Just a few points: rail is extremely fast in europe, it doesn't have to be slow in N-A. Buses are very efficient in cities like Ottawa (Canada) where they have their own routes and road systems not available to the public (and can travel faster). If the bus stops every 5-7 minutes (as it does in some places in Toronto), inconvenience is a silly excuse. What we need to do is stop building parking lots in downtowns and stick them on the outskirts, next to bus depots.
That paragraph strikes me as the type that lawyers would, in fact, have lots of fun trying to mangle and understand in context in a court-room.
To me, its not even logically sensible.
"... requires/x/ with the authority of the copyright owner to gain access to the work."
As another poster stated, ROT-13 (and most other cryptosystems) can be decoded without any attention given to the Copyright holder.
Note that I used "decoded" not "hacked" or "bypassed" since there is no logistic difference beetween my ROT-13'ing an E-book with my own program or with Adobe's.
The difference is that the Copyright holder has at some point supposedly made me agree to only use Adobe's software to read the book.:-)
I have long been a fan of carbon taxes for exactly this reason.
I was just listening to the CBC today and they were going on about how the effects of Toronto's urban sprawl (the second fastest growing city in N-A) should be asssisted by having better transit systems in place.
That's when this discussion came back to me and it occured to me that if nothing else, N.A. governments should be subsidising mass transit a lot more than they do.
Consider the effects if major urban centres in North America had fast and efficient mass transit service to and from the surrounding areas (see the Go Transit homepage).
It is quite possible, and even likely, that the right solution to any given problem won't be necessarily profitable.
This is usually fixed by giving tax credits to those who do what the populace considers to be the 'right things' and heavily tax those who do the 'wrong things' to give a money incentive.
It would be nice, of course, if companies and individuals operated for the common good inherently, but we don't:-(.
"So you do own the copy, but not the information." which basically ends up coming down to being allowed to do anything with the copy that you wish except what would be constituted as 'publishing'...
At some level, the GPL doesn't even give you ownership of software. Ownership is maintained by the copyright holder -- you are granted the right to use (and, subject to argument, modify or reverse engineer) that software. The GPL (or another license) may grant you additional rights -- but they don't make you the _owner_ of the software.
I agree with most of your definitions wholeheartedly. However, searching the archives of Slashdot will unearth anti-Christian bigotry and references made frequently by Americans and Canadians, both of whom would then probably turn around and announce "Freedom of Religion" in their countries.
Who is "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider Protocol Discovery" (Browser ID) and why does it insist on doing FrontPage checks on my server?
Requests for:
web.fibrespeed.net/_vti_bin/shtml.exe/_vti_rpc
in response to linking from my previous post from 24.77.4.21.
But only where laws like the DMCA exist would publishing a paper on how to circumvent a copyright method be a violation in itself. That's more the point -- without the DMCA, only the actual infringing uses of this information would be illegal, not the published information itself.
For example: knowing how to make a cable TV descrambler was never illegal -- using one to get free cable was.
You seem to believe that freedom of religion, as espoused by western countries, is in all places welcome.
Please remember how often Slashdot people slam "Christian Fundamentalist Idiots" for their "non-scientific" beliefs. We don't have the freedom you think we have either -- its just a bit harder to get shot for it here.
With the use of new table types in MySQL (wait, this article _is_ about Gemini stuff, right?), row-level locking is available to eliminate these issues. I use InnoDB tables for anything that requires fast selects on a constantly updated table.
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As a bit of an aside, MySQL acknowledges NuSphere in their documentation of MySQL's table types on their own website. This seems like a sign of good faith on their part, for those who are upset with them.
A good way to handle this is effective legislation. One way to handle such legislation is to require ISPs to track the use of their mail server for x days, and fork over the IP address (and time of access) of the person who sent a given message (by message ID and time).
This would allow law enforcement to say "ok, these people received this message at a certain time relayed through _x_; lets get who sent the message through them." It might make international cases more difficult, but international law is already a tough one on the Internet.
Its called a 'bookmark' and some programs actually have fairly effective ones.
The MRU list in Windows ("Documents") is equally helpful for resuming where you left off with something. Its not that hard for a computer to track where you went -- its just hard for us to come up with nice UIs that allow you to get back there easily.
For example: I'd love it if search engines remembered which results I'd used the previous time I searched for the same terms and seperated them for me so if I didn't find what I was looking for before, I could ignore them, and if I did, I'd have a smaller list to go through.
Do you think Slashdot and USENET are free to operate or something?
<P>Incidentally, I'd probably rather watch Peter Mansbridge (<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/">CBC</a>) doing the evening canadian news than try and find those same stories scattered across USENET or other sites. Content providers have a very good role -- comments are one thing, finding stories is another.</P>
Also note the Support Page at MySQL.org -- it lists the companies offering support in alphabetical order which of course puts Abriasoft at the top, not MySQL AB. I haven't ever taken a look at the NuSphere version of MySQL, but if it comes without the source to any modifications they made to MySQL, then it would be in violation of the GPL, not just trademark law. If its clearly distributed (as it is on the mysql.org downloads page) as NuSphere MySQL, then it shouldn't be a problem.
The GPL is very clear that you may distribute others' code, but alos that you must clearly maintain the copyrights thereon. This has nothing to do with trademark law, which allows MySQL AB to complain that someone else is using their trademark and not being clear about who they are. If it were a normal individual or group thereof operating mysql.org similarly to qmail.org or djbdns.org (both non-official sites), then it would be different. As it is, mysql.org is operated by a competitor and MySQL is required to defend their trademarks to maintain them. cf. the old stories about Linus trademarking Linux.
That said, having wit or making sarcastic remarks does not make one a troll, nor does it negate one's arguments, statements or other remarks. The shallowness of the human reading them may allow that reader to ignore the truth value of the statements made in, around or near such "trolling" comments, but it is still present to be assessed.
Since being slashdotted, the ratios have changed a lot -- Gnome is ahead of KDE although VI is still doing better than Emacs (who wants to hit a CTRL key?):-)
Per-country stats are available now (I don't know if they always were or not).
Slashdot Mirror
Just a few points: rail is extremely fast in europe, it doesn't have to be slow in N-A. Buses are very efficient in cities like Ottawa (Canada) where they have their own routes and road systems not available to the public (and can travel faster). If the bus stops every 5-7 minutes (as it does in some places in Toronto), inconvenience is a silly excuse. What we need to do is stop building parking lots in downtowns and stick them on the outskirts, next to bus depots.
Ahem.
...
"Fraud"
Microsoft is attempting to change its sworn testimony by the sounds of it
I didn't retain or understand anything you said. Does that mean you'll leave me out of your 200 John Does?
That paragraph strikes me as the type that lawyers would, in fact, have lots of fun trying to mangle and understand in context in a court-room.
/x/ with the authority of the copyright owner to gain access to the work."
:-)
To me, its not even logically sensible.
"... requires
As another poster stated, ROT-13 (and most other cryptosystems) can be decoded without any attention given to the Copyright holder.
Note that I used "decoded" not "hacked" or "bypassed" since there is no logistic difference beetween my ROT-13'ing an E-book with my own program or with Adobe's.
The difference is that the Copyright holder has at some point supposedly made me agree to only use Adobe's software to read the book.
I was just listening to the CBC today and they were going on about how the effects of Toronto's urban sprawl (the second fastest growing city in N-A) should be asssisted by having better transit systems in place.
That's when this discussion came back to me and it occured to me that if nothing else, N.A. governments should be subsidising mass transit a lot more than they do.
Consider the effects if major urban centres in North America had fast and efficient mass transit service to and from the surrounding areas (see the Go Transit homepage).
It is quite possible, and even likely, that the right solution to any given problem won't be necessarily profitable.
:-(.
This is usually fixed by giving tax credits to those who do what the populace considers to be the 'right things' and heavily tax those who do the 'wrong things' to give a money incentive.
It would be nice, of course, if companies and individuals operated for the common good inherently, but we don't
"So you do own the copy, but not the information." which basically ends up coming down to being allowed to do anything with the copy that you wish except what would be constituted as 'publishing' ...
Maybe someone should seek clarification on 'effectively' from a lawyer? It would be nice to know what the courts think it means.
At some level, the GPL doesn't even give you ownership of software. Ownership is maintained by the copyright holder -- you are granted the right to use (and, subject to argument, modify or reverse engineer) that software. The GPL (or another license) may grant you additional rights -- but they don't make you the _owner_ of the software.
(laughs ... and doesn't give himself +1 bonus for it)
I agree with most of your definitions wholeheartedly. However, searching the archives of Slashdot will unearth anti-Christian bigotry and references made frequently by Americans and Canadians, both of whom would then probably turn around and announce "Freedom of Religion" in their countries.
Who is "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider Protocol Discovery" (Browser ID) and why does it insist on doing FrontPage checks on my server?
Requests for:
web.fibrespeed.net/_vti_bin/shtml.exe/_vti_rpc
in response to linking from my previous post from 24.77.4.21.
But only where laws like the DMCA exist would publishing a paper on how to circumvent a copyright method be a violation in itself. That's more the point -- without the DMCA, only the actual infringing uses of this information would be illegal, not the published information itself.
For example: knowing how to make a cable TV descrambler was never illegal -- using one to get free cable was.
I have a copy mirrored here (in Canada).
cf. FibreSpeed
You seem to believe that freedom of religion, as espoused by western countries, is in all places welcome.
Please remember how often Slashdot people slam "Christian Fundamentalist Idiots" for their "non-scientific" beliefs. We don't have the freedom you think we have either -- its just a bit harder to get shot for it here.
With the use of new table types in MySQL (wait, this article _is_ about Gemini stuff, right?), row-level locking is available to eliminate these issues. I use InnoDB tables for anything that requires fast selects on a constantly updated table.
As a bit of an aside, MySQL acknowledges NuSphere in their documentation of MySQL's table types on their own website. This seems like a sign of good faith on their part, for those who are upset with them.
A good way to handle this is effective legislation. One way to handle such legislation is to require ISPs to track the use of their mail server for x days, and fork over the IP address (and time of access) of the person who sent a given message (by message ID and time).
This would allow law enforcement to say "ok, these people received this message at a certain time relayed through _x_; lets get who sent the message through them." It might make international cases more difficult, but international law is already a tough one on the Internet.
Its called a 'bookmark' and some programs actually have fairly effective ones.
The MRU list in Windows ("Documents") is equally helpful for resuming where you left off with something. Its not that hard for a computer to track where you went -- its just hard for us to come up with nice UIs that allow you to get back there easily.
For example: I'd love it if search engines remembered which results I'd used the previous time I searched for the same terms and seperated them for me so if I didn't find what I was looking for before, I could ignore them, and if I did, I'd have a smaller list to go through.
Do you think Slashdot and USENET are free to operate or something?
<P>Incidentally, I'd probably rather watch Peter Mansbridge (<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/">CBC</a>) doing the evening canadian news than try and find those same stories scattered across USENET or other sites. Content providers have a very good role -- comments are one thing, finding stories is another.</P>
Also note the Support Page at MySQL.org -- it lists the companies offering support in alphabetical order which of course puts Abriasoft at the top, not MySQL AB. I haven't ever taken a look at the NuSphere version of MySQL, but if it comes without the source to any modifications they made to MySQL, then it would be in violation of the GPL, not just trademark law. If its clearly distributed (as it is on the mysql.org downloads page) as NuSphere MySQL, then it shouldn't be a problem.
The GPL is very clear that you may distribute others' code, but alos that you must clearly maintain the copyrights thereon. This has nothing to do with trademark law, which allows MySQL AB to complain that someone else is using their trademark and not being clear about who they are. If it were a normal individual or group thereof operating mysql.org similarly to qmail.org or djbdns.org (both non-official sites), then it would be different. As it is, mysql.org is operated by a competitor and MySQL is required to defend their trademarks to maintain them. cf. the old stories about Linus trademarking Linux.
I'm glad your semantics are so exacting.
That said, having wit or making sarcastic remarks does not make one a troll, nor does it negate one's arguments, statements or other remarks. The shallowness of the human reading them may allow that reader to ignore the truth value of the statements made in, around or near such "trolling" comments, but it is still present to be assessed.
The funny thing is, I typed "w3m" but meant to say wget ...
oh well.
PS, why the 20 second delay for those of us who type at >100wpm ???
Since being slashdotted, the ratios have changed a lot -- Gnome is ahead of KDE although VI is still doing better than Emacs (who wants to hit a CTRL key?) :-)
Per-country stats are available now (I don't know if they always were or not).