Couldn't they just low-level image it and give the drives back? Then they can comb at their leisure. Not that I'm supporting the bill- it's obviously stupid and a horrifying violation of search and seizure rights. Any intelligent australian will be full-volume passphrase encrypting their drives from now on.. when the police start realizing that they can't do anything with anyone's data without their permission, they might just give up?
Uh they're far from actually making delicate repairs on fiber.. but I was very wowed by it snaking around on that horizonal pole. That must be some crazy programming for it be able to keep balance and not fall off.
Oh don't give me that, if you have an account with UPS you can track whether your customers signed for their packages. You just want to play up the "scam" so you don't have to deal with customers who legitimately didn't get their packages.
How selfish of them.. seriously, that's no better at all than Microsoft's half-open licenses. Also, since non-GPL-compatible-licensed code runs on Linux I assume that it's fine to use the kernel indirectly, through filesystem APIs and frameworks or whatever. So is there a GPL'd library that makes kernel functions available to non-GPL code with just that extra layer of indirection? Would that work legally?
Yeah and why do they have to pass a checklist of requirements to release their code freely? You should be freely available to release your code freely, and the first "freely" I mean in the sense of completely free, not GPL-free.
This is stupid, people are trying to release the code of the project to the community and the restrictive terms of the GPL is preventing them. I know slashdot is heavily GPL-supportive, but a few more stories like these and maybe we'll see some more mainstream support for permissive licenses.
I completely agree. So what if you can't actually modify the code and use it for commerical purposes, the source is open and it's a great educational tool.
It's called an embargo, not censorship. And it's what's necessary and just to put pressure on Cuba to stop being a vicious dictatorship and actually respect its citizens' human rights. I'm not being sarcastic.
Anyone want to spend $20 for the journal article so we can all take a gander at the actual formula? Hey, tenured university profs have to make their money somehow, right? Right?
This could actually be some competition for the unstoppable Firefox.. if IE stops sucking then nobody will switch.. I'm expecting firefox 3 to pack some serious performance and standards-compliance improvements, but if it didn't then I'd have been happy to switch back to IE8. Firefox is an absolute memory whore. I do like the interface though; IE7's was horrid.
You should go back and watch Star Trek TNG, learn some starfleet ideals. Picard was absolutely right not to return Hugh with a disease to exterminate the Borg. Yes they were a threat to the human race, but genocide is never an acceptable solution. Would you wipe out a species to ensure your own survival? Murder? Starfleet wouldn't, and neither would I.. these are ideals worth dying for.
I'm constantly frustrated by these exact issues on battlestar galactica. When the workers rebel in a classic Marx revolution, the stupid president just brushes them off, and never really addresses their concerns.. somehow the problem just sort of goes away and the workers happily go back to working dangerous, repetitive jobs 16 hours a day, every day for years with no weekends. Mhm. Also I hate how they constantly abuse the cylons.. I mean yeah they're the enemy but they're obviously intelligent and sentient and they're not even given basic human rights. A Six is currently shackled to the floor in one of their small cells. The humans call the cylons obscene caricatures of real people and refer to them as "mechanical" and "machines"... they're entirely biological and indistinguishable from humans, at least some of them. There's some serious xenophobia going on here and it's hard not to sympathize with the cylons, especially the Six is custody who's constantly told that she's a worthless pile of bolts.. that must be causing some serious psychological damage, and I can't help but keep that abuse in mind when watching the "light" parts of the episodes.. as if I'm supposed to sympathize with the humans? They're more vicious than the cylons..
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You'd expect that from a prison colony wouldn't you? :)
Couldn't they just low-level image it and give the drives back? Then they can comb at their leisure. Not that I'm supporting the bill- it's obviously stupid and a horrifying violation of search and seizure rights. Any intelligent australian will be full-volume passphrase encrypting their drives from now on.. when the police start realizing that they can't do anything with anyone's data without their permission, they might just give up?
Uh they're far from actually making delicate repairs on fiber.. but I was very wowed by it snaking around on that horizonal pole. That must be some crazy programming for it be able to keep balance and not fall off.
What are you talking about, everyone knows that this kind of thing goes on...
I've never bought nor sold anything from ebay
Oh don't give me that, if you have an account with UPS you can track whether your customers signed for their packages. You just want to play up the "scam" so you don't have to deal with customers who legitimately didn't get their packages.
How selfish of them.. seriously, that's no better at all than Microsoft's half-open licenses. Also, since non-GPL-compatible-licensed code runs on Linux I assume that it's fine to use the kernel indirectly, through filesystem APIs and frameworks or whatever. So is there a GPL'd library that makes kernel functions available to non-GPL code with just that extra layer of indirection? Would that work legally?
Yeah and why do they have to pass a checklist of requirements to release their code freely? You should be freely available to release your code freely, and the first "freely" I mean in the sense of completely free, not GPL-free.
This is stupid, people are trying to release the code of the project to the community and the restrictive terms of the GPL is preventing them. I know slashdot is heavily GPL-supportive, but a few more stories like these and maybe we'll see some more mainstream support for permissive licenses.
Slashdot is too used to railing on the FCC :) The FCC isn't involved here, it's the FTC.
They're down 32% since october.. I don't blame them for trying desperate measures. But the power sellers are absolutely right.
I completely agree. So what if you can't actually modify the code and use it for commerical purposes, the source is open and it's a great educational tool.
US Air Force. Don't be fooled by the bbc domain :)
Oh please, "security breaches"? What enemy could possibly challenge the US air force?
I've had seven different passwords and they've got them all so far.
So we're the only ones doing what's right?
It's called an embargo, not censorship. And it's what's necessary and just to put pressure on Cuba to stop being a vicious dictatorship and actually respect its citizens' human rights. I'm not being sarcastic.
do they read slashdot? bluray is out of production.
Anyone want to spend $20 for the journal article so we can all take a gander at the actual formula? Hey, tenured university profs have to make their money somehow, right? Right?
I switched to firefox immediately when I learned how IE disobeyed web standards- and only for that reason
This could actually be some competition for the unstoppable Firefox.. if IE stops sucking then nobody will switch.. I'm expecting firefox 3 to pack some serious performance and standards-compliance improvements, but if it didn't then I'd have been happy to switch back to IE8. Firefox is an absolute memory whore. I do like the interface though; IE7's was horrid.
Run a wire from Mars, might be cheaper.
You should go back and watch Star Trek TNG, learn some starfleet ideals. Picard was absolutely right not to return Hugh with a disease to exterminate the Borg. Yes they were a threat to the human race, but genocide is never an acceptable solution. Would you wipe out a species to ensure your own survival? Murder? Starfleet wouldn't, and neither would I.. these are ideals worth dying for.
I'm constantly frustrated by these exact issues on battlestar galactica. When the workers rebel in a classic Marx revolution, the stupid president just brushes them off, and never really addresses their concerns.. somehow the problem just sort of goes away and the workers happily go back to working dangerous, repetitive jobs 16 hours a day, every day for years with no weekends. Mhm. Also I hate how they constantly abuse the cylons.. I mean yeah they're the enemy but they're obviously intelligent and sentient and they're not even given basic human rights. A Six is currently shackled to the floor in one of their small cells. The humans call the cylons obscene caricatures of real people and refer to them as "mechanical" and "machines"... they're entirely biological and indistinguishable from humans, at least some of them. There's some serious xenophobia going on here and it's hard not to sympathize with the cylons, especially the Six is custody who's constantly told that she's a worthless pile of bolts.. that must be causing some serious psychological damage, and I can't help but keep that abuse in mind when watching the "light" parts of the episodes.. as if I'm supposed to sympathize with the humans? They're more vicious than the cylons..