couldn't say who actually coughed up the money for this one, but they do list M$ as clients. We all know M$ aren't above what we might (generously) call "interesting" techniques when it comes to dealing with the GPL (not least, IIRC, calling it a "cancer"). Evans also list some (what I would call) nicer companies though - especially from the open source POV - including but not limited to RedHat and Sun. You can check out the full list here;
""In practice, it takes an informed victim to exercise that legal protection."
That's just bullshit, plain and simple. All it requires is a victim willing to seek out help."
I think those two positions are pretty close to each other, why would someone not be willing to seek help? maybe because they think that they have no rights where this is concerned. Although, to be fair, you pretty much don't. I've had a few people set up a website about me saying untrue things about me (which earnt me at least one death threat). I didn't complain because what could I do? Now I know I could have sent a DMCA take-down request to the American hosts and watched as they pulled the whole site (there was almost certainly enough for me to claim copyright over to make that claim legitimate, even if it was just asserting that I own the copyright to my image (which may or may not actually be true, but would be good enough to get a site pulled easily, especially where the people accused have no way to fight back without further incriminating themselves)).
So really, it take both willingness and knowledge.
This post neatly sums up what should have been said in the summery; ie. nothing is going on. One person is over reacting, and the suggestions which were given including "fork" seem like a rather pleasant way of this being dealt with...
I'd easily consider taking this on (although it seems to suggest that it's only north american numbers, and they probably don't have a linux client...). Still, whilst it is possible (though unlikely) that a human could listen to what you're saying I have to question whether they would actually want to listen to what I'm saying - or if I would care if they are. Granted I'm not going to use this for telephone banking, and probably not even for calling my girlfriend, I really don't care if they listen to my mum talking for half an hour about her dog or hear me arrange a party... or shout down the phone whilst drunk at people about the importance of egalitarianism (but that's another story...)
lets not forget that for the purposes of the GPL v. 3, Microsoft is distributing linux through their voucher scheme - no need to let them get away with their responsibilities...
not only are you right you get modded down for it too.
The Iranians are FAR worse than any western government when it comes to gestapo-esque strategies, to with-holding freedom and breaking the rule of law. Why do so many people want to make out like we are the bad guys in the world? why all the self hating?... or at least; why the self hating if not backed up with an equal amount of criticism for other who are worse.
"Creationists denying that this occurred are as credible as the color-blind denying that the sky is blue. Frankly, they don't know what they're talking about."
I don't want to seem overly critical, but I would just point out that the sky isn't blue. The sky doesn't have a colour. Indeed in the broadest sense nothing at all has a colour, because colour is merely rooted in our perception based on marginally different forms of light caused by the different properties of the materials which it either bounces off or travels through. The point might be better made if I were colour blind (but I'm not). But I suppose it does allow me to question whether or not you and I perceive colour in the same way anyway - in a meaningful sense what you call "blue sky" might indeed be what I would call "green", due to the endless possibilities of our brains interpreting the data in different ways.
I bet if we both looked at the "duck-rabbit" we might see different things, and I'm inclined to see this as no different.
I largely agree with you but have one point to raise (for which no doubt I'll be modded to minus-infinity).
I agree Darwinian evolution (which is what I assume you mean by "evolution") is a pretty neat idea, it seems to fit with a lot of the evidence we have about how the creatures on this planet came to exist. It isn't the only idea which would fit with the "facts" (I'll leave post-modern type discussions about the existence of objective reality though) of our world however. I do not currently have a theory which does fit all the facts as well as Darwinian evolution (or at least not one which doesn't involve a giant monkey and Kentucky Fried Chicken...). However given that there could be competing claims which could appear to have equal levels of validity (taking into account the fact that all we have is imperfect evidence) it seems a little forward to refer to evolution as;
"definatively proven (and relatively obvious)"
I began by suggesting that you meant Darwinian evolution, if that is the case then your "definitively proven" fact could easily be wrong for there is endless potential for finding examples of evolutions which goes against the Darwinian formula. Taking evolution in its most broad context though we still have room for doubt (and not just academic or Cartesian radical sceptical doubts... although I must admit my competing impressions of waking and sleeping evolution don't match...(/joke)). There is still endless "wiggle room" and maybe one day we will find fossil rabbits unusually deep (a reference to Dawkin's God Delusion), or maybe we already have but replied "my, they are older than we thought!"
My point isn't really to attack evolution, nor even Darwinian evolution, my point is just to raise some skepticism at something which we can't "clearly and distinctly perceive" (in Cartesian terms), or if you prefer, we ought not to make any claim that something is "definitively proven" because a theory is only good so long as the evidence is (following Popper) - and none of us know the future.
this is one time when "pwning" would actually have been more useful, I read this and thought that it was advice on how to own one - literally things like how to purchase it and why you might want to; maybe a short review.
Hacking a camera should have a title like "hacking a wireless camera..." (or, dare I say it, even the stupid "cracking"). Or, as I say, if they must use some form of "down with the kids" newspeak then for god's sake get it right and use pwn.
I'm glad someone actually did something about this problem, although this is just a drop in the ocean - if even that. I got a scam email from "ebay" the other day, I onticed that it was obviously a scam, but more importantly it was a scam from within the UK (my country). I looked up and found out the guy's name who was running it (or at least the name he used to register - which he would need a credit card to buy, which has to be registered somewhere).
This would be trivially easy for the police to sort out so I looked hoping to find somewhere easy to report it, the answer I got was pretty much "we don't care, don't tell us"... So he just goes on getting away with it
I've got a laptop which came from a plan BT had for workers to buy computers at (very) discounted rates. When the HD in it died/was dying (something which could be verified by the smart values on it) I rang them up and they insisted on me trying to reinstall XP because "linux isn't supported". I explained how that really wouldn't help and I knew what I was saying (I mean how can the OS explain HD access failures on several different OSs and liveCDs...
Anyway, they told me that I could get round this policy by re-installing XP (which wouldn't have worked (bad HD, no install) even if I did have the disk, which I didn't). or by ringing Toshiba directly and getting a "this really is broke - honest" code from them, then it could go through. I rang them up and talked (unhelpfully) to a woman in India for about half an hour until she just gave me the code (she kept saying "push F5 when it starts" and I had to keep repeating "it can't get to the boot loader, that button has no purpose before then"...)
Anyway, the code allowed them to accept it has a real fault no connected to the OS.
Mind you I might just be a twat to PC World after this - remember, they have physical shops with actual potential customers in there - if you are really loud about your problems with them they will cave to try and save any business that day. Also you could go for the legal route and just serve papers. They should have just given in, I was considering looking in there for a new PC, now I will not get one from them...
Web 2.0 just doesn't exist... no one seems able to give a definition of exactly when Web 2.0 did, or will, start. Instead it seems like it will forever be "just over the horizon".
For a really full analysis of the idea that you can't trust a single word that is written in the bible you should check out The Age of Reason by Tom Paine, you can get it online for free (It's out of copyright now).
The two books together form what I consider to be the fullest argument I've ever seen, and the best, that pretty much all of the bible is a lie - or if not a lie, a silly story. It's well worth a read
If you live in the UK pretty much every GAME has them for sale... as does HMV, and pretty much all other music shops. Gamestation seems to have them in too; as does amazon (periodically)
I stand by my comment above, sure it might be hyperbole but it could easily be true. Bin Laden is a very rich man. If I was him I'd funnel money into lawyers who are affiliated with al qaeda to file patents on strains of grain which will be very easily spread and very easily identified (maybe even make it better in an evolutionary sense). Have your drones spread it around in the dead of night, aim to contaminate hundreds of thousands of acres... then sue. With the aim of making loads of money and preventing growing this crop again. After a strain is out there how could you stop it circling round? Especially if it was evolutionarily better.
Then they have even more money to murder innocent people, have ruined the economy, and potentially caused millions of people to starve. All legally.
I don't see any reasons why this plan wouldn't work unless they can make it a more general ruling against suing people based on something that you've forced upon them. Call it FUD, but if the system allows it to work then it needs to be stopped.
Cliff Richards, the man who made a hit song out of singing the lords prayer to the tune of Auld lang syne... Granted I think that the money went to charity, but he couldn't claim he didn't make money out of it indirectly, as well as it raising his profile again and allowing him to win awards. Do they not know what seemingly (or actually) eternal copyright would mean...
Jesus:...So, I see you own a copy of the Bible
Cliff: Yes my Lord, I read it all the time. It's the best book in the world.
Jesus: Ah, but the thing is... Me and my dad wrote that... and you never paid us... I heard the other day that that's theft. Hell, if it was just me, I might let it slide, but it was in the commandments and all. Can't have one rule for you and another for those who stole a physical copy of books from shops... time to burn.
As someone mentioned the other day, games never used to be hundreds of screens of options and thousands of button combinations to press in a specific order to win. They were on the whole pretty simple to play.
Don't get me wrong nethack is hard the first time you play on it (although it's such a good game). But as soon as you look at the controls and figure out that they use the vi commands for movement you can pick up and play - just add more detail into the game as and when you're ready... it goes with you more than the new games seem to.
Mario is an even better example, easy as you like at the start, gets harder... but very much "pick up and play".
The Wii follows from this "pick up and play" idea. That's where the purists should be, not playing these games that you get on the 360 (I went into gamestation and tried to play a game demo they'd got on - I couldn't even figure out how to do anything... there was about 800 context sensitive button combinations before you got to any kind of action... I'd already given up before that happened)
I'm not American, nor a lawyer, so I could be wrong... but as far as I know the DMCA contains many crazy rules which would be insanely easy to break - even breaking DRM to get access to a file which you have bought. Would this mean that they could get banned from the internet (which would effectively force them out of the halls they are in, because of how essential the internet is at uni) for just converting a protected WMA file so you can play it on linux? what about installing ntfs-3g? what about using an unlicenced mp3 codec? any unlincenced codec? just using linux (assuming they believe MS's claims about infringement)? Using any computer (hell, there are that many patents flying around that all computers violate; GUI ones, for example)...
Wouldn't all/most of these innocent things violate the DMCA? wouldn't that be enough to get you royally screwed?
Well for my part, to counter you, I've only ever tried to send an attachment once in hotmail in the last 4 years or so and only tried to receive one or two in about that time (I only use it for an account for GAIM). Anyway, I can tell you anecdotally that not one of them successfully reached the other side. I've also heard a lot of people complain that hotmail is really bad at spam insomuch as it blocks legitimate e-mails and then tries to make people pay thousands of dollars to get registered as "not a spammer"... I think we had a/. article about this recently.
The register also has some interesting stuff on this topic if you're interested.
It really is a classic bad game. But I wouldn't say that its "so bad it's funny", nor "so bad it's good"... Its just a bad, bad, game. Maybe if the premise wasn't rape it could have come closer - but it seems like without the rape it would be "shit", instead of "disgusting shit"
they have a great collection of ebooks online already and your free to grab and share them. I wish that they would have the base for this though in a country which doesn't have insanely long copyright laws, then it could really add value over gutenburg
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couldn't say who actually coughed up the money for this one, but they do list M$ as clients. We all know M$ aren't above what we might (generously) call "interesting" techniques when it comes to dealing with the GPL (not least, IIRC, calling it a "cancer"). Evans also list some (what I would call) nicer companies though - especially from the open source POV - including but not limited to RedHat and Sun. You can check out the full list here;
http://www.evansdata.com/company/clients.php
""In practice, it takes an informed victim to exercise that legal protection."
That's just bullshit, plain and simple. All it requires is a victim willing to seek out help."
I think those two positions are pretty close to each other, why would someone not be willing to seek help? maybe because they think that they have no rights where this is concerned. Although, to be fair, you pretty much don't. I've had a few people set up a website about me saying untrue things about me (which earnt me at least one death threat). I didn't complain because what could I do? Now I know I could have sent a DMCA take-down request to the American hosts and watched as they pulled the whole site (there was almost certainly enough for me to claim copyright over to make that claim legitimate, even if it was just asserting that I own the copyright to my image (which may or may not actually be true, but would be good enough to get a site pulled easily, especially where the people accused have no way to fight back without further incriminating themselves)).
So really, it take both willingness and knowledge.
This post neatly sums up what should have been said in the summery; ie. nothing is going on. One person is over reacting, and the suggestions which were given including "fork" seem like a rather pleasant way of this being dealt with...
Basically, this is FUD.
I'd easily consider taking this on (although it seems to suggest that it's only north american numbers, and they probably don't have a linux client...). Still, whilst it is possible (though unlikely) that a human could listen to what you're saying I have to question whether they would actually want to listen to what I'm saying - or if I would care if they are. Granted I'm not going to use this for telephone banking, and probably not even for calling my girlfriend, I really don't care if they listen to my mum talking for half an hour about her dog or hear me arrange a party... or shout down the phone whilst drunk at people about the importance of egalitarianism (but that's another story...)
lets not forget that for the purposes of the GPL v. 3, Microsoft is distributing linux through their voucher scheme - no need to let them get away with their responsibilities...
not only are you right you get modded down for it too.
The Iranians are FAR worse than any western government when it comes to gestapo-esque strategies, to with-holding freedom and breaking the rule of law. Why do so many people want to make out like we are the bad guys in the world? why all the self hating?... or at least; why the self hating if not backed up with an equal amount of criticism for other who are worse.
"Creationists denying that this occurred are as credible as the color-blind denying that the sky is blue. Frankly, they don't know what they're talking about."
I don't want to seem overly critical, but I would just point out that the sky isn't blue. The sky doesn't have a colour. Indeed in the broadest sense nothing at all has a colour, because colour is merely rooted in our perception based on marginally different forms of light caused by the different properties of the materials which it either bounces off or travels through. The point might be better made if I were colour blind (but I'm not). But I suppose it does allow me to question whether or not you and I perceive colour in the same way anyway - in a meaningful sense what you call "blue sky" might indeed be what I would call "green", due to the endless possibilities of our brains interpreting the data in different ways.
I bet if we both looked at the "duck-rabbit" we might see different things, and I'm inclined to see this as no different.
see... http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~gulmer/longman/2/duckrabbit.html
I largely agree with you but have one point to raise (for which no doubt I'll be modded to minus-infinity).
I agree Darwinian evolution (which is what I assume you mean by "evolution") is a pretty neat idea, it seems to fit with a lot of the evidence we have about how the creatures on this planet came to exist. It isn't the only idea which would fit with the "facts" (I'll leave post-modern type discussions about the existence of objective reality though) of our world however. I do not currently have a theory which does fit all the facts as well as Darwinian evolution (or at least not one which doesn't involve a giant monkey and Kentucky Fried Chicken...). However given that there could be competing claims which could appear to have equal levels of validity (taking into account the fact that all we have is imperfect evidence) it seems a little forward to refer to evolution as;
"definatively proven (and relatively obvious)"
I began by suggesting that you meant Darwinian evolution, if that is the case then your "definitively proven" fact could easily be wrong for there is endless potential for finding examples of evolutions which goes against the Darwinian formula. Taking evolution in its most broad context though we still have room for doubt (and not just academic or Cartesian radical sceptical doubts... although I must admit my competing impressions of waking and sleeping evolution don't match...(/joke)). There is still endless "wiggle room" and maybe one day we will find fossil rabbits unusually deep (a reference to Dawkin's God Delusion), or maybe we already have but replied "my, they are older than we thought!"
My point isn't really to attack evolution, nor even Darwinian evolution, my point is just to raise some skepticism at something which we can't "clearly and distinctly perceive" (in Cartesian terms), or if you prefer, we ought not to make any claim that something is "definitively proven" because a theory is only good so long as the evidence is (following Popper) - and none of us know the future.
this is one time when "pwning" would actually have been more useful, I read this and thought that it was advice on how to own one - literally things like how to purchase it and why you might want to; maybe a short review.
Hacking a camera should have a title like "hacking a wireless camera..." (or, dare I say it, even the stupid "cracking"). Or, as I say, if they must use some form of "down with the kids" newspeak then for god's sake get it right and use pwn.
I'm glad someone actually did something about this problem, although this is just a drop in the ocean - if even that. I got a scam email from "ebay" the other day, I onticed that it was obviously a scam, but more importantly it was a scam from within the UK (my country). I looked up and found out the guy's name who was running it (or at least the name he used to register - which he would need a credit card to buy, which has to be registered somewhere).
This would be trivially easy for the police to sort out so I looked hoping to find somewhere easy to report it, the answer I got was pretty much "we don't care, don't tell us"... So he just goes on getting away with it
I've got a laptop which came from a plan BT had for workers to buy computers at (very) discounted rates. When the HD in it died/was dying (something which could be verified by the smart values on it) I rang them up and they insisted on me trying to reinstall XP because "linux isn't supported". I explained how that really wouldn't help and I knew what I was saying (I mean how can the OS explain HD access failures on several different OSs and liveCDs...
Anyway, they told me that I could get round this policy by re-installing XP (which wouldn't have worked (bad HD, no install) even if I did have the disk, which I didn't). or by ringing Toshiba directly and getting a "this really is broke - honest" code from them, then it could go through. I rang them up and talked (unhelpfully) to a woman in India for about half an hour until she just gave me the code (she kept saying "push F5 when it starts" and I had to keep repeating "it can't get to the boot loader, that button has no purpose before then"...)
Anyway, the code allowed them to accept it has a real fault no connected to the OS.
Mind you I might just be a twat to PC World after this - remember, they have physical shops with actual potential customers in there - if you are really loud about your problems with them they will cave to try and save any business that day. Also you could go for the legal route and just serve papers. They should have just given in, I was considering looking in there for a new PC, now I will not get one from them...
Web 2.0 just doesn't exist... no one seems able to give a definition of exactly when Web 2.0 did, or will, start. Instead it seems like it will forever be "just over the horizon".
For a really full analysis of the idea that you can't trust a single word that is written in the bible you should check out The Age of Reason by Tom Paine, you can get it online for free (It's out of copyright now).
The two books together form what I consider to be the fullest argument I've ever seen, and the best, that pretty much all of the bible is a lie - or if not a lie, a silly story. It's well worth a read
If you live in the UK pretty much every GAME has them for sale... as does HMV, and pretty much all other music shops. Gamestation seems to have them in too; as does amazon (periodically)
"You do realize that's like commenting on a build your own PC book by pointing out a link to Dell right?"
I'm confused by your analogy, now if it related to a car...
does anyone know where he got BASH for nokias from and how it's installed?
I stand by my comment above, sure it might be hyperbole but it could easily be true. Bin Laden is a very rich man. If I was him I'd funnel money into lawyers who are affiliated with al qaeda to file patents on strains of grain which will be very easily spread and very easily identified (maybe even make it better in an evolutionary sense). Have your drones spread it around in the dead of night, aim to contaminate hundreds of thousands of acres... then sue. With the aim of making loads of money and preventing growing this crop again. After a strain is out there how could you stop it circling round? Especially if it was evolutionarily better.
Then they have even more money to murder innocent people, have ruined the economy, and potentially caused millions of people to starve. All legally.
I don't see any reasons why this plan wouldn't work unless they can make it a more general ruling against suing people based on something that you've forced upon them. Call it FUD, but if the system allows it to work then it needs to be stopped.
Cliff Richards, the man who made a hit song out of singing the lords prayer to the tune of Auld lang syne... Granted I think that the money went to charity, but he couldn't claim he didn't make money out of it indirectly, as well as it raising his profile again and allowing him to win awards. Do they not know what seemingly (or actually) eternal copyright would mean...
...So, I see you own a copy of the Bible
Jesus:
Cliff: Yes my Lord, I read it all the time. It's the best book in the world.
Jesus: Ah, but the thing is... Me and my dad wrote that... and you never paid us... I heard the other day that that's theft. Hell, if it was just me, I might let it slide, but it was in the commandments and all. Can't have one rule for you and another for those who stole a physical copy of books from shops... time to burn.
As someone mentioned the other day, games never used to be hundreds of screens of options and thousands of button combinations to press in a specific order to win. They were on the whole pretty simple to play.
Don't get me wrong nethack is hard the first time you play on it (although it's such a good game). But as soon as you look at the controls and figure out that they use the vi commands for movement you can pick up and play - just add more detail into the game as and when you're ready... it goes with you more than the new games seem to.
Mario is an even better example, easy as you like at the start, gets harder... but very much "pick up and play".
The Wii follows from this "pick up and play" idea. That's where the purists should be, not playing these games that you get on the 360 (I went into gamestation and tried to play a game demo they'd got on - I couldn't even figure out how to do anything... there was about 800 context sensitive button combinations before you got to any kind of action... I'd already given up before that happened)
I'm not American, nor a lawyer, so I could be wrong... but as far as I know the DMCA contains many crazy rules which would be insanely easy to break - even breaking DRM to get access to a file which you have bought. Would this mean that they could get banned from the internet (which would effectively force them out of the halls they are in, because of how essential the internet is at uni) for just converting a protected WMA file so you can play it on linux? what about installing ntfs-3g? what about using an unlicenced mp3 codec? any unlincenced codec? just using linux (assuming they believe MS's claims about infringement)? Using any computer (hell, there are that many patents flying around that all computers violate; GUI ones, for example)...
Wouldn't all/most of these innocent things violate the DMCA? wouldn't that be enough to get you royally screwed?
Well for my part, to counter you, I've only ever tried to send an attachment once in hotmail in the last 4 years or so and only tried to receive one or two in about that time (I only use it for an account for GAIM). Anyway, I can tell you anecdotally that not one of them successfully reached the other side. I've also heard a lot of people complain that hotmail is really bad at spam insomuch as it blocks legitimate e-mails and then tries to make people pay thousands of dollars to get registered as "not a spammer"... I think we had a /. article about this recently.
The register also has some interesting stuff on this topic if you're interested.
I assume you meant Custer's Revenge ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custer's_Revenge , for those who haven't had the displeasure of seeing it)
It really is a classic bad game. But I wouldn't say that its "so bad it's funny", nor "so bad it's good"... Its just a bad, bad, game. Maybe if the premise wasn't rape it could have come closer - but it seems like without the rape it would be "shit", instead of "disgusting shit"
someone asked a good question on the website; how does this relate to Gutenburg?
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
they have a great collection of ebooks online already and your free to grab and share them. I wish that they would have the base for this though in a country which doesn't have insanely long copyright laws, then it could really add value over gutenburg
actually if you actually look at link "two" above then you will see that the title of the forum post is
"Re: Cannot uninstall programs from Add/remove Programs in Vista Ultimate x64"
kneejerk reaction?
"Practically any time I hear a large software system discussed I hear "X is a #%@!in mess,"
I get that with reading the next line you get the context, but was I the only one taken aback at this seemingly blatant flame of our beloved X?