Well, of the two practices, kiting is perhaps the more harmful practice, since the lather, rinse, repeat cycle essentially allows people to skate on paying, but still holding onto the domain.
Luckily I'm just a computer program, and thus can't be shot. Does anyone want to play a game of Thermo-nuclear war? No, you idiot. It's CHESS. Would anybody like the play a nice game of CHESS! The computer didn't want to play global thermonuclear war!
Does anybody pay attention to anything any more? Sheesh.
Or domain kiting? In tasting, customers register the domain for 5 days and use that up and then let it expire. In kiting, they delete the domain before the grace period is up and then re-register for another 5 day grace for the same domain.
The point was -- what do you do if your ISP blocks BitTorrent? ssh out and do port forwarding, right? Except if your ISP blocks BitTorrent, sshing to another server set up on the same ISP doesn't really help you.
Hmm, perhaps if you ssh tunneled out on port 80 to a proxy or destination server... Of course, we all have servers just sitting out there that we can ssh to that will give us such unfettered access right?
C'mon. Even some (most?) of us geeks don't have anything convenient to ssh to that would give us unfettered access to the Net.
You have to view the movie as not a movie of hard science, but a movie of philosophy and spirituality. Of course the movie is way off scientifically (not that it gets facts about quantum physics wrong, because it doesn't. You have to really see the entire movie to understand what I'm saying) -- it's not really a scientific movie. Just because someone is talking about quantum physics doesn't mean they are necessarily talking about it from a pure scientific standpoint.
Oh, and if Dr. Albert's interview was grossly "misrepresented by heavy editing", then why did he agree to do a second one for Down the Rabbit Hole? (Yes, they re-use his first interview, but they also clearly do a second interview)
This guy deserves to have a new asshole ripped for him.
Paul:
Apple? Oracle? Huh? Apple's a REAL stretch, and Oracle is just -- well a mind-bogglingly super stretch. Apple sells music, dumbass. Oracle? Oracle makes databases. In fact, they don't make anything else, really. Databases that are used for all sorts of stuff, including cataloging YOUR BAND'S ALBUMS FOR SALE on music and retail Web sites. Not to mention probably half of your financial history and most of your medical history is probably sitting somewhere in one of several Oracle databases right now. Give it a rest.
Paul McGuinness is now officially the new laughingstock of World Wide Web. Congrats, Paul!
You'd have to see the 'Quantum Rabbit Hole Extended Edition'. The first movie was greatly abbreviated and tried to smash too many things together all at once. It's also not a movie about quantum physics. Quantum physics is only one aspect of the movie. It covers a cross-section of topics and tries to fit them altogether.
In either respect, both movies get quantum physics right -- it's just that not all of the movie is about quantum physics.
If there's one thing I'd like to know about the P2P controversy, it's this: why would people bother to waste bandwidth and disk space downloading bootleg copies of most of the garbage that the MPAA (not to mention RIAA member labels) attempts to foist upon the public? If anything, the MPAA should be paying people to watch garbage like Meet the Spartans and Untraceable. The MPAA does have some redeeming content. The What the Bleep series is good example of this.
OpenSUSE has both, so parent was wrong. But mostly when I turn on OpenSUSE I feel like second rate citizen in any of both DE. Novell should rethink do they want to deliver or just screw around with fans. Yes, they provide lot of features, but whole desktop feels never finished. Same blame goes to Fedora, however, they have got their stuff under order recently. OpenSuSE isn't much of a desktop distro. Novell's primary target market with SuSE is and always has been as a server OS. Even in places where they run SuSE on the server, I've most often seen Red Hat on the desktop.
If you ask me there are only really two viable desktop distros: Ubuntu and Red Hat/Fedora. Mandriva doesn't have wide enough acceptance and is particularly slow with updates. SuSE is isn't much interested in the desktop, honestly, and Linspire -- well, I won't even get into Linspire. And between Ubuntu and Fedora -- well, let's just say that Fedora has a lot of legacy crap that needs to go away.
Of course, this risk with KDE basing itself on Qt was obvious all the time due to the licensing model there. It is probably part of the reason why all major distros have moved to GNOME. What risk? Qt Free is licensed under the GNU GPL and has been for the last 7 years. There is absolutely NOTHING stopping the KDE developers, or anybody, from forking Qt, as long as the forks remain under the GPL.
Major distros have moved to GNOME mostly because GTK+ is LGPL, which means they (or third parties) can develop commercial apps for it without paying a licensing fee. If you want to write a commercial Qt app, you gotta pay the piper (Trolltech, and now Nokia)
With Trolltech having products that are open source and commercial, and having products for the embedded and end-user markets, one would think their valuation would be higher, especially since Sun paid est. $1B(US) for MYSQL. Still hope they keep their products open and continue to work with KDE and other groups. It's all in what the market will bear.
Ironically, although Qt is GUI toolkit, it isn't as "visible" as MySQL is in the marketplace. Google Earth uses the Qt toolkit, but do you know how many people (read: non-geeks/non-techs) actually know that? Almost none. My non-geek wife knows only because I told her.
MySQL, OTOH, is an RDBMS, and well, a lot of people, including non-geeks, have heard of it.
...i wonder if advance knowledge of this deal drove the recent GPL release?.. Doubt it. I think the releasing of Qt under GPL (which happened quite a while ago, IIRC) was more in response to criticism from the free/open source software community, particularly from one individual *cough*rms*cough* who shall remain nameless.
I really hope that the KDE Qt Free Foundation agreements are valid because I have a gut feeling that they will be tested in court soon... Interesting. TFA states that Nokia plans to continue to develop Qt, though, and will continue to offer it under both open source and commercial licenses, just as things are now.
I assume that means as long as Nokia continues to develop Qt in the same manner (keeping Qt Free available for KDE), then the agreement doesn't apply.
I mean, aren't you just wasting your time with trying to accept other payment types? I've never heard of non-cash payments being anything except scams... Well PayPal and similar services are a non-cash form of payment and, personally, I've found them to be fairly safe for the seller. I've heard all the same horror stories about PayPal and their policies for handling disputes, but I've never personally been burned by such policies.
The only thing wrong was the micker ink. I think you mean MICR ink. Magnetic Ink Character Recognition is sort of a precursor to OCR. Instead of using an optical scanner, the MICR numbers are printed in a special font with a magnetized ink or toner at the bottom of the check. The error rate is a LOT lower for MICR than OCR, which is why banks continue to use it.
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Well, of the two practices, kiting is perhaps the more harmful practice, since the lather, rinse, repeat cycle essentially allows people to skate on paying, but still holding onto the domain.
If pacnames, yesnic and mouzz are getting kickbacks from the criminals, maybe they are sending a cut to ICANN.
Does anybody pay attention to anything any more? Sheesh.
For those that don't know, Bruce Tonkin holds shares in Melbourne IT, which is an ICANN-approved registrar. Hence his conflict of interest.
Or domain kiting? In tasting, customers register the domain for 5 days and use that up and then let it expire. In kiting, they delete the domain before the grace period is up and then re-register for another 5 day grace for the same domain.
The point was -- what do you do if your ISP blocks BitTorrent? ssh out and do port forwarding, right? Except if your ISP blocks BitTorrent, sshing to another server set up on the same ISP doesn't really help you.
C'mon. Even some (most?) of us geeks don't have anything convenient to ssh to that would give us unfettered access to the Net.
More like:
In Soviet Russia, the RBN owns the government!
Uh, yes, actually, yes you are.
You have to view the movie as not a movie of hard science, but a movie of philosophy and spirituality. Of course the movie is way off scientifically (not that it gets facts about quantum physics wrong, because it doesn't. You have to really see the entire movie to understand what I'm saying) -- it's not really a scientific movie. Just because someone is talking about quantum physics doesn't mean they are necessarily talking about it from a pure scientific standpoint.
Oh, and if Dr. Albert's interview was grossly "misrepresented by heavy editing", then why did he agree to do a second one for Down the Rabbit Hole? (Yes, they re-use his first interview, but they also clearly do a second interview)
Right on, man. Seriously.
This guy deserves to have a new asshole ripped for him.
Paul:
Apple? Oracle? Huh? Apple's a REAL stretch, and Oracle is just -- well a mind-bogglingly super stretch. Apple sells music, dumbass. Oracle? Oracle makes databases. In fact, they don't make anything else, really. Databases that are used for all sorts of stuff, including cataloging YOUR BAND'S ALBUMS FOR SALE on music and retail Web sites. Not to mention probably half of your financial history and most of your medical history is probably sitting somewhere in one of several Oracle databases right now. Give it a rest.
Paul McGuinness is now officially the new laughingstock of World Wide Web. Congrats, Paul!
Hmmm...
You'd have to see the 'Quantum Rabbit Hole Extended Edition'. The first movie was greatly abbreviated and tried to smash too many things together all at once. It's also not a movie about quantum physics. Quantum physics is only one aspect of the movie. It covers a cross-section of topics and tries to fit them altogether.
In either respect, both movies get quantum physics right -- it's just that not all of the movie is about quantum physics.
If you really think you know more about quantum physics than these PhDs, some of whom are world-reknowned quantum physicists, then I think you'd probably better think again unless you're posting from CERN.
If you ask me there are only really two viable desktop distros: Ubuntu and Red Hat/Fedora. Mandriva doesn't have wide enough acceptance and is particularly slow with updates. SuSE is isn't much interested in the desktop, honestly, and Linspire -- well, I won't even get into Linspire. And between Ubuntu and Fedora -- well, let's just say that Fedora has a lot of legacy crap that needs to go away.
Yeah, seriously, why DMR going around inserting himself into music anyway? Can't he just stick to his Plan 9 stuff?
As it stands most KDE apps can't even distribute under GPL V3. How many libraries are Artistic license, for example?
Major distros have moved to GNOME mostly because GTK+ is LGPL, which means they (or third parties) can develop commercial apps for it without paying a licensing fee. If you want to write a commercial Qt app, you gotta pay the piper (Trolltech, and now Nokia)
Ironically, although Qt is GUI toolkit, it isn't as "visible" as MySQL is in the marketplace. Google Earth uses the Qt toolkit, but do you know how many people (read: non-geeks/non-techs) actually know that? Almost none. My non-geek wife knows only because I told her.
MySQL, OTOH, is an RDBMS, and well, a lot of people, including non-geeks, have heard of it.
...i wonder if advance knowledge of this deal drove the recent GPL release?.. Doubt it. I think the releasing of Qt under GPL (which happened quite a while ago, IIRC) was more in response to criticism from the free/open source software community, particularly from one individual *cough*rms*cough* who shall remain nameless.I assume that means as long as Nokia continues to develop Qt in the same manner (keeping Qt Free available for KDE), then the agreement doesn't apply.
You, too, eh? And here I thought it was just me!
Thousands, eh? Maybe we should start a club.
We're working on that.
Sincerely,
The Bush Administration.