I think you missed a bit though. The European Council get to be undemocratic too! They are the secretive bunch appointed by national governments who decide whatever they want behind closed doors and when it turns out not to be what anyone actually wants they simply blame all the other ministers from other countries!
Aw screw it, I guess I'm sounding like a big old commie now
Quite the opposite. You are arguing in favor of a free market. Your ideas are closer to capitailst principles and I very strongly agree with you.
Don't forget that copyright is just a form of government intervention in a market. There is nothing commie about dislike of government intervention where it is not welcome.
Yes, I understand Debian is all about Free software. But dammit, I need the card to work, and now I have to compile my own kernel to do it.
This is a freedom versus convenience choice. You picked freedom (by running debian) and you seem to be compaining that it is inconvenient. If convenience is more important than freedom for you then you picked the wrong OS. If not, then you have to take some pain of the inconvenience.
No. I have _PAID_ MS for their software product so when things don't work, it's my right to complain. I have paid nothing to debian yet I have used their software. I have no right to complain.
If folks want to complain about debian, they should either contribute, or pay someone for support and compain to them. (eg, get one of the commercial debian based distros)
Most individuals have no reason to hide things by default.
The problem is that some folks do have good reasons to hide things and if everyone else is gladly giving up their privacy then those with a good reason stick out like a sore thumb.
If you thing privacy for anyone is important then some would say you should value it for yourself even if you dont need it. (yet)
Nowadays we often _have_ to be "mere subcontractors" because of the ever looming threat of software patents. If the commission wants us to be more independent then create the legal framework to allow and and stop pushing for software patents.
I don't know who in the EC wrote the directive but it certainly does NOT encourage open source developers to become more indepentent. It scares developers into only developing under the protection of their feudal lord (ie, a large company who can afford and is interested in wasting money on patents and patent litigation)
Not many, but forget about dialup and you still have a startage of addresses.
I know a few people who struggle now to get 2 ip addreses now for business purposes and the problem will only get worse.
ipv6 is the solution and so far the best arguments against it seem to revolve around not being able to read the addresses as easily. Well I say wake up and use DNS. That's what it's there for.
NAT is a hack and it broken for many protocols anyway. That's why all sorts of connection tracking and other kluges is required for various protocols. The sooner that nastiness goes away the better.
I run ipv6 and ipv4 together on the same net all the time.
For ipv4 I have one static internet address on my router machine which provides NAT for all the other internal machines.
For ipv6, I have a/48 allocated to me so each machine has its own real ipv6 internet address and can talk directly to all other internet ipv6 addresses. (plus, I have over 281 trillion ip addresses spare for later)
Also the applications don't need writing for one or the other. By using the ipv6 API you automatically get support for ipv4 at the same time.
There is an easy upgrade path. What will really get folks upgrading is when more and more sites become ipv6 only. For example I am setting up a nature webcam site which will be ipv6 only for exactly this reason.
That's not what I am saying. You don't have to inspect the code, you just have to be ready to stop distributing it if it comes to your attantion that there is parented code included. (or ready to free the patents if they are yours)
By distributing linux with their new devices they are implicitly granting all recipients of these devices a license to patented code (if any) that may exist in linux under the terms of the GPL. This is because they have to distribute under the terms of the GPL or not distribute at all and the GPL makes it clear that no additional restrictions can be added (such as "we may revoke patent licenses at a later date" or "this is only for linux, not for other programs")
So because it is under the terms of the GPL, we are allowed to use patented code from linux (if any) in any other GPL programs. If they say we can not they are breaking the terms of the GPL and must stop distributing linux.
Of course it may be that they have no patents on any code in linux. In that case they can say what they want about how they can be used.
Also, if they do have patents on code in linux and they still impose their terms on it, as well as not being allowed to distribute it themselves they would be able to use their patents to prevent others distributing it unless they removed the patented code.
If Echo2 is AJAX, perhaps they can recover some credibility around here...
I think they can. Echo1 is fast enough for our purposes. Most of the slowness is caused by our application itself or developers using over-rich components which slow everything down too much. From the demos echo2 is blindingly fast. Give it a try.
echo2 is still under development, but echo1 (its non-ajax predecessor) is excellent. Its api will seem very familiar to anyone who has coded swing apps. You don't need to know any html or javascript at all.
Try the demo of echo2. It's pretty amazing considering its still in alpha.
I _am_ a physicist (well, not really any more but I have a physics degree) and I arranged specifically not to be at home when this was on because my gf wanted to watch it and I couldn't bear it. I went to the pub and had a few ales instead which is a much better idea.
It is possible that people are scared off these educations because of out-sourcing.
For me it would have more to do with the threat of software patents than the threat of outsourcing. At least with outsourcing you know what you are up against. With the software patent mess you could be doing just fine until suddenty $GREEDYCORP comes and pulls the plug just because they had the resources to buy a patent when they though of the same idea that you also thought of.
(sorry for being a bit offtopic, but for me its a much bigger reason)
Downloadable shows will probably never be free without the show including some form of DRM or advertising.
That's what we keep being told. But I choose as part of my participation to boycott drm'd products and to support open formats. I went out of my way a while back to spend more on a portable music player that can play oggs.
The trouble here though, is that because I own a television I have to pay the BBC for the content anyway whether I like it or not, but I still can't use it on my os and hardware platform of choice.
How is that fair? I'm left with very little choice.
I will keep on using the bittorrent downloads thanks.
(NB. I'm talking about BBC shows only. I download them because I have paid for that content. I see nothing morally wrong with that.)
many people assume that that number equals the number of users.
Then they are fools. They clearly state it is the number of downloads and not the number of users.
Anyway, the number of users my be higher. I have personally installed firefox 30 or so times for at least 10 different people from a single install cd I bought from mozilla store. That counts as zero downloads.
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they don't give much clue as to what it does
That's not neccesarily a bad thing. It's an old advertising trick to deliberately miss out some information in order to stimulate curiosity.
Admittedly, this could be leaving out too much.
I think what this might do it hurry those who do know what firefox is into getting round to trying it. I know I would if it made me eat telephones.
I'm more likely to start up in India than Europe becuase it's looking likely we are going to have software patents over here and that will kill off all the small IT shops more than anything else.
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Any pointer to that Times report or the name of the MP proposing the bill?
Also, out of interest who is your MP?
No, I completely agree.
I think you missed a bit though. The European Council get to be undemocratic too! They are the secretive bunch appointed by national governments who decide whatever they want behind closed doors and when it turns out not to be what anyone actually wants they simply blame all the other ministers from other countries!
sorry - I didn't preview. I meant this:
/etc/httpd/conf.d/squirrelmail.conf:
/usr/share/webmail>
add this to
<Location
SSLRequireSSL
</Location>
add this to /etc/httpd/conf.d/squirrelmail.conf
SSLRequireSSL
EFF comes close, except that it a) has a broader scope and b) sadly is not powerful enough.
They would become powerful enough if they received more donations.
If you agree, show it not by replying and saying so, nor by modding me up, but by DONATING TODAY!
Aw screw it, I guess I'm sounding like a big old commie now
Quite the opposite. You are arguing in favor of a free market. Your ideas are closer to capitailst principles and I very strongly agree with you.
Don't forget that copyright is just a form of government intervention in a market. There is nothing commie about dislike of government intervention where it is not welcome.
Yes, I understand Debian is all about Free software. But dammit, I need the card to work, and now I have to compile my own kernel to do it.
This is a freedom versus convenience choice. You picked freedom (by running debian) and you seem to be compaining that it is inconvenient. If convenience is more important than freedom for you then you picked the wrong OS. If not, then you have to take some pain of the inconvenience.
No. I have _PAID_ MS for their software product so when things don't work, it's my right to complain. I have paid nothing to debian yet I have used their software. I have no right to complain.
If folks want to complain about debian, they should either contribute, or pay someone for support and compain to them. (eg, get one of the commercial debian based distros)
Most individuals have no reason to hide things by default.
The problem is that some folks do have good reasons to hide things and if everyone else is gladly giving up their privacy then those with a good reason stick out like a sore thumb.
If you thing privacy for anyone is important then some would say you should value it for yourself even if you dont need it. (yet)
Nowadays we often _have_ to be "mere subcontractors" because of the ever looming threat of software patents. If the commission wants us to be more independent then create the legal framework to allow and and stop pushing for software patents.
I don't know who in the EC wrote the directive but it certainly does NOT encourage open source developers to become more indepentent. It scares developers into only developing under the protection of their feudal lord (ie, a large company who can afford and is interested in wasting money on patents and patent litigation)
I really hope that your "nature webcam site" is really nude women running around
Heh. not quite.
Actually it's small mammals running around somewhere in England. (or will be when I get things sorted out properly)
How many people still use dialup?
Not many, but forget about dialup and you still have a startage of addresses.
I know a few people who struggle now to get 2 ip addreses now for business purposes and the problem will only get worse.
ipv6 is the solution and so far the best arguments against it seem to revolve around not being able to read the addresses as easily. Well I say wake up and use DNS. That's what it's there for.
NAT is a hack and it broken for many protocols anyway. That's why all sorts of connection tracking and other kluges is required for various protocols. The sooner that nastiness goes away the better.
Roll on ipv6.
What are you talking about?
/48 allocated to me so each machine has its own real ipv6 internet address and can talk directly to all other internet ipv6 addresses. (plus, I have over 281 trillion ip addresses spare for later)
I run ipv6 and ipv4 together on the same net all the time.
For ipv4 I have one static internet address on my router machine which provides NAT for all the other internal machines.
For ipv6, I have a
Also the applications don't need writing for one or the other. By using the ipv6 API you automatically get support for ipv4 at the same time.
There is an easy upgrade path. What will really get folks upgrading is when more and more sites become ipv6 only. For example I am setting up a nature webcam site which will be ipv6 only for exactly this reason.
That's not what I am saying. You don't have to inspect the code, you just have to be ready to stop distributing it if it comes to your attantion that there is parented code included. (or ready to free the patents if they are yours)
IANAL.
By distributing linux with their new devices they are implicitly granting all recipients of these devices a license to patented code (if any) that may exist in linux under the terms of the GPL. This is because they have to distribute under the terms of the GPL or not distribute at all and the GPL makes it clear that no additional restrictions can be added (such as "we may revoke patent licenses at a later date" or "this is only for linux, not for other programs")
So because it is under the terms of the GPL, we are allowed to use patented code from linux (if any) in any other GPL programs. If they say we can not they are breaking the terms of the GPL and must stop distributing linux.
Of course it may be that they have no patents on any code in linux. In that case they can say what they want about how they can be used.
Also, if they do have patents on code in linux and they still impose their terms on it, as well as not being allowed to distribute it themselves they would be able to use their patents to prevent others distributing it unless they removed the patented code.
Software patents suck.
IANAL.
If Echo2 is AJAX, perhaps they can recover some credibility around here...
I think they can. Echo1 is fast enough for our purposes. Most of the slowness is caused by our application itself or developers using over-rich components which slow everything down too much. From the demos echo2 is blindingly fast. Give it a try.
What, like this?
http://www.nextapp.com/products/echo2/
echo2 is still under development, but echo1 (its non-ajax predecessor) is excellent. Its api will seem very familiar to anyone who has coded swing apps. You don't need to know any html or javascript at all.
Try the demo of echo2. It's pretty amazing considering its still in alpha.
I _am_ a physicist (well, not really any more but I have a physics degree) and I arranged specifically not to be at home when this was on because my gf wanted to watch it and I couldn't bear it. I went to the pub and had a few ales instead which is a much better idea.
i Yeah, but note whom would have to try them for treason... uhm, isn't that the politicians themselves?
You are thinking of some form of dictatorship. In civilised countries and in the USA, the courts try people.
It is possible that people are scared off these educations because of out-sourcing.
For me it would have more to do with the threat of software patents than the threat of outsourcing. At least with outsourcing you know what you are up against. With the software patent mess you could be doing just fine until suddenty $GREEDYCORP comes and pulls the plug just because they had the resources to buy a patent when they though of the same idea that you also thought of.
(sorry for being a bit offtopic, but for me its a much bigger reason)
Downloadable shows will probably never be free without the show including some form of DRM or advertising.
That's what we keep being told. But I choose as part of my participation to boycott drm'd products and to support open formats. I went out of my way a while back to spend more on a portable music player that can play oggs.
The trouble here though, is that because I own a television I have to pay the BBC for the content anyway whether I like it or not, but I still can't use it on my os and hardware platform of choice.
How is that fair? I'm left with very little choice.
I will keep on using the bittorrent downloads thanks.
(NB. I'm talking about BBC shows only. I download them because I have paid for that content. I see nothing morally wrong with that.)
many people assume that that number equals the number of users.
Then they are fools. They clearly state it is the number of downloads and not the number of users.
Anyway, the number of users my be higher. I have personally installed firefox 30 or so times for at least 10 different people from a single install cd I bought from mozilla store. That counts as zero downloads.
they don't give much clue as to what it does
That's not neccesarily a bad thing. It's an old advertising trick to deliberately miss out some information in order to stimulate curiosity.
Admittedly, this could be leaving out too much.
I think what this might do it hurry those who do know what firefox is into getting round to trying it. I know I would if it made me eat telephones.
the odds of your contribution to any random project there being of future value is quite low.
As long as it is greater than zero then the point still stands.
I'm more likely to start up in India than Europe becuase it's looking likely we are going to have software patents over here and that will kill off all the small IT shops more than anything else.