If you want to steal stuff, you shouldn't be surprised you get caught. Be happy you don't live in my world. You wouldn't go to jail. You'd just have "THIEF" tattooed on your forehead in 3" high letters.
I suspect you are flirting with my girlfriend and accuse you of theft. I even plant evidence in your car and you are convicted. Welcome to the end of your life.
Fastlane's where the UK's fleet lives. Its where they all come back to dock at - its our only nuclear sub base, afaik.
There are often nuclear subs at Plymouth too though I don't know if it is a permanent base or just a refit facility. In fact there is some controversy in the local newspaper this week as a reactor from HMS Vanguard is being cut up for disposal in the dockyard.
and presumably they should also be prosecuting the people who told them about the servers, since pointing to a server that you can infringe copyright at is also prosecutable.. or is it?
If by "quietly" you mean, "telling everyone about how good it is and getting it in the press" then yes I guess so. Ahem. Did the submitter actually read the article they submitted?
There is a difference between 'quietly introduced' and 'announced its launch'
You can scheme quietly to make something happen that you know will be controversial, then implement it and announce the fait accompli. The amount of objections to cause a deinstallation will be vastly more than the amount of objections needed to prevent its installation in the first place.
Except a decent number of papers have unions for the folks who run the presses. Would be an interesting battle.
That battle was fought and lost in the UK 20 years ago when the news was printed on Fleet street. Read all about it at Wapping dispute. In this day and age, the folks running the presses are not necessary.
let us say a car manufacturer invents a wireless device that unlocked your car when you are within a certain range automatically. let us also say they patented this
Actually, devices such as this already exist. I don't know if they are patented. I worked with a guy once (2 years ago) and he gave me a lift home. From work, he just walked up to his car and got in and pressed a button and the engine started. He had a small widget hanging around his neck and the car unlocked the doors and activated the ignition as he approached and got in.
Even if they did patent it, the patent should only cover the technology defined in the patent not the generic 'unlock the door as the owner approaches' method, there has been prior art for that for hundreds of years, it is called having servants.
... if copyright was abolished tomorrow: we could all share our binary copies of Windows, but without source code freedoms 1 and 3 in effect don't exist.
If copyright was abolished, you could download the Microsoft Windows source code from your nearest bittorrent tracker pretty well right away I would have thought, even if the people running the Microsoft corporation didn't release it themselves.. something that big can never remain a secret, and if they did by any means manage to keep a part of it secret, it would be rewritten by somebody else. Be sure of that.
I'd be happy if there were a way to turn it off. I'm quite able to find stuff I'm interested in all by myself.
^This^
I try to tell everybody I know when I see them responding to an advert or pushy sales call to turn away and think. If they really want the item that is being pushed, then go and find it themselves. Just because somebody is in your face saying they are offering a great deal, that does not make it so. In fact, chances are it is quite the opposite. The benefit is all for the company doing the pushing.
Perhaps not, but I bet they use TCP/IP stacks and such that are built into the OS, and I bet the user interface is displayed using GUI libraries that are supplied as standard. Desktop operating systems didn't always come with TCP/IP stacks and GUI libraries, and people used to sell products that supported such features as add-ons.
And, if you think that your super TCP/IP stack is better than the native kernel version, you are free to make your own distro that includes it. If you have a GUI that is way better than X, you are free to make an OS that includes the basic Linux kernel and whatever software you can find that uses your GUI. You can even pay a licence and put commercial software on your distribution and sell it for whatever you want. Cool eh?.
I wonder how all the Linux geeks here would feel if several popular distros converged to leave one dominant player that most people used because it came with everything they could possibly want, and then a minor player sued and the main distro was forced to unbundle everything from the Linux kernel and GNU tools.
Such a think would not happen, because a minor player can make their own distribution and float it on the marketplace. If a major player is found to be supressing competition unfairly then of course they need to be taken down. If they are just better than you then sucks to be you.
I don't see why Microsoft should be required to provide a copy of Opera or any other third party software with a Windows release. What would need to happen is that when you buy a computer in the shop then yes, you would probably get a browser but that would be provided by the OEM or the shop.
If you choose to wipe your OS and install a Microsoft Windows operating system then you would get no browser or perhaps something extremely basic that you could use to download something better (Notepad is basic, MS Paint is basic,..). Your next move is to install a Browser of your choice, just like you currently install a Photo Editing suite, or a CAD suite or a Database suite. Of. Your. Choice.
I would further hope that if Microsoft [as an abusive monopolist] were found to be providing any incentive for businesses to install their browser (or music player, word processor) by default that they would get a massive bitch slap.
I saw it commented further down that "Linux comes with a browser" but thats wrong. Linux is just the kernel, it is the distribution that comes with a browser. This is possible because the licence provided by the linux kernel and the other software included in such distributions is permissive. If Microsoft allowed people to make distributions containing a custom version of Windows, then I don't see any problem with such persons providing such distributions containing third party software. Microsoft don't allow that though and that is their problem.
Unfortunately, the laws mandating archival are relics themselves. For a local example, here in Maine they keep lists of campaign contributions made to various local politicians. But they are only required to hold two years of records, which is basically useless for determining any historical patterns of contributions.
Who are they? Are the lists accessible to the public in any way? If so, request the lists regularly and archive it yourself. Perhaps you can interest a news organisation in doing that..
People have survived on the ocean with nothing to drink but fish blood, which also has essentially the same concentration of salt.
IIRC fish in the sea actually are significantly less salty than the sea. Human blood is much saltier than fish, which is one reason claimed as to why shark attacks are not always fatal - the sharks don't really like the taste. I don't have any references for this though (and just going out, good luck:)
This criminal gang ("The Botnets") are rampaging across the city breaking into cars and stealing the stereos. But, get this, they are all lazy ass fatsos and at the multi-storey carpark they only ever break into cars on the ground level because its too much trouble to walk up to the upper levels. I mean, not many people park up there and these guys are not very good at picking locks anyway. If I had a car, I would park it up a few levels because I like the exercise and I don't like wiping greasy fingerprints off my door all the time. Seems like those other two guys do that too.
Marijuana, what we were talking about, isn't addictive.
[citation needed]
purely anecdotal evidence, I have known people in the past who were addicted to marijuana. One, an ex-girlfriend, could not leave the house without a toke. Emotional dependence you say? Addict she was (probably still is, I left). The other, a guy I knew at university, said he had physical withdrawal symptoms when he gave it up and we didn't see him for a week, he was cowering in his room with the shakes.
I challene you to visit domai.com (NSFW) and tell me what's indecent about those images (naked human beings).
And yet the tagline says 'tasteful nudes of beautiful women'
Not that I'm saying there is anything indecent about those images, but where a site is set up to show naked women? The audience is men looking for pictures of naked women to titilate their erotic fantasies. You know its true.
also it sounds as if Gene Wolfe took inspiration from this story when he wrote 'Soldier in the Mist' which is a totally excellent read (the sequel was pretty good too)
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I suspect you are flirting with my girlfriend and accuse you of theft. I even plant evidence in your car and you are convicted. Welcome to the end of your life.
Gee, imagine if every time something was a teensy bit difficult we didn't even try..
for a moment there, I thought there was breaking news of a supernova visible in the skies above!
There are often nuclear subs at Plymouth too though I don't know if it is a permanent base or just a refit facility. In fact there is some controversy in the local newspaper this week as a reactor from HMS Vanguard is being cut up for disposal in the dockyard.
and presumably they should also be prosecuting the people who told them about the servers, since pointing to a server that you can infringe copyright at is also prosecutable.. or is it?
There is a difference between 'quietly introduced' and 'announced its launch'
You can scheme quietly to make something happen that you know will be controversial, then implement it and announce the fait accompli. The amount of objections to cause a deinstallation will be vastly more than the amount of objections needed to prevent its installation in the first place.
The crater wall might keep the sandworms out too!
please, outline your experience for us in as much detail as you care to publish.
That battle was fought and lost in the UK 20 years ago when the news was printed on Fleet street. Read all about it at Wapping dispute. In this day and age, the folks running the presses are not necessary.
Actually, devices such as this already exist. I don't know if they are patented. I worked with a guy once (2 years ago) and he gave me a lift home. From work, he just walked up to his car and got in and pressed a button and the engine started. He had a small widget hanging around his neck and the car unlocked the doors and activated the ignition as he approached and got in.
Even if they did patent it, the patent should only cover the technology defined in the patent not the generic 'unlock the door as the owner approaches' method, there has been prior art for that for hundreds of years, it is called having servants.
If copyright was abolished, you could download the Microsoft Windows source code from your nearest bittorrent tracker pretty well right away I would have thought, even if the people running the Microsoft corporation didn't release it themselves.. something that big can never remain a secret, and if they did by any means manage to keep a part of it secret, it would be rewritten by somebody else. Be sure of that.
it was made of plastic :(
You forgot to mention that yes, eventually, we are there! Obviously, it works..
^This^
I try to tell everybody I know when I see them responding to an advert or pushy sales call to turn away and think. If they really want the item that is being pushed, then go and find it themselves. Just because somebody is in your face saying they are offering a great deal, that does not make it so. In fact, chances are it is quite the opposite. The benefit is all for the company doing the pushing.
I'm kind of cynical though
And, if you think that your super TCP/IP stack is better than the native kernel version, you are free to make your own distro that includes it. If you have a GUI that is way better than X, you are free to make an OS that includes the basic Linux kernel and whatever software you can find that uses your GUI. You can even pay a licence and put commercial software on your distribution and sell it for whatever you want. Cool eh?.
Such a think would not happen, because a minor player can make their own distribution and float it on the marketplace. If a major player is found to be supressing competition unfairly then of course they need to be taken down. If they are just better than you then sucks to be you.
I don't see why Microsoft should be required to provide a copy of Opera or any other third party software with a Windows release. What would need to happen is that when you buy a computer in the shop then yes, you would probably get a browser but that would be provided by the OEM or the shop.
If you choose to wipe your OS and install a Microsoft Windows operating system then you would get no browser or perhaps something extremely basic that you could use to download something better (Notepad is basic, MS Paint is basic, ..). Your next move is to install a Browser of your choice, just like you currently install a Photo Editing suite, or a CAD suite or a Database suite. Of. Your. Choice.
I would further hope that if Microsoft [as an abusive monopolist] were found to be providing any incentive for businesses to install their browser (or music player, word processor) by default that they would get a massive bitch slap.
I saw it commented further down that "Linux comes with a browser" but thats wrong. Linux is just the kernel, it is the distribution that comes with a browser. This is possible because the licence provided by the linux kernel and the other software included in such distributions is permissive. If Microsoft allowed people to make distributions containing a custom version of Windows, then I don't see any problem with such persons providing such distributions containing third party software. Microsoft don't allow that though and that is their problem.
Who are they? Are the lists accessible to the public in any way? If so, request the lists regularly and archive it yourself. Perhaps you can interest a news organisation in doing that..
IIRC fish in the sea actually are significantly less salty than the sea. Human blood is much saltier than fish, which is one reason claimed as to why shark attacks are not always fatal - the sharks don't really like the taste. I don't have any references for this though (and just going out, good luck :)
Show that you can OOo with others?
(Sorry, but word up!)/p>
I wonder how many employees are also shareholders? I thought that historically (at least) they gave out lots of stock options as bonuses..
Open your mind. Try libc. No taint and truly, you're welcome.
ok, get this
This criminal gang ("The Botnets") are rampaging across the city breaking into cars and stealing the stereos. But, get this, they are all lazy ass fatsos and at the multi-storey carpark they only ever break into cars on the ground level because its too much trouble to walk up to the upper levels. I mean, not many people park up there and these guys are not very good at picking locks anyway. If I had a car, I would park it up a few levels because I like the exercise and I don't like wiping greasy fingerprints off my door all the time. Seems like those other two guys do that too.
You're welcome.
[citation needed]
purely anecdotal evidence, I have known people in the past who were addicted to marijuana. One, an ex-girlfriend, could not leave the house without a toke. Emotional dependence you say? Addict she was (probably still is, I left). The other, a guy I knew at university, said he had physical withdrawal symptoms when he gave it up and we didn't see him for a week, he was cowering in his room with the shakes.
You can believe what you like though
And yet the tagline says 'tasteful nudes of beautiful women'
Not that I'm saying there is anything indecent about those images, but where a site is set up to show naked women? The audience is men looking for pictures of naked women to titilate their erotic fantasies. You know its true.
also it sounds as if Gene Wolfe took inspiration from this story when he wrote 'Soldier in the Mist' which is a totally excellent read (the sequel was pretty good too)