we could have ended up with a real control-freak president here.
Please, don't go giving him ideas.
You do know that Bill has been cosying-up to Tony Blair, getting himself knighted, and been popularising his image with youth by getting on stage at charity music events etc., just like politians attempt to do now and then, right?
Actually, there are way too many distro reviews that post screenshots of GNOME or KDE as somehow representative of the distro. Since most distros have similar desktops, the screenshots are pretty irrelevant.
police actually INVESTIGATE a crime. They aren't going to look at one video or piece of evidence, throw him in jail, and call it a day.
You might find that's exactly what they do. Police have been known to chase people through London and shoot them dead based on totally incorrect assumptions.
Besides, the point here, it seems to me, is that the system is approaching that of Nazi Germany, where neighbors were encouraged to spy on each other, and report each other, and so no one felt safe, and anyone could be picked up for interrogation even when they had done nothing wrong... except, perhaps, offend a neighbor, or be unusual in some way.
I wonder how long it'll be before a brain-drain occurs in the UK, with sane people who don't like this sort of abuse of liberty moving to other countries.
"80% of all Gestapo investigations were started in response to information provided by denunciations by "ordinary" Germans; while 10% were started in response in to information provided by other branches of the German government and another 10% started in response to information that the Gestapo itself unearthed" -- from Wikipedia's Gestapo article.
In today's Virtual world, physical access to the machine doesn't mean meatspace access.
That's a very good point. I still don't think it means much in terms of comparisons, since most other OSes are similarly vulnerable if their boot sequence is alterable or their raw drives can be accessed, but yeah, that's worth bearing in mind.
Yeah, much as I'd love to gloat, this is pretty meaningless. Even a remote rootkit wouldn't say much if they could fix it easily. Only a series of obvious flaws, negligently unpatched flaws, or fundamentally unfixable flaws are worth talking about.
if you know the protocol, you can interface with oracle, mySQL, sybase, whatever without touching oracle's code, which means oracle's license is irrelevant if all you want is to build a client app.
If that were true, any database system could easily implement all features of the SQL standards. Knowing the language isn't enough; you have to know how to parse that language --- often without losing compatibility with your existing tweaks ---, how to get the required answer given how your database stores stuff, and how to do it all in a reasonably efficient way.
Now that the forking company is 100% bound by the GPL, they must attempt to undo any misplaced fears about the GPL and seek to convince companies that what they really want is a support licene, additional tools, or trained consultants.
Unless BitTorrent / P2P is vindicated in trial, the case will just return with new people involved.
A lot of damage has already been done. BT have blocked TPB since the verdict, and are unlikely to take it back without a fight, given that they've pretended it wasn't a decision related to the trial. Even just here on slashdot, some people have been noticably more anti-piracy since the verdict, it seems to me.
Oh well, it does all make for interesting times, I guess.
Its fairly common in sweden that the first instance of the court system (Tingsrätten) is viewed upon as a bunch of clowns you have to pass to get to the real court.
Yes, and given how corporations are lining up on one side, and how young private citizens are lining up in Sweden, that blood might well come in the form of a civil war one day.
Actually, most users think their computers are FAR from good enough. But until the semantic desktop, or until someone creates DWIM, or speech(-only)-control systems are jargon-free and advertised loudly as an option, then users have nothing to upgrade to, except to play games. If those games keep them pushing the limits long enough though, the big audience should be there for when software types make the leap.
people preferred direct access with jogl than an scene based API
Personally, I much prefer the scenegraph approach. AFAIK, people prefer so-called "direct access" because it's faster when performance is at a premium, like in games on the desktop. I don't really imagine that being an issue online, since bandwidth will still be a major limitation (especially if ISPs don't get off their buts and start providing transfers that match the real bandwidth sold).
On another note... what's with this "retained mode" stuff that Direct3D popularised? Isn't that the same as "scenegraph"?
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Have you considered a beaver?
Hell, just do it from the UK.
You do know that Bill has been cosying-up to Tony Blair, getting himself knighted, and been popularising his image with youth by getting on stage at charity music events etc., just like politians attempt to do now and then, right?
I believe the correct response is "God damn you all to helllllll!!!!"
Well, up until now, it was "only" foreigners dying.
So a cigar then.
Actually, there are way too many distro reviews that post screenshots of GNOME or KDE as somehow representative of the distro. Since most distros have similar desktops, the screenshots are pretty irrelevant.
You might find that's exactly what they do. Police have been known to chase people through London and shoot them dead based on totally incorrect assumptions.
Besides, the point here, it seems to me, is that the system is approaching that of Nazi Germany, where neighbors were encouraged to spy on each other, and report each other, and so no one felt safe, and anyone could be picked up for interrogation even when they had done nothing wrong... except, perhaps, offend a neighbor, or be unusual in some way.
I wonder how long it'll be before a brain-drain occurs in the UK, with sane people who don't like this sort of abuse of liberty moving to other countries.
"80% of all Gestapo investigations were started in response to information provided by denunciations by "ordinary" Germans; while 10% were started in response in to information provided by other branches of the German government and another 10% started in response to information that the Gestapo itself unearthed" -- from Wikipedia's Gestapo article.
Ahh, I didn't know that. This explains why it's been largely the MySQL team's own code that went into it too.
From the sounds of this, he could use any device that supports public key crypto for messages.
That's a very good point. I still don't think it means much in terms of comparisons, since most other OSes are similarly vulnerable if their boot sequence is alterable or their raw drives can be accessed, but yeah, that's worth bearing in mind.
Yeah, much as I'd love to gloat, this is pretty meaningless. Even a remote rootkit wouldn't say much if they could fix it easily. Only a series of obvious flaws, negligently unpatched flaws, or fundamentally unfixable flaws are worth talking about.
If that were true, any database system could easily implement all features of the SQL standards. Knowing the language isn't enough; you have to know how to parse that language --- often without losing compatibility with your existing tweaks ---, how to get the required answer given how your database stores stuff, and how to do it all in a reasonably efficient way.
Not unless they're prepared to rewrite or throw away any parts contributed by other authors under the GPL.
A lot of damage has already been done. BT have blocked TPB since the verdict, and are unlikely to take it back without a fight, given that they've pretended it wasn't a decision related to the trial. Even just here on slashdot, some people have been noticably more anti-piracy since the verdict, it seems to me.
Oh well, it does all make for interesting times, I guess.
Don't you know? Corruption doesn't exist in the west. Only dictorships and other backward countries we want to invade have problems like that.
That's pretty universal, I'm afraid.
I'm pretty sure you'd like to exclude him, if you were the one on trial.
Yes, and given how corporations are lining up on one side, and how young private citizens are lining up in Sweden, that blood might well come in the form of a civil war one day.
Good point :D
Actually, most users think their computers are FAR from good enough. But until the semantic desktop, or until someone creates DWIM, or speech(-only)-control systems are jargon-free and advertised loudly as an option, then users have nothing to upgrade to, except to play games. If those games keep them pushing the limits long enough though, the big audience should be there for when software types make the leap.
It seems to me that copyright terms should be reducing, as the dissemination, proliferation, and hobbyist creation of media increases.
If copyright had evolved in the spirit of the original intent, it'd be completely different too.
Hardly. What they have an open dislike for is lack of software freedom.
Personally, I much prefer the scenegraph approach. AFAIK, people prefer so-called "direct access" because it's faster when performance is at a premium, like in games on the desktop. I don't really imagine that being an issue online, since bandwidth will still be a major limitation (especially if ISPs don't get off their buts and start providing transfers that match the real bandwidth sold).
On another note... what's with this "retained mode" stuff that Direct3D popularised? Isn't that the same as "scenegraph"?