A minor computer firm is subcontracted to assemble cheapest PCs. They build normal self-contained PCs running the cheapest OEM Windows available. These are $80(+OS) machines running on parts that are a storage surplus after they went out of sale. Then they install the "thin client" software which is some kind of Telnet or VNC or a web browser with intranet connection, pointed at a PHP web app.
So basically the employee boots up the computer normally, starts the app fullscreen and does most of the work remotely.
This has several advantages. The workstations can be troubleshooted locally. They can back up your work if network connection goes down. They allow for custom PC hardware (card readers, barcode scanners, webcams for teleconferencing and so on). They can be upgraded if the need arises, and fixed using off-the-shelf hardware (unless it went so obsolete it's unobtainable). And due to economy of scale, they are cheaper than dedicated thin clients despite being way overpowered.
I've seen quite a few markets and institutions running a system like this.
It doesn't have to mean "lose all the software to the public".
More like "create a public open branch of whatever was created to this day". Also, "open source" doesn't have to mean "free as a beer". You can grab the code, tamper with it, compile it, but to use it for anything meaningful you have to purchase a license, and to redistribute your modified code you must purchase a redistribution license, sending a part of your profit upstream.
Google shouldn't 'blacklist' pages, that's for sure. No altering the reality - if the page contains a keyword, it should be listed, period.
Now, as for -where- the page should be listed, this is sole discretion of Google. They are the authors of the ranking algorithm and they can tamper with it as they see fit. And manually reducing rank of a site down to oblivion seems like a very reasonable option. So if I want to find Chester's guide to picking little girls, I'll have to either dig through all the guides to Chester city and guide dogs called Chester, or make my request more precise.
EU is not a monolithic body, and concerning copyrights it's a violent battleground between the two sides. New repressions are raised as proposed laws by member countries then struck down by the EU parliament majority. Laws forbidding such repressions are raised and fought over as well. Commissions (which are generally pro-copyright and do most of the work) try to circumvent the parliament (which has the final vote and is generally pro-freedom), then the parliament members notice the shenanigans, bitchslap the commissions into place and try to set things straight. Sometimes the commissions manage to slip something under the radar of parliament, sometimes the parliament passes laws that make some commissions' efforts illegal.
I'm pretty sure this treaty was a draft prepared by one of the commissions, which when it hit the parliament, would either be struck down or modified so heavily not a word would go unchanged. OTOH the commissioners could try to pass it as "pretty much final version just pending a couple signatures, please adapt to this and when the treaty goes live your law will match the requirements of the treaty 100%". Of course when the treaty goes live it would be nothing like it was when this proposition was made but the harm has been done.
And a pipe dream of the producers. If the customers pay for the movies but can't see them, imagine the savings on actors, crew, studio, processing, sfx and so on! You can even reduce the unnecessarily huge theaters to ticket booths and concession stands, doing away with the old-fashioned huge rooms with chairs, screens and so on. All the profit from ticket sales at almost no cost at all.
We generally assume this is the license issued by the distributor upon providing the payment.
Unfortunately, in reality it means it's the license which the protection system accepts as valid.
And the overlap over the above two is definitely less than the 100% you'd hope for. If your company buys 1000 licenses for Windows, you can be -sure- about 5 of them will be invalid.
Most of the millions of people decided your moie is hopeless utter crap. These who would buy the DVD or go to the theaters from curiosity, won't, because they know it isn't nearly worth the money. These are lost sales to people who can't be suckered into buying your crap.
It would be scary/interesting/awesome/horrible [make your pick] if the insurgents could subvert the drones, take over them, land them, load full of explosives, upgrade to encrypted software and use to bomb american bases.
If I crop an inch from the painting to fit the frame? If I arrange the newspaper on surface of the paper mache to display certain lines of the article contained prominently, while hiding some under creases? If I replace all the content of the original cover of the RPG book with my writing on the leather? If I install "Lite" patches to Windows before selling the computer, so that its memory footprint is reduced, Internet Explorer and Media Player removed?
All these modifications to OS X achieved was squeezing the original into the hardware. Filing the corners, so to say.
Install adblock too. While you could talk about stuff like security, speed, compatibility, these things don't appeal to average user. Tell them "99% of the ads are gone" and they are immediately sold.
"Can you take someone else's work and include it with your own without their permission?"
I can buy a newspaper and sell a paper-mache sculpture I made from it. I can buy a painting, frame it, hang it on the wall and sell the whole house with it. I can buy a RPG paperback handbook, bind it in a hand-made leather cover and sell to interested people for 10 times the original price. I can sell a used game cartridge even if I painted it green because I thought it would be prettier that way. I can buy 20 different albums of a band, pack them in a box and resell as complete discography. I can preload a Kindle with 500 books then sell it. I can buy a PC without OS, Windows 7 OEM, install it, attach the sticker, then sell the PC with Windows, license and all.
They weren't pirating the system. They were reselling legally purchased copies, license and all.
That's not what changed the market. Also, if Compaq -bought- IBM PC, what's wrong about doing what you said? AFAIK, the Psystar design was a pretty generic PC hacked to work with OS X (without copying anything of Apple design, but buying some stuff Apple bought from outside suppliers), and the only thing in the setup Apple owns is OS X, which they purchase rightfully.
It's like you build PCs from 3rd party parts (high-level, no soldering involved), pick a set of parts and copyright it, despite not owning copyright on any single of the parts and not using any of it in any non-standard way.
The problem with emails is that they aren't merely stored like some mp3 files. They are transferred over the net. DoD 5225-22 M merely defines how to safely delete local copy. Not how to find and delete whatever copies there are on automated backup servers, on transparent proxies snooping on the net, on backup servers of the mail server, on the NSA-hosted country-wide email monitoring system, on sender's computer, on print server backups, in working copies prior and after encryption and decryption, on secret wiretaps planted by spies of foreign countries, and a thousand other places the email goes before and after it is read.
Okay, my commercial, and definitely closed-source embedded product uses Linux and Busybox (plus a big closed-source app running on top of that, doing the actual work). This is an industrial device, costing good 5-digit figure. There are some small modifications to the kernel that can be released (but serve no real point for the "real world", because they are tailored for the app and underlying proprietary hardware). It is also about impossible anyone would ever wish to mess with the code, simply because of risk associated with screwing up the expensive hardware.
What is the best, right way to comply with GPL? Publish kernel+modules+sources on WWW? Attach a CD to the documentation book? How much am I required to publish?
Not if you are allowed to partake in fruit of labor of others as well, take only as much as necessary, and allow priority to those who need it more.
If a starving man steals a stale bread you were about to throw away, this is called stealing too, but is it evil? or is it evil that you throw that bread away instead of giving it to the starving man?
before we happily claim their profits are climbing, could we overlay their profit graph with inflation graph? Today's $10mln isn't the same as 10 years ago.
Have you tried downloading some obscure anime/manga? With all characters from all Japaneese alphabets in the filenames?
It's half the problem if the.torrent file contains the characters, you just rename it and proceed. Worse if it's not one.zip to be downloaded but a bunch of separate files all containing the characters. Various torrent clients fail in various ways but all of them fail sooner or later. uTorrent through WINE too.
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A minor computer firm is subcontracted to assemble cheapest PCs. They build normal self-contained PCs running the cheapest OEM Windows available. These are $80(+OS) machines running on parts that are a storage surplus after they went out of sale. Then they install the "thin client" software which is some kind of Telnet or VNC or a web browser with intranet connection, pointed at a PHP web app.
So basically the employee boots up the computer normally, starts the app fullscreen and does most of the work remotely.
This has several advantages. The workstations can be troubleshooted locally. They can back up your work if network connection goes down. They allow for custom PC hardware (card readers, barcode scanners, webcams for teleconferencing and so on). They can be upgraded if the need arises, and fixed using off-the-shelf hardware (unless it went so obsolete it's unobtainable). And due to economy of scale, they are cheaper than dedicated thin clients despite being way overpowered.
I've seen quite a few markets and institutions running a system like this.
It doesn't have to mean "lose all the software to the public".
More like "create a public open branch of whatever was created to this day".
Also, "open source" doesn't have to mean "free as a beer". You can grab the code, tamper with it, compile it, but to use it for anything meaningful you have to purchase a license, and to redistribute your modified code you must purchase a redistribution license, sending a part of your profit upstream.
Google shouldn't 'blacklist' pages, that's for sure. No altering the reality - if the page contains a keyword, it should be listed, period.
Now, as for -where- the page should be listed, this is sole discretion of Google. They are the authors of the ranking algorithm and they can tamper with it as they see fit. And manually reducing rank of a site down to oblivion seems like a very reasonable option. So if I want to find Chester's guide to picking little girls, I'll have to either dig through all the guides to Chester city and guide dogs called Chester, or make my request more precise.
EU is not a monolithic body, and concerning copyrights it's a violent battleground between the two sides. New repressions are raised as proposed laws by member countries then struck down by the EU parliament majority. Laws forbidding such repressions are raised and fought over as well. Commissions (which are generally pro-copyright and do most of the work) try to circumvent the parliament (which has the final vote and is generally pro-freedom), then the parliament members notice the shenanigans, bitchslap the commissions into place and try to set things straight. Sometimes the commissions manage to slip something under the radar of parliament, sometimes the parliament passes laws that make some commissions' efforts illegal.
I'm pretty sure this treaty was a draft prepared by one of the commissions, which when it hit the parliament, would either be struck down or modified so heavily not a word would go unchanged. OTOH the commissioners could try to pass it as "pretty much final version just pending a couple signatures, please adapt to this and when the treaty goes live your law will match the requirements of the treaty 100%". Of course when the treaty goes live it would be nothing like it was when this proposition was made but the harm has been done.
And a pipe dream of the producers.
If the customers pay for the movies but can't see them, imagine the savings on actors, crew, studio, processing, sfx and so on! You can even reduce the unnecessarily huge theaters to ticket booths and concession stands, doing away with the old-fashioned huge rooms with chairs, screens and so on.
All the profit from ticket sales at almost no cost at all.
The keyword is "the proper licenses."
We generally assume this is the license issued by the distributor upon providing the payment.
Unfortunately, in reality it means it's the license which the protection system accepts as valid.
And the overlap over the above two is definitely less than the 100% you'd hope for. If your company buys 1000 licenses for Windows, you can be -sure- about 5 of them will be invalid.
There's one more thing.
Most of the millions of people decided your moie is hopeless utter crap. These who would buy the DVD or go to the theaters from curiosity, won't, because they know it isn't nearly worth the money. These are lost sales to people who can't be suckered into buying your crap.
Oh noes! Piracy is killing the cinematography!
I just copypasted the original directly, hoping the editors will wrap it up somehow. Seems they did some editing...
It would be scary/interesting/awesome/horrible [make your pick] if the insurgents could subvert the drones, take over them, land them, load full of explosives, upgrade to encrypted software and use to bomb american bases.
If I crop an inch from the painting to fit the frame?
If I arrange the newspaper on surface of the paper mache to display certain lines of the article contained prominently, while hiding some under creases?
If I replace all the content of the original cover of the RPG book with my writing on the leather?
If I install "Lite" patches to Windows before selling the computer, so that its memory footprint is reduced, Internet Explorer and Media Player removed?
All these modifications to OS X achieved was squeezing the original into the hardware. Filing the corners, so to say.
Install adblock too.
While you could talk about stuff like security, speed, compatibility, these things don't appeal to average user. Tell them "99% of the ads are gone" and they are immediately sold.
"Can you take someone else's work and include it with your own without their permission?"
I can buy a newspaper and sell a paper-mache sculpture I made from it.
I can buy a painting, frame it, hang it on the wall and sell the whole house with it.
I can buy a RPG paperback handbook, bind it in a hand-made leather cover and sell to interested people for 10 times the original price.
I can sell a used game cartridge even if I painted it green because I thought it would be prettier that way.
I can buy 20 different albums of a band, pack them in a box and resell as complete discography.
I can preload a Kindle with 500 books then sell it.
I can buy a PC without OS, Windows 7 OEM, install it, attach the sticker, then sell the PC with Windows, license and all.
They weren't pirating the system. They were reselling legally purchased copies, license and all.
That's not what changed the market.
Also, if Compaq -bought- IBM PC, what's wrong about doing what you said?
AFAIK, the Psystar design was a pretty generic PC hacked to work with OS X (without copying anything of Apple design, but buying some stuff Apple bought from outside suppliers), and the only thing in the setup Apple owns is OS X, which they purchase rightfully.
It's like you build PCs from 3rd party parts (high-level, no soldering involved), pick a set of parts and copyright it, despite not owning copyright on any single of the parts and not using any of it in any non-standard way.
considering the standard programmer's logic, yes.
That is if they were not idiots or in league with these trolls, they certainly would.
The problem with emails is that they aren't merely stored like some mp3 files. They are transferred over the net.
DoD 5225-22 M merely defines how to safely delete local copy. Not how to find and delete whatever copies there are on automated backup servers, on transparent proxies snooping on the net, on backup servers of the mail server, on the NSA-hosted country-wide email monitoring system, on sender's computer, on print server backups, in working copies prior and after encryption and decryption, on secret wiretaps planted by spies of foreign countries, and a thousand other places the email goes before and after it is read.
In the US, if someone needs it, you'll never throw it away.
Okay, my commercial, and definitely closed-source embedded product uses Linux and Busybox (plus a big closed-source app running on top of that, doing the actual work). This is an industrial device, costing good 5-digit figure. There are some small modifications to the kernel that can be released (but serve no real point for the "real world", because they are tailored for the app and underlying proprietary hardware). It is also about impossible anyone would ever wish to mess with the code, simply because of risk associated with screwing up the expensive hardware.
What is the best, right way to comply with GPL? Publish kernel+modules+sources on WWW? Attach a CD to the documentation book? How much am I required to publish?
Not if you are allowed to partake in fruit of labor of others as well, take only as much as necessary, and allow priority to those who need it more.
If a starving man steals a stale bread you were about to throw away, this is called stealing too, but is it evil? or is it evil that you throw that bread away instead of giving it to the starving man?
$10bln today isn't worth the same as $10bln back then just as well.
before we happily claim their profits are climbing, could we overlay their profit graph with inflation graph?
Today's $10mln isn't the same as 10 years ago.
Thermal-guided. One of the kind a few hundreds of were launched at wooden tank dummies with a coal burner heaters inside, in Kosovo maybe?
JSON is a pretty limited syntax so filtering off anything dangerous (by whitelisting legal structures) is quite easy before you launch eval() on it.
Have you tried downloading some obscure anime/manga?
With all characters from all Japaneese alphabets in the filenames?
It's half the problem if the .torrent file contains the characters, you just rename it and proceed. Worse if it's not one .zip to be downloaded but a bunch of separate files all containing the characters. Various torrent clients fail in various ways but all of them fail sooner or later. uTorrent through WINE too.
Just imagine if IIWW started now.
The database would be the first thing Nazis would get.
and possibly a creator (serialize object as JSON string) as well?