Looking to the open source community for applications that serve the same function as closed source solutions may cause vendors to be more flexible with pricing and licensing structures.
No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any
technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that -
(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing protection [...]
By the same token, you can publish specs on how to circumvent macrovision. You just can't traffic in the device itself.
Funny that you added emphasis on the fact that it can be either a device or a service (a technical speech from a consultant is certainly a service) or others things, and conclud that it only concerns devices.
The concept of a self-heating container is not new. Armed services personnel used a self-heating can introduced in 1939 that relied on the burning of cordite to provide the thermal energy.
pollution isn't a "China" or "US" problem, it's a world problem
That's why we create international treaties for these problems, that every countries ratify (except the US when the obligation would cost money to US companies).
The letter refers to what Microsoft could possibly do in the future. I could possibly go out and rob a bank in the next week but does this mean the police should arrest me?
If you have a track record or robberies, and have built a tool which would allow you to rob 10000 banks in one single shot, well... the police should probably arrest you, indeed. I mean: even if you issued a public statement about not using this tool.
Microsoft seems to have chosen a similar guideline of about five years after they stopped selling stuff.
That would not be bad. Unfortunately, Microsoft stops support only 2 years after they stoped selling stuff (that is, 5 years after the started selling it).
The US assisted military attacks on muslim for many years, and now some muslim groups are punching back.
However, your conclusion seems to be wrong: now that these groups punched back, the violence is escalading.
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Am I the only one to think that a full range radio wave analysis includes light waves ? Just because the Human kind uses them for different purposes doesn't imply a split between the two.
1. The Judge says: "foreign juridiction can't force a local company to comply with foreign law". Then the French decision can't force yahoo to stop selling these items, so French justice can't account french yahoo employee in france for yahoo content, which means the federal judge (as a foreign to France) will force french citizen in France to comply with US law, which contradicts the original statement.
2. The Judge says: "foreign juridiction can force a US company to comply with foreign law". Then, US jusridiction should be able to force yahoo french employees to comply with the first Amendment too...
The only escape is to say: "Everyone on Earth must comply with US law, but noone in US has to comply with foreign law". And I really think this is the conclusion the judge will reach, and most US people will be Ok with it.
If some commercial company picked up and supported my favorite GNU-based app, I'd be thrilled, even if they didn't release the source. If they did something that was that special a value-add, they should be recognized for it.
You imply that the authors of the original work should not be recognized. Remember that the recognition they ask is exactly this: if you create something special thanks to their code, you give it back.
And the open source community is free to clone their features in as free a form as they see fit
And if this commercial company is not willing to recognize the work of the original authors, the company is still free to clone your favorite GNU-based app features as free a form as they see fit.
Instead of proving harm, the Studios rely on unsupported prophesies that the entertainment industry will be destroyed if 2600 Magazine is not silenced. Such prophesies
may be good public relations, but they are no substitute for legal proof of harm, especially in a First Amendment case.
Simple, straight, efficient. Why don't the lawyers always write like this ?
If someone is able to show "Look who I'm voting for" in front of {insert your favourite lobby here}, this is the end of democracy.
Any democratic voting process must disallow this, by construction.
However, ad I understand it, in the USA, anyone can vote by surface mail, so the process is already flawed. There are countries outthere where you really need a strong case if you want to be allowed to vote without going to the voting places, which are the only places where freedom can be enforced.
As soon as there is a way to translate directly money into votes, voting becomes meaningless.
This business model is not relevant anymore. The Minitel is dying, whatever the efforts from France Telecom to make it survive a few more years ("fast" minitel, internet interfaces,...).
The reality is that all the major services available (for a fee) on the Minitel (reverse phone book, train and plane reservation,...) are now available for free on internet.
This is why many non-public national databases (such as Euridile, the national register of commerce) can only be accessed through the Minitel system
This data (and all the law-related date) was quite late, because of monopoly concessions, but it is now mostly available for free on the internet, too.
The mintel is dead, dead, dead. And France Telecom has already determined the date (somewhere in the next 3 years, I think) at which the Teletel system will CLOSE.
Beach leaders asked Microsoft for a 30-day extension, through Nov. 27, to
comply.
I would love a PR announce on Nov. 27 from Beach which tells:
Ok, 500 of our staff volonteered to migrate to a linux/staroffice installation, and our situation now complies with Microsoft requirements. The experiment worked so well that we now have more and more volonteer who overload our IT department with Linux migration requests.
are concerned by the current plans to legalize software patents in Europe, considering their damaging effect on innovation and competition
are concerned by the possible use of software patents to patent business methods, education methods, health methods, etc
are concerned by the current track record of abuses from the European Patent Office, especially by their tendency to abuse their judicial power to extend the scope of patentability
This decision is now quite old (May 2000), and has already been discussed a few times here on Slashdot.
The new things (but already a few weeks old) about this story are:
After 2 months, yahoo said it could not guess the origin of all IP addresses
The judge asked a expert panel (including Vint Cerf) to find what were the technical solutions available
The conclusions from this panel were that the best solution was to filter out.fr ISP (about 60% of french connections), ask the user about his natinality for the other ISPs, and filter him based on what he said. If this is to be considered by the judge as the best attempt to follow this french law, the story could very well end here.
Let's say you've cracked the box and installed some custom kernel modules that will report 'correct' file contents
for, say, your PAM library even though it's been changed. Tough to do? Yeah. But possible. How would you defend against this?
Install a kernel module which checks that lsmod reports are correct, and communicate with the installer in a crypto-secure way so that any
workaround to this kernel module loading will
be detected.
Note that having an error of a few millionths of a degree because of PI accuracy means that you have less than 7 significant digits, which is below the resolution of the cheapest calculators.
Just add a few digit, up to 40, for example, and you will never notice any measurable error even with
the most complex differential equations.
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A2 000 000 hex == 2 717 908 992 dec
2.7 billions. Nice number for a fine, indeed.
The concept of a self-heating container is not new. Armed services personnel used a self-heating can introduced in 1939 that relied on the burning of cordite to provide the thermal energy.
He used Animation:Master, not Blender.
That's why we create international treaties for these problems, that every countries ratify (except the US when the obligation would cost money to US companies).
That would not be bad. Unfortunately, Microsoft stops support only 2 years after they stoped selling stuff (that is, 5 years after the started selling it).
Sorry about this. .41 inches is obviously superior in that it's not a wrong value (.41in != 1cm).
How is .41 inches notation superior to 1 cm ?
I see your point.
The US assisted military attacks on muslim for many years, and now some muslim groups are punching back.
However, your conclusion seems to be wrong: now that these groups punched back, the violence is escalading.
Am I the only one to think that a full range radio wave analysis includes light waves ? Just because the Human kind uses them for different purposes doesn't imply a split between the two.
1. The Judge says: "foreign juridiction can't force a local company to comply with foreign law". Then the French decision can't force yahoo to stop selling these items, so French justice can't account french yahoo employee in france for yahoo content, which means the federal judge (as a foreign to France) will force french citizen in France to comply with US law, which contradicts the original statement.
2. The Judge says: "foreign juridiction can force a US company to comply with foreign law". Then, US jusridiction should be able to force yahoo french employees to comply with the first Amendment too...
The only escape is to say: "Everyone on Earth must comply with US law, but noone in US has to comply with foreign law". And I really think this is the conclusion the judge will reach, and most US people will be Ok with it.
You imply that the authors of the original work should not be recognized. Remember that the recognition they ask is exactly this: if you create something special thanks to their code, you give it back.
And if this commercial company is not willing to recognize the work of the original authors, the company is still free to clone your favorite GNU-based app features as free a form as they see fit.
For this purpose, this document is a decss in plain english, illustrated with C code...
Any democratic voting process must disallow this, by construction.
However, ad I understand it, in the USA, anyone can vote by surface mail, so the process is already flawed. There are countries outthere where you really need a strong case if you want to be allowed to vote without going to the voting places, which are the only places where freedom can be enforced.
As soon as there is a way to translate directly money into votes, voting becomes meaningless.
Beware... e-Voting might kill democracy.
Jerome.
The reality is that all the major services available (for a fee) on the Minitel (reverse phone book, train and plane reservation, ...) are now available for free on internet.
This data (and all the law-related date) was quite late, because of monopoly concessions, but it is now mostly available for free on the internet, too.The mintel is dead, dead, dead. And France Telecom has already determined the date (somewhere in the next 3 years, I think) at which the Teletel system will CLOSE.
I would love a PR announce on Nov. 27 from Beach which tells:
- are concerned by the current plans to legalize software patents in Europe, considering their damaging effect on innovation and competition
- are concerned by the possible use of software patents to patent business methods, education methods, health methods, etc
- are concerned by the current track record of abuses from the European Patent Office, especially by their tendency to abuse their judicial power to extend the scope of patentability
Please, go and sign the Petition for a Software Patent Free EuropeJust add a few digit, up to 40, for example, and you will never notice any measurable error even with the most complex differential equations.
Here is a link to that amazingly stupid patent on the IBM patent archive.