The only reason to blame anyone is to fix the problem. The solution would be to limit liability with respect to charitable behavior, but even if you limit liability with respect to physical injury due to "negligence", at some point someone will sue for the right to stay past 7AM or whenever the place needs to be cleaned up to conduct business the next day. It'll have 'become their right' to be there according to someone, be it the homeless person himself or some self-righteous attorney like Ron Kuby.
Imagine if doing such wouldn't open up the building owners to liability, like if some homeless guy trails in some water from the sidewalk, and another homeless guy who walks in, slips and falls, and cracks his head open on the marble floor couldn't get $4.2 million from he who's trying to share.
There was a time when traditional radio stations had some kind of licensing issue with a union that covered on-air personalities - with respect to payment for ads they read and whether or not they were fairly compensated for that.
I know it took WABC radio offline for several months, and various other stations as well. Some took to playing "dead air" on the stream while live-read commercials were playing.
There have been non-traditional broadcasters all along, including Digitally Imported, Wolf FM, Radio Paradise, etc, which have been rather continuous for years, but the flurry of "ooh, I can run Shoutcast" broadcasters which popped up running 24kbps streams seems to have hit a low maybe 18 months ago and is again on the rise. This might be coincident with rises in upstream and the relative cheapness of dedicated servers with truckloads of bandwidth included.
Sun's been touting selling an "application stack" for at least 6 years now. They've been pushing it with Veritas and Oracle as underpinnings for quite a while, but with Solaris 10's ZFS, they can push out the need for Veritas Filesystem and Volume Manager, and this can be a step to push out Oracle.
With MySQL being dual-licensed, and questionable for Enterprise-level DB use, it's not really an option to sell incorporated into the stack. PostgreSQL would be an option, since they could fork it (and the PostgreSQL team not having heard anything is irrelevant to an extent, since it's BSD-licensed). I think we can sit back and see what happens pretty safely. They're certainly not going to make things incompatible with Oracle for a back-end, but I'm sure they'd like to offer a cheap solution since they're obviously trying to lower-cost solutions in order to stay alive.
What's the status of compatibility with native Java bits with Ingres? Oracle has obviously bitten on the Java-compatibility of everything, but I think that anything Sun would want to do DB-wise would keep Java squarely in the mix.
Each distribution may come from a kernel with a set of customization patches, but aren't they all applied to mainline kernels? That's not quite the same thing as forking.
I'm a little intrigued that the project leader position appears to only be open to developers. Perhaps it's done to ensure that the leader is aware of all of the complications involved at lower levels, but I have to wonder if it's always best to have a project led by one of the foot soldiers.
I happen to chat online occasionally with people who run blogspammer software, and their response to the rel="nofollow" thing to combat blog spam was, "That's history. We're already on to the next thing."
I don't know how much of that is bullshit, and how much is true, but I think that it's important to always be looking for the new potential ways to get spam through so defenses can be prepared before the deluge.
Dell, IBM, HP, Gateway, etc have contracts with companies like Unisys which provide on-site service, and have US service facilities where my laptop can be sent for repair.
I'm not sending my laptop to India to get fixed.
I don't care where they make it. I care what impact their US footprint has on my ability to have it fixed when (not if... laptops get abused, it's a fact of life) it breaks.
I don't know if you were being a smartass or what, but it *is* relevant.
I'm questioning its utility. What does it mean in practical terms? Given that I'm not going to be blasting a halogen light at my media, how long am I realistically expecting it to last?
Absolutely no mention of warranty for the boxes at the Linare website. I'd be a little worried about buying a low-end unit from a foreign company, through Wal-Mart, without some kind of assurance I could get it serviced somewhere reasonably.
I worry that the money saved might be done so foolishly.
With the study subjecting discs to extremes to cause them to fail, they've shown relative tolerance to certain conditions, but we still don't have "burn to these CDs and keep temp between 60 and 80, RH between 10% and 50%, and light to a minimum and they're good for 10 years" kind of numbers...
The expression of the facts in a particular grouping can be copyrighted.
OpenBSD is FOSS, but you can't make ISOs of the official CDs and sell them because Theo holds copyright of the particular way the CD is laid out. You can make your own CDs/ISOs, with the same data, but not just copy his image.
The OpenBSD project does not make the ISO images used to master the official CDs available for download. The reason is simply that we would like you to buy the CD sets, helping fund ongoing OpenBSD development. The official OpenBSD CD-ROM layout is copyright Theo de Raadt. Theo does not permit people to redistribute images of the official OpenBSD CDs. As an incentive for people to buy the CD set, some extras are included in the package as well (artwork, stickers etc).
Note that only the CD layout is copyrighted, OpenBSD itself is free. Nothing precludes someone else from downloading OpenBSD and making their own CD. If for some reason you want to download a CD image, try searching the mailing list archives for possible sources. Of course, any OpenBSD ISO images available on the Internet either violate Theo de Raadt's copyright or are not official images. The source of an unofficial image may or may not be trustworthy; it is up to you to determine this for yourself.
Seriously, why do you think it's worth it for Microsoft to bother getting into search? It's not because billg's interested in the technology, it's because they have millions of eyeballs anyway because MSN is set as the default homepage in millions of browsers.
They are using their own search with their own advertising system to monetize that advantage. They don't have to be better than Google for that to work, just not completely suck donkeys.
The article talks about possibly lighting urban areas with this, but to me, it sounds like a HUGE waste of energy.
I'd rather see dirigibles with fluourescents than irradiating the sky (and any planes/satellites/birds overhead) with what doesn't instead just keep going out into space.
Not only does it authenticate the user, it also provides a way to revoke authorization on a per-user basis in a way that still allows the user to receive a mail explaining why they're unable to send mail -- simply shutting off the user's internet access doesn't do this, and putting in ACLs to block only port 25 from their IP probably isn't practical on many ISPs' infrastructures.
I really don't understand why they don't just use SMTP-AUTH. This shouldn't be something that's such a huge deal... and certainly shouldn't come anywhere near what this guy said in the article...
"The e-mail infrastructure is beginning to fail," Linford warned. "You'll see huge delays in e-mail and servers collapsing. It's the beginning of the e-mail meltdown."
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Microsoft asks and they shall receive!
Screw application heterogeneity, write once, compile thrice, and run everywhere!!!
A 160GB drive can regularly be found for about $100. Even working retail, that's easily earned in a few short shifts plus 8-hour-day weekends.
Sorry, I can't shed tears for ya.
The only reason to blame anyone is to fix the problem. The solution would be to limit liability with respect to charitable behavior, but even if you limit liability with respect to physical injury due to "negligence", at some point someone will sue for the right to stay past 7AM or whenever the place needs to be cleaned up to conduct business the next day. It'll have 'become their right' to be there according to someone, be it the homeless person himself or some self-righteous attorney like Ron Kuby.
Imagine if doing such wouldn't open up the building owners to liability, like if some homeless guy trails in some water from the sidewalk, and another homeless guy who walks in, slips and falls, and cracks his head open on the marble floor couldn't get $4.2 million from he who's trying to share.
There was a time when traditional radio stations had some kind of licensing issue with a union that covered on-air personalities - with respect to payment for ads they read and whether or not they were fairly compensated for that.
I know it took WABC radio offline for several months, and various other stations as well. Some took to playing "dead air" on the stream while live-read commercials were playing.
There have been non-traditional broadcasters all along, including Digitally Imported, Wolf FM, Radio Paradise, etc, which have been rather continuous for years, but the flurry of "ooh, I can run Shoutcast" broadcasters which popped up running 24kbps streams seems to have hit a low maybe 18 months ago and is again on the rise. This might be coincident with rises in upstream and the relative cheapness of dedicated servers with truckloads of bandwidth included.
Sun's been touting selling an "application stack" for at least 6 years now. They've been pushing it with Veritas and Oracle as underpinnings for quite a while, but with Solaris 10's ZFS, they can push out the need for Veritas Filesystem and Volume Manager, and this can be a step to push out Oracle.
With MySQL being dual-licensed, and questionable for Enterprise-level DB use, it's not really an option to sell incorporated into the stack. PostgreSQL would be an option, since they could fork it (and the PostgreSQL team not having heard anything is irrelevant to an extent, since it's BSD-licensed). I think we can sit back and see what happens pretty safely. They're certainly not going to make things incompatible with Oracle for a back-end, but I'm sure they'd like to offer a cheap solution since they're obviously trying to lower-cost solutions in order to stay alive.
What's the status of compatibility with native Java bits with Ingres? Oracle has obviously bitten on the Java-compatibility of everything, but I think that anything Sun would want to do DB-wise would keep Java squarely in the mix.
Does wider adoption benefit the developers of OSS, or would they be better spending their time working on the software than fighting FUD?
(I mean this as a serious question, not trolling)
Each distribution may come from a kernel with a set of customization patches, but aren't they all applied to mainline kernels? That's not quite the same thing as forking.
You're out of warranty on a 2002 Jeep?
I couldn't imagine paying $90 for diagnosis for warranty work, but I'm on my first new car...
Yay Linus!
I'm a little intrigued that the project leader position appears to only be open to developers. Perhaps it's done to ensure that the leader is aware of all of the complications involved at lower levels, but I have to wonder if it's always best to have a project led by one of the foot soldiers.
I know it's not quite the same, but...
Bank of America's fraud detection group called me to verify a balance transfer from my Discover account... a $2100 transaction.
I wonder if this behavior was prompted by this lawsuit or what.
I happen to chat online occasionally with people who run blogspammer software, and their response to the rel="nofollow" thing to combat blog spam was, "That's history. We're already on to the next thing."
I don't know how much of that is bullshit, and how much is true, but I think that it's important to always be looking for the new potential ways to get spam through so defenses can be prepared before the deluge.
Dell, IBM, HP, Gateway, etc have contracts with companies like Unisys which provide on-site service, and have US service facilities where my laptop can be sent for repair.
I'm not sending my laptop to India to get fixed.
I don't care where they make it. I care what impact their US footprint has on my ability to have it fixed when (not if... laptops get abused, it's a fact of life) it breaks.
I don't know if you were being a smartass or what, but it *is* relevant.
I'm not questioning its validity.
I'm questioning its utility. What does it mean in practical terms? Given that I'm not going to be blasting a halogen light at my media, how long am I realistically expecting it to last?
Absolutely no mention of warranty for the boxes at the Linare website. I'd be a little worried about buying a low-end unit from a foreign company, through Wal-Mart, without some kind of assurance I could get it serviced somewhere reasonably.
I worry that the money saved might be done so foolishly.
With the study subjecting discs to extremes to cause them to fail, they've shown relative tolerance to certain conditions, but we still don't have "burn to these CDs and keep temp between 60 and 80, RH between 10% and 50%, and light to a minimum and they're good for 10 years" kind of numbers...
The expression of the facts in a particular grouping can be copyrighted.
OpenBSD is FOSS, but you can't make ISOs of the official CDs and sell them because Theo holds copyright of the particular way the CD is laid out. You can make your own CDs/ISOs, with the same data, but not just copy his image.
The OpenBSD project does not make the ISO images used to master the official CDs available for download. The reason is simply that we would like you to buy the CD sets, helping fund ongoing OpenBSD development. The official OpenBSD CD-ROM layout is copyright Theo de Raadt. Theo does not permit people to redistribute images of the official OpenBSD CDs. As an incentive for people to buy the CD set, some extras are included in the package as well (artwork, stickers etc).
Note that only the CD layout is copyrighted, OpenBSD itself is free. Nothing precludes someone else from downloading OpenBSD and making their own CD. If for some reason you want to download a CD image, try searching the mailing list archives for possible sources. Of course, any OpenBSD ISO images available on the Internet either violate Theo de Raadt's copyright or are not official images. The source of an unofficial image may or may not be trustworthy; it is up to you to determine this for yourself.
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq3.html#ISO
Seriously, why do you think it's worth it for Microsoft to bother getting into search? It's not because billg's interested in the technology, it's because they have millions of eyeballs anyway because MSN is set as the default homepage in millions of browsers.
They are using their own search with their own advertising system to monetize that advantage. They don't have to be better than Google for that to work, just not completely suck donkeys.
The latest version of the current GPL license, known as GPL Version 2.2 and dated August 2004, is not that different from the present license.
also, with regard to poor writing... isn't the latest one also the present one?
The article talks about possibly lighting urban areas with this, but to me, it sounds like a HUGE waste of energy. I'd rather see dirigibles with fluourescents than irradiating the sky (and any planes/satellites/birds overhead) with what doesn't instead just keep going out into space.
Not only does it authenticate the user, it also provides a way to revoke authorization on a per-user basis in a way that still allows the user to receive a mail explaining why they're unable to send mail -- simply shutting off the user's internet access doesn't do this, and putting in ACLs to block only port 25 from their IP probably isn't practical on many ISPs' infrastructures.
I really don't understand why they don't just use SMTP-AUTH. This shouldn't be something that's such a huge deal... and certainly shouldn't come anywhere near what this guy said in the article...
"The e-mail infrastructure is beginning to fail," Linford warned. "You'll see huge delays in e-mail and servers collapsing. It's the beginning of the e-mail meltdown."
MP3tunes is a little less "confusingly similar" than it would be if he called it iTones...
For that matter, they may have gotten the shipper to provide flat-rate to the address for $50/yr and marked it up...