Actually, you've hit a nerve there - it is quite difficult. We in the west are destroying the world and destroying lives in order to live in our little localised bubble of comfort. We spew out pollutants into the atmosphere and rivers. We throw explosives around in order to hone our strength. We invaded Iraq to ensure our access to cheap oil to fuel our empire. Children are dying because we (but not I) buy coffee and cocoa at below the sustainable price of production, which keeps the slave plantations going. We impose trade free rules on third world countries so that they have to buy our cheap schoolbooks covered with glossy adverts, rather than locally-produced products. I'm not sure I disagree with the Nike sweatshops, though, because I think they do pay a comparable wage to the local economy. If they paid more it might have a destabilising effect. So yes, I do have difficulty living with all this.
this disaster may spark re-interest in fuel additives for jet fuel that would immediately put out fires upon impact.
There was a test a few years ago where a large jet was deliberately crashed into a hevay duty metal barrier. It went up in a ball of flames, and so was a PR disaster, but in fact the flames were all superficial and only the fuel that was in the engine at the time went up, and that was only beacuse the engine itself was torn apart by the impact. In the WTC case, the engines probably would not have been torn apart. Even if they had, it wouldn't have been as bad as it was two days ago.
Probably to the same god that the terrorists were praying to as they flew to their deaths. I can't imagine it being anyone other than Islamic fundamentalists that could muster up four suicide crews. What we have to come to terms with is that these aren't evil people, they just believe in a system of right and wrong that puts us firmly in the wrong. To them, we deserve this, and bombing them flat in hasty retalliation will just confirm their belief.
If someone were to ask me to download something and burn it to a CD for them, would that be account sharing?
Of course not.
But, I don't think this constitutes reselling or redistributing access. It's simply handling requests using your time/bandwidth that you have paid for.
huh? How can redistributing a service not be redistribution of service? And anyway, you haven't paid for it, in the same way as I haven't paid for the entire salad bar at Pizza Palace just because I bought an "all you can eat" meal.
What the hell are you talking about? Thousands of closest friends? Who would they be? Or do you really think that Taco should impose his quirky avooidance of registration on all slashdot users? Should any website that requires registration be banned because one of slashdot's editors doesn't like the idea? Get real!
When I first read the dmca here on slashdot I kind of supported it. I assumed a "circumvention device" is something like an illegal cable decoder or illegal dvd copying system.
Illegal DVD copying system? What would that be? That's exactly the problem - there has never been anything illegal about a copying machine, only it's use under certain circumstances.
I don't understand the fuss about GPL-Compatable licences in the context of dual-licencing. If I own the copyright on the original version, then I can GPL it and release it under whatever other licence I like, no matter how restrictive. If someone acquires it under the GPL, then they have all the additional rights and restrictions on those rights that the GPL grants. If they take it under my "Unto the Seventh Generation" licence, then they have to follow that one. Derivative versions add complexity, where someone acquires the GPL version and changes that, their changes may not be allowed to be crossed over into the UtSG licence.
Getting back to the subject, it's quite simple - if the uni allows the student to retain the copyright, then they can licence it under GPL. If not, then not. I don't see why it gets complicated.
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They all survived ( http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001/09/12/sun .htm )
A bit harsh, don't you think?
I'm expecting delivery of a Travelstar 30GN 30GB HDD any day now, and will be fitting it to my Sony C1XN (currently 6GB).
ESR on encouraging the bytecode merge ( http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-J uly/016406.html )
use.perl.org links ( http://use.perl.org/search.pl?topic=parrot )
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/28/174223 7&mode=thread
Probably to the same god that the terrorists were praying to as they flew to their deaths. I can't imagine it being anyone other than Islamic fundamentalists that could muster up four suicide crews. What we have to come to terms with is that these aren't evil people, they just believe in a system of right and wrong that puts us firmly in the wrong. To them, we deserve this, and bombing them flat in hasty retalliation will just confirm their belief.
I'd like to offer an unreserved and humble appology for the above post.
"The crashdot effect"?
Really? Do you have to give out personal details to register for slashdot now?
But inflating the stock of FCC A will boost the IPO value of FCC B, so if you bought in to A you helped B.
can really burn your knees. Just ask Bill.
Really? Which part of the GPL does that violate?
What the hell are you talking about? Thousands of closest friends? Who would they be? Or do you really think that Taco should impose his quirky avooidance of registration on all slashdot users? Should any website that requires registration be banned because one of slashdot's editors doesn't like the idea? Get real!
It's 1/137, or about 0.007297351
It's down to #3! Make sure you vote the other top stories down while you're at it.
Well, it's probably a good think no-one told me, 'cos it was my birthday party that week-end and I would have been totally bummered if I'd known.
Boogie Man died? Shit! Nobody told me!
Getting back to the subject, it's quite simple - if the uni allows the student to retain the copyright, then they can licence it under GPL. If not, then not. I don't see why it gets complicated.