What are they going to do instead? Use proprietary software so that they can have more complex licences to work around, and less (if any) ability to tweak the code to suit their products? develop their own? Use only BSD or MIT licensed stuff.
The deal is that Verizon will maintain net neutrality on wired broadband, in return for Google dropping its complaints, thus giving Verizon a better chance of stopping the regulator from also forcing net neutrality on the mobile network.
No, I would say the correct interpretation is much simpler.
If you define usury as the charging of excessive interest, regarding usury as a sin goes back to a time when money lenders charged such high rates that once you started borrowing you had no hope of ever getting out of debt for the rest of your life. It was a way in which the rich could turn the poor into near slaves.
That is why Christianity does regard usury as sinful, but getting money on bank deposits or bonds as OK.
Now, I do think these sorts of laws are often too restrictive, but owning property has never really been absolute.
1) Government's ability to seize property 2) Squatter's rights 3) Easements and rights of way 4) Ancient lights and related restrictions to prevent you doing things that are a nuisance to neighbours.
My family are all Catholic, I have been an agnostic (verging on atheist), and am now a Christian again. My wife's parents are Buddhist, she is Anglican. Her father's family are mostly Christians, as are two of her sisters. MY mother's ancestors were probably Eastern Orthodox Christians.
I know some Buddhists whose parents were Christians.
It may be common for people to follow their ancestors religion (or lack thereof), but it is hardly invariable. Most people also follow their parents politics, and lots of their other ideas, but that does not explain why the Church of England has survived for so long, and the answer is that it is more than just Henry the Eight's idea - lots of more sincere people used the break with Rome to push other changes.
1) Red Hat fans quote unfair (because they do not take stuff that is not accepted upstream, but may still be used by other distros into account, do not adjust for the fact that Red Hat has been around longer, only look at code contributions, not marketing or UI research etc.) numbers to try and prove that Ubuntu does not make a fair contribution to Linux development.
2) Mark Shuttleworth responds with a blog post in which he spins like a politician, fails to answer the questions directly, and accuses the critics of "tribalism".
In that case they need to admit that a foreign company has the ability to plant spy ware in their systems. Your military, foreign relations, trade systems are no longer secret.
They also need to evaluate and compile each piece of software (operating system component, library, app) only once.
Spreading this cost out over all public sector employees with a PC would make it extremely low. They should also require its use by private sector employees handling confidential government data. It could also be available to anyone else who wanted it.
The cost would be trivial to any government of a major economy.
In how many of those countries is there popular support for backing the US?
Fighting alongside the US was a significant contribution to Tony Blair's ejection from office, and the question in Britain now is not even "should we be in these wars?", but " whose fault is it that we got into this?".
Get this: Osama Bin Laden hates music. He considers it a tool of the devil.
Which just emphasises how insane the US policy of meddling in terrorism by funding and training him, and others of the same type, actually was.
they want us to stop supporting the Saudi government
One of the reasons Saudi Arabia produces so many fundamentalists, especially rich fundamentalists who support global terrorism, is that it is a fundamentalist state in the first place. Do you really think that actively supporting the status quo in the country that is the major source of funding for Islamic fundamentalism is going to have any result other than providing more funding for fundamentalists.
especially letting Israel disappear, that would be inhumane.
On the other hand its fine for Palestine to disappear, its humane for a Palestinian man to be convicted for rape because he had pretended to be Jewish, its OK to steal people's homes.
If you think the US is evil for trying to get rid of, say, the East German Communist government or the Afghanistan Soviet puppet state, you are transridiculous.
Not the former, but certainly the latter. Unfortunately the US did nothing significant to overthrow the former.
The communist government of Afghanistan was far preferable to any of its Islamic fundamentalist successors.
You are implicitly arguing funding and training the Taliban and Al-Quaeda was the right thing to do. I disagree, and think it was both stupid and evil.
2) without giving further publicity to the criticism.
I had some doubts about the numbers (largely because the percentage of Gnome code contributions goes back to well before canonical existed). I had hoped for a refutation with numbers (i.e.g we have x Gnome devs working for us, who have made y commits and z loc).
Gnome is important because Canonical's excuse for not contributing to the kernel was that they were contributing to the front end.
Mark Shuttleworth is spinning like a politician (with calls to emotion rather than facts).
Because there is no intrinsic right to control your creation.
It is a monopoly granted by the state because it is deemed to be for the public good by creating an incentive (see the US constitution) and to ensure that you can share profits others make on your work (one reason for the Statute of Queen Ann).
If neither of these apply (which it clearly does not in these circumstances) you have just subverted the reason it (copyright) exists in the first place.
I did say "for what I do". I should have beena but more specific.
It usually means editing text files on remote file systems, usually over sftp, (which I do with Kate anyway) or managing files on remote file systems so which I have ssh access (which I do with Konqueror anyway).
As for running commands: ssh again.
That would not work well with a Windows share, but that is not something I need to do.
On the other hand, I am not entirely happy with the idea of a remote file system looking exactly like the local one. I like see "sftp://" in the file picker or file manager.
Incidentally, how well does gvfs cope with things like losing the connection to a remote server while you are editing a file? KIO will transparently try to reopen the session.
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Brilliant out of context quotation.
Read the whole chapter in the context of the previous chapter, it is about the importance of faith vs law, and it is about motivatio vs belief.
What are they going to do instead? Use proprietary software so that they can have more complex licences to work around, and less (if any) ability to tweak the code to suit their products? develop their own? Use only BSD or MIT licensed stuff.
If you RTFA, Google have stuck to "do no evil".
The deal is that Verizon will maintain net neutrality on wired broadband, in return for Google dropping its complaints, thus giving Verizon a better chance of stopping the regulator from also forcing net neutrality on the mobile network.
No special favour for Google on either.
To put it another way, the summary is trolling.
No, I would say the correct interpretation is much simpler.
If you define usury as the charging of excessive interest, regarding usury as a sin goes back to a time when money lenders charged such high rates that once you started borrowing you had no hope of ever getting out of debt for the rest of your life. It was a way in which the rich could turn the poor into near slaves.
That is why Christianity does regard usury as sinful, but getting money on bank deposits or bonds as OK.
Now, I do think these sorts of laws are often too restrictive, but owning property has never really been absolute.
1) Government's ability to seize property
2) Squatter's rights
3) Easements and rights of way
4) Ancient lights and related restrictions to prevent you doing things that are a nuisance to neighbours.
All these go back centuries.
I can find nothing in the story to suggest that the pool was built without a permit.
So, unless you know that it was from another source, it appears that permits fail to prevent tragedies.
Its not "wrong" as in somehow morally objectionable.
However, feeling the need to discuss it on Slashdot, making comments that amount to "OMG, its a GIRL!", while still not immoral, are pathetic.
You must live in either a basement, or Saudi Arabia, and never see any real girls. Whichever it is, just get out more.
Just because many big companies have crap management, does not mean they all do.
The ones with the good management (not just at the top, but all the way through) are the ones that will still be big in 50 years time.
As for the others, that is why creative destruction is such an important part of capitalism.
I can't imagine the UK with a president.
Unfortunately I can. Just say "President Blair", "President Brown" and "President Cameron".
It makes you see the point of the monarchy.
My family are all Catholic, I have been an agnostic (verging on atheist), and am now a Christian again. My wife's parents are Buddhist, she is Anglican. Her father's family are mostly Christians, as are two of her sisters. MY mother's ancestors were probably Eastern Orthodox Christians.
I know some Buddhists whose parents were Christians.
It may be common for people to follow their ancestors religion (or lack thereof), but it is hardly invariable. Most people also follow their parents politics, and lots of their other ideas, but that does not explain why the Church of England has survived for so long, and the answer is that it is more than just Henry the Eight's idea - lots of more sincere people used the break with Rome to push other changes.
If you think that the real power and money is in HR, you are out of contact with reality. HR is widely despised and not particularly well paid.
So this comes to: "I will give you access to my failed open source project for free"!
so how could Negroponte say no to that request from paying customers?
Microsoft has done very well out of saying no to paying customers, especially when it comes to interoperability.
1) Red Hat fans quote unfair (because they do not take stuff that is not accepted upstream, but may still be used by other distros into account, do not adjust for the fact that Red Hat has been around longer, only look at code contributions, not marketing or UI research etc.) numbers to try and prove that Ubuntu does not make a fair contribution to Linux development.
2) Mark Shuttleworth responds with a blog post in which he spins like a politician, fails to answer the questions directly, and accuses the critics of "tribalism".
It does not make anyone look good.
I have yet to come across a site from which I could not purchase using Firefox.
In that case they need to admit that a foreign company has the ability to plant spy ware in their systems. Your military, foreign relations, trade systems are no longer secret.
They also need to evaluate and compile each piece of software (operating system component, library, app) only once.
Spreading this cost out over all public sector employees with a PC would make it extremely low. They should also require its use by private sector employees handling confidential government data. It could also be available to anyone else who wanted it.
The cost would be trivial to any government of a major economy.
In how many of those countries is there popular support for backing the US?
Fighting alongside the US was a significant contribution to Tony Blair's ejection from office, and the question in Britain now is not even "should we be in these wars?", but " whose fault is it that we got into this?".
Get this: Osama Bin Laden hates music. He considers it a tool of the devil.
Which just emphasises how insane the US policy of meddling in terrorism by funding and training him, and others of the same type, actually was.
they want us to stop supporting the Saudi government
One of the reasons Saudi Arabia produces so many fundamentalists, especially rich fundamentalists who support global terrorism, is that it is a fundamentalist state in the first place. Do you really think that actively supporting the status quo in the country that is the major source of funding for Islamic fundamentalism is going to have any result other than providing more funding for fundamentalists.
especially letting Israel disappear, that would be inhumane.
On the other hand its fine for Palestine to disappear, its humane for a Palestinian man to be convicted for rape because he had pretended to be Jewish, its OK to steal people's homes.
If you think the US is evil for trying to get rid of, say, the East German Communist government or the Afghanistan Soviet puppet state, you are transridiculous.
Not the former, but certainly the latter. Unfortunately the US did nothing significant to overthrow the former.
The communist government of Afghanistan was far preferable to any of its Islamic fundamentalist successors.
You are implicitly arguing funding and training the Taliban and Al-Quaeda was the right thing to do. I disagree, and think it was both stupid and evil.
Shuttleworth's point is to:
1) make a subtle reply to recent blog posts on how little Canonical contributes to Linux development
2) without giving further publicity to the criticism.
I had some doubts about the numbers (largely because the percentage of Gnome code contributions goes back to well before canonical existed). I had hoped for a refutation with numbers (i.e.g we have x Gnome devs working for us, who have made y commits and z loc).
Gnome is important because Canonical's excuse for not contributing to the kernel was that they were contributing to the front end.
Mark Shuttleworth is spinning like a politician (with calls to emotion rather than facts).
His actual defence is on Greg DeKoenigsberg's next blog post. So far, IMHO, Greg is winning the argument.
Because there is no intrinsic right to control your creation.
It is a monopoly granted by the state because it is deemed to be for the public good by creating an incentive (see the US constitution) and to ensure that you can share profits others make on your work (one reason for the Statute of Queen Ann).
If neither of these apply (which it clearly does not in these circumstances) you have just subverted the reason it (copyright) exists in the first place.
I did say "for what I do". I should have beena but more specific.
It usually means editing text files on remote file systems, usually over sftp, (which I do with Kate anyway) or managing files on remote file systems so which I have ssh access (which I do with Konqueror anyway).
As for running commands: ssh again.
That would not work well with a Windows share, but that is not something I need to do.
On the other hand, I am not entirely happy with the idea of a remote file system looking exactly like the local one. I like see "sftp://" in the file picker or file manager.
Incidentally, how well does gvfs cope with things like losing the connection to a remote server while you are editing a file? KIO will transparently try to reopen the session.
Before someone points it out, KIO does not mount the remote file systems, it just allows you to read and write them through KIO.
Massive energy production on a small piece of land could also be described as a target.
You enable cookies only for sites you want to log in to.
To complete you privacy you have Flash off by default and you set a minimal UA string.
The last two currently require plugins, but if browsers had built in click to run for plugins and sent minimal UA strings (just browser and version) be default the problem would largely be solved.