I think that it is about time that governments passed laws stipulated that licences only be allowed to add to your legal rights and not be allowed to restrict actions which would be allowed in the absence of the licence.
Nope, not the BCC: function, using that would be OK. The problem comes when the complete recipient list is shown in either the To: or Cc: header, thus allowing all recipients to see who else has signed up for (or is being spammed with) that information.
4) Don't include the email addresses of everyone in the mailing list in the header of your email. Doing that might not only make it spam, but also actually be illegal. IANAL but I would be surprised if this did not fall foul of the EU Data Protection rules.
If creative commons material were to be forced to be "protected" by Digital Rights Management, then said DRM would have to enforce the right to make copies, derivative works etc as mandated by the copyright owner.
Despite what the story says, it is NOT all downloads which count. If you look at the chart rules (http://www.theofficialcharts.com/docs/NEW_Single_ Chart_Rules_2007.pdf, there are very stringent conditions on a downloaded track being counted for the chart. Amongst these are the minimum dealer price of £0.40 per track. This will immediately preclude any tracks released under Creative Commons etc. It also only seems to apply to track downloaded from 'official' online retailers.
How is linking on a web page any different than the references and citations that have been in printed material, and probably hand written before that, almost forever? The only difference is that it automates the procedure of 'going to the appropriate stack, finding the referenced book or article, and opening it at the appropriate page'.
Yet none of those differences have any effect on supporting users of the application. Things like different versions of glibc might make a difference...
It is now catch 22. Everybody uses MySQL because everyone uses MySQL. Everyone used WordPerfect, that is until almost overnight everyone was using Word.
As it should be relatively simple to check that SH do not do business in Illinois, could the person who falsely swore that they do not be charged with perjury?
Add 4. If anyone else (of course having seen neither the patent application nor the implementation of the patent as would be required by 1. & 2.) either files a patent or brings to market something which would have infinged the applied for patent, then declare the patent application invalid.
But do not forget that what is the 'mainstream' can change almost overnight. To take 2 example, CP/M->(MS/PC)DOS->Windows and WordStar->Wordperfect->MS Word. In each of these cases, the then mainstream system was dominant with only a few people using the product which would become its successor. Then, almost as though someone clicked their fingers, nearly everyone was using the successor system with those still using the previous 'mainstream' product in a small minority. There is nothing to say that this might happen again, with hardware platform, operating system and/or an application.
As you were accessing your own computer, the Computer Misuse Act does not apply. If they had insisted that it did, then all you would have to do is give yourself written permission to remotely access your own computer.
The thing I do not like about the LSB is that it seems to be pampering too much to the desires of the closed source application suppliers who only ship binaries not source. When the application is available in source form, many of the issued addressed by the LSB become either irrelevant or much less important. The binary distributions can build binaries for RPMs, debs etc for their own distribution and for the most part, users can install from source using the 'standard' "./configure; make; sudo make install" without having to worry about having the exact layout and library versions mandated by the LSB.
Multimedia support for Linux is not that bad. I have yet to encounter anything which Vlc, xine and mplayer cannot play. While I have not done much with it, I believe that the format conversion software (eg transcode) is also extremely capable. Do not forget that linux has been used by Hollywood studios for generating computer animations.
If the five programmers from the five companies all come up with the same solution to the problem, surely NONE of them should get a patent as it would not pass the obviousness requirement.
Nor should it matter where it downloaded from. Why should a download from iTunes count but (a paid) one from magnatune or from an artist's own website not count?
True that the cards have a mag stripe, but when you (the cardholder) put your card into the reader (as opposed to handing it to the shop assistant) then there is no way for the mag stripe to be read.
They should accept the diagnostics because it is the drive itself reporting the problems through the (OS agnostic) SMART interface. So it should not matter whether the user is running Linux, Windows or an-other OS.
It makes it a lot easier to teach how the computer works if you have the source code to all of the software, both OS and applications, running on it. That way the students can both learn by studying the source and experiment by making changes.
I am sure that the provision many (in computing terms) years ago of the Unix source code to educational establishments not only helped many students learn about computing and provided ready made material for the classes but also helped to spread the use of Unix in industry.
What it needs is for a government to make a law that a 'licence' is only allowed to permit activities which would otherwise not be allowed. That a licence is not allowed to remove rights which the licensee would have in the absence of the licence. So that the licence or conditions accompanying a copy of a copyright work may allow the owner (or recipient) of the copy to perform actions which would otherwise be reserved for the copyright owner, but may not restrict the rights given to the owner of the copy by copyright law.
Part of the issue is caused by the fact that in most of the existing network is asymmetric in capacity,
Is that correct? Apart from the 'last mile' (ADSL or 56K dial-up) is not most of the internet (including that in the ISP's datacentres) made up of routers/switches/links etc that have the same rate in both directions?
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I think that it is about time that governments passed laws stipulated that licences only be allowed to add to your legal rights and not be allowed to restrict actions which would be allowed in the absence of the licence.
Nope, not the BCC: function, using that would be OK. The problem comes when the complete recipient list is shown in either the To: or Cc: header, thus allowing all recipients to see who else has signed up for (or is being spammed with) that information.
If creative commons material were to be forced to be "protected" by Digital Rights Management, then said DRM would have to enforce the right to make copies, derivative works etc as mandated by the copyright owner.
Despite what the story says, it is NOT all downloads which count. If you look at the chart rules (http://www.theofficialcharts.com/docs/NEW_Single_ Chart_Rules_2007.pdf, there are very stringent conditions on a downloaded track being counted for the chart. Amongst these are the minimum dealer price of £0.40 per track. This will immediately preclude any tracks released under Creative Commons etc. It also only seems to apply to track downloaded from 'official' online retailers.
If you do a 'whois' search on the IP address given for the 'Orange' ISP it shows the owner as being Wanadoo Netherlands.
Orange is part of Wanadoo who are known to be both spam friendly and to host spamvertised web sites. So maybe listing Orange is not such a bad idea.
How is linking on a web page any different than the references and citations that have been in printed material, and probably hand written before that, almost forever? The only difference is that it automates the procedure of 'going to the appropriate stack, finding the referenced book or article, and opening it at the appropriate page'.
Yet none of those differences have any effect on supporting users of the application. Things like different versions of glibc might make a difference...
It is now catch 22. Everybody uses MySQL because everyone uses MySQL.
Everyone used WordPerfect, that is until almost overnight everyone was using Word.
As it should be relatively simple to check that SH do not do business in Illinois, could the person who falsely swore that they do not be charged with perjury?
Do not forget that IBM published the source code for the BIOS in the orginal IBM PC technical manual.
Add 4. If anyone else (of course having seen neither the patent application nor the implementation of the patent as would be required by 1. & 2.) either files a patent or brings to market something which would have infinged the applied for patent, then declare the patent application invalid.
But do not forget that what is the 'mainstream' can change almost overnight. To take 2 example, CP/M->(MS/PC)DOS->Windows and WordStar->Wordperfect->MS Word. In each of these cases, the then mainstream system was dominant with only a few people using the product which would become its successor. Then, almost as though someone clicked their fingers, nearly everyone was using the successor system with those still using the previous 'mainstream' product in a small minority. There is nothing to say that this might happen again, with hardware platform, operating system and/or an application.
Except for sites such as Magnatune where they state that the artist gets half of whatever you pay (there is no fixed price) for the dowmload.
As you were accessing your own computer, the Computer Misuse Act does not apply. If they had insisted that it did, then all you would have to do is give yourself written permission to remotely access your own computer.
The thing I do not like about the LSB is that it seems to be pampering too much to the desires of the closed source application suppliers who only ship binaries not source. When the application is available in source form, many of the issued addressed by the LSB become either irrelevant or much less important. The binary distributions can build binaries for RPMs, debs etc for their own distribution and for the most part, users can install from source using the 'standard' "./configure; make; sudo make install" without having to worry about having the exact layout and library versions mandated by the LSB.
Multimedia support for Linux is not that bad. I have yet to encounter anything which Vlc, xine and mplayer cannot play. While I have not done much with it, I believe that the format conversion software (eg transcode) is also extremely capable. Do not forget that linux has been used by Hollywood studios for generating computer animations.
If the five programmers from the five companies all come up with the same solution to the problem, surely NONE of them should get a patent as it would not pass the obviousness requirement.
Nor should it matter where it downloaded from. Why should a download from iTunes count but (a paid) one from magnatune or from an artist's own website not count?
True that the cards have a mag stripe, but when you (the cardholder) put your card into the reader (as opposed to handing it to the shop assistant) then there is no way for the mag stripe to be read.
They should accept the diagnostics because it is the drive itself reporting the problems through the (OS agnostic) SMART interface. So it should not matter whether the user is running Linux, Windows or an-other OS.
It makes it a lot easier to teach how the computer works if you have the source code to all of the software, both OS and applications, running on it. That way the students can both learn by studying the source and experiment by making changes.
I am sure that the provision many (in computing terms) years ago of the Unix source code to educational establishments not only helped many students learn about computing and provided ready made material for the classes but also helped to spread the use of Unix in industry.
What it needs is for a government to make a law that a 'licence' is only allowed to permit activities which would otherwise not be allowed. That a licence is not allowed to remove rights which the licensee would have in the absence of the licence. So that the licence or conditions accompanying a copy of a copyright work may allow the owner (or recipient) of the copy to perform actions which would otherwise be reserved for the copyright owner, but may not restrict the rights given to the owner of the copy by copyright law.
Part of the issue is caused by the fact that in most of the existing network is asymmetric in capacity,
Is that correct? Apart from the 'last mile' (ADSL or 56K dial-up) is not most of the internet (including that in the ISP's datacentres) made up of routers/switches/links etc that have the same rate in both directions?