Except it wouldn't be Firefox. Opera Mini isn't Opera, although it uses Opera. Opera Mini is:
A client for an Internet-based service
A specialized, non-HTML markup render
Opera Mini (and for that matter, BitStream BOLT) is a J2ME client for an Internet service. This service involves a server that runs a web browser. For Opera Mini, the server runs a customized copy of Presto. For BitStream BOLT, customized WebKit. The web browser on the server sends back specialized markup and data in a "partially rendered" format - doing a lot of the rendering on the service server, but yet returning rich data back to the client, as opposed to a big image file with a clickmap, Things like complex CSS rules might be render to the client as markup saying, "draw a blue box from 35,15 to 100,85". Text is sent to allow for reflowability.
Firefox for J2ME would mean Mozilla would have to run a server containing a specialized Gecko renderer that outputs a simplified form of the page as simple markup, plus a J2ME client that would finish rendering from the simplified output. Great concept but too many problems.
Keep a box at home, run Linux/*BSD/whatever on it. Have SSH on it. Run SSH on a "common" port that's not 22. 21, 23, 56, 69, 80, and 443 are good candidates. For good measure, keep a small web-based admin util on some other common port (with SSL!) in case you guessed the SSH port wrong.
Use SSH as a proxy. I forgot exactly how to acomplish this on *nix but on Windows... Use PuTTY. Connection -> SSH -> Tunnels. Set a random source port (which is what port you connect to on your local machine) and select the "Dynamic" option. IPv4/IPv6 option should stay to default "Auto". An entry in the list should read something like D12345 where 12345 is the port. Use localhost:port as a SOCKS proxy.
And for *nix, there's this guide that should for for all OSes with standard ssh: Guide!
Except that they aren't using so much as one line of Nullsoft code. The license agreement in question is a service license, not a software license. It just says that any software that uses the SHOUTcast service cannot be published as source code, or require that it's source code be published, or even allow for people to make copies for gratis.
In other words, it's saying that GPL'd software can't send commands to their server and get back data. No matter who wrote the damn code.
After all, the name of the specific license that AOL is pushing is "SHOUTcast Radio Directory License Agreement and Terms of Service".
For more clarification as to why this service license can dictate what license the client software utilizes (or at least, why AOL thinks they can dictate the license of client software that connects to their directory), let's take a little look at their "license".
First, it refers to the client software as an "Integrated Product". This term is defined, by the license, as "a version of Your Product into which the API is integrated, whether in "works like," "works like-looks like," prototype, intermediate form, final form, or other form."
"API", is then defined by the license as "the specifications, code samples, header files, libraries, and applications provided to You by Nullsoft, and any changes, alterations, corrections, or enhancements made thereto at any time by Nullsoft."
Note the text I put in bold, "the specifications". Basically, if I write brand new code from scratch, and it can connect to the SHOUTcast Directory, then it somehow must conform to these specifications (even if I did not use Nullsoft/AOL's published documents providing these specifications - which are basically the underlying protocol for client/server interaction). As such, even though this is 100% free of Nullsoft code, it conforms to Nullsoft's specifications (as if it didn't, it would be unable to interact with the SHOUTcast Directory server), and is thus supposedly covered under the SHOUTcast Directory Service License, as the software uses the service.
Note: I don't support Nullsoft/Aee-Oh-Hell (AOL)/Whoever-the-fuck-makes-this-shit, even if I sound like I do. I am simply explaining how this license supposedly works, or at least what seems to be Aee-Oh-Hell's interpretation of it.
As with that, I think I might fork VLC and keep the SHOUTcast Directory browser code in the main codebase. Let Aee-Oh-Hell come after me, I'll tell them to go fuck themselves.
Oh, you're one of those vegan dicks that believes we're herbivores and not omnivores.
The enamel contents of your mouth are all the scientifically-proven and accepted evidence you need to believe otherwise.
Unless you're saying it's ok to eat meat (which you put as "animal proteins") as long as it's not cooked (which you put as "heated" - leaving something sitting out for a half hour is enough in some cases to qualify as "heated".)
Either way, I hope someone ties you down, and forces some cooked meat (I've the balls to say "cooked meat", whereas your pussy ass only can say "heated animal proteins") down your throat. Hopefully it'll fortify your testicular fortitude.
Oh, by the way, are your "facts" peer-reviewed and proven? If not, they're just speculation and theory.
I was going to say that the worst part of conservative nutjobs is that they can only destroy the economy once, but no, they can destroy it each and every time the people bring it back.
I think we should just eliminate the users entirely. In the 80s, if you owned a computer, you also had a good understanding about you machine, and probably at least a basic understanding of computer programming. Now, too many idiots who don't care about any of that have computers. I say, you should learn about your machine before you can even purchase it, with penalties starting with five years in prison (or, "Stupidity is now a crime, you are no longer free to go.")
If I can't tell a netop to "fuck off, suck my dick, eat shit and die", and NOT get the shit kicked out of me for it, then the network is too draconian for my tastes.
No, there business model is micro payments. I'm not donating my bandwidth to them.
Why? Do you have to pay more for your bandwidth? Secondly, you're not just paying lip-service to the gave developer; you're also helping out your fellow gamer.
This kinda (sorta) reminds me of a song. I highlighted the important phrases.
I've been caught stealing;
once when I was 5...
I enjoy stealing,
It's just as simple as that. Well, it's just a simple fact,
When I want something,
I don't want to pay for it.
I walk right through the door,
Walk right through the door.
Hey, all right, If I get by, it's mine,
Mine, all mine!
While I like the idea of outlawing Internet Explorer, I have to examine your argument.
First of all, I just tabbed over and google'd for Internet Explorer p2p and Internet Explorer torrent and I could not find anything indicating that IE has built-in peer-to-peer capabilities. While, yes, Internet Explorer can share files by uploading to a web form, this is client-to-server file sharing, not peer-to-peer.
I am aware of a website that hosts a small Flash program for peer-to-peer file sending. It's like YouSendIt, but instead, you open a file into the Flash applet, you give a link to the recipient, and the Flash applet that loads on their end connects to the one on your end, and the file is transferred, sorta like sending files over your favorite chat medium (IRC DCC, MSN, AIM, etc.)
However, in this case, Internet Explorer, nor Adobe Flash are culprits, they are merely runtimes for the Flash application that is actually sending the file.
P.S. I forgot what said Flash-based p2p file-sending website is. If anyone knows what it is, please reply to this article with a link
Because you are otherwise not paying for it. The bandwidth doesn't cost you (usually, but then again, you could be on a 3G connection...), but big companies are billed per GB or whatever. If the game is free for you, this is merely a way you can pay for the game without offering cash.
prohibit peer-to-peer file-sharing programs from being installed without the informed consent of the authorized computer user.
Except there's a distinction between informed consent and just consent. One is where any random idiot just agrees to whatever, the other is where the person knows what they are agreeing on.
Essentially, the majority of users would (luckily) be legally banned from using P2P because they're fucking stupid.
Good thing, too, most of those idiots just crud up the place with 64kbit/s MP3s that lack properly-formatted ID3 tags.
On another note, I hate it when idiots mis-tag songs. "Stone Temple Pilots" is "Stone Temple Pilots", not "stone temple pilots" or "Stone temple pilots" or "stone tempul pilot" or whatever idiots will come up with.
Worse is when idiots do not know the name of the song, and they merely assume that the first few words of the chorus is the name of the song. "Have you heard that new Korn song called God Pains Me?" "Uhh. no, how does it go?" "Well, they keep singing 'got the life' at the end over and over". "The song is called Got The Life." "No, it's God Pains Me! That's the first few words of the chrous!" Durr, fucking idiots.
This way, people with no money and lots of time can enjoy the game, they aren't completely locked out
Well, that explains the 15% unemployment rate, people are too busy playing video games instead of working!
What? If you have no money, and lots of time to kill, why not kill it with a nice job?
But I suppose the majority of those unemployed slobs are Republicans, trying to forcefully inflate the unemployment rate, in hopes to make Obama look bad or something else equally stupid.
BREW apps have the limitation that it takes a bit of money paying VeriSign for x number of times you can get your binaries signed before you can even get the software to load binaries on your device (BREW AppLoader).
I got a cheap Kyocera Melo S1300, and it's a BREW platform device, which I thought it would be nice to program for a shit featurephone in something other than shit Java. BREW does allow you to code in C/C++
Worse, is that the BREW SDK requires Visual Studio, which I don't have. Fuck that!
I think the iPhone is the proprietary, capitalist software platform we were all trying to get away from, and yet, we're actually *buying* software for it?
The Original iPhone was never sold in New Zealand, I bought an imported, Jailbroken and Unlocked iPhone off the internet. Its turned out to be one of the best purchases of my life, I got it for about 600 USD, it had been jailbroken etc for me, and I run it on a prepaid plan. I only have a Jailbroken and Unlocked iPhone because it needs to be that way, without that, I would be stuck on the "please activate" screen, stuck to only ringing an emergency number (and, it might be "911" which is pretty much useless in NZ where we use "111"!)
The original iPhone is GSM. As part of the GSM standard, every cell tower must accept any phone attempting to make an outgoing call to 112, and then route the call to the local emergency number, regardless if it really is 112 or not., as some nations have, e.g., 08, as the emergency number, and phones that are that locked down might not recognize 08 as an emergency number (especially cheap handsets that were imported), but 112 is specified as the universal emergency number in the GSM spec, so that is guaranteed to work, as long as the cell tower fully implements GSM, down to the letter.
but if so then it's still ridiculous to claim that anything like 100% of those pirated apps would have been legitimately purchased if there was no other choice, more likely they'd just not bother with it.
I guess you missed over this part:
A fair estimate of the proportion of people who would have used the App Store if they did not use pirated applications is about 10%.
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Except it wouldn't be Firefox. Opera Mini isn't Opera, although it uses Opera. Opera Mini is:
Opera Mini (and for that matter, BitStream BOLT) is a J2ME client for an Internet service. This service involves a server that runs a web browser. For Opera Mini, the server runs a customized copy of Presto. For BitStream BOLT, customized WebKit. The web browser on the server sends back specialized markup and data in a "partially rendered" format - doing a lot of the rendering on the service server, but yet returning rich data back to the client, as opposed to a big image file with a clickmap, Things like complex CSS rules might be render to the client as markup saying, "draw a blue box from 35,15 to 100,85". Text is sent to allow for reflowability.
Firefox for J2ME would mean Mozilla would have to run a server containing a specialized Gecko renderer that outputs a simplified form of the page as simple markup, plus a J2ME client that would finish rendering from the simplified output. Great concept but too many problems.
Except the only seriously effective method mentioned here is already widely known. SSH tunneling, duh! They don't need Slashdot to figure that out!
This is a really simple problem to solve.
Keep a box at home, run Linux/*BSD/whatever on it. Have SSH on it. Run SSH on a "common" port that's not 22. 21, 23, 56, 69, 80, and 443 are good candidates. For good measure, keep a small web-based admin util on some other common port (with SSL!) in case you guessed the SSH port wrong.
Use SSH as a proxy. I forgot exactly how to acomplish this on *nix but on Windows... Use PuTTY. Connection -> SSH -> Tunnels. Set a random source port (which is what port you connect to on your local machine) and select the "Dynamic" option. IPv4/IPv6 option should stay to default "Auto". An entry in the list should read something like D12345 where 12345 is the port. Use localhost:port as a SOCKS proxy.
And for *nix, there's this guide that should for for all OSes with standard ssh: Guide!
Too late, ICANN already approved .xxx
Except that they aren't using so much as one line of Nullsoft code. The license agreement in question is a service license, not a software license. It just says that any software that uses the SHOUTcast service cannot be published as source code, or require that it's source code be published, or even allow for people to make copies for gratis.
In other words, it's saying that GPL'd software can't send commands to their server and get back data. No matter who wrote the damn code.
After all, the name of the specific license that AOL is pushing is "SHOUTcast Radio Directory License Agreement and Terms of Service".
For more clarification as to why this service license can dictate what license the client software utilizes (or at least, why AOL thinks they can dictate the license of client software that connects to their directory), let's take a little look at their "license".
First, it refers to the client software as an "Integrated Product". This term is defined, by the license, as "a version of Your Product into which the API is integrated, whether in "works like," "works like-looks like," prototype, intermediate form, final form, or other form."
"API", is then defined by the license as "the specifications, code samples, header files, libraries, and applications provided to You by Nullsoft, and any changes, alterations, corrections, or enhancements made thereto at any time by Nullsoft."
Note the text I put in bold, "the specifications". Basically, if I write brand new code from scratch, and it can connect to the SHOUTcast Directory, then it somehow must conform to these specifications (even if I did not use Nullsoft/AOL's published documents providing these specifications - which are basically the underlying protocol for client/server interaction). As such, even though this is 100% free of Nullsoft code, it conforms to Nullsoft's specifications (as if it didn't, it would be unable to interact with the SHOUTcast Directory server), and is thus supposedly covered under the SHOUTcast Directory Service License, as the software uses the service.
Note: I don't support Nullsoft/Aee-Oh-Hell (AOL)/Whoever-the-fuck-makes-this-shit, even if I sound like I do. I am simply explaining how this license supposedly works, or at least what seems to be Aee-Oh-Hell's interpretation of it.
As with that, I think I might fork VLC and keep the SHOUTcast Directory browser code in the main codebase. Let Aee-Oh-Hell come after me, I'll tell them to go fuck themselves.
Oh, you're one of those vegan dicks that believes we're herbivores and not omnivores.
The enamel contents of your mouth are all the scientifically-proven and accepted evidence you need to believe otherwise.
Unless you're saying it's ok to eat meat (which you put as "animal proteins") as long as it's not cooked (which you put as "heated" - leaving something sitting out for a half hour is enough in some cases to qualify as "heated".)
Either way, I hope someone ties you down, and forces some cooked meat (I've the balls to say "cooked meat", whereas your pussy ass only can say "heated animal proteins") down your throat. Hopefully it'll fortify your testicular fortitude.
Oh, by the way, are your "facts" peer-reviewed and proven? If not, they're just speculation and theory.
There's the AT&T confirmation. Look at the SIM card next to the 16GB microSD card. It's an AT&T SIM.
You must be a shithead Indian fucker who can't speak English worth a shit.
Seriously, now, grow up.
Yes, and Michael Dell is considering privatizing the company.
So, Mr. Stockholder, you better hope he doesn't do it. That means the end of your stock.
Hey, look, it's SlashTroll2005!
I was going to say that the worst part of conservative nutjobs is that they can only destroy the economy once, but no, they can destroy it each and every time the people bring it back.
Freenode's policy is like... uhh... bland? Booze, sex, and rock and roll is what they need.
I think we should just eliminate the users entirely. In the 80s, if you owned a computer, you also had a good understanding about you machine, and probably at least a basic understanding of computer programming. Now, too many idiots who don't care about any of that have computers. I say, you should learn about your machine before you can even purchase it, with penalties starting with five years in prison (or, "Stupidity is now a crime, you are no longer free to go.")
If I can't tell a netop to "fuck off, suck my dick, eat shit and die", and NOT get the shit kicked out of me for it, then the network is too draconian for my tastes.
No, there business model is micro payments. I'm not donating my bandwidth to them.
Why? Do you have to pay more for your bandwidth? Secondly, you're not just paying lip-service to the gave developer; you're also helping out your fellow gamer.
This kinda (sorta) reminds me of a song. I highlighted the important phrases.
I've been caught stealing;
once when I was 5...
I enjoy stealing,
It's just as simple as that.
Well, it's just a simple fact,
When I want something,
I don't want to pay for it.
I walk right through the door,
Walk right through the door.
Hey, all right, If I get by, it's mine,
Mine, all mine!
While I like the idea of outlawing Internet Explorer, I have to examine your argument.
First of all, I just tabbed over and google'd for Internet Explorer p2p and Internet Explorer torrent and I could not find anything indicating that IE has built-in peer-to-peer capabilities. While, yes, Internet Explorer can share files by uploading to a web form, this is client-to-server file sharing, not peer-to-peer.
I am aware of a website that hosts a small Flash program for peer-to-peer file sending. It's like YouSendIt, but instead, you open a file into the Flash applet, you give a link to the recipient, and the Flash applet that loads on their end connects to the one on your end, and the file is transferred, sorta like sending files over your favorite chat medium (IRC DCC, MSN, AIM, etc.)
However, in this case, Internet Explorer, nor Adobe Flash are culprits, they are merely runtimes for the Flash application that is actually sending the file.
P.S. I forgot what said Flash-based p2p file-sending website is. If anyone knows what it is, please reply to this article with a link
Because you are otherwise not paying for it. The bandwidth doesn't cost you (usually, but then again, you could be on a 3G connection...), but big companies are billed per GB or whatever. If the game is free for you, this is merely a way you can pay for the game without offering cash.
Except there's a distinction between informed consent and just consent. One is where any random idiot just agrees to whatever, the other is where the person knows what they are agreeing on.
Essentially, the majority of users would (luckily) be legally banned from using P2P because they're fucking stupid.
Good thing, too, most of those idiots just crud up the place with 64kbit/s MP3s that lack properly-formatted ID3 tags.
On another note, I hate it when idiots mis-tag songs. "Stone Temple Pilots" is "Stone Temple Pilots", not "stone temple pilots" or "Stone temple pilots" or "stone tempul pilot" or whatever idiots will come up with.
Worse is when idiots do not know the name of the song, and they merely assume that the first few words of the chorus is the name of the song. "Have you heard that new Korn song called God Pains Me?" "Uhh. no, how does it go?" "Well, they keep singing 'got the life' at the end over and over". "The song is called Got The Life." "No, it's God Pains Me! That's the first few words of the chrous!" Durr, fucking idiots.
This way, people with no money and lots of time can enjoy the game, they aren't completely locked out
Well, that explains the 15% unemployment rate, people are too busy playing video games instead of working!
What? If you have no money, and lots of time to kill, why not kill it with a nice job?
But I suppose the majority of those unemployed slobs are Republicans, trying to forcefully inflate the unemployment rate, in hopes to make Obama look bad or something else equally stupid.
BREW apps have the limitation that it takes a bit of money paying VeriSign for x number of times you can get your binaries signed before you can even get the software to load binaries on your device (BREW AppLoader).
I got a cheap Kyocera Melo S1300, and it's a BREW platform device, which I thought it would be nice to program for a shit featurephone in something other than shit Java. BREW does allow you to code in C/C++
Worse, is that the BREW SDK requires Visual Studio, which I don't have. Fuck that!
Richard Stallman wrote an essay supporting free and open source philosophy by using that same concept: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.html
I think the iPhone is the proprietary, capitalist software platform we were all trying to get away from, and yet, we're actually *buying* software for it?
This also means that the GSM specification says that every GSM phone must allow calls to 112, no matter what.
The Original iPhone was never sold in New Zealand, I bought an imported, Jailbroken and Unlocked iPhone off the internet. Its turned out to be one of the best purchases of my life, I got it for about 600 USD, it had been jailbroken etc for me, and I run it on a prepaid plan. I only have a Jailbroken and Unlocked iPhone because it needs to be that way, without that, I would be stuck on the "please activate" screen, stuck to only ringing an emergency number (and, it might be "911" which is pretty much useless in NZ where we use "111"!)
The original iPhone is GSM. As part of the GSM standard, every cell tower must accept any phone attempting to make an outgoing call to 112, and then route the call to the local emergency number, regardless if it really is 112 or not., as some nations have, e.g., 08, as the emergency number, and phones that are that locked down might not recognize 08 as an emergency number (especially cheap handsets that were imported), but 112 is specified as the universal emergency number in the GSM spec, so that is guaranteed to work, as long as the cell tower fully implements GSM, down to the letter.
but if so then it's still ridiculous to claim that anything like 100% of those pirated apps would have been legitimately purchased if there was no other choice, more likely they'd just not bother with it.
I guess you missed over this part:
A fair estimate of the proportion of people who would have used the App Store if they did not use pirated applications is about 10%.