Since there are multiple views on linking with regard to the application of the GPL, don't these tools thus require assumptions based on opinion rather than absolutes?
It does amaze me, as someone who tried the 'modern' Linux desktop several times over the past 15 years and always came away shaking my head, that audio support within Linux is still a topic that prompts regular discussion - when I am on Windows or OSX, I don't even know what the audio subsystem is called because its never been an issue, Ive never had to tinker with it. Hell, for the past 5 years I haven't even needed to install drivers and its still produced beautiful sound.
I can't comment on the rest of the Linux UI experience (my Linux knowledge is firmly positioned in the headless server region), but come on - audio is something that shouldn't even be on a users agenda for worrying about these days.
Why should the details of the article negate the fact that this is a privacy issue, and there should be an outcry about it? Does the fact that its only happening against a subset of installs matter? Not really. Does the fact that there is an *opt-out* option? Again, not really, as its tracking usage - this should be opt-in for definite.
Look at how happy the Iraqi's were to hand Saddam Hussein. Now personally, I'm not a fan of the death penalty, and I think he should have just sat in a small cell somehow, thinking about all the horrible things he, his sons, and his commanders inflicted on his own people (and all the neighboring countries). But look, I have a feeling that the Iraqi's probably hated Saddam even more than we do, just like the Afghan's seem to hate the Taliban even more than we do - and probably with good reason.
Cheers,
Victor
Aside from everything else that was wrong with the Iraq war, this was one of the biggest for myself - Saddam Hussein, regardless of who he was or what he had done, should not have been subjected to that particular court.
Both Chief Judges in the case were ethnic Kurds, so there is an immediate uncertainty of bias, but the second Chief Judge (Rauf Rashid Abd al-Rahman, and the one who presided over the courts verdict) was from Halabja and suffered loss of family and friends during the 1998 gas attacks ordered by Hussein, which strengthens the uncertainty of bias.
You do not *ever* subject someone to a court of their victims - for a court to be legitimate, it should be completely independent of both victim and accused.
What Falklands fiasco? Or are you including the defence of the country (yes, Falklands is part of the country under our defence) from an invasion force as a fiasco?
You do realise that referrers only get passed if the site itself provided a link to the destination? Simply having the page open and clicking on a favourites option, or typing in the url does not generate a referrer for the currently open site.
Sounds like you got exactly what you paid for:) Seriously tho, this experience versus buying an iPad...? They might get it right in the end, but 'in the end' is too late for a lot of people.
A changeset dump on a schedule is a lot better resource usage wise than general requests by end users - for one you can schedule the changesets for lull periods in backbone usages, and the same data doesn't need to be transmitted multiple times (while multiple requests by end users may not be cachable), plus you can always pause the changeset transfer if backbone usage picks up.
Also, Google has a lot of fibre available to it, so theres a good chance that it puts in a direct line to its servers when it colocates - thus the updates never, ever hit the public network, never affect the public network and are never affected by the public network. Wins all around.
Thats all very well and good, but the very top end of the enterprise market is not the *entire* market, and we (and every agency we know and trade work with, which is a lot of agencies) have a full order book of jobs in the mid 5 figure to mid 6 figure price range (thats UK money, so add 50% to whatever figure you are thinking to come to Dollar amounts), and they are all.Net with no Java out there. Quite frankly, I am not seeing the Java demand that Slashdot keeps harping on about - sure, you can pull big stories like the LSE out for these sorts of discussions, but that demand is not trickling down to the SME markets that is the bread and butter of most digital agencies.
You are making a blatant assumption that we as a business do not know the market we are operating in, and that is a bad assumption to make - being approached is just one part of where our work comes from, and even when we go out into the market and talk to people they do not want Java, they want.Net. And that is in a large UK city with a huge financial and insurance presence, as well as a thriving new media community. Java just doesn't get asked for.
What about them? How about the games console just gets removed from the break room again? Humanity existed without the instant gratification of the Wii for thousands of years, it can survive a lunchtime at work.
What planet are you on?.Net is big and getting bigger every year (in the past year we have been approached once for J2EE work, its been solidly.Net with a smattering of PHP, and these are not small jobs), SQL Server and Windows Server both enjoy increasing market share, with Oracle above and other offerings below.
They demoed the Ferrari 458, and one of the "features" that Jeremy Clarkson highlighted was that the dash mounted display could show you either the speedo or the GPS Sat Nav, but not at the same time - my immediate thought was "Heh, someone at Ferrari has a sense of humour and knows what the Heisenbergs Uncertainty Principle is.":)
Its hardly "Starcraft II Killing Graphics Cards", its "Shitty Graphics Cards Dying Because Of Lack Of Self Moderation When Running At Full Speed". But I guess the second version doesn't include a much hyped game in the title...
Sod loading anything, my 3G takes a noticeable period of time to react to UI inputs, screen rotations et al when it didn't under the previous OS. iOS4 sucks for the 3G, I don't know why Apple included it in the release.
And both of your 'problems' with roundabouts do not seem to impede my ability to drive a route that includes several busy ones per day in both directions, during rush hour. As other posters have noted - roundabouts are in daily use in the UK (and other places to note, but I am in the UK) and your 'problems' are not in evidence.
I don't ever use the tip of my knife when cutting an onion - I use a very sharp knife, and I slice. Similarly when chopping herbs, I use a curved rocking blade with two handles - in all cases I get very nice results.
I worked as a butcher for several years, and one of the things I learned there is that stabbing your item in any way for any reason leads to more severe wounds than slicing if something should go wrong. I never stab, I always slice.
Courts have generally found that something "need merely be capable of substantial noninfringing uses" in order to avoid liability. Apparently this decision was a departure from that.
I don't think it is a departure at all - note the "substantial" term in your quote. What counts as "substantial"? 1% of use? 5% of use? 25%?
The problem is that the "home brew" argument being statistically insignificant against unlawful use has long been an open secret even here on Slashdot. Does it count as a "substantial non-infringing use"? In all probability, no.
In the UK we have a law called "Indecent Exposure", under which you can be prosecuted if you expose yourself to someone who had a reasonable expectation that you wouldn't (so it excludes your sexual partners, someone who walks in on you peeing, stripper nights etc) - why does the inclusion of the term "over the internet" change matters with regard to this law?
Would you like to give a reason why you think I have a lack of understanding, or why my analogy fails, or are you just interested in having your own way and insulting me in the process?
For the record, I don't have a lack of understanding (I'm actually very well versed on the subject, I like to research these sorts of things just so I can engage in adult, constructive debate), and I do think that network neutrality laws would be an unfair restriction on those that own the networks - if the government want neutrality then they should provide it by reducing the legislative barriers to entry into a competitive service provision market.
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Since there are multiple views on linking with regard to the application of the GPL, don't these tools thus require assumptions based on opinion rather than absolutes?
It does amaze me, as someone who tried the 'modern' Linux desktop several times over the past 15 years and always came away shaking my head, that audio support within Linux is still a topic that prompts regular discussion - when I am on Windows or OSX, I don't even know what the audio subsystem is called because its never been an issue, Ive never had to tinker with it. Hell, for the past 5 years I haven't even needed to install drivers and its still produced beautiful sound.
I can't comment on the rest of the Linux UI experience (my Linux knowledge is firmly positioned in the headless server region), but come on - audio is something that shouldn't even be on a users agenda for worrying about these days.
Did you have to post this three times? Really?
Why should the details of the article negate the fact that this is a privacy issue, and there should be an outcry about it? Does the fact that its only happening against a subset of installs matter? Not really. Does the fact that there is an *opt-out* option? Again, not really, as its tracking usage - this should be opt-in for definite.
Look at how happy the Iraqi's were to hand Saddam Hussein. Now personally, I'm not a fan of the death penalty, and I think he should have just sat in a small cell somehow, thinking about all the horrible things he, his sons, and his commanders inflicted on his own people (and all the neighboring countries). But look, I have a feeling that the Iraqi's probably hated Saddam even more than we do, just like the Afghan's seem to hate the Taliban even more than we do - and probably with good reason.
Cheers, Victor
Aside from everything else that was wrong with the Iraq war, this was one of the biggest for myself - Saddam Hussein, regardless of who he was or what he had done, should not have been subjected to that particular court.
Both Chief Judges in the case were ethnic Kurds, so there is an immediate uncertainty of bias, but the second Chief Judge (Rauf Rashid Abd al-Rahman, and the one who presided over the courts verdict) was from Halabja and suffered loss of family and friends during the 1998 gas attacks ordered by Hussein, which strengthens the uncertainty of bias.
You do not *ever* subject someone to a court of their victims - for a court to be legitimate, it should be completely independent of both victim and accused.
What Falklands fiasco? Or are you including the defence of the country (yes, Falklands is part of the country under our defence) from an invasion force as a fiasco?
You do realise that referrers only get passed if the site itself provided a link to the destination? Simply having the page open and clicking on a favourites option, or typing in the url does not generate a referrer for the currently open site.
Sounds like you got exactly what you paid for :) Seriously tho, this experience versus buying an iPad...? They might get it right in the end, but 'in the end' is too late for a lot of people.
A changeset dump on a schedule is a lot better resource usage wise than general requests by end users - for one you can schedule the changesets for lull periods in backbone usages, and the same data doesn't need to be transmitted multiple times (while multiple requests by end users may not be cachable), plus you can always pause the changeset transfer if backbone usage picks up.
Also, Google has a lot of fibre available to it, so theres a good chance that it puts in a direct line to its servers when it colocates - thus the updates never, ever hit the public network, never affect the public network and are never affected by the public network. Wins all around.
Thats all very well and good, but the very top end of the enterprise market is not the *entire* market, and we (and every agency we know and trade work with, which is a lot of agencies) have a full order book of jobs in the mid 5 figure to mid 6 figure price range (thats UK money, so add 50% to whatever figure you are thinking to come to Dollar amounts), and they are all .Net with no Java out there. Quite frankly, I am not seeing the Java demand that Slashdot keeps harping on about - sure, you can pull big stories like the LSE out for these sorts of discussions, but that demand is not trickling down to the SME markets that is the bread and butter of most digital agencies.
You are making a blatant assumption that we as a business do not know the market we are operating in, and that is a bad assumption to make - being approached is just one part of where our work comes from, and even when we go out into the market and talk to people they do not want Java, they want .Net. And that is in a large UK city with a huge financial and insurance presence, as well as a thriving new media community. Java just doesn't get asked for.
What about them? How about the games console just gets removed from the break room again? Humanity existed without the instant gratification of the Wii for thousands of years, it can survive a lunchtime at work.
What planet are you on? .Net is big and getting bigger every year (in the past year we have been approached once for J2EE work, its been solidly .Net with a smattering of PHP, and these are not small jobs), SQL Server and Windows Server both enjoy increasing market share, with Oracle above and other offerings below.
They demoed the Ferrari 458, and one of the "features" that Jeremy Clarkson highlighted was that the dash mounted display could show you either the speedo or the GPS Sat Nav, but not at the same time - my immediate thought was "Heh, someone at Ferrari has a sense of humour and knows what the Heisenbergs Uncertainty Principle is." :)
Its hardly "Starcraft II Killing Graphics Cards", its "Shitty Graphics Cards Dying Because Of Lack Of Self Moderation When Running At Full Speed". But I guess the second version doesn't include a much hyped game in the title...
Sod loading anything, my 3G takes a noticeable period of time to react to UI inputs, screen rotations et al when it didn't under the previous OS. iOS4 sucks for the 3G, I don't know why Apple included it in the release.
This made the BBC news website front page - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10836692
Now, just need a fix for iOS4 being slow and shit on the iPhone 3G....
So? Is it not allowed to be?
And both of your 'problems' with roundabouts do not seem to impede my ability to drive a route that includes several busy ones per day in both directions, during rush hour. As other posters have noted - roundabouts are in daily use in the UK (and other places to note, but I am in the UK) and your 'problems' are not in evidence.
Its the 1% usage type versus the 99% usage type that is carrying the weight of the decision here.
Providing a means to carry out the act is illegal, the act itself is not. Basic law in many cases.
I don't ever use the tip of my knife when cutting an onion - I use a very sharp knife, and I slice. Similarly when chopping herbs, I use a curved rocking blade with two handles - in all cases I get very nice results.
I worked as a butcher for several years, and one of the things I learned there is that stabbing your item in any way for any reason leads to more severe wounds than slicing if something should go wrong. I never stab, I always slice.
Courts have generally found that something "need merely be capable of substantial noninfringing uses" in order to avoid liability. Apparently this decision was a departure from that.
I don't think it is a departure at all - note the "substantial" term in your quote. What counts as "substantial"? 1% of use? 5% of use? 25%?
The problem is that the "home brew" argument being statistically insignificant against unlawful use has long been an open secret even here on Slashdot. Does it count as a "substantial non-infringing use"? In all probability, no.
In the UK we have a law called "Indecent Exposure", under which you can be prosecuted if you expose yourself to someone who had a reasonable expectation that you wouldn't (so it excludes your sexual partners, someone who walks in on you peeing, stripper nights etc) - why does the inclusion of the term "over the internet" change matters with regard to this law?
Would you like to give a reason why you think I have a lack of understanding, or why my analogy fails, or are you just interested in having your own way and insulting me in the process?
For the record, I don't have a lack of understanding (I'm actually very well versed on the subject, I like to research these sorts of things just so I can engage in adult, constructive debate), and I do think that network neutrality laws would be an unfair restriction on those that own the networks - if the government want neutrality then they should provide it by reducing the legislative barriers to entry into a competitive service provision market.