Even better, change the default to "QuickEdit mode" by right clicking on the title bar, and choosing properties. It's not a line-oriented selection, it's a block selection, but all you need to do is left-click at the start and drag to the end, then a right click copies, and the next one pastes.
It's not a fee, it's a tax. It is to compensate those industries hurt by piracy, not to give you a license to pirate.
In Canada, it's a fee. The Copyright Act is quite clear about this. You can read a very clear description of this on the Copyright Board of Canada's web site. (I know it's hard to believe a bureaucracy like that would write clearly!)
In particular, "The amendment to the Act legalized private copying of sound recordings of musical works onto audio recording media - i.e., the copying of pre-recorded music for the private use of the person who makes the copy. In addition, the amendment made provision for the imposition of a levy on blank audio recording media to compensate authors, performers and makers who own copyright in eligible sound recordings being copied for private use."
The environmentalist response to your complaint is that anyone burning fossil fuels is stealing from future generations: making their climate worse, depleting non-renewable resources. If the production of the solar panels isn't just as bad, then it's a reasonable thing for government to be funding.
That's what government is supposed to do: fund things with long range general benefits, because if the costs go to the individual but the benefits are general, the individual won't pay, and the benefits won't come.
The making of Damascus steel was lost around 1750, but rediscovered around 2000. There's a nice article on the rediscovery referenced from one of the wikipedia pages.
I get about 99% success with Spamassassin. (I do train it on its errors, about every couple of weeks.) The most common leakage I was getting was bounces from domains when the spammer spoofed my domain name; I finally put an SPF record in place, and those seem to have stopped.
One thing I wish it would allow would be to train it on all rules, not just those that the Bayesian filters use. Some of the rules give me a lot of false positives, but they'd be fine for others: so why do we have to manually change the scores on them?
So the Irony of Ironies is that those developers that stick the GPL into an installer that requires you to agree to the license before installation, are in fact violating their own license.
Just because the button says you need to click it to use the software doesn't mean you do. You're perfectly free to modify the installer to remove that requirement.
So you're not violating the GPL by including such a button. You'd be violating the GPL if you enforced it.
Still, it's not very honest to tell users they can't continue with the installation when there is no legal basis for the claim.
Despite arguing (with tongue in cheek) that a click-through is a good idea, in the latest release of R I removed the requirement. The license is still displayed, but there's no requirement to "agree" to it to continue with installation.
For people who are handling the installers for other projects: this was a one line change to our Inno Setup script, from
However, while in case of tourists the passengers have the choice to tell the US and the airlines to go screw themselves - and opt not to travel to the US, in many cases this won't be a real option. If it is a business trip then they have no choice in practice.
Most business trips are optional. People take them for some face time with their colleagues: but that could happen in Canada or Europe just as easily as in the US. Now, if you're trying to sell something to Americans you've probably got to go there to present it, but the US is working hard to make itself an irrelevant market.
Bin Laden wanted to a) Americans as a country and as a people to feel terror or fear and b) Cost you lots of money.
I think it's pretty hard to figure out what someone like bin Laden really wants, but those don't sound realistic to me. I think it's more likely he wanted to recruit people to his cause, trigger Islamic revolutions, and generally cause a crisis in order to depose the corrupt governments in the Middle East. Why would he be able to convince someone to commit suicide in order to make some foreigners afraid, or to cost them money? His motivation must have been local.
Has he won? I'd say only partially. The American reaction has certainly been good for recruitment for al Qaeda, Hezbollah, et al. He hasn't triggered any Islamic revolutions yet, but I think it's reasonably likely Iraq will end up with an Islamic government. He has caused the Americans to depose the Taliban; I don't think that was intentional, but it may not last; he has caused the Americans to depose Saddam, and I think he'd count that as a victory. I think he was probably worried by the measured American reaction immediately after 9/11, but luckily they came through in the end.
- It is big, so it blocks both parts of a duplex receptacle if you plug it in directly. Use it on a small extension cord.
- It is powered by the source you plug it into, with no retention of results when unplugged, and no light on the display when in place. Bring a flashlight and/or a longer extension cord if you're using it behind an appliance.
But in a well lighted location, it is quite informative.
That should be "no longer missing". It was missing when the EFF and Geist articles were originally posted. Right now, you can still see the version without it in the Google cache if you search for "Consolidated Amended Statement of Claim in Quebec". Google says they picked it up on Sept 3.
Canada has no nation-wide votes either, nationally it's a parliamentary system. The largest voter groups are for mayoral races in big cities. I think the largest group would be voting for the mayor of Toronto, where around 2 million people would be eligible to vote, and probably 40% would turn out to do so.
However, your point about just getting more people to count ballots is entirely valid.
I don't think you need to be computer savvy to know that some retailers hype things that you don't need, and aren't reliable sources of advice. I'm surprised that this is a successful business model, but there's a sucker born every day.
Don't forget, no matter how much you firewall or patch or try to secure your systems and network, you can never truely protect yourself from an uniformed user.
You're right. These days those uniformed users don't even need warrants.
I work on a project that does this in its Windows installer (since before my time, but I could change it). I sort of like the idea of leaving it there. Windows users expect to see these EULAs, and I think it's good to reinforce the idea that they are totally useless and meaningless.
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Even better, change the default to "QuickEdit mode" by right clicking on the title bar, and choosing properties. It's not a line-oriented selection, it's a block selection, but all you need to do is left-click at the start and drag to the end, then a right click copies, and the next one pastes.
It's not a fee, it's a tax. It is to compensate those industries hurt by piracy, not to give you a license to pirate.
In Canada, it's a fee. The Copyright Act is quite clear about this. You can read a very clear
description of this on the Copyright Board of Canada's web site. (I know it's hard to believe a bureaucracy like that would write clearly!)
In particular, "The amendment to the Act legalized private copying of sound recordings of musical works onto audio recording media - i.e., the copying of pre-recorded music for the private use of the person who makes the copy. In addition, the amendment made provision for the imposition of a levy on blank audio recording media to compensate authors, performers and makers who own copyright in eligible sound recordings being copied for private use."
The environmentalist response to your complaint is that anyone burning fossil fuels is stealing from future generations: making their climate worse, depleting non-renewable resources. If the production of the solar panels isn't just as bad, then it's a reasonable thing for government to be funding.
That's what government is supposed to do: fund things with long range general benefits, because if the costs go to the individual but the benefits are general, the individual won't pay, and the benefits won't come.
Michael Bolton: "PC Load Letter"? What the fuck does that mean?
this is not exactly NaN in the IEEE sense
I don't see the difference, and don't have time to read the paper now. How is it different?
Not to mention all those AC posts they see you making...
Thanks for the pointer. The SA article is online here.
The making of Damascus steel was lost around 1750, but rediscovered around 2000. There's a nice article on the rediscovery referenced from one of the wikipedia pages.
Hey Belgium is second !
2nd within the EU, 3rd among the 37.
I get about 99% success with Spamassassin. (I do train it on its errors, about every couple of weeks.) The most common leakage I was getting was bounces from domains when the spammer spoofed my domain name; I finally put an SPF record in place, and those seem to have stopped.
One thing I wish it would allow would be to train it on all rules, not just those that the Bayesian filters use. Some of the rules give me a lot of false positives, but they'd be fine for others: so why do we have to manually change the scores on them?
it is not the music industry's job to decide what rights consumers have. That is the job of government.'
There I was thinking it was the job of society (i.e. the people themselves) to decide what rights people should have,
You sound very American, equating "consumers" and "people". Please see this very clear posting discussing the difference.
So the Irony of Ironies is that those developers that stick the GPL into an installer that requires you to agree to the license before installation, are in fact violating their own license.
Just because the button says you need to click it to use the software doesn't mean you do. You're perfectly free to modify the installer to remove that requirement.
So you're not violating the GPL by including such a button. You'd be violating the GPL if you enforced it.
Still, it's not very honest to tell users they can't continue with the installation when there is no legal basis for the claim.
Despite arguing (with tongue in cheek) that a click-through is a good idea, in the latest release of R I removed the requirement. The license is still displayed, but there's no requirement to "agree" to it to continue with installation.
For people who are handling the installers for other projects: this was a one line change to our Inno Setup script, from
LicenseFile=${SRCDIR}\\COPYING
to
InfoBeforeFile=${SRCDIR}\\COPYING
And where exactly are all these attacks coming from. Where are these worms and viruses hosted.
The article didn't determine that. It found the geographic location of some of them, but it doesn't report on the host OS.
Some of the attacks clearly came from Windows machines, but a port scan could just as easily come from a rooted (or not) Linux box.
However, while in case of tourists the passengers have the choice to tell the US and the airlines to go screw themselves - and opt not to travel to the US, in many cases this won't be a real option. If it is a business trip then they have no choice in practice.
Most business trips are optional. People take them for some face time with their colleagues: but that could happen in Canada or Europe just as easily as in the US. Now, if you're trying to sell something to Americans you've probably got to go there to present it, but the US is working hard to make itself an irrelevant market.
Anybody but a hairsplitting idiot would fail to grasp the fact that I regarded it as self evident that Earth was excluded when I said
Actually, I think even a hairsplitting idiot would fail to grasp that fact.
It's not just true that your rights have been lost, more Americans have died due to the Iraq war than due to the 9/11 attacks.
Bin Laden wanted to a) Americans as a country and as a people to feel terror or fear and b) Cost you lots of money.
I think it's pretty hard to figure out what someone like bin Laden really wants, but those don't sound realistic to me. I think it's more likely he wanted to recruit people to his cause, trigger Islamic revolutions, and generally cause a crisis in order to depose the corrupt governments in the Middle East.
Why would he be able to convince someone to commit suicide in order to make some foreigners afraid, or to cost them money? His motivation must have been local.
Has he won? I'd say only partially. The American reaction has certainly been good for recruitment for al Qaeda, Hezbollah, et al. He hasn't triggered any Islamic revolutions yet, but I think it's reasonably likely Iraq will end up with an Islamic government. He has caused the Americans to depose the Taliban; I don't think that was intentional, but it may not last; he has caused the Americans to depose Saddam, and I think he'd count that as a victory. I think he was probably worried by the measured American reaction immediately after 9/11, but luckily they came through in the end.
That's a good solution. I didn't mean to imply that I disliked the device, just that a few of the design decisions that went into it were pretty dumb.
The Kill-a-watt has a pretty bad user interface:
- It is big, so it blocks both parts of a duplex receptacle if you plug it in directly. Use it on a small extension cord.
- It is powered by the source you plug it into, with no retention of results when unplugged, and no light on the display when in place. Bring a flashlight and/or a longer extension cord if you're using it behind an appliance.
But in a well lighted location, it is quite informative.
That should be "no longer missing". It was missing when the EFF and Geist articles were originally posted. Right now, you can still see the version without it in the Google cache if you search for "Consolidated Amended Statement of Claim in Quebec". Google says they picked it up on Sept 3.
Canada has no nation-wide votes either, nationally it's a parliamentary system. The largest voter groups are for mayoral races in big cities. I think the largest group would be voting for the mayor of Toronto, where around 2 million people would be eligible to vote, and probably 40% would turn out to do so.
However, your point about just getting more people to count ballots is entirely valid.
I don't think you need to be computer savvy to know that some retailers hype things that you don't need, and aren't reliable sources of advice. I'm surprised that this is a successful business model, but there's a sucker born every day.
Don't forget, no matter how much you firewall or patch or try to secure your systems and network, you can never truely protect yourself from an uniformed user.
You're right. These days those uniformed users don't even need warrants.
I work on a project that does this in its Windows installer (since before my time, but I could change it). I sort of like the idea of leaving it there. Windows users expect to see these EULAs, and I think it's good to reinforce the idea that they are totally useless and meaningless.