IANAL, but it would seem to me that showing the UK court system the document where Spamhaus has conceeded that the US Federal Court system does have jurisdiction would trump any other arguments.
Since everyone seems to miss this, since July, the "Illinois court" has been a FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT. Got that first word? Yeah, that says Federal. It was moved from Illinois Circuit Court on the behest of Spamhaus's lawyers.
You are aware that this WAS a federal court, right? It just happened to be located in Illinois.
Spamhaus had it moved from Illinois Circuit Court to United States District Court in July, then stopped responding to the District court once it was moved.
Here's a scan of the document saying that it had been moved.
Similarly, I can describe a memory problem I had with Firefox 1.5.0.7.
Extensions present: Adblock Plus Adblock Filterset.G DownThemAll FlashBlock
I had three tabs open. 1. Was browsing/. 2. Was open to the PHP manual 3. Was browsing Home of the Underdogs's Hall of Belated Fame and was about 20 pages in to it.
Firefox's memory usage was at 721MB. To repeat that so you don't think it was a typo: 721MB.
So yes, I'm going to conclude that it has a memory leak.
1. Other than telling us Opera is "consuming 100000kB," the user doesn't give any details.
2. Beta versions have bugs. This is something testing is supposed to get rid of.
3. I tried this for 10 minutes, but memory usage hadn't gone past 67MB. I'm not going to wait the whole 3 hours to test it, though.
4. This is the only actual real world example. Yes, Opera performs poorly on this page, but so do Internet Explorer and Firefox. It's a very good example of a badly designed page.
I'm not going to ask what you were doing, but right now, with 4 tabs open, one of which has the Quicktime plugin loaded, Opera 9.02 is only using 61MB of RAM on my computer.
Now, I know that your company didn't develop this, but relying on proprietary vendor "standards" rather than the real standards is just asking to be bitten.
This is the first time I have ever heard someone try to make the claim that putting out a new version of their software every couple of years and trying to charge money for it constituted a lack of ethics.
Does the name "Symantec" or "Norton Anti-Virus" ring a bell?
Couldn't they have ponied up for the licensing fees for the rumble?
They could have, but that would mean admitting they were wrong. Japanese culture isn't like ours. They really don't like admitting that something they did was wrong.
No, the FSF is about _developer_ freedom. That's why they are the primary sponsor of GNU and not anything BSD. They have an entire section on their site about software licenses, broken down into three categories: 1. GPL-Compatible Free Software Licenses 2. GPL-Incompatible, Free Software Licenses 3. Non-Free Software Licenses
#2 is a clear FUD to scare developers away from those licenses; there's no other reason to break them into two lists on the fsf.org site. Breaking the first two into separate sections would be appropriate on the GNU site instead.
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A lot of people are resisting the move to IPv6 simply because of the size of the address space. Particularly since under current manufacturing space, we could never fill it.
Why? Simply: MAC addresses are only 48-bit, or 64-bit if everyone were to switch over EUI-64. IPv6's 128-bit size is a lot larger. There are 281474976710656 MAC addresses, 18446744073709551616 EUI-64 addresses, and 3.4e38 IPv6 addresses.
So, IPv6 is approximately 1208925819614629174706176 times larger than the MAC address space.
If you need help visualing this, here are the address space sizes padded with 0s in a monospace font. A space has been added in the middle to prevent/. from breaking the lines.
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It took you that long?
On my home system, I just have a router that understands uPnP and it sets up packet forwarding for me.:D
Granted, uPnP has security implications...
Read the bug report. Mozilla Corporation wants to...
review every patch to Firefox that Debian makes before it goes live.
prevent Debian from backporting patches from newer Firefox releases to older ones.
As a reminder, Debian's policy is to not make major software changes in stable. You can probably see where there's a problem here.
In order to get their way, Mozilla Corporation is threatening Debian with copyright and trademark issues. Not just copyright issues on the logo itself, but trademark issues with the name "Firefox."
The Merriam-Webster definition for hypocrite puts it best:
a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings"
i.e. saying "-> becomes., like the rest of the world uses." and then changing the ternary operator from something everyone else uses to something completely different.
Changing -> to . has other repercussions, too. In case you'd forgotten, "." was already used for concatenation. So, now concatenation now becomes "~". But wait, ~ was already used to bind scalars to a pattern match. So those now change from =~ and !~ to ~~ and !~~.
I really doubt that the Huffman Compression principle states that changing one operator should change two other frequently used operators simply because "the rest of the world" uses said operator.
It also strikes me as a really stupid idea to arbitrarily change operators people already to something completely different between versions of a programming language. I've never seen it done before Perl 6. Have you?
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Or FILENOTFOUND?
If I could find the original post on TheDailyWTF about that one, I'd link to it.
IANAL, but it would seem to me that showing the UK court system the document where Spamhaus has conceeded that the US Federal Court system does have jurisdiction would trump any other arguments.
Since everyone seems to miss this, since July, the "Illinois court" has been a FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT. Got that first word? Yeah, that says Federal. It was moved from Illinois Circuit Court on the behest of Spamhaus's lawyers.
You are aware that this WAS a federal court, right? It just happened to be located in Illinois.
Spamhaus had it moved from Illinois Circuit Court to United States District Court in July, then stopped responding to the District court once it was moved.
Here's a scan of the document saying that it had been moved.
Similarly, I can describe a memory problem I had with Firefox 1.5.0.7.
/.
Extensions present:
Adblock Plus
Adblock Filterset.G
DownThemAll
FlashBlock
I had three tabs open.
1. Was browsing
2. Was open to the PHP manual
3. Was browsing Home of the Underdogs's Hall of Belated Fame and was about 20 pages in to it.
Firefox's memory usage was at 721MB. To repeat that so you don't think it was a typo: 721MB.
So yes, I'm going to conclude that it has a memory leak.
1. Other than telling us Opera is "consuming 100000kB," the user doesn't give any details.
2. Beta versions have bugs. This is something testing is supposed to get rid of.
3. I tried this for 10 minutes, but memory usage hadn't gone past 67MB. I'm not going to wait the whole 3 hours to test it, though.
4. This is the only actual real world example. Yes, Opera performs poorly on this page, but so do Internet Explorer and Firefox. It's a very good example of a badly designed page.
I'm not going to ask what you were doing, but right now, with 4 tabs open, one of which has the Quicktime plugin loaded, Opera 9.02 is only using 61MB of RAM on my computer.
Here you go!
Now, I know that your company didn't develop this, but relying on proprietary vendor "standards" rather than the real standards is just asking to be bitten.
This is the first time I have ever heard someone try to make the claim that putting out a new version of their software every couple of years and trying to charge money for it constituted a lack of ethics.
Does the name "Symantec" or "Norton Anti-Virus" ring a bell?
...and if so, did it report any bugs?
Youtube?
They could have, but that would mean admitting they were wrong. Japanese culture isn't like ours. They really don't like admitting that something they did was wrong.
No, the FSF is about _developer_ freedom. That's why they are the primary sponsor of GNU and not anything BSD. They have an entire section on their site about software licenses, broken down into three categories:
1. GPL-Compatible Free Software Licenses
2. GPL-Incompatible, Free Software Licenses
3. Non-Free Software Licenses
#2 is a clear FUD to scare developers away from those licenses; there's no other reason to break them into two lists on the fsf.org site. Breaking the first two into separate sections would be appropriate on the GNU site instead.
Why? Simply: MAC addresses are only 48-bit, or 64-bit if everyone were to switch over EUI-64. IPv6's 128-bit size is a lot larger. There are 281474976710656 MAC addresses, 18446744073709551616 EUI-64 addresses, and 3.4e38 IPv6 addresses.
So, IPv6 is approximately 1208925819614629174706176 times larger than the MAC address space.
If you need help visualing this, here are the address space sizes padded with 0s in a monospace font. A space has been added in the middle to prevent
It took you that long? On my home system, I just have a router that understands uPnP and it sets up packet forwarding for me. :D
Granted, uPnP has security implications...
You work at UC Berkeley, the birthplace of BSD, and don't use BSD?! What is the world coming to!
>> "Yahoo Mail recently launched their new webmail service, dubbed Beta (yes just like gmail)
> I don't think that word means what you think it means....
So, "to call by a distinctive title, epithet, or nickname" isn't one of its meanings?
I won't trust the ACID2 test as long as it continues to use data urls. Even in the "non-data" version.
Data URLs are a nasty hack that prevent the proper caching of the page elements that they represent, usually images.
Oddly enough, I switched to Opera, but for a completely different reason that I won't go in to here.
Read the bug report. Mozilla Corporation wants to...
As a reminder, Debian's policy is to not make major software changes in stable. You can probably see where there's a problem here.
In order to get their way, Mozilla Corporation is threatening Debian with copyright and trademark issues. Not just copyright issues on the logo itself, but trademark issues with the name "Firefox."
i.e. saying "-> becomes
Changing -> to . has other repercussions, too. In case you'd forgotten, "." was already used for concatenation. So, now concatenation now becomes "~". But wait, ~ was already used to bind scalars to a pattern match. So those now change from =~ and !~ to ~~ and !~~.
I really doubt that the Huffman Compression principle states that changing one operator should change two other frequently used operators simply because "the rest of the world" uses said operator.
It also strikes me as a really stupid idea to arbitrarily change operators people already to something completely different between versions of a programming language. I've never seen it done before Perl 6. Have you?
For example, here's two choice quotes from the Perl 6 operators page.
Hypocrisy in action, folks.
It wouldn't be the first time that Square has done this.
For instance, Final Fantasy Adventure is the first game in what is more commonly known as the Mana series. It even has a remake, Sword of Mana.
Final Fantasy Legend 1-3 are the first three games in the SaGa series.
And that's without even looking at his faw paw.