This reminds me of the beginning of the 'God Father' when the young Don kills the local landlord for being such a crook bringing a sense of safty and peace back to the neighborhood.
Sometimes the way to peace is violent.
Disclaimer: I in no way condone murder, just making observations.
Next week we are probably going to hear that kinkos wont make copies of term papers, thesis or dissertations because the people aren't professional writers.
Honestly this is about the stupidest thing I've ever heard. What makes a photographer a photographer? Their camera. What makes them a professional? The fact that people pay them.
I would expect these photo counters to get sued for not printing the amature photographers pictures due to the discriminatory nature of this practice. Afterall who are they to say who is a professional and who isn't?
If it wern't for the DeBeers diamond monopoly, gem quality diamonds would not be in a percieved short supply. As it is, gem quality stones occuring naturally are not really all that rare. But, in order to keep prices high, DeBeers limits what they let into the market thus driving up prices.
Of course you are probably thinking, "But that's illegal in the US". DeBeers is based in London and S. Africa where monopolies are legal.
I have to agree with the idea that adults should be able to live their lives and make their own choices so long as those choices don't infringe upon the safty and sactity of others.
The basic premise of purchase is that you then have the right to use the product.
If OS's were gasoline, then what MS is doing would be akin to Shell selling it's cheapest gas so that if you put it in your Ford or Chevy SUV engine your engine wont start. But all other engine models and brands will start fine.
The real question is why buy this product when it is so obviously and needlessly crippled in comparison to similarly based products?
I don't really see what is so different about this than the government offering PBS, ABC, NBC, and CBS over the air for free to anyone with a tv and a pair of rabbit ears.
The point you have missed is the property at issue does not belong to the University, but does have some agreements with the university to rent primarily to students and to allow the university to set up and maintain a WAP. However, the tenents of the apartment complex do not have to be students of the university and are securing housing as private citizens and not through a university owned entity (aka a dorm).
IOW, the appartments are private residences that are not owned and opperated by the University.
Not all of the residents can or want to use the university's WAP connections.
The FCC has ruled (see the link to the massport ruling) that landlords can not regulate the use of unlicensed radio frequencies and specifically states that tenents in multi tenent facilities have the right to set up their own, individual, wi-fi networks within the multi tenent facility.
Further, the FCC states that all users of unlicensed radio frequencies must accept all interference and may not interfere with licensed radio frequencies. (Which is why you can't use your cell phones and other electronic devices during take off, they interfere with the radio freqiences that the air port has licensed.)
If any of the students decide to contest the university on this point, they will likely win.
If I highlight something and need to delete something else, I just place the cursor at the begining of the line I want to delete and then use crtl-k to delete it.
When I was in college and had time to be a really good sys admin, I always installed from the source. I felt things were cleaner and better that way. And if something went wrong and I needed to adjust a make package I had the time to work on it.
Now that I am out of school and have other responsibilites at work beside just the two machines I maintain, I have to be practical about the time I spend performing upgrades. I have found that packages save me quite a bit of time in the long run.
I think you can learn a lot from installing from source, and if you have the time then I would suggest doing it that way for at least one machine. But when speed is of the essence, packages come in very handy.
I do agree. Some people will still want the 65-150 channel bundles that extended basic and digital (in my area anyhow) offer even if they don't watch all those channels. I cannceled cable TV because I was paying $35 a month for 60 channels out of 65 that I just didn't watch and had absolutly no interest in. Because I still have a cable modem, I get basic cable for free. however out of the 13 channels I get, half of them are not in English and of the ones that are, 4 are either public access or QVC/home shopping. So of a possible 13 channels, there are only 3 that have any value to watch (for me as a non-spanish speaker) and I have no interest in watching them.
So I ask, for the same price, why shouldn't I be able to pick out 13 channels that I find actually have value to me and only get those channels?
For parents this would be a boon as they wouldn't have to worry about their digital cable bundle comming with channels they might not like kids to watch.
Schools would be able to get cable tv in the classroom with just educational and news channels that would benifit the students. The science channel and CNN are great for teaching about science and current events.
Having cable television is a privilige of the prosperous, certainly. However with rate hikes every year for programming you may not want, the gap between the upper class and everyone else grows. If things were to continue, only the very rich would be able to enjoy things like the discovery channel, the history channel, HGTV, the SciFi network, and ESPN. The masses would be left with the basic 13 of which 3-4 channels might hold any value.
This isn't just about going to McDonalds and just getting a Coke without the burger and fries, its about eventually being able to afford McDonalds at all.
I am not arguing that the news story with the fake image is libel.
However, can the DMCA still be invoked if Corbis were paid for the use of the photos, thus legitimatly removing their watermark? If so where does fair use come to play? It would be nice to know since I have purshased the use of a few electronic images from Corbis.
I also remember learning about the soviet rovers (and I'm only 25 so I wasn't even around when it happend). I would conjecture that though US public education can use improvement, we learn what we want to learn.
I think he is refering to the source code in that statement. For instance, Red Hat inc. can and does indeed charge for its distribution of linux, however they can not charge for the software its self, on the distribution of said software. Section one of the GNU General Public License Terms And Conditions For Copying, Distribution And Modification state:
" 1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program.
You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee."
So, when Red Hat charges a fee for their Linux distrobution they aren't charging for the work of the authors but the work of the people burning the cd's and putting them into nifty boxes with those stickers we love and admire. That is why Linux is considered to be a free operating system, because the GPL only grants permission to charge a fee for the distribution of the software. Also, from the preamble, "Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it,..."
This is why Linux is next to free if you purchase it from a distribution company, because as soon as you pay the fee for the CD's or the bandwidth to download it and any fee's for a waranty the distributor might offer, you are licensed under the GPL to distribute the linux software as you wish. This is why Microsoft hates it so, with their license you can not distribute, not even within your own home.
Now it might seem that I have gotten off topic from this mini-thread. However, while the GPL does not mandate that the software be universaly distributed free of charge as the author of the letter states, it does mandate that you may only charge for the distribution of the software and not the software itself, thus once the first copy's distrobution fee is paid (if there is one) it never needs to be paid again.
So the spirit of the GPL is free software distribution but it does not require free distribution.
I apologise if I was too verbose.
I was thinking the same thing. If they ever make a made for TV movie of all this, they need to have the guy who played shooter play Darl. Though, I think McBride looks more like a Mafia hitman in khakis and a polo shirt than a ficticious golfer.
Buy somehting from then and donate it to your local little leauge team (or other organization that could use some sports equipment), You've just supported a company worthy of admiration for showing SCO they have some balls and at the same time helped some kids do something other than drugs/theivery/wasting away.
Actually, the article is the truth. The person who wrote the logbook was Grace Hopper, a computer programmer for the military. (She went on to author the COBAL language and retired an Admiral from the Navy.)
Not only did she find the problem and coin the term "computer bug" but she was one of the first women in computing. An accomplishment in itself.
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This reminds me of the beginning of the 'God Father' when the young Don kills the local landlord for being such a crook bringing a sense of safty and peace back to the neighborhood.
Sometimes the way to peace is violent.
Disclaimer: I in no way condone murder, just making observations.
Next week we are probably going to hear that kinkos wont make copies of term papers, thesis or dissertations because the people aren't professional writers.
Honestly this is about the stupidest thing I've ever heard. What makes a photographer a photographer? Their camera. What makes them a professional? The fact that people pay them.
I would expect these photo counters to get sued for not printing the amature photographers pictures due to the discriminatory nature of this practice. Afterall who are they to say who is a professional and who isn't?
Most of the time the person in front of me has their stereo up so loud I can hear it with the windows up.
If it wern't for the DeBeers diamond monopoly, gem quality diamonds would not be in a percieved short supply. As it is, gem quality stones occuring naturally are not really all that rare. But, in order to keep prices high, DeBeers limits what they let into the market thus driving up prices.
Of course you are probably thinking, "But that's illegal in the US". DeBeers is based in London and S. Africa where monopolies are legal.
I have to agree with the idea that adults should be able to live their lives and make their own choices so long as those choices don't infringe upon the safty and sactity of others.
The basic premise of purchase is that you then have the right to use the product.
If OS's were gasoline, then what MS is doing would be akin to Shell selling it's cheapest gas so that if you put it in your Ford or Chevy SUV engine your engine wont start. But all other engine models and brands will start fine.
The real question is why buy this product when it is so obviously and needlessly crippled in comparison to similarly based products?
This just reeks of some hush hush deal with a hardware vendor to keep people locked in to older hardware in a bid to get rid of over stocked parts.
I'll be the shoe thanks.
When you can just /. them?
As a gamer, not as often as I should, which is usually whenever new patches or games are installed.
For the run of the mill, email/web browsers among us, it's probably sufficient to never update anything.
Microsoft: Yous guys, yous don't know hows this bussiness is run.
... Yeah I see that totatly happening.
*Big guy with a club steps out of the shadows*
Microsoft: Were gonna be nice, and teach yous how the software bussiness works.
I don't really see what is so different about this than the government offering PBS, ABC, NBC, and CBS over the air for free to anyone with a tv and a pair of rabbit ears.
I keep in my desk 2 replies from former President Clinton and 10 replies from various senators and congressmen.
Constituant mail may not change their minds but it rarely goes un-noticed.
How to avoid being called on the carpet over security? Be at least one degree more paranoid about security than your boss.
How to handle the security report? With the same seriousness as your boss, he signes your paychecks after all.
The point you have missed is the property at issue does not belong to the University, but does have some agreements with the university to rent primarily to students and to allow the university to set up and maintain a WAP. However, the tenents of the apartment complex do not have to be students of the university and are securing housing as private citizens and not through a university owned entity (aka a dorm).
IOW, the appartments are private residences that are not owned and opperated by the University.
Not all of the residents can or want to use the university's WAP connections.
The FCC has ruled (see the link to the massport ruling) that landlords can not regulate the use of unlicensed radio frequencies and specifically states that tenents in multi tenent facilities have the right to set up their own, individual, wi-fi networks within the multi tenent facility.
Further, the FCC states that all users of unlicensed radio frequencies must accept all interference and may not interfere with licensed radio frequencies. (Which is why you can't use your cell phones and other electronic devices during take off, they interfere with the radio freqiences that the air port has licensed.)
If any of the students decide to contest the university on this point, they will likely win.
This is the first time we have celebrated this at work (I didn't even know it existed). All the sys admin's got a chocolate cd. I feel loved. :)
If I highlight something and need to delete something else, I just place the cursor at the begining of the line I want to delete and then use crtl-k to delete it.
When I was in college and had time to be a really good sys admin, I always installed from the source. I felt things were cleaner and better that way. And if something went wrong and I needed to adjust a make package I had the time to work on it.
Now that I am out of school and have other responsibilites at work beside just the two machines I maintain, I have to be practical about the time I spend performing upgrades. I have found that packages save me quite a bit of time in the long run.
I think you can learn a lot from installing from source, and if you have the time then I would suggest doing it that way for at least one machine. But when speed is of the essence, packages come in very handy.
I do agree. Some people will still want the 65-150 channel bundles that extended basic and digital (in my area anyhow) offer even if they don't watch all those channels. I cannceled cable TV because I was paying $35 a month for 60 channels out of 65 that I just didn't watch and had absolutly no interest in.
Because I still have a cable modem, I get basic cable for free. however out of the 13 channels I get, half of them are not in English and of the ones that are, 4 are either public access or QVC/home shopping. So of a possible 13 channels, there are only 3 that have any value to watch (for me as a non-spanish speaker) and I have no interest in watching them.
So I ask, for the same price, why shouldn't I be able to pick out 13 channels that I find actually have value to me and only get those channels?
For parents this would be a boon as they wouldn't have to worry about their digital cable bundle comming with channels they might not like kids to watch.
Schools would be able to get cable tv in the classroom with just educational and news channels that would benifit the students. The science channel and CNN are great for teaching about science and current events.
Having cable television is a privilige of the prosperous, certainly. However with rate hikes every year for programming you may not want, the gap between the upper class and everyone else grows. If things were to continue, only the very rich would be able to enjoy things like the discovery channel, the history channel, HGTV, the SciFi network, and ESPN. The masses would be left with the basic 13 of which 3-4 channels might hold any value.
This isn't just about going to McDonalds and just getting a Coke without the burger and fries, its about eventually being able to afford McDonalds at all.
Yes but how often are you charged another $100 to upgrade each desktop/workstation with the latest greatest Linux kernel?
I am not arguing that the news story with the fake image is libel.
However, can the DMCA still be invoked if Corbis were paid for the use of the photos, thus legitimatly removing their watermark? If so where does fair use come to play? It would be nice to know since I have purshased the use of a few electronic images from Corbis.
I also remember learning about the soviet rovers (and I'm only 25 so I wasn't even around when it happend). I would conjecture that though US public education can use improvement, we learn what we want to learn.
I think he is refering to the source code in that statement. For instance, Red Hat inc. can and does indeed charge for its distribution of linux, however they can not charge for the software its self, on the distribution of said software. Section one of the GNU General Public License Terms And Conditions For Copying, Distribution And Modification state: " 1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program. You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee." So, when Red Hat charges a fee for their Linux distrobution they aren't charging for the work of the authors but the work of the people burning the cd's and putting them into nifty boxes with those stickers we love and admire. That is why Linux is considered to be a free operating system, because the GPL only grants permission to charge a fee for the distribution of the software. Also, from the preamble, "Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, ..."
This is why Linux is next to free if you purchase it from a distribution company, because as soon as you pay the fee for the CD's or the bandwidth to download it and any fee's for a waranty the distributor might offer, you are licensed under the GPL to distribute the linux software as you wish. This is why Microsoft hates it so, with their license you can not distribute, not even within your own home.
Now it might seem that I have gotten off topic from this mini-thread. However, while the GPL does not mandate that the software be universaly distributed free of charge as the author of the letter states, it does mandate that you may only charge for the distribution of the software and not the software itself, thus once the first copy's distrobution fee is paid (if there is one) it never needs to be paid again.
So the spirit of the GPL is free software distribution but it does not require free distribution.
I apologise if I was too verbose.
I was thinking the same thing. If they ever make a made for TV movie of all this, they need to have the guy who played shooter play Darl. Though, I think McBride looks more like a Mafia hitman in khakis and a polo shirt than a ficticious golfer.
Buy somehting from then and donate it to your local little leauge team (or other organization that could use some sports equipment), You've just supported a company worthy of admiration for showing SCO they have some balls and at the same time helped some kids do something other than drugs/theivery/wasting away.
Actually, the article is the truth. The person who wrote the logbook was Grace Hopper, a computer programmer for the military. (She went on to author the COBAL language and retired an Admiral from the Navy.)
Not only did she find the problem and coin the term "computer bug" but she was one of the first women in computing. An accomplishment in itself.