I think you misunderstood. The complaint is that placing tracking devices without a warrant couldn't be prohibited as unconstitutional until someone has such a tracking device placed and challenges the police's authority to have done it. The courts can't say that something is unconstitutional on their own, but can only decide on a case with someone claiming that something that was done to them (and never something that might be or will be done to them) is unconstitutional. The decision is good, but it's unfortunate that it had to happen to someone before the decision could be made.
No. The capacity of the network at any given time is finite. You are using a fraction of that available bandwith for some period of time.
Bandwidth x Time = Bytes Transferred.
The difference is that bandwidth that isn't used is wasted, so the ideal situation is 100% utilization (yes, I know that in reality you get better utilization with less than 100% saturation). For something like fuel, whatever doesn't get used by the end of the day can be used the next day instead.
There is no product which even comes close to properly keeping a stupid computer user from infecting the machine once it's connected to the Internet, regardless of how few programs are installed or how up-to-date it is. None.
Fixed that for you. I love Linux, and I've been using it exclusively at home for a couple years now, but Linux still can't completely protect stupid users from themselves.
I would think much less of someone that judged a person by the actions of a grandparent that's been dead for the better part of a century. I can understand the grandson's concern, since there are such ridiculous people out there, but it's still a sad thought to have.
I don't think I'll ever understand people watching porn at work. I can only think of one reason to watch porn, and there are probably a lot of reasons that doing that at work is a bad idea (someone walking in on you and the "janitorial" issues come to mind). I guess I can't imagine why someone couldn't wait until they got home.
They were doing"research" on human reproductive habits...how males are "visual" compared to females...yea, that's it....now to put in for the multi-million dollar grant on this...
Not sure if you did it intentionally, but everyone should read that in Jon Lovitz's voice.
a car payment (which I'm two months behind on) of $315/mo and I still have a year left on the loan
My current vehicle probably won't last another month. I *need* a car loan.
These two lines set off my bullshit detector. A $315 monthly payment would have to be either a pretty short loan (36 or maybe 48 months), or a decent quality small car (in the $15-20k price range). If your car is about to die a full year before you've even finished paying off the loan on it, something not quite normal is going on.
As the saying goes, you can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig.
So, this means you get that much faster to the crap Windows OS...
Windows is still Windows and so it doesn't matter how fast it boots.
Yeah, because speeding up the BIOS wouldn't affect other operating systems equally.
There's a human-nature problem with expecting that. I think that's where a lot of "communism" fails. It's difficult to set up a system that deals with human nature correctly. Of course, that depends on what you think human nature is...
Absolutely. That is, by the way, exactly why I used the word "trying". Personally, I think many of the basic principles of socialism are nice ideals, but I know that it's somewhere between very difficult and impossible to get them to work in the real world. And of course, anything can be ruined by power-hungry or corrupt leaders, which would really be the complete opposite of communism.
It seems that communism tends to be quite bloody surrounding the "brief" times of peace and "prosperity." Incidentally, I'm not sure how many communist countries have been prosperous.
That's because none of them were truly socialist (using the "trying to do what benefits society as a whole" definition), but evil dictatorships that used the promises of Communism to seize control from the previously existing economic powers. For better examples, take a look at some European countries (and other European-style countries such as Canada).
Interesting. So, if I want to circumvent the GPL on a library, I only have to create a binary interface layer on top of the library and use that layer? The layer itself of course would be GPL.
Depending on how exactly you do it, maybe. There are a lot of specific details that would factor into it, and I don't know enough about the GPL and copyright law to give an informed opinion. At the very least, though, you wouldn't be able to distribute the GPL library with your code, so the end user would have to install it themselves. I've seen this done in a few cases with software that was written to use MySQL, though I'm not certain if it fully complies with the GPL or not.
All true, and I'm not saying that it necessarily needs to be changed. First of all, you'd have to draw a line somewhere about what would be considered too big to be internal use, and that line would have to be rather arbitrary. Some people would consider it abuse for a company like Sony to distribute modified GPL software to all of its child companies, and some people wouldn't. The system can never be perfect, you can only try to make it as good as you can.
The text of the decision says that they didn't tell AFPA about the backdoor, so I would assume that it wasn't part of any kind of agreement or contract.
Unless you change the code, just running it on your computer is the primary use of such code, so the courts will agree that you have the right to do that (if you paid the vendor's asking price). You only need a license if you want to do something not allowed by copyright law, such as modify the code or distribute copies.
Just to clarify, this is incorrect. You can modify GPL code in any way you want. The restrictions of the GPL only apply to distribution of the software. If you don't give the software to anyone else, you don't have to give anyone else your modified source code either. Also note that this aspect has the potential to be abused by large organizations that use the software internally, even when "internally" means offices in 20 different countries.
Zis is good step for all of us, mon ami. Ze GPL needs testing so badly. Zus far it has only been tested in ze legal depart'ments of business, and not in ze legal courts.
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I think you misunderstood. The complaint is that placing tracking devices without a warrant couldn't be prohibited as unconstitutional until someone has such a tracking device placed and challenges the police's authority to have done it. The courts can't say that something is unconstitutional on their own, but can only decide on a case with someone claiming that something that was done to them (and never something that might be or will be done to them) is unconstitutional. The decision is good, but it's unfortunate that it had to happen to someone before the decision could be made.
No. The capacity of the network at any given time is finite. You are using a fraction of that available bandwith for some period of time.
Bandwidth x Time = Bytes Transferred.
The difference is that bandwidth that isn't used is wasted, so the ideal situation is 100% utilization (yes, I know that in reality you get better utilization with less than 100% saturation). For something like fuel, whatever doesn't get used by the end of the day can be used the next day instead.
Symantec? Ha! I would rather have nothing at all than Norton products.
Norton products are great. They've just all been replaced by crappy Symantec products.
There is no product which even comes close to properly keeping a stupid computer user from infecting the machine once it's connected to the Internet, regardless of how few programs are installed or how up-to-date it is. None.
Fixed that for you. I love Linux, and I've been using it exclusively at home for a couple years now, but Linux still can't completely protect stupid users from themselves.
I would think much less of someone that judged a person by the actions of a grandparent that's been dead for the better part of a century. I can understand the grandson's concern, since there are such ridiculous people out there, but it's still a sad thought to have.
Yeah, I remember hearing about that. I vaguely recall the whole thing being a WTF all around.
I don't think I'll ever understand people watching porn at work. I can only think of one reason to watch porn, and there are probably a lot of reasons that doing that at work is a bad idea (someone walking in on you and the "janitorial" issues come to mind). I guess I can't imagine why someone couldn't wait until they got home.
They were doing"research" on human reproductive habits...how males are "visual" compared to females...yea, that's it....now to put in for the multi-million dollar grant on this...
Not sure if you did it intentionally, but everyone should read that in Jon Lovitz's voice.
It is proven that milk(excessive) will kill you.
So does water and oxygen in excessive amounts.
So does love. After all, it is like oxygen.
Can't you read? SharePoint is a FORTRESS.
And a Team Fortress, no less.
Now where's my minigun, I wanna saw some Scouts in half...
Unless there's a big fine involved, one big enough to effect someone's bonus
Usually the affect/effect mistake isn't a big problem, but in this case it gives the complete opposite meaning.
a car payment (which I'm two months behind on) of $315/mo and I still have a year left on the loan
My current vehicle probably won't last another month. I *need* a car loan.
These two lines set off my bullshit detector. A $315 monthly payment would have to be either a pretty short loan (36 or maybe 48 months), or a decent quality small car (in the $15-20k price range). If your car is about to die a full year before you've even finished paying off the loan on it, something not quite normal is going on.
As the saying goes, you can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig. So, this means you get that much faster to the crap Windows OS... Windows is still Windows and so it doesn't matter how fast it boots.
Yeah, because speeding up the BIOS wouldn't affect other operating systems equally.
Wait, that's not right...
There's a human-nature problem with expecting that. I think that's where a lot of "communism" fails. It's difficult to set up a system that deals with human nature correctly. Of course, that depends on what you think human nature is...
Absolutely. That is, by the way, exactly why I used the word "trying". Personally, I think many of the basic principles of socialism are nice ideals, but I know that it's somewhere between very difficult and impossible to get them to work in the real world. And of course, anything can be ruined by power-hungry or corrupt leaders, which would really be the complete opposite of communism.
It seems that communism tends to be quite bloody surrounding the "brief" times of peace and "prosperity." Incidentally, I'm not sure how many communist countries have been prosperous.
That's because none of them were truly socialist (using the "trying to do what benefits society as a whole" definition), but evil dictatorships that used the promises of Communism to seize control from the previously existing economic powers. For better examples, take a look at some European countries (and other European-style countries such as Canada).
Interesting. So, if I want to circumvent the GPL on a library, I only have to create a binary interface layer on top of the library and use that layer? The layer itself of course would be GPL.
Depending on how exactly you do it, maybe. There are a lot of specific details that would factor into it, and I don't know enough about the GPL and copyright law to give an informed opinion. At the very least, though, you wouldn't be able to distribute the GPL library with your code, so the end user would have to install it themselves. I've seen this done in a few cases with software that was written to use MySQL, though I'm not certain if it fully complies with the GPL or not.
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You sunk my battleship!
All true, and I'm not saying that it necessarily needs to be changed. First of all, you'd have to draw a line somewhere about what would be considered too big to be internal use, and that line would have to be rather arbitrary. Some people would consider it abuse for a company like Sony to distribute modified GPL software to all of its child companies, and some people wouldn't. The system can never be perfect, you can only try to make it as good as you can.
The text of the decision says that they didn't tell AFPA about the backdoor, so I would assume that it wasn't part of any kind of agreement or contract.
If that's correct, shouldn't Edu4 be liable for a lot more than copyright violations? Maybe for something like spying and/or wiretapping?
Unless you change the code, just running it on your computer is the primary use of such code, so the courts will agree that you have the right to do that (if you paid the vendor's asking price). You only need a license if you want to do something not allowed by copyright law, such as modify the code or distribute copies.
Just to clarify, this is incorrect. You can modify GPL code in any way you want. The restrictions of the GPL only apply to distribution of the software. If you don't give the software to anyone else, you don't have to give anyone else your modified source code either. Also note that this aspect has the potential to be abused by large organizations that use the software internally, even when "internally" means offices in 20 different countries.
Zis is good step for all of us, mon ami. Ze GPL needs testing so badly. Zus far it has only been tested in ze legal depart'ments of business, and not in ze legal courts.
Dude, lay off the Zima. Seriously.
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Who let Tom Cruise in here again?
In fact, forget the whalers and blackjack.
Standard practice is that nobody knows the password - you just store the hash.
Not even the user knows their own password... now that's security!