You presumably don't have a physical presense in California, so this doesn't apply to you. This really isn't a broad ruling, it says "Borders really does have a physical presence in California, such as its corporate headquarters, so they must pay tax." It's not a blanket ruling that applies to all to everyone sending stuff to California.
First of you can't install a application as a user, now how stupid is that?
That's common practice among any operating system. Installing a program involves installing system files, which should not be touched by a normal user. Even in Windows XP, if you're not Administrator, you can't install programs. And if it's a desktop system, you're the sysadmin, so you can just type in the root password.
Many package systems are very up to date. Even with Debian, you can get new releases usually within several days of when they come out, although large packages such as kde and gnome can be a bit longer becuase they are tested first. Yes, Debian's "stable" release can be years old, if that doesn't suit your needs, read the website and use testing, which works great for desktops.
Please mod parent up. This is the heart of the issue. As will likely be presented and proven in this case:
This article is about a proposed settlement. The settlement means that they don't go to trial and no one has to prove anything. Apple is saying "it's easier to pay you and then you shut up and go away than it is to pay the money to fight." Even if Apple had gone to court and won, it would have cost them a lot of money, close to or greater than the amount that the settlement is for.
Just becuase it's a part of the bill doesn't mean it can't get struck down in judicial review. If that part is taken to court, the court will probably say that the "no judicial review" part is unconstitutional and can't be enforced.
In Oklahoma, you are required by law to carry a photo ID (either a driver's licence or state ID) at all times.
Has that law actually been tested in court? I somewhat doubt (although IANAL) that it would stand in court. The ACLU would defend anyone indicted on this law, just as they will for the National ID law.
As long as the data's there, it can be changed. The only thing you can do about it is turn to verified cryptographic solutions. As long as the data is there, someone will have the password necessary to change it. If you can't do it from within the database program, you can edit the file on disk and change it that way.
If no time travellers turn up on May 7th, will everyone stop promoting it after the date?
No, it will be continually duped on slashdot until a time machine is invented. That way no one will ever forget about it, and the editors have an excuse for the dupe. MIT probably planned it this way becuase they knew slashdot would carry it for the next 50,000 years.
That's being very generous. If I were to assume the going rate for IT work ($50/hour+), a Linux install would cost us *thousands* more than a Windows install.
That's not true. While people say "OSS is only free if your time is worthless", they forget to mention that you need just as much time with windows. Linux can be installed very quickly by someone who knows what they're doing. There are also powerful, automated setup programs available that any competent Unix admin should be able to use. Using that could save a bunch of time and a lot of money over installing Windows on a bunch of machines. Windows takes time too.
I don't know who you're speaking for, but most of the OSS community doesn't want to do away with copyright. If there were no copyright, anyone could take OSS code, modify, and release the binary. If they keep the code secret, as many companies do today, there'd be no way to force it out of them. With copyright, we can force them to release the code if it is GPL-derived. Without copyright, anything you produce could be copied by someone else and claimed as their own.
Cookies are very useful for session management. The only other real way to do session management is through URL rewriting, which is ugly and has more security problems than cookies. And many websites do need session management. Anything where you log in, anything where you have a shopping cart, etc, pretty much need a cookie. Javascript may be another story, but cookies are needed for many websites to work.
Most people have settled because they know they'd be found liable, and rightfully so. If you had engaged in heavy, copyright-infringing file sharing, you'd be a fool not to take the settlement. A few have made it to courts, like the ones where they sue the old grandmas who have never had a computer. Like it or not, they are probably right about almost all of their lawsuits.
I'd like to second that. I run normal Debian on my Toshiba laptop, and it works great. I've never really had driver problems, and most ACPI stuff works ok. It depends what manufacturer you buy from as to how much of it will actually work. Read reviews of linux on the laptop you're going to buy before you buy it. Chances are good that someone else has already tried it and can tell you if it works or not.
<recommendation>Toshibas have worked great from my experience, but your mileage may vary. They're cheap too.</recommendation>
I'd say it really has very little to do with Java, it's nothing more than ActiveX controls do in IE all the time. If a user clicks "yes" in a security warning dialog box, then the code can do whatever it wants. It's not a bug, it's working how it's designed. The "bug" that they claim is that the computer will let a user do something dumb.
If college and high school are a waste as you say, then we shouldn't do them. But if you don't go to high school and college, where do you learn? Although you may have felt parts were a waste, you did learn, if nothing else, how to deal with people.
Factoring a large prime number, we'll call it n, is extremely easy. Its factors are n and 1, by definition. Factoring large, 'hard' composite numbers (ones that don't have obvious factors like 2 or 3, there are some other criteria as well) is the difficult problem.
The standards may be 11 and 54mbps, but I highly doubt you'll get that. Those are theoritical maximums, and I don't you'd ever see those speed in actual use. And as someone else pointed out, you don't get that all to yourself, you have to share. Wireless also has higher latency, which forces anyone who wants to play games to stick with a wired connection. Their wireless is better than no internet, but it doesn't beat a wired connection.
it's a lot harder to launch from earth to mars than it would be to launch from the moon to mars
That ignores the point that for both, you still have to get off of the Earth. Actually producing any of the hardware for a Mars mission on the moon won't happen for several hundred years- there are no factories on the Moon. Ultimately, all the resources for the mission have to come from the Earth. Moon base or not, you still have to launch from the Earth, which is by far the most expensive part. A Moon base is thrown into Mars missions becuase it was a dream during the 60's when it seemed that space exploration would keep growing forever.
You're obviously not thinking clearly. This is a teacher/student problem and it should be handled internally period. Here's why...
He violated various computer-related laws. If someone breaks into your house, (bad analogy), it's not just between you and the intruder
The action this student took was not a crime, it's a mistomener.
In fact, it was a crime. A misdemeanor is a category of crimes. It is not a felony, but it is a crime punishable by jail time. He definitely did commit a crime. Just because it's easy to do doesn't make it any less severe.
People get away with real computer crimes all the time, and there's no reason for charging this kid legally. Which would you prefer, locking up your neighbor's kid because he's smarter and lazier than a teacher, or locking up spammers?
If you get caught doing computer crimes, you will get punished, just as this kid did. Just becuase you get away with it doesn't make it right. It is somewhat unlikely he will actually get jail time, considering it is a first offense. He does need to be taught that violating laws will get you in trouble.
He was cheating, and that's wrong. Just give him an F, and move on.
I'm sure he will get an F.
It's really simple, I'm surprised even a mainstream media has accepted these charges. I'm really disappointed that slashdot has accepted this school decision, because it's the wrong decision.
Several laws were violated by a kid who thought he was immune. Better he learn now than later.
This article made a good point, but michael didn't have to add his flamebait last line. When you buy something, you usually expect it to keep working and not be disabled over time. Yes, maybe corporations are evil, but for the most part, when you buy something, it keeps working. I have a computer running Windows 95 that runs just as well as when we first bought it. That's coming from Microsoft, the Big Evil. We read the summaries to start discussions ourselves, not to have incendiary statements put in there just for the fun of it.
On a side note, is anyone here a laywer who knows about retail law? There could very well be a law that they're breaking here, opening themselves up to a class-action lawsuit.
Linux and Solaris are both good operating systems that have their own areas that they run best on. Linux runs well on relatively cheap x86 hardware, although it will run on Sparcs as well. Solaris runs well on very expensive, big-ironish Sun servers.
One of the reasons Linux is used so much in most servers is that you can get just as good performance for much less cost with x86 clusters. Some of Solaris's nice features, such as cpu partitioning, etc, aren't really applicable on lower-cost x86 units. I don't know many people who would run Solaris on their big-iron Sun servers, and I know about as many people who would run Solaris on their cheap x86 hardware.
The mp3, movie, and BSD code are all copyrighted, as is GPL code. However, you don't have a license to use the mp3 or movie, but the BSD code specifically allows you to use it almost however you please. You can't compare MP3's to BSD code becuase they are licensed in two different ways.
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The US government wouldn't do anything to stop it. However, most stores would probably not carry the game, so it wouldn't be sold in the US, but not because of government censorship.
A troll, but I'll bite: You've either never used linux, used it a *long* time ago, or expected it to be exactly like your favorite windows machine so you wouldn't have to relearn anything.
1.) Remove all file extensions- Most linux programs use file extensions, and with a graphical file manager, you can double-click files to get them to open with the "right" application.
2.) Export registry into 40374 files and scatter them around hard drive for no reason.- They're not scattered around the file system, they're in/etc. The registry is a horrible idea- editing it is not simple, and if you screw it up, there goes your system. Files are easy to edit.
3.) Remember to name those files random things, like trontabs- No one said you had to use the commands, if you don't like a cli, you can use gui programs to do the same time.
4.) Use a program to then scrable those letters, 4.1) Remember to make all folders in the root only 3 characters long with no thought to human organization what-so-ever - Root directories are well-organized, and what goes into them each is well-definied.
5.) Downgrade to Windows 3.1 to get that box window feel (and jaggy-font feel)- Or use KDE or Gnome, which is probably the default on your distro.
6.) Get rid of your printer driver and use the standard linux one. All your ~ are now @'s- Use the basic CUPS install interface, difficult to screw up.
7.) Remember to type in lowercase- If you don't like the cli, don't use it. 8.) Create batch commands JUST to copy a file!- Or use one of the many graphical file managers that exist.
9.) Run only text games because your graphics card doesn't have a driver for Linux - Very few graphics cards don't work in linux. Not all games run in linux, but that's a completely different issue
10.) Oops! You can't use the backspace key without editing a file in VI, which you dont know how to use anyway- If you don't know how to use VI, don't use it. There are plenty of graphical text editors that work like you think it will
11.) Realize Windows is easier and get your XP cd from trash.- Or realize that linux is different form windows, and things are usually set up to help you get started on the right foot.
It seems like you installed Linux because you wanted it to work exactly like Windows. Just becuase you were a Windows power user, doesn't mean you automatically know everything about linux. If you had used the graphical configuration tools, you wouldn't have had any of those problems, and you could eventually learn to use a command-line interface if you wanted to.
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You presumably don't have a physical presense in California, so this doesn't apply to you. This really isn't a broad ruling, it says "Borders really does have a physical presence in California, such as its corporate headquarters, so they must pay tax." It's not a blanket ruling that applies to all to everyone sending stuff to California.
First of you can't install a application as a user, now how stupid is that?
That's common practice among any operating system. Installing a program involves installing system files, which should not be touched by a normal user. Even in Windows XP, if you're not Administrator, you can't install programs. And if it's a desktop system, you're the sysadmin, so you can just type in the root password.
Many package systems are very up to date. Even with Debian, you can get new releases usually within several days of when they come out, although large packages such as kde and gnome can be a bit longer becuase they are tested first. Yes, Debian's "stable" release can be years old, if that doesn't suit your needs, read the website and use testing, which works great for desktops.
Please mod parent up. This is the heart of the issue. As will likely be presented and proven in this case:
This article is about a proposed settlement. The settlement means that they don't go to trial and no one has to prove anything. Apple is saying "it's easier to pay you and then you shut up and go away than it is to pay the money to fight." Even if Apple had gone to court and won, it would have cost them a lot of money, close to or greater than the amount that the settlement is for.
There's nothing saying that Google wouldn't have tried to enter the Chinese market if it had not gone public.
Just becuase it's a part of the bill doesn't mean it can't get struck down in judicial review. If that part is taken to court, the court will probably say that the "no judicial review" part is unconstitutional and can't be enforced.
In Oklahoma, you are required by law to carry a photo ID (either a driver's licence or state ID) at all times.
Has that law actually been tested in court? I somewhat doubt (although IANAL) that it would stand in court. The ACLU would defend anyone indicted on this law, just as they will for the National ID law.
Most people in the picture have wives AND girlfriends? As in at the same time? Gee, I didn't know wine developers were that popular!
As long as the data's there, it can be changed. The only thing you can do about it is turn to verified cryptographic solutions. As long as the data is there, someone will have the password necessary to change it. If you can't do it from within the database program, you can edit the file on disk and change it that way.
If no time travellers turn up on May 7th, will everyone stop promoting it after the date?
No, it will be continually duped on slashdot until a time machine is invented. That way no one will ever forget about it, and the editors have an excuse for the dupe. MIT probably planned it this way becuase they knew slashdot would carry it for the next 50,000 years.
That's being very generous. If I were to assume the going rate for IT work ($50/hour+), a Linux install would cost us *thousands* more than a Windows install.
That's not true. While people say "OSS is only free if your time is worthless", they forget to mention that you need just as much time with windows. Linux can be installed very quickly by someone who knows what they're doing. There are also powerful, automated setup programs available that any competent Unix admin should be able to use. Using that could save a bunch of time and a lot of money over installing Windows on a bunch of machines. Windows takes time too.
Our goal is to have NO COPYRIGHT AT ALL
I don't know who you're speaking for, but most of the OSS community doesn't want to do away with copyright. If there were no copyright, anyone could take OSS code, modify, and release the binary. If they keep the code secret, as many companies do today, there'd be no way to force it out of them. With copyright, we can force them to release the code if it is GPL-derived. Without copyright, anything you produce could be copied by someone else and claimed as their own.
Cookies are very useful for session management. The only other real way to do session management is through URL rewriting, which is ugly and has more security problems than cookies. And many websites do need session management. Anything where you log in, anything where you have a shopping cart, etc, pretty much need a cookie. Javascript may be another story, but cookies are needed for many websites to work.
Most people have settled because they know they'd be found liable, and rightfully so. If you had engaged in heavy, copyright-infringing file sharing, you'd be a fool not to take the settlement. A few have made it to courts, like the ones where they sue the old grandmas who have never had a computer. Like it or not, they are probably right about almost all of their lawsuits.
I'd like to second that. I run normal Debian on my Toshiba laptop, and it works great. I've never really had driver problems, and most ACPI stuff works ok. It depends what manufacturer you buy from as to how much of it will actually work. Read reviews of linux on the laptop you're going to buy before you buy it. Chances are good that someone else has already tried it and can tell you if it works or not.
<recommendation>Toshibas have worked great from my experience, but your mileage may vary. They're cheap too.</recommendation>
I'd say it really has very little to do with Java, it's nothing more than ActiveX controls do in IE all the time. If a user clicks "yes" in a security warning dialog box, then the code can do whatever it wants. It's not a bug, it's working how it's designed. The "bug" that they claim is that the computer will let a user do something dumb.
If college and high school are a waste as you say, then we shouldn't do them. But if you don't go to high school and college, where do you learn? Although you may have felt parts were a waste, you did learn, if nothing else, how to deal with people.
Factoring a large prime number, we'll call it n, is extremely easy. Its factors are n and 1, by definition. Factoring large, 'hard' composite numbers (ones that don't have obvious factors like 2 or 3, there are some other criteria as well) is the difficult problem.
The standards may be 11 and 54mbps, but I highly doubt you'll get that. Those are theoritical maximums, and I don't you'd ever see those speed in actual use. And as someone else pointed out, you don't get that all to yourself, you have to share. Wireless also has higher latency, which forces anyone who wants to play games to stick with a wired connection. Their wireless is better than no internet, but it doesn't beat a wired connection.
it's a lot harder to launch from earth to mars than it would be to launch from the moon to mars
That ignores the point that for both, you still have to get off of the Earth. Actually producing any of the hardware for a Mars mission on the moon won't happen for several hundred years- there are no factories on the Moon. Ultimately, all the resources for the mission have to come from the Earth. Moon base or not, you still have to launch from the Earth, which is by far the most expensive part. A Moon base is thrown into Mars missions becuase it was a dream during the 60's when it seemed that space exploration would keep growing forever.
You're obviously not thinking clearly. This is a teacher/student problem and it should be handled internally period. Here's why...
He violated various computer-related laws. If someone breaks into your house, (bad analogy), it's not just between you and the intruder
The action this student took was not a crime, it's a mistomener.
In fact, it was a crime. A misdemeanor is a category of crimes. It is not a felony, but it is a crime punishable by jail time. He definitely did commit a crime. Just because it's easy to do doesn't make it any less severe.
People get away with real computer crimes all the time, and there's no reason for charging this kid legally. Which would you prefer, locking up your neighbor's kid because he's smarter and lazier than a teacher, or locking up spammers?
If you get caught doing computer crimes, you will get punished, just as this kid did. Just becuase you get away with it doesn't make it right. It is somewhat unlikely he will actually get jail time, considering it is a first offense. He does need to be taught that violating laws will get you in trouble.
He was cheating, and that's wrong. Just give him an F, and move on.
I'm sure he will get an F.
It's really simple, I'm surprised even a mainstream media has accepted these charges. I'm really disappointed that slashdot has accepted this school decision, because it's the wrong decision.
Several laws were violated by a kid who thought he was immune. Better he learn now than later.
This article made a good point, but michael didn't have to add his flamebait last line. When you buy something, you usually expect it to keep working and not be disabled over time. Yes, maybe corporations are evil, but for the most part, when you buy something, it keeps working. I have a computer running Windows 95 that runs just as well as when we first bought it. That's coming from Microsoft, the Big Evil. We read the summaries to start discussions ourselves, not to have incendiary statements put in there just for the fun of it.
On a side note, is anyone here a laywer who knows about retail law? There could very well be a law that they're breaking here, opening themselves up to a class-action lawsuit.
Linux and Solaris are both good operating systems that have their own areas that they run best on. Linux runs well on relatively cheap x86 hardware, although it will run on Sparcs as well. Solaris runs well on very expensive, big-ironish Sun servers.
One of the reasons Linux is used so much in most servers is that you can get just as good performance for much less cost with x86 clusters. Some of Solaris's nice features, such as cpu partitioning, etc, aren't really applicable on lower-cost x86 units. I don't know many people who would run Solaris on their big-iron Sun servers, and I know about as many people who would run Solaris on their cheap x86 hardware.
The mp3, movie, and BSD code are all copyrighted, as is GPL code. However, you don't have a license to use the mp3 or movie, but the BSD code specifically allows you to use it almost however you please. You can't compare MP3's to BSD code becuase they are licensed in two different ways.
The US government wouldn't do anything to stop it. However, most stores would probably not carry the game, so it wouldn't be sold in the US, but not because of government censorship.
A troll, but I'll bite:
/etc. The registry is a horrible idea- editing it is not simple, and if you screw it up, there goes your system. Files are easy to edit.
You've either never used linux, used it a *long* time ago, or expected it to be exactly like your favorite windows machine so you wouldn't have to relearn anything.
1.) Remove all file extensions- Most linux programs use file extensions, and with a graphical file manager, you can double-click files to get them to open with the "right" application.
2.) Export registry into 40374 files and scatter them around hard drive for no reason.- They're not scattered around the file system, they're in
3.) Remember to name those files random things, like trontabs- No one said you had to use the commands, if you don't like a cli, you can use gui programs to do the same time.
4.) Use a program to then scrable those letters,
4.1) Remember to make all folders in the root only 3 characters long with no thought to human organization what-so-ever
- Root directories are well-organized, and what goes into them each is well-definied.
5.) Downgrade to Windows 3.1 to get that box window feel (and jaggy-font feel)- Or use KDE or Gnome, which is probably the default on your distro.
6.) Get rid of your printer driver and use the standard linux one. All your ~ are now @'s- Use the basic CUPS install interface, difficult to screw up.
7.) Remember to type in lowercase- If you don't like the cli, don't use it.
8.) Create batch commands JUST to copy a file!- Or use one of the many graphical file managers that exist.
9.) Run only text games because your graphics card doesn't have a driver for Linux
- Very few graphics cards don't work in linux. Not all games run in linux, but that's a completely different issue
10.) Oops! You can't use the backspace key without editing a file in VI, which you dont know how to use anyway- If you don't know how to use VI, don't use it. There are plenty of graphical text editors that work like you think it will
11.) Realize Windows is easier and get your XP cd from trash.- Or realize that linux is different form windows, and things are usually set up to help you get started on the right foot.
It seems like you installed Linux because you wanted it to work exactly like Windows. Just becuase you were a Windows power user, doesn't mean you automatically know everything about linux. If you had used the graphical configuration tools, you wouldn't have had any of those problems, and you could eventually learn to use a command-line interface if you wanted to.