"Routing around" censorship doesn't even do justice to the reality any more.
Attempting to suppress a piece of information nowadays practically guarantees that it will be more widely disseminated than ever before, and with enough redundant links to remind you that the Net's underlying protocols were designed to survive WWIII.
Pervading Animal, while a harmless text game for Univac systems, was nonetheless one of the first programs known to self-replicate and distribute in the manner of a Trojan Horse. It was so widespread that there were stories of install tapes coming from the Univac vendor already infected.
The Animal game eventually stopped replicating when there were changes to the Univac filesystem that broke its copy test.
Systems shipped by Wal-Mart were found to contain numerous copies of a simple text game where the user imagines an animal and the game asks questions in order to deduce the animal in question. Anti-malware programs no only failed to identify the game as a threat, but were themselves overwritten with the game.
WRT custom software, it may not actually violate the GPL. It gets a little blurry if a custom app is developed by a contractor (does a work for hire for a single exclusive client constitute "distribution?"), but it's perfectly acceptable for GPL software to be modified or combined with non-free components for an "in-house" application that is not ristributed outside the company. Google is perhaps the most prominent example of this in practice.
I have no problem with the FSF only putting their labor resources into enforcing copyrights that they actually possess. They don't want to go to bat for somebody only to have the resolution be the developer cutting a closed-license-for-cash deal with the violator. The developer would be completely within his rights to do so, but that's something the FSF would never do themselves.
Kids, kids, kids; Voltron/Go-Lion, Power Rangers/Super-Sentai, Robotech: the New Generation/Genesis Climber MOSPEADA; they're all ripping off Science Ninja Team Gatchaman! Tetsunoko came up with the multi-colored-team-of-five (Leader, Hothead, Big-guy, Hot &/or Dangerous Chick, Kid) with unique-vehicles/mechs-that-combine-&/or-dock way back in the 70's and it's been endlessly copied ever since.
Even Cowboy Bebop follows the Gatchaman Mold, merely omitting the Leader.
Since the rest of the world has nothing but respect for the integrity of our justice system and rule of law, the Lords should honor our extradition request and send him on presently.
(...and if not, we'll just grab him and stash him someplace, forever.)
Easy problem to solve. Just put together a rack or two of machines each running a dozen VM's with browsers+Alexa toolbar in them and have them surf around according to a script. Script well enough that it's not too obvious. Heck, do they even need to hit the sites for real or is the toolbar too stupid to know it's getting man-in-the-middled?
I couldn't afford what's called a rental system, where you can type it into a computer, and you type in your program, and it will give you back the 1's and 0's. So I figured out the 1's and 0's in my own head, and wrote them down on the piece of paper. Everything for the Apple II was done by hand.
Woz never ceases to blow my mind. (Story of Mel link for the uninitiated.)
We already know that it crypto doesn't need to be strong to be effective any more. If they start breaking even trivial encryption, they expose themselves to DMCA lawsuits from thousands of customers who might not take kindly to having access controls on their copyrighted emails, photos, and other proprietary/personal information illegally circumvented. At a potential quarter-million a pop in punitive damages (for a willful violation) AT&T could win 90% of the suits and still loose a ton of money.
There are several aspects of Apple interface design that make Safari 3 incongruous with the Windows user experience to an extent that causes frustration.
In Soviet Russia, Windows users complain that ported Mac applications ignore native UI conventions.
Apple's not going to expose AT&T's network to arbitrary executables. When Apple figures out a way to permit more open development without exposing the cell-network to DoS, sniffing, eavesdropping, man-in-the-middle attacks, worms, etc; then we'll see an SDK or similar.
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That's an old South Park joke, you insensitive clod!
Has the Savvis CEO ever taken you guys out for a night on the town?
Neither Slashdot nor it's parent company OSDN are in charge of Gundam.
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Attempting to suppress a piece of information nowadays practically guarantees that it will be more widely disseminated than ever before, and with enough redundant links to remind you that the Net's underlying protocols were designed to survive WWIII.
No no. That made Novell a lot more money. SCO is just holding it for them, except that they seem to not have all of it any more.
The Animal game eventually stopped replicating when there were changes to the Univac filesystem that broke its copy test.
Systems shipped by Wal-Mart were found to contain numerous copies of a simple text game where the user imagines an animal and the game asks questions in order to deduce the animal in question. Anti-malware programs no only failed to identify the game as a threat, but were themselves overwritten with the game.
I was taking my ball and going home when nobody wanted to play by my rules when MS was still in a motel room in Texas!
WRT custom software, it may not actually violate the GPL. It gets a little blurry if a custom app is developed by a contractor (does a work for hire for a single exclusive client constitute "distribution?"), but it's perfectly acceptable for GPL software to be modified or combined with non-free components for an "in-house" application that is not ristributed outside the company. Google is perhaps the most prominent example of this in practice.
I have no problem with the FSF only putting their labor resources into enforcing copyrights that they actually possess. They don't want to go to bat for somebody only to have the resolution be the developer cutting a closed-license-for-cash deal with the violator. The developer would be completely within his rights to do so, but that's something the FSF would never do themselves.
I just cache all the adds locally. Problem solved!
Even Cowboy Bebop follows the Gatchaman Mold, merely omitting the Leader.
The Armonk Nazgul wear Blue robes, impeccably pressed.
(...and if not, we'll just grab him and stash him someplace, forever.)
I for one am grateful to our Senators for making sure we don't get left behind by the Chinese.
I magine someone's already doing this.
BALMER: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.
No, I'm sorry. I just cant do it.
Woz never ceases to blow my mind. (Story of Mel link for the uninitiated.)
We already know that it crypto doesn't need to be strong to be effective any more. If they start breaking even trivial encryption, they expose themselves to DMCA lawsuits from thousands of customers who might not take kindly to having access controls on their copyrighted emails, photos, and other proprietary/personal information illegally circumvented. At a potential quarter-million a pop in punitive damages (for a willful violation) AT&T could win 90% of the suits and still loose a ton of money.
In Soviet Russia, Windows users complain that ported Mac applications ignore native UI conventions.
Apple's not going to expose AT&T's network to arbitrary executables. When Apple figures out a way to permit more open development without exposing the cell-network to DoS, sniffing, eavesdropping, man-in-the-middle attacks, worms, etc; then we'll see an SDK or similar.
They unfortunately forgot that they were coding for Windows.
So what happens when the libc, bash, make, and all the other GNU tools go GPL3 and the kernel is still GPL2?