I think to the lower court this might have been seen as businessman v. hacker.
I think you're entirely correct. I also think it's a very sad state of affairs that such a characterization has any impact on a ruling. So much for justice being blind.
As much as I hate spam, that's not spam. As the "marketer" can only talk to one person at a time, there is no "bulk", so no spam.
If someone hacked it so that they could answer hundreds (or thousands) of connections simultaneously (maybe with a recorded message), then it would be spam.
OK, I just gave spammers an idea. I'm going to hell.
The reason that things like file sharing are legal in Canada is specifically because Canadian copyright law *hasn't* changed.
Actually, Canadian copyright law has been changing constantly.
Our laws were written in the 1980's
Incorrect. 1988 was the first major overhaul since the law was written in 1924, however there have been a bunch of updates (in 1989, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2001 and 2007) to bring it to its current state - for example, when the 1988 law was enacted, the private copying right that we now enjoy (and that this thread is about) did not exist - it was illegal to copy any music without written permission, regardless of the reason. It wasn't until the amendment in 1997 that we gained the legal right to make private copies.
The computers in my house all run Slackware. When my daughter was 6 months, my wife tried to get her interested in using the computer - flash animations, music, sound, etc. My daughter had zero interest.
Then when as my wife was shutting down, the computer switched to text mode, and my daughter went nuts giggling and cooing at the screen. She loved watching the console text scrolling, and was disappointed when it stopped. So my wife started it up again, and as soon as the console came up, my daughter again switched to "fascination" mode until X started up.
She's 4 now, and isn't quite as fascinated by the text mode as she was, but she still loves watching the MythTV box boot when she turns it on to watch SuperWhy or Dragon Tales.
The mention of Ms. Vonn's name is in the following sentence:
They just posted a good rundown of the Woman's field disguised as story about the rivalry between top skiers (and best friends!) Lindsey Vonn and Maria Reisch.
That's it. No claim of her endorsing anything, just a summary of an article on another website.
By then, Bob Thomas was furious. He demanded to see a supervisor. The supervisor asked what was wrong.
"I told him, 'This is overkill. He's 4 years old. I don't think he's a terrorist.' "
The supervisor replied, "You know why we're doing this," Thomas said.
Thomas said he told the supervisor he was going to file a report, and at that point the man turned and walked away.
A Philadelphia police officer approached and asked what the problem was. Thomas said he identified himself and said he was a Camden officer. The Philadelphia officer suggested he calm down and enjoy his vacation.
Back home in Glassboro a week later, Bob Thomas called the airport manager and left her what he calls a terse message.
So... how do you feel about morons (like you) who can't read? The "one moron" was backed up by his supervisor, *and* a cop, *AND* the airport manager. Last time I checked, four was more than one.
Counterfeiting is fundamentally about trademarks and copyrights.
That sentence is complete and utter bullshit.
If it were true, then why do we have counterfeiting laws? Why not just prosecute under trademark and copyright?
If it were true, why do we talk about counterfeit money, when money is neither trademarked or copyrighted?
If it were true, why is passing off a fake DaVinci counterfeiting?
As Entropius said - counterfeiting is primarily about fraud. It can deal with trademark infringement if the product is marked, and it can deal with copyright if (as I said) the copyright infringement is large-scale for-profit copying with the intent to pass it off as the original. But it's fraud that makes it counterfeiting, not the trademark or copyright status.
Really? What exactly does "ACTA" stand for again? Oh right - "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement". Which means that they should be talking about counterfeiting, right?
So tell me - in a trade agreement that is supposed to deal with counterfeiting, why are they talking about penalties for file sharing?
Now, if it was dealing with mass for-profit media duplication with the intent of passing off the product as the original, that would make sense.. but they're not. The discussions are about "three strikes" and other bullshit to combat file sharing.
What exactly does file sharing have to do with counterfeiting?
The "workaround" is the same one I came up with, except it doesn't fucking work in 4.x. I tested it in 3.5, and it works, but I guess 4.x Konsole windows are "immune" from overriding size (how nice of them!).
Nope, you don't have it "straight". Allow me to point out where your misunderstanding lies.
A great set of tools that run on Windows demonstrates how rubbish Windows is. A great set of tools that run on Linux demonstrates how fantastic Linux is.
No, a great set of tools that doesn't come with Windows demonstrates how rubbish Windows is. A great set of tools that Linux comes with demonstrates how fantastic Linux is.
I don't blame you for not understanding this - after all, it's only the title of his post, and you only quoted it once.
For the first problem, the 'save settings' has been replaced by the profile system. When you modify the settings your actually changing the current profile
OK, so is there a way to make it *not* change the profile?
I can't see a use case for having a fixed size
Using multiple terminals, when I want to see what's going on in them at the same time. Also, some terminal apps are "optimised" for 80x24 or 80x25 (and some don't display properly when using the "wrong" size.)
IIRC the 'save window size' thing is done outside the application
It's not a window manager thing - the app requests a specific size when you open it (which is why in 3.5, you can save the settings from the menubar, and why "Width" and "Height" appear in the config file.)
I suppose I could force the windows to open at a specific size with the "Window-specific settings" control panel, but that seems like a huge hack.. I guess if I've got no choice I'll try it... thanks for the idea.
As you've got some experience with it, I'd like to ask you a question about my main problem with KDE4...
Have the re-added the terminal window sizing features? The terminal went from great (in 3.x) to useless in 4.x... I could only stand using it for a couple of hours before I switched back.
First problem: there is no "save settings" (terminal size, font, etc.) - KDE 4.x seems to want to save the settings from the last terminal you opened or closed.... sometimes, but not others. I have yet to determine why it sometimes "saves" and sometimes doesn't, but it was horribly annoying behaviour.
Second problem: there is no "resize to X by X" in 4.3. If you want the terminal to be a specific size, you have to fuck around with the mouse pointer until you get it "just right". This is annoying to no end - especially when you combine it with Problem #1 above. I want my terminals to open in a default state, and if I occasionally need one of them to be a different size, I'll resize it so it's as big as I need. The problem is that KDE will "helpfully" open new windows to this new odd size, which means that when I open a new terminal window, I need to resize it before I can begin using it.
The NFL takes the farce of "intellectual property" to such absurd levels that even congressmen might be able to see the lack of clothing.
It is impossible for a man to understand something when his livelihood depends on him not understanding it.
A congressman gets money (and hence livelihood) from corporations like the NFL, so there's no way in hell they'll see it as anything other than truth and honesty.
Linux isn't all that hard to configure for dual monitors in the usual sense, one extended desktop. Just use Xinerama (if you aren't using nVidia cards).
Actually, I use Xinerama even though I am using nVidia.
Twinview is OK, but it's missing some features compared to Xinerama - most notably the ability to do independant monitor rotation, and it's broken handling of different-sized displays.
My setup is two widescreen monitors, the "main" one landscape and the other portrait (Samsung monitors rock for this BTW:) - this is impossible with Twinview, because Twinview requires that both monitors are oriented the same (eg, if one is rotated, the other rotates too.)
Even if I could do this with Twinview, I'd still have a large "dead" area under my main display, which is terribly annoying (especially since that's where my taskbar sits.)
With this DNS extension, they can see what sites buckets of people are visiting when they're NOT on google sites or where goog ads are being served.
Umm, how is that, exactly? Assume this gets adopted - Google's DNS servers aren't authoritative for anyone other than Google - so they won't see your DNS requests... and even if they were, they'd only see traffic for the sites that Google DNS is authoritative for.
Consider the fact that Google runs a caching DNS already, they don't need this - they'll already have the data for everyone using their resolver service, which would be much more data than this would get them.
In short, I think your tinfoil hat is a little tight. This sounds to me like Google's DNS service has turned out to be using more of their bandwidth than they anticipated, and they're looking to reduce it.
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I think to the lower court this might have been seen as businessman v. hacker.
I think you're entirely correct. I also think it's a very sad state of affairs that such a characterization has any impact on a ruling. So much for justice being blind.
Thank you for your hard work!
As much as I hate spam, that's not spam. As the "marketer" can only talk to one person at a time, there is no "bulk", so no spam.
If someone hacked it so that they could answer hundreds (or thousands) of connections simultaneously (maybe with a recorded message), then it would be spam.
OK, I just gave spammers an idea. I'm going to hell.
The reason that things like file sharing are legal in Canada is specifically because Canadian copyright law *hasn't* changed.
Actually, Canadian copyright law has been changing constantly.
Our laws were written in the 1980's
Incorrect. 1988 was the first major overhaul since the law was written in 1924, however there have been a bunch of updates (in 1989, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2001 and 2007) to bring it to its current state - for example, when the 1988 law was enacted, the private copying right that we now enjoy (and that this thread is about) did not exist - it was illegal to copy any music without written permission, regardless of the reason. It wasn't until the amendment in 1997 that we gained the legal right to make private copies.
commands like "COMPUTER! [Do stuff]." But "computer" is a common noun that comes up in conversation, so it isn't always supposed to initiate commands
Person A: Hey, check out the size of this new computer!
Person B: COMPUTER?!?! Fuck Me!
Funny thing..
The computers in my house all run Slackware. When my daughter was 6 months, my wife tried to get her interested in using the computer - flash animations, music, sound, etc. My daughter had zero interest.
Then when as my wife was shutting down, the computer switched to text mode, and my daughter went nuts giggling and cooing at the screen. She loved watching the console text scrolling, and was disappointed when it stopped. So my wife started it up again, and as soon as the console came up, my daughter again switched to "fascination" mode until X started up.
She's 4 now, and isn't quite as fascinated by the text mode as she was, but she still loves watching the MythTV box boot when she turns it on to watch SuperWhy or Dragon Tales.
The article that was removed is available here.
The mention of Ms. Vonn's name is in the following sentence:
They just posted a good rundown of the Woman's field disguised as story about the rivalry between top skiers (and best friends!) Lindsey Vonn and Maria Reisch.
That's it. No claim of her endorsing anything, just a summary of an article on another website.
They can, if they make the olympians sign a contract.
[citation needed]
For the Beijing Olympics, Britain made their athletes sign a contract promising not to say anything political during the event.
Please explain to me how a contract between the IOC and an athlete can be legally binding on an unrelated third party.
Then after you do that, I will sign a contract with my neighbor stating that you owe me $1,000,000. Please send it to me via paypal.
By then, Bob Thomas was furious. He demanded to see a supervisor. The supervisor asked what was wrong.
"I told him, 'This is overkill. He's 4 years old. I don't think he's a terrorist.' "
The supervisor replied, "You know why we're doing this," Thomas said.
Thomas said he told the supervisor he was going to file a report, and at that point the man turned and walked away.
A Philadelphia police officer approached and asked what the problem was. Thomas said he identified himself and said he was a Camden officer. The Philadelphia officer suggested he calm down and enjoy his vacation.
Back home in Glassboro a week later, Bob Thomas called the airport manager and left her what he calls a terse message.
So... how do you feel about morons (like you) who can't read? The "one moron" was backed up by his supervisor, *and* a cop, *AND* the airport manager. Last time I checked, four was more than one.
Counterfeiting is fundamentally about trademarks and copyrights.
That sentence is complete and utter bullshit.
If it were true, then why do we have counterfeiting laws? Why not just prosecute under trademark and copyright?
If it were true, why do we talk about counterfeit money, when money is neither trademarked or copyrighted?
If it were true, why is passing off a fake DaVinci counterfeiting?
As Entropius said - counterfeiting is primarily about fraud. It can deal with trademark infringement if the product is marked, and it can deal with copyright if (as I said) the copyright infringement is large-scale for-profit copying with the intent to pass it off as the original. But it's fraud that makes it counterfeiting, not the trademark or copyright status.
Really? What exactly does "ACTA" stand for again? Oh right - "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement". Which means that they should be talking about counterfeiting, right?
So tell me - in a trade agreement that is supposed to deal with counterfeiting, why are they talking about penalties for file sharing?
Now, if it was dealing with mass for-profit media duplication with the intent of passing off the product as the original, that would make sense.. but they're not. The discussions are about "three strikes" and other bullshit to combat file sharing.
What exactly does file sharing have to do with counterfeiting?
After GWB, I'm convinced that with LBJ as the other Datapoint, the problem isn't liberals or conservatives, the problem is Texas.
The problem with this statement (and this thread) is that Bush wasn't from Texas - he was from Connecticut.
Here's some people with the same window size problem, and some possible solutions:
http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/430081-how-set-konsole-window-size.html
Nope - completely fucking useless.
The "workaround" is the same one I came up with, except it doesn't fucking work in 4.x. I tested it in 3.5, and it works, but I guess 4.x Konsole windows are "immune" from overriding size (how nice of them!).
Fuck KDE4 - it's just fucking useless.
AAs are a horrible way to power a laptop. Why not power a car with them?
Last time I checked, a laptop wasn't an automobile.
And by your logic, AA batteries are a "horrible" way to power *anything*.
AAs are a horrible way to power a TV remote. Why not power a car with them?
AAs are a horrible way to power a phone. Why not power a car with them?
AAs are a horrible way to power a portable device. Why not power a car with them?
See how stupid it sounds?
Let me see if I've got this straight.
Nope, you don't have it "straight". Allow me to point out where your misunderstanding lies.
A great set of tools that run on Windows demonstrates how rubbish Windows is. A great set of tools that run on Linux demonstrates how fantastic Linux is.
No, a great set of tools that doesn't come with Windows demonstrates how rubbish Windows is. A great set of tools that Linux comes with demonstrates how fantastic Linux is.
I don't blame you for not understanding this - after all, it's only the title of his post, and you only quoted it once.
There's a default profile that you can save to
Could you tell me how? It's been a couple of months since I tried it, but I couldn't find any "save" button or menu item anywhere.
I changed the font size and colors, saved, and it's been good to me since.
Does it address my problem - namely that when I resize the window, it doesn't save that as the new default?
For the first problem, the 'save settings' has been replaced by the profile system. When you modify the settings your actually changing the current profile
OK, so is there a way to make it *not* change the profile?
I can't see a use case for having a fixed size
Using multiple terminals, when I want to see what's going on in them at the same time. Also, some terminal apps are "optimised" for 80x24 or 80x25 (and some don't display properly when using the "wrong" size.)
IIRC the 'save window size' thing is done outside the application
It's not a window manager thing - the app requests a specific size when you open it (which is why in 3.5, you can save the settings from the menubar, and why "Width" and "Height" appear in the config file.)
I suppose I could force the windows to open at a specific size with the "Window-specific settings" control panel, but that seems like a huge hack.. I guess if I've got no choice I'll try it... thanks for the idea.
As you've got some experience with it, I'd like to ask you a question about my main problem with KDE4...
Have the re-added the terminal window sizing features? The terminal went from great (in 3.x) to useless in 4.x... I could only stand using it for a couple of hours before I switched back.
First problem: there is no "save settings" (terminal size, font, etc.) - KDE 4.x seems to want to save the settings from the last terminal you opened or closed.... sometimes, but not others. I have yet to determine why it sometimes "saves" and sometimes doesn't, but it was horribly annoying behaviour.
Second problem: there is no "resize to X by X" in 4.3. If you want the terminal to be a specific size, you have to fuck around with the mouse pointer until you get it "just right". This is annoying to no end - especially when you combine it with Problem #1 above. I want my terminals to open in a default state, and if I occasionally need one of them to be a different size, I'll resize it so it's as big as I need. The problem is that KDE will "helpfully" open new windows to this new odd size, which means that when I open a new terminal window, I need to resize it before I can begin using it.
Have they fixed this?
If she's into Soduku, make her a VD Day soduku card.
Or better yet, buy some condoms, so you can keep it as regular "V-Day".
downloading cracked versions of games we already bought because the shitty DRM doesn't work!
Umm - if you need to download cracked versions, then it would seem that the DRM is working perfectly fine.
The entire point of DRM is to prevent people from playing the game. Since it's preventing you from playing, then it's obviously working.
Why should political speech be anonymous?
Because sometimes it can get you beat up or killed.
If anonymity is as needless as you claim, why do you have a secret ballot? Why not require everyone to broadcast who they voted for?
The NFL takes the farce of "intellectual property" to such absurd levels that even congressmen might be able to see the lack of clothing.
It is impossible for a man to understand something when his livelihood depends on him not understanding it.
A congressman gets money (and hence livelihood) from corporations like the NFL, so there's no way in hell they'll see it as anything other than truth and honesty.
Linux isn't all that hard to configure for dual monitors in the usual sense, one extended desktop. Just use Xinerama (if you aren't using nVidia cards).
Actually, I use Xinerama even though I am using nVidia.
Twinview is OK, but it's missing some features compared to Xinerama - most notably the ability to do independant monitor rotation, and it's broken handling of different-sized displays.
My setup is two widescreen monitors, the "main" one landscape and the other portrait (Samsung monitors rock for this BTW :) - this is impossible with Twinview, because Twinview requires that both monitors are oriented the same (eg, if one is rotated, the other rotates too.)
Even if I could do this with Twinview, I'd still have a large "dead" area under my main display, which is terribly annoying (especially since that's where my taskbar sits.)
With this DNS extension, they can see what sites buckets of people are visiting when they're NOT on google sites or where goog ads are being served.
Umm, how is that, exactly? Assume this gets adopted - Google's DNS servers aren't authoritative for anyone other than Google - so they won't see your DNS requests... and even if they were, they'd only see traffic for the sites that Google DNS is authoritative for.
Consider the fact that Google runs a caching DNS already, they don't need this - they'll already have the data for everyone using their resolver service, which would be much more data than this would get them.
In short, I think your tinfoil hat is a little tight. This sounds to me like Google's DNS service has turned out to be using more of their bandwidth than they anticipated, and they're looking to reduce it.
What you're talking about is called a Strategic Deficit
The seller who says they sent it, or the buyer who says they got it but it was damaged, then says they never got it.
FTFY
Seems pretty simple which one is more credible to me.