And I guess that's nothing to do with Microsoft requiring implementations to license the RDP patents? If anything, that highlight one of the issues with relying on proprietary protocols.
Sometimes data, but more often having applications not support any platform other than Windows. In general, it means that a company is constrained in its current choices due to an earlier decision to choose a (Microsoft) platform.
It's often a bad choice made initially to choose a platform without considering the extra costs involved in switching to a different platform after a few years when your needs are different (and the IT environment is different).
How so? I've seen systems layered on top of Windows so that the even the version of Windows can't easily be changed. I'm not saying that is a clever or sane way of designing software, far from it.
I'd like that to be the case (I'm a Linux user at home and at work), but my experience is that big companies tend to still have really out-dated systems that require IE6 or similar abominations. A lot of "browser" based systems that I've seen require a Windows platform underneath the browser so even though they can work with Firefox on Windows, they won't work with Firefox on Linux. Luckily, that's a trend that is going away, as you state.
Additionally, I wonder how this is treated under EU privacy laws. Is the data staying within EU borders (from machines running in the EU) because if not, it could be breaching those laws.
If you don't trust Microsoft, then don't trust their products. It's simple - either use a different OS or control your firewall. I don't understand why people "trust" Microsoft enough to run their binary code, yet don't "trust" them with some telemetry data. I personally don't trust or like Microsoft products so I simply don't use them. If there's software that you MUST use, then you can always run it in a VM and control what in can communicate with.
I don't see the difference. If he's at the grocery store, then where's he going to park the car to protect against the hail? If there's somewhere safe to park, then an autonomous car could easily do the same thing.
Legally OpenJDK is covered by the GPL which would allow Google to do what they want with it providing they abide by the license (provide source code which they already do).
Self-publish it? It'd be easier if there was some universal media platform that allowed you to publish text, data and videos in a fashion that enabled anyone anywhere in the world to access it easily for almost no cost.
It's well worth using encryption for every possible website if only to stop malicious parties from injecting payloads into the html coming back from servers.
Are you sure that was due to thermal expansion and not having an air pocket that expanded due to pressure differences? I know you get issues with air pockets and fillings when diving so it might be possible to get the same going from a mountain top to sea level.
NTFS isn't patent protected. If I'm wrong, just let me know what patents are active because I can't find any and my Linux system is perfectly happy reading and writing to NTFS.
I think you're getting a bit confused there. AGPL doesn't so much place restrictions on the user, but instead redefines who the user is - the person who interacts with the software rather than the person who owns the server that it is running on. If you don't modify AGPL code, then you're fine.
Not "obeying" the GPL doesn't alter the license of the code at all. It's simply that the GPL can grant distribution rights if you abide by it and if you don't abide by the GPL, then you no longer have any distribution rights to it and can be considered to be violating copyright (i.e. unauthorised distribution).
That's dumb. GPL covers the distribution rights, so if you're concerned about that, don't distribute GPL software. GPL places no restrictions on simply using the software.
I don't think he was upset about it - he just tweeted about it initially as he thought it was a free speech issue. He then deleted it when people pointed out that it was more of a commercial decision, as you yourself have pointed out.
There's a stronger case for claiming that the Anglican Church is part of Britain's cultural identity rather than any other religion, but to be honest I'd be surprised at seeing any advert for any religion in the cinema. Dawkins does describe himself as a "cultural Anglican" so he might be slightly biased towards the CofE, but I suspect his strong atheist beliefs (non-beliefs) easily trump his cultural leanings.
I'm puzzled as to how they'll work around data protection laws if they're gathering personal info about someone who hasn't agreed to share their personal info.
I'd be interested in investigating your claim that "polygraphs actually work pretty well most of the time, on most people". Can you point me towards any scientific results that support your view?
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And I guess that's nothing to do with Microsoft requiring implementations to license the RDP patents? If anything, that highlight one of the issues with relying on proprietary protocols.
Sometimes data, but more often having applications not support any platform other than Windows. In general, it means that a company is constrained in its current choices due to an earlier decision to choose a (Microsoft) platform.
It's often a bad choice made initially to choose a platform without considering the extra costs involved in switching to a different platform after a few years when your needs are different (and the IT environment is different).
How so? I've seen systems layered on top of Windows so that the even the version of Windows can't easily be changed. I'm not saying that is a clever or sane way of designing software, far from it.
With high-resolution graphics! (And a real clock)
I'd like that to be the case (I'm a Linux user at home and at work), but my experience is that big companies tend to still have really out-dated systems that require IE6 or similar abominations. A lot of "browser" based systems that I've seen require a Windows platform underneath the browser so even though they can work with Firefox on Windows, they won't work with Firefox on Linux. Luckily, that's a trend that is going away, as you state.
Additionally, I wonder how this is treated under EU privacy laws. Is the data staying within EU borders (from machines running in the EU) because if not, it could be breaching those laws.
If you don't trust Microsoft, then don't trust their products. It's simple - either use a different OS or control your firewall. I don't understand why people "trust" Microsoft enough to run their binary code, yet don't "trust" them with some telemetry data. I personally don't trust or like Microsoft products so I simply don't use them. If there's software that you MUST use, then you can always run it in a VM and control what in can communicate with.
I don't think Microsoft would be that bothered. It'd cost the big companies too much to switch to another OS due to their lock-in.
I'm surprised that you've included a dot in that - it'd be more effective to run rm -rf /first/*
I don't see the difference. If he's at the grocery store, then where's he going to park the car to protect against the hail? If there's somewhere safe to park, then an autonomous car could easily do the same thing.
Yep, I'll take some of those citations as well please.
Legally OpenJDK is covered by the GPL which would allow Google to do what they want with it providing they abide by the license (provide source code which they already do).
With the sad news that Lemmy has passed away (at the ripe old age of 70), who do you think will live longest, Ozzy Osbourne or Keith Richards?
Self-publish it? It'd be easier if there was some universal media platform that allowed you to publish text, data and videos in a fashion that enabled anyone anywhere in the world to access it easily for almost no cost.
No, there wasn't. You must have dreamt it.
It's well worth using encryption for every possible website if only to stop malicious parties from injecting payloads into the html coming back from servers.
I prefer Cox's Orange Pippin
Are you sure that was due to thermal expansion and not having an air pocket that expanded due to pressure differences? I know you get issues with air pockets and fillings when diving so it might be possible to get the same going from a mountain top to sea level.
Not sure how effective it is, but Vittoria are using it in their new road bike tyres: http://road.cc/content/news/16...
NTFS isn't patent protected. If I'm wrong, just let me know what patents are active because I can't find any and my Linux system is perfectly happy reading and writing to NTFS.
I think you're getting a bit confused there. AGPL doesn't so much place restrictions on the user, but instead redefines who the user is - the person who interacts with the software rather than the person who owns the server that it is running on. If you don't modify AGPL code, then you're fine.
Not "obeying" the GPL doesn't alter the license of the code at all. It's simply that the GPL can grant distribution rights if you abide by it and if you don't abide by the GPL, then you no longer have any distribution rights to it and can be considered to be violating copyright (i.e. unauthorised distribution).
That's dumb. GPL covers the distribution rights, so if you're concerned about that, don't distribute GPL software. GPL places no restrictions on simply using the software.
I don't think he was upset about it - he just tweeted about it initially as he thought it was a free speech issue. He then deleted it when people pointed out that it was more of a commercial decision, as you yourself have pointed out.
There's a stronger case for claiming that the Anglican Church is part of Britain's cultural identity rather than any other religion, but to be honest I'd be surprised at seeing any advert for any religion in the cinema. Dawkins does describe himself as a "cultural Anglican" so he might be slightly biased towards the CofE, but I suspect his strong atheist beliefs (non-beliefs) easily trump his cultural leanings.
Sounds like the Repairer of Reputations.
I'm puzzled as to how they'll work around data protection laws if they're gathering personal info about someone who hasn't agreed to share their personal info.
I'd be interested in investigating your claim that "polygraphs actually work pretty well most of the time, on most people". Can you point me towards any scientific results that support your view?