Actually I saw a tv show where cops were doing a prostitution sting. One guy was driving by and told a cop, posing as a prostitute, that he'd be back next week. He got arrested. The cops were arresting people just for even hinting that they were interested. I forget the State where this happened.
I think this is so common because of the flat refusal of many organizations to pay programmers and administrators anything close what they're worth. You get what you pay for, but nobody seems to care.
The difference is that the software license is most likely misplaced somewhere within the company. I guess you'd rather pay a lawyer $10,000 than just roll up your sleeves and do some digging yourself. Why would anyone steal a useless piece of paper?
Well that's a criminal situation, not civil. Nevertheless, $5 for each download you provide might come to a few thousand dollars over a short time, which is what the RIAA extorts from typical culprits.
Believe it or not, a lot of people use public transit in L.A. Probably more than any other U.S. city except N.Y. and Chicago. It's just that most of public transit is buses. The L.A. to S.F. railline might get built if the potential contracters pay off the right politicians. Amtrak from L.A. to S.F. is even slower than Greyhound, which makes Amtrak out west pretty useless, except for the scenery. However, one little secret out west is that the Greyhound buses are clean and not full of smelly weird-os like back east.
Actually, I think/media is a good idea. The RPM requirement is why I think LSB just doesn't fly. Companies that make proprietary stuff available for Linux usually make it available under the "Unix" umbrella, and so the install has to happen at a place common to both Unix and Linux, usually a tarball that inflates onto/usr or/usr/local via a shell script. It's not a big deal for them, AFAICT. PHBs don't decide where programs are installed.
I did this at Best Buy once. I bought two floor-standing speakers there (yeah, I was on crack). The clerk who help me and took my money for the speakers was helping me get the speakers to the door. I hoisted one speaker onto my shoulder and began walking out of the store. They asked to see my receipt. I told them I just bought it from the clerk standing right next to me, and proceeded to take the first speaker to my car. I return to the store for the second speaker, and was met by two more Best Buy kids, who insisted I show the receipt. I did show them my receipt, but only after I retrieved the speaker from my car and returned them for a refund. To make it all worse, some lady thought out loud as she was leaving "it's not a big deal." I almost cussed her out, but decided to ignore the little sheep instead.
"People lose copyright cases all the time over standing issues."
Please. This is true for almost all lawsuits, regardless of their nature, whether in small claims court or federal court. It's a truism. You guys keep saying it over and over like it's a big deal. It's not. It happens everyday. It doesn't help your argument either. If you can prove that someone copied a work, that you created the work, and that the work is copyrightable, and that their copying goes beyond fair use, then most judges won't dismiss your case (there are always exceptions, of course). If this is not true, then please cite an example. I'm sure there is one example, but I'm certain you can't even cite one because it's rare that valid copyright infringement claims get thrown out. And "I hear about this all the time" is not an example.
You didn't contradict the grandparent. Your first example doesn't have the effect you expect, because it's rather trivial to show that you created a certain work, in whole or in part, and no judge is going to let someone copy it for free because of a technicality you imagined. In your second example, you claim the GPL might apply too much (which is far from being invalid). Could you give some better examples?
Tridge should not "break his silence" unless it benefits him, not the curiosty of others. Participating in childish squabbles makes you seem childish. Everyone knows that Tridge can do whatever the hell he wants, and contracts to which he isn't party should not be his concern.
As someone who is not in the publishing business, I have seen maybe two instances where the use of PDF made sense over alternatives like [fucking] HTML or [fucking] JPG.
Actually I think PDFs are underused. I'd rather get a PDF than a MS Word file, or broken HTML. And it's hard to read text in a JPG.
Please. You get scientists to do all the peer reviewing for FREE(!), they write the papers according to your guidelines for FREE, and everything else. You just make a high quality print outs and charge $10,000/year for a quarterly publication. Your days are numbered. Scientists aren't fools, and are major cheap-asses compared to PHBs.
Note the image of the batteries says "50% longer lasting" but the journalist says "twice as long". His digital camera test actually confirms the 50% longer, for 844/566 = 1.49.
There is a lot of evidence from higher ups in the national security establishment that says otherwise. This is unprecedented, isn't it? There are contradictory statements on video. About impeachment: Reagan wasn't impeached for Iran-Contra, even though I, as a silly kid, honestly expected it. The media didn't even suggest it might happen. The spineless Democrats didn't have the guts to impeach such a popular president. Everyone knows Reagan lied-- how can you claim you don't remember whether you committed a felony? Clinton lied about sex and got impeached.
Dude, it's not impossible to admit that GW lies and still support him. It's fairly common for people to support politicians despite the lies. You can admit that someone is flawed, or criminal, and still love their policies and support them.
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Firefox isn't innovating?
Canadian diamonds are controlled by DeBeers.
Evidence?
Actually I saw a tv show where cops were doing a prostitution sting. One guy was driving by and told a cop, posing as a prostitute, that he'd be back next week. He got arrested. The cops were arresting people just for even hinting that they were interested. I forget the State where this happened.
I think this is so common because of the flat refusal of many organizations to pay programmers and administrators anything close what they're worth. You get what you pay for, but nobody seems to care.
The difference with paris hilton is that it was the best thing for her career, and she really appreciates it.
My point was the the paper was useless to the former employee, so I wouldn't expect him to steal it. Of course it's useful to the employer.
The difference is that the software license is most likely misplaced somewhere within the company. I guess you'd rather pay a lawyer $10,000 than just roll up your sleeves and do some digging yourself. Why would anyone steal a useless piece of paper?
Well that's a criminal situation, not civil. Nevertheless, $5 for each download you provide might come to a few thousand dollars over a short time, which is what the RIAA extorts from typical culprits.
Obvious question: Is libstdc++ GPLv2.
Believe it or not, a lot of people use public transit in L.A. Probably more than any other U.S. city except N.Y. and Chicago. It's just that most of public transit is buses. The L.A. to S.F. railline might get built if the potential contracters pay off the right politicians. Amtrak from L.A. to S.F. is even slower than Greyhound, which makes Amtrak out west pretty useless, except for the scenery. However, one little secret out west is that the Greyhound buses are clean and not full of smelly weird-os like back east.
No. 50-60 years ago, U.S. train infrastructure was being dismantled for the sake of the car industry.
Actually, I think /media is a good idea. The RPM requirement is why I think LSB just doesn't fly. Companies that make proprietary stuff available for Linux usually make it available under the "Unix" umbrella, and so the install has to happen at a place common to both Unix and Linux, usually a tarball that inflates onto /usr or /usr/local via a shell script. It's not a big deal for them, AFAICT. PHBs don't decide where programs are installed.
I did this at Best Buy once. I bought two floor-standing speakers there (yeah, I was on crack). The clerk who help me and took my money for the speakers was helping me get the speakers to the door. I hoisted one speaker onto my shoulder and began walking out of the store. They asked to see my receipt. I told them I just bought it from the clerk standing right next to me, and proceeded to take the first speaker to my car. I return to the store for the second speaker, and was met by two more Best Buy kids, who insisted I show the receipt. I did show them my receipt, but only after I retrieved the speaker from my car and returned them for a refund. To make it all worse, some lady thought out loud as she was leaving "it's not a big deal." I almost cussed her out, but decided to ignore the little sheep instead.
"People lose copyright cases all the time over standing issues."
Please. This is true for almost all lawsuits, regardless of their nature, whether in small claims court or federal court. It's a truism. You guys keep saying it over and over like it's a big deal. It's not. It happens everyday. It doesn't help your argument either. If you can prove that someone copied a work, that you created the work, and that the work is copyrightable, and that their copying goes beyond fair use, then most judges won't dismiss your case (there are always exceptions, of course). If this is not true, then please cite an example. I'm sure there is one example, but I'm certain you can't even cite one because it's rare that valid copyright infringement claims get thrown out. And "I hear about this all the time" is not an example.
You didn't contradict the grandparent. Your first example doesn't have the effect you expect, because it's rather trivial to show that you created a certain work, in whole or in part, and no judge is going to let someone copy it for free because of a technicality you imagined. In your second example, you claim the GPL might apply too much (which is far from being invalid). Could you give some better examples?
Tridgel didn't break any deal. You can't break a deal you didn't agree to. This is not hard to understand.
Bitkeeper exists almost solely to support Linux development.
Now that Bitkeeper won't be used for the kernel anymore, will it cease to exist? Or maybe Bitkeeper exists for other reasons?
Tridge should not "break his silence" unless it benefits him, not the curiosty of others. Participating in childish squabbles makes you seem childish. Everyone knows that Tridge can do whatever the hell he wants, and contracts to which he isn't party should not be his concern.
Linux clearly benefitted from Bitkeeper. And Bitkeeper probably [emphasis added] benefitted from all the publicity.
Did you read what you just wrote? This might help explain your bias.
As someone who is not in the publishing business, I have seen maybe two instances where the use of PDF made sense over alternatives like [fucking] HTML or [fucking] JPG.
Actually I think PDFs are underused. I'd rather get a PDF than a MS Word file, or broken HTML. And it's hard to read text in a JPG.
Please. You get scientists to do all the peer reviewing for FREE(!), they write the papers according to your guidelines for FREE, and everything else. You just make a high quality print outs and charge $10,000/year for a quarterly publication. Your days are numbered. Scientists aren't fools, and are major cheap-asses compared to PHBs.
So Bruce, are you going to make a more public statement about this?
Why not have a 16 digit number, like credit cards do, so that you can change it and invalidate the old one if your identity gets stolen.
The gov't would have a hard time accepting such ease in changing one's identity. Moreover, it would inconvenience creditors.
Note the image of the batteries says "50% longer lasting" but the journalist says "twice as long". His digital camera test actually confirms the 50% longer, for 844/566 = 1.49.
There is a lot of evidence from higher ups in the national security establishment that says otherwise. This is unprecedented, isn't it? There are contradictory statements on video. About impeachment: Reagan wasn't impeached for Iran-Contra, even though I, as a silly kid, honestly expected it. The media didn't even suggest it might happen. The spineless Democrats didn't have the guts to impeach such a popular president. Everyone knows Reagan lied-- how can you claim you don't remember whether you committed a felony? Clinton lied about sex and got impeached. Dude, it's not impossible to admit that GW lies and still support him. It's fairly common for people to support politicians despite the lies. You can admit that someone is flawed, or criminal, and still love their policies and support them.