Nothing is free. You have to work even to breath the air around you. Free software isn't free as in beer, or maybe force-fed beer so you don't have to expend any effort.
It is about choice, and freedom to use it how YOU want. Lacking the skills to modify the software doesn't make it less free. Just as having nothing to say or being a poor communicator doesn't take away free speech, or not having any associates somehow destroys freedom of association.
Usability is one goal, but proper use of the tools is essential. Many people are surprised at how often FEA gives "bad" results because people simply don't know what they're doing, despite the point and click ease of the software.
Use the official conversion rate published by your government.
If they don't provide an official rate you should be free to choose a reasonable rate, as the EULA states they may not be sold one could logically argue the exchange rate is zero.
This may not work where there IS an official exchange rate.
I think the correct place for notes on specific historical items that are generally not relevant is at the bottom. Many people think neutral point of view should be THEIR "correct" point of view. Even facts can be presented in such a way to influence ones point of view. One harsh example is refering to a fetus as either a parasite or baby. While both may be considered technically correct, they have drastically different perspectives.
I think the charitable donations don't deserve their own section in the main article. This is IMO one positive bias.
Actions of the Walton family are distinct from those of the Walmart corporation. This is a positive bias/error IMO.
Therefore, widespread adoption of something like this will just bring up night rates and maybe bring day rates down a bit, eliminating much of the benefit.
This is a market based solution which can help make the energy market more efficient at the consumption end.
Ideally the person making this investment benefits enough to justify their investment with a small but reasonable profit. While the rest of us get the benefits of more stable energy demand.
If we can shift prime time consumption to off peak hours it can reduce cost for everyone. If I don't have to pay for it, even better.
The used bookstore at my school seemed to function just fine.
Personally I held onto most of my textbooks, they contain a lot of useful information that I actually refer to.
Many of my profs would make allowances for people using older versions of the textbook when the changes were small. Fortunately most of the new editions were significant improvements and worth it.
At the same time people complained about the ancient thermodynamics book we used.
In the past I rented 3-5 movies a week, now I barely rent 2 a month. I tend to watch my vhs collection more and more because it is easier to start and stop, I simply push play and stop.
The DVD's you have to put it in and wait, and get a splash screen, then if you miss it you get ads, and warnings and a menu.
Sheesh, I put the DVD in, I hit play, now PLAY the FREAKING MOVIE.
Wouldn't it be great if one day we all woke up and China, along with every other repressive society, dropped all their inhumane activities and censorship? Name one country that has no government sanctioned/controlled censorship or inhumane activities.
Wouldn't it be great if, on that day, every Chinese person was allowed to speak and inquire about whatever they want, whenever they want? Of course that would be great, but its not going to happen. Things like that don't magically happen over night. It takes time to move from censorship to free speech. In many countries certain things are not allowed to be discussed, and not just National security secrets. Hate and obscenity laws are two of the significant offenders of free speech.
Even without government censorship powerful groups don't want you to talk or say certain things, remember that silly Cartoon issue. I saw them, they were pretty pathetic. The most upsetting thing to me is that someone would bother to protest them when there are so much more series issues to deal with.
the solution is obvious: move your servers to a country where "federal regulations" protects rather than ousts the end user.
Foreign governments can and do request information from each other for criminal investigations. In most countries there are no privacy laws that will protect you from a search warrant.
There was a US law (I don't know if it passed) to attempt to permit the US government to force American companies to disclose any information to the US government irrespective of where the information is located and despite the privacy laws of that country. If someone has links they would probably make an interesting addition.
So, it's okay to help a totalitarian regime wrongly imprision people, as long as you do it for money?
Let me translate the first part into a less biased statement.
So, it's ethically and legally justifiable to provide legally compelled evidence to the appropriate government bodies, under the appropriate legislation when that information is used as evidence to try and potentially convict or imprison those found guilty of an offense.
There are other governments which are wrongly imprisoning people. In some cases in accordance with local law, in other cases illegally imprisoning people.
I don't think corporations are somehow beyond the law of the country they operate in, nor should they be.
man pages are one source of documentation. Howtos & the LDP Info pages/usr/doc or/usr/share/doc Distribution home pages. I like the debian bugs Mailing lists and list archives.
Personally I'm a fan of IRC. Some channels have bots with the latest news. Many channels are very helpful, particularly if you're clear, consise and have read some documentation.
In the better channels once you get some friends you can generally get excellent levels of support.
Today the software is much more robust, user friendly and well documented. Trying to set stuff up in the mid 90's was quite a bit more difficult.
You could use this same argument as a spammer or even a DOS/DDOS.
You have an open server that accepts email, if you don't want my email (spam) don't accept it.
You have a computer that is accepting data on a public network, if you don't want my data (massive flood of junk) you shouldn't have your computer on the public network.
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Sheesh use a Digital camera. Makes every whiteboard a digital whiteboard.
I use mine to take notes from newspapers, books, whiteboards, chalkboards, even TV.
All this inheritance stuff keeps reminding me of peoples greed.
On too many occasions the offspring sue the deceased estate to overturn the will and get "what's rightfully theirs". In many cases the elderly have to fight for the right to control their own property against their overzealous offspring.
Digital inheritance will start a whole new fight over the IP of the deceased.
Losses Public perception of the promoter of the bad law likely improves. Public perception of the judiciary likely falls. Someone has to take significant risk to ensure the government behaves properly.
Gains The bad law is gone. It is possible the promoter of the bad law might look stupid. People are reminded there are some people in positions of authority who understand and believe in the constitution/laws of the country.
Lets say there is a group of people willing to sell to sell their personal information for $10, and this becomes the accepted market price for this information.
Another group does not wish to share their information at any price.
A Company shares your personal information without permission, how can you justify any penalty greater than the $10 your information is worth?
Nice article, and it goes into just enough detail to explain how the system works.
I think the summary is. The person was informed that cash movement of over $10k has to be reported.
They then stop their normal legitimate pattern to avoid this reporting. In this case they were clearly trying to avoid the reporting system. They not only dropped most of their transactions below $10k, but also made deposits through an intermediary to avoid detection.
It would be similarly suspicious if someone went out of their way to use the store exit that didn't have the RFID tag sensors, but ONLY after being told that exit didn't have them.
NOTHING in GPLv3 disallows implementing DRM with GPLv3 code. http://gplv3.fsf.org/draft Section 3. No covered work constitutes part of an effective technological protection measure.
Even If someone wrote DRM in a GPL v3 draft licensed application it wouldn't be legally enforcable as DRM because such an application is explicitly not an "effective technology protection measure".
As for changing the license of the kernel, it would be very difficult. Every single author would have to agree, this is unlikely.
If "senior management" can't make a department behave that management is incompetent.
Quite simply the lack of responsiveness from IT should continue up the management structure until.
A. The issue is resolved. B. Management decides that the level of support is acceptable considering their other demands.
If the current manager Doesn't select A or B, they should perform C. Elevate it to the next level of management. D. Give up because they have more important things to deal with.
D is always a bad solution and identifies bad management. If they're always too busy to deal with issues, they should hire someone else.
1a. I don't think free software should force and/or encourage behaviours beyond that of ensuring the software is free.
1b. What is legal and illegal is inconsistent both over time and location. Let the laws in place deal with that. Using a software licence and copyright law to somehow back up "real law" is at best redundant and at worst subjective and confusing. For a second example a police keystroke logger can be both legal and illegal depending on the specifics of the case.
2. I agree that DRM is logically incompatible with the GPL, if you have all source to make a fully functional implementation you could easily hack around the DRM restrictions.
We not only disagree with you, we think you're stupid for even mentioning it.
Fortunately there are more open minded people than you involved in this debate. I think the GPL should adhere as directly and as simply as possible to the free software definition.
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Nothing is free.
You have to work even to breath the air around you.
Free software isn't free as in beer, or maybe force-fed beer so you don't have to expend any effort.
It is about choice, and freedom to use it how YOU want. Lacking the skills to modify the software doesn't make it less free. Just as having nothing to say or being a poor communicator doesn't take away free speech, or not having any associates somehow destroys freedom of association.
Usability is one goal, but proper use of the tools is essential. Many people are surprised at how often FEA gives "bad" results because people simply don't know what they're doing, despite the point and click ease of the software.
Use the official conversion rate published by your government.
If they don't provide an official rate you should be free to choose a reasonable rate, as the EULA states they may not be sold one could logically argue the exchange rate is zero.
This may not work where there IS an official exchange rate.
I agree, seemed pretty neutral overall.
I think the correct place for notes on specific historical items that are generally not relevant is at the bottom.
Many people think neutral point of view should be THEIR "correct" point of view.
Even facts can be presented in such a way to influence ones point of view. One harsh example is refering to a fetus as either a parasite or baby. While both may be considered technically correct, they have drastically different perspectives.
I think the charitable donations don't deserve their own section in the main article. This is IMO one positive bias.
Actions of the Walton family are distinct from those of the Walmart corporation. This is a positive bias/error IMO.
Therefore, widespread adoption of something like this will just bring up night rates and maybe bring day rates down a bit, eliminating much of the benefit.
This is a market based solution which can help make the energy market more efficient at the consumption end.
Ideally the person making this investment benefits enough to justify their investment with a small but reasonable profit. While the rest of us get the benefits of more stable energy demand.
If we can shift prime time consumption to off peak hours it can reduce cost for everyone. If I don't have to pay for it, even better.
The used bookstore at my school seemed to function just fine.
Personally I held onto most of my textbooks, they contain a lot of useful information that I actually refer to.
Many of my profs would make allowances for people using older versions of the textbook when the changes were small. Fortunately most of the new editions were significant improvements and worth it.
At the same time people complained about the ancient thermodynamics book we used.
I hate how they lock up my DVD player like that.
In the past I rented 3-5 movies a week, now I barely rent 2 a month. I tend to watch my vhs collection more and more because it is easier to start and stop, I simply push play and stop.
The DVD's you have to put it in and wait, and get a splash screen, then if you miss it you get ads, and warnings and a menu.
Sheesh, I put the DVD in, I hit play, now PLAY the FREAKING MOVIE.
I think ethical behaviour is following ones morals.
Corporations are amoral, hence they can not be ethical themselves.
Wouldn't it be great if one day we all woke up and China, along with every other repressive society, dropped all their inhumane activities and censorship?
Name one country that has no government sanctioned/controlled censorship or inhumane activities.
Wouldn't it be great if, on that day, every Chinese person was allowed to speak and inquire about whatever they want, whenever they want? Of course that would be great, but its not going to happen. Things like that don't magically happen over night. It takes time to move from censorship to free speech.
In many countries certain things are not allowed to be discussed, and not just National security secrets.
Hate and obscenity laws are two of the significant offenders of free speech.
Even without government censorship powerful groups don't want you to talk or say certain things, remember that silly Cartoon issue. I saw them, they were pretty pathetic. The most upsetting thing to me is that someone would bother to protest them when there are so much more series issues to deal with.
the solution is obvious: move your servers to a country where "federal regulations" protects rather than ousts the end user.
Foreign governments can and do request information from each other for criminal investigations. In most countries there are no privacy laws that will protect you from a search warrant.
There was a US law (I don't know if it passed) to attempt to permit the US government to force American companies to disclose any information to the US government irrespective of where the information is located and despite the privacy laws of that country.
If someone has links they would probably make an interesting addition.
So, it's okay to help a totalitarian regime wrongly imprision people, as long as you do it for money?
Let me translate the first part into a less biased statement.
So, it's ethically and legally justifiable to provide legally compelled evidence to the appropriate government bodies, under the appropriate legislation when that information is used as evidence to try and potentially convict or imprison those found guilty of an offense.
There are other governments which are wrongly imprisoning people. In some cases in accordance with local law, in other cases illegally imprisoning people.
I don't think corporations are somehow beyond the law of the country they operate in, nor should they be.
man pages are one source of documentation. /usr/doc or /usr/share/doc
Howtos & the LDP
Info pages
Distribution home pages.
I like the debian bugs
Mailing lists and list archives.
Personally I'm a fan of IRC.
Some channels have bots with the latest news.
Many channels are very helpful, particularly if you're clear, consise and have read some documentation.
In the better channels once you get some friends you can generally get excellent levels of support.
Today the software is much more robust, user friendly and well documented. Trying to set stuff up in the mid 90's was quite a bit more difficult.
If Linux systems ever want to develop greater market penetration and actually challenge the dominance of Windows
AFAIK market share has never been the main goal of most free or open source project.
The goals tend to be scratch an itch, make a free tool, or make the best available tool.
BTW World domination is a joke.
If you want high quality photos, use a SLR.
The current entry level products are all capable of generating very good images.
(Canon Nikon Olympus Pentax)
Some of the kit or consumer lenses aren't great but you can easily replace them with excellent mid range glass.
You could use this same argument as a spammer or even a DOS/DDOS.
You have an open server that accepts email, if you don't want my email (spam) don't accept it.
You have a computer that is accepting data on a public network, if you don't want my data (massive flood of junk) you shouldn't have your computer on the public network.
Sheesh use a Digital camera.
Makes every whiteboard a digital whiteboard.
I use mine to take notes from newspapers, books, whiteboards, chalkboards, even TV.
All this inheritance stuff keeps reminding me of peoples greed.
On too many occasions the offspring sue the deceased estate to overturn the will and get "what's rightfully theirs". In many cases the elderly have to fight for the right to control their own property against their overzealous offspring.
Digital inheritance will start a whole new fight over the IP of the deceased.
Losses
Public perception of the promoter of the bad law likely improves.
Public perception of the judiciary likely falls.
Someone has to take significant risk to ensure the government behaves properly.
Gains
The bad law is gone.
It is possible the promoter of the bad law might look stupid.
People are reminded there are some people in positions of authority who understand and believe in the constitution/laws of the country.
Lets say there is a group of people willing to sell to sell their personal information for $10, and this becomes the accepted market price for this information.
Another group does not wish to share their information at any price.
A Company shares your personal information without permission, how can you justify any penalty greater than the $10 your information is worth?
Nice article, and it goes into just enough detail to explain how the system works.
I think the summary is.
The person was informed that cash movement of over $10k has to be reported.
They then stop their normal legitimate pattern to avoid this reporting. In this case they were clearly trying to avoid the reporting system. They not only dropped most of their transactions below $10k, but also made deposits through an intermediary to avoid detection.
It would be similarly suspicious if someone went out of their way to use the store exit that didn't have the RFID tag sensors, but ONLY after being told that exit didn't have them.
50mpg under the EPA mileage test?
A vehicle like the TDI Golf only gets 38/46.
I still don't believe it. Your rudeness doesn't make you correct.
It isn't like it was a well researched or writen article.
They even left in the oil company conspiracy crap.
As for a 4 second 0-60 and 50mpg I don't believe it.
However I find this ethanol vehicle quite a bit more interesting.
http://www.canadiandriver.com/news/060228-4.htm
Actually you can download mp3's (court ruling I don't have the link)
And you can copy someones CD for personal use (Copyright law)
http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/info/act-e.html#rid-33770
NOTHING in GPLv3 disallows implementing DRM with GPLv3 code.
http://gplv3.fsf.org/draft
Section 3.
No covered work constitutes part of an effective technological protection measure.
Even If someone wrote DRM in a GPL v3 draft licensed application it wouldn't be legally enforcable as DRM because such an application is explicitly not an "effective technology protection measure".
As for changing the license of the kernel, it would be very difficult. Every single author would have to agree, this is unlikely.
If "senior management" can't make a department behave that management is incompetent.
Quite simply the lack of responsiveness from IT should continue up the management structure until.
A. The issue is resolved.
B. Management decides that the level of support is acceptable considering their other demands.
If the current manager Doesn't select A or B, they should perform
C. Elevate it to the next level of management.
D. Give up because they have more important things to deal with.
D is always a bad solution and identifies bad management. If they're always too busy to deal with issues, they should hire someone else.
Considering the free software definition I will form my response.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
1a. I don't think free software should force and/or encourage behaviours beyond that of ensuring the software is free.
1b. What is legal and illegal is inconsistent both over time and location. Let the laws in place deal with that. Using a software licence and copyright law to somehow back up "real law" is at best redundant and at worst subjective and confusing. For a second example a police keystroke logger can be both legal and illegal depending on the specifics of the case.
2. I agree that DRM is logically incompatible with the GPL, if you have all source to make a fully functional implementation you could easily hack around the DRM restrictions.
We not only disagree with you, we think you're stupid for even mentioning it.
Fortunately there are more open minded people than you involved in this debate.
I think the GPL should adhere as directly and as simply as possible to the free software definition.