Look at Germany. They build renewables like there is no tomorrow, and yet they need to open gas plants and coal plants, and import electricity from nuclear France.
[Citation needed]
As far as I know germany produces more energy than is used (it is a net exporter of energy), thus your insulting point becomes moot you "bloody hypocrite"
And where's the MPEG-LA's patent indemnification to protect the chip makers from Google (or any other) patent suits? Oh, that's right. MPEG-LA has so far refused to do so. Good luck with that.
but if I somebody brings a suit against me tomorrow, I may have to spend way more than I ever would have spent on H.264 royalties to defend myself.
So what is the difference to H.264 ? They also don't indemnify their users, so there is NO reason to prefer one over the other, the risks are identical.
I think you did not understand the issue (or are a shill, you decide).
The issue is not whether to have a "warning" label. It is whether there is any possibility to identify them at all.
It would be enough if they just have a list of ingredients with (GM) after each genetically modified ingredient. (e.g. HFCS (GM)).
For all those who love GM food (you?) it might also be great to know which product you need to buy to further the use of GM crops.
Dude, the ISO date format was introduced specifically to have a non-ambiguous date format and now people are using it with the WTF-US-order again? If you have to jump between month, day and then back to year please use the format 12/21/2012. Otherwise it's 2012-12-21. Thanks
If it turns out that some lazy programmer snuck obscure GPL code into my product years ago, aren't I bound to the conditions of the license though I didn't choose so?
No, you aren't and you are repeating the same bullshit fear-mongering lies over and over again. The only obligation you have is to stop the ongoing copyright infringement (which means removing the infringing portion of code from the product you are distributing OR, and this is only possible with GPL and/or other free licenses, you can CHOOSE to open the sourcecode). NEITHER will free you from any damages that the author might sue you for, it's just that most programmers are probably happy if the sourcecode's free and maybe a little donation to the FSF.
"Force here is the lawsuits that result, if the original license holder discovers use of their code in your code."
You are illustrating that a lot of people are so used to licenses raping their ass that they can't imagine a license that ALLOWS you additional things that you normally can't do (like distributing a derivative product)
What happens if someone uses GPL code in their product but does not adhere to the terms of the GPL?
They are then not allowed to distribute the resulting product. If they do, they did infringe on the copyright of the authors.
The GPL doesn't matter at that point. The only thing that can happen is that the original authors sue for damages.
Mostly they will be satisfied if the sourcecode is released, but that is NOT a requirement. (Although most companies will do that as it's cheaper than to pay damages for all their already sold products containing the GPL code and removing the GPL code from their product which would be the way as with any other copyright infringement)
Summary: You are a fear-mongering moron.
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If the main reason is only a single communication partner, just switch the client on the parent's side. (e.g. Skype might be an alternative that works on windows and linux.)
Things might look differently if you have a lot of other people that you need video conferencing capababilities with but in this case it should be easier to download skype instead of keeping windows.
Reading slashdot from china at the moment I can verify it is definitely NOT banned. You might want to use another DNS server though (e.g. from OpenDNS) as the DNS requests tend to take longer if you use the DNS servers of the chinese providers.
You might want to check your math there. So you are suggesting that the numbers are so low because of many Microsoft Servers not being counted?
According to your theory, the ratio of servers to desktops would be higher for Microsoft than for other Systems (e.g. Linux), otherwise, if you count all installations instead of just desktops, the number (percentage of Microsoft installations) would go down.
Although that might be possible for Apple, UNIX/Linux systems sure as hell have a higher server to desktop installation ratio.
Use fail2ban,
and regarding banning all of China, I didn't see getting more than average attacks from there, a lot of attacks are also from US IPs, this seems to be a worldwide issue.
Sure they could, but on the other hand if they already have "a trojan or a bit of malware" on the computer they could just access the data and send it to someone instead of -enabling the feature -power down (not reboot) -stealing! the drive (before the computer is powered on again)
This whole "security hole" talk is just typical slashdot-babble from NOT-RTFA-ers.
And what is the problem with that? If you have access to the machine and can unobserved alter the machine to boot different code, you could also trick users into entering their passphrase in a fake password screen. Whole Disk encryption is normally used to protect the data when the computer/drive is stolen and not against an attacker who has !UNOBSERVED! unlimited physical access to the drive in question.
Then you are distributing the binary inside the router. That is distribution. You can modify it without releasing the sources as long as you only use it in-house. Microsoft could run Linksys Routers with a heavily modified Linux firmware and would not be required to release the source as long as they don't sell/distribute it.
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Look at Germany. They build renewables like there is no tomorrow, and yet they need to open gas plants and coal plants, and import electricity from nuclear France.
[Citation needed]
As far as I know germany produces more energy than is used (it is a net exporter of energy), thus your insulting point becomes moot you "bloody hypocrite"
Rule #2: Build solitaire directly into clones of word and excel.
You mean like this?
A pointed out already, it seems that the system WAS the MS system. The migration to Linux was not yet done.
And where's the MPEG-LA's patent indemnification to protect the chip makers from Google (or any other) patent suits? Oh, that's right. MPEG-LA has so far refused to do so. Good luck with that.
but if I somebody brings a suit against me tomorrow, I may have to spend way more than I ever would have spent on H.264 royalties to defend myself.
So what is the difference to H.264 ? They also don't indemnify their users, so there is NO reason to prefer one over the other, the risks are identical.
I think you did not understand the issue (or are a shill, you decide). The issue is not whether to have a "warning" label. It is whether there is any possibility to identify them at all. It would be enough if they just have a list of ingredients with (GM) after each genetically modified ingredient. (e.g. HFCS (GM)). For all those who love GM food (you?) it might also be great to know which product you need to buy to further the use of GM crops.
I'm not sure but I suspect that K-Y Jelly will be involved.
If you're lucky... I think you'll get the K-Y Jelly in first class only...
This sig is 12-21-2012 compliant.
Dude, the ISO date format was introduced specifically to have a non-ambiguous date format and now people are using it with the WTF-US-order again? If you have to jump between month, day and then back to year please use the format 12/21/2012. Otherwise it's 2012-12-21. Thanks
Why do Americans think that the EU is only crushing American companies?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection_(psychology)
If it turns out that some lazy programmer snuck obscure GPL code into my product years ago, aren't I bound to the conditions of the license though I didn't choose so?
No, you aren't and you are repeating the same bullshit fear-mongering lies over and over again. The only obligation you have is to stop the ongoing copyright infringement (which means removing the infringing portion of code from the product you are distributing OR, and this is only possible with GPL and/or other free licenses, you can CHOOSE to open the sourcecode). NEITHER will free you from any damages that the author might sue you for, it's just that most programmers are probably happy if the sourcecode's free and maybe a little donation to the FSF.
"Force here is the lawsuits that result, if the original license holder discovers use of their code in your code."
You are illustrating that a lot of people are so used to licenses raping their ass that they can't imagine a license that ALLOWS you additional things that you normally can't do (like distributing a derivative product)
What happens if someone uses GPL code in their product but does not adhere to the terms of the GPL? They are then not allowed to distribute the resulting product. If they do, they did infringe on the copyright of the authors. The GPL doesn't matter at that point. The only thing that can happen is that the original authors sue for damages. Mostly they will be satisfied if the sourcecode is released, but that is NOT a requirement. (Although most companies will do that as it's cheaper than to pay damages for all their already sold products containing the GPL code and removing the GPL code from their product which would be the way as with any other copyright infringement)
Summary: You are a fear-mongering moron.
[..] I manually the hardware clock [..]
Did you accidentally the whole clock?
Yes
So you did crunch the numbers before and invested in real estate before the bust?
The numbers showed a nice trend...
If the main reason is only a single communication partner, just switch the client on the parent's side. (e.g. Skype might be an alternative that works on windows and linux.) Things might look differently if you have a lot of other people that you need video conferencing capababilities with but in this case it should be easier to download skype instead of keeping windows.
Reading slashdot from china at the moment I can verify it is definitely NOT banned. You might want to use another DNS server though (e.g. from OpenDNS) as the DNS requests tend to take longer if you use the DNS servers of the chinese providers.
You might want to check your math there.
So you are suggesting that the numbers are so low because of many Microsoft Servers not being counted?
According to your theory, the ratio of servers to desktops would be higher for Microsoft than for other Systems (e.g. Linux), otherwise, if you count all installations instead of just desktops, the number (percentage of Microsoft installations) would go down.
Although that might be possible for Apple, UNIX/Linux systems sure as hell have a higher server to desktop installation ratio.
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Use fail2ban, and regarding banning all of China, I didn't see getting more than average attacks from there, a lot of attacks are also from US IPs, this seems to be a worldwide issue.
Well, at least the rendering engine seems to work... http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Beta
Sure they could, but on the other hand if they already have "a trojan or a bit of malware" on the computer they could just access the data and send it to someone instead of -enabling the feature -power down (not reboot) -stealing! the drive (before the computer is powered on again) This whole "security hole" talk is just typical slashdot-babble from NOT-RTFA-ers.
And what is the problem with that? If you have access to the machine and can unobserved alter the machine to boot different code, you could also trick users into entering their passphrase in a fake password screen. Whole Disk encryption is normally used to protect the data when the computer/drive is stolen and not against an attacker who has !UNOBSERVED! unlimited physical access to the drive in question.
Want to use Flash on a 64bit browser?
Why do I see a FF bloatware joke coming?
Yo Firefox's so fat, you have to DOUBLE-click it to run.
Then you are distributing the binary inside the router. That is distribution. You can modify it without releasing the sources as long as you only use it in-house. Microsoft could run Linksys Routers with a heavily modified Linux firmware and would not be required to release the source as long as they don't sell/distribute it.