Matt Zimmerman, who announced this preview on debian-devel, is a prominent debian developer and member of Debian's Security team, and I understand that other prominent Debian developers are also involved. There have also been other postings relating to Canonical and this distribution on the debian mailing lists over the last couple of months so it is not exactly out of the blue.
The difference of course is that normal taxes are progressive, the richer you are, the more you pay. Whereas with this both rich and poor will be paying the same surcharge so the poor will be hit harder as a percentage of their income.
Regardless, GPL software has the restrictions that it has, but it can never become more restrictive. An upgrade can't take away freedoms that I enjoyed with an older version.
This is simply not true. Any license can be changed with the consent of all the copyright holders. With GPL software like the kernel, this is simply infeasible due to the large number of contributors. But if all of the copyright is controlled by a single company, this is trivial. The community can always fork from the last GPL release, but the community could also continue to use Movable Type pre3.0 plus [increasingly complex] patches. If they can't than they never had any freedom in the first place, regardless an upgrade didn't take away freedoms[except as could also happen if the software were GPL].
F. In an effort to track usage and maintain accurate records of the
Subject Software, each Recipient, upon receipt of the Subject
Software, is requested to register with NASA by visiting the following
website: ______________________________. Recipient's name and
personal information shall be used for statistical purposes only. Once
a Recipient makes a Modification available, it is requested that the
Recipient inform NASA at the web site provided above how to access the
Modification.
Whether the recipient must register is open to interpretation, but other than this clause there doesn't seem to be much reason not to use the GPL.
Because then closed source companies would not be able to use the code, and they helped pay for it.
Excerpted from NASA's license:
3. OBLIGATIONS OF RECIPIENT
[snip]
2. If Recipient distributes or redistributes the Subject Software in
any form other than source code, Recipient must also make the
source code freely available, and must provide with each copy of
the Subject Software information on how to obtain the source code
in a reasonable manner on or through a medium customarily used for
software exchange.
The reason that they don't what to use the GPL is because they want every recipient to register with NASA that they have recieved the software. A more onerous condition I have trouble imagining and I sincerely hope that this license is never blessed as an open source license[though it is a step in the right direction].
Additionally, one of the project types is 'Personal Project / Homework Help'(emph. mine). I can't really imagine a situation where solicitating this sort of help on a website wouldn't be considered cheating by most computer science professors/teachers.
They also inspect bridges once a year to see if there are any problems. Recently, a bridge near me was closed for a couple of months because this inspection turned up a large crack that needed emergency maintaince. I don't see how this is much different than having to patch software for bugs.
Another bridge near me did fall down a couple of years ago due to flooding.
The mice will also have a feature that lets people switch between open applications by pressing down on the scroll wheel instead of using the keyboard.
But many applications already use the middle mouse button[aka pressing down on the scroll wheel] for various functions.
<conspiracy theory>
Microsoft is doing this in order to make tab browsing[and/or mouse gestures] in Mozilla less appealing to consumers. If they copied the features wholesale than everyone would see that they were playing 'catch-up' and they would consequently no longer be viewed as 'innovators' so instead they are trying to break their competitors functionality. Using a mouse button to change apps also doesn't seem as clean to me as dragging the mouse off the side of the screen to get a seperate fully-setup desktop.
</conspiracy theory>
All they have to do is sign the data with a 1024-bit GPG key, then they just have to distribute the public key to everywhere that needs to read the data. As long as they don't try to reinvent the wheel...
Although it wasn't stated implicitly in the article, I'd imagine that the author could easily have READ some of the books in question (or at least excerpts). Have you done the same?
The books are presumably in Russian, unless the author knows Russian...
C. After Microsoft refuses, and they release their exploits, and Microsoft inevitably accuses them of piracy, they can retort that they tried other avenues to run linux and were rebuffed and so this was their only option to enable a legitimate use of the XBox.
But it has already been proved in the affirmative
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Six Monkeys And An Old Saw
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I did this little experiment. A hundred million years ago I started with a couple of million monkeys, and I let them go to see what would happen. They got off to a slow start and didn't do much for a long time except have sex and eat and sleep. But then, after waiting long enough, one of these monkey's descendents had a kid named William Shakespeare and he sat down and produced the complete works of William Shakespeare. Thereby proving my theorem, an infinite number of monkeys, given an infinite amount a time, will produce the complete works of William Shakespeare. And I didn't even need an infinite amount of either monkeys or time.
Well, if each selection of 6 numbers had a 1 in 56 chance of winning the jackpot and that cost me a dollar, then spending 60 bucks pretty much guarantees that I'll win the jackpot. I could still lose of course, but such a loss would be unlikely.
I assumed people would realize that 1 ticket costs a buck.
You better check your math before playing the lottery.:) You have a 1 in 56.5 chance of winning for each dollar played, so you have a 55.5 in 56.5 chance of losing. The odds of you losing 60 times is (55.5/56.5)^60=34%. Hardly guaranteed. In order to be 'almost guaranteed'[have better than a 99.5% chance] you would have to bet roughly $297.
C. elegans go into hibernation[dauer state] when they run out of food. Given exponential population growth, it is unlikely the food on a petri dish would hold out more than 4 or 5 generations.
Traditionally, universities already are fast and loose about copyright law. When I was at Uni, many classes had course packets. They are several hundred pages of nothing but photocopies of copyrighted works. The professor drops them off at a copy store[ie Kinko's], and you go in and order a copy, and then come back later to pick up the packet. This is an effort to mantain the fiction that you are asking the copy store to make a personal copy for you which is allowed under fair use. In reality, the copy stores just make the packets in one run for the whole class and then sell them, something which if they were up front about how they did it would be a clear violation of copyright law.
What I don't understand is that Spirited Away was released in 2001. How exactly is it getting nominated for an award for the movies of 2002? The 2002 release was nothing more than a glorified dub of a foreign film.
You know what the truly funny part is? They didn't even have their Caps Lock key on. They wrote the whole text normally and then used css text-transform to have the browser make it uppercase. It took skill for them to make the web page that annoying to read...
What release exactly does Linux Debian r5 refer to? Debian numbers their releases #.# with security updates appended with r#. Are they refering to 2.2r5, which is Potato with known security holes[since Potato's last security release was 2.2r7], not exactly what paranoid people have on their system[and Woody isn't even at r1]. And with arch are the md5sums supposed to be for since presumably every arch would have a different md5sum[you would assume i386, but nothing says for sure on the site]?
What makes you think that mozilla doesn't run on Windows 95? About a month ago while my real computer was down for repairs, I was using my old computer which had Windows 95 installed, and mozilla ran fine. It was a little slow, but I think that that is more easily attributable to the fact that it was a 166 with 32MB of ram[Phoenix which is the same general code base for a lot of the back end ran fast enough to be nicely useable].
I just heard on Car Talk that they decided to send 3.1 yogurt lids to AOL. Essentially, they were going to run a promotional campaign for some cause by printing a message on yogurt lids. The problem was that they put NPR on the lids(since they air on NPR) without clearing it with NPR. When NPR found out they said that the lids couldn't be distributed because NPR didn't want to be seen associated with a commercial product. So Click and Clack were stuck with 3.1 million lids that they didn't have anything to with. They had a contest to come up with the best use for them and the winning entry was "Send them to AOL and see how they feel".
Did you read the link? I guess not since this is Slashdot...
FAQ 2. You said this is a lean, lightweight browser, but it's 8MB! I laugh at your silly lies!
Take it easy, sport. Phoenix has many files that override those in Mozilla, but it also has a new set of files. These files render a ton of files in Mozilla unnecessary, but we haven't yet stopped packaging the old files. It also still contains the modern theme and all the composer UI. In short, we haven't done any work yet to minimize the size, but we expect to be able to hit 6MB with a little work.
This is a good sign. We were sorely technologically overmatched in the war in Afghanistan so it is good to see that we will be spending a couple of trillion more dollars improving our weaponry.
Isn't it entirely possible to make a device that demonstrates some principle, but have no understanding of the underlying principle? There is also the comparison of people 'discovering' the Americas before Columbus. Sure, people might have been here before him, but Columus is the one that got the ball rolling as far as Western civilization is concerned and made things happen because of his 'discovery'.
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This isn't a masochistic game, you win by scoring above 0, and lose by scoring less than 0. In Tit for Tat v Traitor, they both lose.
Matt Zimmerman, who announced this preview on debian-devel, is a prominent debian developer and member of Debian's Security team, and I understand that other prominent Debian developers are also involved. There have also been other postings relating to Canonical and this distribution on the debian mailing lists over the last couple of months so it is not exactly out of the blue.
The difference of course is that normal taxes are progressive, the richer you are, the more you pay. Whereas with this both rich and poor will be paying the same surcharge so the poor will be hit harder as a percentage of their income.
Excerpted from NASA's license:
The reason that they don't what to use the GPL is because they want every recipient to register with NASA that they have recieved the software. A more onerous condition I have trouble imagining and I sincerely hope that this license is never blessed as an open source license[though it is a step in the right direction].
Additionally, one of the project types is 'Personal Project / Homework Help'(emph. mine). I can't really imagine a situation where solicitating this sort of help on a website wouldn't be considered cheating by most computer science professors/teachers.
Another bridge near me did fall down a couple of years ago due to flooding.
<conspiracy theory>
Microsoft is doing this in order to make tab browsing[and/or mouse gestures] in Mozilla less appealing to consumers. If they copied the features wholesale than everyone would see that they were playing 'catch-up' and they would consequently no longer be viewed as 'innovators' so instead they are trying to break their competitors functionality. Using a mouse button to change apps also doesn't seem as clean to me as dragging the mouse off the side of the screen to get a seperate fully-setup desktop.
</conspiracy theory>
All they have to do is sign the data with a 1024-bit GPG key, then they just have to distribute the public key to everywhere that needs to read the data. As long as they don't try to reinvent the wheel...
C. After Microsoft refuses, and they release their exploits, and Microsoft inevitably accuses them of piracy, they can retort that they tried other avenues to run linux and were rebuffed and so this was their only option to enable a legitimate use of the XBox.
I did this little experiment. A hundred million years ago I started with a couple of million monkeys, and I let them go to see what would happen. They got off to a slow start and didn't do much for a long time except have sex and eat and sleep. But then, after waiting long enough, one of these monkey's descendents had a kid named William Shakespeare and he sat down and produced the complete works of William Shakespeare. Thereby proving my theorem, an infinite number of monkeys, given an infinite amount a time, will produce the complete works of William Shakespeare. And I didn't even need an infinite amount of either monkeys or time.
I assumed people would realize that 1 ticket costs a buck.
You better check your math before playing the lottery. :) You have a 1 in 56.5 chance of winning for each dollar played, so you have a 55.5 in 56.5 chance of losing. The odds of you losing 60 times is (55.5/56.5)^60=34%. Hardly guaranteed. In order to be 'almost guaranteed'[have better than a 99.5% chance] you would have to bet roughly $297.
C. elegans go into hibernation[dauer state] when they run out of food. Given exponential population growth, it is unlikely the food on a petri dish would hold out more than 4 or 5 generations.
Traditionally, universities already are fast and loose about copyright law. When I was at Uni, many classes had course packets. They are several hundred pages of nothing but photocopies of copyrighted works. The professor drops them off at a copy store[ie Kinko's], and you go in and order a copy, and then come back later to pick up the packet. This is an effort to mantain the fiction that you are asking the copy store to make a personal copy for you which is allowed under fair use. In reality, the copy stores just make the packets in one run for the whole class and then sell them, something which if they were up front about how they did it would be a clear violation of copyright law.
What I don't understand is that Spirited Away was released in 2001. How exactly is it getting nominated for an award for the movies of 2002? The 2002 release was nothing more than a glorified dub of a foreign film.
You know what the truly funny part is? They didn't even have their Caps Lock key on. They wrote the whole text normally and then used css text-transform to have the browser make it uppercase. It took skill for them to make the web page that annoying to read...
What release exactly does Linux Debian r5 refer to? Debian numbers their releases #.# with security updates appended with r#. Are they refering to 2.2r5, which is Potato with known security holes[since Potato's last security release was 2.2r7], not exactly what paranoid people have on their system[and Woody isn't even at r1]. And with arch are the md5sums supposed to be for since presumably every arch would have a different md5sum[you would assume i386, but nothing says for sure on the site]?
What makes you think that mozilla doesn't run on Windows 95? About a month ago while my real computer was down for repairs, I was using my old computer which had Windows 95 installed, and mozilla ran fine. It was a little slow, but I think that that is more easily attributable to the fact that it was a 166 with 32MB of ram[Phoenix which is the same general code base for a lot of the back end ran fast enough to be nicely useable].
I just heard on Car Talk that they decided to send 3.1 yogurt lids to AOL. Essentially, they were going to run a promotional campaign for some cause by printing a message on yogurt lids. The problem was that they put NPR on the lids(since they air on NPR) without clearing it with NPR. When NPR found out they said that the lids couldn't be distributed because NPR didn't want to be seen associated with a commercial product. So Click and Clack were stuck with 3.1 million lids that they didn't have anything to with. They had a contest to come up with the best use for them and the winning entry was "Send them to AOL and see how they feel".
Yeh, I am glad that we have right-wing groups like the ACLU standing up for free speech in the US.
Did you read the link? I guess not since this is Slashdot...
FAQ
2. You said this is a lean, lightweight browser, but it's 8MB! I laugh at your silly lies!
Take it easy, sport. Phoenix has many files that override those in Mozilla, but it also has a new set of files. These files render a ton of files in Mozilla unnecessary, but we haven't yet stopped packaging the old files. It also still contains the modern theme and all the composer UI. In short, we haven't done any work yet to minimize the size, but we expect to be able to hit 6MB with a little work.
This is a good sign. We were sorely technologically overmatched in the war in Afghanistan so it is good to see that we will be spending a couple of trillion more dollars improving our weaponry.
Isn't it entirely possible to make a device that demonstrates some principle, but have no understanding of the underlying principle? There is also the comparison of people 'discovering' the Americas before Columbus. Sure, people might have been here before him, but Columus is the one that got the ball rolling as far as Western civilization is concerned and made things happen because of his 'discovery'.