A drive-by is a drive-by is a drive-by. You're telling me this doesn't matter or isn't a gang problem because it happened in Milwaukee? Or that Milwaukee shouldn't be looking into solutions because there really are no "hardcore" gangs here?
My point for your remedial reading, can't pass the SRA, misinterpreting, reactionary dumb ass is even though Milwaukee isn't a city the size of say LA or has the same magnitude of gang issues like Chicago it does not mitigate the fact that Milwaukee has serious gang problems of its own which needs to be addressed. And considering that when these problems flare up you get small children dying because of it I could care less that if I go to NY I would see gangs which are 10 times worse or truly "hardcore."
Ok, it ain't LA, it ain't Chicago or New York but when children get killed by stray bullets from a drive-by yeah you got gang problems. So sorry it isn't as extreme as stuff you see in the "Big City."
Hell, fwiw, even Racine has gang problems. I remember my Grandma complaining about gangs in central OH.
Don't go dismissing shit you know nothing about. At least somebody, somewhere is doing something.
These are not mutually exclusive goals especially in this case. The backers of this proposed bill want to protect their copyrights while the industries opposing this bill don't want to be forced into using a technology that they haven't patented, made into a trade secret or what have you.
There is *no* way the industry could agree upon a DRM technology in 18 months and I think they know it. Then it comes down to the government mandating a solution with the very real possibility that nobody gets the brass ring and makes a ton of money selling a proprietary solution.
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So they capture all this traffic. Now tell me how they are going to verify it, prioritize it, put it in context, act on it, etc., etc.. Oh and how will they get to use that information sans warrant.
I can just see it now. Start sniffing on an ATM backbone and analyze those packets 48 bytes at a time. You go G-man!
ELINT has its uses but some perspective is needed here.
Having used GRUB when I was running Progeny and having to run LILO, well since forever, I have to say I'd rather spend the half hour learning a new tool that makes my life easier than staying with an old tool that gives me more work.
LILO is one of those tools that you use *just* enough that you forget its idiosyncrasies. I can see it as a source of tech support calls that in the long run can be removed by moving over to GRUB because while LILO works GRUB is easier.
For myself, I was very happy that RH took this step.
Yeah and nobody is getting sued for distributing DeCSS.
Not when they are an anti-competitive monopoly.
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They are leveraging a subsidiary to force users onto their products exclusively. People would have to dump or not even consider other products like Netscape, Opera, Evolution, Eudora, etc to access a basic service. If you read the FAQ you'd notice that they currently have to delay migrating the Mac users because they can't provide all the services Windows users will be getting on MSN.
While I agree that this isn't exactly a rights issue, I complete disagree that MSN or MS can do whatever they want. The FOF has survived appeal and it is now a brave new world for MS. Every move they make is fair game for legal scurtiny. You can cry about the supposed free market all you want but that ain't the real world and in this case I'd rather nip this in the bud before MSN gets a stranglehold share in the marketplace.
No, they disagreed with having Judge Jackson issue a breakup order without spending an adequate amount of time on the remedy phase and then doing some questionable interviews which showed possible bias against MS.
If he had just kept his mouth shut instead of being a media slut the results would have probably been the same but MS would have had a much rougher time of it.
There's nothing saying Judge Kollar-Kotelly can't also issue a breakup order and have it stick. She just needs to be professional before during and after the trial.
I guess my question is which license gets issued when and who gets to choose it. We know the license is issued when development begins. So, if a company is starting an in-house project, which TrollTech obviously considers commercial work, when they get the toolkit it seems logical to me that they have to pay for a license.
Here's the assumptions I'm running on. Somebody corect me if I'm wrong.
The copyright owner (CO) gets to determine what licenses the code can fall under.
The CO determines which license can be applied when the licensed is issued.
The license follows the product.
Under these circumstances I don't think you need to modify the GPL. TT simply never offers you the GPL version if you are producing what they consider commercial code.
Just because Qt can be licensed under the QPL, GPL or Academic, Professional or Enterprise license doesn't mean the customer choses which one to use. TT permits a license based on what you are using their toolkit for.
IANAL, but I think that line of reasoning is sound based upon all the stuff I've read about Copyright.
Well, I gotta admit I did look at this article before my morning coffee and I was going "Huh? NecroCat? Wha?" Then I went to the website and got a look at the thing and sure enough it looked like someone had taxidermy Fluffy.
Must be the new pet sidekick for Spawn or something.
Re:Yet another good reason to use IP Tables....
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RIAA to DoS Pirates?
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Here's my problem with TrollTech. I see page upon page of information about their QPL license but I see squat about their commercial license. So I do have to infer some things.
Like in-house development would require a commercial license of Qt. Look here.
This license allows for use that normally would be considered commercial, such as development of in-house applications and the like, but does not allow for the development of commercial applications or components of commercial applications or products
A non-commercial setting means that you must not use the package in the course of your employment or whilst engaged in activities that will be compensated.
The idea is that if you use Qt, you should pay back either by giving the software you make back to the free software community (the Free Edition), or contribute to the Qt development by purchasing commercial licenses from us (the Professional/Enterprise Editions).
Pouring over these pages just to find out what is and isn't allowed for free/in-house/commercial software makes me want to find a lawyer. The GPL may allow for proprietary in-house software but I don't think TrollTech permits it. In-house definately seem to fall under their criteria for a commercial license.
As for which system promotes OSS better, well that's another post/debate. Personally I think the LGPL is great for getting it in the door and if a company wants to open their codebase they can do it at their discretion. But as to whether you can use the free toolkit for in-house development... I wouldn't give that a resounding yes after everything I've read.
Nope. See, if Gnome goes in a direction Sun doesn't like or if Sun needs to add something to Gnome they can fork Gnome. Being LGPL, we get to keep the source, changes can be brought back into Gnome, and commercial companies can still use the libraries without cost.
Now if I do that with KDE... Well I can either GPL my fork (no proprietary company can use my code now), rewrite the thing from scratch, or.... suck up and take whatever TrollTech gives me because I can't modify their commercially licensed code. Depending upon exactly what I need done I may have to whine a little bit to... well we'll leave that to the imagination or I might get told flat out no and be SOL.
It's not just cost, it's control. GPLing Qt was nice for linux distributors but for a company like Sun I just don't see how KDE would ever fly. No matter how mature it is. I can improve Gnome but the issues around KDE will never change or are out of my hands.
Scott wasn't conned. He just saw an investment that had a better chance of paying off than the alternative.
No, you misinterpret what I'm saying. Since all people want was the single song you have available (after all most of it is just filler but you've got 2-3 songs for radio airplay.) You are robbing them of $20 bucks for just the one song.
After all it is the single which is driving the CD sale.
And as they roll out each hit one by one each hit is worth the $20 in and of itself. After all, once one song gets played to death you need a new song to milk that money out of the people holding out (You bastards!)
If we were playing Paranoid I think I'd have to say you owed the RIAA $60US for that song. < evil grin >
I put one mp3 file on the ftp server and they can say that every download constitutes a lost sale on the CD which has that song. Pricing a CD at $20 that is 250 downloads.
You really need to learn the New Math companies use to determine on-line damage.
You forgot step 2. You call the police and have them get your stereo back. This is the civilized way to handle things.
The flaw in your analogy is if you break into your neighbor's house they have a right to defend themselves up to and including the possibility of killing you for trespassing on their property. Not to mention that you would be liable for any damage you did to their home.
More like buy your music second hand, rip it and share it with the world.
That way the RIAA and the artists associated with them won't see a dime of your money. If Metallica and the rest want my cash they can form an indie label and tell the RIAA to stuff it. You don't get to price a CD at $20US only to put it on sale for $15US when I can get it on the Internet for $11US (are we seeing a trend as to how much a CD is actually worth?) and then treat me like a thief.
Even asking for the right to hack into my PC is too much. I've never been a big napster fan but I will certainly make sure that any way I get my music now will not benefit the RIAA.
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Five Years of KDE
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All I'm going to say regarding this analogy is from Windows 1.0 to Windows 2.1 the highest processor you were using was an Intel 286.
It was a completely different time and makes your analogy not very applicable.
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Mozilla 0.9.5
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LOL. Well I knew somebody had to say it.
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Mozilla 0.9.5
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Hrmmm, Opera 5.12 on Windows does browsing, e-mail, news and IM plus does all the plugins I use. Currently, it's chugging away and using 34Meg on this Win2K box.
But, of course, Opera could never be bloatware. And it isn't. On Linux, where it doesn't have half the features and doesn't display anywhere near as well as the Windows client.
Opera is one of my primary browsers on Windows and Linux. I use it all the time. But please do not try to pass off that if you want "just a browser" you should be using Opera.
Oh, and why is it that nobody seems to include the concept of a Custom Install? I can get "just a browser" with IE and Mozilla that way.
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Bert Is Evil
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And the $3 crack this week makes moderators crashing bores..... Sign on as an AC and explain to me why this is off-topic.
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Seems obvious that he meant "tough" love.
I'm using Build 2001101117 on W2K and getting into Hotmail fine. Just for laughs I also tried MSNBC which works also.
My point for your remedial reading, can't pass the SRA, misinterpreting, reactionary dumb ass is even though Milwaukee isn't a city the size of say LA or has the same magnitude of gang issues like Chicago it does not mitigate the fact that Milwaukee has serious gang problems of its own which needs to be addressed. And considering that when these problems flare up you get small children dying because of it I could care less that if I go to NY I would see gangs which are 10 times worse or truly "hardcore."
Hell, fwiw, even Racine has gang problems. I remember my Grandma complaining about gangs in central OH.
Don't go dismissing shit you know nothing about. At least somebody, somewhere is doing something.
There is *no* way the industry could agree upon a DRM technology in 18 months and I think they know it. Then it comes down to the government mandating a solution with the very real possibility that nobody gets the brass ring and makes a ton of money selling a proprietary solution.
I can just see it now. Start sniffing on an ATM backbone and analyze those packets 48 bytes at a time. You go G-man!
ELINT has its uses but some perspective is needed here.
LILO is one of those tools that you use *just* enough that you forget its idiosyncrasies. I can see it as a source of tech support calls that in the long run can be removed by moving over to GRUB because while LILO works GRUB is easier.
For myself, I was very happy that RH took this step.
Sounds like a James Harriot novel...
Yeah and nobody is getting sued for distributing DeCSS.
While I agree that this isn't exactly a rights issue, I complete disagree that MSN or MS can do whatever they want. The FOF has survived appeal and it is now a brave new world for MS. Every move they make is fair game for legal scurtiny. You can cry about the supposed free market all you want but that ain't the real world and in this case I'd rather nip this in the bud before MSN gets a stranglehold share in the marketplace.
There's nothing saying Judge Kollar-Kotelly can't also issue a breakup order and have it stick. She just needs to be professional before during and after the trial.
Here's the assumptions I'm running on. Somebody corect me if I'm wrong.
Under these circumstances I don't think you need to modify the GPL. TT simply never offers you the GPL version if you are producing what they consider commercial code.
Just because Qt can be licensed under the QPL, GPL or Academic, Professional or Enterprise license doesn't mean the customer choses which one to use. TT permits a license based on what you are using their toolkit for.
IANAL, but I think that line of reasoning is sound based upon all the stuff I've read about Copyright.
< Just kidding >
Must be the new pet sidekick for Spawn or something.
I suggest a complaint a packet.
Like in-house development would require a commercial license of Qt. Look here.
Or here.
And here.
Pouring over these pages just to find out what is and isn't allowed for free/in-house/commercial software makes me want to find a lawyer. The GPL may allow for proprietary in-house software but I don't think TrollTech permits it. In-house definately seem to fall under their criteria for a commercial license.
As for which system promotes OSS better, well that's another post/debate. Personally I think the LGPL is great for getting it in the door and if a company wants to open their codebase they can do it at their discretion. But as to whether you can use the free toolkit for in-house development... I wouldn't give that a resounding yes after everything I've read.
Now if I do that with KDE... Well I can either GPL my fork (no proprietary company can use my code now), rewrite the thing from scratch, or.... suck up and take whatever TrollTech gives me because I can't modify their commercially licensed code. Depending upon exactly what I need done I may have to whine a little bit to... well we'll leave that to the imagination or I might get told flat out no and be SOL.
It's not just cost, it's control. GPLing Qt was nice for linux distributors but for a company like Sun I just don't see how KDE would ever fly. No matter how mature it is. I can improve Gnome but the issues around KDE will never change or are out of my hands.
Scott wasn't conned. He just saw an investment that had a better chance of paying off than the alternative.
And as they roll out each hit one by one each hit is worth the $20 in and of itself. After all, once one song gets played to death you need a new song to milk that money out of the people holding out (You bastards!)
If we were playing Paranoid I think I'd have to say you owed the RIAA $60US for that song. < evil grin >
And what do you mean theoretical?
I put one mp3 file on the ftp server and they can say that every download constitutes a lost sale on the CD which has that song. Pricing a CD at $20 that is 250 downloads.
You really need to learn the New Math companies use to determine on-line damage.
The flaw in your analogy is if you break into your neighbor's house they have a right to defend themselves up to and including the possibility of killing you for trespassing on their property. Not to mention that you would be liable for any damage you did to their home.
That way the RIAA and the artists associated with them won't see a dime of your money. If Metallica and the rest want my cash they can form an indie label and tell the RIAA to stuff it. You don't get to price a CD at $20US only to put it on sale for $15US when I can get it on the Internet for $11US (are we seeing a trend as to how much a CD is actually worth?) and then treat me like a thief.
Even asking for the right to hack into my PC is too much. I've never been a big napster fan but I will certainly make sure that any way I get my music now will not benefit the RIAA.
It was a completely different time and makes your analogy not very applicable.
LOL. Well I knew somebody had to say it.
But, of course, Opera could never be bloatware. And it isn't. On Linux, where it doesn't have half the features and doesn't display anywhere near as well as the Windows client.
Opera is one of my primary browsers on Windows and Linux. I use it all the time. But please do not try to pass off that if you want "just a browser" you should be using Opera.
Oh, and why is it that nobody seems to include the concept of a Custom Install? I can get "just a browser" with IE and Mozilla that way.
And the $3 crack this week makes moderators crashing bores..... Sign on as an AC and explain to me why this is off-topic.