It's really quite simple. There's two ways you can interpret the word "steal".
One is the "strict legal definition". Under that definition, copyright infringement is not stealing. The way the argument is often presented can come accross as a semantic rather than a moral one.
The other definition is the "guy in the street definition", which vaguely comes down to "taking stuff without paying". If you make *this* kind of definition, you'll also get the semantic argument made along the lines of "what about stuff that *is* free?"
People are defending their corner, but badly. The reason it happens more in other discussions is probablary because people hate RIAA/MPAA/media megacorps more than Valve, so any posting appearing to agree with them to some extent gets pounced on.
The debate would be improved if people argued with the *message* of what was being said, not the *wording*.
Sample three:
A site offering "Gamez/Moviez/Warez". They also spammed a forum I administrate.
A complaint was made exactly one week ago. I've heard nothing from the ISP.
They must think it's safe
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From the site:
Your card never leaves your hand. And, of course, you get the same level of security that you've been accustomed to: $0 liability on unauthorized purchases and a receipt for every purchase.
If it's really possible to grab numbers from a crowd, this one could get expensive for them. You'd think they'd be smarter than that. But companies have messed up before.
As always, though, if you're only downloading you have nothing to worry about.
But, with BitTorrent, downloaders are also uploaders, that's how it works. And there's a nice central server for tracking, and therefore catching people. Using BitTorrent for illegal stuff isn't really that good an idea.
In fact, I'm quite glad there's a P2P technology that's easy to police. The mediacorps no doubt want to make the technologies themselves illegal. The fact that it's much easier to shut down a dodgy tracker site than stop a file over a decentralised P2P system may well save it from the almost inevitable axe.
As a dialup user, my major factor in choice of distro is "how much works out of the box?" Currently, SuSE seems to cram the most in one box, so that's my preferred distro.
You are, of course, free to choose a distro which doesn't do that. The only 'responsibility' a distro should have is to find a need, and fill it.
You don't win arguments by silencing your opponent (which is what DDoS is), you win them by being right. All evidence so far is the OSS community is right.
Whoever launched these attacks has made everybody look bad. Annoying SCO isn't going to make them say "Hey! Let's be nice now!". Their business model is now suing people. It's not as if their software was selling much.
If you're reading this DDoS dude, don't do it again, mmkay?
Some companies have *incredibly* logical software policies.
Like one place I was at - they have a mixture of old and new machines, including Win 98 boxen with Office 97 and Windows / Office XP boxes.
It has been decided to change every machine to Win XP / Office 2000. This means they have a nice standard platform. It also means machines with Office XP will get Office 2000, and therefore be locked out of all the Publisher files created.
This is all to "save money".
Don't assume the people in charge have any kind of clue; quite often, they don't.
I've been able to use the mozilla zip builds on fairly locked down machines.
They don't have an installer, they just unzip to any given folder and run from there.
I suppose this fails to meet your requirements, though, unless you have a liberal definition of light which OKs stuff >20MB.
If the holes already had exploits, they wouldn't be new holes.
I think what is meant is that people can now rush off and write a whole new batch of malware, which will be released before users have had a chance to patch them.
Bottom line: Giving the patcher a head start is much more preferable than giving patchers and exploiters a head-to-head race.
So you're asking for a service that's both high quality and totally free?
Good luck!
These services have to be paid for somehow. If you're not prepared to look at ads, you have to open your wallet. You may find a service that's "free" now, but it will close, gain ads or charge at some point.
1&1 offers 3 POP accounts, with virus checker, 6 pounds 99 p a year with a domain. I host with them, and a happy customer.
Oh, and a side note, why doesn't £ work in comments?
Some companies just have their heads in the sand when it comes to security. I discovered a problem with Postmaster e-mail accounts - sent messages may be easily retrieved by other users of the machine.
Their response?
(The) "feature comes with IE and is not a Postmaster feature."
This was over two months ago and the problem's still there.
Another question: if Mozilla faces such a license problem, why KDE won't
Because Mozilla requires added code to be tri-licensed. Libart, IIRC, is single-licensed as LGPL.
This will not present a problem to projects where adding LGPL code is OK. Don't forget, asking the authors permission to relicense is always an option.
If you look a little closer, you'll see many of the screenshots are from the W3C test suite. Maybe not exciting, but useful for anyone wondering exactly what works in KSVG.
For a better idea of what SVG can do, see the sodipodi screenshots
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It's really quite simple. There's two ways you can interpret the word "steal".
One is the "strict legal definition". Under that definition, copyright infringement is not stealing. The way the argument is often presented can come accross as a semantic rather than a moral one.
The other definition is the "guy in the street definition", which vaguely comes down to "taking stuff without paying". If you make *this* kind of definition, you'll also get the semantic argument made along the lines of "what about stuff that *is* free?"
People are defending their corner, but badly. The reason it happens more in other discussions is probablary because people hate RIAA/MPAA/media megacorps more than Valve, so any posting appearing to agree with them to some extent gets pounced on.
The debate would be improved if people argued with the *message* of what was being said, not the *wording*.
Sample three: A site offering "Gamez/Moviez/Warez". They also spammed a forum I administrate. A complaint was made exactly one week ago. I've heard nothing from the ISP.
Ahh... I've looked through that thing far too many times, for "minimise all windows", or similar.
So it's been in front of my face all along, hiding under a different name...
Windows-M: Minimise all windows
I use this one a lot when I'm on Windows.
Any way to get KDE to do the same thing?
Anyway, must stay on topic somehow. So I present my Capslock HOWTO
They'd use all their money to invent a time machine, then go back in time and play the stock market to get the money.
This is already happening in the UK.
From the site:
Your card never leaves your hand. And, of course, you get the same level of security that you've been accustomed to: $0 liability on unauthorized purchases and a receipt for every purchase.If it's really possible to grab numbers from a crowd, this one could get expensive for them. You'd think they'd be smarter than that. But companies have messed up before.
But, with BitTorrent, downloaders are also uploaders, that's how it works. And there's a nice central server for tracking, and therefore catching people. Using BitTorrent for illegal stuff isn't really that good an idea.
In fact, I'm quite glad there's a P2P technology that's easy to police. The mediacorps no doubt want to make the technologies themselves illegal. The fact that it's much easier to shut down a dodgy tracker site than stop a file over a decentralised P2P system may well save it from the almost inevitable axe.
As a dialup user, my major factor in choice of distro is "how much works out of the box?" Currently, SuSE seems to cram the most in one box, so that's my preferred distro.
You are, of course, free to choose a distro which doesn't do that. The only 'responsibility' a distro should have is to find a need, and fill it.
http://www.sco.com/mydoom/
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What long-term steps should I take to protect against future viruses?
3. Do not download any documents or programs from any Website that you do not know to be reputable
This is just their way of stopping people finding what GPL stuff they're still giving away, isn't it?
I don't like the name DRM, it's misleading. If all it involved was proper management of rights, no problem. However, it's a little one-sided.
I think the name Capability Removal by the Author of Media Products, or CRAMP is much more accurate. Want to CRAMP your PC? I didn't think so.
SCO are trying to do to Linux what has already happened to Goatse Guy.
:P
While it's childish fun to make people see goatse guy, and SCO's antics are at times amusing, most people would be happy if neither were seen again
Well, we can tell people we didn't want it.
You don't win arguments by silencing your opponent (which is what DDoS is), you win them by being right. All evidence so far is the OSS community is right.
Whoever launched these attacks has made everybody look bad. Annoying SCO isn't going to make them say "Hey! Let's be nice now!". Their business model is now suing people. It's not as if their software was selling much.
If you're reading this DDoS dude, don't do it again, mmkay?
...SCO Must Prove Existence Of Santa Claus in Thirty Days
Some companies have *incredibly* logical software policies.
Like one place I was at - they have a mixture of old and new machines, including Win 98 boxen with Office 97 and Windows / Office XP boxes.
It has been decided to change every machine to Win XP / Office 2000. This means they have a nice standard platform. It also means machines with Office XP will get Office 2000, and therefore be locked out of all the Publisher files created.
This is all to "save money".
Don't assume the people in charge have any kind of clue; quite often, they don't.
I've been able to use the mozilla zip builds on fairly locked down machines. They don't have an installer, they just unzip to any given folder and run from there. I suppose this fails to meet your requirements, though, unless you have a liberal definition of light which OKs stuff >20MB.
If you take all your services offline every time a vulnerability is disclosed, isn't that doing the cracker's job for them?
If the holes already had exploits, they wouldn't be new holes.
I think what is meant is that people can now rush off and write a whole new batch of malware, which will be released before users have had a chance to patch them.
Bottom line: Giving the patcher a head start is much more preferable than giving patchers and exploiters a head-to-head race.
Rewards could make things worse:
1) MS Programmer introduces bug
2) MS Programmer's friend "finds" bug
3) Profit is split
4) Repeat
So you're asking for a service that's both high quality and totally free?
Good luck!
These services have to be paid for somehow. If you're not prepared to look at ads, you have to open your wallet. You may find a service that's "free" now, but it will close, gain ads or charge at some point.
1&1 offers 3 POP accounts, with virus checker, 6 pounds 99 p a year with a domain. I host with them, and a happy customer.
Oh, and a side note, why doesn't £ work in comments?
Some companies just have their heads in the sand when it comes to security. I discovered a problem with Postmaster e-mail accounts - sent messages may be easily retrieved by other users of the machine.
Their response?
(The) "feature comes with IE and is not a Postmaster feature."
This was over two months ago and the problem's still there.
Pentax digital cameras also have an option to make kitty sounds!
Is there anything they don't do?
Linphone offers SIP calling for Linux.
Another question: if Mozilla faces such a license problem, why KDE won't
Because Mozilla requires added code to be tri-licensed. Libart, IIRC, is single-licensed as LGPL.
This will not present a problem to projects where adding LGPL code is OK. Don't forget, asking the authors permission to relicense is always an option.
If you look a little closer, you'll see many of the screenshots are from the W3C test suite. Maybe not exciting, but useful for anyone wondering exactly what works in KSVG.
For a better idea of what SVG can do, see the sodipodi screenshots