Thailand's 79-year-old king, almost universally adored by Thais, is the world's longest-reigning monarch, and one of the few who is still protected by tough laws that prohibit any insult against the royal family.'
And this, my friends, is why we we have the 1st Amendment to the Constitution in the U.S.... to protect offensive speech. Because offensive speech (particularly involving the monarch) was punishable by imprisonment in Imperial England.
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It is amazing to me how many people do not believe that we have a sixth sense, the ability to know someone is looking at you even though they are not in your field of vision. I have yet to see science explain this... - I've yet to see anyone come up with a reliable and objective experiment that provided any evidence of a "sixth sense". Science can't explain something that hasn't been empirically observed.
Okay, here's one:
Pick someone, anyone, out of a crowd, on the highway (not recommended if you are driving), etc., from who you are out of their field of view. Stare at them intensely for a few seconds. Direct a strong emotion towards them if you can -- hate, fear, rage, etc. I guarantee you that most of them will look back at you nervously. It may not work for everyone because some people are less aware of their '6th sense' than others.
His reason for Apple to acquire AMD? Complete control over their hardware. Hardly worth it.
Agreed. And that's exactly why it won't happen -- because even Apple has demonstrated that they don't care about complete control over their hardware. Apple has proven that with its modular and flexible OS X architecture that they can be move to any hardware architecture they want, any time. The CPU doesn't matter that much them, so they'll take the best deal they can with whomever they want. Right now for them, that's Intel.
Well, they were originally going to call it "Rosie O'Donell Versioning File System" but the name was too long and the acronym ROVFS just conjured images of that awful rap by "MC Rove" at the awards dinner.
if you distribute any portion of the software in source code form, you may do so only under this license by including a complete copy of this license with your distribution. If you distribute any portion of the software in compiled or object code form, you may only do so under a license that complies with this license.
(emphasis mine)
The second sentence only deals with object code. The first sentence deals with the source code form, which must be distributed "under this license". The words "any portion" would automatically mean that derivative works that are distributed in source form must be distributed "under this license."
What that means is that the license is viral in exactly the same way the GPL is.
Probably not, since the Microsoft Permissive License has a GPL-like 'viral' clause, which means that if Mono used the code, Mono would probably have to be licensed under the Ms-PL.
Is Mono still necessary?
Yes.
What about the Windows specific API's? A lot in.NET Framework is, like System.Windows.Forms, and Microsoft.*.
I doubt they'll open up those. The announcement relates only the the CLR, not the.NET Framework.
Americans will end up paying a little bit more for goods
You don't know the half of it. Eat any pre-packaged foods? Wanna wager a guess as to how many ingredients in those pre-packaged foods came from China? I'll give you a big hint -- the pet food scare is the tip of the iceberg.
Do you think $4 is expensive for a box of cereal? Wait 'til you're paying $8-10 a box. And sanctions don't even need to be placed on China for copyright for that to happen -- only 1% of Chinese-imported food ingredients is inspected. Mark my words -- tip of the iceberg.
Easily. You can acquire my open source project, Stylus Toolbox. Pay me USD $5,000, and I will transfer the copyright to you. All of the code is contributed by me, so no copyright issues. Then, you can take and release under whatever license you want, provided you remove the dependency on GladeWindow.py, which is GPL and not written by me. All other dependencies are either LGPL or Python license, or are dependencies on applications that are called, not linked, so no problems there.
If the license was OSI before couldn't the project just continue?
Sure. Just like someone could fork Stylus Toolbox from the last GPL release.
From the wikipedia entry it looks like the project leader decided that the MS shared source license was going to be used.
Actually, it was under CPL, which you can see from the old site. It is perhaps a bit of a misnomer to say that Microsoft 'acquired' it -- the author was hired by Microsoft and he transfered copyright to them when he hired in.
This isn't just the Bush administration. If you vote for either of the Big Two, the person you voted for has been bought and paid for by the MAFIAA, and they are in full support of sending the copyright Gestapo after law-breakers worldwide.
Except that they can't do much. Sure, the U.S. government can impose economic sanctions on non-compliant countries, but that only takes you so far. The U.S. Constitution requires that the federal government respect the sovereignty of foreign nations. U.S. courts won't typically touch a copyright infringement case if the infringement occurs overseas.
Easy. Do what SSH does. Cache the public keys with the address (phone #, in this case). You accept the public key the first time it's used, and if a different public key is presented for a particular caller or recipient, you get warned that something funny is going on. The only difference being while SSH will outright refuse to connect to a key that's changed from the cached key, you would probably make the phone simply inform the user that the caller gave a different public key this time. It's up to the user to verify if this call is not subject to a MITM attack.
IronPython was already open source before Microsoft got to it. It started out as an independent project that's obviously been acquired by Microsoft. They even changed the license from the Common Public License, which OSI-approved, to the Microsoft Permissive License, which is not.
What will slow them down is to sell all ipods with C4 packed in them and a keyfob that allows the owner to detonate it.
Heh heh heh. I like how you think! The only problem is what to use as a detonator... imagine leaving the thing in your car on a hot sunny day...BOOM! goes the car. Not good.
Why fingerprint-activated iPods? So no one but me can find out what's on my iPod? (Like I care if anyone knows that I listen to Disturbed, Metallica, or Puddle of Mud?) So no one will steal it? How fast before the thieves figure out how to disable the fingerprint scanner? All this'll do is drive up the cost of iPods, as if Apple didn't already charge and arm and a leg for the things.
I think I'll go home and cry for a bit. I mean, I try to be positive. I don't want to be a bitter old man. But really, the board wants to be more evil? Could it at least be a big shareholder who's voice matters that's putting this out there? Can I have a happy moment?
You might want to try some anti-depressants.;)
Seriously, the shareholder referendum, if approved, would basically tie Google's hands in regards to dealing with an oppressive regime such as China -- it would leave them no option, even if say, agents of the U.S. federal government came to them and said something like "Don't rock the boat. We're working on a strategy here and if you make noise, you'll spoil the whole thing."
Not that I'm implying this has ever happened or anything...
I could be wrong, but I still to remember reading they were rolling their own player, codec, format and DRM, and that they asked permission to open source everything but the DRM. Not sure what happened after that.
No kidding. Jet doesn't even support true record locking -- it locks pieces of the database in blocks. Diebold would have had less chance of corruption with even something as broken as MySQL 3.x. Heck, they would have had less chance of corruption using a comma-delimited text file stored on a 5.25" HD floppy disk stuck to the fridge with a magnet, but that's besides the point.
The point is that this is cannot be just mere incompetence. As you say, even Microsoft, who wrote Jet and used it for years as the basis of Microsoft Access and Visual Basic's database component, says not to use it 'cause it's crap. There's always SQL Server 2005 Express/Compact/whatever Edition, and this is what Microsoft recommends today.
There is a 2% levy on digital recording devices and media.
Which doesn't apply for all devices and media... it depends on how the media is marketed. For instance, the 2% levy doesn't apply for all CD-Rs -- only those marketed as 'music CD-Rs'. In fact, the only difference between regular CD-Rs and 'music CD-Rs' is the 2% levy.
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And this, my friends, is why we we have the 1st Amendment to the Constitution in the U.S.
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"Those who fail to learn the lessons of Unix are doomed to re-invent it. Poorly." -- Forgot who said it.
Okay, here's one:
Pick someone, anyone, out of a crowd, on the highway (not recommended if you are driving), etc., from who you are out of their field of view. Stare at them intensely for a few seconds. Direct a strong emotion towards them if you can -- hate, fear, rage, etc. I guarantee you that most of them will look back at you nervously. It may not work for everyone because some people are less aware of their '6th sense' than others.
Maybe, maybe not.
From TFA (pdf):
Agreed. And that's exactly why it won't happen -- because even Apple has demonstrated that they don't care about complete control over their hardware. Apple has proven that with its modular and flexible OS X architecture that they can be move to any hardware architecture they want, any time. The CPU doesn't matter that much them, so they'll take the best deal they can with whomever they want. Right now for them, that's Intel.
Errr...uhh....umm...'verifying'? Uh, I'll be right back!
Well, they were originally going to call it "Rosie O'Donell Versioning File System" but the name was too long and the acronym ROVFS just conjured images of that awful rap by "MC Rove" at the awards dinner.
(emphasis mine)
The second sentence only deals with object code. The first sentence deals with the source code form, which must be distributed "under this license". The words "any portion" would automatically mean that derivative works that are distributed in source form must be distributed "under this license."
What that means is that the license is viral in exactly the same way the GPL is.
Probably not, since the Microsoft Permissive License has a GPL-like 'viral' clause, which means that if Mono used the code, Mono would probably have to be licensed under the Ms-PL.
Yes.
I doubt they'll open up those. The announcement relates only the the CLR, not the
Wasn't .NET already cross-platform with the introduction of Mono?
Put this number on your front page somewhere as a protest!
Yes! *throws chair* I'm gonna f**king KILL Ballmer!
You don't know the half of it. Eat any pre-packaged foods? Wanna wager a guess as to how many ingredients in those pre-packaged foods came from China? I'll give you a big hint -- the pet food scare is the tip of the iceberg.
Do you think $4 is expensive for a box of cereal? Wait 'til you're paying $8-10 a box. And sanctions don't even need to be placed on China for copyright for that to happen -- only 1% of Chinese-imported food ingredients is inspected. Mark my words -- tip of the iceberg.
Easily. You can acquire my open source project, Stylus Toolbox. Pay me USD $5,000, and I will transfer the copyright to you. All of the code is contributed by me, so no copyright issues. Then, you can take and release under whatever license you want, provided you remove the dependency on GladeWindow.py, which is GPL and not written by me. All other dependencies are either LGPL or Python license, or are dependencies on applications that are called, not linked, so no problems there.
Sure. Just like someone could fork Stylus Toolbox from the last GPL release.
Actually, it was under CPL, which you can see from the old site. It is perhaps a bit of a misnomer to say that Microsoft 'acquired' it -- the author was hired by Microsoft and he transfered copyright to them when he hired in.
Except that they can't do much. Sure, the U.S. government can impose economic sanctions on non-compliant countries, but that only takes you so far. The U.S. Constitution requires that the federal government respect the sovereignty of foreign nations. U.S. courts won't typically touch a copyright infringement case if the infringement occurs overseas.
Easy. Do what SSH does. Cache the public keys with the address (phone #, in this case). You accept the public key the first time it's used, and if a different public key is presented for a particular caller or recipient, you get warned that something funny is going on. The only difference being while SSH will outright refuse to connect to a key that's changed from the cached key, you would probably make the phone simply inform the user that the caller gave a different public key this time. It's up to the user to verify if this call is not subject to a MITM attack.
IronPython was already open source before Microsoft got to it. It started out as an independent project that's obviously been acquired by Microsoft. They even changed the license from the Common Public License, which OSI-approved, to the Microsoft Permissive License, which is not.
Heh heh heh. I like how you think! The only problem is what to use as a detonator... imagine leaving the thing in your car on a hot sunny day...BOOM! goes the car. Not good.
I guess the Current Occupant of the White House won't be getting a new iPod after all...
Why fingerprint-activated iPods? So no one but me can find out what's on my iPod? (Like I care if anyone knows that I listen to Disturbed, Metallica, or Puddle of Mud?) So no one will steal it? How fast before the thieves figure out how to disable the fingerprint scanner? All this'll do is drive up the cost of iPods, as if Apple didn't already charge and arm and a leg for the things.
You might want to try some anti-depressants.
Seriously, the shareholder referendum, if approved, would basically tie Google's hands in regards to dealing with an oppressive regime such as China -- it would leave them no option, even if say, agents of the U.S. federal government came to them and said something like "Don't rock the boat. We're working on a strategy here and if you make noise, you'll spoil the whole thing."
Not that I'm implying this has ever happened or anything...
I could be wrong, but I still to remember reading they were rolling their own player, codec, format and DRM, and that they asked permission to open source everything but the DRM. Not sure what happened after that.
No kidding. Jet doesn't even support true record locking -- it locks pieces of the database in blocks. Diebold would have had less chance of corruption with even something as broken as MySQL 3.x. Heck, they would have had less chance of corruption using a comma-delimited text file stored on a 5.25" HD floppy disk stuck to the fridge with a magnet, but that's besides the point.
The point is that this is cannot be just mere incompetence. As you say, even Microsoft, who wrote Jet and used it for years as the basis of Microsoft Access and Visual Basic's database component, says not to use it 'cause it's crap. There's always SQL Server 2005 Express/Compact/whatever Edition, and this is what Microsoft recommends today.
Which doesn't apply for all devices and media... it depends on how the media is marketed. For instance, the 2% levy doesn't apply for all CD-Rs -- only those marketed as 'music CD-Rs'. In fact, the only difference between regular CD-Rs and 'music CD-Rs' is the 2% levy.
Yes. Epic's software is built using MUMPS.