I'm a bit confused by this, maybe you can help me out. IIRC (and I googled it quickly so I think I do) the statute of limitations on civil copyright infringement is 3 years. Amnesty? That's mighty nice of him, it really is. But who does he think he can sue today, let alone in 2012?
He is not suing anyone. Not everything involves someone getting sued. No-one is getting sued here. Their was a fund for donations setup for the winsock author. Nether the author or anyone involved in the fund is suing anyone, they are asking for donations for some software that no-one donated to at the time. It's pretty fondly remembered software by a lot of people.
No-one wants to take your SUV away because you didn't buy a winsock license 15 years ago. If you want to donate you can, you don't have to.
While I certainly would feel bad for anyone who lost out on millions of licenses, why wait until 10-15 years later to pursue legal action against large companies and ISPs who distributed illegally?
That's not what is going on at all. The guy wrote something many of us remember fondly, another guy thought it would be nice to do something for him as he got bugger all thanks at the time.
Gosh, well we used Windows 3.1, and 3.11, and 95 in our household, but we didn't get an Internet connection until Windows 98. Damn you BT metered dial up.
I went to university and got free dial up when I was on windows 3.1. I remember downloading the windows 95 to 98 upgrade on a 38K modem. It took a while.
It was always great fun when you were connected and a women ( doesn't matter which one ) picks up the phone, hears the modem noise, and screams in a high pitch. I never worked out why they did that, maybe they thought it would break the connection so they could make a call. Maybe I just have mental women in my family.
I'd donate something to this guy because his software did open windows ( which I was sadly using at the time ) to realtime networking. However I'm not going to donate via paypal only to watch with a total lack of surprise when paypal lock the account and keep all the money.
I'm doing hiring for my team. I don't care too much about the education: if the candidate can do a decent job on the coding quiz, they could be a Spanish major for all I care.
Dam right. Formal qualifications are not so relevant since books and other sources of knowledge became affordable for all. People who want to learn will and those that don't are not going to be changed by expensive schooling.
'Kinda risky' is putting it mildly. Watching Nokia is like watching an alcoholic drinking themselves to death. It's tragic.
I doubt it's death, so much as transformation. Before the announcement Nokia was an innovator producing distinct hardware & software. After the announcement they become one of Microsoft's bitches pumping out handsets which are substantially similar to the likes coming out from LG / Samsung / HTC. Perhaps it's cheaper to do, but at the end of the day Nokia's brand will be severely tarnished.
It's also worth noting that Nokia is the only manufacturer to bet the farm on a single phone OS vendor. LG, Samsung and HTC all have their fingers in many pies (e.g. WP7, Android, Bada, Brew). It seems like a good way to hedge if the WP7 ship sinks which is entirely possible.
It's death of Nokia as a respected brand, sooner or later it will be death of Nokia entirely.
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If you own Nokia stock, I would recommend divesting of it asap.
I did at a small loss, not that I had more than a few hundred dollars worth anyway. From the look of the prices so did many other people.
A few days later I was asked if I want to apply for a linux admin job for Nokia. I'm staying well clear of that one.
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I guess they are really going "all in" on Windows mobile. Kinda risky making your entire company totally dependent on a single outside vendor with a track record for not caring about partners.
'Kinda risky' is putting it mildly. Watching Nokia is like watching an alcoholic drinking themselves to death. It's tragic.
sure, you could try and spin it that way, but only extreme nerds and total retards think dialup is internet, sure i can get it to work and slackjaws believe it works but everyone in between doesn't even try because they know it sucks fat donkey balls.
If you care about sending email communications with small attachments, Internet chat, and webpages dial up is fine. These people want communication with the rest of the world not Britney Spears or Alien vs. Predator.
Try using any version of windows and come up with your own examples. No-one sane documents each time windows freezes, crashes, or a system call returns nonsense instead of the expected value.
Ubuntu is moving away from X11 and GNOME to their own windowing system (Unity on Wayland), so whatever "Redhat does to GNOME" will matter little to them anyway since Ubuntu is abandoning the platform.
Every day mainstream Linux projects move Linux closer and closer to windows.
KDE 4 - Initially a joke. Might be less of one now. Upstart - No benefits that outweight the added complexity. Systemd - No benefits that outweight the added complexity. Unity/Wayland - a disaster for X11 programs. Gnome - Patronizing, dumbed down, and inflexible. rm --preserve-root by default - Sick. I'm sure there are loads more examples.
Linux has a lot going for it but the way things are going it risks being just another OS for retarded end users, just like windows. Where are the simple and effective distributions?
Google must hide some sites in order to comply with the laws of the countries it operates in. This process isn't vetted publicly but by some closed policy making committee. As we saw the Australian internet blocklist made it illegal to access the website of a dentist among other harmless things.
It is highly likely the US government has a secret blocklist.
And what do you do when your house burns to the ground with both your cheap virtual machine and BackupPC?
The virtual machine isn't at my home, it's from linode.com. It's hosted in a real data center with redundant power, fast network, etc. They don't cost much.
If you go on the dole when you are 18 you can only stay on it for around 48 years because that's when the old age pension kicks in. Surf is up, dudes.
I was on the dole for a while and it isn't a party. It's humiliating and degrading for a subsistence lifestyle. The contempt with which the DSS clerks treat you, not to mention people like you, will drive you to either become an alcoholic or worse after a few months, let alone 48 years.
I was on the Dole in the UK for about 6 months, it was an easy way to live and could very easily get to become a way of life. In the UK they really don't care and almost go out of their way to prevent you looking for work. I remember telling the clerk I could not sign on at my allotted time in a few days because I had an interview, he told me they would cut my benefit and I'd have to reapply if I went. I went anyway because it was the only sensible thing to do.
What does "self-sustaining" mean? Obviously, there is the cost of hosting the site and maintaining the domain registration, but that isn't a lot of money. Is $20/month on the conservative side really that hard to get? Recouping the cost of purchasing the website is a different issue, but that money has already been spent.
In this context "self-sustaining" means able to generate enough income to pay off the huge bank loan involved in buying the domain with enough left over to pay for a few 100K a year salaries for management staff who don't work more than an hour a week. It's a dot-com bubble concept.
There is an easy answer to that one. I'd sell it to whoever is willing to pay the most, it really doesn't have any other value.
The Linux Fund, whoever they are, seem to be pushing some angle to try and extract cash out of words like 'Linux' and 'Open'. I don't see them being trustworthy somehow.
There is only one person in the world who values my data enough to protect it properly, and that person is me.
Dam right. Trusting your email to a company who's main business is mining data can't be safe either. Having your data spread out over god knows how many countries and subject to the whims of who knows what government agencies doesn't sound like a good idea.
I run my own mail server and do nightly backups of my whole mailstore. Any decent linux admin should be able to setup a cheap virtual machine and a BackupPC server at home to do the same. In fact any decent linux admin should enjoy setting it up.
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I'm a bit confused by this, maybe you can help me out. IIRC (and I googled it quickly so I think I do) the statute of limitations on civil copyright infringement is 3 years. Amnesty? That's mighty nice of him, it really is. But who does he think he can sue today, let alone in 2012?
He is not suing anyone. Not everything involves someone getting sued. No-one is getting sued here. Their was a fund for donations setup for the winsock author. Nether the author or anyone involved in the fund is suing anyone, they are asking for donations for some software that no-one donated to at the time. It's pretty fondly remembered software by a lot of people.
No-one wants to take your SUV away because you didn't buy a winsock license 15 years ago. If you want to donate you can, you don't have to.
I think hes still alive, so thats prob a big part of it. Wikipedia is very careful about articles concerning living people.
Didn't he have the common courtesy to fake his own death? How inconsiderate.
While I certainly would feel bad for anyone who lost out on millions of licenses, why wait until 10-15 years later to pursue legal action against large companies and ISPs who distributed illegally?
That's not what is going on at all. The guy wrote something many of us remember fondly, another guy thought it would be nice to do something for him as he got bugger all thanks at the time.
How many of you still haven't paid your $699.00 per processor licensing fee?
Wake up moderators, trolls abound.
Gosh, well we used Windows 3.1, and 3.11, and 95 in our household, but we didn't get an Internet connection until Windows 98. Damn you BT metered dial up.
I went to university and got free dial up when I was on windows 3.1. I remember downloading the windows 95 to 98 upgrade on a 38K modem. It took a while.
It was always great fun when you were connected and a women ( doesn't matter which one ) picks up the phone, hears the modem noise, and screams in a high pitch. I never worked out why they did that, maybe they thought it would break the connection so they could make a call. Maybe I just have mental women in my family.
I'd donate something to this guy because his software did open windows ( which I was sadly using at the time ) to realtime networking. However I'm not going to donate via paypal only to watch with a total lack of surprise when paypal lock the account and keep all the money.
I'm doing hiring for my team. I don't care too much about the education: if the candidate can do a decent job on the coding quiz, they could be a Spanish major for all I care.
Dam right. Formal qualifications are not so relevant since books and other sources of knowledge became affordable for all. People who want to learn will and those that don't are not going to be changed by expensive schooling.
'Kinda risky' is putting it mildly. Watching Nokia is like watching an alcoholic drinking themselves to death. It's tragic.
I doubt it's death, so much as transformation. Before the announcement Nokia was an innovator producing distinct hardware & software. After the announcement they become one of Microsoft's bitches pumping out handsets which are substantially similar to the likes coming out from LG / Samsung / HTC. Perhaps it's cheaper to do, but at the end of the day Nokia's brand will be severely tarnished.
It's also worth noting that Nokia is the only manufacturer to bet the farm on a single phone OS vendor. LG, Samsung and HTC all have their fingers in many pies (e.g. WP7, Android, Bada, Brew). It seems like a good way to hedge if the WP7 ship sinks which is entirely possible.
It's death of Nokia as a respected brand, sooner or later it will be death of Nokia entirely.
If you own Nokia stock, I would recommend divesting of it asap.
I did at a small loss, not that I had more than a few hundred dollars worth anyway. From the look of the prices so did many other people.
A few days later I was asked if I want to apply for a linux admin job for Nokia. I'm staying well clear of that one.
I guess they are really going "all in" on Windows mobile. Kinda risky making your entire company totally dependent on a single outside vendor with a track record for not caring about partners.
'Kinda risky' is putting it mildly. Watching Nokia is like watching an alcoholic drinking themselves to death. It's tragic.
sure, you could try and spin it that way, but only extreme nerds and total retards think dialup is internet, sure i can get it to work and slackjaws believe it works but everyone in between doesn't even try because they know it sucks fat donkey balls.
If you care about sending email communications with small attachments, Internet chat, and webpages dial up is fine. These people want communication with the rest of the world not Britney Spears or Alien vs. Predator.
Examples or references about D?
Try using any version of windows and come up with your own examples. No-one sane documents each time windows freezes, crashes, or a system call returns nonsense instead of the expected value.
A) The amount of viruses that seem to be able to infect even the machines with reputable anti-virus programs.
B) Some of Microsoft's actions as a company.
C) Lack of multiple desktops. I don't know how windows users survive with only one desktop.
D) Non--deterministic behavior of the operating system and applications running under it. Yes it's still a problem even on utterly clean machines.
Ubuntu is moving away from X11 and GNOME to their own windowing system (Unity on Wayland), so whatever "Redhat does to GNOME" will matter little to them anyway since Ubuntu is abandoning the platform.
Every day mainstream Linux projects move Linux closer and closer to windows.
KDE 4 - Initially a joke. Might be less of one now.
Upstart - No benefits that outweight the added complexity.
Systemd - No benefits that outweight the added complexity.
Unity/Wayland - a disaster for X11 programs.
Gnome - Patronizing, dumbed down, and inflexible.
rm --preserve-root by default - Sick.
I'm sure there are loads more examples.
Linux has a lot going for it but the way things are going it risks being just another OS for retarded end users, just like windows. Where are the simple and effective distributions?
I blame the UN/Satanic New World Order/Illuminati population control conspiracy...
If there ever was or is a population control conspiracy it's not working. The world population is still growing at an unsustainable rate.
Google must hide some sites in order to comply with the laws of the countries it operates in. This process isn't vetted publicly but by some closed policy making committee. As we saw the Australian internet blocklist made it illegal to access the website of a dentist among other harmless things.
It is highly likely the US government has a secret blocklist.
And what do you do when your house burns to the ground with both your cheap virtual machine and BackupPC?
The virtual machine isn't at my home, it's from linode.com. It's hosted in a real data center with redundant power, fast network, etc. They don't cost much.
What if you are trying to send an email and your IP is blocked since it is registered to an ISP and not a host?
Setup your mailer to allow and trust SMTP AUTH from all IPs.
DNSBL's are for IPs that don't authenticate.
If you go on the dole when you are 18 you can only stay on it for around 48 years because that's when the old age pension kicks in. Surf is up, dudes.
I was on the dole for a while and it isn't a party. It's humiliating and degrading for a subsistence lifestyle. The contempt with which the DSS clerks treat you, not to mention people like you, will drive you to either become an alcoholic or worse after a few months, let alone 48 years.
I was on the Dole in the UK for about 6 months, it was an easy way to live and could very easily get to become a way of life. In the UK they really don't care and almost go out of their way to prevent you looking for work. I remember telling the clerk I could not sign on at my allotted time in a few days because I had an interview, he told me they would cut my benefit and I'd have to reapply if I went. I went anyway because it was the only sensible thing to do.
How do people that naive get all that money in the first place?
credit cards?
200K USD on credit cards?? Surely you can't get 20 cards with 10K limits on them without the banks noticing and cutting you off?
I'm in Europe, 200K would need a morgage here unless you have rich relatives you can rob.
What does "self-sustaining" mean? Obviously, there is the cost of hosting the site and maintaining the domain registration, but that isn't a lot of money. Is $20/month on the conservative side really that hard to get? Recouping the cost of purchasing the website is a different issue, but that money has already been spent.
In this context "self-sustaining" means able to generate enough income to pay off the huge bank loan involved in buying the domain with enough left over to pay for a few 100K a year salaries for management staff who don't work more than an hour a week. It's a dot-com bubble concept.
There is an easy answer to that one. I'd sell it to whoever is willing to pay the most, it really doesn't have any other value.
The Linux Fund, whoever they are, seem to be pushing some angle to try and extract cash out of words like 'Linux' and 'Open'. I don't see them being trustworthy somehow.
There is only one person in the world who values my data enough to protect it properly, and that person is me.
Dam right. Trusting your email to a company who's main business is mining data can't be safe either. Having your data spread out over god knows how many countries and subject to the whims of who knows what government agencies doesn't sound like a good idea.
I run my own mail server and do nightly backups of my whole mailstore. Any decent linux admin should be able to setup a cheap virtual machine and a BackupPC server at home to do the same. In fact any decent linux admin should enjoy setting it up.
"To be clear: PayPal cannot take such action without the authorization of an account holder, nor does it ever take such unauthorized actions."
What a line of bullshit, they have stolen from me twice to the tune of $5300.
4 years and I'm still fighting these fuckers over this.
i even won in small claims court due to them not showing up and haven't received a penny, and i likely never will.
I feel for you. They tried to rob me for a much smaller amount.
I see people who should know better using paypal all the time. If I warn them they just come back with crap about how convenient it is.
If you believe what PayPal said, then I have a real deal for you on a slightly used bridge...
Just don't accept payment for that bridge via paypal or you will lose the money and they will wipe out your bank account..