1) The linked to articals where about derailing Nuclea Waste Trains, not passenger trains
To my knowledge it was not about derailing trains, but about sabotaging the signals, so they would stay on red, thus forcing the train to stop. The reasoning behind this was to drive the costs of nuclear waste transportation by Deutsche Bahn.
In Germany that's of course still illegal as there are special laws against train sabotage.
The newsletter found a new home on a server in the Netherlands some years ago after publication in Germany was forbidden. The authors and also some "usual suspects" were facing criminal prosecution. Houses and offices were searched, etc.
Since the German jurisdiction ends at the Netherland's border nowadays, Deutsche Bahn filed civil suits in the netherlands.
There is nothing to prevent them from revoking your right to make your variations publicly available just before they start using or distributing your variation.
Well, I guess, I'll then just make it publicly available again.
Think of (A) as a painting:
For a painting, it is important to be the original. Just recreating it on a new canvass with the same colours will not produce the same original painting, but a (usually less valuable) copy.
Think of (B) as a novel:
The art in a novel is the way the "material" is constructed. So when you reprint a novel and destroy the first print it is still original art because for a novel it's only the way the words are put together that's important.
I'm afraid that it was some Germany-based terrorists and some helpers that flew the planes and killed the people in wtc. Certainly there was Osama's and Taliban's support for the coup including weapons training, but it was at the Terrorist's hands that these people were killed, not the Taliban's or Osama's.
At the time these Arabs were in the midst of the Intifada and were actively supporting any terrorist that would attack America. The policy was certainly wrong-headed in retrospect, but the cancerous growth of americanism from Russian to China to SE Asia to Arabia's shores was enough to put the Taliban on edge. Battling Americanism at its tendrils rather than at its heart was the easiest way of fighting it without waking the American giant.
At this time, America too was supporting terrorist growth across the globe, funding and arming terrorist guerillas and armies.
Of course some researchers estimate that in 30-40 years we won't have much of a choice
The estimates of oil reserves running out _really soon_ have been around for 30+ years now. So far, all of them had to be adjusted substantially.
While I feel that we should indeed focus on regeneratable power sources MUCH more (mainly because of the pollution), I can't really take any of these "we run out of oil in xx years" claims seriously.
Freedom of speech is in no way absolute in Germany.
This doesn't necessarily mean that Germany is a less free country, though: The German constitution ("Grundgesetz") balances a lot of individual rights against each other.
Particularily for the freedom of speech this means that something can be covered by the freedom of speech, but must stand back behind more important values. Regulations of speech must be general enough (to not single out specific people or groups) and must be deemed necessary to defend such another important right.
Having said all that, everybody and their dog knows that the magazine in question is prosecuted for their political work ("leftist"), not for some obscure technical documentation. Deutsche Bahn as a former public service and now state-owned company is deeply rooted in the political system.
content industry != content producer
RIAA/MPAA != creator
The artist will continue to produce art and find other ways of distribution. He will probably be much better off financially than with the current system.
For most musicians that don't happen to be Michael Jackson or Britney Spears the content industry is the greatest risk for the creator's rights.
As a seperate note, something must be added to automatically configure USB optical mice, because as it is they are not (a huge pain for a user with limited skills).
I can second this. It took me a week to configure my Intellieye Explorer mouse and I consider myself at least semi-literate to installing Linux systems.
see this thread for instructions. Reading there, it seems that not everyone is equally bothered by the audio being sped up for PAL. I'm pretty sure I am, though.
I ripped lots of my own DVDs in order to slow them down from 25 fps (PAL) to 24 fps (FILM). You would be surprised how noticeable the difference in the voices can be.
Despite the loss in video quality I consider these rips BETTER in quality than the original DVD.
why should a commercial software creator be any more liable than an OSS one???
Because commercial software creators tend to sell the software to you, which means they enter a contract with you. A contract usually brings subsidiary responsibilities (liabilities in case of damages done) next to the main responsibilities (exchange of money/goods)
Free software on the other hand you can use without entering any contract and at your own risk.
(IAAL, but not in U.S. law, so take with a grain of salt)
"The requirement and specifications that come from marketing demand that the website look *identical* to every viewer."
While this is a much to general statement, there is a point in making a site look identical to every targeted viewer: From a branding point of view visually *exact* communication of the brand is often necessary for the brand to be communicated effectively. In such situations it might be more important to focus on the target group than to make sure every lynx user (who could be absolutely out of the target group focus) can view the page.
Again, the statement is much to general to agree/disagree, but there are certain situations which require *exact* layout.
If a certain method is better/right or worse/wrong is usually an issue of taste or preference unless the improvement is so obvious that everybody immediately agrees on it.
Apparently the advantages of the X clipboard are not that obvious to everybody.
Personally, the X clipboard annoys the hell out of me because I've been replacing text with copy&paste extensively for several years now.
The divx codec just uses a subset of MPEG-4. You could call it based on MPEG-4, I guess. I do't know if divx encodes to conform 100% with MPEG-4, but it certainly can't play back all streams that make up the MPEG-4 standard.
With games like Quake3 fps aren't so much about what the eye can detect. With fast mouse movements in competitive gaming every little increase in responsiveness can make a difference.
95 fps vs. 100 fps might not really be an issue but you can feel 70 fps vs. 90 fps (both well above what the eye can detect) when doing precise aiming.
According to the numbers the chance of a male gamer being behind a female character is 52%, which is barely _most_.
I wonder, however, how anyone can be surprised by that. Everybody knows that the male/female ratios in-game (same for chat/forum/newsgroups/... for that matter) don't match those of the real world.
Being on the Internet for dates is rather stupid. If you try anyway, everquest doesn't seem to be the worst choice.
Slashdot Mirror
If you'd really get that much SPAM, you could make a living selling it. Hint: It's spam you're talking about. SPAM is a meat product.
We clicked on the links you provided and were exposed to a horrible gaping anus.
I'm on KPNQwest BTW
(not really)
To my knowledge it was not about derailing trains, but about sabotaging the signals, so they would stay on red, thus forcing the train to stop. The reasoning behind this was to drive the costs of nuclear waste transportation by Deutsche Bahn.
In Germany that's of course still illegal as there are special laws against train sabotage.
The newsletter found a new home on a server in the Netherlands some years ago after publication in Germany was forbidden. The authors and also some "usual suspects" were facing criminal prosecution. Houses and offices were searched, etc.
Since the German jurisdiction ends at the Netherland's border nowadays, Deutsche Bahn filed civil suits in the netherlands.
Well, I guess, I'll then just make it publicly available again.
For a painting, it is important to be the original. Just recreating it on a new canvass with the same colours will not produce the same original painting, but a (usually less valuable) copy.
Think of (B) as a novel: The art in a novel is the way the "material" is constructed. So when you reprint a novel and destroy the first print it is still original art because for a novel it's only the way the words are put together that's important.
At the time these Arabs were in the midst of the Intifada and were actively supporting any terrorist that would attack America. The policy was certainly wrong-headed in retrospect, but the cancerous growth of americanism from Russian to China to SE Asia to Arabia's shores was enough to put the Taliban on edge. Battling Americanism at its tendrils rather than at its heart was the easiest way of fighting it without waking the American giant.
At this time, America too was supporting terrorist growth across the globe, funding and arming terrorist guerillas and armies.
duh! electricity is the middle man, sorry.
Hydrogen is produced using electricity because this is a nearly lossless process and stores the energy much better than any battery.
The estimates of oil reserves running out _really soon_ have been around for 30+ years now. So far, all of them had to be adjusted substantially.
While I feel that we should indeed focus on regeneratable power sources MUCH more (mainly because of the pollution), I can't really take any of these "we run out of oil in xx years" claims seriously.
I find it pretty ironic that Stallman makes you ashamed of "Open Source".
(Hint: He is promoting Free Software, not Open Source)
This doesn't necessarily mean that Germany is a less free country, though: The German constitution ("Grundgesetz") balances a lot of individual rights against each other.
Particularily for the freedom of speech this means that something can be covered by the freedom of speech, but must stand back behind more important values. Regulations of speech must be general enough (to not single out specific people or groups) and must be deemed necessary to defend such another important right.
Having said all that, everybody and their dog knows that the magazine in question is prosecuted for their political work ("leftist"), not for some obscure technical documentation. Deutsche Bahn as a former public service and now state-owned company is deeply rooted in the political system.
The artist will continue to produce art and find other ways of distribution. He will probably be much better off financially than with the current system.
For most musicians that don't happen to be Michael Jackson or Britney Spears the content industry is the greatest risk for the creator's rights.
I can second this. It took me a week to configure my Intellieye Explorer mouse and I consider myself at least semi-literate to installing Linux systems.
But some people picked up the opendivx code and kept developping it.
I'd say xvid is about up to par with divx5 now. (Save b-frame support, which is still divx5 only.)
Thanks.
see this thread for instructions. Reading there, it seems that not everyone is equally bothered by the audio being sped up for PAL. I'm pretty sure I am, though.
Despite the loss in video quality I consider these rips BETTER in quality than the original DVD.
Because commercial software creators tend to sell the software to you, which means they enter a contract with you. A contract usually brings subsidiary responsibilities (liabilities in case of damages done) next to the main responsibilities (exchange of money/goods)
Free software on the other hand you can use without entering any contract and at your own risk.
(IAAL, but not in U.S. law, so take with a grain of salt)
While this is a much to general statement, there is a point in making a site look identical to every targeted viewer: From a branding point of view visually *exact* communication of the brand is often necessary for the brand to be communicated effectively. In such situations it might be more important to focus on the target group than to make sure every lynx user (who could be absolutely out of the target group focus) can view the page.
Again, the statement is much to general to agree/disagree, but there are certain situations which require *exact* layout.
If a certain method is better/right or worse/wrong is usually an issue of taste or preference unless the improvement is so obvious that everybody immediately agrees on it.
Apparently the advantages of the X clipboard are not that obvious to everybody.
Personally, the X clipboard annoys the hell out of me because I've been replacing text with copy&paste extensively for several years now.
More might be found at the MPEG website.
95 fps vs. 100 fps might not really be an issue but you can feel 70 fps vs. 90 fps (both well above what the eye can detect) when doing precise aiming.
I wonder, however, how anyone can be surprised by that. Everybody knows that the male/female ratios in-game (same for chat/forum/newsgroups/... for that matter) don't match those of the real world.
Being on the Internet for dates is rather stupid. If you try anyway, everquest doesn't seem to be the worst choice.