Only three of us were together and our host didn't show up. We had a good time chatting tech and history. No swag, though!!! http://slashdot.org/anniversary.pl?view_id=365 is the party link.
Well, then. That gives me like a coin-flip chance of saying "You, mister over #532! You young wipper-snapper! You had to buy that low-id! I got mine the ol' fashoned way, when the 'net was young, dialup was king, and AOL came on floppies!"
Didn't Apple already patent something similar, in which the screen was also the camera or scanner? In Apple's case, it uses the dead space between each LCD pixel to be a camera.
The problem is that timezone data is time sensitive. NZ folks already know about the time zone changes, and Debian admins over there are pulling their hair out over how Debian has handled such information. Of course they know it's in volatile, being pushed for the next Etch update. They're probably ether slapping it in now, manually compiling the data, or looking at moving away from Debian. Debian, however, dropped the ball because it had to be put out to the public before today.
Typical Debian politics -- slow to update, stubborn about software licenses.
Simply put, if any part of the firmware is GPL 3'ed, even if it's running under a VM, it still requires the ability to replace it by the user w/o authorization from the factory. If I remember the license and discussion about it, it's "if it's in there, it's there for all."
... oh my $DEITY there's just so many to ponder. In Soviet Russia......You don't play music, music plays you!...You don't sell music, music sells you!...You don't KABLAM
That's my problem too. I get a Score:2 post first that's rolled up, then a Score:3 post, before hitting the first Score:5! Sorry, D2 is buggy. Therefore...
Hi. I'm strredwolf, and I'm a D1 user. Hi RedWolf! I'm still with D1, because D2 hasn't sucked less yet. A-men!
I can say (being one of the admins behind CG), Comic Genesis is getting slowed down by ad service providers. While part of it is our end (how we serve the ads is a bit of a hack job), and we now wrap them in iframes just to get some speed back, they're still slowing things down.
And to those above: Firefox with Adblock plus does NOTHING because it has to load in some Javascript first to determine which ad provider to load in, and even then some ad providers chain to another one. Adblock has to wait until an image or flash is loaded up before it can hide it!
So yes, depending on the entire interaction and construction sites can be slowed down by ads.
Come on? What's the volt/amp specs per square inch? "Oh we got a paper-thin battery that's flexible" is all fair and good, but until we get full specs on it, we can't plan on replacing our iPhones any time soon with Earth: Final Conflict style devices.
Java X11 app taking over? SSH into your box (unless you got another screen) and then DISPLAY=:0.0 xkill. Then it's just point, and shoot.
*BLAM!*
Extra points to whoever makes an xkill clone that has configurable sound when you shoot the app, from Luger 9mm, Colt.45, AK-47, a machine gun, Stroll Munitions BH-209i plasma cannon, nuclear bomb, or the all-time commercial favorite... "What's that?" "Oh oh.... RAAAAAAAAAIIIIDDDD!!!" *BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!*
Gha!!! I was going to go out and buy the old origional Core Duo Mini, and now they're bumping the speed, chip, memory, and HD space for the same price!!! AAAAIIIIEEEE don't know what to do on Wednesday...
"The amount of harm done by any of the cited 'unfair' things the net has been used for is clearly very small,'' the Internet pioneer Richard Stallman wrote a few days after the DEC e-mail. Stallman opposed any action that would interfere with the aggressive openness that came to define the Web. And he still does. In his message about the DEC spam, Stallman pointed out--three decades before the appearance of Craigs-list and Monster.com--that the network provided a unique opportunity to advertise jobs and an entirely new way to sell products. He went even further: "Would a dating service on the net be 'frowned upon' . . . ? I hope not. But even if it is, don't let that stop you from notifying me via net mail if you start one."
I guess RMS wants spam. Quick! Forward all your spam to RMS! He wants it! He can have it!
1. Can I do it with Linux today (GPL2) and tomorrow (GPL3)?
YES. Nowhere in the GPL, ether version 2 nor 3, precludes you from running a closed source binary on a Linux system. If it did, we wouldn't be as far as we are now -- and I wouldn't be running Second Life on a Nvidia Geforce 7 series card.
2. Can I statically link the code with Linux libraries? (My own experience shows that dynamic linking is too much to bear.)
Yes, check the manual pages and info pages on GCC. To keep on the licence issue, the GPL does not transfer to code compiled by GCC, and the "Lesser GPL" that is used on libraries allows you to staticly link them into closed code.
3. Can I obfuscate my code (e.g. encode it)?
It would be useless. If you ship a binary only, the obfuscation would already be worked out by the compiler, and a decompiler could be used to steal the code. Since you're not licencing under the GPL, you must make a licence that prohibits decompilation and disassembly without permission.
4. Could I be forced to publish this code by some 3-d party?
No. Since you are not licensing it under the GPL, the BSD variant licenses, the Apache license, the Perl Artistic License, or any Open Source Foundation approved license, it would be under what you specify in your own license.
5. Am I correct that programming in and selling BSD-based boxes won't raise any of the above problems?
It is only a legal issue, not a technical issue. You really need to consult a lawyer who is willing to delve into the GPL, the Lesser GPL, and the BSD licenses.
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Only three of us were together and our host didn't show up. We had a good time chatting tech and history. No swag, though!!! http://slashdot.org/anniversary.pl?view_id=365 is the party link.
Rip the CD man, rip the CD!
Seconded here.
DAAAMN! A UID lower than me!
Well, then. That gives me like a coin-flip chance of saying "You, mister over #532! You young wipper-snapper! You had to buy that low-id! I got mine the ol' fashoned way, when the 'net was young, dialup was king, and AOL came on floppies!"
Didn't Apple already patent something similar, in which the screen was also the camera or scanner? In Apple's case, it uses the dead space between each LCD pixel to be a camera.
The problem is that timezone data is time sensitive. NZ folks already know about the time zone changes, and Debian admins over there are pulling their hair out over how Debian has handled such information. Of course they know it's in volatile, being pushed for the next Etch update. They're probably ether slapping it in now, manually compiling the data, or looking at moving away from Debian. Debian, however, dropped the ball because it had to be put out to the public before today. Typical Debian politics -- slow to update, stubborn about software licenses.
I took a look through it, and one thing struck me odd:
Jack says (in the lawsuit filing) that the release date for Halo 3 is: October 25th, 2007.
Real release date? Tomorrow.
FAIL, Jack. FAIL.
More like disappointing, given that it's RH/RPM based and it's a headache to maintain.
Simply put, if any part of the firmware is GPL 3'ed, even if it's running under a VM, it still requires the ability to replace it by the user w/o authorization from the factory. If I remember the license and discussion about it, it's "if it's in there, it's there for all."
... oh my $DEITY there's just so many to ponder. In Soviet Russia... ...You don't play music, music plays you! ...You don't sell music, music sells you! ...You don't KABLAM
Ahhh, better now.
This is why you should have shadow passwords, so that your encrypted password isn't stored in /etc/passwd.
That's my problem too. I get a Score:2 post first that's rolled up, then a Score:3 post, before hitting the first Score:5! Sorry, D2 is buggy. Therefore...
Hi. I'm strredwolf, and I'm a D1 user.
Hi RedWolf!
I'm still with D1, because D2 hasn't sucked less yet.
A-men!
I can say (being one of the admins behind CG), Comic Genesis is getting slowed down by ad service providers. While part of it is our end (how we serve the ads is a bit of a hack job), and we now wrap them in iframes just to get some speed back, they're still slowing things down.
And to those above: Firefox with Adblock plus does NOTHING because it has to load in some Javascript first to determine which ad provider to load in, and even then some ad providers chain to another one. Adblock has to wait until an image or flash is loaded up before it can hide it!
So yes, depending on the entire interaction and construction sites can be slowed down by ads.
Come on? What's the volt/amp specs per square inch? "Oh we got a paper-thin battery that's flexible" is all fair and good, but until we get full specs on it, we can't plan on replacing our iPhones any time soon with Earth: Final Conflict style devices.
Java X11 app taking over? SSH into your box (unless you got another screen) and then DISPLAY=:0.0 xkill. Then it's just point, and shoot.
.45, AK-47, a machine gun, Stroll Munitions BH-209i plasma cannon, nuclear bomb, or the all-time commercial favorite... "What's that?" "Oh oh.... RAAAAAAAAAIIIIDDDD!!!" *BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!*
*BLAM!*
Extra points to whoever makes an xkill clone that has configurable sound when you shoot the app, from Luger 9mm, Colt
Gha!!! I was going to go out and buy the old origional Core Duo Mini, and now they're bumping the speed, chip, memory, and HD space for the same price!!! AAAAIIIIEEEE don't know what to do on Wednesday...
"The amount of harm done by any of the cited 'unfair' things the net has been used for is clearly very small,'' the Internet pioneer Richard Stallman wrote a few days after the DEC e-mail. Stallman opposed any action that would interfere with the aggressive openness that came to define the Web. And he still does. In his message about the DEC spam, Stallman pointed out--three decades before the appearance of Craigs-list and Monster.com--that the network provided a unique opportunity to advertise jobs and an entirely new way to sell products. He went even further: "Would a dating service on the net be 'frowned upon' . . . ? I hope not. But even if it is, don't let that stop you from notifying me via net mail if you start one."
I guess RMS wants spam. Quick! Forward all your spam to RMS! He wants it! He can have it!
Ahhh, someone is taking up his groundbreaking research into beer bubble paths. Soon we shall be able to find out irreproducable his work truly is!
The previous "Hello World" was console only. This one uses the GUI on the iPhone.
Judge Permits eBay's "Buy it Now" feature to continue -- 96+ articles found in Google News.
Don't they know that coreutils and tar form a good chunk of any Linux distribution? And Samba's used to talk to MS Windows?
Don't they know that those packages are GPL v3?
In other words, Microsoft ether has to rewrite those packages themselves, break the distro into an unusuable state, or drop any Linux deals.
Or give up on the patent saber rattling.
Yep, Slashdotted. Time to use the Coral cache again...
We did. DUPE!
Note, I'm not a lawyer. Contact one today.
1. Can I do it with Linux today (GPL2) and tomorrow (GPL3)?
YES. Nowhere in the GPL, ether version 2 nor 3, precludes you from running a closed source binary on a Linux system. If it did, we wouldn't be as far as we are now -- and I wouldn't be running Second Life on a Nvidia Geforce 7 series card.
2. Can I statically link the code with Linux libraries? (My own experience shows that dynamic linking is too much to bear.)
Yes, check the manual pages and info pages on GCC. To keep on the licence issue, the GPL does not transfer to code compiled by GCC, and the "Lesser GPL" that is used on libraries allows you to staticly link them into closed code.
3. Can I obfuscate my code (e.g. encode it)?
It would be useless. If you ship a binary only, the obfuscation would already be worked out by the compiler, and a decompiler could be used to steal the code. Since you're not licencing under the GPL, you must make a licence that prohibits decompilation and disassembly without permission.
4. Could I be forced to publish this code by some 3-d party?
No. Since you are not licensing it under the GPL, the BSD variant licenses, the Apache license, the Perl Artistic License, or any Open Source Foundation approved license, it would be under what you specify in your own license.
5. Am I correct that programming in and selling BSD-based boxes won't raise any of the above problems?
It is only a legal issue, not a technical issue. You really need to consult a lawyer who is willing to delve into the GPL, the Lesser GPL, and the BSD licenses.
Wait a min... it's smaller than a Motorola RAZR? Could this be the next motherboard for the iPhone? Native x86 MacOS X on said phone anyone?