Now they will catch everyone who flies less than once a year, or is otherwise just a bit nervous with the idea of flying as false positives.
Off course if one does fly on a weekly basis nothing happens. But that is not the case for one getting on board to a city one had never been before, possibly to be met by people unknown to the moment.
Speaking for myself: I would fail this tests everytime - I am never too calm on a flight.
The FSF sends in a bodyguard team to care for DVD Jon's well being. It won't be long before assassination atempts against him by corporate minions begin.
I can barely believe the fuzz slashdot (or Americans in general) are doing about this issue.
I am in Brazil, and here daylight savings time has never been a "stable" issue - I often've found my boxes to go an hour early ablut two weeks after the daylight saving s time was efective (and I had by them updated it by hand).
No one ever got injured by issues like this - this is no y2k - which also proved to be not much of an issue.
The Itau bank around here is doing two different things: for persons, they just delivered a card with a table with about 200 pairs of number-keys. At login time, the bank the site spill a number, and you have to answer back the same number from your personall table.
For corporate accounts the same banck delivered a small keyring device with an LCD. You press a button in it before you login, and the bank sends you wirelessly a secret number that you will have to type in at login. I guess the device uses the cel phone network.
The local IBM's LTC (Linux Technology Center) had even started working on a OS/2 emulation layer for Linux - about one month later the project was pulled by the internal lawyers.
In windows licenses alone, you would spend at least U$25000.00, not to say about other programs, and the whole virus/spyware mess. Is not that money enough to develop the functionalities you need from this application as a Free Software program?
I can only see this as a "win - win" alternative - you spend less and keep control of your IT.
The GPL is clear enough - beware not to spread FUD
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On the other hand, the GPL is just clear enough, that anyone reading it knows when he is in wrong doing.
That is why there are so few trials involving the GPL in court: violators tend to make agreements before it even gets there.
It happened just last month around here: on a list I subscribe too tehre are some lawyers who suypport Free Software. One of the members of the list noted that one program a large internet provider offered for free (beer) download for its subscribers was actually a renamed and closed GPLed Software. We on the list had the same doubt as the article proposes: in name of whom should we send a letter to the violators? The developers of said program were all from abroad - they might not even get interested in getting involved. Moreover, for the local lawyers to be able to legaly represent the foreigner developers, there would be quite a lot of bureaucratic entanglements.
So, on the list, we decided just to send a lawyer letter pointing that their software was violating the GPL - said lawyer was representing no one in particular. Ok, it took some phone calls besides the letter, but in no much time, they complied and released the source code for downloading, as required by the license.
So, IMHO, IANAL, ETC, even when a case actually gets into trial, a single developer, with no more than a few dozen lines of code, involved in the proccess is more than enough for the wrongdoing to get characterized.
Actually GCC has some thing rather specific to it: it is inhrently rather different for each platform it works on.
The GIMP has got nice, clean, multiplatform code, but for some specifc parts - and in these parts, the only code that differs is Windows code (and OS/2 for that matter). So most platform differences are ignored. GCC on the other hand HAS to know about every detail and implement it for each target platform it works on.
I track development of The GIMP - it just compiles fine in all "strange minor platforms", and a recent chain of Bugs in Irix compiling was resolved overnight - a matter of the Irix user reporting the bugs, and the core developers commiting the fixes.
However, there is a non minor and weird platform which actually does generate a lot of trafic on the list, and is strange for most developers. Anyoen checking The GIMP bugizlla will find a lot of open bugs for Microsoft Windows Plataform. That however, doesn't slow the project either. It simply goes on, and the developers who work on Compiling and making the windows installer do what they can for the work arounds.
"And crucially, the effect only works when the wavelength of the light being scattered is roughly the same size as the object. So shielding from visible light would be possible only for microscopic objects; larger ones could be hidden only to long-wavelength radiation such as microwaves. This means that the technology could not be used to hide people or vehicles from human vision."
Actually, there has been a lenghty e-mail on gimp-developers list this week about this.
Some ideas to speed up startup, by just not reading all data-files (brushes, patterns, palettes) straight.
Some work will have to go on it on the next development cycle (and noone prompted to do so yet), and them, startup times will be enhanced -but IMO the splash screen will still be a goodie.
Hey - it's an image manipulation program, the splash screen is kind of part of it - not like this is a splash for some e-mail app.
Hey... If you are planing not to vote, might I ask you in behalf of the "rest of the world"?
It may be a little known fact that "the rest of us" doesn't exactly like the US to go bombing the coutnry with the most Oil, or other natural resources, using any lie your leaders thinks will fit (WMD anyone?).
So, since you are not using you right to choose anyway, could I ask you, in behalf of the 90% or so of the World who wants a saner leadership to your contry to vote for the other guy?
It'd be inside my next computer, and inside every computer I advise buying from now on.
I am a free Software man, as in GPL, and having half-functional video cards bothers me a lot!
Our government is changing to Free Software, and we can't get a 100% Free working system due to video driver issues - it is just a shame on video card manufacturers.
Come on...I can stop complaining because this week I got a satnd-alone DVD player, and when I went to watch a _legal_ movie on it, because it was connected to an old TV-set, and the only way to do that is to have a VCR to modulate the signal, Macrovision Protection(tm) kicked in, and I could not enjoy the movie at all.
We are _already_ slaves to the Media companies. Perceive that none of this crap will stop some "Pirate Cappo" who cashes in 100.000 East Asia Bootleg Disks a week - this guy can pay people to bypass wahtever protetcion they put in it.
It just stop us - ordinary people - from making perfectly legal things, like quote some seconds of a video to a lecture, or whatever.
I had just used POV-Ray today, after many months. Just because I needed certain texture detail GIMP lightning effects could not do for me.
I use POV since 80386/DOS days...and while working my way through it today I concluded that nowadays I would never have gotten the resources (time/persistence) to learn it.
The FTAA - similar deal, but relating to the Americas, scheduled to be signed on early 2005, has a prevision for DMCA like anti-circunvention law requirements by all parties.
It, however, states that "Computer Programs" are not subject to patenteability.
It is on chapter XX of the third draft for the FTAA. Subsection B.2.c (Copyright and related rights), articles 21, 22, 23 contain the DMCAish stuff. Patents are described further bellow.
Altough "tritium" has got Portuguese counterpart, that would be "Trítio", the tranlsator decided instead to use the word "trício" as the Portuguese for "tritium". Needless to say, this word does not exist.
(ok, ok, suspension of belief - maybe "trício" was not tritium all the time, and hence, the "tritium" references are not to the chemical "tritium", and therefore, there is no error in there)
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Now they will catch everyone who flies less than once a year, or is otherwise just a bit nervous with the idea of flying as false positives.
Off course if one does fly on a weekly basis nothing happens. But that is not the case for one getting on board to a city one had never been before, possibly to be met by people unknown to the moment.
Speaking for myself: I would fail this tests everytime - I am never too calm on a flight.
The FSF sends in a bodyguard team to care for DVD Jon's well being. It won't be long before assassination atempts against him by corporate minions begin.
Since you own the copyright to your code, you can add an exception to the GPL that exempts plug-ins from being GPL compatible.
Read the GPL FAQ on www.gnu.org to undertand this better. The GIMP itself uses |GP in this way, since there are non-free plug-ins for it.
I can barely believe the fuzz slashdot (or Americans in general) are doing about this issue.
I am in Brazil, and here daylight savings time has never been a "stable" issue - I often've found my boxes to go an hour early ablut two weeks after the daylight saving s time was efective (and I had by them updated it by hand).
No one ever got injured by issues like this - this is no y2k - which also proved to be not much of an issue.
Yes it is.
The Itau bank around here is doing two different things:
for persons, they just delivered a card with a table with about 200 pairs of number-keys. At login time, the bank the site spill a number, and you have to answer back the same number from your personall table.
For corporate accounts the same banck delivered a small keyring device with an LCD. You press a button in it before you login, and the bank sends you wirelessly a secret number that you will have to type in at login. I guess the device uses the cel phone network.
Yup. Actually they really can't.
The local IBM's LTC (Linux Technology Center) had even started working on a OS/2 emulation layer for Linux - about one month later the project was pulled by the internal lawyers.
WOW!
...unthinkable...
....
I mean...WOW!!!
It is just like
This thread is just
justifying BODILY HARM as allright, while Copyright Infringiment as a shameless CRIME..And everybody AGREEING with it.
This is USA!
Go ahead - but please, keep it for yourselves.
In windows licenses alone, you would spend at least U$25000.00, not to say about other programs, and the whole virus/spyware mess. Is not that money enough to develop the functionalities you need from this application as a Free Software program?
I can only see this as a "win - win" alternative - you spend less and keep control of your IT.
On the other hand, the GPL is just clear enough, that anyone reading it knows when he is in wrong doing.
That is why there are so few trials involving the GPL in court: violators tend to make agreements before it even gets there.
It happened just last month around here: on a list I subscribe too tehre are some lawyers who suypport Free Software. One of the members of the list noted that one program a large internet provider offered for free (beer) download for its subscribers was actually a renamed and closed GPLed Software. We on the list had the same doubt as the article proposes: in name of whom should we send a letter to the violators? The developers of said program were all from abroad - they might not even get interested in getting involved. Moreover, for the local lawyers to be able to legaly represent the foreigner developers, there would be quite a lot of bureaucratic entanglements.
So, on the list, we decided just to send a lawyer letter pointing that their software was violating the GPL - said lawyer was representing no one in particular. Ok, it took some phone calls besides the letter, but in no much time, they complied and released the source code for downloading, as required by the license.
So, IMHO, IANAL, ETC, even when a case actually gets into trial, a single developer, with no more than a few dozen lines of code, involved in the proccess is more than enough for the wrongdoing to get characterized.
Actually GCC has some thing rather specific to it: it is inhrently rather different for each platform it works on.
The GIMP has got nice, clean, multiplatform code, but for some specifc parts - and in these parts, the only code that differs is Windows code (and OS/2 for that matter). So most platform differences are ignored. GCC on the other hand HAS to know about every detail and implement it for each target platform it works on.
I track development of The GIMP - it just compiles fine in all "strange minor platforms", and a recent chain of Bugs in Irix compiling was resolved overnight - a matter of the Irix user reporting the bugs, and the core developers commiting the fixes.
However, there is a non minor and weird platform which actually does generate a lot of trafic on the list, and is strange for most developers. Anyoen checking The GIMP bugizlla will find a lot of open bugs for Microsoft Windows Plataform. That however, doesn't slow the project either. It simply goes on, and the developers who work on Compiling and making the windows installer do what they can for the work arounds.
It is only another rat, from the drawing. I was expecting something really different and scary.
www.gimp.org
From the article:
"And crucially, the effect only works
when the wavelength of the light being scattered is roughly the same size as the object. So shielding from visible light would be possible only for microscopic objects; larger ones could be hidden only to long-wavelength radiation such as microwaves. This means that the technology could not be used to hide people or vehicles from human vision."
In the late 80's there was a radio program in Sao Paulo (The Sao Paulo University Radio, BTW), that did broadcast computer software at 2400bps.
IIRC it was some ZX-Spectrum games that they did transmit.
I myself never tried to tape the transmitions and use them, although.
Actually, there has been a lenghty e-mail on gimp-developers list this week about this.
Some ideas to speed up startup, by just not reading all data-files (brushes, patterns, palettes) straight.
Some work will have to go on it on the next development cycle (and noone prompted to do so yet), and them, startup times will be enhanced -but IMO the splash screen will still be a goodie.
Hey - it's an image manipulation program, the splash screen is kind of part of it - not like this is a splash for some e-mail app.
Hey...
If you are planing not to vote, might I ask you in behalf of the "rest of the world"?
It may be a little known fact that "the rest of us" doesn't exactly like the US to go bombing the coutnry with the most Oil, or other natural resources, using any lie your leaders thinks will fit (WMD anyone?).
So, since you are not using you right to choose anyway, could I ask you, in behalf of the 90% or so of the World who wants a saner leadership to your contry to vote for the other guy?
Many thanks.
It'd be inside my next computer, and inside every computer I advise buying from now on.
I am a free Software man, as in GPL, and having half-functional video cards bothers me a lot!
Our government is changing to Free Software, and we can't get a 100% Free working system due to video driver issues - it is just a shame on video card manufacturers.
[gwidion@localhost gwidion]$ ps aux|wc -l
105
Hmm...I guess I would not fit.
+1 Funny
Come on...I can stop complaining because this week I got a satnd-alone DVD player, and when I went to watch a _legal_ movie on it, because it was connected to an old TV-set, and the only way to do that is to have a VCR to modulate the signal, Macrovision Protection(tm) kicked in, and I could not enjoy the movie at all.
We are _already_ slaves to the Media companies. Perceive that none of this crap will stop some "Pirate Cappo" who cashes in 100.000 East Asia Bootleg Disks a week - this guy can pay people to bypass wahtever protetcion they put in it.
It just stop us - ordinary people - from making perfectly legal things, like quote some seconds of a video to a lecture, or whatever.
I had just used POV-Ray today, after many months. Just because I needed certain texture detail GIMP lightning effects could not do for me.
I use POV since 80386/DOS days...and while working my way through it today I concluded that nowadays I would never have gotten the resources (time/persistence) to learn it.
The FTAA - similar deal, but relating to the Americas, scheduled to be signed on early 2005, has a prevision for DMCA like anti-circunvention law requirements by all parties.
It, however, states that "Computer Programs" are not subject to patenteability.
It is on chapter XX of the third draft for the FTAA. Subsection B.2.c (Copyright and related rights), articles 21, 22, 23 contain the DMCAish stuff. Patents are described further bellow.
Altough "tritium" has got Portuguese counterpart, that would be "Trítio", the tranlsator decided instead to use the word "trício" as the Portuguese for "tritium". Needless to say, this word does not exist.
(ok, ok, suspension of belief - maybe "trício" was not tritium all the time, and hence, the "tritium" references are not to the chemical "tritium", and therefore, there is no error in there)