Even countries that have extradition treaties with the US have the caveat that the law that the person is being extradited for should be one that is a law in the country doing the extradition. It's not that they're breaking the law, it's that they're breaking an AMERICAN law that isn't a SWEDISH law.
It's more just falling in line with the party, and offering another level of protection for the site.
The reason that Sweden's Pirate Party got political support in the first place was because Americans pushed political pressure on the Swedish government to take action, thus causing the first raid on The Pirate Bay. When the public got wind of this, there was massive public outcry saying that they shouldn't allow American corporate interests (and American copyright law) dictate what the Swedish government did. So all of a sudden there was a ton of political support for people that opposed American-style copyright.
This is a political move not to equate wikileaks to the Pirate Party, but instead to show that the Pirate Party operates as a safe haven for information so it cannot be tampered with by foreign interests (most notably, the American government and American corporations, who seem to believe that they are the authorities to determine what copyright law SHOULD be rather than the constituents of these so-called democracies).
This just falls in line with what the party represents. I think that the Swedish people would sooner resent America for trying to impose its beliefs on their democratically elected governments than they would be worried of the consequences of staving those companies off. It's not like America is about to bomb them because they run filesharing sites. And if they did, then Sweden would have an entire international body of allies who would object.
If you want justice: 1) SCO will no longer be able to argue to the Bankruptcy court that it still has a reasonable chance of success with their litigation, so they will be forced to focus their resources. They can no longer rely on plausibility of winning their IBM case, because they essentially have no case now. Not to mention, there's now a good whack of counterclaims that IBM will be drawing out of them, and they're basically entirely crippled now. The Judge gave them the option to waive their IBM suit, and if they don't take that opportunity then they risk getting sued by Novell as well, meaning they're going to be in mad mad debt even longer. 2) SCO shares are worth a nickel. That's right, 5 cents. You could probably buy a whole big-ass chunk of the company right now if you really wanted to, but who would? You have a literally bankrupt company with tons in debts, looking to accumulate a whole bunch more debts through litigation, that is currently being administered by a court-appointed trustee. So all you'd be getting is debt and zero power to fix it. 3) If SCO does decide to appeal this, then at this point it's going to start costing Boies-Schiller, the law office that accepted this bullshit case in the first place. So now THEY get a financial lesson out of all of this too - don't take pump-and-dump schemes, and don't enter into law cases without first KNOWING that your client has evidence. Personally I'd actually LIKE to see this appeal happen just so Boies-Schiller can suffer as well.
The reason this case has drawn out as long as it has is because the legal system DOES work. They gave SCO enough rope to hang themselves with, and SCO took every last inch. Rather than cut their losses when any of the billions of evident signs that they were going down - when they were ruled by a judge to not own the copyright, when they were ruled by a JURY they didn't own the copyright, when they declared bankruptcy, etc. etc. etc. All this has added up to their current state: A dead company, and all of its owners in a SERIOUS amount of debt. If they cut their losses and settled then a lot of where they are now could have been avoided. But they refused to swallow their pride. And now they have a worthless company that nobody will buy, and a product that has no resources to keep it going, and no feasible plan to crawl out. Justice has been served. So if it ties up the courts for a little bit longer, all it's going to do is drive them deeper and deeper, as well as all the people that surround it. All of the chief executives' reputations have been tarnished. It'll be a long time before anybody does business again with Darl McBride before thinking twice, thrice, or sixteen times about it.
They've lost. They're over. They have no recovery. They're dead already. This is just the final crushing fatality blow. Don't think Justice hasn't been served, it has.
The only people hurt by another appeal are the lawyers at this point, so yeah, let them. I want to see these fuckers. rot.
You really think they'll do the latter? It seems like it would just take a lot less man-hours (read: money) to just make it so that you provide the PIN through the only platform available (read: iTunes) to do so, thus negating the user experience for anybody not on Windows or Mac.
To be honest, I'd be happy with just keeping the home drive as-is - it's never given me issues (except in Amarok where every upgrade or so it would reset my library... that's what I get for using KDE apps... back to rhythmbox for me!). The only issues I ever got was when I just repointed my repositories to the new distro and upgraded that way.
Only reason I go through the hassle of creating the new user is because I want to check out what neat new features have come in by default.
That's what I like about linux - is that I can make it as much of a hassle as I'm comfortable with. If I really want to turn my brain off, then I can reformat my home dir every time. But I configure a lot of shit to work very specifically for me, so I don't want to have to keep reconfiguring everything. Seems a lot easier for me just to keep my home drive kicking around.
Most windows apps wouldn't give me that option. If I wanted to move from XP to Win7 I'd have to completely copy over my Documents & Settings folder, and then start rearranging into the appropriate Win7 folders. Most of my shortcuts would stop working so I'd just have to make new ones. Just seems like a lot more of a headache for power users.
My approach isn't for everybody, but I'm not everybody. I'm the kind of guy who uses shell scripts to clean up his mp3 collection, and likes to install programs at the commandline because synaptic takes too freaking long. Sure, you don't NEED it to run linux effectively, but I'm a stickler for doing things the quick advanced way.
That feature is set on a device-by-device basis. If you set it not to auto-sync on the first time you hook up your device to iTunes, then you can actually pull music from ANYBODY's library, not just your own.
But yeah, I always used that feature, so the Rhythmbox interface works just perfectly for me.
Not being able to talk with Linux is one of the things that has kept me off iPods for years. I finally liked the features of the iPod touch and buckled, and used it in Virtualbox under windows/iTunes (so I didn't have to jailbreak it).
Now, finally, Rhythmbox can seamlessly put music on my iPod. If they take that functionality away, then that oft-publicized letter that Jobs put forth touting open standards as an excuse for not supporting Flash is going to be exposed as pure and utter hogwash.
#1 feature that has me blown away: full iPod Touch/iPhone support in Rhythmbox, without jailbreaking. Seriously, this was the one thing that kept me from buying an iPod touch for so long... I eventually decided to just bite the bullet and find _SOME_ fix that works... ultimately going with just using iTunes within Virtualbox. But then I hooked up my iTouch after upgrading to Lucid and was about to go launch Virtualbox and test that was still working fine... but saw my iTouch, with its designated name, listed in Rhythmbox....
I'm sitting there going, "No.... they didn't...." so I try to drag one of the songs in my library over to my iPod.... and boosh! They did!
Only problem I found though was that when I moved a couple tracks over that had "Unknown" as album title, it actually made everything else with "Unknown" as the album title inaccessible on the iPod. seems though this only has to do with stuff that was added via iTunes... so if I remove the song and then re-add it in rhythmbox, it's perfectly fine.
It's a bit of a weird bug, but easily worked past, and now means that I no longer need to keep going into Windows/iTunes to load stuff onto my iPod. Great jerb!
Also, while I'm not a _huge_ fan of the new default theme (window control buttons on the right pls) I did end up picking one of the new themes that suited my tastes, and I honestly am not looking back at all. I keep saying this every time I upgrade, but best linux yet.
I do a fresh install, but maintain my/home partition as-is. I make my regular username my default root-accessible (via gksu/sudo) one, but then once I've installed, I create a new user named after the release (hardy, jaunty, lucid, etc.). Then, I log into my default account. Using the icons on my desktop, I then install my non-standard apps (audacity, gimp, vlc, easytag, nicotine, etc.).
Once I've basically got my computer up to where I was before, then I log into my version-specific account which creates a fresh profile, and I start to check out the differences - themes, feature updates, new defaults - for all my apps I regularly use. If I see anything I like, I hop over to my default profile and adjust. If I see anything I don't, then I just don't bother changing my current settings.
Has worked fantastic for my last 3 upgrades (please note that I never go with mid-release upgrades.... while the.04 series almost always include a ton of improvements, I find more often than not the.10 upgrades will break at least one thing).
The Search Engine market is HUGE. Yahoo's been around forever, and the only way that google ousted them was by having a better product.
Microsoft just plain doesn't deliver to the consumer. Algorithms alone don't make a search engine. I like google because right away on the first page I get straightforward results, usually a wikipedia article, images and videos with thumbnails, news results, a pdf-to-html converter, etc. etc. etc.
First result I seem to always get on bing is ebay. Yeah, google has ads, but they don't hide them amidst the regular results, they keep them off to the side.
Google still just has a better product. Microsoft can complain about proper competition when they have a product that competes.
In my one experience with Tiger Direct, the following occurred: - 1 year warranty on the product they were offering, only for me to discover once it broke that they were just reselling the manufacturer's 90-day warranty. Of course, they changed their website prior to me realizing this and I didn't get a screenshot so I couldn't report them. - Claiming to be without duties (even at the.ca domain, with big Canadian flags saying "NO DUTY"), and when the product arrived at my door it had a $150 COD for... dum dum DAAAAAAA... duty, as they shipped from PA. - A toll free number advertised on their CANADIAN site that only worked from the states, forcing me to call long distance to get their customer service who were essentially inept and couldn't answer any of my questions shy of "talk to the manufacturer."
he kept/home on a separate partition and the upgrade is a moot process. Provided your/home drive isn't reformatted, you should feasibly be able to completely overhaul your whole system and have it look exactly as it was just before you reinstalled it. Then it's just a matter of having your local linux geek over to your house once every six months. I know a fair number of people that would do this service for friends for payment of beer.
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Sure, I'd fully expect MS to try to slap the shit out of, say, OpenOffice if it's threatening their proprietary formats as a global standard.
FTFY.
That would be known as "political suicide."
Even countries that have extradition treaties with the US have the caveat that the law that the person is being extradited for should be one that is a law in the country doing the extradition. It's not that they're breaking the law, it's that they're breaking an AMERICAN law that isn't a SWEDISH law.
It's more just falling in line with the party, and offering another level of protection for the site.
The reason that Sweden's Pirate Party got political support in the first place was because Americans pushed political pressure on the Swedish government to take action, thus causing the first raid on The Pirate Bay. When the public got wind of this, there was massive public outcry saying that they shouldn't allow American corporate interests (and American copyright law) dictate what the Swedish government did. So all of a sudden there was a ton of political support for people that opposed American-style copyright.
This is a political move not to equate wikileaks to the Pirate Party, but instead to show that the Pirate Party operates as a safe haven for information so it cannot be tampered with by foreign interests (most notably, the American government and American corporations, who seem to believe that they are the authorities to determine what copyright law SHOULD be rather than the constituents of these so-called democracies).
This just falls in line with what the party represents. I think that the Swedish people would sooner resent America for trying to impose its beliefs on their democratically elected governments than they would be worried of the consequences of staving those companies off. It's not like America is about to bomb them because they run filesharing sites. And if they did, then Sweden would have an entire international body of allies who would object.
Wha, you countin' my gnome-sanes? You takin' a gnome-census?
Canna get to your urrrrrrrrl
So, um, someone wanna post a mirror/text?
If you want justice:
1) SCO will no longer be able to argue to the Bankruptcy court that it still has a reasonable chance of success with their litigation, so they will be forced to focus their resources. They can no longer rely on plausibility of winning their IBM case, because they essentially have no case now. Not to mention, there's now a good whack of counterclaims that IBM will be drawing out of them, and they're basically entirely crippled now. The Judge gave them the option to waive their IBM suit, and if they don't take that opportunity then they risk getting sued by Novell as well, meaning they're going to be in mad mad debt even longer.
2) SCO shares are worth a nickel. That's right, 5 cents. You could probably buy a whole big-ass chunk of the company right now if you really wanted to, but who would? You have a literally bankrupt company with tons in debts, looking to accumulate a whole bunch more debts through litigation, that is currently being administered by a court-appointed trustee. So all you'd be getting is debt and zero power to fix it.
3) If SCO does decide to appeal this, then at this point it's going to start costing Boies-Schiller, the law office that accepted this bullshit case in the first place. So now THEY get a financial lesson out of all of this too - don't take pump-and-dump schemes, and don't enter into law cases without first KNOWING that your client has evidence. Personally I'd actually LIKE to see this appeal happen just so Boies-Schiller can suffer as well.
The reason this case has drawn out as long as it has is because the legal system DOES work. They gave SCO enough rope to hang themselves with, and SCO took every last inch. Rather than cut their losses when any of the billions of evident signs that they were going down - when they were ruled by a judge to not own the copyright, when they were ruled by a JURY they didn't own the copyright, when they declared bankruptcy, etc. etc. etc. All this has added up to their current state: A dead company, and all of its owners in a SERIOUS amount of debt. If they cut their losses and settled then a lot of where they are now could have been avoided. But they refused to swallow their pride. And now they have a worthless company that nobody will buy, and a product that has no resources to keep it going, and no feasible plan to crawl out. Justice has been served. So if it ties up the courts for a little bit longer, all it's going to do is drive them deeper and deeper, as well as all the people that surround it. All of the chief executives' reputations have been tarnished. It'll be a long time before anybody does business again with Darl McBride before thinking twice, thrice, or sixteen times about it.
They've lost. They're over. They have no recovery. They're dead already. This is just the final crushing fatality blow. Don't think Justice hasn't been served, it has.
The only people hurt by another appeal are the lawyers at this point, so yeah, let them. I want to see these fuckers. rot.
You really think they'll do the latter? It seems like it would just take a lot less man-hours (read: money) to just make it so that you provide the PIN through the only platform available (read: iTunes) to do so, thus negating the user experience for anybody not on Windows or Mac.
If I jailbreak my iPod touch, my warranty is voided. That's what.
it suits me just fine.
To be honest, I'd be happy with just keeping the home drive as-is - it's never given me issues (except in Amarok where every upgrade or so it would reset my library... that's what I get for using KDE apps... back to rhythmbox for me!). The only issues I ever got was when I just repointed my repositories to the new distro and upgraded that way.
Only reason I go through the hassle of creating the new user is because I want to check out what neat new features have come in by default.
That's what I like about linux - is that I can make it as much of a hassle as I'm comfortable with. If I really want to turn my brain off, then I can reformat my home dir every time. But I configure a lot of shit to work very specifically for me, so I don't want to have to keep reconfiguring everything. Seems a lot easier for me just to keep my home drive kicking around.
Most windows apps wouldn't give me that option. If I wanted to move from XP to Win7 I'd have to completely copy over my Documents & Settings folder, and then start rearranging into the appropriate Win7 folders. Most of my shortcuts would stop working so I'd just have to make new ones. Just seems like a lot more of a headache for power users.
My approach isn't for everybody, but I'm not everybody. I'm the kind of guy who uses shell scripts to clean up his mp3 collection, and likes to install programs at the commandline because synaptic takes too freaking long. Sure, you don't NEED it to run linux effectively, but I'm a stickler for doing things the quick advanced way.
It's just that nobody's programmed it to be user-friendly yet.
Welcome to OSS. Don't like it, rewrite it.
That feature is set on a device-by-device basis. If you set it not to auto-sync on the first time you hook up your device to iTunes, then you can actually pull music from ANYBODY's library, not just your own.
But yeah, I always used that feature, so the Rhythmbox interface works just perfectly for me.
Not being able to talk with Linux is one of the things that has kept me off iPods for years. I finally liked the features of the iPod touch and buckled, and used it in Virtualbox under windows/iTunes (so I didn't have to jailbreak it).
Now, finally, Rhythmbox can seamlessly put music on my iPod. If they take that functionality away, then that oft-publicized letter that Jobs put forth touting open standards as an excuse for not supporting Flash is going to be exposed as pure and utter hogwash.
#1 feature that has me blown away: full iPod Touch/iPhone support in Rhythmbox, without jailbreaking. Seriously, this was the one thing that kept me from buying an iPod touch for so long... I eventually decided to just bite the bullet and find _SOME_ fix that works... ultimately going with just using iTunes within Virtualbox. But then I hooked up my iTouch after upgrading to Lucid and was about to go launch Virtualbox and test that was still working fine... but saw my iTouch, with its designated name, listed in Rhythmbox....
I'm sitting there going, "No.... they didn't...." so I try to drag one of the songs in my library over to my iPod.... and boosh! They did!
Only problem I found though was that when I moved a couple tracks over that had "Unknown" as album title, it actually made everything else with "Unknown" as the album title inaccessible on the iPod. seems though this only has to do with stuff that was added via iTunes... so if I remove the song and then re-add it in rhythmbox, it's perfectly fine.
It's a bit of a weird bug, but easily worked past, and now means that I no longer need to keep going into Windows/iTunes to load stuff onto my iPod. Great jerb!
Also, while I'm not a _huge_ fan of the new default theme (window control buttons on the right pls) I did end up picking one of the new themes that suited my tastes, and I honestly am not looking back at all. I keep saying this every time I upgrade, but best linux yet.
But it's a little bit in-between.
I do a fresh install, but maintain my /home partition as-is. I make my regular username my default root-accessible (via gksu/sudo) one, but then once I've installed, I create a new user named after the release (hardy, jaunty, lucid, etc.). Then, I log into my default account. Using the icons on my desktop, I then install my non-standard apps (audacity, gimp, vlc, easytag, nicotine, etc.).
Once I've basically got my computer up to where I was before, then I log into my version-specific account which creates a fresh profile, and I start to check out the differences - themes, feature updates, new defaults - for all my apps I regularly use. If I see anything I like, I hop over to my default profile and adjust. If I see anything I don't, then I just don't bother changing my current settings.
Has worked fantastic for my last 3 upgrades (please note that I never go with mid-release upgrades.... while the .04 series almost always include a ton of improvements, I find more often than not the .10 upgrades will break at least one thing).
... was seducing an enemy agent.
*sigh* This is why we can't have nice things.
... without Bing there is no competition.
The Search Engine market is HUGE. Yahoo's been around forever, and the only way that google ousted them was by having a better product.
Microsoft just plain doesn't deliver to the consumer. Algorithms alone don't make a search engine. I like google because right away on the first page I get straightforward results, usually a wikipedia article, images and videos with thumbnails, news results, a pdf-to-html converter, etc. etc. etc.
First result I seem to always get on bing is ebay. Yeah, google has ads, but they don't hide them amidst the regular results, they keep them off to the side.
Google still just has a better product. Microsoft can complain about proper competition when they have a product that competes.
Too many misters, Not enough sisters
Too much time on, too many hands
Not enough ladies, too many mans
... and you people think this is a FAILED marketing campaign?
Sounds to me they got just the amount of exposure they wanted.
I pay $70/month for my bus pass. Even insurance around here costs at least that much, not taking into account gas and maintenance.
In my one experience with Tiger Direct, the following occurred: .ca domain, with big Canadian flags saying "NO DUTY"), and when the product arrived at my door it had a $150 COD for... dum dum DAAAAAAA... duty, as they shipped from PA.
- 1 year warranty on the product they were offering, only for me to discover once it broke that they were just reselling the manufacturer's 90-day warranty. Of course, they changed their website prior to me realizing this and I didn't get a screenshot so I couldn't report them.
- Claiming to be without duties (even at the
- A toll free number advertised on their CANADIAN site that only worked from the states, forcing me to call long distance to get their customer service who were essentially inept and couldn't answer any of my questions shy of "talk to the manufacturer."
Never again.
You should really go up to the spammers and demand your electrons back.
he kept /home on a separate partition and the upgrade is a moot process. Provided your /home drive isn't reformatted, you should feasibly be able to completely overhaul your whole system and have it look exactly as it was just before you reinstalled it. Then it's just a matter of having your local linux geek over to your house once every six months. I know a fair number of people that would do this service for friends for payment of beer.
Kohl-bear Spayss-pore
Those episodes were just the movies spread out... nvm