Even if he's right, do we really want the GPL to be a revokable license where an tiny mistake that might throw you out of compliance requires a Herculean effort to re-establish rights?
GPL is a copyright license, nothing more. The terms of copyright law govern.
People license copyrighted works all the time, and it's up to the owner of the copyright to prosecute any violations, as he sees fit. I can't think of any examples where a copyright owner has prosecuted GPL cases other than in the case of flagrant violations.
If your server goes down or gets unplugged or rebooted for any reason, you are temporarily failing to distribute source. How long before that's not "tiny"?
That would have no bearing on the terms of the GPL.
The full video being available in the second link, but it looks it's being taken on a public street, where police officers should have no expectation of privacy.
Yes, that's what everybody expects, but it's not what really happens. I have a friend who's being prosecuted under the same type of statute in New Hampshire. He recorded a traffic stop using his cell phone and an answering service. This wasn't prosecuted for almost half a year, but charges were filed just days after he recorded the public hearing in the State House of a bill to defeat such abuse and posted his video with some critical comments. In my opinion, he was targeted for engaging in the political process. (n.b. he's a videographer who's recorded scores of other House and Senate hearings, which is allowed, and this wasn't unusual).
Under the NH law, this can be prosecuted as a felony. That means, you lose your right to vote, you lose your right to own a firearm, drive a truck, etc. It's not a traffic violation by any means, this is serious business and the new favorite tool of gestapo-minded police across the country.
He's committed to fighting the charges and the law, so if you'd like to see an end to this kind of abuse, please consider throwing a fiver into his legal defense chip-in.
and I'd rather enjoy the journey as the authors intended
That's the thing - they never intended anything. It wasn't a JMS arc, it was made up week-to-week. And the ending is inconsistent, nonsensical, depressing, and clearly made up quickly just so the writers could get off to the beach for the weekend before the traffic started.
I wish somebody had told me this half-way through season 3 so I could stop wasting time on it.
Good points. There are probably alternate options, though. You could rent-to-own from a bank, with a 30-year commitment (transferable). For a contractor, a trusted third party could hold money in escrow. Home equity loans could be converted back to the rent-to-own model, starting at 80% or so.
There are some interpretations of allodial title that say it's never saleable or transferable, but that's pretty narrow and doesn't jive with other tenets of property rights.
There are enough absurd laws on the books that any new regulation has far-reaching consequences. At least part of the reason that administrative rulemaking is a public evil.
This one is a gift to agribusiness as it will surely cause many family farms to fail, through one consequnce or another. Hopefully this rule will ultimately fail, but it's unproductive folly to pretend that Democrats don't pander to the corporatocracy.
interesting how all the quotes say the same thing..."defending android and it's partners".
It's an incredibly clear message that it's the US Patent System that's crushing the market. In an era where the government needs to be doing all it can to encourage production, any government system that is crushing any morally legitimate market has no place.
No doubt Congress will do nothing about it but vie for the best seats to watch the Empire burn.
Then you're going to have to nab an employee, take their card and "motivate" them to give you the password.
Find lowest-paid employee and pay them double their yearly salary for the password. If you don't have the budget for that, you're not really involved in industrial espionage.
I don't see how HTC, Samsung, etc could be happy about this. Android is no longer Open and now Motorola will be a version or two ahead of them.
How is Android no longer Open?
Rewarding Microsoft for attacking their business (Android, via the Microsoft/Apple/Oracle patent troll consortium) would be even worse than rewarding Google as a competitor.
I bet Google sat with the CEO's of each of these companies, and said, roughly, "look, we're fucked on these patents. The only way out of this is for us to own more patents than they do* and we have the cash to buy Motorola. We'll share hardware work with you, go at this as a partnership, and we'll build a wireless future together that will leave Apple and Microsoft in the dust. Let's play this as a non-zero sum game and take out the cause of our problems together."
This isn't Pepsico buying KFC and Pizza Hut, because Burger King and Pizza Hut were not collaborators. Giving the Motorola group preference against their partners would be suicidal.
* not planning on a political revolution - overthrowing the corrupt US Government would be the other way out - they're the enabling force behind the patent trolls
My experience has been that you use the stock AMD coolers and toss the Intel stock coolers. Actually, I have them in a box - just about enough to set up a small scale wind farm now.
You don't understand. Big business has an exemption from having to comply with the law. Their CEOs have arranged for this through the Republican party.
When you stop believing that the Democrats care for you too, then you'll be able to start addressing issues, rather than tribalism.
The Democratic administration just promulgated proposed rules that would have a small farmer lose his farm if he's ever caught taking a pee on the side of the road.
It needs to be strong but nanotubes aren't required. You make a cable about 1000 km long.
What's it going to be built out of, then? Nobody's ever build a 1000km long anything, much less a something that can support its own weight in Earth's gravity field.
But in reality, virtually every postscript printer came with a PPD, and that PPD was all you ever needed to get a postscript printer running on linux. A PPD file is non OS specific.
And these days... surely there's a standard available to get the PPD from the printer by now?
GET/ipp/ps/ppd HTTP/1.0
or something? Find the printer via multicast-DNS and go on with your day?
Dark matter might end up on the list of ideas that physcists turned to in order to explain things that had other explanations.
What really surprises me is, despite this, so many physicists have jumped on the bandwagon. Average Slashdotters have been more skeptical of they dark matter theory than physicists, from what I've seen.
"It's invisible, we have no idea what it looks like, we can't detect it, but it must be there because we have no other ideas." Exactly the same mistake as the theories you point out.
Does the scientific process require this, though - a decade or more of odd beliefs to spur the more rational scientists to actually figure it out? Do bad beliefs provide a framework for further study and building?
The US never had feudalism, where the lords owned all the property, and thus never had to get rid of feudalism
Actually we still have feudalism in the US. In most States, most property is owned 'in fee simple'. You only ever own a title to the land, you don't own the land itself (in allodium, historically available in Nevada and a few other States). Most often, the State is the landowner, and effectively he can take it back whenever he wants to. If you don't pay him rent on his land, he'll seize the title and throw you off his land.
We never really made much progress - we just instituted State feudalism instead of Lording feudalism. Besides the rent, we have to pay him almost half of our harvest, or he'll put us in a cage. Technically we have a say in who the Lord uses as a foreman, but about half the time we don't even get that.
We sing songs about the plantation and tell our kids how great it is.
X ran like shit on my 386DX until I bought 4 extra MB of memory for it; with 8 MB it was quite acceptable.
Mine was a 486/25, but I agree, +1 on the 8MB RAM upgrade.
What really got X working well for me, though, was buying a video card from some company called ATI. It had something called 'video acceleration' which meant the windows just filled, almost immediately, when a window was moved, instead of watching them paint on my Hercules card.
The ATI card even had 24-bit color at 800x600, none of this 512x480 nonsense I was used to.
Why in god's name would anyone be willing to go to that with electronics?
Sometimes playing the game is more fun than perfect security. Plus, people can get ahold of you still, so you might actually get invited to parties and such.
It would be bad form to permanently destroy the phone via an exploit, and I'm sure most attendees know how to wipe their phones blank when they get home.
True that. I've been following the research since then - last year there was a breakthrough academic paper. Perhaps if that had existed we could have reduced it to practice. Lack of funding was also a small problem.;)
At this point I've got young kids and will be happy to see somebody else get it to market. I'll get back in the game once they're older.
That sounds like a wise way to score proposals, but it still sounds like one of the following is true:
1) the spec was insufficient 2) IBM isn't honoring its contract
I'm assuming here that IBM's contract said they'd complete the spec for a fixed price.
Somehow these government contracts seem to allow for a fixed price bid that doesn't actually work, and then more money appears out of nowhere to make the contractor happy.
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Even if he's right, do we really want the GPL to be a revokable license where an tiny mistake that might throw you out of compliance requires a Herculean effort to re-establish rights?
GPL is a copyright license, nothing more. The terms of copyright law govern.
People license copyrighted works all the time, and it's up to the owner of the copyright to prosecute any violations, as he sees fit. I can't think of any examples where a copyright owner has prosecuted GPL cases other than in the case of flagrant violations.
If your server goes down or gets unplugged or rebooted for any reason, you are temporarily failing to distribute source. How long before that's not "tiny"?
That would have no bearing on the terms of the GPL.
The full video being available in the second link, but it looks it's being taken on a public street, where police officers should have no expectation of privacy.
Yes, that's what everybody expects, but it's not what really happens. I have a friend who's being prosecuted under the same type of statute in New Hampshire. He recorded a traffic stop using his cell phone and an answering service. This wasn't prosecuted for almost half a year, but charges were filed just days after he recorded the public hearing in the State House of a bill to defeat such abuse and posted his video with some critical comments. In my opinion, he was targeted for engaging in the political process. (n.b. he's a videographer who's recorded scores of other House and Senate hearings, which is allowed, and this wasn't unusual).
Under the NH law, this can be prosecuted as a felony. That means, you lose your right to vote, you lose your right to own a firearm, drive a truck, etc. It's not a traffic violation by any means, this is serious business and the new favorite tool of gestapo-minded police across the country.
He's committed to fighting the charges and the law, so if you'd like to see an end to this kind of abuse, please consider throwing a fiver into his legal defense chip-in.
and I'd rather enjoy the journey as the authors intended
That's the thing - they never intended anything. It wasn't a JMS arc, it was made up week-to-week. And the ending is inconsistent, nonsensical, depressing, and clearly made up quickly just so the writers could get off to the beach for the weekend before the traffic started.
I wish somebody had told me this half-way through season 3 so I could stop wasting time on it.
Good points. There are probably alternate options, though. You could rent-to-own from a bank, with a 30-year commitment (transferable). For a contractor, a trusted third party could hold money in escrow. Home equity loans could be converted back to the rent-to-own model, starting at 80% or so.
There are some interpretations of allodial title that say it's never saleable or transferable, but that's pretty narrow and doesn't jive with other tenets of property rights.
Where is the source code for honeycomb?
I haven't checked it out, but is this not it? A couple hits from the top of a Google search. The Cyanogenmod guys have had a version for many months.
see cousin node.
Fair enough, it's a multi-step problem:
1. CDL required for farm tractors
2. Disqualification for CDL if convicted of a felony
3. Sexual offender felony charges for 'indecent exposure' if caught urinating in public. Here's a man in Arizona charged with a felony for public urination. Only two of the 13 states with such laws restrict it to requiring a child to be present
There are enough absurd laws on the books that any new regulation has far-reaching consequences. At least part of the reason that administrative rulemaking is a public evil.
This one is a gift to agribusiness as it will surely cause many family farms to fail, through one consequnce or another. Hopefully this rule will ultimately fail, but it's unproductive folly to pretend that Democrats don't pander to the corporatocracy.
Job's speech that basically said they can eat shit and die was too big for the page.
Google may be eating shit, but as far as dying...
interesting how all the quotes say the same thing..."defending android and it's partners".
It's an incredibly clear message that it's the US Patent System that's crushing the market. In an era where the government needs to be doing all it can to encourage production, any government system that is crushing any morally legitimate market has no place.
No doubt Congress will do nothing about it but vie for the best seats to watch the Empire burn.
Then you're going to have to nab an employee, take their card and "motivate" them to give you the password.
Find lowest-paid employee and pay them double their yearly salary for the password. If you don't have the budget for that, you're not really involved in industrial espionage.
I don't see how HTC, Samsung, etc could be happy about this. Android is no longer Open and now Motorola will be a version or two ahead of them.
How is Android no longer Open?
Rewarding Microsoft for attacking their business (Android, via the Microsoft/Apple/Oracle patent troll consortium) would be even worse than rewarding Google as a competitor.
I bet Google sat with the CEO's of each of these companies, and said, roughly, "look, we're fucked on these patents. The only way out of this is for us to own more patents than they do* and we have the cash to buy Motorola. We'll share hardware work with you, go at this as a partnership, and we'll build a wireless future together that will leave Apple and Microsoft in the dust. Let's play this as a non-zero sum game and take out the cause of our problems together."
This isn't Pepsico buying KFC and Pizza Hut, because Burger King and Pizza Hut were not collaborators. Giving the Motorola group preference against their partners would be suicidal.
* not planning on a political revolution - overthrowing the corrupt US Government would be the other way out - they're the enabling force behind the patent trolls
Athlon II 610e and I used the stock cooler.
My experience has been that you use the stock AMD coolers and toss the Intel stock coolers. Actually, I have them in a box - just about enough to set up a small scale wind farm now.
but frankly I'm wondering why anyone is allowed to open up a wall and the suppress public comments on their products
This is what's meant by 'social media'. Anything not suppressed is just peer-to-peer conversation.
I'm not sure what this article really means, but if Facebook is enforcing peer-to-peer conversation, then that's a good thing.
You don't understand. Big business has an exemption from having to comply with the law. Their CEOs have arranged for this through the Republican party.
When you stop believing that the Democrats care for you too, then you'll be able to start addressing issues, rather than tribalism.
The Democratic administration just promulgated proposed rules that would have a small farmer lose his farm if he's ever caught taking a pee on the side of the road.
It needs to be strong but nanotubes aren't required. You make a cable about 1000 km long.
What's it going to be built out of, then? Nobody's ever build a 1000km long anything, much less a something that can support its own weight in Earth's gravity field.
But in reality, virtually every postscript printer came with a PPD, and that PPD was all you ever needed to get a postscript printer running on linux. A PPD file is non OS specific.
And these days ... surely there's a standard available to get the PPD from the printer by now?
GET /ipp/ps/ppd HTTP/1.0
or something? Find the printer via multicast-DNS and go on with your day?
How much do the oil companies get?
How much $ and how many dead in the Middle East so far?
It's laughable.
Only on the outside.
Dark matter might end up on the list of ideas that physcists turned to in order to explain things that had other explanations.
What really surprises me is, despite this, so many physicists have jumped on the bandwagon. Average Slashdotters have been more skeptical of they dark matter theory than physicists, from what I've seen.
"It's invisible, we have no idea what it looks like, we can't detect it, but it must be there because we have no other ideas." Exactly the same mistake as the theories you point out.
Does the scientific process require this, though - a decade or more of odd beliefs to spur the more rational scientists to actually figure it out? Do bad beliefs provide a framework for further study and building?
Gah! An now I'm correcting language on the Internet!
I think you'll soon realize you corrected a .sig with so many usage errors it has to be intentional.
The US never had feudalism, where the lords owned all the property, and thus never had to get rid of feudalism
Actually we still have feudalism in the US. In most States, most property is owned 'in fee simple'. You only ever own a title to the land, you don't own the land itself (in allodium, historically available in Nevada and a few other States). Most often, the State is the landowner, and effectively he can take it back whenever he wants to. If you don't pay him rent on his land, he'll seize the title and throw you off his land.
We never really made much progress - we just instituted State feudalism instead of Lording feudalism. Besides the rent, we have to pay him almost half of our harvest, or he'll put us in a cage. Technically we have a say in who the Lord uses as a foreman, but about half the time we don't even get that.
We sing songs about the plantation and tell our kids how great it is.
X ran like shit on my 386DX until I bought 4 extra MB of memory for it; with 8 MB it was quite acceptable.
Mine was a 486/25, but I agree, +1 on the 8MB RAM upgrade.
What really got X working well for me, though, was buying a video card from some company called ATI. It had something called 'video acceleration' which meant the windows just filled, almost immediately, when a window was moved, instead of watching them paint on my Hercules card.
The ATI card even had 24-bit color at 800x600, none of this 512x480 nonsense I was used to.
Why in god's name would anyone be willing to go to that with electronics?
Sometimes playing the game is more fun than perfect security. Plus, people can get ahold of you still, so you might actually get invited to parties and such.
It would be bad form to permanently destroy the phone via an exploit, and I'm sure most attendees know how to wipe their phones blank when they get home.
True that. I've been following the research since then - last year there was a breakthrough academic paper. Perhaps if that had existed we could have reduced it to practice. Lack of funding was also a small problem. ;)
At this point I've got young kids and will be happy to see somebody else get it to market. I'll get back in the game once they're older.
That sounds like a wise way to score proposals, but it still sounds like one of the following is true:
1) the spec was insufficient
2) IBM isn't honoring its contract
I'm assuming here that IBM's contract said they'd complete the spec for a fixed price.
Somehow these government contracts seem to allow for a fixed price bid that doesn't actually work, and then more money appears out of nowhere to make the contractor happy.