I think that it is perfecty safe to assume that the people you are sharing with are not going to suddenly turn into mass distributors just because they received part of a file from you.
Most people are probably just doing the same as you - downloading a single copy for their own use, then closing the application. Until you can prove that people are guilty, you must assume that they are innocent, and just downloading for personal use.
The kernel is a small (but important part) of a working and usable Operating System. But I assume from your username that you already knew that, and that your question is just pedantic.
If you are only talking about Linux, change 'OS' to 'distribution' and my comment should make more sense.
Confusion over what an Operating System is and what a kernel is causes many of the arguments between Linux and Windows fanatics, when really they are agreeing, but using different terminology.
Can you suggest a better phrase than 'OS' to refer to a working, usable system, consisting of a kernel, shell and applications, and which applies both to Linux and other 'Operating Systems' (Windows, Mac OS,...)? If not, I will continue to use 'Operating System'.
There is nothing wrong with having more choice. Choice is always good for the consumer.
Even though I don't plan to ever use Solaris, I think it's great that there are some people that do want to use it. This presumably means that there is at least one thing that it does better than Linux. It is OK for certain distributions to be much at one thing but worse at other things. I don't see why there needs to be one distibution that rules them all.
If a distribution really does suck, they will disappear by themselves. If they manage to hang around, then good luck to them! Even Windows! (Although please keep the business tactics legal in future.)
It is confirmed that it is a prime, but it hasn't yet been confirmed that it is the 42nd largest prime, because some numbers have not been checked.
From TFA:
However, note that the region between the 39th and 40th known Mersenne primes has not been completely searched, so it is not known if M20,996,011 is actually the 40th Mersenne prime.
What about if there was a bug in a Microsoft product all allowed a worm to spread which then deleted data from every PC infected after a certain number of days?
Would they be required to pay $5 for everyone that was infected?
Or you could save yourself from having to use both hands (can be useful on occasion), by typing "apple" in the address bar and hitting "enter". This does a 'Google I'm Feeling Lucky' search, which also gets you to the same webpage.
Blaster is a worm. It exploits a security hole without requiring any user interaction. Even if you don't touch the mouse your computer will still be infected. A correctly configured firewall will block it though.
Perhaps we was trying to prove the concept that it is possible to DoS the 911 service. Perhaps he was doing this because he was aware of the danger to himself and others, and wanted to prove the point to the herds of people that were buying these things, not caring about the potential danger to society. Perhaps he wanted to make news in the hope of saving more lives from an even worse situation which might have been created by not doing anything at all and waiting for 10 years.
Or perhaps he was just being a dick. Oh well, I guess we will never know.
Lots of Windows attacks exploit multiple vulnerabilities in combination. I don't think many attackers trying to break into a Red Hat system would stop just because they had to use two exploits instead of just one.
The researchers probably found more than two exploits for Red Hat, otherwise they don't have much of a story.
If you are using P2P software, you are not only downloading, but also uploading, which helps other users infrginge the copyright too. This is far more worrying to the copyright holders than one person stealing one copy.
Also it is much easier to get away with downloading so a harsher penalty acts as more of a deterrent.
8. If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the original copyright holder who places the Program under this License may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among countries not thus excluded. In such case, this License incorporates the limitation as if written in the body of this License.
More likely, Open Source alternatives has pushed the cost of OS's down. If there were no alternatives, Microsoft would be pushing the price up even more. But they know they can only put the price up so much before people start switching to something cheaper.
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I think that it is perfecty safe to assume that the people you are sharing with are not going to suddenly turn into mass distributors just because they received part of a file from you.
Most people are probably just doing the same as you - downloading a single copy for their own use, then closing the application. Until you can prove that people are guilty, you must assume that they are innocent, and just downloading for personal use.
Microsoft invested money in Baystar and that money went to SCO to pay for the lawsuits. It was on slashdot ages ago.
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http://www.opensource.org/halloween/halloween10.h
The kernel is a small (but important part) of a working and usable Operating System. But I assume from your username that you already knew that, and that your question is just pedantic.
...)? If not, I will continue to use 'Operating System'.
If you are only talking about Linux, change 'OS' to 'distribution' and my comment should make more sense.
Confusion over what an Operating System is and what a kernel is causes many of the arguments between Linux and Windows fanatics, when really they are agreeing, but using different terminology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system discusses the different meanings of 'Operating System'.
Can you suggest a better phrase than 'OS' to refer to a working, usable system, consisting of a kernel, shell and applications, and which applies both to Linux and other 'Operating Systems' (Windows, Mac OS,
I assume by update process, you want a button you can click which upgrades you from one kernel version to the next?
The kernel doesn't need an update function. That is the responsibility of the OS. I think most (all?) OS's provide an update function for the kernel.
What are you using?
There is nothing wrong with having more choice. Choice is always good for the consumer.
Even though I don't plan to ever use Solaris, I think it's great that there are some people that do want to use it. This presumably means that there is at least one thing that it does better than Linux. It is OK for certain distributions to be much at one thing but worse at other things. I don't see why there needs to be one distibution that rules them all.
If a distribution really does suck, they will disappear by themselves. If they manage to hang around, then good luck to them! Even Windows! (Although please keep the business tactics legal in future.)
Yep!
To be precise, the 42nd smallest *Mersenne* prime.
Thanks for the correction.
It is confirmed that it is a prime, but it hasn't yet been confirmed that it is the 42nd largest prime, because some numbers have not been checked.
From TFA:
However, note that the region between the 39th and 40th known Mersenne primes has not been completely searched, so it is not known if M20,996,011 is actually the 40th Mersenne prime.
What about if there was a bug in a Microsoft product all allowed a worm to spread which then deleted data from every PC infected after a certain number of days?
Would they be required to pay $5 for everyone that was infected?
Or you could save yourself from having to use both hands (can be useful on occasion), by typing "apple" in the address bar and hitting "enter". This does a 'Google I'm Feeling Lucky' search, which also gets you to the same webpage.
;)
Works in Firefox, not sure about the others.
If he had dialled 111, it wouldn't have made the news, and people would have been oblivious to the security problem.
Blaster is a worm. It exploits a security hole without requiring any user interaction. Even if you don't touch the mouse your computer will still be infected. A correctly configured firewall will block it though.
Perhaps we was trying to prove the concept that it is possible to DoS the 911 service. Perhaps he was doing this because he was aware of the danger to himself and others, and wanted to prove the point to the herds of people that were buying these things, not caring about the potential danger to society. Perhaps he wanted to make news in the hope of saving more lives from an even worse situation which might have been created by not doing anything at all and waiting for 10 years.
Or perhaps he was just being a dick. Oh well, I guess we will never know.
Lots of Windows attacks exploit multiple vulnerabilities in combination. I don't think many attackers trying to break into a Red Hat system would stop just because they had to use two exploits instead of just one.
The researchers probably found more than two exploits for Red Hat, otherwise they don't have much of a story.
Unless there's a local exploit in the Linux kernel, in which case you can easily get root access.
And local exploits are found in the Linux kernel from time to time.
Keep things simple. Buying mp3s is simple. Hence, people will buy mp3s.
Why not use one? Why do you need to find reasons to use one? Haven't you seen a picture of it?
I wouldn't mind ditching my towercase for a Mac Mini, if I knew that all the software I run would work on it.
How could we do without IE?
How else can you download and install Firefox on Windows?
If you are using P2P software, you are not only downloading, but also uploading, which helps other users infrginge the copyright too. This is far more worrying to the copyright holders than one person stealing one copy. Also it is much easier to get away with downloading so a harsher penalty acts as more of a deterrent.
Additionally, I don't see any mention of the service being in beta,
When I did a search on msn.com, it gave me a link starting with:
http://beta.search.msn.dk/....
Notice the 'beta' in the URL?
Turning off domain grouping doesn't seem to make a difference for me. The same results are returned.
For those too lazy to look it up, here's the link http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html and the text:
8. If the distribution and/or use of the Program is restricted in certain countries either by patents or by copyrighted interfaces, the original copyright holder who places the Program under this License may add an explicit geographical distribution limitation excluding those countries, so that distribution is permitted only in or among countries not thus excluded. In such case, this License incorporates the limitation as if written in the body of this License.
I think we can conclude that it is the competition between several companies that pushes the prices down, not just any one company.
This is why monopolies are not considered good.
More likely, Open Source alternatives has pushed the cost of OS's down. If there were no alternatives, Microsoft would be pushing the price up even more. But they know they can only put the price up so much before people start switching to something cheaper.
then might firefox end up killing opera rather than (as well as?) IE?
Hopefully. I don't see any reason to use a closed source browser any more.
Let's just hope that some other open source alternatives can keep up with Firefox so that we don't end up in a 1 browser market again.
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