Huh? This student has to pay more than $7,500 USD because all he did was exercise his freedom of speech. How can you say "let it be"? Is it because no lawyer stands to make a boat-load of cash?
To me, this is a very important case. It shows how corrupted small claims courts can be. Most small claims judges think your are in their house and you basically have to kiss their @ss.
A while ago, I had a ticket I was trying to fight, however, the judge was a prick and nothing I said mattered. The judge almost held me in contempt of court because I wouldn't "shut up". What the hell is that? Why should citizens have to put up with this crap? Small claims should be our first line of defense. However, small claims is a nightmare that one should avoid at all costs. A small claims judge can rule however the hell he/she wants based on... well whatever.
This blogger did nothing wrong according to OUR CONSTITUTION. However, he now has to pay more than $7,500 USD because why?
If you don't think it is a big deal case and we all should just "let it be", why don't you pay this bloggers $7,500+ fine? I didn't think so.
STFU? Grow up you dork. Get out of your mommy's basement.
How about getting an education? Based on your attacking comments, you are a little boy with little experience in the real world. So go cry to your mommy about how you don't like things. Heck, maybe you mommy will still breast feed you as a young boy? I am sure that is what you are hoping for.
Now that we got the stupid little kid name calling out of the way...
Oh yeah, lets violate the spirit of the GPL instead. Lets screw all those that worked so hard on the software we sell.
Well, the "spirit" has no weight in a court of law. It is either law or it is not. But I do agree that I cannot stand corps. that use GPLed code and screw over the people that put in that hard work.
They loose that part of the community that wants Freedom.
Loose? Huh? Whacha talkin bout Willis? Did you mean lose? Loose means... my belt is to loose to keep my pants up. Lose means... I am sorry, but you lose the competition. Loose/Lose. Big difference.
With that said... let us look at the rest of your childish comment.
Even one good software developer or package maintainer that leaves the community of Linspire/Freespire is a very high price to pay.
What are you talking about "leaves" for? Do you know what "leaves" means? I majored in college for botany. Leaves doesn't mean what you think. Go do a Google search for leaves. Come back to me when you know what even basic English.
With that said; Your comment about ONE developer/package maintainer "leaving" Linspire is total crap. Who freaking cares about Linspire or the other binary-only-charge-you-money-to-build-a-package distro?
Seriously, you have problems.
So as you say: shut the f%ck up. Yeah, there... I am leet like you!
No, none of the companies agreed that MS patents are being violated. They signed a deal so they don't have to worry about it. A bad deal IMO, but that is all it is. No company admits to anything. Why do you think so many settle out of court when they can't win/are wrong? Because the settlement does not include an admittance of guilt.
All Microsoft is doing is going after the fringe Linux distros that have no real user base. These fringe players have nothing to lose. Now, if Ubuntu or Redhat/Fedora jump ship, then that will be news. Though I don't see it happening. Redhat has enough money to fight it out in court. Ubuntu is based where software patents are not valid so they don't have to worry.
The Webkit/Safari is sandboxed on the iPhone for security. It is pretty much isolated from the rest of the phone. Though as usual there is no such thing as 100% security.
Did anyone watch WWDC? I did last night. The iPhone has the full WebKit framework which means any Web 2.0/Ajax app will run on it if it runs in Safari. You can do things through Ajax like make a phone call. They did a sweet demo where clicking on links would bring up the mail app, make a phone call through Safari, send an address to Google maps, etc.
This seems like a good way to go IMO. You don't need to learn yet another SDK. If you can program with Javascript, HTML, you can make apps for the iPhone. If there is a bug in your app, you don't have to create a new installer and get that new version out to millions of people. Just update the code on your server and now all users have the latest-and-greatest.
Through Safari, you will be able to do tons of things with the iPhone and web 2.0/Ajax stuff, all the core functions of the iPhone are available to you.
The FA said "water mark". Have you read somewhere that the info is just in an ID tag and not encoded in the stream some way? The FA also said there hasn't been a tool yet to remove the info. I would think that if it is just ID tags, one would have been out by now. It would only take a little while to whip up a quick app to remove tags.
I agree with most of your post. However, there could be some issues with your statement:
Oh, that's the message, is it? So we've been calling for no DRM for ages, so we can legitimately and legally use our music files, and now people have problems with not being able to do things with them that are strictly illegal?
A lot of iPods get stolen or lost. What happens if yours gets stolen/lost and the non-DRM files you legally bought show up on Usenet/p2p? What happens if you get sued by the MPAA/RIAA? It cost to have to go to court to prove you are innocent and prove that your device was lost/stolen. Yeah, I know your not supposed to prove your innocence, however that seems to be the tactics of the MAFIAA.
I personally what total control over where my personal info is stored. I don't want Apple putting my name, phone, etc in non-DRM music, so sadly I haven't bought any music from Apple. I do buy TV shows from Apple because I don't put them on a portable and don't have the same worries about having them stolen or lost.
Apple shouldn't be putting personal info in any file that could get lost or stolen. Period. It is just asking for trouble. On the other hand, maybe Steve Jobs is help users come up with a way to beat this law suits? You know, just use the I lost my iPod or my iPod was stolen? Thanks Steve!
I have been a digital cable, digital phone and digital roadrunner user for at least 8 years now. I just noticed this "issue" recently. I pay for Usenet access and noticed that downloads were going way slower then the 8 Mbps I pay Time Warner for (I pay an extra $9.95 a month to go from 5 Mbps to 8 Mbps). However, the "fix" is easy, just change ports for your Usenet client. The Usenet server I use NewsDemon offers many ports, just try each one until you get your speed back. I just switch to port 80, and wham, I am back to 8 Mbps goodness.
Their traffic shaping seems to only be port based. Another example is that my upload is 512 Kbps. However, I tried to set up a small website for family and friends and noticed that upload from my port 80 was dog slow. So I setup a free DynDNS.org WebHop service which sends all HTTP traffic to a different port. Wham, back to my full upload bandwidth. I also set Apache on my Mac to have a VHost on *:80 and *:5090. *:80 just redirects everything to *:5090.
I noticed the shaping for Bitorrent as well. I just use a client that doesn't use the traditional ports and now I can download Linux ISO's at a good speed again. Though personally I don't use Bitorrent much. Usenet is much safer if you want to "try before you buy". With Usenet, you are not uploading, no one has ever been sued for downloading only. Copyright right restricts distribution (uploading), not downloading.
I don't really see the reason for this shaping crap. Any some what technical user can bypass it by changing from the standard ports.
Nope, Vista has indexing that is always running. That is why Google is complaining. Are you saying that Google's engineers couldn't figure out how to turn of an indexing service if it could be turned off? The problem is that Vista will always be doing some type of indexing for changed files, new files, etc. If you install Google's desktop search, you are now doing the same job twice which leads to poor performance.
You are thinking of the indexing service that came over from XP. Vista has something called Instant Search that cannot be turned off. It is a "feature" and part of the OS.
Huh? How is Google being evil? In XP, Google desktop or any desktop search competitor can disable the index search service. Microsoft didn't like this, so now in Vista, the search is built-in and cannot be disabled. Note, Google is not saying anything about XP, only on Vista is this an issue.
This is no different from the whole MS IE crap where MS claimed that "it is a part of the OS and cannot be removed". This is just another MS move to try to stop any competing desktop search products in Vista.
Sigh, Google is not complaining about XP. It is about Vista and the built-in search that cannot be disabled. On XP when you install Google Desktop Search, the XP indexer is disabled. Google is now prevented from doing this in Vista by Microsoft. Basically Microsoft is trying to kill any desktop search competitors on Vista.
Google is talking about the built-in indexing on Vista, not the download MS search competitor or the windows service indexer that is on XP. Both of those can be turned off as a service. On Vista, there is some indexing stuff that cannot be turned off.
You talking about the index services on XP. Google is talking about the integrated search in Vista, not XP's little indexer. I haven't personally used Vista yet, so I do not know if Vista's built-in search can be turned off. But going by Google complaint, I would be pretty sure that it cannot. I am sure some Google engineers would have check that option first.:-)
The Move from Classic (OS 9) to OS X forced people to Recompile/Port or Die from obsoleteness
Not completely true. You can still run classic code, if you really want. I think what Apple did was make cocoa so much better that developers wanted it and users demand it.
Next it was the move from Power PC to Intel.
Again, you can run PPC under Intel via Rosetta. Though getting a native Intel build always performs better. Some say they don't notice any difference. I disagree. For example, a PPC build of Photoshop is much slower than a Universal build of the new Photoshop.
So Apple does leave backwards compatibility stuff there, however they make the new stuff so much better, that developers and users want to get it ASAP.
Now compare this to Microsoft. While.Net with C# is an improvement for developers in productivity, there is really no gain/difference for users. For example I had to port a legacy VB 6 app to C#/.Net. The end users didn't know anything different about the app from their point of view. Just switching to.Net didn't make the app inherit any default functionality. Contrast this to Cocoa where an app get spell checking via NSSpellChecker.
OS X can be case sensitive, HFS+ has support for it, though it is not the default. I guess Apple went this method to make things easier for MS Windows users.
Sorry but Ubuntu/Debian blows away OpenSuse when it comes to number of packages, and most importantly, repository coherence. I used Suse/RHEL/Fedora/RPM-stuff for about 9 years. It all works well when you use the official repos or repos that co-operate. However, throw in another repo that has some packages you want and wham, RPM-Hell, just like the old DLL-Hell. No thanks. About 3 years ago a buddy of mine convinced me to try Debian and then eventually Ubuntu. Debian sucked as far as install went, which Ubuntu has taken care of nicely, however after install of Ubuntu or Debian, damn, what a freakin nice system. Updates, upgrades and new installs "Just Work(tm)".
I have been using OSes for more than 18 years. Of the three major ones, my favorite way to install software is the Ubuntu/Debian way. A very close second is OS X and a nice.dmg. Just drag-n-drop. Schaweet! Sadly, not all OS X software is just drag-n-drop. I have two Intel Mac and some software are installers that you "double-click" and then they get installed. The down side to this IMO, is that deleting the app from/Applications doesn't always guarantee you got all the files from the install. With Ubuntu/Debian, you generally get all the stuff installed. With MS Windows, good luck getting a clean uninstall!
I just recently had to send an email to the iTMS because I used up my 5 authorizations. The reason? Because I tried to dual-boot my two Intel iMacs with WinXP. After installing/uninstalling a lot of apps under WinXP (I am a programmer and try a lot of software, I have since switched to OS X only with Parallels Desktop for WinXP and works great) the system was just crappy. So I re-installed WinXP. However, a big mistake I made was to forget to de-authorize the dual-booted WinXP. Each freaking re-install/authorization of iTMS on WinXP to Apple looked like a different authorization even though the hardware was identical! So as of now, I can't play all the episodeds of "The Office" that I bought from iTMS. I bought every episode after I watched the my first one which was in the middle of this past season.
Thanks for the tips. I love screen. I use it a lot. I ssh into my home box from work and have a bunch of screen sessions going all the time. I get my email and usenet from my home box via screen over ssh. Fast and schaweeet. Boss comes by? No problem. I can kill my connection and still have my session going. Not that my boss would know what the hell I was doing (or probably even care), but just want to be on the safe side;-)
Yeah boy! Hey, maybe Microsoft is trying to help standardize Linux for everyone. Maybe we will have just Ubuntu/Debian and Fedora/RHEL? That would be cool.
Hey, MS, here is a nice list for you. Don't worry about Ubuntu/Debian or Fedora/RHEL, they won't sell out to you.
Seriously, what FUD. Sadly, though PHB's may fall for it unless they have some FOSS savvy employees around to clear things up.
For me, it looks like Novell and now Xandros, just threw out any market share they may have had. While I don't care about Xandros, Novell did have some good peeps from the old Ximian days. Though I personally didn't like the way Novell set up the file system. Last time I used Novell they were putting Gnome and KDE in/opt. I grew up with the Redhat way and debian way, so that it how I like things.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but, the compile finished in only a little over a minute. I though emacs would take longer. I have always built vim, not emacs. The make install step took longer with all the compressing. Anyway, for those who are using OS X, the command I gave above works fine. After that, just do "sudo make install" and you will have Emacs installed under/Applications.
The only OS X builds I have seen are still based on the 6 y/o version. Anyone know of an OS X build that stays current?
I just started a build on an Intel Tiger system with "./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr --enable-carbon-app" and all seems OK so far, though I have never built emacs on OS X before and I am not sure if this is the way to build emacs on OS X.
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While a company could Tivoize your code in locked-down hardware, they still have to release ALL changes to your code. However, I too would like to see an optional clause that the developer can choose whether to allow "Tivoization" or not.
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To me, this is a very important case. It shows how corrupted small claims courts can be. Most small claims judges think your are in their house and you basically have to kiss their @ss.
A while ago, I had a ticket I was trying to fight, however, the judge was a prick and nothing I said mattered. The judge almost held me in contempt of court because I wouldn't "shut up". What the hell is that? Why should citizens have to put up with this crap? Small claims should be our first line of defense. However, small claims is a nightmare that one should avoid at all costs. A small claims judge can rule however the hell he/she wants based on... well whatever.
This blogger did nothing wrong according to OUR CONSTITUTION. However, he now has to pay more than $7,500 USD because why?
If you don't think it is a big deal case and we all should just "let it be", why don't you pay this bloggers $7,500+ fine? I didn't think so.
How about getting an education? Based on your attacking comments, you are a little boy with little experience in the real world. So go cry to your mommy about how you don't like things. Heck, maybe you mommy will still breast feed you as a young boy? I am sure that is what you are hoping for.
Now that we got the stupid little kid name calling out of the way...
Well, the "spirit" has no weight in a court of law. It is either law or it is not. But I do agree that I cannot stand corps. that use GPLed code and screw over the people that put in that hard work.
Loose? Huh? Whacha talkin bout Willis? Did you mean lose? Loose means... my belt is to loose to keep my pants up. Lose means... I am sorry, but you lose the competition. Loose/Lose. Big difference.
With that said... let us look at the rest of your childish comment. What are you talking about "leaves" for? Do you know what "leaves" means? I majored in college for botany. Leaves doesn't mean what you think. Go do a Google search for leaves. Come back to me when you know what even basic English.
With that said; Your comment about ONE developer/package maintainer "leaving" Linspire is total crap. Who freaking cares about Linspire or the other binary-only-charge-you-money-to-build-a-package distro?
Seriously, you have problems.
So as you say: shut the f%ck up. Yeah, there... I am leet like you!
Where did you read that Novell is paying Microsoft? Do you have the link? I would like to read that.
No, none of the companies agreed that MS patents are being violated. They signed a deal so they don't have to worry about it. A bad deal IMO, but that is all it is. No company admits to anything. Why do you think so many settle out of court when they can't win/are wrong? Because the settlement does not include an admittance of guilt.
All Microsoft is doing is going after the fringe Linux distros that have no real user base. These fringe players have nothing to lose. Now, if Ubuntu or Redhat/Fedora jump ship, then that will be news. Though I don't see it happening. Redhat has enough money to fight it out in court. Ubuntu is based where software patents are not valid so they don't have to worry.
The Webkit/Safari is sandboxed on the iPhone for security. It is pretty much isolated from the rest of the phone. Though as usual there is no such thing as 100% security.
Did anyone watch WWDC? I did last night. The iPhone has the full WebKit framework which means any Web 2.0/Ajax app will run on it if it runs in Safari. You can do things through Ajax like make a phone call. They did a sweet demo where clicking on links would bring up the mail app, make a phone call through Safari, send an address to Google maps, etc.
This seems like a good way to go IMO. You don't need to learn yet another SDK. If you can program with Javascript, HTML, you can make apps for the iPhone. If there is a bug in your app, you don't have to create a new installer and get that new version out to millions of people. Just update the code on your server and now all users have the latest-and-greatest.
Through Safari, you will be able to do tons of things with the iPhone and web 2.0/Ajax stuff, all the core functions of the iPhone are available to you.
The FA said "water mark". Have you read somewhere that the info is just in an ID tag and not encoded in the stream some way? The FA also said there hasn't been a tool yet to remove the info. I would think that if it is just ID tags, one would have been out by now. It would only take a little while to whip up a quick app to remove tags.
I personally what total control over where my personal info is stored. I don't want Apple putting my name, phone, etc in non-DRM music, so sadly I haven't bought any music from Apple. I do buy TV shows from Apple because I don't put them on a portable and don't have the same worries about having them stolen or lost.
Apple shouldn't be putting personal info in any file that could get lost or stolen. Period. It is just asking for trouble. On the other hand, maybe Steve Jobs is help users come up with a way to beat this law suits? You know, just use the I lost my iPod or my iPod was stolen? Thanks Steve!
I have been a digital cable, digital phone and digital roadrunner user for at least 8 years now. I just noticed this "issue" recently. I pay for Usenet access and noticed that downloads were going way slower then the 8 Mbps I pay Time Warner for (I pay an extra $9.95 a month to go from 5 Mbps to 8 Mbps). However, the "fix" is easy, just change ports for your Usenet client. The Usenet server I use NewsDemon offers many ports, just try each one until you get your speed back. I just switch to port 80, and wham, I am back to 8 Mbps goodness.
Their traffic shaping seems to only be port based. Another example is that my upload is 512 Kbps. However, I tried to set up a small website for family and friends and noticed that upload from my port 80 was dog slow. So I setup a free DynDNS.org WebHop service which sends all HTTP traffic to a different port. Wham, back to my full upload bandwidth. I also set Apache on my Mac to have a VHost on *:80 and *:5090. *:80 just redirects everything to *:5090.
I noticed the shaping for Bitorrent as well. I just use a client that doesn't use the traditional ports and now I can download Linux ISO's at a good speed again. Though personally I don't use Bitorrent much. Usenet is much safer if you want to "try before you buy". With Usenet, you are not uploading, no one has ever been sued for downloading only. Copyright right restricts distribution (uploading), not downloading.
I don't really see the reason for this shaping crap. Any some what technical user can bypass it by changing from the standard ports.
Nope, Vista has indexing that is always running. That is why Google is complaining. Are you saying that Google's engineers couldn't figure out how to turn of an indexing service if it could be turned off? The problem is that Vista will always be doing some type of indexing for changed files, new files, etc. If you install Google's desktop search, you are now doing the same job twice which leads to poor performance.
You are thinking of the indexing service that came over from XP. Vista has something called Instant Search that cannot be turned off. It is a "feature" and part of the OS.
Huh? How is Google being evil? In XP, Google desktop or any desktop search competitor can disable the index search service. Microsoft didn't like this, so now in Vista, the search is built-in and cannot be disabled. Note, Google is not saying anything about XP, only on Vista is this an issue.
This is no different from the whole MS IE crap where MS claimed that "it is a part of the OS and cannot be removed". This is just another MS move to try to stop any competing desktop search products in Vista.
s/big govt/big corps/g
Sigh, Google is not complaining about XP. It is about Vista and the built-in search that cannot be disabled. On XP when you install Google Desktop Search, the XP indexer is disabled. Google is now prevented from doing this in Vista by Microsoft. Basically Microsoft is trying to kill any desktop search competitors on Vista.
Google is talking about the built-in indexing on Vista, not the download MS search competitor or the windows service indexer that is on XP. Both of those can be turned off as a service. On Vista, there is some indexing stuff that cannot be turned off.
You talking about the index services on XP. Google is talking about the integrated search in Vista, not XP's little indexer. I haven't personally used Vista yet, so I do not know if Vista's built-in search can be turned off. But going by Google complaint, I would be pretty sure that it cannot. I am sure some Google engineers would have check that option first. :-)
So Apple does leave backwards compatibility stuff there, however they make the new stuff so much better, that developers and users want to get it ASAP.
Now compare this to Microsoft. While
OS X can be case sensitive, HFS+ has support for it, though it is not the default. I guess Apple went this method to make things easier for MS Windows users.
Sorry but Ubuntu/Debian blows away OpenSuse when it comes to number of packages, and most importantly, repository coherence. I used Suse/RHEL/Fedora/RPM-stuff for about 9 years. It all works well when you use the official repos or repos that co-operate. However, throw in another repo that has some packages you want and wham, RPM-Hell, just like the old DLL-Hell. No thanks. About 3 years ago a buddy of mine convinced me to try Debian and then eventually Ubuntu. Debian sucked as far as install went, which Ubuntu has taken care of nicely, however after install of Ubuntu or Debian, damn, what a freakin nice system. Updates, upgrades and new installs "Just Work(tm)".
.dmg. Just drag-n-drop. Schaweet! Sadly, not all OS X software is just drag-n-drop. I have two Intel Mac and some software are installers that you "double-click" and then they get installed. The down side to this IMO, is that deleting the app from /Applications doesn't always guarantee you got all the files from the install. With Ubuntu/Debian, you generally get all the stuff installed. With MS Windows, good luck getting a clean uninstall!
I have been using OSes for more than 18 years. Of the three major ones, my favorite way to install software is the Ubuntu/Debian way. A very close second is OS X and a nice
I just recently had to send an email to the iTMS because I used up my 5 authorizations. The reason? Because I tried to dual-boot my two Intel iMacs with WinXP. After installing/uninstalling a lot of apps under WinXP (I am a programmer and try a lot of software, I have since switched to OS X only with Parallels Desktop for WinXP and works great) the system was just crappy. So I re-installed WinXP. However, a big mistake I made was to forget to de-authorize the dual-booted WinXP. Each freaking re-install/authorization of iTMS on WinXP to Apple looked like a different authorization even though the hardware was identical! So as of now, I can't play all the episodeds of "The Office" that I bought from iTMS. I bought every episode after I watched the my first one which was in the middle of this past season.
Thanks for the tips. I love screen. I use it a lot. I ssh into my home box from work and have a bunch of screen sessions going all the time. I get my email and usenet from my home box via screen over ssh. Fast and schaweeet. Boss comes by? No problem. I can kill my connection and still have my session going. Not that my boss would know what the hell I was doing (or probably even care), but just want to be on the safe side ;-)
Yeah boy! Hey, maybe Microsoft is trying to help standardize Linux for everyone. Maybe we will have just Ubuntu/Debian and Fedora/RHEL? That would be cool.
Hey, MS, here is a nice list for you. Don't worry about Ubuntu/Debian or Fedora/RHEL, they won't sell out to you.
I just tried it with 22 and it worked great. Thanks for the tip.
Seriously, what FUD. Sadly, though PHB's may fall for it unless they have some FOSS savvy employees around to clear things up.
/opt. I grew up with the Redhat way and debian way, so that it how I like things.
For me, it looks like Novell and now Xandros, just threw out any market share they may have had. While I don't care about Xandros, Novell did have some good peeps from the old Ximian days. Though I personally didn't like the way Novell set up the file system. Last time I used Novell they were putting Gnome and KDE in
Sorry to reply to my own post, but, the compile finished in only a little over a minute. I though emacs would take longer. I have always built vim, not emacs. The make install step took longer with all the compressing. Anyway, for those who are using OS X, the command I gave above works fine. After that, just do "sudo make install" and you will have Emacs installed under /Applications.
The only OS X builds I have seen are still based on the 6 y/o version. Anyone know of an OS X build that stays current?
I just started a build on an Intel Tiger system with "./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr --enable-carbon-app" and all seems OK so far, though I have never built emacs on OS X before and I am not sure if this is the way to build emacs on OS X.
While a company could Tivoize your code in locked-down hardware, they still have to release ALL changes to your code. However, I too would like to see an optional clause that the developer can choose whether to allow "Tivoization" or not.