They are selling and renting a derived work, which is something you need the origional copyright holders permission to do (unless its covered under fairuse, which this isnt). This is the same thing that enables the GPL to be enforced on software.
Yes business accounts are treated much better - we lost a drive in our RAID array a couple months back, 8 minutes after ringing the support call number we had a replacement drive on its way, no quibbles, it was a case of 'drives failed, the RAID management software is saying its failed, we have tried reinserting the drive with no success' and the support bloke accepted that at face value and shipped us a replacement. I also like the fact that you can 'buy' your dead disk from Dell, so company data doesnt leave the premises.
A very good example of a contract thats legally binding in the UK even tho you do not get a signed copy, and you dont physically sign anything yourself, is mobile phone contracts. You can apply for tehse online, agree to the contract period and charges online, and get the phone. With O2 and Orange you get a copy of the terms and conditions, but theres no contract that you have to sign and return.
Another example is online loans, which many banks are starting to do 'instantly' - again theres no contract to sign and return, its all agreed to onscreen and is again legally binding.
There was a similiar type of incident when British Telecom switched their first telephone exchange from analogue to digital. In order to ensure a complete switchover, the decision was made to physically cut the analogue connections inplace, so there was no going back.
They chose a long weekend (public holiday monday) in order to do this, so it gave them more time to fix any problems. After starting early saturday morning, by sunday evening they had the exchange fully on digital and were congratulating themselves - and then the exchange crashed, entirely.
All sunday evening and night it went through a cycle of 'reboot, work, crash' on an hourly basis. The engineers could not figure it out, tehy did acomplete code dump and laid out the entire codebase on tractorfeed paper in the halls, went over it line by line to find out what was wrong.
Eventually sometime monday morning, the night guard from a factory across the road popped across the road and mentioned his phone was going absolutely crazy, every hour he would try to ring his head office to report onsite, and the phone would emite a high pitched buzz and go dead.
Turned out the exchange switchover had put his phoneline in limbo with no phonenumber associated but in a live usable state, and the exchange software couldnt handle that state and so it died with no error state reported.
Someone from the call centre downstairs rang my colleague, who promptly put the call on speakerphone. The caller claimed that the login system to the test server (we develop all the call centre software onsite on Unix systems, its terminal based data entry), which was funny because it had worked perfectly fine for 18 months thus far and the test server also served as our development platform. Colleague talked him through the steps, still nothing. Colleague wandered downstairs, stood behind the caller to watch him do it all. Caller brought up Putty, selected the correct address, entered his username, entered the password at the prompt and... that was it. My colleague leaned over his shoulder and pressed enter - logged him in fine. For some reason, after doing it several times a day for months, the caller had forgotten that he had to press enter.
Of course this caller is the same person that insists we 'fix' software after it goes wrong in such a way that blame for munged jobs gets put on him and his team (hint, we dont, his team just munge the jobs and then blame it on a nonexistant software problem despite the fact we retain keystroke logs for just this purpose).
Uh you do know you can defer the activation check until later on, it doesnt have to be done as part of the install? This gives you ample time to install a firewall et al before having to go online to carry out the activation.
Its illegal for US citizens to carry out certain gambling over the internet, its also illegal for US citizens to travel abroad for the purposes of enacting sexual acts that are illegal within the borders of the United States. So yes, starting in one location and doing something in another where its legal can be illegal.
The insulation is only there to stop ice forming, there was no insulation on the Apollo series boosters, you can quite plainly see massive chunks of ice falling off on launch. This wasnt a problem because the manned capsule was ontop, well away from potential danger zones.
Thats like saying a person with a highpowered rifle shooting across borders is not culpable for murder (note to slashdot fanatics - Im not comparing copyright infringement with murder) if the killing didnt happen in the country hes shooting from.
Microsoft also says that WGA is a necessary part of its campaign to catch those illegally using Windows XP which leads one to think what WGA really does then.
WGA is not to stop *us* from pirating Windows, thats never going to be successful. However, it will prove successful against those shops selling whitebox builds with illegal copies of Windows, and it already gives a cheap (or is it still free?) option to consumers caught out like that in return for providing evidence against their supplier (receipt etc).
The entire article, and this entire story, is based off of something someone supposedly heard from a Microsoft Support Technician and a vague nonstatement by a Microsoft spokesman. Its not verifiable, so until Microsoft issue a press release about these plans, you might as well consider it myth.
The world does not get to hear about this sort of massive policy change from a support technician who probably has had a lot of emphasis put on getting you to install WGA in his weekly performance meetings.
I recommend that you play a wait-and-see game on this one, Im willing to lay down hard money that it most certainly doesnt happen.
Read what I posted:
Concorde made substantial profits for BA and Air France when in service, and both fleets were paid for at the list price rate. Neither airline has operated Concorde under subsidies and even before the BA buyout of Concorde from the government in 1984, Concorde was producing a profit.
Its no secret that the development of Concorde was subsidised, but at least we got something for our money - the money handed to Boeing for the B2707 never produced so much as a flyable aircraft and nearly 50% of the cost of Concorde was invested.
However, BA paid list price for 5 of their 7 aircraft, with the 6th going for £1000 for the airframe and £100 for each of the engines because it was a shell, no avionics, systems or internals, the 7th and final aircraft from the UK production series was made available to them for a leasing cost until the company purchased it outright at list price in 1984. All in all, BA paid £155million at 1979 prices for their fleet. The loan was repayed by BA as part of their privitisation. It doesnt say that the loans were below market rates because they werent, they were at 4% above government borrowing base rate which puts it on average at par with large company borrowing in 1979.
Prior to 1989, BA was a publically owned company, and thus it operated Concorde for the British Government on a costs basis, which is why the government got 80% of profits - it was paying for most of the operating costs. While some people will trot this out as a subsidy, it isnt because its a contract operating agreement and the government were getting returns on a very minimal investment (the precise figures are available from the government treasury office on paper, the websites only go back to 1989, but they were making profits on operating Concorde). BA bought out the government in 1984 while still public, taking on 100% of the operating costs and getting all the profits.
From its privitisation, which gained the government over £900million and coverd the repayment in full of the Concorde purchase loans, BA operated Concorde at a £30million profit on average per year with zero income from the government.
Do some research and you will see that the common 'it costs lots and lots of government money to keep flying' myth is stupid and untrue. Concorde was very profitable to operate for BA and the government, some years being their most profitable market.
Concorde made substantial profits for BA and Air France when in service, and both fleets were paid for at the list price rate. Neither airline has operated Concorde under subsidies and even before the BA buyout of Concorde from the government in 1984, Concorde was producing a profit.
Airbus receives loans, which after 1991 have a maximum repayment period of 17 years. The British Government has revealed that it has made a 100% profit on loans for the A320 series, and expects by the end of this decade to have doubled the income on loans for the A330/A340 series. The only time any of these loans have been forgiven was when the German government required urgent money for the Eurofighter project, and it allowed Airbus Deutsch to repay a partial amount of the outstanding balance it owed to them as a final settlement.
Boeing has received nearly $4billion in nonrepayable subsidies for the 787 program from various countries including Japan, Italy and the US.
Do your SSH tunnels connect to the PSTN? No? Guess you also didnt read the article then, this is for traffic connecting to the PSTN networks and for that generally you need a third party like Verizon or Skype - if you are using an Asterix PBX to roue your calls chances are you are small enough to slip under the readar and they wouldnt care about you anyway.
They (MySQL) also argue that if you create the client libraries yourself and talk through the available sockets, you still need to either license your app under the GPL or buy a commercial license - essentially the protocol is enough to force the license on you and you dont need to use any of their code, or so they claim.
The actual point of the ISS was to enable countries other than Russia to get experience of running longterm occupation experiments and facilities. Only Russia really had experience of longterm occupations (talking months here, even years), the US only had short term spaceflight experience.
Wrong, the most the Shuttle is committed to is an abort once around. During launch they can abort to Kennedy in a Return to Launch Site (RTLS) abort, carry out a Transoceanic Abort Landing (TAL) where the shuttle lands in Africa or Europe on prepared sites, an Abort Once Around (AOA) which makes a low earth orbit and returns to Edwards or Kennedy or an Abort to Orbit where a failed launch means the orbiter achieves a different orbit (happened once thus far in the programme). There are lots of possibilities open to Shuttles after they leave the pad.
The bugfix may take longer to produce than is left on the support period, because it involves a heavy rewrite of some areas. Thus, if the patch is not likely to appear before the support EOL anyway, its justifiable to not start on it.
5 years since XP was released and all my user skills transfer to Vista easily enough - not exactly made my investment worthless.
And now for the standard 'I dont hate Linux, really' disclaimer that really shouldnt be necessary: Ive used linux for about 10 years now, both as a server and periodically as a desktop but I just plain dont like it on the desktop, thats my preference.
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Uh, software update server? Its easy to automatically update Windows systems without access to the Internet.
Is this anything other than an attempt to dis Windows for no other reason than 'Because'?
They are selling and renting a derived work, which is something you need the origional copyright holders permission to do (unless its covered under fairuse, which this isnt). This is the same thing that enables the GPL to be enforced on software.
Yes business accounts are treated much better - we lost a drive in our RAID array a couple months back, 8 minutes after ringing the support call number we had a replacement drive on its way, no quibbles, it was a case of 'drives failed, the RAID management software is saying its failed, we have tried reinserting the drive with no success' and the support bloke accepted that at face value and shipped us a replacement. I also like the fact that you can 'buy' your dead disk from Dell, so company data doesnt leave the premises.
A very good example of a contract thats legally binding in the UK even tho you do not get a signed copy, and you dont physically sign anything yourself, is mobile phone contracts. You can apply for tehse online, agree to the contract period and charges online, and get the phone. With O2 and Orange you get a copy of the terms and conditions, but theres no contract that you have to sign and return.
Another example is online loans, which many banks are starting to do 'instantly' - again theres no contract to sign and return, its all agreed to onscreen and is again legally binding.
Soeul is already within artillery range of the North, they could jsut lob a nuclear tipped shell over and do the same damage.
reporting on how well glaziers, builders, carpenters and building merchants also did in New Orleans after Katrina?
There was a similiar type of incident when British Telecom switched their first telephone exchange from analogue to digital. In order to ensure a complete switchover, the decision was made to physically cut the analogue connections inplace, so there was no going back.
They chose a long weekend (public holiday monday) in order to do this, so it gave them more time to fix any problems. After starting early saturday morning, by sunday evening they had the exchange fully on digital and were congratulating themselves - and then the exchange crashed, entirely.
All sunday evening and night it went through a cycle of 'reboot, work, crash' on an hourly basis. The engineers could not figure it out, tehy did acomplete code dump and laid out the entire codebase on tractorfeed paper in the halls, went over it line by line to find out what was wrong.
Eventually sometime monday morning, the night guard from a factory across the road popped across the road and mentioned his phone was going absolutely crazy, every hour he would try to ring his head office to report onsite, and the phone would emite a high pitched buzz and go dead.
Turned out the exchange switchover had put his phoneline in limbo with no phonenumber associated but in a live usable state, and the exchange software couldnt handle that state and so it died with no error state reported.
Someone from the call centre downstairs rang my colleague, who promptly put the call on speakerphone. The caller claimed that the login system to the test server (we develop all the call centre software onsite on Unix systems, its terminal based data entry), which was funny because it had worked perfectly fine for 18 months thus far and the test server also served as our development platform. Colleague talked him through the steps, still nothing. Colleague wandered downstairs, stood behind the caller to watch him do it all. Caller brought up Putty, selected the correct address, entered his username, entered the password at the prompt and ... that was it. My colleague leaned over his shoulder and pressed enter - logged him in fine. For some reason, after doing it several times a day for months, the caller had forgotten that he had to press enter.
Of course this caller is the same person that insists we 'fix' software after it goes wrong in such a way that blame for munged jobs gets put on him and his team (hint, we dont, his team just munge the jobs and then blame it on a nonexistant software problem despite the fact we retain keystroke logs for just this purpose).
Uh you do know you can defer the activation check until later on, it doesnt have to be done as part of the install? This gives you ample time to install a firewall et al before having to go online to carry out the activation.
Its illegal for US citizens to carry out certain gambling over the internet, its also illegal for US citizens to travel abroad for the purposes of enacting sexual acts that are illegal within the borders of the United States. So yes, starting in one location and doing something in another where its legal can be illegal.
The insulation is only there to stop ice forming, there was no insulation on the Apollo series boosters, you can quite plainly see massive chunks of ice falling off on launch. This wasnt a problem because the manned capsule was ontop, well away from potential danger zones.
Thats like saying a person with a highpowered rifle shooting across borders is not culpable for murder (note to slashdot fanatics - Im not comparing copyright infringement with murder) if the killing didnt happen in the country hes shooting from.
From the article:
Microsoft also says that WGA is a necessary part of its campaign to catch those illegally using Windows XP which leads one to think what WGA really does then.
WGA is not to stop *us* from pirating Windows, thats never going to be successful. However, it will prove successful against those shops selling whitebox builds with illegal copies of Windows, and it already gives a cheap (or is it still free?) option to consumers caught out like that in return for providing evidence against their supplier (receipt etc).
These are the people that need to be stopped.
The entire article, and this entire story, is based off of something someone supposedly heard from a Microsoft Support Technician and a vague nonstatement by a Microsoft spokesman. Its not verifiable, so until Microsoft issue a press release about these plans, you might as well consider it myth.
The world does not get to hear about this sort of massive policy change from a support technician who probably has had a lot of emphasis put on getting you to install WGA in his weekly performance meetings.
I recommend that you play a wait-and-see game on this one, Im willing to lay down hard money that it most certainly doesnt happen.
Prove that you no longer have the keys, otherwise you go to prison for a set period of time. Thats the law under the RIP II Act.
Read what I posted: Concorde made substantial profits for BA and Air France when in service, and both fleets were paid for at the list price rate. Neither airline has operated Concorde under subsidies and even before the BA buyout of Concorde from the government in 1984, Concorde was producing a profit. Its no secret that the development of Concorde was subsidised, but at least we got something for our money - the money handed to Boeing for the B2707 never produced so much as a flyable aircraft and nearly 50% of the cost of Concorde was invested.
However, BA paid list price for 5 of their 7 aircraft, with the 6th going for £1000 for the airframe and £100 for each of the engines because it was a shell, no avionics, systems or internals, the 7th and final aircraft from the UK production series was made available to them for a leasing cost until the company purchased it outright at list price in 1984. All in all, BA paid £155million at 1979 prices for their fleet. The loan was repayed by BA as part of their privitisation. It doesnt say that the loans were below market rates because they werent, they were at 4% above government borrowing base rate which puts it on average at par with large company borrowing in 1979.
Prior to 1989, BA was a publically owned company, and thus it operated Concorde for the British Government on a costs basis, which is why the government got 80% of profits - it was paying for most of the operating costs. While some people will trot this out as a subsidy, it isnt because its a contract operating agreement and the government were getting returns on a very minimal investment (the precise figures are available from the government treasury office on paper, the websites only go back to 1989, but they were making profits on operating Concorde). BA bought out the government in 1984 while still public, taking on 100% of the operating costs and getting all the profits.
From its privitisation, which gained the government over £900million and coverd the repayment in full of the Concorde purchase loans, BA operated Concorde at a £30million profit on average per year with zero income from the government.
Do some research and you will see that the common 'it costs lots and lots of government money to keep flying' myth is stupid and untrue. Concorde was very profitable to operate for BA and the government, some years being their most profitable market.
Concorde made substantial profits for BA and Air France when in service, and both fleets were paid for at the list price rate. Neither airline has operated Concorde under subsidies and even before the BA buyout of Concorde from the government in 1984, Concorde was producing a profit.
Airbus receives loans, which after 1991 have a maximum repayment period of 17 years. The British Government has revealed that it has made a 100% profit on loans for the A320 series, and expects by the end of this decade to have doubled the income on loans for the A330/A340 series. The only time any of these loans have been forgiven was when the German government required urgent money for the Eurofighter project, and it allowed Airbus Deutsch to repay a partial amount of the outstanding balance it owed to them as a final settlement.
Boeing has received nearly $4billion in nonrepayable subsidies for the 787 program from various countries including Japan, Italy and the US.
Do your SSH tunnels connect to the PSTN? No? Guess you also didnt read the article then, this is for traffic connecting to the PSTN networks and for that generally you need a third party like Verizon or Skype - if you are using an Asterix PBX to roue your calls chances are you are small enough to slip under the readar and they wouldnt care about you anyway.
They (MySQL) also argue that if you create the client libraries yourself and talk through the available sockets, you still need to either license your app under the GPL or buy a commercial license - essentially the protocol is enough to force the license on you and you dont need to use any of their code, or so they claim.
The actual point of the ISS was to enable countries other than Russia to get experience of running longterm occupation experiments and facilities. Only Russia really had experience of longterm occupations (talking months here, even years), the US only had short term spaceflight experience.
Wrong, the most the Shuttle is committed to is an abort once around. During launch they can abort to Kennedy in a Return to Launch Site (RTLS) abort, carry out a Transoceanic Abort Landing (TAL) where the shuttle lands in Africa or Europe on prepared sites, an Abort Once Around (AOA) which makes a low earth orbit and returns to Edwards or Kennedy or an Abort to Orbit where a failed launch means the orbiter achieves a different orbit (happened once thus far in the programme). There are lots of possibilities open to Shuttles after they leave the pad.
Difference between this and your analogy is that those employers that failed to hire you didnt benefit from your work....
The bugfix may take longer to produce than is left on the support period, because it involves a heavy rewrite of some areas. Thus, if the patch is not likely to appear before the support EOL anyway, its justifiable to not start on it.
5 years since XP was released and all my user skills transfer to Vista easily enough - not exactly made my investment worthless.
And now for the standard 'I dont hate Linux, really' disclaimer that really shouldnt be necessary: Ive used linux for about 10 years now, both as a server and periodically as a desktop but I just plain dont like it on the desktop, thats my preference.