Real name policies are brilliant for scammers. I had a Paypal scammer use my email address to look up my real name on Facebook. He made a supposed email from Paypal look more authentic by starting it off with "Dear..." Luckily I use a fake name on FB, so it was easy to spot.
FOS is one of the fundamental rights EU citizens have. They also have a right to privacy and when these two come into conflict, something has to give. You can argue about where the line is drawn but to say that we don't understand FOS is just stupid.
It's pretty crap, but you can still use it: go to my antique site at http://www.sodwork.com/funnies... and "Search the funnies" for "pussy" or "nuts". Please bear in mind the last time the site was updated was 10 years ago.
If you've got nothing better to do then it's worth it, even if it just means they aren't scamming someone else for real while you are pissing them around. I've never had one but I fancy being the confused type who has a corded phone that is in a different room to the computer, meaning he has to explain each mouse click, sometimes several times.
I remember FSP. You'd set it going on a file, log out, go on holiday for a couple of weeks, survive a nuclear war that reduces man back to the stone age, rebuild society and rediscover lost technology, rebuild the internet, and FSP would start downloading it again as if nothing had happened. Slow as hell, but you couldn't kill it with a bad connection.
Exactly. Most people here use a web interface to do their emails, while I use Pine in a terminal. I can knock off an email in about 1/4 of the time it takes them to fart around clickety clicking away at their browser. Don't just do change for change's sake, and don't let peer pressure force you into doing something the stupid way,
Just mixing unusual ingredients wouldn't be enough for a patent though. You would have to come up with some new process of cooking, like freeze drying or liquid nitrogen baths or infusing the food with liquid oxygen and lighting it at the customer's table so it cooks in a few milliseconds and spreads itself around the room a bit.
If you could put the ribbon down the side of the screen then I wouldn't mind it so much. My screen is far wider than it is tall, so vertical space is precious whereas the sides of the screen are usually filled with wasted blank spaces.
This is just a report from a parliamentary inquiry and is not being proposed as a new law. Personally, I can't see it making it through the system even if it does get proposed at some point. There are many more important things that are actually in the process of being made law that we should concentrate on.
This is part one of the process of introducing a draconian and unpopular new law. First you come up with something completely over the top and unacceptable. Then, over a few months you water it down here and there, chopping little bits, amending others, until you end up with something that is draconian and unpopular. But it'll be accepted because it's not as bad as the original plan which, by then, will be falsely seen as the alternative. It's a flaw in human logical thought that has been exploited by politicians since they first crawled out of the sewer.
You are missing a major and insurmountable reason why FRAND can not be used by GPL products - by its very nature any GPL license is automatically carried forward from user to user, transferred down the line from whoever originally writes the code through each redistributor, to whoever ends up using it. This is not possible with a FRAND license because it requires an explicit license to each distributor. This means that FRAND is utterly incompatible with FRAND and there is nothing that can change this.
Common sense is very often wrong. I'd rather have some data to work on than just making a vague guess based on an emotional response to a situation I don't know enough about. "Common sense" has been responsible for some very bad decisions, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Spock#Sudden_infant_death_syndrome
I think tablets ARE the way of the future - they do everything that about 90% of people use their home PCs for. I'd love to have one so I don't have to traipse off to the PC every time I want to use the web but while my PC works it's just a waste of money to fork out £££s to replace something that works perfectly well. But in the current climate, I'm not spending money on things I don't need. I'm sure I'm not the only one and I think this is the reason they aren't selling like they should.
None of the thermostats I've seen (not that I've looked that hard) have the one feature I want: a button that raises the set temperature by 2 degrees C for 30 minutes and then lowers is back to normal over the next hour. It would please the ladies who want an instant blast of heat while not annoying the chaps who don't want the house heated to tropical levels all day when it doesn't get turned back to normal.
What he did in the past doesn't change the fact that he seems to have turned into a troll, repeating the same untruths over and over again like a broken record.
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Or the teacher could have asked him what he meant by "terrorist house" and cleared it all up in seconds, with no police time and money wasted.
boundary changes are decided by a neutral, independent body.
Nope, they make recommendations to the government, who then implement them. If they want to.
Real name policies are brilliant for scammers. I had a Paypal scammer use my email address to look up my real name on Facebook. He made a supposed email from Paypal look more authentic by starting it off with "Dear ..." Luckily I use a fake name on FB, so it was easy to spot.
FOS is one of the fundamental rights EU citizens have. They also have a right to privacy and when these two come into conflict, something has to give. You can argue about where the line is drawn but to say that we don't understand FOS is just stupid.
Like real life then?
It's pretty crap, but you can still use it: go to my antique site at http://www.sodwork.com/funnies... and "Search the funnies" for "pussy" or "nuts". Please bear in mind the last time the site was updated was 10 years ago.
It solves the problem of Amazon not being on the front page of news sites for a couple of days.
If you've got nothing better to do then it's worth it, even if it just means they aren't scamming someone else for real while you are pissing them around. I've never had one but I fancy being the confused type who has a corded phone that is in a different room to the computer, meaning he has to explain each mouse click, sometimes several times.
I already listen to music from my Raspberry Pi using it as a transmitter with no analogue components - http://naich.net/wordpress/?p=...
and about 5 times cheaper than printer ink.
FSP (how many know about _that_ protocol!!)
I remember FSP. You'd set it going on a file, log out, go on holiday for a couple of weeks, survive a nuclear war that reduces man back to the stone age, rebuild society and rediscover lost technology, rebuild the internet, and FSP would start downloading it again as if nothing had happened. Slow as hell, but you couldn't kill it with a bad connection.
Exactly. Most people here use a web interface to do their emails, while I use Pine in a terminal. I can knock off an email in about 1/4 of the time it takes them to fart around clickety clicking away at their browser. Don't just do change for change's sake, and don't let peer pressure force you into doing something the stupid way,
You sure it wasn't the Penguin Liberation Front?
SPLITTERS!!
Booble.
That and you have to pull a tab to activate the tracking system, so it's not tracking you until you choose to let it.
Just mixing unusual ingredients wouldn't be enough for a patent though. You would have to come up with some new process of cooking, like freeze drying or liquid nitrogen baths or infusing the food with liquid oxygen and lighting it at the customer's table so it cooks in a few milliseconds and spreads itself around the room a bit.
If you could put the ribbon down the side of the screen then I wouldn't mind it so much. My screen is far wider than it is tall, so vertical space is precious whereas the sides of the screen are usually filled with wasted blank spaces.
This is just a report from a parliamentary inquiry and is not being proposed as a new law. Personally, I can't see it making it through the system even if it does get proposed at some point. There are many more important things that are actually in the process of being made law that we should concentrate on.
This is part one of the process of introducing a draconian and unpopular new law. First you come up with something completely over the top and unacceptable. Then, over a few months you water it down here and there, chopping little bits, amending others, until you end up with something that is draconian and unpopular. But it'll be accepted because it's not as bad as the original plan which, by then, will be falsely seen as the alternative. It's a flaw in human logical thought that has been exploited by politicians since they first crawled out of the sewer.
You are missing a major and insurmountable reason why FRAND can not be used by GPL products - by its very nature any GPL license is automatically carried forward from user to user, transferred down the line from whoever originally writes the code through each redistributor, to whoever ends up using it. This is not possible with a FRAND license because it requires an explicit license to each distributor. This means that FRAND is utterly incompatible with FRAND and there is nothing that can change this.
Common sense is very often wrong. I'd rather have some data to work on than just making a vague guess based on an emotional response to a situation I don't know enough about. "Common sense" has been responsible for some very bad decisions, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Spock#Sudden_infant_death_syndrome
You are one of the 10% then. Most people use their PCs to look up the lottery numbers and make barely literate posts to Facebook.
I think tablets ARE the way of the future - they do everything that about 90% of people use their home PCs for. I'd love to have one so I don't have to traipse off to the PC every time I want to use the web but while my PC works it's just a waste of money to fork out £££s to replace something that works perfectly well. But in the current climate, I'm not spending money on things I don't need. I'm sure I'm not the only one and I think this is the reason they aren't selling like they should.
None of the thermostats I've seen (not that I've looked that hard) have the one feature I want: a button that raises the set temperature by 2 degrees C for 30 minutes and then lowers is back to normal over the next hour. It would please the ladies who want an instant blast of heat while not annoying the chaps who don't want the house heated to tropical levels all day when it doesn't get turned back to normal.
What he did in the past doesn't change the fact that he seems to have turned into a troll, repeating the same untruths over and over again like a broken record.