is and as you say it's beyond the abilities of most people. Kernel programming is hard as well and so while I have access to the kernel source realistically it doesn't provide me any more insight into the reliability, stability or security of the kernel. I admit it, I both can't be bothered to do an audit of the kernel and I don't have the necessary skills.
I do know that the kernel developers purposely destroyed functionality in the kernel which I and others made use of to make some sort of point. So yeah, I have source code but I don't have a warm and fuzzy feeling about the amount of faith I can put into the kernel developers.
If the star in question is roughly equal to our sun and the planet is 2AU away from the sun (which is twice the distance the earth is from the sun) why would it be so hot?
Silly Putty can fool some consumer fingerpring scanners. I'd think that this would be immune to something that low-tech but if you could find a plastic with the right characteristics you should be able to make a fake finger.
It's not insurance fraud. He didn't say anything about making a false insurance claim. To commit insurance fraud you have to make a false claim. If the last two steps in his plan were to crash and then file an insurance claim and lawsuit using doctored records as evidence then it'd be insurance fraud.
I find it strange that you'd use an actual CD of an unreleased album for a photography session myself. It's either a publicity stunt or somebody wasn't thinking.
But, to then bypass DRM and download it is criminal activity. DRM is a lock to the content. It's illegal to pick locks on people's houses, but I don't see anybody here advocating picking houses in order to steal THEIR contents, why is music any different?
If somebody picks the lock to my apartment and steals my TV I don't have a television any more. If somebody breaks the DRM on a compact disc and distributes it via Napster (or whatever is popular now) the record company isn't out a compact disc. The record company and artists are out some number of potential sales but there are no tangible damages.
I don't actually download much music other than to listen and see if I like it but I hate seeing the incorrect comparision of copyright violation to theft.
The record companies are entitled to use DRM if they want. I won't purchase a CD with DRM on it though because it won't work how I'm most likely to use it (into my Macintosh once to rip it to mp3 then maybe an occasional cycle through my cars CD changer).
I do purchase songs off of iTunes because it doesn't interfere in any way with my usage patters even though there is DRM on it.In any event it shouldn't be illegal to remove the DRM either.
It wasn't terrorism, it was war. I don't agree that it was a necessary act but it wasn't terrorism. Japan tried to bring the war to the American homeland as well. If they had it wouldn't have been terrorism either.
Greg Lehey who recommends 'that the best thing for IBM to do would be to print out every single version as requested and send the resultant 20 tonnes or so of paper to SCO. That would keep them quiet for a while'."
I would like to add that the 20 tonnes of paper be dropped without a parachute from a C130 Hercules onto SCO and Darl McBride.
It's the 10 year wait that bothers me. If they'd have filed suit the first year and won then the damages would've been a lot smaller and Intel would either license the technology or develop something different. This tactic while not new (think of the GIF patent - wait till something is commodotized then send out the lawyers) is mean spirited.
I've got a bunch of patents (through the company I work for) in the semi-conductor industry and had to defend one once. The violation was caught early, a licensing offer was made but refused and then the lawyers were called in. Other cases that co-workers have been involved with are either similar or cases where technology is used as a bargaining chip. "Shit. We are violating your i.p., we just happened to notice that you're using works derived from our patents X, Y and Z. How about we cut a deal?"
If the company I'm working for behaved in this manner it'd be a negative influence on my longevity here. It by itself might not be enough to make me leave but there's a point where enough negatives accumulate to a desire to change employers.
Easy. In a right-wing Christian government (as opposed to a conservative government) women shouldn't be in positions of power. So if a Martha Stewart does anything wrong she'll be penalized to the fullest extend of the law or at least until negative publicity outweighs positive publicity. Ken Lay is male so there's no great incentive to penalize him.
they'll probably botch it up. Fallout and Fallout 2 were both games with dated graphics which still ended up with a vocal, if not huge, following. I just replayed Fallout 2 last week myself. Their skill system was excellent but I don't think that explains the popularity. Instead I think it was a combination of that alongside the attenion put into the gameplay itself. CRPG are usually nasty linear affairs and while Fallout suffered from some of that you could still complete the game in a variety of ways and with a variety of different starting characters. A Big Dumb Slugger was one way but most recently I finished it with a grifter. Good speech skills, excellent pickpocketing skills.
It's the most likely thing that will happen though. I see people speeding all the time and I rarely see them suddenly veering through the median and into oncoming traffic. What I predict will happen is that people are going to learn to ignore these sudden stop lights rationalizing it with "It's for that asshole behind me who's speeding, not me!" and run the red. That's where the accidents will happen.
I think this sucks. The DMCA is a rotten law and I hate seeing it used. Rather than innovate and try to protect copyright companies are allowed to use legislation that has a side effect of silencing free speech. I understand Apple's concerns about fairplay since it reduces the chance that the record companies will renew their contracts but using the DMCA is vile. It's especially ornerous because I recall Apple (possibly even Steve Jobs) admitting that they purposely encumbered itunes with fairly weak copyright protection.
I'm all for this product even though I'll never use it. I don't think that it will be quite as uncontraversial as you think however. The content producers will decry people modifying their works. I don't agree with it but I've seen it before when community generated lists of cuts to bowdlerize commercial works. They didn't distribute movies, they distributed instructions (to I believe a software player) that would result in a prudish version of a movie that would only work if you had your hands on the actual DVD.
So in this case playing the DVD wasn't illegal but the content producers complained that playing an altered version of the DVD was.
Religion or belief in the supernatural can't explain anything though. It's the intellectual equivalent of throwing your hands up in the air and saying "I'm stumped".
Not too long ago everything unexplained was attributed to the supernatural: Gods, spirits, ghosts, dragons, witches or whatever a particular region believed in. It rained and the crops are good? It must be because we've been praying to this particular God. We've been praying for rain and it didn't happen? We've obviously lost favour with that God, we must make amends! Making amends might involve more prayer or it might involve pinning the blame on somebody else in which case we've got a witch to hang.
You can wiggle your fingers at anything and claim it's something supernatural. There's no way to prove it and if science does find an explanation you can always mutter "Well, God works in mysterious ways!". Our ancestors had lots of room for supernatural causes because quite frankly they didn't understand much. Despite their superstitions and the measures they took to appease the various supernatural forces they felt they had to deal with science has given us all a much better life than horseshoes, four leaf clovers, charms or throwing salt of your shoulder.
Have pneumonia? You can rely on a prayer circle if you want but I'll rely on medicine.
WAV files are also huge and NPR would have to foot the bill for serving them. I think a nice platform agnostic mp3 is the way to go myself but it's not my call.
When I was in grad school I was responsible for one of the computing labs. It was a hodge podge of SPARCstations, HP/UX and Macintoshes. The HP/UX system was for controlling the ASIC tester we had. For a couple of months it'd randomly fail. I'd talk to HP, HP would ship a motherboard, powersupply or whatever component they decided was causing the failure this time around. I got pretty fed up and I escalated it. They brought an engineer in and he was pretty perplexed for a while but he installed a power monitor. It turned out that a couple times a day our power would sag, literally on a regular basis. This seemed strange, I couldn't think of why it would be. Then it dawned on me: The lab next door with their super-secret project involving moulding plastics. They'd run through a couple of cycles (it wasn't production) a day.
So we bought a good powerbar and it fixed the problem. The HP 735 was the only machine that had the problem but it did solve it. If TrippLite is still in business and still making decent products I'd recommend trying them.
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That can't be true. If you can claim you were the author of the code then that's equivalent to being able to claim copyright on it. If you have copyright on it you could then release it under another license, even a commercial one.
What the GPL doesn't require is attribution but that's different then allowing somebody to claim code as their own.
The document doesn't say to make false allegations of intimidation. What it says is that in jurisdictions where intimidation and misinformation has happened in the past be proactive. It says to make sure that the media reports on the past unethical activities so that people are both watching out for it and aware of their rights as voters.
I was raised Catholic though I am best non-practicing. I moved to the middle of the bible belt and have on a number of occasions been preached at about Christianity by my co-workers. One time I figured telling them I was Catholic would make them go away. Instead it redoubled their efforts. To many, not all, maybe not most, but to many of them Catholism and Christianity are mutually exclusive.
Not true. A relative of mine "accidently" did herself in with a relatively new vehicle.
I actually don't care. All I care is that I have a solution that works. I happen to be somebody who makes use of the Philips USB camera driver, I purchased my particular device because at the time it was the best camera in terms of features that had some form of linux support.
Your statement is meaningless. You shouldn't trust binary code because reverse engineering is hard. Granted, it is and as you say it's beyond the abilities of most people. Kernel programming is hard as well and so while I have access to the kernel source realistically it doesn't provide me any more insight into the reliability, stability or security of the kernel. I admit it, I both can't be bothered to do an audit of the kernel and I don't have the necessary skills.
I do know that the kernel developers purposely destroyed functionality in the kernel which I and others made use of to make some sort of point. So yeah, I have source code but I don't have a warm and fuzzy feeling about the amount of faith I can put into the kernel developers.
If the star in question is roughly equal to our sun and the planet is 2AU away from the sun (which is twice the distance the earth is from the sun) why would it be so hot?
Silly Putty can fool some consumer fingerpring scanners. I'd think that this would be immune to something that low-tech but if you could find a plastic with the right characteristics you should be able to make a fake finger.
It's fraud, but your original assertion was still 100% incorrect.
It's not insurance fraud. He didn't say anything about making a false insurance claim. To commit insurance fraud you have to make a false claim. If the last two steps in his plan were to crash and then file an insurance claim and lawsuit using doctored records as evidence then it'd be insurance fraud.
If you spend the R&D dollars to solve the clusters problems you end up with architectures like sgi or cray.
I find it strange that you'd use an actual CD of an unreleased album for a photography session myself. It's either a publicity stunt or somebody wasn't thinking.
If somebody picks the lock to my apartment and steals my TV I don't have a television any more. If somebody breaks the DRM on a compact disc and distributes it via Napster (or whatever is popular now) the record company isn't out a compact disc. The record company and artists are out some number of potential sales but there are no tangible damages.
I don't actually download much music other than to listen and see if I like it but I hate seeing the incorrect comparision of copyright violation to theft.
The record companies are entitled to use DRM if they want. I won't purchase a CD with DRM on it though because it won't work how I'm most likely to use it (into my Macintosh once to rip it to mp3 then maybe an occasional cycle through my cars CD changer).
I do purchase songs off of iTunes because it doesn't interfere in any way with my usage patters even though there is DRM on it.In any event it shouldn't be illegal to remove the DRM either.
It wasn't terrorism, it was war. I don't agree that it was a necessary act but it wasn't terrorism. Japan tried to bring the war to the American homeland as well. If they had it wouldn't have been terrorism either.
I would like to add that the 20 tonnes of paper be dropped without a parachute from a C130 Hercules onto SCO and Darl McBride.
Have you just asked your dealer to loan you the key? Mine leant me one no questions asked.
It's the 10 year wait that bothers me. If they'd have filed suit the first year and won then the damages would've been a lot smaller and Intel would either license the technology or develop something different. This tactic while not new (think of the GIF patent - wait till something is commodotized then send out the lawyers) is mean spirited.
I've got a bunch of patents (through the company I work for) in the semi-conductor industry and had to defend one once. The violation was caught early, a licensing offer was made but refused and then the lawyers were called in. Other cases that co-workers have been involved with are either similar or cases where technology is used as a bargaining chip. "Shit. We are violating your i.p., we just happened to notice that you're using works derived from our patents X, Y and Z. How about we cut a deal?"
If the company I'm working for behaved in this manner it'd be a negative influence on my longevity here. It by itself might not be enough to make me leave but there's a point where enough negatives accumulate to a desire to change employers.
Easy. In a right-wing Christian government (as opposed to a conservative government) women shouldn't be in positions of power. So if a Martha Stewart does anything wrong she'll be penalized to the fullest extend of the law or at least until negative publicity outweighs positive publicity. Ken Lay is male so there's no great incentive to penalize him.
they'll probably botch it up. Fallout and Fallout 2 were both games with dated graphics which still ended up with a vocal, if not huge, following. I just replayed Fallout 2 last week myself. Their skill system was excellent but I don't think that explains the popularity. Instead I think it was a combination of that alongside the attenion put into the gameplay itself. CRPG are usually nasty linear affairs and while Fallout suffered from some of that you could still complete the game in a variety of ways and with a variety of different starting characters. A Big Dumb Slugger was one way but most recently I finished it with a grifter. Good speech skills, excellent pickpocketing skills.
I don't see exporting jobs to India as sleazy but as far as I can tell SGI isn't doing it anyway.
It's the most likely thing that will happen though. I see people speeding all the time and I rarely see them suddenly veering through the median and into oncoming traffic. What I predict will happen is that people are going to learn to ignore these sudden stop lights rationalizing it with "It's for that asshole behind me who's speeding, not me!" and run the red. That's where the accidents will happen.
I think this sucks. The DMCA is a rotten law and I hate seeing it used. Rather than innovate and try to protect copyright companies are allowed to use legislation that has a side effect of silencing free speech. I understand Apple's concerns about fairplay since it reduces the chance that the record companies will renew their contracts but using the DMCA is vile. It's especially ornerous because I recall Apple (possibly even Steve Jobs) admitting that they purposely encumbered itunes with fairly weak copyright protection.
I'm all for this product even though I'll never use it. I don't think that it will be quite as uncontraversial as you think however. The content producers will decry people modifying their works. I don't agree with it but I've seen it before when community generated lists of cuts to bowdlerize commercial works. They didn't distribute movies, they distributed instructions (to I believe a software player) that would result in a prudish version of a movie that would only work if you had your hands on the actual DVD.
So in this case playing the DVD wasn't illegal but the content producers complained that playing an altered version of the DVD was.
Religion or belief in the supernatural can't explain anything though. It's the intellectual equivalent of throwing your hands up in the air and saying "I'm stumped".
Not too long ago everything unexplained was attributed to the supernatural: Gods, spirits, ghosts, dragons, witches or whatever a particular region believed in. It rained and the crops are good? It must be because we've been praying to this particular God. We've been praying for rain and it didn't happen? We've obviously lost favour with that God, we must make amends! Making amends might involve more prayer or it might involve pinning the blame on somebody else in which case we've got a witch to hang.
You can wiggle your fingers at anything and claim it's something supernatural. There's no way to prove it and if science does find an explanation you can always mutter "Well, God works in mysterious ways!". Our ancestors had lots of room for supernatural causes because quite frankly they didn't understand much. Despite their superstitions and the measures they took to appease the various supernatural forces they felt they had to deal with science has given us all a much better life than horseshoes, four leaf clovers, charms or throwing salt of your shoulder.
Have pneumonia? You can rely on a prayer circle if you want but I'll rely on medicine.
WAV files are also huge and NPR would have to foot the bill for serving them. I think a nice platform agnostic mp3 is the way to go myself but it's not my call.
When I was in grad school I was responsible for one of the computing labs. It was a hodge podge of SPARCstations, HP/UX and Macintoshes. The HP/UX system was for controlling the ASIC tester we had. For a couple of months it'd randomly fail. I'd talk to HP, HP would ship a motherboard, powersupply or whatever component they decided was causing the failure this time around. I got pretty fed up and I escalated it. They brought an engineer in and he was pretty perplexed for a while but he installed a power monitor. It turned out that a couple times a day our power would sag, literally on a regular basis. This seemed strange, I couldn't think of why it would be. Then it dawned on me: The lab next door with their super-secret project involving moulding plastics. They'd run through a couple of cycles (it wasn't production) a day.
So we bought a good powerbar and it fixed the problem. The HP 735 was the only machine that had the problem but it did solve it. If TrippLite is still in business and still making decent products I'd recommend trying them.