Just have the UN issue a "condemnation" of the situation every year for say 10 years, and then when they don't comply the US will invade... oh wait, that won't work.
I have started to do this as well. For some reason SciFi has decided to air BSG on Friday's at 10pm, guess they figure their target audience (geeks?) is usually home then.;)
My concern with this practice is that if a majority of the fans watch it (or any show) this way, eventually the producers of the show(s) are not going to be able to continue because the advertisers will pull the money, citing low viewership, which from their perspective is true. Unless the model changes, where the producers, somehow, start charging for downloads, I don't see good shows staying around very long. Downloading is too convenient and as more people find out just how convenient it is, "real" viewership is going to go down, and more shows are going to have short runs.
There may be other reasons that she's not qualified to be a justice, but not being a judge is not one. There is nothing that states a justice has to be or have been a judge, and there are plenty of examples of past justices that weren't judges, Rehnquist and Marshall to name a couple.
Bush is just the latest puppet, term limits do absolutely nothing, the puppet masters just find a new puppet every time. If anyone really thinks the President is calling the shots, they haven't been paying very close attention...
So does a RAID consistency check mean you have to reboot the system, every week or so, and use the RAID bios to do the consistency check? If so that sort of defeats any uptime requirements, since I would imagine that consistency checks on large RAID volumes could take quite a while...
Actually those mainframes ran Unix natively. Amdahl ported Unix to their MF's, but I don't believe AT&T let them sell it to anyone, so obviously it was not widely used.
AT&T ran their network monitor system (NEMOS) on these machines for years.
That's pretty much the point, the world is like that because you take a bunch of kids, throw them into a setting, where no social guidelines are given (except maybe kindergarten, where everyone must share, like that happens...) and expect them to magically learn, good, social skills
If parents quit expecting schools to be the magic solution for their kids and actually taught them good social skills, at home, schools (and the real world) wouldn't be such a bad place.
In my experience, all the "social" aspect of school (public or private) does is breed elitist and exclusionary people. If someone is the least bit different, school is the worst place to send them, they will be excluded, looked down on and made fun of by the "cliquey" people. Schools are definately the wrong place to pick up, good, social values.
"It's really only recently that Unix ever ran on mainframes."
If by recently you mean the 1980's, then ok. AT&T/Bell Labs ran Unix on Amdahl MF's for years, and only recently (last 5-6 years) got rid of the last ones.
As in the previous example adding muder to the GPL'd axe is perfectly legal under the GPL, provided I offer the enhancements back to the community.
All the GPL does is force me to share my (immoral) enhancements, it doesn't stop me from doing immoral things with others creations.
Under the GPL, Microsoft could use GPL'd software, internally, and this would indirectly be helping them "destroy other fellow programmer's livelihoods", since that software is solving a need for MS to do business. It's already known that MS does do this by investigating and testing Linux for flaws that they can then use to bring Linux down.
All choices have risks and rewards. You find it "morally repungnant" and a risk that the BSD license allows such behaviour, I on the other hand, find it rewarding that someone found value in my effort, regardless what they ultimately do with it (totally symbolic, I am not in anyway claiming that the BSD TCP/IP stack is "my effort";).
That's why choices are personal and something that each indivdual needs to be able to make. I don't extend or develop GPL software because it restricts my choice and the end user's choice. The BSD and LGPL give myself and the end user the ability to choose how we want to use the software.
"I've got an GPL licensed axe. I'll lend it to you if you want to build a log cabin, or cut firewood for yourself, or if you want to make a better axe that we can all share, you may borrow it.
If you want to use it for something I consider morally wrong (say, murder) then you can get your own fucking axe."
Not entirely actuate. The axe you gave me did certain things, chopping wood, etc, under the GPL I am free to extend the capabilities of your axe to include murder, as long as I offer my extensions back to you and the community, I am legal. You are free to accept or deny my extensions, but you can't deny me using your original with my extensions.
So what? Sure they took it, and they hacked it all up, who in their right mind would want it back? It in no way caused the original code to stop working, and I don't see the BSD folks wanting to integrate any of MS's changes.
There is no right or wrong license, it's all about what the original developer(s) of the code want done with their code.
If you feel that users of your code should give back to the community, then the GPL is right for you. If a company choses not to use your code, because of the license, then that is the right decision for them.
Life is about choice, there are multiple OSS licenses because everyone has a different idea about what they want to do with their creations.
I considered that, but sometimes there are calls that are nice to get, like possible fraud alerts from credit card companies, or doctors offices calling back to confirm appts, etc. Calls that are important, just not important enough to be bothered with in realtime.
I used to work for a company that forgot to include their computer room air handlers when they spec'd their generator load, so whenever we had a power failure it was a mad dash to the computer room to shut the VAX's down before they "fired".
I was reminded of this years later, when working for a different company, I walked in one day and the doors to the computer room were wide open! One of the mainframe system guys saw me and literally went white, he said "Oh... we had an air handler failure and forgot to call you. I hope the HP's are OK" I said well they should be, I checked them out, sure enough they had sensed the high temperature and shut themselves down (of course it did expose that my alerting system was not working correctly, in all situations). The mainframe had not faired as well, not sure what they fired, but it was expensive, as I remember.;)
This is quite solvable, just don't answer any call that you don't recognize the number or the number doesn't come through. If it's important they will leave a message.
I actually keep a landline for the sole purpose of sending marketers to it.
Anything I fill out, that requires a phone number, I use the landline number. The only thing on the line is an answering machine (that doesn't have a phone, so no ringer) and a fax machine. I am never bothered, and amazingly get very few messages.;) I didn't even bother registering the number with the DNC list.
He is not a typical "business exec", he was an executive over a research division at MS, technical companies don't put business drones in charge of research divisions.
From the work that he was doing at MS, it doesn't sound (no pun intended) like google wants him doing search engine research. With over forty patents to his divisions credit, MS may have some legitimate concerns, especially since Google shipped this guy off to China, which doesn't have the highest regard for intellectual property
I would think if the practice was illegal then given the type of people that go to golf tournments it would have been tested in a court of law by now. I have had it done to me, years ago, and every time I attend one, I witness it happen to at least 2 or 3 people.
I agree with you, it certainly is against the fundemental concept of rights that the founding fathers had, but I witness this sort of stuff happen on a regular basis. Just because you and I believe something is against the fundemental rights given to us by the Bill of Rights, doesn't mean that a court of law agrees, witness the latest attack on personal property rights/ownership by the USSC.
IANAL, but I don't see how this is any different than if you go to a professional golf tournment and get caught using your camera, and they take it, they open the camera, destory the film and give the camera back to you, (unless it's one of those disposables, of course they may give you back the pieces).
I think that if there is a clear policy against doing something, and it's on private property, which corporations and golf courses are, and you are caught breaking said policy then they are given some leeway to protect their IP, regardless the form of the IP, be it data, or an image.
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Just have the UN issue a "condemnation" of the situation every year for say 10 years, and then when they don't comply the US will invade... oh wait, that won't work.
I have started to do this as well. For some reason SciFi has decided to air BSG on Friday's at 10pm, guess they figure their target audience (geeks?) is usually home then. ;)
My concern with this practice is that if a majority of the fans watch it (or any show) this way, eventually the producers of the show(s) are not going to be able to continue because the advertisers will pull the money, citing low viewership, which from their perspective is true. Unless the model changes, where the producers, somehow, start charging for downloads, I don't see good shows staying around very long. Downloading is too convenient and as more people find out just how convenient it is, "real" viewership is going to go down, and more shows are going to have short runs.
"has to have the tires upgraded every lap"
Guess you missed the US Grand Prix this year...
There may be other reasons that she's not qualified to be a justice, but not being a judge is not one. There is nothing that states a justice has to be or have been a judge, and there are plenty of examples of past justices that weren't judges, Rehnquist and Marshall to name a couple.
Bush is just the latest puppet, term limits do absolutely nothing, the puppet masters just find a new puppet every time. If anyone really thinks the President is calling the shots, they haven't been paying very close attention...
So does a RAID consistency check mean you have to reboot the system, every week or so, and use the RAID bios to do the consistency check? If so that sort of defeats any uptime requirements, since I would imagine that consistency checks on large RAID volumes could take quite a while...
Have you ever looked into the BellCore/Telecordia billing format "standard"? Expensive, closed and complicated...
Actually those mainframes ran Unix natively. Amdahl ported Unix to their MF's, but I don't believe AT&T let them sell it to anyone, so obviously it was not widely used.
AT&T ran their network monitor system (NEMOS) on these machines for years.
That's pretty much the point, the world is like that because you take a bunch of kids, throw them into a setting, where no social guidelines are given (except maybe kindergarten, where everyone must share, like that happens...) and expect them to magically learn, good, social skills
If parents quit expecting schools to be the magic solution for their kids and actually taught them good social skills, at home, schools (and the real world) wouldn't be such a bad place.
In my experience, all the "social" aspect of school (public or private) does is breed elitist and exclusionary people. If someone is the least bit different, school is the worst place to send them, they will be excluded, looked down on and made fun of by the "cliquey" people. Schools are definately the wrong place to pick up, good, social values.
"It's really only recently that Unix ever ran on mainframes."
If by recently you mean the 1980's, then ok. AT&T/Bell Labs ran Unix on Amdahl MF's for years, and only recently (last 5-6 years) got rid of the last ones.
As a Ohio resident and hunter I say bring em on! We need more challeging animals to hunt. What do PETA's taste like?
The GPL doesn't stop immoral behaviour.
As in the previous example adding muder to the GPL'd axe is perfectly legal under the GPL, provided I offer the enhancements back to the community.
All the GPL does is force me to share my (immoral) enhancements, it doesn't stop me from doing immoral things with others creations.
Under the GPL, Microsoft could use GPL'd software, internally, and this would indirectly be helping them "destroy other fellow programmer's livelihoods", since that software is solving a need for MS to do business. It's already known that MS does do this by investigating and testing Linux for flaws that they can then use to bring Linux down.
All choices have risks and rewards. You find it "morally repungnant" and a risk that the BSD license allows such behaviour, I on the other hand, find it rewarding that someone found value in my effort, regardless what they ultimately do with it (totally symbolic, I am not in anyway claiming that the BSD TCP/IP stack is "my effort" ;).
That's why choices are personal and something that each indivdual needs to be able to make. I don't extend or develop GPL software because it restricts my choice and the end user's choice. The BSD and LGPL give myself and the end user the ability to choose how we want to use the software.
"I've got an GPL licensed axe. I'll lend it to you if you want to build a log cabin, or cut firewood for yourself, or if you want to make a better axe that we can all share, you may borrow it.
If you want to use it for something I consider morally wrong (say, murder) then you can get your own fucking axe."
Not entirely actuate. The axe you gave me did certain things, chopping wood, etc, under the GPL I am free to extend the capabilities of your axe to include murder, as long as I offer my extensions back to you and the community, I am legal. You are free to accept or deny my extensions, but you can't deny me using your original with my extensions.
Same goes for your house example...
"For example, microsoft's TCP stack"
So what? Sure they took it, and they hacked it all up, who in their right mind would want it back? It in no way caused the original code to stop working, and I don't see the BSD folks wanting to integrate any of MS's changes.
There is no right or wrong license, it's all about what the original developer(s) of the code want done with their code.
If you feel that users of your code should give back to the community, then the GPL is right for you. If a company choses not to use your code, because of the license, then that is the right decision for them.
Life is about choice, there are multiple OSS licenses because everyone has a different idea about what they want to do with their creations.
A "Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology Management and Marketing" qualifies her to be a programmer how exactly?
Sounds like a PHB degree to me...
It worked well for Apollo 13. Nothing like a crisis or potential for crisis to boost ratings!
I considered that, but sometimes there are calls that are nice to get, like possible fraud alerts from credit card companies, or doctors offices calling back to confirm appts, etc. Calls that are important, just not important enough to be bothered with in realtime.
I used to work for a company that forgot to include their computer room air handlers when they spec'd their generator load, so whenever we had a power failure it was a mad dash to the computer room to shut the VAX's down before they "fired".
;)
I was reminded of this years later, when working for a different company, I walked in one day and the doors to the computer room were wide open! One of the mainframe system guys saw me and literally went white, he said "Oh... we had an air handler failure and forgot to call you. I hope the HP's are OK" I said well they should be, I checked them out, sure enough they had sensed the high temperature and shut themselves down (of course it did expose that my alerting system was not working correctly, in all situations). The mainframe had not faired as well, not sure what they fired, but it was expensive, as I remember.
This is quite solvable, just don't answer any call that you don't recognize the number or the number doesn't come through. If it's important they will leave a message.
I actually keep a landline for the sole purpose of sending marketers to it.
;) I didn't even bother registering the number with the DNC list.
Anything I fill out, that requires a phone number, I use the landline number. The only thing on the line is an answering machine (that doesn't have a phone, so no ringer) and a fax machine. I am never bothered, and amazingly get very few messages.
He may be an executive, but he also holds a doctorate in computer science from CMU.
He is not a typical "business exec", he was an executive over a research division at MS, technical companies don't put business drones in charge of research divisions.
From the work that he was doing at MS, it doesn't sound (no pun intended) like google wants him doing search engine research. With over forty patents to his divisions credit, MS may have some legitimate concerns, especially since Google shipped this guy off to China, which doesn't have the highest regard for intellectual property
I would think if the practice was illegal then given the type of people that go to golf tournments it would have been tested in a court of law by now. I have had it done to me, years ago, and every time I attend one, I witness it happen to at least 2 or 3 people.
I agree with you, it certainly is against the fundemental concept of rights that the founding fathers had, but I witness this sort of stuff happen on a regular basis. Just because you and I believe something is against the fundemental rights given to us by the Bill of Rights, doesn't mean that a court of law agrees, witness the latest attack on personal property rights/ownership by the USSC.
IANAL, but I don't see how this is any different than if you go to a professional golf tournment and get caught using your camera, and they take it, they open the camera, destory the film and give the camera back to you, (unless it's one of those disposables, of course they may give you back the pieces).
I think that if there is a clear policy against doing something, and it's on private property, which corporations and golf courses are, and you are caught breaking said policy then they are given some leeway to protect their IP, regardless the form of the IP, be it data, or an image.