The other suggestion by Bruce Perens is just as unlikely: Microsoft buying SCO.
If Microsoft acquires: a. the rights to Unix, they'll be slaughtered in court again. b. a Linux vendor, be it a small one, they'll lose a lot of credibility with their customers
Incidentally, when they buy SCO, they do both. Don't think they'll bite.
Six Sigma is a rigorous and disciplined methodology that uses data and statistical analysis to measure and improve a company's operational performance by identifying and eliminating "defects" in manufacturing and service-related processes. Commonly defined as 3.4 defects per million opportunities, Six Sigma can be defined and understood at three distinct levels: metric, methodology and philosophy...
With such a description, I wouldn't touch it with a ten foor pole.
I was in the demoscene a long way ago (cbm64). The demoscene wasn't really seperated from the warez scene (then called swapping, exchanging floppies by snailmail:), so I will not call names.
The way to get into the scene is much the same as you get into any scene. Just do it.
1. Start making demos, simple demos, learning all the way. Do not expect to be top dog next month. Rather try to do a little better every time. Be critical. Add detail step by step. If you're a coder, empasise on that. If you're a designer, make graphics. Develop a neccessary skill.
2. Meet people. We've got the internet now, so publish your demos to a website. Most feedback you get will be negative. Don't be put off, but value all feedback to it's merits. Try to get more info. Try to get in contact with people that have skills you don't have. Cooperate.
3. Do not bitch. You do not have to help everybody, but behave normal. You will not have to be 733t. The less you piss people off, the easier you're going to get respect. Pissing off people sometimes seems the norm in the scene (or so it was one time. I suspect not much has changed). Don't be put off by it.
The GPL Licence does not protect the name, as that is a trademark. It does, however, protect the code.
The GPL, being a licence, is a legally binding contract (assuming you agreed with it). If they decide to pull the GPL, it is always possible to make a fork from the last version released under the GPL.
They can, however, decide not to release any new free versions. In fact, I expect NAI to do this, after the money they lost with PGP.
While labelled as funny, which it is to an extend, it is also sad. Sad because it is true.
In order to get people feeling positive about something, you have to be positive about it yourself. So far so good. Most linux/unix users are very positive about it.
The next thing you have to do is to communicate it. In an intelligent and comprehensible manner (to the masses that is. May seem to be a contradictio in terminus?) Luckily for us geeks, this is what is happening at the moment.
Good communication is an art, just like good programming is. To people who do not understand it, it may not seem so, but for linux to succeed, all artists need to work together. For the fun of it,or for the money.
What I wanted to say is: mod parent up. He's saying the truth.
You can never be *sure* that your filter(s) are working perfectly.
It's even worse: you *can be sure* that your filters will not work perfectly. So the above is a sound advise: move suspected spam to a junkfolder, and check occasionally.
They actually made it so you cannot make your exam, although you really made an effort to help them correct their mistake.
Therefore, sue them for your damages: an extra year in college (about 30000 dollars?) income you will miss (the difference in salary between your student job and a regular job, another 30000 dollars). Tell them you will discuss terms, and maybe a settlement, but only when they come with a reasonable proposition.
This may seem pointless to many people here, but this actually serves a purpose: the creators of the browsers can use this code to analize the shortcomings of their browser.
I _know_ mozilla is more standards compliant than ie, but this is not about standards. It's about acceptance by the masses. The more sites that are rendered right, the better the chances are.
because of bad laws about (electronic) intellectual property. That's the only way the politicians here in Europa will have their eyes opened before we have similar laws.
So therefor I support any lawsuit based on the DMCA. Not because I am in favor, but because I oppose it.
In the US are companies required to make any brochure they publish, available in braille? Are newspapers required to make any edition available in braille? Then why should webpages have to adapted to the blind?
I believe it isn't the form of presentation that should decide wether it should be presented in such a matter, but the content of it. This is a case by case decision. Government websites, in general, based on the content, should be accessible by as many people as possible. But I fail to see why a manufacturer of televisions shouldn't be allowed to target it's website at potential customers: people who are able to see.
Therefore, the worst that could have happened to American websites was a blanket judgement, raising the cost for any website targeted at the USA.
Many of these probes are probably open windows machines on your subnet. Note their IP, and from within run or a commandbox on windows type: net send ipnumber "your message"
It's implemented in samba too. Eiter in smbsend or smbclient. Look it up if you need it.
I live in the Netherlands (pop 15 million, about as much as NYC) and the police over here taps more phones than the whole of the US.
It's not as much the phone taps that are in place that worry me. It's the taps that should be there and that are prevented by corrupt officials.
Land of the free. Yeah sure, but only when you've bought your local politician/whatever.
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Uhm, yes and no. Yes, it hurts their bottom line in the short term. OTOH, they sell a lot more Xboxes. To the masses, it doesn't matter what happens to all those boxes. If it turns out that the xbox is selling much better than another console, Joe user will think that it has to be better. Microsoft on the other hand , will claim the losses on a slow market.
So while you are right that it will hurt them a little, in the long run it will give them increased market share.
In many southern european and in tropical countries, people sleep during the afternoon, and work early in the morning and in the evening. This could help you too.
Or, even more extreme, code during the night and sleep during the day.
I realise this is not an answer to your question, which is a way to implement a solution to a problem. Rather, it may be another solution to your problem. Plz give it some thought.
I generally agree with you. I think that the click thru procedure should be viewed as a legal mechanism to make a license legally binding (in some countries). The fact that a license requires that you acknowledge it, doesn't say anything about the rights that it gives or takes away, other than that it requires you to explicity acknowledge it. It doesn't say anything about the software and it's uses.
'I can't think of a license under the Open Source terms that takes away rights, therefor I oppose the requirement of such click-thru license agreements.'
I think there are countries in which the laws concerning IP are less restrictive than in the USA. In fact, most countries are less restrictive. Some of those may even be too free, up to the point of not acknowledging copyrights (in some instances China for example. Papua New Guinea is another example).
For some of those countries, taking away rights may be a good thing. I for one wouldn't like someone stealing my code, and making money/fame/whatever off it without at least crediting me. Some countries' laws/customs allow for that. Contrary to popular belief here on slashdot, even the GPL takes rights away from people in those countries, if they accept it.
Therefor I think that a clicktru requirement in itself is not bad. It's the same as the GPL requiring that it included in any publication or distribution of a program. One should look at the whole package/license anyway, before installing/using a program.
Note: countries which don't acknowledge IP laws may also not acknowledge that a clicktru license is legaly binding. Trying to make a license cover all possible laws is unlikely to succeed.
Disclaimer: IANAL, but I'm studying to be one. I've been in law school for one year now, only 3 to go:)
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The other suggestion by Bruce Perens is just as unlikely: Microsoft buying SCO.
If Microsoft acquires:
a. the rights to Unix, they'll be slaughtered in court again.
b. a Linux vendor, be it a small one, they'll lose a lot of credibility with their customers
Incidentally, when they buy SCO, they do both. Don't think they'll bite.
Au contraire:
Being forced to take on another e-mail address only adds to your damages.
You would have a lesser case if you didn't have to change email addresses.
From the site:
Six Sigma is a rigorous and disciplined methodology that uses data and statistical analysis to measure and improve a company's operational performance by identifying and eliminating "defects" in manufacturing and service-related processes. Commonly defined as 3.4 defects per million opportunities, Six Sigma can be defined and understood at three distinct levels: metric, methodology and philosophy...
With such a description, I wouldn't touch it with a ten foor pole.
I was in the demoscene a long way ago (cbm64). The demoscene wasn't really seperated from the warez scene (then called swapping, exchanging floppies by snailmail :), so I will not call names.
The way to get into the scene is much the same as you get into any scene. Just do it.
1. Start making demos, simple demos, learning all the way. Do not expect to be top dog next month. Rather try to do a little better every time. Be critical. Add detail step by step. If you're a coder, empasise on that. If you're a designer, make graphics. Develop a neccessary skill.
2. Meet people. We've got the internet now, so publish your demos to a website. Most feedback you get will be negative. Don't be put off, but value all feedback to it's merits. Try to get more info. Try to get in contact with people that have skills you don't have. Cooperate.
3. Do not bitch. You do not have to help everybody, but behave normal. You will not have to be 733t. The less you piss people off, the easier you're going to get respect. Pissing off people sometimes seems the norm in the scene (or so it was one time. I suspect not much has changed). Don't be put off by it.
Hope this helps
Effective hardware for a chinese lottery.
Still every one keeps wondering why everything improves, but the batteries stay the same: it's because the extra juice is used to crack keys.
</cheesy paranoia mode>
The GPL Licence does not protect the name, as that is a trademark. It does, however, protect the code.
The GPL, being a licence, is a legally binding contract (assuming you agreed with it). If they decide to pull the GPL, it is always possible to make a fork from the last version released under the GPL.
They can, however, decide not to release any new free versions. In fact, I expect NAI to do this, after the money they lost with PGP.
While labelled as funny, which it is to an extend, it is also sad. Sad because it is true.
,or for the money.
In order to get people feeling positive about something, you have to be positive about it yourself. So far so good. Most linux/unix users are very positive about it.
The next thing you have to do is to communicate it. In an intelligent and comprehensible manner (to the masses that is. May seem to be a contradictio in terminus?) Luckily for us geeks, this is what is happening at the moment.
Good communication is an art, just like good programming is. To people who do not understand it, it may not seem so, but for linux to succeed, all artists need to work together. For the fun of it
What I wanted to say is: mod parent up. He's saying the truth.
You can never be *sure* that your filter(s) are working perfectly.
It's even worse: you *can be sure* that your filters will not work perfectly. So the above is a sound advise: move suspected spam to a junkfolder, and check occasionally.
They actually made it so you cannot make your exam, although you really made an effort to help them correct their mistake.
Therefore, sue them for your damages:
an extra year in college (about 30000 dollars?)
income you will miss (the difference in salary between your student job and a regular job, another 30000 dollars). Tell them you will discuss terms, and maybe a settlement, but only when they come with a reasonable proposition.
LOL. All the junkmail arriving there will actually drive the price of the house down too. Imagine, his whole lawn strewn with it
This may seem pointless to many people here, but this actually serves a purpose: the creators of the browsers can use this code to analize the shortcomings of their browser.
I _know_ mozilla is more standards compliant than ie, but this is not about standards. It's about acceptance by the masses. The more sites that are rendered right, the better the chances are.
Because they cannot call it Linux then, that's why. Linux is a trademark, owned by Linus Thorvalds.
see here for comments:
In the shop. The factory is called gzip, their most sold brand is tgz. Ask aroung.
because of bad laws about (electronic) intellectual property. That's the only way the politicians here in Europa will have their eyes opened before we have similar laws.
So therefor I support any lawsuit based on the DMCA. Not because I am in favor, but because I oppose it.
... for serving webpages. It may play quake at a gazillion fps, but it's still slashdotted
+3 _informative_? That's even funnier than the post itself. Heck, it's hilarious.
So true.
In the US are companies required to make any brochure they publish, available in braille? Are newspapers required to make any edition available in braille? Then why should webpages have to adapted to the blind?
I believe it isn't the form of presentation that should decide wether it should be presented in such a matter, but the content of it. This is a case by case decision. Government websites, in general, based on the content, should be accessible by as many people as possible. But I fail to see why a manufacturer of televisions shouldn't be allowed to target it's website at potential customers: people who are able to see.
Therefore, the worst that could have happened to American websites was a blanket judgement, raising the cost for any website targeted at the USA.
Many of these probes are probably open windows machines on your subnet. Note their IP, and from within run or a commandbox on windows type:
net send ipnumber "your message"
It's implemented in samba too. Eiter in smbsend or smbclient. Look it up if you need it.
When the basement floods or a fire breaks out, I think I have other worries than my low cost hobby server.
Losing non critical data is annoying, losing a house (or a part of it) is disastrous.
I live in the Netherlands (pop 15 million, about as much as NYC) and the police over here taps more phones than the whole of the US.
It's not as much the phone taps that are in place that worry me. It's the taps that should be there and that are prevented by corrupt officials.
Land of the free. Yeah sure, but only when you've bought your local politician/whatever.
Uhm, yes and no. Yes, it hurts their bottom line in the short term. OTOH, they sell a lot more Xboxes. To the masses, it doesn't matter what happens to all those boxes. If it turns out that the xbox is selling much better than another console, Joe user will think that it has to be better. Microsoft on the other hand , will claim the losses on a slow market.
So while you are right that it will hurt them a little, in the long run it will give them increased market share.
In many southern european and in tropical countries, people sleep during the afternoon, and work early in the morning and in the evening. This could help you too.
Or, even more extreme, code during the night and sleep during the day.
I realise this is not an answer to your question, which is a way to implement a solution to a problem. Rather, it may be another solution to your problem. Plz give it some thought.
You can find information about the auction of KPN-QWest's assets here: troostwijk auctions
I generally agree with you. I think that the click thru procedure should be viewed as a legal mechanism to make a license legally binding (in some countries). The fact that a license requires that you acknowledge it, doesn't say anything about the rights that it gives or takes away, other than that it requires you to explicity acknowledge it. It doesn't say anything about the software and it's uses.
:)
'I can't think of a license under the Open Source terms that takes away rights, therefor I oppose the requirement of such click-thru license agreements.'
I think there are countries in which the laws concerning IP are less restrictive than in the USA. In fact, most countries are less restrictive. Some of those may even be too free, up to the point of not acknowledging copyrights (in some instances China for example. Papua New Guinea is another example).
For some of those countries, taking away rights may be a good thing. I for one wouldn't like someone stealing my code, and making money/fame/whatever off it without at least crediting me. Some countries' laws/customs allow for that. Contrary to popular belief here on slashdot, even the GPL takes rights away from people in those countries, if they accept it.
Therefor I think that a clicktru requirement in itself is not bad. It's the same as the GPL requiring that it included in any publication or distribution of a program. One should look at the whole package/license anyway, before installing/using a program.
Note: countries which don't acknowledge IP laws may also not acknowledge that a clicktru license is legaly binding. Trying to make a license cover all possible laws is unlikely to succeed.
Disclaimer: IANAL, but I'm studying to be one. I've been in law school for one year now, only 3 to go