Cunningham said that because the copyright term is longer in countries like the United States, Australia and Singapore, the European countries' copyright terms should be extended.
That's a pretty poor reason to change a law - just to be the same as someone else. There are lots of things that are good about European laws compared to the named countries, and we should fight to keep the good things the way they are, rather than giving in to greedy corporations.
allofmp3.com will happily sell you music in a variety of formats, mp3 included.
There are some companies listening to consumers. It's just that most people flock to the big brand names and accept a bad deal, rather than shopping around.
The entire planet is first-to-file EXCEPT the US, this is a long anticipated change to bring us in line with the world.
You mean that Europe does not check who invented something first before awarding a patent for it? It sounds to me that the wrong people are changing their policy. It sounds like it should be Europe that should change their policy to match the US policy, not the other way around.
I think he was trying to say to the Slashdot audience, 'Stop saying Microsoft is x times better than Linux and therefore Linux should die. Look here! Here's something that we need Linux for, we could not have done this with Microsoft.'
In other words, it is good that Linux exists for specialist projects and any attempt to ban Linux (eg. by patenting algorithms used in the Linux kernel and making it illegal to distribute) would have harmful effects on society, making these sort of experiments much more difficult/impossible.
Allow alternatives to Microsoft exist. Oppose efforts to make Linux illegal (via software patents for example). Do this even if you think personally Linux sucks. Other people will thank you.
I don't think it's paticularly a 'slam on Microsoft'. Imagine if the system crashed while a moecule was half-constructed and you had to reboot and start all over. Use the right tool for the right job.
There's nothing wrong with Windows as a games machine and for light word processing, but it's not suitable for everything. Maybe the submitter could have expressed themselves better.
Sure, ink seems expensive now, but in 5 years time there will be a class action lawsuit and everyone that has been locked into buying overpriced ink will be entitled to a $3 rebate.
surely the amount of ink used per job doesn't change whether the speed is fast or slow
No - but I bet the sort of people that would buy this type of printer do so because they intend to print a lot of pages quickly (otherwise they would just get a slower, cheaper printer). A small ink cartridge would definitely be a problem for the likely target audience. I'm sure Brother would not have made such an obvious mistake though...
If you lend someone some money and they don't pay you back, would you lend again when they come back for more?
Trust is hard to win back.
Your point is correct though, if you are willing to give everyone a second (third, fourth,...) chance. Not everyone has that much patience. Even though, theoretically, he should re-evaluate all of Microsoft's products at each new upgrade to see if it has improved, I can understand his feelings after being disappointed so many times.
The Konqueror team don't have access to the Safari code, at least not in a form they can use.
According the the summary, half of the patches were taken from Apple. They might not have access in ideal form, but it's better than nothing.
It means in future open source projects will know what's coming when Apple decide to get "involved".
If Apple didn't base Safari on KHTML, Konqueror wouldn't be Acid2 compliant now. From TFA:
All in all not a bad reuse of code, allthough slow.
The developers understand that something small is better than nothing at all.
A key KDE developer has very publically burnt out on KHTML because of Apples actions
I assume that you are referring to this. The developer was pissed off yes, but not at Apple. He said for example:
They do the very, very minimum required by LGPL. And you know what? That's their right.
The point he wanted to make was about the people complaining that the KDE developers were being lazy and not porting Apple's changes, without realising that the porting was a non-trivial task:
All I'm asking for is that all the clueless people stop talking about the cooperation between Safari/Konqueror developers and how great it is.
Overall everyone has benefited, but this doesn't stop some people complaining anyway.
I still find myself switching to Fx for pages that render wrong
This could be because the page itself is broken but it works in IE. Being standards compliant is very different from being able to render the same as in IE. Firefox has probably spent a little more effort on mimicking IE's quirks and less on standards compliancy.
This has been featured on Slashdot before. The Acid 2 test is a web browser standards compliancy test, and it applies to all web browsers not just Konqueror and Safari. These are just the first two that can pass the test. The others will hopefully follow later.
Both Safari and Konqueror have improved because of Open Source. Even though the two teams worked independently, they benefited from having access to the other's code.
Does it really matter what Apple's motivations were? The end result is that Open Source development has helped both products.
Doesn't using CPUFreq with a powersave governor have the same effect as underclocking the CPU in the BIOS? What's the advantage of doing it the way suggested in the article?
does that mean there can be several C's in this chain?
Yes.
making it difficult to hunt down B.
Yes. If you are not talking directly to B there is no easy way to get their IP address. Even if you are talking directly to B, there is no way to proof that it is B, and not just another C. They have plausible deniability. The same applies to A.
That is just for Mute? Rodi?
There are other similar implementations, not just Mute. There is a port of BitTorrent to I2P that works in a similar way. Other programs exist too.
I'm not sure about Rodi. From the summary it seems that Rodi is less secure, but i would have to read the specification to be sure. The Slashdot summary is often misleading.
A better analogy: Compare it to a taxi driver that was paid to drive them away, but did not know that they were bank-robbers.
You are not required to check that the receiver can legally copy some information before forwarding it on, just as a taxi driver does not have to check that the people he is driving did not just rob a bank.
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If all they want is globalisation, they could campaign to decrease the length of the copyright in the US instead...
Cunningham said that because the copyright term is longer in countries like the United States, Australia and Singapore, the European countries' copyright terms should be extended.
That's a pretty poor reason to change a law - just to be the same as someone else. There are lots of things that are good about European laws compared to the named countries, and we should fight to keep the good things the way they are, rather than giving in to greedy corporations.
allofmp3.com will happily sell you music in a variety of formats, mp3 included.
There are some companies listening to consumers. It's just that most people flock to the big brand names and accept a bad deal, rather than shopping around.
That's great news! Glad to hear it. If only more companies could be like that.
[Opera] introduced labelling rather than foldering to email way before Gmail did.
That can be at least partially explained because GMail didn't even exist when Opera introduced labelling.
And, I didn't say Opera invented labelling
Well it sure sounded like you said that. Sorry if I somehow misinterpreted innovation as invention.
I think you will find that the majority of Slashdotters are actually Windows users and many of them do actually believe that.
;)
Please tell me, what's your reality like?
Yes that's a great idea... let me just set up my web files all in one folder...
;)
Do you want to overwrite 'c:\index.html' (size 4509 bytes) with 'c:\index.html' (size 16735 bytes)?
Hmmm... there's still a few technical issues remaining. I think folders will be with us for a while longer
If Opera invented it why haven't they patented it already?
Something tells me the reason why they haven't patented it is that labelling things to make them easy to find was invented long before computers....
The entire planet is first-to-file EXCEPT the US, this is a long anticipated change to bring us in line with the world.
;-)
You mean that Europe does not check who invented something first before awarding a patent for it? It sounds to me that the wrong people are changing their policy. It sounds like it should be Europe that should change their policy to match the US policy, not the other way around.
Did I really just say that?
IntelliStore uses the NIST-developed SHA 256 algorithm
A stored object can have its hash re-created and if it differs from the original hash then the data has changed. It can be regenerated from the hash.
It seems that they have developed in inverse function for the SHA 256 algorithm. Nice!
Seriously though, I would be interested to see how this works. Some sort of brute force attack? Or do they store some extra error-correction bits?
I think he was trying to say to the Slashdot audience, 'Stop saying Microsoft is x times better than Linux and therefore Linux should die. Look here! Here's something that we need Linux for, we could not have done this with Microsoft.'
In other words, it is good that Linux exists for specialist projects and any attempt to ban Linux (eg. by patenting algorithms used in the Linux kernel and making it illegal to distribute) would have harmful effects on society, making these sort of experiments much more difficult/impossible.
Allow alternatives to Microsoft exist. Oppose efforts to make Linux illegal (via software patents for example). Do this even if you think personally Linux sucks. Other people will thank you.
I don't think it's paticularly a 'slam on Microsoft'. Imagine if the system crashed while a moecule was half-constructed and you had to reboot and start all over. Use the right tool for the right job.
There's nothing wrong with Windows as a games machine and for light word processing, but it's not suitable for everything. Maybe the submitter could have expressed themselves better.
Don't worry! Just buy the ink...
;)
Sure, ink seems expensive now, but in 5 years time there will be a class action lawsuit and everyone that has been locked into buying overpriced ink will be entitled to a $3 rebate.
So it's not as bad as you make out!
surely the amount of ink used per job doesn't change whether the speed is fast or slow
No - but I bet the sort of people that would buy this type of printer do so because they intend to print a lot of pages quickly (otherwise they would just get a slower, cheaper printer). A small ink cartridge would definitely be a problem for the likely target audience. I'm sure Brother would not have made such an obvious mistake though...
If you lend someone some money and they don't pay you back, would you lend again when they come back for more?
...) chance. Not everyone has that much patience. Even though, theoretically, he should re-evaluate all of Microsoft's products at each new upgrade to see if it has improved, I can understand his feelings after being disappointed so many times.
Trust is hard to win back.
Your point is correct though, if you are willing to give everyone a second (third, fourth,
For those of us not from the US that con't be bothered to type 20.8oz in kg in Google.
The easiest way to encourage people to use less energy is to tax energy consumption heavily.
The second depot is west of the first one, so the trains do not crash. They are travelling away from each other.
;)
You can dramatically change the story by missing out some important information.
Downloading a copy: illegal.
Reverse engineering a product: illegal in many countries.
Modifying your own copy for personal use without reverse engineering it: legal.
The Konqueror team don't have access to the Safari code, at least not in a form they can use.
According the the summary, half of the patches were taken from Apple. They might not have access in ideal form, but it's better than nothing.
It means in future open source projects will know what's coming when Apple decide to get "involved".
If Apple didn't base Safari on KHTML, Konqueror wouldn't be Acid2 compliant now. From TFA:
All in all not a bad reuse of code, allthough slow.
The developers understand that something small is better than nothing at all.
A key KDE developer has very publically burnt out on KHTML because of Apples actions
I assume that you are referring to this. The developer was pissed off yes, but not at Apple. He said for example:
They do the very, very minimum required by LGPL. And you know what? That's their right.
The point he wanted to make was about the people complaining that the KDE developers were being lazy and not porting Apple's changes, without realising that the porting was a non-trivial task:
All I'm asking for is that all the clueless people stop talking about the cooperation between Safari/Konqueror developers and how great it is.
Overall everyone has benefited, but this doesn't stop some people complaining anyway.
I still find myself switching to Fx for pages that render wrong
This could be because the page itself is broken but it works in IE. Being standards compliant is very different from being able to render the same as in IE. Firefox has probably spent a little more effort on mimicking IE's quirks and less on standards compliancy.
It's good to have both browsers to choose from.
This has been featured on Slashdot before. The Acid 2 test is a web browser standards compliancy test, and it applies to all web browsers not just Konqueror and Safari. These are just the first two that can pass the test. The others will hopefully follow later.
Take the Acid 2 Test.
Both Safari and Konqueror have improved because of Open Source. Even though the two teams worked independently, they benefited from having access to the other's code.
Does it really matter what Apple's motivations were? The end result is that Open Source development has helped both products.
Doesn't using CPUFreq with a powersave governor have the same effect as underclocking the CPU in the BIOS? What's the advantage of doing it the way suggested in the article?
does that mean there can be several C's in this chain?
Yes.
making it difficult to hunt down B.
Yes. If you are not talking directly to B there is no easy way to get their IP address. Even if you are talking directly to B, there is no way to proof that it is B, and not just another C. They have plausible deniability. The same applies to A.
That is just for Mute? Rodi?
There are other similar implementations, not just Mute. There is a port of BitTorrent to I2P that works in a similar way. Other programs exist too.
I'm not sure about Rodi. From the summary it seems that Rodi is less secure, but i would have to read the specification to be sure. The Slashdot summary is often misleading.
A better analogy: Compare it to a taxi driver that was paid to drive them away, but did not know that they were bank-robbers.
You are not required to check that the receiver can legally copy some information before forwarding it on, just as a taxi driver does not have to check that the people he is driving did not just rob a bank.