If that were the overriding concern, the author would have put the book under a time-delayed public domain equivalent license. But the author chose not to because the author also wanted to ensure that his children and grandchildren could be fed.
Most books also become irrelevant after 120 years.
But some don't, particularly classic fiction or poetry. And to simplify things, the law treats all literary works the same way.
I think satellite subscribers are expected to switch to fiber, cable, or DSL. And if these Slashdot users' opinions are to be believed, subscribers outside the service area of fiber, cable, or DSL are expected to move.
Then subscribe to T-Mobile and enable Binge On QOS mode to throttle Netflix down to 1.5 Mbps. While Binge On is enabled, your Netflix streams are limited to standard definition but do not count against your monthly data allowance.
The Netflix Open Connect Appliance takes 4U of space in the ISP's data center, space that a paying colo customer could be leasing. This is why Comcast refused the appliance, as the opportunity cost of not being able to lease the real estate to a colo customer outweighed the cost of poor quality service to its subscribers.
What I'd also like is a way to tell the OS that a particular wifi connection should be treated like a cellular connection
Since Windows 8 and Android 4.something, the user has been able to mark a particular SSID as metered. Under Android 5 "Lollipop", for example, try Settings > Data usage > Network restrictions. Ethernet connections, however, cannot be marked as metered even if their upstream connection is capped, such as satellite, home LTE, or home WiMAX in areas that can't get fiber or DSL. This has already caused people to exceed caps on PCs with an Ethernet connection to a satellite modem.
and have all apps respect that.
I haven't read the Google Play review guidelines recently, but the Windows Store review guidelines require apps to respect the current connection's metered flag. If you want, I can dig up a specific citation for you.
And I'd like a pony.
The MLP:FIM fandom would be glad to serve you in this.
About copyright, a term of 70 years after the death of the creator is far too long
The rationale for this copyright term is that those family members who knew an author personally ought to know best how the author wanted the work exploited. That's why the Berne Convention defines life plus 50, as an approximation of the life of the author's grandchildren. The subsequent extension to life plus 70 was intended to correct the approximation for increased life expectancy, not to act as corporate welfare. If you disagree with a life of grandchildren copyright term, that ship unfortunately sailed about a century ago, as you'd have to tear apart the WTO to dismantle it.
They sit on the patent, then only spring up a year or two after a product has launched when sales are well underway. There should be a time limit on when you are allowed to file for patent infringement
If a patent holder intentionally sleeps on his rights to allow infringements to pile up, the equitable defense of estoppel by laches is supposed to prevent such a patent holder from collecting back damages.
The form letter would then be that there aren't enough users willing to pay full price for an ad-free version of an app other than iampiti to warrant the additional cost of maintaining two SKUs.
There is always the possibility that you may have an edge case with your hardware that may cause you issues.
The current batch of 10 inch laptops, which are really 10 inch tablets with an included keyboard dock, are more likely to be edge cases because Intel refuses to fix bugs related to their Atom Bay Trail CPUs. The ASUS Transformer Book T100TA has a bunch of stuff missing, broken, or needing a proprietary driver that the Debian project cannot distribute. As of today, this includes suspend (broken), hibernation (broken), backlight power level (no driver exists), Bluetooth (broken), Wi-Fi (no free firmware exists), sound (no free firmware exists; no firmware at all exists for Linux 4.5 and later), and camera (no driver exists).
Why does an MP3 player have to be part of the OS? Just install an MP3 player.
I guess people fear they will forget to install an MP3 player in advance, and the first time they want to play an MP3, they will be offline and thus unable to download an MP3 player's package. This is especially true of laptops, which are often used while out of range of Wi-Fi.
Unless they're users of Google Chrome on Windows who want to use a particular Chrome app or Chrome extension that Google has not approved. The official solution from Google to use extensions or apps not available from the Chrome Web Store is to use Group Policy to whitelist particular extensions. But this doesn't work on Home, which is missing the Group Policy Editor. Chrome does have a developer mode, but extensions installed in developer mode disappear when Chrome is restarted.
Software you've paid for shouldn't have any ads at all. This is outrageous
Why should they be any different from newspapers and magazines, which have both a price and ads?
Say it costs $30 per user to develop, market, distribute, and maintain a particular application. Users aren't willing to pay more than $15, nor are advertisers. So a publisher might adopt the same model used by newspapers, magazines, pay TV, and Hulu Plus: make users and advertisers split the bill.
Windows is also "free", in the sense that you have already paid for it (and cannot avoid it) if you buy a computer.
It's very possible to end up buying a PC without a properly licensed copy of Windows: buy a Mac.
It's also possible even without Apple. A few months ago, I bought a used ThinkPad laptop on eBay for $101 shipped, and the copy of Windows 10 that shipped on it turned out not to be activated because it couldn't reach the LAN with the volume license server. I looked at the bottom and the COA had been peeled off. I guessed that it was part of a corporate fleet, and the Windows license was valid only within that corporation. I contacted the seller about it, and the seller recommended that I either buy an OS license or return it. It now runs Debian 8.
Canonical is aware that sometimes even the best informal* testing procedures miss things, and defects get included in the install image of an LTS version. So usually in July or August or thereabouts, they fix the defects and put out another install image numbered 16.04.1 or thereabouts. That's also when the LTS is offered to users of the previous LTS as an in-place upgrade.
* Formal verification is generally considered cost-prohibitive for a consumer product that is not safety-critical.
I never distribute the binaries derived from this branch to anyone.
Under the GPL, if you never distribute object code,* you never trigger the obligation to distribute complete corresponding source code to the public. If you do distribute object code of your modified version, a judge will determine whether your added comments make up an essential part of "the preferred form of the work for making modifications".
* One exception involves server-side code under the AGPL, which treats publicly performing a modified version over a network the same way as distributing object code.
Who says the minifier used didn't add "all sorts of nasty items, like spyware and other security risks" to the code?
Someone paranoid about that could choose to download and execute the source file instead of the minified file, just as someone paranoid about a particular GNU/Linux distribution's binary packaging could bootstrap everything from source. (And if you name drop Ken Thompson, I'll name drop David A. Wheeler.)
What good does being able to legally share and modify the code that runs a government website?
The point is that you can modify the copy of the code that runs on your computer while retaining compatibility with the server-side back-end, and then you can can share the improvement with other users of the same government web application who can run an extension that substitutes your version for the government's version.
If each virtual server has its own IP address, each virtual server can install its own certificate to its own web server. If they share an IP, the SSL terminator in front can select the appropriate certificate to present to the browser based on the SNI hostname provided by the browser.
What you describe likewise falls into the category "because DNS-SD doesn't support a PKI yet". If it did, browsers would be updated to trust it for the local TLD. Until then, it's easier to apply a trust-on-first-use model, like that used by SSH, through the "add exception" button that browsers show for an untrusted issuer. The device generates a self-signed certificate, the user manually verifies the key fingerprint out of band on the exception screen, and the browser adds it to the list of user-vetted certificates. Public sites use a CA because it's impractical to verify the fingerprint out of band, but this verification is more practical on a LAN.
You make a good point about DNS service discovery being incompatible with CAs. This thus makes DNS service discovery incompatible with Service Workers and other new features that browser publishers have declared to be HTTPS-only.
A fee is something paid for a benefit you receive, that you don't pay if you don't receive the benefit, and that only covers the actual cost of the benefit.
Or in economics terms, a "fee" is for a benefit that is excludable; a "tax" is for a benefit that isn't. But in the real world, some benefits are more excludable than others. The least excludable benefits are public goods, such as national defense and clean air, and a resident cannot reasonably remain on the soil without receiving them. Otherwise, a lawmaker could spin any tax as a fee by claiming that continuing to exist without being shot or imprisoned indefinitely is a "benefit".
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Author of a book wanted the work to be read.
If that were the overriding concern, the author would have put the book under a time-delayed public domain equivalent license. But the author chose not to because the author also wanted to ensure that his children and grandchildren could be fed.
Most books also become irrelevant after 120 years.
But some don't, particularly classic fiction or poetry. And to simplify things, the law treats all literary works the same way.
I think satellite subscribers are expected to switch to fiber, cable, or DSL. And if these Slashdot users' opinions are to be believed, subscribers outside the service area of fiber, cable, or DSL are expected to move.
Then subscribe to T-Mobile and enable Binge On QOS mode to throttle Netflix down to 1.5 Mbps. While Binge On is enabled, your Netflix streams are limited to standard definition but do not count against your monthly data allowance.
The Netflix Open Connect Appliance takes 4U of space in the ISP's data center, space that a paying colo customer could be leasing. This is why Comcast refused the appliance, as the opportunity cost of not being able to lease the real estate to a colo customer outweighed the cost of poor quality service to its subscribers.
What I'd also like is a way to tell the OS that a particular wifi connection should be treated like a cellular connection
Since Windows 8 and Android 4.something, the user has been able to mark a particular SSID as metered. Under Android 5 "Lollipop", for example, try Settings > Data usage > Network restrictions. Ethernet connections, however, cannot be marked as metered even if their upstream connection is capped, such as satellite, home LTE, or home WiMAX in areas that can't get fiber or DSL. This has already caused people to exceed caps on PCs with an Ethernet connection to a satellite modem.
and have all apps respect that.
I haven't read the Google Play review guidelines recently, but the Windows Store review guidelines require apps to respect the current connection's metered flag. If you want, I can dig up a specific citation for you.
And I'd like a pony.
The MLP:FIM fandom would be glad to serve you in this.
About copyright, a term of 70 years after the death of the creator is far too long
The rationale for this copyright term is that those family members who knew an author personally ought to know best how the author wanted the work exploited. That's why the Berne Convention defines life plus 50, as an approximation of the life of the author's grandchildren. The subsequent extension to life plus 70 was intended to correct the approximation for increased life expectancy, not to act as corporate welfare. If you disagree with a life of grandchildren copyright term, that ship unfortunately sailed about a century ago, as you'd have to tear apart the WTO to dismantle it.
They sit on the patent, then only spring up a year or two after a product has launched when sales are well underway. There should be a time limit on when you are allowed to file for patent infringement
If a patent holder intentionally sleeps on his rights to allow infringements to pile up, the equitable defense of estoppel by laches is supposed to prevent such a patent holder from collecting back damages.
The form letter would then be that there aren't enough users willing to pay full price for an ad-free version of an app other than iampiti to warrant the additional cost of maintaining two SKUs.
What sort of lag and data use can a user of GeForce Now expect?
Linux hasn't had trouble with peripherals for a long time.
Not even the webcam in a Transformer Book?
There is always the possibility that you may have an edge case with your hardware that may cause you issues.
The current batch of 10 inch laptops, which are really 10 inch tablets with an included keyboard dock, are more likely to be edge cases because Intel refuses to fix bugs related to their Atom Bay Trail CPUs. The ASUS Transformer Book T100TA has a bunch of stuff missing, broken, or needing a proprietary driver that the Debian project cannot distribute. As of today, this includes suspend (broken), hibernation (broken), backlight power level (no driver exists), Bluetooth (broken), Wi-Fi (no free firmware exists), sound (no free firmware exists; no firmware at all exists for Linux 4.5 and later), and camera (no driver exists).
Why does an MP3 player have to be part of the OS? Just install an MP3 player.
I guess people fear they will forget to install an MP3 player in advance, and the first time they want to play an MP3, they will be offline and thus unable to download an MP3 player's package. This is especially true of laptops, which are often used while out of range of Wi-Fi.
Home users don't care about group policy
Unless they're users of Google Chrome on Windows who want to use a particular Chrome app or Chrome extension that Google has not approved. The official solution from Google to use extensions or apps not available from the Chrome Web Store is to use Group Policy to whitelist particular extensions. But this doesn't work on Home, which is missing the Group Policy Editor. Chrome does have a developer mode, but extensions installed in developer mode disappear when Chrome is restarted.
Software you've paid for shouldn't have any ads at all. This is outrageous
Why should they be any different from newspapers and magazines, which have both a price and ads?
Say it costs $30 per user to develop, market, distribute, and maintain a particular application. Users aren't willing to pay more than $15, nor are advertisers. So a publisher might adopt the same model used by newspapers, magazines, pay TV, and Hulu Plus: make users and advertisers split the bill.
Windows is also "free", in the sense that you have already paid for it (and cannot avoid it) if you buy a computer.
It's very possible to end up buying a PC without a properly licensed copy of Windows: buy a Mac.
It's also possible even without Apple. A few months ago, I bought a used ThinkPad laptop on eBay for $101 shipped, and the copy of Windows 10 that shipped on it turned out not to be activated because it couldn't reach the LAN with the volume license server. I looked at the bottom and the COA had been peeled off. I guessed that it was part of a corporate fleet, and the Windows license was valid only within that corporation. I contacted the seller about it, and the seller recommended that I either buy an OS license or return it. It now runs Debian 8.
Jide publishes Remix OS, a distribution of Android/Linux (as opposed to GNU/Linux) customized for use on desktop and traditional laptop computers.
How does a half-assed establishment manage to be 100% ass?
If it's U.S.-based, by running articles that support the Democratic Party.
Canonical is aware that sometimes even the best informal* testing procedures miss things, and defects get included in the install image of an LTS version. So usually in July or August or thereabouts, they fix the defects and put out another install image numbered 16.04.1 or thereabouts. That's also when the LTS is offered to users of the previous LTS as an in-place upgrade.
* Formal verification is generally considered cost-prohibitive for a consumer product that is not safety-critical.
I never distribute the binaries derived from this branch to anyone.
Under the GPL, if you never distribute object code,* you never trigger the obligation to distribute complete corresponding source code to the public. If you do distribute object code of your modified version, a judge will determine whether your added comments make up an essential part of "the preferred form of the work for making modifications".
* One exception involves server-side code under the AGPL, which treats publicly performing a modified version over a network the same way as distributing object code.
Who says the minifier used didn't add "all sorts of nasty items, like spyware and other security risks" to the code?
Someone paranoid about that could choose to download and execute the source file instead of the minified file, just as someone paranoid about a particular GNU/Linux distribution's binary packaging could bootstrap everything from source. (And if you name drop Ken Thompson, I'll name drop David A. Wheeler.)
What good does being able to legally share and modify the code that runs a government website?
The point is that you can modify the copy of the code that runs on your computer while retaining compatibility with the server-side back-end, and then you can can share the improvement with other users of the same government web application who can run an extension that substitutes your version for the government's version.
They blog post they made references http://piwik.fsf.org/piwik.js which is minified
A comment at the top of the minified file links to the source file:
If each virtual server has its own IP address, each virtual server can install its own certificate to its own web server. If they share an IP, the SSL terminator in front can select the appropriate certificate to present to the browser based on the SNI hostname provided by the browser.
What you describe likewise falls into the category "because DNS-SD doesn't support a PKI yet". If it did, browsers would be updated to trust it for the local TLD. Until then, it's easier to apply a trust-on-first-use model, like that used by SSH, through the "add exception" button that browsers show for an untrusted issuer. The device generates a self-signed certificate, the user manually verifies the key fingerprint out of band on the exception screen, and the browser adds it to the list of user-vetted certificates. Public sites use a CA because it's impractical to verify the fingerprint out of band, but this verification is more practical on a LAN.
You make a good point about DNS service discovery being incompatible with CAs. This thus makes DNS service discovery incompatible with Service Workers and other new features that browser publishers have declared to be HTTPS-only.
A fee is something paid for a benefit you receive, that you don't pay if you don't receive the benefit, and that only covers the actual cost of the benefit.
Or in economics terms, a "fee" is for a benefit that is excludable; a "tax" is for a benefit that isn't. But in the real world, some benefits are more excludable than others. The least excludable benefits are public goods, such as national defense and clean air, and a resident cannot reasonably remain on the soil without receiving them. Otherwise, a lawmaker could spin any tax as a fee by claiming that continuing to exist without being shot or imprisoned indefinitely is a "benefit".