In this case that means every voter can demand diebold's source, which in a Free Society can only be considered a Good Thing.
Looks like we have another person that doesn't understand how the GPL works - the voters get to demand nothing, since the software was not distributed to them. Only the people that received the hardware from Diebold can request the source code from Diebold, the voters are not receivers of anything in this case.
So, the question becomes - has anyone who purchased or rented a Diebold voting machine actually requested the source code, and if so what was the result?
Remember, Diebold doesn't have to conduct any of this in public - they don't have to make their code available to the world at large, just the people they distributed the binaries to.
When was the last time you saw a lawyer sue someone without a client stood right by him? It doesn't happen - there is always a client (although in an extremely small number of cases that client and that lawyer are one and the same). So no, my argument is not weak but your weaseling is.
Actually, in a lot of mid level restaurants you pay when ordering, especially if you don't order at the table - also, bars come to mind, and where I live, if you get banned from one bar for whatever reason then the community establishments get together and ban you from all community establishments. This helps reinforce better behaviour, as suddenly you have to go a long way from home to get a drink.
Lawyers, however, enable litigation. In fact, for some lawyers, that *is* their business. You can talk in abstractions all you like, but the main difference between mathematicians and lawyers is that the mathematician's love for bizarre, pedantic arguments stays in the ivory towers. Lawyers do the same thing having massively damaging affects on the real world.
You fail to realise that litigation would still happen even if lawyers didn't exist, it would just take a more painful and bloody route. In other words, lawyers don't enable anything, they are a product of what is already there.
What did you really think cloud computing actually was, under all the marketing? Of course its someone else hosting your applications on their distributed network, that's the entire point.
I have mod points, but I feel obliged to reply instead of moderating. What should Microsoft do? If they go it alone, they are accused of anti-competitive measures through use of proprietary protocols et al. But if they decide to adopt a given standard, the first thing you hear on Slashdot is 'Embrace, extend, extinguish!!'. They can't win.
So tell me, Mr Anonymous Coward and all who modded you up - what should Microsoft do? Just lie down and die because you dislike them?
The most obvious case of this is the lack of a containment structure. Every Western civilian power reactor core is surrounded by a six foot thick reinforced concrete containment dome
Most British civilian reactors do not have a containment structure, only reactor halls similar to Chernobyl.
There is no add-on to disable the 'AwesomeBar' - the ones you are thinking about simply makes it *look* like the older versions of the URL bar, they don't change the underlying algorithm. Also none of the much vaunted about:config tweaks change the underlying algorithm either, they simply tweak the existing one. I want my old bar back.
I agree, but for a different (but related) reason - having an unelected House of Lords with a membership of life peers means no pandering to the electorate *or* the party. In such a scenario, a Lords member can take whatever action they wish when voting, safe in the knowledge that they are not under threat from short sighted voters (or, more likely, financial and political backers when it comes to reelection) or party members that require you to vote the party line.
However, an elected upper chamber will rightly want the power to create legislation themselves. This is the biggest issue with such a system: dilution of accountability.
The British House of Lords can certainly introduce legislative bills, that is not limited to the Commons.
A friend of mine Fedex's his from location to location - no need to check stuff in, pick it up after the flight, no hassles and all of the hotels he stays in are willing to cooperate when he explains what hes doing. He carries an overnight kit in his carry-on, just in case. Costs him a little more, but not so much that hes considering stopping.
In the UK you havent been able to use a PAYG phone without registering it for several years now - the SIM simply isn't activated until you call and register the phone.
Uhm, huh? Firstly I think this post just perfectly symbolises the 'any price is too expensive for me' mindset that some Slashdotters seem to have, and secondly, downloading a prepackaged ISO is too much 'hassle'? How do you manage to get out of bed in a morning?
And deliberately carrying out an act which is proven will enrage a fairly powerly group is the right thing to do just because you shouldn't give into bullies? Sometimes theres 'the right thing' and sometimes theres 'things you just don't do regardless because you know the reactions are going to be heightened'. In modern society, we also call it 'flamebait'.
Well, for a start, its not torture, its incarceration - if you can't tell the difference between intentional acts of pain or suffering and simple denial of liberty, then you can't take part in this discussion.
If the Habsheim crash was caused by a fault in the flight control system, there would still be a lack of confidence in the new system - there isn't, its one of the fastest selling aircraft of all time and all manufacturers are now using similar systems.
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In this case that means every voter can demand diebold's source, which in a Free Society can only be considered a Good Thing.
Looks like we have another person that doesn't understand how the GPL works - the voters get to demand nothing, since the software was not distributed to them. Only the people that received the hardware from Diebold can request the source code from Diebold, the voters are not receivers of anything in this case.
So, the question becomes - has anyone who purchased or rented a Diebold voting machine actually requested the source code, and if so what was the result?
Remember, Diebold doesn't have to conduct any of this in public - they don't have to make their code available to the world at large, just the people they distributed the binaries to.
You can have a private prosecution in the UK, if the CPS declines to prosecute (or doesnt get involved at all).
When was the last time you saw a lawyer sue someone without a client stood right by him? It doesn't happen - there is always a client (although in an extremely small number of cases that client and that lawyer are one and the same). So no, my argument is not weak but your weaseling is.
Actually, in a lot of mid level restaurants you pay when ordering, especially if you don't order at the table - also, bars come to mind, and where I live, if you get banned from one bar for whatever reason then the community establishments get together and ban you from all community establishments. This helps reinforce better behaviour, as suddenly you have to go a long way from home to get a drink.
Lawyers, however, enable litigation. In fact, for some lawyers, that *is* their business. You can talk in abstractions all you like, but the main difference between mathematicians and lawyers is that the mathematician's love for bizarre, pedantic arguments stays in the ivory towers. Lawyers do the same thing having massively damaging affects on the real world.
You fail to realise that litigation would still happen even if lawyers didn't exist, it would just take a more painful and bloody route. In other words, lawyers don't enable anything, they are a product of what is already there.
So why discuss it at all here on Slashdot? Every single article in this ilk is guaranteed the same outcome in these discussions.
What did you really think cloud computing actually was, under all the marketing? Of course its someone else hosting your applications on their distributed network, that's the entire point.
I have mod points, but I feel obliged to reply instead of moderating. What should Microsoft do? If they go it alone, they are accused of anti-competitive measures through use of proprietary protocols et al. But if they decide to adopt a given standard, the first thing you hear on Slashdot is 'Embrace, extend, extinguish!!'. They can't win.
So tell me, Mr Anonymous Coward and all who modded you up - what should Microsoft do? Just lie down and die because you dislike them?
Thats nice to know, another less thing I have to worry about!
Mugabe was always corrupt - he was just more powerful than the others that took part in the rape of Zimbabwae.
The most obvious case of this is the lack of a containment structure. Every Western civilian power reactor core is surrounded by a six foot thick reinforced concrete containment dome
Most British civilian reactors do not have a containment structure, only reactor halls similar to Chernobyl.
There is no add-on to disable the 'AwesomeBar' - the ones you are thinking about simply makes it *look* like the older versions of the URL bar, they don't change the underlying algorithm. Also none of the much vaunted about:config tweaks change the underlying algorithm either, they simply tweak the existing one. I want my old bar back.
And some of us dislike it with a passion - but evidently the Firefox devs are not willing to accommodate us....
I agree, but for a different (but related) reason - having an unelected House of Lords with a membership of life peers means no pandering to the electorate *or* the party. In such a scenario, a Lords member can take whatever action they wish when voting, safe in the knowledge that they are not under threat from short sighted voters (or, more likely, financial and political backers when it comes to reelection) or party members that require you to vote the party line.
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However, an elected upper chamber will rightly want the power to create legislation themselves. This is the biggest issue with such a system: dilution of accountability.
The British House of Lords can certainly introduce legislative bills, that is not limited to the Commons.
In the past three years, I have purchased PAYG phones and SIMs from Vodafone, Orange, O2 and T-Mobile. None have worked without registration.
A friend of mine Fedex's his from location to location - no need to check stuff in, pick it up after the flight, no hassles and all of the hotels he stays in are willing to cooperate when he explains what hes doing. He carries an overnight kit in his carry-on, just in case. Costs him a little more, but not so much that hes considering stopping.
The key word of that sentence, and one open to interpretation, is 'unreasonable'...
In the UK you havent been able to use a PAYG phone without registering it for several years now - the SIM simply isn't activated until you call and register the phone.
You must have 'last checked' quite a while ago, prebuilt ISOs have been available for at least the last two releases -
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.3/i386/install43.iso
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.2/i386/install42.iso
Uhm, huh? Firstly I think this post just perfectly symbolises the 'any price is too expensive for me' mindset that some Slashdotters seem to have, and secondly, downloading a prepackaged ISO is too much 'hassle'? How do you manage to get out of bed in a morning?
And deliberately carrying out an act which is proven will enrage a fairly powerly group is the right thing to do just because you shouldn't give into bullies? Sometimes theres 'the right thing' and sometimes theres 'things you just don't do regardless because you know the reactions are going to be heightened'. In modern society, we also call it 'flamebait'.
So who pays for the added overhead of porting it to other platforms? Its not magic, even when you do use portable code...
Well, for a start, its not torture, its incarceration - if you can't tell the difference between intentional acts of pain or suffering and simple denial of liberty, then you can't take part in this discussion.
If the Habsheim crash was caused by a fault in the flight control system, there would still be a lack of confidence in the new system - there isn't, its one of the fastest selling aircraft of all time and all manufacturers are now using similar systems.