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I think you are wrong here. Could you provide a link to a message where anyone is discussiong moving java from non-free to free in debian? All discussion I read was about including java in non-free at all.
Erg, you're completely right - I thought it was - I don't use Java, so hadn't really noticed!
No, read the social contract:
Yeah, I know what the social contract says, but semantic games about "debian" vs "debian system" aside, I think if I can download a.deb package of software from a debian server then I was say its 'part of debian'.
Any mods reading this, feel free to bomb my (incorrect) GP statement into the ground!
The java packages are (if at all) only included in non-free, and that isn't part of the official debian. So yes, it may be a big fight, AFAIK the cause of the fight (the java packages in non-free) is only about an extra service Debian provides to it's users, not about debian itself.
Picking a nit I know, but:
1) The fight is caused by the potential movement of java from non-free to free.
2) Java was in debian - non-free is part of debian, just not supported or on the CDs:-)
Cleopatra appears on a 42-inch Panasonic plasma screen that faces the front door
I'm sorry, but a house with a 42" plasma screen in an utterly wasted position does not deserve the "Electronic House Home of the Year grand prize winner?"
*shakes head* - also from TFA:
"Everything we do is through the computer, even watching the DVDs
Watch DVDs on a computer! Revolutionary! Perhaps next they'll come up with a way of storing (ripping if you will) the DVD content to some other form of storage?
"And while we have had some luck with voice recognition software and querying and controlling the house with that, we are still working to improve the recognition rate,
Does this ring alarm bells for anyone else?
Wife: Cleopatra - I'd like some port please
Cleopatra: Porn? Certainly - your husband's collection is large & diverse - please choose a subcatagory.
Wife: ???....
Cleopatra: (sotto voice) that'll teach you for saying I look like Angelina Jolie, you bitch
Hmmmn, depends what Allchin means by "our eyes" by "This really opened our eyes to what goes on in the real world," Allchin told the audience.
If he meant "Microsoft", then bollocks - I'm sure MS engineers / support partners / etc, were screaming for years.
If he means "Clueless, viewing MS's security through rose tinted glasses upper management", then I guess that statement could be correct. (I doubt it tho')
How is this any different than a kernel trojan on linux?
Well, 'linux' is a little unspecific, but using debian as an example, I can boot from a CD, and use dlocate / dpkg -S / -L to check that md5 sums of binaries on the system & compare them to the md5 sums they should have.
You're left with a small number of binaries of items you've installed by hand or compiled yourself. These can be checked/replaced with known good items by hand.
Personally, I would reinstall 'cause it's a little easier - but its certainly possible to recover from a rootkit under linux.
Chairs everywhere celebrate the oppressor's beating!
(and don't believe an article that says Microsoft didn't know what was going down in the spyware world until Ballmer bought in an infected PC: "This really opened our eyes to what goes on in the real world," Allchin told the audience. )
Hmmmn, funny you should say. My quick google didn't turn up anything to support what you said - and nor did yours (I found the same reg article as you btw) - quoting your article:
"I don't really think that the thing is to take a previous generation of technology and port them directly," he told Battelle. However distributed thin web applications allowed you to do "new and better things than the Office package and more."
Specifically, that means we're not working on a fat client, not saying about a web app.
My Google search reflected that, I find lots of headlines "Google denies Office Suite", based on Brinn's denial of a fat client.
I asked for a link from you, because I presumed that you wouldn't make a statement like "Every single time they said they had zero interest in developing office applications, and specifically denying working on online office applications." unless you had something to back it up. Do you?
He would be right, because it is not covered by fair use.
I understand what you're saying about sampling, but your example of a commercial use of sampling isn't a fair one - the four factors to take into consideration with fair use are often given as:
1.the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; 2.the nature of the copyrighted work; 3. amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and 4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
I'm no fan of DRM, but it's a bit rich to complain about what happened, since it was almost certainly illegal in the first place.
I very much doubt it was illegal. But the real bone of contention for my friend was that he was not warned before burning & sending the CDs.
How is distributing the beverly hills cop soundtrack
If you'd read my comment, you would see that I said a five second sample from one song from the beverly hills cop soundtrack. Not the entire soundtrack.
In the US, at least, fair use is an affirmative defence, rather than a right. But I don't see how buying from any particular content provider denies you that legal option.
Whether making copies of iTMS-sourced music violates other laws, such as the DMCA, is a different question. Perhaps the single most insidious thing about that particular piece of legislation is that it does seem to provide Big Media(TM) with a means of making fair use illegal by the back door.
[there is some crossover, but] All the people paying for office are businesses - they can't afford their office to be down (through network problems or google problems).
For home users who want to knock up a quick spreadsheet, sure! But they weren't buying excel were they? They were copying their brother's office, using whatever free office suite came on their computer or whatever.
This is not going to enroach on Office's current userbase, just stop MS expanding into the online office space.
You really think sending a 5 second fragment from one of the most recognisable songs in the world to 20 friends you spent NYE with is plagiarism and not fair use?
I think you need to go & read a little more on what plagiarism and fair use mean.
The online office & office application are different markets, if Google released a downloadable, installable competitor to office, they would be competing with OO.org & MS Office.
This is expanding into a new market area before MS gets there (whatever did happen to office live anyway?)
and more & more like I was paying for the right to listen to the music as long as iTunes say fit.
Damn straight - if you buy from iTunes, you have to remember that you're at Apple's mercy - you've waived your rights to fair use, playback on non-apple portable players, any future restrictions on burning that Apple decides to put in place, etc.
One of the most depressing things I've ever seen is the look on my friends face after finding out that the quicktime video he'd lovingly crafted on his ibook (just a collection of pictures & short videos from New Years Eve) was spamming his friends.
You see, he'd included a 5 second sample from Neutron Dance (from the beverly hills cop soundtrack) that he'd purchased from ITMS. The quicktime file played perfectly on his computer, but when played on anyone else's computer (he sent them to everyone on CD), there was a pop-up saying IIRC "unlock this computer or buy from itunes"
The sad thing was, he's the sort of guy who's perfectly capable of downloading from edonkey or torrents, but chose to do the right things. He's not going to be purchasing from ITMS again.
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I think you are wrong here. Could you provide a link to a message where anyone is discussiong moving java from non-free to free in debian? All discussion I read was about including java in non-free at all.
.deb package of software from a debian server then I was say its 'part of debian'.
Erg, you're completely right - I thought it was - I don't use Java, so hadn't really noticed!
No, read the social contract:
Yeah, I know what the social contract says, but semantic games about "debian" vs "debian system" aside, I think if I can download a
Any mods reading this, feel free to bomb my (incorrect) GP statement into the ground!
The java packages are (if at all) only included in non-free, and that isn't part of the official debian. So yes, it may be a big fight, AFAIK the cause of the fight (the java packages in non-free) is only about an extra service Debian provides to it's users, not about debian itself.
:-)
Picking a nit I know, but:
1) The fight is caused by the potential movement of java from non-free to free.
2) Java was in debian - non-free is part of debian, just not supported or on the CDs
You have a right to sell your copy of a record, but you have no rights under copyright law to anything on it.
Blatantly incorrect.
This is for non-commercial, non-receipt of goods in exchange use. Have a read of the audio home recording act.
Thats unpossible!
I'm sorry, but a house with a 42" plasma screen in an utterly wasted position does not deserve the "Electronic House Home of the Year grand prize winner?"
*shakes head* - also from TFA:
Watch DVDs on a computer! Revolutionary! Perhaps next they'll come up with a way of storing (ripping if you will) the DVD content to some other form of storage?
Does this ring alarm bells for anyone else?
Wife: Cleopatra - I'd like some port please
Cleopatra: Porn? Certainly - your husband's collection is large & diverse - please choose a subcatagory.
Wife: ???....
Cleopatra: (sotto voice) that'll teach you for saying I look like Angelina Jolie, you bitch
Oh and (last joke) - the house runs windows
I'm going to have to check up on fair use laws, cos I don't think that really matters.
Checked up yet? When you do, you'll find that the portion of the work distributed matters a helluva lot.
Hmmmn, depends what Allchin means by "our eyes" by "This really opened our eyes to what goes on in the real world," Allchin told the audience.
If he meant "Microsoft", then bollocks - I'm sure MS engineers / support partners / etc, were screaming for years.
If he means "Clueless, viewing MS's security through rose tinted glasses upper management", then I guess that statement could be correct. (I doubt it tho')
Does anyone else think the flying chairs thing is simply not funny?
No - its just you.
How is this any different than a kernel trojan on linux?
Well, 'linux' is a little unspecific, but using debian as an example, I can boot from a CD, and use dlocate / dpkg -S / -L to check that md5 sums of binaries on the system & compare them to the md5 sums they should have.
You're left with a small number of binaries of items you've installed by hand or compiled yourself. These can be checked/replaced with known good items by hand.
Personally, I would reinstall 'cause it's a little easier - but its certainly possible to recover from a rootkit under linux.
Chairs everywhere celebrate the oppressor's beating!
(and don't believe an article that says Microsoft didn't know what was going down in the spyware world until Ballmer bought in an infected PC: "This really opened our eyes to what goes on in the real world," Allchin told the audience. )
Hmmmn, funny you should say. My quick google didn't turn up anything to support what you said - and nor did yours (I found the same reg article as you btw) - quoting your article:
Specifically, that means we're not working on a fat client, not saying about a web app.
My Google search reflected that, I find lots of headlines "Google denies Office Suite", based on Brinn's denial of a fat client.
I asked for a link from you, because I presumed that you wouldn't make a statement like "Every single time they said they had zero interest in developing office applications, and specifically denying working on online office applications." unless you had something to back it up. Do you?
Oh right, I could've sworn I asked for a link, but a post from you is more than good enough!
I understand what you're saying about sampling, but your example of a commercial use of sampling isn't a fair one - the four factors to take into consideration with fair use are often given as:
I'm no fan of DRM, but it's a bit rich to complain about what happened, since it was almost certainly illegal in the first place.
I very much doubt it was illegal. But the real bone of contention for my friend was that he was not warned before burning & sending the CDs.
however Google has lied
I'm sorry? Lied? Can you please link to Google's "Lie" please?
How is distributing the beverly hills cop soundtrack
If you'd read my comment, you would see that I said a five second sample from one song from the beverly hills cop soundtrack. Not the entire soundtrack.
How's that, exactly?
:-)
In the US, at least, fair use is an affirmative defence, rather than a right. But I don't see how buying from any particular content provider denies you that legal option.
Whether making copies of iTMS-sourced music violates other laws, such as the DMCA, is a different question. Perhaps the single most insidious thing about that particular piece of legislation is that it does seem to provide Big Media(TM) with a means of making fair use illegal by the back door.
I guess you answered your own question
I get what you're saying, but look at the money.
[there is some crossover, but] All the people paying for office are businesses - they can't afford their office to be down (through network problems or google problems).
For home users who want to knock up a quick spreadsheet, sure! But they weren't buying excel were they? They were copying their brother's office, using whatever free office suite came on their computer or whatever.
This is not going to enroach on Office's current userbase, just stop MS expanding into the online office space.
You really think sending a 5 second fragment from one of the most recognisable songs in the world to 20 friends you spent NYE with is plagiarism and not fair use?
I think you need to go & read a little more on what plagiarism and fair use mean.
The online office & office application are different markets, if Google released a downloadable, installable competitor to office, they would be competing with OO.org & MS Office.
This is expanding into a new market area before MS gets there (whatever did happen to office live anyway?)
When you buy a CD, you are purchasing a licence which grants you the right to listen to the music contained on that CD, nothing more.
;-)
I could've sworn you got a CD as well as a license!
and more & more like I was paying for the right to listen to the music as long as iTunes say fit.
Damn straight - if you buy from iTunes, you have to remember that you're at Apple's mercy - you've waived your rights to fair use, playback on non-apple portable players, any future restrictions on burning that Apple decides to put in place, etc.
One of the most depressing things I've ever seen is the look on my friends face after finding out that the quicktime video he'd lovingly crafted on his ibook (just a collection of pictures & short videos from New Years Eve) was spamming his friends.
You see, he'd included a 5 second sample from Neutron Dance (from the beverly hills cop soundtrack) that he'd purchased from ITMS. The quicktime file played perfectly on his computer, but when played on anyone else's computer (he sent them to everyone on CD), there was a pop-up saying IIRC "unlock this computer or buy from itunes"
The sad thing was, he's the sort of guy who's perfectly capable of downloading from edonkey or torrents, but chose to do the right things. He's not going to be purchasing from ITMS again.
I don't get it. Aren't the transmetas optimized for low power consumption? Why bother with that on a desktop,
Even desktop PCs are starting to hit a heat wall now.
More power = more heat = more fans = noisy heap o' crap. Noone wants a noisy heap o' crap.
Then why isn't it becoming more some-other-OS-like, rather than more unix-like ?
So your entire whine is based on the fact that I didn't say "Windows is becoming more other-os-like-but-popularised-by unix?
Waaah! Waaaah! Waaah! And you accuse me of semantic games!