You have a point here, the fine for the Hanford site is ridiculous. However, a fine of $ 550.000 for showing a nipple is just as ridiculous. If people are really shocked by this, I can't help but wonder how rotten the US-society really is. Countless murders and other violent crimes on television and this is supposed to be not something to be shocked about? I don't see networks charged for every violent act shown on television... It's time
Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy start playing their song "television, teh drug of a nation" again...
Guess my biological clock runs wrong, must be the first of april... Though Holland plays a somewhat dubious role in the European patent-schandal I am really glad my privacy isn't accounted for by spyware-makers....
So basically you're blaming the pn-coredevelopers for the fact that 3rd party developers don't adhere to the guidelines? Seems pretty strange to me. If one follows the correct API-calls when developing modules theres no security-problems. Dont believe me? Check out the dates of the securitypart of the pn-site...
troll-alert!!! I dare you to come forth with security-holes in postnuke. As people who do some research know, there's next to none problems with postnuke. If there are, please let them know to the developers, so they can be fixed (which in general happens within a couple of hours).
I recall there have been several major security porblems with phpnuke which have been widely exploited. I don't recall major abuses of PN-securityproblems. Everytime a security-problem is discovered in postnuke it's resolbved right away (take a look at the security-section on the pn-website).
Did you read the article? I don't want to bitch but this has nothing to do with postnuke in general. The breach was in a propriarty-program, which was used to upload an altered version of postnuke.
I thought about supporting the right of free speech and wanted to start reading slashdot at -1 (saw it in some-ones sig) but if this is the general level of postings at -1, I'll just keep on reading at +1....
I agree completely, I gave up on university-level calculus and felt ashamed. How could someone "invent" this such a long time ago. Of course we (/.-ers) all read Neal Stephansons trilogy "The Baroque Cycle" so we know a bit about Newton and the likes. It wasn't just Newton, it was the atmosfere surrounding the Royal Society (assuming that part of the trilogy is not fiction). Still, a relatively small group of people accomplishing this is amazing...
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Sometimes I wonder....
What if google isn't as exhausive as it seems. Is there a world I don't know of who's pages aren't indexed by google... Is there another society I don't know of because I use google, another dimension so to say... And how to get there...
So they should just pay up and be thankful they're allowed to play at all?
Of course not... But I know quite some bands who don't get any airplay at all and who quite happily put up their songs on the internet, hoping a lot of people get to know them. The bands pay for the hosting and datatraffic. They cover their expenses with the money they get from playing live and from the merchandise. Then, if a band grows and gets more and more fans, they stop putting all their songs online and start selling cd's.
But, to become real stars, I agree they need industry-support. And industry notices them from playing at venues a lot, when a bands name and reputation get famous. Only at this point a band can start thinking about making money by selling their cds and by getting airplay...
Sorry, forgot to mention. In the Netherlands the tax is meant for compensating a personal copy (thuiskopie) of the materials you purchased (wethher it's music, dvd or video). Effectively this allows Dutch people to make a copy, and to complain when it's not possible to make this copy (due to copy-protection).
Ok, though I fully agree with your post and the parent-post, imho it has to be said that the people who suffer the most from copying are the most popular artists. Not that many cd's by small artists are copied, and most of the times small artists are glad a lot of people are listening to their songs.
That's one of the good things the EU did, ban GMO-food. Unfortunately the USA convinced the WTO to rule against the ban, but as it turns out, the consumers here in Europe don't want the Monsanto-stuff. This aversion to GMO-food doesn't primarily have to do with patents though. But the USA-pressure does drive 3rd world countries into the power of multinationals (in general USA-multinationals). For the EU-parliament members it's clear that the patents of Monsanto do more harm then good.
Afaik the clause is put in the contract to avoid this. Sun has to assist MS and thus can't assist the OO.org users.
Sun used to own the openoffice.org trademark, but now it's abandoned? So basically, the clause is wrong altogether as it assumes Sun has something to say about oo.org. And judging the domain-registration (openoffice.org is registered by Sun) and the contributing developers in real life it has of course... So basically Sun will be sued for OO.org AND has to help MS:=)
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France does a good job? http://archive.greenpeace.org/majordomo/index-pres s-releases/1997/msg00350.html
You have a point here, the fine for the Hanford site is ridiculous. However, a fine of $ 550.000 for showing a nipple is just as ridiculous. If people are really shocked by this, I can't help but wonder how rotten the US-society really is. Countless murders and other violent crimes on television and this is supposed to be not something to be shocked about? I don't see networks charged for every violent act shown on television... It's time Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy start playing their song "television, teh drug of a nation" again...
Guess my biological clock runs wrong, must be the first of april... Though Holland plays a somewhat dubious role in the European patent-schandal I am really glad my privacy isn't accounted for by spyware-makers....
Nevertheless, nicely done...
Dude, you may want to watch out with that laptop in bed. Did you miss this news ?
Unfortunately they didn't update the image-search yet.
Did you read the website. Currently it's snowing on Mars, though not water but CO2... When is the next mission to Mercure?
Almost correct. As it's impossible to uninstall IE, you can be vulnarable even if you don't use IE but for instance firefox.
So basically you're blaming the pn-coredevelopers for the fact that 3rd party developers don't adhere to the guidelines? Seems pretty strange to me. If one follows the correct API-calls when developing modules theres no security-problems. Dont believe me? Check out the dates of the securitypart of the pn-site...
troll-alert!!! I dare you to come forth with security-holes in postnuke. As people who do some research know, there's next to none problems with postnuke. If there are, please let them know to the developers, so they can be fixed (which in general happens within a couple of hours).
I recall there have been several major security porblems with phpnuke which have been widely exploited. I don't recall major abuses of PN-securityproblems. Everytime a security-problem is discovered in postnuke it's resolbved right away (take a look at the security-section on the pn-website).
Did you read the article? I don't want to bitch but this has nothing to do with postnuke in general. The breach was in a propriarty-program, which was used to upload an altered version of postnuke.
I thought about supporting the right of free speech and wanted to start reading slashdot at -1 (saw it in some-ones sig) but if this is the general level of postings at -1, I'll just keep on reading at +1....
I agree completely, I gave up on university-level calculus and felt ashamed. How could someone "invent" this such a long time ago. Of course we (/.-ers) all read Neal Stephansons trilogy "The Baroque Cycle" so we know a bit about Newton and the likes. It wasn't just Newton, it was the atmosfere surrounding the Royal Society (assuming that part of the trilogy is not fiction). Still, a relatively small group of people accomplishing this is amazing...
both gdrive.com (2002-Apr-04) and gdrive.net (2000-Jan-04) are already registered...
everyone, don't worry...
Sometimes I wonder.... What if google isn't as exhausive as it seems. Is there a world I don't know of who's pages aren't indexed by google... Is there another society I don't know of because I use google, another dimension so to say... And how to get there...
Of course not... But I know quite some bands who don't get any airplay at all and who quite happily put up their songs on the internet, hoping a lot of people get to know them. The bands pay for the hosting and datatraffic. They cover their expenses with the money they get from playing live and from the merchandise. Then, if a band grows and gets more and more fans, they stop putting all their songs online and start selling cd's.
But, to become real stars, I agree they need industry-support. And industry notices them from playing at venues a lot, when a bands name and reputation get famous. Only at this point a band can start thinking about making money by selling their cds and by getting airplay...
AFAIK you can download as much as you want, burn it on cd's and use it as a personal copy, but you're not allowed to upload.
Sorry, forgot to mention. In the Netherlands the tax is meant for compensating a personal copy (thuiskopie) of the materials you purchased (wethher it's music, dvd or video). Effectively this allows Dutch people to make a copy, and to complain when it's not possible to make this copy (due to copy-protection).
Ok, though I fully agree with your post and the parent-post, imho it has to be said that the people who suffer the most from copying are the most popular artists. Not that many cd's by small artists are copied, and most of the times small artists are glad a lot of people are listening to their songs.
That's one of the good things the EU did, ban GMO-food. Unfortunately the USA convinced the WTO to rule against the ban, but as it turns out, the consumers here in Europe don't want the Monsanto-stuff. This aversion to GMO-food doesn't primarily have to do with patents though. But the USA-pressure does drive 3rd world countries into the power of multinationals (in general USA-multinationals). For the EU-parliament members it's clear that the patents of Monsanto do more harm then good.
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* connect my thermostate to my server so I can turn the heating on when I leave work
* feed my rabbits through a remote system (so I can go on holiday and feed them by browsing to their own server)
* create a grey-water system which tracks and records waterusage, rainfall, humidity of the gardensoil etc
* remote-control the lights in house
* remote-control my vcr/tivo
* put solar-energy panels on my roof and track and record energy-usage and delivered energy
* program my coffee-machine so there is coffee when I wake up or arrive home
mainly, connect everything in my house to a server with a web-interface and voicerecognition, come to think about it
Afaik the clause is put in the contract to avoid this. Sun has to assist MS and thus can't assist the OO.org users. Sun used to own the openoffice.org trademark, but now it's abandoned? So basically, the clause is wrong altogether as it assumes Sun has something to say about oo.org. And judging the domain-registration (openoffice.org is registered by Sun) and the contributing developers in real life it has of course... So basically Sun will be sued for OO.org AND has to help MS:=)