Comment Re:Please, please, please... (Score 1) 79
How about "Gods peed"?
How about "Gods peed"?
Yes, but Ireland isn't in the UK.
No, the licence isn't to view the content, it's to possess the apparatus used to view the content. Copyright of the material isn't affected.
Streaming isn't transmitted to the general public whether the material is received or not. Each viewer has to connect to the streaming host and ask for the data. If somebody were broadcasting to 255.255.255.255 to every Irish host on the Internet, then the legislation would start to apply.
On-demand downloads from RTE are not covered by this bill.
Or more relevance:
transmitted, relayed or distributed
This is about passive viewing, i.e. viewing what's listed in the TV guide and pumped out by the broadcaster. On-demand viewing is not covered. So unless you have a TV card, the article is bull.
Of course, if digital television evolved to being an unscheduled and wholly on-demand system, then perhaps this legislation would need a revisit.
You want subtle?
ln -f
So the other day I messaged another admin from the console using the regular old 'write' command (as I've been doing for over 10 years). To my surprise he didn't know how to respond back to me (he had to call me on the phone) and had never even known you could do that. That got me thinking that there's probably lots of things like that, and likely things I've never heard of. What sorts of things do you take for granted as a natural part of Unix that other people are surprised at?
Dynamically binding, you realize the magic. Statically binding, you see only the hierarchy.