Reading the USPTO article today I realised that this actually already happens with genetically modified seed, so nevermind! Apparently the legal base for us not being able to resell our cars is already there.
It's hardly spam or even a tactic. It's just a query string.
Not to mention that there are all sorts of searches on all sorts of sites that turn up in Google search results. It's annoying and generally useless. I wish Google would so something to fix it.
I think focus stealing is the single biggest vulnerability in any OS I've used.
I still haven't sent my password over IM, but I can't count the number of times I've started typing my password into a window that just stole focus, including IM.
After reading the first sentence my first guess was one of Crohn's, ulcerative colitis, or irritable bowel syndrome, leaning towards Crohn's because of the apparent severity.
I don't disagree that Microsoft has cleaned up their act or that they're products have fewer vulnerabilities, but I wanted to clarify something.
The numbers you are quoting are discovered vulnerabilities, not vulnerabilities.
One could argue that the Firefox team, for example, are simply better at finding vulnerabilities or that because Firefox is open source it allows for more vulnerabilities to be discovered.
Yeah, I found the relation to German "arbeit" interesting.
I wish I would have took some linguistic and phonology classes while I was in university. I took a class on words with Greek and Latin roots and a few entry level language classes, but that's it.
Interesting. Here's what etymonline.com has to say. Apologies for those that don't read etymology definitions often... they can be somewhat confusing sometimes. This one isn't too bad.
1923, from Eng. translation of 1920 play "R.U.R." ("Rossum's Universal Robots"), by Karel Capek (1890-1938), from Czech robotnik "slave," from robota "forced labor, drudgery," from robotiti "to work, drudge," from an Old Czech source akin to Old Church Slavonic rabota "servitude," from rabu "slave" (see orphan), from a Slavic stem related to Ger. Arbeit "work" (O.H.G. arabeit). According to Rawson the word was popularized by Karel Capek's play, "but was coined by his brother Josef (the two often collaborated), who used it initially in a short story." Robotics coined 1941 in a science fiction context by Isaac Asimov, who proposed the "Three Laws of Robotics" in 1968.
I think there already was a browser called Phoenix once upon a time, but they had to change the name do to some trademark issue. Can't remember what it's called now. How about something that still captures the idea behind the Phoenix but won't get Mozilla into trademark trouble... like Firebird.
It's not the distribution part that makes your code have to be licensed under the GPL, it's the derived work part.
From my understanding, Nvidia wrote Windows drivers and then ported them to Linux, creating a GPL wrapper as an extra layer of protection. The drivers obviously aren't derived works of Linux if they were written for Windows.
I'll admit it's a complicated issue, but I have to disagree with you. I don't think anything can be said for certain until their is some case law to back either side.
What you're suggesting is that GPL licensing your code doesn't protect it at all because I can just isolate any GPL code from my non-GPL application and link to it dynamically.
That's a pretty strong statement to make.
The reason people can link to glibc and libreadline without GPLing their apps is because they are writing their application against a generic interface. Just because I happen to be linking to glibc doesn't GPL my app--it could just as easily compile against any other standard C library (quirks aside). The same goes for libreadline. libreadline used to be the only interface for "readline" but now it's become more generic since theirs a BSD clone of it. You can now link an app against libreadline without GPLing it, because it could just as easily have been linked against libedit.
In Microsoft speak a RC is a feature complete product, parts are still buggy but the capabilities are in, they still reservice the right to add features but will not remove them.
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That's not necessary! If it's important enough, they'll post it twice!
KGB Wants Control of Email and VOIP
The FSB (really just a rebadged KGB) is worried about the abilities...
FSB Wants Control of Email and VOIP
The FSB (successor to the KGB) is worried about the abilities...
See what I did there? All of the facts, none of the bias!
It's east of chili, duh.
Don't pretend that getting rid of Saddam was a good thing when you put him there in the first place.
And let's not forget the last time you tried to "help" Iran you ousted an elected leader, eventually leading to the current situation in Iran.
It's the "world policing" that got us here in the first place, so maybe it's finally time to step back and let things run their course.
I had forgotten about Neverending Story 3. Thanks a lot, asshole!
It's awfully close to the estimated world population.
In decimal, the number is 6,830,770,643. According to Wikipedia, the United States Census Bureau estimates the world population to be 6,872,800,000.
Reading the USPTO article today I realised that this actually already happens with genetically modified seed, so nevermind! Apparently the legal base for us not being able to resell our cars is already there.
This ruling has the potential to strip the right of first sale from all future books, magazines, CDs, DVDs, etc.
Think outside the box a little. Imagine if the next car you bought licensed to you the right to use the patents the car uses.
It's hardly spam or even a tactic. It's just a query string.
Not to mention that there are all sorts of searches on all sorts of sites that turn up in Google search results. It's annoying and generally useless. I wish Google would so something to fix it.
I never made it past the kicking and screaming part :-).
I think focus stealing is the single biggest vulnerability in any OS I've used.
I still haven't sent my password over IM, but I can't count the number of times I've started typing my password into a window that just stole focus, including IM.
I know, what the fuck??
After reading the first sentence my first guess was one of Crohn's, ulcerative colitis, or irritable bowel syndrome, leaning towards Crohn's because of the apparent severity.
How can this not have been diagnosed?
Hey, either way you should give him a break. At least he actually quoted it right... well, except the fungus part.
I don't disagree that Microsoft has cleaned up their act or that they're products have fewer vulnerabilities, but I wanted to clarify something.
The numbers you are quoting are discovered vulnerabilities, not vulnerabilities.
One could argue that the Firefox team, for example, are simply better at finding vulnerabilities or that because Firefox is open source it allows for more vulnerabilities to be discovered.
My old Tripod password was hkyxxt, but they deleted my account about 10 years ago :-(
et cetera, et cetera
Yeah, I found the relation to German "arbeit" interesting.
I wish I would have took some linguistic and phonology classes while I was in university. I took a class on words with Greek and Latin roots and a few entry level language classes, but that's it.
Interesting. Here's what etymonline.com has to say. Apologies for those that don't read etymology definitions often... they can be somewhat confusing sometimes. This one isn't too bad.
1923, from Eng. translation of 1920 play "R.U.R." ("Rossum's Universal Robots"), by Karel Capek (1890-1938), from Czech robotnik "slave," from robota "forced labor, drudgery," from robotiti "to work, drudge," from an Old Czech source akin to Old Church Slavonic rabota "servitude," from rabu "slave" (see orphan), from a Slavic stem related to Ger. Arbeit "work" (O.H.G. arabeit). According to Rawson the word was popularized by Karel Capek's play, "but was coined by his brother Josef (the two often collaborated), who used it initially in a short story." Robotics coined 1941 in a science fiction context by Isaac Asimov, who proposed the "Three Laws of Robotics" in 1968.
I like to mod those posts up so people start to wonder if the story is actually true.
It's my own little April Fools joke.
You must be new here.
I think there already was a browser called Phoenix once upon a time, but they had to change the name do to some trademark issue. Can't remember what it's called now. How about something that still captures the idea behind the Phoenix but won't get Mozilla into trademark trouble... like Firebird.
That took you thirty seconds?
It's not the distribution part that makes your code have to be licensed under the GPL, it's the derived work part.
From my understanding, Nvidia wrote Windows drivers and then ported them to Linux, creating a GPL wrapper as an extra layer of protection. The drivers obviously aren't derived works of Linux if they were written for Windows.
I'll admit it's a complicated issue, but I have to disagree with you. I don't think anything can be said for certain until their is some case law to back either side.
What you're suggesting is that GPL licensing your code doesn't protect it at all because I can just isolate any GPL code from my non-GPL application and link to it dynamically.
That's a pretty strong statement to make.
The reason people can link to glibc and libreadline without GPLing their apps is because they are writing their application against a generic interface . Just because I happen to be linking to glibc doesn't GPL my app--it could just as easily compile against any other standard C library (quirks aside). The same goes for libreadline. libreadline used to be the only interface for "readline" but now it's become more generic since theirs a BSD clone of it. You can now link an app against libreadline without GPLing it, because it could just as easily have been linked against libedit.
Ohhh... so it's a beta!