How about registering some alternate domains such as "yohoho.org" or "mehearties.org" or even "arrr.com".
YOHOHO.ORG is taken, but MEHEARTIES.ORG is available.
ARRR.COM?... taken - for sale
ARRRR.COM... taken - has a pirates page
ARRRRR.COM... taken - redirects back to your own IP
ARRRRRR.COM... taken - see the Avast! TalkLikeAPirate keyboard accessory
ARRRRRRR.COM... taken - Industry42
ARRRRRRRR.COM... taken
ARRRRRRRRR.COM... taken - some wordpress blog started in august
ARRRRRRRRRR.COM... free!
But it serves 2 purposes - it placates those who wanted the judge to do something, and it's both simple to implement and simple to get around - so it's a win-win. The judge gets this case off his docket, the entity bringing the suit can say "we won", etc.
That depends. IT (at least in Canada) is a fairly small community.
Are you kidding? Where do you live, Flin Flon, Manitoba; Dildo, Newfoundland; St-Louis-de-Ha-Ha, Quebec; Tiny, Ontario; Smuts, Saskatchewan; Seven Persons, Alberta, or Horsefly, British Columbia ? (Yes, they all exist).
Try moving to one of the larger cities, you know, a place with a few million people.
Of course, the other problem is that they may also be thinking that the two people he's training can eventually do his job plus more work, for less money.
They've already shown how they think by outsourcing a lot of the stuff, and then expecting them to "fix" it.
So, he's probably training his future replacements anyway, and will be looking for a new job soon. Having seen how this sort of thing plays out before, I'd say take the new job ASAP, because you're gonna be a gonner.
If your phone can't block calls from specific numbers, it's a dumb phone. Even the cheap "feature phones" let you block calls from specific numbers nowadays.
If your phone is too dumb to do that, then you can also check to see if you have the ability to set up a block list with your provider - most do, either as part of their basic plan, or an extra-cost feature.
Oy. To you and the others advising me to use the Do Not Call list: my number is already on there. These people don't care. They spoof their caller id so they are largely untrackable. I think maybe "telemarketers" was too nice of a word. They are definitely scammers out to rip people off in any way possible. They aren't about to let a little thing like the law get in their way.
So waste THEIR time... tell them your battery is dying and to call you back at [insert $#_OF_SOMEONE_YOU_REALLY_HATE] or [$DIRECT_NUMBER_TO_LOCAL_POLICE_STATION_CAPTAIN] or some politician or something.
I'll say it again: every phone should have the ability to completely ignore unwanted callers. Doubly so for any "smart" phone. It would be ridiculously easy to implement, and even more ridiculously useful.
I guess your "smart phone" isn't so smart...I recently replaced my 5-year-old Motorola cell with a $60 LG, no contract, $35 a month unlimited calling and texting anywhere in the country, and it can block calls from specific numbers. And the funny part was it's the same phone company - just a new "discount brand", so the service is the same. Just half the price.
Instead of looking for a call blocking app, why not check your phone's existing PHONE functions - it may already offer call blocking.
The other week I was getting increasingly frustrated that my iPhone doesn't provide any way to block unwanted callers. Some telemarketer was calling a dozen times a day for several days, and it was pissing me off. How hard would it be to implement call blocking?
How hard would it be to implement pasting your phone number in the Do Not Call List ?
For anyone who doesn't get the humor, you used to eject floppy discs from a Macintosh by dragging the icon to the trash can -- probably the worst, most counter-intuitive, emotionally-haunting UI gesture ever conceived in the history of computers.
First, we already have a market framework that works - people don't buy or use the crappiest code when given a choice.
<div class="sarcasm">Well, that explains Windows' success in the presence of alternatives perfectly.</div>
People have always had alternatives... they make the choice based on several things, including price. Back when others were running MS/DOS or PC/DOS on a 8086/8088 I was running Microware OS9. Others were running something from some company called Apple.
Today, if you want to compare, the reason Microsoft is moving to their whole MetroUI/html5+css+javascript thing is because they got around to actually fixing IE in version 9. I write my code under linux, test under Firefox, Opera and Chrome, then boot into windows and test under IE, Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari. The webkit-based browsers don't support zoom/transform or transform-origin properly for values less than 1 (not even -webkit-transform/-webkit-transform-origin or -o-transform/-o-transform-origin), which means that the only two browsers that actually work properly for my own html5 code are Firefox and IE9 (and chrome is the sorriest of the bunch).
First, we already have a market framework that works - people don't buy or use the crappiest code when given a choice.
Second, you know that "disclaim all warranties" bit? If you paid for the product, the vendor cannot disclaim warranties - so you have more incentive to deal with someone local so you can sue their *** off a lot easier. Given enough lawsuits, all bugs are shallow.
Third - the government is unable to ensure the quality of the code it already buys - how is it going to do that for everyone?
The whole concept is dumb, the article is just troll bait - which explains why it was posted on Troll Tuesday [tt]
Forget the 4-legged version. Move on to the 6-legged version - better all-terrain mobility, if it loses a leg, it can keep going (there's a reason the Mars Rovers have 6 wheels), the ability to "crab" or move sideways a lot easier...
And the name? - call it the "SCORPION" and load it up with Stinger and Scorpion missiles.
Or make a nano version, mass-produce them, and call them FIRE-ANT.
FIRE-ANT: "Thanks to its' on-board 'Chemical Rapid Analysis of Phermones Package' (C.R.A.P.P.), FIRE-ANT can literally "smell" whether someone smells like the enemy, signal other FIRE-ANTS, and within seconds, thousands swarm the target, each taking a bite, converting it to fuel, then taking another bite, until only the bare skeleton remains."
For domestic ops, "C.R.A.P.P.Y" can also be programmed to target "dirty hippy commie", "democrat", "urban poor", and "trailer trash", from a library of over 1,209 different profiles.
Well, we have the same laws here in Kanuckistan (PIPEDA), so that may have something to do with it. After all, Facebook's privacy headaches started when Jennifer Stoddard (the Kanuckistani Federal Privacy Commissioner) became the first to drag Facebook to the table and force Facebook into making privacy concessions (the Europeans followed soon after).
She was the first data protection authority in the world to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the privacy policies and practices of the popular social networking site, Facebook.
The provinces that have enacted similar enabling information also allow for you to request the data. In Quebec, for example, they have to *print it out*. That could get VERY expensive to print and send by mail. When the Journal de Montreal ran a full-page "coupon" that people could clip out, fill in and email to the federal govt requesting a copy of the Fed's "all-in-one-consolidate-all-govt-data-on-U" HRDC database, 29,000 people made the request, and HRDC ended up having to delete the database instead.
>> hey, i've got four kids to feed!
> So what happened to number five?
[the traitorous Benny shoots George/Kuato]
Melina: How can you do this? You're a mutant.
Benny: [shrugs] I got four kids to feed.
Douglas Quaid: So what happened to number five?
Benny: [beat tone] Aw, shit, man! You got me. I'm not even married. Now, put your fuckin' hands in the air!
There once was a lady named Bright,
Who could travel faster than light.
She left one day
In a relative way
And came back the previous night.
So, either you already saw it coming, or you didn't:-)
Now, to understand it better, read All You Zombies by Robert Heinlein (pdf of complete story). Considered by many to be the greatest time travel short story ever.
So the code of a PHP can be inspected "if necessary" because if the need arises, then as if by magic a disaffected developer will appear and leak the source code. To be fair, I suppose it's no more unrealistic than your "protection" against incompatible closed source forks.
This is no different from the GPL, so I don't see why you're making a big deal about it.
I don't know if you designed RtPL to facilitate Microsoft's vision in this matter, but I don't see how you could have come closer if you had tried.
Get serious - the BSD and MIT licenses are more to Mr. Softie's liking. They wouldn't like the RtPL because it would mean that they'd have to work with the original author of any RtPL library they use - which would mean possibly leaking what they're working on. They're control freaks. They like the BSD license because they are free to modify the source, instead of having to work with the author - or maybe even $PAY_THE_AUTHOR??? for a customized version.
BTW - the above is one example of how an author can monetize their code under the RtPL - or anyone, with any business, because there's always going to be someone who wants a modified version of something. Plus, once they've got the author on the line anyway, might as well ask her if she's interested in doing some other work for $MONEY:-)
The "protection" from forking is well explained. Anyone who violates the license has two problems - (1) a disaffected employee can blow the whistle at any time, and (2) they ARE going to have extra costs for maintaining their illegal fork. This is the same basic kind of protection that most licenses give, so I don't see why you insist on denying it. Is it perfect? No - but it's easily as good as the GPL.
I know how php works. include, require, include_once and require_once. As for the "
Lastly, while it's not strictly part of the licence, the general attitude of "no one should ever write code until they're good at it" is going to be very intimidating to newcomers to Free Software. Again, there are those who'd see that as a good thing, but very few of them are on the Free Software side of the fence.
What I wrote was that nobody should write code for distribution if they don't understand the basics of the language, such as how to make a function call (that's day 1 in most languages) or, if they're doing OOP, how inheritance works (that's day 1 in languages such as c++), or how to, for example, include a file in php (that's day 1 in pretty much any php course), or how to include an external css or javascript file in html (justf***inggoogleforit:-)
< Those privacy services hide your real email address, but still allo wpeople to send email to you via the email specified in Whois.
A lot of them don't only hide the email address - they also hide the real address and owner, and specify that all complaints are to be sent by registered mail, along with a $10 fee for them to forward the mail by regular post.
Arizona: Two people are being detained by the Department of Homeland Security after being found with suspicious surveillance equipment that they had recovered from the Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge. The pair were tracked to their home by DHS working in conjunction with local and state police. The FBI executed search warrants at two locations - the suspects' home and an unnamed local welding shop, where they found all the ingredients necessary for constructing Unmanned Reconnaissance Vehicles, as well as quantities of highly compressed gas - helium - which also powers thermonuclear reactions.
The pair were found in possession of approximately 2,000 surveillance photos from their last sortie. Officials refused to comment on whether the arrests have any connection with either of two nearby military installations, Area 51 or the Nellis AFB Test Site at Groom Lake.
Additional quantities of liquid dihydrogen monoxide, a clear substance that is toxic when inhaled, were also recovered. No court date has yet been set.
So just pry the keycaps off your keyboard and remap the keys to have 1-2-3 at the top, problem solved.
I know that there are those of us who like to learn, and therefore use efficient memory techniques, and that there are those who ridicule those of us who learn. On a website for geeks, I had expected to find the former, not the latter.
You must be new here... or you never read slashdot on Troll Tuesday [tt]
You shove a page in my face. I cross out a few bits I don't agree to and shove it back. If you then provide the service anyway, you agreed.
I tell you to help yourself to something to drink in my fridge... you say you don't agree, that you should be able to eat anything you want, and then go on to eat everything in my fridge.
Once you make a counter-offer, the original offer is legally terminated (you've deemed not to have accepted it). Think about that for a minute..
The "free" sites generally make revenue from advertisements, if they've violated your offer of the agreement they aren't likely entitled to that revenue and you should go after them for the piracy of your personal data. Theft is theft whether by a corporation or a person.
So *not* true. I can violate ANY offer you make unless I've accepted it. This TOSAmend is total BS, which is why I modded it as "stupid" in the firehose. The "amended" proposal pretty much will never be seen - the recipient's mail program sends it straight to/dev/null
For stuff such as php or javascript that has to be distributed, it can be shown that the code is the same if necessary
I'm being pedantic, I know, but that's true in the case of Javascript, but not PHP. PHP sits on the server and the only code the user ever sees is it's output.
All it takes is one disaffected developer. It happens all the time. And in the meanitme, they've assumed a maintenance burden they don't need, and locked themselves into a specific version. Why do that when they're not required to share the source (which is the primary reason that businesses "cheat").
For c/c++, and to a lesser extent java, it's more of a problem... but this is the same with any compiled code, whether RPL or GPL or prorietary licensed code where the licensee has broken the terms of the license.
I don't think that's true in the case of the GPL. For one thing, you can request the source. If they don't supply it, they're in contravention. If they do, and it doesn't compile to the same image, or do the same things, they're still in contravention. Just ask Harald Welte.
That assumes that they did in fact use GPL source. As for the "same image" argument, it's flawed. What if I used a different compiler, and have since upgraded that compiler, or one of its libraries, or used a different set of optimizations than you, or post-processed it, or used a compiler and linker that purposefully uses randomization techniques every run to make it harder to inject malicious code at runtime?
As for derived works, no, you can't, same as you can't derive your own Harry Potter book
And like J.K.Rowling, you are entitled retain the "no derivative works" option. I never said otherwise. What I'm questioning is whether retaining that particular right leads to a better developmental model, and if so, from whose perspective.
Is it better than a completely closed source, where you have to treat the software as a black box? I think so. Is it better than the GPL, in that it helps ensure that bug fixes and improvements get back into the canonical source code, rather than having so many different versions of the same file floating around? Again, I think so.
Corporations (just like all coders) would have an incentive to do fixes and feature adds the proper way, since it eases their burden for maintenance, etc
If corporations always thought like that, then the "Unix Wars" you referred to earlier would never have happened. And Microsoft would never have chosen an implementation of Kerberos incompatible with the rest of the world. To pick two examples at random. Sorry, but no sale on that point.
The Unix Wars are pretty much over, which shows that you have to take the long-term view. The same thing, ironically, is happening with Microsoft. After 15 years of trying to maintain incompatible web standards, their latest browser is actually more standards-compliant than, for example, Chrome or Safari (neither of which implements css scaling properly) and better than Firefox or Opera (both of which, after css scaling, "forget" to adjust the vertical, but not horizontal, display area, and which you have to readjust the position with -transform-origin).
However, the main point is that not all businesses will act rationally, but those that do wrt the RPL will reap the benefits. Their call.
Their suggestions and extra eyeballs - financially incentivized eyeballs to actually get the code fixed by the original author so as to save them money in both the short and long term - is a good carrot to offer via the RPL.
See, a lot of corporations out there view Free Software as basically a ca
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But it serves 2 purposes - it placates those who wanted the judge to do something, and it's both simple to implement and simple to get around - so it's a win-win. The judge gets this case off his docket, the entity bringing the suit can say "we won", etc.
Are you kidding? Where do you live, Flin Flon, Manitoba; Dildo, Newfoundland; St-Louis-de-Ha-Ha, Quebec; Tiny, Ontario; Smuts, Saskatchewan; Seven Persons, Alberta, or Horsefly, British Columbia ? (Yes, they all exist).
Try moving to one of the larger cities, you know, a place with a few million people.
Of course, the other problem is that they may also be thinking that the two people he's training can eventually do his job plus more work, for less money.
They've already shown how they think by outsourcing a lot of the stuff, and then expecting them to "fix" it.
So, he's probably training his future replacements anyway, and will be looking for a new job soon. Having seen how this sort of thing plays out before, I'd say take the new job ASAP, because you're gonna be a gonner.
If your phone is too dumb to do that, then you can also check to see if you have the ability to set up a block list with your provider - most do, either as part of their basic plan, or an extra-cost feature.
So waste THEIR time ... tell them your battery is dying and to call you back at [insert $#_OF_SOMEONE_YOU_REALLY_HATE] or [$DIRECT_NUMBER_TO_LOCAL_POLICE_STATION_CAPTAIN] or some politician or something.
I guess your "smart phone" isn't so smart ...I recently replaced my 5-year-old Motorola cell with a $60 LG, no contract, $35 a month unlimited calling and texting anywhere in the country, and it can block calls from specific numbers. And the funny part was it's the same phone company - just a new "discount brand", so the service is the same. Just half the price.
Instead of looking for a call blocking app, why not check your phone's existing PHONE functions - it may already offer call blocking.
How hard would it be to implement pasting your phone number in the Do Not Call List ?
You forgot clicking on START to STOP.
They may not be for much longer. Germany and France might decide that it's not worth bailing out Greece and Italy.
People have always had alternatives ... they make the choice based on several things, including price. Back when others were running MS/DOS or PC/DOS on a 8086/8088 I was running Microware OS9. Others were running something from some company called Apple.
Today, if you want to compare, the reason Microsoft is moving to their whole MetroUI/html5+css+javascript thing is because they got around to actually fixing IE in version 9. I write my code under linux, test under Firefox, Opera and Chrome, then boot into windows and test under IE, Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari. The webkit-based browsers don't support zoom/transform or transform-origin properly for values less than 1 (not even -webkit-transform/-webkit-transform-origin or -o-transform/-o-transform-origin), which means that the only two browsers that actually work properly for my own html5 code are Firefox and IE9 (and chrome is the sorriest of the bunch).
First, we already have a market framework that works - people don't buy or use the crappiest code when given a choice.
Second, you know that "disclaim all warranties" bit? If you paid for the product, the vendor cannot disclaim warranties - so you have more incentive to deal with someone local so you can sue their *** off a lot easier. Given enough lawsuits, all bugs are shallow.
Third - the government is unable to ensure the quality of the code it already buys - how is it going to do that for everyone?
The whole concept is dumb, the article is just troll bait - which explains why it was posted on Troll Tuesday [tt]
And the name? - call it the "SCORPION" and load it up with Stinger and Scorpion missiles.
Or make a nano version, mass-produce them, and call them FIRE-ANT.
The problem with Bigporkistan is Porkington, D.C.
The provinces that have enacted similar enabling information also allow for you to request the data. In Quebec, for example, they have to *print it out*. That could get VERY expensive to print and send by mail. When the Journal de Montreal ran a full-page "coupon" that people could clip out, fill in and email to the federal govt requesting a copy of the Fed's "all-in-one-consolidate-all-govt-data-on-U" HRDC database, 29,000 people made the request, and HRDC ended up having to delete the database instead.
> So what happened to number five?
There once was a lady named Bright,
Who could travel faster than light.
She left one day
In a relative way
And came back the previous night.
So, either you already saw it coming, or you didn't :-)
Now, to understand it better, read All You Zombies by Robert Heinlein (pdf of complete story). Considered by many to be the greatest time travel short story ever.
This is no different from the GPL, so I don't see why you're making a big deal about it.
Get serious - the BSD and MIT licenses are more to Mr. Softie's liking. They wouldn't like the RtPL because it would mean that they'd have to work with the original author of any RtPL library they use - which would mean possibly leaking what they're working on. They're control freaks. They like the BSD license because they are free to modify the source, instead of having to work with the author - or maybe even $PAY_THE_AUTHOR??? for a customized version.
BTW - the above is one example of how an author can monetize their code under the RtPL - or anyone, with any business, because there's always going to be someone who wants a modified version of something. Plus, once they've got the author on the line anyway, might as well ask her if she's interested in doing some other work for $MONEY :-)
The "protection" from forking is well explained. Anyone who violates the license has two problems - (1) a disaffected employee can blow the whistle at any time, and (2) they ARE going to have extra costs for maintaining their illegal fork. This is the same basic kind of protection that most licenses give, so I don't see why you insist on denying it. Is it perfect? No - but it's easily as good as the GPL.
I know how php works. include, require, include_once and require_once. As for the "
What I wrote was that nobody should write code for distribution if they don't understand the basics of the language, such as how to make a function call (that's day 1 in most languages) or, if they're doing OOP, how inheritance works (that's day 1 in languages such as c++), or how to, for example, include a file in php (that's day 1 in pretty much any php course), or how to include an external css or javascript file in html (justf***inggoogleforit :-)
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< Those privacy services hide your real email address, but still allo wpeople to send email to you via the email specified in Whois. A lot of them don't only hide the email address - they also hide the real address and owner, and specify that all complaints are to be sent by registered mail, along with a $10 fee for them to forward the mail by regular post.
Arizona: Two people are being detained by the Department of Homeland Security after being found with suspicious surveillance equipment that they had recovered from the Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge. The pair were tracked to their home by DHS working in conjunction with local and state police. The FBI executed search warrants at two locations - the suspects' home and an unnamed local welding shop, where they found all the ingredients necessary for constructing Unmanned Reconnaissance Vehicles, as well as quantities of highly compressed gas - helium - which also powers thermonuclear reactions.
The pair were found in possession of approximately 2,000 surveillance photos from their last sortie. Officials refused to comment on whether the arrests have any connection with either of two nearby military installations, Area 51 or the Nellis AFB Test Site at Groom Lake.
Additional quantities of liquid dihydrogen monoxide, a clear substance that is toxic when inhaled, were also recovered. No court date has yet been set.
You must be new here ... or you never read slashdot on Troll Tuesday [tt]
I tell you to help yourself to something to drink in my fridge ... you say you don't agree, that you should be able to eat anything you want, and then go on to eat everything in my fridge.
Once you make a counter-offer, the original offer is legally terminated (you've deemed not to have accepted it). Think about that for a minute ..
How about doing a WHOIS on the domain and sending email to the Administrative Contact (or any email addresses found)?
And how many of those WHOIS email addresses are hidden behind privacy services such as domainsbyproxy or monicker?
What I want to see is for search engines to lower the rank of any domain that hides their ownership info - and a spam filter that does the same thing.
So *not* true. I can violate ANY offer you make unless I've accepted it. This TOSAmend is total BS, which is why I modded it as "stupid" in the firehose. The "amended" proposal pretty much will never be seen - the recipient's mail program sends it straight to /dev/null
All it takes is one disaffected developer. It happens all the time. And in the meanitme, they've assumed a maintenance burden they don't need, and locked themselves into a specific version. Why do that when they're not required to share the source (which is the primary reason that businesses "cheat").
That assumes that they did in fact use GPL source. As for the "same image" argument, it's flawed. What if I used a different compiler, and have since upgraded that compiler, or one of its libraries, or used a different set of optimizations than you, or post-processed it, or used a compiler and linker that purposefully uses randomization techniques every run to make it harder to inject malicious code at runtime?
Is it better than a completely closed source, where you have to treat the software as a black box? I think so. Is it better than the GPL, in that it helps ensure that bug fixes and improvements get back into the canonical source code, rather than having so many different versions of the same file floating around? Again, I think so.
The Unix Wars are pretty much over, which shows that you have to take the long-term view. The same thing, ironically, is happening with Microsoft. After 15 years of trying to maintain incompatible web standards, their latest browser is actually more standards-compliant than, for example, Chrome or Safari (neither of which implements css scaling properly) and better than Firefox or Opera (both of which, after css scaling, "forget" to adjust the vertical, but not horizontal, display area, and which you have to readjust the position with -transform-origin).
However, the main point is that not all businesses will act rationally, but those that do wrt the RPL will reap the benefits. Their call.