It isn't, and shouldn't be a GPL violation to secretly get a patent license. GPL v2 only requires you to make your source code available for any use with no restrictions (other than the continuation of the GPL itself). As long as TomTom is doing that, they are legal. The day they stop doing that, they are in violation. TomTom's patent license for VFAT or *anything else* does not invalidate GPL v2, it simply *permits* TomTom to keep using the "patented" process. For example, it does not require TomTom to force anyone else downstream to recognize the validity of the patent, or to purchase a license. If this occurs as part of a settlement, it doesn't even establish a precedent, as no ruling has taken place on whether VFAT is actually violating any patent.
(Microsoft may ask TomTom to do those things in a contract as part of a settlement, but that's a completely different discussion. It is not inherent in the patent license.)
They would be in violation if they: * stopped making their modifications available * started putting restrictions on others' use of their code
FTR, I doubt a patent swap is going to happen in this case. More likely TomTom will switch filesystems.
Assuming this is true, and another commenter has called this into question, so what? If you're using privacy software to punch through the Great Firewall, you are by definition doing something the government doesn't like, and probably several things. If you can get your hands on Tor in the first place, you might as well use it.
That's really the worst that could happen? Why this then? I can't imagine them disobeying any aspect of the order.
Toss a couple of bucks to the defendant instead of winning is not exactly an eternity having your liver eaten while chained to a rock*. I still don't get what's so intimidating here.
*Also known as "justice", around these parts.
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While Google was great between about '97 and '03 or so, it's become so gamed to be as bad as Altavista was in 1996
Aw, niggah, please. You obviously were not around in 1996 using Altavista. Those of us who were remember what search was actually like in the early days: a joke, a toy, useful for amusing your friends because you could sometimes find a random crappy web page that sort of resembled what you were looking for. Altavista inundated you with irrelevant junk, and only a tiny fraction of what was available could ever turn up, so you ended up finding something close enough and then looking around on that page for more links to better pages, jumping through sometimes 3-4 sites until you landed on the actual linux forum you were looking for.
Google, whatever you think of it today, makes Altavista look like the toy that it was. Google is useful. I use it a dozen times a day, it's faster than going to my bookmarks (which is why I don't have any, any more), and almost as accurate as bookmarks that link directly to the site ever were.
I've actually found that each OTA (over-the-air) update of Android has incrementally improved the battery life.
At this point I have GPS and high-speed networks always turned on, and syncing everything except Gmail (only because I hate that nag and I get over a hundred emails a day..), and my battery indicator stays green for more than a day at a time without recharging, which means I could probably go 2 days without a charge. (May not sound like a lot, but this phone does a LOT.) If I turned off more stuff, it would be no worse than my last, extremely DUMB phone.
It's just like that one place in the chunnel where all the English have to suddenly veer over to the right to keep from hitting the French, and vice-versa. Lots of accidents there.
> People act like consuming entertainment media is air that you need to survive.
Humans need to create art. It's what makes us human. Art exists to be consumed. We forget that at the risk of losing our humanity. The desire to create and share art freely is no less than a battle for the soul of humanity itself. There's nothing fucking pathetic about it.
Developers don't want your bug report if you aren't willing to do the proper procedures. A bug report that you've put some effort into might help fix the bug. It takes patience and attention to detail to open a useful but report.
A bug report that you wrote in half-assed is worthless, and worse than worthless. It wastes the developer's time and hurts the project.
If you're not willing to jump through a few hoops, don't open a bug.
Isn't that the whole, entire problem? You can't get a drink in a bar unless you join a club and wait a week or two. So your options are 1) don't go to any bars while a tourist, or 2) don't go to fucking Utah.
I like (2), myself, and I doubt relaxing the bar regulation will change my opinion, but ymmv:-)
Number of bison in north america at peak: 60 million Number of cattle in north america today: 96 million
So it's not really fair to use the bison as an argument that cattle aren't polluting. They can, and they do. Whether it's significant is debatable, and I fall pretty firmly on the side of "fix all the other pollution sources first before you take away my burgers", but let's get the facts right.
Seriously. England, this is your damn fault. Australia got all the fun people.
You can still make this right, though. Send over some more regular people. Or even criminals, I don't care at this point (and we'll take em - it's written right there on that statue). Anything's better than having the Puritans be the mainstream.
How many people from each of those countries is participating? Russia, China and Poland all have higher populations than the US. And probably a lot less technology employment. Nobody I know is on that site, we have real jobs. (Not that I'm not impressed by someone who can do well on those competitions, they are hard. Just saying nobody I know has time to get involved.)
Exactly right, but there is another angle here: India has far less regulation, and US companies sending work there have far less insight into how their work is being done. Turns out that matters.
And still, this is not an India thing, it's a regulation vs. deregulation thing. The U.S. has been becoming steadily more deregulated and, predictably, steadily more corrupt over the last 8 years, and we know how that worked out.
Piece of cake man. When you ask people whether they want broadband Internet, just do it in an online survey. Include a big-ass Flash video of people happily using their broadband.
Something like:
Q1: Do you want broadband? ( ) yes ( ) no
page 2: flash video
Q2: How about now? Do you want broadband now, bitch? ( ) yes ( ) no
I suspect it is not lost. As someone else in the thread said, "You'd have to work really hard to accidentally lose that much data." Well, you'd have to work really hard to lose that much data on purpose, too. At a time when most people (finally) agree that Bush was both corrupt and incompetent, they seem to forget the incompetent part when it comes to this issue. You're telling me not one goddamn person anywhere has an outlook database sitting around on an unused laptop in a warehouse?
Maybe they'll never find ALL of it, but they'll find something. It's practically impossible to lose that much data, no matter how hard you try, and the incompetent sub-humans who've been running our country for 8 years would never be able to manage it in a million years.
Of course the list would be pretty long (good thing I don't have to list it), and of course Unicode is very significant, but I think there are other things just as significant if not more. Example: everything's an iterator now, not just a list.
BTW, Python 2.x has all the unicode support you need to write a correct application. You just have to use u'unicode strings' instead of 'strings' in a lot more places. Python 3.0 has just switched the default, which will make it easier for application developers to get it right. And that's VERY important. In both versions you have to think about encodings.
My prediction is about 18 months before Python 3.0 is considered the default. My team, in general a pretty early adopter of technology, won't be using it for at least 9 months, waiting for our dependency stack to fill in.
Sounds like somebody needs to engineer a virus that will unleash a zombie apocalypse. The survivors should be fine (not to mention well-adapted to their new environment).
You have the option, but it's not a good idea. In an email-driven company, you need more than one person listening on most threads. You can't have a thread if you use bcc, because the other recipients don't get a copy of the cc list.
No. BCC doesn't get copied to the cc list of other responders. A thread in a business environment is a collaboration between many people, some of whom need to know what's going on, and some of whom need to contribute. And it's a thread, not a single message. BCC ends that thread at the first message.
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It isn't, and shouldn't be a GPL violation to secretly get a patent license. GPL v2 only requires you to make your source code available for any use with no restrictions (other than the continuation of the GPL itself). As long as TomTom is doing that, they are legal. The day they stop doing that, they are in violation. TomTom's patent license for VFAT or *anything else* does not invalidate GPL v2, it simply *permits* TomTom to keep using the "patented" process. For example, it does not require TomTom to force anyone else downstream to recognize the validity of the patent, or to purchase a license. If this occurs as part of a settlement, it doesn't even establish a precedent, as no ruling has taken place on whether VFAT is actually violating any patent.
(Microsoft may ask TomTom to do those things in a contract as part of a settlement, but that's a completely different discussion. It is not inherent in the patent license.)
They would be in violation if they:
* stopped making their modifications available
* started putting restrictions on others' use of their code
FTR, I doubt a patent swap is going to happen in this case. More likely TomTom will switch filesystems.
Assuming this is true, and another commenter has called this into question, so what? If you're using privacy software to punch through the Great Firewall, you are by definition doing something the government doesn't like, and probably several things. If you can get your hands on Tor in the first place, you might as well use it.
Good idea, we should set fire to them too.
> The judge makes it clear that no one who has 'settlement authority' with any limits or range attached to it will be acceptable
There's still a possibility that the settlement will include beheadings, since the agent will have the authority to grant it.
That's really the worst that could happen? Why this then? I can't imagine them disobeying any aspect of the order.
Toss a couple of bucks to the defendant instead of winning is not exactly an eternity having your liver eaten while chained to a rock*. I still don't get what's so intimidating here.
*Also known as "justice", around these parts.
While Google was great between about '97 and '03 or so, it's become so gamed to be as bad as Altavista was in 1996
Aw, niggah, please. You obviously were not around in 1996 using Altavista. Those of us who were remember what search was actually like in the early days: a joke, a toy, useful for amusing your friends because you could sometimes find a random crappy web page that sort of resembled what you were looking for. Altavista inundated you with irrelevant junk, and only a tiny fraction of what was available could ever turn up, so you ended up finding something close enough and then looking around on that page for more links to better pages, jumping through sometimes 3-4 sites until you landed on the actual linux forum you were looking for.
Google, whatever you think of it today, makes Altavista look like the toy that it was. Google is useful. I use it a dozen times a day, it's faster than going to my bookmarks (which is why I don't have any, any more), and almost as accurate as bookmarks that link directly to the site ever were.
I've actually found that each OTA (over-the-air) update of Android has incrementally improved the battery life.
At this point I have GPS and high-speed networks always turned on, and syncing everything except Gmail (only because I hate that nag and I get over a hundred emails a day..), and my battery indicator stays green for more than a day at a time without recharging, which means I could probably go 2 days without a charge. (May not sound like a lot, but this phone does a LOT.) If I turned off more stuff, it would be no worse than my last, extremely DUMB phone.
Christ, they're valued lower than GM? Someone needs to get Mark Zuckerberg suicide counseling.
It's just like that one place in the chunnel where all the English have to suddenly veer over to the right to keep from hitting the French, and vice-versa. Lots of accidents there.
> People act like consuming entertainment media is air that you need to survive.
Humans need to create art. It's what makes us human. Art exists to be consumed. We forget that at the risk of losing our humanity. The desire to create and share art freely is no less than a battle for the soul of humanity itself. There's nothing fucking pathetic about it.
Developers don't want your bug report if you aren't willing to do the proper procedures. A bug report that you've put some effort into might help fix the bug. It takes patience and attention to detail to open a useful but report.
A bug report that you wrote in half-assed is worthless, and worse than worthless. It wastes the developer's time and hurts the project.
If you're not willing to jump through a few hoops, don't open a bug.
Isn't that the whole, entire problem? You can't get a drink in a bar unless you join a club and wait a week or two. So your options are 1) don't go to any bars while a tourist, or 2) don't go to fucking Utah.
I like (2), myself, and I doubt relaxing the bar regulation will change my opinion, but ymmv :-)
Quick fact check:
Number of bison in north america at peak: 60 million
Number of cattle in north america today: 96 million
So it's not really fair to use the bison as an argument that cattle aren't polluting. They can, and they do. Whether it's significant is debatable, and I fall pretty firmly on the side of "fix all the other pollution sources first before you take away my burgers", but let's get the facts right.
Seriously. England, this is your damn fault. Australia got all the fun people.
You can still make this right, though. Send over some more regular people. Or even criminals, I don't care at this point (and we'll take em - it's written right there on that statue). Anything's better than having the Puritans be the mainstream.
"Poland" was not a typo but I genuinely thought Russia had a higher pop. Apparently not. My bad.
How many people from each of those countries is participating? Russia, China and Poland all have higher populations than the US. And probably a lot less technology employment. Nobody I know is on that site, we have real jobs. (Not that I'm not impressed by someone who can do well on those competitions, they are hard. Just saying nobody I know has time to get involved.)
There are only two Indiana Jones movies. What is this "Temple" people keep mentioning?
Exactly right, but there is another angle here: India has far less regulation, and US companies sending work there have far less insight into how their work is being done. Turns out that matters.
And still, this is not an India thing, it's a regulation vs. deregulation thing. The U.S. has been becoming steadily more deregulated and, predictably, steadily more corrupt over the last 8 years, and we know how that worked out.
Piece of cake man. When you ask people whether they want broadband Internet, just do it in an online survey. Include a big-ass Flash video of people happily using their broadband.
Something like:
Q1: Do you want broadband? ( ) yes ( ) no
page 2: flash video
Q2: How about now? Do you want broadband now, bitch? ( ) yes ( ) no
The guy's a forensics expert. Of course he's going to tell you one wipe is enough. If you do more than that, he might be out of a job.
I'm surprised he didn't say "It's cool man, just write 'DELETED' in sharpie on the case and your drive will never function again. *snicker*"
I suspect it is not lost. As someone else in the thread said, "You'd have to work really hard to accidentally lose that much data." Well, you'd have to work really hard to lose that much data on purpose, too. At a time when most people (finally) agree that Bush was both corrupt and incompetent, they seem to forget the incompetent part when it comes to this issue. You're telling me not one goddamn person anywhere has an outlook database sitting around on an unused laptop in a warehouse?
Maybe they'll never find ALL of it, but they'll find something. It's practically impossible to lose that much data, no matter how hard you try, and the incompetent sub-humans who've been running our country for 8 years would never be able to manage it in a million years.
Of course the list would be pretty long (good thing I don't have to list it), and of course Unicode is very significant, but I think there are other things just as significant if not more. Example: everything's an iterator now, not just a list.
BTW, Python 2.x has all the unicode support you need to write a correct application. You just have to use u'unicode strings' instead of 'strings' in a lot more places. Python 3.0 has just switched the default, which will make it easier for application developers to get it right. And that's VERY important. In both versions you have to think about encodings.
My prediction is about 18 months before Python 3.0 is considered the default. My team, in general a pretty early adopter of technology, won't be using it for at least 9 months, waiting for our dependency stack to fill in.
My fulltext search library, Hypy, on the other hand, should have Python 3.0 support any day now.
Sounds like somebody needs to engineer a virus that will unleash a zombie apocalypse. The survivors should be fine (not to mention well-adapted to their new environment).
You have the option, but it's not a good idea. In an email-driven company, you need more than one person listening on most threads. You can't have a thread if you use bcc, because the other recipients don't get a copy of the cc list.
No. BCC doesn't get copied to the cc list of other responders. A thread in a business environment is a collaboration between many people, some of whom need to know what's going on, and some of whom need to contribute. And it's a thread, not a single message. BCC ends that thread at the first message.