Putin's Russia is hardly a democracy and anyone paying attention would have known this for quite some time.
If you think THIS is bad, you ought to read up on all the seemingly government ordered assasinations of people opposed to Putin recently. There has been a series of high profile murders. The lesson being that "thou shalt not oppose Putin".
Well, I live in Russia, so I'm aware of this.
Strictly speaking, none of the "high profile murders" has been proven to have anything to do with Putin or his fellows(whether or not it is true is the matter of another discussion). Mr. Khodorkovski (Yukos Oil CEO) and some other opposing businessmen have been sent to prison through _court_. So formally everything is ok. (Playing democracy)
This agreement, however, involves other country, (namely US) and it clearly states, that "Russia has to invent the law that will make allofmp3.com's existance illegal."
agreement between the U.S. and Russia in which Russia has agreed to close down AllofMP3.com [CC]
Excuse me, but when such decisions became governments' jurisdiction? Doesn't this require some investigation and then court decision? We are not even trying to _play_ democracy anymore, are we?
write something to the effect that "by distributing the Software under this License, the Copyright Holder grants you the right to exercise the Freedoms described herein
I'm afraid this violates the basic concept of "freedom" itself: you are free to do everything that is not prohibited (read: that does not restrict other people's freedoms)
...every version of Firefox still has issues with espn.com
As a web developer I'd say that it is that crappy site has issues with Firefox and other browsers. It always was astonishing to me how many big respectable organizations have unbelievably crappy sites. (uefa.com is another good example)
These threats didn't come from the government (at least, it seems that way); in fact, the government _protected_ the journalists. And now, for thanks, they get a worse rating?
They don't rank the government. This rank mostly shows how safe it is to be a reporter in that particular country. Definitely it correlates with freedom in country as guaranteed by government, but this is not everything.
Are they wanting reporters to be above the law or what?
They don't expect anything. They count how many reporters have been killed, threated, imprisoned, oppresed etc. Lawfully or not is does not matter much for this index, because 1. Laws are different in different countries. This exactly how reporters are mostly oppressed: by inhumane laws. 2. If we try to apply some "universal law" for every case, the number of criminals among reporters will be uniformly distributed and will not affect the relative index.
As a person who was looking for a new phone two weeks ago, I must agree. What I really would like to see is free software based cheap phone, without extra features I have PDA for.
I think the old Gnome's file save dialog (plain and simple) was much better. The worst part, is that I can't write the full path anywhere! This also applies to Nautilus.
As I think DRM is fundamentally flawed, so is this business model. That doesn't mean it might not stick around for a few centuries, but it's eventually doomed.
The problem is that DRM tries to artifically limit the supply of something that requires very little labor in order to reproduce.
In other words, DRM tries to enforce conservation law on the matter that does not obey conservation law -- information. The problem is that for many years social laws were based on two fundamental principles: property(things) and service(energy). Both obey conservation law. Now, information does not. What surprises me is that instead of trying to adopt social laws, we are constantly trying to adopt mother nature and enforce conservation law on information. DRM goes even further: it tries to deny the fundamental "share with your neighbour" principle. This approach is never going to work, but what frightens me is that playing gods like this can lead to major disasters.
Most of that stuff can be done with two mice.Why hasn't anyone implemented that yet?
Since two pointers have been supported in X11 for a while, I think that software implementation of some of this multitouch featureas are not very far. As for physical implementation, I think that small one-button mice, which you can use with your finger will be more convenient.
This won't fully exploit multitouch feature, though. Eventually, you'll need some multitouch device anyway.
Simple way to boycot:
if IE --> Download Firefox Link
else --> Welcome visitor!
Seriously, I think that this can be done, but another (harder, but more effective) way: develop a page that is damn cool, but way cooler if you look at it with FF, without restricting usability to IE users. Just don't forget to notify them, that you page is cooler in FF.
It would be nice even to organize some web site, where everyone can share "FF only fancy tricks" with others.
Web services, by their very nature, are open. We don't need a GPL for web services, that's quite redundant.
Well, everything is open by nature until someone finds a creative way to close it and make money from this. What disturbs me, is that in order to assure WS openness *we* need to invent ways to close them! Isn't this some kind of provocation? Why invent things that don't justify their existence (yet)?
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Well, I live in Russia, so I'm aware of this.
Strictly speaking, none of the "high profile murders" has been proven to have anything to do with Putin or his fellows(whether or not it is true is the matter of another discussion). Mr. Khodorkovski (Yukos Oil CEO) and some other opposing businessmen have been sent to prison through _court_. So formally everything is ok. (Playing democracy)
This agreement, however, involves other country, (namely US) and it clearly states, that "Russia has to invent the law that will make allofmp3.com's existance illegal."
If I didn't already post in this discussion, you'd have my modpoint.
Actually, this is the good hint for boss on how a person does her job:
- IBM/MS/Oracle -- Plays it safe
- Postgres/MySQL/Small, unpopular product -- really knows what she's doing
Not necessarily true, of course.I think the old Gnome's file save dialog (plain and simple) was much better. The worst part, is that I can't write the full path anywhere! This also applies to Nautilus.
This won't fully exploit multitouch feature, though. Eventually, you'll need some multitouch device anyway.
It would be nice even to organize some web site, where everyone can share "FF only fancy tricks" with others.