I would imagine that RMS went there for a conference on free software. This would fall under an exception which doesn't require special permission from the State Department.
It's very inconsiderate to diss the guy just because he dislikes the M key even if it is in the same place
I didn't diss anyone. I only said that it was a strange complaint. If he doesn't like where it is, he should explain why. It was a pretty interesting post otherwise.
the guy was probably programming in assembler before your PARENTS knew what a computer was
It's rather inconsiderate of you to assume that you have any idea how old I am.
he can probably code better with his QWERTY than you can with your "me too! I'M FASHIONABLE! " fancy new keyboard"
What are you talking about? Dvorak has been around over 50 years. There's nothing new or fashionable about it. The keyboard that I use happens to be over ten years old, and it's not a Dvorak keyboard (though the OS has been told to treat it as one).
The M key is in a good place considering that it competes for space with other, more commonly used keys. It's in a place where the right index finger can hit it pretty easily.
The complaints about there not being many Dvorak keyboards for sale are just silly.
Why would you change layouts without bothering to learn how to touch-type??? If you don't touch-type, you will never type fast, regardless of which layout you use. It doesn't matter what the keys on your keyboard say if you are touch-typing.
The best thing to do when learning a new layout is to have a copy of it on paper taped to your monitor. You want to get out of the habit of looking at the keyboard, not perpetuate it.
Perhaps it would be more appropriate to ask this question about Programmer Dvorak rather than standard Dvorak.
Progammer Dvorak has the same letter layout as regular Dvorak (allowing for compatibility with other machines), but it changes the placement of punctuation in a way that "makes it easier to write source code in C, C#, Java, Pascal, LISP, CSS and XML."
Police frequently have to run red lights. Maybe they are responding to a call. Maybe they are pulling over a drunk driver who ran the light.
How is a police officer supposed to keep track of every single time this is necessary? Very often, it will be something that doesn't result in an arrest and doesn't require a report. In the heat of the moment, they will forget doing it and won't be able to explain themselves when that picture comes.
It should be presumed that if you are in a squad car, you are enforcing the law. You're not above the law. But you have to be free to do what's necessary to enforce it.
And furthermore, the cameras are evil. Get rid of them.
Please explain how CentOS exists if RedHat does not "provide free access to downloads of their signature product".
The signature product is an installable Linux distribution on CD or DVD. The vast majority of distros provide a free download of an iso. Red Hat does not. They are within their rights to do things that way.
But it's pretty obvious to most end users that the signature product is not a bunch of source code. Many end users don't even know what source code is.
The folks in the marketing department must have pointed out that if it's free, people will think it isn't worth much.
At first, they failed miserably. But with each attempt, they learned a little bit more about how the subculture worked.
Now they probably sell more "skateboarding shoes" than any other company.
Of course, all they've done is buy the mind-share of young people through some adept marketing... but is there any difference between that and "buying cool?"
This is even less impressive than Microsoft's claim that Vista is selling faster than XP did.
And it suffers from the same oversight...
That is, it fails to take into account the increases in market volume and buying power which would make it a useful comparison and instead uses the same raw number to compare two very different markets in two different eras. That raw number of 100,000 doesn't mean the same thing at the dawn of the DVD player as it does now at the dawn of the "BluRay player."
A useful comparison would consist of a ratio or percentage adjusted to take those differences into account. But it's obvious that an honest comparison isn't going to impress anyone.
After 12 years (I'm making an educated guess here), all they can say is that they beat the same raw number of purchases by 2 months?!?!
There's an old saying... "you can't polish a turd."
It is only logical that a county attorney would want to continue prosecuting these cases, otherwise he might have to cut staff and save the taxpayers a few bucks.
I can't say exactly how things work in Montana, but generally a "county attorney" is the guy who advises and represents the county commission on the legal effect of proposed ordinances, their constitutionality (or lack thereof), and sometimes represents the county in civil cases.
Usually, the person who prosecutes criminal cases--representing the state rather than the county--is called the "district attorney".
Copyright law is strict liability. "Oops" is not an excuse.
You need to reach a reasonable settlement with these people. They have your head on a plate. If you can point to the many other images that you have purchased from them, maybe they will be kind to you.
But before you do anything else, TALK TO AN ATTORNEY. Pay a couple hundred bucks for a consultation if that's all you have. Bring all of your records and correspondence with you to the meeting.
Asking slashdot about this is like asking Dr. Phil how to roll your own Linux kernel.
This is a feeling I have had for quite a while now, though it's not usually a very popular view so I'm forced to keep it quiet.
Strange, as your view seems to be the majority view on slashdot (or at least the most vocally expressed).
In the 15 years of Linux, it has almost universally called Linux. Rebranding it to GNU/Linux has never taken off and is an exercise in stubborness at this stage.
It doesn't matter what people call it. But it's reasonable for them to seek recognition of their contribution. They've been polite but persistent about it, and I think that's appropriate. The terms that are used tend to define a concept in peoples' minds.
It is when I see effort to rebrand or move to relicence Linux the I sometimes think the FSF forget that the code was GPL'd for all to use under those terms for better or for worse, even if that means it being used in a system that isn't prefixed with GNU.
Huh? Again... Wha? Noone can relicense a work but its owner. And noone has a place to complain about it but its owner.
I've seen several people make this claim. But I consider it FUD. The FSF doesn't own Linux and can't relicense it. Don't know what they did to make you think this. But since it is legally impossible, you needn't worry.
(I know, I know. I'm expecting my karma to go through the floor...)
And yet you get modded +5 Interesting. You underestimate the popularity of your viewpoint.
In 1913, Congress passed a constitutional amendment (in a clandestine midnight session)allowing the government to collect income taxes, but the amendment was not properly ratified by the states.
The most obvious problem with your whole spiel is that it assumes that in nearly 100 years, noone else has had enough sense to "stand up and do something about it" They have. The courts have held that they were full of shit, and they went to prison. And the courts (though not always right) were right about it.
16th Amendment: "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
Notice how it says "whatever source". That includes wage earners.
The 16th Amendment was proposed by Congress in 1909, not 1913. 1913 is when the Secretary of State declared it ratified, which was after 36 of the 50 states properly ratified it.
Because of scam artists like you, many people have gone to federal prison all the while arguing the "unconstitutionality" of the Federal Income Tax.
I hope you die an extremely painful death on your way to hell.
Such a requirement will surely send a shock wave across the online trading world because it could drastically reduce the profits a seller would make on these sites.
I hate the tax man as much as anybody, and my profits are already reduced by him.
So where did the submitter get the idea that eBay sellers are supposed to get a free pass?
If you already pay your taxes as the law requires of all of us, then your "profits" will not change. And if you don't... well, then you should go to jail like that guy from Survivor.
And despite judgement after judgement where MS get taken to the cleaners over patents without actually suing anyone (OSS) over patents Slashdot will continue to insist this is MS strategy. This is IBM mana.
I don't know what Slashdot insists, but I certainly didn't imply that MS is really going to sue any OSS projects.
Whatever it is to IBM, there is no serious dispute that we are dealing with a public relations game by MS. One would have to be hopelessly naive to think otherwise.
They will respond, saying that to reveal the precise code they are talking about would jeopardize their legal strategy. Of course, that makes them sound even more serious about their claims.
Why should they provide free legal advice to the Linux community, when they they are free to continue their campaign of FUD?
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One man's troll is another man's parody.
I do think it's likely that it's someone working for the RIAA.
It's a testament to their cluelessness that they would hire someone to write such a ridiculous shill-piece.
I wanted to tell them the truth - it's because they wear old clothes and have cheap haircuts.
This is great stuff.
Is it an RIAA troll or is it someone parodying an RIAA troll?
Only the RIAA knows.
I wonder how he managed to visit Cuba without violating the federal law that prohibits US citizens from trading with our enemies.
There are several exceptions to the restrictions on travel to Cuba.
I would imagine that RMS went there for a conference on free software. This would fall under an exception which doesn't require special permission from the State Department.
your second link pulls up a page with nothing but sponsored links.
Did you mean to spam or was this perhaps a typo?
It's very inconsiderate to diss the guy just because he dislikes the M key even if it is in the same place
I didn't diss anyone. I only said that it was a strange complaint. If he doesn't like where it is, he should explain why. It was a pretty interesting post otherwise.
the guy was probably programming in assembler before your PARENTS knew what a computer was
It's rather inconsiderate of you to assume that you have any idea how old I am.
he can probably code better with his QWERTY than you can with your "me too! I'M FASHIONABLE! " fancy new keyboard"
What are you talking about? Dvorak has been around over 50 years. There's nothing new or fashionable about it. The keyboard that I use happens to be over ten years old, and it's not a Dvorak keyboard (though the OS has been told to treat it as one).
The M key is in a good place considering that it competes for space with other, more commonly used keys. It's in a place where the right index finger can hit it pretty easily.
If the key caps don't matter, and you never have to look anyway, I suggest you get Das Keyboard.
I am hoping to get one of those for father's day. At the price, I would probably never buy one for myself, but it would be nice.
Exactly. M is in the same place on Dvorak as in Qwerty.
What a strange complaint.
The complaints about there not being many Dvorak keyboards for sale are just silly.
Why would you change layouts without bothering to learn how to touch-type??? If you don't touch-type, you will never type fast, regardless of which layout you use. It doesn't matter what the keys on your keyboard say if you are touch-typing.
The best thing to do when learning a new layout is to have a copy of it on paper taped to your monitor. You want to get out of the habit of looking at the keyboard, not perpetuate it.
Perhaps it would be more appropriate to ask this question about Programmer Dvorak rather than standard Dvorak.
Progammer Dvorak has the same letter layout as regular Dvorak (allowing for compatibility with other machines), but it changes the placement of punctuation in a way that "makes it easier to write source code in C, C#, Java, Pascal, LISP, CSS and XML."
Police frequently have to run red lights. Maybe they are responding to a call. Maybe they are pulling over a drunk driver who ran the light.
How is a police officer supposed to keep track of every single time this is necessary? Very often, it will be something that doesn't result in an arrest and doesn't require a report. In the heat of the moment, they will forget doing it and won't be able to explain themselves when that picture comes.
It should be presumed that if you are in a squad car, you are enforcing the law. You're not above the law. But you have to be free to do what's necessary to enforce it.
And furthermore, the cameras are evil. Get rid of them.
Please explain how CentOS exists if RedHat does not "provide free access to downloads of their signature product".
The signature product is an installable Linux distribution on CD or DVD. The vast majority of distros provide a free download of an iso. Red Hat does not. They are within their rights to do things that way.
But it's pretty obvious to most end users that the signature product is not a bunch of source code. Many end users don't even know what source code is.
The folks in the marketing department must have pointed out that if it's free, people will think it isn't worth much.
Case in point: Nike tried for years to get into the skateboard shoe industry... an industry which has been dominated by smaller companies since its inception.
At first, they failed miserably. But with each attempt, they learned a little bit more about how the subculture worked.
Now they probably sell more "skateboarding shoes" than any other company.
Of course, all they've done is buy the mind-share of young people through some adept marketing... but is there any difference between that and "buying cool?"
This is even less impressive than Microsoft's claim that Vista is selling faster than XP did.
And it suffers from the same oversight...
That is, it fails to take into account the increases in market volume and buying power which would make it a useful comparison and instead uses the same raw number to compare two very different markets in two different eras. That raw number of 100,000 doesn't mean the same thing at the dawn of the DVD player as it does now at the dawn of the "BluRay player."
A useful comparison would consist of a ratio or percentage adjusted to take those differences into account. But it's obvious that an honest comparison isn't going to impress anyone.
After 12 years (I'm making an educated guess here), all they can say is that they beat the same raw number of purchases by 2 months?!?!
There's an old saying... "you can't polish a turd."
In legal theory, the parent is responsible for the actions of the child.
Many states do have laws that create vicarious liability for a parent.
But these are suits under Federal copyright law. I'm not an expert in this area, but I'd be very surprised if the parent was responsible here.
A judgment against a child can't normally be used against the parent. At 10 years old, she's not going to have any income or assets.
By the time she reaches 18, it will no longer be reported by credit bureaus, and I suspect the judgment will expire by then.
So why would they even bother deposing the child? Maybe they want to see if the mother is just using her to get out of the case.
It is only logical that a county attorney would want to continue prosecuting these cases, otherwise he might have to cut staff and save the taxpayers a few bucks.
I can't say exactly how things work in Montana, but generally a "county attorney" is the guy who advises and represents the county commission on the legal effect of proposed ordinances, their constitutionality (or lack thereof), and sometimes represents the county in civil cases.
Usually, the person who prosecutes criminal cases--representing the state rather than the county--is called the "district attorney".
Copyright law is strict liability. "Oops" is not an excuse.
You need to reach a reasonable settlement with these people. They have your head on a plate. If you can point to the many other images that you have purchased from them, maybe they will be kind to you.
But before you do anything else, TALK TO AN ATTORNEY. Pay a couple hundred bucks for a consultation if that's all you have. Bring all of your records and correspondence with you to the meeting.
Asking slashdot about this is like asking Dr. Phil how to roll your own Linux kernel.
This is a feeling I have had for quite a while now, though it's not usually a very popular view so I'm forced to keep it quiet.
Strange, as your view seems to be the majority view on slashdot (or at least the most vocally expressed).
In the 15 years of Linux, it has almost universally called Linux. Rebranding it to GNU/Linux has never taken off and is an exercise in stubborness at this stage.
It doesn't matter what people call it. But it's reasonable for them to seek recognition of their contribution. They've been polite but persistent about it, and I think that's appropriate. The terms that are used tend to define a concept in peoples' minds.
It is when I see effort to rebrand or move to relicence Linux the I sometimes think the FSF forget that the code was GPL'd for all to use under those terms for better or for worse, even if that means it being used in a system that isn't prefixed with GNU.
Huh? Again... Wha? Noone can relicense a work but its owner. And noone has a place to complain about it but its owner.
I've seen several people make this claim. But I consider it FUD. The FSF doesn't own Linux and can't relicense it. Don't know what they did to make you think this. But since it is legally impossible, you needn't worry.
(I know, I know. I'm expecting my karma to go through the floor...)
And yet you get modded +5 Interesting. You underestimate the popularity of your viewpoint.
Idiot, I am not with the IRS. I am just a decent human being who hates a scammer. I'm sure that sounds very strange to a con-man like you.
It pisses me off even more that you pretend it has something to do with your politics.
If it were a bona fide political protest, you would tell people that if they follow you they will very likely go to prison for their beliefs.
But it is not a political protest. It is a scam.
Tsk tsk??? Fuck off.
In 1913, Congress passed a constitutional amendment (in a clandestine midnight session)allowing the government to collect income taxes, but the amendment was not properly ratified by the states.
The most obvious problem with your whole spiel is that it assumes that in nearly 100 years, noone else has had enough sense to "stand up and do something about it" They have. The courts have held that they were full of shit, and they went to prison. And the courts (though not always right) were right about it.
16th Amendment: "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
Notice how it says "whatever source". That includes wage earners.
The 16th Amendment was proposed by Congress in 1909, not 1913. 1913 is when the Secretary of State declared it ratified, which was after 36 of the 50 states properly ratified it.
Because of scam artists like you, many people have gone to federal prison all the while arguing the "unconstitutionality" of the Federal Income Tax.
I hope you die an extremely painful death on your way to hell.
No they do not have a right to tax me for selling something at a loss.
Of course they don't.
And when you do your taxes, you point out that it's a loss, and you DON'T get taxed for it.
You probably don't even have to report such small and infrequent sales, but that's something you'll have to figure out yourself.
Such a requirement will surely send a shock wave across the online trading world because it could drastically reduce the profits a seller would make on these sites.
I hate the tax man as much as anybody, and my profits are already reduced by him.
So where did the submitter get the idea that eBay sellers are supposed to get a free pass?
If you already pay your taxes as the law requires of all of us, then your "profits" will not change. And if you don't... well, then you should go to jail like that guy from Survivor.
And despite judgement after judgement where MS get taken to the cleaners over patents without actually suing anyone (OSS) over patents Slashdot will continue to insist this is MS strategy. This is IBM mana.
I don't know what Slashdot insists, but I certainly didn't imply that MS is really going to sue any OSS projects.
Whatever it is to IBM, there is no serious dispute that we are dealing with a public relations game by MS. One would have to be hopelessly naive to think otherwise.
show the code, nor be silent.
They will respond, saying that to reveal the precise code they are talking about would jeopardize their legal strategy. Of course, that makes them sound even more serious about their claims.
Why should they provide free legal advice to the Linux community, when they they are free to continue their campaign of FUD?
works great, doesn't require any phone line, and has gone down in price recently.
POTS lines are no longer needed.