Better idea: let the Wikipedia admins pick a version of the page they like, and don't mention the gold master date to anyone. If the deadline isn't known, the factions -- and let's be honest, this might be a problem on ten or fifteen major pages at most -- can't go edit-warring right up to the deadline.
I -- and everyone else except you -- must have missed the announcement that Congress passed a law making it illegal to sell AAC, WAV, MP3, and Apple Lossless files.
Oh, I'm sorry. Did you mean "nobody but Apple can sell DRM-encumbered music for it?"
It's true for all but a very few panels (for sufficiently small values of "very few"). Unless you can find a laptop panel that is literally the exact same model used in a monitor, you're pretty much SOL.
It's not for lack of trying, either. Believe me, you're definitely not the first person to want the ability to do this. Really unfortunate, IMO, but a fact of life:(
Speaking as a pilot, I suspect what he meant by "accept" was not "understand to be inevitable" but "understand to be part of the risk of this method of travel."
Every method of travel has its own attendant risks and benefits. If the benefits outweigh the risks, people will travel that way. If the risks outweigh the benefits, people won't. Being a human cannonball is a damn fast way to get across a circus tent, but the risks are pretty high that any given individual will get hurt doing it. I'll stick with walking.
Hint: the phrase "of your peers" appears nowhere in the United States Constitution. You're likely thinking of the Magna Carta where, IIRC, this phrase *does* appear.
So if you're from the U.S., there's no requirement for peers anyway. Not that our jury system isn't pretty broken as-is, but there's certainly room to fix it here.
Anyone remember back when Geocities (they might have been part of Yahoo at that point) did something similar to this? Basically, anything you posted from there on out on a Geocities site was freely distributable for any purpose by Geocities.
Did anything *bad* ever happen as a result of it, other than a lot of people got scared away from GC as a host (which is probably a good thing, since it sucks for a multitude of other reasons)? I don't recall seeing any high-profile messes as a result.
I suspect this will be the same way -- the people who know what it means will take care to avoid letting it affect them, and the people who don't know what it means very likely won't have anything worth redistributing anyway.
Using the official AIM client, this is mostly true.
Using something like Adium, it's mostly untrue, and when using something like AIM Express (or whatever they're calling it these days) it's *entirely* untrue. Most third-party clients do NOT connect directly unless explicitly directed to.
But now that MoFo isn't wasting time on Mozilla Suite, is there any reason why Firefox can't be improved to be even *better* than the Mozilla browser was? It seems like concentrating on Firefox/Thunderbird/Sunbird is a better approach than dividing precious resources between two competing (but ultimately functionally identical) projects.
Honest question. What does it matter? Is there some great advantage that I'm not thinking of to having a giant bundled suite of apps, rather than five or six individual downloads?
As long as there's good interoperability -- and I don't see how this decision is going to hurt that -- does it really matter whether there are five apps that each do one thing or one app that does five things?
Plagiarism for profit may well be criminal fraud. REGARDLESS of any copyright infringement, IP "theft", or failure to comply with the terms of a software licence, PLAGIARISM IS WRONG.
That's got nothing to do with law, and everything to do with the insurance policy. My life insurance policy actually covers suicide. Not that I'm suicidal, but if I was, my family would collect.
You cannot simply "twist" a molecule and get a stereoisomer. Stereoisomerism requires that two molecules be structurally identical save for the swapping of two attachments to or more stereocenters (usually carbon) in the molecule. Therefore, to swap between to stereoisomers requires the breaking of -- at minimum -- two chemical bonds.
This isn't to say that RF couldn't alter the tertiary structure of a protein (depends on van der Waals effects, hydrogen bonding, etc.), or even possibly mess with the secondary structure (largely dependent on hydrogen bonding), but you aren't going to get interconversion between two stereoisomers without breaking bonds.
I certainly harbour no love for the rumour sites, but gimme a fucking break. Think Secret doesn't pay their anonymous tipsters. That would completely destroy plausible deniability.
Slashdot Mirror
Wow, what a karma whore.
On the bottom of every single Wikipedia page, right there in plain sight, is a link to the GNU Free Documentation License, which governs everything submitted to Wikipedia.
p
I believe what you meant was "Onderspacen Der Deutschennobegewastenderbytesen."
p
Better idea: let the Wikipedia admins pick a version of the page they like, and don't mention the gold master date to anyone. If the deadline isn't known, the factions -- and let's be honest, this might be a problem on ten or fifteen major pages at most -- can't go edit-warring right up to the deadline.
p
nobody but Apple can legally sell music for it
I -- and everyone else except you -- must have missed the announcement that Congress passed a law making it illegal to sell AAC, WAV, MP3, and Apple Lossless files.
Oh, I'm sorry. Did you mean "nobody but Apple can sell DRM-encumbered music for it?"
My mistake.
p
It's true for all but a very few panels (for sufficiently small values of "very few"). Unless you can find a laptop panel that is literally the exact same model used in a monitor, you're pretty much SOL.
:(
It's not for lack of trying, either. Believe me, you're definitely not the first person to want the ability to do this. Really unfortunate, IMO, but a fact of life
p
"Are these the Nazis, Walter?"
"No, Donny. These men are nihilists. There's nothing to be afraid of."
p
Sorry to inform you, but "email" is most definitely not acceptable.
p
Speaking as a pilot, I suspect what he meant by "accept" was not "understand to be inevitable" but "understand to be part of the risk of this method of travel."
Every method of travel has its own attendant risks and benefits. If the benefits outweigh the risks, people will travel that way. If the risks outweigh the benefits, people won't. Being a human cannonball is a damn fast way to get across a circus tent, but the risks are pretty high that any given individual will get hurt doing it. I'll stick with walking.
p
Hint: the phrase "of your peers" appears nowhere in the United States Constitution. You're likely thinking of the Magna Carta where, IIRC, this phrase *does* appear.
So if you're from the U.S., there's no requirement for peers anyway. Not that our jury system isn't pretty broken as-is, but there's certainly room to fix it here.
p
Yeah, but would most people rather have a working Google or a working IE?
I submit that the unwashed masses would now prefer the former to the latter.
p
Anyone remember back when Geocities (they might have been part of Yahoo at that point) did something similar to this? Basically, anything you posted from there on out on a Geocities site was freely distributable for any purpose by Geocities.
Did anything *bad* ever happen as a result of it, other than a lot of people got scared away from GC as a host (which is probably a good thing, since it sucks for a multitude of other reasons)? I don't recall seeing any high-profile messes as a result.
I suspect this will be the same way -- the people who know what it means will take care to avoid letting it affect them, and the people who don't know what it means very likely won't have anything worth redistributing anyway.
p
I know you're just joking, and IANAL, but I suspect this agreement is invalid for content to which you don't own the copyright in the first place.
p
Using the official AIM client, this is mostly true.
Using something like Adium, it's mostly untrue, and when using something like AIM Express (or whatever they're calling it these days) it's *entirely* untrue. Most third-party clients do NOT connect directly unless explicitly directed to.
p
Might I suggest Camino instead? I greatly prefer it to Firefox under OS X.
p
But now that MoFo isn't wasting time on Mozilla Suite, is there any reason why Firefox can't be improved to be even *better* than the Mozilla browser was? It seems like concentrating on Firefox/Thunderbird/Sunbird is a better approach than dividing precious resources between two competing (but ultimately functionally identical) projects.
p
Honest question. What does it matter? Is there some great advantage that I'm not thinking of to having a giant bundled suite of apps, rather than five or six individual downloads?
As long as there's good interoperability -- and I don't see how this decision is going to hurt that -- does it really matter whether there are five apps that each do one thing or one app that does five things?
p
Plagiarism is wrong.
Plagiarism is wrong.
Plagiarism is wrong.
Plagiarism for profit may well be criminal fraud. REGARDLESS of any copyright infringement, IP "theft", or failure to comply with the terms of a software licence, PLAGIARISM IS WRONG.
If you didn't do the work, don't claim you did.
Asshat.
p
That's got nothing to do with law, and everything to do with the insurance policy. My life insurance policy actually covers suicide. Not that I'm suicidal, but if I was, my family would collect.
p
One word for you.
Seppuku
p
Is the Star paper that you can pick up in your supermaket journalism?
Sure it is. Quality has nothing to do with intent. Just because the Star is tabloid trash doesn't make it any less a member of the press.
p
I was an organic chemist, in a former life.
You cannot simply "twist" a molecule and get a stereoisomer. Stereoisomerism requires that two molecules be structurally identical save for the swapping of two attachments to or more stereocenters (usually carbon) in the molecule. Therefore, to swap between to stereoisomers requires the breaking of -- at minimum -- two chemical bonds.
This isn't to say that RF couldn't alter the tertiary structure of a protein (depends on van der Waals effects, hydrogen bonding, etc.), or even possibly mess with the secondary structure (largely dependent on hydrogen bonding), but you aren't going to get interconversion between two stereoisomers without breaking bonds.
p
No, that would be this site...
p
So in other words, you're talking out of your ass and you have no clue what actually happened.
p
Tell that to the poor shlubs who try to use their dialup connections whilst they're unknowingly downloading this in the background.
p
I certainly harbour no love for the rumour sites, but gimme a fucking break. Think Secret doesn't pay their anonymous tipsters. That would completely destroy plausible deniability.
p