Excuse the heck out of me, but the issue being discussed was a failure that was NOT due to a power loss or other such system problem. It was a crash caused by this very issue.
From TFA:
"If the system crashes there may not be enough time for the data to be allocated and written to the hard drive"
From the bug report in TFA:
"Today, I was experimenting with some BIOS settings that made the system crash right after loading the desktop."
The filesystem behaved exactly as it should have. It was the application that wrote to the files without an fsync that caused the files to be lost when the system crashed.
Others insist that that the whole WebKit story is merely a feint and that Microsoft will in fact be adopting a brand-new engine coming out of its Microsoft Research division. Dubbed "Gazelle," this new engine will supposedly be more secure than Firefox or even Chrome, making copious use of sandboxing to keep its myriad plug-ins isolated and the overall browser process model protected.
Doesn't Microsoft scream "This one's WAAAAAY more secure than the last one!" about everything they release? When has that actually meant anything? Sure, I'd take Windows XP over Windows 95, but it's not very hard to do better than their old lousy products. Making the claim that it'll be more secure than Firefox or even Chrome, that's a bold statement and I doubt they'll be able to back it up. Plus all the security in the world is useless if the thing doesn't conform to any web standards.
Also, are they changing just the engine or is the name changing too?
If your swapfile is stored on a SSD, how much does it still matter that you ran out of RAM? And if you're not asking your CPU to do as many I/O waits, maybe you can squeeze more useful cycles and therefore performance out of it. A SSD should be a sure way to improve system performance... a reasonable way to spend $300.
You can buy 4 gigs of ram for less than $50 and remove your swap file.
You can get a 2.3GHz quad core AMD CPU and motherboard for $169.
You can get both for $219, which is still cheaper than a $300 SSD and could give you a much greater increase in performance. It really all depends on the hardware currently being used. If it's a really high end system (4+ GB RAM, quad core CPU, WD Raptor drives for the OS) using an external IDE drive as storage then yes a SSD would noticeably increase the performance, though if the system is low end (single core CPU, 512MB RAM, IDE hard drives for the OS) then there are a number of other cheaper options that would give a far greater increase in performance than just getting a SSD.
Another thing: "those external enclosures generally aren't known for their performance."
That's very misleading - it depends on the interface. eSATA and SATA are exactly the same.
Well, it also depends on the hard drive inside the enclosure. My point was that generally external enclosures are purchased for extra storage, not increased performance. So disk manufacturers don't have much incentive to put their fastest hard drives in external enclosures.
You could buy an external enclosure and put in a high performance drive but you're still adding another component between the hard drive and the rest of the system which will increase latency.
Basically it seems like they just put 5 touch sensors to represent the 5 buttons from the plastic guitar onto the fretboard of a real guitar. It doesn't look like it'll do much to teach you how to play if you're just playing one of the 5 button plastic guitar based games. Perhaps their own software has some more stuff to it but they'd need to put touch sensors everywhere on the guitar for it to work as an instructor.
Looking at what the product really is I'm not interested, perhaps if they do release a version that comes with some sort of instructional game and touch sensors through the whole guitar I might be interested. I can see how this would work in teaching people how to play the guitar, it's just in too early a development stage for it to be anything worth buying.
The article makes no mention of how someone actually controls the game with the guitar which is a very important detail. If it's too hard for a beginner to get started then it's not likely that it will sell. If there is a slow gradual path of learning (rather than jumping in and being required to play the actual chords from the songs) then I could see it doing well. I would even get one for myself, I've always wanted something just like this to learn how to play.
Finger position sensing technology in a guitar is not the same as having some LEDs light up where your fingers should go.
I've often wondered why the computer can't just audibly detect what note you played with a visual indication of where your fingers need to be to play the correct note (I'm sure there's a simple explanation though.)
The company I'm working at thought about using SSDs, but we were thinking more on the server end (to allow faster database access.) You don't have to worry about the write limits as it's highly unlikely you will hit them within the lifetime of a standard hard drive.
The main issue we ran into was cost, the drives we were looking at started around $3,000 for something like 80 gigs. That just wasn't worth it for us, though if you personally feel that the added cost (and I doubt you're looking at a $3,000 SSD, more likely you're looking at the $300 drives) is worth the performance gains then go for it. Though I think even for $300 it won't make a worthwhile difference.
There are other bottlenecks to consider, is your CPU fast enough, do you have enough RAM, could the hard drive your software and OS is on use an upgrade, etc. Perhaps even buy an internal SATA drive (if you can) to replace the external you're using, those external enclosures generally aren't known for their performance. If you've exhausted all of those options and you still need more speed, then I'd say go for the SSD.
Since Lars and the band perform the song(s) and probably have some rights to the song(s), he can't pirate his own work.
Unless he has sole ownership of all the songs on the album (which is doubtful considering there's 3 other members of the band) then he has no legal right to download the album online. He would need the consent of the other band members and probably the record label that puts out the album (though Metallica is likely large enough to retain copyright on all of their songs, I don't know this is just speculation.)
The only situation in which Lars could legally download the entire album is if he has sole ownership of the work, which is highly doubtful.
That's like saying a photographer who downloads a picture of one of his works from a gallery is pirating his work or an author who makes a copy of one of his own books is pirating his book.
No, it's like saying a co-author for a book is pirating the book by photocopying it and not paying the other authors involved. If I (as a photographer) contribute to a work of art in some way and expect compensation for the distribution of that work of art, but one of the artists decides to just download it, I'm not getting money from that copy. I don't feel that it's an issue that Lars downloaded an album that he helped create but as far as the RIAA is concerned it's still pirating.
When I worked in a computer shop I'd get a lot of computers coming in infected with so much spyware/adware that they were struggling just to remain "idle". In just about every case I could trace the infection back to something downloaded off of limewire.
I wonder if this is just going to make that spread faster, since these darknets will compose of your friends and you'll think "Well this file must be clean, it's on my friends computer, I trust him!" Meanwhile the friend downloaded the file ("Britney spears christina aguilera lesbian teen anal blowjob threesome.mpg.exe") from the public limewire, never checked it for viruses, and didn't realize the file was anything malicious.
Take a look at this video of the Panasonic P905i. At first it looks like it has a similar form factor to the Android G1, until they morph it from a slider to a flip-phone and pull out the digital TV aerial. Seriously cool!
It's not a slider, it's a flip phone that can open two ways. The phone really isn't all that impressive, the only thing it has that the G1 doesn't is the TV antenna, which doesn't seem like it would be all that useful.
I was expecting a switch that would let you switch the data cable between multiple drives. That way you could have all the drives on one port, and tell the BIOS to boot from that since it will always be the same slot. I don't see how this switch will stop errors like "Primary SATA Drive not detected" from showing up. Or how it would work in a system where you have to specify which SATA channel to boot from.
With a data cable switch you would only need one small drive for each OS (you could even use a solid state device for more speed) and there could be a couple separate drives for data that are shared between all of the operating systems.
Strawman. There's nothing in the complaint about the student being asked to leave, much less refusing.
Well legally they can't ask the student to leave (where would they ask her to go? During school hours teachers are your legal guardians), they can ask her to stop texting and put the phone away (and according to the police report that's what the teacher did.) Other than asking a bunch of times there's not much else the teacher can do. The police wouldn't have arrested the girl had she just stopped texting, listened to the teacher and didn't lie to the police. Plus right at the beginning of the report the officer admits to knowing the girl from previous negative conducts (which aren't detailed in the report.)
I agree with the GP that the police shouldn't have been involved, though the teacher really can't do anything to discipline the child other than call the police.
They still use the same stickers. They only upgraded the glue to "will-never-ever-come-off" strenght.
I hate those stickers.
Get a razor blade, slide it between the sticker and the case. If you can keep the precise angle you could leave the sticker completely undamaged possibly with some cosmetic damage to the case (I've done it without damaging the case before.) I used to work in a computer shop and we'd do that if we were swapping out cases on a machine.
Becasue it's a bad policy and backlash needs to start somewhere. There fact that it's 'standard' does not make it good, legal or right.
It's standard because without that clause anyone can sue a website they post content on for having a backup server.
Plus if that website ever wants to advertise they can include a screenshot of their site which might include your username and a thumbnail icon representing yourself (most social networking websites show random users on their main page), they're giving themselves an easy way to do that without tracking exactly who was shown on the page, or if they deleted their account.
Isn't that a far cry, though, from [...] including the option to "use your name, likeness and image for any purpose"?
The only difference is that facebook explicitly says they can use your name, likeness and image for any purpose. The sourceforge ToS covers the exact same thing with no clause for the license to ever be revoked.
The info collected on slashdot is 100% falsifiable (throwaway email) and everything else is something you had to go seek out - you can create a bio, but you have to go looking for it, for example.
You mean your facebook account actually has real information about you? I made everything on mine up, the people who know me know it's my facebook and I only created it so they'd stop complaining that I don't have a facebook account. I didn't feel the need to have some page online containing all of my personal information. There's a lot more identifying information about me on slashdot than there is on facebook.
Anyway, facebook is just doing that to legally cover their asses, if slashdot allowed you to upload images then it would be exactly the same situation (they wouldn't even need to change anything as their current clause covers anything you submit to the site, and it applies to all sourceforge owned websites.) Some ad guy at facebook might want to make a little commercial with a couple screenshots of user pages showing what facebook looks like, that is the sort of stuff this clause is most likely going to be used for. That way if you delete your account 5 years from now and that commercial is still playing, you can't sue them for having your page appear in the background and they don't have to worry about keeping track of what they might have used from their site for advertising.
If you really feel that facebook is looking to impersonate than you shouldn't be using their service.
Because Slashdot and Facebook have different purposes. For instance, I use my real name on Facebook and have photographs and lists of friends.
It would take some effort to find my real name from my Slashdot user ID (not impossible though), and there's only 2 people who's/. ID I know.
...so? There are people who have links to their personal websites in their sig. There are people who use their real name on Slashdot. Also, what about Sourceforge? What if you write some script when you're younger that goes out and actively searches for porn (they exist, and they're not hard to write)? You could have all sorts of contact info on Sourceforge that links you to this script and Sourceforge has the right to keep it up indefinitely.
Maybe one day you decide to become a politician, you might not want that script still floating around with your name on it, in which case you're in pretty much the same boat as if you had stuff you didn't want seen floating around on Facebook. There really isn't any difference, Facebook needs that policy in their ToS to cover their ass if you delete your account but they still want any comments you wrote up. Or if they just have a backup, they need the right to have that information available on their backup server, otherwise you could sue them for having your copyrighted content on one of their computers.
I posted this last time, it seems that no one seems to understand that their ToS change is quite standard.
With respect to text or data entered into and stored by publicly-accessible site features such as forums, comments and bug trackers ("SourceForge Public Content"), the submitting user retains ownership of such SourceForge Public Content; with respect to publicly-available statistical content which is generated by the site to monitor and display content activity, such content is owned by SourceForge. In each such case, the submitting user grants SourceForge the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display such Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, all subject to the terms of any applicable license.
Why the knee jerk reaction to facebook having the same policies as slashdot? If you delete your slashdot account, what do you think happens to all of your archived comments?
That's been the rule of the Internet for nearly two decades.
Is that why at the bottom of slashdot it says "Comments are owned by the Poster."?
With respect to text or data entered into and stored by publicly-accessible site features such as forums, comments and bug trackers ("SourceForge Public Content"), the submitting user retains ownership of such SourceForge Public Content; with respect to publicly-available statistical content which is generated by the site to monitor and display content activity, such content is owned by SourceForge. In each such case, the submitting user grants SourceForge the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display such Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, all subject to the terms of any applicable license.
They MUST have that right, otherwise you could sue them for posting your comments, and your comments stay INDEFINITELY. If you delete your Slashdot account, your comments still stay archived online, so exactly what's so evil about the new ToS?
It sounded cool at first, I was thinking they'd have a solar panel charging device. Plug your phone into it while you're at work if you work in the day time by a window, and have it charge like that.
This phone is far from that. Putting a solar panel on a phone seems rather useless, unless you intend to leave it out in the sun all the time. When you're walking around outside your phone will be in your pocket, when you're using it, your hand will cover the panel. Plus most people charge their phones at night, when there is no sun out to charge the phone. They've got the right idea but they're doing it all wrong.
Finally, I get it, I see why you're so angry at the pirate bay. They've got one of your games up there, you probably tried to get it removed, and they said no.
Just wondering, but have sales of "Democracy" been dropping steadily starting August 20th, 2006? How about any other games you found on the pirate bay? Have the sales dropped on each game starting from the day they were released on the pirate bay? Or do you just assume that since it's on the pirate bay, everyone must be downloading it illegally?
That's basically the train of thought that lead to DRM in the first place.
Executive 1: Sales of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 12 are down! Executive 2: Obviously it has nothing to do with the fact that our games are becoming redundant, boring and unoriginal [not commenting on your games, they actually look pretty interesting], it's obviously all those pirates!!! Executive 1: Hey I've got an idea, let's put in a bunch of protections that will become a hassle for normal consumers, that will eventually be cracked by the pirates anyway! Executive 2: Great idea! And when we piss off the consumers with all the copyright protection schemes to the point where they're no longer interested in buying our products, we can just blame further drops in sales on pirates! Executive 1: Brilliant!
"What about downloading stuff that the local television networks are too cheap to buy themselves"
If you want to see movies that arent on TV yet, buy the DVD. Or rent it. or borrow a friends DVD.
What if he can't rent it, his friends don't have it, and the only place to get it is at the store? The store won't allow you to return an opened DVD (they assume you made a copy of it) so what if you don't like the show? Now you've wasted $40 (since most TV shows come with the entire season and not single episode DVDs) on something that you were only interested in seeing before you watched it. What if this happened once every month? Would you decide that you should never buy another DVD again?
If you hate 'the mafiaa' boycott their movies. that is your right. It is *not* your right to take them for free anyway whilst waving some crap about freedom.
Is it not my right to know what I'm buying?
If I'm buying a sweater I can try it on in the store. If I buy a car, I can test drive it before I purchase it. If I buy a chop saw, I can return it if it doesn't cut wood.
If I buy some software, the minute I open the packaging I can no longer return it for a refund.
I don't know why you have this idea that everyone who uses the pirate bay just wants something for free. You seem rather trollish in your defense and accusing everyone using the pirate bay of just wanting something for nothing.
When the Half-Life beta was released to the warez community, I downloaded it (on a 56K connection), loved it, reserved a copy and bought it when it was first released (my wonid was 169.) I did that for a lot of PC games back then, if I didn't like it I stopped playing. Why should I pay $50 for something I don't like and can't return?
A few years ago I downloaded Aperture for my Mac and Lightroom for my PC (both off the pirate bay since it was easier and faster to download than the trial versions) to see which one I liked more. I loved Aperture, so I went out and bought it ($300.)
Please explain to me why that particular situation should be illegal? I downloaded two products, compared them, removed both downloaded copies (didn't like Lightroom and I didn't want the aperture versions to conflict) and went out and purchased a legit copy. What harm did I do there?
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Excuse the heck out of me, but the issue being discussed was a failure that was NOT due to a power loss or other such system problem. It was a crash caused by this very issue.
From TFA:
"If the system crashes there may not be enough time for the data to be allocated and written to the hard drive"
From the bug report in TFA:
"Today, I was experimenting with some BIOS settings that made the system crash right after loading the desktop."
The filesystem behaved exactly as it should have. It was the application that wrote to the files without an fsync that caused the files to be lost when the system crashed.
Perhaps you would benefit from reading TFA?
Others insist that that the whole WebKit story is merely a feint and that Microsoft will in fact be adopting a brand-new engine coming out of its Microsoft Research division. Dubbed "Gazelle," this new engine will supposedly be more secure than Firefox or even Chrome, making copious use of sandboxing to keep its myriad plug-ins isolated and the overall browser process model protected.
Doesn't Microsoft scream "This one's WAAAAAY more secure than the last one!" about everything they release? When has that actually meant anything? Sure, I'd take Windows XP over Windows 95, but it's not very hard to do better than their old lousy products. Making the claim that it'll be more secure than Firefox or even Chrome, that's a bold statement and I doubt they'll be able to back it up. Plus all the security in the world is useless if the thing doesn't conform to any web standards.
Also, are they changing just the engine or is the name changing too?
If your swapfile is stored on a SSD, how much does it still matter that you ran out of RAM? And if you're not asking your CPU to do as many I/O waits, maybe you can squeeze more useful cycles and therefore performance out of it. A SSD should be a sure way to improve system performance... a reasonable way to spend $300.
You can buy 4 gigs of ram for less than $50 and remove your swap file.
You can get a 2.3GHz quad core AMD CPU and motherboard for $169.
You can get both for $219, which is still cheaper than a $300 SSD and could give you a much greater increase in performance. It really all depends on the hardware currently being used. If it's a really high end system (4+ GB RAM, quad core CPU, WD Raptor drives for the OS) using an external IDE drive as storage then yes a SSD would noticeably increase the performance, though if the system is low end (single core CPU, 512MB RAM, IDE hard drives for the OS) then there are a number of other cheaper options that would give a far greater increase in performance than just getting a SSD.
Another thing: "those external enclosures generally aren't known for their performance."
That's very misleading - it depends on the interface. eSATA and SATA are exactly the same.
Well, it also depends on the hard drive inside the enclosure. My point was that generally external enclosures are purchased for extra storage, not increased performance. So disk manufacturers don't have much incentive to put their fastest hard drives in external enclosures.
You could buy an external enclosure and put in a high performance drive but you're still adding another component between the hard drive and the rest of the system which will increase latency.
Found a video.
Basically it seems like they just put 5 touch sensors to represent the 5 buttons from the plastic guitar onto the fretboard of a real guitar. It doesn't look like it'll do much to teach you how to play if you're just playing one of the 5 button plastic guitar based games. Perhaps their own software has some more stuff to it but they'd need to put touch sensors everywhere on the guitar for it to work as an instructor.
Looking at what the product really is I'm not interested, perhaps if they do release a version that comes with some sort of instructional game and touch sensors through the whole guitar I might be interested. I can see how this would work in teaching people how to play the guitar, it's just in too early a development stage for it to be anything worth buying.
The article makes no mention of how someone actually controls the game with the guitar which is a very important detail. If it's too hard for a beginner to get started then it's not likely that it will sell. If there is a slow gradual path of learning (rather than jumping in and being required to play the actual chords from the songs) then I could see it doing well. I would even get one for myself, I've always wanted something just like this to learn how to play.
http://www.fretlight.com/ looks like the wheel has been reinvented.
Finger position sensing technology in a guitar is not the same as having some LEDs light up where your fingers should go.
I've often wondered why the computer can't just audibly detect what note you played with a visual indication of where your fingers need to be to play the correct note (I'm sure there's a simple explanation though.)
The company I'm working at thought about using SSDs, but we were thinking more on the server end (to allow faster database access.) You don't have to worry about the write limits as it's highly unlikely you will hit them within the lifetime of a standard hard drive.
The main issue we ran into was cost, the drives we were looking at started around $3,000 for something like 80 gigs. That just wasn't worth it for us, though if you personally feel that the added cost (and I doubt you're looking at a $3,000 SSD, more likely you're looking at the $300 drives) is worth the performance gains then go for it. Though I think even for $300 it won't make a worthwhile difference.
There are other bottlenecks to consider, is your CPU fast enough, do you have enough RAM, could the hard drive your software and OS is on use an upgrade, etc. Perhaps even buy an internal SATA drive (if you can) to replace the external you're using, those external enclosures generally aren't known for their performance. If you've exhausted all of those options and you still need more speed, then I'd say go for the SSD.
Because all the spyware executables have something like "Thanks to Limewire for timely reliable delivery" in the properties or something?
No, it was the executable files in their limewire downloads folders that gave it away.
Since Lars and the band perform the song(s) and probably have some rights to the song(s), he can't pirate his own work.
Unless he has sole ownership of all the songs on the album (which is doubtful considering there's 3 other members of the band) then he has no legal right to download the album online. He would need the consent of the other band members and probably the record label that puts out the album (though Metallica is likely large enough to retain copyright on all of their songs, I don't know this is just speculation.)
The only situation in which Lars could legally download the entire album is if he has sole ownership of the work, which is highly doubtful.
That's like saying a photographer who downloads a picture of one of his works from a gallery is pirating his work or an author who makes a copy of one of his own books is pirating his book.
No, it's like saying a co-author for a book is pirating the book by photocopying it and not paying the other authors involved. If I (as a photographer) contribute to a work of art in some way and expect compensation for the distribution of that work of art, but one of the artists decides to just download it, I'm not getting money from that copy. I don't feel that it's an issue that Lars downloaded an album that he helped create but as far as the RIAA is concerned it's still pirating.
When I worked in a computer shop I'd get a lot of computers coming in infected with so much spyware/adware that they were struggling just to remain "idle". In just about every case I could trace the infection back to something downloaded off of limewire.
I wonder if this is just going to make that spread faster, since these darknets will compose of your friends and you'll think "Well this file must be clean, it's on my friends computer, I trust him!" Meanwhile the friend downloaded the file ("Britney spears christina aguilera lesbian teen anal blowjob threesome.mpg .exe") from the public limewire, never checked it for viruses, and didn't realize the file was anything malicious.
Take a look at this video of the Panasonic P905i. At first it looks like it has a similar form factor to the Android G1, until they morph it from a slider to a flip-phone and pull out the digital TV aerial. Seriously cool!
It's not a slider, it's a flip phone that can open two ways. The phone really isn't all that impressive, the only thing it has that the G1 doesn't is the TV antenna, which doesn't seem like it would be all that useful.
I was expecting a switch that would let you switch the data cable between multiple drives. That way you could have all the drives on one port, and tell the BIOS to boot from that since it will always be the same slot. I don't see how this switch will stop errors like "Primary SATA Drive not detected" from showing up. Or how it would work in a system where you have to specify which SATA channel to boot from.
With a data cable switch you would only need one small drive for each OS (you could even use a solid state device for more speed) and there could be a couple separate drives for data that are shared between all of the operating systems.
Strawman. There's nothing in the complaint about the student being asked to leave, much less refusing.
Well legally they can't ask the student to leave (where would they ask her to go? During school hours teachers are your legal guardians), they can ask her to stop texting and put the phone away (and according to the police report that's what the teacher did.) Other than asking a bunch of times there's not much else the teacher can do. The police wouldn't have arrested the girl had she just stopped texting, listened to the teacher and didn't lie to the police. Plus right at the beginning of the report the officer admits to knowing the girl from previous negative conducts (which aren't detailed in the report.)
I agree with the GP that the police shouldn't have been involved, though the teacher really can't do anything to discipline the child other than call the police.
They still use the same stickers. They only upgraded the glue to "will-never-ever-come-off" strenght.
I hate those stickers.
Get a razor blade, slide it between the sticker and the case. If you can keep the precise angle you could leave the sticker completely undamaged possibly with some cosmetic damage to the case (I've done it without damaging the case before.) I used to work in a computer shop and we'd do that if we were swapping out cases on a machine.
Becasue it's a bad policy and backlash needs to start somewhere. There fact that it's 'standard' does not make it good, legal or right.
It's standard because without that clause anyone can sue a website they post content on for having a backup server.
Plus if that website ever wants to advertise they can include a screenshot of their site which might include your username and a thumbnail icon representing yourself (most social networking websites show random users on their main page), they're giving themselves an easy way to do that without tracking exactly who was shown on the page, or if they deleted their account.
I'm not likely to post a work of art on slashdot and intend to sell it later.
You might want to do that on Freshmeat, which is also covered under the same ToS.
Isn't that a far cry, though, from [...] including the option to "use your name, likeness and image for any purpose"?
The only difference is that facebook explicitly says they can use your name, likeness and image for any purpose. The sourceforge ToS covers the exact same thing with no clause for the license to ever be revoked.
The info collected on slashdot is 100% falsifiable (throwaway email) and everything else is something you had to go seek out - you can create a bio, but you have to go looking for it, for example.
You mean your facebook account actually has real information about you? I made everything on mine up, the people who know me know it's my facebook and I only created it so they'd stop complaining that I don't have a facebook account. I didn't feel the need to have some page online containing all of my personal information. There's a lot more identifying information about me on slashdot than there is on facebook.
Anyway, facebook is just doing that to legally cover their asses, if slashdot allowed you to upload images then it would be exactly the same situation (they wouldn't even need to change anything as their current clause covers anything you submit to the site, and it applies to all sourceforge owned websites.) Some ad guy at facebook might want to make a little commercial with a couple screenshots of user pages showing what facebook looks like, that is the sort of stuff this clause is most likely going to be used for. That way if you delete your account 5 years from now and that commercial is still playing, you can't sue them for having your page appear in the background and they don't have to worry about keeping track of what they might have used from their site for advertising.
If you really feel that facebook is looking to impersonate than you shouldn't be using their service.
Because Slashdot and Facebook have different purposes. For instance, I use my real name on Facebook and have photographs and lists of friends.
It would take some effort to find my real name from my Slashdot user ID (not impossible though), and there's only 2 people who's /. ID I know.
...so? There are people who have links to their personal websites in their sig. There are people who use their real name on Slashdot. Also, what about Sourceforge? What if you write some script when you're younger that goes out and actively searches for porn (they exist, and they're not hard to write)? You could have all sorts of contact info on Sourceforge that links you to this script and Sourceforge has the right to keep it up indefinitely.
Maybe one day you decide to become a politician, you might not want that script still floating around with your name on it, in which case you're in pretty much the same boat as if you had stuff you didn't want seen floating around on Facebook. There really isn't any difference, Facebook needs that policy in their ToS to cover their ass if you delete your account but they still want any comments you wrote up. Or if they just have a backup, they need the right to have that information available on their backup server, otherwise you could sue them for having your copyrighted content on one of their computers.
I posted this last time, it seems that no one seems to understand that their ToS change is quite standard.
With respect to text or data entered into and stored by publicly-accessible site features such as forums, comments and bug trackers ("SourceForge Public Content"), the submitting user retains ownership of such SourceForge Public Content; with respect to publicly-available statistical content which is generated by the site to monitor and display content activity, such content is owned by SourceForge. In each such case, the submitting user grants SourceForge the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display such Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed , all subject to the terms of any applicable license.
Why the knee jerk reaction to facebook having the same policies as slashdot? If you delete your slashdot account, what do you think happens to all of your archived comments?
That's been the rule of the Internet for nearly two decades.
Is that why at the bottom of slashdot it says "Comments are owned by the Poster."?
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They MUST have that right, otherwise you could sue them for posting your comments, and your comments stay INDEFINITELY. If you delete your Slashdot account, your comments still stay archived online, so exactly what's so evil about the new ToS?
It sounded cool at first, I was thinking they'd have a solar panel charging device. Plug your phone into it while you're at work if you work in the day time by a window, and have it charge like that.
This phone is far from that. Putting a solar panel on a phone seems rather useless, unless you intend to leave it out in the sun all the time. When you're walking around outside your phone will be in your pocket, when you're using it, your hand will cover the panel. Plus most people charge their phones at night, when there is no sun out to charge the phone. They've got the right idea but they're doing it all wrong.
NOW I GET IT!
Finally, I get it, I see why you're so angry at the pirate bay. They've got one of your games up there, you probably tried to get it removed, and they said no.
Just wondering, but have sales of "Democracy" been dropping steadily starting August 20th, 2006? How about any other games you found on the pirate bay? Have the sales dropped on each game starting from the day they were released on the pirate bay? Or do you just assume that since it's on the pirate bay, everyone must be downloading it illegally?
That's basically the train of thought that lead to DRM in the first place.
Executive 1: Sales of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 12 are down!
Executive 2: Obviously it has nothing to do with the fact that our games are becoming redundant, boring and unoriginal [not commenting on your games, they actually look pretty interesting], it's obviously all those pirates!!!
Executive 1: Hey I've got an idea, let's put in a bunch of protections that will become a hassle for normal consumers, that will eventually be cracked by the pirates anyway!
Executive 2: Great idea! And when we piss off the consumers with all the copyright protection schemes to the point where they're no longer interested in buying our products, we can just blame further drops in sales on pirates!
Executive 1: Brilliant!
"What about downloading stuff that the local television networks are too cheap to buy themselves"
If you want to see movies that arent on TV yet, buy the DVD. Or rent it. or borrow a friends DVD.
What if he can't rent it, his friends don't have it, and the only place to get it is at the store? The store won't allow you to return an opened DVD (they assume you made a copy of it) so what if you don't like the show? Now you've wasted $40 (since most TV shows come with the entire season and not single episode DVDs) on something that you were only interested in seeing before you watched it. What if this happened once every month? Would you decide that you should never buy another DVD again?
If you hate 'the mafiaa' boycott their movies. that is your right. It is *not* your right to take them for free anyway whilst waving some crap about freedom.
Is it not my right to know what I'm buying?
If I'm buying a sweater I can try it on in the store. If I buy a car, I can test drive it before I purchase it. If I buy a chop saw, I can return it if it doesn't cut wood.
If I buy some software, the minute I open the packaging I can no longer return it for a refund.
I don't know why you have this idea that everyone who uses the pirate bay just wants something for free. You seem rather trollish in your defense and accusing everyone using the pirate bay of just wanting something for nothing.
When the Half-Life beta was released to the warez community, I downloaded it (on a 56K connection), loved it, reserved a copy and bought it when it was first released (my wonid was 169.) I did that for a lot of PC games back then, if I didn't like it I stopped playing. Why should I pay $50 for something I don't like and can't return?
A few years ago I downloaded Aperture for my Mac and Lightroom for my PC (both off the pirate bay since it was easier and faster to download than the trial versions) to see which one I liked more. I loved Aperture, so I went out and bought it ($300.)
Please explain to me why that particular situation should be illegal? I downloaded two products, compared them, removed both downloaded copies (didn't like Lightroom and I didn't want the aperture versions to conflict) and went out and purchased a legit copy. What harm did I do there?