The second question wasn't about using files modified by the program, but whether I could say, build an app based on a GPL'ed engine, include full source and credit for the engine, but still maintain a personal copyright on my product. It's not a dirived work so much as it is a dependant product. From previous comments, I've gathered that you could do it this way (running with the previous, say perhaps building a game engine based on Mesa3d, and supplying the required source modules for mesa with credit to the author).
Part of the provisions of the allow for detaining indivuals without legal counsel, without speedy trial, etc. It makes it a little hard for cases to get to the courts, if they do at all...
Multiplayer FPS and MMORPG's obviously last a different amount of time depending on the player not the game.
Somewhat true, but you can gather information based on average and combing the outliers, as any region will have "low, nominal, high" players.
This could also have decent bearing on standard RPG's, as for some reason many of the Square RPG's are bastardized when they come to the USA (FFIV J/FF2 USA, FFX USA in example), why modify the original gameplay - that's alway seemed silly to me (if they figure US isn't able to handle the original game, put an option in, shouldn't be a big deal with DVD's).
I find that one of the stronger reasons I haven't played on BNet lately (aside from shortage of time) have been the impolite if not completely idiotic players. Warcraft III has a useful "Skill Matching" system, which means that after awhile if you get good you can go being the usual trolls and idiots. However, I would propose that games also include a small "Attitude Matching" system.
How to do it? After a game, you get the screen displaying player stats as usual, with a "Attitude" selection beside each. Vote them from "+5 friendly to -2 Troll." Then, you could blacklist players with a crappy rating (somewhat like Slashdot Karma system). Perhaps players could also leave comments,and Blizz or whatnot could check into players with a really bad rating and nuke their associated CD-key off the network for a period of time.
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If they want to plug the "use RFID to find item X, catalog item Y", would it not be intelligent to simple sell the RFID devices in bulk themselves, directly to the consumer. Those that want to use them can, those that don't aren't forced... sounds pretty simple to me.
As far as ID'ing devices... it might be useful for my TV remote, but as with the aforementioned furniture, if you can't find your couch I think it's time to cut back on the beer/weed.
How many, in truth, wouldn't mind buying RFID tags to affix to items for personal use, but would prefer not to be tracked out of a store? The only concern I see here is buying used items and not knowing if they're RFID'ed (but a portable scanner would fix that?)
Release the code to the public, or for free. The GPL in basic form reads well enough to me, but some of the deeper semantics are a bit confusing.
OK: Somebody can public a piece of software with (modified) GPL'ed code, provided the provide the source code to the (modified) GPL'ed code. They are not obligated to provide source for any modules etc that make use of said code (provided for fully modularized code, wherein the sections in private modules don't contain any GPL code at all).
Now, forward this to situation (b)... Can I write a program which makes use of GPL'ed code, some of which is embedded in my own code, and then release "partial source" wherein the majority of my code is stripped out, but perhaps include function definitions etc and show where/what GPL code is used, or does this count as derived and thus must all be shown
Can I use GPL'ed code in my own works, sell a product, and release the code "upon request" or perhaps even only to those purchasing the product itself. I can then release a product, profit, allow 3rd parties who purhase the product to make modifications if they want... and then restrict others from reselling the portion of my code in a near-original form as a new product? For example, I believe there are many games which are copyrighted, but have the engine or portion of release to the public, without allowances for using the artwork, etc.
AOL being what they are, we wouldn't use their products, but why would we feel bad about gobbling their bandwidth instead of slashdotting some website belonging to some poor fob with limited bandwidth and server resources?
The only bad thing I can see coming from this is if AOL decides that having their site semi-slashdotted by bandwidth hungry geeks on a consistent basis would cause them to juggle the links or stop posting trailers in public places...
Do RBL's really get scanned per every client email received? I was under the impression that the RBL list was generated in realtime, but updated on client machines at specified intervals instead of realtime?
Of course, I could be wrong, so I'll look forward to being corrected (flamed) soon:-)
I'm wondering what type of PSU they're hooking this thing up to as well. I mean, at that speed and probably power consumption, we'll be seeing a whole new line of PSU's just to power the thing (not to mention needing a new video card to take advantage of it).
Wonder if I'll have to unplug my stove in order to allow my PC access to the ol' 220V, or perhaps I'll just ask my landlord for access to the MAINS.
Either way... I have this picture of the lights in my apartment dimming and my power meter suddenly spinning around at 60rpm...
All those work machines with Athlon CPU's that are normally turned off during the weekend.
To some extent this is serious though, I have noticed a definate increase in room temperature when lots of computers are on (hell, even 2-3 high-end machines at home make a difference on a hot day), any chance that this would affect the outside environment as well.
How about invisible brainzap waves from cellphones, etc? Do those dissipate heat?
Have you watched a crime show where a criminal gets off on a technicality, or a law even gets struck down on such?
Or perhaps you could come to Canada, and look up recent history on various pr0n laws...
Judges are quite subject to law and procedure. Laws that are perfectly right in idea can be killed due to technical errors (until such errors are corrected).
Murderers can get off on loopholes. It may not happen exactly as it does on TV, or as often, but it can happen. Think about when police enter a residence without warrant, and seize compelling evidence of rape, murder, etc. You think a judge wants to invalidate such evidence and chance letting a killer off? No damn way, but it does happen, to prevent police from illegally entering another residence of an innocent suspect.
Laws are upheld, and good laws are struck down because of other good laws, in order to prevent bad laws from sticking for the same reasons.
Definately true when dealing with a complex scenario. However, in a simpler situation:
a) Do you believe that you should be allowed to opt-out of telemarketing?
b) Take (a) and s/telemarketing/spam/ or whatever
Now if you took a more complex issue like:
Do you believe that war should be commenced against a country on which 90% of the media information is likely handfed to you by the government whom have a secret agenda...
On laws of "affecting self", it's easy enough to say "I personally, do not want to be called" (and 50 million people apparently agree on that point).
On a more complex issue, there are other considerations that reach beyond the "self" (and yes, you could argue that telemarketing=jobs, but that's beyond scope).
Really, if it's an issue of one person benefitting from the detriment to another... an arguement from the person who stands to lose is much more powerful than those that stand to win (look at black slavery in previous years, for example).
Of course, and a few people calling at a given time to ask about this would likely be acceptable. But given the volume of users on slashdot,the amount of calls possibly arising from posting of this information exceed a reasonable/acceptable level.
Even good calls can be bad in volume... what if you won a prize for "best garden" and everybody in the 1000+ member garden club called you up to give congratulations (slashdot is a lot bigger than that, too)
Just rip the individual tracks to WAV as per usual (as it usually works in 'nix wherein certain mechanisms in winblows attempt to thwart this) then either convert to mp3 or ogg... less quality lost than using a lossy WMA file (which was probably DRM'ed=unreadable anyhow)
Why would he? If that were the case he'd be just as able to sue for cash as any of us were they to violate the DNC list...
There aren't any rules that say that the judge couldn't later use the DNC list, or claim on behalf of the laws behind it...are there? Might sound like conflict of interest though.... but what else can ya do?
That really isn't a smart thing to do. You should recognise that a judge often has to do his duty, even if he doesn't necessary agree with the moral implications of the decision he has to make.
The point about FCC/FTC powers is quite good, a testament to the powers of expensive lawyers... so really you should be pissed off at either the lawyers (whom I wouldn't recommend calling either, messing with lawyers is not usually a good idea) or the spammers themselves.
Remember, judges are quite often victims of a broken system too, as they have to play by the rules/precedents too.
Intended as funny, but revises the old point: The are run by humans, but they aren't "people." They're organizations and thus should not have rights over the general public (and 50 million people, do, definately count as "general public")
Do decimals count as digits? I don't think so but perhaps they were including them. A better description would be, a set of four numbers between 1-255, seperated by decimals.
Except that if you've noticed, viagara is a buzzword more than a product name on the internet... with many companies peddling "herbal viagara" or "safe healthy viagara alternative" etc etc. Basically it's easier to substitute viagara with pill-to-make-yer-weenie-go-boing or an obscure scientific term (although erection enhancer isn't too bad), but that doesn't mean many of these spammers are selling the Pfizer pill (or for that matter, that the products being sold even work, which many don't overly well)
If you intend on streaming your audio. Audio can stream decently at 128kbps, in fact, for modems it is a must. Internet radio, and even most stuff on mp3.com et al sounds decent for previewing purposes when played at lower bitrates.
With my DVD player, and PowerDVD 4, and a GeForce 4 MX440, it has no problemo with playing my DVD's through TV out, unless I try playing to my VCR in which case Macrovision kicks in.
I seem to remember a similar issue to this with my old ATI AIW card... but new drivers fixed that too...
The internet is, in a generalized way, a medium for communication. In it's current form, despite all the crap that makes its way online (spam, trolls, etc) it's a way for communication to be global.
In a way, the internet is much like an upgrade to its predecessors. We have books, radio, television... the morning and night news... they're all ways of making the wide world a little more local. We don't need the internet, at least not in a survival sense... but there are a lot of things we don't need that do in the long run stand to improve the quality of our lives, and I'd put the 'net amongst them (at least for now)
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The second question wasn't about using files modified by the program, but whether I could say, build an app based on a GPL'ed engine, include full source and credit for the engine, but still maintain a personal copyright on my product. It's not a dirived work so much as it is a dependant product. From previous comments, I've gathered that you could do it this way (running with the previous, say perhaps building a game engine based on Mesa3d, and supplying the required source modules for mesa with credit to the author).
Part of the provisions of the allow for detaining indivuals without legal counsel, without speedy trial, etc. It makes it a little hard for cases to get to the courts, if they do at all...
Multiplayer FPS and MMORPG's obviously last a different amount of time depending on the player not the game.
Somewhat true, but you can gather information based on average and combing the outliers, as any region will have "low, nominal, high" players.
This could also have decent bearing on standard RPG's, as for some reason many of the Square RPG's are bastardized when they come to the USA (FFIV J/FF2 USA, FFX USA in example), why modify the original gameplay - that's alway seemed silly to me (if they figure US isn't able to handle the original game, put an option in, shouldn't be a big deal with DVD's).
I find that one of the stronger reasons I haven't played on BNet lately (aside from shortage of time) have been the impolite if not completely idiotic players. Warcraft III has a useful "Skill Matching" system, which means that after awhile if you get good you can go being the usual trolls and idiots. However, I would propose that games also include a small "Attitude Matching" system.
How to do it? After a game, you get the screen displaying player stats as usual, with a "Attitude" selection beside each. Vote them from "+5 friendly to -2 Troll." Then, you could blacklist players with a crappy rating (somewhat like Slashdot Karma system). Perhaps players could also leave comments,and Blizz or whatnot could check into players with a really bad rating and nuke their associated CD-key off the network for a period of time.
If they want to plug the "use RFID to find item X, catalog item Y", would it not be intelligent to simple sell the RFID devices in bulk themselves, directly to the consumer. Those that want to use them can, those that don't aren't forced... sounds pretty simple to me.
As far as ID'ing devices... it might be useful for my TV remote, but as with the aforementioned furniture, if you can't find your couch I think it's time to cut back on the beer/weed.
How many, in truth, wouldn't mind buying RFID tags to affix to items for personal use, but would prefer not to be tracked out of a store? The only concern I see here is buying used items and not knowing if they're RFID'ed (but a portable scanner would fix that?)
Release the code to the public, or for free. The GPL in basic form reads well enough to me, but some of the deeper semantics are a bit confusing.
OK: Somebody can public a piece of software with (modified) GPL'ed code, provided the provide the source code to the (modified) GPL'ed code. They are not obligated to provide source for any modules etc that make use of said code (provided for fully modularized code, wherein the sections in private modules don't contain any GPL code at all).
Now, forward this to situation (b)...
Can I write a program which makes use of GPL'ed code, some of which is embedded in my own code, and then release "partial source" wherein the majority of my code is stripped out, but perhaps include function definitions etc and show where/what GPL code is used, or does this count as derived and thus must all be shown
Can I use GPL'ed code in my own works, sell a product, and release the code "upon request" or perhaps even only to those purchasing the product itself. I can then release a product, profit, allow 3rd parties who purhase the product to make modifications if they want... and then restrict others from reselling the portion of my code in a near-original form as a new product? For example, I believe there are many games which are copyrighted, but have the engine or portion of release to the public, without allowances for using the artwork, etc.
GPL gurus... info please?
AOL being what they are, we wouldn't use their products, but why would we feel bad about gobbling their bandwidth instead of slashdotting some website belonging to some poor fob with limited bandwidth and server resources?
The only bad thing I can see coming from this is if AOL decides that having their site semi-slashdotted by bandwidth hungry geeks on a consistent basis would cause them to juggle the links or stop posting trailers in public places...
Do RBL's really get scanned per every client email received? I was under the impression that the RBL list was generated in realtime, but updated on client machines at specified intervals instead of realtime?
:-)
Of course, I could be wrong, so I'll look forward to being corrected (flamed) soon
I'm wondering what type of PSU they're hooking this thing up to as well. I mean, at that speed and probably power consumption, we'll be seeing a whole new line of PSU's just to power the thing (not to mention needing a new video card to take advantage of it).
Wonder if I'll have to unplug my stove in order to allow my PC access to the ol' 220V, or perhaps I'll just ask my landlord for access to the MAINS.
Either way... I have this picture of the lights in my apartment dimming and my power meter suddenly spinning around at 60rpm...
All those work machines with Athlon CPU's that are normally turned off during the weekend.
To some extent this is serious though, I have noticed a definate increase in room temperature when lots of computers are on (hell, even 2-3 high-end machines at home make a difference on a hot day), any chance that this would affect the outside environment as well.
How about invisible brainzap waves from cellphones, etc? Do those dissipate heat?
Have you watched a crime show where a criminal gets off on a technicality, or a law even gets struck down on such?
Or perhaps you could come to Canada, and look up recent history on various pr0n laws...
Judges are quite subject to law and procedure. Laws that are perfectly right in idea can be killed due to technical errors (until such errors are corrected).
Murderers can get off on loopholes. It may not happen exactly as it does on TV, or as often, but it can happen. Think about when police enter a residence without warrant, and seize compelling evidence of rape, murder, etc. You think a judge wants to invalidate such evidence and chance letting a killer off? No damn way, but it does happen, to prevent police from illegally entering another residence of an innocent suspect.
Laws are upheld, and good laws are struck down because of other good laws, in order to prevent bad laws from sticking for the same reasons.
Definately true when dealing with a complex scenario. However, in a simpler situation:
a) Do you believe that you should be allowed to opt-out of telemarketing?
b) Take (a) and s/telemarketing/spam/ or whatever
Now if you took a more complex issue like:
Do you believe that war should be commenced against a country on which 90% of the media information is likely handfed to you by the government whom have a secret agenda...
On laws of "affecting self", it's easy enough to say "I personally, do not want to be called" (and 50 million people apparently agree on that point).
On a more complex issue, there are other considerations that reach beyond the "self" (and yes, you could argue that telemarketing=jobs, but that's beyond scope).
Really, if it's an issue of one person benefitting from the detriment to another... an arguement from the person who stands to lose is much more powerful than those that stand to win (look at black slavery in previous years, for example).
Of course, and a few people calling at a given time to ask about this would likely be acceptable. But given the volume of users on slashdot,the amount of calls possibly arising from posting of this information exceed a reasonable/acceptable level.
Even good calls can be bad in volume... what if you won a prize for "best garden" and everybody in the 1000+ member garden club called you up to give congratulations (slashdot is a lot bigger than that, too)
Just rip the individual tracks to WAV as per usual (as it usually works in 'nix wherein certain mechanisms in winblows attempt to thwart this) then either convert to mp3 or ogg... less quality lost than using a lossy WMA file (which was probably DRM'ed=unreadable anyhow)
Why would he? If that were the case he'd be just as able to sue for cash as any of us were they to violate the DNC list...
...are there? Might sound like conflict of interest though.... but what else can ya do?
There aren't any rules that say that the judge couldn't later use the DNC list, or claim on behalf of the laws behind it
That really isn't a smart thing to do. You should recognise that a judge often has to do his duty, even if he doesn't necessary agree with the moral implications of the decision he has to make.
The point about FCC/FTC powers is quite good, a testament to the powers of expensive lawyers... so really you should be pissed off at either the lawyers (whom I wouldn't recommend calling either, messing with lawyers is not usually a good idea) or the spammers themselves.
Remember, judges are quite often victims of a broken system too, as they have to play by the rules/precedents too.
Intended as funny, but revises the old point: The are run by humans, but they aren't "people." They're organizations and thus should not have rights over the general public (and 50 million people, do, definately count as "general public")
Do decimals count as digits? I don't think so but perhaps they were including them. A better description would be, a set of four numbers between 1-255, seperated by decimals.
curl letter-to-ICANN-re-SiteFinder-030921.doc | strings | fmt | less But either way it comes out slightly garbled about 3/4 through.
Anyone out there know if there is a debian package as of yet (preferable one I can use without wandering too far into the realm of "unstable")?
Would be great to apt-get upgrade and see this in there by default...
Except that if you've noticed, viagara is a buzzword more than a product name on the internet... with many companies peddling "herbal viagara" or "safe healthy viagara alternative" etc etc. Basically it's easier to substitute viagara with pill-to-make-yer-weenie-go-boing or an obscure scientific term (although erection enhancer isn't too bad), but that doesn't mean many of these spammers are selling the Pfizer pill (or for that matter, that the products being sold even work, which many don't overly well)
I'm for the liveCD concept... but there are some good counterarguements.
Here is the link to the first comment.
If you intend on streaming your audio. Audio can stream decently at 128kbps, in fact, for modems it is a must. Internet radio, and even most stuff on mp3.com et al sounds decent for previewing purposes when played at lower bitrates.
With my DVD player, and PowerDVD 4, and a GeForce 4 MX440, it has no problemo with playing my DVD's through TV out, unless I try playing to my VCR in which case Macrovision kicks in.
I seem to remember a similar issue to this with my old ATI AIW card... but new drivers fixed that too...
Or a written language, or a spoken one?
The internet is, in a generalized way, a medium for communication. In it's current form, despite all the crap that makes its way online (spam, trolls, etc) it's a way for communication to be global.
In a way, the internet is much like an upgrade to its predecessors. We have books, radio, television... the morning and night news... they're all ways of making the wide world a little more local. We don't need the internet, at least not in a survival sense... but there are a lot of things we don't need that do in the long run stand to improve the quality of our lives, and I'd put the 'net amongst them (at least for now)