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This starts to look very suspicious to me. I think I will wait few months at most and demand my money back if SCO don't prove their case. I'm glad that I bought and sold SCOX on exactly optimal time, or otherwise I would feel kind of stupid for buying all of those licenses to run 140 Debian boxen in my lab, and 60 Red Hat desktops in the library. Has anyone tried to return the license yet?
Is XML with CSS better than TeX, or Postscript for that matter? Can it be? I have never seen a high quality print from anything other than *TeX, and that includes XML/XHTML/HTML, so I figured out that (XHT|HT|X)ML is not a typesetting system. Is that not the case?
EULA == END USER license agreement
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The Basics of EULAs
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You say the GPL is not a EULA, then quote its text that says it is a license. I thought the "L" in "EULA" stood for "license."
Indeed. But there are three more letters. "E" and "U" stand for "end user."
I will believe that EULAs are enforcable as soon as the first EULA is enforced, but not sooner.
I think the real issue is whether shrinkwrapped EULAs are enforceable, not EULAs in general. If I can view the EULA online, for example, as with GPL'd software, then why shouldn't it be legal?
"5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. [...]"
Now, back yo your question: "If I can view the EULA online [...] then why shouldn't it be legal?" You should have asked: "If I can view the EULA online [...] then why shouldn't it be legally binding?" And the answer would be: do you consider everything that you read a legally binding contract? When you see a sign in the store saying that when you touch anything then you have to buy it, do you think it is true?
It will be a jack of all trades that everyone hates. Now merged with SQL to make things worse... Please, don't confuse relational algebra, predicate calculus and set theory with procedural algorithm description notation. They are not in the same problem space.
Is it really that surprising? Hardly. We had it coming. The lesson is: don't ignore security professionals when they say that your products are inherently flawed, but we knew that already, right? Right?
In the Wall Street Journal article HP representative in Europe claims (...) that consumers will win once the US dollar rises over Euro.
I call bullshit on this. You always introduce regions to make consumers pay more than before (in total), hence the consumers lose. Naturally, some customers pay less than others (how else could it be price discrimination), but overall that is simply false.
I think that what they are trying to say is that they are saving the US consumers now, and will save the EU consumers in the future in case the US prices are higher, by forcing them to buy cheaper products. What they seem to not understand is that it is the importing of cheaper products that usually makes more sense and that is a little bit more popular, for some strange reason. HP should send their representatives to economics 101, or lying 101 for that matter, because such statements are insulting to both competent economists and con artists.
Does it mean the end of Freenet as we know it? Because its developers did take more than 'reasonable care' to prevent their software from being controlled in any way, which of course includes having a true free speech medium, but also a platform for any kind of crime, like illegal pornography. Is it possible to stop illegal pornography and copyright infringement, but allow free speech, privacy and anonymity for people living in oppressive regimes? That is something that needs to be done quickly. Freenet is more than just yet another P2P network. We cannot let it fail.
They could tell you, but then they'd have to kill you.
I remember some old jokes when we were working on a really high latency experimental network (ip over fidonet) and we were talking about ping pong times. We would ping a distant server and start playing ping pong. The sum of our scores when we got an icmp reply was our "ping pong time." At that time I would have never thought that such a high latency will eventually be one of the most serious problems in the 21st century, but the sad thing is that when we have people on Mars, a simple irc chat or a phone call will be impossible, not becasue of our technology like back in my days, but because of the speed of light itself. It's funny that we don't have flying cars but we face problems caused by the slow speed of light...
You applaud to exactly that entity that has drawn the law in the first place (and then the parliament ratified it.)
Yes, I do, because that is how I believe governments should work. I always respect politicians who can admit that they have made a mistake and who want to fix it. The are no people who are always right, and that's why I don't respect anyone who claim so. Also, I tend to focus on people rather than on entities when it comes to politics.
Remember that this is a country where you have an undeniable right to knowledge and education, and ask this question: shouldn't the right to read in public labraries be equal for all? Shouldn't both of those answers be "yes"? Which "yes" is more important? As you can see, the answers to both of those questions are somewhat in conflict in this case. Now, I agree with you that everyone should have the same rights as those just granted to libraries, and this is what in my opinion is going to happen: schools will be next, students will be excluded as well, etc. until there will be a huge list of ad hoc exceptions and someone will think: "wait a minute, this law is harmful unless everyone is excluded, so let's change it." That is why I believe that this is a step in the right direction. Keep in mind that this is a place where there is a clear conflict between laissez-faire capitalism and individual freedom of citizens. One have to decide what is more important, and every government has the power to do it, in a manner they believe is optimal for their country. I think the German government is going in the right direction.
Just goes to show... how wrong these laws really are. If this law is preventing the library fulfilling its legal obligations, perhaps this shows it was a badly thought-out law?
Indeed. This law is wrong, but it is reassuring to see that Europe once again is able to recognize such laws and have the guts to do something about it. Contrast this to the attitude of "yeah, DMCA and software patents are wrong, but what are you gonna do?" on the other side of the ocean. I can only say bravo to German government. Some laws will always be wrong. The question is: what are you doing to fix them? And this is clearly a step in the right direction. When there is a conflict between corporations and public education and free access to knowledge--and there will always be in the case of "intellectual property"--who are you going to defend? Germans have just answered this question: citizens.
Remember the good old days when the listeners picked the hits?
Yes, I remember. It was yesterday, when I picked a new Li Yúndí's CD with Chopin's scherzi. I am listening to the most brilliant performance of Frédéric Chopin's scherzo no. 2 in B flat minor op. 31 I have ever heard, right now as we speak. This kid is truly amazing. My point is: who cares what are the hits? We are not forced to listen to them any more than we are forced to eat at McDonald's.
Harvard pres says females naturally bad at math. In other news, the president of Harvard has said that while females naturally bad at math indeed, males on the other hand often demonstrate serious linguistic deficiencies, especially while composing article headlines. "I say males naturally bad at language," she added, seeing a puzzled expression on the Slashdot editor's face.
I would always hire someone who I know is good over someone who I don't know whether he is good or not. And by "good" I mean both a good programmer and a good citizen.
So would you also include someone who appeared to fall into both categories but for other reasons? For example, someone who regularly participates in on-line programming forums might have plenty of sample code available there, and might be a great help to less experienced users of whatever languages or tools are being discussed. More generally, someone might have a strong professional programming background, but choose to do volunteer work for charity in their spare time. Obviously in that case you can't necessarily see a sample of their code on-line, though their work might be of excellent quality and they're certainly helping society in a useful way. Would these people attract your attention?
They would probably attract my attention, especially if they were females! But, seriously... Someone helping a charity is certainly a very good citizen, and might be a great programmer, but I have no way to be sure if I cannot see a finished project. Someone active in on-line forums would certainly be a great help to less experienced programmers, but I wouldn't hire those in the first place. The problem with not contributing to open source projects is that it looks very suspicious to me. When someone tells me "this is impossible to do because of a bug in the operating system [or a compiler, library, interpreter, etc.]" I say "So?" because if someone cannot fix a simple bug in open source software than we might use proprietary crap just as well. It is just a common sense to hire someone who has already done it, to avoid possible problems in the future. You are right that a proprietary programmer may be just as good or much better than a free software hacker, but the point is that not being able to see his code, I can never know it. On the other hand, it is quite common to not hire someone when he shows you some crappy mp3 player on sourceforge, or you find some stupid questions on the mailing lists (Google groups is priceless for that sort of investigation--here's an advice: always use a pseudonym to ask questions). The answer to the question "is one a good programmer?" has only one difference between proprietary and free software developers: most of the programmers in both groups are incompetent, but it is easy and fast to determine in the case of free software, and nearly impossible otherwise. The difference is in the level of transparency. The second thing is the experience using open source tools and systems, and the ability to fix them when needed. This is the difference between Microsoft mentality where even the best programmers can only beg Microsoft to fix a bug in their compiler and meanwhile work around it until they maybe fix it ten years later, and the open source community where anyone can send a patch to GCC and have it fixed in the next release, and meanwhile happily use the locally patched version until the patch is present in the main branch after few days. Another thing is the issue with NDAs. It is foolish to hire anyone who has signed any kind of NDA which will interfere with your projects, and it is even more foolish to sign such NDA in the first place. Likewise, it may be unwise to hire someone who has accepted any EULA containing NDA and anticompetition clauses. You don't have said problems when working with GPL, do you?
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It is based on Mozilla Firefox 1.0, and can switch between Gecko and IE for rendering the content. See this story for more details: New Netscape Browser Prototype Available.
This starts to look very suspicious to me. I think I will wait few months at most and demand my money back if SCO don't prove their case. I'm glad that I bought and sold SCOX on exactly optimal time, or otherwise I would feel kind of stupid for buying all of those licenses to run 140 Debian boxen in my lab, and 60 Red Hat desktops in the library. Has anyone tried to return the license yet?
Is XML with CSS better than TeX, or Postscript for that matter? Can it be? I have never seen a high quality print from anything other than *TeX, and that includes XML/XHTML/HTML, so I figured out that (XHT|HT|X)ML is not a typesetting system. Is that not the case?
Indeed. But there are three more letters. "E" and "U" stand for "end user."
Sounds like another candidate for the JREF prize.
The GNU General Public License is not an EULA. Please read it:
"5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. [...]"
Now, back yo your question: "If I can view the EULA online [...] then why shouldn't it be legal?" You should have asked: "If I can view the EULA online [...] then why shouldn't it be legally binding?" And the answer would be: do you consider everything that you read a legally binding contract? When you see a sign in the store saying that when you touch anything then you have to buy it, do you think it is true?
It will be a jack of all trades that everyone hates. Now merged with SQL to make things worse... Please, don't confuse relational algebra, predicate calculus and set theory with procedural algorithm description notation. They are not in the same problem space.
I will believe that EULAs are enforcable as soon as the first EULA is enforced, but not sooner.
Is it really that surprising? Hardly. We had it coming. The lesson is: don't ignore security professionals when they say that your products are inherently flawed, but we knew that already, right? Right?
I will also avoid this thing, but for different reasons.
Starting virus_song.mp3...
MP3: Hello, I sending you those in order to have youre advice my dear friend!!!!
Me: What?
MP3: MP3 player, volume up!
Me: No, volume down!
MP3: MP3 player, volume up! volume up! volume up!
Me: Down, damn it! Down!
MP3: up! up! up! up! up! up! up! up!
Me: MP3 player, please--
MP3: Lalalala! I can't hear you! Lalalalalalalala!!!
Me: *sigh*
MP3: MP3 player, volume max! Car, open windows! Attention! To all MP3 players in range: download virus_song.mp3 and start playing!!!!!
From other cars: Hello! Hello.. Hello!!! I sending you-- *crash*
How long before we read about the first accident caused by this new technology?
I think that what they are trying to say is that they are saving the US consumers now, and will save the EU consumers in the future in case the US prices are higher, by forcing them to buy cheaper products. What they seem to not understand is that it is the importing of cheaper products that usually makes more sense and that is a little bit more popular, for some strange reason. HP should send their representatives to economics 101, or lying 101 for that matter, because such statements are insulting to both competent economists and con artists.
Internet is good mostly for two things: pornography and Wikipædia.
Does it mean the end of Freenet as we know it? Because its developers did take more than 'reasonable care' to prevent their software from being controlled in any way, which of course includes having a true free speech medium, but also a platform for any kind of crime, like illegal pornography. Is it possible to stop illegal pornography and copyright infringement, but allow free speech, privacy and anonymity for people living in oppressive regimes? That is something that needs to be done quickly. Freenet is more than just yet another P2P network. We cannot let it fail.
Not only that. Here's the most important link: What's New in 8.0. (To editors: why there are links to torrents, but no link to features?)
I think that using XML for programming would be a very good idea, but some redundancy might have to be removed to make writing easier. For example, since things like HTML 123 are no longer valid in XML, it is pointless to write which tag you close, since there is only one unambiguous tag you can close at any given point. So instead of 1 2 we might use 1 2 , or better yet, just >>. Now, that's a nice idea, but those angle brackets look strange, they are too wide and look like X's, so maybe let's just use the ordinary parentheses: (a (b (c 1) (d 2))). Now, that's more like it. Yes, I definitely like this new scheme much better. XML in programming is a great innovative idea, only its syntax needs some polishing.
I remember some old jokes when we were working on a really high latency experimental network (ip over fidonet) and we were talking about ping pong times. We would ping a distant server and start playing ping pong. The sum of our scores when we got an icmp reply was our "ping pong time." At that time I would have never thought that such a high latency will eventually be one of the most serious problems in the 21st century, but the sad thing is that when we have people on Mars, a simple irc chat or a phone call will be impossible, not becasue of our technology like back in my days, but because of the speed of light itself. It's funny that we don't have flying cars but we face problems caused by the slow speed of light...
Yes, I do, because that is how I believe governments should work. I always respect politicians who can admit that they have made a mistake and who want to fix it. The are no people who are always right, and that's why I don't respect anyone who claim so. Also, I tend to focus on people rather than on entities when it comes to politics.
Remember that this is a country where you have an undeniable right to knowledge and education, and ask this question: shouldn't the right to read in public labraries be equal for all? Shouldn't both of those answers be "yes"? Which "yes" is more important? As you can see, the answers to both of those questions are somewhat in conflict in this case. Now, I agree with you that everyone should have the same rights as those just granted to libraries, and this is what in my opinion is going to happen: schools will be next, students will be excluded as well, etc. until there will be a huge list of ad hoc exceptions and someone will think: "wait a minute, this law is harmful unless everyone is excluded, so let's change it." That is why I believe that this is a step in the right direction. Keep in mind that this is a place where there is a clear conflict between laissez-faire capitalism and individual freedom of citizens. One have to decide what is more important, and every government has the power to do it, in a manner they believe is optimal for their country. I think the German government is going in the right direction.
Indeed. This law is wrong, but it is reassuring to see that Europe once again is able to recognize such laws and have the guts to do something about it. Contrast this to the attitude of "yeah, DMCA and software patents are wrong, but what are you gonna do?" on the other side of the ocean. I can only say bravo to German government. Some laws will always be wrong. The question is: what are you doing to fix them? And this is clearly a step in the right direction. When there is a conflict between corporations and public education and free access to knowledge--and there will always be in the case of "intellectual property"--who are you going to defend? Germans have just answered this question: citizens.
Kids, don't trust this man! I have also found a picture of his car.
Yes, I remember. It was yesterday, when I picked a new Li Yúndí's CD with Chopin's scherzi. I am listening to the most brilliant performance of Frédéric Chopin's scherzo no. 2 in B flat minor op. 31 I have ever heard, right now as we speak. This kid is truly amazing. My point is: who cares what are the hits? We are not forced to listen to them any more than we are forced to eat at McDonald's.
Here's the algorithm:
potential hitability = visual nudity / melodic complexity
It works great.
Now seriously, let's be fair. While women may be naturally bad at math, there are other things they are good at, like semiconductor physics.
Harvard pres says females naturally bad at math. In other news, the president of Harvard has said that while females naturally bad at math indeed, males on the other hand often demonstrate serious linguistic deficiencies, especially while composing article headlines. "I say males naturally bad at language," she added, seeing a puzzled expression on the Slashdot editor's face.
They would probably attract my attention, especially if they were females! But, seriously... Someone helping a charity is certainly a very good citizen, and might be a great programmer, but I have no way to be sure if I cannot see a finished project. Someone active in on-line forums would certainly be a great help to less experienced programmers, but I wouldn't hire those in the first place. The problem with not contributing to open source projects is that it looks very suspicious to me. When someone tells me "this is impossible to do because of a bug in the operating system [or a compiler, library, interpreter, etc.]" I say "So?" because if someone cannot fix a simple bug in open source software than we might use proprietary crap just as well. It is just a common sense to hire someone who has already done it, to avoid possible problems in the future. You are right that a proprietary programmer may be just as good or much better than a free software hacker, but the point is that not being able to see his code, I can never know it. On the other hand, it is quite common to not hire someone when he shows you some crappy mp3 player on sourceforge, or you find some stupid questions on the mailing lists (Google groups is priceless for that sort of investigation--here's an advice: always use a pseudonym to ask questions). The answer to the question "is one a good programmer?" has only one difference between proprietary and free software developers: most of the programmers in both groups are incompetent, but it is easy and fast to determine in the case of free software, and nearly impossible otherwise. The difference is in the level of transparency. The second thing is the experience using open source tools and systems, and the ability to fix them when needed. This is the difference between Microsoft mentality where even the best programmers can only beg Microsoft to fix a bug in their compiler and meanwhile work around it until they maybe fix it ten years later, and the open source community where anyone can send a patch to GCC and have it fixed in the next release, and meanwhile happily use the locally patched version until the patch is present in the main branch after few days. Another thing is the issue with NDAs. It is foolish to hire anyone who has signed any kind of NDA which will interfere with your projects, and it is even more foolish to sign such NDA in the first place. Likewise, it may be unwise to hire someone who has accepted any EULA containing NDA and anticompetition clauses. You don't have said problems when working with GPL, do you?