I can sorta forgive them for that since this was a bit before open source became a common idea in I.T
Sounds like IT in college, back in the day. I remember having my network privileges revoked because I copied a configuration file for a telnet program to disk. All the configuration file contained were IP addresses that I had entered. The admin was absolutely convinced that the IP numbers, as well as the config file format, were copyrighted.
The word "Minefield" does not appear in the article. The author of the article appears to be trying to figure out some of the more popular licenses by writing the article. By the end, he recommends the MIT X11 license based on it being short, easy to understand, and close to public domain.
He is against the GPL because it is long and he doesn't understand it. This is stated several times in the article.
I read the GPLv2 originally once and couldn't understand it. The LGPLv2 or the GPLv3 would likely prove to be more problematic. I find it harder to trust lengthy documents that I am unable to understand.
He also seems worried that no one will use his code if he places restrictions on it and that he doesn't want people to reimplement it if they want to change the license.
He doesn't like the BSD license because:
The original 4-clause BSD licence contained an additional advertising clause, that required publishing the names of the copyright holders on every advertising material.
What I took from the article: The author doesn't understand legalise and doesn't want to inconvenience other programmers.The article in no way influences which license I use.
I don't see very much whining from BSD-style license advocates wanting to use GPL code, although it is sometimes the other way around (i.e. Linux users wanting ZFS, etc).
My understanding was that Linus didn't want to accept ZFS into the kernel because it partly duplicates functionality already present in the kernel. If ZFS were to be broken up and the duplication removed, it might be accepted. A note here, I haven't followed the conversion closely. I could be wrong. If a Linux user wanted to use ZFS, nothing is stopping them from using it via FUSE.
And for those who don't want to use the GPL for whatever reason they don't have to, but they really should stop drooling over other peoples GPLed code and it does them no good to continue the endless whining about the GPL. They should spend their time writing their own software and releasing it under whatever license they want instead of writing inane articles about the GPL.
The point, though, is that the supposed "drooling" over GPL code by BSD people is mostly your own fabrication.
I fail to see the reference to BSD that you claim is a fabrication.
OK. I want details. How fine does the aluminum powder have to be? Is it available commercially, or do I need to get out a grinder and a piece of bar stock?
Curious about it, I Googled nano aluminum powder. It seems easy to purchase it. Several sites sell it. I also found some interesting bits of information.
There appear to be a few different processes to creating it. Here is one example:
Aluminum nanoparticle is produced by laser evaporation process. The raw material used is high purity Aluminum.
Another example:
The nano aluminum particles were produced in different ambiance by the wire explosion process.
It also has a lot of applications. Just to name a few, I found references to rocket propellant, micro-electronics, and high-strength alloys. Cool stuff.
Now as to the rest of your questions, I'm still curious...
If it has come to the point that you need a genetic test to categorize athletes into male and female, maybe they should just stop categorizing based on sex. I never have understood the practice. It is sexist and degrading. Sure, you're a great athlete, for a girl.
If they or anyone else really wanted to track your movements they could just send a PI or a spook after you, cameras or not.
True. But then, I wonder how the people of Britain would feel about one spook assigned to each citizen, to follow them around and make sure they do not step out of line. I also wonder why the people of Britain feel CCTV is OK, though it accomplishes the same goal. As for the difference between Google and CCTV. Google is a static image taken at a random time. It is not very useful for surveillance. CCTV is real-time video, run 24/7, designed for surveillance.
Cept each photo would have to be snapped at the exact same spot and/or matched up.
Yes.
Doing that automatically would require a lot of computational horsepower.
Why? Isn't each photo automatically geo-referenced so that the exact spot can be referenced from a map? Why couldn't those coordinates be used by the camera, in a second run, to snap pictures at the exact same spot? The angle of the camera is fixed. That wouldn't change.
You can ask Google to remove photographs that portray you in a bad light.
Just wondering, do you know the procedure for this? I have no problem with Google putting my house in street view. However, they managed to get a picture of it after rather long dry spell and half the grass is dead. I don't want the picture removed so much as I want it replaced.
As a side note, it would have been nice if Google had sent a letter out to let people know they were going to be in the area. It wouldn't have helped with the grass, but a few of my neighbors might have cleaned up the front of their residences. I suppose they are worried about people putting up advertising banners for photo day...
So does this mean Halo won't blue-screen every chance it gets and AutoCAD won't run dog slow? Halo runs fine on my XP machine. AutoCAD is about 4x faster on the Centrino Duo with 2GB RAM and XP, compared to a Core 2 Duo with 4GB RAM and Vista.
There is no "learning" Windows - if your job requires you to "learn" your operating system, and you're not a desktop tech, you're spending too much time dicking around with fonts, themes, and control panel widgets.
As a certified office instructor (one of many side jobs), I'm required by my job to learn Windows. A lot of users are confused when they start Vista for the first time. Within 30 minutes, and a few "Where is" questions, they are up, running and playing with fonts, themes, and control panel widgets. As to Unix desktop bashing, I prefer KDE 4.2 to Vista. Everything is easy to use and it doesn't require 2GB RAM to run. But, to each their own...
Not being a sports fan, I'm a bit confused by this:
By accepting or using a media credential (âoeCredentialâ) for access to any game or athletic contest sponsored or hosted by the Southeastern Conference (the âoeSECâ) or by any one or more of its member institutions (herein an âoeEventâ or the âoeEventsâ) each person and entity issued such a Credential (herein referred to, along with the employer of each such person, collectively as a âoeBearerâ) agrees to the following terms and conditions:
Bearer will be afforded access to video and audio of broadcast Events for use on Bearerâ(TM)s official news website(s), at no premium or charge. Otherwise, except as specifically permitted herein (with respect to online, non-archived simulcasts), Bearer shall not post, place or distribute video (or audio from broadcast feeds) of any Event (including any Bearer Generated Video of an Event) on or through the internet or any other new media distribution platform...
So, being the proud owner of a media credential get's you what? The ability to post a video or audio segment, created by someone else, to your site? Why bother going to the game? Just redirect your News site to the SEC site.
As to general bans on recording live experiences, this is nothing new. Sporting Organizations started banning rebroadcast of events a long time ago. It started as a way to combat cheating on gambling where the same game was broadcast at different times according to time zone. After that, different sporting organizations figured out that they could make a lot of money by selling exclusive access to large media distributors. Other organizations figured out that forcing you to purchase recordings of your experience is a way to make money. It is all a scam. For the most part, I try to avoid organizations that run such scams.
I've never really paid much attention to the TV manual. However, don't you need a license to broadcast television signals? Wouldn't the interference be disrupting a licensed signal? While part 15 might cover any RF that comes out of the TV, I'm fairly sure it doesn't cover what comes out of the television station.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
The Linux kernel provides CONFIG_DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR to protect against kernel NULL pointer bugs. However, this protection can be disabled via/proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr or overridden by an add-on security policy, such as SELinux. The Linux kernel does protect page 0, unless it is configured not to.
About a week ago, I updated to kernel 2.6.30. One of the options that showed up describes itself thus:
CONFIG_DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR: This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs.
Unless I am misunderstanding, or the bug is in this code, the Linux kernel is already protected if properly configured. The kernel already prevents this attack.
OK, for us oldies who used to buy "vinyl" records. The more you played the record, the faster it degraded in quality. If you really liked the record, you ended up buying it multiple times.
What were you doing to your records to make them degrade? I still have vinyl records that play just as well today as when I bought them in the 70s.
This was before it was easy to record it onto tape.
Define easy. I owned a real-to-real that was fairly easy to record on. I also owned an 8-track recorder that I picked up just as cassettes were starting to gain popularity. Recording stuff has been a simple matter for at least the last 60 years.
Without a network, the register can't import product prices or export quantities sold. Or are you talking about sneakernetting this information on floppies?
I must be getting old. Most registers I've used can't import anything and export quantities sold on paper. At the end of a shift, you run a report from the register, count the money in the drawer, compare it to the report, then hand the drawer and report to the manager.
You kids and your newfangled networked everything...
AFAIK, it's illegal to refuse to do business with somebody just because you don't like them.
Millions of "We reserve the right to refuse service" signs might disagree. In my younger days, I was banned from a few all-night cafes for being too loud in the after-bar hours.
Neither Gentoo nor Ubuntu is on the certified products list....
So do any of the approved distributions have the required library versions, or is this one of those "We require you to have 10 years experience with Office 2010" type of things?
If they lose visitors in doing it such that they ultimately lose income and can't afford to provide great exhibits in the first place then the idea you suggest is pointless. If however they can do it without detriment then as you say, they should.
Maybe I'm unique. However, I'd never consider a virtual tour as a replacement for the real experience. Having digital images available would only encourage me to visit.
I a see reply below your post:
It's not just a matter of putting stuff on their websites. If you go to the NHM Libary, they make you sign a form giving them copyright on your own photographs of public domain material. This is a serious problem.
Some time ago, I had the opportunity to visit BodyWorks. It is a traveling exhibit concerning anatomy. I was very disappointed that photography was not allowed. It made me wonder if they were trying to conceal the low quality of the exhibit at first. Going through the exhibit was rushed. It was a hot environment and water was not allowed. I missed a lot of the exhibit. When people asked me about it latter, I recommend they not attend. Not being allowed to record the event for my personal use and the poor environment left me with a poor impression.
Scrolling through the first several posts, I see a lot of posts basically saying RAID is unreliable. I couldn't disagree more. I set up a Linux software RAID 5 file server in my house about 8 years ago. It started as 4 Seagate 120GB drives. Over the years, I've had 3 of those drives fail. I've never lost any data.
I can't afford to go out and pick up the latest and greatest in storage every time a drive fails. I replaced the failed drives with refurbished drives of the same size from random manufactures. I've never had a problem. The RAID is just as fast to access and write to as when the drives were matched. RAID is an excellent strategy if your concern is drive failure and uptime.
As others have pointed out, it won't protect you from accidental deletions and overwrites. Regular backups help in this area. However, if you accidentally delete/overwrite your backup, or the backup fails, you are in the same boat.
For data that just can not be lost, I have a copy on the RAID, and a backup on DVD that gets refreshed every couple of years. Everything else just sits on the RAID.
I've also run a file server at work for about 5 years now. It uses the same setup. I've only had one drive fail there. Again, I've never lost data. I have a redundant server set up that contains a mirror of the primary server. However, I've never needed to restore data from it. It is nice to have when I'm doing updates. Everyone uses the primary server while I test the updates on the redundant server.
That depends, did exercising her right to copyright involve illegal searches and dubious proof of identity? Was she awarded hundreds of dollars, per print, over the resale value of the work in question? Did she sue everyone who obtained a copy of her Ode from the paper?
Perhaps I'm missing something here, very likely as I've only had one cup of coffee this morning.
My understanding from the above is that the newspaper received and published a Letter to the Editor that was signed. I've had several Letters to the Editor published with my name. I've never had the editor contact me to verify my identity. It seems to me that it was the Principle who submitted the letter, and signed the girl's name, that is in the wrong. The brief certainly seems to back this up.
The issue presented by this appeal is whether an author who posts an article on myspace.com can state a cause of action for invasion of privacy and/or intentional infliction of emotional distress against a person who submits that article to a newspaper for republication. The trial court concluded not and sustained the demurrer to appellants' complaint without leave to amend.
Ahh, reading further:
The day after Cynthia removed the Ode from her online journal, appellants learned that Campbell [the Principle] had submitted the Ode to the local newspaper, the Coalinga Record, by giving the Ode to his friend, Pamela Pond. Pond was the editor of the Coalinga Record.
So, maybe the newspaper isn't so innocent.
As to the matter of copyright, I see this case did not address it:
Whether the publication of the Ode infringed on any federal copyright protection the Ode may have had (17 U.S.C. ï½ 101 et seq.) is not before this court and we express no opinion on that issue.
I also do not see a copy of the letter. Fair use might come into play if the purpose of publication was criticism.
IANAL, the above is just my take on what I've read. To add to my opinion, now that the girl and her family are safely moved away from that community, I do hope she has republished her Ode. The reaction of the townspeople to the rants of a high school girl are ample proof that Coalinga is not a desirable place to live.
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I can sorta forgive them for that since this was a bit before open source became a common idea in I.T
Sounds like IT in college, back in the day. I remember having my network privileges revoked because I copied a configuration file for a telnet program to disk. All the configuration file contained were IP addresses that I had entered. The admin was absolutely convinced that the IP numbers, as well as the config file format, were copyrighted.
He is against the GPL because it is long and he doesn't understand it. This is stated several times in the article.
I read the GPLv2 originally once and couldn't understand it. The LGPLv2 or the GPLv3 would likely prove to be more problematic. I find it harder to trust lengthy documents that I am unable to understand.
He also seems worried that no one will use his code if he places restrictions on it and that he doesn't want people to reimplement it if they want to change the license.
He doesn't like the BSD license because:
The original 4-clause BSD licence contained an additional advertising clause, that required publishing the names of the copyright holders on every advertising material.
What I took from the article: The author doesn't understand legalise and doesn't want to inconvenience other programmers.The article in no way influences which license I use.
I don't see very much whining from BSD-style license advocates wanting to use GPL code, although it is sometimes the other way around (i.e. Linux users wanting ZFS, etc).
My understanding was that Linus didn't want to accept ZFS into the kernel because it partly duplicates functionality already present in the kernel. If ZFS were to be broken up and the duplication removed, it might be accepted. A note here, I haven't followed the conversion closely. I could be wrong. If a Linux user wanted to use ZFS, nothing is stopping them from using it via FUSE.
And for those who don't want to use the GPL for whatever reason they don't have to, but they really should stop drooling over other peoples GPLed code and it does them no good to continue the endless whining about the GPL. They should spend their time writing their own software and releasing it under whatever license they want instead of writing inane articles about the GPL.
The point, though, is that the supposed "drooling" over GPL code by BSD people is mostly your own fabrication.
I fail to see the reference to BSD that you claim is a fabrication.
OK. I want details. How fine does the aluminum powder have to be? Is it available commercially, or do I need to get out a grinder and a piece of bar stock?
Curious about it, I Googled nano aluminum powder. It seems easy to purchase it. Several sites sell it. I also found some interesting bits of information.
There appear to be a few different processes to creating it. Here is one example:
Aluminum nanoparticle is produced by laser evaporation process. The raw material used is high purity Aluminum.
Another example:
The nano aluminum particles were produced in different ambiance by the wire explosion process.
It also has a lot of applications. Just to name a few, I found references to rocket propellant, micro-electronics, and high-strength alloys. Cool stuff.
Now as to the rest of your questions, I'm still curious...
If it has come to the point that you need a genetic test to categorize athletes into male and female, maybe they should just stop categorizing based on sex. I never have understood the practice. It is sexist and degrading. Sure, you're a great athlete, for a girl.
If they or anyone else really wanted to track your movements they could just send a PI or a spook after you, cameras or not.
True. But then, I wonder how the people of Britain would feel about one spook assigned to each citizen, to follow them around and make sure they do not step out of line. I also wonder why the people of Britain feel CCTV is OK, though it accomplishes the same goal. As for the difference between Google and CCTV. Google is a static image taken at a random time. It is not very useful for surveillance. CCTV is real-time video, run 24/7, designed for surveillance.
Cept each photo would have to be snapped at the exact same spot and/or matched up.
Yes.
Doing that automatically would require a lot of computational horsepower.
Why? Isn't each photo automatically geo-referenced so that the exact spot can be referenced from a map? Why couldn't those coordinates be used by the camera, in a second run, to snap pictures at the exact same spot? The angle of the camera is fixed. That wouldn't change.
You can ask Google to remove photographs that portray you in a bad light.
Just wondering, do you know the procedure for this? I have no problem with Google putting my house in street view. However, they managed to get a picture of it after rather long dry spell and half the grass is dead. I don't want the picture removed so much as I want it replaced.
As a side note, it would have been nice if Google had sent a letter out to let people know they were going to be in the area. It wouldn't have helped with the grass, but a few of my neighbors might have cleaned up the front of their residences. I suppose they are worried about people putting up advertising banners for photo day...
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So does this mean Halo won't blue-screen every chance it gets and AutoCAD won't run dog slow? Halo runs fine on my XP machine. AutoCAD is about 4x faster on the Centrino Duo with 2GB RAM and XP, compared to a Core 2 Duo with 4GB RAM and Vista.
There is no "learning" Windows - if your job requires you to "learn" your operating system, and you're not a desktop tech, you're spending too much time dicking around with fonts, themes, and control panel widgets.
As a certified office instructor (one of many side jobs), I'm required by my job to learn Windows. A lot of users are confused when they start Vista for the first time. Within 30 minutes, and a few "Where is" questions, they are up, running and playing with fonts, themes, and control panel widgets. As to Unix desktop bashing, I prefer KDE 4.2 to Vista. Everything is easy to use and it doesn't require 2GB RAM to run. But, to each their own...
By accepting or using a media credential (âoeCredentialâ) for access to any game or athletic contest sponsored or hosted by the Southeastern Conference (the âoeSECâ) or by any one or more of its member institutions (herein an âoeEventâ or the âoeEventsâ) each person and entity issued such a Credential (herein referred to, along with the employer of each such person, collectively as a âoeBearerâ) agrees to the following terms and conditions:
Bearer will be afforded access to video and audio of broadcast Events for use on Bearerâ(TM)s official news website(s), at no premium or charge. Otherwise, except as specifically permitted herein (with respect to online, non-archived simulcasts), Bearer shall not post, place or distribute video (or audio from broadcast feeds) of any Event (including any Bearer Generated Video of an Event) on or through the internet or any other new media distribution platform...
So, being the proud owner of a media credential get's you what? The ability to post a video or audio segment, created by someone else, to your site? Why bother going to the game? Just redirect your News site to the SEC site.
As to general bans on recording live experiences, this is nothing new. Sporting Organizations started banning rebroadcast of events a long time ago. It started as a way to combat cheating on gambling where the same game was broadcast at different times according to time zone. After that, different sporting organizations figured out that they could make a lot of money by selling exclusive access to large media distributors. Other organizations figured out that forcing you to purchase recordings of your experience is a way to make money. It is all a scam. For the most part, I try to avoid organizations that run such scams.
I've never really paid much attention to the TV manual. However, don't you need a license to broadcast television signals? Wouldn't the interference be disrupting a licensed signal? While part 15 might cover any RF that comes out of the TV, I'm fairly sure it doesn't cover what comes out of the television station.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
The Linux kernel provides CONFIG_DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR to protect against kernel NULL pointer bugs. However, this protection can be disabled via /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr or overridden by an add-on security policy, such as SELinux. The Linux kernel does protect page 0, unless it is configured not to.
CONFIG_DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR: This is the portion of low virtual memory which should be protected from userspace allocation. Keeping a user from writing to low pages can help reduce the impact of kernel NULL pointer bugs.
Unless I am misunderstanding, or the bug is in this code, the Linux kernel is already protected if properly configured. The kernel already prevents this attack.
OK, for us oldies who used to buy "vinyl" records. The more you played the record, the faster it degraded in quality. If you really liked the record, you ended up buying it multiple times.
What were you doing to your records to make them degrade? I still have vinyl records that play just as well today as when I bought them in the 70s.
This was before it was easy to record it onto tape.
Define easy. I owned a real-to-real that was fairly easy to record on. I also owned an 8-track recorder that I picked up just as cassettes were starting to gain popularity. Recording stuff has been a simple matter for at least the last 60 years.
Without a network, the register can't import product prices or export quantities sold. Or are you talking about sneakernetting this information on floppies?
I must be getting old. Most registers I've used can't import anything and export quantities sold on paper. At the end of a shift, you run a report from the register, count the money in the drawer, compare it to the report, then hand the drawer and report to the manager.
You kids and your newfangled networked everything...
The solution is simple. DO NOT BUY DRMed MEDIA! ... Articles like these need to go away IMO.
The solution is simple. However, the articles are needed to remind people of the problem. Otherwise, the solution (non-DRMed media) might go away.
AFAIK, it's illegal to refuse to do business with somebody just because you don't like them.
Millions of "We reserve the right to refuse service" signs might disagree. In my younger days, I was banned from a few all-night cafes for being too loud in the after-bar hours.
Neither Gentoo nor Ubuntu is on the certified products list....
So do any of the approved distributions have the required library versions, or is this one of those "We require you to have 10 years experience with Office 2010" type of things?
If they lose visitors in doing it such that they ultimately lose income and can't afford to provide great exhibits in the first place then the idea you suggest is pointless. If however they can do it without detriment then as you say, they should.
Maybe I'm unique. However, I'd never consider a virtual tour as a replacement for the real experience. Having digital images available would only encourage me to visit.
I a see reply below your post:
It's not just a matter of putting stuff on their websites. If you go to the NHM Libary, they make you sign a form giving them copyright on your own photographs of public domain material. This is a serious problem.
Some time ago, I had the opportunity to visit BodyWorks. It is a traveling exhibit concerning anatomy. I was very disappointed that photography was not allowed. It made me wonder if they were trying to conceal the low quality of the exhibit at first. Going through the exhibit was rushed. It was a hot environment and water was not allowed. I missed a lot of the exhibit. When people asked me about it latter, I recommend they not attend. Not being allowed to record the event for my personal use and the poor environment left me with a poor impression.
The average maried couple has sex 98 times a year...
Citation please. I need to show it to my wife.
Scrolling through the first several posts, I see a lot of posts basically saying RAID is unreliable. I couldn't disagree more. I set up a Linux software RAID 5 file server in my house about 8 years ago. It started as 4 Seagate 120GB drives. Over the years, I've had 3 of those drives fail. I've never lost any data.
I can't afford to go out and pick up the latest and greatest in storage every time a drive fails. I replaced the failed drives with refurbished drives of the same size from random manufactures. I've never had a problem. The RAID is just as fast to access and write to as when the drives were matched. RAID is an excellent strategy if your concern is drive failure and uptime.
As others have pointed out, it won't protect you from accidental deletions and overwrites. Regular backups help in this area. However, if you accidentally delete/overwrite your backup, or the backup fails, you are in the same boat.
For data that just can not be lost, I have a copy on the RAID, and a backup on DVD that gets refreshed every couple of years. Everything else just sits on the RAID.
I've also run a file server at work for about 5 years now. It uses the same setup. I've only had one drive fail there. Again, I've never lost data. I have a redundant server set up that contains a mirror of the primary server. However, I've never needed to restore data from it. It is nice to have when I'm doing updates. Everyone uses the primary server while I test the updates on the redundant server.
Spell check is evil, first thing in the morning.
That depends, did exercising her right to copyright involve illegal searches and dubious proof of identity? Was she awarded hundreds of dollars, per print, over the resale value of the work in question? Did she sue everyone who obtained a copy of her Ode from the paper?
My understanding from the above is that the newspaper received and published a Letter to the Editor that was signed. I've had several Letters to the Editor published with my name. I've never had the editor contact me to verify my identity. It seems to me that it was the Principle who submitted the letter, and signed the girl's name, that is in the wrong. The brief certainly seems to back this up.
The issue presented by this appeal is whether an author who posts an article on myspace.com can state a cause of action for invasion of privacy and/or intentional infliction of emotional distress against a person who submits that article to a newspaper for republication. The trial court concluded not and sustained the demurrer to appellants' complaint without leave to amend.
Ahh, reading further:
The day after Cynthia removed the Ode from her online journal, appellants learned that Campbell [the Principle] had submitted the Ode to the local newspaper, the Coalinga Record, by giving the Ode to his friend, Pamela Pond. Pond was the editor of the Coalinga Record.
So, maybe the newspaper isn't so innocent.
As to the matter of copyright, I see this case did not address it:
Whether the publication of the Ode infringed on any federal copyright protection the Ode may have had (17 U.S.C. ï½ 101 et seq.) is not before this court and we express no opinion on that issue.
I also do not see a copy of the letter. Fair use might come into play if the purpose of publication was criticism.
IANAL, the above is just my take on what I've read. To add to my opinion, now that the girl and her family are safely moved away from that community, I do hope she has republished her Ode. The reaction of the townspeople to the rants of a high school girl are ample proof that Coalinga is not a desirable place to live.