I actually had a fairly long discussion with my MP (tory) on this matter (the Regulation of Investigatory Powers act) and he expressed surpise when I informed him of the implications of the act. I am currently putting together a dossier detailing an IT workers view of the RIP act, the various interpretations of the RIP act going around on the net, and the current state of the laws affecting IT at the moment. This dossier will be presented to a Conservative committee in the near future, with the promise that it will be viewed highly within the upper Conservative party, and the possibility that it will be brought before a joint committee after that. If you have any thing you would like me to add or mention, please reply to this post.
If you bring matters to the front with the correct people, things happen. Im jsut an ordinary person who happened to raise this matter in person.
No, but i dont rip them out of the magazine, or cover them with something. They are there, and they can catch my eye, so nothing is lost. Same with the TV.
We have a perfect right to "circumvent the cost factor of these websites" if it involves choosing what advertising we want to see.
Certainly, its called "refraining from viewing the website". Dont try and say you have a right to do anything else.
Also it should be possible to withold private information from businesses if we choose to.
Again, its called "refraining from viewing the website". Does a great job in both the situations.
It is a matter of freedom of the individual to choose without coercion. Surely you dont always sit through advertising commercials with the sound on? Or is your attention span so degraded that the only thing you can follow on tv is the advertising?
I actually watch 2 hours of TV a week, both hours being my favourite shows. Yes I sit there with the sound up while adverts are played, I do not activly go out of my way to avoid them. My main entertainment is reading and socialising, I dont need TV to babysit me like some other people do, I go out and make my own entertainment, or I find something I enjoy.
I notice that you are not a subscriber, so does that mean that you enjoy posting and taking part in this site without paying for it by allowing items to be advertised to you? For many sites the only way that they can make money from their content is to have people pay for it either directly or in advertising potential, but many of the people currently on the internet, and it seems to be mostly made up of longer term users, feel that they have a right to view a website without paying for it.
On the same note, something someone said to me a few days back struck a cord. The vast majority of the moaning on here about NYtimes articles requiring you to register to view them comes from people who have registered on slashdot. Repeat after me, you do not have a right to circumvent the cost factor of these websites, if the NYtimes says it has to sell your personal information on, then you still have the choice of wether or not to sign up and give them that info. Its not as if they are doing it behind your back, its one of the terms of the signup.
Real may have been able to remove it and Windows may still be able to run, but how many third party apps (that were not tested) will now not run because it relies on components provided by WMP? Someone higher up in the thread has already said that some Game manufacturers rely on DirectShow, and I bet a few more rely on codecs.
Lets do the math shall we:) (Not wanting to flame, im just severely bored atm)
Im in the UK, so everything is in GBP.
A years subscription to the extended Hotmail account service is GBP 14.99, which gives you 365 days worth of access at the higher rate. Lets see how much that costs you per day:
GBP 14.99 / 365 = GBP 0.04 per day. Great value I would say.
Now, the article says "Hotmail was down for most of the working day" so lets round that up to 12 hours. That leaves us with GBP 0.02 lost.
At current exchange rates, that gives us USD 0.035. So how would you like that, cheque? BACs? Or simply mailed to you?
Im sure i saw this within the Mysql license over 2 months ago. Its good to see mysql making exceptions for other opensource projects, and acknowledging that there are other non gpl licenses. I wonder if the PHP crew will reevaluate the decision to remove mysql client from php5?
Licensing applies to physical CPUs. The problem is that earlier versions of Windows can't tell the difference between logical and physical CPUs. It's a technical issue, not a licensing one. You are licensed to use XP Pro on a dual HT CPU machine, even if it appears to the OS as four logical CPUs
Only two CPUs will show up, due to WinXP Pro having a 2 CPU hard license level. You need a server type Windows install to use the 4 CPUs that HT capable systems present to the OS.
And what makes me chuckle is that if you gain proceeds through a crime and you do not declare them to the IRS or Inland Revenue (in the UK), not only can you be charged with the crime itself, butyou can be charged with tax evasion. Thats right, for a hooker it is illegal for her or her pimp to live off immoral earnings, but its perfectly ok for the IRS to tax you on those immoral earnings.
If Nvidia can, why cant whoever wants to produce an opensource driver? Learn to live with what you are given, if you continue to dislike someone because they do not share your beleifs then you are going to be very dissappointed with life.
The point is is that if Eolas had stated that they were going after Mozilla for compliance and not MS with IE, you wouldnt still be taking that view. As for corporations not hesitating to use it against individuals, fair enough. But for all the patents IBM, Apple, MS, Sun, Oracle etc etc hold, how many opensource projects have become victims of patent lawsuits?
Its not the courts position to say if the patent is valid or invalid, its the courts position to validate the lawsuit. This is what they did, they looked at the evidence on both sides and ruled that under the circumstances at the time, MS was in the wrong. The USPTO invalidated the patent which _should_ invalidate the courts ruling, because the circumstance at the time was invalid. This post has far too many valid or invalid uses of the 'valid' family of words.
Its called "The Prisoner" and was about a British Secret Service agent who resigned in mysterious circumstances. To find out why he resigned, an organisation kidnaps him and imprisons him within the "Village", a wierd place full of half mad people.
It wasnt so much scifi as a surreal show, where very little made sense and nothing was explained. The village actually exists (Portmeirion, in Wales UK) and was built mostly by a single person over a period of 50 years. The balloon you mention is the security system of the Village within the series, killing or disabling anyone who tried to leave the village.
They bought the license based on the fact that they have the Services for Unix system available for use, and they have a number of Unix, MacOSX and Linux boxes within their research departments.
Heh, yes. Slashdot even banned themselves once, all the slashdot specific (BSD, Developers etc) side boxes on the front page showed "Your RSS request has been blocked due to excessive usage.". I did have a screen shot which i sent off to slashdot support and it mysteriously got fixed. The next day. I have no idea if this happened to everyone or just a selection.
As per the article, this is its "internally referred to name", probably a nickname given to it by the developers. I would bet real money that this has never been intended to be used outside the developers group, much less MS itself. Watch out for something like WinXP SE.
Note that the only MS person quoted in the article is never quoted as calling it XP Reloaded, its only implied ("Sullivan said that the possible release of XP Reloaded does not indicate a delay for Longhorn." is not a quote, but sounds more like something Cnet bodged together out of the info it had to hand), but an external analysist did, clear indication that this is a pet name for the project and not its official title.
The OpenSource crowd has never been happy with the lack of total freedom presented by either Java or.Net, and thus campaign for the opening of both systems. There are opensource versions of both Java and.Net in heavy development, but why are we bothering? Why dont we just come up with our own Java/.Net like language, which we control, which is under the BSDL and thus an Open Standard? Why are we constantly clamouring for the owners of the systems to give us a break, when we could probably go off on our own, create our own language which is jsut as good, allows ups to stipulate our own restrictions on the usage, and best of all, we are not beholden to ANYONE because its ours 100%. While big business sometimes claims to innovate while masking the fact it bought the advancements in, there has been little innovation in the Open Source arena (dont flame, im stating it as i see it), and a lot of rushing to get where someone else has been previously.
everyone will run the bundled AV telling themselves their safe, while hackers (the blackhats) can focus on a single AV program to fool
According to the report, and MS themselves, its more of an all encompassing API that hands functionallity off to third party virus scanners. Its making the existing system easier to work with for third party developers, which is why they are also providing training with SP2 (online, but still...).
Problem is, once they start examining traffic for viruses, you get pressure groups wanting them to do the same for child pornography, spam etc. To retain the "common carrier" status they claim to have (im not sure if they have the same protections as telecoms companies to this regard), they need to exercise a hands off approach as much as possible. Also think of the outcry a false positive would bring, the ISPs would be sued of the face of the planet by certain people who think its their goddamn given right to do what they damn well please, damn everyone who gets in the way.
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I actually had a fairly long discussion with my MP (tory) on this matter (the Regulation of Investigatory Powers act) and he expressed surpise when I informed him of the implications of the act. I am currently putting together a dossier detailing an IT workers view of the RIP act, the various interpretations of the RIP act going around on the net, and the current state of the laws affecting IT at the moment. This dossier will be presented to a Conservative committee in the near future, with the promise that it will be viewed highly within the upper Conservative party, and the possibility that it will be brought before a joint committee after that. If you have any thing you would like me to add or mention, please reply to this post.
If you bring matters to the front with the correct people, things happen. Im jsut an ordinary person who happened to raise this matter in person.
No, but i dont rip them out of the magazine, or cover them with something. They are there, and they can catch my eye, so nothing is lost. Same with the TV.
We have a perfect right to "circumvent the cost factor of these websites" if it involves choosing what advertising we want to see.
Certainly, its called "refraining from viewing the website". Dont try and say you have a right to do anything else.Also it should be possible to withold private information from businesses if we choose to.
Again, its called "refraining from viewing the website". Does a great job in both the situations.It is a matter of freedom of the individual to choose without coercion. Surely you dont always sit through advertising commercials with the sound on? Or is your attention span so degraded that the only thing you can follow on tv is the advertising?
I actually watch 2 hours of TV a week, both hours being my favourite shows. Yes I sit there with the sound up while adverts are played, I do not activly go out of my way to avoid them. My main entertainment is reading and socialising, I dont need TV to babysit me like some other people do, I go out and make my own entertainment, or I find something I enjoy.I notice that you are not a subscriber, so does that mean that you enjoy posting and taking part in this site without paying for it by allowing items to be advertised to you? For many sites the only way that they can make money from their content is to have people pay for it either directly or in advertising potential, but many of the people currently on the internet, and it seems to be mostly made up of longer term users, feel that they have a right to view a website without paying for it.
On the same note, something someone said to me a few days back struck a cord. The vast majority of the moaning on here about NYtimes articles requiring you to register to view them comes from people who have registered on slashdot. Repeat after me, you do not have a right to circumvent the cost factor of these websites, if the NYtimes says it has to sell your personal information on, then you still have the choice of wether or not to sign up and give them that info. Its not as if they are doing it behind your back, its one of the terms of the signup.
Real may have been able to remove it and Windows may still be able to run, but how many third party apps (that were not tested) will now not run because it relies on components provided by WMP? Someone higher up in the thread has already said that some Game manufacturers rely on DirectShow, and I bet a few more rely on codecs.
Lets do the math shall we :) (Not wanting to flame, im just severely bored atm)
Im in the UK, so everything is in GBP.
A years subscription to the extended Hotmail account service is GBP 14.99, which gives you 365 days worth of access at the higher rate. Lets see how much that costs you per day:
GBP 14.99 / 365 = GBP 0.04 per day. Great value I would say.
Now, the article says "Hotmail was down for most of the working day" so lets round that up to 12 hours. That leaves us with GBP 0.02 lost.
At current exchange rates, that gives us USD 0.035. So how would you like that, cheque? BACs? Or simply mailed to you?
No, because im not addicted to license changes like some people seem to be.
Im sure i saw this within the Mysql license over 2 months ago. Its good to see mysql making exceptions for other opensource projects, and acknowledging that there are other non gpl licenses. I wonder if the PHP crew will reevaluate the decision to remove mysql client from php5?
Ooooh, details please!!!!
Licensing applies to physical CPUs. The problem is that earlier versions of Windows can't tell the difference between logical and physical CPUs. It's a technical issue, not a licensing one. You are licensed to use XP Pro on a dual HT CPU machine, even if it appears to the OS as four logical CPUs
Only two CPUs will show up, due to WinXP Pro having a 2 CPU hard license level. You need a server type Windows install to use the 4 CPUs that HT capable systems present to the OS.
so which FTP client to use.... OH NO!! Windows comes with one!
And what makes me chuckle is that if you gain proceeds through a crime and you do not declare them to the IRS or Inland Revenue (in the UK), not only can you be charged with the crime itself, butyou can be charged with tax evasion. Thats right, for a hooker it is illegal for her or her pimp to live off immoral earnings, but its perfectly ok for the IRS to tax you on those immoral earnings.
Read it again, nowhere does he say its this project. You misquote the grandparent on his title, it says he "used to contribute to A project". Enjoy.
If Nvidia can, why cant whoever wants to produce an opensource driver? Learn to live with what you are given, if you continue to dislike someone because they do not share your beleifs then you are going to be very dissappointed with life.
The point is is that if Eolas had stated that they were going after Mozilla for compliance and not MS with IE, you wouldnt still be taking that view. As for corporations not hesitating to use it against individuals, fair enough. But for all the patents IBM, Apple, MS, Sun, Oracle etc etc hold, how many opensource projects have become victims of patent lawsuits?
Its not the courts position to say if the patent is valid or invalid, its the courts position to validate the lawsuit. This is what they did, they looked at the evidence on both sides and ruled that under the circumstances at the time, MS was in the wrong. The USPTO invalidated the patent which _should_ invalidate the courts ruling, because the circumstance at the time was invalid. This post has far too many valid or invalid uses of the 'valid' family of words.
Even better that this patent got invalidated then. THeres nothing worse than bad ethics and morals.
email me at my domain above, i will give you an invite.
Its called "The Prisoner" and was about a British Secret Service agent who resigned in mysterious circumstances. To find out why he resigned, an organisation kidnaps him and imprisons him within the "Village", a wierd place full of half mad people.
It wasnt so much scifi as a surreal show, where very little made sense and nothing was explained. The village actually exists (Portmeirion, in Wales UK) and was built mostly by a single person over a period of 50 years. The balloon you mention is the security system of the Village within the series, killing or disabling anyone who tried to leave the village.
They bought the license based on the fact that they have the Services for Unix system available for use, and they have a number of Unix, MacOSX and Linux boxes within their research departments.
Heh, yes. Slashdot even banned themselves once, all the slashdot specific (BSD, Developers etc) side boxes on the front page showed "Your RSS request has been blocked due to excessive usage.". I did have a screen shot which i sent off to slashdot support and it mysteriously got fixed. The next day. I have no idea if this happened to everyone or just a selection.
As per the article, this is its "internally referred to name", probably a nickname given to it by the developers. I would bet real money that this has never been intended to be used outside the developers group, much less MS itself. Watch out for something like WinXP SE.
Note that the only MS person quoted in the article is never quoted as calling it XP Reloaded, its only implied ("Sullivan said that the possible release of XP Reloaded does not indicate a delay for Longhorn." is not a quote, but sounds more like something Cnet bodged together out of the info it had to hand), but an external analysist did, clear indication that this is a pet name for the project and not its official title.
The OpenSource crowd has never been happy with the lack of total freedom presented by either Java or .Net, and thus campaign for the opening of both systems. There are opensource versions of both Java and .Net in heavy development, but why are we bothering? Why dont we just come up with our own Java/.Net like language, which we control, which is under the BSDL and thus an Open Standard? Why are we constantly clamouring for the owners of the systems to give us a break, when we could probably go off on our own, create our own language which is jsut as good, allows ups to stipulate our own restrictions on the usage, and best of all, we are not beholden to ANYONE because its ours 100%. While big business sometimes claims to innovate while masking the fact it bought the advancements in, there has been little innovation in the Open Source arena (dont flame, im stating it as i see it), and a lot of rushing to get where someone else has been previously.
everyone will run the bundled AV telling themselves their safe, while hackers (the blackhats) can focus on a single AV program to fool
According to the report, and MS themselves, its more of an all encompassing API that hands functionallity off to third party virus scanners. Its making the existing system easier to work with for third party developers, which is why they are also providing training with SP2 (online, but still...).
Problem is, once they start examining traffic for viruses, you get pressure groups wanting them to do the same for child pornography, spam etc. To retain the "common carrier" status they claim to have (im not sure if they have the same protections as telecoms companies to this regard), they need to exercise a hands off approach as much as possible. Also think of the outcry a false positive would bring, the ISPs would be sued of the face of the planet by certain people who think its their goddamn given right to do what they damn well please, damn everyone who gets in the way.