Apache lic huh?

this is why the apache and BSD licenses are inferior to the GPL.

I would welcome apples use and contribution to OSS code and projects, but when they are declaring a patent war on other OSS offerings, I call shenanigans.

just propaganda

so the author appears to be quite anti-network neutrality. that tells me he/she wants us to bow before our corporate overlords.

SBC Yahoo! DSL service, now with Google access (additional monthly charges may apply)...

Netflix

well i may be one of those .net devs they want to please, but until the netflix viewer works on linux/mono I'm not interested.

huh?

'She predicted always considering communications data will lead to a 20 per cent increase in the productivity of CID teams.'

ok, why is this a good thing? the police's goal should be to reduce the number of arrests/convictions, not to increase them. They won't be happy until everyone who is not a cop, has been removed from society 'for our protection'.

what the heck is wrong with the UK these last 5 years?

regulation

This is why regulation MUST be an adversarial game. A regulator that is not feared by the regulated is worse than useless. it becomes a mouthpiece and a vector for allowing harm without redress.

NNTP is not dead

www.usenet.com != NNTP

NNTP will not die soon, as it does remain one of the last bastions of anonymous web. Just don't contract with a service provider that widely advertises the availability of illicit material on it.

first rule, don't talk about fight-club.

TOS?

um, most sites TOS requires that you never give away your username and password. in fact the TOS on the Bozeman TV news site linked in TFA includes this passage in it's terms of service:

"USE OF SECURE AREA AND PASSWORD

You are given access to any password-protected area of the Web site when you are given permission and a password to enter such area. You may not distribute your password to others, but if you wish to authorize another individual to use your password, you must request permission from WorldNow in writing, with the understanding that WorldNow is under no obligation to approve any such request. You are responsible for all uses of your password and any and all damages to WorldNow and this Station resulting from the distribution of your password, whether or not authorized by you. "

http://montanasnewsstation.com/global/story.asp?s=18991

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but didn;t the prosecutors in the recent myspace impersonation/susicide case, try to charge the defendant with felonious "computer hacking" because she violated the TOS?

http://hackaday.com/2008/05/27/violating-terms-of-service-equals-hacking/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/17/myspace_hacking_charges_analysis/

The lesson?

The lesson here is simple. Never write code for an apple machine.

S. Korea

I have to wonder if South Korea will fall off the 'A' list now that they have passed their own 3-strikes jackboot.

Wanna spend less on software?

how about Open Source?

Poor kindle

a Kindle will never have the pleasure of being owned by me. but the first DRM-free competitor will be mine, oh yes, it will be mine.

Why all at the same time I wonder

Sounds like a TPM/DRM issue to me

your bias is showing

you know, it's people like you what cause unrest.

just because your "cause" is railing against other people's "causes", doesn't make you any righter. it just shows how wrong you are.

Middle Australia

it sounds like Middle Australia is alot like the American South. They call it the bible belt, but it's more like the "heavily armed, heavily drunken, religious extremist belt ".

forgive me, I'm american

I had a few good laughs looking at the blogspot thread on this topic, but obviously, there are some key peices of slang I need explained. primarily 'NWN', 'Reds', and 'Rebels'.

I'm also confused on how 'anti fascist scumbag' is an insult. I would thank anyone who threw that in my face.

Wow...Ubuntu is about love, and community

This thread proves rather obviously, the converse is also true, being anti-ubuntu is about hate. Frankly AC, if your software skills are that weak, then yes, you should be afraid of FOSS. in an Open world, your code would be know far and wide as sub-standard. Myself, I'm learning python and PHP.

so much for Tinfoil hats

Now my keyboard needs a tinfoil condom. great. I'm still trying to afford plastic sheeting and duct tape...

@Ashley Pomeroy

well It's pretty easy to isolate a process from the network. My firewall asked if I wanted to Allow SoreApp.exe access to user files, system processes, and the Network. the answers were yes (for saves and creatures), no, no.

if you block the exe from hitting the net, then you can be pretty sure it isn;t sending data anywhere, especially if you deny it the right to indirectly access other processes.

Why's it the papers fault?

hey, they had an article on their web site. that is 100% within their rights. Just because Google comes along and steals it without bothering to read it is not their problem.

@Kevin

what do you think this is? /. ?

They ADVERTISE a cult?

that's a new one by me.

"Kali Ma- Just like in Indiana Jones! one free heart-removal per family! void where prohibited, some restrictions may apply. being lowered into pit of lava costs .50c/lbs body weight."

@John: so no home videos then?

so I take that to mean that no one can have vacation videos of their trip to the Olympics?

if i can't take a picture of something on the street, then it shouldn't be on the street. restrain your trademarks from interfering with public rights in public places.

@Mark

firstly, i won't deign to dirty myself by responding to your remark on spelling.

secondly, your right Java did mess up deprecation by failing to remove the bad methods after the next version. Based on the ARBs statements about CAD stuff needing to last longer, I am pretty sure they will not be willing to deal with the deprecated methods being removed in version 3.1, 3.2, 5.9, or even fricken 20.5 etc.

thirdly, I give not a wick about DX, but I will say, their backward compatibility is not stopping them from moving forward the way they want, while the status quo for OGL prevents the use of the new Object model.

you're quite correct, the only alternative is to drop the old model. The conservatives are going to keep pushing to maintain the status quo no matter how many revisions those methods are deprecated, so unless they receive proper impetus to update their obsolete code, they will just keep blocking the way forward for the rest of us.

@Mark

Well actually it's amusing that you mention extensions. they are the core of the problem. Extensions need not be implemented by a driver/card manufacture because they are not part of the core spec. much of the promise made with LP was to move this functionality into the core spec/API so that all vendors would have to support it to maintian OGL compliance.

@Mark

because depracation worked soooo well for java right? I still see deprecated methods from java 1 (1.1) in the SDK 1.6.

Warning Autocad to update it software sometime in the next 6 months is not likely to help since they had more than 6 months since abandoning Longs Peak. if it would jsut have taken them 6 months, they could have already done it and we would all be happy with the new obj model.

besides they could just use the outdated runtime instead of screwing the rest of us.

@ Beard and @Mason

I am told that the reason the CAD/CAM folks won't accept a fork or branch, is that they don't want to miss out on all the improvements in direct access and what not. they want to have their cake, and mine, and yours too.

this of course indicates that they never plan to upgrade their old clunkers and all this talk about deprecation and eventual removal is bollocks.

It's easy to ensure this does not happen again

It's easy to ensure this does not happen again.

just remove your crap DRM and *voila*.... Problem solved.

and these same companies want congress to grant them the ability to perform "self help" by allowing them to remotely disable anyone's software.

@Dan

It mostly used to be that way, until GWB. The war on terrorism is really just an expression of the neocon xenophobia, and yes that breeds laws that provide rights to citizens alone.

but at the same time, this particular policy (I can't call a blatent violation of the 4th and 8th amendments a law) does apply to everyone. everyone gets screwed....

@Terry Barnes

American law is somewhat schizophrenic when it comes to minors. they have legal responsibilities but not rights in most cases. for isntance a minors signature is not legally binding in many cases, and technically they cannot own property. all of a childs property is owned by their legal guardians.

@J

wow. I don't even know where to begin....

Where can I find a laptop

that wasn't made in China?

It's not Apple that we're running too...

it's ubuntu. I can deal with the functionality issues, but between M$ and HP, they have made it clear that I am not in charge of my PC, they are. It was about then that I turned away, n'er to return.

How bout they listen to the consumer rather than the Pro IP groups?

Trusted computing can not be trusted.

Oh good lets control that social interaction

Methinks the gentleman is missing the point. Social Networks aren't supposed to DO ANYTHING, except provide a medium in which to he social. the point is not to sell stuff to the users, or accomplish any other goal.

Damn business. they'd charge us for licensing just to talk to a friend if they could.

Hey Profiteers! everything you've heard about the internet is false. leave it alone, so the rest of us can enjoy it. you won't make a red cent off me.

Jon Postel is spinning in his grave

to watch all your hard work at IANA be so easily turned against your ideals must be hard. I have to wonder what would have happened if he was still alive.

Sad days we live in... Jon believed that the Internet was part of the public trust, and not to be run by corporations or governments. Now it's run by a corporation that calls itself a government.