Well, I do. If I've committed a crime, I should be able to tell journalists about it in confidence. I think a society in which a right like that exists is better than one where it doesn't. And the right has to be absolute, because otherwise you get a chilling effect that is as good as no right at all. If there is a very strong burden of proof on journalists to show there is a public interest, do I feel comfortable telling one about political corruption?
Where's the difference between the valid example you give and just calling someone a name? Either way the purpose and method is the same: trying to discredit someone by saying something bad about them which is irrelevant to the matter under discussion.
I don't think that would be true. To be defended properly, you need to be able to discuss everything with your attorney, without fear of any consequences. So you should have absolute privilidge. A fair trial with today's laws necessarily implies a competent and fully informed attorney.
Are you sure you can't recieve stolen goods in good faith? I'm sure I've read there's nothing wrong with that in my country. If you sell stolen goods, you are liable, but only to the value of the goods to the person who bought them from you, and you can go straight back upstream to the person you brought them from and sue them for the value of them to get your money back.
No, but it does have precedence over some things and not others. I don't consider a journalist's right to protect his sources more important than murder, but it is more important than (for example) traffic violations. If someone is giving an anonymous interview about a secret meeting in a restaurant and mentions they parked on a double yellow line, it shouldn't be possible to force the journalist to reveal their source just because a law has been broken.
It goes according to how much of the copyright they own. By SLOC I'd imagine, since although that's a crude measure I can't think of a better one. If they assign copyright like the FSF, then it will just go to whoever the copyright is assigned to, who can then split it among developers.
This goes beyond mere redistribution though, they're claiming to have written the code. Which I think fits into the conventional definition of stealing. You couldn't say "He stole my theory" if someone sold a copy of a paper you'd written, but if they claimed to have written the paper, saying "He stole my theory" would probably be acceptable. So I think calling the code stolen in this case makes sense.
Any configuration system which is used by many different apps and requires something beyond the standard C libraries to access is a registry in my book and subject to the same problems. XML is at least plain text, but it's still not very human-modifiable (too much redundant typing of the horrible angle bracket characters). Still at least you can still diff it. Anyway, the reason that the registry was such a problem is that having apps go through an api to read/write their config is an inherently bad idea. If apps do their files directly then you don't have the problems of the registry, but in that case what's the point of gconf-settings-daemon?
There's a simple man in the middle attack that breaks it completely. I don't know all the details. Anyway, I think it's best to use something that integrated openpgp since openpgp is a publishedstandard, has been reviewed by a lot of people, and can be used via "current window" facilities for people who don't have a client that supports it.
The playstation arial connector just passes the normal signal through though, doesn't it? So you can just plug it in there and plug the arial in behind it, or daisy chain as many as you want together.
Use kopete, then you're more interoperable because it's openpgp, it will work together with gaim-e as soon as they get a version out that works with newer gaims. And it works with spyshield for MSN too.
Such a product would have to be advertised as $150 here. Because that's what you actually pay. It doesn't matter that you'll get some back later, if you're paying that much up front it needs to be advertised as that much.
If they paid money for the support, they are likely to have taken whatever the people offering the support are offering them. Businesses are unlikely to care whether they are using gnome or kde, they care about the support and will do as the support people care. Home users are the ones who are actually choosing for themselves the OS they want to run. The actual users will likely look at both desktops and try them, and see what they prefer. Corporate users will likely take what they are given - you don't mess with the software on a corporate machine, you get on with working with it. And the fact you're resorting to insults shows you know you've lost the argument.
But the way you are meant to access it is just like the registry. It works just like the registry. If applications were encouraged to access it by directly read/writing the xml files you would have a point, but they're not.
MS has moved the registry before (it's stored very differently in 3.1 and 9x, and differently again in the NT line), they could move it to XML and it would still be the registry we all know and hate.
If it looks like a duck, and walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck....
Why am I down as a troll? For saying there is a lot of trolling on slashdot? Because there is, just read at -1 for a day, and then compare it to what you see on practically any other site.
Well, OK if you don't want it there, but it doesn't seem that much of an advantage to me. I just keep my old N64 hooked up for when I want to play it rather than the gamecube, and have never found this particularly burdensome.
Not when it's a livecd. Until recently the only way to boot most live linuxes off a partition was if it was a FAT partition. And in that case the "standard" MBR works fine. Since most portable devices use FAT for simplicity, I would be surprised if this didn't work, not that it does.
Yes, but Canadian and Australian law is mostly pretty similar to British, so the offenses are likely to be similar. The reason it's low is that contempt of court can be something really trivial, like, I don't know, talking in the public gallery or refusing to remove your hat. But maybe it varies based on the offense, so you'd get a far bigger penalty in this case.
Many people enjoy complaining. A good sensible debate is always fun, and a flamewar is also fun provided you don't take it too personally. As someone said in the last mozilla thread, it proves that people care, which is very importang.
No, but they could make it appear more like they care, and actually ask the users occasionally. Sure they can't fix everything, but when they're implementing new features, and have a variety of ideas, how would it hurt them to ask the users which to do first?
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Well, I do. If I've committed a crime, I should be able to tell journalists about it in confidence. I think a society in which a right like that exists is better than one where it doesn't. And the right has to be absolute, because otherwise you get a chilling effect that is as good as no right at all. If there is a very strong burden of proof on journalists to show there is a public interest, do I feel comfortable telling one about political corruption?
Where's the difference between the valid example you give and just calling someone a name? Either way the purpose and method is the same: trying to discredit someone by saying something bad about them which is irrelevant to the matter under discussion.
I don't think that would be true. To be defended properly, you need to be able to discuss everything with your attorney, without fear of any consequences. So you should have absolute privilidge. A fair trial with today's laws necessarily implies a competent and fully informed attorney.
Are you sure you can't recieve stolen goods in good faith? I'm sure I've read there's nothing wrong with that in my country. If you sell stolen goods, you are liable, but only to the value of the goods to the person who bought them from you, and you can go straight back upstream to the person you brought them from and sue them for the value of them to get your money back.
No, but it does have precedence over some things and not others. I don't consider a journalist's right to protect his sources more important than murder, but it is more important than (for example) traffic violations. If someone is giving an anonymous interview about a secret meeting in a restaurant and mentions they parked on a double yellow line, it shouldn't be possible to force the journalist to reveal their source just because a law has been broken.
It goes according to how much of the copyright they own. By SLOC I'd imagine, since although that's a crude measure I can't think of a better one. If they assign copyright like the FSF, then it will just go to whoever the copyright is assigned to, who can then split it among developers.
This goes beyond mere redistribution though, they're claiming to have written the code. Which I think fits into the conventional definition of stealing. You couldn't say "He stole my theory" if someone sold a copy of a paper you'd written, but if they claimed to have written the paper, saying "He stole my theory" would probably be acceptable. So I think calling the code stolen in this case makes sense.
Even if he's never left the US? Because this guy never left Australia but is being extradited all the same.
Any configuration system which is used by many different apps and requires something beyond the standard C libraries to access is a registry in my book and subject to the same problems. XML is at least plain text, but it's still not very human-modifiable (too much redundant typing of the horrible angle bracket characters). Still at least you can still diff it. Anyway, the reason that the registry was such a problem is that having apps go through an api to read/write their config is an inherently bad idea. If apps do their files directly then you don't have the problems of the registry, but in that case what's the point of gconf-settings-daemon?
There's a simple man in the middle attack that breaks it completely. I don't know all the details. Anyway, I think it's best to use something that integrated openpgp since openpgp is a publishedstandard, has been reviewed by a lot of people, and can be used via "current window" facilities for people who don't have a client that supports it.
The playstation arial connector just passes the normal signal through though, doesn't it? So you can just plug it in there and plug the arial in behind it, or daisy chain as many as you want together.
Use kopete, then you're more interoperable because it's openpgp, it will work together with gaim-e as soon as they get a version out that works with newer gaims. And it works with spyshield for MSN too.
Trillian secureim is not so secure though. Better to use gaim-e or kopete and activate gpg encryption for your messages.
Such a product would have to be advertised as $150 here. Because that's what you actually pay. It doesn't matter that you'll get some back later, if you're paying that much up front it needs to be advertised as that much.
If they paid money for the support, they are likely to have taken whatever the people offering the support are offering them. Businesses are unlikely to care whether they are using gnome or kde, they care about the support and will do as the support people care. Home users are the ones who are actually choosing for themselves the OS they want to run. The actual users will likely look at both desktops and try them, and see what they prefer. Corporate users will likely take what they are given - you don't mess with the software on a corporate machine, you get on with working with it. And the fact you're resorting to insults shows you know you've lost the argument.
I think slashdotters enjoy them to a certain extent, is the sad thing. And you missed out all the dupes.
MS has moved the registry before (it's stored very differently in 3.1 and 9x, and differently again in the NT line), they could move it to XML and it would still be the registry we all know and hate.
If it looks like a duck, and walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck....
Why am I down as a troll? For saying there is a lot of trolling on slashdot? Because there is, just read at -1 for a day, and then compare it to what you see on practically any other site.
Well, OK if you don't want it there, but it doesn't seem that much of an advantage to me. I just keep my old N64 hooked up for when I want to play it rather than the gamecube, and have never found this particularly burdensome.
Not when it's a livecd. Until recently the only way to boot most live linuxes off a partition was if it was a FAT partition. And in that case the "standard" MBR works fine. Since most portable devices use FAT for simplicity, I would be surprised if this didn't work, not that it does.
Yes, but Canadian and Australian law is mostly pretty similar to British, so the offenses are likely to be similar. The reason it's low is that contempt of court can be something really trivial, like, I don't know, talking in the public gallery or refusing to remove your hat. But maybe it varies based on the offense, so you'd get a far bigger penalty in this case.
That just means there's an even larger proportion of society being criminalized by these laws.
Why? Here in the UK they are, or at least the advertised price has to be the price you pay at the checkout. Doesn't seem to have done us any harm.
Many people enjoy complaining. A good sensible debate is always fun, and a flamewar is also fun provided you don't take it too personally. As someone said in the last mozilla thread, it proves that people care, which is very importang.
No, but they could make it appear more like they care, and actually ask the users occasionally. Sure they can't fix everything, but when they're implementing new features, and have a variety of ideas, how would it hurt them to ask the users which to do first?