Can the US citizens start a class action lawsuit against the MPAA? Buy a DVD, show gthat it doesn't play on Linux, and demand compensation as drivers. Let the MPAA make drivers for all the Linux ports, the BSD ports...
Or else let them agree to end the DeCSS lawsuit and release open source drivers and specs for DVD.
English isn't an official language. Its a third language after the state language and Hindi. A list of all languages would be long and offtopic, so I won't post them here.
The Logic behind the localization arguements runs as follows: If you have localized language support, you have people who will provide content in those languages. So the total local content increases, which provides further support for local language upport. Its a self feedig cycle, and we are trying to kickstart it.
Total Literacy = 52%, according to the last census. It may have increased, but not by much. So about 40 - 45% (Depending on 10% of literates or 10% of total) of total population (Thats about 1 billion = 10^9, slightly more).
You might have a problem with the fact that we Indians recognise quite a few variants of English (or if I may use it phonetically Inglish). Try Hinglish (Hindi+English) or Tamil English or simbly Keralite English. These are only examples and not to be taken as representative of the whole.
ps, simbly is not a typo. Thats how Keralites pronounce simply:).
That was due to stupid mistakes by our former political leaders, who were deeply influenced by soviet thought.:(.They granted absolute powers to the bureaucracy, which thereby set about acquiring monopolies. The communications media are still government controlled and monopolies. Hence the problem. Standard monopoly. The idea was that the government should finance development initially was good, but the controls were too many. We have had metered connections for quite a while and now they have increased the rates as well. We haven't been fighting for our rights (except for those who are politacally prodded to do so) for the simple reason that survival comes first. Okay, this might be slightly more than justifiable, but it is very close to reality in most of India.
And of course, we have the problem of illeteracy, increased by the desire of politicians to manipulate gullible people. no eternal vigilance, therefore no freedom. but things seem to be improving.
Cool. But I don't think I got that cookie from/.. Must have been after that upgrade, when I forgot to set the warning about cookies:(. Anyway, they can't think that you are me, because its a dynamic ip.:) Some other poor slob will get clobbered.
A hell of a good reason to use 128 bit encryption. What algorithm was used, I wonder? Hey, can Kevin post up the source at least under the new laws? I would love to lay my hands on that code (I'm not in the US).
Hers my cookie. Dialup with dynamic i/p, so I don't mind. .doubleclick.net TRUE / FALSE 1920499140 id a486b3cd
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How in hell is this interesting? Its funny and cannot be clasified as anything else. But then, thats my viewpoint. Yes I know this is offtopic and deserves to be moderated down. So it will cost me a few karma points. But those are minor compared to this. Interesting would be something that is useful in evaluating the story, but does not shed direct light on it.
I use Linux on an Intel Processor, but what about those who don't work on Intel machines? Remember that Linux is the most widely ported OS. Binaries will serve the Intel population, but not all Linux users. And again you are forgetting about other OSs like BSD. I will be replacing windoze with Open BSD about July (after graduation). Drivers matter to me. Source for the drivers will help in selling more hardware for these companies.
Which is why the Open Source/ Free Software meme is more important than the OS itself. Remember, the idea is to support the meme, not an OS on one platform.
Do you really think any nuclear reactor can withstand the might of a *slashdot* troll? The only way to safely dispose of the troll will be to carry the box to mount Doom and kill -9 troll:).
I do agree that the NSI action was stupid. Say, why don't these guys (etoy.com) file a counter suit? That will be interesting, a suit in Europe against etoys.com
The Bhopal tragedy was not caused by failure to follow safety regulations. The main problem was that the systems as well as the backups failed simultaneously. A failed storage tank, failed backup tank, failed cooler occurred simultneously. Worse was that the company management tried to claim that the company was *not* responsible for what happened. Also the company has not paid a major portion of the damages yet, nor has it provided for the rehabilitation of the victims, as required by the court judgement.
Note: The only unconfirmed point is regarding the damages.
PS, I'm in Chem Engg in India and we have to study this disaster, so take a smaller pinch of salt.
Norton Antivirus has a security hole. Details at msnbc . What do you think about such cases? Should the software liscensors be sued (since they are refusing to fix the hole)?
Offtopic, but it was Galileo's experiment that you are referring to. Season's Greetings (for whatever you wish to celebrate) to my ext family out there.
WinLinux takes the bad points (newbie wise) of Linux and pairs it up with the bad points of Windows. Frankly speaking, its performance sucks. My friend needed a Linux urgently and his RH disk went bad, so I had to install winLinux on his box (the other HD having windoze). Linux crawled on that system, whereas RH was appreciably faster. Installation is easy, but not the use. Even windows outperforms winlinux, which is saying a lot.
But again this was on one standalone machine, so YMMV.
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Can the US citizens start a class action lawsuit against the MPAA? Buy a DVD, show gthat it doesn't play on Linux, and demand compensation as drivers. Let the MPAA make drivers for all the Linux ports, the BSD ports...
Or else let them agree to end the DeCSS lawsuit and release open source drivers and specs for DVD.
English isn't an official language. Its a third language after the state language and Hindi. A list of all languages would be long and offtopic, so I won't post them here.
The Logic behind the localization arguements runs as follows:
If you have localized language support, you have people who will provide content in those languages. So the total local content increases, which provides further support for local language upport. Its a self feedig cycle, and we are trying to kickstart it.
Total Literacy = 52%, according to the last census. It may have increased, but not by much. So about 40 - 45% (Depending on 10% of literates or 10% of total) of total population (Thats about 1 billion = 10^9, slightly more).
You might have a problem with the fact that we Indians recognise quite a few variants of English (or if I may use it phonetically Inglish). Try Hinglish (Hindi+English) or Tamil English or simbly Keralite English. These are only examples and not to be taken as representative of the whole.
:).
ps, simbly is not a typo. Thats how Keralites pronounce simply
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That was due to stupid mistakes by our former political leaders, who were deeply influenced by soviet thought.:(.They granted absolute powers to the bureaucracy, which thereby set about acquiring monopolies. The communications media are still government controlled and monopolies. Hence the problem. Standard monopoly. The idea was that the government should finance development initially was good, but the controls were too many. We have had metered connections for quite a while and now they have increased the rates as well. We haven't been fighting for our rights (except for those who are politacally prodded to do so) for the simple reason that survival comes first. Okay, this might be slightly more than justifiable, but it is very close to reality in most of India.
And of course, we have the problem of illeteracy, increased by the desire of politicians to manipulate gullible people. no eternal vigilance, therefore no freedom. but things seem to be improving.
Cool. But I don't think I got that cookie from /.. Must have been after that upgrade, when I forgot to set the warning about cookies :(. Anyway, they can't think that you are me, because its a dynamic ip. :) Some other poor slob will get clobbered.
You can search for it at www.attrition.org. Too lazy to do it myself.
A hell of a good reason to use 128 bit encryption. What algorithm was used, I wonder? Hey, can Kevin post up the source at least under the new laws? I would love to lay my hands on that code (I'm not in the US).
Hers my cookie. Dialup with dynamic i/p, so I don't mind.
.doubleclick.net TRUE / FALSE 1920499140 id a486b3cd
How in hell is this interesting? Its funny and cannot be clasified as anything else. But then, thats my viewpoint. Yes I know this is offtopic and deserves to be moderated down. So it will cost me a few karma points. But those are minor compared to this. Interesting would be something that is useful in evaluating the story, but does not shed direct light on it.
Earth escape velocit is 11.2 km/s == 11200 m/s. Not 10 kmps
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I use Linux on an Intel Processor, but what about those who don't work on Intel machines? Remember that Linux is the most widely ported OS. Binaries will serve the Intel population, but not all Linux users. And again you are forgetting about other OSs like BSD. I will be replacing windoze with Open BSD about July (after graduation). Drivers matter to me. Source for the drivers will help in selling more hardware for these companies.
Which is why the Open Source/ Free Software meme is more important than the OS itself. Remember, the idea is to support the meme, not an OS on one platform.
How about not letting them near a GUI? :)
Do you really think any nuclear reactor can withstand the might of a *slashdot* troll? The only way to safely dispose of the troll will be to carry the box to mount Doom and kill -9 troll :).
On topic, way to go SourceForge!!
on the wall. The page is /.ted at 40 comments. Mirror please!!
I do agree that the NSI action was stupid. Say, why don't these guys (etoy.com) file a counter suit? That will be interesting, a suit in Europe against etoys.com
The Bhopal tragedy was not caused by failure to follow safety regulations.
The main problem was that the systems as well as the backups failed simultaneously. A failed storage tank, failed backup tank, failed cooler occurred simultneously.
Worse was that the company management tried to claim that the company was *not* responsible for what happened.
Also the company has not paid a major portion of the damages yet, nor has it provided for the rehabilitation of the victims, as required by the court judgement.
Note: The only unconfirmed point is regarding the damages.
PS, I'm in Chem Engg in India and we have to study this disaster, so take a smaller pinch of salt.
Norton Antivirus has a security hole. Details at msnbc . What do you think about such cases? Should the software liscensors be sued (since they are refusing to fix the hole)?
A *move* is 1> White Black . What you have said is usually termed as a ply (Ply == 1/2 move)
Try nettaxi or zxmail instead. They offer pop3 as well as web based access, with no spam yet.
Just a satisfied user.
Offtopic, but it was Galileo's experiment that you are referring to. Season's Greetings (for whatever you wish to celebrate) to my ext family out there.
Devdas Bhagat.
WinLinux takes the bad points (newbie wise) of Linux and pairs it up with the bad points of Windows. Frankly speaking, its performance sucks. My friend needed a Linux urgently and his RH disk went bad, so I had to install winLinux on his box (the other HD having windoze). Linux crawled on that system, whereas RH was appreciably faster. Installation is easy, but not the use. Even windows outperforms winlinux, which is saying a lot.
But again this was on one standalone machine, so YMMV.
sorry for the rant.