b, c and d are all successful. a is also not that bad--at least the code is out there for others to use, and the whole thing may be picked up by someone else later on.
debian-legal is just a discussion mailing lists. The messages posted there do not represent the views of the Debian project.
Actions speak louder than words, and the continued presense of Bugzilla, Firebird and other MPL-licensed packages in main indicate that the project does not consider the MPL to be non-free.
Serves me right for believing what I read in the Slashdot article summary.
Looks like a combination Applet, Flash, Javascript, and AJAX with a friendly programming interface. I interpreted that literally. Now I see that this is just a Java Web Start (which is a great technology, it's just a shame that its applications are slow to load, and that users have to make a deliberate effort to install the JRE).
So we're moving away from a de-facto standard that is already implemented with free software, towards the proprietary Adobe Flash platform and the vendor lock-in that it implies?
While it is annoying,iIt's hardly stealing. You are aware of the procedure and consent to it. You can take your money elsewhere if not.
Besides, the delay makes money for the bank which they return to you in the form of higher interest rates on your accouts, lower interest rates on loans, etc.
It is totally insecure because you have no idea that the original page was not altered by an attacker, unless you view the page source every time you log in. I have to do that with my HSBC account and it's fucking irritating!
Not a single day seems to go by without a gnubie or two posting things that are really basic knowledge. If you do insert unicode data into a latin1 table, you will get unexpected results. Ah, I love MySQL. They should fix it so that if you insert unicode data where latin1 data is expected, you get an error instead of silent data corruption.
But why would you use tabs there in the first place?
Tabs should be used for the initial indentation. Once you reach the indentation level that you want, use spaces to line things up (the clue is in the name... you can't "line things up" by using a spacing character that has a variable length... so don't!)
Basically the problem is that there are a lot of people out there that don't know how to use their editors; and a lot of broken editors that default to inserting 8 spaces when the user presses the tab key.
The Tab key is not a shortcut for pressing space 8 times, damnit!
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latex2html? ;)
b, c and d are all successful. a is also not that bad--at least the code is out there for others to use, and the whole thing may be picked up by someone else later on.
debian-legal is just a discussion mailing lists. The messages posted there do not represent the views of the Debian project.
Actions speak louder than words, and the continued presense of Bugzilla, Firebird and other MPL-licensed packages in main indicate that the project does not consider the MPL to be non-free.
Debian does not consider the MPL to be non-free: Debian includes MPL-licensed software like Bugzilla and Firebird in their distribution.
I wonder how many people have contributed to the Debian project over the last 14 years since it was announced...
(I was referring to Flash, not Java)
The SWF file format is not open. In order to read the spec document you must agree to a nasty EULA forbidding you from competing with Adobe.
I don't have a problem with Sun's Java runtime since it is about to be released under the GPL.
Well then it's obviously *not* installed, since part of the installation means that your system would be set up to handle JNLP files.
You can turn your own, personal 128 bits into an image here: http://robots.org.uk/itii/
Well someone needs to install Debian. :)
;)
sun-java6-plugin gets you everything you need to enjoy the 12 java applets that are on the web.
But it's still a proprietary platform without free implementations.
So we're moving away from a de-facto standard that is already implemented with free software, towards the proprietary Adobe Flash platform and the vendor lock-in that it implies?
This is far less secure than just relying on SSL to authenticate the remote server.
Because nothing says "legitimate business" like a domain under .biz!
While it is annoying,iIt's hardly stealing. You are aware of the procedure and consent to it. You can take your money elsewhere if not.
Besides, the delay makes money for the bank which they return to you in the form of higher interest rates on your accouts, lower interest rates on loans, etc.
It is totally insecure because you have no idea that the original page was not altered by an attacker, unless you view the page source every time you log in. I have to do that with my HSBC account and it's fucking irritating!
Sure, it warns you. But *everyone* checks the "don't bother me with this again" checkbox the first time they do a web search.
If you do insert unicode data into a latin1 table, you will get unexpected results. Ah, I love MySQL. They should fix it so that if you insert unicode data where latin1 data is expected, you get an error instead of silent data corruption.
And there was me thinking that "terroristic" was just a word mistakenly used by the illiterate.
But why would you use tabs there in the first place?
Tabs should be used for the initial indentation. Once you reach the indentation level that you want, use spaces to line things up (the clue is in the name... you can't "line things up" by using a spacing character that has a variable length... so don't!)
Yeah and one effect of that is that lot of old crappy PHP 'applications' reimplement it themselves... *bashes head against wall*
Basically the problem is that there are a lot of people out there that don't know how to use their editors; and a lot of broken editors that default to inserting 8 spaces when the user presses the tab key.
The Tab key is not a shortcut for pressing space 8 times, damnit!