This law is a grim comment on the intelligence of the Australian people.
Flamebait. As an Australian, I haven't encountered anyone that wants Internet censorship in this form, or the current law which allows Australian-hosted sites with "offensive" content to be taken down. The only reason the existing censorship law was passed was political wheeling and dealing with party politicians who needed the support of an independent MP. I'm betting this one is similar.
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You're = "You are"
You are grammar is attrocrious;)
I did some work for an Australian telco. From what I saw, their stuff ran on big honking UNIX boxes running Digital Unix (ie OSF1). I don't think Linux has made many inroads in yet, but it may happen with time and shrinking budgets.
True.. but according to the Bible, he didn't stay dead either. He's the third on the list of humans that ended up being whisked away to heaven without having to die first.
Hate to tell you this, but it snuck in behind our backs without us noticing. Check out www.ifrro.org/papers/hk_excerpts_laws.pdf , in particular the circumvention device section. That's why Sony was so annoyed at losing the modchip case here, because they had a reasonable legal leg to stand on.
Copyrighting of religious works is nothing new. Most translations of the Bible are copyrighted too, but portions can be reproduced in accordance with certain guidelines (eg what portion of a total book, etc).
Seems like there's a lot of hype and misunderstanding about what this is all about. The journalist writing the article didn't help any, as he didn't seem to understand what this is about either. I work for a company that writes this sort of software, so I should know something about this...
Firstly, this is not really designed for desktop machines, as I understand. The main focus is servers. You link a whole bunch of servers together, set some sort of global policy rules (eg the web server can have as much CPU on as many machines as it wants), and its up to this smart software to intelligently enforce the policy.
Secondly, presuming the software has a fairly substantial cost per seat, who's going to use it on a set of workstations where you can't even predict whether they're going to be turned on or not. Unless you're running really CPU intensive stuff that can be parallelised really well, then what's the point?
Thirdly, I don't think many sysadmins are going to find themselves out of work due to this. There's going to need to be intelligent thought put into setting up this "global policy" stuff in the first place, and both admin and business will need to cooperate to work it out...
Say there is an ISP. This ISP has a reputation for being friendly to spam. In fact, spammers are queueing up for miles to sign up. Even though there are non spammers too, it's the spammers that get noticed.
So if you're a spam recipient, and getting sick of all this, what do you do? Either the ISP isn't restricting spam in its terms of service, or is choosing to simply ignore its terms of service and turn a blind eye to abuse. It may even be encouraging abuse in the way it promotes itself to prospective customers.
Now this fictional ISP would be almost universally condemned here on Slashdot. But change the subject to Napster and spam to copyright infringement and all of a sudden the viewpoint changes.
Let's face it, Napster was harbouring a load of copyright infringement, and became known even to non geeks as _the_ place to download copyrighted music. It's only fair that they got shafted.
This was announceed on one of the Debian mailing lists with a subject of "Debian Woody in less than two minutes". Until I read the mail, I thought that meant that they were just about to release it as stable. Debian deciding to actually release is far bigger news than some Internet speed record.
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You could try products from the company I work for. Check out http://www.aurema.com. Allows setting of CPU shares by user, and is highly customisable.
Umm, that would be the Queen Victoria Building :)
And despite being a Sydneysider, I don't think it has a huge resemblance to the library in AOTC.
This law is a grim comment on the intelligence of the Australian people.
Flamebait. As an Australian, I haven't encountered anyone that wants Internet censorship in this form, or the current law which allows Australian-hosted sites with "offensive" content to be taken down. The only reason the existing censorship law was passed was political wheeling and dealing with party politicians who needed the support of an independent MP. I'm betting this one is similar.
You're = "You are" ;)
You are grammar is attrocrious
Maybe, but your spelling is even more atrocious
I did some work for an Australian telco. From what I saw, their stuff ran on big honking UNIX boxes running Digital Unix (ie OSF1). I don't think Linux has made many inroads in yet, but it may happen with time and shrinking budgets.
Hey, we're talking 'bout Australia. No DMCA there.
Nope, sorry. Google for "digital agenda" Australia.
first they ignore you then they make fun of you then they fight you and then you win gandhi
But what if I don't want to win Gandhi?
True .. but according to the Bible, he didn't stay dead either. He's the third on the list of humans that ended up being whisked away to heaven without having to die first.
of being the only man that didn't die
:)
Close but not quite.
According to the Bible, there were two men with that honour.
Actually, try three men. You forgot Jesus
So Muzak was founded during the Great Depression.
:)
Now we have something to remember it by
Hate to tell you this, but it snuck in behind our backs without us noticing. Check out
www.ifrro.org/papers/hk_excerpts_laws.pdf , in particular the circumvention device section. That's why Sony was so annoyed at losing the modchip case here, because they had a reasonable legal leg to stand on.
In fact, I heard Linus _Torvalds_ made Linux :)
If you want to run Debian with a 2.4 series kernel, theres a 2.4 series boot CD (it was disk 5 of my 7 CD set IIRC).
Ditto the poster below re running testing or unstable.
However, if you prefer configuration via a GUI to text based and config files, then you're probably better off with RH or whatever...
I would think that this is a better still.
Might be slashdotted now, though
this is a better choice
Copyrighting of religious works is nothing new. Most translations of the Bible are copyrighted too, but portions can be reproduced in accordance with certain guidelines (eg what portion of a total book, etc).
Seems like there's a lot of hype and misunderstanding about what this is all about. The journalist writing the article didn't help any, as he didn't seem to understand what this is about either. I work for a company that writes this sort of software, so I should know something about this...
Firstly, this is not really designed for desktop machines, as I understand. The main focus is servers. You link a whole bunch of servers together, set some sort of global policy rules (eg the web server can have as much CPU on as many machines as it wants), and its up to this smart software to intelligently enforce the policy.
Secondly, presuming the software has a fairly substantial cost per seat, who's going to use it on a set of workstations where you can't even predict whether they're going to be turned on or not. Unless you're running really CPU intensive stuff that can be parallelised really well, then what's the point?
Thirdly, I don't think many sysadmins are going to find themselves out of work due to this. There's going to need to be intelligent thought put into setting up this "global policy" stuff in the first place, and both admin and business will need to cooperate to work it out...
Wouldn't this make an excellent Jedi Knight II controller?
- Chris
And exactly how good does an install have to be to impress a Debian fan :)
- Chris
"America's system of government is supposed to work on checks and balances."
Now it works on cheques and bank balances.
If anyone gets in the way of the filming, they just sue them for copyright infringement (don't watch the helicopter, you pirate scum).
Seriously, though, it's not really _that_ much of Sydney, just the CBD. Still close enough for me to watch the action from just near work though!
I'm betting he's an Aussie trying to take pictures of one of the asylum seeker detention centres.
Say there is an ISP. This ISP has a reputation for being friendly to spam. In fact, spammers are queueing up for miles to sign up. Even though there are non spammers too, it's the spammers that get noticed.
So if you're a spam recipient, and getting sick of all this, what do you do? Either the ISP isn't restricting spam in its terms of service, or is choosing to simply ignore its terms of service and turn a blind eye to abuse. It may even be encouraging abuse in the way it promotes itself to prospective customers.
Now this fictional ISP would be almost universally condemned here on Slashdot. But change the subject to Napster and spam to copyright infringement and all of a sudden the viewpoint changes.
Let's face it, Napster was harbouring a load of copyright infringement, and became known even to non geeks as _the_ place to download copyrighted music. It's only fair that they got shafted.
You mean that there are MCSEs here on Slashdot?
Where are they hiding!
This was announceed on one of the Debian mailing lists with a subject of "Debian Woody in less than two minutes". Until I read the mail, I thought that meant that they were just about to release it as stable. Debian deciding to actually release is far bigger news than some Internet speed record.