The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.
If you have alread purchased a copy of the song in question, it's a legal grey area (IANAL, etc, etc). You might download a song you already own because it's a convenient way to listen on your computer, because your CD is at home and you're at work, because you want to play it for a friend, because the album has been lost, stolen, or damaged.
I'm willing to pay because I think that this will have a long-term benefit for Linux. Transgaming has committed to releasing their changes back into Wine when they get a certain number of subscribers. After that, future Linux users will be able to play Windows games for free. And besides, I hate rebooting.:-)
As far as video cards, I play Baldur's Gate just fine with my unsupported Voodoo5 card.
And as far as your last point, I actually play my NES games emulated on a Dreamcast.:-)
The IP root servers were configured to delegate the nameservices for RFC 1918 space to specific servers, and those specific servers were put onto a network that is only used for that purpose, and so can be easily blocked.
Before, there was nothing easy to do to prevent these updates from being sent.
Now, you can just block outgoing packets to 192.175.48/24.
Read through the documents at www.w3.org that describe how CSS is supposed to work (or send your HTML and CSS through their validators), determine if the error is in your page or the browser, and if it's in the browser report it in Bugzilla.
Nobody can fix the bugs that you find in Mozilla if you don't report them.
Make sure that you run talkback builds, so that your crash reports complete with stack traces are sent in, and make sure that you report the bugs you're seeing through Bugzilla. They do a pretty good job of tracking and fixing things once they're in Bugzilla, but they don't have the staff to hunt around on discussion boards like SlashDot looking for bug reports...
There is a story (perhaps apocryphal) about a student who was working on a research project with one of his professors, and had telnet access to his NeXT cube. By running:
dd if=/dev/audio of=listen.au
during the evening the professor was grading tests, he was able to download the audio file, and listen to the prof talking to himself outloud about what questions to put on the test.
So at least somebody has thought about this before.
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Then vote them the hell out. I write to my representatives in the House and the Senate regularly (a few times a year), and *always* get a response, even if I just filled out a "Mail Your Representative!" Web form from an ACLU action alert.
If you're representatives aren't listening to their constituents, then who *are* they listening to?...
One thing to note, though...Since the recent anthrax scares, many representatives aren't reading their paper mail, and much of congress is behind the times w/r/t email. Try sending a fax instead.
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It was a Loki problem, too...I tried really hard to buy their games, but they never released a single game I was genuinely interested in playing, and buying games I didn't play to support them got old fast...
My understanding of the laws in the U.S. are that, once upon a time, cable companies required (cnd charged for) special boxes to receive cable on every TV with cable access; at the same time, there were no laws against splicing your cable and running it to your neighbor's house.
Consumers didn't like having to pay for every TV in their house, and the cable companies didn't like people sharing cable with their neighbors, so our legislature struck a compromise deal. It is now legal to hook up cable to as many TVs as you want in your own house, and illegal to share cable with your neighbors.
I haven't really done any research to substantiate that, mind you, and don't even remember where I heard it, but that's my understanding.
They're not *that* scarce. All American cable companies are leasing their IP addresses from ARIN. ARIN charges $2250 a year for a/19, 32 class C's worth of space, or 8192 addresses. That's 27 cents per IP per year, or about 2 cents per IP per month.
So a $4.95/mo charge is not because of the scarcity of IP addresses.
It's not necessarily an unreasonable charge (extra IP addresses require maintenence, registration work, and possibly extra tech support), but it has nothing to do with scarcity.
That's an extremely basic setup, and is supported out of the box in stock qmail, no patches.
You would put the domains that should always receive mail in "rcpthosts", and create lines in your tcpserver configuration for SMTP which set the RELAYCLIENT environment variable for local clients.
Having both is very cool for portability. I have one of the original Apple Airports, and I use it at home and at work on an Ethernet-based Internet connection, and at my girlfriend's apartment and during presentations with a modem-based Internet connection.
My only complaint is that it's awkward shape makes it hard to fit into my bag.
Sometimes, copyright is overridden by "fair use". That's why you can make copies of your own software in case your CD gets damaged, why you can legally run Nintendo cartridges you own in an emulator, why you can photocopy short parts of a larger work for information or criticism, why you can copy a CD to cassette to listen to in your car, and why you can make mix tapes to listen to while working out. It's why a game reviewer can post screenshots of a game to show how fantastic or how terrible the graphics are, whether the game manufacturer wants them to or not. It's important.
SSSCA overrides fair use by making it illegal to override the copy protections, even if making the copy itself would be perfectly legal.
That's right, but VMWare provides virtual devices inside this virtual machine, which is what the OS's running under it see. And their virtual video card doesn't support DirectX.
License and copyright are different. The BSD license allows the code to be used anywhere with a few conditions, but the copyright is always owned by the original author unless they assign it to somebody else or put the software in the public domain.
One of the conditions of this license is that copyright notices on code must be preserved. Apparently they weren't, which is the issue.
BSD code can't be "recopyrighted" under the GPL, but it can be "relicensed" under the GPL as long as all of the original license provisions are met.
The bottom line is that, from what I've seen so far, it looks like if the copyright notices were put back into the code, everything would be hunky-dory.
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Where do you get your biodiesel fuel? I've read that our New Beetle will run unmodified on BioDiesel, but I don't know where or how to get it.
Thanks for any tips!
According to the GPL, Section 3:
If you have alread purchased a copy of the song in question, it's a legal grey area (IANAL, etc, etc). You might download a song you already own because it's a convenient way to listen on your computer, because your CD is at home and you're at work, because you want to play it for a friend, because the album has been lost, stolen, or damaged.
> If these components were written in a type-safe
> language...we'd instantly have a more sercure
> system.
For large enough values of "instant", sure...
I'm willing to pay because I think that this will have a long-term benefit for Linux. Transgaming has committed to releasing their changes back into Wine when they get a certain number of subscribers. After that, future Linux users will be able to play Windows games for free. And besides, I hate rebooting. :-)
:-)
As far as video cards, I play Baldur's Gate just fine with my unsupported Voodoo5 card.
And as far as your last point, I actually play my NES games emulated on a Dreamcast.
Yes, block packets from machines on your network to 192.175.48/24.
That network only hosts the machines that handle DNS for RFC1918 addresses, so you can block it without breaking anything.
The IP root servers were configured to delegate the nameservices for RFC 1918 space to specific servers, and those specific servers were put onto a network that is only used for that purpose, and so can be easily blocked.
Before, there was nothing easy to do to prevent these updates from being sent.
Now, you can just block outgoing packets to 192.175.48/24.
CSS stands for "Cascading Style Sheets", so it's absolutely W3C.
Read through the documents at www.w3.org that describe how CSS is supposed to work (or send your HTML and CSS through their validators), determine if the error is in your page or the browser, and if it's in the browser report it in Bugzilla.
Nobody can fix the bugs that you find in Mozilla if you don't report them.
Make sure that you run talkback builds, so that your crash reports complete with stack traces are sent in, and make sure that you report the bugs you're seeing through Bugzilla. They do a pretty good job of tracking and fixing things once they're in Bugzilla, but they don't have the staff to hunt around on discussion boards like SlashDot looking for bug reports...
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org
Perhaps you had a user who mutters to themselves while reading their email. :-)
There is a story (perhaps apocryphal) about a student who was working on a research project with one of his professors, and had telnet access to his NeXT cube. By running:
dd if=/dev/audio of=listen.au
during the evening the professor was grading tests, he was able to download the audio file, and listen to the prof talking to himself outloud about what questions to put on the test.
So at least somebody has thought about this before.
Then vote them the hell out. I write to my representatives in the House and the Senate regularly (a few times a year), and *always* get a response, even if I just filled out a "Mail Your Representative!" Web form from an ACLU action alert.
If you're representatives aren't listening to their constituents, then who *are* they listening to?...
One thing to note, though...Since the recent anthrax scares, many representatives aren't reading their paper mail, and much of congress is behind the times w/r/t email. Try sending a fax instead.
These are bug 57724, bug 45583, and bug 40876. Get a Bugzilla account, and vote for these bugs to help encourage the Mozilla folks to fix them! They bug the crap out of me.
No; it essentially means "do your own backups".
It was a Loki problem, too...I tried really hard to buy their games, but they never released a single game I was genuinely interested in playing, and buying games I didn't play to support them got old fast...
No Linux distributer is a monopoly. The KDE League certainly isn't a monopoly.
Microsoft is. The courts decided that earlier this year.
When you're a monopoly, you have to play by different rules.
So this wouldn't have any of the effects you talk about in your post.
I've had OK luck in the past with MIX:
http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/docs/MIX-HOWTO. html
My understanding of the laws in the U.S. are that, once upon a time, cable companies required (cnd charged for) special boxes to receive cable on every TV with cable access; at the same time, there were no laws against splicing your cable and running it to your neighbor's house.
Consumers didn't like having to pay for every TV in their house, and the cable companies didn't like people sharing cable with their neighbors, so our legislature struck a compromise deal. It is now legal to hook up cable to as many TVs as you want in your own house, and illegal to share cable with your neighbors.
I haven't really done any research to substantiate that, mind you, and don't even remember where I heard it, but that's my understanding.
They're not *that* scarce. All American cable companies are leasing their IP addresses from ARIN. ARIN charges $2250 a year for a /19, 32 class C's worth of space, or 8192 addresses. That's 27 cents per IP per year, or about 2 cents per IP per month.
So a $4.95/mo charge is not because of the scarcity of IP addresses.
It's not necessarily an unreasonable charge (extra IP addresses require maintenence, registration work, and possibly extra tech support), but it has nothing to do with scarcity.
That's an extremely basic setup, and is supported out of the box in stock qmail, no patches.
You would put the domains that should always receive mail in "rcpthosts", and create lines in your tcpserver configuration for SMTP which set the RELAYCLIENT environment variable for local clients.
Having both is very cool for portability. I have one of the original Apple Airports, and I use it at home and at work on an Ethernet-based Internet connection, and at my girlfriend's apartment and during presentations with a modem-based Internet connection.
My only complaint is that it's awkward shape makes it hard to fit into my bag.
Sometimes, copyright is overridden by "fair use". That's why you can make copies of your own software in case your CD gets damaged, why you can legally run Nintendo cartridges you own in an emulator, why you can photocopy short parts of a larger work for information or criticism, why you can copy a CD to cassette to listen to in your car, and why you can make mix tapes to listen to while working out. It's why a game reviewer can post screenshots of a game to show how fantastic or how terrible the graphics are, whether the game manufacturer wants them to or not. It's important.
SSSCA overrides fair use by making it illegal to override the copy protections, even if making the copy itself would be perfectly legal.
That's right, but VMWare provides virtual devices inside this virtual machine, which is what the OS's running under it see. And their virtual video card doesn't support DirectX.
License and copyright are different. The BSD license allows the code to be used anywhere with a few conditions, but the copyright is always owned by the original author unless they assign it to somebody else or put the software in the public domain.
One of the conditions of this license is that copyright notices on code must be preserved. Apparently they weren't, which is the issue.
BSD code can't be "recopyrighted" under the GPL, but it can be "relicensed" under the GPL as long as all of the original license provisions are met.
The bottom line is that, from what I've seen so far, it looks like if the copyright notices were put back into the code, everything would be hunky-dory.