>...we still insist on using the pound over the kilogram.
But we don't. The metric system has been legal for trade in the USA since 1866 and the official customary units have been based on it for almost as long. In 1975 it was official adopted by the Federal government for its use and in 1985 it was identified as the "preferred" system for trade. Most goods are labeled in both metric and customary units. It's just that, unlike other countries, the USA has not outlawed the use of customary units as we tend to prefer freedom of choice.
it doesn't seem out-of-the-question that some kind of wireless telephone could have been around by 1928
It is. The technology simply did not exist to get a transceiver into a package one person could carry. In 1928 receive-only radios in police cars were experimental.
I didn't say they wouldn't sue anyone: just that if they go after Free Software they won't be able overwhelm the defendants with battalions of lawyers.
If the "logic flow" has to be the same for the interface to work their is no infingement. If there only one way to do something there is no creative expression and therefor no copyright. Copyright protects expression, not ideas.
The only recourse those sites have in response to a breach of their TOS is to deny future services (which they could do anyway, for any reason or none...)
Does the newspaper site have an entry pop-up it tries to show to every visitor?
Not that I saw.
Is it forcing them to click past a warning?
No.
Are the terms there at all?
At the bottom of the first page of each article is a statement to the effect that you should not read another page without subscribing. The terms are not stated nor did I see a link to a subscription page. Clicking the "More" clicky takes you straight to the second page.
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> Oh, you're American, never mind then.
So am I. It was covered in my elementary school in the 1950s.
> ...we still insist on using the pound over the kilogram.
But we don't. The metric system has been legal for trade in the USA since 1866 and the official customary units have been based on it for almost as long. In 1975 it was official adopted by the Federal government for its use and in 1985 it was identified as the "preferred" system for trade. Most goods are labeled in both metric and customary units. It's just that, unlike other countries, the USA has not outlawed the use of customary units as we tend to prefer freedom of choice.
> Neither is going to happen so it will keep running.
Not necessarily. It may die with the company (and it may be closely related to the cause of death).
Do you mean that you are going to lock yourself into IE8, or that you are going to rewrite and certify to standards?
> With https this would be really useless anyways.
There is still a log of where you connected and when. That seems to be what they want, for traffic analysis.
I didn't suggest any censorship.
I have a simpler solution: no camera and no microphone
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They could just about fit a receiver into a car. A transmitter would have required a large truck.
It is. The technology simply did not exist to get a transceiver into a package one person could carry. In 1928 receive-only radios in police cars were experimental.
...mugging the camera and yammering. I gave up before the end.
> Have you ever seen a horse ... step on a human?
I've been that human...
Are you saying that in your country people are not allowed to quit jobs without giving three months notice?
"Evil" now means "I don't like it".
I didn't say they wouldn't sue anyone: just that if they go after Free Software they won't be able overwhelm the defendants with battalions of lawyers.
> Google should buy PostreSql...
From who?
If the "logic flow" has to be the same for the interface to work their is no infingement. If there only one way to do something there is no creative expression and therefor no copyright. Copyright protects expression, not ideas.
> ...having more lawyers and money?
They won't. If they go after Free Software they'll be up against Google, IBM, and god knows who else as well as hordes of pro-bono lawyers.
I don't see how you would find a non-trivial amount of creative expression in that.
There are C libraries. Lots of them.
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Why are the extremes the only choices?
The only recourse those sites have in response to a breach of their TOS is to deny future services (which they could do anyway, for any reason or none...)
Not that I saw.
No.
At the bottom of the first page of each article is a statement to the effect that you should not read another page without subscribing. The terms are not stated nor did I see a link to a subscription page. Clicking the "More" clicky takes you straight to the second page.
Let's hope the site is at one of those hosting companies that charge a hefty per-gigabyte fee for going over your bandwidth cap.