Perhaps with help from the slashdot community, we can get all the Congressional candidates as well?"
Right. Maybe the challengers would answer the questions, but the incumbents won't. Why would they? 90% of them are in safe districts. All they need to do is file the proper paperwork to get their name on the ballot and they can coast to victory.
1. License Grant - This license gives you the right to use the executable provided by Mozilla Corp.
Once one legally acquires software, one is legally allowed to use it as per the terms of copyright laws in most countries. Permission from the vendor is not required.
True. However if I legally acquire the binary it will display the EULA. If I agree to it, I've agreed to it. If I don't, then the program exits and won't run.
Now lets say I disassemble the binary and modify the program not to display the EULA and then run it. I've now violated the copyright by making a derivative work without permission**.
Do I have the right to use the derivative work now? I don't know because IANAL. It'd be interesting to hear about this corner case, but either way, you've got to violate the copyright to do it.
**Firefox is under the tri-license so who knows how this changes the story.
Due to the perverse aberration which is copyright law, you require a license to use a program.
This is incorrect. No license is required for use as the ordinary operation of a computer program is given an exemption under copyright law. If I write a program and give you a copy, you do have the right to use it without any special license. You do not have the right to make derivative works, modify it, give others copies, etc.
However, copyright does not restrict companies from using contract law in the dissemination of their products. It just so happens that *everyone* uses EULAs in proprietary software; you can't get a copy of a program from a company without agreeing to the license, but the license is by no means required.
You can even put a EULA on a book if you want, but we wouldn't stand for that (or would we?). For some reason we stand for it when it comes to software.
Yeah, competing companies are magic beings (although of course they don't mean to be) and the government just ruins your life )when it tries to do more than keep the peace).
You're not a LISP or Scheme programmer by chance, are you?
I'm saying the guy basically took the easy way out because his bosses were too dense to know what this newfangled "Leenux" was.
He all but conceded that Linux was at the very least equal to MS offerings. Why didn't he go with Linux then? If "Linux" breaks down, he's in deep shit. If "Microsoft" breaks down, it's just...one of those things that happens from time to time. Computers aren't perfect you know!
When I said there were companies who could provide excellent Linux support, he said his ass was on the line if something broke so he wanted to be able to justify his software choice to the the C-level guys. And those guys knew the name Microsoft. So he didn't see anything else as an option.
In other words, he used the "no one ever got fired for buying IBM" defense.
If you do not like taxes, you may move to another state at your leisure. New Hampshire has no sales or income taxes. If the Federal burden is too high, there are some good tax shelters in the Caribbean islands as well as some of the micro-nations of Europe.
I've never paid Federal income tax because I've never made enough money to do so. I can easily say that I get a net positive on government services. I'm not being robbed in the least.
You might be the guy who's paying the interest on my deferred student loans right now. I thank you heartily. So maybe you might be getting "shafted". If that is the case, I do invite you to rebel. And I don't mean posting on slashdot. I mean loading your rifle and heading to Washington, DC.
Why would the officer even want (let alone need) to go outside the bounds of the warrant? If the officer did do that any evidence they found would have been suppressed at trial.
An officer searching for things outside the scope of the warrant is illegal.
Move? Like put a bunch of skyscrapers and multi-story houses on slats and physically move them? Or rebuild the entire city in a safer area?
And where is this money for brand new everything coming from? The people in the Lower 9th Ward don't exactly have the money for new condos in the new "riverview" district.
Hillary Clinton picked up quite a few voters because she is female, but you can't make the case that the only reason anyone voted for her is because she was a female.
Looking at Palin's record (and don't get me wrong, I think she's pretty good as Republicans go), no one can argue with a straight face that she'd be on the ticket if she wasn't a woman.
Being black in America is not a position to which one ascends, it is a position to which we have been assigned due to not being white.
That is exactly why I don't use the term "African American" because it doesn't describe the person properly.
"African American" is a politically correct term for "black". We do not call light-skinned "white" people from South Africa or Zimbabwe "African American" when they settle here, although by all accounts they are of Africa and are Americans.
You are correct, but only as of August 4, when the advisory was put out. I was not aware of this information at the time. This is a departure from what information I had been given previously.
And for what its worth, when I called my county board of elections, they didn't seem too excited about my interest in helping with the election. By the tone of the lady's voice, they only use independents as a stop-gap measure.
I know that in past years the Feds let you deduct your state sales taxes instead of your state income taxes (a nod to those states who don't have income taxes), but that is only if you itemize. I've never had interesting enough taxes to ever have to do that. I've always taken the standard deduction.
I know that in Ohio you pay more tax by properly reporting your use tax. I'm not too familiar with use or sales tax deductions, but you'd have to provide evidence that reporting your use tax reduces your tax liability in one way or another.
Slashdot Mirror
Right. Maybe the challengers would answer the questions, but the incumbents won't. Why would they? 90% of them are in safe districts. All they need to do is file the proper paperwork to get their name on the ballot and they can coast to victory.
True. However if I legally acquire the binary it will display the EULA. If I agree to it, I've agreed to it. If I don't, then the program exits and won't run.
Now lets say I disassemble the binary and modify the program not to display the EULA and then run it. I've now violated the copyright by making a derivative work without permission**.
Do I have the right to use the derivative work now? I don't know because IANAL. It'd be interesting to hear about this corner case, but either way, you've got to violate the copyright to do it.
**Firefox is under the tri-license so who knows how this changes the story.
This is incorrect. No license is required for use as the ordinary operation of a computer program is given an exemption under copyright law. If I write a program and give you a copy, you do have the right to use it without any special license. You do not have the right to make derivative works, modify it, give others copies, etc.
However, copyright does not restrict companies from using contract law in the dissemination of their products. It just so happens that *everyone* uses EULAs in proprietary software; you can't get a copy of a program from a company without agreeing to the license, but the license is by no means required.
You can even put a EULA on a book if you want, but we wouldn't stand for that (or would we?). For some reason we stand for it when it comes to software.
Yes.
In fact, this was exactly why Debian rebranded the browser as Iceweasel.
You're not a LISP or Scheme programmer by chance, are you?
Actually they usually charge us on both ends. Both the receiver and the sender pay.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
I'm not debating that.
I'm saying the guy basically took the easy way out because his bosses were too dense to know what this newfangled "Leenux" was.
He all but conceded that Linux was at the very least equal to MS offerings. Why didn't he go with Linux then? If "Linux" breaks down, he's in deep shit. If "Microsoft" breaks down, it's just...one of those things that happens from time to time. Computers aren't perfect you know!
In other words, he used the "no one ever got fired for buying IBM" defense.
Its sure to be supported for a very long time and it'll almost certainly be stable before ReiserFS goes the way of the dinosaur.
Negative.
Gnash is based on GameSWF. Swfdec is based on...swfdec.
For why don't they work together ... they do. See this interview for more information.
If you do not like taxes, you may move to another state at your leisure. New Hampshire has no sales or income taxes. If the Federal burden is too high, there are some good tax shelters in the Caribbean islands as well as some of the micro-nations of Europe.
I've never paid Federal income tax because I've never made enough money to do so. I can easily say that I get a net positive on government services. I'm not being robbed in the least.
You might be the guy who's paying the interest on my deferred student loans right now. I thank you heartily. So maybe you might be getting "shafted". If that is the case, I do invite you to rebel. And I don't mean posting on slashdot. I mean loading your rifle and heading to Washington, DC.
Why would the officer even want (let alone need) to go outside the bounds of the warrant? If the officer did do that any evidence they found would have been suppressed at trial.
An officer searching for things outside the scope of the warrant is illegal.
Beg your pardon.
Port system. Serves me right for thinking "port system" and "port" are the same thing.
The paragraph is pretty vague and confusing. Time to add a {{fact}} to that one. Thanks for the info.
Move? Like put a bunch of skyscrapers and multi-story houses on slats and physically move them? Or rebuild the entire city in a safer area?
And where is this money for brand new everything coming from? The people in the Lower 9th Ward don't exactly have the money for new condos in the new "riverview" district.
Seeing as New Orleans is the largest port in the world by gross tonnage, I don't think it'd be too easy to just shut down.
The AC makes a point, albeit sloppily.
Hillary Clinton picked up quite a few voters because she is female, but you can't make the case that the only reason anyone voted for her is because she was a female.
Looking at Palin's record (and don't get me wrong, I think she's pretty good as Republicans go), no one can argue with a straight face that she'd be on the ticket if she wasn't a woman.
That is exactly why I don't use the term "African American" because it doesn't describe the person properly.
"African American" is a politically correct term for "black". We do not call light-skinned "white" people from South Africa or Zimbabwe "African American" when they settle here, although by all accounts they are of Africa and are Americans.
Yeah they would.
You don't understand how much of politics is based on emotion and spite.
And a religious fanatic to boot. I'd have voted for Baltar over her.
Of course Tom Zarek was always my first choice...
You are actually correct. See http://www.sos.state.oh.us/SOS/Upload/elections/advisories/2008/Adv2008-13.pdf
You are correct, but only as of August 4, when the advisory was put out. I was not aware of this information at the time. This is a departure from what information I had been given previously.
And for what its worth, when I called my county board of elections, they didn't seem too excited about my interest in helping with the election. By the tone of the lady's voice, they only use independents as a stop-gap measure.
Ah, discrimination!
No shit.
If I was astroturfing, at least I'd have a job.
The first thing I do after installing XP is turn the wallpaper to black.
Apparently, pirating it saves me a step after install.
WTG, MSFT!
It's a Spain to keep reading this thread. Perhaps you could Sweden the jokes a bit?
I'm not sure exactly what you mean.
I know that in past years the Feds let you deduct your state sales taxes instead of your state income taxes (a nod to those states who don't have income taxes), but that is only if you itemize. I've never had interesting enough taxes to ever have to do that. I've always taken the standard deduction.
I know that in Ohio you pay more tax by properly reporting your use tax. I'm not too familiar with use or sales tax deductions, but you'd have to provide evidence that reporting your use tax reduces your tax liability in one way or another.