So we and up in a situation where americans are screw by there own government, which is fine, they should be used to it by now. And perhaps, just maybe, it will cause them to think before they vote for a change, who knows.
And the rest of the world will just continue to use the internet as usual, on an internet with less instead of more influence from the US. I'd say, go for it.
If a company distributes software under GPLv3, then elects to sue someone for using that software in violation of a patent, they open themselves up to being sued for violating the copyrights in that software by other contributors. Because the contributors have said 'You may not copy my code if you don't give everyone a patent license to use it and the derivative works.'
And that's very nice, but it does not change the Novell-MS situation where the company suing for breach of patent is different from the company distributing the software. And frankly I guess it will be pretty imposible to develop a license restricting company A from (ab)using their patents because of the actions of company B.
Software patents are a pain in the ass and there is no way the GPLv3 will be able to change that. And it also is pretty impossible to develop software doing something remotely usefull without violating some kind of patent. The current situation is a kind of cold war between the big software companies and it's not going to change because of some OSS lincense. It's also wrong to try to change it using a license since because the license is not the problem. The same is true for the whole DRM stuff.
This doesn't mean it's a bad idea to take these things into account when developing a license, but the risk of introducing new problems without solving the original problem is pretty high. For instance annoying developers by to introducing some patent/DRM clause that is not going to make a difference anyway is just not worth it.
Well at 45MB/s write speed it would take about 4.5 years to rewrite every bit 100k times. So as long as the usage of the disk doesn't have a nasty hotspot you'd be fine. But on the other hand, you should be able to 'burn' a targeted 1MB section of the drive within an hour. There are sufficient usage scenarios where a certain section of a disk is updated regularly. Updating the same bit every second will give it a lifespan of about a month, that is seriously short.
Boot the install CD and choose "Install a LAMP server" at the menu.
And that's exactly why Debian is better than Ubuntu in most scenarios (although Ubuntu may still be better for most users). Someone is asking how to install Ubuntu without GUI and the answer is to install it with a full webserver stack. Some people have more specific needs than 'Desktop' or 'LAMP server' and in all of these cases Ubuntu has no added value, worse yet, it looses out on lower stability and having to deinstall stuff as a first step right after the installation.
Apart from that, it's way more fun to actually decide for yourself which packages to use. If i wanted the software to take as much as possible decicions for me I'd be using Microsoft stuff, they are way better at deciding what's good for their customers.
A study has shown that people who are generally behaving badly in trafic are more likely to enjoy games like GTA. Other research has shown that people who are using have had an X-Ray taken of a leg are more likely to have had a broken leg. This clearly shows the dangers of X-Ray imaging.
Statistical Relation != Cause
Yeah, I was harsh indeed, but I did state a fact. I will not travel to the US because of the 'security' measures involved with flying there. That's fact, not opinion.
I'm not saying you should be bothered about that. I'll except you probably couldn't care less about me getting to the US or not. It also is your country, not mine, and it is entitled (within it's borders) to it's own rules. I won't try to change them, but I dislike these rules enough to prevent being subjected to them.
I'd say go for it!
Just go for the best possible border security, close all airports, all harbours, cut a fibers running through the ocean, stop all satelite communication and have yourself a nice little country full of freedom.
Good luck, bye bye.
Oh, and please don't forget to fetch all these americans everywere around the world. We don't need 'm anymore.
...to never ever vistit the 'land of the free'. I wouldn't do it currently because of all 'security' measures allready in place. But it's reassuring to find out I was right about that.
Assuming you are right about the 'Sons computer' part, my first question would be:
How could the son have had his computer connected to the internet to share files when there was, as claimed, no router in place.
And furthermore:
Did you determine when this harddrive was last formatted, could it be possible the drive shows little usage because the operating system was reinstalled recently? (Windows users tend to do this, i hear).
Since you examined just an image, not the physical drive, you cannot make statements about the amount of usage of the actual harddisk, only about that of the operatingsystem found in the disk image, right?
You determined, the computer was connected directly to the internet, having a public ip-address assigned to it. Do you consider this a secure practice or does this make the computer more vunarable to outside attacks and/or abuse.
What operatingsystem was used on the computer. Did you determine if any security updated were installed. Would you consider this setup to be generally secure and recommended for internet usage?
Did you look for traces of outside abuse, virusses, trojan horses etc?
I'd fully expect Sony to cripple demo units of there PS3, they will also invent various 'noble' reasons for doing so and fail to mention it's just to make sure the units are not sold, not ever. I might even believe Sony is dumb enough to just make it freeze in stead of finding a nicer way...
I won't post anonymous, but state it here load and clear:
Gecko is far too big and bloated. Period. Plus, Firefox 2 is to buggy to be taken seriously for any use at all and standards compliance seems to be defined as 'just be a bit better than IE'. Frankly, most recent Mozilla stuff sucks big time, like most other commercially sucessfull software.
There it is. Now mod me down please.
It is a sad reality, but this is the way it must be. Maybe not dying of hunger, but poverty is inevitable.
Poverty and richness are both relative. Relative to eachother to be exact.
Being rich simply means having significantly more than average, being poor means having significantly less then average. Having poor people is only 'inevitable' to sustain the rich. Bottomline it really is that simple, no smokescreen masking as an 'economic theory' is going to change that. Rich means more, less means poor. Eliminating 'more' means eliminating 'less', which means no poverty.
Chances are it also means you'll have to walk to work.
Poverty might indeed be inevitable, but thats only because of selfisness and greed.
So how does/. get away with this? Or, does wikipedia really need to that far in fear of lawsuits? I can't really see the difference between an anonymous comment on/. or an anonymous revision on wikipedia. So what am i missing?
No you can't.
Or actually, you could offcourse come up with a system which does this. But it will only function properly is you and everybody else spend as much time investigating and considering the issues as your politicians do (or should do), which happens to be a full time job. Worse yet, a more then full time job, even when you leave some issues to others. Which is why we choose a bunch of people to do that job for us, so we get to do the interesting work.
Nope, they did not waste these dollars, they got a promise from Novell they won't use any of their patents against Windows users. And i'd be suprised when Novell would be unable to come up with some patents which are violated in Microsoft software.
It's just that MS is making a lot of fuzz about it while Novell, as usual, just goes on developing software. Which btw. is one of the reasons Novell products are generally beter than MS products but don't sell that well.
At least, judging from the general response here to the Novell-MS deal, so people are more at war then ever before.
But than again, it's becoming an old song: 'Haven't they heard we've won the war, what do they keep on fighting for?'
I wasn't talking about MS, nor about it's intentions. And I clearly not stating MS is the most noble company ever to be found on this planet. But just take a deep breath, for a change think before you cry wolf again, look a this deal and ask yourself who is having who by the balls here.
MS got only one thing out off this, a change to spread more FUD, and most of the so called 'open-source community' (the part that does the yelling, not the ones writing the code...) is currently very busy helping them spread their 'message'. I'm sure some people in Redmond are currently laughing their ass off because they found a lot off the open-source followers are even dumber then their average customer...
Note, this article is not talking about the deal with Novell as almost every post thus far has assumed. It mentions that deal, as something still being researched. This is about MS's recent promise/contract to not sue hobbyists for patent violations.
Who cares, we are all way to busy bashing MS and Novell to stop and read properly. Geez, next thing you know you'll be asking us to think before we post...
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So we and up in a situation where americans are screw by there own government, which is fine, they should be used to it by now. And perhaps, just maybe, it will cause them to think before they vote for a change, who knows.
And the rest of the world will just continue to use the internet as usual, on an internet with less instead of more influence from the US. I'd say, go for it.
If a company distributes software under GPLv3, then elects to sue someone for using that software in violation of a patent, they open themselves up to being sued for violating the copyrights in that software by other contributors. Because the contributors have said 'You may not copy my code if you don't give everyone a patent license to use it and the derivative works.'
And that's very nice, but it does not change the Novell-MS situation where the company suing for breach of patent is different from the company distributing the software. And frankly I guess it will be pretty imposible to develop a license restricting company A from (ab)using their patents because of the actions of company B.
Software patents are a pain in the ass and there is no way the GPLv3 will be able to change that. And it also is pretty impossible to develop software doing something remotely usefull without violating some kind of patent. The current situation is a kind of cold war between the big software companies and it's not going to change because of some OSS lincense. It's also wrong to try to change it using a license since because the license is not the problem. The same is true for the whole DRM stuff.
This doesn't mean it's a bad idea to take these things into account when developing a license, but the risk of introducing new problems without solving the original problem is pretty high. For instance annoying developers by to introducing some patent/DRM clause that is not going to make a difference anyway is just not worth it.
Well at 45MB/s write speed it would take about 4.5 years to rewrite every bit 100k times. So as long as the usage of the disk doesn't have a nasty hotspot you'd be fine. But on the other hand, you should be able to 'burn' a targeted 1MB section of the drive within an hour. There are sufficient usage scenarios where a certain section of a disk is updated regularly. Updating the same bit every second will give it a lifespan of about a month, that is seriously short.
Sure, or I could just get Debian, instead of Debian with some stuff added and then stripped off again.
Boot the install CD and choose "Install a LAMP server" at the menu.
And that's exactly why Debian is better than Ubuntu in most scenarios (although Ubuntu may still be better for most users). Someone is asking how to install Ubuntu without GUI and the answer is to install it with a full webserver stack. Some people have more specific needs than 'Desktop' or 'LAMP server' and in all of these cases Ubuntu has no added value, worse yet, it looses out on lower stability and having to deinstall stuff as a first step right after the installation.
Apart from that, it's way more fun to actually decide for yourself which packages to use. If i wanted the software to take as much as possible decicions for me I'd be using Microsoft stuff, they are way better at deciding what's good for their customers.
A study has shown that people who are generally behaving badly in trafic are more likely to enjoy games like GTA. Other research has shown that people who are using have had an X-Ray taken of a leg are more likely to have had a broken leg. This clearly shows the dangers of X-Ray imaging. Statistical Relation != Cause
Wonderfull idea. That is, when you all just let me be the judge of what is Good(TM) and what is Evil(TM). I'm clearly the best person for this job...
Yeah, I was harsh indeed, but I did state a fact. I will not travel to the US because of the 'security' measures involved with flying there. That's fact, not opinion.
I'm not saying you should be bothered about that. I'll except you probably couldn't care less about me getting to the US or not. It also is your country, not mine, and it is entitled (within it's borders) to it's own rules. I won't try to change them, but I dislike these rules enough to prevent being subjected to them.
I'd say go for it!
Just go for the best possible border security, close all airports, all harbours, cut a fibers running through the ocean, stop all satelite communication and have yourself a nice little country full of freedom.
Good luck, bye bye.
Oh, and please don't forget to fetch all these americans everywere around the world. We don't need 'm anymore.
...to never ever vistit the 'land of the free'. I wouldn't do it currently because of all 'security' measures allready in place. But it's reassuring to find out I was right about that.
- How could the son have had his computer connected to the internet to share files when there was, as claimed, no router in place.
And furthermore:I'd fully expect Sony to cripple demo units of there PS3, they will also invent various 'noble' reasons for doing so and fail to mention it's just to make sure the units are not sold, not ever. I might even believe Sony is dumb enough to just make it freeze in stead of finding a nicer way...
This must be really essential bussiness software. It has a Dashboard! Wanna bet the next version is SOA enabled?
I won't post anonymous, but state it here load and clear: Gecko is far too big and bloated. Period. Plus, Firefox 2 is to buggy to be taken seriously for any use at all and standards compliance seems to be defined as 'just be a bit better than IE'. Frankly, most recent Mozilla stuff sucks big time, like most other commercially sucessfull software. There it is. Now mod me down please.
So where can i see it?
Or you could just edit the patch out of your kernel. It is GPLed code after all. (Just another reason why such a patch would be pointless)
Get out off suburbia for a change, a lot of people live like Medieval peasants at the moment. A lot more are even worse off.
You think that's a GOOD thing?
But isn't that true
It is a sad reality, but this is the way it must be. Maybe not dying of hunger, but poverty is inevitable.
Poverty and richness are both relative. Relative to eachother to be exact.
Being rich simply means having significantly more than average, being poor means having significantly less then average. Having poor people is only 'inevitable' to sustain the rich. Bottomline it really is that simple, no smokescreen masking as an 'economic theory' is going to change that. Rich means more, less means poor. Eliminating 'more' means eliminating 'less', which means no poverty.
Chances are it also means you'll have to walk to work.
Poverty might indeed be inevitable, but thats only because of selfisness and greed.
So how does /. get away with this? Or, does wikipedia really need to that far in fear of lawsuits? I can't really see the difference between an anonymous comment on /. or an anonymous revision on wikipedia. So what am i missing?
No you can't.
Or actually, you could offcourse come up with a system which does this. But it will only function properly is you and everybody else spend as much time investigating and considering the issues as your politicians do (or should do), which happens to be a full time job. Worse yet, a more then full time job, even when you leave some issues to others. Which is why we choose a bunch of people to do that job for us, so we get to do the interesting work.
Nope, they did not waste these dollars, they got a promise from Novell they won't use any of their patents against Windows users. And i'd be suprised when Novell would be unable to come up with some patents which are violated in Microsoft software.
It's just that MS is making a lot of fuzz about it while Novell, as usual, just goes on developing software. Which btw. is one of the reasons Novell products are generally beter than MS products but don't sell that well.
( ) Old fashioned terrorist. ( ) Small, hard to detect, killer robot hacked by a terrorist.
At least, judging from the general response here to the Novell-MS deal, so people are more at war then ever before.
But than again, it's becoming an old song: 'Haven't they heard we've won the war, what do they keep on fighting for?'
I wasn't talking about MS, nor about it's intentions. And I clearly not stating MS is the most noble company ever to be found on this planet. But just take a deep breath, for a change think before you cry wolf again, look a this deal and ask yourself who is having who by the balls here.
MS got only one thing out off this, a change to spread more FUD, and most of the so called 'open-source community' (the part that does the yelling, not the ones writing the code...) is currently very busy helping them spread their 'message'. I'm sure some people in Redmond are currently laughing their ass off because they found a lot off the open-source followers are even dumber then their average customer...
Note, this article is not talking about the deal with Novell as almost every post thus far has assumed. It mentions that deal, as something still being researched. This is about MS's recent promise/contract to not sue hobbyists for patent violations.
Who cares, we are all way to busy bashing MS and Novell to stop and read properly. Geez, next thing you know you'll be asking us to think before we post...