Amazing, isn't it? It's like there was actual evidence dating from before Bush's inauguration that could lead one to honestly conclude that Iraq and Al Qaeda were, if not bosom buddies, at least allies of convenience.
Yeah, no doubt. And "Saddam Hussein's Iraq & Osama Bin Laden linked to USS Cole bomb" is #3, and #1's blurb says something simlilar to #2 "al Qaeda reached an understanding with the government of Iraq that al Qaeda would not work against that government"
Creepy.
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... you need to be suspicious whether you're inside the trusted cloud or not, and when it fails, the house of cards tends to collapse.
There's nothing worse then when your cards are in the clouds and the house falls down. Was Vint a partial inspiration for Zapp Brannigan by any chance?
If we hit that bull's eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.
Hey, the article was tagged "YOUR rights online," talking to ME. I'm not canadian, it's not affecting MY rights. WHAT'S THE DEAL!?!?
Here, try this as an expermient then. Grab a domain, WINTERGLOWINGHEARTS.COM will do and start selling snowglobes with the words Vancouver - Winter 2010 on them.
If no one hassles you then, yes, you're right; it has nothing to do with you. Please return to your regularly scheduled programming.
I would be willing to stake my Slashdot karma on the prediction that OpenOffice or a reasonable facsimile will always exist as a product I can download and run on my own hardware. E-mail, well I could always use my ISP for my e-mail or even running my own mail server isn't out of the question but the nature of e-mail is that it has to exist somewhere and for most people it's not practical to run their own mail server. And as long as I can still buy HDDs I'll never be reliant on Google or MS to access my photos, music, movies, or documents. Even if Windows eventually becomes nothing more than a thin client connecting to the MS mothership I'm sure I'll still be able to grab a Linux ISO and continue using a real operating system on my own hardware.
And that we can thank our Dear RMS for.
Thanks papa bear.
Sean
and of course thousands of others, but we're talking about rms right now
Most of you IT people are libertarians, this is what a free market does to you. Don't like it? Find another job.
What does the government of CA setting legislation that prohibits people from suing their employer over what they perceive to be unfair treatment have to do with a free market?
I find it a bit weird that so many people bitch a blue streak all day long about how much "Apple sucks"until they have a chance to run OS X on a PC. Then it's like "kewl dewd, I can't wait to do that!". What's up with that?
There are like 11 posts as I write this. How can you say "so many people" here? Or are you just pre-judging the/. crowd because it's fashionable? Ooh, look at all the rabid fanbois. What's up with that?
Apparently gambling911 took a shot at using Drupal and have lost.
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It's obvious the AGPL is designed to protect a user's freedom to understand the code running on *their* machine. It is essentially designed to ensure that people can not take a network based program, make changes to it and utilize it on public networks without sharing the source.
It is so a developer can decide that they don't want people setting up servers using their code that end users then access without sharing their modifications with those end users. It's all well and good to say "hey, I'm just using it! I don't need to share my changes with you." but when your running some type of web based or net based software where the code is downloaded and executed on an end user's PC you are distributing that code in a binary format. Not sharing the source with your modifications to it , to me anyway, defeats the purpose of free software.
freedom 1 guarentees *me* that I can study *your* changes when I run *your* code on my computer, or my phone, or my dvr or my tivo, or whatever. If I get a *modified* copy of it from your server in binary format to run on my device I want the freedom to get the code as well.
The FSF came up with a license that's suits the modern age of ajax and SaaS. It allows a developer to *choose*, yes it is the developer's choice, to go with a license that ensures that, if their code is modified and used in a network environment where the code is de facto distributed to be run on a users device, all of these users running the code can also get the full package to study, modify and pass to the next user if they choose.
The FSF left this language out of the GPL v3 intentionally and left it in the AGPL because it suits a different type of program. Developers need to decide what model their software falls under and use the appropriate license.
Personally I applaud the FSF's ability to come up with both options without violating the spirit of free software.
I can understand how this could be twisted in a legalese kind of way to meet your view of it but IMO to say that the AGPL is not a free software license is disengenuous at best and seems to me to be nothing more then trolling.
Link to Ray's blog with "RIAA" or "The truth about the RIAA" as the anchor text, and with "RIAA" as the title text. Writing a a few paragraphs of commentary about the situation will help further improve his page ranking as it increases the relevance of the links.
That is a good idea so I decided to join in. I've created a blog (a bit lite on content, I know!:-) ) as well. You can read all about the RIAA, it's litigation history and the truth about their conduct on Ray's blog, Recording Industry vs. The People
Right now Ray's blog is #9 on a simple google search for RIAA. Hopefully all the publicity this is guaranteed to garner will shoot him up to the top.:-)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't a Stateside judge just quash something like this a few weeks ago?
Yup, but my answer is going to be pretty much worthless, because I don't have a link available for you. Try searching Slash stories from a couple weeks ago.
...you can bet they will jump on this at their earliest opportunity:
"...Metzger adds that the inner workings of the chip, known as its instruction set, have not yet been disclosed, making it difficult to know if or how any x86 patents may have been breeched."
Intel may be able to put up a roadblock or two over this.
Part of China's reasoning behind this has to do with US export laws concerning microprocessors. From TFA:
"Federal laws also prohibit the export of state-of-the-art microprocessors from the United States to China, meaning that microchips shipped to China are usually a few generations behind the newest ones in the West."
So if (when?) Intel does lose business because of this it will be interesting to see if it becomes another canonical example of how federal regulation hurts US businesses and the US economy.
I saw the book at barnes & noble once. I checked the back page... typeset with FrameMaker (or Quark, but it definitely wasn't FREE nor Open Source).
Well if you follow the OP link to Amazon and then use their "Look inside" feature you can see the front cover, back cover and front and back flaps and they don't say anything about FrameMaker or Quark. So I call shenanigans.
While I believe it would be great for people to contribute to Free Software by buying a copy of Free as in Freedom from Amazon I would like to also point out (in a spirit that I hope RMS will appreciate) that you can read it online for free as well here.
As far as I'm concerned, pay or not, the more people that read it the better.
As a user of Free Software for about 10 years now I would just like to say that I really appreciate the efforts of the FSF. No matter how much RMS is bashed and doubted he sticks to his ethics and invariably the projections he makes seem to come true to at least some extent.
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Amazing, isn't it? It's like there was actual evidence dating from before Bush's inauguration that could lead one to honestly conclude that Iraq and Al Qaeda were, if not bosom buddies, at least allies of convenience.
Yeah, no doubt. And "Saddam Hussein's Iraq & Osama Bin Laden linked to USS Cole bomb" is #3, and #1's blurb says something simlilar to #2 "al Qaeda reached an understanding with the government of Iraq that al Qaeda would not work against that government"
Creepy.
Nice.
... you need to be suspicious whether you're inside the trusted cloud or not, and when it fails, the house of cards tends to collapse.
There's nothing worse then when your cards are in the clouds and the house falls down. Was Vint a partial inspiration for Zapp Brannigan by any chance?
If we hit that bull's eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.
winter2010.com, vancouver2010.com, all taken.
WinterGlowingHearts.com is free! Grab it while you can! :-)
Some chinese company got 2010.com, ha, ha*.
*in my best nelson
Hey, the article was tagged "YOUR rights online," talking to ME. I'm not canadian, it's not affecting MY rights. WHAT'S THE DEAL!?!?
Here, try this as an expermient then. Grab a domain, WINTERGLOWINGHEARTS.COM will do and start selling snowglobes with the words Vancouver - Winter 2010 on them.
If no one hassles you then, yes, you're right; it has nothing to do with you. Please return to your regularly scheduled programming.
(unfortunately Stallman favors users over developers)
Can't we all just get along?
I would be willing to stake my Slashdot karma on the prediction that OpenOffice or a reasonable facsimile will always exist as a product I can download and run on my own hardware. E-mail, well I could always use my ISP for my e-mail or even running my own mail server isn't out of the question but the nature of e-mail is that it has to exist somewhere and for most people it's not practical to run their own mail server. And as long as I can still buy HDDs I'll never be reliant on Google or MS to access my photos, music, movies, or documents. Even if Windows eventually becomes nothing more than a thin client connecting to the MS mothership I'm sure I'll still be able to grab a Linux ISO and continue using a real operating system on my own hardware.
And that we can thank our Dear RMS for.
Thanks papa bear.
Sean
and of course thousands of others, but we're talking about rms right now
My head explodes at the sheer number of possible meta-jokes hidden here...
That's OK, Mach5 took care of it for you!
Most of you IT people are libertarians, this is what a free market does to you. Don't like it? Find another job.
What does the government of CA setting legislation that prohibits people from suing their employer over what they perceive to be unfair treatment have to do with a free market?
I find it a bit weird that so many people bitch a blue streak all day long about how much "Apple sucks"until they have a chance to run OS X on a PC. Then it's like "kewl dewd, I can't wait to do that!". What's up with that?
There are like 11 posts as I write this. How can you say "so many people" here? Or are you just pre-judging the /. crowd because it's fashionable? Ooh, look at all the rabid fanbois. What's up with that?
Apparently gambling911 took a shot at using Drupal and have lost.
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It's obvious the AGPL is designed to protect a user's freedom to understand the code running on *their* machine. It is essentially designed to ensure that people can not take a network based program, make changes to it and utilize it on public networks without sharing the source.
It is so a developer can decide that they don't want people setting up servers using their code that end users then access without sharing their modifications with those end users. It's all well and good to say "hey, I'm just using it! I don't need to share my changes with you." but when your running some type of web based or net based software where the code is downloaded and executed on an end user's PC you are distributing that code in a binary format. Not sharing the source with your modifications to it , to me anyway, defeats the purpose of free software.
freedom 1 guarentees *me* that I can study *your* changes when I run *your* code on my computer, or my phone, or my dvr or my tivo, or whatever. If I get a *modified* copy of it from your server in binary format to run on my device I want the freedom to get the code as well.
The FSF came up with a license that's suits the modern age of ajax and SaaS. It allows a developer to *choose*, yes it is the developer's choice, to go with a license that ensures that, if their code is modified and used in a network environment where the code is de facto distributed to be run on a users device, all of these users running the code can also get the full package to study, modify and pass to the next user if they choose.
The FSF left this language out of the GPL v3 intentionally and left it in the AGPL because it suits a different type of program. Developers need to decide what model their software falls under and use the appropriate license.
Personally I applaud the FSF's ability to come up with both options without violating the spirit of free software.
I can understand how this could be twisted in a legalese kind of way to meet your view of it but IMO to say that the AGPL is not a free software license is disengenuous at best and seems to me to be nothing more then trolling.
Link to Ray's blog with "RIAA" or "The truth about the RIAA" as the anchor text, and with "RIAA" as the title text. Writing a a few paragraphs of commentary about the situation will help further improve his page ranking as it increases the relevance of the links.
Read the truth about the RIAA here.
Thanks kimvette, good idea.
That is a good idea so I decided to join in. I've created a blog (a bit lite on content, I know! :-) ) as well. You can read all about the RIAA, it's litigation history and the truth about their conduct on Ray's blog, Recording Industry vs. The People
If anything, most of the players' right arms are in better physical condition than the average American's.
I like to use my left actually, just to mix it, um, wait what, games? Um, never mind.
Right now Ray's blog is #9 on a simple google search for RIAA. Hopefully all the publicity this is guaranteed to garner will shoot him up to the top. :-)
What are the legalities of defacing the ID by removing the chip?
Troll? I skimmed the article and didn't see an answer there.
Seems like a valid question to me...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't a Stateside judge just quash something like this a few weeks ago?
Yup, but my answer is going to be pretty much worthless, because I don't have a link available for you. Try searching Slash stories from a couple weeks ago.
Groklaw still has it: McKee vs. AT&T
Here you go:
Little Guy vs. MegaCorp
And who in this case is the MC? Oh, I see it's AT&T. Well what do you know.
Douchiest indeed.
'In just 11 days, we were able to bring a modern Windows application across to Mac and Linux.'
How long would it take to send it back?
It's like the trash in your collage apartment; let it start stinking first and then someone will take it out.
I give it about three days.
...you can bet they will jump on this at their earliest opportunity:
"...Metzger adds that the inner workings of the chip, known as its instruction set, have not yet been disclosed, making it difficult to know if or how any x86 patents may have been breeched."
Intel may be able to put up a roadblock or two over this.
Part of China's reasoning behind this has to do with US export laws concerning microprocessors. From TFA:
"Federal laws also prohibit the export of state-of-the-art microprocessors from the United States to China, meaning that microchips shipped to China are usually a few generations behind the newest ones in the West."
So if (when?) Intel does lose business because of this it will be interesting to see if it becomes another canonical example of how federal regulation hurts US businesses and the US economy.
*citation needed*
Does the first google result for 'dead sea scrolls dvd-rom' seem insufficient?
Utterly.
I saw the book at barnes & noble once. I checked the back page... typeset with FrameMaker (or Quark, but it definitely wasn't FREE nor Open Source).
Well if you follow the OP link to Amazon and then use their "Look inside" feature you can see the front cover, back cover and front and back flaps and they don't say anything about FrameMaker or Quark. So I call shenanigans.
on dvd, I don't understand why it takes two year to put them on the web. Are they adding something? do they need to redo it?
*citation needed*
While I believe it would be great for people to contribute to Free Software by buying a copy of Free as in Freedom from Amazon I would like to also point out (in a spirit that I hope RMS will appreciate) that you can read it online for free as well here.
As far as I'm concerned, pay or not, the more people that read it the better.
As a user of Free Software for about 10 years now I would just like to say that I really appreciate the efforts of the FSF. No matter how much RMS is bashed and doubted he sticks to his ethics and invariably the projections he makes seem to come true to at least some extent.
Long live the FSF.