I used the PPA for a while, but it tracks HEAD a bit too closely for my liking. The last couple of builds have had some graphical corruption that make going back to a previous version necessary for me.
The official unstable version doesn't track HEAD nearly as closely, and contains the google branding (which, I don't really care about). I expect the beta version will be even more stable.
Actually, they do have obligation, legally, to their users. We all know they can comply to DMCA takedown notices to gain legal protection. However, to gain legal protection from their users, MySpace would be required to put the content back up if a user contests a takedown, and then be able to provide the issuer of the takedown notice with that user's contact information.
Specifically: "OCILLA (the part of the DMCA dealing with takedowns) also includes a counternotification provision that offers OSPs a safe harbor from liability to their users, if the material upon notice from such users claiming that the material in question is not, in fact, infringing."
You call them up, and say "oh hai, my password device is broken". They ask you to provide a few bits of information to make sure you're really you, and then they either send you a new one, or they disable the required use of it.
No, this is different, since before you could only go through google and it was limited to google. For example, any @jabber.org account should be able to talk to an aim or icq @aol.com account now.
I'm not sure how far the compatibility extends however, since my aim account connected traditionally can't seem to talk to my normal non-aim xmpp account.
The number key can be used to circumvent the HD DVD copyright protection mechanism (AACS)... This particular key sounds especially important.
The DMCA has clauses to protect DRM in addition to adding provisions for protection of copyright (as well as outlining common carrier liability).
From the wikipedia article about DRM:
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is an extension to United States copyright law passed unanimously on May 14, 1998, which criminalizes the production and dissemination of technology that allows users to circumvent technical copy-restriction methods, rendering all forms of DRM-stripping and circumvention software illegal, as well as some aspects of research and reverse engineering of existing systems. On 22 May 2001, the European Union passed the EU Copyright Directive, an implementation of the 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty that addressed many of the same issues as the DMCA.
London cabbies, unlike their American counterparts, have to learn the layout of streets and the locations of thousands of places of interest in order to get a licence.
London is also harder to get around, due to the way street names in London work.
The google talk protocol is little more than jabber with a few other goodies thrown in such as voice chat. So really, right now, the only thing you miss under linux with the google talk service is the voice chat since you can use a client such as gaim or any of the multitude of other jabber clients under linux.
I actually was just looking at the Cite This Article page, and it pretty much said somewhat of the same thing. Really, you want to use Wikipedia do get some initial details to know where to go next with more authoritative details.
I'm not concerned with this particular bill as I am with one of the tactics that was used.
Namely, I'm talking about the embedding of other mostly unrelated things into a bill. It's especially bad, since with a bill such as this one, the existance of the DoJ relies on this bill getting passed to get its funding. Because of this, members of congress feeled pressed that the bill must be passed (as was noted in the first sentence of jamie's summary).
Its plot will concern the Overrealm, a new realm of floating islands suspended at high altitudes, as well as a plot by ancient foes of Norrath to wreak havoc.
That sounds an awfully lot like the WoW expansion, except it's Outlands, and it's a plot by the burning legion to destroy everything.
I knew a guild that was called General Goods Merchants. Several of their players would walk around Orgrimmar acting like they were walking merchant npcs.
Anyways, before creating their guild, they asked a GM if they could create a guild with such a name. The GM said it was okay, so they went ahead and created it. A few months later, another GM forced them to change their guild name (it ended up something really weird like Ghost Wolf of Alpha or something). I think they left the weird name guild and created a new guild called GGM so that everyone would know who they are.
They may have gotten the okay to have the name General Goods Merchant again, I dunno. To be honest, I'm not sure if I've seen them in a while. Maybe they merged.
Recently they added a function to their lua ui api called isLinuxClient(). slouken said the function was being added for "completeness". There is already a isWindowsClient() and isMacClient().
Whatever that means for sure, I do not know.
Plus, slouken is Sam Lantiga, the sdl guy who used to work for Loki. So Blizzard does have someone who is capable, however, they have him doing a lot of other things.:P (Right now I think Blizzard doesn't have enough manpower in developers to worry about Linux client.)
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I used the PPA for a while, but it tracks HEAD a bit too closely for my liking. The last couple of builds have had some graphical corruption that make going back to a previous version necessary for me. The official unstable version doesn't track HEAD nearly as closely, and contains the google branding (which, I don't really care about). I expect the beta version will be even more stable.
Actually, they do have obligation, legally, to their users. We all know they can comply to DMCA takedown notices to gain legal protection. However, to gain legal protection from their users , MySpace would be required to put the content back up if a user contests a takedown, and then be able to provide the issuer of the takedown notice with that user's contact information.
Specifically: "OCILLA (the part of the DMCA dealing with takedowns) also includes a counternotification provision that offers OSPs a safe harbor from liability to their users, if the material upon notice from such users claiming that the material in question is not, in fact, infringing."
(IANAL)
You call them up, and say "oh hai, my password device is broken". They ask you to provide a few bits of information to make sure you're really you, and then they either send you a new one, or they disable the required use of it.
That's okay, he'll just have to reroll...
No, this is different, since before you could only go through google and it was limited to google. For example, any @jabber.org account should be able to talk to an aim or icq @aol.com account now.
I'm not sure how far the compatibility extends however, since my aim account connected traditionally can't seem to talk to my normal non-aim xmpp account.
Ah, it seems to be working now. Firefox was complaining about bad redirects earlier.
The "Slashdot ran out of space for comment IDs" link doesn't work.
You can get to the referenced article at:
http://meta.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/09/1534204
The DMCA has clauses to protect DRM in addition to adding provisions for protection of copyright (as well as outlining common carrier liability).
From the wikipedia article about DRM:
Are you implying it takes over a trillion dollars to produce a well engineered operating system?
London is also harder to get around, due to the way street names in London work.
Well, looking at the sticker (tiny print) that came on this dell...
Proof of License
Certificate of Authenticity
Most likely they think they might be able to win against Skype. Microsoft has many more resources...
I was refering to Jabber The Protocol, not Jabber The Client.
The google talk protocol is little more than jabber with a few other goodies thrown in such as voice chat. So really, right now, the only thing you miss under linux with the google talk service is the voice chat since you can use a client such as gaim or any of the multitude of other jabber clients under linux.
I actually was just looking at the Cite This Article page, and it pretty much said somewhat of the same thing. Really, you want to use Wikipedia do get some initial details to know where to go next with more authoritative details.
I'm not concerned with this particular bill as I am with one of the tactics that was used.
Namely, I'm talking about the embedding of other mostly unrelated things into a bill. It's especially bad, since with a bill such as this one, the existance of the DoJ relies on this bill getting passed to get its funding. Because of this, members of congress feeled pressed that the bill must be passed (as was noted in the first sentence of jamie's summary).
From the summary:
Its plot will concern the Overrealm, a new realm of floating islands suspended at high altitudes, as well as a plot by ancient foes of Norrath to wreak havoc.
That sounds an awfully lot like the WoW expansion, except it's Outlands, and it's a plot by the burning legion to destroy everything.
I am one of the sad individuals that plays WOW too much. my /played time is 40 days.
That's nothing!
Yeah, they just won't DIE. Wait, is that the problem you alliance have too, or is it something else?
I knew a guild that was called General Goods Merchants. Several of their players would walk around Orgrimmar acting like they were walking merchant npcs.
Anyways, before creating their guild, they asked a GM if they could create a guild with such a name. The GM said it was okay, so they went ahead and created it. A few months later, another GM forced them to change their guild name (it ended up something really weird like Ghost Wolf of Alpha or something). I think they left the weird name guild and created a new guild called GGM so that everyone would know who they are.
They may have gotten the okay to have the name General Goods Merchant again, I dunno. To be honest, I'm not sure if I've seen them in a while. Maybe they merged.
They've been -trying- to hire developers for a while now. They like putting their "Now Hiring" signs in a lot of visible places.
Oh, I didn't spell his name right. It's Sam Lantinga apparently. Forgot an n.
Recently they added a function to their lua ui api called isLinuxClient(). slouken said the function was being added for "completeness". There is already a isWindowsClient() and isMacClient().
:P (Right now I think Blizzard doesn't have enough manpower in developers to worry about Linux client.)
Whatever that means for sure, I do not know.
Plus, slouken is Sam Lantiga, the sdl guy who used to work for Loki. So Blizzard does have someone who is capable, however, they have him doing a lot of other things.
I think they are just trash mobs, not people!
Yeah, same.
It's disconcerting to me when a computer -doesn't- make noise.