This sounds nice in theory, but in practice it is different. As exemptions bring requirements for administration, request forms and generally complex procedures, it's mostly the higher educated people that benefit from them. Incidently, this is mostly the upper part of society, incomewise.
So, while theoretically you're right, it's cheaper, easier and about as effective to do away with the exempts, and just tax the undesired product.
I'm all for open source, but to me this sounds like whining. I mean: who hasn't argued with his parents that your buddy could go somewhere and you weren't allowed?
The really depressing thing is: this is the way politics works. Seldom with valid arguments, the people who whine the most get heard the most.
Lol. I did biotech for 4 years, switched to IT (because biotech is regulated to death here in Europe). Now, in 5 or 6 months I hope to graduate Law school. Guess I follow the money then. Except, until now, it never did pay off.
This gizmo works on glucose, as do your brains. The fat in your body cannot supply glucose, so neither your brains, nor this fuel cell can run on the energy stored in fat. However, some proteins can be used as a glucose donor, esp those in muscle tissue.
Thus, when using this fuel cell to lose weight, all you lose is your muscle tissue, not the fat tissue.
Of course the author bound to the GPL. So s/he'll have to provide the code (which clause is a weakness in the current GPL, as it's not limited whatsoever).
A license is nothing but an agreement between you and the copyright holder. If the copyright holder stops offering the software under a certain license (GPL in case), older agreements do not mysteriously vanish. Parties are still bound to an agreement they entered, even if in the current circumstances they would never enter into the same agreement again.
Well, IANALYet, but both Germany and Austria are bound by international treaties to implement copyright:
a. there's the WIPO Copyright Treaty, to which Germany is a party b. there's the Berne Convention, to which both Austria and Germany are party c. there's the European Copyright Directive, for which the deadline of 2002-12-02 has passed, and thus should be implemented in Germany. As for the last one: European Law was determined in the "Van Gend en Loos Case" to have preference over local laws. So where there's a conflict of European copyright law and German copyright law, the German law is considered lower law.
To be complete: it's not the date of publishing that determines if a work is copyrighted, but the time since it's maker died (70 years in the US, 50 years according to the Berner Convetion, I believe).
So, a book (a work) that was published 120 years ago, it can still be copyrighted if [the|a] maker of the work (eg typesetter) has died less than 50 years ago.
I did send a mail too, on feb 6th, to abuse@ebay.com. In it I said: "This phishing uses an real ebay URL to seem legitimate". All I got was an automated response telling me to take several steps to report it to them.
When I received that, I dropped it. I wanted to report it, because I recognised the threat, but I don't want to jump through several hoops just to please them. Reporting to abuse@ is doing them a service. Some activity on their side is the least to expect.
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That's how I got into Warhammer, and other minigames for that matter. Thru ADnD and later other RPGs. Nowadays I paint more than I play RPGs and minigames combined.
A good site to look at quality paint jobs is this site. Yes, I'm on there, but I won't volunteer my nick:). I'm not that good... Keep in mind most of these minis are only around 35mm (or 1.5 inch, give or take a few mm) large.
Depends on your needs of course. But laptops can function quite well as servers.
I mean, it consumes little power and had UPS built in. It wouldn't be a swell choice to serve an enterprise, but a lan party, or even as a home webserver/fileserver it works fine. Any laptop can saturate the usual adsl line just fine.
Ideally, a NAS solution should support all protocols used on you network. That way, zou can centralize storage, and easily centralize backups. If you only support one or a few protocols, you'll have to adapt all non supported devices, or use a more complex backup scheme.
Therefore, Samba is a must, but other protocols should be considered too.
It shouldn't work like that, I agree. But plain saying it doesn't, does not neccesarily make a judge see it that way. Eg, is installing covered by "temporary copies made for technical reasons?". And even if it is, will it be the type of temporary copy meant by the laws? The industry will claim it doesn't. So it's their word against ours.
Please keep in mind that legally, this matter is very new. Most lawyers know little about technology, and most techies know little about how laws work. A consensus has to be reached, which will be only patially based on technological merits. Mostly, it will have to be socially acceptable. If it is, is dictated by how it is presented to the legisature and the public.
Until many cases have passed in court that deal with this, it is not cut and dried.
The only person capable of stopping anyone from doing anything is the individual- to my mind, EULAs are general reminders that make you consider the nature of what you are doing in the first place. No, that's not entirely correct. EULAs are the reminder of how the software industry thinks about copyright. They aren't governed by ethical motives, but by financieal motives.
Copyright is the right to copy and distribute a work. Once, as the copyrightholder, you've distributed it, you lost your rights to that copy of the work (it's depleted). The copyright of the work as a whole, stays with the owner of the work.
Alas, with computers it is impossible to use software without copying it (to harddisk on install, and to memory on usage). It's this property that was used to set software apart, from books for example. It's not the usage that's claused, it's the copying. And to agree to this copying, you have to enter a contract about the usage of the software, because you cannot directly use the copy you bought.
This is brought on us by the industry. They, of course, like to have as much control over the usage as they can, in order to charge their consumers more/multiple times. Thus they've used the mechanism above to legislature and judges to get their rights protected and, through contracts with the end user(EULAs), expanded.
That is a quick look into the legal history of the EULA and copyright on software. Against that, it's quite natural to view EULAs with suspicion, because they are, by nature, rather one sided.
... you still have to pay the windows licenses over the 250000 units you shipped last month. Linux can be shipped without having to pay those license costs.
I'm all for full disclosure in public software. But gmail and other web services aren't public software.
Full disclosure has a purpose: to educate users/admins in order to prevent damage to them. It should not be goal in itself.
In case of proprietary software running on a machine nobody but the developer has access to, why bother. It's not as if the users run more risk if FD isn't practiced. Au contraire.
The only reason I can think of that would warrant FD, is when you want to keep tabs on the developer, because you don't trust them. In that case, find another service provider.
The pricing on the goods can be constituted as an offer. On accepting the offer, a contract is entered. The new pricing (bar code) can be viewed as a counter-offer. If the cashier accepts, the counter-offer is accepted and a contract is entered, making it a legal sale.
Of course, ethically it is wrong, but legally, it's not done yet.
I know and agree. It's unthinking developers that work like that. I meant it as an illustration that windows and unix developers aren't that different, when it comes to following conventions.
If you know a couple of hundred you can already grasp the meaning of many things. I only know about 40 of 'em I already recognize some shop labels and the like. Most Japanese people know about 2000, but there are loads more. I heard 3500+, but Chinese, which Kanji was derived from, has 7000+. Heck, when you learn Kanji, you can even read Chinese, similar as they are.
The funny thing about Kanji is you can learn to read/write it without knowing any Japanese.
Slashdot Mirror
Editors? I always thought it was just a computer that selected submissions randomly, and then inserted a few spelling errors.
No, it's slashdotting the competition. The 2x15" is for sale on thinkgeek.
This sounds nice in theory, but in practice it is different. As exemptions bring requirements for administration, request forms and generally complex procedures, it's mostly the higher educated people that benefit from them. Incidently, this is mostly the upper part of society, incomewise.
So, while theoretically you're right, it's cheaper, easier and about as effective to do away with the exempts, and just tax the undesired product.
I'm all for open source, but to me this sounds like whining. I mean: who hasn't argued with his parents that your buddy could go somewhere and you weren't allowed?
The really depressing thing is: this is the way politics works. Seldom with valid arguments, the people who whine the most get heard the most.
Sigh. Maybe I should whine more and work less...
Lol. I did biotech for 4 years, switched to IT (because biotech is regulated to death here in Europe). Now, in 5 or 6 months I hope to graduate Law school. Guess I follow the money then. Except, until now, it never did pay off.
This gizmo works on glucose, as do your brains. The fat in your body cannot supply glucose, so neither your brains, nor this fuel cell can run on the energy stored in fat. However, some proteins can be used as a glucose donor, esp those in muscle tissue.
Thus, when using this fuel cell to lose weight, all you lose is your muscle tissue, not the fat tissue.
Learn Japanese :)
That't what I do. Maybe we can practise together...
Of course the author bound to the GPL. So s/he'll have to provide the code (which clause is a weakness in the current GPL, as it's not limited whatsoever).
A license is nothing but an agreement between you and the copyright holder. If the copyright holder stops offering the software under a certain license (GPL in case), older agreements do not mysteriously vanish. Parties are still bound to an agreement they entered, even if in the current circumstances they would never enter into the same agreement again.
It's argued that it should be called GNU/Linux because the system is partly GNU software, and only partly (but important part) Linux.
Nobody is arguing that it should be called GNU Linux.
Well, IANALYet, but both Germany and Austria are bound by international treaties to implement copyright:
a. there's the WIPO Copyright Treaty, to which Germany is a party
b. there's the Berne Convention, to which both Austria and Germany are party
c. there's the European Copyright Directive, for which the deadline of 2002-12-02 has passed, and thus should be implemented in Germany. As for the last one: European Law was determined in the "Van Gend en Loos Case" to have preference over local laws. So where there's a conflict of European copyright law and German copyright law, the German law is considered lower law.
To be complete: it's not the date of publishing that determines if a work is copyrighted, but the time since it's maker died (70 years in the US, 50 years according to the Berner Convetion, I believe).
So, a book (a work) that was published 120 years ago, it can still be copyrighted if [the|a] maker of the work (eg typesetter) has died less than 50 years ago.
I did send a mail too, on feb 6th, to abuse@ebay.com. In it I said: "This phishing uses an real ebay URL to seem legitimate". All I got was an automated response telling me to take several steps to report it to them.
When I received that, I dropped it. I wanted to report it, because I recognised the threat, but I don't want to jump through several hoops just to please them. Reporting to abuse@ is doing them a service. Some activity on their side is the least to expect.
about the size of a current fuel hose?
That's how I got into Warhammer, and other minigames for that matter. Thru ADnD and later other RPGs. Nowadays I paint more than I play RPGs and minigames combined.
:). I'm not that good... Keep in mind most of these minis are only around 35mm (or 1.5 inch, give or take a few mm) large.
A good site to look at quality paint jobs is this site. Yes, I'm on there, but I won't volunteer my nick
Depends on your needs of course. But laptops can function quite well as servers.
I mean, it consumes little power and had UPS built in. It wouldn't be a swell choice to serve an enterprise, but a lan party, or even as a home webserver/fileserver it works fine. Any laptop can saturate the usual adsl line just fine.
Ideally, a NAS solution should support all protocols used on you network. That way, zou can centralize storage, and easily centralize backups. If you only support one or a few protocols, you'll have to adapt all non supported devices, or use a more complex backup scheme.
Therefore, Samba is a must, but other protocols should be considered too.
It shouldn't work like that, I agree. But plain saying it doesn't, does not neccesarily make a judge see it that way. Eg, is installing covered by "temporary copies made for technical reasons?". And even if it is, will it be the type of temporary copy meant by the laws? The industry will claim it doesn't. So it's their word against ours.
Please keep in mind that legally, this matter is very new. Most lawyers know little about technology, and most techies know little about how laws work. A consensus has to be reached, which will be only patially based on technological merits. Mostly, it will have to be socially acceptable. If it is, is dictated by how it is presented to the legisature and the public.
Until many cases have passed in court that deal with this, it is not cut and dried.
The only person capable of stopping anyone from doing anything is the individual- to my mind, EULAs are general reminders that make you consider the nature of what you are doing in the first place.
No, that's not entirely correct. EULAs are the reminder of how the software industry thinks about copyright. They aren't governed by ethical motives, but by financieal motives.
Copyright is the right to copy and distribute a work. Once, as the copyrightholder, you've distributed it, you lost your rights to that copy of the work (it's depleted). The copyright of the work as a whole, stays with the owner of the work.
Alas, with computers it is impossible to use software without copying it (to harddisk on install, and to memory on usage). It's this property that was used to set software apart, from books for example. It's not the usage that's claused, it's the copying. And to agree to this copying, you have to enter a contract about the usage of the software, because you cannot directly use the copy you bought.
This is brought on us by the industry. They, of course, like to have as much control over the usage as they can, in order to charge their consumers more/multiple times. Thus they've used the mechanism above to legislature and judges to get their rights protected and, through contracts with the end user(EULAs), expanded.
That is a quick look into the legal history of the EULA and copyright on software. Against that, it's quite natural to view EULAs with suspicion, because they are, by nature, rather one sided.
These are OEM chipsets. In other words, only supported by ATI through the vendor.
So, in this case, go ask Apple if they will ask ATI. Fat chance.
... you still have to pay the windows licenses over the 250000 units you shipped last month. Linux can be shipped without having to pay those license costs.
I'm all for full disclosure in public software. But gmail and other web services aren't public software.
Full disclosure has a purpose: to educate users/admins in order to prevent damage to them. It should not be goal in itself.
In case of proprietary software running on a machine nobody but the developer has access to, why bother. It's not as if the users run more risk if FD isn't practiced. Au contraire.
The only reason I can think of that would warrant FD, is when you want to keep tabs on the developer, because you don't trust them. In that case, find another service provider.
Hear hear.
At least now I know what my wife is thinking when she sees slashdot over my shoulder. She must feel as I did when I saw this story.
The pricing on the goods can be constituted as an offer. On accepting the offer, a contract is entered. The new pricing (bar code) can be viewed as a counter-offer. If the cashier accepts, the counter-offer is accepted and a contract is entered, making it a legal sale.
Of course, ethically it is wrong, but legally, it's not done yet.
I know and agree. It's unthinking developers that work like that. I meant it as an illustration that windows and unix developers aren't that different, when it comes to following conventions.
If you know a couple of hundred you can already grasp the meaning of many things. I only know about 40 of 'em I already recognize some shop labels and the like. Most Japanese people know about 2000, but there are loads more. I heard 3500+, but Chinese, which Kanji was derived from, has 7000+. Heck, when you learn Kanji, you can even read Chinese, similar as they are.
The funny thing about Kanji is you can learn to read/write it without knowing any Japanese.