As has been mentioned several times in the comment, the "Open Document Foundation" has no real connection to the Open Document Format, and the writeup reads like a MS-shill press release. So please fix it with an addendum so that casual readers of Slashdot don't take it at face value.
No, they're not all equal in their wrongdoings. Republicans have been responsible for the overwhelming majority of the evil things done in the US or by the US in the last 60 years, even when you take into account the fact that they held the presidency most of the time. That even includes good ole' Eisenhower, who is responsible for the ousting of democratically elected Mossadegh, which both set the climate for US policy and the political situation over all the middle east for decades to follow. And yes, even though JFK and LBJ are responsible for starting the Vietnam war, their leadership doesn't cover the most deadly part of it, which belongs squarely to Nixon and Kissinger. So in the end, democrats and republicans are both criminals, in as much as stealing candy and premeditated murder are both illegal.
What? Takedown notices are not really governed by any rules,
IIRC "takedown notices" as you call them are rather specifically spelled out in the DMCA. They have to include certain information, be sent to the hosting party a certain way, and they basically mean that the sender swears that he is holding or is entitled to representing the copyright. The hosting service then notifies the allegedly infringing user, who can file a counter notice. It must contain specific information, identity and stuff, and it also basically means "I swear I'm soandso, and that I believe that I have the right to post this stuff." If the user files a counter-notice, the hosting service can keep the material online, if not it has to take it down.
This is done so that the hosting remains a third-party and doesn't have to be involved in the conflict, beyond passing on information back and forth, and doesn't have to do police work such as checking its users identities.
So he knows how anyone who's not a fscking robot, and that's about anyone but a corporate lawyer will react seeing this video: aaaawwwwwwwww. Jury members are (supposed to be) people (unlike cops and lawyers). Plus, I just watched it, and you can't even hear the fucking music, it's all garbled by the shitty mike and the compression.
I don't care much about viruses, running Linux and all... however XSS (cross-site scripting) is more of a concern. And site-specific browsers could be a good way to limit their reach, if they keep one set of cookies each.
The treaty founding the OEB and basically most patent things between the signatory countries explictly excludes business methods, algorithms and computer programs.
Now, since the OEB makes more money the more it register patents, and as it has no oversight basically, it's been registering patents it shouldn't have, including software patents.
The US needs class action lawsuits as an after the fact correction because your government does not, and probably can not be trusted to, protect the consumer/citizen. In fact, considering how weak consumer protection is in the US, without it corporations would start feasting on babies' entrails(*) if it made them any money.
I'm no expert, but I would imagine that the amount of lead you'll absorb by handling a small toy covered in lead paint is going to be at least several orders of magnitude less than what you'd be inhaling from the emissions of every car, truck, and bus on the planet (and at 1970s emissions standards) every day.
I doubt it, lead in paint is, well, trapped in paint. Lead in fumes gets slowly, constantly delivered to your bloodstream through your lungs. So I can see how even small amounts can be more dangerous that way.
Where did I condone sinking the Rainbow Warrior? Which, btw, was a completely stupid, on top of illegal, operation... one person died, that's bad. One million people died in Iraq. Oups.
IP is not the same as physical property, but the concept of owning an abstract thing (the monopoly granted by the patent) is pretty closely related to the concept of owning a physical thing.
Analogy is not identity. Although I guess it depends on what the meaning of "is" is. Or something.
And the analogy breaks even more when you try to stretch it.
... says the Constitution. Don't sign them if you don't intend to respect them. And above all, don't expect others to respect them when you violate them daily.
Google pledged to "do no evil." Considering how hard the Republican Party has fucked the world those past few years, I think they're as evil as you can get. Consider this: Al Qaeda killed 3000 americans on 9/11. The Bush administration and its republican minions are responsible for the death of over 4000 american soldiers in Iraq, plus close to 1 million Iraqis, and 4 millions refugees. So yeah, good for Google.
And those rules needs to be enforced by the government, aggressively, and that's what we did in FRance, and, surprise! it works.
Neo-liberals (to you merkins that is conservatives, neo or not) worship Adam Smith but it's like they've never read him. A working free market needs choice, information and rational, free actors. When megacorporations are allowed to abuse their monopoly to remove choice and carpet bomb the media with BS advertising, you've got a non free market right here.
That said, even the free market at its best is no panacea. Liberalising the telecom market was the best thing to do; I'm entirely opposed to doing the same to the electricity market for example. We already have the cheapest electricity or close to it, what will we gain with privatization? Oh that's right, just like UK and Germany: massive price increase... and mountains of cash for capitalists close to the gov't.
Except maybe Finland, and we have an extremely regulated gov't owned monopoly.
Unfortunately, right wingers in power in Brussels want to force the "market" on us, claiming that it would be better.. for whom? It hasn't made price drop in England or Germany, actually the opposite happened. So why should we privatize, again? So that fat bastards hoard even more capital, at the expense of consumers, workers and of the stability of the energy supply?
We have several operators offering DSL: Free, but also Orange ("opérateur historique", more expensive and less BW than the others, but admittedly better service and reliability), Neuf, Alice (Telecom Italia), and a couple lesser ones. There are also several cable operators.
They are pushing a very aggressive move to FTTH, where they will provide 50Mbps symmetrical for the exact same price; they also intend to offer free "social" service, whereby unemployed people will get 64kbps internet, and free phone calls. Of course they do this last thing for a reason, but I'd rather have them do their lobbying that way than by buying junkets to politicians.
"Poor rural coverage" is relative. They cover (I believe) most 50k+ cities directly. Below that you might only get slightly lesser connectivity, because they're not always using their own DSLAMs. But in any case, they are moving at a very strong pace, covering more and more.
Lastly, they do indeed some shady behavior wrt the GPL in their set top box (which includes POTS adapter, ADSL modem, 802.11g, router, HDTV, and HD PVR), but to their credit they have explictly supported Linux (and possibly *BSD) since the beginning.
But best of all there is no capping, shaping, filtering or mangling whatsoever.
Ah c'm'on, fark's code is crappy
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Not MySpace crappy, but hey go have a look at that cess-pool of pedonazis over at dailykos.com -- those guys know how to make a forum.
Fark has some serious bugs, some content in forum submissions just hang in the air. Remove a word randomly and it goes through. Last time I checked there was no automated procedure for recovering a password. No threading etc.
In these days and age of open-source CMS system, the "stealing the source code" is the most astonishingly stupid possible motive here. Kind of like when they charged K. Mitnick of "stealing" SunOS's source-code -- now available to anyone from sun.com, free of charge.
Riiight, that's why every country beating the US in the broadband market are such libertarian wetdreams: Sweden, Netherland, France, Japan, etc etc, such shining example of laissez-faire capitalisme!
OH WAIT, THEY'RE NOT!
And that's also why all these countries have government mandated universal health care that sucks so hard compared to laissez-faire USA... oh wait, wrong again!
To sum it up, if we believe the libertards, sure, countries with MORE government intervention do much better, but if you remove even more government intervention, things MIGHT get better after they get much worse.
Yeah, that makes a LOT of sense. Pardon me, I'm off to drink a barrel of vodka, that's the libertarian cure for drunkenness.
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As has been mentioned several times in the comment, the "Open Document Foundation" has no real connection to the Open Document Format, and the writeup reads like a MS-shill press release. So please fix it with an addendum so that casual readers of Slashdot don't take it at face value.
How many millions of them died under Nixon? Some are still dying to this day -- thx Agent Orange.
No, they're not all equal in their wrongdoings. Republicans have been responsible for the overwhelming majority of the evil things done in the US or by the US in the last 60 years, even when you take into account the fact that they held the presidency most of the time. That even includes good ole' Eisenhower, who is responsible for the ousting of democratically elected Mossadegh, which both set the climate for US policy and the political situation over all the middle east for decades to follow.
And yes, even though JFK and LBJ are responsible for starting the Vietnam war, their leadership doesn't cover the most deadly part of it, which belongs squarely to Nixon and Kissinger.
So in the end, democrats and republicans are both criminals, in as much as stealing candy and premeditated murder are both illegal.
What? Takedown notices are not really governed by any rules,
IIRC "takedown notices" as you call them are rather specifically spelled out in the DMCA. They have to include certain information, be sent to the hosting party a certain way, and they basically mean that the sender swears that he is holding or is entitled to representing the copyright. The hosting service then notifies the allegedly infringing user, who can file a counter notice. It must contain specific information, identity and stuff, and it also basically means "I swear I'm soandso, and that I believe that I have the right to post this stuff." If the user files a counter-notice, the hosting service can keep the material online, if not it has to take it down.
This is done so that the hosting remains a third-party and doesn't have to be involved in the conflict, beyond passing on information back and forth, and doesn't have to do police work such as checking its users identities.
So he knows how anyone who's not a fscking robot, and that's about anyone but a corporate lawyer will react seeing this video: aaaawwwwwwwww. Jury members are (supposed to be) people (unlike cops and lawyers).
Plus, I just watched it, and you can't even hear the fucking music, it's all garbled by the shitty mike and the compression.
I don't care much about viruses, running Linux and all ... however XSS (cross-site scripting) is more of a concern. And site-specific browsers could be a good way to limit their reach, if they keep one set of cookies each.
The treaty founding the OEB and basically most patent things between the signatory countries explictly excludes business methods, algorithms and computer programs.
Now, since the OEB makes more money the more it register patents, and as it has no oversight basically, it's been registering patents it shouldn't have, including software patents.
The US needs class action lawsuits as an after the fact correction because your government does not, and probably can not be trusted to, protect the consumer/citizen. In fact, considering how weak consumer protection is in the US, without it corporations would start feasting on babies' entrails(*) if it made them any money.
* cf. John Edwards
I'm no expert, but I would imagine that the amount of lead you'll absorb by handling a small toy covered in lead paint is going to be at least several orders of magnitude less than what you'd be inhaling from the emissions of every car, truck, and bus on the planet (and at 1970s emissions standards) every day.
I doubt it, lead in paint is, well, trapped in paint. Lead in fumes gets slowly, constantly delivered to your bloodstream through your lungs. So I can see how even small amounts can be more dangerous that way.
... as much as beating your wife?
... one person died, that's bad. One million people died in Iraq. Oups.
Where did I condone sinking the Rainbow Warrior? Which, btw, was a completely stupid, on top of illegal, operation
But hey, let's not quibble about a mere order of magnitude.
IP is not the same as physical property, but the concept of owning an abstract thing (the monopoly granted by the patent) is pretty closely related to the concept of owning a physical thing.
Analogy is not identity. Although I guess it depends on what the meaning of "is" is. Or something.
And the analogy breaks even more when you try to stretch it.
Considering the current politics of that country, anything to the left of Benito Mussolini is a raging commie.
... says the Constitution. Don't sign them if you don't intend to respect them. And above all, don't expect others to respect them when you violate them daily.
Google pledged to "do no evil." Considering how hard the Republican Party has fucked the world those past few years, I think they're as evil as you can get. Consider this: Al Qaeda killed 3000 americans on 9/11. The Bush administration and its republican minions are responsible for the death of over 4000 american soldiers in Iraq, plus close to 1 million Iraqis, and 4 millions refugees.
So yeah, good for Google.
And those rules needs to be enforced by the government, aggressively, and that's what we did in FRance, and, surprise! it works.
... and mountains of cash for capitalists close to the gov't.
Neo-liberals (to you merkins that is conservatives, neo or not) worship Adam Smith but it's like they've never read him. A working free market needs choice, information and rational, free actors. When megacorporations are allowed to abuse their monopoly to remove choice and carpet bomb the media with BS advertising, you've got a non free market right here.
That said, even the free market at its best is no panacea. Liberalising the telecom market was the best thing to do; I'm entirely opposed to doing the same to the electricity market for example. We already have the cheapest electricity or close to it, what will we gain with privatization? Oh that's right, just like UK and Germany: massive price increase
IES4Linux installs IE on wine in a matter of minutes, no WGA required ... :)
:)
In fact, I ran WGA a few months ago under wine, it validated my non-existent Windows license
Except maybe Finland, and we have an extremely regulated gov't owned monopoly.
.. for whom? It hasn't made price drop in England or Germany, actually the opposite happened. So why should we privatize, again? So that fat bastards hoard even more capital, at the expense of consumers, workers and of the stability of the energy supply?
Unfortunately, right wingers in power in Brussels want to force the "market" on us, claiming that it would be better
Visit European Tribune for more on this issue.
You just need nspluginwrapper.
It's a 64 bit plugin, that spawns a 32 bit shell running the Flash plugin.
I'm actually posting this from Barcelona, btw.
We have several operators offering DSL: Free, but also Orange ("opérateur historique", more expensive and less BW than the others, but admittedly better service and reliability), Neuf, Alice (Telecom Italia), and a couple lesser ones. There are also several cable operators.
Norway, Sweden, Canada, Finland have lower pop. density than the US and better, MUCH BETTER broadband.
This stupid argument has been debunked a zillion times, including a few times in this very page already.
The only reason why broadband sucks in the US is because of CORRUPTION. Legal corruption, but corruption nonetheless.
They are pushing a very aggressive move to FTTH, where they will provide 50Mbps symmetrical for the exact same price; they also intend to offer free "social" service, whereby unemployed people will get 64kbps internet, and free phone calls. Of course they do this last thing for a reason, but I'd rather have them do their lobbying that way than by buying junkets to politicians.
"Poor rural coverage" is relative. They cover (I believe) most 50k+ cities directly. Below that you might only get slightly lesser connectivity, because they're not always using their own DSLAMs. But in any case, they are moving at a very strong pace, covering more and more.
Lastly, they do indeed some shady behavior wrt the GPL in their set top box (which includes POTS adapter, ADSL modem, 802.11g, router, HDTV, and HD PVR), but to their credit they have explictly supported Linux (and possibly *BSD) since the beginning.
But best of all there is no capping, shaping, filtering or mangling whatsoever.
Not MySpace crappy, but hey go have a look at that cess-pool of pedonazis over at dailykos.com -- those guys know how to make a forum.
Fark has some serious bugs, some content in forum submissions just hang in the air. Remove a word randomly and it goes through. Last time I checked there was no automated procedure for recovering a password. No threading etc.
In these days and age of open-source CMS system, the "stealing the source code" is the most astonishingly stupid possible motive here. Kind of like when they charged K. Mitnick of "stealing" SunOS's source-code -- now available to anyone from sun.com, free of charge.
A guy once tried to drive from Paris to London without stopping, and he DIED.
Yeah he drowned.
His friend who went from Madrid to Copenhagen was fine, though.
Riiight, that's why every country beating the US in the broadband market are such libertarian wetdreams: Sweden, Netherland, France, Japan, etc etc, such shining example of laissez-faire capitalisme!
... oh wait, wrong again!
OH WAIT, THEY'RE NOT!
And that's also why all these countries have government mandated universal health care that sucks so hard compared to laissez-faire USA
To sum it up, if we believe the libertards, sure, countries with MORE government intervention do much better, but if you remove even more government intervention, things MIGHT get better after they get much worse.
Yeah, that makes a LOT of sense. Pardon me, I'm off to drink a barrel of vodka, that's the libertarian cure for drunkenness.