If you host a Linux server, then you have to offer copies of the Linux kernel (which holds the networking code) to any client that connects to it. Wouldn't that be fun to comply with?
No you don't, unless you have modified the code. Most people don't modify the source of the kernel, the networking stack, apache (which has it's own licence anyway) or anything else. Text based config. files don't count. Read your own AGPL quote.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, if you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your version supports such interaction) an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version by providing access to the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge, through some standard or customary means of facilitating copying of software.
Maybe you should read up about that. There were somewhat equivalent systems running in other countries at the same time as ARPAs. A lot of the research was not done by americans, and the WWW concept was done by an Englishman. When did the net take off ? Before or after the web ?
We have decided that gay people shouldn't have equal rights as of yet. We'll get there one day, but for now they have to wait.
Natural rights ?
Why do you want to be Loretta, Stan? STAN I want to have babies. REG You want to have babies?!?!?! STAN It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them. REG But you can't have babies. STAN Don't you oppress me. REG I'm not oppressing you, Stan -- you haven't got a womb. Where's the fetus going to gestate? You going to keep it in a box? (STAN starts crying.) JUDITH Here! I've got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can't actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody's fault, not even the Romans', but that he can have the *right* to have babies. FRANCIS Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother. Sister, sorry. REG What's the point? FRANCIS What? REG What's the point of fighting for his right to have babies, when he can't have babies? FRANCIS It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression. REG It's symbolic of his struggle against reality.
I'm sure there are also some small country areas in the continental US that are so spread out the telecoms and cable co.'s have not seen any reason to string broadband infrastructure to every house.
They don't have to string infrastructure to every house, just to the local exchanges. ADSL works over existing wires. Maybe they don't want to run fibre between metropolitan areas and rural areas, but that has nothing to do with the individual end users houses apart from the number of them available to service. If you live in the isolated boonies you can't expect the same facilities as in suburbia or cities. How many farmers have mainline gas ? Should the gas company be forced to spend thousands installing a pipeline to service 1 household ?
Perth is not a good example. You can almost walk around the city in a day. I never saw a traffic jam there in 2 weeks and I was walking the streets most every day. City size is relevant, because you can't have good retrospective planning. There is fuck all surrounding Perth. London on the other hand is saturated with roads, buildings, and traffic. You can't just knock them all down and start again. The biggest queue I saw in Perth was in the arrivals building at the airport. Leaving was a dream, coming back was a pain in the ass. But once you're outside, there is hardly anybody about. It's quite surreal.
No they are not. You cannot convict on fingerprints alone, there must be other corroborating evidence. The utility of fingerprinting comes in because if you can place the guilty person at the scene, it usually convinces them that the game's up and they'll either roll over or get worried and make other mistakes. But that doesn't work on an innocent person. One piece of circumstantial evidence alone cannot be used to convict.
The reason for the downturn was that companies rely on credit. Their credit rating relies on the perceived value of the company. If they have invested in something that is revealed to be worthless, then their share price plummets along with their credit rating, no one will lend to them, they can't pay wages and the employees can't afford to buy economics for dummies. Traders see this and bail out dropping the value of the company further.
But you go on thinking the traders have nothing to do with it. It was the bad lending which caused the value of the lenders to plummet, which meant no other lenders would lend to them. A vicious spiral. If trading in those companies had been halted while everybody took a breather, maybe it wouldn't have fallen so far. If it was illegal to lend money you don't have, it wouldn't have happened at all. Parasites, all of them.
Social security is going broke because the govt. borrowed money from it when the income was greater than the outgoings. The reason the current generation is paying for the last is to cover the repayments. Maybe if they had left it alone instead of stealing from it there wouldn't be such a crisis. It's not meant to cover more than a tenth of a lifespan, it's meant to supplement the last 10 to 15 years. But people have relied on it, which seeing as the govt. have already spent it elsewhere, was a crucial mistake. And I see no problem with the current generation paying out for the last. After all, everything around you, and your whole upbringing is due to the last generation. That is what civilisation is, looking after your elders, having respect for those who spent so much getting you to where you are now. I presume you think that anybody reaching retirement age should just be euthanised to save you money. I have a counter proposal whereby anybody who doesn't graduate with a decent degree should be killed off. If we are going to spend that much money educating, feeding, protecting and otherwise supporting the younger generation I would rather we got a decent return. Allowing idiots to progress beyond childhood is wasteful.
Yes that last bit was sarcasm, did you notice ? I don't have kids, yet my wages are taxed just the same, in fact more than parents are. What is _my_ return ? I put money in my whole life but then tight ass newbies want to prevent me from collecting my dues. Just you wait.
Did you ever see the Matrix ? I don't want to live my life under the domination of American corporate imperialism. I don't need to be told what I can and can't do by a foreign power. Freedom is freedom. The appearance of freedom is not true freedom. The reason Europe accepted aid in WW2 was because we needed it, and it was the lesser of two evils. We did not accept aid on the basis that America would continue to "help" for the next 100 years.
And as for bombing Japan with nukes - there was a perfectly viable alternative to either using nukes or invading Japan. Don't invade Japan ! A small island nation with virtually no resources, already hammered from the air and beaten back from its other outposts posed no threat at that stage. A naval blockade would have needed to last maybe a few weeks. As it was, the US stayed in Japan for years anyway. The nukes were dick waving, pure and simple.
Your problem appears to be that you think the handbrake is suitable for use while moving. It was designed to prevent the car from starting to move in the first place. It has no safety testing in moving situations, it relies on a cable not hydraulics, and only acts on the rear wheels at the puny pressure supplied by the human arm in a restricted movement. On all round disk cars, the parking brake is usually found in a tiny drum inside the hub of the disk, totally unsuitable for dispersing heat. In other types the handbrake merely acts like your leg, and compresses the brake fluid to apply minimal pressure to the pads, certainly way less than you could do with the foot pedal. I know you Americans don't use the damn thing anyway, instead you rely on the park position on the transmission, which is a very bad idea as that relies on a relatively tiny metal spigot that locks into the shaft, and repeated stress can cause it to shear off. Replacing brakes is fairly cheap and easy, a shaft in the transmission is not. But hey, it's convenient.
And how would the machine prevent a reset ? That is what was happening here, so the machine thought it was only delivering so much, but was being gamed to bypass the limits. Remember the old hack of setting your pc clock back to extend a 30 day trial ? How is the software supposed to take account of tricks like that ?
And Asimovs Laws were not intentionally flawed, they were not flawed at all - it was humans who were the flaw every time. The clue is in the name - The Three Laws of Robotics (ie. they don't apply to humans). The humans had the flaw in this case. You can train people to use guns with all the best techniques in the world, but #1 rule is, "don't point it at your own head". Idiots still do it and some of them die. How do you propose engineering a gun to know not to shoot its stupid owner ?
I heard one story where a machine had two widely separated buttons, both of which had to be held down for safety reasons to perform a certain operation, and then someone discovered a customer that kept a weight near the machine for use on the second button rather than having a colleague help.
That used to be widespread in engineering companies. Any machine that has the potential to injure its operator has two buttons that need to be pressed simultaneously in order to operate it. But people found ways of doing it one handed (using lumps of wood, or other devious means) so that they could work faster. So they ended up putting hoods over the buttons so that it became almost impossible to use a cheat. It's cheaper to work slightly slower than it is to allow operators to mash their fingers or get dragged into the machines.
One guy I knew was working a pipe reducing machine, where two powerful clamps gripped the pipe while the former* did its stuff. Because of the anti-corrosion oil on the pipes, the clamps used to start slipping and had to be wiped dry periodically. This bozo decided to wipe the oil off while the machine was still switched on, and stepped on the actuator instantly mashing 3 fingers on one hand. Self inflicted I'm afraid. Yes he had been trained to turn off the power first, but even so, surely he had some instinct for self preservation ? It appears not.
* former in this case is the name of the part that "forms" the metal into a new shape.
The average collision isn't head on as such. Not 100% head on anyway. In countries that drive on the left it is usually front RH quarter to front RH quarter. Obviously it's the other side in countries that drive on the right. Imagine hitting the drivers side headlight area against the similar area on the oncoming vehicle. This causes a violent sideways movement around the axis of impact making what should be a sudden impact into a more prolonged and more widespread damage causing crash.
One thing I've noticed, especially amongst elderly drivers, is that they can't judge their distance from the kerb very well, and so they tend to stay at least 3 feet from it. That is of no use when both vehicles need to keep tight to the kerb on a narrow stretch. Consequently, on roads that are passable in both directions with care, you end up with a bottleneck as drivers take turns to drive through. Only not all drivers are prepared to wait and dive in anyway.
Crap. You realise that you don't have to "hit" the keys on a standard keyboard either ? It's not 1936 with mechanical typewriters any more. That really irritates me when a typist gets on a computer keyboard, the incessant clatter drives me nuts. The same occurs when people are faced with a touch screen interface. Why do they have to try and embed their finger in the screen ? It is a touch screen not a poke screen.
If I want to access my banks secure site in firefox I hit CTRL+T then type bank. I have already given the keyword 'bank' to the bookmark. Why do so many people complain about the hardship of repeatedly typing long urls when you only have to do it once. That is what computers are good at, repeating mundane tasks.
What's worse is people who say "forward slash". There is no such animal. It's either a backslash or a slash. Does anybody say full colon as opposed to a semi-colon ? I use it as a natural filter against people who don't know what they're talking about.
or you could go to the http site and add an s and load that. Or even add a bookmark ! Please. No browser recognises a hostname other than www so there are lots of sites where you have to type the "http://" Try going direct to this slashdot article without typing "http://" first. This is why the hyperlink and bookmarks were invented - so you don't have to type the address. Here's what happens if I don't surround http:/// with quotes (notice there are 3 slashes, I only wrote 2, blame slashcode)
And what about the thousands of other pieces of software that aren't browsers ? Should they all be rewritten too ? Maybe you haven't noticed that we are currently reading tech.slashdot.org not www.slashdot.org. Should your mythical software update take care of any hostname that could possibly be invented ? As far as I'm concerned,// is no problem. You could save just as much typing time by calling the protocol htp or just h. Non-event.
Not to mention the DHS tactics of forcing an isp to take down a website then making it plain that the isp cannot reveal the reason for doing so to anybody on pain of $nasty_things. But you lot keep banging on about how bad the UK is...
The bug that can be totally avoided by typing the url into the address bar, instead of clicking links in random emails ?
Just make sure that when you create the live cd, you don't have any bookmarks in the browser. And complaining about obscure vulnerabilities in software that can't be updated is a bit lame. People don't fix vulnerabilities on systems they CAN update. At least with a live cd, you can get the latest version, which is going to be as up to date as can possibly matter. And the advantage of the live cd is that its state cannot be changed. A rogue website can't do a drive by install and have it run next time you use the cd. It limits the window of exposure and that is all that matters.
There are some things you can never protect the user against. A live cd prevents software keylogging, but if the users machine has a usb keylogger installed then all bets are off anyway. That is not a failing of the live cd, it is a failing of the user. So is clicking random links in emails. Live cds are a good way of reducing the risk. Your whole objection relies on a perfect storm of possibilities, which are extremely unlikely to occur, especially with a image that can't be corrupted. Do your objections take SELinux into account ? While SEL might be a pain on a general purpose pc, on a live cd it's perfect. I think you have another motive for these objections, either anti-linux or maybe just egotistical.
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No you don't, unless you have modified the code. Most people don't modify the source of the kernel, the networking stack, apache (which has it's own licence anyway) or anything else. Text based config. files don't count. Read your own AGPL quote.
My bold.
Police : Why does that car return no signature even though it's right in front of me ? Better stop them and find out.
Maybe you should read up about that. There were somewhat equivalent systems running in other countries at the same time as ARPAs. A lot of the research was not done by americans, and the WWW concept was done by an Englishman. When did the net take off ? Before or after the web ?
Because the government said so.
Next question.
Natural rights ?
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They don't have to string infrastructure to every house, just to the local exchanges. ADSL works over existing wires. Maybe they don't want to run fibre between metropolitan areas and rural areas, but that has nothing to do with the individual end users houses apart from the number of them available to service. If you live in the isolated boonies you can't expect the same facilities as in suburbia or cities. How many farmers have mainline gas ? Should the gas company be forced to spend thousands installing a pipeline to service 1 household ?
Perth is not a good example. You can almost walk around the city in a day. I never saw a traffic jam there in 2 weeks and I was walking the streets most every day. City size is relevant, because you can't have good retrospective planning. There is fuck all surrounding Perth. London on the other hand is saturated with roads, buildings, and traffic. You can't just knock them all down and start again. The biggest queue I saw in Perth was in the arrivals building at the airport. Leaving was a dream, coming back was a pain in the ass. But once you're outside, there is hardly anybody about. It's quite surreal.
No they are not. You cannot convict on fingerprints alone, there must be other corroborating evidence. The utility of fingerprinting comes in because if you can place the guilty person at the scene, it usually convinces them that the game's up and they'll either roll over or get worried and make other mistakes. But that doesn't work on an innocent person. One piece of circumstantial evidence alone cannot be used to convict.
The reason for the downturn was that companies rely on credit. Their credit rating relies on the perceived value of the company. If they have invested in something that is revealed to be worthless, then their share price plummets along with their credit rating, no one will lend to them, they can't pay wages and the employees can't afford to buy economics for dummies. Traders see this and bail out dropping the value of the company further.
But you go on thinking the traders have nothing to do with it. It was the bad lending which caused the value of the lenders to plummet, which meant no other lenders would lend to them. A vicious spiral. If trading in those companies had been halted while everybody took a breather, maybe it wouldn't have fallen so far. If it was illegal to lend money you don't have, it wouldn't have happened at all. Parasites, all of them.
Social security is going broke because the govt. borrowed money from it when the income was greater than the outgoings. The reason the current generation is paying for the last is to cover the repayments. Maybe if they had left it alone instead of stealing from it there wouldn't be such a crisis. It's not meant to cover more than a tenth of a lifespan, it's meant to supplement the last 10 to 15 years. But people have relied on it, which seeing as the govt. have already spent it elsewhere, was a crucial mistake. And I see no problem with the current generation paying out for the last. After all, everything around you, and your whole upbringing is due to the last generation. That is what civilisation is, looking after your elders, having respect for those who spent so much getting you to where you are now. I presume you think that anybody reaching retirement age should just be euthanised to save you money. I have a counter proposal whereby anybody who doesn't graduate with a decent degree should be killed off. If we are going to spend that much money educating, feeding, protecting and otherwise supporting the younger generation I would rather we got a decent return. Allowing idiots to progress beyond childhood is wasteful.
Yes that last bit was sarcasm, did you notice ?
I don't have kids, yet my wages are taxed just the same, in fact more than parents are. What is _my_ return ? I put money in my whole life but then tight ass newbies want to prevent me from collecting my dues. Just you wait.
Did you ever see the Matrix ? I don't want to live my life under the domination of American corporate imperialism. I don't need to be told what I can and can't do by a foreign power. Freedom is freedom. The appearance of freedom is not true freedom. The reason Europe accepted aid in WW2 was because we needed it, and it was the lesser of two evils. We did not accept aid on the basis that America would continue to "help" for the next 100 years.
And as for bombing Japan with nukes - there was a perfectly viable alternative to either using nukes or invading Japan. Don't invade Japan ! A small island nation with virtually no resources, already hammered from the air and beaten back from its other outposts posed no threat at that stage. A naval blockade would have needed to last maybe a few weeks. As it was, the US stayed in Japan for years anyway. The nukes were dick waving, pure and simple.
Parent is a troll, that is a link farm.
It wasn't over the maximum levels. It was over the levels for the particular patient. How many types of fuses do you want ?
Your problem appears to be that you think the handbrake is suitable for use while moving. It was designed to prevent the car from starting to move in the first place. It has no safety testing in moving situations, it relies on a cable not hydraulics, and only acts on the rear wheels at the puny pressure supplied by the human arm in a restricted movement. On all round disk cars, the parking brake is usually found in a tiny drum inside the hub of the disk, totally unsuitable for dispersing heat. In other types the handbrake merely acts like your leg, and compresses the brake fluid to apply minimal pressure to the pads, certainly way less than you could do with the foot pedal. I know you Americans don't use the damn thing anyway, instead you rely on the park position on the transmission, which is a very bad idea as that relies on a relatively tiny metal spigot that locks into the shaft, and repeated stress can cause it to shear off. Replacing brakes is fairly cheap and easy, a shaft in the transmission is not. But hey, it's convenient.
And how would the machine prevent a reset ? That is what was happening here, so the machine thought it was only delivering so much, but was being gamed to bypass the limits. Remember the old hack of setting your pc clock back to extend a 30 day trial ? How is the software supposed to take account of tricks like that ?
And Asimovs Laws were not intentionally flawed, they were not flawed at all - it was humans who were the flaw every time. The clue is in the name - The Three Laws of Robotics (ie. they don't apply to humans). The humans had the flaw in this case. You can train people to use guns with all the best techniques in the world, but #1 rule is, "don't point it at your own head". Idiots still do it and some of them die. How do you propose engineering a gun to know not to shoot its stupid owner ?
That used to be widespread in engineering companies. Any machine that has the potential to injure its operator has two buttons that need to be pressed simultaneously in order to operate it. But people found ways of doing it one handed (using lumps of wood, or other devious means) so that they could work faster. So they ended up putting hoods over the buttons so that it became almost impossible to use a cheat. It's cheaper to work slightly slower than it is to allow operators to mash their fingers or get dragged into the machines.
One guy I knew was working a pipe reducing machine, where two powerful clamps gripped the pipe while the former* did its stuff. Because of the anti-corrosion oil on the pipes, the clamps used to start slipping and had to be wiped dry periodically. This bozo decided to wipe the oil off while the machine was still switched on, and stepped on the actuator instantly mashing 3 fingers on one hand. Self inflicted I'm afraid. Yes he had been trained to turn off the power first, but even so, surely he had some instinct for self preservation ? It appears not.
* former in this case is the name of the part that "forms" the metal into a new shape.
The average collision isn't head on as such. Not 100% head on anyway. In countries that drive on the left it is usually front RH quarter to front RH quarter. Obviously it's the other side in countries that drive on the right. Imagine hitting the drivers side headlight area against the similar area on the oncoming vehicle. This causes a violent sideways movement around the axis of impact making what should be a sudden impact into a more prolonged and more widespread damage causing crash.
One thing I've noticed, especially amongst elderly drivers, is that they can't judge their distance from the kerb very well, and so they tend to stay at least 3 feet from it. That is of no use when both vehicles need to keep tight to the kerb on a narrow stretch. Consequently, on roads that are passable in both directions with care, you end up with a bottleneck as drivers take turns to drive through. Only not all drivers are prepared to wait and dive in anyway.
Crap. You realise that you don't have to "hit" the keys on a standard keyboard either ? It's not 1936 with mechanical typewriters any more. That really irritates me when a typist gets on a computer keyboard, the incessant clatter drives me nuts. The same occurs when people are faced with a touch screen interface. Why do they have to try and embed their finger in the screen ? It is a touch screen not a poke screen.
If I want to access my banks secure site in firefox I hit CTRL+T then type bank. I have already given the keyword 'bank' to the bookmark. Why do so many people complain about the hardship of repeatedly typing long urls when you only have to do it once. That is what computers are good at, repeating mundane tasks.
What's worse is people who say "forward slash". There is no such animal. It's either a backslash or a slash. Does anybody say full colon as opposed to a semi-colon ? I use it as a natural filter against people who don't know what they're talking about.
or you could go to the http site and add an s and load that. Or even add a bookmark ! Please. No browser recognises a hostname other than www so there are lots of sites where you have to type the "http://"
Try going direct to this slashdot article without typing "http://" first. This is why the hyperlink and bookmarks were invented - so you don't have to type the address. Here's what happens if I don't surround http:/// with quotes (notice there are 3 slashes, I only wrote 2, blame slashcode)
And what about the thousands of other pieces of software that aren't browsers ? Should they all be rewritten too ? Maybe you haven't noticed that we are currently reading tech.slashdot.org not www.slashdot.org. Should your mythical software update take care of any hostname that could possibly be invented ? As far as I'm concerned, // is no problem. You could save just as much typing time by calling the protocol htp or just h.
Non-event.
Not to mention the DHS tactics of forcing an isp to take down a website then making it plain that the isp cannot reveal the reason for doing so to anybody on pain of $nasty_things. But you lot keep banging on about how bad the UK is ...
The bug that can be totally avoided by typing the url into the address bar, instead of clicking links in random emails ?
Just make sure that when you create the live cd, you don't have any bookmarks in the browser. And complaining about obscure vulnerabilities in software that can't be updated is a bit lame. People don't fix vulnerabilities on systems they CAN update. At least with a live cd, you can get the latest version, which is going to be as up to date as can possibly matter. And the advantage of the live cd is that its state cannot be changed. A rogue website can't do a drive by install and have it run next time you use the cd. It limits the window of exposure and that is all that matters.
There are some things you can never protect the user against. A live cd prevents software keylogging, but if the users machine has a usb keylogger installed then all bets are off anyway. That is not a failing of the live cd, it is a failing of the user. So is clicking random links in emails. Live cds are a good way of reducing the risk. Your whole objection relies on a perfect storm of possibilities, which are extremely unlikely to occur, especially with a image that can't be corrupted. Do your objections take SELinux into account ? While SEL might be a pain on a general purpose pc, on a live cd it's perfect. I think you have another motive for these objections, either anti-linux or maybe just egotistical.
You must be thick as a Planck.