Do you honestly believe that you should be able to sue someone simply for calling them a skank, online or otherwise?
If so, I can't wait till you have a daughter in high school,, you will be an instant millionaire the first week, followed shortly by being bankrupt the next.
So I decided to try to run this magic quiz that can get all my information without my consent. I click on the app, and up pops the standard facebook alert...
Allowing "What Do Quizzes Really Know About You?" access will let it pull your profile information, photos, your friends' info, and other content that it requires to work.
Allow
or cancel
I decided to click "Cancel". Oh damn, the quiz does not work now!
Wow, facebook is TEH EVIL! how dare they ask me if I want to run the quiz or not!
How many of these stories do we have to see before people wake up and realize that the login and security method is irrelevant if the OS itself is compromised?
No, it is an investment plan but the returns are a fixed rate and mandated by law.
You get back what you put in + X %, where X is a fixed number.
If the CPP makes more than X (which it always does because X is just supposed to keep with inflation), that money is just re-invested into the plan to help pay for future recipients.
Actually the opinion of the FSF on the matter is irrelevant, it is only the opinion of the licensor that matters.
For example, see the NMAP license at insecure.org. It is GPL, but if you click through and actually read the license, you will see that to them "linking" to NMAP includes and is not limited to executing the program via a pipe and parsing the output - they view that to be a violation of their license.
Hence my point. Social security should not be a pyramid scheme, and it is not in Canada. In fact the CPP (Canada pension plan) has been proven by external auditors to be actuarially sound for at least the next 75 years.
Has the poster never heard of Time Warner Cable? You know.. the nations second largest cable network and one of the largest ISPs in the US?
Pretty sure Time Warner already owns pipes AND content... seeing how they still own AOL and about a dozen high-traffic websites, not to mention a ton of TV channels and network programs (each of which has substantial web content of course)
The article is about MMO gaming, not gaming as a whole. They are totally different beasts. In terms of sales and revenue almost all of the growth in gaming in the past two years is as a result of the explosion of casual gaming, popularised by the Wii. Casual gaming is about as far from MMO as you can get.
MMO is never going to become mainstream because most people do not become infatuated with their entertainment in such a way that they want to devote hours upon hours to it nightly. This is a uniquely geek trait. Every non-geek I know who has tried out WoW, has enjoyed it at first, but ditched it after a few months, because if you can't commit to it it quickly becomes not very enjoyable.
If a library is GPLv2 licensed, you can't do what you are talking about at all. You can't link GPL code with non GPL compatible code, library or not. You can't take a GPL library and use it in a non-GPL compatible application.
On the other hand if the library is LGPLv2 licensed, then yes, you can do exactly what you are talking about, as that is the whole point of the LGPL - to make sure that any improvement sto the library itself are shared with the community, without requiring the applications using the library to have their code opened.
You are handily forgetting the important fact that movie ticket sales are an ever decreasing source of revenue for the film industry.,
Films usually make more on DVD/BluRay than they do in theater now, not even including pay per view and cable distribution. So quoting only box office sales is a big no-no.
I love articles like this. It is classic Slashdot, elevating something popular mainly only in geekdom to some kind of broad-market status that simply does not exist. For example - World of Warcraft has 11.5 million subscribers worldwide. Yes that sounds like a lot - until you compare it with the number of people who see at least one movie monthly worldwide, which numbers in the many hundreds of millions.
Comparing MMO to Hollywood is a total pile of BS in terms of money alone - don't even get me started on how much less relevant it is on a cultural scale.
You can declare anything you want in a standard form contact.
I can ask you to sign a contract stating that you agree to vote for Nader for the rest of your life or else I get to beat you over the head with a rubber chicken for 8 hours - it does not mean that contract is enforceable.
Yet another run-around the consumer so that they can sell products with a "warranty" then fail to live up to it.
Scenario: 1 month into having my iPod, It suffers a light drop to the floor from the couch. Nothing is wrong with it - but the "drop sensor" records it as exceeding the impact tolerance. 6 months later, the battery fries itself and no longer works. I mail it back - guess what? WARRANTY DENIED for a totally unrelated occurrence.
The use is when you take a bunch of pictures and videos at the baby shower in the morning then bring them over to grandmas house who could not make it.
Instead of being greeted with a blank stare when you ask "where's your laptop so I can show you the pictures", you just beam them onto the wall.
Grandma is happy she can see the pictures / video right away, and you get back into the will.
The FSF may have authorized the GPL, but they have nothing to do with it's application.
If I choose to offer my software under the GPL, the FSF has absolutely nothing to do with that, unless I sign over the copyright to them (not bloody likely).
As such, the only valid interpretation of the "spirit" of the GPL, as it pertains to *MY* software, is *MINE*. That said, the "spirit" of the GPL is totally irrelevant. If it was important to me that all copies of the software be made free as in beer, I should have addedd that as an addendum to the GPl when I decided to license my code under it.
These guys apparently did not, and the GPL actually explicitly states that it is Ok to charge for access to the software (heck the even allow for nominal fees to access the source code), so this dev is SOL AFAICS.
This isn't even a submarine patent, it is just a another piss-poor USPTO decision. There is prior art for this all over the place. Heck the iPhone is prior art, and that is not even old.
And if I as someone who owns a device want to run an app that I know "chews through battery" and/or "leaks memory like a sieve", but I don't care because I only have to run it for a few minutes per day, should that not be my right as a consumer?
I honestly don't get why people constantly defend apple in regards to this. As long as all development is closed off in a "walled garden" I will never buy an iPhone.
Google has it right with Android. A "walled garden" in the app store, *BUT ALSO RETAIN THE ABILITY TO INSTALL MANUALLY* for apps that are not allowed to be sold in the store.
If you have a mixed environment and need to host both Linux VMs and Windows VMs with optimal performance, until now VMWarea and Xen were your best options, because Linux performed sub-optimally under Hyper-V.
Now with this patch Linux will probably perform just as good under Hyper-V as it does in VMWare and Xen.
So now you might be able to be convinced to host your VMs on MIcrosoft's Hyper-V platform, where before it was not even an option.
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Do you honestly believe that you should be able to sue someone simply for calling them a skank, online or otherwise?
If so, I can't wait till you have a daughter in high school,, you will be an instant millionaire the first week, followed shortly by being bankrupt the next.
Allowing "What Do Quizzes Really Know About You?" access will let it pull your profile information, photos, your friends' info, and other content that it requires to work.
Allow or cancel
I decided to click "Cancel". Oh damn, the quiz does not work now!
Wow, facebook is TEH EVIL! how dare they ask me if I want to run the quiz or not!
How many of these stories do we have to see before people wake up and realize that the login and security method is irrelevant if the OS itself is compromised?
No, it is an investment plan but the returns are a fixed rate and mandated by law.
You get back what you put in + X %, where X is a fixed number.
If the CPP makes more than X (which it always does because X is just supposed to keep with inflation), that money is just re-invested into the plan to help pay for future recipients.
Why not just turn it up to 400 degrees and totally melt the platters? No way they're recoverable then.
Actually the opinion of the FSF on the matter is irrelevant, it is only the opinion of the licensor that matters.
For example, see the NMAP license at insecure.org. It is GPL, but if you click through and actually read the license, you will see that to them "linking" to NMAP includes and is not limited to executing the program via a pipe and parsing the output - they view that to be a violation of their license.
Hence my point. Social security should not be a pyramid scheme, and it is not in Canada. In fact the CPP (Canada pension plan) has been proven by external auditors to be actuarially sound for at least the next 75 years.
http://www.aarpinternational.org/resourcelibrary/resourcelibrary_show.htm?doc_id=578480
Has the poster never heard of Time Warner Cable? You know.. the nations second largest cable network and one of the largest ISPs in the US?
Pretty sure Time Warner already owns pipes AND content... seeing how they still own AOL and about a dozen high-traffic websites, not to mention a ton of TV channels and network programs (each of which has substantial web content of course)
Taking a glance at those photos, I would pay more money for the vast majority of them to put their clothing BACK ON.
Wow I never knew the US system was so dense.
Why on earth should the US government pay welfare benefits to a citizen who doe snot even live there?
In Canada, if you're out of the country for 6 months, all your benefits cease, until you come back for 6 months.
No wonder social security is bankrupt in your country.
The article is about MMO gaming, not gaming as a whole. They are totally different beasts. In terms of sales and revenue almost all of the growth in gaming in the past two years is as a result of the explosion of casual gaming, popularised by the Wii. Casual gaming is about as far from MMO as you can get.
MMO is never going to become mainstream because most people do not become infatuated with their entertainment in such a way that they want to devote hours upon hours to it nightly. This is a uniquely geek trait. Every non-geek I know who has tried out WoW, has enjoyed it at first, but ditched it after a few months, because if you can't commit to it it quickly becomes not very enjoyable.
Are you sure the library is GPLv2 and not LGPLv2?
If a library is GPLv2 licensed, you can't do what you are talking about at all. You can't link GPL code with non GPL compatible code, library or not. You can't take a GPL library and use it in a non-GPL compatible application.
On the other hand if the library is LGPLv2 licensed, then yes, you can do exactly what you are talking about, as that is the whole point of the LGPL - to make sure that any improvement sto the library itself are shared with the community, without requiring the applications using the library to have their code opened.
You are handily forgetting the important fact that movie ticket sales are an ever decreasing source of revenue for the film industry.,
Films usually make more on DVD/BluRay than they do in theater now, not even including pay per view and cable distribution. So quoting only box office sales is a big no-no.
I love articles like this. It is classic Slashdot, elevating something popular mainly only in geekdom to some kind of broad-market status that simply does not exist. For example - World of Warcraft has 11.5 million subscribers worldwide. Yes that sounds like a lot - until you compare it with the number of people who see at least one movie monthly worldwide, which numbers in the many hundreds of millions.
Comparing MMO to Hollywood is a total pile of BS in terms of money alone - don't even get me started on how much less relevant it is on a cultural scale.
You can declare anything you want in a standard form contact.
I can ask you to sign a contract stating that you agree to vote for Nader for the rest of your life or else I get to beat you over the head with a rubber chicken for 8 hours - it does not mean that contract is enforceable.
Yet another run-around the consumer so that they can sell products with a "warranty" then fail to live up to it.
Scenario: 1 month into having my iPod, It suffers a light drop to the floor from the couch. Nothing is wrong with it - but the "drop sensor" records it as exceeding the impact tolerance. 6 months later, the battery fries itself and no longer works. I mail it back - guess what? WARRANTY DENIED for a totally unrelated occurrence.
The use is when you take a bunch of pictures and videos at the baby shower in the morning then bring them over to grandmas house who could not make it.
Instead of being greeted with a blank stare when you ask "where's your laptop so I can show you the pictures", you just beam them onto the wall.
Grandma is happy she can see the pictures / video right away, and you get back into the will.
The FSF may have authorized the GPL, but they have nothing to do with it's application.
If I choose to offer my software under the GPL, the FSF has absolutely nothing to do with that, unless I sign over the copyright to them (not bloody likely).
As such, the only valid interpretation of the "spirit" of the GPL, as it pertains to *MY* software, is *MINE*. That said, the "spirit" of the GPL is totally irrelevant. If it was important to me that all copies of the software be made free as in beer, I should have addedd that as an addendum to the GPl when I decided to license my code under it.
These guys apparently did not, and the GPL actually explicitly states that it is Ok to charge for access to the software (heck the even allow for nominal fees to access the source code), so this dev is SOL AFAICS.
What if someone (say, a government agency) does not steal your laptop, but instead, infects it with this compromised BIOS, then just puts it back?
Then just let you run it awhile oblivious, *THEN* later on seize it? You think you're protected, but surprise, you aren't.
It is a lot easier to detect a hardware keylogger or secret camera, than an infected BIOS, unless you are super paranoid.
Ever hear of NMap?
NMap uses a modified GPL license that states that the output from the NMap program itself is subject to copyright and the GPL.
You can't take the output of an NMap run and use it as input into another program unless you either make that program also GPL.
This is absolutely no different than what Wolfram Alpha is claiming, and NMap has been claiming it for years and years.
And NMap is one of many many programs that claim this.
By this definition a bacterium strain or virus would be considered the most intelligent thing on the planet.
This isn't even a submarine patent, it is just a another piss-poor USPTO decision. There is prior art for this all over the place. Heck the iPhone is prior art, and that is not even old.
There is no such sinister motive and I was not trying to imply as such.
They are simply trying to make their Hyper-V product better.
I don't see people harping on VMWare, when they do the exact same thing.
And if I as someone who owns a device want to run an app that I know "chews through battery" and/or "leaks memory like a sieve", but I don't care because I only have to run it for a few minutes per day, should that not be my right as a consumer?
I honestly don't get why people constantly defend apple in regards to this. As long as all development is closed off in a "walled garden" I will never buy an iPhone.
Google has it right with Android. A "walled garden" in the app store, *BUT ALSO RETAIN THE ABILITY TO INSTALL MANUALLY* for apps that are not allowed to be sold in the store.
If you have a mixed environment and need to host both Linux VMs and Windows VMs with optimal performance, until now VMWarea and Xen were your best options, because Linux performed sub-optimally under Hyper-V.
Now with this patch Linux will probably perform just as good under Hyper-V as it does in VMWare and Xen.
So now you might be able to be convinced to host your VMs on MIcrosoft's Hyper-V platform, where before it was not even an option.
So you are worried about crackers breaking into your house and setting up spy cams to steal your banking password?
If they have already broken into your house why would they bother with that? Why not just steal your statements?
Or just use the spy cams to record all your online activity?
Talk about paranoid. This is a pointless argument against the system that holds no merit at all.