Perhaps it was a poor choice of words. What I meant was that she would be too busy to care to figure out how or to take the time to learn. Even if she knows she probably wouldn't have the time to do it. It is not unreasonable to think her kids or even the neighbors kids did it. Prosecuting HER for either is just plain silly.
You're missing the point. A divorce mother of five likely would be way to busy working and taking care of her kids to figure out how to download music in the first place. Contrast that with say a computer science college student who would likely know how and would be likely to keep their computer locked down from others. If downloading were traced to their computer, what is the chances that they were the one downloading versus a mother of five working 40 to 80 hours a week at work, taking care of her kids and trying to find time to sleep.
Don't pretend the the demographics of a person don't apply to a legal case. In some cases, it can have everything to do with it.
Which version of Thunderbird and Calendar? Last I checked (last night), the Calendar extension AND iCal weren't compatible with the latest and greatest versions including 1.5.
Actually I am. Currently dating a girl that could/should be a model. She also happens to like video gaming, so I don't think that is a strike against me:) She introduced me to "The Suffering" and got a kick out of it. It had been a while since I played any games. Man have they come a long way in terms of adult content.
After I played GTA (can't remember which one) at a friend's house for a couple of hours, I found myself thinking about ramming into other vehicles and stealing their cars. I'm really not joking. Of course, I also once pointed at a cop checking for speeders during my Quake years and yelling audibly, "Look at that camper!!!" Again, I'm really not joking.
While I neither rammed other people's cars nor pulled out a rocket launcher to teach the cop a lesson, I certainly KNOW that games can bleed into reality and if the person is just messed up enough in the head already, I don't doubt they could live out the game.
How come there isn't an FOSC(Free Open Source Consulting)
I have wondered this before and myself would gladly volunteer spare time to help in ways that wouldn't cause me to lose income.
I'm talking about taking 3 months out of your personal time to help deploy a Linux solution for a mid-sized business and not charge them a dime. That's what the OSS developers do every day.
Right. Because Alan Cox, Linus Torvalds, Andrew Morton, Ben Goodger, Darin Fisher and many others aren't paid specifically to work on OSS.
One thing this article and everyone I've seen discussing the issue fails to take into account is the cutting of demand. If everyone in the US began driving hybrids and other fuel efficient cars, the consumption of gas would decrease. Anyone with two ounces of knowledge of economics knows what that means--decrease in gas prices. This would further result in savings for consumers.
I also think if the government would give graded tax incentives for efficient vehicles and tax penalties for inefficient vehicles, that would help. In other words, at some level of fuel economy you actually start to get taxed MORE for buying a vehicle with efficiency below that level.
Yet as a consumer I can only judge the company as a whole and not the individual divisions since I have no idea how deep the evil streak runs and don't want to chance that some other product or service is equally as nasty.
I know you are being funny, but this is just a REALLY bad idea for a company that produces technology driven products. Who do family members turn to when they are considering dropping money on expensive technology products for advice? I know mine turn to me. Guess what I'm going to say from now on when they ask? "Whatever you do, don't buy a Sony product." Mine listen to me implicitly when I give such direct advice especially if I have suggestions to offer.
Sony has made a mistake of epic proportions. Watch their sales numbers. I bet dollars to doughnuts it takes a drammatic drop.
This is mostly because lots of management-types want "someone to blame".
I find this idea increasingly erroneous. Management types don't wan't "someone to blame" but rather "someone to fix it" when all else fails. For example, if the mail server breaks while the person who manages it is on vacation. Or even if the IT staff doesn't know how to fix it. Yes, just admit it that there might be a system problem that needs to be fixed ASAP that you don't know how to fix but that the vendor may have seen 10 times in the last month.
Once you make a modification, your code base is no longer the "standard" distribution, be it RedHat, gentoo, or Slack. Therefore you really can't get support for it, free or otherwise
Not true. Amazon.com uses Red Hat for a lot of internal stuff that they have modded out the wazoo and Red Hat still supports them and even HELPS them mod their source. Of course, I'm sure Amazon pays all sorts of dough for their support contract, but if you are willing to pay, it can be done.
Now that is a valid reason to be suspicious of his claims. Still not proof, but certainly a bit of bad form. If it were me, I'd donate the technology to the world as an open source (GPL style) idea and hope to make money from book deals and speaking appearances.
I believe in the literal translation of the Bible.
Here is an exercise for you. Pick up a KJV and an NIV version. Now turn to Mark 1:2 in both and notice first that they don't say the same thing. Second study your history and notice that the scrolls used to create the NIV are OLDER than the KJV. Third understand why this is significant. Hint: scribes hand copying the scrolls noticed a problem.
Yes, I said problem. Here is your final task. Find that quote in Isaiah as the author of Mark instructs you to do per the NIV version. Good luck. You won't find it there. You WILL, however, find it in Malachai. Oh yeah, the precious writers made a clerical error. The scribes inevitably responsible for the KJV scrolls noticed and edited the mistake out. Makes one wonder how many other things were edited over the years . . .
He is a medic and an electrical engineer, what the fuck is he doing publishing papers on "The Fallacy of Feynman's Argument on the Stability of the Hydrogen Atom According to Quantum Mechanics".
Queue up the scene in "Good Will Hunting" when Matt Damon ridicules the college guy for spending so much on his education when he could have gotten it for free with a library card.
In other words, just because the guy didn't study physics in college doesn't mean that he doesn't know anything about physics nor that he can't have original thought on the subject. I'm not saying he is right, but to dismiss him based on lack of formal educational training is quite closed minded.
There are many must-have desktop apps built on the KDE framework that don't have any good gtk equivalents
Last time I checked, you can run KDE apps in Gnome and vice versa by installing the libraries as the post mentions. Given that, I just don't see this as a valid argument.
Personally, I really don't care as long as it just works and does all the things I need and want it to do. If Gnome doesn't have it and KDE does, I'm sure it will be added if enough people want it just like anything else. So far I haven't yet heard a good reason that someone MUST use KDE over Gnome beyond preference. Not that preference isn't important, but the vast majority of potential future Linux users have probably never heard of either and, like me, just want it to work.
Which should not be affected by this anyway. What WOULD cause J. Random Citizen problems is if he was being paid by a political candidate or related entities. Free speech is what it is. Paid speech isn't. Unless I'm missing something.
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The Internet is an entirely new medium for which copyright laws as they were written prior to its creation do not adequately address its operation and functionality. For example, I can view a web page by which the content is literally copied to my computer in order for me to read it. I COULD leave that web page up indefinitely on my machine. Just for fun, I could load up a page on a public terminal and leave it for all who walk by to view. Heck, even some of the images may be cached on my machine locally. Maybe I run an ISP and I have a proxy in place that caches most of the entire web page. By your definition and that of copyright law, the use of a caching proxy server is copyright violation.
It seems to me that if a content provider of a web page doesn't want their pages cached either by my machine, my proxy or even Google that they should employ a robots.txt file AND password protect the site to keep Google out. Otherwise the Internet is basically no different than putting stacks of fliers (web pages) everywhere and being upset if someone takes (types in a URL) more than one (caching) to give to their friends (serving cached pages).
Could this type of virtualization be the stop gap solution to security patches and updates breaking things? So a new patch is released for something? Clone your working environment into a virtualized one and apply the patch to that. Work under the patched environment and if after X amount of time the patch shows no signs of breaking things, commit the patch to the base install.
Seems like a good idea to me unless I am missing something.
MS has a monopoly on the desktop. When they start bundling software that does X when there are competitors that offer similar software, MS has abused their monopoly when they actively work to exclude those competitors and force a choice on consumers.
In other words, if MS decides to start shipping software to learn how to speak Italian with every copy of Windows XP, then they would have to allow makers of competing software the same courtesy to ship alongside their own.
If they didn't command a monopoly of the desktop (and weren't already convicted of abusing their monopoly) they wouldn't be bound by such requirements.
No hardware for replacement. Manufacturing environment operating 24/7. Taking down any service except in critical circumstances raises more eyebrows and blood pressures than when stuff actually breaks. Then they just sit back and (mostly) patiently wait for me to fix it.
Trust me, I have to wait for it to break first. I am having to pull teeth to get them to agree to replace the aged ERP system that no longer is supported either on hardware or software before it breaks.
Now I can have an action plan waiting in the wings for when something breaks (which I do), but forklift replacement prior to breakage is more likely to get me fired than for me to slowly replace Windows with Linux without approval. I need no such approval for software decisions like that. Taking a system down that is operational thus halting production would be very very bad.
I am the IT Manager at the company where I work. We have a few servers running copies of Windows for which one of the previous IT Managers was careless and lost the original media and licensing information. If the server breaks, I have no valid product key to use for them. They also happen to be running services that can be transparently replicated using Linux. Take a guess what they will be running should they break irreparably during business hours.
Guess what my boss (the CEO) will say when he finds out I fixed it without having to spend any money. "Good Job." Guess what he will say if he asks how and I tell him. "As long as it works."
I know this because I've already gone through this once with an FTP/Web server.
Sometimes putting out fires requires you to go off the beaten path in order to fix the issue. You might be surprised at how PHBs respond when the issue is fixed quickly, didn't cost anything in the process beyond the labor that it would have taken anyway and instantly became a more secure solution (provided it was configured correctly).
I'm sure there are more out there. But I'm not sure you are accurate on this. Check out the International Trademarks Association site for more information found here.
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You did, I didn't.
Perhaps it was a poor choice of words. What I meant was that she would be too busy to care to figure out how or to take the time to learn. Even if she knows she probably wouldn't have the time to do it. It is not unreasonable to think her kids or even the neighbors kids did it. Prosecuting HER for either is just plain silly.
You're missing the point. A divorce mother of five likely would be way to busy working and taking care of her kids to figure out how to download music in the first place. Contrast that with say a computer science college student who would likely know how and would be likely to keep their computer locked down from others. If downloading were traced to their computer, what is the chances that they were the one downloading versus a mother of five working 40 to 80 hours a week at work, taking care of her kids and trying to find time to sleep.
Don't pretend the the demographics of a person don't apply to a legal case. In some cases, it can have everything to do with it.
Which version of Thunderbird and Calendar? Last I checked (last night), the Calendar extension AND iCal weren't compatible with the latest and greatest versions including 1.5.
Actually I am. Currently dating a girl that could/should be a model. She also happens to like video gaming, so I don't think that is a strike against me :) She introduced me to "The Suffering" and got a kick out of it. It had been a while since I played any games. Man have they come a long way in terms of adult content.
After I played GTA (can't remember which one) at a friend's house for a couple of hours, I found myself thinking about ramming into other vehicles and stealing their cars. I'm really not joking. Of course, I also once pointed at a cop checking for speeders during my Quake years and yelling audibly, "Look at that camper!!!" Again, I'm really not joking.
While I neither rammed other people's cars nor pulled out a rocket launcher to teach the cop a lesson, I certainly KNOW that games can bleed into reality and if the person is just messed up enough in the head already, I don't doubt they could live out the game.
I like your sig. Are those yours or someone else's words? If yours, may I use them at will?
Arguably, Sherman is right
No, he and the others want to pretend that Fair Use doesn't exist. I pray for the day when they all get smacked royally for violating our rights.
How come there isn't an FOSC(Free Open Source Consulting)
I have wondered this before and myself would gladly volunteer spare time to help in ways that wouldn't cause me to lose income.
I'm talking about taking 3 months out of your personal time to help deploy a Linux solution for a mid-sized business and not charge them a dime. That's what the OSS developers do every day.
Right. Because Alan Cox, Linus Torvalds, Andrew Morton, Ben Goodger, Darin Fisher and many others aren't paid specifically to work on OSS.
One thing this article and everyone I've seen discussing the issue fails to take into account is the cutting of demand. If everyone in the US began driving hybrids and other fuel efficient cars, the consumption of gas would decrease. Anyone with two ounces of knowledge of economics knows what that means--decrease in gas prices. This would further result in savings for consumers.
I also think if the government would give graded tax incentives for efficient vehicles and tax penalties for inefficient vehicles, that would help. In other words, at some level of fuel economy you actually start to get taxed MORE for buying a vehicle with efficiency below that level.
Yet as a consumer I can only judge the company as a whole and not the individual divisions since I have no idea how deep the evil streak runs and don't want to chance that some other product or service is equally as nasty.
You can piss off . . . the geeks
I know you are being funny, but this is just a REALLY bad idea for a company that produces technology driven products. Who do family members turn to when they are considering dropping money on expensive technology products for advice? I know mine turn to me. Guess what I'm going to say from now on when they ask? "Whatever you do, don't buy a Sony product." Mine listen to me implicitly when I give such direct advice especially if I have suggestions to offer.
Sony has made a mistake of epic proportions. Watch their sales numbers. I bet dollars to doughnuts it takes a drammatic drop.
This is mostly because lots of management-types want "someone to blame".
I find this idea increasingly erroneous. Management types don't wan't "someone to blame" but rather "someone to fix it" when all else fails. For example, if the mail server breaks while the person who manages it is on vacation. Or even if the IT staff doesn't know how to fix it. Yes, just admit it that there might be a system problem that needs to be fixed ASAP that you don't know how to fix but that the vendor may have seen 10 times in the last month.
Once you make a modification, your code base is no longer the "standard" distribution, be it RedHat, gentoo, or Slack. Therefore you really can't get support for it, free or otherwise
Not true. Amazon.com uses Red Hat for a lot of internal stuff that they have modded out the wazoo and Red Hat still supports them and even HELPS them mod their source. Of course, I'm sure Amazon pays all sorts of dough for their support contract, but if you are willing to pay, it can be done.
Now that is a valid reason to be suspicious of his claims. Still not proof, but certainly a bit of bad form. If it were me, I'd donate the technology to the world as an open source (GPL style) idea and hope to make money from book deals and speaking appearances.
I believe in the literal translation of the Bible.
Here is an exercise for you. Pick up a KJV and an NIV version. Now turn to Mark 1:2 in both and notice first that they don't say the same thing. Second study your history and notice that the scrolls used to create the NIV are OLDER than the KJV. Third understand why this is significant. Hint: scribes hand copying the scrolls noticed a problem.
Yes, I said problem. Here is your final task. Find that quote in Isaiah as the author of Mark instructs you to do per the NIV version. Good luck. You won't find it there. You WILL, however, find it in Malachai. Oh yeah, the precious writers made a clerical error. The scribes inevitably responsible for the KJV scrolls noticed and edited the mistake out. Makes one wonder how many other things were edited over the years . . .
He is a medic and an electrical engineer, what the fuck is he doing publishing papers on "The Fallacy of Feynman's Argument on the Stability of the Hydrogen Atom According to Quantum Mechanics".
Queue up the scene in "Good Will Hunting" when Matt Damon ridicules the college guy for spending so much on his education when he could have gotten it for free with a library card.
In other words, just because the guy didn't study physics in college doesn't mean that he doesn't know anything about physics nor that he can't have original thought on the subject. I'm not saying he is right, but to dismiss him based on lack of formal educational training is quite closed minded.
For reference, I submit to you Srinivasa Ramanujan
There are many must-have desktop apps built on the KDE framework that don't have any good gtk equivalents
Last time I checked, you can run KDE apps in Gnome and vice versa by installing the libraries as the post mentions. Given that, I just don't see this as a valid argument.
Personally, I really don't care as long as it just works and does all the things I need and want it to do. If Gnome doesn't have it and KDE does, I'm sure it will be added if enough people want it just like anything else. So far I haven't yet heard a good reason that someone MUST use KDE over Gnome beyond preference. Not that preference isn't important, but the vast majority of potential future Linux users have probably never heard of either and, like me, just want it to work.
Which should not be affected by this anyway. What WOULD cause J. Random Citizen problems is if he was being paid by a political candidate or related entities. Free speech is what it is. Paid speech isn't. Unless I'm missing something.
The Internet is an entirely new medium for which copyright laws as they were written prior to its creation do not adequately address its operation and functionality. For example, I can view a web page by which the content is literally copied to my computer in order for me to read it. I COULD leave that web page up indefinitely on my machine. Just for fun, I could load up a page on a public terminal and leave it for all who walk by to view. Heck, even some of the images may be cached on my machine locally. Maybe I run an ISP and I have a proxy in place that caches most of the entire web page. By your definition and that of copyright law, the use of a caching proxy server is copyright violation.
It seems to me that if a content provider of a web page doesn't want their pages cached either by my machine, my proxy or even Google that they should employ a robots.txt file AND password protect the site to keep Google out. Otherwise the Internet is basically no different than putting stacks of fliers (web pages) everywhere and being upset if someone takes (types in a URL) more than one (caching) to give to their friends (serving cached pages).
Could this type of virtualization be the stop gap solution to security patches and updates breaking things? So a new patch is released for something? Clone your working environment into a virtualized one and apply the patch to that. Work under the patched environment and if after X amount of time the patch shows no signs of breaking things, commit the patch to the base install.
Seems like a good idea to me unless I am missing something.
MS has a monopoly on the desktop. When they start bundling software that does X when there are competitors that offer similar software, MS has abused their monopoly when they actively work to exclude those competitors and force a choice on consumers.
In other words, if MS decides to start shipping software to learn how to speak Italian with every copy of Windows XP, then they would have to allow makers of competing software the same courtesy to ship alongside their own.
If they didn't command a monopoly of the desktop (and weren't already convicted of abusing their monopoly) they wouldn't be bound by such requirements.
Thanks, I had forgotten about that. I think I will bring that up in the near future. I wish he were still alive so I could ask him to talk to the CEO.
No hardware for replacement. Manufacturing environment operating 24/7. Taking down any service except in critical circumstances raises more eyebrows and blood pressures than when stuff actually breaks. Then they just sit back and (mostly) patiently wait for me to fix it.
Trust me, I have to wait for it to break first. I am having to pull teeth to get them to agree to replace the aged ERP system that no longer is supported either on hardware or software before it breaks.
Now I can have an action plan waiting in the wings for when something breaks (which I do), but forklift replacement prior to breakage is more likely to get me fired than for me to slowly replace Windows with Linux without approval. I need no such approval for software decisions like that. Taking a system down that is operational thus halting production would be very very bad.
I am the IT Manager at the company where I work. We have a few servers running copies of Windows for which one of the previous IT Managers was careless and lost the original media and licensing information. If the server breaks, I have no valid product key to use for them. They also happen to be running services that can be transparently replicated using Linux. Take a guess what they will be running should they break irreparably during business hours.
Guess what my boss (the CEO) will say when he finds out I fixed it without having to spend any money. "Good Job." Guess what he will say if he asks how and I tell him. "As long as it works."
I know this because I've already gone through this once with an FTP/Web server.
Sometimes putting out fires requires you to go off the beaten path in order to fix the issue. You might be surprised at how PHBs respond when the issue is fixed quickly, didn't cost anything in the process beyond the labor that it would have taken anyway and instantly became a more secure solution (provided it was configured correctly).
I guess Audi never got the memo.
Neither did this bank.
I'm sure there are more out there. But I'm not sure you are accurate on this. Check out the International Trademarks Association site for more information found here.