But to be sentenced guilty of copyright infringement, you first need to be sued by the copyright holder (or its representants). No sane company would sue Google to merely link to them. It would almost be like asking to be removed from the Internet.
Therefore, if TPB is illegal in the US, Google probably also is, but nobody wants to sue them for that, because this is an illegality they're profiting of. Remember that everybody is breaking some law some times, but often nobody cares.
Anyway, maybe have you heard about the troubles Google got into about Google News and the Image search. And it was real copyright infringement these times as Google not only links to but also caches copyright material. BTW, I think caching wouldn't count as copyright infringement in the new copyright French law. The border between fair use and copyright infringement is sometimes quite blurred (and more and more it seems).
Beyond that, *AA likes to go after the poor little guy to make the general public fear, not to get money from them. While companies sueing Google probably have a better incentive into making profit from a search engine - especially when that search engine is a market leader while current outsiders like MSN are offering the same service and I haven't heard of them being sued for that.
Now in both last cases... Has someone really been convicted by the court or everything stopped each time by a settlement ? Because the poor little guy can't afford a lengthy case and Google might not want to open the Pandora Box if being ruled guilty of copyright infringement.
(perhaps China can soon fill this role of a worthy competitor?)
Perhaps not... All your base allready are belong to them.
You know that when you see "Made in China" on your typical US product. And they're putting Gremlins in those products, you know.
That's why US government don't want Lenovo computers. They know that perfectly, but they're hiding the existence of Gremlins to the general public. I fear there's a bigger conspiracy than Roswell here...
From Amnesty International, in English and French too.
I didn't find the article I was looking for, but I already read about the fact that Russia really doesn't sell that much small arms comparatively to other important weapons-selling countries. They however are selling lots of big equipment like airplanes.
Windows Media Photo processes images at 16x16 macroblocks. Microsoft claims that Windows Media Photo offers a perceptible image quality comparable to JPEG 2000
If you use blocks, you will get block effects. While JPEG2000 don't use blocks. So I'm sceptical about that image quality claim... It might be true when you take speed rather than size into account, however.
When an application checks for updates by itself, it's
Protocol fragmentation : each app talks home in its own language, with its own potential vulnerabilities. Also if the language isn't documented, you don't know how much information is leaked as they could send information that wouldn't have been transmitted with a standard documented package management protocol.
Notification fragmentation : each app checks for updates asynchronously, so your notification bar is blinking multiple times when a single check for all apps would have been achieved with an unified system.
As opposed to Firefox (and right about every modern application I've used), which doesn't?
The apps I use do not (this includes Firefox). I'm doing "apt-get update" to check for new versions;)
Oh, you meant "applications for MS-Windows":) That's what happens when you don't have a package management system.;)
Seriously, why isn't MS doing that : when you install an app (MS or 3rd party), it writes somewhere a link to an internet repository, that will be checked when going to Control Panel -> Add/remove apps.
It's not like it's a Linuxism : QNX does that and IIRC, BeOS also did it, but - correct me if I'm wrong - it was more centralized, excluding 3rd parties (thinking of software wallet or something like that). What about MacOS X ?
I had to crawl about 4 levels of header files for each of the variables/records used in the line
You should consider LXR (Linux Cross Reference), it's a very useful tool. You can navigate through kernel source up to 2.6.11 here.
Now, it's not perfect because function pointers still are requiring hard work, and the tool can't understand macro-defined 'nightmare' functions like this one (in kernel/spinlock.c):
vim can be a real surprise when it drops you somewhere into the middle of a file instead of row 1 column 1
Are you using Redhat / Fedora Core ? I've seen that behaviour on Redhat, but it isn't the default on Debian (colorization neither btw). Don't blame vim, it's just some distros having strange default configurations for it;)
I'd appreciate a "strict vi mode"
I guess it's possible... [checking] vi -C should do that. [testing] Well, doesn't seem to work... There's a "set nocompatible" in vimrc, but removing it might not be sufficient, the simple presence of a vimrc file is sufficient for vim to be non vi compatible.
And there's also nvi.
What's that odor ?
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although the range isn't that bad either (100 miles)
Hum, no... FTA, emphasis mine : "With $8 million in funding, he says, he is convinced he can put a consumer version of the X1 into production that meets federal safety standards, has a 100-mile range, and recharges in 4.5 hours."
IOW, given that money he thinks he can achieve an autonomy of 100 miles.
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SWEDISH AUTHORITIES SINK PIRATE BAY
Hmm... How are you going to sink a bay ? Isn't it already full of water ?
But to be sentenced guilty of copyright infringement, you first need to be sued by the copyright holder (or its representants). No sane company would sue Google to merely link to them. It would almost be like asking to be removed from the Internet.
Therefore, if TPB is illegal in the US, Google probably also is, but nobody wants to sue them for that, because this is an illegality they're profiting of. Remember that everybody is breaking some law some times, but often nobody cares.
Anyway, maybe have you heard about the troubles Google got into about Google News and the Image search. And it was real copyright infringement these times as Google not only links to but also caches copyright material. BTW, I think caching wouldn't count as copyright infringement in the new copyright French law.
The border between fair use and copyright infringement is sometimes quite blurred (and more and more it seems).
Beyond that, *AA likes to go after the poor little guy to make the general public fear, not to get money from them. While companies sueing Google probably have a better incentive into making profit from a search engine - especially when that search engine is a market leader while current outsiders like MSN are offering the same service and I haven't heard of them being sued for that.
Now in both last cases... Has someone really been convicted by the court or everything stopped each time by a settlement ? Because the poor little guy can't afford a lengthy case and Google might not want to open the Pandora Box if being ruled guilty of copyright infringement.
(perhaps China can soon fill this role of a worthy competitor?)
Perhaps not... All your base allready are belong to them.
You know that when you see "Made in China" on your typical US product. And they're putting Gremlins in those products, you know.
That's why US government don't want Lenovo computers. They know that perfectly, but they're hiding the existence of Gremlins to the general public. I fear there's a bigger conspiracy than Roswell here...
> > Whenever a free microkernel design comes remotely close to the mindshare of Linux, there may be a basis for discussion.
> QNX
You missed one word... In the free software world, I think L4 is the way to go...
From Amnesty International, in English and French too.
I didn't find the article I was looking for, but I already read about the fact that Russia really doesn't sell that much small arms comparatively to other important weapons-selling countries. They however are selling lots of big equipment like airplanes.
From Wikipedia :
Windows Media Photo processes images at 16x16 macroblocks.
Microsoft claims that Windows Media Photo offers a perceptible image quality comparable to JPEG 2000
If you use blocks, you will get block effects. While JPEG2000 don't use blocks. So I'm sceptical about that image quality claim... It might be true when you take speed rather than size into account, however.
run a patch cord from your soundcard to the soundcard of your friends computer.
:-(
Will work until the next generation, when music will be watermarked and these embedded DRM will be recognized by every audio equipment...
but given the choice between owning DRMed music that you can burn or renting it and watching it all vanish when you stop paying...
What happens when new albums of your favourite artist are only available on Urge ? Where will be the choice ?
Never underestimate the strength of monopolies...
The revolution is called Open Source. And its leader? Linus Torvalds
RMS rolls in his... beard.
Of course, you still have the problem of deciding what is weird traffic
Everything is weird, except what has explicitly been allowed.
That's the way you should configure your firewall...
And classified computers shouldn't be linked to the outside in the first place...
You forgot Save Parliament link :P
All my important communications are ROT-13 encrypted. What key should I give ? ;)
Thanks to pirates, or rather the fear of them, the Intel edition of Apple's OS X is now a proprietary operating system.
...
Shouldn't that be rephrased to :
Thanks to DRM, or rather the fear of them being cracked,
And, uuh... is the source code for the PowerPC kernel still open ?
But it wasn't exactly what I was thinking of.
When an application checks for updates by itself, it's
As opposed to Firefox (and right about every modern application I've used), which doesn't?
;)
:) ;)
The apps I use do not (this includes Firefox). I'm doing "apt-get update" to check for new versions
Oh, you meant "applications for MS-Windows"
That's what happens when you don't have a package management system.
Seriously, why isn't MS doing that : when you install an app (MS or 3rd party), it writes somewhere a link to an internet repository, that will be checked when going to Control Panel -> Add/remove apps.
It's not like it's a Linuxism : QNX does that and IIRC, BeOS also did it, but - correct me if I'm wrong - it was more centralized, excluding 3rd parties (thinking of software wallet or something like that). What about MacOS X ?
apt-get install ntp ntp-server ntp-doc ntpdate
Post services will probably be able to locate him without a ZIP code...
You should consider LXR (Linux Cross Reference), it's a very useful tool. You can navigate through kernel source up to 2.6.11 here.
Now, it's not perfect because function pointers still are requiring hard work, and the tool can't understand macro-defined 'nightmare' functions like this one (in kernel/spinlock.c)
vim can be a real surprise when it drops you somewhere into the middle of a file instead of row 1 column 1
;)
Are you using Redhat / Fedora Core ? I've seen that behaviour on Redhat, but it isn't the default on Debian (colorization neither btw). Don't blame vim, it's just some distros having strange default configurations for it
I'd appreciate a "strict vi mode"
I guess it's possible... [checking] vi -C should do that. [testing] Well, doesn't seem to work...
There's a "set nocompatible" in vimrc, but removing it might not be sufficient, the simple presence of a vimrc file is sufficient for vim to be non vi compatible.
And there's also nvi.
This thread smells the troll, don't you think ? :)
I have yet to see a "proper" non-academic microkernel which lets one part fail while the rest remain.
QNX, but it isn't open source.
VxWorks and a few other would also fit.
Ice anyone ?
:)
Good idea ! Pistachio icecream for me
Wow :)
:)
I wonder how many people even here on Slashdot remember the real mode memory "model"
Anyway, 40Gi pages ought to be enough for everyone
(40Gi is to 64Gi what 640Ki is to 1Mi if anyone wonders...)
although the range isn't that bad either (100 miles)
Hum, no...
FTA, emphasis mine :
"With $8 million in funding, he says, he is convinced he can put a consumer version of the X1 into production that meets federal safety standards, has a 100-mile range, and recharges in 4.5 hours."
IOW, given that money he thinks he can achieve an autonomy of 100 miles.