I think this is a little bit odd. I've had to work hard not to install a newer version of IE in my windows machine (yes, I like to play GTA occasionally, no, it doesn't work in wine with my ATI card). You have to explicitly show the custom upgrade options and disable it there, IIRC.
Maybe the websites who decided to take in the obnoxious ads should have thought about that. It's probably easier to lose a customer than to get a new one?
But.. why are you encouraging this behavior by using the websites? I know there are for example news sites that I refuse to visit because of the ugly ads, but there are dozens or hundreds of alternatives (at least here in Sweden..) that carry pretty much the same information sans obnoxious ads. Of course there are ads there, but discreet enough.
So is the spelling of check/cheque some british vs. american english issue?
Because the headline would have been about 87% easier to understand with the spelling cheque. My first thought here was something like, "great, they are phasing out the checks at the airport or border" or something. Of course, that's completely utopian since the article also mentioned the UK, but one can always hope.
This does not apply if you sell a product that makes use of your patented technology, or if you license it to others that do.
If you don't sell a product using the technology, you obviously don't care about it. This could of course be circumvented easily by creating a product and claiming to sell it in your own office, for a price that no one would ever pay. Then there's no need to spend much money on anything, perhaps a small ad on a website to make it look like you're still actively pushing the technology.
Actually it makes more sense in English. I'll try a manual translation:
Data was shot three times - but all death-bullets missed the mothermodem, the very heart of the computer hard disk drive.
It's a parody of a slightly oldish computer article in one of the large newspapers where the journalist mixed up every single word. "Motherboard" turned in to "Mothermodem" for example. Other jokes in this sentence are using the word "data" to mean "computer" (the swedish word for computer is "dator", quite similar to data), and "death bullet", a silly method that they use to add drama when there is none.
In many ways I've always suspected that the ideological spectrum is actually a circle - the far left and far right are actually much more similar to each other than they are to democratic parties.
This is of course because we like to simplify things to absurdity. People with one type of ideology might call themselves belonging to the "right", and everyone disagreeing thus naturally belong to the "left", how could anything else be possible? You can't be "up" or "down" or "forward", the opposite of "right" is "left". This is of course absurd. I see that there are some interesting views about this in Wikipedia, might be worth to take a look if you want to get rid of the left-right idea. Political spectrum
If the Arab in question wanted to harm the US in any way, he would have to be completely retarded trying to pass through border control with items like that.
So no, I wouldn't be worried. Either he just doesn't like the US (which is true for many peaceful individuals outside the US, you don't really have a great track record when it comes to foreign policy), or he must be so completely stupid that he wouldn't pose a threat to anyone but himself.
I think the most common reason in this market might be meaningless product differentiation by simply switching bits. Customers shouldn't know that the only difference between two devices is the "if( expensive ){ enable_features() }" line.
Another reason is that people will see how many patents they use without permission, and stuff like that.
The publicly given reason is of course that it would enable the competition to gain advantage of their oh-so-valuable-software.
Oh, the industry is moving to BSD-style licenses? When? What industry? Did they actually use GPL-style licenses before? Got anything to back this up? This is one of the most opaque attempt at spreading FUD I've seen here on slashdot.
I think it's very rare to hind behind Tor for downloading child porn, it's very slow and unreliable for large transfers. If you're doing something illegal you might as well rent some russian VPN or something already.
By viewing you are creating a demand for it which someone will fill.
Citation needed. This fact would make RIAA and MPAA dancing of joy. By just downloading all pirated movies and music from the net, you would help them with an incentive to create more products.
I don't believe this is true, at all. I can't remember where I read it, maybe it was on wikileaks, but some IT admin in the "child porn" business explained a bit that most of the real abuse cases are just from sick parents. The abuse is their main driving force of doing it.
If it's so simple, why don't you try to come up with some example that exists? If you had to travel 200mph to go from one state to another, there would be an exception in either of those two laws.
I will correct you. I'm not from the US but I still know that Trademark law is completely different from copyright law and patent law. Please don't bunch them together.
The major difference is that when you use the service in the Hotel, Coffee shop, Airport, cellphone, you're most probably identified. Either because you paid to gain access to the service, or because you are somehow connected to the account.
If this place was just letting anyone using the intarwebs without keeping any logs of what computers were using it, they MAFIAA have no choice but to go for the pub.
And when the MAFIAA does anything, it's mostly the wrong and unethical thing to do, and the laws need to be changed to make sure they have to stop.
All of them except for the majority. You don't need more upstream for VNC than what is necessary for sending mouse and keyboard data, and you don't need a high upstream if you want to stream movies from your friend's samba share.
I know how much throughput I get, It's kinda easy to measure by simply starting up a torrent and download/upload a large file, or to download a large file with wget or whatever you want.
Funny, since I used both a 1GHz P-III and a 1GHz VIA computer with mini-itx for routing/NAT:ing 100Mbit/s symmetric for over a year, with just the cheap integrated 100MBit/s network chip and one or two external NICs, intel gigabit and random other cheap stuff. Perhaps BSD isn't very good at this, I used linux for my things.
Try thinking outside the box. Maybe he wish to run his own web server. Maybe he wants to use VNC or similar to his office. Maybe he wants to link his friends computers together so they can all access eachother's file storage. There are millions of uses for a fast network connection, unless you subscribe to the cable-tv-internet that the media companies would like you to have. That is, passive receiver of pre-filtered information.
Thanks for the advice! Too bad it's incorrect and you apparently just wrote something to see your name here. There's no reason for the brand-name ones or any one (they all buy and rebrand from the same Chinese OEM developers anyway) to maintain speeds faster than the fastest broadband connections on the market. This has been cheap and easy so far, since the market in this case suck at delivering fast speeds.
It's common knowledge among those of us that have 100/100 at home that those routers just can't keep up. They usually also lack RAM to track enough connections to saturate the bandwidth with torrent downloads or similar.
I'd set up openwrt or distro-of-your-choice (m0n0wall was nice last time I looked at these things) on a small and silent PC with two network cards, mini-itx or such. That would give you the prestanda and flexibility you want.
Too bad you're such a wikipedia-basher that you didn't even bother to take a look and see that, as with most wikipedia articles, it is full of citations. You have references to 5 papers in just that section that was linked.
But I suppose that if you actually tried using wikipedia instead of just reading some website listing bad wikipedia pages, you might end up liking such a communist website, oh noes.
How well does it handle changes in binary files? If I sync my music folder with my laptop (mostly FLAC files) and change the metadata for the files in a couple of folders, what will it do then? Will it keep the old binary files? I can easily see how that could grow out of hand, storage-wise.
What about if you move or rename file? Unless you take special care when doing these operations, a VCS might act like the old file was removed and there was a new file, but of course keep the old file around. This is also something you don't want to happen when you rename or sort your gigabyte-sized photo album.
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I think this is a little bit odd. I've had to work hard not to install a newer version of IE in my windows machine (yes, I like to play GTA occasionally, no, it doesn't work in wine with my ATI card). You have to explicitly show the custom upgrade options and disable it there, IIRC.
Ok, wait.. So if for example Apple would buy Adobe, they would have to make all their products Open Source? Is that what you're saying?
It's very easy to disable sigs on slashdot. I used to do it, but it got annoying when I noticed that people often comment on the sig.
Maybe the websites who decided to take in the obnoxious ads should have thought about that. It's probably easier to lose a customer than to get a new one?
But.. why are you encouraging this behavior by using the websites? I know there are for example news sites that I refuse to visit because of the ugly ads, but there are dozens or hundreds of alternatives (at least here in Sweden..) that carry pretty much the same information sans obnoxious ads. Of course there are ads there, but discreet enough.
So is the spelling of check/cheque some british vs. american english issue?
Because the headline would have been about 87% easier to understand with the spelling cheque. My first thought here was something like, "great, they are phasing out the checks at the airport or border" or something. Of course, that's completely utopian since the article also mentioned the UK, but one can always hope.
I think this part covers that:
This does not apply if you sell a product that makes use of your patented technology, or if you license it to others that do.
If you don't sell a product using the technology, you obviously don't care about it. This could of course be circumvented easily by creating a product and claiming to sell it in your own office, for a price that no one would ever pay. Then there's no need to spend much money on anything, perhaps a small ad on a website to make it look like you're still actively pushing the technology.
Actually it makes more sense in English. I'll try a manual translation:
Data was shot three times - but all death-bullets missed the mothermodem, the very heart of the computer hard disk drive.
It's a parody of a slightly oldish computer article in one of the large newspapers where the journalist mixed up every single word. "Motherboard" turned in to "Mothermodem" for example. Other jokes in this sentence are using the word "data" to mean "computer" (the swedish word for computer is "dator", quite similar to data), and "death bullet", a silly method that they use to add drama when there is none.
In many ways I've always suspected that the ideological spectrum is actually a circle - the far left and far right are actually much more similar to each other than they are to democratic parties.
This is of course because we like to simplify things to absurdity. People with one type of ideology might call themselves belonging to the "right", and everyone disagreeing thus naturally belong to the "left", how could anything else be possible? You can't be "up" or "down" or "forward", the opposite of "right" is "left". This is of course absurd. I see that there are some interesting views about this in Wikipedia, might be worth to take a look if you want to get rid of the left-right idea. Political spectrum
If the Arab in question wanted to harm the US in any way, he would have to be completely retarded trying to pass through border control with items like that.
So no, I wouldn't be worried. Either he just doesn't like the US (which is true for many peaceful individuals outside the US, you don't really have a great track record when it comes to foreign policy), or he must be so completely stupid that he wouldn't pose a threat to anyone but himself.
I think the most common reason in this market might be meaningless product differentiation by simply switching bits. Customers shouldn't know that the only difference between two devices is the "if( expensive ){ enable_features() }" line.
Another reason is that people will see how many patents they use without permission, and stuff like that.
The publicly given reason is of course that it would enable the competition to gain advantage of their oh-so-valuable-software.
Oh, the industry is moving to BSD-style licenses? When? What industry? Did they actually use GPL-style licenses before? Got anything to back this up? This is one of the most opaque attempt at spreading FUD I've seen here on slashdot.
I think it's very rare to hind behind Tor for downloading child porn, it's very slow and unreliable for large transfers. If you're doing something illegal you might as well rent some russian VPN or something already.
By viewing you are creating a demand for it which someone will fill.
Citation needed. This fact would make RIAA and MPAA dancing of joy. By just downloading all pirated movies and music from the net, you would help them with an incentive to create more products.
I don't believe this is true, at all. I can't remember where I read it, maybe it was on wikileaks, but some IT admin in the "child porn" business explained a bit that most of the real abuse cases are just from sick parents. The abuse is their main driving force of doing it.
posted anonymous because I don't want to be linked with anything to do with child porn even linked to talking about it.
Thoughtcrime, anyone?
If it's so simple, why don't you try to come up with some example that exists? If you had to travel 200mph to go from one state to another, there would be an exception in either of those two laws.
I will correct you. I'm not from the US but I still know that Trademark law is completely different from copyright law and patent law. Please don't bunch them together.
The major difference is that when you use the service in the Hotel, Coffee shop, Airport, cellphone, you're most probably identified. Either because you paid to gain access to the service, or because you are somehow connected to the account.
If this place was just letting anyone using the intarwebs without keeping any logs of what computers were using it, they MAFIAA have no choice but to go for the pub.
And when the MAFIAA does anything, it's mostly the wrong and unethical thing to do, and the laws need to be changed to make sure they have to stop.
All of them except for the majority. You don't need more upstream for VNC than what is necessary for sending mouse and keyboard data, and you don't need a high upstream if you want to stream movies from your friend's samba share.
I know how much throughput I get, It's kinda easy to measure by simply starting up a torrent and download/upload a large file, or to download a large file with wget or whatever you want.
Funny, since I used both a 1GHz P-III and a 1GHz VIA computer with mini-itx for routing/NAT:ing 100Mbit/s symmetric for over a year, with just the cheap integrated 100MBit/s network chip and one or two external NICs, intel gigabit and random other cheap stuff. Perhaps BSD isn't very good at this, I used linux for my things.
Try thinking outside the box. Maybe he wish to run his own web server. Maybe he wants to use VNC or similar to his office. Maybe he wants to link his friends computers together so they can all access eachother's file storage. There are millions of uses for a fast network connection, unless you subscribe to the cable-tv-internet that the media companies would like you to have. That is, passive receiver of pre-filtered information.
Thanks for the advice! Too bad it's incorrect and you apparently just wrote something to see your name here. There's no reason for the brand-name ones or any one (they all buy and rebrand from the same Chinese OEM developers anyway) to maintain speeds faster than the fastest broadband connections on the market. This has been cheap and easy so far, since the market in this case suck at delivering fast speeds.
It's common knowledge among those of us that have 100/100 at home that those routers just can't keep up. They usually also lack RAM to track enough connections to saturate the bandwidth with torrent downloads or similar.
I'd set up openwrt or distro-of-your-choice (m0n0wall was nice last time I looked at these things) on a small and silent PC with two network cards, mini-itx or such. That would give you the prestanda and flexibility you want.
Too bad you're such a wikipedia-basher that you didn't even bother to take a look and see that, as with most wikipedia articles, it is full of citations. You have references to 5 papers in just that section that was linked.
But I suppose that if you actually tried using wikipedia instead of just reading some website listing bad wikipedia pages, you might end up liking such a communist website, oh noes.
How well does it handle changes in binary files? If I sync my music folder with my laptop (mostly FLAC files) and change the metadata for the files in a couple of folders, what will it do then? Will it keep the old binary files? I can easily see how that could grow out of hand, storage-wise. What about if you move or rename file? Unless you take special care when doing these operations, a VCS might act like the old file was removed and there was a new file, but of course keep the old file around. This is also something you don't want to happen when you rename or sort your gigabyte-sized photo album.