*Ahem* Its not just Mumbai, but the whole state of Maharashtra that has banned plastics
I live in Pune, about 120km east of Mumbai and its the same. Its strange not to get straws to drink soda in McDonalds now. But a good change anyways. The country is getting littered way too much.
This Maps feature actually came out of work to make directions useful in countries and regions where street addresses don't really exist, notably much of India.
Yeah here in India this feature has been on for long time and is quite useful, Indian streets are not visibly named at all and many have no discernible numbering system. Its hardly a new feature just new to US probably
Same here.... It was my fun activity to keep saying "loading loading loading.... " while the message was being displayed as the code loaded from the audio cassette.
Of course I was just a 8 year old back then
But we never upgraded it, my father simply put together a 386 system with a green chroma monitor (also freed up our TV for actual tv viewing).
You have to prove that the accused actually did wilful act of copying the copyrighted material (or at least accuse can to disprove it). If accused can prove that they came up with it completely on their own they are not infringing a copyright. Which can be easily done by sharing a git log of a particular software project showing from start to end one wrote the entire thing and its evolution to its current form (if it indeed was developed in house and completely free of copyright infringements).
In Google Vs Oracle google admitted to copying from get go. Their argument was they thought it was OK to do so.
Also to claim damages you will need proof of lost income, which in your case will be zero or the penalties will be really small ones.
as the order to block the 800 odd sites is a court issued order not a government issued one (yes the government would have made the case for it).
Not really. Its a Department of Telecom order not a court order. DoT has unparalleled supreme power on all communications that happen inside India under its barbaric ancient telecom laws.
The court did not actually said no one can block/ban porn sites. It said as current law of land stands it has no provision to block such content and refused to pass an order to ban porn. It did indeed add a comment saying this is for the government to decide and legislate for. Under some authority given to Department Of Telecom under ancient (read british origin) telecom law, the DoT passed an order to block content it deemed harmful. As such these orders have validity of few years till govt passes a legislation either canceling or upholding/modifying them.
Currently the ration card system we have is you buy your subsidized stuff (food, fuel) at govt stores and govt pays the trader. Huge chance of fraud and corruption.
What adhar allows is even poor to have an unique identity (UID) verified by the govt. This very improtnantly enables them to get a bank account linked to your UID which is impossible today for the nomads and the below poverty line people since they don't have passports or driving licenses.
The next stage of the process is that the poor now buy their food on open market and govt directly deposits all the subsidies available diectly to their adhar linked bank account. All the middle men are trashed and window of corruption is a LOT less. Also there is electronic paper trail should a fraud occur. And yes there will be fraud since nothing in the world is full proof and completely secure. But its leps and bounds better than what is going on today.
Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel
is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not
v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated.
I over heard in the local telecom office here in Pune, India there will be no more printed directory here either. The last one we got is three years old.
BTW the directories in Indian cities were distributed only by the Monopoly telecom BSNL and its Big cities cousin MTNL. With rise of private players in wired as well as the exploded mobile segment in India, the directories were not much of the use anyway. This just puts the death nail in them.
How is a corporation going to ask permission to search your residence? I guess we should be glad they asked permission . ..
Why not ? Google is already the KING of search. And they probably already search your house or atleast the part of any slashdotter's house that really matters, his blogs, emails and what not.
perhaps you shouldnt make comments that are a dead giveaway you've never even seen a jailbroken iphone if you're going to try and claim you're some sort of authority on what they can and cant do.
Right!! what did you think this is? slashdot?... wait a minute!. Errr!! never mind, just mod parent -1 irrelevant.
As why it should be impossible to build a very complex software in open source that is better (or at least equal in quality) than closed source teams?
Do we even need to give proof to refute this?
Slashdot Mirror
Wait but earth is still flat right???
Ain't this basically what ChromeOS and ChromeBooks doing?
I live in Pune, about 120km east of Mumbai and its the same. Its strange not to get straws to drink soda in McDonalds now. But a good change anyways. The country is getting littered way too much.
This Maps feature actually came out of work to make directions useful in countries and regions where street addresses don't really exist, notably much of India.
Yeah here in India this feature has been on for long time and is quite useful, Indian streets are not visibly named at all and many have no discernible numbering system. Its hardly a new feature just new to US probably
The internet censorship in India is more about porn than political views.
You mean about the stuff that Really Matters : )))
Same here.... It was my fun activity to keep saying "loading loading loading.... " while the message was being displayed as the code loaded from the audio cassette.
Of course I was just a 8 year old back then
But we never upgraded it, my father simply put together a 386 system with a green chroma monitor (also freed up our TV for actual tv viewing).
Won't we just create space (pun intended) for Church of Scientology? If and whenever Intelligent life evolves?
I just hire bright people to write my scripts :p
You have to prove that the accused actually did wilful act of copying the copyrighted material (or at least accuse can to disprove it). If accused can prove that they came up with it completely on their own they are not infringing a copyright. Which can be easily done by sharing a git log of a particular software project showing from start to end one wrote the entire thing and its evolution to its current form (if it indeed was developed in house and completely free of copyright infringements).
In Google Vs Oracle google admitted to copying from get go. Their argument was they thought it was OK to do so.
Also to claim damages you will need proof of lost income, which in your case will be zero or the penalties will be really small ones.
as the order to block the 800 odd sites is a court issued order not a government issued one (yes the government would have made the case for it).
Not really. Its a Department of Telecom order not a court order. DoT has unparalleled supreme power on all communications that happen inside India under its barbaric ancient telecom laws.
The court did not actually said no one can block/ban porn sites. It said as current law of land stands it has no provision to block such content and refused to pass an order to ban porn. It did indeed add a comment saying this is for the government to decide and legislate for. Under some authority given to Department Of Telecom under ancient (read british origin) telecom law, the DoT passed an order to block content it deemed harmful. As such these orders have validity of few years till govt passes a legislation either canceling or upholding/modifying them.
I guess i stlll don't know who the other two people are.
Well that didn't stop you (or me) from commenting.
Currently the ration card system we have is you buy your subsidized stuff (food, fuel) at govt stores and govt pays the trader. Huge chance of fraud and corruption.
What adhar allows is even poor to have an unique identity (UID) verified by the govt. This very improtnantly enables them to get a bank account linked to your UID which is impossible today for the nomads and the below poverty line people since they don't have passports or driving licenses.
The next stage of the process is that the poor now buy their food on open market and govt directly deposits all the subsidies available diectly to their adhar linked bank account. All the middle men are trashed and window of corruption is a LOT less. Also there is electronic paper trail should a fraud occur. And yes there will be fraud since nothing in the world is full proof and completely secure. But its leps and bounds better than what is going on today.
Whats up with that 3d mode? WTF? Is this how they envision the future of internet? Prity but completely useless?
From the linux kernel COPYING file:
Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel
is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not
v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated.
Linus Torvalds
Just to substantiate parent's statement
Happy Birthday to my wife, who is my "ultimate Question to life, the universe, and everything".
Did you miss the part where SUN has (succesfully) sued Microsoft for the exact same thing?
This is slashdot... Sueing Microsoft is _always_ OK.
I over heard in the local telecom office here in Pune, India there will be no more printed directory here either. The last one we got is three years old.
BTW the directories in Indian cities were distributed only by the Monopoly telecom BSNL and its Big cities cousin MTNL. With rise of private players in wired as well as the exploded mobile segment in India, the directories were not much of the use anyway. This just puts the death nail in them.
How is a corporation going to ask permission to search your residence? I guess we should be glad they asked permission . . .
Why not ? Google is already the KING of search. And they probably already search your house or atleast the part of any slashdotter's house that really matters, his blogs, emails and what not.
And start second version of Groklaw to cover related news and allow AC comments and ... well this can go on for ever!!!!
perhaps you shouldnt make comments that are a dead giveaway you've never even seen a jailbroken iphone if you're going to try and claim you're some sort of authority on what they can and cant do.
Right!! what did you think this is? slashdot?... wait a minute!. Errr!! never mind, just mod parent -1 irrelevant.
But does it run Linux ?
* ducks *
Really ...
think about the people that just ignored it, thinking its dead already ?
As why it should be impossible to build a very complex software in open source that is better (or at least equal in quality) than closed source teams?
Do we even need to give proof to refute this?