You still don't get it.
If I leave my car running on a street corner and it is stolen it is still a crime.
If I had insurance on the car I get paid.
If I can find my car, I get it back.
If I can prove you stole my car, you go to jail.
If your friend steals my car, and you know about it, and don't report it to the police you're an accessory. What you feel I deserve would be irrelevant.
If you are a used car dealer and I contact you to tell you that my stolen car is sitting in your lot, you can't just sell it and say tough shit. If you do you're guilty of a crime.
Even if the password was "password", if the guys in charge of the abiword account know who took the money, contact paypal and paypal refuses to freeze the account, then paypal is doing something wrong. If paypal refuses to acknowledge legitimate complaints of fraud, which they could have done something about but chose not to, the there may be grounds for a civil or criminal complaint.
Even the stupid have rights. That may be a good thing or a bad thing, but it's the way things are.
It doesn't need to be their fault.
They claim to be insured. It doesn't need to be the insurance company's fault that my car gets totaled for me to get my money.
Do you get it? I rent an apartment. The group that owns the apt. is insured. If something in my apt is damaged, their insurance covers it.
If you leave something in someone else's care you expect them to take a certain amount of care with it. I don't really care if abiword's password was easy to guess. Their system shouldn't be set up to allow people to sit there and try to guess passwords. After x failed login attempts in y minutes, all login attempts should be blocked for z minutes. If this happens more than a few times in one day, it should be looked into. Also, if I leave my car unlocked, it's not okay for you to steal it and my insurance company still has to pay up if you do.
I don't wanna hear any crap about their terms of service either. While it's true that you can write whatever you want in your terms of service, it doesn't mean that those terms will hold up in court. By law, there are certain liabilities that can't be discalaimed and certain rights that can't be signed away.
Coding to standards is the only thing that makes sense. Otherwise, your web pages will break once the bugs in whatever browser you coded for are fixed, and you'll have to add new errors to your HTML to handle the new bugs as well. If you just simply make your webpages fit the standard, any web browser worth a crap will be compatible with your site, and to anyone who complains you can reply "Your browser is not WC3 complaint, write that company not us. We cannot and do not support broken software." In some rare cases a WC3 complaint page may not work right with IE. In this case you should write another WC3 complaint HMTL page that does, not use some shoddy non-standard workaround.
Macs have fans too.
I personally would move step six to the beginning, so that I could fry a mac instead of a pc. Then I would take it's one button mose and jump up and down on it for a few minutes shouting "take that Jobs! You like that? Feel different?"
Then I would just go back to using my PC.
Put electrical tape on the back of your license plate, it works like a charm. The same goes for all those gaps between the plastic shit.
Of course, if your car is a rusty pos like mine was, there isn't much you can do. With 2 12" subs in isobaric loading, even the crap under my hood started vibrating.
The license plate thing is kinda of a pet peeve of mine as iI see a lot of people who had not problem spending $500 on amps and speakers but can't spend five minutes to keep their car from sounding like shit.
It's their site, their database -- they can do with it whatever they want. No they can't. Otherwise they wouldn't be removing these links. Duh.
Just because you own something doesn't mean you can do whatever you want with it. There are laws you know.
Having you site removed from search engines is a very big deal. Imagine a book sitting on a shelf in a giagantic library that does its book numbering randomly. If someone removes it from the card catalog (electronic or otherwise) that book might as well not exist becuase anyone looking for it can't find it.
IMO the GPL is not a virus.
Viruses infect things.
If a piece of software is GPL'ed it means: that software and any other that uses code from it will be GPL'ed. Describing the GPL as viral gives an impression that is just not true. The GPL doesn't surreptitiously spread it self to other software. Someone has to make a conscious decision to used GPL'ed code.
As far as the role of the government...
Government funded reasearch should go into the public domain. GPLing software put it in the public domain, and makes sure it stays there.
You're statements about the GPL ruling out half the potential applications are simply FUD. You don't back them up in any sensible manner. If you understood the GPL you'd know that an organization can take GPL'ed code, modify it and use it internally, without ever releasing it.
I don't think you get it.
Yeah, sure Microsoft gives away the APIs to interface with their products, so that you buy & program for their products. This article is about the file format not the API.
If you had a good description of their files formats, you could develop your own, interoperable office suite.
I really have my doubts about wether Microsoft will allow "any programmer with a Perl script and a bit of intelligence" to muck around with Office documents.
I'm guessing their XML document format will be just as hard to decyper and the current office formats.
Your 17" LCD is not equivalent to a 19" CRT. It is equivalent to an 18" CRT.
And 40Hz, isn't very good. At your resolution my 17" CRT (Samsung 700IFT) will handle 89Hz. When is play FPS games is usually drop down to 1024x768 at which, my display can handle 116Hz. Your TFT has.264mm dot pitch while my 4 year old CRT has.24mm dot pitch. The current model of the Samsung 700IFT has.20mm dot pitch and can handle 1920x1440.
I find what matters so much is not, LCD vs CRT, but flat screen vs non-flat. Once you start watching things on flat displays you just don't want to go back. Now have a flatscreen tv too. I just don't feel like the value is there yet for LCDs. If I can get a faster, sharper display for less, I can handle lifting it twice a year.
You may wany to check out this comparison of TFTs vs CRTs.
You'll note that CRTs have better:
I really doubt this is going to happen so soon. But, hey there are always a lot of computers newbies who will buy whatever the comissioned sales person tells them to.
Right now I have a 17" Samsung 700IFT (nice flat screen CRT). My next display is going to be at least 19". LCDs at those sizes seem to always have dead pixels. A lab partner of mine dropped around a grand on a nice big LCD and it had a red pixel stuck on in the center of the screen. He returned it and manged to get another with a green pixel stuck off more towards the edge of the screen. They claimed that they 'usually' don't even let you return one unless it has multiple dead pixels.
I'm not going to start considering an LCD until I can get one that is at least 19" with all the pixels work correctly, and at less than twice the price of a CRT.
I really like the space and energy saving aspects of an LCD, but there is still a lot of work that needs to be done before CRTs go the way of the dodo.
No, the law says they can't drink at all. All the other things, they can do.
It's stupid. The day I sent in my draft card, I should have been able to buy beer. End of story. If an 18 year old can be tried (& executed) as an adult, he should also have the rights of an adult.
This is why any data you care about must be backed up. If she didn't take proper precautions with her data, that's her fault. Being a newbie doesn't change that.
Think about it kinda the same way as wearing your seatbelt.
I can only feel so bad for a person who dies in a car accident if they weren't wearing their seatbelt and it's the same for lost data.
Hard drives are mechanical devices, as a result, their relibility is crap compared to just about everying else in your computer. Software isn't perfect, there are always a few bugs in some software package you could possibly install that will hose your system if you're not careful.
It's easy to protect your data if you understand how to use a computer, and if you don't, you should expect sub-optimal results from your computer use until you learn. This doesn't mean I'm going to call the person an idiot for loosing the data. (Heck, it probably took most of us a disk crash or two before we realized just how important backups are.) I'll just tell them that there are various ways of protecting your data, so if they care about not losing it, they should learn how to back things up.
I agree as well, I have a Psion Revo+ and other than the horrible battery issues, the thing is great. The EPOC OS is really stable, has a consitent GUI and makes sense on small screens, unlike wince.
Mirroring everything is going to cost CPU cycles....well duh. That hardly makes it a nonsolution.
Even if it costs CPU cycles, if it works, it's a solution. And I would say, complex depends on your definiton of complex. Some people consider anything harder than "hello world" complex, others wait until they're talking about writing a compiler, spreadsheet, etc.
So you think flexibility is a bad thing?
Why the hell would you not want to be able to mirror the display?
Your crappy slogan doesn't apply here anyways. This is, at minmum, a solution to a simple nonproblem.
IF your monitor was on it's side it could be pretty handy. Also if you were using a mirror to view you screen it could be useful too.
I'm not saying most people will do this, but most people don't run multiple monitors either.
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I don't think you really grasp the scope of this law.
It's not limited to just financial damages, it provides for criminal penalties as well.
Finding a plantiff: Not hard really, I can think of at least one company with a lot of lawyers, that would have an interest in seeing Redhat go under.
Your other points are valid if someone takes your interpetation of the law, but it seems like the judge in the DeCSS case didn't, did he?
Look, the laywers at HP decided that they had legals grounds to sue for the release of information about a security flaw in their OS under DMCA. As long as that can happen the DMCA is a legitimate threat. Proving you're innocent costs money, and US law is like a no-limit poker game. If you run out of money for lawyers, it doesn't matter if your cards were better.
Perhaps that's how you read it, but if you can agree that my interpetation is one possible interpetation, then you can probably agree that these people are being prudent about protecting themselves from the DMCA. They don't want to be dragged into a U.S. court and fight over what the DMCA means.
As for a kernel patch, and description thereof, I'd say 1201(j) covers it quite nicely.
I'd say it doesn't.
Note section b:
(B) whether the information derived from the security testing was used or maintained in a manner that does not facilitate infringement under this title or a violation of applicable law other than this section, including a violation of privacy or breach of security.
Releasing the source code that fixes a vulnerability, makes it pretty obvious what the original vulnerability was. Releasing this info to the public therefore may constitute a "violation of privacy or breach of security." I read this exemption as saying: It's legal to do the research and find the security hole, but not to release it to the public as it could then be used to "facilitate infringement."
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If I leave my car running on a street corner and it is stolen it is still a crime.
Even if the password was "password", if the guys in charge of the abiword account know who took the money, contact paypal and paypal refuses to freeze the account, then paypal is doing something wrong. If paypal refuses to acknowledge legitimate complaints of fraud, which they could have done something about but chose not to, the there may be grounds for a civil or criminal complaint.
Even the stupid have rights. That may be a good thing or a bad thing, but it's the way things are.
It doesn't need to be their fault.
They claim to be insured. It doesn't need to be the insurance company's fault that my car gets totaled for me to get my money.
Do you get it? I rent an apartment. The group that owns the apt. is insured. If something in my apt is damaged, their insurance covers it.
If you leave something in someone else's care you expect them to take a certain amount of care with it. I don't really care if abiword's password was easy to guess. Their system shouldn't be set up to allow people to sit there and try to guess passwords. After x failed login attempts in y minutes, all login attempts should be blocked for z minutes. If this happens more than a few times in one day, it should be looked into. Also, if I leave my car unlocked, it's not okay for you to steal it and my insurance company still has to pay up if you do.
I don't wanna hear any crap about their terms of service either. While it's true that you can write whatever you want in your terms of service, it doesn't mean that those terms will hold up in court. By law, there are certain liabilities that can't be discalaimed and certain rights that can't be signed away.
Coding to standards is the only thing that makes sense. Otherwise, your web pages will break once the bugs in whatever browser you coded for are fixed, and you'll have to add new errors to your HTML to handle the new bugs as well. If you just simply make your webpages fit the standard, any web browser worth a crap will be compatible with your site, and to anyone who complains you can reply "Your browser is not WC3 complaint, write that company not us. We cannot and do not support broken software."
In some rare cases a WC3 complaint page may not work right with IE. In this case you should write another WC3 complaint HMTL page that does, not use some shoddy non-standard workaround.
I space, not one can hear your PC!
(think aliens)
Macs have fans too.
I personally would move step six to the beginning, so that I could fry a mac instead of a pc. Then I would take it's one button mose and jump up and down on it for a few minutes shouting "take that Jobs! You like that? Feel different?"
Then I would just go back to using my PC.
Put electrical tape on the back of your license plate, it works like a charm. The same goes for all those gaps between the plastic shit.
Of course, if your car is a rusty pos like mine was, there isn't much you can do. With 2 12" subs in isobaric loading, even the crap under my hood started vibrating.
The license plate thing is kinda of a pet peeve of mine as iI see a lot of people who had not problem spending $500 on amps and speakers but can't spend five minutes to keep their car from sounding like shit.
It's their site, their database -- they can do with it whatever they want.
No they can't. Otherwise they wouldn't be removing these links. Duh.
Just because you own something doesn't mean you can do whatever you want with it. There are laws you know.
Having you site removed from search engines is a very big deal. Imagine a book sitting on a shelf in a giagantic library that does its book numbering randomly. If someone removes it from the card catalog (electronic or otherwise) that book might as well not exist becuase anyone looking for it can't find it.
IMO the GPL is not a virus.
Viruses infect things.
If a piece of software is GPL'ed it means: that software and any other that uses code from it will be GPL'ed. Describing the GPL as viral gives an impression that is just not true. The GPL doesn't surreptitiously spread it self to other software. Someone has to make a conscious decision to used GPL'ed code.
As far as the role of the government...
Government funded reasearch should go into the public domain. GPLing software put it in the public domain, and makes sure it stays there.
You're statements about the GPL ruling out half the potential applications are simply FUD. You don't back them up in any sensible manner. If you understood the GPL you'd know that an organization can take GPL'ed code, modify it and use it internally, without ever releasing it.
Suck it up man. I just got home from dirning. I couldn't draw a straight line if you paid me but i'm still readin slastdot
party on woo!
I don't think you get it.
Yeah, sure Microsoft gives away the APIs to interface with their products, so that you buy & program for their products.
This article is about the file format not the API.
If you had a good description of their files formats, you could develop your own, interoperable office suite.
I really have my doubts about wether Microsoft will allow "any programmer with a Perl script and a bit of intelligence" to muck around with Office documents.
I'm guessing their XML document format will be just as hard to decyper and the current office formats.
And 40Hz, isn't very good. At your resolution my 17" CRT (Samsung 700IFT) will handle 89Hz. When is play FPS games is usually drop down to 1024x768 at which, my display can handle 116Hz. Your TFT has
I find what matters so much is not, LCD vs CRT, but flat screen vs non-flat. Once you start watching things on flat displays you just don't want to go back. Now have a flatscreen tv too.
I just don't feel like the value is there yet for LCDs. If I can get a faster, sharper display for less, I can handle lifting it twice a year.
You may wany to check out this comparison of TFTs vs CRTs.
You'll note that CRTs have better:
I really doubt this is going to happen so soon. But, hey there are always a lot of computers newbies who will buy whatever the comissioned sales person tells them to.
Right now I have a 17" Samsung 700IFT (nice flat screen CRT). My next display is going to be at least 19". LCDs at those sizes seem to always have dead pixels. A lab partner of mine dropped around a grand on a nice big LCD and it had a red pixel stuck on in the center of the screen. He returned it and manged to get another with a green pixel stuck off more towards the edge of the screen. They claimed that they 'usually' don't even let you return one unless it has multiple dead pixels.
I'm not going to start considering an LCD until I can get one that is at least 19" with all the pixels work correctly, and at less than twice the price of a CRT.
I really like the space and energy saving aspects of an LCD, but there is still a lot of work that needs to be done before CRTs go the way of the dodo.
No, the law says they can't drink at all. All the other things, they can do.
It's stupid. The day I sent in my draft card, I should have been able to buy beer. End of story. If an 18 year old can be tried (& executed) as an adult, he should also have the rights of an adult.
Who's liable?
She is.
This is why any data you care about must be backed up. If she didn't take proper precautions with her data, that's her fault. Being a newbie doesn't change that.
Think about it kinda the same way as wearing your seatbelt.
I can only feel so bad for a person who dies in a car accident if they weren't wearing their seatbelt and it's the same for lost data.
Hard drives are mechanical devices, as a result, their relibility is crap compared to just about everying else in your computer. Software isn't perfect, there are always a few bugs in some software package you could possibly install that will hose your system if you're not careful.
It's easy to protect your data if you understand how to use a computer, and if you don't, you should expect sub-optimal results from your computer use until you learn.
This doesn't mean I'm going to call the person an idiot for loosing the data. (Heck, it probably took most of us a disk crash or two before we realized just how important backups are.) I'll just tell them that there are various ways of protecting your data, so if they care about not losing it, they should learn how to back things up.
I agree as well, I have a Psion Revo+ and other than the horrible battery issues, the thing is great. The EPOC OS is really stable, has a consitent GUI and makes sense on small screens, unlike wince.
The kexec patch [xmission.com] should do the main part of the trick. And its status is Ready [kernelnewbies.org].
Holy crap that's sweet!
I can upgrade my kernel without rebooting!
I had no idea you could do this. Yet another reason linux rocks.
Mirroring everything is going to cost CPU cycles....well duh. That hardly makes it a nonsolution.
Even if it costs CPU cycles, if it works, it's a solution. And I would say, complex depends on your definiton of complex. Some people consider anything harder than "hello world" complex, others wait until they're talking about writing a compiler, spreadsheet, etc.
So you think flexibility is a bad thing?
Why the hell would you not want to be able to mirror the display?
Your crappy slogan doesn't apply here anyways. This is, at minmum, a solution to a simple nonproblem.
IF your monitor was on it's side it could be pretty handy. Also if you were using a mirror to view you screen it could be useful too.
I'm not saying most people will do this, but most people don't run multiple monitors either.
Your search - kgyjuhlstrj sstfrj straw egrstrj stjyxcv gfbgh gf - did not match any documents. The alternate search- kgyjuhlstrj sstfrj straw egrstrj stjyxcv gfb gf - also did not match any documents. No pages were found containing "kgyjuhlstrj". Suggestions: - Make sure all words are spelled correctly. - Try different keywords. - Try more general keywords. - Try fewer keywords.Also, you can try Google Answers for expert help with your search.
I don't think you really grasp the scope of this law.
It's not limited to just financial damages, it provides for criminal penalties as well.
Finding a plantiff: Not hard really, I can think of at least one company with a lot of lawyers, that would have an interest in seeing Redhat go under.
Your other points are valid if someone takes your interpetation of the law, but it seems like the judge in the DeCSS case didn't, did he?
Look, the laywers at HP decided that they had legals grounds to sue for the release of information about a security flaw in their OS under DMCA. As long as that can happen the DMCA is a legitimate threat. Proving you're innocent costs money, and US law is like a no-limit poker game. If you run out of money for lawyers, it doesn't matter if your cards were better.
Perhaps that's how you read it, but if you can agree that my interpetation is one possible interpetation, then you can probably agree that these people are being prudent about protecting themselves from the DMCA. They don't want to be dragged into a U.S. court and fight over what the DMCA means.
As for a kernel patch, and description thereof, I'd say 1201(j) covers it quite nicely.
I'd say it doesn't.
Note section b:
(B) whether the information derived from the security testing was used or maintained in a manner that does not facilitate infringement under this title or a violation of applicable law other than this section, including a violation of privacy or breach of security.
Releasing the source code that fixes a vulnerability, makes it pretty obvious what the original vulnerability was. Releasing this info to the public therefore may constitute a "violation of privacy or breach of security." I read this exemption as saying: It's legal to do the research and find the security hole, but not to release it to the public as it could then be used to "facilitate infringement."
The primary purpose of DeCSS not as a piracy tool and it's been ruled illegal under the DMCA.
It was also possible to threaten Professor Felten with prosecution under the DMCA in spite of section 1201(j) and the threat was credible enough to prevent him from publishing his work without permission.
It apprears that there are plenty of ways to circumvent any protection of legitimate circumvention under the DMCA.